[JPost] Several terrorists and gunfire can be seen near UN vehicles and in the area of UNRWA's logistics warehouse compound in eastern Rafah, which is a central point for the distribution of UNRWA's aid.
The IDF revealed on Tuesday that during operational activity in eastern Rafah on Saturday, terrorists were identified in UNRWA’s central logistics compound alongside UN vehicles.
In the footage, several terrorists and gunfire can be seen near UN vehicles and in the area of UNRWA's logistics warehouse compound in eastern Rafah, which is a central point for the distribution of aid on UNRWA’s behalf in the Gaza Strip.
Following the event, representatives of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) conveyed the findings to senior officials in the international community and called on the UN to conduct an urgent investigation into the matter.
HAMAS PRESENCE THREATENS CIVILIAN SAFETY
In addition, COGAT representatives warned the UN against the presence of terrorists in the area and the seriousness of the danger their presence brings to the logistics center compound concerning the continued protection of the organization's facilities.
The IDF promised at the end of the announcement that it would continue to act in accordance with international law to distribute aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz commented on the footage on X, formerly Twitter, saying, "Hamas terrorists firing at civilians from within a UNRWA facility next to UN vehicles in Rafah. No lie from Antonio Guterres and Philippe Lazzarini will hide the truth: UNRWA is an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas."
Katz also called for the resignation of Lazzarini as the Commissioner-General of UNRWA.
[IsraelTimes] Weapons allegedly sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a Muslim Brotherhood cell in the kingdom that has links to Hamas
Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the kingdom to help opponents of the ruling US-aligned monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter.
The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan that has links to the military wing of Palestinian terror group Hamas, the sources told Reuters.
The cache was seized when members of the cell, Jordanians of Palestinian descent, were arrested in late March, they said.
The alleged plot and arrests came at a time of sky-high tensions in the Middle East, with an American-backed Israel at war in Gaza with Hamas, part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” network of proxy groups built up over decades to oppose Israel.
The two Jordanian sources, who requested anonymity to discuss security matters, declined to say what acts of sabotage were allegedly planned, citing ongoing investigations and covert operations.
They said the plot’s aim was to destabilize Jordan, a country that could become a regional flashpoint in the Gaza crisis as it hosts a US military base and shares borders with Israel as well as Syria and Iraq, both home to Iranian-backed militias.
The sources did not specify what weapons were seized in the March raid, though they said that in recent months security services have thwarted numerous attempts by Iran and its allied groups to smuggle in arms including Claymore mines, C4 and Semtex explosives, Kalashnikov rifles and 107mm Katyusha rockets.
Most of the clandestine flow of arms into the country has been bound for the neighboring West Bank, according to the Jordanian sources. However, some of the weapons — including those seized in March — were intended for use in Jordan by the Brotherhood cell allied to Hamas terrorists, they said.
Jordanian authorities believe Iran and its allied terror groups like Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah are trying to recruit young, radical members of the kingdom’s Brotherhood to their anti-Israel, anti-US cause in a bid to expand Tehran’s regional network of aligned forces, according to the two sources.
A senior representative of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood confirmed that some of its members were arrested in March in possession of weapons, but said whatever they did was not approved by the group and that he suspected they were smuggling arms to the West Bank rather than planning acts in Jordan.
“There is dialogue between the Brotherhood and the authorities. They know if there are mistakes it’s not the MB, only individuals and not MB policy,” said the representative, asking not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
It’s never the official policy of the Brotherhooders to guide their youngsters toward groups following the strong jihad of the sword, but they are a feeder pipeline nonetheless.
Another senior figure in Brotherhood, who also requested anonymity, told Reuters the arrested cell members had been recruited by Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri, who masterminded the Palestinian group’s operations in the West Bank from exile in Lebanon. Arouri was killed by a drone strike in Beirut in January in an attack widely attributed to Israel.
Over the past year, Jordan has said it has foiled many attempts by infiltrators linked to pro-Iranian militias in Syria who it says have crossed its borders with rocket launchers and explosives, adding that some of the weapons managed to get through undetected. Iran has denied being behind such attempts.
