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Colonel Ehsan Daqsa, 41, was killed after his tank and another tank were hit by explosive devices during military operations in Jabalia refugee camp
I feel like I've seen this one. quite a few times, even! Let me guess: literally no infantry were around protecting the armor at all, and so some guy in flipflops was able climb out of a hole dug into the ground, run up, put a 
on it, and then jump back into the hole in the ground, while taking no fire in doing so.
How close was I?
military operations in Jabalia refugee camp
six consecutive words specifically crafted to send you into a burning rage
carrying out 'military operations' in the places people were forced to try to flee to in order to avoid the death-and-destruction of our previous 'military operations.' repeat ad nauseum
most moral army btw give us more money and bombs for our 'right to defend ourselves' in this manner
I don't think the infantry would've helped
wow that is very satisfying. just like obliterated that fucking tank and that piece of human excrement inside
That explosion tho... I think someone rigged one of Israel's undetonated unguided bombs as an IED, lmao
Arabic sharpie was along the lines of "Returned to Sender, Israel"
It was a message in honor of Sinwar
We love the brave fighters recyling efficiently.
That's being environmental! Remember, just as the Native Americans used every part of the buffalo, we must use every part of the UXO...
oof
RIp in piss, dirtbag.
still shoulda brought infantry. real snug like 
probably turned into jello in there
Turned him into an astronaut with that blastoff
The Basque Space Agency continues to inspire people to push the limits of how many differential Gs an occupier's constitution can be subjected to.
that or they used an unexploded american bomb and put it in a barrel and set it off from a safe distance away
Hoist by their own petard, if you will.
Ehsan Daqsa
Is he druze?
yes
Yeah I don't care about the lives of uncle tariqs (idk what else to call Arabs that sell out their own). Damn him and any other Arab that supports exterminating other Arabs like Palestinians and Lebanese.
The fuck is a "military operation in a refuge camp"?! 
Assuming this is rhetorical, but for everyone else: this "military operation" more or less seems to have the goal of total extermination of every last Palestinian north of Gaza city.
Yeah it is rhetorical, hence the goose. The idea that any military would "conduct operations" in a refugee camp belays that they're trying to kill the refugees. And let's be real, they want to exterminate all Palestinians.
In regards to this piece of trash:
Earlier this year, he ordered the destruction of the Canada Well water facility, which supplied 50% of the water in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate, where much of the population had evacuated.
Wow, I hope you burn in hell you disgusting piece of trash.
Feels so good when scum actually get what's coming for them.
Dude took that scene from Spec Ops the Line and went "this is good actually."
Situations like this honestly make me wish that hell was real so people like that can go to it.
I hope it was agony
Sadly with a blast like that he probably never saw it coming.
owned
Love how their soldiers are either a 21 year old major general in charge of posting images of IOF soldiers rifling through underwear drawers for propaganda purposes, or a 40 year old Colonel who is commanding a force of multiple heavy brigades because he's the only one familiar with advanced concepts like "flanking".
with advanced concepts like "flanking".
damn, i wonder if they promote you by the amount of hours you've logged into Total War 
Israeli "Defence" Forces be like: rest in peace colonel Yoav Shalom, who died valiantly protecting an open window in Rafah City. Yeah he was 17 years old and only finished basic training two weeks ago what about it?
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers held a conference near the border with Gaza, with the Israeli army allowing them to set up tents for the Jewish festival of Sukkot.
Haaretz reported that the "Preparing to resettle Gaza" conference, organised by the Nachala Settlement Movement which establishes illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, set up 50 sukkah tents and were set to sleep in them on Sunday night.
The tents were erected in a closed military area near Kibbutz Be'eri.
Nachala said last week that the conference was "planned not only as a theoretical conference, but as a practical exercise and practical preparation for resettlement in Gaza."
"The return to settlement in Gaza is no longer an idea, but a move that is currently in an advanced stage with the support of the government and the public," it added.
Hope they get blown to pieces.
After all this, any zionist freak who pitches a tent there will never know peace or rest.
Got the classic fascist no-chin look 
: )
More! MOAR!
he kissed the merkava forerver with every atome
Imagine being a POS in a merkava, designed explicitly to protect its occupants by placing the engine in the front as extra armour, only to hear a gentle "thud" over the sound of the idling engine shortly before the poorly protected side armour spalls around your cockpit and turns you and your closest colonizer mates into shredded chicken. All because your fellow child murderers are too chicken shit to support their flanks.