Naji Al-Ali archives: The water of southern Lebanon nourishes the bleeding Palestinian freedom fighter

💠@Resistance News Network:
⚡️In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Collapse of the Healthcare System in the Gaza Strip

On the nineteenth day of the genocide war and after 18 days of the world’s failure to compel the occupation to respect the laws of war, international, and humanitarian law, the already crumbling healthcare system in the Gaza Strip—as a result of 17 years of continuous and exhausting siege—has collapsed. The declaration of the healthcare system’s collapse is attributed to several factors:

1. Exhaustion of bed capacity: The bed capacity has exceeded 150% of its capacity, despite hospital administrations adding new beds during the aggression in tents and corridors, but without sufficient medical equipment. For example: the need for intensive care beds has increased by over 350% so far, and 190% for surgical beds, in addition to hundreds of critical injuries requiring long-term medical treatment and care that is unavailable.

2. Human medical staff: The current medical staff does not exceed 30% of the current need. The occupation has killed more than 60 doctors, paramedics, and nurses, and injured over 110 with various injuries. Most of these healthcare workers have themselves suffered losses, with some losing their homes, or having themselves some or all of their family members martyred or injured. Most of them have become displaced in shelters or with relatives and friends in areas they consider less dangerous.

3. Stoppage of medical supplies: After 18 days of the stopping the entry of essential medical supplies from entering, especially bone fixatives, anesthetics, disinfectants, and antibiotics, amidst the increasing direct targeting of more than 22,000 martyrs and wounded, in addition to hundreds of daily medical cases, especially cancer patients and kidney dialysis patients.

4. Electricity outage and fuel blockade: Following the occupation’s cutting off of electricity and preventing fuel from entering the only power station in Gaza, as well as prohibiting the entry of fuel for hospital generators, these generators have become worn out because they were designed to operate for limited hours during power outages, not for continuous weeks without interruption.

5. Transportation halt: Given the targeting of streets and intersections and the prevention of fuel entry for vehicles, transportation has almost come to a complete halt. This has resulted in the medical teams, and even the bodies of martyrs and the injured, being unable to reach hospitals, along with the direct targeting of 25 ambulances, rendering them out of service.

6. Direct threat to hospitals: The occupation threatens hospitals with direct targeting and daily bombarding of their surroundings, in addition to the direct bombarding of the Al-Maamadani [Baptist] Hospital, the destruction of the International Eye Hospital, the targeting of the Martyr Mohammed Al-Durrah Children’s Hospital with white phosphorus, and the targeting of hospitals in Beit Hanoun, Al-Wafa [Hospital] for the Elderly, Al-Karama, and others, totaling 15 hospitals out of service. Furthermore, 32 primary healthcare centers have been put out of service.

7. Conversion of hospitals into shelters: Approximately a quarter of a million citizens have sought refuge in the courtyards, corridors, and halls of hospitals in search of safety. However, these hospitals are not equipped to accommodate such a large number of citizens, lacking the minimum capacity to provide drinking water, toilets, cleanliness, and sanitization, turning them into hotspots for the spread of infectious diseases.
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In light of these crimes, and the occupation’s violation of international law and humanitarian values, the world is called upon to take urgent action:

• The world must fulfill its responsibilities to end the brutal occupation and halt the barbaric aggression against our people.
• Immediate support to the healthcare sector, with medical personnel, medicine, medical equipment, ambulances, and field hospitals. Pressure must be exerted on all parties to provide what is necessary for the healthcare system.

Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas
Wednesday, 10 Rabi’ al-Thani 1445 AH
Corresponding to 25 October 2023 AD

⚡️In a cowardly airstrike, the criminal zionist entity targeted the home where Palestinian journalist and Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh’s [two preceding images, and video further up] family were taking refuge. Wael was on air moments before reporting the same IOF airstrike which led to the martyrdom of his wife, son, and daughter. Wael has been continuously in the field in Gaza, reporting the continuous massacres of the occupation against the homeland for days: the martyrs, the destruction, the children, the crimes, the resistance.

