Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
28 July
BINT JBEIL WAS A DRAMATIC DEFEAT FOR ISRAELI ARMS
On 28 July 2006 the first Israeli attack on the Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil ended in a defeat that rocked the Israeli high command. A week earlier Israel had asked the Pentagon for large amounts of precision-guided munitions, which were quickly delivered via Prestwick Airport in Scotland. One former serving officer observed that the deployment of US munitions to Israel was reminiscent of a similar request made by Israel in 1973 - at the height of the Yom Kippur War. "This can only mean one thing," this officer said at the time. "They're on the ropes."
شكّلت القرية اللبنانية بنت جبيل هزيمة دراماتيكية للأسلحة الإسرائيلية
28 يوليو
في مثل هذا اليوم من العام (2006) ، انتهى الهجوم الإسرائيلي الأول على قرية بنت جبيل اللبنانية بهزيمة هزت القيادة الإسرائيلية العليا. قبل أسبوع ، طلبت إسرائيل من وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية (البنتاغون) كميات كبيرة من الذخائر الموجهة بدقة ، والتي تم تسليمها بسرعة عبر مطار بريستويك في اسكتلندا. لاحظ أحد الضباط السابقين أن ارسال الذخائر الأمريكية لإسرائيل يذكرنا بطلب مماثل قدمته إسرائيل في عام 1973 - في ذروة حرب رمضان/اوكتوبر 73. قال هذا الضابط في ذلك الوقت: "هذا يمكن أن يعني شيئًا واحدًا فقط". "إنهم على الحبال-اي انهم في مازق"
The Guardian reported:
Two weeks into the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah, Wednesday's battle - 'the longest day', one newspaper called it - may have marked a bloody turning point. Indeed last night Israel announced it was pulling its ground troops out of Bint Jbeil, saying it had accomplished its objectives there and dealt a heavy blow to the militant group, but admitting it had paid a heavy price with the lives of Israeli soldiers. Heavy indeed, as it was a withdrawal, not a victory. Hizbollah fighters still hold Bint Jbeil...
[There had earlier been] unease in Israel about the conduct of the fighting. Military experts called for larger ground forces, for more and bigger bombing raids on Hizbollah's rocket launchers, especially around Tyre, and for razing villages or hitting strategic targets further north.
Six years earlier, after the Israeli forced withdrawal from Lebanon, Hezbollah Secretary General Nasrallah held his victory speech in Bint Jbeil to more than 100,000 Lebanese Muslims and Christians: “I tell you - the Israel that owns nuclear weapons and has the strongest air force in the region is weaker than a spider's web.”
Noe, Nicholas, Voice of Hezbollah, Verso, 2007The sheikh's jeering remarks had riled the Israeli generals...Bint Jbeil, its tunnels and caves stocked with rockets and over 100 Hizballah fighters, turned into a major target of theirs. Chief of Operations Gadi Eisenkot claimed that Bint Jbeil was an important "symbol". They hoped to capture the town and bring an Israeli leader to hold a victory speech at the same place where Nasrallah held his speech in 2000.
Rapaport, A, Friendly Fire, How We Failed Ourselves in the Second Lebanon War, 2007According to Time, over 5,000 Israeli soldiers participated in the siege of Bint Jbeil – named Operation Webs of Steel by the Israeli military - while the number of Hezbollah defenders of the town was estimated to be "over 100". The Golani Brigade commander Col. Tamir Yedai remote controlled the battle from the safety of Israeli territory
Time, Behind Israel's New Battle Plan 25 July 2006“The IDF’s retreat from Bint Jbeil…was correctly interpreted by Hizballah as a great victory for the organization.” According to the Israeli Winograd report the failure to capture Bint Jbeil became "a symbol of the unsuccessful action of the Israel Defense Forces throughout the fighting." The outcome “was a catastrophe…Arrogance and corruption are the existential threats to Israel, said former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon.
