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93 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says, 20 Paleos killed in Hamas-caused crowd crush at GHF distribution site
2025-07-16
[IsraelTimes] Legislator from the terror group said killed in attack on Shati refugee camp that also killed 6 kids and their parents; IDF calls on areas of north Gaza to evacuate

Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the 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 killed at least 93 people and maimed 278 on Tuesday, according to the Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
-run health ministry, as Israeli troops pressed on with ground operations there.

The toll did not specify the number of combatants among the dead. Local officials said dozens of women and kiddies were killed, but the Hamas ministry did not specify how many.

One strike in the northern Shati refugee camp killed a Hamas member of the Paleostinian Authority’s defunct legislature, as well as a man and a woman and their six children who were sheltering in the same building, according to officials from Shifa Hospital, where the casualties were taken. The politician was identified as Mohammed Faraj al-Ghoul, 68.
Appropriately named
One of the deadliest strikes hit a house in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa district on Monday evening, killing 19 members of the family living inside, according to Shifa. The dead included eight women and six children. A strike on a tent housing displaced people in the same district killed a man and a woman and their two children.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strikes. The military says it takes measures to mitigate harm to civilians, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions, and accuses Hamas of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.

Also on Tuesday, Gaza resident Anas Arafat told The Times of Israel that Israeli drone fire had for hours prevented rescuers from reaching his parents, brothers, and their children, who he said were buried under a building in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood following an Israeli strike on Monday.

According to Arafat, the rescuers arrived Tuesday afternoon lacking heavy equipment needed to move the rubble. The rescuers recovered the remains of one woman. It appeared that the rest of the family — 13 people in total — did not survive, as no voices were heard from under the rubble since Monday.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately comment on the incident.

IDF TELLS NORTH GAZA RESIDENTS TO FLEE, SAYS HAMAS TUNNELS RAZED
The IDF on Tuesday urged residents of Gaza City and Jabalia in the Strip’s north to evacuate amid the ongoing offensive.

"The IDF is operating in the area with increased force to destroy the enemy and terror organizations. The fighting is spreading westward toward the city center," the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee said on X.

The warning called for civilians to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast.

The military announced that it had recently demolished a 3.5 kilometer (2.2 mile)-long Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

The tunnel was located by troops of the Kfir Infantry Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit during operations in the south of Khan Younis, the IDF said.

The tunnel connected to other underground passages and also featured several rooms used by Hamas operatives as living quarters, according to the military.

The IDF said the Kfir troops also located weapons and destroyed a facility used to store bombs.

The IDF released footage showing the demolition of tunnels and booby traps in Beit Hanoun, amid an ongoing offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza town.

A Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis is demolished by the IDF, in a handout video published July 15. 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade killed dozens of operatives in combat and by directing airstrikes, as well as destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including tunnels, in a joint effort with combat engineers, the military said.

Gaza aid group says 20 Palestinians killed in crowd crush Wednesday morning, blames armed Hamas agitators

[IsraelTimes] The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says 20 Palestinians were killed this morning in a crush at an aid distribution site in Khan Younis, blaming armed agitators linked to Hamas for fomenting unrest.

The Israeli- and US-backed group says 19 people were trampled to death and one person was stabbed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge, driven by agitators in the crowd.”

“We have credible reason to believe that elements within the crowd – armed and affiliated with Hamas – deliberately fomented the unrest,” the GHF says, adding that for the first time since operations began multiple firearms has been identified in the crowd.

“This horrific event follows a deeply troubling pattern in recent days. False messages about aid site openings, including at SDS4 (Wadi Gaza) and the long-closed SDS1 (Tal Sultan), have circulated widely on Telegram and other platforms, fueling confusion, driving crowds to closed sites, and inciting disorder,” the GFH says.

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Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes on approximately 35 Hamas targets in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza
2025-07-13
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Several IDF troops hurt in Gaza fighting as Palestinians reported killed at aid site

[IsraelTimes] Army reports the injured soldiers were moderately and lightly wounded in separate incidents; says unaware of any casualties near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution hubs

The military announced that two soldiers were moderately hurt on Saturday in separate incidents during fighting in 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...
, as fresh deaths were reported among Paleostinians at an aid distribution site.

One of the soldiers was hurt in the northern part of the coastal enclave, while the other was hurt in the southern part. In the latter incident, two other soldiers were lightly injured.

All four were taken to hospitals, and their families were notified.

The injuries came as the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that over 250 terror targets in Gaza were hit in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s since Thursday. A fresh wave of airstrikes Saturday evening hit over 35 targets in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the military said.

The IDF said the targets included operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels, and other terror infrastructure.

