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🇵🇸🇮🇱According to Zionist sources:
93 Zionist soldiers were killed (by IOF admission) since the start of the ground invasion.
About 5,000 IOF soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war.
The Rehabilitation Department in the Ministry of War receives about 60 new injured individuals daily.
More than 2,000 new disabled individuals have been identified in the zionist army.
100 IOF soldiers were injured in their eyes, and some have lost their sight since the start of the war.
Most of the injured are suffering from serious wounds.
2,000 soldiers have received psychological medical assistance since October 7th.
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🇮🇱Yedioth Ahronoth:
About 5,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, and more than 2,000 of them have been recognized as disabled.
Most of the wounded are in critical condition.
Keep in mind Israel has the reputation to Downplay their casualties.....
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🇵🇸🇸🇾🇮🇶🇮🇱🇺🇸 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine statement:
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Striking American bases and interests everywhere must remain a primary goal.
America's use of the veto was expected and confirms that it relentlessly leads a genocide war against us.
The United States' repeated use of the veto power against a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was expected; this major colony, with a history filled with crimes of cleansing, massacres, and genocide against the indigenous population of Native Americans, is actually and relentlessly leading a genocide war against our people in Gaza.
This veto gives more green light for the occupation to continue its aggression, massacres, and genocide and destruction of everything Palestinian, revealing again that America is the head of the snake and the most evil and criminal in the world.
This veto contradicts the position of the peoples; including public opinion in the United States, which once again exposes its ugly criminal face to the whole world and to the American generations that are beginning to realize more about the zionist crimes committed in occupied Palestine in full partnership with successive administrations of the United States.
Striking American bases and interests everywhere, and the expulsion of the occupation forces from the region, must remain a primary goal for our people, the resistance movements, and all the free people in the world, for this language is what this criminal imperialist colony, hostile to the peoples and specifically to our Palestinian people, understands.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
9/12/2023
https://x.com/dana916/status/1733535199877611707
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸A fierce and close-range battle is underway since the morning in the west of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The IOF has bombarded the camp with hundreds of shells and missiles, but continues to face strong resistance.
Local Palestinian sources report heavy IOF losses in terms of vehicles and soldiers, and Zionist sources report that IOF soldiers are requesting rescue but rescue teams are unable to land to evacuate them.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸The IOF continues to besiege and bomb the vicinity of the Khalifa School in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, which houses 3,000 displaced Gazans. Dozens of martyrs and wounded are trapped in the school due to the intensity of fire.
Moments ago, the IOF demanded all men above 15 come out of the school, forcing them to undress and abducting them.
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🙈🇵🇸 UNICEF SPOKESPERSON BLASTS SELECTIVE SYMPATHY in video above - James Elder records Gazans fleeing besieged enclave, wonders why hearts were open for Ukrainians while eyes are shut to plight of Palestinians.
Almost 18,000 Palestinians MURDERED by Israel since October 7 - But...do you condemn Hamas?
Then the US blocks UAE resolution at UN Security Council demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and release of all hostages.
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Tech investors organize to silence pro-Palestinian voices
The group US and Israeli investors formed after 7 October to assist the Israeli army in its online propaganda war amid the assault on Gaza
A group of pro-Israeli tech investors and executives in California’s Silicon Valley are seeking to influence media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and “combat the slightest deviations from the pro-Israel script,” a new investigation by journalists Lee Fang and Jack Poulsen shows.
The investors and executives have joined with pro-Israeli activists and Israeli government officials to terminate pro-Palestinian employees at multi-national corporations from their jobs, smear Palestinian journalists, cancel speaking events at US universities by Palestinian writers and politicians, remove social media posts critical of Israel, “ridicule” pro-Palestinian social media influencers and lawmakers, and send military equipment to Israeli forces.
The Following Hamas’ 7 October attack on Israeli military bases and settlements surrounding Gaza, the group formed a WhatsApp group to coordinate their activities.
The WhatsApp group, officially named the “J-Ventures Global Kibbutz Group,” is a project of J-Ventures, a US-Israeli investment fund.
The journalists obtained access to thousands of the group’s WhatsApp messages dating back to mid-October showing the group’s efforts to help Israel in its public relations war, in particular as Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza quickly reached shocking levels, resulting in harsh international condemnation.
