Jihadis are always simply retaliating for the crimes of the kuffar, since offensive jihad is not possible without a caliph. But Palestinian Islamic Jihad would never admit that Israel’s defensive action in Gaza is simply a response to the Oct. 7 jihad massacres.
“Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel as tank advances intensify in north and south,” Reuters, July 1, 2024:
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday, in an apparent show of force as Israeli tanks pressed their advance deeper into Gaza amid fierce fighting, residents and officials said.
The armed wing of Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed ally of Hamas, said its fighters fired rockets towards several Israeli settlements near the fence with Gaza in response to “the crimes of the Zionist enemy against our Palestinian people”.
The volley of around 20 rockets caused no casualties, according to the Israeli military. But it showed militants still possess rocket capabilities almost nine months into Israel’s offensive it says is aimed at neutralizing threats against it.
In some parts of Gaza, militants continue to stage attacks on Israeli forces in areas that the army had left months ago.
On Monday, Israeli tanks deepened their incursions into the Shejaia suburb in eastern Gaza City for a fifth day, and tanks advanced further in western and central Rafah, in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt, residents said.
The Israeli military said it had killed a number of militants in combat in Shejaia on Monday and found large amounts of weapons there.
Hamas said that, in Rafah, its militants lured an Israeli force into a booby-trapped house in the east of the city and then blew it up, causing casualties.
Also in Rafah, the Israeli military said that an airstrike killed a militant who fired an anti-tank missile at its troops.
Israel has signaled that its operation in Rafah, meant to stamp out Hamas, will soon be concluded. After the intense phase of the war is over, its forces will focus on smaller scale operations meant to stop Hamas reassembling, officials say.
The war began when Hamas-led fighters burst into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killed 1,200 people and took around 250 hostages, including civilians and soldiers, back into Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s air, ground and naval counteroffensive has so far killed nearly 38,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry, and has left the heavily built-up coastal enclave in ruins.
The Gaza health ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, but officials say most the dead are civilians. Israel has lost 316 soldiers in Gaza and says at least a third of the Palestinian dead are fighters….
SC says
When you kick a slumbering tiger in the nuts, you are going to get hunted down and ripped apart.
Jihadi’s are reaping what they have sown. When they cower amongst ‘Civilians’ ( I use the term loosely where Islam is concerned ) then your shields will die in beside you.
somehistory says
“the crimes”….just breathing air and not bowing down to islam’s false god and fake prophet.
Mike says
That 38,000 number, coming from Ham-Ass, is likely bullshit. It’s probably no more than half of that, given their record of prevarication and exaggeration.
somehistory says
Since the terrorists put babies, small children, young women and old in harm’s way on purpose, any of the deaths of non-combatants is the fault of hamas.
Besides, they started the war, so their own deaths are also their own fault.
If in a war, the army leaves home and goes to another land to fight, their citizens are not in harm’s way. hamas went to Israel, murdered, and kidnapped, then returned to gaza; this automatically put citizens of gaza in harm’s way.
the sole responsibility of the deaths belongs to hamas
JS says
The article is from Reuters. That “Health Ministry” is Hamas. Those numbers have been been proven impossible and even the UN and Hamas admitted it. It’s been months when those numbers were deemed fake, but the media keeps repeating them. Also, let’s face it Reuters is a propaganda piece- not a reputable new site.
Rufolino says
The BBC doesn’t agree.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Obviously, the Gaza operation is far from over. It should cover not just Hamas, but also islamic jihad, Fatah and Lion’s Den. Essentially, every Pali terrorist should be put out