Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Screengrab.
Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said on November 2 that his troops are operating inside Gaza City and surrounding it from several directions.
“We have advanced another significant stage in the war. The forces are in the heart of northern Gaza, operating in Gaza City, surrounding it, and deepening [the ground offensive], and achievements,” Halevi said in a statement from an Air Force base.
“The forces are fighting in a dense and complex urban area that requires professional combat, and courage,” he added.
Halevi said that Israeli troops are engaged in close-quarters combat. “Ground forces are accompanied by accurate intelligence, with fire from the air and sea. This partnership makes combat much more effective,” he continued.
“Our warriors, fighting in close quarters against a cruel enemy, have a huge advantage: Camaraderie and battle spirit flow through their veins,” Halevi said. “The spirit of Israeli society and the justice of our cause accompany us at all times.”
The senior IDF commander acknowledged that the war has “a painful and difficult price,” with 19 troops being killed in the ground operation in Gaza so far.
“We lost the best of our sons in the war, we embrace their families… we will continue to win,” he said.
One of the last two casualties to be announced by the IDF was Lieutenant Colonel Salman Habaka, the commander of the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd “Sofa” Battalion. No further details were given on the circumstances of his death. However, it is very likely that his tank was destroyed. His battalion is only armed with advanced Merkava MK 4M tanks.
The IDF has been facing fierce resistance from the Hamas Movement and other Palestinian armed factions while attempting to advance from three directions: along al-Rasheed Street on the coast of Gaza; near the city of Beit Lahia in the northeastern part of the Strip; in Wadi Gaza, right to the south of Gaza City.
Since the morning, Hamas’ military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, reported attacks with rocket-propelled grenades against four tanks, three armored bulldozers, one armored personnel carrier and five other military vehicles of the IDF.
Al-Qassam also said that its fighters shot and killed three soldiers near one of the targeted tanks and hit three gatherings of troops.
From its side, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Aqsa Brigades, said that its fighters ambushed a group of Israeli troops and attacked several gatherings of manpower and equipment in Gaza.
Rocket attacks from Gaza also continued, with sirens sounding at the city of Beersheba and the nearby town of Hatzerim in the southern Negev region as well as in the city of Tel Aviv and nearby areas in the central region. No casualties were reported, however.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Israel’s continuous strikes on Gaza has risen again. According to the Hamas-run health ministry, at least 9,061 Palestinian have been killed in the Strip since the war broke out. 3,760 children and 2,326 women are among the dead. More than 22,219 others have been wounded.
Fighting in Gaza will intensify in coming days as the IDF works to expand its control within the Strip. The first phase of the ongoing ground operation aims to besiege then occupy the northern part of Gaza. Israeli troops will later advance south, More than Two million Palestians could end up trapped along the border with Egypt if the operation succeeds.
what ever happened to iran’s red lines? i heard a lot of “ifs” “if the idf continue this — if the idf continues that — if the idf continues this — if the idf continues that”. absolutely pathetic. coming for you next iran
first surround that shithole and then kill every single terrorist inside
iran will be wiped off the map next by fire and fury…hahahaha
but we know you are a neo-nazi troll. smearing the good name of shlomos everywhere. you fool no one
for the the very survival of the jewish state and all of christendom depend on it! we will right a great injustice — that injustice being the very existence of belligerent iran.
that’s no way for you to talk about the jewish supremacist state, hasbarat!
doodles, you’re just a jewish supremacist hasbarat. the existence of your jewish supremacist state is entirely dependent on the capacity of jewish supremacist plutocrats to manipulate the political levers in the us empire. truly a parasitic phenomenon.
clyde, you are adorable. israel is an enterprise as western as america and britain itself.
silly doodles, i would never argue otherwise. the jewish supremacist entity in palestine could not exist but for the power of the two anglo empires. which are themselves, massive parasites.
you’re still missing the point. israel is an integrate part of the western capital system. not intersectional. please stop trying to sound smart — you’re adorable.
“israel” is a diseased rat feeding on the entrails of a hubris bloated and dying anglozionazi cadaver. look around you for goodness sake. you cho$enite$ are despised even more that the pu$$ oozing ussan host that you and your ilk have sucked dry. karma is wonderful, truly wonderful.
and now that slumville is bankrupt and the chosenite wall street sewer imploding…how long more can the welfare warfare abomination in palestine last without ussan tax cattle handouts? it’s all over bar the washing town fat lady’s howling and the civil war in slumville reloaded.
lol 🤡 they’re just smarter than foaming at the mouth sand nazis, maybe they’ll hit when you’ve run out of us missiles, or when the us support is gone, or when your submarine is returned home. or just maybe when opec raises the barrel to $150. who knows, but you’ll sure know when they do.
lieutenant general herzi halevi should be given a lead medal for all the courage it takes to kill children and create a fantasy world of lies..
5 mulatto lgbt and jens holm surround me
la única manera de que hamas pueda derrotar al ejercito israelíes es que irán intervenga o directamente en el conflicto lanzando un ataque devastador hacia las ciudades, instalaciones civiles y militares, aeropuertos, pistas de aterrizaje, puertos e infraestructura electrica para ello cuenta con miles de misiles balísticos, de crucero, hipersonicos, drones kamikazes, drones de ataque.
callate la boca, pajero totnto
la otra manera es de abrir otro frente en el norte con hezzbolah atacando con ciento de misiles balísticos y de presicion las ciudades, infraestructura civil y militar, aeropuertos, fábricas militares e industriales. para esto hezzbolah debería invadir el norte recuperar territorio
callate la boca, pajero tonto
cómo es sabido un ataque de esta magnitud no podría ser repelido por israel ya que sus sistemas de defensa aérea se ven superados al recibir ataques simultáneos y en cantidad, lo que dejara paralizado al ejército sionista que no espera un ataque de tal magnitud contra su infraestructura civil y militar, causando gran cantidad de bajas civiles y militares y haciendo entrar en razón a la cúpula israelíe que el conflicto podría ampliarse más si el eje de la resistencia así lo dispusiera.
callate la boca, pajero
the israel’s have been illegally ‘surrounding’ gaza for many decades.
dachau awaits the scum of the earth.
like the kremlin and mullah scum
zio pigs must pay in the future….their citizens around the world will not be able to walk without peace
wow, lieutenant general herzi halevi, chief of staff says they got the gaza surrounded. he must be in lala land, they already had them surrounded and haze a fence with a kill zone around it!
iran will definitely lay the khazar entity, in occupied palestine, to waste; it’s coming. the evil perpetrated by the chosenite devil leaves no other option. the iranian counter strike will be carried out with extreme patience and will take into account the ongoing crimes of the debauched and bankrupt anglozionazi empire of filth.
this current war is only in its “birth pangs” stage, as the evil ussan viper, anaconda rice, put it back in the day when the khazar were last slaughtering palestinian children and civilians.