Each side announcing numbers of deaths and injuries….
And now ‘ratio’s of deaths vs the other side….
Reports of Israeli woman hostages being abused….
Gaza Hospital’s as likely Hamas hiding places making them targets for Israeli bombings….
Again?
Most media do NOT report that Hamas fighters are STILL ambushing Israeli troops….
Here’s what we know:
The president denounced “horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty” toward women during the Hamas-led attacks on Israel and said Hamas had refused to release its remaining female hostages.
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‘These are civilian women, mostly between the ages of 20 and 39,’ Biden says of the remaining female hostages.
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Israel and Hamas engage in house-to-house gunfights in Khan Younis.
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‘Worse by the hour’: The W.H.O. warns of the likelihood of a humanitarian disaster in the south.
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The United States announces an additional $21 million in humanitarian assistance.
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House Democrats were divided over a resolution that equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
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‘Can I walk outside of the room?’ A medical center helps child hostages return home.
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An Israeli military spokesman estimates that several thousand Hamas fighters have been killed….
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At least 5,000 Hamas militants have been killed, according to three Israeli security officials, leaving the majority of the group’s estimated 30,000-strong military wing intact….
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The cost has already been devastating, with nearly 16,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 5,000 children, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
“I think we have reached a moment when the Israeli authorities will have to define more clearly what their final objective is,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday. “The total destruction of Hamas? Does anybody think that’s possible? If it’s that, the war will last 10 years.”….
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Dec 5, 2023 – ISW Press
Palestinian militia fighters continued to use more sophisticated tactics to target Israeli forces throughout the Gaza Strip on December 5. This is consistent with the tactical shift CTP-ISW has observed since the end of the humanitarian pause. The al Qassem Brigades—the militant wing of Hamas—claimed that its fighters detonated a house-borne improvised explosive device (HBIED) targeting Israeli forces east of Khan Younis on December 5. The HBIED collapsed the building. The group claimed that it detonated multiple claymore-type, anti-personnel mines in an ambush east of Khan Younis on December 5. The al Qassem Brigades also targeted an Israeli tank with an EFP north of Khan Younis on December 4. Al Qassem Brigades fighters inside an Israeli cantonment filmed Israeli soldiers relaxing inside the position near Juhor ad Dik. The group claimed that they filled a tunnel under the cantonment with explosives and detonated it “among 60 Israeli soldiers.”