The army of Israel has admitted mistakes for the first time around the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas last Saturday in its territory, an aggression that caught its troops and intelligence by surprise. He recognized it this Thursday, on the sixth day of a open war which already leaves more than 1,500 Palestinian deaths due to retaliatory bombings on the Gaza Strip and at least 1,300 Israeli fatalities.

The ‘mea culpa’ has come from the mouth of the Israeli Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, who has admitted that the security apparatus “made mistakes” unable to prevent the offensive and has promised that “failures in the military chain will be investigated“However, he has stressed that “now is the time for war”, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel‘.

“The Israeli Armed Forces are responsible for the security of the country and its citizens, and on Saturday morning in the areas of the Gaza Strip we don’t deal with it“, admitted the country’s highest military official, in his first public intervention since the Hamas attack.

Gaza: no refuge or exit

Meanwhile, Israeli forces They continue their fierce attack on Gaza while preparing a possible ground incursion in the enclave, whose civilian population has nowhere to flee or shelter from the bombs. Since Saturday, Israel has dropped 6,000 bombs against the enclave, 4,000 tons of explosives and for the sixth consecutive day it continues its indiscriminate attacks.

Over there, The deaths now amount to at least 1,537among them half a thousand children, and the injured number at least 6,612, while the enclave remains no light, water, food or fuel. The Israeli Energy Minister, Yisrael Katz, has assured that no supplies will enter until the hostages are released kidnapped by militias.

US support for Israel

On the other hand, the full US support for Israel was staged with the visit this Thursday of the Secretary of State of the North American country, Antony Blinken, who met with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: “We are here. We are not going to go anywhere,” he promised. Netanyahu, for his part, has assured that Hamas “must be treated in exactly the same way” as the Islamic State and that “as the Islamic State was crushed so will Hamas.”

The president of Israel, Isaac Herzogwho has also met with Blinken, has gone further and directly has blamed all of Gazaincluding civilians, of the Hamas attack, justifying the bombings against the enclave: “There is an entire nation out there that is responsible. That the civilians were not aware, are not informed of what was going to happen, is completely false” , he has asserted.

Meanwhile, Israel has already begun to arm its civilian population in the north of the country, as can be seen in the video that illustrates these lines, in which children can even be seen. There, civilians receive assault rifles and also helmets to protect themselves; They plan to distribute some 10,000 weapons and form citizen patrols. On the other hand, the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, also approved this Thursday the formation of a emergency government with members of the opposition.