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☆ Israel Plans Risky Mission to Seize Last Gaza Border it Doesn’t Control
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Jared Malsin | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Since it pulled out of the Gaza Strip nearly two decades ago, Israel has controlled all of the Palestinian enclave’s borders except one. Now it is pushing to retake control of the southern frontier with Egypt. Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , say Israel must have a grip on the border area, which the Israeli military calls the Philadelphi Corridor, to block Hamas from smuggling weapons into the strip. It is part of Israel’s strategy to defeat the Palestinian militant group and to prevent a repeat of its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that officials there say killed more than 1,200 people, mainly civilians.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Palestinian Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Egypt

☆ Israel Steps Up Attacks in Southern Gaza Following Collapse of Cease-Fire
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s military intensified attacks on the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, opening what could be the next phase of its war against Hamas militants, as negotiators pushed to reinstate a cease-fire that unraveled after a weeklong pause in the fighting. Israel’s air force said Saturday it carried out an “extensive attack” against militants overnight in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza crowded with displaced people who fled prior weeks of Israeli bombing. The air force said it carried out 400 strikes over the past day. Palestinians in the area said explosions shook buildings throughout the night, while the director of a large hospital in the city said the emergency room was flooded with casualties.

Persons: Khan Younis Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Khan

☆ U.S. Sends Israel 2,000-Pound Bunker Buster Bombs for Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Jared Malsin | Nancy A. Youssef | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Bombs undergoing maintenance at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 2020. Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Akeem K. CampbellThe U.S. has provided Israel with large bunker buster bombs, among tens of thousands of other weapons and artillery shells, to help dislodge Hamas from Gaza, U.S. officials said. The surge of arms, including roughly 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the Oct. 7 attack and has continued in recent days, the officials said. The U.S. hasn’t previously disclosed the total number of weapons it sent to Israel nor the transfer of 100 BLU-109, 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs.

Persons: Campbell, hasn’t Organizations: Home Air Force Base, . Air Force, Akeem Locations: Idaho, U.S, Israel, Gaza , U.S

☆ U.S. Leans on Turkey to Stop Supporting Hamas and Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Ian Talley | Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hamas and other militants hand over newly released hostages as part of a deal with Israel. Photo: Stringer/Zuma PressISTANBUL—The Biden administration’s sanctions chief warned Turkish officials that the country is fueling violence across two continents by serving as a financing haven for Hamas and a trade hub for Russia’s war machine. Despite U.S. sanctions targeting Hamas financiers over the past decade, Turkey has allowed the group’s investment firms, holding companies, real-estate brokerages and a host of other businesses to operate out of Istanbul, U.S. officials say.

Persons: Stringer Organizations: Zuma Press ISTANBUL, Biden, Turkish Locations: Israel, Turkey, Istanbul, U.S

☆ Israeli Leaders Resist Calls for Longer Cease-Fire With Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jared Malsin | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Key leaders in Israel’s government pushed back against proposals for a long-term cease-fire with Hamas, as negotiators in Qatar tried Wednesday to extend the pause in fighting and the U.S. tempered its support for a drawn-out war in Gaza. In a slew of public comments, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , along with members of his cabinet and coalition partners, laid down a firm marker that talks brokered by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar were only about releasing hostages taken during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. Once that process is over, Israeli leaders said, they would go back to war with the goals of removing Hamas from power and ending a security threat from Gaza.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu Locations: Qatar, U.S, Gaza, Egypt

☆ Gaza Is Falling Into ‘Absolute Chaos,’ Aid Groups Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A shaky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has allowed a surge of aid to reach Palestinians in Gaza, but humanitarian groups and civilians in the enclave say the convoys aren’t nearly enough to address the needs of the strip’s two million people. Despite the pause in fighting, Palestinians in Gaza are burning door frames and piles of garbage to cook, sleeping crammed into school classrooms and strangers’ homes, and scrambling onto trucks bringing aid from Egypt in a desperate grab for supplies, residents say.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israel, Gaza, Egypt

Weeks of secret hostage negotiations with Hamas were hanging by a thread when President Biden phoned the emir of Qatar, a key emissary to the militant group, to deliver an urgent message. Yahya Sinwar , the Hamas leader in Gaza, had gone dark after the Israeli military seized control of Al-Shifa hospital, a facility Israel said Hamas used as a command-and-control center. Now that the fighting at the hospital was over, Sinwar had re-emerged from the shadows, and he was ready to negotiate.

