Gaza Strip
Successfully addressing the challenges in the West Bank will help prevent the area from deteriorating into a situation that Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas would like to see.
The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Eyal Mimran from the Paratroopers Brigade.
The prime minister reiterated Israel’s “commitment to end the war only after all of its goals have been achieved.”
One banner featured the inverted red triangle, the symbol seen in Hamas propaganda videos when its terrorists murder Israelis.
Abdel Qader Sabbah photographed himself with a senior Hamas leader and served in a Hamas-run body to which he also provided video work.
FDD’s Richard Goldberg: History would repeat itself the minute the IDF abandons the Gaza-Sinai border, with Hamas rebuilding its smuggling operations.
Several other soldiers were seriously wounded in two separate incidents.
The Israeli negotiating team has received Hamas’s proposed changes to the hostages-for-ceasefire framework outlined by U.S. President Joe Biden.
The request reportedly comes against the background of an ICJ ruling ordering Israel to “punish the direct and public incitement to genocide.”
Governance of post-Hamas Gaza will ultimately come down to “the voice of the Palestinian people themselves,” says a spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.
The Israeli military denied a New York Times report that its leadership is pressing for a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza.
“He has to say that the end of the war is the release of the hostages,” the grandson of a hostage still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip tells JNS.
