🚨🧵Israeli Ch. 13 News: The IDF found in Gaza the operation command order given to Hams operatives TWO WEEKS BEFORE 10/7; the brain behind the operation was Mohammed Deif (who was eliminated by the IDF in July 2024). Here are the details: The date was chosen as 10/7/23; the order was given on 9/23/23 to 25 senior members of Hams, the brigade commanders, and battalion commanders. The top leadership already knew and was part of the planning.

🔴🧵As part of the agreement to return the hostages, the Rafah Crossing opened today for the first time since the beginning of May. The full details on the opening of the crossing and the conditions agreed upon between Israel and Hams 👇 According to an Israeli security source, the crossing will only be opened for the EXIT of Gazans - from Gaza out, and NO ENTRY of any party into Gaza.

🔴🧵PHASE 2 OF THE HOSTAGE DEAL NEW INFO: An Israeli official involved in the process is hinting that Israel intends to return to fighting in Gaza when the agreement to release the hostages is exhausted. "We are committed to all the goals of the war. Thanks to our heroic soldiers, we destroyed about 85% of Hams's military capabilities in Gaza and rescued about 2/3 of the hostages. We are committed to returning everyone and destroying all of Hams' capabilities in Gaza. No less," says the senior Israeli official.

🧵I came across today the story of this horrifying photo. My friend @NoaMagid posted the events leading to this photo in Hebrew, and I want to share with everyone (in case you missed it) one of the horrors of 10/7. Never forget, never forgive. Dozens of terrorists arrived at Kibbutz Hulit, going from house to house and slaughtering people. Adi (the mom of the babies pictured), who heard gunshots, called Anani (the dad), who was outside Hulit, and asked him to remind her how to operate the M16 rifle she had taken out of the safe. After instructing her, she went into the bomb shelter with the children, and since then, they have been in contact. At that time, a terrorist broke into their house, and Anani killed him with a rifle. After him, other terrorists entered, and she protected her children with her body.

🧵ALMOST 500 DAYS INTO THE GAZA WAR – DOES HAMS REGRET IT? As the hostage/ceasefire deal in Gaza plays out, there have been many voices commenting on Hams’ apparent “resurrection”. How accurate is this assessment and what does the group really think? Ehud Ya’ari from Channel 12 lays it all out in his commentary this morning 👇 Hams’ supposed recovery is the subject of endless discourse, but one can already detect their regret for the war, which they initiated on 10/7. The most senior surviving military commander in the Gaza Strip - the commander of the Gaza Brigade, Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, lays out a spectacular lie to prove it.

🧵RELEASE OF ISRAELI HOSTAGES – HOW WILL IT WORK? @Doron_Kadosh of IDF Radio published the details on how the release of the Israeli hostages will work from start to finish. Here’s how it’s supposed to happen over the next 42 days 👇 The process starts when the list of hostages to be released are transferred from Hamas to the PM of Qatar about 24 hours before the release. The list is approved by the negotiation team, and the recommendation is forwarded to PM Netanyahu for approval.

🧵BIBI'S SPEECH TONIGHT – WHAT DID HE SAY? Tonight, PM Netanyahu addressed the Israeli public on the incoming hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza. Here's what you need to know 👇 🔵“We will meet all war goals - we will bring everyone home.”

🔵“We reserve the right to return to war, if necessary, with the support of the US.”

🧵EXCERPTS FROM WHAT BIBI TOLD THE CABINET: Israeli journalists have started to release excerpts from what PM Netanyahu told the Cabinet and the Knesset during the hours of debate last night before they voted to approve the hostage deal. Here are the takeaways 👇 Bibi told the Cabinet that Hamas demanded, as a condition for its entry into the framework for further release, that Israel commit in advance to ending the war and evacuating Gaza – but he did not agree to this. This was the main obstacle to the deal, and he was not willing to compromise on it.

🧵🔴Under current conditions, this is the best deal you could get. Analysis from Ron Ben Yeshai
On the one hand, the deal to release the hostages, which is expected to be signed soon, will allow the release of most of the living hostages and will preserve Israel's ability to exert military and humanitarian pressure on Hamas to release all the hostages in the second phase. On the other hand, the price of releasing thousands of Palestinian terrorists could endanger Israeli citizens. Still, the deal's advantages, including the political ones vis-à-vis Trump, outweigh its disadvantages. The deal to release the hostages, which will probably be closed today (Tuesday) or in the coming days, is the best that could have been achieved under the current conditions. Its main drawback is that it was not completed earlier, back in the summer of 2024, but we will leave the discussion of this question to historians. At the moment, it seems that this is a deal whose advantages, from the Israeli point of view, far outweigh its disadvantages. First, it allows for the return of most of the kidnapped men and women who are still alive – those who are called "humanitarian cases" and are the weakest, for whom every day in Hams' hands is critical.

