Happily, the IDF has ended these terrorists' activities:
Big op! Congrats IDF, and good hunting for the remainder.
Posted on 03/21/2024 6:05:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
IDF SAYS 140 GUNMEN KILLED IN THE OP TO DATE
Top PIJ operatives also captured in ongoing raid at Strip’s largest medical complex; military releases drone footage of Hamas gunman waiting to ambush troops in Khan Younis
Troops have captured some 650 terror suspects, including several “very significant” senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders, during an ongoing operation at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Thursday, as talks continued in Qatar to secure an extended truce and hostage deal.
According to the IDF, at least 358 of the detainees were confirmed to be members of terror groups.
The IDF said that Islamic Jihad operatives holed up at the medical center surrendered to troops, including Hussam Salameh, the commander of PIJ’s observation and intelligence unit in Gaza City, and his brother, Wissam Salameh, head of the terror group’s propaganda unit in Gaza City.
In an evening press conference, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari detailed additional senior PIJ operatives who were captured by troops at Shifa, including the commander of the terror group’s Shejaiya Battalion, the deputy commander of PIJ’s Northern Gaza Brigade, and a PIJ commander charged with the terror group’s tunnels in northern Gaza.
Also captured at Shifa were three senior officers in Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters, which is tasked with advancing attacks against Israel from the West Bank, the army said.
The Shin Bet named them as Amr Asida, the head of the Nablus unit; Mahmoud Qawasmeh, one of the planners of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; and Hamdallah Hassan Ali, who was also involved in directing recent attacks in the West Bank.
Hagari said there were additional “very significant” senior Hamas commanders who were captured by troops at Shifa, but that their identities could not immediately be disclosed due to their ongoing interrogations.
He added that there was still a group of terror operatives holed up at Shifa’s emergency room, and the IDF was working to evacuate civilians from the area first before battling them.
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The Shifa operation, now in its fourth day, began as Israel sent a delegation to Doha for negotiations of a truce and the release of 134 hostages held in Gaza — not all of them alive — since Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Thursday after assessing the Shifa operation that it was “very important for pressuring Hamas, it’s very important for pressuring the negotiations.”
On Tuesday, Qatar-based Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh charged that the operation had revealed an “endeavor to undermine ongoing negotiations in Doha.”
Hamas accused Israel of killing “dozens of displaced people, patients and medical staff” during the raid at Shifa, though on Wednesday IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said that “until now, no civilians, doctors, medical teams — none have been hurt.”
The detained terror suspects were taken to Israel for further interrogation by the Shin Bet.
According to the IDF, troops have so far killed more than 140 gunmen in the raid, which began early Monday and is being carried out by the 401st Armored Brigade, the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, and other forces.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday hailed the ongoing raid, which he said “surprised the terrorists.”
“Nobody expected us to do what we did. There was an assault on a location that half a year ago took us a month to reach; now we did it in a flash,” Gallant said to soldiers of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, adding that terror operatives still holed up at the hospital “are considering their future: surrender or death.”
In southern Gaza, meanwhile, the IDF on Thursday released footage captured by a drone showing a Hamas gunman waiting to ambush troops inside a building in the Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Younis, in an operation that was wrapped up earlier this week.
The gunman, after being spotted, was killed by troops of the elite Egoz commando unit, the IDF said.
Over five months of war have created critical food shortages among Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians that in some areas now exceed famine levels, according to the United Nations.
The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that only an expansion of land crossings into Gaza could help prevent famine in the densely populated enclave.
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said children in Gaza are dying from the effects of malnutrition and disease, and from a lack of adequate water and sanitation.
“Once again, we ask Israel to open more crossings and accelerate the entry and delivery of water, food, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid into and within Gaza,” he said.
UN aid agencies have said “overwhelming obstacles” to moving aid to the north of Gaza will only be overcome with a ceasefire and the opening of border crossings closed by Israel after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
Israel says it puts no limit on humanitarian aid for Gaza and blames slow aid delivery on a lack of capacity or inefficiency among UN agencies.
An Israel official told The Times of Israel that some 200 aid trucks were expected to enter Gaza on Thursday, in addition to 77 aid packages airdropped by Jordan.
On Wednesday night, 15 trucks filled with aid successfully made their way from the southern Gaza Strip to the north, where it has been more difficult to get food.
Tedros said the WHO was particularly concerned about the military operations inside and around the Shifa Hospital complex.
Happily, the IDF has ended these terrorists' activities:
Big op! Congrats IDF, and good hunting for the remainder.
Biden’s & Blinken’s buddies.
Terminate with extreme prejudice!
IDF takes the Hamas leader in for questioning. He seems to have fallen down on the way to the interrogation room. That happens to terrorists who burn people alive and cut off others’ heads on October 7th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CkDjLG6Ls
‘Hamas roasted babies in ovens’, says Israel emergency services worker who saw aftermath of massacre
Mr Moskowitz said: “The sights that we saw were horrendous.”
He said that he saw a burned and swollen dead baby in a bag. Marks on the body proved it had been pressed against a heating element, he claimed.
“They took the baby and put it in a kitchen oven,”
“The body hardened and, unfortunately, appeared to have also swollen.“And really, the heating element of the oven was on the body itself.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/hamas-roasted-babies-in-ovens-israel/
We now have to battle hard against the prejudiced news media and younger woke demonstrators who think Israel makes up stories about the highly spiritual followers of Islam in Hamas military uniforms with automatic weapons.
Thanks for the link.
We can’t let the horror fade into the background (as did the images of the burning World Trade Center towers that after a few days were no longer shown on any network news discussions of the attacks).
Release the hostages.
Disarm.
Surrender.
Renounce Jihad.
The drone in question is a fly cam and it is amazing. It can get to within six feet of a terrorist and they don’t know it is a camera...
I love that they were patient and waited for them to return to the hospital. They thought the IDF wouldn’t come back because they had already cleared that hospital. Definitely not smart.
Them IDF waterboards is gonna be tied up day and night for a couple weeks!
Sweet Jesus.
Meanwhile the “innocents” in Gaza were laughing and celebrating this demonic horror.
“A Hamas video from a kibbutz shows terrorists torturing a pregnant woman and removing her foetus. Our forensic scientists have found bodies of women and girls raped with such violence that their pelvic bones were broken,” said Herzog.
So when are the going to have the military trials and then the hanging of all 650 ? These monsters deserve a fate much much worse than hanging, but hanging will do.
BTTT
How many BEDs does that hospital have?
Our forensic scientists have found bodies of women and girls raped with such violence that their pelvic bones were broken,”
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Excellent! Now kill the rest of them.
And their families.
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