π️Lonny's War Update- October 694, 2023 - August 30, 2025 π️
π️Day 694 that 48 of our hostages are still in Hamas captivityπ️
Hamas says hostages face ‘same risks’ from Israeli offensive as its fighters
Hamas warns Israel that the latter’s planned offensive to conquer Gaza City will subject hostages in the area to the “same risks” as the terror group’s fighters.
“We will take care of the prisoners the best we can, and they will be with our fighters in the combat and confrontation zones, subjected to the same risks and the same living conditions,” Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, says in a statement
Security official: Hostages could’ve been home already had Israel accepted offer on table
Channel 12 quotes a senior Israeli security official who says that living hostages could have already returned home last week had Israel accepted the phased proposal crafted by Arab mediators that Hamas approved on August 18.
The offer envisions the release of 10 hostages along with the bodies of 18 slain captives who would be released in five batches over a 60-day ceasefire during which the sides will hold talks on the terms of the release of the remaining hostages and a permanent end to the war that would go into place at the conclusion of the two-month truce if agreements are reached.
The phased proposal is nearly identical to the one crafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, which Israel approved last month before Hamas added new demands in late July that led to the collapse of talks, Arab diplomats told The Times of Israel.
The Arab mediators subsequently managed to bring Hamas down from those new demands, but Israel in the meantime has said it is no longer interested in a phased deal.
Israel has yet to even hold a cabinet meeting on the phased proposal, Channel 12 says, adding that several of Israel’s security chiefs are slated to press the government during a Sunday planned ministerial meeting to accept the offer rather than proceed with plans to take over Gaza City, which will risk the lives of the hostages.
The security chiefs backing the phased deal are joined by National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, but do not include the acting chief of the Shin Bet, Channel 12 indicated, without identifying the supporters of the proposal by name. Link
Poll: Most Israelis think government’s next move should be hostage deal, not Gaza City op
Sixty percent of Israelis say Israel’s next step in the war against Hamas should be to secure a hostage deal, compared to 31% of respondents who say Israel should first move ahead with plans to take over Gaza City, according to a poll aired on Channel 12.
The results indicate that the majority of Israelis disagree with the government’s decision to move ahead with the Gaza City operation, ignoring the phased proposal that Hamas accepted on August 18.
Sixty-five percent of respondents say the most important war aim is returning the hostages, compared to 27% who say it is destroying Hamas.
This, too, appears to indicate that the public does not agree with the government, which has made both the release of the hostages and the destruction of Hamas official war aims. However, at times, Netanyahu had indicated that the latter takes precedent, which the decision to ignore the phased deal on the table further indicates. link Other polls have shown as much as 84% of the population wants a deal, even if it means ending the war in order to bring home the hostages. It doesn't matter if its 65% or 84%, the fact is that most of the people want the hostages home and a deal to be made. The problem is that Netanyahu doesn't care about these polls or the will of the people. He is entirely focused on his political survival, whereas the extremists in his government are only focused on their messianic mission that doesn't end with 'destroying Hamas'. They want the full expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza and for Gaza to be rebuilt as a Jewish only enclave and annexed to Israel. When Trump presented his plan for a Trump Riviera in Gaza and moving all of the population, the extremist immediately embraced the idea and then Netanyahu also embraced it as it was coming from his BFF and the only person he cannot say no to. He then gave orders to establish a department in the Defense Ministry under the purview of the extremist Smotrich to 'aid' in the 'voluntary emigration' of Gazans who want to leave. This 'wanting' to leave is strengthened by making it impossible to continue living in Gaza today with 90% destruction and over a million refugees. To keep his coalition together and stay in power, Netanyahu continues to allow his messianic partners to control the direction of the war and that does not include ending it to bring the hostages home. These extremists have long ago made it known with many public statements that the hostages are not important, their missions are. They have no problem with sacrificing all of the hostages, even when the numbers were much greated. Right now, with only about 20 living hostages, they see the price of their lives as being miniscule in comparison to what they want to accomplish. The irony is that they consider themselves religious Jews, yet they ignore, actually trample the most important 'mitzvah' (good deed) as determined by the great Rabbis Ramban and Rambam that the redemption of prisoners (hostages) comes before everything and that no price is too high. They decimate the Israeli ethic that no one is left behind that we are all there for each other. Since the majority of Netanyahu's cabinet never served in the army, including the 2 vile extremists, Ben Gvir (army wouldn't let him enlist due to his extremism and danger to the army) and Smotrich who was a draft dodger who was finally caught and served a few months as a clerk for a few months, they have no personal linkage or affinity for the army's most important value that no one is left behind. It has no importance to them, no ethical values do. This entire government is a disgrace and embarrassment to those who have built this country and given their lives for us.
