IDF soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip on December 22 and 23, 2023
Emanuel Fabian – Times of Israel Dec 24, 2023
The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday the names of nine soldiers killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip throughout the previous day, bringing the number of troops killed over the entire weekend to 14, as the military deepened its offensive against the Hamas terror group.
Five soldiers of the Combat Engineering Corps and a paramedic were killed by an anti-tank guided missile that hit a Namer armored engineering vehicle they were in, in southern Gaza. Another four were killed by bombs in two separate incidents during battles with gunmen in central Gaza.
The deaths bring the number of troops killed since the start of the ground operation in late October to 153.
In all, ten soldiers were killed on Saturday. They were identified as:
- Staff Sgt. David Bogdanovskyi, 19, of the Combat Engineering Corps’s 603rd Battalion, from Haifa.
- Staff Sgt. Orel Bashan, 20, of the Combat Engineering Corps’s 603rd Battalion, from Haifa.
- Staff Sgt. Gal Hershko, 20, a squad commander in the Combat Engineering Corps’s 603rd Battalion, from Yiftah.
- Staff Sgt. Roy Elias, 21, of the Combat Engineering Corps’s 603rd Battalion, from Tzofar.
- Staff Sgt. Itamar Shemen, 21, a paramedic in the 36th Division, from Lapid.
- Master Sgt. (res.) Nadav Issachar Farhi, 30, a combat medic in the Yiftah Brigade’s 7810th Battalion, from Herzliya.
- Master Sgt. (res.) Eliyahu Meir Ohana, 28, of the Yiftah Brigade’s 7810th Battalion, from Haifa.
- Sgt. First Class (res.) Elyassaf Shoshan, 23, of the 646th Brigade’s 6646th Battalion, from Jerusalem.
- Sgt. First Class (res.) Ohad Ashur, 23, of the 646th Brigade’s 6646th Battalion, from Kfar Yona.
- Cpt. Oshri Moshe Butzhak, 22, a team commander in the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Haifa.
The IDF had announced Butzhak’s death earlier, along with four soldiers killed on Friday: Staff Sgt. Nir Rafael Kananian, 20; Staff Sgt. Birhanu Kassie, 20; Master Sgt. (res.) Shay Termin, 26; and Warrant Officer (res.) Alexander Shpits, 41.
Battles raged over the weekend as the IDF continued intense fighting in south Gaza’s Khan Younis, where some of Hamas’s leadership is thought to be hiding.
The military announced Saturday it had killed a Hamas official in charge of supply for the terror group’s military wing in an airstrike in southern Gaza’s Rafah, as it continued efforts to dismantle Hamas’s command structure.
The IDF said Hassan al-Atrash was responsible for the supply and production of weapons for Hamas, as well as smuggling weapons from various countries into the Strip. The military published footage of the strike.
It added that al-Atrash was also involved in supplying weapons to terrorists in the West Bank.
Palestinian media reported Friday that at least three people were killed in the airstrike.
בהמשך לחיסול אתמול ברפיח, צה״ל ושב״כ חיסלו באמצעות מטוס קרב את חסן אטרש, אחראי על סחר, ייצור והצטיידות באמצעי לחימה של הזרוע הצבאית של חמאס.
בנוסף לקח חלק בהברחת אמצעי לחימה ממדינות שונות לרצועת עזה. בתקופה האחרונה היה מעורב בהברחת אמצעי לחימה גם ליהודה ושומרון>> pic.twitter.com/7fo6o44Ixa— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) December 23, 2023
In his evening address Saturday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military has further expanded operations in southern Gaza, particularly against Hamas’s underground infrastructure.
“Entering new Hamas strongholds, troops are engaged in heavy battles,” Hagari said.
In the Khan Younis area, Hagari said, the IDF was working “very intensively” against the terror group’s tunnels. “We’ve expanded combat engineering forces there… and we will expand the [99th] Division’s abilities [further] in the coming days,” he stated.
He said that so far, ground forces have destroyed or seized some 30,000 items of explosive weaponry, including anti-tank missiles and RPGs, across the Gaza Strip.
In the area of the Gaza City neighborhoods of Daraj and Tuffah, Hagari said troops had found a cache of weapons in a school, including many explosive devices, rockets and “strategic” capabilities belonging to Hamas’s naval forces, which he stated could have been used against Israeli Navy vessels.