🧵HOSTAGE DEAL DETAILS: Israeli political sources tell IDF Radio (@Doron_Kadosh) that "progress has been made in all components of the agreement formula, and optimal conditions have been created for a deal that until now could not be reached." Here are all of the details 👇 Phase A: Hamas will release 33 Israeli hostages and they have not yet told Israel how many of those 33 are alive. These include women (civilians and soldiers), children, adults over the age of 50, the wounded and the sick.

🧵🔴How can Israel defeat Hams at this point?

In the 1980s, senior figures in the Muslim Brotherhood movement used the term "purification precedes liberation." Hams, which is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, acted by this principle when it threw Fatah activists off rooftops during the military coup in the Gaza Strip in 2007. The same principle of the Muslim Brotherhood from the 1980s could also work in the Gaza Strip. Israel should work to segment the Gaza Strip - divide it into many small, separate territorial areas with clear geographical demarcations and then begin to purge these territorial cells of terrorists - to turn them into sterile areas free of weapons and terrorists.

🧵A very interesting Op-Ed from the WSJ by one of my favorite journalists in Israel, Amit Segal (The link to the Op-Ed is at the end of the thread): "How can hell be unleashed on hell? a fascinating

President-elect Trump delivered an unequivocal message to Hamas in a Dec. 2 Truth Social post: “If the hostages are not released before January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.”
With only a week and a half until Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the question arises: How can hell be unleashed on hell? I recently visited Jabalia, north of Gaza City, which, before the current war, was one of the Middle East’s most densely populated areas and a source of great pride for Hamas. Today, Jabalia is in ruin. Most residents heeded the Israeli military’s repeated orders to evacuate. Packs of starving dogs roam the desolate streets.

The Israel Defense Forces unleashed hell on Gaza. Most of the strip has been decimated by Israeli bombs. But the population still isn’t rising against Hamas, the regime that brought this catastrophe upon them. What good would another barrage of explosives do? There’s no benefit to turning tens of thousands more Gazans into refugees. Gaza’s refugee population is already bloated, as refugee status extends not only to those who lost their homes in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence but also to their descendants.

🧵Who is behind the organization responsible for attempts to arrest IDF soldiers abroad?

Over the weekend, we read that an IDF soldier was forced to flee Brazil for fear of being arrested following a legal action taken by the "Hand Rajab Foundation," which was established last September in Brussels (Belgium) in the name of a Palestinian girl who was allegedly killed in Gaza following an Israeli operation. The foundation collects information openly on social media and uses it to try to prosecute Israeli soldiers while they are abroad. So far, the foundation has filed lawsuits against 28 IDF soldiers in 8 different countries. The foundation discloses information about IDF soldiers visiting abroad to put them in danger of arrest or being killed.

🧵"Now they're coming?" The Wall Street Journal editorial sharply attacks US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken for knowing in real time that his criticism of Israel was preventing a deal to release the hostages, and yet they continued with it, and that Biden's political considerations prevented an agreement.

The article also accuses Biden of credit for Israel's success in attacking the Iranian axis, even though Biden and his people had been trying to stop Israel's war machine all along. Thread belwo 🧵👇 In an interview published Saturday in the New York Times, Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the main obstacle to a Gaza hostage deal: "Every time there has been a public rift between the United States and Israel and the perception that pressure is mounting on Israel, we've seen this: Hams has backed away from agreeing to a ceasefire and the release of hostages." He is right, and the messages from Hams leader Yahya Sinwar to his negotiators, reported by the Wall Street Journal, say so. But what, then, is the accountability for the Biden administration's actions?

🧵BLINKEN'S BIG INTERVIEW: Outgoing US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sat down with the NYT today for a wide-ranging interview on his tenure during the Biden administration. Here are the surprising (or not so much) things he said about Israel 👇 Blinken started by talking about how his first trip to Israel after 10/7 was 5 days into the war. During that visit, Blinken spent 9 hours arguing with Israel's Cabinet about immediately sending humanitarian aid into Gaza.

