IDF controls 40% of Gaza City as they push on

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are tightening the screws on Hamas, now claiming control over roughly 40% of Gaza City as their ground offensive ramps up. This isn't a half-hearted poke at the hornet's nest, Brig. Gen. Ephraim "Effie" Defrin, the IDF's spokesman, made it clear this is a full-throttle push. "We will increase pressure on Hamas until its defeat," he told reporters, laying out the stakes in what's been dubbed "Operation Gideon's Chariots." Sounds biblical, doesn’t it? Well, the IDF is bringing some Old Testament-level resolve.

Defrin briefed the press on Wednesday night, detailing how the IDF's 99th Division, think Nahal and 7th Armored Brigade grunts, are digging into Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. 

Meanwhile, the 162nd Division, including the 401st Armored Brigade and Givati Brigade, is hammering the outskirts of Sheikh Radwan in the north. The IDF isn't just strolling through; they're blowing up terror tunnels. Defrin even shared footage of the wreckage and promising to crank up the heat on Hamas's infrastructure. 

No word on how many tunnels are left, but it's a safe bet they're not long for this world.

The operation isn't just about smashing Hamas's toys. Defrin emphasized the IDF's all-in approach to rescuing hostages, saying they're "turning over every stone to bring the hostages home." That's no small task, with 48 still unaccounted for, per Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Aug. 14 outline. 

Defrin's words carry weight: "We will continue to do everything possible to return them." Noble, but let’s be real; Hamas isn't exactly eager to hand over bargaining chips.

This latest push stems from an Aug. 8 Cabinet decision to occupy Gaza City, which Netanyahu publicly confirmed on Aug. 31. Since then, things have moved fast. An Israeli security source told Hebrew media that 80,000 Palestinians have already fled Gaza City as the IDF rolls in. That's a lot of displacement, and it's raising eyebrows about where this all leads.

Here's where it gets spicy: Channel 12 reports that Netanyahu's charging ahead partly because of pressure from none other than U.S. President Donald Trump, who is apparently done with diplomatic niceties. Trump's lost faith in negotiations, and Bibi's not shedding tears over it. When Hamas floated a "comprehensive deal" to end the war on Wednesday, Netanyahu swatted it away as "another Hamas spin that has nothing new in it." 

Translation: nice try, but we're not buying.

Netanyahu laid out his endgame, and it isn't subtle: disarm Hamas, free all 48 hostages, demilitarize Gaza, secure Israeli control, and set up a new civilian administration. That’s a tall order, and it's hard to see Hamas signing off on their own funeral. Defrin's "force multiplier" of tens of thousands of reservists suggests Israel is ready to grind this out, but at what cost? Gaza is already a mess, and with 80,000 people on the move, the humanitarian fallout is only going to grow.

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IDF neutralizes Hamas naval commander in Gaza by totally killing him

Last week, the IDF dropped a precision hammer on Gaza City, smoking Ramzi Ramadan Abd Ali Salah, into kibbles and bits. 

Salah was the head honcho of Hamas’ naval forces in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli navy, backed by stone-cold intel from the Military Intelligence Directorate, called the shot, and a warplane delivered the payload. Bahdahbing! Job well done.

The IDF confirmed Sunday that Salah, described as “a central source of knowledge within the Hamas terrorist organization,” was plotting maritime terror attacks against Israeli forces. This wasn’t some small-fry operative, he was a big fish, perhaps a blowfish, scheming to make waves against the IDF.

The strike caught him holed up in a building with a posse of other terrorists, and let’s just say they too didn’t walk away.

Two other Hamas goons, Hisham Ayman Atiya Mansour and Nassim Muhammad Suleiman Abu Sabha, got taken off the board in the same hit. Both were knee-deep in lobbing mortars at Israel, with Mansour playing deputy commander of a Hamas mortar unit and Abu Sabha right there in the muck with him. 

The IDF wasn’t playing, those mortars were aimed at Israeli troops, and the footage Hamas dropped of their attacks only proved they had it coming.

The Israeli army made it clear they didn’t just wing this one. They used precision-guided munitions, aerial surveillance, and every scrap of intel they could muster to keep civilian casualties low, as they always attempt to do. But Hamas, running their propaganda mill, claimed the strike hit the Al-Baqa cafe on Gaza City’s seaside promenade, whining that 24 people were killed, per their so-called “health ministry.” 

