Specific features of the war in Gaza

July 27, 2024

While Prime Minister Netanyahu was giving his speech in the US Congress, US flags and pictures of the Prime Minister were burned outside. Maybe not all the protesters there know what the war in Gaza is like, so here is a small picture/video compilation from the last few days. The excerpt also helps to explain the difficulty and slowness of the war from an Israeli point of view:

Due to significant terrorist activity and rocket fire directed from the eastern part of the Gaza Humanitarian Area (al-Mawasi) towards the State of Israel, staying in this area has become dangerous. Accordingly, the humanitarian area is currently being adjusted.

Due to significant terrorist activity and rocket fire toward the State of Israel from the eastern part of the Humanitarian Area in Gaza, remaining in this area has become dangerous. Accordingly, at this time, the Humanitarian Area will be adjusted. The adjustment is being carried… pic.twitter.com/bk5GGNXn6M

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 22, 2024

In Gaza City, weapons can be found in ordinary apartment buildings.

As well as other ordinary apartments, the one below from Gaza City:

In Khan Yunis, Hamas fired rockets from a sheltered area. A failed launch landed near an UNRWA school, killing two civilians and injuring many; the wounded were taken to the Dier al Balah field hospital, coordinated by the IDF and the WHO.

In Rafah, Hamas terrorists are targeting the humanitarian route, and the schoolyard also had a tunnel entrance again.

Hamas terrorists must have set up some weird settings on their GPS, intentionally directing them to schools and humanitarian aid routes.

During recent operational activity in Rafah, our troops operated in a school near a humanitarian route that armed terrorists tried to take… pic.twitter.com/eWDOTToorQ

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 22, 2024

In Rafah, a tunnel opening and weapons were found in the children’s bedroom.

The video may be visible from the following link: https://x.com/IDF/status/1816135128701075719 , as “graphic content”.

World Food Program aid packages on sale even though the cover says “Not for Sale”

World Food Programme humanitarian aid SOLD to Palestinians on the streets of Gaza- despite the boxes being labelled ‘Not for Sale.’ pic.twitter.com/47kzPXqZbn

— Shunya (@Shunyaa00) July 22, 2024

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In Tulkarm (Länsiranta), a medical person carries an AK-47 instead of a first aid kit. The situation in Gaza is familiar, as ambulances are often used there for military transport.

This “medic” is holding an AK-47 and no first aid kit.

This video is from Tulkarm showing how these terrorists, dressed as medics, are trying to use their protected status to cause more damage. pic.twitter.com/Ttqmt5tNpS

— LTC (S.) Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) July 23, 2024

The IDF was able to return the bodies of five kidnapped Israelis from Gaza. Kindergarten teacher Maya Goren was murdered while in captivity, while four soldiers were killed on 7/10 and their bodies transported to Gaza.

The bodies of the five hostages were recovered in southern Gaza. Clockwise from top left: Tomer Ahimas, Ravid Katz, Oren Goldin, Maya Goren and Kiril Brodski.

Congress speech

Prime Minister Netanyahu had brought a few heroes of the Gaza war as guests in his congressional speech to show the versatility of the Israeli army. In the picture, on the right, in uniform, is a tank lieutenant who lost his right hand and left eye in the war and returned to the war as the head of a tank company; next to him an immigrant of Ethiopian background who, in the absence of a car, took his gun and ran eight miles to the Gaza border to save civilians 7/10, second from the right a member of the Muslim community of Bedouin background who initially fought off terrorists in the territory of his own kibbutz and then went to do the same in a neighboring kibbutz and the gentleman in civilian clothes on the right lost his right leg in Gaza but is returned to war again.

Also present during the speech was Noa Argamani, who was released alive from the clutches of Hamas in connection with Operation Arnon. All those who participated received a standing ovation from the congress. The Prime Minister’s emotional, powerful congress speech is below in its entirety, the speech lasted about an hour and the introduction of the aforementioned war heroes started at about 12 minutes:

Journalist, terrorist and martyr

I read MADA's report published on July 6, 2024, according to which the number of media freedom violations in Palestine has increased compared to the previous month, usually by 150% (40->61). , according report Israeli individuals committed all documented violations, while Palestinian entities or social media did not document all violations. As usual, most of the violations caused a great danger to the lives of journalists, and four journalists were murdered in June.

The number one on the list of those who were murdered was indeed familiar from the background material of my previous article - Operation Arnon: The Heroic Release of Four Hamas Hostages - because the deceased Abdallah Aljamali in question also acted as host/prisonguard for three of the four kidnapped Israeli hostages, which were released from Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza on 8th June.

Aljamal, along with his wife Fatima and father Ahmed, were killed when Israeli special forces stormed their apartment where the hostages were being held. The three hostages rescued from Aljamal are Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov.

In addition to that, Abdallah Aljamal helped the Hamas authorities in the capture of kidnapped civilians in Gaza, he worked as a spokesman for the Ministry of Labor in Gaza. He also worked as a journalist, writing for the US-based Palestine Chronicle newspaper and also for Al-Jazeera.

But Aljamal's activities do not seem to have stopped there. According to MiddleEastForum Research Director Jontahan Spyer, the irony is that while Aljamal held (Israeli) prisoners, he was also a defender of the rights of Palestinians imprisoned for terrorist crimes.

As for the unfortunate Abdallah Aljamal, emerging evidence of the civilians he and his colleagues abducted shows that his apparent concern for the welfare did not extend to those he himself held captive.