Netanyahu: 'Everyone will have to give answers, me too'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a television address to the Israeli public on Wednesday evening. 

He said that everyone involved would be held to account for security failings that led to Hamas' attacks on southern Israeli communities on 7 October. 

"The scandal will be fully investigated," he said. "Everyone will have to give answers, me too. But all this will happen only after the war."

He added that Israeli would launch a ground invasion of Gaza, but would not provide further details. 

"We have already killed thousands of terrorists and this is only the beginning," Netanyahu said.

"Simultaneously, we are preparing for a ground invasion. I will not elaborate on when, how or how many. I will also not elaborate on the various calculations we are making, which the public is mostly unaware of and that is how things should be."