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IDF says dozens of strikes hit terror sites across Gaza; Hamas authorities say 60 killed

2025-06-01

[IsraelTimes] COGAT posts video of Gazan speaking out against Hamas; army reissues evacuation warning for Rafah, Khan Younis in southern Gaza

The Israeli Air Force struck dozens of targets 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 throughout the weekend, including terror operatives and infrastructure used by Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, the Israel Defense Forces said.

According to Hamas authorities in Gaza, 60 people were killed and dozens more were maimed in the strikes. The terror group’s figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

The IDF said a dronezap on Friday in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood killed a prominent Hamas operative involved in manufacturing weapons, and in a separate incident on Friday, soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade spotted a cell of four armed operatives and eliminated them. The paratroopers also located and destroyed several bombs that had been planted in their area of operations, the IDF added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy...
rockets were launched from southern Gaza toward Israel on Saturday, setting off alarms in the border communities of Nirim and Ein Hashlosha, the military said. The rockets landed in open areas near the communities, and no injuries or damages were reported.

On Saturday evening, the IDF reissued a wide evacuation warning for the entire Rafah and Khan Younis area in the southern Strip. It called for Paleostinians residing in areas marked on a map in red to evacuate westward toward the Mawasi area on the coast. The latest order covers much of the same areas previously ordered to evacuate in March and earlier this month.

A MESSAGE TO GAZANS
On Saturday, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) issued a message to Gazooks after a video posted to social media on Friday showed a Paleostinian in the Strip criticizing Hamas leadership.

"Residents of Gaza, the Hamas leadership has sold you out. This is the same leadership that deceived you. Instead of focusing on caring for the civilian population, it abandoned its people, while big shots abroad indulge in luxury on airplanes, in hotels, and in restaurants," COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian said in a Facebook post, where he attached an edited version of the social media video with subtitles. The full context of the clip was unclear.

Israel has been attempting to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Paleostinian civilian population in Gaza to weaken the terror group’s hold on the Strip.

On Friday, an Israeli defense official asserted that Hamas’s rule in Gaza was slipping as a new aid distribution system ramped up activities.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the new system, which is being run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been criticized for not sufficiently addressing the population’s nutritional needs and for the chaos that has repeatedly erupted at its distribution points.

Paleostinian media reports on Saturday said over 100 UN World Food Programme trucks loaded with flour were looted in the Khan Younis area. According to the Ynet news site, the flour was only set to be distributed on Sunday. In video footage on social media, gunfire could be heard at the scene, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. A separate incident posted on social media appeared to show a crowd of Gazooks running toward a distribution site to grab boxes of aid.

…someone shouting, “Allahu akhbar,” not exactly the behaviour of grateful recipients of generosity…

📹 اعتراض شاحنات محملة بالطحين صباح اليوم على طريق صلاح الدين بخانيونس جنوبي قطاع غزة وسط إطلاق نار على المواطنين#غزة_تحت_القصف pic.twitter.com/PZDGKgqFsR
— ساحات - عاجل 🇵🇸 (@Sa7atPlBreaking) May 31, 2025

A GHF spokesperson downplayed the footage, asserting that the scene was relatively calm and that a certain level of chaos is expected at the current time, due to the hunger levels in Gaza. According to the GHF, its contractors running the site allowed Paleostinians to take boxes themselves, while helping those in need, and the hope is to soon transition to a more orderly process when desperation in Gaza dies down.

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They meant business: Air Force dropped over 50 munitions in 30 seconds in strike that killed Muhammad Sinwar 2 weeks ago, IDF says

2025-06-01

[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped over 50 munitions in 30 seconds in the strike that eliminated Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in southern Gaza on May 13, according to the military.

The strike targeted a tunnel system that ran underneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis. Alongside Sinwar, the strike also killed Muhammad Shabana, commander of the terror group’s Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion.

According to the IDF, the “precise” missiles hit the underground Hamas command center and tunnel system, killing the senior commanders, without harming the hospital itself.

After Muhammad Sinwar’s death confirmed, Katz warns remaining Hamas leaders: You are next

[IsraelTimes] After the military confirmed the death of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in an airstrike several weeks ago, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the remaining leaders of the terror group in Gaza and abroad that they are next.

“Now it is official: The murderer Muhammad Sinwar has been eliminated with the Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana and the wicked gang who were with them under the European Hospital in Gaza, and he was sent to meet his brother at the gates of hell,” Katz says in a statement

“Izz al-Din Haddad in Gaza and Khalil al-Hayya abroad, and all their partners in crime, you are next in line,” he adds.

Haddad is Hamas’s Gaza City commander — the de facto most senior official in the Strip — and al-Hayya is a member of Hamas’s leadership council abroad.

