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NEW YORK TIMES: Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.
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Four killed in Hamas shooting attack in Jerusalem By TZVI JOFFRE
The two terrorists who carried out the attack were shot and killed by police and a nearby civilian.
DECEMBER 1, 2023 00:46 – Four people were killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday morning, according to emergency services.
Among those murdered in the attack was Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 73, who served as a rabbinical judge in the rabbinical court in Ashdod, according to Religious Services Minister Michael Malchieli.
Chana Ifergan, 67, the principal of Beis Yaakov Bnot Hadassah in Beit Shemesh, was also killed in the attack. Livia Dickman, 24, of Har Nof, was named as the third victim.
Yuval Doron Castelman from Mevaseret Zion, an attorney who would have turned 39 the day after the attack, was mortally wounded by friendly fire while responding to the incident from the other side of the road. He was hospitalized at Shaarei Tzedek hospital and succumbed to his wounds later in the day.
Two other people were seriously wounded in the attack, and two more were in light to moderate condition.
[Ed.: IINO likes to have Arabs living within our borders.]
“They marked children’s legs by burning them;” Family recounts hostages’ stories Danna Avni
Vivian Hadar, Mia Sham’s aunt, revealed that Mia underwent hand surgery in Gaza, conducted by a veterinarian
November 30, 2023 at 04:18 PM – As the more hostages are freed, new stories are arrising about their treatment in captivity.
Yaniv Ya’akov, the uncle of two children who were held captive by Hamas for 52 days, Or and Gil Ya’akov, shared details of their experience including a disturbing marking ritual employed by the terrorists.
Yaniv recounted the children’s traumatic experiences, revealing that each child seized by Hamas was placed on a motorcycle. The child’s leg was positioned against the bike’s exhaust pipe, causing burns. This method served as a means of marking the children, ensuring their identification in case of escape or rescue attempts.
“They said that every child was taken by Hamas on a motorcycle, and they took each child’s leg and put it on the exhaust of the motorcycle so that they would have a burn and they would be marked if they ran and tried to escape so that they could be found.”
Vivian Hadar, the aunt of another hostage, Mia, expressed the deep trauma Mia endured, emphasizing her weakness and thinness.
Hadar revealed that Mia underwent hand surgery in Gaza, conducted by a veterinarian, further illustrating the inhumane treatment suffered by the hostages during their captivity.
IDF Is Ignoring Warnings About Impending Massacre in Judea, Samaria, Say Sources
Nov. 30, 2023 5:00 pm – ‘Planning same thing here, hoarding weapons, training’
Fatah Central Committee Secretary-General and PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports head Jibril Rajoub Tuesday said the October 7 attack “didn’t come from nowhere” and was “part of the Palestinians’ defensive war” against “the continued crimes of the occupation in Gaza.”
In an interview with Egyptian MBC TV, Rajoub said “the next, more severe violence will come from the West Bank. What is happening in the West Bank, which includes 700,000 Israeli settlers, is a similar situation and is connected to all aspects of life, holy sites and even olive trees, our schools, mosques and churches. Therefore, the next conflagration will be more violent in the West Bank.”
Meanwhile, Israeli security in Judea and Samaria has been specifically designed in a way that will be vulnerable to a certain type of key that is not immediately perceptible to residents encountering them. Thus, the gates and armaments of Judea and Samaria (and in general the entire security apparatus) have been designed, selected, and controlled universally to be uniquely vulnerable to a specific tool that has been then semi-secretly given to the PA – armored vehicles.
For example, an officially unrecognized network of dirt roads connects a Palestinian Authority Preventative Security facility (pictured above) to Israeli towns in the area, ideal for surprise armored vehicle access.
The facility appears to be a heavily fortified stronghold, reported to have seven floors below ground. The photo shows about 53 vehicles, mostly trucks. By measuring the trucks one can estimate the security fence encloses an area of about 3/4 square km.
Unit 8200 could have saved Israel from Oct. 7; why hasn’t it owned up to its failure? By Yoav Limor
All relevant commanders in the elite IDF signal intelligence unit were asleep at the wheel, led by Brig. Gen. Y., who heads the unit. It appears that it failed to share the relevant intelligence, even though it claims it passed on everything to the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s Research Division analysts.
11-24-2023 11:56 – Responsibility. The first to assume responsibility for the failure on October 7 was IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
He was followed by the head of the Shin Bet security agency Ronen Bar, the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate Aharon Haliva, and the Southern Command GOC Yaron Finkelstein all acknowledged their responsibility. The head of the Research Division in Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Amit Saar clarified that there was a failure in providing a pinpointed warning that could have prevented the attack. Similarly, the commander of the Gaza Division, Brigadier-General Avi Rosenfeld, owned up to his failure in defending the settlements.
Upon closer inspection, it is immediately apparent that on the list of those taking responsibility, there is one figure who is conspicuously missing: the commander of Unit 8200, the leading signal intelligence collection agency in Israel, under the IDF.
It turns out that the central and dominant intelligence collection body of the State of Israel, responsible for about 80% of the intelligence gathered and produced for all Israeli intelligence branches, does not believe it has any responsibility for what happened on Black Saturday.
On the contrary, in internal discussions, the commander of Unit 8200, Brig. Gen. Y asserts that the unit provided all the necessary intelligence. He claims that everything was on the table. According to him, the responsible parties are the Research Division analysts and its head, Sa’ar, who did not know what to do with the information they received.
Saar, as mentioned, has already taken responsibility, but Brig. Gen. Y’s claim, upon further scrutiny, proves the exact opposite, and quite astonishingly: Unit 8200 had everything right under its nose – it simply did nothing with it and did not pass the information onward.
All relevant commanders in the unit were asleep at the wheel, led by Brig. Gen. Y. He was preoccupied with promoting various projects such as helping the disadvantaged, (an important matter in itself), dealing with climate (similarly important), and various social issues, forgetting the basics – intelligence. Reading material from the field personnel, establishing teams, investigating, asking questions, and scrutinizing every detail to ensure his unit was not wrong – all neglected, even though there were voices within the unit who sounded the alarm – in writing – that catastrophe was imminent.
When the investigative committee is formed after the war, its findings will expose the details of what happened and the negligence that occurred, the lack of professionalism, and the failed handling of intelligence. It will also shed light on unsuitable individuals appointed to highly sensitive positions as the heads of listening units and geographical subunits, some of whom did not even answer the phone to join a consultation held in the hours preceding the attack, against the backdrop of accumulating troubling intelligence.
The responsibility of Unit 8200 does not end here. In the months leading up to the attack, real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios was halted. Had they been monitored, at the very least Israeli intelligence would have had time to deploy forces and mitigate the scale of the invasion.
The decision to cease real-time monitoring was made with approval from all levels, grounded in professional considerations but fundamentally driven by pride: the belief that we will know everything, always, in every arena and against every enemy. Halevi, immediately after the attack, made it clear that he wanted to avoid internal wars in the military and said the blame game was going to wait until after the war. Later, an agreement was reached with the head of the Shin Bet to prevent clashes between organizations, and to focus on the military campaign.
Unit 8200 is the flagship body of Israeli intelligence. After the war, questions will arise about dependence on cyber and the need to return to fundamentals, especially in the field of human intelligence (HUMINT). But before that, it is essential to ensure that the body that failed – and is incapable of acknowledging its failure – does not fail again.
Aharon Haliva has got to go. Now. Caroline Glick
An intelligence chief who publicly rejects the government’s characterization of a war, whose poor professional judgment led to catastrophe and who has a history of contemptuous insubordination simply cannot be trusted. Op-ed.
Nov 30, 2023, 11:18 AM (GMT+2) – (JNS) Immediately after the blackest day in Israeli history, a consensus formed that we must wait until after the war to investigate how Hamas was able to invade the country, slaughter 1,200 innocents and get away with 240 hostages. There’s a lot to recommend this position.
