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Israel’s Two Flawed Plans For Gaza

CrossFireArabia
September 8, 2024

Military analyst Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi said the appointment of an military governor for the Gaza Strip shows the Israeli army is bent on a new stage of escalation in Gaza.

He added the fourth stage of the war operations announced by the Israeli occupation is built on previous stages; whilst adding the Israeli occupation seeks to work through two plans in the coming stage of the war as per his broadcast on Al Jazeera.

He explained Plan “A” will rely on mobile offensive operations that penetrate areas that the Israeli army has not entered before and will rely on intelligence information for this.

قراءة عسكرية.. الفلاحي: هاتان الخطتان سيلجأ إليهما الاحتلال بالأيام القادمة في غزة pic.twitter.com/C3FwLSax3a
— الجزيرة مصر (@AJA_Egypt) September 8, 2024

He pointed out there is a major problem in this plan as announced by the Israeli army because it will inevitably “avoid the locations of the prisoners.” He asked incredulously however, If the Israeli army knew where they are why didn’t they get them back.”

As for Plan B, Al-Falahi indicated it depends on moving through the Netzarim and Philadelphi axes and carrying out offensive operations in multiple areas, searching for tunnels and forcing the resistance not to move through continuous monitoring by drones and satellites, in addition to using agents and spies.

The military expert warned that Plan B talks about forcing the residents of north Gaza to move towards the central region via the coastal road within what he called the “Heroes’ Plan”, with the aim of completely evacuating the region to provide opportunities for the Israeli families who were displaced to return to their homes in the border areas outside the Strip.

Al-Falahi pointed out the contradiction and major flaw in Plan A announced by the Israeli occupation is that it deviates from the reality that has already proved that military pressure has not resulted in the return of the prisoners for last 11 months except in coffins.

He said reports confirm that Palestinian resistance groups are still capable of carrying out painful strikes against the occupation after they renewed and reintegrated their battalions and carried on with making more rockets and missiles.

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Adina Says Bibi’s Army Don’t Know Zilch About Gaza Tunnels

CrossFireArabia
September 8, 2024

The Israeli media quoted Adina Moshe, a former Israeli captive held by Hamas in Gaza, as saying the Israeli internal security service (Shabak) asked her to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza, “because they don’t know anything about them.”

Moshe, who was released in a previous exchange deal last November, told the Shabak investigator who visited her after her release that the tunnels in the Gaza Strip are “a huge, large labyrinth that extends underground throughout the Strip, and military pressure will not help bring back the prisoners.”

Settler Adina Moshe released by the resistance in Nov. deal:

“The Shin Bet asked me to draw the shape of the tunnels because they don't know anything about them. I told them it's a big labyrinth under all areas of Gaza, & military pressure won't help bring back the prisoners." pic.twitter.com/PleXhmnKoV
— project for the anti-american century (@puppospraxis) September 7, 2024

She said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lying, and that he and the army do not know anything about the tunnels of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.

During her speech at the protests demanding a prisoner exchange deal with Gaza, Moshe noted that the Shin Bet investigator asked her to explain what Hamas’s tunnels looked like, what their branches were and where they were located, which made it clear to her that the Israeli security services knew nothing about the tunnels.

Moshe told the investigator that the tunnels were “a huge, vast labyrinth that runs underground across the entire Strip. It’s not one tunnel, but a network of endless tunnels.”

Released hostage Adina Moshe:

“After I was released from captivity, I was interrogated by security officials and I emphasized to them that military pressure would murder the hostages.

Everyone who was with me in the tunnel was murdered” https://t.co/l8vEArkEmG
— Benzi Sanders (@BenzionSanders) September 7, 2024

When they asked her to draw the tunnels in Gaza, Moshe told the Shin Bet that she wasn’t a painter, which she considered further proof that they knew nothing about them.

The New York Times reported last week that the tunnels in Gaza were an underground nightmare for the Israeli army and the core of Hamas’s ability to survive.

