Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant participated in the annual International Conference on Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University, where he said that "the military operation we launched yesterday has significant operational opportunities - however, I still haven't heard how it will bring back the hostages or replace Hamas rule. The government needs to explain this. If the government has changed the war objectives, it needs to tell the public, if not - it needs to explain how it will achieve them." On the anniversary of the Pagers Operation, Gallant said that "if we had implemented the pagers and communication devices operation as planned, there would be no Hezbollah today because it would have been physically eliminated."