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Israel expands military aggression in Rafah

2024-05-10

[GEO.TV] The Israeli forces have attacked middle and western parts of 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...
’s southern city of Rafah, expanding its military aggressing in the besieged enclave amid calls of ceasefire by the international community.

"What we have been experiencing is mass destruction, lethal force being used on the ground against not only the eastern areas but also ... in the middle and western parts [of Rafah]," Al Jazeera reported.

"Bombardment there continued without any kind of let up."

The view from Israel:

IDF: 150,000 Palestinians have left east Rafah; raid uncovers 10 tunnel shafts

[IsraelTimes] Army says troops also clearing Gaza City suburb of Hamas infrastructure; Israel says crossings open to humanitarian aid trucks, but UN claims none entered Strip in past 24 hours

Amid the Israel Defense Forces’ ongoing operation in the eastern part of Rafah 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 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, some 50 button men have been killed by troops, while some 150,000 Paleostinians have evacuated the area so far, according to estimates by the military on Thursday.

Another 10 tunnel shafts have been found in the Rafah operation, launched late Monday, and they were being prepared for demolition.

In one incident Thursday, three soldiers were moderately maimed as a result of a blast in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in the Rafah area, the military said. The troops were taken to a hospital for treatment.

The IDF currently does not plan to expand the evacuation order to other areas of Rafah, as the ongoing operation remains relatively limited in scope amid hostage negotiations with Hamas
Hamas

The IDF also launched a new pinpoint raid in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood early Thursday. The operation was being carried out by the 99th Division and aims at "the continued dismantling of terror infrastructure and eliminating Death Eaters in the area," the military said.

Troops of the Nahal, Yiftah, and Carmeli brigades entered the suburb to clear it of Hamas infrastructure.

Prior to their entry, the Israeli Air Force struck some 25 sites in the area, including buildings used by terror groups, attack tunnels, observation posts, sniper positions and other infrastructure, the IDF said.

The military first operated in Zeitoun at the start of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza last year, weeks after Hamas’s brutal October 7 attacks sparked the war, and launched another two-week-long raid in the neighborhood in late February.

The latest raid came after the IDF identified Hamas regrouping in the area.

Meanwhile,

the IDF and Shin Bet security agency announced on Wednesday that the commander of Hamas’s naval forces in Gaza City, Ahmed Ali, was killed in a recent ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
According to the military, Ali was involved in managing various projects for Hamas’s naval forces and advancing attacks against Israel and troops amid the ongoing war, most recently in central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor.

In southern Gaza, the IDF said that Israel had reopened the Kerem Shalom Crossing after days of closure, with COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body responsible for civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories, sharing a video on social media on Thursday showing trucks filled with humanitarian aid

crossing into the Strip.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
claimed no humanitarian aid had arrived in Gaza by Thursday and that there was no one to receive the trucks on the other side of the crossing, after workers fled on Tuesday when the IDF took over the Paleostinian side of the Rafah Crossing with Egypt.

That IDF operation early Tuesday led to the closure of the Rafah Crossing — one of the main paths for aid into Gaza. The nearby Kerem Shalom Crossing was shuttered after a Hamas rocket attack from Rafah on Sunday killed four IDF soldiers and maimed 10 others stationed nearby. Another IDF soldier was lightly maimed in a rocket barrage fired by Hamas from Rafah at Kerem Shalom on Wednesday.

With the seizure of the Rafah Crossing, Israel now controls all of Gaza’s crossings for the first time since it withdrew troops and settlers from the territory nearly two decades ago. The crossing has been a vital conduit for entry of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies for Gaza’s population of 2.3 million since the start of the war and is the only place where people can enter and exit, while Kerem Shalom is Gaza’s main cargo terminal.

"The Hamas terrorist organization continues to deliberately endanger Gazook civilians and carry out attacks from within civilian areas to attempt to attack Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Moreover, the terrorist organization continues to carry out launches from populated zones in the area of Rafah toward the Kerem Shalom Crossing to attack IDF troops, as well as [harm] the functioning of the crossing," the military added.

The Tuesday operation did not appear to be the start of the full-scale invasion of Rafah that Israel has repeatedly said is necessary to destroy Hamas’s military and governance capabilities and free 128 hostages kidnapped on October 7 believed to remain in Gaza.