Funny how they never mention their own rocket misfires or human shields when the body count comes up.

This is the game in Gaza: Hamas hides, plans, and attacks, while the IDF hunts with surgical precision. Salah and his crew learned that the hard way.

May they rest in pieces.

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IDF sends Hamasshole "orchestrator" of Oct. 7th to his 72 virgin critters

Another Hamas leader bites the dust

A bunch of foreign policy wonks and security nerds dropped a report that’s got everyone talking: a “day after” plan for Gaza that swaps out Hamas for private security contractors the likes of, say, Blackwater types, with serious Middle East street cred. These guys reckon hired guns could fill the power vacuum. 

Is this a bold, brilliant move, or a recipe for disaster? You decide.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a bombshell Saturday, confirming they “eliminated” one of Hamassholes’ OGs in a slick joint op with the Israel Security Agency (ISA). Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, a big shot in Hamas’ military wing, got taken out in an airstrike in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood on Friday.

 

This dude [his friend called him "Hey -Mo"] wasn’t just any player, Issa ran the show as head of combat support headquarters, beefing up Hamas’ forces in Gaza, leading their training ops, and sitting pretty on their General Security Council. 

The IDF says he played a “significant role in the planning and execution of the brutally barbaric October 7th massacre” and was scheming fresh attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops in recent days. 

Oh, and he was hustling to rebuild Hamas’ shattered systems after Israel’s wartime beatdown. Now he's gone and his stink lingers on.

 
Hot on the heels of this, Israel has been flexing hard in its shadow war with Iran. The IDF smoked Saeed Izadi, an Iranian commander who’d been funneling cash and guns to Hamas for years. The IDF tagged him as “one of the orchestrators” of the Oct. 7 attack. Iran’s proxy game just took another hit.

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IAF kills 23 Gazans while they claim they aren't getting food and supplies: Pro tip--Hamas steals it

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City — Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday killed at least 23 Arabs in Gaza, including three children and their parents whose tent was bombed in Gaza City, health officials said.

Sadly, Hamas would not allow these people to leave the area as the IDF warns people in Gaza of impending military strikes, something Hamas not only does not do, but actually targets civilians,

The bombardment continued as Israel plans to control aid to Gaza to prevent Hamas from commandeering it for themselves. 

But let's not forget, Gazans voted for Hamas and a majority of Gazans believe that the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 was justified. 

The anti-Zionist U.N. and aid groups have rejected Israel’s aid distribution moves, including a plan from a group of American security contractors, ex-military officers and humanitarian aid officials calling itself the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Perhaps they would rather see Hamas well-fed rather than Gazans.

It's obviously horrible that civilians are getting killed in this war, a conflict that was brought to Israel's door, but that fact is not Israel's fault but that of Hamas who uses civilians, including children [because they're more portable than grown adults] as human shields.

Another Israeli strike late Friday hit a warehouse belonging to UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, in the northern area of Jabaliya. Four people were killed, according to the Indonesian Hospital, where bodies were taken. By people, it's likely they were terrorists or their sympathizers as we all know that UNRWA has been inundated with terrorists.

The IDF said nine soldiers were lightly wounded Friday night by a boobytrap explosive device while searching Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighborhood. It said they were evacuated to a hospital in Israel.

Israel resumed its bombardment in Gaza on March 18, shattering a two-month ceasefire that Hamas failed to honor by repeatedly failing to comply with the hostage release terms and conducting humiliating ceremonies before releasing hostages. Hamas also refused to extend Phase One to extend the ceasefire by 50 days to secure the release of half the remaining hostages.

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Between March 17 to 18, Hamas was preparing military offensives against Israeli civilian communities and IDF troops in Gaza. The March 18 strike was preemptive to counter Hamas' plans to execute terror attacks.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel after the Hamassholes killed about 1,200 people, primarily civilians, and kidnapped 251 others. They still hold around 59 hostages, and only 21 or so are believed to be alive.

Anyone who takes Hamas' side after what they did to start hostilities is either ignorant or a fool.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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IDF kills 50 Hamassholes in northern and central Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have dispatched 50 Hamas fighters to their eternal reward in northern and central Gaza, according to a Monday announcement from the IDF. Not that their eternal reward was in northern and central Gaza, that's where they were killed, but their reward is in a place much hotter.

To be precise, Division 252 has been busy around the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza and sundry areas to the north, uncovering a tunnel network stretching a full kilometer - a subterranean surprise missed in previous incursions.

