Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brick said that Egypt has been building highways leading to Sinai for years, and Israel is the target, in an interview with the “FM 103” program about the progress of the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the weakening of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported part of what was discussed in the program, where the program presenter, Ariel Segal, said, after mentioning that the head of the Mossad is formulating the Israeli response to the mediators’ proposals, that the Israeli army’s ability to pursue Hamas is diminishing, the level of operational errors is increasing, and the pressure on the government from The detainees' families did not succeed.

In response, Yitzhak Brik said that Hamas still feels very strong, and it does not want to reach an agreement on the hostages, and it has time, because we are not close to weakening its capabilities, “Hamas will continue to exist.”

Regarding the fighting in the Philadelphia and Rafah corridor, Brik said that everyone knows that there is a crossing from Sinai under the corridor, and that the Israeli army did not want to remain along this corridor, and it had the ability to do so, but it would cause many casualties, so Israel hoped For the Egyptians to do that.

But today there is a very big problem with Egypt - as the former general says - they are not ready to do that, and they do not agree that we do it from this side of the aisle, and they threaten that if we start doing different things that will lead to the crossing of large numbers To Sinai, they will stop peace.

Isaac Brik concluded by saying that Egypt, “although it is a poor country, has the strongest army in the Middle East today with about 4,000 tanks... and hundreds of the most advanced aircraft, and a navy of the best that exists. They have also been building highways leading to Sinai for years. We The goal is: they are not building an army for any other party. This means that by making a decision to cancel peace, they become a hostile state, and we do not even have a brigade to stand against them,” he said.

Source: Israeli press