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IDF says combat engineers destroyed 2 attack tunnels in northern Gaza
2024-05-02
[IsraelTimes] IDF combat engineers demolished two attack tunnels belonging to the Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun in recent weeks, the military says.

The IDF says the two tunnels were under "continuous intelligence and technological surveillance" since their discovery and until they were demolished.

The underground passages did not cross into Israeli territory, according to the IDF.
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Israel military strikes northern Gaza in heaviest shelling in weeks, central Gaza ditto
2024-04-24
[GEO.TV] Israel bombarded northern 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
overnight in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, causing panic amongst residents and flattening neighbourhoods in an area from which the Israeli army had previously down its troops, residents said on Tuesday.

Army tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, though they did not penetrate far into the city, residents and Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
media said. Gunfire reached some schools where displaced residents were sheltering.

Shelling was intense east of Beit Hanoun and Jabalia and continued on Tuesday morning in areas such as Zeitoun, one of Gaza City's oldest suburbs, with residents reporting at least 10 strikes in a matter of seconds along the main road.

Just west of Beit Hanoun in Beit Lahiya, medics and Hamas media said strikes had hit a mosque and a crowd gathering on the coastal road to collect aid dropped from the air. Rooters could not immediately confirm those targets.

"It was one of those nights of horror that we had lived in at the start of the war. The bombing from tanks and planes didn't stop," said Um Mohammad, 53, a mother-of-six living 700 metres from Zeitoun.

The Times of Israel puts it all in perspective:
On war’s 200th day, Israel intensifies Gaza operations; soldier killed in action

IDF Arabic spokesman warns civilians to evacuate from fighting zones in Strip’s north as army launches missions in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun

The Israel Defense Forces intensified its operations against Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
Death Eaters in the central and northern Gazoo Strip on Tuesday, as the war reached its 200th day.

Israeli strikes intensified in what residents said was some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, particularly hitting the north from where the Israeli army had previously drawn down its troops.

Strikes by air and shelling from tanks on the ground were also reported in central and southern areas, in what residents said were almost non-stop bombardments.

The IDF said Tuesday that it had targeted Hamas rocket-launching positions in the southern Gaza Strip overnight. The military said the strike was carried out following new intelligence information that was received over the past few days, allowing the rocket launchers to be destroyed before they were used.

Separately, an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
was carried out against several terror operatives hiding near a civilian shelter in central Gaza’s Bureij, the military said.

Dozens more airstrikes were carried out across Gaza over the past day, targeting buildings used by terror groups, observation posts, rocket launch sites, and other infrastructure and operatives, according to the army.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...

in a post on social media platform X, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, urged residents of four zones in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya to move to shelter in two designated areas near the town.

"You are in a dangerous combat zone," Adraee warned, adding that the IDF would operate against "terror infrastructure" and operatives in the area.

The operation in Beit Lahiya comes following recent rocket attacks from the area on Israeli border communities. Paleostinians said an air strike hit a mosque, killing a boy and injuring several others, while a medic was killed in shelling near the town stadium.

The IDF also said it launched a new pinpoint operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun just before Passover began Monday.

The raid was carried out by forces operating under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade.

Amid the operation, Sgt. First Class (res.) Salm Alkreshat, a tracker in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, was killed. Alkreshat, 43, was from the Bedouin community of Abu Rabia. His death brings the toll of slain troops in the IDF’s ground offensive against Hamas to 261.

On Tuesday morning, four rockets were fired from northern Gaza at the southern city of Sderot, with the IDF reporting that all the projectiles were downed by the Iron Dome air defense system. 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 grabbed credit for the rocket attack on Sderot.

Several hours later, two more rockets were fired at the border community of Zikim. One of the rockets was intercepted, while the second failed to cross the border, the military said.

No injuries or damage were caused in the attacks.

The renewed shelling and bombing of northern Gaza comes almost four months after the Israeli army announced it was drawing down its troops there, saying it had dismantled Hamas’s "military framework" in the area.

Also on Tuesday, the Israeli army said troops in the Nahal Brigade launched a new pinpoint operation against Hamas in the central Gaza Strip corridor, which the military said was continuing during the Passover holiday.

The IDF said the "surprise operation" that began Sunday night was aimed at "deepening the achievements" in the Netzarim corridor. The corridor, built around a road south of Gaza City, enables the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza while allowing Israel to control access to the north for Paleostinians seeking to return after fleeing south.

"The forces are carrying out targeted raids and are thwarting terror in the area," the IDF said in a statement.

Nahal troops spotted several button men amid the raid, and called in airstrikes by fighter jets against them and the buildings they were spotted operating at, according to the IDF. It added that secondary explosions seen after the strikes indicated that the buildings were used to store munitions.

The fighting in the center and northern parts of the Strip continued amid Israel’s planned offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. A recent report by The Wall Street Journal said the IDF had begun readying to evacuate Paleostinian civilians from Rafah, where more than a million are sheltering.

