......after a 2006 conflict with Hezbollah which eventually led to a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah, it exemplified a new strategy by the IDF which became known as the “Dahiyah doctrine.” This held that the disproportionate use of airstrikes for which the destruction of military targets was not the main aim — the goal was to change a population’s hearts and minds. The doctrine was explained in 2008 by the then-commander of the IDF, General Gadi Eizenkot, who told an Israeli newspaper in 2008: “We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized.” Eizenkot is now a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet. He has lost both a son and a nephew in the current conflict in Gaza. To show the axis of resistance that it will stop at nothing to impose its will on Palestine, the IDF is using “disproportionate force” in Gaza as a key part of its strategy. https://globelynews.com/middle-east/hezbollah-second-front-israel/amp/
America now trying to drag Australia into its stupid Jewish shit..... .....Defence Minister Richard Marles has stressed that the federal government is focused on promoting freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region as it weighs up a request from the United States to send a warship to dangerous waters in the Middle East. The United States Navy requested that Australia send a ship to the Red Sea to respond to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels attacking ships passing through the sea lane. The Houthis claimed responsibility this week for attacking a Norwegian-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, claiming it was heading to Israel. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...-red-sea-warship-request-20231214-p5erm7.html
Israeli army says it mistakenly shot and killed three hostages December 16, 2023 https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle...nd-killed-three-hostages-20231216-p5erwi.html The Israeli military mistakenly killed three hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas during an incident that is “under review”, a military spokesperson said. The military said the hostages were killed during combat with militants in Gaza and expressed its condolences to the families while saying there would be “full transparency” in the investigation into the incident. An Israeli soldier inside Gaza City.Credit: Israel Defence Forces A statement from the military said that during an intense battle in Gaza it “identified three Israeli hostages as a threat”. “As a result, the troops fired toward them and they were killed.” In recent days Israel has engaged in intense battles with Hamas, who often wear casual civilian clothing, and on Wednesday announced its worst combat losses with 10 soldiers killed in 24 hours. Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns killing 1200 people and capturing 240 hostages on October 7. Israel then launched a counter-attack, during which Gaza health authorities say close to 19,000 people have been confirmed killed, with thousands more feared buried under rubble. During a week-long truce in late November, Hamas released more than 100 women, children and foreigners it was holding in Gaza in exchange for the release of 240 women and teenagers imprisoned by Israel, many without charge. “Together with the entire people of Israel, I bow my head in deep sorrow and mourn the death of three of our dear sons who were kidnapped,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “My heart goes out to the grieving families in their difficult time.” More than 100 hostages remain in Gaza. Some have been declared dead in absentia by Israeli authorities. Earlier, the Israeli military said it had recovered the bodies of three Israelis - a civilian and two soldiers - who had been held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas. Reuters
Israel is taking scorched earth policy to a new level Gaza is not the first place where Israel is inflicting or helping inflict mass devastation. But it is the first to see it on this shocking scale. Belén Fernández Al Jazeera columnist Published On 16 Dec 2023 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/16/israel-is-taking-scorched-earth-policy-to-a-new-level Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on December 14, 2023 [Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa] In October, shortly after the start of the Israeli war on Gaza that has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians, Israel pledged to wipe Hamas “off the face of the earth” – a project that would require Israel’s military “to flatten the ground” in Gaza, as an Israeli security source told the Reuters news agency. And flatten they did; one month into the war, the military had already dropped the equivalent of two nuclear bombs on the diminutive and densely populated Palestinian coastal enclave. Now, as Israel continues to pulverise an already thoroughly pulverised territory, it seems the Israelis may be taking the concept of scorched earth policy to a whole new level. According to the Oxford Reference dictionary, the term “scorched earth policy” was first utilised in English in 1937 in a report describing the Sino-Japanese conflict, in which the Chinese levelled their own cities and burned crops in order to complicate the Japanese invasion. The strategy has since been seen in an array of armed conflicts worldwide, including the 36-year civil war in Guatemala that ended in 1996 after killing and disappearing more than 200,000 people, primarily Indigenous Mayans. In 2013, former