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"Nevertheless, all estimates, based on the statements of the resistance forces, their spokespersons, and analysts, and based on simple logic, say: do not negotiate for the release of detainees or engage in a prisoner exchange without a cessation of aggression. Who would be foolish enough to think that the resistance will hand over hundreds of its prisoners for nothing, especially since they declared from day one, through the words of Ismail Haniyeh and others, that the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood is for the sake of the prisoners and detainees? Therefore, the resistance will not forfeit what it achieved on October seventh, and it will not turn its back on the sacrifices of our people in the Gaza Strip over 19 days for nothing.

[Freeing] the prisoners, [securing] the Al-Aqsa Mosque, [ending] the siege, and nothing less, are what I believe to be the goals that the resistance seeks to achieve in the foreseeable future. I say the foreseeable future because the developments of the conflict are pushing towards the boundaries of a regional war, which will present the resistance and its allies with more strategic goals. It is not far from the truth to say that the most important of these strategic goals is the goal of return and liberation. The battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, with its achievements and its sacrifices, and the new realities it imposed on regional and international levels, has put the Palestinian issue back on the right track, the track of the national struggle until return and liberation."

"The Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement announced that it successfully repelled the Zionist occupation army’s most recent attempts to advance into Gaza. On the evening of October 27th, the Israeli occupation forces attacked Gaza on three different fronts and it failed to gain a foothold in the city.

In a statement released this morning, Hamas stated “the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance heroically and steadfastly responded to attempts at a ground advance, clashed forcefully with the occupation army, and inflicted heavy losses on its soldiers and equipment.”

The statement continued by saying that “Gaza has been and will remain a graveyard for invaders… the era of arrogance and recklessness without accountability has ended. They will not be able to erase the impact of the strategic defeat they suffered on October 7.”

Expecting the enemy to continue attempting ground incursions, Hamas officials noted that “the Israeli occupation used helicopters to evacuate the wounded and the dead from the battlefield.”

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Tasnim News; Iranian State Media

"Around 5,000 American military forces have been engaged in the ground operation the Israeli army launched in Gaza on Friday night. Security sources told Tasnim that the Zionist regime’s ground onslaught against the Gaza Strip on Friday night involved three divisions and several brigades.

The sources have also pointed to the participation of some 5,000 US military forces in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Tasnim had reported earlier that the American military commanders have practically taken charge of the situation in the Israeli army as the Zionist forces suffered a crushing defeat in the Al-Aqsa Storm operation and the Israeli leaders have lost trust in the management abilities and loyalty of a number of army personnel.

As the Gaza Strip on Friday night came under the heaviest bombardment since the Zionists waged a brutal war 22 days ago, the Israeli army made an attempt to enter the Gaza Strip from several areas, including Bureij, Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and north of Khan Yunis.

The purpose of the Israeli army’s advance on those regions is to split the Gaza Strip into two or three sections and cut off the connection among the Palestinian resistance forces before launching the next stage of the war.

The Zionist regime had put the same plan into practice in 2014, which had ended in failure.

Every time the Zionist regime launches a land invasion of Gaza, its officials claim that the main operation has not started yet, describing the latest attack as being limited in scope or an extension of a previous operation.

The Zionists have planned a propaganda campaign to whitewash the failure of ground invasion of Gaza and suffer less humiliation.

The Israeli regime’s bombardment of Gaza intensified after the military said it was “expanding operations” into the territory.

The Hamas resistance movement says its fighters confronted the Zionist troops in various locations on Friday night.

More than 1 million Palestinian children and their parents are living through “pure horror” in the besieged enclave, humanitarian group Save the Children said.

At least 7,326 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7."

"The Israeli campaign of massacres and terrorism against the Gaza Strip has now extended to murdering Palestinian prisoners. The first martyr was a leader in the Hamas movement, Omar Hamza Daraghmeh, age 58, from the city of Tubas. On October 24, another prisoner was martyred. He was Arafat Yasser Hamdan, age 25, from the town of Beit Sira in Ramallah district, imprisoned in Ofer prison.

