How did Israel attack Lebanon? Army Chief told that preparation thing

'Israel's master stroke'

On the Israeli military operation against Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said, 'The shell company that has been created is a masterstroke by Israel. For this he requires years of preparation. It means they were ready for it and that's what matters. 'War does not begin the day you begin fighting, it begins the day you begin planning.'

'Israel is adamant on eliminating Hamas'

Talking to a newspaper, the Army Chief said that Israel has made Hamas its first target and is adamant on eliminating it completely. General Dwivedi, citing a book by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, compared Israel's strategy with an incident from the Mahabharata, where if Arjun had entered the Chakravyuh, he could have survived and Abhimanyu would also have survived. Similarly, Israel has decided to deal with Hamas first.

'War begins the day the plan is made'

He further said that the pager you are talking about is a Taiwanese company which is being supplied to a Hungarian company. Then the Hungarian company gave it to them. The shell company that has been created is a masterstroke by the Israelis. And this requires years and years of preparation. This means that they were ready for it. War doesn't start the way you start fighting. It starts the day you start planning.

He said that from India's point of view, it is most important… From our side, supply chain disruptions, disruptions are things we have to be very careful about. We have to inspect at various levels, be it at the technical level or the manual level, to ensure that such things do not happen again in our case.