DODIK: SRPSKA SUPPORTS ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 7 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska supports Israel's right to defend itself, said President Milorad Dodik.

In a letter to the Speaker of The Knesset Amir Ohana, on the 3rd anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel, stated that Srpska with great sympathy towards the people and institutions of the State of Israel remembers the horrific terrorist attack that sadly took so many innocent lives on October 7, 2023.

Dodik noted that since October 7, 2023, Republika Srpska supported the right of the State of Israel to defend itself, and that it unequivocally condemns the brutal terrorist attack that Hamas carried out against Israel.

"We stand in complete solidarity with the victims, the survivors, and all innocent families affected by this violence," Dodik noted.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an incursion and a rocket attack on Israeli territory. Approximately 1,200 people in Israel were killed, and Hamas militants abducted more than 250 Israelis.