One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians he said Israel had killed as “terrorists.” The full video is linked below. Here are some of the remarks:
🔹 Defense Minister Israel Katz: “The important thing: those neighborhoods like Jabaliya, Shuja’iyya, which we only controlled a part of - are destroyed. In ruins.”
Interviewer: “When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?”
Katz: “What do I feel? Feel good. What, this is all the result of a deliberate policy that [was designed] to remove threats. Instead of the method of raids - enter, exit, and Hamas returns - the IDF is inside, the residents are outside, and the houses are destroyed.”
Katz: “We are not retreating from the yellow line, unequivocally, as long as Hamas does not truly disarm. And even after that, we will remain in Gaza!”
🔹 Major General Tamir Yadai, deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military: “I don’t know how to describe this [situation] other than victory. When you control 65% of the territory [of the Gaza Strip], when 70,000 terrorists have been killed here, when the majority of the population is in the beach since… for a second summer there already, when the IDF is inside The Strip with a different [scale of deployment] than before, when there’s a full freedom of operation.”
🔹 Major General Yaniv Assor, commander of the Israeli military’s southern command: “Over the last period, [since Operation Lion’s Roar], there have been 300 [targeted assassinations] in The Strip.”
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