Middle East: The criminal Zionist enemy has thrust itself into a full-blown oil crisis after receiving a painful blow from the Islamic Republic of Iran, which targeted the largest oil refining complex in Haifa in retaliation for the Zionist attacks on Iranian refineries and oil fields.

On Monday, the major Zionist oil refining company Bazan was forced to shut down all of its refineries following concentrated Iranian strikes on its facilities in occupied Haifa. The attacks sparked massive fires that raged for hours, with Zionist firefighting teams unable to contain the blazes amid continuous explosions in refinery pipelines and infrastructure.

In response, Zionist media rang alarm bells over a looming, suffocating oil crisis that could worsen the occupiers' misery in occupied Palestine, particularly after the Zionist regime had promised them stability and prosperity.

The economic daily Calcalist confirmed that after the Iranian attack on the Bazan refinery and the shutdown of the Karish and Leviathan platforms, only the Tamar platform remains — and it is insufficient.

The paper added that the Tamar platform alone cannot meet all of Israel’s fuel needs, signaling an impending fuel crisis for the Zionist entity and its settlers.

Meanwhile, the Zionist outlet The Marker noted that the Bazan oil facilities in Haifa provide 59 percent of transportation diesel, 49 percent of consumed gasoline, and 52 percent of aircraft fuel, highlighting that the fuel crisis will severely impact the regime’s most critical sectors — especially aviation, which is already suffering from multiple compounded crises.

The Iranian strike on Bazan goes beyond a simple fuel shortage; it is striking at key pillars of the Zionist regime.

In this regard, Calcalist reported that the Noga electricity company has been asked to increase power generation using environmentally harmful methods, further compounding the regime’s environmental and energy dilemmas in addition to the fuel crisis.

Moreover, the economic consequences are expected to spiral further. The Marker pointed out that the Israeli economy heavily depends on the Bazan oil facilities in Haifa, affirming that the Zionist entity will lose substantial revenues, as the targeted refineries represented its primary oil artery and were a major source of income.

Additionally, the targeting of Haifa’s industrial zones is likely to trigger an exodus of investors, business owners, and factory operators from this vital city, worsening the enemy’s economic distress.

The strike on the Haifa refineries was part of the seventh wave of Operation True Promise III carried out on Monday. In the early hours of Tuesday, Iranian television reported that the Revolutionary Guard struck Israeli fighter fuel production sites and energy supply centers with missiles and drones as part of the ninth wave — a move that will only intensify the fires burning the Zionist entity and deepen its crises.

These developments confirm that Iran's armed forces are following a carefully calculated strategy to transform every Zionist act of aggression into a catastrophic and self-destructive backlash. The worsening fuel crisis may spark a different kind of internal outrage, accelerating reverse migration and eroding the remaining factors sustaining the Zionist settlers in occupied Palestine.

With safety, stability, purchasing power, and economic capability already vanishing, the compounded crises of fuel, water, and environmental degradation are turning the occupied cities of Palestine into hostile environments even for the occupiers themselves, exposing the emptiness of the Zionist regime’s promises and the failures of its war criminals.

Translated by Almasirah English website