Palestinians fight for their lives and their stolen lands

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Israeli blocking aid
shipments to Gaza

Despite a ceasefire, food supplies in Gaza remain inadequate, with aid groups warning of famine conditions and blocked crossings limiting essential nutrition access

Forty-one organizations working on the ground in Gaza have urged Israel to honor its obligations under the ceasefire and international law, allowing humanitarian aid to reach those in need, Oxfam reported.

Since the ceasefire went into force, Israeli authorities have repeatedly blocked shipments of essential assistance, while a new, restrictive INGO registration process has further delayed urgent relief operations, Oxfam said in a joint letter with 40 other organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

17 INGOs denied entry

Between 10 and 21 October 2025, 17 international NGOs had critical shipments, including water, food, medical supplies, tents, and other essentials, denied entry into Gaza, the letter detailed. Nearly 94% of all rejections targeted INGOs, with three-quarters citing that the organizations were “not authorized” to deliver aid, even for groups with long-standing registration approved by both Palestinian and Israeli authorities.

The repeated denials, according to the letter, suggest a continued politicization of aid, contravening both the letter and spirit of the ceasefire. Supplies are prepared, staff are ready, and the only barrier is access.

"Israeli authorities must respect international humanitarian law and the ceasefire agreement," the organizations said.

99 INGOs aid delivery requests rejected

From 10–21 October, 99 aid delivery requests by INGOs were rejected, alongside six requests from UN agencies. Denied aid included food, blankets, tents, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and children’s clothing, all items that should be freely allowed under the ceasefire, the letter added.

Almost $50 million in essential goods - food, medical supplies, hygiene items, and shelter materials - remain stockpiled at crossings and warehouses, unable to reach those in need, it stressed.

It further warned that with winter approaching, many Palestinians face freezing conditions in makeshift shelters without heating, clean water, or sanitation facilities. Without immediate, unrestricted access, preventable deaths will rise.

Restrictions put coordination at risk

According to the joint letter, Israeli restrictions not only deprive Palestinians of lifesaving aid but also undermine the coordination of Gaza’s response system, which depends on cooperation among local organizations, national institutions, UN agencies, and international NGOs.

"The restrictions are depriving Palestinians from lifesaving aid and undermining coordination of the response system in Gaza which relies on collaboration between local organizations, national institutions, UN agencies and international NGOs," Oxfam said in the joint letter with 40 other organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

"Humanitarian access is a legal obligation under international law, not a concession of the ceasefire. The ceasefire must ensure a lasting end to hostilities and guarantee the free, safe, principled and sustained flow of aid in line with Palestinians rights to safety, dignity, and self-determination. Anything less risks turning relief into yet another broken promise. Israel’s new registration system must be rescinded to allow aid to move freely, unimpeded and unrestricted," it added.

Food supplies fail to meet the nutritional needs

Describing how food supplies into Gaza remain insufficient to meet the nutritional needs of the population, Bahaa Zaqout, Director of External Relations at the Palestinian NGO PARC, described the situation to Reuters as "catastrophic" during a video briefing from Deir el-Balah. "Even two weeks after the ceasefire began, the crisis continues," he said.

With some areas of the besieged enclave already experiencing famine conditions, Zaqout noted to the news agency that while commercial trucks have been allowed to bring in items such as biscuits, chocolate, and soda, essential items like seeds and olives remain restricted. "These do not respond to the minimum nutritional values required for children, women, and the most vulnerable groups," he stressed.

Even when fruits and vegetables are available, their high prices make them inaccessible to most families. A kilogram of tomatoes now sells for 15 shekels (approximately $4.50), compared to just one shekel before the war.

COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for overseeing aid into Gaza, did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Limited crossings block full aid delivery

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stated that while the volume of aid entering Gaza has increased, it remains far below the required 2,000 tons per day. Only two crossings are currently operational, and none are open to the famine-stricken northern areas.

The ceasefire agreement, brokered by US President Donald Trump, promised the delivery of "full aid" into Gaza. Yet Oxfam's Bushra Khalili told Reuters, "We expected Gaza to be flooded with aid the moment the ceasefire began, but that's not what we're seeing."

