The wide-scale elimination of terrorists continues. And by the way, the IDF secured and repaired the humanitarian pier so aid can be delivered via sea. IDF secures US humanitarian pier, kills Hamas terrorists throughout Gaza Strip The pier's reestablishment is expected to allow the continued delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza in the coming days. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805419
Hamas is also active in the West Bank where they have been attacking both the PA and Israel. Now they have one less to worry about. Hamas commander killed in West Bank clash Hamas said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank was killed in a clash with Israeli forces https://www.independent.co.uk/news/hamas-ap-israeli-west-bank-gaza-b2560304.html
Just a reminder that "reporters" and UNRWA employees in Gaza are nothing more than Hamas terrorists. Al Jazeera under pressure after Israel says reporter held three hostages in home on behalf of Hamas This is not the first time the network, which is funded largely by the government of Qatar, has come under scrutiny for close ties to terrorist groups. The reporter who held the hostages was also a spokesman for Gaza's Hamas-run labor ministry. https://justthenews.com/accountabil...fter-israel-says-reporter-kept-three-hostages
The war with Hezbollah on the northern border heats up. Israel will need to take out these Iranian proxies as well. Hezbollah on the warpath after Israel kills top commander as Middle East on brink The unprecedented strikes were in retaliation for the death of Taleb Sami Abdullah, a senior Hezbollah field commander. https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/140286/hezbollah-missile-attack-israel-abdullah-funeral Hezbollah launched a massive missile attack on Israel, firing over 200 rockets into the north of the country. The unprecedented strike was in retaliation for the death of Taleb Sami Abdullah, a senior field commander who was killed in an attack by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) on Tuesday night. The funeral for the commander was held on Wednesday and attended by a top Hezbollah official, who promised to increase the intensity, force and quantity of its attacks. Sirens sounded across northern Israel as Hezbollah launched a deadly barrage of missiles at communities in the area. The Iran-backed group said it targeted IDF headquarters in Ein Zeitim and Ami'ad, an air surveillance station in Meron, and a "military factory" in Sasa. The missiles started fires in several places, which Israel’s Fire and Rescue Authority said had endangered "strategic sites and facilities". It added that fire-fighters, volunteers, park rangers and soldiers were close to gaining control over blazes in the northern communities of Biriya, Kadita, Ein Zeitim, and Tziv'on. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that by late afternoon Hezbollah had fired as many as 215 missiles. No casualties have been reported by emergency services The IDF responded by sending military jets to take out missile launchers in the southern Lebanese border areas of Yaroun and Hanine. They also struck several "terrorist infrastructure sites" in Yater, an IDF spokesperson said. Israel's army and Hezbollah militants have exchanged fire across the border almost every day since the IDF began its military campaign in Gaza. More than 375 people have been killed in Lebanon, including at least 88 civilians, according to Lebanese authorities and the UN. The IDF says 18 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed in Israel, as a result of the military exchanges.
WATCH: IDF discovers Hamas tunnels for passage between civilian houses in Rafah Soldiers uncovered large stockpiles of weapons hidden in residential buildings in Rafah, including but not limited to AK-47s, ammunition, missiles, explosives, and grenades. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806242
The day the West defined ‘success’ as a massacre of 270 Palestinians Israel hasn’t just crossed the Biden administration’s pretend “red lines” in Gaza. With its massacre at Nuseirat refugee camp at the weekend, Israel drove a bulldozer through them. On Saturday, an Israeli military operation to free four Israelis held captive by Hamas since its 7 October attack on Israel resulted in the killing of more than 270 Palestinians, many of them women and children. The true death toll may never be known. Untold numbers of men, women and children are still under rubble from the bombardment, crushed to death, or trapped and suffocating, or expiring slowly from dehydration if they cannot be dug out in time. Many hundreds more are suffering agonising injuries – should their wounds not kill them – in a situation where there are almost no medical facilities left after Israel’s destruction of hospitals and its mass kidnap of Palestinian medical personnel. Further, there are no drugs to treat the victims, given Israel’s months-long imposition of an aid blockade. Israelis and American Jewish organisations – so ready to judge Palestinians for cheering attacks on Israel – celebrated the carnage caused in freeing the Israeli captives, who could have returned home months ago had Israel been ready to agree on a ceasefire.
