Ex-general Warns of a ‘Holocaust in Israel’ If…

An ex-Israeli general said, Sunday, what is happening in the city of Rafah, is a disgrace to the Israeli army.

Israeli Radio quoted General Yitzhak Brik, a former head of the Israeli Army’s Complaints Committee, saying what is happening in Rafah is a disgrace, adding “the Israeli army is not actually fighting Hamas, but are bombing the roads and we are killing…” he said.

The ex-General continued that the Israeli army has been unable to deal with the Hamas movement, so how can it deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah?

Brik warned “any decision taken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Hezbollah will bring a holocaust on the [Israeli] state.”

According to Israeli reports, a large number of reserve officers in the army strongly criticized the political leadership after the killing of eight Israeli soldiers in their carrier in Rafah.

An Israeli website quoted one of the officers as saying: “The pattern of fighting in Rafah is flawed, and military operations should have been carried out faster and more decisively.”

Brik says the war in Gaza has lost its purpose and is continuing  only for Netanyahu’s benefit, pointing out the army’s capacity had been reduced by 20 years until it is no longer able to defeat Hamas.

He said that Israel is “facing strategic defeat that we have not witnessed since the founding of the country” emphasizing “we cannot stop Hezbollah’s missiles and drones,” asking “what will happen in s regional war when not tens but thousands of missiles and drones are launched at us every day?”  

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In Defiance: Gaza Celebrates Eid Despite The Ruins

Thousands of people perform Eid Al Adha prayers in the north of Gaza despite the Israeli war of starvation and genocide.

And despite the mass debris, there is a deep-seated feelings among Palestinians that life must go on and the meek shall inherit the earth. Here as well, its a question of justice. This land is Palestinian, Muslim and Arab, not to be taken by Zionist invaders.

The Eid festivities are being celebrated all over the Gaza Strip, in towns, cities, villages, displacement centers. Its celebration amongst the rubble as a show of defiance that Gazans, Palestinians are here to stay.

In the case of the now destroyed Al Omari mosque  Eid prayers where held among the ruins induced through Israeli bombing and destruction.

Besides prayers there is celebration. Children in the courtyard of the Al Aqsa Martyers Hospital in Dier Al Balah enjoy the festive season of sacrifice.

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Palestinian children get a haircut in a displacement center for the celebration of Eid.

And finally children creating their own happiness

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Each Time a Tiger is Destroyed $3 Million Goes Down The Drain!

A Palestinian resistance fighter in flipflops and jeans. They come out from underground tunnels.

Al Yassin, a home-made shell, manufactured in the nooks and crannies of Gaza costs $500 according to a comment by Rozan Qabas Aal Salem, a Yemeni Jewish translator in Israel.

On the other hand, the destruction of the Tiger troop carrier, which is the pride of Israeli industry represents a great economic loss for each of these units cost $3 million.

But the cost of the machine is one thing; another is the cost of the training of these elite soldiers using the most sophisticated equipment and then the parish.

The training and rehabilitation of soldiers for each machine tanks and other military hardware takes as much as 10 years.

In this war on Gaza 100s of troop carriers, tanks, drones and military hardware has been lost by the Israeli army to Palestinian fighters.

A loss estimate would put the number of military hardware units stand at 1500. This is not to account the Israeli soldiers killed in tanks and troop carriers.

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8 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Rafah

The Israeli occupation army admits to the killing of eight of its soldiers in Rafah, in a deadly afternoon in the southern Gaza Strip.

News of the killing is trending on the social media with the Israeli Army Radio confirming the number of those killed in an armed vehicle that was destroyed in an explosion.

Izz Al Din Al Qassam fighters said earlier the entire crew of the armoured vehicle were killed after it was targeted by an anti-tank shell in an orchestrated ambush “at dawn on the Day of Arafah, our fighters executed a compound ambush against the invading enemy vehicles in the Saudi neighborhood in Tal al-Sultan, west of Rafah, according to Anadolu.

Among those who died was the deputy commander in the 601 Battalion of the Combat Engineers Brigade according to Israeli media sources.

One report however said 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in the Tal Al Sultan neighborhood of Rafah near the Egyptian border but as usual, the Israeli army would admit to only eight.

The armored personnel carrier was completely burned and the eight soldiers inside died instantly.

Israeli journalist Yossi Meliman with eight more soldiers killed, the total number of troops slain in Gaza since the beginning of the war rose to 658 soldiers. He pointed out If we add the police and Shin Bet deaths, the number reaches to 730.

Anadolu reports that 3,835 officers and soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including 1,936 in the ground battles.

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72% of Saudis Support Boycott of Brands Over Gaza War

Latest global purchasing survey shows 1 in 3 consumers are boycotting brand names over the Israeli war in Gaza.

The survey made by the Edelman’s public relations firm polled 15,000 consumers around the world across 15 countries that included USA, France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, UK, India and Indonesia.

The consumer boycotting brands include Starbucks, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola with news of the Trust Barometer report currently trending on the social media.

The top five consumer boycotting countries are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia, India and surprisingly Germany.  In Saudi 72 percent of those surveyed said they are boycotting international brands followed by 57 percent in the UAE because of the Israeli war on Gaza now in its ninth month.

Respondents perception is the major reason for their boycott, saying they believe one side is actively supporting the other in the genocide on Gaza.

One commented this is a shocking surprise for the boycott’s enemies and a joyful surprise for its supporters while another said this is a reminder to the “boycotts don’t work idiots.”

The boycott campaign has been strongest in the Middle East when many consumers stopped buying products and/or frequenting brand cafes with international tag names associated with Israel.

Further, the campaign took off last October after McDonald’s  Israel’s “franchise announced it was giving free meals to Israeli soldiers in its branches in the country,” according to Middle East Eye. Its CFO Ian Borden says it lost $7 billion because of the boycott.

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