Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers serving in 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...
Strip were killed in fighting on Thursday, the army said, as Israeli officials pushed back on claims that five Paleostinians who died in an overnight
...
KABOOM!...
were journalists.
Cpt. (res.) Amit Levi, 35, from Kibbutz Shomria, a team commander in the 551st Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6551st Battalion, was killed in the morning in central Gaza. The army said it was investigating how Levi was killed.
Maj. Hod Shriebman, 27, from Tzofit, a platoon commander in the elite Multidomain Unit, was killed later in the day in northern Gaza.
Another soldier with the unit was seriously maimed in the same incident, which the military said was also under investigation.
In a separate incident, a tank commander with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 9th Battalion was seriously maimed by sniper fire in northern Gaza.
The soldiers’ deaths raised Israel’s toll in the 14-month-old Gaza offensive to 393.
Paleostinian health officials in the Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...-run Strip, meanwhile, claimed that 38 people had been killed in the enclave over the past 24 hours, taking the overall war corpse count to 45,399. The figures, which could not be independently verified, do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Gaza’s al-Quds Today, a television channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group, claimed that five killed in an overnight strike were news hounds for the outlets.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Israel said later Thursday that the group had been "posing as journalists," when the van they were in was struck.
The IDF said four of the five were involved in the creation and dissemination of combat propaganda for Islamic Jihad, naming them as Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Lada’a, Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna and Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi, the latter also a former member of the terror group’s naval force.
The fifth man was named as Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s security in Nuseirat.
| And there it is. Not one hard nosed reporter seeking out the truth to share with the world. |
The men were identified in a list of Islamic Jihad operatives, which was previously captured by troops in Gaza, the army said.
"This list explicitly identified four of the eliminated individuals as members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization," the army said.
News Agency that Dare Not be Named footage showed the incinerated shell of the van, with press markings still visible on the back doors.
At a funeral for the five outside the hospital, women wept beside the bodies as men performed special prayers before burials. The bodies were all wrapped in white shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them.
For the Pallywood cameras
"May God take Dire Revenge on them, may God take Dire Revenge on them. He’s the one that makes the news and broadcasts the crimes to the world, this is what they do to them," said the mother of Fadi Hassouna.
In a statement, the IDF said that prior to the strike it had taken "numerous steps to mitigate the risk of harming civilians."
The Committee to Protect Journalists says over 130 Paleostinian news hounds have been killed since the start of the war. Israel has not allowed foreign news hounds to enter Gaza except on military embeds.