Israel At War Sunday November 12

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10:30pm

- 2 more soldiers killed in northern Gaza Strip yesterday Maj. Yisachar Natan, 28, from Kiryat Malachi. HYD

Staff Sgt. Itay Shoham, 21, from Rosh Haayin. HYD

- Israel is seeking to install former British prime minister Tony Blair as a "humanitarian coordinator" for the Gaza Strip — TOI

- New York Times: “President Biden had in recent weeks rejected more aggressive bombing options proposed by the Pentagon out of fear of provoking a wider conflict with #Iran”

- Dans deals March on Washington info several Lakewood shuls and keholos will be participating more

- IDF estimate: Hamas battalions falling apart, no longer able to carry out coordinated assaults by 30-40 fighters; some terror operatives avoid clashes with Israeli forces & are mostly trying to survive

- More than 180,000 people across France, including 100,000 in Paris, marched peacefully on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

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- WHO says Shifa Hospital no longer functioning as IDF helps patients evacuate before approaching the Hamas command post  located underneath 

- Israel nabs 20 terrorists deep in Gaza interrogators will work on extracting valuable information about Hamas operations to send back to troops on the battlefield 

- Axios, citing an Israeli source:Defense sec Austin asked Gallant for clarification regarding the Israeli air strikes in Lebanon

-  For the second time in 4 days gunshots were fired early this morning at Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal. Bullet impact marks were found on the building’s entrance doors,  a vehicle was seen fleeing the scene near the Yeshiva. No injuries reported B”H. Police investigating.(Belaaz)

- There's a video circulating on social media of a frum Jewish man ripping down posters  on Ocean parkway of kidnapped hostages in Gaza. Flatbush shomrim are on top of it they know who he is and it appears the individual is a emotionally disturbed  please do not share name on social media or protest at his home. (From Elan Kornblum of Great Kosher Restaurant Foodies group on Facebook)

- Former NJ governor and presidential candidate Chris Christie is Israel and visited kfat Aza and other communities that were attacked on October 7.

- Negotiations are ongoing with a tentative hostage swap deal to free up to 100 hostages held by hamas including children women and seniors, in return israel will free 100 prisoners of Hamas and provide fuel with a pause in the war

Report: Hamas envisioned deeper attacks, aiming to provoke an Israeli war

Evidence gleaned since Oct. 7 shows Hamas terrorists prepared for a ‘second wave’ of assaults amid hopes of inspiring violence in the West Bank and beyond (wash post)

- The American Moetzes gedolei hatorah of Agudah Yisroel has signed on to the call of gedolei eretz yisroel calling for a yom tefilla tomorrow 

- Five American service members have been killed when a military aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean during a training exercise, the US European Command (EUCOM) says.

- IDF weighing a serious response to Hezbollah as the terrorist group escalated their attacks against Israel on the northern border (Israel media)

- Those who are planning to fast tomorrow Monday Erev Rosh chodesh should remember to be nekabel taanis by Mincha after Shmona Esrei.

- 7 IDF  troops lightly injured in mortar attack from Lebanon

 15 launches from Lebanon were identified in the past hour. The IDF Aerial Defense Array intercepted 4 of the launches, with the rest falling in open areas. 

- 6 Several civilians workers repairibg damaged electrical lines feom a previous attack are wounded one critical  in an anti-tank guided missile attack from Lebanon that struck the northern community of Dovev, close to the border. Hezbollah took responsibility 

 

- Netanyahu: We offered fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza, but Hamas refused to accept it.

- IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler's infamous book "Mein Kampf" translated into Arabic in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza. 

- Netanyahu to CNN was asked if he takes responsibility for Oct t attacks: “Did people ask FDR after Pearl Harbor or George Bush if he takes responsibility after 9/11?"

- Hamas leader specialising in kidnappings and cross-border infiltration who was pronounced dead in 2014, is alive and masterminded the Oct 7 attacks, Israeli spies believe.

Sources close to Israeli intelligence said Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of Yahya Sinwa, Hamas’s leader in Gaza and Israel’s most-wanted terrorist, has been living under a shroud of secrecy in the tunnels beneath the Strip for years.

They say he was closely involved with the planning of the attack last month that killed 1,200 people, hoping that hundreds of people taken hostage could be used to secure the release of some 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails.