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Oct 7, 2023 atrocities, the thousands of "Palestinian" Arab Muslim barbarian (Hamas/PIJ, PFLP & ordinary Gazans) onslaught on southern Israel - under Allah Akbar cries: massacring youth at a festival, torching families alive at their homes, suffocating shelters with people in them, mass torture, mass rape - some even post mortem - all while laughing, slaughtering children in front of their parents - parents in front of their children, beheading babies, dismembering bodies, kidnapping kids, men women into Gaza while parading them to cheers of other racist Arab masses. It led to operation Swords of Iron. This is part 1. Sources published from Jan 7, 2024 - three months since Oct 7 massacres continue at Swords_of_Iron:_sources_II Part 2

Notes Part I

Swords of Iron - Real Time Updates

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Shin Bet and IDF: to continue economic operations for Gaza. In the discussion with the political echelon, the top brass pushed for an increase in the number of workers from the Gaza Strip

Gili Cohen, 00:42 | October 2, 2023

The message of the Shin Bet and the IDF to the political level: in order to preserve peace in the Gaza Strip - economic operations for Gaza must continue. In a security discussion held yesterday (Sunday) by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with the Minister of Defense and the heads of the security branches, they discussed security challenges in all arenas - with an emphasis on Iran.

One of the topics that came up in the discussion is the increase of workers from Gaza. Within the security elite there are factors pushing for this, and there is also pressure from Egypt, Qatar and the UN to act on the issue. The move is expected to be viewed positively - when there is a stable relaxation at the border. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who was not invited to the discussion, opposes increasing the number of workers. Kan News

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'Top secret' Hamas documents show that terrorists intentionally targeted elementary schools and a youth center Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.

Hamas maps of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, and Alumim recovered from the bodies of Hamas by Israeli first responders. A Hamas map recovered from the body of a Hamas militants by Israeli first responders. Obtained by NBC News

Oct. 13, 2023, 5:15 PM EDT By Anna Schecter NBC _

Hamas terrorists were ordered to target Israeli schools, ‘kill as many people as possible’ in sneak attack plans: report. By Katherine Donlevy. Published Oct. 13, 2023 NY Post _

Kill As Many, Take Hostages, Hamas Told In "Top Secret" Document: Report. The attack plans seem to be orders for two trained Hamas units to surround and infiltrate villages and target places where civilians gather. Updated : October 14, 2023 4:57 pm IST NDTV

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Hamas Fighters’ Orders: ‘Kill as Many People as Possible.’ Documents found on dead militants in Israel indicate massacres were a central objective. By Dov Lieber and David S. Cloud Oct. 14, 2023 3:04 pm ET

TEL AVIV—Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible.

Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.

The similarity of the orders given to attack teams, along with videos posted by the attackers themselves, eyewitness testimony, and the scale of civilian killings in multiple locations—at least 1,000 in total—suggest that the massacre wasn’t a byproduct of the attack but a central objective.

A Hamas squad that attacked the farming community of Alumim in southern Israel, was directed to “achieve the highest level of human losses” and then take hostages, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal and which an Israeli official said were authentic.

Orders carried by militants sent to attack Sa’ad, a 670-person collective farming community, instructed them to “to take control of the kibbutz, kill as many individuals as possible, and capture hostages until receiving further instructions.”

The documents are at odds with assertions by Hamas officials that militants had been told not to kill women and children. The group, designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel and others, has blamed civilian deaths on armed Palestinians unaffiliated with Hamas who joined the attack.

“Hamas’s strategy behind this attack was very clear: they were on a mission to hurt and murder as many innocent civilians as possible,” said Tal Heinrich, a spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to “maps and documents found on the bodies of Hamas terrorists.”

The documents and maps—retrieved in areas where attackers were killed by local defenders or Israeli soldiers—indicate that Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, had amassed significant intelligence about its targets and had developed detailed plans for assaulting them.

Rescue workers, soldiers and residents have collected a trove of such documents from the bodies of dead militants.

Israeli officials said they suspect that attackers who entered communities first tried to kill as many people as possible to limit the threat of a counterattack, then took hostage those who were still alive.

One striking similarity among the plans: Attackers were told to herd hostages into kibbutz dining halls before taking them back to Gaza, something that occurred in the town of Be’eri, where dozens of residents held in its dining facility were eventually rescued by Israeli troops.

The attackers dispatched to Sa’ad, another kibbutz nearby, carried maps showing its security fence and other defenses. Orders also noted the residents’ volunteer guard force was armed and could be reinforced by Israeli army units stationed nearby.

A map showed an aerial view of the kibbutz, identifying locations along the fence line where two teams of fighters were supposed to enter the kibbutz. The attack plan also warned militants that “guards are on regular shifts, and the kibbutz surveils the surrounding area via cameras.”

The dining hall could be a place for “holding hostages,” the plan said, adding that the medical clinic could serve as “a first aid center for friends and foes.”

In Kfar Aza, across the road from Sa’ad, around 70 fighters from Hamas killed dozens of members of the 700-strong community. Officials said they found the mutilated bodies of women and children scattered across the kibbutz. Some residents, Israeli soldiers said, had been decapitated.

In Alumim, down the road from Sa’ad, the local protection force fought back against dozens of Hamas attackers, and with military help, killed around 20, preventing deaths on the scale witnessed in other nearby communities, said Tzvika Blumstein, a manager of the kibbutz.

But the Hamas attackers did reach the dorms of Thai and Nepalese laborers working for the kibbutz, who lived closest to the breached areas. There, they immediately killed some of the workers in their beds, according to Blumstein.

Others were taken to a different location, had their hands bound before being executed, said Blumstein. In total, the Hamas attackers killed 16 workers living on the kibbutz. “It was a massacre,” said Blumstein.

The Journal on Wednesday also reported on a 14-page document labeled “top secret” in Arabic and dated June 15, 2023 that describes a plan for infiltrating Mefalsim, a kibbutz near Gaza, and taking residents hostage.

Two teams of five and a commander would carry out the operation on “Hour S, Day Y,” it reads. Maps and aerial pictures of the town were contained in the document, which says there were 1,000 “civilians” guarded by a volunteer security force.

Members of the assault team were designated to open holes in a security fence, while others were to provide “artillery” fire, the document says. Once inside, the force would take prisoners and hold them at the dining hall as hostages “for negotiations,” the plan reads.

Video of the attack from a surveillance camera near Mefalsim’s front gate shows that attackers began gunning down residents as soon as they arrived.

The video was posted Saturday by South First Responders, a group of emergency personnel working in southern Israel, and verified by the Journal. In the footage, a man dressed in a white shirt running on the sidewalk grabs his right arm and drops onto the pavement, blood leaking from his head.

Within minutes, armed fighters can be seen emerging from a wooded area in ones and twos. Several run over to him and shoot him again. Residents who have abandoned their cars to hide in the bushes are attacked with grenades. One is pulled from the bushes and repeatedly shot and bludgeoned. WSJ

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Israeli video compilation shows the savagery and ease of Hamas' attack. Associated Press.

Published: October 17, 2023 at 2:21 AM Ksat

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Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims. By Aaron Poris/The Media Line . Published: October 20, 2023 07:34 Updated: October 20, 2023 14:48

Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them.

Stifling the urge to retch became a difficult task as I walked through the lower levels of Israel’s National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel Aviv. The smell of rotting human remains, much of which was completely unrecognizable as human due to the brutality of the attack, was at times too much to bear.

In light of the growing international interest in (and denials of) the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, representatives of the global press were invited to see the horrors for themselves.

Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them. Despite every effort to remain objective and detached—as called for by the profession—many broke down into tears throughout the day.

During the initial press conference, the forensics team showed images from their investigations. Among the images were those of charred hands with marks that revealed where the victims’ hands were bound behind their backs with metal wire before being burned alive.

Perhaps the most disturbing image in the slideshow was a completely charred mass of flesh, which at first glance could not be seen as ever having belonged to a human. It was only after a CT scan was done that experts could see the inhumanity of the image.

Two spinal cords—one belonging to an adult, one to someone young—a parent and child bound together by metal wires in a final embrace before being set alight.

“When you do this job downstairs, you get detached,” Dr. Chen Kugel, the head of Abu Kabir, told The Media Line. “But then you learn the stories and connect to the people. It’s hard not to feel the tragedy. It’s so big. And when I go to the Shura camp [where deceased bodies in Israel are first collected] and see containers like you’d see at the port—but they’re all full of bodies… And you hear the stories—that behind their charred bodies, something terrible happened—it’s very difficult. I’ve seen many things in my 31-year career, but the magnitude and the cruelty [here] is terrible,” Kugel added.

“The proportion of bodies we’ve received who are charred is high,” Kugel explained. “Many have gunshot wounds in their hands, showing they put their hands up to their faces in defense. Many were burned alive in their homes. … We know they were burned alive because there is soot in their trachea, their throats—meaning they were still breathing when set on fire.”

Victims likely died from carbon dioxide, soot inhalation

The single mercy, Kugel said—if there is one to be found—is that the burned victims likely died from carbon dioxide and soot inhalation before the fire killed them.

Kugel also explained that the age range of the victims spans from 3 months to 80 or 90 years old. Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads.

Asked if they were decapitated, Kugel answered yes. Although he admits that, given the circumstances, it’s difficult to ascertain whether they were decapitated before or after death, as well as how they were beheaded, “whether cut off by knife or blown off by RPG,” he explained.

Kugel was far from the only one who got emotional when discussing the evident travesty. “We disassociate because we need to work, but from time to time it gets to you,” Dr. Nurit Bublil, head of Abu Kabir’s DNA laboratory, told The Media Line.

“Yesterday, I opened evidence from a house in a southern kibbutz, and there was a popular recipe book covered in blood. … I have this same book, and it makes you take a moment and think, it could have been my kitchen, my children, my parents, me. You can’t avoid it,” she said.

Additionally, Israel’s small population gives rise to the fact that no one is far removed from the wake of the massacre. “My sister has a close friend of hers who is still missing,” said Bublil, as she stood beside a blood-stained mattress from a baby’s crib. The DNA from the mattress will be used to try and identify a brutally disfigured and unaccounted-for infant.

“I got the message today from my neighbor,” Bublil continued. “She asked if I could help because her good friend’s husband, father, two nephews, and father-in-law’s wife were all murdered too and have yet to be identified.”

This is the crux of the forensic pathology center’s current mission in which roughly 200 experts are participating. Forensic pathologists, anthropologists, radiologists, and more from Israel as well as from the US, Switzerland, New Zealand, and elsewhere around the world have come not simply to determine the victims’ causes of death but to identify the bodies for burial.

Fighting back tears, Israeli forensic pathologist Dr. Hagar Mizrahi explained that “as you know, the Jewish people must bury their dead as soon as possible.” But as of this writing, nearly two weeks have passed since the massacre, and some 350 bodies remain unidentified. “So, the people here at Abu Kabir are doing their best to help and identify the most severe cases that arrive.”

Identifying bodies

Four places around the country are currently working to identify and release bodies for burial.

The Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem is handling all the antemortem samples and personal items for DNA comparisons. The Israel Defense Forces is working on 1-1 DNA comparisons using their data on soldiers, including fingerprints, dental records, and DNA. In addition, Abu Kabir is working to collect DNA samples and identification for the most severe cases. It’s also where all the DNA samples from other locations come for additional testing. And the Shura camp near Ramla, in central Israel, is where all the deceased are initially collected. Shura currently has some 950 body bags in its possession.

The word “bags” is written here instead of “bodies” because it’s not clear how many victims there are within them.

“More than one person’s remains may be in a single bag,” Kugel explained, “and one person’s remains may be in multiple bags.” When looking at remains, he added, “We know there are multiple people because we see double. For example, if you see two bones from the left maxilla, then it couldn’t be from the same person.”

And in many cases, bones without so much as a speck of extractable DNA are all that’s left. For that reason, Kugel said that some victims’ families would be right to fear the worst.

“We hope that with CT and biopsies, we can bring the unidentified down to less than 200. But some people, we will never find. We will never identify them. And people need to be prepared for this.”

Speaking personally, Bublil said that she wants the world to know that “generally, Hamas enjoyed the killing.”

According to Bublil, “This was not combat, or a military conflict, or a state conflict, or a political conflict. [Hamas] enjoyed the murders so much that they did everything they could do to celebrate the killing. They celebrated burning houses with civilians inside who didn’t do anything to them. They enjoyed grabbing an 18-year-old girl from a party, a festival, dragging her to a car, and taking her to Gaza. And who knows what happened [to her] in between. They enjoyed and celebrated the death. … These are monsters. They’re not human… They weren’t merciful to anyone. No one who was alive and encountered them remained alive. No one.” JPost

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The painful, painstaking work of Israel's burial societies.

"There are no words to describe what I’ve seen. These are things I have never seen before and hope never to see again," says Menachem Levy. Menachem Posner, October 30, 2023. ...the extreme way in which the people died means that there are times when it becomes extremely challenging to positively identify the victims. In some instances, there is no DNA, no teeth to match with dental records and precious few other ways of determining who the bodies were... Unprecedented Numbers of Victims

Much of the work of identifying the remains takes place at the Shura Army Base near Ramle. The base houses a large new processing center designed to care for the bodies of victims of terror attacks and natural disasters. The center is large, but never could the planners have foreseen a national disaster of this scope. . "Truck after truck of bodies. Floor to ceiling, bodies. Each one a human, a loved one, a life," says Noiman.. "The most jarring thing was the sheer number. I felt like I was reliving a scene from the Holocaust—piles of dead Jews everywhere."

Noiman says that many of the bodies he processed bore witness to the violent way in which the murders had happened: There were gunshot wounds, burns, dismemberments, stabbings and more... JNS

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Israeli Official: Hamas Raped 'Women, Grandmothers, Children’ So Violently 'They Broke Victims' Pelvis.' By Ryan Saavedra Oct 21, 2023, DailyWire.com

New details have begun to emerge about the barbaric evils that innocent Israeli citizens were forced to experience at the hands of savage Palestinian Islamic terrorists with Hamas during their unprecedented terror attack two weeks ago.

A woman named Shari, who did not want to give her last name because she wanted to protect her family, works in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Rabbinate corps and it is her job to clean the victim’s bodies as best as possible to prepare them for burial.

“We wash the bodies and prepare them for burial. We try to bring them dignity in death,” she told the Daily Mail. “I heard stories about Auschwitz as a child growing up in New Jersey. But what I have seen here with my own eyes is worse than (films made about) the Holocaust.”

“What these barbarians did to these people is beyond words,” said Shari, who is from New Jersey and moved to Israel 20 years ago. “There is evidence of mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.”

She said that she never expected to see some of the horrifying scenes that she was exposed to as a result of the Islamic terrorism.

“People whose heads have been cut off. Women standing in their night dresses woken up and shot. Faces blasted off. Heads smashed and their brains spilling out,” she said. “A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.”

“Women and children burned to charcoal. Bodies murdered with their hands tied behind their backs,” she continued. “My mother and my grandmother are Holocaust survivors. They were the only members of the family to come out of Auschwitz alive after they were taken from their homes in Czechoslovakia. All of her brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts were murdered there.”

The Hamas terrorists were barbaric to begin with, but many of them also reportedly took a drug called Captagon, an amphetamine produced in southern Europe and the Middle East that has helped fuel terrorism. It is commonly referred to as the “ISIS drug.” Small bags of cocaine were also found in vehicles that the terrorists used to drive from Gaza to Israel.

Colonel Rabbi Haim Weisberg said that what Israeli forces have discovered in the aftermath of the attacks was “evidence of torture and savagery.”

“We have babies with their heads cut off. Bodies without hands, without legs, without genitals,” he added. Daily Wire

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The October 7 massacre left 21 children without parents. 21 boys and girls from 13 families were left without parents - murdered, kidnapped or still missing - One of them, 4 years old, was orphaned by her parents and kidnapped to Gaza - The rest of the boys and girls are staying with family members in Israel and are accompanied by the welfare teams, who provide them with assistance and guidance

Michal Peylan|N12| Published 17:38 22.10.23

More than two weeks have passed since the brutal terrorist attack and the dimensions of the horror continue to be revealed. Today (Sunday) the Ministry of Welfare informed that 21 boys and girls from 13 families were left without parents, most of them orphaned. These are children, girls, boys and girls, under the age of 18, whose two parents are not present - murdered, kidnapped or still missing.

16 boys and girls are defined as orphans, after it was verified that both their parents were murdered in the attack. In one case one parent was murdered and the other kidnapped, in another case one parent was murdered and the other was missing and in two others one parent was murdered and the other was not part of the family unit. One of the girls who was orphaned by both her parents, 4 years old, was kidnapped to Gaza. Mako Michal Peylan @michalpeylan

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Oct 22, 2023. [1] ("21 children are now orphans A 4-year-old girl, whose both parents were murdered, was kidnapped alone to Gaza"). [2]

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Decapitation and burning: IDF officer Col. Golan Vach describes horrors of Hamas massacre.

Col. Golan Vach, who is directing search and rescue operations in southern Israel, describes the atrocities committed by Hamas forces.

Yoni Kempinski, Oct 22, 2023, 2:56 PM (GMT+3)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News joined IDF Col. Golan Vach, commander of search and rescue operations in southern Israel, as he spoke with a group of MKs and ambassadors who came to visit the terror-stricken communities in southern Israel.

"The music festival was the most difficult scene I've witnessed in my life," he commented. I've had twenty years of natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. I was a combat officer in Lebanon and in Hebron. I've seen everything, and this was something else. They had one goal - not to massacre, but to humiliate."