The IDF also released footage obtained from the body camera of a Hamas operative who planned to attack Israeli military engineering vehicles, showing him being killed by troops.
The IDF said troops of the elite Egoz unit operating in the Khan Younis area spotted the gunman approaching the forces and opened fire.
After scanning the area, the body of the terror operative was found, along with his camera.
The IDF releases footage obtained from a body camera of a Hamas operative who planned to attack Israeli military engineering vehicles in the Gaza Strip, showing him being killed by troops.
The IDF says troops of the elite Egoz unit operating in the Khan Younis area spotted the… pic.twitter.com/3cBJDTyflU
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) December 23, 2023
Despite the extensive operations, Hamas has still shown it is capable of firing rockets into Israel, carrying out launches on Saturday evening toward Gaza border communities and Ashkelon, triggering sirens. No injuries were reported in the salvos.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and war cabinet minister Benny Gantz toured the northern Strip and held an assessment with military officials Saturday.
The visit by the ministers to Beit Hanoun came after the IDF Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade assumed responsibility for the area following its full capture by ground forces.
“I am sure that [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar is sitting in his bunker watching TV, he sees what Beit Hanoun looks like,” Gallant said in a video statement.
“This is also true for the Hamas commander who is now fighting against our forces in Khan Younis; he understands how the story ended for the Beit Hanoun battalion,” Gallant added.
Gantz, in his remarks, issued a warning to the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, which has been carrying out daily attacks on northern Israel.
“This campaign is one of the most important that the State of Israel has seen. It serves both the residents of the south and radiates to other arenas,” he said.
“I am sure that [Hassan] Nasrallah is looking at what is happening here [in Gaza] and does not want it to happen to him [in Lebanon],” Gantz added.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi also held an assessment, in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, hailing the “impressive offensive” but adding that “we still have a lot of work to do.”
The IDF said Halevi held the assessment with Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, Commander of the 98th Division Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, and Commander of the Givati Brigade Col. Liron Betito.
Israel launched its vast military operation against Hamas following the terror group’s murderous invasion of southern Israel on October 7, in which it killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 240 hostages into Gaza. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 20,000 people have been killed in the Strip during the war, an unverified figure. Israel says it assesses troops have killed some 8,000 terror operatives. Another 1,000 Hamas terrorists were killed in Israel on October 7, during the terror group’s onslaught.
Archbishop of York cautions against ‘journey of revenge’ in apparent warning about Israel terrorism
Story by Henry Bodkin •
The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell warned of ‘the mistaken belief that “might is right’ – Charlotte Graham
The Archbishop of York has cautioned against embarking on a “journey of revenge” in an apparent warning to israel Writing for The Telegraph, the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell warned of “endless cycles of violence” and the mistaken belief that “might is right”.
He made reference to both the Chinese philosopher Confucius and Martin Luther King Jr in his Christmas message.
Invoking the former, he said: “When you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves; one for your enemy and one for yourself.”
It came as the UN held votes on whether to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, where more than 20,000 people have died in Israel’s constant bombardment following the Oct 7 attack by Hamas.
Quoting Martin Luther King, the Archbishop also said: “Violence begets violence, hate begets hate, and toughness begets a greater toughness. It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction – for everybody.
“Along the way of life, someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of Jewish hate.”
His intervention – which did not explicitly mention the Israel-Gaza war – comes a week after the House of Bishops issued a statement criticising the loss of civilian life and humanitarian situation in Gaza as unjustified.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has also spoken of the “trauma” in Israel following the Oct 7 attacks, as well as warning that, in Gaza, “the more heavy the casualties, the less chance there is of a renewed peace”.
The Most Rev Cottrell also said that, while “amidst the cacophony and misery of war, in a world riven by political extremes and widespread corruption, God speaks”, he warned that “anyone hoping for a message combining instant justice with the extermination of tyranny and divine retribution is likely to be disappointed”.
In his message, the Archbishop said the Christmas story offered “clues” as to the real God not the jews old testament god
“It tells of a baby born in a manger, shepherds granted a privileged audience and foreigners arriving unexpectedly with meaningful gifts.
