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Israeli forces strike Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad compound in former Gaza school

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he establishment media propaganda will be that Israel struck a school. The Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad activities inside the former school building will be glossed over, buried way down in the story, or not mentioned at all.

 

“IDF, Shin Bet strike Hamas, PIJ terror compound in former Gaza school,” Jerusalem Post, April 23, 2025:

A group of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists operating in a command and control center was struck by the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the military announced on Wednesday.

The command center was embedded within an area that previously served as the “Jaffa” School in Gaza City.

The IDF expanded operations across Gaza earlier this month, as the military took control of several areas in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Rafah, and the Morag Axis.

This week, two female combat soldiers serving in the 414th Battalion were seriously wounded in the incident in which CWO G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra was killed in Gaza on Saturday.

An additional tracker was seriously wounded in the incident. According to Walla, CWO Alnasasra fell while helping the wounded female soldiers.

IDF troops in the Yahalom unit, under the Northern Brigade in the 252nd Division, destroyed an underground tunnel 1.2 kilometers long and 20 meters deep in northern Gaza, the military announced last week.

The brigade’s soldiers found a weapons cache near the route, containing a stockpile of approximately 20 explosive devices, an anti-tank launcher, and additional weapons….

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Israel Eyeing Full-Scale Occupation of Gaza

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Such a move would represent a departure for the Israeli military, whose previous leaders feared becoming entangled in the Gaza Strip. 

Israeli political and military leaders are considering plans for a fresh ground campaign in Gaza that could include a military occupation of the entire enclave for months or longer, according to the Washington Post.

Current and former Israeli officials briefed on the matter told the Post that the new tactics would likely include direct military control of humanitarian aid, targeting Hamas’s civilian leadership and evacuating women, children and vetted noncombatants to “humanitarian bubbles” while laying siege to those who remain.

Israeli officials emphasized to the Post that Jerusalem is still waiting for the outcome of ceasefire talks and no decisions have been made on whether—or how—to escalate the current phase of the offensive, which has so far consisted mostly of aerial bombardment.

According to people familiar with the planning, a full-scale invasion and occupation would require up to five army divisions, potentially stretching the Israel Defense Forces thin as reservists increasingly voice skepticism about an open-ended conflict.

Amir Avivi, a former deputy commander of the military’s Gaza division, told the Post that the IDF’s campaign last year was constrained by disagreements between political and military leaders over tactics and strategy, and by the Biden administration’s concerns about harm to Palestinian civilians.

“Now there is new [IDF] leadership, there is the backup from the US, there is the fact that we have enough munitions, and the fact that we finished our main missions in the north and can concentrate on Gaza,” said Avivi. “The plans are decisive. There will be a full-scale attack and they will not stop until Hamas is eradicated completely. We’ll see.”

Israeli officials indicate they remain willing to negotiate with Hamas through mediators before launching any large-scale invasion.

Before dawn on Tuesday, Israel carried out extensive aerial attacks targeting Hamas leaders and fighters while conducting limited ground raids. Hamas responded by launching rockets at Tel Aviv.

An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, denied that Israel broke the ceasefire agreement. The official stated that Israeli authorities had presented their conditions for entering the second phase of the agreement on the 16th day of the truce, but Hamas rejected them.

According to the official, Hamas then declined a “bridge” proposal by United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to extend the ceasefire by 40 days in exchange for 11 living hostages. Instead, Hamas offered to release one American Israeli hostage, after which Israel decided to resume hostilities—which the official claimed was permitted under a clause of the ceasefire agreement if talks were deemed to have broken down.

The official told the Post that Witkoff’s proposal “is still on the table,” but “we’re back to negotiating by different means: under fire.” Hamas said on Saturday it was still considering Witkoff’s proposal.

Israel claims it has destroyed nearly all of Hamas’s 24 fighting battalions, leaving only a few thousand fighters in Gaza. However, completely eradicating these remnants would require holding the territory—which some analysts suggest carries significant risks.

Supporters of a more intensive and prolonged operation argue that last year’s campaign only resulted in Hamas reemerging from tunnels when the fighting subsided. They believe current political conditions favor increased military pressure and, if necessary, temporary occupation of Gaza.

While the Biden administration previously restricted weapons shipments to Israel unless more humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza, President Donald Trump has approved the sale of 2,000-pound bombs and officials have said Israel consulted with the Trump administration before cutting off all aid to Gaza earlier this month.