"They gathered young boys in lines and shot them. They raped some of the girls who came to the music festival. Some of the young people were gathered together and burned. We found the remains, and didn't understand what they were at first- we thought perhaps there had been an accident. Then we started searching for the missing, and we saw fire. We said 'Wait, maybe there are people in the fire'. There were twelve people burning. I looked up and saw more fires, and realized that we should just follow the fire. We burned our shoes trying to get them all out. We had to hurry because, in just a few hours like that, there would have been no remains left. I have horrific videos of that."

"Some people say we made it up. I don't know what kind of person could say that. More than a hundred and twenty young people were collected and burned in the music festival, and two hundred fifty people in total were murdered. They took people out of their houses and killed them. There was a decapitated soldier. Some people asked me 'Is it true?' I tell them, 'I carried him, from this very spot.' I don't know anyone besides ISIS who decapitated people and took the head - we didn't find the head. It's both torture and humiliation, that you can't be identified by your face."

"I cannot express in words the feelings of a Jewish soldier who came to Israel who came to defend the state of Israel, and finds himself collecting the burned bones of his own brothers and sisters." INN

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First responder: 'Those who had hope for peace have cracked.'

Eran Casher, a first responder in southern Israel, claims that the idea of peace with Gaza is gone once and for all.

Yoni Kempinski, Oct 22, 2023, 2:40 PM (GMT+3)

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News joined Eran Casher, a first responder in the town of Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel, as he spoke with a group of MKs and ambassadors who came to visit the terror-stricken communities about the emotions filling his community in the wake of the Hamas invasion.

"It doesn't matter how much land we give them," he says. "We took out our people, we gave them land, we gave thousands of them jobs, people ruled by Hamas, and tried to help them have better lives. I hope this helps people better understand what we're facing. I knew it all the way, I never believed in it for a single second. It is hard to see those who still had hope crack, but now we can see what we're facing, and we need to see how we will rise up from it."

Casher warns the visitors that this will not stop in Israel: "I don't know where you're coming from, but if you think it's only happening because it's us, you're wrong. You guys are next, so you'd better wake up."

"We have our own thing, we're trying to deal in a Western way in a Middle Eastern environment. We need to wake up as well and understand that it is not only the language that is different but the environment. What I'm doing as a Western man - they don't see it the same way. There is a different mentality, a different way to do things." INN

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TalkTV, 2023-10-25:

'Elderly women and babies have been raped' Volunteer at identification unit for female victims of Hamas massacre describes horrors witnessed.

A volunteer with the unit responsible for identifying female victims of the Hamas massacre has described the shocking scenes she has witnessed.

Filmed outside Shura Base, the identification unit for the murder victims of the Hamas attack in Israel, the volunteer told reporter Christine Kensche what she had seen was "just abject cruelty".

Describing some victims, she said: "They were shot in the head. They were burnt alive. They were mutilated.

"We saw genitals cut off heads cut off, baby's hands for no reason... we saw people shot in the head so many times, long after they were dead. We even saw them shot in the head after there was no more blood, there was no reason.

Volunteer describes what she has witnessed at identification unit

"This was just abject cruelty."

Ms Kensche then asked the volunteer: "There are reports about women being raped. Can you confirm this?", to which she replied: "Yes, we have seen that women have been raped.

"Children through to elderly women have been raped. [There has been] forcible entry to the point where bones were broken."

Earlier this week, Israel hosted a 45-minute screening of video footage collected from the Oct 7 attacks by Hamas assailants from Hamas body cameras, dashcams, traffic cameras, closed-circuit TV and the mobile phones and social media accounts of victims, soldiers and emergency medical workers.

Hamas fighter boasts about killings..

Journalists were also played an audio recording allegedly of a Hamas fighter calling his parents in Gaza and excitedly boasting he had killed at 10 Jews with his bare hands.

The audio, played at a United Nations meeting in New York this week by Israel's Foreign Minister, hears the terrorist claiming that he has taken the phone from an Israeli woman he has killed to tell his mother and father the news.

He made the call from Kibbutz Mefalsim, saying to his father: "Dad I am inside Mefalsim. Open your WhatsApp right now, and see all the ones I killed. Look at how many I killed with my own hands - your son killed Jews!" Talk.tv

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Adam Albilya - אדם אלביליה @AdamAlbilya:

"The plan was to go from house to house, throw grenades, and kill everyone there, including women and children,"

Hamas Terrorist of the Nukhba Force Confesses the Slaughter of Women, Children, and Post-mortem Rape of Dead Body .

More specifically, the Palestinian Nazi admitted to planning and executing indiscriminate killings of women and children, with gruesome details including beheadings and sexual assault on a young girl's dead body by a terrorist friend of his. Oct 23, 2023 [3]

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PURE FEAR - I was forced to watch harrowing footage of Hamas victims’ final moments – the atrocities I saw will never leave me. Terrorist even called his mum to boast after killing 10 Jews By Jotam Confino Published: 10:50 ET, Oct 25 2023

ISRAEL is facing a war not just against terror, but disinformation.

The country’s defence forces were forced to show the horrifying last moments of families and festival-goers slaughtered in the massacre by Hamas to combat propaganda.

Footage recorded by Hamas during the October 7 massacreCredit: IDF release of Hamas material

What kind of world do we live in when people believe authorities would lie about babies being beheaded, children shot and old people kidnapped from their homes?

The spread of lies has made lives dangerous for Jewish people around the world - just look at how quickly it was accepted Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza.

The United States, Britain, Canada, France and Italy all agree that the strike did not come from Israel, but the damage to the reputation of Israel has been done.

On social media, Hamas supporters peddle lies about the conflict.

Reuters' fact-checking unit has identified posts using fake images and information to cause confusion and heightening tensions.

Among the videos is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin with fabricated subtitles allegedly warning America not to get involved in the war.

From a Gazan perspective, another shows the lynching of a teenager in Guatemala which purports to be an Israeli woman being killed by a ‘Palestinian mob’.

With so much disinformation on both sides, it's understandable people are misled, but it’s dangerous when they refuse to believe official statements from people actually on the ground.

This week I was one of the journalists who watched the harrowing scenes of Hamas killing innocents.

I was one of 100 journalists brought together at the Israeli Defence Force’s military base north of Tel Aviv where we were shown a compilation of material from Hamas go-pro cameras.

What I saw sickened me.

One terrorist screamed "Allahu Akhbar" as he attempted to behead a dead man with a shovel.

At the Kibbutz Be’eri, on the Gazan border, disturbing footage showed a father and his two sons, roughly seven and nine, run out of their house, drawn by the explosions outside.

The dad ran into a bomb shelter to hide and a Hamas terrorist threw a grenade, instantly killing the dad.

As the two children came out of the shelter with blood on their hands, one unable to see because of the blast, they ran back into their house only to be followed by Hamas.

One terrorist opens the fridge to drink from a water bottle, asking the boys: “Do you want some?” It was like nothing had happened.

Another scene showed a terrorist leaning under a table to talk to a little girl before shooting her dead.

At the festival where at least 260 people were brutally murdered, Hamas shot portable toilets one by one in a bid to kill anyone hiding inside. Around them, panicked young people ran away screaming.

Chillingly, a voice recording revealed a conversation between a Hamas terrorist and his parents.

“I’ve killed 10 Jews with my bare hands,” he tells his mother. “Check your Whatsapp.”

Instead of being disturbed by her son’s actions, she replies: “May [God] Allah protect you.”

Other images show a small body burned beyond recognition and a baby covered in blood.

We were five minutes into the 45 minute screening and I was already shaking, barely able to write notes. A colleague from an American TV channel started weeping as the horror show continued.

After about 35 minutes I left the auditorium, convinced I’d seen enough evidence of the atrocities eyewitnesses have already described to me.

Under normal circumstances, journalists wouldn’t be exposed to these kinds of images - a job left to forensics.

But the intense backlash over what many regard as “Israeli propaganda” and unreliable eyewitnesses has left the Israeli government no choice but to arrange this absurd screening of unspeakable atrocities.

Imagine how the released hostages must feel about this?

The question is, will people around the world still question whether this happened?

If they do, I truly don’t know what to say anymore.

Jotam Confino is the foreign editor of Jewish News in the UK. The Sun

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'Just as Cruel as the Terrorists': Many Ordinary Palestinians Joined in Hamas's Atrocities Against Israel.

Andrew Tobin, October 24, 2023

TEL AVIV—As Hamas terrorists carried out a highly choreographed massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, they received a source of support that amplified the horror that took place that day. A mob of ordinary Palestinians spontaneously joined in what became the deadliest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust, according to videos, eyewitness accounts, and the Israel Defense Forces.

Whereas the Hamas terrorists wore uniforms and carried military-grade weapons, the Gazans who followed them into the Jewish state were dressed as civilians and mostly unarmed, two officials from Israel's devastated Gaza border region said. Young men with knives, overweight dads, and at least one elderly man on crutches were among those who exploited Hamas's rampage to create a second wave of carnage that rivaled the barbarism of the professional terrorists.

The IDF declined to provide details about non-Hamas Gazans’s involvement in the Oct. 7 attack. But IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that large numbers of Gazans who were not members of any terrorist group entered Israel and participated in the atrocities.

"They did what you say they did," Conricus said.

The extent to which the Gazan public took part in Hamas's campaign of terror has yet to be fully understood even in Israel. But for the communities near Israel's Gaza border—home to many of the country's remaining peaceniks—firsthand knowledge of what their Palestinian neighbors did has already hardened into a new consensus: Coexistence is dead, and Gaza must be crushed.

"The second wave of Arabs who came into the country were just as cruel as the terrorists of the first wave," Gadi Yarkoni, the mayor of the Eshkol Regional Council, which encompasses most of the Gaza border communities, told the Free Beacon. "We saw that it was not only Hamas who came to slaughter us. It was all the residents of Gaza, including people who worked in our kibbutzim."

Yarkoni was elected mayor under the banner of Israel's center-left Blue and White party less than a year after he lost both his legs in a mortar attack during Israel's 2014 Gaza war. Only now has his idealism been pushed past the breaking point.

In a monologue on Israel's Channel 12 news that went viral online last week, Yarkoni forcefully disagreed with the anchor’s reporting on allegations, since debunked, that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza during its ongoing war with Hamas.

"I hear what you say, and I have changed," Yarkoni said. "I don't talk like you. I don't know what's going on with our hostages and missing people. Their families are crying out, and the people of Gaza, who we once thought were good, are responsible. It’s not just Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Ordinary people from Gaza took [our citizens]."

"I demand that the State of Israel and the IDF finish this mission," he said. "Finish it this time so that we can live in peace."

Yarkoni, who survived Oct. 7 in the safe room of his house in Kibbutz Nirim, estimated that 3,000 Gazans were involved in the attack, about half of them "civilians." The IDF has put the total number of terrorists at 2,500 to 3,500 but declined to specify whether that figure includes non-Hamas members.

Speaking with the Free Beacon, Yarkoni referred to gruesome footage and survivor testimonies that have not been made public.

"I saw a scene where a Gazan civilian chopped off a man's head. It took him several attempts to detach the head from the body," he said.

According to a video that was posted online, Gazans used a bulldozer to tear down a section of Israel's border fence, and hundreds of unarmed men and boys—wearing T-shirts, baseball caps, sneakers, and flip-flops—crossed into the country. They came mostly on foot but also by bicycle, scooter, and motorcycle. Someone appears to have brought a donkey. Other online videos show ordinary Gazans taking selfies on and around Israeli tanks and ransacking a military base on the border. All the while, cries of "Allahu Akbar" rang out.

The mob soon arrived in nearby Israeli communities that Hamas was already terrorizing. Security footage and Hamas videos from Be'eri, Nir Oz, and other kibbutzim capture dozens of ordinary-looking Gazans looting and taking part in killings and kidnappings, including of women and children.

Some of these people extorted their victims. Jacqueline Glicksman, an 81-year-old resident of Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, told the Free Beacon that three teenage boys from Gaza broke through the window of her safe room and demanded money. She told them she had none, and minutes later, her house was burned down. Glicksman somehow managed to jump out of the broken window in her pajamas and run to safety. But her friend, Silvia Mirensky, 80, was killed in an arson attack next door.

Meanwhile, in the streets of Gaza, crowds greeted the returning kidnappers as conquering heroes, online videos show. Some Gazans taunted the Israeli hostages and defiled the dead as they were paraded through the streets.

Raz Cohen, a 24-year-old former Israeli commando, saw both Hamas terrorists and ordinary Gazans kill and rape revelers at the Nova music festival in Re'im, where at least 260 people were slaughtered. After escaping the Hamas terrorists, Cohen hid in a bush with a group of friends for almost seven hours. He watched as a gang of Gazan civilians—men wearing Adidas and armed only with knives and axes—raped and murdered a young Jewish woman.

"While they were raping and killing, they always laughed. I can't forget how they laughed," Cohen told the Free Beacon.

Several members of Cohen's group later ran from the bush and were caught by the same gang of Gazans. He said he heard his friends' screams as they were tortured and stabbed to death.

"You know when you hear the screams of someone who is dying," said Cohen, who was eventually rescued by Israeli soldiers.

A young couple who were abducted at the Nova festival also appear to have been victims of ordinary Gazans. Footage shows that Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or were taken away by a group of about a dozen young men, some of them teenagers. As Or's brother told Israel's Channel 99, the kidnappers did not look to be armed. Minutes before Or was captured, he texted friends that 20 "people" were hunting down and lynching Jews, according to screenshots published by Israel's Ynet news site.

An Israeli soldier who responded to the festival massacre told Ynet about his elite unit’s encounter with four amateur terrorists.

"They had no weapons. One of them had a knife," said the commando, who spoke anonymously. "You can't say they were tough. I think they are all margarine. They are not good fighters, from what we have seen. But it was their numbers and their evil. That's all. You unleash a lot of people and say, 'Do what you want, and have fun. Enjoy the murder. And also loot.'"

Daniel Meir, Nirim's security chief, told the Free Beacon that dozens of ordinary Gazans attacked his kibbutz on Oct. 7 along with about 50 Hamas terrorists. During an hours-long gunfight with the invaders, he climbed to the top of a grain tower, where he was able to survey the battlefield.

Meir, echoing Yarkoni, said the differences between the Hamas terrorists and the other Gazans were easy to see: The Hamas terrorists wore green camouflage or black uniforms and were armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and hand grenades. The ordinary Gazans wore everyday clothing and came unarmed or carrying only knives, although some appeared to have taken firearms from fallen Israelis or Hamas terrorists.

There was "complete cooperation" between the two groups, Meir said, with Hamas doing most of the fighting and the ordinary Gazans focused on looting and kidnapping.

"The civilians went into houses and turned them upside down. They took phones, computers, jewelry, whatever they could find," he recalled. "From what I know, they also took most of the hostages."

Meir, along with three fellow members of his security team and a passing IDF helicopter, improbably managed to fend off the terrorists until soldiers arrived in Nirim around 1 p.m. Five members of the kibbutz were killed and five are missing.

Even though Nirim suffered less than some of its neighbors, Meir said the attack—and particularly the role of ordinary Gazans—shattered his community's faith in coexistence. Many of the kibbutzniks were longtime peace activists, and there was widespread support among them for a program that allowed thousands of Gazans to work in Israel.

Now, the IDF has reportedly detained a few thousand Gazan guest workers and is investigating whether they helped Hamas plan the Oct. 7 attack. Several community members received text messages from Gazan workers, according to Yarkoni, warning their former employers that they were coming to kill them.

"I am a man of peace," Meir said. "I wanted us to live in peace—that we could drive to the ocean over there [in Gaza] and that we could do groceries in Rafah or Khan Yunis. I think even most right-wing Israelis at the end of the day pray for peace. The desire for peace is ingrained in all of us."

"But today we understand that [the Palestinians] are educated differently. They are educated for something else. Just as we crave peace, they crave jihad," he said. "They are raising monsters. And it is impossible to make peace with monsters." Free Beacon

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Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader: Footage released from an interrogation of capture Hamas terrorist who infiltrated Israel. He admits that the Hamas terrorists fully intended to rape Israeli women who were captured.

To anyone denying or minimizing the barbarity of Hamas? Stop gaslighting the Jewish people. Oct 11, 2023. on X

Hamas Goal In Capturing Jewish Women, Children, and Babies Was To “Dirty Them, To Rape Them”, Admits Terrorist. Mass rape has been a key part of the terror of Hamas, just like ISIS, even the children and babies were to be raped.

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 06:59am LegalInsurrection

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The untold story - the horrifying massacre on the pensioners' bus. Michal Meral Zarbialov went on a trip with friends to the Dead Sea, on the way they were caught by the barrages in Sderot. She still had time to talk to her daughter during the interceptions and the red paint, but the shelter they fled to was locked - then a van arrived with armed terrorists who opened fire, killing thirteen. Liran Kojahinoff's article from the evening news 10/19/23 Kan

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3,000 Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according to revised IDF assessment. Critical intelligence gleaned from interrogation of captured Hamas terrorists as IDF forces reach outskirts of Gaza City

Yoav Zitun | published: November 1, 2023| 17:32 Ynet

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In CNN interview: President Herzog reveals Hamas "Captive Taking Handbook."

In the booklet terrorists are advised in detail on how to carry out the kidnapping.

