Al Mayadeen – October 27, 2024
Israel killed 180 journalists; North Gaza toll over 1,000 in 23 days
On day 387 of the genocide in Gaza, Israeli occupation crimes continue unabated, killing 1,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza in just 23 days.
For the 23rd consecutive day, Israeli occupation forces continue their genocide in northern Gaza, committing further massacres through intense airstrikes and the demolition of homes, all while completely isolating the northern governorate from the rest of the Gaza Strip.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza reported the martyrdom of around 10 individuals in a new Israeli massacre that targeted the Asmaa school, which shelters displaced people located in the al-Shati' Camp, west of the city.
The Civil Defense in Gaza announced that the occupation targeted the Asmaa school for the second time in a week, reaffirming that search operations for missing persons under the rubble are underway.
Palestinian media revealed that at least 20 Palestinians were martyred after an Israeli fighter jet bombed several homes belonging to the al-Ajuri, al-Najjar, Abu al-Jdayan, al-Daour, and Abu Nida families in the Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza last night.
Additionally, several Palestinians were injured due to an Israeli drone strike on the Ahmed Fikri street in Jabalia al-Nazla, northern Gaza.
Local sources reported that three Palestinians, including two children, were injured in an attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northwestern Gaza City. Israeli aircraft also launched a barrage of fire in northern Gaza early today.
Gaza's Health Ministry reported the martyrdom of 1,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza, besieged for 23 days, and noted that it remains unaware of the fate of 30 medical personnel detained from Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Moreover, in central Gaza, one martyr was reported and others were injured due to Israeli shelling of the Salah al-Din school, which accommodates displaced people near Palestine Stadium in Gaza City.
Israeli artillery also shelled a residential neighborhood in the al-Bureij camp.
Medical sources stated that Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza received two martyrs and four injuries, including a child, as a result of drone fire west of the al-Nuseirat camp, and treated several injuries from missile strikes west of the new camp in northern al-Nuseirat.
Additionally, according to Palestinian media sources, the body of a Palestinian was found on the al-Rasheed coastal road, northwest of al-Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza.
In southern Gaza, a child called Ashraf Mohamed Fatouh was martyred, and his mother was injured in artillery shelling targeting the regional park area in Khan Younis.
Israeli artillery also targeted the vicinity of the Shakoush area, west of Rafah city, in southern Gaza.
Number of martyr journalists rises to 180
On its part, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported that the number of martyred journalists has risen to 180 since the onset of the Israeli occupation's genocide against the Gaza Strip.
This comes after the head of the digital media department at Al-Aqsa TV, journalist Saed Radwan, and journalist Hamza Abu Salmiya from the Sanad Agency, as well as journalist Haneen Mahmoud Baroud from Al-Quds News, and editor Hamza Youssef Abu Salmiya, were all martyred in the Israeli aggression that targeted the Asmaa school, which shelters displaced people, west of Gaza City.
The Office condemned in the strongest terms the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation, holding the occupation fully responsible for committing this heinous crime.
It also called on the international community and relevant organizations to deter the occupation and persecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, pressuring it to stop the genocide.
International organizations 'playing role of bystander to the genocide'
In another statement, the Government Media Office in Gaza expressed that international organizations operating in the sector have been negligent in performing their duties and are handling the dangerous conditions with indifference and lack of concern, which encourages the IOF to persist in their brutal massacres against the Palestinians.
The Media Office expressed its "extreme discontent and astonishment at the serious negligence of international organizations working in Gaza in fulfilling their roles, as they treat the dangerous conditions with complete indifference, encouraging the occupation to continue its brutal massacres against civilians and the displaced, particularly in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalia and Beit Lahia."
The Office reminded international organizations of their assigned role, which involves meeting humanitarian needs and providing the necessary protection for the Palestinian people, in accordance with international humanitarian law, as civilians are subjected to killing, genocide, ethnic cleansing, extermination, burning, kidnapping, and torture by the Israeli occupation forces, without any significant action from these organizations.
