MK Gadi Eisenkot (HaMahane HaMamlahti) suggested that Israel’s war plan against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza “went seriously off the rails” and accused the government of having lost its way, fourteen months after the pogrom on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel which sparked the ongoing fighting.
He told the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) that the reason the war continues and Israel’s stated goals have not been achieved is “because there are people sitting in the room who do not want to see the war end.
Rather than focusing on the stated goals of the war – dismantling Hamas’s armed and administrative capabilities, ensuring there is no longer a threat to Israel on the Gaza border, and rescuing the hostages – he said that the government’s decisions had been obscured by the “overt and covert war aims of [Bezalel] Smotrich, [Itamar] Ben Gvir and part of the Likud.
Far-right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition have notably called for resettlement in the Gaza Strip in order to pressure the Palestinian terrorist group to release the hostages.
According to Eisenkot, this phenomenon “explains a large number of decisions regarding the ‘day after’ and the hostages, as well as the duality of Netanyahu, who affirms that there will be neither settlement nor military government, whereas in the practical, they published a document which shows the opposite.
Regarding the governance of the Gaza Strip after the end of the war against Hamas, Eisenkot said that as things stand, “the Israeli army will be responsible for distributing aid, a military government will be established and the State of Israel will have full responsibility.” “This is a very serious mistake. »
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