Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) expanded its ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip on March 29 after facing some resistance.
Israeli troops pushed into the al-Jneina neighborhood of Rafah as part of efforts to expand a buffer zone along the borders of the Strip, the IDF said in a statement, adding that the troops demolished infrastructure that belonged to the Hamas Movement while advancing in the area.
Separately, the IDF said that dozens of strikes were carried out over the weekend, targeting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad infrastructure.
The targets included weapon depots, rocket launchers and buildings used by the groups, according to the military, which noted that several Palestinian fighters, including some behind mortar attacks on Israel were killed.
Earlier on March 29, three mortar shells were launched at IDF troops operating on the outskirts of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Additionally, the IDF said that a D9 armored bulldozer was hit by an explosive device planted in the ground in the same area.
No troops were wounded in either attacks, which were the first to target Israeli troops in Gaza since the IDF renewed its offensive in the Strip on March 18, shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that was brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar last January.
Following the attacks, the military issued an evacuation warning for Palestinians in the area, and later said it struck the mortar launch site.
In a post on the X social network, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area that was to be evacuated, saying that it was a “final warning” before the IDF carried out strikes there. The area to be evacuated included the Abasan suburbs of Khan Younis, and the towns of al-Qarara and Khuza’a.
The renewed Israeli offensive has so far claimed the lives of at least 896 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip. The ministry also stated that the total toll from the Israeli war that broke out after the Hamas-led October 7 surprise attack of 2023 has exceeded 50,000.
Mediators from the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have been scrambling to renew the ceasefire in Gaza. Recent reports indicate that some progress was made and that there was some hope that a new truce could start before the beginning of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha on March 31. However, Israel will not likely agree unless the agreement secures the release of most, if not all of around two dozen hostages still in the Strip, and removes Hamas from power.
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these delusional zionist halfwits are scurrying around like rats to try to find takers for palestinians. they actually think some country can be bribed to take all gaza palestinians. here’s an easier solution. send the jews to jew york city, all you have to do is offer 5 shekel discounts and free shit and they will be lining up in no time
egypt? no. jordan? no. sudan? no. somalia? no. timbuktu? no. mars? no, musk turned them down. alpha centauri? no, but the solution is right in front of them. the palestinians can take a half hour bus ride back to their stolen homes in occupied palestine. the zios can deport themselves back to khazaria. no need to bother the martians and the alpha centaurans.
. . . . . there is a hive ‘planet’, some three hundred light years from earth, that they all secretly yearn to get back to. that’s why they’re continually causing a fucken stink.
it’s only a matter of the goys building the spacecraft to send them all packing. that’s where elon comes in ! ! 😐
and bomb any aircraft they make after getting there.
the americans sent smoke signals and smallpox infested blankets to the native americans before they wiped them out also
remember when shitfront idiots thought hamas would defeat idf?
now, gaza ceases to exist…hehehheheeh
that was silly indeed
gokill yourself idiot!
it’s brain dead, unemployable , and got nothing else to do.
shlomo seems to be avoiding any ground operations after hamas went on a big shlomo hunt in the rubble of gaza. they took thousands of casualties and lost hundreds of tanks. the zio tik tok army can’t handle another ground operation.
inferior species amerikunts give us as many weapons when we give the dumb uncivilized hillbilly species orders. we have trained submissive amerikunts and other anglos to clean our toilets and polish our shoes
yippie the genocide goes on.
isreal has been expanding operations sience 1948 . the zealots must expand thier group think ideals for approved genocide . they fund sending jewish teens from around the world to the dc holocaust museum to cement this indoctrinated paranoia every day .