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Israel Can’t Win The War

CrossFireArabia
August 13, 2024

Despite 11 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army is still trying to alter the military equation with the Palestinian resistance groups whom its fighting.

Gaza is proving a tough battle for Israeli officers who are using multiple tactics and strategies to show they are in command. In desperate moves, the Israeli army is bombing shelters and homes aimed at forcing the Palestinian people to leave Gaza according to military expert retired Major-General Mamoun Abu Nawar.

Israel commits a new crime in Gaza.
Whenever the resistance side shows softness to stop the war, Israel considers it a weakness and responds by committing brutal crimes against children and unarmed civilians. https://t.co/t9XKyejaQF
— أبو هشام (@bl66r) August 12, 2024

Civilians have always been a soft target in the war. He noted that available statistics show since the beginning of the Israeli onslaught on 7 October 2003, 30,000 Palestinians have left for Egypt in one way or another and the Israeli authorities will not allow these people to return.

Abu Nawar added to Jo24 throughout war the Israeli army’s main goal has been to force people to leave the Strip through the bombardment of their homes while at the same time encouraging their voluntary displacement.

This is because it knows full well it will not be able to win the war and defeat the resistance – having already fought four wars in Gaza and has not been able to destroy Hamas and the Palestinian resistance movenents and/or has not been able to reduce their capabilities.

"In Gaza Israel keeps hitting what it says are Hamas targets, Palestinian civilians are still being killed, reducing to rubble family homes, a campaign the Israelis say is self defence" #BBCBreakfast pic.twitter.com/aziaWvxHrG
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 21, 2023

Palestinian fighters continue to target Israeli tanks, snipe soldiers, ambushes and booby-trap destroyed houses which Israeli soldiers seek to use for their military operations.

But the Israeli army keeps trying news ways to gain the strategic edge. Abu Mawar said today the Israeli army has switched to a new assassination strategy which is the killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders – Ismail Hanyah in Iran and Foad Shukr in Beirut – but this doesn’t seem to be working and has not been able to end the presence of Hamas either.

On the Gaza battlefield, the Israeli army leaders know they have fallen into a quagmire as their soldiers freely admit in letters they write to their superiors that victory is not within reach as claimed by extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Kill and displace

But here lies the problem as Netanyahu and other extremists in the government reject a truce with the Palestinians which is what the army want but instead are pushing for their original goal of killing as many Palestinians as possible and displace whatever they can despite their failure to achieve the declared goals of the war.

Abu Nawar explained that the absence of a plan for the so-called day after the war created leeway for extremists especially after they were provided with the latest types of American weapons to implement its plan of more massacres, displacement and genocide.

Garis besar pembantaian besar-besaran yang dilakukan Israel terhadap warga sipil tak berdosa sejak dimulainya perang di Gaza pada bulan Oktober lalu pic.twitter.com/Me3uFCNRc2
— SW News – SOFT WAR NEWS (@SoftWarNews) August 11, 2024

The killing rate in Gaza has reached 10 Palestinians for every Israeli soldier after the use of American smart and dumb bombs which Israel has been provided with.

But he says that on the ground, the Israeli army is having a hard time and the resistance still has the ability to deter, engage, set up ambushes and snipe at officers and soldiers, stressing regular armies like the Israeli fear guerrilla warfare due to its dangers and high rate of losses, which is what is happening now in Gaza and giving the resistance movement the maneuverability to keep fighting.

News

Israel is Losing Parts of its North

CrossFireArabia
August 11, 2024

Head of the Higher Galilee Council Giora Zaltz stated, Saturday, Hezbollah’s military operations in the north of Israel are becoming more deadly and powerful and the level of security in these northern regions on the Lebanese border is deteriorating.

During my tour to the north, I had the privilege to meet with Giora Zaltz, the head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, and with David Azoulai, the head of Metula. They both expressed to me the enormous difficulties faced by their residents who were evacuated from their homes.… pic.twitter.com/3jQu2FILhJ
— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) July 7, 2024

Zaltz mocked the government’s handling of the security situation in the north in an interview on the official Israeli channel, Kan, saying the Netanyahu government discovered in recent weeks there is an enemy on the northern border called Hezbollah, and is waiting for its response to the assassination of Commander Foad Shukr in the southern suburb of Beirut.

He pointed out the situation here is deteriorating from bad to worse, as sirens sound daily because of drones and missiles by Hezbollah on this area, adding there are dozens of destroyed homes, thousands of burned dunams, and there are dead and wounded among the soldiers and settlers, and the fact that more than 100,000 settlers who have been evacuated here:

“We are now without any vital services such as health, banks, educational systems, and others,” he stressed.

Unspoken victims of this war: People with severe neurological and physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism and more not getting therapy in the North of Israel, Center of hydrotherapy in Mevohot ha Hermon was hit by Hezbollah a few hours ago. pic.twitter.com/EqOWKKrdWL
— Leslie Kajomovitz (@lkajomovitz) August 11, 2024

Losing parts of the north

Zaltz pointed out Israel is losing parts of the north whether it be settlements, paralyzed economy, and paralyzed education, calling for a changing in the rules and working on a clear strategy to return the Israeli settlers back to the Galilee.

An earlier report aired by the Israeli Channel 12 stated the Israeli settlers have no future horizon, are desperate for news that barely reaches them, and they do not know when they will return to their homes as many said.

Psychologically trauma

Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed in the past few days, there has been a significant increase in the number of calls to psychological treatment centers in the northern regions, following the drone attacks and rockets launching from Lebanon on the western Galilee region.

Drone Explodes in Israel's North; Report: Arab Envoys Ask Hezbollah to Delay Retaliation
https://t.co/mr3ehIuXP6
— Tom Looby (@mapocoloco) August 10, 2024

Director of the Social Development Dept Uri Charles Friedland said that there has been a significant increase in the number of recorded calls to psychological treatment centers as the escalation of security incidents continue

Friedland explained the Department “is working on three main pillars: Individual care, community support, and rehabilitating authorities in the field of mental health in emergency situations.”

The Israeli media previously revealed an increase in the number of psychological injuries among settlers, admitting they collapsing psychologically, and that a number of officers and soldiers committed suicide after the events of 7 October, 2023 according to Jo.24.