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CrossFireArabia- December 25, 2024
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Israel Kills Writer, Artist With Her Family
- CrossFireArabia
- December 25, 2024
Palestinian writer and artist Walaa Jumaa al-Ifranji, husband Ahmed Saeed Salama and her sister Shatha were killed at dawn, Wednesday in Israeli shelling targeting a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip.
Their bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah amid great sadness from the intellectuals and writers community in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Ifranji began her journey with writing an Arabic novel before moving from writing on paper to itching on stones and wood and chains and rings.
The young novelist was originally from Gaza City and when the war started soon after 7 October, 2023 she and her family were forced to move to the Nuseirat camp.
Before what has become a black day for the people of Gaza, Walaa was working in a shop called “Surprise” that prepares gifts in the upscale, but no more, Al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City.
However, like hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip, she lost her livelihood due to the consequences of displacement to the areas south of the Gaza Valley as the Israeli army forced the people to keep moving from their destroyed homes.
The Israeli army continues its war on the Strip for the 446th day and which has resulted in the death of 45,338 people and the injury of 107,764 according to the latest statistics published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Poll: 44% of Israelis ‘Pessimistic’ About Israel’s Future
- CrossFireArabia
- December 25, 2024
A public opinion poll showed that Israelis are divided between optimists and pessimists about the future of the “state of Israel”, with the remarkable pessimism rate earmarked at 44 percent.
The Israeli Maariv newspaper showed, Wednesday, that: The Israeli people are divided as 50 percent show optimism about Israel’s future while 44 percent said they are pessimistic, and 6 percent said they do not know.
The newspaper added: “There is a clear difference between the voters of the coalition parties (ruling party), with the vast majority (79 percent) saying they are optimistic about Israel’s future, and the voters of the opposition and Arab parties, most of whom are pessimistic (63 percent of opposition voters and 68 percent of Arab party voters),” according to Anadolu.
The newspaper stated the poll was carried out by the Lazar Research Institute without clarification regarding the nature of the sample, date in which it was made, and the margin of error.
These results come at a time when Israel is facing unprecedented economic, social, and political crises since its establishment in 1948 on occupied Palestinian lands.
Since 7 October, 2023, Israel has been waging the longest war of extermination in its history on the Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 153,000 Palestinian deaths and injuries, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
In parallel with economic difficulties and severe societal divisions, pressure has been mounting for more than a year for the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu to resign due to its failure since 7 October, 2023.
Houthi Missile: 9 Israelis Injured After Shelters Stampede
- CrossFireArabia
- December 25, 2024
Nine Israelis were injured, early Wednesday morning, in a rush to the underground shelters in Tel Aviv to beat a Houthis missile fired all the way from Yemen, a distance of over 2000 kilometers, and of which the Israeli army claimed to have intercepted.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) stated that: “For the second time in two days, air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile from Yemen at dawn today before it penetrated airspace.”
It added: Sirens sounded in several villages in the greater Tel Aviv area and the inner plain, and nine people were injured after stumbling while running to the underground shelters according to the Anadolu news agency.
It revealed that on the political level, the current Israeli government is considering launching a new attack against Yemen. This would be the fourth onslaught since the start of the Israeli war of extermination on the people of Gaza soon after 7 October, 2023.
KAN added: The Israeli army has begun formulating plans for an expected set of airstrikes on Yemen.
For its part, the Israeli army claimed in a statement that “a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted before it penetrated Israeli airspace. Alarms were activated in central Israel for fear of falling shrapnel from the interception operation.”
In recent weeks, Houthi missile and drone attacks on Tel Aviv have escalated, amid sharp criticism from the Israeli opposition and former military leaders for the army’s failure to confront the Houthi attacks and the government’s inability to stop this threat.
On Saturday, the Houthis bombed a military target in the city of Jaffa with a hypersonic missile that the Israeli army failed to intercept, wounding 20 Israelis with various injuries, according to the Israeli Ambulance Authority.
On Sunday, the Israeli Air Force said, in the results of an investigation, that the missile launched by the Houthis from Yemen fell in Tel Aviv “due to a malfunction in the interceptor missile, not in the air defense system itself,” according to private Israeli Channel (no. 12).
The Houthis also announced in a statement, Monday evening, they attacked two military targets in Jaffa and Ashkelon in central and southern Israel with two drones, stressing they will “continue their military operations against the Israeli enemy in response to the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, and these operations will not stop until the (Israeli) aggression on Gaza stops and the siege on it is lifted.”
In “solidarity with Gaza” in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the Strip since 7 October, 2023, which has led to the killing and wounding of more than 153,000 Palestinians, the Houthi group began targeting cargo ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea with missiles and drones since November of the same year.
