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vyorei · 7 months

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YOU CAN'T KEEP USING THIS FUCKING EXCUSE, THIS ISN'T A GAME AND THAT ISN'T A CHEAT CODE

STOP ATTACKING HOSPITALS YOU FUCKING PSYCHOPATHS

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lifepulse · 6 months

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Biden Announces Humanitarian Truces in Gaza

US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that Israel has agreed to humanitarian truces in Gaza following pressure from the United States. The truces will allow civilians to flee the fighting and bring more aid into the affected areas.

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90smovies · 1 year

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#Kiss of Death 1995 #Kiss of Death #David Caruso #Samuel L. Jackson #Nicolas Cage #Barbet Schroeder #Richard Price #Eleazar Lipsky #Ben Hecht #Charles Lederer #90s

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cetra · 7 months

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Wolf: But you know that there are a lot of refugees, a lot of innocent civilians... men, women & children in that refugee camp as well, right? IOF's Richard Hecht: This is the tragedy of war, Wolf.

Israel is admitting to war crimes on national television, as always embedded into the lie that they were targeting Hamas, and are pinning the blame for the civilian deaths that result from these massacres on the civilians who chose not to go south. Israel is out of control and their derangement is now even being questioned by a former writer for AIPAC. Israel's time is running out

#Palestine #war crimes

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zvaigzdelasas · 8 months

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9 Oct 23

The Israeli military revised on Tuesday a recommendation by one of its spokespeople that Palestinians fleeing its air strikes in the Gaza Strip head to Egypt, saying in a follow-up statement that the main crossing on that border was currently closed.

Briefing foreign reporters, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht said he would advise Palestinian refugees to "get out" through the Rafah crossing on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.

His office then issued a statement. "Clarification: The Rafah crossing was open yesterday, but now it is closed," it said.

Strangely Israeli media doesn't seem to have included this "clarification"

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hyperions-fate · 3 months

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Richard Hecht is from a suburb of Glasgow and has no connection to Palestine or the Middle East. But purely on account of his religious background, he was given Israeli citizenship and his move subsidised by the Israeli state. He's now a spokesman for their occupation forces, excusing their genocide before the world's media.

By contrast, residents of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem are those whose families were ethnically cleansed from their homes in what is now 'Israel', their villages destroyed and depopulated by Jewish militias in 1948. They are prevented by law from returning to their homeland, are subject to brutal military rule, and are denied the most basic autonomy. 'Apartheid' is a kind word for this historic obscenity, one which no fantasy of 'ancient Israel' can justify.

#Palestine

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apollo-enthusiast · 8 months

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The world must know

The atrocities committed by hamas are too horrible to imagine, and certainly for me to put into words. So instead, here's a translation of a report containing a testimony of a Zaka man. Zaka is the organisation taking care of people's dead bodies.

Shipping containers, one by the other, 44 bodies of murdered and fallen in each one of them. They're laid one on the other in silver shelves, partially piling on one another - these are the sights in the military base Shura, to which the bodies from the massacre in the Gaza Envelope communities arrive. The bodies get to the shipping containers after a series of identification tests of the teeth, as well as DNA tests.

According to lieutenant colonel Richard Hecht, an IDF spokesman:

"We brought the international community here. We've spent three days with the foreign press so the scope of the ISIS massacre that was here will be understood. Starting tomorrow we'll be accused of being war criminals. The IDF hurts only Hamas, not civilian population. The whole world needs to see. Hamas is ISIS. This is not what we usually do. We don't attack children. Hamas uses children as human shields. We don't do that. The world must see that."

In the camp there are currently 900 bodies of civilians and hundreds more of soldiers and members of the security system. Trucks keep coming, and unload more and more bodies that have been through the identification process wrapped in bags. The smells here are extremely harsh, but the people in charge of the craft of identification and the care of bodies are, among others, the people of Zaka. One of them is Levy Wilhelm.

