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IDF forces early Thursday morning carried out a strike on a Hamas terror compound embedded in an UNWRA school in the Nuseirat area of Gaza. According to the IDF spokesperson, the strike eliminated Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who belonged to the Nukhba forces and participated in the murderous October 7th assault. Also, some of the terrorists who were eliminated were planning imminent terror attacks against IDF forces in the Strip. The terrorists were using the UNWRA school as a shelter and terror hub and were directing terror activities from the school. The IDF said that “before the strike, a number of steps were taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians during the strike, including conducting aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

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The Hamas terror group rejected the Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Thursday morning. Sources in the terrorist organization claim that the decision was reached due to the realization that the Israeli proposal is fundamentally different from the one presented by US President Joe Biden. A memo that was distributed yesterday to Palestinian terrorist organizations and obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat claims that the proposal “does not guarantee a permanent ceasefire, the occupation forces will remain in Gaza and when they receive the hostages, they will resume the destruction against our people.” After Biden presented an outline for a hostage release/ceasefire deal on Friday [deliberately timed for after the start of Shabbos in Israel], National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said that “the ball is now in Hamas’ court.” He added that the White House “agrees with the Prime Minister of Israel that Israel has the right to destroy the capabilities of Hamas. But now is the time to move to the next stage, to start the first stage of freeing some of the hostages and start discussing the second stage.” He also claimed that “this is an Israeli proposal and President Biden described it precisely.” However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday at a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting: “I am not prepared to end the war. Despite what Biden said, it has not yet been agreed how many hostages will be released in the first phase. We can stop the fighting for 42 days in order to bring back the hostages but we cannot stop the war. The Iranians and all our enemies are looking at us, wanting to see if we surrender.” “There are many more details in the deal and the war will not end without achieving all the objectives. Don’t pay attention to the publications, there are a lot of fake report circulating. We will not concede on absolute victory.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)  

The IDF announced on Thursday morning that an IDF reserve soldier who was critically injured in the Hezbollah drone attack on northern Israel on Wednesday evening later died of his wounds. He was identified as Staff Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders, H’yd, 39, of the 5030th Battalion of the Alon Brigade. Kauders, z’l, from Tzur Hadassah, left behind a wife and four children. Another soldier was seriously wounded in the attack and eight soldiers were lightly wounded. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement saying that it fired several explosive drones at an IDF base. The terror group launched a second suicide drone minutes after the first one in a secondary attack intended to kill emergency personnel. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

On Wednesday, the Biden White House posted the demonstrably false claim that “guns are the number one killer of children.”

The White House posted:

Breitbart News showed this claim to be false when President Joe Biden first made it on June 2, 2022. Breitbart News dug into the data and found that 18- and 19-year-olds (i.e., people of voting age) had to be counted as children in order for his claim to be accurate. But 18- and 19-year-olds are not children, and therefore, Biden’s claim was false, just as the White House’s current claim is false.

A May 26, 2022, FOX News report noted that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures show firearm-related deaths of people ages 0-19 totaled 4,368 in 2020, while motor vehicle deaths for the same age range totaled 4,036. This gave rise to gun control groups claiming more children die from guns than in car accidents. However, they missed the age range, which, as reported, included 18- and 19-year-olds.

Breitbart News did a custom search on the CDC numbers and limited the category of “children” to those 0-17 (i.e., individuals below voting age) and the data completely flipped. The number of firearm-related deaths for children aged 0-17 was 2,281 in 2020, while the number of motor vehicle deaths for the same ages was 2,503.

