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The IDF has cleared for publication the names of 2 soldiers who fell in combat in the Gaza Strip yesterday:

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sergeant major (res.) Yair Katz, 34

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Master sergeant (res.) Zechariah Pesach Haber, 32

May their memories be a blessing.
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Israel eliminated in a precision airstrike the head of the terrorist infrastructure in the Balata neighborhood of the biblical city of Shechem.

Amed Abdullah Abu-Shalal was head of one of the central terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria, and was responsible for many recent attacks

Security officials said that Abu-Shalal was planning an imminent large-scale terrorist attack against Israelis.

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IDF Spokesperson:

Bilal Nofal, a Hamas operative responsible for interrogating individuals suspected of spying against Hamas, was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike.

In other words, Nofal tortured anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.

The IDF says Nofal was also involved in research and development, and his elimination is a painful blow for Hamas.

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โš ๏ธ Be wary of shifting rhetoric.

In a meeting yesterday with local council heads in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an important shift in addressing the war against Hamas.

"We will not stop until we destroy Hamas's terrorist capabilities."


It was the first time Netanyahu did not say "destroy Hamas," but rather "destroy Hamas's capabilities."

It is becoming clear that Israel will not erase Hamas from existence, but must remove its ability to threaten Israel, at least on a large scale.

The fear is that even that goal will eventually be "moderated" under international pressure.

As we have noted, all Hamas need do to win is survive.

If Hamas still exists and can still harm Israelis, then it won the war, the destruction of Gaza notwithstanding.

Because if Hamas is still there, Israelis won't move back to their homes in southern Israel, and the terrorists will have succeeded in "liberating" the land.
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New poll shows most Israelis:

1๏ธโƒฃ Don't believe Israel will win the Gaza war

2๏ธโƒฃ Oppose PA rule in Gaza

3๏ธโƒฃ Support war against Hezbollah

4๏ธโƒฃ Support release jailed terrorists in exchange for Israeli hostages

5๏ธโƒฃ Are displeased with Netanyahu

Read more ๐Ÿ‘‡

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/after-100-days-of-war-israelis-show-concern-over-endgame/
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In the above survey ๐Ÿ‘†, Netanyahu's approval rating is just 40%, and that of his right-wing coalition members is even lower.

Most Israeli voters are right-wing, but feel this government has not delivered.

Bibi and the right definitely don't want early elections under the present circumstances.

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At the World Economic Forum, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken complains that Arab states are reluctant to invest in rebuilding Gaza only to have it destroyed again.

The remark was clearly aimed at Israel.

But the thing is, we are in this situation because America and the West never held the Palestinians accountable.

If they had insisted from the start that the Palestinians actually honor their commitments under the Oslo Accords, we wouldn't be in this situation.

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Hamas condemns Germany for considering the delivery of tank shells to Israel to support the war in Gaza.
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Education Minister Yoav Kisch tells students in Tiberias that there is a "very high chance of war in the north" of Israel.

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Netanyahu tells the nation that the war will continue until all goals are met:

- Return of the hostages
- Elimination of Hamas
- Gaza can no longer threaten Israel

Such statements are becoming increasingly necessary, as public concern grows that Israel will not ultimately win the war in Gaza.
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The IDF cleared for publication the names of two soldiers who died in combat in the Gaza Strip today:

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Staff sergeant Oriya Ayimalk Goshen, 21

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Master sergeant Anwar Serhan, 26

May their memories be a blessing.
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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "If the final outcome for Hamas is not total dissolution, we can no longer live here."
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โ€ผ๏ธ Channel 12: Hezbollah has been sending threatening SMS and WhatsApp messages to residents of northern Israel.

The messages come from European numbers and warn the Israelis against returning home. โ€œKeep away from Metulla. We will reach you wherever you are,โ€ read one.

Israelโ€™s cyber authorities are investigating the issue.
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Things are heating up between Iran and Pakistan.

Iranian forces are on high alert today expecting a Pakistani military response after Iran fired ballistic missiles at its neighbor earlier this week.

Iran was attacking Sunni militants who operate in southeastern Iran and Pakistan, but the attack killed a number of children.

Pakistan, the sole Sunni nuclear power, is furious.

We watch as God sows discord among Israel's enemies.

But are also on high alert, as Iran is now more in need than ever to push conflict with Israel to distract from other issues.
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Iran and Iraq are also on the verge of war after Iranian forces fired ballistic missiles at Erbil this week, killing four people.

Iraq's foreign minister says Iran can't hit Israel, so it provokes its Sunni neighbors in an effort to set the region on fire.

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โ€ผ๏ธ Understand Israel's enemy.

I don't think the world fully understands the kind of enemy Israel is fighting.

Above is Adir Tahar, a young IDF soldier who died on October 7 while defending one of the villages in southern Israel.

Hamas terrorists then cut off his head and took it back to Gaza.

For months, Adir's father turned the world upside down trying to find and retrieve his son's head.

Israeli officials learned through interrogations of captured terrorists that they had tried to sell Adir's head for the princely sum of $10,000.

Now, this says something about Hamas, but it also says something about Gaza as a whole. That Hamas knew there was a market for such a gruesome prize speaks to an unwell society.

Israeli commandoes acting on precise intelligence later recovered Adir's head in a freezer in Gaza City.

May his memory be a blessing.
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A cake, balloons, but no birthday boy.

The tragic saga of the Bibas family, and of all the people of Israel after Oct. 7, continues ๐Ÿ‘‡

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/bibas-family-marks-kfirs-first-birthday-in-hamas-captivity/
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Hamas will take 1,000 boxes of medicine, for every 1 box of medicine for Israeli hostages.

In other words, Hamas will treat its own men, and then, maybe, give what's left to the Jews it took captive.

And Israel and the world provided this aid.

Meanwhile, Israel treats wounded Hamas terrorists in Israeli hospitals, alongside Israeli patients, at the Israeli taxpayer's expense.

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