Israeli-Hamas War News & Updates

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IndyFront said:
Who's coping here? I never said there weren't zionists in his cabinet. Maybe you need to re-read what I posted. :p
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What a classic, are you implying he's not a zionist but is letting them control his Israel policy regardless?
 
Marduk said:
What a classic, are you implying he's not a zionist but is letting them control his Israel policy regardless?
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You are aware you can be a strategically pro-Israel person without being a seething retarded Zionist, yes? If Bibi pisses Trump off I am sure he will take action to put pressure on him to stop whatever it is he is doing, unlike Biden.
 
Israel is extending the cease fire one more month in Lebanon since they say the Lebanese Army has failed to disarm Hezbollah forces South of the Litani River as the cease fire terms agreed upon for the IDF to withdraw.





 
Tens of thousands of survivors of the attempted genocide will now be able to return to the northern cell blocks of their open air prison in Gaza.

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Gaza residents begin returning home to the north after hostage releases

Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday after Hamas agreed to hand over three Israeli hostages later this week and Israeli forces began to wi…
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A British-Israeli hostage held by Hamas for 15 months in Gaza has told Sir Keir Starmer she was detained in a United Nations (UNRWA) facility but denied medical treatment during her captivity.
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Emily Damari: Freed British-Israeli hostage tells PM she was held in United Nations facilities and denied access to medical care

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen who shot her in the hand and leg, as well as killing her pet dog. She told Sir Keir Starmer she was given a single bottle of out-of-date iodine to treat her wounds.
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Emily Damari, 28, was taken hostage after being kidnapped from her home on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen who shot her in the hand and leg, as well as killing her pet dog.


While on the phone call with her mother, Emily told the prime minister she had been held for some time in United Nations facilities belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) but was not given access to medical facilities.


An out-of-date bottle was all that was supplied to her, she said, despite losing two fingers on her left hand, and carrying the unhealed wound in her leg.

The pair asked Sir Keir to put maximum pressure on Hamas and UNRWA to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to finally have access to the 82 remaining hostages still being held in the territory.

Writing on X after the phone call, her mother Mandy Damari said: "Hamas held Emily in UNRWA facilities and denied her access to medical treatment after shooting her twice. It's a miracle that she survived, and we need to get aid to remaining hostages now."
On the call, the prime minister asked about Emily's condition after her return.


Mandy replied that she "seems to be doing pretty well psychologically" although she had a long road ahead of her with her physical injuries.

In a statement to Sky News, UNRWA said: "We at UNRWA are relieved that hostages have been released. We hope all other will be released too.

"It is also a relief that Ms Damari has finally been reunited with her family.

"Claims that hostages have been held in UNRWA premises, even if previously vacated, are very serious.

"We have repeatedly called for independent investigations into claims of misuse and disregard of UN premises by Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas."

Emily was released on Sunday 19 January, alongside fellow female hostages Romi Gonen, 24, and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher, as part of the opening phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal, which has continued this month with more captives being freed in return for Palestinian prisoners being released. A further three Israeli hostages set to be released on Saturday have been named by Hamas.
Ofer Kalderon, Keith Samuel Siegel and Yarden Bibas will be released, Hamas armed wing spokesperson Abu Obeida said.

Yarden was kidnapped alongside his wife, Shiri Babas, and their two sons, four-year-old Ariel and 10-month-old Kfir.

He is believed to be the only family member left alive - in November 2023, Hamas said his wife and children had died in an Israeli airstrike before the current ceasefire.
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GooseElite said:
A British-Israeli hostage held by Hamas for 15 months in Gaza has told Sir Keir Starmer she was detained in a United Nations (UNRWA) facility but denied medical treatment during her captivity.
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Emily Damari: Freed British-Israeli hostage tells PM she was held in United Nations facilities and denied access to medical care

Emily Damari, 28, was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023 by Hamas gunmen who shot her in the hand and leg, as well as killing her pet dog. She told Sir Keir Starmer she was given a single bottle of out-of-date iodine to treat her wounds.
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I think this basically confirms without a shadow of a doubt the UN is compromised by Islamists. How many UN workers are Islamists? 100s? 1000s? We may never know. Worth noting that two of the top 10 mass-contributing countries to the UN's Department of Peace Operations are Islamist (Indonesia and Pakistan) in gov't
 
