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Israeli military aircraft strike Hamad City as artillery blasts residential buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after dozens killed in attacks across the Palestinian territory over previous 24 hours.

The US and Israel are sending delegations to Qatar for ceasefire talks that are due to start later today while Hamas has told mediators it is willing to meet after the discussions to determine if there is a serious response from Israel to truce proposals.

Hamas will not join ceasefire talks, senior official says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e8gzyp8e2o

Hamas rejects ceasefire talks so carry on fire lah!

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Hamas rejects ceasefire talks so carry on fire lah!

IDF orders evacuation of Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah neighborhoods. They further reduced the boundaries of the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone. Several neighborhoods in north Khan Younis will no longer be considered part of humanitarian zone, as IDF says it is planning to operate there against Hamas activity. “Due to many acts of terrorism, the exploitation of the humanitarian zone for terror activity, and the firing of rockets at the State of Israel from the neighborhoods in north Khan Younis, remaining in this area has become dangerous,”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/

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Is Trump taking: Told Netanyahu ‘get your victory quickly’ b'cos ‘killing has to stop’

Hours later, former president accuses Kamala Harris of 'always demanding ceasefire'; warns Hamas it better release hostages 'before I assume office,' says most hostages are dead.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-i-to...s-to-stop/

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Hamas rejects ceasefire talks so carry on fire lah!

Israel war on Gaza live: Israeli attacks intensify despite ceasefire hopes. Israel has ordered mass evacuations in northern and southern Gaza, including areas in the south it previously designated as “safe zones”, while at least 10 were killed in an overnight Israeli attack on the tents of displaced people in central Gaza’s az-Zawayda.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel to continue diplomatic efforts to conclude a Gaza ceasefire deal after mediators Qatar, Egypt and the US have said the latest talks were “serious and constructive”.

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55 rockets launched at north after IDF strike on Hezbollah arms depot said to kill 10. Lebanese Health says dead are all Syrian nationals include a woman and her two children; no injuries reported in rocket attacks, but several fires erupt
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-s...rms-depot/

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A one phone call can lured a top Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr to his 7th floor of the same building can killed in a one 100% Israeli strike, with ine shot — report.

Wall Street Journal: An initial assessment says Israel’s superior technology & hacking overcame Hezbollah group’s, the used of it tech surveillance system, official tells the WSJ. The top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr soon received a phone call from unknown person to go to his 7th floor of the residential building in Beirut where he be killed by Israeli airstrike, an unnamed Hezbollah official is be told at that strike time, secretive top commander was in his office on 2nd floor of building, to bringing him back to 5-floors higher to his apartment to made it easier for Israel to target him , official who adds that Hezbollah and Iran are probing the intelligence failure.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...ke-report/

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Warplanes hit Hezbollah sites as barrage of 20 rockets fired at Kiryat Shmona

Netanyahu says Israel standing firm on key demands in hostage talks, willing to be flexible in other areas * IDF ‘deepening’ operations in central, southern Gaza.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-18-2024/

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Power in the skies: The Israeli jets capable of striking Iran

Watch as Israel's F-35 and F-15 fighter jets refuel mid-flight in a strategic IAF drill, showcasing Israel's ability to reach targets in Iran; squadron leader emphasizes force prepared to respond to any challenge on short notice. 

But the Iranians' coalition is ready to fight Israel
Analysis: both Washington and Moscow warn the Iranians, suggesting that 'Netanyahu could very well lose it' and it will  ignite the entire Middle East

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Meeting Herzog, Blinken says ongoing talks ‘maybe the last’ chance for hostage deal
Top US diplomat sits down with PM ahead of expanded meeting including senior officials * 

Hamas try attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, vows to carry out more...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...u-hostages

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Bodies of 5 hostages rescued from Gaza, including one previously thought alive. Some 55 rockets fired at north * Biden says anti-Israel protesters 'have a point,' Hamas ‘backing away’ from deal. Kibbutz Nir Oz issues a new statement saying the body of resident Chaim Peri has also been returned from Gaza, after being “abandoned to his death in captivity” in the Strip. Peri, 80, is mourned as an “entrepreneur, humanist and peace activist” who saved his wife on October 7 before being abducted by terrorists.

