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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!

June 26 - 20, 2024 News and Editorial note: As usual I could easily and simply mark-up the most important headlines and end with... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell! ...but I'll give you keywords instead: - Genocide; - Starvation; - De-hydration and more, much more. But instead I say "Just read if you can and dare." 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 - June 28, 2024
<<US to remove Gaza pier used to bring in humanitarian aid, and may not put it back
Bad weather has prompted the US military to dismantle a pier used to supply the starving Gazan population with humanitarian aid. Officials say that they may not reinstall it. The pier built by the US military to bring aid to Gaza has been removed due to bad weather, and the US is considering not re-installing it unless the aid begins flowing out into the population again, several US officials said Friday. While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full. The pier has been used to get more than 8.6 million kilograms of food into Gaza but has faced multiple setbacks. Rough seas damaged the pier just days into its initial operations, forcing the military to remove it temporarily for repairs and then reinstall it. US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military movements, said the military could reinstall the pier once the bad weather passes in the coming days, but the final decision on whether to reinstall it hasn't been made. Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, acknowledged that she doesn't know when the pier will be reinstalled. She also said Friday that there is a need for more aid to come into Cyprus and be transported to the pier. She noted that the secure area onshore is <pretty close to full,> but that the intention is still to get aid into Gaza by all means necessary. She said the US is having discussions with the aid agencies about the distribution of the food. The big challenge has been that humanitarian convoys have stopped carrying the aid from the pier's storage area further into Gaza, to get it into civilian hands, because they have come under attack. The UN, which has the widest reach in delivering aid to starving Palestinians, on June 9 paused the distribution of food and other emergency supplies that had arrived through the pier. The pause came after the Israeli military used an area near the pier to fly out rescued hostages after a raid that killed more than 270 Palestinians , prompting a UN security review over concerns that aid workers' safety and neutrality may have compromised.
Le Monde with AP>>
Source and read more:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/28/us-to-remove-gaza-pier-used-to-bring-in-humanitarian-aid-and-may-not-put-it-back_6676087_4.html

France 25 - June 28, 2024 - Video by: Peter O'BRIEN
<<'Worse than doomsday': Israel continues Gaza bombardment
Israel continued its relentless bombardment of Gaza, killing people in the south, centre and north of the strip overnight Thursday. A funeral was held at Nasser hospital for those killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling, which struck between Rafah and Khan Younis. Meanwhile in central Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defence reported the deaths of several of its paramedics, in a strike near their headquarters.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240628-worse-than-doomsday-israel-continues-gaza-bombardment


Attack on Al-Mawasi area of Rafah
Jinha - Womens News Agency - June 28, 2024
<<At least four people killed in Israeli attack on Al-Mawasi area of Rafah
At least four people were killed in Israeli artillery strikes targeting tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah previously designated by Israel as a safe zone for Palestinians.
News Center- The Israeli army launched artillery strikes on the tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah previously designated by Israel as a safe zone for Palestinians. At least four people were killed and dozens injured in the Israeli artillery strikes on the tents early morning of Friday. The injured people were reportedly transferred to a hospital in Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery strikes target civilian houses
According to the local reports, Israel artillery strikes targeted civilian houses in the Shujayea and Tuffah neighborhoods of Gaza City on Thursday, killing and injuring many civilians, including children and women. The civil defense units transferred the injured people to Al-the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Kan News, a state-owned Israeli television channel, had announced that the Israeli military had initiated a ground operation in the Shujayea neighborhood.
Israeli attacks on refugee camp
The Palestinian news agency WAFA has confirmed that the Israeli military has killed three members of Gaza's civil defense and injured others after bombing the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza on Thursday.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/at-least-four-people-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-al-mawasi-area-of-rafah-35288

