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Israel-Hamas war live: Israel says 212 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza as Palestinian death toll rises over 4,600 (theguardian.com)
7m ago16.06 BST

Summary of the day so far …​

It has just gone 6pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here is a summary of the latest headlines.
  • Israel has said it is intensifying attacks on north Gaza, and warned that anyone who stayed risked being considered a terrorist sympathiser, as airstrikes continued on Sunday in the south, where civilians had fled hoping to survive the war.
  • Israel’s military said the number of people held captive had risen to 212. The release of two Americans on Friday raised hopes that others might be able to return home.
  • The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed 4,741 Palestinians, with 15,898 hurt. Authorities in Gaza said that 40% of those killed in the Gaza Strip were children. Israel has been launching the attacks since 7 October, when a surprise Hamas attack inside Israel killed over 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians.
  • Palestinian media reported Israel was bombing the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. The attacks came hours after the Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari called on Gaza’s residents to move south “for your own safety”.
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hezbollah on Sunday against opening a second war front with Israel “If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will long for the second Lebanon war. It will be making the mistake of its life. We will strike it with strength that it cannot even imagine and the significance to it and to the country of Lebanon will be devastating.”
  • Speaking to soldiers near the blue line UN-drawn boundary that separates Israel and Lebanon, Netanyahu said “I know that you lost friends, and it’s a very difficult thing, but we are in the fight of our life, a fight for our home. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s not an overstatement, that’s this war. It is kill or be killed, and they need to be killed.”
  • The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Sunday that Washington saw potential for escalation in the ongoing war in the Middle East due to the actions of Iran and its proxies in the region.
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Israel-Hamas war live updates: New Gaza aid convoy enters Rafah border crossing (nbcnews.com)
6m ago / 8:10 AM PDT

Israelis arrest hundreds in the West Bank​

Amid the unfolding crisis in Gaza, the Israelis overnight arrested hundreds of people in the West Bank, a military spokesman said.

"In the West Bank we arrested over 450 activists," Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said during a briefing. "We operate every night and thwart terror attacks."

Hagari did not provide any details on who was taken into custody.

The Israeli military said earlier today that it had launched a rare aerial strike on an underground compound at a mosque in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, containing a “terror cell.”
 

LIVE: Solidarity Rally - Release The Hostages​


6:24 pm

WATCH: Large rally in central London calls for return of hostages in Gaza​

WATCH: A large rally is being held in central London calling for the return of the 200-250 hostages being held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Organizers say that there will be a police presence as well as guards from the Community Security Trust (CST) at the rally in Trafalgar Square.

The event comes a day after some 100,000 people attended a pro-Palestinian rally in London yesterday, at which there were reportedly chants of “jihad.”
 
mickey2942 said:
How will Isreal accomplish "winning" this war? By eradicating the world of Hamas terrorists? Does that mean indiscriminately killing every able body young Palestinian man between the ages of 12 and 60? So that Isreal will be "secure"?
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Israel laid out its goals and how it will proceed to achieve them. They may not eradicate the world of Hamas, but their goal is to eradicate Hamas living on their border. That will increase Israel's security and the safety of Israeli citizens.

Once they have eradicated Hamas terrorists from their border, the IDF stated that they will create a new security regime in the Gaza Strip which will remove Israel's responsibiity for day to day life. They will also create a new security reality for Israeli's who live near Gaza - I think this will be a buffer zone between Israel and the Gaza strip; security that prevents another such breach so that October 7 events are never again.

Israel has a plan to defend its borders and create security measures for its citizens. What country wouldn't do the same?
 
Israel-Hamas war live: Israel says 212 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza as Palestinian death toll rises over 4,600 (theguardian.com)
9m ago11.27 EDT

Al Qaida and IS have called on their followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets, raising security concerns across the world.

In a series of statements over the past two weeks, affiliates of al-Qaida congratulated Hamas on its “invasion of Israel”, a reference to the terrorist attacks that killed 1,400 people, mainly civilians on 7 October.

The Israeli military offensive in Gaza, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and so far killed more than 4,500 people, according to medical authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory, has provoked outrage across the Islamic world.

This offers an opportunity to extremist groups, experts say. A recent statement from al-Shabaab, al-Qaida’s powerful affiliate in Somalia, said the conflict in the Middle East was not just “the battle of the Islamic factions in the land of Palestine in particular, but rather the battle of the entire Muslim Ummah.”

