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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released video footage showing the 98th Division storming Gaza City at the start of the large-scale offensive against Hamas early on September 16.
In a statement, the military said that the division entered Gaza City with support from the Israeli Air Force and Navy, with dozens of “terror infrastructures” of Hamas being struck, including observation posts and booby-trapped buildings.
The division, an elite formation of paratroopers and commando units, joined the 162nd Division, which was already operating on the outskirts of Gaza City, according to the IDF, which noted that a third division, the 36th, will join the offensive in the coming few days.
The remaining civilians in Gaza City were instructed by the IDF to leave and head for an Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone” in the Strip’s south at the start of the offensive. The military estimated that only 40% of people have evacuated as of last night. Still, it moved on with the offensive.
Sources at Gaza’s hospitals tell our team that at least 89 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave since the early hours of this morning.
According to Al-Jazeera, at least 89 people have been killed by IDF fire across the Strip since the start of the offensive. The vast majority, 79, were killed in Gaza City.
There has been no sign of any serious resistance by Hamas or any other Palestinian armed factions, although it is important to note that this may be just a tactic.
Commenting on the offensive, Defense Minister Israel Katz called on Hamas to release all the remaining Israeli hostages and disarm.
“From Hamas, we need only two things, and it will not give them voluntarily: to release all the hostages and to disarm. The great force of the attack here… is directly defeating Hamas, and it also creates a larger lever for the release of the hostages,” Katz said during a visit to the headquarters of the 162nd Division.
“We want to take control of Gaza City because today it is Hamas’s main governing symbol. Today, if Gaza falls… they will fall,” the minister added.
Katz also said that the “murderous Sinwar brothers,” Yahya and Muhammad, who led the group in the Strip before they were killed by Israel, “ruined Gaza, and if Izz al-Din Haddad continues like this, he will destroy Gaza,” referring to Hamas’s new military leader in Gaza.
“They will pay the price and Gaza will be destroyed,” he warned.
Hamas received more threats from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who held an assessment on the offensive with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, 98th Division commander Brig. Gen. Guy Levi, and other officers.
“On your shoulders rests the mission to deepen the strike against Hamas and to defeat the Gaza City Brigade, in order to carry out the moral and most important mission, the return of all the hostages home and the collapse of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities,” Zamir said during the assessment, according to remarks provided by the IDF.
Meanwhile, United States President Donald Trump said that he “doesn’t know too much” about the Israeli offensive in Gaza City.
“We’ll have to see,” Trump told reporters, reiterating his warning to Hamas not to use hostages as human shields, adding that the group “will have hell to pay” if it does so.
All in all, the IDF appears to be on its way to completely occupy Gaza City, although ground operations could take weeks, or even months.
While losing the city will be a blow to Hamas, it will likely bring about its end. The group has already survived similar large-scale offensives by the IDF in other parts of Gaza, mainly in the areas of Beit Hanoun, Rafah and Khan Younis. The only thing that the ongoing offensive is guaranteed to achieve is worsening the humanitarian situation in the Strip.
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no mercy for gazan terrorists!!!
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no mercy for jewish terrorists!!!
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how comes israel is still fighting a militia in gaza ?
seems weak to me.
remember when retarded bozo the clown prophesized a nuclear strike on moscow in the summer of 2025 ?
massive massive world class imbecile right here.
weaponless starving families are hardly a militia.
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you poor little lost soul…fighting the big bad crusade against humanity. it must hurt to be that empty
when enough people in the world have woken up to what you jewish psychopaths are doing to gaza and our societies and our world you demons will be facing the wrath of god. your kind are the serpent seed the bible warns about and you will be slain by the sword. the zionist colonial project will be removed and palestine liberated
more diaper kiddie killers on their way to joo hell. the joo cockroaches will still be scurrying round the rumble in 10 years time.
starved, herded, desolated innocent suffer in tragedy.
over 100 years of injustice and suffering. a high tech lethal dystopia. selfish genocidary greed created hell on earth using more destructive power against that tiny strip of land than several times hiroshima. tortured day and night losing their family members but still cherishing the land that the invaders defaced and poisoned palestinians are true martyrs.
these videos accurately verify and define the un declared continuous genocide and war crimes. very hard to watch for those with any empathy left .
yes, that is so true. i got ill.
i agree and also i prefer to see the terrible truth than being lied to. what it does to me does not matter because it is nothing compared to what these souls had to endure.
for any normal human with a balanced emotional state it does become very hard after nearly two years of watching deliberate targetting of the young and vulnerable.
these inbred animals are the absolute pits of any life form.
it’s clear that the zionists are completely, medically & certifiably insane and insade in the brain
they need to be permanently institutionalized for their own good & the good of others
as for the filthy rich, cowardl saracen leaders who could actually do something to save their own people by imposing, oil embargo, sanctions, closing air traffic, the suez canal, bosphorus, al-mandeb & hormusz straits. those saracen leaders should end up like müezzinzade ali pasha
free palestine!!! stop the genocide!!
disgusting trump zio-president and his words. a shame for humanity.
why should anyone of us listen what some israeli genocide maniac war criminal has to say? who give a fuck anyway? some pricks would read what that imbecile got to say. i wouldn’t care less.
the number of gazans butchered by the joo scum in collusion with the jewsa/ jewu/ lewk already exceeds 200,000. even the jooz are admitting this. they are now planning to genocide the survivors in 3 concentration camps in southern gaza guarded by joo kiddie killers and amerikunt mercenary scum in the orwellian named gaza humanitarian foundation. the zionist scum who rule over us in western countries and their joo masters are beginning
to face up to the consequences of what they have done. it’s called blowback. a very small part of this is the killing of kirk (by the jooz, ironically.) but what they have inflicted on others for so long is about to be visited on them. very, very soon. all these countries are about to collapse. everything they take for granted is about to fly out of the window. what is coming is very, very bad. in no more than a few months time. karma is a bitch.
some sources says 680.000 dead in gaza.
i believe those sources israel is deliberately starving the palestinians for months now if babies and children die of starvation by the amounts i have seen a death toll of multiple hunderds of thousands is very likely. the lying jewish owned media wants to down play it as if its 68.000 for about a whole year now. its far higher then that. and its time everyone in the world puts more pressure on israel and start to dismantle their ngo hate organizations in our countries such as the adl
there is no place for genocidal joo scum in any civilised society.
people need to listen better and move faster. idf means business. hamas is done.
you need a gun at your head to see how fast you move. your continual imbecilic rants indicate you’re nice and safe wherever you are.
twat already moved out just cowards killing children women and citizens trained by the uk so much for two world wars just killing freedoms palestine will always be their as our blood feeds the lizards of hate as they say next from the sea to milk and honey all others are next
to think that little girl in the third photo survived all this time and woke up to this gutless maniacal jew horror a lot of the time.
everyone be thankful that it wasn’t our lot to be born in gaza like these innocent little wretches. karma’s coming your way animal jew, so you may as well piss yourselves silly before it arrives
the jews are up against the whole world. they have their fake and gay jewish god on their side, who was nowhere to be found from 1930-1945 when they were baked like burnt cookies.
and forced to work – for nothing ! 😆