Israel plans to afford Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...a 60-day period to disarm, and if it does not, the Israeli military will go back to war 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, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs made the statement a day after the premier asserted that the terror group must give up its small arms as part of the disarmament process, including its AK-47 rifles — after some reports that the terror group might be allowed to hold onto its rifles for now.
Speaking in Jerusalem to the Besheva Group conference, Fuchs said that the Trump Administration had asked for a 60-day period, and "we are respecting that."
Fuchs clarified that he is unsure when the 60-day period starts, but it may begin with Thursday’s Board of Peace conference.
During that time, Hamas "will have to give up all of its weapons," including rifles, he said, asserting that the terror group’s AK-47s "will be taken from them entirely."
"We will evaluate it," he said. "If it works, great. If not, then the IDF will have to complete the mission."
He added that it was a "reasonable estimate" that before Israel’s next election — which is currently set for October but could be moved up to June — either Hamas will have given up its weapons or the IDF will be in the midst of an intensive new military campaign in Gaza.
Fuchs said there were many Gaza tunnels that also needed to be destroyed as part of the process.
"Today, whoever plows the fields in Be’eri sees the sea," he says of the Gaza border kibbutz invaded and brutalized by Hamas on October 7, 2023. "There is barely a building left standing in the Gaza Strip, but the work is not yet completed."
A day earlier, Netanyahu said that disarmament means Hamas "must give up its weapons, not [just] its main weapons," asserting that "the one that does the most damage is called an AK-47."
"That’s what they used in the massacre of October 7," the prime minister said, adding that the group still holds some 60,000 rifles in Gaza.
A report in The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
last week said Hamas would be allowed to keep "some small arms," at least initially, while surrendering all weapons that are "capable of striking Israel," according to a draft plan drawn up by officials involved in the US-led Board of Peace.
According to the report, a team including US envoys Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy, plans on sharing the document in question with Hamas in the coming weeks.
IDF: TROOPS KILL 6 TERRORISTS FROM RAFAH TUNNELS
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy!he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...
inside Gaza, the IDF on Sunday said it had killed six more Hamas terror operatives who have been holed up for months in a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah, on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line.
Dozens of Hamas operatives trapped on the Israeli side of the so-called "Yellow Line" dividing Gaza in accordance with the October 2025 ceasefire agreement were believed by the military to have been there since the collapse of a previous truce in the Strip in early 2025.
The IDF has reported killing or capturing some 50 of them in recent months.
According to the military, troops of the 7th Armored Brigade carried out several "significant actions" in the tunnels in the eastern Rafah area in the past week, "in order to eliminate additional holy warriors residing there."
A week ago, the IDF said troops exchanged fire with several button men who emerged from a tunnel in the area.
In an update, the military said that on Sunday, during scans of the area, it was confirmed that three button men were killed in that exchange of fire, and the bodies of six more were located after they were "eliminated as part of the operations carried out along the tunnel route."
The IDF said it is continuing to operate in the area "to eliminate the holy warriors in the tunnel routes."
Elsewhere in the Strip, the IDF said late Sunday night that it struck terror operatives who engaged in "suspicious activity on the ground" and approached troops in the northern Gaza Strip earlier in the day.
According to the IDF, troops of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade identified the operatives on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line. The army said that in addition to "carrying out suspicious activity on the ground," the operatives approached the soldiers "in a manner that posed an immediate threat."
After they were identified, the Israeli Air Force struck and "eliminated two of the holy warriors to remove the threat," the IDF said. It did not specify what happened to the others.
Since the start of the ceasefire in October, the IDF has said it has killed dozens of terror operatives and other "suspects" who have crossed the Yellow Line and approached troops. Such incidents have taken place on a near-daily basis.
Israel foils attempt to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of tobacco into Gaza Strip
[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry says it foiled an “unusual” attempt to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of tobacco into the Gaza Strip earlier today.
The tobacco was hidden inside cans of vine leaves that were being imported into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the ministry says.
Members of the ministry’s Crossing Points Authority and the Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza located the contraband during a routine inspection of the goods at the crossing.
According to the ministry, the truck was carrying a shipment of food purchased by an Israeli company that had been approved under a mechanism for the entry of aid by the private sector.
“Following the smuggling attempt, the truck and all of its contents were confiscated and transferred for further handling by customs and other authorities,” the ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories says.
COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Yoram Halevy also ordered “the immediate suspension of the company’s approval to bring aid into the Gaza Strip until further notice.”
“The decision was made in light of the severity of the case and in order to preserve the integrity of the aid entry mechanism, while preventing its exploitation for prohibited purposes,” COGAT adds.
Israel has banned the entry of cigarettes and other tobacco products into Gaza during the war, with officials saying that such products, when smuggled illegally, are sold for high prices on the black market and heavily taxed by Hamas.
Gantz says only Israel will be able to disarm Hamas
Who else is willing to?
[IsraelTimes] Israel will only be able to guarantee Hamas’s disarmament through Israeli military efforts, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz tells Jewish leaders at a gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.“In Gaza, Hamas is reorganizing and rebuilding. The world must understand: Hamas and Gaza must not only be completely demilitarized for the sake of Israeli security, but for the sake of any positive regional process. They will seek to intercept any future normalization efforts, just like they did on October 7,” says the former defense minister and IDF chief.
US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace “is indeed important for shaping the day-after, but within the Yellow Line, Hamas has strengthened its terror regime for months. Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake, in the end, it will only be our brave sons and daughters who will finish the job,” he adds.
Regarding Iran, Gantz insists that “in the coming days, or at most, in the coming weeks, the world must stand united in toppling the Iranian ayatollahs’ regime.”
If it does not, the Iranians “will continue to murder others and their own people” and “we will be pushing away regional peace, and a better future for our children, that we all strive for,” he continues, stating that “now is the time for decisive action.”
“Eighty years ago, the United States freed Europe from the Nazi regime. Today, President Trump has the opportunity to free the Middle East from the terror of the ayatollahs’ regime and be remembered forever for it,” Gantz declares.