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Israel-Hamas war: Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war

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Mourners watch the funeral processions of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. Photo / AP

A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a ceasefire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive.

The comments by former Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot offered the latest sign of disagreement among top Israeli officials over the direction of the war against Hamas, now in its fourth month.

In his first public statements on the course of the war, Eisenkot also said claims the dozens of hostages could be freed by other means amounted to spreading “illusions”.

Meanwhile, a communications blackout in the territory entered its seventh day on Friday, the longest such blackout since the war began. The lack of communication hampered the co-ordination of aid deliveries and rescue efforts.

Sparked by an unprecedented October 7 Hamas raid into Israel that killed about 1200 people, mostly civilians, and with about 250 others taken hostage, the Israeli assault has pulverised much of the Gaza Strip, home to some 2.3 million people. Israel has said more than 130 hostages remain in Gaza, but not all of them are believed to be alive.

Mourners watch the funeral processions of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. Photo / APMourners watch the funeral processions of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. Photo / AP

Israel’s offensive, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history, has killed nearly 25,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, and uprooted more than 80 per cent of the territory’s population.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said142 people were killed and 278 people wounded the previous day, raising the total death toll since October 7 to 24,762, and the total number of wounded to 62,108.

Israel has also cut off all but a trickle of supplies into the besieged territory, including food, water and fuel. Several dozen trucks with critical supplies now enter Gaza each day, just a fraction of the pre-war volume of about 500 trucks. Both the US and United Nations have said more aid needs to be delivered.

Palestinian state ruled out

The US, Israel’s closest ally, has provided strong military and political support for the campaign, but has increasingly called on Israel to scale back its assault and take steps towards establishing a Palestinian state after the war — a suggestion Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has soundly rejected.

Speaking during a nationally televised news conference, Netanyahu reiterated his long-standing opposition to a two-state solution, arguing that a Palestinian state would become a launching pad for attacks on Israel.

Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River”, Netanyahu said, adding: “That collides with the idea of sovereignty. What can we do?”

The US has said the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority, which governs semi-autonomous zones in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, should be “revitalised” and return to Gaza. Hamas ousted the authority from Gaza in 2007.

Washington has also called for steps towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. The Palestinians seek Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem for their state. Those areas were captured by Israel in 1967.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the two-state solution was the best way to protect Israel, unify moderate Arab countries and isolate Israel’s arch-enemy, Iran. He said without a pathway to a Palestinian state, Israel would not “get genuine security”.

At the same conference, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said the kingdom was ready to establish full relations with Israel as part of a larger political agreement. “But that can only happen through peace for the Palestinians, through a Palestinian state,” he said.

A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority, said on Thursday there can be “no security and stability in the region” without a Palestinian state.

Mourners carry the body of Ahmad Faraj, 18, during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. Photo / APMourners carry the body of Ahmad Faraj, 18, during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem. Photo / AP

Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant have said the fighting will continue until Hamas is crushed, and argue only military action can win the hostages’ release.

Hamas seeks an end to the war before discussing hostage releases, and it has demanded the release of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel in exchange for those held captive in Gaza.

Commentators have begun to question whether Netanyahu’s objectives are realistic, given the slow pace of the offensive and growing international criticism, including genocide accusations at the United Nations world court that Israel vehemently denies.

Netanyahu’s opponents accuse him of delaying any discussion of post-war scenarios in order to avoid looming investigations of governmental failures, keep his coalition intact and put off elections. Polls show the popularity of Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, has plummeted during the war.

‘We did not bring down Hamas’

Speaking to the investigative programme Uvda on Israel’s Channel 12 television, Eisenkot said the Israeli hostages “will only return alive if there is a deal, linked to a significant pause in fighting”. He said dramatic rescue operations are unlikely because the hostages are apparently spread out, many of them in underground tunnels.

Claiming hostages can be freed by means other than a deal “is to spread illusions”, said Eisenkot, whose son was killed in December while fighting in Gaza.

In a thinly veiled criticism of Netanyahu, Eisenkot also said strategic decisions about the war’s direction must be made urgently and that a discussion about an endgame should have started immediately after the war began.

He also dismissed suggestions the military has delivered a decisive blow against Hamas.

Gallant has said troops disabled the Hamas command structure in northern Gaza, from where significant numbers of troops were withdrawn earlier in the week, and that the focus is now on the southern half of the territory.

“We haven’t yet reached a strategic achievement, or rather only partially,” Eisenkot said. “We did not bring down Hamas.”

The militant group has continued to fight back across Gaza, even in the most devastated areas, and launched rockets into Israel.

In his interview, Eisenkot also confirmed a pre-emptive strike against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia was called off at the last minute during the early days of the war. He said he was among those arguing against such a strike in an October 11 Cabinet meeting that he said left him hoarse from shouting.

Such an attack would have been a “strategic mistake” and would probably have triggered a regional war, Eisenkot said.

The former army chief said he examined every day whether he should remain in the five-member War Cabinet, which includes Netanyahu, Gallant, former defence minister Benny Gantz and Ron Dermer, strategic affairs minister in the Netanyahu government.

Eisenkot is a member of parliament in the opposition National Unity alliance headed by Gantz. Both joined Netanyahu to help lead the war.

“I know what my red line is,” Eisenkot said when asked at what point he would quit. “It’s connected to the hostages, that is one of the objectives, but it’s also connected to the way in which we need to run this war.”

The war has rippled across the Middle East, with Iranian-backed groups attacking US and Israeli targets. Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon threatens to erupt into all-out war, and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to target international shipping despite US-led airstrikes.

The United States conducted a fifth strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen on Thursday, even as President Joe Biden acknowledged that bombing the militants has yet to stop their attacks on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor.

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