
The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, Nadav Argaman, has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of misleading the country over the importance of maintaining control over the area of border between Gaza and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor.
- “There is no connection between the weaponry found in Gaza and the Philadelphi Corridor,” Argaman told Israel’s Channel 12 news in a wide-ranging interview. “The majority of smuggling into Gaza was through the Rafah border crossing. We know this unequivocally,” Argaman said.
- “When Netanyahu speaks of remaining on the Philadelphi Corridor, he knows very well that no smuggling takes place over the Philadelphi Corridor. So we are now relegated to living with this imaginary figment,” he said.
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“The entire thing is intended only to preserve this dangerous Messianic government.”
- Argaman, who headed the Shin Bet between 2016 and 2021, also said that Israel “must stop the war in the Gaza Strip now, and move to a ceasefire”.
- “We must go for an all-for-all exchange, to bring everyone back,” he said, adding that he was worried for Israel’s future as the country had been “hijacked by an extremist, radical government”.
Former Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman asserts that most of the weapons that came into Gaza were through the Rafah crossing and not underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza. https://t.co/regEo2m0FE
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 7, 2024
Source: Al Jazeera