...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...
Division base, plants tree to honor fallen soldiers and vows to eliminate Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...: ’We will be here, and they will not’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday there was "no substitute" for a decisive victory over the country’s enemies, during a Tu Bishvat visit to the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza Division headquarters, which was battered during Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
The prime minister planted a tree with soldiers of the Border Defense Corps’s 414th unit, in honor of those in the unit and the Gaza Division who were killed during the onslaught and the ensuing war, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
"Here, in this place, on October 7, soldiers fell, the best of our sons and daughters. May God avenge them," he told the troops. "And today we plant trees in this bloody and grief-filled soil. Trees that live in their memory."
The Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, or the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, is also called the Jewish new year for trees, and is marked by a festive meal featuring fruits and nuts. The day also doubles as an ecological awareness day in Israel, marked by tree planting.
Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman and the head of the Gaza division Maj. Gen. Amit Yamin accompanied Netanyahu on the visit, close to the Gaza border.
"Hamas came to uproot us; we will uproot it. Hamas came to exterminate us; we will exterminate it. We will deepen our roots in our land; we will uproot our enemies. We will be here, and they will not," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister stressed the importance of continuing to build communities and revive those that were destroyed in the October 7 massacre, making them even more successful than they were.
"A decisive victory means the elimination of Hamas, the return of our hostages, and we won’t give up that goal," he said.
"Therefore, on Tu Bishvat, here, next to the Gaza Strip, I say in the clearest way, there is no substitute for deepening our roots [in this land] and no substitute for complete victory over our enemies."
Netanyahu has been adamant about achieving in full the goals of the war, including destroying Hamas and rescuing the hostages, though some senior IDF officers and war cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot have described those objectives as fantasies.