Aid officials warn that the prolonged closure of the two crossings could cause the collapse of aid operations, worsening the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the UN says a "full-blown famine" is already underway in the north.

The UN World Food Program deputy executive director, Carl Skau, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the agency had lost access to its Gaza food warehouse in Rafah, which he said was "communicated as a no-go zone."

The US in recent days completed construction of a new off-shore aid pier that will be used to shuttle large amounts of aid into Gaza.

A vessel carrying aid to the pier set sail from the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Thursday morning, marine tracking websites showed.

American officials have said the United States-flagged Sagamore will be used to offload supplies onto a floating pier built to expedite aid into the enclave.

On the Israeli side of the border, activists from a right-wing organization that opposes aid to Gaza while hostages are still held there said on Thursday morning that they had continued their attempts to block trucks on their way to Gaza overnight and in the early morning hours. The group, which has drawn international anger, said that some 500 people, including relatives of hostages, blocked trucks near Eilat and delayed them for a few hours overnight Wednesday. On Thursday morning, activists from the group blocked trucks near Mitzpe Ramon.

"We’re shifting gear. We want the hostages home. No aid passes until the last hostage returns," the group said in a statement.

Israeli authorities — facing intense international pressure to facilitate aid — have been dispersing the crowds and ensuring that the shipments eventually reach their destination.

The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 attacks, which saw some 3,000 Death Eaters burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 252 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

The ensuing war has killed over 34,800 Paleostinians, according to Gaza health officials, though data issued by the Hamas-run authorities cannot be independently verified, and is believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.

The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 Death Eaters inside Israel on October 7, while 267 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border.

The IDF says it has wrapped up a two-week-long raid in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, during which troops of the 401st Armored Brigade and additional forces of the 162nd Division destroyed 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...
sites and killed more than 100 operatives.

Some 35 sites were located and destroyed during the operation, including weapon depots and manufacturing sites, tunnel infrastructure, rocket launching sites with hundreds of launchers, and a site belonging to the commander of the Gaza City Brigade, Izz ad-Din Haddad, according to the IDF.

Using drones, the IDF says the 401st Brigade identified and captured dozens of Hamas operatives, who, following interrogations, provided intelligence information. Some of the Hamas button men were hiding among the civilian population in Zeitoun, according to the IDF.

The brigade killed at least 113 Hamas operatives in Zeitoun over the past two weeks, the IDF says, those that troops were able to identify with the naked eye or using drones. The Hamas button men are operating in Zeitoun without a "military framework," and in relatively small cells, according to the IDF, after the military says it dismantled the terror group’s battalions in the area in the early stages of the ground offensive.

Troops came under gunfire, RPG fire and bombs amid the operations, with at least four soldiers being killed and several more maimed. According to the IDF, most of the attacks on troops in Zeitoun occurred during the day, rather than at night.

In one incident, the IDF says a Hamas cell fired anti-tank missiles from a close range at troops. An Israeli Air Force drone spotted and struck the cell, killing several of the operatives, while others were spotted fleeing in an ambulance, the IDF says.

In another incident, the brigade called in an airstrike against a building from which a Hamas sniper was shooting at troops.

The raid in Zeitoun was the 401st Brigade’s fourth operation in Gaza, previously battling Hamas in Beit Lahiya, then in the Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods of Gaza City, before a raid in the Rimal and Shati neighborhoods. The IDF will soon decide where to send the brigade for its next mission.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Senile Joe threw away his bargaining leverage to "rein in" the evil Jooo geniociders.

Time to wipe out Hamass once and for all.

Posted by: Regular+joe 2024-05-10 13:39

#5 The world is awash in munitions and shady third parties ready to sell them.

Be a shame if Israel has to drop dumb 500s instead of smart 250s because of Drag Queen Story Hour at the Pentagone.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-05-10 09:34

#4 Netanyahu claims Biden made HUGE mistake withholding weapons

Of course he did.
How could they NOT proceed with extreme prejudice.

I still remember a news video announcing the weak 'non-response' to Iraqi SCUDs following BushII promises during the Kuwait incursion.

That worked out so well.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-10 09:31

#3 Allied military aggression expands into Germany - March 1945

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-05-10 08:03

#2 ^"We are doing everything we can to make sure!"

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-05-10 05:59

#1 Major Rafah operation will not defeat Hamas, White House says

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-05-10 01:28

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