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Tues. overnight: Israel, Gaza terror groups agree to hudna after 37 rockets, IDF response
2023-05-03
Continuing the action started in yesterday’s report.
[IsraelTimes] Two sides settle on truce, Paleostinian sources say, after daylong flare-up sparked by death of 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...
 member in Israeli prison during hunger strike.

Israel and 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 Hamaswith 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...
 terror groups reportedly agreed to a ceasefire early Wednesday morning, after a daylong flare-up in violence sparked by the death of a prominent Paleostinian Islamic Jihad member while on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. The two sides agreed to a truce that went into effect before dawn on Wednesday, according to the Al Jazeera and Rooters news outlets, citing Paleostinian sources. The agreement was mediated by officials from Egypt, 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...
 and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
, Rooters reported.

A rocket warning siren went off near the southern Israeli community of Nir Am shortly after the start of the reported ceasefire. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, or a confirmation of a rocket launch. The Israel Defense Forces said that after a situational assessment, it had decided to return to routine. The Eshkol Regional Council, which borders Gaza, told residents they could return to routine and that schools would be open as usual.

The ceasefire was announced around 24 hours after the Israel Prisons Service announced the death of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad’s Khader Adnan after an 86-day hunger strike. Adnan had been arrested on terror charges and was in detention while awaiting trial.

Shortly after Adnan’s death was announced, four rockets were fired from Gaza, causing no injuries. In response, IDF tanks struck a Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, observation post near the border.

On Tuesday afternoon and evening, Gaza bandidos gunnies fired dozens more rockets and mortar shells into Israel. Most were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, landed in open areas, or fell short and landed inside Gaza. Five hit urban areas in southern Israel, though, according to police.

One of the rockets hit a construction site in the city of Sderot, seriously wounding a 25-year-old foreign national and lightly wounding two others, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. The three, suffering from shrapnel wounds, were taken to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. The hospital said in a later statement that the seriously maimed man’s condition had improved, and he was listed in moderate condition.

A security camera recorded a rocket hitting a residential area near Ashkelon.

The so-called "Joint Operations Room" of various Paleostinian terror factions in the Gaza Strip took responsibility for the rocket attacks. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the collective, which includes both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said the attacks came as a response to Adnan’s death. The terror groups fired at least 37 rockets at Israel throughout the day.

Besides the tank fire early in the morning, the IDF held off from immediately responding to the rocket barrages. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government came under intense pressure to retaliate, though, with much of the push coming from within Netanyahu’s own coalition. The right-wing bloc’s approval rates have declined since it returned to power four months ago, promising to restore security, only to be met with a sustained series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks and security tensions on other fronts. The coalition’s push to overhaul the judicial system has also been broadly unpopular, according to polls, and has prompted massive, sustained protests around the country.

On Tuesday night, the Israeli Air Force began carrying out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against Hamas terror targets in response to the rockets. In a statement, the IDF said air force jets targeted a number of sites belonging to the Hamas terror group. The targets included a Hamas training camp; another base that housed a weapons production site, a concrete production plant, and a training site; a site for the group’s naval commandos; and a tunnel used by Hamas in southern Gaza.

"The strike deals a serious blow to Hamas’s ability to fortify and arm itself," the IDF said.

Paleostinian media outlets reported that explosions were heard across northern and central Gaza. One man was badly injured in an airstrike on a site belonging to Hamas, Paleostinian media reported. There was no immediate confirmation by Hamas authorities.

Hours later, the IDF announced another round of airstrikes targeting similar Hamas targets in Gaza.

Sirens continued to go off in Israeli communities near the Gaza border into the predawn hours of Wednesday, until shortly before the ceasefire was announced. The IDF said it was investigating the alarms. There were no confirmed rocket strikes, or reports of injuries or damage.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The usual process: Launch rockets, holler "aggression," have Egypt and Qatar make promises no Paleostinian intends to keep.



Army held off on hitting Gaza so kids could get in school day — report

[IsraelTimes] Military officials decided to wait until the afternoon to shell 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 Hamaswith 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...
 in response to rocket fire early Tuesday morning so that children could get in a normal day of school, Channel 12 news reports.

According to the channel, the military made the decision to hold off after sharing intelligence on the expected response from Gaza with local officials in areas outside the Strip. The decision was made to hold off until later, to allow kids to attend school while affording residents some normality before the flare-up.

The army began shelling positions in Gaza shortly after 3 p.m., when most schools would have already gotten out, though many kindergartens run later. Starting at around 3:30 p.m., Gazooks fired a volley of 22 rockets at Sderot and other areas.

Earlier, Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen accused Gazook Lions of Islam of timing their barrage to coincide with pick-up from kindergarten.
Related:
Khader Adnan: 2023-05-02 Gaza hunger striker pegs out. rockets fired, threats, vitriol follow
Khader Adnan: 2023-02-06 Good Morning
Khader Adnan: 2023-02-06 Islamic Jihad Vows to Keep up Resistance as Israeli Occupation Arrests Sheikh Khader Adnan
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Joint Operations Room: 2021-10-04 PFLP issued a statement affirming that the Palestinian Joint Operations Room (JOR) is unified. Unified, dammit!
Joint Operations Room: 2020-12-29 Rockets, drones fly as Gaza terrorist groups hold joint military drill
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