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| Israel, world ring in 2025, as Hamas fires rockets at midnight for 2nd straight year |
| 2025-01-01 |
| [IsraelTimes] No injuries in attack on Netivot; New Year candle display in Tel Aviv urges hostage deal; Trump: Hamas ‘better let the hostages come back soon’ Israel and the world welcomed the new year early Wednesday with celebrations and well-wishes, though festivities in the southern city of Netivot and in surrounding communities were interrupted at midnight when the Hamas terror group fired rockets from the Gaza Strip. Hamas took responsibility for the fire, and the Israel Defense Forces said two rockets were launched from the central Gaza Strip, with one intercepted and the second striking an open area. There were no injuries in the attack. It was the second year in a row in which the Palestinian terror group has fired rockets to coincide with the end of the year. Last year, it fired a large barrage at central Israel. But this year, celebrations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and much of the country went ahead as normally as could be, given the pains of almost 15 months of war prompted by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre. Bars and pubs were packed, but at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, activists for the 100 hostages Hamas is still holding in Gaza lit a Hanukkah-themed candle display using the new year to call once again for a ceasefire and hostage deal. At a New Year’s Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump was asked by a CNN reporter whether he had spoken recently to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a potential ceasefire and hostage deal, talks for which appear to have hit a snag. “We’re gonna see what happens,” Trump replied, before adding: “I’ll put it this way: they better let the hostages come back soon.” IDF issues evacuation order for Gaza’s al-Bureij after rockets fired from area [IsraelTimes] The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Avichai Adraee, tweets a warning for residents of central Gaza’s al-Bureij to evacuate ahead of expected airstrikes, after rockets were fired from the area at midnight, as 2025 began. “Terrorist organizations are once again firing rockets from this area,” says Adraee. “For your own safety, move immediately to the humanitarian zone.” |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Sometimes people forget what fireworks are about. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-01 12:29 |
| #1 If nothing else, they're consistent. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-01-01 07:21 |