Shea Levin — text status

Former IDF chief and Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot pledged Thursday that Hamas would no longer rule Gaza within 18 months of his taking office as prime minister. He made the pledge in a security statement near the Gaza border, 12 days before the election. “I commit: Within 18 months of entering the Prime Minister’s Office, Hamas will no longer rule the Gaza Strip. We will destroy Hamas’s military wing,” Eisenkot said. He said the goal could be achieved either through the framework proposed by President Donald Trump and accepted by the Netanyahu government, or through military and operational action.