The occupation forces had arrested Daraghmeh, along with his son Hamza, on October 9, the third day of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle. Omar participated remotely in a court session held in Ofer camp on Monday, October 23. At that time, his lawyer confirmed that he was in good health. However, later that evening, the occupation prison department announced that he had died due to a “heart attack” in Megiddo prison.

Hamdan, on the other hand, was arrested on October 22 during a wave of arrests by the occupation forces.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Prisoners’ Club commented on Daraghmeh’s martyrdom in a joint statement: “the martyrdom of any prisoner, in light of the comprehensive aggression against our people and the genocide of our people in Gaza, is tantamount to a deliberate assassination.” The statement emphasized that “the occupation’s narrative has always been and continues to be a deception. Each time, the occupation creates stories about the circumstances of prisoners’ martyrdom, attempting to absolve itself of the crime.”

In this context, they pointed out that “based on the numerous testimonies of newly released prisoners, who spoke about torture and beatings during their transfer to the courtroom or the room dedicated to court video conferencing, and in light of all the information we receive about torture operations against the prisoners, we are not merely voicing concerns about the possible martyrdom of other detainees, but we are announcing that one has already been martyred.”

After Hamdan’s martyrdom, a second statement was issued highlighting that “the occupation has begun a systematic assassination campaign against the prisoners as part of the all-round aggression against our people and our prisoners.”

While the occupation maintains secrecy about the prisoners, including the number of people detained and the conditions for detention, it has significantly ratcheted up its repression in the prisons. It seeks revenge and death. The occupation prison agency is using the monstrous aggression against Gaza as an opportunity to target the prisoners with torture, assassination, execution, and stricter detention conditions.

After the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, Israeli prison authorities imposed several sanctions against the prisoners:

1. Removal of all electrical devices, including televisions, food heating plates, and water heating jugs.

Cutting off electricity to the prisoners from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Limited access to the courtyard for only 20 minutes, and sometimes completely depriving prisoners of it.

Destruction of all sports equipment.

Cutting off hot water supply to the bathing sections, forcing the prisoners to shower in cold water.

Closure of the kitchen and providing only two modest meals.

Regular and daily room searches.

Increasing the number of prisoners in each room from five prisoners to nine.

9. Converting the sentences of some prisoners whose terms have ended into indefinite administrative detention.

In conjunction with this, the occupation forces arrested more than 50 people, including former prisoners, on the night of October 23. The occupation has arrested more than 1,265 Palestinians since October 7, and this does not include workers or detainees from the Gaza Strip because the occupation authorities have imposed an information blackout on this information. Despite the prisoners’ support organizations’ demands to meet with the International Red Cross, there is no clear data from the human rights institutions or the Red Cross about the numbers or identities of the workers detained by the occupation, nor the places of their detention.

Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement Victory is an Implementation of Unity and True Partnership

The Israeli barbarism and terrorism against prisoners is not confined to the prisons; it begins at the first moment of arrest, starting with violently storming their homes. According to documentation from the Prisoners’ Club, the arrests are particularly brutal and include using families as hostages, vandalizing and destroying homes, subjecting the detainees to severe beatings causing injuries, and, sometimes, on-the-spot executions.

This campaign coincides with the implementation of strict military orders by the occupation authorities to facilitate arrest operations, torture of detainees, and restrictions on the work of legal teams. The most prominent example of this is the increasing use of “administrative detention”, as a significant portion of those arrested after the start of Al-Aqsa Flood were placed under administrative detention. The occupation has issued more than 300 administrative detention orders during this time. The occupation has also instituted temporary amendments to the administrative detention policies, including raising the initial detention period for warrantless detention (when the occupation determines the possibility of issuing an administrative detention order against them) from 72 hours to six days. Moreover, the time period before administrative detainees receive a hearing has been increased from eight days to 12 days. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, these amendments are designed “to escalate arrest campaigns, increase the ease of issuing administrative detention orders, and control the growing number of prisoners, including administrative detainees.”

