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The Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, admitted today that the Security apparatus “made mistakes” after failing to prevent the offensive of Hamas and the land incursion that caused the death of 1,300 people in Israel, in its first public intervention after six days of war.
At a press conference near the border line with the Strip, where heavy airstrikes against the enclave continue and have left at least 1,417 Palestinians dead and more than 6,000 injured, the senior Army officer also promised that “failures in the military chain will be investigated”, but called for it to focus, for now, on managing the conflict with Palestinian militias in the coastal enclave.
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““The Israeli Armed Forces are responsible for the security of the country and its citizens, and on Saturday morning in the areas of the Gaza Strip we did not address this,” declared Halevi.
““We will learn, we will investigate, but now it is time for war”, He added, in a context in which Israel accumulates a large number of troops around the Strip, while there is speculation about a land offensive that could be increasingly imminent.
Halevi said everything possible will be done to rescue hostages taken from communities in southern Israel who are now held captive in Gaza and in the hands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who are demanding an exchange with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
Israeli security forces were caught off guard in the Hamas offensive on Saturday morning, which led to the largest massacre and worst military failure in the country’s history.
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“The murder committed by the murderous terrorists of Hamas, human animals, our children, women and our people, is animal and inhumane”, stressed Halevi, who also blamed the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahia Sinwar, “for this horrible attack”.
“He and the entire system under his command are dead men. “We will attack them, dismantle them and dismantle their system.”he claimed.
Since the beginning of the war, the whereabouts of Sinwar and other senior Hamas officials in the Strip have been unknown, nor have they made public statements or pronouncements during these days.
Source: Elcomercio
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