Terrorist group Hamas walked away from the hostages-for-ceasefire talks being held in Cairo, dashing U.S. and Western hopes of a ceasefire before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which begins on Sunday.
“A Hamas delegation has left talks in Cairo without a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza,” the BBC reported Friday. “It had been hoped that a 40-day truce could be in place for the start of the Islamic month of Ramadan next week.”
Instead of freeing captive Israeli women, elderly and children in exchange for a six-week truce during Ramadan, as reportedly offered by Israel, Hamas has threatened to intensify the campaign of terror during the Muslim month of fasting.
This year’s Ramadan will a ‘month of Jihad,’ spokesperson for Hamas terrorist fighting force al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, declared Friday. “May the approaching month of Ramadan be a month of obedience, jihad, and victories,” the senior Hamas terrorist said in a speech address to Muslims across the world.
“As Muslims worldwide prepare to welcome Ramadan, we have offered a sacrifice to Allah – a cascade of pure blood and pure souls. We welcome it with the peak of Islamic zeal, jihad, steadfastness, and combat during a time when men are honored [for their actions during the Holy month],” the Hamas operative said.
Deeply entrenched within Gaza’s civilians population, Hamas continued to fire rockets into Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hit Hamas’s terrorist fighting force and launch sites. “IDF troops are killing terrorists in the area of Hamad and continue conducting targeted raids and eliminations of threats in northern and central Gaza; several military posts were struck in central Gaza overnight, from which launches were carried out toward Sderot,” the military disclosed in statement on Saturday.
Hamas appears to have fabricated another atrocity, this times blaming the U.S. of killing five civilians and hurting several others when airdropped food packages landed on Gazan residents.
The news of dead Gazans, replete with eyewitness reports and hospital staff quotes, was picked up by several mainstream media outlets.
“Five people have been killed and 10 injured in Gaza when they were hit by a pallet of aid parachuted into the territory as part of a humanitarian airdrop,” the UN newspaper Guardian reported Friday. “The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, said.”
Pentagon rejected the Palestinian claim, confirming that “all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground.” The NBC News reports:
The Pentagon denied that U.S. airdrops of aid were responsible for any civilian casualties in Gaza after the enclave’s civil defense said the five people were killed today by “aircraft incorrectly dropping aid.”At a Department of Defense press briefing this afternoon, Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that reports of U.S. airdrops resulting in civilian casualties on the ground are false “as we’ve confirmed that all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground.”
The head of terrorist-linked United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA, has claimed that his organization is at ‘risk of death’ following funding cuts by the U.S. and several Western donors after fresh evidence of collusion between its staffers and Hamas recently came to light.
More than 450 UNRWA employees are members of Hamas or other Gaza-based terrorist groups and many of them took part in raping, killing and hostage-taking of Israelis on October 7, evidence released by the Israeli security services shows.
The Times of Israel reported:
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency is at “risk of death” after a string of donors suspended their funding over Israeli allegations some staff took part in the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says.“The agency is at risk of death, it is risking dismantlement,” Lazzarini tells Swiss broadcaster RTS in an interview aired today.“What is at stake is the fate of the Palestinians today in Gaza in the short term who are going through an absolutely unprecedented humanitarian crisis.”
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