Israel IS STILL waiting for Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah’s response to the Israeli taking out senior people…..
Israel has NOT stop looking for more Hamas fighters to take out….
The US IS worried a BIGGER and BOLDER attack could in store for Israel or even US assets in the Middle East….
President Biden’s efforts to reach the Israeli President, for some sort of resolution/deal to halt or end the conflict, continues to fall on deaf ears….
We take a deep dive into the senior Hamas leader that Israel bombed….
There IS complex story to be told….
Some in Gaza are NOT sorry for his loss….
Israelis were told to ready safe rooms at home, paramedics conducted emergency drills and hospitals prepared to move patients underground if needed.
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An anxious calm hangs over Israel.
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Israel conducts airstrikes on West Bank, killing 3 members of Hamas military wing.
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The U.S. is sending more combat aircraft to the Middle East, officials say.
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Palestinians say funeral prayers for a slain Hamas leader, but anger is subdued……
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh , who the Israeli’s just took out…..
Was seen as man who lost his way by some in Gaza…..
But by the time he was killed early Wednesday in Tehran — in an operation Hamas blames on Israel — Haniyeh had traded his humble life in Gaza for a more comfortable perch abroad. As Hamas chief, he split most of his time between Qatar and Turkey, courting diplomats and dignitaries. More than 1,000 miles away in Gaza, however, the movement he led had staged a brutal attack in Israel, whose military responded so ferociously that it created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world….
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But his legacy “is not easy to describe,” Abusada said.
Haniyeh gained a reputation as a unifier among Gaza’s political and armed factions, and rose to prominence by securing a Hamas victory at the polls in 2006. As prime minister, he formed a short-lived unity government that included Hamas’s chief rival, Fatah, a secular-nationalist party that leads the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
But in 2007, the already-fragile coalition came apart, and Hamas fighters violently ousted Fatah and the Palestinian Authority from Gaza, seizing control of the territory. Haniyeh became the de facto leader of Gaza until he was elected as Hamas’s political chief in 2017 and left the enclave soon after….
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His death is “a great loss for Palestine and its cause at this time,” said Wael al-Halabi, a reporter for al-Kofiya TV, a channel affiliated with Haniyeh rival and former Fatah leader in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan.
Halabi, who is based in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said the news was “sad and shocking” because Haniyeh “had tendencies toward unity.”
Still, other Palestinians in Gaza said they had little sympathy for Haniyeh while they lived under constant threat of Israeli fire. He watched from afar as Hamas-led fighters rampaged through southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and inviting a crushing military response….
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“The military wing is the one that runs the war at the time, not the political wing, and the leadership inside Gaza is more influential than the one outside,” said Ibrahim Madhoun, a columnist affiliated with Hamas. “The geographical distance affects the nature of decisions, and the presence of the political leadership abroad makes it more distant from the decisive decisions in the war.”
Israel says it has killed the head of the Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif, as well as his deputy, Marwan Issa. But Hamas has managed to survive so far in Gaza, regrouping in some areas and working to maintain some basic government services….
Aug 3, 2024 – ISW Press
Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah have refused to speak with US and Arab diplomats trying to deescalate between Israel and Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal on August 3. The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States and Israel are preparing for an “unpredictable,” broader, and more complex attack than Iran’s April 2024 drone and missile strike on Israel. Iranian officials warned Israel of their plans ahead of the attack in April 2024, providing the United States and Israel with time to prepare. Former White House Middle East director Andrew Tabler told the Wall Street Journal that “less telegraphing means potential to misjudge the next step on the escalatory ladder.”