'Captives of Netanyahu, not Hamas,' says Israeli captive in new video

from al Mayadeen English

In a new video from Gaza, an Israeli captive accuses his own government of abandoning captives and fueling endless war for political gain. 

 

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Later in the video, Dalal reiterates that the true obstacle to their release is the Israeli leadership: “We’re captives of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich, who have been lying the entire time and don’t want us to go back home.”

Speaking amid the sounds of constant Israeli bombardment, Dalal paints a grim picture of the situation on the ground: “I am now in Gaza City, and the explosions are ongoing non-stop. Warplanes are above us. We want all of this to end, to go back to our families.”

He says they are now close to the frontlines and at imminent risk.

“We’re close to the army. We’re scared. There are explosions and gunfire. Please, take us back home.”

The video underscores both the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the internal dissent now emerging among Israeli captives. Dalal's message reflects not only the growing urgency of the situation in Gaza, but also the intensifying internal scrutiny of the current Israeli government, particularly Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose pursuit of an endless war is increasingly viewed by settlers as a political strategy to maintain power, regardless of the human cost.

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Netanyahu hinges coalition survival on Gaza reoccupation, reports say

from Daily Sabah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing ahead with plans to reoccupy Gaza, with Israeli media reporting that failure to launch the offensive could trigger the collapse of his governing coalition as far-right ministers threaten to walk away.

The daily Maariv cited an unnamed military source saying Netanyahu is "insisting on moving forward with the offensive Gideon's Chariots 2."

The source added: "He understands that without the operation, he will not be able to maintain government cohesion and it will fall apart."

Far-right ministers, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have threatened to withdraw from Netanyahu's coalition if he agrees to any deal to halt the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza, now approaching 23 months.

Regarding a potential hostage release deal, the military source said Israel was "negotiating according to the plan of (US Middle East envoy) Steve Witkoff two weeks ago to release some captives without ending the war."

For Every Jewish Zionist, There Are 30 Christian Zionists, & Netanyahu Exploits This

 (There are 2 forms of Zionism, religious & political. Zionist isn't necessarily synonymous w/Israeli or Jewish. In fact, the overwhelming number of Zionists are Christians outside Israel, especially in North America & Europe. Religious Zionism among Christians dates back to the early 1800s, then was expanded & politicized later that century.

Faisal Mohammad of TRT interviewed former vicar of the Church of England, peace activist Stephen Sizer, author of 3 published books on Christian Zionism. Sizer has been banned from serving in the Church until 2030 for his views on Zionism & Israeli policies.

It's a good interview from late 2023, before regime change in Syria, Trump's 2nd term & the worst of what we're seeing now in Gaza. But Sizer's off about Palestinians' being forced into Egypt & distorts Jimmy Carter, falsely lumping him in w/Ronald Reagan & Billy Graham.

After all, Israel helped stop Carter's re-election in 1980 in favor of Reagan out of fear the former would pressure it to accept a sovereign Palestinian state. Sizer's a man of the cloth in the UK & not necessarily an expert on U.S. history or politics.)

from TRT Global 

As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza has killed thousands of Palestinians and turned the city into a ghost town, the outpouring of global outrage and calls for a ceasefire remains steady.

Yet, the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu continues to employ an unapologetic rhetoric, invoking biblical references to sell his war to the ultra-right not just in Israel but also in the US, where he is enjoying the support of Christian Evangelists, a majority of whom identify with the global Zionist movement for a ‘Jewish homeland’. Their belief comes from the end-of-the-world interpretation of the bible leading to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

This belief is not just theological but also has created significant support for Israel in the political circles of the United States. Under the Donald Trump regime, evangelists took their seats in the power corridors with the likes of Vice President Mike Pence and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In fact, Donald Trump also mentioned in a rally that the move to shift the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was ‘for the evangelicals.’

Even the current US President Joe Biden has publicly identified himself as a ‘Zionist’ and at least 100 members of Congress are avowed evangelicals.

TRT World spoke to Stephen Sizer, the former Vicar of the Church of England. A peace activist authoring three books on the Christian Zionist movement and its support for the state of Israel, Sizer was recently banned from licensed ministry in the Church of England until 2030 for his views on Zionism and Israel’s policies in the Middle East...

 

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Netanyahu sabotaged Gaza truce talks multiple times: Matthew Miller

from PressTV

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his hawkish ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, obstructed Gaza ceasefire talks multiple times, according to former US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.