[IsraelTimes] Israel, Egypt trade blame for continued closure of key crossing; PM wanted Ramallah’s officers to operate under guise of local aid group, fearing opposition from far-right partners.
Israel is trying to convince the Paleostinian Authority to help manage 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 oppression and disproportionate response... side of the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt but has been rebuffed by Ramallah, a US official told The Times of Israel on Monday.
The offer was the first time that Israel quietly proposed having some PA involvement in Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea for months, sometimes equating the PA in the West Bank to the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group.
But the proposal came with a significant caveat — the officers at the crossing would have to identify themselves as part of a local humanitarian organization because Netanyahu fears that official PA involvement at Rafah would not be accepted by his far-right coalition partners, the US official said, confirming reporting in the Axios news site.
Israel launched a military operation last week to take over the Gaza side of Rafah, shuttering one of the only crossings for delivering aid into Egypt.
Israel is seeking to prevent Hamas from profiting off of activity at the gate, thwart continued weapons smuggling from Egypt and dismantle a primary institution of Hamas’s illusory sovereignty in Gaza.
But the move has sparked a major diplomatic spat with Egypt, which fears that an Israeli operation along its border could lead Paleostinians sheltering in Rafah to breach the fence and pour into the Sinai.
Israel has sought to coordinate the operation with Egypt, but has apparently failed to do so, as Jerusalem says Cairo is refusing to reopen its side of the crossing for aid to come in, citing security concerns.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry denounced what he called Israel’s attempt to blame Egypt for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying Israel’s seizure of the crossing as well as its military operations in the area were the main reasons that aid has been unable to enter Gaza.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz’s office said he had held several calls with European counterparts to try and solve the matter, indicating that ties are so poor with Egypt that he cannot reach out to Shoukry directly or that his influence in the Israeli government is limited.
Even if Egypt did reopen its side of Rafah, Israel appears to have launched the operation without first securing an agreement from another body to replace Hamas at the crossing, the US official said, adding that the request to the PA was only made after the fact.
Ramallah rejected the Israeli request, saying it would only agree to take over Rafah if Israel agreed to the plan being crafted by Arab allies to eventually establish a Paleostinian state, a Paleostinian official told Sky News.
The US official said the sides are still working to try and find a solution to the issue given the need to reopen the crossing for aid as soon as possible.
Quoting an unnamed source, Axios reported that Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar told his Egyptian counterpart Abbas Kamel that Israel wants to reopen the Rafah crossing, but will not allow Hamas to return to the area.
"This is a security necessity on which we will not compromise," Katz tweeted Tuesday.
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OK, Israel, you climbed into the septic tank because you had to try to fix things. Nobody else wants to get in there with you, and you climbed into the septic tank.
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Nobody likes the Gazans. Even Team No Juice is like, well schools out and all the kool kommies will be headed to Ibiza, so vacay time.
Israeli fighter jets have bombed central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, killing dozens of Palestinians, with children among the fatalities. Heavy combat results in casualties on both sides as Palestinian fighters battle invading Israeli forces in northern and southern Gaza.
The UN says it informed Israeli authorities of the movements of a UN-marked vehicle carrying staff that was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian army colonel working with the UN.
Women and children make up at least 56 percent of the 35,173 people killed in the Gaza war, the UN says,
and another branch of the UN says Hamas has overstated deaths of women and children by about 10,000, reducing that percentage by about half. Other sources point out that Hamas has many hardboys in the 16-20 year range, whose deaths they group among the children…
in a new breakdown that’s the “most comprehensive” to date.
The US-constructed Gaza humanitarian aid pier will be operational “in the coming days”, Pentagon spokesman Major-General Pat Ryder has told reporters.
[IsraelTimes] Army spokesperson says over 300 gunmen killed in Rafah, Gaza City suburbs, IDF releases footage showing alleged Hamas gunmen at UN facilities in southern Gaza city
Four Israeli soldiers were seriously maimed in separate battles with button men across 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 oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said, as the military expanded a renewed offensive in the north of the Strip centered around the Gaza City suburb of Jabaliya.