🔴 🧵Operation "Many Roads" revealed: The "safe site" breached by Shaldag fighters deep in Syria, the dangerous landing, and the explosion that shook the earth: The IDF is revealing tonight all the details of the secret operation known as "Many Roads" to destroy the Iranian missile production facility on Syrian soil in September 2024. Target of the operation: The Syrian "Seres" Industries site was the only site in Syria for the production of surface-to-surface missiles. It was supposed to produce 100-300 missiles each year and to be a significant player in arming Hezbollah. It is deep underground, about 70-130 meters dug into the mountainside. The site began to be built in 2017 when excavations started on the mountain. Four years later, in 2021, the excavation work was completed, and the Iranians began sending the advanced production machines. In August 2024—just a month before the operation—initial production of the first missiles started on an experimental basis at the site. Over the past few years, Israel has attacked the facility 4 times—attacks that delayed and disrupted its construction work. The site was intended to produce advanced ballistic missiles with ranges of 70 to 300 km, and all of them were supposed to be sent to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Due to its depth within the mountain, the site has been designated a "safe site" in Israel. Its uniqueness is that the entire production process occurs there from beginning to end: "raw materials enter from one opening, and a missile exits from the other opening."

🧵ONE NIGHT IN JABALIA – 100+ TERRORISTS KILLED: "We've never had a night like this before", is what IDF commanders told @Doron_Kadosh from IDF Radio. Here are the stunning details about how IDF forces killed 106(!) Hamas terrorists in Jabalia, Gaza over one single night👇 The action started around 9:00PM when the IDF received intelligence about terrorists' intentions for a mass escape from Jabalia and attack Israeli troops. Within an hour, IDF forces up to the battalion level had already prepared dozens of ambushes and were at full combat readiness.

🧵🔴"Hams' last stronghold in Jabalia": New details from the IDF operation at Kamal Adwan Hospital that captured some 240 terrorists: After almost three consecutive months of fighting in Jabalia and around the hospital, a little story that shows how much the commanders on the ground know every stone in the area and how Hams terrorists continue to try to outwit our forces: On the night of the operation, on the way to encircle Kamal Adwan, one of the commanders spotted a suspicious cable on the road that he did not recognize from previous trips on the same route. This is how they identified an explosive device that was attached to the cable and placed on the side of the road, neutralized it, and prevented the fighters from being harmed. Early in the morning, forces from IDF Brigade 401 surrounded the hospital and eliminated two terrorist squads that tried to escape from it. Early Friday morning, the IDF summoned the hospital director (who himself is suspected of being a Hams operative). The director came out to them and said that there were about 350 people inside—and was instructed by the forces to get everyone out and also evacuate the sick and wounded to the Indonesian hospital, which is also in Jabalia but is better controlled by IDF forces.

🧵🔴Amazing New Details of the Extent of Hezbollah Infiltration by Israel: InfiltrationAbout a month after the ceasefire in Lebanon went into effect, a New York Times investigation reveals how Israel has infiltrated Hezbollah and closely monitored its commanders over the years. The investigation, based on interviews with dozens of current and former senior officials in governments and intelligence agencies in Europe, the United States, and Israel, reveals the broad scope of Israeli infiltration. Until Hassan Nasrallah's final moments, he did not believe that Israel would eliminate him. In late September, he moved to a bunker 12 meters underground. His aides urged him to take more extreme precautions to protect his life, but according to intelligence gathered by Israel and shared with its Western allies, he did not listen to them. He thought Israel was not interested in a full-scale war. Nasrallah also did not realize that Israeli spy agencies were tracking his every move and had been doing so for years. It was also the result of two decades of systematic intelligence work in preparation for an all-out war that many in Israel knew would one day come

🧵NEW DETAILS ON HANIYEH’S ASSASSINATION IN TEHRAN: Brand new details from the Mossad operation to assassinate Hamas arch-terrorist Ismail Haniyeh in Iran were cleared for publication today by the censor in Israel. 👇 When the decision was made to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the Mossad understood that it had to execute the operation outside of Qatar, where Haniyeh lived. The 3 cities being considered were Moscow, Istanbul, and Tehran.

🧵10 DAYS TO WIN A WAR: In September 2024, PM Netanyahu made 2 decisions that decided the war with Hezbollah within 10 days – the pager operation (9/17), and the assassination of Nasrallah (9/27).

In both cases, Bibi clearly stood up to then DM Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Halevi, who opposed him on executing both of the operations. Here is the story behind the scenes of those dramatic 10 days 👇 On September 12, 2024, PM Netanyahu kicked off what would be a historical month when he made the decision to start moving IDF divisions from Gaza to the Northern theater.