Gaza Strip
Following released hostage Amit Soussan’s account of her ordeal, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said, “We cannot look away.”
The intelligence memo detailing the terror group’s plans was internally circulated on Sept. 19, less than three weeks before the massacre.
Some 120 captives, both living and deceased, are believed to remain in the Strip.
The military expects full operational control of the southernmost Gaza city in two weeks.
Israel transfers 7.3 million shekels to 265 Palestinians in Gaza on an annual basis, primarily disability payments.
“Only when Jewish children are playing in the Strip will the Nukhba terrorists realize that they have lost,” said MK Zvi Sukkot.
A spokesperson for the activist group told JNS that another organization had claimed responsibility for torching the trucks.
Hamas has broken past deals too many times to be trusted, said a senior Israeli official.
In Gaza, most of the group’s organized battalions have been dismantled by the IDF.
The move came a day after eight troops were slain in the Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah.
“If there is a change in the fighting and our hostages are returned, and we do what needs to be done in the Gaza Strip in a year, or in two years, that’s not an issue.”
An additional soldier died from wounds sustained during combat last week.