Three soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade suffered serious injuries during a gunbattle in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a fourth troop from the Givati Brigade was seriously hurt as a result of an bomb that detonated in Rafah in the far south of Gaza City.
Five other troops were moderately injured in the same battle in northern Gaza, while the Rafah blast left another five soldiers moderately and lightly maimed.
Israeli forces have recently returned to Jabaliya after the IDF identified terror operatives regrouping there. The city, just north of Gaza City, was one of the first targets of an Israeli ground offensive into Gaza which launched in late October as Jerusalem seeks to uproot the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror group and return hostages held in the Strip.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday that troops are now operating in areas of Jabaliya that the IDF previously did not reach in the initial ground offensive in northern Gaza. More than 80 button men have been killed in the operation that started on Sunday.
Also Tuesday, Israel expanded an evacuation order for Paleostinian civilians in the city. IDF’s Arabic-language front man Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee instructed civilians in the al-Atatra and Salatin areas to move to shelters west of Gaza City.
More than 150 button men have been killed in the nearby Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City since Israeli troops relaunched an offensive there, Hagari said.
Some 80 sites used by terror groups were destroyed as well, he said.
The IDF has had to return to previously conquered places such as Jabaliya and Zeitoun due to indications that the Hamas terror group has reemerged since the main thrust of Israel’s offensive shifted to the south of the Strip.
Some critics of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war strategy have blamed his administration’s inability to determine what will replace Hamas as the civilian authority in Gaza for the army having to double back into northern Gaza.
"There is no doubt that a governmental alternative to Hamas will create pressure on Hamas, but that is a question for the political echelon," Hagari said Tuesday in response to a question.
Most attention in Gaza in recent weeks has been focused on the south, where Israel recently launched what it has described as a "precise" operation to uproot Hamas from what is considered its last remaining major stronghold.
Hagari said more than 100 button men had been killed there and 10 tunnel systems located since Israel pushed into Rafah last week, Hagari said.
Israel invaded Gaza following the October 7 massacre, during which thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed into southern Israel communities, killing some 1,200 people and taking another 252 hostage in Gaza. Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas to ensure it no longer poses a threat, but is also involved in indirect talks with the group aimed at an extended truce and exchange of hostages for Paleostinian prisoners.
Visiting troops in eastern Rafah on Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi was told by commanders there that "there are also hostages in the Rafah area. We are determined to do whatever it takes to create the conditions for them to return to us soon," Hagari said.
Fighting has also persisted in central Gaza, where the IDF said that it struck a Hamas command room based out of a UNRWA school in Nuseirat, resulting in the deaths of more than 15 terror operatives, including 10 Hamas members. Among those killed were holy warriors of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who participated in the October 7 onslaught, Israel said.
The army says 272 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border.
The IDF said the strike on the school was carried out following "accurate intelligence" provided by the Shin Bet security agency and Military Intelligence Directorate.
"The strike was carefully planned and carried out using precise munitions while avoiding harming civilians as much as possible," the military said in a statement.
According to the IDF and Shin Bet, the command room was used by Hamas to plan attacks against troops operating in central Gaza in recent weeks.
In drone footage captured over the weekend and released by the IDF on Tuesday, Paleostinian button men were also seen at a UNRWA logistics center in Rafah, and near United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... vehicles.
According to the IDF, the button men were spotted by troops of the Givati Brigade on Saturday at the UNRWA logistics center in eastern Rafah.
The video showed the button men next to UN vehicles and in the logistics compound itself, which the IDF said is used by the UN body to deliver humanitarian aid. One clip was also said by the military to show a gunman opening fire inside the complex.
Following the "unusual event," the military said representatives of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) "conveyed the findings to bigwigs in the international community and called on the UN to investigate the matter urgently."
COGAT officials also "warned the UN against the presence of holy warriors in the area, and the seriousness of the danger that exists in the presence of the holy warriors in the logistics center compound with regard to the continued protection of the organization’s facilities."
Israel has previously accused UNRWA of enabling Hamas to use its facilities in Gaza for terror. It has also provided evidence that several agency employees are members of terror groups and were involved in the October 7 attack.