 

Moreover, Breitbart found that even in the expanded age range of 0-19, CDC numbers show unintentional motor vehicle deaths were 27 times higher than unintentional firearm-related deaths. Breitbart

The fires that broke out in the Upper Galil as a result of Hezbollah rocket barrages at the beginning of the week consumed thousands of acres of forest land. A total of 96 fire sites developed on Sunday and Monday. The vast majority of them were brought under control by the Fire and Rescue Services but additional Hezbollah barrages along with the heatwave weather conditions caused three more fires to flare up on Tuesday – in the Birya forest near Tzfas, in Margaliot and in Keren Naftali. The chairman of Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael [JNF-KKL] Yifat Ovadia-Luski said during a situational assessment on Tuesday that since the beginning of the war, many forests in the north have suffered almost twice the damage incurred during the Lebanon War in 2006. At least 3,459 acres of land were damaged since the beginning of the war, compared to 1,729 acres during the 2nd Lebanon War. Ovadia-Luski believes that a full assessment will show that the damage is even more extensive. Eddi Aharonoff, a spokesperson for Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services told The Press Service of Israel (TPS-IL): “It’s an environmental disaster. We already lost around 4,000 acres of green land in the north. It will take dozens of years to repair this damage. This comes with the tragedy of thousands of people who were forced to evacuate.” Aharonoff added: “We keep saying that we’re the only firefighters in the world that are fighting fire under fire.” “We saw that on October 7th, of course, when we lost 11 of our colleagues in the south. And now we are facing it in the north. There are entire areas where we can’t be in direct contact with the fire because they happen on the border and we might be hit by Hezbollah fire.” He added that firefighting crews near the Lebanese and Gaza border carry rifles and pistols. “When you’re going to extinguish a fire, the temperature can get to 200 or 300 degrees,” he said. “This can detonate the bullets. You’re actually carrying an explosive in your pocket while fighting the fire. That can be extremely dangerous for our firefighters.” The video below shows the fire in the Birya forest near Tzfas: (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has unleashed a slew of bot users on social media websites to spread Israeli propaganda, often targeting Black U.S. lawmakers’ posts, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing documents and Israeli officials. The ministry paid $2 million to Stoic, a political advocacy firm, to launch the campaign, the Times reported. Stoic created fake news sites such as ‘UnFold Magazine’ and ‘Non-Agenda’ which were populated with rewritten articles from other publications that affirmed the Israeli narrative on the war in Gaza.

FakeReporter, a site that reports bot accounts spreading propaganda, originally identified the influx of accounts spreading stories from these sites, among other fake sites promoting racist and fictitious stories, across X, Instagram and Facebook in April.

The campaign also targeted primarily Black and Democratic lawmakers with spam posts from fake accounts promoting Israeli propaganda, according to the Times. The accounts also used ChatGPT to write posts with identical phrases popping up on many of the accounts. Both ChatGPT and Meta confirmed the Times’ and FakeReporter’s investigation. Read more at The New York Times.

Israeli Judge Aharon Barak, who represented the country against charges of genocide at The Hague, has resigned from the International Court of Justice, citing personal reasons.

Israel appointed Barak as an ad hoc judge to represent the country in January against the charges of genocide brought against it by South Africa. Barak wrote the dissenting opinion against the case, in which he called South Africa’s evidence “scant” and a “desperate bid to force a case” on the pretext of the Genocide Convention.

Barak sent his letter of resignation to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, citing “personal and familial reasons,” according to the Times of Israel. “Thank you for the trust you placed in me,” he added. Barak previously served as the president of the Israeli Supreme Court. Read more. 

According to a Fox News report, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) have sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for James and Hunter Biden.

The referrals, sent to AG Merrick Garland and Special Counsel David Weiss, claim the Bidens’ alleged false statements “implicate Joe Biden’s knowledge and role in his family’s influence peddling schemes and appear to be a calculated effort to shield Joe Biden from the impeachment inquiry.”

 

House Republicans allege Hunter Biden “falsely distanced himself from a corporate entity – Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC – and its bank account (Rosemont Seneca Bohai Bank Account) that was the recipient of millions of dollars from foreign individuals and foreign entities who met with then-Vice President Biden before and after transmitting money to the Rosemont Seneca Bohai Bank Account that then transferred funds to Hunter Biden.”

