"Gaza" claim from Israeli opposition leader Eisenkot. "I will defeat Hamas within 18 months"

According to the polls conducted before the parliamentary elections to be held in Israel on October 27, opposition Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot, who has widened the gap with Benjamin Netanyahu in the race for prime minister, claimed that he would defeat Hamas in Gaza within 18 months if he is elected prime minister.

While 43 percent of those who participated in the latest survey by Israeli state television KAN stated that Eisenkot was the most suitable candidate for the prime ministership, the rate of those who supported Netanyahu remained at 38 percent.

Netanyahu's closest rival, Gadi Eisenkot, said in a statement today: "I am making a clear promise to the public: Within 18 months from the moment I enter the Prime Minister's office, Hamas will no longer rule the Gaza Strip." he claimed.

The leader of the center-right Yashar party claimed at a press conference that he would implement this either by implementing the ceasefire plan prepared by US President Donald Trump for the Gaza Strip or by "creative operations of the Israeli army to destroy the military wing of the Palestinian movement."