Israel At War Monday November 13

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- Israel and Hamas are close to a hostage deal that would free most of the Israeli women and children who were kidnapped Oct. 7, according to a high-ranking Israeli official. The agreement could be announced within days if final details are resolved, he said."A temporary cease-fire of perhaps five days would accompany the exchange of hostages and prisoners, the Israeli official said. This truce would allow safe travel for the Israeli captives. It could also permit more international assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza and should ease the humanitarian crisis there, the Israeli official explained." (Wash post)

- The "March for Israel" protest in Washington, D.C. tomorrow has been elevated to SEAR 1 threat level by the Department of Homeland Security - requiring “significant coordination among federal, state, and local authorities and warrants pre-deployment of federal assets.”

- 400 family members of hostages held captive in Gaza have arrived in the US they will attend the rally and head back to Eretz Yisrael

-Among those speaking at the Washington march for Israel rally Natan Sharansky, house speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Crith Smith of NJ, Sen Chuck Schumer, Israel president Issac Herzog, out-of sensitivity to the many Orthodox participants there will not be any kol Isha issues per the organizers. The maccabeats accapela group will be performing.

A U.S. Intelligence Official has now stated that the Evidence provided by Israel which claims a Hamas Command and Operations Center is beneath Al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza City is True, further stating that the Fuel provided to the Hospital is often Stolen by Hamas Fighters who Regular Stage and Gather around the Hospital in order to use the Facility and its Patients as “Human Shields.”

- Hatzolah will have a designated phone number for those at the Washington rally 516-226-8800 there will be hatzolah members wearing Green yellow vests with Hatzolah ID they will be working together with local authorities 

- Israeli officials: one of the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught has likely given birth in captivity. The woman, who had been in her ninth month of pregnancy, is presumed to have given birth based on the time that has passed since, and not based on concrete information, the officials stress.

 - Hamas just released a hostage video of a young Israeli woman identified as Noah Marciano from Modiin . At the end of it, it shows her dead body and claims she died from an air strike.

- A Picture circulating online shows troops of the IDF's Golani Brigade inside Gaza's parliament building in Gaza City, after capturing the site.

- Satmar Rebbe Rav Zalman call out Aguda politicians who wrotr that people should attend of the Washington DC rally to join there was never it is a charpah and busha that they never joined with those orgs and noe are going  

- Bill Clinton: "Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas." “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza... between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it."

- IDF Spokesperson : Hamas command center found under Gaza children’s hospital; hostages were likely held, Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armored Brigade have raided Gaza City’s Rantisi Hospital “Underneath the hospital, in the basement, we found a Hamas command and control center, suicide vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and other weapons “We also found signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages here,” “Additionally, we found evidence that Hamas terrorists came back from the massacre on October 7 to this hospital, among others, after butchering Israelis in their homes,” 

- Journalist Kassy Dillon on Twitter: I really want all my Jewish friends to be careful at the DC protest. I’ve been to many. You need to know a few things.

1. Antifa there is well organized and known to be confrontational.

2. You will likely not have cellphone service. It always goes out with big crowds there.

3. Bring a charging pack and water.

4. Don’t go anywhere alone and make sure people aren’t following you when you leave.

- Organizers are expecting over 500k at the Washington DC rally t some are hopeful to say a special bracha of חכם הרזים when you see 600k Yidden together . The main stream frum media is not giving much coverage to the washington DC rally 

- Elon Musk: Europe appears to be headed for civil war

-Iran has vowed to kill former U.S. government officials, "including President Trump."

IDF: Terrorists fire RPGs from Gaza hospital entrance at troops, who kill 21 gunmen

- FM Cohen: Israel has 2-3 weeks before international pressure over Gaza becomes significant

-IDF says it has eliminated the commander of Hamas's anti-tank guided missile array in the terror group's Khan Younis Brigade, Yakub Ashur. Separate strikes also killed Hamis Dababash, the former head of Hamas's intelligence division; Tahsin Maslam, the head of the combat support company for Hamas's special operations in Beit Lahia; Jihad Azam, a Hamas intelligence officer; and Munir Harb, head of information in the Rafah Brigade.

-Worldwide yom tefillah and yom Kippur katan today in shuls and yeshivos  erev Rosh chodesh

- The Satmar Rebbe Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum  blasts Neturei Karta: “They are joining our enemies and strengthen the horrible murders while wearing a striemel and bekishe, thereby creating a terrible Chilul Hashem”.

- Israeli singers Omer Adam and Ishay Ribo, will perform at the rally in Washington DC at the national mall on Tuesday November 14

- IDF troops continue operational activity around the Shati area:

Hamas' terrorist infrastructure was uncovered at the Quds University, and inside the Abu Bakr Mosque. 

Soldiers located a tunnel shaft, intelligence materials and weapons in the area of Beit Hanoun. 

Inside the residence of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist, a large number of weapons were discovered in a child’s bedroom.

- Rocket sirens and suspected drone infiltration alerts that sounded in northern Israel a short while ago were all false alarms, the Israel Defense Forces says.

- Projectiles were fired from Lebanon at areas near the northern community of Netu’a and an army post near Shtula, adjacent to the border.

The IDF says it is responding with artillery shelling.

- UK interior  minister Suella Braverman was just fired. After she accused London police of  political bias. She was a hardliner against mass-immigration and the acceptance of radical anti-Israel marches in the UK.

- Former Shin Bet official and two other Israeli officials told the NYT newspaper that there were several floors dug underneath Shifa hospital that held meeting areas, living spaces and storage facilities. The officials said the subterranean area, built over the past 16 years by Hamas, can hold at least several hundred people.

- IDF spokesperson: 56 year old Teveria redident a Israeli civilian was killed on Sunday after Hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile at the Dovev moshav in northern Israel. Heis the third Israeli civilian to be killed by Hezbollah he was working for the electric company repairing damaged lines from a previous attack.

- United Airlines to Resume Flights To Israel Next Week

- Alan Dershowitz on Obama: “I think so,” Dershowitz replied. “I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well. He called me to the Oval Office, and he said Alan, you know I have Israel’s back. I didn’t know he had a target on it. He has never been supportive of Israel. And finally,, his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president, doesn’t have to be elected.”

“So he is contributing enormously to the problem because he is respected among young people,” he added. “If he says the occupation is unbearable and that anything can be done to stop it, he is asking people to engage in their antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes. He should be ashamed of himself. He should apologize. But he won’t.