Israel’s deterrence eroded to zero due to resistance attacks: Ex-minister
Avigdor Liberman, Israel’s former minister of military affairs, said the regime’s “deterrence has been eroded to zero” due to attacks by resistance movements.
Liberman made the remarks during a recent interview with Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva.
“We have won many tactical gains, but we accumulated a greater strategic loss. We have eroded our deterrence down to zero,” Liberman said. He added that Iranians are telling Israel that there will be no peace in the north until there is a ceasefire in the south.
Referring to attacks by resistance movements in Yemen, Iraq and Syria on Israel, he said, “They are firing at us from every direction. That means that our deterrence has been eroded to zero.”
Since the beginning of Israel’s brutal war on the Gaza Strip in October last year, resistance groups across the region have launched various operations against the regime and its Western backers to support Palestinians in Gaza.
The resistance groups say they will continue their retaliatory attacks until the regime ends its bloodshed in the Palestinian territory.
Attacks by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have targeted Israeli positions and major American military bases in Syria and Iraq over the US support for Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah resistance movement in Lebanon has been exchanging fire with the Israeli occupation army on a daily basis since the start of the regime’s war on Gaza. Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement has also been launching attacks on Israeli-bound ships in the Red Sea to support Palestinians. Israel started its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the territory’s resistance fighters carried out Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the regime in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The regime has also imposed a complete siege on the territory, cutting off fuel, medicine, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there. More than 38,000 Palestinians – mostly women and children – have been killed in Israel’s attacks so far.