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2024-12-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel still hasn’t received list of living hostages from Hamas, official says
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli official tells ToI gaps are narrowing in talks with terror group, but crucial issues — including length of ceasefire, Palestinian prisoners to be freed — still unresolved
Gaps between Israel and the Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group over a possible Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
hostage release and ceasefire deal have narrowed, according to Israeli and Paleostinian officials’ remarks on Monday, though crucial differences have yet to be resolved, as fighting continues in the war-torn enclave.
Israel still has not received a list of living hostages from Hamas, an Israeli official with knowledge of the ongoing negotiations told The Times of Israel on Monday, saying, "We are waiting."
"It’s slow progress," the official said. "We would want to see it move quicker, the entire process, but there is absolutely progress."
The official pointed to divisions within Hamas.
"We understand that [Gaza-based bigwig] Mohammed Sinwar is no less of an murderous Moslem and zealot than [his brother, slain Hamas leader] Yahya Sinwar," the official continued, "and this is definitely causing delays."
Another factor slowing down talks is the time it takes for Hamas officials in Doha to communicate with those in Gaza, said the official.
The official also alleged that Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, despite returning to its mediating role, was also getting in the way.
"Qatar doesn’t stop playing games and trying to carry out psychological warfare on Israeli society with all kinds of reports, half-truths, all kinds of things that they try to launch, experimental balloons, all kinds of things that don’t contribute to the negotiations," he said.
| Which explains all the contradictory reports of the status of negotiations, I suppose. |
The official explained that Israel is nevertheless willing to use Qatar as a mediator because it has excellent access to Hamas leaders.
CEASEFIRE TERMS UNRESOLVED
The official also insisted that Israel will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor as part of any partial deal or in a first phase of a deal.
"If we reach an end to the war, then maybe it will be possible," said the official. "We’ll see what arrangements we reach, but I also find it hard to believe that we will withdraw."
"We are ready to thin out our forces and redeploy our forces on the ground," the official conceded.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
a Paleostinian official familiar with the talks said that while some sticking points had been resolved, the identity of some of the Paleostinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return for hostages had yet to be agreed on, along with the precise deployment of Israeli troops in Gaza.
The remarks corresponded with comments by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, who said both issues were still being negotiated. Nonetheless, he said, the sides were far closer to reaching agreement than they have been for months.
"This ceasefire can last six months or it can last 10 years, it depends on the dynamics that will form on the ground," Chikli told Israel’s Kan radio. Much hinged on what powers would be running and rehabilitating Gaza once fighting stopped, he said.
The duration of the ceasefire has been a fundamental sticking point throughout several rounds of failed negotiations. Hamas wants an end to the war, while Israel wants an end to Hamas’s rule of Gaza first.
"The issue of ending the war completely hasn’t yet been resolved," said the Paleostinian official.
Minister Ze’ev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Army Radio that the aim was to find an agreed-upon framework that would resolve that difference during a second stage of the ceasefire deal.
Chikli said the first stage would be a humanitarian phase that would last 42 days and include a hostage release.
It is believed that 96 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 38 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.
The war started with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 people to Gaza as hostages.
OVERNIGHT STRIKES IN GAZA
Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s on the Gaza Strip overnight and during the day on Monday killed at least 20 people, Hamas-controlled Paleostinian medics said.
One of the strikes hit a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area, an Israel-declared humanitarian zone, killing eight people, including two children, according to Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, which received the bodies.
The Israeli military says it only strikes terror operatives, accusing them of hiding among civilians. It said late Sunday that it had targeted a Hamas operative in the humanitarian zone.
The strike was carried out in the Khan Younis area and the IDF said it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike.
One of Gaza’s few still partially functioning hospitals, on the Strip’s northern edge, an area under intense Israeli military pressure for nearly three months, sought urgent help on Monday after claiming to be hit by Israeli fire.
"We are facing a continuous daily threat," said Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital. "The bombing continues from all directions, affecting the building, the departments, and the staff."
An Israeli military front man denied that the hospital was being targeted. "I am unaware of any strikes on Kamal Adwan Hospital," he told AFP.
Safiyeh reported that the hospital, which is currently treating 91 patients, had been targeted on Monday by Israeli drones.
"This morning, drones dropped bombs in the hospital’s courtyards and on its roof," said Safiyeh in a statement. "The shelling, which also destroyed nearby houses and buildings, did not stop throughout the night."
The shelling and bombardment have caused extensive damage to the hospital, Safiyeh added.
"Bullets hit the intensive care unit, the maternity ward, and the specialized surgery department causing fear among patients," he said, adding that a generator was also targeted.
Paleostinians accuse Israel of seeking to permanently depopulate northern Gaza to create a buffer zone, which Israel denies.
The area has been the focus of an intense air and ground campaign by Israeli forces since October 6, aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping.
Israel says its operation around the three communities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip — Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia — is targeting Hamas terror operatives and is aimed at preventing them from regrouping.
There are two functioning medical centers in the area, the Kamal Adwan and al-Awda hospitals.
Israeli officials have accused Hamas operatives of using the hospitals as command and control centers to plan attacks against the military.
On Monday, the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
aid chief, Tom Fletcher, said Israeli forces had hampered efforts to deliver much-needed aid in northern Gaza.
"North Gaza has been under a near-total siege for more than two months, raising the specter of famine," he said. "South Gaza is extremely overcrowded, creating horrific living conditions and even greater humanitarian needs as winter sets in."
PRE-CHRISTMAS MASS
Also Sunday, Latin Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa led a pre-Christmas Mass during a rare visit to Gaza that was coordinated with Israeli authorities.
Footage shared on social media showed the event.
His visit to Holy Family in Gaza City, the Paleostinian enclave’s only Catholic church, came a day after Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
issued a series of condemnations of Israeli strikes during the ongoing war against Hamas, and said the attacks had prevented Pizzaballa from entering the Strip the day before.
The pope’s comments prompted a sharp response from the Foreign Ministry, which said his comments were "particularly disappointing, as they are disconnected from the true and factual context of Israel’s fight against jihadist terrorism — a multi-front war that was forced upon it starting on October 7."
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 45,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 Death Eaters inside Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 388. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
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