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Israel-Hamas War Day 258: What is happening in Gaza, Lebanon border?

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 IDF soldiers operating in Rafah, June 20, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF soldiers operating in Rafah, June 20, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Religious Services Minister: Northern burial services preparing for a 'major scenario'

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli also rejected the idea that Shas would topple a right-wing government it had done everything to create.

By MAARIV ONLINE
 Sgt. Maj. (res.) Eliran Mizrahi's funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on June 13, 2024 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Eliran Mizrahi's funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on June 13, 2024
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli was interviewed on Wednesday evening by the Channel 14 program 'The Patriots,' where he told them they are preparing for "major scenarios" in the North.

"The Religious Services Ministry entrusted with burials is preparing itself for major scenarios in the North. We are having meetings for big things in the North," Malkieli told Channel 14.

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IDF operating throughout Gaza Strip, West Bank - reports

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  (photo credit: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
(photo credit: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

On Wednesday night, Israeli media reported that violent clashes had broken out in multiple villages in the West Bank, and Palestinian media reported that the IDF was operating in Rafah and Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip.

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US to Israel: Qatar close to imposing sanctions on Hamas to restart negotiations - report

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  (photo credit: MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS)
(photo credit: MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS)

The United States reportedly told Israel that Qatar was close to imposing sanctions on Hamas in order to restart negotiations, according to KAN.

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Lebanese man suspected of spying for Israel after he filmed the moment of an IDF attack

Social media users in Lebanon were outraged by a video that showed the moment the IDF struck a house. He then turned himself in to intelligence services to prove that he was not a spy for Israel.

By MAARIV ONLINE
 Smoke rises above the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border following attacks from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in northern Israel June 18, 2024.  (photo credit: REUTERS/Avi Ohayon)
Smoke rises above the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border following attacks from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in northern Israel June 18, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/Avi Ohayon)

A Lebanese civilian got into trouble on Wednesday due to a recording of an IDF attack in Lebanon and was forced to turn himself into the intelligence services, according to Lebanese media.

The reason for this individual to turn himself in was because he had filmed the target of the Israeli strike before it was attacked, and so, therefore, the moment of the bombing had been recorded.

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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