Today, as he bids farewell to his family, victims of yet another massacre, Wael stands tall like the homeland. In great pain, refusing not even for a second to break. Cradling his martyred son he says tearfully: “Are they taking revenge on us by taking our children?,” and then calmly continues :”We belong to God and to Him we shall return.”

One of his sons was found alive. Holding him, he says firmly: “This is the will of God, and we must bear it and nothing else. Let the ‘israeli’ occupation army be defeated and nothing else. The tears you saw are the tears of humanity. Not the tears of collapse, fear and cowardice. Let the ‘israeli’ occupation army be defeated!” Wael returned to the air to continue to speak the truth, to document the unforgiveable crimes of the occupation.

Glory to the martyrs.
⚡️Palestinian Islamic Jihad – Media Office:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The targeting of the house and family of the journalist from Al-Jazeera channel, Wael Al-Dahdouh, is an extension of all the occupation’s crimes and its war on journalism. This crime is an attempt through military force to deter journalists and dissuade them from conveying the reality and revealing the truth. This crime demonstrates the level of zionist terror and the occupation’s breach of all norms, violating all laws with the blatant American and Western support for the occupation.

We express our condolences and sympathy to the journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh and fully stand in solidarity with him and his family.
⚡️In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

We condemn the occupation’s targeting of journalists and the family of the Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, and we call for the accountability of the occupation’s leaders for their crimes, fascism, and terrorism. The occupation and its fascist, criminal army continue to target Palestinian journalists in an attempt to terrorize them and deter them from conveying the truth and covering its heinous crimes against humanity.

The brutality of the occupation against the knights of word and image has claimed the lives of approximately 23 journalists since the beginning of the fascist aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip. The latest of these crimes was the targeting of the family of the Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, resulting in the martyrdom of his wife, son, and daughter, in addition to several wounded who are still under the rubble as of now.

In the face of the occupation’s heinous crimes against journalists and their families, and the gruesome massacres against civilians, children, and women, we extend our deepest condolences to journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh and his family, all families of the martyred journalists, and the steadfast and stationed families of our Palestinian people.

We call on international media, human rights organizations, and institutions to condemn the occupation’s targeting of journalists and media outlets that are punished for revealing the truth and exposing the criminal and sadistic nature of the occupation, which has surpassed all imagination.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Wednesday: 10 Rabi’ al-Thani 1445 AH
Corresponding to: October 25, 2023 CE

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⚡️Netanyahu: “We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness… We will fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah.” [video] 

⚡️Re: Prophecy of Isaiah:
“Light to the nations” – אוֹר לַגּוֹיִים – ʾŌr laGōyyīm

Nations being Goyim here. Isaiah 49 is specifically about enslaving the Goyim. [This is a bold unappreciated declaration. The goyim are not limited to occupied Palestine or even to the vast Asian continent…]

💠@Slavyangrad:
⚡️Putin: The West wants to drag other countries and peoples into the conflict and create a real wave of chaos and mutual hatred not only in the Middle East but also beyond its borders. To this end, they are trying, among other things, to play on people’s national and religious feelings. This policy has been in place for a long time. Muslims are being played off against Jews, Shiites against Sunnis, Orthodox Christians against Catholics. In Ukraine, they are working to ban the canonical Orthodox Church and deepen the schism in the Church. The purpose of these actions is clear: to multiply instability in the world. [video] 

Nuclear drills personally supervised by Russian Prez Putin were conducted a few hours ago …….

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⚡️🇷🇺 Russia has conducted drills of its strategic deterrence forces under Putin’s leadership, the Kremlin says
🔺 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome at Kura test  ground in Kamchatka;
🔺 Sineva ballistic missile launched from Barents sea from Tula strategic nuclear-powered missile submarine;
🔺The tasks planned during the training were completed in full, President Putin has been briefed on the drills by Russia’s MoD.

