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Despite suffering from multiple diseases, Israeli occupation forces detained 37-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Munir Musa from Bethlehem in April 2023.
On the morning of 13 October, 2024 Mohammed passed away at Soroka Hospital due to health negligence in Israeli prisons.
He is the 41st known prisoner to die in Israeli captivity since October 7.
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A year after the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip and the war’s spread to Lebanon, Israeli politicians must now be involved in a real soul-searching process and study the course of this war on all fronts so may may see whether Israel succeeds in changing the strategic reality in the region or is begining the process of drowning in the mud on all fronts.
According to the Maariv newspaper, Israel is not built for long wars and/or wars of attrition. The Israeli economy relies on human capital and therefore long wars could lead to the collapse of the economy.
To this day, the newspaper says, “three army divisions are conducting maneuvers in the Strip. But so far no combat goal has been achieved in Gaza.
“The Southern Command has not presented an exit plan, the Israeli army has not yet achieved most of the war’s goals: It has not released the 101 remaining hostages, it has not eliminated Yahya Sinwar, and has not been able to dissolve Hamas. It seems that day-after-day we will drown in the Gaza mud,” it said.
The Israeli army is relying on evacuating border villages. In general, the army has taken control of most of the line north of the border fence, but plans for the future are unclear.
For its part, Hezbollah has announced that it intends to operate in a guerrilla style to: Take advantage of the fact that Israel is not interested in a war of attrition.
In the West Bank, the newspaper says, the army is operating in Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm. It is trying, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, to maintain a level of attack and operations in a way that does not turn the West Bank into another strong front.
In Iran, the Israeli government has not decided what it wants to do. Israel is obligated to attack forcefully after the Iranian attack two weeks ago, but the Iranian issue is complicated.
This is also due to the international community led by the United States, and countries in the Middle East warning of the repercussions of any Israeli response on the economy and oil and gas prices, the expected damage from Iran to the assets of the United States or moderate countries, and its impact on the elections in the USA.
All of these are part of the considerations that the Israeli government must make in order to evaluate what is happening on all fronts, because the future has become unanswerable.
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Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, says nearly 200,000 Palestinians currently under Israeli siege in Jabalia are facing imminent death from Israeli airstrikes or from hunger and thirst due to the ongoing land blockade imposed by the Israeli army.
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Hamas accused the Israeli army of committing “massacres” in northern Gaza’s Jabalia region, claiming the attacks were carried out as “retaliation against unarmed civilians under American cover.”
In a statement, Saturday, Hamas condemned what it described as Israeli “Nazi occupation’s massacres” that targeted a residential area in Jabalia late Friday, resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries. “These massacres,” Hamas said, “are a continuation of the ongoing criminal genocide against our people, shielded by American support.”
Shielded by US
Hamas further said that these escalated strikes on civilians in Jabalia are an attempt to “punish the population for their resilience and rejection of displacement.”
“The ongoing Nazi terrorist crimes, now in their second year, demonstrate to the world that this rogue, fascist entity is bloodthirsty and seeks revenge through further genocide against our people in Gaza and the Lebanese population,” the group’s statement added according to Anadolu.
Medical sources in Gaza reported that 24 Palestinians were killed and approximately 90 others wounded in Israeli airstrikes that targeted a civilian gathering and a residential block of four houses in Jabalia late Friday.
The situation in Jabalia has been especially tense since Oct. 6, with the Israeli army imposing a strict siege on the area, leading to an intense escalation of violence in northern Gaza and some of the fiercest clashes since May. Friday’s airstrikes marked Israel’s third ground operation in Jabalia since the ongoing conflict escalated on Oct. 7, 2023, following earlier incursions in November and December of last year.
Brutal offensive
Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza following a cross-border incursion by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.
According to local health authorities, the conflict has claimed nearly 42,200 lives, primarily women and children, and has injured over 98,300 people in Gaza. The ongoing Israeli bombardment has also displaced nearly the entire population of Gaza, which continues to face severe shortages of food, clean water, and medical supplies due to the blockade.
Israel currently faces genocide allegations at the International Court of Justice over its actions in Gaza.
