#khan younis brigade

[eretzyisrael]

by Emanuel Fabian

The IDF and Shin Bet in a joint statement officially confirm that Rafa’a Salameh, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, was killed in yesterday’s strike in the southern Gaza Strip.

The IDF says Salameh was “one of the closest associates” of Muhammad Deif, the chief of the terror group’s military wing, and “was one of the masterminds of the October 7 massacre.”

His killing is a “significant blow to the military capabilities of Hamas,” the IDF says.

Deif was also at the targeted site, although the IDF has yet to receive final confirmation he was killed in the attack.

Salameh, according to the IDF, joined Hamas in the early 1990s, and was later appointed to command the Khan Younis Brigade’s al-Qarara Battalion.

The IDF says he “played a significant role” in the abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Shilat in 2006, and in the 2014 war, was in command of Hamas’s “combat support and defensive plans.”

In 2016 he replaced Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of the Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar, as the head of the Khan Younis Brigade, according to the military.

In addition to numerous rocket attacks on Israel, he was also in command of two attack tunnels that were struck during the May 2021 war, the IDF adds.

[cavalierzee]

HAMAS Sniping vs Zionist Sniping

[abu-obe1da]

Al Qassam ambush in Qarrara, Khan Yunis

1- TBG directed at the floor of the building they were watching and knew every inch of the house layout

2- Tunnel shaft explosion

The singing 🥹

The song says:

“We are not weakened, we are not weakened. We are the descendants of Muthanna On the path of glory we walked. Ask history about us”

Quick note: Muthanna was one of the Prophet (PBUH) companions and he was a fierce warrior.

[news4dzhozhar]

I'm not sure why some people are surprised by this. It's an entirely different method and mindset of fighting when you have nothing left to lose and believe down deep in what you are doing. Compare that to untrained 19-20 year old idiot conscripts who would rather be on TikTok and have zero discipline and this is the result.

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli army withdraws from the west of Khan Younis city: Reports

🔸 Sources: Al Jazeera

‼️ I think that it is important to note that intense fighting between the Al Qassam brigades and the IDF has been reported in Khan in recent days, bringing multiple casualties in Israel’s side.

You can read about that here ⬇️

here ⬇️

And here ⬇️

[vyorei]

Abu Hamza says the Al-Quds lads have destroyed a few Occupation vehicles as well as injured a few Occupation soldiers

[secular-jew]

Qassam Brigades breakdown and casualty update (scroll down):

There are five brigades, each with a number of battalions underneath them: Northern, Gaza City, Central, Khan Younis, and Rafah.

The 12 battalions under the Northern and Gaza City have all been dismantled.

In Central Gaza, there are four battalions and the ones to the north and east have been almost completely dismantled, leaving the ones in the south and west.

Similarly in Khan Younis, there are four battalions, with the ones in the north and east almost completely dismantled leaving the ones in the west and the south.

In Rafah, all four battalions are currently intact, and that is the next major battlefront, as it is on the border with Egypt, there are lots of civilians there, and fighters who fled from the North have likely linked up with the Rafah brigade.

More than 9,000 Hamas operatives and fighters of other terror groups have been killed in Gaza.

Some 1,000 terrorists were killed inside Israel on and around October 7th.

The IDF has killed two Hamas brigade commanders and 19 battalion commanders and other senior officials with an equivalent rank.

More than 50 Hamas company commanders and operatives with a similar rank have also been killed.

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 🪖 🚨

💥SCENES FROM AL-QASSAM BRIGADES CLASHES WITH ZIONIST FORCES INVADING KHAN YUNIS IN SOUTHERN GAZA💥

📹 Scenes of Al-Qassam Mujahideen targeting occupation vehicles and soldiers penetrating various areas of the city of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Includes footage from clashes as al-Qassam fighters ambush Israeli soldiers hold up in the Ibn Uthaymeen School and the confiscation of enemy machinery.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[fairuzfan]

“The Khan Younis Brigade of the Hamas organisation is disbanded, we will complete the mission there and continue to Rafah,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a post on the social media platform X late on Thursday. “We will continue until the end, there is no other way.”

