The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday that all six of the button men identified during a clash in western Rafah on Tuesday were killed during the exchange of fire.
In a statement, the military said troops from the 7th Armored Brigade had eliminated the six suspects. Searches were carried out in the area and various weapons were found on their bodies.
The incident unfolded 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
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disproportionate response...
Strip after troops identified six armed individuals near their positions. Tanks moved in and opened fire, prompting the button men to return fire and triggering a firefight along with Israeli
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In the immediate aftermath of the clash, the IDF confirmed that it had killed at least two of the armed suspects and said it was searching the area for the remaining button men.
The military reiterated its comments from Tuesday in the Wednesday statement, saying that the incident constituted a "serious violation" of the October ceasefire agreement, and said it would continue to act against any of the attempts by terror groups in Gaza to attack Israeli forces or civilians.
The IDF published footage of Tuesday’s clash, in which button men could be seen firing at IDF tanks, with troops returning fire.
The military also published photos of the weapons that were found on the suspects’ bodies after the clash.
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 publicly launched on Wednesday. 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, be 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 made 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."
Last week, multiple sources had told The Times of Israel that US President Donald Trump
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was aiming to begin the second phase of the ceasefire, even as Gvili remains held in Gaza. Trump is set to announce the Board of Peace, which will supervise Gaza’s on-the-ground government. Trump’s move comes as other key pieces of the ceasefire have yet to occur, such as Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...’s disarmament, which the terror group has rejected, and the opening of the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
UN says at least 100 children killed in Gaza since ceasefire
Are they Under18 children, U21, or U40? And what percent is that out of the total killed? If consistent with the rest of the war since the Gazans came over the wall on 10/7/2023, it’ll be remarkably small compared to normal war ratios.
[IsraelTimes] At least 100 children have been killed in airstrikes and violence in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire three months ago, the United Nations asserts.“More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire of early October. That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency UNICEF, tells reporters in Geneva from Gaza City.
He says the children had been killed in “airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones… tank shelling… live ammunition.”
There is no immediate response from the Israeli military. Israel has said it carries out attacks on gunmen who approach and pose a threat to Israeli forces along the ceasefire line, as well as on terror targets in response to attacks on troops stationed in the enclave.
Older teens who are still minors have been known to enlist as gunmen in terror groups, and it is difficult to know whether the numbers cited by UNICEF were all civilians.