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2025-03-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Katz threatens to annex part of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases hostages
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[IsraelTimes] Hamas fires two rockets toward Ashkelon with both intercepted in second rocket attack in as many days; IDF troops push further in Strip, blow up former hospital being used as Hamas base
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Friday that Israel would annex areas of the 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 should the terror group Hamas
 ..always the voice of sweet reason...
refuse to release the remaining hostages it is still holding.
Katz’s announcement came after a weeks-long ceasefire abruptly ended on Tuesday, with Israel resuming strikes on the Strip as hostage negotiations failed to progress.
The renewed fighting has seen the military carry out waves of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s that have killed Hamas leaders and targeted the terror organization’s efforts to regroup. It has also seen limited ground operations in the Strip.
The renewed fighting also saw Hamas firing rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time in months on Thursday. One of the rockets was intercepted by air defenses, while the other two struck open areas, according to the military. No injuries were caused, though several pieces of shrapnel hit areas of Rishon Lezion.
On Friday, two rockets were fired from northern Gaza toward Ashkelon. According to the Israel Defense Forces, both of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses. No immediate reports of injuries or damages surfaced.
Following the rocket fire, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in the area of the launch. In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area that is to be evacuated, saying that it is a "final warning" before the IDF carries out strikes there.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
Katz said he instructed the IDF to seize additional areas of the Gaza Strip while issuing evacuation orders for Paleostinian civilians in those areas in a bid to amp up pressure on Hamas.
In a statement, Katz said: "If the Hamas terror organization continues to refuse to release the hostages, I instructed the IDF to capture additional areas, evacuate the population, and expand the security zone around Gaza for the protection of Israeli communities and IDF soldiers, through a permanent hold of the area by Israel.
"As long as Hamas continues its refusal, it will lose more and more land that will be added to Israel," he continued.
It was unclear if Israel would follow through on its threat to annex parts of Gaza, a move that would likely draw a massive international backlash. Israel has largely refrained from annexing areas that it has captured except for East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Both cases remain largely unrecognized by the international community.
La Belle France already expressed its opposition to Katz’s comments.
"La Belle France is opposed to any form of annexation whether it concerns the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. We have a very clear vision of the future of the region — a solution of two (Israeli and Paleostinian) states living side-by-side in peace," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told news hounds in the eastern city of Dijon.
Katz said Israel would "intensify" its military campaign against Hamas, including "through the expansion of the ground maneuver until the hostages are released and Hamas is defeated."
He added that Israel will use "all military and civilian pressure, including evacuation of the Gaza population south and implementing US President Trump’s voluntary migration plan for Gaza residents."
Trump controversially called for the Gazook population to be evacuated while Gaza was rebuilt into a Riviera on the Mediterranean. Arab states and the Paleostinians have vociferously rejected such an idea.
Earlier on Friday, reports from Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
claimed that Egypt would be willing to take part in Trump’s post-war Gaza plan by temporarily absorbing some half a million Paleostinians from the coastal enclave in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Egyptian State Information Service announced that Cairo categorically and completely denied the report, saying that the country’s "position is firm in its absolute and final rejection of any attempt to displace Paleostinians."
IDF EXPANDS GROUND OPS, DEMOLISHES HOSPITAL
The IDF said on Thursday it expanded its ground operations in the southern Gaza Strip, with troops advancing into the Shaboura camp in Rafah to destroy "terror infrastructure."
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
troops continued to operate on the coast in the Strip’s north and the Netzarim Corridor area of central Gaza.
In northern Gaza, the IDF said soldiers destroyed infrastructure that was used by Hamas as a command center in recent months to plan and launch attacks on troops and civilians.
In central Gaza, footage circulating on social media showed the military demolishing the former Ottoman Turkish-Paleostinian Friendship Hospital in the central Gaza Strip.
The IDF later confirmed it blew up the building, saying that it was being used by Hamas operatives.
In response to a query, the IDF said it carried out an airstrike on a group of Hamas operatives who were residing at the hospital, which the terror group turned into "terror infrastructure."
"We emphasize that the targeted building has not been used as an active hospital for over a year," the IDF adds.
The footage appeared to show a controlled demolition of the hospital, rather than an airstrike.
When the IDF was previously deployed to the Netzarim Corridor of central Gaza, it used the Ottoman Turkish-Paleostinian Friendship Hospital as a base of operations, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Last year, the IDF published that it had uncovered a Hamas tunnel network that passed under the hospital.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) added that the IDF was working to "dismantle" Hamas infrastructure there.
"Another hospital can be added to the list — in recent months, Hamas hard boyz exploited a site in northern Gaza which previously served as the ’Ottoman Turkish’ hospital as a command and control center, from which they directed and carried out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and Israel," COGAT said, adding, "The IDF operated in response to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure."
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
the Red Thingy said Friday that fuel shortages in Gaza have rendered more than half of Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy emergency vehicles in the enclave inoperative.
Out of 53 vehicles, 23 remain operational after aid supplies into Gaza, including fuel, were halted in early March, Tommaso Della Longa of the International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies told news hounds in Geneva.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, nearly 600 Paleostinians have been killed since the ceasefire ended on Tuesday. The number cannot be independently confirmed and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel has said it is targeting Hamas leaders, terror infrastructure and preparations to carry out fresh attacks against Israel. 
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