Criticism has escalated within Israel of the performance of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in managing the war and dealing with the threat of Hezbollah’s assault marches, amid warnings of a worsening crisis within the Israeli army on the northern front.
In this context, former Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Yachad Party, Naftali Bennett, attacked the government’s way of dealing with the threat of “explosive jets,” asking from the northern border: “Nearly a thousand days have passed since the war, and now the government remembers the existence of a threat called explosive jets?”
Bennett described the scene as “unbelievable,” noting that the soldiers were receiving nets to protect against the drones because the government had ignored this threat throughout the recent period, according to what was reported by Israeli Channel 12.
Bennett also criticized the draft exemption law, considering that the government is “stabbing army soldiers in the back” by passing the “conscription evasion law,” at a time when the Israeli army is suffering from a manpower crisis, in addition to daily deaths and injuries on the front lines.
In parallel, the head of the “Democrats” party, Yair Golan, escalated his attack on Netanyahu, accusing him of preferring “his personal interests over Israel’s security.”
Golan said that he is not sure that Netanyahu is “physically and cognitively qualified to manage the difficult battles” that Israel is currently fighting.
These criticisms come in light of the continuation of Hezbollah’s operations in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli media has recently focused on the increasing challenge posed by the assault marches, after a number of them succeeded in hitting Israeli targets and causing human and material losses among the ranks of the Israeli army, amid repeated Israeli admissions that there are no effective solutions yet to confront this type of attack.
