Israeli military keeps at something they KNOW won’t stop Hamas and get any hostages back….
Hunting Hamas fighters and taking out ANYTHING around a targeted fighter….
Hezbollah and Houthi groups still are shooting....
Peace or cease fire talks?
Hostages?
Israel’s military said early Friday that it had launched another offensive in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, in an attack involving ground troops, fighter jets, helicopter gunships and paratroopers, after ordering thousands of Palestinians to flee the area.
The attack was the latest in which Israeli forces have returned to devastated cities and neighborhoods where they fought Hamas for months, saying that militants had managed to regroup there. Israel is still struggling to achieve one of its main war aims: wiping out Hamas, which planned and led the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that set off the war in Gaza….
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A Hamas official responsible for security at a large Palestinian refugee camp was killed in an Israeli strike on Friday in the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, south of Beirut, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency. The official was identified as Samer al-Hajj, who oversaw Hamas security forces in the Ein al-Hilweh camp. Two civilians were also injured in the strike, the news agency reported. The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike, calling Mr. al-Hajj a Hamas “commander” who was “responsible for promoting and executing terrorist plans and launches from Lebanon into Israeli territory.” Hamas did not comment on the reports.
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Lebanon’s Health Ministry accused Israel on Friday of being responsible for repeated attacks on ambulance crews in southern Lebanon. The statement came after an Israeli strike on an ambulance in the Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal on Friday that injured a health worker, the ministry said. The Israeli military said its artillery did hit targets in Mays al-Jabal on Friday after rocket launches toward Israel originated there, although the military did not say if an ambulance had been hit. At least 21 health workers have been killed in Lebanon over the last 10 months in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, according to the United Nations.
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The volume of aid being brought from working border crossings into Gaza has fallen by more than half since early May, when the Rafah crossing was closed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Friday. For months, aid groups have said they cannot distribute needed food and supplies because of the chaos and anarchy in Gaza, part of the domino effect of the Israeli military campaign in the enclave, which has toppled much of the Hamas government without any civilian administration to take its place.
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Israeli and American military officials continued to coordinate ahead of the highly anticipated Iranian retaliation for the assassination of two Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. On Friday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, spoke for at least the sixth time since the latest escalation began last month. The day before, Michael Kurilla, the U.S. general who oversees Central Command — which includes the Middle East — arrived in Israel for his second visit in less than a week.
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Houthi militia targeted a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Bab el Mandab strait with four attempted attacks, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which tracks commercial ship activities, said on Friday. The attacks on Thursday involved attempted drone strikes and rocket strikes from small manned vessels. Armed security personnel on the ship shot at one of the drones aimed at them, causing it to explode at a distance from the vessel. No injuries or damage was reported in any of the attacks. The Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting commercial ships in allegiance with Hamas fighters in Gaza since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7 set off the war in Gaza….
The United States, Egypt and Qatar have mounted a high-stakes effort to renew negotiations for a truce in Gaza next week, as fears rise of an escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran. But substantive disagreements persist that could torpedo a deal.
For days, Israel has tensely awaited retaliation for the assassination of top leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah, both groups backed by Iran. As fears grow of a regional conflict’s erupting, President Biden and the leaders of Egypt and Qatar called Thursday for more talks between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza, saying they would be willing to present a “final bridging proposal” to both sides…..
Israel’s Western allies have condemned remarks by the country’s far-right finance minister who suggested that the starvation of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until hostages captured in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel are returned home.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a speech on Monday that Israel had no choice but to send humanitarian aid into Gaza.
“It’s not possible in today’s global reality to manage a war — no one will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though that might be just and moral until they return the hostages,” he said at a conference in support of Jewish settlements.
Smotrich, a key partner in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, supports the reoccupation of Gaza, the rebuilding of Jewish settlements that were removed in 2005, and what he describes as the voluntary migration of large numbers of Palestinians out of the territory….
Your personal worldview never stops facts from getting in the way. Of course, you believed (believe?) that Hamas were “moderates.”
As is widely known, the most recent hostages Israel has rescued has been by going into Gaza and getting them back.
Hamas has TWO seperate groups ….
The politcal arm and the militant arm….
The guys with the guns HAVE flexed on the other group….
Dumb. Dumb and more Dumb.
There are not two Hamases.
