3 hostages per week for 6 weeks in return for an immediate withdrawal of all Israeli forces and a full end to the war.
In other words: 18 hostages, some of whom might be dead, and 114 who would never be returned.
This was not a minor change that could possibly be construed as testing which terms would be acceptable. This was a deliberate attempt to sabotage negotiations and produce a headline of "Hamas agrees to ceasefire" to avoid US pressure on Qatar to kick out Hamas leadership.
.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don't have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.
But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.
Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.
Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring "26 variables ought to be enough for anyone".
Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.
They started from XML. There's nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.
FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface
Friends don't let friends use Java 😜
Whoosh
Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.
All in the name of "configurability" through dependency injection.
Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they're spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.
Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.
AP decided this was not headline worthy:
Concerns still loom large — the pier was attacked Wednesday, the U.N. official said, as four high-ranking U.N. officials were visiting the site. The military said the mortar fire from Gaza militants forced the officials to take shelter, but no one was killed or harmed.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-aid-port-eb8a701b3a7dc8f946422c04323ff913
IDI are vocal in their criticism of Netanyahu, but their statistical methods tend to hold up. They answer your question pretty succinctly:
We found that a very large majority of the total sample (89%) think that Hamas bears a great deal of responsibility for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
And also:
we asked: “Given the current circumstances, is Israel’s leadership is doing its utmost to secure the release of the hostages?” We found that slightly more than half of the Jewish respondents think or are certain that the leadership is doing all it can to bring the hostages home. Only a small minority of Arab respondents concur.
That is legitimately one of the most level-headed replies I've read here in the last few months. Kudos.
Two things I want to add:
- one of the two IRGC generals killed helped plan October 7th - one of the semi-official war goals is to kill every person who was involved
- Ignore the amount intercepted - that's not what matters for geopolitics. An equivalent escalation would mean Israel responding with 15,000 ballistic missiles and 30,000 suicide drones
Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.
It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.
Sirens and booms heard throughout country; Israel, US and Jordan down Iranian projectiles en route to Jewish state; Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthis attack simultaneously
> Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft.
! > Footage of the Iranian attack over Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif
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I can see why you called it pretzel
Plover-net perhaps?
Do you remember the area code?
$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.
Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.
Used by search engines for listing which pages should be indexed.
!a picture of the full cake with 6 candles and a fondant rainbow decoration
Two 8" layers, following Sugarologie's cakeulator
The edges came out a little overdone, but not bad for my first homemade cake
The UK government is "appalled" by allegations UNRWA staff were involved in 7 October attacks.
> "The UK is appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned," the UK Foreign Office said in a statement. > > "The UK is temporarily pausing any future funding of UNWRA whilst we review these concerning allegations," it added.
> The decision follows allegations that some UNRWA workers were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel carried out by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The [actual tweet][x]:
>The Italian government suspended funding @UNRWA after the atrocious attack by Hamas against Israel on 7 October. Allied countries have recently made the same decision. We are committed to humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian population, protecting Israel's security.
[x]: https://twitter.com/Antonio_Tajani/status/1751168542790009207
Other coverage of Italy's responses to the revelation that at least 12 UNRWA employees actively participated and used UNRWA facilities and vehicles in the staging and immediate aftermath of October 7th:
- [Times of Israel][toi]
- [Jerusalem Post][jpost]
- [Al Arabiya][al-arabiya]
- [Politico][politico]
- [Times of India][times-of-india]
[AP has more background][ap], but hasn't picked up on Italy yet.
[toi]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/italy-joins-countries-suspending-financing-for-unrwa/ [jpost]: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783950 [al-arabiya]: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/01/27/Australia-Canada-suspend-UNRWA-funding-after-Israeli-allegations [politico]: https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-canada-australia-united-states-funding-unrwa-united-nations-hamas-israel/ [times-of-india]: https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/italy-suspends-financing-for-unrwa-foreign-minister-antonio-tajani/articleshow/107185034.cms [ap]: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-26-2024-2cd0b3c7b7efe5f0dfc03346e86b773b
Exclusive: The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the "coming days," two U.S. officials tell ABC News.
