[IsraelTimes] Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon shot by sniper in Khan Younis; Hamas claims 140 killed in Strip over past day, including people shot seeking aid; IAF strikes 75 targets throughout Strip
An IDF soldier was killed during fighting 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 ...
on Wednesday, as fierce fighting continued throughout the Strip despite being overshadowed by Israel’s escalating conflict with Iran.
Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon, 20, of the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion, from Petah Tikva, was killed by sniper fire in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, according to an initial IDF probe.
The military said later Wednesday that an IDF reservist with the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 8105th Battalion was also seriously maimed in southern Gaza, without elaborating on the circumstances.
The news comes two days after two other IDF soldiers, Cpt. (res.) Tal Movshovitz, and Staff Sgt. Naveh Leshem, were killed in separate incidents, also in Khan Younis. Halfon’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in Gaza and military operations along the border with the Strip to 433.
The IDF said Wednesday that it was continuing to push ahead with its ground offensive in Gaza even while resources and attention have been diverted to the exchanges of fire with Iran. Hamas claimed that more than 140 people had been killed in the Strip over the past day, including the now-daily claim that Paleostinians seeking aid boxes were targeted by IDF troops.
The Israeli Air Force carried out strikes on over 75 targets in the Gaza Strip in the past day, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Wednesday.
"In the Gaza Strip, we are fighting according to a structured plan with four divisions," he said.
Also Wednesday, a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip fell in an open area near the border community of Nirim, setting off sirens in the area. There were no injuries.
In northern Gaza, the IDF’s 162nd Division has pushed into Jabalia. In one incident Tuesday night, the military said troops spotted three terror operatives approaching forces and called in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
. A building used by Hamas was also targeted in the area.
The 252nd Division operating in the Strip’s center killed two "suspects who posed a threat" and directed a strike on Hamas tunnel infrastructure, the military said.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, where the 36th Division has been operating to capture and clear the area of Hamas infrastructure, the IDF said that troops spotted what appeared to be humanitarian aid in a building, but after further investigation it was suspected to be a booby trap.
The soldiers threw two bombs into the building, causing the bomb planted by Hamas there to explode and collapse the building, the IDF said.
Forty of 140 people killed over the past day died as a result of Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Wednesday, the Hamas-controlled health ministry claimed.
These figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified.
Medics said that separate airstrikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighborhood and Gaza City killed at least 21 people, while five others were killed in an airstrike on an encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Fourteen more people were killed when soldiers fired at crowds of Paleostinians awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics claimed.
Asked about the Salahuddin road incident, the army said that despite repeated warnings that the area was an active combat zone, individuals approached troops operating in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip in a manner that posed a threat to forces. Troops fired warning shots, it said, adding that it was unaware of injuries. Regarding other strikes, the IDF said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" while taking "feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm."
’A TINY FRACTION’ OF HUMANITARIAN AID
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding......
85 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced Wednesday.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 1,710 trucks have entered the Strip. The aid underwent inspection by Israeli authorities before entering via Zikim Crossing in the Strip’s north and Kerem Shalom Crossing in the south, the IDF.
Israel is now channeling much of the aid into Gaza through the new US and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which uses private US security and logistics firms and operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces.
Israel has said it will continue to allow aid into Gaza, home to more than 2 million people, while ensuring it doesn’t get to Hamas. The terror group denies seizing aid, saying Israel uses hunger as a weapon.
The World Food Program called on Wednesday for a major increase in food distribution in Gaza, saying that the 9,000 metric tons it had dispatched over the last four weeks inside Gaza represented a "tiny fraction" of what was needed.
"The fear of starvation and desperate need for food is causing large crowds to gather along well-known transport routes, hoping to intercept and access humanitarian supplies while in transit," the WFP said in a statement.
"Any violence resulting in starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable," it added.
Israel launched its campaign in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Terror groups in Gaza continue to hold 53 hostages, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 who are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of three others, Israeli officials have said.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 53,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 bandidos bully boyz inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has said 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. 
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