Gaza Strip
“How can you have the audacity to suddenly remember Gaza’s women and children after ignoring them for so many years?” the Israeli envoy asked at a Security Council session.
Shortly after Netanyahu’s speech, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi announced that no hostages would be released before Friday.
He addressed the rise in antisemitism that has become global in nature and offered his impression of the current crisis, pointing to what he described as a failure in the U.S. educational system.
Behind a breached blast door under the facility, IDF troops discovered an air-conditioned hideout, complete with bathrooms.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Beirut for meetings with leaders of Tehran’s terror proxies.
“I welcome the deal to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas,” U.S. President Joe Biden said.
Hamas spotters killed during targeted raids in Jabalia • IAF planes strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon • IDF soldier killed in Gaza.
“We are at war, and we will continue the war. We will continue until we achieve all our goals,” said Netanyahu • Hamas says truce will enter into force at 10 a.m. on Nov. 23.
“It is now clear that the World Health Organization has at the very least turned a blind eye to the use of medical facilities for terrorist purposes,” said Israel’s Health Ministry.
Israel must have a plan to protect the civilians in southern Gaza before proceeding with the war, says U.S.National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby.
“Negotiating with terrorists never works. Biden’s insistence that Israel bargain with Hamas is as tragically wrong as his swapping $6 billion with Iran for five U.S. hostages,” wrote the former U.S. official John Bolton.
Agreement paves the way for the release of 50 hostages, mostly women and children • Israel will reportedly release 150 to 300 female and teenage Palestinians prisoners “with no blood on their hands.”