The IDF says its 215th Artillery Regiment struck several targets in northern Gaza's Jabaliya. A drone strike was also carried out against a group of Hamas operatives moving toward Israeli forces, and an observation post was targeted with a guided munition, the IDF says.

In… pic.twitter.com/yHdRfsyTTU

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 23, 2023

According to Hamas supporters in the USA, just another example of the "rich white colonizers oppressing the poor Palestinians":

A beautiful moment as an IDF combat soldier surprises his mother after not seeing her for weeks while he was defending the country.

h/t: @AdamAlbilya pic.twitter.com/e3J7wY5ryq

— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) November 23, 2023

IDF combat engineering soldiers put up the pictures of the abductees on a wall in Gaza pic.twitter.com/vlf4ex2lKp

— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) November 23, 2023

Her daughter attempted to stab a police officer. You forgot to mention that @cnni https://t.co/2Fqn1h1QAb

— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) November 23, 2023

Hamas founder's son addresses the UN regarding the organization and indoctrination etc. in Gaza:

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"Hamas' first crime against children in the Palestinian societies is not arming them or encouraging them to carry suicide bombing attacks it's the religious ideological indoctrination that I had to go through with one intention in mind: to annihilate the State of Israel. This is Hamas's primary goal," Yousef said.

As "a 10-year-old child when I disobeyed Hamas, I was tied up to a post and I was whipped by a Hamas top leader. My father was in prison at that time and this leader thought that he was my mentor. This is Hamas discipline. This is how they wanted me to be... to become a violent savage like them," the defecting son said.

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IDF assesses that dozens of rockets (approximately 30) were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel, in the largest barrage from Lebanon since the start of the war. https://t.co/pSch4oXR36 pic.twitter.com/itykqX2YTk

— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) November 23, 2023

Sucks for all the good Catholics in Lebanon but I think Beirut is about to be reduced to a pile of bricks. Just horrible that a small group of people will bring death and destruction to so many. It's unavoidable at this point.

💢 Completely destroyed buildings:

• 45,000 houses
• 85 mosques
• 102 gov't offices, facilities

💢 Damaged buildings:

• 233,000 housing units
• 266 schools, 67 out of service
• 174 mosques; 3 churches

Since Oct. 7, civilian sites including homes, public facilities,… pic.twitter.com/5dHQV43LjQ

— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) November 23, 2023

This is a pro hamas media source as it comes from turkey. So, I'm sure the numbers are a little inflated. But, Israel has done some work.

Great read on why the number of Palestinian civilians killed hasn't been as high as one might think.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079

Several Hamas Tunnels which have been Discovered beneath Al-Shifa Medical Center in Northern Gaza were Destroyed this morning prior to the Ceasefire which is now in Effect, with IDF Ground Forces having now Redeployed to the Lines-of-Contact which were Agreed upon with Hamas. pic.twitter.com/H2iKSQFcn2

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 24, 2023

The warning of the spokesman of the Israeli army to the residents of Gaza:

Northern Gaza is a war zone and it is forbidden to return to it.

Do not return to the north under any circumstances.

Meanwhile “Palestinians” are walking towards the north.pic.twitter.com/DN1OXrGbmt

— Nioh Berg ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) November 24, 2023

IDF Spokesman in Arabic, @AvichayAdraee, released this message to the Gazans after the ceasefire started this morning. pic.twitter.com/wJw60NnSOz

— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) November 24, 2023

Just before the temporary ceasefire started this morning, the IDF blew up a huge compound somewhere in the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/c9nVwsvsec

— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) November 24, 2023

maybe there will be a "North Gaza" allied with Israel and a "South Gaza" allied with Iran

Israeli journalist @ohadh1 spoke to Palestinian locals in Gaza for the first time since the war and here’s what they had to say about Hamas.

Watch:#FreeGazaFromHamas

📸 @N12News pic.twitter.com/wxofUSGgNs

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 24, 2023

An optimistic take from Israel Times: Hamas is desperate and the deal shows it:

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At the start of the war, Hamas and Islamic Jihad started to trickle out hostages in ways that showed they didn't quite grasp the change that had come over Israelis. They tried to delay the ground incursion by promising to release two hostages every few days.

