Is the war in Gaza over? With Nadav Eyal

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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There have been two major developments in the past few days. First, the IDF has announced it is withdrawing much of its ground force presence from Gaza, at the same time that Iran is threatening a direct military hit against Israel or Israeli assets globally. The Iranian threat is in response to the IDF operation that destroyed Iran’s Consulate in Damascus one week ago. To help us understand whether we are at a truly new stage (or late stage) of the war, our guest today is NADAV EYAL, who returns to the podcast. He is a columnist for Yediot. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news.

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0:17.0	there is intelligence coming in that Sinwar is much more optimistic as to the future in the last couple of months and that he is in what some sources say in the Masonic kind of mood that he sometimes goes into, that he thinks that he's winning. And the reason for that is that he's seeing the kind of pressure employed on Israel.
0:24.0	His general gamble from the beginning of the war
0:26.5	is that he'll survive underground more time
0:30.0	than the IDF will survive overground. It's 10 PM on Sunday, April 7th in New York City. It's 5 a.m. on Monday, April 8th in Israel as Israelis get ready to start their day.
0:51.0	In recent days, there have been two major developments. One
0:55.8	the IDF is announcing that it is winding down much of its ground force presence
1:00.3	in Gaza. At the same time, that Iran is threatening a direct military hit against
1:06.9	Israel or Israeli assets. Neither of these two developments have occurred since October 7th.
1:14.3	Until now, the Iranian threat is in response to the IDF operation that destroyed
1:19.9	Iran's consulate in Damascus one week ago.
1:23.7	This was the operation that killed 12 people, including two Iranian generals, one of whom
1:29.1	was General Mohammed Zahadi, who was the commander of the Al-Qudz force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
1:35.8	He's a key figure in managing Tehran's relationship with its proxy, Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, on Israel's border.
1:45.0	According to reports, Israeli defense capabilities are on high alert right now
1:50.5	due to the Iranian threat. And as for Gaza, according to the IDF, there will now only
1:56.9	be one brigade, the Nachau Brigade, remaining in the Gaza Strip. It's reportedly there to secure the Netsarim Corridor,
2:05.6	which is the corridor that crosses Gaza
2:08.4	from the Berry Area in southern Israel
2:10.4	to the Gaza Strip's coast. The corridor is important for a few reasons.
2:14.8	One, it enables the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza.
2:18.9	The corridor also prevents Palestinians from returning to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and it allows,
2:26.2	or is supposed to allow, humanitarian organizations to deliver a directly to Northern Gaza.
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