Benjamin Netanyahu: “Hamas stopped the civilians from leaving at gunpoint.”

“We sent millions of text messages and millions of phone calls and millions of leaflets telling Palestinians, civilians get out of harm's way so that we can take out the Hamas terrorists who are embedded in your schools, your hospitals, your communities. Hamas stopped the civilians from leaving at gunpoint. clearly. And that's how we got civilian casualties that eventually went down, I'm happy to say. Why did we do that if we had this genocidal intent? We obviously didn't.” (09:03–09:08)

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