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2024-02-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Army pushes back on reported fears Sinwar fled to Sinai, as battles return to Gaza City
[IsraelTimes] Soldier dies of wounds, bringing corpse count to 236, as fighting persists in Khan Younis and Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Cairo for moribund hostage talks

Israeli officials on Tuesday denied a report
No, no! Certainly not!
by a Saudi-owned news outlet that said security figures fear Hamas leader 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...
Yahya Sinwar had fled to Egypt via a spacious network of tunnels running under the border. Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
the IDF indicated it planned to renew battles in parts of Gaza City.

The report by the Arabic-language Elaph came as the Israel Defense Forces said it was continuing to focus fighting in the southern city of Khan Younis, while increasingly alarmed warnings were sounded against plans to expand the offensive south into Rafah, and as the tally of troops killed since the start of the ground invasion ticked upward to 236 with the death of a reservist injured in Kahn Younis last week.

The Elaph report claimed Tuesday that the Israeli security establishment has assessed that the leadership of Hamas, including Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, recently escaped to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula via tunnels from Rafah, and may have taken hostages along to use as human shields.

It was impossible to assess the veracity of the report, which relied on a single source. Previous reports from Elaph have proven to be false.
Ouch.
The IDF said it had no information that Sinwar has left Gaza.

Sinwar has not been seen in public since the October 7 attack led by Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Israel responded to the assault with an air, sea, and ground offensive to topple Hamas and free the hostages, over half of whom are still in captivity. While the military claims to have destroyed 75% of Hamas battalions, the terror group’s leaders, including Sinwar, remain on the lam.
Those that are not dead are, anyway.
The terror group’s Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza 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...
, meanwhile, arrived in Cairo Tuesday for negotiations aimed at reaching a pause in the fighting and freeing the estimated 134 hostages and remains held in Gaza.

Negotiations mediated by American, Qatari and Egyptian officials have apparently stalled, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing the terror group’s demands so far as "delusional" and reportedly ruling out sending an Israeli delegation back to Cairo after its initial visit there last week.

The IDF said Tuesday that troops had killed dozens of Hamas operatives over the past day, many of them in Khan Younis. Troops battled several button men, some armed with RPGs, from close range, killing them, and a weapons depot in the city was bombed from the air, the army said.

On Monday, the army said it had killed 12,000 Hamas operatives since fighting began October 7, double the number reported by Hamas.

According to the military, 236 Israeli troops have been killed in the fighting, including a soldier who succumbed to wounds sustained on February 15 during a battle with Hamas operatives in Khan Younis.

He was named as Staff Sgt. Maoz Morell, 22, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Talmon.

Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Rotem Sahar Hadar, was killed in the same incident.

The army was continuing to operate on Tuesday at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where troops have detained more than 200 terror suspects so far, many of whom have ties to the Hamas-held hostages, according to the IDF. The World Health Organization, which said Tuesday it had evacuated 32 patients in recent days, claims the facility is no longer functioning, though the IDF said it was working to ensure that the hospital continued to operate, including fixing electricity problems there.

"Nasser Hospital has no electricity or running water, and medical waste and garbage are creating a breeding ground for disease," the WHO said in a statement Tuesday.

Israel has provided evidence showing Hamas has used hospital facilities in Gaza for its own purposes, including drawing electricity from the sites or building underground bunkers beneath medical centers, which makes them legitimate military targets for Israel.

While the army has held off on invading the Rafah area in far southern Gaza, the last Hamas stronghold, it warned Tuesday that it could resume fighting in two Gaza City neighborhoods and called on residents to evacuate to the al-Mawasi "humanitarian zone" on the coast of southern Gaza.

Paleostinian media outlets reported casualties in Israeli strikes on Zeitoun on Tuesday, one of the two neighborhoods.

According to Hamas health authorities, over 29,000 people in Gaza have been killed, though the figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between fighters and civilians.
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