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| US intelligence helped the IDF free four hostages but floating pier not involved, IDF sez no other hostages harmed | |
| 2024-06-09 | |
[Regnum] Before the IDF special operation in the Nuseirat area, the United States provided Israel with intelligence information about hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, The New York Times reported on June 8. “A U.S. hostage rescue team stationed in Israel assisted the Israeli military in its efforts to rescue the four hostages by providing intelligence and other logistical support,” the article wrote. The authors noted that groups of specialists from the United States and Great Britain are located on Israeli territory during the military conflict and help the intelligence of the Jewish state in collecting and analyzing information about the hostages, as well as about high-ranking representatives of the Palestinian Hamas movement. According to one Israeli official, the US and Britain can help with intelligence from the air and cyberspace, since Israel cannot do this on its own. As Regnum reported, on June 8, the official representative of the militant wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaydah, informed about the death of several hostages held in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli operation in the refugee camp in Nuseirat. After that, the release of those held "will create a danger for the remaining" hostages and will have a negative impact on their conditions and lives, he added. On the same day, the Israeli army announced the release of four hostages who had been held by Hamas since October 7, 2023. The operation was carried out in the central part of the Gaza Strip. All those released were taken to a medical facility in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. Among them is 27-year-old citizen of Russia and Israel Andrei Kozlov. The US House of Representatives on April 20 passed a bill to allocate $95 billion in military aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. According to the document, the Jewish state will receive $26 billion from the United States, including about 9.1 billion for humanitarian needs. The US decision to provide new military aid to Israel is aggression against the Palestinians, said Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokeswoman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. US military: Gaza aid pier was not used in IDF hostage rescue operation ”Ewwww! We wouldn’t pollute our beautiful Hamas pier with Jooooo cooties!” [IsraelTimes] The United States Central Command says that its humanitarian aid pier in 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 an 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... was not used in the Israeli operation that successfully rescued four hostages yesterday morning. "The humanitarian pier facility, including its equipment, personnel, and assets were not used in the operation to rescue hostages today in Gaza. An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the hostages to Israel," CENTCOM says in a statement on X. "Any such claim to the contrary is false. The temporary pier on the coast of Gaza was put in place for one purpose only, to help move additional, urgently needed lifesaving assistance into Gaza." The statement comes as the US resumed aid deliveries via the temporary pier yesterday, after the structure suffered storm damage and underwent repairs in a nearby port. "Today at approximately 10:30 am (Gaza time) US Central Command (USCENTCOM) began delivery of humanitarian assistance ashore in Gaza. Today, a total of approximately 492 metric tons (~1.1 million pounds) of much needed humanitarian assistance was delivered to the people of Gaza," CENTCOM writes in a separate post on X. The pier was repaired in the Israeli port of Ashdod before being brought back to the Gaza coast and reestablished on Friday. ‘Blatant lie’: IDF dismisses Hamas claim that other hostages were killed in today’s rescue [IsraelTimes] An Israeli army front man denies a claim by Hamas front man Abu Obaida that some Israeli hostages were killed during the IDF’s rescue operation of four hostages late this morning. "It’s a blatant lie," Israeli military spokesperson Peter Lerner told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... WAPO - U.S. intelligence aided Israeli hostage rescue Related: Temporary pie 06/05/2024 Biden Says He'll Help Africa 'Build Back Better' in a Second Term Temporary pie 05/24/2024 $320 Million Mistake-Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population Temporary pie 05/16/2024 US says 'hundreds of tonnes' of aid ready for Gaza pier | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 Uggghh. These are sad times that must be considered. Watch Team Hamas now: Za Juice broke the pier to murder civilians. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-06-09 20:25 |
| #9 I'm tempted to argue that the pier *did* play a role in the recently successful hostage rescue, namely that of occupying American attention and effort, and preventing the US from getting in the way while the IDF went to work. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-06-09 11:24 |
| #8 They have no peer. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-09 10:32 |
| #7 The pier was only 90 yards from where the rescue helicopter took off from, hence the statement. "We just want to let you know we are in fact useless. They don't even talk to us." |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-09 09:52 |
| #6 The correct group of people is being pissed off. Therefore, I approve this action. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-09 07:30 |
| #5 /\ Deluded idiot. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2024-06-09 06:11 |
| #4 EU's Josep Borrell: Israel's rescue mission 'another massacre of Gazans' |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-09 01:06 |
| #3 Success has many fathers. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-09 00:49 |
| #2 Operation "Summer Seeds." Worth the read. American Thinker - Four living hostages are back in Israel, and the Hamas lovers are furious |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-09 00:11 |
| #1 Likely the same people who located Dozier, Noriega and Pablo. Yes, they might have slept at the Embassy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-06-09 00:03 |