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Trying to establish a security force in Gaza that is NOT Hamas…..
Qatar, Egypt and the United States have renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire deal in recent days, and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday he believed negotiators are closer to a deal than at any time since the only previous truce, a week-long pause in November 2023 that saw 105 hostages released.
“We all estimate that an opportunity is being created following Hamas’s need to become more flexible, and I really hope we can advance to a practical stage in this process,” Katz said ahead of a closed-door session of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a key Hamas ally, agreed to a ceasefire late last month….
The Israeli Air Force IS still bombing Gaza….
More than 50 dead were brought to hospitals across the bombed-out territory over the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
Among the latest killed were 10 people, including a family of four, in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City’s eastern Shijaiyah neighborhood, Palestinian medics said.
Israel claims Hamas is responsible for the civilian death toll because it operates from within civilian areas in the densely populated Gaza Strip. Rights groups and Palestinians say Israel has failed to take sufficient precautions to avoid civilian deaths….
Palestinian security forces in Gaza…NOT Hamas….
Palestinian security forces have launched a rare crackdown against local militant groups in the northern West Bank, sending in armored cars and engaging in fierce gunbattles that have killed at least two people in the volatile area.
The raid marks an unusual step for the Palestinian Authority, the governing body for semi-autonomous pockets in the occupied West Bank that is internationally recognized but has largely lost control of militant strongholds such as Jenin, where forces operated through the weekend and into Monday.
Israeli troops have stepped into the vacuum in recent years, particularly since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militant attack that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. Palestinian health officials say 811 Palestinians have been killed since then in the West Bank, most by Israeli raids into Palestinian cities and towns. Israel says most of the dead have been militants.
On Saturday, Palestinian security forces said they had begun the operation in the Jenin refugee camp, a longtime militant stronghold. The operation was continuing Monday, with AP reporters hearing heavy gunfire and spotting at least two Palestinian armored vehicles roaming the outskirts of the camp….
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Hamas senior official Mahmoud Mardawi slammed the Palestinian Authority operating in Jenin as an “attempt to end the resistance.” In comments released by Hamas late Monday, he urged the Palestinian Authority to immediately stop its “unpatriotic behavior that serves the occupation.”
The U.S. has sought to strengthen the Palestinian Authority, hoping it will help run the Gaza Strip after the war.
White House officials declined to comment publicly on their position on the Jenin operation. Officials at the U.S. National Security Council also declined to comment…..
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