Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Israel Penetrates into Southern Gaza, Surprising Hamas
Breitbart ^ | 3 Dec 2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 12/03/2023 3:49:49 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spent the first 48 hours of renewed fighting by attacking targets throughout Gaza, and fighting deep into southern portions of the Gaza Strip — apparently surprising Hamas, which expected Israel to stay in the north alone.

The U.S. had openly opposed an Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza Strip, saying that Israel had to account for civilians first. Whether Israel defied the U.S, or the U.S. participated in the ruse, Hamas does not appear to have expected the southern push.

Israel also released a map to help civilians avoid fighting, with different areas of the Gaza Strip numbered. The U.S. suggested that the map satisfied its concerns, though the administration has at times offered conflicting signals about Israeli tactics.

Reports on social media suggested that Israel had begun to cut a path across the southern Gaza Strip, entering from the east and progressing toward the Mediterranean coast, effectively dividing Gaza into three smaller sections — north, central and south.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; waronterror
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last
Perhaps surprised because …The U.S. [Biden & Blinken] had openly opposed an Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza Strip
1 posted on 12/03/2023 3:49:49 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Good for Israel!


2 posted on 12/03/2023 3:50:43 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Good for IDF. If Israel ever lets Blinken and Biden and Co dictate their decisions, they are courting disaster.


3 posted on 12/03/2023 3:53:44 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Egypt wants the Hamas ratlines cut, but doesn't want to be seen doing it. It also wants Iran out of The Horn.

4 posted on 12/03/2023 3:56:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

GOOD!

Obliterate them.


5 posted on 12/03/2023 3:58:41 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo
Khas Younis is loaded with Hamas tunnels, just like Gaza City, so they had to do something




6 posted on 12/03/2023 3:59:02 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

I’ll bet the IDF took advantage of the ceasefire to watch the comings and goings of Hamas. I’m sure they didn’t just sit around with their fingers up their asses.


7 posted on 12/03/2023 4:02:48 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Biden Administration insider (secretly): How did this happen without our tipping off our Hamas friends?


8 posted on 12/03/2023 4:05:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SunkenCiv

Saudi Arabia wants The Horn pacified, too. Israel can’t help over there, and America won’t. Perhaps the Saudis and the Egyptians can do something together.


9 posted on 12/03/2023 4:05:40 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Clean all of them out. You won’t get another chance.


10 posted on 12/03/2023 4:05:58 PM PST by struggle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ought-six

Welcome news. Hopefully the Israeli’s will outfox the pro hamas savages and their media collaboraters by not fighting in a way they counted on.


11 posted on 12/03/2023 4:10:37 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Eleutheria5

Israel hit Houthi Iranian missile stockpiles with an air strike, according to one source I saw.


12 posted on 12/03/2023 4:13:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

“The U.S. [Biden & Blinken] had openly opposed an Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza Strip”

To put it another way - Israel is giving Biden the Middle Finger.


13 posted on 12/03/2023 4:33:13 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Netanyhu should tell Biden and Blinken that either provide full support or we nuke Iran.... Which they should do anyway after they get the support needed.


14 posted on 12/03/2023 4:40:10 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Somebody suggested that tracking should be put into the released Palestinian prisoners... Maybe that was done in a surgical manner. It would be easy enough to do so that they wouldn’t even know it.

The newly released terrorist would obviously need to be greeted by the leader of HAMAS to congratulate them for their terrorist sacrifices while suffering in the Israeli jails.


15 posted on 12/03/2023 4:43:19 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Hopefully Israel told Biden and blinken to go th he’ll (to visit their uncle Beelzebub.)


16 posted on 12/03/2023 4:53:33 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo
The U.S. had openly opposed an Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza Strip, saying that Israel had to account for civilians first.

Blinken and whoever has his hand up Biden's butt today need to STFU.
17 posted on 12/03/2023 5:10:56 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BobL

Well, guess Israel can take a lesson from Elon Musk.

And tell Slo Joe and the State Department to G_F_Y.


18 posted on 12/03/2023 5:11:01 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: BobL
To put it another way - Israel is giving Biden the Middle Finger.

So am I. And have been.

19 posted on 12/03/2023 5:14:44 PM PST by EinNYC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: jerod
Somebody suggested that tracking should be put into the released Palestinian prisoners... Maybe that was done in a surgical manner. It would be easy enough to do so that they wouldn’t even know it.

Excellent idea. Along with an injected micro device that would release a chemical castration agent. Nip these rapists in the bud.

20 posted on 12/03/2023 5:15:13 PM PST by roadcat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson