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'People burned alive' in attack on Rafah; IDF says they targetted two Hamas commanders in Hamas compound
2024-05-27
[Al Jazeera] Israeli forces have bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in a designed safe zone in Rafah, killing at least 35 Paleostinians, according to officials. Many of the victims were women and kiddies.

The attack on the Tal as-Sultan area came as Israeli forces also bombed shelters housing displaced Paleostinians in areas including Jabalia, Nuseirat and 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...
City in the past 24 hours, killing at least 160 others, according to the Palestinian officials.

IDF killed 2 Hamas commanders behind West Bank terror attacks

[IsraelTimes] Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s near Rafah in the southern 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 on Sunday night drew outraged reactions from Paleostinians. Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face...
the Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted a Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
compound and eliminated two commanders in the terror group’s ranks.

The IDF said it had struck a Hamas compound in the Tel Sultan area of northwestern Rafah where bigwigs in the terror group were gathered, adding in a statement that "the attack was carried out against murderous Moslems who are a target for attack, in accordance with international law, using precision munitions, and based on intelligence indicating the use of the area by Hamas terrorists."

The military said it was aware of reports that the strike and a fire that spread into a camp for displaced Paleostinians had caused casualties among civilians, adding that the incident was under further investigation.

In a later statement, the military said the strike had killed Yassin Rabia, the commander of Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters — a Hamas unit charged with advancing attacks against Israel from or in the West Bank — as well as Khaled Najjar, another senior member of the unit.

Rabia, according to the IDF, "managed all of the military arrays of the West Bank headquarters... was involved in the transfer of funds for terror purposes and directed attacks by Hamas operatives" in the West Bank. The IDF also said that Rabia had committed several deadly attacks himself, in 2001 and 2002, killing Israeli soldiers.

Najjar was involved in directing shooting attacks and other terror activities in the West Bank, and was also involved in funneling funds to Hamas operatives, the military said. Najjar also carried out several attacks between 2001 and 2003, according to the IDF, killing civilians and killing and wounding soldiers.

Officials from Hamas and the Paleostinian Authority reacted with fury to the strike, casting it as a deliberate attack on displaced, defenseless civilians.

"In light of the horrific Zionist massacre this evening committed by the criminal occupation army against the tents of the displaced... we call on the masses of our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied territories and abroad to rise up and march angrily against the ongoing Zionist massacre against our people in the sector," Hamas said in a statement.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s administration said it was following the situation.

"We’re aware of the reports about the incident in Rafah and are gathering more information," a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council told The Times of Israel.

The strike came hours after Hamas fired a barrage of eight long-range projectiles at central Israel, in the first such attack in four months. The IDF said later Sunday that it had destroyed the rocket launcher used in the attack.

The military also announced the deaths of two soldiers during fighting in Gaza on Sunday, as it continued major military operations in the northern Strip’s Jabaliya as well as in Rafah. This brought the corpse count of the ground offensive against Hamas and operations along the border to 288. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.

Israeli tanks have probed around the edges of Rafah, near the crossing point from Gaza into Egypt, and have entered some of its eastern districts, residents say, but have not yet entered the city in force since the start of operations in the city earlier this month.
Related:
Tal as-Sultan: 2024-02-11 Israel carries out fresh air raids in Rafah, Khan Younis
Related:
Jabalia: 2024-05-25 Under a rug in Gazan home, IDF troops found shaft leading to bodies of 4 hostages
Jabalia: 2024-05-24 Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes, says ready for new truce talks
Jabalia: 2024-05-21 Israeli strikes kill 18 Palestinians in Gaza plus 26 of one N. Gaza family
Related:
Nuseirat: 2024-05-25 Israel moves to more limited Rafah assault plan, to which US will not object – report
Nuseirat: 2024-05-20 IDF discovers weapons in UNRWA facility, kills Hamas terrorists
Nuseirat: 2024-05-20 Gaza officials say death toll from Israeli strike on Nuseirat rises to 31


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Posted by:Fred

#7  The most important point: there are no evidence that any civilians died - let alone burned alive - except Hamas claim.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-27 14:55  

#6  sometimes the IDF will strike an area with Hamas stores explosives and the stored explosives go off killing lots more people

That is Hamas's fault to a person w common sense.

That is Israel's fault to a wokist, jihadist, or eurosquish.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2024-05-27 13:07  

#5  Well, yes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-27 07:24  

#4  https://x.com/MiddleEastBuka/status/1794998742090691032
Posted by: Rupert+Gleck2911   2024-05-27 06:09  

#3  ^We know Hamas take all free humanitarian aid for resale. I guess, the one's bombed monopoly was free humanitarian fuel.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-27 05:48  

#2  The headline 'could be correct' if we presume Hamas-niks are people.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-05-27 05:31  

#1  IDF eliminates head of Hamas West Bank division in targeted airstrike in northwest Rafah
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-27 00:56  

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