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2025-05-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Soldier killed in booby-trapped Gaza building as strikes pound aid-deprived Strip
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[IsraelTimes] Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, buried under rubble in Khan Younis amid expanded IDF offensive; humanitarian groups say assistance not reaching Gazans, too little entering enclave
An Israeli soldier was killed when a booby-trapped building collapsed in the southern 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, the military said Wednesday, marking the second combat fatality since the launch of a widened offensive in the enclave over the weekend.
Paleostinians in the Strip reported 19 people killed in overnight Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s, as Israel pressed the offensive amid mounting international pressure to halt the fighting and allow more aid into the beleaguered territory.
The Israel Defense Forces said Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, was killed Tuesday amid fighting in Khan Younis, which has become a focus of the intensified military campaign in recent days.
According to a preliminary IDF probe, Mocanu was killed when a bomb planted by terror operatives went kaboom! in a building, which then collapsed with him inside.
Mocanu, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 82nd Battalion, had gone into the building with a second soldier following initial scans with a drone and a bomb-sniffing dog, the investigation
When the two reached the top floor of the building, a bomb that had been planted there went kaboom! , according to the probe. The detonation brought the top floor onto the rest of the structure, collapsing it.
It took soldiers several hours to extract the body from the rubble, the army said. The second soldier was rescued relatively quickly with minor injuries.
Mocanu, a resident of Holon, is the 420th fatality among Israeli service-members since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which thousands of Hamas
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-led Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to Mocanu’s family as well as the family of Sgt. Yosef Yehuda Chirak, 22, who was killed Monday in a friendly fire incident while operating with soldiers preparing to demolish a tunnel in northern Gaza.
A friend, Sergei Marchenko, told Hebrew-language media that Mocanu insisted on serving as a combat soldier despite being eligible for an exemption due to being his father’s only child.
"He was scared of war, but said it was for the country," Marchenko told Channel 12 news. "We spoke a month ago, he said it was hard, but, like every combat soldier... did not complain."
According to the Ynet news site, the building where Mocanu was killed was on the western side of Khan Younis, near the Israeli border. The soldiers entered the structure as part of operations paving the way for a broad ground push into Gaza’s second-largest city, which was largely destroyed in earlier rounds of fighting.
Israel on Monday ordered the city’s tens of thousands of residents to move to a humanitarian zone to the southeast, warning that it was preparing an "unprecedented attack" on the area.
The military said Wednesday that the air force had struck 115 targets across the Strip over the past day, hitting rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, other infrastructure, and cells of operatives. The Navy also shelled areas of northern Gaza to assist troops on the ground, the army said.
According to the military, one missile launched from a helicopter gunship impacted inside Israel near the Gaza border fence due to a technical malfunction. No injuries were caused and an investigation was launched.
The IDF also announced that a recent dronezap in northern Gaza had killed Mohammed Shaheen, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force in the terror group’s East Jabalia Battalion who participated in the October 7 attack, according to Israel.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency reported that overnight strikes killed at least 19 people, including a week-old baby, after health authorities said 85 people were killed Tuesday.
"Our crews transported 19 dead, most of them children, and dozens of injured following air raids carried out by the Israeli warplanes in various areas of the Gaza Strip last night and early today," civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP, naming multiple victims including the newborn.
The figures, which do not differentiate between civilians and button men, could not be verified.
Israel says it takes steps to minimize civilian casualties and blames Hamas which is deeply embedded in civilian infrastructure, operating out of camps, hospitals and schools.
The intensified strikes are part of a major new offensive dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots" launched over the weekend, which Israel says seeks to destroy Hamas and seize and retain the whole territory, while relocating Paleostinians across the enclave.
On Tuesday, IDF chief Eyal Zamir threatened to ramp up the campaign even further if Hamas did not agree to Israel’s demands that it release the hostages and give up power.
"It will face intense firepower," he said. "We will expand the ground maneuver, conquer additional territory, clear and destroy the terror infrastructure until it is defeated."
Israel is seeking to pressure Hamas into freeing 58 hostages remaining in Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be alive, and demands that the group relinquish power before ending the war.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu recalled a high-level negotiating team from Doha, where talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal appeared to be stuck.
Jerusalem is facing escalating international pressure to halt the military campaign and allow aid into the enclave.
Internal notes circulated among aid groups Wednesday and seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said that 65 trucks of humanitarian aid were transferred from the Israel side of the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Paleostinian side, but had not moved from there.
Under pressure, Israel agreed this week to allow a "minimal" amount of aid into the Paleostinian territory after preventing the entry of food, medicine and fuel since early March. But UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Tuesday that aid workers were not able to bring the deliveries to distribution points where it is most needed, after the Israeli military forced them to reload the supplies onto separate trucks and workers ran out of time.
COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees humanitarian aid, said five trucks entered Monday and 93 trucks entered Tuesday.
The United Nations
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humanitarian agency received approval for about 100 trucks to enter Gaza, front man Jens Laerke said, which is far less than the 600 that entered daily during the latest ceasefire that Israel ended in March. The Foreign Ministry said dozens are expected to enter each day.
The aid included flour for bakeries, food for soup kitchens, baby food and medical supplies. The UN humanitarian agency said it is prioritizing baby formula in the first shipments.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said the aid being allowed in fell far short of what was needed, describing it as a "smokescreen to pretend the siege is over."
"The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving," said Pascale Coissard, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Dujarric described the new security process for getting aid cleared to warehouses as "long, complex, complicated and dangerous." Israel says it is implementing steps to attempt to keep the aid from being diverted by Hamas. 
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