“We will get to the leadership of Hamas, whether it takes a week or months – We are waging a just war with a heavy and painful price,” IDF chief said
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Tuesday that the army expand operations in southern and central Gaza, as he is close to dismantling all Hamas battalions in the northern part of the Strip, but warned that the war “will last many more months.”
“We eliminated many terrorists and commanders, some of them surrendered to our forces and we took hundreds of prisoners. We destroyed a lot of underground infrastructure and weapons,” he said at a press conference.
But Halevi clarified that “in this dense urban area, where terrorists are dressed as civilians, it cannot be said that we killed them all.’ “We will probably continue to encounter fighters [της Χαμάς] in this area and we will continue to attack and pursue them in various ways,” he noted of the fighting in northern Gaza.
“Now, we are focusing our efforts in the south of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, in the central camps and beyond. And we will continue to preserve and deepen the achievements in the northern part of the Gaza Strip,” Halevi said.
The IDF “will not allow a return to the security reality before October 7 and we will not allow such an event to happen again.”
“The Air Force continues to strike non-stop. A building falls when it is an enemy target, a building falls when it is a danger to our forces,” said the top Israeli officer.
Halevi clarified that the Israeli ground forces are destroying the infrastructure of Hamas, something that “cannot be done from the air” and that such operations lead to conflicts with “terrorist actors”.
“We are using the resources at our disposal professionally, rationally and calculatedly and preparing to continue fighting in all arenas,” he said.
“This war has necessary but not easy goals to achieve, takes place in complex terrains. That is why the war will continue for many months to come, and we will work with different methods so that the achievements can be maintained for a long time,” he pointed out, adding that the Israeli army is constantly learning and adapting its fighting methods in each region. of the Gaza Strip in which it operates.
“There are no magic solutions, there are no shortcuts for the thorough dismantling of a terrorist organization, but stubborn and determined battles. And we are very, very determined,” he explained. We will get to the leadership of Hamas, “whether it takes a week or it takes months.”
“We are intensifying the military pressure, in different ways, dynamically (…) This pressure allows the realization of the objectives of the war, the dissolution of Hamas and the return of the hostages,” Halevi continued.
“Our commitment to the return of the hostages remains the same, we will do everything to return the hostages to their homes. In this war, we are fighting a just war like no other… and it comes at a heavy and painful price. Some of our best sons and daughters have fallen in battle for the security of the country. We will guarantee that their death was not in vain,” he stressed.
Source :Skai
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