AL-HAQ
23 Safar 1446
28 August 2024
GAZZA-PALESTINE
‘OUR ARMY IS IN PIECES’ SAY THE YAHOOD
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Retired Israeli Major General: “Our army is in pieces in Gazza, and the collapse of negotiations is leading us to the abyss.”
Tel Aviv – Ma’an – Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick said on Tuesday that his country’s army had failed in the Gazza Strip and had been reduced to “shreds,” warning that the collapse of ceasefire negotiations would lead Tel Aviv to “the abyss.”
This came in an article by Brick published in the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, under the title “Chief of Staff (HerziHalevi) shattered the Israeli army into pieces.”
“The Israeli army failed to achieve the goal set by the political level, which was to destroy Hamas,” Brick said.
He added that “due to improper behavior and lack of operational discipline, many (Israeli soldiers) were killed and wounded during the fighting in the Gazza Strip.”
He warned that “If Israel does not sign a deal to stop the fighting and exchange prisoners with Hamas, the situation may deteriorate, and we may end up at the bottom of the abyss.”
Sarcastically, Brick blamed the “three musketeers: Netanyahu, (Defense Minister) YoavGalant, and Halevi, who lost their way and were unable to lead us to safety.”
He continued: “As well as their responsibility for the collapse of the country in the areas of economy and international relations, and the increase in hatred among segments of the population, which could ignite the Middle East region and lead to a multi-front regional war.”
“I spoke with soldiers and commanders fighting in the Gazza Strip, who told me that they rarely fight face to face with Hamas. The movement is waging a guerrilla war. Its members emerge from tunnels, fire anti-tank missiles at our tanks and armored personnel carriers, plant booby traps and explosives in houses that the IDF clears out, and then disappear back into the tunnels,” Brick said.
They also told him, according to the article, that “what the IDF spokesman (Daniel Hagari) and military correspondents in the media are saying about the difficult face-to-face battles with Hamas, and the fall of dozens of the movement’s fighters, is baseless.“
Israeli officials have said on more than one occasion that the army is “paying a heavy price” in Gazza, and is engaged in fierce and complex fighting with Palestinian faction fighters.
“I recently received horrific information from the director general of a large hospital (he did not name it) that it had received dead and wounded from the Israeli army during the war,” Barak continued.
He added: “According to what the hospital director said, after a comprehensive examination he conducted, he found that more than 90 percent of the dead and wounded among our soldiers were injured by explosives and booby traps in homes while searching them, or by anti-tank missiles or by our forces’ fire on our forces, and only less than 10 percent fell as a result of face-to-face combat with the enemy.”
Every day, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announces that it has targeted Israeli soldiers and military vehicles, booby-trapped homes, detonated explosive devices, and killed and wounded soldiers, while the Israeli army announces daily the injury or death of soldiers in the ground battles that began in the Gazza Strip on October 27.