Palestine: Al-Quds Brigades Claim Operation Targeting Zionist Troops

The Al-Quds Brigades said its fighters targeted a Zionist infantry force in al-Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil, while Hamas praised the operation as escalating resistance.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced on Sunday that its fighters in al-Khalil had targeted an ‘Israeli’ infantry force storming the town of al-Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil.

In a statement, the group claimed its fighters fired “heavy barrages of direct gunfire” at the targeted force, asserting that casualties had been inflicted. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the reported attack.

In response, the Hamas movement praised the operation, stating that it reflects the continued escalation of resistance activities in the West Bank despite ongoing ‘Israeli’ security measures.

In a statement released, Hamas commended the resistance fighters who conducted the operation and all fighters confronting ‘Israeli’ incursions into West Bank cities, towns, and refugee camps. The movement asserted that the operation comes as a direct response to Israeli military campaigns in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied East al-Quds.

Hamas further asserted that such operations are part of confronting the occupation’s policies and schemes in the West Bank, calling on Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds to intensify various forms of resistance against Zionist forces.

Rising violence across West Bank

The West Bank has witnessed a notable increase in shooting attacks, armed clashes, ramming attacks, and stabbings carried out by resistance fighters against Israeli soldiers, in response to the repeated and escalating Israeli raids in the Palestinian territory.

In a related development, ‘Israeli’ occupation forces launched a large-scale campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank and occupied East al-Quds early June 14. The operations included aggressive home invasions, searches, and ransacking of properties. The raids are part of a marked and ongoing escalation by ‘Israeli’ forces against Palestinian towns and cities.

The West Bank has also seen a rise in attacks by ‘Israeli’ settlers and the military on Palestinian agricultural lands, including burning, land leveling, and preventing farmers from accessing their fields.

Zionist forces carried out widespread detention raids across the West Bank and occupied East al-Quds on Sunday, detaining a Palestinian man and his four sons in the Dahiyat al-Salam suburb of Anata, east of occupied East al-Quds, according to local sources.

Two other youths were also detained in the same area during extensive search operations.

In the Jenin governorate, forces detained a woman and her son during a raid on the German Quarter neighborhood, local sources reported. Simultaneously, troops raided the village of Siris, south of Jenin city.

In the Ariha governorate, former detainee Loay al-Najjar was detained after forces stormed and searched his family home in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Ariha. Separately, a young man was detained following a raid on his home in the Al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah.

In the town of Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil, the raid was accompanied by heavy live fire, toxic gas, and tear gas directed at residents, alongside extensive searches and ransacking of homes. The Al-Quds Brigades had earlier claimed a shooting attack targeting ‘Israeli’ infantry forces in the same area on Sunday.

The Hour of Resistance: From Dead Order to Final Independence

I.

If there is one thing that is valuable in the language of Donald Trump, it is its nakedness. Trump does not hide behind euphemisms or beat diplomatically around the bush. The threat of sending an aircraft carrier to take Cuba once the job is done in Iran is not campaign-trail hyperbole or another element of his chaotic negotiating style or a joke of imperial after-dinner conversation. It is the literal confession of a policy that was never anything other than preparation for the final assault.

For decades, broad sectors took part in an anachronistic debate between reform or no reform, between tactical concessions and gestures of good faith, between the hope for reasonable negotiations and calculations of how much we would need to concede to calm the beast’s rhetoric. At the stroke of a pen, Trump has destroyed any faith in all these imaginary scenarios and — we have to give it to him — helps us clear the smoke of that ridiculous charade. Everyone who in the last months naively believed that some kind of reasonable negotiation was possible has been hung out to dry. Trump was never interested in negotiating; only in stalling for time. His brutal language has saved us the trouble of hermeneutics. There’s no need now to read between the lines: now we can read the deck of a warship.