Not content with mere spelunking, the IDF also obliterated a rocket fabrication facility. This could prove consequential as Hamas has resumed its irritating habit of lobbing rockets - in admittedly paltry numbers - at the Gaza Corridor of late. "By air and land: Attacking Hamas" - a pithy summary of the IDF's recent exertions.

Earlier that Monday, the IDF declared it was extending its invasion to virgin territory in Rafah. 

The previous day, with hostage talks teetering at a tipping point, the Gaza war seemed to be coasting along on autopilot. From Thursday to Sunday last week, aerial assaults persisted and limited ground probes occurred, but no major escalation materialized - a far cry from the IDF's more vigorous invasions earlier in the conflict or the dire forecasts of a month ago, when a new hostage deal seemed a distant prospect.

With little news to report on the Gaza front in recent days, the Israeli government appears to have flashed a cautionary amber light, pausing the invasion's momentum to allow space for negotiating a new hostage accord with Hamas. This came just prior to the IDF going deeper into Gaza, which probably had most residents head out to the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone 

 before the IDF plunges deeper into Gaza, likely forcing most residents to decamp for the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone on the Mediterranean shore.

Prior to Monday, the IDF's last claim of eliminating dozens of Hamas terrorists came the previous Thursday. Friday and Sunday were silent days for IDF Gaza war updates, while Saturday brought a lone minor report of a foray into a less vital Rafah sector, plus news of assorted air strikes. 

The last significant ground operation was March 26, when the IDF mandated a mass Palestinian exodus from northern Gaza - Zeitoun, Rimal, Tel-al-awa and two other districts - adding to prior evacuations from Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia. Most key northern Gaza Hamas strongholds, barring downtown Gaza City, Shejaiya, and Shaati, were thus emptied, making those March 26 maneuvers noteworthy.

That same day, the IDF pummeled Gaza areas responsible for an unspecified impact near Zimrat in the Gaza Corridor. Hamas's March 26 rocket volley failed to kill, but one of the two projectiles penetrated defenses, and the Gazan terror outfits retain the capacity to fire a handful of rockets simultaneously. Same on Saturday, when the IDF hit Khan Yunis zones that had mortared nearby IDF troops.

Zooming out, the most devastating blow of this renewed strife was undoubtedly March 18, when the air force flattened some 80 high-value targets - including numerous senior Hamas politicos - in a mere 10 minutes. 

A few days of steady escalation and invasion into various Gaza sectors ensued, seemingly peaking on March 26 with potential to expand further into Gaza City, fresh parts of Khan Yunis, and central Gaza. Instead, it has leveled off for now.

Last week, a cabal of senior reservists urged IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir to widen the invasion pronto and squeeze Hamas to the max, even as hostage advocates pressed the government to strike a new bargain with the Gazan terror group and suspend the latest hostilities. Israel resumed combat after a 42-day ceasefire, followed by an almost three-week stalemate between the parties on the ceasefire's next phase.

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Hamas rebuilds and regains strength as ceasefire buys them time

The IDF’s been playing whack-a-mole in Gaza, popping off three to four suspected Hamassholes a day—lads they clock as operatives rigging explosives near the border like it’s a twisted game of Minecraft. 

Hamas? Silent as a tomb. They’re loving this unofficial timeout Israel’s handed them, a de facto cease-fire that’s stretched two weeks with no hostages freed. Gives ‘em time to dig in deeper, fortify the Strip like it’s their own little dystopian fiefdom.

Israel’s sanctions bag? Empty. 

They’ve yanked back nearly every humanitarian carrot—except letting about 50 banged-up or sniffly Palestinians limp out through Rafah into Egypt daily for a doctor’s note. Security honchos are eyeballing the evacuees to make sure no Hamas bigwigs sneak through dressed as Grandpa Coughs-a-Lot. Still, Jerusalem’s quietly chuffed—every Gazan out is one less headache, even if it’s just a trickle.

Then there’s the political sleight-of-hand they’ve ditched. Energy Minister Eli Cohen strutted out earlier this week, crowing that Israel cut power to Deir al-Balah. Big flex—except it was just a desalination plant’s juice, not Gaza’s lights. Smoke and mirrors, folks.

