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2024-06-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Eight troops killed in Rafah explosion, in deadliest incident for IDF in 6 months
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[IsraelTimes] Initial probe finds armored combat engineering vehicle attacked after night of fighting; soldier wounded earlier in the week succumbs to wounds, raising ground op toll to 309
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip’s Rafah on Saturday morning, the military announced, in what marked the deadliest incident for the Israel Defense Forces in the enclave since January.
Six of the soldiers were named as of Sunday morning:
- Cpt. Wassem Mahmoud, 23, from Beit Jann.
- Sgt. Eliyahu Moshe Zimbalist, 21, from Beit Shemesh
- Sgt. Itay Amar, 19, from Kochav Yair
- Sgt. Stanislav Kostarev, 21, from Ashdod
- Sgt. Or Blumovitz, 20, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur
- Sgt. Oz Yeshaya Gruber, 20, from Tal Menashe
The troops all served in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion. Mahmoud was a deputy company commander.
The families of the other two slain soldiers were notified, and their names were due to be released later, the military said.
According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were all killed inside a Namer armored combat engineering vehicle (CEV). There were no survivors.
The soldiers had been driving in a convoy at around 5 a.m. on Saturday following an overnight offensive against Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in the northwestern areas of Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, during which troops under the 401st Armored Brigade killed some 50 button men, according to the IDF.
The convoy was heading to buildings captured by the army, for the troops to rest following the overnight operation.
The Namer CEV was the fifth or sixth vehicle in the convoy, and at some point, it was hit by a major explosion.
It was not immediately clear if it was a bomb planted ahead of time or if Hamas operatives had approached the vehicle with an bomb and directly placed it on the CEV, the probe found.
Later Saturday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military was also investigating the possibility that the CEV was hit by an anti-tank missile.
The military was also investigating the possibility that explosives stored on the outside of the CEV contributed to the massive blast. Normally, the mines and other explosives stored on the outside of a CEV would not manage to cause injuries to troops inside if they detonated.
There was no gunfire amid the incident, and the vehicle was not at a standstill when the blast occurred, the probe found. The disabled CEV was later towed to a safe location in the Strip.
"Following this difficult incident, a team of experts of the Defense Ministry and IDF will examine the armored vehicle and all the details of the incident, until we reach findings," Hagari said in a presser.
Separately on Saturday, an IDF soldier seriously maimed earlier in the week in Rafah succumbed to his wounds, the military announced.
He was named as Sgt. Yair Roitman, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Karnei Shomron.
Roitman was maimed in a blast in a booby-trapped building on June 10, in an incident that killed four other soldiers and maimed six others, including four seriously.
The incidents brought the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border to 309. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.
The deadliest incident for the IDF in Gaza occurred in January, during which 21 soldiers were killed in a blast following Hamas RPG fire that collapsed two buildings.
Elsewhere in Rafah, the IDF said Saturday that troops of the Commando Brigade raided sites belonging to terror groups, killed several button men and located weapons above and below ground.
Additionally, the military said a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip, striking an open field in the Eshkol Regional Council, and causing no injuries.
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...
claimed to have launched a barrage of rockets at a military base near the community of Sufa. Sirens had sounded in Sufa and the adjacent towns of Sdei Avraham, Holit, Pri Gan, and Talmei Yosef.
On Friday night, Hamas snuffies launched five rockets at southern Israel. According to the military, the barrage was launched from the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in the Strip. Two of the rockets crossed the border, impacting open areas near Kibbutz Kissufim. The other three fell short in the Strip, the IDF said. Hamas claimed to have targeted a military base in the area.
In a statement, the IDF said Hamas’s use of the humanitarian zone to launch rockets at Israel is "a further example of the cynical exploitation of humanitarian infrastructure and the civilian population as human shields by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip for their terrorist attacks."
Also Friday night, two rockets more were launched from the Gaza Strip toward the Sderot area, setting off sirens in the Nir Am shooting range. According to the IDF, both rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries or damage. The Islamic Jihad grabbed credit for the attack.
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