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RenegadeInterrupt said:
I think this basically confirms without a shadow of a doubt the UN is compromised by Islamists. How many UN workers are Islamists? 100s? 1000s? We may never know. Worth noting that two of the top 10 mass-contributing countries to the UN's Department of Peace Operations are Islamist (Indonesia and Pakistan) in gov't
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Maybe I think a big part of why extremist Islamists are able to use UNRWA aid to smuggle weapons or use facilities for their own purposes is that the UNRWA itself can't really protect itself. When they're in Gaza to deliver aid, they are at the mercy of Hamas. What is an aid worker supposed to do when Hamas demands they hand over supplies or facilities, or makes any other demand? Should they say no? It could end up like in Yemen where the Houthis are holding over 80 people hostage who work with the UN or other aid organizations. In the worst-case scenario, they could be killed, and it would be blamed on Israeli bombings.

Then again, it's probably not that difficult to infiltrate aid organizations to begin with.
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GooseElite said:
Maybe I think a big part why extrem Islamist is able to use UNRWA aid to smuggle weapons or use facilities for their own use is that UNRWA organization can’t really protect them self. Because when there in Gasa to deliver things they are at the mercy of Hamas what’s an aid worker to do when Hams says they are taking the suppliers/facilities or any other demand, say no? Then it will probably be like in Yemen with Houthis who is holding over 80 people hostage who work with UN or other aid organizations. Or worst case senario is that they are killed and it’s blamed on Israel bombings.
Then again it’s probably not that hard to infiltrate aid organizations to begin with.
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>infiltrate
They are not even hiding it that well. Everyone in the know has some idea of it, and the higher ups are pretty clear that they don't mind it much for they are either corruptocrats or western style leftists who excuse islamists and hate Israel. They do bare bureaucratic minimum to "prevent infiltration", hire lots of local workers with all the cultural skew implies, and act shocked and appalled when it turns out their local presence is in some decent part terrorist organization members or sympathizers while acting butthurt that someone even would accuse professional do-gooders of such things.
Of course to provide aid without bringing such problems would require the aid organizations to be both willing and able to threaten Hamas with something if they don't behave themselves around the workers and supplies...
Either with immediate violence by armed guards, or threat of future aid not arriving for some time if anyone gets threatened.
Unfortunately said higher ups are neither willing nor able and don't want to change either. In fact they would never want the ability, because that would make people expect them to use it, and they really don't want to.
 
Hamas released three more Israeli hostages Saturday. Three male civilians Eliyahu Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56. There is still 78 Israeli hostages in Hama hand. How many of them are still alive is unknown.
Hamas released three more Israeli hostages Saturday, as a fragile ceasefire deal between the Hamas and Israel continued to hold into a fourth week.



Eliyahu Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56 – three male civilians – were handed over by Hamas militants to the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza city of Deir al Balah surrounded by crowds of onlookers. Unlike previous handovers, the hostages, flanked by heavily armed gunmen, made statements before the crowd. The three men appeared gaunt and pale after 16 months in captivity.

The images of the men provoked shock and drew swift condemnation in Israel.

"This hell cannot go on any longer!" Einav Zangauker, mother of an Israeli still being held hostage, said in a video posted on X. "The three who returned today are Holocaust survivors."

She accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing negotiations over further hostage releases.

In a statement, Netanyahu noted the men's condition and vowed to take "appropriate actions."

The men appeared to be in worse condition than previous hostages that Hamas released. It was not known where they had been held during months of war that devastated large areas of the Gaza Strip and caused severe shortages of food.

Israel released more than 180 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in return, in the fifth such exchange, including some that are serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis.
Seven of the Palestinians sent to the Israeli-occupied West Bank were taken to hospital upon their release, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. One had injuries from a severe beating, while others were treated for malnourishment and fatigue, Ahmed Jibril, a spokesperson for the organization, told NPR.

More than 100 of those released were sent to Gaza, while some who had been serving life sentences were to be deported to neighboring Egypt.
Also Friday, Hamas accused Israel of reneging on the terms of the agreement, amid signs that the ceasefire agreement was fraying, alleging that Israel had not allowed certain humanitarian aid — like shelters, debris removal equipment, and fuel — into Gaza that it says are needed for reconstruction efforts.

Israel's military released a statement saying that it had deployed troops at several points in the Gaza Strip and were "ready in defense."

The three civilian men were taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023 in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and during which around 250 people were taken hostage.