Persons: Biden, Yahya Sinwar, Sinwar Locations: Qatar, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Hangs on 11th-Hour Talks Over Hostages
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jared Malsin | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Negotiators were racing Thursday to hash out the final details of a deal to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas and pause the war, after last-minute issues delayed an agreement weeks in the making. The handover of the first group of hostages, planned for Thursday, now won’t happen until Friday at the earliest, Israeli and regional officials said. Senior Egyptian officials blamed the setback on Hamas’s failure to hand over a complete list of the first group of hostages it planned to release.

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☆ Release of Gaza Hostages Is Delayed Until Friday
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jared Malsin Summer Said | Gordon Lubold | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A planned release of 50 hostages held in Gaza along with 150 Palestinian prisoners and a pause in fighting has been delayed hours before it was set to begin on Thursday, Israeli, U.S. and regional officials said. “The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday,” Israel’s national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Wednesday. Hanegbi said contacts toward the release of the hostages continued.

Persons: “, ”, Tzachi Hanegbi, Hanegbi Locations: Gaza

Israel intensified its offensive in northern Gaza ahead of a potential deal with Hamas that would see the Palestinian militant group release dozens of hostages in return for a partial pause in fighting. A possible agreement comes amid growing domestic pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to secure the release of more than 200 Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas and other militants during the group’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

Persons: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, Israel

Israel and Hamas on Tuesday were on the cusp of a deal for the militant group to release dozens of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a partial pause in fighting, in what would be the first major diplomatic achievement since the war began on Oct. 7. The deal involves 50 Israeli hostages held by militants in Gaza being released in exchange for some 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, according to officials familiar with the negotiations. The exchange involves only women and children on both sides.

Locations: Israel, Gaza

Israel and Hamas agreed to free 50 civilian hostages held by militants in Gaza in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and a series of pauses in fighting. The Israeli cabinet approved the deal after a long deliberation that started Tuesday and went into the early morning hours of Wednesday in Jerusalem. It capped weeks of painstaking negotiations brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S., marking the first major diplomatic breakthrough since the war began on Oct. 7. Hamas confirmed the deal in a statement.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem, Qatar, Egypt, U.S

Israel intensified its offensive in northern Gaza ahead of a potential deal with Hamas that would see the militant group free dozens of hostages in exchange for scores of Palestinian prisoners and a partial pause in fighting. A possible agreement comes amid growing domestic pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to secure the release of more than 200 Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas and other militants during the group’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

Persons: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel Shifts to Tougher Phase in Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( David S. Cloud | Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel is shifting the focus of its military campaign to southern Gaza, where it will likely face the hardest stage of the six-week-old war as it seeks to crush Hamas and recover hostages amid a deepening humanitarian crisis. Israeli forces have largely succeeded in taking control of northern Gaza. But they have only partially destroyed Hamas’s military capabilities and haven’t captured or killed many of its top leaders, senior Israeli officers and analysts say.

Persons: haven’t Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Gaza

☆ Israel Shifts to Tougher Phase of Its Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( David S. Cloud | Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: haven’t Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Gaza

TEL AVIV—With fears rising about the safety of hostages held in Gaza, the White House sent its top Middle East adviser to the region on Wednesday to push for the captives’ release. Brett McGurk , National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, met with Israeli leaders at the start of a regional visit that is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to prevent the conflict in Gaza from spiraling into a broader regional war. McGurk, who is also a deputy assistant to Biden, will next meet with Palestinian, Jordanian and Persian Gulf officials.

Persons: Brett McGurk, Biden, McGurk Organizations: White House, National Security Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, East, North Africa, Persian

☆ The U.N. Is Central to Life in Gaza. Now Its Mission There Is Collapsing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Jared Malsin | Anas Baba | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

RAFAH, Gaza Strip—Huddled in classrooms and crouching under tarps slung up in the courtyard, Palestinians seeking refuge from the fighting raging in Gaza have crowded into a United Nations-run school here near the Egyptian border. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees runs 183 schools in the Gaza Strip, most of which have been pressed into service as shelters. The agency, which also runs bakeries and clinics and provides financial aid, has been central to life in the Palestinian enclave for more than 70 years.

