Israel’s Bloody Day Revisited

• CrossFireArabia
• September 8, 2025

The occupation state witnessed a deadly wave of operations on Monday. Armed Palestinians, resistance fighters in Gaza, and drones from Yemen all struck Israel within hours. By the end of the day, at least 10 Israelis were killed, dozens were wounded, and the occupation state was left shaken.

Jerusalem Shooting

The bloodiest scene unfolded at a central bus station in an Israeli colonial settlement in occupied Jerusalem. Two Palestinians opened fire inside a crowded bus near Ramot settlement and in the area surrounding it.

Israeli police confirmed that six Israelis were killed and 15 others were wounded. Six remain in critical condition. Witnesses said panic spread among settlers as gunfire echoed.

Israeli Channel 12 reported that the two young men came from a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The police said an Israeli soldier and a settler shot and killed the two young men. Still, their operation had already left deep marks inside one of the most fortified areas of the city.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Gaza, skipped his corruption trial in Tel Aviv because of the operation. He arrived at the scene later, joined by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

The occupation forces immediately closed all entrances and exits of the occupied Palestinian capital city. A heavy security cordon surrounded Jerusalem. The police also searched for explosives after finding a suspicious object near the site of the operation.

Hours later, Israeli forces raided the homes of the executors. They kidnapped the father and brother of one of them. The Shin Bet intelligence agency also detained a young man from Jerusalem, accusing him of helping the gunmen reach the city.

Israeli ministers competed to call for harsh retaliation. Energy Minister Eli Cohen demanded the expulsion of families of Palestinians who carry out resistance operations. Defense Minister Yisrael Katz vowed to crush resistance in West Bank refugee camps just as the army has done in Jenin.

Israeli media reported that among the dead was a rabbi from the illegal settlement of Ramot.

The operation near Ramot settlement carries symbolic weight. Ramot is one of the largest settlements in occupied Jerusalem. Built after the 1967 war, it sits on confiscated lands belonging to Palestinian villages including Beit Iksa, Beit Hanina, and Nabi Samwil.

Over 50,000 settlers live there today. It forms part of the northern settlement belt that cuts Palestinian towns off from Jerusalem. The international community views it as illegal under international law. Yet Israel keeps expanding it, ignoring repeated condemnations.

Gaza Front: A Tank Destroyed in Jabalia

While Jerusalem reeled, resistance in Gaza dealt another blow. In the early hours of Monday, Palestinian fighters ambushed an Israeli tank in Jabalia, north of Gaza City.

According to Israeli military radio, four soldiers were killed. Local sources said fighters detonated an explosive device under the tank, then opened fire on its crew. Flames engulfed the vehicle, leaving no survivors.

The operation came as the Israeli army continued its massive destruction campaign in Gaza. Troops bombarded neighborhoods in Gaza City, demolishing residential towers and forcing families into displacement.

Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, said the ambush was part of its “Moses’ Rod” operations. Over recent days, it has targeted tanks, armored carriers, and groups of soldiers in several areas, including Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood and Jabalia camp.

Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, Saraya al-Quds, also announced rocket fire on the settlement of Netivot. It said the strike came in direct response to “massacres against civilians in Gaza.”

Yemen Joins the Battlefield

The confrontation widened further south. Israeli media confirmed that drones launched from Yemen penetrated Israeli airspace.

The army said it intercepted several drones. Yet one crashed near Ramon Airport in the Negev. Alarms also sounded in Dimona, where Israel hides its nuclear reactor.

The previous day, a drone from Yemen hit Ramon Airport, damaging a passenger terminal. Yemen, declared that its attacks would continue until Israel stops its war on Gaza. They also vowed revenge for Israel’s assassination of their Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahwi in Sana’a last month according to the Quds News Network.

Netanyahu Boasts His Army Destroyed 50 Towers in 48 Hrs

• CrossFireArabia
• September 8, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted Monday that his army destroyed 50 high-rise residential buildings in Gaza City in two days, vowing further demolitions and forced displacement.

“In the past two days, 50 of these towers have fallen. The air force brought them down,” Netanyahu said in a video statement.

“Now all of this is just an introduction, just a prelude, to the main intense operation — a ground maneuver of our forces, who are now organizing and gathering in Gaza City.”

Netanyahu pledged to proceed with forced displacement plans. “This is just the prelude to the main powerful operation, so I tell Gaza residents: you have been warned, get out of there,” according to Anadolu.

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas denounced Netanyahu’s boasting as “one of the ugliest forms of sadism and criminality” in full view of the world.

