Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a new investment of one million dollars to strengthen the local arms industry and thus reduce its dependence on other external actors, he confirmed this Wednesday during his speech at the Air Force graduation ceremony.
“We want reduce our dependence on all stakeholdersincluding our friends,” Netanyahu said, announcing a spending of $108 billion (around 91 billion euros) to build “an independent Israeli munitions industry” over the next decade.
Netanyahu explained that this decision is based on the lessons learned during the years of bombing of the Gaza Strip, during which those who are his main partners, such as the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany, imposed restrictions on arms sales to Israel.
On the other hand, Netanyahu accused Hamas of breaking the ceasefire this same Wednesday, a complaint which however also came from the other party. Israeli Prime Minister announced there would be a response, newspaper says The time of Israel.
Likewise, he assured that Israel was preparing to thwart the nefarious intentions, he said, that Hamas and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah have in mind. disarmand took the opportunity to point out that they have not yet said their last word regarding the Houthis in Yemen and Iran.
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