Gaza war: Israeli foreign minister Cohen calls Iran ‘world’s number one financer of terror’
Hamas-run health ministry, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 10,500 people, mainly civilians and thousands of them children. Justifying Israel's intense bombardment of Gaza as necessary to root out Hamas "terrorism", the foreign minister said, "This is not just the war of the state of Israel.
This is the war of the free world." "We need to win this war in order to ensure that the West will not be next since terrorism, it's like a cancer." Cohen also said, "We are not attacked only by the Hamas and by the Islamic Jihad. We are also attacked by the Hezbollah in our northern border and also by the Huthis in Yemen." "There is one thing that connects them: Iran.
Iran is the world number one financer of terror," he added. Earlier, Israel had said that the goal of its military operation in Gaza is to eradicate Hamas.
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