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2024-02-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza; foreign nations airdrop civilian aid into enclave
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[IsraelTimes] Israel says no limit set on truck deliveries to Strip; hostage release negotiations continue in Qatar as families of captives march to Jerusalem
The Israel Defense Forces announced Wednesday that two soldiers had been killed in battles against Hamas
 ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
Meanwhile mediators from Egypt, Qatar
 ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and the United States continued to strive for a path to a temporary ceasefire and hostage release amid the bitter fighting, with negotiators seeking a six-week pause in the nearly five-month war.
And as a round of negotiations was held in Qatar, families of hostages kidnapped during Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel begin a march from the Gaza area toward Jerusalem to demand the government agree to a deal for their release.
The IDF announced two officers had been killed fighting Tuesday in northern Gaza, raising the ground toll in the offensive against Hamas to 242.
They were named as Maj. Iftah Shahar, 25, a company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Paran, and Cpt. Itai Seif, 24, a platoon commander also in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Yeruham.
Shahar had until recently served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit. He had been sent to the infantry unit to replace a seriously maimed Givati company commander.
The IDF said another seven soldiers of the Tzabar Battalion were seriously maimed in the same incident.
Shahar and Seif were killed and the seven other soldiers were maimed as a result of a kaboom in a booby-trapped building in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood on Tuesday.
As global concerns mount over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where over 2 million people reside, the IDF said it coordinated the airdrop of food and medical supplies by several nations to the southern Gaza Strip over the previous two days. Some 160 packages of humanitarian aid were airdropped to 17 locations along the southern coastline of the Strip using American, Egyptian, Emirati, French and Jordanian planes, the IDF said.
Additional packages of food, medical supplies and fuel were also airdropped to a Jordanian field hospital in Khan Younis, the IDF said. The Jordan News Agency reported that King Abdullah II, who is Supreme Commander of the Jordanian military, participated in an airdrop Tuesday. According to the report, six C130 aircraft flew in from Amman, three of which were from the Royal Jordanian Air Force alongside three others from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and La Belle France.
The IDF said the recent airdrops were in addition to trucks of humanitarian aid that enter the Strip daily.
A convoy of 31 trucks carrying food entered the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday, according to the military liaison to the Paleostinians, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. COGAT added that close to 50 trucks had traveled to the northern part of the enclave over the past three days, and that "there is no limitation on the amount of humanitarian aid for the civilians in Gaza."
Northern Gaza is seeing a spiraling humanitarian crisis, with aid agencies unable to get into the area because of the fighting, and frenzied looting of the few trucks that do enter.
Israel has denied fault for the low numbers of trucks entering the enclave and blamed humanitarian organizations operating inside Gaza, saying hundreds of trucks filled with aid sit idle on the Paleostinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing. The UN, in turn, says it can’t always reach the trucks at the crossing because it is at times too dangerous.
Additionally, Israel has long accused Hamas of appropriating and stealing aid from an increasingly desperate civilian population.
In other operations, the IDF said it killed dozens of Hamas operatives across the Gaza Strip over the previous day, releasing footage of a strike on a gunman who tried to flee after opening fire at troops. The military said it carried out overnight Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s on eight "significant targets" in an area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon on Tuesday.
Several more sites in the area, including tunnel shafts, were also struck, the IDF added.
In southern Gaza, the IDF said troops raided Hamas sites, captured weapons, and killed a five-man Hamas cell in a vehicle using a guided munition.
In Khan Younis fighter jets struck buildings where Hamas operatives were gathered and preparing to attack troops, the IDF said, while ground troops killed several gunman in festivities.
The military said it was continuing to operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, where soldiers killed several Hamas button men and located weapons over the past day.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry reported that 91 people were killed overnight during Israeli strikes. It said that since the start of the war, at least 29,954 people had been killed in Gaza. The figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 12,000 terror operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 turbans inside Israel on October 7.
War erupted when Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel responded with a military campaign to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza and free the 253 hostages who were kidnapped by turbans during the October 7 attack.
The security cabinet was set to meet Thursday evening amid efforts to secure a deal that would see a temporary ceasefire and the return of the 130 hostages still held in Gaza — not all of them alive.
Families of hostages began a four-day march from the south of the country to Jerusalem as they lobby for the government to quickly reach a deal that will secure freedom for their loved ones.
A US-drafted proposal reportedly provides for a six-week pause in fighting during which some 40 hostages would be freed in exchange for some 400 Paleostinian security prisoners.
There have been conflicting reports on whether a deal is close at hand, and Israeli officials in recent days have said Hamas has signaled it is preparing to reject the terms of the latest proposal offered by mediators.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
said Wednesday that while the terror group is showing flexibility in talks for a potential deal, it is prepared to continue to fight.
The terror leader additionally called on Paleostinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank to march to the flashpoint Temple Mount on the first day of Ramadan.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
Hamas claimed to have fired 40 Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
from Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
at IDF bases near Kiryat Shmona in the north of the country.
The IDF identified only some 10 rockets crossing the border, one of which struck a building in Kiryat Shmona, causing damage but no injuries.
Earlier, another four rockets were fired at the city, which caused no damage.
There has been daily violence across the border with Lebanon since October 8 when Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah began launching attacks on Israel it says are a show of support for Paleostinians in Gaza. The level of violence has crept upwards with Hezbollah firing dozens of rockets at northern areas earlier in the week while the IDF has pounded the terror groups assets with airstrikes reaching further and further into Lebanon.
IDF says troops killed dozens of Hamas operatives, hit area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon; 2 IDF troops killed in northern Gaza, toll now 242.
The IDF says it killed dozens of Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
operatives across the Gazoo
Strip over the past day, releasing footage of a strike on a gunman who tried to flee after opening fire at troops.
The Hamas gunman who shot up troops was spotted by soldiers of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, who called in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
Overnight, the IDF says it carried out airstrikes on eight "significant targets" in an area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon last night.
Several more sites in the area, including tunnel shafts, were also struck, the IDF adds.
In southern Gaza, the IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade raided Hamas sites, captured weapons, as well as killed a five-man Hamas cell in a vehicle using a guided munition.
Also in Khan Younis, the IDF says fighter jets struck buildings where Hamas operatives were gathered and preparing to attack troops; the Paratroopers Brigade killed several button men with sniper fire; and the Givati Brigade called in airstrikes on two operatives.
In central Gaza, the IDF says it is continuing to operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, where the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men and located weapons over the past day.
US said to consider airdropping aid into Gaza as land deliveries increasingly hard
[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s administration is considering airdropping aid into 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 ...
as land deliveries becomes increasingly difficult, Axios reports, citing four US officials.
"The situation is really bad. We are unable to get enough aid [in] by truck so we need desperate measures like airdrops," a US official says.
The outlet notes that officials acknowledge such action would not be particularly effective, and that any large amounts of aid can only be moved in by land.
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