Originally Posted By fike:


It essentially starts and ends with the initial assessments of “the attack sidelined normalization attempts between SA and Israel and forces the IDF to take actions that will hurt their standing with neighbors in the ME”.

Attempting to portray the current situation for Hamas under the standards of “Hamas thinks in terms of decades” or even full fledged defeat as a “tactical setback”, is a spurious rebranding of reality.

IDF says its 162nd Division — which entered Gaza from the north — has completed the capture of the al-Shati camp, and will soon link up with the 36th Division which entered the Strip from the east, reaching the coast.

The IDF says al-Shati was a main Hamas stronghold. “Inside the camp there is a lot of enemy infrastructure and many forces of Hamas were concentrated there, including the al-Shati Battalion, which took a central part in the October 7 [attacks],” it says.

The 162nd Division had pushed south from northern Gaza when the ground operation began two and a half weeks ago, heading into Gaza City, and facing resistance in the al-Shati camp in the last few days.

There were at least four clashes with Hamas operatives in al-Shati in the last few hours. According to the military, nearly every other home in the camp was booby-trapped.

Around 150,000 to 200,000 Palestinians are estimated to have fled the camp as Israeli troops entered. The troops of the division battled around 200 Hamas operatives in al-Shati.

The military believes it has full control of al-Shati, though there could still be incidents. It says Hamas’s command and control systems in the area were completely dismantled during the raids.

The 162nd Division is now working to methodically clear the al-Shati area of any Hamas infrastructure, including tunnels and caches of weapons.

The IDF also details the division's other operations in northern Gaza, saying it dealt “significant blows” to Hamas’s infrastructure and operational capabilities.

According to the IDF, the division has found and destroyed more than 160 tunnel shafts, struck some 2,800 Hamas sites, and killed around 1,000 terror operatives and senior commanders.

The division raided and captured what the IDF says are Hamas’s “strategic and essential assets” in northern Gaza, including the Outpost 17 stronghold, the so-called “military quarter” of Gaza City, Rantisi Hospital — which the IDF suspects was used by Hamas to hold Israeli hostages — and the Bader outpost.

It says the division’s 401st Armored Brigade and Givati Infantry Brigade led the maneuver into al-Shati, destroying dozens of Hamas sites with tank shelling and calling in airstrikes.

The division’s Nahal Infantry Brigade, meanwhile, captured Hamas’s main outpost in al-Shati, and destroyed its infrastructure, killing terror operatives in the process, and detaining others for questioning by the Shin Bet in Israel, the IDF says.

The division’s Commando Brigade operated in the northern part of al-Shati to locate terror operatives. It also operated deeper in the camp, destroying Hamas infrastructure and raiding buildings used by the terror group, including a school where the IDF says troops found an anti-tank missile launch position and a weapons cache.

The commander of the 162nd Division, Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen,  hails the operations, saying the military is “dismantling Hamas’s centers of mass and capabilities that the organization has built up over the years.”

“The forces of the division killed over 1,000 terrorists from the beginning of the ground maneuver and reduced by about 80 percent the amount of rocket fire towards Israel from the north of the Gaza Strip,” Cohen adds.

Originally Posted By realwar:
Hamas Proposes To Free 70 Israeli Hostages In Exchange For 5-day Truce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-mTy9Tefg

Originally Posted By rpoL98:
https://i.imgur.com/3SioVvi.jpg

"This is the picture on one of the streets in the Gaza Strip. At least 6 Israeli tanks are reported to be disabled. Those who survived made a tactical escape."

https://t.me/vorposte/49823

Originally Posted By realwar:
Translation: The IDF destroyed the monument to the memory of Yasser Arafat in Tulkarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki8bjjlffS0

Originally Posted By lil_Sig:

Let me guess. They say they will release the hostages after the five days that will be denied falsely accusing Israel is not holding up to their part after 5 days.

Of which are women and children when they said they only attacked soldiers.

I pray for the hostage victims. However, Its time for Hamas to pay the piper!

Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
1 minute ago.

IDF says its 162nd Division — which entered Gaza from the north — has completed the capture of the al-Shati camp, and will soon link up with the 36th Division which entered the Strip from the east, reaching the coast.

The IDF says al-Shati was a main Hamas stronghold. “Inside… pic.twitter.com/9IEiBSINqr

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 14, 2023

Originally Posted By texashomeserver:

Yemeni Media has Published a Threat by the Houthi Terrorist Organization against Israeli Commercial Ships in the Red Sea stating, “We will Sink your Ships.” pic.twitter.com/2U1LDBcYJO

OSINTdefender  (@sentdefender) November 14, 2023

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Originally Posted By Halberdier:

The kill ratio between the IDF and Hamas is approaching 100 to 1. It's becoming pretty clear at this point that Hamas is not nearly as capable and probably not as large as everyone thought they were.

Originally Posted By 56xdx_Z:
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Some frames off a video on telegram, I can post if anyone wants the link, dont want to spam

Originally Posted By realwar:
Translation: The IDF destroyed the monument to the memory of Yasser Arafat in Tulkarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki8bjjlffS0

Originally Posted By bulldog1967:



No one will be “purged”.

