Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #11

[Momoffourboys]

Judith Waiss, 65, lived in Be'eri, where she had worked in the kindergartens, managed the dining room and specialised in nursing before she retired, according to the Bring Them Home Now group. It added that she was recovering from breast cancer - but when Hamas kidnapped her she was without her medication. The body of her husband Shmulik, a rabbi, was identified after the attack.

Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel

Around 59 hostages taken during 7 October attacks are still believed to be in Gaza.

www.bbc.com

 

[Leve]

BREAKING: The IDF announced on Thursday evening that it had found the body of Yehudit Weiss, an Israeli civilian thought to have been taken hostage by Hamas on October 7.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725216421427241380

Did they just identify her remains or was she found in Gaza?

 

[Friday Fan]

Leaving Gaza in a car fuelled by vegetable oil

Ibrahim AlAgha, an Irish-Palestinian man trapped in Gaza, has been speaking to the BBC for the past month.

The journey to the border wasn’t easy. He says finding a driver willing to take them there was "very expensive".

With fuel shortages in Gaza, the driver told him he had filled a diesel car with a mixture that contained vegetable oil. "It smelled awful, but it was ok," Ibrahim says. "They mix it with some other oils and it just works."

 

[Momoffourboys]

IDF: The body of Yehudit Weiss, a 64-year-old cancer patient, who was abducted by #Hamas, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to #AlShifaHospital and was transferred to Israeli territory

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725218615522115650

 

[Momoffourboys]

Did they just identify her remains or was she found in Gaza?

They found her last night. They just returned her to Israel and Id’d her.

 

[Simply Southern]

6m ago

UN chiefs reject unilateral proposals to create 'safe zones' in Gaza​

The heads of several United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organisations have said they will not take part in the establishment of any “safe zones” in Gaza that are declared by only one side of the conflict.

A joint statement signed by nearly a dozen heads of UN agencies, including the UN’s humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, human rights chief, Volker Türk, children’s fund chief, Catherine Russell, and head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reads:


Israel has for more than a month been calling on Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate south into Gaza Strip, a narrow coastal territory. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has established what it calls “humanitarian corridors” to allow residents to leave the north of Gaza.

Tens of thousands of people have fled from north to south Gaza in recent weeks, crowding into UN-run shelters and family homes where the UN’s human rights chief has warned that “massive outbreaks of infectious disease, and hunger” seemed inevitable.

The joint statement on Thursday said proposals to unilaterally create “safe zones” in Gaza “risk creating harm for civilians, including large-scale loss of life, and must be rejected”, adding:


The signatories of the statement said that none of the humanitarian organisations they represent have been involved in preparing for the arrival of displaced people in any prospective “safe zone” – or “humanitarian zone” – in Gaza.

Gaza civilians ‘face immediate possibility of starvation’ – as it happened

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How much more time and money will be wasted at the UN? Resolutions only worthy of the paper cost (glad that's behind us), now agencies refusing to work without a cease fire. What do they not trust Hamas ... no one's willing to speak the truth.
Moo...

 

[Momoffourboys]

The IDF says it retrieved in Gaza the body of a 64-year-old Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. Yehudit Weiss’ body was located by IDF forces near the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In the structure where Weiss was found were also military equipment, including AK-47s and RPGs.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725218389830803936

 

[Elley Mae]

I have a bad feeling about the hostages.

 

[Dotta]

Leaving Gaza in a car fuelled by vegetable oi

With fuel shortages in Gaza, the driver told him he had filled a diesel car with a mixture that contained vegetable oil. "It smelled awful, but it was ok," Ibrahim says. "They mix it with some other oils and it just works."

That is the definition of
"Resourceful" !

 

[Dotta]

"Hundreds of protesters shut down Bay Bridge in San Francisco during APEC summit as they call for Gaza ceasefire.​

Some protesters chained themselves together to block off the road way and were chanting 'ceasefire now.'

Others laid on the ground with sheets over their bodies that said, 'stop the genocide'.

President Joe Biden is in the Bay Area this week for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, a high-profile summit of 21 countries, and met with China's President Xi Jinping."

Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down San Francisco Bridge during APEC

Thursday morning, Pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. World leaders are in town for the APEC summit.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Simply Southern]

IDF: The body of Yehudit Weiss, a 64-year-old cancer patient, who was abducted by #Hamas, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to #AlShifaHospital and was transferred to Israeli territory

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725218615522115650

I wonder if this is one of the bodies they removed from the hospital, yesterday?
The hospital did dig a mass grave the day before IDF captured the hospital. I wondered if they were burying some hostages.

Israel is doing an amazing job of identifying the unknown.
Moo

 

[Vern]

IDF: The body of Yehudit Weiss, a 64-year-old cancer patient, who was abducted by #Hamas, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to #AlShifaHospital and was transferred to Israeli territory

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725218615522115650

I'm wondering if this was one of "the four" bodies reported earlier to have been removed from the Al Shifa complex by the Israelis.

That would make sense.

Edit: "Jinx", Simply Southern!

 

[MyBelle]

Israel still hasn't accepted the Hamas offer to release 50 women and children hostages. What especially disgusts me is that Israel has children in prison. Barbaric. smh

JMO

Israel considering deal with Hamas for temporary Gaza cease-fire in exchange for release of some hostages

Officials tell CBS News Israel is considering a temporary cease-fire, and possibly freeing some Hamas prisoners, to secure the release of some hostages from Gaza.

www.cbsnews.com

As part of the proposal, an unspecified number of Palestinian women and children currently held in Israeli prisons could also be released, one of the officials told CBS News.