The less time we waste trying to decipher Trump’s frenzied back-and-forth, trying to draw a line between his rhetoric and our own capacity for dialogue, or obsessively debating over what concessions we can make to change the enemy’s policy towards Cuba, the less time we gift them. They’ve already made up their minds. Today, the only possible and realistic scenario is to prepare, assuming complete responsibility and wasting no time, for total asymmetric war.

Cuba has made every possible effort to avoid war. But the silence of the guns cannot mean sinking into the mire of shame.

II.

The nakedness of the empire’s language reveals something even deeper and more definitive. The issue is not that today’s president scorns the international order. The fact is that the order which supposedly guaranteed basic security conditions for the world’s countries and peoples is dead. There are some, even within our own ranks, who insist on taking the vital signs for a corpse that has long been rotting.

Cuba is a BRICS member, a signatory to the great majority of the agreements that place it within the global framework of the United Nations. For decades, it has extended selfless humanitarian aid to the Global South that makes it a moral creditor to any order that could call itself civilized. And yet the announcement of an aircraft carrier sent to take Havana provokes no urgent meetings of the Security Council, no preventative sanctions, not even the credible threat of multilateral diplomatic isolation. It provokes silence. It provokes miserable calculations by countries who believe themselves safe. It provokes, in the best-case scenario, middle-of-the-road statements that no one fears and no one will obey.

We should go further still. Trump’s actions do not decree the death of the system: they lay bare the shamelessness of how it actually works. What is dead is not the system but the precarious harmony between its strongest links. Along with the same old disposable lives, the classic hegemon has sacrificed the supporting acts of the system and the scaffolding known as the “international order,” which now stand in the way of its global offensive against competitors who are no longer external to capitalism but emerge from its own cultural, rational and ideological framework. As long as the opposing side was perceived as “antisystemic” — even if that opposition was more imagined than real, as eventually happened with the USSR — the system needed checks, balances, a backdrop for its hegemony. Today, when the challenge comes in openly inter-capitalist terms from countries that have undermined the Bretton Woods agreement through which Washington emerged unchallenged across the world, that order has become an obstacle. The same thing has happened to the international order has happened to classical liberalism: when the elasticity of the state was no longer able to absorb the energy of popular struggles and demands, capital birthed the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal recomposition of Latin America’s dictatorships. The monster sacrifices the now-inadequate framework of its own creation.

So let’s not waste time trying for a reaction from a dead order. From now on, let all our efforts go towards building a new order at the point of a gun— an order where the guarantee of security will be not a piece of paper in Geneva but the assurance that we will defend every inch of land, and that this defense will be the founding act of an insurgent international legal order, born out of the guns of dignity and not the empire’s affidavit’s or the delusional weekly jokes of a possessed man. Yet it is not insanity that defines Trump, but a capitalist order that endowed itself with the staggering, delusional architecture it needed to maintain itself at any price.

III.

No one should expect any state to ride to our rescue. Bitter reality has confirmed that Russia’s energy aid was a temporary reprieve, negotiated in advance with the empire itself. There is no political bloc today with the real will and structural capacity to disobey Washington and modify the architecture of exception imposed on Cuba. This is the naked fact of our tactical isolation, and accepting it is not defeatism: it is the first act of our real strategy.

But there is one fact that the US, Trump, and their select group of fascists in power are attempting to ignore, with the arrogance of those who illiterate in anything that isn’t kilotons or nuclear warheads: the enormous lesson given by Iran and the Axis of Resistance, by the forces mobilized in Iraq, by the Yemenis who humiliated Saudi logistics, by Hezbollah, resisting the persistent attacks of Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, even amidst (nobody laugh at the twisting of events) a “ceasefire” that, as always, was honored only by the victims. These peoples have no aircraft carriers, no Security Council to protect them, no geopolitical bloc to save them. They have a doctrine: a genuine and authentic pedagogy of resistance that the empire has never learned to decipher.

Imperialism can capitalize on “surgical strikes,” assassinate generals, destroy infrastructure, administer the spectacle of its air power. But there is one variable that escapes all its algorithms: resistance by attrition. Prolonged asymmetric war bleeds budgets, shatters domestic consensus, devours parliamentary majorities and transforms every tactical victory into a political defeat.