A low level mutiny, a protest, by soldiers of the Golani battalion took place at the funeral for their dead comrades and led to one- or two-month jail sentences for eleven soldiers. Shortly after the 2006 Lebanon war the head of Northern Command was replaced by Gabi Eizenkot.In October 2008 Eisenkot announced Israel’s Dahiya Doctrine. According to a leaked US diplomatic communication of 15 October 2008, “Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot described a Government of Israel policy to respond with indiscriminate force against Lebanon should hostilities resume”
Eisenkot labeled any Israeli response to resumed conflict the "Dahiya doctrine" in reference to the leveled Dahiya quarter in Beirut during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. He said Israel will use disproportionate force upon any village that fires upon Israel, "causing great damage and destruction." Eisenkot made very clear: this is not a recommendation, but an already approved plan - from the Israeli perspective, these are "not civilian villages, they are military bases."
The type of Israeli terror bombing carried out on the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 would, "happen in every village from which shots were fired in the direction of Israel. We will wield disproportionate power against [them] and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. [...] This isn't a suggestion. It's a plan that has already been authorized...Harming the population is the only means of restraining Nasrallah."Future Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Haaretz in a March 2017 interview: "The Lebanese institutions, its infrastructure, airport, power stations, traffic junctions, Lebanese Army bases – they should all be legitimate targets if a war breaks out. That's what we should already be saying to them and the world now. If Hezbollah fires missiles at the Israeli home front, this will mean sending Lebanon back to the Middle Ages".
The 2009 United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict makes several references to Israel's Dahiya doctrine, calling it a concept which requires the application of "widespread destruction as a means of deterrence" and which involves "the application of disproportionate force and the causing of great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilian populations." It concluded that the doctrine had been put into practice during the conflict.
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SHELLING, SHOOTING, ROBBING,BURNING SEIZING LAND - A NORMAL DAY
Also on this day (2018), Israeli tanks shelled Gaza and soldiers fired at demonstrators. Israeli forces raided Hebron and robbed a householder, Reem Jibril Abdel-Raheem Al-Haymouni, of 30,000 NIS (US$7700). Settler arsonists from the Barghat settlement, watched over by the Israeli Army, invaded farmland in the Jabal al-Sab' area of Burin village and set fire to olive trees. The Israeli Army issued an order, seizing 68 dunams of Palestinian land in Khirbeit Al-Ras Al-Ahmar for military use.28 يوليو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018 ، قصفت الدبابات الإسرائيلية غزة وأطلق الجنود النار على المتظاهرين. داهمت القوات الإسرائيلية الخليل وسرقت من صاحبة المنزل ريم جبريل عبد الرحيم الحيموني ،ما قيمته 30 ألف شيكل (7700 دولار). قام المستوطنون من مستوطنة برغات ، تحت حماية الجيش الإسرائيلي ، بغزو الأراضي الزراعية في منطقة جبل السبع في قرية بورين وأضرموا النار في أشجار الزيتون. أصدر الجيش الإسرائيلي أمرا بالاستيلاء على 68 دونما من الأراضي الفلسطينية في خربة رأس الأحمر للاستخدام العسكري.
Shooting into Gaza is common
'42 knees in one day': Israeli snipers brag about deliberately crippling Gaza protesters. If one Israeli sniper shatters 42 Palestinian knees in one shift (then boasts about his depravity) how many lives of families are shattered each day?
Israeli soldiers frequently rob Palestinians - who will stop them? For years, Palestinians report missing money and jewellery after raids of Israeli occupation forces. One of many examples: Israeli Soldiers Rob Family of 70,000 Shekels in Nablus Raid
Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights said that Israeli forces seized about 70,000 shekels after breaking into home of 52-year-old Ahmed Shubeiri, in Qarboun village, near occupied Nablus. According to the PNN, Ahmed is father of Ali Shubeiri, who has been imprisoned for over a year now. Ahrar’s director, Fuad Al-Khuffash, condemned the action, saying that it was actually theft and not the first incident of of its kind among Israeli soldiers.
Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime - over a million uprooted, burned and cut down. One example, purely for illustrative purposes, "Israeli settlers destroy over 2,000 Palestinian trees and vines in 2 months". The settlers are always protected or supervised by the army.