By February, Israeli officials had informed international aid agencies that future humanitarian assistance would be screened and directed to new “logistics hubs” established by Israeli authorities, agency officials told the Post.

Another point of contention was that former defense minister Yoav Gallant and IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi favored targeting Hamas’s military capabilities, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to also strike the organization’s civilian officials who dominate Gaza’s government positions.

After Gallant was dismissed in November, Israeli media reported that he told families of hostages that Israel had achieved all its military objectives and cautioned against attempting to control Gaza.

Last week, Israel appeared to adopt a new approach, launching airstrikes that Katz likened to “opening the gates of hell.” The strikes targeted not only members of Hamas’s armed wing but also civilian officials, including the director general of Gaza’s Interior Ministry, the director general of the Justice Ministry and members of the Hamas political bureau as they gathered for pre-dawn meals before fasting for Ramadan.

On Friday, Katz threatened to not only temporarily occupy Gazan territory but to annex it if Hamas did not make concessions regarding hostages. “The more Hamas persists in its refusal, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed to Israel,” he said.

“There is less opposition now with Zamir and Katz. They are more ready” for a more aggressive approach, said Yossi Kuperwasser, a former senior IDF intelligence official and head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. “The government was committed to removing Hamas from power. The security establishment was not happy with this idea. They were trying to focus more on military assets and less on civilian assets. Because once you remove Hamas from Gaza, the IDF would have to rule Gaza.”

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Israel was Right to Be Aggressive in Syria

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Just a day after the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had seized Damascus, and Bashar Assad had fled to Moscow, Assad’s army crumbled into dust, with soldiers ripping off their uniforms so as to avoid being killed by vengeful, and now triumphant, rebels. Those soldiers left largely unattended huge quantities of weaponry. The IDF seized the occasion to improve its defensive posture against Syria. There was a brief window of just a few days, between the fall of Assad and the regime in Damascus stabilizing and taking control of those abandoned weapons, during which the IDF did two things. First, it moved Israeli soldiers into Syria, where they established two new military outposts, one on the Syrian side of Mt. Hermon, and one extending further into Syria from the pre-existing buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan. Now the IDF controls the commanding heights that extend into Syria; the Israelis have a clear unimpeded view of Damascus — now literally in their sights — far below.

The second undertaking, which began just as soon as Assad had left for Russia, was the IDF’s systematic destruction of the Syrian army’s weaponry. The Israelis knew exactly where the weapons were located; they had long been preparing for a possible war against Assad, and had their target bank ready.

The IDF announced on December 10 that its air force and navy had conducted over 480 strikes in Syria in the span of 48 hours, 350 of which targeted airfields, anti-aircraft batteries, missiles, drones, fighter jets, tanks, and weapon production sites, destroying between 70% and 80% of Syria’s strategic weapons. It also sank Syria’s navy. And there was nothing that Ahmed al-Sharaa and the men of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham could do about it. Now Israel has not only made itself much safer, having removed Syria as a viable military threat to the Jewish state, but also has “demilitarized” the Jihadists in Damascus.

We have just seen that after al-Sharaa’s repeated promise that Syria’s minorities had nothing to worry about, decently, the jihadist “security services” — as they call themselves — entered Latakia to capture or kill Alawite members of Assad’s army. They were apparently ambushed by Alawite veterans of Assad’s army, and suffered a loss of 125 men. At that point, they decided to take revenge on the civilian population, killing more than 1,000 Alawite civilians — some reports claim up to 4,000 civilians have now been killed, and they also have been killing Christians — mostly Greek Orthodox but including some Melkites — because, of course, that’s what jihadists like to do. More than a thousand civilians, possibly as many as 4,000 according to some Alawite sources, have been killed in the space of two days. That’s a lot, but imagine what the jihadists could have done if they still possessed all the weapons that Israel destroyed, and had been able to use them not only in campaigns against the three million Alawites in Latakia and Tartous, but also against the four million Kurds, the 600,000 Druze, and also to crush other Sunni groups that have been disabused of their initial hopes for a “moderate” HTS, now that its jihadist ideology has been revealed. All of those threatened minorities in Syria owe the IDF a debt of gratitude, as the unintended beneficiaries of its successful campaign to destroy the weaponry left behind by Assad’s army.

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BREAKING: IDF and IAF Attack Yemen During Speech by Houthi leader

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An Israeli source confirms to Sky News in Arabic: We attacked the international airport in Sanaa. Another channel also reported an attack on the power plant in the area. 

