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Day 83: Palestinian Resistance Inflicts More Losses upon Israeli Enemy as War on Gaza Persists

Posted on December 28, 2023 by uprootedpalestinians

December 28, 2023

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The Zionist occupation forces on Thursday presses on with its genocide in Gaza for the 83rd consecutive day, with strikes pounding different areas across the besieged enclave and occupation soldiers attempting to advance amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation.

In northern Gaza, Al-Manar correspondent reported at least 30 people martyred as Israeli warplanes struck a residential area in Beit Lahia.

The amount of destruction in Beit Lahia, as a result of the heavy Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza, throughout the days of the aggression. pic.twitter.com/dJWFv5mJgW
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 28, 2023

Meanwhile in central Gaza Strip, Israeli strikes and shelling targeted residential areas in Al-Maghazi and Al- Nusseirat refugee camps, killing dozens of civilians, mostly shildren and women.

Elsewhere in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that at least 10 people have been martyred and 12 injured in an attack near El Amal City Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

For its part, Health Ministry in Gaza put the death toll of the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 at 21,110, noting that the number of injured people reached 55,243.

On the other hand, Government Media Office in Gaza said two more journalists were martyred during Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours, putting the death toll of the Palestinian journalists at 105.

“Catastrophic Hunger”

Tackling the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza, the UNRWA reiterated its call for a humanitarian ceasefire.

“Gaza is grappling with catastrophic hunger. Every day is a struggle for survival, finding food and finding water,” Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza was quoted as saying on X.

"Every day is a struggle for survival, finding food and finding water" @TomWhiteGaza

📍#Gaza is grappling with catastrophic hunger. 40% of the population are now at risk of famine.

The reality is, we need more aid. The only remaining hope is a humanitarian #ceasefire https://t.co/8a5a4AjBt3
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) December 28, 2023

“40 percent of the population are now at risk of famine,” the UNRWA added.

Incursions

For its part, the Palestinian Information Center reported that the Israeli occupation forces “are carrying out horrific crimes in areas that they are attempting to advance in, including field executions, raids, looting and destroying homes and facilities, as well as laying siege to home where Palestinian citizens are being trapped in.”

The center reported high number of injured people and martyrs in both streets and houses, noting that the ambulances can’t reach these areas.

The occupation forces also carry out random arrests against citizens, including widespread harassment, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

#شاهد | هذا ما يفعله الاحتلال ببيوت المواطنين قبل انسحابه من مناطق مدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/e4swIIdvOp
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) December 28, 2023

The Palestinian resistance continued on Thursday confronting the Zionist occupation forces invading Gaza, inflicting heavy losses upon them.

Al-Qassam fighters target five Israeli Merkava tanks in Khan Younis and two others in Central Gaza, according to media reports.

Al-Qassam Brigades also announced downing a Zionist drone (SkyLark-2) while it was carrying out an espionage mission over northern Gaza.

Al-Qassam military media also released a video which displays a song which addresses the Israelis in Hebrew with English and Arabic subtitles. The main idea of the song is the long agonies of the israelis with Netanyahu and his war decisions.

Source: Al-Manar English Website and Palestinian media

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Netanyahu’s end game in Gaza is his own political survival

Posted on November 29, 2023 by martyrashrakat

NOV 28, 2023

The Cradle’s Palestine Correspondent

Cognizant that a Hamas defeat is unlikely, Israel’s prime minister is set on prolonging the Gaza war, primarily to buy time, safeguard his political legacy, and avoid jail time.

Regardless of how Israel’s brutal war on the Gaza Strip ends, one undeniable outcome seems to be emerging – the potential demise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career.

Beyond the immediate repercussions of the Hamas-led Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Netanyahu’s troubles have deep roots, entwined with his relentless efforts to avoid corruption charges and possible imprisonment. This led him to form the most extreme, far-right government in Israel’s history, indirectly setting the stage for the historic operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on 7 October.

Bibi’s political life is on the line

The occupation state’s military and security establishment, while thought to have been caught off guard by the scale of events on 7 October, had sensed the impending volatility in besieged Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and even the territories occupied in 1948.

The actions of extremist ministers like Finance Minister Bezalel Somotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whom Netanyahu shielded to maintain the unity of his fragile coalition government, have inarguably contributed to the brewing crisis.

Amidst the carnage and devastation of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, Tel Aviv’s internal political crisis is seeping into the mini-war cabinet assembled to direct the war. The divergence between Netanyahu and military officials, coupled with his initial refusal to pursue a humanitarian truce and prisoner release initiatives, hints at a crisis rooted in the premier himself.

