Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #7

[MyBelle]

Senior Netanyahu adviser says Israel won’t allow fuel into Gaza, even if Hamas released all the hostages. “We have no interest in more fuel going to the Hamas military machine…The government’s decision is fuel doesn’t go in because it will be stolen by Hamas.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716626116817911839

I wonder why the fuel can't receive a military escort? It is desperately needed.
JMO

Live updates: Israel-Hamas war rages as Gaza deaths mount

Israel's military said it is ramping up its aerial bombardment of Gaza as calls grow to let more aid into the besieged enclave. Follow for live updates.

www.cnn.com

Some context: Aid agencies have repeatedly warned that fuel supplies are desperately needed in Gaza to power water desalination for clean drinking water and lifesaving machines in hospitals.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said Monday that hospitals in the enclave are nearing collapse, operating at more than 150% of their capacity.

Ten of the 35 hospitals in Gaza are currently non-functional, it added. Of these, nine hospitals have been “destroyed or rendered out of service.”

 

[PommyMommy]

Those buttons just bring me to more links but no way to read more content.

Really? When I click on them I get a list of releases, transcripts, etc. which I can read by clicking on them. I'm sorry you can't see them, Ranch. MOO

 

[PaulaDC]

It's weird, she shakes his hand. In the US kidnappers almost always kill their victims. And they if they ever release them, it's usually in front of a gas station.

You would shake their hand too if you knew the fate of your family was still in their hands.

 

[whitelilac]

Release of hostages points to Hamas openness to negotiations: Analyst​

Hamas’s decision to release two more Israeli hostages points to the Palestinian armed group’s willingness to negotiate, a Middle East analyst said, although the current climate for talks may be difficult.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Stephen Zunes, a professor of Middle East politics at the University of San Francisco, welcomed the release as “a good thing”.
“My sense is that Hamas is using this as a goodwill gesture to try to let the Israeli knows that they are willing to negotiate. Israeli of course holds thousands of [Palestinian] political prisoners, a large number of them are non-violent,” he said.

“It is possible that there could be some sign of prisoner exchange. And clearly Hamas is trying to avoid, if possible, an Israeli ground assault on the territory.”
But he also said that negotiations maybe difficult given the current Israeli bombardment, which he said “is hardly the ideal climate for negotiations.”

Israel-Hamas war updates: WHO urges fuel, healthcare deliveries to Gaza

World Health Organization says thousands of vulnerable patients at risk as Gaza health facilities face power shortages.

www.aljazeera.com

I don't know myself, if Hamas can be trusted to negotiate. But what do I know, not an expert.

 

[margarita25]

Asher

Father's agony: Heartbreaking final photo of daughters before Hamas kidnapping

On Saturday morning, Yoni Asher was sent a photo of his two young daughters playing in family safe room before losing contact with his wife; He later found a video showing they had been taken to Gaza, turning his life into a nightmare; ‘We've had no new information about them since’

www.ynetnews.com

10/14/23

"”My wife and the girls, four-and-a-half-year-old Raz and two-and-a-half-year-old Aviv, went to visit Doron's mother and her partner at Kibbutz Nir Oz for the celebration of Simchat Torah. I didn't go with them,” he said.”

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Last photo of Raz and Aviv Asher playing in the family's safe room before their abduction into Gaza
(Photo: Courtesy of the family)


12 days ago:

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Hamas releases two more hostages, Red Cross says; Biden administration says ‘not the time’ for Gaza ceasefire (theguardian.com)
15m ago23.18 EDT

Israel’s military preparing “unrelenting attacks” to dismantle Hamas.​

Israeli chief of staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi issued a statement late on Monday suggesting that Israel had no intention of curbing its strikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip and hinting that it was well prepared for a ground assault.

“We want to bring Hamas to a state of full dismantling,” Halevi said. “The path is a path of unrelenting attacks, damaging Hamas everywhere and in every way.’

“We are well prepared for the ground operations in the south,” he added, referring to southern Israel, which borders Gaza. “Troops who have more time are better prepared, and that is what we are doing now.”

 

[justtrish]

My God, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas founder, has been a spy for Israel for 10 years. Undisclosed location. He said he's an American citizen now, maybe he's in the US.
This man must have one heck of a target on his head.....10 years.

Look up Mosab Hassan Yousef's speech to the United Nations. I don't know if I can post it here, but I've found it on several news outlets and also an Instagram account for the Israeli consulate I think it was. Very good speech and he speaks the truth of what HAMAS did and still does.

 

[margarita25]

BBM:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716561236723179895

ETA: Watching her say goodbye to her captors. Can’t take the peace activist out of her even in captivity.

Wowwww

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live updates: Two hostages released; U.S. advises Israel to delay ground invasion into Gaza (nbcnews.com)
23m ago / 8:13 PM PDT

TEL AVIV — Personnel in the war between Israel and Hamas include a front line of tech workers helping officials locate and identify missing Israelis.

