The IDF said Sunday it has bolstered forces on the 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 a rusty 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...
border as it anticipates possible long-range rocket fire or other attacks from the Strip on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.
Monday marks one year since the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught, in which Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...-led turbans murdered some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages to Gaza.
Military sources said that while Hamas has been largely dismantled as a military organization, its operatives can still carry out rocket attacks.
The IDF anticipates Hamas attacks on the first anniversary of the onslaught and assessed that such attacks from Gaza could include rocket fire, possibly even at central Israel.
The military said it was therefore bolstering defenses both along the Gaza border and in the Netzarim Corridor area in the Strip’s center, where the IDF maintains a presence.
"The Southern Command is prepared in defense and attack for several scenarios during the coming month, along with allowing memorial events in the [Gaza border communities] to be carried out safely," the IDF said in a statement.
The military said several companies were being deployed to defend the Israeli border towns, and that it would coordinate with police and medical services in the event of attacks.
"We are on heightened alert for the coming days. At a high level of readiness... with offensive actions," the chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, told officers in a video distributed by the IDF.
On Saturday night, IDF front man Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari warned at a televised briefing that Israeli civilians could be targeted.
"We are prepared with increased forces in anticipation for this day," when there could be "attacks on the home front," he said.
Organizers of an unofficial commemoration marking a year since Hamas’s October 7 massacre said Saturday it will be held with a limited crowd made up of families of the victims, due to IDF Home Front Command restrictions that prevent large gatherings.
The commemoration, which was organized by the families of those killed and kidnapped, is set to be held at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park at 7 p.m. on Monday.
Currently, the IDF Home Front Command limits gatherings to up to 2,000 people in Tel Aviv due to the ongoing threat of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
as well as from Hamas.
The ceremony will be broadcast on Israeli television stations and dozens of foreign broadcast networks. Dozens of cities in Israel and around the world will also host screenings of the event.
In addition to those murdered on October 7, hundreds more Israelis have been killed in the war sparked by the massacre, taking the toll to over 1,600.
It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF. Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.