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Israel Killed Sinwar Through Accident

CrossFireArabia
October 18, 2024

Hamas announced today that its leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces. Sinwar, who has been described as the man whom Israel fears, was killed in what appears to have been an accidental encounter. Rather than being the result of a meticulously planned assassination, Sinwar’s martyrdom came after he directly engaged with Israeli troops after he found them, according to Israeli Walla.

On the day of the incident, Sinwar appeared in plain view, attacking Israeli soldiers with gunfire and grenades. He managed to wound several troops before retreating into a nearby building. From there, the Hamas leader continued to launch makeshift weapons, including rocks and sticks, as well as grenades, at the soldiers stationed at a distance. The Israeli soldiers, who were not aware that they were fighting their most wanted man, shelled the building.

This unexpected and fierce engagement is a sharp contrast to Israel’s earlier intelligence efforts, which had previously claimed that it pinpointed Sinwar’s whereabouts but refrained from action due to ‘concerns over the safety of Israeli prisoners’.

Reports from The Jewish Chronicle in August 2023 alleged that Israeli intelligence had multiple chances to kill Sinwar after locating his hiding tunnels in Gaza. However, Israel did not kill Sinwar claiming that he was using Israeli prisoners as human shields.

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Sinwar Killed Whilst Fighting in Battle

CrossFireArabia
October 18, 2024

A source said the late martyr Yahya Sinwar, head of the Hamas political bureau, was at the forefront of Al Aqsa Flood that began on 7 October, 2023.

According to the Quds Press News Agency, the source revealed that “leader Sinwar used to move between all the ‘combat sites’ in the Gaza Strip, fighting heroic battles with his men in eastern Khan Yunis, to the eastern sector of Rafah, steadfast and firm on the proud land of Gaza whilst defending the land of Palestine and its sanctities”.

He continued: “The martyrdom of Sinwar in Rafah confirms he was in the forefront of the defensive ranks of the resistance and was martyred in an area of operations and activity against the criminal Zionist army”.

The source stressed “his martyrdom in a battle above ground refutes the rumors of the enemy about him hiding in a tunnel, or that he was taking shelter with Israeli prisoners, together with the lies that spread against him”.

He pointed out “the martyr ascended forward, not backward, brandishing his weapon, engaging and confronting the occupation army at the forefront of the ranks.”

The source stressed: “The Hamas organizational cohesion, and that its Shura institutions are capable of overcoming the blows, and the movement will remain, confronting the occupier until it is eliminated and defeated.”

Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas Political Bureau member mourned Sinwar, saying he was martyred whilst “engaging and confronting the Israeli army,” stressing there will be no return of the Israeli prisoners except through stopping the aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Al-Hayya said in a recorded speech, Friday: “We mourn Yahya Sinwar, head of the Hamas Political Bureau, commander of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, who ascended as a heroic martyr, drawing his weapon.”

He added Sinwar was killed whilst “engaging and confronting the Israeli occupation army until the last moment of his life.”

He added: “Sinwar was at the forefront, moving between combat positions, steadfast and fixed on the land of Gaza, defending Palestine,” according to Jo24.

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Israel Bombs Kill 990 Medics in Gaza Slaughter

CrossFireArabia
September 22, 2024

More than 990 Palestinian medics were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since 7 October, 2023, Palestinian Health Minister Majid Abu Ramadan said Saturday.

Abu Ramadan said more than 300 health care workers were arrested, and hospitals destroyed and/or rendered inoperable in Israeli strikes.

With the lack of ambulances in Gaza Strip and the fluctuating telecommunication services, casualties are being transported to hospitals in every way possible amidst the nonstop bombing. pic.twitter.com/gRxh0ixKTF
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 31, 2023

He adde the incessant Israeli bombardment forced 130 ambulances out of service.

Five Health Ministry personnel were killed early Saturday in an attack on the agency’s storage facilities in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

The Minister described the bombing of health care personnel and facilities as part of “a broader pattern of violence by the occupation.”

He urged the international community and health organizations “to exert pressure on the occupation authorities to immediately stop the aggression, open border crossings for medical supplies, and allow critically ill patients and wounded individuals to seek treatment,” according to the Anadolu Turkish news agency.

The Israeli military has been targeting medics, ambulances and residential buildings in Gaza, killing over 198 Palestinians. Such air strikes are done with weaponry made in Britain #ShutElbitDown pic.twitter.com/Pcxd6QWOwp
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) October 7, 2023

Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last October despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 41,400 victims, mostly women and children, have since been killed and more than 95,700 injured, according to local health authorities

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

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Israeli Admits to Destroying 96,000 Gaza Homes

CrossFireArabia
September 18, 2024

The Israeli occupation army admitted to destroying about 96,000 Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression on the enclave last 7 October. They claimed these homes were “booby-trapped.”

The Israeli Army Radio stated in a report, Wednesday, that “96,000 homes were destroyed in Gaza since the beginning of the war on Gaza, including about 14,000 houses in the city of Rafah in the southern tip Gaza Strip”. The radio claimed these were destroyed on the grounds that they were “booby-trapped buildings,” it said.