Mr. al-Hayya met with the PM of Qatar two weeks ago, in case anyone needs to know figure out where he is now…

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Another massive tunnel found in Gaza by the IDF has been destroyed

2025-05-30

[X]

⚠️BREAKING: Another massive tunnel found in Gaza by the IDF has been destroyed.

Endless tunnels built by Gazans for decades using billions in aid.

They never wanted peace. pic.twitter.com/rWajOHDdx5
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 29, 2025

IDF demolishes long Hamas attack tunnel with several booby-trapped exits, kills operatives

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it recently demolished a Hamas attack tunnel during operations of the Gaza Division and the Yahalom combat engineering unit in the southern Gaza Strip.

The tunnel was hundreds of meters long and had several exits, some of them rigged with explosives, the army says.

During the efforts to uncover and demolish the tunnel, the IDF says troops spotted a cell of operatives emerging from one of the shafts. The troops killed the cell, according to the IDF.

Update from the Times of Israel at 12:25 p.m. EDT:

During recent operations of the 98th Division in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF says it demolished a kilometer-long Hamas tunnel.

The tunnel was discovered by the Commando Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, amid a new offensive against Hamas.

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Gaza: airstrikes kill five in Khan Younis as IDF tech officer maimed by sniper fire

2025-05-28

Operating under the radar as world attention is fixed on the new aid organizers.

IDF reservist seriously wounded by sniper fire in northern Gaza, military says

[IsraelTimes] An IDF reservist officer was seriously wounded by sniper fire in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military announces.

The reservist, who served as a technology and maintenance officer in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 924th Battalion, was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Gazans report strikes in northern Gaza, Khan Younis

[IsraelTimes] Media outlets in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes in recent hours have targeted Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in the northern part of the Strip, as well as the Khan Younis area in the southern part of the enclave.

Gazan reports say five people have been killed in strikes in Khan Younis since this morning, though it is unclear if they are civilians or combatants.

Weren’t they warned to leave the other day? Then their deaths are their own fault for staying. Probably Hamas’s, too, for holding them there.

There is no comment from the Israeli military.

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Gaza round-up: Over 200 Hamas positions were destroyed in the last 48 hours

2025-05-27

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Over 200 Hamas positions were destroyed in the last 48 hours, and dozens of Hamas terrorists were successfully eliminated by the IDF.

We're not stopping for a second.

Pray for our heroes' success.

pic.twitter.com/hrM8wGt4I9
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 26, 2025

Families massacred in their sleep as Israel bombs Gaza school
[NEWARAB] The Israeli military massacred at least 33 people and injured more than 55 others on Saturday when it struck a school sheltering displaced families 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...
City.

It’s a Hamas command-and-control center with built in human shield, and Hamas is delighted at the propaganda-worthy number of dead bodies.

The Fahmi al-Jarjawi School, located in the al-Daraj neighbourhood, had been repurposed as a refuge for people forced from their homes by Israel's months-long assault. Many of the victims were burned alive as they slept.

The IDF warned everyone to leave the area, as it was going to be hit, but they chose to stay — or perhaps Hamas held them there at gunpoint, that part is not quite clear.

. The Israeli army claimed the school was being used by bully boyz to plan attacks on Israeli forces and civilians, but it has provided no evidence. Eyewitnesses and local sources confirmed the building was functioning solely as a shelter with no murderous Moslem presence.

The latest massacre has deepened the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where UN agencies say shelters are dangerously overcrowded and no area is safe from Israeli fire.

According to the Education Cluster, 88 percent of Gaza's school buildings, 496 out of 564, have been hit or damaged by Israeli attacks since 2023, including 275 government schools, 161 UNRWA schools, and 57 private schools. These strikes have killed and maimed thousands.

Hamas clearly needs a great many command
and control centers.

Death toll in Israeli strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter reaches 36, Hamas-run authorities say
[IsraelTimes] The death toll in an Israeli strike on a Gaza City school-turned-shelter has risen to 36, Hamas-run authorities say.

The Israel Defense Forces said the early-morning strike on the Fahmi Al-Jarjawi school targeted “key terrorists” in a command center.

The strike apparently sparked a number of blazes.

IDF reissues wide evacuation warning for entire Rafah, Khan Younis area in south Gaza

IDF says over 200 strikes carried out in Gaza over past 48 hours; terror operatives, weapons depots targeted
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force carried out over 200 strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, the military says.

The IDF says the targets included terror operatives, weapon depots, anti-tank and sniper positions, tunnel shafts, and other infrastructure.

