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IDF denies army chief told politicians military can’t carry out their ‘ambitions’ in Gaza
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with troops in the southern Gaza Strip on April 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF denies a report by the Ynet news site claiming that Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir recently told political officials that the military does not have enough forces to carry out the government’s “ambitions” in the Gaza Strip.
“The report on the chief of staff’s supposed position presented to the political echelon, referring to what was said in a closed operational discussion, is distorted and does not reflect the facts as they are,” the military says.
In the report, a senior defense official is quoted by Ynet as saying, “Zamir is not sugarcoating the facts. He’s telling the leadership to abandon some of their fantasies.”
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