This guy just appeared again in recent footage from Hamas in Gaza. Since the ceasefire went into effect and a lot of the rats crawled out of their tunnels, and this rat is one of them!

He was never killed.. maybe the IDF thought they got him and he was alive and healed underground or maybe a mistaken identity...whatever it was, the IDF reported him dead and Hama is showing him alive.

I guess he qualified as both in the wanted dead or alive signs...

I wonder how many other big hits the IDF made over the past 15 months will be found to be false. Is Sinwar dead? Nasrallah? Maybe in 6 months all those terrorists killed will star making appearances again...

The mother of a hostage reached out with a particularly difficult and painful question, She asked what to do when her daughter, a hostage held by Hamas, will be released on Shabbos. She wants to know how to receive her daughter, can she go on Shabbos to the meeting point where the hostages meet their mothers before going on to the hospital for checkups and care.

Rav Zilbershtein told her not to go on Shabbos but to send a picture with a note saying I will see you in a few hours.

She pressed back saying I might not be able to hold back and I might feel I have to go. What should I do then?

Rav Zilbershtein said he told her that if God is so good to do an unnatural miracle to allow your daughter to survive more than a year in captivity, you should say thank you to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. While she said she would stay strong and not go, Rav Zilbershtein says he couldnt not prohibit her from going to greet her daughter but told her that it would be a tremendous blessing to not go on Shabbos. He also suggested on the Shabbos her daughter would be released she go nearby to the release point and stay there for Shabbos.

Rav Zilbershtein suggested in general people should take something obligating a shehecheyanu bracha and make the shecheyanu including keeping in mind the release of the hostages. He said he is going to make a shehecheyanu on a new tallis and have the hostages being released included.

A video is now circulating of how the terrorist, minutes before his attack on innocent bystanders, stopped for a slice of pizza, and was well mannered enough to clean up after himself and return the tray to the counter. The pizza must have had a really great reputation to entice him to stop there to eat right before his attack. So he eats his pizza, goes outside and stabs a few people? Did the pizza not live up to its reputation and he was enraged? Was it served with pineapple or tuna on top?

Strange terrorist.

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I am fine with Smotritch's position. He really believes that is what is necessary and believes Netanyahu's promises to act in that regard. Even if I dont think it is realistic (and maybe I'll be proven wrong eventually), that is not something I will criticize him for. Smotritch has position he believes is correct, and he has a plan for how it should/will happen and work.

My question is for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu doesn't tell the Israeli people anything. We have no idea what his plans are, how hew thinks it should work or how it will work, how he plans to maneuver between Trump's push to not have a war, continue the deal and see it through to the end, and his own desire to keep his government intact and placate Smotritch who wants to go back to war. Obviously he can hope Hamas violates the agreements and gives him an excuse, and maybe that is something simple to bet on, but what if they call his bluff and dont so as not to upset Trump or because they want/need more time to rebuild and get their prisoned people back? Netanyahu does not tell us how he will destroy Hamas, who will take over Gaza and or how anything is going to happen and what would be acceptable to him or Israel. if in 15 months of war Hamas has been able to stay in power and recruit enough new members to make up for those lost in the war, how will we destroy them now?

The demand to go back to war might be right, but not if it means going back to the same type of war we have had until now with no plan for destroying Hamas and no plan for removing them from power. All Netanyahu says over and over again is we will accomplish our war goals. Nice but how?

Smotritch says what he wants and how Israel should take land, how Israel should control Gaza, how Israel should repopulate Gaza. Netanyahu just says no to that but does not say what he wants to do.. so does Smotritch think he can push Netanyahu to act on what he is demanding? Netanyahu thinks as long as he goes back to the war Smotritch will be happy and think we are working towards those goals, but, as far as we know, Netanyahu does not have the same goals as Smotritch, so what would Netanyahu's goals be in going back to war - just send our kids to endless reserve duty so he can continue to keep his government alive? and when will Smotritch realize that Netanyahu is running a war that is going nowhere just to stay in power on the backs of the dead soldiers?

If Netanyahu has a plan and a goal for continuing the war, he should tell the Israeli people.

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Honestly I would have preferred Israel refuse to allow the Red cross to be involved. Maybe Magen David Adom could have been used for this. And if not on the Gaza side, at least on the Israel side.

The Red Cross refused to play fairly and never even tried to visit or help the Israelis held hostage in Gaza by Hamas. Israel should not be allowing them to now come in and be glorious respectable organization working on the freeing of the prisoners/hostages.