๐️Lonny's War Update- October 692, 2023 - August 28, 2025 ๐️
๐️Day 692 that 50 of our hostages are still in Hamas captivity๐️
Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives
Hostage’s father says, ‘I don’t want to receive my boy in a bag’; protesters block several major highways, hundreds march outside PMO as Netanyahu convenes security cabinet
But despite the footage, the government “isn’t doing anything,” Braslavski said from the stage. “Two years we are waiting… as if it’s something he [Netanyahu] is doing intentionally.”
“I no longer trust anyone — I don’t trust the prime minister. I don’t trust the government… the only person I trust is the IDF chief of staff [Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir] he said, referencing the top military official, who on Monday reportedly urged the government to take the hostage deal currently on the table, saying the choice is “in Netanyahu’s hands.”
Protesters gather at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for a rally calling for a deal securing the release of hostages held in Gaza on August 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)Noam Peri, the daughter of Haim Peri, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and murdered in captivity, told the crowd: “We don’t want a forever war on the backs of our soldiers and hostages.”
In English, she appealed to US President Donald Trump, urging him to “look at all this crowd… at the pictures from the streets of Israel.”
“The people of Israel are voting with their feet, the nation wants this war to end and the hostages brought home,” she said. “For my father, it is too late, but you can still save the other hostages and be remembered as the president who made history.”
Actor Lior Ashkenazi delivers the opening speech at a thousands-strong rally demanding a hostage-release and ceasefire deal in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on August 26, 2025. (Uriel Even Sapir/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)Actor Lior Ashkenazi also delivered a fiery speech lambasting the government, accusing ministers of delaying the signing of a hostage deal.
“An entire week, an entire week, has passed since Hamas sent its agreement,” he says, noting that Netanyahu’s security cabinet met earlier in the day and did not discuss the temporary ceasefire on the table.
“There will be no more routine so long as they [the hostages] are there,” he said, calling on the government to adopt the current proposal for a temporary ceasefire and hostage release.
“Move forward with this agreement, damn it!” he shouted.
“Whoever thought that last week was the peak [of protests], hasn’t seen anything yet,” he said to an eruption of cheers from the crowd.
Large crowds of protesters demanding a hostage-release and ceasefire deal march to Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on August 26, 2025. (Aviv Atlas/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)According to a Channel 12 report, following the two days of mass protests, relatives of the captives are now planning to shift tactics and confront politicians directly.
The relatives hope to “disrupt the day” of Netanyahu and cabinet ministers, including by protesting outside their homes on a daily basis, the outlet said, adding that the families also plan to protest government and cabinet meetings, as a group did earlier Tuesday.
Protesters also plan to obstruct the politicians’ movements, the report said, in an effort to constantly remind them of the hostages’ plight.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.
Protesters march to Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for a rally calling for a deal securing the release of hostages held in Gaza on August 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers, and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March, and one additional hostage, a dual American-Israeli citizen, in May as a “gesture” to the United States.
The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war. In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazan terror suspects detained during the war.
Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 49 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 62,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Link I was at this rally in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night. It is quite an amazing thing to be in a place where one is surrounded by so many people who all want the same thing. It is bolstering when all around us seems so desperate and even hopeless. I go every Saturday night to the demonstration for hostages in Jerusalem where there are a few thousand people. I have been going since almost the beginning. At first, my motivation was to help pressure the government, in particular, the prime minister to get all the hostages home through a deal immediately. We knew then exactly what we know now, that the only way to bring them home is through a deal, not more military might. That motivation died quickly when we all recognized that Netanyahu's motivations and ours were diametrically opposed. It took many months before bringing the hostages even became one of the goals of the war and even then, it was a secondary goal, more like a fine print item than anything bold. It never became the primary goal of the war for Netanyahu and so many times he has stated that 'victory' over Hamas was the supreme objective of the war and not the return of the hostages. As a result of understanding that Netanyahu cares very little for the hostages, my motivation and that of most of the demonstrators changed. Our coming to the demonstrations was mostly or entirely to support the families of the hostages, to show them that they are not alone and we will all keep fighting to get their loved ones home. The hostages may have been strangers before October 7 but every single one of them and their families have become our families. This is extremely personal for all of us. Following the release of some of the long term hostages, our motivations changed once again. We found out that many of them saw the demonstrations on TV while in captivity. They saw posters with their pictures and heard their names. Some even heard their families talking on the radio. Our motivation for coming to the demonstrations took on additional importance because now we were helping to bolster the hostages and give them the strength needed to continue to survive. They knew that, not only were they not forgotten, but most of the Israeli population was behind them.
