JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to its attack.

Netanyahu said every Hamas member was a “dead man.”

Netanyahu made the remarks in a late-night televised address as Israeli planes pounded Gaza in response to the unprecedented attack.

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    They can destroy the organization. but they won’t be able to quash the resistance movement. they will only make the current generation even more determined to avenge their ancestors. and the cycle keeps going

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        They lived more peaceful times before the colonizers showed up. even under Ottoman rule the three religions coexisted in relative peace in Palestine.