Extreme U.S./Zionist Violence in Northern Gaza, Lebanon
and Occupied Territories
Resistance Organizations Continue Courageous and Steadfast Actions to Defeat U.S./Israeli Zionists
Resistance targets Merkava tank in northern occupied Palestine, October 25, 2024
The U.S. use of force to impose its hegemony and control countries and peoples who do not submit to its dictate has now given rise to the extreme violence of the U.S./Zionist forces in northern Gaza. Neither the U.S. nor its Genocide Cartel can continue to claim these atrocities are "collateral damage" while Israel is "defending itself." Once again, the peoples of the world are reduced to spectators while the U.S. gives itself and is given carte blanche to make deals to reach whatever transitory settlement it thinks it can cobble together prior to the U.S. election, meanwhile giving the Zionists time to commit the most abhorrent crimes with impunity.
For their part, the Resistance organizations continue courageous and steadfast actions to defeat the U.S./Israeli Zionists. Reports also inform that Hamas has launched a campaign of intensive political and diplomatic talks to foil the implementation of what is called the General's Plan and to stop the abhorrent crimes in the Gaza Strip, specifically in northern Gaza.[1] According to news sources, senior-level Hamas delegations have been visiting Türkiye, Qatar, and Russia, while contacts continue with Egypt, the United Nations and Iran, as well as a number of other countries.
In a statement issued Thursday, October 24, Hamas said its efforts are to warn against the General's Plan being implemented by Israel and the consequent destruction, bloody massacres, organized displacement, deprivation of food, medicine, and water, and the destruction of the entire infrastructure, especially hospitals, in northern Gaza.
The resistance of the Hamas Movement's Al-Qassam Brigades in northern Gaza continues as courageous and steadfast as ever. On October 28 and 29, the Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, reported that on each day an Israeli Merkava tank had been targeted with Shuath explosive devices. The attack on October 28 totally destroyed the tank. On October 29, the Israeli Occupation Forces announced that three of its soldiers and an officer from Unit 888, known as the "Wraith Unit," had been killed in Jabalia, while another officer was injured. Similarly the Brigades informed that on October 27, they "targeted a Zionist troop carrier and two D9 military bulldozers with ground explosives around the eastern cemetery, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Strip" and "targeted a Zionist Merkava 4 tank with a Shuath explosive near Al-Nathir Station in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip." The Brigades announced on October 22 that a successful operation had targeted the Israeli military's command centre in northern Gaza.
According to the Brigades, their fighters launched an anti-fortification TPG shell at the headquarters near the Jabalia camp, killing and wounding Israeli soldiers. Following the strike, Al-Qassam forces engaged the Israeli troops in fierce combat using light and medium machine guns, ultimately inflicting further casualties. As part of this assault, the resistance fighters observed two Israeli evacuation helicopters landing at the site, underscoring the extent of the damage dealt to the Israeli forces. This headquarters, equipped with advanced "Lotus" cameras with a 45-kilometre range, has been central to Israel's operations in northern Gaza, where brutal violence against Palestinian civilians has escalated dramatically.
Elsewhere, in central Gaza, Al-Quds Brigades (Islamic Jihad) on October 29 informed, "We bombed with a number of mortar shells a gathering of the Zionist enemy soldiers on the supply line in the Netzarim axis." Also on October 29, Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades released footage showing mortar attacks on an Israeli command and control site in Jhar Al-Dik in central Gaza, in coordination with Al-Quds Brigades. On October 27, Al-Quds informed, "We bombed, with a barrage of mortar shells, gatherings of the Zionist enemy in the Netzarim axis south of Gaza City" and that in "conjunction with the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, we bombarded Zionist enemy gatherings in the Juhr Al-Dik area with a number of standard 60-caliber mortar shells."
Familes in Jabalia are forced to flee by U.S./Zionist aggression, October 21, 2024.
Meanwhile, the U.S./Zionist violence is so extreme that the Palestinian civil defence organization announced that it has halted its operations in northern Gaza, decrying the Israeli occupation's devastating aggression and threats. The civil defence spokesman in northern Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said in a brief statement on October 24: "We regret to announce that we are no longer able to provide humanitarian services in the entire North Governorate due to the Israeli occupation forces' threats to kill and bomb civil defence crews unless they leave Jabalia refugee camp." The statement also noted that "Israeli occupation forces in the Sheikh Zayed area arrested five of our staff and took them to an undisclosed location."
The depravity of the U.S./Israeli violence against the Palestinian people knows no limits. Palestinian media and eyewitness accounts have revealed horrifying scenes of Israeli forces committing "field executions" and sniper attacks on civilians in the northern Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera aired a harrowing video showing Israeli soldiers executing a child in Jabalia Al-Balad, while other footage from Beit Lahia documented similar extrajudicial killings of civilians by Israeli snipers.
The bombings and invasions have turned densely populated areas like Jabalia into scenes of carnage, with dozens of bodies left in the streets due to Israel's ongoing blockade, which has also prevented medical teams and journalists from reaching the victims. Schools turned into shelters for tens of thousands of civilians have been transformed into sites of execution by Israeli forces. Testimonies collected by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirm that the Israeli army carried out these executions without provocation, gunning down civilians trapped in the besieged schools.
More than 200 people from the Jabalia area have been arrested and detained, branded as terrorists, as part of the Israeli campaign to empty the northern Gaza Strip of its population. Hospitals in northern Gaza are on the brink of collapse from the criminal Israeli attacks. Kamal Adwan hospital is being decimated, and on October 25, 44 health workers including the hospital's director were abducted by Israeli forces. Patients are being forcibly removed, while generators running the hospital have been destroyed along with the solar-powered electricity system. Al-Awda hospital is surrounded by Israeli forces, and the Indonesian Hospital was forced to close after nearby streets were bombed.
