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IDF kills 2 gunmen in Rafah firefight, search for additional suspects

2026-01-14

[IsraelTimes] Senior government official says Islamic Jihad knows where last slain hostage Ran Gvili is located

The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that forces had killed at least two armed suspects in western Rafah, located on the Israeli-controlled side of the Yellow Line in the 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The clash started after soldiers identified six armed individuals close to troops deployed in the area.

According to the military, tanks deployed to the scene and opened fire, prompting the button men to return fire at one of the tanks, and triggering a firefight that also included ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the area.

So far, two of the suspects have been killed, the IDF said, adding that forces are continuing to search the area for the remaining button men and that the incident is still ongoing.

The military said the incident constitutes a blatant violation of the October ceasefire agreement.

Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored truce in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, but both sides have alleged frequent ceasefire violations.

Three IDF soldiers have been killed during the same period.

The flare-up in violence came even as Israel and other countries prepared for the onset of the Gaza ceasefire’s second phase, which the US is set to launch in the coming days.

Phase two is meant to establish longer-term governance and security frameworks for the enclave. But Israel is insisting that Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the final deceased hostage held in Gaza, is returned before the deal advances and on Tuesday reiterated that it rejects claims by the Gaza terror groups that they can’t locate his body.

Israel is "working every day, all day and night," to return Gvili’s body to Israel, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

"The efforts are being done through the negotiating team, and contacts with the mediators, also through connections with the Americans, as well as intelligence actions," the official said.

"There are those in the 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...
who know where Ran Gvili is," the official continued, referring to the last slain hostage held in Gaza.

"We are not going to give up on this. Information we have given to the mediators multiple times, including recently, must be translated into effective actions to bring him back," said the official. "That message has been communicated."

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