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SECURITY: Gaza Ceasefire Deal At Risk, Israel Shifts Focus To Yemen

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An emerging agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza is again at risk after Hamas accused Israel of changing the parameters of the deal and Israel claimed Hamas refused to supply a list of surviving hostages. 

  • Walla News reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after the Israeli negotiating team returned from talks in Qatar, "it would not be possible to reach a [ceasefire deal] in Gaza without receiving from Hamas a list of the names of the surviving hostages that the organization is willing to release in the first phase of the deal, according to two sources familiar with the details."
  • Netanyahu: "We are unable to get names out of Hamas and I am not willing to enter into a deal without knowing what I am making a deal about and who I am going to get back," 
  • The Times of Israel reports: "[Netanyahu] warned that Israel would act against the Houthis [rebels in Yemen] with the same force it used against Iran’s other “terrorist arms,”" following a series of Houthi ballistic missile strikes on central Israel.
  • An Israeli official told the Times of Israel: “Today, when we have a ceasefire in Lebanon and less intense fighting in Gaza. We now have the opportunity to shift our attention and resources toward [Yemen]... We are also formulating a response alongside our allies led by the United States, and when the time comes, we will make sure that the Houthi forces pay.”
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An emerging agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza is again at risk after Hamas accused Israel of changing the parameters of the deal and Israel claimed Hamas refused to supply a list of surviving hostages. 

  • Walla News reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after the Israeli negotiating team returned from talks in Qatar, "it would not be possible to reach a [ceasefire deal] in Gaza without receiving from Hamas a list of the names of the surviving hostages that the organization is willing to release in the first phase of the deal, according to two sources familiar with the details."
  • Netanyahu: "We are unable to get names out of Hamas and I am not willing to enter into a deal without knowing what I am making a deal about and who I am going to get back," 
  • The Times of Israel reports: "[Netanyahu] warned that Israel would act against the Houthis [rebels in Yemen] with the same force it used against Iran’s other “terrorist arms,”" following a series of Houthi ballistic missile strikes on central Israel.
  • An Israeli official told the Times of Israel: “Today, when we have a ceasefire in Lebanon and less intense fighting in Gaza. We now have the opportunity to shift our attention and resources toward [Yemen]... We are also formulating a response alongside our allies led by the United States, and when the time comes, we will make sure that the Houthi forces pay.”