Israel has said Rafah, where four of Hamas’s six intact battalions are deployed, remains one of the terror group’s last major strongholds in the Strip after the IDF operated across the north and in parts of the center and south of the enclave. It also believes that many of the remaining 129 hostages kidnapped on October 7 are being held in Rafah.

On Tuesday, a front man for the military wing of Hamas, Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — called for an escalation across all fronts in a televised statement marking the 200 days of the war.

The war erupted when 3,000 Death Eaters poured across the border with Israel on October 7 in an unprecedented Hamas-led attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 253.

The ensuing Israeli offensive has killed over 33,000 people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. This figure cannot be independently verified and includes over 13,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed since the beginning of the war.
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IDF kills top Hamas intel officer in airstrike; crowds enjoy the beach in central Gaza
2024-04-19
Hattip Grom the Reflective.
[IsraelTimes] Footage of Gazooks relaxing on beach in Deir al-Balah sparks criticism in Israel that government not applying enough pressure on Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, as hostages languish; IDF finishes Beit Hanoun op

The Israel Defense Forces carried out waves of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s across the 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 Hamaswith 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip in recent days, hitting dozens of terror targets and killing a senior Hamas official, the IDF said Thursday as ground forces wrapped up a raid on the Beit Hanoun area.

The strikes came as footage emerged of thousands of Gazooks enjoying a day on the beach, sparking criticism in Israel that the government was not maintaining enough pressure on the enclave while 133 hostages languish in Hamas captivity.

The military and Shin Bet announced Thursday morning that the head of interrogations in Hamas’s internal security in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun was killed in an airstrike this week.

Yusef Shabat also served as an officer in the intelligence division of Hamas’s military wing in its Beit Hanoun Battalion, according to the IDF.

"This elimination significantly damages the organization’s investigations department," the joint statement said.

Also in Beit Hanoun, the military said it wrapped up a pinpoint operation against Hamas and 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...
, aimed at detaining members of the terror groups.

In a statement, the IDF said troops, led by the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, raided two school buildings in the town, following intelligence that Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives were gathered there and were "using the civilians sheltering there as a human shield."

Before the troops entered the buildings they called on the civilians to evacuate, the IDF said.

"The troops arrested a number of forces of Evil from the terrorist organizations in a targeted and precise manner while avoiding harming the civilian population," the statement said.

Several "forces of Evil who tried to harm the forces" were killed during the raid, the IDF added.

Also in northern Gaza, the IDF said fighter jets struck a mortar launcher in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood that was used to launch projectiles at troops operating in the Gaza Strip.

Throughout the Gaza Strip over the past two days, the military said, the air force struck dozens of targets, including rocket launchers primed for attacks on Israel.

The primed rocket launchers were destroyed in the central Gaza Strip, where the IDF was carrying out a separate operation against Hamas. According to Army Radio, the operation had concluded by Wednesday night.

During the operation on the outskirts of the Nuseirat camp, the military said troops killed numerous button men and destroyed sites used by terror groups over the past day, including by calling in airstrikes.

One airstrike was carried out against a cell that was operating an armed drone, according to the IDF.

The army also said that troops of the Nahal Brigade used a drone to kill a gunman and killed another with sniper fire.

Other targets hit by the IAF in the past day included underground rocket launch positions, booby-trapped buildings, structures where operatives were gathered, observation posts, underground sites, and other infrastructure, the IDF added.

In another incident, the IDF said it carried out an airstrike on a vehicle with at least 10 button men in it, killing them. It said the strike followed "accurate intelligence" on the operatives.

The IDF launched its offensive in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, which saw the terror group infiltrate Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and kidnapping 253.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 33,000 people in the Strip have been killed in the fighting so far, a figure that cannot be independently verified and includes some 13,000 Hamas button men Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 forces of Evil inside Israel on October 7.

Two hundred and sixty IDF soldiers have been killed in the offensive.

According to humanitarian organizations and the UN, the war has caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, pushing the population close to famine.

DEIR AL-BALAH BEACH SCENES
Notably, video and images that surfaced Wednesday showed masses of Paleostinians in central Gaza frolicking at the beach, providing a jarring counterpoint to the scenes of fighting, rubble and death that have come out of the Strip since war erupted over six months ago.

The scenes were filmed in Deir al-Balah, an area that the IDF has not yet operated in on the ground amid the war. It is some 10 kilometers south of an east-west corridor that is the only part of Gaza still actively occupied by Israeli troops.

Online, some Israel advocates latched onto the footage as evidence that claims of famine or genocide are overblown. Others used it to criticize the government.

Lawmaker Ze’ev Elkin of the New Hope Party, which recently left the coalition, wrote on X: "If this is how you run a war, it’s no wonder Hamas doesn’t feel pressured and is unwilling to agree to a hostage deal and Iran
...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Sturmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Fuhrer or maybe both...
attacks Israel with hundreds of missiles."

