π️Lonny's War Update- October 269, 2023 - July 1, 2024 π️
π️Day 269 that 120 of our hostages in Hamas captivity
**There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!**
“I’ve never met them,But I miss them. I’ve never met them,but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them,but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!”
There is no victory until all of the hostages are home!ΧΧΧ Χ Χ¦ΧΧΧ Χ’Χ Χ©ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ€ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧͺ
Red Alerts - Missile, Rocket, Drone (UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles), and Terror Attacks and Death Announcements
*4:10pm last night North - hostile aircraft Southern Golan*4:25pm last night- north - rockets Beit Hillel, Maayan Baruch*5:00pm - last night north- rockets Metulla*3:00am- north rockets Metulla*8:00am- south- rockets - Nir Oz, Ein Hashlosha, Sufa, Dekel, Sde Avraham, Gaza Border communities*8:05am - south- rockets - Holit, Yated, Holit, Nirim*8:10am - south - rockets -Kissufim, Sha'ar Yeshuv
*the army announced the death of a soldier killed in battle in southern Gaza—Sergeant Ori Yitzhak Haddad, 21 from Beersheba. He was killed as a result of an explosion of a structure or a booby trapped tunnel shaft in a battalion attack, along with the Nahal Brigade operating under the 12th Brigade Combat Team.
May his memory forever be a blessing
Hostage Updates
Today is the 69th birthday of Yitzhak Elegret
**Itzik's Black Sabbath: Amit Elegret, Nephew of the 68-Year-Old Hostage, in a Special Column**
The return of Itzik and all the hostages home is the moral debt that our leadership has created, and they must fulfill it • I call on all Israeli public: There is no difference between us - please do everything to bring everyone home immediately
Saturday morning, 6:30, Gedera settlement. We wake up to the sound of sirens. We entered the safe room, came out, another siren, and so on again and again. Meanwhile, we tried to get updates to understand what was happening, and suddenly I stood in shock in front of the image of the white pickup truck loaded with terrorists inside Sderot.
The film starts running quickly, and the phone doesn't stop working in attempts to contact all our family (uncles and cousins) in Kibbutz Nir Oz - the landscape of our family, the landscape of our childhood. And then came the bitter and difficult call. My uncle Itzik called my father, Danny, with loud noises heard in the background. "Danny, I'm wounded, my hand is bleeding, help me put a tourniquet," he said. Dad of course tried to help him, instructed him over the phone, but before Itzik had time to perform the action he was heard saying: "Danny, this is the end, this is the end," and the call disconnected. He was kidnapped.
Dad's sister held the safe room door and struggled with the terrorists for eight hours while they were shooting at the door. My cousin and her daughters were miraculously saved thanks to her husband's supreme heroism, who eliminated terrorists inside their home. The return of Itzik and all our hostages home is the moral debt. The leadership must fulfill it: maximize military pressure, find an alternative government in the Strip (that will make Yahya Sinwar's legs tremble in the tunnels when he realizes he no longer controls the territory), and bring back our dear ones.
A video circulates showing Ayala Metzger, whose elderly father-in-law Yoram Metzger was kidnapped on October 7 and murdered in Hamas captivity in Gaza, telling a crowed that “if [the hostages] don’t return, we’ll be waiting [for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara] with a noose.”
“The Netanyahu couple, if you’re home, I won’t rest, Einav [Zangauker, mother of Hamas hostage Matan Zangauker] will not rest, and Matan needs to come home, and [all of the hostages] need to come home,” Metzger screams into a microphone to cheers and horns blaring. The video is broadcast by the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14.
The video was apparently filmed at a Thursday demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea, which called for new elections and a deal to release hostages held by the terror group Hamas in Gaza.
Some 3,000 protesters attended the rally, according to organizers, where police reportedly found a smoke grenade attached to a wire in the area outside Netanyahu’s home designated for the demonstration. It is believed that 116 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Seven hostages have been rescued alive by troops, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 42 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
One more person is listed as missing since October 7, and their fate is still unknown.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
Channel 12 news reports that the US effort to revive Israel-Hamas hostage-ceasefire efforts is now focused on a single word in Clause 8 of the Israeli proposal that was unveiled a month ago by US President Joe Biden, and that Hamas, according to the US, has rejected.