Despite who lives next in 1600 Pennsylvania ave.

Originally Posted By cXpSRi3x:

Anything good?

Originally Posted By lil_Sig:
CNN

"US President Joe Biden said Gaza's "hospitals must be protected" amid Israeli allegations that Hamas is using medical centers as command centers to coordinate attacks. Hamas denies its fighters hide under hospitals, as do Gazan health officials and hospital directors."

Originally Posted By lil_Sig:
CNN

"US President Joe Biden said Gaza's "hospitals must be protected" amid Israeli allegations that Hamas is using medical centers as command centers to coordinate attacks. Hamas denies its fighters hide under hospitals, as do Gazan health officials (Hamas) and hospital directors (also Hamas)."

Originally Posted By Halberdier:

The kill ratio between the IDF and Hamas is approaching 100 to 1. It's becoming pretty clear at this point that Hamas is not nearly as capable and probably not as large as everyone thought they were.

Israel is pressing its case that Hamas is using hospitals as cover, releasing a pair of videos from inside Gaza's main children's hospital that showed weapons and explosives purportedly found in the medical center, and a room where the military said hostages were kept.

While the Health Ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, on Tuesday disputed nearly every assertion made in the initial Israeli video, it acknowledged that the footage was taken from inside Al-Rantisi Specialized Hospital for Children in northern Gaza. The remaining patients and staff are believed to have left the hospital over the weekend after it was surrounded by Israeli forces.

Israeli troops entered shortly thereafter, and took videos that the military released on Monday and Tuesday as part of a campaign to persuade skeptics that Hamas had turned hospitals into safe houses and command centers and has built tunnels underneath them.

"This is not the last hospital like this in Gaza, and the world should know that," said Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military's chief spokesman. "It's a crime."

In the first of the videos, a six-minute presentation released on Monday, Admiral Hagari walks viewers through what he says was found in the basement of the hospital. The Israeli military followed that on Tuesday with a second video, just over two minutes long, posted on X, formerly Twitter. That video purports to show troops rushing into the building and appearing to find explosives, weapons and the room where Admiral Hagari said hostages were kept.

Both videos contained a series of assertions that could not be independently verified. The first includes well-displayed evidence   guns, explosives and other weaponry all arranged as if by police showing the haul from a drug raid   whose provenance similarly could not be confirmed.

The second, though, shows troops in action appearing to find the weaponry that would be showcased in the longer video.

Osama Hamadan, a Hamas spokesman, speaking at a news conference from Beirut on Tuesday called Admiral Hagari's presentation a "lie and charade." There was no immediate comment from Gazan officials or Hamas on the second video.

Monday's video included footage of a piece of paper taped to a wall in the hospital's basement. Admiral Hagari said the paper   a grid with Arabic words and numbers within each square   could be a schedule for guarding hostages "where every terrorist writes his name."

The paper included a mark that appeared to be an illegible signature, but did not seem to otherwise include people's names   the Arabic words were days of the week and numbers underneath dates. The Gazan Health Ministry said in a statement that the paper, including days and dates, was nothing more than "a regular work shift timetable, a standard administrative practice in hospitals."

The ministry, however, failed to address one key detail: The calendar begins on Oct. 7, the day of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, and an Arabic title written at the top uses the militants' name for the assault: "Al Aqsa Flood Battle, 7/10/2023."

Dr. Mustafa Al Kahlout, the hospital's director, said on Tuesday that families fleeing Israeli bombardment have sought shelter at Al-Rantisi and other Gazan hospitals. He called on the Red Cross and other international organizations to "inspect all part of the hospitals."

The video released on Monday by the Israeli military opens with Admiral Hagari standing a few hundred yards from Al-Rantisi. Speaking in English, he points out what he says is the house of a senior Hamas leader, a school next door and a pile of rubble under which there is the entrance to a tunnel that purportedly runs toward the hospital.

The video then cuts to Admiral Hagari inside what he says is the hospital basement. He enters a room with children's drawings on blue and pink walls. Neatly laid out on the floor is an array of weapons that he says were found in the hospital.

Admiral Hagari then shows what he says is an area connected to the hospital basement where hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack were purportedly held.

There is a windowless room with couches and curtains covering bare walls where he says hostage videos could be made. There is a chair with a rope on the floor next to it, an "improvised toilet," a baby bottle and a package of diapers. There is also a motorcycle that he says was used to carry hostages back to Gaza.

"You don't build an improvised toilet in the basement, unless you want to build an infrastructure to hold hostages," Admiral Hagari says.

As for what happened to the hostages and Hamas fighters who were purportedly at the hospital, he says, "They might have left with the patients, they might have run away through tunnels and we have signs that they had hostages with them. It's still under investigation, but there's enough signs to indicate that."

For its part, the Gazan health ministry said the basement rooms shown were used as shelters "for those fleeing airstrikes. The bathroom shown is a necessity."

The baby bottle and diapers were nothing special in a children's hospital, it said. As for the weapons, it added: "We don't know where they got them."

 Matthew Rosenberg and Nadav Gavrielov