Is Bibi lying again ?
Does a bear shoot in the woods ?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army to wage war on Gaza in early October 2023, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 41,000 Palestinians. Though nearly a year has passed since the start of the conflict, Netanyahu has not succeeded in realizing his objectives which mainly include “total victory” over Hamas and the elimination of the resistance movement.
Nonetheless, he aims to convey the perception that progress has been achieved in the war.
The Israeli army claimed on Thursday that it destroyed the Rafah Brigade of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. It also claimed that more than 2,300 resistance fighters were killed and over 13 kilometers of tunnels built by Hamas were destroyed.
Nonetheless, a senior Knesset member dismissed the army’s assertions.
Amit Halevi, a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, said on Saturday that the Israeli army has not managed to defeat even a single battalion of the resistance movement in Rafah.
He also rejected the army’s claim of killing a large number of Hamas fighters as an exaggeration.
Halevi further said Israel has only destroyed a small fraction of the underground tunnels in Rafah.
He admitted that the Netanyahu regime has not only failed to accomplish any strategic successes but is also far from defeating or destroying Hamas.
This is not the inaugural instance of a high-ranking Israeli official highlighting the army's failures on the battlefield.
Last month, war minister Yoav Gallant said during a closed-door hearing before a Knesset committee that Netanyahu’s “total victory” slogan is “nonsense” and “gibberish”.
It was also in August that around 100 Israeli officers warned that the regime’s army is “still far from victory”.