- Hostage survivor Noga Weiss after father's return: 'Hoping for all hostages to return in a single deal'
Hostage survivor Noga Weiss, daughter of fallen hostage Ilan Weiss who was returned to Israel, posted a story referring to his return, writing: "We want to say on behalf of the entire family, a huge thank you to the security forces who brought our father back to us after 692 days." She added: "Hoping and praying for the return of all hostages in a single deal that won't endanger either the security forces or the hostages, today." link Noga Weiss is expressing the exact same message we have heard from every returned hostage and family of returned hostages, living and dead. It is not enough that their loved one was brought home. The country needs to heal and can only begin the healing process when every hostage is back home. None of the returned hostages have given up the fight to bring everyone home. We as a nation are broken and the pieces cannot begin to be picked up until we have everyone home. Unfortunately, our politicians and supposed leaders are living on a different plain than the rest of the country. They are living and behaving as though it is October 6 and nothing has changed. They refuse to acknowledge that the country and the entire population has changed because of October 7 and the nearly 2 years we have been at war. The faith in this government is close to zero because their abandonment before and on October 7 has seen no change. Their priorities are totally partisan and the political benefits far outweigh any damage they are causing the nation, in their eyes. I hope and believe that they are in for a very rude awakening as soon as we will have elections because this government does not have a mandate from the people to be our government. They fully lost that mandate on October 7 and following where they were in chaos and paralysis for more than a year and many still are. They are not worthy of the people and the people deserve so much more, starting with the return of all the hostages and the end of this horrific war that has no more meaning except for Netanyahu's political survival. Seven soldiers wounded, one moderately, when Gaza roadside bomb hits armored vehicle
Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers are wounded when the armored personnel carrier they were traveling in went over an explosive device in north Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, military officials say.
One soldier was in moderate condition, and six others were lightly wounded in the incident that occurred overnight.
Five of the six lightly wounded troops have been treated and released from the hospital.
The families of the wounded have been notified.
For IDF’s 7th Brigade, return to Gaza City is personal: Six of its crew are held hostage
As IDF attacks Zeitoun for 7th time, officers in the tank unit say focus on destroying buildings and tunnels on edge of Hamas stronghold aims to leave enemy with nowhere to hide
For the past three weeks, the Israel Defense Forces’ 7th Armored Brigade combat team has been fighting on the outskirts of Gaza City to defeat Hamas’s Zeitoun Battalion.
Many IDF brigades are operating in Gaza, but it’s hard to find one for which the fight is more personal. Six of the 48 hostages still in Gaza are in the 7th Armored Brigade. Two of them are still alive — Matan Angrest and Nimrod Cohen — and four have been killed — Omer Neutra, Daniel Perez, Itay Chen, and Oz Daniel.
If you wanted to be cynical, you could say that the troops should have an easy time carrying out this operation — after all, they’ve done this before. This is the seventh time Israeli forces have attacked the neighborhood since the Palestinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Only weeks after the Hamas invasion, the IDF Spokesperson’s Office released footage of the 36th Division fighting “to defeat Hamas’s Zeitoun Battalion, one of the organization’s main battalions.”
“The 50th Battalion of the Nahal Brigade defeated the Zeitoun Battalion in the heart of Gaza City,” read (Hebrew link) a subsequent article in February 2024.
“There are terrorists here and even when we leave, there will be terrorists, but they will be few. Their ability to create command and control is very low,” the IDF battalion commander said at the time.