The prime minister’s desperation to cling to his political immunity and avoid imprisonment has him eager to prolong the war on Gaza. He believes it will give him time to strike an exit settlement—likely under US sponsorship—to avert a fate similar to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s post-Lebanon aggression in 2006. This, despite the thousands of Israeli troop deaths and injuries the conflict has borne.

Netanyahu, fully cognizant that eliminating Hamas is an impossible goal, is nonetheless publicly employing this war objective as cover for other strategically beneficial outcomes he is chasing: control over Gaza’s gas, Palestinian displacement projects to Sinai and Jordan, pushing for direct US-Iran confrontations, and the shedding of his extremist allies.

Likud’s internal struggle

Banking on Washington’s support amidst President Joe Biden’s preoccupation with the 2024 presidential elections, European sympathy intertwined with Israeli gas needs, and Arab expressions of concern without substantive action, Netanyahu is engaged in a high-stakes gamble.

The potential reoccupation of the Gaza coast, with its gas wealth and strategic location – increasingly perceived by some observers to be Israel’s end game in the war – stands as an additional prize for Netanyahu, whose political standing is increasingly fragile.

Beyond the immediate gains, a resurrection of an old Israeli project – the Ben Gurion Canal from northern Gaza to Eilat – could reshape regional geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics by bypassing Egypt’s Suez Canal.

However, Netanyahu’s paramount concern isn’t just the war’s outcome or a decline in international support. It is the impending split within his party. The Likud Party recognizes Netanyahu as the source of years-long political crises, marked by five unproductive elections since 2019 and deepening political divisions in Israel.

The prime minister’s legacy now hangs precariously in the balance as the occupation state contends with the multifaceted political, economic, and security repercussions of its Gaza war.

If anything, Israel’s disproportionate military response against an overwhelmingly civilian population – more than 20,000 Palestinians killed in six weeks – has worsened the occupation state’s security conditions by drawing in the involvement of the region’s Axis of Resistance, prominently from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, but more audaciously from Yemen’s Ansarallah-led forces.

The growing sentiment within the Likud party is that its viability in power is increasingly contingent on ousting its leader. This conviction gained traction with the recent proposition from opposition leader and Yesh Atid party head, Yair Lapid. Essentially, Lapid offered to participate in a Likud government because Netanyahu did not lead it.

Conversely, Netanyahu’s far-right allies recognize that the current government is their sole opportunity to maintain power and implement their extremist agendas. They use this leverage to coerce Netanyahu into retaining financial contributions to religious parties and institutions, legalizing Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian lands, and concealing crimes against Palestinians—a factor contributing to Al-Aqsa Flood.

Netanyahu acknowledges that the visible involvement of the US in his war could complicate matters further. However, Biden is equally cautious about direct engagement, given the grave threats to and actions against US military bases in Iraq and Syria that are directly correlated to Israel’s escalations in both Gaza and on its Lebanese border.

Al-Aqsa Flood also succeeded in postponing the White House’s Israeli-Saudi normalization project and dampening existing ones – at least until a palatable Palestinian settlement is struck. Any US involvement in Israel’s war would significantly boost the interests of its Russian and Chinese adversaries throughout West Asia and beyond.

Waiting game in Washington

With the upcoming presidential elections, the incumbent Democrats may struggle to withstand these threats to US regional interests. As public sentiment turns sharply against Israel’s Gaza brutalities, there is rising domestic dissatisfaction with Biden’s continuous requests for military and financial aid to Ukraine and Israel – as his latest appeal for $106 billion demonstrates.

Biden’s challenges are only exacerbated by his already strained relations with Netanyahu’s government. Before 7 October, those tensions existed because the Israeli prime minister and his extremist allies refused to even contemplate a two-state solution. Washington sees Netanyahu as a major obstacle to any political resolution in occupied Palestine.

If the Biden administration can lay the foundation for a two-state solution – elusive and improbable as it may be – it could exploit this politically and chalk down a “win.” Netanyahu, on his part, aims to prolong the Gaza aggression until Washington yields to his agenda or until there’s a change in the White House.

Despite some regional and western actors banking on the war’s outcome opening a pathway to restart talks on a permanent peace settlement, the Israeli army has yet to achieve any substantial victory against Hamas. Despite rising extremism post-Al-Aqsa Flood, voices in Israel still express adherence to the land-for-peace equation, notably articulated by opposition leader Yair Lapid.

