While Israeli military units are still in Gaza….
Now in three different location’s…
President Biden has been leaning on the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza…
Biden has been on the phone to Egypt on the aid efforts….
Most Gaza comunication system’s have come back….
Netanyahu mentioned what most informed people know….That the Israeli intelligence community was caught off guard on the Hamas attacks…The Israeli leader later retracted the comment from Twitter…..
Israel has engaged in return fire attacks with Hezbollah in Lebanon
The Israeli military on Sunday signaled a heavier assault on Gaza, saying it had expanded its ground invasion while President Biden urged Israel’s leader to protect the lives of civilians.
The precise number of soldiers operating in the territory since Friday remained unclear, but the Israeli military’s chief spokesman said that it was “gradually expanding the ground activity and the scope of our forces,” and that they were “progressing through the stages of the war according to plan.”
Mr. Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday and reiterated the right of Israel to protect itself, but also “underscored the need to do so in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law that prioritizes the protection of civilians,” according to a summary of the call released by the White House. Mr. Biden asked Israel to “immediately and significantly” increase the amount of humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza, where a three-week siege and a bombardment of Israeli airstrikes have killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes, according to officials in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Mr. Biden also spoke with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, whose country has been the sole route into Gaza for relief trucks, including 33 that carried food, water and medical supplies into the enclave on Sunday, according to a spokesman for the Hamas-controlled side of the crossing. That is the most in a single day since trucks were first allowed in more than a week ago.
A White House summary of the call said the two leaders had “committed to the significant acceleration and increase of assistance flowing into Gaza beginning today and then continuously.” Both leaders affirmed a commitment to “work together to set the conditions for a durable and sustainable peace in the Middle East to include the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Phone and internet connectivity that had been knocked out for days in Gaza partially returned on Sunday morning. Two American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the United States believed Israel was responsible for the communications loss in Gaza and had urged Israeli counterparts to do what they could to restore service. Officials in Israel have declined to comment on Palestinian accusations that it instigated the blackout.
Here’s what else to know:
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Mr. Netanyahu wrote a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, shortly after midnight that said Israel’s security establishment had not warned him before Oct. 7 that Hamas had “war intentions.” The post, which drew an immediate outcry, appeared to blame intelligence officials for the failure to stop the Hamas attack, which killed about 1,400 people. It was deleted, and Mr. Netanyahu wrote a post later on Sunday apologizing for it.
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The death toll in Gaza since Oct. 7 surpassed 8,000 people, including 3,342 children, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry said on Sunday. Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that even though Hamas has placed its rocket infrastructure among civilians and used them as human shields, Israel remained responsible under international humanitarian law “to distinguish between terrorists and civilians and to protect the lives of innocent people.”
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Videos released by the Israeli military and geolocated by The New York Times indicated at least three separate places where Israeli troops have crossed the border into Gaza over the past few days.
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Israel’s military said that it had also responded to attacks from the north and bombarded targets in Lebanon belonging to Hezbollah, the armed Shiite organization that has sought to show solidarity with Hamas. Both groups are backed by Iran, whose president, Ebrahim Raisi, again raised the specter of a wider regional conflict by saying on Sunday that Israel had crossed a “red line which may force everyone to take action.”….
*Update….
Russian area muslims go on the ramp looking for Jews on an inbound flight from Israel….
This story IS circling in Jewish based Social media and will be up in other media probably tomorrow….
Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.
Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which belonged to Russian carrier Red Wings.
Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.
Video on social media showed some in the crowd waving Palestinian flags and others trying to overturn a police car. Antisemitic slogans can be heard being shouted and some in the crowd examined the passports of arriving passengers, apparently in an attempt to identify those who were Israeli…..