🇬🇧 Sunday 18/08/24 🇮🇱 Day 317🎗️HEADLINES from Israel

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HOSTAGES🎗️ 

US Secretary of State Blinken arrived to Israel for 9th time since Oct. 7, hoping to close hostage-truce deal…

…USA, Egypt and Qatar seek to cement a hostages-for-ceasefire deal after two days of negotiations in Doha

Joe Biden says Gaza deal closer than ever after two days of Doha talks not attended by Hamas…

…terrorists undercut the cautious optimism, telling AFP that signs of progress were “an illusion” 

Israeli negotiating team on Saturday expressed „cautious optimism“ on the possibility of advancing a deal

Hamas: Israel had added conditions in the ceasefire talks and accused Israel of using them to hinder efforts

Talks about implementation of the deal are expected next week in Cairo on Wednesday or Thursday  

US ‘bridging proposal’ for Gaza deal said to exclude two of Netanyahu’s key demands

‘Sign a deal now’: Tens of thousands around country say hostage release is now or never

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ISRAEL 🇮🇱 LEBANON 🇱🇧 GAZA, JUDEA & SAMARIA (so called West bank)   

55 rockets launched at north after IDF strike on Hezbollah arms depot said to kill 10  

Two senior Hamas terrorists were killed in the Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin

Hamas intended to use the bodies of British soldiers buried in Gaza as a tool to pressure London 

the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has deepened with a feared polio outbreak                               

IDF leaders didn’t know intel chiefs obtained Hamas battle plan in April 2022

Israel Has Killed 17,000 Terrorists in Gaza Since Start of War, IDF Says

Herzog tells activists outside his home: ‘Kahanists must be removed from government’           ———

IRAN 🇮🇷 

…will launch a direct attack if the negotiations fail or it perceives Jerusalem is dragging out negotiation

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USA 🇺🇸

Trump: ‘Never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust’ to be Jewish in the US                               

Columbia University Interim President Issued Neutral Statements About Hamas Oct. 7 Attack, Campus Antisemitism

Within a few days, close to a third of US naval forces is or will be in the Middle East region

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AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺                                                                                                                                                                 

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Announces Policy Review After Criticized for Canceling Concert of Anti-Israel Pianist

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NORWAY 🇳🇴                                                                                                                                                    

Norway will be closing its Representative Office in the Palestinian West Bank town of Al-Ram after Israel revoks the accreditation of Norwegian diplomats working there

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Sources: ynetnews, Times of Israel, Walla News, Israel Realtime, The Telegraph, The Jerusalem Post