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What to expect when loser is  proposing and not surrendering?

US vetoed UNSC resolution demanding ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, while war is to battle the Hamas terror group who want Israel to go back.

Israel-Hamas war on Tuesday (Feb 20).
It was brought to members of the UN Security Council to stop fighting in Gaza, with Israel continuing to bombard the territory, as concern grows over a humanitarian crisis.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us...ar-4136831

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US vetoed UNSC resolution demanding ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, while war is to battle the Hamas terror group who want Israel to go back.

Israel-Hamas war on Tuesday (Feb 20).
It was brought to members of the UN Security Council to stop fighting in Gaza, with Israel continuing to bombard the territory, as concern grows over a humanitarian crisis.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us...ar-4136831

The U.S. has circulated an alternative draft resolution, which instead calls for a temporary pause in fighting as part of hostage negotiations and opposes any ground operation in Rafah.

U.S. Central Command forces conducted self-defense strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen yesterday, two U.S. officials told NBC. One strike was against a mobile missile launcher & other against an unmanned aerial system, sources said. They added the Houthis had shot at two U.S.-owned ships, which had not sustained any damage.

A House of Representatives delegation led by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., is visiting the Rafah border crossing into Gaza today to inspect the delivery of humanitarian aid to the enclave, according to the regional Egyptian governor's office. The UNICEF warned. As many  malnourished in the isolated and devastated northern part of the enclave, according to a study by the organization.

More than 29,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began and  more than 69,000 have been injured & thousands more are missing and presumed dead, as Israeli military officials said at least 575 soldiers have been killed since war began.

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Israel prepares F-35s for potential mission in Iran. The threat of Iranian nuclear weapons has led Israel to make changes to its F-35s while Russian actions in Syria have acted as a catalyst for action in developing anti-jamming systems. 21st February 2024.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been preparing its F-35s for possible attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, last week, Ali-Akbar Salehi, a former head of Iran’s nuclear agency, implied in a remarks, broadcast on Iranian state tv that Iran had everything it required to construct a nuclear bomb.

The changes made by IAF to its F-35s were behind the decision to perform heavy maintenance in Israel rather than send stealth aircraft to a European maintenance centre. The changes being made have intention of making stealth aircraft more capable should Israel decide to attack nuclear sites in Iran.
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/air-w...n-in-iran/

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Gaza: UK used air-dropped into Gaza for first time. UK is air-dropped aid into Gaza for the first time since war broke out after striking a deal with Jordan. Four tonnes of supplies including medicines, food and fuel were delivered into the strip on a Jordanian Air Force plane on Wednesday.

Packages fitted with parachutes floated down to the Tal Al-Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the aid would save lives and keep the hospital running.

The UK has until now only sent aid to Gaza by land and sea, but northern Gaza - a wasteland after nearly five months of war - is impossible to reach. The World Food Programme has suspended deliveries there because its convoys had endured "complete chaos and violence", the organisation said.

World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza. There is a heavy Israeli military presence in the area and much of the population were forced south.
However, an estimated 300,000 Palestinians remain in northern Gaza with little food or water and the UN has warned for months of a looming famine there.

The British Jordanian delivery contained diesel, critical medical equipment and ration packs for patients and medical staff. As the last pallet sailed into the night sky, the Jordanian air crew saluted. It landed right on target, they said.

Banking sharply over the Mediterranean sea in two passes, the Royal Jordanian Air Force Hercules aircraft dropped the four tonnes of British aid directly into northern Gaza, just after sunset. The pallets - fitted with parachutes and GPS trackers to ensure they reached the hospital - were bound for an area just to the north of a Jordanian army field hospital in Gaza City.

The UK Foreign Office said it signed an agreement with Jordan earlier this week which will see £1m ($1.2m) worth of UK aid sent to Gaza. Commenting on deal, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said: "Thousands of patients will benefit, the fuel will enable vital hospital to continue its life saving work.

"However, situation in Gaza is desperate and significantly more aid is needed - fast. We are calling for an immediate humanitarian pause to allow additional aid into Gaza as quickly as possible and bring hostages home

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Israel wants administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza

The foreign ministers of 26 European countries on Thursday also called for a pause in fighting leading to a longer ceasefire. They urged Israel not to take military action in Rafah “that would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian situation

The Israeli's however the situation is in Gaza, how desperate and significantly is, more aid is needed - fast. We are calling for an immediate.

