Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli warplanes struck over 160 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 19, as its troops were advancing in the Palestinian enclave in a large-scale offensive codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.
In a brief statement, the military said that the targets included cells of fighters, anti-tank missile launch sites, tunnels, a weapons depot, buildings used by “terror groups,” booby-trapped structures and a command center.
The Qatari Al-Jazeera news channel reported the death of at least 32 Palestinians in Gaza, including women and children, since the early morning.
Separately, the IDF announced that it had destroyed a 200-meter long tunnel in the area of Rafah in the southern part of the Strip. The military said that during the demolition of the tunnel, troops killed a cell of Hamas fighters which was hiding inside the underground passage.
The military later called on all Palestinians living in and around the large southern Gaza city of Khan Younis to leave their homes, warning that it would launch an “unprecedented attack” on the area. The evacuation order covered all of Khan Younis as well as the suburbs of Bani Suheila and Abasan.
“The IDF will launch an unprecedented attack to destroy the capabilities of terror organizations in this area,” said the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, noting that all of Khan Younis was considered “a dangerous combat zone.”
Prior to the evacuation order, Al-Jazeera and several Gaza-based news sources reported that Israeli special forces entered Khan Younis and killed a senior commander of the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.
The group confirmed the death of commander Ahmad Sarhan, who was responsible for the group’s “special operations.” It claimed that Israeli special forces killed Sarhan after failing in an attempt to capture him alive.
Photos posted to social networks showed a wagon with a secret compartment that was reportedly used by Israeli special forces during the operation in Khan Younis.
Click to see full-size image. Via Telegram.
Click to see full-size image. Via Telegram.
The IDF began preparing for Operation Gideon’s Chariots earlier this month. Thousands of reservists were called up and elite formations were deployed to Gaza from other fronts.
Israeli officials stated that the large-scale offensive would see the IDF “conquer” Gaza and retain the territory, attack Hamas, prevent the group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies, and move Palestinians from the Strip’s north to its south.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed again on May 19 that Israel was going to “take control of the entire Strip’s territory.”
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more jew atrocities. more jew thieving. all paid for by the stupid goy taxpayer.
imagine an idiot bashing his head against the wall forever and claiming to be intelligent and god’s chosen
why is the israel defense forces now mass recruiting poor people in the favelas of brazil and india? some are under the age of twenty-one, is this even allowed?
to get cannon foder.
if i had a say in policy making all aid to israel would be cut and sanctions would be raised and all jewish hategroups such as adl would be outlawed and defunded. and no more jews in our government education system or institutions. they are foreingers loyal to a hostile foreign entity thus should be dealt with as such
these zionists are really dumb as a brick wall. as long as jewish extremism exists, as long as apartheid exists, as long as talmudick messianic insanity exists, there will always ben atrocities committed. and as long as jewish atrocities are committed, there will always. let me repeat, always, be resistance. so if these brain dead jews want peace, they better stop jewish extremism first.
couldn’t agree more on this. i just wonder why now sf is citing iof (israeli occupation forces) at all, as they are theirs speakers, spreading theirs informations better yet disinformation. why can’t we see fighters blowing up tanks anymore?
these tunnels that they claimed that are used by hamas, are actually waterways, just check it out. why are we hearing iofs bs even in here? is this sort of scavenging is this what they calls coherence ti the fundamental justice and truth? we can’t even see this on msm nowadays without someone who will say:no this is a lie.
are those poor people that the idf found and mobilized in the favelas of rio de janeiro and new delhi truly jewish or are they catholics or heretics?
coz jooz are pussies to fight them selves against same enemy, or this guys that doesn’t have a single howitzer.
true they use hybrids 5-10% jew dna immigrants from the pale of settlement and other areas to do the fighting for them in the idf. the religious ones the shotcallers are not even required to serve in the army. and they are not allowed to marry with the non religious ones either the cohen class keeps its self racially pure they are racial supremists.
if these hyb rids who do the dirty work for them would actually realize the plans of the co hen clas they wou ldnt sup it as much as they do right now as when this cohen c lass wins they will also end the loosends the hyb rid cl ass thats now doing the dirty work for them. they dont care about los ses b ecause their elite done even see them as jewish. they call ref ormed jews def ormed jews. tha ts how much resp they have for their own.
jews learned well from the nazis when it comes to genocide putting down uprisings. the nazis are smiling and applauding from hell at what the jews are doing in gaza. “you have become us,” they are saying.
i’m more interested in why the idf recruits people in the favelas of rio de janeiro and new delhi? are semi-literate poor people better fighters or do they already know how to use a pistol, knife, and rifle?
cos joos are pussies.
hebrews, there’s an ancient law actually called the law of reciprocity, the very old talion law, and you are going to pay for sure.
southfront orc idiots still think hamas is “winning”…hhheehehehehehe
gaza nature preserve, everybody out