Zamir says IDF moving to ‘phase B’ of plan to defeat Hamas

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir spoke yesterday with division and brigade commanders set to participate in the planned major offensive in the Gaza Strip, telling them that “we are moving to phase B of the plan to defeat [Hamas] — this is the need of the hour… this is a struggle over spirit and determination.”

Zamir says the “need for reserve mobilization is real and immediate. We are in a time trial, and the reservists will come. They will come because we are calling them, because they are needed, because there is no choice. They will come with an understanding of the gravity of the moment.”

“We must be proactive; we must initiate; we must be the ones to act first before the enemy does. We have no right to be passive, no right to stop or turn back, we do not have that privilege; it will not happen. Not under my command and not under yours, because we are all here together to complete the mission,” he says.