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An internal USAID watchdog found that weather conditions and the agency’s “limited control” over the temporary pier impaired its ability “to deliver the intended amounts of aid through the maritime corridor.”
Qaid Farhan Alkadi’s longtime friend called Hamas “devils.”
Staff Sgt. Amit Friedman, 19, from Or Yehuda, served with the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion.
Negotiations will resume in the Qatari capital after several days of talks in Cairo on a Gaza ceasefire agreement.
Nine Palestinian terrorists have been killed so far in clashes with Israeli forces, according to the Israeli military.
The official insisted that the United Nations is not leaving the Gaza Strip. “The people need us,” the official said.
Farhan al-Qadi: “I am also happy. I have been waiting for this moment.”
Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, from the Arab Bedouin Negev city of Rahat, was rescued in a “complex operation.”
Israel’s long focus on Iran and the northern front has come at the expense of intelligence gathering and operational attention to Gaza.
Israel has sealed 150 terror smuggling tunnels so far; Egypt cannot be relied upon to prevent new smuggling, observers tell JNS.
“We want to get this ceasefire deal as soon as possible,” White House advisor John Kirby told reporters. “We haven’t taken our foot off the gas.”
The body of Ruby Chen’s son IDF Sgt. Itay Chen is being held by Hamas in Gaza.