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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
..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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A diplomatic storm: Self-inflicted PR damage complicates Israel's uphill battle
2025-05-23
[Jpost] How much damage can words do? Israel’s internal rhetoric is intensifying global condemnation and playing into the hands of those fueling anti-Israel sentiment.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
— H.L.Mencken
The barrage this week came fast, hard, and from all directions.

But it wasn’t missiles from Lebanon or drones from Iran that pounded Israel this time. Instead, it was a diplomatic onslaught: waves of condemnation, sanctions, and outrage from capitals across the globe, most notably in Europe.

The trigger: images of hungry children in Gaza flooding the airwaves, a wildly exaggerated claim by a senior UN official that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza if aid did not reach them in 48 hours, and Israel’s vow to intensify the fighting to free hostages and destroy Hamas.

A harsh statement signed by the leaders of Britain, France, and Canada, punitive threats – some already acted upon – and the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington all underscored a dangerous reality: Israel is not only fighting the war in Gaza but also a battle for legitimacy on the world stage.

The UK froze trade negotiations, the EU initiated a review of its association agreement with Israel, and foreign ministers queued up to censure. Yet, ironically, some of the sharpest blows came not from Israel’s enemies but from Israelis themselves.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu tried to project calm at his first press conference since December.

“European countries will not influence us or cause us to abandon our core objectives: securing Israel’s future and safety,” he said. Israel, he asserted, would continue to aggressively pursue its war aims until Hamas is dismantled, the hostages are returned, and Gaza no longer poses a threat.

“We will do what is necessary to complete the war,” he said, adding that, in the end, Israel will have complete security control over the enclave.

Even as he dismissed European pressure, Netanyahu acknowledged the power of another force: images. Specifically, the images of hungry Gazan children and food lines that are dominating global headlines and eroding US political support.

Despite Hamas still holding 58 hostages, 20 of whom Netanyahu said were alive, and even with ongoing concerns about aid being intercepted by terrorists, Netanyahu reversed a policy in effect since March 2 and authorized renewed humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Why the shift? Because the White House requested it –
I would vote for Donald Trump again, but this particular triangulation is shameful. Cowardly. He knows the situation and the ramifications, but chose to put his thumb on the scale for the side that created Elias Rodriguez, refusing to stand up against the lies.
and because, as Netanyahu conveyed, even Israel’s closest allies could not bear the optics.
Cowards.
“Our best friends in the world,” Netanyahu said in a short video Monday explaining the new policy, “senators I have known as unstinting, enthusiastic supporters, who I have known for dozens of years, are coming to me and saying this: We give you all the assistance to complete the victory – arms, support to destroy Hamas, defense in the UN Security Council. There is one thing we cannot stand: We cannot take pictures of starvation, mass starvation. We won’t be able to support you.”

To retain international backing, Israel had to confront the humanitarian crisis; Netanyahu said: “To achieve victory, we have to solve the problem.”

IT’S A SOBERING message. Even in a war started by Hamas with its barbaric October 7 attack, optics and false narratives (such as 14,000 babies dying within 48 hours) are shaping the battlefield.

If the original logic in withholding the aid was to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages, the new approach suggests the opposite: resuming aid is essential to preserving international support needed to sustain military pressure on Hamas.

However, as the statements from some European capitals and Canada made clear – statements issued, ironically, the very day aid resumed – the intensified military campaign does not enjoy international legitimacy. But the move may help temper US criticism.

Critics on Netanyahu’s Right called the reversal capitulation. Critics on his Left said it was yet another example of incoherent policy. Both may have a point. But there’s another way to interpret it: tactical recalibration in a shifting geopolitical landscape.

At the core lies a truth too often ignored abroad: Hamas could end the humanitarian crisis immediately by releasing the hostages. It chooses not to because, for Hamas, the suffering of its own civilians is a weapon, not a liability.

“People have forgotten October 7,” said President Donald Trump during his Mideast tour, which ended last Friday in the UAE. “It was one of the most violent days in world history.” He’s right. And many have also forgotten that Gaza’s agony continues because Hamas refuses to yield, free the hostages, and surrender.

This war isn’t fought only in Rafah’s tunnels and in the alleys of Khan Yunis. It is also being waged in Washington’s corridors, at the UN, and on the world’s television screens.

Israel may have the upper hand militarily, but in Europe’s halls of power and in the court of global opinion, it is faltering. Some are arguing – with no small degree of justification – that Israel’s minimal public diplomacy suggests it has all but abandoned that front.

Adding to the public diplomacy challenge is that some of the damage is self-inflicted.

On the Left, Yair Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff and head of the Democrats Party, accused his own country this week of “killing babies as a hobby.”

On the Right, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at a conference earlier this month of postwar Gaza where its “desperate” civilians will all be in the south, “understanding there is no future, no purpose, and nothing left for them in Gaza” but to seek relocation and start new lives elsewhere.