Israel National News, Oct 15, 2023, 10:15 PM (GMT+3)

President Isaac Herzog on Sunday, in an interview with CNN, presented evidence found on Hamas terrorists following the barbaric attack on the people of Israel a week ago. He showed viewers a booklet entitled "The Warrior's Guide - Jihad Version", issued and distributed by Hamas to terrorists in the field.

In addition, the President presented shocking photos of atrocities in the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri, which he visited this morning.

In the booklet, recovered on the battlefield from a Hamas terrorist who was killed after taking part in the attack on Israel, terrorists are advised in detail on how to carry out the kidnapping. According to the description, the kidnappers are required to create chaos and intimidation, coercing and blindfolding captives, using electric shocks, and instructing them to execute any person who may pose a threat or distraction. They were also instructed to collect the captives and use them as human shields, if necessary, without distinction of religion, race, or sex.

According to the barbaric text, similar to the terrorist organization ISIS, the terrorists are required to document their actions by livestreaming and executing hostages.

Also in the manual was a chapter explaining IDF ranks and their importance, as well as an explanation of the IDF’s means of warfare and technological capabilities.

Like – and even worse than ISIS – the text places cruel brutality at the heart of Hamas’ actions.

In his interview, the President said, "We are faced with an extremely cruel, inhumane ending enemy which we have to uproot with no mercy. This was found on the body of one of the terrorists, this booklet is an instruction guide on how to go into a civilian premises, into a kibbutz, a city, a moshav, and how to break in. And first thing, what do you do when you find the citizens? You torture them? This is the booklet - it says exactly how to torture them, how to abduct them, how to kidnap them. So therefore, the story is not Israel versus Palestinians or Judaism versus Islam... the story is about humans, humanity, are we with the good or with evil, that's where humanity should stand. And the battle that we are carrying out now, as a nation rising up as a lion, is against evil, and we will uproot evil so that there will be good for the entire region and the world".

He added, "There is no justification. It is simply an ISIS-type ideology that wants to eliminate us off the ground, and therefore, they need to be eliminated off the ground." INN

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The IDF on an information campaign: presented a 40-minute film of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas terrorists.

200 foreign reporters from all over the world gathered and watched harsh material from the Gaza Strip in which they see, among other things, indiscriminate fire on civilians driving their cars - The full film included extremely harsh material, of which the IDF allowed only one minute to be broadcast, which alone is enough to understand what happened on Shabbat the 7th In October - Hamas terrorist in interrogation: "We were ordered to go room by room, and to murder women and children" N12|Published 17:17 23.10.23 | Updated 18:41 23.10.23 [...] Hamas terrorist under investigation: "We were ordered to murder, women and children too"

At the same time, the IDF published excerpts from the investigation conducted with a Hamas terrorist who participated in the massacre at Kibbutz Alumim and was arrested by the security forces. During the investigation, the terrorist revealed to the investigators the consent the terrorists received, including religious legal guidance, to carry out the atrocities.

A terrorist explains in the interrogation what they were ordered to do in the massacre

Among other things, the terrorist said in the interrogation: "The plan was to go from house to house, from room to room, throw grenades and kill everyone there, including women and children. Hamas ordered us to do the following: trample on their heads and cut them off, cut off their legs." He added that it was also "religiously approved for them to have sex with a corpse after they killed it." Mako

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Adam Albilya - @AdamAlbilya: "The plan was to go from house to house, throw grenades, and kill everyone there, including women and children,"

Hamas Terrorist of the Nukhba Force Confesses the Slaughter of Women, Children, and Post-mortem Rape of Dead Body.

More specifically, the Palestinian Nazi admitted to planning and executing indiscriminate killings of women and children, with gruesome details including beheadings and sexual assault on a young girl's dead body by a terrorist friend of his. Oct 23, 2023 [4]

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: Hamas terrorists record a live-video on October 7th during which they brag that they have kidnapped Israeli babies. Oct 23, 2023 [5]

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i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN: 'Father look at your phone I sent you pictures, I killed 10 Jews. Dad, 10 Jews with my own hands, the blood is still on my hands.'

Our @Guyaz recounts some of the horrible uncensored bodycam footage the Israeli government showed to foreign journalists of the October 7 attack Oct 23, 2023. [6]

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Terrorist calls his parents to livestream during his massacre of Jewish civilians. [7] Terrorist calls his parents to livestream during his massacre of Jewish civilians. Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Oct 26, 2023 “Hi dad, Your son killed Jews! … I killed 10! 10! 10 with my own hands, dad! Their blood is on my hands! Let me talk to mom.”

These unbelievable and shocking words were part of an excited phone call from a Palestinian terrorist to his parents during Hamas’ massacre on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Calling from the phone of a Jewish woman after he had just murdered her and her husband and 8 other Israelis, the terrorist bragged to his parents about his horrific "achievement." Screaming with delight, the terrorist murderer told his dad to open the Whatsapp application on his phone because he wanted to do "a livestream" from what later turned out to be the massacre of 1,400 Israelis in the south of Israel.

Stressing his religious motivation, the terrorist murderer said there was no turning back because he was born “for the sake of the religion” and for him it would be only "victory or Martyrdom" – i.e., death for Allah.

This supports what Palestinian Media Watch has exposed, that both Hamas and the PA see the conflict and the current war with Israel not as territorial but as a [8] religious conflict for Allah in whose name they set out to murder Jews.

Fulfilling this "duty" to kill Jews "wherever they are" – the same religious motivation which made the [9] PA instruct all mosque preachers to emphasize this duty to Palestinians last Friday – the terrorist murderer beamed: "Mom, your son is a hero” and instructed his family to “lift your head up" in pride: Terrorist son: Hi dad, I’m talking to you from [Kibbutz] Mefalsim, open my WhatsApp and see all the killed people. Look how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews! Father: Allahu Akbar! May Allah protect you. Terrorist: Dad, I’m talking to you from a Jew’s phone, I killed her and killed her husband, with my own hands I killed 10! Father: Allahu Akbar. Terrorist: Dad, 10 with my own hands! Dad open WhatsApp and see how many I killed, dad… Dad, I’m inside Mefalsim, dad I killed 10! 10! 10 with my own hands, dad! Their blood is on my hands! Honestly, 10 with my own hands. Mother: May Allah bring you home safely. Terrorist: Dad, go back to WhatsApp now. I want to give you a livestream. Mother: I wish I was with you Terrorist: Mom, your son is a hero. Kill, kill, kill! Kill them! … Terrorist’s brother: Mahmoud, where are you? Terrorist: I’m inside Mefalsim. I killed 10, Ala, 10 with my own hands! I’m talking to you from a Jew’s phone. Terrorist’s brother, Ala: You killed 10? Terrorist: Yes, I killed 10, by Allah… I was the first [to get in] by Allah’s grace and help. Lift your head up dad, lift your head. Inside the [Jewish] town. See on WhatsApp the ones I killed! Terrorist’s brother, Ala: Come back, that’s it, come back. Terrorist: Come back? There’s no coming back! It’s victory or Martyrdom. My mother gave birth to me for the sake of the religion… Terrorist’s sister: Open your phone? Terrorist: Open my phone, see the killed people, how I killed them with my own hands! Palwatch

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David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos Replying to @dpatrikarakos:

Audio is put up on screen: A Hamas terrorist calls his father:

"Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!" Oct 23, 2023 [10] _

Fearing denial and disinformation, Israel shows journalists raw footage of Hamas attacks.

By JTA/Eliyahu Freedman.Published: October 23, 2023 23:49

A damaged and blood-stained kindergarten is seen following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel October 22, 2023. ([11] photo credit: Reuters/Amir Cohen)

“Walking through here is like Eisenhower walking through Bergen-Belsen and seeing the destruction and carnage. The world needs to witness this firsthand.”

On Monday morning, Roxane Runel posted a photograph to Instagram of two Israel military officers addressing a crowd of reporters in an auditorium. Behind them is a giant television screen.

“Press conference between the international media and the Israeli army after it disseminated images and recordings of the Oct. 7 attacks,” Runel, a reporter for France’s M6 television channel, wrote across the photo, touting an upcoming broadcast. “Why? What is at stake?”

Runel, who has reported from several countries, has already interviewed relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, which killed and wounded thousands. Yet in the middle of Monday’s screening of the attack footage, she was one of a number of journalists who stepped out early.

“It was too much,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I knew coming here that the hardest thing for me would not be the images but the sound, because you can close your eyes if the images are too much.”

Runel was one of about 200 journalists who attended the screening, which the Israeli government billed as raw and unedited audio and video taken from Hamas terrorists’ body cameras and phones as they massacred communities on Israel’s border with Gaza. In addition to clips of Hamas attackers shooting people, the 43-minute compilation contained graphic images of children being murdered, bodies burned, civilians being mowed down and other atrocities.

Evidence of Hamas's horrific crimes Gruesome photos and videos have circulated online in the two weeks after the attack, along with harrowing accounts of the violence visited upon Israelis. The images have become so ubiquitous that Jewish day schools in the United States cautioned students to delete their social media apps to avoid seeing them, while journalists and other public figures have expressed ambivalence about sharing them.

The IDF has taken delegations of foreign journalists into some of the hardest-hit communities, with one spokesperson saying just days after the attack, “Walking through here is like Eisenhower walking through Bergen-Belsen and seeing the destruction and carnage. The world needs to witness this firsthand.”

Now, the Israeli government’s decision to broadcast the footage came as it is increasingly concerned that people are questioning the scale and depravity of Hamas’ massacre. Social media users and journalists alike have expressed skepticism about widespread reports and testimonies of the attack’s most harrowing details, often at the same time as they have sought to shift attention toward the escalating casualties of Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, where it aims to depose Hamas.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this and I can’t believe that we as a country are having to do this,” said Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesman, in a video announcing the press conference. “As we work to defeat the terror organization that brutalized our people, we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities that Hamas committed against our people, and in fact recorded in order to glorify that violence.”

At the press conference, held at a military base north of Tel Aviv, chief IDF spokesperson Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military had “been thinking about this for a couple of days, whether to show it or not,” but decided that screening the footage served as a valuable reminder of the atrocities both for the international media covering the war and Israelis themselves.

“We will not let the world forget who we are fighting,” he said, adding that the footage helps Israelis “to understand ourselves what we are fighting for.”

In addition, IDF Maj. Gen. Mickey Edelstein told the reporters, the Israeli military has evidence it cannot show of sexual violence committed by the Hamas terrorists as well as evidence of links between Hamas and Iran.

He dispelled Hamas claims that terrorists unaffiliated with the group committed the atrocities, saying that the video shows proof that “the vast majority are Hamas” and that the perpetrators attacking civilians were dressed in full tactical gear. Written and other evidence the IDF has discovered, he added, shows that Hamas had planned “to bring hostages and keep families, in order that it would be much more painful.”

Many attendees gasped in horror at difficult elements of the footage, and some chose to exit the theater before the screening had finished. Runel said her personal “limit” was reached when listening to an audio clip of a call on WhatsApp between a Hamas terrorist and his parents, made via the stolen cellphone of an Israeli victim.

“He tells them on the phone — with a voice that is so ecstatic — he sounds like he’s out of his mind,” she said. “He was repeating the same thing over and over again, ‘I killed 10 of them.’ He was saying this as something he was really proud of and he wanted his parents to check the Whatsapp” to see videos he sent of the massacre. The man’s father reacted with praise, while his mother begged him to return home.

Amit Palit, a news anchor and correspondent for India TV based in New Delhi, said that after reporting on the attacks of Oct. 7 on live television, seeing the raw footage helped him understand the “bigger picture.” He said the screening “was necessary for many people who have some doubts.”

Palit, who has been covering the war in Israel for the past 12 days, was most affected by a video of two young brothers after they lost their father, who was murdered in front of them with an explosive while the three were hiding together in a bomb shelter at home. The footage was among the “very painful” clips he witnessed, he said.

“He was asking, ‘Dad,’ and the teenager said, ‘Why am I alive?’” Palit recounted. “A 13-year-old boy cursing himself, asking why he was alive, asking his brother ‘Can you see?’ And he couldn’t see because he lost [one of] his eyes” from the shrapnel of the blast that killed his father.” JPost

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Hamas gunman brags to family about 'killing 10 Jews' in audio of phone call found by Israeli officials as they reveal new clips of slaughter including terrorist using a grenade to kill a father in front of his two sons. By David Averre and Matt Strudwick 12:58 23 Oct 2023, updated 20:46 23 Oct 2023

Terrorist used Jewish woman's phone to ring his parents and boast he 'is a hero' Journalists in Tel-Aviv viewed a 45-minute-long compilation of terror Follow every update in the Israel-Hamas conflict on MailOnline's live blog HERE A Hamas gunman bragged to his family about 'killing 10 Jews' in an audio phone call found by Israeli officials.

In the haunting and sickening clip the terrorist uses a Jewish woman's phone to call his parents where he chillingly boasts that he 'is a hero' after murdering Israelis with his 'own hands'.

The audio was played by the Israel Defense Forces as part of a 45-minute-long compilation of unedited footage Israel's officials showed to a pool of journalists at a military base in Tel Aviv this morning.

Other footage captured from the bodycam of another Hamas gunman shows him sadistically throwing a grenade at a father and his two sons wearing pyjamas as they cower in their hiding place.

The blast killed the father with his sons being covered in his blood with one appearing to have lost his eye, reports The Atlantic. They run to their kitchen wailing for their mother fearing for their life, as their father's murderer comes in and demands water.

The video was so sickening it almost caused one viewer to be sick.

A new snippet of unedited footage was also released, captured from the bodycam of another Hamas gunman during the terror group's ruthless October 7 attacks on unsuspecting civilians.

The clip showed how the gunman, brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle - ordered pair of Israelis driving slowly along the road to stop their car.

The video Israel claims shows a Hamas terrorist admitting gunmen were ordered to 'behead' and 'do whatever you want' with victims The clip showed how the gunman, brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, ordered a pair of Israelis driving slowly along the road to stop their car.

Without giving the driver a second to comply, the gunman immediately starts blasting bullets into the vehicle from mere feet away, and the passengers can be seen recoiling from the rounds in the cabin as the car rolls past.

The release of the footage was announced by government spokesman Eylon Levy to counter what he says is a 'Holocaust denial-like phenomenon' amid backlash over Israel's airstrikes of the Gaza Strip.

The brief clip was just one tiny part of a 45-minute-long compilation of unedited footage Israel's officials showed to a pool of journalists at a military base in Tel Aviv this morning.

That footage will not be released, Israel says, until all of the families of those killed within view it and give permission, meaning it is unlikely the whole clip will ever be seen by the public.

But journalists who attended the screening spoke of the utter horror with which they were confronted.

The lengthy complication pieced together material recorded by Hamas gunmen on bodycams and smartphones, as well as smartphone and dashcam footage of their victims.

Without giving the driver a second to comply, the gunman immediately starts blasting bullets into the vehicle from mere feet away

The civilians are seen lying motionless in the cabin with all the windows shot out and bullet holes riddling the doors Hamas terrorists descended on several vehicles attempting to make an escape Dashcam footage from inside the car shows how the windscreen was shattered and the car rolled to a stop, its occupants gunned down from near point blank range 'The IDF has been collecting footage from bodycams taken by Hamas death squads as they rampaged through the communities in southern Israel, butchering everyone in sight,' government spokesman Eylon Levy said

Journalists who attended the screening said many viewers began crying when presented with the footage, which included clear recordings of civilians being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned.

Their corpses were arranged for all to see - bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes and knife wounds.

In one clip, a Hamas terrorist throws a grenade at a father and his son. The blast kills the father, who pitches forward into the turf, while the young boy is covered in his blood.

The child is dragged inside and forced to sit next to his brother, whose eye is a bloody mess after being subjected to horrific torture.

One of the boys sobs: 'Why am I alive?' as the ruthless terrorists stand over the body of his father.

Another dark chunk of footage showed how unsuspecting IDF soldiers were beheaded with their headless corpses left splayed in the streets, while a contingent of female soldiers were incapacitated by a grenade before being shot at near point blank range.

The journalists also shared they witnessed scenes of sheer panic, terror and devastation at the Nova music festival, where more than 250 civilians were slaughtered.

Some victims hid in skips, others in portable toilets, but all were found and either gunned down, or savagely beaten before being taken hostage.

Speaking last night, Levy told of the IDF's decision to show journalists the horrendous footage in all its unedited gore.

'The IDF has been collecting footage from bodycams taken by Hamas death squads as they rampaged through the communities in southern Israel, butchering everyone in sight,' Levy began.

'I can't believe I'm saying this... As we work to defeat the terror organisation we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities Hamas committed against our people and in fact recorded in order to glorify this violence.'

In previously released footage, Hamas gunmen tear away a chair in front of a desk behind which injured female soldiers are hiding so they can get a clear shot. In the dying moments of the video, one shooter raises his rifle and fires several more shots at the bloodied women from mere feet away.

One Hamas terrorist is seen holding his lighter to house plants and hanging ornaments in an Israeli that quickly set ablaze before they made their exit. In another clip, Hamas gunmen are seen shooting dead a dog before raiding houses. The dog was blasted with several shots It managed to survive the first two shots but the third sent the hound crashing to the ground. Hamas gunman is seen taking a civilian hostage after shooting many others in cold blood in previously seen footage...

Levy's statement comes as part of Israel's response to backlash over its incessant bombing of the Gaza Strip which is thought to have killed more than 5,000 Palestinians since October 7.

This morning, Israel's Defence Forces published what they claim is proof of Hamas rocket launch sites nestled among mosques, schools and nurseries in Gaza.