"I was recruited to the north, but for this purpose we got here for the weekend." He tells. In his words, "My job is to transport bodies from cooling containers that passed teeth and DNA tests. Due to the large amount we couldn't transport them one by one, so we put them in cooling containers. The bodies pile on top of each other and evacuated to certain shipping containers. Sometimes the situation is so bad that we have to put the bodies on top of each other. We got preparation on the mental level, but the situation is really catastrophic because sometimes the bag might rip and sometimes cloth of body parts peek out. We're in a completely crazy atmosphere and we really hope it won't affect us. When you see it with your own eyes you understand to what a despicable and humiliating situation we got, when tiny little kids are in bags. Right now I feel bolstered and I'm willing to continue and work hard because the situation calls for us all. We learned to dissociate for them, for us and for the people to do the job. Sometimes we'll discover a mortifying sight, but we must get strong immediately and if someone feels weakness you talk to him and get the situation under control so we're ready to work. We're happy that we got to put a hand under those sacred stretchers."

Benny Shechter, another volunteer for identifying bodies:

"Since yesterday night I'm here. A whole night you transport bodies, pick up a burnt child. There are 51 children without heads here. We pick up a child. The bag is big and the body is small. Sometimes you pick up a leg on it's own. Rockets were shot at houses and they took down bodies from trees. They found 20 men in one house. I'm a 60 year old person, and I'm falling apart. You pick up a body and see it's a child. There are people here that picked up a child and next to them put their heads."

Source: Ynet article by Adir Yanko

#Israel #Palestine

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workersolidarity · 8 months

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 HAMAS LAUNCHES 2'000 ROCKETS AND INFILTRATES ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS

Hamas launched thousands of missiles and a multi-front attack on Israeli settlements outside the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, killing more than 100 and injuring many hundreds more.

Hamas launched attacks on the settlements of Sderot and Ashkelon, releasing videos of Palestinian militants launching raids on Israeli communities. The attack began at 6:30am local time.

Israel has already launched a retaliatory bombardment of Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a recorded video message, told Israelis, "citizens of Israel, we are at war" from the Israeli Military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

According to a senior Hamas Military Commander by the name Mohammed Deif, the launch of 2'000 rockets into Israeli settlements marked the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood."

"We've decided to say enough's enough" Deif said in a recorded message as he urged all Palestinians to confront Israel, "this is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on Earth."

Later Saturday morning, Israeli Defense Forces began bombardment of Gaza in what IDF Forces are calling "Operation Iron Swords" with IDF soldiers fighting in several locations throughout the Gaza strip.

“Right now we’re fighting. We’re fighting in certain locations around the Gaza Strip … our forces are now fighting on the ground,” Israel’s army spokesman Richard Hecht told Al Jazeera News.

Tensions had been rising for some time in the area, with recent raids on the Al Aqsa mosque leading to several skirmishes in the last year and Israeli Defense Forces have killed 247 Palestinians in that time while only 32 Israelis and two foreign nationals have been killed in Palestinian attacks.

Hamas has called on all "resistance fighters in the West Bank" as well as "our Arab and Islamic nations" to join the fight against Israeli occupation and apartheid.

#source

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curiositasmundi · 3 months

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Il numero due dell'unità di portavoce delle Forze di difesa israeliane (Idf), il tenente colonnello Daniel Hagari, e un gran numero di alti funzionari del sistema informativo delle Idf hanno annunciato le loro dimissioni: lo riporta l'emittente israeliana Channel 14.

Fonti di Channel 14 affermano che le dimissioni sono dovute a questioni "professionali e personali". L'emittente da parte sua definisce "insolita" un'uscita dall'esercito di tale portata nel pieno di una guerra in corso. Oltre ad Hagari le dimissioni riguarderebbero anche l'altro tenente colonnello Richard Hecht, portavoce delle Idf per i media esteri. Tra gli altri, Channel 14 fa poi i nomi degli ufficiali Merav Granot e Tzupia Moshkovich.

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#issrael down

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reuna · 6 months

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On Thursday, Reuters, AFP, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released investigations into the circumstances of the deadly strike. AFP and HRW claimed the strike was a “deliberate,” targeted attack by Israel on the journalists. In a statement to Reuters, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Richard Hecht said: “We don’t target journalists.” He did not provide further comment, the news agency reported.

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday said that the October incident in which a Reuters journalist was killed is still “under review.”

AFP photographer Christina Assi had her leg amputated and remains in the hospital as a result of the strike, according to AFP.

Eylon Levy, a spokesperson for the Israeli government, said Thursday that he was “not familiar” with the new reports. “The guiding principle in Israel’s campaign against Hamas is we uphold the principles of international law regarding proportionality, necessity, distinction,” he said. “We target Hamas, we do not target civilians.”