They described how members of the group coordinated on WhatsApp to have Courtney Carey, a Dublin-based employee of the Israeli website building company Wix, fired. Carey posted the Irish words “SAOIRSE DON PHALAISTIN” which means, “Freedom for Palestine” on her LinkedIn page, and was terminated 24 hours later.
The group includes prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Jeff Epstein – a former CFO of Oracle – and Andy David, a diplomat-cum-venture capitalist who also serves as the Israeli foreign ministry’s head of innovation, entrepreneurship, and tech.
Adam Fisher, the head of the Israel office of Bessemer Venture Partners, gave a presentation to the group on how US “high-tech leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs,” such as himself, could help the Israeli army win the “information war” on social media.
The Israel-based venture capitalist spoke of how to “sow doubt” among young people in the US sympathetic to the Palestinian cause so they would not speak out or attend protests against Israel’s killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "So it's really about creating some kind of confusion,” Fisher said,” to make it clear to them that it's really a lot more complicated."
The group also petitioned Netflix to remove the award-winning Jordanian film "Farha," claiming that its accurate portrayal of the actions of Israeli soldiers during the 1948 massacre and forced displacement of Palestinians constituted “blood libel,” while another said the film was based “antisemitism and lies.”
J-Ventures documents and affiliated WhatsApp discussions also show support for a variety of automated attempts to remove pro-Palestinian content on social media, including via DigitalDome.io, an initiative that promotes itself as an online version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, promising that “offensive and malicious content is intercepted here.”
Digital Dome’s “recent achievements” included the censorship of Hamas’s channels on the Telegram communications platform using Android phones and the removal of pro-Palestinian content from Instagram and Twitter/X.
Members of the WhatsApp group successfully lobbied to have speaking events of Palestinian-US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Palestinian writer for the Nation Magazine, Mohamed al-Kurd, canceled.
The group circulated a push poll suggesting Representative Tlaib should resign from Congress.
Finally, the group has also attempted to provide tactical gear to Israel’s equivalent of the US Navy SEALs, known as Shayetet-13, and donated to a foundation dedicated to supporting the Israeli army’s undercover “Duvdevan” unit, which is known for assassinating Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel killed the activist Yafa. This was her last post on X.
"My name is Yafa. What scares me the most is mentioning my death as a number among the increasing numbers that are difficult to count every day. They would say: “A young woman and others were killed in a Zionist targeting of a residential area.” I am not just a number; I had 24 years to become what I’m now. I have many friends, memories, and a lot of pain."
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Israeli massacre at Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia camp, as narrated by journalist Anas al-Sharif:
-Tents with displaced people burned, including disabled patients.
-Tens of bodies inside the hospital due to lack of medical services.
-The Israeli army shoots at anyone trying to enter the hospital.
-The Hospital building was bombed with dozens of shells.
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The American philosopher, theologian, and political activist Cornel West stated on X:
"We must fight to cast a light on the precious Palestinian children, and innocent women and men being slaughtered by Israeli forces, enabled by the US government! We must have an immediate ceasefire, end of the siege, and end of the vicious Israeli occupation!"
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The National and Islamic Forces of Palestine have called for an inclusive global strike next Monday that would include all aspects of life in solidarity with the Palestinian people—particularly in the Gaza Strip—who have been facing an Israeli war of genocide, displacement and ethnic cleansing for 64 days in a row.
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This is terribly, heart-breakingly saddening. It's just one more tragedy in 20,000. But I am hoping she will be well-remembered for her courage and for her honesty.
I have been sitting on my hands much of today to avoid expressing here what I really find myself feeling.
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Over the past hours, the Israeli occupation committed 20 horrific massacres and exterminated entire families in the Strip, the Ministry of Health in #Gaza announced.
The Ministry added that two healthcare workers were killed by Israeli snipers at Kamal Adwan Maternity Hospital, where pregnant women were also targeted.
#Palestine
#GazaUnderAttack
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International aid orgs sound alarm on 'apocalyptic' situation in Gaza
During a video conference this week in the presence of journalists, international aid charities and organizations raised concerns about an “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza, after illustrating a picture of the “horrors” there, as depicted by Save The Children.
