Israel At War Tuesday Dec 19

Israel at war day 74

11:00pm

- Another soldier killed in Gaza Lior Sivan,32, from Beit Shemesh.

- Israel offered deal to Hamas via Qatar: Release 40 hostages in exchange for week-long ceasefire. Qatar relayed Hamas' demand: Any hostage deal includes end of fighting. Mossad chief responds: War ends when Hamas disarms and surrenders.

- Roughly 1,500 tunnel shafts and underground passages were uncovered since the beginning of the war, most of them beneath civilian institutions.

-Linda Sarsour, one of America's most vile antisemites, has been arrested in Washington D.C. by Capitol Police after she and dozens of others staged an anti-Israel protest INSIDE the U.S. Capitol building a few hours ago.

- Hamas leader Sinwar said to narrowly evade capture by IDF two separate times

Military deploys additional brigade to Khan Younis, where Gaza terror leader is said to be hiding; troops declare operational control over northern neighborhood of Jabaliya IDF troops have twice managed to reach tunnels in Gaza in recent days where they believe Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was hiding just before they arrived, Hebrew media outlets reported Tuesday.

- Islamic Jihad publishes video of two hostages calling on Israeli gov’t to free them

- Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Egypt on Wednesday for talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange with Israel,

-Another soldier killed in Gaza today, bringing the total loss in  ground offensive to 132.

Maoz Fenigstein, 25,from Susya

- IDF moves deeper into southern Gaza in search of massive terror tunnels where Hamas chiefs are hiding; army calls on residents in western & southern Khan Younis to leave homes as forces head toward more Hamas hubs; Israel believes hostages also held underground.

-Rockets fired at Tel Aviv and Gush Fan region by Hamas, no reports of injuries as several have been intercepted with falling shrapnel

-Hamas health ministry says that at least 19,667 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza since October 7.

- A atzeres tefilah will take place on Thursday erev asara Bteves in binyanei Haumah with the participation of Rav Shimon Galei shlita

- Hezbollah sends drones and other projectiles over Israel's North and warns of hostile aircraft intrusion 

- Rav Moshe Tzadka R"Y Porat Yosef said those who possess a trreife phone are responsible for those that got killed in the war.

- Houthi rebels in Yemen on Tuesday vowed to keep up attacks on ships passing through a vital Red Sea strait, declaring they would not be deterred by the announcement of an international naval coalition to protect the waters.

- Troops operating in northern Gaza’s Atatra and Jabaliya located Hamas weapons caches and manufacturing plants, the IDF says troops recovered a large number of firearms, rockets, and explosives.

- IDF says it killed top Hamas moneyman in Rafah strikes; who helped fund terrorists and explosives buildup.

- Police in New York City “insisted” that Elisha Wiesel put away an Israeli flag on Tuesday, as Weisel, son of the late writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel, attempted to counterprotest a hundreds-strong pro-Palestinian demonstration in the city’s Penn Station, Wiesel said on X.