His family was taken by Hamas and now he wants Israel to fight back
A Mom that Was: A Mother Who Would’ve Been Served and a Grandmother that Was.” “What happened to She?” Israel’s bombing campaign asked Shnaider
Families across Israel are frantically trying to look for any clues about their loved ones who are believed to be held in the Gaza Strip. Videos and images of civilians being taken out of their homes by the armed Hamas group are starting to circulate on social media.
She would bring sick Palestinians from Gaza to Israeli hospitals. So apart from being a wonderful mother and grandmother, that was her essence,” he added.
“Since she retired, she was very much involved in an organization called Women Wage Peace. Since 2015, she also volunteered with an organization called The Road to Recovery,” noted Zeigen.
“If she’s being held there, I think it’s a situation that has to be resolved,” he said. I know that militant organizations in Gaza won’t hurt her. Her status as an old woman and religious ethics made her special.
Shnaider didn’t think of the innocent people in Gaza who were caught up in Israel’s bombing campaign.
“I had to wake up for almost two days.” To understand that it’s not a dream. It’s not really a nightmare. It is something that really happened according to Shnaider.
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He was searching for pictures and videos from the village when he came upon a video of Bibes and her two children.
When he heard that Hamas fighters had crossed into Israel from Gaza, he tried to reach Bibes and her husband, Yarden Bibes, who live near the border in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Hamas leaders said Israel’s continued construction of settlements in the West Bank and its ongoing blockade of Gaza pushed it to attack.
The group was started in 1987 by a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip who was very upset by the first intifada.
The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The European Union and some other countries consider it a terrorist organization.
The group has vowed to annihilate Israel and has been responsible for many suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on civilians and Israeli soldiers.
Yehia Sinwar, in Gaza, and Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in exile, are Hamas’ current leaders. They realigned the group’s leadership with Iran and its allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Many of the group’s leaders have relocated to Lebanon.
In recent years, Israel has made peace deals with Arab countries without having to make concessions in its conflict with the Palestinians. The U.S. has recently been trying to broker a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, a bitter rival of Hamas’ Iranian backers.
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Its leaders say hundreds of its 40,000 fighters took part in the assault. Israel says the group has about 30,000 fighters and an arsenal of rockets, including some with a range of about 250 kilometers (155 miles), and unmanned drones.
Iran has been ruled by Shia fundamentalists since the 1979 revolution. Max said Hezbollah was created to assist in exporting the Iranian revolution and project Iranian power in the region.
Iran’s connection to Hamas and Hezbollah increased the likelihood that Iran will be attacked by Israel.
He said that he did not believe the Secretary-General of Hezbollah would authorize a major attack against Israel without approval from the Iranians. He said that the attack from Gaza on Saturday may have been different because Hamas waits for Iranian permission.
Israeli intelligence analysts say that the relationship among Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas is the resistance camp. They share the goal of weakening Israel and creating a Muslim-run land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, said Neomi Neumann, former head of research for the Israeli Security Agency.
Neumann is a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Hezbollah has a far larger fighting force and is more well-equipped than Hamas.
“Since 2021, Iran and [Hezbollah leader] Nasrallah have understood that Hamas is a better player than they thought. Hamas is necessary in order to weaken Israel.”
They realized this, Neumann said Monday, after Hamas sought to unify disparate groups of Palestinians amid clashes with Israel in 2021, among them Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and Arab Israelis, which constitute about 20% of Israel’s population.
The death toll rose in the war. Israeli media said at least 1,200 Israelis have been killed from the Hamas attacks. And Palestinian officials say at least 950 Palestinians in Gaza were killed, along with 1,000 Hamas militants inside Israel.
IRNA reported that Raisi had phone calls with leaders from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
He said that they know that there were meetings in Syria and in Lebanon with leaders of the terror armies surrounding Israel. The people from Hamas did not reply to the requests.
The response from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah is not opportunist according to the director of the Middle East Institute at the University of London.
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The fighting around the northern Israeli border is at a much smaller scale than in southern Israel near Gaza, the Palestinian coastal enclave to Israel’s southwest. But the double-pronged attacks at both poles of Israel left many fearing a more widespread, regional escalation of violence.
Monday’s fighting follows rocket and drone attacks in the region on Sunday. Both Hezbollah and Israel fired across the border, leading the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon to urge “everyone to exercise restraint … to de-escalate a fast deterioration of the security situation.”
The Israeli military said Monday it killed several fighters crossing the border from Lebanon. The Lebanese militant and political organization Hezbollah said one of its fighters was killed in Israel’s retaliation. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed that it injured seven Israeli soldiers.
This week, militant groups in southern Lebanon escalated their attacks on neighboring northern Israel, prompting Israel to launch artillery and cross-border airstrikes.
AMMAN, Jordan — Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has denied Iran was involved in Hamas’ attack against Israel over the weekend. But, in televised comments Tuesday, he said: “We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime.”
Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials have accused Iran of providing training, money and other assistance to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, who carried out an unprecedented, multifront assault on Israel on Saturday.
Israel carried out heavy bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as its military repeatedly hit the enclave following last weekend’s deadly incursion by Hamas militants in Israel.
