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A senior official of the Palestinian Hamas Movement said on October 28 that the Israeli large ground operation in the Gaza Strip which began a day earlier was foiled.
According to the official, Ali Baraka, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked from three axis, but failed to advance and suffered “heavy losses” in manpower and equipment.
“The enemy fell into ambushes prepared by the Palestinian resistance on a number of fronts, and since the beginning of the battle there have been defensive plans against any attempt,” Barak, who is based in Lebanon, said.
Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missiles and Yassin rocket-propelled grenades manufactured locally in Gaza were used to repel the attack, Baraka said, adding that Hamas expects the IDF to make another advance attempt.
“The Israeli occupation used helicopters to evacuate the wounded and dead from the battlefield,” the Hamas official said.
Earlier in the morning, the IDF announced that its infantry, combat engineering forces and tanks were still operating in Gaza. Video footage released by the IDF showed dozens of vehicles advancing towards the Strip and heavy strikes on alleged Hamas targets there.
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari later said that troops were “advancing through the stages of the war” in Gaza, with ground forces carrying out operations in the Strip.
“Infantry, armored, engineering and artillery forces participating in the activity, accompanied by heavy [air] fire,” he told reporters, noting that “the forces are still on the ground and continue the fighting.”
Contradicting Palestinian media reports, the spokesman said that no soldiers have been hurt in the expanded ground operation in Gaza so far.
In addition, the IDF said that it had killed the commander of Hamas’s naval forces of the Gaza City Brigade, Rateb Abu Sahiban, in an overnight airstrike. According to the IDF, Abu Sahiban planned and commanded a Hamas infiltration attempt via the sea earlier this week.
The IDF ground operation and heavy bombardment didn’t prevent Hamas from launching more rockets. The military wing of the movement, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, announced a rocket attack on Zikik base to the north of Gaza. Rocket sirens were also heard at several Israeli settlements near the Strip in the morning, including Magan, Nir Oz and Nahal Oz. However, no casualties were reported.
The ongoing ground operation in Gaza appears to be the first phase of a large-scale offensive that could go on for weeks or even months.
The slow Israeli start may be intentional in order to pressure Hamas into releasing more than 200 hostages captured by its fighters in its surprise attack on October 7. Qatar is reportedly mediating talks to secure the release of the hostages and broker a temporary ceasefire.
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they are not the 1967 force they once were. its a matter of time until they finally accept it
master system error 108: muppet out of pocket
who’s the muppet?
you chose a nickname from a phony fictional character!
no, israel and the us are much, much stronger than 1967. the region accepted the reality that is israel a long time ago. hence normalization efforts and low-key alliances with neighbors. militarily, power projection is sevenfold compared to 1967. state actors as you can see, do not dare to intervene directly, why is that? they know it’s game over if they do
intervene in war crimes, no. all we have to do is keep exposing. that is all. then you will see it.
if they’re so much stronger how come they keep losing to hezbollah and how come they end up in ceasefire for more than 10 years with hamas?
cry me a river. we were building cities and high rises in tel aviv. they said the best revenge is good living.
who would have thought running to a bomb shelter fearing for your life was “good living”. thanks for the good laughs.
you have no neighbors , you have only enemies. you came there , occupied palestinian land and are not able to live in peace with anybody , it’s the whole problem.
hmm wrong. we get along pretty well with most governments in the region. can’t please everyone though, what are you gonna do? :)
as racist are many israelis specially in the current gov i don’t think so! a place populated of european colonists who are fake semites and fake jews can not go genuinely get along with anybody even partially.
countries don’t have friends. they have interests. and the interests of sociopathic piss ray elle are hardly those of their neighbours. the “governments and leaders” that “get along” with that shi tee little cun tree in the middle east are traitors to their people and they know it! those “leaders” are walking tight ropes just now. they know how close they, as traitors, are to losing their positions because of their cowardly non-actions against the real war criminals in occupied palestine.
it’s not a country really but a colonial entity…
also these criminals discriminated jews speaking against the zionist state.