It stated in its statement that international humanitarian law mandates these organizations to provide humanitarian aid, yet they have failed to provide essential needs, such as food, water, and healthcare, as the Palestinian people have been living in a state of systematic and clear starvation enforced by "Israel" for over 180 days, amid a deafening silence on behalf of the international organizations operating in Gaza.
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UN expert warns entire Gaza population at risk of dying in Israel's genocide
The entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel's genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
"The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch," the UN expert on the occupied Palestinian territories wrote on X on Sunday.
In a separate post on Sunday, Albanese said that 20,000 children are missing in Gaza, “some maimed beyond recognition. On top of the 17,000 killed in 12 months.”
Joyce Msuya, acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator also warned on Saturday that the 2.23 million residents of the small territory are at risk of dying.
Msuya said that the “blatant disregard for basic humanity” by Israeli forces has to stop immediately.
“What Israeli forces are doing in besieged north Gaza cannot be allowed to continue.”
Over the past three weeks, Israel’s military forces have blocked nearly all food aid from entering northern Gaza.
Gaza’s civil defense rescue workers say hundreds of people have been killed since the regime’s atrocities began in the north. People are left with an impossible choice in the north.
"The situation in north Gaza is like a catastrophe within a series of catastrophes,” said Jonathan Fowler, a spokesman for UNRWA, the UN agency overseeing the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
“Civilians are given no choice but to either leave or starve,” said UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini.
UN human rights experts have repeatedly warned that Israel has been carrying out a “targeted starvation campaign” that has resulted in the deaths of children in Gaza.
They described the regime’s targeted starvation campaign as a form of genocidal violence that has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.
Palestinians ‘starving to death’ in northern Gaza due to Israeli siege
|The struggle to survive continues in northern Gaza as Israel’s devastating siege and bombing of the area enters its 23rd da
y.
An Oxfam official told Al Jazeera on Sunday Israel is using starvation as a weapon in its genocide against the Palestinians and that the United Kingdom-based NGO was unable to reach people in the north because of Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign.
Mahmoud Alsaqqa, who is Oxfam’s food security and livelihood lead in Gaza, warned that some Palestinians are “starving to death” from hunger in northern Gaza and more people will die in the coming days.
“There is nothing. You are talking about tens of days that they are not receiving any supplies,” he said, adding that most Palestinians in the area rely on aid supplies.
Aid agencies say about 96 percent of Gaza’s population is facing high levels of food shortages. According to UNICEF, nine out of 10 children lack the nutrition they need for growth and development. At least 37 children have died of malnutrition or dehydration in a year of war.
The United Nations says Israel has blocked the entry of 83 percent of food aid into the Strip since the war began. It said about 50,000 children below the age of five need urgent treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year.
On Sunday United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire, for the release of hostages and “accountability for crimes under international law”.
“The devastation and deprivation resulting from Israel’s military operations in North Gaza are making the conditions of life untenable for the Palestinian population there,” he said on X.
“This conflict continues to be waged with little regard for the requirements of international humanitarian law.”
The Oxfam warning came as Israeli forces bombed more neighbourhoods in northern Gaza on Sunday and humanitarian officials sounded alarm about the ongoing ground assault by Israeli forces which is forcibly displacing tens of thousands of residents out of the area.
At least 35 people were killed in Beit Lahiya on Saturday after the Israeli army targeted five buildings in the north of the Strip. Another 10 people were killed in a separate attack in Beit Lahiya.
Israel’s strikes on the towns of Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have so far killed about 800 Palestinians during the ongoing siege, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said at least 35 people are missing and are feared to be under the rubble, or have been “vapourised” by the force of the Israeli bombs.
Additionally, an Israeli air strike on a house in Jabalia killed several people and wounded others on Sunday morning, Palestinian medics said.
“People were told to evacuate the Jabalia refugee camp in order to avoid being bombed, but by the time they got to areas far from Jabalia in the central and western parts of northern Gaza, they were bombed and maimed in the areas they were told to evacuate to,” said Mahmoud.
