Norwegian minister, we could close the border crossing with Russia
“If necessary,” Norway could follow Finland’s example and close its border crossing with Russia. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said this yesterday, as reported by Norwegian broadcaster TV2. The only legal land border crossing between Norway and Russia is called Storskog and is located in the far northeast of Norway. As Prime Minister Petteri Orpo reported yesterday, Finland will keep only one border crossing with Russia open, the northernmost one. However, Estonia’s interior minister accused Russia of organizing a “hybrid attack operation” to bring migrants to its border, adding that Estonia was preparing to close border crossings if “migration pressure from Russia increases.”
Olmert: “Netanyahu has to go”
“Whatever happens, Hamas has won a victory. He can play with us. We were put in the position of having to pray for them. “They have civilians and about fifty soldiers with whom they can negotiate.” Said Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister of Israel, in an interview with Fatto Quotidiano. He adds: “However, given the situation, the government had to accept the agreement, also because Israeli public opinion is largely in favor of it. The problem is that this ceasefire will allow Hamas to reorganize: it is a risk that must be taken.” According to Olmert, “the current terrible situation in Israel and Gaza was caused by the massacre carried out by Hamas- “It cannot be forgotten or forgiven: that is why our efforts must be focused on the eradication of Hamas.” But then he adds: “As for the sins committed by this government of religious extremists and settlers, we stand “In front of an extremely dangerous group of people who dream of annexing the entire West Bank and expelling all Palestinians.” The vast majority of Israelis are against this criminal and unacceptable project and therefore it must be stopped as quickly as possible.” And up When asked whether Netanyahu should go, the former prime minister replied: “I hope he will be thrown out today.” It cannot be represented. He has now also lost the trust of the right-wing voters.”
Germany, police operation against Hamas and Samidoun supporters
The German police are carrying out searches in four federal states on members and supporters of the Hamas and Samidoun organizations, which are banned in Germany. A total of 15 properties were searched on behalf of the responsible administrative courts in Berlin, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. This was announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, as the Tagesschau reports. There are more than 300 police officers on duty in Berlin alone. Eleven of the houses and buildings searched were in Berlin, said a spokeswoman. Seven searches in Berlin targeted Hamas and four targeted the Samidoun association. These are primarily the apartments of the supporters of the two organizations and the headquarters of a Palestinian association. “We are continuing our consistent action against radical Islamists,” said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. “Islamists and anti-Semites cannot and must not feel safe anywhere here,” and these “extremists must expect the full severity of the rule of law,” the minister continued. On November 2, Faeser banned the activities of Hamas and the international network Samidoun – Palestinian Solidarity Network in Germany. In particular, Samidoun Germany was banned and disbanded.
Israel’s Shifa Hospital Director Arrested
The director of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City was arrested by Israeli forces. This was reported by Jewish state media, according to which Mohammad Abu Salmiya is being interrogated by IDF intelligence and the Shin Bet. According to Israeli Army Radio, the director of al Shifa was stopped as he moved towards the southern Gaza Strip.
IDF has attacked 300 Hamas targets in the last 24 hours
Israeli forces have attacked around 300 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in airstrikes in the last 24 hours. The IDF reported this and said that command centers, tunnels, ammunition depots, weapons production and missile launch sites were bombed.
Haaretz, postponement of agreement to “resolve administrative issues”
“There is no cause for concern” about the postponement of the entry into force of the hostage agreement. This was assured by a source familiar with the negotiations, according to which “what matters is not the failure of the negotiations, but rather the need to resolve the administrative issues that need to be resolved.”
Support for Hamas, police operation in Germany
German police raid four countries in Germany in support of Hamas. Officials reportedly searched around fifteen buildings in Berlin, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein in connection with links between the Palestinian terror group and the Islamist network Samidoun.
US source, postponement of the hostage agreement reached by Israel with Egypt in Qatar
The decision to delay the entry into force of the hostage agreement by one day was made by Israel, along with Qatar and Egypt, and the United States was aware of it. A senior American official told CNN that more time was needed to finalize the details and “minimize the risk of something going wrong.”
Qatar: “Negotiations are progressing well, I will announce a ceasefire within a few hours”
Negotiations in Doha over the hostage agreement are “progressing positively” and the ceasefire will be announced in the next few hours. This was assured by Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari, saying that Doha is working with the two parties and the United States “to ensure the rapid start of the ceasefire and to provide everything necessary to ensure the commitment of the parties to the agreement.” .
