Gallant: After ‘short’ truce, intense fighting will resume for at least 2 more months

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says that once the “short” temporary truce with the Hamas terror group ends, the military will resume the fighting “with intensity” for at least two more months.

“What you will see in the coming days is first the release of hostages. This respite will be short,” Gallant says to troops of the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit.

“What is required of you in this respite is to organize, get ready, investigate, resupply arms, and get ready to continue,” he tells the forces.

“There will be a continuation, because we need to complete the victory and create the impetus for the next groups of hostages, who will only come back as a result of pressure,” he says.

Even after the period of intense fighting ends, he says, “there will be many operations in which Shayetet 13 will have something to do, until there is no military threat from the Gaza Strip, and we will have freedom of action to do what we want at any given moment.”