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☆ Deal to Free Child Hostages in Gaza Inspires Hope and Anguish
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Isabel Kershner | More About Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And an infant, now all of 10 months, who has spent about a tenth of his life in captivity. They are among the more than 30 children abducted from their homes and taken to Gaza during the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7. Almost a day after the deal was announced, the families had yet to receive any information from the authorities. Some, but perhaps not all, of the children are expected to be among the first hostages released in the coming days under a deal announced on Wednesday. Islamic Jihad, another armed group in Gaza, released the hostage video of Yagil Yaakov, 12, who was captured along with his brother Or, 16.

Persons: ”, Eylon Keshet, Kfir Bibas, Yarden, Shiri, Ariel, “, Yael Engel Lichi, Ofir Engel, Little, Yocheved Lifshitz, Yagil Yaakov Organizations: Be’eri Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza’s

Families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza awoke on Wednesday to news of a deal that brought both hope and agony. Israel has said that about 240 people were taken hostage to Gaza, and it remained unclear which of them would be released under the cease-fire deal announced overnight. Hours after the deal was announced, families said they had received no official information from the Israeli authorities. At least 36 Israeli civilians ages 18 and under are being held in Gaza along with 13 of their mothers. People have been calling to congratulate the family since Tuesday night, Ms. Engel Lichi said on Wednesday morning.

Persons: “, ”, Yael Engel Lichi, Ofir Engel, Yuval Sharabi, Engel Lichi Locations: Gaza, Israel, Jerusalem, Be’eri

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 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

☆ Families Fear for the Health of Ailing, Frail Israelis Held Hostage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When armed Hamas terrorists invaded her home on Oct. 7, Karina Engelbert was still recovering from a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery that had gone terribly awry. She was weak and easily fatigued, and a buildup of painful scar tissue on her chest caused tightness, limiting her mobility. He has not received any information about his sister’s condition, and she has not been visited by the International Red Cross, he said. Ms. Engelbert is one of about 240 hostages abducted from Israel, many of whom need urgent medical attention. And then there were those who sustained potentially life-threatening injuries in the raid itself, which killed an estimated 1,200 people, most of them civilians.

Persons: Karina Engelbert, Engelbert, Ronen Engel, Mika, Yuval, Nir, “, ‘, ’, Engelbert’s, Diego Engelbert, ” Mr, Ms Organizations: International, Cross Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Hundreds of Patients Evacuate Gaza’s Largest Hospital as Israel Tightens Grip
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hundreds of patients and medical staff began evacuating the besieged Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday, as the Israeli military tightens its control of the medical complex, which it accuses Hamas of using as a military command center. On Saturday morning, at least 450 patients began walking from the hospital toward the southern part of the enclave, the director general of Gaza’s health ministry, Munir al-Bursh, told the Al Jazeera television channel. Patients were pushed in wheelchairs and on gurneys, and some hobbled on crutches, according to witnesses speaking to the channel.

Persons: Munir al Organizations: Shifa, Al Locations: Al, Gaza City, Al Jazeera

☆ Hundreds of Palestinians Evacuate Gaza’s Largest Hospital as Israel Tightens Control
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Omar Abdel-Baqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people began evacuating the besieged Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday, as the Israeli military tightens its control of the medical complex, which it says Hamas has used as a military command center. Hospital officials and Palestinian health authorities said the hospital was evacuated under orders from Israel’s armed forces, which Israel’s military disputed.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Al, Gaza City

☆ Opinion | The War in Gaza Is Splintering the Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Should a few members of the Squad lose their primaries, the blow to Democratic unity could be severe. “And they’ll either stay at home or they’ll go to a third party.”Already, there are signs that the party is fracturing over Israel. Advocates for the freedom and safety of Palestinians, horror-struck by more than 10,000 civilian deaths in Gaza, believe that the Democratic Party is giving its approval to atrocities. These big-footed donors, who are overwhelmingly targeting representatives of color, are going to exacerbate the fissures in the Democratic Party. Diana Lovett, a Democratic Party district leader who held a fund-raiser for Bowman last year, said polarization over the congressman was tearing apart local Democrats.