Alexandra Saieh of Save the Children said, “Those who survived the bombardment now face imminent risk of dying of starvation and disease,” adding, “Our teams are telling us of maggots being picked from wounds and children undergoing amputations without anesthetic," waiting by the “hundreds” for a “single toilet” or searching for food.
Bushra Khalidi of UK-headquartered Oxfam charity called the humanitarian situation “apocalyptic” and denied there is any safe zone in the Strip.
“The situation in Gaza is not just a catastrophe, it’s apocalyptic... with potential irreversible consequences on Palestinian people,” Khalidi noted, adding, “Israel safe zones within Gaza are mirage.”
Read next: Gaza children killed in 3 weeks exceed annual conflicts toll in 3 yrs
Helpless humanitarian workers
Sandrine Simon of the Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) charity spoke of an incident suffered by a colleague wounded in Khan Younis “when a tank attacked a school where he had taken refuge." She stated that after it “took him hours to reach a hospital,” there were “exhausted” nurses trying to care for hundreds of patients lying on the floor.
“Gaza’s hospitals are becoming morgues. That’s unacceptable.”
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) President Isabelle Defourny relayed a similar story, highlighting the urgent matter that fuel and medical supplies are “critically low".
“We are working in Al-Aqsa hospital, receiving an average of 150 to 200 war-wounded patients daily... since the first of December.”
Defourny added that this week, “they received more dead than wounded patients. The hospital is overflowing, the morgue is overflowing, fuel and medical supplies have reached critically low level,” adding that "Israel" has been displaying “a total disregard for the protection of Gaza’s medical facilities."
In the conference, the World Food Program (WFP) stressed that “famine” is soaring in Gaza, while the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of the collapse of civilization, since “given the living conditions and lack of health care, more people could die from disease than bombings."
Blinded by greed
Just today, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that over 130 confirmed UNRWA staff, predominantly with their families, have been killed by Israeli bombings, adding that this number may increase.
Lazzarini noted that following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, several thousand civilians in Gaza preemptively sought refuge in UNRWA premises, anticipating unprecedented aggression and seeking safety under the UN flag.
As of Friday, December 8, this number had increased to 1.2 million, approximately half of the Gaza Strip's population, he added.
"UNRWA is, as of today, still operational in the Gaza Strip, though just barely," he said.
Read more: Gaza 'most dangerous place for children' despite truce: UNICEF Chief
This comes after the United States, on Friday, vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, shielding its ally.
The US deputy representative at the UN, Robert Wood, said the resolution was "divorced from reality" and "would have not moved the needle forward on the ground."
Thirteen Security Council members voted in favor of a brief draft resolution, presented through the UAE, and Britain abstained. The vote came after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invoked the UN charter’s Article 99 for it on Wednesday.
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... digging out the root to the tree with rotten fruits:
Yossi Gurwitz - Jewish Talmud Preaches Pedophilia & Genocide
December 9, 2023
Yossi Gurvitz: When Israel Is Mighty 12:19
In 2012, Ex-Yeshiva student Yossi Gurwitz explained what non-Jews can expect when Talmudic Jews gain total ascendency: ["According to Judaism], they are idolaters, and you have to kill them."
Transcript of interview with Yossi Gurwitz, (courtesy of Ken Adachi)
"Judaism as a religion has been frozen in time for the last 1800 years. Generally speaking, Rabbinical Judaism, as it appears in the Talmud ... is the source of Judaism, not the Bible. The source of Judaism is the Talmud...
Okay, let's get this exactly right: it defines only Jews who believe in the religion are men - as full humans. And everyone else is some level of 'other', that must be pushed aside or, in extreme cases, destroyed.
But if you kill a non-Jew then you're guilty, but there is no penalty. God will punish you. And that is - how shall I put it? - a bit problematic. When you say something is a crime, but there's no punishment for committing it, then it's not really a crime. That's the Talmud.
The worst case, in my opinion, is the case of Maimonides, who decrees...that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a 3-year old girl. That age of consent is - problematic. And second of all, he decrees that if a Jew rapes a three-year-old non-Jewish girl, then she must be executed. Her, not him - because she tempted him to sin. And for this reason, you have to treat her like an animal that puts obstacles in a person's way. And he quotes some verse about a bull or something like that. And the rabbis know that these parts of the religion that are misanthropic, that are discriminatory to non-Jews, pose a problem for them. Because if they try to implement them - there are some rules that are very unpleasant, like that three-year-old-girl we were just talking about - if they try to implement them, there will be a pogrom.
So to avoid that situation, the Talmud defines two different states of reality. There's one called "Darkei Shalom" [Peaceful Ways]. In other words, "This is the actual religious law, this is how you are supposed to act." "However, since it would cause a huge mess, and people will die. So due to 'peaceful ways', you don't act that way." Now, until what point does the "peaceful ways" rule still apply? Just as long as the other situation does not exist, which is "When Israel is Mighty". That's when there is a Jewish regime. It is independent, and it is merciless, it can do what it likes. Under those circumstances - it's all over, you go back to the letter of the law.
No more "peaceful ways", no more nothing. Now when you think about Jewish history, lots of people talk about the Hasmonean Wars which was pretty much one of the only times that Jews wielded weapons and they think about what the Hasmoneans did to the Hellenized Jews [who assimilated Greek culture]. Which was to make them extinct, to destroy them. A small genocide. And I remind people of this frequently, every time Hanukah rolls around. But they didn't stop there.
They embarked on campaigns of looting and conquest and at the beginning, during their first 20 years, wherever they arrived, they would destroy the local temples. It was prohibited for a place that was under Jewish rule to have a pagan temple. That's what we're talking about. They also forced the Edomites to convert to Judaism on pain of death. It was a forced conversion. Something we learn the [Spanish] Inquisition did later on. They took people and told them: ;"Either you're dead, or you're converting to Judaism". And things only got worse from there.
Now, when religious zionists look at reality, they say: "We've got a state. We've got weapons. We've got a Jewish army. This hasn't happened for 2, 000 years." "What this means is that God wants us to bring about the Messiah, that God wants us to build the Temple."
In other words, the only difference between the time of Maimonides - he died in 1204 - and the time of the Messiah, is who is subordinate to whom. Are the Jews subordinate to "kingdoms", to other nations? Or can they subordinate other nations? And that is how Maimonides begins his Book of Kings. He explains what the rules are for a king, what a king can do. It emerges from the belief that, yes, there can be a king. You don't have to first have a temple. You don't need God to come down from the sky and point at someone and say, "That's the Messiah". You can have a king, and if he is victorious, then he'll also be the Messiah. And then you look at what religious zionists are doing about this. They want a Messiah. They want him now.
There must be a cleansing. Religious law prohibits contact with non-Jews. Of course, the Kosher laws prohibit you from eating with them. Other laws forbid you from treating them fairly. You are forbidden to return a lost item to a non-Jew - except in order to "keep the peace". There is no prohibition on stealing from a non-Jew - except in order to "keep the peace". You can't say "hello" to them - unless there is no alternative. And so on and so forth.
There are all kinds of prohibitions that are entirely psychotic that are based on a religion of vengeance. Religious zionists have a serious problem with the fact that there are any non-Jews here. The Land of Israel is supposed to be only for Jews. So, ironically, they would manage to get along with the Muslims more or less if we weren't involved in a military conflict with them. Because according to Judaism, Muslims are not idolaters. Muslims believe in one God. They don't have idols, they don't have statues, they don't have anything like that. So ironically, during the Medieval Era, Jews got along better with Muslims than with Christians. But what can you do?
We conquered a territory populated mainly by Muslims. and the Muslims are fighting us - so those defenses fall away. And look, now they are starting to talk about genocide. You have the [book] "Torah Hamelech" [King's Torah]. which tells you that you can kill children if there is a reason to believe that one day they could cause harm. Now, if you killed someone's entire family and left only him alive, he will indeed have a reason to cause harm. If you stole his lands, turned him into a refugee, tossed him to Jordan or Lebanon - he will indeed have a reason to cause harm. Many people said that the book's arguments are not sound according to religious law, and so on and so forth, but no one really tackled it head-on. And it's no wonder that it became a best seller. Because in general, what religious zionists actually want is for the Land of Israel to be for Jews only.
