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Israel appears to be determined to go on with its war on the Gaza Strip, despite taking more losses and facing more international pressure.
On December 23, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that three of its troops were killed during fighting in northern Gaza.
The slain troops are named as: Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, from Kiryat Motzkin; Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, from Elazar; and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, from Talmon. They all served in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion.
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According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were killed by an explosive device in the Beit Hanoun area.
The deaths brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 391. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor. More than 2,400 others were wounded.
Besides the deadly attack in Beit Hanoun, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, released between December 22 and 25 several videos showing some of their recent operations against the IDF in northern Gaza.
Despite taking losses, the IDF continues to conduct operations in Gaza. On December 24, the military said that a Hamas rocket launcher positioned next to a United Nations building in Gaza City’s Shati camp was struck by its fighter jets. The strike was carried out after calling on civilians in the area to evacuate, according to the military.
And on December 25, the IDF announced that two Hamas tunnels were demolished by its combat engineers in Gaza.
According to the military, the tunnels, one in southern Gaza and one in the Strip’s center, spanned a total of two kilometers underground and were to be used by Hamas to launch attacks. The military said that the tunnels featured branching paths and multiple exit shafts, some of which were booby-trapped.
Numerous weapons were also found inside the tunnels, the military added, noting combat engineers with the Gaza Division, including the elite Yahalom unit, located and demolished the two tunnels.
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has so far claimed the lives of more than 45,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children. Still, Israel does not appear to be ready for a ceasefire yet. Ongoing talks with Hamas appear to be facing some serious issues.
Responding to accusations by Hamas of delaying a ceasefire deal, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office blamed the group for getting in the way of an agreement.
“The terrorist organization Hamas is lying again,” the office said in a statement, “reneging on the understandings already reached, and continuing to make it difficult for the negotiations.”
“Nevertheless, Israel will continue tirelessly in its efforts to bring home all of our hostages.”
The differences between Israel and Hamas over a possible deal have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials’ remarks earlier this week. However, key issues have yet to be resolved. Hamas is reportedly yet to hand over a list of the hostages, living or dead, to be released in the first stage of a potential ceasefire.
Further complicating the situation, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel will not cede security control over Gaza.
Katz made the comments while visiting the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, a belt of land on Gaza’s border with Egypt. While there, he met with commanders and received a situational briefing, the minister said.
“We will ensure that security control is in the hands of the IDF, which will be authorized to act anywhere to prevent threats,” Katz said, according to the statement.
“We will make sure there are security zones, buffer zones and strategic posts which will ensure the security of towns,” he added, without explaining what he meant by security zone. “There will be no Hamas rule, and no Hamas military. We will create a new reality here, thanks to the daily fighting, which is continuing even now.”
All in all, the war in Gaza is still as intense as before. The recent progress in the talks between Hamas and Israel is yet to produce a ceasefire agreement.
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netanyahu will kill hamas & gaza civilians one way or another, so what gazans got to lose. an eye 4 an eye
…. them all, let j.h.va sort them out
does anybody here see it ? iran is doing nothing. it ordered hezbollah to stop fighting. it let assad down, and didnt send help in time. it even not ordered houthi or iraqi pro-shiafootsoldiers to move into syria let alone retake golan. there was israeli-driven regime change in iran, when president raisi was killed and replaced by israeli puppet agent pezeshkian. please my dear friends, wake up and see the truth !!!!
the truth is that alien invaders kill people, of the whole region.
but the arabs sitting there with their thumb up their ass and doin nothin. worse, they hailing the enemies and atacking those, who came to their help. they are bold at killing their own civillians and chanting terrorist phrases along with religious ones – totally contradicting each other.
and now they are silent against usrael who killing their brothers, sisters and children in gaza in the very moment.
it is iran who repordedly bled for the arabs. and the only thank they receive is to getting attacked by them.
and even if iran frees the arabs from the occupiers and serve them the victory as a gift on a silver platter – the arabs would still sell their souls for some glass beads like the native american did with columbus.
so if you want to get free: earn it and don’t bite the hand that helps you.
so fidiot, you now see the truth?
arabs only think in someone giving them a donkey loaded with gold….they dont care about brothers, country..etc… they were colonized and before that they lost al andalus due betrayals
an eye for an eye? more like 150-200 palestinian eyes for one israeli eye.
killer biden,natayahu,macron,boris,erdogan,scholtz,pope fake chrismass to count money and souls.people it is aeuropean lie.read this in their holy bible jeremiah52v31-34 jeremiah 10v1-18 and also jeremiah 8v12-18
so we are also avenging on their popular global dominant lie days.so russia bomb the shit out of this satnic cults of rituals.kill them when their relax and start counting money ,souls that their kill and stealing.
in comparission with real born aganst like elijah,sagaria.paulus,daniel,job,john and stephanus.so us the verse where fake pope where appointed by god.he does what devil shows him and order.
he also wears a jewish yarmukle on his head so you know who the pope is taking orders from.
not concerned with the public (white) pope, he’s just there for publicity. the black (jesuit) pope, on the other hand, actually gives the orders rather than takes them. after all, rothschild was whose banker?
me saxon ramses sawyer stand firm w crazy cukold in tel aviv gay bars
lol
die jews, die!
surely it must be obvious by now that netanyahu wants only complete victory, with the zionist entity to have complete freedom to commit breaches. ask hezbollah whether a cease fire means anything else to them.
it’s certainly commendable that they still manage to fight back against the zionists, but killing 10 or less soldiers per month will not defeat israel.
defeat israhell is defeat usa…usa=israhell israhell= usa…christian anglosaxons and juddeen created new israel in america
time to rid the world of jews, here there and everywhere – they certainly have forfeited any right to be part of mankind. putin should drench the illegally occupied palestine with whatever they have in terms of missiles etc. from the cspian sea right at tel aviv, haifa , thecwest bank and so on.
a captain at 22? who did his father bend over for to get him that rank?
why do the k***$ get top billing with their pictures and not russians, syrians and hezbollah when they get killed? matter of fact… where is the monument to all those russian troops with the list of every life that has been lost in both ukraine and syria since these engagement(s) started 10 years ago?…
…saying it again for posterity. russia is the victim in these war(s) and should honor every single soldier, sailor, marine and air men that made the ultimate sacrifice defending their allies and their own homeland!