The statements made by the released Israeli detainee sparked outrage Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – Israeli analysts were angry, considering it propaganda for the resistance and a failure of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to deal with the issue of media and psychological warfare, and demanded that those released be prevented from speaking to the media.
Yochbad Lifshitz, 85 years old, confirmed in a press conference held in an Israeli hospital the day after the launch. agitation She was released voluntarily after Egyptian-Qatari mediation. The resistance members treated her and the detainees with her cordially, provided her with health care and medicine, and ate the same food as them.
Anat Marom, an international expert in geopolitics and global crises, said on Channel 12 that despite the psychological warfare and the breadth of awareness and power that Lifshitz experienced, and despite the sympathy for her, this image in which she appeared represents a victory for Hamas.
She added, “It is horrific to say this. Indeed, he is terrible, but he is very smart and skilled. He is brutal and murderous. However, this image – which she talks about, that they did not only treat her with kindness and sensitivity, but also took care to bring her the medicine she needed or the alternative medicine – her words will resonate in favor of her.” Hamas in the whole world.”
The Israeli crisis expert believes that Hamas is “addressing the world with the words of this elderly woman.”
As for former Mossad leader Jill Shoresh, she said that the speech given by the released woman should have been said to the intelligence services only, “because there are words that can only be said to the intelligence services and the families of the kidnapped, while they should not be said to the public.”
From Shorsh’s point of view, the propaganda and psychological warfare machine will work on these statements, and therefore “Israel must be prepared in the media by going to the detainees’ headquarters and acting responsibly.”
Almost the same thing was said by Reserve General Nachman Shai, who is from the “Leaders for Israel Security” movement, who said that what happened was “corrupt, and the information that morning (the seventh of this October) was also corrupt.”
In an interview on Channel 13, Shay said, “It does not make sense to take an 85-year-old woman who only slept 3 or 4 hours during the night and then put her in front of dozens of cameras and hundreds of journalists.”
Shay interpreted what happened as “evidence that there is no direction, no system, no one to arrange matters, and that there is no government.”
In this context, Communications and Strategy Advisor Avi Benyahu said that the dialogue between the security and political levels must be close and continuous, stressing that he feels pain when he says this, but he knows that “the relations between Netanyahu And Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – it is not good, and the dialogue between them is not good.”
Benyahu added, “I know that there are Gantz (former defense minister) and Gadi Eisenkot (former chief of staff); and if that is not the case, they should appear and present their testimonies. This is their job and they bear responsibility.”