These voices may lie on the ideological fringes, but their words shape how the world sees the conflict.
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Terror group says senior operative killed in Israeli special forces op in south Gaza
2025-05-20
As of late Monday morning.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian media says undercover troops apprehended wife and children of Popular Resistance Committees commander in Khan Younis; IDF rebuffs report of hostage rescue operation

A senior Paleostinian terror operative was killed in an Israeli operation in the southern 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 early Monday morning, as the Israel Defense Forces denied that the effort was an attempt to rescue Israeli hostages.

The military wing of the Popular Resistance® Committees, a small terrorist organization operating in the Gaza Strip, announced the death of Ahmad Sarhan, following reports that the senior figure was killed in an Israeli commando raid this morning. The organization said Sarhan was responsible for the group’s "special operations." It claimed that Israeli commandos killed Sarhan after failing in an attempt to arrest him.

Media outlets in Gaza reported earlier in the morning that Israeli special forces entered Khan Younis and killed Sarhan. According to the reports, the force entered the heart of the Paleostinian city in disguise, including some troops dressed as women. During the operation, Sarhan’s wife and children were apprehended, the reports claimed.

The Popular Resistance® Committees is considered the third-largest terror organization operating in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
 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...
. In recent years, the group has operated under Hamas’s directives.

Amid the incident at dawn, a wave of heavy Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s was reported around the Khan Younis area, including Nasser Hospital. Videos from the Strip showed large strikes in quick succession in the area, followed by the sounds of helicopter gunships, shelling, small arms fire, and other explosions. There were unconfirmed Paleostinian media reports of casualties.

Initially, a report from Saudi news channel al-Arabiya, picked up by Hebrew-language media, claimed that the Israeli forces entered the area as part of an attempted hostage rescue operation. In response, the IDF issued a vague statement hinting that no such operation took place.

"The IDF is in the midst of Operation Gideon’s Chariots and is operating in all areas of the Gaza Strip," the military said, referring to its intensified offensive launched late last week.

"Following the reports, there is no change to the situational assessment," the statement added.

The special forces exited the city without taking on any casualties, according to Hebrew-language media.

Paleostinian media published images purportedly showing a wagon left behind by the Israeli forces. The photos showed what appeared to be a wagon of the kind usually pulled by a mule or cycle of violence, and often used by displaced Gazooks to move their belongings. Inside, however, was a secret hollow section where Israeli troops or equipment may have been hidden, or which possibly could be used to hold suspects.

IDF DECLARES ALL OF KHAN YOUNIS A COMBAT ZONE
The IDF announced Monday that all Paleostinians living in and around the large southern Gaza city of Khan Younis must leave their homes as it prepares to launch an "unprecedented attack" on the area. The evacuation order, covering all of Khan Younis as well as the suburbs of Bani Suheila and Abasan, marks the first major evacuation order since the IDF launched an expanded offensive in the Strip, with Israeli leaders warning they intend to conquer the whole territory to smash Hamas.

Media outlets in Gaza published footage showing large numbers of residents leaving the Khan Younis area on foot. According to Al Arabiya, thousands of residents have already begun evacuating. In recent weeks, there has been relatively low compliance with IDF evacuation orders in Gaza, according to both residents’ testimonies and UNRWA data on the number of evacuees.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
 Israeli warplanes struck over 160 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said, after Paleostinian media outlets reported that dozens of aerial bombardments were conducted across the territory overnight. According to the IDF, the targets included cells of operatives, anti-tank missile launch sites, tunnels, a weapons depot, buildings used by terror groups, booby-trapped structures, and a command center. Strikes were reported in and near Khan Younis, in Gaza City in the north, and in the area of Deir al-Balah in the central Strip.

Hamas-run authorities in Gaza said Israeli attacks on Monday have killed at least 52 people. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 136 bodies were brought to Gaza hospitals over the past 24 hours, along with 364 maimed.

In one of the latest operations, the military said it demolished a tunnel in Rafah used by Hamas operatives in an attack that killed two soldiers earlier this month. In the attack on May 3, Hamas operatives set off a bomb in a tunnel shaft in Rafah, killing Cpt. Noam Ravid and and Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, who served in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit. After setting off the earth-shattering kaboom, the operatives fled through the tunnel, which was some 200 meters long, the army said. Troops mapped out the tunnel in recent days and demolished it. The IDF said that during the demolition of the tunnel, troops killed another cell of Hamas operatives, which was hiding inside the underground passage.

IDF front man Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said in a press statement from the Gaza border on Sunday evening that five divisions were now operating inside the Strip.

"We are entering a new stage in the fighting. During the operation, we will increase and expand our operational control in Gaza while bisecting the Strip and moving the population for its safety in all the areas where we operate," he said. "Unlike before, we are now focusing on the offensive effort in the Gaza Strip...until the defeat [of Hamas] in the areas where we operate."

Israeli officials had warned that the major offensive would be launched if no hostage deal was reached with Hamas by the end of US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s visit to the region on Friday. Hostage talks were still ongoing, and the military said it was only carrying out the preliminary stages of the offensive. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said, "The IDF will allow flexibility for the political echelon to advance any hostage deal."

"A hostage deal — this is not a halt; it is an achievement," Zamir stressed during a visit to Gaza on Sunday. "We are working toward it."

