Israel Declares War After Hamas Attacks
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IDF: 84% of damaged vehicles go back to war
Hamas has always had a cost advantage arms race versus Israel with its rockets being much cheaper than Iron Dome interceptors.
Some 84% of IDF land vehicles, including tanks, armored vehicles, and D9 bulldozers, return to service in Gaza even after they have been damaged in battle, the IDF said Sunday.
The IDF said that the damage in battle that its vehicles recover from includes wear and tear, but even includes being hit by rocket-propelled grenades.
IDF sources said this kind of return was a huge morale boost for the military.
At the same time, the IDF admitted that some of these vehicles might not be in ultimate war-fighting condition for a more dangerous adversary like Hezbollah.
Further, multiple IDF officials dodged questions about whether the four to five million price tag of defending against Iran’s attack on Israel with around 350 threats on April 14 could be overcome and restored in terms of inventory within the short or medium term.
Hamas has always had a cost advantage arms race versus Israel with its rockets being much cheaper than Iron Dome interceptors.
But Arrow interceptors, such as were used in large numbers to shoot down around 120 ballistic missiles fired by Tehran, are off-the-scale more expensive compared even to Iron Dome interceptors, being that they launch into Earth’s atmosphere against a far more advanced “foe.”
The IDF also said it continues to carry out nightly constant resupply missions to forces within Gaza and is taking care of soldiers who are “stuck” there during the Passover holiday season.
This can even include providing vegetarian meals and other specific needs.
In terms of actual activity, the IDF sent out no updates on attacks against Hamas in Gaza on Sunday.
IDF Chief of Staff approves new Gaza battle plans
Despite that, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi approved new battle plans for Gaza on Sunday, though it was unclear if this was more standard plans or a larger move against Rafah.Next, the IDF said Sunday that it was unaware that reports about potential US sanctions against its Netzah Yehuda Battalion were final.
“If a decision is made on the matter, it will be reviewed,” the IDF said, in its first remarks on the issue.The battalion has been involved in around half a dozen major controversial and violent incidents against Palestinians in the West Bank in recent years.
The military stated that the battalion is “participating in the war in the Gaza Strip, with courage and professionalism, while following the values and spirit of the IDF and the principles of international law.
“In recent years, the battalion’s troops have been at the center of operational activities around the clock, to protect the security of the citizens of the State of Israel, alongside being a leading battalion in the integration of ultra-Orthodox troops in the IDF,” said the IDF.
Regarding the controversial incidents, the army said, "The IDF is working and will continue to work to investigate every exceptional event substantively and in accordance with the law.”
Soldier succumbs to wounds sustained from Hezbollah drone attack
In the North, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke to IDF forces on the border with Syria, telling them that “we are increasing the readiness of our forces for potential attacks and we are clarifying our intelligence on the enemy, including constantly preventing a build-up of Iran-associated forces.”On the border with Lebanon, Israeli jets struck Hezbollah terror targets in several different locations in southern Lebanon overnight between Saturday and Sunday as well as later Sunday, said the IDF.
Jets attacked an observation post in the Odaisseh area, two military structures in the Khiam area, and facilities with terrorists in the Aytaal-shaab, al-Nukrah, and Majdal-Zun areas.
The IDF confirmed that Hezbollah had fired twice on Rosh Hanikra earlier Sunday. In response, it fired on the sources of the attacks and the al-Katarani area.
Also, Maj. (res.) Dor Zimel, 27, who was wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack in Arab al-Aramshe on Thursday, succumbed to his wounds on Sunday, the IDF announced.
Zimel was set to be married to his fiancée, Shir Sagiv, in just a month. Zimel and Sagiv lived in Even Yehuda.
He had served as a deputy company commander in the 8103rd Battalion of the Etzioni Brigade.
We must not fund UNRWA
The links between Hamas and the UNRWA are deep and well documented
Telegraph View21 April 2024 • 6:00amSoon after reports emerged that a number of staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) were accused of taking part in the October 7 attack, Britain – along with many other Western nations – rightly suspended payments to the body. Senior Tory MPs are now urging the Foreign Secretary not to restore UK funding to the agency, arguing it would be a “disgrace” to do so.