At this point in time, the families and the forum for the hostages are trying to force the government/Netanyahu into making a deal and ending the war so all the hostages can be brought home. The focus is now on shutting down as much of Israel as possible to build up the protest and pressure on Netanyahu. The only problem is that he doesn't care. None of this impacts him one iota. The only way to get him to move and end the war is if Trump will tell him to do so and Netanyahu won't be able to convince Trump otherwise. It is a sad situation when the prime minister of Israel doesn't care at all about what the people want and need. He only cares about his political survival and legacy and these are his only motivations.Hostage’s father: ‘I have nothing to lose,’ will do ‘extreme things’ if needed
Ofir Braslavski, the father of hostage Rom Braslavski, tells Channel 12 that he is prepared to do “extreme things” to free his son.
“It can’t be that after we see him dying — my child — and tortured, we are carrying on as normal, as if nothing happened,” he says in an interview this morning. “It’s inconceivable, I can’t understand it.”
Last month, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group released footage of Rom Braslavski, appearing emaciated and in dire medical condition. At a mass rally for a ceasefire and hostage-release deal on Tuesday, his father called the video reminiscent of “the horrors of the Holocaust, seeing him tortured, suffering.”
In today’s interview, Ofir says he will not rule out any action to free his son.
“I can’t be silent anymore, and I’ll tell you: Anything I can do, I will do,” he says. “I don’t care. Anything I can do, I will, and even extreme things if I need to. I have nothing to lose.”
The government has indicated that it is not accepting a temporary ceasefire deal on the table that would free 10 living hostages, and will proceed with a military offensive in Gaza City while pressing for a comprehensive deal to end the war.
Hamas won't be waving a white flag anytime soon, and that's OK with Netanyahu. - Avi Issacharoff
Opinion: As Israel readies for another push in Gaza City, one truth stands out: Netanyahu knows Hamas won’t yield to force; that’s the point—he’s betting on a drawn-out fight, prolonging the war to serve his own political survival
Barring unforeseen developments, Israeli forces are primed to launch a massive ground offensive within Gaza City in the coming weeks — with possible extensions into the central refugee camps (al-Bureij, al-Maghazi, Nuseirat) and Deir al-Balah.The destruction will be severe, echoing the devastation already witnessed in Rafah and Khan Younis. Heavy Palestinian casualties are anticipated — Hamas fighters and civilians alike — alongside inevitable Israeli losses, including, tragically, some of the hostages.Even after another push into Gaza City — IDF has operated there before — Hamas is not expected to capitulate. Its fighters will continue charging toward death, wagering on Israeli strikes that inflict maximum civilian suffering, as seen recently in Khan Younis. For Hamas, civilian blood has long been a weapon in its war with Israel, well before this conflict erupted. At some stage of Operation Iron Swords, Gideon's Chariots, or whatever name is deemed fierce enough for political consumption, Hamas may signal willingness for a partial arrangement, much as it does today. But surrender is not on the table. The organization will burrow deeper, building tunnel upon tunnel. In every neighborhood the military enters, Hamas will retreat elsewhere; in every neighborhood it vacates, Hamas will return.The day after' looms largeAnother offensive in Gaza City will not topple Hamas, contrary to the promises of Netanyahu’s allies, but it will shore up the coalition’s survival. A comprehensive deal to end the war and secure the hostages will not emerge from such an operation, for one blunt reason: neither Netanyahu’s government nor Hamas wants it. Both dread the “day after” — in Gaza and in Israel alike. Both fear the reckoning with their own people. Both understand that a sweeping deal would force them to loosen their grip on power. And perhaps the deeper fear for both Hamas and Netanyahu is this: that ending the war would rekindle hope among their publics — hope for a better future.What has appeared in polls is now roaring in the streets: a decisive majority of Israelis support a deal to free the hostages, even at the price of halting the war. This does not make them traitors, nor Hamas sympathizers — it makes them citizens driven by anguish, who understand that the nation cannot heal, the people cannot rebuild, until the hostages return home.The recent surge of protests demanding such a deal has reignited that hope. In response, government loyalists have lashed out in hysteria, unleashing disgraceful attacks on demonstrators and even on hostage families. Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman, sensing her political future slipping away, smeared the protests by branding October 7 the “Kaplan Massacre," supposedly blaming judicial overhaul protesters. Desperate to be remembered by the right-wing base, she resorted to reckless incitement against hundreds of thousands of her own people.Silman, however, is but a symptom. Netanyahu’s ministers and loyalists, who sought to curse the protests, ended up fueling them. Attempts to brand demonstrators as traitors or Hamas collaborators not only failed to deter Israelis — they drove even more into the streets. The difference was palpable: not just extraordinary numbers, but new energy, new faces. After long months of absence, the young have returned — youth movement activists, students, kippah-wearing religious Zionists, even reservists. Thanks to the venom spewed by Netanyahu, Smotrich, and their allies, the coalition now confronts its deepest fear: after months of despair and resignation, hope has returned. link. Issacharoff has a lot of legitimate points in this opinion piece but has a few assumptions that I believe are incorrect. Hamas has never cared about its people. Their bloodshed has always served their purpose of showing the world how terrible Israel is. The fact is that Hamas has been a terror organization to its own people for all the years it has ruled Gaza. They would round up anyone who spoke against them, or suggested peace with Israel or was an activist for peace and reconciliation, arrest, torture and in many cases, execute the dissenters. They had their own people all over to listen to what others would say about Hamas and then take measures against the implicated. They caused the Gazans to live in terror of them but because they controlled everything from schools to medical facilities to food imports and everything else, there was no way to get away from them. Where Issacharoff gets it wrong is what Hamas wants now. For a long time, they have stated in Arabic and English that they do not want to rule Gaza anymore. They don't want responsibility for 2 million refugees, feeding, clothing, medical, sanitation, etc. They do, however want to retain their weapons and weapons capabilities (weapons production, tunnels, rockets, etc) and there is the big problem. Everyone recognized that Hamas can no longer rule in Gaza or be the security/military force there. All of the Arab states want them to be finished and none of them will invest a single dollar as long as Hamas has any position of power. Israel has devastated the senior and middle levels of the terrorist organization, both on the military side and the political side and, although they still are strongly recruiting out of the desperation of the Gazans, they need to finally become an Arab and Palestinian problem. If Israel were to pull out today, following a real agreement and transition to a new technocratic Palestinian government, one of the first things they would do with the assistance of certain arab countries is to disarm Hamas entirely including all of the rockets and weapons producing facilities and the tunnels. As a major part of the agreement, it would be upon them to destroy all of the tunnel infrastructure and deal with the remnants of the terror organization. It needs to be a Palestinian problem and they are anxious to deal with it and be done with Hamas. They will never forgive Hamas for bringing on the Second Nakba to the Palestinian people.IDF says mass evacuation from Gaza City ‘inevitable’ as troops push further into city
Israel envoy Yechiel Leiter says ceasefire proposals ‘under discussion’ but reiterates Hamas must be destroyed; Italy’s Meloni says war has surpassed ‘principle of proportionality
IDF troops continued to operate on the outskirts of Gaza City on Wednesday, as a military spokesman urged civilians in the area to evacuate ahead of a planned offensive deeper into the city, dismissing the notion that there was not enough room in the south of the Strip for the displaced.
