🇮🇱 Day 280 🎗 3 HEADLINES, 7 NEWS and 1 COMMENTARY… (🇬🇧 version)

🚩 Gaza: the army is striking Hamas targets in the north and south of the enclave.

🚩 Lebanon: an exchange of blows with Hezbollah is concentrating fire on the Golan Heights

🚩 Exchange deal: the Israeli delegation is in Doha, where it is conducting consultations

🔷 Failure and slaughter: IDF’s Be’eri probe shows army’s colossal errors, residents’ bravery. Investigation into Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of kibbutz, where 101 civilians and 31 security personnel died, finds disastrous response by military amid battle against hundreds of terrorists.

Residents were left to fend for themselves for long hours, with the army — stunned by the shock attack on dozens of towns and in utter disarray — failing to come to their rescue as terrorists moved from home to home, kidnapping, brutalizing and massacring civilians well into the afternoon. https://lnk.sk/yfov

🔷 Opposition lawmakers: military’s newly released findings of its failures in the Kibbutz Be’eri massacre on October 7 underlined the urgent need for a state commission of inquiry. Community statement from kibbutz worst hit on Oct. 7 calls for state commission of inquiry as well, while some survivors fume at what they see as a lackluster investigation. Also Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on Thursday for the formation of a state commission of inquiry. https://lnk.sk/pyl4 ; https://lnk.sk/oqb5

🔷 Netanyahu said hardening hostage stance based on intel Hamas ‘weakened’. US and Israeli officials cite information showing terror group short on weapons, desperate for a ceasefire, emboldening PM to play hardball. Mossad chief backs premier’s tactic. https://lnk.sk/fmaf

🔷 Following the end of the NATO Summit in Washington DC, Foreign Minister Israel Katz: ‚Israel, NATO, and the entire world share a common enemy – the Iranian regime’. https://lnk.sk/qul3

🔷 Launch fired from Syria falls in open area in Golan Heights on Thursday night and had sparked a fire. https://lnk.sk/nuhx

🔷 Exclusive: Israeli letter to UNRWA head reveals employees doubling as terrorists. „The full scope of this unprecedented infiltration was unknown and became clear only after the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, in which, as you know, UNRWA employees actively participated,“ the letter says. https://lnk.sk/lnm1

🔷 After Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists embedded themselves in Gaza City’s UNRWA headquarters, troops of the IDF’s 99th Division engaged and eliminated terrorists operating on the premises in close-quarters combat and arrested others, the military said on Wednesday. https://lnk.sk/cvim

🔵 COMMENTARY of the day “Mother of all depravity: Gazan children are sent to fight and die”

Cookie Schwaeber-Issan for The Jerusalem Post

Nothing could be a more beneficial photo op than Gazan youth losing their lives on the battlefield, fueling ultimate outrage, as they’re pitted against Israel’s military might. It is these kids, who have barely lived their lives, never knowing the joys of marriage, family and personal accomplishments, who are the expendable props to Hamas, serving public relations’ purposes of a war which depends upon world opinion which swiftly judges out of context.

When you listen to an interview, where the wife of a Hamas operative says that she and her husband, as well as their children, all pray that Allah would grant them martyrdom, it makes you wonder. They have literally been programmed to accept death as a blessing. This human tragedy rivals the biblical account of parents who offered up their children to the Canaanite god Molech, a truly homicidal act.

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