An officer of the Israel Defense Forces was killed during fighting 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 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
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disproportionate response...
Strip, the military said Saturday evening.
The slain soldier was named as Cpt. Avraham Ben Pinchas, 24, a platoon commander in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion, from Harasha, a settlement outpost in the West Bank.
According to an initial IDF probe, Ben Pinchas’s tank was hit by Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...anti-tank fire amid operations in Rafah, fatally wounding him.
His death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 383. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
Also on Saturday, COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that oversees coordination in the West Bank and Gaza, announced that more than 3,270 tons of flour on 218 trucks were delivered to Gaza in the past week via Israel.
The flour was delivered to the UN’s World Food Programme operations in Gaza via two crossings from Israel, Gate 96 in the south of the Strip and the Erez West Crossing in the north, "following stringent security inspections," said COGAT in a statement.
The statement also said that "a large-scale refueling operation was carried out this week, supplying fuel to the WFP’s bakeries using a fuel tanker," without elaborating on the origin and transport of the fuel.
Large parts of northern Gaza have been largely been cut off from aid as the IDF operates in those areas against Hamas insurgencies. Most of the civilians there have evacuated but thousands remain under dire conditions. Israel accuses aid organizations of failing to deliver aid, saying it is allowing it to enter but that much of it is then left uncollected.
IDF says it temporarily closed Gaza aid route earlier today after mortar fire on troops
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it temporarily closed a route leading from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip, used to deliver aid to Palestinians, after troops came under mortar fire from the area.
Several mortar shells were fired at troops from an area adjacent to the “humanitarian corridor.”
Following the attack, the IDF says the area was considered an active combat zone and the route was closed, as troops worked to eliminate the threat. As a result, aid deliveries were temporarily delayed, the military says.
The IDF says that the operatives behind the mortar fire were killed, and the route was reopened a short while later for the delivery of aid to Gaza.
IDF says large Hamas terror tunnel found, demolished in Gaza’s Jabalia
[IsraelTimes] A Hamas tunnel that spanned several hundred meters in northern Gaza’s Jabalia was recently demolished by combat engineers, the IDF says.
The operation to demolish the tunnel was carried out by the Gaza Division’s combat engineering unit and the elite Yahalom unit.
During the operation, dozens of booby-trapped tunnel shafts and numerous explosive devices in the area were destroyed, the military says.
According to the IDF, the several-hundred-meter-long tunnel was used by Hamas operatives to attack troops in Gaza. The military says troops found RPGs hidden inside the tunnel, which also featured blast doors and several rooms to reside in.
The IDF says the troops also encountered Hamas operatives who emerged from the tunnel and fired anti-tank projectiles during the operation. The operatives were eliminated in an airstrike and from fire from the ground, the IDF adds.