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2024-10-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
87 killed or missing in Beit Lahiya after Israel's attack, or possibly thqt number is greatly exaggerated
[GEO.TV] A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza's town of Beit Lahiya, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

More than 40 others were injured, it added.

The Israeli military said they were checking the report.

IDF strikes Hamas target in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, rejects Palestinian casualty claims

[IsraelTimes] Military says it hit terror target using precision munitions, denounces Palestinian reports that 73 killed as Hamas propaganda

An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
city of Beit Lahiya on Saturday night hit a Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
target using precision munitions, the military said, rejecting Paleostinian reports that as many as 73 people were killed.

In a statement on the overnight strike, the military said: "The numbers published by the Gaza information office — which acts as a communications arm of Hamas — are exaggerated."

Those numbers "do not line up with the information available to the IDF, the precision munitions used, and the precise damage done to a terror target, of the Hamas terror organization," it said.

The IDF called on the media to "be careful with the information published by Hamas officials," noting that "this is an active combat zone."

"The IDF operates in a precise and targeted manner and does everything it can to avoid attacking uninvolved civilians," the statement concluded.

The statement — which did not provide further information about the strike — was referring to claims by the enclave’s civil defense agency front man that "civil defense crews recovered 73 deaders and a large number of maimed as a result of the Israeli air force targeting a residential area."

The IDF, meanwhile, said it continued to operate in northern, central and southern parts of Gaza.

"The troops eliminated dozens of gunnies during close-quarter encounters on the ground and aerial strikes" across Gaza, it said.

WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority news agency, said Israeli strikes Sunday killed seven people — including a child — in Beit Lahiya, two people near Gaza City and four people near Rafah, in the Strip’s south. The army did not specifically comment on those reports.

Israel has been at war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunnies invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel said it had killed some 17,000 combatants in battle as of August, in addition to 1,000 gunnies killed inside Israel on October 7.

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’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 357.
Posted by Fred 2024-10-21 00:10|| || Front Page|| [11151 views ]  Top
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