CBS News: Israeli forces raid Gaza as airstrikes drive up civilian death toll before expected invasion
Tel Aviv — Israel carried out an hours-long, overnight ground raid into the northern Gaza Strip, the country's military said Thursday, as part of "preparations for the next stages of the war" with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) released video of the raid showing a bulldozer leveling a raised bank amid explosions and tank fire in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. The timing of a long expected full-scale Israeli ground invasion remained unclear Thursday, but the consequences of Israel's relentless airstrikes, which started immediately after Hamas' brutal terror attack on Israel, have already been catastrophic for the 2.3 million people trapped inside Gaza.
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WNU Editor: This assessment on why Israel conducted this raid is probably correct .... 'Reconnaissance by fire' - What Israel's Gaza raid tells us (BBC).
Israeli Forces Conduct A Brief Raid Into Gaza
Israel ground forces raid Hamas sites in Gaza, withdraw - military statement -- Reuters
Israeli troops conduct brief raid in Gaza to ‘prepare’ for an expected full-scale incursion -- AP
IDF tanks, troops push into Gaza in limited raid ahead of ground offensive -- Times of Israel
Israeli Military Says Troops Conducted Ground Operation in Gaza Strip -- VOA
Israeli troops, tanks and bulldozers enter Gaza in overnight raid -- The Guardian
Israeli forces conduct tank raid in Gaza ahead of expected invasion -- FOX News
Israeli troops carry out brief raid into Gaza -- The Hill
Reminds of an EVE Online raids :D
ReplyDelete"Much of the fighting, if it occurs, will be below ground in the many hundreds of kilometres of subterranean tunnels Hamas has built beneath the Gaza Strip.
ReplyDeleteCasualties here are expected to be high "
Why? Just gas them.
Very few people hold to the Geneva convention. The Gestapo sent American airmen to concentration camps. It took the Luftwaffe to get into the faces of the Gestapo or SS to persuade them to send the airmen to a POW camp.
Moscow theater hostage crisis
All 40 of the insurgents were shot dead when unconscious,[2] and up to 130 hostages died during the siege, including 9 foreigners, due to the toxic substance pumped into the theater.[3][4][5] The identity of the gas was not disclosed at the time, although it was believed to have been a fentanyl derivative.[6] A study published in 2012 concluded that it had been a mixture of carfentanil and remifentanyl
If CO2 or CO is a bit much they, can use fentanyl and go Russian on Hamas.