The Chief of Staff held an assessment of the situation today (Sunday) in the Judea and Samaria Division, together with the commander of the Central Command, General Yehuda Fox, the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Lt. Col. Yaki Dolf, and the regional division commanders in the sector, and referred to the war in the north.
In his words, he said that "the year 2024 will be challenging, we will be at war in Gaza, I don't know if all year, we will be fighting in Gaza all year, that's for sure, and this will also keep the other arenas, certainly in Judea and Samaria, to a certain degree of vigilance, of a desire to unleash terror, and that it will be very much in our hands how much we succeed in preventing, how much we succeed in thwarting. What is our role? Maximum determination in fighting, in thwarting, in fighting terrorism, in entering the house, in killing the terrorist, maximum determination and values."
"In the north," Halevi said, "Hezbollah has decided to enter this war, we are charging them ever-increasing prices, they paid yesterday with seven deaths, they paid yesterday with two very, very important targets, and we are increasing the price they are paying."
"It will end with the fact that we have a responsibility, an obligation, to return the residents of the north safely, not out of necessity, safely to their homes, it will come either by the fact that the pressure we are exerting now is increasing and will do the job and create a completely different reality, or we will end up with another war. We will do it excellently, even though we are already after a long fight, and challenges in many arenas, we will know how to do it excellently. To reach the goals of the war, we still have a long way to go, so this thing will take time."