An IDF reservist soldier was killed during fighting 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip Monday, the military announced Tuesday, the second death within hours as the army presses ahead with a new offensive in the coastal territory.
The announcement came as local media reported that 18 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza and terror group Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...said that nearly 20 people died of starvation over the previous two days. Neither of the figures could be immediately verified.
The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Vladimir Loza, 36, of the 5th Brigade’s 7020th Battalion, from Ashkelon. According to a preliminary IDF probe, Loza was killed when a blast caused a building to collapse during operations in the Rafah area. The military suspects the blast was caused by an bomb planted by Gazook fighters.
Loza’s death raised to 456 the toll of Israeli forces killed fighting inside Gaza since the war started with the devastating October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel. Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Amit Cohen, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, also died Monday in Gaza.
According to reports in Paleostinian media, 16 people were killed in an Israeli
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KABOOM!...
Tuesday morning in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.
Two additional fatalities and several injuries were also reported in a separate strike in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, as the military expanded ground operations to the city.
Most of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during 21 months of conflict, and the al-Shati camp, on the Mediterranean coast, hosts thousands of people displaced from the north in tents and makeshift shelters.
Raed Bakr, 30, lives in the camp with his three children and said he heard "a massive explosion" at about 1:40 am on Tuesday, which blew their tent away. With private cars off the road due to fuel shortages, neighbors carried some of the maimed on foot. "There were no vehicles or even donkey carts," he said.
Muhannad Thabet, 33, who also lives at the al-Shati camp, called it "a night of terror" due to "non-stop air strikes and explosions." He said he carried a six-year-old child to get treatment and said the nearby Shifa hospital — once one of Gaza’s largest — was overwhelmed with maimed people.
AFP footage from central Gaza showed a large plume of smoke rising over Deir el-Balah on Tuesday while a surveillance drone was heard buzzing overhead.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated that between 50,000 and 80,000 people were living in the Deir el-Balah area, which until now had been considered relatively safe.
Some 30,000 were living in displacement sites.
OCHA said nearly 88 percent of the entire Gaza Strip was now either under evacuation orders or within Israeli militarized zones, forcing the population of 2.4 million into an ever-shrinking space.
Additionally, the director of Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry told Al Jazeera that 20 people have died from starvation in the past 48 hours. The figure could not be independently verified, and Israel accuses Hamas of inflating casualty numbers. There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
Reports of the latest corpse count came as the Roman Catholic church’s most senior holy man in the Holy Land said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was "morally unacceptable."
"We have seen men holding out in the sun for hours in the hope of a simple meal," Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa told a news conference in Jerusalem after visiting Gaza.
I commend to the good prelate a thorough review of St. Augustine of Hippo’s writings on the Just War in The City of God. It cannot be, after all, that his strictures apply only to Christians, but not to the sole Jewish nation. The good saint asserted that peacefulness in the face of a grave wrong that could be stopped only by violence is a sin. Defense of oneself or others could be a necessity, especially when it is authorized by a legitimate authority. Failing that, please be so good as to find something long and rusty to rotate upon.
His visit came after an Israeli army strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza killed three people last week, …and slightly damaged the church steeple…
prompting Pope Leo XIV to condemn the “barbarity” of the war and the blind “use of force.”The same to you, your popeness. Clearly you are not speaking ex cathedra.
WHO BUILDING CLASHThe military issued a statement responding to reports that troops entered a building housing World Health Organization personnel in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah a day earlier and detained several staff, as well as damaged the facility in strikes.
On Sunday, the IDF had issued an evacuation warning for several zones in Deir al-Balah, ahead of a new ground offensive in the area. The military said that before operations began, it warned the civilian population to evacuate “and was in contact with the international organizations working in the area.”
“We emphasize that the IDF maintains continuous and consistent contact with the international organizations, and throughout the war, the IDF has facilitated the safe evacuations of their personnel from evacuated areas, in coordination with the troops and in accordance with operational requirements,” the statement continued.
The coordination efforts are to “facilitate the relocation of critical facilities to alternate locations based on the needs of the organizations,” the IDF said.
According to the military, the incident at the WHO facility on Monday began after troops identified shooting toward them in Deir al-Balah and returned fire. The IDF said that as part of the offensive, troops detained “several individuals suspected of involvement in terror.”
“After questioning on the ground, the majority were released and evacuated from the area in coordination with the international organizations,” the IDF said, adding that “the suspects are treated in accordance with international law.”
WHO, in a statement, said that the “Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward al-Mawasi amid active conflict.
Because they did not move out earlier when warned, when it would have been completely safe. Whose fault is it, then, that they had to retreat through fire?
Male staff and family members were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated on the spot, and screened at gunpoint. Two WHO staff and two family members were detained. Three were later released, while one staff member remains in detention.”The IDF responded to the claims, saying that “at times during field questioning, it is necessary for individuals suspected of terrorist activity to temporarily remove parts of their clothing in order to ensure that they are not concealing explosive belts or other weapons.”
“The IDF will not refrain from operating in areas where terrorist activity threatens the security of the State of Israel,” the military added.
A military source said that the IDF is aware that damage was caused to the WHO residence facility, but stressed that it is unaware of any injuries among the staff. WHO also claimed that its main warehouse in the area was damaged. The IDF has not commented on those claims.
IDF says dozens of terror targets hit in Gaza over past day; multiple casualties reported in Strip
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force struck dozens of terror targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, including operatives, booby-trapped buildings, anti-tank launch posts, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the military says in a daily update.
Dozens of casualties were reported by media outlets in Gaza in the past day, but there are no immediate tolls from the Hamas-run health ministry or other health officials. Yesterday, the Hamas health ministry reported that 134 people had been killed in the previous 24 hours.
The strikes come as five divisions continue ground operations across the Strip.
3 soldiers wounded during operations in Rafah, says military
[IsraelTimes] Two combat engineers, including a platoon commander, were seriously wounded and another soldier was moderately hurt by an explosive device during operations in southern Gaza’s Rafah earlier today, the IDF announces. The troops, who served with the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, were taken to hospitals and the families were notified, the army adds.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
There, he remained on a ventilator and in a vegetative state for years. Despite consultations with several specialists, he never regained consciousness.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..always the voice of sweet reason...