Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed attendees at NEWSMAX's event in Jerusalem this evening (Wednesday).

At the beginning of his remarks, Netanyahu said that Israel was engaged in an "eight-front war." Seven of those fronts are "against Iran and its proxies," while the eighth front, Netanyahu stated, is "the battle for truth."

"There is only one way to beat the lies, and that's with the truth," he said.

Turning to the war in Gaza, Netanyahu stated that "the only deliberate starvation policy that we see in Gaza is the starving of our hostages. You can see that when you look at their captors and you see our emaciated hostages and these corpulent guards - tormenters."

"That's a way to puncture the falsehoods, because the eighth front that I was talking about is the battle to puncture the lies and bring out the truth," he said.

"Israel has no starvation policy," he declared. "It had and has a policy to separate the civilians from combatants on two fronts. The first front is the actual battle zones. We have sent millions and millions of text messages, phone calls. This has never happened before in a war that the army that is fighting terrorists in an urban environment calls on the civilians to leave, and the enemy shoots them if they try to leave. And then Israel is blamed for genocide - that's ridiculous."

"The genocidal element is Hamas," Netanyahu said. "The genocidal element is the Iranian axis that openly calls for the annihilation and extermination of Israel and many Jews,"

He noted that Iran also calls for the destruction of America. "People don't understand that it begins with their attempt to destroy Israel because we stand in their way. We're the only force in the Middle East that fights Iran, and until recently, we were the only force in the world that fought Iran."

Netanyahu said that he appreciates US President Donald Trump's decision not to let Israel fight Iran alone and to send American B2 bombers to take part in the destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program.

"The first false accusation is genocide. The second false accusation is starvation," he said, noting that the second separation Israel made between civilians and combatants was the supply of humanitarian aid into Gaza. "If we had a starvation policy, now, nearly two years after the beginning of the war, everybody in Gaza would be dead. But they're not, because that's not our policy."

"We sent in two million tons, 1.9 million tons of food and medical aid into Gaza, because that's how we conduct the war," he said. "Hamas caused the hunger problem, Hamas caused the shortage problem. And Israel is blamed, again falsely."

He stated that Israel is currently engaged in a "humanitarian surge" in which it is "doubling and perhaps quadrupling the number of distribution points that will be safeguarded."

"What has not stopped is the campaign of lies," he said, singling out the New York Times for publishing a misleading front page photograph of a supposedly starving child who suffered from a genetic disease, one of three such photographs of children who suffered from genetic diseases that were used to claim that there is mass starvation in Gaza.

"Two of the three [children] were actually taken care of by Israel. We let out one of these children to go to an Italian hospital, and that God, he recovered there. The other is incurable. He was in our hospitals, but there's nothing you can do about it."

He noted the long history of massacres of Jews caused by lies, from well-poisoning and blood libels to the Holocaust. "That same phenomenon we see today. What the Jewish people were accused of in the Middle Ages and subsequent centuries is what the Jewish State is now being accused of. There's only one difference. Then we had no defense. Now we have a country, now we have an army, and now we fight back against our tormenters."

At the conclusion of his remarks, Netanyahu warned that "if you're not ready in this day and age to fight for your freedom, you will lose it. If you do not fight for your civiliation, you will lose it."