In southern Gaza, the military says troops struck a building used by Hamas as a weapons depot, an observation post, and another structure used by the terror group. Troops also directed drone strikes on several operatives spotted in buildings near the forces, the IDF says.

In northern Gaza, the IDF says a strike carried out by a fighter jet destroyed a building where members of Hamas’s Nukhba force were operating.

IDF says 3 rockets fired from Gaza; 2 fall short in Strip, 3rd is intercepted before crossing border
[IsraelTimes] Three rockets were launched from the southern Gaza Strip a short while ago, the military says.

The IDF says two of the projectiles fell short in Gaza, and the third was intercepted by air defenses before crossing the border.

Sirens did not sound in any border communities amid the attack.

There are no reports of injuries in Gaza from either the two projectiles that fell short or the interception.

IDF: ‘Key terrorists’ targeted in strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter; 25 said killed
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military says it carried out a strike overnight against “key terrorists” who were embedded within a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood.

According to Palestinian media, at least 25 people, including children, were killed in the strike on the Al-Jarjawi School.

The IDF says that the school was being used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as a command center.

“The command and control center was used by the terrorists to plan and gather intelligence in order to carry out terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops in the area,” the military says.

The military says it took “many steps” to mitigate civilian harm, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.

IDF says troops killed Gaza terror operatives who fired mortars at them
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it “eliminated” a cell of terror operatives that launched several mortars at troops during operations in the northern Gaza Strip today.

According to the military, several mortars were fired at troops of the 401st Armored Brigade, without causing any injuries. After just one minute, the troops identified the cell behind the attack, which had withdrawn to a building.

The troops then called in an airstrike on the building, killing the members of the cell, the IDF adds.

IDF division completes Rafah operations, pushes into Khan Younis in new offensive
[IsraelTimes] The IDF’s 36th Division is advancing in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis as part of a new offensive against Hamas, the military announces.

In a statement, the IDF says the division recently completed its operations in Rafah, and is now pushing into new areas in Khan Younis.

The division has established the so-called Morag Corridor between Rafah and Khan Younis in recent weeks.

In the past week, the IDF says the division’s forces killed dozens of terror operatives and destroyed hundreds of infrastructures, including observation posts and tunnels.

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Hamas authorities say at least 23 killed in strikes across Gaza; IDF doesn’t comment

2025-05-26

[IsraelTimes] Medics say local journalist, senior rescue service official and a pregnant woman among dead; army says soldier seriously injured in altercation with a comrade in north Gaza

Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Paleostinians across 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 on Sunday, including a journalist, a pregnant woman, and a senior rescue service official, according to local Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
-controlled health authorities. The Israel Defense Forces did not comment on any of the strikes.

The latest deaths in the campaign resulted from separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north, and Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.

Israel has stepped up its air campaign in Gaza in recent days, saying on Saturday that it struck 100 targets across the territory, targeting terror operatives and sites. The military says it takes steps to minimize harm to civilians, while noting that terror groups operate from within Gaza’s civilian population.

In Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, a strike hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a mother, her two children and another relative, according to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal said five people were killed in a strike on a home in Jabalia, in the north.

He added some people were still under the debris, as "the civil defense does not have search equipment or heavy equipment to lift the rubble to rescue the maimed and recover the deaders."

Also in Jabalia, local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members were killed by an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
that hit his house earlier in the day, according to the Hamas-run civil defense agency.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, Abu Warda’s death raised the number of Paleostinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 220. Israel has repeatedly alleged that journalists killed in strikes were actually terror operatives who posed as news hounds; it maintains that Hamas uses hospitals, schools, shelters, and aid infrastructure as cover for terror activities.

Given that the IDF collected Hamas’s HR file cabinet contents ages ago, if they say so it’s because they have proof.

Two more people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in an attack targeting tents that sheltered displaced people around Nuseirat in central Gaza, Bassal added.

Also in Nuseirat, medics said that an airstrike killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory’s civil emergency service, and his wife in their home.

The Israeli military did not respond to request for comment on any of the airstrikes in Gaza on Sunday, but did say that a recent strike in the Strip killed a Hamas terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught. The IDF said Ahmad Osama Hassan Al-Lahouni, who served in Hamas’s naval commando unit, was killed in a strike carried out jointly by the Southern Command, Israeli Air Force, Intelligence Directorate, Navy, and Shin Bet. Lahouni had infiltrated the Kerem Shalom area on October 7, according to the IDF.

ATTEMPTS TO LOOT HUMANITARIAN AID TRUCK IN GAZA
Later on Sunday, media outlets in Gaza published footage showing dozens of people attempting to loot a truck carrying humanitarian aid in downtown Gaza City.