About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are crammed into Rafah near the border with Egypt, staying in residential buildings or sleeping in the streets without protection or basic infrastructure.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah on Friday, said the displaced population there lacks basics, including toilets and sufficient clean water. They are also “unprepared for winter” with no blankets or suitable clothing, all of which puts them at risk of getting sick, he said.

Mahmoud said Gallant’s statement “shows a total lack of caring” for people in Rafah, who are already facing desperate conditions.

“For many, it’s increased the level of panic. They don’t have anywhere else to go to. This is the last refuge for Palestinians in Gaza. Beyond, it is only the Egyptian border,” he said.

Emad, 55, a businessman and father of six in Rafah, told the Reuters news agency that if Israeli tanks keep coming, “we will be left with two choices: stay and die or climb the walls into Egypt.”

[palestinegenocide]

Key Developments

Israel deploys 15,000 soldiers and military police in West Bank and Jerusalem ahead of Ramadan, including 5,000 reservists, 24 battalions, 20 Border Police companies, and two special forces units.

Hamas’s Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson rules out any breakthrough in ceasefire talks, and describes Israel’s position as “deceptive.”

Abu Obaida warns that Israel’s campaign of starvation against Palestinians in Gaza is affecting Israeli captives, some of whom “suffer from hunger, malnutrition and dehydration.”

Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades announces names of four out of seven Israeli captives who died “due to the aggressive Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.”

25 Palestinian children have died of malnutrition and dehydration since March. The total death toll in Gaza surpasses 31,000 people, 72 percent of whom are women and children.

Gaza City municipality says Israel destroyed a one-million-meter square of roads in the Gaza Strip. 

Gaza City municipality needs heavy vehicles and fuel supplies to clean rubble and nearly 70,000 tons of rubbish.

Rescue teams transfer 37 bodies of Palestinian martyrs and 118 injured people to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah overnight.

U.S. to send army vessel to Eastern Mediterranean to deliver aid and supplies to Gaza.

Wafa reports that Israeli bombing of tents of displaced Palestinians killed 15 people in Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

Spain is considering recognizing a Palestinian state by 2027, according to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

[eretzyisrael]

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

The now-deceased Hamas Khan Yunis Brigade Commander Rafah Salame wrote a letter in May, addressed to Gaza Chief Yahya Sinwar where he pleaded for help and described how his forces were significantly damaged, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed on Wednesday.

Salame wrote to Sinwar, and his brother Muhammad Sinwar, that 90-95% of his rockets were gone.

Further, he said that 65-70% of his anti-tank missiles were gone.

Hamas's remaining forces in the Khan Yunis Brigade

Even that remaining 25% he said were starting to fall apart.

Salame asked for reinforcements from Sinwar.

Gallant added that help never came from the Sinwar brothers since they were also fleeing from place to place to avoid being caught or killed, and later the IDF found the letter in one of Hamas' headquarters.

On July 13, the IDF assassinated both Salame and Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif in an air strike near Khan Yunis after weeks of tracking the two.

Most of the Khan Yunis brigade was already beaten by early February.

[cavalierzee]

HAMAS's Legendary Resistance

What is getting clearer at this unique moment, is that Hamas, a small Palestinian movement, defeated not only Israel, but the entire West. All of it.

It won on the battlefield, and it won in public opinion.

It managed to make spectacular use of its reading of Israeli mentality, and it employed every asset it had with extreme efficiency.

It won hearts for the Palestinian cause the world over.

It has not been destroyed or dismantled.

It kept virtually every captive it took 6 months ago.

It yielded to no pressure.

It remains functional and lethal, in a besieged and bombed to oblivion tiny strip of land.

History will judge the last six months as one of the most genius and unbelievable achievements in all military history.