Now the situation for the Christians, on the other hand, will be really bad. [According to Judaism], they are idolaters, and you have to kill them even if they do not resist Jewish rule. In Jerusalem, religious seminary students have a despicable habit: they urinate or defecate on churches. If you go there and talk to the church staff, you'll hear it from every church. Spitting on clergymen on the street is something that happens regularly. If the priest has the gall to hit the person back, to slap him or something similar, then he is deported quietly. They cancel his residence permit in the country. If you want to justify a pogrom, all you have to do is say the words "missionary threat".
And from that perspective, Christianity, which is the historical arch enemy of Judaism is going to get a serious beating once the religious zionists are in power. The Christian Fundamentalists who send them money apparently don't understand what they're dealing with. But you know, it's really a case of "a pox on both your houses".
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It emerges from the belief that, yes, there can be a king. You don't have to first have a temple. You don't need God to come down from the sky and point at someone and say, "That's the Messiah". You can have a king, and if he is victorious, then he'll also be the Messiah. And then you look at what religious zionists are doing about this. They want a Messiah. They want him now.
... that's what Bibi is working hard at establishing... becoming the victorious king and be crowned as the long awaited Messiah!
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This is terribly, heart-breakingly saddening. It's just one more tragedy in 20,000. But I am hoping she will be well-remembered for her courage and for her honesty.
I have been sitting on my hands much of today to avoid expressing here what I really find myself feeling.
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Thank you, I feel the same and am in constant mourning, cannot comprehend…and hope isn’t anywhere to be found…horror still going on..😞
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How to participate in the global strike for Gaza on Monday 11th of Dec 2023?
1. Don't buy anything (cash or online)
2. Don't use your bank account, and don't make any transaction
3. Don't leave your house
4. Deactivate your Facebook and Instagram accounts
5. Tweet using the hashtag #StrikeForGaza
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Fighting Invading Israeli Forces: Who Are Hamas ‘Nukhba’ Fighters?
The Hamas armed wing is under the command of Mohammad Deif, who has masterminded various successful offensive operations against Israel.
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, or simply the Qassam Brigades, are the armed wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas and were behind the October 7 offensive against Israel, named Operation al-Aqsa Flood by the group’s leader.
Now engaged in defensive ground operations, the armed group is using guerilla warfare tactics throughout the Gaza Strip to combat Israel’s invading army.
The Qassam Brigades were officially established in 1991 and were led by its commander, Salah Shehadeh, until his brutal assassination in 2004.
The Hamas armed wing has since been under the command of Mohammad Deif, who has masterminded various successful offensive operations against Israel.
Today, the Qassam Brigades are the most powerful Palestinian Resistance group and lead the ‘Joint Room’ in the Gaza Strip, under which a myriad of smaller armed movements and military wings of different Palestinian political parties coordinate.
Mujamma al-Islamiyyah
Although the Hamas armed wing was not officially operational prior to the early 1990’s, the group’s precursor, known as the Mujamma al-Islamiyyah, did possess a security arm that developed cells of operatives, known as the Majd, formed in 1985; a project co-founded by Yahya Sinwar, the current Hamas leader in Gaza.
Salah Shehadeh, who would go on to found the Qassam Brigades, was tasked with forming small groups of operatives around that period, which occurred after the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin from Israeli detention in a prisoner exchange.
What Shehadeh’s exact mission at this time was and whether he was successful, is still an object of historical debate.
Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
The Qassam Brigades are named after Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, who is regarded as the first Palestinian resistance leader.
He is seen as having inspired the ‘Arab Revolt’ of 1936-9 against the British Mandate army and Zionist militias, after he was martyred in a firefight with British occupying soldiers.
Out of Jenin, the Sheikh led a group of armed fighters, some of whom were ill-treated laborers in Haifa, convincing them to take the path of an armed Jihad against Zionist ambitions to conquer Palestine.
Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was so influential that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, also originally called its armed wing ‘al-Qassam’, before changing it later to Saraya al-Quds.
Axis of Resistance
In 1992, the Qassam Brigades received the backing of Hezbollah and began opening contacts to obtain the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This was the unintended consequence of a mass deportation in December of that year, when Israel transferred some 415 Palestinians from the 1967 occupied territories to southern Lebanon, including prominent figures within Hamas.
