Israel at war: What happened on day 37?

Hamas's original plan for October 7 went beyond just a massacre in the Gaza border area and taking hundreds of hostages, but to continue their assault up to the border with the West Bank, The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing Western and Middle Eastern security officials briefed on collected evidence.

This information was obtained from numerous maps, notes, supplies, and other written instructions found among the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists in the Gaza border area, as well as from interrogations of Hamas captives. 

Great Britain would not be told to halt its war on a terror group that attacked its sovereign territory and cut off the heads of its citizens, UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC on Sunday.

“If Britain had been subject to an attack of terrorists coming and murdering [1,200] people and cutting off heads, and we knew where those terrorists had gone, no one would say to Britain stop going after them,” Shapps said.

Rarely does the IDF lift the veil between the top secret classified intelligence unit’s headquarters and the public, but The Jerusalem Post on Sunday was able to visit IDF intelligence’s Gaza battlefield intelligence collection unit (“the collection unit”).

This visit included both a meeting with the top commander of the unit as well as entering multiple command centers where each staffer and their computer were working on collecting or analyzing a different aspect of intelligence: from satellite imagery to human spying, to a variety of different kinds of signals, sensors, and cyber intelligence.

CAIRO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Hamas on Sunday said it is suspending hostage negotiations because of Israel's handling of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, a Palestinian official briefed on the hostage talks told Reuters.

The hospital has come under intense fire as Israeli forces close in on the facility. Israel accuses Hamas of using the hospital as a cover for a command center without providing proof. Hamas has denied the accusations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only discuss responsibility for the Hamas October 7 massacre after the war ends, deflecting a question by CNN by comparing it to US presidents' reactions to other tragedies under their administrations. 

Netanyahu specifically referred to US president George W. Bush and the 9/11 terrorist attack and Franklin D. Roosevelt after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 

“Did people ask President Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor if he was taking the responsibility for the attack?” he asked. 

He added that he will answer the question regarding responsibility, but only after the war with Hamas ends.

This is a developing story.

In an interview with the BBC, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed that Israeli security forces had discovered an Arabic copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf in a children's bedroom of a civilian home in northern Gaza that was being used as a terror base.

The civilian home included an explosives laboratory and represented further proof of Hamas’s terrorist activity in the heart of the civilian population in Gaza.

The book was among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists and included notes in the margins, highlighted sections, and annotated Post-it notes.

“This is Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic," Herzog said. "This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II. This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a child's room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied again and again, the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday his country offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which has suspended operations amid fierce fighting with Hamas, but that the militant group refused to receive it.

"We just offered Shifa hospital the fuel, they refused it," Netanyahu said, without providing details.

The United States wants to avoid armed fighting inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which endangers the lives of civilians, and has conveyed its view to Israeli forces, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday.

"The United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire and we've had active consultations with the Israeli Defense Forces on this," Sullivan told CBS News' "Face the Nation" program.

Extremist ultra-Orthodox men were seen spray painting posters that featured photos of female kidnapped Israelis on Sunday in Bnei Brak. This incident has sparked criticism not only from the wider Israeli community but also within the ultra-Orthodox one.

Although extremist ultra-Orthodox men have spray-painted photos of women in the past, the sense up until now has been that the Israeli hostages in Gaza mattered more than political or religious affiliation.  

Hamas's attack on the South on October 7 and the subsequent war forced many families to evacuate the region, spreading out across the country in hotels and other organized areas. This left thousands of children and teens unable to go to school or continue in their regular routines.

To help solve this problem, the Education Ministry set up temporary schools for displaced youth and helping them manage the day to day with the kids is the army's Education and Youth Corps.