Gaza Strip
Officials stress Hamas devices are kept in secure IDF facilities after burglars in Israel’s north stole phones seized at Kerem Shalom.
“New Israeli regulations mandate that all food items going into Gaza must be procured and packaged inside Israel,” a spokesperson for GHF told JNS.
The U.N. council “opted for a performative action, designed to draw a veto, that extends Hamas terrorists,” according to Morgan Ortagus, a U.S. diplomat.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz hailed the four slain troops as “outstanding fighters who fell in battle.”
Israel’s defense minister warned Hamas that if it doesn’t return the hostages and disarm, then “Gaza will be destroyed and turned into a monument to the rapists and murderers of Hamas.”
Over 2,500 new residents moved to the Western Negev since Oct. 7, primarily to the city of Sderot.
“UNRWA’s classrooms have been hijacked by Hamas and turned into incubators of hate,” according to UN Watch director Hillel Neuer.
A new U.N. report relies “entirely on Hamas falsehoods, laundered and repeated by others,” without identifying Hamas as the problem, critics say.
A coalition, including CodePink and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, is pressuring FIFA, UEFA and national federations to ban the Jewish state from play.
“If you care about the people of Gaza and you are betting on UNRWA solving the problem, it’s just not going to happen under these circumstances,” said GHF Executive Chairman Johnnie Moore.
Experts from the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security argue in a webinar that Israel must achieve a “knockout” by expelling Hamas from Gaza.
Military officials detail a gradual, multi-division maneuver, estimating that 2,000 to 3,000 terrorists remain in Gaza City and 40% of civilians have been evacuated.
