There ARE STILL people being held Hostage…..
The heads of the Israeli Intelligence agencies are NOT happy with their countries Prime Minister who seems set against making a compromise to end the contries conflict on several fronts and could turn into a full fledged War….
The discontent has spilled out into the public….
This while Israel is hunkering down waiting to see what Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran is gonna throw at their country….
Seveal American troops have been hurt in Iraq from a rocket attack…..
A quarrel between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s approach to cease-fire talks mirrors growing domestic tensions between Mr. Netanyahu and senior Israeli security officials over his perceived resistance to a swift deal with Hamas.
Mr. Biden has publicly chided Mr. Netanyahu for failing to agree to another truce in Gaza. Senior leaders from Israel’s military and intelligence agencies have also privately grown frustrated with the prime minister for introducing new conditions to the fraught negotiations, according to two Israeli officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
For weeks, the security officials have privately complained that Mr. Netanyahu is holding up talks by, among other things, reintroducing a demand that Israel continue to operate checkpoints along a strategic highway in northern Gaza during any cease-fire. In May, Israel had softened its position on that point, raising hopes of a deal.
Over the weekend, the previously private gripes gained a public airing when a major Israeli news network, Channel 12, broadcast accounts of leaked arguments between Mr. Netanyahu and the chiefs of Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, Mossad and Shin Bet….
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Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, visited a command centeron Monday amid the threats from Iran to retaliate over the killing in Tehran of a Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. “We must be prepared for anything — including a swift transition to offense,” he said, according to a government statement.” In a separate statement, the Israeli government said Mr. Gallant had spoken overnight to Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and briefed him on the country’s “readiness to defend Israel against potential threats posed by Iran and its proxies.”
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The American general in charge of Central Command arrived in Israel for meetings with Israeli military leaders to prepare for an expected attack from Iran and its proxies, chief among them Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military said. The U.S. commander, Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, met with the Israeli chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, for “a joint situational assessment on security and strategic issues.”
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A leading Israeli human rights organization says in a new report that the abuse and torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons has become widespread and systematic since last October, turning the prisons “a network of torture camps.” The rights group, B’Tselem, collected testimony from more than four dozen Palestinians who had been incarcerated after Oct. 7. The Israeli Prison Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. Last week, U.N. human rights office published its own report detailing “appalling acts” in Israeli prisons, including “waterboarding and the release of dogs on detainees.”
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Israel returned 80 bodies to Gaza in a shipping container on Monday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense and news agency photos from the scene. The remains were largely unidentifiable and Israeli authorities gave no information about where or when they had died, a Civil Defense official told Agence France-Presse. The bodies were immediately buried in a mass grave in the southern city of Khan Younis, the Civil Defense said. The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment.
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Hezbollah and Israel continued to trade cross-border fire on Monday, with an Israeli airstrike killing two people in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. The attacks did not appear to be part of a major retaliation that Hezbollah has threatened in the wake of an Israeli strike that killed one of the group’s senior commanders in a suburb of Beirut last week. The World Health Organization said it had delivered 32 tons of emergency medical supplies to Lebanon in case of a wider escalation.
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Ten ultra-Orthodox men who were protesting their conscriptioninto the army were arrested on Monday outside an army recruitment office near Tel Aviv, the police said. “Hundreds of protesters who arrived with the aim of breaking into the military base confronted the policemen while throwing objects, trying to break through barriers and take down fences,” the police said in a statement, noting that three officers were slightly injured. The ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, have been exempt from military service since the founding of Israel in 1948, a source of tension with secular Israelis who must serve. In June, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to begin drafting the Haredi and not to extend exemptions…..
US Troops wounded in Iraq in a rocket attack..
Aug 5, 2024 – ISW Press
Iranian armed forces-run Defa Press published a list of potential civilian and military targets in Israel on August 5, which likely aims to decrease Israel’s ability to effectively defend against an Iranian attack by causing Israel to air- and missile-defense assets and creating panic among civilians.