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Thank you Marc. It's very confusing how the media publishes contradictory news. Observing these ambiguous publications does not inspire credibility. Readers often read and interprete what they identify with most... And a lot of international news reporters (AP & Reuters for example) seem everything but impartial. It's very confusing. Basic of Evil is : divide & rule.

Nasralla in an interview with a Lebanese TV channel stated that war is a tool to increase Hezbollah's power in Lebanon. The interviewer seemed profoundly shocked.

My close Israeli friends are evacuated/displaced and have left Haaretz.

As for the hostages, dispersed between Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, they're in hell on earth. How the so called democratic western world does not condemn Hamas as a terrorist organisation goes beyond comprehension.

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Why do remaining Hamas terrorists keep fighting when it's almost over for them?

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Because over 4 generations of Palestinians have been educated in hatred since childhood. Toddlers and children are taught that Israel does not exist and thats it is Palestine occupied by jews and other infidels. They learn that killing the occupiers and infidels by all means is heroic and justifies the only goal in life : returning to the lands their ancestors had left in 1948, which they consider their legal right and the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. That's a simplistic résumé of the Nakba narrative. Palestinian children learn that ONLY extreme violence and committing terrorist acts are justified to reach their goal. Becoming martyrs is an honour and families of martyrs are paid allowances by the Palestinian & Gazan governments.

That's the sad truth and the result of UNWRA education over the years. It's an ideologie which is hard to destroy.

This whole Nakba narrative is being backed up by the UN, UNWRA and has kept up the refugees status for about 75 years. Fundraising is big business after all and UNWRA has received billions of dollars on an annual basis of financial humanitarian aid which has been used for hate education and building of tunnels and their infrastructure, even harbouring weapon factories, intel and senior leaders HQ. These tunnels are built under under hospitals, mosques, schools and dense population areas. Each other residential block has tunnel exits & entrances. IDF has managed to enter many of the tunnels. Destroying them from within and above ground causes damage to the area which is often inevitable. Remember that

Hamas NEVER uses it's tunnels to shield or protect their civilians from bombing attacks, instead they tell civilians to stay... to serve as human shields. International propaganda in the media showing victims that Hamas never protected, instead blaming Israël AND stating - ON TV - that the civilians safety is the responsibility of the international community. Not theirs.

This hate mentality is also an important reason why neighboring Arab countries do not want to take in refugees from Gaza, because they fear the extremist population will continue to commit terror attacks to Israel and thus threatening the peace in frontiers areas established over many years. In the past, Yasser Arafat caused havoc during his stays in Jordan and Lebanon.

Thursday morning I read that "Egypt allows relatives staying in Gaza to cross the border at Rafah after getting exit tickets for 5000$. Huge waiting lines are seen near Ya Hala company in Caïro"

Later on the day I read : "Sources in Fatah report that the sons of a former commander of Hamas's Rafah Brigade have recently left the strip through "coordination" with Egypt".

All these media reports are very confusing. As for the average Gazan Hamas followers who obviously do not have relatives or the budget to get out, they will fight themselves to death because they are taught to do so, saving their (families) honour. Some of them realize that they're manipulated and abused by Hamas and surrender to IDF. Let's hope the Gazan civilians will answer to the requests which promises rewards for information about the whereabouts of the hostages and Yahya Sinwar.

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