Let's do another news update.
But first: "What's in my bag", the Palestinian edition:
Like I posted the other day, Hamas wants the IDF to go into Ghaza. They're setting this up as a trap and a PR disaster. They're gonna go for broke this time:
Third front in Syria confirmed, Israel is now bombing Damascus and Aleppo:
Israeli army confirms bombing of Damascus and Aleppo Intl Airports in two simultaneous attacks
There is now fighting in the West Bank (the other, larger portion of the country where Palestinians are held), this news item refers to the "Jenin Batallion", Jenin being a 40k town
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenin near a refugee camp in the West Bank:
Jenin Battalion: We targeted the occupation forces and their vehicles with bullets and explosive devices
كتيبة جنين: استهدفنا قوات الاحتلال وآلياته بالرصاص والعبوات الناسفة
Translated Description: The Jenin Battalion, affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades [read: Islamic Jihad, Al Jazeera won't mention their actual name and instead refers to them like they're a regular arm of the military in order to mislead], announced that it targeted the occupation forces in the city of Jenin with bullets and explosive devices, causing direct casualties.
This means there is now a fourth front: one in Ghaza, one in the North with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the third in Syria with Hezbollah and now this Jenin Battalion in the West Bank.
Tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the occupation army deploys military reinforcements in the Galilee
توتر على الحدود اللبنانية الإسرائيلية وجيش الاحتلال ينشر تعزيزات عسكرية في الجليل
Israel is getting ready to go into Ghaza:
Gaza under siege as Israeli forces mass on border - BBC News
Islamic Jihad is asking Islamists around the world to stage mass protests everywhere.
#Urgent | Islamic Jihad: We call on the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation to stage demonstrations of anger to stop the shedding of the blood of their brothers in #Gaza
#عاجل | الجهاد الإسلامي: ندعو جماهير أمتنا العربية والإسلامية للنزول في مظاهرات غضب لوقف سفك دم إخوتهم في #غزة
Can you imagine a mainstream TV channel in Europe or America directly broadcasting a know terrorist group 's demands for mass protests? Like I said, the Youtube ToS goes out the window when it's Al Jazeera or some other ME channel doing it.
Here's an example of how Hamas & Co are going for broke: once again, they challenge the IDF to go into Ghaza, where they are confident they will have the upper-hand and will manage to kill even more IDF soldiers.
Al-Quds Brigades spokesman: What we have prepared for the enemy outside Palestine as well as inside it
المتحدث باسم سرايا القدس: ما جهزناه للعدو خارج فلسطين كما داخلها
"Occupied interior" = Ghaza
The spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that the battle is no longer limited
in Gaza. He added in an audio speech that the battle might extend into the occupied interior, as he put it.
قال الناطق باسم سرايا القدس الجناح العسكري لحركة الجهاد الإسلامي إن المعركة لم تعد محصورة
في غزة. وأضاف في كلمة صوتية أن المعركة قد تمتد إلى الداخل المحتل وفق تعبيره.
I really don't think Hamas & Co would have such a come-n-get-it attitude about the idea of a ground invasion from the IDF, if they weren't already setting up traps everywhere while anticipating this unique opportunity to go toe-to-toe with Israel on a turf they likely know better than the IDF does. We've just seen that the IDF had all this advanced technology at their disposal and couldn't put it to good use. Not with the best 3D satellite maps will the IDF be able to navigate a terrain as heavily packed with easily collapsible buildings (due to poor building conditions and materials) and hostile, desperate people around every corner as Ghaza.
This old woman says that Palestinians will give up their children to Hamas to make them into martyrs (radical extremist Islamist militants) "until there is no child left in Ghaza":
Palestinian woman to Hamas: “We support you even if there is no child left in Palestine.”
فلسطينية لحماس: ”ندعمكم حتى لو ما ظل طفل في فلسطين“
You might say: "That's just one angry PTSDed curmudgeon, what does she know, she doesn't represent anyone.". You need to realize that these people raise their children with the knowledge that their kids are going to be cannon fodder for Hamas. They want this for their kids, because they don't believe in life after birth, they only believe in life after death.
Statement from the Red Cross:
The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip will quickly get out of control due to the ongoing Israeli bombing for the sixth day.
The International Red Cross added that the lifeline in Gaza is beginning to disappear and it is time to protect humanity
For more details, we have with us from Gaza Hisham Muhanna, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza
#Al Jazeera
#Operation_Al-Aqsa_Flood
#الجزيرة #عملية_طوفان_الأقصى #فلسطين
أكدت اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر أن الوضع الإنساني في قطاع غزة سيخرج عن السيطرة بسرعة بسبب القصف الإسرائيلي المتواصل لليوم السادس
وأضاف الصليب الأحمر الدولي أن شريان الحياة في غزة بدأ يتلاشى وحان وقت حماية الإنسانية
لمزيد من التفاصيل معنا من غزة هشام مهنا المتحدث باسم اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر في غزة
#الجزيرة
#عملية_طوفان_الأقصى
What you see here is footage from a UN school in Ghaza, that has turned into an impromptu refugee center housing thousands of families and their children:
This is where that picture of the huge trash pile that I posted yesterday came from. Again, if you're in a war-zone and you have trash, don't just dump it in a huge pile outside of a school full of families; find a car or a building that's already on fire - shouldn't be hard to do in Palestine right now - and just dump all the trash into the raging fire to be burned. That's a much better way of disposing large amounts of trash in a situation where there is no garbage pick up or access to sanitation. (Remember, this is a UN school in a fucking warzone, but apparenty none of the "educated" people there thought of this simple solution of trash disposal! This is a failure of our educational systems around the world, they don't teach people a practical survival mindset.)
This is a medical center where they no longer have any space for the dead bodies, so they've just piled them out in the street before the hospital:
Pictures showed the bodies of a number of martyrs lying on the ground outside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, which is crowded with the bodies of martyrs and because the hospital’s morgues are full and the funeral of the bodies is delayed due to the continued Israeli raids.
With us from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Al Jazeera correspondent Hisham Zaqout
#Al Jazeera
اظهرت صور جثث عدد من الشهداء وهي مسجاة على الأرض خارج مجمع الشفاء الطبي في غزة الذي يكتظ بجثث الشهداء وبسبب امتلاء ثلاجات الموتى في المستشفى وتأخر تشييع الجثامين بسبب استمرار الغارات الإسرائيلية.
معنا من مستشفى الشفاء في غزة، مراسل الجزيرة هشام زقوت
#الجزيرة
اظهرت صور جثث عدد من الشهداء وهي مسجاة على الأرض خارج مجمع الشفاء الطبي في غزة الذي يكتظ بجثث الشهداء وبسبب امتلاء ثلاجات الموتى في المستشفى وتأخر تشييع الجثامين بسبب استمرار الغارات الإسرائيلية.
معنا من مستشفى الشفاء في غزة، مراسل الجزيرة هشام زقوت
#الجزيرة
How many Islamist refugees moved to Germany during the last refugee crisis?
لقصف غزة.. ألمانيا تضع مسيرتين حربيتين تحت تصرف الجيش الإسرائيلي
To bomb Gaza.. Germany puts two warplanes at the disposal of the Israeli army
It amazes me how Western countries still think they can get away with voicing support for Israel while having an increasingly expanding Islamist minority population that hates Dzooz and Israel in their midst. They really do think they can have their cake and eat it.
