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Troops captured key Hamas stronghold and fought gunmen in tunnels during 10-hour battle, IDF says
2023-11-10
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade captured a Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
stronghold, known as outpost 17, in west Jabaliya after 10 hours of fighting.

The IDF says the soldiers battled Hamas and 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...
operatives in the stronghold, who were both "above ground and in an underground route in the area."

According to the IDF, dozens of terror operatives were killed during the fighting.

It says troops located many weapons and uncovered tunnel shafts, including one located adjacent to a kindergarten that led to an "extensive underground route."

Troops also found "significant" Hamas battle plans in outpost 17, the IDF adds.

The IDF did not immediately provide new information on potential casualties among troops.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
the IDF says the Air Force carried out strikes against hundreds of targets in the 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 over the past day.
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  The are hoping that the linesmen will skate in and muscle the goon off them before they get pummeled into a bloody martyr chum.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-11-10 16:04  

#8  /\ Heaviest flak over the target, as it were.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-10 13:46  

#7  Good rule of thumb. The louder the cries for a ceasefire, the better Israel is doing.
Posted by: Gerthudion Glaise9097   2023-11-10 12:49  

#6  but they can jump through flaming hoops like nobody's bizness
Posted by: Frank G   2023-11-10 11:55  

#5  Also hope they're correct.

Maybe Hamas' realy competency is killing innocent women and children. But when they have to face a professional army, the story is different.
Posted by: Tom   2023-11-10 11:27  

#4  Mike:

I hope your other sources are correct!
Posted by: Chaimp Jones2780   2023-11-10 10:26  

#3  ...Seeing some interesting commentary elsewhere suggesting that the Israelis are rolling up Hamas far faster - and at far lower cost - than anyone had expected...and others are now starting to face the possibility that Hamas is about to get overrun in a classic example of Liddy's Law:

"You can't kill an idea!"
"No, but you CAN kill all the believers and burn their documents!"


Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-11-10 07:31  

#2  UN says humanitarian pauses to fighting agreed by Israel are ‘cynical and cruel’

The most important thing to remember about UN is that it's a cobelligerent (on the side of Hamas) here.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-10 05:26  

#1  Troops kill several top Hamas commandos in a series of operations in northern Gaza
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-10 05:23  

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