Israel’s Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian claims after the war
Israel’s Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty post-war, rebuffing biden: A Gaza Strip village displaced by a drone strike in Syria
In the Israeli occupied West Bank, mourners gathered for the funeral of a shooting victim who was an American. Police said the incident was under investigation, and that the circumstances of the shooting were not clear.
A car was apparently struck by a drone in Rafah, killing four, according to an Associated Press cameraman at a local morgue. Israel’s military didn’t immediately comment.
The fighting has forced many families to leave their homes, many of which were reduced to rubble, said Halima Abdel-Rahman, a woman displaced from northern Gaza who now shelters in Bani Suheila on the outskirts of Khan Younis.
After a seven-day communications disruption, residents of the Gaza Strip reached by phone reported heavy bombardments and fighting between Israeli troops and the Islamic Jihad in and around the city of Khan Younis.
At least five Iranians, including two Revolutionary Guard members, were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria’s capital on Saturday. The two people killed in Saturday’s drone strike in Lebanon were reported by the National News Agency. The target could not be immediately clear.
Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East have been attacking US and Israeli targets. Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon threatens to erupt into all-out war, and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are targeting international shipping in the Red Sea despite U.S.-led airstrikes.
Israel refuses to give up on full Israeli control over the Gaza Strip: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not compromise on full control
Hours later, a Hamas media outlet warned the Palestinians against giving any information about the Israeli soldiers.
Israel’s army dropped flyers on Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah in its search for hostages. The leaflets, with photos of dozens of hostages, carried a message suggesting benefits for anyone who spoke up.
Dozens of anti-war protesters also gathered in the Israeli city of Haifa, carrying signs reading “Stop genocide” and scuffling with police who tried to confiscate the placards. Police made an arrest.
The Israeli military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the military was not carrying out attacks in areas where it knows or assumes there are hostages and the army works “in all possible ways to bring them home.”
At the protest in Tel Aviv, Chen was able to tell the crowd “If we as a society, as a state, don’t do everything, we have no right to exist”
The protest began when the father of the 28-year-old held by Hamas started a hunger strike. Eli Shtivi pledged to eat only a quarter of a pita a day — the amount some hostages reportedly receive some days — until the prime minister agrees to meet with him.
We can’t take it anymore. We have been told to be quiet, so the government can do its job. “It hasn’t been bringing us any results for the last two months,” said Yuval Bar. On, whose father-in-law, Keith Siegel, is among the hostages.
Over the past week, several current and former Israeli security officials have suggested that making a deal with Hamas was the only way to bring the hostages back to Israel safely. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has continued to speak of both eliminating Hamas in Gaza and returning the hostages.
The offensive destroyed a large swath of the territory and forced the displacement of 80% of it’s population. The United Nations said that the Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to widespread hunger and diseases in the area.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” rejecting U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that creative solutions could bridge wide gaps between the leaders’ views on Palestinian statehood.
The war Netanyahu is escalating against Hamas, which rules Gaza, is unpopular within the right-wing ruling coalition and carries with it calls for restraint from the United States.
A spokesman for the Palestinian president said after Netanyahu’s statement that the US should go further. Abu Rudeineh said that it was time for the United States to recognize the state of Palestine, not just talk about a two-state solution.
The UN secretary-General said that the refusal of the two state solution for Israelis and Palestinians and the refusal of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people are unacceptable. Speaking in Uganda, he said the refusal would “indefinitely prolong” the conflict.
Netanyahu has said Israel must fight until it achieves “complete victory” and Hamas no longer poses a threat but has not outlined how this will be accomplished.
A member of Israel’s War Cabinet, former Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot, called for a cease-fire in order to secure the hostages’ release, which implied criticism of Israel’s current strategy.
Supporters and relatives of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks burst into a meeting at Israel’s Parliament on Monday to demand that lawmakers take greater action to secure the captives’ release from Gaza.
The protest reflected the growing frustration of hostage families who have become increasingly concerned about the fate of their family members as the war, already well into its fourth month, continues.
A group of people who barged into the meeting of the Finance Committee held signs that said, “You wont sit here while they are dying there.”
Biden’s trip to the Middle East in the light of a “diploma” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza
On Monday, Mr. Netanyahu told representatives of hostage families that there was “no real proposal” from Hamas, but that Israel had put forward its own offer, without elaborating on its details, according to a statement from his office.
A senior official in the Biden administration was going to travel to Cairo and Qatar this week to try to reach an agreement that could result in more hostages being released in return for a ceasefire in Gaza, two American officials said.
