Israel Foreign Ministry: "We’re only at the beginning of President Trump’s 20 point plan
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Hamas is preventing us from progressing to the next phase" pic.twitter.com/180fSl6jGE
"We thought we'd at least get to Point 2, maybe 3."| A thing they say to be polite. |
Israel shared intel on location of hostages’ bodies with mediators, official says
[IsraelTimes] Turkey sends experts to Gaza in emerging multinational endeavor to locate hostages’ remains; US role in task force still unclear, stifling recovery efforts, says European diplomat
Israel has shared the intelligence it has on the location of deceased hostages’ bodies 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...
with mediating countries in the US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, an Israeli official disclosed Thursday evening.
"In coordination with the United States and the mediators," said the official, "Israel is exerting pressure to complete the stage of returning all the bodies held by Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
Israel gave precise coordinates of locations where it believes hostages are buried to Egypt, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
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...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, according to Channel 12 news.
A senior Israeli official told Channel 12 on Thursday that Israel does not believe the Hamas claim that it can not locate any of the remaining hostages’ remains.
"There is a double-digit number of hostages that it can return," the official asserted.
| Israel, meanwhile, returned the bodies of 30 Paleostinians to Gaza on Thursday, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said. Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Paleostinians for every deceased Israeli returned. |
The truce now faces hurdles as deceased captives are handed over at a snail’s pace, despite the deal’s stipulation that all hostages, living and dead, were to be returned within 72 hours of the deal taking effect.
Hamas had earlier warned that it may not be able to locate all dead hostages within the deadline, prompting the establishment of a joint multinational task force to locate the remaining bodies in the wartorn enclave.
As part of the efforts to recover the hostages’ remains, Turkey said it has deployed dozens of disaster relief experts to the Strip to search for the bodies. A Ottoman Turkish defense ministry source said Thursday that "there is already a team of 81 AFAD staff there," referring to Turkey’s disaster relief agency, indicating that "one team will be in charge of seeking and finding the bodies."
As Turkey dispatched its teams, a European diplomat told The Times of Israel that the American role in the emerging International Security Force for Gaza remains ill-defined, which has stifled the mission.
"The intention of the US is not completely clear," said the official. "It’s not yet clear if it’s just to set up a C2 [command and control] structure and that’s it, or if they’re going to also participate in the force itself on the ground."
He indicated that the potential participation of some Arab countries would depend on America’s next moves, saying many nations are interested but seeking a guarantee that US forces will be in the field.
The mandate of the force also remained in the air: "Would it be safeguarding order? Would it be rather a mission of training Paleostinian forces? And in this case, where and how many? There are a lot of things that remain blurred for now," the diplomat said.
Discussions are taking place right now between governments, but representatives could gather in Egypt next week. The diplomat said there should be clarity "in the coming days."
Speaking to news hounds on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "It’s going to take some time and some special equipment" to retrieve the remaining 19 bodies.
In the lead-up to Wednesday night’s handover of two bodies, Hamas’s military wing claimed it had met its obligations under the deal by returning all living hostages to Israel, and the bodies of all the dead captives "that it was able to reach."
Israel, meanwhile, returned the bodies of 30 Paleostinians to Gaza on Thursday, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said. Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Paleostinians for every deceased Israeli returned.