Striking a balance between deadlock and opportunity, ongoing efforts aim to guide all parties toward a settlement. However, time is becoming a critical factor for the White House.

The occupation state’s myriad challenges, from confronting threats from West Asia’s resistance axis, and countering Chinese and Russian influence, to overcoming the political liabilities of the Netanyahu government, weigh heavily. Significantly, the potential fallout from a Netanyahu failure looms large, and no geopolitical projects will be able obscure its consequences.The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.

Tens of thousands return to Northern Gaza in challenge to ‘Israel’

Posted on November 25, 2023 by uprootedpalestinians

November 24, 2023

Source: Israeli Media

By Al Mayadeen English

The Israeli occupation’s threats are falling on resilient, deaf ears as the Palestinian residents of Gaza return to their homes in the north despite these threats.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been since the morning, the time when the ceasefire deal went into effect, returning to the northern Gaza Strip from the south, Israeli media reported on Friday.

The media added that the Israeli occupation forces will take strict measures to prevent the Palestinians from moving between the south and north of the Gaza Strip.

#شاهد عائلات فلسطينية تتوجه نحو منازلها في بيت حانون. pic.twitter.com/Zn6vO01MZY— Newpress | نيو برس (@NewpressPs) November 24, 2023

In response, Israeli Cabinet member Israel Katz told Channel 12 that “the army is trying to prevent tens of thousands of Palestinians from returning to the northern Gaza Strip,” stating that “the situation in the north will not return to what it was before.”

Israeli Security Minister Yoav Galant reiterated that “the ceasefire is a short truce, and the Israeli army will return with full force at its end.”

Despite the threats from the Israeli occupation forces, which deployed tanks and military vehicles in the north and had targeted the displaced who left the northern Gaza Strip for the south, those same displaced people, upon the implementation of the ceasefire in the early hours of Friday, began to return to the North of Gaza. They flocked to their homes, hospitals, and cemeteries in a blatant challenge to the Israeli occupation.

بيت حانون ترحب بأهلها .. عائدون لبيت حانون شمال قطاع ✌️🇵🇸

#غزة_الآن pic.twitter.com/Rcurcav61B
— ابو الباسل // A _s_s_i // (@assi_aroq) November 24, 2023

The Israeli occupation is “threatening to open fire on anyone that approaches its forces stationed in the city of Beit Hanoun,” an Al Mayadeen correspondent reported.

Returning despite the threats

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“The residents have started to return to Beit Hanoun with the withdrawal of occupation forces and the beginning of the ceasefire,” he added, noting that the occupation forces, with their soldiers stationed in the town, prevent residents from advancing.

Residents of Beit Hanoun confirmed that the occupation forces are opening fire at those who try to pass a certain point in Beit Hanoun while our correspondent explained that residents insist on inspecting their properties regardless of the threats being made by the Israeli occupation forces.

Some residents on Salah al-Din Street in the central Gaza Strip stated that the occupation was opening fire toward gatherings of residents who came out to inspect their properties, with its tanks positioned in front of Kuwait Square.

Earlier in the day, aid and fuel trucks started to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing as the temporary ceasefire came into effect this morning, lasting for four days. This period involves the release of several detainees, including child detainees, from Israeli occupation prisons, along with the entry of relief aid and quantities of fuel. In return, the Palestinian resistance will release some of the captives in its custody.

In the hours leading up to the implementation of the temporary truce, the Israeli occupation forces carried out intensive airstrikes on the north, central, and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, targeting schools that shelter displaced people, hospitals, and residential buildings, resulting in dozens of martyrs and injuries.

UNRWA hampers aid delivery to North

On another note, sources told Al Mayadeen today that only 3 trucks loaded with aid arrived at areas in northern Gaza.

UNRWA has proven time and again that it is colluding with the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing the northern part of Gaza during the period of the aggression on the Strip, as the head of the Government Media Office Salamah Maarouf said on October 31.

Maarouf said that UNRWA and its officials are not living up to their obligations and that they are conspiring with “Israel” which seeks to forcibly displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

On his part, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qudra, said that the UN agency has turned its back on the residents of the Gaza Strip in general, leaving children unvaccinated, and terminally ill individuals without medication, as well as neglecting the needs o hospitals all over the Gaza Strip.

Footage circulated on social media platforms, depicting UNRWA storage rooms filled with aid, while Palestinians are being killed by the Israeli war machine.