Resistance is no doubt costlier in lives. It is also infinitely more effective in political terms than surrendering in order to cling to a kind of life that, without sovereignty, can no longer be called life, or lacks the basic guarantees to call itself life. Choosing resistance is not an act of suicidal heroism: it is the rational calculation of those who understand that life under occupation is a prolonged death and that the only currency the empire respects is the unacceptable costs that a people are prepared to assume and inflict upon it. We didn’t get this far in our story by virtue of being poets: time and again, the hard way and the harder way, they’ve forced us to write in blood in order to be able to dream, to have a country, a flag, a people, “land, water, air… fire.”*

IV.

The executive order recently signed by Trump is the material expression of the new state of things. This is not another turn of the screw for the blockade: it is the written formalization of a total state of exception on Cuba. Any gesture to the island, even of solidarity or humanitarian aid, is strictly forbidden under its terms.

They are trying to precipitate internal collapse through strangulation, without uncomfortable witnesses, without aid workers, without food, without medicine. It is war by other means, codified in the language of a decree. 

To justify this, the empire maintains the never-ending game of a double narrative that must be urgently and precisely dismantled. On one hand, “Cuba is on the edge of collapse,” is “next,” is a “failed state” that needs only one last push. On the other, Cuba is such “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States” that an aircraft carrier is sent our way.

What is going on? If we’re a threat capable of inflicting such titanic damage, how is it that we’re on the verge of collapse? If we’re on the verge of collapse, why do they need a state of total exception and deployment of their naval power?

The answer is simple: neither statement is true. They are interchangeable pieces in a propaganda machine designed to justify the unjustifiable. As for us… what are we to do? Become specialists in devious, surreptitious rhetoric?

Everything has come to the surface. Those who prefer not to see shouldn’t expect a cure for their long sightedness in the shape of an aircraft carrier a hundred yards from Cuba’s coasts.

But let us seriously consider, for a moment, the logic of the enemy. If Cuba, this past May Day, was able to compel 500,000 to march to the US embassy in Havana in the midst of this crisis, if it was able to force more than 6 million Cubans to sign a declaration against the policies of the empire, then we’re dealing with a regime whose powers of coercion are superhuman, able to mobilize human will on a scale that not even the empire itself can match. If that power is real, they should think twice before attacking. How could they hope to deal with a country with that kind of control over its population?

But if, on the other hand, these marches and these signatures were not the product of coercion; if they sprang from a genuine desire to defend Cuba against all threats; if they were the free expression of a nation that does not need to be forced to defend what it holds dear, then the enemy should think it over even more. Because what stands before them is neither a failed state nor a population that will welcome them with flowers, but a united people ready to resist at any cost and by any means.

In either case, the conclusion is the same: invading Cuba would be the costliest and most drawn-out mistake in the history of the US empire.

In the words of our late Francisco Marínez Heredia, “Let the Americans try it— whether they have a maniac for a president or not. We don’t care either way. Whether he’s a nice guy or a maniac; it’s all the same to us.”

V.

We didn’t get to this point by some spontaneous process. The attack on the Twin Towers served as the pretext for establishing a permanent state of exception within the United States through the Patriot Act, shattering the pact that capitalism supposedly upholds—the promise not to intrude on people’s private lives. That state of exception was then extended to the rest of the world through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: any legal framework ceased to matter. The internal needs of a world order defined and circumscribed by Washington became all that mattered.

Trump is no anomaly, no accident. He is the product of the return of the unfinished neoconservative project.

But let nobody be fooled: we would never have gotten to this point without Gaza. It was there, in live-streamed genocide, that the new global state of exception was inaugurated. The international community accepted the perpetration of a genocide against expendable lives— lives that could be ended without legal or political consequences.

