Israeli fighter jets carried out an
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KABOOM!...
Friday night on a depot in the Rafah area storing paragliders used by Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...in its October 7 attacks in southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Several paragliders were used by
In the days and weeks following the attack, the paraglider became a symbol of Hamas supporters around the world, who emblazoned it on placards and clothing.
In a statement, the military added that troops from the IDF’s 162nd Division were continuing to operate in Rafah, destroying several tunnel shafts and killing multiple button men in the past 24 hours.
Amid the fighting in Rafah, soldiers from the Nahal Brigade called in an airstrike to eliminate a cell of three button men who fired an RPG at them from a tunnel shaft, the IDF said.
Meanwhile the army said it was continuing an operation 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...
City, where over the past day troops killed several button men in close-quarters combat and in airstrikes.
The Hamas-run Gaza’s civil defense agency said it found around 60 bodies after Israeli troops withdrew from parts of the city on Friday. The bodies were found in the Tal al-Hawa and al-Sinaa districts, the civil defense agency said. Israeli forces had moved into the neighborhoods this week after ordering civilians to evacuate on Monday.
"There are still missing people under the rubble of destroyed homes, which is difficult for our crews to reach," agency front man Mahmud Bassal said.
The IDF says it has killed numerous button men in the fighting, and there was no information from Hamas on the identities of those killed. Residents and the agency said Israeli troops had pulled out after days of fighting with button men.
Also on Friday night, Eilat residents were sent running to shelters as warning sirens signaled a possible attack. The military said air defense systems and fighter jets intercepted a pair of "suspicious aerial targets that were heading toward Israeli territory from the east," terminology it has previously used to refer to drone attacks by Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
The IDF said the sirens were activated due to concerns about falling debris from the interceptors, adding that there were no injuries.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Friday saw the military announce the killing of two high-ranking Hamas commanders: Ayman Shweidah, the deputy commander of Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion; and Hossam Mansour, a department head in Hamas’s internal security forces in the Gaza Strip.
According to the IDF, Shweidah had carried out numerous attacks on troops in Gaza, and was involved in the planning and execution of the October 7 onslaught. Mansour "played a significant and continuous part in the preservation and presence of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip," and also served in the terror group’s military wing, the army said. He was a director of al-Khair, which the IDF charged transferred funds to terror groups in Gaza "under the guise of humanitarian activity."
Friday also saw troops locate weapons and a command room used by Hamas at UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City, the army said on Friday. The troops had raided the compound earlier this week as part of a new operation carried out by the 99th Division in western and southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.
The UNRWA headquarters had not been in use in recent months. It is not clear when Hamas began using the facility. The IDF raided the compound earlier this year, discovering a major Hamas tunnel network that passed beneath it.
Israel has long accused UNRWA, the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
agency for Paleostinian refugees, of funneling money into Hamas’s coffers and letting the terror group use the agency’s facilities.