The comments come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to move ahead with the decision approved by the cabinet earlier this month to conquer Gaza City, as Israeli officials continue to dismiss proposals for a partial hostage release deal, saying Jerusalem will only agree to a complete deal to free all hostages and disarm Hamas
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said in a TV interview on Wednesday that Israel was still examining “what the possibilities are” for a ceasefire deal with Hamas, but will not end the war in Gaza until Hamas surrenders or is destroyed. His comments came after mediators Qatar and Egypt expressed frustration that Israel has yet to issue an official response to the latest phased hostage release proposal, which Hamas said last week that it had accepted.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, rejected on Wednesday what he called “false rumors” that there is no space available in southern Gaza for displaced residents, as IDF troops continued to advance on Gaza City.
In a video message posted on X, Adraee said the army has surveyed large open areas in southern Gaza, including in the central refugee camps and in Al-Mawasi, which he described as empty of tents and ready to receive evacuees.
Adraee said that the evacuation of residents from Gaza City was “inevitable,” and pledged that families moving south would receive increased humanitarian assistance. The statement said that preparations are underway for tent encampments, aid distribution centers and water infrastructure for those being displaced. said that the evacuation of residents from Gaza City was “inevitable,” and pledged that families moving south would receive increased humanitarian assistance. The statement said that preparations are underway for tent encampments, aid distribution centers and water infrastructure for those being displaced.
The IDF said Wednesday that Israel will add two humanitarian aid distribution centers in the southern Gaza Strip to receive the new influx of displaced Palestinians. It said in a statement that the work would be completed in the coming days, replacing the Center in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood and bringing the number of distribution centers to a total of five.
UN spokesperson Stรฉphane Dujarric said earlier this week that roughly 5,000 people had been displaced from northern Gaza to Deir al-Balah in the central Strip and to Khan Younis in the south since August 20. Another 8,000 have been displaced to the west of Gaza City, bringing the total number of new displacements since the end of the March ceasefire to more than 800,000.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday, Leiter said ceasefire proposals are “under discussion… we’re looking at what the possibilities are for a ceasefire and a temporary deal, but at the same time it has to be very clear — it ends when Hamas ends.”
He said Israel is wary of a partial hostage release because it could mean the deaths of the hostages not freed in the first phase: “If we are not careful, what’s going to happen is we are going to get a few hostages out now, and we’re never going to see the rest of the hostages again.”
Leiter said that Israel “can’t guarantee” that the living hostages in Gaza “will come back soon,” but “we can guarantee that we’re going to do everything in our power to get them out.”
He also averred that mediators Egypt and Qatar “haven’t applied the necessary pressure, if they could” on Hamas.
“Hamas leadership is sitting in Istanbul,” Leiter said. “Where the hell is [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan? Why are Hamas leadership sitting in Qatar right now? Why is the international community not saying, the leadership of Hamas is being closed down, period?”
He claimed that Hamas reconstituted during the ceasefire earlier this year, “building up a force of 25,000-30,000 fighters.”
The IDF said Wednesday that troops were continuing to operate on the outskirts of Gaza City, targeting the remaining Hamas strongholds in the enclave.
According to the military, forces from the 99th Division have been striking Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground, and in the past 24 hours they destroyed several observation posts that posed a threat to Israeli troops. At the same time, the 162nd Division has been engaged in fighting in Jabalia and Gaza City’s outskirts in an effort to eliminate operatives from terror groups and dismantle their networks, the IDF said.
Residents of Gaza City in the Strip’s north reported that tanks entered the Ebad-Alrahman neighborhood on the northern edge of the city late Tuesday and shelled houses, wounding several people and forcing many others, who had been taken by surprise, to move deeper into Gaza’s largest city.
