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July 2 - June 30, 2024 <<Israel frees director of Gaza hospital, sparking internal political backlash... and <<Renewed Israeli orders to evacuate Khan Younis signal likely attack on Gazan city... and <<Anatomy of an Israeli disinformation campaign... and <<Another journalist killed in Israeli attack on Gaza... and <<More wounded Palestinians tell BBC the Israeli army forced them on to jeep... and <<Fighting rages in Gaza City's Shujaiya district for fourth day... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

June 28, 2024 Food for thought by Gino d'Artali: During WW2 hitler had 2 goals: the genocide of the jews and to completely scorch Germany when he realized the so-called 'third reich' was to be a fata morgana. History repeats itself where netanyahu has the same goals be it that he doesn't realise that scorching Gaza will lead to his fata morgana named israel that will be impossible to live too 'cause one cannot live on ashes no matter how you name it. False or fact? Read all about it here: <<Urbicide: 'Even if Israel stops bombing Gaza tomorrow, it will be impossible to live there'...

June 28 - 26, 2024 <<US to remove Gaza pier used to bring in humanitarian aid, and may not put it back... and <<'Worse than doomsday': Israel continues Gaza bombardment... and <<Gaza is in dire need of women's health services... and <<In the shadow of the war in Gaza, Israel continues its annexation of the West Bank... and <<UN aid chief warns of 'potentially apocalyptic' spread of Gaza war to Lebanon... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell! Click here to go throughout June and earler, 2024

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

Related news: June 25 - 23, 2024: Press' vests do not protect them and related stories June 15, 2024 "Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza, on the front lines of Gaza's destruction..."   Click here for earlier stories/news

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

Le Monde - July 2, 2024 - By Ghazal Golshiri
<<Israel frees director of Gaza hospital, sparking internal political backlash
The Palestinian doctor, who said he was subjected to 'severe torture' during his detention, was released after the Shin Bet confirmed that he met the criteria for release. Other sources indicate that the release of dozens of prisoners was due in part to a lack of space in Israeli prisons. In videos posted on social media on Monday, July 1, the director of Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, released by Israel after more than seven months in detention, appears slimmed down and weakened. The Palestinian doctor said he suffered <almost daily torture> while imprisoned in Israel. He was arrested at the end of November 2023, and the Israeli army had claimed that, under his direction, the hospital had been the <scene of numerous Hamas terrorist activities,> which he has always denied. He was neither tried nor convicted. According to the daily Haaretz, the decision to release the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, against whom a permanent detention order had been issued, was taken on the recommendations of the domestic intelligence service - the Shin Bet - and military intelligence, following a reassessment of the information concerning him. The Shin Bet confirmed that Abu Salmiya had passed a risk assessment <in relation to> other detainees and met the criteria for release. Two security sources also explained that this release, which took place at the same time as dozens of other Palestinian prisoners, was intended to reduce the number of detainees in the Sde Teiman detention camp in the Negev desert. This vast military base is the main place of detention for Palestinians arrested by the army in the Gaza Strip. Numerous testimonies report torture and ill-treatment. Israel had made a commitment to the High Court to close this prison and transfer all prisoners elsewhere by the end of June. However, according to a report submitted by the state to the court on June 30, 94 Palestinians were still being held there.
The release of Abu Salmiya has angered many Israeli political leaders. It took place without informing the <political echelon,> denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called it a <grave error.> <The place of this man, under whose responsibility our abductees were murdered and held, is in prison,> he declared.
Prisoners 'deprived of food'
The army, the prison administration and the Shin Bet are blaming each other for this decision. Abu Salmiya and the other released prisoners were transferred to medical centers in Gaza, such as Khan Yunis, in the south. <The Israeli occupation arrests everyone, and medical staff have died in Israeli prisons,> said Abu Salmiya, speaking at a press conference in Gaza shortly after his release. <The enemy has demonstrated its cruelty in dealing with prisoners and medical personnel. Hundreds of medical staff have been targeted and are being tortured in occupation prisons.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/02/israel-frees-director-of-gaza-hospital-sparking-internal-political-backlash_6676426_4.html