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Ukraine orders evacuation of city as Russia gains.
Region.Officials said families with children living in Pokrovsk and surrounding villages would be forced to leave. The head of the city's military government, Serhii Dobriak, said residents had at most two weeks to flee the Russian advance.
The strategically important city is one of Ukraine's main defensive strongholds and a key logistical hub for Kyiv's troops on the eastern front

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Bodies of 5 hostages rescued from Gaza, including one previously thought alive. Some 55 rockets fired at north * Biden says anti-Israel protesters 'have a point,' Hamas ‘backing away’ from deal. Kibbutz Nir Oz issues a new statement saying the body of resident Chaim Peri has also been returned from Gaza, after being “abandoned to his death in captivity” in the Strip. Peri, 80, is mourned as an “entrepreneur, humanist and peace activist” who saved his wife on October 7 before being abducted by terrorists.

IDF recovers bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza, including one previously presumed alive
All 6 had been taken alive on Oct. 7; Avraham Munder found dead in Khan Younis tunnel with bodies of Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri, Yoram Metzger and Nadav Popplewell

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Israel Defense Forces confirms fighter jets carried out overnight airstrikes on Hezbollah weapon storage sites in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, for the second straight night. A military statement says secondary explosions were identified after the strikes and that it also targeted Hezbollah air defenses in the area “that posed a threat” to Israeli aircraft.

The IDF accuses Hezbollah of putting military assets within populated areas, in a “cynical exploitation of Lebanese citizens,” after the Lebanese health ministry said one person was killed and at least 20 wounded in the strikes.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...aa-valley/

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Meeting Herzog, Blinken says ongoing talks ‘maybe the last’ chance for hostage deal
Top US diplomat sits down with PM ahead of expanded meeting including senior officials * 

Hamas try attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, vows to carry out more...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...u-hostages

https://youtube.com/shorts/OgYTxlg_rwQ?s...sXi1xd9KpZ

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...iddle-east

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Khamenei’s calculus: Iran supreme leader faces a bitter choice on Israel. All eyes are on Iran and its possible retaliation for an assassination – blamed on Israel – in its capital. In the shadowy corridors of Tehran’s power, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at the end of July – widely believed to have been carried out by Israel – shattered a fragile equilibrium.

Timing of escalation in the longstanding conflict between Iran & Israel could not have been worse, newly sworn-in President Masoud Pezeshkian still getting used to his role when geopolitical fireball was hurled into his lap. ForI ran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the assassination of the Palestinian group’s leader was more than a provocation, it was an existential challenge.

The explosion that killed Haniyeh, which Iran believed was a missile launched from within its own borders, was a breach of sovereignty that angered Tehran and put Khamenei’s 2003 fatwa prohibiting the manufacture, use and storage of nuclear weapons under increased scrutiny.

Strategic implications: The high-level debate whether Khamenei’s fatwa on nuclear weapons served Iran’s strategic priorities was already continuing prior to Haniyeh’s assassination, a senior Iranian official who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Khamenei has steered Iran through global shifts from the Cold War’s end to the rise of United States unipolarity and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria – and through the fraught history of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

Now, at 85, he needs to secure the future of the Islamic republic, a critical juncture that requires more than manoeuvres in the “grey zone” – the space between war and peace that Iran has traditionally used to exert pressure on its adversaries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/...-re-israel

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Israel war on Gaza updates: Attacks continue on eve of talks in Qatar

Talk fail...

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Talk fail...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the assassination of the Palestinian group’s leader was more than a provocation, it was an existential challenge. The explosion that killed Haniyeh in Iran believed was a missile launched from within its own borders, was a breach of sovereignty angered Tehran and put Khamenei’s 2003 fatwa prohibiting the manufacture, use & storage of nuclear weapons under increased scrutiny,
Strategic implications.

