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Fighting continues on the southern front in the Gaza Strip and on the northern front on the borders with Lebanon. The Israeli army has reported that 11 soldiers have been wounded in different areas over the past 24 hours. Eight soldiers were wounded in the Gaza Strip and three soldiers were wounded on the northern border.
The military situation in Gaza and Rafah has not changed much. Israeli forces have not been able to completely clear Rafah after weeks of fighting. Around 60% of the town is currently under Israeli control.
Fighting continues in the central areas of Rafah, in Tal al-Sultan, around the Saudi project and in the southern areas of the city.
The situation in other parts of the Gaza Strip remains unchanged. Israeli forces are stationed in the central axis of the Gaza Strip, known as the Netzarim axis. In addition, Israeli engineering units are demolishing buildings and clearing areas in the northern and southern parts of the Netzarim axis.
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Israeli forces recently destroyed six tunnels belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Shujaiyeh area. One of the tunnels destroyed was Islamic Jihad’s main tunnel in Gaza City, which was 2.5 kilometres long and used for command and control operations. In total, at least six kilometres of tunnels were destroyed in Shujaiyeh.
The tunnels and underground facilities used by Palestinian resistance groups pose a significant challenge to the Israeli regime. Despite the Israeli army’s efforts to secure Gaza City and other areas of the Gaza Strip, the extensive network of underground facilities makes this task seem impossible.
Palestinian fighters use these tunnels on a daily basis to launch surprise attacks against Israeli forces and equipment.
Yesterday, the Israeli army ordered Palestinians in several neighbourhoods of Gaza City to evacuate the area and move to designated humanitarian zones. The zones are located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern coast of the strip, the western districts of Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Colonel Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-speaking spokesman, has published a list of areas for evacuation. Among the areas to be evacuated are the neighbourhoods of Sabra, Rimal, Tal Al-Hawa and Daraj in Gaza City.
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These announcements are made as bombardment of civilian targets and infrastructure continues. At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours.
In just one of these attacks, 17 Palestinians were martyred. In this crime, the house of Abu Farih’s family in the Nusairat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli warplanes. 14 of those killed were women and children.
In recent months, the Israeli army has issued statements calling on civilians to evacuate certain areas. However, these evacuations do not appear to have had a significant impact on the Israeli army’s operations in Gaza. Palestinians return to their homes after some time, and the Israeli army does not actually send troops to the evacuated areas. So these announcements mainly mean more air strikes, more destruction and more casualties in Gaza.
So far, Israeli air strikes have killed at least 38,243 Palestinians and wounded 88,033, most of them women and children.
Yesterday there was a major change in the command of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
Major General Avi Blot took over the Israeli army’s Central Command in a handover ceremony at the unit’s headquarters in Jerusalem, becoming the new general in charge of the West Bank region.
Major General Avi Blot will be replaced by Major General Yehuda Fox, who is retiring from the IDF, ending a 36-year military career.
Major General Avi Blot
Following the 7 October attacks, tensions and conflicts in the West Bank have escalated significantly, leading to dire security conditions. The Israeli army carries out military operations in the area on a daily basis. In a recent incident, 13-year-old Palestinian Ghassan Gharib Zahran was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers in the town of Deir Abu Meshaal, near Ramallah.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the Israeli army has arrested 16 Palestinians in different areas of the West Bank since yesterday. Israel has arrested more than 9,600 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza.
The situation on the northern front remains tense: despite repeated Israeli threats to launch military operations into Lebanese territory, no attacks have been carried out. Earlier, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah warned in a televised speech that any Israeli military operation into Lebanese territory would be met with a strong response from Lebanese resistance groups and Hezbollah. The message seems to have gone down well in Tel Aviv.
However, the Israeli military has stepped up its drone strikes and assassinations against key Hezbollah figures in recent weeks. Israel is attempting to raise the cost of the war for Lebanese Hezbollah by targeting Hezbollah field commanders and key figures with assassination attempts.
On July 9, an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle on the Beirut-Damascus highway, near a checkpoint between Lebanon and Syria killed Yasser Qarnabash, a senior Hezbollah member close to the Seyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Yasser Qarnabash
On July 3, a senior Hezbollah military commander, Muhammad Na’amah Nasser, was assassinated by Israeli drones in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Na’amah played a major role in the liberation of southern Lebanon in 2006 and in the battles in Syria and Iraq against ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups. He also led and supervised dozens of operations against the Israeli army during the recent fighting in northern occupied Palestine.