We’re at war. Now is not the time for action, not recrimination and trials for failed generals, security chiefs and politicians. Good or bad, you go to war with the army and leaders you have. People have jobs to do, and our job is to let them do theirs.
While reasonable on its face, there is a problem with delaying a reckoning. At least in some cases, it seems clear that the people whose failures enabled the Hamas attack are not capable of bringing us victory.
Case in point: Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Directorate Chief Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva. In the weeks since Oct. 7, more and more information has come out about why Hamas was able to pull it off. All of the information points to Haliva and his close subordinates.
The Field Observers unit at Nahal Oz base suffered the greatest losses there during Hamas’s assault. The unit, comprising female soldiers, is responsible for monitoring the footage from security cameras along the Gaza border around the clock and alerting forces on the ground and in the intelligence community to anything suspicious.
Seventeen observers were killed on Oct. 7. Seven were taken hostage. One, Naama Levy, was videoed barefoot, being dragged from the trunk of a vehicle by her hair and pushed into the back seat. Her hands were zip-tied behind her back. The seat of her sweatpants was stained with blood, indicating she had been raped violently.
One observer, Ori Megidish, was rescued by the IDF in early November. Another, Noa Marciano, was filmed in a hostage video, first alive, and then dead. Her body was later recovered by IDF forces.
Days after their friends were slaughtered, raped and kidnapped, the two surviving members of the unit and a number of former members started coming forward to tell their story. In interviews with Channel 11, two women related that in the months before the invasion, they were warning it was in the works. The women saw Hamas terrorists training to take over kibbutzim and IDF bases. They watched terrorists practicing taking hostages and blowing up tanks. They saw terror commanders watching the drills. They saw spies probing the fence for weaknesses. They saw it all and reported it all.
Rather than giving them medals, unnamed top-level officers in the intelligence corps ordered them to stop. When they continued reporting, the observers were warned that they would be disciplined and removed from the unit if they kept raising their concerns.
The observers weren’t the only ones silenced. Rafael Hayun, a civilian hacker who monitors open intelligence networks, worked for the IDF for years. The IDF provided Hayun with equipment to monitor Hamas’s internal communications. In late 2019, Hayun began reporting on Hamas training exercises involving invading Israel, penetrating the security fence at multiple points, taking over communities, committing mass murder and kidnapping. Over time, the training became more intense and detailed. Hayun alerted the units he was working with about Hamas’s activities in real time.
Israeli Hostage Held for 50 Days in Attic by “United Nations” Teacher – As Joe Biden Continues to Fund UNRWA Terrorists By Richard Abelson
Nov. 30, 2023 9:00 am – Several hostages released by Hamas have testified they were held in the homes of so-called “United Nations” workers, who are often affiliated with Hamas. Joe Biden gave the terror group $730 million via UNRWA grants.
One of the hostages, recently released from Gaza, revealed on Wednesday that he was held for nearly 50 days in an attic by a teacher from the “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees” UNRWA, Channel 13 journalist Almog Boker reported.
The hostage said the teacher who held him captive was a father of 10 children who barely provided food or medical attention, and locked the hostage away.
“Uninvolved,” they say, right? Well, read this story carefully. One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRA teacher – a father of ten children. This teacher locked the victim away, barely provided food, and neglected medical needs,” journalist Almog Boker wrote on Twitter/X.
“But wait, there’s more! Another abductee was held captive by a Gazan doctor who, simultaneously, cared for children. These are not isolated incidents; these civilians are terrorists. Present at the Saturday massacre, they’re now revealed as integral to holding hundreds captive, including women and children,” he added.
Beginning of the month, an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank posted a video to its official Facebook page in which a young student called for the victory of Hamas’s “jihad warriors” in Gaza.
Hamas Monsters Admit Israeli Hostage ‘Baby Kfir’ Is Dead – Total of 97 Hostages Released During Truce – An Estimated 150 Hostages Still Detained By Jim Hoft
Nov. 30, 2023 8:00 am – For several days Israelis have hoped that Baby Kfir would be returned.
Hamas on Thursday finally admitted that Baby Kfir was dead. He was 9-months-old when the Hamas barbarians took him, his brother and mother hostage on October 7, 2023.
Israelis were hoping the baby would be released this week. On Thursday Hamas admitted that Baby Kfir was killed. Earlier in the week they said the mother and her babied were turned over to a rival Islamic terrorist group. On Thursday Hamas said Baby Kfir and his mother and brother were killed “in an Israeli bombing.”
Baby Kfir’s entire family was taken hostage. Hamas filmed their terrified looks when they family was captured.
What very sad news.
Breaking: Terror Attack in Jerusalem Kills Three Israelis; Two Gunmen Reported to be Members of Hamas Killed After Shooting Israelis at a Bus Stop (Video) By Kristinn Taylor
Nov. 30, 2023 2:38 am – A terror attack in Jerusalem Thursday morning killed at least three Israelis waiting at a bus stop and wounded eleven more. The two gunmen, reported to be Israeli Arabs, were in turn shot and killed by an off-duty soldier who had just returned from fighting Hamas in Gaza. The terrorists have been identified by the Israeli government as two brothers who were members of Hamas and had previously been jailed on terrorism charges. The attack came after an extension was announced of the ceasefire for hostages for another day by Israel and Hamas as the sides negotiated another round of hostage and prisoner swaps.
The victims were a 24-year-old woman killed at the scene and two who died at hospital, a 60-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man, reported YNetNews. There are reports an armed citizen and another off-duty soldier also engaged the terrorists.
The terrorists pulled up to the bus stop in a car and exited, then opened fire, one with an M-16 rifle and one with a handgun. After shooting at the Israelis at the bus stop for several seconds, the two terrorists tried to return to their car when they were confronted and killed by the off-duty Israeli soldier. Other Israelis can also be seen responding with the off-duty soldier then frantically identifying himself to avoid friendly fire.
Two videos have been released. The sound of gunfire can be heard in one video. In the other the attack can be seen from beginning to end.
The Israeli government posted video with the sounds of the attack, at least two dozen shots can be heard:
Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim: Is Israel Winning the War? [11:00]
Major Democrat Donor, Biden-Appointed Commissioner with Links to Hunter Biden’s Art Sale is Related to the 4-Year-Old First American Hostage Released by Hamas By Jim Hᴏft
Nov. 29, 2023 1:30 pm – There was good news this week when news broke that 4-year-old Jewish hostage Abigail Mor Idan was released by the Hamas terrorists.
Ben Weingarten of RealClearInvestigations (RCI) has reported a controversial connection in the recent hostage release by Hamas. The American child freed during the ceasefire with Israel is reportedly the great-niece of Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a major Democratic party donor with close ties to the Biden regime.
Abigail Mor Idan, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was the only American among 80 hostages, primarily women and children, exchanged for Palestinian Arab prisoners. In return, Israel has freed 180 Palestinian prisoners.
This fragile truce followed a harrowing incident on October 7, where Abigail’s parents were tragically killed by jihadists in southern Israel.
Following the news of her release, Biden went off-script and made a creepy comment about 4-year-old Abigail Edan during his remarks to reporters.
“Thank God she’s home. The little – I just can’t imagine the enjoyment…I just wish I were there to hold her,” Biden said.
[Ed.: Biden said: “I just can’t imagine the enjoyment”. Is “enjoyment” really the right word? Would there be a better choice of words like ‘relief,’ or ‘thankfulness’. But, after all President Biden did for little Abigale, at least he should get to sniff her! Maybe Abigale’s auntie could arrange that for the President! That would be very ‘enjoyable’! What a pity the other hostages (who are still alive) don’t have American dollars and influence getting them in front of Yahya’s line!]
