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2025-11-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas navy chief and captor of hostages both killed in IDF airstrikes in Gaza
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[IsraelTimes] Strikes came after terror operatives attacked IDF troops; Qatar warns strikes threaten ceasefire; IDF says forces opened fire on terror operatives who crossed Yellow Line
The Israeli military and Shin Bet security agency announced Thursday that the chief of Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s naval forces and another terrorist who previously held Israeli hostages were killed in Arclight airstrike
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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 a day earlier, which were launched in response to an attack on troops.
The announcement came after Israel launched further airstrikes on what it said was Hamas infrastructure, reportedly killing five people, and after troops opened fire on terror operatives who’d crossed into IDF-controlled territory. Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, a key mediator state, blamed Israel for the recent violence and said it threatened the ceasefire agreement.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces stationed in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza came under fire from terror operatives. No injuries were caused. In response, the Israel Defense Forces launched a wave of strikes on Hamas targets.
Those strikes killed Abdallah Abu Shamala, the Hamas naval forces chief, and Fadi Abu Mustafa, who took part in holding Nimrod Cohen, David Cunio and other hostages captive in Gaza, the IDF and Shin Bet said.
Abu Shamala was a senior Hamas commander who held various roles in the terror group’s naval forces over the years.
The IDF said Abu Shamala was involved in Hamas’s sea-borne infiltration in the Zikim area during the 2014 Gaza war, and he also took part in planning and training the naval forces for its infiltration of Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
The naval forces commander also advanced "numerous terror attacks throughout the war against IDF troops, and naval targets in particular," the military said.
Abu Mustafa, in addition to his role holding the Israeli hostages, was also responsible for tunnel digging in Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, the military and Shin Bet said.
Five more Paleostinians were killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to Paleostinian media and Hamas authorities.
The Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense agency claimed that an airstrike on a home in the Khan Younis suburb of Bani Suheila killed three people, including an infant, and maimed a further 15.
Another strike in Abasan al-Kabira, also near Khan Younis, killed two other people, Paleostinian media reported.
The military confirmed it conducted strikes on Hamas infrastructure in Khan Younis, on the eastern side of the Yellow Line — meaning territory held by the IDF as part of the ceasefire — but said it was unaware of any casualties caused.
TWO TERROR OPERATIVES CROSS YELLOW LINE, TROOPS OPEN FIRE
Also on Thursday, the IDF said it had opened fire on two terror operatives who crossed the Yellow Line.
The military said the two operatives had been spotted crossing the line and approaching troops of the Kfir Brigade.
The operatives "posed an immediate threat" to the Kfir soldiers, who then opened fire "to remove the threat," the military said, adding that a "hit was identified."
The IDF said it remains deployed in Gaza "in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat."
TROOPS FIND PRIMED ROCKET LAUNCHER AIMED AT ISRAEL
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
in IDF-held territory, troops found a primed rocket launcher aimed at Israel, the military said, publishing photos.
The launcher, which had eight barrels and was loaded with four rockets according to the military, was found by Kfir troops on the eastern side of the Yellow Line.
Images released by the IDF showed that the launcher was damaged, apparently during its discovery by the forces.
The IDF said that the Kfir forces also located other weapons belonging to Hamas operatives, including firearms, grenades, explosives, and other military equipment.
"IDF troops in the Southern Command will continue to operate to clear the area, remove any immediate threat to the forces, and destroy terror infrastructure that could pose a threat to the forces, to the residents of the western Negev, and to the citizens of the State of Israel," the military added.
FOOTAGE FROM A HAMAS CAMERA SHOWS AN OPERATIVE IN A SCHOOL
The IDF also published footage on Thursday that was recovered from the camera of a Hamas operative, showing armed members of the terror group operating in an abandoned elementary school in the northern Gaza Strip’s Beit Hanoun, which is now under IDF control.
Within the school compound, as the footage shows, is an apparent tunnel shaft that the operatives are seen entering. According to the IDF, the shaft leads to a Hamas tunnel that is part of a wider underground network in Beit Hanoun.
