🚩 Lebanon: tensions persist; Gaza: fighting along perimeter of enclave
🚩 Terrorists have become more active in Judea and Samaria
🚩 the siren sounded 7 times in Israel Friday (225 times Thursday)
🔷 About 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Moshav Margaliot in the Upper Galilee. Two drones crashed in a vacant lot near Beit Hillel. Israeli fighter jets and drones struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight. Sirens sound in multiple northern border communities Saturday morning. It is the second wave of sirens within just a few minutes. https://lnk.sk/gvox ; https://lnk.sk/ahjg
🔷 An airstrike was carried out Friday against a Hamas rocket launcher positioned within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah adjacent to a shelter for displaced Palestinian civilians. The military carried out “many efforts” to mitigate harm to civilians, including warning civilians in the area ahead of time. https://lnk.sk/qtyo
🔷 Hamas accepts US proposal on talks over Israeli hostages 16 days after first phase, source says
Hamas: revised hostage-ceasefire deal proposal agrees that talks to release Israeli soldiers and remaining men would start in a 16-day period after the first phase of the agreement.
A Palestinian official close to the internationally mediated peace efforts: the proposal could lead to a framework agreement if embraced by Israel and would end the nine-month-old war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
A source in Israel’s negotiating team: there was now a real chance of achieving agreement. That was in sharp contrast to past instances in the nine-month-old war in Gaza, when Israel said conditions attached by Hamas were unacceptable.
Hamas: „The movement expects a response from Israel to its proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza today or tomorrow. …” https://lnk.sk/duqs ; https://lnk.sk/vwl0 ; https://lnk.sk/bte5
🔷 IDF prepares for new complex reality in Gaza. Expected hostage release deal calls IDF’s plan to continue fighting and hold Gaza perimeter into question; Israel fears goal of replacing Hamas will be derailed. https://lnk.sk/bctj
🔷 Mothers of hostages held by Hamas took part in a protest march alongside at least a thousand other demonstrators on Friday afternoon in Tel Aviv to mark nearly nine months since their children were taken captive. https://lnk.sk/szyc
🔷 Sen. Lindsey Graham: The Palestinians in Gaza are the most radicalized population on the planet who are taught to hate Jews from birth. It will take years to fix this problem. When I hear “from the river to the sea,” it reminds me of “the Final Solution.” The Hamas terrorists are the SS on steroids. https://lnk.sk/iqcr
🔷 “We will extend the hand of friendship to everyone; we are all people of this country; we should use everyone for the progress of the country,” Iran’s reformist president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian (16 mil. votes, 53.6%) said in his first remarks since being declared winner of a runoff vote against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili (13 mil. votes, 44.3%). Election turnout at 49.8%, over 600,000 spoiled ballots. https://lnk.sk/qa09
🔵 ANALYSIS of the day by thinc. (The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation)
NEW LEGAL REPORT CONCLUDES THAT THE IRGC MUST BE PLACED ON THE EU TERRORIST LIST
Global terrorism is an integral element of Iran’s foreign policy. This global terrorism agenda is planned and carried out primarily by the IRGC. The IRGC’s terrorist capabilities and activities have increased over time. The IRGC is either responsible for or involved in all terrorism-related activities of the Iranian regime outside Iran. Many of the IRGC terrorist attacks and plots are perpetrated on EU soil.
Undoubtedly, the IRGC is destabilizing the Middle East and, by corollary, the world.
These circumstances have reignited the debate in Europe about the urgent need to designate the IRGC as a whole as a terrorist organization for the sake of the security of EU citizens and residents. https://lnk.sk/zc58 ; White paper: https://lnk.sk/nuwe
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