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As Gaza fighting continues, Hamas urges Trump to pressure Israel to end Gaza war; PIJ releases hostage video
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[IsraelTimes] Security council to consider resolution calling for permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages; Israel sent formal response to US letter on Gaza aid issue
GAZA FIGHTING CONTINUES
Amid the ongoing fighting in the enclave, a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed several Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives, the IDF said Friday. According to the military and Shin Bet, the airstrike killed Alkaman Abd as-Salam Khalil Anbar, who was responsible for Islamic Jihad’s rocket firing array in Gaza City. The IDF said Anbar was responsible for rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza City, as well as being a “significant figure” in the terror group’s weapons manufacturing processes.
Other Islamic Jihad members, involved in rocket fire on Israel and troops in Gaza, were killed in the strike, according to the military.
Meanwhile, the IDF said it was continuing to battle Hamas operatives during an operation in the Strip’s northern towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun. Troops with the 162nd Division also located numerous weapons during the operation, the military said.
In southern Gaza’s Rafah, troops with 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 ...
Division directed dronezaps against several button men who were trying to attack the forces, the IDF added.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-led turbans invaded southern Israel from the enclave, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 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 turbans inside Israel on October 7.
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 375.
It is believed that 97 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.
A senior Hamas official said Friday that the terror group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza and urged US President-elect Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
to "pressure" Israel to "end the aggression."
An amusing thought. The comment came the same day Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a propaganda video of Israeli hostage Sasha Trufanov, and as the UN Security Council prepared to consider a resolution calling for a total ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
Speaking to AFP, Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim said, “Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected” by Israel.
He added, “We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggression.”
Are you sure you want to get President Trump involved? He tends to speak bluntly… The Gaza terror group has said it will not accept any ceasefire deal that does not entail a complete and permanent Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and has previously rejected several ceasefire proposals that it deemed insufficient in that regard.
Yes, President Trump will definitely have thoughts on the subject. Ah well, y’all can think of it as a learning experience. HOSTAGE VIDEO
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...
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 published another video of hostage Sasha Trufanov, two days after it released a different clip of him. The clip was the fourth video that the terror group has released of Trufanov. It is unclear when the video was made. In the clip, Trufanov says that he is aged 28; however, he turned 29 earlier this week, his second birthday in captivity.
In the nearly two-minute-long video, Trufanov — in a statement almost certainly dictated by his captors in the Gazoo Strip — asks Shas chairman Aryeh Deri to convince the government to agree to a deal for the hostages’ release, reminding him of the Jewish obligation to free all captives.
Terror groups have previously issued similar videos of hostages in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare. Most Israeli media did not carry the video clips.
Trufanov was taken hostage along with three members of his family — grandmother Irena Tati, mother Yelena (Lena) Trufanova and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen — from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
massacre in the Gaza border town. Trufanova and Tati were released by Hamas on November 29 at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
. Cohen was released on November 30 as part of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Negotiations to free the hostages and reach a Gaza ceasefire have been at a virtual standstill for several months with no apparent horizon for a real resumption of talks.
UN TO CALL FOR CEASEFIRE
Nevertheless, the UN Security Council’s 10 elected members circulated another draft resolution demanding "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza along with the "immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."
The Council’s 10 elected members — Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
, Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia — circulated the draft after reaching the agreement. The United States, Israel’s closest ally, holds the key to whether the Security Council adopts the resolution. The four other permanent members — Russia, China, Britannia and La Belle France — are expected to support it or abstain.
In an interview with The Times of Israel last week, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon criticized an earlier draft that has since been lightly edited in a bid to gain American support. The earlier draft split the two demands for a ceasefire and hostage release into separate paragraphs, which were merged into one in the updated version. That was enough to convince the US to abstain on a similar resolution adopted by the Security Council in March, which called for an immediate ceasefire during Ramadan.
In June, the Council adopted another resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire based on the parameters that were being negotiated by the US, 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...
and Egypt, which envisioned a three-staged hostage release deal that would bring an end to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. But talks on this framework have all but fallen apart since then. The US and Egypt are still working to negotiate a hostage deal, and Washington is hoping that Qatar’s decision to ask Hamas officials to leave Doha will spark a breakthrough in negotiations. So far, though, none has come to fruition.
Accordingly, Security Council members are once again working on their own ceasefire resolution. Such initiatives have not made an impact on the ground in the past, but members hope that they will add pressure on the warring parties to end the conflict.
Danon told The Times of Israel last week that his office opposed the draft resolution because it doesn’t explicitly condition ending the war on the release of the hostages. The US argued in March that merging the two demands into the same sentence was enough for it to interpret the text as a conditional relationship between the ceasefire and the hostage release.
The draft also demands immediate access for Gaza’s civilian population to humanitarian aid and services essential for their survival. Additionally, it "underscores" that UNRWA, the UN agency helping Paleostinian refugees, "remains the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza."
The Knesset passed two laws last month effectively banning UNRWA’s operations in Israel and the Paleostinian territories, which take effect in 90 days. Jerusalem’s anger at the UN body has peaked since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, in which dozens of UNRWA staffers were found to have participated, including kidnapping and killing Israelis. In February, the IDF revealed the existence of a subterranean Hamas data center directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters. The IDF has also repeatedly targeted Hamas command centers and button men hiding out in UNRWA schools.
The issue of humanitarian aid more broadly has been a frequent source of strain between Israel and the US. In a Thursday call between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
and new Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Blinken asserted a need to expand aid into the enclave, after the US announced earlier this week that Israel made enough progress on the issue to remain in compliance with US law. Last month, the US gave Israel 30 days to take a series of steps to alleviate the Gaza humanitarian crisis in order to avoid violating US law, which bars the US from transferring offensive weapons to countries that block aid from civilians.
While Israel failed to meet several of the demands listed in the letter, the US appeared to give Jerusalem a pass after the administration saw its leverage dissipate due to Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
’s election victory, given that the president-elect would have surely reversed any move to withhold weapons from Israel upon returning to the White House.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan
…who will soon be unemployed… revealed Friday that Israel has submitted a formal response to the letter. The response, which ostensibly laid out the steps Israel has taken and plans to take to address the issue, will likely be used by the Biden administration to adjudicate Israel’s compliance with US law moving forward.
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