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Another busy day for the IDF in Gaza as attention moves to center and south
[IsraelTimes] Army says dozens of  ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...founder Sheikh Yassin said killed While a near-constant occurrence at the start of the war, rocket attacks on Israel from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... have partially faded away in recent weeks, though a barrage on central and southern Israel in the opening minutes of January 1 served as a reminder of the group’s remaining arsenal. Rocket sirens rang out in two communities near the Strip late Sunday morning, with no reports of injuries or damage. On Saturday, the army said it had completed the dismantlement of Hamas’s "military framework" in the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, and was now shifting its attention to taking apart the terror group’s infrastructure in central and southern Gaza. Israeli strikes pounded areas around Khan Younis and Rafah on Sunday, with reports of intensifying battles on the ground in the central and southern parts of the enclave. The IDF said troops of the Kfir Brigade killed dozens of terror operatives and destroyed more than 100 Hamas targets in the Khan Younis area, including tunnels. In one incident, the IDF said soldiers of the brigade operating in Bani Suheila, on the outskirts of Khan Younis, encountered a five-man Hamas cell and directed an aircraft to strike them. After the shootout, the troops located and destroyed a site where the operatives were holed up, the IDF said. In another area of Khan Younis, the IDF said, the Kfir soldiers found a large cache of weapons, including firearms, grenades, and explosives, some of which were hidden inside bags bearing the logo of UNRWA, the agency for Paleostinian refugees in the Strip. The IDF said combat engineers working alongside the Kfir Brigade destroyed a Hamas command center used by the terror group to plan the October 7 onslaught. Other Hamas targets destroyed by the troops included observation and anti-tank missile launch positions, tunnel shafts, and underground passages, the IDF stated. The IDF also said strikes in central Gaza’s al-Bureij camp targeted members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba. Troops of the Yiftah Reserve Brigade raided and later destroyed a tunnel network and the home of a senior 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... operative in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the army said. In the eastern part of Shejaiya, the IDF said the reservists located a tunnel shaft belonging to Islamic Jihad, which led to an underground network. In the northern part of Shejaiya, the brigade located several tunnel shafts near the home of Ahmed Samara, who the IDF says is responsible for Islamic Jihad’s tunnels in northern Gaza. In Samara’s home, the IDF said troops recovered several weapons, an Islamic Jihad instructional booklet, a tactical plan for the October 7 attack and a book about Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... While working to demolish the tunnels near Samara’s home, the IDF said button men opened fire and set off bombs inside the underground passages. It said troops spotted suspicious activity from inside the tunnel before the earth-shattering kaboom, retreated and called in artillery strikes. Combat engineers later destroyed the tunnels, weapons and 12 buildings in the area above the underground network, some of which were booby-trapped, according to the IDF. Hamas-controlled health authorities raised the corpse count from over 90 days of fighting to 22,835, though the figures could not be independently verified. The figure does not differentiate between civilians and combatants and includes Paleostinians killed by errant rocket fire from Gaza. Israel says it has killed 8,500 JOURNALISTS KILLED See separate post for more. An Israeli ... KABOOM!... on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza killed two Paleostinian journalists who were out reporting, the journalists’ union there said. Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP who was working for Al Jazeera, both died in the strike in Rafah, the union said. The IDF did not comment on the report. In a separate strike, Ali Salem Abu Ajwa — the grandson of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was himself assassinated in a 2004 Israeli strike — was reported killed. The IDF did not comment on the report. Perhaps peaceful members of the bloodline will be discovered to have survived after this is all over. Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-08 |
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