Cracks R Showing in Netanyahu Cabinet, Keep Bombing Gaza/or Hostages

Palestinian citizens returning to their damaged homes east of Khan Younis in November. Israel expected to have the city completely under its control by December. Credit...Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Time

 There are also cracks showing between Netanyahu and Pres. Biden. Netanyahu does not like the pressure to stop killing Palestinians from the White House. Had Biden known Netanyahu maybe he would have not made open ended Commitments on help to Israel. I will not be surprise if there is a shocking yell from Jerusalem, "Trump is a Friend". I think it could happen with its crazy implications.
 Adam Gonzalez

 A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive.

The comments by Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, marked the latest sign of disagreement among top Israeli officials over the direction of the war against Hamas, now in its fourth month.

In his first public statements on the course of the war, Eisenkot said that claims the dozens of hostages could be freed by means other than a cease-fire amounted to spreading “illusions” — an implicit criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who heads the five-member War Cabinet and who insists that pursuing the war will win their release.

that at some point — and you withdraw,” he added. “And they didn’t.”

 Netanyahu says it is still possible to achieve all of Israel’s goals and has dismissed the idea of stopping the war.

 “Halting the war before the goals are achieved will broadcast a message of weakness,” he said in his speech on Thursday. 

Rawan Sheikh Ahmad and Johnatan Reiss contributed reporting.

Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” published by Random House. More about Ronen Bergman

Patrick Kingsley is the Jerusalem bureau chief, covering Israel and the occupied territories. He has reported from more than 40 countries, written two books and previously covered migration and the Middle East for The Guardian. More about Patrick Kingsley Scores of displaced Palestinians fled the grounds of a hospital in southern Gaza as fighting raged in and around the city of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military says it is trying to crush a Hamas stronghold.

A near-total communications blackout across the Gaza Strip has left besieged civilians unable to call for help and aid workers struggling to reach them.

Hamas fighters in the northern Gaza Strip fired at least 25 rockets toward the nearby Israeli city of Netivot, renewing right-wing criticism in Israel of the government’s decision to scale back some military operations in the war.

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 Looming Starvation: A U.N.-affiliated panel said that Gaza, where lengthy inspections and logistical issues are hindering the delivery of aid, could tip into famine very soon. International laws to protect people from human-made famines offer little help. 

The New York Times