Temperatures in the area soared to 36°C (96°F) on Wednesday, according to nearby Israeli meteorological readings.
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IDF jets strike 30 terror targets, Hamas rocket launchers and infrastructure in Gaza Strip
2024-04-13
[JPost] IDF troops destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility, and seized additional military equipment belonging to the terrorist organization.

As IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip continued precise operations against entrenched targets, the military announced on Saturday that it had destroyed launchers containing ready-to-launch rockets aimed at central Israel.

Following sirens yesterday in the Sderot area, three launches crossed over from the Gaza Strip, which the IDF Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted. IDF artillery responded by striking the area from which the launch was carried out.

Additionally, IDF fighter jets struck and destroyed three launchers containing 20 rockets that were ready to fire toward central Israel, the military reported.

IDF ELIMINATES HAMAS INFRASTRUCTURE
IDF troops also destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility, and seized additional military equipment belonging to the terrorist organization.

Simultaneously, during operations in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, IDF troops used a drone to locate several armed terrorists operating in the area. An Israeli aircraft subsequently struck the terrorists, eliminating them.

The IDF also noted that, in a series of precise strikes, Israeli fighter jets struck over 30 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorist infrastructure, military compounds, and anti-tank missile launchers.
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IDF: Soldier killed amid raid at Gaza’s Shifa hospital; 480 of 800 nabbed there confirmed Hamas/PIJ jihadis
2024-03-25
[IsraelTimes] Military announces death of Sgt. First Class Lior Raviv, 21, says more than half of those detained so far at medical center confirmed as members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad

The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday the death of a soldier killed during an ongoing raid against Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
at 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
City’s Shifa Hospital, where the military said it has so far identified and detained hundreds of confirmed terror group members hiding within the medical facility.

Sgt. First Class Lior Raviv was killed Saturday during the operation targeting Hamas Lions of Islam at Shifa, the IDF said. Raviv, 21, of Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, was from the central city of Rishon Lezion.

Raviv is the 252nd IDF soldier to be killed during the ground operation in Gaza since the start of the war October 7, and the third in the renewed operation at Shifa. He is survived by his parents and three siblings.

Shirli said that Raviv had been selected to command a group of recruits still in training, but when the war broke out he was called to the front lines. He was slated to be buried on Sunday afternoon at the Rishon Lezion military cemetery.

The IDF’s nearly weeklong operation at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital is ongoing, with the military saying that among some 800 suspects detained by troops so far, 480 of them have been confirmed to be members of the Hamas or 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 groups.

Troops also located infrastructure and caches of weapons belonging to terror groups over the past day, the IDF said.

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of embedding itself among the civilian population in Gaza, including using hospitals and medical centers as part of its military operations. The IDF has provided evidence it says backs up the claims and that would make Israeli raids on hospitals legitimate under international law.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck some 65 targets in northern and central Gaza over the previous day, which the IDF said was part of support for maneuvering ground forces. The targets, according to the IDF update on operations in Gaza, included an attack tunnel, buildings used by Hamas where terror operatives were gathered, and other infrastructure.

A strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis targeted a site used as a staging ground where several operatives were gathered, the IDF said, while a building in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, which was a threat to troops, was targeted by another aircraft.

In central Gaza, the IDF said troops of the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men over the past 24 hours, including with sniper fire.

Nahal troops also raided a drone manufacturing lab in central Gaza, where the IDF said soldiers killed several button men.

In southern Gaza, the 7th Armored Brigade killed several button men with sniper fire, combat engineers destroyed a rocket launcher, and an aircraft struck infrastructure belonging to a terror group.

The IDF and Shin Bet security agency said the military also launched a new offensive against Hamas in the al-Amal neighborhood of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis overnight. The raid, led by the 98th Division, is aimed at "continuing dismantling the terror infrastructure and eliminating Lions of Islam in the area," the IDF said.

As the operation began, Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against some 40 Hamas targets in the area, including buildings used by the terror group, tunnels, and additional infrastructure. The division’s Commando Brigade, Givati Infantry Brigade, and 7th Armored Brigade then encircled al-Amal, where they are currently battling Hamas button men.

The IDF previously operated in the al-Amal area last month.

The military also provided updates on its ongoing operation against Hamas in southern Gaza’s al-Qarara, close to Khan Younis, where troops have targeted sites belonging to the terror group near the border with Israel. The IDF said troops located and destroyed caches of weapons and several sites belonging to Hamas, killed numerous button men with tank shelling, and "neutralized the threat adjacent to the [border] fence."

During the raid, a Hamas weapons depot with a tunnel shaft beneath it was targeted in a helicopter strike.

Ahead of the operation, the IDF said the Air Force struck several sites and Hamas operatives who were gathered at hideout apartments and near troops in the al-Qarara area.

