| As of Tuesday morning. |
Sgt. Yosef Yehuda Chirak was killed fighting 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
on Monday, the IDF announced, as Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...-linked authorities in the Strip said another 91 Paleostinians were killed in Israeli strikes over the past day. The IDF said it was still investigating the cause of Chirak’s death, including the possibility of so-called friendly fire. Chirak, 22, served in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion and was from Harasha.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier Monday that Israel would "take control" of the whole of Gaza as it intensified attacks across the territory, where aid trickled in for the first time in over two months after the easing of a total blockade.
With supply shipments blocked by Israel since March 2, the World Health Organization warned Gaza’s "two million people are starving."
Israel, facing mounting criticism over the humanitarian crisis, announced it would let limited aid into Gaza and said the first five trucks entered Monday carrying supplies "including food for babies."
UN front man Stephane Dujarric said that "none of the aid has been picked up" at a designated zone as it was "already dark" and due to "security concerns, we cannot operate in those conditions."
The leaders of Britannia, La Belle France and Canada issued a harsh condemnation of Israel’s conduct of the war, slamming its "egregious actions" in Gaza, particularly the expanded offensive and the "wholly inadequate" resumption of aid. They warned of "concrete actions" if Israel did not ease its stepped-up offensive. Netanyahu called their joint statement a "huge prize" for Hamas.
A group of 22 countries, including La Belle France, Britannia, Canada, Japan and Australia said in a joint statement that Gaza’s population "faces starvation" and "must receive the aid they desperately need".
In southern Gaza, the Israeli military issued an evacuation call to Paleostinians around Khan Younis city ahead of what it described as an "unprecedented attack."
Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency said 91 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the territory on Monday.
Netanyahu, in a video posted on Telegram, said that "the fighting is intense and we are making progress."
"We will take control of all the territory of the strip," he added.
Israel’s military said on Monday it had struck "160 terror targets" in Gaza over the past day.
The UN’s OHCHR rights office said Israel’s actions were "in defiance of international law and tantamount to ethnic cleansing."
According to Israeli officials, the fresh offensive launched over the weekend would see the IDF "conquer" Gaza, raze the vast majority of buildings and retain the territory for the foreseeable future; attack Hamas and prevent it from taking control of humanitarian aid
supplies; and move Paleostinians from Gaza’s north to its south.Hundreds of Gazooks have been killed in Israeli strikes since the initial stages of the operation were launched on Friday, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, which says more than 53,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the war so far.
The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 murderous Moslems inside the country during the October 7 onslaught, when thousands of Hamas-led murderous Moslems killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
| More from the Times of Israel, just before midnight Israel Time: |
‘PREPOSTEROUS’ TALK OF ABANDONING ISRAEL
On Monday, a US official denied a Washington Post report citing an unnamed source who claimed that the Trump administration would abandon Israel if it kept the war going in Gaza.
The US official said that there may be disagreements, but “the idea that we would abandon Israel is preposterous.”
“Trump’s people are letting Israel know, ‘We will abandon you if you do not end this war,'” the source told The Post. “Politically, as in the past, Netanyahu has a way to do that, with a huge majority in the Knesset and in Israel, but he does not have the political will.”