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Confirmed: Israeli Strike Kills Hamas No. 3 Marwan Issa

By Margaret Flavin
Mar. 19, 2024 11:40 am

On Monday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed that an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last week killed senior Hamas commander Marwan Issa.



Issa was the third-ranking member of Hamas, serving as the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, and is said to have been one of the masterminds of the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.



“Hamas’s number three, Marwan Issa, was killed in an Israeli operation last week,” Sullivan said during a White House press briefing.



“The rest of the top leaders are in hiding, likely deep in the Hamas tunnel network, and justice will come for them too. We are helping to ensure that,” he added.

According to the IDF, more than 50 terrorists have been killed and around 180 suspects arrested since the start of the Shifa operation.



IDF shared on X, “The activity of the IDF and Shin Bet forces, the 13th Fleet and the combat team of the 401st Brigade, led by the 162nd Division, continues in the area of ​​the Shifa Hospital. The fighters eliminate terrorists in face-to-face battles and locate weapons in the area while preventing harm to civilians, patients, medical teams and medical equipment.”

Jewish News Network reports:



In a joint statement released on Monday afternoon, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced that during the operation, troops killed Faiq Mabhuoch, head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas’s Internal Security. He was also responsible for coordinating terrorist activities in the Gaza Strip, according to the statement.



“Faiq Mabhouh was eliminated in an encounter with the troops while armed and hiding in a compound at Shifa Hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity. Numerous weapons were located in the room adjacent to where he was eliminated,” the statement continued.



Hamas forces fired on Israeli troops from within the hospital, according to the army. The terrorists used patients at the hospital as human shields.


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‘Up to 1,000 terrorists holed up in Shifa Hospital’


MARCH 27, 2024


“Shifa, or schools and places like that, are our shelters,” a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist tells Israeli interrogators.



The Israel Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate on Tuesday released footage of captured Palestinian terrorists admitting to interrogators that 600 to 1,000 Hamas operatives have been hiding out in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.



The detainees, identified as Nabeel Rajab Abed Shteivi and Bakr Ahmed Bakr Qanita, were captured during an IDF operation at Shifa launched last week in an attempt to root out a resurgent Hamas presence in the compound, which Israeli forces first captured in mid-November.



“Shifa, or schools and places like that, are our shelters,” says Shteivi, who worked on producing missiles for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He notes that Hamas controls all of Shifa’s buildings, and has a vast presence in the specialist departments.



“You might see someone who doesn’t look like a nurse but is dressed in a nurse’s uniform,” the PIJ terrorist explains.



Qanita, a senior Hamas leader who commanded 143 other terrorists in the Gaza Strip and spent almost a month at Shifa before being captured, tells interrogators from the IDF’s Unit 504 that between 600 and 1,000 operatives were holed up at the hospital at various times.





The interrogation of Hamas terrorist Bakr Ahmed Bakr Qanita by Israel Defense Forces intelligence, March 26, 2024. Credit: IDF. (source: JNS)

Hamas uses the hospital’s specialist division as one of its main hubs, he says, confirming Shteivi’s claim, and also uses the management offices.



Hamas terrorists are regrouping at Gaza hospitals, forcing the Israeli military to conduct mop-up operations in them, Channel 12 reported on Monday. The operation at Shifa Hospital has been going on for over a week and is expected to last at least until Wednesday.



According to the IDF, 170 terrorists have been killed in firefights in and around the compound. Another 500 have been detained. Large amounts of weapons have also been confiscated, many of which were hidden among hospital equipment, patients and displaced civilians.



“Hamas hijacked the Shifa Hospital and hides behind the sick and injured, waging war from inside the hospital,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in his regular press briefing on Sunday night.





“The IDF apprehended hundreds of terror suspects with confirmed ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad, making this one of the most successful operations since the start of the war,” Hagari continued.



