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Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir explained: "We don't know how long it will take us to evacuate the population. We don't know what the degree of cooperation will be and what measures we will have to use. It is difficult to specify exact times."

Minister Bezalel Smotrich told him: "We have instructed you to take a short action. For my part, you will crown them, who ever does not vacate, do not give them - neither water, nor electricity, let them die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want and you are capable of it." Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also joined in: "What, are you afraid of the "Magritte?"

"We are operating in other places, in Khan Yunis, in Rafah," the Chief of Staff explained. "This is not what the political echelon instructed, you don't want to decide," Smotrich accused.

Chief of Staff Zamir responded by shouting: "You don't understand anything. You don't know what a brigade is and what a battalion is. It takes time."