A portrait of hostage Matan Angrest reads, ‘Wait for me to come back, tomorrow I’ll be home,’ painted by graffiti artist Benzi Brofman (Courtesy)If those previous efforts had been as successful as some claimed, Israeli troops wouldn’t need to keep coming back.
The very fact that the IDF has to keep returning to areas in which it has already operated underlines how complex the challenge is — and perhaps, how misguided the Israeli approach was in the earlier chapters of the country’s longest war.
Today, after enjoying almost 10 months without having to face a concerted IDF maneuver, the Zeitoun Battalion stands at over 400 fighters. It has developed considerable skill at planting explosives, using unexploded IDF munitions to build improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that can destroy Merkava tanks. The troops of the 7th Brigade found seven such massive IEDs on a road next to the compound in which Brigade Commander Colonel “Shin” — who per IDF regulations can be named only by his first Hebrew initial — set up his headquarters.
Israeli intelligence believes that the Hamas battalion is under the impression that, since it still exists in force, it has defeated the IDF in each of the six previous times Israeli forces operated in the dense neighborhood.
A new logic
Officers in the brigade combat team assured The Times of Israel on Thursday that this time, the result would be different.
The main reason, they insist, is that they are fighting in a new manner.
“The logic of Operation Gideon’s Chariots is a more carefully supervised, systematic logic, which defines more precise goals that can be measured in the field,” said “Shin.”
Col. Shin, commander of the IDF 7th Armored Brigade, in Zeitoun, Gaza, August 28, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)A central element of the operation is the slow dismantling of neighborhoods in which Hamas operated.
“The focus on the tunnels underground, and on the booby-trapped buildings above ground, allows us to guarantee that at the end of the mission, it will be very hard for the enemy to return to this territory,” Shin explained.
“We can’t guarantee 100 percent that the enemy who fled won’t return to a certain piece of territory, but without its combat infrastructure, we will be able to destroy them during their attempts to return.”
Israeli troops walk past destroyed buildings along the Salaheddine road linking the northern Gaza Strip with the south in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City on November 28, 2023. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)Israel has come under withering criticism on many aspects of its fight against Hamas. The careful destruction of entire neighborhoods is in the spotlight now as international human rights organizations and the United Nations condemn the operation.
“As the occupying power, Israel must not destroy civilian property unless such destruction is rendered necessary by military operations,” said the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in a statementon the Zeitoun operation. “The widespread destruction of residential buildings in eastern and southern Gaza City does not appear to be required by imperative military necessity nor rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.”
Israeli officers told The Times of Israel that they were certain the tactic is legal and effective.
Lt. Col. G., commander of the IDF 77th Armored Battalion, in Zeitoun, Gaza, August 28, 2025 (Lazar Berman/ The Times of Israel)“Hamas decided to take all the homes in the Gaza Strip and turn them into terror infrastructure – there is no house where we didn’t find an explosive, Nukhba uniforms, weapons, RPG. There isn’t a house,” stressed Lt. Col. “Gimel,” commander of the 77th Armored Battalion. “The moment it decided to operate in that way, we had no choice but to destroy the infrastructure above ground in almost every place. In every place in Zeitoun, Hamas prepared for defense and attacks against our forces.”
“It decided to turn everything into a military array,” Gimel continued. “So we are destroying everything we need to in order to destroy Hamas.”
Weapons found by IDF troops at a school in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, May 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)He was not at all reticent about discussing what Israel is doing in Zeitoun.
His battalion, he said, “is destroying what is left of the Zeitoun Battalion, above ground, underground.”“They won’t have infrastructure, houses that dominate the roads, or tunnels from which they can emerge to attack our forces or border communities — that’s the reason we’re returning” to Zeitoun, he said. “When we leave for what I hope is the final time, the next terrorists that arrive won’t have anywhere to come back to. They’ll come back to open ground, from which they can’t threaten our forces.”
Soldiers from the 7th Brigade, operating under the 99th Division, discovered and destroyed a roughly one-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel in Zeitoun equipped with living quarters and weapons this week.
