...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 in the past day, the military says, as ground forces operate in Rafah, Jabaliya, and the Netzarim Corridor.
According to the IDF, the targets included weapon depots, infrastructure, and buildings belonging to terror groups, as well as operatives.
One of the
...KABOOM!...
s in Rafah hit a senior 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...
operative, who the IDF says was head of logistics for the terror group in the city in southern Gaza. "As part of his role, he was responsible for preparing the enemy for the IDF maneuver in Rafah," the military says.
In eastern Rafah, the military says troops of the Givati Brigade spotted and killed an RPG-wielding operative in a building near them. Givati troops raided several sites in the area, locating weapons, the IDF adds.
Also in eastern Rafah, the Egoz commando unit located a rocket launcher at a building used by terror groups, the IDF says.
Meanwhile in Jabaliya in the Strip’s north, the IDF says the Paratroopers Brigade killed several button men during several engagements; the 7th Armored Brigade located a primed rocket launcher and killed several more button men in battles; and the 460th Armored Brigade located several tunnel shafts and killed an RPG-wielding operative.
In the Strip’s center, the 99th Division continued to battle button men in the Netzarim Corridor area, including by calling in airstrikes, the IDF says.
In one incident in central Gaza, troops of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit spotted a cell that had fired RPGs at troops and directed a drone to strike and kill the operatives, the army adds.