Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 29 that another one of its soldiers had been killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.
The slain soldier was serving in the ranks of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion. According to an initial IDF probe, Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device during operations in the Kafr Jabalia area.
The latest death brought the number of Israeli troops killed since the start of the large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” to 22. In total, Israel has lost 441 troops, police officers and contractors since the start of ground operations in the Strip and along its borders more than a year ago.
The IDF has been facing increasing resistance while operating in Gaza, especially in the northern and southern parts of the Strip.
In recent days, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, released several videos showing recent attacks on Israeli troops, ranging from ambushes to rocket and mortar strikes.
One of the videos released by the al-Qassam Brigades documents an attack on a Puma armored combat engineering vehicle in the southern city of Khan Younis from June 24 that claimed the lives of seven troops from the IDF’s 605th Combat Engineering Battalion.
Israel launched Operation Gideon’s Chariots last month after calling up tens of thousands of reservists. The IDF stated at the time that it wants to occupy 75 percent of Gaza within two months.
Faced with mounting losses and growing international pressure, Israel may now be preparing to back down, at least temporarily.
Israel launched Operation Gideon’s Chariots last month after calling up tens of thousands of reservists. Currently, five divisions are operating in Gaza.
The IDF publicly said that it wants to occupy 75 percent of Gaza within the first two months of the operation. Once this is done, more than two million Palestinians will be crammed in three isolated small zones in the southern, central and northern parts of the Strip.
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putler’s ruzzia cannot win the war anymore. they have lost.
pay the widows and families what they are owed you lying piece of shit. toilet is going flush soon on scum like you. nobody like you or your lies. or that fugly thief in kyev either. tee hee 😁
your comments stink like shit. try something else.
the sheer destruction and affliction the palestinian people has went through all to kill only 441 israeli soldiers, was it worth it hamas?
hamas, hezbollah, houthis, and now iran. they were humiliated. celebrating the deaths of 7 soldiers, wow, such a massive win when you put it in contrast with hundreds of thousands of the pro-iranians were lost, then you’ll realize how putler and his allies were humiliated lol.
free palestine 🇵🇸
you mean the papa trump resort or las vegaza?
ruzzia and iran humiliated in: 🇸🇾 syria (2011 – 2024) 🇱🇧 lebanon (1975 – 1990) 🇮🇷 iran (1978 – 2025) 🇾🇪 yemen (2011 – 2012 uprising; 2014 – present civil war) 🇵🇸 palestine (gaza) (2007 – present) 🇺🇦 ukraine (2014 – present)
putler’s regime will fall. ukraine is going to win, they won against the naz!s once, they’ll do it twice against putler this time.
wow,la tua intelligenza è pari a quella di un criceto hahaha, torna a dormire,leone da tastiera ;)
neo con pig liars are losing the narrative. ain’t it grand to see. go spew your bull shit someplace else.
here’s a novel thought: quit trying to steal other peoples land you lying thieves. quit bullying people. you don’t have enough wealth and land ? hades is waiting for murderers and liars. enjoy it when you get there.
next time i bomb another muslim country with european and american taxpayers’ money, i seek again refuge in greece.
bibi the fugly pig has been chosen by the secret societies to destroy israel. he’s enjoying it because he hates his own people as much as any foreign enemy: he is the true enemy of the jewish people. nobody comes close. idf , shin bet better wake up: he will have you all dead so that mr. pikes vision will come true.
he is, as adolf hitler rothschild, the true enemy of the german people, this time in the exported colony. destroyed individuals, they hate themselves so much, that they destroy whole peoples. do not use the word jews about them, its the core of their trick. they are not jews. they have no right to the land, exactly as “americans”. the cannibalism comes from the bible.
gaza has been utterly destroyed and conquered by the lion of judah!
the kikenreich will soon go into the dustbin of history, along with the jewsa, jewk and nato. they are all visibly falling apart.
seig heil!
glory to the resistance, death to the zionist monstrosity!
uncle adolf was right about one thing and that is that the russian barbarians are subhumans. if russia is defeated we must demand the european territories in russia as reparations.