Gazans gather relief supplies at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)Israel has also been accused by international critics of failing to protect Gazan civilians, even intentionally targeting them as part of an alleged genocide campaign.
Officers were unequivocal in their insistence that they are doing everything they can to get civilians away from the fighting.
“There are the preliminary activities that we do in order to evacuate the population to interior areas so they won’t be on the battlefield,” said Cpt. “Lamed,” a company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion, operating as part of the 7th Armored Brigade. “We are unequivocally operating in a way that is moral, ethical and appropriate.”
IDF troops from the 7th Armored Brigade operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, August 28, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)IDF forces designate areas as “green” or “red” based on the presence of civilians. In red areas, rules of engagement are highly restricted.
The 7th Armored Brigade’s dismantling of Zeitoun, and of the Shejaiya neighborhood over the three months prior, are important in and of themselves, said the officers. Yet the announced impending takeover of Gaza City looms over discussions of the brigade’s operations.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir — who reportedly opposed the operation — said last week that the military is pushing ahead with its plans to capture Gaza City during a visit to Khan Younis.
“We are advancing with the efforts for action in Gaza City. We already have forces operating on the outskirts of the city, and additional forces will join them later,” Zamir said to troops of the Kfir Infantry Brigade and 188th Armored Brigade, who repelled a Hamas attack on their encampment the day before.
“We are in the stages of an extended preparation ahead of the next operation,” said Shin. “This mission has the same orientation. I can’t tell you exactly every arrow on a map that the chief of staff will approve, but our operations here are certainly part of this effort.”
Six still missing
Though their military operations are focused on defeating the Hamas threat in front of them, the soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade said the 50 hostages still held by Hamas are never far from their minds.
Soldiers Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, Sgt. Shaked Dahan, Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, Sgt. Oz Daniel, who were all abducted to Gaza on October 7, 2023. Of the four, only Cohen is presumed alive. (Courtesy)“All of our efforts are in order to bring them home to their families,” said Shin. “There is not a day and there is not a night that goes by, there is not a situation assessment, there is not an operational order in which this issue is not our compass.”
Daniel Perez was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from near Kibbutz Nahal Oz (Courtesy)At the same time, their actions might be endangering the very comrades they wish to rescue. Zamir reportedly said, “There is great danger to the lives of the hostages in taking over Gaza City.” Hostage families have echoed that fear.
“We are taking all the necessary actions in order to ensure that they won’t be hurt,” promised Shin.
“The issue of hostages is at the top of our priorities in all of our actions – in the tactical action, and in the ultimate goal for which we are operating.” Link Anyone who thinks that the fighting in Gaza City will be anything like the fighting over the last few months is either naive, stupid or blind. Gaza City is/was a large and developed city with many high rises. In addition, Hamas has spent years developing terror infrastructure far beyond what our intelligence services imagined before the war. They have had the last 2 years preparing for an incursion into the city and of late, months of booby trapping buildings, alleys and anywhere they believe they can ambush our soldiers. In addition, they have set up many sniper perches in the high rise buildings and have learned a lot about our methods of fighting. They will use lots of guerilla warfare and one method that we have already seen in the past and again this morning is an attack on forces, wounding or killing some and then a secondary and tertiary attack on the forces that come to evacuate the wounded and dead with a two-fold goal: kill as many soldiers as possible and take soldiers, living or dead as hostages. Hostage taking, at this point will serve multiple purposes for them: giving them more bargaining chips; creating anger and tumult in the Israeli population which will demand an immediate end to the fighting, and this will likely also come from some members of Netanyahu's coalition; creating the ultimate pressure to stop the planned incursion and occupation of all of Gaza City. This will also cause Hamas to have a stronger hand in the negotiations to end the war.
This planned and ongoing incursion into Gaza City is a dangerous and foolish plan by Netanyahu and the IDF Chief is against it due to the risks to the soldiers and hostages and the situation of soldiers burn out after 2 years of fighting. This madness has to end and we must bring the hostages home before there are more deaths of soldiers and hostages and more soldiers taken as hostages.IDF says its strike killed highest-ranking ISIS official in Gaza
The IDF announces that it has eliminated the highest-ranking ISIS official in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Abu Zubaida, in a strike carried out over the past week in the Al-Bureij area of central Gaza.
