Gaza Strip
Rom Braslavski delivered powerful testimony at Italian PM Meloni’s party event, describing the Oct. 7 massacre and two years in Hamas captivity.
Jerusalem “will not allow Hamas murderers to rearm and threaten us again,” the premier vowed.
“We have to have a dose of reality here,” the Republican senator told JNS. “Hamas is never going to give up their weapons and never going to give up power unless somebody makes them.”
The statement came after Khaled Mashaal rejected the U.S.- and U.N.-backed demands for Hamas to disarm and for the Strip to be demilitarized.
Hamas “persists in its pursuit of terrorist plots against the State of Israel and attempts to rebuild its capabilities, including outside the Strip,” the IDF said.
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says IDF is preparing for future surprise attack scenarios.
“South Africa will not be complicit in any scheme to exploit or displace Palestinians from Gaza,” Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber said.
Hamas “knows the location of every hostage and is using this information as a bargaining chip,” the NGO said.
Global anti-Israel sentiment has created opportunities “to remove this entity [Israel] from our homeland,” said Khaled Mashaal.
Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UAE say the Rafah Crossing should be open in both directions.
In two separate incidents, troops identified terrorists who crossed the Yellow Line and posed an immediate threat.
The uncertainty around the circumstances of Yasser Abu Shabab’s death exposes fractures within new militias operating under Israeli coordination.
