Hamas doesn’t know how many hostages are alive….
They may not even know were they are…..
Southern Gaza US dock op is closed down…..
Hamas is asking for things it KNOWS it’s NOT gonna get….
So?
The fighting continues and now has spreads to Northern Israel and Lebanon …..
The US sanctions an Israeli group destroying aid for those in Gaza in need…..
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Southern Gaza could soon face “catastrophic levels of hunger”similar to the crisis in the enclave’s north, the World Food Program warned on Friday, saying that food supplies were running low amid escalating fighting. Carl Skau, a top W.F.P. official, said the situation in the south was “quickly deteriorating.” Israel’s ground offensive in Rafah has shut down the flow of aid through the border crossing there for more than a month, and supplies stockpiled by the W.F.P., an arm of the United Nations, are dwindling. “The progress we have made is being reversed,” he said. More than a million people have now been pushed out of Rafah into a zone along the coast, where he said they face dire conditions.
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A Hamas spokesman says the group does not know how many of the roughly 120 hostages believed to be in Gaza are still alive. In a CNN interview broadcast on Thursday, when asked for the number of living hostages held by Hamas and other groups, the spokesman, Osama Hamdan, said neither he nor anyone else in the leadership of the militant organization knew. “I don’t have any idea about that; no one has any idea about this,” he said. It was not clear when the interview was conducted.
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The United Nations this week released its annual report on children and armed conflict. The international body for the first time put the Israeli military on the list for attacks on schools and hospitals that killed children. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad were also added to the list for the first time for killing, wounding and abducting children. The U.N. said that conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory “presents an unprecedented scale and intensity of grave violations against children, with hostilities leading to an increase in grave violations of 155 percent” in 2023. It said it had verified more than 8,000 grave violations against 4,360 children, of which more than 4,000 were Palestinian and more than 100 were Israeli.
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Israel’s far-right finance minister said he had ordered about $35 million in tax revenue that Israel collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to be diverted to the families of Israeli victims of terrorism. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the decision by the minister, Bezalel Smotrich, “extraordinarily wrongheaded” and said the Biden administration had made clear to the Israeli government that “these funds belong to the Palestinian people.”
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A cargo ship that was damaged in an attack by the Houthis, an Iran-back Yemeni militia, has been abandoned and is drifting in the Red Sea, a British maritime agency said on Friday. The Houthis claimed responsibility for striking a Greek-owned ship, the Tutor, on Wednesday, saying they had attacked it with unmanned boats, drones and ballistic missiles. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, run by the British Navy, said in an online post that the crew had been evacuated, leaving the ship adrift, unlit, in its last reported position about 76 miles southwest of the Houthi-held port of Hodeida, near the coast of Eritrea…..
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USA Intel assistance to Israel against Hamas…..
Tsav 9 is the lead group in a constellation of extremist organizations that have been trying to keep aid from getting to Gaza, infuriating U.S. and Arab leaders and worsening the already grim circumstances for civilians in the Palestinian territory, where many people are facing starvation…
Jun 14, 2024 – ISW Press
The IDF 162nd Division continued to operate in Rafah on June 14. The Nahal Brigade identified openings between buildings in Rafah that Hamas fighters use to traverse quickly through dense neighborhoods.