(Times of Israel) Amy Spiro - Minister Benny Gantz, who joined the Israeli government's war cabinet last week, spoke at the funeral for Ofir Libstein, the head of the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, who was killed fighting Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7. Gantz said the Israel-Hamas war "will take a long time. The war in the south - and if need be also in the north or anywhere else - might take months, and the rebuilding will take years. Only when [the rebuilding] is complete will we be victorious. Our goal is not just to defeat Hamas, but to promise that the south will be 100% a paradise." Gantz, a former defense minister and former IDF chief of staff, said: "I am here...to tell all of you firstly: I'm sorry - sorry that we were not able to save you, sorry that we were not able to protect you this time....We are at war not just for your homes, the residents of the Gaza border towns, but for all of our homes."
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