Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed negotiations for a security arrangement with Syria and said at a conference of ambassadors and heads of missions of the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that "we hope to reach an agreement on demilitarization in southern Syria, but we are preserving our assets." Regarding October 7, he said "one could say that Sinwar fired prematurely, he did not wait and did not coordinate action that was supposed to come simultaneously - Hezbollah on one side and Iran on the other, a sea of rockets and ballistic missiles against us."