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IDF says it has killed more than 9,000 Hamas operatives in Gaza since start of war
2024-01-15
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces has published a large data set with information on its operations 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, the West Bank, and 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...
, from the number of terror operatives killed, to the number of sites struck.

According to the data, more than 9,000 Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
operatives and fighters of other terror groups have been killed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, in addition to some 1,000 holy warriors inside Israel on October 7. The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 23,000 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza, which includes both civilians and Hamas members.

The IDF’s data says the military has killed two Hamas brigade commanders and 19 battalion commanders and other bigwigs with an equivalent rank. More than 50 Hamas company commanders and operatives with a similar rank have also been killed, according to the data.

In Lebanon, the IDF says it has killed more than 170 terror operatives, mostly members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Some 30,000 targets have been struck in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, including more than 3,400 that were discovered as Hamas sites during the fighting. In Lebanon, some 750 Hezbollah positions have been hit, according to the IDF’s data.

Since the beginning of the war, some 9,000 projectiles fired from Gaza crossed the border into Israel, another 2,000 from Lebanon, and around 30 from Syria.

The IDF says the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 has interrogated some 2,300 Paleostinian suspects in the Gaza Strip, some of whom were arrested and brought to Israel for further questioning.

A total of 7,653 trucks ferrying humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip have been inspected by Israeli authorities at the Nitzana and Kerem Shalom crossings. The IDF says the trucks have carried a total of 137,920 tons of aid.

The IDF has also made 79,000 phone calls, dropped 7.2 million leaflets, sent 13.7 million texts and 15 million recorded calls to Paleostinians in Gaza with evacuation warnings.

Since October 7, in the West Bank, the IDF says troops have arrested more than 2,650 wanted Paleostinians, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas. It says 40 brigade-level raids have been carried out, and 14 homes of Paleostinians accused of terrorism have been demolished.

According to the IDF’s data, a total of 295,000 reservists have been called up since the beginning of the war. Of them, around 45,000 are serving despite receiving an exemption from reserve duty.

The IDF says the nearly 300,000 reservists have been on duty for an average of 61 days.

Men make up 81 percent of the reservists, with the other 19% women. 115,000 of the reservists are fathers, and some 3,000 are mothers. Half of the reservists are between the ages of 20-29, with 31% being between the ages of 30-39. Another 13% are aged 40-49, 5% aged 50-59, and 1% aged 60-69.

A total of 522 soldiers, reservists and local security officers have been killed and another 2,536 have been maimed since October 7. Of them, 188 were killed and 1,113 were maimed during the ground offensive in Gaza.

The IDF has also listed 19 soldiers killed due to friendly fire in Gaza, and another 36 by accidents during the war, including car crashes and military-related incidents.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  keep it up. good work so far.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-15 09:53  

#1  Haaretz 23 Oct 2001, Amnan Barzilai: "Reinventing warfare" Even before the terror attacks on the U.S., several thinkers considered the nature of future warfare and predicted it would change dramatically. On September 11, just hours before the terror attacks on the USA, Minister without Portfolio Dan Meridor addressed students of the National Security College. Tel Aviv. The topic of his lecture was the character of future warfare.
Meridor told his audience, most of whom were senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces, that given Israel's significant edge in conventional warfare, the Arabs have shifted to warfare at two levels.
The first level, which can be called supra-conventional, involves the development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The second
level, which can be called sub-conventional, expresses itself in non-conventional terrorism.
...for example, a terrorist incident can turn the entire oxygen system in a nation's hospitals haywire. In this instance, as well, the result would be a mass terrorist attack. The problem facing both Israel, in particular, and the West, in general, in the war against terrorism is
that it is impossible to pinpoint the precise source of the terror. No one has any clear idea whom to counter-attack and the nature of the
counter-attack." The conclusion Meridor offered was this: "Israel's defense echelons must reformulate their theory of combat in dealing with a threat in which planes, tanks and precision-guided weapons constitute an inadequate solution."
Sub-conventionally, Israel got lazy.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-01-15 08:38  

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