The Gazan ground offensive is in it’s final preparation phase.
At daybreak on Friday, October 13 the IDF calls for the evacuation within 24 hours of all civilians from Gaza City from their homes, southward for their own safety and protection and to move to the area south of the river Gaza. This displacement command will impact 1.1 million.
Fill your water bottles before hitting the road. Oh wait.
These illustrations were issued by the IDF’s main spokesman.
EXCLUSIVE: Operational update by IDF Spokesperson @jconricus as the war against Hamas continues. https://t.co/MFAOiCSssH
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 13, 2023
WATCH: Israel military dropped ‘THOUSANDS’ of flyers on Gaza warning residents to flee “immediately” to the south pic.twitter.com/fyguO0XOsO
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 13, 2023
Update from Friday evening.
Mid-day Friday there are reports part of the population is leaving, but many others are staying put.
Journalist Belal Khaled documented the ongoing evacuations from Gaza’s northern areas on Friday after Israel told the more than one million Palestinians who live there to move south within 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/kwClx3auMt
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 13, 2023
Deir al Balah south of the river Gaza is a dense refugee zone already. Ultimately the trend is to force displaced people further south toward the Rafah crossing to Egypt and dump them into the Sinai.
Egypt has a border wall with Gaza.
Its 8.7 miles long and 20 feet high. It’s made of stone and concrete. It also extends, with steel reinforcements, 60 feet below the surface. This, to prevent underground tunnels, trafficking, and weapons smuggling.
In 2020, Egypt updated its… pic.twitter.com/dR63wxflcc
— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) October 12, 2023
The population of Gaza City is young, median age of 18. How many previously uninvolved youth stay behind and reinforce Hamas in the fight?
Experts are now pointing to this Sunday the 15th through the 18th as the start of the ground operation. The main thrust will be Gaza City. Three armored and two infantry brigades are positioned there, and two more infantry brigades are held in reserve. Three more brigades are covering the flank.
Hamas will seek to use a defense relying on close combat, strongpoints (heavy buildings made of concrete and steel and often with basements and tunnels), and snipers.
In urban warfare history, a single building as a strongpoint can take days, weeks, or months to clear. In the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad a four-story building, known as Pavlov’s House, took a division of Germans over fifty-eight days to clear. In the more recent 2017 Battle of Marawi, multiple single buildings took the Philippine military days and in some cases weeks to clear.
The brinksmanship and dice rolling is so severe that Israel may attempt an attack on Iran without the knowledge of the US.
The Van Riper Gambit: Iran Scores Against Expensive High-Tech US Gadgetry
Israeli Defense Minister: “We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts”. ‘No Mercy to Terror’: Israeli President. Such collective punishments are gross violations of Geneva and international law pic.twitter.com/9SKFkdD9hd
— James H. Fetzer (@JimFetzer) October 13, 2023
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) deployed forces to the southwestern Syrian border on October 9. Iran has built up a large military footprint in Syria to include weapons storage facilities, headquarters, and barracks to house its affiliated militias. The Iranian and LH-directed deployments are consistent with the scenario in which the Gaza War expands into a multi-front war surrounding Israel.
Iranian Foreign Minister’s statements on Israel’s actions in #Gaza: -“If Israel does not stop its attacks on civilians in Gaza, region will face new situations. Israel cannot impose a complete siege on Gaza, bomb civilians, and commit war crimes without a response.”
— Zeina Khodr (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) October 12, 2023
Some who have a large audience are figuring out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Nailed it https://t.co/CD2XIabrRA
— Winter Watch (@New_Nationalist) October 13, 2023
I believe the ground forces assembly is a blind. The Israeli’s necessarily believe in air- and missile-power, as does the US. I think they will simply glass Gaza City with Jericho’s, either nuke (unlikely) or conventional.
The advantage of this is that there will be no-one left on the ground to tell the tale.
They are fools, of course – the consequences for the State of Israel will be devastating – they will finally understand ‘reaping the whirlwind’. Their lack of imagination is typical of all such planners of controlled destruction. From the Judaic rebellions against Rome, to Milner’s engendering of WWI, they are utterly unable to see beyond the immediate consequences of their actions.
Houbris.
Its funny that the N-Z flag is blotted out in current Germany but you can still raise the 3 lions and post pictures of Edward the First or Isabella of Spain. Maybe they think people don’t read backs about that far back.
books* not backs
From colonel Cossad, headline reads ‘Bandera for Israel”. the picture is the Bandera statue in Lviv with Israel colors projected on it. It isn’t very clear but the image could be altered as it isn’t very neat. https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8700087.html
Netanyahu’s Final Solution – Cleanse Gaza
Yeah, “Abolished all the rules of war” sounds awfully like a Verníchtungskrieg – war of annihilation. In practice, 80 years ago, the two terms were equivalent. Hitler himself, in a famous address to Wehrmacht officers in 1941 (or a year or two earlier) used just that formulation: rules of war abolished (as they had not been in the western offensive – the Wehrmacht refused to allow SS participation in that).
Ethnic cleansing in the Occupied Terror-tories. . .continuing what was begun in l945 and funded in the trillions by the US taxpayers.
Number one enemy of Jewish people is Talmudic/Cabalist Jews hiding behind the name Zionists. Here in America it’s the Christian Zionists that are burden on the Republic and on the true believers in Christ. This is a very serious time for us all.