According to the IDF, the strike was carried out using aerial assets under the direction of the Southern Command and guidance from the Military Intelligence Directorate.
Abu Zubaida served as the head of ISIS’s Palestine District and was responsible for the policy, planning and implementing the group’s operations in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula.
The military says the organization has actively engaged in combat against IDF forces and facilitated the transfer of weapons and terror funding from the West Bank into Gaza.
Report: Blair told Trump that Gazans want new leadership, hope the Strip can become the next UAE
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told US President Donald Trump that Gazans are seeking new leadership and hope the enclave can become developed in the same way as the United Arab Emirates, London’s The Times says it understands.
Trump presided over a policy meeting Wednesday on the Gaza war, receiving input from Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner. A White House official said they discussed all aspects of the Gaza issue, including escalating food aid deliveries, the hostage crisis, post-war plans and more.
According to The Times, Blair told Trump that it was still possible to advance a peace deal, with Palestinians united under a single government.
The report says Blair presented polling done by his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in May, which found that the nation Gazans most admire as a potential model for their future was the UAE with 27 percent, then Turkey with 15% and Singapore with 14%. No details were given in the report as to the methodology of the polling.
The polling reportedly showed that 35% of Gazans believe the Palestinian Authority should govern the Strip after the war, with 27% wishing for a transitional international coalition working with local authorities. The polling found 22% want a national unity government including both Hamas and Fatah, and just 4% believe Hamas should remain the sole power in the enclave.
The report says that Blair is not an advocate of the plan to Gazans relocating or being relocated, but that his institute would not comment on whether the former UK premier would advocate for them to move temporarily during a potential reconstruction period.
**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!!!”
Red Alerts - Missile, Rocket, Drone (UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles), and Terror Attacks and Death Announcements
*A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels at Israel overnight fell short, military officials say.
Hebrew media reports say the missile apparently fell in Saudi Arabia.
The missile did not trigger any alarms in Israel.
The missile came after Israel, on Thursday, carried out strikes that killed several top Houthi officials.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 72 ballistic missiles and at least 23 drones at Israel. Several missiles have fallen short.
Gaza and the South
IDF says it has killed senior operative from Hezbollah’s Radwan force in Lebanon strike
The IDF says it has eliminated Ahmad Naeem Maatouk, a senior Hezbollah Radwan Force operative, in a targeted strike earlier today in southern Lebanon’s Sir El Gharbiyeh municipality, just north of the Litani River.
According to the military, Maatouk served as the operations officer of a Radwan Force battalion and advanced multiple terror plots against Israel during the war. The IDF claims that his actions violated understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
Abbas’s office says US visa denials violate international law
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office expresses its “deep regret and astonishment” at the US decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials planning to attend next month’s UN General Assembly.
Abbas’s office says the the “decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement, particularly since the State of Palestine is an observer member of the United Nations.”
Abbas’s office calls on the US to reconsider and reverse the move, “reaffirming Palestine’s full commitment to international law, UN resolutions and obligations toward peace, as conveyed in President Mahmoud Abbas’s letters to world leaders, including US President Donald Trump.” Link
State Department memo said to recommend that US visa ban be applied to PA’s Abbas
The New York Post says it has obtained an internal US State Department memo recommending that a visa ban policy on Palestinian officials be applied to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The memo was issued ahead of today’s announcement by the State Department that it was following through with a July 31 decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials over purported violations of US law that tracks Ramallah’s adherence to the Oslo Accords and commitments to fighting terror.
However, today’s announcement doesn’t name the individuals to whom the US is denying visas, so it’s not immediately clear whether the memo’s recommendation was heeded.
The memo also cites reports that Abbas was preparing to introduce a “constitutional declaration” declaring Palestinian independence at the General Assembly, though a senior Palestinian official tells The Times of Israel that the idea has already been shelved.
The declaration “reduces US options in ceasefire talks and in the postwar ‘endgame,’” the memo says, according to The Post.
