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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) suffered more human and material losses while attempting to advance in different parts of the Gaza Strip in the last few days.
On May 15, the IDF said that a soldier from the 7th Armored Brigade’s 75th Battalion was killed while taking part in the ongoing ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah a day earlier. His death has brought the toll of Israeli troops killed since the start of ground operations in the Strip to 273.
More than 1,500 others have also been wounded so far, including dozens since the start of the IDF operations in Rafah earlier this month.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement which rules Gaza, released on May 13 and 14 two videos showing its fighters shelling IDF gatherings with mortars and blowing up Israeli main battle tanks and armored personnel carriers using rocket-propelled grenades and explosive devices in Rafah.
On May 14 and 15, the group released three more videos of its fighters targeting IDF main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and troops with rocket propelled grenades in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Another video shared by the group showed a small quadcopter drone that was captured during the fighting in the area.
Al Jazeera also reported on March 15 that the IDF withdrew its forces from Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood in the northern part of the Strip following a six-day operation.
The IDF said that the Nahal Brigade withdrew from the neighborhood to prepare for “additional offensive operations.” Nevertheless, it noted that reservists of the Carmeli Brigade continue to operate in Zeitoun, contradicting Al Jazeera report.
On the Palestinian side, the Israeli war has so far claimed the lives of 35,173 people and left more than 79,061 others wounded, according to the latest update by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Most of the victims were women and children.
In addition to the high number of casualties, the Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the Strip’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Despite expanding operations in Gaza, the IDF is still facing fierce resistance from Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions in Gaza and taking both human and material losses. On top of that, none of the goals of the Israeli war have been achieved yet.
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yes we know….things in eilat are going kaboom every day now
keep forgetting to count shitskin sand nigher body count, inbred faggot? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
imbreeding is our speciality. we can outdo anyone on that
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the hamas warrior is the toughest on the face of the earth today.
deader than dead = hamess
so, only 273 children of satan eliminated by the palestine resistance? only if you trust jews. anyone trusting jews here? except jews themselves?
what. you fckn clown. every idf soldier and jew is on on social media… you think they can hide deaths?
more like youre the clown that hopiums more idf are dead than are.
muslims are cavemen. noone knows how many are killed. but jews and idf are first world and death cant be hidden. get a grip retard and dont delude yourself
fighters of the palestinian resistance are truly among the bravest in the world! if they had equipment to match their bravery the zionist settler colonial project would be undone completely!
on d-day 7/10 they had the opportunity to catsh a lot of armament.
their specialty is zios delivered super crispy. now their family members can do the metronome thing before wailing wall. tick-tock, tick-tock…
oddly many americans support israel but are in denial of the genocide of palestinian women and children while at the same time zionists are committing genocide on the american people with bio-weapons
when was the footage taken ???
wish they stop say allah u akbar because that’s what al qaida who work for the occidentals in syria say too
you must be young or dumb. all muslims say it during fighting. no matter who they are fighting for
so the palestinians kill 1000 while israel kills 30,000 so how is this winning ???
it’s a win because now even the dumbest can understand who run the west. china takes note and shows middle finger to (((yellen))) and (((blinken))).
jews kill 30000 civilians and 300 palestine fighters. hamas killed 30 jewish civilians and 3500 jarmulka soldiers.
wow, the balls on these guys. such courage
one of the greatest pleasures in life is watching the gallant heroes of hamas and friends destroying the $atanic khazar beast occupying palestine. it makes my day every time the good guys bloody the spawn of the zionazi bea$t. onward to palestine free of vermin!
the squatters have already lost despite that the squatters kill indiscriminately and are engaged in a genocide rarely seen since djengis khan but the world notice and seemthem for whar they are, wholesale murderers and that will last forever – they are cooked as a people and a responsible party to interact with on this planet and will soon be gone!
good riddance!,
anyone wonder why no one on this earth likes jews? another squatter genocide was in 1789 and the more recent happened in 1917 in russia. see the pattern?