France 25 - June July 1, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Renewed Israeli orders to evacuate Khan Younis signal likely attack on Gazan city
The Israeli army ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis on Monday, a sign that troops are likely to launch a new ground assault into the Gaza Strip's second-largest city. The order suggests Khan Younis will be the latest target of Israel's raids into parts of Gaza it had previously invaded in the war, as it pursues regrouping Hamas militants. Much of Khan Younis was destroyed in a long assault earlier this year, but large numbers of Palestinians had moved back to escape another Israeli offensive in Gaza's southernmost city, Rafah.
The evacuation came as Israel released the director of what was once Gaza's largest hospital after holding him for seven months without charge or trial. Israel alleged the hospital had been used as a Hamas command center, which he and other Palestinian health officials have denied. The doctor said he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and tortured. The decision to release Mohammed Abu Selmia raised questions over Israel's claims surrounding Shifa Hospital, which Israeli forces have raided twice since the start of the war with Hamas. The hospital was left severely damaged after the raids. Abu Selmia's release triggered an uproar across Israel's political spectrum. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office called it <a grave mistake.> Government ministers and opposition leaders expressed outrage and insisted Abu Selmia played a role in Hamas’ alleged use of the hospital - although Israeli security services rarely unilaterally free prisoners if they have a suspicion of militant links. Monday's evacuation order covered the eastern half of Khan Younis and a large swath of the Gaza Strip’s southeast corner. Earlier in the day, the army said a barrage of rockets out of Gaza was fired from Khan Younis. As night fell, streams of civilians trudged on foot beside a steady flow of vehicles as people began making their way out of the evacuation zone. A woman dragged a rolling suitcase with a little girl riding on top. Others carried a few crucial belongings - mattresses, clothing, plastic buckets for washing, an electric fan. Trucks were piled high with possessions and furniture.
<We received a message on our mobile phones> to evacuate, said one displaced woman Zeinab Abu Jazar, holding back tears. <Look at these children, how they walk. We did not find a car to ride in.> Israel told people to move to Muwasi, a coastal area designated by the Israeli army as a safe zone and which has become filled with crowded and unsanitary tent camps. The order suggested a new assault into Khan Younis was imminent. Israeli forces fought for weeks in Khan Younis earlier this year and withdrew, claiming to have destroyed Hamas battalions. But in other places where the military has made similar claims, renewed raids have underscored Hamas' capabilities. Last week, the military ordered an evacuation from the north Gaza district of Shijaiyah, and intensive fighting has followed. Netanyahu said Monday that the military was <making progress toward ending the phase of the destruction of Hamas' terror army.> But he said forces will continue to <target their remains going forward.> More fighting in the Khan Younis area could further hamper Palestinians' access to much-needed potable water. Included in the evacuation zone is a water line that Israel installed following criticism over its cutoff of water to the strip early in the war. Also in the zone is the area surrounding the Kerem Shalom crossing, the major aid crossing to southern Gaza, and an aid route inside the territory that Israel has said it would safeguard. Most of Gaza's population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, with many displaced multiple times. Israeli restrictions, fighting and the breakdown of public order have hindered the delivery of humanitarian aid, fueling widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the new evacuation order <just shows yet again that no place is safe in Gaza> for Palestinian civilians. <It's another stop in this deadly circular movement that the population in Gaza has to undergo on a regular basis,> he said in a statement calling for a cease-fire. The decision to release Abu Selmia and 54 other Palestinian detainees back into Gaza appeared to be meant to free up space in overcrowded detention centers. Since the start of the war, Israeli forces have detained thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Many are being held without charge or trial in what is known as administrative detention. <Our detainees have been subjected to all kinds of torture behind bars,> Abu Selmia told a news conference. <There was almost daily torture.> He said guards used batons to beat detainees and terrorized them with dogs. He said some detainees had limbs amputated because of poor medical care. He said a beating caused his head to bleed and guards broke his finger. The allegations could not be independently confirmed but matched other accounts of Palestinians who have been held in Israeli custody. There was no immediate response from the prison service, which has denied similar accusations. Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital in November, alleging that Hamas had created an elaborate command and control center inside. Abu Selmia and other staff denied the allegations and accused Israel of recklessly endangering thousands of patients and displaced people sheltering there. Abu Selmia was detained on Nov. 22. After its first raid on Shifa Hospital, the military uncovered a tunnel beneath it leading to two empty rooms, as well as evidence that militants had brought wounded hostages to the facility. But the evidence fell short of showing an extensive base as claimed. Israel has since raided other Gaza hospitals on similar allegations, forcing them to shut down or dramatically reduce services. Amid the uproar over Abu Selmia's release, the various Israeli state organs responsible for detentions scrambled to shift blame. Netanyahu's office said Abu Selmia <belongs in prison> and that the prime minister had ordered a thorough review into how the release happened. It said the decision was made <without the knowledge of the political echelon or the heads of the organizations.>
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's far-right national security minister who controls the country's police and prison service, blamed the Defense Ministry.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's office said prisoner releases are the responsibility of the prison service and the Shin Bet internal security agency. The prison service said the decision was made by the Shin Bet and the army, and released a document ordering his release that was signed by an army reserve general. The Shin Bet said Abu Selmia had passed a risk assessment, <compared to other detainees.> It said the government had decided against its advice to release detainees determined to be less of a threat to free up space. Israel launched its offensive after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, in which Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people across southern Israel and took another 250 hostage. In its campaign, Israel has killed at least 37,900 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were civilians or fighters.
(AP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240702-renewed-israeli-orders-to-evacuate-khan-younis-signal-likely-attack-on-gazan-city

