John Kirby, a White House adviser, said that the Jewish state’s finance minister was jeopardizing Israeli and American lives.
Gaza
Israeli forces are moving to quash an attempt by the enemy to regroup in the former Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza.
“In Gaza, as elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel will not present an image of true victory without Jewish settlement.”
“It is too little, too late—ignoring thousands of agency employees involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities,” wrote Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
The International Olympic Committee might sanction bronze medalist Peter Paltchik.
“Spirit of the IDF” author says government misleads when it speaks of “victory.” Israel’s army is purely defensive.
“Before I go to sleep, I think of them and hope that maybe I’d finally get a call to tell me they were rescued, We hope there will be a miracle.”
IDF troops destroyed “dozens of tunnel routes in the area of the Philadelphi Corridor and continue to locate additional ones.”
Freed hostages, relatives of captives and staff members work together to keep the hostage crisis at the center of the diplomatic and media discourse.
Ismail al-Ghoul was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukba Force that led the Oct. 7 massacre.