A series of satellite images, shared on the IDF's official website and social media accounts, shows what they claim are launch pits dug into the ground right next to the civilian structures - something Israel says backs up their claims that Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields.

Two alleged launch sites were located a stone's throw away from each other, one in the garden of a mosque, and another mere feet away from a kindergarten.

A third was seen across the road from a UN building in Gaza and a fourth was located opposite the Manfaluti Secondary School for Boys.

Geolocation of the images provided by the IDF confirmed the locations given were correct, and analysts pointed out that previous satellite images taken in September did not show any launch sites - suggesting that they would have been recently constructed.

'Since the beginning of the war, the Hamas terrorist organization has been exploiting civilians and civilian sites such as kindergartens, schools, and mosques for the purpose of firing rockets at Israel. Hamas deliberately fires its rockets at Israeli civilians,' IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said.

The presence of rocket launch sites at the locations provided could not be independently verified.

It also comes as Israel declared it has evidence of Iranian 'involvement' in the Hamas terror attack,

Major General Michael Edelstein, a veteran commander working with the Israel Defence Forces' southern command, pointed to the 'well trained, well equipped' gunmen as he made the claim - but refused to elaborate.

'I cannot elaborate too much but you can understand what I mean. Not just about equipment but more than this,' he said.

Israeli warplanes continued to strike targets in Gaza throughout the weekend and into Monday morning, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said Monday that more than 5,000 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave since Israel launched its withering bombing campaign more than two weeks ago.

An aerial view of what the Israel Defense Forces say is a Hamas rocket launch site, in the vicinity of a kindergarten, in a location given as Gaza in this handout image released October 22, 2023 An aerial view of what the Israel Defense Forces say is a Hamas rocket launch site, in the vicinity of a mosque. The mosque is located a stone's throw away from the kindergarten. A third alleged launch site was seen across the road from a UN building in Gaza. A fourth site was allegedly seen next to a pair of schools in Gaza. A rocket is launched from the coastal Gaza strip towards Israel by militants of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of Hamas movement Alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack that, Israeli officials say, killed more than 1,400 people who were gunned down, stabbed or burnt by the Islamist militants. Hamas also took more than 200 hostages... Daily Mail

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‘Barbaric, Sadistic Animals’: Israeli President Confirms Death of 23-Year-Old German-Israeli Abducted by Hamas.

by Andrew Bernard, October 30, 2023

A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman was confirmed by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog on Monday to have been murdered by Hamas after she was abducted at a music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.

Shani Louk had attended the Nova music festival about three miles from the Gaza border near kibbutz Re’im, which was overrun by Hamas terrorists.

The terrorists murdered revelers and forcibly seized dozens more as hostages among the more than 200 Israelis kidnapped and spirited to Gaza. A video published on social media depicted Hamas terrorists parading and degrading Louk’s naked body through Gaza shortly after the massacre. Her family was able to identify her from the video, but until Monday it was believed that she might have been unconscious but still alive when the original video was filmed.

"I am truly sorry to report that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Louk has been confirmed murdered and dead,” Herzog said Monday in an interview with the German newspaper Bild. “Her skull has been found. This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis. It is a great tragedy and I extend my deepest condolences to her family."

Louk’s family were informed by the Israel Defense Forces on Sunday that they believe that she was killed instantly and was not alive at the time that the video in Gaza was filmed.

“For us right now death is certain, I think the parents are kind of relieved,” Shani’s aunt, Ruthie, said. “There is comfort in the fact that she did not suffer, that she was not abused, with all the horrors we hear, that she died on the spot….Shani was a child without boundaries, she is like a free soul that does not recognize borders between countries, people, religions. And she loved to dance so much. She had integrity but also great independence. How does such a pure thing circulate in the world?”

Hamas is believed to be holding more than 200 hostages in Gaza after their murder of more than 1,400 people in Israel on Oct. 7. Algemeiner

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Hamas terrorist: Shot crying children ‘until we didn’t hear noise anymore.’

"The mission was simply to kill," Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha told Shin Bet interrogators. Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha during a Shin Bet interrogation. Credit: Israel Security Agency.Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha during a Shin Bet interrogation. Credit: Israel Security Agency.

(November 1, 2023 / JNS) The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) released an interrogation video on Wednesday of a captured Hamas terrorist, who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

“The mission was simply to kill. We weren’t supposed to kidnap, just kill,” Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha told Shin Bet agents. “To kill every person we see and come back.”

Asked if he was told to murder women and children as well, Abu Rusha said: “Yes.”

“They told us that all the settlers were soldiers. There were soldiers among them. Kill every single one you see,” he said.

In the six-minute interrogation tape, the terrorist calmly describes murdering young children hiding in a safe room.

“We heard sounds of young children,” he said. “The cries of young children. A young child, something like that.”

“I shot and Abu Kamil shot. We shot at the door,” he added. “Until we didn’t hear noise anymore.”

The Shin Bet agent asked him what the difference was between him, given he had an order to kill from Hamas’s Nukhba commando forces, and ISIS.

“In the things the interrogator showed me, there is no difference, in the things I was shown,” Abu Rusha admitted. “I saw videos worse than ISIS. The ones the interrogator showed me.”

Some 70 armed terrorists took over Kibbutz Kfar Aza, per Israel Defense Forces estimates. Hamas terrorists killed more than 100 people in the kibbutz, including 40 babies. They beheaded some of the babies.

Hamas killed at least 1,400 Israelis in its Oct. 7 surprise attack on communities near the Gaza border. Terrorists wounded thousands more and took at least 240 Israelis and foreign nationals captive. JNS

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Eylon Levy @EylonALevy: ⚠️WARNING: DISTURBING⚠️ These are the murdered Israeli children of Kibbutz Be'eri. They were tortured, dismembered, and then burned to death. Archaeologists are sifting through the rubble to find their teeth.

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This was Hamas' October 7 Massacre. Oct 31, 2023 [16]

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i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN: 'Take photos of the heads as the guys are playing with them.'

LISTEN to the conversation between 2 Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre, newly revealed by the IDF. Nov 2, 2023. i24

Hamas Terrorists Admit They Beheaded Israelis: ‘Take Photos Of The Heads As The Guys Play With Them.’ By Daily Wire News. Nov 2, 2023, DailyWire.com

TOPSHOT - A picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military shows a bloody handprint inside a house at the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip attacked on October 7 by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on October 31, 2023. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released radio communications between Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre where they admitted to beheading entire families and desecrating their bodies.

The audio clip was recorded during a conversation between Malek, a Hamas Nukhba commando who was on the ground in Kibbutz Nirim, and a commander named Hamza who was off-site.

Hamas murdered 1,400 Israelis, wounded 5,300+, and kidnapped approximately 240 in an unprecedented terrorist attack that shocked the world due to the depraved stories that have emerged about the barbaric acts that the Palestinian Islamic terrorists inflicted on innocent people, including babies who were burned alive in ovens.

Hamza told Malek to take pictures of the terrorists “playing” with the severed heads of the innocent Israeli civilians.

“Right now we are in Kibbutz Nirim, praise God!” Malek said. “Our brothers from the Al Qassem battalion entered [the homes] of three settlers. They cut off their heads with knives, and shot them in the head.”

Hamza responded, “Allahu Akbar and praise God! Malek, take photos of the heads as the guys are playing with them and let them play with them [the heads] on the ground.”

“[I’ll] send them right away, Hamza,” Malek responded. “Right away.”

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Israel @Israel: They played with heads they severed and then were asked to document it. Hamas must be eradicated. [pic.twitter.com/20yUpzux2x]. — Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 2, 2023. [17] Daily Wire

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Witness to a massacre: Israeli festival survivor returns to site of Hamas rampage. Rebecca Wright and Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett Updated 12:36 AM EDT, Sat November 4, 2023

([18] Israel massacre survivor revisits festival site four weeks after attack 07:13 - Source: CNN)

Re'im, Israel CNN — Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival.

“People just dropped everything and left,” Samuel says. “(Hamas) just tore everything apart.”

Nearly one month on from the massacre of festival-goers in Re’im in southern Israel by Hamas militants, the 24-year-old has left her home for the first time since that day, to return with CNN to the place she witnessed the murders of four of her friends. More than 260 bodies were found at the site in the aftermath of the assault on October 7, one of the deadliest of the Hamas attacks, which killed at least 1,400 people in Israel.

“I think it’s important for me to come back,” she says. “No matter how painful it is…the world needs to know what happened here.”

But the terror of it all soon comes flooding back.

“I hear everything,” she says. “I hear the screaming, I hear the bikes, and I hear the gunshots.”

Aliza Samuel, 24, returned to the site of the deadly Nova festival attack by Hamas militants, in southern Israel, on October 7. Aliza Samuel, 24, returned to the site of the deadly Nova festival attack by Hamas militants, in southern Israel, on October 7. Rebecca Wright/CNN Traumatized but trying to process her experience, she recalls the moment that she has played over and over in her mind.

“I saw one of my friends, she was begging for her life,” she says. “She asked him to not kill her, to not kill her, to not kill her, and they didn’t care, they were laughing.”

She explains how, shortly after the break of dawn, her four friends were forced to line up and kneel down in the dust of an arid field.

From her hiding place behind the trees, she overheard the single final word her friends heard from their murderers.

“Enjoy,” the Hamas militants said in English, as they laughed, before shooting the three men and one woman at point-blank range, she said.

A few hours earlier, the friends had all been dancing and having fun together just a few hundred meters away at the festival, an event billed as a celebration of “unity and love” to mark the Jewish holiday Sukkot.

But the group of thousands of young partygoers proved to be an easy target for the Hamas attackers who broke through Israel’s defenses, descending on the festival via paragliders and motorbikes, massacring festivalgoers and taking others as hostages.

Israel subsequently announced a war against Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza and launched the coordinated assault. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a massive aerial bombardment of Gaza, pounding the tiny strip of land with air strikes, artillery fire and helicopter gunships, followed by a ground offensive.

The IDF says it is targeting the vast network of underground tunnels below Gaza that harbor the Hamas leadership along with their fighters and weaponry. But the onslaught has also led to an immense toll on Palestinian civilians, with more than 9,100 people killed in Gaza since October 7 - the majority of them women and children - according to the latest figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, drawn from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.

People ‘had nowhere to run’

Walking back to her tent where she was sleeping when it all started, Samuel recalls the moment she was jolted awake soon after sunrise by the sound of Hamas rockets flying towards them from Gaza. She said she immediately woke her friend, and they fled their tent to try to find a concrete shelter.

Many of the other festival goers were asleep or still dancing, and either didn’t hear the alarm, or ignored it, placing their trust in Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system to protect them.

But Samuel and her friend didn’t want to take any chances, so they started running. As they sought cover, they suddenly spotted Hamas fighters appearing in the skies above them on paragliders, shooting at people from the air as they came in to land.

Dr Shlomo Gensler, first responder who saved dozens of lives on Oct 7.

([19] Dr Shlomo Gensler, a first responder, saved dozens of lives during Hamas' large-scale incursion. Rebecca Wright/CNN)

Panicking, the pair sprinted across the open farmland surrounding the festival site and dived into a ditch behind a line of large trees. Samuel worked on trying to calm her friend down, clamping her hand over her mouth to stop her screaming, as they began to realize what was unfolding. Others were also hiding behind the trees, “trying not to breathe,” she added.

“(Hamas) came from everywhere,” she said. “(The people) had nowhere to run.”

“I saw Hamas take a bunch of people and went to their commander, and asked if to kill them or to take them,” she said. “And once they were dead, they didn’t stop, they just kept shooting them, and you just saw the body just jump and jump from the bullets, after they were dead.”

Samuel said the Hamas attackers mostly spoke in Arabic, but occasionally they would speak some English. In the parts she could understand, she overheard them express confusion and delight at how far they had made it into Israel and how many people they had been able to attack.

After hiding in the ditch for hours, Samuel and her friend eventually saw army vehicles arrive and decided to make a run for it - stepping through “pools of blood” to escape. Finally, they found some Israeli soldiers who helped them get to safety.

Later, she learned that another male friend at the festival was also found dead – shot in the leg and then later beheaded at a nearby kibbutz.

‘Complete carnage’

Helping Samuel through this trauma is her cousin, Dr. Shlomo Gensler, an ICU doctor who was a first responder on October 7.

A rocket alarm sounds during the visit to the scene – and everyone drops to the ground. Samuel begins to panic, breathing rapidly and shaking. Gensler quickly calms her down, assuring her that she is safe.

Gensler, who is still treating patients who were injured that day, walks back through the area where he triaged injured patients during the Hamas attacks. Leftover medical equipment and bullet casings still litter the ground where he worked that night.

“It was just complete carnage, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” Gensler said.

After seeing the first dead body arrive, he said, “we didn’t realize what would be coming up after that, where it was just hundreds of bodies afterwards, and nonstop.”

Gensler witnessed “houses and villages on fire” nearby, along with seeing civilian cars that had been blown apart by shoulder-propelled grenade launchers, with bodies lying next to them.

Knowing the victims were targeted for being Jewish due to Hamas ideology, and seeing the evidence of “premeditated” intent, made the scenario more emotional, he added.

Still, his colleagues told CNN that the doctor treated around 300 people that night and saved dozens of lives. He also treated some soldiers.

“There was one soldier who came here and he was shaking,” Gensler said. “And I just (held) him in my arms. And this is a big soldier crying in my arms…and I said, you’re going to be OK.”

Nova festival aftermath site

([20] The aftermath of the Nova festival attack, where more than 260 bodies were found after Hamas' deadly incursion into southern Israel on October 7. Rebecca Wright/CNN)

([21] A sparkly sequin dress left over in the debris)

([22] The tree where Aliza hid next to farmland near the festival).

Now, as Israel wages war across the border, Gensler is following the unfolding humanitarian disaster. “I really cry about the kids in Gaza that are suffering,” he said, adding that they routinely used to treat sick Palestinian children from the strip at his hospital.

But he still wants to remind the world about what happened on October 7 to honor “the people that were slaughtered.”

For those who made it out alive, they are starting to deal with survivor’s guilt for their fallen friends.

“(I’m) sorry that I couldn’t be there for them and save them.. and I am sorry that God didn’t save them,” Samuel said.

“They were amazing people,” she said. “I’m gonna do everything I can to live my life in their name.” CNN

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The 17th day of the war. Yochaved Lifshitz and Nurit Kooper were released from Hamas captivity. .. First publication: President Biden told Netanyahu: he prefers no ground maneuver. Netanyahu alongside Galant and Levi: "Working together as a punching fist for one goal - to eliminate Hamas" - Regular updates N12| Published 01:44 23.10.23 | Updated 00:22 24.10.23

00:43 - The IDF attacked terrorist infrastructures of Hezbollah in Lebanon, including a military compound and an observation post used by the terrorist organization. The attack was carried out in response to firing at Israel in the last day.

00:19 - The police detained for questioning Maymisa Abd Elhadi, the actress who shared a series of stories in which she encouraged the atrocities of Hamas on October 7.

9:20 p.m. - Chief of Staff HaLevi in ​​the Northern Command: "We want to bring Hamas to a place of dissolution - under its leadership, its military arm and its working mechanisms. Therefore, we attack very, very strongly, we kill senior commanders, kill operatives, destroy infrastructure and act with great determination. Maneuvering in the south is very well prepared. The Southern Command provided quality programs. There are tactical, operative, strategic considerations, which gave us more time and forces that have more time, prepare better and this is what the forces are doing now."

21:10 - The spokesman for the military wing of Hamas claims: We released two hostages, with Egyptian-Qatari mediation. According to the IDF spokesman, there are 222 hostages held by Hamas.

21:03 - After a 5-hour lull in Gaza shooting: red color in Sderot and Otef

20:31 - The IDF announced that warplanes, guided by intelligence information from the Amman and the Shin Bet, eliminated the head of the anti-tank system in the northern Gaza Strip of the terrorist organization Hamas, Ibrahim al-Sahar. Elsahar carried out the anti-tank fire in which an IDF soldier, the late First Sergeant Omar Tabiv, was killed and other soldiers were wounded in "Operation Guardian of the Walls". In addition, he was responsible for planning and directing many anti-tank missiles towards Israeli territory and the IDF forces in particular .

20:20 - The IDF spokesman informed that since the beginning of the war we managed to eliminate five senior commanders in the Hamas air force, who took part in the surprise attack. In addition, he announced that the IDF attacked a gathering of dozens of terrorists in the area. Hagari refused to confirm or deny the reports about the release of the abductees with foreign passports: "Great efforts are being made to release the abductees - their faces and not their passports are in front of our eyes."

20:14 - - A political source refers to reports of the release of abductees with dual citizenship: "Israel will not be a party to the selection for the release of abductees who hold a foreign passport."

18:59 - Great Britain also confirms: the explosion at the Ahli Al-Mamadani Baptist Hospital in the heart of Gaza City "was apparently caused by a missile fired from Gaza towards Israel".

18:51 - The IDF released excerpts from an investigation conducted with a Hamas terrorist who participated in the attack on Kibbutz Alumim and was arrested by the security forces. During the investigation, the terrorist revealed that the terrorists received permission to commit atrocities, including religious legal instruction: "The plan was to go from house to house, from room to room, Throw grenades and kill everyone there, including women and children." The terrorist further confessed that Hamas approved of abusing the bodies and even dismembering them. Mako

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian: Hamas in Arabic: Publishes footage of it carrying out crimes against humanity during its murderous invasion of southern Israel.

