Day 447 - Israel, Hamas offer mutual recriminations, but no deal

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's episode.

Horovitz discusses ongoing spin regarding ongoing hostage negotiations, more than a year after the release of 105 hostages that took place during a brief pause in fighting last November 2023. It's not clear if it's a truce or ceasefire, says Horovitz, but Israel says it needs to know how many people or who Hamas would be releasing, and mutual recriminations continue without a final deal.

He also discusses how it has become the "semi-norm" for half of Israel to dash for shelter in the middle of the night to avoid incoming rockets from the Houthis in Yemen, and how complicated it is to retaliate to this Iranian-linked organization.

Horovitz reviews his latest op-ed about a new sense of awareness and preparedness of the IDF on the many fronts where it's been fighting, including the unfolding situation in Syria, where it is being extremely wary and doing what it can militarily, to minimize possible future consequences with the new regime.

For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.

Discussed articles include:

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of foiling hostage-ceasefire deal

IDF probe: Intel on 6 hostages murdered by Hamas was lacking; troops acted carefully

Houthis fire missile at central Israel for 4th night in past week; IDF intercepts it

Houthi drone crashes in south as terror group said to brace for major Israeli attack

Report: Mossad chief believes Israel should target Iran to get at Houthis; PM disagrees

IDF’s prewar complacency replaced by wariness on every front, proactivism where possible

Israel shifts focus to Houthis, but it needs partners to defeat distant foe

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IMAGE: Mia Shalom, mother of IDF soldier Almog Shalom who was killed in battle, lights the first Hanukkah candle on his grave at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. It is Thursday, December 26th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with Times of Israel founding editor, David Harovitz. Hi, David. Good morning.
0:16.0	Morning, Jessica. Hi there. It is day 446 of the war. A Hamas official said that they cannot send a complete list of the living hostages until the truce begins. A partial list had been sent to negotiators, but Hamas can't communicate with all the groups holding captives and said it will be easier to do so once the ceasefire
0:38.9	has begun. Following consecutive days of Houthi attacks on Israel, the Mossad chief believes
0:45.6	Israel should hit Iran in order to get back at the Houthis. We will talk about those headlines
0:52.4	and others during this podcast.
0:55.1	So stay with us.
1:00.2	I'm Joel Chasnoff, comedian and host of the new podcast Inside Israel.
1:05.1	When I was 17 years old, I went to Israel on a teen tour, and I fell in love, not just with Masada in the Western Wall, but with Israelis.
1:13.6	Because, well, you know what it's like.
1:16.6	You get to Israel, and the first thing you notice is how beautiful the Israelis are.
1:20.6	The women are all tan and fit. The men are these hunks with muscles and crew cuts.
1:25.6	And it's so odd. They've got the same roots as we do,
1:29.7	Eastern Europe, Poland, Germany, except they look like supermodels, and we look like Jews.
1:36.4	On Inside Israel, I share my love for Israel and Israelis with you through stories, interviews,
1:43.0	and even a few laughs along the way.
1:45.1	So check out Inside Israel with me, Joel Chasnoff, on Apple, Spotify, and joelchaznoff.com.
1:55.7	Okay, David, so obviously hostage headlines are throughout every day right now.
2:02.4	The sense is that this could happen possibly by the inauguration in the U.S. on January 20th.
2:10.8	But we keep on getting these little bits and hints every day that things appear to be progressing.
2:17.8	How are you looking at it?
2:19.7	Yeah, I think your semi-bathlement or sense that things seem to be going well,
2:25.6	and then they're not as widely felt.
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