According to initial reports in Yemen, there are deaths and injuries in attacks in the airport area.

The IAF attack in Yemen is spreading in several locations and is more widespread and affecting the country’s infrastructure.

Brief background leading up to IDF attack on Houthis

In recent days, there has been a real debate in Israel about how to respond to the Houthis’ aggression — whether to act directly against them and be satisfied with that, or whether to also act directly against Iran, as recommended by Mossad head Dedi Barnea.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, as we reported last night, expressed reservations about the Mossad head’s position and believed that direct action should be taken against the Houthis. “We will deal with Iran separately,” the Prime Minister said.

Senior officials in his entourage added that his position was formulated, among other things, in light of the additional challenges Israel now faces, including the changes in Syria.

ANALYSIS: This is the start of a campaign against Houthis

The current attack on Yemen is not just another one, but a new campaign that Israel will wage against the Houthis. As long as the terror on their part continues, the security establishment will continue to attack from the other side with great force.

Reports indicate that 7 attacks have been carried out on Sana’a and 3 attacks were carried out on the port city of Hodeidah.

“Our planes disabled the international airport in Sana’a by destroying its control tower, among other things. At the same time, they attacked the seaport in Hodeidah.”

In addition, the attack on Sana’a airport resulted in the destruction of several civilian aircraft.

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Top Israeli officials: Our response is not complete

Reports of at least 10 attacks in Yemen’s capital and the port city of Hodeidah. The attacks are still on going!

Al-Arabiya reports: Dozens of Israeli Air Force planes are participating in the strikes

A senior Israeli official tells me: 

If the Houthis don’t understand with force, they will understand with more force. They had better draw the conclusions from what happened in Gaza and Lebanon as soon as possible.

Moriah Ashraf and Doron Kadosh — Telegram

In addition, a member of the political council of the terrorist organization Ansar Allah, Hizam al-Assad, tweeted on the social network X in Hebrew the words: “In times of trouble, even shelters will not save them.”

Sana’a airport has been shut down

There are reports coming in that the U.S. is participating in the attacks, unverified as yet. 

Sana’a airport was shut down, the runways were destroyed, the control tower was destroyed

Sources for Al Arabiya: Israel attacked the Houthi headquarters in Sanaa

An Israeli attack targeted the Ras Qutib power station, north of the city of Hodeidah.

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Israel Destroys Syrian Military Without a War

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Amidst the chaos in Syria, and with grave doubts about what’s to come, despite the soothing assurances about protecting the rights of minorities that Ahmad al-Sharaa (a/k/a Mohamed al-Jolani) keeps issuing, the Jewish state worries that the instability in Syria could lead to a takeover of the country by jihadists, possibly led by other leaders in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who do not share Al-Sharaa’s putative change of heart, or by leaders from other rebel factions.

More on the IDF’s most recent actions in Syria can be found here: “Syria can help Israel ‘completely destroy enemy armies without war,’ expert says,” by Keren Setton, The Media Line, December 11, 2024:

Israel’s concern that the instability in Syria could spill over into its territory has led it to major action in the neighboring country, essentially opening an additional front in the multi-front war it has been engaged in for fourteen months.

Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took control of the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria that was established as part of a 1974 cease-fire reached between the two hostile countries.

In that buffer zone is Mt. Hermon’s highest peak, the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

“The territory guarantees strategic control over the whole southern Syrian arena, which generates an immediate threat to Israel,” Kobi Michael, a researcher at INSS and the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, told The Media Line. “There is no higher vantage point than the Syrian part of the Golan.”

Power in Syria is now de-centralized, with the country fragmented between several groups, most of them extreme Islamist, potentially posing a new array of threats to Israel.

“Israel is not looking to apply sovereignty to the buffer zone, but rather to militarily control the area in order to prevent danger under conditions of instability,” Michael assessed….

The Israeli military swiftly entered Syria, apparently reaching deep into its territory and taking control of the peak of Mount Hermon, which allows for an advantageous view of both Syria and Lebanon. Reportedly, the army also conducted airstrikes in Syria against sites that stored unconventional weapons, air-defense systems, and navy vessels. Video on social media showed explosions in various cities and pictures of alleged Syrian Air Force bases destroyed.

