ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
IDF planned, then nixed, raid to free captives in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
Ariel Kahana
June 4, 2024

A group of captives taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 was kept in the first week of the war in the Shifa Hospital compound in the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom has learned. Following this information, the IDF planned a large-scale operation to rescue them, but IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi ultimately chose not to give the order. This information is part of a new book by Ido Norden, an officer who served in the “Pit” at the Kirya – the epicenter of the decision-making operation in the bunker underneath the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv – and was exposed to real-time information…The operation was supposed to involve the IDF’s most elite units in very large orders of battle. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Rich Goldberg: As Hezbollah escalates attacks at Iran’s behest, Israel must stop an ‘unsustainable’ assault Iran’s multi-front war on Israel escalated this week as Tehran’s flagship terrorist proxy rained down missiles and drones on northern Israeli towns, killing an Israeli soldier, leaving more wounded and igniting massive wildfires. While President Biden is squeezing Israel to surrender to Iran on all fronts, northern Israel is burning with the rest of the country in existential danger. “Whoever thinks that they can harm us and we will sit idly by is making a big mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. “We are prepared for a very strong action in the north.” Israel must fight back, and Americans should understand why.