In their coverage of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, international newspapers and magazines focused on several axes, some of which returned to the October 7 attack, revealing the confusion of the Israeli army and its lack of emergency preparedness.
An investigation in the American “New York Times” revealed new testimonies about the attack on October 7, which also clearly indicated the Israeli army’s confusion and lack of emergency preparedness.
The report stated that the Israeli army suffered from a lack of weapons and poor organization, to the point that soldiers were forced to communicate through WhatsApp groups and rely on social media to collect the information they needed to confront the situation.
The newspaper adds that the Israeli army lacked any plan to confront a large-scale attack, according to former and current soldiers and officers.
In the British newspaper The Guardian, Simon Tisdell wrote, “A war without end suits Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and enables him to strengthen himself and his coalition.” He explains that this war (the war without end) that Netanyahu wants means continuing to rule, but in return it means killing a number of people. Countless people, and “if Netanyahu succeeds in achieving his goals, Gaza may be just the beginning,” according to the writer.
The Economist magazine stated that the war on the Gaza Strip deepened the region’s divisions and did not bring opportunities for a settlement, explaining that it is too early to predict when the war will end, “which has so far been unable to reshape the region as the wars of 1947, 1967, and 1973 did.”
In its analysis, Foreign Policy magazine focused on explaining the repercussions of the Israeli war on Gaza on the Southeast Asian region.