The Israel Air Force is crafting a recommendation to increase production of bombs, missiles and other ammunition at home, in an attempt to reduce its dependence on other countries, especially the United States, a senior air force officer says.

The air force’s stance echoes one by Israel in 1967. After the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which included tanks, missile boats and Mirage jets.

Israel then switched over its dependence on a foreign power to the United States, which provides the air force with all of its fighter planes and some of its bombs, missiles and intelligence equipment – on top of the development of joint weapons systems for all three layers of air defense.

The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans’ supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19914700

By Common Dreams staff

September 3, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19090514

Britain, Israel and Australia are refusing to release evidence of the killing of an Australian aid worker and six colleagues in Gaza in April.

Vital evidence of the killings of seven international aid workers in Gaza in April is being withheld by Britain and Israel who are each refusing to release publicly electronic recordings made that fateful day.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18919386

Israeli forces stormed Tulkarem camp early on Thursday, facing heavy resistance from local factions

Imad Shraim, Muawiya Ahmad, and Wassim Anbar were the three who were killed in the bombing, according to WAFA.

Resistance in the occupied West Bank has surged to new heights in the last two years. Palestinian resistance operations against Israelis have witnessed a sharp rise, and resistance factions across the territory continue to rise in prominence.

There has also been a massive spike in army and settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 7 October.

Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty