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The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, published on May 30 an unusual video purporting to show an ambush targeting “undercover” Israeli troops in the area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The video shows a group of armed men in civilian clothing being blown up by an improvised explosive device planted by Hamas fighters.
Palestinian media reports speculated that the fighters seen in the footage were in fact a part of a local force commanded by Yasser Abu Shabab, a leader of a large clan in Rafah. Abu Shabab claims his fighters have been protecting aid convoys. Meanwhile, Hamas has accused him of looting the aid trucks and maintaining connections with Israeli intelligence.
Israel has not yet made any comment on the alleged links to Abu Shabab’s or the activities of his force in the southern part of the Strip.
In the last few months, undercover Israeli troops have reportedly taken part in a number of special operations deep inside Gaza.
On April 25, an Israeli officer who was serving in the ranks of the Border Police’s Yamas covert unit was killed along with a soldier in an attack in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood in the north of the Strip. Yamas uses Arab disguises to infiltrate and conduct operations in Arab territories.
Later on May 19, just a few days into Israel’s large-scale offensive, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” an undercover Israeli troops infiltrated the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and killed a senior commander of the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.
Photos posted to social networks at the time showed a wagon with a secret compartment that was reportedly used by the troops.
The morality of employing undercover units has been questioned many times since the start of the war in Gaza, especially that there were cases of Israeli troops disgusting as doctors and aid workers during some of their operations. Still, the Israeli military does not appears to be willing to abandon the practice.
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the paleshitians will be cleansed from all jewish lands & no one can do anything to stop it!
israel is a genocidal country. 40% of its reservists refuse to report for duty. guess why ?
jewish lands ? i thought the dinosaurs were their first . so it must belong to them . perhaps the hammer is bitter from god casting them out .
please, you’re not serious, leave the rebuttals to me!
we are leaving your butt to you. wouldn’t touch it with a 30 feet pole.
the paleshitians brought it on themselves with 10-7.
just like the jews brought it of themselves by provoking the 1929 great depression. isn’t that how your sick logic works my dear american friend ?
you mean the idf’s 10/7 hannibal directive? their obvious stand down allowing hamas a free hand? the rave – featuring “self hating jews” – they scheduled to provide victims? or their unsubstantiated claims (ie lies) about hamas atrocities?
kindly peddle your lame hasbara elsewhere.
he can’t leave. he is attracted to shit because he is just a shit fly. i wouldn’t approach him in real life as he must be a toxic hazard. that is probably why he is so angry in the first place. that and his repressed homosexuality.
the jews started it in 1917 with the balfour declaration.
seig heil! you learned well from your nazi masters. hitler is proud of you.
for which price in human costs and how long will this empire of blood and brainwashing last until it selfdestructs?
there goes that blown head away. who’s winning, you cunt?
the zionist regime is trying to impose the collaborator stooge dahlan on gaza as a sort of jewlani 2,0. there are now a lot of blackwater sty[e us mercenary thugs in gaza, who will soon be going home in body bags.
you sound very ignorant.
we _know_ you are mighty ignorant. as an american, you start with a tremendous disadvantage in the first place.
yes, i am.
those unqualified us military run contractors who use food to funnel starving masses into potential kill zones . the un is there , has aid available and has been distributing for years ( i don’t fully trust them ) so they are not allowed to . egyptian army also guarding the only way out to other nations . maybe trump will try a biden pier !
zionist spys in gaza . israel is always willing to stoop to new lows to conduct genocide operations .the cult indoctrinates operate in blindness . the joke is they think they are fit to rule . the sicarii mindset is an abomination
your mother stoops to grabble potatoes.
when you have the guts to excuse a genocide, all you can say is irrelevant. america has become the villain.
i saw a skit on an old onion vid some time back dealing with grabblers and blabblers.
young pre-teens like you should check this out, learn something, and take note. very educational.
the scale of the gaza genocide can no longer be hidden. nor can the extent of the western complicity in it, as uk raf spy planes carry out daily flights over gaza to supply targeting information to zionist forces. what little remained of human rights and civil liberties has now evaporated in this kafkaesque dystopia. there is no more freedom of speech, assembly or anything else in this country. everything has been jettisoned and discarded, like the passengers in a punctured hot air balloon
frantically trying to stay aloft by tossing everything overboard. all concerned, the zionist political elite, the appalling compromised media, the british military participating in war crimes, the stasi spooks and secret police, all the genocide deniers, will pay a very high price for this for a very long time to come. this is a watershed and a turning point.
given sf’s bias, i tend to believe hamas as to who was blown up. but since those targeted weren’t wearing looted palestine women’s undergarments, perhaps they weren’t zionists.
there will be no third temple unfortunately now because the one true god is going to punish them for this genocide.
just a little scratch. he is in good condition and recovering in tel-aviv hospital.
definitely, with his head blown off.
in the last few days, other sites have shown many attacks on the idf, tanks blown up, buildings with idf soldiers blown up and what not. hamas doing an operation called david’s stones.
south front totally ignores these hits for some reason.
what are these sites ? please share search terms and un censored search engine that we might use . my nation is very censored and getting worse .
mahmood od. electronic intifadah. hindustan times. i got those on youtube.
yes janta ka, rachel blevins, col. macgregor, etc.
yes, it is now obvious.
boooom !!! wait… where is his head ? hahahahah!!!!
i heard they were only injured
read the comment above. they will need a lot of glue and sticky tape to fix that missing head injury.
just slightly.
another hamas moron leader eliminated
gideon’s chariots are hitting the wall
the censorship on this site is worse than the bbc.