Inside the Zionist state, the economy is sinking fast. Israeli ports are closed based on the Yemeni resistance force Ansarullah’s enforcement of a blockade that has extended beyond the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea. The Times of Israel reported on July 18 that 46,000 businesses have shut down since October 7. This number is expected to grow to 60,000 closed businesses in 2024. (tinyurl.com/mr2vn25y)

An article in the Aug. 16 Foreign Policy, a magazine that is uniformly pro-imperialist, declared: “Israel is in serious trouble. Its citizens are deeply divided, and this situation is unlikely to improve. It is bogged down in an unwinnable war in Gaza, its military is showing signs of strain, and a wider war with Hezbollah or Iran remains a possibility. […] Moreover, Israel’s openly exposed genocide in Gaza, seen around the world in many thousands of videos, has gravely damaged its global image, and it is becoming a pariah state in ways that were once unimaginable.” (tinyurl.com/4vu93x4y)

Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, has applied for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Meanwhile the International Court of Justice has issued preliminary findings describing Israel’s actions as plausibly genocidal in nature and intent, and the court has at long last issued a report that states the occupation and colonization of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem is a clear violation of international law.

New missiles assumed to be from Yemen, broke through the Iron Dome and hit Israel from the east. They appeared to evade Israeli and the complicit Jordanian and Egyptian surveillance systems and successfully made an impact at the Gezer Power Plant, southeast of Tel Aviv.

Resistance News Network reports that several middle batteries, which are basic missile firing units, were unable to protect Tel Aviv’s infrastructure. Hezbollah missiles fired from Lebanon have repeatedly breached the Iron Dome. All settlements in the northern part of the Zionist settler state have been forced to evacuate. These missile attacks are increasing in accuracy and intensity.