Israeli intelligence leak details extent of warnings over Hamas attack Peter Beaumont
Officer who reviewed intelligence considered risk of big attack ‘an imaginary scenario’, leak suggests
Nov. 28, 2023 – Israel’s military and intelligence officials were given a highly detailed warning that Hamas was actively training to take over kibbutzim on the Gaza border and overrun military posts with the aim of inflicting substantial fatalities, according to reports in the Israeli media.
The claim made by Israel’s Channel 12 on Monday evening was based on leaked emails from the Israeli military’s 8200 cyber-intelligence unit discussing the warnings.
Those emails revealed that a senior officer who reviewed the intelligence considered the danger of a massive surprise attack by Hamas across the Gaza border to be “an imaginary scenario”.
The hugely embarrassing leak describes in shocking detail what would turn out to be key elements of Hamas’s planning for its massacre of 1,200 Israelis on 7 October, including that Israel spotters were aware of senior Hamas officials present as observers during training preparations.
According to the leaked emails, Hamas went as far as giving the mocked-up kibbutz used in training a name and even practised raising a flag over its synagogue.
Plans were also intercepted that discussed overrunning a border military base and killing all of its occupants.
While much of the focus of recent scrutiny for the intelligence failure before the 7 October attack has looked at what information was available to senior political and military figures, including Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the new leaks and briefings suggest serious failings within the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence reporting and distribution system as well.
The source of the warning is a highly respected career military intelligence NCO identified in Israeli media reports as V who warned her chain of command during the summer that Hamas was planning a large-scale incursion.
Further emails leaked to Channel 12 suggest the initial warning was corroborated a few days later with evidence that other Hamas units were involved in similar training aimed at apparently different targets.
Some officials appear to have been impressed by the intelligence but a senior intelligence officer who reviewed the material in July was more sceptical and suggested it was necessary to distinguish between what Hamas was doing for “show” and what was “realistically” the purpose of the training.
If This Pause in the Conflict in Gaza Is Allowed To Turn Into a Durable Ceasefire, It Would Be a Decisive Defeat for Israel By Pamela Geller
November 28, 2023 – The terrible paradigm being set – rewarding the torturing and trafficking in Jewish children, butchering young Jewish women, unspeakable acts of violence with a ceasefire is a catastrophic mistake, unrecoverable.
US pressure should be ignore. Iran certainly ignores it – and they get billions.
The Biden administration has told Israel it must work to avoid “significant further displacement” of Gaza civilians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group, senior U.S. officials said.
Read more: US Tells Israel Southern Gaza Campaign Must Limit Further Civilian Displacement | Newsmax.com
If This Pause in the Conflict in Gaza Is Allowed To Turn Into a Durable Ceasefire, It Would Be a Decisive Defeat for Israel
The war is a Manichaean conflict and a proxy war between America and Iran in which no political waffling can be allowed to confuse the issues.
By: Conrad Black, NY Sun, November 27, 2023:
If Israel, as its leaders and President Biden pledge will not be the case, allows this pause in the conflict to turn into a durable cease-fire in which completely innocent Israeli civilians, many of them children, women, and elderly people, have been seized and removed as hostages are gradually returned in exchange for a much higher number of legitimately convicted Palestinian terrorists, and the conflict effectively ends here, it will be a decisive defeat for Israel.
There is no equivalence whatsoever between the seizure and removal of citizens in the midst of a slaughter of the innocents in breach of an agreed cease-fire, and the apprehension and conviction of terrorists. The atrocities of October 7 committed by Hamas after invading Israel were, by virtue of their horrifying proportions, an opportunity for Israel to do what it has stated through all the spokesman of an instantly formed national unity government it will do: completely destroy Hamas as a military force.
Iran and Hezbollah have already acknowledged that they will not intervene on a significant scale in this war. The other Arab powers, despite the customary lip service they give the Palestinian cause, detest terrorism as much as Israel does. Terrorists assassinated President Sadat of Egypt in 1981 and the grandfather of the present King Abdullah of Jordan in 1951 and have torn Iraq, Syria, and Yemen to pieces.
From the rise of the pan-Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdul Nasser to the presidency of Egypt in 1953, and the murder of the Iraqi royal family in 1958 until relatively recently, the Palestinian cause was a splendid fraud to gull uninformed and historically ignorant people in order to accuse Israel of being a Western-imposed usurpation of Arab territory.
As long as Turkey was impotently knocking on the door of Europe and Iran was either a firm Western ally under the Shah or an aberrant theocracy fighting off the aggressions of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, raising this sob-story about the deprived Palestinians who have never been a defined people or a functioning jurisdiction of their own, was a useful distraction of the Arab masses from the misgovernment that almost all of them suffered. (The Palestinians are a tragic and castaway group, who have been moved about as pawns, and still are, by Iran, but their claims to all of Israel “from the river to the sea” are moonshine.)
[Ed.:
Women Held Hostage by Hamas in Gaza Kept in Cages By Pamela Geller
November 28, 2023 – Muslim terrorists prefer to keep their captives in cages. We saw this with ISIS. We saw this these same cages paraded down Madison Avenue at the Muslim Day parade with young girls in them here and here.
This is who the world is defending.
Slavery and rape of the infidel is sanctioned and rewarded under Islam. Muslim clerics all over the world confirm the right to have slaves. It is in the Qur’an — the word of Allah. The Qur’an teaches that non-Muslim women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30).
Women held hostage by Hamas in Gaza kept in cages – report
Hostages speak out about the state of their captivity.
By: Joanie Margulis, J Post,, November 28, 2023:
Women who were abducted from Israeli territory and held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were kept in cages, according to a report by Israeli media, citing a statement from a member of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
This claim is not the first of its kind: In the days immediately following the October 7 attacks, videos from Hamas’s Telegram channel showed child hostages being kept in cages for the majority of their time in captivity.
Hamas distributed a letter on Monday allegedly written by Danielle Aloni, who was kidnapped alongside her 5-year-old daughter Emilia and held in captivity. In the letter, written in Hebrew and translated into Arabic, she reportedly thanked Hamas for the “extraordinary humanity” provided to her daughter, who “felt like a queen.”
The letter also read, “I will forever be a prisoner of love because [Emilia] did not leave here with psychological trauma forever.” The Aloni family has not confirmed this letter nor the statements made in it, though it has been widely distributed on social media by the Hamas terror organization.
This letter is one of many that hostages were forced to write, according to Israeli media reports.
“INHUMANE:” Reports of Palestinians Torturing Israeli Mothers and Children Emerge By Pamela Geller
November 28, 2023 – Those “innocent civilians” the world wants were part and parcel of the brutalizing, beating and torture by the Palestinians of other kids.
Last night’s release of hostages were almost all elderly. This is deliberate and by design.
One 12-year-old hostage was held at gunpoint and forced to watch October 7th horrors.
Virtual Jerusalem is reporting:
Reports of Palestinians Torturing Israeli Mothers and Childen Emerge
Nov 28, 2023 | Ticker, Virtual Jerusalem
Despite the attempts of Hamas and its PR flaks to show a humanitarian face to the terror group, and to portray Palestinian civilians as victims, the truth is coming out as the returned captives tell their harrowing stories. It is becoming clear that the local residents were part and parcel of the brutalizing, beating and torture by the Palestinians of other kids.
At first it was just hints, as elderly returnees swatted away the hands of Hamas handlers “helping them” from jeeps and ambulances, or Israeli teenagers dismissing with disgust attempts to induce them to wave as if bidding farewell to a kind host.
But now the horror stories are being reported of torture, mental and physical, to which Israelis were subjected. Eitan Yahalomi, 12, was according to his aunt, in an interview to French television, subjected to unending blows from Palestinian civilians as he was snatched and taken on a motorbike to Gaza captivity. That was just the beginning. Eitan was forced to watch, again and again, films of his neighbors being slaughtered and dismembered on October 7. He was threatened at gunpoint if he cried or made sounds.
Other children were kept in total isolation for 12 or 13 days. They were covered with lice and received no treatment.
