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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-07-05 at 18:01
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- Jul 5, 2026
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HEADLINES - Hamas Bribes Drive Gaza Evacuations - Edelstein and Lapid Unite on Israel's Future - West Bank Hotels Get 27 Million NIS The time is now 6:01 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Hamas officials have been taking bribes to put healthy Gazans on emergency medical evacuation lists, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. The Telegraph cited unproven testimonies from Gazans with ill or injured family members, saying Hamas is taking bribes from healthy individuals to get on the medical evacuation list. Gazans with family members on the list claim the bribes are corrupting the system through which people leave the strip to receive medical treatment overseas. The report alleged that some Gazans who are healthy have obtained forged medical documents claiming they are severely injured or ill in order to be evacuated from Gaza. In some testimonies, families with genuinely sick relatives said their loved ones were moved up in the queue after their relatives bribed Hamas officials. Notably, health authorities in Gaza are run by Hamas, meaning the organization making the list for medical evacuation is inherently biased and corrupt. Additionally, in the early days of the Israel-Hamas War, reports emerged that Gazans bribed Hamas and guards at the Egyptian border to escape Gaza. In Israeli Domestic Politics, Channel 12’s Meet the Press interviews with MK Yuli Edelstein and Yair Lapid show convergence on core national issues. Edelstein, who spent decades in Likud before leaving to pursue a new political path, and Lapid, long seen as a rival of Prime Minister Netanyahu, were highlighted not for disagreement but for common ground. Both argued that October 7 fundamentally changed…