PNN – The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army announced the difficult challenges facing the regime and the casualties of the occupying forces in the Gaza war, saying: This war is taking the lives of our soldiers and we have paid a heavy price.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Al Jazeera, in recent statements, Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, acknowledged that the army is facing major challenges, referring to the complexities of the ongoing war in Gaza and the multi-front nature of the conflict.
He said: We are facing a combined and multi-front war and many challenges lie ahead of us. The war has claimed the lives of many of our soldiers and we have paid a heavy price. The army is far from differences in Israel and we have common goals.
He claimed: We will expand the scope of military operations in Gaza if necessary.
He considered one of the regime’s biggest current challenges to be returning prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and claimed: Our other goal is to destroy Hamas and maintain the security of the areas surrounding Gaza.
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On the other hand, the Israeli media reported demonstrations in front of the homes of the Israeli president and the Minister of Education in support of the return of the prisoners.
Since the beginning of the Gaza Strip War on October 7, 2023, and the unprecedented Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm” carried out by the Palestinian resistance forces in a surprising manner, the Israeli army has faced a series of heavy and costly blows; blows that have left profound effects on the Israeli army both on the field level and on the psychological and strategic level.
In the first days of the war, more than 1,200 Zionists were killed and hundreds were captured; an event that, according to many observers, is considered the most unprecedented intelligence and security failure of the occupying regime since its establishment.
Afterwards, in the extensive ground operations that the Israeli army launched to free prisoners and suppress the resistance, the Palestinian resistance inflicted heavy losses on Israeli military units through irregular warfare tactics, the use of complex tunnels, precise ambushes, and planned explosions.
During more than a year and a half of the war, Zionist sources have acknowledged the killing of hundreds of army soldiers, while unofficial statistics indicate higher casualties and thousands of injuries among the regime’s combat forces.
The Palestinian resistance also succeeded in destroying or capturing dozens of Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers, drones, and advanced reconnaissance systems of the Israeli army.
Now, after more than 18 months, many observers believe that the Palestinian resistance, despite widespread destruction and human losses, has managed to change the equations of the battle and trap the Israeli army in an attrition and costly war in which there is no clear prospect of victory.