While limited quantities of aid are entering the enclave, aid groups argue that the nutritional crisis in Gaza will persist unless restrictions are eased and crossings fully opened. The gap between pledged humanitarian support and reality on the ground continues to widen, leaving millions at risk.

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Israel’s Digital Iron Dome:
Weaponizing the web against Palestine

Israel’s Digital Iron Dome campaign uses coordinated messaging and algorithmic tools to suppress pro-Palestine voices online, raising concerns over propaganda and digital censorship

Israel has long invested in shaping its image online, but its latest initiative, the Digital Iron Dome, represents a new level of sophistication in information warfare. Marketed as a “civilian defense initiative,” the platform (lp.digitalirondome.com) invites users worldwide to join a “digital army” tasked with countering what it describes as “disinformation” and “defending Israel online.”

A closer look, however, reveals a different reality. The initiative functions less as a neutral fact-checking tool and more as a coordinated influence operation. Users are encouraged to register and access pre-scripted posts, hashtags, and visual content optimized for viral sharing across X, Instagram, and TikTok. By centralizing narrative control in this way, the platform effectively outsources public diplomacy to civilians while framing entity-aligned messaging as grassroots activism.

The platform’s design mirrors modern marketing technology, with embedded tracking scripts and analytics monitoring engagement in real time. The Digital Iron Dome turns seemingly spontaneous online support into a highly engineered content amplification system aimed at shaping global perceptions of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and countering criticism through algorithmic dominance.

Claims vs. reality

The Digital Iron Dome markets itself as a “24/7 digital defense system” and “the world’s first pro-Israel influence engine,” claiming to monitor the web for anti-“Israel” narratives, produce “fact-based” countercontent, and place targeted ads alongside material it deems "biased" or "antisemitic". Its landing page cites impressive metrics - “300M+ targeted ads delivered” and “200K+ websites reached" and solicits donations.

Questions about transparency and actual scope:

Advocacy over journalism: The platform functions more like an advertising campaign than a newsroom, blending campaign branding and donation solicitation with AI-driven narrative detection claims.

Unverified metrics: Reach and engagement numbers are presented without a third-party audit, leaving scale unconfirmed.

Financial opacity: While donations are solicited via PayPal, there is no clear legal structure, charity registration, or financial reporting.

Limited founder transparency: The founders’ professional backgrounds are only partially documented, and potential conflicts of interest remain unclear.

Marketing masks technology claims: References to AI-driven monitoring and ad injection resemble product marketing rather than verifiable functionality.

Coordinated outreach: Multiple domains and social media promotion suggest systematic campaign efforts, though claims of ad placement on mainstream sites require independent verification.

Iron Dome exploits bias to silence Palestinian voices online

AI Engineer and the head of AI Department in a consultation company, Ali Hadi Zeineddine, speaking to Al Mayadeen English, warned that focusing solely on the technical mechanics of the Digital Iron Dome risks obscuring a much deeper issue.

“Discussing the technical aspects of the Digital Iron Dome,” he noted, “may lead to misleading conclusions, especially when filtered through Western slogans of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom of speech.’"

"The real story lies not in its code, but in the unequal terrain of the digital battlefield where it operates,” he asserted.

In an age where frontlines are increasingly digital, Zeineddine argues that the Digital Iron Dome enters a space already distorted by entrenched inequalities, from algorithmic bias to economic exclusion and platform moderation practices that disproportionately silence Palestinian voices. “These imbalances don’t just create opportunities for such campaigns, they amplify them," he explained.

Mounting evidence supports his concerns. Independent investigations have shown that major platforms, including those owned by Meta, Facebook, and Instagram, apply double standards to content relating to Palestine.

A report by the Middle East Institute revealed that Meta had quietly lowered the certainty threshold required to remove Arabic or Palestinian content from 80% to as low as 25%. In effect, Palestinian posts are far more likely to be taken down or shadow-banned with minimal justification. Human Rights Watch also documented over 1,050 incidents of peaceful pro-Palestine content being removed or suppressed on Meta platforms during October and November 2023, of which 1,049 were in support of Palestine, and only one favored “Israel.”

