Israel vowed on Wednesday to respond to an incident in 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 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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’s Rafah in which a bomb went
kaboom!against an Israeli armored personnel carrier, lightly injuring an IDF officer.
The officer, who serves in the Golani Brigade, was taken to a hospital, and his family was notified, the army said.
"The Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...terror organization continues to violate the ceasefire and President Trump’s 20-point plan," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement published in English.
"Their ongoing and continuing public refusal to disarm is an ongoing flagrant violation, and again today their
It was unclear whether the bomb was recently planted in the area by terror operatives or it was an old bomb from before the ceasefire.
The incident came days before Netanyahu is set to fly to Florida to meet with US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
to discuss the next steps in the fragile Gaza ceasefire.
"Hamas must be held to the agreement that they signed on [sic], which includes removal from governance, demilitarization, and de-radicalization," concluded the PMO, adding that "Israel will respond accordingly."
The Israel Defense Forces said the Namer APC that was hit was involved in efforts to clear Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood — located on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line — of Hamas infrastructure.
Dozens of Hamas operatives are believed to have been holed up in tunnels in Jenina, though the army has reported killing or capturing many of them.
Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of violating the US-brokered ceasefire plan that halted two years of war triggered by the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The first phase of the truce stopped the fighting, but occasional deadly festivities have continued, mostly along the so-called Yellow Line that divides Hamas and Israeli-held territory.
Washington is keen to move on to the second phase, which deals with the governance of post-war Gaza and the demilitarization of Hamas. The US is struggling to find international partners to take on those tasks, while Hamas has said it will not give up its weapons.
IDF denies Hamas official’s claim that soldier was wounded by unexploded Israeli ordnance
[IsraelTimes] The IDF denies a Hamas official’s claim that the explosion in southern Gaza’s Rafah earlier today, which wounded an officer, was caused by an undetonated ordnance left behind by the Israeli military.
The army had said earlier that the blast was caused by an explosive device. The IDF was investigating whether the bomb was recently planted in the area by terror operatives or if it was an old explosive device from before the ceasefire.
Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi claimed on X that the blast was caused by an Israeli unexploded ordnance, without providing any evidence.
Military officials deny this and say that the blast was not caused by an Israeli bomb, but rather an explosive device planted there by terror operatives.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will respond, saying the explosion was a Hamas violation of the ceasefire.