On October 22, the prisoners’ families held a press conference in Ramallah, expressing their profound concern for the fate of their imprisoned family members, while the occupation isolates them and escalates its systematic crimes against them. The families stated that over the last two weeks the occupation’s prisons have become as savage and brutal as Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib prison. “The occupation has deprived the prisoners of visits, including visits by lawyers and legal staff; halted medical treatment; cut off water and electricity; and today, our children are facing hunger after the occupation confiscated food from them and reduced their meals.”

The wife of prisoner Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh said: “Since October 7, our loved ones have been subjected to attacks by severe beatings inside their cells, and to acts of abuse and torture that greatly exceed the abuse and torture that the occupation has previously pursued. [Meanwhile] the world is only speaking about the hostages held in Gaza for two weeks and ignoring the thousands of prisoners in the occupation’s prisons who were, and still are, just numbers to them!”

Since 1967, there have been 238 martyred prisoners, and the occupation still holds the bodies of 11 martyrs."

"The US government has sent at least 80 military cargo planes and dozens of leased civilian aircraft to Israel, Jordan, and Cyprus since the start of the Gaza-Israel war on 7 October.

According to open-source information reviewed by Israeli daily Haaretz, over the past two weeks, at least eight heavy-cargo planes that set off from supply depots in the US and Europe have landed at a Jordanian airbase. Moreover, two fighter squadrons of F-15E fighter jets and A-10 attack planes have also been deployed to the Hashemite kingdom.

In Cyprus, Washington has delivered large quantities of weapons and equipment to UK troops stationed at a British Air Force base, with at least 20 heavy-transport aircraft reportedly landing in the island nation over recent days.

In the days following the start of the Gaza-Israel war, the UK sent surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships, and 100 Royal Marines to the Eastern Mediterranean. Furthermore, Germany and the Netherlands have also deployed special forces units to Cyprus.

But most US arms shipments have headed directly to Israel, as the country has received thousands of tons of advanced armament, munitions, Iron Dome batteries, and armored vehicles, among other types of aid.

Moreover, Washington has deployed at least nine US warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel the moment a regional war breaks out. These ships include the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group, currently operating off the coast of Cyprus and which has onboard about 80 attack, electronic warfare, and intelligence aircraft.

The US announced on Sunday that it was deploying a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD battery) to intercept ballistic missiles and additional Patriot missile systems to West Asia. Washington had already deployed several air defense systems and ground reinforcements to US occupation bases in Syria over the past year.

As Israel continues to struggle to launch its ground offensive into the Gaza Strip – and faces the looming threat of Hezbollah in the north – the US this week also took control of the Elefsina air base near the Greek capital Athens, as the US military base on the Greek island of Crete is already at "full capacity."

The massive buildup of US arsenal and troops near Israel comes when western arms manufacturers have already been stretched thin, arming Ukraine and Taiwan to wage war against Russia and China."

"...In another report in Haaretz in Hebrew (it does not appear to be available in English) on October 11, probably following the same army-guided PR tour, Nir Hasson and Eden Solomon interviewed “Erez, deputy commander of an armored reserve battalion.” He described how he and his tanks unit “fought inside the kibbutz, from house to house, with the tanks.” “We had no choice,” he concludes.

Most recently, Nir Hasson returned to Be’eri and interviewed a local resident named Tuval, who was lucky to be away from the kibbutz at the time of the attack but whose partner was killed. In Hasson’s October 20 Haaretz article, he reports:

“His voice trembles when his partner, who was besieged in her home shelter at the time, comes to mind. According to him, only on Monday night and only after the commanders in the field made difficult decisions — including shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages — did the IDF complete the takeover of the kibbutz. The price was terrible: at least 112 Be’eri people were killed. Others were kidnapped. Yesterday, 11 days after the massacre, the bodies of a mother and her son were discovered in one of the destroyed houses. It is believed that more bodies are still lying in the rubble.”

