Illustrative image (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on September 18 that four troops were killed and several others were injured during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip a day earlier.
The slain troops were identified as a captain and two staff sergeants from the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion as well as a female staff sergeant who was serving as a paramedic with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion.
According to an initial IDF probe, the four troops were killed after entering a booby-trapped building in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of the Rafah areas. Further details were under investigation by the military.
In the same incident, an officer and two soldiers in the Shaked Battalion were seriously wounded, and two soldiers of the battalion were moderately wounded, the IDF said.
IDF officials said, according to the Times of Israel, that fighters from the Hamas Movement booby-trapped a vast number of homes in Rafah and waited in tunnels for troops to arrive. During the operation in Rafah, the IDF said, it encountered entire neighborhoods that were booby-trapped by Hamas, and not just single buildings as it had seen in other parts of the Strip.
In a separate incident from September 17, an officer in the Givati Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit was seriously wounded by rocket fire in Rafah, according to the IDF.
The attacks in Rafah came just a week after the IDF declared that the Rafah Brigade of the al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas, had been defeated.
The last four deaths brought Israel’s toll in the ground operations against Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions in Gaza and along its border to 348. More than 2,280 others have been reportedly wounded. In addition, over 500 vehicles were hit in the Strip, according to Hebrew media.
Meanwhile on the Palestinian side, the death toll from the Israeli war has exceeded 41,000, with women and children making up most of the casualties.
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that’s good. hezb shouldn’t respond to israel now. give them few weeks and they are gone. gallant is almost fired. satanyahu can’t do his occult rituals alone.
he doesn’t do satanic rituals you fool he lives next door to james packer they’re normal esp now jamie’s quit scientology
dipshit bunker mutt.
great news. more zionist evil needs to be eliminated. palestine 🇵🇸 forever.
4 less kiddie killers burning in hell.
4 dead squatters….nobody cares
not enough, a full scale attack with serious missiles, after having overloaded the iron dome soon to be the iron doooooom, right at the heart of tel aviv’s market place and haifa’s ditto and the jews will start running! in a tit for tat, the palestinians should set up a concentration camp forvthe remaining jews where they can be starved and mistreated until they are all gone! 6 feet under!
after all netanyahu is following hitler’s ww2 worksheet with genocide, landgrabbing and concentration camps, just like the jews. so the palestinians should set up aconcentration camp for the jews where they can becstarved and mistreated till they all are dead. the world will rejoice and celebrate a world without jews!
without jews and anglosaxons warmongers
the snglosaxons are close to bankruptcy andcwon’t have much of a say in thefuture!
do not poluate your wells whit the corpses from invasiv parasites ! burn them in the dessert and let the wind take the dust.
great news!!!! more booby trappers for the zio pigs scum….revenge for every kid killed including the innocent girl in the lebanon who died yesterday
the magic box. the booby traps rigged to abandon buildings and the snipers are for sure taking their toll of idf members.
there are a lot of realities in the ground that are hitting boiling points. sisi of egypt is facing severe internal dissent and disapproval. additionally, the jordanian government quit last week as per macgregor’s commentary on yt podcasts. the situation is changing against israeli interests. that is why iran is being patient imo
the more dead diaper head idf trash the better. payback is beautiful and karma has a lot of zionazis to bag before palestine is finally free and the colonial thieving filth is sent to their new ghetto in $lumville, ussa. z to the end of the anglozionazi abomination.
lol
die jews, die!
seriously, after this, does anybody really doubt that the (((you-know-whos))) did 9/11???
four dead jew’s one a jewess she was probably the most hate filled of all four of them. the good news is that these four won’t be terrorising innocent civilians anymore
thats why govts pay more for culling female foxes. destrubtion of the filthy hook nosed jewettes is crucial for earths abd humanitys survival
where the hell is now dat cuntfa of yesterday who talked about hezbollah? islamonazis and other bullshit. what he want to say is zionazis, but concealing his sorry ass because of his hard earned shekels and millions of bucks. now, nowhere for those to go. zionistic empire is going down, shattered in pieces.