Water’s still flowing, though—three main pipelines keep chugging, and shuffling displaced folks from al-Mawasi back toward Gaza City’s kept the taps from running dry. Wells and a bit of farming are picking up the slack too. That Deir al-Balah desalination joint, pumping out 15,000 liters (3,960 gallons) a day? Israeli suits shrugged it off—not critical, they say. No one’s dying of thirst just yet.

Cue the UN, though—UNICEF’s sounding the alarm, wailing that Gaza’s water crisis has hit "critical levels," with "only one in 10 people have access to clean drinking water." UNRWA’s piling on, moaning that axing aid after 17 months of war’s putting lives on the line—most of Gaza’s 2.3 million souls lean on handouts to scrape by.

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Bread’s taking a hit too. Abed al-Nasser al-Ajrami, head of Gaza’s Bakery Owners Association, says six of the Strip’s 22 surviving bakeries have gone dark—cooking gas is AWOL. Power’s a bigger mess. Before the war, Israel’s nine lines fed Gaza 120 megawatts a day—enough for four measly hours of juice, topped up by diesel gennies and solar panels. Hamas torched most of that grid, naturally, and siphoned some of those panels to light up their Gaza City bunkers. Classy.

Some solar’s still kicking, and generators are now the main act—fueled by a deal where Israel let 50 fuel and gas trucks roll in daily for six weeks. Hamas has its claws on that stash. "We don’t really know how Hamas distributed this fuel, how much they have left or what it's being used for," a security official admits. "Some international estimates suggest it could last for weeks or even months." Translation: your guess is as good as theirs.

Security types are sizing up Hamas’s cease-fire hustle. "Every day of a cease-fire that Hamas uses to prepare for renewed fighting is like a month of preparation for us," one grumbles. "Its control over civilian life is growing, with Ramadan meals funded by institutions like the Bank of Palestine, which serves as Hamas’s financial clearinghouse in Gaza. We shut down the border crossings but we didn’t destroy its stockpiles." So, Hamas is playing chef while Israel’s stuck playing border cop. Sounds about right.

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IDF sends dozens of armed Hamassholes to meet their virgins

The IDF announced on Monday that it had killed dozens more Hamas terrorists in Jabalya, just a day after claiming the terror group was almost eradicated from the northern Gaza region.

"Locating and killing the Hamas forces was made possible by a mix of ongoing intelligence collection, operations to trick the forces into an ambush, and both tank fire and soldiers' nearby gunfire," according to the military.

To date, the IDF has conducted operations in Jabalya in fall 2023, May of this year, and again in October of this year. By December 2023, the IDF had declared Jabalya under operational control and stated that Hamas's battalions were broken. After the May invasion, the IDF claimed to have destroyed 12 kilometers of Hamas tunnels and killed between 300-500 terrorists, significantly reducing Hamas's presence in the area.

After several weeks of operations starting in October, the IDF again declared Jabalya mostly cleared of terrorists. However, this claim was quickly contradicted when, on Friday and Sunday, the IDF reported that they had killed dozens more and arrested around 204 terrorists.

Despite these efforts, Monday's announcement raised questions about the accuracy of IDF's intelligence regarding the number of remaining Hamas fighters in areas like Jabalya. One reason could be the tactics used by Palestinian terrorists who often disguise themselves as unarmed civilians. Additionally, Hamas reportedly continues to recruit young Palestinians who have little else to occupy their time and have lost family or friends in the conflict.

The IDF also speculates that the recent rocket attacks from northern Gaza might indicate Hamas's attempt to deplete their remaining rocket stocks before further IDF actions, though they have not been able to completely halt the rocket fire from Gaza.

This ongoing presence of terrorists even after multiple operations suggests why, on Sunday, IDF sources were open about possibly extending the isolation of Jabalya from Gaza City if ordered. While both areas are in northern Gaza, Jabalya, along with Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, constitute the northernmost part, which has seen a significant exodus of both terrorists and civilians since early October.

In early October, the IDF facilitated the evacuation of tens of thousands of Palestinians southward from these areas while engaging Hamas forces. Due to international backlash and having largely cleared the main Hamas strongholds, the IDF shifted to smaller, more targeted operations against remaining terror cells.

This situation occurs amidst discussions about "the General’s Plan," where some senior former IDF officials proposed clearing all of northern Gaza of Palestinians to pressure Hamas. Although Israel has denied adopting this plan, there are signs of it being partially implemented, especially in northern Gaza, while still permitting some Palestinians to stay in Gaza City.

