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2025-04-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says 12 Oct. 7 terrorists killed in recent strikes, including Shejaiya Battalion chief
[IsraelTimes] 30 said killed in Wednesday attack that eliminated Haitham Razek Abd al-Karim Sheikh Khalil, who led attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, and who is unit’s 4th commander killed since start of war

The IDF said Thursday that it had recently killed 12 turbans who took part in the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
onslaught of October 7, 2023, including the current head of Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion, who led the devastating attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Haitham Razek Abd al-Karim Sheikh Khalil is the fourth head of the Shejaiya Battalion to be killed since the Hamas onslaught, during which thousands of turbans killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, sparking the war.

He was killed Wednesday in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on 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...
City, in the Strip’s north, the IDF said. Paleostinian media reported some 30 people were killed in the strike, which the military said targeted a Hamas command center.

"Several Hamas turbans operated at the site to plan and carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said.

According to the IDF, Khalil "commanded the infiltration into Nahal Oz during the murderous massacre of October 7."

The attack virtually destroyed the kibbutz and saw roughly one in four of its 400-odd members murdered or kidnapped.

Despite the dozens said to have been killed in the strike, the IDF said it had taken steps to mitigate harm to civilians, including by the use of "precision munitions," aerial surveillance and other intelligence.

"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law while cruelly exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for its terror activities," the military said.

During the war, Khalil planned and carried out attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza and worked to plant bombs in combat zones, according to the IDF.

Khalil previously headed a company in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, and was appointed to head the Shejaiya Battalion after his predecessor, Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, was killed in March.

Wadiya took over the battalion in December 2023. His predecessors, Wissam Farhat and Emad Qariqa, were killed on December 2 and 10, respectively.

11 OTHER OCT. 7 TERRORISTS KILLED
The IDF and Shin Bet said that 11 other 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...
turbans who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught were killed in recent airstrikes in Gaza.

Nine of them were killed in the military’s opening airstrikes on the Strip on March 18, when Israel resumed fighting in Gaza after a two-month ceasefire, the IDF said.

The turbans had been involved in the murders and abductions of Israeli civilians and soldiers during the October 7 attack, according to the military.

The military identified the nine killed on March 18 as: Hassan Naam, responsible for the abduction of Sgt. Shaked Dahan; Ismail Shakhshah, responsible for murdering Israeli civilians, hurling grenades at innocents hiding in a roadside kaboom shelter at Re’im Junction; Jalal Qaraan, who attacked the Reim-area Nova music festival and several IDF bases, filmed himself murdering two civilians, and took part in the murder of hostage Inbar Haiman; Mohammed Isa, who invaded Kibbutz Mefalsim and participated in the massacre there; Mohammed Sakar, who invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz and participated in the massacre there; and Mohammed Shabki, Fares Qarshin, Yahya Astal and Mohammed Astal, all of whom invaded unspecified areas of Israel on October 7, 2023, and participated in the onslaught.

Two more turbans who took part in the onslaught were killed before March 18, the IDF said. These were Khaled al-Din, responsible for the murders of Israeli civilians during the attack and the "use of property" belonging to Erick Peretz, 58, and his 16-year-old daughter, Ruth, who were murdered at Nova; and Mohammed Asfor, involved in harming the kidnapped corpses of Col. Asaf Hamami, who led the Southern Brigade of the IDF’s Gaza Division, as well as Staff Sgt. Tomer Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski, members of Hamami’s team.

On Thursday, the military said the Israeli Air Force had struck over 35 targets in Gaza over the past day.

WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, reported six people killed Thursday afternoon in a strike on Shejaiya, in eastern Gaza City; five people killed in an attack on the city’s center; and another person killed in an attack on Rafah, the Strip’s southernmost city.

Earlier Thursday, the agency reported three people, including a child, killed in attacks near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, and another person killed in an attack on a tent housing displaced people in the town of al-Zahra in the Strip’s center.

The IDF said it targeted terror operatives, infrastructure, sniper posts and observation posts that posed a threat.

The strikes came as ground troops continued to operate across the Strip.

In the Morag Corridor area between Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the IDF said its 36th Division killed several terror operatives and destroyed infrastructure used by Hamas.

In Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, troops of the Gaza Division destroyed several tunnel shafts and dozens of terror infrastructure sites, according to the military.

In northern Gaza, the IDF’s 252nd Division killed several operatives and destroyed buildings used by terror groups, the military said.

Israel assesses it has killed about 20,000 combatants in Gaza as of January, as well as some 1,600 turbans inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.

According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, more than 50,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

Israel’s toll in the Gaza ground offensive and in military operations along the border stands at 410.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-11 2025-04-11 02:14|| || Front Page|| [10332 views ]  Top
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