According to Israeli officials, the offensive would see the IDF "conquer" Gaza, raze the vast majority of buildings and retain the territory for the foreseeable future; attack Hamas and prevent it from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies; and move Paleostinians from Gaza’s north to its south.
More from the Times of Israel about the deader:
The Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports that Ahmad Sarhan was responsible for the abduction of Arbel Yehoud and for holding her captive in Gaza.

It was also reported that the IDF troops involved in the raid attempted to arrest Sarhan, but he confronted the soldiers, and was shot and killed.

There is no comment from the IDF.

All courtesy of Fred:
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Zionist forces besiege Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Israeli occupation forces (IOF) laid siege to the Indonesian Hospital 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...
 Strip on Sunday evening, as military vehicles and bulldozers advanced amid heavy gunfire.

Eyewitnesses said that IOF tanks encircled the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and began to fire directly at the building.

Sources reported that there were 55 people inside the hospital, including four doctors and eight nurses, in addition to dozens of patients who were unable to move and could not be evacuated during the morning attack. ''Communication with medical staff and the sick inside the hospital has been cut off,'' the sources said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
 the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh, said that ''Israeli tanks and bulldozers are surrounding the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.''

''A number of patients were maimed due to IOF shooting directly at the hospital. We appeal to the world to intervene immediately to protect the medical staff, patients and the maimed inside the hospital,'' al-Bursh added.

Health sources at the Hospital confirmed that the IOF did not inform the hospital of any evacuation orders nor did they issue any warnings before the bombing began, affirming that ''there are no military targets inside the hospital.''

The medical staff currently inside the hospital appeal to the international community and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
 organizations to intervene urgently to stop this attack and save their lives.

On Sunday morning, a health official said the occupation army surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, with drones amid direct shooting in the area.

The hospital director, Marwan al-Sultan, said in a statement that Israeli drones fired at the hospital's intensive care unit, affirming that one patient was injured after shots were fired in the hospital vicinity.

The Paleostinian Ministry of Health said the occupation army has been intensifying its targeting and siege of the Indonesian Hospital since dawn Sunday, days after the European Gaza Hospital was put out of service.

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza confirms at least 500 people killed in past few days alone
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Director General of Al-Shifa Medical Complex announced on Monday that the hospital has received more than 500 martyrs and more than 1,000 wounded in the past few days.

This comes at a time when all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip have ceased operations and the health sector is facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster amid a bloody military escalation by the Israeli occupation forces against the Gaza Strip.

The complex director explained in his statements that the humanitarian situation is deteriorating dangerously with the arrival of large numbers of wounded and sick people amid a severe shortage of basic medical supplies. This crisis has already led to the death of some patients due to the lack of adequate care.

He pointed to the massive human losses resulting from the recent escalation, noting that the enormous pressure on the complex greatly exceeds its capacity, preventing it from providing the necessary medical care, whether for critical cases or for newly injured patients.




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Demonstration against Hamas in Khan Yunis this afternoon
2025-05-20
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'The Generals' Opposition': Why Netanyahu Still Can't Defeat Hamas
2025-05-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] As US President Donald Trump embarks on his first foreign tour of the Middle East, passions are running high in Israel. Tel Aviv is preparing for a “final strike” on the Gaza Strip, intending to finally defeat the Palestinian Hamas.

However, while the Israeli Prime Minister's office is choosing the directions for attacks, blows are being dealt to the image of Israel itself. And, paradoxically, they are being dealt by official Washington.

The policies of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet do not find support from Trump. The White House increasingly pushes the Israelis aside, reducing their participation in the American Middle East party to symbolic, thereby cooling the ardor of Israeli "hawks".

CONTOURS OF A QUARREL
The first signs of a rift emerged back in April, when Trump, caught up in the “tariff wars,” refused to make concessions to Israel.

Even Tel Aviv’s promises to provide “absolutely favorable” treatment for American capital and to abolish import duties on goods from the States did not help.

Bilateral relations were also damaged by US attempts to conduct direct negotiations with Hamas without the participation of the Israelis in March and May 2025.

In the latter case, Washington even managed to push through the release of one of the hostages with American citizenship. Tel Aviv was among the last to learn about the deal.

In addition, Trump has at least several times categorically prohibited the Israelis from striking Iranian territory. It has also forbidden the hunting of Iranian military advisers in third countries, for fear that this would sink the American-Iranian peaceful nuclear negotiations.

And then the US even agreed to a truce with the Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthis, leaving official Tel Aviv alone with the problem.

Even the talks on the possible normalization of relations between the new Syrian regime and Israel within the framework of the Abraham Accords took place in Riyadh without the direct participation of the Israelis. Trump formulated and voiced the roadmap single-handedly.

This is in stark contrast to the model of interaction with another candidate for reconciliation, Saudi Arabia, where Washington's rhetoric and position were determined with an eye to Tel Aviv's interests.

The Israeli opposition press
…which is most of it, including the Times of Israel…
is eager to fuel rumors of a quarrel between the allies. The publications complain that Israel has "no other proven allies" and that the coalition government's desire to stick to its guns could damage the Jewish state's defense capability and international standing.