The Hamas-run health ministry said Sunday that at least 32,226 Paleostinians have been killed and 74,518 have been maimed in Gaza since October 7, an unverified figure which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel says said it has killed more than 13,000 Hamas members in Gaza fighting.
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Reservist killed as troops push through Khan Younis complex amid fading truce hopes
2024-03-11
[IsraelTimes] Michael Gal, 29, slain in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
as military continues to search through Hamad Town apartments; war cabinet meets as Ramadan set to start with hostage talks deadlocked

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday the death of a soldier killed battling Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in Gaza, as fighting showed no signs of waning amid deadlocked truce talks on the eve of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, while several countries continue efforts to send more aid to the besieged Strip amid widespread hunger.

Sgt. First Class (res.) Michael Gal, 29, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 450th Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed fighting in southern Gaza on Sunday, the IDF said, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 249.

Gal was slated to be buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Sunday evening, a few hours after the funeral at the same site of Maj. (res.) Amishar Ben David, 43, who was killed on Friday while fighting in the Strip.

Among those at Ben David’s funeral was his cousin, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

"You grew up and you sang the song of your life, a song of kindness and generosity," Ben David’s father, Haim, said at his funeral on Sunday, making a reference to his name, which is Hebrew for "my nation sings."

The military said Sunday morning that the Hamas operative who was responsible for killing Ben David was killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
. The IDF released footage of the strike, which it said was directed by troops of the Egoz commando unit.

The strike came as the IDF’s Commando Brigade continued to focus on the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, where troops have been fighting since March 3.

The IDF said Sunday morning that its troops were engaged in "intense fighting" against Hamas button men in the complex of modern apartment buildings. The project was largely funded by 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...
and opened in 2016, with many apartments going to those whose homes were destroyed in previous wars between Israel and Hamas.

The IDF said the Maglan commando unit raided several apartments used by Hamas, and captured seized weapons. At one of the apartments, two Hamas operatives surrendered to the troops, the IDF said.

Later Sunday, the IDF said that an attack helicopter struck a Hamas site in the complex that was used by turbans who participated in the October 7 onslaught, killing four operatives.

The IDF said troops of the Givati Brigade also captured a cache of weapons at a Hamas hideout apartment in the area. The soldiers seized mortars, bombs, assault rifles and ammunition, the military said.

Givati troops are operating in the eastern part of Hamad, where the IDF said Hamas uses the high-rise towers for terror activity.

Also in Khan Younis, the IDF said the Bislamach Brigade killed 17 button men, and the 7th Armored Brigade killed several more operatives, including by calling in airstrikes.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy...
in central Gaza, the Nahal Brigade killed 13 button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes and tank shelling, the IDF said.

Airstrikes were also carried out against a site from which rockets were fired at troops inside Gaza, as well as Hamas infrastructure in Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Strip, the IDF added.

TRUCE HOPES DISSIPATE AS RAMADAN BEGINS
As the fighting continued to rage, Israel’s war cabinet was meeting Sunday night to discuss how to deal with temporary truce talks that appear to be stuck, Channel 12 news reported, a day after the Mossad intelligence service said that efforts to secure a deal were ongoing, but accused Hamas of refusing to negotiate in good faith.

“At this stage, Hamas is fortifying its position as if it is not interested in a deal, and it strives to ignite the region during Ramadan at the expense of the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip,” the Mossad said in a rare message Saturday night.

Hamas has accused Israel of refusing to budge in its demands and not actually being interested in a deal.

Citing two Egyptian security sources, Reuters reported Sunday evening that Egypt has been in contact with senior Hamas and Israeli figures as well as other mediators in an effort to restart negotiations, which ended in Cairo last week without a breakthrough.

Mediators have been scrambling to get a deal for a truce and to release hostages in place by the start of Ramadan, which begins Monday morning. War cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened that Israel would expand fighting into the southern city of Rafah, where over a million displaced Gazans are sheltering, if no deal was reached by the Ramadan deadline.
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IDF: In first Gaza operation, ultra-Orthodox troops destroy launch sites, kill Hamas gunmen
2024-03-10
Over the past week, the IDF says the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion carried out an operation in northern 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Beit Hanoun.

The battalion, made up of ultra-Orthodox and religious troops, was placed under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade for the operation.

It is the first time the unit, normally deployed to the West Bank, is operating in Gaza.

According to the IDF, the soldiers located and destroyed Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
anti-tank missile launching positions, observation posts, and tunnel shafts, and killed several button men in Beit Hanoun.

In December, the IDF said it had completed dismantling Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, but was continuing to battle smaller cells in the area.
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IDF soldier killed, 13 wounded in battles with Hamas in southern Gaza
2024-03-07
[IsraelTimes] Death of canine unit’s David Sasson raises IDF toll to 247; head of central Gazoo rocket unit killed in strike, Oct. 7 massacre participants also hit; 250 Hamas, PIJ members nabbed

An Israeli soldier was killed and another 13 were maimed on Wednesday during fighting in the 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
since late October to 247.

