The former commander of the Gaza Division in the Israeli occupation army, General Gadi Shamani, said, “The Israeli army is floundering in Gaza, and it is clear that Israel will not achieve its declared goals.”
The Israeli newspaper Maariv quoted Shamani as saying that it is difficult to see how all the “detainees” will be returned from the Gaza Strip.
Shamani believed that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) will suffer many losses due to the war, but will not be eliminated militarily.
According to Shamani, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government condemned Israel to years of confusion, isolation, and severe damage to the economy.
He also said, “The most dangerous thing is the dramatic erosion of the status of Israel, which was a regional power until the Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7th.
Growing frustration
A few days ago, Reserve Major General of the occupation army, Yitzhak Brik, said that the Israeli army does not have the ability to overthrow the Hamas movement, even if the war lasts for a long time.
Brik questioned the feasibility of continuing the fighting in the Gaza Strip, saying that if Israel continues the war, it will suffer huge losses represented by the collapse of the Israeli reserve army within a short period, as well as the collapse of the economy, as well as the deterioration of its international relations and the tearing apart of its society from within.
He also said that not making a decision on “the day after the war” would lead to more deaths among the Israeli army, especially after it returned to fighting in the same areas it was in before.
Brik pointed out that entering Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip would be the final nail in the coffin of the ability to topple the Hamas movement.
Regarding the northern front, he said that the Israeli army is unable to push Hezbollah beyond the Litani River and allow about 100,000 displaced Israelis to return to their homes in the north due to continuing tension.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli Prime Minister has repeatedly pledged to achieve a “complete victory” over Hamas in Gaza, where the occupation army continues for the eighth month in a row a devastating war that has left tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, most of them women and children, famine and an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis, according to UN and international reports.
