ALERT Main Israel/Hamas/Gaza Thread

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"In the last few hours, IAF fighter jets and aircraft have attacked nine headquarters of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip. The houses that were attacked were used as terrorist infrastructure and in some of the houses, weapons depots were even found."





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"Among the houses of the attacked commanders are the house of the commander of the Beit Hanun Battalion, the house of the commander of the Beit Hanun company, the house of a company commander in Gaza City and the house of a company commander in the Shatti battalion of Hamas"





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"In addition, a military infrastructure for conducting combat was attacked in a house responsible for military intelligence of the Hamas terrorist organization in Sajaiya. The IAF attacks terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip and acts as forcefully as necessary."


 
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Folks as a human I feel for the Palestinians, the civilians. But, after 5000 years one would think they and the World would have learned not to mess with the Israelites. I would think Butden should watch where he walks in the same way.
 
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Vipin Narang
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For me the eye-popping detail here is that the IDF claims Iron Dome is intercepting 90 percent of its intended targets even after switching from a 2-interceptors per missile procedure to 1-interceptor per missile, effectively doubling its saturation point without efficacy loss.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system has managed to keep Israeli casualties low by destroying incoming Hamas rocket fire, removing pressure for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip https://on.wsj.com/3hw
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Seth Frantzman
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Thread: Israel worked hard to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza as it has increasingly done since 2014; but something has changed a bit over the last years. Israel’s attempt to manage the conflict with Hamas led to a desire for not having casualties among low level Hamas members

Israel says that it works hard, often with a lot of time invested in warning people to leave buildings before they are struck, which means Hamas members leave too. Israel says it does everything it can to avoid hurting civilians.

But the time taken to evacuate buildings means civilians and Hamas members evacuate. What’s strange is that there are mistakes where civilians are hit. It does appear Israel has worked hard to not have large numbers of militant casualties also.
He is that interesting? Because in the past Israel had targeted Hamas police officers for instance a decade ago. Now that doesn’t happen. Yet while Israel sought to hit infrastructure and command and control and things like tunnels. But not so many operatives.

That leaves questions about the civilians who were killed. It also leaves questions about Israel’s policy. This is not an attrition war. Israel doesn’t want to prolong it. Hamas appears to know this also. This is mostly Hamas rockets versus Israel airstrikes on infrastructure

This is a kind of new war...this super precision and warnings and attempt for a war without casualties on both sides. Despite unprecedented rocket fire from Gaza. But even the best laid plans for a “clean” war doesn’t end that way
This leads to questions about the future of war in general and lessons learned. Israel may have reached a pinnacle of its attempt to “manage” war using tech and warnings and aborting attacks and air defense.
 
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Update:
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: "Turkey is ready to take whatever action necessary over Israel’s attacks on Palestine."
 
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Report: Hezbollah has ‘no interest’ in Gaza fighting spreading to Lebanon
By TOI staff 16 May 2021, 4:27 pm 1 Edit

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Hezbollah does not want to expand the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip to Lebanon, an unnamed Lebanese official told the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat in a Sunday report.
“The situation on the border with Israel will remain under control because Hezbollah has no interest to expand the conflict,” the source was quoted as saying.

For the past week, some 2,500 rockets launched by Hamas-led Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip have bombarded towns in southern and central Israel, and the Israeli military has responded with extensive airstrikes on terror targets. Dozens have been killed, and hundreds wounded.

Though there have been some clashes on the Israel-Lebanon border in support of the Palestinians, with one man shot dead, the Iran-backed Hezbollah was reportedly not intending to launch its own attacks.
The official, described as a “prominent politician,” said Iran doesn’t want an Israel-Hezbollah war while it tries to win sanctions relief from the US at the nuclear talks in Vienna. In addition, conflict with Israel would lead to Hezbollah’s stockpile of precision missiles being raised at the negotiations, the source added.


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In the background the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, and on foreground tens of other rockets fired by Hamas while the Iron Dome is busy with the first rockets, as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 16, 2021 (ANAS BABA / AFP)

Hezbollah’s arsenal of advanced weapons is a major concern to Israel, which has conducted numerous airstrikes in neighboring Syria to prevent the Lebanese terror group from taking delivery of such systems.
In addition, Hezbollah reportedly wants to keep a low profile about its weapons cache amid an ongoing political crisis in the country that has prevented the forming of a government. Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai has called for the United Nations to become involved, a development that would lead to consideration of Hezbollah’s weapons, according to the report.

Although some Hezbollah officials took part in the border protests, their presence was symbolic and intended to send only a political message, the source claimed.
The source also said that three rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel last week, which exploded in the sea, were intended as a show of solidarity with Gaza and that there will not be an escalation into open fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

The report came after the Israeli military thwarted an attempted infiltration attack against Israelis along the Lebanese border, overnight Friday-Saturday. Forces identified several suspects cutting the border fence and digging beneath it, the Israel Defense Forces said, adding that “troops fired at the men’s lower bodies and they fled.”
Searches of the area revealed items suspected to be bombs, the military said, saying that the suspects’ behavior and evidence at the scene point toward a plan to infiltrate into Israel and carry out an attack in the area of Metula.
On Saturday the military reported fresh rioting in Lebanon at a number of locations along the border between the countries.

“The rioters are throwing objects and Molotov cocktails and damaging the [security] fence,” a statement from the IDF said, adding that troops responded with riot dispersal means and warning fire toward a number of the rioters.
The clashes were not near any Israeli communities, the IDF reassured.
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Israeli soldiers guard in Metula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, on May 14, 2021, after Lebanese protesters crossed the Israeli border fence. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

The protests on the northern border came amid intense fighting between Israel and the Hamas terror group in Gaza, which entered its sixth day on Sunday. Like Hezbollah, Hamas also receives support from Iran, with officials in the Gaza-ruling terror group having praised Tehran for providing it weapons and aid in its fighting against Israel.
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have fired over 2,500 rockets toward Israel since the outbreak of fighting last Monday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

As of Sunday, 10 people in Israel have been killed in the current round of fighting, including a 5-year-old boy, whose funeral in Kiryat Gat was interrupted by rocket sirens.
The Gaza health ministry said Sunday that at least 197 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of fighting, including 58 minors.

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www.timesofisrael.com

Report: Hezbollah has ‘no interest’ in Gaza fighting spreading to Lebanon

Lebanese official tells newspaper that the terror group and its patron Iran don't want to impact the nuclear talks with world powers
www.timesofisrael.com www.timesofisrael.com
 
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JUST IN - Biden admin approves $735 million weapons sale to Israel.
The bulk of the proposed sale is of Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMS, kits that transform so-called “dumb” bombs into precision-guided missiles (WaPo)
US lawmakers now have 20 days to object the weapons sale to Israel with a nonbinding resolution of disapproval.
 
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Xy5Z89
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AUTO TRANSLATION Over the past few days, Navy fighters have identified suspicious movements in the northern Gaza Strip and near the assets of Hamas' naval force, and have tracked down a number of operatives of the force and their movements in the area.
Today, through the identification capabilities of Air Force aircraft and the advanced absorption capabilities of the Navy, a number of operatives and naval weapons suspected of being diving naval weapons have been identified.
The vessel was lowered to shore and was apparently on its way to carry out hostile terrorist activity towards the maritime space of the State of Israel. Recently, IDF vessels and IDF aircraft attacked activists and weapons in order to thwart the threat.
 
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