The IDF continues to pound Gaza City, as the campaign there is now at its most intense. In the latest 24-period, from September 24 to September 25, the IDF struck 170 separate targets in the city, as well as targets further south, in the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis. And along with its destruction of so many weapons, rocket launchers, outposts, tunnels, and Hamas combatants, the IDF has managed to empty Gaza City of two-thirds of its occupants — 670,000 inhabitants out of the one million who were in Gaza City just before the latest IDF assault — have fled the city, now a war zone, and are moving to the “designated safe area” of Al-Mawasi in the south, a feat that no one thought it would be possible for the Israelis to achieve.
More on the latest targets hit by the IDF can be found here: “IAF hits 170 Hamas targets across Gaza, eliminates terrorists in Gaza City,” Jerusalem Post, September 25, 2025:
Over the past day, the Israel Air Force struck more than 170 targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, military structures, weapons storage facilities, and terror infrastructure sites, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops continued dismantling terrorist infrastructure and eliminating terrorists in Gaza City, Hamas’s last stronghold. Additionally, several terrorist infrastructure sites that were used for ambushes against soldiers were struck, along with additional weapons storage facilities.
On Wednesday, IDF soldiers identified and killed a terrorist armed with an explosive device attempting to carry out an imminent attack.
In the southern Gaza Strip, soldiers eliminated several terrorists who approached the soldiers and posed an immediate threat.
Soldiers from the IDF’s 6th Reserves Brigade, also known as the Etzioni Brigade, conducted counterterrorism operations in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip over recent weeks, the military announced on Thursday.
This included killing “dozens” of terrorists, and dismantling terror infrastructure above and below ground.
While the major effort by the IDF proceeds apace in Gaza City, to destroy the last significant group of Hamas combatants, which the Israelis believe now number 3,000-5,000 at most, some IDF troops are still conducting counterterrorism operations elsewhere, in the southernmost city of Rafah, on Gaza’s border with Egypt, and in Khan Yunis, in the middle of the Strip.
Whatever the sickening betrayals of Israel by its former friends and allies at the kangaroo court on the East River, so many of them eager to jump on the juggernaut of “recognizing the state of Palestine,” a nonexistent state without borders or a government, the IDF manfully keeps on keeping on, and continues its fight to dismantle the terror group Hamas. The victory over Hamas that is so close to being achieved in Gaza City, Hamas’ last redoubt, will not only make the Jewish state safer, but also the entire Western world. The jihad imperative is not limited to Israel alone; the entire West, the bilad al-kufr, or “Land of the Infidels,” is in the same gunsights of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. The IDF’s is literally a thankless task, but a necessary one. Someday the shamefaced Westerners, forced to fight their own domestic jihadists, will recognize what they owe to Israel. But not yet.
dumbledoresarmy says
The official prayer for the IDF. I say it myself with complete conviction; for like the Knights of St John at Malta in 1565, the IDF in Gaza is right out there on the front lines against the Jihad.
“Prayer for the Members of the Israel Defence Force.
“He who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defence Force , who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
“May Ha-Shem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them.
“May the Holy One, blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress, and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavour.
“May He lead our enemies under their sway, and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory.
“And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Ha-Shem, your God, who goes with you, to battle your enemies for you, to save you.”
Now let us respond, Amen.
Ernie says
Amen !
Ernie says
The comment : “Your comment is awaiting moderation” is not from me of course . I just said : Amen !
gravenimage says
+1
dumbledoresarmy says
My prayer is that the IDF will be somehow led to the places where any remaining still-living (even if only barely) hostages are being held, and that per miraculum they may be able to rescue those hostages.
Taffy says
VP VANCE: “I think the President has been very clear: he actually wants Gaza to be controlled by the people who live there, he wants the West Bank to be controlled by the people who live there, and he wants the terrorist networks that are around the Israelis to be dismantled…”
The problem i# that “the people who live there” (Gaza and Judea/Sumaria) are none other than Hamas, PFLP, Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Quds Force offshoots, etc. The “people who live there” are the terrorists!
James Lincoln says
Taffy says,
“The “people who live there” are the terrorists!”
Yes, and therein lies the problem.
OLD GUY says
“The people who live there are the terrorist” For Israel it is like having Cancer, the only chance for cure is to remove the cancer.
Westman says
The Nakba 2 seems to be shattering the delusion of liberals everywhere who, experiencing safety, food, and shelter for most of their lives, only 80 years removed from historical instability, assumed that it would last forever. The protests “for” the Palestinians is a result of ignorance that Islam has, as its central goal and directive, the very protestor’s subjugation or elimination.
The Israelis are without that peaceful experience or delusion, having to fight for Israel’s existence since before its inception. This is the reality at the interstitial space between Islam and the free world.
Much of the protest is displaced energy from youth who are frightened about their own future who, instead of following the wisdom of the ages, stable marriages, working to support raising children, avoiding vices, and contributing to their community, they attempt to extend an irresponsible life, flirting with deviency, rejecting wisdom, believing freedom is doing whatever they want without considering the effects on society.
Liberals find excuses to avoid raising children, “I need to own a home, first”, “I need to finish my education before I can marry you though we’re living together”, “We can’t afford vacations if we have children”, “One was enough, no more kids”, etc.
Of course, that’s all backwards. Those who assume the full responsibilities of marriage and children grow through the experience, “Happiness and tears”, and become a successful team.
The results of the West’s declining fertility rate, industriousness, and morality are becoming clear: Inflation, economic instability, and leaders flirting with war to distract the angry populace.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, Westman.
Joseph Askew says
Go Israel, Jesus is your Messiah.
Walter Sieruk says
That’s the way to handle those dangerous malicious and murderous Muslim terrorists of Hamas . By the only language that they are able to understand “Which is by having them be on the receiving side of a very strong power of military might. That is hit them hard, hit them harder and keep on hitting them.
As Thomas Jefferson had, so rightly, declared “with every barbarous people …force is law.”
Billy says
Muslims are terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Quran 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”