Posted on 10/24/21
| News Source: i24
'The military benefit was not equivalent to the political and image damage [to Israel]'
A former Israeli general said on Sunday that Israel’s bombing of a building in the Gaza Strip that housed The Associated Press (AP) bureau in May was an “own goal.”
Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon suggested that the incident caused more damage to Israel’s image than it provided strategic benefit, The Times of Israel (ToI) reported.
“Bringing down the tower with the AP offices was equivalent to a self-inflicted ‘public relations terror attack’ and an own goal, in our view,” he said.
Alon, who conducted one of the IDF probes into the May operation, spoke at an Institute for National Security Studies conference.
"The military benefit was not equivalent to the political and image damage [to Israel],” he added, The Jerusalem Post reported.
As the one who led the army’s investigation into the public relations-related issues connected to the recent conflict with Gaza, Alon was referring to a strike on May 15 of the 12-story Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza City.