Israeli wants a administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza. Israeli officials say they plan to trial scheme when ‘the right people’ come forward.

Israeli officials have said they wanted ONLY to use local administrators without links to either Hamas terror group or Palestinian Authority to run Gaza, and will set up small scale trials of the scheme as soon as “the right people step up to the plate”.

The controversial plan, which would see Israel retaining security control throughout Gaza, comes amid a deepening breakdown in public order in the devastated territory as convoys of aid are repeatedly looted and local communities form self-defence groups, some armed, to protect against thieves or help find food.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...o-run-gaza

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Israel wants administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza

The foreign ministers of 26 European countries on Thursday also called for a pause in fighting leading to a longer ceasefire. They urged Israel not to take military action in Rafah “that would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian situation

The Israeli's however the situation is in Gaza, how desperate and significantly is, more aid is needed - fast. We are calling for an immediate.

Israeli wants a administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza. Israeli officials say they plan to trial scheme when ‘the right people’ come forward.

Israeli officials have said they wanted ONLY to use local administrators without links to either Hamas terror group or Palestinian Authority to run Gaza, and will set up small scale trials of the scheme as soon as “the right people step up to the plate”.

The controversial plan, which would see Israel retaining security control throughout Gaza, comes amid a deepening breakdown in public order in the devastated territory as convoys of aid are repeatedly looted and local communities form self-defence groups, some armed, to protect against thieves or help find food.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...o-run-gaza

The war in Gaza was triggered when Hamas terror geoup launched attacks into Israel on 7 October.

They killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in their homes and at a music festival, that included international folks from 30 others nations The terror militant organisation abducted almost 250 hostages, of whom about 100 were released in a swap for Palestinian prisoners during a week-long ceasefire in November.

Israel now blames civilian deaths on Hamas saying it uses Gaza residents as a human shield to protect their own terror men. 

On Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli’s prime minister, restated his determination to achieve “total victory”.

“We are now on the way to eliminating Hamas terror and try to hopefully releasing all the hostages. We will not relent until we have achieve total victory,” he told soldiers in northern Israel.

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Negotiators race to secure Israel-Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal ahead of Ramadan

The Biden administration is racing against the clock as it attempts to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war before Ramadan next month, with senior US officials believing that the release of Israeli hostages from Gaza is the only plausible way to bring the first pause to the deadly conflict since a seven-day truce in late November – and possibly, an eventual end to the war.

Looming over the hostage deal discussions is the threat by Israel to launch an offensive into Rafah in southern Gaza, where around 1.5 million displaced Gazans have fled. US officials have pointedly warned Israel against pushing farther south without guaranteeing the safety of those civilians – a seemingly impossible task.

“If there’s an operation against Rafah, we can forget about a deal happening,” said a diplomat familiar with the negotiations between Israel and Hamas being mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States.

With the Muslim holy month of Ramadan beginning on March 10, the next two weeks of negotiations are “pivotal,” a source familiar with the ongoing efforts told CNN. An aggressive military push by Israel during Ramadan would only further inflame tensions across the region.

What is less clear to some officials involved in the discussions is to what extent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would prefer a pause in the fighting over an offensive in Rafah that would continue his goal of trying to dismantle Hamas.

“It doesn’t look like Netanyahu is willing to do any deal at the moment,” the diplomat said.

The stakes of the moment could hardly be higher given that a successful deal could usher in a new and potentially final phase of a war that is now fully in its fifth month. The pause and hostage talks, sources say, have been difficult despite some progress being made in recent weeks – and far more complicated than the first round of negotiations.

Several of President Joe Biden’s top national security officials have been traveling in and out of the Middle East in quick succession in recent weeks, pushing Israel and Hamas to come to an agreement that would launch an initial six-week pause in fighting and the eventual release of the more than 100 remaining hostages.

White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk was back in Cairo on Wednesday before going to Israel on Thursday to continue these efforts; his trip comes on the heels of CIA Director Bill Burns’ visit to the region last week which included stops in Doha, Israel and Cairo.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/...index.html

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Kana from Putin's
Former Ukrainian president Poroshenko's chocolate factory in Lipetsk, Russia, is nationalised...
District Court in Lipetsk, Russia, seized shares in the former Roshen confectionery factory in Lipetsk and the authorised capital of the trading enterprise Roshen LLC.

