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Hamas publishes a letter written by an Israeli hostage, thanking the group's members for treating her daughter well and acting as if they were her friends.

She stressed on thanking them for avoiding giving her daughter life-long trauma.
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Hamas publishes a letter written by an Israeli hostage, thanking the group's members for treating her daughter well and acting as if they were her friends. She stressed on thanking them for avoiding giving her daughter life-long trauma.
Full translation, courtesy of Aldanmarki:

For the generals who accompanied me in the past few weeks, It seems that we will part ways tomorrow, but I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

For your extraordinary humanity that you showed towards my daughter Emilia. You were like parents to her, inviting her to your room whenever she wanted. She acknowledges the feeling that you all are not just friends, but true, good-hearted loved ones.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many hours you spent with her as mentors. Thank you for being patient with her and indulging her with sweets, fruits, and everything, even if it wasn't readily available.

Children shouldn't be in war zones, but thanks to you and thanks to other kind people we met along the way, my daughter considered herself a queen in Gaza...
and, in general, she acknowledges the feeling of being the center of the world.

We haven't met a person on our long journey, from the military to the leadership, who did not treat her with gentleness, care, and love.

I will forever be a captive of gratitude because she did not leave this place with a lasting psychological trauma. I will remember your kind behavior despite the difficult situation you were dealing with yourselves and the severe losses you suffered here in Gaza.

I wish that in this world, it is appreciated that we can truly be kind friends. I wish you all health and well-being. Health and love to you and your families. Thank you very much.

Danielle & Emilia
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📹 Earlier this morning, the Israeli army shot dead two Palestinian children in the West Bank, including a 9 year-old.
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📃 There is no truth to any negotiations ongoing for a long term ceasefire in Gaza.

All talks are now limited temporary ceasefires that'll expire as soon as Hamas doesn't have any more Israeli civilians.

Any attempts for a long ceasefire were rejected by Israel directly. Additionally, government ministries vowed to collapse the cabinet if the war ends.
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📹 Earlier this morning, the Israeli army shot dead two Palestinian children in the West Bank, including a 9 year-old.
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📹 The footage of the second child that was shot dead by the Israeli army.

Literally just a group of children verses the Israeli army.
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📰 Settlements leaders on the Lebanese border have ridiculed and made fun of the statement given by the Israeli defence minister Gallant about Hezbullah, who claimed they harmed Hezbullah and pushed it away from the border.

In a statement today, the head of the Metulla settlement said that the residents will not go back home before the IDF finds a solution.

He claims Hezbullah's Ridwan are back at the border and he can see them through the CCTV footage.

He finished by rejecting Israeli officials' claims that western and Russian pressure is hindering their ability to operate and launch a war in Lebanon, accusing the political leadership of being cowards.
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📃 Israeli hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas in Gaza were announced dead after being killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier in the war.

They were alive when they arrived in Gaza.
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📷 Netanyahu showed Elon Musk a crib filled with Israeli gun casings during a tour of purported Hamas atrocities on 27 ⁠Nov

“[The Israelis] claimed that the crib was ‘left in the middle of the [Oct ⁠7] Hamas attack with the child inside’. When examining the images, there is no damage to the crib [...] The shell casings are 7.62x51 ammunition of the MG3, which is the secondary weapon (machine gun) of the Merkava tanks. Parts of the ammunition belt (chain) of the machine gun are clearly visible.”


Turkish Communications Directorate's Center for Combating Disinformation

📝 Note: These casings could be for Israeli infantry machine guns. We simply quoted the above. A subscriber says the parts are ‘disintegrating links’ of belt-fed ammunition for 5.56, 7.62 and 12.7mm NATO machine guns.
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📷 Netanyahu showed Elon Musk a crib filled with Israeli gun casings during a tour of purported Hamas atrocities on 27 ⁠Nov “[The Israelis] claimed that the crib was ‘left in the middle of the [Oct ⁠7] Hamas attack with the child inside’. When examining the…
The only way for the casings to be in the crib is if someone shot above them and to their side.

Casings fly to the left or right depending on the weapon type. They are what is ejected when a bullet flies.

Evidently, it's almost impossible these were not placed there on purpose. No weapon used by Hamas has those disposable brackets for machine guns, it's more of a NATO standard type of weapon.
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A few days ago, Hezbullah began a survey of all damaged property in south Lebanon as a result of Israeli attacks, in order to compensate those affected.

The aid will be financial, and may possibly involve labor to fix and rebuild.
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Israel plans to expand the ground invasion to southern Gaza, after discovering that the bulk of hostages were kept there based on new assessments and the location where earlier hostages were released.
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📃 Israel could have killed Nasrallah in 2006

In an interview for the new season of the Israeli investigative program 'Enemies', Ronen Cohen, a former senior member of Israeli intelligence, implicitly revealed that Israel could have eliminated Hezbullah's SG Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah a few hours after the kidnapping of the two IDF soldiers in 2006.

While a could is worthless after 16 years, it is important to note that it is hesitation that caused the Israeli defeat in 2006 war. This plagued all their decision making during the ground invasion.

In details, the Israeli official meant they could have killed Nasrallah when he appeared publicly infront of Lebanese journalists to answer questions about the war.

Video by Yossi Mansharouf on X
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📃 The Israeli army chief of staff informed the US Secretary of State that Israel intends to continue its military campaign a few more weeks in Gaza.

The same was reported today by Prime Minister Netanyahu:
I swore to defeat Hamas, nothing will stop us. We will continue the war until all objectives are served.
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📷 Two Israeli Iron Dome missiles were fired earlier today over south Lebanon, one exploding in the air while the other impacted the ground.

No rocket or drone was intercepted
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📃 The US to Israel: You only have few more weeks

"Our actions will not take weeks but months," barked the Israeli defence minister Gallant today before being rebuked by the US Secretary Blinken:

"I don't think you have months."


Additionally, Blinken stressed on the need to avoid additional internal displacement of Gazans from their homes, especially in the south.

Both Netanyahu and the army CoS assured that less will be moved in the south when the operations expand there, and there are still needs to depopulate more parts of Northern Gaza.

📝 The US was briefed today on how Israel plans to proceed their war in Gaza.
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📹 Hamas released a short video of Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas in a message to the Israeli government.

Yarden lost his wife and two baby children in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. The family was kidnapped on 7-October.
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📹 Al-Manar released exclusive footage from behind the scenes of Hezbullah's attacks on Israeli soldiers and assets in the past two months
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📃 Ansarallah (Yemen) and the Iraqi resistance issued statements announcing they are ready to resume attacks against Israel if the war resumes against Gaza and Lebanon.
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