Persons: Ryan Grim, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Bernie Sanders, she’d, ”, Ilhan Omar, who’ve, Tlaib, “, Omar, Mark Mellman, Israel, ” Mellman, Bowman, Eliot Engel, Grim, he’d, George Floyd, Giddins, —, Don Samuels, Cori Bush, Wesley Bell, Summer Lee, Bhavini Patel, Bowman doesn’t, George Latimer, imploring, Latimer, hadn’t, Waleed Shahid, Ocasio, imploring Biden, they’ve, He’s, ” Bowman, I’m, haven’t, hasn’t, Shahid, Ta, Nehisi Coates, Coates, Isaac Herzog, Weinberger, Sam Bankman, Nina Turner, Andy Levin, Republican megadonors, Bernie Marcus, “ I’ve, Mark Pocan, Mellman, Diana Lovett, Lovett, who’d, dreading, “ He’s, we’re Organizations: Israel, ”, Democratic, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Times, New, New York Democratic, The New York Times, Minneapolis City, Missouri Democrat, Pittsburgh Democrat, Squad, Justice Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists of America, West Bank, Democratic Socialists, U.S, Westchester Jewish Council, New York Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish, Politico, United Democracy, AIPAC, Jewish Democrat, Republican, Home Depot, Wisconsin Democrat, Congressional Progressive Caucus Locations: Israel, Palestine, Gaza, New York, Minneapolis, Missouri, Louis County, Hebron, “, Manhattan, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin

☆ The Shock of Facing American Anti-Semitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Joel Engel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Hamas knew that after Oct. 7 the narrative would shift to the isolation of Israel. Each of the others kissed his ring as he went down the line. I, at the end, turned his hand vertically and shook it. His eyes widened. Someone explained that I was Jewish, which delighted him, and for the next hour he directed all his answers to me, regardless of who had posed the questions.

Persons: Mark Kelly, — Organizations: Zuma Press, Getty, Oaks, New York, New Locations: Israel, Calif, It’s, Archbishop’s, Naples, New

☆ Israel Searches for More Evidence of Hamas Presence at Gaza’s Largest Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli military on Thursday said it continued to search through Gaza’s largest hospital for further evidence that it is used by Hamas for military purposes, as Israel faced growing pressure to justify sending troops into a medical facility. On Wednesday, after a day of searching through Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, questioning patients, staff and displaced people sheltering inside, Israel released footage of AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, battle vests with Hamas insignia and other assorted military equipment it said it found hidden in the MRI wing of the hospital.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Israel, Al, Gaza City

☆ Israel Releases Footage of Tunnel at Gaza’s Largest Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli military released footage of a tunnel opening from within the largest hospital in Gaza on Thursday, the first evidence to support its claims that Hamas’s vast tunnel network runs underneath the medical facility. With pressure mounting on Israel to show proof to justify sending troops into the Al-Shifa Hospital, Israel said it was still in the process of combing through the complex. Hamas has denied the claims that it has used the medical facility as a command center and has requested that the hospital be reviewed by international organizations.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Al, Shifa, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel Releases Footage of Tunnels at Gaza’s Largest Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Israel Organizations: Al, Shifa, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ How Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk’s Very Danish Capitalism Fueled Its Success, and Its Stumbles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Photographs Charlotte De La Fuente For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BAGSVÆRD, Denmark—Every rank-and-file employee at drugmaker Novo Nordisk calls the chief executive by his first name, Lars. Hallways and offices fall silent around 5 p.m., when workers leave to pick up their children or commute home, many by bicycle. Fueled by blockbuster sales of drugs used for obesity, this very Danish company is now one of the world’s most valuable. As of Friday, the company’s market capitalization was roughly $439 billion—more than Pfizer, Lockheed Martin and Starbucks combined. In September, it overtook LVMH, the French luxury-goods firm, as Europe’s biggest company by market capitalization.