Others go even further and predict that Trump is preparing to recognize Palestinian statehood “purely to spite” the Israeli right.

DISSATISFIED OFFICERS
As expected, opposition forces have come into motion in the wake of the cooling in US-Israeli relations. First and foremost, the retired military men opposing Netanyahu – the so-called “generals’ opposition.”

They are trying to convert the West’s discontent into political points and draw Washington’s attention to the fact that there are still “forces capable of reaching an agreement” within the country.

For example, the public movement “Commanders for Israel’s Security,” which unites over 550 retired Israeli military personnel, intelligence officers, and diplomats, recently sent an open letter to the American president, calling on him “not to listen to Netanyahu’s statements.”

In addition, the former security officials stressed that “the time for diplomacy is long overdue” because “the war in Gaza no longer serves Israel’s national goals” and undermines its achievements.

Among those who signed the document were heavyweights Danny Yatom (former chief of Mossad intelligence) and former chief of the General Staff Matan Vilnai.

The main points of the open letter quite clearly illustrate the desire of the opposition parliamentary forces (as well as the security bloc as a whole) to shift responsibility for the possible failure in Gaza onto the prime minister’s office.

And to remove from the attack military figures (Yoav Galant, Benny Gantz and others) who participated in the development and implementation of Operation Iron Swords against Hamas, but due to disagreements with Netanyahu became his critics.

At the same time, the opposition in uniform is trying to present itself as a force that tried in every way to dissuade the government from the Palestinian adventure and even called on the world arbiters – Trump – for help.

In the long term, this will make it possible to play on the nationwide fatigue from the fighting in Gaza and greatly increase the ratings of opposition parties, opening the way for them to power.

NEW THROW
However, even simultaneous pressure from within and without, apparently, cannot shake the Prime Minister's office's confidence in a quick victory over Hamas. Netanyahu is preparing for a new "cobra strike" in Gaza, promising the final defeat of the Palestinian movement.

The Israeli hunt for Hamas leaders also shows that the stakes are higher than ever. For example, a few days before the announced offensive, Israeli aircraft carried out several strikes on the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. The target of the attack was reportedly the underground headquarters of the movement's leader, Mohammed Sinwar, where a meeting of key Palestinian functionaries was taking place that day.

The Israeli leadership hoped to use a pinpoint attack to decapitate and demoralize the movement in the face of an imminent offensive.

It is especially noteworthy that the attack on Khan Yunis was carried out in violation of the behind-the-scenes agreements between Tel Aviv and Hamas on a “silence regime” during meetings in Doha and Cairo, which jeopardized the entire further negotiation process.

On the other hand, Netanyahu's plan is doubted even by his allies. The previous "last throws" and liquidations of key commanders (Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and others) led to nothing.
Almost of the Hamas leadership involved in 10/7 are now dead. Since Hamas is determined to continue to war — with intermittent hudnas — until Israel is finally conquered, the war will continue despite the objections of Bibi’s detractors and enemies, both external and internal, until either Israel is conquered or Hamas is gone. The question for the Israelis is whether Hamas will be evicted from Gaza or killed off.
Hamas has always quickly restored its combat capability
…no — Iran has historically restored Hamas’s combat capability via Egypt. But this time Israel controls the border between Gaza and Egypt…
and even managed to inflict economic and image damage on Tel Aviv and draw other Palestinian factions into the conflict.

The “final defeat of Hamas” announced by the authorities each time turned into a demonstration of inflated expectations, but was smoothed out thanks to Washington’s support.

Now, in the absence of clear support from the United States, it will be more difficult to hide the failure.

Trump will clearly not miss the chance to point out to his “younger brothers” their mistakes and incorrect assessment of their capabilities. And his attacks will be picked up and multiplied many times over by the opposition, for which the failure in Gaza will be an excellent chance to split the right-wing coalition.

And in this case, Netanyahu may well have to pay for his miscalculations with his seat as prime minister.
This assumes any of the other Israeli politicians is politically savvy enough pull together a viable coalition. That’s where they keep falling down on the job.


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Israel resumes airstrikes on Gaza following captive’s release
2025-05-13
[GEO.TV] Israeli airstrikes resumed in Gaza shortly after the handover of a US-Israeli captive, with warplanes and drones reported overhead, Al Jazeera reported.

The renewed attacks have deepened uncertainty among Palestinians, many of whom are already facing severe humanitarian conditions. Families are struggling to access food, with reports of children going to bed hungry as supplies dwindle.

Despite the escalation, Hamas called the captive's release a ''positive step'' toward advancing ceasefire talks.

The group said it remains committed to negotiating an end to the conflict, ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid, and beginning reconstruction efforts in Gaza.

Before Edan Alexander was released:
IDF said to limit Gaza operations ahead of Edan Alexander release, but no truce
[IsraelTimes] Hamas says it was informed Israel would halt reconnaissance, drone, and warplane flights, as well as combat operations, to create a safe corridor for release

Israeli forces have not been instructed to halt military activities in the Gaza Strip ahead of the expected release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on Monday, but will make “adjustments” to allow safe passage of the captive out of the Strip, Channel 12 reported.