There are still 76 hostages — both civilians and soldiers — being held in Gaza, many of whom are believed to be dead, according to Israel.
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An emaciated Eli Sharabi was paraded by Hamas this weekend after being released as a hostage. He was forced to talk about his longing to see his wife and two daughters, not knowing that Hamas had killed them.
 
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Accusing Israel of ceasefire violations, Hamas says it will stop releasing hostages

Hamas announced on Monday it would stop releasing Israeli hostages until further notice over what it said were Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement.

In reply, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Hamas had violated the ceasefire agreement with its announcement and said that he had instructed the military to prepare at the highest level of readiness in Gaza and to defend Israeli communities.


Abu Ubaida, a spokesperson for Hamas' military wing, said that since the ceasefire came into effect on January 19, Israel had delayed allowing displaced Palestinians from returning to northern Gaza, targeted Gazans with military shelling and gunfire and had stopped relief materials entering the territory.

The ceasefire has largely held over the past three weeks, although there have been some incidents where Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire. The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza has increased since the ceasefire, aid agencies say.

Ubaida said Hamas would not release any more hostages until Israel "complies and compensates for the past weeks".
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Having done an almost total purge of all leftist and liberal leaning content from my feed, I think I've come around to accepting that Israel's destructive policies in Palestine are not inherently evil. In the same way a wild animal feeding on the young of another one of its own out of survival instinct evokes revulsion in a civilized, self-domesticated human being, the same may be said for the sight of Israel cluster-bombarding toddlers. But it is not evil, not really. You can't say that a creature you KNOW is dangerous isn't going to seriously fuck your shit up if you bother it, and you don't have any right to call it evil. You can, but you should've known better before you disturbed it.

In the same way as a wild-animal, nation-states are not inherently good or evil. I say the same for a Palestinian state as well.
 
Three Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas, The Times of Israel reports.
The three men, Alexander Troufanov, 29, Yair Horn, 46, and Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, are now being released to their families.
They have been held hostage for nearly 500 days and were taken to a stage in Khan Yunis by Hamas before being handed over to the Red Cross.
The Red Cross will now hand the three men over to the Israeli military in Gaza.
In exchange, Israel will release 369 Palestinian prisoners.
The Prime Minister's Office says of the hostages' release: "We welcome them with a big embrace. We have prepared for their return, and together with their families, we will assist in their rehabilitation after the long and agonizing days in captivity."

It adds: "This week too, Hamas attempted to violate the agreement and create a false crisis with baseless claims. Thanks to the deployment of our forces inside and around Gaza, and thanks to President Trump's clear and unequivocal statement, Hamas backed down, and the release of the hostages continued.

"We are working in full coordination with the United States to rescue all our hostages — both the living and the fallen — as quickly as possible, and we are fully prepared for what comes next, in every respect."
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CNN said:
Among those released were said to be the bodies of Shiri Bibas, who was aged 32 when she and her sons Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months, were abducted from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel by Hamas-led militants more than 16 months ago. The two boys have become the most recognizable victims of the October 7 terror attacks.
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Hamas stated the family was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago.


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Hamas puts on sickening parade with bodies of tiny hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas and 2 other Israelis — in a show of force meant to inflict maximum pain

The coffin carrying Shiri was specifically marked with the words, “Arrested on October 7,” Israeli media reports, a twisted reference to the horrific terrorist attack that killed 1,200 people in Is…
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Some people were apparently offended that Hamas turned the turnover of the family of three that died in their custody into a music festival.

 
I do not belive in good wahabbits from Saudi Arabia.Hamas murdering prisoners - as plausible as jews killing them by mistake.
 
ATP said:
I do not belive in good wahabbits from Saudi Arabia.Hamas murdering prisoners - as plausible as jews killing them by mistake.
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I think the point is that it was so horrific that it shocked even the most fundamentalist of Muslims. Hamas is really a special kind of fucked in the way ISIS and the Taliban are.
The Whispering Monk said:
I think the bombing will commence again.
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If Trump lets Bibi continue cluster-bombing toddlers then the cycle of terrorism will begin again as well.
 
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The Whispering Monk said:
This was going to happen as soon as Hamas felt they had the weapons/incentive too.
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And this is why I have to criticize US foreign policy, because the US has the capability and the means to carry out SEAL Team Six-type decapitation raid strikes. Why didn't Biden step in and rectify the situation when he had the chance? I'm sure Trump will do something about it but how long will we have to wait? The US is being derelict in its duty as world hegemon in my opinion
 
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