💠@Strategika51:
⚡️Something very unusual in Russia: President Vladimir Putin will personally supervise the testing of several intercontinental ballistic missiles… Probably an effect of emulation of comrade Kim Jong-Un.
⚡️Lebanese Hezbollah targets two Israeli military bases in Kherbet Al-Manara and another sensitive site. What is remarkable about this medium-intensity war is that Israel seems incapable of fighting back.
⚡️In Jordan, the ruling elites appear to have become enraged at the news of the mob’s blocking of Iraqi oil imports. Insults are pouring out from the official accounts of Jordanian officials and the kingdom’s intellectuals are calling on the Jordanian army to crack down. [degenerate elites worldwide are the LAST to get the Memo! Good riddance]

💠@ejmalrai:
⚡️In the occupied West Bank, where Hamas is not in control, 104 Palestinians were killed by #Israel, and 1400 have been arrested. Israel’s objective is not Hamas but to wipe out the Palestinians from Palestine
⚡️I am seriously beginning to doubt #Israel’s intention/capability to invade all of #Gaza  [welcome to the growing club! Their options are reduced to: (1) killing them wholesale in situ or (2) evicting them to Sinai or elsewhere. They made the decision to ethnically cleanse them one way or the other, come Hell or Highwater]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡️FACT: Israel killed more Palestinians since October 7th than in the previous 20 years combined

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⚡️The carrier-based C-2A flight indicates that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CSG reached the Azores archipelago earlier today and is expected to reach the Strait of Gibraltar in approximately 36 to 48 hours, depending on its speed.
⚡️UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) will cease operations in Gaza tonight if Israel does not allow the delivery of fuel to the strip – office of UN Secretary General Guterres [the honorless Guterres is obeying zionist demands to evacuate the UN people….]

💠@MedManTG:
⚡️🇹🇷 In a surprise turn of events, Turkey did three interesting things today.
1) The Turkish Minister of Energy cancelled his visit to Israel
2) The Turkish Ministry of Energy suspended it’s cooperation with Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean gas fields
3) The Turkish President refused to label Hamas a terrorist organization, as it is labelled and considered such in the west.
Rhetorical acts, or for real? We will see, we will not forget that Turkey also gave a 90 day visa free pass to any Israeli who wished to escape to Turkey from the war, and how Turkish shipments of food still went to Haifa, but such is life.

☝️☝️☝️ why we fight worldwide to be left in peace

💠@Africa Intel:
⚡️”Tunisian parliament committee proposes bill criminalizing normalization with Israel. The Freedoms Committee in the Tunisian Parliament on Tuesday approved a draft law criminalizing the normalization of relations with Israel, amid ongoing protests in solidarity with Palestinians in the country. The move paves the way for hearings on the bill followed by a public session for discussion and vote.

The draft comes as Israeli reprisal strikes on blockaded Gaza have killed more than 5,000 people. “The draft law includes seven chapters, in which penalties reach life imprisonment sentence“, Hela Jaballah, head of the freedoms Committee, said. She added that normalization, communication in trade, commercial and cultural activities, services, military or intelligence with Israel will be punished. Tunisia does not have diplomatic ties with Israel, but Israeli tourists, most of whom are of Tunisian origin, take part annually in Jewish celebrations at Ghriba synagogue in Djerba.”

[Tunisia was one of most pro-west, abject compradore states… we’re reaching a major inflection point worldwide, between the combined West and Global Majority]

There is even better news! New rounds were developed for the ubiquitous S-400 (and S-300 interoperability too? Lord have Mercy on the deranged given what comes). As you know these platforms are present in most friendly states, and surrounding occupied Palestine, in every direction, including in Algeria.. The Ukie experience provides a sumptuous preview of what awaits NATO flying tombs….

Shoigu is saying new variants of the S-400 air defense interceptors were responsible for the astounding success rates of the last week.

“Russia used the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system in tandem with an [AWACS] A-50 long-range radar surveillance plane, which ensured the success of employing the system against enemy aircraft,”

A most useful demonstration prior to the suicidal aerial Charges of Light Brigades underway by the usual suspects. Nevermind trousers or diapers, will they be left even useful contiguous skin in front of mankind??

