...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 a rusty 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...
strip, in areas where humanitarian aid is distributed, the IDF Arabic-language spokesperson tonight released footage of an incident that occurred earlier today in which hundreds of Gazook civilians looted a humanitarian aid truck that had entered the Strip.
The masses of Gazooks stood just a few meters from the soldiers, who were on alert and ready to open fire to push them back — but the soldiers ordered one another: ''No one opens fire!''
The IDF Arabic spokesperson wrote:
''There is no famine, no deliberate killing, and no intentional harm to those seeking aid. There is only Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...propaganda, with media outlets spreading lies to salvage what's left of the defeated Hamas.''
Hamas officials say at least 73 Gazans killed, most near aid site; IDF: Toll exaggerated
[IsraelTimes] Army confirms firing ‘warning shots’ near UN aid convoy, as GHF denies involvement; Israeli strikes kill 2 commanders of Hamas-linked terror group involved in Oct. 7 hostage-taking
At least 85 Gazooks were killed Sunday in the Gazoo Strip, the vast majority of them while seeking out aid at distribution sites near Gaza City, the territory’s Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...-run health ministry said, with Israel disputing the corpse count.
The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 79 Paleostinians were allegedly rubbed out trying to reach aid that had entered through the Zikim Crossing with Israel, the ministry said.
The remaining six were killed in the southern part of the Strip, according to the ministry.
It was not immediately clear whether the victims were killed by the Israel Defense Forces or armed gangs or both. But some witnesses said that Israeli troops shot at the crowd.
Responding to the reports, the IDF said it had fired "warning shots to remove an immediate threat posed to the troops" in northern Gaza, but denied the steep corpse count, insisting that the "reported number of casualties does not align with the existing information."
The army has been implicated in near-daily shooting incidents near humanitarian aid
sites in recent months.The UN World Food Program said 25 trucks with aid had entered via Zikim for "starving communities" when the convoy encountered massive crowds.
A UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because they were not allowed to comment on the incident to the media, claimed Israeli forces opened fire toward crowds who tried to take food from the trucks. Footage taken by the UN and shared with the AP showed Paleostinian men running as automatic gunfire was heard.
"Suddenly, tanks surrounded us and trapped us as gunshots and strikes rained down. We were trapped for around two hours," said Ehab al-Zei, who had been waiting for flour and said he hadn’t eaten bread in 15 days. He spoke over the din of people carrying the dead and maimed. "I will never go back again. Let us die of hunger, it’s better."
More than 150 people were maimed Sunday, with some of them at death's door, according to hospital tolls cited by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The killings in northern Gaza did not take place near aid distribution points associated with the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which hands out food packages to Paleostinians.
Following the reports, the GHF stressed that the shooting took place near a UN aid convoy, rather than near any of their distribution hubs, which have seen hundreds of people killed in recent months by Israeli fire while trying to access the sites, according to witnesses and health workers.
"Like most
Health ministry front man Zaher al-Wahidi said Israeli gunfire also killed another six Paleostinians in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters north of a GHF hub in the southern city of Rafah. The GHF said it was not aware of any incident near its site.
Separately, seven Paleostinians were killed while sheltering in tents in Khan Younis in the south, including a 5-year-old boy, according to the Kuwait Specialized Field Hospital, which received the casualties.
FOOD RELIEF GROUP FORCED TO SCALE BACK OPERATIONS
On top of the regular shooting incidents Gazook aid-seekers have faced over the past few months, food has been spread thin in the war-torn enclave.
The World Central Kitchen organization, which works to provide fresh meals in disaster-stricken areas, said Sunday that it had depleted all supplies in its Gaza warehouses and that its aid trucks were stuck at the border.
As a result, the organization was forced to halt operations in kitchens that were serving hot meals. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
its teams in Gaza are continuing to bake bread and distribute water to residents, the group said. It added that on Saturday, it served 80,000 meals to residents of Gaza.
The entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza has been a point of conflict between Israel and aid organizations since the start of the war. Aid groups have accused Israel of obstructing deliveries, while Israel repeatedly claims the organizations fail to meet necessary conditions for safe food distribution, such as compliance with specific aid routes in the Strip.
Last week, the GHF announced that UN-affiliated organizations had not delivered food to Gaza for over a week, and that the GHF was currently the only group bringing humanitarian aid into the territory. This appeared to no longer hold true, however, given the Sunday reports of the shooting near a UN aid convoy which had entered Gaza via the Zikim Crossing.
Ambulances in front of three major hospitals in Gaza sounded their alarms simultaneously Sunday, in an urgent appeal to shed light on the hunger crisis in the territory. The Hamas-run health ministry posted pictures on social media of doctors holding paper signs about malnourished children and lack of medication.
Al-Wahidi said that at least nine children under 5 years old had died of malnutrition as of Sunday, since Israel’s complete blockade on aid entry in March, which was lifted in May after over two months.
In northern Gaza, Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya said that the hospital recorded 79 people who died of malnutrition in the past month.
Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip overnight Saturday into Sunday. Large explosions in northern Gaza were visible from Israel as plumes of fire shot into the sky.
By EMANUEL FABIAN
Two senior members of the Mujahideen Brigades were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis yesterday, the terror group announces.
The Mujahideen Brigades is a relatively small Hamas-allied terror group in the Strip. According to the IDF, the group was responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir; Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein; and Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta.
The terror group says the strike in Khan Younis killed Azmi Mohammed Qdeih, a commander responsible for the Gaza City area; and Raed al-Saqa, a commander responsible for the southern part of the Strip.
The strike also killed several members of their families, the terror group says.
The IDF has not yet commented on the strike.
The leader of the Mujahideen Brigades was killed in a strike last month, along with another senior member of the terror group. Another Mujahideen Brigades operative involved in burying the bodies of slain hostages was killed in a separate strike last month. eeèe>IDF STRIKES COMMANDERS OF HAMAS-LINKED TERROR GROUP
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
the Mujahideen Brigades announced Sunday that two of its senior members were killed the day prior in an Israeli
...
KABOOM!...
in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
The Mujahideen Brigades is a relatively small Hamas-allied terror group in the Strip. According to the IDF, the group was responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir; Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein; and Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta.
The terror group said the strike in Khan Younis killed Azmi Mohammed Qdeih, a commander responsible for the Gaza City area, and Raed al-Saqa, a commander responsible for the southern part of the Strip. It also killed several members of their families, the terror group added.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the strike.
The leader of the Mujahideen Brigades was killed in an IDF strike in June, along with another senior member of the terror group. Another Mujahideen Brigades operative involved in burying the bodies of slain hostages was killed in a separate strike, also in June.
The IDF reissued evacuation orders for all of northern Gaza and parts of Gaza City, as the military continued its offensive against Hamas in the area.
In a statement, Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, warned "all those who have returned or intend to return to the areas of Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, Shejiya, Daraj, the Old City, Tuffah, [and] Zeitoun" that those areas are "dangerous combat zones."
"The Israel Defense Forces are operating in these areas with very great force," he said.
Three IDF divisions are operating in the northern Gaza Strip area, mostly in Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Gaza City’s eastern neighborhoods.