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Benjamin Netanyahu: “We sent millions of text messages and millions of phone…”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with ABC News' Linsey Davis

Published | Video Starts at 08:45

The actual attempt and plan to wipe out a people. And the actual action that you do in Gaza. They accuse us of genocide. 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. (08:45–08:57)

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