📑 Long ago, I made a remark saying that with up to 20 years in leadership, Netanyahu not once acted against Hezbullah in a full scale war and he always preferred to fight the Palestinians.

These remarks continue to prove themselves as true, remarkably to a degree that Netanyahu himself told his government to forget about northern Israel and Hezbullah.

According to Israeli channel 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked Ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot in a discussion session about the situation in the north.

The ministers pointed out the need to deal with the Hezbullah threat and return the evacuated residents of the north, however Netanyahu shouted and said:

"Stop provoking [the public] about this matter. Do not make a show out of it."

📝 While the remark is a fun observation, not opening a second front in Lebanon against a much stronger foe than Hamas, and a one capable of bringing serious damage to Israel, is the only smart decision to make.

That, and genuinely no one in the West has an appetite for a war in Lebanon and a widespread destruction in Beirut. Just not yet.

📑 It's also quite amazing how the Israeli leadership is at loss of path on how to move forward because of the political clash and loss of direction.

There is no plan on what to do forward on, and there is no unity in the goals to achieve.

This situation has forced the Israeli army to operate in the same areas it already claimed fulfilling its objectives in, once and twice and thrice.

With renewed operations in Northern Gaza, the Gaza that is besieged by Israel from all 4 sides and has no access to what Rafah offers, continues to resist and rebuild and place a toll on the Israeli army.

In the new operation in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, the Israeli army lost 5 soldiers and many more injured, including a Brigadier General, who was moderately wounded.

Army Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi slammed Netanyahu in one of the recent cabinet discussions saying thay: "We are now operating once again in Northern Gaza. As long as there is no political move that will be established to govern the Strip instead of Hamas, we will have to act again and again there and in other places to dismantle Hamas infrastructure. It will be a sizzling effort.'

Halevi said these things - when senior IDF officers implored, and are on the brink of begging, the Prime Minister and the Israeli leadership to make decisions, formulate a strategy.

Cabinet officials have warned Netanyahu over the past few weeks and said that Israel's behavior and the fact that the government didn't not make decisions about what it wants to happen in Gaza the day after the war - "simply endangers human life."

📑 With the Israeli army incursion into north Gaza again, after withdrawing weeks ago, the resistance issued more than 25 statements today announcing various attacks and engagements with the IDF.

The attacks varried from mortar, AT, IED, and drone.

In the last 24 hours, at least 50 Israeli army soldiers were injured in Gaza fighting what they described months ago as the defeated Hamas brigades.

📹 Hezbullah releases unique footage of a close range attack with different types of weapons on the Israeli base in Rameem.

They used Almas ATGMs, traditional AT, B-9 recoilless rifles, and other small weapons.

Some of the attacks in this video took place less than 300 m from the border.

This attack was a real-life simulation on a real Israeli base on how to provide the adequate fire cover for a raid.

The only missing element was the order for forces to raid the Israeli base.

🗣️ This morning, Hezbullah took credit for a seriea of attacks, each that resulted in Israeli casualties

🔻 Suicide drone attack on the sleeping quarters of the Israeli army artillery units in Beit Hillel
🔻  Merkava tank in Yiftah settlement
🔻 Soldiers in Branit barracks with rockets
🔻 Soldiers in Al-Jerdah base inside a room with battle intelligence equipment

and others...

📝 These attacks resulted in, according to initial Israeli army acknowledgement:

☠️ Injury of four soldiers in Yiftah and material damage

⚡️Shalom Southern Ashkelon

🇷🇺🇺🇦 What is interesting about the video from Bugrovatka...

Bugrovatka is a village on the Seversky Donets. Nearby are the ruins of a bridge. But it was not built there by chance. This is a convenient place for arrangement, incl. and pontoon crossing.

And now let’s look again at the video where our soldiers stand completely calmly and go about their business. There's definitely no fight nearby. This indicates that the enemy is far away.

And if we look at the battle map again, we will see that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have at least one more big problem. Now their command must keep in mind the possibility of our crossing here and striking in the rear of Volchansk in the area of the railway station.

There are also a lot of places through which our DRGs can get behind enemy lines. Whether it will be or not, we don’t know, but we already have this opportunity...

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 Hamas claims to have been able to target a Merkava with a Yassin 105 (Tandem) rocket shell dropped from a UAV. A brave operation that once again confirms Hamas' combat readiness.

🏥 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli forces advance in Rafah; Health Ministry says Gaza hospital system will collapse in hours

🔶️ Israeli forces are advancing on the southern city of Rafah, aiming to destroy what Israeli officials have called the last significant Hamas stronghold in Gaza, at the same time that Israel and the militant group are again clashing in areas in the north.

🔶️ The Gaza Health Ministry said Monday that the health system in the strip will collapse within “a few hours” due to a lack of fuel needed to power generators and ambulances, after similar warnings from aid agencies last week.

🔶️ Nearly 360,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah in the week since Israel ordered its civilians to evacuate, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Monday. Israel says the evacuations will protect civilians from being caught up in looming battles, while aid groups say there is nowhere safe for them to go

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