The tensions in the south: A day after the arrest of the head of the Islamic Jihad in Samaria, Bassam al-Saadi, in the activity of the security forces in Jenin, central roads in the Gaza Strip are still closed to civilian traffic. This, out of fear of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip harming Israeli citizens. For that, Ofer Liebermana member of Kibbutz Nir Am, spoke today (Wednesday) with Aryeh Eldad and Ben Caspit on 103FM and described the frustration of the residents and the criticism towards the security system.
At the beginning of his remarks, Lieberman said: “First of all, there is anger because in the end, the one who decides our agenda is the Islamic Jihad. They don’t even have to shoot, we have already entered the dens according to the instructions of the military and they don’t have to do anything , they have already won.”
“A few years ago, I said that it was impossible for the Israeli government to let this region suffer from massacres again, and since then everything continues and everything is the same. It is true that the last year has been relatively quiet, but we are still talking about the fact that they, without shooting, without doing anything – They put us all in dens, our pool is closed, the kids don’t go to summer camp, where will we end up?” he added.
“Benny Gantz abandoned Hadar on the battlefield”
Meanwhile, Prof. Simcha Goldin, the father of the late Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, also spoke with Aryeh Eldad and Ben Caspit on 103FM and told about the march he is conducting up to the perimeter fence in the Gaza Strip, demanding that his son’s body be returned to Israel. Goldin said that “We walked 28 km, they walked 400-350 people in this heat from 9:00 a.m. in KPS on Route 4, and tomorrow we will continue from Rishon Lezion to Nitsanim. We need to show the residents of the State of Israel that there is a total of 100 km between KPS, between Hadar’s house, and where he is, and after 8 years we must bring soldiers back home.”
Prof. Goldin was asked if the march is for the public to wake up, and replied: “The public is awake. The public thinks because of its leadership that there is nothing to be done and it thinks that maybe the leadership has given up on the soldiers. Whoever gave up on the soldiers is a leader, so he should understand that the public will not let him give up On the soldiers. This is the goal of the march and it doesn’t matter at all how many there are. The more there are, the better.”
“I have been saying for 8 years that the soldiers are not being brought and that the policy is lax with Hamas – creating more and more problems for us, and I have been warning for 8 years that we will reach exactly this situation, that Haya Sinwar, who holds my son and gets everything he wants, that he runs Gaza, runs the Arabs of the Land of Israel, manages the Yosh and now he also manages the entire country for us, and the commander of the Southern Command has the entire south under siege and that’s because last night we captured a terrorist of the Islamic Jihad. Do you think this is normal? Bring the soldiers properly, show Hamas who has the power here and we will start to change the reality,” he added.
At the end, he harshly criticized the political echelon: “Benyamin Netanyahu did not bring Hadar for 7 years for political reasons, not for security reasons. Bennett did not bring Hadar in the year he could have brought Hadar, for political reasons, not for security reasons. Third Prime Minister Yair Lapid took office, I expect him to correct the mistake of the two previous prime ministers and bring in the soldiers.”
“Current Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who was Chief of Staff of Tzuk Eitan, abandoned Hadar on the battlefield, and he did not bring him, and he gave the order not to enter medical facilities, so they did not go in to bring Hadar when they knew he was wounded. The Givati Brigade was in front of a hospital in Al-Fajjar in Rafah when they knew that Hadar was wounded, not that they had already declared him a martyr – and you always have to bring the martyrs and the wounded, and this Defense Minister Benny Gantz has not brought Hadar for two years now. This Minister of Defense, who was the Chief of Staff at Eitan Cliff who left my son in Gaza – who promised us after the Wall Guard that there would be no rehabilitation of Gaza without the return of the soldiers, he lied because he is rehabilitating Gaza and not bringing the soldiers. This is an omission, weakness and cowardice,” he concluded .
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Amitai Doak, 103fm