Sancho Banana posted:

https://twitter.com/newsisrael13/status/1749375513708097660?t=vJpUouFqQBS6CxGR2oossw&s=19

These guys are such an awkward obstacle for the cabinet because you know they're dying to give them a restraining order, but they can't keep pretending to care about the hostages if they do that.

Spergin Morlock posted:

Tankbuster posted:

they have the same rank scheme as vanilla xcom 2. A squad full of colonels.

fatelvis posted:

Are the IDF soldiers all suicidal or something? If they know that is gonna happen why aren't they surrendering and trying to gtfo as soon as possible.

Spergin Morlock posted:

apatheticman posted:

Why dont they simply just place a small explosive at the base of the neck against the spine that goes off if they haven't checked in after 24 hours.

So simple.

quote:

GAZA/DOHA/JERUSALEM, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Israeli forces, advancing deep into western Khan Younis in Gaza's bloodiest fighting so far in January, stormed one hospital and put another under siege on Monday, cutting off the wounded from trauma care, Palestinian officials said.

Troops advanced for the first time into the al-Mawasi district near the Mediterranean Coast, west of Khan Younis, the main city in southern Gaza. There, they stormed the Al-Khair hospital and were arresting medical staff, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qidra told Reuters.

There was no word from Israel on the situation at the hospital, and the military spokesperson's office had no comment. The military said later that three Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday in southern Gaza.
Qidra said at least 50 people were killed overnight in Khan Younis, while the sieges of medical facilities meant dozens of dead and wounded were beyond the reach of rescuers.

"The Israeli occupation is preventing ambulance vehicles from moving to recover bodies of martyrs and the wounded from western Khan Younis," he said.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said tanks had surrounded another Khan Younis hospital, al-Amal, headquarters of the rescue agency, which had lost contact with staff there.

"We are deeply worried about what is happening around our hospital," said Tommaso Della Longa, spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Israel says Hamas fighters operate in and around hospitals, which Hamas and medical staff deny.

Elad Goren of COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry branch that coordinates with the Palestinians, added that: "A particular effort led by a dedicated team has been put on making sure civilians have access to medical care."

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday said Israel had a right to defend itself but added: "We expect them to do so in accordance with international law and to protect innocent people in hospitals, medical staff and patients as well, as much as possible."

Residents said the bombardment from air, land and sea was the most intense in southern Gaza since the war began in October.

Video filmed from afar showed scattered civilians wandering around a ghost city crowded with tents, abandoned laundry flapping on lines as gunfire rattled and smoke rose into the sky.

Israel launched an offensive last week to capture Khan Younis, which it now says is the principal headquarters of the Hamas militants responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.

On Monday the Israeli Defense Forces said they had found weapons, explosives, rockets and a weapons facility and destroyed tunnel shafts and underground infrastructure in recent days in Khan Younis.

PENNED IN
The newest phase of the war has brought fighting deep into the last corners of the enclave packed with those fleeing bombardment. At least 25,295 Gazans have been killed since Oct. 7, Gaza health authorities said in an update on Monday.

Most of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are now penned into Rafah just south of Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah just north of it, crammed into public buildings and camps of tents made from plastic sheets lashed to wooden frames.

Lines of cars and donkey carts piled high with belongings pushed south as Gazans sought to flee the bombardments.

"This is the seventh time I get displaced," said Gazan Mariam Abu-Haleeb, weeping in a car surrounded by her possessions.

Ahmad Abu-Shaweesh, a boy, described sheltering in the Al-Aqsa University only to find it coming under attack.

"We hardly made it out... We didn't expect the tanks at the university's gates."

Gaza has had no communications or internet service for 10 days, hampering ambulance dispatches to areas targeted by Israel and preventing people from checking on one another and on the whereabouts of Israeli forces.

At Nasser Hospital, the only major hospital still accessible in Khan Younis and the largest still functioning in Gaza, video showed the trauma ward overwhelmed with wounded being treated on a floor splashed with blood.

Outside, men dug graves within the hospital grounds because it was not safe to venture out to the cemetery. Authorities said 40 people were buried there.

In Brussels, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told reporters the situation in Gaza was out of control and asked the European Union to call for a ceasefire.

"The health system has collapsed. There is no way for injured Palestinians to be treated in the Gaza strip and they are not able to leave Gaza for treatment outside."

ikanreed posted:

Thank God the US is here to replace that poor tank. The biomechanical control machinery takes longer to rebuild, but they have elite teams acquiring the raw materials

Ytlaya posted:

Have you actually tried synchronized kegeling? I haven't. Maybe it actually does work?

Marenghi posted:

An Iraqi Airline is being sanctioned as it's accused of being used to transport Iranian arms to groups in support of the attacks on Israel.
I guess blocking trade to stop weapons being delivered is okay as long as you declare sanctions first. If only the Houthi's had their press secretary announce sanctions on Israeli vessels before they started the blockade the liberals would have been forced to accept it.
https://x.com/cspan/status/1749513771985592796?s=20

Weka posted:

Merkavas are made in Israel.

carcinofuck posted:

lol@40 mennonites all named schmidt

This is just cause Iraq is demanding the US out, right?



also can Hamas please take more hostages? I want to see what happens when hostage # go up

Ytlaya posted:

Have you actually tried synchronized kegeling? I haven't. Maybe it actually does work?

Weka posted:

The thing that gets me about these sorts of sanctions is that these "Iranian backed militias" are official arms of the Iraqi government, as recently reiterated by the Iraqi PM. But strangely Iraq has not been sanctioned as a whole.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Its just a warning that the US will sanction to them to hell and back if they go through it

The US will designate the entirety of the Iraqi government as just a wing of Iran

Mister Bates posted:

so do we think Hamas is just getting really really good at singling out and picking off officers, that the Israelis are massively undercounting their casualties, or that they're so top-heavy that they're sending in formations composed almost entirely of officers without any enlisted men?

OctaMurk posted:

I think Merkava hull production was actually moved to Ohio

double nine posted:

really wondering why that gently caress is so unwilling to flee back to philadelphia instead of keeping this bloody circus going

Spergin Morlock posted:

gonna laugh when it turns out hamas has stingray units or the like and have been tracking the sim cards on phones IDF soldiers are carrying around in gaza while turned on

VoicesCanBe posted:

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1749518861408280931

New operation name dropped. I'm sure this one will go great

VoicesCanBe posted:

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1749518861408280931

New operation name dropped. I'm sure this one will go great

VoicesCanBe posted:

New operation name dropped. I'm sure this one will go great

Punkin Spunkin posted:

loving Hannibal committed suicide after resisting the Romans until he was nearly 70, was cornered near the Black Sea, and didn't wanna get captured, starved and imprisoned in filth, put on an imperial parade in chains, and then strangled to death in some dank basement.
Yall pathetic motherfuckers just don't wanna do a prisoner swap!!! Call that poo poo The Himmler Directive. Leave my mans alone.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1748692030782382231?s=20

That'll buff right out.

PhilippAchtel posted:

British warship, go gently caress yourself

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1749533377047277699

lol

Grem posted:

I know we're all aware of how the Isrealis handle rank but seeing a 19 year old staff sergeant and poo poo still blows my mind every time

Willa Rogers posted:

more war criming

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tanks-cut-off-two-hospitals-new-storming-gazas-khan-younis-2024-01-22/