The IDF said Hamas built a wide tunnel network under Beit Hanoun, which crosses the entire town and runs underneath homes and other civilian sites.
In addition, the military said that "thousands of structures above ground were identified as having been used by the Hamas terror organization as weapons storage facilities, firing positions, and command centers for terrorists."
Nearly every structure in Beit Hanoun was razed by the IDF during its ground operations against Hamas in the past two years. The IDF said it operated in the town "systematically and thoroughly, and neutralized the terror infrastructure that posed a direct threat to the residents of the western Negev."
GAZA TUNNEL WHERE HADAR GOLDIN’S BODY WAS HELD IS 7KM LONG, HAS 80 ROOMS
The IDF also published footage showing a major Hamas tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, where it said the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin had been held by the terror group in recent years, before his remains were returned to Israel last week.
The military described it as "one of the most significant and complex" tunnels found by the IDF to date in the Strip.
It spans over seven kilometers, goes down some 25 meters deep, and includes around 80 separate rooms, according to the military.
"The route runs beneath a densely populated residential neighborhood near the Philadelphi Corridor and continues through sensitive civilian areas, including a UNRWA compound, mosques, clinics, kindergartens and schools," the IDF said.
The IDF said the tunnel was uncovered by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the Shayetet 13 naval commando unit, as other forces of the Southern Command operated in the surrounding area.
The roughly 80 rooms found in the tunnel included those used by Hamas operatives to reside in for long periods, to store weapons, and to plan attacks, the military said.
The IDF said it also found rooms used as command posts by senior terror commanders, including the former commander of Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, Muhammad Shabana, who was killed alongside top Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in May.
Hamas earlier this month said that it recovered Goldin’s body from a tunnel in Rafah, an area currently under IDF control. The Israeli military in the past year had searched the area for Goldin’s body, although it did not have intelligence on the exact location.
The terror group, a day later, returned Goldin’s remains, more than 11 years after he was killed and kidnapped by Hamas button men during the 2014 Gaza War.
HAMAS, RED CROSS SAID TO SEARCH FOR THE HOSTAGE BODY IN ZEITOUN
Hamas operatives, alongside Red Thingy representatives, were allowed into the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on Thursday, also now under IDF control, to search for the body of a hostage, according to Paleostinian and Arab media reports.
As in previous similar cases, Israel granted the Hamas button men permission to enter the IDF-held areas for the searches.
Al Jazeera reported that the searches ended, seemingly without any bodies being recovered.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Hamas was obligated to return all the living and deceased hostages.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding the bodies of three hostages: Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, Dror Or, and Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak.
Hamas has claimed that it has trouble finding their bodies.
Hamas spokesperson Qassem said Thursday that Israel had moved some of the physical markings that demarcate the roughly 50% of the Strip’s territory that Israel still holds.
Residents told Rooters they saw that in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighborhood, with the IDF’s yellow concrete blocks being moved 100 meters westward.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, the IDF’s international media spokesperson, said that "no boundary on the yellow line was moved."
The IDF began placing the markers in Gaza last month, and at times, has adjusted their positioning based on the actual border-line mandated by the truce agreement. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the latest movement of the markings.
IDF arrested Hamas doctor in July who knew of Hadar Goldin’s location, says military
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas operative with knowledge of where the terror group was holding the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin in the Gaza Strip was captured by Israeli forces in a special operation in July, the IDF and Shin Bet reveal.
Dr. Marwan al-Hams — who is the head of the Gaza Strip’s arms depots field hospitals, a position within the Hamas-run health ministry — was nabbed by undercover Israeli forces on July 21 in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, while he was visiting a Red Cross hospital in the area.
According to the IDF and Shin Bet, al-Hams was “involved in declaring the death” of Goldin following his abduction in the 2014 Gaza War, and “is suspected of knowing where he was buried” in the major Hamas tunnel in the Rafah area.
The arrest of al-Hams was part of “dozens of covert operations” conducted over the past six months as part of efforts to return Goldin’s body for burial, the military says.
Ultimately, the IDF was unable to locate Goldin’s remains, which were returned by Hamas to Israel earlier this month.
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