Yom Shnee
Monday
14 Kislev 5784
November 27 2023
Update 10:30 PM
A photo of those released tonight:
Those released: more on their names and ages tomorrow. These hostages are still not in Israeli hands at this hour. For some reason, the Egyptians say it will take at least another hour for them to enter Israel.
Who remains in captivity? According to the IDF, there are still 177 hostages consisting of 8 female children, 10 male children, 34 women between 19 and 60 years of age, 100 men between 19 and 60 years of age, 9 women over age 60, 16 men over age 60.
UPDATE 8:30 PM
The 11 hostages being released tonight are in the hands of the Red Cross and are on their way to the Rafah Crossing. We here in Israel still don’t know who they are. Also 6 or 7 (varying reports) Thais have been released.
Apparently, HamISIS has distributed the remaining hostages to different terror groups around Gaza. For example, the 10-month-old baby Kafir is now reportedly in the hands of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The Appalling Conditions In Which The Hostages Were Held
Remember how ISIS grabbed Yazidi women and kept them in cages while they abused them and even sold them? It has just been reported by an official at the headquarters for the hostages here in Israel that HamISIS in Gaza kept women in cages–and forced them to write letters about how good their conditions were.
About the Abominable Red Cross
The Red Cross has been conspicuously absent in the matter of the Israeli hostages. According to the organization, it did not have “the right” to demand that HamISIS allow it access to our people because Gaza “is not a country.”
Can you believe this nonsense? Doesn’t the Red Cross have a moral responsibility to help no matter what? Apparently not. Today, the daughter of Alma Avraham stood at the podium at Soroka Hospital and blasted the Red Cross for refusing to help deliver Alma’s medicine to her during her captivity.
She and we at OneIsrael consider the Red Cross at least partially responsible for her deteriorating condition, and if she dies, the Red Cross is culpable.
UPDATE 6:00 PM
As usual, Yahya Sinwar is somewhere in his tunnel howling with laughter at the consternation he is causing by violating the ceasefire agreement. Another day, another problem: as we wrote in the last update, the hold-up now is the fact that HamISIS is refusing to release 3 mothers when their children are released.
Who knows what concessions Sinwar is now attempting to drag out of Israel to get our children and mothers back?
And guess what? In the midst of all of this, our government has somehow agreed to a two day extension of the ceasefire, during which HamISIS will release 2 groups of 10 hostages, and we will release 2 groups of 30 terrorists.
At some point, someone needs to ask the question of how many Israelis are going to be murdered by all of the terrorists we are releasing?
One more disconcerting thing. Reports from the field today indicate that the morale of our soldiers is dropping like a rock.
UPDATE 1:00 PM
The Afternoon Hostage Update
*Everyday, HamISIS breaks the ceasefire and hostage agreement. Today, we are faced with another violation: the list of hostages to be released tonight includes 3 groups of children whose mothers are not being released with them.
Yesterday, we heard from another child hostage who said that the HamISIS claim that her mother “could not be found” in order to be released was a baldfaced lie. She said that she and her mother had been together for 48 days until HamISIS separated them two days before her release. Now, no one knows where the mother is.
*A comment from medical officials this morning: “Except for Alma Avraham, the hostages are not in life threatening situations; however, some were starving–all of the returnees arrived with indicators of malnutrition, the patients who were out of balance because they did not receive all the medicines they needed in captivity.”
The Absurd Comment of the Day
U.S. President Biden apologized to Muslim leaders yesterday for questioning the accuracy of the “death” figures from Gaza.
Back on October 25th, Biden said in a press conference:
“I have no idea if the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are being killed.”
Of course, Biden was correct when he said that; the Gaza Health Ministry is an arm of HamISIS and hugely inflates the number of Palestinians who have been killed. In fact, most of those who have been killed are Palestinian terrorists.
For Biden to apologize is patently absurd.
UPDATE 8:00 AM
The Morning Hostage Update
The helicopter carrying the child hostages that were released last night arriving at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva. All the children are listed in “good condition” this morning.
*There is no word on the condition of released hostage 84-year-old Alma Avraham this morning. She remains in critical condition at Soroka Hospital in Beersheva and needs your prayers.
*HamISIS has turned over to the Red Cross the final list (in the 4-day ceasefire) of hostages to be released tonight. This time the list includes only 11 hostages.
HamISIS is desperate to continue the ceasefire, but in order to do so they will need to release men since they apparently only have about 20 more children, mothers, and elderly women under their control after the release tonight (or so they claim).
Over the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Last Night
The Iranian proxy Houthis in Yemen launched two ballistic missiles at the U.S.S. Mason in the Gulf of Aden last night after the American Navy thwarted Houthi attempts to hijack a cargo ship owned by an Israeli and captured 5 Houthi terrorists. The missiles missed the ship and detonated nearby in the ocean.
In Syria
One day after the Syrians reopened the Damascus airport which was badly damaged by IAF aircraft in late October, IAF aircraft hit it again and it is closed again as of this morning.
In Judea and Samaria
The IDF captured more than 20 HamISIS terrorists in Bnei Naim east of Hevron last night.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.