Israel must end Rafah assault to confront Hezbollah in north: Army leaders An Israeli security source said 'more decisive action' is needed as Hezbollah continues to punish Israel with rocket and drone attacks The Cradle, News Desk, June 14, 2024 https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-must-end-rafah-assault-to-confront-hezbollah-in-north-army-leaders
Blind and deaf: how Israel lost the north Israel is under fire and on fire every day now. The Lebanese resistance has methodically eye-poked Israel's intelligence outposts and is destroying them every day, on camera. by Indrajit Samarajiva, The Cradle, June 9, 2024 https://thecradle.co/articles/blind-and-deaf-how-israel-lost-the-north Yemen says 145 ships targeted in support of Gaza as US laments 'deadly' threat Western naval missions have failed dramatically at stemming Yemen's pro-Palestine operations, with officials describing the battle as the 'most sustained combat that the US Navy has seen since World War II' The Cradle, News Desk, June 14, 2024 https://thecradle.co/articles/yemen-says-145-ships-targeted-in-support-of-gaza-as-us-laments-deadly-threat Yemen says two targeted ships sinking, renews warning against violating blockade Yemeni armed forces successfully targeted two commercial ships traveling through the Red Sea to Israeli ports in the past 72 hours The Cradle, News Desk, June 16, 2024 https://thecradle.co/articles/yemen-says-two-targeted-ships-sinking-renews-warning-against-violating-blockade How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel’s collapse, with Shir Hever Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada Podcast, June 10, 2024 https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/how-gaza-genocide-will-lead-israels-collapse-shir-hever Netanyahu opposed to Israeli military ‘tactical pauses’ for Gaza aid Al Jazeera, staff, June 16 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/16/netanyahu-opposed-to-israeli-military-tactical-pauses-for-gaza-aid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to plans announced by the military to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave. . . . “When the prime minister heard the reports of an 11-hour humanitarian pause in the morning, he turned to his military secretary and made it clear that this was unacceptable to him,” an Israeli official told the Reuters news agency. The military clarified that normal operations would continue in Rafah, the main focus of its ongoing assault in southern Gaza, where eight soldiers were killed on Saturday. . . . Netanyahu’s opposition to the tactical pauses underlined political tensions over the issue of aid coming into Gaza, where international organisations have warned of a growing humanitarian crisis and looming famine. . . . Far-right government ministers want to slash aid coming into Gaza further, even though it has been largely cut since Israel took over the vital Rafah border crossing. And for months, right-wing Israelis have been protesting and blocking roads to prevent aid shipments from reaching Gaza, further straining the flow of desperately needed aid to the territory. Prior to the May 6 seizure of the crossing, there was already an inadequate flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, especially into northern Gaza where famine has already taken hold. The spat was the latest in a series of clashes between members of the coalition and the military over the conduct of the assault on Gaza, now in its ninth month. It came a week after centrist former general Benny Gantz quit the government, accusing Netanyahu of having no effective strategy in Gaza. The divisions were laid bare last week in a parliamentary vote on a law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, with Defence Minister Yoav Gallant voting against it in defiance of party orders, saying it was insufficient for the needs of the military. Religious parties in the coalition have strongly opposed conscription for the ultra-Orthodox, drawing widespread anger from many Israelis, which has deepened as the war has gone on. Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi, the head of the military, said on Sunday that there was a “definite need” to recruit more soldiers from the fast-growing ultra-Orthodox community. . . . As fighting in Gaza has continued, a lower-level conflict across the Israel-Lebanon border is now threatening to spiral into a wider war as near-daily exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group have escalated. In a further sign that fighting in Gaza could drag on, Netanyahu’s government said on Sunday that it was extending until August 15 the period it would fund hotels and guest houses for residents evacuated from southern Israeli border towns. # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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