At least 143 Paleostinians were killed in Gaza since Wednesday, according to statistics published by the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-run health ministry on Friday night.

The strikes came as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continued to operate across Gaza.

In a statement on the Beit Hanoun strikes, which could be seen from across the border in Israel, the military said dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets hit some 35 Hamas targets in the area.

The targets included Hamas tunnels in the area, the IDF said.

Earlier, the military said troops of the 98th Division located Hamas and Paleostinian 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...
observation posts and caches of bombs in Gaza City’s Shejaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods.

Numerous operatives were killed elsewhere by the troops, including by calling in airstrikes, the IDF added.

MORE DEATHS REPORTED AT AID SITES
Paleostinian reports, meanwhile, said that aid seekers were rubbed out and injured Saturday around the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facility in northwest Rafah, with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoting hospital officials and witnesses as saying that at least 24 people were killed.
Hamas has been getting busy with their guns, as they do every day that the people they own dare to get help from a group that doesn’t let them skim off the top, the bottom, and both sides..
The IDF pushed back on the Paleostinian reports, saying the military was unaware of any casualties from troops’ gunfire near GHF distribution sites on Saturday.

A military official did say that several suspects were spotted approaching forces in Rafah on Saturday, hundreds of meters from the aid site, and that "troops acted to prevent the suspects from approaching and fired warning shots. No injuries from the gunfire are known."

The IDF, in its statement, said it "continues to operate in order to enable the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Strip, and to allow passage to the distribution areas via organized and secured routes."

The statement added that the IDF is continuing to investigate the claims of injuries on Saturday near the aid site.

GHF, an Israeli-backed US organization that seeks to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, has faced harsh criticism from the UN and other aid organizations, which charge that it fails to meet the needs of Gaza’s population. Gazooks have reported near-daily incidents in which groups trying to reach GHF facilities are shot at by Israeli forces, leading to mass casualties.

Israel, which accuses Hamas of hoarding aid, has also accused the terror group of attacking Gazook aid seekers near GHF sites and falsifying corpse counts. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
Israel has also acknowledged that "several" Paleostinian civilians have been killed near GHF aid distribution sites.

GHF commenced operations in May as Israel lifted a nearly three-month aid blockade on Gaza, amid a renewed offensive there that seeks to take over 75% of the Strip.

On Friday, the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
said nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the GHF’s distribution sites.
Numbers supplied by Hamas are vary from exaggerated to greatly exaggerated, coupled with flat-out lies.
GHF, which denies that deadly incidents have occurred at its sites, told Rooters the UN figures were "false and misleading."

The IDF said Friday that it had issued instructions to troops in the field "following lessons learned" after reports of deadly incidents at GHF distribution facilities.

SWIMMING RESTRICTIONS
The IDF on Saturday also reiterated a restriction on Paleostinians, in place since the beginning of the war, forbidding them from entering the sea along the entire coast of the Gaza Strip. The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, reminded residents in a post on X that "security restrictions have been imposed in the maritime area adjacent to the Strip, and entry into the sea is prohibited."

He added, "The IDF will respond to any violation of these restrictions. We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip exposes you to danger."

Nevertheless, the IDF has not enforced the restriction against Paleostinians seeking to cool off in the waters on the beach, but only those heading out deeper into the sea.

The vast majority of the Paleostinian population in Gaza is concentrated in areas on the coast, with tent camps set up on the beaches.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Six senior Hamas naval commanders, responsible for sea-borne attacks and involved in planning the October 7 attacks, were killed in recent Israeli operations in Gaza
2025-07-12
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…Southern Command, and Shin Bet.

The commanders were:
-Ramzi Salah (northern Gaza)
-Jamal al-Baba (central Gaza)
-Ratab Abu Sahiban and successor Ahmad Ali (Gaza City)
-Omar Abu Jalala (Khan Younis)
-Mohammed Qashta (Rafah)
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Five killed in bombing at Gaza school
2025-07-11
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army has bombed the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia an-Nazla, in which displaced Palestinians were sheltering, killing at least five people, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Gaza officials say 8 children among 13 killed in strike IDF says targeted Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist

[IsraelTimes] IDF says it’s probing reports of civilian casualties in incident that appears to hit medical clinic; footage shows bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming

An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah on Thursday targeted a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught, the military said. Palestinian media reported that at least 13 people were killed in the strike, including eight small children and two women who were receiving medical treatment.

The IDF said it was “aware of the claim about casualties in the area,” adding that the incident was being investigated.

According to the Al-Rad channel, some of the casualties had been receiving treatment and supplementary nutrition at a nearby medical center when the strike hit.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Thursday afternoon that at least 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes since morning. These numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughair told AFP that eight children and two women were among the dead following the strike in Deir al-Balah, adding Israeli aircraft targeted “a gathering of citizens in front of a medical point.”