الناجي الوحيد م قصف الاحتلال ع مبنى سكني شمال غزة💔

منذ بداية العدوان ع قطاع غزة استهدف الاحتلال أكثر م 178 مركز إيواء

أكثر م 178 مركز إيواء ف غزة تعرضت للاستهداف م قبل الاحتلال

حيث تستمر المجازر الوحشية يوميًا

مراكز الإيواء التي يُفترض أنها
"آمنة" تتحول إلى أهداف واضحة للقصف pic.twitter.com/1Me7k8nUEU
— 🤍روضــــ𓂆ــــة🤍🇵🇸🇪🇬 (@Rawda48141045) September 18, 2024

“The building that was seized and exploded in Rafah, Tuesday, killing four soldiers and wounding five others, is one of thousands of buildings that Hamas has booby-trapped in Rafah,” it claimed.

“What was known as the threat of booby-trapped buildings, which led to the killing of many soldiers in Gaza since the beginning of the ground maneuver on 27 October, 2023, became known in Rafah as the threat of booby-trapped neighborhoods.”

“There is not a single booby-trapped building in Rafah, but rather groups of 30-40 buildings, and all that is required is a small camera installed in one of them to film the entry of our forces, and to know when the activation mechanism is activated remotely,” the occupation army radio claimed.

According to statistics from the Gaza Government Media Iffice in Gaza on 15 September, the Israeli occupation army destroyed 350,000 homes completely or partially during the war on Gaza, as well as 825 mosques completely or partially and 3 churches.

#هام_جدا

الدمار الذي خلفه عدوان الاحتلال بأبراج حي تل الهوا وبنك فلسطين غرب غزة…

وزارة الصحة بغزة: الاحتلال الإسرائيلي ارتكب 3 مجازر وصل منها للمستشفيات 24 شهيدا و57 مصابا خلال 24 ساعة. و ارتفاع عدد ضحايا العدوان إلى 41.206 شهيدا و95.337 مصابا منذ 7 أكتوبر… pic.twitter.com/2rIRgXFvbM
— jazaer (@aljazaercom) September 15, 2024

The Israeli occupation forces, supported by the United States and Europe, continue to commit the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, for the 348th consecutive day, by launching dozens of airstrikes and artillery shelling, while committing massacres against civilians, amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation resulting from the siege and the displacement of more than 95 percent of the population according to Quds Press.

مقطع حديث للدمار في غزة…

– 6000 صاروخ
– 1550 شهيد
– 20% من السكان أصبحوا بلا مأوى
– 60% من الشهداء نساء وأطفال
– المواد الغذائية والطبية قاربت على النفاد
– لا كهرباء ولا ماء
– المستشفيات لم تعد قادرة على استيعاب المزيد
-مخاوف من انتشار أوبئة وكارثة بيئية pic.twitter.com/K07wzmcAIO
— Dr. Zaid Alsalman (@ZaidAlsalman6) October 14, 2023

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Palestinian Resistance Kill 4 Israeli Soldiers in Rafah Ambush

CrossFireArabia
September 17, 2024

Four Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush set up by the resistance in the south of the Gaza Strip. Also the resistance also carried out a qualitative operation against the Israeli occupation forces in the southern Gaza and bombed the sorrounding Israeli towns.

The Israeli media reported that four Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush set up by the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing in the southern city of Rafah Tuesday afternoon.

#عاجل | وسائل إعلام إسرائيلية: مقتل 4 جنود إسرائيليين في كمين نصبته كتائب القسام لهم في #رفح جنوب قطاع غزة عصر اليوم#حرب_غزة pic.twitter.com/xBH9StOdnJ
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) September 17, 2024

As well al Jihad Quds Brigades stated it “destroyed a Zionist Merkava tank east of Rafah by detonating a highly explosive barrel bomb,” and published scenes of its shelling of the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, north of the Gaza envelope, with a barrage of rockets according to Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, Hamas stated the occupation army committed a new massacre “by carrying out a brutal and intensive shelling that included a residential area crowded with residents east of the Al-Bureij camp, which led to the destruction of a number of homes over the heads of their residents and the deaths and injuries of dozens.”

The Gaza Ministry of Health also announced that the occupation forces committed, in the past 24 hours, three massacres in the enclave, of which 26 martyrs and 84 wounded arrived at hospitals, bringing the number of victims, since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza to 41,252 martyrs and 95,497 wounded.

In turn, Al Jazeera reported the martyrdom of journalist Mohammed Abu Shawqa in a bombing that targeted his home in Al-Bureij camp, and the recovery of the body of a martyr from the Wadi Gaza area, north of Al-Nuseirat camp, also in the central Strip.

Hamas confirmed “these heinous and repeated crimes show that the Israeli army insist on its extermination war and the direct and deliberate targeting of defenseless civilians, amidst reprehensible global silence and a state of complete paralysis of the international system.”

It stressed “these ongoing massacres against the people of Gaza, which are being committed with the complicity and support of the US administration and western capitals, will not weaken the resolve and steadfastness of our Palestinian people or succeed in subduing their resistance, or bring the fascist Zionist clique closer to achieving the goals of its brutal aggression.”

With significant US support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has left more than 136,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.

In disregard of the international community, Israel continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.