Several casualties were reported following Israeli air strikes on the tent shelters of civilians in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, which Israel had designated a ''safe zone'' while continuing to attack civilians sheltering there.
Two soldiers wounded, Hamas commander killed as troops push forward in southern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] IDF advances in Morag Corridor between Rafah and Khan Younis, find Hamas tunnel under Rafah kindergarten; army issues evacuation orders for several Gaza City neighborhoods
Two soldiers were were maimed 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
on Friday, one of them seriously, the military said, as troops pushed forward and expanded control of a new corridor in the area.
An IDF officer was moderately maimed during an exchange of fire with Paleostinian button men in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said. According to the IDF, a cell of terror operatives opened fire on troops in southern Gaza. The soldiers returned fire, killing two of the button men. A short while later a drone struck and killed a third member of the cell.
The officer was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Also Friday, a soldier was maimed in southern Gaza, the first badly hurt troop since the military resumed its offensive in the Strip last month. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the Israel Defense Forces said the soldier with the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion was apparently injured in an accident and not by enemy fire. The army said he was hit by an accidental discharge of a bullet, without giving further details.
The soldier was evacuated for medical treatment, and his family were notified, the IDF said.
The IDF also said Friday that a Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...sniper commander in southern Gaza’s Rafah was killed in a recent strike, as forces continued to operate in the area and advanced in the corridor between the city and nearby Khan Younis. Ahmad Iyad Muhammad Farhat, the commander of the Hamas terror group’s sniper forces in the terror group’s Tel Sultan Battalion in Rafah, was responsible for advancing and carrying out numerous attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza and against Israel, the IDF said Friday, announcing he had been killed.
The military said that over the previous 24-hour period, Israeli Air Force fighter jets, drones, and helicopters struck some 40 targets across Gaza, including cells of operatives, buildings used by terror groups, weapons, and other infrastructure.
The IDF’s Gaza Division has been operating in Rafah’s Tel Sultan and Shaboura neighborhoods since last month. In the past day, the military said troops killed several operatives and destroyed booby-trapped buildings.
Also in Rafah, the IDF said Friday that troops of the Golani Brigade located a Hamas tunnel built under a kindergarten. One of the tunnel’s entrances was located in the yard of the daycare, footage released by the military showed. According to the IDF, a school was located 100 meters away. Troops of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit scanned the tunnel, which was found to be several dozen meters long and booby-trapped with explosives. The tunnel led to a "key" Hamas underground passageway, the IDF said.
The tunnel was later demolished.
The IDF said the 36th Division advanced in the so-called Morag Corridor, between Rafah and Khan Younis, during which troops killed operatives and destroyed above-ground and underground infrastructure used by Hamas.
In northern Gaza, the 252nd Division located and destroyed additional Hamas infrastructure, and a tank shelled a group of armed operatives, killing them, the IDF said.
NEW EVACUATION ORDERS FOR GAZA CITY
The IDF also issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians residing in some areas of eastern Gaza City.
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area to be evacuated, which includes the neighborhoods of Shejaiya, Zeitoun, and Tuffah.
He said that the military would soon operate "with great force" there to "destroy terror infrastructure."
Civilians were called to head for shelters in western Gaza City.
Hamas-affiliated Gaza health authorities claimed Friday that a pre-dawn Israeli
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KABOOM!...
in Khan Younis killed 10 members of the same family, seven of whom were children.
The IDF said it was looking into the reports.
WATER PIPELINE DAMAGED, MUNICIPALITY SAYS
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their only source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel’s water utility were cut amid fighting, municipal authorities in the Hamas-governed territory said. Many now have to walk, sometimes for miles, to get a small water fill after fighting in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood damaged the pipeline operated by Israel’s state-owned Mekorot. Mekorot’s pipeline had been supplying 70% of Gaza City’s water since the destruction of most of its wells during the war, municipal authorities said.
| It is not usual for one side in a war to provide the other with food and water, not to mention pause the attack in order to support vaccinating the children. |
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