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IDF soldier killed in Gaza; Israel: 300 terrorists killed in Rafah since start of op

2024-05-31

[IsraelTimes] Death of Yedidya Azugi brings army’s ground op toll to 292; US says Israeli takeover of Gaza-Egypt border is in line with limited offensive it is willing to support

The Israeli military said Thursday that a soldier was killed 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...
fighting, as it continued to pound the Strip and said 300 terror operatives had been killed since an incursion was launched into its southern city of Rafah.

Staff Sgt. Yedidya Azugi, 21, of the Paratrooper Brigade’s 101st Battalion, from Revava, was killed while fighting Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced, raising the army’s corpse count in Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza to 292.

The IDF said it had carried out over 50 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s throughout Gaza over the past day, including an attack that killed two terror operatives seen leaving a building in northern Gaza where shells had been launched toward Israeli troops.

In northern Gaza, the army said troops were continuing to operate in the heart of Jabaliya, where they were finding weapons and engaging Gazook fighters attacking them.

An AFP correspondent reported artillery and gunfire in Gaza City’s southern neighborhood of Zeitoun, where witnesses said thick plumes of smoke rose over Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya.

Troops were also operating in central Gaza, where they found an arms cache, the IDF said.

In the southern city of Rafah, soldiers uncovered tunnel shafts, an ammunition depot, anti-tank missile launchers, explosives, and other unspecified arms, the IDF said Thursday.

Also in Rafah, an airstrike was called in on three terror operatives who opened fire on troops, and residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire.

Troops have killed around 300 terror operatives since the operation in Rafah was launched on May 6, government spokesperson David Mencer said.

The IDF also announced Thursday that a booby-trapped tunnel shaft that killed three soldiers in Rafah on Tuesday was located inside a medical clinic.

The military said that forces had come under anti-tank missile fire from an UNRWA school in Rafah, and in response launched a raid against the building and an adjacent mosque and clinic.

During searches in the area, a booby-trapped tunnel was discovered inside the clinic, which then went kaboom!, killing three soldiers of the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion.

The IDF said troops also found a cache of weapons, as well as additional tunnel shafts, inside the UNRWA school complex, including within the classrooms.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
terror groups in Gaza were showing they are still capable of attacking Israeli territory, as rocket sirens were triggered in Nirim near the Gaza border on Thursday morning.

Army Radio reported that a single projectile was launched from Khan Younis and landed in an uninhabited area.

The alarm was the first to sound in southern Israel since a Tuesday night alert in Mefalsim.

The IDF’s incursion into Rafah — believed to be Hamas’s last major stronghold — has sparked international controversy since over a million civilians had been sheltering there before it was launched. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
after the military announced that the Philadelphi Route along Gaza’s border with Egypt had been captured, the US said it did not object to this.

"When [Israel] briefed us on their plans for Rafah, it did include moving along that corridor and out of the city proper to put pressure on Hamas in the city," White House national security front man John Kirby told news hounds in a briefing.

Kirby declined to confirm if Israel had indeed seized all of the Philadelphi Route, saying: "It’s not our op."

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
he said the move was consistent with the "limited" ground operation that Israeli officials had briefed the US on ahead of time.

It looks like one faction of the Biden administration really, really does not want Jewish Americans stirred up .

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 so 300 is a good start

The IDF claims 15,000+ altogether, Lord Garth, though I suspect it’s considerably more. Do you remember what the starting number was on 10/6?

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-05-31 19:43

#3 "Nurse! Scalpel!"
"I'm reloading!"

Posted by: Frank G 2024-05-31 19:07

#2 How many Hamas troops can one hospital abide and how many hospitals are there left to inhabit?

Posted by: jpal 2024-05-31 19:02

#1 I think each Hamas battalion in Rafah has 500-1200 troops so 300 is a good start

but only a start

Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-05-31 18:17

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