“The Israeli soldiers are forcing people to get out of evacuation centres and setting them on fire,” he added.
‘Dying in a genocide’
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said on social media platform X that “the entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”.
Albanese was responding to a statement made by UN humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya on Saturday, warning that “the entire population of north Gaza is at risk of dying” under Israel’s siege.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday said the ongoing Israeli evacuation orders and restrictions on the entry of essential supplies to the north had left the civilian population in “horrific circumstances”.
“Many civilians are currently unable to move, trapped by fighting, destruction or physical constraint and now lack access to even basic medical care,” it said.
Palestinian health officials said the siege had crippled the healthcare system in northern Gaza and was blocking medical teams from reaching bombed sites.
Israel maintains that its forces have returned to northern Gaza more than a year into the war to root out Hamas fighters who had regrouped there. The Israeli military claimed it “eliminated over 40 terrorists” in the Jabalia area in the past 24 hours, as well as dismantled infrastructure and located “large quantities of military equipment”.
But Mansour Shouman, a Palestinian journalist who used to live in Gaza, said Israel wants to force Palestinians to leave the northern part of the Strip to create settlements there.
“That area has been going through three weeks of very heavy land invasion attempts by the Israelis. You all are hearing what’s happening with the medical services there. You all are hearing what has happened with the implementation of the General’s Plan, which is trying to eradicate the presence of Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip … and push them further south, in order to create a buffer zone for the Israelis and then to create settlements there,” Shouman told Al Jazeera.
From MBC to Al-Arabiya, Saudi media bent on vilifying resistance to oblige Zionists
By Alireza Akbari
A report by Saudi broadcaster MBC on October 18, 2024 sparked widespread anger and outrage for grouping regional resistance movements and their leaders under the label of "terrorism."
The report, titled 'Millennium: Get Rid of Terrorists', included leaders from the Gaza-based resistance group Hamas, notably former leader Ismail Haniyeh and his successor Yahya Sinwar, branding the movement dedicated to the liberation of occupied al-Quds as the "new face of terrorism."
It also featured top leaders from the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, including the martyred leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and senior commanders Fuad Shukr and Imad Mughniyeh.
The report also targeted Iranian top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and former Iraqi resistance commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, both assassinated by the United States.
It ignored the fact that Israeli occupation forces had assassinated these resistance leaders and failed to address the ongoing genocide and the humanitarian catastrophe the Tel Aviv regime has inflicted on the region, which has claimed the lives of at least 42,000 people in Gaza and over 2,400 in Lebanon.
The MBC report drew widespread condemnation, not only online but also on the streets of Baghdad, where hundreds of angry protesters stormed the offices of the Saudi channel.
The fallout continued as the Iraqi government, triggered by the protests, revoked the license of the channel and ordered the closure of its bureau in the capital Baghdad.
Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission imposed a ban on the channel, citing repeated “violations of Iraqi broadcasting regulations” and the network’s attacks on "heroic resistance leaders, anti-terror commanders, and martyrs."
Activists calling for a boycott of the channel protested against the report's depiction of resistance leaders, its portrayal of Hamas, and its omission of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the besieged Palestinian territory and Lebanon. They emphasized that the report displayed clear bias.
Protesters in Baghdad and other Arab capitals said the report described resistance leaders as the root cause of the region's problems, disregarding and distorting the reality that the Israeli regime’s warmongering, war crimes, and crimes against humanity have displaced over 1.7 million people in Gaza and more than 1.5 million in Lebanon since October 2023.
They further noted that the report attempted to divert attention from the ongoing Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, misleading the audience by labeling resistance leaders as “terrorists.”
The report used emotionally charged language, such as referring to the "Iraqi militia" instead of the Iraqi resistance, to provoke negative reactions from viewers, experts noted.
In its dictionary meaning, “resistance” refers to the act or power of opposing or withstanding something but “militia” carries a negative connotation referring to irregular armed groups involved in violent or extremist activities.