“In today’s conflicts, algorithms and ad policies have replaced tanks and trenches,” Zeineddine stressed. “When platform moderation already disfavors Palestinian voices, projects like the Digital Iron Dome don’t create imbalance; they exploit one.”

Weaponization of algorithmic asymmetry

Economic exclusion further compounds this digital marginalization. A Wired investigation spotlighted the case of Bilal Tamimi, a content creator from the occupied West Bank whose viral videos on YouTube have amassed millions of views. Yet, despite his reach, Tamimi remains barred from monetization through the YouTube Partner Program, not because of content violations, but because “the program is not available in [his] current location, Palestine.” This systemic restriction denies Palestinian creators not only potential income but also algorithmic reach, reducing the visibility of their narratives before they can even enter the global conversation.

Zeineddine stressed that what is unfolding is more than a clash of perspectives. “What we’re witnessing isn’t merely a battle of narratives,” he said. “It’s the weaponization of algorithmic asymmetry. The very systems designed to ensure fairness, moderation rules, monetization access, and ad transparency are reinforcing geopolitical hierarchies online.”

“When Palestinian creators are excluded from monetization programs or flagged for benign content,” he added, “they’re not just denied income, they’re denied visibility. You cannot challenge disinformation when you’re structurally silenced.”

In such a landscape, the Digital Iron Dome thrives not due to technological innovation, Zeineddine contended, but because it is designed to exploit an already tilted playing field. “The Digital Iron Dome does not succeed because it’s more advanced; it succeeds because the digital game is already rigged in its favor. Without meaningful transparency, parity, and accountability from the platforms themselves, this imbalance will remain the invisible architecture of modern information warfare.”

His conclusion is clear: the future of digital freedom and of global narrative equity hinges not only on dismantling influence operations, but also on confronting and reforming the systems that allow them to flourish in the first place.
Limits of the Digital Iron Dome

In a similar vein, Dr. Hassan Younes, a university professor and consultant, told Al Mayadeen English that after October 7, the digital space became more than a platform for news; it became a frontline.

In response, Israel and its allies deployed a highly organized narrative machine: coordinated talking points, PR campaigns, bot networks, sudden surges in “security justification” rhetoric, and attempts to flood timelines with distraction content.

Analysts dubbed this a digital “Iron Dome”, not designed to intercept rockets but to intercept sympathy, neutralize outrage, and sow doubt about what people were seeing.

“You cannot hide starvation. You cannot algorithmically blur the image of a mother holding her child under the rubble,” Dr. Younes explained

“You cannot label every voice ‘extremist’ when millions say the same thing: this is not self-defense, it is mass punishment.” Influence engines, he warned, can distort timelines, amplify one narrative, and bury alternative perspectives. Yet, in this instance, they could not fully succeed.

These operations contributed to polarization and narrative suppression by design, seeking to isolate voices and make anger seem like a minority opinion. But the opposite occurred: millions aligned organically around a clear message, enough. Even those previously neutral began questioning why “context” is demanded from the oppressed but never from the occupier. “Israel” lost moral credibility online as well as on the ground.

Human voice refuses to be formatted

Attempts to control the narrative, shadow-banned posts, removed videos, and algorithmic friction triggered by words like “Gaza", “occupation", and “Palestine” were circumvented by users. People misspelled words to bypass AI filters, coordinated captions, and redistributed content through smaller accounts. What was meant to be silenced became a trending narrative, a form of digital civil disobedience driven by ordinary users, not institutions.

Do influence campaigns still matter? Absolutely. They can delay outrage, shape political responses, and sanitize the language of international discourse. They can reframe genocide as a “conflict” or forced famine as a “humanitarian logistics issue.”

Yet Dr. Younes highlighted a boundary: data manipulation cannot withstand stark reality. Live images of children under attack cannot be spun into comforting narratives.

This moment accentuates the need for transparency. When states or political actors provide talking points, monitor engagement, and mobilize users through dashboards and data, the process is no longer organic; it is manufactured consent. Citizens deserve to know who is speaking to them and why.

