More than 30 #Israeli military vehicles have stormed the Ibn Sina Hospital in #Jenin, Al Arabiya reports citing #Palestinian media. https://t.co/HzwRoreolS pic.twitter.com/vTcXQhAiHL
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) October 30, 2023
Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...said Sunday its fighters were engaged in "heavy fighting" in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
where Israel has escalated ground operations, as calls multiply to deliver aid to the Paleostinian territory after weeks of siege and bombardment.
World leaders underlined the urgency of increasing aid into the Hamas-controlled territory and protesters worldwide rallied for a ceasefire, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steeled his nation for a "long and difficult war".
Despite calls for a humanitarian truce
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A
truceis not the same thing as a
ceasefire, and a
ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
, international outrage and the potential risk to hostages held in Gaza, Israel has intensified the war triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented attack.
Hamas snuffies stormed across the Gaza border on October 7 in the deadliest attack in Israel’s history, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 239 others including many migrant workers, according to the latest figures provided Sunday by army front man Daniel Hagari.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the retaliatory Israeli bombardment has killed more than 8,000 people, mainly civilians and half of them children.
| ...none of whom would be dead had they evacuated as directed by the IDF two weeks ago. But Hamas blocked the roads and bullied as many as they could into staying a being human shields, so all those deaths are on Hamas. |
| Golly, It was only 2.3 million as of a few days ago... and the reality may be as little as half that — the Palestinians have been exaggerating birth rates and ignoring deaths and emigrations since they took over keeping the statistics. |
Israel’s army said a new "stage" of the war started with ground incursions since late Friday, an escalation from two brief operations earlier in the week.
AID ’ACCELERATION’
In a phone call with Netanyahu on Sunday, US President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
"underscored the need to immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza", according to a readout of the conversation from the White House.
And in a separate call with President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi of Egypt, which borders Gaza to the south, the two leaders "committed to the significant acceleration and increase of assistance", the White House said.
UN chief António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said the situation was "growing more desperate by the hour" as casualties increase and essential supplies of food, water, medicine and shelter dwindle.
Top Hamas official Musa Abu Marzouk in a statement Sunday called on Egypt to take "decisive" action to speed up aid to Gaza.
"Egypt should not remain a spectator. We expect a decisive stance by Egypt allowing aid to enter Gaza as soon as possible," he said.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said Israel was repeatedly bombing around al-Quds hospital in central Gaza, causing damage and putting civilians at risk.
Mohammed al-Talmas, who has taken shelter in Gaza’s biggest hospital Shifa, said "the ground shook" with intense Israeli raids.
The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, said "thousands of people" broke into several of its warehouses and distribution centres in Gaza, grabbing basic items like flour and hygiene supplies.
"This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down," it said.
A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said earlier Israel was committed to allowing 100 to aid trucks into Gaza daily -- a figure the UN has said was needed to meet the most basic needs.
’ALL AREAS ARE DANGEROUS’
On Sunday Israel’s military said it had struck hundreds of Hamas targets and increased its ground forces in Gaza. Military front man Hagari vowed to "chase down" Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
The army said troops had "confronted" snuffies who emerged out of a tunnel in north Gaza, highlighting challenges in Hamas’s vast underground network to Israel’s ground operation.
In a late-night televised address on Saturday, Netanyahu announced a "second stage of the war" to "eradicate" Hamas, the Paleostinian militia that has governed Gaza since 2007.
Communications were down in Gaza after Israel cut internet lines ahead of the intensification of its operations, although connectivity was gradually returning on Sunday.
The "burden" lies with Israel to distinguish between snuffies and innocent civilians in Gaza, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CNN
...formerly the
Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
television.
Hagari again urged Paleostinian civilians to go south "to a safer area", but residents remained wary as air strikes continue.
Ibrahim Shandoughli, a 53-year-old from Jabaliya in northern Gaza, told AFP he and his family went nowhere.
"Where do you want us to evacuate to? All the areas are dangerous."
’PSYCHOLOGICAL GAMES’
In Israel, sympathy has swelled for the families whose loved ones were kidnapped by Hamas and are at heightened risk as the war intensifies.
Hamas has released four hostages, but this week said "almost 50" had been killed by Israeli strikes, a claim that was impossible to verify.
"We demanded that no action be taken that endangers the fate of our family members," said Meirav Leshem Gonen, the mother of hostage Romi Gonen.
After Hamas said it was prepared to release the hostages if Israel freed the Paleostinian prisoners it was holding, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant accused the group of playing "psychological games".
"Hamas is cynically using those who are dear to us -- they understand the pain and the pressure," Gallant told relatives of hostages, according to a statement released by his office.
Ifat Kalderon, whose relatives are believed held in Gaza, told AFP she supported the idea of a prisoner release in exchange for the hostages.
"Take them, we don’t need them here," she said, referring to Paleostinian detainees.
The ground operations have heightened fears that Israel’s other enemies -- the Iran-allied "axis of resistance" forces in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, Syria, Iraq and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
-- could enter the conflict.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi warned on X, formerly Twitter, that Israel’s "crimes have crossed the red lines, which may force everyone to take action".
Top ally the United States has warned Israel’s enemies to stay out and strengthened its military presence in the region.
Skirmishes have intensified on the Israeli-Lebanese border with Iran-backed Hamas ally Hezbollah, raising fears of a new front.
On Sunday snuffies in south Lebanon fired rockets towards Israel, which has responded with strikes, in a fresh escalation along the border.
Violence has also spiked in the occupied West Bank since the October 7 attacks, with more than 110 Paleostinians killed, according to the territory’s health ministry.