Al Mayadeen’s sources revealed on Sunday that the Israeli Occupation Forces had been deploying poison gas prior to their incursions into the Gaza Strip.

The source explained that the IOF had attempted to penetrate the Gaza Strip four hours after deploying the toxic gas, noting that this strategy was “used in the main areas of operation, specifically in Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun [Gaza].”

This comes after Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza reported that an Israeli infantry unit fell into an ambush set up by the Resistance in Soufa.

Our correspondent confirmed that “the Israeli infantry unit withdrew from Sofa after intense clashes with the Resistance that lasted for 3 hours.”

Furthermore, the IOF’s spokesperson announced that an Israeli officer was seriously injured as a result of the detonation of an explosive device and that another soldier was injured during confrontations in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli land invasion waged against Gaza along three axes was driven back by the Resistance, which confirmed that the occupation’s soldiers suffered casualties in the process.

The Resistance said that the enemy fell into “ambushes prepared by the Palestinian Resistance” and also noted that it expected the occupation to “attempt to invade Gaza again.”

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    Ive seen Palestinians in gaza on twitter saying that the air smells strange as well (more evidence of them using chemical weapons is what im saying, basically.

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      Optics wise it’s also possibly the only war crime more obviously and blatantly evil than what they’re already doing like bombing the hospital.

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        They don’t even get the (im)‘plausible’ deniability angle of targeting a Hamas base.

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      I honestly can’t think of much to say other than reremind people that Fascist Italy also deployed chemical weapons. Reading this story I almost instantly thought of the scene in The Lion of the Desert where Graziani’s forces expelled sulfur mustard into a Libyan valley to harm and terrorise the insurgents resisting Fascism. As somebody who studies the subject, the memory came naturally to me when I saw this.

      I know that somebody (most likely a Zionist) could claim that I am simply appealing to guilt by association, but I am not saying that chemical weapons are wrong simply because Fascist Italy used them. Chemical weapons are wrong in their own right, which is why it is unsurprising that the Zionists are using them too.

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      The goal, presumably, is to displace the units that cannot be displaced in other ways. What this indicates is that Hamas has established a position that Israel cannot penetrate so they are willing to commit war crimes. That’s a pretty serious endorsement of the effectiveness of Hamas.

      It’s not stupid in the sense that if both sides have to displace in order to avoid the gas, presumably Hamas cannot regain their position in time for the subsequent Israeli assault and thus the position will fall.

      It’s stupid in that to solve a tactical problem it creates a strategic problem. The tactical problem is this particular position. The strategic problem is the world turning against Israel for using chemical warfare.

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      Chemical weapons don’t spread that far, the chances of Israelis bieng affected by this is minimal at best. Most chemicals weapons are heavier then air and like to stay in one spot, hence why they were so effective in countering trench warfare.

      Only danger is if the wind changes direction, but still that doesn’t pose much of a risk, and that can be prevented by having just a single competent meteorologist and chemical engineer on the dispersal team.

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      Not only are they not concerned, I would not be surprised if that was considered in their calculations. “We can kill hostages and then blame it on Hamas for the PR”. Given their reluctance to accept freed hostage previously, that seems to be the case.

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    They might plan to blanket the area to kill as many as possible and claim Hamas necessitated it or even that the civilians were already dead, that they were all fighters who died against them or Hamas killed them. Whatever absurdity you like it’s so ridiculous what they get away with. Or they could just deny the dead count as they’ve been doing so far, continue to isolate, cut off internet, take the bodies later and destroy them before any definitive evidence can be established.

    This is so upsetting to watch and hear. I just feel so sick watching what I fear really is going to be a massacre. I hope the resistance is able to pull something off.

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          In the words of Abu Obeida “We tell the enemy who repeats his threats of a ground invasion every day that we are still waiting to make him taste new types (flavors) of death.”

          You can watch the whole 10 minute speech with English subtitles here

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    Army commanders generally maintained an attitude of secrecy regarding the employment of chemical weapons, something that the [Fascist] government officially denied throughout the [re]invasion and subsequent occupation of Ethiopia.64 Nonetheless, army war diaries reveal that commanders deployed mustard gas during 1936–1938 to trap insurgents by preventing them from escaping through the affected areas.

    This did not always succeed, and combing operations sometimes were delayed while [Fascist] ground forces waited for the ‘toxic effects’ of the ‘bombardment’ to dissipate.65 Because chemical weapons were difficult to control and best used at a distance, collateral damage against non‐combatants was inevitable.

    In some cases, civilians were included as legitimate targets. In his operations against Wondosson Kassa in 1936, Pirzio Biroli employed ‘asphyxiating gas of all types in areas where it is presumed that Wondosson has recruited men, without distinction between subjects and non‐subjects’.66

    (Source.)

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    I predict that Israel will eventually gas any tunnel they come across and the crazed jingoist on on the will defend it whole heartedly with no sense neither shame or hypocrisy.

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      It’s inevitable at this point. Very soon they’re going to use a chemical weapon and news of it will spread.

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    If you remember history, it’s quite natural next step - introducing gas chambers to the concentration camp.