"We have teams that are working on cutting-edge technology like AI, like facial recognition, like voice recognition, trying to match patterns of movements," Karine Nahon, the head of Israel’s war room for missing people, told NBC News.

Reuven Zolotarevksy, a software developer for California's Palo Alto Systems, rapidly developed an app that is helping locate people by crowdsourcing their attributes, like height, weight, hair color and tattoos.

"There's so much work to be done," he said. "It's not a time to take a breath."

 

[otto]

Must watch, informative imo

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Warning

What I notice in the faces of the families and victims in Israel is such a happiness in their expressions, calmness, innocence, talent, enthusiasm for life - and angry, jealous, young men from Gaza attacked them. Angry men from Gaza Palestine viciously attacked young girls in Israel, raping them, mutilating them, kidnapping them, murdering them.

That is Hamas Government in Gaza.

 

[whitelilac]

Look up Mosab Hassan Yousef's speech to the United Nations. I don't know if I can post it here, but I've found it on several news outlets and also an Instagram account for the Israeli consulate I think it was. Very good speech and he speaks the truth of what HAMAS did and still does.

Yes, I saw part of it. Impressive. I've saved it to listen properly.

 

[Friday Fan]

You would shake their hand too if you knew the fate of your family was still in their hands.

True

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Biden urges Netanyahu to maintain ‘urgently needed’ aid to Gaza; two hostages released by Hamas (theguardian.com)
23m ago23.26 EDT

Hamas releases video showing release of hostages​

The military wing of Hamas have released a video showing the release of Israeli hostages Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Yitzhak, who also goes by the name Nurit Cooper.

The video shows masked men escorting the two women as they are met by representatives of the Red Cross. At one point, Lifshitz – who is 85 – turns to shake the hand of one of the Hamas fighters.

A screen grab from a video shows Israeli hostages Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Yitzhak escorted by a member of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Palestinian militants said they released both women on health grounds, after taking them and more than 200 others hostage during the 7 October rampage in Israel in which the militants killed 1,400 people.

Lifshitz and her 83-year-old husband, Oded, were kidnapped from their home at the Nir Oz kibbutz, close to the border with Gaza in southern Israel, the Israeli prime minister’s office said late on Monday. Oded remains captive, it added.

Lifshitz is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her grandson told Reuters.

 

[RANCH]

Really? When I click on them I get a list of releases, transcripts, etc. which I can read by clicking on them. I'm sorry you can't see them, Ranch. MOO

Here's another source but it doesn't give any details either.

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant brief Lloyd Austin on IDF preparations ahead of expected ground incursion

 

[PaulaDC]

Good question but I doubt either one of us will ever get an answer.

JMO

There are some books written about the roles of ex presidents and foreign policy. I'm sure they all feel their opinions need to be shared and considered by those presently holding office.

 

[margarita25]

Interesting story, imo:

 

[RANCH]

I wonder why the fuel can't receive a military escort? It is desperately needed.
JMO

A military escort from who?

 

[PommyMommy]

IDF says it is ready for Gaza ground invasion, can’t sit on its thumbs forever

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www.timesofisrael.com

[...]

... the military is preparing for the possibility of rescue operations amid the ground offensive, according to information seen by The Times of Israel.

The military fears that further hostage releases by Hamas could lead the political leadership to delay a ground incursion or even halt it midway. On Friday night, Hamas released an American mother and daughter, which, according to reports, led to the ground offensive being postponed.

Still, the military believes that a ground offensive may actually pressure Hamas to release further hostages.

The military is looking to the government to make a decision soon regarding the ground offensive, as the forces stationed by the border can only remain in a heightened state of readiness for so long.

[...]

 

[margarita25]

London, 20,000 people:

7 hours ago:

 

[whitelilac]

Yocheved Lifshitz has been praised by her grandson as a “hero” after she was released by Hamas and returned from Gaza to Israel.

“She is talking, she can walk, she can hug her grandchildren, which [we] are very happy from that,” Daniel Lifshitz told CNN after meeting his grandmother in Tel Aviv. “We couldn’t imagine that it will happen.”

Yocheved Lifshitz (C) after being released by Hamas. Photograph: Daniel Lifshitz, Instagram
“Meeting my grandmother here was – I was thinking that I would never see her again,” Daniel Lifshitz said. “She’s a hero. She has so much courage. She’s so strong. She’s sick, and she suffered walks in tunnels.”

Yocheved Lifshitz’s husband is still being held by Hamas.

Daniel Lifshitz said “now my grandmother is back but still now I’m more afraid about my grandfather that he’s still there, and still no men being released.”

Israel-Hamas war live: Biden urges Netanyahu to maintain ‘urgently needed’ aid to Gaza; two hostages released by Hamas

US president welcomes release of two elderly women as hopes rise that more hostages could be freed

www.theguardian.com