They are right. The accusations of participation were not a bolt from the blue. The links between Hamas and the UNRWA are deep and well documented. Even in this current conflict, UNRWA has quoted Hamas figures on Palestinian casualties without caveat. In February, the Israel Defense Forces said it had found a terrorist data centre running partly under the agency’s headquarters. Israel’s defence minister has said that more than 1,400 of UNRWA’s 13,000 workers in Gaza are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
But the problem with the agency goes deeper. It is becoming an insurmountable barrier to a peaceful solution. The 706 schools UNRWA operates have frequently fuelled an ideology defined by the rejection of Israel and helped radicalise generations of young Palestinians. A recent report compiled by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education uncovered geography textbooks with no mention of Israel, showing “Palestine” in its place. An Islamic studies book describes the goals of jihad as “terrorising the enemy” and “achieving martyrdom”.
For too long, naive foreign donors have supported UNRWA despite it actively working against the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians. The agency’s very existence, 75 years after it was created to provide temporary relief, maintains the corrupting idea that refugee status is hereditary. Anyone who was once or is descended from a Palestinian refugee is a refugee forever, unlike refugees of any other nationality, who lose that status once they become citizens of another country. This implies that every Palestinian has a “right to return” and reside in Israel.
So long as UNRWA exists, therefore, a two-state solution is impossible. It is no longer just a humanitarian agency, but a political tool used to threaten Israel’s security. The West must replace UNRWA with another body which can provide the relief it was designed to. Lord Cameron should listen to his colleagues.
"IDF officials dodged questions about whether the four to five million price tag of defending against Iran's attack on Israel with around 350 threats on April 14 could be overcome and restored in terms of inventory within the short or medium term"
Smiling genocide hides their fangs in which devours humanity.....IDF troops seem very happy
“Israel continues to concentrate wheeled and tracked vehicles for the upcoming operation in Rafah.
Strategically, it will not change anything for Israel, Hamas will suffer some losses, but will continue to resist, several thousand (at best) civilians will be killed and civilian infrastructure will be destroyed. The operation in Rafah is naturally not capable of solving any of Israel's strategic problems.”
Strategically, it will not change anything for Israel, Hamas will suffer some losses, but will continue to resist, several thousand (at best) civilians will be killed and civilian infrastructure will be destroyed. The operation in Rafah is naturally not capable of solving any of Israel's strategic problems.”
Look at these numbers
Government Media Office:
—
The Government Media Office has released an update on the key statistics of the genocidal war waged by the "israeli" occupation on Gaza Strip on the 200th day, Tuesday, April 23, 2024:
- 200 days of genocidal war.
- 3,025 massacres committed by the occupation army.
- 41,183 martyrs and missing persons.
- 34,183 martyrs reached hospitals.
- 14,778 child martyrs.
- 30 children martyred due to famine.
- 9,752 female martyrs.
- 485 medical staff martyrs.
- 67 civil defense martyrs.
- 140 journalist martyrs.
- 7,000 missing persons.
- 77,143 injured.
- 72% of the victims are children and women.
- 17,000 children living without one or both parents.
- 11,000 injured needing to travel for surgery.
- 10,000 cancer patients facing death and in need of treatment.
- 1,090,000 people suffering from infectious diseases due to displacement.
- 8,000 cases of viral hepatitis infections due to displacement.
- 60,000 pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare.
- 350,000 chronic patients at risk due to non-entry of medicines.
- 5,000 detainees from Gaza Strip during the genocidal war.
- 310 healthcare staff detained.
- 20 journalists detained with known names.
- 2 million displaced in Gaza Strip.
- 181 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
- 103 schools and universities completely destroyed.
- 309 schools and universities partially destroyed.
- 239 mosques completely destroyed.
- 317 mosques partially destroyed.
- 3 churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
- 86,000 housing units completely destroyed.
- 294,000 housing units partially destroyed and uninhabitable.
- 75,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza.
- 32 hospitals put out of service.
- 53 health centers put out of service.
- 160 health institutions targeted.
- 126 ambulances targeted by the occupation army.
- 206 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed.
- $30 billion in preliminary direct losses due to the genocidal war on Gaza Strip.
Government Media Office
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Government Media Office:
—
The Government Media Office has released an update on the key statistics of the genocidal war waged by the "israeli" occupation on Gaza Strip on the 200th day, Tuesday, April 23, 2024:
- 200 days of genocidal war.
- 3,025 massacres committed by the occupation army.
- 41,183 martyrs and missing persons.
- 34,183 martyrs reached hospitals.
- 14,778 child martyrs.
