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Gaza 'Is Burning,' Israeli Defense Minister Says
Newsweek ^ | 9/16/2025 | Robert Birsel

Posted on 09/16/2025 12:35:03 AM PDT by VanShuyten

“ Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday Gaza "is burning" as Israeli forces were "striking with an iron fist," apparently at the launch of a long-anticipated offensive to seize Gaza City.

"Gaza is burning. The IDF is striking with an iron fist at the terror infrastructure, and IDF soldiers are fighting bravely to create the conditions for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas," Katz said in a post on X, originally in Hebrew, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.“

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: evacuation; fakegenocide; gaza; hostages; islamofascism; jihad; newsweak; rop
There are other reports that the Palis are moving some of the hostages above ground to use as human shields.

Not much live webcam to look at.

1 posted on 09/16/2025 12:35:03 AM PDT by VanShuyten
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To: VanShuyten

Hamas fascists don’t let Gazans flee, but they themselves do escape .


2 posted on 09/16/2025 12:40:38 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: VanShuyten

It’s about time.


3 posted on 09/16/2025 12:50:01 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: VanShuyten

may God save the hostages and give Israel a quick victory over evil doers. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.


4 posted on 09/16/2025 1:49:58 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: VanShuyten

Gaza is burning.

Get the marshmallows.

CC


5 posted on 09/16/2025 2:18:31 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (*This is a test of the emergency tagline system. This is only a test*)
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To: VanShuyten

(The IDF is striking with an iron fist at the terror infrastructure, and IDF soldiers are fighting bravely to create the conditions for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas)

Zechariah 12:6
King James Version

6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%2012%3A6&version=KJV

(although that may more appropriately apply to ‘48, ‘56 and 1967 especially)


6 posted on 09/16/2025 2:27:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: VanShuyten

Is holding and hiding hostages the only governmental function that Hamas is still performing on behalf of the “Palestinians”?

Offensive military operations apparently having ceased?


7 posted on 09/16/2025 2:30:16 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: VanShuyten
Gaza "is burning"

That's the best thing to do with it.

8 posted on 09/16/2025 2:33:59 AM PDT by fso301
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To: VanShuyten

All the IDF is doing now is playing Operation Whack-A-Mole. The 2.1 million Gazan Arabs will continue to supply a steady stream jihadis to attack the IDF until they leave. Until you get rid of the source of the problem this will continue ad infinitum.


9 posted on 09/16/2025 4:42:42 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: dadfly

>> may God save the hostages and give Israel a quick victory over evil doers. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

I align with your prayer and add my voice to it. In Jesus’ name.


10 posted on 09/16/2025 4:43:02 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: fso301

Start in Northern Gaza and just keep bulldozing until they get to the southern portion of the border wall. Force Gazan’s into Egypt, bring in a couple of ships and start transporting Gaza residents to to Somalia or Yemen. Get them as far away from Israel as possible.


11 posted on 09/16/2025 4:45:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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To: fso301

Start in Northern Gaza and just keep bulldozing until they get to the southern portion of the border wall. Force Gazan’s into Egypt, bring in a couple of ships and start transporting Gaza residents to to Somalia or Yemen. Get them as far away from Israel as possible.


12 posted on 09/16/2025 4:45:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“bring in a couple of ships and start transporting Gaza residents to Somalia or Yemen”

Israel has a port on the Gulf of Aquba:

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.4826979,34.161042,8z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I think that shipping the Gazans out will make the hostages easier to find.

Early in the war I suggested that screened Gazans be allowed to walk or take buses to the West Bank, but your destinations are better.


13 posted on 09/16/2025 5:14:40 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: VanShuyten

HAMAS aid snatchers might be captured and then offered up for a hostage deal.


14 posted on 09/16/2025 5:18:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: VanShuyten

“burning”

The pictures of Gaza often show ugly concrete buildings.


15 posted on 09/16/2025 5:20:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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