It added: “Muslims must gather and offer everything they can to support the mujahideen against the Jews and their hypocritical infidel allies. The strength of this nation lies in the strength of its jihadist fronts.”

Other al-Qaida affiliates in the Indian subcontinent, Yemen and Syria issued similar statements.

For further details, click here:
Al-Qaida and IS call on followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets
 
Momoffourboys said:

Hamas blocking Americans from leaving Gaza: Blinken​


nypost.com

Hamas blocking Americans from leaving Gaza: Blinken

“The ball is in the Hamas’ court in terms of letting people who want to leave — civilians from third countries including Americans,” Blinken told CBS’ “Face the Nation…
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I wondered about this with Americans and also citizens from the other countries that have been most vocal. These terrorists could begin rounding them up to have additional hostages.. well keeping them there is basically like taking them hostage anyway.
 
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margarita25 said:
15 hours ago:
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I find it interesting (for lack of a better term) that they dressed them in pajamas (black with hearts, iirc). They also have mattresses. More evidence of extensive planning, not that we need any.

I would doubt all the hostages got pajamas and mattresses, but who knows. We do know some were/are held in tunnels.

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Eta: how awful they took Tomer (before they killed him) door to door to urge people out of their homes. :(

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Eta2: Apologies in advance if I’m confusing videos, still overloaded.
 
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Israel-Hamas war live: Israel says 212 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza as Palestinian death toll rises over 4,600 (theguardian.com)
1m ago16.45 BST

11 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the past 24 hours, at least four of them in two separate drone attacks.

Israel is deploying armed drones to target Hizbollah operatives in a new escalation. In the same period Hezbollah conducted more than a dozen attacks on Israeli targets, ranging from communication towers, monitoring cameras, military positions and at least one armoured vehicle, as well as on targets in the contested Shab’a farms.

After one Hizbollah attack early this morning smoke could be seen rising from Israeli positions opposite to the Lebanese town of Nakoura.

Eyewitnesses also reported the sounds of a dosen or so rockets fired from Lebanese side around noon today.
 
6:46 pm

Blinken: Israel needs to think about ‘what could follow’ in terms of Gaza sovereignty​

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Asked what Israel’s strategy is for who will govern Gaza after the war is over, Blinken tells “Meet the Press,” “We can’t go back to the status quo. They can’t go back to the status quo, with Hamas being in a position in terms of its governance of Gaza to repeat what it did… At the same time, what I’ve heard from the Israelis — is absolutely no intent, no desire to be running Gaza themselves.”

“So, something needs to be found that ensures that Hamas can’t do this again, but that also doesn’t revert to Israeli governance of Gaza, which they do not want and do not intend to do,” the secretary says.

6:50 pm

Police chief praises Israel’s Arab citizens for ‘exemplary behavior’ in past two weeks​

Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai says that Israel’s Arab citizens have behaved in an exemplary manner since the start of the war with Hamas in Gaza on October 7.

Shabtai tells a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee that he must praise the “exemplary behavior” of Israel’s Arab minority, noting that there have been “zero incidents” of internal clashes over the past two weeks.

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So, what role do women Hamas affiliates play in all this? Might they be assigned to “caring” for some of the hostages, children? And other “women” duties? Food, etc. They’re maybe just getting bread, not cooked meals.

Again, I don’t think all hostages are being cared for evenly.
 
If you're not watching this, you should be!

The testimonies of the family members are heartbreaking.

They are now reading the names of the hostages. Age 3, Age 12... 1697990764454.png

They will be singing the Israeli national anthem at the end.

I'm an hour into it and the goosebumps haven't stopped.

BRING THEM HOME!

 
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* PS, these are just a fraaaction of all the videos on this war, no way to post them all. Would like to do a separate video file for the released hostages (JR & NR) at a later time.
 
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What?!!! o_O

7:01 pm

UN backtracks, says no aid convoy has crossed into Gaza yet today​

Egypt’s state-run media reported earlier today that 17 aid trucks were crossing into Gaza, but the United Nations says no trucks have crossed.

“Until now, there is no convoy,” says Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

Yesterday, 20 trucks entered in the first shipment into the territory since the start of Israel-Hamas war.

Associated Press journalists saw seven fuel trucks head into Gaza, but Touma and the IDF said that those trucks were taking fuel that had been stored on the Gaza side of the crossing deeper into the territory, and that no fuel had entered from Egypt.
 
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