Four people were killed and several injured in a predawn airstrike on a family home in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, Mughair added.

In its daily update on the fighting, the military said over 180 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip over the previous day, including operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, tunnels, and other infrastructure.

The strikes come as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue to operate across Gaza.

In northern Gaza, the IDF says troops of the 401st Armored Brigade located several weapons and tunnel shafts used by Hamas. The troops also located a cell of Hamas operatives in a building and directed a drone strike against them, according to the IDF.

Similarly, the military said troops of the elite Multi-Domain Unit spotted a cell of Islamic Jihad operatives in a building and called in a drone strike.

On Wednesday, an IDF soldier was killed during a Hamas attempt to abduct him in southern Gaza, and a soldier with the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion was seriously wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF said.

The soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Giving a broader tally, the military said dozens of enemy operatives were killed and over 130 “terror infrastructures,” both above and below ground, were demolished by troops of the Golani Brigade during operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in the past week. Among the sites was a 500-meter-long, 13-meter-deep Hamas tunnel, the military says. The elite Yahalom combat engineering unit destroyed it. Other sites included caches of weapons, booby-trapped buildings, observation posts, and mortar launching positions, the military said.
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Israel Attacks in Gaza Kill 78 More Palestinians; IDF confirms death of 10/7 terrorist last week in Khan Younis
2025-07-09
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…The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least six Palestinians, including three children, were shot dead by Israeli forces near an aid distribution site run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the southern city of Rafah.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, which it releases about midday Gaza time, that at least eight aid seekers were killed over the previous 24-hour period, bringing the death toll of Palestinians attempting to get aid since the GHF began operating at the end of May to 766.

Recall that we saw reports from Gaza that Hamas was attacking Gazans who dared go to the GHF sites to get free food instead of paying siege prices to Hamas. Even if that number is not a gross exaggeration, it’s probable they were killed by Hams rather than the IDF.

IDF confirms death of Oct. 7 terrorist in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] 51 Palestinians said killed across Gaza as Israeli troops battle Hamas across Strip

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday confirmed having killed in 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...
a Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror operative who led an attack on Israeli civilians in the October 7 onslaught.

The military also killed at least 51 Paleostinians in Gaza on Thursday, according to unverified figures provided by hospitals in the Hamas-run Strip, as IDF troops continued to advance throughout Gaza, a day after five soldiers were killed in battle.

The IDF also announced on Tuesday that Taha Abu Ayadeh, a platoon commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, was killed last week in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on the area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

In the October 7 onslaught, Ayadeh invaded Israel with his platoon and attacked a gas station close to the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Magen, the IDF said.

Footage of the attack was published by the South First Responders group in November 2023. The footage showed two Israeli employees rushing to hide as Hamas turbans opened fire and stormed the area. The employees reportedly hid in a freezer for hours before being rescued.

In central Gaza, Israeli strikes killed another 10 people and maimed 72 on Tuesday, according to the Awda Hospital in Nuseirat. Farther south, in Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital records showed a total of 41 people killed.

Hamas health officials at Nasser Hospital, where victims were taken, claimed that one strike targeted tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, killing four people. A separate strike in Khan Younis killed four people, including a mother, father, and their two children, the officials said.

The IDF had no immediate comment on the strikes. The military says it takes steps to mitigate harm to civilians, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions, and accuses Hamas of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure including hospitals and designated humanitarian areas.

IDF issues fresh evacuation order for Gaza’s Khan Younis area
[IsraelTimes] The IDF issues a new evacuation warning for Palestinians residing in the Khan Younis area, further expanding a no-go zone.

“Due to terror activities in the area, the IDF with its maneuvering troops and intensive firepower is expanding actions in your area,” says Col. Avichay Adraee, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, on X.

Palestinians are instructed to head west.

IDF says it hit more than 100 terror targets in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Over 100 terror targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip over the past day, including operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the military says in a daily update.

The strikes come as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue to operate across Gaza.

During ground operations, the IDF says troops of the 7th Armored Brigade located a cache of explosive devices hidden in a civilian building in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood.

Elsewhere in the Strip, troops killed operatives and destroyed Hamas infrastructure in the past day, the military adds.
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IDF reports Hamas’s north Gaza naval commander killed in strike on cafe last week as 130 targets hit in 24 hours
2025-07-07
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Ramzi Ramadan Abd Ali Salah was killed along with several other senior Hamas members; Gaza hospitals say 33 killed in Israeli strikes across the enclave since morning

The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet announced on Sunday that Ramzi Ramadan Abd Ali Salah, the commander of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s naval force in northern 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...
, was killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
last Monday in Gaza City.

