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IDF Calls On 100,000 Gaza Residents Along Israeli Border To Evacuate Homes
[Ynet] Senior army official says ground offensive necessary to combat terror tunnels. It could take between a week and two weeks, and has high chances of being successful. The IDF called on residents of eastern and northern Gazoo to evacuate their homes Tuesday night, apparently ahead of planned military strikes in the areas. A military source said that some 100,000 residents had received warnings to leave their homes.Specifically, voice messages were left for residents in the eastern Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gazoo City telling them to, "evacuate for the sake of your safety by 8am." Meanwhile a ceaseless barrages of rockets after the unilateral truce led the IDF to resume its aerial strikes throughout the Gazoo Strip, earlier on Tuesday afternoon. The resumption of aerial strikes might just be the first step towards a ground offensive, which seemed like a long-shot this morning when the cabinet accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal. "A ground offensive could help combat the many tunnels in the Strip, where the Air Force is not effective," the bigwig told news hounds. On the possibility of a ground offensive, the senior military official said: "Our recommendations to the politicianship were clear on this issue. A ground maneuver to destroy the tunnels will take somewhere between a week and two weeks, and the troops deployed to the border are trained for this and prepared for this. There is a small but significant amount of tunnels that we've yet to expose, and they're targets in this maneuver." The official explained that a ground offensive against the terror tunnels "has high chances of being successful. It will require confrontation with the enemy and the evacuation of civilians, and will lead to the increase of rocket launching at Israel, but we trust the troops. The solutions will come from the fighting forces on the field, from the bottom, not just from the army command."  Overnight strikes Prior to the security cabinet's decision to accept the Egyptian ceasefire offer, the IDF struck 132 terror targets overnight. Among the targets attacked were a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' drones facility, a military site attacked by special forces, and the home of the leader of Hamas' military wing Marwan Issa. The house is used as a command center. Other targets attacked include 35 hidden rocket launchers, 12 command and control sites, six operation centers and 10 smuggling and terror tunnels. Paleostinians reported five people had been killed overnight in Gazoo, bringing the corpse count to 192, with over 1,400 maimed. The Gazoo health ministry said three people had been killed in an Earlier, two Paleostinians were killed in an At least four Paleostinians were maimed in an Paleostinians reported that the Air Force also attacked the homes of two senior Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim 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... members in Gazoo, as well as the home of Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... 's adviser, Basim Naim, destroyed it. Two houses in the al-Shati refugee camp and in Beit Lahiya were destroyed in a 7:30am strike. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-16 |
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