Israel is Losing in Gaza And Against Hezbollah – Military Expert

Military expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said the success of the resistance in attacking the occupation’s military hardware and drones proves the falseness of the Israeli story of eliminating the Rafah Brigade.

He noted that after the withdrawal of the 98th Paratroopers Division from Gaza a few days ago, the only remaining Israeli forces were the 162nd Armored Division to fight in Rafah, the Alexandroni Brigade and the 8th Armored Brigade in the Netzarim axis; he added there were five divisions fighting at the beginning of the military operations.

Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 that the resistance is working at a calm pace to achieve three tactics, which are operations with political messages, as is happening in Rafah.

He indicated that low-intensity operations outline the features of a long phase of attrition which is what the Palestinian resistance group want to exhaust the remaining Israeli forces in Gaza, which have been fighting for 352 days.

Lebanon

Regarding what is happening in southern Lebanon, Abu Zeid said the Israeli forces have tried to maintain the initiative and want to accumulate achievements and not give Hezbollah the opportunity to reorganize its ranks in order to deprive it of the ability to launch operations towards the north of the occupied territories.

However he added, it seems that Hezbollah has begun to regain the ability to seize the initiative through the missile barrages it launched at dawn on Sunday and reached deep into northern Israel, reaching the Ramat David base and airport with dozens of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles. This shows that Hezbollah is rebuilding its capabilities, but it is still early to judge the full recovery of the decision-making chain.

Abu Zeid stressed that the operations with Hezbollah have moved from the scope of “geographical targeting” to those of targeting the party’s organizational structure, pointing out calculing profit and loss in this form of unconventional operations is not measured by the method of air strikes, but by calculating the points in which the resistance still excels, whether in Gaza or in southern Lebanon.

He added Israel did not achieve its goal by its operations against Hezbollah to return the residents of the northern settlements nor did it achieve its goals in Gaza by recovering the prisoners or create a new security reality.

The military expert indicated that the occupation is winning tactically but losing strategically.

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Zeitoun’s School Bombing is Israel’s Latest Crime

The Israeli bombing of another school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City’s southern Zeitoun neighborhood on Saturday morning, killing more than 20 Palestinians at once, is the latest possible war crime committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli aircraft bombed the Zeitoun school, located in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City, on 21 September at 11:30 am. The attack resulted in the killing of 21 Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom were children and women. Those killed included 13 children and six women, one of whom was pregnant and killed with her three-month-old fetus. Thirty others were injured, nine of whom were children who had to have their legs amputated.

The Euro-Med Monitor field and legal team visited the targeted school immediately after the Israeli attack, and did not witness any sign of armed personnel or equipment there. A review of the victims’ names revealed that they were all civilians, and were mostly women and children, which refutes the Israeli army’s claim that it had targeted a school being used as a military command and control centre by armed groups.

This claim has been repeated by Israel as the number of schools-turned shelters it has targeted for bombing has increased. Since August, Israel has bombed a total of 21 of these schools, including eight in September. As a result of these attacks, 267 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more have been injured.

Targeting and destroying schools over the heads of displaced persons cannot be justified, and constitutes a flagrant violation of the principles of distinction, military necessity, proportionality, i.e. the need to take necessary precautions. While the Israeli army tries every time to justify these attacks by claiming that it is attacking military targets, it never offers any proof to support its claims.

The Israeli army is deliberately destroying the remaining shelter centres in the Gaza Strip, including schools and public facilities, with the aim of creating a coercive environment that forces civilians to evacuate their areas of residence towards the central and southern sections of the Strip. About a week ago on 15 September, it destroyed Ghazi Al-Shawa School in the northern city of Beit Hanoun after contacting a number of displaced persons there in an attempt to force them to evacuate the area without justification. Ghazi Al-Shawa School was one of the last schools that remained as a shelter centre in that area.

The world’s nations must fulfill their international obligations by putting an end to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and other serious offenses in the Gaza Strip; safeguard the lives of civilians there; and ensure Israel abides by international law and the rulings of the International Court of Justice by imposing strong sanctions on it and cutting off all financial, military, and political support for it. This includes an immediate stop to all sales, exports, and transfers of weapons to Israel, including export licenses and military assistance.

EuroMed Monitor

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Gaza Massacres Continue

Israeli army attacks killed 40 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 41,431, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday.

A ministry statement added that a total of 95,818 people have been injured in Israeli attacks since last October.

“Israeli forces killed 40 people and injured 58 others in three ‘massacres’ of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.

