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2025-03-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel shells Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killed one - Hamas big turban - as IDF widens offensive
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Senior Hamas official killed in targeted strike on Gaza hospital as IDF widens offensive
| In Gaza hospitals are universally Hamas command & control locations, with rest and relaxation — and hostage storage — in the tunnels beneath. Non-Hamas staff and patients are inevitably fellow travellers and/or human shields. None there are unaware innocents. |
[IsraelTimes] Terror group confirms death of Ismail Barhoum, whom Defense Minister Katz says was new ‘Hamas PM in Gaza’; army deploys third division to southern Israel to join ground operation
An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
on a 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 a rusty 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 ...
hospital killed a senior member of Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s political bureau Sunday night as the military moved to expand its renewed offensive across the Strip.
Israel said it used precision weaponry to target and kill Ismail Barhoum at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, referring to him as a "key Hamas terrorist," as the Paleostinian terror group confirmed his death and said he had been undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in a previous strike.
The strike was one of dozens reported across the territory Sunday and into the early morning hours of Monday, with a separate strike in the Khan Younis area reportedly killing a senior Hamas education official. The IDF also indicated it was preparing to expand ground operations, redeploying an armored division that had been stationed on the border with Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the widening of the offensive in a statement hailing the killing of Barhoum.
He described the Hamas official, a member of the terror group’s political bureau previously involved in financing its activities, as "the new Hamas prime minister in Gaza, who replaced Issam Da’alis, the previous prime minister who was eliminated a few days ago."
He was at least the fourth member of Hamas’s political bureau killed since Tuesday, when Israel resumed airstrikes in the territory after an impasse over continuing a ceasefire. Earlier Sunday, an Israeli airstrike near Khan Younis killed Salah al-Bardawil, another senior member of its political bureau.
Out of the 20 members of Hamas’s political bureau elected in 2021, 11 have been assassinated during the war in Gaza. Seven are either certain or highly likely to be outside the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strike was carried out following "an extensive intelligence-gathering process," and that a "precision munition" was used to mitigate harm to civilians.
The attack was caught on camera by both Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic.
Footage from the scene following the blast showed that the hospital building was largely undamaged in the strike, except for fire blazing in one section off a stairwell.
Paleostinian health officials claimed the attack killed at least five people, and footage on social media appeared to show people extricating bodies and injured people from the rubble.
"The Hamas terrorist organization exploits civilian infrastructure while brutally endangering the Gazook population. The cynical use of an active hospital as a shelter for the planning and executing of murderous terrorist attacks is in direct violation of international law," the IDF statement read.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said the strike hit the surgery department at the hospital, and a Hamas source told AFP that "Barhoum was receiving treatment after sustaining critical injuries in an airstrike targeting his home in Khan Younis at dawn last Tuesday."
| Even in Gaza, sometimes a hospital is used like a hoapital. |
Barhoum was a member of Hamas’s political wing and had been involved in financial activities for the terror group, according to the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, which placed sanctions on him last year.
In a separate announcement on Sunday, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency said two senior Hamas military wing commanders had been killed in recent airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
According to the army, Ahmad Salman ’Awj Shimali, the deputy commander of the Gaza City Brigade, and Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, the commander of the brigade’s Shejaiya Battalion, were killed in airstrikes in recent days. The military did not detail where or when they were killed.
According to the IDF, Shimali was "responsible for operations, planning the offensive strategy and building the brigade’s force in preparation for Hamas’s brutal massacre on October 7, [2023]," and during the war, he was responsible for the deployment of the brigade’s force.
Wadiya took over the Shejaiya Battalion after his predecessors were killed in December 2023, according to the army. On December 2, 2023, the IDF killed Shejaiya Battalion commander Wissam Farhat and, a week later, it killed his replacement Emad Qariqa.
"Wadiya was responsible for deploying the battalion’s forces against IDF troops and operated to restore and reorganize the battalion," the military said.
The statement added that Wadiya was also involved in a 2011 anti-tank missile attack on an Israeli school bus driving near the Gaza border. The attack killed 16-year-old Daniel Viflic.
On Monday morning, Gazook media sources reported that overnight strikes had also killed Manar Abu Khater, director of education at the eastern Khan Younis education directorate for the Strip’s Hamas government, among others. A deadly strike was also reported in the Nuseirat area of central Gaza.
MAJOR MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS TO GAZA
Following the killing of Barhoum, Katz said that the ongoing offensive against Hamas was "expanding," vowing that Israel would continue its strikes until the 59 hostages still held by forces of Evil in Gaza are released.
The IDF said Sunday that thousands of troops were preparing to join military operations in Gaza, ramping up the military’s renewed ground offensive against the terror group, which has thus far been carried out with relatively limited forces.
The army’s 36th Division, which spent months in the north and took part in a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, was redeployed to the Southern Command and had begun preparations for military operations in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said.
Currently, only the IDF’s Gaza Division and 252nd Reserve Division are carrying out operations inside the Gaza Strip. The move would add thousands of more troops to the offensive.
Israel has threatened to expand operations in the Strip as it seeks to pile pressure on Hamas to free hostages still being held in the Strip.
According to a report by Channel 12, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir was pushing to widen the military’s renewed offensive, citing Zamir as telling political officials in recent meetings that "Hamas is stalling for time, it’s a strategy, not a tactic."
"The IDF’s operation hurts [Hamas] and causes some movement, but it doesn’t lead it to release the hostages," Zamir reportedly said. "Therefore, there is no choice, the pressure must be increased."
Despite the resumption of military activity in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Home Front Command on Sunday said it was further easing restrictions on civilians in southern Israel.
Following an assessment, the Home Front Command said it has adjusted the activity scale permitted in the Gaza border communities from "partial activity" to "full activity," meaning there would be no restrictions on schools and workplaces. Over the past week, schools and workplaces were only allowed to open if an adequate bomb shelter could be reached in time.
Gatherings were still limited, however, to 2,000 people in several communities close to the Strip. Gatherings had been capped at 500 indoors and 100 outdoors over the past week.
There have been just two rocket attacks from Gaza since Israel resumed its military campaign. Hamas on Thursday launched three long-range rockets at central Israel, and on Friday it fired two rockets at the southern coastal city of Ashkelon.
NEW BODY FORMED TO ENABLE ’VOLUNTARY’ DEPARTURE OF GAZANS
On Saturday night, the security cabinet approved a suggestion by Katz to establish a new administration in the Defense Ministry tasked with enabling Paleostinians to "voluntarily" leave the Gaza Strip.
In a statement Sunday morning, Katz’s office said the new directorate would work to "prepare for and enable safe and controlled passage of Gaza residents for their voluntary departure to third countries, including securing their movement, establishing movement routes, checking pedestrians at designated crossings in the Gaza Strip, as well as coordinating the provision of infrastructure that will enable passage by land, sea and air to the destination countries."
The head of the directorate will be selected by Katz soon, his office said.
The statement added that the efforts to enable Gazooks who seek to migrate from the Strip to do so are being carried out "subject to Israeli and international law, and in accordance with the vision of US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
"We are working with all means to implement the US president’s vision, and we will allow any Gaza resident who wants to move to a third state to do so," Katz said.
The military resumed fighting in Gaza last week at the instruction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who vowed that all negotiations for a hostage deal moving forward would be held under fire after Hamas rejected proposals to extend phase one of the previous ceasefire.
| Update from X at 12:45 pm ET, courtesy of 3dc — unfortunately unembedded, so click here to see it: |
Open Source Intel
@Osint613
In late 2023, the IDF warned Jamil and other Shujaiyya commanders they were marked targets.
Today, the IDF confirmed his elimination. ❌
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