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‘Israel’ massacres 200 refugees in UN schools-turned-shelters

Posted on November 18, 2023 by uprootedpalestinians

November 18, 2023

Source: Agencies

Israeli occupation forces commit two additional massacres at al-Fakhoura and Tal al-Zaatar schools, where forcibly displaced Palestinians were taking refuge.

The aftermath of the second strike on the Jabalia refugee camp on October 31 (*AFP*)

By Al Mayadeen English

Following the restoration of communication after the blackout, reporters confirmed that Israeli occupation forces, under the veil of darkness, had carried out two additional massacres at al-Fakhoura and Tal al-Zaatar schools, where forcibly displaced Palestinians from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip were taking refuge.

“Israel” bombed the refugee schools overnight, killing scores of Palestinians while they were sleeping.

As per the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al-Kaila, the number of martyrs in the Israeli bombing of al-Fakhoura School has risen to 200.

It is noteworthy that al-Fakhoura School is the largest school in Jabalia camp, housing thousands of displaced people from Gaza who left their homes due to the violent Israeli airstrikes.

Al-Kaila added that “Israel” is waging a war on all hospitals in Gaza, amounting to a war of genocide.

“They were sleeping…”
The Israeli occupation commits a new massacre at Al-Fakhoura school, which is housing forcefully displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia camp, north of the #Gaza Strip.#GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/6XthKQmqbF— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 18, 2023

Israeli army committed a huge Massacre in Al Fakhoura school which is a shelter where people take refuge in Jabalia killing many Palestinian children
It is estimated that 150-200 Palestinians civilians mostly childre were killed in one strike. Horrifying images of the massacre.— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) November 18, 2023

Al-Fakhoura School has been targeted multiple times in recent years. In the 2009 aggression, it was shelled by the occupation forces, leading to the martyrdom of more than 40 people. In the 2014 aggression, the occupation forces shelled it again, resulting in the martyrdom of several individuals. Today, it was targeted again during the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza.

These schools, affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which were subjected to relentless Israeli shelling, are among the largest shelters in the Gaza Strip.

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The Israeli occupation continues its nonstop shelling of areas in the Gaza Strip, without distinguishing between hospitals, schools, shelters for the displaced, or places of worship.

Eyewitnesses: Bodies scattered after new IOF massacre in Gaza City

“Bodies were scattered tens of meters away from the targeted building,” eyewitnesses told Al Mayadeen, on Saturday, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted a building for al-Sawaf family in the Shawa Square in Gaza City as part of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

City residents have called on civil defense and ambulances, through Al Mayadeen, to intervene and extinguish the fire caused by the attack. They sought assistance in rescuing those trapped inside and providing aid to the injured in the vicinity, especially considering that multiple areas of the Strip are experiencing communication and internet blackouts.

Moreover, Al Mayadeen‘s correspondent reported that the occupation was indiscriminately bombing inhabited homes in the Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the ground operation it has launched, noting that the Israeli raids and rings of fire were concentrated in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, and in the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital.

Gaza death toll climbs to 12,000 following Israeli strikes

The press office of the authorities in Gaza announced earlier that over 12,000 people have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, 5,000 of whom are children. The statement detailed that more than 3,750 Palestinians are now missing, including 1,800 children still under the rubble.

Despite the ongoing Israeli threats for #Palestinians to "evacuate" the northern region of the #Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics confirmed that 807,000 Palestinians continue to reside in the Gaza Governorate, including its northern area.

Palestinians have… pic.twitter.com/BGPbVrPUpe
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 17, 2023

Despite the ongoing Israeli threats for #Palestinians to “evacuate” the northern region of the #Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics confirmed that 807,000 Palestinians continue to reside in the Gaza Governorate, including its northern area.

Palestinians have… pic.twitter.com/BGPbVrPUpe— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 17, 2023

The World Health Organization reported earlier today that disruptions in communications due to the intensity of the ongoing aggression did not allow for any updates regarding estimates of injuries and deaths over the last four days.

The organization confirmed that the health sector in Gaza is “buckled to its knees,” indicating that 65% of primary care facilities are out of order and 69% of hospitals are not operational.

The Organization pointed out that “ground operations in the city of Gaza and near hospitals, along with the fuel shortage, have led, in addition to the lack of fuel, to the immobility of rescue teams and ambulances in several areas.”

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to visiting US lawmakers, urging them to expedite emergency military assistance for “Israel” making a specific request for the replenishment of Iron Dome missile interceptors, precision-guided weapons, and 155 mm artillery shells, a Punchbowl report detailed.