The Israel Defense Forces struck dozens of terror targets across 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
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Strip Wednesday night and into Thursday, including a strike that killed a Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...terrorist who participated in the massacre at the Nova music festival during the October 7, 2023, attack that started the ongoing war, the military said in a statement.
The Israeli strikes, which Hamas-aligned sources asserted killed at least 75 people and maimed hundreds more, came as Israel and Hamas appeared to be near a final agreement on a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, expected to begin on Sunday.
The agreement, if finalized, will have to be approved by the security cabinet and the full cabinet, which are expected to vote on the deal over the weekend.
According to an IDF statement Thursday, an overnight strike killed Hamas Nukhba force terrorist Muhammad Hashem Zahdi Abu al-Rous, who took part in the massacre at the music festival, where bully boyz murdered more than 360 people and took dozens more hostage into the strip.
In addition to killing Rous, the more than 50 strikes over the past day eliminated several other members of Hamas and Paleostinian 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...
, and hit buildings used by the terror groups, weapon depots, rocket launchers, weapon manufacturing sites and observation posts, the IDF said.
The military added that it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strikes, including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence. It also noted Hamas’s use of civilian institutions and the population as human shields.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Thursday that Israel "escalated" its strikes across the territory following the announcement of the deal; the agency said that at least 80 people were killed and hundreds more maimed. According to civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal, among those killed were 20 children and 25 women.Bassal said teams recovered the bodies of five children after a strike in the northern town of Jabalia. AFP also reported first responders and residents searching through rubble late at night in Gaza City.
Ambulance driver Abu al-Rish told AFP that "after the ceasefire was announced and people were happy and joyful, a five-story building was targeted, with more than 50 people inside." He added that "shelling is continuing, targeting one house after another."
Hamas’s armed wing, meanwhile, said that the Israeli attacks were putting at risk hostages intended to be released in the deal. "Any aggression and shelling at this stage by the enemy could turn the freedom of a prisoner into a tragedy," the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said on Telegram.
Without offering details, Abu Obeida, front man for the Qassam Brigades, claimed that an Israeli strike had hit near a location where one of the women to be freed "in the first stage of the ceasefire deal was located."
The deal will see the terror group release Israelis it has held hostage in Gaza, and Israel will release more than a thousand Paleostinian security prisoners.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 407.