Mothers were separated from their children and told their daughters were gone. Despite assurances that
mothers would not be separated from children, Raia was just taken away just before her daughter was released.
Thomas Hand, father of 9-year-old Emily, says the little girl thought she had been held hostage for a year and now cries herself to sleep. “The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips. She’d been conditioned not to make any noise.” “Last night she cried until her face was red and blotchy, she couldn’t stop. She didn’t want any comfort, I guess she’s forgotten how to be comforted. She went under the covers of the bed, the quilt, covered herself up and quietly cried.” When she met her older sister, she was unable to show emotion.
Meanwhile, Israel is up in arms at the refusal of Hamas to deliver as promised the red-haired Bibas children, Ofir 4 years and Kfir 10 months old, and their mother Shiri. Hamas reported that these hostages had been handed over to other Palestinians and that they could not located them.
10-month-old hostage Kfir still needs his mother to feed him and the terrorist group separated women from children.
HAMAS ‘NO LONGER HAS CONTROL’ OF YOUNGEST ISRAELI HOSTAGE 10-MONTH-OLD KFIR
Israel Is Prepared To Act Alone in Gaza, as a Rift Opens Between It and America By Pamela Geller
November 28, 2023 – Israel still hasn’t learned that America under the Democrats only respects countries that betray, mock and work feverishly against us like Iran (Death to America!) and the Palestinians terror groups The more you oppose us, the more billions come your way. If you respect and admire America (like Israel does), the Biden regime is going to stab you hard in the back.
Israel must go it alone and end this infernal ceasefire.
Israel Is Prepared To Act Alone in Gaza, as a Rift Opens Between It and America, Which Seeks To Micromanage the War By Benny Avni
Jewish state will do what it has to in an existential struggle, even if it is abandoned by its most important [ally].
NY Sun, November 28, 2023 – A rift is growing between America and Israel over how to proceed the day after the current pause in Gaza fighting ends, as Washington attempts to micromanage the war conduct.
With a two-day extension of the original ceasefire that was scheduled to end Tuesday, intelligence chiefs from America, Israel, Egypt, and Qatar are meeting at Doha to contemplate further hostage releases. Israel has initially agreed to a maximum of a 10-day war pause if at least 10 hostages are released daily.
Ten Israeli women and two Thais were released Tuesday. At least eight children remain in Gaza, including 10-months-old Kfir Bibas, who has become a symbol of Hamas’s cruelty. Also, at least nine Americans are yet to be freed.
Meanwhile the Israel Defense Force is readying an invasion of southern Gaza, to where Hamas elite leaders escaped after the IDF captured Gaza City and most of the north. Washington, though, is urging a change in war tactics. Pressured by the Democratic left, President Biden increasingly seems more concerned about the humanitarian plight in Gaza than eliminating Hamas.
Meanwhile, Hamas is already violating the ceasefire. On Tuesday, three explosive devices were detonated next to IDF positions in northern Gaza, followed by gunshots. Three soldiers were lightly wounded. “The response needs to be disproportional, so we don’t play by Hamas rules,” a former chief of staff to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Zvi Hauser, told Israel Channel 11 television.
Mr. Netanyahu’s government, though, seemed to be in full diplomatic mode. The Mossad chief, David Barnea, and his American counterpart, William Burns of the Central Intelligence Agency, were at Doha Tuesday to negotiate further military pauses for hostage releases. According to the Washington Post, Mr. Burns is seeking a “longer, multi-day pause,” beyond even the Israeli 10-day cap.
Israel seems willing to let negotiations play out as long as hostages are freed. “To date, we got 74 abductees released, including 50 children and women that were included in the first phase of the agreement,” Mr. Netanyahu said Tuesday. “We will complete this phase when all women and children are released — and then everyone else.”
Qatar, which serves as a Hamas proxy in the talks, is reportedly seeking an agreement to release all hostages held in Gaza in return for top Hamas terrorists held in Israeli prisons, including those who have committed deadly acts. Most importantly for Hamas, such a pact would entail a durable ceasefire and end of war.
Such a deal is opposed by the Israeli government. “Gaza would not remain what it was before, and would no longer threaten Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu said. A senior cabinet member, Benny Gantz, told reporters Tuesday that once the current ceasefire ends, “fire will resume. We are ready for the next stages in the war all over Gaza. There would be no place of refuge for terrorists and Hamas leaders.”
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Hamas Violates Ceasefire, Launches Attack on IDF Troops in Gaza
Terrorists detonated three IEDs at two different locations, wounding several soldiers, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
November 28, 2023 – Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violation of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Several Israeli soldiers were wounded, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
“Over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in northern Gaza, violating the framework of the operational pause,” said the military.
Israeli forces were also fired on in one of the locations, according to the IDF.
Soldiers returned fire while staying within the agreed ceasefire lines, the military said.
Hamas propaganda chief Abu Obeida released a statement claiming that “due to a clear violation by the enemy of the truce agreement in the northern Gaza Strip, field friction occurred, and our mujahideen dealt with this violation.”
The terrorist organization claimed it remained “committed to the truce as long as the enemy adheres to it, and we call on the mediators to pressure the occupation to adhere to all the terms of the truce on the ground and in the air.”
Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, which was extended for another two days on Monday in exchange for the release of 20 more captives, Hamas agreed to stop fighting and release some women and children captured during its Oct. 7 terror assault on southwestern Israel.
Freed Israeli hostage escaped Gaza ruins, Hamas captivity for days
Ron Krivoi’s aunt revealed on Monday that Gazan civilians located Krivoi and brought him back into Hamas captivity.
\NOVEMBER 27, 2023 19:49 – It was like a scene from an action movie: Newly-freed hostage Ron Krivoi escaped his captors by extricating himself from the building where he was being held after it was bombed and collapsed on top of him.
Fleeing the rubble of the destroyed Gazan building, Ron attempted to escape the Gaza Strip on his own, managing to stay hidden for four days straight before being recaptured, his aunt disclosed to KAN’s Reshet Bet radio on Monday morning.
A 25-year-old Israeli Russian with dual citizenship, Krivoi was released by Hamas on Sunday evening following the Russian government’s intervention, in addition to 13 other Israelis and three foreign hostages released on the third day of the ceasefire with Gaza.
Krivoi was working as a sound engineer at the Re’im music festival when he was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7.
According to his aunt, he was taken by the terrorists and kept in a residential building in the Gaza Strip. “Due to the bombings, the building collapsed and he managed to escape the rubble and break free,” she explained.
Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory Car9line Glick
Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view.
(November 27, 2023 / JNS) – The time has come to discuss the Biden administration’s relationship with Israel. With each passing day, two things become obvious. First, Israel cannot fight the war without U.S. resupply of the Israel Defense Forces. As a consequence, Israel is beholden to the administration’s directives. And second, if Israel follows the Biden administration’s directives, it will lose the war.
Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.” [Emphasis added]
Brick went on to explain that President Joe Biden’s demand that Israel permit “humanitarian aid” to enter Gaza means that he is demanding that Israel keep Hamas fully supplied with food, water and fuel.
His demand that Israel minimize Palestinian civilian casualties endangers IDF soldiers and renders the expansion of the ground offensive into central and southern Gaza, where the bulk of Hamas’s force is now located, almost impossible to carry out. Brick suggested various forms of long-term tunnel warfare and other suggestions for how the IDF may be able to defeat Hamas over time while operating within the constraints that Biden and his top advisors are dictating.
[8:02 AM, 11/28/2023] +1 (224) 216-2379: BREAKING: Per Israeli reports (Channel 14 security correspondent), moments ago an explosive device was activated targeting IDF troops in northern Gaza. Injuries unknown.
If verified, it is the first such incident since the ceasefire with Hamas took effect.
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[8:19 AM, 11/28/2023] +1 (224) 216-2379: DEVELOPING: Hamas spokesman says fighters responded to a clear violation by Israeli forces in Gaza which resulted in limited clashes, circumstances still unclear.
