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| IDF says terrorists near defeat in Rafah, fighting now limited to one neighborhood |
| 2025-05-11 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says some 60 terror targets across Gaza hit in past day; Hamas authorities report over 20 killed and dozens more wounded The Israeli military said Saturday that it was close to defeating all remaining Palestinian terror operatives in southern Gaza’s Rafah, with fighting now only taking place in the Janina neighborhood. Troops of the Golani Brigade have been operating in Janina in recent days. The Israel Defense Forces said the soldiers had destroyed terror infrastructures, located dozens of tunnel shafts and killed dozens of operatives. “Janina is the last area where fighting against terrorists in the Rafah Brigade is taking place,” the military said. Four IDF soldiers have been killed and several others have been wounded during fighting in the Janina area in the past week. Meanwhile, the military said that over the past day, the Israeli Air Force had struck some 60 terror targets across the Gaza Strip. Hamas authorities reported 23 killed and dozens more wounded in the previous 24 hours. In the Strip’s north, the IDF said troops of the 252nd Division killed two gunmen who approached forces; in the Morag Corridor area, the 36th Division struck a booby-trapped building where several operatives were located; and in Rafah, Gaza Division forces destroyed Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground. Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City — all members of a single family, according to relatives. The figures could not be verified and did not differentiate between civilians and fighters. “Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an [Israeli] occupation aircraft,” family member Omar Abu al-Kass told AFP. The strikes came “without warning and without [them] having done anything wrong,” Abu al-Kass alleged, saying he was the children’s maternal grandfather. Awful things happen to people in war zones. Next time don’t start a war, and things like this won’t happen. The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.On Saturday morning, the army said that nine IDF soldiers, including two senior officers, were lightly wounded by an explosive device in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood overnight. The troops of the Jerusalem Brigade were carrying out scans in Shejaiya when the blast went off. Among the wounded were the commander of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 6310th Battalion and the deputy commander of the 252nd Division. All were taken to a hospital in good condition, the army said. Sources close to Hamas said Friday that a delegation from the terror group held two meetings with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Doha this week, but they produced no breakthrough in the search for a Gaza truce. The developments come as Israel and the US look to resume aid deliveries to Gaza while preventing food, medicine and other basic items from being hoarded by Hamas, as they say the terror group has repeatedly done with past supplies. The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that US President Donald Trump expressed frustration with his promised tasks of ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in a meeting with top donors in Florida last week. Citing people who were in the room, the report said that Trump had said finding a solution in Gaza was difficult because “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.” Hamas doesn’t want to end the war, they want the world to force Israel to surrender. President Trump thought the same way the Israelis did on 10/6/2023 — now he has learnt what they did. Gazan media claims 8 killed in overnight Israeli strikes near Khan Younis Palestinian media reports claim eight have been killed, including children, in Israeli strikes overnight near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, amid escalating fighting between the IDF and the Hamas terror group in the Strip. A drone strike is also reported hours later in Khan Younis’s Al-Amal neighborhood. There is no immediate word from the IDF. IAF struck around 60 terror sites across Gaza over past day, military says [IsraelTimes] Over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck some 60 “terror targets” across the Gaza Strip, the military says. Hamas authorities reported 23 killed and dozens more wounded during the previous 24 hours. The strikes come as ground troops continue to operate in Gaza. In the Strip’s north, the IDF says troops of the 252nd Division killed two armed terror operatives who approached forces; in the Morag Corridor area, the 36th Division struck a booby-trapped building where several operatives were; and in Rafah, Gaza Division forces destroyed Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground. Israeli authorities did not allow fuel into Gaza this week, contrary to Walla report [IsraelTimes] Contrary to a report by the Walla news site, Israeli authorities did not allow 75,000 liters of fuel into the Gaza Strip this week. Walla, without citing sources, claims two tanks with 75,000 liters of fuel entered Gaza on Wednesday. The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) denies this, saying that no aid, including fuel, entered Gaza this week. There are no Palestinian reports of the fuel entering the Strip either. Israel stopped allowing aid into Gaza on March 2 after the first phase of a ceasefire and hostage release deal concluded. It is set to resume aid deliveries in the coming weeks, as part of a US-backed plan that aims to prevent food and supplies from reaching Hamas. |
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