Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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No ceasefire before hostage release - IDF eliminates the commander of the naval force of Hamas, 'Amar abu-Jalla, as Hamas refuses RC visit to hostages

המירוץ נגד השעון: קרבות עזים על ג׳באליה, חוסל בכיר חמאס בח'אן יונס | היום ה-48

בצל עיכוב העסקה, נמשכים השיגורים לישראל בעיקר מלבנון | אזעקות נשמעו ביישובים צמודי הגדר בגליל, כולל בקרייית שמונה | בתוך כך, בעזה דווח כי צה"ל עצר את מנהל בי"ח שיפא | עדכונים שוטפים

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If a child asks where their mother or father is, the soldiers have been told to say, “I’m sorry sweetie, I don’t know. My job is to bring you to Israel to a safe place where people you know can answer all your questions.”

Some of the children don’t have parents to return to.

 

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In battle for narrative, truth falls away

UK-based independent investigative journalist and media critic David Collier says alleged in-house biases aside, mainstream media struggle to find unbiased sources in the field, notes Shifa chief cannot achieve position without Hamas help

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‘Hamas Restricts Journalists in Gaza,’ New York Times Confesses — That Could Explain the Hospital Obsession - Algemeiner.com

Instead of covering the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas, the New York Times has turned itself into the newsletter of the Gaza hospital association. Since the war began with Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, the Times has published, by my count, 19 front-page articles that...

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While the IDF was meticulously collecting evidence about Hamas’ use of al-Shifa Hospital, the effort to try and discredit any emerging information was unrelenting. Both the media’s impatience over Israel’s thorough investigation and the disappointment that there wasn’t a Hollywood-style control room have created a false narrative about Israel’s mission to rout one of Hamas’ key command centers.

The Media's Real-Time Effort to Discredit The IDF | HonestReporting

While the IDF was meticulously collecting evidence about Hamas' use of al-Shifa Hospital, the effort to try and discredit any emerging information was

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The first group of Israeli hostages are now in the hands of the staff of the International Committee for Red Cross and are in ambulances on the way from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the Rafah crossing into Israel, an Israeli official says.

The families of the hostages are on their way to hospitals in Israel, where they are to be reunited later.

First group of Israel hostages with Red Cross, making way out of Gaza – Israeli official

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The arduous hostage negotiations have been dependent on Qatar - sort of.

Qatar is not really acting as a go-between, but more as Hamas' advocate. As Seth Mandel writes in Commentary:.

Qatar is involved in the negotiations because it is Hamas’s bank and crisis PR firm on retainer. It hosts Hamas leaders and gives the terrorists hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It is the “largest foreign donor to American universities,” which you may have noticed are pushing a distinctly rancid mix of Soviet and Hamas propaganda and passing it off as an academic discipline of “decolonization” studies, all while these campuses erupt with sometimes-violent rallies in support of Hamas. Qatar is also the disseminator of a hugely popular television station devoted entirely to the wishes of dictators and thugs.

In other words, Qatar is not adding value to the negotiations. It is only burnishing its own image as a party trusted by all. But it keeps that image by supporting terrorism.

Qatar would be far more useful if the West would pressure it, not coddle it. Because Hamas needs Qatar, not the other way around.

At the same time, another most interesting story came out:

According to an unnamed Egyptian source quoted in London-based pan-Arab news site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Thursday, Hamas is also set to release 23 Thai hostages following Iranian mediation between the Palestinian terror group and Bangkok.

If true, Hamas is willing to let go of 23 hostages - just because Iran asked them to.

Without demanding anything in return.

In other words, both Qatar and Iran could pressure Hamas to release all the hostages if they thought it was in their own best interests. And serious economic pressure from the West could ensure that it would be in their own best interests.

Instead, the US and others are coddling two of the parties that have direct influence on Hamas. (Turkey probably does as well.)

But instead of realizing that this mass kidnapping affects the entire free world, the West is instead forcing Israel to release terrorists and go through an agonizing, indefinite period of time where maybe some hostages will be released in dribs and drabs, over months or years (if Hamas is given a lifeline by these same Western governments.)

Hamas has patrons. We all know who they are. Yet the Western world has said that this is Israel's problem and it must play a game where it gives in to some Hamas demands.

Something really stinks here.

Hostage negotiations prove that Qatar and Iran are the parties that should be pressured by the world

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