But Israel ignored the gambit, and every ensuing attempt to dangle hostages before it. It launched the ground incursion with no more than a mention of the Israelis held in Gaza. …

When Israel telegraphed for three long weeks that it was preparing to enter Shifa Hospital, it was giving the enemy time to escape. It didn't want a bloody battle in the hallways of a hospital. But it did want to enter that hospital and show Hamas there are no safe places anywhere in Gaza. And Hamas saw and understood.

This is key to understanding the war. Israel isn't speaking to the West. Its leadership registers Western discourse as a second-tier concern. Its message is for Hamas, and this message is the strategic heart of the war effort: There is nowhere in Gaza we won't go, no stone or tunnel or building we won't overturn in pursuit of you. None of the tactics that once kept you safe apply anymore.

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Meanwhile, idiotically on Al Jazeera Hamas 'militant wing' leader calls for escalation on all fronts:

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The spokesman of Hamas' armed wing called on Thursday for the escalation of the confrontation with Israel on all resistance fronts.

"We call for escalation of the confrontation with the occupation throughout the West Bank and all resistance fronts" the spokesman for the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, said in a video speech aired by Al Jazeera TV.

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No way this holds for 4 days, imho.

Held hostage: Naama Levy

Naams was abducted by Hamas from the Nachal Oz army base. She had finished her course a few days earlier to become an observation soldier. She arrived at the base Thursday and was taken hostage on Saturday morning.

A Hamas video appeared on Telegram,… pic.twitter.com/gyhJeTgcFu

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 23, 2023

This morning, 4 tankers of fuel and 4 tankers of cooking gas—designated for operating essential humanitarian infrastructure—were transferred from Egypt to UN humanitarian aid organizations in southern Gaza, via the Rafah Crossing.

This was approved by the Israeli government as…

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 24, 2023

Hamas refuses to allow International Red Cross representatives to visit the hostages who are not included in the current deal, despite Israeli officials announcing the deal ensures they will, pro-Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports.

Instead, Hamas says it will provide… https://t.co/Xay94SC54d

— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) November 24, 2023

Below are charts on the Palestinian prisoners who are set to be released (at least 150 out of 300) as part of the #Israel #Hamas deal.

These charts have been compiled from the list published by the Israeli Justice Ministry ahead of the deal. pic.twitter.com/6fzq5XhZAE

— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) November 24, 2023

So what - there's a 0% chance the Palestinians will be able to control themselves and will break the four day truce?

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So what - there's a 0% chance the Palestinians will be able to control themselves and will break the four day truce?

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That would be my guess, yes. Animals gonna be animals - they just can't help themselves. That's what happens when you run the world's largest terrorist stud fam and inculcate children of three and four with the BS ideas of existing solely to kill Jews.

The only operative question is whether they release any of their hostages, or allow any Red Cross/crescent staff to visit those they are still holding and brutalizing (hint; they won't).

Ahead of hostage deal, reminder to press:

➡️ The Israeli hostages being released from Gaza, are children, women & elderly. Innocent people snatched from their homes.

➡️ Palestinians being released are terrorists and violent offenders.

There is no parity here!

— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) November 24, 2023

There were at least 2 Rockets which were launched from Gaza towards Southern Israel around 15 Minutes after the Ceasefire began, but these appear to have not been launched by Hamas.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 24, 2023

A couple rockets were launched within 15 minutes of the pause, though IDF excused them as 'likely not from Hamas.' Contra guidance, they are also moving much of their military age male population back to Gaza City, and some children human shields etc.

Shati Residents displaced in Khan Younis speak of orders by the Interior Ministry police to evacuate the UN camps and return to the North to challenge the Israelis.

In some cases the interior ministry agents threaten them with violence.

— Gaza Report - اخبار غزة (@gaza_report) November 24, 2023

> Conduct an attack so heinous that it will embed tribal hate in its victims for generations. Check.

> Provoke a tremendous overreaction from Israel that kills tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, advancing Hamas's aims of eclipsing any sympathy Israel temporarily gained…

— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) November 23, 2023

> Compelling other Arab states to abandon their recent efforts to normalize relations with Israel, particularly torpedoing the Saudi-Israel deal. Check.

> Castrating the Palestinian Authority further as a tool of the Israeli military with no spine or structure to effect any…

— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) November 23, 2023

For Israel to win this war, it needs to have a long-term, well-thought-out strategy that is enduring and (as difficult as this may be) compassionate.

For Hamas to win this war, it just has to survive.

— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) November 23, 2023

Jordan: We just want peace, but if those damn Palestinians are sent our way then it's war.

Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh: Peace with Israel is Jordan’s Strategic Choice, but a West Bank Escalation That Would Lead to Forced Transfer of Palestinians Would Be Tantamount to a Declaration of War #Israel #Jordan @PrimeMinistry @BisherKhasawneh pic.twitter.com/LHOHEfdPq0

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) November 24, 2023

Houthi fighters dancing on the deck of the hijacked "Galaxy Leader" commercial ship. https://t.co/68q8Jgjv7l pic.twitter.com/v3wH532XV2

— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) November 24, 2023

Jonathon Pollard (there's a blast from the past) calls for hostages family members to be silenced so they are not used by the leftists against Israeli security interests, blasts ceasefire;

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Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in prison on espionage charges and was released in light of intensive public and diplomatic efforts, called for the families of hostages to be silenced, including by imprisonment, in a video with Machon Shilo on Wednesday.

Pollard called the ceasefire and hostage release deal a "monstrous blunder."

"When we declared war, the first thing that the government should have done was declare a state of national emergency and told all of the hostage families 'you will keep your mouths shut or we will shut them for you," said Pollard to Rabbi David Bar-Hayim. "You will not interfere in our management of this war. You will not be used by the international community or by our own leftists who managed the Shalit deal as a weapon against us. If that means imprisoning to silence certain members of the hostage families then so be it."

Pollard compared the situation with the hostages to a submarine which is damaged and the captain is forced to seal off a section with people in it in order to save the rest of the vessel.

Pollard added that, while he was in prison, he had opposed a proposal by the US to release him in exchange for Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to the Palestinian Authority.

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I can't say he's really wrong, but I don't expect the IDF/'War government' to take such recommendations seriously.

"Overreaction" in the dudes second tweet is a non starter.

There's no such thing as a portional response in this matter. What does that even mean? Isreal had to stop killing hamas at 1400 people?

That dudes theory forgets that hamas is using the Palestinian people as a shield. There's is no solution except to accept the collateral damage of civilian death and minimize it best you can. HAMAS must understand that using civilians as cover will no longer save them and no one is going to stop Isreal because of it, despite the noise.

Secondly, I don't want to shut anyone up, but, there is precedent on silencing dissent during war at least as far back as the American civil war. I dont think it particularly helpful in the modern age when sharing speech is much easier. I think it would make the problem worse, not better.

#BREAKING A Palestinian state must be established, we are prepared for it to be demilitarized, with guarantees, forces, whether from NATO, UN, Arabs, or US, says Egyptian president pic.twitter.com/isIUYVM0N8

— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) November 24, 2023

#BREAKING Hamas says ready to release all captives if Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners pic.twitter.com/rjQO4AIIUU

— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) November 24, 2023

So, 200 for 30k? Seems fair

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#BREAKING Hamas says ready to release all captives if Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners pic.twitter.com/rjQO4AIIUU

— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) November 24, 2023

So, 200 for 30k? Seems fair

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And then its game back on? If so your terms are acceptable!

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#BREAKING A Palestinian state must be established, we are prepared for it to be demilitarized, with guarantees, forces, whether from NATO, UN, Arabs, or US, says Egyptian president pic.twitter.com/isIUYVM0N8

— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) November 24, 2023

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Idea: Palestine State of Sinai or Palestine State of Arabian Desert

I feel like only 19 and 20 year old girls were on watch at the Army base on Oct 7th.

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I feel like only 19 and 20 year old girls were on watch at the Army base on Oct 7th.

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Maybe I am reading this wrong but are you asserting Naama Levy did not report to that duty as described on the Thursday before the Saturday (October 7) attack? Are there other hostages you think are not who the Israelis have claimed they are/were, and on what basis?

So still none of the 50 promised have been released, correct? If this has been a huge miscalculation by Hamas and a huge bluff that has been called, Israel will not be happy. And Biden and the media that tried to say how great it was that Palestine and Hamas were negotiating in good faith should be held accountable.

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So still none of the 50 promised have been released, correct? If this has been a huge miscalculation by Hamas and a huge bluff that has been called, Israel will not be happy. And Biden and the media that tried to say how great it was that Palestine and Hamas were negotiating in good faith should be held accountable.

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24 have been released thus far.

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Hostages: Qatar said the hostages released on Friday were 13 Israelis, 10 Thai citizens and one from the Philippines. The Israeli hostages are all back in Israel, the Israeli military said.

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