“Adjustments have been made for the release, but the army continues with normal operations,” a security source tells the network amid conflicting reports of a truce ahead of the release that was negotiated without Israel’s involvement.

The Kan public broadcaster also said that there was no ceasefire in Gaza but that military activity across the Strip had been limited to avoid harming the release process of Alexander.

However, a short while ago, there was an exchange of fire between IDF troops and terror operatives in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, the military said. An IDF reservist was lightly injured in the clash and taken to a hospital for treatment, the IDF said.

The Hamas-linked Shehab outlet reported artillery shelling near Gaza City, and small arms fire north of Rafah in the southern Strip. Shelling was also reported by other outlets.

AFP reported earlier Monday that a Hamas source said the terror group was informed by mediators that Israel would pause military operations in Gaza for the handover of Alexander.

“Hamas was informed that at exactly 9:30 a.m., Israel began halting its reconnaissance, drone, and warplane flights, as well as combat operations, to create a safe corridor for the transfer and handover of Edan,” the source said.

In a statement, Hamas announced on Sunday its decision to release Alexander after recent talks with US officials and “intensified efforts to achieve a ceasefire, open border crossings, and allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the US informed it of Hamas’s intent to release Alexander “without compensation or conditions” and that the step is expected to lead to negotiations on a truce.

Netanyahu’s government was angered by US direct talks with Hamas earlier this year that led to a Hamas offer to release Alexander and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel recommitted to a stalled ceasefire deal. Days later, however, Israel resumed the war.

US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff told AP that Hamas’s goal in releasing Alexander was to restart talks on a ceasefire, the release of additional hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza before Israel carries out a threatened total takeover of the territory.

Indirect talks between Hamas and the US began five days ago, an Egyptian official and a senior Hamas official told AP, with both describing the release of Alexander as a goodwill gesture.
Courtesy of Grom in comments below, Israel National News adds:
The IDF early Tuesday morning precisely struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from within a command and control center located in the “Nasser” hospital in Khan Yunis. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that the compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.

The successor of the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and head of Hamas' finances and institutions, Ismail Barhoum, who was eliminated in a precise strike this past March, operated from within the Nasser hospital, the IDF said.

“Senior Hamas officials continue to use the hospital for terrorist activity, through cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings,” the IDF statement said.

Palestinian Arab media reported that Gazan "journalist" Hassan Aslih was eliminated in the Khan Yunis strike. Aslih, who operated on October 7 under the guise of a media worker, broadcast live images of a burning tank near the border fence.
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Dozens killed in new Israeli attacks in Gaza
2025-04-29
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Israeli occupation army continued last night and on Monday to carry out deadly attacks on different 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, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.

According to local media sources, Israeli occupation forces also continued today to detonate more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further exacerbating the dire humanitarian suffering of the population.

According to the Paleostinian Information Center (PIC), the Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli strike that killed four people and injured several others near the Abu Mazen rotary in the west of Gaza City.

In southern Gaza, four children were maimed when an Israeli drone bombed a bicycle they were using to carry a bag of flour in Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Yunis.

The bodies of two deaders were reportedly recovered from the rubble of a house that was bombed yesterday in Jorat al-Lout in Khan Yunis.

The Israeli army also bombed a tent sheltering a displaced family in ash-Shafi'i refugee camp in western Khan Yunis, killing two civilians and injuring others.

In central Gaza, a girl child was martyred following an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 in al-Maghazi refugee camp.

Casualties were also reported following Israeli strikes on swaths of agricultural land in al-Zawaida town in central Gaza.

10 civilians were also massacred and others were maimed when an Israeli airstrike targeted a house belonging to the family of Mahadi in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

Another airstrike on a house belonging to the family of al-Ghammari in the northwest of Gaza City claimed the lives of seven people.

The Israeli occupation army also launched attacks on other areas of the Gaza Strip last night and today, killing and wounding more civilians, including children and women.

27 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, Hamas-controlled authorities say

[IsraelTimes] Israeli strikes on 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 overnight and into today killed at least 27 Paleostinians, according to local health officials from Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-controlled authorities.

There is no comment from the Israeli military.

The figures cannot be independently verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. Paleostinian civilians say nowhere in Gaza is safe.
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Israel’s new unmanned bulldozers ‘changing the paradigm’ of war in Gaza
2025-04-21
;Go on, Besoeker — you know you want to do, and nobody does it better.[IsraelTimes] The Robdozer, the robotic version of the D9 bulldozer, has begun limited deployment in the IDF’s operations against Hamas; ‘This is the future,’ says one military expert

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the bulky bulldozer turning up soil at a testing site in central Israel, but as it pulled closer it became clear: the driver’s cabin is eerily empty.

This is the Robdozer, a fortified engineering vehicle manned remotely, and in this case operated from a military expo halfway across the globe in Alabama.

Army engineers and military experts say that the Robdozer — the robotic version of Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozer — is the future of automated combat.

The Israeli military has used D9 for years to carry out frontline tasks like troweling roads for advancing troops, removing rubble and flattening terrain, but since war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, and later in Lebanon, the Israeli military has increasingly deployed this robotic version in a bid to enhance its field operations and reduce the risks to its troops.

