Preparations by the Israeli army and air force ahead of the operation to encircle Khan Yunis

The Israeli website Calcalist, which specializes in economic affairs, said that the war on Gaza is depleting Israeli weapons stocks, and that its long duration may push the army to economize on military means and increase its dependence on American military supplies, not to mention that the Israeli defense industries will be forced to postpone the delivery of their orders to their customers around the world. To direct it to the battlefields.

In an investigation entitled “The ammunition stock is running out and the army is forced to regulate the pace of bombing,” the site said that the coincidence of the war in Gaza with the Russian war against Ukraine has created an unprecedented global shortage of all types of ammunition, and that the Israeli government is avoiding addressing the issue publicly, but the head of the Strategy Directorate In the General Staff, General Eliezer Toledano acknowledged last month that the army had reduced its air attacks, and spoke of the necessity of regulating the use of ammunition; Because the war may last.

The Israeli army uses old Merkava-V3 tanks that were taken out of service in the war on Gaza (Al Jazeera)

"Ammo! Ammo! Ammo!"

The site says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself commented on the problem when he was heard on a recording talking about three things that Israel wants from the United States: “Ammunition! Ammunition! Ammunition!” Two weeks ago, he announced plans - which the site describes as completely unrealistic - to end the industries’ accreditation. The Israeli military abroad, especially the United States, which has so far delivered 25,000 tons of weapons to Israel, transported on board 280 aircraft.

The Calcalist website explained two weeks ago how Israeli defense industries companies rejected weapons orders worth about $1.5 billion from their customers around the world, directing them instead to the battlefields, at a time when these companies received orders worth about $10 billion from the Ministry of Defense in the past three months. Israeli.

Kalkalist attributes the enormous need for ammunition to the extraordinary pace of bombing, which - according to the Israeli army, until two weeks ago - targeted 30,000 targets, using firepower that Israel rivals only the United States, according to what a security source told the Israeli website, who did not rule out the possibility that The amount of ammunition used in Gaza has exceeded that consumed by Russia in its war against Ukraine, which may force the army to explain to the political level the limits of its firepower, before the ammunition shortage reaches a very severe level.

It is worth noting that the international press previously explained how the war on the Gaza Strip is considered among the most violent in history, and how the destruction it caused is reminiscent of that which Germany suffered during World War II.

"Light finger on the trigger"

But the Israeli website attributes the significant increase in targets not only to the improvement of technical capacity that allows hundreds of them to be attacked daily, but also to the “light finger on the trigger” policy that the army adopts regarding the damage that may be caused to infrastructure and civilian buildings, not to mention Pressure by the Israeli government and public to increase airstrikes, so as to minimize the danger to forces on the ground.

The Israeli website expects to increase pressure to use the air force to destroy buildings, instead of assigning forces on the ground to do so, after the killing of 21 soldiers last week, who were on a mission to blow up one of these buildings.

Source: Al Jazeera + websites