Biden hears Netanyahu: “Keep calm on the border with Lebanon”
US President Joe Biden stressed “the importance of maintaining calm” along the Lebanese border and in the West Bank in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The White House reports it. The two leaders agreed that “the work is not done,” and Biden assured that he will “continue working to secure the release of all remaining hostages.”
The son of the Hezbollah politician is killed in an Israeli attack
The son of the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc in Lebanon, Mohammed Raad, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah said early Thursday that five of its fighters had been killed, including Abbas Mohammed Raad, identified by local media as the lawmaker’s son. The national news agency reported that four people were killed and one injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the city of Beit Yahoun on Wednesday. The Israeli military did not initially comment on the attack. On Wednesday, Hamas announced that Khalil Kharraz, a commander in the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing in Lebanon, was killed in an Israeli airstrike the day before. Also on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike killed two journalists from the pan-Arab television channel Al Mayadeen while reporting in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident.
Netanyahu, the Mossad will take action against Hamas abroad
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the Mossad intelligence agency to track down leaders of the militant group Hamas living in other countries outside the Gaza Strip. “I have instructed the Mossad to take action against the leaders of Hamas, wherever they are,” Netanyahu said at a news conference. Most of Hamas’ top leaders live in exile, mainly in the Gulf state of Qatar and the Lebanese capital Beirut. The Mossad has been blamed for a series of assassinations of Palestinian militants and Iranian nuclear scientists abroad over the years.
USA: Allegations of Islamophobic hatred, former Obama official arrested
A former Obama-era National Security Council official was arrested after videos posted on social media showed him uttering Islamophobic hate words against a food truck employee in New York. This is reported by CNN, citing the police. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, was arrested yesterday on preliminary charges of hate crimes, aggravated harassment and stalking. In videos posted online, the former US official mocks Islam, mocking the man for his citizenship status and accusing him of supporting Hamas, citing the ongoing war between Israel and the Islamist movement. “You support the killing of little children,” Seldowitz tells the seller in one of the videos. “If we had killed 4,000 Palestinian children, guess what? That wouldn’t be enough,” he adds.
All that’s missing from the White House is the final logistics for the hostages
The Biden administration hopes the process of releasing the hostages will begin tomorrow morning as the sides work out “final logistical details,” US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement last night. “The deal is agreed and remains agreed. “The parties are working out the final logistical details, especially for the first day of implementation,” Watson said, quoted by US media. “We believe that nothing should be left to chance when the hostages return home. Our number one goal is to ensure they are brought home safely. “This is all on track and we hope that implementation can begin on Friday morning.” A senior US official said more time was needed to find out details about the whereabouts and whereabouts of each hostage, as well as the logistics of their transfer. The decision was made to wait an additional day to minimize errors, he said, adding that Israel made the decision together with Qatar and Egypt and that the United States consulted and agreed. The US official also said that the fact that Israel had not yet received the names of the first group of hostages released was not a serious problem, but added that it would be concerning if a list was not available by tonight.
Gaza: UN, ambulance carrying 190 patients ‘obstructed’ by Israeli forces
According to a report by Israel’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Israeli army “obstructed” an ambulance convoy transporting 190 wounded and sick people from Shifa Hospital, causing the journey to take nearly 20 hours. UN quoted by Al Jazeera channel. The long delay at the Israeli military checkpoint that separates the north and south of the Gaza Strip has put “the lives” of patients at risk, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
West Bank: Red Crescent, 17-year-old killed by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, a 17-year-old was killed and another young man was injured by the Israeli army in the West Bank in an attack on the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus. Local media reported this, adding that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrested Red Crescent rescuers who were trying to reach the victims.
Anti-Semitic Comments, Hollywood Drops Susan Sarandon and Melissa Barrera
Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were both dropped by Hollywood companies after they made comments about the Israel-Hamas war that some viewed as anti-Semitic. Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the upcoming Scream VII, confirmed Barrera’s departure from the horror franchise. The Mexican “In the Heights” actress had posted statements on Instagram Stories calling the war “genocide and ethnic cleansing.” A spokesman for United Talent Agency said Sarandon, a five-time Oscar nominee, is no longer represented by the agency. Sarandon’s departure from UTA followed comments he made about Israel, most recently in a Nov. 17 appearance at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York.