However, on Friday, the IDF, working with the Shin Bet, deviated from this pattern by arresting over 240 terrorists in a strategic operation against Hamas's efforts to reorganize in northern Gaza, particularly around the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya.

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Israel detains Gaza Hospital medics: search for hostages and terrorists

Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, according to the enclave's Health Ministry.

"Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, the enclave's Health Ministry said."

Israel has long said that Hamassholes are hiding among the most vulnerable, including in children's schools and hospitals, using these locations as shields where they can accuse Israel of targeting civilians during operations aimed at finding hostages and eliminating terrorists.

"Israel has long contended Hamas terrorists are hiding among the most vulnerable, including children's schools and hospitals, seeking refuge in places where they can blame Israel for attacks seeking to find detained hostages and root out terrorists."

The Israeli military raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, ordering the evacuation of dozens of patients and hundreds of others, and detained medical staff, including the hospital's director, Hussam Abu Safiya:

"The Israeli military raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya on Friday, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate and detaining medical staff including the facility's director, Hussam Abu Safiya."

The Health Ministry expressed concern over the well-being of Abu Safiya. "The Health Ministry said it was not clear what was happening to Abu Safiya, adding it was concerned about his well-being after some of the staff freed by the army late Friday reported that he was beaten up by soldiers."

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the detainees.

The raid put the last major health facility in north Gaza out of service, according to the World Health Organisation's post on X:

"The raid on the hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, put the last major health facility in north Gaza out of service, the World Health Organisation said in a post on X."
Some patients were moved to the Indonesian Hospital, which is not operational, while others were taken to a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. Some freed staff members reached the Al-Ahly Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

The Israeli military stated that, "The Israeli military said on Friday that Hamas fighters had operated from Kamal Adwan Hospital throughout the 15-month-old war and had made the site a key stronghold."

However, Hamas, as usual, denied these claims.  "Hamas dismissed this as 'lies,' saying there were no fighters in the hospital."

The Gaza Health Ministry reported 18 Palestinian deaths from Israeli strikes on Saturday, with nine in Maghazi camp. "The Gaza Health Ministry also said Israeli strikes across the enclave killed 18 Palestinians on Saturday, at least nine of them in a house in Maghazi camp in central Gaza Strip."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced operations in Beit Hanoun.

"The Israeli military said on Saturday it had begun operating overnight against targets in the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza.

"Troops are enabling civilians still in the area to move away for their own safety," they added.

In recent months, the IDF have been pushing people out and demolishing areas around Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya, leading to accusations from Palestinians of ethnic cleansing to establish a buffer zone. 

Israel countered these claims, "Palestinians have accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing by depopulating those areas to create a buffer zone. Israel denies it is doing this, saying it aims to prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping in these areas."

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2 PIJ commanders eliminated in IDF strike in central Gaza

Both PIJs extremely dead

On Thursday, an airstrike hit a command post that was located in a humanitarian zone. The military also reported hitting two former schools in Gaza City that were being used as command sites by Hamas.

Abdullah Khattab, the commander of the South Deir al-Balah Battalion for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hatem Abu al-Jidyan, the commander of the East Deir al-Balah Battalion for PIJ, were killed in the airstrike, according to an announcement on Saturday by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet.
Also on Saturday, the IDF said it had carried out airstrikes on command rooms operating from two former schools in Gaza City.

On Thursday, a military strike targeted a command room within a humanitarian zone in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah, according to the military.

Several terror operatives were killed in the strike. This included Abdullah Khattab, who was the commander of PIJ's South Deir al-Balah Battalion, and Hatem Abu al-Jidyan, the commander of PIJ's East Deir al-Balah Battalion, stated the IDF and Shin Bet.

The IDF reported that Khattab had led his battalion during the attacks on October 7 and was involved in many attacks on Israel and its troops, which included rocket and anti-tank fire.

Abu al-Jidyan also advanced numerous attacks against troops amid the ongoing fighting.

To minimize harm to civilians during the strike, the IDF stated that it implemented several measures, such as employing precision munitions, conducting aerial surveillance, and utilizing various intelligence sources.

Palestinians examine the aftermath of an IDF strike targeting a Hamas cell located within the Amr Ibn al-Aas School in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood on September 7, 2024.

