The incident of the killing of 3 Israeli prisoners in Gaza by occupation soldiers is another failure for Israel in addition to its failure to confront the Palestinian resistance attack on October 7. As experts and analysts say, this incident reflects the confusion of the Israeli army leadership.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said – yesterday, Friday – that “during the fighting in (the neighborhood of) Al-Shuja’iya, the army mistakenly identified 3 Israeli prisoners as posing a threat. As a result, the forces opened fire on them and killed them.”
According to the military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi, the issue of killing the three detainees indicates a real problem among the occupation army at the level of planning, implementation and management of military operations.
He said that this case – and not the first for the Israeli army – indicates a very great confusion among the leadership of the Israeli army as a result of the fierce battles that its forces fought with the Palestinian resistance in the previous period, in addition to the many ambushes in which these forces fell and the terror and fear that gripped them under The huge losses made it anticipate everything and hit everything that moved.
In the same context, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, described the behavior of the occupation army as “despicable and immoral,” and it is not new to him, as he has always used it with the Palestinians. They beat and insulted a disabled Palestinian young man and then shot him from zero distance, and they also shot Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Sherine Abu Aqla was shot.
He recalled what the occupation did in the 1967 war, when it buried Egyptian prisoners after they surrendered, as well as part of the Jordanian soldiers, and concealed this crime that was revealed later.
Al-Barghouthi added – who was speaking during the daily analytical session on Al-Jazeera channel “Gaza…what next?” – that the occupation army’s killing of its prisoners indicates its confusion and fear of the Palestinian resistance, as it is losing the war due to its inability to uproot the resistance from its roots, and its inability to recover the detainees, In addition to extending its control over areas including northern Gaza. He said that the occupation is facing a guerrilla war similar to what happened in Vietnam against the Americans.
(Tel Aviv Tribune)
The military and political leaders in Israel – adds Albar Guthi – are facing a real dilemma, and there are demonstrations in Tel Aviv that are chanting the downfall of Netanyahu, who does not care about the lives of Israeli detainees.
Regarding this impasse, Ihab Jabareen, an expert on Israeli affairs, says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to flee forward and cling to the blood of prisoners and soldiers to save himself and his rule, noting that pressure is accumulating on him from the Israeli public, especially from the families of the detainees, and from the American administration, which It set a time limit for the war on the Gaza Strip, because it does not want to enter the next elections under these conditions.
Efforts to make a deal
According to Jabareen, Israel entered the war in order to achieve two goals: breaking the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and returning the detainees, but what it achieved was that it killed the detainees and killed Palestinian civilians, and it even failed to market its propaganda to give legitimacy to its war, as the speaker highlights.
Regarding the possibility of renewing efforts to conclude a deal between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation, military and strategic expert Karim Al-Falahi expected this to happen if losses continued among the ranks of the Israeli army, stressing that the current stage is decisive and severe for both parties, and the issue of profit and loss in wars is measured by achieving goals, and Israel has not It achieves its goals, and even adds another failure to the failure of last October 7, in reference to the Al-Aqsa flood battle launched by the resistance against the occupation.
For his part, the expert on Israeli affairs, Jabareen, said that in the midst of the losses suffered by the Israeli army and its failure to recover detainees held by the Palestinian resistance, the Israeli street will press to go to a deal now with the Palestinians.