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#Israeli soldiers and armour moving forward near Nahal Oz kibbutz towards the #Gaza boundary, acc to #BBC 's Jeremy Bowen, where his team has been filming.

"Smoke is rising from the northern part of Gaza Strip and there is steady artillery fire into Gaza from Israeli guns.

But nothing I’ve seen here this morning feels like the brink of action. Perhaps the Israeli army needs a few more days."


#BBCNews - #BBC journalists held at gunpoint by #Israeli police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67102956
Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel on Thursday when their car was intercepted.


V Reuters:
#Israeli military says at least 279 of its soldiers killed since Oct 7, number of confirmed #Gaza hostages is 126


V Times of #Israel :
#Israeli investigation identifies native #Persian speakers in #Hamas videos, U.S. requests materials for examination


V the Coalition For Women In Journalism:
' #Lebanon: #Israeli Shelling Kills 1, Injures 6 #Journalists , Including Carmen Joukhadar and Christina Assi '
https://www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/lebanon-israeli-shelling-kills-1-injures-6-journalists-including-carmen-joukhadar-and-christina-assi
#JournalismIsNotACrime


Joel Rayburn, frmr US special envoy to Syria, founder of American Center for Levant Studies posts:
'Repeated #Israeli strikes to disable Damascus and Aleppo airports are a strong indication that
the #Iranian regime is trying to move strategic weapons to or via #Syria to open a northern front and the Israelis are determined to preempt that. It demonstrates that if the Israelis were to decide that Assad must pay the price for hosting Khamenei & Nasrallah’s front, they can take out any target'


Mark Schwarz, a ret. US lieutenant general has told the #BBC an #Israeli ground invasion into #Gaza is unlikely to be imminent because of the degree of preparation required.

The former US security co-ordinator for #Israel and the #Palestinian Authority, says the Israeli military's final preparations are probably "a few days away, if not hours away".

The logistical sustainment of such an operation - such as the number of casualties the Israeli military is likely to sustain - is hard to predict


Could an #Israeli ground invasion of #Gaza meet its aims?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67084141
#hamas


V NBC:
'Documents exclusively obtained by NBC News show that #Hamas created detailed plans to target schools and a youth center in the #Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa'ad, to "kill as many people as possible," seize #hostages and move them into the #Gaza Strip.

The attack plans, which are labeled "top secret" in Arabic, appear to be orders for two highly trained Hamas units to surround and infiltrate villages and target places where civilians, incl children, gather'

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/top-secret-hamas-documents-show-terrorists-intentionally-targeted-elem-rcna120310?


V 972 magazine - opinion piece:
'In this war, #Palestinians in #Israel are trapped between two painful realities'
By Samah Salaime
'One moment I’m receiving harrowing news of mass death and expulsion from friends in #Gaza. The next I’m sick with worry for my kidnapped #Israeli friend"
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-citizens-israel-gaza-war/
"it is impossible to breathe. The heart and mind cannot escape the horror of corpses, the wounded, and captives."


It has just passed 5 AM in the Middle East, a quick recap of what is going on in #Gaza :

#Palestinian civilians have been fleeing northern Gaza by car, on the back of trucks and on foot after an #Israeli warning - about 1.1 million people living in northern areas have been told to leave ahead of an expected ground offensive by Israeli forces.
The UN described the order as horrendous, while the US urged #Israel to take every precaution to avoid killing civilians


The #Israeli military says it has struck a "terrorist target" in southern #Lebanon belonging to #Hezbollah

It says it acted after it intercepted two "unidentified targets" above #Haifa, close to the #Lebanese border, and after an unidentified UAV (drone) crossed into northern Israel.

In recent days Israeli forces have exchanged rocket fire with Hezbollah.

Like #Hamas, Hezbollah too has been designated a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and other countries.


#IDF entered #Gaza to search for hostages - #Israeli Airforce

The Israeli Airforce acct posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that over the last 24 hours the Israeli Army carried out "local raids" in the territory of the Gaza Strip. The post says:
"Infantry and armored forces searched and gathered in the area for findings that may help in the effort to locate the missing and thwarted terrorist infrastructure and terrorist cells found in the area."


On the #hostages v i24news:
' #IDF has notified the families of 120 hostages being held by #Hamas in the #Gaza Strip'

Would it refer to #Israeli soldiers being kept as hostages?

Previously there was talk of about 150 people altogether taken from #Israel


At least 13 #Israeli and foreign #hostages held in five locations in the #Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past 24 hours, Hamas’s armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.

Hamas took about 150 people captive in its attack on 7 October. It has threatened to kill hostages if civilians homes are bombed by Israel without warning.

As the reports came in, UK Def Sec Grant Shapps told ITV he would treat the claims with "caution" but "deep concern".


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The #BBC 's Lucy Williamson has been to the site of the #Israeli music #festival where 260 bodies were discovered following an attack by #Hamas militants on Saturday. Gun shots rung out as journalists were allowed in the area for the first time, accompanied by the #Israeli military.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67094215


The #Israeli military has told the #UN that everyone living north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern #Gaza in the next 24 hours, acc to a UN spox

The UN says this amounts to approx 1.1 million people - about half the population of the entire Gaza Strip. The affected area includes densely populated Gaza City.