Arab reports claim Israeli fighter jets were scrambled and can be heard in the vicinity.
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[8:28 AM, 11/28/2023] +1 (224) 216-2379: BREAKING: The IDF says three explosive devices were detonated near Israeli forces in two serape locations in the northern Gaza Strip, “in violation of the truce agreements.”
It says that in one of the incidents, gunfire was also directed at troops. The IDF says troops returned fire.
A number of soldiers are lightly hurt in the attacks.
“In both cases, the IDF forces were within the agreed ceasefire lines.”
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HORRIFIC – Aunt of 12-year-old Eytan Yahalomi reveals how Hamas tortured her nephew in captivity: Eytan was forced to watch barbaric videos of the October 7 massacre, when he cried Hamas would force him to stop by pointing guns at him. Civilians also beat up the 12-year-old Israeli when he first arrived in Gaza.
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[Ed.: Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully ( Lyrics )
Hamas Hudna (Ceasefire) Extended for Two More Days By Pamela Geller
November 27, 2023 – The terror state Qatar announced that the Hamas hudna has been extended another two days.A hudna in Islam, a pattern of retreat followed by regrouping and rearming, which permits an attack on the territory previously left behind. In the coming days Israel will come under enormous pressure not to restart military operations to destroy Hamas. Two more days to regroup, rearm, move hostages (they still have roughly 200 held captive), and extricate Hamas leaders.
The infernal choice behind the hostage deal: Israel is in this terrible situation principally because of America
(Melanie Phillips)
Negotiations to EXTEND Hudna (Ceasefire) After Multiple Hamas Delays of Hostage-For-Terrorist Swaps Over the Weekend By Pamela Geller
November 27, 2023 – Rewarding hostage taking, negotiating with terrorists, and furthering postponing the eradication of Hamas.
Giles Fraser writes: “Keep waving,” said the Hamas terrorists, handing over another little girl to the Red Cross on Friday night. As she waved back nervously — they still have seven of her family locked up, so of course she did — the Hamas PR machine must have been punching the air in delight. This is the narrative they are trying to sell you: Hamas are just misunderstood humanitarians — or, at least, principled freedom fighters pushing back against years of colonial oppression. We treat our captives well, they say. Not kidnapped, just lost.
How is it that some people fall for all this manipulative rubbish? There have been posters of these children ripped down all over London and New York by Hamas apologists, gleeful fools who seem to think it’s a lie that children were ever taken in the first place. It’s like watching Holocaust denial develop in real time. Antisemitism doesn’t just rot the soul; it rots the brain.
Admittedly, facing the truth is often impossibly demanding, especially when the truth is as distressing as this is. I thought I was mentally prepared for Bearing Witness, the IDF’s 47-minute compilation of footage taken on October 7, which I saw last week at a private screening. But my body clearly wasn’t. Ten minutes in, I started to shake. The organisers had prepared the audience as best they could and explained there was no shame in having to leave. And there was a point where I was close….
Hamas Barbarians Release 11 More Jewish Hostages Including a Girl in a Wheelchair and Mothers Holding Terrified Children By Jim Hoft
Nov. 27, 2023 7:40 pm – Hamas barbarians released 11 more Jewish hostages from 52 days of captivity on Monday night.
Palestinians jumped on their van, terrorizing the Israelis during their final ride from Gaza.
This was the fourth group of Israeli hostages released by Hamas.
Hamas also released 14 Thai hostages over the weekend.
The Wolfson Hospital in Israel said the hostages were malnourished and went days without food.
One little girl released on Monday was in a wheelchair. She left Gaza with her mother. Her father is still held captive by the barbarians.
11-year-old Yuval Engel was healthy on October 7th. Today she cannot walk.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar met with captured Israelis in Gaza
One of the released Israelis claims that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar met her in person in Gaza, promising ‘Nothing will happen to you.’
Nov 27, 2023, 8:42 PM (GMT+2) Israel National News – Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in gaza and the planner of the Oct. 7th massacre, met with captured Israelis in one of the tunnels under Gaza, according to journalist Amit Segal.
According to the report, one of the women captured recounted how in the last days of captivity, she told her family that she had met Sinwar in the first days of the war. “He spoke fluent Hebrew to the cpatives, saying ‘Hello, I am Yahya Sinwar. You are safest here. Nothing will happen to you.”
Earlier, journalist Ben Caspit reported that during the last few years, Prime Minister Netanyahu was presented with six different operational plans to assassinate Sinwar, by the three most recent directors of the ISA: Yoram Cohen, Nadav Argaman, and Ronen Bar. Netanyahu declined them all.
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The IDF’s Arabic language spokesman, Avichai Edrei, spoke with the Sky News channel in Arabic, and reported that the Bibas family that had been abducted by Hamas from Nir Oz was being held by a different faction in the Khan Younis region. The different factions holding captives are causing delays in the prisoner exchange process and preventing the extension of the current ceasefire.
Adriana, one of the captives, told Mako about the conditions in Hamas captivity. According to her, they were fed only rice and small pitas that had to be divided into pieces to ensure everyone got some. They were unsure if there would be any food the next day.
She also claims that the captives were held above and below ground, and were not given sufficient calories, changes of clothes, or a chance to bathe. Only on their last day in capitivity were they given fresh clothes, after fifty days without a chance to bathe and still wearing the clothes in which they were captured.
[Ed.: Wow, thanks for the comforting words, Yahya! Waddah guy!]
4-year-old Avigail reunited with family after 50 days as a hostage
Toddler whose parents were murdered on October 7 meets her aunt and grandparents after being freed from Hamas captivity.
Nov 27, 2023, 5:23 PM Israel National News – 51 days have passed since 4-year-old Avigail Idan was taken hostage following the murder of both of her parents by Hamas terrorists during the massacre of October 7.
Last night (Sunday), Avigail was finally released and met with members of her extended family, who will raise her now that her parents have been murdered by Hamas. Avigail’s case became a cause celebre among the 240 hostages held by Hamas after it was raised by US President Joe Biden due to her age and the fact that she is an American citizen.
Avigail’s aunt, Amit Idan, said that the child “arrived very tired, she probably had a long journey – but she’s fine, she’s really fine, she’ll get over the shock a little from all the faces she doesn’t know.”
Carmel, Avigail’s grandfather, said that she “probably hasn’t bathed since the first day. Tomorrow she will be released. She asked about what happened to her siblings. As for her father and mother, she didn’t ask about them. She asked to see them but not to meet them.”
Avigail’s siblings, Michael, 9, and Amalya, 6, survived the massacre and escaped capture by hiding in a closet for 14 hours.
Freed hostages didn’t know of dead kin as they reveal what life was like with Hamas By Ronny Reyes
Nov. 26, 2023, 3:55 p.m. ET – At least some Hamas hostages are being totally cut off from the outside world — with several only learning after release that kin were killed Oct. 7 — and fed a bland diet of rice and pita while enduring hours-long waits for the bathroom, according to those freed.
The family members of some of the released hostages revealed to outlets what life was like for their loved ones during the grueling weeks in captivity.
Ruthie Munder, 78, her daughter Keren Munder, 54, and grandson Ohad Munder-Zichri, 9, were released Friday night as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas.
A stricken Ruthie only learned about her son Roi’s death after being released Friday, said the elderly woman’s niece, Merav Mor Raviv, according to the New York Times on Sunday.
Ravi also said her relatives were mostly fed rice and pita by their captors, a diet that caused both Ruthi and Keren to lose between 13 and 18 pounds since Oct. 7.
“They were eating, but not regularly and not all of the time,” she told the outlet.
The uncle of recently freed Noam and Alma Or said the teens also were given devastating news similar to what Ruthie Munder received after being released — that their mother, Yonat Or, was killed Oct. 7.