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The Biden administration said there are talks to create a safe corridor for civilians, echoing a call from the U.S. World Food Program to create emergency humanitarian corridors.
The first shipment of US weapons came to Israel, as the secretary of state is going to Israel to give a message of support.
President Joe Biden promised to make sure Israel had what it needs to take care of itself after he described the attack on Israel by Hamas as pure evil.
Biden said that 14 Americans had been killed in Israel and more than 20 were missing. In an interview with NPR, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that there are some Americans in some of the people held hostage by Hamas but that it is a very small number.
There’s a larger number of Americans that are not accounted for. Some of them could be in the hostage pool. We don’t know. So, we’re, we’re trying to get as much information as we can,” Kirby said.
On the eve of the Jewish Simchat Torah holiday, Israel was attacked by Arab countries, which took place on the same day as the 50th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War.
Israel’s response to the attack on the southern border towns will change the Middle East according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Key developments over the past year in Israel and the Palestine territories, which set the stage for this explosion of violence, have been pointed out by experts who follow the region.
Tal Schneider, the political and diplomatic correspondent for The Times of Israel, told NPR that Netanyahu’s appointment of two controversial figures into his cabinet intensified tensions within Israeli politics.
He nominated a minister for national security who had been convicted several times for inciting violence against Arabs. He was not supposed to sit in government and he was banned for us Israelis. Netanyahu made him a strong leader who is fully engaged in politics.
Then there is Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, which has been delayed, but not abandoned due to support from the far-right politicians, after mass protests broke out for months as Israelis rejected the proposal to weaken the country’s supreme court.
“They want to change Israel’s balance of power; the way Israel functions as a democracy. Some people are doing reserve duty in the army. Some of them went out to demonstrate and decided that they wouldn’t serve under a dictatorship. So obviously, the military was very weakened,” Schneider said, adding that all of this contributed to Hamas perceiving a weaker Israel.
With the most far-right, ultranationalist and religiously conservative government Israel had seen in power, Hamas saw an opportunity as conditions worsened for Palestinians – not only those in Gaza, who have been living under a blockade for 16 years, but the West Bank as well, according to Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland.
Telhami stated that there was an increase in settler violence and an encroachment in East Jerusalem. “People don’t understand how important Jerusalem is to the Palestinians, to many people in the Arab and Muslim world. That’s why, in fact, Hamas named this operation Al Aqsa Flood, referring to the holy mosque in Jerusalem. They are trying to capture that mood.
Schneider said the prime minister now denies that he didn’t have a straight-out policy. “But we know as reporters who have been following this for many years. They wanted to weaken the Palestinian Authority.”
Schneider said that Netanyahu was able to get Abbas to be smaller and humiliate him by giving Hamas some sort of leverage.
“They think they’ve undermined Israeli deterrence. They’ve shown Israel to be weaker than it claims to be,” Telhami said. “They’re becoming more popular in the Arab and Muslim countries, you can see people rallying behind them in places like Morocco that have already made peace with Israel and Egypt too.”
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“If I were in the Biden administration’s position, I would already start laying out knowing that there’s going to be a deadlock,” he said. Even if there’s a military outcome that ends the military part of the conflict, there will be need for some political shift that is much more dramatic and frightening than they were anticipating.
“The war is not outside of Israel. Schneider said that it’s inside Israel. “I don’t ever recall that in recent history. We are losing a lot of time. They’re losing big time. It is a vicious circle of blood that has no end in sight. A lose-lose situation. And it’s just horrific.”
TEL AVIV — Dirty dishes are piled high in 51-year-old Ido Dan’s home these days. Party decorations from a weekend birthday party for his twin 6-year-old girls are still up. The coach for a tech start-up spent every waking day trying to locate several family members that were last seen after the town was overrun by Hamas. An NPR Morning Edition team in Israel spoke with Dan following the attack.
“If there’s one message that I want to pass to the Hamas is whatever your objectives or goals are, leave the elderly and the kids out of it,” Dan said. It’s best to release them first. Please, just let them go.
Israeli forces have cut off food, fuel, water, and electricity in the besieged Gaza since the beginning of August, which has raised concerns over how Hamas is treating the hostages. Power plants there will be shutting down within hours due to the lack of fuel, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
As Israeli forces have carried out retaliatory air strikes on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 1,055 people there, the military wing of Hamas has threatened to execute a hostage for every bomb that’s dropped on a home without warning.
“What it says in Arabic is don’t hurt him, don’t hurt him” said Dan, adding that the hostages are more likely being held as “a precious bargaining chip.”
But Dan is still alarmed not only by the way Hamas carried out such a highly choreographed invasion that involved more than 1000 militant fighters and the “killings and murders and ruthless humiliation of bodies we saw only with ISIS.” Many Israelis say the country’s 9/11 is the reason why Israel’s intelligence service wasn’t warned about the attack.
“If the government, from soldiers at the border through the commanders, through the defense minister, through the prime minister, all should at least be kicked out, go home or even be jailed, I think that is something that should happen.” I don’t understand what happened here. Nobody can,” Dan said. The radio version of the story was edited by Arezou and produced by Taylor. The digital version was edited by a person.