The video showed crowds trying to unload aid from the vehicle before gunfire is heard, prompting the crowd to disperse. Whether the truck ultimately reached its intended destination or was looted remains unclear.

A similar incident was reported Saturday in Khan Younis, where, according to reports, dozens of people surrounded another aid truck and took its contents.

On Saturday, a UAE-affiliated aid organization announced that of the 24 trucks it had sent into Gaza in recent days carrying humanitarian supplies — primarily flour and baking materials — 23 were stolen and never reached their intended destinations, such as bakeries or storage warehouses in the Strip.

The armed wing of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in separate statements Sunday that fighters carried out several ambushes and attacks using bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces operating in several areas across Gaza. The military did not refer to any such incidents.

The military has stepped up its Gaza operations in recent days in what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Hamas, calling for the evacuation of civilians from large swaths of the enclave, including the entire city of Khan Younis in the southern Strip.

Gaza’s health ministry said Sunday that at least 3,785 people had been killed in the territory since the latest ceasefire collapsed on March 18, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,939 — a figure that cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 420.

Red Cross says 2 of its members killed in strike on Gaza home

How close to 100% probability that both were also middle management on the Hamas payroll? And that they were doing something warlike at the time they were airstruck?

[IsraelTimes] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announces that two of its staff members, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal, were killed in a strike on their home in Khan Younis yesterday.

According to a statement from the ICRC’s delegation in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Eid was employed as a weapon contamination officer, while Abu Hilal was a security guard at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah.

“We extend our profound condolences to their families, friends, and colleagues. Their loss leaves a deep hole in our hearts,” the statement reads.

The ICRC condemns the rising civilian death toll in Gaza, describing the killings as “intolerable” and reiterating calls for a ceasefire. They also demand the “protection of civilians, including medical humanitarian relief, and civil defense personnel.”

The IDF has yet to respond to a request for comment on the incident.

Hamas-run authorities say 20 killed, dozens wounded in strike on Gaza City school-turned-shelter

Translation: The IDF destroys yet another Hamas command-and-control center with built-in human shields. How many of the shields were being held there at gunpoint versus the number of Hamas relatives who thought it a perk until that moment?

[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run health authorities in the Gaza Strip say at least 20 people were killed and dozens were wounded when an Israeli strike hit a school housing displaced people a short while ago.

Medics say the dozens of casualties in the strike on the school, at Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, included women and children, although these figures could not be verified.

Some of the bodies were badly burned according to images circulating on social media, which Reuters cannot immediately verify.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

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IDF aims to capture 75% of Gaza Strip in 2 months in new offensive against Hamas

2025-05-26

[IsraelTimes] Palestinians to be pushed into three small zones, as new aid delivery mechanism set to start Monday; military says no change to collateral damage policy in airstrikes

The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it aims to occupy 75 percent 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’s territory within two months as part of its new offensive against the Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group.

Israel on March 18 resumed its attacks against Hamas with a surprise wave of ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, ending a two-month ceasefire. The IDF has since deployed five divisions to the Strip — amounting to tens of thousands of troops — and is poised to launch a wide-scale ground offensive aimed at defeating Hamas’s military wing and its civil rule in Gaza, should the terror group not agree to release the hostages it is holding.

When the major ground offensive is launched, the Paleostinian population will be pushed into three small zones in Gaza: a new "safer zone" in the Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, where Israel previously declared a "humanitarian zone"; a strip of land in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah and Nuseirat, where the IDF has not operated with ground forces; and the center of Gaza City, to which many Paleostinians returned during the ceasefire earlier this year.

According to the IDF’s current estimates, some 700,000 Paleostinians are residing in the Mawasi area, 300,000-350,000 are in central Gaza, and around one million are in Gaza City.

This means that Gaza’s 2 million population will be pushed into an area amounting to just 25% of the Strip when the IDF launches its expanded ground operation.

The IDF will then capture, clear of Hamas infrastructure, raze most buildings, and hold for the foreseeable future the rest of Gaza, including all of Rafah, Khan Younis, and the towns north of Gaza City.

According to the IDF’s plans, which were seen by The Times of Israel, it should take just two months to capture 75% of Gaza from the moment the operation goes ahead. Currently, the military is in control of about 40% of the Strip’s territory.

Military officials have said that the IDF is shifting its focus away from trying to eliminate as many terror operatives as possible — which had been the focus from the beginning of the war — and instead is centering on capturing territory and destroying Hamas’s infrastructure.

The terror group constructed in Gaza an estimated 900 kilometers (559 miles) of tunnels, yet so far, only 25% of them have been destroyed, according to the military. The IDF has argued that its main focus has been on Hamas’s attack tunnels and those used as command centers or for weapons manufacturing — the majority of which have been destroyed — rather than the numerous tunnels that the terror group uses to move around the Strip.

