A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is “fighting to stay alive” in its battle against Hamas and that the nation won’t back down in its battle against “pure evil.”
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Tal Heinrich told CBN News last week during an interview at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, why she believes Israel is persistent in its ongoing quest to fight Hamas in Gaza.
“Israel has faced and is still facing an existential, genocidal threat,” Heinrich said. “Hamas — they chant it, they say it, they act on it. What more proof do we need to believe them?”
The spokesperson said Oct. 7 proves the terrorists are intent on carrying out their murderous ideals, and said Israel simply no longer agrees to live alongside such evil.
“We’re no longer agreeing to life next to a terror enclave ruled by a terrorist organization that wants us all dead,” Heinrich said. “And their sick ideology upon which they educate Palestinian children to dream to kill Jews, obliterate the Jewish state, to glorify martyrs. That’s what Israel is dealing with, and we say, ‘No more.'”
Reports indicate there are about 130 hostages still being held by Hamas, with Heinrich demanding Israel’s “stolen people” be brought back home. She also said Israel plans to ensure future security by taking steps now to thwart future incursions.
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“What we’re doing now is to guarantee that Gaza will never, ever pose a terror threat to us again, because the year is 2024,” she said. “Terrorism is unacceptable. And they have to understand that every time they choose terrorism, it will be a dead end for them.”
While Heinrich said this is the message Israel is sending, she also urged the entire civilized world to support Israel in transmitting this warning.
“If we don’t send out this clear message, it’s an open invitation to terrorists around the world to sow more chaos, more bloodshed, more violence in other places,” she said.
Heinrich, who lives in New York City, also shared her personal story of coming into her position as spokesperson after the attack, recalling how she was “glued to the news” in the wake of the Oct. 7 assault, describing the emotions she experienced.
“It was hard to breathe,” she said. “I felt as if I was trying to take in air and the oxygen was not absorbing in my body.”
After Heinrich received a call from the prime minister’s office, she took the first available flight to Israel to join what she called “the national effort against pure evil.”
She described some of the difficulties in representing Israel amid an influx of information, including accusations Israel is guilty of genocide for fighting back against Hamas’ horrors, which left around 1,200 dead in Israel.
“It’s a different kind of war, the war of information that we’re fighting,” Heinrich said. “There’s outside pressure that we have to deal with. There are a lot of inaccuracies reported, contemporary ones, historical ones — many of them that we have to fight.”
She continued, “We have to keep reminding people of what happened, how we got to where we are in a war, a war that we didn’t want and didn’t start.”
Watch the full interview above.
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