Posted on 07/16/2026 7:58:42 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
While driving in the central Israeli city of Rosh Ha’ayin in late June, eight months after being freed from captivity in the Gaza Strip, former hostage Rom Braslavski received a phone call from a military officer.
“We wanted to update you that Abu Yousef, Talal Abd al-Aal, was eliminated,” the officer said to Braslavski, referring to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander who held and abused him during his two years in captivity by the terror group.
“You can’t be serious,” Braslavski replied.
“I’m very serious. You have no idea how happy I am, how excited I am, for you,” the officer said.
“Wow, I can’t believe it. Wait a second, I have to pull over for something like this,” Braslavski said, bursting into tears. “Are you serious? You are 100% sure?”
As with other announcements of strikes in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces declared in an official statement released soon after that it had killed al-Aal, an Islamic Jihad commander who held hostages and commanded terrorists as they invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, because he had “posed an immediate threat” to troops in the Strip.
The claim that it had struck al-Aal in self-defense rather than revenge meant that the killing was legitimate under the terms of the ongoing US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which limits Israeli operations to responding to violations of the truce, including by thwarting plans by terror operatives to attack troops.
An analysis by The Times of Israel has found that, despite the ceasefire, the IDF has in the past few months stepped up a large-scale retribution campaign with the avowed aim of hunting down and eliminating every single terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Outstanding. Echoes of Operation Wrath of God after the ‘72 Munich Olympics massacre. But on a vastly larger scale
Glad to hear this. It's only right that the terrorists involved in the October 7th attack, and those who participated after, should receive retribution for their crimes. I hope they hunt down and kill every single one. That will be complete justice served.
Lamech lives!
I remember watching English language Israeli TV in the month after Oct 7.It didn’t matter the political party, the consensus was First Hamas, then Hebollah and the PLO, then Iran. Netanyahu would hold the reins of power until it was completed, then would step aside. You used to be able to see uncensored footage from that day. To me the nurse who had pulled wounded into her clinic, and was gunned down in cold blood hit close to home. The current media won’t allow people to be reminded how this started.
I mean, is anyone rounding up? Down? It's exactly 5,000?
You’re question doesn’t deserve an answer
Islamists all need to be eradicated.
Including those in the US and the US government!
Kill each and every one.
Too bad we can’t specify slowly and painfully while a Jew stands over their withering corpse.
And for the rapists, the last thing they should see is their severed penis being shoved down their throat before gouging their eyes out. They can live awhile longer with that thought while they bleed out.
Outstanding, Israel. Those monsters don’t deserve to live by any standards.
Get every last one of them
Kill them slowly... carefully. Maximize their suffering.
>> I mean, is anyone rounding up? Down? It’s exactly 5,000?
It’s just fine to kill (say) 50% more philistines just to be damn sure they get ‘em all.
What I question is why didn't the Mossad learn of the Oct 7th plot before it happened and guard against it? It's hard to believe that one of the best, if not the best intelligence agencies in the world, didn't know what Hamas had planned.
“ I mean, is anyone rounding up? Down? It’s exactly 5,000?”
Why don’t you go count them for yourself?
***hole.
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Huh? Did you mean "Eichmann who was tracked down along with other Holocaust murderers?"
Good tenacity. I’d like to see more of it.
Obliterate them all.
“What I question is why didn’t the Mossad learn of the Oct 7th plot before it happened and guard against it? It’s hard to believe that one of the best, if not the best intelligence agencies in the world, didn’t know what Hamas had planned.”
I’m currently reading “18 Days in October” (on the 1973 war) for the 3rd time since the Oct. 7th attack. The intelligence failure parallels (due to hubris, IMO) between these two events are maddening.
Highly recommended reading.
Eichmann t was th person who was hunted by Weisel..right?
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