“This is an unprecedented event in which the Israeli army has the ability to completely destroy an enemy army without a war,” said Michael. “This opportunity is being used wisely by Israel in order to ensure a better reality.”…

The IDF is not engaged in a war with Syria. It has no desire to conquer and permanently hold territory (Israel says its stay in the Syrian Golan is both “limited and temporary”), or to kill Syrians. Its only aim is to destroy military assets accumulated by the Assad regime, and that pose a potential threat to Israel. That is what Michael means by describing this as “the ability to completely destroy an enemy army without a war.”

“There is no way to tell where this is going,” said Michael. “Israel could be facing a difficult reality that will force it to stay and broaden its hold on territory, perhaps even act more forcefully in order to pre-empt danger.”

There is such great uncertainty as to who will emerge on top in Syria that the Israelis of necessity must assume the worst: a regime of jihadists who are intent on helping the Palestinians in Gaza and to “liberate Jerusalem” as well, which is what some HST members have just vowed to do on social media. Al-Jolani spent decades allied with Al-Qaeda and ISIS; how likely is it that he has had a conversion on the road to Damascus, and no longer sees himself as a jihadist? Israel can take no chances.

Meanwhile, the IAF keeps on keeping on, this week concentrating on the coastal area around Tartus. Possibly the IAF had been waiting until the Russians had left to strike this area. One of its bombs was so powerful that it has been described as an “earthquake bomb,” even measuring, according to a Turkish source, 3 on the Richter scale. Israel’s military, meanwhile, says it has laid waste to most of Assad’s heavy weapons and air defenses. The IDF said that it had “inflicted severe damage on Syria’s most strategic weapons: fighter jets and helicopters, Scud missiles, UAVs, cruise missiles, surface-to-sea precision-guided missiles, surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, radars, rockets, and more.”

And this has been accomplished not during a war, but proleptically, by stripping Syria of its weapons, so that it won’t be able for many years to launch or join a war against Israel or cause harm to its other neighbors. Keep it up, Israel. You are now close to turning Syria, which has been a promoter of violence at home and abroad for the past 54 years, into a demilitarized country, that can no longer do you, or the region, or the world, any harm. The world may denounce you, but that world will be a safer place.

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Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign is Working

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The IDF has gathered evidence that proves that dozens of UNRWA staff members took part in the atrocities — rapes, tortures, mutilations, murders — carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023. In addition, the IDF has gathered other evidence showing that more than 50 principals and senior staff at UNRWA schools and training centers in Gaza are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Furthermore, UNRWA schools have been used to store weapons and hide combatants, all with the knowledge of the UNRWA staff. The main command-and-control center for Hamas was built directly under UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza. Israel has disseminated this damning information on billboards in major cities around the world, and on social media of every kind. UNRWA, of course, is furious and accuses Israel of waging a campaign of deliberate “misinformation.” More on Israel’s efforts to spread the truth about UNRWA, and UNRWA’s attempt to subvert those efforts by branding those efforts as “hate speech,” can be found here: “UNRWA ludicrously claims that anti-@UNRWA ads are ‘hate speech.’” Elder of Ziyon, December 5, 2024:

UNRWA’s latest press release shows that it simply cannot defined itself based on facts, so it is claiming that Israel is engaged in “hate speech.”

Using commercial advertisement including billboards in several cities around the world and paid Google ads on multiple websites, the Government of Israel has stepped up its disinformation campaign against UNRWA.

These ads are the latest in a series of a wider campaign against UNRWA by the Government of Israel, which continues to publicly call for dismantling the Agency.

This latest global effort by a UN member state to label a UN agency as a terror organisation may amount to hate speech using corporations that are supposed to promote commercial products….

Why is noting the number of UNRWA senior staff who are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad “hate speech”? Why is reporting on the widespread use by Hamas of UNRWA schools to store weapons and combatants “hate speech”?

UNRWA wants to prevent Israel from disseminating the truth about its connections to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It calls the Israeli effort “disinformation,” but offers not a shred of evidence to support that claim.

So UNRWA is trying to pressure advertising companies to censor ads because they are “disinformation” and “hate speech.”

The Israeli information campaign must be effective, given the rage it has provoked in UNRWA. Using multiple media — from billboards to X (formerly Twitter) — the Israelis have provided the names and faces of UNRWA staff who are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They have listed the UNRWA schools where Hamas weapons were found, and in some cases where Hamas fighters were hiding out, and from whose premises Hamas launched rockets into Israel. UNRWA is in a rage; it has labelled the evidence amassed by Israel as “hate speech” and “disinformation,” but has yet to provide a single example of either. Which means that the money spent on this campaign of truth-telling hasbarah should be expanded. At last the Israelis, whose hasbarah efforts were for decades deemed mediocre, and cause for alarm among the Jewish state’s supporters, have now learned to weaponize the truth. Late in the day, as Elder of Ziyon says, but better late than never.