“Hunter Biden made additional false statements as to whether he held positions at Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC. After deposing Hunter Biden, the Committees obtained documents showing Hunter Biden represented that he was the corporate secretary,” they wrote. “Additionally, Hunter Biden during his testimony relayed an entirely fictitious account about threatening text messages he sent to his Chinese business partner while invoking his father’s presence with him as he wrote the messages. Hunter Biden told the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee he had transmitted this threat to an unrelated individual with the same surname. However, documents released by the Committee on Ways and Means demonstrate conclusively that Hunter Biden made this threat to the intended individual, and bank records prove Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners wired millions of dollars to him after his threat.”

They added: “A portion of the proceeds has been traced to Joe Biden’s bank account.”

As for James Biden, House Republicans said he “stated unequivocally during his transcribed interview that Joe Biden did not meet with Mr. Tony Bobulinski, a business associate of James and Hunter Biden, in 2017 while pursuing a deal with a Chinese entity, CEFC China Energy.”

“Specifically, James Biden stated he did not attend a meeting with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Tony Bobulinski on May 2, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. These statements were contradicted not only by Mr. Bobulinski, but Hunter Biden.”

“Mr. Bobulinski also produced text messages that establish the events leading up to and immediately following his meeting with Joe Biden on May 2, 2017,” they wrote.

House Republicans said, “Hunter Biden and James Biden made materially false statements to the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee, as demonstrated by the evidence presented in the attached referral.”

“The nature of these false statements is not lost on the Committees: every instance implicates Joe Biden’s knowledge of and role in his family’s influence peddling,” they wrote.

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Your site takes great glee in assigning blame to President Joseph Biden for matters beyond his control, and actions which he did not cause – such as your site recently saying “Thanks, Biden!” when illegal immigrant Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata, a 19-year-old from Venezuela, shot at two NYC police officers and they returned fire. Additionally, your editor delighted in pointing out and drawing attention to the immature behavior of the person deliberately placed behind Dr. Anthony Fauci at a Congressional hearing, but your alleged “journalism” omitted that the person making faces and pouting was convicted January 6 rioter Brandon Fellows was seated behind Fauci. Fellows made pouty faces when Fauci was describing the death threats he, his wife, and his daughters have endured. Dr. Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, serving under seven presidents. President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the U.S., for his work on combating the global AIDS epidemic. His position as NIAID director put him at the center of U.S. attempts to grapple with Covid-19, and for his work on developing a vaccine, Trump awarded him a presidential commendation. Who were the person(s) responsible for placing a convicted January 6th rioter behind respected and esteemed Dr. Fauci? Does the rubbish you publish contribute anything positive ? Robert Kalfus The views expressed in the letter do not necessarily represent those of YWN. Have an opinion you would like to share? Send it to us for review.  (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A 19-year-old Arab-Israeli from Abu Ghosh who impersonated an IDF soldier and slandered Israel on social media was arrested by Israel Police on Tuesday evening. The Arab claimed in an online interview that the IDF engages in the “systematic and deliberate killing of women, children and babies in Gaza on a daily basis.” The interview received numerous views. Israel Police became aware of the Arab’s social media posts and began monitoring them, suspecting that he was impersonating a soldier. They located the suspect, a Abu Ghosh resident who never served as a soldier, and arrested him at his home on Tuesday evening. The police are submitting a request to the court on Wednesday to extend his detention. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Two cops were shot. AOC has nothing to say…

New York Rep Nicole Malliotakis is publically shaming Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for failing to comment on two police officers shot in her district by an illegal migrant from Venezuela.

 

“Hey Baby Girl,” Malliotakis wrote on X Tuesday night, tagging Ocasio-Cortez. “Two cops were shot in your district by an illegal immigrant who we NOW find out is a Venezuelan gang member being housed in a hotel at our constituents’ expense and you still have NOTHING to say about it?? Really?”

 

Malliotakis also addressed the issue from the House floor.

“It’s been over 24 hours and @RepAOC hasn’t said anything about the preventable & senseless shooting of two NYPD officers in her district. How long until these Democrats start putting the safety of American citizens before those coming to our country illegally?” Malliotakis posted on X with the clip.

