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IDF soldier killed in combat in northern Gaza

2025-06-30

[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, killed in explosion; Hamas-linked agency says 17 killed by IDF fire across Strip; PM to hold high-level meet on war, hostage talks

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the military announced.

The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, from Ra’anana.

According to an initial IDF probe, Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device during operations in the Kafr Jabalia area.

His death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 441.

Sunday also saw reports of yet another mass casualty event attributed to IDF fire — in what has become a near-daily occurrence — near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

I have to wonder how many of those bullets came from Hamas guns. They need the funds that come from controlling aid supplies in the Gaza Strip, now that they can’t access their smuggling tunnels.

Earlier, the military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in the northern part of the Strip, expecting intensified fighting against Hamas.

At the same time, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem was actively working to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal. Top officials are expected to meet Sunday night to discuss the war and negotiation efforts.

Palestinian and Arab media outlets reported Sunday that five people were killed and dozens more injured by Israeli army fire near an aid distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza’s Rafah area.

No footage from the scene has been published so far. There has been no comment from the IDF.

According to health authorities in the Hamas-run Strip, nearly 500 people have been killed, allegedly by Israeli forces, near GHF aid distribution sites, which are set up in areas controlled by the IDF and far from population centers. The GHF has denied responsibility for the deaths, noting that it is operating in a war zone.

Israeli officials have said soldiers sometimes fire on suspects who deviate from approved paths and who are deemed to be endangering the forces, and have suggested the victim numbers have been exaggerated.

Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency said that Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 17 people, including three children, throughout Gaza on Sunday.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 16 people died in airstrikes at five locations around the Strip, and another from Israeli fire near an aid distribution center.

Bassal said two children were killed in an airstrike on their home in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood in the early morning, and that “the house was completely destroyed.”

The IDF has multiple times warned y’all to leave Gaza City because they would be fighting Hamas there. It does no good to complain afterward when you and yours came to harm because you stayed to be human shields for Hamas.

A member of the family, Abdel Rahman Azzam, 45, told AFP, “We evacuated more than 20 injured people, including two martyrs, two children from the family,” Azzam said.

“They bombed the house with a missile without any prior warning. This is a horrific crime. We sleep without knowing if we will wake up.”

Nobody else gives warning, especially Hamas. Stop acting like a spoilt baby and take your consequences like a mensch.

Elsewhere, Bassal said a drone strike on a tent housing displaced people near the southern city of Khan Younis killed five people including a child.

The IDF says it targets terror operatives in Gaza who it accuses of embedding within the civilian population.

See? Complain to Hamas, guys. War is not a video game.

A senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Jerusalem was continuing to work actively on a hostage-truce deal in Gaza.

It would come after months of stagnation following the last deal’s collapse in March, when Israel refused to enter talks for a permanent end to the war.

“There are ongoing contacts through the mediating countries, and we are in continuous contact with the Americans,” said the official.

Overnight, US President Donald Trump called for Israel to “make the deal in Gaza.”

Also on Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court announced it was canceling Netanyahu’s scheduled testimony in his criminal trial this week, partially acceding to a request that it be delayed for the next two weeks due to diplomatic and national security issues.

The heads of IDF Military Intelligence and Mossad were present in a closed-door meeting advocating the pause. The judges said substantial additional information had been provided, leading them to agree to the pause this time, after two previous requests were rejected last week.

It is not clear whether the information pertained to a deal in Gaza.

Army tells civilians to leave northern Gaza again as offensive ratchets up

[IsraelTimes] The IDF re-issues a wide evacuation warning for Palestinians in the Gaza City and Jabalia areas in the northern Gaza Strip.

The area was already ordered to evacuate on May 29, and has been part of a no-go zone since.

Civilians are instructed to head for the Mawasi area on the coast in Gaza’s south.

“The IDF is operating with extreme force in these areas, and these military operations will escalate, intensify, and extend westward to the city center to destroy the capabilities of the terrorist organizations,” says the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee in a post on X.

“Hamas is bringing a disaster upon you. Returning to dangerous combat zones poses a danger to your lives,” he adds.

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