The Official Israel-Gaza Thread
Outlaw
New Hope For the HaveNotz
What do you want Biden to do differently?
Givethanks
Superstar
What's the latest on the negotiations or is everyone still assuming shyt?
What deals are on the table for each side?
What deals are on the table for each side?
AyBrehHam Linkin
First Black Brehsident
reposting this here:
as if things werent already grim asf smh
as if things werent already grim asf smh
Dillah810
Flat Girther
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ — Guardian US
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
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Don’t remember the Dems advocating this!
Not Joe, not Chuck, not Nancy, and not even Cory
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88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Who was Marwan Issa, the Hamas commander killed by Israel?
Mr. Issa, a presumed planner of the Oct. 7 attacks, is one of the most senior Hamas leaders killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza and a presumed mastermind of the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, was confirmed dead on Monday by a senior U.S. official after an Israeli airstrike more than a week ago.
With his death, Mr. Issa, who had been among Israel’s most wanted men, became the senior-most Hamas leader to be killed in Gaza since the start of the war.
What was Mr. Issa’s role in Hamas?
Mr. Issa, who was 58 or 59 at the time of his death, had served since 2012 as a deputy to Mohammed Deif, the elusive leader of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing. Mr. Issa assumed the role after the assassination of another top commander, Ahmed al-Jabari.Mr. Issa served both on Hamas’s military council and in its Gaza political office, overseen by Yahya Sinwar, the group’s highest-ranking official in the enclave.
Experts described Mr. Issa as an important associate of Mr. Deif and Mr. Sinwar, though they said his death did not represent a threat to the group’s survival.
Michael Milshtein, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and an expert on Palestinian affairs, said Mr. Issa’s death was a significant blow to the Qassam Brigades, though he conceded it wasn’t “the end of the world” for Hamas.
“He had a lot of experience,” Mr. Milshtein said. “His death is a big loss for Hamas, but it isn’t a loss that will lead to its collapse and it won’t affect it for a long time. In a week or two, they’ll overcome it.”
Mr. Milshtein added that even though Mr. Issa’s opinion was valued at the highest levels of Hamas, the fact he did not directly command fighters meant his death did not leave a gaping hole in Hamas’s operations.
Gerhard Conrad, a former German intelligence officer who met Mr. Issa more than a decade ago, described him as a “decisive and quiet” person lacking charisma. “He was not very eloquent, but he knew what to say, and he was straight to the point,” Mr. Conrad said in an interview.
Mr. Conrad said he met Mr. Issa, Mr. al-Jabari and Mahmoud al-Zahar, another senior Hamas official, about ten times between 2009 and 2011 in Gaza City. The men met as part of an effort to broker a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas.
“He was the master of the data on the prisoners,” Mr. Conrad said of Mr. Issa. “He had all the names to be negotiated on.”
Mr. Conrad, however, said it was apparent at the time that Mr. Issa was a subordinate to Mr. al-Jabari. “He was a kind of chief of staff,” he said.
It was only after Mr. al-Jabari’s assassination that Mr. Issa’s prominence grew, but he still was keen to stay out of view. Few images of Mr. Issa are in the public domain.
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Dillah810
Flat Girther
Man
Deplorable stuff in that interview, if you were to pull the quotes and post them it would be impossible to tell if Kushner or @88m3 said it.
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ — Guardian US
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
Don’t remember the Dems advocating this!
Not Joe, not Chuck, not Nancy, and not even Cory