 

From Fox News:

Authorities said [19-year-old Bernardo Raul Castro Mata] illegally entered the United States last July near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was staying at a migrant shelter in East Elmhurst, Queens.

Though he has no prior arrests in New York City, police said Castro Mata is suspected in a string of robberies and is part of a crew using motorized scooters to commit crimes.

The shooting unfolded just before 1:45 a.m. Monday at the intersection of 89th Street and 23rd Avenue in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens when two officers, part of the 115th Precinct’s public safety unit, attempted to pull over a male suspect driving a scooter the wrong way. Castro Mata fled on foot and shot at the two officers, who returned fire, police said.

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Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday morning that Iran is planning a holocaust for Israel in another two years. Speaking in an interview with Army Radio, Liberman began with one of his characteristic attacks: “Apart from spouting slogans, Netanyahu did nothing on the Iranian issue – the failure there is bigger than on October 7.” “We are amid an Iranian extermination plan,” Lieberman said, adding that Iran will soon have nuclear power, which will then provide it with the deterrence needed to attack Israel within two years. “Israel will be attacked with the aim of destroying it from several fronts with tens of thousands of missiles at the same time. They are planning a holocaust for us in the next two years.” “They are working there on a comprehensive attack plan on Israel. It’s not a secret, they don’t hide it. We’re on the way to a holocaust.” Earlier this week, Lieberman was interviewed on Radio 103FM and made similar statements: “First of all, the State of Israel must understand that Iran is planning an all-out attack within two years, the entire axis of evil against the State of Israel.” He elaborated by saying that it will be “a coordinated attack from Iran itself, from Lebanon by Hezbollah, from the Gaza Strip by Hamas, from Syria by Shiite militias from Iraq, from Yemen by the Houthis, and of course, they will try to flare up Yehudah and Shomron for us as well.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

The Wall Street Journal published an article on Tuesday evening questioning US President Joe Biden’s mental acuity and memory, providing detailed examples from multiple sources. “When President Biden met with congressional leaders in the West Wing in January to negotiate a Ukraine funding deal, he spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting. He read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out. In a February one-on-one chat in the Oval Office with House Speaker Mike Johnson, the president said a recent policy change by his administration that jeopardizes some big energy projects was just a study, according to six people told at the time about what Johnson said had happened. Johnson worried the president’s memory had slipped about the details of his own policy. Last year, when Biden was negotiating with House Republicans to lift the debt ceiling, his demeanor and command of the details seemed to shift from one day to the next, according to then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and two others familiar with the talks. On some days, he had loose and spontaneous exchanges with Republicans, and on others he mumbled and appeared to rely on notes. This article is based on interviews with more than 45 people over several months.  On May 20, during a Rose Garden event celebrating Jewish American Heritage month, Biden said one of the U.S. hostages held in Gaza was a guest at the White House event, before correcting himself. One day earlier, at a campaign event in Detroit, he indicated that he was vice president during the Covid-19 pandemic, which started three years after he left that office. It was one of numerous flubs in the single speech that prompted the White House to make corrections to the official transcript. In January, he mixed up two of his Hispanic cabinet secretaries, Alejandro Mayorkas and Xavier Becerra. During a February fundraiser in New York, he recounted speaking to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl—who died in 2017—at the 2021 Group of Seven meeting. That same month, at a different fundraiser, he said that during the 2021 G-7 summit he had spoken to former French President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996. Questions about Biden’s age were amplified in February when Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, who interviewed him for roughly five hours over two days in October during the probe into his handling of classified documents, reported that Biden’s memory had been “significantly limited.” Biden responded in a news conference: “I know what the hell I’m doing.” Jan. 17, 2024: Ukraine Meeting With Ukraine running out of munitions, the White House called together top lawmakers to discuss what it would take to get congressional funding, along with the scope of border-security changes demanded by Republicans. The president moved so slowly around the Cabinet Room to greet the nearly two dozen congressional leaders that it took about 10 minutes for the meeting to begin, some people who attended recalled. Biden started the meeting reading from notes to make broad points about the need to give money to Ukraine, which struck several participants as odd given that the lawmakers present already generally agreed […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott stopped by Hannity to react to President Biden’s executive order for the southern border. The Lone Star State Gov says Joe only made things worse.