An investigation by Israel’s Channel 13 found that while Joe Biden’s administration kept blaming Hamas for the failure, Netanyahu and his allies “systematically” obstructed Gaza ceasefire talks.

Miller also confirmed the findings, according to the report.

“We had no broad mandate. At times, it was zero,” he admitted. He explained that conditions shifted suddenly, sometimes even as US envoys boarded planes.

He said Washington knew Israel was undermining ceasefire efforts but chose silence.

The Biden administration chose not to confront Netanyahu, fearing that public criticism would “strengthen Hamas,” according to Miller.

The report also documented how Netanyahu placed new conditions whenever talks neared success.

Netanyahu’s cabinet resisted ceasefire terms and repeatedly reset negotiations, it added.

These moves, according to the investigation, denied Israeli captives held in Gaza a chance at early release and prolonged the genocide in the besieged territory where nearly 62,300 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli regime.

Miller recalled that the US sometimes had to intervene directly to prevent Netanyahu from backtracking...

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Netanyahu Backs Idea of “Greater Israel,” Which Includes Parts of Jordan, Egypt

(It could be argued that Netanyahu is scared of the zealots in his country now that he has helped empower them much like Trump is afraid of the MIC here in the states and that they both are doing the bidding of these fascist extremist elements out of fear. 

Yitzhak Rabin was killed in '95 by a far right Zionist zealot when he was considering the 2 state solution...

John F. Kennedy was killed by the MIC and others after he kicked off his campaign to seek peace with the Soviet Union with his famous Peace Speech in the summer of '63.)

from Truthout

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he feels “very” attached to the extremist vision of “Greater Israel,” a plan for the conquest of not just historic Palestine but also parts of Egypt, Jordan, and potentially other countries.

In an interview with Israeli outlet i24 on Tuesday, Netanyahu said in Hebrew that he is on a “historic and spiritual” mission, per translations by Times of Israel and Middle East Eye.

The interviewer gives Netanyahu an amulet, which is not visible on screen, that he says depicts “Greater Israel” and a “map of the promised land.” When he asks if the prime minister agrees with the vision of Israel, Netanyahu says, “very much.” 

“Greater Israel” refers to an Israeli vision, pushed by ultra-nationalists, of conquering Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as the Sinai Peninsula, Syria’s Golan Heights, and Jordan. Some versions of “Greater Israel” also refer to Lebanon, other parts of Syria and Egypt, and even parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a key coalition partner for the prime minister, has previously pushed the idea of a “Greater Israel.” Last year, Smotrich said in an interview for a documentary that he believes that Israel must expand to encompass Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. “The future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus,” he reportedly said, per Middle East Eye...

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Hamas: Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ comments reflect his ‘madness, delirium’

 (From the river to the river. From the Euphrates to the  Nile. According to them, it all belongs to 'the Jews' cus the sky man said so.)

from PressTV

Hamas says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments in support of a so-called "Greater Israel" scheme reflect the “madness and delirium” that govern his behavior and his extremist ruling gang.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Palestinian resistance movement denounced Netanyahu’s statements a day earlier in which he affirmed his deep connection to what he called the "Greater Israel vision."

Netanyahu told Israeli media on Tuesday that he feels a deep connection to "this vision" of a “Greater Israel,” referring to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories as well as parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, and described it as “a historical and spiritual mission.”

“These statements clearly confirm the danger posed by this fascist entity to all countries and peoples of the region, and its expansionist plans that spare no country,” Hamas said.

It added that war criminal Netanyahu and his extremist ruling gang have waged a brutal campaign of genocide and starvation against the Palestinian people in Gaza and seek to expand their aggression against other regional countries...

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Israel's Netanyahu signals full military occupation over Gaza

(Netanyahu plans to steal the land once and for all. His Clean Break dreams coming to fruition.) 

from Daily Sabah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly declared his intention for Israel to take full military occupation of the Gaza Strip, as Tel Aviv faces mounting international scrutiny and ongoing genocide charges due to its inhumane blockade and genocidal attacks.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Netanyahu stated, “We intend to,” when asked whether Israel would seize the entire 26-mile coastal enclave. “We don’t want to keep it. We want to have a security perimeter. We don’t want to govern it. We don’t want to be there as a governing body,” he added.

Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with top security officials to discuss the potential expansion of military operations in the enclave, following the collapse of cease-fire negotiations last month.