According to partial leaks of the Israeli proposal, Clause 8 reads: “No later than day 16 [of phase one], the commencement of indirect negotiations between the two sides to agree on the conditions for implementing stage two of this agreement, including those relating to the keys for the exchange of hostages and prisoners (soldiers and remaining men), and this should be concluded and agreed upon before the end of week five of this [first] stage.”
The TV news report says Hamas objects to the word “including,” since that suggests that all the deal’s arrangements could be subject to negotiation at this stage of the deal, and therefore Hamas wants language that specifies that “only” the so-called keys for the exchange of hostages and security prisoners would be under negotiation.
Both Israeli and Hamas officials have downplayed the prospects of revived talks this weekend. -- It is totally unacceptable for Israeli officials to downplay the prospects of renewed talks. This isn't negotiation over pieces of land or who's got the bigger missiles. This is for the lives of the hostages who are getting weaker by the hour and dying as these officials have time to talk and go home to their families. None of them should be allowed to leave their offices, talk to their families, go home to relax until there is a deal. Maybe, just maybe if they, especially Netanyahu, could experience even a small inkling of what the hostages and their families were going through for almost 9 months, I guarantee that a deal would be forthcoming in no time at all.
Hostage Updates
Today is the 69th birthday of Yitzhak Elegret
**Itzik's Black Sabbath: Amit Elegret, Nephew of the 68-Year-Old Hostage, in a Special Column**
The return of Itzik and all the hostages home is the moral debt that our leadership has created, and they must fulfill it • I call on all Israeli public: There is no difference between us - please do everything to bring everyone home immediately
Saturday morning, 6:30, Gedera settlement. We wake up to the sound of sirens. We entered the safe room, came out, another siren, and so on again and again. Meanwhile, we tried to get updates to understand what was happening, and suddenly I stood in shock in front of the image of the white pickup truck loaded with terrorists inside Sderot.
The film starts running quickly, and the phone doesn't stop working in attempts to contact all our family (uncles and cousins) in Kibbutz Nir Oz - the landscape of our family, the landscape of our childhood. And then came the bitter and difficult call. My uncle Itzik called my father, Danny, with loud noises heard in the background. "Danny, I'm wounded, my hand is bleeding, help me put a tourniquet," he said. Dad of course tried to help him, instructed him over the phone, but before Itzik had time to perform the action he was heard saying: "Danny, this is the end, this is the end," and the call disconnected. He was kidnapped.
Dad's sister held the safe room door and struggled with the terrorists for eight hours while they were shooting at the door. My cousin and her daughters were miraculously saved thanks to her husband's supreme heroism, who eliminated terrorists inside their home. The return of Itzik and all our hostages home is the moral debt. The leadership must fulfill it: maximize military pressure, find an alternative government in the Strip (that will make Yahya Sinwar's legs tremble in the tunnels when he realizes he no longer controls the territory), and bring back our dear ones.
A video circulates showing Ayala Metzger, whose elderly father-in-law Yoram Metzger was kidnapped on October 7 and murdered in Hamas captivity in Gaza, telling a crowed that “if [the hostages] don’t return, we’ll be waiting [for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara] with a noose.”
“The Netanyahu couple, if you’re home, I won’t rest, Einav [Zangauker, mother of Hamas hostage Matan Zangauker] will not rest, and Matan needs to come home, and [all of the hostages] need to come home,” Metzger screams into a microphone to cheers and horns blaring. The video is broadcast by the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14.
The video was apparently filmed at a Thursday demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea, which called for new elections and a deal to release hostages held by the terror group Hamas in Gaza.
Some 3,000 protesters attended the rally, according to organizers, where police reportedly found a smoke grenade attached to a wire in the area outside Netanyahu’s home designated for the demonstration. It is believed that 116 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Seven hostages have been rescued alive by troops, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 42 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
One more person is listed as missing since October 7, and their fate is still unknown.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
Channel 12 news reports that the US effort to revive Israel-Hamas hostage-ceasefire efforts is now focused on a single word in Clause 8 of the Israeli proposal that was unveiled a month ago by US President Joe Biden, and that Hamas, according to the US, has rejected.
