Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had withdrawn the elite The 933rd “Nahal” Brigade from the Gaza Strip for it to prepare with the rest of the 162nd Division “Ha-Plada” for future operations, including an attack on the city of Rafah, Hebrew media said on April 25.
For the past three months, Nahal had operated in a 6.8 kilometers-long corridor that stretches from the Be’eri area in southern Israel to Gaza’s coast, splitting the Strip in half.
The brigade will be replaced by the 679th “Yiftach” Armor Brigade and the 2nd “Carmeli” Infantry Brigade, Israeli Army Radio reported.
The elite brigade will be given time for rest, recuperation and training before a planned ground operation in Rafah in southern Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge from Israel’s ongoing war against the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in the Strip.
On April 23, the Israeli public broadcaster Israel’s Kan 11 said that the IDF was planning to invade Rafah very soon, in an operation that includes evacuating thousands of people from the city.
And on April 24, a senior Israeli defense official told Reuters that the IDF has completed all necessary preparations to attack Rafah.
The IDF could capture Rafah. However, it will take heavy losses. Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel, the IDF has lost 606 troops. At least 3,305 others have been wounded. 261 were killed and 1,584 others were wounded during ground operations inside Gaza.
And while an Israeli attack on the city will be catastrophic for Palestinian civilians, it will not mean the end of Hamas in any way.
So far, the Israeli war has claimed the lives of 34,305 Palestinians and left more than 77,293 others wounded, according to the latest update by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
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the war criminals that have executed, tortured, buried people alive in mass graves will eventually face justice.
how anyone coild still serve in the israeli army is beyond me, i hope they fail miserably
nahal or otherwise ,this criminal regime military is jumping ship like rats.safe themselves .
by the way have we seen satanyayu live,conducting his interview. no, this desk top warrior commands through his rehearsed interview. just like the reporters the desk top warriors of cnn, bbc.& sky. tell you what , are our unjadered youth, future leaders of this world wrong in their stance for voicing their concerns for the genocide in gaza. free free palestine from the nazis jews
harassing the elderly, women and children doesn’t make you elite, it’s makes you a coward only.
the idf is still kicking terrorist azz…the muslim world is powerless to stop it…heheheh
for someone with that name you sure are barking a lot as one could guess.
go to 4chan kiddo, learn how to be full rtd lmao.
nasty vermin
israel is digging its grave. it will not defeat hamas
watch how egypt pigs bend over and get fuked by the us and “israel”. egypt that told “israel” about oct 7th operation and same country that claimed rafah was “their red line”.
oh boy i’m just waiting, i know so many rtded egyptian pigs that claimed their shit hole country would do something to “israel” if they invade rafah. turkey, jordan, egypt, ksa, uae, and all other wahhabi shitholes showing their true faces. most of them that supported isil… crazy huh.
brainwashed fucks if they had any heart they would burn their draft cards
the solution is to exterminate all the jews the jews are the satanic seed they are behind every war every famine they poison us every day with their woke and pedo agenda its time we make them dissapear and wipe them out ww2 should have been won by germany. the jews won the war both the soviet union and the allies commited huge crimes against the crhistians of europe its time we make things right and remove the jewish cancer from our planet once and for all
gay taliban finally withdrew peniz from my mouth
my opinion is that rafah will be the graveyard for the idf elite brigade. the freedom fighters hamas will exterminate them like cockroaches. the zion-nazis they are specialists in killing women ,children, injured people ,cripple ,unarmed ,demolishing residential, killing animals ,burning fields, generally the jews are arsonists ,they are not fighters.
after the wanton and evil gaza genocide the zionazi beast will never again manage to squeeze a cent out of the next generation of tax cattle in $lumville ussa. their hollow co$t gimmick like their anne frank bs is all used up. the squatter enclave in occupied palestine will not survive this decade. palestine will be free and nothing on this earth can stop that from happening.