Netanyahu is planning to widen the assault on Gaza with the aim of occupying the entire enclave, signaling more attacks in densely populated areas, including central refugee camps...

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Leaked Cabinet transcript reveals Israel chose to starve Gaza as a strategy of war

from Mondoweiss

Israel decided to starve the people of Gaza as a strategy of war and in order to sabotage the ceasefire deal, according to Israeli cabinet meeting minutes leaked on Wednesday to Israel’s Channel 13. 

The document purports to show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused multiple proposals that would have secured the release of the remaining Israeli captives during the ceasefire between January and March 2025. Netanyahu decided to break the ceasefire, against the advice of top Israeli military and security officials, and to cut off all aid to Gaza to “force Hamas to surrender,” the leak shows.

The Israeli cabinet’s meeting, dated March 1, was to discuss the fate of the ceasefire with Hamas as the first phase of the agreement was set to expire. The prospective second phase of the ceasefire was supposed to see the beginning of talks on the permanent end of the war. The minutes released by Channel 13 show that army and intelligence officials argued for concluding the ceasefire deal, while cabinet ministers opposed it.

Major General Nitzan Alon, the Israeli army official in charge of prisoners and missing persons, reportedly argued that “the only opportunity to release the captives is to discuss the conditions of phase two,” while Ronen Bar, the chief of the Israeli internal intelligence agency (the Shabak), said that his “preferred option is to move forward with phase two,” stating that Israel could “easily” return to war later. “Let’s get everyone back first, then resume the fight,” he reportedly said...

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Netanyahu plans complete occupation of Gaza amid humanitarian crisis

(They don't care about the hostages. They didn't care about Israeli civilians on Oct 7th 2023 so why are people shocked they don't care about Israeli hostages getting killed by IDF now?) 

from Daily Sabah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to widen the assault on Gaza with the aim of occupying the entire enclave, reports quoted an official from his office as saying Monday, as the Palestinian enclave is already devastated by Tel Aviv's ongoing blockade and genocidal attacks.

Netanyahu will be convening his cabinet on Tuesday to make a decision on the matter, Israeli media reported.

"We must continue to stand together and fight together to achieve all our war objectives: the defeat of the enemy, the release of our hostages, and the assurance that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel," Netanyahu said at the outset of a regular cabinet meeting.

Israel's Channel 12 cited an official from his office as saying that Netanyahu was inclining towards expanding the offensive and seizing the entire Palestinian enclave.

Netanyahu's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"The die is cast - we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," a senior official close to Netanyahu was quoted as saying by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

"There will be operations even in areas where hostages are being held. If the IDF (army) chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign."...

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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to conquer all of Gaza

from Mondoweiss

The Israeli war cabinet met on Monday to decide on the next phase of Israel’s war on Gaza. The meeting was reportedly to choose between ending the war in favor of ceasefire talks or expanding it to reoccupy the entire Strip. According to initial unconfirmed reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has briefed “friendly journalists” that he has ordered the Israeli army to “conquer Gaza” in the face of opposition from the army’s Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir. Netanyahu’s office reportedly told N12: “The decision has been made — Israel is going to conquer the Gaza Strip.”

The ceasefire was supported by Israeli army officials, while the decision to reoccupy Gaza is favored by the hardline ministers like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who are key allies in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition and are credited with playing an influential role in sustaining the ongoing Israeli onslaught.

According to the Israeli army’s radio on Monday, Zamir had demanded “clarity” from the Israeli government regarding the future of the war effort, reportedly discouraging the reoccupation of Gaza, believing it would “drain” the Israeli army.

Zamir’s message to the cabinet came amid Israel’s announcement last week of the end of its latest military offensive in Gaza, dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, while one of Israel’s cabinet members, Zeev Elkin, threatened to “annex parts of Gaza” as a “pressure tool” against Hamas in ceasefire negotiations.

The message was also issued following the visit of U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to Israel and Gaza last week. On Friday, Witkoff met families of Israeli captives in Tel Aviv, where he reaffirmed U.S. efforts to reach a ceasefire deal, without giving any details on the progress of the talks. Witkoff said that Hamas was considering giving up its weapons, while the resistance group responded in a statement saying that it would only lay down its arms after the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...