“The idea is to eliminate the person from the cockpit of the dozer,” said Rani, whose team at the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries developed the Robdozer.

During the Gaza war, the military has increasingly opted for the unmanned version, which can carry out a full range of tasks “even better than a human,” said Rani, using his first name only for security reasons.

While such vehicles and other systems are currently operated by humans, future versions could be autonomous, raising ethical and legal concerns over the unchartered future of warfare being shaped by the Israeli military in the Gaza war.

‘CHANGING THE PARADIGM’
Israel’s increasing use of advanced technology on the battlefield, from air defense systems to a broad range of AI-driven intelligence tools, has been well-documented but also criticized for inaccuracies, lack of human oversight and potential violations of international law.

Analysts say the growing Israeli deployment of the Robdozer reflects broader global trends toward automation in heavy combat vehicles, like remote-controlled personnel carriers that operate much like drones.

An Israeli military official, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told AFP that the army has been using “robotic tools for over a decade, but in very small numbers. Now it is being used in large-scale warfare.”

Troops can now operate machinery without having to enter enemy territory, said the official.

Andrew Fox, a retired British army major and a research fellow at the London-based Henry Jackson Society, said the Israeli military was likely the first force to use remote-controlled combat machinery in an active war zone.

“It’s a really big development” that is “changing the paradigm” of warfare, carrying out tasks as effectively but at a far reduced risk to personnel, he said.

A NEW ERA OF WAR
“This is the future,” said John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the US military’s Modern War Institute at West Point.

Many “have been experimenting with it, but nobody has seen direct deployment into active modern combat,” he added. “It is very unique.”

But beyond ethical and legal drawbacks to such advanced technology, there is also the need for an overriding human presence to make decisions particularly in unusual situations.

The October 7, 2023, attack — when some Hamas terrorists breached the high-security border to invade southern Israel, where it killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, starting the Gaza war — was a disastrous example for that, said Tal Mimran of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“I think that October 7 showed us that you can build a wall that may cost $1 billion, but if you do not patrol the border, then someone will infiltrate your country,” said Mimran, a lecturer and researcher of international law who has been closely following the Israeli military’s technological developments.

“We must take note of the opportunities and of the risks of technology,” he said. “This is the era in which artificial intelligence is exploding into our lives, and it is only natural that it will also have a manifestation in the security field.”
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More than 40 people killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza Strip in 24 hours
2025-04-07
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Over the past 24 hours, more than 40 people have been killed in Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip. This was reported on April 6 by the Al-Jazeera TV channel.
So it might be true… but probably isn’t, more’s the pity.
"Continued Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed 46 people in the past 24 hours," the statement said.

It is specified that the Israeli army hit Khan Yunis and Gaza, where the bombings affected residential buildings and refugee tents. Dozens of people were also injured as a result.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the number of civilians killed as a result of Israeli strikes since their resumption has exceeded 1,300. More than 3,000 people have also been wounded.

As reported by Regnum, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on April 4 launched a ground military operation in the Ash-Shujaiya area in the eastern Gaza City in the northern part of the sector of the same name. It was clarified that such a decision was made to "expand the security zone."

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Gazan reports claim at least 9 dead in new Israeli strikes on Strip
2025-04-06
Gazan media report at least eight deaths in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a home in western Khan Younis in the Strip’s south.

Reports also claim a child has been killed in a bombing in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City in the Strip’s north.

[X] Oooooohhh — lotsa secondaries!
Translated from Arabic by Google
Press coverage: The first moments of the Israeli occupation's bombing of the Abdul Hadi family's home west of Khan Yunis, which resulted in the deaths of 8 martyrs.

Army releases video of Israeli forces entering corridor between Rafah and Khan Younis

[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases footage from the entry of the 36th Division into the so-called Morag Corridor, located between southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis, last week.

It marks the first time since the beginning of the war that ground troops are operating in the area.

The division entered the corridor area on Wednesday, following a night of intensive airstrikes and evacuation warnings.

The military says it is operating in the Morag Corridor and in Rafah to demolish the remaining Hamas infrastructure.

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Catching Qatari spies in Israeli government reaches new level
2025-04-04
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] Israel continues to be rocked by the scandal surrounding the leaks of confidential information from the Prime Minister's Office to Qatar (the so-called "Qatargate").

The prosecution argues that the leaks not only exposed Doha to some sensitive Israeli secrets, but also strengthened the position of the Palestinian Hamas, leading to a protracted operation in the Gaza Strip.

It is worth noting that the events surrounding Qatargate have accelerated exponentially.

Over the past few days, there have been "fan" interrogations of all currently known participants in the scandal (including the country's current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ). Several face-to-face confrontations and closed operational activities have also taken place - however, without any clear result.

It is noticeable that all parties to the scandal are tired of litigation and are looking for a way to quickly put an end to the case. However, while some are pressing for legal measures and looking for new defendants, others are trying to get out of the crisis literally "with a fight."

