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(103,694 posts) Sat May 17, 2025, 04:04 AM Saturday

Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Israel has announced a major new offensive in Gaza after launching a wave of airstrikes on the territory that killed more than 100 people, in what it said was a fresh effort to force Hamas to release hostages.

In a statement late on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had “launched extensive attacks and mobilized forces to seize strategic areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the opening moves of Operation Gideon’s Chariots and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza”.
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Instead, the raids and bombardment over the past 72 hours have raised the levels of violence higher than for several weeks, with the death toll coming close to that seen in the first days of Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza after a fragile ceasefire collapsed in March.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said strikes on Friday killed 108 people, mostly women and children, and some officials in the Palestinian territory put the number killed by Israeli attacks in recent days as high as 250 or 300.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/16/israel-launches-major-offensive-in-gaza-after-airstrikes-that-killed-more-than-100

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Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all] muriel_volestrangler Saturday OP

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I Missed The Part About Blocking Food and Supplies to Women and Children in Mass Starvation DrFunkenstein Saturday #115

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The same targets they are hitting now except doing so not with a single strike but Beastly Boy Sunday #136

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Hamas needs to return the hostages. Mossfern Saturday #15

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Thanks for posting this, I was napping Mossfern Saturday #94

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I'm going to tell Mom! Bayard Saturday #73

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I don't know of any Bibi apologists here Mossfern Saturday #19

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I didn't say that I agree with the bombings -don't put words into my mouth Mossfern Saturday #24

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Are you saying that there are Bibi apologists here? MarineCombatEngineer Saturday #20

I asked that question here not too long ago Mossfern Saturday #25

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Islam asks us. Frasier Balzov Saturday #57

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The odd thing is that in the early Bible, the only people with chariots are the baddies muriel_volestrangler Saturday #87

I don't follow Israel/Palestinians/Arabs issues That closely but I have been off & on for decades. This comment from... electric_blue68 Saturday #65

That's not what he said. I noted it earlier. Beastly Boy Saturday #76

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