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BREAKING NEWS: IDF Now Believes They Can Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Sites

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Following recent developments in the Middle East, the IDF believes: There is now an opportunity to attack the nuclear facilities in Iran. 

Open Axis to Iran: The Air Force is concluding the operation to destroy Assad’s army, and according to estimates – 86% of the Syrian air defense system has been destroyed. The meaning – Syria, which in the past was a significant threat to Air Force aircraft that were severely restricted from flying over its territory due to anti-aircraft threats, is now a much safer and more open airspace for flight.

The various security organizations — including the IDF — are currently carrying out a preparatory process between broad, intelligence and operational organizations, in order to provide the political echelon with the capabilities and the option of choosing whether to carry out an attack on the nuclear facilities.

Within the Syrian anti-aircraft system, which is considered the densest in the world and has fired hundreds of times at our aircraft in recent years, the Air Force has placed emphasis on the two most advanced systems, which managed to shoot down quite a few missiles that attacked Syria during the MABM period – the SA-17 system, of which 80% were estimated to have been destroyed, and the SA-22 system, of which 86% were destroyed.

In addition, 90% of the MiG-29 aircraft and about 80% of the Sukhoi-24 aircraft of the Assad army were also destroyed (a total of 61% damage to the Syrian Air Force).

In the Assad regime’s fire and missile array, the achievements are more modest: certain missile arrays were destroyed in high percentages (80-90%), but there are other arrays that were damaged to a much lesser extent (20-30), and therefore the IDF estimates that it is certainly possible that advanced weapons, missiles, and other military capabilities that Israel does not know about will fall into the hands of the rebels.

The choice of which to attack from among Assad’s entire army was made according to priority.

In total, in the operation to destroy Assad’s army, the Air Force attacked about 500 targets, and used 1,800 munitions for this purpose, when until a few days before, such an operation had not been planned at all, and certainly not such extensive use of munitions and bombs that were intended for other arenas.

Only on Thursday, two days before Assad’s fall, did the Air Force commander complete the approval process for the plans – and until that night, between Saturday and Sunday, the debate continued over when to put the plan into action. On Sunday at 10:00 AM, the signal was given, and the Air Force launched broad waves of attacks in Syria.

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VIDEOS: IDF Engaged in Heavy Clashes with Terrorists in Jenin

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Arab reports say that at least 6 terrorists wounded seriously in clashes with IDF.

Our forces have been operating in the city of Jenin since this afternoon, with heavy exchange of fire and explosives thrown towards the forces.

There are a number of terrorists who were hit by the fire of our troops. According to Arab reports at least six have been injured seriously.

The activity of our forces in Jenin continues and so does the exchange of fire with the terrorists.

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Islamic Jihad Deputy Head of Weapons Manufacturing Eliminated in Israeli anti-Terror Operation

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Inshallah!

Thank you, Israel. Don’t stop.

During a targeted, intelligence-based operation, the IDF eliminated the terrorist Mohammed al-Jabari, who was deputy head of weapons manufacturing for the Islamic Jihad.

Al-Jabari was responsible for financing weapons manufacturing infrastructure for the Islamic Jihad in northern Gaza, the distribution of salaries and funds, and was part of attempts to restore the Islamic Jihad’s rocket manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure.

Israel War Room

IDF: The IDF eliminated the Islamic Jihad’s Deputy Head of Weapons Manufacturing; IDF troops eliminated approximately 30 terrorists in the area of Rafah During a targeted, intelligence-based operation, the IDF eliminated the terrorist Mohammed al-Jabari, who was deputy head of weapons manufacturing for the Islamic Jihad.
Al-Jabari was responsible for financing weapons manufacturing infrastructure for the Islamic Jihad in northern Gaza, the distribution of salaries and funds, and was part of attempts to restore the Islamic Jihad’s rocket manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure. Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, surveillance, and additional intelligence.
Moreover, troops of the 162nd Division are continuing precise, intelligence-based operational activities in the area of Rafah. Over the past day, IDF troops eliminated approximately 30 terrorists during close-quarters encounters and in aerial strikes. Furthermore, troops of the 16th Brigade began operational activities in central Gaza under the command of the 252nd Division. The troops identified a terrorist cell exiting a terror tunnel in order to attack IDF forces.
Shortly following the identification, the IAF eliminated the terrorists. In addition, the IAF struck a structure in which numerous explosive devices and weapons were stored.

