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2024-05-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF calls on Gazans to leave additional Rafah neighborhoods as it presses operation, 5th soldier killed in Zeitoun Friday
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[IsraelTimes] 300,000 have left southern Gaza city to ’humanitarian zone,’ military assesses; IDF also gearing up for fresh operation in north Gaza’s Jabaliya, as Hamas renews presence there
The Israeli military on Saturday morning began calling on Paleostinians in additional neighborhoods of Rafah to evacuate the area, as it pressed on with an operation against the Hamas
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...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 an 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 ...
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Last week, the Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation warning for the eastern outskirts of Rafah, before it pushed into the area.
The latest warning covered the Rafah and Shaboura camps and the neighborhoods of Geneina and Khirbat al-Adas, slightly deeper into the city. Around a million Paleostinians, who fled other parts of the enclave during the war, are sheltering in Rafah.
In the initial evacuation zone and other areas of Rafah, around 300,000 Paleostinians have evacuated to a designated "humanitarian zone," according to IDF assessments.
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, published on Saturday morning a list of the new zones that needed to be evacuated. The IDF also dropped flyers, sent text messages and made phone calls with the evacuation instructions.
The civilians were called on to move to the expanded humanitarian zone in the al-Mawasi and Khan Younis areas in southern Gaza.
Adraee also warned Paleostinians against moving toward the Israeli border.
The move came after Israel’s security cabinet voted on Thursday night to approve a "measured" expansion of the IDF’s operation in Rafah.
In a highly anticipated report to Congress, the Biden administration said Friday it found "credible and reliable" Israeli assurances that it will use US weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, allowing for the further transfer of American arms amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. However, in the strongest such statement from Biden officials, the US State Department report also said it was "reasonable" to assess that Israel has used US-supplied weapons since Hamas’s October 7 attack in instances that were "inconsistent" with its international humanitarian law obligations, but that it does not have complete information to verify Israeli forces did so.
The IDF’s operation in Rafah has so far been limited to the eastern part of the city and the border crossing with Egypt. The IDF says troops have located several tunnel shafts and killed dozens of gunmen so far.
On Friday, Hamas launched two barrages of rockets from Rafah and central Gaza at Beersheba, the first attack on the southern city in nearly six months. The attack lightly wounded a woman and caused damage to a public playground.
The military on Saturday said it was also preparing to launch a new operation in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya, after identifying attempts by Hamas to regroup there.
A separate evacuation order was given for the Jabaliya area, where the IDF estimated between 100,000 and 150,000 Palestinians were. Civilians were being told to move to shelters west of Gaza City.
"You are in a dangerous combat zone. Hamas is trying to rebuild its capabilities in the area, and therefore the IDF will work with great force against the terror organizations in the area in which you are located," Adraee said in his announcement.
It would be the second time the IDF operated on the ground in Jabaliya after it was captured during the first months of Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas. The IDF later withdrew from north Gaza.
The evacuation order came as the IDF continued to operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, after similarly identifying Hamas regrouping there.
Four soldiers were killed battling Hamas in Zeitoun on Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government have long faced criticism over their refusal to make a plan for the management of Gaza after the war.
Hamas has reportedly reasserted significant civil control in a number of areas of the enclave after troops swept through and then left.
IDF announces soldier killed in battle with Hamas in Gaza City’s Zeitoun
[IsraelTimes] Death of Staff Sgt. Ariel Tsym, 20, brings toll of troops killed in ground operation to 272; military orders more Rafah residents to evacuate as it presses ahead with offensive
The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday the death of a soldier killed during fighting in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood the previous day, raising to five the number of troops who were slain Friday during battles in the area. He was named as Staff Sgt. Ariel Tsym, 20, of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion, from Modiin.
Tsym was killed during a gun battle with Hamas operatives in Zeitoun, according to an initial IDF probe. The incident happened not long after four troops were killed by an explosive device in the same area in the northern Gaza Strip.
His death brought the toll of slain troops in the IDF’s ground offensive in Gaza and operations on the border with the Palestinian enclave to 272.
The IDF has returned several times to the Zeitoun neighborhood since the war’s outbreak, as Hamas has managed to regroup in areas previously cleared by the army.
Troops of the 99th Division launched the pinpoint raid in Zeitoun in recent days. The IDF said dozens of gunmen have been killed and many weapons have been captured during the ongoing raid in the neighborhood. In one incident, troops located a cache of weapons at a health clinic, underlining Israel’s repeated accusation that terror group Hamas uses civilians and civilian infrastructure as shields for its fighters.
One of the gunmen killed was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught led by Hamas that opened the ongoing war. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Zeitoun, the military said Saturday, publishing footage of the strike. It did not name him.
The military also said it was moving into other areas of northern Gaza where it asserted that Hamas had re-established itself. Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, told Palestinians in Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya and surrounding areas to leave their homes and head to shelters in the west of Gaza City, warning that people were in “a dangerous combat zone” and that Israel would strike with “great force.”
Palestinian media outlets later reported a series of strikes in Jabaliya.
Operations in the northern Gaza Strip came as the IDF pressed ahead with a controversial offensive in the southern city of Rafah.
In Rafah, troops killed several more Hamas gunmen in the eastern part of the city, and located several tunnels, the IDF said.
Also over the past day, the military said airstrikes were carried out against dozens of sites belonging to terror groups, including rocket launchers, observation posts, and other infrastructure.
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