> The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it was sent just after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, in the "coming days," two U.S. officials tell ABC News. > > A senior U.S. official and a U.S. official told ABC News that in the "coming days," the carrier and other surface ships that make up the strike group will return to the carrier's home port of Norfolk, Virginia, as originally scheduled so it could prepare for future deployments.
> Iran already has enough uranium enriched to up to 60%, if enriched further, to make three nuclear bombs, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency's theoretical definition, and more at lower enrichment levels. Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons. > > Iran is enriching to up to 60%, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, at its Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) in its sprawling Natanz complex and at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), which is dug into a mountain. > > "The Agency confirms that, since the end of November 2023, the rate at which Iran has been producing uranium enriched up to 60% U-235 at these two facilities combined has increased to approximately 9 kg per month," the report to member states said.
Critical mass for [U-235 is 56kg][wiki-u235], and fuel grade Uranium is between 3-5%.
There are no legitimate non-weapons applications of [Uranium enriched][wiki-enriched] above 20%.
[wiki-u235]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235 [wiki-enriched]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium
> This talk is sort of a sequel to [“Dancing Links”, the Christmas Lecture of 2018][yt], because there have been surprising new developments since then—stimulated by the work of Christine Solnon at INSA de Lyon. > > When a computer program explores a large space of possibilities, it needs good data structures that are able to undo every tentative decision that has been made, thereby allowing new decisions to take their place. > > The dancing links idea is a simple modification of a 60-year-old method (doubly linked lists), which is particularly suited to undoing. As a result, algorithms based on dancing links have become the method of choice for exploring the set of solutions to a huge variety of combinatorial problems. > > The dancing cells idea, similarly, is a simple modification of a 30-year-old method (sparse-set representation), and it provides efficient support for that same wide class of applications. Indeed, programs based on dancing cells often turn out to be significantly faster than the analogous programs based on dancing links. And again, there is exquisite choreography!
[yt]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cR9zDlvP88
Both men and women were assaulted, according to testimony, which seems to confirm comments made during heated meeting between Netanyahu and released captives and hostages' families
> At least 10 of the Israeli civilians released by Hamas, both men and women, were sexually assaulted or abused while in captivity, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. > > In a report detailing allegations of severe and widespread sexual abuse by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 onslaught and later against hostages, a doctor who treated some of the 110 hostages released from captivity told the AP that at least 10 men and women among those freed were sexually assaulted or abused.
Original AP article that reports this where it's buried in the last section right before the end of the article.
Red Cross officials have not yet been allowed to visit hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza, multiple sources have told CNN – a violation of an agreement struck between Israel and Hamas, which stipulated that the Red Cross would be able to visit the hostages by the end of the fourth day of the tru...
> Red Cross officials have not yet been allowed to visit hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza, multiple sources have told CNN – a violation of an agreement struck between Israel and Hamas, which stipulated that the Red Cross would be able to visit the hostages by the end of the fourth day of the truce. > > US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said over the weekend that as a part of the Israel-Hamas truce agreement, Red Cross officials would be able to visit hostages still held captive in Gaza “by the end of the fourth day.” Another source familiar with the terms of the agreement echoed that this was an aspect of the deal.
There are also more than 30 hostages being held by other groups, and several of the hostages who were captured by Hamas are no longer being held by Hamas, and some others who were captured by PIJ were released by Hamas.
Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American dual citizen abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been released – marking the first successful release of an American hostage since the start of a truce between Israel and Hamas. Edan is one of the 17 hostages released Sunday.
> Biden said the girl “has been through a terrible trauma.” Her mother was killed in front of her, the president said. She then ran to her father, Biden said, who used his body to shield his daughter and was killed.
> No Americans were released as part of the deal on Friday or Saturday. There are 10 Americans who are unaccounted for at this time.
> “We do believe that Hamas has obliged to maintain its part of the commitment on Red Cross visitation of the hostages and we expect Qatar and Egypt and other countries to hold Hamas accountable to hold that commitment by the end of tomorrow,” Sullivan said.
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for a four-day halt to the devastating war in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group as well as Palestinian prisoners.
> Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for a four-day halt to the devastating war in Gaza, accompanied by the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group in return for Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel, mediators said Wednesday.
