Press TV – Nov 2, 2023
Netanyahu meets with Defence Minister Gallant (c) and military chiefs at IDF HG in Tel Aviv on Oct 8 2023
Israeli tanks and troops have met fierce resistance from Hamas fighters using mortars and hit-and-run attacks from tunnels to fight off Tel Aviv’s ground invasion of Gaza City after nearly four weeks of bombardments.
Fighters of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad were emerging from tunnels to fire at tanks, then disappearing back into the network, residents said and videos from both groups showed Thursday, in guerrilla-style operations against Israeli troops.
“They never stopped bombing Gaza City all night, the house never stopped shaking,” Reuters quoted an unnamed man living there. “But in the morning we discover the Israeli forces are still outside the city, in the outskirts and that means the resistance is heavier than they expected.”
Military commanders said Israeli troops were “at the gates of Gaza City”. Herzi Halevi, chief of the general staff of the Israeli military, said Israeli troops were fighting in a dense and complex urban area, that required professional combat.
“This is certainly terrain that is more heavily sown than in the past with minefields and booby-traps. Hamas has learned and prepared itself well,” said Brigadier General Iddo Mizrahi, chief of Israel’s military engineers.
The Israeli army said Palestinian fighters killed a commander of an armored brigade’s battalion in Gaza. Lt Col Salman Habaka became the 18th soldier to be killed in Gaza in two days of heavy fighting.
He is the most senior Israeli soldier to be killed since the ground invasion escalated on Tuesday.
An Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in an “incident” on the Egyptian border, Israeli media said, citing the army.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said two drones attacked an Israeli military position in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms on Thursday.
In a brief communique, the group said the two drones used “a large amount of explosives” and hit their targets with “high accuracy”.
Earlier on Thursday, sirens warning of incoming rockets sounded in northern Israel.
Hamas rockets launched from Lebanon wounded at least two people and caused damage in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona.
Footage shared on Israel’s Channel 13 showed cars and shops on fire as a result of the rocket.
Hamas said in a statement on Thursday that its armed wing in Lebanon had launched 12 rockets into the city.
Israel’s military authorities have stressed the difficulties of urban warfare. Their strategy for now seems to be concentrating large forces in the northern Gaza Strip rather than launching a ground invasion on the entire territory.
Israeli settler killed in shooting in West Bank
In yet another development on Thursday, an Israeli settler was killed in a shooting that targeted the vehicle he was driving near the settlement of Einav in the occupied West Bank, said Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency response organization.
The deadly shooting prompted dozens of settlers to storm the Palestinian village of Dayr Sharaf, located about seven kilometers from the Einav settlement. They reportedly set Palestinian businesses and fields ablaze and smashed parked cars.
On October 7, Israel launched a full-scale war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, where shortages of food, water, and medicine threaten the lives of Gazans and hospitals are overwhelmed amid incessant Israeli bombings.
The ceaseless airstrikes, missile attacks and shelling on Gaza have killed, as of Thursday, 9,061 Palestinians, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women, and wounded almost 23,000 others, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
hamas is fighting for us christians too
we must support them#every jews death is also a victory for us
Most of Northern Israel is empty, and the former residents say they won’t be going back, because they don’t trust the (Nazi) IDF.
By my reckoning, 500 Isreali troops are dead. Say that, the disinformation makes UKraine look tame, and we did have fairly reliable Russian information.
It appears to me that Iran and Turkey are going to form a military alliance against the Nazis. We wait and see.
“Israeli casualties mount as the IDF presses on with its offensive in Gaza. Lt Col Salman Habaka, the commander of an armoured detachment, is the 18th Israeli soldier to die in two days of fighting”
Good riddance to the filthy pig. He went to spend eternity with his pappy Satan.
This is pure pure speculation on my part, but deaths such as these might also come about as a means to eliminate perceived internal enemies and then attributing them as “enemy action”.
“Internal enemies” would include those of a more conciliatory attitude towards the Palestinians, but as I say, I’m just speculating…
Jews have to report fictitious deaths/kidnappings of Israelis, to provide them the moral justification to reduce Gaza to rubble & ice Arabs. The ulterior plan of course is for the Palestinian survivors to be transported to Europe/America/UK where they will be setup in new flats to organize their Muslim sex grooming gangs targeting white girls to rape & pimp out.
we here in europa should kill all israel
suporting politicians + traitors in MSM .
UNITE WITH MOSLEMS !
mengele —
jawohl
a safe place of refuge for satanic Jews is becoming impossible. the next phase is most likely to be hunted down in every nation. how quickly events turn around in this zionist era. father of zionists, H Kesenger saw it coming 10 years ago and stated it in the public record.