Yom Shleeshe
Tuesday
6 Shevat 5784
January 16 2024
UPDATE 8:00 PM
In all directions, Israelis are outraged by new policies and decisions being made by the Netanyahu Coalition.
*Dozens of community leaders in Judea and Samaria appealed today to Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant not to follow through with their absurd decision to allow Palestinian workers to return to Israel–especially in Jerusalem.
*Tomorrow, the residents of Sderot and surrounding communities on the Gaza border are going to demonstrate against the apparent willingness of the government to not keep its promise to secure them. Their leaders issued this statement today: “The intention of the State of Israel to return us to the reality of a 10-second alert and war is unacceptable.”
*Reservists in the 71st Parachute Battalion sent a letter today to Lt. Col. (Res.) Meir Karmi, demanding that they be allowed to continue fighting in Gaza “until all the goals, as defined by the War Cabinet, are achieved.” They demanded that the IDF not withdraw “until all the abductees return and the threat to the residents of the Strip and the rest of the country is removed.”
The Last 24 Hours in the South
*Two more soldiers have given their life for Israel:
Sgt. Nitzan Schessler, 21, from Hadera, of the 55th Paratroopers Brigade, was killed in fighting in southern Gaza on Monday.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Noam Ashram, 37, from Kfar Saba, a fighter in the 179th Brigade died Tuesday of wounds sustained in combat in central Gaza on December 29.
524 IDF soldiers have died since October 7th. 190 of these have fallen in the ground war in Gaza.
May their memories be for a blessing.
*A barrage of missiles fired from Gaza hit Netivot, Be’eri, Tkuma, and elsewhere. The missiles were fired from an area that the IDF withdrew from yesterday afternoon.
A shop hit by missiles yesterday in Netivot. The barrage overhead: each cloud puff is an interception. Is this what we are back to now that the IDF is withdrawing large numbers of forces from Gaza?
*The IDF announced today that yet another group of elite fighters, the Duvdevan Unit, is withdrawing from Gaza and relocated to Judea and Samaria. What possible reason is there for this except to make the Bidenites happy in Washington?
The Last 24 Hours in the North
*How bad is the situation along the Lebanese border? Yesterday’s night funeral of Mira Ayalon and her son Barak who were killed when an anti-tank missile hit their house in Kibbutz Yuval had to be held behind a concrete wall in Kfar Giladi, and attendees had to drive to the cemetery with their lights off so as not to be exposed to Hezbollah fire.
*The IDF Spokesman speaking a few hours ago:
“A combined attack using fighter planes and artillery in the Wadi Saluki area; dozens of military buildings and military infrastructure of the Hezbollah terrorist organization were attacked.”
*On the ground:
2 Hezbollah missiles were intercepted over Yatar.
Hezbollah terrorists attacked the IDF post at Birnit.
The IAF attacked Hezbollah targets at Jebel Balat.
IDF artillery fire targeted Mays Al-Jabal, Aita, Ramiya, Beit Lev, Al Tirish, Kfar Kila, Marfivin, Shihin, and Al-Jabain.
An IDF drone attacked Hezbollah assets at Aita Al-Sha’ab.
The Last 24 Hours in the Red Sea Area
Another “incident” in the Red Sea:
This “incident” was followed by another American attack on Yemeni assets.
Two Follow-Ups
1.
In the months since October 7th, we have often written here at OneIsrael about how the terrorists were trained in such places as Lebanon and even Iran. Many have wondered how this was possible given the fact that Gaza is supposedly “under siege.”
The answer of course is that there was never any siege. Yesterday, the testimony of a captured platoon commander of Islamic Jihad was revealed by Shin Bet.
That terrorist says that:
“My commander called me and said that I should go to Iran for a sniper course. I would benefit from it and my salary would increase when I returned. I went from Gaza to Egypt where I stayed for about two weeks; from there I went to Syria for a few days and then to Lebanon. After two weeks, we went went back to Syria and on to Iran.
In Iran the course was 15 days. It had physical fitness training and shooting training on different types of weapons: 4 days training on a Kalashnikov at a distance of 100 meters, 5 days at a distance of 100 to 150 meters, 6 days on a Dragunov (sniper rifle). We practiced shooting stones, targets, balloons at a distance of 300 meters.
Other activists went through rocket and artillery courses and training in Iran.”
As easy as pie: Gaza to Egypt to Lebanon to Syria to Lebanon to Syria to Iran–and back to Gaza.
2.
As we noted yesterday in reporting on the terror attack in Raanana in which a 79-year-old woman was murdered sand some 20 others wounded, the terrorists had been arrested multiple times before.
Just how absurd those arrests and subsequent punishments were was described this morning by the Jewish Voice.
“In 2021, Ahmed Zidat was arrested after he had already been convicted twice of undercover offenses, drugs, and impersonation. Judge Amir Doron sentenced him to only 9 days in prison . . . and applied a suspended sentence of 3 months . . .
His uncle Mahmoud Zidat, has a history of 7 convictions for nationlist crimes, including obstructing a police officer and using a forged document.
On May 23 he was arrested when he crossed the security fence with a rope. Judge Eitan Amno from the Peace Court in Be’er Sheva took into account his claims that he has 7 children and his financial situation and sentenced him to only 20 days in prison.”
It is not too much to say that an Israeli woman is dead because of the ultra-leftist Israeli judicial system.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.