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2025-11-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Kushner, Netanyahu still seeking solution to impasse on terrorists in Rafah tunnels
[IsraelTimes] Official denies Israel has agreed to plan that would see Hamas fighters exiled to third country; US said to stress to Jerusalem that issue cannot derail Trump’s overall peace plan

US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
’s senior adviser Jared Kushner and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been striving to find a solution to the standoff over the 100-200 Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
turbans holed up in Rafah tunnels on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line, but remain at an impasse.

An Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday evening that "there is no agreed-upon solution regarding the turbans in Rafah."

According to a Channel 12 news report on Tuesday, Israel put forth a plan under which it would agree to let the Hamas members emerge, provided they surrender their weapons and pledge not to return to terrorism.

The plan would see the operatives disarm "according to [US President Donald] Trump’s instructions," the TV network said, with Israel agreeing not to target them as they exit the tunnels.

The Kan public broadcaster, however, reported Tuesday that while Kushner pushed Netanyahu to allow the Hamas members to pass unarmed to the western side of 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, Israel refused to agree to such a proposal.

According to Kan, Kushner impressed on Netanyahu the grave importance to Trump in resolving this issue and allowing the overall peace plan to move forward, and that Washington would not accept an outcome in which Israel kills the Hamas combatants.
Then, Mr, Kushner, I suggest it is time you leaned on Hamas, the ones not following through on commitments. And on the countries pushing this to take in some Hamasniks so they can leave. In the end this wilk fail if you only push on Israel.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
the Ynet news site, citing a member of the security cabinet, said that Netanyahu and Kushner had agreed to a deal that would see the Hamas members in question exiled to a third country.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the plan is not moving forward because no country has agreed to take them in, according to the report. An Israeli official, however, denied that there was any such deal in place to exile the Hamas fighters.

For weeks, Netanyahu’s office has asserted that it would not grant safe passage to the holed-up Hamas fighters. US officials have reportedly told Israel that the standoff should not overshadow the larger challenge of dealing with an estimated 20,000 armed operatives still active in Hamas-controlled areas.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
is said to be playing a central mediating role in talks coordinated through Washington. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
held a meeting on Monday in Washington with visiting Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan "to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and next steps to ensure stability in the region."
Haven’t finished the first step yet, Effendi — there are still five kidnapped corpses for Hamas to give up. Back off.
Multiple reports in recent days have indicated that the return on Sunday of the remains of Hadar Goldin — an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014 and whose body was held in Gaza for 11 years — was tied to the negotiations over the evacuation of the trapped Hamas operatives, though there have been no official comments on the matter.
RUMINT.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
the Politico news site on Tuesday published a series of documents that have been circulated at the US-led Gaza ceasefire monitoring hub that the news site claimed reveal doubts in Washington about the ability to maintain the ceasefire.
Real documents or …not? And if real, who shared them instead of keeping them secure?
A slide deck obtained by Politico includes a question mark between phases one and two of the ceasefire, in what the site suggested underscores US uncertainty about the prospects of establishing an International Stabilization Force and disarming Hamas.

A State Department spokesperson, however, dismissed the story’s claims, saying it "demonstrates a complete ignorance of the workings of the Gaza effort. Everyone wants to be a part of President Trump’s historic Middle East peace effort."

"From the moment President Trump announced his 20 Point Plan, there has been an avalanche of ideas, suggestions and proposals from dozens of countries and NGOs on an array of issues," the spokesperson asserted. "We couldn’t possibly comment on the contents of the thousands of ideas and proposals that may or may not have been reviewed. The Trump administration will continue to uphold the ceasefire and effectively implement President Trump’s 20 Point Plan."

The State Department also flatly denied a Tuesday report in the Saudi al-Hadath network that Yasser Abu Shabaab, who heads an anti-Hamas militia in Gaza, recently held a secret meeting with Kushner at the US-led Gaza ceasefire monitoring hub in Kiryat Gat, dismissing it as "fake news."

The report had claimed that the pair discussed Abu Shabaab’s militia potentially playing a role in securing the exit of Hamas fighters currently holed up on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line in Rafah.

No exact date for the meeting was given in the report. Kushner arrived in Israel on Monday.

Abu Shabaab’s militia was formed about six months ago and is based in eastern Rafah — in territory under IDF control — and provides patronage to several thousand Gazook residents with Israeli military and economic assistance. The militia presents itself as fighting Hamas and seeking to overthrow it.

The unconfirmed report also claimed that Abu Shabaab has representatives present daily at the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat.

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-12 2025-11-12 01:05|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1837 views ]  Top
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1 holed up in Rafah tunnels

I expect this to be a self-resolving issue.
Wait it out.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-12 11:34||   2025-11-12 11:34|| Front Page Top

2 Sounds like the perfect place to dump some H2S.
Posted by Silentbrick 2025-11-12 13:46||   2025-11-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

3 The modern reincarnation of the oubliette. Problem solved.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-11-12 14:10||   2025-11-12 14:10|| Front Page Top

4 The Cask of Zamzam.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-11-12 19:42||   2025-11-12 19:42|| Front Page Top

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