JERUSALEM

Israel has been attacked on seven fronts since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday.

Israel is "in a multi-front war,” he said at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee hearing at the Knesset.

“From the beginning, we were attacked from seven fronts – Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. We have already reacted and acted on six of these fronts,” he added, without providing further details.

“There is no immunity for anyone,” Gallant said, citing a Defense Ministry statement.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group, Hamas, on Oct. 7, killing at least 20,915 Palestinians and injuring 54,918, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli army has also staged raids on Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank and exchanged cross-border fire with the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, since the outbreak of the conflict.

Gallant said the Israeli war will be a "long, hard war.”
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“Without meeting the goals of the war, we will find ourselves in a situation where the problem will not be those who live near Gaza or live in the north; the problem will be that people will not want to live in a place where we do not know how to protect them,” he said.