The report deliberately manipulated facts about the Israeli regime's assassination of the resistance leaders and this significant omission distorts the context of the narrative, as it fails to show the targeting of these figures by Israeli forces, according to media experts.
By leaving out such a key fact, the report reframes the discussion, diverting attention from Israel’s role in these assassinations and painting the resistance leaders in a negative light, they said.
Furthermore, the report labeled these resistance leaders as "terrorists" without providing any credible evidence to substantiate the claim, reflecting a clear logical fallacy.
By placing the blame solely on the resistance leaders, the report shifted attention away from the Israeli regime's ongoing aggression, occupation, and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip and Beirut.
Experts who spoke to the Press TV website said the report aligns with a broader media trend of running narratives sympathetic to the Tel Aviv regime, particularly in the context of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has claimed nearly 43,000 lives in the past year.
By selectively shaping the narrative, the report sought to obscure the brutal realities of the Israeli occupation and the humanitarian crisis unfolding in both Gaza and Lebanon.
MBC is not alone though. Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya channel has also been found complicit in the Israeli-American genocide in Gaza and Lebanon by peddling and amplifying Zionist narratives.
The channel recently aired an interview with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, which was hosted by the channel's main presenter and anchor Riz Khan in an online format.
Khan’s opening question was widely seen as a prime example of biased journalism. He asked Herzog, “The latest chapter of violence in the Middle East began with the Hamas attack on Israel one year ago. How do you expect it to end across the region?”
Experts say the question lacked context and objectivity, as it framed Hamas as the aggressor while ignoring the fact that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, launched by the Gaza-based resistance movement, was a retaliatory response to Israel's years-long aggression in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Additionally, the anchor's choice of terminology came under fire for describing the operation as a “Hamas attack” instead of a “Hamas operation,” with analysts arguing that this misrepresented a legitimate military action as an indiscriminate act of violence.
Experts and social media users also took umbrage at the way the host treated the aggressor as though it were the victim of the ongoing war, seeking the real aggressor's opinion on stopping the violence.
As the interview was aired, criticism intensified, with many accusing Saudi media of promoting narratives pitched and promoted by the Tel Aviv regime and its lobbyists in the West.
Back on September 24, MintPress News in a story shared on X (formerly Twitter), stated that the Saudi-owned TV channel was “working directly with the Israeli Occupation Forces.”
The outlet also exposed the exchange of favors between Israeli forces and Al-Arabiya.
“According to a report by Kan, the entity's national broadcaster, the Israeli army shares exclusive breaking news with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya channel in exchange for ‘favorable coverage’ of the Zionist entity,” MintPress reported.
MintPress also highlighted the terminology used by Al-Arabiya in its coverage of the Israeli-American genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“During the genocide in Gaza, the collaboration between the Israeli army and Al-Arabiya was particularly evident in the information presented, with captured Israelis referred to as "hostages" rather than "captives" and terms such as "occupation" and "Zionist entity" avoided when describing Israeli forces. It also refrained from calling those killed in Gaza as martyrs.”
The report described this “language shift” as “an attempt to shape a more favorable image of the Zionist entity for the Arabic-speaking audience.”
Algeria also responded to Al-Arabiya’s biased reporting by suspending the Saudi TV channel’s license to operate in the country, citing “reporting bias.”
Meanwhile, the Saudi-based English newspaper Arab News has also come under fire for following in the footsteps of MBC and Al-Arabiya by amplifying the narratives of Israeli and Western media outlets.
Since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, the US has maintained "iron-clad" support for Tel Aviv, providing financial, political, and military backing that has sustained Israeli aggression in the West Asia region for over a year.
A closer look at Saudi media's coverage of Israeli aggression against Gaza and Lebanon, coupled with revelations of links between Al-Arabiya and Israeli forces, makes it clear why Saudi outlets are echoing pro-Israeli narratives—even at the expense of losing their credibility, say experts.
