The IDF seems to be finding plenty to occupy itself with while ostensibly waiting to go after Rafah.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets stepped up air attacks in 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 an 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...
over the past day, hitting more than 60 targets across the Strip, largely in support of forces maneuvering on the ground, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The targets included attack tunnels and buildings where button men were gathered, according to the IDF. The number of strikes is higher than it has been in recent weeks.
The IDF says it also struck targets in an area from which three rockets were fired at the southern city of Sderot last night.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
the IDF’s operation against Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital continues, with the military saying troops killed several button men and captured weapons over the past day.
The raid at Shifa, which began early March 18, is being carried out by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, the 401st Armored Brigade, and Nahal Infantry Brigade.
The IDF says many more Hamas operatives were killed during operations over the past day in southern Gaza’s al-Qarara and the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, where troops of the Commando Brigade and Paratroopers Brigade also captured caches of weapons.
The 7th Armored Brigade, also operating in the Khan Younis area, raided several buildings used by Hamas, and in the process captured weapons, destroyed infrastructure, and killed operatives, the IDF says.
Nahal troops operating in central Gaza killed several more Hamas operatives over the past day, including by calling in
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KABOOM!...
s against cells spotted near them, the IDF says.