Israelis recover bodies of three people killed in October 7 attack
The Israeli military said yesterday that it had recovered the remains of three hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
The military identified the remains as those of Yonatan Samerano (21), Ofra Keidar (70) and Shay Levinson (19). All three were killed during Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack into Israel that ignited the ongoing war.
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Irish Independent
14 minutes ago
- Irish Independent
Hamas is ‘positive' on ceasefire call as Israel prepares offensive
But Israel has yet to weigh in as its military prepares an offensive on some of the territory's most populated areas. The prospect of an expanded assault on areas sheltering hundreds of thousands of civilians has sparked condemnation inside Israel and abroad. Most war-weary Palestinians see no place in Gaza as safe, not even declared humanitarian zones, after 22 months of war. Many Israelis, who rallied in their hundreds of thousands on Sunday, fear the offensive will further endanger the remaining hostages in Gaza. Just 20 of the 50 remaining are thought to be alive. 'If this [ceasefire] proposal fails, the crisis will exacerbate,' Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry, told journalists, adding they have yet to hear from Israel on it. Mr al-Ansari said Hamas had agreed to terms under discussion. He declined to provide details but said the proposal was 'almost identical' to one previously advanced by US envoy Steve Witkoff. That US proposal was for a 60-day ceasefire, during which some of the remaining hostages would be released and the sides would negotiate a lasting ceasefire and the return of the rest. 'If we get to a deal, it shouldn't be expected that it would be instantaneously implemented,' Mr al-Ansari said. 'We're not there yet.' That cautious assessment came a day after the foreign minister of Egypt, the other Arab country mediating the talks, said they were pushing for a phased deal and noted that Qatar's prime minister had joined negotiations between Hamas leaders and Arab mediators. Mr Witkoff has been invited to rejoin the talks, Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty told The Associated Press. Mr Witkoff pulled out of negotiations less than a month ago, accusing Hamas of not acting in good faith. It was not clear how Mr Witkoff has responded to the invitation. An Israeli official on Monday said the country's positions, including on the release of all hostages, had not changed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak with the media. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a final push is needed to 'complete the defeat of Hamas'. He has vowed to continue the war until all the hostages are returned and Hamas has been disarmed. Hospitals in Gaza said they had received the bodies of 34 Palestinians killed yesterday, including women and children, as Israeli strikes continued across the territory. Among them were nine people killed while seeking aid, officials at two hospitals told The Associated Press. The deaths were recorded across Gaza, including in central Deir al-Balah, southern Khan Younis and near aid distribution points, hospital officials said. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Israeli-backed private American contractor that has become the primary distributor of aid in Gaza since May, operates those sites. Another two people were killed near a GHF site in central Gaza, according to Al-Awda Hospital. GHF said there were no violent incidents at any of its sites yesterday. Nasser Hospital also said an airstrike killed a mother, father and three children in their tent overnight in Muwasi, a camp for hundreds of thousands of civilians. 'An entire family was gone in an instant. What was their fault?' the children's grandfather, Majed al-Mashwakhi, said. Neither the GHF nor Israel's military immediately responded to questions about the casualties reported by Nasser, Awda and al-Aqsa hospitals. The Palestinian death toll in the war surpassed 62,000 on Monday, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants, but says women and children make up around half of them. In addition to that toll, other Palestinians have died from malnutrition and starvation, including three reported in the past 24 hours, the ministry said yesterday. It says 154 adults have died of malnutrition-related causes since late June, when it began counting such deaths, and 112 children have died of malnutrition-related causes since the war began with the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Aid groups continue to struggle to deliver supplies to Gaza, where most of the population is displaced, large swaths are in ruins and experts say the 'worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out'.