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Touching the Poo: The Nelk Boys and Their Controlled Op Detractors

As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/07/as-gaza-starves-netanyahu-jokes-about.html

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As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys

from The Guardian

Gaza is starving. Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating, according to an expert from the UN World Food Programme. Tons of food sits rotting in warehouses just outside Gaza but the government of Israel will not allow it to be freely delivered. Instead, starving Palestinians must contend with a real-life version of The Hunger Games to try to eat. More than 1,000 desperate Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces since the end of May trying to reach food distribution points run by the US – and the Israel-backed Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation.

But enough about that, eh! Who wants to hear about starving babies who will either die painful deaths or never fully recover from the long-term consequences of malnutrition in early childhood? I’m sure what you really want to know is what Benjamin Netanyahu’s favourite fast-food order is. And, luckily, I’ve got some answers for you.

On Monday Netanyahu, one of the main architects of Gaza’s human-made mass starvation campaign, gave an hour-long interview to Nelk Boy members Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg on their Full Send Podcast.

If you are not in their target demographic (a young man with right-leaning tendencies), you might not know much about the collection of media personalities known as the Nelk Boys, but they wield a lot of influence. They have more than 8.5 million subscribers on YouTube and have interviewed Donald Trump multiple times. While they initially built a name for themselves as pranksters, they’ve now aligned themselves with the likes of the self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and went all-in on Trump’s 2024 campaign. Some political scientists believe that they are partly responsible for Trump’s second term. Indeed, the Nelk Boys, along with other “manosphere”-adjacent podcasters such as Adin Ross, Theo Von and Joe Rogan, even got a shout-out from the UFC CEO ,Dana White, at Trump’s election night victory party...

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Call to end Gaza war is ‘wrong and dangerous’ – Israeli official

from RT

A joint call by 28 countries for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the full resumption of humanitarian aid is “wrong and dangerous” and undermines ongoing negotiations, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

The statement – signed by more than a dozen EU nations, along with Britain, Japan, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, and others – warned that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis had reached intolerable levels. The foreign ministers condemned the “drip feeding of aid” and the “inhumane killing of civilians, including children” seeking food and water. Citing UN and Gaza Health Ministry figures showing over 800 Palestinians killed while seeking aid, the statement called the situation “horrifying” and urged Israel to meet its obligations under international humanitarian law.

Netanyahu’s adviser Dmitry Gendelman said the appeal sent Hamas a “wrong and dangerous message,” calling it a “delusion” that ignored the “obvious truth” that Hamas alone was blocking a ceasefire. He accused the militant group of launching the war, holding hostages, and rejecting “clear and fair” truce proposals accepted by Israel...

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Second ultra-Orthodox party quits Israel Cabinet, but throws Netanyahu a lifeline

(The Shas party pulls it's members from the government in order to appear like they oppose Netanyahu on this matter while keeping aligned with his very narrow coalition... so he doesn't lose power and Shas constituents get drafted and have to go to war anyway. Nice moral code they got there.) 

from The Straits Times (H/T T)

A second ultra-Orthodox party quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet on July 16, but said it would remain within his coalition for now, giving the government more time to resolve a thorny dispute over military conscription.

A day earlier, the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party abandoned the coalition over the deeply divisive issue, leaving Mr Netanyahu with just a one-seat majority in Parliament.

But rather than follow suit, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said on July 16 it would just pull its ministers from government ranks while continuing to back the coalition in Parliament...

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Genocidal BiBi Netanyahu's Endless 8th Front Against the Truth

by Scott Creighton

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu went on Fox News the other day and announced he and Glorious Israel are opening up an '8th front' against what he called disinformation and lies being told about the sickening genocide being committed by Israel right now in their effort to realize their Greater Israel Zionist agenda.

 

What he is talking about is shutting down the truth being told about what they are doing to the Palestinians people. The murder they are committing. The rapes by IDF soldiers of Palestinian prisoners both male and female. The starvation campaign being run by the IDF using it as a weapon of war targeting the civilian population, a major war crime and crime against humanity. The bombing of hospitals, schools, places of worship and refugee camps.

What he is talking about is silencing those of us out here who shed light on the Gaza 2035 plan to steal the whole of Gaza and turn it into something resembling UAE.

And what he is talking about is doing this on American soil to American journalists, bloggers and influencers. And Fox News doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

Netanyahu blocking Gaza talks as mediators seek new solutions

from Daily Sabah

Hamas on Monday criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for deliberately obstructing negotiations aimed at ending the war in Gaza, as a second week of truce talks continued in Qatar.