According to partial leaks of the Israeli proposal, Clause 8 reads: “No later than day 16 [of phase one], the commencement of indirect negotiations between the two sides to agree on the conditions for implementing stage two of this agreement, including those relating to the keys for the exchange of hostages and prisoners (soldiers and remaining men), and this should be concluded and agreed upon before the end of week five of this [first] stage.”
The TV news report says Hamas objects to the word “including,” since that suggests that all the deal’s arrangements could be subject to negotiation at this stage of the deal, and therefore Hamas wants language that specifies that “only” the so-called keys for the exchange of hostages and security prisoners would be under negotiation.
Both Israeli and Hamas officials have downplayed the prospects of revived talks this weekend. -- It is totally unacceptable for Israeli officials to downplay the prospects of renewed talks. This isn't negotiation over pieces of land or who's got the bigger missiles. This is for the lives of the hostages who are getting weaker by the hour and dying as these officials have time to talk and go home to their families. None of them should be allowed to leave their offices, talk to their families, go home to relax until there is a deal. Maybe, just maybe if they, especially Netanyahu, could experience even a small inkling of what the hostages and their families were going through for almost 9 months, I guarantee that a deal would be forthcoming in no time at all.
Gaza
- With the Rafah operation expected to wind down in the coming weeks — and the war to move to new, less intensive phase — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins a situational assessment with top aides and military commanders in Southern Command headquarters.
They also discuss “continuing military pressure” on Hamas, according to Netanyahu’s office. Netanyahu is joined in Beersheba by National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Senior officers in attendance include IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, the heads of the 162nd, 99th, and 98th divisions — all currently fighting in Gaza — and the commander of the Gaza Division.
The heads of the General Staff Operations and Intelligence directorates, the Ground Forces, and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories also participate.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during a visit to southern Gaza’s Rafah, claims that Hamas is unable to recover from Israeli operations. “The fighting here in Rafah signifies a very important thing, we are actually shutting off Hamas’s air — Rafah crossing, the tunnels. The result is that they have no way of arming themselves, they have no way to equip themselves, they have no way to bring in reinforcements, they have no way to take care of their casualties, and we see this very well,” he says to troops.
“Their fighting spirit is broken and time actually works against them, not for them,” Gallant says. “Contrary to the stories of some people who are in the tunnels shouting and broadcasting to those who are in the hotels in Qatar… in practice, Hamas… is being worn down. We are destroying the tunnels, we are destroying the weapons, and reaching places it never dreamed we would reach, at great depths below the ground,” he says.
Gallant says the IDF will “continue and push until we reach a situation where we choke [Hamas’s] breathing tube, and do not allow it to rebuild its strength. This is the goal of this operation.” link We have heard Galant say almost the exact same thing numerous times in the last 9 months. While I grant that our takeover of the Philadelphia route has probably made a major dent in Hamas' smuggling and its ability to restock, I have no doubt that there are many tunnels that we have not found that they are still using, as well as many arms caches spread throughout Gaza. Hamas has proved to all that they are agile and adaptable, far more so than any of our intelligence agencies gave them credit for and Galant still doesn't. The only thing that will truly defeat Hamas is when we are able to put an viable alternative in its place of governing Gaza and providing hope to the Gazans for a better future, which Hamas can't do.
The IDF says it has demolished a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah that passed adjacent to a United Nations school.
Several tunnel shafts leading to the underground passages were located by troops operating under the Negev Brigade.
The shafts were later investigated by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, who also demolished the tunnels, the military says.
The IDF says the tunnel and its branches were some 500 meters in length, with one of the entrances being adjacent to an UNRWA school.
Separately, troops located a Hamas site in the area with at least nine rocket launchers, the military says. The rocket launching site was also demolished.
They also discuss “continuing military pressure” on Hamas, according to Netanyahu’s office. Netanyahu is joined in Beersheba by National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Senior officers in attendance include IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, the heads of the 162nd, 99th, and 98th divisions — all currently fighting in Gaza — and the commander of the Gaza Division.
