IDF spokesperson calls out Liberman for calling army’s Gaza policy ‘flimsy’

19 November 2018, 2:21 pm

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IDF Spokesperson Ronen Manelis calls out former defense minister Avigdor Liberman for characterizing the army’s strategy in Gaza as “flimsy.”

“Whoever says that last week’s IDF operation was flimsy, just does not understand,” Manelis says at media conference in Eilat.

“Most Israeli citizens simply do not know the details,” he adds, sending a similar message to the one sent by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explain his decision to not launch a military operation in Gaza — a move which led Liberman to resign last week.

“I understand that the expectation was that we would embark on a ground operation, but the last thing one can say is that our use of force was weak,” Manelis says