The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. David Sasson, 21, of the Oketz canine unit, from Ganot Hadar. Among the 12 maimed in the same battle against Hamas operatives, five sustained serious injuries, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The troops, of the Oketz unit and Commando Brigade, had raided a multi-story building in the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, when several Hamas operatives ambushed them. The soldiers were hit by gunfire, RPGs, and an bomb, according to an IDF probe. Several of the Hamas button men were killed by the troops and in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the area.

The IDF said that troops have captured hundreds of Hamas and 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...
operatives during its ongoing raid on Hamad Town. It said the high-rise towers in the 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-funded neighborhood were used by Hamas.

So far, the IDF said some 250 Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operatives have been captured, some of whom participated in the October 7 assault and are members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force.

The IDF said the interrogations of the operatives provided helpful information for its continued operations in Gaza.

The military said the Commando Brigade’s Maglan and Egoz units, along with the Navy’s Shayetet 13 and Shin Bet agents, have been carrying out building-to-building searches in Hamad.

The commandos captured "many" operatives who surrendered to them in the neighborhood, including a Hamas sniper squad commander and two other commanders, the IDF said.

Troops also seized firearms, explosives, and military equipment, including scuba gear, in the buildings, according to the military.

At the same time, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade was encircling the Hamad area, and — with the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — were capturing terror operatives trying to flee with evacuating civilians.

Elsewhere in Khan Younis, the IDF said the Bislamach Brigade ambushed and killed a five-person Hamas cell.

In a separate incident on Wednesday, another soldier of the Commando Brigade was seriously maimed during fighting in southern Gaza.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
in central Gaza, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that the commander of Hamas’s rocket unit in the area was eliminated in an airstrike on Wednesday.

Amar Atiya Darwish Aladini was responsible for Hamas’s rocket fire from the so-called central camps over the past several decades, at least from the 2008 war, a joint statement said. The IDF and Shin Bet said Aladini "played a central role in the preparations" for the terror group’s October 7 onslaught, and directed rocket fire on Israeli cities and IDF troops in Gaza in the shock attack.

Also in central Gaza, the army said Nahal Brigade soldiers killed some 20 Hamas button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes.

One airstrike was carried out against a site from which operatives fired rockets at troops inside Gaza. The IDF said secondary explosions after the strike indicated that additional rockets were stored there.

The IDF said Wednesday it also carried out strikes on several Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad targets in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya over the past day, in response to earlier rocket fire on Sderot. The targets included hideout apartments where terror operatives were gathered and weapons were stored, other weapon depots, rocket launchers, and tunnels, the military said.

Also in northern Gaza, in the city of Beit Hanoun, the IDF said earlier Wednesday that a fighter jet struck a building where two Hamas operatives were seen fleeing, and published footage of the attack.

A number of Hamas officers and snuffies who participated in the October 7 massacre were also killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, the IDF said Wednesday without specifying the locations of the attacks. These included two platoon commanders and a squad commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, according to the announcement, and two snuffies who participated in the massacre in Nir Yitzhak on October 7.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Wednesday that the corpse count in the Gaza Strip has climbed to 30,717 since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led snuffies launched a murderous rampage across southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages. Hamas’s figures cannot be verified, do not differentiate between combatants and civilians, and include some 13,000 Hamas snuffies Israel says it has killed in battle since October.

Israel also says it killed some 1,000 button men inside Israel on October 7.
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Israel destroys largest Hamas tunnel found yet, nabs gunmen hiding among civilians
2024-03-06
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it had completed destroying and sealing the largest Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
attack tunnel found in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, which the military initially revealed in December during its offensive against the Paleostinian terror group.

In recent weeks, the IDF said, it worked to complete its investigation of the tunnel and then destroy it. The large passage was part of Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under Gaza, which the IDF has been working to uncover during the ongoing war that began with the terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.

Parts of the tunnel were blown up by combat engineers, with the IDF and Defense Ministry later pumping concrete into the remaining underground passages.

The tunnel, of which around four kilometers (2.5 miles) were uncovered by the IDF, goes down some 50 meters (165 feet) underground in some areas and appeared to have been wide enough for vehicles to pass through. It did not enter Israeli territory, but officials described it as designed for use in attacks rather than as a defensive position or for use in transporting officials.

One of the shafts was found just 400 meters (a quarter mile) from the Erez Crossing, which until Hamas’s October 7 onslaught facilitated the movement of Paleostinian civilians into Israel for work and medical care.

The IDF said the tunnel project was led by Muhammad Sinwar, the commander of Hamas’s southern brigade, and brother of Hamas’s Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar.

In its December announcement, the military released footage obtained from the Gaza Strip showing Muhammad Sinwar in a car driving through the tunnel.

The destruction of the tunnel came as the IDF continued to battle against Hamas fighters amid a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.3 million Paleostinians in Gaza caught up in the war, with the World Health Organization saying malnutrition in northern Gaza is "particularly extreme."

The IDF said its 98th Division, operating at the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, captured dozens of terror operatives over the past day.

