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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The Zionist Occupation Can No Longer Hide Its Losses</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Dalal al-Zainabi</div>
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<p><img width="417" height="235" src="https://orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IsraelisoldierAFP.jpg" alt="An Israeli Occupation Forces soldier rests his head on an artillery gun barrel of an armored vehicle as troops take position near the Gaza wall on October 9, 2023. Photo: AFP." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"> </p>
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troops take position near the Gaza wall on October 9, 2023. Photo: AFP.
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<p>Caracas (<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OrinocoTribune.com</a>)—Despite
heavy internal censorship by the Zionist entity and the US and its
European lackey’s muddying the information landscape with maximum
disinformation, the occupation can no longer hide its significant losses
at the hands of the Resistance fighters.</p>
<p>According to official zionist occupation sources, the number of
Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the Al Aqsa Flood Operation
has risen to 498. Of those, 164 of them were liquidated during the
ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the official number of
injured reached 2,066. Last week, the occupation forces’ <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/golani-s-13th-battalion-withdraws-from-gaza-after-al-shujaiy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew</a> their elite Golani Brigade’s 13th Batallion from the Gaza Strip after suffering substantial losses in its ranks.</p>
<p>This Wednesday, the “Israeli” army admitted the death of three
soldiers serving in the Givati Brigade, another of the occupation
army’s elite forces. According to the Zionist media, the transfer of the
wounded to hospitals is carried out at night and in helicopters.
Israeli occupation newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-10/ty-article/.premium/1-593-israeli-soldiers-wounded-since-october-7-idf-reveals/0000018c-5416-df2f-adac-fe3fbe6d0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>
on December 10, that Israel was refusing to release information on
casualties suffered during the war. This has led to speculation that the
army has sought to hide the dead and wounded toll in an effort to
maintain morale amongst its soldiers and convey the image to the public
it is winning the war against the Palestinian resistance.</p>
<p>On December 23, US outlet <em>The Intercept</em> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/12/23/israel-military-idf-media-censor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a>
leaked documents from the “Israeli” Military Censor that reveal the
magnitude of the censorship imposed on occupation media outlets by the
army. According to the article, since October 7th “more than 6,500 news
items were either completely censored or partially censored by the
Israeli government.”</p>
<p><em>Haaretz</em> therefore sought to report on casualty levels based
on details from Israeli hospital officials. However, data from hospitals
gathered by <em>Haaretz</em> shows that the number of wounded soldiers
by that time was 3,117, which is twice the number reported by the
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).</p>
<p><strong>Zionist savagery backfires: even fungi reject the occupiers<br>
</strong>Additionally, the <em>Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority</em>
(Kan 11) revealed earlier this week that dozens of occupation soldiers
have become seriously ill due to an infection by a deadly fungus.
According to Kan 11, some of the injured soldiers, who returned from the
war in the Gaza Strip, are being treated in the ICU, and their
condition was described as “very serious.” According to <a href="https://al-akhbar.com/Palestine/374661/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B4-%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lebanese outlet <em>Al-Akhbar</em></a>,
“Israeli” epidemiologists have declared an emergency meeting to discuss
the dangerous repercussions of the fungi, and the possibility of an
outbreak among occupation soldiers. The “Israeli” epidemiologists
suspect that its source is contaminated soil in Gaza, which was mixed
with sewage after the occupation army destroyed the sewage pumps in the
northern areas of the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The deadly fungus is not the first disease to affect enemy soldiers
participating in the war of extermination on Gaza. The Zionist newspaper
<em>Yedioth Ahronoth</em> revealed earlier this month that the army
faced a massive outbreak of intestinal diseases and cases of food
poisoning among its soldiers. Dozens of soldiers were transferred to the
hospital with cases of dysentary that were “caused by a combination of
expired donated food that was stored in an unprofessional way, and lack
of personal hygiene.”</p>
<p>It seems the colonizers who, for years have <a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/2364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used biological weapons</a> against the Palestinians, are getting a taste of their own savagery.</p>
<p><strong>Hezbollah intensifies attacks on “Israeli” positions</strong><br>
Also on Wednesday, Hezbollah attacked Israeli targets in the north of
the occupied territories six times in response to “Israel’s” attacks on
civilians in Bint Jbeil, as reported by <em><a href="https://espanol.almayadeen.net/noticias/politica/1798141/-israel--reconoce-498-bajas-militares-mortales-y-2066-soldad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al-Mayadeen</a></em>. <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/videos/lebanon-mourns-3-civilians-from-bent-jbeil-in-a-brutal-israe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On December 26</a>,
the IOF martyred newlyweds Ibrahim Bazzi and Shorouk Hamoud as well as
Ibrahim’s brother Ali Bazzi. It is noteworthy that the Secretary General
of Hezbollah Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah had <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/nasrallahs-momentous-speech-prioritizing-clarity-beyond-emotions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously announced</a> in November that every Lebanese civilian killed by the occupation will result in equal retaliation against “Israeli” civilians.</p>
<p>“In support of the resilient Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and
in solidarity with their brave and honorable resistance, and in
response to the repeated crimes of the enemy and targeting the homes of
civilians in Bint Jbeil, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Kiryat
Shmona settlement (the occupied town of Al-Khalsa) at 04:30 PM on
Wednesday, December 27, 2023, with thirty (30) Katyusha rockets.”
