Gaza residents in the Philadelphia route/no credit
Sharp criticism from within the security establishment for dragging its feet in everything related to the treatment of Rafah and "the day after",
in the background of the criticism of the political echelon that postpones time and time again the decision on the question of the maneuver for Rafah.
Officials in the defense establishment criticized the political echelon, saying that not only does the defense cabinet show weakness vis-à-vis Egypt, which exerts pressure not to maneuver Rafah, it also recently approved the reinforcement of Egyptian forces along the Philadelphia axis.
One of the factors defined the complexity as "Israeli humiliation".
Another security source said that "the Egyptians see Hamas in the Gaza Strip as a means of eroding Israel's military capabilities."
In the meantime, in recent weeks a discussion was held between various security officials from the Ministry of Defense, the IDF, and other bodies that dealt with the "day after" the tree maneuver in the war in Gaza, and the preparation in the Egyptian-Israeli-Palestinian border triangle to prevent the smuggling of weapons and dual-use materials for the needs of the armed forces The military of Hamas.
Wow! It has been learned that an intention has been raised to establish a joint Israeli-Egyptian military force with an intermediary, in order to monitor what is happening at the Rafah crossing in Egypt, where IDF soldiers and female soldiers will sit alongside Egyptian police officers and soldiers from a foreign army. The mere raising of the idea It was followed by sharp criticism from military officials. One of them told Walla! that "the one who came up with the idea is detached and insolent.
Let him send his daughter as an observer to sit in such a HML. After October 7, it is difficult to place female observers at IDF bases, so are you coming up with an idea to place them in a unified HML? Someone here has gone crazy."
A position of the Egyptian army on the border / Benny Ben Simon
A senior security official said that in 2005, after the disengagement, a decision was made to transfer the responsibility for the transfer of goods to the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority within the framework of the new agreement brokered by Egypt, and for this purpose a joint HML was established that monitors what is happening in the crossing using cameras. "It was a good joke, which incorporated Italian soldiers who slept in Ashkelon and would fill shifts in this HML. They quickly realized that it was ineffective and it was closed in 2008. What happened since then? Hamas came to power, and managed to build a system that smuggles weapons and dual-use materials into the Gaza Strip from the Rafah crossing and through tunnels in the Philadelphia".
Another security official said that "they talked about the possibility of expanding the Kerem Shalom crossing to eliminate the possibility of transferring goods to the Gaza Strip from the Rafah crossing. In practice, nothing is happening. There is no expansion. Israel is afraid of this move and as it seems right now, they will return to the previous situation. If this is not The government's intention, why not expand the Kerem Shalom crossing to a larger capacity? Why are we not preparing for it on the ground? Where is the big budget they talked about?"
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