{"id":303361,"date":"2025-09-22T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303361"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:34:41","slug":"israel-levels-50-high-rise-buildings-in-large-scale-gaza-occupation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/israel-levels-50-high-rise-buildings-in-large-scale-gaza-occupation-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Levels 50 High-Rise Buildings in Large-Scale Gaza Occupation Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli Forces level a high-rise building surrounded by refugee tents in Gaza.
(Israeli Defense Minister Katz on X, Screenshot)<\/p><\/div>\n

Israel called the campaign \u201cOperation Gideon Chariots II\u201d, which Hamas said it will counter with a series of operations dubbed \u201cMoses\u2019 Staff\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

12 Sep 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0\u201cThe bolt is now being removed from the gates of Hell in Gaza,\u201d Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said early Friday, September 5, in a statement he wrote on X<\/a>, signaling the start of \u201cOperation Gideon Chariots II\u201d in Gaza City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the door is opened, it will not be closed, and IDF activity will intensify,\u201d Katz added, threatening Hamas \u201cto accept Israel\u2019s conditions for ending the war\u201d, otherwise \u201cthey will be destroyed\u201d.<\/p>\n

A couple of hours later, Katz posted a video<\/a> of a high-rise building being flattened by Israeli warplanes in Gaza City, commenting: \u201cWe started\u201d.<\/p>\n

The posts were published almost simultaneously as the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) announced<\/a> that it will target multi-story buildings in Gaza City for allegedly being used by Hamas as military infrastructures.<\/p>\n

Dozens of towers located in densely populated areas, some surrounded by makeshift tents of displaced people, have been destroyed since the IOF made the announcement.<\/p>\n

On Monday, September 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly boasted about the demolition of 50 towers<\/a> in Gaza City within a couple of days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past two days, 50 of these towers have fallen. The air force brought them down,\u201d Netanyahu said in a video statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow all of this is just an introduction, just a prelude, to the main intense operation \u2013 a ground maneuver of our forces, who are now organizing and gathering in Gaza City,\u201d he threatened.<\/p>\n

Reiterating his intention to forcibly displace the people of Gaza, Netanyahu said: \u201cThis is just the prelude to the main powerful operation, so I tell Gaza residents: you have been warned, get out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chief of the General Staff, LTG Eyal Zamir, in a field visit in Gaza City, overseeing Operation Gideon\u2019s Chariots.\u00a0 Photo: IDF \/ X<\/p><\/div>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s boasting about towers destruction is sadism and criminality, says Hamas<\/b><\/h3>\n

In a statement<\/a> issued on Tuesday, September 9, Hamas slammed Netanyahu\u2019s remarks as \u201cone of the most heinous images of sadism and criminality perpetrated by a war criminal, who has continued to commit brutal crimes against civilians for about two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamas added that \u201cthe threat of terrorist Netanyahu to the residents of Gaza City and warning them to flee, is an explicit practice of the full-fledged forced displacement crime, under the pressure of airstrikes, massacres, starvation and threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palestinian movement further condemned the silence and inability of the United Nations institutions, primarily the UN Security Council, in confronting these brutal crimes, and accused the US administration of complicity.<\/p>\n

Moses\u2019 Staff vs. Gideon Chariots II<\/b><\/h3>\n

Four months after \u201cOperation Gideon Chariots<\/a>\u201d was launched without achieving any of Netanyahu\u2019s \u201ctotal victory\u201d delusions, the second version of the expanded ground offensive was launched under the name \u201cOperation Gideon Chariots II\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israel has used a biblical name for its operations in an attempt to sanctify the continuation of its 23-month genocidal aggression in Gaza, at least in the minds of religiously-oriented people within Israeli society, amid a growing opposition<\/a> that has been calling for a ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n

Gideon<\/a> was a military leader, celebrated in the Torah for his victory over his enemies through unconventional strategy and tactics.<\/p>\n

For its part, Hamas\u2019s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, responded to the denomination of the new Israeli operation, by announcing that it will be launching a series of operations dubbed \u201cMoses\u2019 Staff\u201d.<\/p>\n

The name implies a connotation of a religious narrative<\/a> believed by Jews and Muslims alike, about the miraculous ability of the oppressed (Moses) to defeat the oppressor (Pharao), despite limited capabilities.<\/p>\n

Although the Al-Qassam has mainly relied on street fighting and ambush tactics, Israel\u2019s huge military arsenal has not enabled the IOF to defeat the brigades. It has not prevented the Israeli military from suffering major losses either.<\/p>\n

According to the latest figures published by the Israeli occupation authorities, at least 904 Israeli soldiers<\/a> have been killed since October 7, 2023, out of whom 460 were eliminated in ground battles across Gaza.<\/p>\n

In order to pressure Hamas to surrender, the Netanyahu administration has not used lawful military strategies, but criminal genocidal tactics<\/a>, targeting areas densely populated by civilians, and using hunger as a weapon of war. It also recruited local militias of mercenaries to loot aid, spread chaos, and ignite infighting among Palestinians in the war-torn strip.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Friday, September 12, that the official death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel across the besieged enclave since the beginning of the genocide has risen to 64,756<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Assassinating Hamas\u2019s top military commanders<\/a> and political leaders in Gaza and exile<\/a>, has been another heinous strategy adopted by the Israeli government to undermine the Palestinian resistance group.<\/p>\n

The aggression which rocked the Qatari capital, Doha, on Tuesday, September 9, was the latest operation<\/a> carried out by the IOF to assassinate senior Hamas leaders, who survived the assault.<\/p>\n

Even though Israel has implemented every lethal and illegitimate method to eradicate the Al-Qassam, the resistance has demonstrated solidity with an extraordinary ability to recover, and continuously recruit new fighters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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