This quote is important for several reasons; one is because it adds to the understood timeline of events. This testimony would seem to indicate that many Israeli captives were still alive on Monday, October 9, a full two days after the events of Saturday, October 7. While it might be understandable if captives had been killed in the hectic crossfire of an initial Israeli response to the attack on the 7th, this account would seem to indicate that the decision to assault the kibbutz and everyone inside was made as a clear military calculation.

It is clear Palestinian militants were hiding in these buildings with their Israeli captives as Israeli soldiers were blasting their way in with massive tank shells in close quarters. It deserves to be investigated who caused most of the death and destruction that took place. This is especially important as these deaths are now being used to justify the destruction of Gaza and the killing of thousands of civilians there.

Implications for Israeli captives in Gaza

All this is not history or simply in the past. There are implications for the next stage of the war, which might be even much bloodier. One central element of the conflict is now the fate of more than two hundred Israeli captives, soldiers, and civilians.

For the Palestinians, this is a historic opportunity to release their long-held militants from what they call “the occupation bastilles.” Even as Palestinians know that the liberation of their land is still a distant dream, the liberation of their prisoners through a prisoner swap is the most precious victory for which they can strive. However, Israel, as it has proved many times in the past and as recent events may indicate, may be ready to put the lives of its soldiers and citizens at risk rather than witness the joy of freedom celebrated on both sides of the border."

Zionist general "Giora Eiland )" wrote this as strategy in zionist newspaper. In case you're wondering what the imperialist strategy is and why only the armed regional resistance can stop their plots. I can't read this language I used ai translate.

"Well, the strategic purpose, to create a situation in which Hamas will not exist as a body with military capability, is correct, in fact necessary. Those who hope that the 22 settlements that were attacked will be repopulated and that parents will agree to raise children there, must prove by actions that there is no longer a threat. This goal cannot be achieved by bombardment from the air, and it is doubtful whether it is right to risk a prolonged ground operation. Therefore, the State of Israel has no choice but to make Gaza a place that is temporarily, or permanently, impossible to live. ... Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal. There is nothing to fear from international pressure. Such pressure is a positive thing and will allow us to ask back: So what do you propose? If Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Egypt and Saudi Arabia want to prevent a humanitarian disaster - let them volunteer to find a solution for Gaza."

This has been discussed in other places between Arabs I am simply passing along.

For those of you who have family or social connections to settlers inside the entity, especially if you can read and write Hebrew. You have important task to be social saboteurs.

One part of liberating Palestine requires the social disintegration of settler society. The settlers need to see that their government, 'rightist' and 'leftist', is actively hostile to them. You have probably seen the stories of IOF killing settler hostages during the initial phases of the Al-Aqsa Flood. Abu Obeida recently exposed the occupation did not want to receive release of elderly settler hostages.

One of the hostages the occupation denied.

I do not expect the settlers or much global Jewish community to care about Palestinians but that doesn't matter. The entity is censoring news about these things because they don't want infighting among nazi settler society.

Go into their Facebook communities their chats everything and spread news about these things. Tell your temples to share this testimonies from settlers. Convince them to leave if you can. It doesn't matter if they think "apartheid bad" they just need to distrust and resent their army. You can be spy.

Spread distrust, dissent, dislike, defeatism.

You can infiltrate where none else can. This is a useful thing you can do.

"Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said if ‘Israeli’ crimes against Palestinians in Gaza continue, no one can stop Muslims and resistance forces.

Imam Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a group of Iranian elites and top scientific talents.

His Eminence said the ‘Israeli’ bombardments of Gaza must stop immediately.

