Israel’s military chief has for the first time spoken in detail about the war being waged in the shadows between his country and Iran.
Israel has been in direct conflict with Iran for the past two years on Syrian soil, according to Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot, who planned, initiated and directed the covert operations.
“In January 2017 we began attacking the infrastructure the Iranians were building in Syria,” Eisenkot told The Sunday Times in an interview in his 15th-floor office in Tel Aviv. “The critical mass was from mid-2017,” he added. “We began attacking systematically a number of times each week. Without making any statements. Beneath the radar.”
Eisenkot, 58, who is retiring this week as Israel’s military commander after 40 years as a soldier and