Muhammad Na’amah Nasser
Alongside targeted assassinations, artillery and airstrikes continue in southern Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes bomb Lebanon’s southern regions and towns on a daily basis. Hezbollah fighters also use heavy rockets, anti-tank missiles and suicide drones to target Israeli positions and bases in northern occupied Palestine.
On July 6, for example, Hezbollah carried out a series of targeted attacks on key Israeli army positions in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at the Nimra base west of the Sea of Galilee and the Mount Meron air traffic control base. They also targeted Israeli troops in the Birkat Risha area with guided missiles, hit surveillance equipment in the al-Rahib area, and shelled the Bayad Blida and al-Baghdadi areas.
Military operations along the northern borders have led to widespread evacuations of settlements. The Israeli Ministry of Housing and Immigration reports that hundreds of thousands of settlers have left the occupied territories since the start of the war.
According to the latest reports, more than 250,000 Israeli citizens have been displaced by the war, with some 164,000 ordered or recommended to evacuate with government compensation and nearly 150,000 evacuated without being asked.
The number of Israeli refugees increases daily.
According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12, social media has been filled in recent weeks with posts from Israeli settlers to their friends who are considering leaving Israel. The ongoing 10-month war has produced unclear results, prompting some settlers to consider leaving the country.
Channel 12 TV reported that a new survey shows that the number of Israelis who want to emigrate from Israel has increased by two and a half times.
It is worth noting that 500,000 Israelis have left the country since the start of the Gaza conflict.
The disastrous political situation in Tel Aviv, the unfavourable and critical security situation in the West Bank, the war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s failure to achieve its set goals in the Gaza Strip, the war and tense situation on the northern front and the possibility of a full-scale war with Hezbollah are challenges that have made Israel more vulnerable to collapse than ever before.
All this, together with the massive wave of emigration from Israel, has left the outlook for the political and security situation in the crisis-ridden country in a cloud of uncertainty.
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and where does russia actually “stand” on the issue of the “right of return”?… and will they embrace it so boldly that an attack on all of palestine, lebanon and syria or (what is left of it) is an attach on russia???…
the russian 🐻 is still hibernating
it’s been parked in tartus since 2014, and watched it’s own military fight and die to liberate aleppo and damascus… and just like ukraine… it stays in the un “cage” in subordination to the h0$t ?… how is it even possible after crocus hall and too many attacks inside it’s country that has destroyed it’s property and taken lives of it’s citizens… and yet it remains in that “cage” along with all the other obedient and trained “animal$”!…
isr operates with impunity, and has the military, political and financial backing of the west. worse, it is backed by rf, trkye, gulf states, egpt etc. iran, bitch-slapped by isr, has cooled in supporting hzbla, syr etc.
isrl’s succeeding on most fronts (except the brave houthi resistance) with success guaranteed unless rf or prc steps up – but they won’t, as everyone has been bought.
you underestimate how much deterrence iran has been achieving. there is a reason why the israeli tik tok army has been second thinking a war with lebanon and the idf has been exporing a ceasefire in gaza, as much as they hate the idea. iran and the resistance axis has been warning israel what to expect if it continues. israel is a paper tiger like nato when real deterrence is shoved in its face
whatever ‘iran has been achieving’ was set back by recent events and a new pro-west moderate leader. isr pushes into syria with no opposition from rus while rafa has spilled into sinai (pro-west sisi silent). only the houthis are actually ‘resisting’.
isr will not stop until palestine is no more, and it owns all gazan energy rights. whether us-isr takes lebnon this time around or maybe 2028 is a mere detail that trump will sort out.
israel continues to stomp ash and will continue to do so. maybe internet media can help things along by leaning on the horn and convince hamas to hang it up, to abandon their lost cause, to come forth be honorable and surrender. the shortest distance between two points is a straight line…
“maybe internet media can help things along by leaning on the horn and convince hamas to hang it up, to abandon their lost cause,”… beautiful j** dreamer in a neighborhood it wants desperately to destroy -but cannot!… keep pushing and see what happens to your “dream”! hamas was infiltrated since arafat was in charge… it’s hezbollah that the j** dreamer needs to worry about…
“china conducts military drills near polish & ukrainian borders”… dream a little drean j** boyz and girlz!…
wtf why are posts being blocked
surrender is never an option to zio rabid sadist psychos who film themselves shooting women and kids and carrying out einsatzgruppen style massacres of doctors and nurses and hospital patients. better to blow yourself up in extremis taking a few of the zio kiddie killers with you.
