Haim Ramon, the former Israeli minister, said that Israel is on the verge of an unprecedented strategic defeat, and that its failure in the war on the Gaza Strip is clear, despite the tactical achievements that have been achieved, as he put it.
Ramon added, in an article in Maariv newspaper on Friday, that the Israeli press is hiding from the public the fact that the Israeli army failed to subjugate what he called Israel’s weakest enemies, and that it did not have an integrated plan to occupy Gaza.
He also pointed out that the government failed to achieve the war goals it set.
Ramon said that the Hamas movement was able to restore its strength in every place from which the Israeli forces withdrew, noting that the army was surprised by the number of fighters in Jabalia after it said that it had subdued the Hamas brigades there during the first round.
Earlier, Israeli Channel 13 quoted National Security Council Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi that Israel had not achieved any of the goals of its war on the Gaza Strip.
He added: “We did not eliminate Hamas, we did not provide conditions for the return of the prisoners, and we did not return the residents of the Gaza Strip to their homes safely.”
He said that the army says that achieving war goals requires several years, not one year.
He continued that the War Council did not specify any clear goal for northern Israel and did not set a date or strategic goals.
Recently, criticism has escalated against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, due to their inability to achieve the war goals they declared, most notably the dismantling of Hamas and the release of detainees in Gaza.
Haaretz newspaper published an investigation into the failure of Israeli intelligence to anticipate the attack of last October 7, which concluded that contempt, denial, and the cessation of collecting information about the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) for more than two years in the Israeli army led to the flood of Al-Aqsa.
The newspaper confirmed that the Israeli intelligence failure continued after the start of the war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Hamas movement violated the expectations of the Israeli army and most of its members did not enter the tunnels after the war.
