The military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi, said that the Israeli occupation army’s decision to resort to members of non-combat units is due to the significant shortage it suffers in numerical combat power.
He added – in an analysis of the military scene in Gaza – that the occupation army’s move to Unit 8200 or to intelligence or cyber security units that work on advanced technology means that it needs a combat force.
The occupation army had been working in the previous period, specifically in 1992 – Colonel Al-Falahi adds – to reduce forces and rely on few forces, but with great techniques and technological capabilities, and this is what made it focus on air power and cyber warfare to a large extent and on the Iron Dome and on developing naval power.
Knowing that after 1973, the occupation army did not wage any regular war, and even the previous wars it waged with Lebanon and the Gaza Strip were air wars and mutual bombing operations, and therefore there was no reduction in numerical combat power.
Because of the losses it suffered in its war on Gaza, the Israeli occupation army is reconsidering its calculations, and there is talk of forming a new division, increasing the reserve period, and calling up the Haredim, because it knows that fighting on multiple fronts requires large military sectors, and what it has is not enough.
Al-Falahi described the measures currently being taken by the occupation army as patchwork measures that will not affect the ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip, but their impact will be on cyber units that are accustomed to a specific context of work, and there will be a shortage of manpower in these units, which will reflect on the nature of Information that these units will provide during the coming period.
The Israeli “Walla” website revealed that the army is suffering from a shortage of soldiers, and is seeking to form a new division to carry out various tasks. He said that the division will be called “David’s Division”, and will include male and female soldiers who have reached exemptive age, volunteers, and members of the Haredim, and the army may thus be able to Recruiting 40 thousand fighters.
In the same context, the Supreme Court in Israel ruled yesterday, Tuesday, that the government must recruit ultra-Orthodox Jewish institute students (Haredi) into the army.
Exempting the Haredim from military service has become more controversial, because the Israeli army consists mostly of teenage soldiers and a number of older civilians who are called to undertake reserve military service, in addition to being a service exhausted by the multi-front war in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
