Is Israel really Palestine

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Key Takeaways:

• Iran: Iran held separate elections for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts. These elections will likely preserve and possibly even reinforce hardliner influence in the Iranian regime. Voter turnout appeared to hit a record low, likely reflecting the population’s growing disillusionment with the regime. This year’s Assembly of Experts election is uniquely significant, as it could very well oversee the succession of Iran’s next supreme leader.
  
• Northern Gaza Strip: Palestinian militias defended against Israeli operations in the northern Gaza Strip.
  
• Southern Gaza Strip: Israeli forces continued to conduct clearing operations in western and eastern Khan Younis.
  
• Political Negotiations: An unspecified senior Israeli official reported that Israel will not continue ceasefire negotiations until Hamas provides information on the status of the hostages it holds in the Gaza Strip.
  
• West Bank: Israeli forces have clashed with Palestinian fighters in 13 locations across the West Bank.
  
• Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights: Iranian-backed militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah, have conducted at least seven attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
  
• Syria: Israel was likely responsible for an airstrike that killed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy officer in Baniyas, Syria.
  
• Yemen: US CENTCOM intercepted a drone over the Red Sea and conducted two preemptive strikes targeting six mobile, anti-ship cruise missiles in Houthi-controlled Yemen.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-1-2024

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Key Takeaways:

• Northern Gaza Strip: The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continued to operate in the northern and central Gaza Strip on March 2. Hamas targeted Israeli forces in Zaytoun with rocket-propelled grenades and explosively-formed penetrators.
  
• Southern Gaza Strip: The IDF 89th Commando Brigade (98th Division) continued to conduct clearing operations in western Khan Younis.
  
• Humanitarian Aid: The United States airdropped humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for the first time on March 2.
  
• Yemen: US CENTCOM conducted a preemptive strike targeting a surface-to-air missile that Houthi fighters had prepared to launch from Houthi-controlled Yemeni territory into the Red Sea.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-2-2024

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Key Takeaways:

• Northern Gaza Strip: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) concluded a two-week long operation in Zaytoun neighborhood, southeastern Gaza City on March 3. The continued Palestinian militia attacks demonstrate that Israeli forces have not fully cleared Zaytoun and Palestinian militias in southern Gaza City likely retain some capacity to fight despite the official end of the re-clearing effort.
  
• Southern Gaza Strip: Israeli forces expanded clearing operations in Khan Younis on March 3.
  
• Ceasefire Negotiations: Hamas responded to the most recent ceasefire proposal with demands for a permanent ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
  
• Northern Israel: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed a drone attack targeting a chemical plant at the Haifa Port on March 1.
  
• Red Sea: Italian destroyer Caio Duilio intercepted an unspecified drone flying towards the ship in the Red Sea on March 2.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-3-2024

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/VY-TLCHSQss" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/VY-TLCHSQss</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-TLCHSQss

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US Military Completes First Round of Food Airdrops Into Southern Gaza!

The operation is the first of many upcoming rounds of emergency humanitarian aid authorized by President Joe Biden.

The U.S. military on March 2 began dropping meal bundles over the Gaza Strip, the besieged enclave where supply trucks have been overwhelmed and looted.

Three C-130 cargo planes dropped a total of 66 pallets containing about 38,000 ready-to-eat meals over Gaza, in the first of many upcoming rounds of emergency humanitarian aid authorized by President Joe Biden, a senior administration official said in a press call on the morning of March 2.

The pallets were dropped in the southwestern part of the strip, along its coast of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the official. The locations were specifically chosen to make sure as many people as possible have access to the aid packages.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/us-miitary-completed-first-round-of-airdrop-of-food-into-southern-gaza-5599061

Bet Hamas took it all!

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That was Beijing Biden's intention!

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Key Takeaways:

• Iranian Elections: Iranian hardline factions are expected to retain their majority in parliament. Iran’s March 1 Parliament elections had the lowest voter turnout of any election in the history of the Islamic Republic.
  