this war was planned by the “elites” to destroy israel, christianity and the muslim faith: it is a trap. stop the war if you can. just refuse. they know it will destroy israel: do not let them. israel is a beautiful idea, make it a peaceful state and it will prosper. otherwise it will fail. rabin knew this. courage to refuse. look at the fake jabs,that is the evidence. peace is the way.
it is always bad if talks stop.
there are no “good” wars.
but some people resist to understand this. so everybody is killing everybody.
like there is an end to the killing by killing. it is a vicious cycle.
so, i am doing this thing i am doing to make a huge catastrophe happen just to have some silence.
it is in the works of manifesting itself!
go deep!
why would these ‘elites’ want to destroy israel, when most either belong to or are supporters? isr = usa in the m.e. and far from being a ‘beautiful idea’!
palestine was stolen by colonial uk and gifted to psychotic zio terrorists, a real act of genocide. from 1948 the zio-parasite mission was simply one of theft, death, destruction and further (nato supported) expansion into neighbouring countries, as we are now seeing.
all of these people are probably dead now.
150+ terrorists have been neutralized in the tunnels just now.
but who keeps count…
hamas recruitment is going up….you never hear that angle from the fake west. they only talk about who they kill
isr is 100% happy about hms recruitment increasing, just as it is 100% happy with the existence of hms as a designated ‘terrorist group’ (btw isr approved the foundation of hms to split the palestinians). as long as hms exists (as is) isr has the excuse to wipe out palestinians and any chance of an independent palestine.
shlomo is shitting his pants. he’s okay when it comes to shooting women and little kids, but when he has to fight real men he runs whining to uncle sugar to pull his chestnuts out of the fire for him.
the zio infestation is being cleaned up from the holy land. half a million parasites already on their way back to jew york where they belong. another half a million more soon as they conscript the haredis.
idf admitted hamas cannot be defeated. this war is purely political at this stage, kept going by the corrupt israeli political elites and their western backers. this is no way to run a war. look at europe, they run ukraine war by politics too. they announce counter offensives 1 year in advance ahahahahaha
sead hassan nasrallah: wa allahi israel is weaker tha spider’s web! and indeed it is.
that 9minute video of the hizb drone flying around unhindered over haifa made some people in israel really uneasy. if they invade lebanon, expect israel to be taken back 50 years. dimona, tamar/leviathan, haifa refineries, unit 8200 hq and untold barracks and military bases will light up like hannukah. the idf is taking notes. netanyahu, smotrich and ben gvir are not.
the greater israel plan is dead in the water and soon the vermin, the illegally occupying jews, will be on the run – shutteltraffic over the atlantic to washington dc , or total annihilation, not to be much missed and for the rest of the world a great spoil of amassed fortunes to share. what not to like?!
500,000 is a great number. europe, turkey, morocco, nigeria, usa, argentina, chile, ecuador …. are hapily waiting for more of them
well, properly entitled article. nice we can all see it and say it for what it is. zionists are thug terrorists, drug and human traffickers, profiteers, counterfieters, and cold blooded baby killers and vax genocide pushers. and when you let that filth take over your governments, they become terrorists too, just like israel.
hamas have got balls of steel. respect. likewise hezbollah and ansar allah.
the gallant freedom fighters of palestine and their brothers are whacking and stacking diaper head shlomos faster than nut’nyahoo can cover his wobbly a$$. how long more will the juice tolerate the ghoul that is burning the jew paradi$€ to save his very very dirty a$$? onward to the end of the zionazi abomination.
a stronger few words than causing terror are warranted like “mass murdering, mass torturing, mass raping scum-of-the-landfill filth.”
dirty little most coward army of our world as they are so used to murder women and children a i now delight to see those moral army shit their pantiez as they are on the ground …
just fuck off moddie coward israeli fuckin ho…
half a million shlomos have fled talmudistan already. another 300,000 settlers have fled the north and southern borders and squatting in empty tourist hotels. another half a million will bug out when nuttyyahoo conscripts the haredis. uncle sugar can’t be relied upon to bail shlomo out any more. the jewnited snakes is just a bankrupt dysfunctional impoverished deindustrialised s***hole of a failed state on the verge of civil war.
still shittin yer nappy as you meet men with fire in the belly as you most moral army shit yer nappy… mo monie americana, mo monie and just send those mo stoopid american to bleed in sand of stolen land we call israel… just mo monie americana tax-payer, just mo monie for that most coward army… just send yer children america as we like to see white children bleed whilst those bibble studierz jus study bibble whilst trading in gold/diamond and white european women and child organ…