The army believes that Hamas can indeed be defeated by destroying its military wing — including all of its infrastructure — along with targeting its civil rule, capturing the territory, and preventing it from controlling the humanitarian aid

entering Gaza.

Defeating Hamas would enable the release of the remaining 58 hostages the terror group is holding — just 20 of whom are believed to be alive — the IDF has argued.

Still, Israeli political officials have not held any meaningful discussion on who would run Gaza "the day after" Hamas.

On Sunday, during a visit to Gaza, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the fighting against Hamas was "not an endless war."

"We are intensifying our activity in accordance with the orderly plan. Hamas is under tremendous pressure; it has lost most of its assets and its command and control," Zamir said during a tour of Khan Younis with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor.

The IDF has said that the aid entering Gaza before the collapse of the ceasefire was being used by Hamas to stay in power. Much of the aid would be captured by the terror group, and it would either use the consignments of supplies itself or sell them to the population at increased prices, to pay for the salaries of its operatives and to recruit more members.

Hamas has been struggling to pay salaries in the past few months, according to the IDF, since Israel halted the entry of aid on March 2, after the first phase of the latest ceasefire and hostage release deal concluded.

A new humanitarian aid delivery mechanism is set to start operations on Monday morning, though it has come under criticism and skepticism from aid groups.

The IDF has helped set up four aid distribution hubs in Gaza for the mechanism, which will be operated entirely by a private American security company, while the military provides the outer layer of security.

Updated imagery of what appear to be the new humanitarian aid zones, from where Israel plans private US contractors will distribute to Gazooks.

Three of the sites are in the Rafah area, which will serve those in Mawasi and possibly also those in central Gaza; and a fourth site is in the Netzarim Corridor area of central Gaza, for Paleostinians in Gaza City or those in the northern portion of central Gaza.

A representative of a Paleostinian family will come to the distribution hub and collect a five-day supply of food from the American company. The IDF expects that each hub can serve 300,000 people per week. Aid trucks carrying supplies for hospitals and flour for bakeries would continue to be sent into Gaza for the time being.

No change in collateral damage policy, IDF says

The military said Sunday that since the resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip, it had struck over 2,900 targets, killing at least 800 terror operatives, among them some 50 bigwigs and mid-level commanders, and over a dozen gunnies who participated in the October 7 onslaught.

The numbers refer to terror operatives whose deaths have been confirmed by name and ID number, though the military estimates that many more have been killed.

Hamas claims that over 3,785 Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The figure has not been verified and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

The IDF said there have been no recent changes to its airstrike policy, including what sort of collateral damage and how many civilian casualties are permissible during operations in Gaza.

According to the IDF, there has also been no change to the amount of collateral damage in strikes in practice, and the combatant-to-civilian deaths ratio has remained relatively the same throughout the war, with two to three civilians killed for every dead Hamas terror operative.

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More than 70 ~~people~~ human shields killed in Gaza in one day due to Israeli shelling

2025-05-25

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] At least 76 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. This was reported on May 24 by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera.

This all will stop the minute Hamas lays down its arms, returns the hostages — living and dead — and decamps from Gaza. But Hamas likes the world reaction to dead Gaans, so they ensure there is a steady supply.
In addition, more than 200 people were injured.

"The death toll continues to rise as attacks continue," the report said.

According to the channel, the Israeli army (IDF) struck a house in Khan Yunis, killing seven children, among others. A residential building in Jabaliya was also hit. The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, on May 18, the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began conducting a large-scale ground operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported 96 dead and more than 140 injured after the Israeli attack in the morning that same day. The ministry noted that civilian targets were hit. The ministry also added that after the resumption of shelling by Israeli troops in Gaza, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed and about 9,000 were injured.

In turn, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Israel would allow the import of a “basic amount” of food products into the Gaza Strip to prevent the threat of famine in the enclave. In addition, Netanyahu’s office added that Israel intends to work to deprive Hamas of the ability to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid so that it does not end up in the hands of terrorists.

The IDF also struck the Palestinian semi-exclave in early May. According to Al Jazeera, at least 66 people were killed in an Israeli air force attack on May 7, and 63 Palestinians the day before.

Gazans say 9 children of doctor couple killed in Israeli strike; IDF looking into report

[IsraelTimes] Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip

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...
’s Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
-run civil defense agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Younis had killed nine children of a pair of married doctors, with the Israeli army saying it was looking into the reports.

According to Paleostinian media, the strike hit a home in Khan Younis, killing nine children of the same family, all under the age of 12. The father of the family and one of the children, aged 10, were seriously maimed. The mother, Alaa Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time of the strike.