“pakistan’s atom bomb is not only for this country but for all muslims.” – captain safdar, son in law of former prime minister of pakistan, nawaz sharif “today, people in palestine are looking at you…tell the muslims of gaza that we are with you. the muslims of gaza, we are with you. we are with oppressed palestinians.”
interesting that you immediately mentioned the us, maybe deep down you know even after 75 years of existence, your little settler enterprise would still not survive without us protection and financing. and the us clout is waning, so it will eventually be game over for you too.
what seven fold will be an advance when arabs are 20 fold more
we will come out of this stronger than ever. you are witnessing a new world being formed before your eyes. embrace it
i only see hamas come back stronger every time. i only see hezbollah come back stronger every time.
ok guy, arab world is a joke.
the fight back is striónger too.
most lkkely there will more sead too. thats the result.
as written before more killed indicate less come here. that a only positive sign for me .
did your mom drop you on you head as a baby? or did you suffer drug related brain damage?
you satanic communists will fall in a humiliating defeat, you are nearly destroyed as we speak anyway. mr. putin is a global hero! you.. a soon to be rotting, dead communist.
nothing has been “foiled” by hamas or hezbollah, ffs 🤦♂️
open the internet there and lets see for ourselves
the strip is being completely flattened, and hamas will be eradicated. the internet no worky, mister
strip hasn’t been flattened. hamas is bibi’s bosom friend. the internet partially restored. miss!!
the strip is not being completely flattened there is considerable damage to all infrastructure as a result of hamas using civilian infrastructure unfortunately. we know their main operation hub is another hospital and we havent bombed it even though it is a known center of operational planning and logistics. we never bombed any hospital. we are the most moral military in the world
wrong, we have bombed many mosques and hospitals because it would be immoral not to. we are gods chosen and the goyim are not, it is that simple.
us bombing palestinian women and children is no different from a lion attacking a zebra cub.
as we do in the gaza strip, we reserve the right to do with all gentiles.
fake jew impostor. no one believes a word
are you criticizing the great plan? i will take note of this antisemitism.
just like true zionist?
actually, the isralies did bomb a hospital, the radar tracking proves it was an israeli misile. fact. live with it.
“considerable damage to all infrastructure as a result of hamas using civilian infrastructure unfortunately.” oh i wonder who is dropping us bombs on civilian using us airplanes! 7000 dead including at least 3500 children. this is genocide. the minister of defense is talking like hitler: you know “the human animals” of the holocaust! this is not judaism! what’s happen to you shall not kill? and you shall not steal? what happen to the 10 commandments? all these fake jews around!
hitler never said what you ignorantly claim he said. why did you have to go and spoil a perfectly reasonable comment by inserting that lie?
“we are the most moral military in the world.”
what you are is the single largest collection of sociopaths ever gathered in one place. “moral” militaries are not constructed from a collection of evil, depraved and bigoted kiddie killers.
cont’d
you claim to be a doctor. i, for one, believe you. doctors are at the front lines as baby killers these days. it’s not much of a stretch to imagine you gleefully poisoning palestinians under the guise of “treating” them when you think you can get away with it.
most moral army right? this from 2009:
“israeli soldiers wore t-shirts with a pregnant woman in cross-hairs and the slogan “1 shot 2 kills,” adding to a growing furor in the country over allegations of misconduct by troops during the gaza war.
“the smaller they are, the harder it is,” says another shirt showing a child in a rifle sight. soldiers wore the shirts to mark the end of basic training and other military courses”
the most disgusting child killing moral army.
you are rather digging your own grave , no matter how successful you temporarily may be. count how many millions enemies are around you. “the strip is being completely flattened” , right? , with 2 million civilians ? what do you think can you expect after these crimes?
i was exaggerating for dramatic purposes. we are not flattening the whole strip. okay? cry some more
now alexander is an actor too! oh, no more invincibility? sux some more.
lol, you have already been outed. you did that. no one else.
spiderman, you know in your heart of hearts that you’re dangerously mentally ill – like so many of those defending the indefensible acts committed by some of the most evil humans who have ever lived. do us all a favor…stuff your computer in the back of your closet and get outside where there’s the possibility that you could get run over by a bus or something.
you’re a waste of food.
and you think that, somehow, this act will stop them from exacting revenge ? you moron, you do not think.. hamas will be backed up by iran, lebanon, syria, many other fighting factions that hate, and i mean hate israel.. this wiil only enrage and stregthen their cause and resolve. you should actually get a mental check up, you are showing serious signs of delusion.