QUEUES FOR INTERROGATION
At first glance, little has changed in the Qatargate investigation. The main defendants remain former employees of the Prime Minister's Office - Eli Feldstein and Yonatan Urich. Law enforcement officials place the main responsibility for leaking classified information to Qatar on them, and they are the only ones in custody.

American lobbyist Jay Futlik, whose firm acted as an intermediary between Doha and the participants of "Qatargate", and Israeli businessman Gil Birger, who acted as an "accountant", are currently being used as witnesses in the case. Although Birger has been placed under house arrest, just in case.

However, this impression is wrong. In fact, the scandal has reached a new level.

There are already more than a dozen defendants in the case waiting to be questioned – politicians, businessmen, journalists and public figures – but the investigation does not yet have the authority to deal with them.

In addition, key figures in "Qatargate" give different testimonies, which further confuses the prosecution. Investigators admit that some participants in the scandal could have been used in the dark and, when transmitting classified information, believed that they were following orders "from above."

As for Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is considered to be almost the key link in this scheme, he is currently separated from the main group of defendants - they are working with him carefully and individually. They are in no hurry to bring forward direct accusations.

However, given that the prime minister's interlocutor is police colonel Momi Meshulam, who previously investigated at least two corruption scandals involving him, the prosecution's hint is quite clear. Netanyahu is being taken seriously again.

At the same time, they are shaking up the journalist pool in search of those through whom additional leaks could have occurred. Over the past few days, the security services have interrogated (and then placed under house arrest) the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, Tzvika Klein, and the diplomatic correspondent of Israel Hayom, Shirit Avitan Cohen.

The journalist and columnist Yossi Yehoshua (Yediot Ahronot), who wrote columns based on leaks from the chancellery, was under surveillance. However, his informant Ari Rosenfeld (who is also formally involved in Qatargate), as it turned out later, transmitted information in a distorted form, which made it difficult to bring charges against Yehoshua.

The interrogations are being conducted in a rush and with obvious procedural violations, which is causing criticism not only from Netanyahu's camp, but also from the opposition. The prime minister's parliamentary opponents are asking the intelligence services not to overdo it and to act within the law.

THE MAIN WINNER
Maintaining the constant hype around "Qatargate" are Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Knesset attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara. Both have fallen out of favor with Netanyahu and are about to leave their posts, and are using their remaining leverage to make the prime minister's office more difficult to operate.

Moreover, the main beneficiary of "Qatargate" is rather Bar. The existence of a scandal of such scale (which he was also previously authorized to investigate) will allow him to nullify the government's decision to resign and remain at the helm of the Shin Bet. And in a more optimistic scenario - to also retain his post after the early elections, in which the triumph of the opposition is increasingly predicted.

Netanyahu pays his opponents back in kind, bringing to light inconvenient facts from their biographies.

For example, he recalled to Bar a series of informal visits to Qatar in 2018, when the head of the Shin Bet visited the country (which he has recently publicly called “hostile”) to provide “some services” and conduct informal negotiations.

Netanyahu also hints that Bar's model of informal negotiations was little different from the one around which today's "Qatargate" is built.

This means that the attempt to blow up a scandal out of Israel's behind-the-scenes work with a potential Arab ally is nothing more than a political witch hunt. Feldstein and Urich's lawyers hold the same position, which significantly strengthens the line of defense. Colleagues in the industry, although they do not voice this publicly, are waiting for an explanation from Bar.

THE WAR DOES NOT STOP
While Netanyahu's opponents wage battles in courtrooms, the prime minister prefers to act "on the ground."

The new Israeli operation in Gaza is gaining momentum and in the south of the enclave has already covered not only the outskirts of the border Rafah, but also the neighboring areas. The prime minister is "directing" the military actions - sometimes personally, and sometimes through the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff.

Netanyahu does not hide the task facing the troops: to create a new separation corridor in the south of the Gaza Strip, which the authorities have already named the “Morag corridor.”

It will run north of the existing Philadelphi Corridor on the strip's border with Egypt and will separate Rafah from Khan Yunis, creating an expanded security zone in the area.

This, in turn, should weaken Hamas' fighting ability, forcing them to accept all Israeli conditions.

The operation is quite daring and does not guarantee immediate success.

However, while the investigation into Qatargate has reached a dead end, the prime minister is seeking to inflict maximum defeat on Hamas, both militarily and politically, in order to remove from the agenda the thesis about strengthening the position of this movement.

Netanyahu remembers the old folk wisdom well: winners are not judged. Even if the triumphant leader is followed by a trail of controversial decisions and scandals with a spy flair.

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Dozens of Palestinians Killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza as IDF expands and ground operation
2025-03-21
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Israeli occupation forces continued their bloody aggression on the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day on Thursday, committing numerous massacres against peaceful families, killing and wounding dozens of them.

The Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have intensified, especially at dawn, when the Israeli forces flattened at least nine residential buildings over the past two hours.

According to medical sources, 37 civilians were killed and 40 others were reported missing under the rubble, including newborn babies, children, women, and the elderly who had been sleeping.

The sources confirmed that 21 martyrs were brought to the Gaza European Hospital following the Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis and Rafah. The Israeli bombing wiped out entire families.

