2023-10-31 10:54:25 New rocket alerts in Israeli community near Gaza
The rocket warning sirens from Gaza are continuing to resonate in the Israeli communities close to the Strip. The Israeli army reported it. During the latest attack, a house in Kibbutz Nirim was hit: according to the media, no victims were reported
2023-10-31 10:53:49 Today 80 aid trucks entered Gaza population
There are approximately 80 trucks entering Gaza today from the Rafah crossing. The Israeli Ministry of Defense made this known, indicating that in this way aid will increase considerably. Since last Monday, Israel has allowed entry to a total of 144 trucks with food, water and medicine
2023-10-31 08:01:47 Israel, commander of Hamas northern brigade battalion killed
The Israeli army announced that it had killed the Commander of the Beit Lahia battalion of the Hamas Northern Brigade, Nasim Abu Ajina, who directed «the massacre of last October 7 in Kibbutz Erez and in the Moshav of Netiv HaAsara». «In the past – he added – Abu Ajina commanded Hamas’ air defense and took part in the development of the terrorist organization’s drones and paragliders. Eliminating him significantly reduces Hamas’ efforts to counter Israeli ground activities.”
The IDF says fighter jets eliminated senior Hamas terrorist Nasim Abu Ajina, who directed Hamas’ massacres in Kibbutz Erez and Moshav Netiv HaAsara on October 7. Ajina served as commander of the Beit Lahia Battalion of Hamas’s Northern Brigade.
Footage: pic.twitter.com/XxSCDqjPeM— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 31, 2023
2023-10-31 07:43:28 Israel: numerous clashes against Hamas in Gaza
There have been “numerous fights between soldiers and terrorist cells” in the Israeli army’s ongoing operations inside Gaza.
The military spokesman said this, adding that both anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire were fired at the soldiers. “Soldiers,” he added, “killed terrorists and led air forces in real-time attacks on terror targets and infrastructure.”
2023-10-31 07:37:09 Israel: 300 Hamas targets hit
Around 300 Hamas targets were hit by the Israeli army in Gaza over the last day. The military spokesperson said this, including among these anti-tank missiles, launch stations and military compounds inside the terrorist organization’s tunnels.
2023-10-31 06:05:20 Palestinian sources: around 50 dead in night raids
Around 50 people, including many children, were killed and many others injured this evening by new air raids by the Israeli army on Gaza Stripaccording to Palestinian sources cited by local media.
by Marco Ventura
Three desperate women sit against a white majolica wall and only one, the one in the middle, Daniel Aloni, speaks directly into a camera. To her right, Yelena Trupanov nods, underlining one sentence or another of her prisoner companion who becomes more and more agitated and finally screams with all the breath she has in her throat and an anguish no longer held back: «Now! Free us now! To his left, Rimon Kirsht looks at the ground with her head bowed, absorbed in her nightmares. It is the first video released by Hamas with the appeal for Israeli hostages, three women kidnapped on October 7 and taken to Gaza. Each one already has the weight of mourning in their chest. «Hello Bibi Netanyahu», begins Daniel. He enunciates the words in a crescendo of anger and pain. «We have been prisoners of Hamas for 23 days. We know there should have been a ceasefire, you should have freed us all, and instead we are here under the bombs… Release their prisoners, free us, let us return to our families! Or do you want to kill us all using our own army? Isn’t it enough that Israeli citizens were killed? We are paying for your failure, political and military. You promised to free us and instead we are being punished for that mess of yours on October 7th. Nobody came to our aid, nobody took care of us. We are innocent, we pay taxes to the state. But we are prisoners and you want to kill us.” Finally, the heartfelt, shouted appeal: «Free us now! Now!”. At the top of my lungs.
Daniel is not alone in her prison. Almost everything is known about the three female hostages. She was kidnapped on October 7 with her 6-year-old daughter Emilia while she was visiting her twin sister, Sharon Aloni Konio, on the Nir Oz kibbutz. Sharon was taken away along with her husband and 3-year-old twin daughters. Yelena was staying on the same kibbutz with her mother, her son, and her son’s girlfriend. All seized. The husband was killed immediately. Nothing is known about Rimon’s husband, kidnapped in the Nirim kibbuts, at best she is among the hostages. To the accusations of Daniel Aloni, terrified of Hamas and perhaps with a precise script to follow, Prime Minister Netanyahu responds with a message. “I hug you. Our hearts go out to you and all the other hostages. We are doing everything we can to bring all the abductees home.” Then, on the video: «Hamas wanted to implement cruel psychological propaganda».
INSIGHTS
Negotiations continue in Qatar, Lebanon and Iran.
But in Tehran the Ayatollahs make it known that any attempt to free the hostages clashes with the continuation of the Israeli ground operation. The director of the Mossad, David Barnea, flew to Qatar over the weekend. «Seeing the images of these three hostages calling for freedom and even more so those of a child in the arms of an ogre in a Kibbutz, the first thing that comes to mind is to say: let’s do anything to free them», says Alfredo Mantici , former head of analysts at Sisde and professor of Intelligence at Unitt.
THE ANALYSIS
«Then, however, a more rational reflection takes over: on 7 October Hamas not only carried out a terrorist act involving the taking of hostages, but declared war on the State of Israel with a surprise action comparable to the Japanese one at Pearl Harbour, which but it mainly affected American soldiers and sailors.” The consequence is that «more than hostages, in Gaza there are prisoners of war, who throughout history have been victims of their compatriots, for example in February 1945 the English at night, the Americans during the day, bombed Dresden killing more than a thousand allied prisoners in a field on the outskirts of the city.” Furthermore, while the Entebbe hostages were all grouped together, in this case they probably “were separated and distributed in dozens of small groups in highly sophisticated tunnels, the possibility of freeing them through raids is unrealistic”. If they are prisoners of war, “we must first win the war, so the Israeli military leaders think.” A cold analysis, which recalls the tragedies of 1945, rather than the Western hostages held by Saddam (“he realized the political mistake and freed them”) or by ISIS, in exchange for money. “The Empire of the Sun”, by JG Ballard, tells how the English civilian community of Shanghai was deported in ’42 to the Lunghua camp and liberated 3 years later. «At the end of the war», Mantici comments.
2023-10-31 10:28:39
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