 

[Baby baby Jane]

3m ago

The general manager of the Palestinian telecommunications company, Paltel, said he has urged international bodies to persuade Israel to allow fuel to enter Gaza in order to restore telecommunications to the besieged enclave.

Earlier today, Paltel announced that all communication services – landlines, mobile phones and internet connections – were down due to a lack of fuel.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725159705796821048

Paltel CEO Abdulmajeed Melhem told Associated Press:

Just guessing but it probably quite risky for IDK to put staff out in the field delivering petrol right now.

 

[Momoffourboys]

I wonder if this is one of the bodies they removed from the hospital, yesterday?
The hospital did dig a mass grave the day before IDF captured the hospital. I wondered if they were burying some hostages.

Israel is doing an amazing job of identifying the unknown.
Moo

She was one of the bodies removed yesterday. Families of hostages received notification that bodies were retrieved. Not sure how many.

 

[JennieM]

22m ago

IDF says body of hostage recovered near al-Shifa hospital​

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it has recovered the body of Yehudit Weiss, 65, one of about 240 hostages taken by Hamas militants during the 7 October attacks on Israel.

The body was recovered from a building near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the IDF said on Thursday. It was brought into Israel for identification and the family were informed, it said.

Weiss, a mother of five, was abducted from kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October, the Times of Israel reported. Her husband, Shmulik Weiss, was found murdered in the safe room of their home.

The IDF did not provide further details on the cause of death. The IDF statement reads:

The body of Yehudit Weiss, who was abducted by the Hamas terrorist organisation, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and was transferred to Israeli territory. In the structure in which Yehudit was located, military equipment including Kalashnikov rifles and RPGs were also found.

The IDF “sends its heartfelt condolences to the family”, it said, adding: “We will not cease from the mission until it will be completed.”"

Gaza civilians ‘face immediate possibility of starvation’ – as it happened

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[JennieM]

22 min ago

Gazans facing "immediate possibility of starvation" as food production collapses, UN organization says​

From CNN's Jorge Engels

People in Gaza are facing an “immediate possibility of starvation” as fuel shortages cripple food production and distribution in the enclave, a United Nations organization that provides food assistance warned.

“Supplies of food and water are practically non-existent in Gaza and only a fraction of what is needed is arriving through the borders,” UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain said in a statement Thursday.

According to the WFP, only 10% of necessary food supplies has entered Gaza since the start of the war with fuel shortages severely impacting bread production as well as the distribution of essential humanitarian aid with aid trucks unable to reach their destination.

The WFP said it has provided emergency food aid to more than 700,000 displaced Gazans and is planning to reach more than one million people in the next few weeks, but stressed these needs cannot be met with only the Rafah border crossing with Egypt open.

“The only hope is opening another, safe passage for humanitarian access to bring life-saving food into Gaza,” said McCain.

November 16, 2023 Israel-Hamas war

Israel released a photo and video of an alleged "operational tunnel shaft" it claimed was found in the Al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza. Hamas rejected the claim as "baseless lies."

edition.cnn.com

 

[Simply Southern]

She was one of the bodies removed yesterday. Families of hostages received notification that bodies were retrieved. Not sure how many.

Thank you, I missed that info. Do we know how many were identified? Were they all in the same location?
Heartbreaking

 

[JennieM]

UN refugee agency says it won't be able to pick up aid from tomorrow​

The UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) - which runs the largest humanitarian operation in Gaza - has told the BBC that, from tomorrow, it will be unable to send trucks to pick up aid supplies for Gazans from the border with Egypt.

Juliette Touma, the organisation's director of communications, says it's because of a lack of fuel.

"We have been warning about the impact of the siege on people's lives," Touma tells the BBC, "it seems our calls have fallen on deaf ears".

On Wednesday the first fuel tanker arrived in Gaza since the war began five weeks ago, but Unrwa said it brought in only about a tenth of what the agency needs each day, and there are restrictions on what the fuel can be used for.

Earlier today, Unrwa head Philippe Lazzarini said the organisation might have to suspend its operations entirely as a result.

He sees it is "a deliberate attempt" to "strangle" Unrwa's operations.

"It is outrageous that humanitarian agencies are reduced to begging for fuel, and forced after that, to decide who we will assist and not assist," he said.

Israel had been blocking all deliveries of fuel, saying it could be stolen by Hamas and used for military purposes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67423274

 

[Vern]

A repost from yesterday (post 498):

Hamas chief Sinwar refuses to advance hostage deal talks while IDF is in Shifa hospital,
@ynetalerts reports. Sounds like Hamas is desperate to stop or slow down the Shifa operation.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1724910118150533147

I take it that the hostage deal wil not go forward until the IDF is out of Al Shifa hospital. The IDF is still operating there as today's volumnous posts show so expect any further hostage release will be awhile.

They announced today that they recovered the body of at least one of the Israelis held hostage by Hamas from the Al Shifa complex grounds last night. Other reports posted state that the IDF took "four" bodies away. If this hostage was one of those and three more hostages are the others, we may hear more announcements of their identities soon.

I think the IDF is going to be very thorough in searching and checking for any remains or living hostages within the hospital itself and the complex and it's grounds before they pull out.

This could be a while - that complex is huge.