The source’s comments came as captives’ relatives slammed reported plans to expand the fighting in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip and slammed Netanyahu for indicating, in a video statement on harrowing footage of two hostages, that there was no ceasefire-hostage deal in sight.
In comments carried by several outlets, the unnamed source said "an understanding is forming that Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
is not interested in a deal."
Therefore, the source said, "the prime minister is pushing for the release of hostages through decisive military victory, combined with the entry of humanitarian aid
to areas outside the combat zone, and, as much as possible, outside of Hamas control." The source did not elaborate on how such a plan would work.The source was said to have added that "Israel is in contact with the Americans," whose special envoy Steve Witkoff said Saturday that Washington was aiming to end the Gaza war rather than expand it, and that the US was no longer interested in partial hostage deals.
According to Channel 12 news, due to the US pivot away from deals that would temporarily pause the fighting in exchange for only some of the hostages, Israel is set to decide this week if it will expand the fighting — even at the risk of harming hostages — or allow more time for a potential deal.
The network reported that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz are undecided on the matter, while the rest of the security cabinet is divided.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Military Secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs were said to be in favor of expanding the war.
On the other hand, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Shas leader Aryeh Deri, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...chief David Barnea reportedly oppose expanding the fighting, as do the Shin Bet’s negotiator, who is known by the Hebrew initial "Mem," and Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, who is overseeing the hostage file for the military.
In a video statement Sunday evening, Netanyahu said propaganda footage of hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski — clips from which the hostages’ families approved for publication the past two days — showed Hamas was uninterested in a hostage deal.
The footage, published respectively by Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
last week, show the hostages to be pale and skeletal. David could be seen in an underground tunnel digging what he said he feared was his grave.
Netanyahu said the videos strengthened his resolve to vanquish the terror group.
"I understand exactly what Hamas wants," he said in a video released by his office. "It doesn’t want a deal. It wants to break us — with these horrifying videos, with the false horror propaganda it spreads across the world."
The premier said he was "shocked" by "the horrifying videos" and spoke with the hostages’ families.
Apparently referring to the hand of a captor that can be seen in the video of David, Netanyahu said that as the hostages "waste away in a dungeon... the Hamas monsters surrounding them — they have thick, fleshy arms. They have everything they need to eat. They are starving them the way the Nazis starved the Jews."
"But we will not break," Netanyahu said, adding: "I am filled with even greater determination to free our captive sons, to eliminate Hamas, and to ensure that Gaza will never again pose a threat to Israel."