The alert was given just before midnight local time
#Israel #hamas


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The #Israel - #Gaza conflict podcast from the #BBC brings you reports and info from our correspondents on the ground you might have missed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gl7z5v?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
In the latest edition Lyse Doucet hears from the mayor #Sderot what response he wants to the #Hamas attack and an #Israeli volunteer clearing debris and collecting bodies in a kibbutz tells Jeremy Bowen "not even Hollywood can make a horror movie to describe what we have seen here"


V Reuters, Tasnim:
#Iran 's foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will travel to #Lebanon to discuss the #Israeli - #Palestinian conflict, the semi-official #Tasnim news agency said on Thursday, citing Iran's ambassador in Lebanon.


#Israel 's Energy Minister Israel Katz says the #siege of #Gaza will not end until #Israeli hostages are released.

In a social media post, Israel Katz said no "electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter" until the "abductees" are free.

Israel stopped supplies to the #Gaza Strip after the #Hamas attacks on Saturday.


#Blinken has just arrived in #Israel

In his short visit, Blinken will meet #Israeli officials and the #Palestinian President Mahmoud #Abbas (who is a political rival to #Hamas in the #Gaza Strip).


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And here's another line from the #Israeli military update - #IDF spox Jonathan Conricus says that #Hamas militants did behead babies during their deadly wave of attacks at the weekend.

Conricus says a coroner who visited the aftermath of the massacre at Kibbutz Be'eri had seen the children's bodies and confirmed how they died.


Former hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin, who secured the release of the #Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit (held by #Hamas for 5 ys) told #BBC said he is talking to Hamas, "trying to convince them to release the women and the children, (and) to let us deliver medicine". He said, "I think [Hamas] are equally surprised as Israel at their success in the military operation…in their attempt to abduct as many people as they did."


With Gaza now under a complete #Israeli blockade and after five days of bombardment, the #humanitarian situation is becoming increasingly desperate.

Pressure is mounting for the establishment of safe corridors to allow aid and medicine into the #Gaza strip, as well as allow #Palestinians to leave

UN has said that more than 338,000 people have been displaced in Gaza
#Israel #hamas


#Israeli #hostage families call for #EU support to get loved ones home
European Parliament chief Roberta Metsola says Europe is ready to broker solutions to hostage crisis

https://www.politico.eu/article/israeli-hostage-families-call-for-eu-support-to-get-loved-ones-home/


The #IDF announced that the number of #Israeli soldiers killed has risen to 189 and that they have informed the families of 60 #captives of their situation.
#Israel #Gaza #hamas


V Haaretz:
Benny #Gantz , who joined an emergency govt with #Netanyahu, stated that his cooperation is "a clear message to our adversaries and to all #Israeli citizens: all of us together are mobilizing." Gantz said after the Security Cabinet meeting, "Just as people from left and right, from the city and the village, go out to fight, decisions of the government will also be made by people from different camps. Now, we are all one camp - the camp of the people of Israel."
#Gaza #hamas


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A clearer picture of the scale of atrocity wrought on civilians in #Israel is unfolding. An #Israeli general spoke of babies killed in their bedrooms, while some soldiers said the dead had been beheaded

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said he has "released all restraints" on his troops, adding #Gaza “will never return to what it was”.


More than 260,000 people have been displaced from their homes in #Gaza (2.3 million population) as the #Israeli military continues to bombard the #Palestinian enclave, the #UN said.

This represents the "highest number of people displaced since the 50-day escalation of hostilities in 2014"

"I do not accept targeting civilians from both sides by any means. To this retaliation in Gaza... In my mind, it's a collective punishment." - area manager of the Norwegian Refugee Council #NRC told #BBC


V afp:
The #IDF said it had responded with artillery fire after shells were launched at the #Golan Heights, a territory #Israel had occupied since 1967.

"Soldiers are responding with artillery and mortar shells toward the origin of the launching in #Syria," said an #Israeli army statement

The army claims there have been "a number of launches from Syria into Israeli territory".

A military spokesman told AFP it appeared to have been mortar fire.

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Barbara Plett Usher BBC's US State Department correspondent:
There were animated exchanges at the State Dept media briefing about #Israel ’s decision to cut off electricity and supplies to #Gaza
'And criticism of the State Dept for not condemning extremist rhetoric from #Israeli lawmakers that indicated disregard for #Palestinian civilians trapped between #Hamas and Israel’s counter offensive.'

Spox Matthew Miller said the US expected that Israel wd act in accordance with international law.


BBC team reporting from #Israel

'Here in #Ashkelon , we were told this evening to head to safe rooms amid reports that #Hamas militants had crossed from #Gaza

The #Israeli military later put out a statement saying its soldiers, backed by air support, had "exchanged fire with a number of terrorists in the Ashkelon industrial area".

It said "three terrorists" had been killed, while searches of the area were continuing.

Numerous rockets have been launched at the city this evening'


Joe Tidy, #BBC #Cyber correspondent: There are reports that #Israeli authorities have taken steps to disrupt #crypto donations to #Hamas
Hamas has been accepting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum for ys; researchers have noticed spikes in funds during times of conflict.
Crypto donations have successfully raised millions over the years offering a way for people to donate anonymously without fear of breaking laws funding organisations designated as terrorists by some governments.