Sky News - July 1, 2024
<<Israel orders mass evacuation of Palestinians from part of Khan Younis in Gaza
It comes the head of Gaza's main hospital, al Shifa, was released by Israeli authorities. Mohammed Abu Selmia alleged that he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and were tortured. The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israel wrapped up its offensive in the city earlier this year and withdrew most of its forces, but this indicates that troops could soon return. Much of Khan Younis was already destroyed in a long assault earlier this year, but large numbers of Palestinians have since moved back in to escape another Israeli offensive in Gaza's southern-most city, Rafah. It comes as Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is almost finished with eliminating Hamas' military capabilities in Gaza. Some 37,900 Palestinians have been killed and more than 87,000 injured in the ongoing military offensive by the IDF, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said. Residents of several neighbourhoods in eastern Khan Younis said they had received audio messages from Israeli phone numbers ordering them to leave their homes. In a statement on Monday, the Israeli military said rockets fired into Israel had been fired from the Khan Younis area. Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas - both of whom are backed by Iran - said its fighters fired rockets towards several Israeli communities near the fence with Gaza. The volley of about 20 rockets caused no casualties, the Israeli military said.
Al Shifa hospital director released
Also on Monday, Israel released the director of Gaza's main hospital, al Shifa, after detaining him for seven months. Speaking after his release, Mohammed Abu Selmia alleged that he and other detainees were held under harsh conditions and were tortured. He was held without charge or trial over allegations the facility had been used as a Hamas command centre - claims he and other Palestinian health officials have denied. <Our detainees have been subjected to all kinds of torture behind bars,> he said. <There was almost daily torture.> He said guards broke his finger and caused his head to bleed during beatings, in which they used batons and dogs. There was no immediate response from the prison service, which has previously denied similar accusations.>>
Source incl. video:
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-orders-mass-evacuation-of-palestinians-from-part-of-khan-younis-in-gaza-13161980

