...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...intelligence HQ in Khan Younis.
Israeli tanks pushed deeper into districts in central and southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Friday overnight and Saturday under heavy air and artillery fire, pressing forward with the ground campaign in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
Fighting late on Friday and early Saturday was focused in al-Bureij, Nuseirat, and Maghazi in central Gaza, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the Strip, backed by intensive air strikes.
A Hamas health official alleged the strikes had killed 100 Paleostinians and injured 150 in the central Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. The terror group does not differentiate in its reports between civilians and combatants.
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday announced the death of a soldier killed during fighting in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, and another who succumbed to his wounds from earlier fighting, bringing the toll of slain troops since the start of the ground offensive in late October against Hamas to 170.
The IDF said troops of the 7th Armored Brigade had advanced further in southern Gaza, while raiding Hamas sites in Khan Younis, including the headquarters of the terror group’s intelligence division in the city.
The intelligence headquarters was responsible for all of Hamas’s intelligence activity in the Khan Younis area, the IDF said, adding that it also located a command center belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group in the same complex.
According to the IDF, the troops recovered "very valuable" intelligence materials from the sites.
In central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp, the IDF detailed the operations of the 188th Armored Brigade, including an incident in which troops battled Hamas button men hiding in a school that was being used as a shelter for Paleostinian civilians.
On Thursday, the 188th Brigade received intelligence of dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school where civilians were sheltering.
"The gunnies took advantage of the presence of civilians in the school area in order to fire RPGs and small arms at the forces, while hiding behind women and kiddies," the IDF said, adding that the troops raided the school, capturing the operatives who were holed up inside and killing others near the complex.
In other operations in al-Bureij, the IDF says the 188th Brigade has encountered many more Hamas button men who attacked forces from civilian sites.
The brigade has also located and destroyed three rocket launchers and nine tunnel shafts, the IDF said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
troops of the Givati Brigade raided several more Hamas sites in southern Gaza, killing operatives in the process with sniper fire and tank shelling, the IDF said.
It said that the Givati troops also directed several
...
KABOOM!...
s on Hamas button men in the area, along with other infrastructure belonging to the terror group.
Before the troops maneuvered deeper into Khan Younis, the IDF said the 98th Division and Air Force carried out some 50 strikes on targets in the area, including tunnels and other infrastructure used by Hamas to attack troops.
Paleostinians reported fierce Israeli tank fire and aerial bombing in Khan Younis in southern Gaza overnight. Planes also carried out a series of air strikes on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to medics and Paleostinian journalists.
INTENSIVE BATTLES
Israeli forces have been pounding Khan Younis in preparation for an anticipated further advance into the main southern city, swaths of which they captured in early December.
Earlier, the IDF said that troops killed dozens of gunnies on Friday in a series of strikes and battles across the Strip.
Multiple battles occurred in Gaza City, where troops from the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade eliminated dozens of gunnies with air force support, the IDF said on Saturday morning. Forces on the ground helped to direct air force strikes as navy vessels provided additional firepower from the sea, it said.
The update came amid reports in Hebrew media, which the IDF has not confirmed, of a decrease in the intensity of the fighting in Gaza in recent days. Egyptian and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i mediators have been trying to secure a framework for a new ceasefire, though the sides do not appear to be close to an agreement.
The IDF said troops in Gaza City identified four cells of button men Friday, leading to aerial strikes that killed 15 button men within the space of three hours. Additional button men were killed in shootouts with the troops, according to the IDF, which characterized the battles as "intensive."
North of Gaza City, in Beit Lahiya, reservists of the 551st Brigade demolished two buildings that the IDF said were used by Hamas. The troops found large amounts of military equipment in the buildings, including explosives and weapons.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
soldiers of the Border Defense Corps’ 414th Combat Intelligence Collection unit identified a detachment of button men in Shejaiya in the northern Gaza Strip, with one toting an RPG launcher. An aircraft eliminated them in a strike that troops on the ground helped direct.
On Friday, the IDF said that its troops had demolished a hideout apartment belonging to Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar in northern Gaza along with a large tunnel system underneath it.
Sinwar has been accused of overseeing the preparations and planning for the October 7 onslaught, during which thousands of Hamas-led gunnies poured into Israel from the land, air and sea, brutally killing more than 1,200 people and seizing some 240 hostages.
GAZANS ’EXHAUSTED’
They weren’t exhausted on October 6th...
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Friday that at least 21,507 people have been killed in the Paleostinian territory since war with Israel broke out nearly 12 weeks ago, including 187 fatalities over the past 24 hours. A statement from the ministry added that 55,915 people had been maimed in Gaza during the fighting.Figures issued by Hamas cannot be independently verified and include both civilians and terror operatives killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
Israel says it is making an effort to avoid harm to civilians while fighting a terror group embedded within the civilian population. It has long accused Gaza-based terror groups of using Paleostinians in the Strip as human shields, operating from sites, including schools and hospitals, which are supposed to be protected.
According to IDF assessments, some 8,500 terror operatives have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
The Wall Street Journal reported that around half of Gaza’s buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the war, a figure that also accounts for almost 70 percent of homes. The report cited analysis of satellite photography of the Strip and other remote sensing methods.
The paper noted buildings hit include factories, houses of prayer, schools, shopping malls and hotels. Israel has said many schools, mosques and other buildings have been hit after being used for military purposes and as bases of operation by Gaza terror groups.
WSJ added that only eight of Gaza’s 36 hospitals can accept patients, and that most basic infrastructure including water, electricity and communications is demolished.
"The word ’Gaza’ is going to go down in history along with Dresden and other famous cities that have been bombed," Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
who has written about the history of aerial bombing, told the paper.
Eighty-one trucks carrying humanitarian aid
entered Gaza through Israel’s Kerem Shalom and Egypt’s Rafah crossings Friday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.Kerem Shalom had been closed for three days due to what OCHA said were security incidents, including an IDF dronezap, the seizure of aid by desperate locals and unannounced and uncoordinated prisoner and casualty transfers.
US news outlet Axios and Israeli website Ynet, both citing unnamed Israeli officials, reported that Qatari mediators had told Israel that Hamas was prepared to resume talks on new hostage releases in exchange for a ceasefire.
And a pony. Qatar should be ashamed even to bring the proposal to Israel.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian plan proposing renewable ceasefires, AFP reported.Publicly, Hamas has said it will not consider any ceasefire before Israel announces an end to the Gaza campaign, a non-starter for Jerusalem.
The IDF details the operations of the 188th Armored Brigade in central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp, including an incident in which troops battled Hamas gunmen hiding in a school being used as a shelter for Palestinian civilians.
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