IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz: “For 65 years, Israel has had to fight and win. Every generation in its turn carries Israel’s security on its shoulders. And every generation in its turn, to our heart’s sorrow, is missing in its ranks the fallen IDF soldiers. Every war exacts from us a painful price in blood… But against an enemy that seeks to harm our civilians and our country, an enemy that has not come to terms with our existence in the Land of Israel, we have no other choice, but to fight and win.”