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This is not good news for the Lebanese people.

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The story of Hersh: Part 3
* Trigger Warning ⚠️*
Graphic content@BringHershHome #BringThemHome pic.twitter.com/NmqYivG9ET

— Dani Buller (@askdani__real) December 29, 2023

Things our soldiers found in Khan Yunis that shouldn’t be there:

✔️Tunnel shafts
✔️Explosives
✔️Intelligence materials
✔️Explosives production Lab
✔️Weapons in a child’s room pic.twitter.com/dtSpD3ecm8

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 29, 2023

The IDF says it is advancing in southern Gaza’s Khuza'a, on the outskirts of Khan Younis, with troops of the 5th Reserve Brigade killing numerous Hamas operatives and destroying the terror group’s infrastructure.

Earlier this week the IDF announced it had launched an offensive… pic.twitter.com/K3EKI2Xecz

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) December 29, 2023

Former hostage Mia Schem:

“I went through Holocaust. Everyone there are terrorists.

Entire families are in the service of Hamas. I suddenly realized I was being held captive by a family.”

pic.twitter.com/sqjRUR2jgG

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 28, 2023

New York Times for the first time in my life doing real reporting and explaining the truth behind what Hamas did to women they captured on October 7.

Try to spread the article to those you know- it's important these Hamas supporters in the USA rioting in our cities are exposed for the rape defenders they are

Warning: graphic content

There are not enough words to describe the horror inflicted on Israeli women on October 7th.

They were raped. Their bodies mutilated. All while their evil tormentors laughed and murdered them one by one.

Read every word in this article. For the… pic.twitter.com/JSnv8xCJ4Z

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) December 29, 2023

Freed hostage Mia Schem: I ‘went through a holocaust’ as a Hamas captive https://t.co/5ReQ7nlrMB pic.twitter.com/8EJ1jW3X5X

— New York Post (@nypost) December 29, 2023

This was a terrorist tunnel shaft disguised as a mosque. pic.twitter.com/HcsmQSfzZ5

— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 29, 2023

Benny Gantz is leader of the second largest party in the Israeli Parliament and more left wing than Netanyahu. He serves in the Emergency Cabinet right now.

The brave testimonies of bloodcurdling sexual violence perpetrated by the vile Hamas terrorists on the 7th of October are a moral disgrace and a stain on all of humanity.

Let them remind us, and the whole world, the moral necessity of fighting this war and completing our… pic.twitter.com/vU2DdZ2MsP

— בני גנץ - Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) December 28, 2023

Colleges won't confront Hamas violence because they have a Franklin Delano Roosevelt problem:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-the-university-s-fdr-dilemma-why-campus-leaders-cannot-confront-antisemitism/ar-AA1mdhO4?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=92326eaa92d147e0934932533183d42c&ei=16


" Early in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt learned of Nazi plans to systematically murder European Jews. Later, advisors urged him to order the bombing rail lines leading to Auschwitz. He rejected their pleas. Actions to prevent these murders, he responded, would turn the war into a campaign to save Jews, and in so doing undermine American's support for the war. "

" So, information about the systematic destruction of European Jewry was suppressed. Military intelligence shelved reports. The New York Times buried articles. Prominent people kept quiet. "

" On Oct. 7, we witnessed the most deadly pogrom, excepting the Holocaust, against Jews in modern history, and thousands of people danced in the streets, not only in Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, and Tehran, but also on campuses in Philadelphia, New York, Cambridge, Ithaca, and Berkeley. At the time, no university official on a major U.S. campus that I know of unequivocally denounced this action as a pogrom against Jews and excoriated their students and faculty for celebrating the occasion. "

just look at the literally BILLIONS in dollars of international aid which was funneled to the Palestinians over the last 20 years

and how much of those billions of dollars went to missiles, RPGs, machine guns, ammunition, weapons making foundries, tunnels, rooms in tunnels, electricity for tunnels, elevators, UAVs...

The IDF says it has located and demolished a hideout apartment belonging to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in northern Gaza, along with a large tunnel system under it.

The apartment, located on the outskirts of Gaza City, was found by the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade and later… pic.twitter.com/QYaHoeCwVT

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) December 29, 2023

The testimony by Lia Shem is fascinating on so many levels. How awful the "civilians" of Gaza are...
how many people she knew who were murdered in front of her, how she played the game to not be murdered

Read her words. Read every one.pic.twitter.com/xO49c1KyPo

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 29, 2023

Washington Post admits it "mischaracterized" an account of Gaza mothers being separated from their babies:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/washington-post-admits-it-mischaracterized-story-on-separation-of-gaza-mothers-and-babies/ar-AA1mdhLG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=f24a70f36e6a4bf39c2a5dbd843942fa&ei=12

" The Washington Post added a lengthy correction to a month-old news story on Thursday, admitting it had "mischaracterized" some aspects of its story about Palestinian mothers being separated from their babies in the Israel-Hamas war.