Le Monde - July 1, 2024 - COLUMN: Jean-Pierre Filiu - Historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris
<<Anatomy of an Israeli disinformation campaign
Benjamin Netanyahu's government has financed an anti-Palestinian smear campaign targeting Jewish, African-American and progressive audiences in the US, writes columnist Jean-Pierre Filiu. The longer the war in Gaza lasts and the worse it gets, the more the parallel between Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin becomes apparent. Both have nothing but contempt for their adversaries, who they stigmatize in the most degrading terms.
The Israeli prime minister has no more respect for humanitarian law during conflicts than the Russian president, particularly when it comes to protecting civilians. This exposes them both to prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Both leaders willingly rewrite the history of the Second World War to better equate their enemies with <Nazis> to be ruthlessly eliminated. Nevertheless, Western opinion seems far more aware of the scale and threat of Russian disinformation campaigns than of the risk posed by comparable operations on behalf of Netanyahu and his government. It's true that pro-Israeli propaganda, referred to under the generic term <hasbara> (<explanation> in Hebrew), was for a long time presented as such before it resorted to more roundabout means.
'Pallywood' and other lies
When Netanyahu returned to the helm of government in December 2022 after a break of a year and a half, he entrusted the information portfolio to one of his Likud loyalists, the combative Galit Distel Atbaryan, who has been qualified as <minister of propaganda> during heated debates in the Knesset. After the terrorist bloodbath of October 7, 2023, Atbaryan - on social media - called for the <erasure of all of Gaza from the face of the Earth,> the expulsion of the <monsters> who inhabit it, and the killing of those who refuse to leave, without hesitation. However, these outrages did not save Atbaryan's job, or even her ministry, which was simply abolished as a result of the propaganda operations now carried out directly by the Israeli army and its very active spokesmen in various foreign languages. The ban on all international press access to the Gaza Strip facilitates campaigns to defame Palestinian sources, to relativize or even contest the terrible human toll of Israeli strikes. This includes a mythical <Pallywood> - a polemical amalgam of Palestine and Hollywood - being accused of staging the funerals of bombing victims in Gaza and even of providing plastic infants to extras paid to mourn children they never even had. The parallel is striking with the lies spread by the Kremlin when Russia struck a maternity hospital in March 2022 in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol. Such an Israeli campaign reached its climax when President Joe Biden himself added credibility to the fable of the beheading of 40 babies by Hamas in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza (the youngest victim of the killing in this locality was 14 years old).>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/01/anatomy-of-an-israeli-disinformation-campaign_6676349_4.html


Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 1, 2024
<<Another journalist killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Journalist Muhammad Abu Sharia, managing editor of Shams News Agency, was killed in an Israeli strike targeting his home, the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement on Monday.
News Center- Journalist Muhammad Abu Sharia, managing editor of Shams News Agency, was injured in an Israeli strike targeting his home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City on June 29. He lost his life at the hospital, the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement on Monday.
153 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the media office added.
<Israel deliberately kills journalists in Gaza in order to silence the voice of Palestine, to hide the facts, and to prevent journalists from reporting in Gaza,> the media office said in its previous statements.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/another-journalist-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-35301?page=1

