Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 18 people overnight as Israel and Hamas appeared to be coming closer to a ceasefire deal

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that Israeli forces are operating to the west of Meiss El Jabal. It states they are “raiding and storming residential homes” and continues:

They are also carrying out searches, vandalism, scattering contents and burning some of them. Limited explosions, machine gun fire and the movement of vehicles and tanks is also being recorded.

For a year I’ve been saying “We [Israel] aren’t making a deal to release the hostages for political reasons” and everyone tells me that it can’t be, and it is shocking, and how could I say such a thing. Today Ben-Gvir released a video and told, to the camera, without blinking, the terrible truth.