Analysts and former Israeli military personnel continue the seemingly systematic campaign of incitement against the residents of the Gaza Strip through the Hebrew media, not only accusing them of terrorism, but also describing the completely besieged Strip as a "Nazi state."

While Israeli army is committing what the United Nations and all international organizations say are war crimes against the civilian population, the former head of the Israeli National Security Council, General Giora Eiland, said during a participation on Channel 12 that talk about the presence of innocent citizens in Gaza who must be saved is not realistic, adding that Gaza is “very much a Nazi state.”

Eiland said that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) succeeded in recruiting the entire civilian population and made them support the conflict against Israel, and that every house in Gaza has a tunnel opening leading to the military infrastructure.

Not only that, Eiland accused all hospital and school directors and mayors of being “employees of Hamas,” stressing that all Gazans are making a great effort against Israel, and they are all rallying around the leadership and not against it, as he described it. Regarding the goals of the war, Knesset member Mickey Rosenthal told Channel 13 that the Israelis must remember that the goal is not to destroy every missile and demolish every tunnel in Gaza, but rather to kill the main Hamas leaders and weaken the movement militarily in order to reach a new leadership for the Strip and perhaps negotiate with it.

But Rosenthal said that the matter is not only about changing the leadership of Hamas, but also about changing the leadership of Israel so that there is another Middle East and people feel hopeful. As for Culture Minister Miki Zohar, he said that Israel must maintain its security doctrine in Gaza from all sides so that it prevents the entry of more weapons to the Gaza Strip after Hamas is disarmed and the known land and sea crossings are monitored.

Regarding the frameworks of the ground military operation in Gaza, Yossi Yehoshea - security and military affairs correspondent for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper - said that a very senior officer in the General Staff told him that the goals they set for the army were high in ambition and that they would achieve them, but it would not take a week or two because the destruction of the armed Hamas' military action requires months, international legitimacy, and economic strength for a long period.

Yehoshua also quoted the senior officer as saying that Israel cannot coexist with 300,000 reserve soldiers on duty with a faltering economy, in addition to hundreds who were evacuated from their homes in the Gaza Strip and on the border with Lebanon, adding, “Therefore, people must understand that it is not a lightning strike that will end the matter quickly".

Regarding the prisoners, Eyal Eshel - the father of the captive soldier Roni - said that there are surveillance cameras present at the site where his daughter was working, but he does not know where the tapes for these cameras went and why the cameras that were in Axis 232 have not been examined yet.  He stressed that he has not received any answers to these questions yet.

Source: Al Jazeera