Five people were killed in Israeli strikes throughout 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...
on Thursday, with a senior Israeli officer confirming that the Israel Defense Forces have taken over 60 percent of the Strip’s territory, in what further demonstrated the porous nature of the ceasefire with Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...Medics said an Israeli
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killed two people near the Tuffah neighborhood in the north of the enclave, while a third person was killed in Israeli tank shelling in the Zeitoun suburb in eastern Gaza City.
Another airstrike at a tent encampment for displaced people in western Gaza City killed one person and maimed several, while an attack on a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the south, killed another, medics said.
Witnesses also reported that an airstrike hit a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, causing damage to several homes nearby.
The deaths add to a toll of more than 1,100 Paleostinians killed by Israeli strikes since an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to Gazook health officials. The figure doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, but the IDF has found the Hamas health ministry figures to be generally reliable.
The army only commented on one of the Thursday killings, confirming that it carried out an airstrike in northern Gaza that killed an individual who it said was a Hamas commander who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Nihad Riyad Abd al-Rahim Arouq was a platoon commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion and recently worked to train additional
"The terrorist posed a threat to our forces operating in the Gaza Strip and was eliminated in a precise aerial strike," the IDF said.
The IDF in recent months has ramped up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, including numerous October 7 terrorists, insisting almost every time that they posed a threat to Israeli forces. But those strikes have also come with civilian casualties, including women, children and aid workers.
The IDF said earlier Thursday that its troops had destroyed four Hamas weapon depots in strikes in central Gaza overnight. It also confirmed a strike from Wednesday that killed a Paleostinian identified as Omar Ahmed Abu Qasem. The IDF called him a Hamas sniper commander who recently acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities and advance attacks, "in violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF added.
Separately on Thursday, Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth declared that Israel now controls more than 60% of the Gaza Strip’s territory, well beyond the portion of the enclave that Israel was allowed to temporarily continue holding as part of an October 2025 ceasefire deal with Hamas.
"We are standing here [near] the northern Gaza Strip, looking at everything we have achieved — and we have achieved a great deal. More than 60% of the Strip is in our hands," said Bluth during a handover ceremony on Wednesday for the commander of the 99th Division, whose forces operated in the Strip in recent years.
"There is a security zone for the communities near the Gaza border, held by two divisions and the IDF’s finest soldiers. The threat of an invasion, as occurred nearly three years ago, is no longer possible," he said.
It marked the first time that an IDF official had publicly confirmed that the military had expanded its areas of control in the Strip.
Bluth added, however, that "Hamas still controls [its portion of the Strip] and the murderous organization retains residual capabilities, and its vision of destroying Israel has not changed."
In May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he ordered the IDF to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip. At the start of the truce, the military controlled around 53% of the war-torn Paleostinian enclave, with Hamas controlling the other 47%, where nearly all of the Strip’s two million residents live.
Last month, 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...
acknowledged that Netanyahu’s directive goes against US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
the US has refrained from pushing Israel to roll back its takeover of additional Gaza territory and hasn’t commented publicly on it further.