Will the growing US role in negotiations with Hamas create tension between Jerusalem and Washington?
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“Blotting out the memory of Amalek is our job,” said bereaved father Nissim Louk.
The IDF’s most forward base on the Gaza perimeter was overrun on Oct. 7, 2023. 53 of its young defenders were killed, and another 10 taken hostage.
“We speak not only for Israeli women but for women everywhere, and we must prevent the use of sexual violence in the next conflict to come.”
“We estimate 22, maybe 24 live bodies,” the US Middle East envoy said. “We want them all back.”
Donald Trump is indifferent to the formalities involved in reaching a hostage deal—as long as the price isn’t excessive, protocol does not concern him.
An Arab League summit in Cairo on Tuesday endorsed the $53 billion five-year plan for the war-torn coastal enclave.
If Hamas has not agreed to the US bridging proposal by its next meeting, the Israeli Security Cabinet “will convene and decide on the next steps.”
Not even the Arab League wants to invite the Palestinians to the summit in Cairo, despite the fact its focus is on rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
Officials doubt the terrorist organization would honor an agreement to free all remaining hostages, seeing them as its “insurance policy” against total destruction.