• Ceasefire Negotiations: US President Joe Biden warned on March 5 that without a ceasefire “the situation in Jerusalem will become very dangerous during Ramadan.” Biden said that Hamas is the impediment to a ceasefire deal, not Israel.
  
• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan stated that Hamas affirmed its conditions for a ceasefire, which are the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, the return of the displaced civilians to the northern Gaza Strip, and the supply of adequate aid, relief, and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
• Lebanon: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met US envoy Amos Hochstein on March 5 and warned that Hezbollah attacks are pushing Israel towards “a decision point regarding military action in Lebanon.” Gallant reiterated that Israel is committed to political efforts to reach an agreement to resolve the ongoing hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border.
  
• Gaza Strip: Palestinian militias claimed an anomalously low number of attacks targeting Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on March 5. CTP-ISW is considering two factors to explain the sharp decrease in attack claims.
  
• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF)’s transition to the third phase of its ground operation has decreased the number of targets Hamas and its allies can attack during a given period. There are currently fewer Israeli forces deep in northern Gaza and thus fewer targets for the militias to attack.
• Palestinian militias may be experiencing communications difficulties.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-5-2024

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/7mAUciKyoVQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/7mAUciKyoVQ</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mAUciKyoVQ

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While the Biden administration and the European Union were working on creating a ‘Palestinian’ state, the real details were being fleshed out in Moscow where the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and other terrorist groups were meeting.

The summit convened at the Institute of Oriental Studies, once a vehicle for Soviet influence operations in the Third World, brought together Azzam al-Ahmada, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas leader, as well as a representative for Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, DFLP, and other terror groups.

The goal of all these terrorists coming together was to create a “technocratic government”.

What is a ‘technocratic government’? It’s a front for the terrorists and is composed of nonprofit executives, academics, economists, and others who have experience dealing with the international community and extracting foreign aid from them.

Hamas will not officially be part of the puppet regime but will control the puppets.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/palestinian-authority-commits-to-hamas-unity-government-to-fight-israel/

The true master will be Iran!

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Key Takeaways:

• Iran and the Israel-Hamas War: IRGC Quds Force Commander Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani said on March 6 that Iran’s proxies and partners have taken a more “offensive stance” in the Israel-Hamas war, which frames the war in terms consistent with Iran’s regional military doctrine.
  
• Iran and the Axis aim to seize the operational initiative to dictate the tempo and terms of action in conflict and force Iran’s adversaries to react constantly.
• IRGC Commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami said in 2022 that Palestinian militias needed to focus on successive offensive ground operations into Israel instead of defensive, static wars using their rocket systems.
• Yemen: The Houthis launched anti-ship missiles on March 6 that targeted a Greek-operated Barbados-flagged bulk-carrier in the Gulf of Aden and damaged the ship, killing two crewmembers and injuring at least six more.
  
• Northern Gaza Strip: Palestinian militias claimed most of their attacks targeting Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip in southern Gaza City on March 6.
  
• Negotiations: Hamas said on March 6 that it will continue ceasefire negotiations and claimed that it has “shown flexibility” in the talks. Egyptian officials with knowledge of the talks told the Wall Street Journal on March 6 that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamal prevented Hamas from walking away from negotiations.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-6-2024

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Key Takeaways:

• Gaza Strip: Western media reported that the United States will establish a temporary port in the Gaza Strip to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid.
  
• Iran: Iranian military and security leaders are increasingly discussing the need to expand the Iranian military presence around the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
  
• Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq appears to have refocused its attacks to target primarily Israel rather than US forces for the moment.
  
• West Bank: Unidentified Palestinian fighters detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting Israeli forces around Tubas.
  
• Iraq: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said that the Iranian-backed Iraqi militias must refrain attacking US forces so that Baghdad can negotiate a timeline for the US withdrawal.
  
• Yemen: Houthi-affiliated media claimed that the United States and the United Kingdom conducted two airstrikes targeting Hudaydah.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-march-7-2024

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/5njQUiMsAY0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/5njQUiMsAY0</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njQUiMsAY0