In response to the reports, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it carried out a strike in Khan Younis, saying it targeted several suspects identified at a building near where ground troops were operating.

"The Khan Younis area is a dangerous combat zone that the IDF ordered civilians to evacuate for their safety before the start of the operation," the military said, referring to a warning on Monday.

"The claims about harm to uninvolved [civilians] are being looked into," it added.

Israel has stepped up its campaign in Gaza in recent days, drawing international criticism as well as calls to allow in more supplies after it partially eased a total blockade on aid imposed on March 2.

Hamas’s civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal said the agency had retrieved "the bodies of nine child deaders, some of them charred, from the home of Dr Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, all of whom were their children."

He added that Hamdi al-Najjar and another son, Adam, were also seriously maimed in the strike, and that the family was taken to Nasser Hospital. A medical source at the hospital gave Adam’s age as 10 years old.

Bassal told AFP that Israeli strikes since the early hours had killed at least 15 people across Gaza as of Saturday afternoon. He said the dead included a couple killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of Khan Younis.

To the west of the city, at least five people were killed by a dronezap on a crowd of people that had gathered to wait for aid trucks, he alleged.

In a statement, the military said that over the past day the air force had struck more than 100 targets across the territory, targeting terror operatives and sites. The military says it takes steps to minimize harm to civilians, while adding that terror groups operate from within Gaza’s civilian population.

The IDF said Saturday that all standing army infantry and armored brigades were now deployed to the Strip, as Israel prepared to further intensify its offensive against Hamas.

In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the enclave, it said.

The IDF had previously announced that five divisions were operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.

Despite the easing of the blockade, distribution has also been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, an umbrella network representing Paleostinian aid groups said.

"They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger," the network said in a statement.

Israel imposed the blockade in early March as hostage-ceasefire talks broke down, accusing Hamas of stealing aid meant for civilians.

The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday, which it said reflected the dire conditions facing Gazooks.

Israel has announced that a new system, sponsored by the United States and run by private contractors, will soon begin operations from four distribution centers in the south of Gaza, but many details of how the system will work remain unclear.

The UN has already said it will not work with the new system, which it says will leave aid distribution conditional on Israel’s political and military aims.

Israel says its forces will only provide security for the centers and will not distribute aid themselves.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, criticized Israel on Friday, saying that the UN had brought in 500 to 600 trucks per day on average during a six-week ceasefire that broke down in March, about five times higher than current rates.

"No one should be surprised, let alone shocked at scenes of precious aid looted, stolen or ’lost’," he wrote on X, adding that "the people of Gaza have been starved" for more than 11 weeks.

Footage published in Arabic media on Friday showed hundreds of Paleostinians crowding around a bakery in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp as bread was being distributed for the first time in weeks.

As the aid has begun to trickle in, the IDF has continued the intensified ground and air operation launched last week, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would end with Israel taking full control of the Gaza Strip.

Earlier from the Times of Israel:

The Israeli military said 83 trucks carrying flour, food, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical equipment entered the Gaza Strip from the Kerem Shalom crossing point on Friday, for a total of 388 since Monday, when the blockade was eased.

However, an umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups provided a separate figure, saying only 119 aid trucks have passed the Kerem Shalom crossing point and into Gaza. The discrepancy was likely because many of the trucks were not picked up by the aid groups from the Palestinian side of the crossing for distribution.

The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday.

With most of Gaza’s 2 million population squeezed into an ever-narrowing zone on the coast and in the area around the southern city of Khan Younis by Israel’s military operation, international pressure to get aid in quickly has ratcheted up.

The military said Friday that it had struck over 75 targets in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, including terror operatives, rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, and other infrastructure.

On Friday, Hamas-run Palestinian medical services said at least 25 people had been killed in the strikes. Another Hamas official told AFP that at least 71 people were killed. Neither of the figures could be independently confirmed.

In Gaza’s north, Al-Awda hospital reported Friday that three of its staff were injured “after Israeli quadcopter drones dropped bombs” on the facility. The Hamas-run civil defense agency later said it had successfully contained a fire at the hospital.

Meanwhile, the military said Friday that ground troops had killed several operatives across Gaza and destroyed other Hamas sites.

IDF says air force struck over 100 targets in Gaza over past day
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force struck over 100 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military says.

The targets included a launcher used to fire a rocket at southern Israel yesterday afternoon. Other targets included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the IDF says.

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IDF soldier seriously hurt in north Gaza Thursday as dozens of Palestinians said killed in strikes

2025-05-24

[IsraelTimes] Military says 98th Division has returned to the enclave, operating in Khan Younis; Hamas-run Gaza civil defense says 52 killed in aerial bombardment in past day

An IDF tank commander was seriously maimed 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 on Thursday as the military pushed ahead with its widened offensive in the enclave.