Le Monde - June 27, 2024 - By Laure Stephan (Amman, special correspondent)
<<Gaza is in dire need of women's health services
Jordanian gynecologist Acil Jallad has treated women suffering from hemorrhage, infection, or lack of medical follow-up for their pregnancies.
Outraged, like her fellow Jordanians, by the brutality of the operations carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip since the bloody attack by Hamas on October 7, Acil Jallad, a 40-year-old gynecologist, refused to remain powerless. From March to April, she spent a month in the Palestinian territory, treating women and delivering babies. What she saw hasn't left her since she returned to Amman. She described "the incessant noise of the drones, the bombings in the distance, the stench of garbage that is no longer collected, the destroyed roads where children walk barefoot." But also, <the resilience of Gazans.> <Women express their exhaustion with the conflict. But they project themselves into the future, talk about their plans for when the war will end.> Less visible than the wounds caused by the strikes, women's health needs <are huge,> she said. <Some women suffered from hemorrhage, and in some cases, we had to remove their uterus, a procedure that could have been avoided in another context. Others had infections that <we couldn't always diagnose, due to the lack of tests available. Women who were several months pregnant had not had ultrasounds because of the conflict and repeated displacements,> explained the practitioner, who worked in the field hospital of the US NGO International Medical Corps, in the so-called <humanitarian> zone of Al-Mawasi, on the seafront west of Rafah.
This was shortly before the Israeli invasion on May 6 of this town on the border with Egypt, to which civilians had been encouraged to flock, believing they would find refuge there, before having to flee again. Jallad has kept in touch with Gazans: <It sometimes takes several days to get news, via messages.> When she was there, around 10 deliveries were carried out every day. <Vaginal deliveries are carried out without painkillers. To ward off the pain, during labor some women pray, for their dead, for family members scattered across the enclave.>
'No rest'
The usual advice given to pregnant women, such as a healthy and varied diet, is incongruous: <People have been surviving for months on canned food and without drinking water. Women who already have children feed them first. Anemia is common. There's no rest after giving birth, back in a tent shared with the extended family or in an overcrowded shelter.>
Two Gazans particularly moved her: A 17-year-old girl who came to give birth, "pregnant when she was still a child and already a widow because of the war. This mother, alone with her baby, was returning to her family. Yet she was determined, saying: 'I'll make it, I'll raise my son and I'll tell him about his father.> And Youssef, an 11-year-old boy, among the children with whom she spent time in the evenings: <He was wounded twice, at home and then in the hospital where he was being treated. With one leg amputated, he needed surgery but refused, paralyzed by fear.> The gynecologist helped calm him down.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/14/gaza-is-in-dire-need-of-women-s-health-services_6674786_4.html

Le Monde - June 27, 2024
<<Israel says 19 sick or wounded kids have been allowed to leave Gaza
Israeli authorities say 68 people - including 19 sick or wounded children plus their companions - have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since early May when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down after Israel captured it. It was an emotional day for families who said a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children cleared to leave Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday, June 27. Israeli authorities said 68 people - 19 sick or wounded children plus their companions - have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since early May when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down after Israel captured it. Kamela Abukweik burst into tears after her son got on the bus heading to the crossing with her mother. Neither she nor her husband are able to leave. <He has tumors spread all over his body and we don’t know what the reason is. And he constantly has a fever,> she said. <I still don't know where he is going.> Nour Abu Zahri wept as he kissed his young daughter goodbye. The girl has severe burns on her head from an Israeli airstrike. Similar to Abukweik, he said he is not allowed to leave Gaza with her, although her mother was able to. <It's been almost 10 months, and there is no solution for the hospitals here,> he said.
Most hospitals in Gaza have been shut down
The nearly nine-month Israel-Hamas war has devastated Gaza’s health sector and forced most of its hospitals to shut down. Dr. Mohammed Zaqout, the head of Gaza's hospitals, said over 25,000 patients require treatment abroad, including some 980 children with cancer, a quarter of whom need <urgent and immediate evacuation.> International criticism is growing over Israel's campaign against Hamas as Palestinians face severe and widespread hunger. The eight-month war has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine and basic goods to Gaza, and people there are now totally dependent on aid. The top United Nations court has concluded there is a <plausible risk of genocide> in Gaza - a charge Israel strongly denies.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people – mostly civilians - and abducted about 250. Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 37,600 people in Gaza, according to the territory's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count. Officials have stated that gunfire, lawlessness and gang-like looters are preventing aid distribution in Gaza.
Speeding up humanitarian aid
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel appears to be acting on requests for speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza but that its commitments need to be fully implemented to secure the safe delivery of assistance to civilians in dire need. Blinken said Thursday that he had raised the matter with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a meeting in Washington earlier this week and told him of the <urgent challenges> that need to be addressed to keep aid flowing into areas in desperate need of food, water, medicine and other basic necessities. <Over the past week or so, we've been working to address urgent challenges that are making it difficult to deliver the necessary humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza who so desperately need it, particularly when it comes to the security of deliveries and those delivering the assistance,> Blinken said before meeting with the UN’s coordinator for Gaza aid, Sigrid Kaag, at the State Department.>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/27/israel-lets-19-kids-leave-gaza-who-are-sick-or-wounded-in-first-medical-evacuation-in-nearly-2-months_6675997_4.html