Hamas in English: "These are lies by Israel." [23] Oct 11, 2023 [24]

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Hamas terrorists confess to raping Jewish dead, beheading children. The terrorists told interrogators they were promised $10,000 and an apartment for every hostage. Lilach Shoval

(October 24, 2023 / JNS) After showing foreign journalists footage of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists during their Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, the IDF on Monday published two segments from the interrogation of Hamas terrorists who participated in the massacre.

“The plan was to go from house to house, throw grenades and kill everyone there, including women and children,” the terrorist said. He also told interrogators that Hamas had instructed them to behead their victims.

“The purpose of entering Israeli territory… was to kidnap civilians; they want as many hostages as possible,” one of the terrorists revealed. He added, “They [Hamas] promised us that whoever brings a kidnapped person will receive an apartment and $10,000.”

1. عاجل أحد مخربي حماس الذي شارك في الهجوم الإرهابي على كيبوتس عالوميم أثناء استجوابه: حماس أمرتنا بالقتل وقطع الرؤوس وحتى ممارسة الجنس مع جثة فتاة بعد قتلها!

كشف المخرب أمام المحققين عن الموافقة التي حصل عليها #دواعش_حماس، بما في ذلك التوجيه الشرعي الديني، لتنفيذ الأعمال… [pic.twitter.com/q5TVm2Y8BR] [#Breaking: One of the Hamas terrorists who participated in the terrorist attack on Kibbutz Alumim during his interrogation: Hamas ordered us to kill, behead, and even have sex with the corpse of a girl after killing her! The terrorist revealed to investigators the approval obtained by #Hamas_ISIS, including religious legal guidance, to carry out the actions. — افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 23, 2023] Another terrorist talked about the instructions to seize Sufa military post and kill the residents of Kfar Aza, saying: “The instructions were to kidnap anyone we came across—elderly, women and children. We were ordered to kill everyone in Kfar Aaza and empty the kibbutz of its people. In one case we entered a home and saw another group holding the family hostage, they were using them as human shields so that they would not get hurt.”

Another terrorist who participated in the Kfar Aza massacre said, “We entered one of the houses; there was a woman on the floor, and then her dog came towards us so I shot the dog. After that, we noticed a man in the yard of the house, and I shot him with three bullets.”

Asked whether the man in the yard had been armed, the terrorist replied, “No, he was not armed. I shot him in the chest with three bullets when he was not holding any weapon at all.”

“Afterward,” he continued, “we roamed around the area, and we saw two adjacent houses at a specific point in Kfar Aza, and we burned both of them completely.”

The terrorist also told investigators he had raped one of the corpses.

One of the terrorists, a member of Hamas’s special “Nukhba” force, told interrogators: “We reached a house where a family had taken shelter inside a reinforced room, and we yelled for them to come out, but they were afraid and stayed inside. We set off a small explosive on the iron window, creating a small hole, and threatened to throw a burning cloth in to suffocate the people inside. As a result, one of the girls inside got scared and opened the window.”

At this point, one of the terrorists fired 10 bullets at the mother and her two daughters, aged 18 and 20, he said, adding, ” Later, more of us came and fired more shots at them.” [...] “Aren’t your actions similar to those of ISIS? Killing civilians indiscriminately is exactly what ISIS does,” asked the interrogator, to which the terrorist replied, “That’s correct; it’s just like ISIS. There’s no difference.”

The same answer was given by another of the terrorists.

“There is no difference between what we did and what ISIS does. The brutality is the same.” JNS

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Footage of Hamas Terrorist Admitting to Raping Dead Bodies, Slaughtering Children Released By IDF The terrorist operative said the combatants 'became animals' during the Oct. 7 massacres Published 10/23/23 02:39 PM ET|Updated 10/23/23 03:39 PM ET Christopher Gavin The Messenger

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'Eyes were gouged out, a woman's breasts cut off and a daughter had her legs severed': Horrific details of Hamas massacre emerge as rescue worker recounts how entire families were slaughtered. By Rachael Bunyan 15:29 24 Oct 2023, updated 15:31 24 Oct 2023

Rescue worker Moshe Melayev told how families were slaughtered in homes

• • • WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ***

Hamas terrorists killed a husband and gouged his eyes out before going on to cut his wife's breasts off and chop his daughter's leg off, a rescue worker has revealed as yet more horrific details of the terrorists' savage attack continue to emerge.

Moshe Melayev told how entire families were slaughtered in their homes by the clad-clad terrorists who were wielding assault rifles and grenades as they launched their surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7.

Melayev, of Israel's National Rescue Unit, said as he walked through kibbutzim close to the Gaza border, he saw the beheaded bodies of victims lying on the floors of their homes where they had hours earlier been drinking their morning coffee.

'I saw beheaded bodies, I saw body parts,' Melayev told Fox News. 'In a house there was a husband and wife and two children.'

'They killed the husband first, they took his eyes out, I saw the body myself. They cut the breasts of the woman off and they cut the leg off the girl. That's the family that I saw with my own eyes,' Melayev added, shaking his head as he recounted the horrors the Hamas terrorists inflicted on hundreds of families on October 7.

The rampaging terrorists unleashed horrors that defy belief, with an Israeli colonel recounting how one gunman cut open a pregnant mother's stomach and killed her baby in front of her before they shot her in the head. Daily Mail

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Israel Shares Raw Footage of the Oct. 7 Attacks.

The Israeli military showed the compilation to foreign reporters on a day when Israel continued to bombard Gaza with heavy airstrikes.

A wall covered with photos of hostages. The text on the photos says “Bring him home now!” and “Bring her home now!” Photos of Israeli citizens who are being held hostage in Gaza are displayed in Tel Aviv on Saturday.Credit...Amit Elkayam for The New York Times By Isabel Kershner Reporting from an army base north of Tel Aviv Oct. 23, 2023 Bloodied corpses lying in a bedroom, a bathroom, on the roads by their cars. An emergency medical worker pouring mineral water from a bottle to douse the smoldering remains of charred bodies. A dead baby whose body bore signs of violence.

Two soldiers without heads. Brutalized young women, one of them naked. Captives in Gaza surrounded by jeering gunmen.

Those images were part of nearly 44 minutes of raw footage that the Israeli military said was culled from hundreds of hours of material Israel had collected about the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas assailants from Hamas body cameras, dashcams, traffic cameras, closed-circuit TV and the mobile phones and social media accounts of victims, soldiers and emergency medical workers. [..] Reporters were told by the Israeli military not to record the footage. Certain sections, including video of a raid on a military base, have been previously verified by The New York Times. Some of the footage has already been shared on social media.

“We want to understand ourselves why we are in a war and what we are fighting for,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, said of the footage, which was shown in an auditorium at an army base north of Tel Aviv.

“What happened to Israel was not just a war crime,” he said, but “a crime against humanity.”

The footage opens with Hamas gunmen shooting at civilian cars and at people running across open fields as they flee the site of an open-air music festival. They whoop in triumph over their victims.

Footage from closed-circuit cameras captured one man scooping up two young boys, both wearing only underpants, as early morning sirens wailed, warning of incoming rocket fire. They ran out to a nearby bomb shelter. Assailants, lying in ambush, threw a grenade into the shelter, killing the man. The boys ran back to their house, where, distraught, one of them said he could not see anything. As a gunman rummaged in the refrigerator, the other boy cried, “Why am I alive?”

In another village, an assailant is heard calling his parents in Gaza from the phone of an Israeli woman. “I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands!” he shouted, according to an audio recording, adding, “Mom, your son is a hero!”

In other clips, victims are seen gagged and with their hands bound behind their backs. Faces are frozen in shock and agony. Women’s bones are broken, their legs twisted in impossible angles.

Many traumatized Israelis are only beginning to internalize the enormity of the disaster of Oct. 7. There has been little time for national mourning even as the country fears for and dreads the fighting to come.

Admiral Hagari said it was necessary to begin gathering the evidence to create a collective memory for future generations of what happened that day, which was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

“We will not let the world forget,” he said. “It will define who we are.” NYTimes

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Sick note found on body of Hamas terrorist calls for beheadings, removal of hearts. By Yaron Steinbuch. Published Oct. 25, 2023, 7:47 a.m. ET

A handwritten note found on the body of a Hamas terrorist encouraged the jihadists to remove the heads, hearts and livers of their Israeli victims, Israel's military said.

Israel Defense Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari was shown the horrific missive by an aide for the first time during an interview with CBS News [25].

"You must sharpen the blades of your swords and be pure in your intentions before Allah. Know that the enemy is a disease that has no cure, except beheading and removing the hearts and livers. Attack them!" the note reads in Arabic, according to the Jerusalem Post. [26].

The orders came from Hamas leadership, which declared the religious importance of killing Jews and provided inspiration from historical Muslim leaders who massacred men, sold women and children into slavery, and looted cities.

Hagari reacted to the note by stressing the need to vanquish the terror group.

An aide handed Daniel Hagari, Israel's chief military spokesperson, a slip of paper that he claims was taken off the body of a Hamas militant.

"Know that the enemy is a disease that has no cure, except beheading and removing the hearts and livers," the note reportedly says. [27]

The handwritten note was found on a dead terrorist. [28] X / @idfonline "The Oct. 7 massacre is something that I haven't seen through my life," he told CBS News. "This is a war. We have to fight. There is only one goal: Defeat Hamas. Kill the leaders of terror and bring our people home.'

Asked what his message was to the people who wrote the note, he said: "We have only one country. It's Israel. It’s our democracy, it’s our country. We’re not going anywhere. We’re going to fight for our country and we’re going to use all the means we can."

More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, mostly civilians who died in the initial rampage, according to Israeli officials.

On Wednesday, the IDF raised the number of remaining hostages in Gaza to 222 people, including foreigners believed captured by Hamas during the incursion. JPost

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Fatah brags it took part in October 7 slaughter. WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES. Itamar Marcus | Nov 1, 2023 Fatah brags: “We killed [them]… and stepped on their heads”

Fatah: “We had a prominent and clear role” PalWatch

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Fatah: “Strike the (so called) sons of apes of pigs… slaughter everyone who is Israeli.” Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Oct 9, 2023 PalWatch

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Pal Media Watch @palwatch: "Palestinians are crushing the Israel-rat" is how Fatah is celebrating Hamas’ barbaric massacre of .. civilians. Fatah joins the Nazis in depicting Jews as rats to be crushed, which is fitting, since the massacre Fatah is celebrating was Nazi-like in its barbarity. Families hunted down and massacred in their homes while huddled in each other’s arms or hiding behind trees, exactly from the Nazi play book. And let’s not forget the rapes. Fatah has shown its true colors with its fitting bedfellows: Hamas and the Nazis. Oct 9, 2023 [29]

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Hamas threatens to kill Israel hostages over Gaza strikes.

AFP | Published: 09th October 2023 11:55 PM GAZA CITY: Palestinian militant group Hamas threatened Monday to kill hostages if the Israeli army carried out air strikes without prior warning ... the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a statement.

"The enemy doesn't understand the language of humanity and ethics, so we'll address them in the language that they understand."

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip over the past three days after Hamas militants surged into southern Israeli towns in a surprise attack that has left hundreds killed. NewIndianExpress

Hamas Threatens To Kill Israel Hostages Over Gaza Strikes.

Palestinian militant group Hamas threatened Monday to kill hostages if the Israeli army carried out air strikes without prior warning targeting residents of the Gaza Strip.

... the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a statement.

"The enemy doesn’t understand the language of humanity and ethics, so we’ll address them in the language that they understand."

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip over the past three days after Hamas militants surged into southern Israeli towns in a surprise attack that has left hundreds killed.

Militants, who sprayed bullets under the cover of thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, fled back to the enclave... Channelstv

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Report: Terrorists came with precise maps, had time for selfies. Document found on dead terrorist includes order to kidnap soldiers, civilians; video taken by terrorists shows ease of entering intelligence base and destroying communication and computer hub. Ynet | October 14, 2023 Hamas came in under the protection of its heavy rocket fire on Israel, by a massive invasion over land, and by air and sea. In order to disrupt the military's observation capabilities, Hamas launched UAVs to destroy communication towers and observation posts along the Gaza border, causing blind spots, while bulldozers broke through the border fence allowing hundreds across in the first wave, sources told the paper. A further 1,800, followed the initial invaders. .. In the document, the terrorists received clear orders to kidnap Israelis. "Take soldiers and civilians prisoner and hostage so that we would use them to negotiate," the document said. This is in contradiction to claims made by Salah al Arouri, a senior Hamas official, to Al Jazeera, that Hamas only targeted the military and that the Israelis were taken by civilians crossing the breached border fence. YNet

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Herzog confirms Israel found Hamas files with instructions for making chemical weapons.

Barak Ravid, Oct 22, 2023

Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed on Sunday Axios' report that the IDF found a USB key with instructions for producing a "cyanide dispersion device" on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

The big picture: Herzog's comments in an interview with Sky News are part of a wider Israeli diplomatic effort to mobilize support in the West for the Israeli operation against Hamas.

"This is how shocking the situation is where we're looking at the instructions that are given on how to operate and how to create a kind of non-professional chemical weapon with cyanide," Herzog told Sky News. Axios

Hamas terrorists found carrying instructions for cyanide-based chemical weapons.

By Alex Oliveira. Published Oct. 22, 2023, 5:47 p.m. ET

Hamas terrorists killed in the horrific Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel were discovered carrying instructions on how to deploy cyanide-based chemical bombs, Israeli officials revealed.

The directions included detailed diagrams for a “cyanide dispersion device” and were stored in USBs found on the bodies of Hamas operatives who massacred Kibbutz Be’eri, according to Israeli intelligence reviewed by Axios. NY Post

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Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified . November 1, 2023 Palestine | Special Dispatch No. 10923

Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas political bureau said in an October 24, 2023 show on LBC TV (Lebanon) that Hamas is prepared to repeat the October 7 "Al-Aqsa Flood" Operation time and again until Israel is annihilated. He added that Palestinians are willing to pay the price and that they are "proud to sacrifice martyrs." Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: "Everything we do is justified."

To view the clip of Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, click here or below:

"The Al-Aqsa Flood Is Just The First Time, And There Will Be A Second, Third, And Fourth[;] Will We Pay A Price? Yes, And We Are Ready To Pay It"

Ghazi Hamad: "Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force. [30]. Memri

'We will repeat October 7 again and again' - Hamas official. By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 1, 2023 16:38. ([31] A damaged and blood-stained kindergarten is seen following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel October 22, 2023.) Last week, Hamad stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was asked about the terrorist group’s massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7. "Israel is a country that has no place on our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week... JPost

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Hamas religious scholars: 'Spill the blood of Israeli soldiers and settlers.' In decree published in Gaza, clerics permitting and encouraging the killing of 'Zionist soldiers and settlers both within and outside of Palestine'; Hamas official: 'guide their strikes and gunfire upon the Jews' throats'

Itamar Eichner | October 26, 2023 YNet

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IDF: This is the true identity of Hamas terrorist Abu Obaida. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 25, 2023 15:39 Updated: October 25, 2023 16:21

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Hudhayfah Kahlot, as named by the Israeli military's Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee, "hides behind his red keffiyeh just as Hamas hides behind civilian facilities."

The IDF on Wednesday claimed to have revealed the identity of Hamas terrorist and spokesperson of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades known as Abu Obaida. 

Hudhayfah Kahlot, as named by the Israeli military's Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee, "hides behind his red keffiyeh just as Hamas hides behind civilian facilities to launch rockets toward Israel.

"Hudhayfah Kahlot, you have been exposed," Adraee wrote with an attached video revealing the terrorist's face. "It is time to stop covering up. The mask and keffiyeh will not help you." JPost

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BRING THEM HOME - Innocent faces of 32 children held in tunnels by Hamas as distraught parents plead with terror group to release them. While International aid agencies and charities back calls to free the 32 children.

Daniel Hammond in Jerusalem, Nov 1 2023 ...The Sun is today publishing the names and photos of all 32 innocent kids to back the plea of their distraught families: “Please free our children.”

Who kidnaps kids? Where in the world is that the right thing to do? The Sun

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The world should know.

Opinion: In the face of unthinkable atrocities, the world must act against Hamas and help us bring the innocent captives back home, for the sake of the continued existence of Israel and for a sense of humanity, wherever it may be found. Snunit Liss | October 14, 2023

The following text contains very harsh and triggering descriptions of genocide and rape, but this is our life in Israel since October 7, 2023, and the world should know.

I am writing so that you all know...

Parents and children in the pastoral kibbutz of Kfar Aza, whose members woke up to a typical Saturday morning, were tied and tortured in front of each other by invading Hamas terrorists.

They were murdered, their bodies horrifically mutilated—one by one until none remained. Then the terrorists casually dined amid the grisly scene, surrounded by severed limbs in the devastated family home. This account was provided by a member of ZAKA, an Israeli organization responsible for recovering bodies after disasters, during an interview with Israel’s Radio 103FM.

Shani Louk, a young German-Israeli woman who partied at a peace rave, was kidnapped into the Gaza Strip by terrorists who invaded the party, murdering its attendants indiscriminately. She was stripped, and her naked body was tossed on a truck face down between the Hamas terrorists. The truck drove through the streets of Gaza, with the masses cheering the appalling scene, and Shani’s naked, discarded body spat on by the surrounding throngs.

