Booby-Trap Kills 4 IDF Soldiers, Bibi Admits Arming Anti-Hamas Gaza Gang, French "Genocide" Probe
The IDF said four soldiers were killed and five were wounded by an explosion in a building in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers entered the building to clear it of possible 'terror' infrastructure, including tunnels.The building was booby-trapped, and the explosion caused the structure to collapse on the soldiers, killing four and wounding five others. Calling it a 'sad and difficult day,' the Israeli PM says the fallen gave their lives 'to defeat Hamas and to bring back our hostages.'Meanwhile, : Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (June 5) said that Israel's "operating" of Gazan militia was saving the lives of Israeli soldiers fighting in the Palestinian territory."We have operated clans in Gaza who oppose Hamas," Netanyahu said in a video published on his Facebook account on Thursday (June 5). "What's wrong with that? It is only good. It only saves IDF soldiers' lives," he said in the video statement released after Israeli opposition lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman accused the government of arming Palestinian militia perceived to be hostile to Hamas in Gaza. n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION3:15 THE ABU SHABAB CLAN6:02 FRANCE OPENS GAZA 'COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE' PROBE7:15 ISRAELI NAVY GEARS UP TO BLOCK AID SHIP HEADED FOR GAZA
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