🇮🇱🤝🇨🇾🇬🇷❗️ — Israel Hayom, one of the biggest newspapers in Israel, calls on Israeli Government to provide Full Support to Cyprus and Greece liberate Northern Cyprus from Turkish occupation and colonization!

📰 Israel Hayom: Northern Cyprus is also an Israeli problem

➡️ Cyprus recently marked the 51st anniversary of Turkey's 1974 invasion - a lasting trauma for Greek Cypriots. For decades, Israel treated this conflict as a distant Greek-Turkish issue, but must now clearly acknowledge: Northern Cyprus is not just a Greek-Cypriot problem - it is also an Israeli one. In practical terms, Northern Cyprus functions as an international no-man's land, enabling Turkey and terrorist groups like Hamas and Iran's Quds Force unrestricted operational freedom.

➡️ Since the invasion, which killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands, Turkey's presence has quietly transformed. The area is now a forward base for Turkey's military, hosting sophisticated weapons systems, cyber surveillance, and signals intelligence (SIGINT) infrastructure capable of intercepting both military and civilian Israeli communication, alongside covert terrorist facilities supported by Ankara.

🕵️‍♂️ According to leaked intelligence documents, senior Turkish officials characterized Northern Cyprus as an ideal location "where anything can be done without interference by police or judicial oversight".

➡️ Turkey can deploy armed drones from Lefkoniko airfield - converted from an abandoned airport into a drone base amid regional gas disputes - far more rapidly than from its mainland bases.

🪖 Since May 2021, Turkey officially stationed armed Bayraktar TB2 drones there, and more advanced Akinci UAVs were publicly showcased at a military parade in July 2024.

🛸 These UAVs can rapidly target Israeli gas rigs, naval vessels, and strategic sites. In addition, Turkey's advanced ATMACA anti-ship missiles, with a range exceeding 200 km, could directly threaten Israeli maritime assets, including its critical natural gas platforms. Moreover, Turkey's new Typhoon ballistic missile is capable of precisely hitting targets up to 560 kilometers away.

🚀 According to Western intelligence, missile bases in Kyrenia and Famagusta are already prepared for their deployment, posing Turkey's first direct ballistic threat to Israel, with the capability of striking Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa Bay.

❗️ It is not Israel's role or desire to liberate Northern Cyprus. However, if the threat from the area reaches a critical threshold, Israel's strategic posture must shift.

➡️ Israel, in coordination with Greece and Cyprus, must prepare a contingency operation for liberating the island's north. Such an operation would neutralize Turkish reinforcement capabilities from the mainland, eliminate air-defense systems in Northern Cyprus, destroy intelligence and command centers, and finally remove Turkish forces, restoring internationally recognized Cypriot sovereignty.

🔗 Source: Israel Hayom

🇮🇱❗️Former leaders of the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet have sent a letter to Donald Trump requesting him to compel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza.

The letter was signed by more than 600 former senior Israeli security officials, reports The Jerusalem Post.

According to them, two objectives of the military operation that needed to be resolved by force have long been "achieved," and the third, which involves the release of hostages from Gaza, can only be resolved diplomatically.

Furthermore, they claim that "in our professional opinion, Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel."