Israel paying with blood for every single day of stay in Gaza: Report

The Israeli media have acknowledged the regime’s failure to achieve its declared goals in the 15-month-old war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the occupying entity is paying with blood the cost of staying in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The Hebrew-language Maariv daily newspaper said in an article penned by Israeli investigative reporter Alon Ben David on Friday that the occupation would “never be able” to destroy the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and “kill all those” who support the Gaza-based popular group after more than a year of ruinous aggression.

“Every day spent there exacts its own liter of blood, and now the IDF [army] is preparing to throw another division, the fourth in number, into action in Gaza. It needs to be said again that we will never be able to kill all those who identify with Hamas,” the paper said.

“Their numbers in Gaza are an infinite reservoir. We will not destroy the last of the rockets and the last RPG.”

Stressing that the Israeli military has been drawn into a prolonged stay in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon, the newspaper said, “The IDF is looking for explanations that will justify the continued stay and bleeding. We can be engulfed in the war in Gaza forever, but even in the voice of the IDF commanders we can hear the skepticism when they explain the vital importance of the mission.”

Underling that the occupation forces need “healing and recovery,” the Hebrew-language daily said, “Our war will not end this year, but it can be reduced to the necessary dimensions and stop the unnecessary bleeding. The biggest task we will have in the new year will be to fix what is broken, so that we have something to keep fighting for.”

Late last month, a former director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency admitted that the regime’s pressure on Hamas had failed to yield any significant results and a prisoner swap deal should be signed as soon as possible.

“We have seen in the last year and two months that the pressure on Hamas has hardly helped,” said Danny Yatom, who led the occupying entity’s spy organization from 1996 to 1998. “We need to go to a deal, and yes - get out of Gaza. It will always be possible to return to Gaza.”

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led resistance groups carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to its decades-long campaign of oppression against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 45,658 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 108,583 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

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