Thanks. And thanks for the five minute warning. Amir Tsarfati update: [starts at about the 5-minute mark] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza, following a demand from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire.” Hamas declared victory on the news. The decision, coming on the day Israelis marked six months since the October 7 attack, came as a surprise, and as Israeli negotiators flew to Cairo for hostage negotiations. Hamas has demanded a ceasefire before any new deal. The IDF will leave one brigade in Gaza, whose role will be to allow Israeli troops access to return as necessary. It will also carry out targeted operations, such as the successful raid at Shifa Hospital last month. Biden appeared to be responding to electoral considerations, after Muslim- and Arab-American voters in the key swing state of Michigan threatened not to support him, and young “progressive” voters sided with the Palestinians. A sad day for the world. Amir Tsarfati: Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir: Hamas this evening also rejects the new US proposals, even though they include more Israeli concessions. 🟧 There is no permanent ceasefire, and there is no immunity for his people in Gaza (he wants a victory parade for Sinwar); 🟧 There is no Israeli withdrawal from the entire strip; 🟧 And the return of the refugees that Israel is ready for to northern Gaza is to shelter camps and not to their homes. 🟧 Also, the return is filtered by Israel, which should not even be there. 🟧 As far as Hamas is concerned, there is nothing to talk about, when this is the case. ~ Richard Littlejohn, in Daily Mail. per NTEB Geoffrey Grider Lots of news coming out of the Middle East today, and none of it good. Israel, according to reports from the site Elaph News, has been conducting Air Force drills for a retaliatory attack on Iran to destroy their nuclear facilities. Netanyahu may be considering this because when you consider the position he’s in right now, he has absolutely nothing to lose. “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” Psalm 121:4 I think that taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities should have been done 10 years ago, you will remember that Russia built their reactors for them. The thing that helped Iran the most was having the full support of then-president Barack Obama who gave the terror state everything they wanted in his infamous Nuclear Treaty of 2015. Here in 2024 the whole thing is a mess, and is only about to get messier. From ELAPH NEWS: Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been locked in crunch meetings over fears that Iran will launch an assault as Middle East tensions threaten to boil over into all-out war. Now a Western security official has revealed that Israel will respond to any attacks by striking Iran’s nuclear targets directly. Israeli forces have been conducting air force drills in preparation for the dangerous escalation. Iran is home to several nuclear sites – including power plants, uranium mines and research reactors. A targeted attack against one of them could mark an unprecedented escalation in the melting pot of Middle East conflict. Israel has been conducting secret air force training in recent days in the form of flying fighters of various types, marching over long distances, conducting maneuvers and targeting sensitive sites in Iran that may be nuclear facilities Tehran’s embassy in Syrian capital Damascus was destroyed in a suspected Israeli strike last Monday – killing several top brass commanders. General Mohammad Reza Zahedi died alongside six senior members of Iran’s twisted terrorist army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran’s formidable Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quickly hit out with revenge threats and vowed to “defeat the Zionist regime”. Snarling Tehran President Ebrahim Rasi said Israel’s alleged blast “will not go unanswered”. - Fair Use - "I think that taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities should have been done 10 years ago, you" I fully agree. constantly striking their proxies is not the way. Go to the source of the problem and let them not sleep in peace anymore. (instead of the poor surrounding countries who are putting up with the presence of the proxies and israel's retaliation. @heidi Makes sense to me. What is Israel waiting for? Maybe Ezekiel 38. I do not see us being here much longer after looking at the news and what you all have posted here "Secret" air force training... Please don't tell anyone, the Iranians might find out. A former Israeli hostage who was freed during a truce in November says that she was abducted from her home in Israel on October 7 by Palestinian civilians, not Hamas members, who then sold her in Gaza to Hamas terrorists. Breitbart News visited the scene of the attack in November, and spoke to survivors of Nir Oz who also said that Palestinian civilians had joined in the attack and the looting once Hamas had breached the kibbutz boundary. The Jewish News Syndicate reports: Nili Margalit, 42, on a tour of Europe to raise awareness of the 133 Israeli hostages still in captivity, told France’s Le Point magazine on Monday that it was Palestinian Arab civilians, not Hamas, who abducted her from her home in Nir Oz on Oct. 7. “They negotiated with Hamas to sell me. When they were paid, I was taken straight into a tunnel,” she said. “There are no innocent citizens there. They are families controlled by Hamas. There are children who from the moment they are born are taught that Israel is Palestine and just to hate Jews,” she said. Other hostages have reported similar experiences of being sold, or being worked as slaves in Gaza, with little to eat.
After U.S. Pressure, IDF Leaves Southern Gaza; Hamas Declares Victory:
If the Prime Minister decides to end the war without an extensive attack on Rafah in order to defeat Hamas, he will not have a mandate to continue serving as Prime Minister.
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Hamas claims that in the new proposal:
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"When British or U.S. troops accidentally kill innocent civilians, journalists or aid workers it's 'friendly fire' in the heat of battle. When Israel does likewise, it's a deliberate war crime. The double-standards are nauseating."
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Iran: widespread internet outages are reported throughout the country.
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Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear plants if faced with a revenge attack for the death of a top Tehran commander last week.
Israel ‘preparing to strike Iranian NUCLEAR facilities’ amid tense wait for revenge attack and soaring WW3 fears
Former Hostage: I Was Abducted By Palestinian Civilians, Sold to Hamas:
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