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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Islamic Jihad’s man in Iran says many ifs and buts around Gaza invasion
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Nasser Abu Sharif, the representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Iran, says that a ground invasion in Gaza will not “bring Israel much success.”
While Israel has sophisticated military equipment, the ground invasion will be “accompanied by many ifs and buts, both inside [Gaza] and outside it,” the terror group’s official says in an interview with the Iranian press agency IRNA, referencing the possible opening of a war front in the north against Hezbollah.
Abu Sharif claims that terror groups have targeted a number of Israeli tanks, “causing the soldiers and crews of the tanks to flee from the battlefield.”
“The situation is uncertain now and it is very difficult to predict the end results,” he adds.
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