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2024-02-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF soldier killed as heavy fighting flares up again in northern Gaza
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[IsraelTimes] Military confirms large-scale operation launched in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, an area believed largely cleared of Hamas gunmen; aid groups suspend food convoys to area
The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that one soldier was killed and two others were seriously maimed as heavy fighting flared again in northern 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 ...
, where the military had previously said it had largely completed its main operations to destroy Hamas
 ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
forces.
The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Avraham Wovagen, 21, of the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, from Netanya. His death brought the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 237.
Separately, a soldier of the 932nd Battalion and a reservist of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit were seriously maimed by an anti-tank missile in northern Gaza.
The IDF confirmed Wednesday that it had launched a new large-scale raid on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, killing Hamas operatives and locating weapons in the process. The IDF said the Israeli Air Force and 215th Artillery Regiment carried out strikes against dozens of Hamas targets in Zeitoun, including observation posts, weapon depots, and tunnels. The 401st Armored Brigade then entered the neighborhood, raiding suspicious buildings.
During the operation so far, dozens of Hamas operatives have been killed in festivities and in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s, according to the IDF. The military also said troops have also found weapons in homes in the area.
Paleostinian sources had reported heavy fighting and airstrikes in the past two days in areas of northern Gaza. The military on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of two neighborhoods on Gaza City’s southern edge, an indication that operatives were still putting up stiff resistance.
The operation in Zeitoun comes after the IDF said it had largely defeated Hamas’s fighting force in northern Gaza, withdrew its forces, and began to focus on smaller raids in designated areas.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
the IDF said that in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city that has been the focal point of the offensive in recent weeks, troops were "deepening" the fighting against Hamas. The IDF said the Givati Brigade led an offensive in new areas in eastern Khan Younis, killing many Hamas operatives in the process; the Paratroopers Brigade and Commando Brigade were expanding operations in western Khan Younis; and the 7th Armored Brigade directed airstrikes on two Hamas button men on a cycle of violence.
In southern Gaza, a soldier of the Givati Brigade was seriously maimed as a result of an bomb, the army said.
Exacerbating the situation, the World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food in northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory. Entry of aid trucks into the besieged territory has been more than halved in the past two weeks, according to UN figures. UN and relief workers accused Israel of failing to ensure convoys’ safety amid its airstrikes and the ground offensive, and have described a breakdown in security, with hungry Paleostinians frequently overwhelming trucks to take food.
The World Food Program said it was forced to pause aid to the north because of "complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order." It said it had first suspended deliveries to the north three weeks ago after a strike hit an aid truck. It tried resuming this week, but convoys on Sunday and Monday faced gunfire and crowds of hungry people stripping goods and beating one driver.
WFP said it was working to resume deliveries as soon as possible. It called for the opening of crossing points for aid directly into northern Gaza from Israel and a better notification system to coordinate with the Israeli military. It warned of a "precipitous slide into hunger and disease," saying, "People are already dying from hunger-related causes."
Israeli officials said the failure of aid trucks to reach Paleostinians across Gaza was due to aid groups failing to organize properly. Moshe Tetro, an official with COGAT, an Israeli military body in charge of civilian Paleostinian affairs, said bottlenecks were caused because the UN and other aid groups can’t accept the trucks in Gaza or distribute them to the population. He said more than 450 trucks were waiting on the Paleostinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, but no UN staff had come to distribute them.
The White House said Tuesday it was sending Brett McGurk, coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, to hold talks Wednesday in Egypt and Thursday in Israel. The talks were to be focused on trying to push ahead with a deal to free the hostages and to dissuade Israel from launching a planned offensive in Rafah.
Israel has rebuffed repeated calls to drop plans for the operation in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city where over a million Paleostinians are sheltering, many in makeshift tents. Israel says Rafah is Hamas’s last military stronghold and the terror group’s leaders and some of the hostages are likely there. The military freed two hostages from Rafah earlier this month
... Translated from Arabic by Google
#عاجل 🔴 An urgent appeal to all residents of the Olive and Turkmen neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip:
For your safety, we invite you to move immediately via Salah Al-Din Street to the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi 
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