Gaza’s health authorities said the ongoing campaign had killed more than 50 people over the past day.

The military said that the injured tank commander, who serves in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, was evacuated from the Strip to a hospital, and his family was notified.

In a separate incident on Thursday, a soldier was lightly maimed when a grenade went kaboom! during operations in southern Gaza.

Late last week, the military launched its new offensive dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, which Israel says seeks to destroy remaining Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
capabilities and seize and retain Gaza territory while relocating Paleostinians across the enclave.

The military announced on Thursday that the IDF’s elite 98th Division had returned to operating in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of divisions acting in the enclave to five. The elite formation of paratrooper and commando units — made up of thousands of soldiers — is operating in Khan Younis, the military said, and is working to establish "operational control" and destroy Hamas’s infrastructure in the southern Gaza city, both above and below ground.

The army said that troops of the division had already killed dozens of terror operatives, including in close-quarters combat and through directing ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. Some 200 sites used by terror groups had been demolished, including tunnels, the army added.

At the same time as the IDF operated across large parts of southern Gaza, it issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in 14 different locations in the enclave’s north.

Among the areas included in the evacuation zone were Sheikh Zayed, Salatin, Beit Lahiya, and Jabaliya.

In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, warned that the military was operating "with great force" in these areas and that they were considered "dangerous combat zones."

A map posted alongside the warning showed a swath of territory marked in red.

The army had issued a similar evacuation call for northern Gaza late Wednesday following rocket fire on southern Israel.

The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million have been displaced at least once during the war.

Hundreds of people have been reported dead across the Strip since the start of the new Israeli offensive, and on Thursday evening, the Hamas-run civil defense agency said that 52 people had been killed in the past day, and dozens more had been injured. The figures, which do not differentiate between civilians and button men, could not be verified.

Israel says it only targets terror groups and makes efforts to minimize harm to civilians.

AFP footage of northern Gaza showed numerous plumes of smoke rising from the area over the course of the afternoon.

Earlier on Thursday, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said a tank shell hit a medicine warehouse inside al-Awda Hospital in Beit Lahiya, on the northern edge of the enclave, and set it ablaze.

Videos taken by a health official at al-Awda showed walls blown away and thick black smoke billowing over wreckage.

While rescue workers were trying to extinguish the fire, medics said tanks had been stationed outside the hospital, effectively blocking access to it.

Hospital director Mohammed Salha said that the civil defense agency had spent three hours trying to contain the fires and failed.

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Israel targeted Muhammad Sinwar in rare moment when he had no hostages around him — report

2025-05-24

[IsraelTimes] TV report says Hamas chief made mistake of meeting with top commanders without his usual protective ‘hostage belt’; when Israel was sure no captives were present, it bombed

The strike that targeted and possibly eliminated Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Muhammad Sinwar 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...
earlier this month was made possible when the terror chief made the rare mistake of moving without a defensive "hostage belt" protecting him, according to a Friday report.

Channel 12 aired new details on the massive strike on Sinwar and other top Hamas officials in a Khan Younis tunnel on May 13 that is currently believed to have killed Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, following Israel’s killing of his brother Yahya last October.

The network said Muhammad Sinwar was almost always surrounded by hostages throughout the war, as Hamas leaders realized this was a strong deterrent against Israeli liquidation attempts. And indeed, Channel 12 said Israeli intelligence had long tracked Sinwar but repeatedly ruled out potential strikes on him when presented with the opportunity due to fears there were hostages in his vicinity.

"No risks are taken if there’s even a one percent chance that hostages are in the area," a security source told the network.

The report said Sinwar became even more careful following the death of his brother in a firefight with Israeli forces, and that only a very small number of people knew his location at any time, echoing a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
for unknown reasons, Sinwar decided on May 13 to meet with the commander of the Rafah Brigade in Hamas’s military wing, Mohammad Shabana, as well as other senior commanders, without his usual escort of hostages.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Hamas and Arab officials who said the meeting of tap-ranking Hamas figures was convened to discuss their approach to talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal, among other matters.

Presented with this opportunity, the Israeli Air Force immediately began preparing for a strike, the report said, though top officers expected it would likely be called off due to fears of harming hostages.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
when ironclad intelligence arrived that no hostages were present, the IAF was given the green light, jets were scrambled, and the bombing went ahead.

The strikes targeted an underground command compound below the European Hospital. The Hamas-run health ministry reported 16 dead and over 70 maimed in the strike, though there was no immediate word if Sinwar was among the casualties.