From Palestine to Lebanon to Yemen, leaders may die but the resistance lives on
By Wesam Bahrani
Hamas leader Yahya's Sinwar martyrdom, particularly the striking nature of it while fighting Israeli occupation forces suffering grievous injuries in a marathon battle, sets a new precedent.
His supreme sacrifice exemplifies how the anti-Zionist armed resistance movement gains momentum when iconic and courageous leaders and commanders are martyred on the frontline.
This pattern has been evident in Gaza's modern history since the founding of Hamas by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in late 1987, at the start of the first Palestinian Intifada.
At that time, the resistance movement had little to no weapons, yet Sheikh Yassin's leadership inspired the Al-Qassam Brigades even as his health deteriorated after eight years in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli forces, threatened by Yassin's overwhelming influence, assassinated the wheelchair-bound leader in 2004 after a failed attempt to defeat Hamas' armed wing during the second Intifada.
By this time, however, the Al-Qassam Brigades had begun resisting Israeli occupation not just with rifles but also with homemade Qassam rockets, which still managed to intimidate Israel.
Sheikh Yassin's deputy, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, took up the leadership, and within a month, he too was martyred in an airstrike, a sign of how feared Hamas’ leadership was by Israeli forces.
At that point, Israel likely believed Hamas was nearing collapse, but a young resistance figure, Ismail Haniyeh, was already rising through the ranks.
The man with a black beard was present at both Yassin’s and al-Rantisi’s funerals.
Haniyeh, who was martyred in the Iranian capital Tehran, spent his time strengthening Hamas' missile capabilities, as demonstrated during the Sword of al-Quds operation in May 2021.
No Iron Dome and no David Sling could intercept the volley of missiles that hit Tel Aviv at that time.
For the first time in Hamas’ history, Israeli-occupied cities, including Tel Aviv, were hit by a barrage of missiles, marking a shift in the power dynamic. This was the first instance where the Gaza-based resistance movement, reacting to provocations at the al-Aqsa Mosque, went on the offensive.
Since then, the situation has continued to escalate. More than a year has passed since the American-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza began, resulting in the martyrdom of key Hamas leaders like Saleh al-Arouri, Haniyeh, and most recently, Sinwar.
Despite the military onslaught and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Al-Qassam brigades have continued to resist and inflict significant losses on Israeli regime forces.
After Sinwar’s martyrdom, a high-ranking Israeli military officer, a brigadier general of the 401st Brigade, was killed in Jabalia, an area in northern Gaza where massacres are being committed daily, including at hospitals.
This officer, Ehsan Daxa, is one of many Israeli officers who have been neutralized in Gaza. Meanwhile, questions are mounting over Israel’s prolonged ground campaign, as resistance groups like Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades continue to strike Israeli tanks and armored vehicles.
Contrary to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises to eliminate the Gaza resistance movement, Hamas remains strong, building weapons to potentially fight for years.
How many Israeli tanks and armored vehicles are still being bombed across the coastal territory? Have the captives been freed? Netanyahu finds himself in an embarrassing position amid settler protests.
The Palestinian resistance groups, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others are bombing Zionist tanks on a scale not seen before, across the Gaza Strip despite repeated ground invasions.
Israel's forces have been repeatedly caught in ambushes, and Netanyahu is under pressure to declare defeat, a move he cannot afford. The martyrdom of figures like Sinwar is fueling the resistance, and many others stand ready to replace him.
So the regime has switched focus to Lebanon but history suggests this may not bode well for Israel.
The martyrdom of Hezbollah's Secretary-General, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, has further empowered Lebanese resistance fighters, who are now engaging Israeli forces with a precision and ferocity previously unseen.
Hezbollah continues to strike Israeli targets, and the Iron Dome has struggled to fend off these attacks.
Hezbollah’s organizational strength, planning, and resilience in the face of leadership losses have only deepened its resolve. Nasrallah’s martyrdom, like that of other Hezbollah martyrs before him, has not weakened the group but rather invigorated its fighters.
The first Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Sayyed Abbas al-Mousavi was martyred along with his wife and child, by the same apartheid regime forces in 1992.