According to the newspaper, Israeli intelligence officials estimate that there are about 160 kilometers of tunnels under Khan Yunis, the second largest city in southern Gaza according to JO24.

Adina Moshe, who was kidnapped and released at the rally in Karmey Gat, said: "Bibi doesn't want to bring back the hostages, and they will be murdered. I just wanted you to know:

Following what Bibi said this week and last week, that if Hamas kills the hostages, it's a sign that… https://t.co/bsIWYKA7Ma
— מחאת ניו יורק nyc_4_kaplan 🍅 (@NYC4Kaplan) September 7, 2024

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Gaza Genocide 1 Year On; Western Complicity, Arab Silence

CrossFireArabia
September 7, 2024

As the Palestinians approach the one-year mark of the Israeli occupation’s genocide in Gaza, the slaughter of Palestinian innocents and the ongoing blockade persist.

This relentless violence continues with the backing of western governments and unwavering American support, while the Arab world remains conspicuously silent.

Since 7 October, 2023 Israel has waged a war on the Gaza Strip ongoing war on the Gaza Strip killing nearly 40,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring over 94,200 and displacing over 90 percent of the Gazan population that used to be 2.2 million.

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Ex-Shabak Chief: Netanyahu Must Stop The Gaza War Now

CrossFireArabia
September 7, 2024

Nadav Argaman, ex-head of the Israeli General Security Service (Shabak), called for a immediate halt to the fighting in the Gaza Strip and an end to the war. He said Israel is not qualified for long wars.

Argaman added according to Israel’s Channel 12 the war should have ended a long time ago, stressing “the lives of those in captivity are more important than anything, and they must be returned despite the painful price we will pay in the deal.”

Argaman criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying what he is doing now, as per continuing the wara on Gaza, is for the benefit of the continuation of his rule and the preservation of his coalition government and not for the security of Israel as highlighted in Al Jazeera.

Nadav Argaman, the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for misleading the country about the importance of controlling the Philadelphi Corridor, the border area between Gaza and Egypt. pic.twitter.com/EM4etYNWmq
— Julie Webb-Pullman (@juliewebbp) September 7, 2024

He added that Netanyahu’s insistence on remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor aims only to preserve his government. He explained there is no connection between the existing weapons in the Gaza Strip and the Philadelphi Corridor, and that it is Netanyahu who invented this.

The former Shabak chief stressed the majority of the weapons in Gaza are produced by Hamas itself, and that it has made these weapons through adapting so-called “dual-use materials” that enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing as fertilizers for agriculture.

(3)💥#Boom: Nadav Argaman destroys Netanyahu's false claim: "Very little weaponry was smuggled into Gaza through those tunnels. The majority of smuggling into Gaza was through the Rafah border crossing. We know this unequivocally… So we are now relegated to living with this… pic.twitter.com/USSCgMw8OF
— UnXeptable (@UnxeptableD) September 6, 2024

“The Philadelphi axis is not important to the axis of evil, but to the axis of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich,” he maintained.

“Our priority should be to return the kidnapped soldiers, ceasefire in Gaza and shift our weight to the north and the West Bank,” Argaman said, adding, “We will deal with the risks that will arise as a result of such a deal later.”

He explained Israel must establish a regional and international alliance with the Americans to confront Iran, noting the only way to do so is to stop the war in the Gaza Strip according to Jo24.

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Israel Drops 36 Kilos of TNT on Each Man, Woman, Child

CrossFireArabia
September 7, 2024

One blogger wrote that Israel has dropped 80,000 tons of explosives – these are mostly American supplied – on the Gaza Strip since it began its war genocide soon after 7 October, 2023.

He points out this means the Israeli military – army, air force and navy because Gazans are being bombarded from all directions – has dropped 36 kilograms of explosives for every man, woman, and child in Gaza.

The image above (as provided by the UN Satellite Center, 6 July) shows that each red dot points to a bombed place in Gaza with the blogger adding this is what genocide looks like.

Nearly 40,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed in this Israeli war on Gaza. This is while over 94,200 have been injured, according to the local health authorities in Gaza.