PM Netanyahu to run in 2026 election, Israeli PM claims victory

New Delhi, October 19 (IANS). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday that he will run in the 2026 parliamentary elections. Let us tell you, there was a ceasefire in Gaza after two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister spoke about participating in the elections. According to the report of the news agency Xinhua, Prime Minister Netanyahu made this announcement during an interview with Israeli Media 14. He was asked if he wanted to run for another term. He replied, “Yes.” Asked if he expected to win, Netanyahu said: “Yes.” According to the Xinhua news agency, elections were previously held in Israel in 2022, in which Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party won 32 seats and 64 members of the 120-seat Israeli parliament, or Knesset, deemed him competent to form a government. Netanyahu was sworn in as the country’s prime minister in December of that year and has been leading the coalition ever since. Netanyahu turns 76 next week. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021; Earlier in June 2021, he was removed from office by a centrist coalition formed by Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. According to Israeli media, thousands of people gathered in rallies across the country on Saturday evening demanding the return of the bodies of the dead hostages from Hamas. Let us tell you, under the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, the last 20 surviving hostages were released on Monday. The rally was held in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, where Einav Zangaukar, the mother of recently released hostage Matan Zangaukar, told a crowd of thousands that national rehabilitation after the October 7, 2023 attack and mass kidnapping will only be complete when the last body is returned and when those responsible for the failures surrounding this unprecedented attack, Benjamin just before the unprecedented attack face it, Netanyahu. hostage and The Forum for the Disappeared said in a press release that “the agreement signed to repatriate the hostages is being blatantly violated – our fight is not over yet.” –IANS KK/AS