Another young woman kidnapped from the party was pulled from the back of the truck violently and taken to the front with the back of her pants, between her legs, soaked with blood. The soul aches at the thought of the events preceding these images. The survivors of the peace party-turned-pogrom reported that the Hamas terrorists who raided it raped young women beside the bodies of their murdered friends.

At Kibbutz Kfar Aza - a quiet, peace-seeking rural community, which until last week numbered 750 residents - dozens were slaughtered in their homes, 20 of its residents were kidnapped and contact has been lost with 36. In the kibbutzim of the Gaza border region, which have endured the horrific Hamas massacre, dozens of bodies of babies and children were found murdered in their cribs, in their beds, wrapped in the bodies of their dead parents who died trying in vain to protect them, or burned alive while trying to shelter from the atrocities in the safe rooms in their homes.

Over 100 Israeli citizens have apparently been kidnapped to Gaza, including babies, toddlers whose parents were murdered, mothers with their children and elderly Holocaust survivors. Over 1,200 people were murdered in this brutal, violent attack. We, Israelis in the fields of writing, humanities and academia, are mostly left-wing in persuasion and believe in equality and human rights. Many of us have been active over the years to promote a diplomatic and peaceful solution between Palestinians and Israelis.

The barbaric massacre that took place in the Gaza border area on October 7, 2023, the horrific rapes and abductions of civilians have nothing to do with the struggle for the rights of Palestinians or human rights. These are acts of pure sadism, of the worst and most abominable type imaginable, of the kind ISIS committed against their victims. Those who committed them would have gone on to do the same to any Israeli resident – Jew, Arab or foreign national that had fallen into their hands had the security forces not stopped them. It is the duty of Israel and of humanity to protect themselves and eradicate such acts and those capable of committing them. The world must know and act against them and help us bring the innocent captives back home, for the sake of the continued existence of Israel and for a sense of humanity, wherever it may be found. Snunit Liss (1980) is an Israeli author. Born in Kibbutz Ein-Shemer, Liss has worked as a local journalist, music critic and entertainment and technology reporter. She owns a marketing content firm and researches literature and disability. Ynet

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IDF eliminates terrorist who led last week's Hamas massacre. By Gadi Zaig, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman Published: October 14, 2023

The IDF struck down 1,000 strategic Hamas locations in Gaza since Operation Swords of Iron started.

The IDF and the Shin Bet eliminated Ali Qadi, the commander of the "Nakba Force" who led the Hamas massacre last week that killed more than 1,300 Israelis, the IDF announced Saturday afternoon.

IDF aircraft, with the intelligence guidance of the Shin Bet and AMAN (Military Intelligence Directorate), targeted the terrorist. In 2005, Qadi was arrested following the kidnapping and murder of Israelis and was later released as part of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal.

The announcement came shortly after a briefing by IDF Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, who told the press that the IDF has struck down 1,000 strategic Hamas locations in Gaza since Operation Swords of Iron started.

It also eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists, including many from Qadi's Nakba Force.

In addition, the IDF assassinated Merad Abu Merad, who was the head of the Hamas aerial system, it said Saturday morning. He was primarily responsible for directing terrorists during the massacre.

Hagari stressed that some 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the enclave's south.

"The IDF calls on all residents of Gaza City to evacuate their homes, move south for their protection, and settle in the area south of the Gaza River," an IDF statement read Thursday. "This evacuation is for your safety. Returning to Gaza City after a notification confirming [safety] will be possible. Do not approach the border fence with the State of Israel."

Hagari reiterated that call and stressed that the IDF needed the residents to leave because it planned to target strategic Hamas targets in the area. Hamas uses the residents as human shields, putting tunnels and bunkers under houses in Gaza City and inside civilian buildings.

"We didn't put those civilians there," IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said in an English briefing on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday morning. "They are not our enemy. We are not trying to kill or injure any civilians. We are fighting against Hamas. That needs to be abundantly clear. We are targeting their infrastructure - wherever it is."

"We appreciate the tens of thousands who have left in the last hours," Hagari said. "Anyone who chooses not to leave puts their family in danger." [...] Hagari stressed that any movement of Gazans out of the enclave, even through Egypt, would be coordinated with Israel.

At the same time as Israel is attacking Gaza, the army will also protect Israel on other fronts, Hagari added.

He stressed that the army was strong and would be able to manage Hezbollah in the north and terrorism emanating from the West Bank.

On Saturday, Hezbollah fighters fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops. It also sent drones into Israel and fired surface-to-air missiles at an Israeli aircraft, which the IDF quickly intercepted.

The IDF also foiled a cell of Palestinian terrorists that operated under Hezbollah's direction and tried to infiltrate Israel via Lebanon, an army spokesperson said.

Conricus stressed that as of Saturday morning, the situation at Israel's northern border remains extremely tense, and Hezbollah's activities are being monitored.

In the West Bank, the IDF has arrested more than 230 Hamas operatives since Operation Swords of Iron started, the military updated on Saturday morning.

The focus of the arrests has been on Hamas operatives, as well as instigators of terrorism. JPost

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IDF conducts ‘localized’ ops in Gaza as war enters 2nd week. Charles Bybelezer October 14, 2023 / JNS The IDF also killed Murad Abu Murad, the head of Hamas’s aerial array in Gaza, in an overnight airstrike. Abu Murad “took a big part in directing terrorists during the massacre” of 1,300 Israelis during last Saturday’s invasion of the western Negev. JNS

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IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis.

Israel National News, Oct 15, 2023, 7:44 AM (GMT+3)

Following Shin Bet (ISA) intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives were also killed.

The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by targeting its operational command centers, military compounds, dozens of launchers, anti-tank missile launch posts, and observation posts. Furthermore, operational command centers belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization were struck. INN

IDF kills Hamas commander involved in deadly attacks as rocket fire on south resumes. Military says over 100 terror targets struck overnight; evacuation of Sderot residents slated to start; IDF spokesman: Top priority in Gaza op is freeing hostages By Emanuel Fabian and TOI Staff Today, 1:25 pm [...] The IDF said Billal al-Qedra, the commander of the so-called Nukhba unit's southern Khan Younis battalion, was killed in an airstrike following intelligence efforts by the Shin Bet security agency and Military Intelligence Directorate. TOI

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Israel at War

LIVEBLOG: IDF holds out on ground maneuver, giving Gazans more time to evacuate. Oct 15, 2023 i24

The 7th day to the war... N12, Oct 13, 2023

(Israel, local times)

12:35 - It is reported in Gaza: the IDF distributed leaflets - in which it urged residents to evacuate the Gaza Strip to the south.

12:00 - The IDF destroyed dozens of positions for launching drones built on the roofs of civilian houses in the Gaza Strip. "This is another example of how the terrorist organization Hamas uses the citizens of the Gaza Strip as a human shield," said the IDF spokesperson. It should be noted that the Hamas UAV array was tested during Operation "Guardian of the Walls" during which it tried to implement a number of plans to launch UAVs that failed - some of them were intercepted by the Air Force and some of them fell due to technical malfunctions.

08:04 - So far, more than 400,000 residents of the Gaza Strip have evacuated to about 100 shelters and relatives.

08:03 - IDF warplanes attacked 750 military targets throughout the night across the Strip, including underground tunnels, military compounds and outposts, high-ranking houses that served as military headquarters, IDF warehouses, communications rooms and the organization's operatives. At the same time, three mortar operatives of an organization were thwarted in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip.

07:49 - IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Daniel Hagari: "Our priority is the elimination of senior officials and terrorists who participated in the murderous massacre. We cannot live with Hamas-ISIS rule near our borders. We are going to collapse the Hamas infrastructure in Gaza." He further added: "We have informed 258 families that their loved ones in the IDF have fallen since Saturday. The status of the abductees is 97 families."

07:44 - The Hamas Interior Ministry told the residents of the Gaza Strip this morning - in response to the IDF's call to evacuate their homes: Israel is trying to spread false propaganda to sow confusion among the residents of Gaza. Do not cooperate with these attempts which constitute psychological warfare.

07:11 - IDF spokesperson to residents of Gaza City: "All residents are called to evacuate their homes, move south for their protection and settle in the area south of the Gaza River. This evacuation is for your personal safety. It will be possible to return to Gaza City only after a notification confirming this. Do not approach the fence area with the State of Israel. Hamas terrorists are hiding in Gaza City in tunnels under houses in Gaza City, and inside many buildings are innocent civilians."

06:25 - Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan: "The UN's response to Israel's early warning to the residents of Gaza is a disgrace! For many years the UN has been 'turning a blind eye' to the arming of Hamas and its use of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as a hiding place for weapons and his murder. And now, instead of standing by Israel, whose citizens were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists and who tries to minimize harm to those not involved, he preaches specifically to Israel. It is better for the UN to focus now on returning the abductees, condemning Hamas and supporting Israel's right to defend itself."

05:42 - The IDF informed the UN: 1.1 million Palestinians living in the north of the Gaza Strip are required to evacuate to the south within 24 hours. In response, the United Nations called for the cancellation of the demand in order to "prevent a disaster and devastating humanitarian consequences." According to the details that the IDF provided to the representatives of the United Nations, the residents of Gaza City are required to move to the south - in order to prevent possible harm to them. Those who do not obey the instructions - "put the himself and his family in danger."

05:40 - The pictures of the Israeli abductees, including toddlers and the elderly, were projected onto the UN headquarters - demanding their release. The headquarters of the families of the abductees in the US made three demands: their immediate release, the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the supply of medicine and necessary equipment, and a call for the intervention of world leaders in general and the Arab world in particular. "The world needs to know. The world needs to wake up. We will not rest until our sisters and brothers who were captured by murderous violence return home to their families," it said. Mako [33][34]

David's Slingshot intercepted a rocket from Gaza to Haifa - The IDF found 30 bodies near Be'eri

Minister Galant: "The war will have heavy costs, but we will win" - The IDF destroyed dozens of positions for launching drones on the rooftops of Gaza's citizens • The IDF: All residents of northern Gaza, about one million and one hundred thousand - to evacuate to the south of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours - So far, more than 400,000 were made available - During Shabbat, the silent wave frequencies will operate. Ch. 10. 28 Tishrei 5784 / (Oct 13. '23). Ch10

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Israel urges civilians in northern Gaza to go South. Michael Holmes talks with IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. ["The problem with the aid that goes in intended for Palestinians is taken by Hamas..."] (Oct 14, 2023)) CNN

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Antony Blinken Says Hamas Blocking Palestinians From Evacuating North Gaza.

Newsweek, Oct 13, 2023 Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas is allegedly blocking roads and preventing civilians from evacuating Northern Gaza. Israel warned 1.1 million Gazans to flee to the south ahead of an anticipated ground invasion. on YouTube

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Hamas seen blocking evacuation routes in Gaza - IDF. By Tzvi Joffre Published: October 15, 2023 05:00 Updated: October 15, 2023 05:44

Analysts noted that a car bombing seemed to target the evacuation routes in Gaza on Saturday.

... Hamas urges Gazans to ignore IDF evacuation directive After the IDF issued the directive on Friday, officials in the Hamas-run government in Gaza called the instructions "false propaganda and psychological warfare," saying "we urge our citizens to ignore it."

On Saturday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said that Palestinians would remain in their homes "even if they are destroyed." JPost

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CHUCK DEVORE: The U.N. shames Israelis for evacuating Palestinian - while Hamas uses the innocent as human shields. When will the world see that these vicious terrorists - not Israel - are Gaza's worst enemy? By Chuck Devore For Dailymail.Com 14:41 14 Oct 2023, updated 14:41 14 Oct 2023

Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put.

Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It's no surprise they're now using them as human shields.

On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000 troops on the border of Gaza in preparation for the grim task of rooting out and dismantling Hamas, dropped fliers from planes instructing non-combatants to get out.

'Civilians of Gaza City, evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and distance yourself from Hamas terrorists who are using you as human shields,' the IDF said.

Hamas responded: 'Our Palestinian people reject the threat made by the leaders of the occupation and its call for Gazans to leave their houses and leave to the south or to Egypt.'

Like clockwork, the United Nations and America's left-wing, anti-Israel media took up the Hamas narrative.

Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It's no surprise they're now using them as human shields.

The U.N. called for the IDF evacuation request to be 'rescinded' and warned that a mass evacuation could be 'calamitous.' The Washington Post desperately described the Gaza Strip as a 'kill box.' The ridiculous phrase was later edited out of the article, but this twisted narrative cannot be ignored.

Bordering the Mediterranean Sea on its west and Israel on its north and east, the Gaza Strip is 140-square miles. Gaza City is the most populous area in the region, but there are large cities in the south near its border with Egypt.

Israel sees no military utility in indiscriminate bombing. They want to evacuate as many civilians as possible from the immediate warzone.

Hamas' information warfare strategy requires them to remain.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken alluded to this on Friday. 'Efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza are complicated by the fact that Hamas continues to use innocent civilians as human shields and is reportedly blocking roads to prevent Palestinians from moving to southern Gaza out of harm's way.'

Indeed, Hamas thrives on tragedy. And one can see where this is all headed as the U.N. and a complicit press attempt to gradually erode global support for Israel's offensive and force them to stop short of eliminating the terrorist threat in Gaza once and for all.

But in all of this, it must be understood that the ultimate blame for the despair of the Palestinian people falls not on Israel, but on Hamas and its Islamist benefactors in Tehran.

For it's them who for decades have valued their own political purposes over the lives of innocents.

But in all of this, it must be understood that the ultimate blame for the despair of the Palestinian people falls not on Israel, but on Hamas and its Islamist benefactors in Tehran.

Israel sees no military utility in indiscriminate bombing. They want to evacuate as many civilians as possible from the immediate warzone.

In 2005, Israel withdrew all of its citizens - some voluntarily and some by force – from Gaza City and turned over governance to the Palestinians.

A Palestinian unity government soon collapsed after Hamas waged a bloody civil war against the opposition party Fatah. The struggle concluded with Hamas agents throwing rival politicians to their deaths from high-rise buildings.

Since then, local Palestinian elections have been held just three times – though only in the Fatah-ruled West Bank – while Hamas has rededicated itself to the destruction of Israel and always at the cost of its own people.

Under the scourge of indiscriminate rocket strikes, Israel and Egypt agreed in 2007 to prevent arms, ammunition, and other goods that could be turned into weapons from entering Gaza.

In response, Hamas turned their land into an arms factory. Whatever they couldn't smuggle in from Iran, they made themselves.

Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades posted videos online of militants digging up water pipes to cut them down and convert them into rockets.

Is it any wonder that today only 10 percent of Gazans have access to clean drinking water?

Hamas rockets rain down on Israeli cities like Ashkelon — whose power plant provides Gaza with electricity for free because Hamas has prioritized war over civilian improvements. The lights are typically on for about half the day in Gaza - now the city is dark.

Despite all of this, in 2010, Israel began allowing importation into Gaza for humanitarian projects like the building of schools, hospitals and housing. But Hamas seized the concrete to construct tunnels under the border to stage attacks on Israel.

Hamas seized the concrete to construct tunnels under the border to stage attacks on Israel.

One such terror tunnel - said to have required 500 tons of concrete – was discovered by Israel in 2013. 'Instead of building reservoirs for water or kindergartens, Hamas is investing in tunnels,' an IDF spokesperson said at the time.

And of course, the lives of Gazans don't appear to hold much value for their Hamas wardens

It is well-known that Hamas' de facto military headquarters is located inside al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, because they know Israel will not bomb it. The IDF cares more about Palestinian civilians than Hamas does.

Why else would Hamas store and fire rockets from inside Palestinian schools? The United Nations agency dedicated to helping Palestinian refugees exposed this practice in 2014 when they discovered 20 rockets hidden in a single schoolhouse.

In the coming days, there will be horrific images broadcast out to millions that will surely shake the world's conscience.

War is terrible.

But we cannot lose sight of the truth that Israel is attempting to protect innocent lives no matter the nationality - and Hamas is the Palestinians' worst enemy. Daily Mail

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Hamas destroyed the crossing through which the Gazans made a living: documenting the destruction at the Erez terminal. Defense Ministry employees returned to the Erez crossing for the first time since the outbreak of war, and assessed the enormous damage that Hamas terrorists caused to the terminal that Israel established after the disengagement and that was upgraded last year. The terrorists did justice in the facility through which 17 thousand Palestinian laborers passed every week to earn 12 times more than in Gaza. Watch the first documentary. Yoav Zeyton Published:17.10.23 | 13:44

Automatic gates. Certificate and passport stamping stations. Mirroring devices. Many agree including explanations for the following. high ceiling All of these were part of the upgraded terminal at the Erez crossing. Now there are mostly ruins there.

The destruction to the terminal at the Erez crossing. Photo: Spokesperson and Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Defense)

The first documentation since the surprise attack by Hamas shows the enormous destruction caused by the hundreds of terrorists to the terminal at the Erez crossing, through which 17 thousand workers from Gaza passed every week in order to earn a living in Israel and receive a wage that is 12 times higher than the average wage in the Gaza Strip. Watch the documentation, at the beginning of the article. Erez Crossing workers of the Crossings Authority of the Ministry of Defense returned to the crossing today, for the first time since the outbreak of the war, to assess the damage and document the enormous destruction caused by Hamas terrorists to the crossing - which was used for the entry of thousands of Gaza residents every day for work, trade and medical treatment.

The damage caused by hundreds of Hamas terrorists to the upgraded terminal at the Erez crossing through which tens of thousands of Gaza residents pass for medical treatment and work

Israel established the crossing after disengagement, but from 2007 and for more than a decade it waited as a kind of white elephant for more prosperous and quieter times. Last year - with the significant increase in the number of Palestinian workers passing through the crossing - the arrivals hall of the terminal was upgraded , so that an advanced security check was possible, with technological imaging scans.

