On Monday, the Israeli navy spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, stated in an interview with The New York Occasions that the struggle had entered a brand new section, with Israel drawing down its troops, specializing in southern areas of Gaza and lowering the variety of airstrikes. Hours earlier, Yoav Gallant, the protection minister, had instructed The Wall Road Journal that Israel would quickly transition from “intense maneuvering” towards “different types of special operations.”
Then, in his day by day Hebrew-language press briefing on Monday night time, Admiral Hagari responded to a query about his interview with The Occasions by saying that the purpose of dismantling Hamas remained in place, and that the “semantics” of whether or not the struggle had entered a brand new section “doesn’t serve the Israeli public.”
Individually, the Israeli information media reported that Mr. Gallant had instructed fellow right-wing lawmakers, in a closed-door assembly, that the struggle would proceed “for many more months,” and for that to occur, Israel wanted a “margin for international maneuver.” Mr. Gallant’s workplace confirmed the remarks.
The feedback to worldwide information media additionally gave the impression to be an effort to deal with calls from the US, Israel’s strongest ally, to ease the preventing, they usually got here hours earlier than the U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, landed in Tel Aviv for discussions in regards to the struggle. The Biden administration has been beneath stress to cut back its assist for Israel, and Mr. Blinken has beforehand known as on Israel to make use of extra precision in its strikes on Gaza.
Writing in Israel Hayom, a right-wing day by day newspaper, Yoav Limor, a navy commentator, stated: “The Israeli government locked itself into conflicting commitments: the commitments that it made to the Israeli public, saying there would be no time limit and the war would continue for as long as necessary until victory; and the commitments it made to the world, first and foremost to the administration in Washington, saying that the war was now transitioning to a new, lower-intensity stage of the war.”
