Hamas had not been expecting Israel to hit a “hospital” on Ramadan without warning.
But none of that worked. There was a ticking clock and Biden was bound to eventually pull support. It was only a matter of time.The current Israeli government made the same mistake after Oct 7 that so many previous ones had by assuming that it would retain the support of the White House if it followed its parameters. Instead of a comprehensive siege and rapid forceful assaults, Israel waited. When there were complaints about casualties, it slowed down, sent warnings and put its own soldiers at risk. And lives were lost.
Now, Israel won a major victory by catching Hamas and Islamic Jihad by surprise. How did it do that? By ignoring the rules that the Islamic terrorists thought Israel had to operate by.
After a previous raid on the Al-Shifa hospital, a Qatari terror base, that had been telegraphed with multiple warnings, Israel returned, struck fast, and took out over 100 terrorists and captured over 600. (The numbers continue to increase.)
Reportedly, Israel has captured top Islamic Jihad leaders and a variety of significant Hamas figures.
Hamas had not been expecting Israel to hit a ‘hospital’ on Ramadan without warning. That was against all the rules out of D.C.
But the rules are going out the window.
Some IDF sources explained that the terror groups likely returned to Shifa, despite the IDF already having cleaned it out in November 2023, because they did not expect the military to return to the hospital in the middle of Ramadan, with a rise in global criticism of Israel, and with hostage negotiations at a critical point.
These IDF sources said that the paradigm for IDF action in Gaza has shifted, and it is now ready to act anywhere and anytime, regardless of the human shields Hamas hides behind.
The last time around, Israel had delayed and focused on showing how nice it was. As a result, the terrorists were able to escape and take the hostages with them.
Not this time.
IDF sources also described additional details of the operation, including that the first forces started moving toward and into Shifa at 2:15 a.m., with the compound surrounded by 2:30 a.m.
Next, Shayetet 13 and Nahal forces penetrated two different areas, followed only a few minutes later by two other separate forces penetrating, including the 424th battalion and a mix of the 52nd and 401st battalions.
Around 6,000 civilians were also evacuated, but unlike the November operation when there was no inspection of evacuees, these civilians were evacuated with a careful inspection to catch all of the terrorists…
The IDF arrested “very senior” Hamas officials in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital but cannot disclose the names due to ongoing investigations, IDF spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a Thursday evening briefing.
“The Shifa operation is the largest since the launch of the war,” Hagari noted. “We captured the higher echelon of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders.”
The Michigan allies of Hamas had worked hard to dismantle Biden’s support for Israel. But the flip side of the faltering of the alliance is that Israel is now much less constrained by trying to fight a war by impossible rules which provide every advantage to the enemy.
The rules have changed.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s both best and wise to ignore the terrible “advise”: of that pro- Islamic tyranny of Iran with it’s Muslim tyrant Rasis and Mahmoud Abbas of the PA favoring Joe Biden.
For the way to defeat that brutal cruel horrendously vile ,heinous and murderous jihad entity , Hamas , is to hit in hard and long and to keep on hitting it until it’s destroyed.
As it had been ,rightly said “Half -measures in war are both folly and madness.”
Therefore , that fiendish villain ,Joe Biden, is thoroughly infected with “folly and madness>’
Barbara says
When you do not fight to win, you will lose the war.
Walter Sieruk says
The fool “advise” of that horrible man ,Joe Biden should be ,rightly , rejected.
One of the many reasons why this is so is because the jihadists of Hamas will not respond to reason or logic to stop their irrational murderous jihad.
The only language that the Hamas jihad are able to understand is that being on the receiving end of a strong power of the use of military might.
As Thomas Jefferson had ,so wisely , written “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Keys says
This news lifted my spirits; gladdened my heart!
Keys says
No more “knock, knock”; no more restful days and nights for the terrorists.
No more need to explain and debunk Hamas’ lies about so-called Israeli “war crimes”.
Hopefully, most hostages are freed.
Hopefully, a quicker end to the war with fewer IDF casualties.
Hopefully, Israel will take control from Hamas of the humanitarian aide Hamas stole.
