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2025-01-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel said to tell Hamas it expects Arbel Yehud to be among next freed hostages
[IsraelTimes] Yehud is thought to be held by Islamic Jihad, leading to apparent concern that Hamas could attempt to put off her release; IDF says troops killed gunman posing threat amid ceasefire

Israel has conveyed to Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
that it expects the terror group to free hostage Arbel Yehud in this weekend’s upcoming release of four hostages from the 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...
Strip, under the ceasefire deal, according to multiple Hebrew media reports on Wednesday.

Yehud is among the civilian hostages held by Gaza terrorists, and, as a female civilian, should be in the next batch freed. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
she is thought to be held by the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group and not Hamas, apparently leading to concern in Jerusalem that Hamas may attempt to put off her release.

Under the agreement, Hamas is expected to provide the names of the four female hostages to be freed by Friday, a day before their scheduled release.

Yehud, now 29, was taken hostage with her boyfriend, Ariel Cunio, from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7. Her brother, Dolev Yehud, was killed on October 7, while defending the kibbutz, and his remains were identified on June 3, 2024.

She is one one seven female hostages remaining from the original list of 33 to be released in the first phase of the hostage ceasefire deal. The others are Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33; Liri Albag, 19; Karina Ariev, 20; Agam Berger, 21; Danielle Gilboa, 20 and Naama Levy, 20.

Yehud and and Silberman Bibas are both civilians, while Albag, Ariev, Berger, Gilboa and Levy are soldiers. Bibas’s two young sons Ariel and Kfir, now aged 5 and 2, are also held and are on the list, as is her husband, Yarden Bibas.

For each of the female soldiers, Israel will release 50 Paleostinian prisoners, 30 of them convicted turbans who are serving life sentences. On Monday, Israel released 30 prisoners for each of the three civilian female hostages — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — Hamas set free the previous afternoon.

TROOPS KILL ISLAMIC JIHAD GUNMAN IN GAZA
Earlier Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces said troops deployed inside the enclave amid the ceasefire opened fire on several threats in the past day.

In one incident in southern Gaza, the military said troops identified several button men "who posed a threat." At least one of the button men, identified by the IDF as Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operative Akram Zanoun, was killed.

In other areas of Gaza, the IDF said troops fired warning shots, after identifying masked suspects approaching them.

"The IDF is determined to fully implement the terms of the agreement to return the hostages. The IDF is prepared for any scenario, and will continue to take all necessary actions to remove any immediate threat to IDF soldiers," the military said.

"The IDF once again calls on Paleostinian civilians to obey IDF instructions and not approach the forces deployed in the area," it added.

Separately, the IDF acknowledged that it did not kill the commander of Hamas’s Beit Hanoun battalion back in May, after footage published today showed the commander, Hussein Fiad, alive.

In a statement, the army said that, after Fiad was targeted in May, "it was determined with a high level of probability by the IDF and Shin Bet that he had been eliminated, following which an IDF spokesperson statement on the subject was issued.

"After further examination, it emerged that the intelligence findings upon which the Intelligence Directorate and Shin Bet relied were not accurate enough," the military said.

Also Wednesday, reports in Paleostinian media claimed that the Hamas operative who killed Border Police officer Staff Sgt. Barel Hadaria Shmueli during a riot on the Gaza border in August 2021 was killed during fighting in Jabalia.

The reports identified the operative as Muhammad Maher Abu Jasser, and said his body was recently found during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The military and Shin Bet did not confirm the details.

On August 21, 2021, Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip held a large demonstration along the Gaza border, near the defunct Karni Crossing. At one point during the demonstration, dozens of rioters rushed the border barrier, up to a hole in the concrete wall that was being used by Israeli snipers as a firing position.

One man, apparently Abu Jasser, armed with a gun, approached the hole in the wall, stuck his pistol through it, and fired three times. One of these shots struck Shmueli in the head, critically wounding him. He died of his injury days later.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-23 2025-01-23 00:20|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
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#1 Fifty Hamas prisoners released per Israeli hostage? How many Israels will they kill later? How many IDF will die trying to recapture or kill them? And it eliminates any deterrence value of IDF efforts to date. Sorry, I am cruel-hearted, I know, but IMO the hostages should have been regarded as 'dead' as far as their impact on strategy or (mostly) tactics.
Posted by Glenmore 2025-01-23 11:25||   2025-01-23 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 There will be some murders by released terrorists, Glenmore, but the vast majority will have reason to be re-arrested in short order. And now their Shin Bet files are crammed full biometric information and the names of their friends, relations, and jihadi org. table of organization. So it’s not quite as bad as it might have been.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-23 20:26||   2025-01-23 20:26|| Front Page Top

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