“All of a sudden, we heard that the tanks pushed into Ebad-Alrahman, the sounds of explosions became louder and louder, and we saw people escaping towards our area,” Saad Abed, 60, a former construction worker, told Reuters via a chat app from his house in Jala Street in Gaza City, around a kilometer (0.62 miles) from the Ebad-Alrahman neighborhood. “If no truce is reached, we will see the tanks outside our homes.”
Tala al-Khatib, 29, told AFP that there was heavy bombing overnight: “Warplanes struck several times, and drones fired throughout the night,” she said. “Several homes in Zeitoun were blown up. We are still in our house — some neighbors have fled, while others remain. But wherever you flee, death follows you.”
Elsewhere, the 36th Division continued its operations in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where the IDF said troops — with air support — killed several operatives and destroyed additional infrastructure. The air force, directed by the navy, also struck a naval weapons warehouse and a repair facility for Hamas’s naval armaments in Khan Younis, the IDF said.
Separately, an Israeli Air Force strike, guided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet, killed Mahmoud al-Asoud, commander of Hamas’s General Security Apparatus in western Gaza. The IDF said al-Asoud played a central role in Hamas’s security apparatus both during the current war and in past years.
The IDF also announced Wednesday that it had established a new engineering battalion under the Givati Brigade, which has already joined the fighting in Jabalia in northern Gaza. The 607th “Mapatz” Battalion was created following lessons learned during the war, with the military citing the need for dedicated engineering forces at the brigade level to support infantry operations, dismantle terror infrastructure, and ensure troop mobility.
Meanwhile, Israel continued to face harsh international criticism for a strike earlier this week on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists.
The IDF said Tuesday that its preliminary investigation found that forces had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera the terror group had installed on the hospital grounds, and asserted that six of the people killed were terror operatives. The military also reiterated that it regretted civilian casualties and does not target journalists, while accusing Hamas of “cynically” exploiting medical facilities for military purposes.
The strike was “unjustifiable,” said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday, adding that Israel’s war against Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s October 7 onslaught in Israel, has “gone beyond the principle of proportionality.”
“We condemn the unjustifiable killing of journalists, an unacceptable attack on press freedom and on all those who risk their lives to report the tragedy of war,” she said during her address at an annual Catholic festival in Rimini, Italy.
“We did not hesitate for a single minute in supporting Israel’s right to defense after the horrors of the October 7 massacre,” added the conservative premier. “But we cannot remain silent now in the face of a reaction that has gone beyond the principle of proportionality, claiming too many innocent victims, and even involving Christian communities.”
She said that Italy is “reaffirming its role” in Gaza, highlighting Italy’s involvement in medical evacuations from the Strip.
“There are those who go through the motions and those who save children. I am proud to be among the latter,” she said.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said Wednesday that there will be more information in the “next few days” on the strike on Nasser Hospital.
“We’re still looking into the details of that incident, and so that in the next few days we will have more information about that,” Danon told reporters. “Our goal is to fight terrorists, not journalists, not anyone who is not involved in terrorism.” link The government is claiming that large numbers of Gazans have already left Gaza City, mostly due to the aerial bombings, but it appears that, once again they are lying. The reports by the independent press is that slightly more than 5,000 people out of about a million have left. There are several reasons that people are not leaving:
-They have already been evacuated multiple times from their homes, some as many as 20 times and they refuse to evacuate again
- The residents that have evacuated have been met with great animosity in the humanitarian areas that they are supposed to go to, some have been exposed to violence
- Hamas is constantly threatening with loaded weapons those who try to leave
-the cost for a couple without any other family is a minimum of $2000 to secure a location and tent in the humanitarian area. People don't have money anymore
- Many have decided that if they are to die, they will do so in their homes.