“They have some difficult stories to tell of the way they were captured and treated,” uncle Ahal Besorai told the BBC on Sunday of the teens.
Yaffa Adar, 85, who was among those released Friday night, also lost weight during her captivity, the grandmother’s family told reporters Sunday during a call organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
Adar was famously pictured being carried away in a golf cart by Hamas terrorists.
Ravi said that when her relatives needed to use the bathroom, they would knock on the door to alert Hamas terrorists but that her kin would sometimes have to wait up to two hours before they could go.
“I Wish I Were There to Hold Her” – Biden Goes Off-Script in Remarks on 4-Year-Old American Hostage Released by Hamas (VIDEO) By Cristina Laila
Nov. 26, 2023 2:40 pm – Joe Biden on Sunday delivered remarks on the release of Israeli and American hostages by Hamas terrorists.
13 Israeli hostages and 4 foreign nationals were released by Hamas on Sunday (Middle East time). They were all captured when Hamas terrorists stormed the border into Israel and slaughtered 1,400 Jews on October 7.
The names of the latest hostages to be released:
1. Abigail Idan, 4
[Ed.: The American President thinks that now that he got Abigail out, he should at least be able to sniff her!]
Aunt Of Four-Year Old American Hostage Released On Sunday Linked To Democratic Donations, Hunter Biden Painting, Biden White House Access, And Cushy Biden Appointment By Christine Dolan
November 26, 2023 – Over the last seven weeks, President Joe Biden, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and many other Biden administration officials have hopscotched all over the Middle East meeting with heads of state focusing on getting the hostages home and raising the argument that Israel has the right to defend itself after the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 when 1,400 were killed and 240 were taken hostage to Gaza.
The Biden Administration has garnered attention speaking about the peace truce for the three to one ratio exchange of three Palestinian prisoners in Israel for every one Hamas-taken hostage.
During the first two days of the four-day exchange, no Americans were released.
On Sunday, the first American was released.
Abigail Mor Edan, one of many young children released by Hamas over the last three days, was the first American toddler released on Sunday.
Little Abigail’s story is of particular travesty. She is an orphan.
She was kidnapped as a three-year-old on October 7 after witnessing Hamas murder both of her parents on Oct. 7.
While being held Hamas inside the Gaza Strip, Abigail turned four years of age.
Her family, as well as the President of the United States, publicly stated how thrilled they were that she was released, as earlier reported by CDM.
Abigail’s Aunt is more than connected to the Bidens and perhaps explains why Abigail was the first American, although in the third wave of the hostage for prisoner swap.
Abigail’s Aunt, Elizabeth Naftali, is a Los Angeles real estate investor, democratic donor, who is connected to Hunter Biden’s art, has had access to the Biden White House, and received a cushy appointment by President Joe Biden.
Federal Election Commission records show almost 1,700 democratic political donation entries by Natali over recent years.
It is reported in the records that Naftali gave $5,600 directly to Biden’s campaign and thousands in contributions to Democratic campaigns, party organizations, and PACs during the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, including a $50,000 contribution to a pro-Biden political action committee.
Naftali has been at the Biden White House at least 13 times since December 2021, the Washington Free Beacon reported just months ago.
Those visits included a March 22 meeting with White House senior adviser Neera Tanden, who is now domestic policy advisor but previously served as Biden’s staff secretary. That is a gatekeeper job for any White House, republican or democratic administration.
Naftali also met twice with White House policy adviser Richard Figueroa, in December and September 2022.
White House logs evidence that Naftali was with 40 people inside the East Wing on Sept. 17, 2022. Most of the events she attended seem to be while in the presence of the president with hundreds of people in attendance.
President Joe Biden appointed Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali to an obscure yet prestigious board of the federal Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad on July 1, 2022.
Naftali was one of several who collectively spent a boatload on Hunter Biden’s art, as reported The Real Deal.
[Ed.: It’s not what you know, but who.]
Family Members: Hostages Ate Poorly, Slept on Benches; Waited up to Two Hours for Bathroom by JOEL B. POLLAK
26 Nov 2023 – Family members of released Israeli hostages told reporters Sunday that the hostages had been forced to sleep on benches during their seven-week captivity; that they had to endure waits of up to two hours for the bathroom; and that they were sometimes denied food.
Who are the Palestinian Prisoners Slated for Release? By Baruch Yedid, TPS
Israel published a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners of whom 150 will be freed.
November 26, 2023 – Israel and Hamas are now exchanging lists of abductees and imprisoned terrorists ahead of partial prisoner exchange and temporary ceasefire brokered by Qatar.
Details of the agreement are being finalized in Doha and a formal announcement is expected later today. Until then, fighting continues in the Gaza Strip.
Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, 150 Palestinian prisoners and 50 Israeli hostages — primarily women and children — will be released in stages over a four-day period.
Israel published a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners of whom 150 will be freed. Israeli terror victims have a 24-hour window to file legal petitions to the Supreme Court.
While some of the Palestinians aren’t associated with any specific terror group, many are affiliated with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Under the terms of agreement, the released Palestinians will be allowed to return to their previous residences.
The agreement does not obligate Israel to release anyone convicted of murder, but several of the Palestinians in the list of 300 came close.
Released terrorists celebrated by Palestinians all over country By Pesach Benson, TPS
Palestinians celebrate the release of 39 prisoners, including affiliates of Hamas and other groups.
November 26, 2023 – Celebrations occurred on Saturday night following the release of 39 Palestinian prisoners.
Videos posted on social media showed Palestinians in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem celebrating the return of 39 terrorists freed by Israel on Saturday night as part of a partial prisoner exchange with Hamas.
The 39 Palestinians are all women and minors.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had instructed police to prevent celebrations from taking place in eastern Jerusalem.
While some of the Palestinians aren’t associated with any specific terror group, others are affiliated with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The released Palestinians will be allowed to return to their previous residences.
The most notable of the freed Palestinians is would-be suicide bomber Israa Jaabis. She somehow survived when she blew up a car with gas cylinders near Maale Adumim in 2015. A police officer was injured in the attack. Jaabis made headlines in 2022 when her request for a nose job was rejected by the Israeli Prisons Service as a cosmetic procedure not necessary for Jaabis’s health.
In January, Defense Minister Yoav Galant revoked travel permits for three Palestinian Authority officials who participated in a celebration for the release of Karim Younis, one of the longest-serving prisoners jailed for terror. The three had traveled to the Younis family’s home in ‘Ara, south of Haifa.
Israel-Hamas war: Fight on Gaza ceasefire is with Israel’s mind, heart By YAAKOV KATZ
It is impossible to ignore that deals of this kind are Israel’s vulnerable and weak point, something our enemies can (and will) continue to exploit.
NOVEMBER 24, 2023 12:18 – Our strength is also our weakness.
That is what I have been thinking about the last week ever since the deal to release some of the hostages – for now, the women and children – became serious. On the one hand, Israelis are strong since they put the fate of the few – the hostages – ahead of the ultimate mission which is to eliminate Hamas. On the other hand, it is impossible to ignore that deals of this kind are Israel’s vulnerable and weak point, something our enemies can (and will) continue to exploit.
This deal is an argument between the Israeli mind and the Israeli heart. The Israeli mind looks at the deal with grave concern. Israel is stopping its military for at least four days which could easily turn into 10. Hamas will have the upper hand and will use the time to regroup, redeploy, and rearm.
For the last three weeks, the IDF has been moving through Gaza with a massive force, succeeding in achieving its goals of cutting off southern Gaza from the north and isolating Hamas forces in two areas in the south – Khan Yunis and Rafah.
It is not easy to stop a massive military force and once stopped, it is not easy to get it restarted with the same energy and momentum. In addition, with a lull in the fighting, Hamas forces will be able to move around Gaza freely and prepare for a future Israeli offensive. This will mean that if and when the operation restarts, IDF soldiers can expect tougher resistance.
