On Thursday, former head of the Israeli Shin Bet Security Service, Karmi Gilon, described the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip as “revenge.”

Gilon said in an interview he gave to the Hebrew Channel 12, on Wednesday, and the contents of which were published by Channel 7, on Thursday: “We have entered into a war of revenge, and this is completely justified in light of what we have been through,” referring to the events of last October 7.

Although he considered that "Hamas received a strong blow," Gilon said that "it will remain the ruling body in the Strip as long as there is a vacuum, and there is no one to fill it. Until now, everyone has fled Gaza," he said.

He added, "Maybe there will be a ceasefire for 5 or 6 years, and the missile rituals will return, but the story of what happened on October 7 will not be repeated in my opinion." Gilon, who headed the Shin Bet between 1995 and 1996, believed that the war on Gaza was “over.”

He believed that "the war is over, and the only reason, in my opinion, for the Israeli army to remain in the field is to return the hostages (the Israeli prisoners in Gaza)."