War Day #149 Sunday Round-Up

Sunday, March 3

Quote of the Week:

“After October 7, no one in the whole world expected Israel to be so barbaric,”

—Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk

Top News:

* West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinian Terrorism continues: Two East Jerusalem Palestinians got weapons from Hamas for attempted attacks; 2 killed in shooting attack in Eli; an Arab construction worker in Holon tried to kidnap a soldier; Ashkelon resident stabbed near Hebron; and two terrorists captured near Alon Mora with an M-16.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385997

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-789647

* Antisemitic terrorism worldwide is also up: Incidents include a Jew stabbed in Zurich; and another attacked leaving synagogue in Paris.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-789907

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-789901

And the rest of the news, in roughly chronological order:

* Iran-backed Yemen’s Houthis are causing trouble.

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-789070

* Lebanon is escalating.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-789033

* Haredi army non-conscription may be altered.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-789029

* Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh called on West Bank and East Jerusalem Palestinians to barricade themselves in al Aqsa Mosque for Ramadan.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-789389

* Iran green lighted a Lebanon attack on Israel.

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-789447

* Gazan civilians, possibly as many as 50, were killed when thousands simultaneously attacked and began looting 30 incoming aid trucks and were trampled. Armed members of the crowd began shooting, at which point the (Egyptian) truck drivers drove through the crowd to escape, injuring additional civilians. The trucks made it a mile or two, and were then stopped by more Gaza gunmen, and the vehicles were then stolen. Hamas is claiming it as a massacre (and the Arab press is claiming 800 dead and injured, though video evidence says otherwise). Several dozen Gazans then rushed towards the Israeli military checkpoint. Although some of the trucks were able to continue further north, armed men opened fire at the convoy and looted it.

https://www.idf.il/183163

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-147-hamas-withholds-humanitarian

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-789604

* Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain is descending into “mob rule” because of a “pattern of increasingly violent and intimidatory behavior.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-tipping-into-mob-rule-says-prime-minister-rishi-sunak/

* Hamas’ Yoyo Sinwar told the Wall Street Journal he “has the Israelis right where we want them.” He also said Hamas is prepared for the Israeli operation in Rafah and is “relying on the high civilian death toll reported by the Hamas-run health ministry to cause enough global outcry that Israel is forced to withdraw.”

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1709197528-we-have-the-israelis-exactly-where-we-want-them-sinwar-tells-leaders-abroad-report

* The hostage families walked from the site of the Hamas massacre to Jerusalem.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-families-set-out-on-four-day-march-from-supernova-massacre-site-to-jerusalem/amp/

* Some of the humanitarian aid air-dropped by Jordan landed in Israeli territory.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/01/1235277071/gaza-jordan-airdrop-aid

* Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Aqsa Brigades and Islamic Jihad jointly threatened that Israel can either agree to an immediate end of the war and withdrawal, “or they can wait for Ramadan and what awaits them there.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-raises-stakes-gaza-truce-talks-with-ramadan-call-2024-02-28/

* A bad incident in Gaza involving a boobytrapped building explosion resulted in at least 3 dead, 14 injured, several of them seriously.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-789801

* Israel is declining to further negotiate on hostages until Hamas provides a list of who is alive; Hamas refuses to provide such a list. There is concern that Hamas has killed many of the hostages.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/386091

* Brussels is hosting a “preparatory” peace conference - without inviting any of the principals to muck it up.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-envoy-peace-efforts-can-be-advanced-even-if-parties-not-currently-interested/

* The Houthis sunk a British ship with 40,000 tons of fertilizer, causing a major ecological disaster. The US State Department has expressed concerns that the attacks are doubling shipping costs to the US.

https://www.voanews.com/amp/ship-leaks-oil-fertilizer-revealing-risks-to-red-sea-from-houthi-attacks-/7511351.html

* The EU will continue to fund Hamas-aligned UNRWA, saying it had “discussed the terror allegations with UNRWA and was assured the agency was addressing the issue.”

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-789909

* An Australian mental health conference has canceled Israeli speaker Dr Moshe Farchi, after change.org pressure.

https://www.change.org/p/rescind-moshe-farchi-s-invitation-to-the-frontline-mental-health-wellbeing-conference

* Anti-Israel protesters in Times Square blocked a NYPD bomb squad from reaching an Uber whose driver discovered an inert grenade.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/02/us-news/grenade-left-in-uber-as-anti-israel-protesters-flood-times-square-as-nypd-struggled-to-reach-device-source/amp/

* Hamas is spearheading ceasefire marches around the world today.

https://www.livenowfox.com/news/israel-hamas-ceasefire-protests-march-2024.amp

* Israeli children’s statistics

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/386147

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Catch up on last week’s most-read pieces:

What could possibly go wrong?

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-145-what-could-possibly-go

Gateway antisemitism

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-143-gateway-antisemitism

The humanitarian aid tragedy

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-147-hamas-withholds-humanitarian

Throwback Thursday: Letter to a complicit friend

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-146-throwback-thursday-war

Last Week’s Sunday Round-Up

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-141-sunday-news-round-up

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