TEL AVIV.- After almost seven months of state of war with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel experience a tense calm with the additional ingredient that Iran enter the military scenario and the geopolitical conflict expands throughout the Middle East
The Iranian press reports that the regime in Tehran is about to receive the first delivery of the latest generation of Russian Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the US Congress for passing a $26 billion emergency aid bill for Israel.
“This necessary approval,” declared the Israeli premier, “demonstrates strong bipartisan support for Israel and defends Western civilization” in reference to the fact that the Hebrew country could be fighting a battle between ‘good and evil,’ according to previous statements.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army increases the pace of preparations to storm Rafah, in southern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled the war and Hamas brigades who managed to survive Israeli fire after the horrendous war now take refuge. massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7.
That day, the Hamas terrorist group attacked communities near the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,140 Israelis, wounding another 1,000, and kidnapping 250 civilians and soldiers, including 30 children, of whom 133 are still being held by the terrorists. .
Israel has not announced a date for the arrival of troops in Rafah, but the Israeli army has been concentrating soldiers, armored vehicles and artillery in the area.
Unofficial data from the Gaza health authority, run by the Hamas government in the area, indicate some 33,000 deaths in these almost seven months of war, of which around 13,000 would be Hamas soldiers.
Jesus Hernandez
Special from Israel
