Southern Command Chief: "The disputes over the fighting are for the sake of heaven"
Southern Command Chief: "The fighting in Gaza is often accompanied by tension and sometimes also by disputes between different parties. It's important for me to say clearly, these are disputes for the sake of heaven"
Southern Command Chief Major General Yaniv Asur said today (Wednesday) at a memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 401st Brigade: "The fighting in Gaza is often accompanied by tension and sometimes also by disputes between different parties. It's important for me to say clearly, these are disputes for the sake of heaven."
His full remarks: "According to the tradition and values of the brigade, the fighters of the 401st Brigade also fought with courage in Iron Swords to defeat every enemy, with hope in their hearts that they would succeed in bringing about the release of hostages. Your children fought under legal and moral orders! They preserved human dignity until the moment of their fall. They fought and fell as sanctifiers of life and not as seekers of death."
"We operate according to the principle of proportionality, making efforts to strike the vile enemy that hides within the population and turns hospitals into command centers plotting schemes, schools into explosive laboratories and launch sites. In the face of a lying and despicable starvation campaign, we are making a great effort to bring water, food, medicine and fuel into the Strip."
"The fighting in Gaza is often accompanied by tension and sometimes also by disputes between different parties. It's important for me to say clearly, these are disputes for the sake of heaven. These are substantive and professional discussions with a genuine desire of all IDF commanders, all of them, to do the right thing for Israel's security - morally, operationally and command-wise, and disputes for the sake of heaven - will ultimately endure.
We go into battle with friendship and unity of purpose. Your sons fought from within the racing tanks, with infantry and engineering fighters beside them, with Air Force units above them, ready for any mission, and intelligence soldiers watching over them from behind and all IDF corps supporting them. Thus, we will continue to fight as one unified team and army."