Many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Netanyahu’s administration – not just for failing to prevent the Hamas attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward.
“It has to be clear. The government is completely incompetent,” said Ruvi Dar, a psychologist and Tel Aviv University professor who has been counseling survivors evacuated from their homes.
“Any support the refugees are getting right now is completely grassroots. Absolutely nothing by the state.”
Critics have accused Netanyahu of recklessly ignoring a raft of issues. The police force is understaffed, and the military was caught off guard on Israel’s southern flank as forces were more heavily stationed in the occupied West Bank, home to half a million settlers.
“Government offices haven’t been functioning for a year now so obviously they can’t cope with emergency situations. They wasted a whole year on nonsense,” Arnon Bar David, head of Israel’s Histadrut trade union, told Army Radio.
Source: AlJazeera