Opposition leader Yair Lapid blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement to the public on the war with Hamas.
"It is inconceivable that the Prime Minister of Israel would send an entire country into a whirlwind of panic while waiting for his statement on a Friday night, during a time of emergency, and then not say anything new either about the families of the abductees, about the northern front, about the evacuees. Such statements are not made by a Prime Minister unless he has new information to bring to his people and country," said Lapid.
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