That is the mind though. The heart, on the other hand, has no doubt that Israel needs to do everything possible to get the hostages back. The failures that enabled Hamas to attack Israel on October 7 are a stain on the prime minister and his government, on the generals in the IDF, and on the top operatives in the Shin Bet. Just as they are responsible for the failures that led to this, they are also responsible for bringing home the nearly 240 people they let down.
Most hostages are civilians
This is especially the case when considering that most of the hostages are civilians and not soldiers. They were people spending the morning of October 7 at home or at the Supernova music festival.
Hamas seeks to extend Gaza truce, Qatari officials visit Israel By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Qatar, which mediated the original hostage deal even though it has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel, sent an intelligence delegation to Israel on Saturday to discuss extending the deal.
NOVEMBER 26, 2023 22:13 – Hamas sought to extend the four-day pause in the Gaza war Sunday night, after it had completed 80% of a hostage deal that went into effect Friday, releasing 40 Israelis, one Filipino and 17 Thai citizens over the last three days.
A jubilant Israel welcomed 14 of those Israelis and three Thai citizens on Sunday, including Avigail Idan (4) who also holds American citizenship.
Hamas killed her parents in front of her in Kfar Aza during the group’s attack on Southern Israel on October 7, when terrorists seized some 240 hostages.
“We are moved to the depth of our souls,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
[Ed.: He does have a golden tongue, a way with words, doesn’t he! I miss his brother Yoni (his memory is a blessing.]
BREAKING: Prime Minister of Qatar says that more than 40 Israeli women and children are being held captive by unknown entities in Gaza, and not by Hamas.
According to the Qatari PM they “don’t have a way to locate them” and one of the reasons for the ceasefire “is to uncover their whereabouts”.
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Red Cross: Hamas Releases 14 Israeli Hostages and 3 Foreign Nationals in Latest Exchange including TWO 4-YEAR OLDS By Jim Hoft
Nov. 26, 2023 10:20 am – The International Red Cross announced the latest release of Israeli hostages by Hamas on Sunday night.
Hamas released 14 Isreali captives after the release of 13 Israeli hostages on Saturday.
The names of the latest hostages to be released:
1. Abigail Idan, 4
2. Ella Elyakim, 8
3. Dafna Elyakim, 15
4. Hagar Brodetz Ama, 40 and her children
5. Ofri Brodetz, 10
6. Yuval Brodetz, 8
7. Oriya Brodetz, 4
8. Chen Goldstein, 48 and her children
9. Agam Goldstein, 17
10. Tal Goldstein, 9
11. Gal Goldstein, 11
12. Alma Avraham, 84
13. Adrian Aviva Siegel, 63
[Ed.: Look over here (at the hostage release deal), not over there (at the Modern State of Israel being held hostage by its own hostages!)
The Intelligence Failure of October 7 – Roots and Lessons by Amnon Sofrin
November 2023 [The Jerusalem Strategic Review] – Hamas’ sudden attack on the kibbutzim and the towns neighboring the Gaza Strip caught the IDF and the country by total surprise. During the first 24 hours, beginning at 6:30 in the morning of October 7, the Hamas Nukhba (name of the commando troops, means “elite”) and those who came in with them conquered and held an area of about 4-5 kilometers depth inside Israel, and in places penetrated well beyond that. The lack of any forewarning accounted also for the confused and disorganized, albeit often individually heroic, actions of the military and the police throughout the day.
What went wrong? How could Israel’s intelligence community have failed to “ring the bell”? To understand we have to analyze both the failure at the strategic level of analysis and the collapse at the tactical level of collection and detection.
The strategic level
Hamas’ leaders planned the attack over a long time and at an impressively high level of secrecy. We presume, based on what we know at this stage, that the planning for this operation began in 2021 and was carried out by Hamas leaders in Gaza Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar with a small group of people. The planning was very detailed; each unit was assigned a specific mission with files prepared for each targeted community and military base.
While the Hamas units had no prior idea as to what their mission would be before the morning of the attack, they were trained on generic models of an Israeli kibbutz as well as on models of Israeli tanks, bases and other targets. They were also studying the points of penetration above ground, once the attack tunnels system (of which there were more than 30 in 2014) were put out of use. And yet these activities went on without setting off alarms on the Israeli side.
At the strategic level of analysis in the Israeli intelligence community, as well as among the political decision makers and the highest military echelon, a widely-held groupthink took hold: namely, that Hamas was adapting to the duties of governance. Thus, Israel was willing to make sure that the economic situation in the Gaza strip would improve – by allowing the monthly delivery of money from Qatar (in suitcases – since the Palestinian Authority blocked the use of the banking system for these transactions); and by allowing more people from Gaza to work in Israel. The governing assumption, which seemed to be confirmed by events, was that Hamas’ leadership would have no incentive to launch a new confrontation with Israel since it would continue to focus on improving the lives of Gaza residents.
Moreover, the prevailing belief was that the Hamas leadership was deterred from new attacks after suffering what the IDF claimed, perhaps too conveniently, were serious losses inflicted by the Israeli Air Force during the fighting in May 2021. This groupthink seemed to be reaffirmed when Hamas chose twice, in August 2022 and again in May 2023, to stay out of the fighting when the IDF attacked leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, leading to short rounds of fighting. Hamas did not interfere, and Israel’s decision makers saw this as confirmation that Hamas was deterred and had no incentive to launch another major confrontation with Israel, at least for some years (given that seven years had passed between the fighting in 2014 and the Hamas rocket attacks in 2021).
Another aspect of the intelligence failure – which wove together the strategic level of analysis and the tactical level of collecting and assessing Hamas’ military capabilities – was the lack of knowledge and understanding of the remarkable improvement in Hamas’ ability to launch such an organized and coordinated attack, and the nature of the simple but effective devices it acquired – with help from Iran – in order to overcome Israel’s defenses.
Hezbollah Attacks, But Tries to Stay Out of Total War BY HUGH FITZGERALD
NOV 25, 2023 10:00 AM – In 2006, the UN passed Resolution 1701, according to which Hezbollah was supposed to be disarmed. It never happened. Now Hezbollah is stronger than ever. It essentially runs the Lebanese government; not Prime Minister Najib Mikati, but Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, calls the shots in Beirut. And thanks to Iran, Hezbollah has a storehouse of 150,000 missiles and rockets. Its arsenal is ten times more powerful than that possessed by Hamas.
During the four-day “pause” in its campaign in Gaza against Hamas that Israel has agreed to, the IDF could turn more of its attention to Hezbollah, stepping up its bombing campaign in southern Lebanon, to destroy weapons warehouses, enough airstrikes to inflict significant punishment, but not enough to cause Hezbollah to respond with a full-scale war, which at this point Israel would prefer to avoid. Once Hamas is destroyed, however, the Israelis may want to deal more forcefully with Hezbollah to degrade its storehouses bristling with weapons.
Since October 7, Hezbollah has fired at least 1,000 missiles into Israel’s northern cities. It has now been attacking Israel with missiles, drones, and artillery. Almost every night, there is an exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Six Israeli soldiers and three civilians have so far been killed by Hezbollah fire since October 7. More on this fighting in the north, which has escalated on November 20, can be found here: “Hezbollah says attacks Israeli troops with drones, artillery, missiles,” AFP, November 20, 2023:
The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.
Hezbollah fighters targeted soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel “with three attack drones,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement, adding shortly after that it had also targeted troops in the area with artillery fire [on November 20].
Both statements claimed the attacks were “direct hits.”
Earlier Monday, Hezbollah said it had fired “Burkan missiles” at an Israeli barracks, and also claimed a number of other attacks on Israeli positions.
Israel’s army said “three UAVs (drones) were identified striking adjacent” to an army post, without specifying where. It added that “no injuries were reported.”…
Hezbollah said the three drones made “direct hits” on an army post and killed Israelis. The IDF said that the drones struck a site “adjacent” to the army post, and that there were no casualties. Which version do you believe?
