Former military secretary to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reserve Major General Avi Gil, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 that some hostages in Gaza died because of political considerations, although they could have been released earlier. He also spoke about an attempt to alter the transcript of his conversation with Netanyahu on the morning of October 7, 2023.

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The Israeli Supreme Court has allowed the name of Lieutenant Colonel Arie Amidror to be published; he is considered one of the main culprits behind the failure that allowed Hamas to attack Israel on October 7, 2023. He had previously tried to ban publication of his name, but the ban has been lifted.

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Another round of conflict in the Middle East drags on: Israel is losing allies and facing new accusations. Can a new initiative from Donald Trump bring the country an honorable peace in this context? How justified are the criticisms leveled against the Jewish state—genocide, occupation, and colonization of Palestinian lands? And does the State of Palestine even exist, as Western countries have been recognizing it one after another recently? On the second anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, we try to understand this with Marianna Belenkaya, a journalist and Middle East expert, author of the Telegram channel «Falafelnaya.»

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