Speaking to troops in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis earlier today, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says all the options that the military is presenting to the political leadership have the goal of returning the hostages and defeating Hamas.
“You have achieved great accomplishments here. These are the greatest achievements since [the start of the war] in the Gaza Strip,” he says to the forces, in a video published by the IDF.
“We are very close to a decision point, but the achievements here are most impressive,” Zamir says.
Zamir says to the soldiers that they are “creating new opportunities that we are discussing with the political leadership, we are presenting all the options.”
“All roads lead to one place. All the options we are presenting and discussing with the political leadership have one goal: hostages and decisive victory. And we are leading to that decisive victory,” he adds.
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