TV7 Israel News – Sword of Iron, Israel at War – Day 81
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Israeli Minister Hints at Retaliatory Actions Taken in Iraq, Yemen, IranReuters and Algemeiner Staff
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant hinted on Tuesday that his country had retaliated in Iraq, Yemen, and Iran for attacks carried out against it as the war with Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip widens to other areas of the region.
“We are in a multi-front war and are coming under attack from seven theaters: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [West Bank], Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. We have already responded and taken action in six of these theaters,” he told lawmakers.
Since Gaza hostilities erupted with a cross-border Hamas rampage on Oct 7, the Israeli military has said it responded to knock-on attacks from Lebanon and Syria, and carried out raids on Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank.
It has not published such actions in Yemen, whose Iran-aligned Houthis have carried out long-range missile and drone launches at Israel and attacked shipping in the Red Sea, nor in Iraq, where a pro-Iran militia said last week it had fired a drone at the southern Israeli port city of Eilat.
Nor has Israel published any operations within Iran, its arch-enemy and a sponsor of Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group
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Hamas has only two options: “Death or Surrender” – TV7 Israel News 22.12.23
1) Israel reiterates its unwavering intention to fight until all of Jerusalem’s war objectives are achieved.
2) Hezbollah confirms that 121 of its operatives have been killed since October 8th, which is a day after the Islamist Hamas launched its brutal war against Israel.
3) Australia and Greece announce that they will join the Naval Task Force to ensure Freedom of Maritime Navigation in the Red Sea and adjacent waterways.
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Israel Daily News – War Day 73, December 18, 2023
War efforts in the Gaza Strip continue as the IDF uncovers a large tunnel by the Erez border crossing, and a recent alarming poll comes out of Harvard, showing clear antisemitism rates in the US. And much more.
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Lies about civilian casualtiesJOSEPH FRAGER
Israeli soldiers during the Gaza ground operation, Nov. 13, 2023. Credit: IDF.
Many people do not know that Israel’s 1948 War of Independence took close to 10 months. Israel’s current war against Hamas, which has been dubbed Israel’s Second War of Independence, is now in its third month. Most military analysts believe it will take at least three more months to finish the job.
Part of the reason Israel is now fighting its third major ground war against Hamas is that it never was allowed to complete the task in 2008 and 2014. Yet U.S. President Joe Biden said this past week, “I want [Israel] to be focused on how to save civilian lives—not stop going after Hamas, but be more careful.” Headlines say things like, “U.S. wants Israel to narrow scale of attack in Gaza.”
This is unacceptable. Israel has to be allowed to do what it has to do in order to survive. Otherwise, the Hamas threats to repeat the Oct. 7 massacre will, God forbid, be realized.
No army in the world does more than Israel’s to protect civilians. Soldiers have literally sacrificed themselves in order to do so. Avoiding civilian casualties is all the more difficult because Hamas knows that the IDF is a humane army. Thus, Hamas routinely uses human shields. Nonetheless, the IDF’s “civilian casualty ratio”—the ratio of civilian casualties vs. combatant casualties—is the best in the world.
America’s civilian casualty ratio in World War II was approximately 2:1. That means for every combatant killed, two civilians died. In the Iraq War, it is estimated that from 2003-2023 approximately 174,000 civilians were killed vs. 39,900 combatants. This is close to 4.5:1. The Iraq War was similar in many ways to Israel’s current war against Hamas. Yet Israel’s civilian casualty ratio in Gaza is far better than America’s in Iraq. At the most, it is around 2:1 if we accept likely inflated figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
The U.S. would do well to emulate Israel’s approach to civilians located in combat zones, especially urban areas. No one wants to see civilians die in war, but to single out Israel for supposed indifference to civilian lives is unfair and based on lies.
Israel has its work cut out for it. The tunnel war in particular is the hardest type of war to fight. But Israel is making steady progress. In due time, God willing, it will be victorious. Pressure from America is not helpful. Let Israel finish the job.
JOSEPH FRAGER – Dr. Joseph Frager is a lifelong activist and physician. He is chairman of Israel advocacy for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, chairman of the executive committee of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim and executive vice president of the Israel Heritage Foundation.
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