War Day #177. Sunday News Round-Up

Sunday, March 31

Quotes of the Week:

“Lone wolves should kill Christians and Jews for Ramadan.” — ISIS spokesperson

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-794473

Top News:

* Hamas and Al Jazeera acknowledge Israeli army rape claims were fabricated

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793560

* Perhaps someone should tell the US that Al Jazeera made it all up?

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793420

* And that Hamas is firing on its own hospital?

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793576

PM Netanyahu in surgery; Yariv Levine in charge

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-794556

Terrorism:

* Terrorists throughout the West Bank throwing grenades, and in attempted knifing and shootings, were arrested Sunday and Monday. Terrorists firing on Homesh; shooting attack, several vehicles ambushed on 90 in the Bekaa, including an attack on a children’s school bus by a terrorist disguised in an army uniform; and two Israeli soldiers were stabbed by an Israeli Arab terrorist at the Beer Sheva train station.

* Doxxing of a Dutch Jewish nurse in Amsterdam, whose personal details including her home address were shared online, and who is now being harassed by Palestinians because her daughter served in the IDF.

* Since the beginning of the war, as astounding 1600 terrorists have been arrested in the West Bank.

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

* War cabinet minister Benny Gantz threatens to leave government if Haredi conscription exemption passes again; Gallant says something similar. Gideon Saar resigned, and his party will leave the Coalition.

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-793508

* Calls for Israel arms embargo largely symbolic: 99% Israeli arms are from US and Germany

https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-arms-embargo-calls-data-shows-99-of-israeli-weapon-imports-are-from-us-germany/

* Extending military service rather than drafting Hareidim will cost the economy $28.5 billion over the next decade.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/attorney-general-said-to-warn-coalition-haredi-army-draft-proposal-legally-unsound/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-i-wont-support-netanyahus-haredi-draft-bill-without-coalition-consensus/

* 3.8 Earthquake in Haifa

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-793363

* Half a million Israelis at risk of PTSD

https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-assesses-half-a-million-israelis-at-risk-of-developing-ptsd-due-to-oct-7-and-war/

* Israel had agreed to the release of over 800 terrorists including murderers to get back 40 hostages as part of a six-week truce. Israel contemplating exiling high-value security prisoners to locations outside the West Bank and Gaza, a condition that Hamas has rejected in the past. An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that “there has been no real progress” in negotiations with Hamas, despite comments from US officials that talks had advanced. “The Americans are dressing it up as progress,” said the source. “The pressure to move forward is coming from them.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-willing-to-free-some-800-inmates-for-40-captives-as-talks-given-50-50-odds/

* Traces of DNA of 19-year-old Israeli hostage Liri Albag were found 130 feet underground in a tunnel in Gaza. It’s been 170 days since Liri’s abduction.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk11evta0a

* Israel intercepted a large shipment of advanced weaponry from Iran, intended for the West Bank.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202403254662

* More on the unrealized Oct 7 plan

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793710

* Two Oct 7 survivors harassed at British Airport

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-793699

* There was a possible infiltration in the south from Gaza on Purim, near 232. Apparently unconnected, 100+ Gazans came within 100 feet of the border on Purim.

* GPS disruptions are again jamming the north.

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-why-gps-cant-find-you-in-haifa-1001474543

* The Knesset will be on recess April 8 to May 18 despite the ongoing war in Gaza.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793822

* Israeli hostage reveals sexual molestation while captive

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html

* Israel thrown under the bus at the UN

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-172-under-the-bus

* 100 missiles fired from Lebanon Wednesday morning

* Military officials hinting that an operation in Rafah is expected to begin around Eid al-Fitr, middle of April

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-truce-talks-seemingly-stuck-israel-said-planning-rafah-incursion-in-april-or-may/

* Hamas’ Mohammed Deif called on Moslems worldwide to march on Jerusalem in jihad.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-first-recording-since-october-7-hamas-military-chief-urges-muslims-to-liberate-al-aqsa/

* 30 pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a Berkeley City Council meeting Wednesday on International Holocaust Day, calling a Holocaust survivor there a "stupid Zionist bitch.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkrrk00g1a

* Germany has added Israel questions on their citizenship test to weed out antisemites.

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-794107

* (Unconfirmed) reports are circulating that soldiers’ protective vests are being manufactured by a Palestinian factory.

* The photo of Hamas terrorists with the body of German tourist Shani Louk was awarded Photo of the Year by the Associated Press. The photo has since been taken off the AP website following extensive criticism online. Ali Mahmud, a Hamas “journalist,” who was involved in the October 7th attack on Israel and who captured the image of Shani Louk’s mutilated body has been honored with a prestigious journalism award. The Hamas photographer had knowledge about the attack before it started and was embedded with the terrorists during the horrific incident where 364 people were slaughtered at the Nova Music Festival.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/hamas-parading-womans-body-wins-picture-of-the-year-award-internet-reacts-with-fury/amp_articleshow/108875085.cms

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

• Throwing Israel under the bus at the UN

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-172-under-the-bus

• Feisty Israelis throwback

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-174-throwback-israelis-are

• Purim

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-171-vnahafoch-hu

• Funny Friday: Taxicabs

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-175-funny-friday-taxicabs

• Last Week’s Sunday Round-Up

https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-170-sunday-news-round-up

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Please keep in mind that numbers are sometimes corrected by the press after their initial publication; aka, there might be a disconnect between what the linked article ends up concluding and what I’ve written here.

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