ISRAEL IS LIKELY TO LAUNCH A BLOODY GROUND ASSAULT ON THE GAZA STRIP IN THE COMING DAYS, EHUD BARAK SAYS

Thu 19 October 2023:

In an interview with NBC News, Barak warned that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would “need to deploy on the ground tens of thousands of pairs of boots” in order to “eliminate every launching pad, every rocket, every weapon, every training site” of Hamas. He said:

I don’t like to use the word inevitable, but that’s the most probable development, namely that in a few days, a much wider force will enter into the Gaza Strip.

He acknowledged how difficult a ground invasion would be for Israeli forces.

We would love to have it [the incursion] in the meadows of Oxfordshire. But it’s not; it’s Gaza. It’s a built-up area with fighters there, and they will fight back. I don’t want to idealize it or say it’s going to be a cakewalk. But with enough force and enough enthusiasm, we will win.

Barak was Israel’s defence minister during the country’s largest Gaza ground incursion in 2009, after serving as a special forces commando, commander-in-chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and then as prime minister once and defence minister twice.

He said any ground operation must follow international law, but “you cannot ignore the fact that already there are many citizens killed, and probably there will be more.”

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