4 hostages remain in Gaza after Hamas returns body of IDF soldier killed in 2014

 

Israel received the remains of two hostages in two days, the most recent of which came on Sunday, as the initial terms of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire near an end. Hadar Goldin’s body was taken hostage during the 2014 six-week war between Israel and Hamas, making him the only remaining hostage to have been held by the militant group since before the start of the current war. 

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Sharaa: Trump supports Damascus’s position on Israeli withdrawal from Syria, will push for it

 

There is a “good distance to go” before his country can reach an agreement with Israel, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa tells The Washington Post after becoming the first Syrian leader to meet the US president in Washington.

“To reach a final agreement, Israel should withdraw to their pre-Dec. 8 borders,” he says, referring to the date of the fall of the Bashar Assad regime and the simultaneous Israeli advance into the buffer zone between the two countries, and beyond, confirming that the two sides are involved in “direct negotiations.”

Sharaa argues that Israel’s invasion of Syria comes from “expansionist ambitions” and not security concerns.

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Israel parliament passes first reading of death penalty for ‘terrorism’ law

 

Israel’s parliament has passed the first reading of a bill that would introduce the death penalty for “terrorism”.

The amendment to the penal code, proposed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, was approved by 39 votes to 16 in the 120-member Knesset on Monday, signalling it has support from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

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Four dead and a million evacuated as Super Typhoon Fung-wong hits Philippines

 

Filipinos are still dealing with the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed more than 200 people earlier this week.

More than one million people were evacuated and at least four killed as a super typhoon made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday.

Fung-wong battered eastern and central parts of the country, causing power outages, and forcing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to declare a state of emergency.

One person drowned in Catanduanes and firefighters recovered the body of a woman trapped under debris of a collapsed home in Catbalogan City, officials said.

Two children also died after a mudslide buried a house in the Kayapa, in Nueva Vizcaya province, civil defence official Alvin Ayson told Reuters.

Israel receives body of soldier killed in 2014 in Gaza

 

Israel has received the body of Lt Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in an ambush by Hamas in 2014 and whose body has been held in Gaza since then.

The Israeli military said Lt Goldin, who was 23 when he died, was formally identified and will now be buried. He left behind parents, a sister, two brothers, and a fiancée.

Hamas's armed wing had said on Sunday that it would hand over Lt Goldin's body as part of a ceasefire deal.

Hamas has now returned all 20 living hostages, and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of the deal.

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The Sabbath Days in the Feast of Tabernacles Two.

 

This being the Feast of Tabernacles Two.

The Moon become Full on November 5th (Bonfire night here in the uk)

The 1st and the 8th Day of the Feast are both Sabbath Days.

Lev 23:39
on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

This means the 6th was the Sabbath Day and the 13th will also be a Sabbath Day.

Israel says body of Lior Rudaeff has been returned from Gaza

 

The Israeli military says it has identified a body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.

The 61-year-old was killed while attempting to defend Nir Yitzhak kibbutz during the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 and his body was taken to Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group, the military said.

PIJ said the body was found on Friday in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Hamas has now returned all 20 living hostages and 23 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal that started on 10 October. Four of the five dead hostages still in Gaza are Israelis and one is Thai.

Israel has criticised Hamas for not yet returning all the bodies. Hamas says it is hard to find them under rubble.

PIJ is an armed group allied with Hamas. It took part in the 7 October attack and previously held some Israeli hostages.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a campaign group, welcomed the return.

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