Beirut Under Attack
CrossFireArabia- October 23, 2024
Casualties have been reported due to Israeli airstrikes targeting the southern suburb of Beirut.
Civil Defense Shuts Down in North Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- October 23, 2024
The Civil Defense in Northern Gaza reported:
Our operations have completely shut down in Northern Gaza, and the situation has become catastrophic there; civilians present are now without humanitarian services.
Israeli occupying forces arrested five of our personnel in the Sheikh Zayed area.
Israeli tanks targeted the only firefighting vehicle in Northern Gaza with shells, setting it on fire.
Three of our personnel were injured when targeted by an Israeli drone in the Beit Lahiya project, and communication with them has been lost; their fate is unknown.
Generals’ Plan Architect Wants Gaza War Stopped
- CrossFireArabia
- October 23, 2024
In a surprising turn of events, retired Israeli General Giora Eiland, who previously came up with the infamous “Generals’ Plan” to force Palestinians out of northern Gaza and kill everyone who remains, has now publicly called for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.
In an op-ed published in Yedioth Ahronoth Eiland said that besides the return of those held in captivity there are four reasons why Israel should end the war on Gaza:
First, he said Israeli society has grown ‘numb’ the Israeli soldier deaths in Gaza; second Israeli soldiers are being forced to fight; third the high economic costs of war with billions of dollars being wasted; and fourth the whole world wants the war to end on Gaza.
One More Israeli Soldier Killed in Lebanon
- CrossFireArabia
- October 23, 2024
Israeli Deputy Commander of Battalion 9308 Killed in Battle in South Lebanon.
As per report of Al Jazeera TV, the deputy commander was killed in a confrontation in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s 24 media conveyed that, as per Israeli media reports, 16 soldiers from their ranks were taken to Safed Hospital following clashes along the Lebanese border Tuesday.
The number of Israeli soldiers killed is raising daily. On 17 October it was reported that five Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed in battles in Southern Lebanon.
According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, the latest officer to have dies came from Dulyu city and had been engaged in military operations in the Middle East for an extended period.
This incident marks the second instance this week of a senior Israeli military official being killed in Gaza and Lebanon.
Up till now six Merkava tanks have been destroyed in Lebanon.
Other Hebrew media sources report that 22 Israeli soldiers were injured in the past 24 hours, 20 of these being in the northern front on the border between Israel and Lebanon while two in Gaza.
Ethnic Cleansing Rife
- CrossFireArabia
- October 23, 2024
Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahiya on foot have described Israeli soldiers forcing men to strip to their underwear and bodies left lying in the streets as Israeli army enters its 19th day of implementing the Generals’ Plan, which has been deemed a roadmap for ethnic cleansing.
