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Two IDF soldiers killed in southern Gaza building collapse, two injured

2024-12-18

[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says Israel to retain security control of Strip post-war and maintain freedom for the military to act like it has in the West Bank

Two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed in southern 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 a rusty 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...
, the military announced Tuesday, as Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would control security in the Strip after the war.

The slain troops were named as Maj. (res.) Moshiko (Maxim) Rozenwald, 35, and Sgt. First Class. (res.) Alexander Anosov, 26. Both served in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 7107th Battalion and were both from the central city of Modiin. Rozenwald was a company commander and Anosov was a squad commander.

According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the two soldiers were killed and two others were moderately injured after a building they were in, in the Rafah area, collapsed on Monday afternoon. The military has assessed that the unstable building, which was already heavily damaged by IDF activity in the area, collapsed due to the movement of tanks on a route close to it.

No explosives or Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror group booby-traps were identified in the area, the probe found.

It took hours for rescue forces to recover their bodies from under the rubble.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face...
after three months of fighting in southern Leb
...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 IDF’s 98th Division was being redeployed to Gaza, the military said on Monday. The elite formation of paratrooper and commando units completed its operations in Lebanon on Wednesday last week, and was now readying for future missions in Gaza.

Their return to the enclave comes several weeks after Israel entered a ceasefire in Lebanon with the Hezbollah terror group, and more than fourteen months into the ongoing war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, which started the war on October 7, 2023, when it attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Also Tuesday, the military said a tunnel in northern Gaza’s Jabalia used by a Hamas cell in an attack that killed three soldiers in October was recently discovered and destroyed. In the attack on October 10, three reserve soldiers of the 460th Brigade were killed by a roadside kaboom.

The IDF said soldiers of the Givati Brigade located the tunnel shaft where the cell had been holed up, which connected to a 500-meter-long underground passage. Combat engineers then demolished the tunnel.

Katz on Tuesday said Israel would maintain security control of Gaza after the war, pushing back on an earlier TV report.

"Once we defeat Hamas’s military power and ruling power in Gaza, Israel will control security in Gaza with full freedom to act, just as in Judea and Samaria," he said in a statement, using the biblical name for the West Bank.

"We will not allow any terrorist activity against Israeli communities and citizens from Gaza. We will not allow a return to the pre-October 7 reality."

Katz made the comment after Channel 12 news reported that he told a senior US official in recent days that "Israel doesn’t want either military rule or civil rule over the residents" of Gaza.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said midday Tuesday that Israeli strikes across the enclave had killed at least 14 Paleostinians so far that day.

Medics said a strike in the Daraj suburb of Gaza City killed at least eight people from the same family, destroying a building and damaging nearby houses. Rescuers recovered the bodies of eight people, including two women and four children from under the rubble, the ministry said. Among the dead were a father and his three children, and the children’s grandmother, according to a casualty list obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

Four other people were killed in two separate ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the city and in the town of Beit Lahiya north of the enclave, medics added.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF.

In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Israeli tanks pushed deeper in the direction of al-Mawasi, designated a humanitarian zone. Heavy fire from tanks rolling into the area forced dozens of families sheltering there to flee northwards towards Khan Younis. The IDF did not issue any new evacuation warnings to civilians in the designated humanitarian zone, however, and there have been no other indications that troops are pushing into the Mawasi area.

The World Health Organization said Monday that a humanitarian team finally reached one of northern Gaza’s only functioning hospitals over the weekend to deliver fuel, food and medicines, and found "appalling" conditions. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that after multiple attempts, the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
health agency and partners reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya "two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission."

The team, he said, had "delivered 5,000 liters of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred three patients and six companions to al-Shifa," the Paleostinian territory’s main hospital, which has been the site of several battles between Hamas operatives and Israeli soldiers.

Kamal Adwan is one of the last operational medical facilities in the north of the war-ravaged territory, with the WHO warning earlier this month that it was operating at a "minimum" level. The agency said efforts to deliver desperately needed supplies have been repeatedly hampered.

Note the passive voice, dear Reader. Had it been the IDF, the accusation would have been direct, suggesting the fault lies with either Hamas or miscellaneous Gazans.

As fighting continued in Gaza, mediated talks continued between Israel and Hamas for a hostage-ceasefire deal. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Hamas had given in to an Israeli demand that the IDF remain in Gaza temporarily, after having previously refused to release any more hostages unless Israel agrees to a full withdrawal from the enclave and an end to the war, which the government has refused.

More from the Times of Israel:

Hamas has survived an unrelenting Israeli military campaign, but its military infrastructure has been effectively dismantled, and the support it had been receiving from the Iranian-led “Axis of Resistance” has all but dissipated over the past two months amid dizzying developments in Lebanon and Syria.

But that doesn’t mean Hamas will be prepared to accept a deal on any terms, the Arab diplomat clarified, adding that the group now has a lot less to lose and is still holding 100 hostages who won’t be released in full unless Israel agrees to a permanent ceasefire.

Contrary to reporting in American and Arabic press, though, progress in the talks has not extended to Hamas’s transfer of a long-sought list to the mediators consisting of the names of hostages it is prepared to release in the ceasefire’s first stage, the two Arab diplomats said.

Israel has sought the release of at least 33 hostages during this phase, while Hamas has maintained that it doesn’t have that number of living captives who fall into the “humanitarian” categories of women, elderly and sick captives, an Israeli official said.

With these hurdles still standing in the way, the second Arab diplomat said Biden officials’ privately shared desires to secure an agreement this week were unlikely to be actualized.

And even with a list from Hamas, it is unclear whether either side is prepared to move or compromise on the nature of the ceasefire, the four sources said.

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