Netanyahu has said unambiguously that the IDF will go into Rafah all guns blazing even if the hostages are released.
That'll smooth negotiations with Hamas.
That'll smooth negotiations with Hamas.
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Given previous responses they wont accept the deal. The hostages are the only cards they have.
Embrace the Insanity.
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It'll make no difference to Netanyahu, who insists no deal will end the war in Gaza. A glimmer of good news in Northern Gaza is 31 aid trucks were able to get through. Not much but they're the first since all this carnage began.
If you don't give up hostages, we will bomb and starve you
But if you do give up hostages, we will bomb and starve you.
Nobody knows how many hostages have already been killed by Israeli attacks.
Gillan Mosely grew up in a Jewish family that believed in Zionism: she spent much of her adolescence thinking about what she considers a sense of entitlement regarding the “Holy Land”. For her 2022 documentary, The Tinderbox, Mosely travelled to Israel to try to unpack her British family’s teachings. Taking viewers through the history of the creation of the Israeli state, The Tinderbox interrogates an ingrained us vs them dichotomy that Moseley suggests is instilled in Zionism. She speaks with several people on all sides, including settlers, liberal Israelis, a Hamas official and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to try to find the root of where the frictions begin.
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From BAFTA-award-winning producer Gillian Mosely, in association with multi-award winners, THE TINDERBOX is a controversial, revealing, and timely new feature documentary exploring both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It’s the first time the facts behind the divide have been brought to the screen in a single film, and delves deep into history, as well as hearing from contemporary Israeli and Palestinian voices. Exposing surprising, shocking and uncomfortable truths, not least for its Jewish director and onscreen investigator, this is an important film that will provide valuable context and help people make up their minds – or even change them.
Oxford Middle East Center
Al Jazeera
From BAFTA-award-winning producer Gillian Mosely, in association with multi-award winners, THE TINDERBOX is a controversial, revealing, and timely new feature documentary exploring both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It’s the first time the facts behind the divide have been brought to the screen in a single film, and delves deep into history, as well as hearing from contemporary Israeli and Palestinian voices. Exposing surprising, shocking and uncomfortable truths, not least for its Jewish director and onscreen investigator, this is an important film that will provide valuable context and help people make up their minds – or even change them.
Oxford Middle East Center
Israel confirmed that an Israeli man held captive in Gaza has died. Dror Or, 49, had been held in Gaza since October 7, the government said.
AFP reports an estimated 129 captives remain in Gaza and 35 have been killed since taken hostage.
- Rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza will cost as much as $40bn and require an effort on a scale the world has not seen since World War II amid “unprecedented levels of human losses, capital destruction”, the United Nations says.
.....or £400 billion, if it was a UK procurement process..............
Reconstruction is seen as the bunce of a war. Eg Iraq along with a UK comment "we are not getting our fair share of the work"
Actually this has been mentioned "a bit" on Gaza. Loads of companies will want the work.
Me I wonder about timescales. Disposing of the rubble will take some time.
Actually this has been mentioned "a bit" on Gaza. Loads of companies will want the work.
Me I wonder about timescales. Disposing of the rubble will take some time.
They could use the rubble to build a wall...
I mentioned HAMAS at the table again. One has been interviewed. HAMAS don't mind talking about it.
The accept the initial ceasefire but past that no change really. Rafar is a sticking point If the US is prepared to guarantee they wont allow that they may accept this. The US talks the talk so will they walk the walk? Then the usual HAMAS requirement - permanent ceasefire - at some point. They do feel that they are making some headway on their side.
The CIA are at the talks but I don't think they can enforce anything on the administration. Israili MOSAD and similar - Israeli news I haven't looked for so just reported. They don't think an attack on Rafar is a good idea. Their war cabinet???
The accept the initial ceasefire but past that no change really. Rafar is a sticking point If the US is prepared to guarantee they wont allow that they may accept this. The US talks the talk so will they walk the walk? Then the usual HAMAS requirement - permanent ceasefire - at some point. They do feel that they are making some headway on their side.
The CIA are at the talks but I don't think they can enforce anything on the administration. Israili MOSAD and similar - Israeli news I haven't looked for so just reported. They don't think an attack on Rafar is a good idea. Their war cabinet???
Hamas stops aid trucks.
www.jpost.com
Four soldiers killed in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed
The rockets were reportedly launched from the Rafah area. The Kerem Shalom crossing was closed after the attack.
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Of course they have. They've probably been doing that all along. Apart from the aid trucks they do allow in so that they can steal the food and water meant for the civilians.Hamas stops aid trucks.
Four soldiers killed in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed
The rockets were reportedly launched from the Rafah area. The Kerem Shalom crossing was closed after the attack.
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