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Security cabinet to vote on adding returning residents to the North as official war goal - report
Adding a new official war goal requires the vote of the security cabinet; if added, it will join the destruction of Hamas and the return of the hostages as official war goals.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to introduce a motion in the security cabinet to add "returning residents to the North" to the official war goals, according to a report by N12 on Friday.
Netanyahu will put the motion to a vote on Sunday, a security official told N12, adding that it was necessary to prepare for a long, costly war in the North.
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- Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
- Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
- 101 hostages remain in Gaza
- 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says