A survey conducted by Direct Polls and released by Channel 14 tonight (Sunday) shows a clear majority of the public in favor of a more aggressive approach on the part of the IDF General Staff.
According to the poll, fully 61% want the current General Staff officers replaced with those with a more aggressive approach, 29% want to leave things as they are, and 10% don't have an opinion.
Regarding the question of who should investigate the IDF's conduct of the war, a plurality of 46% want an outside committee composed of reserve officers and senior officials to investigate the matter. 34% want the State Comptroller to do so. Meanwhile, just 17% want the Chief of Staff, who is nominally in charge of such investigations, to oversee them himself.
When it comes to how the public will judge whether Defense Minister Katz has succeeded at his job, 42% said if he makes new appointments within the IDF and leads to a change in the IDF's war policy, 40% said successful conduct of the war on all fronts, and 6% said if Katz increases the defense budget.
Katz himself has expressed his dissatisfaction with Halevi by refusing to approve any new appointments in the IDF until all the army's investigations into events before and during October 7 are on his desk. The investigations which the IDF has completed have been subject to scrutiny and criticism for their omissions.
Criticism of Halevi among the public has increased following the rising number of dead during operations in the northern Gaza Strip against Hamas forces in Jebaliya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahia - areas which were supposedly clear of enemy forces but which have since partially recovered after the IDF retreated from it in its targeted raids approach.
Officers commanding operations on the ground say that current moves against Hamas are much more thorough than those raids, and that the aim this time is to truly clear the whole area of any trace of Hamas.
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