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WATCH: US urges pressure on Hamas to accept truce deal
A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal “now is in sight,” the US envoy to the United Nations told the Security Council. Linda Thomas-Greenfield also urged the members of the council to press Hamas to accept a bridging proposal agreed to by Israel. While two million Palestinians in Gaza crammed in 39sq km: Report

The Israeli military’s expanded ground operations in recent weeks have pushed Palestinians out of large swaths of previously designated safe zones, crowding them into smaller and smaller slivers of land.I srael’s war on Gaza live: Israel kills 12 in Khan Younis, Dier el-Balah

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Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill 4 as Hezbollah unleashes rockets, drones
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/le...es-4557636

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A Hamas delegation, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, has arrived in Cairo amid continuing Gaza ceasefire talks. Group will be briefed on the current status of negotiations but is not expected to take part directly.

As Israel’s issues new orders for residents to evacuate neighbourhoods in northern Gaza amid intense Israeli attacks in north, centre and south of the Hamas as another Palestinian Jihad tunnel located outskirts of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza Strip was demolished by combat engineers, the IDF says. Tunnel was some 500 meters long had been located by 7th Armored Brigade’s 82nd Battalion & later demolished by elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...tral-gaza/

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Israel and Hezbollah exchange attacks in sharp escalation of conflict.

BEIRUT —  The Israeli military launched what it called preemptive strikes in Lebanon against the militant group Hezbollah early Sunday morning, ratcheting up already elevated tensions that could tip into a full-on regional war even as efforts continue to forge a cease-fire in Gaza.
The predawn strikes, which began before 5 a.m. local time, hit areas in Lebanon’s south, where Hezbollah has for more than 10 months engaged in an escalating tit-for-tat fight with Israel. Hezbollah has also vowed to avenge the death of its senior military commander, Fuad Shukr, whom Israel assassinated in an airstrike on the Lebanese capital last month.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/sto...-hezbollah

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Khamenei’s calculus: Iran supreme leader faces a bitter choice on Israel. All eyes are on Iran and its possible retaliation for an assassination – blamed on Israel – in its capital. In the shadowy corridors of Tehran’s power, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at the end of July – widely believed to have been carried out by Israel – shattered a fragile equilibrium.
Timing of escalation in the longstanding conflict between Iran & Israel could not have been worse, newly sworn-in President Masoud Pezeshkian still getting used to his role when geopolitical fireball was hurled into his lap. ForI ran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the assassination of the Palestinian group’s leader was more than a provocation, it was an existential challenge.
The explosion that killed Haniyeh, which Iran believed was a missile launched from within its own borders, was a breach of sovereignty that angered Tehran and put Khamenei’s 2003 fatwa prohibiting the manufacture, use and storage of nuclear weapons under increased scrutiny.
Strategic implications: The high-level debate whether Khamenei’s fatwa on nuclear weapons served Iran’s strategic priorities was already continuing prior to Haniyeh’s assassination, a senior Iranian official who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. Khamenei has steered Iran through global shifts from the Cold War’s end to the rise of United States unipolarity and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria – and through the fraught history of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
Now, at 85, he needs to secure the future of the Islamic republic, a critical juncture that requires more than manoeuvres in the “grey zone” – the space between war and peace that Iran has traditionally used to exert pressure on its adversaries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/...-re-israel

.... you read alkazeera yet you do not know Hamas is not funded by Irn? 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25...-interests
only improve relationship in 2022 after Hamas stop against Irn ally. 

bN tell you wat,  you also believe. Isl last yr article already tell 

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Hamas Declares Unity but Lets Islamic Jihad Fight Israel Alone - Haaretz
May 12, 2023About a year later Hamas - led by Meshal - also cut contacts with Syria, and until October 2022, Hamas' relations with Syria, and of course with Iran too, remained in a deep freeze. But Hamas has received generous aid from Turkey and Qatar, and it has set up headquarters in both countries.

in short bNi extend the war to keep his political life alive.

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Israel war on Gaza updates: Attacks continue on eve of talks in Qatar

Hostage and ceasefire talks resume in Cairo: What we know. From CNN. 

Negotiators are in the Egyptian capital Cairo for a renewed push to secure an end for fighting in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages, the latest in a stuttering series of efforts to secure a deal between Israel and Hamas.

What’s happening?. Hamas representatives arrived in the Egyptian capital on Saturday evening, where negotiators from Israel, the US, Egypt and Qatar have been holding talks. The delegation will hear from mediators about the latest in the deal talks, Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement on Saturday. Israeli negotiators are also attending.

