💔 Devastating 💔
Kibbutz Kissufim announces the death of Shlomo Mansour, who was the oldest hostage at 86, kidnapped by Hamas on Oct 7th. Mansour was also a HOLOCAUST survivor! The family has confirmed that he was killed in captivity.
The return of the hostages from Hamas captivity is of the utmost importance to Israel.
I thought it might be helpful for some of you to hear just a bit more about certain individuals that Israel is releasing in order for that to happen. The sacrifice being made.
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It beggars belief that the British government, a close strategic ally of Israel, has announced a partial suspension of arms licences, at a time when Israel is fighting a war for its very survival on seven fronts forced upon it on the 7th October, and at the very moment when six hostages murdered in cold blood by cruel terrorists were being buried by their families. As Israel faces down the threat of Iran and its proxies, not just to its own people, but to all of us in the democratic west; this announcement feeds the falsehood that Israel is in breach of International Humanitarian Law, when in fact it is going to extraordinary lengths to uphold it. Sadly, this announcement will serve to encourage our shared enemies. It will not help to secure the release of the remaining 101 hostages, nor contribute to the peaceful future we wish and pray for, for all people in the region and beyond.
Britain and Israel have so much to gain by standing together against our common enemies for the sake of a safer world. Surely that must be the way forward.
Amit Soussana’s hostage testimony, published in The Sunday Times today, has a particular poignancy in the light of recent news
Kept in chains, sexually assaulted: my 55 days as a Hamas hostage
https://t.co/YwqKb2PPuq
American officials give even odds on securing a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in the coming weeks. If it succeeds, they reckon a broader peace agreement then has a similar chance https://t.co/yP3N5gHLs1 👇
The IDF located a tunnel shaft in a schoolyard in the northern Gaza Strip.
It is abundantly clear that @UNRWA and @UNICEF spent years looking the other way as Hamas turned countless civilians centers into terror hubs.
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In the late 1890s my great grandparents left the Russian empire because of pogroms. What happened yesterday in Makhachkala - a mob storming the airport to hunt for Jews, the mob checking passports as they looked for Israelis - this brought the 1890s into 2023.