💠@Strategika51:
⚡️Lebanese Hezbollah says it is satisfied with the current pace of its special operations aimed at “blinding” the Israeli army in northern Palestine and preparing the way for the liberation of territories… [this refers to their focused work on knocking out sensors, radars and military installations, leaving the highly tech-dependent zionists helpless and dependent on shootable drones and risky manned patrols]
⚡️The US special forces who attempted to penetrate the Gaza Strip belong to the Delta forces. They suffered losses and had to retreat under heavy fire despite air support. [the same ones doxxed by Biden a few days ago…]
⚡️Intel exclusive:
It is a mission that has been described as historic. It involved the best elements of the Delta Force, the famous American commando Seal Team 6 and the Israeli Shayetet 13, all ranked among the top 5 of the best special forces on the planet. Their mission was to penetrate the Gaza Strip and follow a map drawn up by agents who had managed to penetrate the enclave aboard humanitarian trucks to locate the entry points of certain tunnels used by the Al-Qassam brigades and to save hostages. The mission goes very badly despite air support. Elements of the three special forces are ambushed and attempt to hide behind armored bulldozers modified to provide fire support. The two bulldozers were destroyed with anti-tank missiles as well as a Merkava IV tank. The US commandos suffer losses and are surprised by the flight of the Israeli commandos who abandon their weapons there. [the fight’s always evened out by Forces beyond comprehension. Who casts terror, doubt, mindlessness which unmans even the formerly brave, and causes them to flee battlefields?? Working for the side of oppressive satanism inevitably has bitter consequences! The Lord is NOT neutral]

💠@Slavyangrad:
⚡️El Bridge camp in the Gaza Strip before and after brutal attacks by Israeli militants [video] 

⚡️ The Egyptian government has begun preparing a field hospital in the city of Sheikh Zuweid in the northeast of North Sinai to receive wounded arriving from the Gaza Strip. Apparently, negotiations on the possible reception of Palestinians in Egypt have achieved certain results, and the border crossing will soon be opened for the evacuation of residents of the Gaza Strip.

25 October 2023: Khan Yunis in south Gaza

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⚡️Turkey has suspended ongoing work on drilling and construction of a gas pipeline in the Mediterranean together with Israel. All energy agreements between Turkey and Israel have been suspended.
⚡️Libya has decided to expel the ambassadors of Britain, USA, France and Italy from the country because of the position of their governments on the situation in the Middle East  [a multi-generational Iron Wall is descending, walling off the crazed West……]

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⚡️Palestinian Ministry of Health: 6,546 martyrs in Gaza and 17,439 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression. 2,704 children, 1,584 women, and 364 elderly people have been martyred since the start of the aggression on Gaza. 756 people, including 344 children, were martyred during the past 24 hours. [there is a severe uptick in tempo and savagery, seen in countless online videos. They speed things up, sensing they do not have long to indulge in this barbarism. Other Fronts open, wider war will be imposed on them. Regardless whether they can stem the Tide for a little while longer, mankind has made up its mind. It is not a good future for the West.]
⚡️[Impotent Egyptian Junta displays a useless parade] [video] 
⚡️The spokesperson for [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad: 💬 “The crimes taking place in the West Bank will be met with a strong Palestinian response, soon to be manifested through guerilla actions.”
⚡️ Israel has stopped issuing visas to UN employees after yesterday’s statements by Secretary General Guterres, writes the Times of Israel
⚡️A few people gathered in Iraq to support Palestine. [video] 

Look at the sheer number of fronts and crises which confront the crazed maniacs:

• The UNSC debacle and rapidly evaporating legitimacy
• Iran and the Persian Gulf petrodollar
• The lighting of 1,000 fires and base-assaults throughout the west asia by the Resistance Arc
• Superior stand-off missiles and drones and on-ground numbers and networking corralling their free movement to savage west asia freely from the air
• The imploding financial system
• The current MIC inadequacy and lack of parts, hardware and ammo
• The zombie Holy Land cancer entity on life-support
• Global revulsion at open Gazan genocide –> and inability for jews and westerners to safely travel through the lands of Global Majority now and for many years to come…
• The cauterized Ukronazi 404 in accelerated implosion
• Mutiny in State Dep and inner imperial provinces
• Korean Chairman Rocketman and NE Asian front
• The Baltic-Arctic front
• The Serbian front
• The Transcaucasian front

