Israel's war in Gaza is lost and aimless, Hamas is still kicking - IDF major

• Published date: 24 March 2024
• Author: 103FM
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Ziv explained the actions at Shifa Hospital "means that in practice, Hamas remains in control of the area and that this situation in Shifa is probably similar in other hospitals. There are other hospitals in northern Gaza. Hamas's military capabilities have indeed been damaged, undoubtedly eliminated by the IDF, but they still have thousands of terrorists. The territory in terms of civilian control remains in the hands of Hamas; the organization is alive and is still kicking."

To the question of whether it was right to withdraw most of the IDF troops from Gaza, Ziv replied: "In the absence of a policy, what is the IDF supposed to do? We are over five months into this war without any predictable political goal. Let's say we stayed until now. What is next? Even if we stayed and declared that we were occupying, we would become the new government in Gaza. Israel would need to establish civil, police, and security systems and take care of the various services. What happened to us is not just the Hamas situation. The lack of decision-making on our part is the most serious thing."

Ziv later commented on Canada's decision to stop arms shipments to Israel, "Israel is in the middle of a very serious international crisis. I don't remember one like this before. It is a result not only of the lack of advocacy but also that Israel is in a deep crisis as a result of the lack of policy. Everything points to the fact that the government does not make policy decisions, and not only do we not know what the best decision is, but the world does not know either.

"The world does not show the photos of Channel 12 showing how the IDF does one heroic action or another in Shifa; they only show photos of the humanitarian crisis, the demolition, and the destruction. Because of this, the public opinion in the world is against us. The point here is that in the end, the US will not be there for us either because there is a limit to what they are willing to contain."

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