[IsraelTimes] Number of hostages believed held in 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 ...
rises to 136; IDF troops kill Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
button men in tunnels, detain operatives of elite Nukhba force; Gaza corpse count said to pass 22,000
Three Israelis declared missing since October 7 were confirmed to be held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Thursday, as troops continued to focus operations on the enclave’s central and southern areas.
Hagari’s announcement brought the total number of hostages in the Gaza Strip to 136, including the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014, as well as two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are both thought to be alive after entering the Strip of their own accord in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Hagari did not name the three, but family members identified them as Hanan Yablonka, 42, Idan Shtivi, 28, and Ilan Weiss, 56. Weiss was killed on October 7, and the terror groups have been holding his body.
Yablonka and Shtivi were both captured at the Supernova music festival. Weiss was believed killed fighting with the Kibbutz Be’eri security team that tried to ward off the terrorist assault. His wife and daughter were also captured and later released in a hostage deal.
The captives were taken during the Hamas terror group’s October 7 massacres, which saw some 3,000 gunnies burst across the border into Israel from Gaza by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 240 hostages, mostly civilians.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Thursday at least 22,438 people have been killed in the Strip since the war erupted on October 7. The Hamas 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 gunnies since launching the war.
The IDF said Thursday that reservists of the Kiryati Armored Brigade and 55th Paratroopers Brigade operating in southern Gaza had killed many Hamas fighters of the terror group’s northern and eastern Khan Younis battalions, and significantly damaged their command and control, preventing operatives from carrying out large-scale attacks on troops.
The IDF released footage of the two reserve brigades operating in the Khan Younis area, killing Hamas button men in tunnels and detaining operatives of the terror group’s elite Nukhba force.
The commander of the Kiryati Brigade, Col. Mickey Sharvit, said that in their area of operations "there is no innocent infrastructure."
"We encounter terror in almost every home, in hospitals and schools. Our forces even eliminated gunnies who emerged from an underground [tunnel] in a school," he added.
The IDF said the reservist troops located and destroyed a Hamas tunnel shaft leading to an underground passage of several hundred meters in the Khan Younis area.
Sharvit said some 20 Hamas operatives, including a company commander, were killed by the IDF inside the tunnel. The IDF said that five members of the terror group’s elite force escaped the tunnel and surrendered to troops.
The button men who surrendered told field interrogators that strikes on underground Hamas hideouts in the area killed many operatives, including two company commanders in Hamas’s northern and eastern Khan Younis battalions, according to the IDF.
The commander of the 55th Brigade, Col. Oded Ziman, meanwhile, hailed the "extraordinary" cooperation with the Israeli Air Force.
"As a brigade commander I never dreamed of such good and fast cooperation," Ziman said, recalling an incident earlier on Thursday in which an attack helicopter provided air support within two minutes of radioing in the request.
Also Thursday, the IDF announced that it had eliminated 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...
commander Mamdouh Lulu in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
in Gaza.
In a joint statement with the Shin Bet, the IDF said Lulu served as an assistant to the commanders of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad’s northern Gaza division, and that he also maintained contact with officials abroad.
"Lulu was a central figure in the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, initiating and leading numerous terror attacks and assaults from Gaza against the State of Israel, routinely and during the war," the joint statement added.
In central Gaza, the IDF said Thursday that troops had uncovered and destroyed a Hamas underground weapons manufacturing plant on the coast of central Gaza.
Over the past week, troops of the 179th Armored Brigade, the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit raided a Hamas compound, where they located several tunnel shafts, according to the IDF.
The tunnel shafts led to an underground network spanning hundreds of meters, the army said, adding that troops located a cache of weapons, including mortars, grenades and RPGs. Nearby, several more tunnel shafts were found by Shayetet 13 and Yahalom forces, which led to another underground network of branching tunnels.
The IDF said the tunnels featured blast doors, and behind them, the troops found a weapons manufacturing plant. The underground room had machinery, cooling fans, kabooms and rocket fuel.
The tunnels were later destroyed by combat engineers.
During a tour of the central Gaza border on Thursday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Hamas fighters who are counting on the IDF to soon leave the Strip "need to change the count until the end of their lives."
"In the north of the Gaza Strip, forces are completing the current mission. They are reorganizing with the intention of carrying out raids and airstrikes soon," Gallant said. In central Gaza, he added, the fighting "is intense."
"The forces are working above ground and underground, destroying central infrastructures of the Hamas organization, including the places where Hamas produced all its missiles and supplied them all over the Strip," Gallant said, adding, "Those gunnies who started counting down the time to the departure of the IDF forces, need to change the count, they need to start counting until the end of their lives on earth, it will come soon."
Amid rising fears of regional war, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
 ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
was set to head Thursday to the Middle East, his fourth trip since October 7, following deadly blasts in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the killing of Hamas terror chief Saleh al-Arouri in an alleged Israeli strike in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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