I AM GOING INSANE WITH THE OBVIOUS ISRAELI LIES omfgsioeurv9arul I can't even... fuck this shit why the fuck is everyone letting these monsters just lie up in their faces and then they print the lies as though they were anything but obvious lies

#i am nauseous #iof are probably laughing the villain laugh when they see what the world lets them do #i'm not even talking about the finnish YLE referencing CNN news about the stripped palestinian civilians and just fucking ignoring the stuf #cnn writes about who these men are #instead YLE just says “some of the men may not be hamas according to cnn” and then back to the IOF propaganda #palestine #iof #israel is a criminal state #israel is a war criminal #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide #israel is a genocidal state #YLE #yle #CNN #cnn

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vyorei · 7 months

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Do they even hear themselves 👁️👄👁️

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Richard Hecht #Islamic Jihad

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naturalrights-retard · 3 months

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The head of the Israeli occupation army’s Spokesperson’s Unit, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, has announced his resignation despite the continued Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to Tamir Morag of the Israeli website Now 14. A wave of other senior army officers in the unit have also resigned.

The unit is responsible for providing information about the Israeli occupation army. Those who have resigned include the second-in-command of Hagari’s team, Moran Katz, a civilian who works as a spokeswoman for the Israeli occupation army with the rank of colonel. She resigned because, “Things are not going well on both the professional and personal levels.”

Among those who have announced their resignation is General Richard Hecht, the Israeli army’s spokesperson for foreign media affairs. Scottish-born Hecht is a veteran and announced his resignation after being replaced in his role, which he was allegedly told about in a harsh manner. Merav Granot also resigned after not being promoted, along with Tzupia Moshkovich.

Before Hagari was appointed as spokesman for the occupation army, he commanded Shayetet 13 marine commando unit and was assistant to Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. In the past, he was also head of the office of the then Chief of Staff, and now member of parliament, Benny Gantz.

Hagari was appointed as army spokesman despite not serving in any sort of position within the unit. This in itself is not rare, but his relationships with former chiefs of staff who belong to a particular political party raises questions, causing unrest within the unit. However, it is likely that he was the reason for the resignation of several senior officials.

According to journalist Morag, the matter is complicated because this is a military regime, and sometimes officials reach retirement age and leave their positions without a specific reason. Nevertheless, the number of officials who announced their retirement at one time during a war is out of the ordinary.

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danielgoldhorn · 6 months

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"Why didn’t they fire a warning shot? Why suddenly hit us without a prior warning, and then try to finish us off with the second strike?”

An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct. 13 by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, a Reuters investigation has found.

The two strikes killed Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, and severely wounded Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer Christina Assi, 28, just over a kilometre from the Israeli border near the Lebanese village of Alma al-Chaab.

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Reuters presented the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with its findings that the tank rounds were fired from within Israel and posed additional detailed questions, including whether Israeli troops knew they were firing upon journalists.

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, the IDF’s international spokesman, said: “We don’t target journalists.” He did not provide further comment.

The group of seven reporters from AFP, Al Jazeera and Reuters were all wearing blue flak jackets and helmets, most with “PRESS” written on them in white letters. There were journalists from at least another seven media outlets in and around Alma al-Chaab that day.

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Al Jazeera's manager of international communications, Ihtisham Hibatullah, said: "The Reuters investigation into the October 13 attack underscores Israel's alarming pattern of deliberately targeting journalists in an attempt to silence the messenger.”

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International criminal law expert Carolyn Edgerton, who has worked on war crimes cases in the Balkans, said filming Israeli tank positions at the border might have been considered a threat to the Israeli military, if that information was seen to “be of targeting value to forces in Lebanon”.

But she said in written responses to Reuters questions that two back-to-back rounds fired at a group of clearly identified journalists “is a clear violation of international humanitarian law and may also amount to the war crime of attacking civilians”.

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“Why were we hit? Why didn’t they fire a warning shot? If you don’t want us to take pictures, fire a warning shot. Why suddenly hit us without a prior warning, and then try to finish us off with the second strike?” said Reuters journalist Al-Sudani, 47, a photographer based in Baghdad.

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“Issam was not in an active combat zone when he was struck. He and his colleagues were alongside journalists from other news outlets, in an area far from active conflict,” Reuters said in a statement.

#israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #news #current events #politics

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etaali · 7 months

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İsrail'in yalanları alay konusu oldu.