If such large numbers of Gazans refuse to leave Gaza City, it is hard to imagine if and how the army could make them leave besides bombing their homes. We are talking about evacuating a million people. If so many refuse, and I hope they will, it will force the government into reevaluating their goal of occupying Gaza City. This could help save the hostages' lives who will be in great danger from both the bombings and the potential of execution by their terrorist guards if the army gets near them. Too many hostages have been killed in both of these ways.IDF says it destroyed dozens of targets over past day ahead of Gaza City offensive
The IDF says its troops continue to strike Hamas and other terror groups across the Gaza Strip, destroying dozens of targets over the past day, as part of preparations for a broader offensive to seize Gaza City in the north of the enclave.
According to the military, Golani Brigade forces under the 36th Division killed several gunmen and destroyed terror infrastructure in southern Gaza. The 188th Brigade also operated in the southern city of Khan Younis, working to secure control over the Magen Oz corridor linking the eastern and western parts of the city, and struck Hamas positions in the area.
In northern Gaza, the IDF’s 162nd Division targeted terrorists in addition to both aboveground and underground infrastructure. The Givati Brigade reported destroying several tunnels in Jabalia, while the 401st Brigade spotted and killed three Hamas operatives with air support.
**There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!**
“I’ve never met them,But I miss them. I’ve never met them,but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them,but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!”
Red Alerts - Missile, Rocket, Drone (UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles), and Terror Attacks and Death Announcements
*1:00PM - Drone from Yemen successfully intercepted, IDF says
Following the hostile aircraft infiltration sirens that sounded a short while ago in the Bnei Netzarim area near the Gaza Strip, the IDF says a UAV launched from Yemen was successfully intercepted by the Israeli Air Force.
Gaza and the South
Syrian state media says IDF first launched strikes on troops who found ‘eavesdropping devices’
Syria’s official SANA news agency reports that initial Israeli drone strikes on Tuesday had targeted soldiers who, while on patrol, discovered “surveillance and eavesdropping devices.”
Ongoing strikes prevented other troops from reaching the area until the following evening. Other soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of the eight soldiers killed the day before and to “destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons,” SANA says.
The report comes after SANA said reported more Israeli strikes and an airdrop commando raid in the area, “the details of which are not known.”
Netanyahu decries ‘blood libel’ against IDF general tarred as ‘war criminal’ in Haaretz op-ed
Prime Minister Netanyahu “strongly rejects” what he calls “vile accusations” made against Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth in a Haaretz opinion column, after Bluth remarked that the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir would “pay a heavy price” following a shooting attack by one of its residents.
The premier “strongly rejects the vile accusations against [Bluth] and against the settlers in Judea and Samaria. These are antisemitic blood libels characteristic of our enemies around the world,” writes his office in a statement, using the Biblical term for the West Bank.
“The prime minister expresses his full support for and strengthens Maj. Gen. Bluth and the IDF soldiers who operate day by day to eradicate terror in Judea and Samaria. They do so with determination and with uncompromising morality, and we all salute them,” adds the statement.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir similarly defended Bluth, hours after Haaretz published a piece by firebrand columnist Gideon Levy in which Bluth is described as a “general of bloodshed,” a “war criminal,” and an “uberkommandant,” an apparent reference to a Nazi-style military rank.
After an attack by a resident of al-Mughayyir, the IDF uprooted thousands of olive trees in the village and imposed a three-day curfew. Bluth’s remarks were criticized for seeming to endorse collective punishment, though the IDF later said the uprooting of trees was an act of operational necessity to clear vegetation that enabled the gunman to flee, and senior officers emphasized his moral conduct and commitment to distinguishing civilians from terrorists.
