Support for Netanyahu wanes as mourners struggle to come to terms with scale of loss and vast ground operation to come
Lili and Ram Itamari were murdered in Kfar Azza, the scene of one of the worst Hamas massacres of 7 October, hours after a dinner party with friends.Lili and Ram Itamari were murdered in Kfar Azza, the scene of one of the worst Hamas massacres of 7 October, hours after a dinner party with friends., spoke of “a long and difficult” conflict as he announced the second stage of the war against Hamas on Saturday evening.
As the sounds of jets roared overhead and artillery rumbled in the distance, the mourners were advised of what they should in the event of a rocket attack: lie in the sand and cover their heads with their hands.is today, only a handful of weeks since the Hamas massacre: a profoundly wounded country bracing itself for yet more loss as armour and infantry gather in the neighbouring fields ahead of a widely expected major ground invasion.
For others, the tenor was shocked and tearful. “It is a time for radical change,” said Shlomtzion Cohen, the principal of the school where Lili had worked. “It is the time for revenge. It is time to put this to an end. It is time to bring back our students. Your students.” “I’ve been here 20 years through all the rocket strikes,” she said. “But I never thought they would come in. Who could think that? They killed people who I knew.”
Nevertheless, at petrol stations, bases and in the camps and mustering areas among the open sandy fields along Gaza’s border, Israel’s soldiers are gathering for what many see as a now inevitable larger invasion.The Haaretz columnist Amos Harel compared the situation to the dense fog that enfolded Gaza on Saturday morning. “IDF forces entered the Gaza Strip on Friday night under a heavy fog,” he wrote.
In the financial daily Calacalist, one of Israel’s most prominent businessmen, Amnon Shashua, the head of self-driving auto technologies firm Mobileye, called on Sunday for the immediate departure of Netanyahu and his government, accusing him of “failures, dissonance and incompetence” since the Hamas attack.
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