This is beyond unfathomable.

By waging this war this way, by not thinking or feeling, Israel made Hamas a legend of resistance that will live in cultural memory for ages.

No one believed they could pull this off. But they did. And they changed history forever.

Palestine is never returning to the shadows again.

Hamas won!

By Alon Mizrahi

[opencommunion]

It looks like the ground invasion hasn’t breached Gaza yet:

“Intense armed clashes have broken out on the eastern front of the north and central Gaza Strip, as resistance fighters repel limited ground incursions by zionist forces.

Al-Qassam Brigades are confronting a ground incursion into Beit Hanoun and east of Bureij, and violent clashes are taking place on the ground.

Intense gunfire is heard on the eastern border of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.”

via RNN

[adropofhumanity]

[sayruq]

In the early hours of April 7th the Israel Defence Forces’ (idf) 98th Division withdrew from Khan Younis, the second-largest city in Gaza, exactly six months after Hamas’s attack of October 7th. Israel had the sympathy and broad support of much of the West when it sent its army to war with Hamas. Half a year later, much of Gaza lies in ruins. Over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gazan health ministry. The uprooted civilian population faces famine. Israel has lost the battle for global public opinion. Even its closest allies, including America, are considering whether to limit arms shipments. Much of the criticism centres on Israel’s armed forces. Even after its devastating failure to prevent the massacres of October 7th, the idf has remained the most cherished institution in Israeli society. Holding fast to the vision of the idf as both effective and moral is essential to Israelis’ image of themselves. But it is now accused of two catastrophic failures. First, that it has not achieved its military objectives in Gaza. Second, that it has acted immorally and broken the laws of war. The implications for both the idf and Israel are profound.

Major-General Noam Tibon is a retired corps commander who on October 7th rushed to his son’s kibbutz near Gaza, single-handedly extricating his young family while Hamas was on the rampage. In hindsight, he says, the idf should have gone into Rafah first. He believes his former colleagues were “under the illusion that going first into Gaza City would break Hamas psychologically, by taking their symbols of government”. But, he argues, “all the talk of dismantling their brigades and battalions is rubbish. They remain a fundamentalist movement which doesn’t need commanders to fight until death.” The lack of enforcement of even these looser rules of engagement has been such that accusations that Israel has broken the laws of war are plausible. “The standing orders don’t matter in the field,” says one veteran reserve officer who has mostly been in Gaza since October. “Just about any battalion commander can decide that whoever moves in his sector is a terrorist or that buildings should be destroyed because they could have been used by Hamas.” “The only limit to the number of buildings we blew up was the time we had inside Gaza,” says one sapper in a combat-engineering battalion. “If you find a Kalashnikov or even Hamas literature in an apartment, it’s enough to incriminate the building.” Other officers reported a breakdown of discipline in their units, with multiple cases of looting. “I think everyone in our platoon took a coffee set,” said one sergeant. Soldiers have filmed themselves vandalising Palestinian property and, in some cases, put those videos online. On February 20th the idf’s chief of staff published a public letter to all soldiers warning them to use force only where necessary, “to distinguish between a terrorist and who is not, not to take anything which isn’t ours—a souvenir or weaponry—and not to film vengeance videos.” Four months into the war, this was too little, too late. “He should have acted much sooner to root this out,” says one battalion commander. The idf’s third failure is its role in Israel’s obstruction—until an angry phone call between President Joe Biden and Mr Netanyahu on April 4th—of aid efforts to Gazans. Officers have mainly blamed the politicians for this. But some acknowledge that even without a political directive, the army, which is arguably an occupying force in Gaza now, should have assumed this responsibility from the planning stage. Instead it acted only when the humanitarian situation became critical. That does not bode well for the future. The war in Gaza is not over. Israel’s next step is unclear. Mr Netanyahu says that a date has been set for an incursion into Rafah, Hamas’s last major stronghold (in private, Israeli generals deny this).