Hopefully, the 20+%(?) of Gazans who did not vote for, or support, Hamas will be a source of intelligence for the IDF.
Hopefully, the end of Hamas in Gaza for good.
Alena says
+20
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good job, Israel. I noticed over the last couple of days that anti-Semitic handles, like Loupis, Ian Miles Cheong, Alex Jones have become more aggressive about Israel. Showing that it’s finally working. I thought that these guys were against globalism, and just wanted us to stick to our countries. In which case, why are they bitching about Israel?
carpediadem says
Ian Miles Cheong, are you sure? Never saw any anti Israel stuff from him.
Susan Webster says
Yes, that surprises me too.
James Lincoln says
The Israel and its IDF will be victorious if they continue to do the exact opposite of what the Biden regime wants.
abu taleb says
It is a irony, muslims claim the kuffars are bad people, but muslim jihadists (Hamas) expect the non muslims (in this case Israel) to follow the international law by not attacking hospitals, mosques and other civilian targets which is considered as ethical and good while Hamas is attacking civilians on purpose to get as many casualties as possible. And muslims around the world are behind Hamas.
So, muslims claim they are the good people but they are doing evil, and they are expecting the so called evil people doing the good thing. Is there any muslim with common sense and conscience?
somehistory says
no. The devout mozlums are psychopaths.
Psychopaths have no conscience, and even though some are very intelligent, they have a thinking problem….learning from past mistakes. they never do.
In the world of criminologists, there is debate about if a person is born a psychopath or if his environment creates the psychopath. Prisons are chock full of them, so the questions make sense.
mozlums are either psychopaths when born or become psychopaths when they are daily fed the idea that they can do no wrong as long as they follow the demands of the demented, evil, demon-in-human form, fake prophet
Imagine the worst scenario: the born psychopath who is raised on islam with that evil teaching that he can do no wrong. That’s the source of those mozlums who burn children alive, rape children and women to death, and all of the other atrocities committed on Oct. 7.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
To your point, very intelligent psychopaths are the most dangerous people on the planet.
Mind watch says
Yes I agree James, Israel can’t help but win it it goes in the complete opposite direction that Biden suggests. He’s cowardly fallen prey to the ‘might is right’ push of the mindless masses of lefties, do-gooders and Hamas appeasers. But was he ever on side with Israel from the beginning – or was it from the very beginning just a facade, I wonder. He’s ambiguous to protect himself, and ironically, as he’s betrayed every decent person’s tenuous hold on mainstream norms and values, he’s actually a bit of a tyrant.
Israel’s success at Al-Shifa hospital must surely embarrass Biden. He’s just proposed a wishy-washy resolution for a cease-fire that ‘is in keeping with, or is connected to, a hostage release’ – which of course means a hostage release is not actually a cited condition of the ceasefire.
Will he now amend this froth and bubble resolution and specify that the hostage release is a condition of the ceasefire? . Personally, I don’t this.
In any case it’s good to see Hamas’ own tactics thrown back in their face. It seems, that in order to catch a snake (Hamas), you have to become one. (no offence to snakes – I love all animals). The West now seems to have becomes pawns for all these loathsome Hamas butchers and their nauseating do-gooder supporters – I think the west has become paralyzed by ethical and moral thinking and unjustified self-imposed guilt that has been imposed as a strategy by all these sickening ‘new-age’, do-gooder, WOKE, Islamist leaches, ticks and vermin.
In any case, I’m hoping Netanyahu can keep it up, and not bend (as Biden apparently has) to all these ‘howling jackals and circling hyenas’ (as one Buddhist priest used to put it!).
maria says
100% true
James Lincoln says
Spot-on post, Mind watch.
Buzz says
The only good muslim is a DEAD muslim, get then ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
violet says
“I think he (Joe Biden) has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” said former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
N. Shuster says
Why are we surprised? Biden, in addition to the fact that he is an ignoramus and a serial plagiarist, he has no conscience nor shame. His followers are either people without memory
or evil, and such MUST be IGNORED. Go for victory, O, Israel, ignore advice given by treasonous Biden and his administration of vipers.