Netanyahu’s statement accuses Haaretz of “allowing nonstop incitement,” after Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has called on the IDF to cut off contact with Haaretz in light of the column. link If the Haaretz Op-ED was only based on the single statement of this general, perhaps, Netanyahu and his cronies could have a case, but it is not in a vacuum. Netanyahu already has a warrant out for his arrest by the ICC for War Crimes along with the former Defense Minister, and that will not end with only those two. Gaza is a monumental war crime in so many areas: ethnic cleansing by 'voluntary emigration', a euphemism for forced emigration, complete destruction of a society with over 90% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza as being partially up to completely decimated, creation of the world's largest current refugee crisis, prevention of humanitarian aid reaching 2 million refugees, targeted killings of reporters (not all of them are Hamas), decimation of almost all of the hospitals, clinics, schools, universities, mosques and the list goes on.
The actions in Gaza have been so 'successful' in Netanyahu's eyes that similar actions have been going on in the West Bank as well, with massive arrests, destruction of buildings and infrastructure, forcing tens of thousands out of their homes and villages for the army to occupy, and this list also goes on and on.
Netanyahu's cries of 'blood libel' are synonymous with his cries of every other denunciation of what has been done in this war as being antisemitic and anti Israel. Maybe, Netanyahu, it's just being anti the actions of you and your criminal government?
- IDF tests advanced JLTV for long-range operational missions
The military conducted unique exercises with the new Oshkosh JLTV, testing air and sea transport for distant missions, exploring how the armored tactical vehicle can perform beyond local battle zones
IDF's Operational Driving School (BALNAM 444 Unit) completed this week a series of exercises in cooperation with the Israeli Air Force and Navy to prepare the newly acquired Oshkosh JLTV, a protected combat vehicle, for air and sea transport. The aim is to enable its use in distant operational theaters.The school’s heavy driving unit, responsible for training in all heavy vehicles, including the JLTV and the Eitan APC, conducted loading exercises onto Air Force Hercules transport planes of Squadron 131 and a new Triton-class landing ship from Unit 921.“The goal of the exercise was to explore additional uses for the vehicle beyond the more familiar operations in nearby areas,” said Capt. L, commander of the unit, in a conversation with iCar. “It’s a relatively new vehicle in the army, and we want it to be suitable for as many missions as possible and test its capabilities.” Lt. B, the unit’s operations officer, added: “This vehicle is different from the Humvee, for example. It has unique dimensions and weight, a challenging field of view, and different attachment points, so both our crews and Air Force and Navy personnel need to train to ensure operational deployment by air or sea.”The Oshkosh JLTV(Photo: Roi Gara)(Photo: Roi Gara) The JLTV – Joint Light Tactical Vehicle – was developed through a U.S. Army program to replace the aging Humvee. Oshkosh won the contract in 2015. The vehicle is armored and features a passenger capsule designed by Plasan in Kibbutz Sasa in northern Israel. The capsule creates a “safety gap” between the floor and the cabin, providing protection from explosives and mines, unlike older Humvees or other armored vehicles.(Photo: IDF) The JLTV is powered by a 6.6-liter V8 turbo-diesel Duramax engine from General Motors, producing 340 horsepower, paired with a six-speed Allison automatic transmission. The rear-mounted engine allows a high ground clearance. Permanent four-wheel drive with a low-range gearbox and front and rear differential locks enhance off-road mobility. Oshkosh’s TAK-4i independent suspension, with coil springs and combined oil-and-nitrogen shock absorbers, enables the vehicle to rise for water crossings or tough terrain and lower for tactical deployment via ships or transport planes, as tested in the exercises. The suspension also keeps the chassis level for observation or weapon operation on uneven terrain. link
For a long time, I held back from writing this so directly, but when I saw the IDF spokesperson announce preparations for a takeover of Gaza, I felt I had to say it outright.
Acronyms and Glossary
ICC - International Criminal Court in the Hague
IJC - International Court of Justice in the Hague
MDA - Magen David Adom - Israel Ambulance Corp
PA - Palestinian Authority - President Mahmud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen
PMO- Prime Minister's Office
UAV - Unmanned Aerial vehicle, Drone. Could be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, or be weaponized with missiles or contain explosives for 'suicide' explosion mission
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