The military confirmed that he was the target of a strike in an internet cafe, which Hamas-linked authorities said killed 24 people, including women and kiddies.

Several other bad boyz were potted in the operation, the military said.

Salah, identified by the IDF as a key figure in Hamas’s maritime capabilities, had been actively planning attacks against Israeli forces operating in the Strip, the military said. He was targeted inside a building in Gaza City, where he was meeting with other operatives.

The strike, carried out by an Israeli Air Force jet, was guided by intelligence from the Navy, the Military Intelligence Directorate, and the Shin Bet.

Among the other Hamas members killed were Hisham Ayman Atiya Mansour, deputy head of a Hamas mortar unit, and Nassim Muhammad Suleiman Abu Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft.....
, a member of Hamas’s mortar unit, according to the joint statement.

The IDF said several measures were taken to minimize civilian harm, including the use of precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and intelligence assessments.

On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Paleostinians across Gaza, hospital officials said.

Twenty people were killed and 25 maimed when Israeli strikes hit two houses in Gaza City, according to Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of Shifa Hospital that serves the area.

In southern Gaza, 13 Paleostinians were killed by strikes in Mawasi, an area on Gaza’s Mediterranean where many displaced people live in tents, officials at Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Five of the dead belonged to the same family, according to the hospital.

The figures offered by hospital officials did not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

The military had no immediate comment on the individual strikes, but said it had struck 130 terror targets across the Gaza Strip in the previous 24 hours.

The IDF said the strikes targeted Hamas command and control structures, storage facilities, weapons, and launchers, and killed a number of terror operatives in northern Gaza.

Also on Sunday, the IDF provided further details on the incident in which Sgt. Asaf Zamir, 19, from Dimona, was killed on Friday in combat in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.

According to the military, Zamir was killed during operational activity conducted by the 53rd Armored Corps Battalion of the 188th Brigade. During the incident, four other soldiers were maimed — two severely and two moderately.

Among the injured was the company commander, who sustained wounds while attempting to rescue the forces under fire.

Shortly after the attack, the Israeli Air Force struck and eliminated part of the cell responsible for the assault.

Israeli forces have operated inside the Gaza strip for over 20 months, since the Hamas-led terror onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.

IDF says rocket launched from Gaza fell in open area near Nirim

[IsraelTimes] Following the siren that sounded in Nirim, near the Gaza border, at 9 p.m., the IDF says one rocket was launched from southern Gaza and landed in an open area near Nirim.

No injuries or damage were reported.
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Israeli strikes kill 138 Palestinians in last 24 hours
2025-07-05
[GEO.TV] Health ministry on Friday informed that 138 killed Paleostinians were brought to 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...
hospitals in the last 24 hours, al-Jazeera reported. This included 62 bodies of Gazooks who were seeking aid.

Moreover, the ministry also added that 452 were maimed within this duration.

Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, have now killed at least 57,268 Paleostinians and injured at least 135,625 others.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, at least 6,710 Paleostinians have been killed and 23,584 more injured.

At least 41 killed in Gaza since dawn
[GEO.TV] The death toll from today's attacks across Gaza continues to rise. Al-Jazeera reported at least 41 people were killed in Israeli raids on several areas in the enclave since dawn.
The IDF has been working hard.

WHO says Gaza's Nasser hospital 'one massive trauma ward'
And if it is, who started the war and refuses lay down arms and give back hostages?Next time stay on your side of the fence, O Gazans.
[GEO.TV] Nasser hospital in 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...
is operating as "one massive trauma ward" due to an influx of patients maimed at non-United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
food distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the World Health Organization said.

The US-and Israeli-backed GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May, overseeing a new model of deliveries that the United Nations says is neither impartial nor neutral.
Decidedly odd use of the language…No skimming by Hamas and the NGOs, you mean, while the unconnected have to pay siege prices for what was supposed to be given for free.
It has repeatedly denied that incidents involving people killed or maimed at its sites have occurred.

Referring to medical staff at the Nasser hospital, Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the West Bank and Gaza, told news hounds in Geneva: "They've seen already for weeks, daily injuries ... (the) majority coming from the so-called safe non-UN food distribution sites. The hospital is now operating as one massive trauma ward."
It would help if Hamas weren’t shooting those who dare defy them by lining up for GHF donations.
Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on Gaza on May 19.

IDF says it holds operational control over around 65% of Gaza
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it now holds operational control over roughly 65% of the Gaza Strip, following intensified military action across the territory.

Over the past week, Israeli forces eliminated more than 100 Hamas operatives, including senior commander Hakem al-Issa.

Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, the Israeli Air Force has struck over 7,500 terror targets, including weapons sites, tunnels and rocket launchers.

The military says its campaign will continue in pursuit of its war goals and to protect Israeli civilian.

IDF says soldier killed during fighting in Gaza’s Khan Younis
[IsraelTimes] The IDF has announced that Sgt. Asaf Zamir, 19, from Dimona, a soldier in the 53rd Armored Battalion of the 188th Brigade, was killed during combat in the southern Gaza Strip. In the same incident, which took place this morning in the Khan Younis area, a tank was fired upon, resulting in several casualties. Two additional soldiers from the same battalion were severely wounded and evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment. Their families have been notified.

IDF says soldier killed in operational accident in northern Gaza Strip
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday that Sgt. Yair Eliyahou, 19, from the community of Ezer, a combat engineering soldier in the 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...
Division’s Northern Brigade, was killed overnight during a combat-related operational accident in the northern Gaza Strip.

Eliyahou was killed when a heavy equipment vehicle fell into a hole in Beit Hanoun, hitting a vehicle being operated by Eliyahou, according to the reported initial findings of an IDF probe.

Eliyahou’s death brings Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 443. The toll includes two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

15 KILLED IN KHAN YOUNIS
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard...
Israeli strikes overnight on Friday killed at least 15 people in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency.

Civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP that seven people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli air strike on displaced people’s tents near the city.

He added that eight more people were killed in two other strikes on tent encampments on the coast of Khan Younis, including one that killed two children in the early hours of the morning.

The IDF told AFP that it cannot comment on specific attacks without precise coordinates, but noted it is "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities."

The military says it does not deliberately target civilians and notes that Hamas has been using civilian sites, like hospitals, schools and displaced centers, as cover for their operations.

The IDF said Friday that the Air Force struck around 100 terror targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as ground forces continue operations against Hamas and other terror groups.

Targets of the air strikes included rocket launchers, military buildings, weapons depots and other infrastructure used by terror operatives.

Simultaneously, IDF ground troops from multiple divisions continued operations in Gaza City, northern Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah, locating and destroying underground tunnels, weapons stockpiles and explosives planted to harm Israeli forces.

Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHCR), said on Friday that at least 613 killings have been recorded both at aid points run by the GHF and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups since the GHF began operating in the Strip in late May.

"This is a figure as of June 27. Since then...there have been further incidents," she said, adding that the rights office was not able to attribute responsibility for the killings, but that "it is clear that the Israeli military has shelled and shot at Paleostinians trying to reach the distribution points" operated by GHF.

According to the OHCHR, of the 613 people killed, 509 were killed near the GHF distribution points, and the others were killed near other aid distribution sites or trucks.

The OHCHR said its figure is based on a range of sources such as information from hospitals, cemeteries, families, Gaza health authorities, NGOs and its partners on the ground. It said it is verifying further reports and cannot yet give a breakdown of where they were killed.

Death tolls provided by Hamas-run Gaza health authorities cannot be independently verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
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Al-Quds Brigades announce bombing of Sderot city with rockets UPDATE: IDF announce they airstruck rocketeers dead
2025-07-04
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of 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...
movement, announced Wednesday morning that it had targeted the city of Sderot in the southern occupied territories with a barrage of rockets in response to the Israeli occupation's ongoing crimes in 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...
The brigades confirmed that the bombing, using ''precision missiles,'' was part of the ''Al-Aqsa Flood'' operation, which began on October 7, 2023.
Of course they did. Then the IDF declared the area where the rocket launchers were as off limits, and warned the residents to leave for the safe enclaves, lest they get caught in the IDF’s latest clearance operation. In the meantime, the IDF shot down the rockets or watched them fall harmlessly in Israeli fields, in the Mediterranean, or somewhere in Gaza, upon which Hamas blamed the resulting deaths on the eeeeeeevil IDF.
This attack is part of a series of rocket attacks by the Paleostinian resistance against occupation sites in response to the escalating aggression and the targeting of civilians and infrastructure in Gaza, particularly following the massacres in the Zeitoun and Shuja'iyya neighborhoods.
No doubt Hamas feels better for having shot their wad, as the cannoneers used to say, however ineffectually.
The situation in Gaza is witnessing a major escalation with the continued resistance attacks on the advancing Israeli occupation forces through ground ambushes and intensive shelling.

Update from the Times of Israel at 2:10 p.m. EDT:
IDF says Gaza terrorists behind Wednesday rocket fire killed in drone strike

The IDF says the Gaza terror cell responsible for yesterday’s rocket fire at Sderot and Ibim was “eliminated” in a drone strike just minutes after the launch from northern Gaza.