The events following October 7 proved a simple truth: distribution can be automated, but humanity cannot. The digital Iron Dome attempted to contain the story, and it failed because the people refused to look away. In an age dominated by AI, the most potent technology remains the human voice that refuses to be formatted.

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Israel's post-ceasefire demolitions

Hamas warns that ongoing Israeli bombardment of eastern Gaza violates the ceasefire, urging mediators to pressure Israel to end attacks, lift the siege, and reopen the Rafah crossing

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas has reiterated that the ongoing demolitions and bombardment of homes and residential neighborhoods in Gaza, particularly its east, constitute a violation of the ceasefire agreement reached earlier this month.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Hamas called on mediators to pressure the Israeli entity to halt its breaches, from daily killings to the ongoing siege and restriction of aid, as well as the closure of the Rafah crossing.

Earlier today, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli military vehicles blew up residential buildings east of Khan Younis in the south, while in the central area, a Palestinian man was shot and injured near the Bureij refugee camp amid heavy gunfire.

In the north, Israeli troops destroyed several homes east of Gaza City's Shuja'iyya neighborhood and bulldozed large sections of the Beit Lahia cemetery, where civil defense teams have since begun retrieving dozens of bodies.

Israeli naval forces also opened fire toward Gaza's coast and detained three fishermen after damaging their equipment.

Death toll on the rise

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 19 martyrs arrived at hospitals in the past 48 hours, including four killed by direct Israeli targeting and 15 whose bodies were recovered, along with seven injured.

According to official figures, the death toll from "Israel's" aggression has risen to 68,519, with 170,382 injured since October 7, 2023. Since the ceasefire was declared on October 11, 2025, Gaza has recorded 93 martyrs, 324 injuries, and 464 bodies recovered.

The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate despite international pledges of reconstruction. UN satellite analysis earlier this month revealed that 83% of Gaza City's structures have been destroyed, with over 81,000 homes damaged.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said thousands of Palestinians remain displaced and "sleeping out in the open amid severe shortages of food and shelter."

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Israel Conducted Targeted Strike
in Central Gaza

The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces conducted a “targeted strike” in central Gaza, in what marks a breach of the US-brokered ceasefire currently in place between Israel and Palestinian factions

Witnesses told Reuters that a drone struck a car, setting it on fire. Local medics said four people were wounded, though there were no immediate reports of fatalities.

Separately, witnesses reported that Israeli tanks shelled eastern areas of Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban center. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on those reports.

The strike comes amid a US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in effect more than two years after the war in Gaza began. Despite the truce, both sides have repeatedly accused each other of violations.

Meanwhile, several Israeli media outlets reported that Israel has, in a policy reversal, allowed Egyptian officials to enter the Gaza Strip to assist in locating the bodies of hostages taken during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hamas has pledged to return all remaining hostages abducted in the attack. However, the remains of 18 captives are still believed to be inside Gaza.

The ceasefire, announced earlier this month following weeks of negotiations involving US President Donald Trump, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, has largely halted fighting after months of devastating war that killed tens of thousands and displaced much of Gaza’s population.

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Israel killed 40 Palestinian children
in West Bank since January

Israel has intensified its violent campaign across the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of children, expanding settlements, and empowering settlers amid legislative moves toward formal annexation

The UN noted that Israeli aggression has also targeted the education sector, documenting more than 90 incidents involving schools that disrupted learning for over 12,000 students between July and September. Many of these incidents involved military raids near schools and settler attacks that forced the temporary closure of classrooms.

During the ongoing olive harvest season, the UN documented at least 86 settler assaults targeting 50 Palestinian villages across the West Bank since October 1. These attacks, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces, included vandalizing trees, assaulting farmers, and blocking access to agricultural lands.

Escalating Violence and Annexation Drive

The assault comes amid a surge in settler and IOF violence across the occupied West Bank, coinciding with both the olive harvest season and the advancement of legislation in the Israeli Knesset to impose Israeli "sovereignty" over large parts of the territory.

