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The recent dramatic surge in terrorist attacks emanating from the area has convinced Israel’s security establishment that a shift in strategy is required.
Ahmed Wadia was killed in an airstrike on a Hamas compound in Gaza City, according to the military.
“He told me that when he died, he wants us to remember him not with memorials but by doing things, by helping people,” said Gilanit Amar, whose son fell in battle in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
The meeting comes at the “urgent request” of Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon.
“Protecting the residents of the '[Gaza] Envelope’ is the mission of the Division, and it is my mission,” Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram said.
“The axis of evil needs the Philadelphi Corridor; for this reason, we need the Philadelphi Corridor,” the Israeli prime minister said.
The U.S. president, vice president and key advisers met about “the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal” in the Situation Room on Labor Day.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month hailed the prime minister for accepting the U.S. ceasefire proposal.
Members of the Gvura Forum oppose the pressure from the left to give in to the terrorists’ demands.
Born in the Bay Area and raised in Israel from age 8, the slain hostage is remembered as a “mensch,” passionate about soccer, music and travel.
The movement warned it would continue to “pursue the occupier [Israel] at every intersection, alley and neighborhood, until it is expelled from our land.”
One of the six bodies recovered from a Rafah tunnel bore signs of having been tied up, and all showed evidence of neglect, according to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.