Trump issued the appeal to the key US ally after Palestinian resistance group Hamas said it was ready to release all hostages and start talks on the details of his plan to end the nearly two-year war.
"The movement announces its approval for the release of all hostages — living and remains— according to the exchange formula included in President Trump's proposal," Hamas said in a Friday statement.
Israel kills 20 people in Gaza since dawn despite Trump telling Israel to stop bombing
[GEO.TV] At least 20 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, hospital officials have told Al Jazeera.
The attacks and killings continue after President Trump told Israel to stop bombing Gaza following Hamas's partial acceptance of Trump's 20-point plan to end Israel's war on Gaza.
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[X] Note the date: This was before the current hudna while we wait to see if Hamas is just playing for time or if they really will let the hostqges go.
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The IDF has completed in recent hours the capture of the Netzarim axis up to the Gaza coast, effectively dividing Gaza between north and south.
This tightens the encirclement around Gaza City, and anyone leaving it southward will be required to pass through the IDF's inspection checkpoints.
This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south and leave Hamas terrorists isolated in Gaza City itself, facing the IDF's ongoing operations at full force.
Those who remain in Gaza will be considered terrorists and terror supporters.
The IDF is prepared for all possibilities and is determined to continue its operations—until all hostages are returned and Hamas is disarmed, on the path to ending the war.
They've had more than enough time to evacuate. All that remains are Hamas and Hamas voters. Gee, I guess electing a genocidal entisemitic government was a really bad idea, huh guys?
| Of course. That's why the Palestinians of Gaza did so, and why the Palestinians of the West Bank would dearly love to follow, if only PA President Mahmoud Abbas would actually hold that long overdue election. |
IDF strikes in Gaza City ‘significantly subside,’ but dozens said killed in past day
[IsraelTimes] Palestinians say Israeli troops haven’t advanced in besieged city since Saturday morning, when the IDF switched to purely defensive operations; a small number of Gazans return to homes
Israeli strikes in 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...
City were reported to have"significantly subsided" on Saturday, after the Israel Defense Forces was ordered to halt offensive operations there and move to purely defensive action amid a push by US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
to bring about an end to the war.
Some residents of the city, spurred on by the news of developments in Trump’s push to end the war and the reduced military operations, took the opportunity to return to their homes on Saturday afternoon and survey the damage, ignoring the army’s warnings to avoid the "dangerous war zone."
Still, as promised, the military continued to carry out strikes against targets it deemed to pose a threat, including in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood, in which at least 18 Paleostinians were reported killed, including children.
The IDF said the strike targeted a Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...operative who "posed a threat to troops operating in the area," and that the area had been under an evacuation warning for weeks.
The military said it took "many steps" to mitigate civilian harm, including by using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence information, and that it was further investigating reports of civilian casualties.
"The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians and acts to minimize such harm as much as possible," it said.
The IDF was ordered to halt its offensive to capture Gaza City after Trump said his Gaza plan had been accepted by Hamas and called on Israel to stop bombing the Strip.
Nevertheless, the military said it was still engaged in defensive operations and warned Paleostinians not to try and return to the besieged city, which it said remained a "dangerous war zone."
In accordance with the order, troops encircling Gaza City were set to remain there, neither advancing further nor withdrawing.
To ensure the troops’ safety, the IDF dispatched additional Air Force drones to monitor the area.
Confirming as much, two Gaza City residents, meanwhile, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Israeli tanks and troops had not advanced since Saturday morning, but that artillery shells and
...
KABOOM!...
s were still heard.
"We can still see the quadcopters everywhere," Mohammed al-Nashar said.
Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Selmiyah confirmed to the AP that bombing had "significantly subsided" over the past day.
Despite the IDF’s warnings, Gazook media outlets reported on Saturday evening that a small number of residents had risked returning to their homes in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Reports suggested that anywhere between dozens to a few hundred people returned, although it wasn’t clear if all of them intended to stay, or if they had braved a trip to visit their homes and assess the damage.
The families returning to their homes on Saturday had not left the city and had merely moved further west. Anyone who heeded the IDF’s repeated calls to leave could not yet return, as the military continued to block movement from the south northward.
