HAMAS has proposed a three step plan to make a truce, release all the hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, with the aim being to agree on peace by the end of this.

This puts the hardest part at the end. Nonetheless, I find it promising, since it shows HAMAS is not opposed to ending the war.

I think the US should demand that Israel drop its opposition to ending that.

Ibrahim Hamed, a US citizen, called on Biden to rescue his mother, Samaher Esmail, also a US citizen, from the Israeli army, which took her prisoner recently in the West Bank.

There are no criminal charges against her. If there were, a trial could perhaps determine whether there are grounds to imprison her. But Israel often imprisons Palestinians for years without trying to justify it.

* Refugees [in Gaza] crammed into the border city [of Radah] face a terrifying choice: stay for the expected attack, or flee back north through a war zone.*

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The head of UNRWA says he fired employees that Israel accused of aiding HAMAS without having evidence that they really did so.

The UK plans to make it a crime to wear a mask at a protest.

Always more repression in the UK.