"If these crimes [by the Zionists] continue, the Muslims will lose their patience. The Resistance forces will lose their patience," Imam Khamenei warned.

"No one will be able to stop them at that point. They should know this. They shouldn’t expect others to stop this or that group from doing these or those things. No one will be able to stop them once they have lost their patience. This is a reality," His Eminence added.

"Of course, no matter what the Zionist regime does, it will not be able to compensate for the disgraceful defeat that it has experienced in this matter," Imam Khamenei underlined.

“What is in front of the eyes of the whole world is the Zionist regime’s crime of genocide,” Imam Khamenei said.

Claims by some countries that the Palestinians have killed civilians are false as all those living in settlements across the occupied territories are armed, he asserted.

“Now let’s suppose that they are civilians. However, the Zionists are killing the people of Gaza a hundred times more than that figure. Armed personnel do not live in Gaza. They choose crowded sites and hit them… The usurping regime must stand trial.”

Imam Khamenei also noted that numerous information suggest that the Americans are devising the current policy within the Zionist regime.

“The US is responsible for the recent crimes. The bombings must stop immediately,” he added."

The reach of military conscription widens

In early September, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry also amended rules exempting Ukrainians from military service on health grounds. From now on, people with clinically cured tuberculosis, viral hepatitis under treatment, slowly progressing blood diseases, thyroid gland diseases with minor functional disorders, and those who are HIV-positive but without symptoms are all considered still fit for military service.

In addition, people suffering from mild mental disorders, neurotic disorders, slowly progressive diseases of the central nervous system, and others have been added to the list, reports Kyiv Independent.

So altogether, women, the elderly, and people with serious health problems have become the latest targets for serving in a 'counteroffensive' designed to please political and military leaders in the United States and Europe.

Foreign domination in the name of 'fighting corruption'

Meanwhile, the United States is strengthening its economic grip and control over Ukraine, making it virtually a colony under the control of appointees from the U.S. administration. Control is to be exercised under the pretext of fighting corruption. "Biden administration officials are far more worried about corruption in Ukraine than they publicly admit," the online Politico reports on October 2.

Corruption has always been inherent in Ukrainian governments, but the West does not fight it, it merely acts to bring corrupt Ukrainian officials under its control. At the end of September, Ukrainian politicians and mass media were actively discussing the new requirements of the U.S. administration which were presented to the Kiev regime following Zelensky's return from his second official visit to the U.S. in September. If Kiev refuses to fulfill the demands for 'anti-corruption measures', some U.S. politicians say they may cut military aid. That would bring defeat and the end of the Kiev regime.

The U.S. requirements were contained in a diplomatic letter to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and President Volodymyr Zelensky in September, with copies to all Western 'donors' to Ukraine (EU, G7 countries, IMF, World Bank, EIB, EBRD). The essence of all the reforms demanded is that Ukraine should select judges, anti-corruption fighters, and the management of state enterprises on the recommendation of "international experts". Since 2014, these "experts" have been representatives of the Western business elite.

In addition, Ukraine is being told to "liberalize" gas and electricity tariffs, that is, to raise them, notwithstanding the 'freeze' of tariffs that Zelensky promised for the period of martial law. Ukraine MP Maxim Buzhansky from Zelensky’s party believes that Zelensky has no choice in this regard, no matter what he previously promised to Ukrainians. "In short, the situation is as follows. If we accept the new package of reforms from our partners, they will allow us to raise tariffs. And if we fail to accept them, they will force us to raise them," Buzhansky writes.

Another MP, Oleksandr Dubinsky claims that the fulfillment of all the U.S. requirements will turn the Ukrainian president into a figurehead. Zelensky may merely appear to fulfill the U.S. requirements. Dubinsky writes, "What is interesting is that the fulfillment of all points of the requirements will allow the United States to take full control over the entire financial and economic as well as anti-corruption system of Ukraine. This will literally turn Zelensky into a ceremonial figure, depriving him of his illegal levers of influence on all branches of government. His closest entourage will turn into potential 'jailers' for corruption."

Ukrainian ministers are truly frightened by the prospect of being left without U.S. funding. They have immediately rushed to implement the latest neoliberal reforms demanded by the IMF.

Cuts to the social wage are on the agenda of the Ukraine gov't

Oksana Zholnovych, Ukraine's minister of social policy, announced in early October that the government would overhaul its system of social benefits. "If a social benefit payment is there simply for historical reasons, then, obviously, it should be reformatted into something else, into some kind of support that a person will really need and that will be effective. This will be the new social contract," she said. She warned that recipients of social assistance now have one year to "get back on their feet". (There is deep irony in these words. Several days ago, Zholnovych warned that there are some three million disabled people in Ukraine today; that number increased by 300,000 during the past year.)

The same Ukrainian minister of social policy says Ukrainians "live in a comfort zone" which needs to be removed. She said, as reported by Interfax Ukraine, that people abuse social assistance and do not want to take responsibility for their lives. "We need to break everything that is social in the country and reformat social policy in the state from scratch," the minister said, emphasizing that a Ukrainian should not feel like a "teenager" to whom the state owes something.

"We need to break everything that is social today, and simply reformat from scratch a new social contract on social policy in our state. Many citizens are, in a certain sense, teenagers, believing the state owes them care and help but are unwilling to participate in personal development and take responsibility. This is the philosophy that we definitely must break."

Thousands of Ukrainians have lost limbs and suffered terrible injuries defending the Ukrainian state and its Western masters. According to the minister, nothing “humiliates a citizen more than a small salary paid on time”, which allegedly prevents him or her from self-developing. According to her, crippled veterans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces may only require prosthetic limbs and retraining in order to be "released into the world".

Ukraine is very unlucky with its officials responsible for social policy. Back in 2017, then-minister of social policy, Andrey Reva claimed that Ukrainians (the poorest country in Europe) eat too much, spending something like 50 percent of their income on food. In contrast, he said, people in Germany spend much less on food even though prices (at the time) were similar. He said Germans only spend 14 percent of their income on food. The minister said nothing of the vast income disparities between Ukraine and Germany.) This example shows how distant from working-class Ukrainians are Ukrainian officials, some of whom are responsible for disbursing U.S. and IMF donations to their government. They are seemingly unaware that in some countries of the world, many people may spend 100% of their income on food.

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy, Halyna Tretyakova, has gone the furthest in outlandish claims of social benefits abuse. In 2020, she made statements of a fascist nature saying that children of low-income parents are of "poor quality" Ukraine might follow the example of governments that have sterilized mothers unable to support their children.

She is the author of the anti-union bill 5371, adopted in August 2022, which will make it almost impossible for many Ukrainian workers to organize and fight for their working conditions and wages. Under the new law, people who work for firms with up to 250 employees are no longer protected by the national labor code; they are, instead, now supposed to negotiate individual agreements with their employer. (An earlier effort in 2019 to remove trade union rights, Bill 2681, was dropped following intense international pressure by trade unions and others.)

The IMF, meanwhile, wants a host of measures to improve Ukrainian government revenues, including through raising taxes. The government recently released a draft of Ukraine’s 2024 budget where just under half of all its anticipated funding will come from international donors.

Ukraine's supporters are deeply concerned that the political infighting in Washington may disrupt the flow of money and arms by the U.S. to Kiev. They are also now deeply concerned that the conflict between the Palestinian people and their occupier "Israel" may also lessen attention and support from the West for its conflict with Russia.

Since the Euromaidan events of late 2013/early 2014, all Ukrainian ministers have consistently pursued anti-social policies in order to gain the trust of the United States. Month after month, they have driven thousands of Ukrainians to death or injury on the front lines of a war against Russia. Now they are talking of denying social assistance even to those who were wounded but survived.