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JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Three more purported hostage bodies were returned to Israel from Gaza as Israelis wait for Hamas to give up the\u00a0final eight bodies.\u00a0For Israel, the struggles with Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon continue, with some calling Lebanon a “failed state” under Hezbollah rule.<\/p>\n
Hamas surrendered the remains of the three bodies on Sunday evening, claiming they belong\u00a0to American-Israeli Tank Commander Capt.\u00a0Omer Neutra, Staff Sgt. Oz Daniel, who was part of Neutra’s tank crew, and Col. Assaf Hamami, who served as the commander of the Southern Brigade Gaza Division.<\/p>\n
President Trump stated, “We got Neutra, you know, from New York, from the United States, and I spoke to his parents, and they are thrilled in one sense, but in another sense, obviously not too great \u2013\u00a0but we’re very happy to have done it.”<\/p>\n
The Netanyahu government will continue to press for the eight remaining bodies, which include one American. Hamas sent three bodies to Israel on Friday that were not those of hostages.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there are still pockets of Hamas in areas under Israeli\u00a0control that the Israel Defense Forces are working to eliminate.<\/p>\n
“The entire issue of risk to our forces, my directive is unequivocal: if there is an attempt to harm our forces, we will strike both those who attack and their organization to protect our forces \u2013\u00a0we are determined about it.”<\/p>\n
The prime minister indicated that while Israel does report to its American friends, they don’t ask permission.<\/p>\n
“Dismantling and demilitarizing Hamas, disarming Hamas, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, this is the principle we adhere to. This\u00a0is what is agreed upon between me and President Trump, and this is how we operate in a clear framework, and of course, if this is not done in one way, then it will be done in another way,” he explained.<\/p>\n
In an interview with CBS’s Sixty Minutes, <\/em>Trump described the Gaza ceasefire as “very solid.”<\/p>\n “I mean, you hear about Hamas, but Hamas could be taken out immediately if they don\u2019t behave. They know that. If they don\u2019t behave, they\u2019re going to be taken out immediately. If I want them to disarm, I\u2019ll get them to disarm very quickly.\u00a0I mean, they\u2019ll be eliminated. They know that,” Trump noted.<\/p>\n The administration’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will reportedly visit Israel on Monday. She’s the latest in a wave of U.S. officials who have visited in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n ***Please sign up for\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>CBN Newsletters<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and download the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>CBN News app<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to ensure you receive\u00a0the latest updates and alerts.***<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On the Lebanon front, Israel continues to strike Hezbollah targets. Five terrorists were killed over the weekend there.<\/p>\n The U.S. Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, describes Lebanon as a “failed state,” without a central bank, electricity, or an education system, while only the Iranian-backed Hezbollah offers those things in the south.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nevertheless, he praised the leaders of Lebanon and suggested that the way forward is for them to have good relations with Israel.<\/p>\n “The Lebanese leadership today is solid. President (Joseph) Aoun, (Prime Minister) Nawaf (Salam), and even Speaker (Nabih) Berri. They are trying, but they are dinosaurs. You have to go from the pay phone to Starlink\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and Starlink is, you go from Beirut to Tel Aviv. You have that conversation on the blue line (between Israel and Lebanon), you\u00a0have that conversation with Syria, and in four months, you can end all of this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Three more purported hostage bodies were returned to Israel from Gaza as Israelis wait for Hamas to give up the\u00a0final eight bodies.\u00a0For Israel, the struggles with Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon continue, with some calling Lebanon a “failed state” under Hezbollah rule. Hamas surrendered the remains of the three bodies on Sunday evening, claiming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[649,905,907,172,648,651,398,557,906],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-bodies","tag-envoy","tag-failed","tag-hamas","tag-hostage","tag-lebanon","tag-remain","tag-state","tag-suggests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}