Experts and analysts believe that the differences in the Israeli authority hierarchy regarding the war on the Gaza Strip may have been fueled by videos broadcast by the Palestinian resistance, the latest of which is the testimonies of captured Israeli soldiers whom the occupation said were mistakenly killed in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Days after an Israeli military investigation confirmed the mistaken killing of 3 imprisoned soldiers in Shujaiya, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – broadcast scenes of 4 soldiers in which they issued appeals to quickly liberate them.
According to journalist and expert on Israeli affairs, Wadih Awawdeh, the vast majority of Israelis watch Tel Aviv Tribune and watch the videos issued by the Hamas movement, and he expected that the scenes of captured soldiers would affect the Israelis, especially in light of the crisis of trust between the families of the detainees and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. .
He said that social media conveys messages from the other side without the sieve of traditional media, which focuses on the official Israeli narrative.
The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, spoke about the importance of the videos broadcast by the Palestinian resistance, and said that they reinforce the belief that has become firmly established among everyone that Netanyahu does not care about the lives of the prisoners, and does not care if they all die.
What the Palestinians must understand – Barghouti adds – is that “a major rift has now begun in Israel, and the exchange of attacks and the shifting of responsibilities have begun,” calling on the Palestinians to exploit what he called the state of profound Israeli failure, last October 7, at the political and intelligence levels. Military and strategic, and the failure in the current military operation in Gaza, as it did not achieve any of its goals after 90 days of aggression.
Barghouti believed that the conflict that began between the Israelis would lead to greater conflicts and would dismantle the government system in Israel.
For his part, the military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, said that the impact of these scenes will be on the families of prisoners and detainees held by the Palestinian resistance, as they will discover through these previous videos of the resistance that the one who is killing their children is the Israeli army under the guidance of Netanyahu, who controls the management of the war, accompanied by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The military expert pointed out that the Israeli army and the Chief of Staff submitted a statement stating that the soldiers who were killed by mistake were 3, and then the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades came and showed a video confirming that those who were killed were 4, which is a denial of the information provided by the Israelis.
Regarding the impact of the differences within the Israeli War Council, Al-Duwairi explained that the battle is the military’s affair, while the politician watches and does not interfere in the management of the battle, recalling many evidences in history; Among them is that a large portion of the battles that Germany lost in World War II were due to direct interventions by Adolf Hitler, and when politics intervened and restricted the military in the 1973 war, the war headed in another direction.
Al-Duwairi explained that the Israeli army commanders are suffering from great confusion in managing the battle, especially in the northern region of Gaza.