Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army Aviv Kohavi has claimed that his army is ready to invade Gaza and other Palestinian cities more effectively than what happened in Jenin in 2002, Israeli media reported.
Israel’s Kan 11 reported Kohavi speaking on the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Jenin, along with other West Bank cities in 2002.
At the time, the Israeli army’s attempt to stop the Intifada failed despite the massacres and war crimes it carried out.
The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi called on Israeli zionist soldiers to be well-prepared for any scenario in reference to Israel's readiness to take whatever action to re-detain the Palestinian prisoners. #نفق_الحرية #نفق_جلبوع #BREAKING #Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/Pz2sHfOor1
— Palestine International Broadcast (@PBI_PS) September 7, 2021
Kohavi said that the scenario carried out in Jenin in 2002, cutting communications, water and electricity to the city, could be repeated in Gaza in 2022, “but in a more effective way.”
He claimed that the Israeli army’s “ability to occupy Palestinian cities and administer them gave the political and military Israeli leaderships, as well as the field commanders of the Israeli army, wide credibility that the army is able to reach everywhere.”
Why a ground invasion of Gaza is so terrifying: When Israeli forces entered Gaza in 2014, more Palestinians were killed than during the airstrikes alone. In a two day stretch that July, one child per hour was killed:https://t.co/ZtZAqWVxwd
— Tamer El-Ghobashy (@TamerELG) May 15, 2021
Israel’s last invasion of Gaza was in 2014 when it killed over 2,200 Palestinians including 551 children.
Since then, it has carried out a number of offensives against the Strip, the latest of which was in May 2021 when over 250 Palestinians were killed over 11 days.
The Israeli army regularly shells Gaza, flies reconnaissance drones overhead and damages crops in the besieged enclave.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
