Israeli Airstrike Destroys Hamas Command Center After Rocket Attack From Gaza
The IDF: “At the time of the strike, numerous Hamas terrorists were operating from within the compound, from where they planned to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.”
Israeli fighter jets struck a Hamas base early morning Sunday after the terrorist group fired several rockets aimed at towns in southern Israel.
The terrorist base was embedded in a Gaza hospital, a preferred location for Hamas to place its jihadist fighters and to hoard weapons. The targeted terrorists were plotting to execute attacks on Israeli troops and civilians, the military disclosed. The Israeli “[f]orces launch retaliatory strikes on Hamas positions in Gaza, including a hospital used for military operations, after terror group launched rockets at Israel during holiday,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Sunday.
Hamas fired at least five rockets from Gaz as Jews across Israel observe the week-long Passover festivities. Most rockets failed to reach their targets, with IDF air defense systems intercepting one projectile over the southern Israeli kibbutz of Re’im, news reports indicate. “The military said rocket sirens were sounded in open areas, no injuries were reported and the intercepted rocket was the fourth launched into Israel from Gaza that day,” the news outlet added.
Revealing the details of the retaliatory strike, the Israeli military said Sunday morning:
A short while ago, the IDF and ISA [Shin Bet security agency] struck a Hamas command and control center in the area of Deir al Balah. At the time of the strike, numerous Hamas terrorists were operating from within the compound, from where they planned to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
The terrorists were inside the compound when the strike took place. While the Hamas terrorists embedded themselves in the hospital to maximize civilian casualties, the Israeli armed forces undertook painstaking measures to keep Gazans out of harm’s way, the IDF informed.
“The targeted terrorists had planned to carry out additional terrorist attacks,” the IDF statement added. “Prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance.”
DISMANTLED: Hamas Command and Control Center 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 Al Ahli Hospital
The compound was used by Hamas terrorists to plan and execute terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
Despite the IDF repeatedly stating that military activity within medical… pic.twitter.com/KzqKhIpTBt
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 13, 2025
The IDF, on Sunday afternoon, issued news evacuation orders for southern Gaza after the Hamas rocket fire which came from the Khan Younis area. “Israel issues immediate evacuation warning for several Gaza neighborhoods after rocket attack on Reim,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Sunday afternoon.
The order comes after Israeli ground troops, on Saturday, completed the encirclement of the Hamas stronghold of Rafah, creating the Morag Corridor which cuts off the terror bastion from Khan Younis.
Following the clearing of the first part of the Morag corridor in southern Gaza by the 1st "Golani" infantry brigade of the 36th Division and the clearing of the area between the Morag corridor and the Philidelphi corridor by the 188th armoured brigade of the 36th Division,… pic.twitter.com/1fLIRB0Vc5
— AMK Mapping
(@AMK_Mapping_) April 12, 2025
Apart from the airstrike on the Hamas command center, the IDF ground troops were sweeping across Rafah, eliminating jihadists and destroying terrorist infrastructure, the Jerusalem Post reported:
The 188th Special Operations Command killed dozens of terrorists during ongoing ground operations in southern Gaza, the IDF announced on Sunday.
The 188th Brigade Combat Team is continuing targeted activity in new areas of Rafah with the aim of dismantling terrorist infrastructure and establishing operational control.
As part of the operation, the IDF located and destroyed multiple tunnel shafts, observation posts, booby-trapped buildings, and additional terrorist infrastructure that posed a direct threat to Israeli troops.
Social media posts suggest that the IDF has succeeded in eliminating the Hamas ‘police’ commander, Mohammed Darbashi, who played a key role in suppressing opposition to the Gaza-based terror regime. Hamas also uses its ‘police’ force to steal incoming food and humanitarian supplies.
BREAKING: The IDF has successfully eliminated Mohammed Darbashi, the Hamas police commander.