A sad event, but it saw Sayyed Nasrallah take the helm and ultimately drive out the occupation in the year 2000. The blood of Sayyed al-Mousavi was the driving force behind that.
Following the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah on September 27 this year, the Israeli occupation, its Western backers, and some regional Arab supporters pontificated (in the public domain) the idea that Hezbollah was finished.
Hezbollah was definitely hurt by pager explosions and assassinations of its leaders. But what is happening at the front lines now, and what has happened on the battlefield since then?
Before directing his forces to invade southern Lebanon on October 1, Netanyahu promised to return Israeli settlers to their homes in the north. Netanyahu himself no longer has a home thanks to a drone that flew undetected for at least 70km from Lebanon.
There isn't a shred of evidence the Zionist regime can offer, which will see the settlers return to the north, not for the foreseeable future.
Hezbollah has at least 100,000 fighters and only several hundred of them are defending southern Lebanon against an estimated 70,000 Israeli troops, many of them from special units.
The Lebanese resistance is firing missiles across occupied Palestine with chants of 'At your service, O Nasrallah'.
It is safe to say that Seyyed Nasrallah's martyrdom has empowered Hezbollah fighters. And the long-range precision missiles as well as other advanced military technology at Hezbollah's disposal have yet to enter the battlefield. Yet, the Lebanese resistance is springing surprises every day.
What had been expected from Hezbollah in any future war with the Zionist regime is currently being implemented with perfection. The Lebanese resistance has planned for every scenario.
If a commander is martyred, another steps in. Everyone within the organization is battle-hardened, fully aware of their duties even if communication is lost with the leadership. Each unit, missile, ground, air, and defense, follow pre-planned combat guidelines to a tee.
The Zionist regime wasn't expecting the resistance to execute operations with the level of sophistication it is doing so after Sayyed Nasrallah's martyrdom.
Drone and missile strikes from Lebanon have rendered the much-hyped Iron Dome and other “air defense systems” useless, striking the heart of Israeli military targets in occupied Palestine.
Who would have thought a Hezbollah drone attack would strike the canteen building of the Golani Brigade base at the exact time Zionist troops were having dinner? Not one hour before, not one hour after?
This indicates that Hezbollah has information on the most secretive Zionist targets that it can hit with precision and it has now footage and data that its Hudhub drone captured in the occupied land.
Sensitive sites in Haifa are being bombarded. Only Hezbollah and God know what the Hudhud brought back from Haifa. The city may eventually turn out to be more important than Tel Aviv.
This martyrdom of resistance leaders isn't limited to Hamas and Hezbollah.
There is Yemen as well, carrying out daring military operations against the Zionist entity and its Western backers, without fear of consequences.
Who would have thought that Sayyed Hussein al-Houthi's legacy of struggle and fight against a long-term puppet leader of the United States would inspire the Yemeni revolution in early 2015?
The poorest and war-ravaged country in West Asia fought for its sovereignty and independence to stand up with Gaza and Lebanon. And the million-man pro-Palestine and pro-Lebanon marches across the country every single Friday for an entire year is what the mainstream media choose to conceal.
When the Ansarulllah leader Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi's wingman, Saleh al-Sammad, was martyred by the Saudis and the United States in 2018, the Yemenis continued to fight with greater intensity.
Mahdi al-Mashat, who replaced al-Sammad as head of the Supreme Political Council, has made Yemen today a force to reckon with.
Have Zionist or Zionist-affiliated ships been able to transit the Red Sea? The answer is in Eilat Port, which has gone bankrupt as well as other Israeli-occupied ports. Vessels fear to sail in troubled waters.
Attempts by the Zionists to send their vessels via the Mediterranean have seen Yemeni missiles reach them. This is while Yemen is firing hypersonic missiles at Tel Aviv in solidarity with Gaza.
From the bravery of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the courage of Islamic Resistance in Iraq to the true Arabs of Syria to the ancient civilization of Yemen, resistance lives on in many different shades.
Wesam Bahrani is an Iraqi journalist and commentator.