- 30 children martyred due to famine.
- 9,752 female martyrs.
- 485 medical staff martyrs.
- 67 civil defense martyrs.
- 140 journalist martyrs.
- 7,000 missing persons.
- 77,143 injured.
- 72% of the victims are children and women.
- 17,000 children living without one or both parents.
- 11,000 injured needing to travel for surgery.
- 10,000 cancer patients facing death and in need of treatment.
- 1,090,000 people suffering from infectious diseases due to displacement.
- 8,000 cases of viral hepatitis infections due to displacement.
- 60,000 pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare.
- 350,000 chronic patients at risk due to non-entry of medicines.
- 5,000 detainees from Gaza Strip during the genocidal war.
- 310 healthcare staff detained.
- 20 journalists detained with known names.
- 2 million displaced in Gaza Strip.
- 181 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
- 103 schools and universities completely destroyed.
- 309 schools and universities partially destroyed.
- 239 mosques completely destroyed.
- 317 mosques partially destroyed.
- 3 churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
- 86,000 housing units completely destroyed.
- 294,000 housing units partially destroyed and uninhabitable.
- 75,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza.
- 32 hospitals put out of service.
- 53 health centers put out of service.
- 160 health institutions targeted.
- 126 ambulances targeted by the occupation army.
- 206 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed.
- $30 billion in preliminary direct losses due to the genocidal war on Gaza Strip.
Government Media Office
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
New York Times had that report telling that between 4000 and 5000 fighters are still in northern Gaza !
Just the north damn
… I’m probably on the side that would say these fuckers don’t know what or who all is Hamas at this point
Gaza war: artificial intelligence is changing the speed of targeting and scale of civilian harm in unprecedented ways
The Israeli campaign in the Gaza Strip is described by experts as one of the most "relentless and deadly" in recent history and is also being coordinated in part with artificial intelligence (AI).
This is being used for any action in war, from identifying and prioritizing targets to assigning weapons to be used against those targets.
The AI systems Israel employs are trained to recognize traits believed to characterize people associated with Hamas's military wing, like being a member of the same WhatsApp group as a known militant, if you change your phone number and address every few months...
The systems analyze the data of all Gazans, thus allowing the algorithms to "predict" the probability that a person is a member of Hamas, that a building houses that person, or that that person has entered his house.
In this way, the program has managed to identify many more objectives, from 50 per year to 100 in one day, and has considerably reduced deliberation time.
The Lavender AI decision system identified 37,000 people as potential human targets. According to the IDF, the accuracy rate of this system reached 90%, although the details of manual verification of the system are classified.
That 10% inaccuracy is very important, since in the end it is a system that is used to decide whether those 37,000 targets live or die, so the consequences are potentially destructive for civilians.
An Israeli army officer commented that delegating decision-making trust to AI is seamless:
“Because of the scope and magnitude, the protocol was that even if you weren't sure the machine was okay, you knew it was statistically okay. So do it,” he declared.
It should be noted that the bosses who consider the Palestinians of Gaza as targets will not take into account that if their homes are destroyed, the population will inevitably change their address or give their phones to their loved ones (two of the conditions that the AI considers them to be suspected of belonging to Hamas). In this way, any civilian who has gone through these situations has become a suspect for the AI program.
The article reflects on the fact that AI should be considered in these cases "alters the interactions between humans, machines and humans, where those who execute algorithmic violence simply approve the result generated by the artificial intelligence system, and those who suffer violence are dehumanized in unprecedented ways."
As the article underscored it, the worst part for Israel is that all militant groups have their own network of tunnels (4000 fighters Hamas only not counting other like Islamic Jihad etc...) translation -> they'll pop out once Israelis get busy in Rafah and force them to redeploy troops up north ... feels like a never ending story to me !
ummmmmmmmm Israelis might have a real issue on their hands
“Iran and Pakistan in a joint statement:
- We call on the Security Council to stop Israel’s adventures in the region
- We urge the Security Council to prevent Israel from carrying out its illegal actions of attacking neighboring countries.”
“Iran and Pakistan in a joint statement:
- We call on the Security Council to stop Israel’s adventures in the region
- We urge the Security Council to prevent Israel from carrying out its illegal actions of attacking neighboring countries.”
That package is now passed...
Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah ahead of threatened invasion
Nidal Al-MughrabiApril 25, 20241:34 PM CDTUpdated 4 hours ago
CAIRO, April 25 (Reuters) - Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assaultdespite allies' warnings this could cause mass casualties.