Guatemalan dictator and United States buddy Efraín Ríos Montt – who oversaw a particularly bloody segment of the war in the early 1980s – was found guilty of genocide in a Guatemalan court. And while subsequent judicial machinations and Ríos Montt’s own death by heart attack saved the man from earthly atonement for his crimes, you might say the truth is not so easily wiped “off the face of the earth”. Indeed, scorched earth was a primary component of the Guatemalan army’s genocidal approach to its adversaries, and hundreds of Indigenous villages were destroyed along with water supplies, crops, and anything else that might sustain life. And what do you know: Guatemalan state savagery was boosted by none other than the state of Israel, which after all already had several decades of experience in eradicating Indigenous life in Palestine – pardon, “making the desert bloom”. As journalist Gabriel Schivone notes in an article for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), not only did Israeli advisers help ensure the success of the 1982 military coup that brought Ríos Montt to power, but Israel also “assisted every facet of attack on the Guatemalan people” from the late 1970s into the next decade. For successive Guatemalan governments, Schivone writes, Israel had become the “main provider of counterinsurgency training, light and heavy arsenals of weaponry, aircraft, state-of-the-art intelligence technology and infrastructure, and other vital assistance”. In keeping with the “desert-blooming” variety of blasphemy, Israel was also credited with assisting Guatemala in agricultural endeavours during the civil war era – since there’s clearly nothing better for agriculture than, you know, scorched earth. Meanwhile, in neighbouring El Salvador, the United States’s supposedly existential fight against communism during the Cold War also enabled right-wing regimes to slaughter a whole lot of peasants. And like in Guatemala, Israel was standing by to offer a helping hand – including in the implementation of scorched earth policies. An AJ+ video draws attention to the fact that Israel helped train ANSESAL, the Salvadoran intelligence agency that “would lay the foundation for death squads” during El Salvador’s own 12-year civil war, which killed at least 75,000 people and ended in 1992. According to the video, from 1975 until the start of the civil war in 1979, Israel was the source of a full 83 percent of El Salvador’s military imports. The vast majority of wartime killings were perpetrated by the US-backed right-wing state and associated paramilitary groups. It goes without saying, of course, that scorched earth campaigns are deadly – and sometimes, that deadliness outlives the conflict itself. Take Vietnam, where the US military’s quite literal scorching of the earth with the toxic defoliant Agent Orange continued to cause miscarriages, birth defects, and severe illnesses decades after the official end of the Vietnam War in 1975. In Iraq, the US’s use of depleted uranium munitions might also qualify as a scorched earth policy of sorts, as saturating a territory in radioactive poison doesn’t do much to ensure its long-term habitability. Speaking of poisons, the Washington Post recently confirmed that the Israeli military fired US-supplied white phosphorus rounds at southern Lebanon in October despite the use of such weapons in civilian areas being “generally prohibited under international humanitarian law”. As per the Post’s writeup, south Lebanese residents affected by the attack “speculated that the phosphorus was meant to displace them from the village and to clear the way for future Israeli military activity in the area”. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time – in Lebanon or in the Gaza Strip, which has seen its fair share of illegal white phosphorus bombardments by Israel. As the Israeli military now carries on scorching and re-scorching the earth in Gaza and the humans therein along with it, there is a singularity that distinguishes Israel’s efforts from scorched earth experiments of the past. In El Salvador, for example, the army’s goal was never to eliminate the very concept of El Salvador, whereas Israel appears intent on annihilating Gaza altogether. But unfortunately for Israel, resistance is one thing that can grow in scorched earth.
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Let's see Hamas' vision of the future. Hamas is orchestrating a plan to keep region ‘entrenched in a never-ending cycle of bloodshed' https://www.foxnews.com/media/hamas...hed-never-ending-cycle-bloodshed-pete-hegseth
Hamas keeps executing hostages. This terrorist organization need to be eliminated in Gaza. Hamas Executes Supernova Festival Hostage Seen Beaten and Bloodied in Video, Boyfriend Pleaded to ‘Keep Her Alive’ Within hours of her abduction from the festival by motorcycle-riding marauders, Inbar Haiman was seen bloodied in a Hamas hostage video https://themessenger.com/news/hamas-hostage-inbar-haiman-killed-gaza-israel-supernova-festival-war An Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Supernova music festival by motorcycle-riding Hamas marauders during the Oct. 7 terror attacks has been killed, Israeli reports said Saturday. Inbar Haiman, 27, was murdered in captivity, Israel’s Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum said Saturday, according to the Times of Israel. An art student and graffiti artist, Haiman was a “creative girl full of joy of life,” the group said, according to a translation of the Hebrew-language Maariv newspaper. (More at above url)