Organizations: United Nations, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Locations: RAFAH, Gaza

☆ Push to Free Israeli Hostages in Gaza Hindered by Mistrust, Anger, Confusion
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Summer Said | Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: gaza

☆ U.S. Officials Have Growing Confidence in Death Toll Reports From Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Nancy A. Youssef | Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

At least one explosion struck Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital on Friday as Israeli forces inched closer. The World Health Organization said that Al-Shifa was coming under bombardment. Photo: Khoder Al-Zaanoun/AFP/Getty ImagesThe U.S. intelligence community has growing confidence that reports on the death toll from health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza are roughly accurate, U.S. officials said. This reliance on the Palestinian data is a partial shift by the Biden administration, which earlier in the war described the numbers from Gaza as untrustworthy.

Persons: Gaza’s Al, inched, Shifa, Khoder, Biden Organizations: Shifa, World Health Organization, Getty Locations: AFP, Gaza

☆ Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza as Israel Tightens Siege
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A rising number of Palestinians are walking for hours, some carrying white flags or pushing wheelchairs, seeking a way to leave the besieged northern Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped there without access to food and water while the Israeli military moves deeper into Gaza City, the main city in the north. The accelerating flight of people from northern Gaza has raised alarms among the United Nations and some Western officials who have urged Israel to drop its demand for people to leave the area, calling it an effort at forced displacement.

Organizations: United Nations Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel

☆ U.S. Gun Sale to Israeli Police Raises Human-Rights Concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jared Malsin | Gordon Lubold | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Israel’s military said its forces conducted wide-scale assaults on Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. Several Palestinian families have taken refuge in vehicles after evacuating the northern part of the enclave. The decision, made in recent days, includes the transfer of roughly $30 million worth of automatic and semiautomatic weapons through licenses approved by the State Department. It comes as U.S. support for the campaign Israel is waging against the Palestinian-Islamist militant group Hamas inside Gaza receives new scrutiny. The international community has grown alarmed as thousands of innocent civilians caught up in the conflict have been killed with airstrikes and other operations as part of the Israeli ground incursion.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, Israeli, police, State Department, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian

☆ U.S. Plans $320 Million Weapons Transfer to Israel as Gaza Toll Mounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s military said its forces conducted wide-scale assaults on Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. Several Palestinian families have taken refuge in vehicles after evacuating the northern part of the enclave. Photo: Israel Defense ForcesThe Biden administration is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel, a major weapons deal that comes amid heightened concerns in Congress and among some U.S. officials about the rising civilian death toll during the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. The administration sent formal notification on Oct. 31 to congressional leaders of the planned transfer of Spice Family Gliding Bomb Assemblies, a type of precision guided weapon fired by warplanes, according to correspondence viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, Wall Street Locations: Gaza, Israel

QUSRA, West Bank—On the morning of Oct. 12, Hani Odeh was considering a problem: how to get the bodies of four Palestinians shot dead during an attack by Israeli settlers to the cemetery in Qusra, where he is mayor. The four men had been killed the day before. Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came after Hamas’s massacre of over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further. Odeh, smoking cigarettes in his office, the customary portrait of Yasser Arafat hanging above his desk, said he complied.

Persons: Hani Odeh, Yasser Arafat Organizations: West Bank — Locations: Qusra

☆ Israeli Forces Encircle Gaza City as Americans Prepare to Leave Strip
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Jared Malsin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s military has largely cut off Gaza City from the rest of the enclave, trapping hundreds of thousands of people in what is turning into a total siege as some 400 U.S. citizens wait to see if they will be able to leave the Gaza Strip. Israeli ground operations have effectively encircled Gaza City, the United Nations humanitarian agency said in an update released early on Thursday local time. The move prevents the delivery of humanitarian aid, which has been trickling into the enclave from the southern border with Egypt, to people in the north, including 300,000 internally displaced people, the agency said.

Organizations: United Nations Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Egypt

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to the Middle East for a series of visits aimed at easing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and is expected to raise the issue of a pause in fighting among other measures, U.S. officials said. The U.S.’s chief diplomat will be visiting Israel on Friday for meetings with members of the Israeli government, followed by a stop in Jordan. Before he departed, he said he would discuss with Israeli officials “concrete steps that can and should be taken” to protect civilians in Gaza, as international concern grows over the intense fighting in the enclave and Israeli forces move to encircle Gaza City.

Persons: Antony Blinken Locations: Gaza, U.S, Israel, Jordan, Gaza City

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