The IDF later bombed the area several more times, in an apparent attempt to prevent anyone from approaching the tunnel and aiding the terror operatives.

According to the officials cited by the Wall Street Journal, Hamas recovered Sinwar’s body a day after the strike and temporarily buried it in another tunnel, with the intention of moving his remains to a more suitable grave once the fighting ceases.

Saudi channel al-Hadath reported that Sinwar’s body was was recovered along with the remains of 10 of his aides. Hamas has not confirmed this.

Israel has also not confirmed that Sinwar was killed, but Defense Minister Israel Katz said that "according to all the indications Muhammad Sinwar was eliminated."

Following the killing of Hamas’s top military commander, Muhammad Deif, last July, Muhammad Sinwar took charge of the terror group’s military wing. Later, after Sinwar’s older brother Yahya was killed by IDF troops, he became the de facto leader of the terror group in the Strip.

Israeli officials have described Muhammad Sinwar as obstinate concerning negotiations for the release of hostages, and an obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal.

The younger Sinwar was also wanted for terrorist actions against Israel and has been active in Hamas for decades.

He was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by Israel in the 1990s for nine months and spent an additional three years in a Paleostinian Authority prison in Ramallah, from which he escaped in 2000. In 2006, Sinwar was part of the Hamas cell that kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. He also previously commanded Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.

Most of Hamas’s leadership has been eliminated by Israel during the ongoing war, which was sparked when the terror group stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.

On Thursday, Paleostinian media reported that Zakaria Sinwar, brother of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar, succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on Saturday night.

Zakaria, a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza, was initially said to have been killed in the strike, but media reports later said he had been critically injured.

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Israeli strikes kill Palestinians protecting Gaza aid trucks, Hamas says

2025-05-24

[GEO.TV] Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s killed at least six Paleostinians guarding aid trucks against looters, Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
officials said on Friday, underlining the problems hindering supplies from reaching hungry people 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...
following Israel's 11-week-long blockade.

An umbrella network of Paleostinian aid groups said 119 aid trucks have entered Gaza since Israel eased its blockade on Monday in the face of an international outcry. But distribution has been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, the network said.

"They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger," the network said in a statement, which also condemned Israeli airstrikes on security teams protecting the trucks.

They targetted gunmen, per the Times of Israel, who were not benign:

The IDF says it targeted several armed Palestinians — some of them Hamas operatives — who were spotted next to humanitarian aid trucks in the central Gaza Strip early this morning in a drone strike.

In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the IDF says that it targeted the gunmen after identifying them near the trucks, adding “the aid was not hit as a result of the strike.”

The statement doesn’t elaborate on how the army knew that only some of the armed operatives targeted were Hamas members.

Hamas claimed that the targeted gunmen were “members of the aid security and protection teams… who were performing purely humanitarian tasks,” and that six were killed in the strike.

A military source denies Hamas’s allegation that the targets were local security, saying, “This is a false and unfounded claim.”

“This is another example of the cynical use by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip of civilians and humanitarian aid infrastructure that enters the area. The IDF will allow humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, while making every effort to ensure that the humanitarian aid does not reach terror organizations,” the IDF adds in its response.

While critics argue that armed guards are needed to secure aid to prevent looting, given the desperate need for food in Gaza, Israel in the past has targeted gunmen unless their operations are coordinated. But aid groups say that many of their requests to coordinate the transportation of trucks go unanswered by Israel.

Israel says 83 trucks of aid entered Gaza on Friday
[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 83 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip today.

Israel resumed daily aid deliveries to Gaza on Monday, after a pause since March 2.

COGAT says the aid delivery comes “following the recommendation of professional IDF officials and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon.”

Today’s trucks include flour, food, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical equipment, COGAT says.

The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Aid groups have faced significant challenges distributing the aid because of insecurity, the risk of looting, and coordination issues with Israeli authorities, UN officials say.

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Report: Hamas found Muhammad Sinwar’s body in tunnel, informed the family

2025-05-22

[IsraelTimes] Hamas representatives two days ago informed the family of Muhammad Sinwar, the commander of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, that he was killed in a tunnel in Khan Younis, the Saudi-owned, London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports.

According to the report, which comes eight days after the IDF targeted Sinwar in a series of airstrikes, Hamas special forces arrived at the tunnel in Khan Younis that had been attacked, discovered Sinwar’s body, and additional forces were later sent to retrieve it and bury him temporarily.

The report also states that Hamas confirmed that also killed in the strike on the tunnel were Rafah Brigade Commander Muhammad Shabana and a battalion commander from the Rafah Brigade whose name is not mentioned. The outlet reports that Sinwar and Shabana entered the tunnel three days before the strike.

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