By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

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    But their anger is directed primarily at Hamas, which they hold responsible for putting the people of Gaza in this position, and for its continued refusal to end the war that it started. “Hitler fought in his bunker until he killed himself in World War II in the Battle of Berlin,” another person said, complaining that Hamas is hunkered down in its tunnels, willing to see Gaza destroyed to the very last child.”

    Here is some excerpts of the timeline for the war on Wikipedia. Note that these are only IDF confirmations of their soldiers or other Israeli combatants (e.g. Shin Bet) killed in Gaza.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Gaza_war_(16_May_2025_–_present)#June

    June 03

    The IDF reported that three soldiers of the Givati Brigade were killed and two others were moderately injured the day prior by an explosive device while operating in Jabalia, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 423. Per an initial IDF investigation, five soldiers were in a Humvee in the area when they were hit by an explosive device planted there by militants.

    June 04

    The IDF said that a reservist from the 6646th Battalion of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade was killed in combat in Shuja’iyya one day prior, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 425. Another reservist from the battalion was critically injured in the same incident.[337]

    June 06

    The IDF said that four soldiers were killed and five were injured including one critically by a blast in a building in Khan Yunis, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 429. Per an initial IDF investigation, the soldiers entered a booby-trapped building to clear it of possible militant infrastructure and the blast caused the building to collapse on the soldiers.

    June 15

    The IDF said that a commander from the Kfir Brigade was killed during combat in south Gaza, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 430. Another soldier was slightly wounded in the same incident

    June 16

    Israel announced that a captain of the Golani Brigade who was also a Shin Bet combat commander was killed by an explosive device in Khan Yunis, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 431.

    June 17

    The IDF said that a soldier from the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion was killed during combat in south Gaza one day prior, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 432. It also said that 10 others were injured, including four critically in the same incident. Per an initial IDF investigation, the soldiers were in an armored personnel carrier while operating in Khan Yunis, when a militant placed an explosive device on the outside of the vehicle.

    June 18

    The IDF said that a soldier from the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion was killed during combat in south Gaza, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 433. Per an initial IDF investigation the soldier was killed by sniper fire in Khan Yunis.

    June 25

    Seven Israeli soldiers from the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion were killed during combat in south Gaza, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 440. Per an initial IDF investigation, a militant planted an explosive device on a Puma armored combat engineering vehicle the soldiers were in while they were driving in Khan Yunis. Two soldiers were injured, one critically and one slightly by RPG fire in a separate incident in Khan Yunis.

    June 29

    The IDF said that a soldier from the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion was killed during combat in north Gaza. Per an initial IDF investigation, the soldier was killed by an explosive device in Kafr Jabalia, increasing the IDF death toll in Gaza to 441.

    Hamas and other armed groups are using guerilla tactics, which is the only viable strategy against a military that is much better equipped. Note how the attacks often are either by sniper-fire or by explosive against armored vehicles.

    This is the current official map of the IDF displacement orders in Gaza. As you can see the fighters are fighting against the IDF in territories, from which IDF has cleansed the civilian population (Khan Yunis, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun), so the claim that Hamas would be using “human shields” by embedding in the civilian population does not hold true:

    https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1949328463237636457/photo/1

    For reference
    June 04:

    June 02: