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2025-02-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF raises readiness along Gaza border, while ending civilian restrictions in north
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[IsraelTimes] Ramped-up preparedness on Gazan front comes amid talk of possible return to fighting, but not in response to concrete threat near border; no changes to instructions for civilians
The Israel Defense Forces raised its alert and readiness level along 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 ...
border on Sunday, the military said in a statement, while at the same time it ended all remaining restrictions on civilian activity along the northern border with Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
The increased alertness near Gaza came amid uncertainty over the future of the ongoing ceasefire in the Strip, and the possibility of a return to fighting between Israel and the Hamas
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terror group there.
There are no changes to guidelines for civilians, the military said, though civil defense squads in the area were put on alert. The IDF noted that it had not identified any effort to approach the border from Gaza.
The change came amid a fresh assessment of the situation in the enclave, as Israeli leadership decides whether to proceed with negotations on the deal’s planned second stage — which would see the return of remaining hostages in exchange for a permanent end to the war — or to resume combat, in the war that began with the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
In speeches to graduates of an IDF officers’ course on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz both stressed that Israel is preparing battle plans, should a decision be made to return to combat, and reiterated their commitment both to returning all hostages and to removing Hamas as the governing power in Gaza.
Amid the deliberations, the IDF has altered its deployment of forces in Gaza’s buffer zone and the western Negev, though it has not said that it will send any additional troops for the time being.
HOME FRONT COMMAND ENDS RESTRICTIONS IN NORTH
Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
the IDF Home Front Command said Sunday night it had lifted all remaining restrictions on Israel’s northern frontier communities, which had been imposed during the fighting with the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon since October 2023.
The move was approved by Katz following an assessment held by the Home Front Command with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
The Home Front Command has adjusted the public activity scale in northern frontier communities from "partial activity" to "full activity."
A US-brokered ceasefire agreement in November ended most of the fighting, and last week Israel completed the withdrawal of its ground troops from most of southern Lebanon, with the exception of five strategic points, as the Lebanese military deployed in its place.
The agreement came after more than a year of fighting that began on October 8, 2023, when Iran-backed Hezbollah started attacking Israeli military posts and border communities with rockets and drones in support of Hamas.
Displaced Israeli residents of northern Israel are set to return to their homes beginning March 2.
Katz: IDF is ‘preparing’ for possibility it will be ‘forced to return to fighting’
[IsraelTimes] Speaking at an IDF cadets graduation ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz says the military is prepared to return to fighting if necessary.
“If we are forced to return to fighting, the enemy will face the IDF with power it has never known before. We are preparing for this, and we are ready for this,” he says.
“The fighting will end with two clear achievements: The defeat of Hamas and the release of all our hostages,” Katz says, adding that Israel will work to return all the remaining living and dead hostages in Hamas captivity “swiftly.”
Also in his speech, Katz says that Israel’s eyes are looking at the entire Middle East, “especially toward Syria.”
“We have committed that we will not be able to return to the reality of October 7. There is a new policy in southern Syria. The IDF will not allow hostile forces to base themselves in the security zone in southern Syria, from here to the Suwayda-Damascus route, and we will act against any threat,” he says.
Netanyahu: Israel ‘ready to return at any moment’ to Gaza fighting, demands ‘full demilitarization’ in south Syria
[IsraelTimes] Speaking to cadets graduating from the IDF Ground Forces combat officers course, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Israel is “ready to return at any moment to intensive combat. The operational plans are ready. ”
Throughout his address, he promises total victory.
“All of our hostages, without exception, will return home,” he says. “Hamas won’t rule Gaza. Gaza will be demilitarized, and its fighting force will be dismantled.”
Netanyahu comes to the stage amid cheers and boos, and when he holds up a photo of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, some in the crowd yell out in protest. Netanyahu says the image “says it all… So that we will always remember, what we are fighting for, and who we are fighting against.”
He stresses that the Bibas family was murdered in cold blood in the early days of the war. “They strangled the tender boys with their bare hands,” he says. “We must defeat those monsters, and we will defeat them.”
“Victory, victory and only victory,” says Netanyahu. The victory “can be achieved in negotiations,” he says. “It can be achieved in another way.”
He says that the combination of diplomatic and military pressure on Hamas is what is enabling the return of hostages. Referring to recent reinforcements sent to Gaza, Netanyahu says that the redeployment “alongside President Trump’s firm statement brought about the release of the hostages in recent weeks.”
Netanyahu thanks Trump for his commitment to send crucial weapons to Israel. “The new defensive and offensive weapons will help us greatly in achieving total victory.”
Trump sees “eye-to-eye” with Israel on Gaza, he adds.
“We support President Trump’s groundbreaking plan to enable the freedom to leave for Gazans and the creation of a different Gaza,” says Netanyahu of the president’s proposal to relocate the entire Gaza population and have the US take over and rebuild the war-torn Strip.
In the West Bank, Netanyahu says, IDF troops will stay in cities as long as it takes. The tank platoon that Israel introduced into the West Bank means that Israel is fighting terrorism “with all means and in all places,” he says.
In Lebanon, the premier continues, the IDF is holding key positions “until the Lebanese army and Lebanese government fulfill all of their commitments according to the agreement.”
Troops will stay on the Syrian Hermon and the buffer zone in the Golan Heights for “an unlimited period of time… We will not allow [Hayat Tahrir al-Shams] forces or the new Syrian army to move into territory south of Damascus,” he insists.
“We demand full demilitarization of southern Syria from troops of the new Syrian regime in the Quneitra, Daraa and Suweyda provinces,” Netanyahu says, adding that Israel will not accept any threats to Druze in southern Syria.
On Iran, he says that Israel will not accept a nuclear weapon in the hands of the regime.
He also thanks the outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi for leading the IDF in the ongoing war, as the crowd cheers.
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