reported the Islamic Resistance Movement of Lebanon (Hezbollah) in <a href="https://t.me/mmirlb/6060" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> issued this Wednesday.</p>
<p>On the same day, Hezbollah launched high-caliber Burkan-type missiles
against a military outpost and carried out significant attacks against
“Israeli” military gatherings, using drones, ATGM’s, and artillery in
the north of the occupied territories. The Burkan missile carries a
massive warhead that contains between 300 and 500 kilograms of
explosives and has a range of up to 10 kilometers. Hezbollah used it
against “Israeli” targets for the first time in November. Lebanese news
outlet <em>Al-Manar</em> <a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/2010296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released footage</a> of the attacks and more details of the operations.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Zionist
entity’s genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza, Hezbollah has declared its
support for Palestinian resistance fighters and has launched daily
attacks at Israeli military positions.</p>
<p>Hezbollah’s solidarity with the Palestinian people has put tremendous pressure on the occupation. <em>Al-Mayadeen</em> <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-ops--on-lebanon-palestine-border-haunt-israeli-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted</a>
former “Israeli” Security Minister Avigdor Lieberman as saying “what is
happening in the North is extremely dangerous” and that over 100,000
settlers have retreated from the northern region of Occupied Palestine
on the border with Lebanon. In the opinion of this author, the
evacuation of settlers from stolen territory is itself a form of
decolonization and another testament to the incredible successes of the
Al-Aqsa Flood Operation and the <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/yemens-solidarity-with-palestine-makes-it-a-key-player-in-axis-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subsequent operations</a> carried out by Palestine’s regional allies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.</p>
<p><strong>Gaza: the Resistance punishes Zionist arrogance<br>
</strong>Just today, al-Qassam announced targeting two Israeli
helicopters with surface-to-air SA-18 missiles, one in the Saftawi area
north of Gaza City and the other east of Jabalia refugee camp.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the group said its fighters engaged with an Israeli
force in the Saftawi area for six consecutive hours the night before.
The heavy fighting forced the occupation soldiers to call in a
helicopter to cover the retreat of their troops. Al-Qassam also
announced the successful deployment of <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-introduces-russian-made-portable-rocket-to-gaza-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another new weapon</a>, the RPO-A rocket, a Russian-made anti-fortification shell known as “Shmel.”</p>
<p>On December 21st, the spokesperson for Al-Qassam Abu Obeida <a href="https://t.me/MilitaryMediaY/38010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a>
that the Resistance had partially or totally destroyed over 720
occupation vehicles in Gaza since the beginning of the ground invasion
including troop carriers, tanks, bulldozers, and military trucks. He
announced “our forces continue to destroy the enemy’s military vehicles
and lure its soldiers into deadly traps and ambushes.”</p>
<p><strong>Imperialists can only do two things: murder and lie<br>
</strong>As the US-Israeli war on the Palestinians approaches its third
month, it is noteworthy that the occupation has been unable to achieve
any strategic victories in the Gaza Strip. It has been unable to free a
single one of its POW’s outside of prisoner exchange; it has not
succeeded in eliminating the leadership of the Resistance despite
endless claims that it is “close to eliminating” Hamas leader Yahya
al-Sinwar; it has not significantly diminished the capacities of the
resistance in any way, this is proven by the fact Resistance rockets
continue to strike “Tel-Aviv” and other occupation cities on a daily
basis; it has not succeeded in breaking the spirit of the brave
Palestinians or uprooting the people of Gaza into the Sinai Peninsula.
It is quite evident that the United States, <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/the-war-on-gaza-resumes-washington-is-the-source-of-the-plague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which is leading this war</a>, and the Zionist entity’s only “successes” consist of bombing civilian infrastructure and martyring civilians.</p>
<p>Since October 7, the genocidal war on Gaza has claimed the lives of
at least 20,424 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring
54,036 others, according to local health authorities. Thousands of
innocent civilians are unaccounted for, trapped under the rubble, due to
the scorched earth nature of the Zionist genocide.</p>
<p>The imperialists who are hellbent on annihilating Palestine are only
capable of two things: murdering civilians and lying about their crimes
and their losses. The longer this war drags on, the more the Resistance
continues to punish the occupiers for their arrogance and their crimes
against humanity.</p>
<p>Orinoco Tribune Special by Dalal al-Zainabi</p>
<p>OT/DZ/JRE</p>
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<p>Dalal is a contributor and volunteer for Orinoco Tribune.</p>
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