Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli strikes hit the area of Beit Lahiya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on March 15, killing nine people, including journalists.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed in a statement that it identified “two terrorists operating a drone that posed a threat” to Israeli troops in the area.
The two operatives were targeted in a strike, and a short while later, “a number of additional terrorists collected the drone operating equipment and entered a vehicle,” the military said, adding that the group of operatives that had collected the equipment was targeted in a second strike.
Citing the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center, the Shehab news agency said that three journalists were among nine killed by the strikes. One was named by Palestinian reports as Mahmoud Isleem, a photographer who has done work for the Anadolu agency.
After the deadly strikes, Hamas accuses Israel of a “blatant violation” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which was brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
“The occupation [Israel] has committed a horrific massacre in the northern Gaza Strip by targeting a group of journalists and humanitarian workers, in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement.
The strikes came amid tense talks between Israel and Hamas over the second phase of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that came into effect last January.
A Hamas spokesman said on March 15 that “the ball is in Israel’s court” after the group offered to release an Israeli-U.S. hostage and return the bodies of four others as part of the ongoing talks
“We want to solidify the ceasefire agreement and force [Israel] to implement its terms,” Abdul Latif al-Qanou told AFP, accusing Israel of “delaying” its enforcement.
Following the offer on March 14, Israel said that Hamas had “not budged a millimeter” in response to a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy that Israel has accepted.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff also rejected Hamas offer, indicating it was disingenuous: Rather than accepting his own “bridge proposal,” Witkoff said in a statement, “unfortunately, Hamas has chosen to respond by publicly claiming flexibility while privately making demands that are entirely impractical without a permanent ceasefire.”
While the ceasefire is not expected to collapse any time soon, the war in Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 48,000 Palestinians, is still far from being over.
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lmagine the outrage from the western presstitute media if hamas had just killed some shlomos.
remember the “axis of resistance”…?…heheheh
the jewsa and the jewu are falling apart. soon shlomo will have nobody left to leech off.
…says the extinct one
yep, it went right through their @ssholes
damn the israelis are literally slaughtering the palestinians like cattle! never in my life, have i seen people die in such horrific ways, and on the scale of the current gaza war. israel literally cleaned the entire region of all its enemies, and solidified its position as the sole superpower of the region. even iran is seeking peace with the israelis. 2025 and onwards will be the golden years of the israeli empire.
yeah, and just imagine if it wasn’t a cease fire! they could slaughter even more. israel and the u.s. are headed where the sun has never shined. trump is fulfilling the rapture you stupid f’s and you’re the bait. how can so many be so stupid? in the end, all’s good, israel will burn and all the scum will die screaming and the world will rejoice. now if only we could do the same in the city of london, where the real criminals live.
they did. and lost their shyt hole of a land.
how funny is that, right?
like super funny…
the muslims are still a very divided people. sunni vs shite vs alawites. so many other sects. yet they are all brown and live in the region. why not unite?
sorry, reply “c” worded yet again. sf is like the bbc.
and it is right up your butthole
that’s because you’re a huge cont, right?
israel is dividing them in half. each and everyone of them
you’re even more infantile now than you were with the ‘anonymous’ identity. whatever age, you are the classical fuckwit personified. 💩💩💩 = 🇮🇱
the middle east will be a better place for the indigegenous people (the thieving and murdering jews are not part of that group) so kick the 4 or 5 million jews into orbit never to return!
there is a hive, some three hundred light years away, that is the epicenter of their universe. some of their dark ages back-in-black voodoo peddlers preach this.
another israeli violation of international laws . the cr passed the us congress so funding to continue is solidified .
“have you no decency?” it is war. there are no rules. only wining losers are crying their butthurt into the world. israel is giving them what they want. they want death and that’s what they’re getting. you ner get life when yelling death
we see those whining losers every day crying on israeli tv. waa waaa..our hostages…waa waa. poor stupid israeli cattle, shooting themselves in the ass daily, aching for the war that ends them. yes, martha soon, very soon. if only they could all be scoured from the earth. they are an infestation of the worst qualities of mankind and their genome needs cleansed from mankind. imagine the ultimate peace if someone designed a viral agent that attacks only khazarians.
the whole region could be an oasis of peace and prosperity once it has been cleansed of shlomos. but you could say the same thing about the whole planet.
more dead s.o.b.’s
keep ’em comin lol, lol & some more lol
that guy is totally “car-nimal”
the jews learned well from the nazis how to terrorize a people.
yep, kylling lots and lots of nazy-musloms.
the yidz are making the same mistake as japan and germany from the 1930s onwards. little japan trying to conquer the whole of china, the pacific and asia. germany trying to conquer europe and africa. limited resources, unlimited objectives. or napoleon at the beginning of 19th century. they run riot for a time and then hit a brick wall of reality. they are guaranteeing their own destruction. after syria and lebanon, they will turn on ….
jordan, turkey, iraq, egypt, iran, saudi arabia. they never know when to stop and consolidate their gains. constant aggression with no limits. napoleon and the axis could have achieved success easily had they been satisfied with more realistic objectives. the yidz will destroy themselves in the same way. it’s an old story.
98% of jews around the world, including in europe, africa, asia and america, support the murders and the jewish terrorist attacks against the people.
the people should deal with the jewish issue and strive to solve it once and for all. all the necessary means should be on the table.
i favor a yid-virus. one that causes extreme pain and agony and results in long, slow deaths. they love seeing suffering, so why not? we can call it yidrid25, khazarigone, kikevid25 or maybe just simply zioflu. they say nature gets rid of unwanted infestations and this one is past due.
wow, plenty of zionist murder fanboys here today. ahh, what a pleasure it will be when that leech-state shithole in the middle east is nothing but a bad memory. yids roasting in a quagmire, an even more desirable thought, is coming for them soon. their savior is planning the rapture and they ain’t invited, they’re the sacrifice and they’re way too stupid to know it. trump and bibi, the dastardly duo, headed to hell and taking israel with them. yea!! soon, world, soon!