Darbashi was also involved in threatening and executing Palestinians who spoke out against Hamas. pic.twitter.com/mwmXOBjyJF
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 13, 2025
The Israeli Air Force also struck a terrorist cell planting a roadside bomb:
An Israeli drone identified terrorists planting an explosive device in the Gaza Strip. An airstrike eliminated them. pic.twitter.com/l8ppHT6PdA
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 13, 2025
The IDF resumed the military operation in Gaza after Hamas in mid-March turned down a ceasefire proposal by the Trump administration, refusing to negotiate the release of 59 hostages, including the remains of 35 Israeli captives murdered by the terrorists since October 7, 2023.
Overnight, the IDF says it targeted a Hamas command center embedded within the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City.
The military says the compound was used by Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks on Israel and IDF troops.
No casualties are reported in the strike since the… pic.twitter.com/Kt5Urfc20m
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 13, 2025
Earlier this week the IDF extended the security buffer zones in central and southern Gaza, taking direct control of some 30 percent of the Hamas-infested territory.
Update
Israeli military destroyed an over 7 mile-long Hamas tunnel in Gaza. “IDF troops dismantled a 1.2 kilometer-long underground route in the northern Gaza,” the military disclosed Sunday evening.
A weapons storage facility was located near the route, containing a stockpile of around 20 explosive devices and an anti-tank guided missile amongst other weapons.
In swift… pic.twitter.com/Sws8sd5dSa
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 13, 2025
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Those poor, Gazan, Arab invaders from Arabia; so-called, alleged “victims” — they’re so victimized and so oppressed, that they’re still firing rockets at Israel, in order to fulfill the aims of their genocidal, Jew-hating, Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist charter and religious fanaticism.
These are the “victims” of the middle east, according to the vile, evil and stupid American Dhimmi-crats and European, leftist dhimmis.
You’re being too kind by half to all concerned.
Meanwhile, today on the Passover holy day, we had to go into the shelters here in Jerusalem because of missiles fired from Yemen.
Oh no!
Anyway…
How many Columbia U faculty were injured in the strike?
Sadly, zero.
But we can always hope…
I would even settle for a few journalists.
Sorry, I mean “journalists.”
‘Bout Damn Time!
Israel needs to stop pussyfooting around and get serious. Starting at the northern border of Gaza, execute a rolling barrage all the way to the southern border. Yes, I am advocating the total destruction of everything in Gaza, right down to the bedrock. The area can then be redeveloped and put to productive use.
Yes, that’s what should have happened at the very beginning. No more “ceasefires” that are quickly violated by Hamas. No more IDF withdrawals only to have them have to go back and retake what once had. No more quarter given. From the river to the sea Gaza needs to be cleansed of the arab terrorists that have been allowed to establish themselves there. Then the area can be redeveloped and put into productive use.
That pretense has been over since the last ceasefire ended several weeks ago and Hamas rejected Israel’s conditions for extending it. Which hasn’t stopped the ‘human rights community’ and other shills for Hamas of accusing Israel of violating the nonexistent ceasefire.
“Hospital Hit”
Now there’s some first-class headline writing.
More Hamas are gone.
If Hamas were 10 little Indians they would be down to two or three by now:
Ten little, nine little, eight little Indians, Seven little, six little, five little Indians, Four little, three little, two little….
dot or feather?
Dot of course. If they were feather, they would be called ten little native americans.
We’ve updated that to: call center or casino?
Press 1 for Spanish
Press 2 to speak to a person in India
I never ned to call them. They call ME several times a day to make sure my “new medicare card” got here, or to make sure I have a currrnt buial insurance policy, or maybe sell me new cheap solar panels.
I often have them on for awhile, responding to them in my pretty good punjabi accent and playing “stupid” to the stupid callers. When they begin to get”on” to me I tell them in clean english they need to stop harassing me yanks and get a real job that helps someone.
But laely I just hang up in them cause I’ve got much I need to get done. Clowns… fedgov ought to make such pesering illegal.
Carpet bomb with daisy cutters works for me.
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