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Over a month after Israel’s failed attempt to assassinate senior Hamas officials in Doha, new details have emerged in Turkish media about the top-level Hamas meeting in Doha, the six waves of airstrikes, and the Hamas terrorists’ narrow escape, Ynet reported. According to reports by Turkey’s TRT and Yeni Şafak, Israel launched six attacks, each involving two missiles, roughly 15 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump submitted his final proposal for a hostage deal. According to Hamas’s internal probe, the son of Khalil al-Hayya—the head of Hamas’s negotiating team—changed the meeting location at the last minute, saving the group’s leadership. The son, Maam al-Hayya, was killed in the strike. Hamas negotiators received Trump’s proposal at 1 a.m. the day before the attack and scheduled a meeting for 2 p.m. that afternoon. The officials gathered at a compound serving as Hamas’s headquarters, arriving in disguise under strict security measures. Earlier that morning, Maam al-Hayya, his office director, Jihad Lubad, and Hamas’s chief of security met to finalize what Turkish reports described as “an unusually strict security protocol.” On the day of the meeting, Hamas leaders arrived one by one. Security teams took extensive precautions to avoid technological tracking, confiscating all personal and wireless devices and issuing special encrypted phones provided by Hamas’s security forces to all meeting participants. This measure reportedly prevented Israel from pinpointing the delegation’s exact location through signal tracing. After the leaders arrived, Maam al-Hayya urged them to move to another building, insisting they “follow the security guidelines.” The officials were relocated under heavy guard, and the meeting was delayed while Khalil al-Hayya spoke with the Qatari mediator. The meeting finally began at 2:12 p.m., as Hamas security personnel made “arrangements in the area.” At 3:46 p.m., the Israeli airstrikes began. The first missiles struck the building housing al-Hayya’s family and office, killing Maam al-Hayya. The second strike killed Jihad Lubad and two other Hamas members, Muaman Hassouna and Ahmad Abd al-Malik. A third strike killed Abdullah Abd al-Wahid, the bodyguard of senior Hamas official Bassem Naim, as he attempted to rescue the wounded. The fourth and fifth attacks directly hit al-Hayya’s family home, wounding family members, while the sixth targeted the Qatari special security unit guarding the compound. By 3:51 p.m., Hamas’s security chief ordered the activation of an emergency evacuation plan. The leaders were evacuated separately via emergency vehicles to secure sites, and the wounded were taken to hospitals. Once all were accounted for, Hamas began coordinating its media response to prevent “public panic.” The targeted compound lies in Doha’s sensitive diplomatic district, within several hundred meters of multiple foreign embassies. Several Hamas offices are located nearby. Construction of the complex began in 2021 and was completed in 2023, with Hamas taking occupancy in 2024. The site includes five villas, a service building, Khalil al-Hayya’s office and residence, Hamas’s main headquarters, facilities for Qatari security forces, and an emergency operations area. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The Israeli Air Force recently targeted underground Hezbollah facilities used for weapons storage in southern Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa Valley, the military says.

ITS TIME FOR TERM LIMITS: Mitch McConnell takes a bad fall in the Russell basement while being questioned by reporters. He has fallen multiple times this year.

Turkey has deployed 81 disaster relief experts to Gaza, including a team specifically tasked with locating the 19 missing hostages, a Turkish defense official says.

Families of freed Israeli hostages received letters written under Hamas’s orders while their loved ones were still in captivity — documents that Israeli officials now believe were part of a calculated propaganda effort, not an act of mercy. The letters were reportedly written by Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel, both released Monday after spending more than two years in Hamas tunnels. The men were forced by their captors to pen the notes, which were later delivered to their families through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Gilboa-Dalal’s father, Ilan Dalal, said the letter was hauntingly composed — neat handwriting, calm tone, and a heartbreaking message: his son hoped to be home before his sister’s 18th birthday in December. “I saw Gal and Eli together in a TV report with our shirts on,” the letter read. “I don’t stop thinking about you, and thoughts of you give me strength.” His family said the letter briefly lifted their hopes — a cruel illusion, they now realize, orchestrated by Hamas to project control and stability. “They wanted to show the world the hostages were fine, when in truth they were being terrorized underground,” one Israeli official told Politico. Ohel’s letter, reportedly written around the same time, spoke of his longing for family and his determination to survive “the horrors” of captivity. Intelligence officials believe the letters were written in late August, coinciding with Israel’s renewed military campaign in Gaza City. By allowing contact with the ICRC then, Hamas may have sought to signal that Israeli hostages were being held in active combat zones, effectively using them as human shields to deter strikes. The revelation adds to growing evidence that Hamas manipulated every fragment of communication during the hostages’ ordeal — leveraging even moments of hope as psychological warfare. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Passengers on a Blue Bird Airways flight from Barcelona to Tel Aviv were stunned this week when one traveler discovered the word “Palestine” scrawled on their suitcase by ground staff at Barcelona Airport. Blue Bird, an Israeli-owned carrier that continued flying to Israel throughout the war, condemned the act as “a serious incident” and said it had filed a formal complaint with the Spanish ground services company responsible. “We wish to express our sincere apologies to the passengers and emphasize our commitment to Israeli customers,” the airline said in a statement. The episode follows a string of recent antisemitic incidents targeting Jewish travelers. In August, the watchdog group StopAntisemitism reported that a Jewish passenger on a JetBlue flight received a kosher meal labeled “Zionazi,” a slur combining “Zionist” and “Nazi.” On another flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires, kosher meals arrived bearing handwritten “Free Palestine” messages. Jewish organizations have urged airlines and airports to tighten oversight of catering and baggage handling, warning that such incidents risk normalizing open hostility toward Israeli and Jewish passengers. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

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Hundreds gathered to welcome freed hostage Eitan Horen home following his release from the hospital.

Q: “A lot of individuals in this city pay more than 50% of their income in taxes…. What is a fair share?” MAMDANI: “I’ve said that we should increase personal income tax by 2%.” Q: “So 52% is fair? More than half your income?”

Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhala has arrived at the Marriott Hotel in Cairo to attend a reception honoring Palestinian security prisoners deported to Egypt.

The Houthis have appointed Youssef al-Madani as their new chief of staff.  

Three days after his release from Hamas captivity, Eitan Horen has been discharged from the hospital.

On returning the bodies of Gaza abductees, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said: “No one will be left behind. We will find them.” He noted that two Americans remain among those who did not survive.

IDF Chief of Staff Zamir announced that the military will form a committee to review and decide whether soldiers should be awarded citations for their actions during the October 7 attacks and the subsequent war.

Marking the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, massacre, the IDF has released a new image showing senior commanders standing over the body of Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in a chance encounter with Israeli troops in Rafah exactly one year earlier. The photo, taken on October 17, 2024, shows former Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, former Operations Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, and Gaza Division chief Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram. It is part of a collection of iconic wartime images captured by combat photographers, which will be displayed in an exhibition at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv starting Sunday.

The National Center for Forensic Medicine, working alongside the Israel Police and Military Rabbinate, gas has confirmed the identities of Inbar Heyman hy”d, 27, of Haifa, and Sgt. Maj. Muhammad al-Atrash, 39, of the al-Atrash Bedouin tribe. Both were abducted during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, and were returned tonight by Hamas.