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Israel Shows ‘Flexibility’ on Hamas Demands in Hostage, Ceasefire Talks
Families of hostages and supporters protest to call for the release of hostages kidnapped on the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
i24 News – Israel gave a clean answer on hostage release and ceasefire negotiations in Doha, agreeing to a Washington-initiated compromise, and the mediators were awaiting an answer from Hamas, the Israeli Channel 12 News reported.
Mossad chief David Barnea reportedly returned to Israel on Sunday morning, after having been in Qatar negotiating over the weekend, and a delegation remained in Doha as part of the talks.
According to a source speaking to Channel 12, some details in an earlier report by Al-Jazeera were accurate while other parts incorrect. The points of agreement were listed as the number of prisoners and a willingness to negotiate over the return of Gazans to northern Gaza.
Israel reportedly agreed to a “significantly greater” number of Palestinian prisoners to be released than a proposal plan formulated in Paris, as well as “flexibility” regarding the issue of the northern Gaza Strip, which Hamas had set as a condition for a deal.
“The progress on this issue is dramatic for us,” senior Israeli official told Channel 12’s Yaron Avraham, adding “Now the question is if Hamas will understand that Israel also has red lines or if it will climb higher trees. If the answer is an absolute ‘no’ then the negotiations will enter into a crisis.”
“The teams are working non-stop. Everyone is fully deployed in Doha. There is no sense of positivity and euphoria. The feelings are ‘not particularly great.’ But nevertheless – we are working and ready for a response from Hamas and then we will know more,” the same source concluded.
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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