Norway is siding with Islamic terrorists against the Jewish state.
Disgusting!
Hamas (Al Jizz) reports:
Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 77 Palestinians in a day
The usual drivel about “civilians” & a picture of a guy holding a toddler, to get your sympathy for killing Jews.
Hamas ruined; Marwan Barghouti will not be released….
Senior Hamas official admits: ‘October 7 ruined us’
A senior Hamas official currently based in Turkey told Saudi media that the 37th anniversary of the terrorist organization’s founding comes during a period of decline due to defeats in Gaza and the broader region.
The official disclosed, “Hamas is suffering from a genuine leadership crisis. The Al-Aqsa Flood attack backfired on us, submerging us in a sea of blood and crises. The most recent blow was the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, with which Hamas had been attempting to rebuild relations.”
According to a report by the Saudi news site Elaph, the Syrian government has ordered Palestinian terrorist groups to shut down their offices, hand over their weapons, dismantle training camps, and leave Syria as soon as possible. The primary Palestinian group active in Syria has been the Islamic Jihad. In contrast, Hamas’s political bureau left Syria earlier due to its support for Islamist rebels at the start of the Syrian civil war, which sparked a rift with Assad.Israel refuses to release terror mastermind serving 5 life terms in latest hostage talks ‘obstacle’
Despite this, Elaph reported that senior Hamas official Mohammed Nasser was forced to flee Syria before Syrian rebels captured Damascus. Similarly, Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziad Nakhaleh and leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) also had to leave Syria.
Nakhaleh recently visited Cairo with a delegation from Islamic Jihad, holding discussions with senior Egyptian intelligence officials about ongoing negotiations for a prisoner exchange deal. He was accompanied by his deputy, Mohammed al-Hindi.
Elaph further reported that it is believed senior leaders of Palestinian terrorist organizations have relocated to Tehran. However, it is expected that they will seek other host countries due to fears of targeted assassinations in Iran, as happened to Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political bureau chief.
IDF soldiers in a Namer APC in the Gaza Strip (Archive), Photo: IDF Spokesperson.
The Hamas official reiterated that the organization’s leadership is currently directionless, stating, “Gaza has been completely destroyed.” He expressed hope that a prisoner exchange deal might slightly alleviate the leadership’s dire circumstances.Israel is refusing Hamas demands to release a high-profile terror mastermind in exchange for hostages, according to reports.Hamas terrorists have demanded the release of Marwan Barghouti, the former leader of the late Yasser Arafat’s Fatah party, since August, presumably to help the group maintain power in the Gaza strip, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his role in the murder of five Israelis in 2000 during the second Palestinian intifada, which raged until 2005.
He was also a leader in the first Intifada, from 1987-1993.
While Israel at one point considered releasing Barghouti, it is now objecting to granting him and other Palestinian prisoners their freedom, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“Israel has a vision of alternative lists of Palestinian prisoners, including people who were recently arrested,” reports quoted the source as saying.
Israel has also requested that some Palestinian prisoners be sent abroad instead of to the West Bank or Gaza, “which may be accepted by the mediators as a compromise to end this new obstacle,” the official said.Israel mops up the last of its enemies as more peaceful 2025 beckonsCameron Stewart The Australian December 20, 2024Israel is on the cusp of stamping its authority across the Middle East like never before, as it nears a ceasefire-hostage deal with a defeated Hamas and takes steps to cripple Iran’s last effective terrorist proxy, the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Coupled with Israel’s defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon, its cowering of Iran, and its destruction of deposed Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian military force, Israel will end this year as the unrivalled dominant force across a reshaped region.This has of course come at a terrible human cost triggered by Hamas’s massacre of 1200 Israelis and then by Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.But in just under 15 months, Israel’s growing dominance against every Islamic terror group that once threatened it has revealed Hamas’s attack on Israelis to be a strategic misjudgment for the ages.Israel is coming closer to what could soon be an unlikely outbreak of peace in the war-torn region. If it can secure a ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza – looking increasingly likely – and also hit the Houthis in Yemen hard enough to persuade them to cease their attacks inIsrael, then Tel Aviv would finally have silenced all those who have attacked it.Israel’s heavy bombardment this week of Houthi military targets in rebel-held northwest Yemen is a major escalation against the group.Until now the Houthis – whose catchcry is “death to America, death to Israel, damnation to the Jews” – have so far got off lightly from Israel despite regularly launching missiles and drones at the Jewish state.But with its other regional enemies now defeated, Israel can attack the Houthis with greater force until they decide that the cost of continuing to attack Israel and disrupt international shipping in the Red Sea is too high.Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has all but flagged this new campaign, saying: “The Houthis are learning … the hard way that anyone who harms Israel will pay a very heavy price.”If Israel continues its campaign against the Houthis – and given the effectiveness of its campaigns against Hezbollah and Hamas – it will be only a matter of time before the terror group ceases its attacks, delivering a final insult to Iran, which will have seen all of its terror proxies in the region defeated by Israel in just over a year.The most important breakthrough in the region, a ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas, could still collapse but there is reason for hope because, critically, Hamas has retreated on some of its earlier demands and clearly wants a deal.These include agreeing to Israeli troops remaining in some parts of Gaza after the initial ceasefire, and abandoning its demand for a complete halt to the war in exchange for a pause in fighting.For Hamas, the pressure to reach a deal is growing. Hamas is broken as a coherent fighting force, it no longer has Hezbollah attacking Israel in sympathy, and within weeks Donald Trump will be sworn in with the promise that there will be “all hell to pay” if hostages are not released.For Israel, the time is also right for a deal. Its attacks on Hamas in Gaza are akin to playing whack-a-mole, in that they no longer deliver any strategic benefit to what is now a low-level rag-tag guerrilla force. These attacks only prolong the conflict and the suffering of the civilian population for no reason.The aftermath of last year’s October 7 attack has seen Israel emerge as the dominant player in the Middle East and, with its enemies vanquished, the prospect of a more peaceful 2025 now beckons.