Saturday
Yom Shabbat
25 Tevet 5785
January 25 2025
UPDATE 11:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
The four women being released have arrived in Palestine Square in Gaza. They were brought to a platform (as you see above) and then left in Red Cross vehicles to go to the IDF.
200 Palestinian terrorist murderers and attempted murderers are being released today, 121 of whom are sentenced to life imprisonment and the remaining 79 to long prison terms. 70 of the 200 are being sent to Qatar and Turkey.
UPDATE 9:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
top l-r: Liri Albag (19), Naama Levy (20)
bottom l-r: Daniela Gilboa (20), Karina Ariev (20)
At this hour, Red Cross vehicles are heading to a point at which the four young women will be handed over.
The four performed surveillance as observers at the Nahal Oz base, along with Ori Magidish, who was released in a military operation at the beginning of the war, and Noa Marciano, who was murdered by the terrorist organization at Shifa Hospital during the fighting. The abductee Arbel Yehud is not on the list, even though she is a civilian who was supposed to be released before the soldiers. Meanwhile, observer Agam Berger is the only one of the soldiers who will not be released today.
It should be remembered that it was part of the idiotic “Conception” that the IDF did not allow these observers to have weapons even though they were stationed less than 100 meters from the Gaza border.
This is how the IDF describes what happened at Nahal Oz:
“Near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, there was an outpost that was used to monitor the border between Gaza and Israel. At around 6:30 A.M., female soldiers who served as Field Observers in this outlook saw the terrorists approaching and tried to defend themselves against the infiltration.
160 terrorists blew up the gates of the base and stormed inside. The terrorists cut off the power to the base, disabling the cameras and the “See-Shoot” system.
As a result of the capture of the base by the terrorists, 66 soldiers defending the base were brutally killed and tortured, including 15 female soldiers from the 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade, who were operating the surveillance. Seven of the female soldiers were taken as hostages.
Videos filmed by the Hamas terrorists themselves clearly show signs of torture and other forms of physical violence on the soldiers’ bodies. Additionally, terrorists are seen loading the hostages into vehicles, with blood stains visible on the women’s t-shirts and pants.
At the same time as the Nukhba terrorists were seizing the outpost, other terrorists invaded Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
Before the IDF arrived at the scene of the attack, kibbutz residents began to defend themselves. The kibbutz first response team was able to slow down the advance of dozens of armed terrorists, significantly reducing the number of civilian casualties. Although the kibbutz was not captured by the terrorists after several hours of fighting, they still brought grief and death to the community, killing 15 people and taking 8 hostages.
As stated above, Hamas as usual has deviated from the Agreement (the civilians were supposed to be released before Gazans could return to northern Gaza), and it remains unclear how Israel will respond to the deviation.
We will continue this blog today as developments warrant . . .
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.