The message needs to be: if you have the audacity and the cruelty to do this to Israeli civilians, your fate will be violent and it will be short and you will be by the end of that process, you will be dead. That is the message that Israel needs to send, not because we are a warmongering nation; we are a peace-loving nation.

We want to live in peace, in security, behind our internationally recognized borders, but we understand that the way for our enemies to respect us is by showing that if you wrong us in such a horrible way like Hamas did on October 7, you will face the most severe of consequences.