Israel At War Friday Oct 27 Updates

Day 21 of War, refresh page

4pm

- ABC News: IDF official says the action in Gaza is not a start of a ground offensive but limited incursion.

UN just adopted Jordan's resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel/Hamas war by a vote of 120-14 with 45 abstentions. 

-Biden administration is privately urging Israel against a full Gaza ground invasion, pushing instead a surgical campaign, Washington Post reports

- Spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, John Kirby has now stated that there will be “No Red-Lines” for Israel.

- Iran threatens: "The fighters in Lebanon are ready with their finger on the trigger for an Israeli ground operation in Gaza"  

3pm

- Tanks enter Gaza, Jordanian official says Israel starts ground offensive 

- IDF ramps up strikes in Gaza, says ground forces to ‘expand’ activity tonight. Reports of gunfire exchanges with hamas

Gaza communications collapse amid bombardments 

Army says it’s hitting underground targets  

- Alex Dancyg, an elderly Holocaust educator Hamas terrorists are holding captive in Gaza is in great danger due to his medical conditions, his son says "We have no time," Mati Dancyg said about his father, who had a severe heart attack a few years ago and requires medication to prevent another. "Every minute that passes without this medicine is dangerous for him."

12pm

- Commander of Hamas' Western Khan Yunis Battalion—was eliminated by an IDF aerial strike. Furthermore, the IDF struck 250+ Hamas targets including a terrorist tunnel network in Gaza that detonated the secondary explosions.

- Spokesman for IDF announced today that Hamas has established an Underground-Terror Complex beneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is being used as their Primary Operations Base in the Strip with Tunnels connecting a number of other Locations to the Complex.

- Rocket barrage launched at Tel Aviv 2 direct hits with light injuries building catches fire

- Number of hostages at 229

- US strikes Syria sites used by Iran, its proxies after attacks on American troops. 

senior US military official said the precision strikes hit weapons and ammunition storage areas that were connected to the IRGC, which is a US-designated terrorist organization. Two US F-16 fighter jets carried out the sortie on sites near the town of Boukamal near the Iraqi border, the official said.

- IDF says apparent drone strike on Egypt town near Israel launched from ‘Red Sea area’

6 hurt in Taba blast; reports of 2nd projectile hitting Sinai resort, attack comes week after Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen attempted to fire missiles at Israel from Red Sea. Unnamed Israeli officials told Hebrew-language media that the missiles were fired in the direction of Israel.

- IDF tanks, troops briefly enter Gaza in 2nd limited overnight raid ahead of ground op

- Jews in Brooklyn told to hide and stay inside this shabbos afternoon after a pro hamas rally to take place in crown heights. And rather than feeling certain the NYPD will protect them, they are learning the lesson American Jews have almost never felt the need to learn: Stay inside.

In 2023, three weeks after Jews in Israel were set upon by marauders who murdered 1,400 and injured nearly three times that many, in cities around the world and now in New York, the Jews outside Israel are under attack as never before in recent history — rather than finding themselves protected as never before.

No, they must stay inside. (NYP)