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2025-06-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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4 IDF soldiers killed, 5 wounded after booby-trapped south Gaza building collapses
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[IsraelTimes] Gaza aid group says it closed aid distribution sites early due to ‘unsafe crowding’; Hamas health authorities say 38 killed by airstrikes on eve of Muslim holiday
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and five were maimed by a kaboom in a building in 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 ...
’s Khan Younis on Friday morning, the military said, amid an ongoing offensive against the Hamas
 ..always the voice of sweet reason...
terror group.
Two of the slain soldiers are named as: Sgt. Maj. (res.) Chen Gross, 33, of the Maglan commando unit, from Gan Yoshiya, and Staff Sgt. Yoav Raver, 19, of the Yahalom combat engineering unit, from Sde Warburg.
The names of the other two soldiers would be released later, the military said.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers entered the building to clear it of possible terror infrastructure, including tunnels. The building was booby-trapped and the earth-shattering kaboom caused the structure to collapse on the soldiers, killing the soldiers and wounding the others, including one seriously. The incident took place shortly after 6 a.m. in the Khan Younis suburb of Bani Suheila.
In a separate incident, a reservist with the 646th Paratroopers Brigade was moderately maimed by a mortar impact in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the army said. He was taken to a hospital where his condition has since improved.
After the deaths of four soldiers, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said sometimes there’s "no choice" but to enter structures in the Strip to investigate them for possible tunnels..
In addition, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir sat down with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor to assess the ongoing fighting in Gaza and approve "operational plans... for the continuation of the campaign in the Gaza Strip," the IDF said.
The deaths of the four soldiers on Friday brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 429.
CHAOTIC AID
Dwindling support at home has also been compounded by increasing international pressure on Israel, including from its allies, angry over the increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.
In an effort to alleviate the pressure, Israel has recently backed alternative efforts to supply aid to the Strip and bypass the Hamas terror group, which it accuses of seizing control of international aid.
But the Israeli-backed efforts to supply aid to the strip continued to be chaotic, with the organization in charge issuing several, sometimes contradictory statements as to the state of ongoing operations that have been beset by violent mostly peaceful incidents.
It’s a roll-out — they’re still debugging the process. And quite rapidly, especially for a new organization with rapid turnover at the top. Also: know yourselves thoroughly conquered, guys, and surrender accordingly. And pass the word to your former Hamas overlords — they appear to have trouble grasping their situation. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it was forced to close its sites early Friday due to "excessive crowding that made it unsafe to proceed." However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
it stressed in a statement that "at no point did violence occur."
The announcement comes several hours after a similar post was made on its Arabic Facebook page, which is used to communicate directly with Gazooks.
The Arabic post said GHF had closed its two Rafah sites because large crowds — particularly before the sites even opened — had hindered distribution. The post also urged Gazooks to wait until GHF sends notifications out before heading to distribution sites.
Many have reported making the trek of dozens of kilometers only for them to arrive after boxes of food have run out. The limited food was also likely a contributing factor for overcrowding, with hunger still plaguing much of the Strip after a 78-day Israeli blockade through most of March, April and May.
No doubt if they released the supplies in the Hamas warehouses, the problem would evaporate, but Hamas — and the UN-linked NGOs — need the heartrending headlines in order to keep pressure on Israel. GHF says it has distributed roughly 25,000 boxes of food since it began operations late last month, but families with men and boys strong enough to make the trek, wait in line and lug large boxes back to their homes have a major advantage over others.
GFH said it distributed 8,160 boxes of food at the two Rafah sites before it closed them. It says each box has enough food inside to feed 5.5 people for 3.5 days. Since it launched operations on May 26, GFH said it has distributed nearly 9 million meals.
While GHF has been operating three distribution sites, only one or two have been open on most days since the May 26 rollout, and no timeline has been provided for when a site in northern Gaza will be opened.
The small number of distribution sites aimed at serving a population of roughly two million has been a major point of criticism from the UN and other international organizations, who have argued that Palestinians in need should not be forced to walk long distances through war zones in order to pick up food.
No matter how perfect, they would find something to complain about — the real complaint is that they can’t continue to skim off the top to feed their own pockets as they used to.
The dangerous conditions were highlighted earlier this week when the IDF admitted to opening fire toward Palestinians who it said had strayed from the pre-approved road they’re supposed to use to reach aid sites.
Dozens were killed and hundreds were injured in three incidents, according to Hamas health authorities and the Red Cross.
Any relationship beteen their numbers and the truth is strictly accidental… The IDF insisted that those figures were exaggerated and described its fire as warning shots.
In an effort to lessen the chaos and violence, the IDF on Friday issued fresh instructions to Gazans on how to access the aid sites, saying that movement toward the humanitarian aid distribution sites is only permitted during daylight, between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Outside the daylight hours, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., “the area is considered a closed military zone,” said Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman.
“Entering it poses a great danger to your lives. It is strictly prohibited to enter the distribution centers and the area near them” during the night, he said, also urging Palestinians to listen to instructions from GHF.
STRIKES IN NORTHERN GAZA, KHAN YOUNIS
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
Israel continued its ground offensive and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s.
Israeli airstrikes killed 38 Paleostinians Friday, according to Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-run health authorities, who cited bombing in Gazoo’s Jabalia, Tuffah and Khan Younis areas. 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.
The IDF had no immediate comment on the Friday reports. Witnesses and medics told Rooters that Israeli planes and tanks had intensified strikes on Jabalia and nearby Beit Hanoun — in northern Gaza — since the early hours of Friday.
Israel on March 18 resumed its attacks against Hamas with a wave of airstrikes, ending a two-month ceasefire. The IDF has since deployed tens of thousands of troops into the Strip and has been carrying out a wide-scale ground offensive aimed at defeating Hamas’s military wing and ending its civil rule in Gaza.
MARKING EID AL-ADHA UNDER FIRE
Amid the unrelenting airstrikes and confusion surrounding aid distribution, many Gazooks found themselves struggling to celebrate the title='Muslim'>Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha
...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting...
, which began Friday. To mark Eid al-Adha — Arabic for the Festival of Sacrifice — Moslems traditionally slaughter a sheep or cow and give away part of the meat to the poor as an act of charity. It is also customary to hold large family feasts and give children gifts of new clothing during the holiday. But no fresh meat has entered Gaza for three months, and nearly all the territory’s homegrown sheep, cattle and goats are dead.
War is Hell. Blame Hamas for deliberately creating this one, just like they did the last four since Ariel Sharon pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Some of the little livestock that remained were on sale at a makeshift pen set up in the vast tent camp of al-Mawasi on the southern Gaza coast, but no one could afford to buy.
At a street market in the nearby city of Khan Younis, some stalls have stuffed sheep toys and other holiday knick-knacks and old clothes.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced Wednesday that 88 humanitarian aid trucks carrying flour and food entered the Gaza Strip throughout the day.
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