The heads of the General Staff Operations and Intelligence directorates, the Ground Forces, and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories also participate.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during a visit to southern Gaza’s Rafah, claims that Hamas is unable to recover from Israeli operations. “The fighting here in Rafah signifies a very important thing, we are actually shutting off Hamas’s air — Rafah crossing, the tunnels. The result is that they have no way of arming themselves, they have no way to equip themselves, they have no way to bring in reinforcements, they have no way to take care of their casualties, and we see this very well,” he says to troops.
“Their fighting spirit is broken and time actually works against them, not for them,” Gallant says. “Contrary to the stories of some people who are in the tunnels shouting and broadcasting to those who are in the hotels in Qatar… in practice, Hamas… is being worn down. We are destroying the tunnels, we are destroying the weapons, and reaching places it never dreamed we would reach, at great depths below the ground,” he says.
Gallant says the IDF will “continue and push until we reach a situation where we choke [Hamas’s] breathing tube, and do not allow it to rebuild its strength. This is the goal of this operation.” link We have heard Galant say almost the exact same thing numerous times in the last 9 months. While I grant that our takeover of the Philadelphia route has probably made a major dent in Hamas' smuggling and its ability to restock, I have no doubt that there are many tunnels that we have not found that they are still using, as well as many arms caches spread throughout Gaza. Hamas has proved to all that they are agile and adaptable, far more so than any of our intelligence agencies gave them credit for and Galant still doesn't. The only thing that will truly defeat Hamas is when we are able to put an viable alternative in its place of governing Gaza and providing hope to the Gazans for a better future, which Hamas can't do.
The IDF says it has demolished a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah that passed adjacent to a United Nations school.
Several tunnel shafts leading to the underground passages were located by troops operating under the Negev Brigade.
The shafts were later investigated by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, who also demolished the tunnels, the military says.
The IDF says the tunnel and its branches were some 500 meters in length, with one of the entrances being adjacent to an UNRWA school.
Separately, troops located a Hamas site in the area with at least nine rocket launchers, the military says. The rocket launching site was also demolished.
Northern Israel - Lebanon/Hizbollah/Syria
- IDF: 18 soldiers injured — one seriously — in Hezbollah explosive-laden drone attack in northern Golan Heights: Eighteen Israeli soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, in a Hezbollah explosive-laden drone attack in the northern Golan Heights earlier today, the military announces.
- IDF: 18 soldiers injured — one seriously — in Hezbollah explosive-laden drone attack in northern Golan Heights: Eighteen Israeli soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, in a Hezbollah explosive-laden drone attack in the northern Golan Heights earlier today, the military announces.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted an Israeli military site in response to IDF strikes against the terror group earlier in the day.The soldiers were taken to a hospital for treatment. One was seriously hurt and the other 17 were listed in good condition.
The IDF also says it struck a series of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the last few hours, including operation posts in Markaba, and a rocket launcher in Ayta ash-Shab, which had been used in an attack earlier today.
Iraqi militia factions vow to escalate attacks on Israel if war erupts with Hezbollah — Lebanese report: The Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee, a group of militia factions, vows to increase attacks on Israel if tensions with Hezbollah in Lebanon escalate into all-out war, Al Mayadeen reports.
The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese outlet also says that the committee threatened Washington, saying that in the case of war between Israel and Hezbollah, US interests in Iraq and across the Middle East would become a legitimate target.
Iran-backed militias in Iraq have claimed a number of drone attacks on the southern city of Eilat in the last several months.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza during the war there.
Israel has warned it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border following the October 7 atrocities, and has warned that should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.
Iraqi militia factions vow to escalate attacks on Israel if war erupts with Hezbollah — Lebanese report: The Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee, a group of militia factions, vows to increase attacks on Israel if tensions with Hezbollah in Lebanon escalate into all-out war, Al Mayadeen reports.
The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese outlet also says that the committee threatened Washington, saying that in the case of war between Israel and Hezbollah, US interests in Iraq and across the Middle East would become a legitimate target.
Iran-backed militias in Iraq have claimed a number of drone attacks on the southern city of Eilat in the last several months.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza during the war there.
Israel has warned it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border following the October 7 atrocities, and has warned that should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.
