Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick said that Hamas still controls 80 percent of the tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
In an article for the Israeli newspaper “Maariv”, Brick stated that “Tel Aviv is as far from defeating Hamas as the East is from the West”.
“Every day spent in a war that has lost its purpose drains our capabilities and destroys our country. The military is collapsing, Israel’s economy is collapsing, we’re losing touch with the world, and our national power is seriously eroded,” he said.
Pointing out that the Israeli army could not achieve its goals, Brick said that the ground force of the Israeli army was weakened because it could not replace the troops that fought non-stop for months and paid a high price with dead and wounded fighters.
A retired Israeli general said the Israeli army withdrew from the regions they were in due to a shortage of soldiers and continued raids.
More than 37,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7th last year, most of them women and children, and around 86,000 have been wounded, according to local health authorities.
Israel has been accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Israeli authorities to immediately halt their military operation in the southern city of Rafah.
