Israel-Hamas War: What happened on Day 138?
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Hamas chief Sinwar's health deteriorates, suffering from severe pneumonia - report
The country in question said it had heard the report from senior Hamas officials.
Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, may be suffering from a complicated case of pneumonia, N12 reported on Tuesday, citing an anonymous Arab country.
The country in question said it had heard the report from senior Hamas officials.
Go to the full article >>US envoy heads to Israel, Egypt for talks on Rafah, Gaza hostages
The US wants Israel to succeed in destroying Hamas, he said, but it also must ensure the protection of civilians as it does so, including in Rafah.
US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk plans to visit Egypt and Israel to help push forward a hostage deal and ensure plans for Palestinian civilian safety in any IDF military operation in Gaza’s Rafah.
“We are again in very sensitive negotiations that we hope will bear fruit soon, to be able to get these hostages out and get an extended pause [to the Gaza war] in place,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday.
Go to the full article >>Netanyahu ‘missed chance’ to end Hamas financially - ex-Mossad official
Head of Economic Warfare Udi Levy claimed that PM Netanyahu failed to act on intelligence which could have prevented the October 7th attack and limited Hamas's capabilities.
Prime Minister Netanyahu could have prevented Hamas’s October 7 terror attack by cutting the terror group’s funding supply, Mossad’s former Head of Economic Warfare Udi Levy told the BBC on Monday.
Levy told the BBC that Netanyahu failed to act on intelligence, which would have disrupted Hamas’s military capabilities. He continued to tell the source that Hamas could have been destroyed "by using only financial tools.”
Go to the full article >>Israel-Hamas War: What you need to know
- Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
- Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
- 134 hostages remain in Gaza, IDF says