Persons: Lars, Lockheed Martin, LVMH Organizations: Denmark —, drugmaker Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Lockheed, Starbucks, Europe’s Locations: BAGSVÆRD, Denmark, Danish

☆ Hamas Has Deadlier Weapons Than the Last Time Israel Invaded Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Benoit Faucon | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The last time Israel invaded the Gaza Strip nearly a decade ago, its troops pummeled an overmatched Hamas fighting force. They destroyed tunnel systems and sealed off smuggling routes, costing the Islamist group two-thirds of its missiles by the time they withdrew. Now, as Israel steps up a new invasion, it faces a more-potent enemy that has rebuilt its arsenal with help from Iran. Since the operation started on Oct. 27, Hamas has attacked the Israeli army with explosive-laden drones, anti-tank missiles and high-impact rockets—the sorts of weapons that have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Iran, Ukraine

☆ Hezbollah Chief to Break Silence on Israel-Hamas War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Thursday. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its militants in Lebanon had fired 12 rockets toward Israel. Photo: Rami Shlush/ReutersThe chief of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is set to give his first speech Friday since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, comments that will be watched closely around the region for clues to whether he will step up a confrontation with Israel and potentially ignite a wider conflict. Hassan Nasrallah , Hezbollah’s secretary-general, has kept a public silence since Israel launched its ferocious response to Hamas’s attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, during which militants killed roughly 1,400 people and kidnapped more than 200 others.

Persons: Rami Shlush, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel Organizations: Hezbollah Locations: Lebanon, Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Iran, Lebanese

☆ Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah Vows Pressure on Israel, but No All-Out War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Summer Said | Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Thursday. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its militants in Lebanon had fired 12 rockets toward Israel. Photo: Rami Shlush/ReutersThe chief of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and vowed his group would step up military pressure on Israel in the coming days, but said it didn’t plan on waging an all-out attack for the time being, easing worries that the Israel-Hamas war could spread across the volatile region. Hassan Nasrallah , Hezbollah’s secretary-general, spoke for the first time since the attacks by Hamas, amid concerns the conflict on Israel’s southern end could ignite a separate war in the north against the Lebanese militant group. Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in tit-for-tat exchanges of fire in recent weeks.

Persons: Rami Shlush, Hassan Nasrallah Locations: Lebanon, Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Iran, Lebanese

Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Iran-backed Lebanese militia group Hezbollah, issued his first remarks since the Israel-Hamas war began, calling on Arab and Muslim states to cut relations with Israel. Photo: Marwan Naamani/Zuma PressHezbollah’s leader warned that a regional war with Israel was a realistic possibility, as fears grew that the conflict in Gaza could spill into a second battlefront with the Lebanese militant group. Hassan Nasrallah , Hezbollah’s secretary-general, spoke on Friday for the first time since a series of attacks by Hamas killed 1,400 people in southern Israel and sparked a devastating bombing campaign and ground invasion. He said Hezbollah would step up military pressure on Israel, with which it has been engaging in tit-for-tat exchanges of fire, but said the time isn’t right for all-out war.

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, Marwan Naamani Organizations: Lebanese, Hezbollah, Hamas, Zuma Press Locations: Iran, Israel, Gaza, Lebanese

☆ Primary Battles Brew Over Progressive Democrats’ Stances on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | More About Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And progressive organizations are girding for possible challenges to Representatives Cori Bush of Missouri, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and others, funded from the deep pockets of AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups. “They spent a historic amount of money to intervene, and try and buy primaries in 2022,” said Usamah Andrabi, spokesman for Justice Democrats, the liberal insurgent group that helped elect many of the progressives now on the primary target list. “I think we will see a doubling and tripling down, because no one in the Democratic leadership is trying to stop them.”Officially, AIPAC is neutral for now. Progressive Democrats like Ms. Lee have other constituents to consider, including progressive Jews who remain by her side. Ms. Lee said Jews were “10 percent of our district, but we also have Muslim, Arab, Palestinian constituents who are afraid for their families and their lives.”