İsrail Ordu Sözcüsü Richard Hecht, "Gazze'deki Rantisi Çocuk Hastanesi'nde Hamas savaşçılarının listesini ele geçirdik." dedi. Paylaştığı görüntü, Arapça takvim çıktı.

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zvaigzdelasas · 8 months

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Israel’s military battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday, as it pounded the Gaza Strip from the air and mustered for a campaign its prime minister said would destroy “the military and governing capabilities” of the militant group.[...] Military spokesperson Richard Hecht said it was taking longer than expected to repel the incursion because there were still multiple breaches in the border, which Hamas could be using to bring in more fighters and weapons. “We thought this morning we’d be in a better place,” Hecht said.[...]

An Israeli military spokesperson said that the army had called up around 100,000 reservists, and said in a statement that Israel would aim to end Hamas’ rule of Gaza. “Our task is to make sure that Hamas will no longer have any military capabilities to threaten Israel with this,” said spokesperson Jonathan Conricus in a video tweeted by Israel’s military. “And in addition to that, we will make sure that Hamas is no longer able to govern the Gaza Strip.”[...]

In northern Israel, a brief exchange of strikes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group fanned fears that the fighting could expand into a wider regional war. Hezbollah fired rockets and shells Sunday at Israeli positions in a disputed area along the border, and Israel fired back using armed drones. The Israeli military said the situation was calm after the exchange. Elsewhere, six Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers Sunday around the West Bank.

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news4dzhozhar · 7 months

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Netanyahu rejected ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza

**This has conveniently gotten buried. Little by little the truth is coming out. First that the majority of "civilians" that Israel claimed were killed were actually Israeli soldiers and now this. They don't give a damn about hostages. For a ceasefire of only 5 days, Netanyahu could have gotten hostages back and he refused. This has NEVER been about "defense" or rescuing anyone**

Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a deal for a five-day ceasefire with Palestinian militant groups in Gaza in return for the release of hostages held in the territory early in the war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.

The sources said the Israeli prime minister rejected the deal outright in negotiations soon after Hamas militants staged an unprecedented incursion into Israeli territory on 7 October, killing an estimated 1,400 people.

Negotiations resumed after the launch of the Israeli ground offensive on 27 October, but the same sources said Netanyahu had continued to take a tough line on proposals involving ceasefires of different durations in exchange for a varying number of hostages.

Others indicated that negotiations which took place prior to the ground invasion involved a far larger number of hostages, with Hamas proposing the release of dozens of foreign nationals captive in Gaza.

The Israeli prime minister’s office was asked to comment on the hostage negotiations but had not given a response by Thursday evening.

An estimated 240 people were taken hostage after fighters from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups based in Gaza, as well as civilians, crossed the reinforced border fence separating the territory from Israeli towns and kibbutzim.

Public anger and demands that Israel prioritise hostage negotiations have increased, with families of those held in Gaza rallying outside Netanyahu’s residence earlier this week.

According to three sources familiar with the talks, the original deal on the table involved freeing children, women and elderly and sick people in exchange for a five-day ceasefire, but the Israeli government turned this down and demonstrated its rejection with the launch of the ground offensive.

Israeli bombardments as well as a continuing ground invasion of the northern end of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people, have killed more than 10,300 people in the past month and injured in excess of 25,000, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s militant wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, has said that the group is unable to release more hostages amid the mounting attacks.

On Thursday the US national security council spokesperson John Kirby said Israel had agreed to daily four-hour “humanitarian pauses”, with the aim that the small breaks in bombardments could aid the passage of hostages out of Gaza. Kirby said Israel had also agreed to open a second corridor for civilians to flee Gaza City.

Lt Col Richard Hecht, an Israeli army spokesperson, said: “There’s no ceasefire, I repeat there’s no ceasefire. What we are doing, that four-hour window, these are tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid.”

Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a video it said showed two hostages, a woman in her 70s and a 13-year-old boy, held in Gaza. A spokesperson for the group’s military wing said it was “ready to release them on humanitarian grounds when the security conditions on the ground are met”. Hecht said the footage amounted to “psychological terrorism of the worst kind I’ve seen in my life”.

Indirect negotiations between Israeli officials and Hamas, mediated by Qatar as the two groups do not officially have contact, have recently focused on the possibility of a ceasefire lasting between one and three days, tied to the release of between 10 and 15 hostages.

