Two rockets were launched from the central 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 at southern Israel, the military said on Wednesday, as the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...terror group warned Israel that if it pushed ahead with military operations, the hostages would return to Israel in coffins.
The 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...
grabbed credit for the rocket attack. One rocket was intercepted by air defenses and a second impacted outside Zimrat, causing no injuries.
The IDF issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in and around Gaza City, where the projectiles were fired from, before it carried out strikes in the area.
The IDF later said it struck a terror operative behind the rocket fire who was spotted at the launch site.
The IDF added that it also hit a building in the area used to set off the launches and two other nearby rocket launching sites.
It published footage of the strikes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
Hamas threatened that the hostages would return "in coffins" should Israel continue air strikes and ground operations in the Strip.
"Every time the occupation attempts to retrieve its captives by force, it ends up bringing them back in coffins," it said in a statement.
The group claimed they are "doing everything possible to keep the occupation’s captives alive, but the random Zionist bombardment is endangering their lives."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to hit back at Hamas during a speech in the Knesset, warning that Israel would seize territory in Gaza if Hamas continued to refuse to release the remaining hostages.
"The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the stronger the pressure we will exert," Netanyahu said in the plenum. "This includes the seizure of territories, along with other measures I will not elaborate here."
Wednesday also saw dozens of Gaza City residents gathered in the Shejaiya neighborhood to protest Hamas rule in the Strip. They burned tires and chanted "Hamas out," calling for an end to the war.
The demonstrations, exceedingly rare in the past due to the terror group’s often
Similar protests against the terror group took place across the territory on Tuesday, in Beit Lahiya, the Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Younis.
Footage showed around 100 residents of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, holding a protest calling for an end to the war and an end to Hamas’s governance, with some demonstrators carrying signs reading "Stop war" and "Children in Paleostine want to live."
Israel resumed intense
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s across the Strip last week, followed by ground operations, shattering the relative calm of a January ceasefire with Hamas.
Hamas says spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou killed in Jabalia by Israeli strike
[IsraelTimes] Hamas announces that the terror group’s spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou has been killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza’s Jabalia.
Hamas, in 1st response to protests, claims they are against Israel, not itself
[IsraelTimes] Hamas issues its first official response to the demonstration against the organization, claiming they are actually against Israel and that “there are those who are trying to divert the spontaneous protests to serve the occupation’s agenda.”
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim tells the Qatari channel Al-Araby that “demonstrations are expected from people facing extermination, against war and destruction… People are calling to stop the aggression, but the enemy and other parties with political agendas are diverting the spontaneous protests to serve the occupation’s agenda and trying to portray it as if the demonstrators are against the resistance” — a reference to Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza.
This is Hamas’s first on-the-record response to the anti-Hamas and anti-war demonstrations in Gaza in the last few days.
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“Residents have no water or electricity. Hamas is destroying Gaza and making us into stones, they must be removed from power. We won’t stop demonstrating, Hamas needs to be flexible and release the hostages.”
Demonstrators carrying banners reading, “Hamas does not represent us,” were seen marching in Gaza City and the town of Beit Lahiya in the north of the territory.
In Beit Lahiya, where a similar but far smaller protest took place Tuesday, about 3,000 people demonstrated Wednesday, with many chanting, “The people want the fall of Hamas.” In the hard-hit Shejaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, dozens of men chanted, “Out, out out! Hamas get out!”
In some incidents, protesters at rallies urged Hamas to release hostages it is holding to expedite an end to the war that has devastated most areas of Gaza, making conditions harsh for residents.