Israel-Hamas War Day 257: What is happening in Gaza, Israel's North?
US military shoots down Houthi aerial weapons • IDF eliminates half of Hamas terrorists in Rafah
Netanyahu: US promised to lift hold on ammunition, weapons
The Defense Ministry said that Netanyahu's speech attacking the US regarding disputes over the pace of weapons transfers took the entire defense establishment by surprise.
A day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Biden administration of preventing weapons delivery, the PMO said on Wednesday that the US was expected to lift its hold on the shipment of ammunition and weapons designated for the IDF.
Go to the full article >>Canada lists Iran's IRGC as a terrorist group
"Current and former senior Iranian government officials who are in Canada may be investigated and removed."
Canada has announced that it will list the IRGC as a terrorist group and could potentially investigate former senior Iranian officials who live in the country.
Go to the full article >>IDF troops find 'Mein Kampf' copy in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip - report
Haddad shared that the location in which the book had been found was the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza.
A photo shared by Israel-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad in a post on Meta showed an IDF soldier in the Gaza Strip holding an Arabic translation of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Go to the full article >>IDF chief spokesman: No return to North for evacuees before Sept. 1
Hagari said, “it is wrong to grasp on to a date which we then later will not be able to stand by.”
IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday that it would be wrong to promise to evacuees from Israel’s North that they will be back in their homes by the start of the school year on September 1.
Go to the full article >>'Normalizing taking hostages and rape': Hostage family members slam UNHRC sexual violence report
Leshem Gonen stated the report compiled by the COI “has failed to properly address” the accounts of “sexual violence that occurred on the day of the attack [October 7] and during captivity.”
In the wake of a UNHRC report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, relatives of Gaza hostages spoke at the committee, condemning the findings and asking that they focus on the true crimes committed by Hamas.
Go to the full article >>Former hostage Ada Sagi to BBC: I understand Hamas doesn't want peace
"I lost my home. I lost my freedom - the whole place that I [have] to go back. Our village - kibbutz - is destroyed," she said.
Former hostage and peace activist Ada Sagi shared insights into her captivity and why her outlook for peace in the future has changed in a new BBC report.
Go to the full article >>Israel may have violated laws of war in Gaza campaign, UN rights office says
Last week the UN human rights office said the killing of civilians during an Israeli operation to free four hostages could amount to war crimes.
Israeli forces may have repeatedly violated fundamental principles of the laws of war and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters in their Gaza Strip military campaign, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday.
Go to the full article >>Hezbollah announces death of one operative in Yaron - report
Following the reports in Lebanon of three deaths in the IDF attack on Yaron, Hezbollah has officially announced the death of Hassan Muhammad Ali Saab, Ynet reported.
Go to the full article >>Egypt agrees to Arab security force in Gaza after Israel war - report
In mid-June, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi met with generals from the United States, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt to discuss regional security cooperation.
During talks between the United States, Israel, and Arab countries held in Bahrain at the beginning of the month at the latest Arab Summit, Egypt agreed to participate in an Arab security force in the Gaza Strip, according to the Qatari news site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Go to the full article >>In Rafah, 'there is almost no home without a tunnel,' says Nahal Brigade Commander
The IDF brought a small number of reporters to Gaza to speak with Nahal Brigade Commander Colonel Yair Zuckerman about the extent to which Hamas has integrated itself into civilian areas.
A white cat walking across a partially destroyed building in Rafah’s Shabura refugee camp was the only civilian remnant of the Gaza neighborhood by the Egyptian border, which until the start of May had been crowded with Palestinians.
A bullet-riddled Sonol sign still hung on top of the rubble of what had once been a gas station.
Half destroyed concrete buildings stood, in some cases reduced to framed shells, intermixed with piles of rubble.
Go to the full article >>Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know
• Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
• Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
• 120 hostages remain in Gaza
• 43 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says