Several people were killed, several others were injured, and others went missing under the rubble after the Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Daour family home in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

Several civilians were also injured after an Israeli helicopter bombed a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Zahour neighborhood, north of Rafah, early Thursday morning.

Israeli aircraft also bombed agricultural land northwest of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, amid heavy artillery shelling.

Several people were killed and others were injured when the Israeli forces bombed the Abu Nasr family home in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

At least 10 citizens were killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabr family home in the Musbah area, north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Two other martyrs were pulled out from the rubble of the Al-Amour family home in Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Yunis.

Twelve citizens were also killed when the Israeli forces bombed the Abu Daqqa family home in the town of Al-Fakhari.

Meanwhile, another Israeli attack targeted the vicinity of a food aid distribution warehouse and a prayer hall in the Ma'an area, east of Khan Yunis.

Israeli occupation forces renewed their offensive on the Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday, with air strikes targeting all areas of the Strip, leading to the martyrdom of about 500 citizens and the injury of hundreds of others, unilaterally ending the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip that came into effect on January 19.

IDF ground troops expand operations in Strip

[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops expanded a ground operation 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, alongside dozens of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on terror targets, two days into the resumption of fighting in the enclave, after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire.

On Thursday evening the IDF said it had expanded its ground operations in the southern Gaza Strip. In the past few hours, troops had advanced into the Shaboura camp in Rafah, and destroyed "terror infrastructure," the military said.

Early on Thursday the IDF launched ground operations along the coast of the far north of the Gaza Strip, close to Beit Lahiya. It came as part of the IDF’s activity aimed at expanding its buffer zone along the Gaza border.

Following the rocket attack, the Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation warning to Paleostinians in the Bani Suheila area of southern Gaza.

In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area that is to be evacuated, saying that it was a "final warning" before the IDF carries out strikes there.

"Terror organizations are once again launching their rockets from within civilian areas. We have warned this area many times," he said. Adraee called on Gazook civilians to head west to recognized humanitarian shelters.

GROUND OPERATION ALONG GAZA’S NORTHERN COAST
Troops of the 252nd Division pushed into north Gaza’s coastal road area on Thursday, and were deployed there as of Thursday afternoon, the army said. Two tank battalions of the 188th Armored Brigade have been leading the operation.

Ahead of the offensive, the IDF said it carried out airstrikes on some 40 targets in the Beit Lahiya area, including tunnels, anti-tank missile launch posts, Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
 operatives, and other threats to troops.

Additionally, the IDF said it carried out strikes on dozens of 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...
 targets in Gaza overnight.

Fighter jets and other Israeli Air Force aircraft hit terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, weapons, and other infrastructure that posed a threat to Israel, the military and Shin Bet said in a joint statement.

There have not been any reports of actual festivities on the ground since Israel resumed military action in Gaza on Tuesday.

GAZANS WARNED TO AVOID MAIN ROAD IN CENTRAL STRIP
Thursday also saw the IDF warn Paleostinians to avoid a main Gaza artery as troops advanced in the Netzarim Corridor area in the Strip’s center.

In a post on X, Adraee said that "over the past day, IDF troops began a targeted operation" in central Gaza, and were "deployed up to the center of the Netzarim Corridor.

"For your safety, do not travel on the Salah a-Din road between the north of the Gaza Strip and the south and vice versa," he said.

Traveling from the north of the Strip to its south is only permitted via the coastal road, known as al-Rashid, Adraee added.

The military has warned Paleostinians against approaching areas where troops are operating.

ISRAEL DENIES ITS STRIKE KILLED UN EMPLOYEES
Five staff members of the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
 Paleostinian relief agency UNRWA have been killed in the past few days, the agency’s Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said Thursday.

"In the past few days another five UNRWA staff have been confirmed killed, bringing the corpse count to 284. They were teachers, doctors and nurses: serving the most vulnerable," he said in a statement posted on X.

On Wednesday, United Nations 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...
 condemned attacks on the organization’s personnel after a United Nations Office for Project Services staff member died in an alleged strike on UN guesthouses.

Israel has denied carrying out an airstrike on the facility in Deir al-Balah, and photos from the scene show that those hurt were from the United Nations Mine Action Service, which deals with clearing leftover bombs.

Israel says Hamas and other Gazook terror groups use UN facilities to hide weapons, personnel or other infrastructure. It has also published evidence showing UNRWA staffers were among the thousands of Hamas-led Gazooks to take part in massacres across southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

PRO-HAMAS OUTLET CLAIMS 71 KILLED OVERNIGHT
Gaza’s pro-Hamas Quds News outlet also reported that 71 people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Strip overnight Wednesday-Thursday, which would raise the corpse count to over 540 since Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza early Tuesday morning.

The news outlet reported that airstrikes took place around Khan Younis, Rafah and other parts of Gaza overnight.

The corpse count cannot be verified, and figures from Hamas-controlled health authorities have been questioned. In addition, they make no distinction between civilians and combatants.

Israel says it is only targeting forces of Evil and terror infrastructure and blames Hamas and allied groups for collateral damage, saying they use civilians as human shields.
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