The division’s Commando Brigade had been raiding Hamas sites in the neighborhood, where troops seized a large amount of weapons.

The military said in a statement that over the past day, troops facilitated the evacuation of civilians from the area, during which the soldiers nabbed dozens of Hamas and 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 operatives who tried to flee with the civilians. The IDF has in the past reported similar incidents of Hamas fighters concealing themselves among fleeing civilians, underlining Israel’s accusations that the terror group embeds within the civilian population, using them as human shields, and increasing the casualties among non-combatants.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Infantry Brigade killed some 20 button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in tank shelling and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
In northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the IDF said troops called in an airstrike against a Hamas cell operating a drone against soldiers.

Across Gaza, the Israeli Air Force carried out strikes against more than 50 Hamas targets over the past day, the statement said. The targets included rocket launching positions, weapon depots, tunnel shafts, and other infrastructure.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 97 people in the Strip were killed over the past day, raising the toll since the war started to 30,631 Paleostinians. It said that a further 72,043 have been injured. The numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. They are thought to include those killed by errant Paleostinian fire within the Strip.
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Palestinians express disappointment over ICJ's ruling
2024-01-28
[GEO.TV] Paleostinians expressed their disappointment over the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling which ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, Al Jazeera reported.

"The international court was supposed to at least demand an immediate ceasefire, but unfortunately it didn’t," said Ahmad al-Zinaty.

"We’re really disappointed because it’s like saying this aggression can continue. It’s a pity."

Seham al-Emawi, a displaced person from Beit Hanoun, also said the court’s decision was not what people expected.

"Most of the displaced people are civilians, including children. We hoped that the decision would reflect that we’re human beings. Human beings being exposed to ethnic cleansing — and we should be treated as such," she said.

"We thought the court would at least demand a ceasefire."
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IDF solidifies hold in northern Gaza as Israel allows expanded aid into Strip
2023-12-19
[IsraelTimes] Two more soldiers killed in fighting, bringing ground op corpse count to 129; military says forces are in control of Beit Hanoun, notching up achievements in Shejaiya

IDF troops continued their intense battles against Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in the heart of 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
on Monday, as Israel allowed the expansion of the amount and types of humanitarian aid entering the Strip.

The military said it had taken full control of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, arresting Hamas button men as its forces advanced in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

Two IDF soldiers were killed Monday fighting in Gaza, the military announced, bringing the toll of troops slain during its ground offensive against Hamas to 129.

The soldiers were named as Cpt. Yarin Gahali, 22, a platoon commander in the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Rehovot; and Cpt. (res.) Netanel Silberg, 33, a team commander in the Combat Engineering Corps’ Yahalom unit, from Na’ama.

Gahali was killed in southern Gaza, while Silberg was killed in the Strip’s north.

Earlier Monday, the IDF announced the deaths of five other soldiers.

The military said Monday that troops in its 252nd Reserve Division had completed operations against Hamas in the Beit Hanoun area of northern Gaza, and handed over responsibility of the region to the Gaza Division, indicating the military has firm control of that sector.

Soldiers eliminated "many terrorists" during the operation in the city, destroyed their weapons depots, rocket launchers, underground command centers, and "significant" tunnels," the IDF said, capturing all of the Beit Hanoun battalion’s main compounds and strongholds.

Soldiers also uncovered the Beit Hanoun battalion’s main tunnel in the area, which according to the IDF was located deep within civilian infrastructure, between the Beit Hanoun city hall, a mosque, a soccer court, and a daycare center.

Also Monday, the IDF announced that it had arrested a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces and another terrorist who participated in the October 7 massacre in Israel, at a school in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood.

The pair, along with several other Hamas members, were captured during a raid on the school on Friday, during which troops of the 401st Armored Brigade killed "many" more operatives, according to the IDF. Those who were caught by the soldiers were questioned by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504.

As intense fighting continued in both north and south Gaza, Israel has moved to boost humanitarian aid convoys into the Strip and also allow in commercial goods, the White House said Monday. Israel has downplayed such moves at home, where they are seen as largely unpopular, while seeming to acquiesce to pressure from the US and other countries to do so.

The IDF said Monday that it had killed some 600 Hamas operatives in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City in the past two weeks, as troops in its Golani Infantry Brigade engaged in "intense fighting" with the Hamas battalion based there.

The Golani troops have also located and destroyed more than 10 tunnel shafts in the neighborhood, the IDF said, and seized weapons and intelligence materials found in the homes of Hamas operatives and located and destroyed dozens of rocket launchers.

The commander of the Golani Brigade, Col. Yair Palai, said his forces "will do everything so that the residents of the [Israeli border communities] and the south can return to their homes, and so that Hamas does not rule Gaza anymore."

"This neighborhood was and still is an established stronghold of the Hamas terror organization, and this is a problem that needs to be uprooted," he added.

Also Monday, troops of Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion captured Paleostine Square in Shejaiya, and destroyed a Hamas monument there commemorating a deadly attack on an armored personnel carrier during the 2014 Gaza War.

