The Israel Defense Forces pushed forward with its ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, surrounding Gaza City, clashing with Hamas and killing ‘numerous’ terror operatives, the army said, as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that troops were advancing ‘according to the plan.’
One thing is for sure in this war with Hamas that Israel has been thrust into, by the time that it’s all done, Gaza City as we’ve known it will cease to exist. And maybe that’s a good thing. For the past 20 or so years, Hamas has ruled Gaza with the iron first of brutal Islamic fascism, rendering Gaza into a place of perpetual poverty and misery. As strange as it may seem, what Israel is doing right now is liberating Gaza from its captors, and setting the residents free. But do they really want freedom?
“But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:” Amos 1:7 (KJB)
The Allies in WWII were forced to bomb Berlin, which at the time was devastating killing 600,000 civilians. But that was the price needed to be paid to uproot the Nazis who had a chokehold on Germany. Israel and the IDF are wiping out the crazy patchwork of tunnels where the Hamas terrorists resort to carry out their acts of war. Soon there will not be much left of Gaza, and what will rise up in its place? That’s a question that not many people are stopping to ask, and maybe they should.
IDF still surrounding Gaza City, kills ‘numerous’ terror operatives, destroys tunnels
FROM THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: “Conquering the city, Gaza’s largest and a stronghold of the Strip’s Hamas rulers, will be a daunting task for Israel’s military, whose aspirations of ousting the terror group will force soldiers to fight through the crowded urban labyrinth thought awash with bombs and booby traps and undercut by a vast network of tunnels the terror group’s operatives will use to ambush troops.
On Friday evening the IDF confirmed it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in northern Gaza which it said was identified as being used by a Hamas cell, close to a battle zone. Hospital directors of three hospitals asserted strikes hit just as staff were trying to evacuate wounded to the south. Footage showed the aftermath outside Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, where more than a dozen bloodied bodies of men, women and young children were strewn next to damaged cars and ambulances.
“A number of Hamas terrorist operatives were killed in the strike,” the IDF said, adding that it would release further information soon. It said that “more detailed information” on the strike had already been shared with allies.
“We have information which demonstrates that Hamas’s method of operation is to transfer terror operatives and weapons in ambulances,” the IDF said. “We emphasize that this area is a battle zone. Civilians in the area are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southwards for their own safety.”
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Speaking during a meeting with military brass at the IDF Southern Command headquarters in Beersheba, Gallant said Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip were advancing “according to the plan” and attacks on Hamas would only increase.
“The systematic attack on Hamas terrorists expands the achievements, it will continue and increase,” he added.
Backed by punishing air power as well as naval backup, Israeli soldiers and armored columns continued their push into Gaza City after several days of fighting on the city’s outskirts, including raining large airstrikes on parts of Jabaliya, a Hamas stronghold crowded with residential high rises. The IDF said troops in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit had been working to demolish Hamas tunnels discovered during ground operations in northern Gaza.
“The troops uncovered tunnel shafts, rigged them with explosives, and neutralized the tunnels,” the IDF said.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in an evening press conference that the military was continuing its efforts to kill Hamas field commanders. He said that since the beginning of the war, the IDF had killed 10 Hamas brigade and battalion commanders — and those with equivalent ranks — in airstrikes. “They are also the ones who planned the terrible massacre on October 7.”
He said the military remained focused on the Gaza Strip despite tensions in the north amid repeated attacks by Hezbollah. “The goal is to dismantle Hamas and return the hostages,” he added. READ MORE
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