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Media War: Israel Bombs More of Its Own Captives

CrossFireArabia
August 21, 2024

Military expert Nidal Abu Zeid said the statement by the Israeli occupation forces of retrieving the bodies of captives is an ambiguous announcement that lacked clarity as conflicting reports continue regarding the method of retrieving the bodies bearing in mind they were found in the Hamad Residential City, west of Khan Yunis.

Israel falseness

Abu Zeid said the Israeli 98th Paratroopers Brigade fought in the area and withdrew from it last April. The resistance media, in a video clip, shows the falseness of what the Israeli army are saying and reinforces their view that it is Israeli warplanes that killed its own prisoners.

The military and strategic expert says it seems this happened last June based on tracking the timing of the Israeli army raids when it targeted Hamad Residential City then.

Abu Zeid pointed out the Palestinian resistance fighters and after 319 days of fighting, stripped the occupation’s concept of absolute victory that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about four months ago.

Absolute victory, no!

He added the Israeli occupation neither achieved a tactical victory and prevented the resistance from launching attacks, nor an operational victory and withered the resistance, nor of a strategic victory by eliminating the resistance.

Abu Zeid added an intelligence war is taking place behind the scenes between the resistance and Israel with the latter making strenuous efforts to recruit agents to access any information. He pointed out it indicates the Israeli occupation exhausted its “target bank” and lost its intelligence ability to identify new targets.

Accept!

The occupation’s technical and technological intelligence is incapable of stripping the resistance of its capabilities in Information operations (IO) gathering that feed the implementations of the operations orders, which makes them operationally lost, he said.

This explains that the Israeli army is aware of this field reality and why is pushing its political leadership towards accepting the terms of the negotiations which they continue to reject, at least for the time being.

Abu Zeid also confirmed in his military analysis of the Gaza that the geographical triangle that includes Tel al-Hawa, Khan Yunis, Tel al-Sultan have become a major disturbance and it is why the Israeli army are trying to stay away from direct engagement with the resistance in these areas to avoid major losses. This explains the noticeable increase in the use of drones and aerial bombardment the strategic expert concluded according to the Khaberni news website.

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Legal Expert Casts Doubt on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan

CrossFireArabia
August 21, 2024

International law expert Anis Al-Qassem confirmed that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan is one of the reasons and obstacles facing the ICC. The lawyer said this due to Karim’s direct connection with the United States, which originally appointed him.

Dr Al-Qaasem described the Prosecutor as a “mercenary” who carries out the orders of the USA which seeks to obstruct any decision condemning Israel, according to J024.

“As long as Prosecutor Karim Khan is at the head of the International Criminal Court, there is no hope for the court to move to achieve justice.” He noted the judges of the court are immune from any accountability or pressure, and the defect lies with the Public Prosecution as it is the one that decides to open an investigation into the cases referred to the court.

أنيس القاسم: مدعي عام "الجنائية الدولية" ينفذ أوامر أمريكا.. ولا أمل بتحرّك المحكمة

أكدّ خبير القانون الدولي، المحامي أنيس القاسم، أن مدعي عام المحكمة الجنائية الدولية، كريم خان، يعتبر أحد أسباب ومعيقات عمل المحكمة، وذلك نظراً لارتباطه المباشر مع الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية التي… pic.twitter.com/5vUfjCmNk0
— أهل البلاد (@AhlAlblad) August 20, 2024

In addition, Al-Qassem explained the International Court of Justice granted South Africa 10 months to submit its final argument in the genocide lawsuit it filed against the Zionist entity to be submitted next October.

Al-Qassem pointed out that all the massacres and crimes of genocide committed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip can be included in the course of the lawsuit.

Al-Qassem stressed that the judges of the International Court of Justice are completely immune and independent and no party, entity or state can exert pressure on them, noting that the course of international justice requires time to issue decisions and rulings.

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is now a pawn of #US Empire. He went to #Israel to meet victims of Hamas attack but refused to meet victims of Israeli Genocide – Karim Khan cannot be trusted to deliver Justice – Unless he's removed, #ICC will be irrelevant… pic.twitter.com/hrlXG5y4it
— Mick Wallace (@wallacemick) March 3, 2024

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Raging Fires Blaze in Northern Israel

CrossFireArabia
August 20, 2024

Northern Israel appear to be in a blaze with fires as a result of incoming Hezbollah rockets from cross-border attacks with Lebanon with reports of five Israelis wounded.

Israeli firefighters are battling three fires in the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights that were started by shelling. pic.twitter.com/hezxQunIzM
— S p r i n t e r (@SprinterFamily) August 20, 2024

Raging fires are being reported in the Galilee area as a result of 55 rockets fired launched, Tuesday morning, according to Anadolu.

