1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️ GAZA
- 101 hostages are still in an unknown condition and location
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Netherlands 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
- POGROM IN AMSTERDAM: Attackers shouting ‚Free Palestine‘ brutally attack Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. Two people were missing Friday morning and at least 10 injured after widespread violence at the conclusion of yesterday’s (Thursday) soccer match between Maccabi of Israel and Ajax in Amsterdam.
- Israel to dispatch rescue flights following Amsterdam pogrom. Both civilian and military planes will be sent to bring Israeli emergency teams to Holland and bring Jews back to Israel. https://lnk.sk/bvs8
- Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone and assured him the perpetrators of the attacks would face prosecution. He condemned the violent attack against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam overnight as unacceptable.
- Netanyahu stressed the utmost importance that the Dutch government ensure the safety of all Israelis who are in the Netherlands, including those injured and affected by the events, the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement.https://lnk.sk/eudo
- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar is scheduled to travel to the Netherlands urgently, as reported by Channel 12
- Amsterdam police say that five people were hospitalized and 62 arrested after anti-Israel rioters carried out an apparently organized, widespread attack against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv. https://lnk.sk/nvyf
- international law expert Prof. Eugene Kontorovich noted that Holland, the site of last night’s antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam, is also the site of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, where Israel and Israeli leaders are under investigation on false accusations of genocide and crimes against humanity. https://lnk.sk/rxd3
- „In terrible historical irony, this is happening two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich. https://lnk.sk/hicx
- officers in the Dutch police force have been refusing to protect Jewish targets. “There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas,’” Michel Theeboom, representing the Jewish Police Network said in interview a week ago. https://lnk.sk/gpth
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HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON 🇱🇧
- Hezbollah fired some 120 rockets into Israel on Thursday. An 85-year-old man was lightly injured by shrapnel from a rocket that hit Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk https://lnk.sk/bdsf
- an Israeli airstrike on Thursday killed three people and injured a number of UN peacekeepers and Lebanese army soldiers in the vicinity, Lebanese authorities said as Israel pounded Hezbollah targets and the terror group launched dozens of rockets into Israel.
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USA 🇺🇸
- A spokesperson for the Republican Party said Wednesday that US President-elect Donald Trump wants to see Israel wrap up its wars soon, with decisive victories. https://lnk.sk/nxdu
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ISRAEL 🇮🇱
- .The High Court of Justice ruled unanimously on Thursday against several petitions asking it to overturn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, saying there was no justification for court intervention. https://lnk.sk/cwh4
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Sources: Nieuw Israëlisch Weekblad, Times of Israel, Israel Realtime, Jerusalem Post and the sources cited directly in some reports
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