IDF Airstrike Targets Hamas No. 3 Marwan Issa Hiding Inside Gaza Terror Tunnels
IDF “still assessing the outcomes of the overnight Sunday strike and waiting on a final confirmation of Issa’s death.”
With Hamas threatening to intensify terrorist attacks on Israel during Ramadan, the Israel Defense Forces targeted Gaza-based terrorist group’s number 3 leader, Marwan Issa. The senior Hamas terror operative was targeted in an airstrike over the weekend, and the Israeli military was still assessing the success of the operation, the IDF disclosed on Monday.
“The IDF confirmed Monday evening that it struck an underground facility used by senior Hamas commander Marwan Issa and another top official in the terrorist organization,” the Israeli news website YNET reported. “The army’s chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said that they were still assessing the outcomes of the overnight Sunday strike and waiting on a final confirmation of Issa’s death.”
Approved for release: Arch-terrorist Marwan Issa, Hamas no. 3, was targeted Saturday night in an underground complex in Nuseirat. The @IDF has yet to get final confirmation of his elimination alongside other senior #Hamas terrorists.
Beyond the obvious reasons to target the… pic.twitter.com/UcyQrjGzyR— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) March 11, 2024
The targeted senior Hamas operative is among the planners of the October 7 attacks, the IDF revealed. “Marwan Issa, deputy of Mohammad Deif and one of the planners of the Oct. 7 Massacre, was targeted in a joint operation with the ISA on an underground compound,” the Israeli military said in statement late night Monday. “We are still assessing the results of the strike and will inform the public of them when we are certain.”
The IDF “will continue to pursue Hamas leaders and everyone involved in the Oct. 7 Massacre, not only in Gaza,” the official statement added.
Detailing Issa’s role within the terrorist group, The Times of Israel reported:
As deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, Marwan Issa has long been an elusive target for Israel, and the airstrike early Sunday morning that left both the IDF and Hamas probing his fate was the culmination of extensive efforts by the IDF to eliminate the senior terror commander.
Nicknamed the “Shadow Man” due to his ability to stay off Israel’s radar, the 59-year-old Gazan has played a significant role in a long string of terror attacks, starting from the time of the First Intifada and up to the massacre of some 1,200 people and kidnapping of 253 others in southern Israel on October 7 in the shock terror assault that left Israel reeling.
Due to the nature of his role as deputy head of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, making him second-in-command to the military wing’s leader Muhammed Deif, Issa is “essentially Hamas chief of staff,” former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told Channel 12 news on Monday evening.
The targeted strike on Hamas number 3 comes two months after an alleged Israeli drone strike that killed the terrorist group’s deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Lebanon. If confirmed, the elimination of Issa will incur a major blow to Hamas’s terrorist fighting force in Gaza. According the newspaper Israel Hayom, he is “considered one of Hamas’s sharpest minds, leading its transition from terrorist cells to an organized military with a command structure and brigades.”
IDF releases footage of strike which aimed to take out #Hamas deputy military commander Marwan Issa. #Israel is still assessing his status. pic.twitter.com/3NqdkpI2ph
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) March 11, 2024
IDF hit over 4,500 Hezbollah terror targets since Oct 7
The IDF targeted thousands of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon amid growing terrorist buildup along Israel’s northern border. Closed to 90,000 Israeli civilians have been forced to leave their homes in the north due to relentless Hezbollah rocket and mortar fire from southern Lebanon, figures released in early February show.
With Iranian proxy terrorist group escalating cross-border attacks, Israel was “edging closer to war with Hezbollah,” the Jerusalem Post noted Tuesday.
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported the IDF’s response to Hezbollah aggression:
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have conducted over 4,500 strikes on Hezbollah targets since the beginning of the conflict on October 7, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 operatives, including five senior commanders, the IDF said on Tuesday.
Amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, which commenced on October 7, the IDF has primarily targeted Hezbollah locations in Lebanon but has also conducted strikes in Syria. According to IDF estimates, approximately 750 Hezbollah members have been wounded in these operations.
Over the past five months, the IDF’s Northern Command has led aerial strikes on more than 1,200 targets, complemented by ground operations utilizing artillery and tanks, targeting an additional 3,100 sites.
The IDF’s strikes have focused on various Hezbollah assets, including weapons depots, buildings utilized for terrorist activities, observation posts along the border, command centers housing terror operatives, rocket launching positions, and squads executing anti-tank missile attacks.
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He used to be called the Shadow Man. And now he is a shadow man.
Now he’s a puddle
So he was a leader who was hiding. Truly committed to the cause?
De-committed at this point.
Notice that all the brave Islamic Terrorists lead from underground.