“What Biden announced today is nothing more than gaslighting his fellow Americans,” Abbott told Hannity. “There’s nothing in the announcement today that actually shows any enforcement of any immigration law that denies illegal entry into the country.”

“What Biden id today was actually entice more people to come to our border to increase illegal immigration, not to stop it.”

“There are three laws that exist that Biden isn’t enforcing: one is to deny illegal entry; the other, is to detain illegal immigrants who make it here; the third, is to build border barriers. He’s not doing any of that.”

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It was 1979, and they did it to save Klal Yisroel money – so as not to cause yiddishe gelt to be thrown out in a day.  In terms of this idealism they were truly – one of a kind, and that was also the name of the enterprise – One of a Kind Flowers.  The business originally opened up in Crown Heights and, after five years they moved it to Borough Park.  The store was an immediate success – both in their high end fresh creations of real flowers as well as their silk rental line. They had seen a store in New Jersey called “Magic Silk”, where the owner had created a new process in making genuinely realistic looking flowers.  The owners, Shmuel Rendler and Menachen Rosenblum, decided to start renting out these silk flowers for a fraction of the cost. They received a bracha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe for the endeavor as well as from several Roshei Yeshiva.  When Menachem joined his wife’s business, Shmuel was on his own.  And for the past 45 years, One of a Kind Flowers has been saving Klal Yisroel money and simultaneously producing beautiful work.  Many say that they received bracha in all of their work precisely because they were looking out for the little guy. So where did Reb Shmuel get his inspiration from? Well, for one, the Gemorah in Moed Katan 27b tells us that when Jews were burying their dead in the finest clothing, Rabban Gamliel HaZakain arose and declared that enough was enough. The rising pressures, the “keeping up with the Joneses” in how to dress the deceased was causing enormous economic pressure on the living. “It must stop,” declared the rabbi, and the white tachrichim, burial shrouds, that we now use became the norm. A second source may have been from the  great Tzemach Tzedek of 17th century Poland (not the 3rd Rebbe of Chabad = sorry Reb Shmuel) , cited by the Magen Avrohom in the beginning of hilchos Shabbos. He had once ruled (Responsa #28) that when local fishermen collude and raise the price of fish excessively, a prohibition can be levied upon the consumption of fish on Shabbos. It may take a week or two or even three, but eventually the collective buying power of ordinary people would force the price back down. We see, however, that it is not just great Torah leaders who have saved and are concerned for the financial well-being of their fellow Jews. It seems that this is what is expected by the Torah of everyone – michotev aitzecha ad sho’ev maimecha to mocher prachmecha. The Gemorah (Menachos 76a) tells us that Hashem commanded Moshe Rabbeinu to also feed the nation’s livestock from the water that He had caused to come from the rock at Mei Merivah. Also, Rashi (Rosh Hashanah 27a) points out that the Kohen first removes the vessels from the house before declaring a house impure. So we see examples of the Torah being concerned with the financial well-being of the Jewish nation. For the Public and for Private Individuals The difference between the two cases is that the former is for the entire nation, while the latter demonstrates that the Torah is concerned even for the individual’s finances. Social Norm […]

According to a Daily Caller report, Donald Trump’s racketeering case in Georgia has been put on hold by the appeals court; it will not continue until after a ruling has been on the disqualification of Fani Willis.

From The Daily Caller:

The appeals court ordered Judge Scott McAfee to pause all proceedings pending its coming ruling on the defendants’ bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case. McAfee previously allowed Willis to stay on the case despite finding “a significant appearance of impropriety” in her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who defendants allege she financially benefited from appointing.

The appeals court agreed to take up the matter in May. It will hear oral arguments on Oct. 4.

