#Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian

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These are the details of Tiran Fero release:

The negotiations to return the body of the Druze-Israeli teenager came after close to 30 hours of intense talks between Israel’s defense establishment and the Palestinian Authority. His body was transferred at 4 a.m. to his family in Israel through the Salam Crossing.

The negotiations were led by Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian from the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) along with the Israel Police, Shin Bet and other civilian bodies including international mediators.  Rafik Halabi, the head of the Daliyat el-Carmel Council said that Qatar, Jordan and Egypt were also involved in the talks. I have posted about Major-General Ghassan before, he is a war hero.

While there was no immediate public claim of responsibility by any terrorist groups, according to the uncle, the terrorists belonged to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. According to reports, the terrorists believed Fero was an undercover Israeli officer, and they were demanding the release of the bodies of terrorists being held by Israel in return for his body.

A senior IDF officer stressed that there were no negotiations with the terrorists and that there was only one request to the Palestinian Authority and that was to return the body. Had the PA not acted, the officer said, the IDF would have used other means to get the body back.

Had they failed to get the body back, the PA would have lost all legitimacy to act in future incidents, he said, adding that the PA and Palestinian Authority Security Forces took the incident very seriously and were able to pressure the gunmen to release Fero’s body.

You want to know why the IDF Druze soldiers are so respected in Israel? This is why....

This incredible man right here is Ghassan Alian, last year he was promoted to Major General (Aluf) and has become Israel's highest ranking Druze officer in the IDF.

He has been serving since 1990 and has been a part of 6 of Israel's battles/wars.

Why is he so respected?

During Operation Protective Edge in Gaza 2014, he was injured in his face and eye after an encounter with terrorists whereby he was hit by an RPG. He was evacuated in a complex rescue operation that included heavy artillery fire and he and his soldiers eliminated 15 terrorists in the process, while injured. 

Eventually he was transported to the nearest hospital which was in Be'er Sheva but after they completed their checkup, he refused to stay in the hospital then said "I have a lot of soldiers over there and I need to get back to them"....within a few hours he returned to fight alongside his subordinates on the ground. He returned the hospital only after the battle, once all his men were secure and terrorists eliminated.

After the battle, Ghassan was awarded the rank of a Tat Aluf (Brigadier General) and became the highest-ranking Druze in the IDF and the third Druze in this rank in IDF history. This week he got promoted to the rank of Aluf (Major General) which is one under Rav Aluf (Lieutenant or Chief of Staff).

Perhaps he will be our Ramat Kal (Chief of Staff) one day.

Show the man some respect!

Uri Gobey

#Israel #Tiran Fero #Druze-Israeli teenager #Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian #IDF

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MP Yitzhak Kroizer, said in a radio interview: “The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death.”

Journalist Zvi Yehezkeli, who said on Channel 13: “[We] should have killed many times 20,000 people, [we] should have begun with a blow of 100,000.”

“We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly,” Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant said, describing the Israeli military’s response just days after Hamas’ attack. “We will eliminate everything - they will regret it,” Gallant added.

"There will be no electricity and no water (in Gaza), there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell," Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian

Moshe Feiglin, founder of Israel's right-wing Zehut Party said, “There is one and only (one) solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons,” he said. In another statement, Feiglin said Israel’s end goal should not be to eliminate Hamas, but rather, “Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country".

Amit Halevi, meanwhile, a Likud member in parliament, said, “There should be two goals for this victory: One, there is no more Muslim land in the land of Israel … After we make it the land of Israel, Gaza should be left as a monument, like Sodom”.

More clear calls for genocide, is it not enough?

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #gazaunderattack #genocide #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state #israel

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If we are to believe the Israeli political and military leadership’s own words — and I think we should — the assault on Gaza was driven, first, by straightforward vengeance.

“You wanted hell, you will get hell,” Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian of the Israel Defense Forces warned the residents of Gaza, whom he referred to as “human beasts.”

Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, declared that Israel would “do whatever we have to do” to send a message.

“Gaza won’t return to what it was before,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said. “We will eliminate everything.”

Mass slaughter is immoral, of course, but — making it even more tragic — it also doesn’t work. Quite the opposite. Looking at pictures of the ominous lunar landscapes of bomb-crushed Gazan blocks, I see the birth of a new generation of fighters. Or terrorists, if you like — I don’t see why it matters very much. The children who survive this onslaught will grow even more radicalized and traumatized than the generations who came before.

Palestinian violence is rooted in the political grievance of generations of Palestinians, whose lives are defined by open-ended military occupation. They have no state to call their own, their basic rights are systematically curtailed and the world has given them little reason to anticipate better days. Palestinian political violence is older than Hamas, extends beyond Hamas across society, and will surely outlive Hamas in the absence of a political solution.

Israel knows this. Israel has bombed Gaza pitilessly before, but Hamas is still there. Israel turned parts of southern Lebanon to rubble, but Hezbollah is still there.

As Americans, we too should have learned this lesson over and over again. All the military might of the United States could not defeat the ragtag bands of Taliban or force a nation of conquered Iraqis to accept a U.S. occupation. Maybe we don’t want to understand.

#gaza #gazaunderattack

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Touring the coast of the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says plans to provide aid to the Gaza Strip via a temporary port set up by the United States will "advance the collapse of Hamas's rule."

"The process is designed to bring aid directly to the residents and thus continue the collapse of Hamas's rule in Gaza. We will bring the aid through a maritime route that is coordinated with the US on the security and humanitarian side, with the assistance of the Emirates on the civil side, and appropriate inspection in Cyprus, we will bring goods imported by international organizations with American assistance," says Gallant aboard a Dvora-class patrol boat.

"We will ensure that supplies reach here for those who need them and not for those who don't," he adds.

Joining Gallant was the head of the Navy, Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama, the head of COGAT, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, the minister's military secretary, Brig. Gen. Guy Markizeno, and the commander of the Ashdod Base, Cpt. Eitan Paz.

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“The State of Israel has no choice but to turn Gaza into a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in,” a reservist major general, Giora Eiland, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli newspaper. “Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal.” He added, “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.” Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian declared that in Gaza, “there will be no electricity and no water. There will only be destruction. You wanted hell; you will get hell.”

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In March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

Netanyahu said: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible - we do remember."

"There will be no electricity and no water (in Gaza), there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell," Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #gaza strip #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #genocide #gazaunderattack