Despite Ruins, Palestinian Resistance in Top Shape

Jordanian military and strategic expert Nidal Abu Zeid said the videoclips broadcast by the Palestinian resistance groups on the methods of managing operations, ambushes, and targeting the occupation forces, prove they are still cohesive and their command and control system is capable of continuing and inflicting losses on the Israeli occupation forces.

Abu Zeid added the resistance operations are managed by an integrated system. He said the videoclips show there is a commander for the operation who directs, then there is the target reconnaissance based on intelligence gathering with another team videoing and photographing the operations.

These elements confirm such a system in the works  is still fine, stressing the Israeli occupation forces were forced to retreat and not withdraw from Al-Sinaa Street in Tal Al-Hawa after the ambush that caused much losses in reference to the latest Israeli military actions.

Abu Zeid said this prompted the occupation forces to withdraw not just from Tal Al Hawa but from the entire northern Gaza Strip according to Jordan 24.

Abu Zaid pointed out most of the destructive vehicles that appeared in the circulated clips are M113 troop carriers, maintaining that this reinforces the theory that the occupation resorted to using this type of old carriers that were discontinued in 2006 due to the significant losses of modern Tiger troop carriers in the Israeli army.

He indicated the M113 carriers are not as efficient, effective and armored which also explains the high losses among the Israeli soldiers as the Israeli army announced.

That the means the loss curve is still rising between 10 to 20 soldiers per day, which imposes challenges on the occupation army in terms of manpower resources.

Abu Zeid stated the statements of Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi about the urgent need to recruit new elements into the army and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant statements about the necessity of recruiting ultra-Orthodox Jews who are exempt from military service confirm the magnitude of the losses the army is suffering daily.

Abu Zeid continued the Israeli combat doctrine is based on three pillars: Deterrence, early warning, and rapid resolution) pointing out the Palestinian resistance groups have succeeded in stripping the enemy of these and which explains the clear imbalance in the military operations and the occupation’s inability to take the upper hand.

Regarding the ongoing negotiations in Doha, Abu Zeid said Netanyahu is trying to booby-trap these talks and obstruct their progress by imposing conditions related to guarantees for the resumption of military action at any time.

These aim at preventing the return of the displaced to northern Gaza, and evade the issue of negotiating with the Egyptian side on the status of the Philadelphia axis, which will create further conflict between the government and the military generals and leaders of the security services.

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How Netanyahu is Killing Gaza ‘Peace Talks’

Anyone following the news of the prisoner exchange deal talks can see that it has become clear that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has been repeatedly thwarting efforts to secure prisoner exchange deals with the resistance. Despite various attempts to facilitate these exchanges and several approvals by the resistance movements led by Hamas, Netanyahu’s actions have consistently led to delays and complications according to the Quds News Network.

The following timeline provides a look at how Netanyahu’s decisions and strategic leaks have derailed progress on multiple occasions, raising questions about the underlying personal motives, which have turned the lives of the Palestinian people and Israeli prisoners alike into a political game.

January 17, 2024: Netanyahu cancels the outcomes of the preparatory meetings for the first Paris meeting without coordinating with the Israeli War Council or the Israeli negotiating team, and tightens Israel’s stance.

January 24, 2024: Netanyahu delays granting authorization to the Israeli negotiating team and postpones the first Paris meeting.

The Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari, publicly criticized him for the first time in a tweet.
“If the reported remarks are found to be true, the Israeli PM would only be obstructing and undermining the mediation process, for reasons that appear to serve his political career instead of prioritizing saving innocent lives, including Israeli hostages”, he said.

“Instead of concerning himself with Qatar’s strategic relations with the United States, we hope Netanyahu decides to operate in good faith and concentrate on the release of the hostages.”

January 28-31, 2024: During the first Paris meeting, progress was made. However, upon his return to Israel, the head of Mossad was surprised by Netanyahu’s publication of five statements that widened the gaps, revealing confidential information during the negotiations.

February 6, 2024: Amidst efforts to reach a humanitarian truce before the month of Ramadan, Hamas announced it had responded positively to mediator initiatives. However, Netanyahu quickly leaked statements to Channel 13 under the name “a senior Israeli political official” declaring that Hamas’s stance meant rejecting the deal.

February 13, 2024: At the Cairo meeting, Netanyahu delayed sending a delegation. When he did, he sent them without authorization and accompanied by his personal advisor to restrict the head of Mossad. He then refrained from sending a delegation to continue the talks despite the negotiating team’s support.

February 23, 2024: At the second Paris meeting, Netanyahu called the head of Mossad on his way to Paris to inform him of reducing his authorized powers, despite it being approved by the War Council.

March 16, 2024: Netanyahu refused to hold a War Council meeting to discuss the negotiating team’s authorization on the eve of proposed talks in Doha. A military representative on the negotiating team leaked to the media his frustration with Netanyahu’s actions.

April 8, 2024: Renewed negotiations aimed at a “phased deal” to release 33 Israeli prisoners. The Israeli army announced its withdrawal from Khan Yunis. However, after threats from Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, Netanyahu announced a military operation in Rafah, causing the negotiations to collapse.

April 25, 2024: Netanyahu leaked confidential information from the negotiations to Smotrich, who then leaked it to the media, causing the negotiations to collapse again.

April 26, 2024: Netanyahu contacted the Israeli negotiating team without the knowledge of the War Council to reduce their authorized powers.

May 4, 2024: Netanyahu preempted a response expected by mediators to Hamas on an Israeli exchange proposal by issuing a statement rejecting ending the war in any way.

May 6, 2024: Hamas officially accepted the Israeli proposal presented to them. However, Netanyahu hastened to reject Hamas’s response before any security consultations or high-level meetings.

