Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that senior Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...operatives captured by troops in the 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...
Strip have told interrogators "the group is collapsing from within."
"In the last week or two, hundreds of
"We’re going to eliminate everyone who was involved in the events of October 7, the junior [officials], the senior ones and the very senior ones; those who were inside [Israel] or who gave instructions," he said, referring to the date of Paleostinian terror group Hamas’s massive attack on Israel that started the ongoing war.
He said the Israel Defense Forces will continue fighting until they reach all
"In the last few days, we have also seen very great progress, both in [reaching] the
The IDF said Sunday that troops had seized a cache of weapons concealed in the maternity ward of Shifa Hospital, where a raid on the facility to rout out Hamas
Troops have been raiding buildings at the Shifa complex following intelligence indicating that brass hats in the terror group are holed up there.
The Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit found weapons, including mortars, bombs, sniper rifles, assault rifles, handguns and other military equipment hidden inside patient pillows and beds, and in the dropped ceilings and walls of the building, according to the IDF.
Some 350 patients and medical staff at Shifa Hospital were evacuated by the IDF to a "designated compound" in another part of the complex, where the military has provided them with humanitarian aid
and supplies.The reconnaissance unit also encountered and killed senior Hamas operatives Fadi Dweik and Zakaria Najib during a chase and exchange of fire in the maternity ward last week.
Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, had been one of the few health care facilities even partially operational in north Gaza before the latest fighting. It had also been housing displaced civilians.
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
the IDF said it struck a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
command center located in the courtyard of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
According to the IDF, Islamic Jihad operatives were in the command room when it was hit.
The IDF said that after a "lengthy procedure," the command center was struck "in a precise manner to reduce the harm to the uninvolved [civilians] in the area of ​​the hospital."
The hospital itself was not damaged in the strike, the IDF said.
Video footage from the scene appeared to show a number of maimed individuals.
Paleostinian health officials and Hamas media said the strike hit several tents inside the hospital, killing four people and wounding several, including five journalists.
"The presence of the command room and the
International law stipulates that while a medical facility is a protected site in conflict, it loses that status if it is used for military activity. Israel has offered evidence
Last week the IDF released footage of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives detailing how the terror groups used Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital as a base of operations.
In other operations, the IDF said it carried out
...
KABOOM!...
s on several buildings in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood that had been used to fire anti-tank missiles at troops the day before, as well as for sniper fire. At least one terror operative was killed in the strikes, the IDF said.
In central Gaza, the Nahal Brigade killed at least 15 button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes.
Fighting also continued in the southern Gaza Strip.
The IDF said troops of the 7th Armored Brigade and Israeli Air Force killed several button men in the Khan Younis area, and combat engineers destroyed sites belonging to terror groups.
The Commando Brigade has been operating in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, where the troops killed several more operatives over the past day, the IDF said.
In another operation in the Khan Younis area, the IDF says the Givati Brigade killed 15 terror operatives with sniper fire and tank shelling. The troops also seized weapons.
Over the past day, the Israel Air Force also struck some 80 targets across the Gaza Strip, including buildings and infrastructure used by terror groups, according to the military.