Palestinians CHEER as Two Men Are EXECUTED, Hung Upside Down From Electric Pole, Their Legs are Cut Off, Accused of Cooperating with Israel By Pamela Geller
November 25, 2023 – This is who the world defends.
Tonight Hamas have executed two Palestinians the monsters claim were Israeli informants while hundreds of “innocent” Palestinian civilians cheered and whistled.
One of the Palestinians who was executed tonight by Hamas had his legs cut off before they discarded his body in the garbage.
Executed and hung upside down on a metal pole.
Savages.
Hundreds of Palestinian CIVILIANS lined the streets tonight to cheer and whistle as 2 Palestinian men were executed and hung upside down on a metal pole.
One of the executed men then had his legs cut off with his body discarded and thrown into a pile of rubbish.
Hamas claimed the 2 victims were Israeli informants.
Breaking: Hamas Transfers Second Set of Hostages via Egypt Including 13 Israeli and 4 Thai Hostages By Jim Hoft
Nov. 25, 2023 6:00 pm – The Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, announced moments ago (6 PM ET US) that Hamas released a second set of Israeli and Thai hostages.
According to the IDF 13 Israeli and 4 Thai hostages were released.
This was after Hamas delayed their release earlier Saturday.
It looks like 9 children, including one boy, and 4 women were released by Hamas this morning.
[Ed.: Oh, the suspense!! Oh, the drama!! Totally captivating, isn’t it!! This show is better than a good card trick, because we get to be the cards that are being played…]
“They Feared for Their Lives” – Initial Reports: ‘Innocent’ Palestinians Threatened and Hurled Stones at Bus Carrying Israeli Hostages Out of Gaza By Jim Hoft
Nov. 25, 2023 2:20 pm – Details are beginning to emerge about what the Israeli hostages were forced to endure during the captivity in Gaza by Hamas terrorists.
The hostages were taken hostage on October 7, 2023, when Hamas stormed the southern border into Israel and slaughtered 1,400 innocent Jews, foreigners, and teens at an overnight concert.
Hamas also took some 240 Jews hostage.
The first group of 13 hostages were released on Friday. The group included women and children.
The initial report revealed the hostages feared for their lives as Palestinians hurled stones and objects at their van. They wanted them dead!
And here are the cheering hordes of ‘innocent’ Palestinians cheering Hamas killers after they slaughtered 1,400 Jews and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7.
This Strategy Changes EVERYTHING – Best Anti-Tunnel Tactic Ever? [9:55]
Nov 25, 2023 – How Israel has been handling the HAMAS tunnel network. Hamas has been using these tunnels to smuggle weapons and militants into Gaza, and Israel has been hit hard by this.
This video explains how Israel has been handling the HAMAS tunnel network and how it has affected their military operations in Gaza. From airstrikes to ground operations, you’ll learn everything you need to know about this controversial topic.
DEVELOPING: Hamas is refusing to transfer the hostages scheduled for release this evening to the Red Cross, citing unmet conditions by Israel.
[11:58 AM, 11/25/2023] +1 (224) 216-2379: According to a Hamas spokesperson, the decision to postpone the release of the hostages hinges on Israel fulfilling specific terms of the agreement, which include allowing truck entries and releasing certain prisoners.
Hamas accuses Israel of delaying the hostage release process by not adhering to the agreed terms. However, Israeli officials have firmly rejected these accusations, stating, “We met all our commitments.”
This sudden turn of events introduces a new level of complexity to the already tense negotiations and puts the fate of the hostages in uncertainty. – Bernie News
BREAKING: Israel has sent a message to Hamas warning that if the next round of hostages aren’t released by midnight (5 hours) then the ceasefire will be suspended and the IDF will resume large-scale air-ground-sea operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Report: Details are emerging about what the hostages endured in Hamas captivity.
[12:46 PM, 11/25/2023] +1 (224) 216-2379: Some of them survived on only rice during their last two weeks of captivity.
When they were being moved yesterday, some of the hostages feared for their lives as crowds of Gazans civilians hurled stones and other objects at their van.
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Qatar warns Hamas from playing games with the hostage agreement: Stop with the games, you will be sorry for them. – RotterNet
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IDF releases footage showing the moment released hostages entered Israeli territory on Friday evening.
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[Ed.: Israel has been pressured into this hostage game, and by doing so, Israel herself is being held hostage by the enemy. The only path to victory for Israel is to get out of the hostage game altogether, and decimate the enemy population entirely. This most likely will not be possible since it requires Israel to overcome its fear of success.]
For Israel, Failures Never Learned and Lessons for Today By Alexander G. Markovsky
October 14, 2023 – As prominent Zionist Max Nordau once observed, “Logic is a Greek art, and Jews can’t tolerate it. The Jew learns not by way of reason but from catastrophes.” Although the circumstances have changed greatly since those words were written, Max Nordau’s wisdom as applied to Israel has not changed.
In 1947, Arab countries rejected a UN plan to partition the British mandate in Palestine into two states. Armed with British weaponry and guided by British officers, Arabs were convinced they could claim the entire territory by military triumph. If not for comrade Stalin, who supplied the Jews with weapons via Czechoslovakia and dispatched hundreds of seasoned Soviet officers and generals of Jewish heritage to Palestine, all of whom played a pivotal role in the formation, organization, and leadership of the Israeli army, including the air force, Israel would not exist.
In subsequent years, however (e.g., 1956, 1967, and 1973), after each decisive victory, Israel crawled back to the humiliated enemies, begging them for reconciliation and offering captured lands as concessions for peace and recognition of the State of Israel. The process was called “land for peace” and has resulted in neither land nor peace.
Nevertheless, despite these failed bargains and the ever-present and immediate threat of annihilation, Jews have fallen prey to the seductive illusion that peace can be bought. They’ve spilled much blood to achieve this lofty goal.
In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo Accords and accepted a new advanced form of “land for peace” called the Two-State Solution. This solution, widely supported by the West, was, ironically, an older concept the Arabs had rejected in 1947.
By and large, Israel had not learned the lessons of the past. Israelis continued repeatedly stepping on the same rakes.
WATCH LIVE: Hamas Hostage Transfer, 12 Thais, 13 Israelis Released, Palestinian Civilians Chase and Jeer at Ambulances Driving Israeli Women, Children Hostages Out of Gaza. By Pamela Geller
November 24, 2023 – Happening now….. 12 Thais had been released from captivity in Gaza and 13 Israelis (no Americans).
A total of 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian terrorists are to be freed over the four-day truce
Deal With The Devil: The Hellish Choice Behind the Hostage Hudna/Ceasefire “Will Bring Us to Disaster” By Pamela Geller
November 24, 2023 – Lest we forget, Yahya Sinwar (photo above), leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was released years back in a similar hostage deal. Sinwar is the key mastermind of the October 7 onslaught in southern Israel in which at least 1,200 people were killed and some 240 were kidnapped.
Hamas Hudna Goes Into Effect as Hostages Are Expected to Be Freed
After declaring the deal “will bring us to disaster,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir criticized Israel’s war cabinet, which is made up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and minister without a portfolio Benny Gantz, who joined the government early in the war in order to join the war cabinet. In addition, MK Gadi Eisenkot serves as an observer in the cabinet.
“There is another thing, and that’s the concept that guides the war cabinet… they talked about a deal of 80 [hostages], dropped it to 70, then dropped it to 50,” Ben Gvir said. “They said they wouldn’t let food enter, then after that, they said they wouldn’t let fuel enter, and now they have fuel.” Ben Gvir also slammed the cabinet for the decision made last week to allow limited but regular fuel deliveries to enter the Strip for the first time since October 7.
The following is the best analysis of the terrible, horrible hostage deal.