And we are not even talking about putative Chinese moves onto sites across the Taiwan Straits, or disinvestment, boycotting and sanctioning the western enablers of Palestinian and global genocides.. It really risks coalescing into a global gang-rape of the West! Every neocon and transnational technocrat operating in Brussels, London, NYC and DC needs to be summarily hung, and yesterday, in order for the West to have any livable future WHATSOEVER

💠 @Slavyangrad:
⚡🚨🔴 According to the information received, after American military operations in the Middle East, all missile, defensive and offensive units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the south and west of Iran were put on offensive alert.

💠 @Strategika51:
⚡The Yemeni government has decided that all UAE military bases in the country are de facto US and Israeli military bases.
These bases will be legitimate targets for both government forces and Houthi rebels. [This genocide of Palestine is helping heal Yemen and erase their tribal divisions. They are united by revulsion of a common satanic enemy]
⚡The United Arab Emirates supplies fighter jets to Israel. [A change of elites is imminent]
⚡A Chinese nuclear missile submarine came very close to California without being detected. Specialized aircraft and warships have been patrolling off the coast of California since yesterday.
⚡American aircraft attacked Syria under Israeli cover. Radars and HQ of the Syrian 5th Division targeted by HARM missiles and Air-to-Ground cruise missiles.
⚡Zionism should be classified as a psychiatric pathology.
⚡French arms supplies to Armenia have nothing to do with the conflict with Azerbaijan but are part of Washington’s plan against Iran. [Armenia works to commit suicide, losing last regional friends]

💠 @sputnik_africa
⚡ ❗️Latest updates on Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

🔻  South Africa is “appalled” by the failure of the UN Security Council to agree on a resolution to end the killing and suffering in the Israel-Palestinian war, said Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor;

🔻 Egypt regrets the UN Security Council failure to adopt a resolution on the Middle East conflict and also for the body’s  inability to urge the ceasefire, Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry said; [two more BRICS+ and African powers serve notice of current UNSC inadequacy…]

🔻 The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which includes a number of Shia militia groups, said on Wednesday that it had attacked the US’s Kharab al-Jir military base in northeastern Syria;

🔻 Eight Syrian soldiers were killed and seven were injured during Israeli airstrikes on military positions in the Daraa province in Syria’s south, according to the Syrian Defense Ministry;

Prime Minister of Mali greets Palestinian Ambassador

💠 @MedManTG:
⚡ Al Mayadeen reports that the number of Palestinians martyred from the aggression on the Gaza Strip has exceeded 6,000 amid catastrophic health conditions. It is also being reported that about a hundred Palestinians were martyred during these past hours as a result of occupation airstrikes on the Strip.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⚡The United States will send up to 12 THAAD and Patriot missile defense systems to the Middle East, which are planned to be deployed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, the UAE and Qatar.
⚡The missile and drone attack from Yemen was larger than the Pentagon initially described. One of the missiles was shot down by Saudi air defense. The Wall Street Journal [take last part about KSA involvement with bucket of salt; it could be true though as missiles were near major refineries near Yanbu on Red Sea coast]
⚡🇵🇸 The small Hamas cell that was responsible for plotting the October 7 attack on Israel communicated for two years through a network of wired telephones built into tunnels under Gaza. For two years, members of the cell did not use electronic communications and computers, which allowed them to avoid detection by Israeli and US intelligence services. CNN