IDF: Deputy head of Islamic Jihad weapons manufacturing unit killed in Gaza airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian, Times of Israel, 2 August 2024:

A senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the military says, as troops continue operations in Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor.

Muhammad al-Jabari was the deputy head of an Islamic Jihad weapons manufacturing unit, and responsible for the unit’s finances, according to the IDF.

The IDF says that al-Jabari “was entrusted with the organization’s production of weapons in the northern Gaza Strip, distribution of salaries and money to the organization’s terrorists, and took an active part in the attempt to restore the organization’s rocket production capabilities and infrastructure.”

The military carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including using aerial surveillance and precision munitions, the IDF says.

Meanwhile, the IDF says that troops with the 162nd Division killed more than 30 gunmen in close-quarters combat and by calling in airstrikes in southern Gaza’s Rafah in the past day.

In the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip where the 252nd Division is deployed, reservists with the division’s Jerusalem Brigade spotted a cell of gunmen emerging from a tunnel, and called in a drone strike, according to the military.

In the same area amid operations by the Harel Reserve Armored Brigade, an attack helicopter struck a building used as a weapons depot, the IDF adds.

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IDF Reserve Colonel in Gaza: ‘Leaving Gaza Will Bring Disaster’

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It is very important to listen to the officers who now have more fighting experience than anyone else in IDF history.

Colonel in the IDF reserve, Moti Yogev was interviewed and had this to say to the people of Israel:

*Ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip now, supposedly in exchange for the return of some of the abductees, which we all wish for their return*, before the defeat of Hamas, while abandoning the Philadelphia axis to renew the armament of the terrorists in the Gaza Strip, all these mean one thing: irresponsibility and security negligence, which will not return all the abductees nor Enable the return of Otaf residents to their homes with security and a sense of security.

Those who have not yet realized that Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 is what caused the intelligence blindness and the horrors of 7/10, will continue to strive to disengage from the Philadelphia axis and the Gaza Strip, the lawlessness that will enable the renewal of Hamas and bring the next 7/10 closer to us.

Those who have their eyes in their head and the reality is not denied by them, understand that only after the destruction of Hamas and its infrastructure until its decision in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s control of the Strip, with an emphasis on the Philadelphia area, while continuing efforts to find the kidnapped and their return, are they the ones who will bring security to and from the Strip and the ability to return the residents of the Otaf to their settlements with security and a sense of security security.

The Hamas decision, which has not yet been reached, is also the one that will somewhat improve Israel’s deterrence in relation to its enemies in other sectors.

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WATCH: IDF — ‘Ready, Willing and Determined to Defeat the Enemy!’

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The 228th Brigade is Increasing Readiness for Combat in Lebanon. 

This week, the 228th Reserve Brigade of the Northern Command completed a brigade-level exercise led by the Ground Forces Training Center.

The troops practiced combat scenarios in Lebanon, including movement in thicketed terrain, advancing along mountainous routes, the activation of fire, evacuating wounded soldiers under fire, and logistical and communications support from headquarters.

This is the second deployment of the 228th Brigade along the northern border since the start of the war and the unit continues to be a significant part of the IDF’s defensive and offensive operations along the western part of the border with Lebanon.

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IDF BATTLE VIDEOS: IDF Ends Nur al-Shams Operation and More…

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IDF BATTLE VIDEO: IDF ends Nur al-Shams operation

At the end of 15 hours of operation; IDF and Police Border forces destroyed dozens of explosives that were buried under civilian infrastructure in Nur al-Shams in the Menashe Brigade.

In an extensive engineering operation conducted in Nur al-Shams, the units, under the intelligence guidance of IDF Intelligence and the Shin Bet, destroyed dozens of explosives planted in traffic routes with the aim of harming our forces and putting the residents living in the area at risk.

In addition, as part of the operation, the fighters destroyed two “war rooms” used for local terrorist organizations, arrested a wanted terrorist and destroyed a vehicle in which several explosive charges were stored.

Also, during the night, the IDF, Shin Bet and Border Police forces arrested 15 wanted terrorists throughout Judea and Samaria and confiscated weapons.

