BREAKING....Thread 8...Israel At War...OPERATION SWORDS OF IRON

[DCPatriot]

Looking at the tunnels that have been built and the advance from sending glorified firecrackers as rockets to steel rockets with range to hit Jerusalem points to strength more than size, IMO.

@Right_in_Virginia

Wasn't thinking about higher grade rockets.  That would surely write a new headline!

IMO, despite all the clamoring, Israel's response has been tempered. 

[Elderberry]

i24NEWS English
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🔴IDF reveals documentation from a #Hamas terrorist's bodycam:

WATCH as plainclothes terrorists place IEDs on #Gaza streets

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1738175553080033564

[Elderberry]

Israel Radar
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Hamas uses children to move explosives around Gaza, terror commander reveals during interrogation in Israel; Hamas also sends unarmed operatives with children on motorcycles to collect intel on IDF forces, Israeli officer says. via @ynetalerts

[Elderberry]

i24NEWS English
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Hamas reportedly discusses with the Fatah the possibility of joining the PLO and Gaza's government in the future

'Israel should be very strict and firm in its stands. All these things of a sort of a coalition are unheard of, and Israel must resist that,' says Prof. @uzi_rabi

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1738167675052793882

[Elderberry]

Israel Radar
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War update:
Fighter jets bomb multiple Hezbollah military sites in Lebanon after over 20 rockets & anti-tank missiles fired at Israel; reports from Gaza: 3 killed in IDF strike on vehicle in Rafah. via @N12News
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Israel Radar
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Gaza war update:
IDF locates & destroys long-range rocket launchers used to fire at Israel; forces seize weapons near daycare center in Gaza City including mortars & explosives; Navy bombs Hamas terror targets on Gaza coast; 2 soldiers killed in fighting. via @idfonline

[Elderberry]

i24NEWS English
@i24NEWS_EN

🔴IDF: Over the past two days, troops have conducted intelligence-based targeted raids on compounds where #Hamas terrorists were operating in a school on the outskirts of Shati

The troops located large quantities of weapons, ammunition, and maps belonging to Hamas

[Elderberry]

i24NEWS English
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Can Qatar and Egypt pressure Hamas to accept a hostage deal?

'What Sinwar thought would be international pressure or support from other Arab states has failed. He's been left with only one card: the hostages,' says Prof. @uzi_rabi

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1738132457596039365

[Elderberry]

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal

🚨🇵🇸🇾🇪 BREAKING: HOUTHIS SENDING TO TROOPS TO GAZA

In Yemen's north, a general mobilization is underway by the Houthis to send fighters to the Gaza Strip, as stated by their political bureau.

Source: Sputnik

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737477773365547047

[mystery-ak]

Dem Rep. Moulton: Israel Stopped Listening to Biden After Delaying Invasion Based on His Advice

On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that Israel listened to the Biden administration at the beginning of the war with Hamas and “They delayed the invasion based on administration advice to take it more slowly, to devise a better plan before they went into Gaza. But it’s hard to say that Israel is listening to us now. They are clearly doubling down on these same tactics.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/21/dem-rep-moulton-israel-stopped-listening-to-biden-after-delaying-invasion-based-on-his-advice/

[Elderberry]

Israel Radar
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IDF’s elite 98th Division killed hundreds of terrorists in Khan Younis, mostly from close range, attacked 1,300 targets, exposed 150 tunnel shafts; Kfir Brigade also deployed in city after completing mission in northern Gaza. via @ynetalerts

[mountaineer]

Dem Rep. Moulton: Israel Stopped Listening to Biden After Delaying Invasion Based on His Advice

Good. The worst thing Israel - or any other nation on earth, including the US - could do is listen to the Biden Administration.

[Right_in_Virginia]

U.N. Security Council Passes Gaza Aid Resolution as U.S. Abstains
Dec 22, 2023, NY TIMES Updates

The United Nations Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for a surge in aid to desperate civilians in the Gaza Strip, ending nearly a week of intense diplomatic wrangling intended to ensure that the United States would not block the measure.

The vote was 13-0 in favor of the resolution, with the United States and Russia abstaining. The final version of the resolution did not demand an immediate pause in the fighting, at the insistence of the United States, and so was unlikely to affect the fighting in Gaza, where about 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and ground operations.

Russia proposed an amendment that would have partially reverted to an earlier version of the resolution, including a pause in the fighting, but the United States vetoed that change.

Friday’s resolution, put forward by the U.A.E., the only Arab country currently on the 15-member council, called on the warring parties in Gaza to allow the use of “all available routes” into Gaza for aid deliveries, according to a draft that was circulated before the vote. It also demands the immediate release of all hostages abducted during the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

One major sticking point in talks had been the question of whether Israel would still inspect all aid shipments, a system U.N. officials said had made it nearly impossible to scale up the delivery of food, fuel, medicine and other aid.

The final resolution asks the U.N. secretary general to appoint a coordinator responsible for “facilitating, coordinating, monitoring and verifying” that aid cargo entering Gaza is humanitarian in nature, who would be “consulting all relevant parties.”

The approved resolution also dropped a call for the “urgent suspension of hostilities” from an earlier version, instead calling for “urgent steps” to allow unhindered humanitarian access and the creation of “conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Right_in_Virginia

Wasn't thinking about higher grade rockets.  That would surely write a new headline!

IMO, despite all the clamoring, Israel's response has been tempered.

Israel's response has been the best the IDF can do @DCPatriot

[Right_in_Virginia]

Israel Radar
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Hamas uses children to move explosives around Gaza, terror commander reveals during interrogation in Israel; Hamas also sends unarmed operatives with children on motorcycles to collect intel on IDF forces, Israeli officer says. via @ynetalerts

First time or just something else missed by the IDF, Mossad and Shin Bet?

[DCPatriot]

Israel's response has been the best the IDF can do @DCPatriot

@Right_in_Virginia

Meant that surely Israel has the military capacity to destroy the enemy, but because Hamas doesn't fight conventionally, Israel has to dance, bob and weave to keep civilians alive. 

Funny that the United States and Allied forces never thought of that being applied to Dresden, Germany or Tokyo, Japan.

Israel if fighting two fronts.  Hamas and Public Opinion.

[Right_in_Virginia]

@Right_in_Virginia

Meant that surely Israel has the military capacity to destroy the enemy, but because Hamas doesn't fight conventionally, Israel has to dance, bob and weave to keep civilians alive. 

Nah .....  If Israel's learned anything it should be not to expect their enemy to fight a war according to Israel's preferences @DCPatriot    As for dancing,  every unit engaged in urban warfare bobs and weaves to keep their soldiers alive, including the IDF.

Funny that the United States and Allied forces never thought of that being applied to Dresden, Germany or Tokyo, Japan.

I'm not sure what this means, sorry ....

Israel if fighting two fronts.  Hamas and Public Opinion.

Welcome to war in the age of worldwide communications in the blink of an eye.

The good news is:  no nation is more prepared for a PR battle than is the State of Israel.



@DCPatriot

[Smokin Joe]

Or use the ones the found in those Hamas honeyholes.

Watching the videos, Hamas, like most M.E. terrorists, use the AK.

It does dawn on me, however, there is a good chance these rifles were made after 1986, and if so, no American civilian could legally own one.

[Elderberry]

Israel Defense Forces
@IDF
Operational update from area of Issa within Gaza City:

🔺Soldiers of the Yiftah Battalion and combat engineering forces struck Hamas headquarters and eliminated terrorists.

🔺Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade, who were operating in the area, located and discovered a number of shafts leading to a significant undergound tunnel route.

🔺Soldiers of the Yahalom Unit and the Oketz K-9 Unit examined and destroyed the significant and strategic underground tunnel route—used as an underground base by Hamas

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1738291913176805663

[Elderberry]

Israel Radar
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Dramatic decline in Gaza rocket fire: Experts say Hamas starting to run out of rockets. Chart shows rocket alerts in Israeli communities near Gaza

https://twitter.com/IsraelRadar_com/status/1738262599018361072

[Hoodat]

Israel Radar
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Dramatic decline in Gaza rocket fire: Experts say Hamas starting to run out of rockets. Chart shows rocket alerts in Israeli communities near Gaza

They're also running out of schools and hospitals to launch them from.

[Hoodat]

Israel Defense Forces
@IDF
Operational update from area of Issa within Gaza City:

🔺Soldiers of the Yiftah Battalion and combat engineering forces struck Hamas headquarters and eliminated terrorists.

🔺Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade, who were operating in the area, located and discovered a number of shafts leading to a significant undergound tunnel route.

🔺Soldiers of the Yahalom Unit and the Oketz K-9 Unit examined and destroyed the significant and strategic underground tunnel route—used as an underground base by Hamas

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1738291913176805663

Phosgene was invented specifically for this.

[mountaineer]

IDF is learning all kinds of things about the Palestinian culture while in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1738150220918050982

[mystery-ak]

Israel releases footage from army canine sent into Hamas tunnels


The Israel Defense Forces released video footage Friday from a camera attached to an army canine sent into Hamas tunnels in Gaza.

The tunnels functioned as underground outposts for the terror group, the IDF said.

Israel has made an effort to destroy as many tunnels in Gaza as it can.
Posted by Louis Casiano

[mystery-ak]

First American hostage dies in Hamas captivity

https://a57.foxnews.com/livenews.foxnews.com/images/2023/12/1440/810/04aa009052177b6f6669e1c2214d46dc.png?tl=1&ve=1
Gadi Haggai and his wife Judi. (Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum)

The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum announced Friday that Gadi Haggai, a 73-year-old Israeli-American hostage taken captive by Hamas, has died.

His wife, Judi, who also has American citizenship, still remains a hostage. Gadi Haggai is the first American hostage to have died in the conflict.

"Gadi was a man full of humor who knew how to make those around him laugh. A musician at heart, a gifted flutist, he played in the IDF Orchestra and was involved with music his whole life," the Forum said in a statement.

It added that on the morning of Oct. 7, Gadi and Judi went "for their regular morning walk in the fields and vineyards" of Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel when they were kidnapped by Hamas.

"Judi managed to notify friends that they had been shot and that Gadi was critically injured -- it was the last contact with them," the Forum said.

Fox News' Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.
Posted by Greg Norman

[mystery-ak]

Biden, first lady ’heartbroken’ about death of American hostage held in Gaza

President Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden were “heartbroken” that an American hostage being held by Hamas has died.

Gad Haggai, 73, an Israeli-American, is believed to have been killed by the terror group. He is the first American hostage to have died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

His wife, Judi, who also has American citizenship, remains captive in Gaza.

“Today, we are praying for their four children, seven grandchildren, and other loved ones and are grieving this tragic news with them,” Biden said in a statement.

In a statement, the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum described Haggai as a man “full of humor who knew how to make those around him laugh. A musician at heart, a gifted flutist, he played in the IDF Orchestra and was involved with music his whole life.”

Biden said he spoke with the couple’s daughter by phone his meeting with the families of hostages last week.

He also reaffirmed his pledged to the families that “we will not stop working to bring them home.”
Posted by Louis Casiano