After speaking to IOF officers in Rafah, [Jewish] journalist Hallel Biton Rosen wrote: “Eight months and eight days I have been covering the damned war. More than once I have heard from senior officers, some very senior, criticism of the conduct of decision-makers in the political and security echelons — what I heard tonight is completely different. It is a major crisis of trust, real anger and frustration. It is time to bring the truth to light. Whoever thinks there is an operation in Rafah is wrong. As for those who know that there is not and briefs that there is, they are lying.

“We have no more children left for intermediate situations. The cost of indecision is too high for us. The lack of leadership hurts us too much.

“The bluff of conquering Rafah is not working. On the other hand, there aren’t enough munitions and not enough engineering tools. It’s really unclear what the forces on the ground are doing right now.

“They are deceiving the public when statements are released saying that we have advanced in another neighborhood and another area, these few more meters are a joke — the Rafah Brigade [of Al-Qassam] is still standing on its feet.” (Suppressed News, June 15)

Regarding the lack of humanitarian aid entering Gaza, an IOF officer made a startling comment about the people of Gaza: “They are not breaking and we are dying!” (Resistance Network News, June 15)

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The resignation of Gantz is a major political blow to the right-wing dominated […] government, because Gantz was the main centrist spokesperson within the […] cabinet. Gantz was also calling for early elections in order to remove Netanyahu from his powerful position. These two resignations ignited the dissolution of the Zionist war cabinet on June 17. These war criminals can be likened to rats jumping off a sinking ship.

An 11-hour “tactical pause” has been instituted in southern Gaza by the IOF’s Southern Command to allow the flow of some humanitarian aid. This military decision was disputed by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, according to reports in Haaretz. This dispute clearly reflects a schism regarding tactics between the government and the military due to the strength of the resistance.

Mass protests have also erupted across [Zionism’s neocolony] in the tens of thousands, especially in the capital, Tel Aviv, demanding Netanyahu’s resignation. Another main protest demand is an exchange of the [Jewish] hostages, dead or alive, for the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. The latter have been kidnapped and illegally detained for months and even years in torture chambers. These protests have been led by the families of the hostages, some of whom were killed on or after October 7 due to fire from the IOF.

An IOF spokesman stated, “It must be said frankly: we cannot return all the captives through military operational means.” (Suppressed News, June 15)

Coupled with the deepening global isolation of [Herzlianism] on many fronts in both the Global South and Global North, it is the Palestinian Resistance that has played the decisive rôle in the inevitable crumbling of the [apartheid] state, along with the growing political isolation of its allies, especially the U.S., Germany and France.

But it took the launching of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 to help bring to light that this spiraling crisis is not only impacting the IOF but the entire […] society built on mass displacement, theft of land and resources and [para]fascist [war crimes] for the past 76 years.