Former Israeli general says Gaza war could have ended earlier

Former Israeli general says Gaza war could have ended earlier A former head of the Israeli army’s Hostages and Missing Persons Command says Israel prolonged the war on Gaza unnecessarily and could have brought some captives home alive through earlier negotiations. Major General Nitzan Alon said that after 7 October , Israel “conducted a long war that could have ended at least a year earlier,” adding that some captives could have “been returned alive. ” “Strategically, we could have achieved the same results or avoided failing to achieve those we did not achieve – such as disarming Hamas, and so on.