Israel launched a military raid in Beirut on Monday night, which they said was a Hezbollah naval base. They also struck near an airport and destroyed a civilian apartment complex.
A strike in Lebanon killed a family that included six women and children. At least eight other civilians were wounded.
Near the Gaza border, a conference began this week called “Preparing to Resettle Gaza.” That’s not a subtle title, is it? Israeli leaders discussed their plan to redraw Israel’s borders to stretch “from the Euphrates to the Nile” and for “every sliver” of Gaza to become permanent housing for Jewish people. According to Haaretz, “Volunteers doled out popcorn and cotton candy to the hoards of young children who ran from sukkah to sukkah while vendors sold t-shirts and phone covers that read ‘Gaza is part of Israel.’ For the adults, options included small group planning sessions, an information fair, and lots of singing and dancing.”
Gaza is not part of Israel right now. While it is still a Palestinian territory, a report from the United Nations says that its economy has been set back by 69 years with 87% of housing units damaged, 80% of commercial buildings damaged, 68% of cropland damaged, 87% of school buildings damaged, etc.
CNN reports that Israeli soldiers are also damaged psychologically by running over the bodies of Palestinians to the point that they can no longer eat meat.
The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he added.
Zaken says he can no longer eat meat, as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza, and struggles to sleep at night, the sound of explosions ringing in his head.
“When you see a lot of meat outside, and blood… both ours and theirs (Hamas), then it really affects you when you eat,” he told CNN, referring to bodies as “meat.”
How is this real!?