are you on the front lines, larry? or are you just shooting your mouth off like the rest of you low iq hasbarabot trolls…
the jwish are a self destructing race
all humans are conflict driven and violence prone. it’s just that some groups are more organized and effective at it than others. the rest is just political fluff baby-talk
pay heed to the russians securing their hostages from hamas, while israeli are bombing theirs. for israelis this is not coming from strength, but weakness
it’s called the hannibal doctrine, better to kill hostages if hostage takers are killed also. and it saves the embarrassment when hostages say they were treated very well
that is the problem, however. most of humanity wants to move past their ‘warring’ past and move the human condition forward — while the principalities of the world drag humanity back to the lower depths of infernal consciousness. almost as if something was feeding off the despair and negative energy. the “it’s just the way we all are, and we happen to be better at it” doesn’t hold water.
i can sympathize with this statement. nothing would make me happier than to see all of humanity achieve their maximum potential. but what do you do in the meantime? when the wolf comes a-knocking. do we just roll over and die? no we fight
there is defense. then there is beyond defense. israel always goes beyond defense. and every time, they never seem to understand the law of diminishing payoffs
except that israel has always won, and we continue to win. ‘law of diminishing return’? oh please. go read some more then come back and try again. this is not a winner — thanks for paying. i mean, playing
“…some groups are more organized and effective at it than others.”
you are so far gone that you justify the killing of innocent kids.
the nazis of course were also at the time, more organized and effective at it, so presumably, following dr cohen’s logic, the allies should not have intervened, it was simply darwinism in action.
you make an excellent point, which of course, equally applies to the palestinians. but in your twisted mind, they’re somehow not allowed to fight the “chosen ones” back.
demonic lie
demonic reality
i’ve read 4 or 5 of your insipid comments so far. i think i’ve learned enough to ask you a serious question:
how many of your patients have you killed thanks to your narcissistic wilful ignorance? (you must have a number in your head.)
…i figure plenty, after having dealt with arrogant, desensitized a__holes like you for most of my professional life.
more like kazharian mafia using jews as shield. those living in iran and worldwide spoke against the so-called israel, a western colony created by the rothschilds with the helps of both us and uk government.
very scant info since comms are down, it looks like hamas made a shock ambush and captured senior officers
yeah, there is an almost complete media (internet) blackout in gaza, effected by „israel“ who also told reuters + afp they wouldn‘t garantee the safety of journalists. earlier negotiations about hostages broke down. it wd seem is. wants to murder with impunity or else prevent images of its failure.
hamas terrorists are getting barbecued – awesome! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
al-mayadeen reports that hamas spokesperson abdul-hadi asked the two nations „ummatayn“) the islamic and arabic to put pressure to end the aggression against gaza.
“musk’s starlink internet service to break black-out in gaza“
i dont give a fuck about this conflict. goldniggers vs sandniggers. killing each other seems to be national sport for both sides.
just surprised that anyone still cares, must be social media generation phänomen.
trust me no one cares about neo nazis. in fact, one thing everyone in the world agrees on is that neo-nazis are better off dead. and i mean everyone even your own anglo saxon elite. so sukk on that jew dik some more
lol 😁😂, it’s aint 1945. nazis are long gone and apart from rashnik bunker grandpa and his propaganda apes, noone believes there are still nazis worth to talk about.
now shut up und piss die wand an,clown 🤡
you are also brain damaged? i said neo-nazi. not nazi. you dumb flathead
by the way correct term might be mentaly disabled/ retarded / special need folks aka like clyde’s problematic mom.
flathead is a disgracedul term reserved for rashniks.
as long as any nation flies the blasphemous sodom and gomorrah lgbt rainbow flag, they’re doomed. you cannot turn your back to god and embrace satan and think all will be well. are you fucking crazy?? a lunatic? you’ve cursed yourself and your nation. you’re done.
they are fake “jews” and they’re the most antisemitic people on earth, they don’t believe in the god of the torah otherwise they wouldn’t be having gay parades in the “holy land”.
yeah right the jews are immortal, everytime a jew spews b’s i know he is lying