The Nov. 17 article, "Israel's war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers," described how Israel gave mothers with high-risk pregnancies from Gaza a special permit to travel to Israel to receive potentially life-saving treatment for themselves and their babies. The previous version of the story stated that Israeli rules forced all mothers to travel back to Gaza to renew their permits if their newborns stayed in the hospital for longer than a few weeks."

" The Post editor's note also confessed it had failed to ask for comment from Israeli officials for the article, which "fell short" of its "standards for fairness."

"In addition, The Post neglected to seek comment from Israeli officials for this article, an omission that fell short of The Post's standards for fairness," the paper stated."

I think it is relevant that O7 (not the reaction to it by Israel) motivated this American citizen to travel to Kenya to attempt to provide similar acts of jihad;

Karrem Nasr told an FBI informant that he had been thinking about jihad for a long time and that he aspired to be a martyr.

“After the October 7th events, I felt that something has changed. To the better, I mean. I felt that pride and dignity came back to the Muslims.”

He noted… pic.twitter.com/DsDIHlEycM

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 30, 2023

Hamas is apparently demanding a '20 to 30 day' ceasefire in exchange for releasing the remaining hostages. Some of them:

80 days.
These women have been in the hands of Hamas for 80 days.
Hamas refuses to return them for fear they’ll speak.
The world refuses to fight for them.
Why?#MeTooUnlessUrAJew #BringThemHomeNow https://t.co/916B0SaIgN

— Rachel Feldman (@RaychFeldman) December 25, 2023

Israel is really going at the Iranians supplying/leading hezbollah etc. in Lebanon/Syria:

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Eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike targeting Damascus International Airport on Thursday evening, Saudi media reported the following morning.

The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria, Nur Rashid, was injured in the airstrike, Saudi media channel Al-Hadath reported.

IRGC commanders were reportedly at the airport to meet with high-ranking delegates.

IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif denied on Friday reports that 11 of its leaders were killed in an airstrike in Damascus International Airport the night before, Iranian media quoted them as saying, as he said that such claims are "baseless."

Other strikes on Syria this week, foreign media also claims were done by Israel

Syrian media also claimed on Thursday evening that Israel had targeted sites in southern Syria and near Damascus with airstrikes in two separate waves. Syrian air defenses were activated in the Damascus area during the strikes. The country's media quoted one Syrian military source as saying that the alleged airstrike carried out by Israel came from the "occupied Syrian Golan Heights."

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80% of the launches fired by Hezbollah at Israel yesterday fell inside Lebanon. Not only does Hezbollah continue to violate @UN SC Resolution 1701, the terrorist organization also actively puts Lebanese lives at risk. pic.twitter.com/rGiVtjzKXk

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 29, 2023

100% https://t.co/Lo0HX4dS6B

— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) December 29, 2023

Three decades of Palestinian terror and missile attacks from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the Hamas attack on southern Israel two months ago have blown assumptions of Palestinian demilitarization out of the water. - opinion#Palestinians | #Hamas | #Israelhttps://t.co/VlytEuXmht

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) December 30, 2023

Hamas reportedly no longer demands a 'permanent ceasefire' as a precondition for hostage deal talks; this would appear to vindicate those who said the only way to get the hostages back is to keep up the military pressure on the jihadists@perry_dan discusses with @laura_i24 pic.twitter.com/lv6y0eHcx3

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) December 29, 2023

I haven't seen any evidence/documentation as to Israeli control in Gaza changing on the map over the past 3 to 5 days. If someone has an update on that please let us know, thx.

Israel says it's ready to let ships bring aid to Gaza.

This means that Israel has sufficient ground control to keep supplies from being redirected through Hamas.

There's just one Hamas battalion in the north of the Gaza Strip that is still fighting, the rest have been dismantled.

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That doesn't mean there aren't pockets of terrorists, but they're not organized at the battalion level anymore.

Hopefully, the other big issue of air strikes will begin a prolonged ceasefire as well. And that terrorism and war acts can be negotiated in the prosecution of 30 thousand Hamas soldiers.

