[IsraelTimes] Military says al-Ru’ya tower was being used by Hamas for ‘intelligence gathering’; medical sources in Hamas-run Strip report 50 killed by IDF across Gaza, 5 dead from malnutrition
For the third time in as many days, the IDF on Sunday struck a 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... City high-rise residential building that it said was being used by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , after issuing several warnings to people in the area to evacuate.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel for the first time in three weeks. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
The strike on the al-Ru’ya tower came as medical sources in the Hamas-run Strip reported 50 people, including 46 from northern Gaza, killed by Israeli fire across Gaza since dawn on Sunday, as well as five malnutrition-related deaths, including three children, over the past 24 hours.
One person was killed in the IDF strike on al-Ru’ya tower, the al-Quds hospital said in a statement. Witness Mohammed al-Nazli told AFP that the bombing of the al-Ru’ya tower "felt like an earthquake" and that the building was "completely destroyed and turned to rubble."
According to the IDF, Hamas had "installed intelligence gathering means" at the building and "positioned observation posts to monitor the location of IDF troops in the area." The IDF also said Hamas operatives had planted many bombs near the building as part of preparations for the military’s operation to take over Gaza City.
The IDF on Saturday called on Gaza residents to flee south to a new "humanitarian zone." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that over 100,000 people have fled Gaza City. It is estimated that there were some 1 million people in the city.
The IDF’s warning Saturday was followed by two urgent evacuation notices for people in and near al-Ru’ya tower and another Gaza City high-rise that was struck roughly an hour later. On Sunday, the IDF again called on people in the area of al-Ru’ya to flee immediately before it struck the building.
The military on Friday also blew up Gaza City’s Mushtaha tower after issuing an evacuation warning, with Defense Minister Israel Katz saying the earth-shattering kaboom signified the opening of the "gates of Hell in Gaza."
Israel did not provide evidence to show Hamas was using the buildings, an accusation the terror group has denied.
Elsewhere in Gaza City on Sunday, the IDF in the morning bombed the al-Tawheed Wal Sunna mosque in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, according to Paleostinian media. No casualties were reported, and footage from the scene was captured on a hand-held camera pointed at the building ahead of the earth-shattering kaboom, indicating that the IDF gave prior warning of the attack. The military did not immediately comment on the strike.
While mosques and other religious buildings are protected under international law, they can be targeted if they are used for military purposes. The IDF has accused Hamas of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including mosques.
Also Sunday morning, two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, setting off sirens in Gaza border communities and the nearby town of Netivot in the first rocket launch from Gaza in three weeks, the IDF said. One of the rockets was intercepted while the second landed in an unpopulated area, the military said. There were no reports of injuries or damage. 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... later grabbed credit for the rocket launch, saying on Telegram that it had aimed at Netivot.
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...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the military said Sunday that troops recently razed a Hamas tunnel spanning hundreds of meters in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood. The IDF published a video of the demolition and said the tunnel was located during operations of the Nahal Brigade in the area. The tunnel featured a room that was used by Hamas’s forces in Zeitoun to coordinate attacks, according to the military.
PM: OVER 100,000 PALESTINIANS HAVE LEFT GAZA CITY
Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday that Israel killed a terrorist who took part in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, and bragged to his parents that he had personally slaughtered 10 Jews. According to Netanyahu, Israel killed the man, then called his parents to inform them.
In a phone call from the October 7 onslaught, released by Israel days after the massacre that sparked the Gaza war, the man could be heard excitedly telling his parents that he was in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. "Look how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!" he said, according to an English translation. Paleostinian media in Gaza identified the man on Saturday as Mahmoud Afana, and said he was killed in Deir al-Balah.
Netanyahu also indicated at the cabinet meeting that around 100,00 civilians have left Gaza City amid the widening military operation there.
"About 100,000 people have left Gaza. Hamas is trying to do everything to prevent them from leaving and to keep them there to serve as human shields," said the premier. His office later clarified to The Times of Israel that he was referring to Gaza City, not the entire Strip. Netanyahu also accused Hamas of shooting women and kiddies in the legs in an effort to prevent them from fleeing.
"We want to focus on the holy warriors themselves, and allow the civilian population to get out," said Netanyahu, accusing Hamas of shooting women and kiddies in the legs in an effort to prevent them from fleeing.
"Our effort in Gaza against the last [Hamas] strongholds — essentially the last important stronghold, Gaza City — is part of our effort to complete the dismantling of the Iranian axis stranglehold," he said.
The UN estimates that around 1 million Paleostinians remain in Gaza City. The vast majority of Gaza’s 2 million population has been displaced.
Israel has accused Hamas of hijacking aid shipments, and the UN of failing to deliver them.
COGAT, the Defense Ministry agency that deals with humanitarian issues, said on Sunday that over the past week aid from more than 1,900 trucks, most supplying food, was distributed in Gaza.
"We will continue facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza for the civilian population — not Hamas," COGAT said in a statement.
Meanwhile, in the southern Strip — where residents of Gaza City have been told to evacuate to — a new humanitarian area providing food and medical services was opened in the Khan Younis area.
Although the military has demanded the mass evacuation of civilians in order to proceed with the fighting, the IDF is also expecting, according to the Ynet news site, some 10,000 Hamas fighters to escape the combat zone amid the masses of civilians moving south, as has occurred during previous evacuations.
According to the report, the security establishment has considered trying to screen all of those leaving in order to detain as many combatants as possible — but in addition to the basic difficulty of identifying them among the masses, the military is also wary of exposing soldiers, as well as Gazan civilians, to potential attacks by operatives during the process.
HOSTAGE FAMILIES SAY CAPTIVES RECENTLY MOVED TO GAZA CITY
Though Hamas fighters are expected to escape south, Ynet reported IDF concerns that the terror group will smuggle living hostages into the combat zone, to put them in harm’s way or dissuade Israel from going ahead with its plan to conquer Gaza City.
The families of hostages Alon Ohel and Guy Gilboa-Dalal — who appeared in a propaganda video released by the terror group on Friday — believe the two were recently moved to Gaza City, based on information gleaned from former hostages held alongside them, Channel 12 reported.
Security officials have warned in private forums, and anonymously to the press, that the Gaza City operation will endanger the remaining hostages, of whom only around 20 are believed to be alive, out of the 48 still held by terror groups in the Strip.
The proposal agreed to by the terror group would see 10 living captives freed and the bodies of 18 dead captives returned, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners and some 1,000 Gazan detainees, amid a 60-day ceasefire during which talks would be held for the release of the remaining hostages and a permanent end to the war.
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