On Friday, the Israeli army began to bomb multi-story buildings sheltering hundreds of displaced civilians in Gaza City, as Tel Aviv pressed ahead with a plan to occupy the entire city.

Israel has killed more than 64,500 Palestinians in a brutal offensive in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and pushed the entire population into famine.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

Mosses’ Staff: Latest Battle For Gaza

• CrossFireArabia
• September 3, 2025

A leading source in the Hamas Qassam Brigades, military wing, announced the launch of a series of military operations called “Staff of Moses,” in response to the Israeli “Gideon’s Chariots 2” operation aimed at occupying Gaza City.

The source told Al Jazeera the first resistance operations took place in the Zeitoun and Jabalia neighborhoods in north Gaza, after the Israeli occupation launch its military operation. He added: “The enemy witnessed firsthand the extent of the preparedness and readiness of the Qassam fighters, and this is only the tip of the iceberg of what awaits them in Gaza.”

He emphasized “just as the ‘Stones of David’ foiled the Gideon Chariots, as acknowledged by the occupation leaders, the ‘Moses’ Staff’ will perform miracles and repel the plots of the aggressors.”

Qassam Operations

The Qassam Brigades announced, Wednesday its forces targeted Israeli occupation forces and vehicles in Gaza City with various weapons and a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles at the Haj Fadl site south of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

It also announced it targeted a D-9 military bulldozer with a 105-mm Al-Yassin missile, Tuesday, near the Salah al-Din Mosque in Zeitoun neighborhood.

Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip continue to confront the Israeli occupation forces advancing into various areas of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli occupation army resumed its aggression and tightened blockade of the Gaza Strip. This followed a two-month hiatus under a ceasefire agreement that went into effect on January 19. However, the occupation forces violated the terms of the agreement throughout the truce period.

Last month, the Israeli occupation army launched a large-scale attack on the Zeitoun neighborhood, which included the destruction of homes using booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, indiscriminate gunfire, and forced displacement.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces, with direct support from the United States and Western countries, have continued to wage a devastating war in Gaza, resulting in the death and injury of approximately 225,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

Analysis

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip took on a clear religious dimension after the Palestinian resistance launched a series of “The Staff of Moses” operations to counter the “Gideon’s Chariots 2” operation of the Israeli army to occupy Gaza City.

Military expert Major-General Fayez al-Duwairi said that the name of the latest operation clearly shows what awaits the enemy in Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip. The combat performance must be in line with the code name of the operation, meaning that the resistance promises to achieve a miracle.

Israel is expected to face a violent confrontation in Gaza City, which contains far more tunnels than those in the areas occupied by the occupation forces over the past 22 months, according to al-Duwairi.

With the tunnels, the large number of houses and the nature of the streets will impede the movement of vehicles and will confront the occupation forces in a street battle, which the military expert believes will incur far greater losses than expected.

The resistance has completely changed its warfare approach in the recent months. Previously relying on direct clashes and open confrontations, it has now, according to al-Duwairi, relied on ambushes, raids, and the execution of operations with the fewest possible fighters. This is to conserve its strength, which has been depleted by Israeli strikes, length of war, and the lack of supplies.

Thus the recent ambushes in Zeitoun, Jabalia, and Khan Yunis are a warning of what is waiting for Israel in Operation Gideon 2.

Al-Duwairi believes that the Israeli army attempted entry into Gaza City “will likely not be a walk in the park” and believes that they will lose far greater than the number of soldiers they estimate would be killed, which they put at 100 during the battle for Gaza City.

Houthi Missile Paralyzes Ben Gurion Airport

• CrossFireArabia
• September 3, 2025

Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport was briefly shut down after a missile strike was launched from Yemen, local media said.

According to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the operations were temporarily suspended in Ben Gurion Airport after a missile was detected.

The Israeli army said in a statement through the US social media company X that the missile was intercepted.

The Ben Gurion Airport reopened after the interception, Yedioth Ahronoth added.

Israeli Channel 12 said that air raid sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv, central Israel, and West Jerusalem for the first time since the assassination of Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Ghalib Al-Rahawi.

The Yemeni Houthi group intensified assaults in recent days after an Israeli airstrike in Yemen’s capital Sanaa killed 12 top officials, including the premier and nine other ministers.

The Houthis vowed to continue their missile and drone strikes against Israeli targets in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have launched missile and drone strikes on Israeli targets and targeted commercial shipping in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea in support of Palestinians in Gaza, where more than 63,600 people have been killed in an Israeli genocidal war.