The IDF and Shin Bet said Thursday an
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in northern 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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’s Jabalia targeted a group of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...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...
operatives at a command center used by the terror groups.
Paleostinian media reported that the strike targeted Jabalia’s former cop shoppe, and that at least nine people were killed.
According to the IDF, the site was used by the terror operatives to plan and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and troops.
The IDF said it had taken steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including the use of a "precision munition, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence."
"The terror organizations systematically violate international law while taking over civilian infrastructure, and while brutally exploiting the civilian population as a human shield for its terror attacks," the military added.
The Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency and Paleostinian medics said that Israeli air strikes killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including a family of six whose home was struck in Gaza City.
The numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and terror operatives.
Nidal al-Sarafiti, a relative of the family, said the strike was carried out when the family was sleeping.
"What can I say? The destruction has spared no one," he told AFP.
Elsewhere, five people were said to have died when the tents they had sought refuge in were hit.
Three people were killed, including a child, in the town of Zuwaida in central Gaza, the civil defense said in a statement.
Another two people were reported killed in a strike on a home in the southern city of Khan Younis.
"We were sitting in peace when the missile fell.. I just don’t understand ... what’s happening," said Mohammed Faris, who said he witnessed the strike on the house.
FOREIGN MINISTRY BLASTS UK, FRANCE, GERMANY
The strikes came as Israel continued to take military action against Hamas and deny the entry of aid into the Strip in a bid to pressure the terror group into reaching a deal to release hostages.
Late Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry responded to a joint statement by the United Kingdom, La Belle France, and Germany condemning Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid
into Gaza, in a blurb shared by the ministry’s front man, calling the statement "ethically outrageous.""Israel is fighting Hamas, which steals humanitarian aid, uses it to rebuild its war machine, and hides behind civilians," the Foreign Ministry said, adding that it "categorically reject[s] the claim of ’politicization of humanitarian aid’ as stated in the E3’s statement."
In the statement, the three nations’ foreign ministers called for the immediate resumption of aid deliveries to the Strip and criticized recent comments on the issue by Defense Minister Israel Katz. They also called for Israel to do more to protect Paleostinian civilians in Gaza, for Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, and for all parties to return to a ceasefire.
"Article 70 of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions requires aid when ’the civilian population is not adequately supplied,’" the statement from the Foreign Ministry added. "During the 42-day ceasefire, 25,000 aid trucks entered Gaza. Israel is monitoring the situation on the ground, and there is no shortage of aid in Gaza."
"According to Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a side is not obliged to allow in aid if it is ’likely to assist the military or economic efforts of the enemy.’ Hamas hijacked the humanitarian aid to rebuild its terror machine," the ministry further stated.
Instead of mentioning that "Hamas is the one targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Paleostinian civilians," the three countries "chose to accuse Israel of strikes on humanitarian personnel and healthcare facilities — this is morally twisted and wrong," the blurb said.
The Foreign Ministry asserted that the IDF "conducts thorough and transparent investigations" in cases involving civilian casualties, and says that "all condemnations should be directed at Hamas, which hides in hospitals and behind civilians."
"The so-called balance the E3 statement is trying to create between Israel and Hamas is ethically outrageous," the response went on, saying that the countries mention "only in passing the fact that Hamas still holds 59 hostages in inhumane conditions underground."
"The war can end tomorrow if the hostages are released and Hamas lays down its weapons," the ministry said.