The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday it had killed more than 170 button men and captured 800 terror suspects during its ongoing operation against Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
at 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...
City’s Shifa Hospital.
The IDF first cleared the hospital a month ago or more, then waited for it to fill up again with bad guys before hitting it a second time. Kind of like setting up a deer stand overlooking a salt lick…
In the raid, which began early Monday and is being led by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armored Brigade, the IDF said troops located infrastructure belonging to terror groups and caches of weapons.According to World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the medical site has become inaccessible due to the fighting.
On social media, he shared a harrowing account from a doctor there, who said two patients on life support had died from lack of electricity, while others at death's door were lying on the floor.
"These conditions are utterly inhumane," Tedros wrote. "We call for an immediate end to the siege."
International law stipulates that while a medical facility is a protected site, it loses that status if it is used for military activity, as Israel alleges Hamas has done on a large scale.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
the IDF said that over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck some 35 sites across the Gaza Strip, including command rooms and other infrastructure belonging to terror groups.
In central Gaza, the IDF said troops of the Nahal Brigade killed some 15 terror operatives during "intense fighting."
In southern Gaza’s al-Qarara, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade directed
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KABOOM!...
s on two operatives and a building used by Hamas amid its ongoing operations in the area close to Khan Younis.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry reported in a preliminary tally early Saturday morning that another 67 people had been killed overnight, including 10 in a strike on a home north of Gaza City. The figures cannot be independently verified.
On Saturday, UN chief António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
arrived in Egypt, where he plans to meet with aid workers on the Egyptian side of Rafah, just across the border from the Gazook city where around 1.5 million Paleostinians are sheltering.
The question of a ground offensive on the city has become a matter of dispute between Israel and Washington.
"We have no way to defeat Hamas without getting into Rafah and eliminating the battalions that are left there," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday.
Netanyahu has said the IDF will evacuate the civilians to areas north of Rafah before beginning the operation and has approved the military’s plans for the offensive.
But US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...argued an invasion of Rafah was "not the way to achieve" that aim, and warned starkly that it would risk more civilian fatalities, undermine aid assistance, risk greater isolation for Israel and endanger its security and international standing.
US officials say the number of aid deliveries via land needs to increase fast and that aid needs to be sustained over a long period. Israel says it is not restricting aid, and has blamed the deteriorating humanitarian situation on aid agencies’ failure to distribute supplies.
"We have the same goals as Israel: the defeat of Hamas," the top American diplomat wrote on X, after meeting with Netanyahu on Friday. "Next week I will meet again with Israeli officials in Washington to discuss a different way we can achieve this objective."
"Hard disagree," wrote Democratic Senator John Fetterman on X, in response to Blinken’s charge that Israel would become isolated. "Israel shouldn’t face isolation when Hamas snuffies are still present and hiding behind civilians.
"Hamas owns this humanitarian catastrophe and must surrender, release the hostages NOW, or be eliminated," added Fetterman, who has been a vocal supporter of Israel since the war erupted.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
Mossad chief David Barnea headed to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
for negotiations with CIA chief William Burns and Qatari and Egyptian officials on Friday.