“This is another example of the systematic use by the terror organizations in the Gaza Strip of the population and civilian infrastructure, including the humanitarian zone, to carry out terror acts against the state and IDF troops,” the military said.

As for the Saturday strikes on the schools, according to the military, the Hamassholes were using the Amr Ibn al-Aas School in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel.

“Three martyrs and more than 20 wounded people were retrieved after an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at a prayer room and a classroom at the Amr Ibn al-Aas School, where refugees were sheltering in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense agency, told AFP.

In the other strike, the military said Hamas was using the Halima al-Sadia School in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel.

At least eight Palestinians were killed, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported.

The IDF said earlier in a statement that it had “conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center… embedded inside a compound that previously served as the ‘Halima al-Sa’diyya’ School in the northern Gaza Strip.” It said Hamas “systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity.”

WAFA said the dead were in refugee tents inside the former school.

The IDF also said it carried out “many steps” to mitigate casualties in those strikes, as they always do.

In the last few months, numerous airstrikes have targeted Hamas locations situated within schools and other places used by civilians for shelter, as reported by the IDF.

In the crowded refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving the bodies of nine individuals who died in two different airstrikes. One airstrike struck a residential building, resulting in four deaths and at least ten injuries. The other strike hit a house in western Nuseirat, killing five people.

Separately, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, central Gaza’s main hospital, said a woman and her two children were killed in a strike on a house in the nearby urban refugee camp of Bureij.

The IDF shared a video on Saturday showing a recent clash with armed men in the Tel Sultan area of Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip. During this operation, soldiers stormed a building where the group of terrorists were hiding. During the raid, the gunmen threw a grenade at the soldiers, injuring at least one of them.

According to the IDF, the soldiers shot back and killed the gunmen. The soldiers found weapons and documents on the bodies of the attackers, the military said.

In the past few days, the IDF reported that their troops have killed many scumcrumpets in the Tel Sultan area.

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IDF capture Hamas committing war crimes

The IDF captured 80 Jihad terror suspects who attempted to hide among civilians being evacuated from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Using civilians a human camouflage is a war crime, but since when has Hamas and other Islamic terror groups worried about committing a multitude of war crimes? War crimes is how they roll.

Among those arrested were Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad scumcrumpets as the IDF cleared a civilian compound to prepare for a military operation in the area. The military surrounded the complex on Sunday morning, and IDF conducted pinpoint targeted raids, hitting terror targets and "virginizing" terrorists operating illegally from within civilian areas. [Virginizing is the process of sending a Muslim believer to meet their 72 virgins.]

The IDF continued striking the Al-Qarara area, just north of Khan Yunis.

In central Gaza, Israel Defense Forces troops killed 15 terrorists over the past 24 hours and on Saturday eliminated an Islamic Jihad rocket-launching squad less than 30 minutes after they fired a barrage at Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Hatzerim.

On Sunday night the IDF and Israel Security Agency announced that earlier in the morning an aerial strike blew to smithereens Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Muhammad Abd Khad, a terrorist responsible for recruiting new terrorists for the Zeitoun battalions, whose mascot is a goat. He also raised money for terrorist activities.

The IDF announced on Sunday night that it had completed a two-week clearance operation in the southern Gaza City district of Zeitoun, once a major Hamas stronghold, killing more than 100 terrorist operatives and destroying infrastructure used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

According to Palestinian reports on Sunday, the IDF also conducted airstrikes in Rafah along the Egyptian border, hitting a three-story building in the city's Al-Janina neighborhood, with reports of casualties. There were also reports of casualties from an Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas Ministry of Health and Propaganda also reported that 120,000 Palestinian children were also killed in that building along with Christmas and Santa Claus, because some people will believe anything they say.

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IDF nabs Hamassholes who dragged injured hostages into Gaza hospital: video proves who they are

Hamas' own accounts clearly illustrates how they were able to operate with impunity in Gaza's largest hospital in Gaza City. Video also shows how Hamassholes dragged hostages into the facility where they were held captive.

A pair of Hamassholes were captured by the IDF after the Oct. 7 massacre of Jews and told an interrogator that they kidnapped two Thai nationals and a Nepalese worker that day and returned to Gaza where they were taken to the al-Shifa hospital and handed them over to fellow Hamassholes.

For years, Israel claimed that Hamas operated a key command center from underneath the hospital and has shown reporters the rooms equipped for long stays, having toilets, showers and long corridors that led to exit points inside a now-demolished buildings in northern Gaza. 

