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Fewer service members seeking careers in the Israeli military: Report
The Times of Israel, citing statistics published by Israel’s Channel 12, reports that the military is facing a major crisis in retaining career service members in the Israeli military.
According to the report, the Israeli military is short of about 1,300 officers at the ranks of lieutenant and captain, and another 300 majors. An internal survey conducted by the army showed only 63 percent of officers are interested in staying in the military, compared with 83 percent in 2018.
The Times of Israel said that recruitment to the army had been difficult as more Israelis are opting for civilian work “due to burnout from the war, perceived worsening service conditions, political delegitimisation, and discontent over recent appointments within [Israeli army] leadership”.
At least fewer people are willing to make a career out of committing genocide :/
Syria continues to transfer people displaced by Israel’s strikes
The Syrian Civil Defence has said that its teams continue to transfer 13 families from the Beit Jinn farm to the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside.
It said 11 families were transferred yesterday, following their displacement after last Friday’s Israeli attack, which killed at least 13 people, including two children.
Israel claimed it was going after members of Jamaa al-Islamiya, Lebanon’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, in response to the Israeli claim, the group said it was not active outside Lebanon.
Hamas: ‘We entered into ceasefire aware that Israel would test agreement’
Hossam Badran, a member of the group’s political bureau, has given an interview to Al Jazeera Mubasher.
In it, he reiterated that the group is adhering fully to the ceasefire agreement, that it is diligently searching for the two remaining bodies of deceased captives buried under rubble in Gaza, and that Israel is using these bodies as a pretext to delay movement to the second phase of the ceasefire.
“We went to this agreement fully aware of the magnitude of the challenges, whether in the texts contained in it or in the implementation mechanisms, and we are accustomed to the [Israeli] occupation’s evasion of its commitments”, he said.
He said that Hamas entered the agreement in order to stop “the daily genocide war that the occupation was waging against our people and our families in Gaza”.
“Although violations continue”, he added, “this is incomparable to what it was during the war”, urging the world to try to understand the group’s rationale in taking this course of action.
Badran said that there was no “severance” between his group and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and that a delegation from the group met with security and political officials from the PA in Cairo to discuss the roadblocks to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
“There is a kind of consensus, but the issue lies in the mechanisms to confront these challenges and how we can unify the Palestinian stance,” he said.
“We communicate daily with the other factions, and there is great agreement on follow-up mechanisms and how to confront this [Israeli] occupation. However, the Authority and Fatah movement remain influential factors in the national situation, and we are keen to reach at least a minimum level of unity in facing what our Palestinian people are confronting.”
The PA is largely seen as the go-to authority capable of administering Gaza by the West, should the ceasefire agreement reach a stage in which Palestinians once again govern the decimated territory.
Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, and an Egyptian delegation conduct search efforts to recover the bodies from the so-called yellow-zone area, with members of the International Committee of the Red Cross present