Observers note that since the announcement of the Gaza ceasefire plan, the occupation has escalated its repression in the West Bank, granting settlers free rein to attack Palestinian communities while simultaneously pursuing de jure annexation of Palestinian land.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), settlers carried out 71 attacks on Palestinians between October 7 and 13, half of them targeting farmers during the harvest. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission reported 158 attacks on olive harvesters this month alone, including violent assaults, crop theft, and the vandalism of trees. In total, settlers have uprooted or damaged nearly 49,000 olive trees in the past two years.

The Commission further documented over 7,000 settler assaults on Palestinians and their property during the same period, resulting in 33 deaths and the forcible displacement of 33 Bedouin communities. Meanwhile, the United Nations has recorded 757 settler attacks in 2025 alone, with a UN spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the violence as occurring in "an environment defined by a near-total lack of accountability."

Defiance, Annexation, Erasure

Since the war on Gaza began two years ago, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, injured over 10,000, and arrested more than 20,000, including 1,600 children, according to Palestinian authorities. Overnight raids, arbitrary detentions, and land seizures have intensified in towns such as al-Khalil, al-Bireh, and Burqa, while new military checkpoints and settlement outposts tighten the occupation’s grip over the territory.

At the political level, the Israeli Knesset passed a preliminary bill on October 22 to apply "sovereignty" over the West Bank, alongside another measure to annex the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim near occupied al-Quds. Israeli ministers hailed the votes as "historic," calling for full control over "Judea and Samaria," despite international condemnation and US warnings.

In July, the International Court of Justice ruled that "Israel’s" occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal under international law and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds. Yet occupation authorities continue to defy the ruling, entrenching their colonial presence through systematic settlement expansion, land theft, and daily assaults, policies aimed at erasing Palestinian existence on their own land.

A Reuters report, citing Palestinian and UN officials, confirmed that Israeli settlers have intensified their attacks on Palestinian farmers during the harvest, with no measures taken by the occupation authorities to stop the violence. Since the first week of October alone, no fewer than 158 settler assaults have been recorded throughout the West Bank.

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The co-called war started a great many years ago with attacks on Palestinians by Jews as they stole Palestinian land

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What is the Israeli strategy in Gaza?

Robert Inlakesh argues that Israel, with US backing, is using the ceasefire to advance a longer-term strategy in Gaza: fragment the enclave, empower proxy collaborators behind a partial occupation line, strangle civilian life in Hamas-administered areas, and prepare to resume full-scale force if those aims fail

In order to understand the Israeli-US agenda underlying the so-called “peace plan” set forth by US President Donald Trump, it is important to examine the objectives of the Zionist regime and then assess how these aims might be realized. Such an analysis helps reveal what the future may hold and whether the fragile ceasefire is likely to endure.

On October 19, the Gaza ceasefire appeared to have collapsed after the Zionist regime launched over 100 airstrikes, dropping at least 153 tonnes of explosives across the besieged coastal enclave, and killing around 44 civilians. Even Israeli media outlets reported that the ceasefire had broken down and that the war had re-started, before the situation calmed down by the next day.

Initially, the Israeli establishment claimed that two of its soldiers had been killed by Palestinian fighters in an ambush involving RPGs and automatic weapons, asserting that its subsequent attacks were merely a response to this incident—one that Hamas categorically denied any involvement in.

Yet, it wasn’t long until American, Palestinian and even Israeli reporters began to reveal the truth. In reality, while Israeli soldiers, alongside settlers contracted for demolition work, were violating the ceasefire by destroying Palestinian infrastructure, they accidentally drove over an unexploded ordnance. The consistency of reports from multiple sources lent credibility to this account, yet the Zionist military quickly imposed a publication ban on the incident, before later partially admitting to what had truly occurred

This meant that the Israelis had, in essence, killed their own soldiers by violating the ceasefire and sending their forces to destroy infrastructure within what was effectively an active minefield, then blaming the Palestinians as a pretext to kill more civilians. Up until that point, the Israelis had already committed at least 80 ceasefire violations and killed more than 100 innocent people.

From day one of the ceasefire, the Israelis had also adopted a strategy of outsourcing the Gaza front’s combat operations to three ISIS-linked proxy militias - each stationed in different areas behind the Israeli imposed ‘Yellow Line’ – instead of engaging Hamas directly. The Zionist regime began pursuing a policy of using these proxy forces to carry out assassinations and ambushes against prominent figures and members of Gaza’s security apparatus.

