Click to see full-size image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
On December 27, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had carried out strikes from the air, ground, and sea against some 200 targets of the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip over the past day, as fighting continues.
In Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, reservists of the Yiftah Brigade identified Hamas fighters running between buildings then called in an airstrike, the IDF said, adding that the airstrike led to secondary blasts which indicates the area was booby-trapped.
Also in northern Gaza, the IDF said that troops of the 261st Brigade spotted two Hamas fighters entering a vehicle and driving to a building used as a weapons depot. The troops then called in an airstrike against the fighters, and later a fighter jet struck the building.
In the Gaza City neighborhoods of Daraj and Tuffah, t troops of the 401st Armored Brigade identified a Hamas fighter wielding a short-range anti-tank missile. Tanks in the area shelled the operative before he could open fire, according to the IDF.
The IDF also released video footage of the Commando Brigade’s Maglan, Egoz, and Duvdevan units operating in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The IDF said that the commando units are fighting Hamas “deep within Khan Younis,” killing many fighters and destroying the terror group’s infrastructure in the process, including tunnel shafts.
The three units carried out dozens of strikes using guided munitions during their operations in Khan Younis, according to the IDF.
Separately, the IDF announced that it had launched ground operations against Hamas in the town of Khirbat Ikhzaa, on the outskirts of Khan Younis.
In an official message to his troops, the commander of the Gaza Division, Brigade General Avi Rosenfeld, dubbed the operation “Oz and Nir”, after the settlement of Nir Oz that was attacked by Hamas fighters on October 7.
Meanwhile, Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, released a video showing recent attacks on IDF vehicles and troops in the Shejaiya neighborhood. Another video released by the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, showed the wreckage of a Skylark 3 reconnaissance drone that was shot down recently over Gaza.
According to the last update by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, Israeli strikes and ground operations in the Strip have so far claimed the lives of at least 21,110 people, about two thirds of them women and children. More than 55,000 others have been wounded.
Despite sustaining some serious losses -at least 164 Israeli troops have been killed since the start of ground operations in Gaza-, Israel appears to be determined to go on with its war on the Strip where more than two million Palestinians live. The United States continues to show complete support for the war.
i am amused to learn that a lethal fungus in gaza is causing the deaths of idf killers. as yet there are no antidotes.
yahya sinwar the pedomaniac nazi hamasshole is shiiitting his pants right now
i just love how south-front can say despite israel sustaining serious losses of 144 soldiers, they still seem determined to carry on with the war. did i just miss something here? because the last time i checked 144 soldiers perishing in battle is not considered serious losses! it’s actually considered minimal losses and of course israel is going to keep conducting the war, only a handful of their soldiers is dying, while they are literally exterminating an entire race of people!
i think in a modern army only 1 guy in 12 actually enters the direct combat zone. only 10 percent of the fighters in the combat zone aim to kill according to dave grossman in his book: on killing. so the israeli army probably only has a limited combat capability.you can bet that the two soldiers who shot the 3 israeli hostages were the squad members who shoot to kill. the others passive bystanders.
yeah you did miss something.. you missed that israeli newspaper haaretz article where they clearly showed that the israeli govt are vastly under reporting their casualties..
exactly. further, isreal doesn’t care about the lives of foot soldiers. the question is, will the ;ong term attrition be significant. i recall before that snipers did a lot of damage to tank commanders who stuck their head out of the tank.
they will continue until they found yahya sinwar’s head. alive or double dead. that pedomaniac
5000 hataretz says after checking hospital etc records
the satanic psychotic genocidal actions of the racist supremacist global jewish satanic askhenazi slave empire dictatorship are rapidly increasing its rate of its collapse. israel has over 7,000 seriously wounded and over 3,000 dead. just wait until hezbollah gets involved and takes northern israel. then israeli planes will have to bomb israel as well.
israeli solders are satanic cowards and are only good at raping, torturing, murdering defenseless women and children and lose to well armed and trained men every time.
die zionist scum, die
die hamasshole! die allahfucktard die
hamasshole supporter allahfucktardickhead
:) hamas who?
yo southfront… no one cares for shitty fake idf videos
in all their videos they appear to shoot into thin air, then falsely claim they’re shooting at hamas
heavy fight in my trailer park as lgbt advice on my rectum
the hamas fighters walk like cats. the jew clumsy!!
retarded allahufucktards lives in sewer canals, including you
you must be moron amerikan
palestinians are real semites, khazars are not semites. zionist nightmare will end when the whole world understand this.
fake news…urban war always slow gradual—not heavy
how come iseaeli footage rarely shows what the “killed” and mostly consists of a soldier running around and shooting out a window at god knows what. however hammas footage shows what they are shooting at and sometimes if they can the aftermath. it seems the iof camera men are as cowardly as their soldiers unless of course they are using a drone with thermal vision….