The memo also argues that a French-Saudi conference aimed at promoting a two-state solution at the UN next month would only serve as a “major propaganda victory for Hamas and the content of it is designed to the Palestinian state as the only possible conclusion to the war in Gaza.” Link This has Netanyahu's hand all over it. He doesn't want the PA and Abbas to be heard of on any international stage particularly when so many countries have announced recognition or planned recognition of a Palestinian State. The US blockage of visas for the US is against all agreements with the UN for delegations to come for UN business. Even when Arafat was a designated terrorists, he was allowed to come to the UN and was the first and only speaker who came with a personal weapon. This also does no good for the US, especially in light of Trump's desire to expand the Abraham Accords and his emphasis on normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has made it very clear that normalization will not be on the table until there is concrete movement towards a solution to the conflict which will be a 2 State Solution. Many of the other countries that the US wants to join the Abraham Accords are taking their cues from Saudi Arabia, so the prevention of Abu Mazen (Abbas) and the Palestinian delegates from attending the UN is self defeating and definitely not helping towards solving the conflict.
US says it’s denying visas to Palestinian officials ahead of next month’s UN General Assembly
The US State Department announces that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from Palestinian officials ahead of next month’s United Nations General Assembly.
The move comes one month after the State Department first announced that it would pursue the policy, which it now appears to be implementing, but again doesn’t name which individuals will be barred.
Justifying the seemingly unprecedented move, the State Department announcement says, “It is in our national security interests to hold the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace.”
Barring world leaders from attending the annual General Assembly high-level week would appear to violate US commitments to the UN, but the State Department says it is in compliance with those requirements as it will still allow the existing Palestinian delegation already based in New York to attend the event by granting those diplomats visa waivers.
“Before the PLO and PA can be considered partners for peace, they must consistently repudiate terrorism — including the October 7 massacre — and end incitement to terrorism in education, as required by US law and as promised by the PLO,” the statement says.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas did condemnOctober 7 for the first time in June.
Unlike the July 31 State Department announcement previewing the move, Friday’s statement did not mention the PA’s controversial welfare program that included payments to the families of security prisoners based on the length of their prison sentence. No explanation was given for the removal. Abbas had signed a decree in February ending the policy and replacing it with a new one, which the PA has begun implementing and invited the US to certify is now in place, though the Trump administration has yet to send a delegation to Ramallah.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the change.
“The PA must also end its attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state,” the State Department statement continues.
“Both steps materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks,” the statement claims.
Rubio has claimed France’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state led Hamas to raise its demands in hostage negotiations, which collapsed the talks on July 24. But an Arab diplomat and a second source involved in the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s new demands were submitted several hours prior to French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that Paris would recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told The Times of Israel in an interview this week that France was the party leading the latest drive for countries to recognize a Palestinian state, not the PA.
The State Department statement ends by insisting that the “US remains open to re-engagement that is consistent with our laws, should the PA/PLO meet their obligations and demonstrably take concrete steps to return to a constructive path of compromise and peaceful coexistence with the State of Israel.”
France leads European calls for US to allow PA’s Abbas, other officials attend UN General AssemblySa’ar hails US denial of Palestinian visas
Of course Saar hails the decision. He is a right wing no compromise/no discussion regarding a Palestinian State. He is a man who, like Netanyahu has no vision for anything other than living by the sword. He also, like Netanyahu only does things that further his political career or keep him surviving in politics. He is a turncoat to all of his voters, multiple times and has no backbone regarding ethics, morals or caring more for the country than he cares for himself.
IDF said to believe entire Houthi cabinet was likely killed in yesterday’s strike
The IDF currently assesses that the entire cabinet of the Houthi cabinet — including the prime minister and 12 other ministers — were likely killed in yesterday’s strike in Yemen, Channel 12 reports without citing any sources.
The network says the assessment is not definitive and that the IDF is still working to reach a more definitive understanding of the strike’s results.
Channel 12 says the Houthi defense minister and military chief of staff were en route to the location of the cabinet meeting shortly before the strike and apparently arrived in time for the explosion.
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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