What’s on the table?: A three-phase peace plan was first laid out by US President Joe Biden in May, which sees a release of hostages combined with a “full and complete ceasefire.” White House is pushing to get the deal across the line & has previously insisted deal has been accepted by Israel, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says fundamental issues remain.

What are the key sticking points?. There remain significant gaps between the two sides. Israel has made it clear that following the initial six-week phase, a break in the fighting may be just that and it is not ready to agree to a permanent ceasefire. Hamas has indicated it is unhappy with the latest proposal as it didn’t include a permanent ceasefire and introduced new conditions on the exchange of prisoners. Another major sticking point is the future of Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza. Israel has demanded maintaining control of the border zone, whereas Hamas has said Israeli troops must withdraw from the area.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/...index.html

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Whay!, how come Israel know be4 lehh.

Israeli officials said military pre-emptively struck Hezbollah targets in the early hours of Sunday, to prevent a wider war referring to Israeli strikes. They began around 1/2 hour be4 Hezbollah’s can be ready to attack. Israel’s PM Netanyahu said all of Hezbollah’s drones were intercepted. Hezbollah boss dismissed as. “What happened was aggression, not preemptive action,” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Sunday night, killing 3 in those Israeli attacks In Lebanon, the terror Hezbollah concluded attacks by Israel for the day. He declared group’s retaliation for Shukr’s killing “meticulously” completed with both sides declaring victory, region appears to once again walked back from brink of all-out war.

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difficult to have peace when the powers at war is one sided. can only end if the powerful one wants to .
should just let powerful one win. fight a hidden war. in time the powerful one will collapse in their own weight.

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5 Palestinian gunmen, including top commander, killed by IDF at West Bank mosque

Islamic Jihad chief in Tulkarem area among dead; another operative detained; two soldiers hurt; Palestinian death toll since start of operation rises to 17
https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-palestin...nk-mosque/

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Slovakia’s govt approved plans to buy 6-mobile air defense systems from Israel 554.3 mil euros ($616.88 mil), it says on website, a NATO member state strengthens protection of its airspace.They also approves purchase of more than 1,300 6×6 and 8×8 heavy terrain vehicles, a joint acquisition with Czech Republic, at an expected cost of 708.3 million euros, which will replace ageing trucks,
does not name the defense system to be bought from Israel in a govt-to-govt deal. In October, said it would enter negotiations to purchase a single BARAK MX mobile medium-range surface-to-air missile system from Israel.

Slovakia op medium-range 2K12 system, which was at the end of its life cycle, the defense. Under previous govt, Slovakia donated its ageing S-300 air defense system to Ukraine, a decision criticized by the current admin for lowering the country’s air defense capabilities. It had also expressed interest in acquiring Patriot air defense systems. Israel recently announced it would be mothballing its Patriots, whose neighbor Ukraine has fought against a Russian invasion since 2022, has been part of NATO efforts to bolster military alliance’s eastern flank. Defence Minister Robert Kalinak has said priorities should be on defense capabilities, especially air defense.

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Why Hezbollah poses bigger threat to Israel than Hamas. Since a new war broke out between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas on Oct 7, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has expressed solidarity with Hamas through military action. It has fired missiles, mortars, rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel almost daily, prompting Israel to respond with its own fire.

Late August, the fighting escalated, risking an all-out war. Yet both Israel and Hezbollah have reasons to avoid a full-blown conflict.

What is Hezbollah?
Shiite Muslims in Lebanon formed what would become Hezbollah — “party of God” — in 1982, in reaction to Israel’s occupation of the country’s south. The movement was inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Shiite-majority Iran, and Hezbollah is heavily influenced by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims each comprise about 30 per cent of Lebanon’s population. Because it is separate from Lebanon’s military, Hezbollah can attack targets without provoking the reaction such a move by a state would precipitate. Still, Israel and Hezbollah have fought repeated battles, including a war in 2006.

late August, the fighting escalated, risking an all-out war. Yet both Israel and Hezbollah have reasons to avoid a full-blown conflict. 
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/wh...as-4571081

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Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Israelis leave bodies after Khan Younis exit. Israel’s deadly raids in the occupied West Bank continue for a third straight day. The Israeli army claimed it killed Wissam Hazem, a Hamas commander in Jenin