The Israeli strategy, backed by the United States – according to anonymous sources who spoke to Axios – is to begin using reconstruction funds, to build structures behind the Yellow Line, which represents around 54-58% of Gaza’s territory where the occupation refuses to withdraw and works alongside its proxies to control the enclave. At the same time, the Israelis sought to strangle the civilian population living in areas under the Hamas-led civil authority, while offering them the alternative of living under the joint Israeli-collaborator occupation.

This strategy has already begun to crumble, as many of the families which the Zionist Entity sought to co-opt have sided with the resistance and rejected the collaborators in the midst. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Resistance continues to pursue these collaborator death squads and prosecutes them for their various crimes, including acts like murder and aid theft.

Like other similar strategies proposed by the Israeli regime and greenlit by their subservient American backers, this one is likely to fail under pressure and does not make logical sense given the realities on the ground and the fact that the Zionist proxies have no popular support.

So, then, what do the US-Israeli alliance have in store? It is quite simple, they are seeking to achieve some of their goals under the guise of a ceasefire, which they only partially respect by allowing in limited aid supplies and killing less people than they did prior to the so-called “peace deal”.

Similarly, in Southern Lebanon, the Israelis hatched a scheme after the ceasefire was imposed to seize control of more territory than they managed to capture during the war, all while committing daily ceasefire violations. carefully calibrated to stop short of triggering a return to an all-out war.

If they fail to achieve their aims through limited military measures and aggressive maneuvers dressed up as diplomacy, they will resort to full-scale force, because “peace” is not an option.

In order to understand this line of thinking, you first must conclude that the Israelis have pursued their policies up until this point as a means of collapsing the regional resistance against them, eliminating each and every threat posed to their rule.

To the Zionist regime, there is a perceived imperative to produce an “answer to the Gaza question”, a formulation that, in their view, amounts to the elimination of the people of Gaza: an ethnic cleansing campaign and genocide accompanied by the destruction of the entire territory’s infrastructure. This is not only the objective of the Israeli leadership, but a project implicating Israeli society as a whole, a national project of elimination.

October 7, 2023, represented a major blow to the Zionist project, one that collapsed the illusion of its military superiority and shook its ideology to the core. So, it has since pursued a project to teach its adversaries a lesson and to destroy the ability of regional actors to resist them. Gaza is a statement, rise up against us, and we will pulverize you

To a certain extent, this strategy has so far succeeded to deter any Arab population from rising up. Immediately after October 7, the Jordanians and Egyptians, for example, had started to join mass demonstrations, attempted to breach the border, and clashed with regime forces. Yet the daily scenes of devastation in Gaza, along with the propaganda pushed by the Arab Regimes, crushed their pride, determination, and willingness to continue resisting, at least for now.

The regional resistance, however, remained undeterred, which is why the US-Israeli alliance now seeks to destroy it, or at least to weaken it so severely that it no longer poses a significant threat.

If the Israelis experience another October 7-style military defeat that includes the penetration of its defensive lines, this will represent a decisive, even mortal, blow to the project, and the Zionist regime is well aware of that.

What occurred on October 7 irrevocably transformed the regime and set in motion a series of irreversible changes. Senior Zionist leaders now view current events in stark binary terms: either the re-birth of “Israel” or its gradual demise. If the former is achieved, the regime would secure de-facto control over the region and bury its security issues; if it fails to eliminate Gaza, to break the Lebanese resistance, and to sufficiently weaken Iran, it will be one step away from a crushing defeat.

In the Zionist regime’s thinking, now is a historic opportunity to exterminate all those who resist it, eliminate Gaza entirely, and impose uncontested dominance over the region. Although it has so far failed to achieve these goals, it perceives any inability to secure a “total defeat” as an existential threat to its own survival. Therefore, if Israel does not accomplish during the ceasefire what it set out to do, it is likely to pursue those objectives through renewed military action, with Lebanon and Iran expected to become the principal fronts in the future.

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