"We are here, the 13th Battalion, at the place where the terrorist organization Hamas erected a statue glorifying the disaster that happened to the battalion in [Operation] Protective Edge. We are sending a clear message to Hamas: Wherever such a statue is erected, we will come and destroy it," said the new commander of the 13th Battalion, Lt. Col. Yuval Mazuz, in remarks provided by the IDF.

Mazuz replaced Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, who was killed in action last week.

In the 2014 war, seven Golani soldiers were killed when their APC was hit in fighting in Shejaiya. The remains of one of the seven, Sgt. Oron Shaul, were captured by Hamas and are still in its possession.

After the deadly incident, Hamas erected a monument of a large fist punching through an APC, holding three dog-tags, one of which has the name of Shaul.

The IDF said Golani’s 13th Battalion and troops of the 188th Armored Brigade captured the square — from which Hamas also paraded released hostages several weeks ago — and destroyed the monument.

On the home front, Israel worked toward returning life to normal, as Hamas rocket fire from the Strip has decreased dramatically in recent weeks. On Monday, the IDF Home Front Command announced that the southern coastal city of Ashkelon — which was heavily battered by rockets in the first months of the war — and the surrounding Lachish area can resume in-person schooling, work, and other activities.

Despite growing international pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza, government and military officials have repeatedly stated that they intend to continue fighting until the operation’s goals are achieved, namely the elimination of Hamas and the return of all the hostages.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday in comments to Austin that Israel is committed to "achieve total victory against Hamas."
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IDF attacked from UN school in Gaza; 5 soldiers, hostage Sahar Baruch killed
2023-12-10
[IsraelTimes] Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
again fires rockets at Israel from within the humanitarian zone, some target Tel Aviv, others fall short in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
; IDF toll in ground op at 97


Israeli forces fought a string of battles with Hamas bandidos forces of Evil in northern Gaza on Saturday as they pressed ahead with the ground offensive, with troops being attacked in at least two instances from within schools, the military said.

Another 12 soldiers from several units were seriously maimed in fighting over the weekend.

On Friday, the IDF announced that two soldiers were seriously maimed in a failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
to rescue further hostages.

Following the breakdown of the truce, the IDF resumed its ground offensive in Gaza aimed at destroying Hamas and securing the return of all the hostages. Troops have continued to tighten their hold on northern Gaza cities, but also pushed into Khan Younis in southern Gaza with recent days seeing some of the heaviest fighting of the war.

Amid the continued fighting, Kibbutz Be’eri announced that its resident Sahar Baruch, who was kidnapped and taken hostage in Gaza on October 7, had been murdered while in captivity.

The statement did not detail how and when the 25-year-old died, but it came a day after Hamas released a propaganda video purporting to show his body.

"We demand the return of his body as part of any hostage deal. We won’t stop until everyone is home," said a statement from the kibbutz, one of the worst-hit of the many communities targeted in the October 7 assault on southern Israel, when bandidos forces of Evil stormed across the border, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians in their homes and at a music festival, and taking some 240 hostages.

It is believed that 138 hostages remain in Gaza, although in recent days the IDF has confirmed the deaths of 18 of the hostages held by Hamas, due to new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.

A further 105 civilian hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza during a weeklong truce: 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and one Filipino. In exchange, Israel released 240 Paleostinian security prisoners, all women and minors. Earlier, four hostages were released, one hostage was rescued, and two bodies were recovered.

The IDF also said that Hamas has continued to fire rockets from a "humanitarian zone" established in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area. It said that yesterday at 6 p.m. "Hamas bandidos forces of Evil launched numerous rockets into Israel from the designated humanitarian zone."

That rocket fire targeted Tel Aviv.

Another four rockets were fired from the al-Mawasi area at 1:56 p.m. and 2:16 p.m., but "landed in the Gaza Strip and endangered many citizens in Gaza," the IDF said. "This is further proof that Hamas exploits the IDF’s humanitarian zone for terrorist activity."

The IDF published an illustrative graphic showing the locations of the rocket launches from al-Mawasi, as well as an image showing a rocket launcher.

The humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi is an area designated by the IDF as safe for civilians within the Gaza Strip.

The army also said it carried out a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s across the Strip against Hamas targets.

Residents reported airstrikes and shelling in Gaza’s north and south Saturday, including the city of Rafah, which lies near the Egyptian border.

The overall Paleostinian corpse count in Gaza has surpassed 17,400, the majority of them women and kiddies, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory, whose counts do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, nor between those killed by IDF action and those killed by the hundreds of rockets fired at Israel that have fallen short inside Gaza. Israel has said that it believes it has killed at least 7,000 bandidos forces of Evil so far.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for civilian casualties, accusing the bandidos forces of Evil of using civilians as human shields, and says it’s made considerable efforts with its evacuation orders to get civilians out of harm’s way.

SOUTHERN GAZA ASSAULT
In the south, the IDF said its 98th Division continued to battle Hamas in Khan Younis, with the Air Force carrying out strikes on the terror group’s sites. According to the IDF, troops of the Golani Infantry Brigade’s 12th Battalion raided a mosque in the Khan Younis area where Hamas operatives were. It said a bomb exploded near the forces, and the troops directed an attack helicopter to strike Hamas operatives on the roof of the mosque, a number of others who came out of a tunnel, and more button men who were spotted in the area.

Later, an IAF fighter jet destroyed the mosque along with the tunnel infrastructure under it, the IDF said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth...
the elite Maglan unit identified three Hamas operatives coming out of a tunnel shaft in central Khan Younis and firing RPGs at the troops, the IDF said. Troops returned fire, killing the button men.

The Maglan troops also dirvected dronezaps on additional Hamas operatives and tunnel shafts in the area, according to the IDF.

The IDF said the elite Duvdevan unit located a Hamas command room being used by operatives to ambush the troops. The soldiers carried out an assault on the building, along with an IAF fighter jet carrying out strikes on another Hamas cell in the area.

Troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade killed a number of Hamas operatives and located numerous tunnel shafts in southern Gaza. The army said the forces destroyed Hamas infrastructure and directed airstrikes on hideouts used by operatives.

The military announced the deaths of five soldiers, four of whom were killed in the fighting in the south: Master Sgt. (res.) Liav Atiya, 25, of the 55th Brigade’s 6623rd Battalion, from Beersheba; Master Sgt. (res.) Omri Ben Shachar, 25, of the 55th Brigade’s 6623rd Battalion, from Givatayim; Staff Sgt. Jonathan Dean Jr Haim, 25, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 603rd Battalion, from Ramat Gan; and Sgt. Maor Cohen Eisenkot, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, from Eilat.

The fifth soldier was Staff Sgt. Haim Meir Edan, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, from Rehovot. Edan was maimed on October 7 and succumbed to his wound Saturday.

The army also published video of what it said showed Hamas bandidos forces of Evil apparently taking supplies from Gazook civilians in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood. The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson said the Hamas operatives took the supplies and loaded them onto their vehicle, beat the civilians, and then drove to a location known to be linked to the terror group.

NORTHERN GAZA OPERATION
Footage released by the IDF Saturday afternoon showed troops of Nahal Infantry Brigade’s 931st Battalion battling Hamas operatives in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya. The army said forces received intelligence of Hamas members and weaponry in nearby buildings and led an assault on them.

"The bandidos forces of Evil prepared an ambush in the area and were prepared to attack our forces when they would have moved through the main road. The forces arrived through one of the alleys, behind the enemy, surprised them and fired at the terrorists," the IDF said.

The 931st Battalion encountered and killed other Hamas operatives during battles in Jabaliya over the past day, the IDF said. Several more button men were killed in airstrikes and tank shelling.

Another video released by the IDF showed troops of the Combat Engineering Corps’ elite Yahalom unit battling Hamas operatives at a home in Jabaliya.

The IDF said Yahalom forces received intelligence of Hamas operatives in the area who were planning to attack the troops. It said the forces set out to attack the Hamas sites, and identified suspicious movement in one of the buildings.

The video showed the troops opening fire and hurling grenades into the building. The forces then entered the home and killed two Hamas button men.

Overnight the military said there had again been fierce festivities in the north, with the fighting showing how deeply entrenched the bandidos forces of Evil are inside the civilian fabric of Gaza.

At least two of the festivities took place inside a mosque and schools, including one run by the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
The IDF said Saturday that troops of the Kfir Infantry Brigade encountered a Hamas cell in a school in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood. The troops killed the button men and later found weapons and military equipment inside the classrooms.

Troops of the Armored Corps operating with the Paratroopers Brigade found and destroyed a tunnel shaft in Shejaiya, which the IDF says was part of a "wide" tunnel network. Another tunnel shaft in the area had an elevator, according to the IDF.

The IDF said troops of the Golani Brigade identified a number of Hamas operatives with anti-tank missiles approaching them in Shejaiya.

The soldiers called in an airstrike, and a combat helicopter killed the operatives, the IDF said.

In Beit Hanoun, the IDF said the 5th Reserve Infantry Brigade came under fire by Hamas operatives shooting from a mosque and a UNRWA school.

The army also released footage showing soldiers finding a sniper rifle and ammunition hidden inside a large teddy bear during searches of a school in the Gaza Strip.

In another nearby school, the IDF said the troops found weapons hidden inside bags bearing the UNRWA logo.

Troops this week also captured the Gaza Strip’s "Paleostine Square," where Hamas had paraded some Israeli hostages during their release amid a ceasefire late last month.

The IDF has taken several media outlets to the area in recent days, with new footage coming out this evening showing an Israeli flag waving at the center of the square. Another clip published online Friday showed troops lighting Hanukkah candles at the square with a giant menorah.
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