Following the release of the drone footage, Katz wrote on X that UNRWA "is an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas," and called on the organization’s chief, Philippe Lazzarini, to resign.
The footage was sent out a day after a member of the UN’s security staff was killed and another was maimed in a strike on a UN vehicle en route to the European hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. On Tuesday, the world body blamed Israel for the death, saying the car had been clearly marked before it was struck by shots fired from a tank. The IDF previously said the incident would be probed, but claimed that the car had been in an active combat zone and had not updated an Israeli deconfliction line about its route.
50 TRUCKS ’NOT NEARLY ENOUGH’
Nearly 450,000 of the roughly one million Paleostinians who had been sheltering in Rafah have evacuated in recent days as the IDF has escalated its operations in Gaza’s southernmost city.
The IDF says four of Hamas’s remaining six battalions are located in Rafah, along with the terror group’s leadership and many of the hostages. But it has faced pressure from the US and much of the rest of the international community to not carry out a full-scale offensive in the city.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is scheduled to visit Israel later this week and will discuss the situation in Rafah with Netanyahu. Despite concerns that the IDF will escalate its offensive in the Hamas stronghold, a US official confirmed on Tuesday evening that Jerusalem has given assurances that it will not do so before Sullivan arrives.
The US has ramped up its criticism of Israel’s handling of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in the days since the IDF seized the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on May 7. On Tuesday, US State Department front man Vedant Patel said that just 50 aid trucks had entered Gaza on Sunday, describing the convoy as "not nearly enough."
Patel reiterated that while Washington backed military pressure on Hamas, it was not the only way to "fully defeat" the terror organization. Without a political plan for Gaza’s future, the terror group will "keep coming back, and Israel will continue to remain under threat," Patel said, leading to "this continued cycle of violence."
Rejecting the notion that Israel is solely responsible for managing the humanitarian crisis unleashed in Gaza by its war with Hamas, Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for Egypt to resume sending humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing, which Cairo refuses to do in protest of the IDF takeover.
"The world is placing the responsibility of Israel for the humanitarian issue, but the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis is now in the hands of our Egyptian friends," he said.
His comments prompted an angry response from Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry who said in a statement that Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing and its military operations in the area were the main obstacles to aid entering Gaza.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... the US military is expected to connect one end of a hulking metal dock — the length of five US football fields — to a beach in northern Gaza to allow for more aid to be brought into the enclave.
Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said that humanitarian groups are ready for the first shipments through the US maritime route. "In the coming days, you can expect to see this effort underway. And we are confident that that we will be able to, working with our NGO partners, ensure that aid can be delivered," he said.
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Israel — 15 babies have been born to families of Kibbutz Nir Am since it was attacked by Palestinian terrorists on October 7, according to br> Beautiful news! pic.twitter.com/PsXquEx0dP
[AFRICANEWS] A group of displaced Paleostinians have moved into a school run by a U.N. agency that was heavily damaged during the ongoing Israel-Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war and fixed some of the classrooms where they now live.
The school in the southern city of Khan Younis used to be run by the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees known as UNRWA was damaged by Israel's bombardment of 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 oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The families, who were displaced from the southern city of Rafah along the border with Egypt cleaned some of the class rooms, removed debris and fixed some of the damage then settled in.
UNRWA said 360,000 Paleostinians have fled the city of Rafah over the past week, out of 1.3 million who were sheltering there before the operation began.
Most had already fled fighting elsewhere during the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel has portrayed Rafah as the last stronghold of the Death Eater group, brushing off warnings from the United States and other allies that any major operation there would be catastrophic for civilians.
Hamas has meanwhile regrouped and is battling Israeli forces in parts of Gaza that Israel bombarded and invaded earlier in the war.
Since Israeli troops captured a border crossing with Egypt in Rafah, the flow of aid form there has stopped.
Fighting in Rafah city has made it impossible for aid groups to access the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel, though Israel says it is allowing supply trucks to enter from its side.
For the past week, the Israeli military has intensified bombardment and other operations in Rafah while ordering the population to evacuate from parts of the city.
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