[ May 6, 2024 ]
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With Gaza Cut in Half, Which Hamas May Not Have Seen Coming, Israeli Forces Move In for the Kill
Nearly a month after the Hamas massacres, the IDF tightens its grip on terrorist strongholds in northern Gaza Strip.
Story continues below advertisementBy: Anthony Grant, NY Sun, November 6, 2023:
Hamas’s terrorist goons probably didn’t see this one coming, but the sliver of Mediterranean territory their rule has ruined steadily over the past 16 years is as of now on a divided strip — because by Monday Israeli soldiers had successfully cut the Gaza Strip in two.
During a press conference on Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said, “Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza,” adding that troops led by the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, which form part of the 36th Division, had “reached the coastline and are holding it.”
The IDF was also striking Hamas terror infrastructure “below ground and above it” on a continuous basis, Admiral Hagari stated, adding that more than “2,500 terrorist targets have been hit in the Strip” since the start of operations in Gaza and that troops were working “to eliminate terrorists in close combat and air strikes on Hamas infrastructure, weapons depots, observation posts and command and control centers in the Strip.”
The IDF is acting to root out Hamas from its mainly underground base of operations in Gaza City through a three-pronged strategy: opening up corridors for the movement of troops, eliminating hidden hives of resistance, and creating temporary outposts — and all of this is occurring inside the Gaza Strip, which it can be said is now the hottest war zone on the planet.
Underscoring the degree to which Israel is undaunted by the challenges at hand, the IDF’s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, made on Saturday a surprise visit to Israeli troops inside the Gaza Strip. The lieutenant general’s presence in the Strip likely telegraphed a message to Hamas leadership that their time is running out. Last week, speaking at an Israeli air force base, he said that Israeli forces were “in the heart of northern Gaza, operating in Gaza City, surrounding it.”
While the slender Gaza Strip is no more than seven and a half miles wide at its widest, splitting it in two has not been possible without elbow grease and pluck. According to satellite imagery, Israel has used bulldozers to open pathways across the rolling, sandy territory and clear the way of explosives. Those are accompanied by tanks to give protection for armored vehicles with infantry. Risks can be minimized but not totally eliminated: Last week a Namer armored personnel carrier was struck by two anti-tank missiles, killing all the soldiers inside.
As Israeli columns close in on Gaza City from all sides, the noose tightens on Hamas’s command centers but the dangers to Israeli troops multiply. Hamas still has the hometown advantage when it comes to manning their hideouts amid dense warrens of buildings and navigating their terror tunnels.
Israel has learned lessons from previous incursions into Gaza, and is better prepared than ever before. According to a report in Haaretz, some of the armored vehicles contain medical teams and mobile intensive care units.
In the meantime, army engineers have been building up earthen ramparts to create provisional encampments that can house military vehicles and soldiers, with the walls serving a shield function. Palestinian media outlets have reported that the strategy is to establish secure connections between these positions, with the goal to solidify the division between north and south and effectively seal off Gaza City.
That is where the toughest fighting is expected to occur, as it will pit IDF troops and the restive, surviving members of Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades.
As Israeli forces work to knock out Hamas tunnels from above ground, the terrorists still have a good measure of mobility underground, and like hornets dislodged from their nests are trying to sting the Israelis with RPG rockets aimed at close range at armored vehicles. This terror tactic has caused some Israeli casualties.
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23 Comments5 months agoYAHWEH protect Israel and ALL it’s Jews and CHRISTians.
5 months agoReply to CommieobamieI believe in God, but where was he during the Holocaust and all the wars Israel had since 1948? We’re the chosen people, but why don’t I see it?
5 months agoReply to Stephen HonigThat’s funny. You see only one half of His promess. We’re supposed to follow His Torah, and if we don’t, we’re on our own.
5 months agoReply to Albert BarchichatJust thinking that. The vast majority of Israel is simply “culturally” Jewish, not practicing/religious. That’s why she-Israel-always loses her resolve, actually buys the idiotic “proportionality”dreck.
You mess with someone ‘way bigger and stronger than you? You get killed. I don’t even think Israel will go through with it this time either. But I hope they do.