France 25 - June 27, 2024 - Video by: Camille KNIGHT
<<'Caught in the crossfire': Much of aid shipped to Gaza going undelivered
Only 1,000 tonnes of the 7,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid shipped to war-ravaged Gaza from Cyprus have been distributed because of insecurity, US aid officials said on Wednesday. The remaining 6,000 tonnes was on shore in secure conditions but has yet to be distributed because of an upsurge in violence and looting, the officials said.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240627-caught-in-the-crossfire-much-of-aid-shipped-to-gaza-going-undelivered

BBC - June 26, 2024 - By David Gritten
<<Palestinians flee Gaza City's Shejaiya area amid heavy bombardment
The Israeli military has ordered Shejaiya to evacuate and head southwards
Palestinians have been fleeing Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya district amid intense Israeli bombardment and a reported incursion by ground forces.
One Gaza City resident said it had <sounded as if the war is restarting>, while Hamas-run authorities said air strikes had killed at least seven people. Palestinian armed groups said they had targeted a tank and a bulldozer east of Shejaiya, where there were fierce battles during an Israeli operation at the end of last year. The Israeli military has not commented on the reports, but it did order residents to evacuate and head southwards.
It comes days after Israel's prime minister said that <the intense phase> of the fighting against Hamas was <about to end>. The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. More than 37,760 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Shejaiya residents and Hamas-affiliated Palestinian media reported a series of Israeli air strikes, artillery shelling and helicopter fire on Thursday morning. Later, they said Israeli ground forces had advanced into eastern areas of the district, which is not far from the Gaza-Israel perimeter fence. A video posted on social media by activist Hema al-Khalili showed people running for cover after what he said was an air strike on a multi-storey building. Other footage appeared to show hundreds of civilians fleeing the area on foot, many of them carrying their belongings, and several injured children being treated at a field hospital. One person told the AFP news agency that the situation in Shejaiya was <very difficult and frightening>. <Residents are running through the streets in terror... a number of wounded and martyrs lie in the streets,> they added. Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence force reported strikes on several houses and said its rescue teams had recovered three bodies from the home of one family.
Later, it said the death toll in Shejaiya had risen to seven and that more casualties were feared to be under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not put out a statement about Shejaiya. However, it has mounted similar operations in northern Gaza in recent months in response to what it says is intelligence that Hamas fighters have regrouped there. The IDF's Arabic spokesman posted a message on social media telling residents to leave Shejaiya after the first strikes had been reported. <For your safety, you must evacuate immediately south on Salah al-Din Street to the humanitarian zone,> Lt Col Avichay Adraee said, referring to the north-south road used in the early weeks of the war by the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled Gaza City when it was the initial focus of Israel's offensive against Hamas. An attached map featured an arrow pointing south, but it was not clear whether Shejaiya residents were being instructed to head towards the <al-Mawasi humanitarian area> running along the coast in southern and central Gaza. That would entail crossing the east-west Israeli military zone south of Gaza City that effectively cuts the territory in half. The al-Mawasi humanitarian area was expanded seven weeks ago, when Israeli ground forces began what they called <precise> operations in the southernmost city of Rafah, which they believe is Hamas's last stronghold. More than a million displaced people have fled Rafah since then, according to the UN, while the nearby Rafah border crossing with Egypt has been closed since Israeli troops seized control of the Palestinian side. The UN says the crossing's closure has contributed to a significant reduction in the amount of aid reaching southern Gaza. It has also prevented the medical evacuations of critically injured and sick Palestinians who require specialist treatment abroad. On Thursday, 21 children with cancer were reportedly allowed to leave Gaza through the Kerem Shalom goods crossing with Israel for the first time, an Egyptian medical source told AFP. There was no immediate confirmation from Israeli authorities, nor was it clear where they would receive treatment.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wepdxzdy3o