Israel's internal security agency, Shin Bet, interrogated the Hamas captives, Adham Hawwas, who claimed to be a member of Hamas' military police, and another scumwafer named Ismail Hawwas, also a military cop with the same name as the other Hawwasshole. They described how they got into Israel, abducted the workers, and made their way back through a hole in the fence.

Once the rats got back into Gaza with the two hostages, it dawned on them that the men weren't Israeli. They hijacked an ambulance and had it take them to Shifa.

"I heard from him, just one word, ‘Thailand,” Ismail Hawwas said of one of the captives. “'Thailand, Thailand,' before he was quiet.”

The captives told the Hawwassholes that they were from the village of Al-Zeotun, [from the planet Earth]. They appeared in the video in brown Israeli prison uniforms by an Israeli flag, and both appeared healthy and well-fed.

"I crossed the fence through a hole, then joined my accomplices in a white Magnum Jeep. We breached the settlement gate [of Kibbutz Alumim] and accessed the area with the farmers' rooms," Adham Hawwas said.

Ismail Hawwas said he received a phone call from a colleague who asked “Will you come eastward with us,” a reference to crossing the frontier into Israel. “I said alright, and I went with them.”

In comments that appear to corroborate claims by Israel that the Hamassholes were acting with impunity inside the al-Shifa hospital, Ismail said one hostage was hustled through the complex, apparently by Hamas security.

Another, who appears in the video to have an abdominal wound, was hurried into a room,” Ismail said. Armed guards from the Al-Qassam brigades, the Hamas military group, stood inside and outside the room, Ismail said.

Scenes from inside Shifa during the chaotic morning of Oct. 7 were captured on surveillance video released by Israel in an attempt to prove that the complex was under the control of Hamas.

But college students still refuse to believe their eyes and ears and the words of Hamas. It's called cognitive dissonance.

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IDF renders Hamasshole terror tunnels inoperable

A Hamasshole terror tunnel that had been in development recently was rendered as useless as a liberal arts degree in Peruvian Underwater Glass Blowing. The tunnel was filled with a "material" but it was specified exactly what material was used when the "material" was poured into it after Operation Breaking Dawn.

[H/T Jerusalem Post]

The IDF has uncovered and irreparably damaged a tunnel that Hamassholes dug across the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the military revealed on Monday. The purpose of such tunnels is to sneak jihadis into Israel and kill as many Israelis as possible while they sleep or are otherwise unprepared.

The tunnel had been under development for “a long time” but it was still a work in progress, much like 18-year-olds on TikTok. Gaza Division Brig. Gen. Nimrod Aloni spoke to reporters about the discovery.

The main part of the tunnel, Aloni said, had two branches from it that crossed the international border but did not cross the IDF border barrier. The military launched an operation over the weekend, damaging the tunnel by inserting material into it that made it unusable.

Some say the "material" was swine sewage, others say it was cement, while others guessed that it was large bars of soap to keep the Hamassholes from approaching the tunnel.

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The depth of the tunnel was several dozen meters and began in Gaza City, home of the Gazan Bombathon Boys. It reached the Israel border near Kibbutz Alumin on the Israeli side.  

“It is no longer a threat to Israel,” Aloni said, but explained that the IDF believes that there are more tunnels along the border. Meanwhile, dozens of tunnels were neutralized by the IDF, he said.

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He won't be making anymore bombs--he and son blown to smithereens

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Gaza -- Ahmad Mansour Hassan was the head of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade and low and behold, he became a martyr along with his 13-year-old son who he was grooming to become a Jew-killing terrorist.

The Palestinian father and his son, Louay, died in an apparent "work accident." A third person was was wounded in the mysterious blast in Gaza City.

Hassan, 35, was a Hamasshole and head of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades rocket unit in Gaza. It is highly probable he launched prematurely and is now a member of the Gaza Smithereens.

Palestinian police said the pair were killed by unexploded IDF munitions that exploded when they were tampering with it.

Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar station reported that the explosion was caused by tampering with the device, not by an Israeli strike, but they would possibly try to flip the story and say that it was.

The screw-up comes after a very violent weekend during which Gaza-based scumwafers fired about 200 rockets at Israel. In response, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) flew the largest wave of daytime strikes against Hamassholes in Gaza since Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014, hitting about 40 terror targets.


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