5 months agoIt is good that Israel is paying no attention to the many politicians and groups that are calling strongly for a ceasefire. This Islamic terrorist group called Hamas must be destroyed so that they cannot repeat attacks on Israel.
5 months agoReply to David GrisezI’m sure hamas wasn’t expecting that response. They were counting on the naive idiots to pressure their government into forcing a cease fire. Stand strong Israel, Hashem got your back 💪
5 months agoProtect and Defend Israel and all the Jews!!!!!!!! Destroy the evil and wicked people doing the harm to it and them! Oh and while your at it, destroy our corrupted Government and all the evil, wicked people in their agencies and organizations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 months agoNow maybe the Israeli’s will do what they need to do and level Gaza.
5 months ago“Harder! faster!”
LMAO! I can’t think of any better advice than that.
5 months agoFind and execute as painfully as possibly all the savages who ordered this jihad and killed and mailed innocent Jews.
5 months agoReply to turtlebratDo the same to them their Terrorist Killers did to the Israelis and others.
5 months agoIf Hamas didn’t see that coming, it’s because they don’t have a military academy. This is a classic maneuver. And if they did see it coming, they could’ve made it a little more difficult for the Israelis, but there is no way they could have stopped it. The Israelis have overwhelming force, and complete control of the air. They also have complete control of the electromagnetic spectrum. This war will be over in a few weeks, but the occupation will be for a lot longer.
5 months agoIsrael has the full support of every decent person of good-faith with respect to their fellow citizen.
Israel is defending and protecting the whole civilized world and the future of Western Civilization.
Hamas has entered Stalingrad: Encircle, starve and eradicate the Nazis calling themselves Hamas.
Defeat Hamas.
Defeat Iran.
Defeat “obama.”5 months agoI just learned the UN thru UNRWA has been using money to train terrorist in schools with books for children and actual combat training. Saw this in i24 news. They are funded by American tax dollars.
Only Trump with held money from the organization.5 months agoFOX News’ Trey Yingst reports on the exchange of rocket fire between Israel and Lebanon and shares details after embedding with Israeli forces: Excerpt from Trey’s report: “It is urban guerilla warfare as Hamas is popping out of tunnels and ambushing Israeli troops.”
Israeli forces strike southern Lebanon – YouTubeWell worth the time to watch his report.
5 months agoNuke it and be done with it. 2 or 3 tactical nuke properly placed will eliminate the entire structure. And before you anti-semites even think about countering me think about this. We didn’t concern ourselves with the civilians in Dresden, Berlin, Nagasaki or Hiroshima. The devil worshipping jihadis don’t care either. Nuke ’em.
5 months agoHamas will be defeated and terrorism will drop into the background for a while, BUT the tenet of Islam, to go forth, multiply, and conquer will continue in all Western nations that allow them in. The next ground battle will not be in Israel – but consider the nukes that Iran has and the Saudi prince wants, and Yemen would employ that obviate the need for ground battles.
5 months ago“trying to sting the Israelis with RPG rockets aimed at close range at armored vehicles.”
Not exactly. The video I saw saw a very brave hamas dirt bag take out an ambulance, not any military vehicle.5 months agoThose brutal vicious murderous jihadists of Hamas can’t be reasoned with .They cannot and will not respond to the logic of reason. The only language that they are able to understand is that of being on the receiving end of a very strong might power of military might.
As Thomas Jefferson had, very wisely, written, “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
5 months agoThe government officials of the State of Israel do have a duty and obligation to have the Israeli military force response to those brutal cruel malice -filled murderous jihadists attacks.
For it’s the responsibility of the government of Israel to protect the safety and lives of citizens , especially since that horrendous jihad entity, Hamas, started this war on October 7th by launching violent and deadly Islamic terrorists attacks on the peaceful Jewish people of Israel.
So the use of the military force against Hamas is an very important and necessary action of self-defense.
As the former US President James Monroe, had rightly and wisely, in a speech declared, “The right of self -defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and individuals.”
5 months agoThe appropriate ,fitting and right way that this appalling and horrific murderous and destructive jihad entity , Hamas, should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed is to hit it hard , hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly , vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
5 months agoAfter those horrendous bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslims by Muslim terrorists of Hamas, an Israeli government official said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
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