Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 13.02.2025
According to MSN[i] Amos Harel the military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote in Hametz that the Zionist army is preparing for the most extensive mobilization since the beginning of the war, in the event of the collapse of the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the renewal of the Israeli attack inside the Strip. The preparations are being made against the backdrop of the crisis surrounding the implementation of the abductee deal with Hamas and the proposal by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that Israel will renew the war if all the abductees are not returned by next Saturday at 12 noon.
At the end of the cabinet meeting yesterday (Tuesday), a “political official” (Netanyahu) published a statement expressing support for Trump’s words and calling for “the release of our hostages”, “in the next few hours, it was announced that if Hamas withdraws from its announcement about freezing the upcoming raid planned for Saturday, Israel will continue to implement the deal. And the cabinet sticks to the announcement of US President Trump“, according to which every Zionist will be freed on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a plan was prepared for the massive mobilization of several reserve divisions. Some of them are to be deployed at the border of the Gaza Strip, while the others will be sent to other arenas, to free up more regular units for a possible attack in the Gaza Strip. Such a move would once again place a huge burden on the reserve system, most of whom have served between 100 and 300 days since the start of the war. This is intended to be an extensive and prolonged attack, at the end of which the army is supposed to dismantle all the remaining military infrastructure of Hamas and remove it from civilian control in the Gaza Strip as well.
Yesterday, Trump continued to release statements to the media, and announced that he would continue to promote his plan for emigrating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and even threatened Jordan and Egypt with the denial of billions of dollars in aid if they refused to accept the Palestinian refugees.
It is clear that Netanyahu returned from the U.S ready to continue the war and that Israel has provoked Hamas to freeze the ceasefire by killing110 Gazans from the beginning of the ceasefire and has not delivered the agreed number of trucks carrying supplies. Israel delivered 5000 trucks that are less than half of what was agreed in the deal. In addition, neither the caravans promised were received, and Israel is raiding the houses of the released Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank.
In a case that Israel will renew the war the interest of the international working class and all the pro Palestinians is to support Hamas in the military aspect.
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
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[i] https://www.msn.com/he-il/news/other/%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A4-%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A9-%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A6%D7%94-%D7%9C-%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A9-%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%94/ar-AA1yRQ8Y?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6f88fc9239fb449f858e875f5e11d27a&ei=4