Soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip on December 23, 2024: (L-R) Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener. (Israel Defense Forces)
Emanuel Fabian – Times of Israel Dec 23, 2024
Three Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, the military announced, as operations to combat the Hamas terror group’s regrouping efforts in the area continued.
The slain troops were named as: Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, from Kiryat Motzkin; Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, from Elazar; and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, from Talmon.
They all served in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion.
According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the soldiers were killed by an explosive device in the Beit Hanoun area.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 391. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
The Kfir Brigade had just wrapped up an operation against Hamas in nearby Beit Lahiya earlier this week.
Troops advanced to the Beit Hanoun area “following intelligence information about the presence of terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area,” the IDF said on Sunday.
The military and Shin Bet also announced Monday that a senior member of Hamas’s general security forces had been killed in a Sunday airstrike in Gaza City.
According to the military, the target of the strike, Tharwat Muhammad Ahmad al-Bayk, served as the head of the security directorate in Hamas’s General Security Service.
Al-Bayk was targeted while at a Hamas command center embedded within the Musa Ibn Nusayr school, in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, the IDF said.
The school was serving as a shelter for displaced Gazans, and Palestinian media reported at least eight dead in the strike.
The IDF and Shin Bet said that the security directorate in the General Security Service is a Hamas body that is tasked with building an intelligence picture to help the terror group make decisions.
The unit is also responsible for the protection of Hamas’s top officials, and has the job of providing shelters for the senior commanders and leaders to enable them to continue their military activity, the joint statement said.
“Al-Bayk was considered one of the main links in the mechanism, and a significant factor in [Hamas’s] decision-making,” the statement continued.
The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition and aerial surveillance.
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Times of India – Dec 24, 2024
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Three fewer ugly kikes around. Great news.
Here we go again…3 more fictitious computer generated smiling ‘dead Jews’. You see boy, the conflict is real.
oh ….so sad
more of nicos fantasy dead smiling jews i see
every 2 or 3 weeks the Mossad publishes photos of fictitious smiling dead Jews for us
After my brief 40 day sojourn through the Hell bound out reaches of Tartarus…hehe..circum-sized either side and round the other bit by the the detritus and drek of absolute mediocrity and it’s foot soldiers..one can only marvel at the static nature of man and his solipsism…
SO…
Well done to all here at the TS..after three days traversing the underworld, the sOn has been reborn raised from the dead…to Herald the summer and Harvest of both body and mind…
Resurrected..
As I am surely too..and You Too if youv’e been a good boy for Satan..er I mean Santa… so may your God or Gods bless you all..and Tiny Tim Truthseeker too..
and not least of the this goodly seasoning….. a very very merry Christmas in Christ to you all..
@Rothschild
Its like they’re letting us know with their shit-eating grins its all a hoax
peanut news .
3’s still not enough of these Vermin scumbags dying. I need to read many more dying, Tod Dem Juden.
Hell wants its next 6 million with Schneerson.