Issa he a-missin or related to Darrell Issa?
Beat me by 15 minutes.
Biden says he’s puttin up a pier to import some more. Hamas says they”ll line it with school children to make it safer. Darrell Issa gonna kissa him some Hamasa.
Faster, please.
So, does this mean the IDF is fully capable of destroying the enemy, eliminating the enemy’s leadership, while ignoring red line propaganda, and did so without asking Traitor Joe or Tony Blinken for permission?
Awesome! Way to go Israel!
a cursory run though IDF’s long history of such actions confirms the answer to your question is a definite YES.
I still do t know how this attack occurred on Oct 7 with no knowledge and why it took 7 hours for Israel forces to react
Yes I know some , very few soldiers, reserves for the most part, amazing tank girls for one group
But Israel…
The first person interviews with respondents in places attacked on Oct 7th are overwhelming; should be required viewing. They all say the same:
— To protect my family and friends from murder or worse
— I was there; it needed doing; so, I stepped up
— Aware of the risk to themselves; no hesitation. “…then my battle buddy was killed, so I carried on.”
Should I ever have to step up in an instant I hope I do a fraction as well. All honor to them.
Plenty of conspiracies out there that the Jews allowed the attack to happen so they could deal to Hamas once and for all.
This would mean Hamas fell in to their own trap of their own making 😂😂
Them Jews are crafty people I tell you 😂
I am loving these Jews with balls! Finally!
A few years ago, there was poster of, I believe it was a pair of F-18s with the Israeli insignia–Star of David–on them. They were shown ahead of some enemy jets that they had hit with missiles. The caption was
Jews: Not So Easy To Fuck With Anymore.
Bibi is a stud. Israel was willing to put up with a few rockets and trade shots but the massacre was way over the line. I expect even Hamas is stunned it’s down to it’s last rat hole and waiting for Biden to save them. Looks like he is trying to do just that but Bibi is not on board with Biden’s re-election ploy. Funny how the survival of a country clarifies the mind over shear grift like Biden has been engaged in. He must be confused that the threat of money isn’t working. Always worked on him.
My reading on the Arab-Israeli conflict has showed that the Arabs learned in 1948 that they could rely on the UN (and later the US) to moderate Israel’s response to aggression. In later conflicts, the Arabs wove this into their planning, understanding that if their chestnuts needed rescuing, they could rely on the world to pressure Israel to ease up.
Apparently, those days are over, and Hamas seems to have miscalculated. The pressure is on Israel, but there’s someone at the helm who is capable of ignoring it. Hamas maybe didn’t do its due diligence in working up a psych profile on Bibi and other current Israeli leaders.
I’m wondering if Hesbolluah has taken stock of the impact Hamas actions have had on their capabilities too??
Good comment. The other difference now is that even the opposition party is onboard. Bibi is the face and driver of this but everyone agrees.
Often the general folks are for a given strategy but the lack of a leder with HEART will stall any rel efforts, and thus avoid victory s if i were a plague. Sometimes even a Deborah or an Esther is the one God chooses to step up to the plte nd privude the leadership and heart the weak-kned “men” lack. But once that leader steps up the many will now fll into formation and move out… with heart nd determination.
Seem Bibi is the Man of the Hour… not his first trick at that whel, either Perhaps a good part of the renewed will to FIGH and WIN is because they all know his track record. More will fll ito formation behind a proven leader/winner than a “rookie”. Seems to be happening and I am glad to see it.
By the way I do NOT see present day Israel as anything specially favoured by God, or hai=ving any special abilities “just because we’re the “chosen”. they had their chance 2000 years or so back, and muffed it, big time, sut=ch that God rised up the meanest nastiest fiercest largest army on the planet to go finish them ALL off, and did so wjth gusto. (He later arranged to finiish off the Romans, too, lest they get swelled heads or anything like….
But I certainly DO favour Israel’s deserved victory and ridding the planet of this vile scourge. Perhaps God visiting His favour upon them to enable them to rid the planet of this scum thereby securing their safety going forward, will open some eyse and hearts so they will come to acknowledge Messiah, the One whom they killed a few centuries back. Repentance can still come, a turning from one thing and to another.
Yep–being crybullies only works for so long. Eventually enough of the rest of the world stops giving in to them.
Over at Mark Steyn’s site, JP posted this….
“In 1982, Israeli PM Menachem Begin was challenged by a US Senator to accept the US position or lose US aid:
Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
That Senator was Joe Biden. A hyena can’t change its liver spots.”
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I bet that some of these terrorists are loss of their reproductive capabilities, complete or partial meaning there will be no virgins for them.