Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Jerusalem. Netanyahu called the war against Hamas "a battle of civilization against barbarism.”
“Hamas is ISIS, and just as the world united to defeat ISIS, the world has to unite against Hamas, unite with Israel to defeat them,” referring to the Islamic State terror group," he said.
The Dutch Prime Minister told Netanyahu that he has “respect for what your team is doing to try to fend off this attack and restore the safety of Israel.”