“Netanyahu is skilled at thwarting one round of negotiations after another, and is unwilling to reach any agreement,” the Palestinian resistance group said in a statement shared on its Telegram channel.

The criticism came as mediators intensified efforts to break the deadlock, with an official familiar with the talks telling AFP that new approaches were being explored to bridge the gaps.

“Mediators are actively exploring innovative mechanisms to help bridge the remaining gaps and maintain momentum in the negotiations,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the discussions.

On Saturday, two sources said Israel’s proposals to keep troops in the Gaza Strip are holding up the indirect talks between Hamas and Israel for a cease-fire...

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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

from the New York Times

Six months into the war in the Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to bring it to a halt. Negotiations were underway for an extended cease-fire with Hamas, and he was ready to agree to a compromise. He had dispatched an envoy to convey Israel’s new position to the Egyptian mediators. Now, at a meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, he needed to get his cabinet onboard. He had kept the plan off the meeting’s written agenda. The idea was to reveal it suddenly, preventing resistant ministers from coordinating their response.

It was April 2024, long before Netanyahu mounted his political comeback. The proposal on the table would have paused the Gaza war for at least six weeks. It would have created a window for negotiations with Hamas over a permanent truce. More than 30 hostages captured by Hamas at the start of the war would have been released within weeks. Still more would have been freed if the truce was extended. And the devastation of Gaza, where roughly two million people were trying to survive daily attacks, would have come to a halt.

Israel working with US to displace Palestinians from Gaza, says Netanyahu

from PressTV

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Tel Aviv regime is collaborating with Washington to identify nations willing to accept Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced from Gaza, thereby advancing US President Donald Trump's contentious Gaza “takeover and own” scheme.

While addressing reporters prior to their dinner at the White House, Trump was asked about the status of his proposal to "take over" Gaza and forcibly remove the population of the Strip. He asked Netanyahu to respond to the question.

“I think President Trump had a brilliant vision. It’s called free choice. If people want to stay, they can stay; but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave,” Netanyahu answered. Gaza “shouldn’t be a prison. It should be an open place.”

The occupying Israeli regime has seized upon Trump’s plan for Gaza, presenting it as a chance to promote what it describes as "the voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the coastal sliver.

Critics and specialists have condemned the proposal as a means for the coerced removal of Palestinians.

“We’re working with the United States very closely [to] find countries that will… give the Palestinians a better future,” Netanyahu added.

Trump said he has had “great cooperation” from “surrounding countries” on the matter.

“Something good will happen,” he added...

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Israel’s Military Appears Poised to Expand Into Gaza City Amid Cease-Fire Calls

from the NYT

The Israeli military issued broad evacuation orders on Sunday for neighborhoods of Gaza City, amid growing calls for a cease-fire deal from President Trump.

The notifications for people to leave parts of Gaza City, where Israeli troops have refrained from operating for months, as well as other areas in northern Gaza, came as the Israeli military warned that it would intensify operations that would expand west toward the city center. Residents were instructed to move south.

It was not clear if the military’s evacuation orders heralded a new phase in its offensive, a return to areas that were partly destroyed in previous rounds of fighting, or if they could be a pressure tactic to try to get Hamas to concede to Israel’s terms for ending the war.

Attention in Israel and Washington has refocused on Gaza since Israel’s 12-day war with Iran ended on Tuesday. The military campaign in Gaza — which was ignited by the Hamas-led October 2023 attack on Israel — has lasted more than 630 days and is one of Israel’s most protracted and deadliest wars.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing increasing pressure at home to end the conflict by agreeing to a cease-fire deal that would see Hamas release the hostages still being held in the enclave. Those hostages include up to 20 people who were taken captive in the October 2023 attack and are believed to still be alive, along with the remains of about 30 others.

Mr. Trump on Sunday publicly pressed for a deal. “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!! DJT,” he wrote on social media, hours after arguing that Mr. Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial be canceled since it would interfere with “the process of negotiating a deal with Hamas.”...

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Netanyahu biggest obstacle to regional peace, says Erdogan at OIC meeting

from al Jazeera

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “biggest obstacle to regional peace” and that Israeli attacks on Iran right before a new round of nuclear talks with the United States aimed to sabotage the negotiations.

Addressing Arab League diplomats during a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Saturday, Erdogan urged countries with influence over Israel not to listen to its “poison” and to seek a solution to the fighting via dialogue without allowing a wider conflict...

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