Hamas
Biden’s effort to bring about an Israel-Hamas agreement received newfound urgency on Sunday.
“This generation of senior command relies on a conceptual world that is severely lacking,” Likud Knesset member Amit Halevi tells JNS.
Israel’s prime minister and finance minister filed a petition against Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David, arguing that he called a general strike for political reasons.
“For weeks, we’ve been saying that time is of the essence. Last night, we saw we’re already in overtime,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew.
The former U.S. president issued several statements some 12 hours after Israel said it had recovered and identified the bodies of six hostages in a Gaza tunnel.
Much of the economy, airport, public transportation will shut down on Monday morning.
“Hamas murdered our hostages in cold blood precisely to make us surrender and accept its demands,” Bezalel Smotrich said.
Israel has consented to “humanitarian pauses” across areas of the Gaza Strip to facilitate the inoculation effort.
The Israeli prime minister said he was “outraged to the depths of my soul” by the terror group’s murder of six hostages in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists breached the border through 119 holes they created in the fence separating Israel from the Strip.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Ori Danino were murdered shortly before the IDF reached them.
“I am devastated and outraged,” stated the U.S. president, who then called for a deal between Israel and Hamas.
