Israel-Hamas Agreement and Gaza Return to War During Ben Gvir’s First Reionization of the Second Israeli-Palestinian War

The new offensive in Gaza also allowed Netanyahu to distract from an unprecedented move: his announcement this week that he wishes to fire his domestic security chief from the Shin Bet agency, a move that sparked street protests, with more underway on Wednesday.

Returning to war paved the way for Netanyahu to bring his far-right ally Itamar Ben Gvir back inside the coalition and beef up his governing majority. The war resumed on Tuesday after Ben Gvir stopped working in January because of a ceasefire with Hamas.

It is virtually the same proposal that had been on the table before the return to war, except for the demand to remove Israeli troops from the border area.

Netanyahu has a deadline: his government must pass a national budget in two weeks, or face the prospect of his government collapsing, triggering new elections.

Israel says it is going to war again to try to get Hamas to agree to the new ceasefire terms presented by Trump’s Mideastern envoy.

According to the Israel-Hamas agreement, on the 16th day of the ceasefire, the sides were supposed to enter talks regarding the permanent end of the war. As per the agreement, Israel refused to hold the talks until Hamas was able to exert control over Gaza.

The specific terms of the deal were never officially published. And though the deal was clinched with involvement from the incoming Trump administration, it was sealed under the auspices of the Biden administration in its waning days. Israel could try to get new terms under the administration of Trump.

Phase one of the deal — exchanging a group of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners — was over. But phase two — a full troop withdrawal from the Gaza border with Egypt, and moves toward a permanent end of the war — had not begun.

All the while, Hamas continued to recover. Israel had allowed in a surge of aid supplies. Hamas government leaders in Gaza began emerging from tunnels and hideouts, deploying officials and displaying their control of the territory.

The Facebook post was removed after complaints from Gaza residents, who said they did not want taxes collected from them.

Hamas was trying to retrofit unexploded Israeli ordinance from the war for its own weapons stockpiles, according to Tamir Heyman, the head of Israel’s leading national security think tank, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies.

“Hamas haven’t read the picture. They thought that they had a lot of leverage over the hostages. And they thought they would get a ceasefire, and not paying anything,” said former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin in a briefing to reporters. “This was the target of the attack…to tell Hamas, you are going to pay (a) high price for not accepting Witkoff proposals.”

Israel began a supplies blockade on Gaza this month to pressure Hamas to accept its terms. Hamas engaged with mediators but did not budge from its core demand to adhere to the original deal, remove Israeli troops from the Gaza-Egypt border and begin talks on the end of the war.

Israelis were also surprised at the return to war. More than half of the living Israeli hostages freed under the latest ceasefire deal — 14 out of 25 living Israelis freed in the last several months — said the move endangered the lives of the 24 other hostages still held in Gaza and believed to be alive.

According to Gaza health officials, one of the deadliest days of the Gaza war was the night time raids that killed more than 400 people. Israel said it was targeting Hamas mid-level leaders, and officials in Gaza who tally the deaths do not distinguish between Hamas-affiliated fighters and civilians.

After weeks of preparation, Israel’s military launched an attack from naval ships and dozens of warplanes at 2:14 a.m. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what was happening behind the scenes.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Mediators were holding ceasefire talks with Hamas in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday when the surprise Israeli strikes began, according to a senior Hamas official.

During the first 15 months of the Gaza war, missiles were fired at Israel by the Houthis in Yemen. The Israeli military says it successfully shot down a missile fired from Yemen at Israel.

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“Netanyahu’s true objective appears increasingly clear: a gradual slide toward an authoritarian-style regime, whose survival he will try to secure through perpetual war on multiple fronts,” wrote Harel.

“Do the doors of hell have opened?” “For me the gates of hell have opened today,” Buhbut told Channel 12. The son of Ruhbut was taken hostage in Gaza.

Analysts say that the strikes could last at least another two weeks unless Israel passes its national budget, which would give Netanyahu a better position in power.

A US Navy ship struck Houthi targets in Yemen last weekend and the U.S. fighter jets prevented a reprisal by the rebels. President Trump warned Iran, a backer of the Houthis, of “dire consequences” if Houthi attacks do not stop.

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DoGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop, when the egg price at the grocery stores is declining – a positive sign

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge has ruled. President Trump will appeal the decision.

The truce announced by Trump and Putin was only for a 30-day time period and did not address the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Russia andUkraine launched strikes on each other’s infrastructure after the announcement.

Eggs are a pain for American pockets right now. However, relief might finally be on the way. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the national average wholesale price of eggs has been declining since late February. This is a positive sign that the price for eggs at the grocery stores may drop in a few weeks. The decline in the wholesale price is due to the absence of major bird flu outbreaks so far in March, which has allowed the egg supply to recover.

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Khalil is deported for his position on the Israel-Gaza war and what kind of speech do you need to exercise under the First Amendment?

He was charismatic and calm. He was very different to her, a self-protective person who gets anxious. And maybe that’s why she knew, she said, she would marry him one day.

As this plays out in federal court, in protests and in national headlines Noor just wants her husband home in time for the baby’s birth. You can listen to the interview or read it.

The Columbia graduate student and legal permanent resident is at a Louisiana detention center over his involvement in student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. The government wants to deport him despite his legal status and his case is at the center of a of a fierce debate over what kind of speech is protected under the First Amendment. If Khalil is deported for his position on the Israel-Gaza war then he is in danger of being punished for protected political speech, according to many free speech advocates. The government has charged him with no crime and they say they don’t have to under a rarely used immigration provision.

“Exercising your First Amendment rights is not illegal. That’s always been the case,” Noor Abdalla told me. It’s frightening that you can get someone kidnapped from their home for attending a protest.