Persons: George Latimer, Jamaal Bowman, Eliot Engel, Cori Bush of, Rashida, “, ”, Usamah Andrabi, Marshall Wittmann, Bowman, Lee, ” Waleed Shahid, Biden, Avigail Oren Organizations: Westchester County, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Justice Democrats, Democratic, AIPAC, Israel, Progressive Locations: New York, Westchester, Cori Bush of Missouri, Michigan, Israel, Gaza, Pittsburgh

☆ Iranian Girl Dies in Hospital After Alleged Clash with Security Forces
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television shows people pulling 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro Oct. 1. Photo: /Associated PressAn Iranian teenage girl, whose collapse in a Tehran metro raised public anger and suspicion that she had been attacked by morality patrol officers for not covering her hair, has died in hospital, according to Iranian state media. Armita Geravand, 16 years old, had been in a coma since Oct. 1. That day she had entered a subway car in Tehran, wearing her short black hair uncovered, and seconds later was dragged out, unconscious, and laid on the platform. She was pronounced brain dead last week.

Persons: Armita Geravand Organizations: Press Locations: Tehran, Iranian

☆ Weapons Flood West Bank, Fueling Fears of New War Front With Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

AMMAN—Long before Hamas militants burst out of their Gaza stronghold to massacre scores of civilians with handguns and assault rifles, Iran and its allies had accelerated efforts to smuggle weapons into a different part of the Palestinian territories, the West Bank. Using drones, secret airline flights and a land bridge that traverses hundreds of miles and at least four national borders, the smuggling operation is raising the specter of a new conflagration in the war between Israel and Palestinians. It also poses a growing threat to Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally which borders Israel and the West Bank and has been struggling to contain a growing flow of drugs and arms.

Persons: AMMAN — Long, specter, Jordan Organizations: West Bank Locations: AMMAN, Gaza, Iran, Israel, U.S

TZE’ELIM, Israel—In the sun-torched plains of southern Israel, thousands of soldiers wait for the go-ahead from politicians and commanders to do what the Israeli military has trained for years to do: fight in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has built a replica of a generic Palestinian village nicknamed “Little Gaza” at a base in the Negev Desert, where soldiers train for combat against armed terrorists in narrow streets and a labyrinth of tunnels.

Persons: Israel — Organizations: Gaza Locations: TZE’ELIM, Israel, Gaza

☆ Weapons Flood Israel’s West Bank, Fueling Fears of New War Front
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: AMMAN — Long, specter, Jordan Organizations: West Bank Locations: AMMAN, Gaza, Iran, Israel, U.S

☆ A condo on New York's Billionaires' Row sells for less than half of its original $135 million asking price
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A five-bedroom, five-bathroom unit at 432 Park Avenue was listed for $135 million back in 2021. Two years later, it's sold for less than half that to an anonymous buyer, The Real Deal reported. That same year, the 8,000-square-foot apartment on the 79th floor was put on the market for $135 million, according to The Real Deal. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis May, the asking price was lowered to $92 million, and the condo went into contract in August, per the real estate news outlet. The unit's listing agent, Noel Berk of Engel & Völkers, previously told The Real Deal that it was being marketed to Asian buyers.

Persons: it's, —, hasn't, Noel Berk, Engel, Völkers Organizations: Service, Real, The New York Times, Engineers, Deal, Times Locations: New York City, Russian, Greek

☆ Israeli Military Shows Footage From Oct. 7 Attacks, Some Taken From Militants’ Body Cams
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | Shoshanna Solomon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel’s military on Monday screened a 47-minute video featuring images of Hamas militants’ killing spree across southern Israel on Oct. 7, as part of a government effort to document the attacks and push back against what it says are denials of their severity. The footage was gleaned from body cameras worn by Hamas fighters who died, security cameras and the cellphones and social media of Israeli victims, the military said. It showed the video to 170 reporters at a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Tel Aviv

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