...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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City — striking with ''an iron fist'' to destroy Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...and force the terrorist group to free its remaining hostages.
''Gaza is burning,'' Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said after confirming troops had gone in.
''The IDF strikes with an iron fist at the terrorist infrastructure, and IDF soldiers are fighting bravely to create the conditions for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.
''We will not relent and we will not go back — until the completion of the mission.''
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also confirmed the military had launched an '' intense operation,'' with a spokesperson saying Israel ''is at a critical stage in this struggle and there are consequences.''
Two IDF divisions consisting of thousands of troops began the expanded ground operation in the embattled city overnight as the army began a ''new stage'' against Hamas, the military said, according to The Times of Israel.
A third division is expected to join in the coming days as part of Operation Gideon's Chariots, which began with intensified
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KABOOM!...
s in the area weeks ago.
Ground troops plan to push deeper into the city and encircle it to eliminate Hamas forces there.
Airstrikes battered parts of Gaza City overnight as troops began advancing into areas previously outside of Israeli control, the military said.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the head of the IDF's Arab media division, said on X that the army had started ''destroying Hamas's infrastructure in Gaza City.''
''Gaza City is considered a dangerous combat zone, and staying in the area puts you at risk,'' Adraee wrote. He urged Paleostinians to join ''the more than 40% of the city's residents'' who have already evacuated.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
told news hounds that Israelis "have begun to take operations" in Gaza City as he departed Israel for Doha on Tuesday morning — and emphasized the window was closing for a peace deal to be reached.
"We don’t have months anymore, and we probably have days and maybe a few weeks to go," Rubio said.
An Israeli army flare drifts over buildings destroyed during the Israeli ground and air operations in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
"Our preference, our number one choice, is that this ends through a negotiated settlement," he continued. "At some point, this has to end. At some point, Hamas has to be defanged, and we hope it can happen through a negotiation. But I think time, unfortunately, is running out."
Some 600,000 people remain in the decimated city, which was once home to more than 2 million, according to the Times of Israel.
The military estimates that thousands of Hamas operatives are hiding out there.
In just the past week, the Israeli Air Force struck over 850 targets and hundreds of operatives in Gaza City, the IDF said.
The IDF said Monday night it eliminated 21 senior weapons experts and field operatives from the Iranian-backed 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 organization, which participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
The IDF also eliminated five operatives with specialized knowledge of arms production, officials said.
Israeli officials believe as many as 20 living hostages are still being held by Hamas as well as the remains of 28 others some 711 days since the war began.