From the moment of the upgrade, the border control phase was carried out automatically, based on a biometric system of facial recognition, similar to Israel and crossings in Judea and Samaria. The checkpoints were also canceled and in their place were deployed automatic gates, which open upon certain recognition of the facial features and attachment of a magnetic card. Even the toilet facilities and infrastructure were upgraded , and so is the parking lot. All these are a thing of the past, after the raid by thousands of Hamas terrorists on the Gaza Envelope on the first day of the war. One of the central points of the raid was the nearby Erez Crossing post, and also through the terminal, members of the Nohva Force raided Israeli territory. YNet

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Israel shows major damage to Erez Crossing with Gaza following Hamas assault. By Emanuel Fabian. 17 Oct 2023, 8:06 pm

([35] Damage is seen to the Erez Crossing with the Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023, after it was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Defense Ministry)

The Defense Ministry publishes footage showing damage to the Erez Crossing with the Gaza Strip, after it was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7...

The ministry says that for the first time since the war began, ministry personnel returned to the pedestrian crossing to assess the damage.

The crossing had facilitated the daily entry of thousands of Palestinians into Israel for work, medical treatment and other special cases. It is not expected to reopen amid the fighting. TOI

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian: Hamas announces the death of Ayman Nofal, a member of the terror group's General Military Council, in an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip. Oct 17, 2023 [36]

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IDF tells world: This is how Islamic Jihad destroyed the Gaza hospital. The chief spokesman presented actual audio recordings in which Islamic Jihad members say out loud that they are responsible for the explosion.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob October 18, 2023 10:04 Updated: October, 2023 10:35

IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari on Wednesday laid out the IDF's full comprehensive intelligence case to prove that an Islamic Jihad failed rocket caused the damage Tuesday night to a Gaza hospital, leading to a still-unclear, but large, number of Palestinian civilian deaths.

The chief spokesman presented actual audio recordings in which Islamic Jihad members say out loud that they are responsible for the explosion.

Hagari also presented a detailed video on top of earlier videos put out by Israel's public relations apparatus showing different stages of the rocket's trajectory and the layout of the hospital being hit.

The press conference was highly unusual in terms of making signals and other military surveillance intelligence available to the public, showing Israel's realization that how the incident is perceived has strategic importance for global support or opposition to the next stages of the war, especially the anticipated ground invasion, which has already seemed on pause for nearly a week.

1. عاجل بعد تحقيق شامل ومعمق أجريناه في جيش الدفاع نستطيع ان نؤكد ان تنظيم الجهاد الاسلامي هو المسؤول عن استهداف المستشفى المعمداني في مدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/AgIaon2uKd

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) October 18, 2023 Hagari said, "The IDF has concluded an after-action review and confirmed that the Islamic Jihad was responsible for the strike," on the Gaza hospital.

"We did an immediate review for all relevant branches of the IDF," he said.

(IDF satellite footage above the explosion site at a hospital in Gaza .credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT [37])

Next, he said, "At 6:15 p.m., a barrage of rockets was fired by Hamas at Israel." At 6:50 p.m., a barrage of 10 rockets was fired by Islamic jIhad from a nearby cemetery, he said. Further, at 6:59 pm., there were reports of an explosion at the hospital. According to our intelligence, Hamas checked reports, and itself understood that it was as Islamic Jihad rocket misfired and decided to launch a global media campaign to hide what happened, he said.

Hamas also inflated casualties, he stated.

Moreover, he said the PIJ rocket was fired from a cemetery next to the hospital and hit a parking lot next to the hospital which likely had terror munitions, which caused further damage.

He said there was visual evidence showing infrared imagery of the nearby parking lot.

The IDF also confirmed there was no IDF fire by land, sea, or air which could have hit the hospital.

A failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization hit the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City.IAF footage from the area around the hospital before and after the failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization: pic.twitter.com/AvCAkQULAf

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 18, 2023 IDF shares internal Islamic Jihad conversation on hospital blast A rough summary of some of the internal Islamic Jihad conversation included statements such as:

"It's from us? Who says this? They are saying the shrapnel from the missile is Islamic Jihad and not an Israeli missile. They shot it from the cemetery coming from behind the hospital. There is a cemetery behind it?"

On Tuesday night, Hagari had already given initially declared that "an analysis of IDF operational systems indicates a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity, to the hospital at the time it was hit. Intelligence from a few sources that we have in our hands indicates that the Islamic Jihad is responsible." JPost

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IDF confirms Islamic Jihad failed rocket destroyed Gaza hospital. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 17, 2023 20:26 Updated: October 18, 2023 00:35. The IDF confirmed late Tuesday night that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad failed rocket attack damaged a Gaza hospital, leading to a still unclear number of deaths. JPost _

Netanyahu: ‘Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children.’ "The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF," said the Israeli prime minister. (October 17, 2023 / JNS) Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip, fired a rocket that killed hundreds of Palestinians at Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday.

“An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit,” he wrote on social media. “Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.”

“The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF,” he added. “Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children.” JNS

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IDF confirms Islamic Jihad rocket caused Gaza hospital blast. The army provided additional visual and audio evidence.

(Visual evidence from the IDF of the failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch that caused an explosion next to a Gaza hospital on Oct. 17, 2023. [38])

(October 18, 2023 / JNS) A failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch at Israel caused the explosion at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night, the IDF confirms.

“The IDF has concluded an After Action Review and can confirm that the Islamic Jihad was responsible for the strike on the hospital in Gaza City,” Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a press briefing on Wednesday morning.

Terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, and at 6:59 p.m., Islamic Jihad fired another barrage of around 10 rockets from a nearby cemetery. This was the exact time that the hospital blast was reported, Hagari explained.

“According to our intelligence, Hamas checked the reports, understood it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that had misfired—and decided to launch a global media campaign to hide what really happened,” Hagari continued.

“They went as far as inflating the number of casualties. They understood, with absolute certainty, that it was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad that damaged the hospital.”

The IDF provided a recording of a conversation between Hamas operatives regarding the hospital bombing, which confirms that it was a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch that caused it, including that it looked “like local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel.”

One of the Hamas operatives said that the Palestinians launched the rocket from a cemetery behind the hospital and that “it misfired and fell on them.”

Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not.

Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves: [pic.twitter.com/u7WyU8Rxwz]

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 18, 2023 Aerial footage shows that the hospital was not directly hit and that the only place showing damage was the parking lot next to it, Hagari said.

A failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization hit the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City.

IAF footage from the area around the hospital before and after the failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization: [pic.twitter.com/AvCAkQULAf]

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 18, 2023 Israel’s Channel 12 also provided visual evidence on Wednesday of the errant Islamic Jihad rocket, showing footage from one of its news cameras placed in the southern Israeli city of Netivot.

The video appears to show the rocket being launched and then immediately striking in the vicinity of the hospital.

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 12 News camera records the Hamas shooting at the hospital in Gaza [39] @LeviYonit [pic.twitter.com/9cVBCwIraN]

– N12 (@N12News) October 18, 2023 It is common for Gazan terrorist rockets aimed at Israel to fall short, causing Palestinian casualties, Hagari noted, adding that the IDF has counted approximately 450 rockets that misfired and hit in Gaza.

“Palestinian civilians pay the price,” he said.

Hagari said that the information was being shared with partners, including the United States.

“We want maximum transparency because we take any incident involving civilians very seriously. Unfortunately, many in the media immediately reported the statements coming out of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which blamed Israel,” he continued.

“Instead of waiting for the examination of credible information from the IDF, some media outlets ran with Hamas’s lies. Some of those headlines are still up and have not been corrected.

“I understand the desire to break news, but I hope you will all agree that accuracy and credible information comes before speed,” said Hagari.

“The IDF acts in accordance with international law,” he noted.

“In conclusion, this incident shows how allegations—in this case, false and baseless allegations made by terrorists—against Israel can spread and inflame tensions in the region,” Hagari said. JNS

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IDF: Military intercepted communications indicating Islamic Jihad fired hospital rocket. By AP and TOI STAFF Oct 18, 2023, 4:45 am In a briefing with reporters, IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred on Tuesday, and intercepted communications between terror groups indicating that Islamic Jihad fired the rockets.

The army determined there were no air force, ground or naval attacks in the area at the time of the blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

Hagari also shared aerial footage collected by a military drone that showed a blast that he said was inconsistent with Israeli weaponry. He said the explosion occurred in the building’s parking lot TOI

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IDF Releases Audio of Hamas Admitting Hospital Strike. Charlie McCarthy, October 18, 2023 Newsmax

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Yair Lapid @yairlapid: At around 19:00 this evening, a failed rocket launch was shown live on air on Al Jazeera. The rocket was launched and fell in Gaza causing an explosion.

They don't only kill our children, they also kill their own. Oct 17, 2023 [40]

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LIVEBLOG: PIJ rocket caused Gaza hospital explosion, according to IDF; Biden en route. i24NEWS October 17, 2023 at 11:47 PM latest revision October 18, 2023 at 12:48 AM Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a comprehensive investigation of the hospital incident and concluded that it was a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket launch, one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip.

Nevertheless, the Arab world continued to blame Israel, with rioters breaking into the Israeli embassy compound in Jordan, and protests outside Western embassies in other Middle Eastern countries. i24

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Misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rocket Responsible for Hospital Explosion, IDF Says. By Ari Blaff October 17, 2023 3:59 PM ...members, including Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) as well as Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), cited articles relying on the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports.. Images have circulated online showing Hamas announcing on Telegram, a social-media network, minutes before the hospital strike that the terrorist group was set to launch long-range missiles capable of striking the city of Haifa in northern Israel. "One minute before a rocket blew up a hospital in Gaza, Hamas announced on Telegram that they were launching their most robust weapons in the arsenal at Haifa. No rockets reached Haifa. High probability these hit the hospital and set off secondary explosions within building." NRO

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Amir Tsarfati: Another view of the failed launch. Oct 17 at 15:26 [41]

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Israel Defense Forces shared raw footage, revealing the moment a rocket misfired and exploded the same time the Gaza hospital was hit. 'A rocket aimed at Israel misfired and exploded at 18:59—the same moment a hospital was hit in Gaza,' the IDF wrote on X Israel denied responsibility for the blast at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, claiming it was a rocket misfired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists. A newly released video by the Israel Defense Force shows a rocket misfiring and exploding in Gaza at the same moment a Baptist hospital was struck and at least 500 people were killed.

'A rocket aimed at Israel misfired and exploded at 18:59—the same moment a hospital was hit in Gaza,' the IDF wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

The video shows a rocket exploding in the air before descending below. It's unclear what exactly was hit by the misfired rocket in the video.

Israel denied responsibility for the blast at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, claiming it was a rocket misfired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.

A spokesman for Islamic Jihad blamed the strike on Israel and accused the IDF of 'trying to cover for the horrifying crime and massacre they committed against civilians.' Daily Mail

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US analysis shows Israel not responsible for hospital explosion. -White House Politics Reuters| Washington | United States

Updated: 18-10-2023 20:29 IST | Created: 18-10-2023 20:29 IST US analysis shows Israel not responsible for hospital explosion -White House

A U.S. analysis of currently available data indicates that "Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday," a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council said on Wednesday.

The assessment is based on the United States' analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information, NSC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a post on X, adding that the United States is continuing to collect information. Reuters, David's Course

Biden tells Israel, "You're not alone"; says military data show Gaza militants to blame for hospital explosion. By Kathryn Watson Updated On: October 18, 2023 / 7:51 PM / CBS News CBS

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Analysing Israel's 'proof' that it wasn't behind Gaza hospital bloodbath: Experts examine IDF's dossier of 'evidence' including images of misfiring rocket, lack of crater and shrapnel on roof. By David Averre 08:47 EDT 18 Oct 2023 , updated 14:49 EDT 18 Oct 2023 Israel published a slew of evidence it said showed a misfiring rocket caused blast. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad slammed IDF claims it did not strike hospital. Now experts have weighed in on the statements shared by the warring sides...

Now, experts review each piece of evidence provided by the IDF to suggest Israel was not behind the brutal hospital blast. ... Images of blast site 'inconsistent' with an Israeli aerial strike ...

What the experts say

RUSI aerial warfare analyst Justin Bronk agreed with Hagari's statements.

He wrote: 'No crater or obvious shrapnel pattern consistent with IAF JDAM/Mk80 series bombs visible.... Joel Rayburn, director of the American Center for Levant Studies, said: 'There is no bomb crater here and nowhere near the destruction that would be required to cause (hundreds of deaths).

'The initial reports of an airstrike that allegedly killed hundreds of people are not plausible given this physical scene.'

Former UN war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco concurred: 'Whatever hit the hospital in Gaza it wasn’t an airstrike. Even the smallest JDAM leaves a 3m crater. Widespread surface damage and total lack of cratering inconsistent with an airstrike,' he concluded.

Open-source intelligence group GeoConfirmed also said the strike was likely to have been caused by 'a missile launched by a Palestinian group [which] exploded mid-air (reason unknown) and one piece fell on the hospital causing an explosion', based on analysis of videos and images of the scene.

And sharing an image of what appeared to be fire damage and minimal impact damage to the courtyard outside the hospital, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said: 'The is the most noticeable damage to the ground, which, if it were the impact point of the munition used, would mean it's pretty small payload, ...' [...] What the experts say

Speaking on the result of the blast, Dr Andreas Krieg - a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King's College London - said: 'If we look at the evidence... whatever happened in that car park (at the hospital) was very unlikely to be an Israeli airstrike.

Tal Hagin, an investigative analyst specialising in the Israel-Palestine conflict, said of the video footage: 'Due to the fuel time on the rocket and the explosion, I'd assume this was most likely an R-160 (rocket used frequently by Palestinian militants)... There is a high likelihood that this rocket misfired - but its payload was not entirely destroyed, resulting in a devastating explosion.

'Conclusion based on current data: A misfired rocket by Hamas/PIJ was responsible for the explosion at the hospital.'

J Andres Gannon, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, in the US, told the BBC the explosion appears to be small, meaning that the heat generated from the impact may have been caused by leftover rocket fuel rather than an explosion from a warhead.

And US National Security spokesman Adrienne Watson said that, while a full investigation is still pending, 'our current assessment... is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion in Gaza yesterday'. Daily Mail

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‘It Wasn’t An Airstrike’: Forthright Critic of Israeli Military Says IDF Not Responsible for Gaza Hospital Explosion.

Ben Cohen, October 19, 2023 A former Human Rights Watch (HRW) official with a long record of harsh criticism of Israeli military conduct has added his voice to the controversy around the explosion on Tuesday near the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City — saying clearly that an Israeli air strike was not responsible.

“Whatever hit the hospital in Gaza, it wasn’t an airstrike,” Marc Garlasco — a former US Defense Department and UN official who previously served as a senior military expert with Human Rights Watch — stated in a post on X/Twitter.

“Even the smallest JDAM [Joint Direct Action Munition, a guided air-to-surface weapon] leaves a 3m crater,” Garlasco added, alongside a photograph of the impact crater in the car park adjacent to the hospital that, according to Israeli and US intelligence, was struck by a misfired missile launched against Israel by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.

“Widespread surface damage and total lack of cratering inconsistent with an airstrike,” Garlasco noted.

During his career at HRW from 2003-2010, Garlasco authored three highly critical reports of Israel’s military, focusing on the use of white phosphorous in Gaza, cluster munitions in Lebanon, and the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. In 2006, Garlasco was directly challenged by Maj. Gen. Meir Klifi of the IDF over his assertion that eight members of a Palestinian family had been killed at a Gaza beach by artillery shells fired by Israeli forces. After meeting with Klifi, Garlasco revised his conclusion, saying that the deaths were more likely caused by unexploded Israeli ordinance.

Garlasco left HRW under a cloud in 2010, following revelations the previous year that he was an avid collector of Nazi military memorabilia. He subsequently went on to become a civilian protection specialist, serving with the UN’s aid mission in Afghanistan. Algemeiner

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Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid: Clown Trudeau becomes the only Western leader who condemned Israel for the Gaza hospital blast, before evidence emerged that a terrorists' misfired rocket caused it 🤡.

No wonder no world leader takes this clown seriously... Oct 17, 2023 [42]

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Bennett vs. New York Times: 'Shame on you!.' Former PM responds to New York Times initial headlines on Gaza hospital explosion. 'Is there a special exemption from fact-checking when it’s the Jewish State involved?'

Israel National News, Oct 18, 2023, 2:31 PM (GMT+3)

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennet responded to the headlines in The New York Times, which defined the explosion in the Gaza hospital as an "Israeli strike."

"Yesterday, at 6:59PM Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of around 10 rockets to Israel," Bennett wrote. "One of the rockets misfired (fairly common event) and hit the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Hospital, killing many innocent people."

"Hamas immediately understood that this was the Islamic Jihad’s rocket, and launched a massive lie campaign, blaming Israel. The New York Times immediately adopted Hamas’ version, peddling this lie for hours."

"New York Times: Shame on you. Apologize now for this slander," Bennett added. "Aren’t you supposed to check facts? Isn’t that your claim to fame? Is there a special exemption from fact-checking when it’s the Jewish State involved?"

