Conflict management doesn’t work against a foe dedicated to your destruction, the Israeli army concludes in message to the government.

“Lebanon could actually normalize and come into the Abraham peace accords, as could even potentially Syria.”

Even if all Palestinians who voluntarily wanted to leave the coastal enclave had where to go, about 1.5 million would remain.

“The basis of Game Theory is to give incentives to the other side to do what’s good for you. And we keep doing the opposite. We are literally killing ourselves.”

With the return of the four bodies, Israel has now received all 33 hostages to be handed over in the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

He spoke at the funeral of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, kidnapped and murdered by Gazan terrorists.

She “would not have to be here today if the international community and this council had acted against Hamas instead of looking away and remaining silent,” Israeli envoy Danny Danon said.

That is the order in which Israel should act. How that is possible, I do not know; the government and the security apparatus must decide that.

If the captives, both living and dead, are not returned, Israel will expand the agricultural areas of the kibbutzim Be’eri and Nir Oz into the Gaza perimeter, said the Israeli finance minister.