"Need Our Friends' Support": Former PM Yair Lapid On What Israel Expects From Allies | Read

The fight is going to be long and painful and there will be collateral damage as Israel hits back, the country's former Prime Minister and the current Leader of Opposition, Yair Lapid said. "We are going to attack Gaza because the Hamas is in Gaza. We are going to do our best to avoid the killing of bystanders, but there will collateral damage because this is war in a very dense area..." The Israeli leader said it is easy to support Israel now as people see bodies of Israelis piled up, but "we will need the support of our friends in the coming days when heart-bleeding so-called liberals come and say we have to stop this". On global community coming together on the issue, he said, "People tend to forget that we left Gaza 20 years back and told them to build a life for themselves. But they built training camps for Hamas and Islamic Jihad and fired more than 25,000 rockets at Israel. Right now, we need the global community's support and patience. We are going to deal with it."