Le Monde - June 26, 2024 - By Louis Imbert (Jerusalem, correspondent)
<<In the shadow of the war in Gaza, Israel continues its annexation of the West Bank
At the request of ultranationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, part of the administrative functions of the Palestinian territory, which has been under military authority since 1967, were transferred to civilian control. Israel has taken yet another step toward the outright annexation of the West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's finance minister and the defense minister for the West Bank, shined an unsavory spotlight on his government's progress in the territories on Friday, June 21, in the shadow of the war in Gaza. <I'm telling you, it's mega-dramatic (...). Such changes change the system's DNA,> he said at a conference held on a Jewish settlers' farm near Qalqilya in the West Bank, in a recording released by the anti-colonial movement Peace Now. The <system> that the minister claims to be overthrowing is the multi-layered administration that governs the Palestinian territories, under the authority of the occupying army since its military conquest in 1967. Smotrich maintains that he has transferred vast areas of authority from the hands of the military to those of the civilian government: <We created a separate civilian system,> he said, at the risk of shattering the myth that the military occupation would be temporary, take into account the interests of the Palestinians and last until a negotiated settlement of the conflict was reached. For six decades, this legal framework has enabled Israel to claim that its presence in the territories was legitimate under international law, while at the same time waging a colonial war. Smotrich's latest victory came on May 29, when the army appointed a civilian deputy under the general who heads the all-powerful <civil administration> of the territories - a military body despite its name. Hillel Roth, from the ultra-violent settlement of Yitzhar, educated in a radical religious school and the former treasurer of the Shomron regional council in the northern West Bank is a deputy in name only, since he is not answerable to the head of his administration.
New ministry
<The powers are in the hands of Hillel Roth, all the powers: he signs the orders, he convenes the Higher Planning Committee, he declares state lands, (...) he signs expropriations for roads, everything is in his hands. All civil powers,> said Smotrich during the conference. Activist Yehuda Shaul, a fierce critic of the military occupation, said that Roth will be the leading authority on the status of land (private or so-called <state> land, military exercise zones and natural parks), as well as for the planning and construction of residential buildings and infrastructure, and for the <national parks> administered by Israel in the West Bank. Smotrich has relished depriving the civilian administration of a large part of its prerogatives, by building the unprecedented ministry within the Defense Ministry, calling it the <Settlements Administration> and entrusting its general management to an old acquaintance, Eliyahu Yehuda - also a civilian.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/26/in-the-shadow-of-the-war-in-gaza-israel-continues-its-annexation-of-the-west-bank_6675857_4.html

France 25 - June 27, 2024
<<Live: Israeli defence minister says he discussed 'day after' plans for Gaza with US
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Thursday said he discussed <day after> plans for post-war Gaza with senior US officials, which would include local Palestinians, regional partners and the US in a <long and complex process>. Follow our live blog for the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.
Summary:
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Thursday said he discussed with senior US officials <day after> plans for Gazawhich would include local Palestinians, regional partners and the US in a <long and complex process>.>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240627-%F0%9F%94%B4live-israeli-defence-minister-says-he-discussed-day-after-plans-for-gaza-with-us

