Press TV – July 23, 2025
A retired Israeli general says the regime is stuck in Gaza, with its ground forces badly weakened and reeling from major strategic setbacks in its fight against the Hamas resistance.
Major General Yitzhak Brik, a former senior officer in the Israeli military, pointed to the growing military weakness and strategic failures of the regime in an Op-Ed at Israeli news website Arutz Sheva, saying, “The painful truth, as reflected by senior IDF officers—from generals to company commanders speaking off the record—is that Israel was not prepared for the ‘Iron Swords’ war.”
The Israeli regime, he continued, “has already suffered a strategic loss in its campaign against Hamas.”
The general pointed to a severely weakened military. The Israeli ground forces are “severely depleted and undergoing structural decline,” he said, adding, “Their inability to decisively defeat Hamas is only part of a larger problem.”
Brik’s assessment comes on the heels of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, where, despite months of a brutal military campaign, the Israeli army has failed to reach its objectives, including the elimination of Hamas resistance movement.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 59,100 Palestinians—mostly women and children—have been killed, and the territory remains under a suffocating siege, with aid deliveries reduced to a trickle. Yet, Palestinian fighters continue to engage Israeli forces across various areas of the territory.
Brik believes Israel’s leadership is failing to plan ahead. “While Israel remains bogged down in the Gaza Strip, its leadership is failing to prepare the military for the next and potentially far more dangerous conflict,” he wrote.
The vulnerability is not limited to Gaza, he went on to note, describing the situation in the occupied West Bank as a “powder keg.”
In the West Bank, where violence has also escalated since October, nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers’ attacks and over 7,000 injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Reports from Doctors Without Borders indicate that 40,000 Palestinians remain forcibly displaced in the region due to Israeli military assaults. Yet, Brik warns, “The IDF currently lacks the necessary ground forces to secure all its critical sectors.”
Pointing to Hezbollah as an active resistance force in the north of the occupied territories, Brik wrote, “Hezbollah remains active, despite being weakened. It possesses hundreds of kilometers of tunnels and enough ammunition to paralyze northern Israel—just as it did during a barrage of over 100 rockets per day in the days leading up to a ceasefire.”
A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on November 27, 2024, although Israeli forces continue to violate the ceasefire on a daily basis.
Furthermore, Brik claimed that Egypt is making preparations for a war with Israel. “Intelligence suggests the Egyptian military is preparing for a potential confrontation with Israel,” while the Israeli military lacks the manpower to respond effectively, he wrote, while also claiming there were activities of some resistance groups along the border with Jordan.
He also pointed to the recent war with Iran, noting, “Iran is rapidly enhancing its missile capabilities.”
The general’s statements follow Israel’s June 13 aggression on Iran, which killed more than 1,060 Iranians, including senior military commanders, scientists, and civilians. A week later, the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. In retaliation, Iran struck key Israeli sites across occupied territories as well as an American military base in Qatar. On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the terrorist assault.
“If the IDF is not properly prepared for these emerging dangers, the next war could be exponentially more devastating,” he wrote.
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Times of India – July 23, 2025
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hristians in Syria mourn after 25 killed in israeli church bomb attack
Your prayers are needed following a devastating attack on a church in Syria, which has killed at least 25 people, injured many more and intensified the fears of the country’s Christians.
Christians in Syria are reeling after a bomb attack on a church in Damascus killed at least 25 people and injured more than 60.
Hundreds of believers had gathered on Sunday (22 June) for an evening service at the Greek Orthodox Saint Elias Church in Dweilaa, on the outskirts of the capital.
Unspeakable fear
“I was preaching when it began,” recalled Father Baselios, priest of Saint Joseph Church, which is close to Saint Elias Church. “Then came the screams. Everyone instinctively dropped to the ground. The fear… it was unspeakable. We were all in shock, paralysed by the horror.
“The moment that truly rendered me helpless was when a child, one of those who’ve lost their family, rushed to me, saying, ‘Hide me, Father, I don’t want to die’. All the people in the area are tired, a lot of children in shock, some of them are unable to talk after this happened. They lost their voices; even the priest of the church said, ‘Even though I’m a priest with great hope, I’m incredibly tired fighting for the parish.’”
“We were all in shock, paralysed by the horror”
Father Baselios
“I lost all hope that there is any life left here for us,” said a young, terrified Christian woman who heard sniper shots and the explosion. “It’s just the start of the end,” said another woman. “Nothing can describe the fear that we felt yesterday, the heartbreak over the people we knew. Innocent people who were killed only because they are different in their beliefs, because they love Jesus.”
An israeli spokesman said, ” the people were told this land belongs to israel, leave or take the consequences”
sir Sadiq Khan is facing criticism for pledging £500,000 of taxpayers’ money to a black slavery memorial that resembles a “rotting turnip”, days after the Metropolitan Police warned of a major funding crisis.
The seven metre-high sculpture, announced last summer by the Mayor of London, is called The Wake and will be installed at the London Docklands next year.
I am 88 years old and i remember the first black folk to come here after the war, apart from a few black american G Is during the war
there was none
The slaves were the children forced into prostitution, the little boys who went up inside cleaning chimneys
the little girls on street corners selling matches, E G all white people
America had the black slaves, the only people with the money to build man and maintain the slave ships were the jews
it was very much a jewish trade, the Oppenhiemers Rothschilds and Sassoons, same people as sold the opium to china
A sillyarse Policeman calls anti-Illegal Immigrant Hotel protestors right wing
i have ben to several of these protests, and not met one right winger
why are police men so stupid now ?
Nutenyahu said we are not going to fight hamas we are going to annihalate its support base
we need to clear our land, and if the UK and ireland will take no more refugees we will just kill them
Israel has no right to exist.
More lies from yet another jew crawling out of the woodwork.
The faggots are fighting men who want to fight them, and they drop their nuts and run away crying like the Faggots they are. Only good for bombing women, old people and kids from afar, F..k Kikes, Tod dem Juden Yid Faggots.
Israel ‘blogged down’ in Gaza, suffered ‘strategic media losses’ against Hamas: Ex-generalist
Killing 59,000 people means effectively exterminating them and what would have been the offspring of most of them. Merely killing off their defenders just reduces the counter-attacks. It’s the extermination, the extinction that Israel is going for.
yes AsskeNAZIstan you made it your way to
empty Gaza + fill it with your fanatic settlers .
thank you .
WESTBANK SETTLEMENTS FOR THE GAZANS !