Lee Heidhues 10.28.2023
I have no faith in the trust worthiness of the American mainstream media as it reports the State of Israel point of view.
Fortunately, neither do tens of thousands of Americans who have taken to the streets to protest the murderous Israel assault on Palestine.
Aljazeera is certainly no dispassionate observer. At least I can read and view a different perspective analyzing the Israeli ongoing assault on Gaza, the West Bank and the people of Palestine in general.
The wellspring of sympathy Israel engendered after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack which killed 1400 mostly Israelis on October 7 has been squandered and lost in The Fog of War.
A brutal assault on the People of Palestine which has cost nearly 10,000 lives, injuries too great to tabulate and the wanton destruction of property.
The condoning and encouragement of this Israeli assault on Palestine by the Biden administration is an abomination.
Excerpted from Aljazeera 10.28.2023
The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground attacks on Wednesday and Thursday night, releasing videos to exploit them for propaganda. On both occasions, they pulled back to Israel before dawn.
The still-ongoing attack seems not to be the “‘Big One”. But as an obvious extension of the previous two incursions into Gaza, it may be a precursor to an all-out offensive.
Saturday’s reports from Gaza may be the last made over mobile networks and land-based internet. Israeli forces hit public telecom infrastructure and Gaza is now under an almost total communications blackout. The only means to get information out to the world are the few remaining satellite telephones, but those could be targeted at any time.
Israeli Air Force dedicated electronic warfare aircraft can pinpoint every device exchanging data with low-orbit communication satellites and direct deadly air-to-ground missiles against it.
Israelis have a long record of targeted killings using phones to identify and locate the target. One of the first victims of the technique was Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash in 1996.
However, the destruction of communication nodes and the use of electronic countermeasures to block any remaining public lines that survived will not harm Hamas fighters who, knowing Israeli tactics and capabilities, appear to have prepared for this course of action.
Palestinian sources claim that Hamas installed “Israel-proof” communications infrastructure in its extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip. It allegedly laid tens of kilometres of cables with strong electromagnetic shielding to prevent the detection and interception of signals.
Installed in the most modern tunnels, set in much deeper, they are almost fully secure from prying Israelis. The cables emit a minimum amount of electromagnetic radiation, and the great depth practically prevents detection and signal interception. These new, secure, means of communications may explain how Hamas managed to keep its plans for the October 7 attack secret.
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