We failed to understand as it was happening that international law was not being violated in Gaza. A new order was being established; one in which barbarism is public, consensual, and televised. And it is that order under which an aircraft carrier is now menacing Cuba.

Iran today is what the Soviet Army was in its own time: the only power with the real will to not back down and to shift the current correlation of forces against imperialism. But the burning question in Our America is another: where is Latin America’s Axis of Resistance? Urgent action is needed to establish it, and state logic will be of little use here. That logic produces only calls to dialogue, to respect an international order that now lies dead, and appeals to a multilateralism that reeked of death even before it was born.

Without realizing it, Trump has given us the historic opportunity to unleash the definitive struggle for the independence of our peoples and close the tragic chapter of our history that is the US empire. What he brandishes as a death threat, we take as the long-awaited opportunity to complete our unfinished independence.

We need no one’s permission to defend ourselves. We make no appeal to an order that no longer exists. We ask for no protection from institutions that sanctioned genocide. We say to the empire, with the serenity of those who have things at stake far more sacred than investment permits, that every aircraft carrier deployed, every base used, every drone launched, every supply ship, will be met with a response in times, places, and ways of our own choosing.

To the people of the United States, we say: there is still time to prevent yourselves from being dragged into a confrontation hatched in comfortable DC sitting rooms by the same people who turn their backs on the serious social ills that afflict you as a people. You will know the minute you enter this confrontation, but you will not be able to say when you will emerge from it, nor at what cost. To the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, we say: the time has come to make your choice.

There can be no neutrality now. It will be organized resistance or cowardly complicity. Final independence or permanent subjugation.

We have made our choice.

* Play on a verse from Silvio Rodríguez’s “Me acosa el carapálida” [The pale-face hounds me]: “La tierra me quiere arrebatar /  el agua me quiere arrebatar / el aire me quiere arrebatar / y solo fuego / y solo fuego voy a dar [“He wants to take my land / he wants to take my water / he wants to take my air / only fire / all I’ll give him is fire”].

Originally Published in La Tizza Magazine: Read the original in Spanish here.

La Tizza is a Cuban online magazine that since 2017 has sought to become “a platform to debate the course of the project of the Cuban Revolution, its relation to the political practices of the present, and its possible futures.” It emerged from the Network of Young Anticapitalists and is primarily aimed at young Cubans.

Source: https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2026/05/27/the-hour-of-resistance-from-dead-order-to-final-independence/

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Recent Actions by Hezbollah in Lebanon Against the Invading Zionist Entity

The Islamic Resistance is committed to defending its land and people, especially as the “israeli” enemy exceeds boundaries with its criminality, and this is the minimum duty to curb it and prevent it from pursuing its dangerous goals against Lebanon as a state, people, and resistance.

The Breakdown of Zionist Deterrence: Hezbollah’s Wired Drones Shatter the Illusions of a “Buffer Zone” and American Blackmail

Lebanon today stands on a simmering tin roof, simmering with field and political developments whose gravity surpasses the contexts of the conventional wars the region has witnessed over the past decades. What is happening in southern Lebanon and the capital, Beirut, is not merely a violation of fragile truce agreements, but rather a stark manifestation of the clash of wills between two projects: the resistance project, which is consolidating the equation of comprehensive deterrence, and the “Zionist-American hegemony” project, which is desperately trying to restore a military prestige that has been dragged through the mud of field defeats since the beginning of this year. A careful reading of the field situation reveals that the Zionist enemy, with direct political and military cover from the Trump administration in Washington, is racing against time to impose a new geographical reality under the name of a “buffer zone.” This is colliding with a strategic wall of defense built by the resistance through unprecedented technological and combat tools that have turned the balance of power upside down.