Medics in the besieged Palestinian enclave reported five Israeli airstrikes on Rafah early on Thursday that hit at least three houses, killing at least six people including a local journalist.
"We are afraid of what will happen in Rafah. The level of alert is very high," Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told Reuters on Thursday.
"Some are leaving, they are afraid for their families but where can they go? They are not being allowed to go to the north and so are confined to a very small area."
The Gaza Strip is about 40 km (25 miles) long and between about 5 km (3 miles) and 12 km (7.5 miles) wide and is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
In the seventh month of a devastating air and ground war, Israeli forces also resumed bombarding northern and central areas of the enclave, as well as east of Khan Younis in the south. Israel's stated goal is to destroy Hamas, though it is unclear howthey would do so.
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A United Nations team visiting a site for a staging area and pier for maritime aid operations was forced to take cover in a bunker on Wednesday after the area came under attack, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
They were there for "some time," but there were no injuries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet was meeting "to discuss how to destroy the last vestiges, the last quarter of Hamas' battalions, in Rafah and elsewhere," government spokesperson David Mencer said.
He declined to say when or whether the classified forum might give a green light for a ground operation in Rafah.
Israel has killed at least 34,305 Palestinians, Gaza health authorities said on Thursday. The offensive has laid to waste much of the widely urbanised enclave, displacing most of its 2.3 million people and leaving many with little food, water or medical care.
A U.N. expert speaking after visits to Jordan and Egypt said aid agencies were seeing an increasing number of patients suffering from the acute lack of food in the enclave.
“What I've seen here was traumatising. Patients that previously arrived in Egypt primarily with explosive and other war injury related symptoms are now joined by increasing numbers of patients, often children, with chronic diseases and severe malnutrition,” Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Territories, told reporters in Cairo.
Israel is retaliating against an Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people and led to 253 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. Iranian-backed Hamas is sworn to Israel's destruction due to its occupation of Palestinian territories.
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Escalating Israeli warnings about invading Rafah, the last refuge for around a million civilians who fled Israeli forces further north earlier in the war, have nudged some families to leave for the nearby al-Mawasi coastal area or try to make their way to points further north, residents and witnesses said.
But many were confused over where they should go, saying their experience over the past 200 days of war had taught them that no place was genuinely safe.
Mohammad Nasser, 34, a father-of-three, said he had left Rafah two weeks ago and now lived in a shelter in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza to avoid being caught by surprise by an Israeli invasion and unable to escape.
"We escape from one trap into another, searching for places Israel calls safe before they bomb us there. It is like the rat and trap game," he told Reuters via a chat app.
"We are trying to adapt to the new reality, hoping it will become better, but I doubt it will."
Shaina Low, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council said there appeared to be fewer people in Rafah, which borders Egypt. She said teams on the ground had said people expect an invasion after the Jewish Passover holiday ends on April 30.
A senior Israeli defence official said on Wednesday Israel was poised to evacuate civilians before its attack on Rafah and had bought 40,000 tents that could house 10 to 12 people each.
Satellite images of Mawasi between Rafah, Khan Younis and the sea, an area of sand beaches and fields and stretching only around 5 by 3 km (three by two miles), showed significant camp settlements erected over the past two weeks.
BOMBING AND BODIES
Meanwhile, a Palestinian civil defence team called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers left the complex in Khan Younis.The Israeli military said allegations by Palestinian authorities that its forces had buried the bodies were "baseless and unfounded".
In the north, Israeli forces continued to pound Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Zeitoun, with some residents saying Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants were fighting Israeli ground forces with anti-tank rockets, mortar bombs and sniper fire.
The Palestine Telecommunications Company said internet services had again been cut off in central and southern Gaza on Thursday, blaming Israeli military operations.
Such outages have compounded the obstacles confronting efforts to get emergency aid to stricken civilians.
An aid worker who was part of Belgium's development efforts in Gaza died in one Israeli strike, the Belgian government said on Thursday, adding it was summoning the Israeli ambassador over the incident.
This man is rotten to the core. This is a great show of white supremacy. Rwanda never stood a chance with a genocide based on Christianity. A million deaths in a hundred days and the whole world was programmed to turn their backs. White power set the genocide up. Israel rehearsals is another phase of what happened in Rwanda. And Rwanda was a follow up of Jonestown.
