Written By Dominick Skinner | 30 September 2025
The Israeli military admits to having struck 160 “targets” in Gaza over the past 24 hours. When the state-sponsored terrorists of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) use this language, it is important to decode it. “Targets” does not mean one bomb per strike, nor does itt mean one building, nor does it even mean one location, a single “target” may be a crowded apartment block, hit repeatedly until nothing remains standing. If the IDF says 160 “targets,” it is safe to assume the number of bombs, shells, and missiles fired into Gaza is far higher.
One confirmed strike yesterday was in Deir al-Balah, where families once again found themselves buried under Israel’s firepower. For the people of Deir al-Balah, the word “target” meant their home, their loved ones, their future reduced to rubble.
Some of those “target” in yesterday’s assaults, included a pregnant woman and her child, and an innocent woman alongside all of her children. Israel has wiped out so many entire families that we cannot count them anymore, however, this time last year, the number of entire families that have been killed in their entirety, was more than 900.
The attacks came even as Donald Trump stood beside Benjamin Netanyahu to sell a so-called “peace” plan to the world. While the cameras captured talk of ceasefire and diplomacy, Israel carried out one of its heaviest bombardments in recent weeks.
Israel has increasingly supplemented airstrikes with remote-controlled car bombs and other mechanized terror tactics, rolling explosives into densely populated areas to collapse any remaining homes and buildings. These methods blur the line between conventional warfare and sheer terrorism, a deliberate campaign to annihilate civilian life and infrastructure
It is worth stressing: the IDF’s numbers are not to be taken at face value. They are the minimum they admit to, meant for propaganda purposes. If they claim 160 “targets,” the reality is likely several hundred detonations across the Strip, with the death toll left deliberately vague. What they call “targets” are hospitals, schools, refugee shelters, mosques, and homes. What they call “operations” are war crimes.
The international community applauds stage-managed diplomacy while Israel boasts of the scale of its destruction. For Palestinians in Gaza, “160 targets” means another day of terror, another day of rubble, grief, and survival.