Israeli opposition leader highlights chief of staff’s warning of collapsing army

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says that over the past 13 years of his presence in the regime’s security institutions, he remembers no warnings more severe than the recent one by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir about the occupation’s collapsing military.

Lapid made the remarks in an X post on Friday, a day after Israel's Channel 13 quoted Zamir as telling a high-level meeting that the Israeli army faces ten red flags and is on the verge of collapse.

He also noted that reserve forces are completely worn out while regular troops are collapsing, with the army grappling with a severe shortage of troops.

The cabinet of Israeli prime pinister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent the military without a clear strategy and adequate resources to a multi-front war, Lapid added.

Netanyahu could no longer claim that he did not know the dire situation, as the warning was issued by the cabinet-appointed chief of staff, he added.

Zamir had warned that reserve forces, in particular, cannot sustain their current level of service under existing arrangements.

Over the past month, Israel, along with the United States, has been waging an illegal aggression against Iran. The onslaught has sparked Iran’s retaliatory operations against locations in the occupied lands, inflicting heavy losses on the usurping regime.

Israel launched the criminal assault months after a 12-day onslaught on Iran and a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Israel is also fighting with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, which has intensified its operations against positions inside the occupied territories.

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