Former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot addressed the security cabinet meeting expected today, saying that "the leaders of the October 7 failure cabinet who betrayed the trust of Israeli citizens will decide today, as expected, out of diplomatic and strategic blindness and complete disconnection from reality, to capture Gaza City again, without any complementary plan for the day after." According to him, "By doing so, they will once again thwart the return of the hostages and endanger soldiers in an operation that is not based on national and security interests, but on Benjamin Netanyahu's political interests. This is a decision that will cost the lives of our best sons and sacrifice the hostages - this time permanently to their death."