Israel At War Sunday August 10

Israel at war day 674

- Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea were just killed in an Israeli strike outside of Shifa hospital. IDF says 

Hamas terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist

Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops. Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist training lists and salary records, prove he was a Hamas operative integrated into Al Jazeera. 

- Senator Lindsey Graham:

"Enough! It's time to destroy Hamas! And rebuild Palestinian society, like we did in Germany and Japan"

- Vice President, J.D. Vance, in an interview with Fox News: "Trump wants to be a president of peace - that the hostages can return home and the people in Gaza will receive a free flow of aid. This is what we are working on right now

-  In a press conference to the foreign media, Israeli PM Netanyahu declares Israeli ground invasion of Gaza "the best way to end the war."

He said Israel not looking to occupy Gaza with expanded military op, but to ‘free it from Hamas’

- Families of hostages call for general strike next week over government’s war plan

- Netanyahu: "We have no intention to hold the Gaza Strip, we have 5 conditions to end the war; freeing the hostages, defeating Hamas, disarming Gaza, overriding Israeli security control, and non-Israeli civilian administration

-Minister Ron Dermer, who handles strategic relations with the United States told PM Netanyahu that a partial deal with Hamas and a return to fighting afterwards would take so long that the Trump administration would no longer agree to Israel's war continuing.

-The IDF will present in the coming days to the political echelon the plan to expand activity in Gaza, which includes the mobilization of about 250,000 IDF reservists

- Israeli Cabinet ministers were updated this morning that more than 1,310 aid trucks entered Gaza in the past week; the contents of nearly 1,900 additional trucks were collected and distributed throughout the Strip; and more than 1,100 aid packages were airdropped.

-  Netanyahu: “We tried to prevent the looting of aid trucks by Hams by transferring the trucks through GHF, but it did not succeed. The starvation campaign is false, just like the accusations of genocide. We want to increase the number of distribution points, the price of food in Gaza has dropped and it will drop further as more countries assist in bringing in the aid.”