While all eyes are on the IDF’s planned invasion of Gaza City, with dire warnings coming from so many countries that do not want the embattled Jewish state to defend itself, but instead, to agree to the latest proposal for a ceasefire by Hamas, the IDF has been quietly continuing its campaign of picking off senior Hamas leaders in Gaza one by one. The latest to be eliminated is Mohammed al-Aswad, the head of Hamas’ security apparatus in the Gaza Strip. More on what his elimination will mean for Hamas, and for Israel, can be found here: “‘A significant source of knowledge’: IDF kills Hamas’s head of General Security Apparatus in Gaza,” Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2025:
The Israeli Air Force last Friday struck and killed Mahmoud al-Aswad, who served as Hamas’s General Security Apparatus leader in the Gaza Strip, the military announced the following Wednesday.
Aswad operated as the terrorist organization’s general security leader for Western Gaza, with the military describing him as a “significant source of knowledge” for Hamas.
Al-Aswad knew where all the weapons were hidden, where the intact tunnels were located, where the shafts leading to those tunnels were to be found, where hostages were being kept. He also knew the numbers of Hamas combatants, and their degree of preparation to attack, or withstand assaults by, the IDF in various parts of the Strip. This was information Aswad carried in his head; it would have been too dangerous to have it written down to be found by the IDF should he be killed. That’s why he was such a high-value target.
The strike was conducted following IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) intelligence.
Additionally, IDF soldiers operated in Jabalya and the outskirts of Gaza City, dismantling terrorist infrastructure and killing Hamas personnel, amid the upcoming operation to take over Gaza City. In the northern city, the IDF’s Givati Brigade under the 162nd Division struck a terror cell and located a weapons storage facility, the military added….
The IDF is now attacking the outskirts of Gaza City, softening up the city for attack, and also creating conditions that will lead more civilians to leave the city before that major assault is launched. Jabalya is 2.5 miles outside; it is where more Hamas combatants have just been killed. At the same time, the IDF’s Givati Brigade has struck a terror cell and attacked a weapons storage facility just on the edge of Gaza City. These “softening up” attacks will now be ratcheted up, but the assault deep into the city will be put off until at least a few hundred thousand of the million people now in Gaza City have fled south, to what will be safe zones, as directed by the IDF.
It is not only on the outskirts of Gaza City that the IDF has been operating in preparation for a full-scale assault. It continues its operations in the south of Strip, wiping out large numbers of Hamas troops who threatened to advance on them in Khan Yunis. The IDF has just taken over the last exchange bank still operating in Ramallah. The Jerusalem Post reported on that surprise raid here: “IDF busts last bank handling foreign currency in West Bank,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, August
The IDF on Tuesday busted a Palestinian bank in Ramallah, the last exchange bank in the West Bank that launders terror funds, the military told The Jerusalem Post.
In a meticulously pre-planned operation, first, the undercover Duvdevan special forces, and later, IDF reservist units for the Binyamin Region, as well as border police, seized hundreds of thousands of terror funds and arrested a few individuals connected to those funds.
With that bank closed, how will the terrorist groups, whether Fatah or Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pay their members’ salaries?
Meanwhile, the first article linked above notes:
Additionally, the night before Wednesday’s operation [on August 27] saw the establishment of the IDF’s 607th Engineering Battalion, which the military stated was “established following the lessons learned following October 7,” and that they “began operating for the first time in the Gaza Strip under the command of the Givati Brigade Combat Team.”
This 607th ‘Engineering Battalion has no doubt been tasked with locating, and destroying, more of the hundreds of miles of tunnels that Hamas had built under Gaza; even now, several hundred miles of what the Israelis call “the Gaza metro” are intact; the IDF now estimates that of the 450 miles of tunnels, 75% of that number remain to be destroyed.
All of this activity — in Khan Yunis, in Ramallah, in Jabalya — continues round the clock, while the troops have started their takeover of Gaza City by launching airstrikes in the north and east of the city, in an attempt to force residents to move to safety, out of Gaza City and into the southwestern part of the Strip where the IDF has created a safe zone. It is in that safe zone that the IDF plans to relocate nearly one million Gazans while its operation to destroy what remains of Hamas in Gaza City — the last place where Hamas has a significant presence — gains momentum.
The past few days of IDF achievements, in Khan Yunis, in Jabalya, in Ramallah, and just inside Gaza City remind us, yet again, that the God of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
Tony says
The IDF should conquer the territory under Israeli rule and deport Islam’s Muslims for their terrorism, discrimination, segregation, murder, and violence against Israelis(Quran 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). To the victor belong the spoils, the territory, despite complaints by the world. Islam’s Muslims are enemies of Israel and ALL Non-Muslims.
ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, FALLACIOUS, DECEITFUL, AND POLITICAL to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims via a MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISE using ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and using a CONTINUOUS TERROR THREAT(Quran 3:54; 7:99; 8:30, etc.). There is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO QURAN in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative(SIN) claims. Thus, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its Murderous Muslims(Quran 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111, etc.).
Allah’s cursed Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Muslims are encouraged to conquer and subjugate every territory for Islam. Hence, Islam and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:191; 4:89, 91; 9:5,29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.).
Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise and Allah’s reward. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, etc.).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, oppression, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Are we there yet? 🥱
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Update:
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/08/31/idf-confirms-iconic-hamas-spokesman-abu-obeidah-killed
Isabella Hale says
IMHO PRAISE THE LORD JESUS and the LORD that the IDF is picking off the TERRORISTS .. even if one by one. I hope some of the hostages are still alive: i have had my doubts but every family needs hope. I get that having lost my last family member of my age this year from a natural death. LIKE YOU SAID THE GOD OF ISRAEL NEITHER SLUMBERS OR SLEEPS.
and yes,, what I agree with what Tony said.
gravenimage says
In Gaza, the IDF Keeps On Keeping On
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Bravo, IDF!