The Occupation forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on October 25 at around 2:00 am local time (12:00 am GMT), which has completely closed down Northern Gaza's health system, a health official said. The assault began with air strikes targeting the hospital and its courtyards, including the medical oxygen generator, according to Dr Muir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian health ministry. The bombing of the oxygen supply caused the deaths of children in the hospital and wounded medical staff, he said.
A few hours after the air strikes, Israeli troops raided the hospital and called on all patients, including those in Intensive Care, to gather in the courtyard. "Israeli soldiers destroyed all drug inventories at the hospital yesterday, claiming they were looking for militants. Now, all drug stocks have been deliberately damaged to prevent doctors from saving the lives of the wounded," the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
"Hundreds of patients, medical staff and some displaced people from homes near the hospital, who had sought shelter there from the continuous shelling, have been detained," the statement added.
After Israeli troops withdrew from the hospital, quadcopters began firing at it, injuring more people inside. Northern Gaza's health system is now completely out of service. The other two hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and al-Awda Hospital, ceased operations in recent days due to Israeli attacks and severe shortages of food, medicine and fuel.
The following day, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the health situation in the north of Gaza as "catastrophic" due to the ongoing Israeli military operations around and inside medical facilities. He deplored the Israeli occupation army's damage and destruction of the hospital's facility and medical supplies during their siege of the hospital. Moreover, he slammed Israel for targeting the health care system in the Gaza Strip during the over one-year-old genocide, stressing the need to protect medical facilities and staff.
"WHO cannot stress loudly enough that hospitals must be shielded from conflict at all times," WHO's Director-General said, reemphasizing that "any attack on health care facilities is a violation of international humanitarian law."
"The only path to safeguarding what remains of Gaza's collapsing health care system is an immediate and unconditional ceasefire," he said.
The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric, issued a statement which said Guterres "is shocked by the harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction in the north, with civilians trapped under rubble, the sick and wounded going without life-saving health care, and families lacking food and shelter."
"Repeated efforts to deliver humanitarian supplies essential to survive -- food, medicine and shelter -- continue to be denied by the Israeli authorities, with few exceptions, putting countless lives in peril," Dujarric said. "In the name of humanity, the Secretary-General reiterates his calls for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and accountability for crimes under international law."
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese posted on social media on October 26: "The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch." In a separate post on October 27, Albanese said that 20,000 children are missing in Gaza, "some maimed beyond recognition. On top of the 17,000 killed in 12 months."
Joyce Msuya, acting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, also warned on October 26 that the 2.23 million residents of the small territory are at risk of dying. Msuya said that the "blatant disregard for basic humanity" by Israeli forces has to stop immediately. "What Israeli forces are doing in besieged north Gaza cannot be allowed to continue."
Jonathan Fowler, a spokesman for UNRWA, the UN agency overseeing the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza said, "The situation in north Gaza is like a catastrophe within a series of catastrophes." "Civilians are given no choice but to either leave or starve," UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said. UN human rights experts have repeatedly warned that Israel has been carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that has resulted in the deaths of children in Gaza. They described the regime's targeted starvation campaign as a form of genocidal violence that has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.
In related news, writing for Palestine Chronicle, Robert Inlakesh informs about a settler movement conference convoked by Israeli senior officials on Monday, October 21, calling for ethnic cleansing and the construction of Israeli settlements in Gaza. "Guarded by the Israeli military and organized by the settlement expansion organization known as Nachala, the conference attendees made it clear what they believed must be done in order to build their Jewish-Supremacist apartheid colonies." Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated that there will be a "transfer of all Gazan citizens" through "encouraging emigration" and that "we will offer them the opportunity to move to other countries because that land belongs to us."
"You will witness how Jews go to Gaza and Arabs disappear from Gaza," said the conference organizer and prominent settler movement leader Daniella Weiss. The Likud Party's Minister for Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women of Israel, May Golan, said that "taking territory" from Arabs is the best way to "hurt them the most."
This is not the first Israeli settlement conference held to discuss
the construction of illegal Jewish colonies in Gaza, Inlakesh points
out. Such conferences have been held since January with the first being
held in Tel Aviv, also receiving the endorsement of senior Israeli
government
officials.
Canada is a traitorous collaborator of the U.S./Zionist genocide in Gaza. It condones the crimes being committed under the guise that they are collateral damage. The hands of the Canadian government and all opposition parties, media and pundits who are part of this appeasement of the U.S./Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people are dripping with the blood of the Palestinian martyrs. They will never be able to wash it away no matter what they do. They have gone too far.
Note
1. The "Generals' Plan," initially proposed by General Giora Eiland, a former head of the Israeli army's operations department, envisions a division of Gaza into two parts, the Associated Press (AP) which has seen a copy of the plan explains. The plan proposes indefinite Israeli control over northern Gaza and the establishment of a new administration free of Hamas.
The copy of the plan seen by AP suggests that if this strategy succeeds in northern Gaza, it could be extended to other areas in the south, including tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, AP reports.
It explains: "Under this strategy, Palestinians would have a week to leave a third of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, after which the area would be declared a closed military zone.
"The plan includes a strict embargo on food, water, medicine, and fuel, and would label Palestinians who remain as 'militants,' potentially justifying lethal force. The goal is to split Gaza and create a non-Hamas-controlled administration. Ultimately, Gaza would be divided into two separate areas."
(Palestinian Information Center, Palestine Chronicle, Al Mayadeen, Press TV)
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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