The Gaza War Day 511; The War in the North

Friday

Yom Shishee

30 Shevat 5785

February 28 2025

UPDATE 9:00 AM ISRAEL TIME

The View from Ashdod

Some of the victims lying beside the road immediately after the terror attack yesterday:

Try to wrap your mind around the background of the perpetrator of the terror attack on Highway 65 near the Karkur Junction yesterday.

He was a 53-year-old Palestinan from Jenin who is/was married to an Israeli-Arab woman from Umm Al Fahm. He has/had refused to get an Israeli resident blue card, and so was illegally living in Israel in Ma’ale Irun, but his wife and children are Israeli citzens.

He sped his car into pedestrians wounding 13–two critically. He got out of his car, and back in again trying to drive away but was blocked by police; then he exited the car again with a knife. He was finally shot to death by police.

The phenomenon of Palestinian men marrying Israeli-Arab women, and Israeli-Arab men marrying Palestinian women has become pervasive in Israel. The terrorism resulting from such unions, whether the terrorist be the man or woman who got married–or their children–is a worsening problem here that the government has no idea how to deal with.

On the Hostage Front

From Or Fialkov we have this list of the 59 remaining hostages:

24 Hostages Presumed Alive Or Status Unknown (a government spokesman used the number 21 last week).

🔴 : 17 have provided a confirmed sign of life

1.Evyatar David 🔴

2.Eitan Horn 🔴

3.Eitan Mor 🔴

4.Alon Ohel 🔴

5.Elkana Bohbot 🔴

6.Guy Gilboa Dalal 🔴

7.Gali Berman 🔴

8.David Kunio 🔴

9.Ziv Berman 🔴

10. Yosef Ohana 🔴

11. Matan Angrist 🔴

12. Matan Tzangaoker 🔴

13. Nimrod Cohen 🔴

14. Idan Alexander 🔴

15. Omri Miran 🔴

16. Segev Kalphon 🔴

17. Bar Kuperstein 🔴

18. Avinatan Or

19. Ariel Kunio

20. Maxim Harkin

21. Rom Breslavsky

22. Tamir Nimrod

23. Bipin Joshi (Foreign worker)

24. Netphong Pinta (Foreign worker)

Total: 24 alive (22 Israelis, 2 foreign workers)

Confirmed Killed in Captivity or Bodies Taken:

1. Col. Asaf Hamami 

2. Lt. Hadar Goldin (kidnapped in 2014)

3. Sgt. Itay Chen 

4. Capt. Daniel Peretz 

5. Cpl. Oz Daniel 

6. Capt. Omer Nautra 

7. Sgt. Maj. Mohammad Al-Atrash 

8. Sgt. Ran Gweili 

9. Sgt. Shai Levinson 

10. Judy Weinstein 

11. Inbar Hyman 

12. Ofra Kedar 

13. Aviv Atzili 

14. Sahar Baruch 

15. Guy Iluz 

16. Tal Chaimi 

17. Tamir Ader 

18. Aryeh Zalmanovitz 

19. Idan Shtivi 

20. Yossi Sharabi 

21. Gadi Hagi 

22. Meni Godard 

23. Lior Rodaif 

24. Uriel Baruch 

25. Dror Or 

26. Yair Yaakov 

27. Amiram Kuper 

28. Yonatan Samrano 

29. Ronen Engel 

30. Eliyahu Margalit 

31. Eitan Levi 

32. Ilan Weiss 

33. Sontaya Akrasi (foreign worker)

34. Sutthisak Rintlak (foreign worker)

35. Joshua Molal (foreign worker)

*Israeli negotiators are in Cairo today trying to extend Phase 1 of the ceasefire/hostage/Palestinian terrorist prisoner release. Israel wants to continue; Hamas less so.

Elsewhere in the News Today

*An IAF aircraft eliminated a group of Hezbollah terrorists in northern Lebanon. The IAF also eliminated a Hezbollah outpost near Aainata in southern Lebanon.

*The initial findings from the October 7 investigations are what we already knew. IDF commanders were grossly negligent in realizing the threat and communicating with each other after the attack began.

*The mystery deepens. You will recall how for much of Tuesday and Wednesday, central and southern Israel were rocked with massive, thunderous, rumbling explosions. The IDF came out on Wednesday and said that there was nothing to worry about because they were sonic booms caused by IAF training flights. Yesterday, the IDF changed its tune, and said that they were definitely NOT caused by IAF training. So what caused them?

*Congressional testimony has revealed that the Biden Administration funneled nearly $2 billion dollars to Hamas after October 7 via USAID.

*40,000 runners are participating in the Tel Aviv Marathon this morning.

And so it goes in sunny Israel this morning . . . so far . . .

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