In addition?
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu HAS made it known that any ‘deal’ won’t stop Israel from STILL going after Hamas fighters found…
Hostage families, Hamas, and even Israeli senior defence/security figures are NOT happy with this, which looks like there will be NO DEAL and NO hostages coming back alive….
There are now reports of abuse to hostages….
Deal and Hostage négociations ....
Palestinian terror group Hamas has partially rejected a list of hostages that Israel insists must be released in the first phase of any ceasefire deal, according to a Monday report.
Kan news, citing an unnamed Palestinian source, said Hamas is willing to release 22 of the 34 hostages on the list, but is refusing to agree to the release of the other 12. Instead, the report stated, the group offered to release 22 living hostages and 12 bodies during the first phase of a potential deal.
Israel turned down the notion and made it clear that it would only accept living hostages during the initial stage of a deal, the report added….
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Another stumbling block reported by Hebrew media is Hamas’s insistence that a proposed deal include the terms for an end to the war. The terror group was reportedly balking at recent remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel would resume fighting after the captives have been released….
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“If there is a deal — and I hope there will be — Israel will return to fighting afterward. There is no point in pretending otherwise because returning to fighting is needed in order to complete the goals of the war. Saying this does not thwart a deal, it encourages a deal,” Channel 12 quoted Netanyahu as saying.
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The senior official was responding to an earlier report by Ynet, which cited senior members of the security establishment warning that Netanyahu’s refusal to plan for the postwar management of Gaza could lead to a scenario in which Hamas fully regains control over the Strip.
Israeli negotiators were also reportedly dismayed by Netanyahu’s statement to The Wall Street Journal this month that he wouldn’t sign a deal that ends the war, and Defense Minister Israel Katz’s statement from Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor last week that Israel would retain security control of the Strip — seeing both comments as likely to harden Hamas’s position….
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Channel 12 reported Monday that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who opposes a deal that would end the war, met last week with the families of hostages and told them he couldn’t be sure their loved ones would return alive. Families had requested the meeting in light of Smotrich’s ongoing rejection of a deal, the report said.
When challenged by families that time was running out for the still-living hostages, Smotrich reportedly responded, “I can’t guarantee to you that we will bring them back alive.”….
The US has launched attacks in Yemen again against the Houthi’s, in addtion to Israel….
The United States military said Tuesday its forces had “conducted multiple precision strikes” that hit Houthi targets in Yemen’s capital.
The targets had been used by the Iran-backed rebels used to attack American warships and commercial vessels, U.S. Central Command said in a news release. The attacks began on Monday and continued on Tuesday. A video shared by the command shows planes taking off and rockets being launched from a ship.
The targets included a Houthi command and control facility and advanced conventional weapon production and storage facilities. The facilities held missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles used in Houthi operations, CENTCOM said. U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force aircraft also destroyed a Houthi coastal radar site and seven cruise missiles and unmanned aerial drones, CENTCOM said….
The Middle East being the Middle East?
Things ARE complex and complicated…..
US trained Syrian oppostion solider’s to Assad now wait to see if their new government wants them….
Also…
The US maintains over 2,000 combat troops IN Syria hunting ISIS fighters in country and Iraq….
And?
Keeping an eye on Iran’s influenece in Syria and Iraq….
The booting of Assad has hurt Iran’s influence in Syria….
And sent the Russian’s out of the country….
Anteri, a colonel and the commander of the Syrian Free Army, a small, U.S.-trained opposition force before the fall of the Syrian regime, spoke with NPR at his base next to a remote U.S. military outpost in southern Syria. He defected from the Syrian army to join the opposition eight years ago.
Now his unit is among dozens of former opposition groups that will have to be knitted together into new Syrian security forces. Anteri, who commands about 600 fighters, says he is waiting to see what role in the new security forces his group will be given by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led the coalition that drove Assad from power…
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A senior U.S. military official said expanding the U.S. military role in Syria would require talks with any new Syrian government.
“We don’t want to start just tromping around Syria,” said the official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “It would be better if we understood how they felt about that and open that discussion with them before we do anything.”
He said pending those discussions, the U.S. would continue to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State — which it largely defeated five years ago — and to support Syrian forces it trains and advises. Also in question, of course, is what decision the incoming Trump administration will make on maintaining U.S. forces in Syria.
That U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition is being disbanded at the insistence of the Iraqi government, to be replaced by country-to-country agreements. Under the agreement between Iraq and the United States, there will be a U.S. troop presence in federally controlled Iraq by the end of this year, and in Kurdish-controlled Iraq by the end of 2026.
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been a lightning rod for Iran-backed militias….
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Assad, a member of the Alawite religious minority, was backed by Iran and, in recent years, by Russia.
Syrian Kurdish forces, who created an autonomous region after breaking their territory away from the Assad regime in 2012, remain a key U.S. security ally, and helped militarily defeat ISIS in its last holdout in Baghuz, Syria, in 2019. The continuing U.S. troop presence in this autonomous region of northeastern Syria also serves to protect oil fields there….
Hezbollah is working to rebuild Lebeanon and the US is NOT happy….
That would mean neither is Israel….
Money for the rebuild is seen to be coming from Iran….
According to a report in the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper, the US administration’s envoy, Amos Hochstein, warned the Lebanese government against Iran’s involvement in the country’s post-war reconstruction process. Hochstein stressed that any role of Iran, both through Iranian companies and through direct assistance, would jeopardize the implementation of the full ceasefire and harm the achievement of stability in the country. Subsequently, reports from Lebanon indicate that the Lebanese government rejected the offer of Iranian financial aid for the reconstruction of the country.
However, Hezbollah continues to develop and operate its own self-rehabilitation mechanisms. The organization finances the reconstruction activities using its financial resources, which include donations from Iran, in order torepair the damage caused during the war….
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