The Israeli army’s narrative in its war on the Gaza Strip is based on three main headings: It is to reassure Israeli society, and to try to prove that the army is achieving its military goals, and that the relationship between the political and military levels is harmonious during this war.
The field facts and contexts of the events have proven that the foundations of the Israeli narrative are incorrect, according to what was stated in the analysis of Suhaib Al-Assa on Al-Jazeera.
Since Israel declared its war on the Gaza Strip, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari has been promoting the story of the army that they claimed was invincible, relying on these three pillars.
Allegations of Hamas using hospitals
Ten days after waging war on the Palestinians in Gaza, Hagari announced the assassination of Ayman Nofal, a member of the General Military Council of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and promoted at the time that Israel was able to reach the leaders of the first ranks of the resistance. .
However, the resistance factions continued to fire their missiles from the Gaza Strip, and did not stop broadcasting video clips proving the Al-Qassam Brigades’ response to the Israeli military vehicles penetrating the region after the Israeli ground incursion into the Strip.
Two weeks after the ground incursion, Hagari focused his press conferences on promoting allegations that the Al-Qassam Brigades had military headquarters inside Gaza hospitals, and the Israeli army created designs to prove its story, but it did not prove anything.
The foreign media professionals brought by Hagari admitted that they had not seen anything to prove the Israeli story regarding the resistance’s use of hospitals. “We only saw civilians, we didn’t meet with anyone on any other issue, and we didn’t see any evidence,” said Rob Holden, a WHO emergency officer in Gaza.
On March 18, Hagari announced a long list of Palestinian detainees who he claimed were leaders of the first row of the resistance. Hours after the announcement, it became clear that a large number of the alleged detainees were either martyrs or lived outside Gaza.
Failed to achieve goals
The Israeli army also promoted the battle of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip as the birthplace of the head of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and that it was a stronghold of the resistance, but it did not achieve its goals, neither in reaching the resistance fighters nor to its prisoners detained by the resistance. Rather, it killed some of them, and the occupation withdrew its forces from Khan Yunis after the Al-Zana ambush carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, which resulted in the killing of 9 Israeli soldiers.
Regarding the second narrative that Hagari kept promoting, which was that the army was achieving its military goals, he claimed more than once in his press conferences that the Israeli army was able to reach Sinwar and that they found the tunnels in which the resistance leaders and prisoners were located, but the facts invalidated their claims.
Regarding the third pillar, which is harmony between the political and the military, the narrative promoted by Hagari faltered, as disagreements emerged between the government and the army, and resignations occurred against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, as stated in the Tel Aviv Tribune report.
