Yom Shishee
Friday
26 Cheshvan 5784
November 10 2023
UPDATE 10:00 PM
In the South:
There are unconfirmed reports that IDF troops have entered the Shifa Hospital compound and that fierce battles are underway.
Other firefights are taking place in Beit Lahia and Jabaliya.
In the North:
3 drones penetrated Israel from Lebanon; two were intercepted the other fell near Mt. Dov wounding a soldier.
Three IDF soldiers were critically wounded by an anti-tank missiles fired at a military post near Manara.
UPDATE 5:00 PM
Shabbat has begun here in Israel, but it will not be a quiet or peaceful one.
*The 4-hour humanitarian ceasefire is over, and the bombing of northern Gaza has resumed with huge concussive booms shaking us here in Ashdod 25 km to the north.
*The last few hours have seen missile barrages in southern, central, and northern Israel.
In the South and Central areas:
Nirim (12:48); Kissufim (13:10); Ashdod, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan (13:30); Mivtahim, Yesha (15:01); Sderot, Nir Am (16:27).
In the North:
Arab al-Aramshe (14:07); Dishon, Mevuot Hermon Regional Council, Shamir (15:10); Shtula (15:15).
Those wounded included 2 people who did not follow instructions and continued driving during the alarm on the Ayalon Freeway in Tel Aviv. Both are in moderate condition. Instructions are that if you are driving and an alarm sounds, you are to pull to the side, stop the car, get out and away from the car, and lie flat on the ground.
Three people were wounded in the latest barrage in the north. They have all been evacuated to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Their condition is unknown at this hour.
*PM Netanyahu just issued a statement that no matter who or what assumes administrative control of Gaza when the war is over, Israel will remain in security control of the territory.
UPDATE 12:00 PM
Israeli tanks are now operating in the Al-Nasser neighborhood of Gaza City:
It has been a productive 12 hours in eliminating HamISIS commanders. The following have been killed:
Ahmed Musa, the commander of the Nakhaba terrorists who led the October 7 massacres, and attacks on the Zikim IDF base
Omar Alhandi, the commander of a western Jabaliya platoon
Muhammad Kahlot, commander of the HamISIS assassination unit in northern Gaza
In addition, 19 terrorists were killed by reserve fighters from IDF’s 252nd Division
Moreover, the 401st Combat Brigade Team located and destroyed 20 missile launchers.
Another missile launcher was located in southern Gaza and destroyed.
Another Misfire?
The top floor of the Shifa Hospital was hit last night. Immediately, the HamISIS pr machine pounced, claiming that an IDF missile hit the building.
. . . until a few hours later when a video surfaced showing that it was a HamISIS mortar targeting our troops that hit the building.
The question at this point, especially given the events several weeks ago, is whether HamISIS deliberately targeted the hospital for pr purposes. As we all know, HamISIS could care less about anyone in or around the hospital.
More on Yesterday’s Eilat Attack
It appears now that the terrorists who carried out the attack were from the Iranian/Hezbollah “militia” the Imam Hussein Brigade–a terror group now based in Syria.
UPDATE 8 AM
*All night long and continuing right now, there has been nonstop IAF bombing in northern Gaza. We are 26 kilometers (about 16 miles) away here in Ashdod, but our house has literally been shaking with the windows rattling for hours.
*The Defense Ministry announced last night that a cargo ship carrying 2,500 tons of armaments in 170 containers had arrived in Ashdod, been offloaded, and trucked to the front lines in Gaza. In total, 123 cargo planes and 7 ships carrying a total of 7,000 tons of armaments have arrived in Israel and already been transferred to our soldiers.
*The first missiles of the early morning have already been fired from Gaza: Sdot Negev, Sha’ar Hanegev (02:43).
*Correction: Yesterday we reported that the missile that hit the school courtyard in Eilat narrowly missing some 35 students was fired from Yemen. While it is true that Yemen claimed more than 10 launches toward Eilat yesterday, the IDF determined that the drone actually came from Syria. Last night, Israeli aircraft hit the launch site.
When Is A Ceasefire Not A Ceasefire
Yesterday we blasted the Netanyahu government for agreeing to daily humanitarian ceasefires.
Specifically, we had the Biden Administration proudly trumpeting that not only will there now be a 4 hour humanitarian ceasefire everyday to permit Palestinians from northern Gaza to move to southern Gaza but also there will be a three hour advance warning as to what time each day the ceasefire will take place. This morning comes news that there will now be two evacuation routes opened daily.
And yet, we saw video of President Biden declaring that there will be no ceasefire accompanied by PM Netanyahu’s constant assertions that there will be no ceasefire until all the hostages are released.
So what are we supposed to euphemistically call these 4-hour ceasefires? How about “temporary cessations of violence” or “brief war pauses” or “non-violent war moments”?
No matter what Biden and Netanyahu call them, they are immensely dangerous to our soldiers because HamISIS will not abide by them (as we pointed out in yesterday’s update about what happened in 2014).
More than this, those evacuating also pose immense danger. Two senior IDF field commanders said this yesterday: “In the early days Hamas opposed the humanitarian evacuation route, but very quickly realized that they could use the routes to move their fighters from north to south.”
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.