So when Hamas is shooting at the rescuers then the IDF should not shoot back... and just lay down and die. I think not. So tell us -- how many of the casualties were Palestinian militants? Let us know. Also in context that the Hamas Health Ministry has regularly grossly inflated their casualty figures. When it comes to Israel, brains go out the window - opinion Borrell and Albanese are promoting the reality that if Israel comes under fire while rescuing its people, it should not shoot back and instead let its soldiers die... https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-806130 If we needed a reminder of just how corrupt some people believe the State of Israel and its fight against Hamas to be, we received it on Saturday after Israeli special forces conducted a remarkable commando operation that put Hollywood to shame and rescued four hostages from the heart of the Gaza Strip. While Israelis celebrated some of the first good news in a very long time – on beaches, in synagogues, and outside the hospital where Noa, Shlomi, Almog, and Andrey were taken – Israel came under a sharp volley of condemnations for some fictional massacre that it had allegedly carried out in the Nuseirat refugee camp. It didn’t matter that the hostages were being held in apartment buildings by people whom Hamas tried to portray as doctors and journalists as opposed to captors, or that the IDF came under ferocious gunfire and anti-tank missile attacks when it tried to escape Gaza with the rescued Israelis. Moral insanity It was as if, for the world, Gaza was some safe and harmless place where Israeli soldiers could quietly walk up to the doors of the apartments where the hostages were being kept and politely ask to take Noa, Andrey, Shlomi, and Almog back. The situation was so ludicrous that people – myself among them –were asked, on foreign news channels, variations of questions like why the IDF didn’t give notice to the residents of Nuseirat before launching the operation. The sad part is that the journalists who asked those questions weren’t kidding. There were more serious officials, like Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, who posted two tweets after the rescue. In the first tweet, he expressed relief at the rescue of the hostages, but in the second, he openly accused Israel of carrying out a massacre. And then there was UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, an obsessive Israel basher and hater, who wrote that she was relieved the hostages had been “released” but went on to accuse Israel of using “hostages to legitimize killing, injuring, maiming, starving, and traumatizing Palestinians in Gaza.” Just look at the word “released” one more time. As if they were let go because Israel politely asked. A person could be excused for thinking that Borrell and Albanese live in an alternate reality; unfortunately, they do not. Sadly, these useful idiots who pretend to run serious and influential organizations are promoting a system of values that will consistently give terrorist organizations a victory, for at least as long as they are attacking Israel. Borrell and Albanese pay lip service to the rescue of the hostages, but the truth is that they don’t want Israel to be rescuing anyone. They are promoting the reality that if Israel comes under fire while rescuing its people, it should not shoot back and instead let its soldiers die. What they want is for Israel’s hands to be tied so that they are unable to launch a rescue operation to begin with. Sadly, when it comes to Israel, we already know that brains go out the window, replaced by moral insanity and hatred that prevent understanding why Israelis are fighting. This moral absurdity allows people to shed tears when Israelis are killed and subsequently declare that Israel has the right to defend itself, but then, when Israel does exactly that, these same people immediately condemn Israel and call for it to stop. Instead of promoting false claims of a massacre, why do these people not ask why hostages were being held in apartment buildings in Gaza to begin with? If they care so much about ending the war, why do they not raise questions about Hamas’s war crimes and wonder why the hostages were being held in civilian areas in the first place? That, of course, they won’t do. Instead, they willfully fall into Hamas’s trap and blast false accusations against Israel, condemning it for doing what any country would do: rescue its people. And while we never really needed the proof, what The Wall Street Journal revealed a few days ago underscores the point. According to the article, Gaza-based Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wrote to his terrorist colleagues in Qatar that the deaths of Palestinian civilians were “necessary sacrifices.” Sinwar went on to compare it to the civilian losses in conflicts like that in Algeria, where hundreds of thousands of people died fighting for independence. Anti-Israel activists prolong war THIS HAS long been Hamas’s strategy: civilians are killed in Gaza, and the terrorist organization knows that no one is going to bother to ask why it embeds itself in civilian infrastructure, why it keeps hostages in apartments, or why it shoots rockets from children’s bedrooms. Instead, Sinwar knows that people will blame Israel and Israel alone. The problem is that when Borrell and Albanese do this, they are emboldening Hamas, putting Israel – as Sinwar himself wrote, according to the WSJ report – “right where we want them” when it comes to the question of who is winning the war. When Sinwar sees that Israel rescues hostages and comes under fierce international criticism, does that make him feel motivated to release hostages in a deal or to hold on to them for longer? Why wouldn’t he feel emboldened when Israel is slammed every time it attacks Gaza? What these Western politicians fail to understand is that their response is actually prolonging the war. Just look at Hamas’s reaction to President Biden’s proposed ceasefire deal. Why would Hamas say yes when it knows that the world will nonetheless blame Israel and push its government into a corner to accept a version that does not do enough to ensure the Jewish state’s security? For the war to end, Hamas needs to feel that it has something to lose. Because it does not care about human life, appealing to some moral or humanitarian interest will not work. What stands the chance of getting Hamas to agree to a deal that will return the hostages and potentially end the war is for Hamas to feel that Israel is not restricted, that there is no ticking clock that has been placed in front of Jerusalem, and that the US will continue and even accelerate the delivery of strategic weapons to Israel. If Hamas leaders in Doha were expelled or arrested, and if Sinwar felt that Israel was not right where he wanted it to be, then maybe he would agree to release the hostages and accept the US-proposed ceasefire. And if that doesn’t happen? At the very least, the West will have stood on the right side of history. That should also count for something.
Israeli volunteer medics reveal never-before-told stories of battling Hamas, rushing to save lives on Oct. 7: ‘Like a scene out of the Walking Dead’ https://nypost.com/2024/06/15/world...l-how-they-battled-hamas-terrorists-on-oct-7/