An injured Palestinian man trying to calm his distressed mother following an Israeli airstrike on their family home in Gaza.

[G&T]

Alekstilal reports on the floating pier:

The commercial planning for the floating port will be undertaken by the American company Fogbow, a consultancy firm comprising former officials from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, in addition to former officials from the United Nations.

Fogbow's Vice President, Mick Mulroy, specialized in maritime operations at the Special Activities Center of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

According to information about Fogbow, it has operated as a private limited company in England since early June 2010, engaging in management consulting activities apart from financial management.

Three sources who spoke to the British Reuters agency, said that the expected cost of the commercial maritime project is around $200 million for a period of six months, with one source estimating the cost at around $30 million monthly.

Fogbow Logistics Services is currently engaged in securing the financial cost from countries until the plan comes to fruition.

The project will allow for the delivery of approximately 200 containers of aid, equivalent to the cargo of ONE truck, to Gaza daily.

Clearly NOT about delivering aid.

[RT]

Former head of the Operations Division in the occupation army, former commander of the Gaza Division, “Yisrael Ziv”:

🔻 We may lose all the prisoners if we invade Rafah

🔻 If we put the damages of the Rafah invasion on one side and its benefits on the other side; The balance will be tilted towards harm

🔻 We will go to the battle of Rafah only because Netanyahu wants to, but in return we will make a strategic mistake

🔻 To whom will we hand over the keys to the Gaza Strip after the Rafah operation? There is no doubt that Hamas will regain control of the land as it did after we invaded Khan Yunis and the north, and this is a failure of the strategic kind.

🔻 After the invasion of Rafah, we will no longer have any card in our hands and we will have nothing to offer, and it is clear that Israeli security rejects the step.

[A.k]