Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his country is surrounded by fundamentalist forces from all sides and in such a situation there is a need to increase the defense budget.
He said, it has become necessary for us to strengthen ourselves further. Now it has become necessary to increase contacts with allied countries. Let us tell you that this statement of Benjamin Netanyahu holds a lot of significance amid the war with Hamas that has been going on for more than two months.
On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel and killed more than 1200 people. Since then Israel has been fighting a war in Gaza. At the same time, Hezbollah is also attacking Israel from Lebanon.
Netanyahu said that Israel had been trying to increase the defense budget for many years but had to reduce it in view of the GDP. However, this policy is not going to continue any further.
The defense budget should increase by at least 20 percent. One more percent of GDP needs to be allocated to the defense budget.
Benjamin Netanyahu said, apart from the war, we are facing a big challenge which is to increase the defense budget. Let us tell you that due to the increasing number of deaths of civilians in Gaza, international pressure is also being created on Israel.
European Union foreign minister Josep Borrellon has also said that targeting civilians in Gaza is not right. He said, we are seeing that there is no distinction being made between terrorists and innocents in Gaza.
Due to this, three Israeli hostages were killed. Now we must stop all this. It has become very important to stop the war from the humanitarian angle.
Let us tell you that on Friday, Israel had also admitted that due to the mistake of its army, its own citizens held hostage in Gaza were killed.
It is being claimed that 19 thousand people have lost their lives so far in Gaza. Israel has also targeted many hospitals saying that there is a base of Hamas terrorists there. It is also being said that a large number of those who died in Gaza are children.