If the Israelis and the Netanyahu government criticize UNRWA for so many years, why then do they make all efforts to enable their smooth operations?

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The answer is that UNRWA is a convenient maintainer of the tragic status quo in the Palestinian Territories. One that the Israelis, the Ramallah Authority, and Hamas movement all benefit from, at the expense of the Palestinians kept in the UNRWA maintained camps.

As the main Western donor countries freeze their funding due to growing accusations of collaboration of UNRWA local staff with Gaza armed groups, it is important to understand who are UNRWAs main partners in the region and why ? The main partners will be revealed in this thread:

https://twitter.com/gaza_report/status/1751256537455096121

Israeli politicians have long made UNRWA their favored target for criticism, but most Israelis likely do not know that their own government has always been the chief partner and enabler of UNRWA.

Israelis who find this astonishing should simply look at the facts on the ground:

Would you like to understand a bit more about Yahya alSanwar's strategy to survive the Israeli invasion and declare his personal victory?

Then please consider the following analysis thread:

1. To understand this strategy, you must first consider the battlefield conditions and how alSanwar has personally position himself at this stage of Al Aqsa Floods war, and which resources he has provided himself to survive.

Maybe you notice, but an attempt at a regional power shift is occurring before us.

The Saudis and the Emiratis are making a play for Gaza and the Palestinian arena.

A thread for your consideration: 1. The play is occurring via Egypt, which (as was reported here increasingly) is pushing out Qatar as the main mediator between the parties.
Egypt offered a new plan to end the war recently. It starts with a minor prisoner swap and ends with a technocratic Palestinian Authority

What happened to the Gaza City and Northern Brigade of alQassam?

(Warning that the following posts likely will not be popular with most of you, but maybe you will consider them anyways)

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According to conversations, videos, and other reports, the following:
Many fighters were killed in Israeli strikes before and in the days of the invasion. Many were killed along with their families when the Israelis targeted their homes or bombarded underground positions.

Military commentators note that since the start of the Israeli invasion, alQassam Gaza City and Northern Gaza Brigades combined succeeded in carrying out only two company-level attacks on the Israelis. A thread for your consideration: The 1st attack occurred at the outset of the invasion at the end of October when a combined weapons attack targeted an armoured vehicle north of Beit Lahiya & killed an entire squad of infantry. The 2nd occurred in alShujaiya days ago and involved multiple boobytraps and attacks

Much of the reporting here has covered the Gazan criticisms of the aid distribution mechanisms.
As the crisis grows, it has been requested by many to provide an analysis of the process and explanation why the aid is not reaching enough people.
For your consideration: 🧵



1. All sides, with picture evidence to prove it, suggests a backlog on the Egyptian ports of entry, even before Rafah.
Egypt does not have enough warehouses to store the aid enroute to Gaza, and the international organizations report difficulty organizing shipments from Arish

The Israelis miscalculate from the very beginning the missile capabilities and stocks of the Palestinian factions: An analysis thread for your consideration 🧵 Mainly, with each salvo to the central Israeli cities, the analysts begin mathematical calculations on and other explanations as to why after so many weeks of fighting, alQassam is still able to target their main cities.

Both the Israeli and Palestinian channels begin to publish footage from their perspectives of the battles in Khan Younis which show the intensity of the fighting, which has escalated in recent days: AlQassam media publishes the aftermath of a failed Israeli rescue raid in Khan Younis region which sought one of the male captives, and claims casualties on the Israeli side, including the captive himself.

To those wondering why the fighting is now intensifying to new levels in so many areas, the following can be an explanation: A thread for consideration: It was routinely known that the Hamas armed wing divided the prioritization for military activity in Gaza into three classifications:
1. Areas where they would allow the Israelis to enter
2. Areas of "harassment" where reasonable resistance would be ordered to slow the advance

🧵 There is tremendous concern and tension over the plight of the displaced, particularly those that arrived in southern Gaza from the north, ahead of what everyone expects to be an aggressive Israeli assault on the southern governorates when the ceasefire ends. The tension increased particularly after Hamas instructed its contacts in the senior local staff of UNRWA to refuse cooperation for any activity in the Al Mawasi open areas of west Khan Younis, after the Israelis designated it as a "humanitarian zone."

For the first time in the discourse of the Arab nations, there are discussions floating of a new regime in Gaza. A very short thread for your consideration: 🧵 Mainly, in the speech of Ismail Haniyeh today, leader of the Hamas poliburo, he flatly exclaimed that "no foreign power" will rule Gaza.

An analysis on the prisoner exchange file in the coming thread 🧵as the situation escalates: In the past 24 hours, the Hamas politburo leaders in Qatar and the Americans claim that a deal to release captives in Gaza is very close. Two parties do not confirm anything:

The Israelis and the Hamas leadership in Gaza (particularly Sinwar)

In the coming thread an analysis of the fissure between Hamas and Tehran which began in this November 2 Meeting between Haniyeh and the supreme leader. The analysis in the coming thread: 🧵

https://twitter.com/gaza_report/status/1720147886799810592

In the meeting, which was confirmed by Iran but not photographed, Khamenei was said to be upset with Haniyeh for several reasons, mainly:

1. Iran was not granted prior warning to the launch of Al Aqsa Floods.

2. The scope of what Khamenai said was the "brutality" of the Qassam.

Analysis of the Israeli advance in the coming tweets. All three of the Israeli incursions appear to be pointed to the strategic hospitals discussed in the previous threads, and they are:

Al Shifa: Beach spearhead
Indonesian: Beit Hanoun Spearhead
Al Quds: Wadi Gaza Spearhead

Reports from some of the Gaza messaging groups linked to the Qassam brigades regarding the fighters who are in the tunnels for many days: A thread The main trend is that morale among the fighters in the tunnels is very low.

Many are living on designated rations of just a few dates and other food per day. They expected more rations from aid brought in, but there have been no humanitarian ceasefires to allow this.

#BREAKING: An impact at the Al Ahly Hospital, center Gaza City is being checked by some reports as a premature rocket detonation from a nearby launching site. Reports continue to surface that a misifired rocket detonated a stockpile of munitions held on the hospital grounds. #Gaza

#breaking some security guards at Gaza City highrises report receiving messages from the Israeli military to evacuate tenants ahead of impending airstrikes.

In the skies over Gaza numerous aircraft have entered the airspace ahead of what seems is a large strike The Hanadi tower in West Gaza City, which received sms warnings to evacuate, has just been hit by two warning missiles and it appears as though airstrikes are set to collapse the building next

While the Israelis are refusing any negotiation efforts, their military options are limited and they do not appear to have strategic objectives for this round, beyond the traditional 'calm for calm' equation which has governed the situation in Gaza since the 2009 round. From a tactical perspective, the Israelis are not able to curb the rocket attacks on their cities, as they lack the intelligence on the precise locations of hundreds of rocket launchers installed in urban and agricultural areas in Gaza over the years.

Qassam claims to have fired new A120 missiles at Jerusalem for the first time yesterday and the weapons have a range to hit major Israeli cities The weapons are produced locally along with other models such as the Jihad's Badr-3 with Iranian instruction and expertise on range, caliber and precision

The Israeli air forces open a third wave of strikes.on Gaza these moments.

250 rockets have been fired by the Qassam, Al.Quds, Ali Mustapha and Nasser Brigades until now primarily to short ranges

95 are wounded in Gaza and 20 killed The toll climbs to 21 after one of the injured from an Israeli targeted strike on a launching cell succumbs to wounds