Hi,
A cease fire agreement with the terror organization Hamas has always been a very liquid thing. Whenever a time was set, there were always rockets, mortar shells, and missiles launched towards Israel after the time that was set.
Now, as always, those were shoot (mortar shells on 7:15, when Israel ceased the fire on 7:00 as agreed). Like always, we do not play into Hamas‘ hands and ignore those launches.
Hezbollah has announced it will join the cease fire, but again, what can you expect a terror organization? It reduces the number of attacks, but there are still alerts of unarmed aerial vehicle during those days. As well as ground to air missile launched at Israel aircraft and have been intercepted.
Another group of hostages was supposed to be released today, but Hamas is holding it, stating Israel has broken the cease fire. I do not know what is based on, as the prisoners that had to be released yesterday, had been released.
My fear, and I shared it with many of my friends to the company, is that Hamas will use the system of the return of a certain amount of hostages everyday to stretch this cease fire as long as it can (they already claimed they have “found” more hostages that can released the same way).
A four day cease fire already plays for Hamas good more than ours – IDF forces are static inside the cities in Gaza strip and are exposed to attacks once this ceases fire ends.
Hamas will be happy to end this war here, and now. It already won the battle of the Black Sabbath, and every day passes it watches ts strategic locations, posts, and arsenal of rockets and missiles demolished by IDF forces.
But we will be able to keep the war on Gaza strip while the international pressure will not stop the attack. That usually happens when a horrible mistake is done, and I hope none will happen until the fight against Hamas in Gaza strip is clear and done.
Take Care
Gad
The evacuated citizens of Be’eri watching the TV broadcast of what was supposed to be the release of hostages from Be’eri (Source: HaHaretz)