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Despite ongoing Israeli war crimes and deliberate massacres of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as increasing global solidarity against the Israeli occupation, there remains a lack of genuine pressure on Israel to cease its genocide.
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Hezbollah confirmed it launched a squadron of attack drones on a training camp for the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of Haifa. The party stressed it will remain present and ready to defend Lebanon and deter the Zionist enemy.
The devastating attack Sunday night, whick killed three soldiers and injured 67 while nine are in a critical condition, is being widely covered on the social media. Initially the social media reported Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was killed in the attack but this was quickly denied as false rumor.
The attack on the military base is being described as the biggest since the 7 October, 2023 attacks in which 1200 Israelis were killed. A rocket landed on a dining room when it was packed with soldiers while there was no sirens heard beforehand with the Israeli authorities later saying they are opening up an investigation of what went wrong.
This was described as a double attack with drones and missiles launched by Hezbollah with mass thuds heard as drones arrived and exploded at the Binyamina military base, south of Haifa that has been subject to daily attacks for at least the last two weeks.
A leading source in Hezbollah confirmed the latest strikes shows the capabilities of the resistance are still strong, intact and capable of reaching the Israeli depth regardless of the relentless Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon, the southern district and even the capital, Beirut.
In addition, Hezbollah said that after closely monitoring a secret attempt by the Israeli enemy forces to infiltrate the outskirts of the town of Mays al-Jabal at (7:30) in the evening of Sunday 13-10-2024, its fighters ambushed the forces and showered them with a barrage of rockets and machine guns.
Hezbollah pointed out that violent clashes took place with the infiltrating force from zero distance, killing and wounding its members, and the enemy force withdrew amid the screams and wails of the attacking soldiers.
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Military expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid has confirmed that despite separating the northern Gaza Strip from Gaza City, the Israeli army has not succeeded in implementing the so-called “generals’ plan” so far.
He added that what is happening on the ground can only be classified as “tactical success but strategic failure in light of the heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in northern Gaza.
Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 that the resistance is still operating in pockets close to the separation line established by the occupation, while it seems that the Netzarim axis model is being repeated in northern Gaza, which puts the occupation in a fragile position and vulnerable to the strikes of the resistance, which has exchanged geography for losses, meaning that it has given land to the occupation but inflicts losses in wide areas of deployment.
Failure with Hezbollah
Regarding what is happening in southern Lebanon, Abu Zeid said the equation of proportionality and gradualism is still prevailing in military with Haifa has become opposite equation to the southern suburb and Tel Aviv to Beirut in targetting and bombing.
He added that this is while the occupation forces have yet failed after 13 days of ground fighting to achieve any significant progress, and everything the Israeli army is doing falls within the framework of reconnaissance operations by force in an attempt to determine the weak points of Hezbollah, which is defending in an unconventional manner on the front edge of the battle zone.
Iran Stop!
Abu Zeid pointed out that events are accelerating, as indicators of the Israeli response to the Iranian response have begun to increase and its features have begun to become clear, which will change the equation of the conflict in light of an American desire not to expand the circle of conflict as much as it is a desire to clip Iran’s nails in the region.
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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that the Israeli occupation army is using booby-trapped robots loaded with tons of explosives in the widespread destruction and killing operations carried out in northern Gaza.
It explained, in a statement Sunday, it “received numerous testimonies from inside Gaza, about the Israeli army’s use of booby-trapped robots and their detonation remotely, causing widespread damage to surrounding homes and buildings and great loss of life, at a time when the work of ambulance and civil defense crews is almost completely disrupted, except for a narrow range in some neighborhoods,” according to Quds Press.
“Israel’s use of booby-trapped robots is prohibited under international law, as these robots are considered random weapons that cannot be directed or their effects limited to military targets only,” the Euromed Monitor added.
It explained that “due to their nature, they directly hit civilians, or hit military targets, civilians or civilian objects indiscriminately. Therefore, they are prohibited weapons under international law, and their use in residential areas constitutes an international crime in and of itself.”
The statement quoted a Palestinian besieged in the “Al-Qassabi” neighborhood south of the “Jabalia” camp in the northern Gaza Strip, who said, “last Wednesday evening – 9 October – a huge explosion occurred in the Al-Qassabi neighborhood near where we were located.”
He added, “the sound of the explosion was very loud, I had never heard it so loud before, we have become able to distinguish between the sounds of explosions, so we know whether this sound is from bombing by aircraft, artillery or something else.”
He pointed out that “the sound of the explosion was many times louder than the sound of the airstrike, to the point that white dust covered the entire area. We later found out that this explosion was the result of a robot loaded with tons of explosives detonating, and that this robot destroyed about 6 or 7 houses at once. The occupation army detonates the robot in the houses without knowing whether there are civilians inside them or not.”
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that it documented the occupation army detonating two other robots in the “Tawam” area and in the “Zahraa” neighborhood adjacent to the Civil Defense west of the “Jabalia” camp, and another robot in the vicinity of the “Abu Ali Mustafa” intersection in “Bir al-Naja” in the western areas of the Jabalia camp.
Using “robots” to relieve pressure on the air force
military expert, engineer Muhammad Magharbeh, indicates that the “Israeli” air force “is going through its weakest stage,” considering that the occupation army’s resort to alternative destructive means to aerial bombardment is an important indicator of the challenges currently facing this weapon.
In an interview with Quds Press, he pointed out that the hundreds of thousands of tons dropped on Gaza during the year “are explosives resulting from bombs received from American ammunition stores, which are no longer able to meet the Israeli Air Force’s demands at the required speed.”
He also pointed out that Israeli Air Force air bases were damaged by the recent Iranian missile attack, in addition to “the great waste in using bombs on the Gaza and southern Lebanon fronts.”
He stressed that the Israeli Air Force faces “difficulty in carrying out full and effective air missions in its war with Hezbollah, difficulty in destroying tunnels at the expense of the scarcity of ammunition that it is forced to economize on, and the choice between using them for Iranian targets or destroying the Lebanese tunnels, or destroying the northern Gaza Strip to force the residents there to move to the south.”
Reports indicate that the Israeli occupation army consumed a large amount of ammunition in the early stages of its war on the Gaza Strip, specifically those used in aerial bombardment. During the first four months of the military operation, the Israeli Air Force bombed approximately 31,000 targets, 29,000 of which were in the Gaza Strip and the rest in other areas, most notably Lebanon.
According to a statement by the Israeli occupation army, the majority of these raids were carried out using fighter jets. The Israeli occupation forces, supported by the United States and Europe, continue to commit the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, for the 372nd consecutive day, by launching dozens of airstrikes and artillery shelling, while committing massacres against civilians, amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation resulting from the siege and the displacement of more than 95 percent of the population.
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No Comment. This photo was posted by Sulaiman Ahmad and says plenty on a careless “statist” world.
This Israeli genocide has been the worst for the people of Gaza including the journalists where 176 has been targeted and killed by the Israeli war machine while the world looks on and obeys the dictates of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He, and his army tried to quash and kill the word but Palestinians will keep coming back with the banner of freedom from occupation.
