Yossi Yehoshua, military affairs analyst for the i24 and Yedioth Ahronoth channels, called for recognizing the fact that the war on the Gaza Strip has reached a kind of dead end, and that the Israeli army has currently exhausted its military efforts.
The military analyst’s comments came in the Israeli media discussions about the developments of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Yehoshua said that Israel has nothing to achieve through military pressure, especially with the lowest number of military brigades in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war.
As for Major General (Res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Security Council, he calls for continuing the extermination and starvation of the Palestinians, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, where he says, “There are 300,000 civilians and 5,000 Hamas activists in the northern Gaza Strip. All residents must be informed that they have a week to leave there, after which the area will become military, which will enable us to attack it indiscriminately.”
He added in a discussion session on Channel 12, “The most important thing is to stop the entry of any food, water, or fuel. The five thousand saboteurs have either to surrender at some point or die of hunger.”
On the other hand, Nimrod Sheffer, the former head of the army’s planning division, opposes continuing military pressure. In an interview with Channel 13, he said that this plan lacks any kind of logic. “If we continue to direct military pressure at Hamas, and more and more, so that they surrender or are defeated, then certainly no kidnapped person will remain alive. This is the fundamental failure of this plan.”
For his part, Channel 13’s judicial affairs correspondent Baruch Kara describes the former head of the Security Council’s plan as nonsense, arguing that the detainees could be killed by resistance fighters if the plan is implemented.
Regarding the map presented a few days ago by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that Hamas seeks to destroy Israel, Colonel (Reserve) Miri Eisin, the Prime Minister’s advisor for Western media (formerly), explained that Netanyahu’s speech, “This is a small Israel in the sea of the Arab world,” has failed for 45 years.