The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday the death of soldier Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson, 19, who was killed and kidnapped by Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...on October 7, as the war against the terror group raged for its 107th day. Levinson served in the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, and his body was taken hostage from the Nahal Oz area, following a battle with hard boyz during the Hamas onslaught.
His death was recently declared by the Military Rabbinate based on findings and new intelligence information. While Levinson’s body remains 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, his family can sit shiva, the traditional Jewish week-long mourning period, according to Jewish law, religious authorities said.
Earlier in the day, the IDF announced the death of a soldier during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip over the weekend, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 195. The fallen soldier was named as Sgt. First Class (res.) Uriel Aviad Silberman, 23, of the Kiryati Brigade’s 7421st Battalion, from Nehalim. The army said that another officer and a soldier of the same battalion were seriously maimed in the same battle.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
the campaign to eliminate Hamas persisted, with reservists of the Yiftah Brigade operating in central Gaza’s Maghazi camp locating a weapons manufacturing plant and a nearby rocket launcher armed with projectiles, the IDF said Sunday.
The military said the troops raided a Hamas site in Maghazi, where they located machinery used to build firearms in the yard of a home. Nearby, a rocket launcher was found, it said.
The machinery, weapons, rockets and rocket launcher were all later destroyed.
During the operation, the IDF said Hamas operatives fired an RPG at one of the unit’s tanks. The soldiers spotted the squad behind the attack, returned fire, and called in an
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, it said.
Some of the operatives were killed, while at least one fled and was later killed in a shootout with troops, after being spotted by the Yiftah Brigade’s observation company.
Despite the extensive operations, Hamas proved it was still capable of firing rockets, with warning sirens sounding in the Gaza border towns of Sufa, Kissufim and Ein HaShlosha in the afternoon.
The communities bordering Gaza have been largely evacuated of civilians since October 7.
Following a flight over the Strip with the Israeli Air Force’s 100th Squadron, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the IDF will further expand its ground offensive in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
"We are carrying out an intensive operation in the Khan Younis area, and it will continue to expand," said Gallant.
"The plumes of smoke from the tanks, artillery, and Air Force planes, will continue to cover the skies of the Gaza Strip until we achieve our goals, chief among them, the defeat of Hamas and the return of hostages to their homes," he added.
According to media reports, Hamas’s leaders in Gaza are believed to be hiding in tunnels in the city, likely surrounded by hostages.