Opening an alliance with nations like Syria, Iran and groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah, aided in strengthening the tactics of the Qassam Brigades.
Today, the Qassam Brigades are estimated to have between 30,000 to 50,000 combat ready fighters.
It possesses specialized units that manage border control, intelligence gathering, offensive and defensive ground operations, an air defense team, airforce (hand-gliders), the frogmen (naval force), drone operations, explosives manufacturing, tunnel defenses, special forces for prisoner security, anti-tank guided-missile units, medical, all-female and rocket launch teams.
There is even a specially designated choir, media teams and the Qassam Brigades spokesperson is the iconic masked figure Abu Obeida.
Nukhba Commandos
Perhaps the most feared of all the Qassam Brigades fighters are its Nukhba commandos, these special forces units are highly secretive in nature.
Israel has given past estimates that the force could be around 1,500 men strong, although this is a guess.
It is said that the Nukhba commandos are trained in Iran, they are also said to have gained battle experience in Iraq, Syria and coordinate closely with Lebanese Hezbollah.
Israel accuses the Nukhba of leading the operations on October 7, during which around 400 Israeli combatants were eliminated.
The Nukhba are pegged with not only defeating Israel’s Givati Brigades in a standup fight, but even engaging and killing members of Israeli special forces units.
Israeli media have also alleged that Nukhba commandos managed to continue infiltration operations after Israeli forces had re-captured the settlements surrounding Gaza.
It is important to keep in mind that Israel does not understand the true extent of the military power of the Qassam Brigades.
The armed wing of Hamas specially chooses its fighters for their given roles, many of whom are individuals who have had family members murdered by Israel.
Strict Standards
Due to its strict standards, it is believed that the second strongest group in Gaza, belonging to PIJ, is actually larger in its manpower.
The discipline of the Qassam Brigades fighters have been well observed, as fighters are not even permitted to smoke cigarettes and they follow their Islamic doctrine with seriousness.
The group has managed to mass manufacture anti-tank warheads, which have evolved over time through the ingenuity of the Qassam Brigades weapons manufacturers, creating the Yasin-105 missile, which has managed to successfully damage/destroy hundreds of Israeli tanks.
Sniper teams have also proven successful in combating Israeli soldier formations.
The Qassam Brigades have successfully prepared booby-traps, detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs), used anti-personnel weapons and engaged with Israeli forces with light weapons.
There are various estimates that have been produced on the number of domestically produced rockets that are in the possession of the Qassam Brigades, what seems to be certain is that it is in the tens of thousands, possibly in excess of 100,000.
However, the rockets do not possess the capabilities of their allies, such as Hezbollah, and are viewed as strategically important, but physically ineffective.
In addition to its Gaza based operations, the Qassam Brigades are also rooted in Lebanon and Syria, while they manage small cells to carry out occasional operations in the occupied West Bank.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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Good one!Just finished listening....
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This is terribly, heart-breakingly saddening. It's just one more tragedy in 20,000. But I am hoping she will be well-remembered for her courage and for her honesty.
I have been sitting on my hands much of today to avoid expressing here what I really find myself feeling.
:flower:
I'm not in any kind of position to be offering advice, given my own awakening was only 20 odd years ago - but were I to be so brave I would say -
Let it out man, let it out. Vent for all the world to hear.
Re: Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War
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bojancan
Good one!Just finished listening....
What an intelligent thoughtful young person, there are far too few of them I feel.
Re: Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War
"INTERVIEW: Dan Cohen on the lies of the Israeli war machine. It’s not two civilians death to one Hamas fighter as IDF claims, it’s more like 300 to one"
INTERVIEW: Lies, damn lies and IDF statistics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8k7BRtZK9U8
Re: Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War
--3 min-9 dec 2023
“From New York to Gaza”
Pro-Palestine demonstrators organise one of their largest marches as they “shut down” Wall Street. ---3 min-9 dec 2023
For the past two months, demonstrators around the world, have rallied to support Palestinians and condemn Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
From the US to Europe. Asia and Latin America public support has been consistent and outspoken.
