Al-Qassam Destroys IDF Merkava Tank in Gaza's Jabalia | Watch Intense Video | TN World

In Gaza's Jabalia, intense clashes broke out between Al-Qassam Brigades and the IDF following a new Israeli operation. Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades reported strikes on advancing IDF forces and released dramatic footage of a drone dropping a bomb on an Israeli tank. As tensions rise, civilians suffer the most, prompting urgent calls for international intervention and raising concerns about the conflict's impact on peace efforts.
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0:20 that’s not even a merkava, also the worst that probably happened was a concision

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They have no idea what they shooting at

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Rafa
Rafa refers to an ancient race of giants who inhabited Canaan. The term “Rafa” first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 14:5, referring to the “Rephaim” as one of the peoples living in the land of Canaan and has associations of something that is ghost like.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon defines “Rafa” as meaning giants, shades, ghosts or departed spirits. So the Rephaim seem to refer to mythical ancient “giants” or “shades” of quasi-divine ancestral beings.
Some scholars believe the Genesis reference to the Rephaim indicates they were thought of as warrior ghosts or demonic spirits, lending a supernatural aura to these mysterious people.
According to some Old Hebrew scholars
The Hamas are the people possessed by the giants of the Old Testament which lived in Canaan.
In Genesis 14 and Deuteronomy 2-3
The Rephaim are mentioned various times in the Hebrew Bible, including Genesis 14 as enemies defeated by Abram and his allies in battle.
Rafa Torah
Arabic and Hebrew are sister languages, the Hebrew meaning of “hamas” is “violence. the Hebrew-English volume of Reuben Alcalay’s Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew dictionary. “Cruelty” and “injustice” are additional definitions.
Deuteronomy 2-3 describes the Rephaim as having once inhabited the lands East of the Jordan conquered by Moses and the Israelites after the Exodus:
The Rephaim are also described in the Torah as inhabiting areas west of the Jordan before the arrival of the conquering Israelites. Passages like Deuteronomy 1-3 portray the Rephaim as ancestors of other giant clans including the Anakim, Emim and Zamzummim, forming part of the broad category of indigenous peoples referred to as Canaanites and Amorites:
Some scholars link the Rephaim historically with the ancient Amorites, known from non-biblical sources like the Mari tablets as fierce warriors and tent-dwelling pastoral nomads living in Syria and Canann during the Bronze Age.
The Rafa Giants in the Bible
The Rephaim were a group of giants who ruled a kingdom east of the Jordan River in ancient times. Their king was named Og, and he was described as the last “remnant of the giants” (Deuteronomy 3:11). Og was himself a giant, with an iron bed over 13 feet long!
In the Old Testament, the Rafa giants represented the idolatrous and sinful pagan peoples that inhabited Canaan before the Israelites took possession of the promised land (Numbers 13:33). As descendants of the Nephilim in Genesis 6, the Rafa embodied an ungodly and corrupt bloodline that indulged in violence, pagan rituals, sexual immorality, and defiance of Yahweh.
The Rafa are symbols of idolatry and sin
Yahweh is the covenant-keeping name. God calls himself “Yahweh” when he first enters into the covenant with Abraham, YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
The Books of Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua emphasize that the Rafa giants exalted false gods, practiced child sacrifice, consulted spirits, and spread violence and corruption across the land. Their intimidating size and savage nature served as symbols of the frightening spiritual forces of wickedness that dominated Canaan.
God said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” (Exodus 3:15) Literally meaning ( I’AM)
Joshua and Judges highlight how God enabled leaders like Joshua, Caleb and David to triumph over intimidating giants due to their courageous faith. Though the pagan giants initially held military superiority, the Israelites experienced stunning upsets with God’s miraculous aid.
This theme underscored God’s supremacy over false gods and His commitment to give His faithful people victory.
Lessons for modern readers about overcoming spiritual “giants”
Beyond historical accounts of conquest, these stories of defeating giants carry timeless significance. They assure believers today that no obstacle or threat is too enormous for God’s people to overcome by faith in His superior power.
The Rafa giants represented terrifying spiritual enemies, but God enabled His people to conquer these intimidating foes.
Mention of the Valley of the Rafa in Joshua 15
The Valley of the Rafa is mentioned in Joshua 15:8 in relation to the boundary lines of the inheritance of Judah. This verse states: “Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern slope of the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem).
And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over the Valley of Hinnom, westward at the end of the Valley of the Rafa.”
So there is a geographic connection made between the Valley of the Rafa, the Valley of Hinnom, and Jerusalem. The Valley of Hinnom was a place right near Jerusalem where pagan child sacrifices occurred and refuse was later burnt.
So the Valley of the Rafa seems to be another valley or ravine branching off from the Valley of Hinnom.
Association with the kingdom of the dead in Isaiah 14
The Valley of the Rafa is also referenced symbolically in Isaiah 14:12-20 in a prophetic passage about the defeat of the king of Babylon. Verses 15 and 19 state:
“But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit…But you have been cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.”
So Rafa the land of the Giants and Gaza with the Hamas possessed of ancient deceased demons is what is being warred against by Israel.