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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it killed four Palestinian fighters and captured two others in the southern Gaza Strip on November 26, amid a ceasefire brokered by the United States.
Israeli troops monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the six fighters after they emerged from tunnels in the eastern part of the area of Rafah, the IDF said in a statement, adding that Israeli Air Force then carried out an airstrike against the fighters, and troops of the Nahal Brigade were dispatched to the area to carry out scans.
According to the military, airstrikes killed one of the fighters and three others were later located and killed by the Nahal Brigade.
The two remaining fighters were then located and captured by Israeli troops, the military said, without identifying the group to which the fighters belong.
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Dozens of fighters from the Hamas Movement are believed to be trapped in Rafah, which is occupied by the IDF. The group has so far shown commitment to the peace plan proposed by the U.S. President Donald Trump, which put the ceasefire in place early in October. It has already released all the living hostages, and in the process of handing over all the remains of the hostages who were killed in Gaza. Still, Israel has refused to allow the trapped fighters to withdraw.
The IDF has vowed to kill or capture all the remaining fighters on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line that divides Gaza, claiming that this was inline with the ceasefire.
In the past week, the military has reported killing over 20 fighters and capturing a further eight, after they tried to flee from the tunnels in Rafah.
The IDF’s latest attack came just a day after Hamas handed over the dead body of another hostage, which left the remains of only two others in Gaza.
The peace plan proposed by Trump calls for the disarmament of Hamas. The group has not yet outright accepted this term, but there are more indications that could take this step.
In a report published on November 25, the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat said that Hamas leaders both inside and outside Gaza are debating what the group’s future should look like, and are potentially open to discussing disarmament.
According to the report, which cites unnamed sources within Hamas, one proposal being examined by the group’s leadership suggests dissolving its armed wing and reinventing itself as solely a political organization “capable of taking part in political, economic, social and general public life.”
The proposal also calls for Hamas to become a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), chaired by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the sources said, noting that joining the PLO would allow the group to become “an important political actor” alongside other Palestinian political parties, thus reviving the political process in the Palestinian territories.
The source also acknowledged that Hamas leaders have already been discussing the possibility of disarming with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, and even said that this issue has been broached indirectly with the United States.
Nevertheless, the sources noted that should Hamas decide to disarm, it would only do so “through a Palestinian national agreement” and would not allow Israel or the United Nations to get involved.
While Hamas is showing commitment to the peace plan, and appears to be open even to the most difficult issues, it is not clear yet if Israel will even end up withdrawing from the Strip.
Israeli security officials warned cabinet ministers in recent days that Hamas has asserted almost total control over parts of Gaza it rules, Channel 13 news reported on November 26. Senior IDF officers are quoted in the report as calling for Israel to develop its own plans to demilitarize Gaza, saying that the U.S. proposal for doing so is insufficient.
Another report from The New York Times that was released a day earlier revealed that the Trump administration is advocating for the swift construction of residential compounds in Israeli-occupied areas in Gaza that would provide housing to Palestinians. This also indicates that an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip is not guaranteed.
All in all, the war in Gaza will not likely resume any time soon. However, there are also no indications of the IDF casing its military operations and withdrawing from the Strip. Israel’s real intentions will likely appear once the last of the hostages’ remains are handed over by Hamas.
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a pior coisa que o hamas fez foi o 7 de outubro, se não existisse o 7 de outubro o hamas teria hoje mísseis avançados e nasrallah estaria vivo e a síria não teria sido entregue a israel. pra mim, talvez até a causa palestina acabou, adeus palestina.
not at all they’re rebuilding palestine, and they will build back better .allegedly .
shooting at israel is stupid and will get you killed, hamas needs to crawl out and surrender or gazans future will be a crap sandwich
israel will plant an operative to shoot over the idfs head to provide media cover to conduct planned genocide. the only real question is where and how often it is done.
they could do this instead just using some infiltration ,and some cracj head fanatical radical anti this or that whatever s needed ……..
death toll surges in hong kong inferno with hundreds missing ……
the australian you tube .
the dire chief said , its very hot in the building making it hard for us to enter or rescue anyone .
very strange reporting on thaf story ,4 people arrested, 4 dead 100s missing .very very strange reporting on such an event imo .why aren’t there hundreds of journalists swarming the site ? .smells of some sort of alleged potential sabotage to me.
not shootiing at israel is stupid as the bloodthirsty jooz are determined to kill you anyway. the jooz need to crawl out of occupied palestine, stop leeching off the rest of humanity, and do productive work for the first time in their miserable lives instead of swindling, thieving, pimping and kiddie fiddling.
it’s exactly as tsar nicholas said upon abdicating speaking to one of his oldest trusted advisors ,” do you think it would have made any difference if i had abdicated earlier ” ? and he was shocked by the old fools assertion of , yes i do .the tsar ,by that time understood ,too late ,exactly how the entrapment had worked and it wouldn’t have made any difference .allegedly .
yes they operate like this as the handlers of the leading actors ……
bossing them about in public you sit there and you there , good boy , and telling them what theyes to say in private speak now .
“ukraine’s deal takes shocking turn as trump and zekensky receive offer …. hindustan times you tube.
israels real intentions are fairly patent. kill off the indigenous population and take over their land. tried and tested colonial project. create a little ambiguity by suggesting the indigenous population isn’t indigenous etcetera. worked in north america.
it is a repeat of the english conquest of america. and england established the faux nation called israel
france and spain had parts in this too
so did islamic nations, maybe it was turkey absolutely at least one major islamic nation supported the balfour declaration.the last 500 years of european history has been ,after the moslem roman wars, one of rome versus protestants orthodox and jews actually ,usually allied with islam .rome and islam together either openly as in ww2 or covertly .allegedly
because you’re forgetting america was british when all of that happened .you didn’t pay attention in primary school .
israeli parasite barbarians only offer lies and genocide. the sum of their societies value is nothing.
the moderator isn’t honest i down voted you but as so often happens the score doesn’t change ..you actually are on zero .but they will pretend you’ve got more votes very soon as usual .to please their sponsors no doubt. allegedly
thars simplistic and ascif ptopaganda is truth thinking.
here’s a clue as to how sneaky the world really is …..
breaking trump orders troop surge to washington following …. you tube
he knows his history lessons. his generation like my parents were learning latin and algebra geometry and real history in primary school .
hers the nato leader being candid.
“lavrov is an excellent foreign minister ” – fico stuns critics after…. you tube .
and he asks a very good question let’s be honest its time for the world to grow up and not listen to propaganda or purveyors of propagandas .
in another video he’s fico ,described as the nato leader, i don’t know as i don’t listen to a lot of news i only like to hear the person speaking themselves not people saying what they said. definitely will not listen to anything ” translated ” by ai.
and manipulated ,massaged ….. brussels humiliated meps turn on ursula over eu ukraine disaster …. times now world you tube .really watch how its edited and crafted
and nb the gentleman who rousingly was scripted to utterly condemn putin as a war criminal irrevocably and unredeemable , is seated at chair 22 .they use 22 as a sign for murder .read the history you will see .
in sum, israel draw an immaginary yellow line and then establish that those hamas fighters were to be captured or killed. where is the truce then?
it’s all just marketing brands ,names labels all by designers .it’s a con job a racket the whole operation .basically a fraud really ,just perpetrated by dividing people into teams based on religion .basically .but even if they establish a one world religion and one form of political ideology war will never end .it’s the most profitable business ever invented.
typical the alleged peace deals would have to consist of increasing the strength of combatants since it’s historically indisputable that peace never exists for long .not allowed .