The wanted terrorists who were arrested and the means of warfare that were confiscated were transferred to the security forces for further treatment, there were no casualties to our forces.

IDF BATTLE VIDEO: Hezbollah terrorists detected and hit

After identifying the source of the shooting, the IDF attacked a building where two Hezbollah terrorists suspected of carrying out the shooting at Meshgav were identified earlier today.

Earlier today, a number of launches were detected from Rav a-Taltin area in Lebanon to the Mashgab area, the air defense fighters successfully intercepted most of the launches.

Shortly after the launches, the forces of Division 91 identified two terrorists entering a military structure of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area of ​​the source of the shooting, Air Force fighter jets attacked the structure containing the terrorists.

IDF BATTLE VIDEO: Yahalom fighters destroyed tunnels in Shejaiya

The combat teams of the 7th Paratrooper Brigade and the Yahalom Unit have been fighting for over a week above ground and underground in the Shejaiya area under the command of Division 98.

The forces of the division conducted face-to-face battles with terrorist squads, eliminated more than 150 terrorists, destroyed terrorist infrastructure and encountered trapped buildings and destroyed charges.

In addition, the forces located dozens of weapons and intelligence documents that the terrorists left behind.

The forces located, with intelligence guidance and an engineering effort, tunnel shafts and significant underground routes that were destroyed. In the divisional activity, six offensive tunnels with a length of about six kilometers were located and destroyed. The forces continue to explore and destroy the signs in the area.

In exploring the tunnels, the fighters of the Yahalom (who specialize in explosives and underground fighting) unit located underground tunnels that make up a branching tunnel system, in some of which the terrorists’ living and command rooms were located, in one of the tunnels weapons and intelligence documents were located.

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Sharp jump in number of Ultra-Orthodox joining Israeli national service

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While encouraging, the 65% increase over last year does not address the basic need for thousands more soldiers. 

There has been a significant increase in the number of haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) joining the national civil service over the past year, Ma’ariv revealed in a report Tuesday.

There has been a 65% increase between July 2023 and June 2024 over the previous 12-month period.

In real numbers, this meant 811 men signed up for the voluntary program that is an official substitute for military service, versus 492 in the previous similar period.

The jump was especially noticeable in the security service track, where people work in such places as the police, security services, emergency rescue services and terror-victim identification units. The number more than doubled, from 134 to 279 volunteers.

This is 34.4% of the total new recruits, in a track that in 2022 was made up of only 20% ultra-Orthodox, according to the Knesset Research and Information Center.

In all, said the report, some 1,500 haredim are currently serving in the various fields offered by the authority.

This could be an encouraging sign considering that in 2022, there were just over 1,200 haredim enrolled in the national service program in either the security service track or a social service track that includes the internal security, health, welfare and education sectors.

On the other hand, a quick look at the history of haredi national service reveals that there were times when haredi involvement was much higher.

Twelve years ago, for example, the Civil Service Commission reported that there were 3,885 ultra-Orthodox young men in its ranks.

Whatever the numbers are, critics point out that the overwhelming need today is for thousands more men to serve in the military, not the civilian sphere.

It is generally acknowledged that the IDF needs to be beefed up with several more brigades in order to protect the country at a time when there is an ongoing war with Hamas in the south, a potential full-out war with Hezbollah in the north, and constant threats coming from Iranian terror proxies in both the near abroad (Syria, possibly Jordan) and overseas (Yemeni Houthis).

It also does not solve the issue ruled upon by Israel’s Supreme Court, that haredim must be drafted into the IDF due to the laws against discrimination, as the secular and national-religious sectors of society are currently unfairly bearing the bulk of the burden of military service.

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Professor John Spencer on the Double Standards Applied to the IDF

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John Spencer served in the US Army for twenty-five years, including two tours in Iraq. Since then he been a Professor of Urban Warfare at West Point. Recognized as an expert in his field, John Spencer has become more widely known for his recent writings on the IDF’s conduct of its war against Hamas in Gaza. His latest posting on the subject can be found here: “‘Israel is measured by double and triple standards,’ does more than anyone to prevent civilian harm, US warfare expert says,” All Israel News, June 27, 2024:

“Israel is being measured by double and triple standards” in its fighting in Gaza, a standard “that does not exist anywhere in the world,” said John Spencer, head of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, at a recent “War Room” briefing in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Public and State Affairs (JCPA).

