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“I am with you in the campaign to return all the missing and kidnapped people home to Israel,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch.
The Islamist group likely to do “something unusual, a terrible operation,” Egypt allegedly told the Israeli premier.
Terrorist groups again targeted Israeli population centers, including the Jerusalem area.
More than a dozen additional U.S. citizens remain unaccounted for.
“It is imperative that all funding from the German Foreign Office and the Ministry of Development be put to the test,” said German politician Christoph Meyer. “An immediate halt to German funding of E.U. and U.N. programs for Palestine must also not be taboo.”
“The scale of terror and brutality against Israel and its people is a turning point,” said the commissioner for the E.U. neighborhood.
“What Hamas will experience will be difficult and terrible,” the Israeli prime minister told southern leaders.
Rachel and David Edri survived a harrowing 20-hour ordeal, holed up with four terrorists in their own home in Ofakim.
Earlier reports said Qatari mediators were trying to secure the freedom of women and children abducted by Hamas.
“What’s important now is the international community show its solidarity with Israel. We have Israel’s back fully,” said U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood.
The IDF should immediately create a 300-meter security zone on the Gazan side of the border and declare that any Palestinian entering places his life at risk.
“We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly,” says Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