The fires are trending on the social media with images. Firefighters have been on the seen battling the blazes that seems to continue on a daily basis.

The Israeli army stated it only detected 55 rockets but others say it was a barrage of rockets, anything from 60 to 120 rockets, on different areas of northern Israel and occupied the Golan Heights.

🔻Explosions in Shtula in the Western Galilee after sirens sounded.

A large fire broke out in Kibbutz Zar'it in northern occupied Palestine, as a result of rockets fired from Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/xH5z0lkT1e
— Zainab Abbas🇱🇧🇮🇷🇦🇪🇮🇶🇾🇪🚩🚩🚩 (@AsgharA80266658) August 19, 2024

Cross-border fighting continues between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army with the latter responding by attacking Al Mansouri and Al Taybeh in southern Lebanon.

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Israeli Army in Fix Because of Soldiers Shortage

CrossFireArabia
August 20, 2024

The Israeli army is so short up for manpower it’s calling up its reserve soldiers who were previously exempted from service.

This order is coming from the Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant who have cancelled all previous exemtions from the Israeli army due to the shortage in the number of soldiers.

The army and the Minister’s office have confirmed this step comes “after an assessment of the situation and the scope of activity of regular and reserve forces, and as part of the process that the army is planning to increase the number of individuals serving in it.”

Israeli media reports frustration among Israeli soldiers due to equipment shortages and increased workload resulting from insufficient manpower.

The Israeli government has proposed a bill to the Supreme Court to conscript Haredi Jews into the military to address this shortfall,… pic.twitter.com/EDjuTTezHh
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 15, 2024

The army is facing an acute shortage of 50,000 soldiers as the fighting in Gaza continues, and the confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon could expand into a full-scale war.

Former head of the Israeli army’s Soldiers’ Complaints Division, Yitzhak Brick said the army is facing a catastrophic situation.

The retired general blamed Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi for not planning to make up for the shortage in ground forces after they were reduced by six divisions over the past 20 years.

He said this “makes it impossible to win in the Gaza Strip, let alone win a regional war in which fighting must be fought in multiple arenas at the same time.”

The Israeli government has ordered the immediate recruitment of 3,000 from the ultra-Orthodox section. It says this would plug the gap at this initial stage. Galant however wants to recruit an additional 10,000 soldiers immediately to fill some of the army’s manpower shortage according to Jo24.

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Israel Forces Kill Own Officer, Soldiers by ‘Mistake’

CrossFireArabia
August 19, 2024

The Israeli military announced that an Israeli officer from the Paratroopers Brigade was killed after an Israeli Air Force jet “mistakenly” bombed its own forces in southern Gaza. The incident, which took place amid ongoing fierce battles with the resistance in the region, has raised many questions about the accuracy of the Israeli narrative, especially since the Israeli army has previously issued statements about similar events that were later proven to be false according to the Quds News Network.

According to an official statement from the Israeli occupation Forces, Lieutenant Shahar Ben Nun, a 21-year-old team leader in the Paratroopers’ Reconnaissance Unit from Petah Tikva, was killed when a bomb, dropped by an Israeli F-15 fighter jet, veered off course due to “a technical malfunction”. The bomb, intended for a target 300 meters away, instead struck an apartment in Khan Younis where Ben Nun and several other soldiers were positioned. The explosion caused part of the building to collapse, killing Ben Nun only, according to the Israeli claim, and injuring three other soldiers with injuries ranging from mild to moderate.

Israeli occupation soldiers uploaded footage of themselves randomly shooting and shelling an evacuated school in Gaza.

Israel's so-called "third phase" of the war has targeted facilities where Palestinians typically seek refuge after evacuation orders. In recent weeks, most of… pic.twitter.com/TDzPkVATie
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 19, 2024

The Israeli army stated that the incident occurred as fighter jets were conducting airstrikes on two separate targets in support of ground troops in Gaza. The military has launched an investigation into the incident, aiming to determine the exact cause of the malfunction and prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Earlier reports had highlighted intense clashes between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli forces in multiple areas of Khan Younis, located in southern Gaza.

In a separate statement, the Israeli army announced that over the past 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force had carried out more than 45 airstrikes on what it described as “terrorist targets” in Gaza.

As of today, the death toll for Israeli military personnel since the offensive erupted on 7 October, 2023, has reached 694, according to the Israeli military. These numbers have been questioned by some Israeli media, which have confirmed their inaccuracy, estimating the number of killed and injured soldiers to be far higher than what has been officially announced.