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| DATE | 2024-02-08 |
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Israel-Hamas War Day 125: Israel won't give in to Hamas - Netanyahu
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Current time in Israel: February 08, 09:21 AM
Israel will not give in to Hamas demands on deal for hostages - Netanyahu
Israeli PM: Victory in Gaza within striking distance, IDF will operate
in Rafah • IDF to increase mandatory service, reserve duty amid war in Gaza
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli women who were released from Hamas captivity hold a press
conference in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2024 (photo credit: AVSHALOM
SASSONI/FLASH90)
Israeli women who were released from Hamas captivity hold a press
conference in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2024
(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)
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16 min ago
Direct rocket hit to Kiryat Shmona building - report
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
(photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
An anti-tank missile hit a building in Kiryat Shmona Thursday morning,
according to Israeli media reports.
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48 min ago
Kosovo Sexual Assault awareness activist visits Israel in solidarity
with victims of Hamas crimes
"I would have wished to believe that we have come a long way since
Kosovo and was devastated to witness this apathy, the ignorance and
insensitivity towards these crimes,"
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman visits homes in Kfar Aza destroyed on October 7
(photo credit: SHURAT HADIN)
Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman, a Kosovo Albanian and a prominent advocate
against wartime sexual violence, has arrived in Israel as a guest of
Shurat HaDin, a women-led non-governmental organization dedicated to
combatting terrorism and anti-Semitism.
Her visit, scheduled between February 5th and 8th, aimed to witness
Hamas' atrocities, show solidarity with Israeli victims, and demand
justice for victims of sexual assaults perpetrated by Hamas' "Nukhba"
terrorists.
Krasniqi addressed her upcoming visit to Israel, saying, "I feel
honored and privileged to answer Shurat HaDin's call to come to Israel
to show my support and my sympathy to the victims of Hamas' crimes. It
was completely unfair that the international community has turned its
back to Israeli women and men who fell victims to such terrible crimes
for so much time."
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51 min ago
Gaza hostage deal causing tension between Hamas and Hezbollah - expert
He claimed the document was released against the wishes of Hamas: "Hamas
did not want to release this document. It was published by Hezbollah.
By MAARIV ONLINE
YAHYA SINWAR, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, has proven more than once he
is pragmatic and is willing to deal with Israel.
(photo credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)
Hamas's demands for the proposed hostage deal were prematurely published
by Hezbollah, Channel 12 expert and commentator Ehud Ya’ari claimed on
Wednesday.
"We have to look at what happened backward. We said in advance Yahya
Sinwar will give his answer, but other people who are not in the Strip
will formulate it in a different way," he noted.
He claimed the document was released against the wishes of Hamas: "Hamas
did not want to release this document. It was published by Hezbollah.
Yesterday, Qatar's foreign minister rushed to report and speak with the
Iranian Foreign Minister. Hamas did not plan for things to be published
like this. I have a feeling, from the relationship with them, that they
were a little surprised."
"As far as Hamas is concerned, this should not have been published. This
is the beginning of a difficult debate that can take time. It’s not that
they submitted a document, and it is final. They will have to continue
bargaining, and it will be a difficult bargaining," he added.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised
address at a memorial ceremony to mark one week since the killing of
Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces, in Khirbet
Silem, southern Lebanon, January 14, 2024 (credit: REUTERS/AZIZ TAHER)
"It is important to note that when the Egyptians announce that the talks
will resume, they also do so indirectly. I still do not have such
confirmation on our side," he added.
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He reiterated that Sinwar wishes the war to end at all costs: "The
impression is that Sinwar is looking for a way to stop the war at any
cost. He isn't necessarily looking for a temporary pause. Even now, when
they are sitting in Cairo, the final decision will be his."
Hamas's demands
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As mentioned, in addition to demanding the IDF’s withdrawal from the
Gaza Strip, the terrorist organization also demanded the release of
terrorists and the increase of humanitarian aid; it now appears that
Hamas is also demanding an end to Jews visiting the Temple Mount.
In addition, they demand the entry into the Gaza Strip of at least
60,000 caravans so that every week from the entry into force of this
phase, 15,000 units would enter the Strip along with 200,000 tents at a
rate of 50,000 per week.
Hamas also demands that the repair and restoration of infrastructure be
initiated. Furthermore, the organization demands the approval of a plan
for the restoration of houses, economic enterprises, and public
facilities, the supply of renewed fuel, and a commitment to supply
electricity and water.
In addition, Hamas also demands the supply and introduction of heavy
equipment, civil defense, and health equipment, alongside the process of
rebuilding hospitals and bakeries to establish shelter camps for civilians.
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51 min ago
Analysis of Hamas fatality figures points to manipulation, report says
Following the ground invasion on October 27, discrepancies became more
common with some figures being reduced by 1000 in just five days.
