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| IDF strikes 40 targets across Gaza, captures and destroys tunnels in northern Strip |
| 2025-04-19 |
| [IsraelTimes] Hamas-controlled civil defense says 24 people killed in overnight strikes; army general visits Gaza after soldiers complain of insufficient food during Passover holiday The Israeli Air Force struck some 40 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said on Friday, with targets including terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups and weapons depots, as troops continue to operate on the ground across the Strip. Palestinians said that at least 24 people were killed in the strikes. In the Tel Sultan and Shaboura areas of southern Gaza’s Rafah, the military said, troops of the Gaza Division destroyed Hamas infrastructure and killed several operatives during an ambush. In northern Gaza, the 252nd Division destroyed a weapons depot and directed drone strikes on operatives, the army said. Additionally, during recent operations in Gaza City’s eastern neighborhood of Shejaiya, the IDF said reservists of the Jerusalem Brigade, now in their fourth round of reserve duty in Gaza, located several tunnels and a weapons depot. The military said the operations in Shejaiya are intended to expand a buffer zone along the Gaza border. The area is relatively elevated and overlooks the Israeli border communities of Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza and Sa’ad. This past week, the IDF said the reserve brigade eliminated a cell of operatives that was planning a sniper attack on the forces. The tunnels and weapon depot located by the reservists were demolished by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, the army added. Gaza’s Hamas-controlled civil defense agency said that 24 people were killed in strikes across Gaza, including 10 people were killed in an overnight attack near the southern city of Khan Younis. “Our crews recovered the bodies of 10 martyrs and a large number of injuries from the house of the Baraka family and the neighboring houses targeted by the Israeli occupation forces in the Bani Suhaila area east of Khan Younis,” spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said on Telegram. The agency also reported at least 14 others allegedly killed in multiple Israeli strikes across the territory, including at least two strikes which it said hit tents sheltering displaced people. There was no immediate IDF comment on the specific strikes in question. Israel has said, in general, that it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. Gaza photojournalist, family killed in Gaza strike; IDF says it targeted Hamas operative War zones are, by definition, dangerous places. Especially when one is a designated human shield or near a target. [IsraelTimes] The Guardian …which caters to the self-righteous, educated bigots of the Left among the British reading classes, feeding them an endless variation of their preferred lies… reports on a young Gazan photojournalist, Fatima Hassouna, who it says was killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza this week.Hassouna, 25, was killed along with 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister, the report says. Hassouna was the subject of a documentary set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The IDF says the strike targeted a Hamas operative involved in attacks on soldiers and civilians. |
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