BBC - June 30, 2024 - By Lucy Williamson
<<More wounded Palestinians tell BBC the Israeli army forced them on to jeep
Samir said he was <waiting for death> after being picked up by Israeli soldiers
Two more Palestinian men, injured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank last week, have told the BBC that Israeli soldiers forced them on to the bonnet of an army jeep and drove them - sometimes at speed - along village roads. Their accounts came days after footage of 23-year-old Mujahid Abadi Balas clinging to the bonnet of what appears to be the same Israeli army jeep sparked international outrage. The BBC has now spoken to two men who allege similar treatment during the operation in Jabariyat, on the outskirts of Jenin, last Saturday. 25-year-old Samir Dabaya, now in hospital in Jenin, says he was shot in the back by Israeli forces during the Jabariyat operation, and lay face-down and bleeding for hours, until soldiers came to assess him.
Footage shows wounded Palestinian strapped to Israeli army jeep
When they turned him over and found that he was alive, he was beaten with a gun, he says, before being picked up, carried to the jeep and thrown onto it. <They took off my [trousers]. I wanted to hold onto the car, but [one soldier] hit my face and told me not to. Then he started driving,> he said. <I was waiting for death.> Samir showed us video footage from a security camera which appears to show him semi-naked, lying on a fast-moving jeep with a number 1 clearly marked on its side. The location seems to match where the operation took place, but there is no date or time visible on the recording. Another Palestinian man, Hesham Isleit, also told the BBC he was shot twice during the operation in Jabariyat and forced onto the same military jeep, marked with the number 1. Palestinian man Hesham Isleit, pictured in a black t-shirt. He says he was tied to a jeep by the Israeli army. Hesham Isleit says he was tied to a jeep by Israeli forces after being shot. He described <shooting from all sides> and said he tried to run away but was shot in the leg, after which an army unit arrived to collect him and another man. <They ordered us to stand up, and undressed us,> he said, <then they asked us to get onto the front of the jeep.> The car was so hot, it felt <like fire>, he says. <I was barefoot and undressed. I tried to put my hand on the jeep and I couldn't, it was burning hot. I was telling them it was very hot, and they were forcing me to get on – telling me that if I didn’t want to die, I should do it.> We put these allegations to Israel's army; it said the cases were under review.
In response to the original video of Mujahid Abadi Balas last week, the Israeli army said that he was tied to the jeep in <a violation of orders and procedures> and that his case would be investigated. <The conduct of the forces in the video of the incident does not conform to the values of the IDF,> it said in a written response. From his hospital bed, Mujahid told the BBC he hadn't expected to survive the experience, and was saying his final prayers as he lay on the moving vehicle. He showed the BBC a second video, recorded at some distance, that appears to support his account of being thrown onto the vehicle by Israeli soldiers. Mujahid, who was caught on camera being put on the front of a jeep, said he thought he would not survive. <Once they confirmed that I had nothing on me [no weapon], they came down from the jeep and started beating me on the face, the head, and the sites of my injuries,> he said. <The soldiers picked me up by my wrists and ankles, and [swung me] right and left, before throwing me in the air.> He says he fell to the ground, was picked up and swung again, before being thrown onto the jeep, and driven to a nearby house. The army said it was in Jabariyat last weekend to arrest wanted suspects, and that during the operation <terrorists opened fire at troops, who responded with live fire>. Hesham said the house that he and Mujahid were in that day belonged to Majd al-Azmi, a neighbour and friend, who was arrested during the operation and remains in Israeli custody. All three men say they were unarmed, and all were quickly released by the army after identity checks.
Its spokesman, Shai Parnes, said that since the 7 October Hamas attacks, violence against Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers has reached record levels.
<It's more radicalised, it's more brutalised, it's more extreme,> he said. <Since 7 October, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed - more than 100 of them minors - and every day there are invasions of Palestinian cities.> Jenin has been a particular target for Israeli raids since the 7 October Hamas attacks, with more than 120 Palestinians - civilians and fighters - killed by Israeli soldiers there. But armed men still patrol Jenin camp where fighters backed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad are based, and residents in the town say there’s no sign of the war subsiding. <What the army doesn't know is that resistance is an idea planted in the heart,> one resident said. <It won't stop. If one is killed, five more will replace him.> During an Israeli operation this week, bombs buried deep in the roads around the camp hit two units as they came in - killing one soldier and wounding 16 others. This battle began long before the Gaza War, but tactics and attitudes here are shifting in its wake, and the behaviour of Israeli troops is under scrutiny in the West Bank too. This is different territory to Gaza, but it's the same enemies, locked in the same wider war.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4y91032d1o

strapped to jeep
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqq5n8911do

France 25 - June 30, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Fighting rages in Gaza City's Shujaiya district for fourth day
Heavy battles and bombardment hit Gaza City's Shujaiya district for a fourth day on Sunday, months after Israel declared Hamas's command structure dismantled in the northern area. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the devastated neighbourhood, where the army said it has fought Palestinian militants both <above and below ground> in tunnels.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240630-fighting-rages-in-gaza-city-s-shujaiya-district-for-fourth-day

