Kochavi Magella: "We attacked about 500 targets this year and carried out many covert operations""

December 10, 2020   

Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi summed up the past year today (Thursday), and addressed the situation in Syria, cyber operations, and terrorism. What is a “shared car price list”? How will the prices be displayed in the price list? All the details ""Iran's entrenchment in Syria is clearly slowing down, as a result of IDF activity, but we still have a long way to go," said the Chief of Staff. He added: "This year we attacked about 500 targets in all arenas, and in addition we carried out many operations in the covert dimension." The Chief of Staff also referred to the offensive cyber operations that the IDF is carrying out: "The significant combat space that has changed is the cyber dimension. In it we carried out many offensive operations." The IDF reports an increase this year in cyber activity, both defensive and offensive, carried out by the ICT and Intelligence branches. The Chief of Staff: "The Middle East is the most fractured, divided, and violent region in the world. We operate intensively in six theaters, some daily and some weekly or monthly. The normalization moves in the Middle East are having a positive impact on alliances and security aspects. In the multi-year plan, we will double the scope of precision weapons." The IDF summed up the past year with a dramatic decrease in terror figures: While in 2018 and 2019, 25 Israelis were killed, nine from the security forces and 16 civilians, as a result of terrorist activity, this year two Israelis were killed, a Golan fighter near Jenin and a civilian who was stabbed to death in Petah Tikva. In addition, in 2018, according to the IDF, 1,164 rockets and mortars were fired into Israeli territory, in 2019, 1,296 rockets and mortars were fired, and this year only 174 launches.