Return The Hostages – Or Else

That’s exactly what the Israel Defense Force (IDF) leader is telling Hamas as we read in a report on the next Gaza offensive from The Times Of Israel:

The IDF said Wednesday it had launched “pinpoint” ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Hamas’s continued rule in the enclave would lead to its “total destruction and ruin.”

Those are pretty strong words, but it reflects what we’ve been hearing from Israel’s leaders recently. And now the military is acting on them:

The army said its operations were aimed at expanding the security zone near the border and creating a partial buffer between northern and southern Gaza. Troops of the 252nd Division entered the Netzarim Corridor area, a route that splits Gaza into north and south, capturing around half of it, up to the Salah a-Din road.

At the same time, the IDF said it deployed the Golani Brigade to the southern part of the Gaza border, readying it for action in the Strip.

At the same time, the IDF said it deployed the Golani Brigade to the southern part of the Gaza border, readying it for action in the Strip.

And as expected, Gazans will have to move as the IDF takes back more and more territory that Hamas reoccupied:

Katz said Israel would soon issue evacuation orders for combat zones in the Strip.

Katz clearly let the citizens know who caused all of their problems:

“Gaza residents, this is a final warning. The first Sinwar ruined Gaza and the second Sinwar will completely obliterate it,” the defense minister said, referring to the slain leader of the terror group, Yahya Sinwar, and to his brother, Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas military commander who is thought to have succeeded him.

“The Air Force strikes against Hamas terrorists were just the first step. Things will become much more difficult, and you will pay the full price,” he said.

He also gave Hamas a way out if they will take it:

Katz said that if the hostages are not released and Hamas is not removed from Gaza, “Israel will operate with strength you have not yet seen.”

“Take the US president’s advice. Return the hostages and remove Hamas, and other options will open up for you, including leaving for other places in the world for those who desire,” he said.

“The alternative is total destruction and ruin,” Katz added.

The IDF is hitting specific areas now:

The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Tuesday that Israel’s strikes have targeted cells of terror leaders and operatives, rocket-launching positions, weapons, and other Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror infrastructure.

The Misinformation Wars

Of course the terrorists are hard at work at spinning again, and unfortunately the lamestream press is believing all they say:

The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 400 people have been killed since Israel renewed its offensive, including women and children. Its unverified figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Overnight, two United Nations employees were killed in an explosion at a UN facility in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Israel denied accusations it was responsible for the blast at the building.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said earlier that a foreigner was among those killed and five others were seriously wounded in the explosion in Deir al-Balah, which it blamed on Israel.

The IDF did its best to try and correct the Hamas spinning:

In a statement, the IDF said, “Contrary to reports, the IDF did not attack a UN compound in Deir al-Balah. The IDF calls on media outlets to exercise caution with unverified reports.”

Additionally, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that two more top Hamas officials were killed in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the past day.

What is true is that more and more of the Hamas leadership is pushing up daisies:

One of the dead was Yasser Mohammed Harb Musa, a member of Hamas’s politburo who headed the defense portfolio and ministry of development.

“As part of his role, Musa handled the advancement and guidance of terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF and Shin Bet said, adding that he was considered close to slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

The second Hamas official the IDF said it killed was Mohammed Jamasi, the chief of the terror group’s so-called emergency committee.

“Over the years, Jamasi held key positions in the political bureau and the leadership of the movement and as part of his role in the war, he coordinated a significant portion of the Hamas regime’s government activity in the Gaza Strip, including the guidance of terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the statement added.

The two join a list of several senior Hamas leaders killed since the renewed offensive, including Hamas’s de facto prime minister of the Strip.

Israel is also hitting various terrorist command facilities:

Separately, the IDF said Wednesday that it targeted the main command center of Hamas’s Daraj-Tuffah Battalion, located in Gaza City, in one of its overnight airstrikes.

The command center targeted overnight had been used by Hamas to plan numerous attacks against Israel and troops, the IDF said.

World Leaders Falling For The Lies

I know that some of these European leaders are in tough spots, mostly because they allowed huge numbers of Muslims into their countries. As such they have to decry casualties of Hamas’ strategy of putting its own citizens in harm’s way:

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he was “deeply concerned about the resumption of Israeli military action in Gaza.”

“The images of parents carrying their children, young children to hospitals… are truly shocking,” Starmer told parliament.

Germany’s foreign minister weighed in trying not to offend either side, a tactic that certainly benefits Hamas:

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the renewed airstrikes “are shattering the tangible hopes of so many Israelis and Palestinians of an end to suffering on all sides.”

Speaking before starting a trip to Lebanon, she called on “all sides” in the conflict to “show restraint, respect humanitarian law, and return to talks.”

“The lives of dozens of hostages, including Germans… (and) of many thousands of Palestinians” depend on peace, she said.

“The resumption of hostilities also puts at risk the positive efforts of Arab states who want to chart a peaceful path for Gaza, free from Hamas,” Baerbock added.

Baerbock also has quite a few Muslim immigrants in her country and as such she has to keep all sides happy, but by not calling out Hamas for starting the war and their horrendous actions she is tacitly giving them a pass. She then wants the US to do her dirty work for her:

Germany’s top diplomat said she was appealing “in particular to the USA to use its regional influence… now, because the security of the wider Middle East is affected by this.”

She also warned that there was “a serious risk of wider regional escalation” at a time when “the situation in Lebanon has stabilized and there have been steps towards settling the conflict at the Israeli-Lebanese border.”

The leader for the EU’s foreign policy went right after Israel for the start of fighting as well:

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she told Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar that the renewed campaign in Gaza is “unacceptable.” Kallas told reporters in Brussels she was referring specifically to “the loss of civilian lives.”

Kallas said she will travel to Egypt on Sunday to discuss the situation with the “Arab Quint” — Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE — adding there was a need to increase diplomatic pressure on Israel.

It all sounds good, but diplomacy won’t end this conflict and anyone with working brain cells that actually listens to Hamas should realize that they have no intention of agreeing to stop their fighting and turn over all the hostages. Sa’ar told Kallas that:

According to Israel’s readout of Tuesday’s phone call, Sa’ar told Kallas that Israel “has no choice” but to renew military operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that while Israel has endorsed proposals offered by US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff that would maintain the ceasefire, “Hamas has rejected them twice.”

Sa’ar also emphasized to Kallas that the IDF is operating “solely against Hamas and terrorist targets while acting to minimize harm to the civilian population.”

These international organizations are clearly looking at the Middle East through Western culture lenses. If they would take the time to study how Hamas and really any terrorists views things they would know why Israel is fighting again. But as we can see, that’s not happening. These terrorists only use diplomacy to stall until they are ready to fight again. Peace is not their goal. The total destruction of Israel and all Jews is and they don’t hide it. You can’t negotiate with people like that.