President Biden IS *pressing all the buttons he can to work a freeing of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas….
The American is also trying to gain support for a end of the conflict and palestianian self rule, something Israel PM Netanyahu is strongly AGAINST…
Netanyahu has been able to hold on even as most Israeli do NOT support his action to sacrifice freeing hostage’s vs going after Hamas…
The tunneling below Gaza has been found to be more opulent and extensive than Israel thought ….
The US/Houthi fight is ongoing……
Gaza is still in deportable condition….
President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, Brett McGurk, will meet with Egyptian and Qatari leaders in hopes of making progress toward freeing captives held by Hamas.
Here’s what we’re covering:
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A White House official’s trip comes as Israel is divided on a path forward.
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Netanyahu restates his opposition to a two-state solution despite pressure from Biden.
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U.S. troops in Iraq are injured in attack linked to Iran-backed militias.
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Gaza’s women are bearing the brunt of the war’s toll, aid groups say.
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He loved basketball and wanted to help his family businesses. A bullet ended it all….
Hamas extensive tunnels under Gaza….
Some with wall tiling for the captured hostages to live with….
And the Israeli’s had NO idea of their existence…..
A journalist for The New York Times descended on Friday morning into the dark labyrinth leading to the compound under Khan Younis, escorted by Israeli soldiers and military officials to show what they said were the conditions in which the hostages had been held.
An arched chamber at the mouth of the corridor leading to the cells with barred doors was covered with green carpeting, like fake grass, and strewed with detritus.
Amid a jumble of blankets with floral patterns and plastic bottles lay several empty tubes labeled RPG-7VR, a kind of rocket-propelled grenade, and bearing the insignia of Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. In a dim corner, there were four standing fans, a half-used pack of disposable diapers and a metal Palestine Red Crescent Society first-aid case containing a packet of latex gloves and a few sealed gauze pads….
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Beneath Khan Younis alone, the military estimates that Hamas dug at least 100 miles of tunnels across several levels, creating an inverted, multistory complex.
“We are fighting in Khan Younis above ground and below ground,” said Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief spokesman for the Israeli military, who led the tour of the subterranean compound on Friday. He added, “This kind of warfare is unlike any other modern battlefield anywhere in the world.”…
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Inside the house that Israel says belonged to the Hamas operative, a marble staircase hinted at a level of opulence. Copper and gold curtains still hung at blown-out windows in a lower-floor bedroom, and most of an outside wall had gone. Not one building in the vicinity looked habitable.
By Saturday, the tunnels and the compound below the neighborhood had been blown up…..
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The United States, Egypt, and Qatar are pushing a new, multi-part plan to end the Israel–Hamas war. The plan contains three parts that will occur over a 90-day period, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hamas would first release all civilian hostages in return for Israel releasing “hundreds” of Palestinian prisoners. Israel would also withdraw its forces from population centers in the Gaza Strip, allow freedom of movement throughout the Gaza Strip, end “surveillance,” and double the flow of humanitarian aid into the strip. Hamas would release all female Israeli soldiers and return the bodies of dead hostages to Israel in the second stage. Finally, Hamas would release the remaining Israeli soldiers and fighting-age males, while Israeli forces withdraw from the strip completely.