The Washington Post: The Israeli army is exhausted to the core

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The Washington Post reported on Monday that the Israeli army, exhausted by the war in the Gaza Strip, is cautiously looking at the war on the northern front with Hezbollah.

Israeli leaders say they don’t want a war in Lebanon, but they are ready for any scenario, but now that their resources have been depleted in the war against the Gaza Strip, the soldiers are exhausted and unprepared for a new front in the north.

The Washington Post pointed out that the Israeli war against Hamas didn’t lead to its defeat, and Netanyahu is politically besieged and hasn’t yet determined his exit strategy from the war.

The Washington Post also noted that Israel will face from Lebanon a bigger, better-armed and more professional enemy than Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Northern settlements remain deserted as pressure from displaced Israelis mounts on the government to move to return them.

Israeli military commanders have been working on plans for an attack on Lebanon for months.

Earlier, resigned cabinet member Benny Gantz and others demanded that Netanyahu allow an Israeli incursion into Lebanon on March, however, Netanyahu was reluctant.

Gael Talsher, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University, said, “Netanyahu, who once boasted of his ability to prevent wars, knows that the Israeli public isn’t ready to receive thousands of rockets on Tel Aviv”.

“Instead of strategizing, he isolated himself, avoiding making difficult decisions in order to buy time and surrounding himself with loyalists lacking military experience,” he added.

On the situation of settlers in the north, Omer Simchi, who served for nine months in a local band in Kibbutz Sasa, said that families are tired.

Moshe Davidovich, head of the local council, said hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed in northern Israel.

The Washington Post confirmed that Hezbollah strikes are a simple test of what it may inflict on Israel during a wide war, and these strikes are expected to lead to widespread power outages in the Israel, and Hezbollah is believed to have more than twice the number of fighters that Hamas has, and more than four times the number of munitions, including guided rockets.

Last month, former deputy chief of staff Yair Golan told an Israeli radio station, “The reserve forces and the regular military system are exhausted to the core”.

Yoel Guzansky, a former official in Israel’s National Security said, “Israel is used to fighting short wars,” adding that “after nine months, the IDF is exhausted, needs to take care of the equipment, the munitions have run out, and every family in Israel is affected”.

Guzansky said Israel’s invasion of Lebanon could be a trap, dragging Israel into another exhausting and endless war.

He pointed out that there is a misconception in the Israel that the war against Lebanon can end in days or weeks, and that the scenes of destruction in the Lebanon will intensify international pressure on the Israel and increase tensions with the United States.

Earlier, the British weekly The Economist magazine reported, quoting an Israeli officer, that Hezbollah is much better prepared for an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon.

The Economist magazine added that in the event of a war with Hezbollah, estimates indicate that Israel will receive the largest continuous rocket barrage in history.

Israeli media confirmed on July 5 that Hezbollah had achieved since the beginning of the war an important strategic achievement represented in transforming the settlements on the frontline into an abandoned military security belt of settlers and subject to a combat system.

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