A source with knowledge of the negotiations said the push to cease hostilities for a short time and exchange a small number of hostages was a litmus test and a gateway to further hostage talks.

Officials from Egypt and the United Nations and a western diplomat told Associated Press that the deal on the table would also allow more aid, including small amounts of fuel, to enter Gaza after Israel largely cut supplies of food, water, aid and fuel days after Hamas’s incursion. US officials told AP that the Biden administration suggested linking the length of the ceasefire to the number of hostages for release.

Negotiations to free the hostages resulted in the release of four women, including two American citizens and two Israelis, on 20 and 24 October. The Egyptian cable news channel Al Qahera said Egyptian mediators were close to reaching a deal that would bring a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza and a hostage exchange.

Noam Sagi, whose 75-year-old mother, Ada Sagi, is being held hostage, said: “We have heard plenty of rumours in the past 30 days. We are in the midst of psychological torture for the last 34 days. Rumours come and go. We expect from everyone involved to bring all of the hostages back home now. It is the number one priority.”

Yehuda Beinin, whose daughter, Liat, 49, and son-in-law, Aviv, 49, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, said the reports emerging about a ceasefire were “very unclear”.

“What we have to say to the government of Israel is: it is your job to secure the release of the hostages. How you go about doing that, that’s your problem,” the 70-year-old said. “I do not feel that a month has passed by, I have no concept of time. It’s one big total blur and it’s very unreal, very unnerving.”

One source with knowledge of the talks, which slowed after the Israeli ground invasion, said a central point of discussion was a demand by the Israeli side for Hamas to provide a full list specifying the name and details of each person held in Gaza. The Israeli side was unwilling to cease bombardments without receiving this list.

Hamas responded that it was unable to provide the list without a pause in the fighting, as the estimated 240 hostages were held by a number of different groups in places across Gaza. That suggested even Hamas leaders do not know for sure how many people are held captive, their locations or the number who have survived the bombardments.

Another source said Hamas originally demanded prisoner exchanges, fuel and other supplies in return for the hostages, but these demands were dropped in favour of a halt to the airstrikes alone.

“Each time the Israeli counter-demand got harder,” the source said. Members of Hamas have previously said they took hostages in order to exchange them for the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

The negotiations have also brought splits inside the Israeli establishment to the fore, pitting hawks in the military, government rightwingers, and particularly Netanyahu, against the Mossad intelligence agency, which is the lead agency in hostage negotiations, and some of the generals.

“Each time a deal would go back to Bibi [Netanyahu] it would come back with tougher demands,” one source said. Netanyahu has repeatedly publicly rejected any idea of a ceasefire, and has instead opted to intensify attacks on Gaza.

In mid-October, the former Mossad operative David Meidan, who negotiated the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Gaza over a decade ago, told Haaretz: “There’s no doubt that the first issue the state has to deal with is the matter of the captives … The window of opportunity for this is very narrow. We have to finish this … within a week.”

Talks have focused on attempts to find figures within the Israeli camp who are receptive to the argument that further hostage releases would be impossible amid an escalation in the fighting.

“The war is moving forward with force that Hamas has never seen,” Netanyahu declared in a forceful speech marking a month since the incursion. “There will not be a ceasefire without the return of our kidnapped.”

Israeli media reported that the current Mossad director, David Barnea, and the former director Yossi Cohen recently visited Doha to discuss hostage negotiations. Their visit, as well as an increased role of the Mossad in negotiations, appeared to shift discussions towards the possibility of a limited hostage release tied to a temporary ceasefire.

The CIA chief, William Burns, visited Cairo and Israel earlier this week, meeting the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Burns met the Mossad chief Barnea and the Qatari prime minister in Doha on Thursday.

Sources briefed on the talks told Reuters that the group discussed allowing small amounts of fuel into Gaza for humanitarian purposes, which Israel has so far refused, as well as the deal to free a small number of hostages in exchange for a ceasefire of one or two days. The outcome of the talks, however, remained unclear.

#war criminals #warmonger #netanyahu is a war criminal #sociopath #israel is committing genocide #genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #israel is a terrorist state #israel is not the victim #icc war crimes tribunal #israeli propaganda #israeli lies #israeli war crimes #gazaunderfire #gaza under attack #save Palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸

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