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2024-08-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas hits Israeli military site in Gaza Friday; IDF rampages across the entire Gaza Strip, destroys 1 km Rafah tunnel, kills dozens of jihadis
[GEO.TV] Qassam, the armed wing of Hamas, has said that they targeted “an enemy command, control and mobilisation centre in the Netzarim axis with a ‘Zuari’ suicide drone”. The Netzarim Corridor is an Israeli-controlled area that divides Gaza between north and south.

IDF reservist killed, others wounded by explosive device in Gaza City

[IsraelTimes] Troops were operating in Zeitoun neighborhood as part of efforts to expand central Gaza corridor; military issues evacuation warning after rockets fired at Sderot

A reserve soldier was killed and several others were maimed Friday morning by an bomb set off by Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
operatives in 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...
City, the Israel Defense Forces said. The slain soldier was named as Sgt. First Class (res.) Evyatar Atuar, 24, of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 6310th Battalion, from Rosh Haayin.

The Jerusalem Brigade in recent days had been carrying out an operation in Gaza City’s southern neighborhood of Zeitoun, to expand the military’s Netzarim Corridor.

The Netzarim Corridor is built around a road south of Gaza City, enabling the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza while allowing Israel to control access to the north for Paleostinians seeking to return after fleeing south. It also enables Israel to coordinate deliveries of humanitarian aid directly to northern Gaza.

According to an initial IDF probe, the reservists reached a building in Zeitoun and began to search it. As four soldiers from the force entered the structure, an bomb planted on the outer wall of the building went kaboom!. The blast hurt those standing outside the building, not those inside. At least four other soldiers were seriously maimed, and another three were moderately hurt, according to the IDF.

The military believed that Hamas operatives had set up a camera at the building and then detonated the bomb upon identifying troops in the area.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip now stands at 337.

Also in Zeitoun on Friday, the IDF said it carried out an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
against a Hamas command room embedded within a former school. According to the military, Hamas was using the command room at the Ali Bin Abi Talib School to store "many" weapons and carry out attacks. To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.

"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military said.

In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF. The IDF added that it will "continue to act with strength and determination against the terror organizations that use schools and civilian institutions as shelters."

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder......
two rockets were launched from northern Gaza at the southern city of Sderot. According to the IDF, one of the rockets was intercepted by air defenses and the second struck an open area, causing no injuries or damage. Sirens had sounded in Sderot and nearby communities.

Following the rocket fire, the military called on Paleostinians in the Atatra area of northern Gaza to evacuate and head to "shelters west of Gaza City." Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, published a map of the zones that need to be evacuated. He said the military would "forcefully operate" against Hamas and other terror groups in the area following the rocket fire.

The IDF in recent months has repeatedly issued evacuation orders for areas from which bandidos murderous Moslems launched rockets at Israel. The successive evacuation orders, including 12 orders in August alone, have displaced roughly 90 percent of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million residents since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the top United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
humanitarian official for the Paleostinian enclave said.

Muhannad Hadi charged that the evacuation orders of endangering civilians instead of protecting them. Israel says the orders are aimed at warning civilians ahead of major airstrikes or ground operations, thus protecting the population, which comes at the cost of also giving Hamas operatives advanced warning of Israeli actions.

"They are forcing families to flee again, often under fire and with the few belongings they can carry with them, into an ever-shrinking area" that is crowded and unsafe, according to Hadi.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that due to the recent evacuation orders, the UN’s World Food Programme has lost access to its warehouse in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.

"This was the third and last operational warehouse in Gaza’s middle area," Dujarric said. "Five community kitchens operated by WFP have also been evacuated, as the agency seeks new locations for them."

The size of the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in Gaza — located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. — has changed multiple times in recent months amid evolving IDF operations against the Hamas terror group.

TROOPS DEMOLISH KILOMETER-LONG ATTACK TUNNEL IN RAFAH
In other updates on Friday, the IDF said that over the past day, more than 30 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip, as troops battled and killed dozens of button men. The targets hit by IAF aircraft included Hamas compounds, weapon depots, and rocket launching positions in Khan Younis, according to the military.

In Khan Younis and on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, the IDF said that troops with the 98th Division killed dozens of button men and destroyed dozens of sites belonging to terror groups.

Further south, in Rafah, the IDF’s 162nd Division continued to operate in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, where the military said troops killed dozens more terror operatives in the past day.

In central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, reservists with the 252nd Division killed a terror operative who was carrying explosives, and struck a rocket launching site, the IDF added.

Also Friday, the IDF said combat engineers demolished a Hamas attack tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah, where a cell of terror operatives emerged in an attempted attack earlier this month. The tunnel was at least a kilometer long, according to the IDF. In the attack on August 11, a cell of operatives was identified emerging from a tunnel shaft, and a short while later they were killed in a dronezap. Since then, the IDF said combat engineers worked to investigate the tunnel. Inside, the troops found bombs, electrical infrastructure, and blast doors, the military says. The tunnel was demolished after being investigated.
Posted by Fred 2024-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
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#1 Imagine the work, the years involved in building a complex tunnel structure. A structure that is being eliminated. If Israel controls the border with Egypt, as long as that occurs (as it must) Hamas will be hamstrung and cross border tunneling will end.
Posted by Sligum Hupomoling9524 2024-08-24 07:58||   2024-08-24 07:58|| Front Page Top

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