The Israel Defense Forces says a number of soldiers are lightly hurt after being attacked by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, in what appears to be the first serious violation of the ceasefire. Hamas accuses the IDF of violating the ceasefire first.
According to the IDF, three explosive devices were detonated near forces at two separate locations in the northern Gaza Strip, “in violation of the truce agreements.”
The army says that in one of the incidents, gunfire was also directed at troops, who returned fire.
“In both cases, the IDF forces were within the agreed-upon ceasefire lines,” it adds.
The spokesman for the military wing of Hamas says its fighters were responding to a “clear violation” of the ceasefire by the IDF in the northern Gaza Strip, which resulted in a clash. It offers no other details.
Kids released from Gaza being closely watched for renourishment issues
Prof. Ronit Lubetzky, head of the pediatric department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, reports that the nine children and two mothers released from Hamas captivity who arrived last night are in stable medical condition.
The main physical issues the hospital’s team is treating the children for are orthopedic and nutritional. Without naming it directly, Lubetzky refers to Refeeding Syndrome, in which an undernourished person can become critically ill if given too much food and drink too quickly during their recovery.
In addition to ongoing physiological tests and monitoring, the children and families are undergoing psychosocial evaluations. Coordination for the former hostages’ ongoing care with healthcare professionals in the community has begun, and they will be discharged from the hospital when they are ready.
Father says girl, 9, released from captivity thought she was there for a year, won’t stop whispering
Thomas Hand, the father of nine-year-old Emily who was released from Hamas captivity, says she thought she had been held hostage for a year and now cries herself to sleep.
Speaking to CNN, Hand says his daughter’s recovery will be slow.
She’s coming out slowly, little by little,” Hand said.
“We’ll only know what she really went through as she opens up,” he tells CNN. “I want to know so much information … but you have to let them, when they are ready, come out with it.”
He says he was shocked at the transformation she underwent in captivity.
“It was only when she stepped back that I could see her face was chiseled, like mine, whereas before it was chubby, girly, a young kid face.”
“The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips,” he says. “She’d been conditioned not to make any noise.”
He says he asked her how long she thought she had been a hostage and she replied “a year.”
“Apart from the whispering, that was a punch in the guts. A year.”
He also says that she cries herself to sleep at night.
“Last night she cried until her face was red and blotchy, she couldn’t stop. She didn’t want any comfort, I guess she’s forgotten how to be comforted,” Hand says. “She went under the covers of the bed, the quilt, covered herself up and quietly cried.”
Ben Gvir tells Netanyahu not to take breach of truce lying down
Hawkish National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is seemingly pushing for Israel to scrap its ongoing truce deal with Hamas, after the IDF says that the Gaza-based terror group breached the agreement by targeting IDF forces in the Strip with explosives.
In a statement, Ben Gvir urges Netanyahu not to “contain” the incident, but to unleash an Israeli response and “order the IDF to resume forcefully crushing Hamas.”
“We cannot wait for them to kill our fighters,” writes Ben Gvir, a member of the security cabinet.
According to the IDF, Hamas targeted soldiers stationed in the northern part of the Gaza Strip with three explosive devices, the first apparent major breach of a ceasefire agreement that is in its fifth day.
Halevi: IDF ready to resume fighting now, using truce to beef up readiness
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says the military is ready “today” to potentially resume the fighting in the Gaza Strip, while also noting reports of intelligence failures that led to the October 7 onslaught being carried out.
“Today, the IDF is ready to continue fighting. We are using the days of truce as part of the agreement for learning, strengthening readiness, and approving the operational plans for the duration,” Halevi says in a press statement in northern Israel.
“We are preparing to continue fighting to dismantle Hamas. It will take time, these are complex goals, but they are more than justified,” Halevi adds, as a truce initially planned to last four days stretched to a fifth to allow more hostages to be released.
He says each hostage who returns is a “great relief,” but the IDF will not stop until all of them are released.
“The return of the hostages is a ray of light for all of us. It is also another testimony to the results of significant military pressure and high-quality ground maneuver. We created the conditions for the return of our citizens home. We will continue to do so,” Halevi says.
Israeli troops in northern Gaza targeted with bombs, in apparent breach of truce
The Israel Defense Forces says a number of soldiers are lightly hurt after being attacked by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, in what appears to be the first serious violation of the ceasefire. Hamas accuses the IDF of violating the ceasefire first.
According to the IDF, three explosive devices were detonated near forces at two separate locations in the northern Gaza Strip, “in violation of the truce agreements.”
The army says that in one of the incidents, gunfire was also directed at troops, who returned fire.
“In both cases, the IDF forces were within the agreed-upon ceasefire lines,” it adds.
Aunt says Hamas forced 12-year-old hostage to watch videos of atrocities, aimed gun at him when he cried
The aunt of Eitan Yahalomi, 12, who was released from Gaza captivity last night, tells French TV that terrorists forced him to watch videos of the atrocities they carried out on October 7.
She also says that any time a child in captivity cried “they threatened them with rifles to shut them up.”
Speaking to BFM, Devora Cohen says that “the Hamas terrorists forced him to watch films of the horrors, the kind that no one wants to see, they forced him to watch them.”
She says the Hamas members were “monsters.”
“When he arrived in Gaza, all the residents, everyone, beat him. He is a 12-year-old child,” she says.
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Truce broken, next up Hezbollah unleashes titanic missile barrage-Psalm 83, Isaiah 17:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
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