Source: The judicial authorities in Lipetsk reported by liga.net...The details: is court also barred founder of Roshen, Ukrainian MP who is also ex-president Petro Poroshenko, his son Oleksii Poroshenko & Oleg Kazakov, former director of Lipetsk confectionery factory, from operating in the Russian Federation. This meaning mean.

How to avoid nuclear escalation as Iran and Israel square off. 

November report by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provided insights into the sustained and unprecedented progress of Iran’s nuclear program, including alarming update about a speed-up in its uranium enrichment. While the ongoing conflict in the Middle East continues to capture both regional and global attention.

IAEA report serves as a striking reminder that the Iranian nuclear challenge persists, and with it a substantial risk of regional escalation. Two opposing dynamics are at play in the region: a growing Iranian Vs its long-term strategy, and their war on Israeli. 

IAEA is confidence in maintaining its national strategy, security to create fertile and perilous ground for a potential non-direct confrontation, in which the nuclear issue would be central...

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During my last trip to Israel in 2019, Hamas fired missiles into Israel on 2 days of my 14-day stay. If anything, the violence has escalated, so Hamas must be running scared now after the Israeli retaliation, to desperately call for a ceasefire after their Oct invasion. 

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During my last trip to Israel in 2019, Hamas fired missiles into Israel on 2 days of my 14-day stay. If anything, the violence has escalated, so Hamas must be running scared now after the Israeli retaliation, to desperately call for a ceasefire after their Oct invasion. 

Middle East Crisis. Their is only one plan for, from Netanyahu Pushes for Indefinite Military Control Over Gaza...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first detailed postwar plan for Gaza was carefully written to postpone long-term decisions about territory’s fate & to avoid irreversible confrontations with both domestic allies & foreign partners, analysts said.

Mr. Netanyahu’s position paper, released on Friday, said Israel would retain indefinite military control over the enclave while ceding the administration of civilian life to Gazans without links to Hamas
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/23/...-gaza-news

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Closed-door negotiations in Paris efforts 

(Like it or no, there's a good chance, it may work)

A closed-door meeting of spy chiefs, military officials and diplomats has briefly renewed hopes of a potential ceasefire deal amid fierce debates at UN, but observers have warned that time is running out to make progress & prevent a looming Israeli offensive on Gaza’s southernmost city.

Secretive talks is at unknown location in Paris involved David Barnea, boss of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, conducting separate meetings with Egyptian spy chief Abbas Kamel, head of CIA William Burns & Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. Israeli said they had dispatched negotiators to Paris with an expanded mandate and will expand the authority given to our hostage negotiators,”(Good)  aleast, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant told US envoy to Middle East Brett McGurk last wk. “At same time, IDF is preparing (in-case) of continuation intense ground ops.”

Israeli delegation boss had already left? Saturday morning to take any developments back to Israel’s war cabinet, dampening expectations that talks could continue into week-end.
https://sgtalk.net/Thread-Netanyahu-%E2%...war?page=2

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Israeli Kfir battalion surprise raid into REFAH tunnels capture top Hamas commander in Gaza tunnel.
https://youtu.be/jWpuyvtrjMs?si=L8vOQuoxXeQj8P5g

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Longest

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Longest Supply Tunnel in Gaza Finally Has Been Cut Off by Israeli Soldiers Has Found Inside the Enemy Underground Tunnel.
https://youtu.be/p464BWFfn4g?si=5b-tKjUZTcu7YBCy

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IDF presents plan for evacuation of Rafah, gets approval for aid to south Gaza. The military submits operation plan to war cabinet, troops gear up for offensive in southern Gaza city * Hagari in WSJ op-ed: We fight with ‘heavy heart’ over loss of life.

UPDATED 15MIN AGO -- IDF presents rescued hostage Ori Megidish returning to active IDF service today as siren was turn on due to interceptor missile fired at target in Lebanon airspace, says IDF

IDF troops seen operating in Gaza in this handout photo cleared for publication on February 26, 2024. 
IDF troops seen operating in Gaza in this handout. A view of a makeshift tent camp for Palestinians displaced by Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Gaza Strip.