 

 

 

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Ukraine has used U.S. weapons to strike inside Russia in recent days, according to a U.S. senator and a Western official familiar with the matter. The weapons were used under recently approved guidance from President Joe Biden allowing American arms to be used to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. The official was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, confirmed the strikes with U.S. weapons, but did not say how he was briefed. Biden’s directive allows for U.S.-supplied weapons to be used to strike Russian forces that are attacking or preparing to attack. It does not change U.S. policy that directs Ukraine not to use American-provided ATACMS or long-range missiles and other munitions to strike offensively inside Russia, U.S. officials have said. Ukrainian officials had stepped up calls on the U.S. to allow Kyiv’s forces to defend themselves against attacks originating from Russian territory. Kharkiv sits just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Russian border and has come under intensified Russian attack. In advancing in the northeast Kharkiv region, Russian forces have exploited a lengthy delay in the replenishment of U.S. military aid. In addition, Western Europe’s inadequate military production has slowed crucial deliveries to the battlefield for Ukraine. On Tuesday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters he could not confirm that Ukraine had used U.S. weapons at targets in Russia. “We’re just not in a position on a day-to-day basis of knowing exactly what the Ukrainians are firing at what,” Kirby said. “It’s certainly at a tactical level.” According to a June 3 report from the Institute for the Study of War, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian S-300/400 air defense battery in the Belgorod region, likely with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, on June 1 or June 2. The air defense system was located roughly 60 kilometers (about 40 miles) from the current front line in the Kharkiv region and more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the city of Kharkiv, which is within the range of HIMARS, the institute reported. Confirmation of the strikes comes as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visited Qatar, which, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has been a mediator in prisoner swaps and other negotiations between Russia and Ukraine since the war began. Zelenskyy met with Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. A readout from the state-run Qatar News Agency described the men as discussing ways “to stop the fighting, protect civilians, and keep all channels of communication open to resolve the crisis through dialogue and diplomatic means.” Rounds said he agreed with Biden’s decision to allow U.S. weapons to be used for strikes against Russia under limited circumstances. “I have no problem with Ukraine using the ATACMS and so forth and all the artillery that we got to be able to take them out before they cause more harm in Ukraine,” he said. (AP)

Israel’s talks with the Hamas terrorist organization will only be conducted under fire, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed on Wednesday, five days after U.S. President Joe Biden launched a proposed deal offering an immediate “full and complete ceasefire.”

“We are in a process where we will continue and wear down the enemy. Any negotiations with the Hamas terrorist organization will only be conducted under fire,” Gallant stated in a video posted to X.

The defense minister spoke shortly after a flight over the Gaza Strip and the northern border with Lebanon in an Israeli Air Force F15 fighter jet.

“The strikes and the plumes of smoke where the IDF attacks are clearly visible to the eye, both in the Gaza Strip and in the north,” he said.

Biden announced his proposed hostages-for-ceasefire deal in a televised address on Friday. Calling it an Israeli proposal, the agreement laid out by the U.S. administration envisages a “permanent” end to hostilities and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

“All of that and more would begin immediately,” he said. “During the six weeks of phase one, Israel and Hamas would negotiate the necessary arrangements to get to phase two, which is a permanent end to hostilities.”

Biden added that if the initial talks take longer than six weeks, the ceasefire would be extended “as long as negotiations continue.”

During a closed-door meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reportedly told lawmakers he would “not describe the details of the deal,” adding, however, that Biden’s portrayal of Jerusalem’s negotiating position was “not accurate.”

“I am not willing to stop the war,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying. “We can stop the fighting for 42 days in order to return hostages, but we will not give up on total victory.”

Biden’s announcement had led to pushback within the Israeli coalition, with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday suspending his role in the government until Netanyahu reveals the proposed terms.

In an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said that the Biden administration expects Israel to agree to the deal if Hamas greenlights it.

“We have every expectation that if Hamas agrees to the proposal—as was transmitted to them, an Israeli proposal—that Israel would say ‘Yes,’” Kirby said. JNS