“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last Oct. 7, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

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Israel: Lies, Lies and More Lies

Kamal Mirza

Lies, lies, and more lies: This was the enemy’s policy since the first day of the systematic Zionist-American war of extermination and displacement that followed the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle at the hands of the heroes of the Palestinian resistance.

The problem now is that Israel is trying to exploit the three successive security breaches it was able to achieve – pager and walkie-talkie – bombings and the assassination of the Radwan leaders, to lend credibility to the lies it promoted since it decided to transfer the weight of military operations to the northern front.

Among these lies are Israel broadcasts, and which the media unfortunately picks up on as they are and republished and circulated among its people, and its claims it has succeeded in bombing thousands of missile launch pads in southern Lebanon through the intensive raids its warplanes made in the past 48 hours.

Such news, despite its brevity, and a large number, aim to create the following:

First, create the impression the Zionist entity has full knowledge of all of the sites, fortifications and fortifications of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. But how could it not know when it penetrated the party’s communications system, read them as an open book, and was capable of targeting and eliminating them at a blink of an eye!

Second, spread a spirit of defeat, despair and hopelessness among the people that Hezbollah is losing its capabilities, components and potential at a rapid pace, and the issue will not take more than a “sip of coffee” before the party collapses and finds itself defeated and unable to harm even a mosquito’s wing.

Third, and most importantly – the result of the two previous points – and that is blackmailing Hezbollah into abandoning its wisdom, prudence and balance in managing the battle, and make a hasty reaction matching the Zionist attacks to prove to its supporters and masses it is still fine, and maintain its strength and resolve, and then be dragged into an open confrontation by further shuffling the cards, and involving everyone in a regional war.

This is the basis of what Benjamin Netanyahu and his war gang aspire to and wish for to get out of their predicament, and evade their inability to achieve any of the war goals, whether the declared goals or undeclared ones with the first including returning the prisoners in Gaza, eliminate the capabilities of the resistance and returning the settlers in the Gaza envelope and the north to their settlements.

Their hidden goals include reoccupying Gaza, West Bank and annexing them, displacing the Palestinians (1948 Palestinians included), and create a pretext and favorable circumstances to target and destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities before it is able to manufacture its first nuclear bomb.

However, Israel’s insistence on beating the drums of war, and forcing it down the throat of Hezbollah and everyone else, through media propaganda and bullying all suggests the despair of someone who feels the noose tightening around his neck and/or about to drown!

Of course, the wise tactic for Hezbollah is to maintain the pace and rhythm for the confrontation, and to escalate within the limits it wants, while preserving the theme of attrition, long breath, concentration of effort, and careful selection of targets it has followed and established since day 1 and not to allow the enemy to lure it in and impose on its own pace and rhythm for the confrontation!

The paradox here, is there are those who still insist on believing the Israel entity just because they want to, despite knowing it is a liar, deceiver and a charlatan. Among its lies is its insistence on concealing its real human and material losses and denying them.

And these people insist on doubting Hezbollah and the resistance factions, even though they have proved their honesty every time, whether in their admission of losses and setbacks, in the information and circumstances they provide about the course of events, or in the promises and commitments to themselves as spelt out by Mr Hassan Nasrallah that the northern warfront will not stop unless an agreement is reached in Gaza acceptable to the Palestinian resistance.

What is also surprising for those “Zionist lovers”, or those imbibed with the entity in their hearts, and/or who have been filled with terror from it.. is their insistence on ignoring and overlooking three basic facts:

First, if the support front Hezbollah opened and managed did not truly harm the Zionist enemy, drain it, prevent it from achieving its goals, and a decisive factor in deterring and defeating it.. Israel would not have been concerned with all this escalation in Lebanon while it is drowning and stuck on the Gaza and West Bank fronts.

Second, if Hezbollah wanted to twist and turn, broker and scheme at the expense of the rest of the resistance factions and the unity of arenas, the party could have in the last 11 months been in a negotiating position to obtain enormous temptations and gains the Arab countries of collusion and the party haters would never have dreamt of!

Third, Israel abandoned its farcical utterings at the beginning of the war that it would return Lebanon to the Stone Age, and eliminate Hezbollah’s capabilities and force it to retreat beyond the Litani River. Israel’s now declared goal in the north has been limited to return its residents only to “point zero” as was the case before the war.

In this goal there is an implicit bribe for Hezbollah: “Just give us this modest goal and we will stop the war and the targeting on our part.” This is once again an indication of the extent of Israel’s predicament and crisis, despite its apparent arrogance, bullying and its endless stream of lies!

This is a translated piece from Arabic by Kamal Mirza printed in the Jordan24 website.

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