TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- Israelis are racing to obtain passports following the recent clashes with Gaza resistance movements which retaliated with heavy rocket fire to the occupying regime’s assassination of Islamic Jihad commanders.
The occupying regime’s interior minister Moshe Arbel has called the situation a passport crisis, with reports suggesting a major logjam of people applying for or renewing passports.
It has prompted the Zionist regime to launch Operation Passport Marathon and create appointment-free passport counters, which will be operating for a month.
On the first day of the operation alone, over 6,000 passports were issued, according to official figures.
Israeli media claims the surge in passport demands is due to the backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. But a survey conducted last year showed the Zionists are becoming more and more worried about their future in the face of growing might of the Palestinian resistance forces, a cost-of-living crisis and raging infighting in the occupied territories.
The Zionist regime marked its 75th anniversary this year in a fractious and uncertain mood, with some of the deepest social divisions since the foundation of the entity in 1948.
While the so-called independence day would normally be an occasion for unity, settlers remain polarized over the Zionist regime’s extremist direction, which has sent millions of protesters to the streets to vent their anger at their leaders.
“I am convinced that there is no greater existential threat to our people than the one that comes from within: Our own polarization and alienation from one another,” the regime’s president Issac Herzog told the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Tel Aviv.
Behind his anxiety lies a fear of a sharp