“What might otherwise sound like an idyllic event is overshadowed by ominous signs: the homeland is enemy-occupied, leaders are unscrupulous, families are uprooted on a whim, and the first of several assassination attempts on Christ’s life is recorded.”
All by the dirty jews
The IDF are notorious liars, and is pretty normal in war, unless you are Russia, and then it’s pretty close to the truth.
The truth, the IDF are getting battered. Urban warfare has the highest attrition rates, and the attacking side generally takes much higher casualties.
If I can take one thing from this statement. It appears to me, that Nazi Amerika has actually given Bibi a deadline. I didn’t read much of it. It’s a busy time of year.
It is sad to see any soldier killed in this deadly operation. However, I would like to see the names of the thousands and thousands of Palestinians that have been murdered by the sabbatean cult – the occupiers. Hamas is a democratically voted in political party with the goal to free the indigenous Palestinians from a concentration prison camp that they were pushed into. You see Hamas concentrates their war efforts to disarm the enemy unlike netayahu who indiscriminately carpet bombs Palestinian civilians. netanyahu can preach as much as he wants to the gullible christians especially the evangelical zionists that his god promised him the land of israel. However, these are fairly tales based on lies, and deceptions. I know my god promised me peace and goodwill to all humans beings. But maybe the babylonean thalmud sabbabean/frankish cult were the”chosen people”, a to be the biggest liers, deceivers and plunders that there ever existed on earth.
This dirty war is just to support die Rotshield and Rockfeler strategical game. Both the people of Israel and the palestinian are the Victem lof this dirty war❗️❗️ The Syber Jews are dieyng for Rotshield!!!
“War theater” http://mileswmathis.com/naft.pdf 27 November 2023
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More fictitious happy dead Jews eh?
“It is evident to all serious thinkers that the only hope of saving mankind from a catastrophe so complete that the very name of civilization will perish is in the appearance of a new religion.” –Aleister Crowley
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I am ROTFLMAO….
I do mourn with individual parents of these Joos who have lost children…
Then again…it becomes circle logic when the Joos have indoctrinated their own children into the Jooish death cult.
We kept hearing about the Israeli Joos having a top 5 ranked military….blah blah blah..
Really?
They bully and murder literally UNarmed Palestinians…since 1948..with some bogus claim the Khazar Joos are the rightful owners of the land. Bullsh*te.
In any bullies timeline…a point is reached where the victim/s has had enough and goes into HULK mode= bully gets justice.
The Joos..as usual….play their propaganda card waaaayyyy tooooo faaaar…till a wall is hit….then SHTF.
The Joos are done…..with the qualifier that maybe Hamas vs Joos was” staged” VS Joos bully ..when actually have their bullying challenged…….fold like a cheap tent. I submit to the latter.
Joos hubris has set in motion in real time the END of their criminal actions since 1948 as more and more nations are backing away for any remote association. Many loonies thought Joos were the Chosen and JC 2nd coming is drawing near …….based on bogus Scofield Bible.
The Joos are nothing more than a yapping Bully who has had their victims finally stand up and say ENOUGH.
Irony is Joos acted as terrorists to acquire Palestine..but once “IsraHell” was established..they became a bogus nation that required a formal military. Now IsraHell is being attacked by terrorists …and losing badly
Justice delayed = Justice denied ?!?
Joodaism is nothing more than a satanic death cult now in retreat.
As stated..they never learn the lessons of history, pattern recognition, and most importantly HUBRIS……moreso when the Joos Chosenite charade is exposed and terminated.
aka the Jooish Wizard behind the curtain has been exposed. Over and Outed
Lets have some bacon and pork chops lol
De-kike your life…and make this public knowledge
dont use any of their business or absorb their media shite
put posters up listing all J business so everyone locally is aware
Strangle their mney supply & cut off their propaganda & lies…this is what they do to their perceived enemies – they know it works, so use it against them
only 14 IDF soldiers ?>
for 20 000 palestinians
come on we need to kill more jews
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS
ya dirty natzis, you are all natzis i hope you all rot with VD and die
carl jones
It is impossible to help Jews, Christians or Moslems: maybe I am lazy, but I will not lift a finger to help any of them. I have to see the three-legged stool melt vertically into the lava