ConflictsIsrael Israel's Netanyahu 'ready for ceasefire,' US adviser says December 12, 2024 https://www.dw.com/en/israels-netanyahu-ready-for-ceasefire-deal-us-adviser-says/a-71041116 US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he "got the sense" that Israel's prime minister would welcome a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza. The country's military operations in Syria and Gaza continue. 'My goal will be to put us in a position to be able to close this deal this month,' Sullivan said at a press conference in Tel AvivImage: Kobi Gideon/Israeli Gpo via ZUMA Press Wire/picture alliance US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has visited Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a bid to support the newly-revived efforts to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza. After the meeting, Sullivan said he "got the sense" that the Israeli leader was "ready to do a deal" which would secure a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, while also securing the release of the 100 hostages still held by the group after being abducted to the Strip during the attacks on October 7, 2023, which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians. "My goal will be to put us in a position to be able to close this deal this month," Sullivan said at a press conference in Tel Aviv. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,805 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians. That's according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's Health Ministry that the United Nations considers reliable. On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Gaza attacks continue The Hamas-led authorities in Gaza said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 people, including 12 guards securing aid trucks, white the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted militants planning to hijack the vehicles.
Cry bullies not getting the sympathy they like in Ireland. So there is going to be an onslaught of US companies threatening Ireland and then Irish diaspora will push back a bit.
This is your regular remind that Hamas regularly tortured and executed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. Since 2005 -- as outlined by Human Rights Watch -- Hamas has killed far more many Palestinians in Gaza then the IDF. Everyday more videos of Hamas' brutal treatment of Palestinians show up. As evil as Assad: IDF recovers footage of brutal Hamas torture, abuse from Gaza prison The videos were discovered by security forces and show Hamas prison guards torturing prisoners and detaining them in harsh conditions. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-833421
Israel plans to double its settlers in the occupied Golan Heights after fall of Syrian regime By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran and wire 1h ago Israeli military vehicles ride close to the ceasefire line between the Golan Heights and Syria. (Reuters: Jamal Awad) In short: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the overthrowing of the Assad regime in Syria is fuelling the need to bolster Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel seized control of the Golan Heights from Syria decades ago, and no countries apart from Israel and the US recognise it as Israeli territory. What's next? The leader of the Syrian rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad says he is not interested in starting new fights with countries such as Israel. Israel's prime minister has used the regime change in Syria as reason to approve a plan to double the Israeli population living in the occupied Golan Heights. Benjamin Netanyahu said events over the border in Syria showed there was more reason than ever to bolster the number of settlements in the territory. No countries apart from Israel and the US recognise the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. "Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the state of Israel, and it is especially important at this time," he said in a statement on Sunday. "We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it." Photo shows Military vehicles driving up a dirt road along an area separated by barbed wire Shortly after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's overthrow by rebel forces, Israel ordered its troops to enter a demilitarised buffer zone situated along the east of Syria's Golan Heights plateau it controls. Israel seized control of the Golan Heights during the Six Day War in 1967, and unilaterally annexed it in 1981. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights to be illegal — a position Israel rejects. More than 20,000 Israeli settlers already live in the Golan Heights, along with Druze communities — many of whom identify as Syrian. US president-elect Donald Trump formally recognised it as Israeli territory during his first term in the White House, but countries such as Australia classify it as Israeli controlled and administered. Mr Netanyahu's office said the plan was being pushed "in light of the war and the new front against Syria", with the Israeli government committing 40 million shekels ($17.4 million) to the cause. Syria 'an active enemy state', Netanyahu says Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli had ramped up military operations in Syria in recent days to "thwart potential threats". (Reuters:Amir Cohen/File Photo) It is the latest provocative move by the Israeli government in the wake of rebel forces taking control of Syria, after more than five decades of the Assad family dictatorship. Hundreds of air strikes have been launched into Syria, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claiming it was targeting weapons stockpiles and military infrastructure abandoned by the former Syrian government's forces to ensure they did not fall into rebel hands. Photo shows People wave the flag of the Syrian rebels. The collapse of the Assad regime has fragmented Syria's territory, with several armed groups now jostling for control and international players anxious to preserve their regional interests. Israel has also deployed troops and tanks across the border of the Golan Heights into Syria, positioning them in an area that had been considered a demilitarised buffer zone since the 1970s. IDF personnel are being told to prepare to stay there for the winter, as the government monitors developments in Syria. The deployment has been criticised as an opportunistic land grab by Arab countries, and France has joined calls for Israel to withdraw. On Saturday, the leader of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which led the campaign to topple Bashar al-Assad, criticised the Israeli air strikes and deployment into the buffer zone. But he stopped short of threatening Israel with any form of retaliation. "Syria's war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations," Ahmed al-Sharaa, who previously went by Abu Mohammed al-Golani, said in an interview with Syrian media. "The priority at this stage is reconstruction and stability, not being drawn into disputes that could lead to further destruction." The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said the reconstruction effort would be hampered by economic sanctions on the Syrian government, dating back to the Assad regime. The Golan Heights look over Quneitra, in Syria. (Reuters: Shir Torem) Geir Pedersen urged countries such as the United States and the members of the European Union to lift those measures to aid the new administration. Mr Netanyahu said Israel had "no interest in a conflict with Syria" in a video address shortly after he spoke with US president-elect Donald Trump. "We will determine Israel's policy toward Syria according to the emerging reality on the ground," he said. "I recall that for decades, Syria has been an active enemy state of Israel. "It has attacked us repeatedly, it has allowed others to attack us from its territory, it has allowed Iran to arm Hezbollah through its territory." He said Israeli actions in recent days were to "thwart potential threats". ABC/wires
Jews always have a plausible excuse to shovel to the sheeple media, they gotta bomb the shit outta another country so as not to become a victim once again, ie "we're bombing you so as not to become a victim"