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Hebrew sources reported Friday morning that 1091 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel last month alone.
The sources pointed out that this was three times as much as those that landed in Israel at the start of 2024 according to Khabrini.
Hezbollah has joined the fight against Israel ever since the latter launched a war on the Gaza Strip after 7 October, 2023.
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Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brik warned in an article published in the Jewish daily Haaretz that Israel will collapse within a year if the war of attrition against Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah continues.
Brik, nicknamed the “Prophet of Wrath” in Israel because he predicted an attack by thousands of Palestinian militants on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip similar to the Aqsa Flood Battle added that Defense Minister Yoav Galant is beginning to realize that if a regional war breaks out due to the failure to reach a Gaza agreement, Israel will be in danger.
“I assume Galant now realizes that the war has lost its purpose, we are drowning in the Gaza quagmire and losing our soldiers there without any chance of achieving the main goal of the war, which is to topple Hamas,” said.
He stressed all paths at the political and military levels are leading Israel to the abyss whilst stressing that replacing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist partners could save Israel from an existential spiral that could soon reach the point of no return.
With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since7 October, leaving more than 133,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
In disregard of the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza according to JO.24.
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The United Nations stated, Wednesday the number of people per square kilometer in Gaza’s “Al-Mawasi” has reached 30,000 due to the influx of displaced people.
UNRWA pointed out that “many Palestinians are taking refuge in parts of Al-Mawasi in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and that the ongoing military operations and that repeated evacuation orders have forced families in Gaza to be displaced repeatedly.”
It added to that “every 30,000 people currently live in one square kilometer in the Al-Mawasi area, compared to 1,200 people per square kilometer before the war of extermination waged by the occupying Israeli state.”
UN data shows “9 out of every 10 people in Gaza have been displaced, and that most Palestinians in Gaza are forced to move at least once a month.”
Al-Mawasi area is located along the coasts of the cities of Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis and Rafah, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in the southern Gaza Strip. It lacks infrastructure and has little capacity for urban expansion.
Since 7 October, 2023, the Israeli army continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip, with American and European support, as its aircraft bomb the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and Palestinian civilian homes, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has led to the martyrdom of 40,223, the injury of 92,981 others, and the displacement of 90% of the Gaza population according to data from the United Nations as pointed out by JO24.
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In a shocking incident, two Israeli soldiers stationed at the “Ami’ad” military base in the occupied Galilee were bitten by rats on their noses and ears, leading to severe bleeding.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, two soldiers in the “Ami’ad” military base in the occupied Galilee were shocked awake after being bitten by rats on their noses and ears as reported in the Quds News Network.
The newspaper noted the rats bit the soldiers until they bled in the camp located in northern occupied Palestine. The soldiers were then taken to a medical facility for treatment.
The father of one of the soldiers in the military unit told the Israeli daily: “The rats literally ate the soldiers, and it is shocking and disgraceful.”
“The images I saw this morning of soldiers with bleeding faces make me ashamed of the army’s failure to protect our most precious assets and I never imagined for a moment that my son could be harmed or be in danger because the army does not provide him with assistance or basic hygiene conditions,” he added.
This is not the first time the Israeli soldiers have been attacked by animals during the war. A few weeks ago, the Walla website reported that a soldier in the Israeli army, part of the 252nd Division occupying the Netzarim area in the Gaza Strip, said: “I was attacked by a group of dogs one of the times I went outside the shelter.”
The soldier pointed out that “generally, except for the change that happened in the last few weeks when they brought in large garbage containers, there were many cases of massive garbage accumulation, including food brought in large quantities by dogs, cats, and rats, among others.”
He continued, “Every time we asked for a solution to the health disaster, they – referring to the Israeli army leadership – would reply: We are taking care of it.” But in reality, the soldier said, someone would come to remove a pile of garbage and dig a hole to make room for more garbage.”
Additionally, other soldiers claim that there is a phenomenon of groups of stray dogs, which have not been vaccinated, with some of them attempting to attack soldiers “who were forced to use live ammunition to defend themselves.” In one case, soldiers saw a dog carrying a human skull.
Israeli reserve soldiers stated that there are no toilets in many places in the “corridor,” so soldiers in large settlements relieve themselves in bags or bottles.
Another soldier said, “This is one of the large settlement sites, think about the situation when you enter a site.”
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About a half-dozen doctors who recently returned from providing medical care in the devastated Gaza Strip urged the Biden administration Tuesday to impose an immediate arms embargo on Israel, saying that without one, the US remains complicit in the bloodshed that has devastated the coastal enclave.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Tammy Abughanim said the result of Israel’s over 10-month war “has been to make life literally impossible for a civilian in Gaza right now.”
“When I say we cannot afford one more day of this, and when they tell me we cannot afford one more day of this, it is quite literally true,” Abughanim said, recalling conversations she held with Gazans during her recent trip there.
“When we press the Biden administration for an arms embargo as physicians, what we are saying is we cannot do our jobs as bombs are falling. We cannot do our jobs as Israeli snipers target children and civilians, as Israeli quadcopters descend on groups of civilians. We cannot do our jobs, because Israel has made our jobs impossible, and Israel has made our jobs impossible with the direct support of the United States,” the Chicago-area emergency medicine specialist added.
The sentiment was repeatedly echoed by Abughanim’s fellow physicians, who described horrors whose extent they acknowledged could not be fully conveyed.
“I was in Gaza from March 25 to April 8 and saw firsthand genocidal violence. I saw children’s heads smashed to pieces by the bullets that we paid for — not once, not twice, but quite literally, every single day. I saw the outrageous and systematic destruction of the entire city of Khan Younis. If there was a single room in that city with four walls left, I can’t tell you where it is, ” said Dr. Feroze Sidhwa.
“I saw mothers mix what little formula they could find with poisoned water to feed their newborns, because they were so malnourished themselves that they could not breastfeed. I saw children who cried out, not because of pain, but because they wished they had died along with their families instead of being burdened with the memory of their siblings and their parents charred and mutilated beyond recognition. And all, of course, with American weapons,” he added.
Sidhwa stressed that imposing an arms embargo on Israel “is not a radical idea” and read aloud a letter passed on by Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American doctor who accompanied him on a recent trip to Gaza but who could not attend Tuesday’s press conference.
In it, Sidhwa’s colleague recalls the “cruelty being visited upon the people of Gaza,” particularly its children, saying it “remains incomprehensible to me” how it could come to pass.
“Never before have I seen a small child shot in the head and then in the chest, and I could never have imagined that I would see two such cases in less than two weeks. Never before have I seen a dozen small children screaming in pain and terror, crowded into a trauma base smaller than my living room, their burning flesh filling the space so aggressively that my eyes started to burn. I could never have imagined what a hospital looks like when it becomes a displaced person’s camp,” he said.
“Worst of all, I could never have imagined that my government would be supplying the weapons and funding that keeps this horrifying slaughter going — not for one week, not for one month, but for nearly an entire year now,” he added.
“For the good of the Palestinians, for the good of the United States, for the good of Israel, for the good of Judaism, and indeed, for the good of international law and all of humanity, please stop arming Israel.”
Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, including tens of thousands of women and children, and displaced 2 million others, leaving them exposed to famine and disease amid acute shortages of daily necessities and medical supplies.
Multiple doctors who spoke at Tuesday’s press conference maintained that it is Israel’s restrictions that are preventing them and their colleagues from obtaining badly-needed medicines, including pain killers to dull the suffering of the wounded according to Anadolu, the Turkish news agency.