President Isaac Herzog meets with soldier who was taken hostage by Hamas & as soldier, Ori Megidish, who was a hostage is freed by Israeli military is at President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 11, 2024. Cpl. He (Ori Megidish), was kidnapped by Hamas terror grp on Oct 7 & is rescued by special forces from captivity in Gaza Strip, will return to army service today. Megidish, who was an observation soldier at Nahal Oz post, will now serve in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

IDF says the decision to return Megidish to service “stemmed from her personal desire and sense of mission to serve the country.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-f...y-26-2024/

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Israel's War Cabinet Authorizes Entry of Aid Directly Into Northern Gaza Strip. Feb 26, 2024. Friends and relatives of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas attend a rally calling for their release in Tel Aviv, on Saturday. PM's office: IDF presented war cabinet with plan to evacuate Gaza's civilian population from combat zones 
■ IDF: Five soldiers seriously injured in Gaza on Sunday 
■ Army announces death of soldier taken captive on October 7 
■ U.S. National Security Advisor says he 'has some concerns' about Israel's plan for post-war Gaza

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Israeli military presents plan for evacuating Gaza’s population from ‘fighting areas. Israeli war cabinet on population” of Gaza amid warnings that offensive on the southern city of Rafah will take place soon.

Earlier this mth, PM B.Netanyahu’s office said has directed Israel IDF to draw up plan for evacuation of civilians from Rafah, where more than a million people are crammed. That “upcoming operational plan” was submitted for approval on Monday, did not mention Rafah, for fears are growing in Gaza across the international community over IDF’s planned offensive that lies next to shuttered border of Egypt.

City has become home to majority of 1.5 mil of displaced Palestinians as Israeli military advanced south through enclave, but those civilians seemingly have no further place to escape.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/26/middl...index.html

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Even Hamas and the Israel pour cold water on Biden’s hopes of imminent ceasefire. 

US president’s remarks that there could be truce by Monday are ‘premature’, says political head of Hamas in Gaza

Middle East crisis – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...-ceasefire

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Even Hamas and the Israel pour cold water on Biden’s hopes of imminent ceasefire. 

US president’s remarks that there could be truce by Monday are ‘premature’, says political head of Hamas in Gaza

Middle East crisis – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...-ceasefire

Israeli and Hamas officials have downplayed hopes expressed by Joe Biden that a ceasefire in the war in Gaza is imminent, raising questions about whether a temporary truce can be implemented before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins in two weeks’ time

The head of Hamas’s political division in Gaza, said on Tuesday that Palestinian Islamist movement had not yet formally received a new proposal for a ceasefire since last week’s indirect talks in Paris mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar.

US leader hope, late on Monday that a temporary truce could be implemented as soon as 4 March were “premature”& did “not match reality on the ground”, Ahmad Abdel-Hadi, a Hamas representative in Beirut, told Lebanese broadcaster that significant progress on a deal had not been made.

Israeli speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Biden’s comments came as a surprise & were not made in coordination with the country’s leadership. Hamas was continuing to push “excessive demands”, they said.

Remarks is to pour cold water on comments made by Biden in New York. “My national security adviser tells me, we’re close, very close. We’re not done yet,” Biden told reporters after taping an appearance on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers. “My hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.”

Ramadan’s coming soon, up and there has been an agreement by the Israelis that they would not engage in activities during Ramadan as well, in order to give us time to get all the hostages out,” Biden said.

Stemming the bloodshed in Gaza has been a difficult diplomatic task in the nearly five-month-old war sparked by Hamas’s attack on Israel in which, according to Israeli figures, about 1,200 people were killed and another 250 abducted. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed almost 30,000 people, displaced more than 85% of the 2.3 million population from their homes and left more than half of the strip’s infrastructure in ruins, according to data from Gaza’s health ministry and the UN.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...-ceasefire

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Israel, Hamas, and Qatar have cautioned against US President Joe Biden's optimism that a hostage-for-ceasefire deal in Gaza could be reached by the end of this week.

More than half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine, United Nations agencies have warned. The World Food Programme said the enclave is seeing the worst level of child malnutrition in the world.

Hospitals in Gaza are facing dire conditions, according to the health ministry in the enclave, as the death toll since October 7 approaches 30,000.

Palestinian factions will meet in Moscow on Thursday to discuss forming a new govt after the Palestinian Authority cabinet resigned on Monday. 

Hamas hasn’t confirmed attendance, but a Russian official said "all parties" have agreed to participate.

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Israel has been stepping up its air campaign, bombing deeper into Lebanon. Strikes last week came within 27 miles of the capital Beirut, the farthest into Lebanese territory from the border since the violence started immediately following Hamas’ October 7 massacres in Israel.

On Monday, Israel struck the Hezbollah stronghold Baalbek in the northeast of the country.

“There are fears this will grow to an expansive air campaign reaching much further north into populated areas of Lebanon and eventually grow to a ground component as well,” another person familiar with the US intelligence said.

The US intelligence community has been “ringing alarm bells,” the person added.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/politics/...index.html

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Israel prepares F-35s for potential mission in Iran. The threat of Iranian nuclear weapons has led Israel to make changes to its F-35s while Russian actions in Syria have acted as a catalyst for action in developing anti-jamming systems. 21st February 2024.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been preparing its F-35s for possible attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, last week, Ali-Akbar Salehi, a former head of Iran’s nuclear agency, implied in a remarks, broadcast on Iranian state tv that Iran had everything it required to construct a nuclear bomb.

The changes made by IAF to its F-35s were behind the decision to perform heavy maintenance in Israel rather than send stealth aircraft to a European maintenance centre. The changes being made have intention of making stealth aircraft more capable should Israel decide to attack nuclear sites in Iran.
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/air-w...n-in-iran/

WASHINGTON, (Yonhap) -- Growing military cooperation among North Korea, Russia, China and Iran raises a possibility of "simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries," a top U.S. general warned Friday today.

Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, made the remarks during a session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stressing that his command will "always" be "ready to fight tonight." "We are confronting not one, but two nuclear peers -- the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. This reality, combined by missile developments in North Korea, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the growing relationships amongst those nations, adds new layers of complexity to our strategic calculus," he said.

It can raises the possibility of simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries.

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WASHINGTON, (Yonhap) -- Growing military cooperation among North Korea, Russia, China and Iran raises a possibility of "simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries," a top U.S. general warned Friday today.

Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, made the remarks during a session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stressing that his command will "always" be "ready to fight tonight." "We are confronting not one, but two nuclear peers -- the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. This reality, combined by missile developments in North Korea, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the growing relationships amongst those nations, adds new layers of complexity to our strategic calculus," he said.

It can raises the possibility of simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries.

A Growing Military Cooperation Among North Korea, Russia, China and Iran raises a possibility of "simultaneous conflicts with multiple nuclear-armed adversaries,

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Even Hamas and the Israel pour cold water on Biden’s hopes of imminent ceasefire. 

US president’s remarks that there could be truce by Monday are ‘premature’, says political head of Hamas in Gaza

Middle East crisis – live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...-ceasefire

Israel prepares F-35s for potential mission in Iran, Ali-Akbar Salehi, the former head of Iran’s nuclear agency, implied in remarks broadcast on Iranian state television...

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US airdrops of humanitarian assistance into Gaza will begin "very soon," US President Joe Biden said on Friday in the Oval Office that US will begin air-dropping food aid to people of Gaza. Biden also said earlier that the US would be “pulling out every stop” to get additional supplies into Gaza. Additionally, Biden offered a mixed assessment of hostage talks between Israel and Hamas reaching a deal by Monday, saying that he was both hopeful a deal could be achieved by Ramadan but also that an agreement "may not get there."

Asked if he was confident a ceasefire could be agreed to by Monday — the day this week pointed to as possibility. Biden suggested it appeared unlikely.

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March 2, 2024 - Israel-Hamas war

US says it has made its first humanitarian airdrop into Gaza, in a combined operation with Jordan. Aid groups have criticized the US effort as ineffective while its ally Israel continues to obstruct the bulk of aid deliveries.

Israel has "basically accepted" a six-week ceasefire proposal in Gaza, according to a senior US official, but Hamas has not yet agreed to specific terms around the release of hostages. More talks are planned in Cairo, sources say, as negotiators try to reach an agreement by Ramadan, which starts in just over a week.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news...index.html

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US is dropping aid into Gaza sparks criticism

The US airdrop of food aid into Gaza on Saturday sparked criticism from Palestinians who called it inadequate, they saying is hypocritical when the US funds and supplies Israel’s military. Palestinians is saying.

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Why hamas start this war
Pointless

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Why hamas start this war
Pointless

Must ask Hamas what happening after the mass killing on 30 others nations ignition the fire in them in Israel, then after is the anwer, is...Israeli war cabinet. A Israel Hamas war on the table.

Israel minister Benny Gantz met Monday with top US officials in Washington, DC, even though an Israeli official said he is not representing the government amid tension with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the trip
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news...index.html

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So where is the 2 state solution???

No 2 state solution, there won’t be peace in Middle East.