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Hamas Reports Heavy Israeli Losses In Gaza, Says It Lost Contact With 3 Hostages and their guards

from thefreeonline on 23rd Dec 2023 by South Front #ISRAEL Editor’s choice-1800 views

Israel-Hamas war live: More than 200 killed in Gaza in 24 hours

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, announced on December 23 that its fighters had carried out a series of attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces in different parts of the Gaza Strip.

From its side, Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, released two videos showing its fighters ambushing Israeli troops in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza as well as in the town of al-Mughraqa in the central part of the Strip

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In the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Hamas fighters used two unexploded Israeli aerial bombs, each weighing a ton, to blow up a convoy of the IDF made up of five main battle tanks. Several Israeli troops were allegedly killed or wounded.

Israel-Hamas war live: More than 200 killed in Gaza in 24 hours

A fighter of Hamas also gunned down four Israeli troops from point blank during a battle in Jabalia’s al-Qasasib neighborhood.Iraqi Resistance Attacked Israeli Gas Rig In Mediterranean Sea

Meanwhile in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, two vehicles of the IDF were targeted with rocket-propelled grenades and a soldier was shot by Hamas fighters.

The fighters also targeted an infantry force that advanced in the town with an explosive device and blew up a tunnel shaft after it was approached by an Israeli special operations unit, allegedly killing or wounding many. Reinforcements dispatched by the IDF to the tunnel shaft were also targeted with mortars.

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The fighters also targeted an armored personnel carrier and two soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades during another battle in the city.

In the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Hamas fighters lured five troops from the IDF’s elite Yahalom engineering unit to a booby-trapped tunnel shaft then blew it up.

At least 139 Israeli troops have been killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza. More than 600 others have been reportedly wounded.

In the central Gaza town of Juhor al-Dik, Hamas fighters ambushed a convoy of four Israeli military jeeps using several explosive devices. A tank that advanced towards the ambush area was also hit with rocket-propelled grenades. Later, IDF reinforcements were shelled with mortars and rockets. Many Israeli troops were allegedly killed in the ambush.

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Separately, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades announced that it has lost contact with a unit that was guarding five Israeli captives, including three elderly men who were previously identified as Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger and Amiram Cooper. The group said that the hostages and their guards were most likely killed in an Israeli strike.

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Some 132 hostages remain in Gaza out of the 240 taken during the October 7 surprise attack, which was planned and led by Hamas.

Hamas’ recent attacks and the growing risks to the remaining hostages in Gaza forced Israel to resume talks with the group earlier this month. However, the two sides are yet to reach an agreement.

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While the Israeli officials are offering a temporary ceasefire, Hamas officials insist that the war on the Strip should end and all Palestinians prisoners are released.

The IDF occupies most of northern and central Gaza as well as a large area in the south. However, as evidenced by recent clashes, Israeli troops do not have complete control of any area. Fighters from Hamas and other factions are still launching attacks deep in Israeli-occupied areas. This raises some serious questions about the success of Israeli ground operations in the Strip.

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The Free, 2024 edition- out now- free download here + review

23 December 2023 by thefreeonline

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It’s a bit late to write a review of The Free, first published in 1986, but we can now reveal a few secrets.

First off, the author does now, reluctantly, identify as a man… ” If I was a youth in 2024 I’d probably declare as a trans woman. Where I was young coming out as trans was unthought of,.. gay sex was still banned, plus divorce, abortion and even contraception.” The gender of the writer was withheld to avoid readers preconceptions about a ‘man’ writing parts of the story with a woman’s stream of consciousness.

What about Hooligan Press?.. How did it suddenly spring from the derelict squats of Brixton to publishing The Free, and with its success 8 more brilliant books?

–“Hooligan Press was initially financed by an elegant anarchist scam, involving travel, which also allowed thousands of penniless dropouts to travel freely. The books cost us nothing to type up and edit, printed cost price by ourselves and often just gifted to anarchist groups worldwide..” https://libcom.org/tags/hooligan-press

“As a ‘dangerous’ indie book detailing a modern day anarchist revolution The Free is shunned by all official publishers, only republished by Attack International, and in German by Killroy Press…

In 2012 it was updated, self published and offered as a free download online, in pdf and e-reader formats. Its Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter accounts have been repeatedly banned”.…etc..

Why was the ending changed in the updated editions?

Some readers prefer the original. You can still read the short 1986 edition online here:

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“The original ending was more realistic, History illustrates that State Terrorists don’t hesitate to genocide revolutionary movements that threaten their power and privileges. Still, other worlds are possible, we are creatures of the one we’re trapped in, and the updated The Free prefers to illustrate that possibility rather than dwell on the gruesome probabilities”.

Okay, and what about the origin of the book, some reviewers claim it’s Irish?……..

” Well, the writer was a student there in the early 70’s, part of a group called Open House, with sections Open Players, Open Workers, Open Gardens, Open Press..etc. We were active in revolutionary street theater and sharing and occupying common resources, freeing our minds and resisting institutionalization in education, work, marriage, etc ( Illich. Freire..)”….

” In Ireland I played for several years setting up and running city adventure playgrounds, lived for a while with the Just Books Collective in Belfast under British Army occupation, and joined a Dublin Anarchist Group made up of dropouts from various Republican movements, and refugees from the crackdown on the successful Angry Brigade campaign in the UK, before emigrating to Amsterdam and joining in the amazing Squat Revolution happening there….”

” The vibrant communal way the Dutch and German squat movements worked in the early 80’s is an inspiration to the belief that OTHER WORLDS ARE POSSIBLE. Finally the writer got jailed and effectively deported after an eviction resistance incident.. Back in Brixton things had already kicked off in 1981 and the cops were still cagey about evicting the 121 Anarchist Bookshop, situated right on the Railton Road ‘Frontline’, which survived the mega riots unscathed to become a beehive of revolutionary activity for 19 years, and it was here that The Free was finally written down”.

121 Railton Rd was occupied in 1973 by Olive Morris of the Black Panthers and was strongly defended. When the various black movements eventually got legalised spaces 121 was abandoned and next squatted for the 121 Anarchist Bookshop and many collectives; Brixton Squatters Aid, 121 Cafe, 121 Nightclub, Black Flag, Direct Action Movement, Anarchist Feminists, The Crowbar…etc..

The Free was typed up and proofread by a woman in the Black Flag and Direct Action anarcho syndicalists. The writer of The Free was active in the Squatters Aid, the Bookshop, Crowbar, and also in Our Radio pirates, till they were wiped out.

radio-is-my-bomb-part-1.pdf(15.91 MB radio-is-my-bomb-part-2.pdf(12.19 MB) Radio is my bomb: a DIY manual for pirates A pirate radio how-to guide published by Hooligan Press in London in April, 1987. The technical part of the text is now dated but the history of the shows is great

The book was updated and republished in 2012 after living for 15 years in an ongoing rural anarchist squatted centre (CSOA) in Catalonia, which adds some reality to the depicted social system.