Platforms for Settlers:

The event that took place today in the Gaza Strip is a very difficult event and is almost unprecedented in terms of the number of dead and wounded.

- 7 soldiers were killed, 4 of them from the Nahal Brigade, 2 from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, and 1 from the Givati ​​Brigade. In addition, about 30 soldiers were injured, about 11 of them seriously

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Netanyahu's office:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting this evening to assess the situation regarding prisoners and missing persons, in the presence of the Minister of Defense, the leaders of the security establishment, and negotiators from the current and incoming US administration.

At the end of the meeting, the Prime Minister instructed the head of the Mossad, the head of the Shin Bet, Major General Nitzan Alon, and political adviser Ofir Vielk to travel to Doha in order to continue advancing a deal to release the prisoners.

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Families of the occupation prisoners in Gaza:

We are facing a fateful week, and we call on the settlers to demonstrate to demand the return of the prisoners from Gaza...

We do not want to send our soldiers to Gaza to return more bodies of prisoners.

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Hebrew sources:

A 40-year-old settler drowned in a pool in a private home in Ma'ale Yosef

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Firefighting plane misses power lines and crashes on LA freeway

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"And the light of publishing the biographies of those resisters is a revolution no less than the revolutions of those who carry guns and resist with them.

The honest word in these difficult times may be stronger than bullets and more effective than explosive devices"

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Elior Levy, Reshet Kan correspondent:

There is one incentive that pushes Hamas and Israel to reach a deal by January 20, the day Trump enters the Oval Office. On the one hand, Hamas is afraid of "Trump's hell"... and on the other hand, Netanyahu is afraid that Trump will turn against him.

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