West Bank and Jerusalem
- The IDF confirms carrying out an airstrike in the Nur Shams camp in the Tulkarem area of the West Bank earlier today, killing a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander.
According to the IDF and Shin Bet, Saeed Jaber was responsible for several shooting and explosive device attacks against troops and civilians.
Jaber was identified by Islamic Jihad as “one of the founders and most prominent leaders” of its local wing in Tulkarem. IDF sources say he was the second in command. The home that was targeted in the strike was being used by several Islamic Jihad operatives, who the IDF says were responsible for shooting attacks on the West Bank security barrier, including against the town of Bat Hefer.
The military says the terror operatives are also linked to the killing of Amnon Muchtar, in a terror attack in Qalqilya last weekend. The home was being used by the operatives to plan terror attacks, build explosive devices, and provide cover for wanted Palestinians, the IDF adds.
According to the IDF and Shin Bet, Saeed Jaber was responsible for several shooting and explosive device attacks against troops and civilians.
Jaber was identified by Islamic Jihad as “one of the founders and most prominent leaders” of its local wing in Tulkarem. IDF sources say he was the second in command. The home that was targeted in the strike was being used by several Islamic Jihad operatives, who the IDF says were responsible for shooting attacks on the West Bank security barrier, including against the town of Bat Hefer.
The military says the terror operatives are also linked to the killing of Amnon Muchtar, in a terror attack in Qalqilya last weekend. The home was being used by the operatives to plan terror attacks, build explosive devices, and provide cover for wanted Palestinians, the IDF adds.
Politics
Violent clashes break out between police and Haredi protesters in Jerusalem, during a demonstration against a landmark High Court ruling last week that ordered the government to begin calling up ultra-Orthodox men for military service.
Tens of thousands of men rallied this evening in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim to protest the order. After nightfall, the crowd makes its way toward central Jerusalem and turns violent.
Water cannons filled with skunk-scented water and police mounted on horses are used to disperse the crowd. But as yet, the demonstration is not under control. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who do enlist will be secularized.
Earlier today, thousands of Haredim crowded a square and joined in mass prayers. Many held signs criticizing the government, with one saying, “Not even one male” should be drafted.
Violent clashes break out between police and Haredi protesters in Jerusalem, during a demonstration against a landmark High Court ruling last week that ordered the government to begin calling up ultra-Orthodox men for military service.
Tens of thousands of men rallied this evening in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim to protest the order. After nightfall, the crowd makes its way toward central Jerusalem and turns violent.
Water cannons filled with skunk-scented water and police mounted on horses are used to disperse the crowd. But as yet, the demonstration is not under control. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who do enlist will be secularized.
Earlier today, thousands of Haredim crowded a square and joined in mass prayers. Many held signs criticizing the government, with one saying, “Not even one male” should be drafted.
The Region and the World
- The US military says it has destroyed three Houthi uncrewed surface vessels (USV) in the past 24 hours in the Red Sea as part of a “self-defense engagement.”
“It was determined the USVs presented an imminent threat to US and coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” US Central Command says in a post on X.
An El Al plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Antalya, Turkey, has taken off without refueling, after staff at the Turkish airport refused to provide service, Channel 12 reports.
According to the report, El Al requested to refuel in order to continue the journey to Tel Aviv, but, after extended delays, decided to take off and fly to nearby Rhodes in Greece to refuel. The pilot had to keep the plane running for air conditioning, as the passengers were forbidden from disembarking, Channel 12 explains.
The plane, which left Warsaw, Poland earlier today and made an emergency landing as a passenger needed urgent medical care, is expected back in Israel late tonight. The sick passenger was evacuated to a nearby hospital, according to Channel 12. link Erdogan has truly shown his evil stripes and his total enmity for Israel. Every Israeli should stop any purchases of goods imported from Turkey, not travel there for business and absolutely not for pleasure and countries that support Israel should stop doing any and all business with Turkey. Until Erdogan feels the pain in the pockets of Turkey, our relationship with Turkey will continue to deteriorate.
Left-wing parties Labor and Meretz announce that they are merging under a new name — “The Democrats.”
