War cabinet minister Minister Gadi Eisenkot, Family and friends attend the funeral of Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot in Herzliya on December 8, 2023. He was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90
JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet confirmed that early in the war against Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli preemptive strike against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia was called off at the last minute.
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Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, said he was among those arguing against such a strike in what he described as a stormy Oct. 11 Cabinet meeting that left him hoarse from shouting.
Such a preemptive attack would have been a “strategic mistake”