Roughly a million people, or around half of Gaza’s total population, had been residing in Gaza City until the IDF ordered them to leave ahead of its ground operation there. Since then, the IDF estimates that around 870,000 Paleostinians have fled the city.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
in southern Gaza, the Khan Younis municipality began clearing rubble from airstrikes on Saturday morning and reopening streets "to allow easier passage for the displaced," according to a municipal statement.
ANXIETY AND HOPE ON THE STREETS OF GAZA
As in the north, it was not all quiet in southern Gaza on Saturday, as the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said its Saraya field hospital, in the enclave’s south, had received 10 bodies and over 70 injured after Israeli strikes in the afternoon.
Artillery shelling was also carried out in an area north of Bureij in central Gaza, Paleostinian media reported.
For Paleostinians on the ground, there was little clarity as to what Trump’s plan for the enclave meant in real terms, even as Israel and Hamas hurried to put together delegations to negotiate the proposal’s finer details.
"We want practical implementation. We want a truce on the ground," said Sameer Qudeeh in Khan Younis, expressing worry that the talks would break down again.
"I hope Hamas ends the war, because we are truly tired," said Mohammad Shaat in Khan Younis, as anxious Paleostinians roamed the shattered streets.
In total, the Hamas-linked Civil Defense agency said on Saturday night that Israeli bombardment had killed at least 57 people since dawn, even after a halt in defensive operations.
Mahmud Bassal, front man for the agency, told AFP that 40 were killed in Gaza City alone.
The figures could not be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
More than 67,000 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry announced on Saturday, adding that the figure had jumped above 67,000 after more than 700 names were added to the list of the dead after the relevant data was verified.
The Hamas health ministry also says that two more people died of malnutrition and starvation in the enclave, raising the reported number of deaths from such causes to 459 people, including 154 children, since the war started.
Israel has disputed claims of widespread famine in Gaza, but has previously admitted "there are issues of access to food" in some areas.
The ministry’s tally of 67,074 killed since October 7, 2023, does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, and cannot be independently verified.
HAMAS TUNNELS FOUND UNDER GAZA CITY HOSPITALS
Separately, the IDF said on Saturday that it had uncovered a Hamas tunnel running underneath a hospital in Gaza City and an entrance to another adjacent to a separate medical center.
The first tunnel was located next to the Jordanian Hospital, in the south of Gaza City.
According to the IDF, troops of the 36th Division, including forces of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, found an entrance to the tunnel at a Hamas compound adjacent to the Jordanian Hospital.
The tunnel spans a kilometer and a half, and includes a weapons manufacturing workshop and other rooms, the military said.
The IDF said that according to its intelligence, Hamas company and platoon commanders had resided in the tunnel, but that "Hamas’s activity near the Jordanian hospital was carried out without the involvement or knowledge of the Jordanians."
The military escorted international journalists to see the location of the tunnel on Friday, in a rare — and limited — visit to the enclave that has been all but closed to press, both Israeli and international, since the war began 729 days ago.
Soldiers took the journalists to a lookout point in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood, several hundred meters away from the deserted Jordanian hospital.
What appeared to be a tube extended from one of its buildings into a mound of dirt in front of it, which soldiers said was where the tunnel was located. A few hundred feet away, excavators moved piles of sand, as the sound of gunfire and artillery reverberated in the background.
Surrounded by destruction and collapsed buildings, the hospital shut down about two weeks ago, after announcing that it would be moving operations out of Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa and setting up in Khan Younis instead.
Paleostinian media then reported on September 23 that IDF troops had raided the site and begun "digging operations" in the area.
Of Gaza’s 36 hospitals, 22 are no longer operational and the remaining 14 are only partially functional, according to the World Health Organization.
A soldier showed journalists videos taken from a drone that flew through the 1.5 kilometer (1-mile) long tunnel. The video showed narrow tunnels that led to rooms, one of which showed explosives lined against the wall.
A Jordanian official speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
due to the sensitivity of the matter denied that its hospital was being used by Hamas.
The second tunnel was found at the Hamad Hospital near the sea in northwest Gaza City. The army said that the tunnel runs underneath the medical center.
"The Hamas terror organization systematically operates in hospital areas, exploiting humanitarian facilities for military purposes," the IDF said, repeating what it has stated many times before. "For years, the organization has built an underground system beneath hospitals throughout the Strip, used for weapon production and managing combat operations."
The military added that troops were operating in the area to map out the tunnels ahead of the demolition, and were "expanding their operations to additional sites where there are indications of terror activity."