Bezalel Smotrich, the powerful finance minister in Israel, said in a video posted on social media on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “made a U-turn” after their discussions on how to crush Hamas and said he “lost faith” in his motivation to achieve success.
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, posted on X late Thursday that he decided to withdraw his negotiating team from Doha, Qatar, because Hamas has shown a “lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza” and has not been negotiating in “good faith.”
Israel has killed at least 58,386 Palestinians inside Gaza, and 139,077 have been wounded since the start of the genocide after the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023. At least 11,000 people are missing.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s extremist national security minister, posted on social media last week that Tel Aviv should end all humanitarian aid into Gaza because it grants “Hamas a lifeline” and a complete siege would “expedite” victory.
Israel has killed at least 54,510 Palestinians and wounded 124,901 since the genocide started in October 2023. There are at least 11,000 people missing.
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said the quiet part out loud during an interview Thursday and argued that the U.S. should nuke Gaza like it did to Japan at the end of WWII because the Palestinians, as a people, are irredeemable.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will “take over all of Gaza” as the IDF ramps up its ground operation across the enclave after a massive bombing campaign last week to soften any remaining pockets of resistance and inflict major punishment on civilians.
Israel waited for U.S. President Donald Trump to leave the Middle East before it started Operation Gideon’s Chariot and ramped up its ground operation across Gaza on Sunday—beginning with strikes on the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia inside the enclave’s north.
The Israeli military asserted itself on the ground in northern Gaza last week as the IDF issued new evacuation orders amid its renewed bombing campaign across the war-torn enclave.
The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza—that resumed last month—is killing or injuring at least 100 children a day and turning the enclave into a “no land” for “young lives,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said.