Good G-d, what is your malfunction?
CG….
The Hamas organization is NOT just ‘One thing’…..
The actions of those in the militant wing overshodows the other parts it ….
…According to Tobias Buck, Hamas is “listed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US and the EU, but few dare to treat it that way now” and in the Arab and Muslim world it has lost its pariah status and its emissaries are welcomed in capitals of Islamic countries.[419] While Hamas is considered a terrorist group by several governments and some academics, others regard Hamas as a complex organization, with terrorism as only one component….
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I am sorry. You cannot get a pass on this. You are monumentally ignorant.
Hamas is ONE thing. Terrorists. Terrorists who would kill every Jew on Earth if they could and would also kill you and your family because you are an American.
There is a good reason, why none of your other readers ever comment on your daily “Israel is as bad as Hamas” posts. I should follow that lead.
Ah the old “ people can be more than one thing “routine!
Know it well.
Meaningless drivel.
Yeah so Hamas is a bunch of terrorist murderers .Hey,Saudi Arabia likes them!See that makes it all ok
WEEEE!
Hamas operators that use violence against Israeli’s AND THEIR OWN are FAIR Game for the IDF….
The members of the organization that provided health, medical and food for their fellow Palestinians ARE NOT….
When you claim down?
You might want to delve a little deeper in the WHO and WHAT Hamas IS in Reality…..
AS HAVE said here?
There IS enough blame to go around...
Next phase of your well known foolishness…
Declaring the poster too emotional to think correctly,thus “when you calm down…”
And finally declaring yourself a “ student” of the subject at hand,ipso “you might want to delve a little deeper…”
In point of fact,it’s you who are ,by far ,the most emotionally wrought poster here.Your wild outbursts ,complete with multiple exclamation points,capitalized outbursts and incomprehensible semi sentence writings are well known to all here.
You think you’re clever.Youre not.Indeed ,you are a person totally devoid of any analytical ability who is simply guided by whatever emotional response you have to the happenings you are commenting on.
As for Hamas?
I well know what it is,a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel.The fact that certain members may ,at various times ,provide some services not directly connected to that goal does not in any way ameliorate its primary purpose.
The Mafia was known at times to make monetary contributions to good causes in an attempt to burnish their image ,Such did not in any way mean they weren’t still a bunch of murderous thugs.
I suppose a naive clown like you would have applauded such altruism.
Gross silliness.
Morning Jack…….
Were would you be without me?
Love Ya!
What you two need is a hug!
Exchange of vows forthcoming? You guys fight like a married couple, why not BE a married couple?
Ah a real comedian!
Hey dork you still waiting for Marianne Williamson to get a real “ count?”
I was willing to give anyone a chance in the Primary. Even the farcical Vermin Supreme. Many of her policies were unserious upon closer inspection, and I voted Biden after the SOTU.
Things have worked out well so far, and I hope they may continue to do so.
He, he, he
I LOVE Jack
We’ve been doing this for decades!
And I’m fine with CG
This place IS about views , ideas and yes sometimes disagreeing
Nobody knows it all and from the interplay we learn things
I continue this place with a smile
A a sense of accomplishment
And for the hundreds of those who visit and our group who comment…..
All that IS my ‘HUG’
Have news for U Jack and CG…..
Israeli Intelligence and US intelligence BOTH. Have said OUT LOUD that some form of Hamas will be part of the post conflict government in Gaza……
In fact the Israeli army and spy’s have argued with Netanyahu to cut a deal to get a cease fire and the hostages back…..
The deal’ would be WITH Hamas……
Reality……
So?
What does that have to do with Hamas being a terrorist organization?
But then again “ people can be more than one thing” right?
Jack?
U can bull shit all u want
In the end?
Israel WILL sit down and cut a ‘deal’ with Hamas to get the cease fire to bring back the hostages …….
This whole thing has been and incredible was of human lives by BOTH SIDES…..
But it IS what humans DO
Sure they will…
So?
Once again has nothing to do with Hamas being a terrorist organization that you challenged with your goofy “ more than one thing” routine.
States often have to deal with odious states and groups.Doesnt mean they aren’t terrorists .
And Jack, CG, Scott, DSD, Keith, BDog , SE are the ‘A ‘ Team of this place……
And Me of course f
Thanks…..