The new escalation comes hours after US President Joe Biden pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the urgency of sealing a deal for a truce in Gaza and the release of hostages, the White House said.
The view from Israel:
Soldier killed by anti-tank fire in Rafah, as IDF presses on with operations in GazaMilitary says troops killed some 50 terror operatives in Rafah over past day, where Sgt. Ori Ashkenazi Nechemya was killed
An Israeli soldier was killed during fighting in 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces announced, as troops pressed on with operations across the Strip. The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Ori Ashkenazi Nechemya, 19, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion, from Ashkelon. According to an initial IDF probe, Nechemya was killed by anti-tank missile fire in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
His death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 336.
Earlier Thursday, the IDF said that some 50 terror operatives were killed by troops of the 162nd Division in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah over the past day. The IDF said that in one incident in Tel Sultan, troops of the Nahal Brigade spotted a cell of button men heading to attack them, and called in a dronezap.
Further north, in Khan Younis and on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, the military said an operation being carried out by the 98th Division continued, following intelligence of Hamas infrastructure and operatives in the area. Troops with the 98th Division killed several button men and destroyed dozens of sites belonging to terror groups in the past day, according to the IDF.
Several more button men were killed in
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KABOOM!...
s in the central Gaza Strip, directed by reservists of the 252nd Division, who were operating in the Netzarim Corridor area.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
the IDF also announced on Thursday that it struck a Hamas weapons depot adjacent to the Salah ad-Din School in Gaza City.
On Wednesday, the military said it carried out an airstrike against a Hamas command room embedded within the Salah ad-Din School building. It said the weapons depot was in a separate building, located just outside the school compound, and it was hit in a separate strike on Wednesday night. The IDF said the building was used to store rockets and other weapons intended to be used to attack Israel.