That is probably a good thing.

The cargo will be inspected in Cyprus, presumably by Israeli inspectors. Makes sense to have the possibility of aid being delivered by neutral third-party countries who just generally want to address the humanitarian catastrophe without being particularly sympathetic to Hamas.

UNRWA does some absolutely necessary work, but since they hire locally it's pretty much impossible not to have a lot of people in the organization who have very strong opinions about the conflict.

There's probably some risk the ship could get attacked by Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad for whatever reason (like Iran bribed them to do it), though I think Netanyahu would be delighted if it happened.

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Has everyone just lost interest in this war too? This seems like it's going to continue to be a big impact on global trade/politics this half.

Europe adamantly refuses to leave the a-historical dreamland it has been enjoying for 77 years, the longest interstate peace period since the fall of the western Roman Empire. https://t.co/IoInUrqMR9

— Gérard Araud (@GerardAraud) January 1, 2024

New year, old crisis
👇 #RedSea https://t.co/U0GEAicPj6

— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) January 1, 2024

‘We are gradually entering the next phase of the war’

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Hanan Gefen explains the reasons and strategy behind the IDF’s release of five brigades from combat in the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/ilYCtANWjo

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) January 1, 2024

Israeli Air Force fighter jets foiled a planned launch of a Hezbollah drone fleet at Israeli territory early on Monday morning, the IDF said.https://t.co/Tv3AgLxrRh

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 1, 2024

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If people have lost interest then that is likely good for Israel because that means they can handle what they need to without worrying about nonstop pro-Hamas media outrage.

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I agree. The world has a very short attention span. Once people start to look the other way that is when the IDF can really get nasty. Would not want to be an hamas POW.

One hates to see all of the "humanitarian aide" tunnels going up in smoke.

Maybe we can give Hamas more "humanitarian aide" to build more tunnels.

People will wind up being forced to care/pay attention, imho.

I have no idea if this map is even something resembling a truth at some point in the past 6 months, let alone if Iranians are for some reason clearing out of eastern Syria, but I do think the reality is that it's an exceptionally complex situation, and it is possible we agreed not to blast Yemen/Houthi's in exchange for Iran clearing out of part of Syria.

⚡️BREAKING: IRGC leadership reportedly issued a direct order to evacuate all the military points and bases in eastern Syria 🇸🇾

What’s going on ? pic.twitter.com/N3DDv1uPof

— Military Eye (@MilitaryEye) January 1, 2024

Again, I am not saying I know anything specific or believe this source, but 'things' are undoubtedly happening we just have no clue about, involving the arab countries, Russia, Iran, Israel, China etc.

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Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the southern half of the enclave.

The troop movement could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas of Gaza, particularly in the northern half where the military has said it is close to assuming operational control.

Israel has been under pressure from its chief ally, the United States, to begin to switch to lower-intensity fighting.

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

But fierce fighting continued in other areas of Gaza, especially the southern city Khan Younis and central areas of the territory.

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Give them a rest before redeploying towards Lebanon?

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Looks like Iran sent a 55+ year old frigate to the Red. It carries 8 anti ship missiles, not sure what their proven capability is, but they are kickoffs of a Chinese model. At what point do they stop performing command and control or targeting and launch?

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-780289

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Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the southern half of the enclave.

The troop movement could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas of Gaza, particularly in the northern half where the military has said it is close to assuming operational control.

Israel has been under pressure from its chief ally, the United States, to begin to switch to lower-intensity fighting.

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

But fierce fighting continued in other areas of Gaza, especially the southern city Khan Younis and central areas of the territory.

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Give them a rest before redeploying towards Lebanon?

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That would be my guess.

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Every one of those things could have been boobytrapped. Brave mofos.

this is insane the stories of the freed hostages..

For every time the Hamas supporters whine about "innocent doctors"...

live reports from 2 January operations

Commander Yarden Shukrun

a female CO of basically a combat unit in Gaza right now

aggiehawg said:

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Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the southern half of the enclave.

The troop movement could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas of Gaza, particularly in the northern half where the military has said it is close to assuming operational control.

Israel has been under pressure from its chief ally, the United States, to begin to switch to lower-intensity fighting.

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

But fierce fighting continued in other areas of Gaza, especially the southern city Khan Younis and central areas of the territory.

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Give them a rest before redeploying towards Lebanon?

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Ideally West Bank then Lebanon. At some point Turkey and Jordan need to feel some pain for their conduct on the world stage too, but revenge is a dish best served cold.