Hamas cease-fire counteroffer: Let us survive
Hamas on May 31 announced it had 'responded to' the latest ceasefire proposal from US envoy Steve Witkoff, apparently seeking assurances that Israel won't simply go back to eliminating it when the 60-day pause is up.
Reality check: The terrorists are only talking because they're losing, badly — losing whatever support they had from ordinary Gazans as well as militarily. NY Post editorial page editor Mark Cunningham shares this story.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urges Zohran Mamdani to denounce 'globalize the intifada' rhetoric
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., called on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to denounce the phrase "globalize the Intifada" during a heated exchange with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer on Thursday. Gillibrand urged Mamdani to unequivocally denounce the phrase — which she argues is received by the public as a call to "slaughter the Jews" — after a caller accused the candidate of glorifying Hamas and the violent attacks associated with the intifada terrorism campaign launched against Israel in the 1990s. "The caller is exactly the New York constituents that I've spoken to that are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements. They are alarmed by past positions, particularly references to global jihad," she said. "This is a very serious issue because people that glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities. The global intifada is a statement that means destroy Israel and kill all the Jews." The New York senator then called on Mamdani to assure all New Yorkers that "he will protect all Jews and protect houses of worship and protect funding for not-for-profits that meet the needs of these communities." Lehrer pushed back on her insinuation that Mamdani had called for a "global intifada," asking if she doubted his prior statements committing to protecting Jewish people in New York City. "One of the issues I did talk to him about yesterday was exactly this issue, and he has agreed to work with me on this and to protect all residents," Gillibrand replied. After their conversation about Mamdani was briefly derailed by another caller's question, Lehrer jumped right back into their discussion once the Senator finished her response. "On Mamdani, I just feel compelled to say we can find no evidence that he has supported Hamas or has supported violent jihad, as that caller was asserting. Can you?" he questioned. Gillibrand asserted that while she doesn't have "all the data and information" in front of her, she did recall Mamdani referencing "global intifada," and noted that she had requested an in-person meeting with the mayoral hopeful to discuss these issues. The radio host pushed back on the senator once again, claiming that Mamdani clarified to him on his show on Monday that calls for a global intifada "are not calls for violence because intifada is a much broader term involving all kinds of uprisings and resistance and things like that." "Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply say that is not how the words are received," she countered. "It doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain. It is not how the word is received. When you use a word like intifada — to many Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are permissive of violence against Jews." The two continued their back and forth before Gillibrand left listeners with one final message for Mamdani. "If you talk to any group, you talk to our LGBTQ community, you talk to our Black community, you talk to our Hispanic community, there are words and there are imagery and there are things that are said that they will hear it and feel it as a dagger to their throat. If you want to be a leader, you have to recognize how these things are felt and received," she contended. "Saying there should be no word police is irresponsible, because, as a leader, you have to protect everyone. Period," Gillibrand added. Fox News Digital reached out to representatives of Mamdani for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
CBS News
an hour ago
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Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as Trump says ceasefire possible "next week"
What is the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 60 people from Friday into Saturday morning, officials with the Hamas-run health ministry said. Among those killed were 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, according to staff at Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought, the Associated Press reported. More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to health officials. A strike midday Saturday killed 11 people on a street in eastern Gaza City, and their bodies were taken to Al-Ahli Hospital. Palestinians look at the sand covering their tents and vehicles after the Israeli army targeted the tents of displaced people in the northern Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images The strikes come as President Trump on Friday said there could be a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas within the next week. "I think it's close," Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the prospect of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. "We think within the next week, we're going to get a ceasefire." Israel and Hamas have not publicly commented on the status of any potential agreement. The Trump administration has pushed for a pause in fighting since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January. However, a deal has proven elusive so far. Talks have been on again, off again since Israel broke the latest ceasefire in March, continuing its military campaign in Gaza and furthering the Strip's dire humanitarian crisis. Late last month, Mr. Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff proposed a 60-day ceasefire. Under that proposal, Hamas would release 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 dead hostages who were taken to Gaza during Hamas' 2023 attack on Israel, according to a copy obtained by CBS News. Israel would release 125 "life sentence" prisoners, 1,111 Palestinian detainees and 180 deceased Palestinians as part of the deal. Palestinians carry humanitarian aid packages distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Abdel Kareem Hana / AP Israel supported that proposal, but Hamas said it responded with "some notes and amendments." Witkoff called the response from Hamas "totally unacceptable" in a May 31 post on X. An official with knowledge of the situation told the AP that Israel's Minister for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, will arrive in Washington next week for talks on Gaza's ceasefire, Iran and other subjects. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Some 50 hostages remain in Gaza, fewer than half of them believed to still be alive. They were part of some 250 hostages taken when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, sparking the 21-month-long war. The war has killed over 56,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. It says more than half of the dead were women and children. There is hope among hostage families that Trump's involvement in securing the recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran might exert more pressure for a deal in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is riding a wave of public support for the Iran war and its achievements, and he could feel he has more space to move toward ending the war in Gaza, something his far-right governing partners oppose. Hamas has repeatedly said it is prepared to free all the hostages in exchange for an end to the war in Gaza. Netanyahu says he will only end the war once Hamas is disarmed and exiled, something the group has rejected. Palestinians try to meet their daily water needs by filling jerry cans from water tankers brought into the area in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images Meanwhile, hungry Palestinians are enduring a catastrophic situation in Gaza. After blocking all food for 2 1/2 months, Israel has allowed only a trickle of supplies into the territory since mid-May. Efforts by the United Nations to distribute the food have been plagued by armed gangs looting trucks and by crowds of desperate people offloading supplies from convoys. Palestinians have also been shot and wounded while on their way to get food at newly formed aid sites, run by the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to Gaza's health officials and witnesses. Palestinian witnesses say Israeli troops have opened fire at crowds on the roads heading toward the sites. Israel's military said it was investigating incidents in which civilians had been harmed while approaching the sites.
Yahoo
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At least 60 killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza, health staff say
At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza, health staff have said. A dozen people were killed near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, along with eight more living in apartments, according to staff at Shifa hospital, where the bodies were brought. Six others were killed in southern Gaza when a strike hit their tent in Muwasi, according to the hospital. Follow latest: The strikes, which began late on Friday and continued into Saturday morning, came as US President Donald Trump said there could be a ceasefire agreement within the next week. "We're working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of," he told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. Ron Dermer, Israel's minister for strategic affairs, will arrive in Washington next week for talks on Gaza's ceasefire, Iran and other subjects, an official told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The last ceasefire ended . The war in Gaza was sparked after Hamas launched its attack on Israel in October 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 people. Some 50 hostages remain in Gaza, with fewer than half of them still believed to be alive. More than 56,000 Palestinians have been killed during the war, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Read more from Sky News: The UN has also warned that , with Israel allowing a trickle of supplies into the territory since mid-May after blocking all food for more than two months. Palestinians have been shot at and killed while on their way to get food at aid sites, according to Gaza's health officials and witnesses. Israel's military said it was investigating incidents in which civilians had been harmed while approaching the sites.