Irish Daily Mirror
42 minutes ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Activist uses pic of Kinahan gangster in 'war crimes' claim
An activist has used a photo of an infamous Kinahan mobster being arrested in Spain – to claim that cops in The Netherlands arrested an Israeli military officer on suspicion of war crimes in Palestine. The photo - alleged to feature Major General Shitan Shaul - was put up on a Twitter/X account last week and has now gone viral, but it actually shows Kinahan gangster Johnny Morrissey being arrested in Spain in 2022. The post, by a user who describes himself as a socialist and author who supports Jeremy Corbyn and is a former member of the British Labour Party, was published late last week – and has already been viewed more than 276,000 times. It claims the general was arrested after he was spotted on a beach in The Hague in the Netherlands. It claims he was arrested over alleged war crimes committed in Rafah, southern Gaza, which has been pounded by Israel since Hamas' murderous attack on the Jewish state in October 2023 that left more than 1,200 people dead. Israel has mounted a massive attack on Gaza ever since and more than 60,000 people have died. The reaction to the Israeli onslaught has seen the country pilloried around the world – and condemned on social media. And now an activist has taken to Twitter to use an image of key Kinahan ally Johnny Morrisey – one of seven men named publicly as being part of the €1 billion cartel – against the Israeli commander. The tweet is accompanied by a photo of Morrissey with his eyes blacked out and says: 'Dutch police have arrested Israeli Major General Shitan Shaul commander of the Armored Corp this morning on charges of committing war crime in Rafah. 'Charges were brought forward by a human rights organization as he was spotted enjoying his summer vacation on The Hague beach.' But X users quickly spotted the photo was wrong – and community noted the post. That's when other X users point out mistakes in someone else's post. The note, visible underneath the post, says: 'Originally taken on September 15, 2022, this photo depicts the arrest of Johnny Morrissey ("Johnny Cash") by Spanish police. A prominent figure in the Irish Kinahan cartel, Morrissey was arrested at his home in Costa Del Sol, Spain over a €200m money-laundering scheme.' Morrissey, 64, was arrested by the Guardia Civil in September 2022 as part of a probe into suspicions he was involved in money laundering and was involved in a crime gang – the cartel led by Daniel Kinahan. The Irish citizen was finally released on bail in November 2024, but investigations are ongoing. In April 2022, US authorities named him as a key member of the cartel. They claimed he was materially assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological support to the gang and also alleged he was once an enforcer for them. He was one of seven men sanctioned by US authorities – including Daniel Kinahan, 47 and his father Christy, 67 and brother Christopher, 44. The US also put a $5 million bounty on the heads of the three Kinahan men – who are believed to be holed up in Dubai. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here . The Irish Mirror's Crime Writers Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click here to sign up and get it delivered to your inbox every week
The Journal
5 hours ago
- The Journal
Syrian and Israeli diplomats reportedly hold rare meeting in Paris to discuss 'de-escalation'
SYRIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris, the Syrian state-run news agency said. The talks were brokered by the United States, which has been pushing for Syria and Israel to normalise relations, the report said. Foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani met Israeli officials today to discuss de-escalating tensions and restoring a 1974 ceasefire agreement, the SANA news agency said. Syrian officials have acknowledged holding indirect talks with Israel to defuse tensions. There was no immediate confirmation of such a meeting from Israel. Tensions have soared between the two neighbouring countries following the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar Assad in December. Israeli forces seized control of a UN-patrolled buffer zone in Syria shortly after Assad's overthrow and carried out airstrikes on military sites in what officials said was aimed at creating a demilitarised zone south of Damascus. Advertisement Israel has said it will not allow hostile forces to establish themselves along the frontier, as Iranian-backed groups did during Assad's rule. It distrusts Syria's new government, which is led by former Islamist insurgents. Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaida commander who severed ties with the militant group years ago, has pledged to build a new country that respects the rights of minorities, but sectarian violence has erupted on a number of occasions, raising concerns about the country's fragile transition. Israel stepped up its intervention when violence erupted in Syria's Sweida province last month between Bedouin clans and government forces on one side and armed groups from the Druze religious minority on the other. Israel said it was acting to protect the Druze, who are seen as a loyal minority in Israel and often serve in the military. Israel launched dozens of airstrikes on convoys of Syrian forces around Sweida and struck the headquarters of the Syrian ministry of defence in the heart of Damascus, Syria's capital. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic plateau in a move that has only been recognised by the US. The rest of the international community views the Golan as occupied Syrian territory.