Separately, it says troops across multiple divisions have continued to operate in the Strip.

Troops of the 162nd Division have targeted terrorists and underground infrastructure in the north, it says, while the 188th Armored Brigade in the south recently uncovered rifles, pistols, magazines, and mortars in the Khan Younis area.

Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force struck around 150 targets, including underground routes, military structures, sniper positions, and other terror infrastructure, the military says.

The IDF says its operations, carried out with intelligence from the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence Directorate, aim to eliminate threats against Israeli civilians.
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19 Palestinians, including football player, killed in intense Israeli strikes in Gaza
2025-07-04
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least 19 Paleostinians were killed and dozens injured on Thursday as Israeli forces carried out a series of intense Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s and live-fire attacks across multiple areas of the 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 Paleostinian official news agency WAFA reported, citing medical sources.
How many were Hamasniks or other jihadis? How many were human shields?
In Rafah, southern Gaza, seven people were killed, with 30 reported maimed following heavy Israeli airstrikes on the al-Shakoush area, northwest of the city.

In Khan Younis, Israeli warplanes targeted the Batn al-Samin area in the southern part of the city with multiple airstrikes, though casualty figures from the strike are still being verified.

In central Gaza, six Paleostinians were rubbed out by Israeli soldiers near an aid distribution center north of the province, as residents gathered to collect much-needed humanitarian supplies.

The victims also included Muhannad al-Layyeh, a player for the Khidmat al-Maghazi football club, who succumbed to wounds sustained in a previous Israeli airstrike on his home in the Maghazi refugee camp.
Red Card!
In Gaza City, three non-combatants were killed and others injured when Israeli jets bombed a residential apartment in the Qasr al-Minah building in the western part of the city. Additional strikes on the Zaytoun and Tuffah neighborhoods in eastern Gaza claimed the lives of three more Paleostinians and maimed several others, including children. Some of the injured were rushed to the Baptist (Al-Ma'madani) Hospital following a strike near Salah al-Din Mosque in Zaytoun.

In northern Gaza, Israeli aircraft bombed a crowd of civilians near the Halawa roundabout in Jabalia town, killing two people and injuring several others.

Emergency and civil defense teams continue efforts to recover victims from the rubble, operating under extreme danger due to the ongoing bombardment and frequent targeting of rescue workers by Israeli.
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Soldier killed in northern Gaza, 3 others seriously hurt; rockets fired at Sderot
2025-07-03
[IsraelTimes] Slain soldier named as Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, 19; Palestinian media claims head of Gaza City hospital killed in IDF strike alongside wife, 3 kids; 7 allegedly killed near aid site

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed during fighting in the northern 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 military announced on Wednesday, as it continued its push further into northern Gaza.

The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, 19, a tank crew member in the 82nd Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade, from Rehovot.

According to the IDF, Michalovitch was killed in combat in the northern part of the Strip. A tank commander and another soldier from the same battalion were seriously maimed in the same incident.

In a separate battle in northern Gaza, a soldier from the Egoz unit of the Commando Brigade was also seriously maimed.

All of the maimed soldiers were evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been notified.

Michalovitch’s death brings Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in Gaza and in military operations along the border with to 442. The toll includes two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

Also Wednesday, two rockets were launched from the northern Gaza Strip, triggering sirens in the city of Sderot and the nearby town of Ibim. Both projectiles were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force, with no reports of impacts or injuries.

A few hours later, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson issued an evacuation warning for residents in several neighborhoods of Gaza City — including Tuffah, Daraj and the Old City — ahead of expected IDF operations in the area.

The statement said the IDF was operating with "very strong force" and would strike "any area used to launch rockets toward Israel."

Residents in the affected areas were urged to evacuate immediately southward to the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi and to refrain from returning to the designated combat zones.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
the IDF and Shin Bet announced that they had killed two Hamas operatives responsible for the deaths of seven Israeli soldiers in a bushwhack in Khan Younis on June 24.

According to a joint statement, an Israeli Air Force drone, directed by the Shin Bet and the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade, struck and killed Mosaab Yasser Abdallah Galban and Abd al-Latif Mousa Hagag Barbakh in the Khan Younis area on Thursday last week.

The two were involved in the ambush that killed seven IDF soldiers: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, 21; Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, 20; Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, 20; Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, 19; Sgt. Shahar Manoav, 21; Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, 20; and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21.

Earlier in the day, while visiting IDF troops in Rafah, Defense Minister Israel Katz told soldiers that Israel won’t "give up or compromise" on defeating Hamas or recovering the remaining hostages held in Gaza.