In a joint statement the new left-wing party says that the merger is “not a ‘technical bloc,’ but rather a historical process that produces, finally, one large and united party, a liberal-democratic Zionist party that will be a political home for a large part of the Israeli population.”
Both parties have consistently failed to cross the election threshold in recent opinion polls and are therefore in danger of not making it into the next Knesset at all.
Meretz failed to enter the parliament in the last election and is seeking a return path. link This is the best news i have heard in a long time for the Israeli left. As a fully united party, the left has a renewed fighting chance when elections will next be held.
- President Isaac Herzog attempts to calm civil unrest and incitement, warning, “Our bitter and cruel enemies celebrate when they hear and see such violence and blind hatred within us.”
He decries violent statements “against families of hostages and bereaved families, against the chief and commanders of the IDF and the security agencies, against women and members of the media, against the judiciary and judges, against ministers and Knesset members and against the incumbent prime minister,” which, he says, have become “commonplace.”
“Verbal abuse is violence in every way and accusations of treason can lead to murder,” he says, in an apparent reference to sentiments heard at anti-government protests around the country regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s involvement in the so-called “submarine affair.”
Last week, a state commission of inquiry into a series of murky deals worth some $2 billion that have been under scrutiny for possible corruption and bribery found that Netanyahu made decisions that endangered national security and harmed Israel’s foreign relations.
“Haven’t we learned anything from our history?!” the president says, referring to incitement that led to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Personal Stories
“It was determined the USVs presented an imminent threat to US and coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” US Central Command says in a post on X.
An El Al plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Antalya, Turkey, has taken off without refueling, after staff at the Turkish airport refused to provide service, Channel 12 reports.
According to the report, El Al requested to refuel in order to continue the journey to Tel Aviv, but, after extended delays, decided to take off and fly to nearby Rhodes in Greece to refuel. The pilot had to keep the plane running for air conditioning, as the passengers were forbidden from disembarking, Channel 12 explains.
The plane, which left Warsaw, Poland earlier today and made an emergency landing as a passenger needed urgent medical care, is expected back in Israel late tonight. The sick passenger was evacuated to a nearby hospital, according to Channel 12. link Erdogan has truly shown his evil stripes and his total enmity for Israel. Every Israeli should stop any purchases of goods imported from Turkey, not travel there for business and absolutely not for pleasure and countries that support Israel should stop doing any and all business with Turkey. Until Erdogan feels the pain in the pockets of Turkey, our relationship with Turkey will continue to deteriorate.
Left-wing parties Labor and Meretz announce that they are merging under a new name — “The Democrats.”
In a joint statement the new left-wing party says that the merger is “not a ‘technical bloc,’ but rather a historical process that produces, finally, one large and united party, a liberal-democratic Zionist party that will be a political home for a large part of the Israeli population.”
Both parties have consistently failed to cross the election threshold in recent opinion polls and are therefore in danger of not making it into the next Knesset at all.
Meretz failed to enter the parliament in the last election and is seeking a return path. link This is the best news i have heard in a long time for the Israeli left. As a fully united party, the left has a renewed fighting chance when elections will next be held.
He decries violent statements “against families of hostages and bereaved families, against the chief and commanders of the IDF and the security agencies, against women and members of the media, against the judiciary and judges, against ministers and Knesset members and against the incumbent prime minister,” which, he says, have become “commonplace.”
“Verbal abuse is violence in every way and accusations of treason can lead to murder,” he says, in an apparent reference to sentiments heard at anti-government protests around the country regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s involvement in the so-called “submarine affair.”
Last week, a state commission of inquiry into a series of murky deals worth some $2 billion that have been under scrutiny for possible corruption and bribery found that Netanyahu made decisions that endangered national security and harmed Israel’s foreign relations.
“Haven’t we learned anything from our history?!” the president says, referring to incitement that led to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Acronyms and Glossary
ICC - International Criminal Court in the Hague
IJC - International Court of Justice in the Hague
MDA - Magen David Adom - Israel Ambulance Corp
PA - Palestinian Authority - President Mahmud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen
PMO- Prime Minister's Office
UAV - Unmanned Aerial vehicle, Drone. Could be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, or be weaponized with missiles or contain explosives for 'suicide' explosion mission
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