Hagari alleged Hamas was destroying the hospital by firing mortars at troops from it, damaging the compound. The terrorist group is also firing at Israeli forces from inside the Shifa emergency room and maternity center and throwing explosive devices from the burn ward, he said.



“Our operation at Shifa Hospital proves once again: Hamas systematically uses hospitals to wage war and consistently uses the people of Gaza as human shields,” concluded the IDF spokesman.



In footage released by the Israel Security Agency on Nov. 26, two Hamas terrorists admitted to using an ambulance to kidnap foreign workers from Israel during the Oct. 7 massacre and take them to Shifa.



On Nov. 20, the ISA released footage of Palestinians confirming to agency interrogators how terrorists hid inside hospitals and dressed as medical personnel.



As far back as 2009, the ISA reported during the Gaza conflict of that year (“Operation Cast Lead”) that Hamas operatives were hiding in the hospital and that the basement had become its headquarters.



In addition to being used to hide Hamas leaders and hostages, the terrorist group is known to have fired rockets, tortured suspected collaborators and hoarded fuel in the hospital compound.

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After U.S. Pressure, IDF Leaves Southern Gaza; Hamas Declares Victory
JOEL B. POLLAK
7 Apr 2024

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza, following a demand from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire.” Hamas declared victory on the news.



The decision, coming on the day Israelis marked six months since the October 7 attack, came as a surprise, and as Israeli negotiators flew to Cairo for hostage negotiations. Hamas has demanded a ceasefire before any new deal.



The IDF will leave one brigade in Gaza, whose role will be to allow Israeli troops access to return as necessary. It will also carry out targeted operations, such as the successful raid at Shifa Hospital last month.



The Jerusalem Post reported:



The IDF on Sunday announced that it had concluded the active invasion stage of the war for now while leaving open the possibility of a future new invasion of Rafah in deep southern Gaza.



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Although a top IDF official said that this change had nothing to do with US pressure, the timing was unmistakable in coming right after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last week.



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Hamas immediately declared the IDF withdrawal, even partial, a victory for sticking to its position of demanding IDF withdrawals, including of troops in northern Gaza.



As Breitbart News reported, Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” in response to the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last Tuesday, when an IDF drone team mistook them for Hamas terrorists.



The incident was Hamas’s greatest success in the war: there is evidence that the terrorists deliberately confused the IDF about the vehicles. Hamas uses human shields and civilian casualties as part of its asymmetric war strategy.



Biden’s demand came after the U.S. had already allowed the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution that separated a ceasefire from a deal to return the remaining 130 or so Israeli hostages, adopting Hamas’s core demand.



The Biden administration had also opposed an Israeli operation in the town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border, which was the last Hamas stronghold, and the key to Israeli victory in the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said in February that such an operation would end the war in “weeks,” not “months,” but Biden refused to support Israel, implying that the U.S. would curtail weapons and ammunition supplies if Israel disobeyed.



Biden appeared to be responding to electoral considerations, after Muslim- and Arab-American voters in the key swing state of Michigan threatened not to support him, and young “progressive” voters sided with the Palestinians.



Israel also has other threats to worry about: Iran has been threatening a direct attack for days, having used its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon to threaten Israel’s northern region. Some IDF troops from Gaza are being moved north.



The prospect of losing U.S. support and ammunition on the eve of a potential war in the north — which would be much more intense than the Gaza conflict — is also a likely motivation for Israel to comply with Biden’s posture.



However, the Israeli public may not accept the government’s decision. Israelis want the Gaza mission completed. Only a successful hostage deal may placate critics, as domestic pressure on the Netanyahu government grows.



There is one additional consideration: the U.S. elections in November. Israel may have decided its best chance to defeat its enemies will come with change in the White House, given Biden’s growing, perhaps permanent hostility.


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Israel pledges retaliation following Iranian attack; Iran threatens the U.S. TV7 Israel News 15.04

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BREAKING: IDF Solider Killed By Hezbollah Drone; Hamas ACCUSED Of Stalling Hostage Deal 

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