> Fifty hostages will be released in stages, in exchange for what Hamas said would be 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
'There was a part I wasn't to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot,' says physician, describing an atmosphere of 'collective paranoia' and 'genuine fear' of Hamas
> A British doctor who used to work at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, under which the IDF says Hamas operates a major command and control base, has confirmed that there were areas of the hospital where he could not go, or else he would be shot. > > In a recent interview with the English-language channel of French broadcaster France24...
The BBC enters hospital with Israeli forces and views small cache of weapons and other items they say were found there.
> In the brightly lit corridors of the MRI unit, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus shows us three small stashes of Kalashnikovs, ammunition and bullet-proof vests - he says they have found around 15 guns in all, along with some grenades.
> The laptops, he says, contain photos and videos of hostages, taken after their kidnap to Gaza. There is also recently released footage, shared by Israeli police, of their interrogations of Hamas fighters arrested after the October attacks. The BBC was not shown what was on the laptops.
Israeli reports are showing images of the laptop open with images of a hostage - with footage attributed to Fox News (the other international news outlet who were escorted through Al-Shifa).
EDIT: the images appear to be from before October 7th per [Times of Israel][toi].
[toi]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-has-clear-information-linking-shifa-hospital-to-hamas-held-hostages/
Terrorists killed after opening fire at 'tunnels' checkpoint on Route 60; police: Axes, guns, ammo, IDF uniform found in their car; police chief: They planned large-scale 'massacre'
> Six people were wounded, including one critically, in a Palestinian terrorist shooting attack targeting the “tunnels” checkpoint on the West Bank’s Route 60, south of Jerusalem, police and medics said Thursday morning.
> Police said the car in which the terrorists arrived had false license plates, and identified two of them as Palestinians from the Hebron area. The Shin Bet security agency later named the two as Hamas member Abdelqader Qawasmeh, 26, and 28-year-old Hassan Qafisha, who is affilated with Hamas and whose father was the head of the terror group’s military arm in Hebron until he was killed in 2003. The identity of the third gunman was still under investigation.
> Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, who arrived at the scene, said this indicated that they had planned a much larger-scale terror “massacre” inside Jerusalem.
> Amid the exchange of fire, the IDF says civilians were seen leaving the hospital, and other operatives came out of adjacent buildings and hid among them to attack the Israeli forces.
> The military releases footage of the battle that appears to show RPG-wielding terrorists running into the hospital.
> The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it. > > Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.
IDF informs civilians another humanitarian corridor opened, urging them to relocate away from fighting zones for their safety; 'If you care for yourselves and your loved ones, move south,' IDF Arabic spokesperson says
> The IDF Arabic spokesperson posted images of the civilians evacuating and announced an additional humanitarian corridor, supplementing the one recently established, which will be open for Gazans wishing to relocate southward until 2pm local time. > >"Use this opportunity to go south to the other side of Wadi Gaza," he said, referring to the body of water that delineates the southern and northern parts of the Palestinian territory. "Many are doing so at this time. If you care for yourselves and your loved ones, move south according to our instructions. You can be sure Hamas leaders have already taken care of their own needs."
Federation says pro-Palestinian demonstrator hit victim in head with megaphone; local rabbi says there are conflicting reports of what unfolded, cops don't have footage of attack
> “An autopsy was performed on November 6th and the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide.”
"You will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke - come on, we are waiting for you," Palestinian political activist Ahed Tamimi said.
Her Instagram post, translated in the link:
> “Come on settlers, we will slaughter you. We are waiting for you in all the cities of the West Bank. What Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls”
She has since been arrested:
Military says Hamas took advantage of announcement of evacuation window to launch mortars and anti-tank missiles at soldiers; none hurt
> The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday accused the Hamas terror group of attacking Israeli troops working to open up a humanitarian corridor for Palestinians to evacuate from northern Gaza to its south.
> The military has for weeks been urging northern Gaza residents to evacuate southward, warning them it will be focusing its military efforts on the Gaza City area, the heart of Hamas’s rule and its main base of operations in Gaza. At least 800,000 of some one million residents of the area have done so.