Zionist Defense Minister Israel Katz doubles down after IOF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir last night told him, in a public statement, that he doesn’t receive instructions through the media.
Katz said he can give orders to Zamir “in any way he deems appropriate” and the chief of staff’s response was “unnecessary and inappropriate.”
The row began after Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Solomon, an officer who was responsible for the Gaza Division’s probe into its failures related to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, was booted from reserve duty and put under investigation by the Military Police for operational security violations.
Katz then, in statement, last night said he wanted to meet with Solomon, and called on Zamir to examine the conduct of the Military Advocate General. Zamir responded by saying that he doesn’t receive instructions via the media, and that he backs the investigation, which is unrelated to Solomon’s October 7 probe.
“The instruction to the chief of staff to examine the circumstances that led to the investigation and the allegations presented in the letter that Brig. Gen. Solomon wrote to the prime minister and the defense minister regarding the IOF’s behavior toward him in light of the critical investigation he conducted, was given directly before the announcement was issued to the media due to the public aspect, and this without any intention of harming the investigation itself, which is being conducted by the Military Advocate General,” Katz said this morning.
Katz added, in his public statement to the media, that “the media discourse surrounding the issue must now be stopped, which will be handled in other ways later.”
Source: Israeli media