The truce announced on April 17th was in reality nothing more than a “warrior’s respite,” which the enemy attempted to exploit to catch its breath and reposition its exhausted forces. However, the facts on the ground prove that this truce was stillborn. The resistance, with its profound understanding of the enemy’s treacherous intentions, did not succumb to the empty diplomatic promises peddled by Washington. Instead, it continued to develop its defensive and offensive systems to match the magnitude of the existential threat. Today, with the death toll exceeding 2,650 and more than 85 southern towns transformed into disaster zones by the Zionist “scorched earth” policy, talk of a diplomatic settlement without breaking American arrogance is mere political rhetoric, devoid of any value in the balance of power, especially after the resistance demonstrated its ability to reach deep into the heart of the Zionist entity and target its vital infrastructure with pinpoint accuracy.

The Deception of the Truce and the Exposure of Intentions

The escalating Zionist violations since the beginning of this week are irrefutable proof that the temporary entity understands only the language of force. Today, Saturday, enemy aircraft launched more than fifty airstrikes targeting the strategic triangle of terror in Haboush, Kafr Dajjal, and Shukin. These raids were not random, but rather part of a failed Zionist attempt to sever the logistical supply lines of the resistance and destroy the drone launch sites that have inflicted terror and displacement on the settlers in the north. The targeting of civilians and residential areas today, which resulted in the martyrdom of eight people, reflects the state of military frustration experienced by the occupation leaders after their inability to achieve any tangible ground advances or secure the return of settlers to their settlements. This confirms that the “truce” was nothing more than a political cover for a new round of systematic aggression.

On the other hand, field intelligence reports indicate that the resistance has successfully turned this “deception” into a strategic trap for the enemy, luring elite Zionist brigades into pre-prepared killing zones in the central and eastern sectors. Digital data indicates that the enemy lost over 40 military vehicles, including Merkava tanks and armored personnel carriers, during April alone, despite Zionist claims of fire superiority along the front lines. This ongoing attrition has driven Netanyahu’s government to escalate its aerial bombardment as a substitute for its ground inability, attempting to compensate for its military failures by pressuring the environment that supports the resistance. This policy has historically proven ineffective in the face of the steadfast will of the Lebanese people, who refuse to be broken by the American-backed war machine.

This Zionist escalation coincides with suspicious movements by the occupation army along the border. Satellite imagery has revealed attempts to construct complex engineering fortifications extending up to 12 kilometers beyond the Blue Line. These movements clearly aim to seize Lebanese territory and establish a geographical reality that serves Zionist security at the expense of Lebanese sovereignty. The resistance leadership is well aware of this and responds with targeted operations against enemy bulldozers and engineering vehicles as soon as they approach sovereign points. The current battle is not merely an exchange of fire; it is an existential struggle to secure the homeland’s borders and protect it from the expansionist ambitions fueled by the unlimited American support for the usurping Zionist entity.

Wireless Drones and the Erosion of Deterrence

At the heart of this raging confrontation, a technological surprise emerged that shook the foundations of the Zionist security establishment: the unprecedented deployment of fiber-optic drones in combat by the resistance during May. This advanced technology has completely neutralized the effectiveness of the electronic jamming systems and frequency warfare that the enemy and the United States boast about. These drones rely on an extremely fine silk wire that transmits commands, data, and images with high quality, without the need for radio waves that can be intercepted. This qualitative shift has rendered Zionist air defenses, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling, mere cardboard cutouts against swarms of drones that strike their military targets with surgical precision, resulting in a complete paralysis of the enemy’s early warning and surveillance systems at forward positions.

Military media cameras have documented sophisticated operations in which Zionist command and control centers deep within the Galilee were destroyed using these drones. This resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of enemy officers and soldiers, without radar systems being able to detect the drones’ trajectories or launch sites. Field reports indicate that more than 120 successful drone attacks have been carried out since the beginning of last month, directly targeting intelligence stations in the Shebaa Farms and the radar site on Mount Hermon. This has blinded the enemy’s technological capabilities and left its ground forces in a state of confusion and constant anxiety. This technological superiority of the resistance is not merely a military achievement; it is a formal declaration of the end of the era of “absolute air and technological superiority” for the Zionist entity.

source: Yemen Extra