Israel At War Tuesday Nov 28

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- Reports: Whitehouse pressuring Israel to refrain from military operation in Southern Gaza after cease-fire is over. Democrats call to condition US to Israel.

 - A reporter asked Biden his thoughts on calls to condition U.S. aid to Israel as a way to halt Israel's invasion of Gaza.  "I think that's a worthwhile thought, but I don't think if I started off with that we would have gotten where we are today."

- US Spokesman John Kirby: 

We do not support military operations in the southern Gaza Strip until the Israelis make it clear that they will not cause the displacement of civilians there. Israel needs the planning of their military action in southern Gaza to take into account the innocents who are there, including those who were displaced from the north and moved there.

- Hostages now handed over to Israel 

Ditza Heiman, 84

Tamar Metzger, 78

Noralin Babadilla, 60

Ada Sagi, 75

Merav Tal, 53

Rimon Kirsht, 36

Ofelia Roitman, 77

Gabriela Leimberg, 59

Daughter Mia Leimberg, 17

Clara Marman, 63

- 10 hostages released today are now in the hands of the red cross including 9 women and a 17 year old girl and an additional 2 Thai workers

- Egyptian sources say there's a deal to extend the ceasefire for another 2 days and the release of additional 20 hostages. That would mean a total of 90 hostages released by shabbos since the ceasefire went into effect.

- The IDF says that five soldiers were killed in one week of combat as a result of friendly fire, three more soldiers were killed in safety incidents in which a bullet was fired and an IED exploded, and dozens more were injured in operational accidents, including falls, injuries and damage from various means of warfare. Kaan news

-Minister Benny Gantz said after the ceasefire the IDF will have no choice but to resume fighting and drive out Hamas 

- The IDF released the names of 3 soldiers killed in combat on October 7th, their bodies are being held by Hamas in Gaza Staff Sergeant Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20 Sergeant Kiril Brodski, 19 , Sergeant Shaked Dahan, 19 HYD

- National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is pushing for Israel to scrap its ongoing truce deal with Hamas, after hamas breached the agreement by targeting IDF forces in the Strip with explosives. Ben Gvir urged Netanyahu to unleash an Israeli response and “order the IDF to resume forcefully crushing Hamas.” “We cannot wait for them to kill our fighters,”

- Hamas says it coukd release up to 20  hostages in the extended cease-fire time frame 

- CIA director Bill Burns will meet today in Doha, Qatar with Mossad director David Barnea and Qatar's prime minister to discuss a possible second extension of the pause in the fighting in Gaza if Hamas releases more hostages including men and soldiers 

 - The IDF says three explosive devices were detonated near Israeli forces in two separate locations in the northern Gaza Strip, "in violation of the truce agreements." It says that in one of the incidents, gunfire was also directed at troops. The IDF says troops returned fire. A number of soldiers are lightly hurt in the attacks In both cases, the IDF forces were within the agreed ceasefire lines.

The aunt of Eitan Yahalomi, 12, who was released from Gaza captivity last night, tells French TV that terrorists forced him to watch videos of the atrocities they carried out on October 7, and  that any time a child in captivity cried “they threatened them with rifles to shut them up.”