Iran has been training Hamas terrorists on how to assemble weapons. Hamas Draws on Arms Training in Iran, Class Notes Reveal Makeshift weapons may help Hamas hold out in northern Gaza Notes show drone, rocket plans, intelligence officers say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...veal-hamas-drawing-on-arms-training-from-iran Besieged and degraded after more than a year of war, pockets of Hamas fighters in northern Gaza have been dogging the Israeli army with what are often makeshift munitions. That’s precisely what their sponsors in Tehran intended. Fourteen pages of notes, interspersed with sketches of drone avionics and rocket nose-cones, provide a glimpse of what intelligence officers say has been secret training within Iran for Hamas members tasked with creating a homegrown arsenal. (More at above url)
Ooooohhhhh how naughty. Israel forever the victim....... Israeli Settlers continue with ongoing attacks on Palestinians with IDF protection.
UNICEF money for "Palestinian children" goes directly to UNRWA which directly funds Hamas. They are raising money for terrorists.
There is a proposed three stage internationally-brokered peace agreement which has been put in place. Apparently Hamas does not want to follow that -- -and simply make new demands -- which simply mean that no ceasefire or hostage deal will happen. Hamas expected to reject any deal that doesn’t end Gaza war, source says Egypt has been in talks with Hamas in Cairo for the last two days as part of its efforts to unite Palestinian factions, but there has been no reported progress on a hostage deal. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-827409
After a 400 year reconquista of Spain, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had besieged the is-lame-ist invaders last stand in Granada. If you search deep, sources suggest there were about 6000 hostages being kept in not so good conditions, some in caves, such that about half died by the time the is-lame-ic king of Granada surrendered and left the continent. The surrender of Granada was arranged by some serious negotiations. The strangest negotiation of all was where the is-lame-ic king ("caliph" or "emirate") was allowed a certain amount of time for reinforcements to show up from north Africa, where the is-lame-ist invasion of the Iberian Peninsula had started from in the first place, hundreds of years earlier. If reinforcements didn't show up in time, the is-lame-ist king of the now lame invaders was required to exodus the continent. Reinforcements from among the is-lame-ist brotherhood never showed up. Surprisingly, both parties kept to their side of this agreement, and the lame duck king-caliph-emirate did in fact pack up his silverware and made way to the nearest port and sailed back to is-lame-ist strongholds still in north Africa. This suggests people were more civil back in those days, or is-lame-ists are becoming more and more stupid as time passes. It should be noted that when the reconquista (of the Iberian Peninsula) started, it began with a tiny enclave which had a foothold, with access to the sea, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula not much bigger than Israel compared to the is-lame-ist "region" of the middle-east, which had been conquered by the marauding legacy of Mo-murderer's beginnings as a caravan raider, plunderer, murderer, and religious fraud. Of note, Spain was re-conquered within a couple of decades of the fall of Constantinople (basically the Roman empire, what was left of it) to is-lame-ist hordes still high on the dopamine of divinely sanctioned conquest of the entire world.
Judaism & christianity, phony religions of peace.... Cultists utterly conned and blind, grasping at their religious straws, wanting a saviour to save them from a bogey man. An Israeli strike kills 20 in north Gaza, where Palestinians say they’ve had little food for weeks By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY November 6, 2024 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, as Palestinians fled Israel’s assault. Some said they had hardly eaten, with aid cut off for weeks to the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory. Israel has been waging an offensive in Gaza’s northernmost end for weeks, saying it is targeting Hamas militants who regrouped in the area. The U.N. has said Israel hasn’t allowed food and other supplies into the area north of Gaza City since the assault began, even as tens of thousands of people remain there. That has drawn rebukes from the Biden administration, which has warned that U.S. laws might force it to curb military aid to Israel if more aid is not allowed in. The strike late Monday hit a home where several displaced families were sheltering in the town of Beit Lahiya, near the border with Israel, according to Hossam Abu Safiya, the director of the recently raided and barely functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital, which received the casualties. The Israeli military said it targeted a weapons storage facility from which a militant had operated, and that “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.” Middle East latest: Dozens killed in Gaza as Israel says it targeted a weapons facility The dead included eight women and six children, according to a list provided by the Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service. Separate strikes elsewhere in Gaza early Tuesday killed another 10 people, according to health officials. Dozens of Palestinians trickled out of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday — mostly women and children — dragging rucksacks and satchels with belongings. They entered Gaza City on a street where every building had been completely flattened or heavily damaged. “We came barefoot. We have no sandals, no clothes, nothing. We have no money. There is no food or drink,” said Huda Abu Laila. “We are hungry. Hunger has killed us. We were under siege for one month without water or food,” the gaunt elderly women continued, before erupting in tears. Um Nidal Abu Laila, another woman fleeing Beit Lahiya, said there were bodies of Palestinians killed in the assault lying in the streets. “No one is able to retrieve them,” she said. Gaza’s civil defense agency said it had received reports of people trapped alive under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli troops in Beit Lahiya, but it was unable to send teams to rescue them. It said the military has prevented its teams from operating in the area for the past two weeks. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said there are no ambulances currently operating north of Gaza City. Two elderly patients, one who was battling cancer, died as they tried to leave Beit Lahiya as they waited to cross an Israeli military checkpoint, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. The military has ordered the complete evacuation of Beit Lahiya, the nearby town of Beit Hanoun and the urban Jabaliya refugee camp. Still, the U.N. estimated last week that around 100,000 people remain there even after tens of thousands fled the past month, the latest wave of displacement within the besieged territory. Around 90% of the population of 2.3 million have fled during the 13-month-old war, often multiple times. The army has returned to several areas of Gaza multiple times after previous operations, as Hamas continues to carry out hit-and-run attacks on troops and fire occasional rockets into Israel. The three hospitals serving the area have been largely inaccessible because of the fighting, and ambulances have stopped operating. Israeli troops raided Kamal Adwan Hospital last month, saying Hamas militants were sheltering there, allegations denied by Palestinian health officials. The offensive has raised fears among Palestinians that Israel is implementing a surrender-or-starve plan for northern Gaza proposed by former generals, in which civilians would be ordered out, aid would be cut off and anyone remaining would be considered a fighter. The Israeli military has denied receiving such orders, but the government has not said whether it is adopting part or all of the plan. Early Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a house in the Tufah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing two children and their parents, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency service. Two other children were wounded, it said. In the central town of Zuweida, a strike hit a tent where a displaced family was sheltering, killing four people, including a mother and her two children, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah. Another strike hit a house in Deir al-Balah, killing two people, the hospital said. An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the hospital morgue. The Israeli military says it only targets militants and accuses them of hiding among civilians. It rarely comments on individual strikes, which often kill women and children. The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, taking another 250 people hostage. Around 100 captives are still inside Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be dead. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 43,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its toll but says over half of those killed were women and children. Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Natalie Melzer in Tel Aviv, Israel contributed.
My guess, they're all dead or half dead. If nigh all Palestinians are fucked, why would the hostages fare any better?
Netanyahu just promoted another warmonger after sacking Gallant, surprise surprise.... Nice timing! Biden & Blinken and all the rest of the zionist cronies wll be delighted while pretending to be upset. I imagine Trump too will be happy. Expect Middle East violence to now ratchet up another notch. 'Bulldozer': Israel's new Defence Minister Israel Katz is longtime Netanyahu ally In a surprise announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday kicked his popular defence minister Yoav Gallant to the curb and replaced him with Israel Katz, the country's former foreign minister. Nicknamed a “bulldozer” in Israeli media, the 69-year-old is a close confidante more likely to be in tune with Netanyahu than his predecessor. Issued on: 06/11/2024 By: NEWS WIRES Israel Katz speaks during a joint press conference in Budapest, Hungary, on June 17, 2024. © Attila Kisbenedek, AFP Israel's new Defence Minister Israel Katz, known for his abrasive style, is a long-time ally and loyalist of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In a dramatic announcement late on Tuesday, Netanyahu sacked defence minister Yoav Gallant over what he said was a breakdown in trust during the Gaza war against Hamas. "Over the past few months that trust has eroded. In light of this, I decided today to end the term of the defence minister," Netanyahu said in a statement issued by his office. Read moreNetanyahu fires Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in surprise announcement The statement added that he had appointed Foreign Minister Israel Katz to take Gallant's place. Katz, 69, labelled by Israeli media as a "bulldozer" for his direct and sometimes abrasive style, is considered both close and loyal to Netanyahu. After his appointment, Katz vowed to defeat Israel's enemies and achieve the country's war goals. "We will work together to lead the defence establishment to victory over our enemies and to achieve the goals of the war: the return of all hostages as the most important moral mission, the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the containment of Iranian aggression, and the safe return of the residents of the north and south to their homes," he said in a statement. A member of Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, in which he was previously president of the party's convention, Katz has held multiple cabinet roles going back to 2003. Attacks on the UN As foreign minister, Katz drew international attention for his pointed attacks on world leaders and international organisations that had expressed opposition to Israeli military actions, particularly in Gaza. He spearheaded a diplomatic battle against the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and last month Israel's parliament banned the agency from working in Israel and occupied east Jerusalem. On Monday, Katz instructed his ministry to formally notify the United Nations that Israel was cancelling its agreements with UNRWA. Last month Katz triggered outrage when he declared UN chief Antonio Guterres "persona non grata in Israel" and wrote in a post on X that he would ban him from entering the country. To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Before serving as foreign minister, Katz's most notable role was as minister of transport. He spent a decade in the post from 2009-2019, but had also held the energy and finance portfolios in various Netanyahu cabinets. Aviv Bushinsky, a political commentator and Netanyahu's former chief of staff, told AFP that Katz was likely to be more in tune with the prime minister than his predecessor Gallant. "I cannot recall an incident when Israel Katz was in opposition to Netanyahu with anything," Bushinsky said. "It is true he does not have any military experience, but he was a very good transport minister and has sat in the cabinet for many years," he added. "Besides, Netanyahu thinks he can run the show himself – and he has managed to run the show even though Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, two generals, quit the government." Born in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Katz has been a prominent player in Israeli politics since becoming a member of parliament, the Knesset, in 1998. Today he is among the highest-ranking ministers in the Likud party. Married with two children, Katz is a resident of Moshav Kfar Ahim in southern Israel. (AFP)