Spencer, the world-renowned urban warfare who served for 25 years as an infantry soldier and did two tours in Iraq, has publicly and repeatedly defended and praised the Israel Defense Forces’ performance during the Gaza War in recent months.

“The IDF uses tactics that no army has ever seen to prevent harm to civilians and still fulfill its mission,” Spencer told the JCPA after visiting the soldiers of the IDF’s 98th Division in the field.

He also stridently rejected international accusations that Israel was using starvation as a weapon, bombing indiscriminately or committing genocide.

“It’s all a lie,” Spencer declared, noting that if the standards currently applied to Israel were applied to Western countries in the future, it would make anti-terror warfare almost impossible.

Such standards include requiring the massive evacuation of a population before entering an area, not using heavy “bunker-buster” bombs to reach enemies hidden away underground, and the demand to prevent any and all civilian casualties.

“It’s impossible and unimaginable,” Spencer stressed….

“This imaginary standard of zero civilian casualties in a war where Israel is required to meet a new standard is very problematic,” Spencer emphasized.

He has made this point repeatedly over the past months. In an article in Newsweek in March, Spencer brought up the IDF’s operation at Al-Shifa Hospital as an example of the lengths the army goes to prevent civilian harm in Gaza.

“Israeli media reported that doctors accompanied the forces to help Palestinian patients if needed. They were also reported to be carrying food, water and medical supplies for the civilians inside,” Spencer wrote.

“None of this meant anything to Israel’s critics, of course, who immediately pounced. The critics, as usual, didn’t call out Hamas for using protected facilities like hospitals for its military activity.”

One more statistic, that is not included in this piece by Spencer, but that he has provided in many of his other articles on the Gaza war, tells us as a great deal about the IDF’s solicitude for the lives of civilians. This is the ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths. The UN has said that in all the wars fought since 1945, the average ratio was 9:1, or nine civilian deaths for every combatant death. In Afghanistan, the Americans managed to reduce that ratio to 4:1, and in Iraq to 3:1. But no army in the world has come close to what the IDF has achieved in Gaza. Hamas has claimed 38,000 dead, without providing separate figures for civilians and Hamas combatants. The IDF now says it has killed 17,000 operatives — and that is without counting those members of Hamas who were killed when the rubble of bombed buildings landed on top of them. That would mean 21,000 civilian deaths. From that number we have to subtract the 800 Gazans who die each month of natural causes; over eight months that figure would account for 6400 civilian deaths. That brings the total number of civilian deaths to 14,600. How many of those 14,600 civilians were killed not by the IDF, but by the estimated 20% of Hamas rockets that fell inside Gaza? A most conservative estimate would be 200 a month, or 1,600 over the first eight months of the war. That brings down the number of civilians killed by Israeli fire to 13,000, while the number of combatant deaths so far is 17,000. The civilian-to-combatant ratio in Gaza is thus 13:17, which is less than 1:1 – a ratio unheard of, as Professor Spencer has said, in the annals of modern warfare.

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HUGH FITZGERALD

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WATCH: IDF Chief-of-Staff Hartzi Halevy in Rafah: The end of Hamas is close

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The Chief-of-Staff Major General Hartzi Halevi in Rafah, “We are approaching the point where we will destroy the Rafah Brigades.”

The Chief of Staff, Major General Hartzi Halevi, on June 30th, 2024 held a situation assessment in the Rafah area of ​​the Gaza Strip with the commander of the Southern Command, Major General Yaron Finkelman, the commander of Division 162, Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Cohen, the brigade commanders and other commanders.

Gaza Strip Fighting Summary From Recent Hours

By Eran Malka

While IDF is mum on recent activity, here is what we are getting from sources that have been verified.

  • Terrorists Killed and wounded in an attack from a drone on Jal’a St. in Gaza City.
  • Number of terrorists injured in an attack near the Shifa’ hospital complex
  • Attack on an empty building with no casualties in Jaaia.
  • Attack on building in Al Karara, east of Khan Yunis.
  • Artillery attacks in Deir al-Balah.
  • The terrorist/journalist of “Al-Aqsa” TV, Salim Al-Sharfa, was killed in a bombing a short time ago in the western Gaza area.
  • 7 terrorists killed in an attack on a building in Alziton.
  • 2 rockets shot from Gaza at Gaza border towns
  • – Exchanges of fire between our troops and terrorists in the center and west of Rafah. Extensive artillery strikes to those areas.

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