Daily Archives: 4. Dezember 2023


04.12.2023 - 15:48 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Twitter ]

Demonstrators outside the Knesset call for Netanyahu‘s ouster: The blood is on his hands! We won‘t forget, we won‘t forgive! (Hani Baruchin)

04.12.2023 - 15:43 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Twitter ]

After 2 months of war recess, Netanyahu‘s corruption trial has resumed in a slow, technical day with few present as PM fights for political & personal survival.

Defense asked if pace can be slowed to 2ce a week & judges suggest upping to 4 x week.(No pics allowed in courtroom.)

04.12.2023 - 11:00 [ Times of Israel ]

Netanyahu corruption trial resumes

An emergency order that Justice Minister Yariv Levin put in place for the courts when the war with Hamas began expired last week, and most courts have been ordered to resume normal operations.

Netanyahu is currently exempted from attending the hearings but may be called to testify in a few months.

04.12.2023 - 09:35 [ Newsmax.com ]

Kirby: US Intel Not Aware of Hamas Plan to Attack Israel

(03.12.2023)

“The intelligence community has indicated that they did not have access to this document,” Kirby said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

04.12.2023 - 09:25 [ Associated Press - apnews.com ]

New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance

(01.12.2023)

The attack was planned in plain sight. A month before the assault, Hamas posted a video to social media showing fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted paper targets.

In the video, the militants destroyed mock-ups of the wall’s concrete towers and a communications antenna, just as they would do for real on Oct. 7.

04.12.2023 - 09:24 [ Vanity Fair ]

Israel Didn’t Give US Intelligence About Hamas Attack Plans: White House

(03.12.2023)

“Intelligence is a mosaic, and sometimes you know you can fashion things together and get a pretty good picture,” Kirby replied. “Other times, you know that there’s pieces of the puzzle that are missing.”

Kirby also declined to say whether Hamas’ incursion into Israel should be seen as a failure of Israeli intelligence.

04.12.2023 - 08:46 [ Politico.com ]

‘No indicators’ Israel shared Hamas war plans with U.S.

(01.12.2023)

On Capitol Hill, members of the Senate and House intelligence committees have received several briefings about the Oct. 7 attack, according to a congressional aide familiar with the matter.

In at least one of those closed-door conversations, members were told that Israel had been aware about the potential for a Hamas attack from Gaza. But those readouts did not include the specific details of the Jericho Wall document, said the aide.

04.12.2023 - 08:03 [ Washington Post ]

New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance

(01.12.2023)

Netanyahu has stopped short of apologizing for the attack, and has said that determining blame will have to come after the war is waged. Critics say he is attempting to escape responsibility for myriad intelligence failures leading to the deadliest day in Israeli history.

04.12.2023 - 07:53 [ Le Monde ]

New York Times investigation reports Israel knew about Hamas‘ October 7 attack plan

(01.12.2023)

Israeli officials had obtained Hamas‘s plan for an unprecedented attack on Israel over a year in advance, but had deemed the scenario to be aspirational, reports The New York Times in an investigation based on secret documents, published on Thursday, November 30. Israeli military intelligence had gotten hold of a 40-page Hamas document detailing, point by point, a large-scale attack matching the one perpetrated by commandos on October 7 – which left some 1,200 people dead in Israel – according to the American newspaper.

04.12.2023 - 07:40 [ New York Times ]

Israel, Expanding Offensive, Tells More Gazans to Evacuate

Late Sunday night, a military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Israel “continues and expands its ground operations against Hamas strongholds all across the Gaza Strip,” but did not elaborate.

Military officials declined to comment on whether Admiral Hagari’s comments meant an Israeli ground invasion of the south had begun.

04.12.2023 - 07:36 [ Khalil Jahshan, My first rule, I don’t believe anything the government, any government, tells me! / Twitter ]

#Israel‘s military on Sunday ordered more areas in and around #Gaza‘s second-largest city of #Khan_Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the #southern half of the territory.

04.12.2023 - 07:33 [ NewArab.com ]

Gaza: Israel kills ‚700 people in 24 hours‘, widens offensive in south

Day 58 of Israel‘s war on Gaza – Israel continues to brutally bombard all parts of the Gaza Strip, but with particular emphasis on Khan Younis and the south of the enclave, which Tel Aviv had previously designated a ‚safe zone‘.