Katz was accompanied by Southern Command head Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, Gaza Division commander Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram, Tourism Minister Haim Katz, and senior officers from reserve brigades operating in the Strip.

"The maneuver is aimed at achieving two goals — returning the hostages and ensuring Hamas no longer exists here. We will not let go of this objective," Israel Katz told troops.

"To kill the enemy, bring the hostages home and win — that is our mission. There’s no chance we’ll give it up or compromise on it," he said. "Hamas has not changed. It wants to continue what it did and to destroy [Israel]."

Katz also accused Hamas of working with Iran
...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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to implement its plan to destroy Israel by launching missile attacks and coordinating invasions from Gaza, Syria, Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, Jordan and other fronts.

Along with Katz’s visit, the IDF announced a partial reduction of the closed military zone in Israel along the Gaza border in line with a new situational assessment, allowing additional civilian areas in the Western Negev to reopen for the first time since October 7, 2023.

The affected areas had been closed to civilian movement since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, which triggered the ongoing war and led to the imposition of broad security restrictions in the border area.

The updated order, signed by the head of the Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, limits the closed military zone to areas outlined in a revised map, which includes key roads and areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

Entry into these zones remains restricted. Only permanent residents, authorized agricultural workers and individuals conducting essential work — coordinated through the IDF Gaza Division and Home Front Command — will be granted entry. Violators of the order may face legal action.

The order remains in effect until August 31, unless modified earlier.

SEVEN SAID KILLED NEAR AID SITE, DOCTOR KILLED IN GAZA CITY
On Wednesday morning, Paleostinian media reported that seven people were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor overnight, adding to the growing toll of those said to have been killed at or near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites.

After the reports, the IDF said it is looking into the incident and has launched an investigation, adding that it has no information at this stage confirming any casualties but is reviewing the details.

There have been repeated instances of Paleostinians being shot near aid distribution sites, with Hamas’s health ministry claiming the corpse count is over 500. The IDF has said it is investigating, and denied that troops are ordered to open fire on civilians.

On Monday, after weeks of reported incidents, the IDF released a statement acknowledging that Paleostinian civilians have been killed and injured by its fire near aid distribution sites, including by artillery fire, but claimed that the tolls provided by Hamas authorities are exaggerated.

The military also announced that it "reorganized the access routes" to the humanitarian hubs, adding new fencing and signage along with additional paths to the aid sites, and that they have revised their methods of crowd control at the sites after "learning lessons" from their probes of the incidents.

Later Wednesday, media outlets in Gaza reported that Marwan Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was killed in an Israeli strike.

According to the reports, he was killed along with his wife and other relatives when his home in Gaza City was hit.

In the past, the IDF has said that Hamas used the Indonesian Hospital as a base for its terror activities and had fired at Israeli forces from the site. The hospital was cleared by the IDF several weeks ago and is no longer operational.

The IDF has not yet responded to the reports.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said seven people were killed in the strike early Wednesday afternoon, including Sultan, his wife and at least three of his children. The doctor’s body was taken to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where mourners gathered around it, AFP journalists reported.

"His face was unrecognizable, we could barely identify him," the director of that facility, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, told AFP.

"His whole life was devoted to medicine and the struggle to treat patients," the doctor’s surviving daughter Lubna Sultan told AFP. "There is no justification for targeting him and his martyrdom."

The Medical Emergency Rescue Committee, the group that runs the hospital, called the killing of the doctor and his family "a flagrant violation of humanitarian principles and a grave act of injustice," saying those responsible "must be held accountable."
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Threats or nuisance? After years of cooperation, some Gaza clans rise up against Hamas
2025-07-03
Very long, A taste:
[IsraelTimes] As the war drags on and aid supplies are increasingly precious, large, heavily armed clans in the southern Strip are openly defying the terror group. Could they be viable partners for Israel?

A powerful 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...
family exchanged fire with Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
last week at a major hospital in Khan Younis, in a conflict that ended with burned vehicles and destroyed equipment.

Hamas and the Barbakh clan blamed each other for the fight at Nasser Hospital: While Hamas claims it acted against a Barbakh relative who had stolen aid — and blamed the clan for damaging the hospital — anti-Hamas media outlets allege that Hamas operatives took refuge inside Nasser after murdering a clan member.

The clash then morphed into a war of words. The Barbakh family lashed out against the terror group in a post on a popular anti-Hamas Telegram channel, alleging that since Hamas’s 2007 takeover of the territory, "the Barbakh family has paid the price for its positions and has been subjected to Hamas repression. The time for a response has come."

