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2024-03-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF soldier killed, 13 wounded in battles with Hamas in southern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Death of canine unit’s David Sasson raises IDF toll to 247; head of central Gazoo rocket unit killed in strike, Oct. 7 massacre participants also hit; 250 Hamas, PIJ members nabbed

An Israeli soldier was killed and another 13 were maimed on Wednesday during fighting in the southern 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, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
since late October to 247.

The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. David Sasson, 21, of the Oketz canine unit, from Ganot Hadar. Among the 12 maimed in the same battle against Hamas operatives, five sustained serious injuries, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The troops, of the Oketz unit and Commando Brigade, had raided a multi-story building in the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, when several Hamas operatives ambushed them. The soldiers were hit by gunfire, RPGs, and an bomb, according to an IDF probe. Several of the Hamas button men were killed by the troops and in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the area.

The IDF said that troops have captured hundreds of Hamas and 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...
operatives during its ongoing raid on Hamad Town. It said the high-rise towers in the 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...
i-funded neighborhood were used by Hamas.

So far, the IDF said some 250 Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operatives have been captured, some of whom participated in the October 7 assault and are members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force.

The IDF said the interrogations of the operatives provided helpful information for its continued operations in Gaza.

The military said the Commando Brigade’s Maglan and Egoz units, along with the Navy’s Shayetet 13 and Shin Bet agents, have been carrying out building-to-building searches in Hamad.

The commandos captured "many" operatives who surrendered to them in the neighborhood, including a Hamas sniper squad commander and two other commanders, the IDF said.

Troops also seized firearms, explosives, and military equipment, including scuba gear, in the buildings, according to the military.

At the same time, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade was encircling the Hamad area, and — with the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — were capturing terror operatives trying to flee with evacuating civilians.

Elsewhere in Khan Younis, the IDF said the Bislamach Brigade ambushed and killed a five-person Hamas cell.

In a separate incident on Wednesday, another soldier of the Commando Brigade was seriously maimed during fighting in southern Gaza.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
in central Gaza, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that the commander of Hamas’s rocket unit in the area was eliminated in an airstrike on Wednesday.

Amar Atiya Darwish Aladini was responsible for Hamas’s rocket fire from the so-called central camps over the past several decades, at least from the 2008 war, a joint statement said. The IDF and Shin Bet said Aladini "played a central role in the preparations" for the terror group’s October 7 onslaught, and directed rocket fire on Israeli cities and IDF troops in Gaza in the shock attack.

Also in central Gaza, the army said Nahal Brigade soldiers killed some 20 Hamas button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in airstrikes.

One airstrike was carried out against a site from which operatives fired rockets at troops inside Gaza. The IDF said secondary explosions after the strike indicated that additional rockets were stored there.

The IDF said Wednesday it also carried out strikes on several Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad targets in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya over the past day, in response to earlier rocket fire on Sderot. The targets included hideout apartments where terror operatives were gathered and weapons were stored, other weapon depots, rocket launchers, and tunnels, the military said.

Also in northern Gaza, in the city of Beit Hanoun, the IDF said earlier Wednesday that a fighter jet struck a building where two Hamas operatives were seen fleeing, and published footage of the attack.

A number of Hamas officers and snuffies who participated in the October 7 massacre were also killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, the IDF said Wednesday without specifying the locations of the attacks. These included two platoon commanders and a squad commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force, according to the announcement, and two snuffies who participated in the massacre in Nir Yitzhak on October 7.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Wednesday that the corpse count in the Gaza Strip has climbed to 30,717 since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led snuffies launched a murderous rampage across southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages. Hamas’s figures cannot be verified, do not differentiate between combatants and civilians, and include some 13,000 Hamas snuffies Israel says it has killed in battle since October.

Israel also says it killed some 1,000 button men inside Israel on October 7.
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Lies a Levantine Venice
In lieu of those menacing
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