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Noor Naim writes:
Killed by the Israeli army.
They had names.
They had families. They had hopes.
They had dreams. They loved life like anyone else in this unfair world. Stop the bloodshed of children in #Gaza now
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The Government Media in Gaza: It states that famine has become a reality once again with 52 deaths due to hunger and malnutrition, including 50 children.
Israel restarted its war on Gaza as of 19 March, 2025. Since then it has blocked all aid entering the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli media reported, Friday night, Israeli soldiers were involved in two separate attacks in the Gaza Strip.
Hebrew media reported, citing military sources, that a deputy company commander and an Israeli soldier were killed during a clash in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Hebrew media reported that six Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, in a security incident in the southern Gaza Strip.
The media indicated that the soldiers targeted in southern Gaza were members of the Israeli Border Guard’s “Yamas” unit.
The Hebrew website Hadashot Bezaman reported that an Israeli helicopter landed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, carrying wounded soldiers.
The Hebrew website Hadashot Hamot reported that two security incidents occurred involving Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip.
Last Thursday, the Israeli occupation army admitted that an Israeli tank driver was killed and three others were wounded, two of them seriously, in a sniper operation and an anti-tank missile attack targeting an armored force of the occupation army in the buffer zone north of the Gaza Strip.
The occupation army announced, under the “publication permit” clause, that the dead soldier was Sergeant First Class Asaf Kafri, 26 years old, a tank driver in the 79th Battalion.
According to the occupation army statement, an officer from the “Yahalom” special engineering unit was seriously injured, in addition to a reserve soldier from the same battalion, and they were transferred to the hospital for treatment.
Hadashot Hamot TV reported that the incident occurred in the same spot where the soldier Nasasra was killed last week, raising questions within the Israeli military establishment about the reasons for the recurrence of operations in locations where heavy losses have previously been recorded.
It also indicated that the occupation police are closing the Sderot area for fear of infiltration incidents and preventing the movement of settlers for fear of being hit by sniper fire.
Scenes broadcast by Hebrew media showed Helicopter evacuation of wounded Israeli soldiers. These developments come as Israeli military operations continue in the Gaza Strip, amid mounting public pressure within Israel and growing criticism of the performance of the military and political leadership. Link copied successfully according to Shehabnews.
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An Israeli military analyst said Friday, Hamas is waging a “guerrilla war” against the Israeli army in Gaza, and that decisions made by the current government are pushing it toward a quagmire.
Avi Ashkenazi, a military analyst for the Maariv newspaper, explained Hamas is trying to maintain its military strength, and its fighters know this territory; it is their stronghold.
“They (Hamas fighters) are not waging a defensive battle, but rather an offensive one through guerrilla cells. They monitor the Israeli forces from afar, know where they operate, their routines are, and look for their weak spots” he added.
“The cells prefer to operate in the afternoon, during daylight, when the sun is shining. When they realize the right time, they emerge from several openings of a single tunnel and begin the attack with an anti-tank missile, followed by sniper fire or the dropping of grenades,” Ashkenazi continued.
“The problem does not lie in the tactical management of the campaign by the army, but rather lies solely at the political level.”
“The political class is waging a war for political survival, and its decisions are pushing the army into a quagmire, even though Gaza has not seen a single drop of rain in weeks.”
“Israel must reach an agreement to release the hostages (held by Palestinian factions in Gaza) as soon as possible, even if the price is high, which is the release of (Palestinian) prisoners, and even if it means retreating to the border fence of Gaza, even if it means providing guarantees that the war will not resume,” he added.
“Hamas is Hamas, and sooner or later it will violate one of the terms of the agreement, which will allow Israel to move to complete the war’s objectives and deprive it of the ability to govern and militarize,” he continued.
“The wild and impudent words directed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir during the cabinet meeting illustrate the impasse facing some members of the political leadership,” Ashkenazi pointed out.
“The inability of the political echelons to make decisions makes it difficult for the army to manage the campaign (the war of extermination) well, quickly, and sharply.
When this happens in this type of campaign, where there is a large army (Israel) on the one side and a guerrilla organization (Hamas) on the other, the large army becomes vulnerable,” Ashkanazi stressed.
On Tuesday, the Israeli security cabinet meeting witnessed severe tensions between Smotrich and both Zamir and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar. The Hebrew media reported that the dispute began when Smotrich sharply criticized the army’s refusal to assume responsibility for distributing aid, arguing the army lacked the authority to choose its own missions.
He told Zamir: “Those who cannot carry out their missions should go home.” Zamir responded by rejecting these statements, prompting several ministers to ask Smotrich to lower his tone.
Throughout the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, Tel Aviv has been attempting to impose total control over the Gaza Strip by dismembering it and displacing its population, in addition to its attempts to eliminate Hamas and recover the prisoners in Gaza.
However, Israel has been unable to fully achieve these goals over the months of war, exposing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to criticism both from the extreme right, which wants to tighten the noose on the Strip, and from leftists, who aspire to recover the prisoners from Gaza, even if the price is a ceasefire.
Tel Aviv estimates that there are 59 Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, 24 of whom are still alive. Meanwhile, more than 9,500 Palestinians are languishing in its prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect, many of whom have died, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
With full American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 168,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing according to Anadolu.
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The Israeli army has killed 212 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of its genocidal war in October 2023.
In a statement, the Gaza-based Government Media Office reported that the journalist death toll in Gaza has risen to 212. The latest victim was journalist Saeed Abu Hassanein, who died from wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The statement noted that Abu Hassanein was a journalist working at the local Al-Aqsa Radio.
It strongly condemned the Israeli systemic targeting of journalists, urging the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all press organizations worldwide to condemn Israeli crimes and prosecute it before international courts.
The Israeli army resumed its assault on Gaza on March 18, shattering a Jan. 19 ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement according to Anadolu.
Israel has killed over 51,400 Palestinians in the enclave since October 2023, most of them women and children.
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.
