International Courant
JERUSALEM
Retired Israeli Main Normal Yitzhak Brik warned Thursday that Israel may face “collapse inside a yr” if its present struggle towards Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanese motion Hezbollah continues.
“The nation actually is galloping in the direction of the sting of an abyss,” Brik stated in an opinion piece printed by Israeli day by day Haaretz.
“If the struggle of attrition towards Hamas and Hezbollah continues, Israel will collapse inside not more than a yr.”
The Israeli military has launched a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 Hamas assault, killing almost 40,300 folks, principally girls and youngsters, and injuring over 93,100 others.
The onslaught has triggered months of cross-border assaults between Hezbollah and Israel amid fears of a full-blown struggle between the 2 sides.
Brik solid doubts on claims of Israeli officers about Hamas give up and that its chief Yahya Sinwar could be caught.
“Many of the pretentious declarations made by Protection Minister Yoav Gallant all through the struggle in Gaza have confirmed to be groundless,” he stated.
“With these pronouncements, Gallant, alongside together with his colleagues IDF Chief of Workers Herzi Halevi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been throwing mud within the eyes of the Israeli public,” he added.
The retired normal stated that Gallant has begun to appreciate that “the idea of whole victory in Gaza is nonsense.”
“Evidently he has begun to appreciate that failing to succeed in a hostage cope with Hamas would result in a regional struggle that might put Israel in severe hazard,” Brik stated.
As for a possible hostage swap cope with Hamas, he stated it has “turn out to be inconceivable” to attain what Israel may have gained earlier with a cease-fire deal “because of the new situations that Netanyahu launched into the proposed deal.”
For months, the US, Qatar and Egypt have been making an attempt to succeed in an settlement between Israel and Hamas to make sure a prisoner change and cease-fire and permit humanitarian help to enter Gaza. However mediation efforts have been stalled as a consequence of Netanyahu’s refusal to satisfy Hamas’s calls for to cease the struggle.
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an assault by Hamas final Oct. 7, regardless of a UN Safety Council decision calling for a direct cease-fire.
An Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to extreme shortages of meals, clear water and drugs, leaving a lot of the area in ruins.
Israel faces accusations of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, which has ordered a halt to navy operations within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place over a million Palestinians had sought refuge earlier than the world was invaded on Might 6.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul
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