June 3, 2024: After US President Biden announced his plan for a prisoner exchange deal and ending the war on June 1, Netanyahu leaked his opposition to Biden’s plan during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset.

June 23, 2024: Netanyahu announced in an interview with Channel 14 that he is only interested in a partial deal, which allows him to resume the war.

July 12, 2024: Israeli media reported that Netanyahu has introduced additional obstacles in the ceasefire negotiations.

They cited senior Israeli officials as stating that Netanyahu is currently controlling all the details and has decided to harden his stance on the negotiations.

“Netanyahu is almost single-handedly managing the negotiations”, they stated accords to the Quds News Network.

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Israel Forces Top Professor to Keep Moving in Gaza

CROSSFIREARABIA – This is what the Israeli army did to Professor Khamis Elessi, it turned him into a displaced refugee inside his hometown in Gaza city

Dr Elessi is one of Gaza’s top surgeon teaching at the Faculty of Medicine in the Islamic University of Gaza since 2008. He was head of the EBM (evidence-based medicine, and neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation at the University.

His name has been trending on the social media because of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and its destruction of the Gaza Strip with different images.

Dr Elessi is active on the social media. He has an account on the X platform frequently posting on different aspects of his work and the on-going war on Gaza.

Like hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Gaza, he’s being pursued by Israel forced to move from place to place.

One has to only search his name on the internet to learn how his research has contributed to humanity with his name appearing on the website of Cambridge University in the UK.

Andy Worthington, a British journalist wrote: Like all of Gaza’s 2 million plus civilians Professor Khamis Elessi has been reduce to medieval destitution and constant risk of death

Worthington comments that western leaders don’t care about the credentials of professor Elessi and the fact that he is an international-renowned medical professor and a fellow at Cambridge University. “Like Israel, they regard being a Palestinian is a crime.”

Professor Khamis become the first professor of medicine in the whole of the Gaza Strip in 2021. Professor Shafi Ahmad wrote Dr Khamis is “one of the most inspirational people that I have ever met.”

His career soon started after he got his medical degree from the Far Eastern University in Manila in 1998, getting an MA in Southampton University in the UK, and did a stint at Tel Aviv University and Tel-hashomer Hospital in Israel.   

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UNRWA in Desperate Need of Cash

The UN chief, Friday, appealed to everyone to protect the United Nations Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees and its staff, saying there is “no alternative to UNRWA”.

“My appeal to everyone is this: Protect UNRWA, protect UNRWA staff, and protect UNRWA’s mandate – including through funding,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a pledging conference at the UN headquarters in New York aimed at increasing contributions to the UN agency that looks after Palestinian refugrees.

“Without the necessary support and financing to UNRWA, Palestine refugees will lose a critical lifeline and the last ray of hope for a better future,” he said according to Anadolu news.

Guterres said it is the time to “bring an end to this terrible war, starting with an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and an immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.

Ultimately, only a political solution can bring an end to this conflict – one that realizes a vision of two States – Israel and Palestine – living side by side in peace and security, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states,” he said.

Speaking at the same conference, UNRWA’s head Philippe Lazzarini said the agency is “staggering under the weight of relentless attack in Gaza”.

“ Gaza is decimated. More than two million people are trapped in a living hell. They have been displaced repeatedly across a ravaged and increasingly lawless territory. Children and women are bearing the brunt of this brutal war. Acute food insecurity is claiming the lives of children and severely affecting women who often eat last and least,” he told the pledging conference.

He recalled that 195 UNRWA workers were killed in Israeli attacks and nearly 190 installations damaged or destroyed, killing more than 500 people seeking UN protection.

Lazzarini said UNRWA is appealing for $1.2 billion for the occupied Palestinian territory emergency to cover critical humanitarian needs until the end of the year.

“This appeal, and the emergency appeal for Syria, Lebanon and Jordan are less than 20 percent funded,” he continued, the Turkish news agency stated.

Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s UN envoy, told the conference that the past nine months have been “long,” “painful,” and “harrowing”.

“There is nowhere safe for our refugees to turn in Gaza, as the Secretary General has indicated, not even under the UN flag, as schools continue to be targeted and bombed by the Israeli occupying forces in one attack after another, adding to the casualties, destruction and the traumas forced upon our people, 40,000 Palestinian children,” Mansour said.

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‘Israel Will No Longer Exist in 2026′ – Lieberman Warns

Former Defense Minister Avigador Lieberman deeply criticizes Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza and the current skirmish with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“Netanyahu is leading Israel to destruction and if the current Knesset coalition continue until 2026, Israel will no longer exist,” he said in a stark way.

“Netanyahu doesn’t know how to manage anything. He is really a very talented person. He is one of the best, if not the best, marketing person in world politics, not only in Israel. He also has rhetorical ability. But his management ability aspires to zero. He is also spineless. These are his two problems. As long as things are going on their own, it’s not working. And today, nothing is going on, not on the security level, that’s what drives Netanyahu The desire to survive in power for another day, another week, that’s all,” he told Maariv.

The  comments of the leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party are trending on the social media with multiple posts.

Lieberman accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leading Israel towards total destruction.

Lieberman is repeating what the views of many in Israel, regionally and internationally are saying about Netanyahu leading the country to disaster because of his own domestic troubles and the corruption accusations against against that will probably land hin in jail.

However, he “emphasized that Israel is facing existential threats and is undergoing a multi-dimensional crisis encompassing political, economic, and security issues—the most significant since its establishment,” as stated in the Palestine Chronicle.

Lieberman blamed Netanyahu for the attack on October 7, accusing him of empowering the Palestinian movement Hamas over the years by releasing its leaders according to the electronic website.

Over 38,000 Palestinians were killed and over 88,000 injured in Gaza by Israeli fire since 7 October, 2023.

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