Illustrative image (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 16 that five soldiers were killed and at least seven others were wounded while operating in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip a day earlier.
The soldiers were all serving in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion. The IDF said that a friendly-fire incident was behind their death.
According to an initial military probe, a tank operating alongside the paratroopers in Jabaliya fired two shells at a building where they were gathered in the evening.
The tank forces had arrived at the area in the morning hours, and several hours later, the paratroopers reached the area and established a post in the building. Later in the evening, another group of paratroopers reached the area and notified two of the tanks there that they were entering the building.
The tank forces had later identified a gun barrel from one of the windows of the building and believed it was enemy forces, leading them to fire two shells.
The IDF’s claims are highly questioned as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Gaza-ruling Hamas Movement, reported on May 15 exactly 12 Israeli casualties after a “complex” attack by its fighters in Jabalia’s Block 4 area.
The group said its fighters targeted a tank, a bulldozer and a house occupied by Israel troops using rocket-propelled grenades and explosive devices during the attack. Video footage showing a part of the attack was also released.
Other videos released by the group and the allied al-Quds Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, on May 15 and 16 showed more Israeli losses in Jabaliya, the al-Zaitoun neighborhood in nearby Gaza City and the area of Rafah in the southern part of the Strip.
Also on May 15, an Israeli Defense Ministry contractor who was wounded in a mortar attack in southern Gaza two days earlier succumbed to his wounds. In addition to the slain contractor, the mortar attack left eight soldiers wounded, including two seriously and another contractor lightly hurt.
The latest casualties brought the toll of Israeli troops killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza to 278. More than 1,500 others have been wounded in the Strip so far, including dozens in the last few days.
On the Palestinian side, the Israeli war has so far claimed the lives of 35,233 people and left more than 79,141 others wounded, according to the latest update by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Most of the victims were women and children.
Despite killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroying much of Gaza, Israel has not yet achieved any of the goals it set for the war.
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the roasting continues
karma is such a bitch especially when ‘friendly’ fire is a hallmark of the kiddie killers.
the jew’s will say and do anything to hide the true causality figure’s the idf are taking. accidents heart attacks friendly fire but the truth is that they are not getting it all their own way as this proves more dead jew’s going home in rubber body bags!
all paid for by american tax donkeys
no american blood….. for now.
who knows? maybe there is. they’ve let many inmates from many prisons in countries they control i.e. pakistan, and u.s.a. of course. but the thing that they’re on at least two fronts tells more than anything else. they can not even whith those criminals. them prisons are getting emptier.
there are probably mercs there. some are probably originally from the u.s. of a.
unit 8200 can hack your newish car, take over all systems and cause it to crash. old news too, they learned that to “protect people” over a decade ago. the logic being that if it can be done we should do it. to “build safeguards” against it. hahaha they’ve been killing people in car crashes for decades! now computers make it easy.
ahem princess diana. ;) emoji’d
i would not say intensifies. it has been this way early november after gaza was flattened, israel claimed control over huge areas. then shown they were lying because of all the footage coming out with landmarks showing where the conflict is happening. not more intense. still intense. but whatever. you spelt breathe wrong. esl
if hezbollah was actually involved or iran was acting with more than proxies. i would then call it an “intensification.” it would bring the world to the very brink.
i disagree. although they are probably behind on the schedule, i think the isreali apartheid regime is well on their way to achieving their goal. more palestinian plots of land are very probably being offered for sale right at this time. the isreali apartheid regime would have sold the people too but they couldn’t resist shooting them. such is the way of the chosen one’s who regard everyone else as inferior. there was another master race who thought the same way. that didn’t end too well.
looks like the diaper terrorists are in a quagmire they don’t know how to get out of.
there is no escaping the red triangle of death.
hmm, friendly fire stupid they kill each other idiots. i had some idea that they are superior to hamas, but they are so unorganized these jews, they don’t know which team where it is, lack communication, how the fuck the idiot in the tank shot his people, but continue doin’ it. nothing is what it seems like
20 something silver spoon conscripts v.s. a generation raised in conflict preparing and acting during the past 20 years. no comparison. is. has superior firepower and control over most media narratives.
seeing dead israeli soldiers brings tears of joy to my eyes
next time you post more than one video. i know it is the format posted causing this but. having all the videos start to play, as i scroll down the page is not very good web design. a choice to click play wood bee knice, so i don’t have to stop every video as it starts. also the phrase i spelt incorrectly would b3 knice to say.