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⚡️The Australian government will deploy military forces to the Middle East in response to the deepening war crisis in Gaza. Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles announced on Wednesday two additional RAAF planes and a small detachment of army personnel has been flown to the region as a precautionary measure. 💬 “We’re not saying we’re in the Middle East for operational reasons, but we are putting that in place, really, as a contingency to support Australian populations,” Mr Marles said on the Today show. [the ENTIRE West’s come for the rodeo. They weren’t content to die once on the Ukie hill…]
⚡️Israeli media: An American defense source: The American army is working hard to deploy at least 12 air defense systems in several countries in the Middle East. The deployment of air defense systems will take place before the Israeli “invasion” of the Gaza Strip. [what’s the reliability and interception rate? Will they be given time to deploy? Every minute counts with ongoing genociding of Gazans.. they will not be given time. What has begun in Syraq indicates decisions were made and they are being pre-empted. The equation now appears: 2.5M Gazan lives for 50k+ western troops…]
⚡️The Palestinian resistance in Jenin confronts the Israeli forces that entered the camp [this is the West Bank]
⚡️Israeli Air Force attacked the area of Daraa in southwestern Syria. IDF claim they attacked Syrian Army positions.
⚡️Israel conducted a missile strike on Jenin, West Bank. Al Jazeera reports 2 dead Palestinians. This is how “defending against Hamas” looks like? Striking the West Bank? [major escalation on the West Bank!]
⚡️Al-Jazeera correspondent: “Israeli occupation forces are withdrawing from the Jenin camp area and the Wadi Burqin region.” [saw video reportedly of one of their armored vehicles being blown up.. it really is a constant, multi-front boiler for the tormented demented zionists]

💠@Slavyangrad:
⚡️ The Israeli army said it struck the military infrastructure of the Syrian armed forces on Tuesday. Zin Note: How many fronts will Israel attempt to fight a war on? [the criminal and dying Zionist entity is as desperate to widen the war, like Zelensky working to pull in NATO, and force Empire to return its focus to the Holy Land and not drop everything in its panicked flight to the Persian Gulf…]
⚡️ 320 Israeli strikes against Gaza recorded in the last 24 hours. 😱One new strike every 5 minutes!

Baghdad to Ramstein route
⚡️Sabreen News Special: An American ambulance plane takes off from Victoria Base Baghdad towards Ramstein Base in Germany to transport seriously wounded American occupation soldiers in Iraq. US Central Command admits that 24 American soldiers were injured in attacks on its bases in Iraq and Syria. [what’s the real toll?? they always low-ball it, and by multiples]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡️18th day of the war, October 24th, status update and major events:
🔹Heavy airstrikes on Gaza. Still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity. The healthcare sector in Gaza has completely collapsed, and doctors are performing surgeries without anesthesia or lighting.
🔹A noteworthy rocket barrage by Hamas on the entirety of central Israel, including Tel Aviv. Minor damage and a few injuries.
🔹The IDF announces that Al-Qassam fighters infiltrated the settlement of Zikkim from sea, for the first time since the first few days of the war. The IDF claims all infiltrators were neutralized.
🔹Hezbollah carried out two attacks against IDF targets across the border in Khirbet Al-Manara and Branit barracks, using ATGMs and mortars. Today’s activity on the northern front was the least we have seen since the first few days of the war.
🔹The amount of officially announced Hezbollah martyrs has risen to 39.
🔹As a response to Hezbollah attacks, the IDF carried out artillery shellings and drone strikes on Hezbollah positions in South Lebanon, but once again much less than previous days.
🔹The Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out attacks on the U.S. occupation bases Ayn Al-Assad in Iraq and Kharab Al-Jir in Syria, with suicide drones and rockets.
🔹U.S. CENTCOM announced that 24 American soldiers have been injured in attacks on US bases so far.
🔹Two rockets were fired from Syria into the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, landing in empty fields. Israel responded by shelling the launch sites in Syria with artillery.
🔹IDF forces stormed the Jenin camp in the West Bank at night, resulting in clashes.
⚡️Interestingly, as you can notice, every few days a new flag gets added to the list of countries involved in this war. Despite the intensity of conflict in Gaza and on the Lebanese border having decreased during the past few days, the arena of battle is constantly expanding, slowly but surely. First Gaza, then Lebanon and the Golan Heights, now Syria, Iraq and Yemen, depending on the day.

The message to Israel is clear: You are facing a united front, and if you enter Gaza, the intensity from all the different axes and fronts will increase exponentially. What we are seeing now really feels like a ‘calm before the storm’, and only time will tell what is going to happen.