France 25 - June 30, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Heavy bombardment continues into fourth day in Gaza City's Shujaiya district. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the devastated area as Israeli forces reported they had eliminated several targets, located weapons and conducted raids on booby-trapped compounds. Heavy battles and bombardment hit Gaza City's Shujaiya district for a fourth day on Sunday, months after the Israeli army declared Hamas's command structure dismantled in the northern area. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the devastated neighbourhood, where the army said it has fought Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants both <above and below ground> in tunnels. The military said troops had <eliminated several terrorists, located weapons and conducted targeted raids on booby-trapped combat compounds> over the past 24 hours while the air force had <struck dozens> of the militants' infrastructure sites. It also reported clashes in central Gaza and the southern Rafah area, a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the <intense phase> of the war raging since October 7 was nearing an end.
The United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA estimated that <60,000 to 80,000 people were displaced> from Shujaiya since new fighting broke out there on Thursday and the army issued evacuation orders. Months of on-and-off talks towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal have meanwhile made little progress, with Hamas saying Saturday there was <nothing new> in a revised plan presented by US mediators. United States President Joe Biden late last month outlined what he called an Israeli plan for a six-week truce and exchange of some hostages for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. Washington last week presented <new language> for parts of the proposed deal, according to US news site Axios. A Hamas official in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, confirmed that the Islamist movement had received the latest proposal but said it presented <no real progress in the negotiations to stop the aggression>. Hamdan labelled the proposals <a waste of time> that aimed to give <additional time for the occupation (Israel) to practise genocide>.
'Everything is rubble'
The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza although the army says 42 are dead. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 37,877 people, also mostly civilians, according to data from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Six more people were killed in an air strike at dawn targeting a family house in Rafah, said medics at Nasser Hospital where the bodies were taken. Artillery shelling also struck southern areas of Rafah city, witnesses said. United Nations and other relief agencies have voiced alarm over the dire humanitarian crisis and threat of starvation the war and Israeli siege have brought for Gaza's 2.4 million people. <It's really unbearable,> said Louise Wateridge from UNRWA, the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, speaking Friday after returning to the city of Khan Yunis. <Everything is rubble,> she said. <And yet people are living there again... There's no water there, there's no sanitation, there's no food. And now, people are living back in these buildings that are empty shells.> Former hostage Noa Argamani, 26, who was rescued in a special forces raid on June 8, said in a video address that <we can't forget about the hostages who are still in Hamas captivity, and we must do everything possible to bring them back home>.
'An obliterating war'
The Gaza conflict has also led to soaring tensions on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, where the army has traded cross-border fire with the Hezbollah movement since October. Hezbollah is part of the <axis of resistance> of Iran-backed armed groups against Israel and its Western allies. The grouping also includes militants in Iraq and Yemen's Huthi rebels. Israel's military said this month that its plans for a Lebanon offensive had been <approved and validated>, prompting Hezbollah to respond that no part of Israel would be spared in a full-blown conflict. Iran's mission to the UN, on social media Saturday, said it <deems as psychological warfare the Zionist regime's propaganda about intending to attack Lebanon>. It also warned its arch foe that, <should it embark on full-scale military aggression, an obliterating war will ensue>. <All options, incl. the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts, are on the table.> Iran, which backs Hamas, has praised the October 7 attack as a success but has denied any involvement.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240630-fighting-rages-in-gaza-city-s-shujaiya-for-fourth-day

'Food for thought': Strong (Hamas) soldiers move in silence. Gino d'Artali

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