France 25 - June 26, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<UN aid chief warns of 'potentially apocalyptic' spread of Gaza war to Lebanon
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on Wednesday said he was concerned by the possible spread of theIsrael-Hamas war in Gaza to Lebanon and warned of a <potentially apocalyptic> humanitarian situation in the region. The outgoing United Nations humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that a spread of the Israel-Hamas war to Lebanon would be <potentially apocalyptic>, as fighting raged in the southern Gaza Strip. Martin Griffiths described Lebanon as <the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints>, especially its southern border with Israel which has seen daily cross-border violence since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. <It's beyond planning. It's potentially apocalyptic,> warned Griffiths whose term as UN humanitarian coordinator ends this week. A war involving Lebanon <will draw in Syria... it will draw in others>, he told reporters in Geneva. <It's very alarming.> Germany on Wednesday echoed a Canadian warning from the day before, urging their citizens in Lebanon to leave the country. <German nationals are urgently requested to leave Lebanon,> updated foreign ministry advice in Berlin said. <The current heightened tensions in the border area with Israel could escalate further at any time.> On Tuesday, Ottawa advised Canadians to leave Lebanon <while they can>. The UN's Griffiths spoke as witnesses reported intense fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, amid the fears of a wider war. With the conflict nearing its 10th month, Israel's top ally the United States warned of the risk of a major conflict with Hezbollah following an escalation in threats after months of cross-border fire. However, Israeli bombardment in Gaza appeared to ease days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war's <intense phase> was nearing its end, and as his defence minister was in Washington. <Another war between Israel and Hezbollah could easily become a regional war, with terrible consequences for the Middle East,> US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told his visiting Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant. <Diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent more escalation,> Austin said. Gallant, for his part, said: <We only fight those who seek to harm us.> He also said <significant progress> had been made in addressing Israeli concerns about the flow of US weaponry.
Netanyahu has publicly accused US President Joe Biden's administration of slowing down the weapons deliveries, claims officials in Washington have repeatedly denied. Top Israeli officials, including the premier, have indicated openness to a diplomatic resolution of the Lebanon border tensions, though Gallant said Israel should be ready for <every possible scenario>. Israel's military said last week plans for a Lebanon offensive had been <approved and validated>, prompting new threats from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. In Rafah, on Gaza's border with Egypt, witnesses reported overnight clashes, and Israel's military said warplanes struck a rocket launch site. Mohammad al-Mughayyir, a civil defence official in Hamas-run Gaza, told AFP rescuers had recovered 15 bodies <from various areas in Rafah city>.
Aid group 'outraged'
The civil defence agency and medics said at least four people, including three children, were killed in a strike on a house in Beit Lahia, in the north.
However, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP <there have been almost no attacks> and <the rest of the areas in the Gaza Strip are calm compared to yesterday>. An air raid on Tuesday killed Fadi al-Wadiya, an employee of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) whom Israel's military called a <significant operative> for the Islamic Jihad group which has fought alongside Hamas. MSF posted on X that it was <outraged> by the killing in Gaza City of Wadiya and <five other people including three children> as he cycled to work. We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City. Israel's military said Wadiya had <developed and advanced the terrorist organisation's rocket array>. UN and humanitarian agencies have repeatedly warned that aid workers are not safe in Gaza, impeding their desperately needed efforts delivering aid for Gaza's 2.4 million people. In Cyprus, USAID officials said just 1,000 tonnes of the 7,000 tonnes of aid shipped to Gaza had been distributed because of looting and security problems.
'Rolling operations'
The bloodiest ever Gaza war started with Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The militants also seized about 250 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza although the army says 42 are dead. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 37,718 people, also mostly civilians, Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said. The deaths include 10 members of Qatar-based Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh's family, including his sister, who Palestinian officials said were killed on Tuesday. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini warned of the war's dire impact on children. <We have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average,> Lazzarini told reporters, adding <that means around 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war>. Netanyahu on Sunday said <the war in its intense phase is about to end in Rafah>, which the Israeli military sees as Hamas's last stronghold, with some troops to be redeployed to the northern border with Lebanon. Mairav Zonszein, an International Crisis Group analyst, said the military would likely <move to rolling operations> in Gaza and <always keep some troops on the ground> in strategic areas there.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240626-un-aid-chief-warns-of-potentially-apocalyptic-spread-of-gaza-war-to-lebanon

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

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