“The psychic harm to the Israeli spirit proper now has been so wounded that I do not assume they’re pondering as a lot about negotiating actually past the hostages,” Cohen mentioned.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken advocated for a hall for Palestinians to depart Gaza, however “Egypt has not been notably useful in that regard,” Cohen mentioned.
“Within the meantime, I feel that they may begin negotiations for the change of the hostages,” Cohen mentioned. “However proper now, I feel their thoughts is, ‘We’re moving into and we will kill. We will kill the individuals who have killed us, who’ve destroyed our sanctuaries.’”
-Bart Jansen
The Reuters information company on Friday confirmed the demise of one among its journalists working in Lebanon throughout an change of fireside alongside the Lebanon-Israel border between Israeli troops and members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. A number of different journalists have been injured.
Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah had been offering reside video feeds of navy exercise and had posted footage earlier Friday of bombings within the neighborhood of Alma Al-Shaab, a village close to the border.