Gaza Strip
“I know it is catastrophic, but protecting our employees is a sacred issue,” said board member Youssef Yassin.
Joshua Luito Mollel, 21, was honored at Ben-Gurion Airport before his body was returned to Tanzania more than two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
The IDF has meanwhile completed its logistics preparations for the cold season, supplying 370,000 winter items for troops.
The IDF remains “deployed in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat,” the military said.
“The vast majority of the Israeli public, between 75% and 80%, reject another Palestinian terror state, which this time would overlook Ben-Gurion Airport,” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told JNS.
The hostage survivor recounted the moment when he hit the root of a tree, which “felt like touching life in a place of death.”
E.U.’s two civilian missions in Gaza focus on border assistance and supporting the P.A.’s policing and justice reforms.
A planned $500 million American base near Gaza faces questions, as no one other than the Israel Defense Forces is willing to engage in hostilities with Hamas.
U.S.-backed resolution proposes international force and interim Gaza board as Israel, Hamas and Russia voice sharply different positions.
“We will continue to insist that the Hamas regime will not exist on the other side of the border,” said the IDF chief.
The Israeli premier also reiterated his opposition to establishing a “Palestinian state on any territory west of the Jordan River,” rejecting the U.S.-backed statement calling for a “pathway” to Palestinian statehood.
“Israel will not agree to the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
