The Israeli media opened an extensive discussion about the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, and hosted former officials, security experts, and media professionals, who unanimously agreed that Israel failed to anticipate the event and confront the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), who succeeded in infiltrating the Gaza Strip.
In his comment on the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” the former head of the National Security Council, General Reserve Giora Eiland, said, “What happened is the collapse of the Israeli apparatus, the information apparatus that did not anticipate the event, and the operational apparatus that must defend the Gaza envelope,” in addition to that Event management was not up to standard.
He called for punishing the Gaza Strip according to the requirements of war, saying, “The only thing that Israel must do is to act in accordance with what the state of war requires, and for the State of Israel to wage war on the State of Gaza, and work to isolate the Gaza Strip from energy sources, such as fuel, electricity, water, and food.” “.
Professor Uzi Rabi, head of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, said:
“In recent years, we have heard various estimates from several sources stating that Hamas is not interested in escalation, and this is not true,” he added, “We must understand that Israel does not understand what Hamas is, and what happened proves that.”
The Palestinian affairs analyst in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Avi Iskharov, acknowledged the achievement achieved by the Hamas movement, and said in his comment to the Israeli media, “I believe that this achievement is unprecedented for the Hamas movement, and perhaps the most important military achievement since its inception,” noting that this achievement It may go beyond the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York, but he said, “Israel will strike a very painful blow against Hamas in its aftermath. It will make it regret the operation it carried out, by seeking to reach a prisoner exchange deal.”
Reserve General Amir Avivi focused on the Hamas movement, which he saw as a “major strategic dilemma,” not only at the level of the event (Operation Al-Aqsa Flood), which he considered to be a war without parallel since the October War. He said that this operation casts a shadow over all… The region, adding that “the whole Middle East is waiting for whether this war will end while Hamas is still standing on its feet or not?” He said, “This is what is important and not the number of deaths that will be there (Gaza), nor the number of buildings that will be demolished, nor the number of missiles that will be fired.” “You’ll tackle it there.”
He added, “There is only one question today, which is what will follow this war: Will Hamas remain standing on its feet or not?”
From the point of view of the former head of the military intelligence research unit, reserve general Amos Gilad, he criticized the weakness of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and said, “It is not reasonable for a weak government to remain and weaken the army… An emergency government must be established… and if we want to carry out a radical treatment for Hamas “We must obtain strategic support.”
It is noteworthy that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, affiliated with the Hamas movement, against the Israeli occupation, led to the killing of 700 Israelis.
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