The family is not alone: For the first time in nearly two decades of Hamas rule in Gaza, large, heavily armed clans are openly defying the terror group, through both public statements and armed confrontations. The opposition marks a serious challenge to Hamas’s ability to maintain local control, and comes amid the group’s declining military strength and waning popularity among Gazooks as the nearly 21-month-old war with Israel drags on.

Israel has suggested that the clans could supplant Hamas rule in Gaza, but this is not necessarily a positive prospect: Even as they’ve begun to publicly counter Hamas, the families have continued to harshly criticize Israel and distance themselves from it.

Despite growing perceptions of armed clans gaining influence in parts of Gaza, Michael Milshtein, head of the Paleostinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University, told The Times of Israel that the phenomenon remains geographically limited to the southern Gaza Strip and does not yet pose a serious threat to Hamas.

"At this stage, I see the clans as a nuisance and a challenge to Hamas — but not a real threat to its rule, and certainly not a coherent or viable partner for Israel for the day after," he said.

"I still see Hamas as the dominant force in Gaza, particularly through its special unit ’Saham,’ which is responsible for maintaining public order, especially in the northern Strip," he said. "In the south, where the IDF has more control, we’re seeing more of these clan-related phenomena."

A CORE SOURCE OF IDENTITY
The Gaza clans consist of dozens of extended families whose total populations range from hundreds to thousands of members, though exact numbers are hard to come by. The clans, which are typically linked by distant kinship and shared patriarchal lineage, serve as crucial sources of economic and social support. For many, clan identity surpasses the national Paleostinian cause.

The families are often concentrated in particular areas of the Strip. The Barbakh clan, according to videos it has circulated, operates in southern Gaza around the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, while the Abu Ziyad family is based in the village of Zawaida, near Deir al-Balah in the center of the territory.

Prior to the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, the families organized under an umbrella group called the "Clans Committee," originally founded in 2012 by West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
. The committee provided an avenue for the clans to maintain tribal courts to resolve disputes and violent mostly peaceful incidents through customary mechanisms like financial settlements.

The committee continued operating under Hamas control after Abbas called for its dissolution in 2019. Clan leaders regularly held public visits with Gaza officials under the committee’s auspices. In July 2023, representatives of the committee even traveled to Cairo to meet with then-Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction...
For the nearly 20 years it has controlled Gaza, Hamas was able to coexist with the clans. Violent festivities were rare, occurring only when Hamas saw the families as a threat to its authority. More often, it co-opted their influence to pursue its own goals, while in other instances, it ensured that they remained focused on internal matters without challenging its authority.

But that informal pact now appears to be fraying.
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IDF intercepts missiles from Yemen, Gaza after sirens blare across Israel
2025-07-02
[IsraelTimes] Attacks didn’t cause injuries, military says; Katz warns Houthis that ‘Yemen will be treated like Tehran’ as US envoy to Israel says ‘maybe those B2 bombers need to visit Yemen!’

The Israeli Air Force intercepted three missiles launched from Yemen and Gaza on Tuesday night, after sirens sent people across the country to seek shelter.

Sirens sounded in multiple areas, including most of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion Airport, Modiin, Rishon Lezion and some West Bank settlements, as Yemen’s Houthis fired a single ballistic missile. No injuries or damage were reported.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted the airport.

A short time earlier, sirens also sounded in the Gaza envelope after two rockets were launched from southern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said those rockets were also intercepted and likewise caused no injuries. Rocket fire from Gaza has become rare after 20 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The Houthis — whose slogan calls for “Death to America, Death to Israel, [and] a Curse on the Jews” — are an Iranian proxy that began attacking Israel and maritime traffic in November 2023, a month after the October 7 Hamas massacre.

Since March 18, when a ceasefire ended and the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis have launched more than 50 ballistic missiles and at least 13 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.

The Houthis last fired a missile at Israel on Saturday, days after Iran and Israel reached a ceasefire in their 12-day war. After Tuesday’s missile fire, Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a warning to the Yemeni terror group.

“Yemen will be treated like Tehran. After striking the head of the snake in Tehran, we will also strike the Houthis in Yemen,” he said, adding, “Whoever raises a hand against Israel — that hand will be cut off.”

After rocket fire from Gaza, IDF issues evacuation order for parts of Khan Younis

[IsraelTimes] The military’s Arabic spokesperson has issued an evacuation warning for residents in parts of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip ahead of expected IDF operations in the area.

The announcement comes after two rockets were fired from Gaza earlier today toward Israeli territory near the southern Gaza Strip, both of which were intercepted by the Air Force.

The statement warns that the IDF is operating with “very strong force to destroy the terrorist organizations in the area,” and will strike “any location used for launching rockets.” Residents are urged to evacuate immediately northward to known shelters in Deir al-Balah and not to return to the designated combat zones.
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