By YUVAL BARNEA
An injured person is taken into a hospital after an explosion at a
hospital, according to Hamas Health Ministry in Gaza City, Gaza Strip,
in this screen grab obtained from video, October 17, 2023.
(photo credit: REUTERS/Reuters TV)
Hamas has been regularly accused of manipulating the death count in Gaza
throughout the war, but with independent verification being nearly
impossible, such accusations have been hard to prove.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy released a report at the
end of January that attempted to show the discrepancies in the official
fatality report's figures, and that such discrepancies were most likely
caused by manipulations.
The report begins by stating that Hamas's figures have been previously
quite similar to both the UN's official figures and Israel's figures,
which is why they have been given so much credence by international
organizations, however reporting since the start of the ground invasion
on October 27 has become less rigorous and less reliable.
President Biden questioned the figures released before the ground
invasion, saying he doesn't doubt that innocents have been killed but
that he has "no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using."
Reports before the ground invasion seem to have been accurate, with all
but 281 fatalities having identification numbers, genders, and ages.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry stopped reporting fatalities on
November 10, resuming its reports on December 2, although with
significantly less detail.
Gaza Strip (credit: REUTERS/FADI SHANA)
The report suggests that reports for all fatalities after November 10
lack credibility due to their reliance on "reliable media sources,"
which the report says are largely composed of news clips found online or
on TV. UN reports have not mentioned that they rely on such media
reports for their data.
The report warns, "Here a cautionary note is necessary: even as most
combatants are men, most Gazan men are still civilians, rendering the
overall number of men killed an imperfect proxy for Hamas fighters."
Citing discrepancies in reporting on the deaths from the al-Ahli
Hospital blast, when Israel was falsely accused of attacking the
hospital, as well as general inconsistencies, the report finds that the
number of male fatalities has been manipulated, towards underreporting.
For example, during the al-Ahli hospital blast in which Hamas claims 471
were killed, Hamas figures show only 7 other people were killed
throughout Gaza during the same 24-hour period as the blast (478). This
is completely inconsistent with figures released by the UN saying 62
were killed in two airstrikes the same night in the Jabalia refugee
camp, which should make the total 533 not the 478 published by Hamas.
In another event, the numbers released in the same report were
completely inconsistent with each other, with summaries on one page
saying 7,028 had been killed, while a few pages later the totals on the
graphs added up to different figures with none equaling 7,028.
Following the ground invasion discrepancies increased
Following the invasion on October 27, the report says discrepancies
became more common.
On October 29, two days into the invasion, the Health Ministry released
figures that showed an unexplained decrease in the total number of male
fatalities of 72 from 2,231 to 2,159. On November 5, there was another
revision down of 274 from 2,890 to 2,616.
The rate of fatalities across genders also altered dramatically
following the invasion, before October 27 male fatalities were about
34%, while females were at 25% and children at 41%, while afterward,
males comprised around 25%, females 33%, and children 42%.
"The Health Ministry figures released since November 11 should be viewed
with extra skepticism given the ministry’s acknowledgment that the
figures for northern Gaza come from “reliable media sources,” which are
unverified and extremely unlikely to include militant deaths."
As the war progressed large discrepancies began to appear between the
Hamas-run Health Ministry and the Hamas-run Government Media Office
(GMO), with a report from the Health Ministry claiming 5,577 adult men
had been killed and a GMO report which showed 4,212 men killed at most.
From December 2 to December 8 the GMO reduced the total male fatalities
by over 1000 (from 4,563 to 3,499).
By January 1 the Health Ministry was reporting that before November 11,
6,088 men had died in Gaza, the GMO reported on the same day that a
total of 6,098 men had been killed by January 1, implying only 10 men
had died across 51 days of fighting from November 11 until January 1.
The report also challenges the validity of the figures themselves saying
that 61% of the fatality reports after November 10 come from media
reports which are highly susceptible to manipulation.
When compared to IDF figures, which claim 9,000 fighters killed in Gaza,
the discrepancy becomes that much larger. The report says to treat IDF
numbers with some skepticism, however, even then the 6,088 male
fatalities claimed by Hamas, which will include civilians, fall far
short of Israeli estimates of just the militants killed.
However, it is important to remember that producing accurate up-to-date
fatalities during a war is very difficult and revisions are to be
expected, as occurred when Israel revised down the total killed on
October 7. The report even cites this as an example of why accurate
reporting of fatalities often takes significant time.
The report concludes that the motives for reducing the number of male
fatalities are clear.
"What can be said for certain is that Hamas-produced statistics are
inconsistent, imprecise, and appear to have been systematically
manipulated to downplay the number of militants killed and to exaggerate
the proportion of noncombatants confirmed as dead," the report concludes.
This is from the Jerusalem Post
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