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Why Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was a gamechanger Not the fact that Iran engaged a major and wildly disproportionate massive air assault from it’s own land directly on Israel for the first time. Not that a great many Iranians do not...
by DrLou
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
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Hamas terrorists negotiating with Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire told mediators they do not have forty living hostages that match the criteria for the first round of the six-week truce between Israeli and Hamas fighters. The proposed release of forty...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 02:17 PM PDT
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Jack Khoury at Ha’aretz today reported on progress following last week’s interview with senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk over Egypt’s ArRad TV, owned by former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan. who has become an influential figure in Gaza...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 07:14 AM PST
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Representatives from the United States, Qatar, and Egypt with the involvement of Israel agreed to a possible “framework” that would include a six-week cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war that is devastating the Gaza Strip and the release of some Israeli...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:16 PM PST
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by Nick Anderson
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 04:54 PM PST
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www.cbsnews.com/… During combat operations in Shejaiya, a dense neighborhood in the Gaza City area where fighting has been taking place, the Israeli military said troops "mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat." Troops fired at the...
by Ulanopo
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 11:27 AM PST
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According to Jodie Ginsberg, President of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international advocacy group for reporters, the Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous conflict for journalists since the group began keeping records 30 years ago. CPJ...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 12:56 PM PST
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This brief news report is on hostages, new developments and a major failure in the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel; and lingering issues at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. There is a poll at the end about the ceasefire. The ceasefire between Hamas...
by HLB
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 03:30 AM PST
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
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I'm done with these passive aggressive threats from Medhi Hasan and others. As I showed in this diary , President Biden has been trying to protect the Palestinian civilians and advocate for them. Joe Biden is president of the United States, not the...
by Dem
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 12:20 PM PST
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Story from CBS News Abigail was released in the second batch of hostages. She turned four while being held. Story from The Jewish Chronicle Both ABC News and The Jewish Chronicle report the family was attacked on October 7th. The toddler was reportedly...
by Ulanopo
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 05:40 PM PST
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages who had been held captive in Gaza for weeks, and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison in the first stage of a swap under a four-...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 AM PST
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Since I’ve seen a couple of the articles but none of them go into details, here is what Israeli media is reporting (sorry, link leads to a Hebrew article): The Israeli government is aiming to accept the deal (my guess is its already been accepted by...
by shhrz
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 04:42 PM PST
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"On October 7, 2023, over 240 people were abducted and taken hostage [into the Gaza Strip]… They represent over 30 nationalities…. A video was released on Wednesday of Broadway community members joining together to sing the Les Misérables classic,...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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Can any of us summon our humanity? In these 5 weeks of grisly war, the defenders of each side carry 2 blood-soaked, polarized histories. Protests erupt daily calling for “ceasefire” and justice for aggrieved, uprooted Palestinians. What’s startling,...
by joan reports
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 06:58 AM PST
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I have many questions disturbing me about what is happening in the war between Israel and Hamas following the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel, the slaughter of over a thousand Israeli civilians, and the capture of over two hundred hostages that are...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 12:55 PM PST
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Has anybody on the Left; self identified progressives called on Hamas to engage in a ceasefire or ‘humanitarian pause?’ No — just Israel. There seems to either be a significant disconnect to or, either, a distinct purpose for those who scream only for...
by DrLou
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 07:45 AM PDT
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Former President Bill Clinton isn't very popular here, but I learned something from him. Undoubtedly a lot of you who are much smarter than I am already knew this, but I had not really thought about it before. He said that it was much wiser to be very...
by Dem
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 01:23 PM PDT
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I just heard on MSNBC: if Hamas releases two hostages a week, with the number of hostages they have it would take about two years for them all to be released. That’s a long time for a hostage crisis to play out, with the power of the hostage-takers on...
by AndySchmookler
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 12:58 PM PDT
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I don’t claim to know just how hostage situations should be dealt with. (Especially in so complicated a situation as the holding of so many hostages by Hamas in Gaza.) But having observed various hostage situations for nearly a half century, I do feel...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 12:43 PM PDT
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