..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday.
The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its "precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations" inside Rafah.
"This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six Lions of Islam near a school in the area of the troops. The Lions of Islam were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire," the IDF said in a statement.
Images released by the IDF show troops operating in the dense urban environment of Rafah. Images also show the cache of weapons, explosives and other equipment troops retrieved during the operation.
News of the operation comes the same day an Israeli strike took out Hamas and 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...
Lions of Islam hiding at a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
school for displaced Paleostinians in central 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 an 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...
. Local officials say that the strike killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and kiddies.
Israel said it was targeting a Hamas compound inside the school containing 20 to 30 fighters and that many of them had been killed.
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..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...authorities at face value and reporting that Israel carried out a deadly
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KABOOM!...
on an UNRWA school without noting that the central 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 an 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...
compound was being used by terrorists.
"Sadly, we saw some media outlets fall for Hamas’s tactics yet again before checking the facts," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said during a presser in which he revealed the identities of nine terror operatives killed in the attack.
Those targeted were members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force and of the 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...
terror group who "directed terror attacks from the area of the school while exploiting it as a civilian location and as a shelter."
"The snuffies inside this school were planning more attacks against Israelis, some of them imminent. We stopped a ticking time bomb," Hagari claimed.
Hagari said there were around 30 snuffies in the three rooms that were targeted. He said some of those killed had participated in the Hamas-led October 7 terror onslaught during which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Hagari said the IDF was working to verify this information further before making it public.
Many international reports on the Wednesday night strike relied on Hamas authorities’ claim that 33 Paleostinians were killed and made little or no mention of any alleged connection to terror activity.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital initially reported that nine women and 14 children were among those killed in the strike on the school that had been operating as a shelter due to the war’s mass displacement of Paleostinians.
The hospital morgue on Thursday evening amended those records to show that the dead were three women, nine children and 21 men. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named news hound had counted the bodies but was unable to look beneath the shrouds.
Hagari said the strike targeted the Hamas and PIJ operatives gathered in three classrooms at the UN school and noted this was the fifth time this past month alone that the IDF struck snuffies operating from facilities belonging to the UNRWA agency for Paleostinian refugees.
"Hamas wages war from schools and hospitals. Hamas hopes that international law and public sympathy will provide a shield for its military activities, which is why it systematically operates from schools, UN facilities, hospitals and mosques," Hagari continued, stressing that this is a war crime that should be condemned by the international community.
The IDF spokesperson noted that the IDF delayed the strike twice after identifying civilians in the area, which it had been monitoring for several days.
"We conducted the strike once our intelligence and surveillance indicated that there were no women or children inside those classrooms," he asserted.
He did not deny that civilians were still killed in the strike.
Ostensibly relying on the same reports from Hamas authorities, governments and international organizations issued a flood of condemnations against Israel on Thursday.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA, said that Israel bombed the school "without prior warning."
"Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked," he wrote on X. "Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law."
Stephan Dujarric, front man for UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
, said the strike "is just another horrific example of the price that civilians are paying, that Paleostinian men, women and kiddies who are just trying to survive (are paying).
"Of course [Guterres] condemns this attack. There will need to be accountability for everything that has happened in Gaza."
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for a probe into the strike, writing on X, "Reports coming from Gaza time and again show that violence and suffering are still the only reality for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. This appalling news must be independently investigated."
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
the US called on Israel to be "transparent" regarding the strike, State Department front man Matthew Miller told news hounds. Miller said the United States believed Israeli assessments that Hamas has at times hidden in civilian infrastructure, but said it was waiting for information on the latest strike.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. Of these, some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals or through self-reporting by families, with the rest of the figure based on Hamas "media sources." The tolls, which cannot be verified, include some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 snuffies inside Israel on October 7.
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