UK PM calls for captive release, ceasefire in Gaza
UK PM Keir Starmer says he is shocked by what he describes as “the horrific and senseless” killing of six captives in Gaza.
“My thoughts are with their loved ones at this awful time,” Starmer said in a post on X. “Hamas must release all the hostages now, and a ceasefire deal must be agreed by all sides immediately to end the suffering.”
Between October 7 and end of May this year, the UK granted more than 100 export licences for the sale of weapons and military equipment to Israel, official figures show.
The value of these deals has not been revealed.
Israel claims it struck Hamas ‘command and control centre’
The Israeli army said its air force hit what it called a Hamas “command and control centre” embedded inside the former “Safad” school in Gaza City.
The army said its forces will continue to “firmly operate against the terrorist organisations in the Gaza Strip, who systematically exploit schools and additional civilian infrastructure for their terrorist activities”.
Still zero credible evidence Hamas has used any school as a command and control center. Just more lies.
CNN opened its live page for the dead hostages
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hostages-war-gaza-news-09-01-24/index.html
Incredibly biased as usual, not reporting on the destruction and killings of Palestinians in the West Bank (only the police deaths)
And both sidesism as well for the continued failure of the Ceasefire deal
Analysis: After months of ceasefire talks, many are concluding that neither Netanyahu nor Hamas want a deal
Despite weekly, sometimes daily, protests in Tel Aviv’s renamed Hostages Square and in other cities across Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been moved to do what multiple opinion polls show a majority of Israelis favor. This is, namely, making the return of the more than 100 hostages held in Gaza (around one-third of whom are believed to be dead) his top priority.
Netanyahu has long said he has three overriding goals in the war with Hamas. One specific red line, though, has now emerged: the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, a 14 kilometer-long (8.7 mile) strip of land separating Gaza from Egypt. Netanyahu is insisting on Israeli troops remaining there to prevent weapons-smuggling to Hamas, clashing on Thursday with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
This in itself infuriated many families of hostages. Learning that the bodies of their loved ones were discovered “shortly” before Israeli troops got to them on Saturday angered them more. News that at least three of them were slated to be released in the first phase of a mooted ceasefire deal has left them apoplectic and heartbroken.
So what now? Despite all the optimistic pronouncements of US President Joe Biden and others, a hostage-ceasefire deal remains elusive.
Netanyahu is no doubt mindful that his far-right coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he does any deal. Yet after nine months of on-off talks, many people are concluding that Netanyahu doesn’t want one.
And that neither, for that matter, does the architect of October 7 attacks, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who, perhaps in a tunnel near to where six young Israelis’ lifeless bodies were discovered on Saturday, sees the regional war he hoped to spark that day getting closer to becoming a reality.
Netanyahu's red lines were only added after Hamas accepted a deal back in May, added on top of Biden's proposal later. Hamas already was ready to sign the deal back in December. And Sinwar was always a part of that.
It's Netanyahu who hopes to spark a regional war. He's been trying to drag the US into a war with Iran since the start.
More CNN lies and disinformation.
