Former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said about Gaza on Thursday, "If we are to enter a full battle, we must enter it at the right time, after exhausting diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire and with broad national consensus that there was no choice."
Writing on Twitter, he added, "It is important that coolness and the best preparation and not anger and feelings guide us. The goals of the campaign: the severest blow to the Hamas military, the renewal of deterrence and arrangement of the parameters that are acceptable to us.