Blinken and the Saudi foreign minister reject an expansion of the conflict
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud reaffirmed their commitment to preventing further spread of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their conversation on Wednesday, the State Department said. Blinken also welcomed Saudi Arabia’s efforts to secure a lasting peace agreement in Yemen, the State Department said.
Jerusalem confirms postponement of ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser said the planned hostage exchange with Hamas had been postponed until at least Friday. In a statement released late Wednesday, Tzachi Hanegbi said contacts regarding the deal remain ongoing. “Publication will begin in accordance with the original agreement between the parties and not before Friday,” he said. The exchange comes as part of a four-day ceasefire that was scheduled to begin on Thursday but was postponed to Friday. Hanegbi gave no explanation for the delay and it was not immediately clear when the ceasefire might begin.
Ceasefire and prisoner exchange only from Friday
Both the ceasefire and the prisoner exchange will not take place until Friday. Hamas had announced that the halt to Israeli attacks would begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday (9 in Italy), although there was no official confirmation from the Jerusalem government. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen only announced that “according to the agreed plan, the process of releasing the first hostages” would begin on Thursday. Hours later, Israel’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, announced that the start of the release of the hostages “will not occur before Friday,” assuring that “contacts regarding the release of our prisoners are constantly progressing and progressing,” but without adding anything other. However, according to Israeli sources in Haaretz, Hamas has not yet ratified the agreement reached through Qatar, nor has it provided Israel with the list of Israeli citizens it intends to release. For this reason, the implementation of the agreement has been postponed for at least another day. The “pause in fighting”, as Israel defines it, is the framework within which the release of the Israeli hostages (children and women) is to take place in exchange for the Palestinian prisoners (in this case also women and minors).
According to Egyptian security sources, the exchange was to take place via the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. This is considered by the parties to be the “first phase” of the agreement, which involves the release of approximately 10 abductees per day. But the four days of ceasefire could become five if – as envisaged in the agreement reached with the mediation of Qatar, Egypt and the USA – it is possible to exchange another 50 hostages in the hands of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions for another 150. This increases the total number of abducted prisoners released to 100 compared to 300 in Israeli prisons. This would be the “second phase”. The agreement provides for the possibility of extending the “pause in combat” for a few more days if necessary, based on a decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Israel’s Justice Ministry has already identified 300 Palestinians eligible for release, excluding those who committed the crime of murder. Should the exchange take place, Hamas will in turn have to identify the other 50 hostages to be released who are under its control or the control of other factions, starting with Palestinian Jihad.
The first period of time between the conclusion of the agreement (on the night of Tuesday and Wednesday) and its implementation was also due to the fact that any citizen could object to the list of 300 Palestinian prisoners specified by the Ministry of Justice – within 24 hours the Supreme Court. But the same assembly – as it did in 2011 on the occasion of the exchange for the release of the soldier Shalit – strictly rejected the petition from a right-wing Israeli NGO. The agreement also stipulates the passage of at least 300 trucks carrying aid supplies per day from the Rafah border crossing to Gaza, including fuel, a ban on Palestinians displaced in the south from returning to the north of the strip, and also a stop by Israel. of reconnaissance drones that flew over for 6 hours during the 4/5 days of the ceasefire. After this deadline, it was declared that the Israeli army would fully resume its offensive in the Gaza Strip. The announcement of the ceasefire agreement also appears to have had a positive impact on the border between Israel and Lebanon, effectively the second front of this conflict, which has reached its 47th day. Hezbollah sources have revealed that although they did not take part in the ceasefire negotiations, they will join in “the cessation of fighting.”
Meanwhile, the head of the Mossad, David Barnea, arrived in Qatar to finalize the final details of the agreement and ensure that it is implemented. All are in close contact with CIA chief Robert Burns, who is considered a key figure in the negotiations along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who will return to Israel next week. The agreement was welcomed by the Arab world, especially Palestinian President Abu Mazen, who at the same time called for “more comprehensive solutions” to the conflict. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the United Nations “will mobilize all of its capabilities to support the implementation of the agreement and maximize its positive impact on the dramatic humanitarian situation in Gaza.” While waiting for the ceasefire, the war continued the field further. Israel said it had destroyed around 400 tunnels in Gaza since hostilities began, which lay “under civilian buildings, including residential buildings, schools, hospitals and other locations.” Instead, 14,532 people have died in Gaza, 35,000 have been injured and 7,000 are missing, according to Hamas’ health ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians.
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