The prime minister and IDF chief vowed Tuesday to press on with the war against Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,..., as the Israel Defense Forces called up tens of thousands of reservists for the impending conquest 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 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
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Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said the war was entering its "decisive stage," while IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told troops that the Gaza City campaign was already moving forward, that operations would be intensified and expanded, and that the IDF would not accept anything less than the complete defeat of Hamas.
"We will not stop the war until we defeat this enemy," Zamir said during a visit to central Israel’s Nachshonim base, where he spoke with newly mobilized reservists and personnel from the Technological and Logistics Directorate.
"Hamas will have no place to hide from us. Wherever we locate them, whether they are senior or junior figures — we strike them all, all the time," he said. "We have already begun the Gaza maneuver. We are already entering places we have never entered before and operating there with courage, strength, valor, and an extraordinary spirit."
Both men’s speeches came as the IDF called up tens of thousands of reservists for the offensive in Gaza City, which Netanyahu has portrayed as Hamas’s last stronghold — having last year also presented Rafah as its last bastion.
The call-up — which has reportedly seen fewer soldiers report for duty as the war nears the two-year mark — was taking place as the IDF targeted Hamas commanders, and as Hamas-run Gazook authorities reported dozens killed across the Strip, including children allegedly struck by an IDF drone at a water distribution site.
The IDF said on Tuesday that troops in the enclave had killed dozens of terror operatives in the past month who had been planning attacks against IDF forces in the Strip’s north and center.
These included Ahmad Abu Daf, who was serving as a deputy company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, and who helped lead dozens of attacks and ambushes against IDF forces, in addition to recruiting new operatives into Hamas. Another key operative killed was Taleb Sidqi Taleb Abu Atiwi, a team commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who infiltrated Israeli territory during the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre, the army said.
The military also confirmed an earlier report that it had killed a Hamas terrorist who held Israeli hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Naama Levy. All three were released during a ceasefire at the beginning of the year.
The military also said Tuesday that the Air Force had struck and destroyed buildings in Shejaiya and Zeitoun, in the Gaza City area, that were used as meeting places for 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...
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The IDF has urged civilians, aid groups and medical workers to evacuate the area as the offensive ramps up. And in a social media post on Tuesday, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee urged all of Gaza’s residents to evacuate to a humanitarian zone in the Strip’s coastal area in preparation for the expansion of fighting in the northern city. The IDF is reportedly expected to launch its major operation to take over Gaza City in mid-September.
In a post on X, Adraee said that the coastal al-Mawasi area will see improved humanitarian services, including healthcare, water, and food.
He also warned that approaching or returning to combat zones or areas where IDF forces are operating endangers the lives of civilians.
Recent reports estimate that only some 10,000 of Gaza City’s roughly one million residents and displaced Gazooks have evacuated to the south in the three weeks since Israel announced it would empty the city of its civilian population.
Netanyahu said in a video address to the reservists on Tuesday that Israel was "moving toward total victory."
"What began in Gaza must end in Gaza," he said. "Now we stand before the decisive stage. I believe in you, I trust you, and the entire nation embraces you."
Netanyahu has claimed multiple times since the October 7 attack that Israel is nearing victory in the 23-month-old war. Zamir and other officials have warned that the Gaza City offensive could endanger hostages and soldiers, and urged Israel to agree to a temporary ceasefire and deal that Hamas said it accepted last month and that would release 10 of the some 20 living hostages believed to be held by the terror group. In total, terror groups in Gaza are holding 48 hostages.
Israel has not responded to that agreement, though Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a Netanyahu confidant, reportedly told mediators that Israel has yet to rule it out.
Instead, recent cabinet meetings have focused on the Gaza City operation, which, according to a report Tuesday on the Kan public broadcaster, could cost NIS 25 billion ($7.4 billion).
Not having another 10/7: Priceless.
That price tag could necessitate cuts across other government departments, the network reported.On Tuesday, Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed at least 82 people across the Strip. In one reported strike, an IDF drone hit a water distribution point in al-Mawasi in the south, where, according to local media, at least 11 people were killed, including seven children.
The IDF said in response to an inquiry that it was not aware of the strike.
Other deaths reported on Tuesday included dozens near aid distribution sites in southern Gaza, Palestinian medics said.
That would be Hamas handiwork again.
Thirteen more Palestinians, including three children, died of malnutrition and starvation in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said on Tuesday.What high percentage of them were being treated for a disease or condition that impacted their ability to absorb nutrients? What similarly high percentage have close relatives who are completely healthy or even fat? How many of them had Israeli doctors been treating until the border was closed following 10/7? Hamas is playing propaganda games again.
That raised the reported death toll from such causes since the beginning of the war to at least 361, including 130 children, the vast majority in recent weeks.Outside Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street. Crowds wailed for slain relatives.