The IDF undertook serious investigations and the IDF spokesman held briefing for foreign media, proving that the missile which hit a Gaza hospital on Tuesday night was not one of Israel's. In addition to the aerial footage, there is a recording of Hamas terrorists discussing the hit, describing the shrapnel at the site as "local" and "not Israeli." INN

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No, there aren’t two 'narratives' to the Gaza hospital blast. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett denounces CNN's report over the Gaza hospital explosion. Israel National News, Oct 19, 2023, 11:47 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Report: NYT Twice Changes Reckless Headline: ‘Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.’

Wendell Husebo, 10/18/2023 The New York Times reportedly edited a headline twice on Tuesday about a blast that blew up a Gaza hospital, changing the title each time to reflect less blame against Israel for the tragic explosion.

After the blast, multiple pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike. As the evidence came to light, the Times altered its headline. [...] Here's the false map from @GettyImages -- still up for media worldwide to spread -- accusing Israel of attacking the hospital, based on Hamas sources. Map was made in Turkey. This is how lies spread, how future generations are taught to hate Israelis and Jews. No retraction, yet. Breitbart

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Iconic Jewish NYC deli vandalized with swastika after pro-Israel social media posts. By Jared Downing and Alyssa Guzman Published Oct. 17, 2023, 7:03 p.m. ET NY Post

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Sky News's Shameful Coverage of Gaza Hospital Blast. Oct 19, 2023 — ...On Tuesday afternoon, October 17, news reports began circulating the claim that an Israeli air strike had hit a Gaza hospital, killing hundreds of men, women, and children... Within 24 hours, it turned out that every aspect of the initial story was most likely false. The blast in question was not caused by an Israeli strike at all, but by an errant rocket launched from within Gaza. The hospital itself was not hit; the rocket landed in the parking lot. And it’s likely that the number of people killed was nowhere even close to the number originally reported by Hamas.

While there were many, many journalistic failures on Tuesday, one of the worst was Sky News’s Anna Botting. In an interview with Netanyahu Senior Advisor Mark Regev, Botting made clear that she had abandoned any pretense of objectivity or even of journalistic curiosity. Her comments to Regev displayed a disregard for facts that would be shocking for any person, let alone a journalist...

In other words, according to [Anna] Botting, the truth about the explosion was irrelevant to the question of who was to blame. This is an appalling comment coming from someone, as Regev pointed out, whose job is supposed to be to find out what the facts are and convey them to the public. After Regev’s response to Botting’s initial comment, Botting continued. “Well how quickly can you prove that it wasn’t to you, if it wasn’t?” was her even more shocking follow up. It is not supposed to be the job of Israel to prove the negative, but the job of responsible journalists to seek out the evidence to support the claims they make on air or in print. Aside from her words, Botting’s voice and face conveyed nothing but anger and contempt for a spokeperson who, in fact, was doing her job for her... CAMERA

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Inside the Islamic Jihad, the group blamed for the attack on a Gaza hospital. By Melissa Koenig. Published Oct. 18, 2023, 1:32 p.m. ET The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a lesser-known terrorist organization working in coordination with Hamas, has been blamed for a deadly attack on a hospital in Gaza City. ... at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital... Israeli officials .. demonstrated that the blast at the hospital was caused by a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The attack marked the deadliest escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas since the terrorist group launched its surprise attack on October 7.

Here is what we know about the Islamic Jihad and its ties to Hamas:

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the second-largest armed group in Gaza, with around 1,000 active members, according to the U.S, Director of National Intelligence.

Its goal is to establish an Islamist Palestinian state and destroy the state of Israel, according to Fox News.

The group was founded in 1979 in the Gaza Strip to fight Israeli occupation and continues to maintain a presence in both Gaza and the West Bank.

It is now led by Sec. Gen. Ziya al-Nakhalah, whom the United States Department of State classifies as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

How does it relate to Hamas?

The PIJ and Hamas are considered the two most important members of the joint operations room, which coordinates most military activity among armed groups in the Gaza Strip, according to The New York Times.

But the PIJ often works independently from Hamas, and is more focused on military confrontations — and has rejected peace talks with the Jewish state.

Its military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, has been responsible for many of the attacks on Israel over the past few years.

Israel and the United States consider both organizations to be terrorist groups.

What role has the PIJ played in the current war? Aside from being blamed for the attack on the Gaza City hospital, al-Nakhalah has taken responsibility for holding captive more than 30 of the hostages Hamas took when it launched its surprise attack on Israel earlier this month.

In a statement, the al-Quds Brigade spokesman said: “We are part of this battle and our fighters are shoulder to shoulder alongside their brothers in the Al-Qassam Brigades until victory, God willing.”

What is its relation to Iran? The PIJ, like Hamas, receives support from Iran, Syria, and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, Fox reports

Iran, in particular, has provided rockets and drones to the terrorist organization, which got much of its inspiration from the Iranian revolution — seeing it as a movement to be modeled across the Arab world.

In that fashion, the PIJ adopted the suicide techniques used by Islamists in Iran in 1979.

Shaqaqi’s successor, Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, has also held meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran and Damascus.

Israeli officials now believe Iran is orchestrating the terrorist group’s attacks. NY Post

Israel disputes Hamas’ claim of of 471 dead in Gaza City hospital blast, says ‘several dozen’ died By Jesse O’Neill Published Oct. 19, 2023, 10:42 a.m. ET Several dozen people lost their lives in a Tuesday blast outside a Gaza City hospital, not nearly 500 as Hamas had claimed, a spokesperson for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.

The clarification came after Israel and the US said preliminary evidence suggested the explosion was sparked by a Hamas rocket misfire, which the militant group blamed on Israel and inflated the death toll to inflame tensions in the war-torn region. The explosion at the Al-Hali Hospital in Gaza is a human tragedy in which several dozen people were apparently killed,” Lior Haiat posted on X.

“This is also a Palestinian tragedy, where we see again the Palestinian terrorist organizations murdering their own people, after they cynically use them as human shields,” Haiat said.

The foreign affairs official went on to lambaste media outlets that went with the terror organization’s version of events, directly calling out the New York Times with a screenshot of its headline ... NY Post

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N.Y. Times Says It Was “Incorrect” to Rely on Hamas Claims to Wrongly Blame Israel for Gaza Hospital Blast.

Etan Vlessing, October 23, 2023

“Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation” of the Oct. 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion in Gaza City — caused by a misfired rocket aimed at Israel — the marquee newspaper said in a statement.

The New York Times has said it was wrong to “heavily” rely on claims by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas that Israel was to blame for the Oct. 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion, without first verifying those claims. Hollywood Reporter

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Rep. Tlaib Repeats Debunked Claim That Israel (sic) Bombed Hospital.

Alana Goodman, October 18, 2023. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) repeated her claim that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza in a speech at an anti-Israel rally on Wednesday afternoon, despite extensive evidence that the explosion in the hospital parking lot was caused by a faulty rocket launched by a Palestinian terrorist group Free Beacon _

'The View' co-host rips Omar and Tlaib over Israel statements: Shame on them. "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin blasts Squad members who blamed Israel for explosion in Gaza hospital which was caused by Islamic Jihad rocket. Elad Benari, Oct 19, 2023, 6:07 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Pro-Hamas extremists and neo-Nazis flood social media with calls for violence. Law enforcement officials are concerned about attacks on Jewish Americans, as well as Arab Americans and Muslim Americans, over the events in Israel and Gaza. Oct. 18, 2023, 2:15 PM EDT By Ken Dilanian, Julia Ainsley, Tom Winter and Jonathan Dienst [...] Groups linked to Al Qaeda and American neo-Nazis have been seeking to exploit the ongoing war to encourage attacks, according to two separate intelligence products obtained by NBC News... NBC

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IDF says it killed head of military wing of Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees. By Emanuel Fabian and TOI Staff 19 Oct 2023. The IDF says that overnight it killed the head of the military wing of Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees terror group.

The military says that warplanes carried out an airstrike on the southern Gaza city of Rafah following information received from the Shin Bet, killing Rafat Abu Hilal.

The Popular Resistance Committees is the third largest terror faction in the Strip after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Separately, the IDF says it targeted several members of Hamas’s so-called Nukhba commando forces, who led the October 7 onslaught.

The military says more than ten Nukhba members were killed in the strikes.

In addition, the IDF says it destroyed hundreds of Hamas sites in the last 24 hours, including anti-tank missile launch sites, tunnel shafts, intelligence infrastructure, and various command centers. TOI

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Turkish politician from AK Party applauds Hitler’s genocide of Jews, sparking controversy. 21.10.2023 Suleyman Sezen, a council member representing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Atakum district, Samsun province, publicly commended Adolf Hitler for the genocide of Jews. Voice of Europe

MEMRI@MEMRIReports: Suleyman Sezen, Turkish Politician from Erdoğan’s Party: May [Allah] Bestow Mercy Upon (Suleyman Sezen says:) Hitler; Once the World Is Purified (Suleyman Sezen says:) of the Jews, There Will Be Peace #Turkey #Hamas #Gaza #antisemitism. Oct 22, 2023 On X

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The New Swastika | Ziona Greenwald | Oct 23, 2023.

Comparisons to the Holocaust have always been verboten. To even suggest a parallel or a portent in modern manifestations of antisemitism would reflexively draw immediate censure across the board. And indeed, despite the ugly rhetoric and sporadic but increasing attacks against Jews in the US, Europe, and elsewhere around the globe, nothing has approached the heinousness or the magnitude of what Hitler’s regime inflicted on our people.

Until now.

Activists in the Black Lives Matter movement and their intersectional allies, including the brainwashed hordes on college campuses following the script furnished them by Students for Justice in Palestine, have adopted the black silhouette of a parachutist as a symbol of their solidarity with “Palestine.” The image iconicizes the murderous rampage by Hamas terrorists who descended from the sky upon hundreds of young Israelis attending a music festival in a field in southern Israel. It is a symbol of jihad, plain and simple.

Before our soldiers had even arrived at their bases in response to the national call-up, before Israel had mounted a military response to the invasion – and while the country, huddled in bomb shelters, began to digest the carnage and account for all the casualties and the missing, including those taken hostage into Gaza – thousands across America and the world took to the streets to rally in support of Hamas, celebrating the butchering of Jewish babies and elderly.

October 7th’s well-planned and well-funded attacks marked in Jewish blood the worst atrocity against our people since the Holocaust. Comparisons to Nazism are not merely acceptable – they are imperative.

For those paying attention, the Palestinian agenda has never been a secret. Until now, Western supporters have either been misled by the propaganda or knowingly complicit but content to couch their support for terror – and hatred for Israel – in political, diplomatic, or “humanitarian” terms.

Now anyone who actually doubted what was meant by “Free Palestine” or “From the river to the sea” can claim ignorance no more. “We are calling for full liberation of all of Palestine.” “When people are occupied, resistance is justified.” “Globalize the intifada.”

Read the placards. See the swastikas. Listen to the chants. Watch the Palestinian flags used to attack Israel supporters. In Manhattan. Bay Ridge. San Diego. Atlanta. Chicago. Minneapolis. St. Louis. Houston. Dallas. Dearborn. Harvard. UCLA. U. Michigan. Queens College. Brooklyn College. Columbia. And on and on. Red cities, blue cities. Thousands shouting, glorifying the most barbaric attacks in Israel’s history. Out for more blood.

There’s more behind this naked pro-terrorism than successful propaganda. As documented in a new report by George Washington University entitled “The Hamas Network in America,” Hamas, working with the Muslim Brotherhood, began infiltrating the US in the 1980s, inserting their jihadist agenda into American Muslim communities, the US education system and academia and, of course, the halls of power in Washington and local governments, sowing a scrupulously shrouded radicalism which is now coming out from the shadows.

Reading the report is as chilling as watching videos of the protests-cum-riots filling the streets. It details the Hamas network’s plan for infiltration, including creating charitable-sounding front organizations, capturing the curriculum in Islamic children’s schools, propagandizing and fundraising, and “the development of a carefully crafted media strategy, defending Hamas without giving the impression of supporting violence.” “I swear by Allah that war is deception,” one of the senior leaders is overheard saying at a meeting wiretapped by the FBI.

The movement’s efforts have paid off. The sleeper cells are wide awake.

Can the same be said of the American people? Or even of American Jewry? TOI Blogs

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Naaman Mashaikh, an Imam at a mosque in Balata in Shechem incites to murder Jews and even praises Hitler.

Nazis not just in Gaza: Imam in Shechem Praises Hitler Hakol Hayehudi, 24/10/2023

Hakol Hayehudi exposes:

Naaman Mashaikh, an Imam at a mosque in Balata in Shechem incites to murder Jews and even praises Hitler.

In a recent post, he quoted a passage that many Arabs attribute to Hitler which says “I could have killed all the Jews in the world, but a left a few so you could...”

Together with the post, the Imam attached a picture of Hitler.

An assessment by Hakol Hayehudi uncovered that Mashaikh is an Imam at the ‘Old’ Mosque in the Balata camp in Shechem. [43] Hakol H.

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Hateful teen shouts ‘I will kill you, Jew’ at 9-year-old boy at NYC playground. By Joe Marino and David Propper Published Oct. 26, 2023 Updated Oct. 27, 2023, 2:51 p.m. ET A hateful teen threatened a young boy with a knife and yelled “I will kill you, Jew” in the latest antisemitic attack in the Big Apple, police and law enforcement sources said.

The sickening scene unfolded at a playground at KIPP AMP Middle School and MS 354 Monday evening in Crown Heights, according to the NYPD and the victim’s mother, who said her daughter was also targeted in the attack.

“My kids were shaking, they were crying,” Chaya Sundroy, who came to the US from Israel 10 years ago, said. “They asked why – we didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to killed us. They were really, really scared about it.”

Police and sources said the man also screamed “Heil Hitler” at the boy, but Sundroy, who was at the park with her six children, said that was actually directed at her daughter.

During the attack, several people also shouted “Allah Akbar” in front of the children, according to Sundroy and police sources.

The initial attack occurred shortly after the family arrived at the park around 6 p.m., according to Sundroy.

The mother tried looking for the unknown man who spewed the hatred, but couldn’t find him. Soon after, a group of people showed up and directed another antisemitic comment at her daughter, she said.

One of the suspects flashed a knife during the attack, according to police and the mother.

The incident happened at the playground near KIPP AMP Middle School.

“When the guy took out the knife I saw it,” she said. “It was very close to me. I saw it and heard it.”

The group fled after police were called to the scene. No one was injured, police said.

Cops said they are seeking one suspect and looking into the case as a “possible biased incident.”

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

No students from KIPP AMP Middle School were involved in the incident, “which occurred after the close of the school day,” the school told The Post in a statement Friday.

Sundroy said she isn’t sure if the same person who threatened her son and also approached her daughter.

She said the group, including the suspect, looked like teenagers.

“In New York, we thought we were safe,” she added.

New York City has seen a spike in hate crimes since the terror attack on Israel with nearly 60% of the heinous acts targeting the Jewish community, the NYPD said this week. NY Post

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Israeli comedians ruthlessly mock BBC reporting of Al-Ahli hospital bombing in Gaza: Satirical show pokes fun at the Beeb with report by fake journalist 'Harry Whiteguilt' - after broadcaster was slammed for its coverage of blast. By Miriam Kuepper 02:27 27 Oct 2023, updated 07:53 27 Oct 2023

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BBC had been criticised for reporting that hospital was hit by 'Israeli air strike.' Israeli comedians have ruthlessly mocked the BBC's reporting of the Al-Ahli hospital bombing in Gaza after the broadcaster was slammed for its coverage of the blast.

In the satirical show, a fake BBC newsreader said: 'Good evening from London, here are some news from the war in Gaza.'

A BBC News banner on screen read: 'Israel bombs hospital. 500 killed' as the actress continued: 'Israel has bombed a hospital killing hundreds of innocent people.'

She then shook her head and indicated to the person behind the camera for 'more, more'. The banner's death count then changed to '750 killed', with the fake newsreader declaring this was 'much better'.

The screen cut to mock BBC Middle East correspondent 'Harry Whiteguilt', who said: 'Good evening Rachael from the illegal colony of Tel Aviv.

In the satirical show, the fake BBC newsreader said: 'Good evening from London , here are some news from the war in Gaza'

'Israeli officials have denied bombing the hospital, but we have video footage showing what really happened indeed.'

The footage that followed was a compilation of clips from the hospital blast - which including a paper plane flying over head, a scene from the movie Oppenheimer and an exploding bomb.

The newsreader said: 'Absolutely shocking Harry.' A new banner across the screen said 'We love Hamas' with the BBC News logo next to it.

'We got this video from Hamas the most credible not terrorist organisation in the world,' correspondent Harry reported.

'I'm sorry Rachael, I've got some terrible news. The United States Pentagon says it has evidence Israel did not bomb the hospital.'

Newsreader Rachael looked shocked and quickly backpedaled: 'What? Well... I guess it's going to be one of those things we can never be sure about. Like how the Jews knew about 9/11 and did not go to work that day,' she said while winking.

'No, they just published recordings of Hamas Freedom Fighters admitting they were the ones who fired the missiles by mistake,' correspondent Harry clarified.

The show then played a recording from who they call 'Jihad Militant #1', who said: 'My god, what a huge mistake. I fired our missile on our own hospital.'

Another militant replied: 'It's ok not a big deal. Maybe we had there a few gays. That's life. You win some you lose some.'

Back in the studio, fake BBC journalist Rachael said again: 'Well, I guess we'll never know exactly what happened.'

Another audio clip by 'Jihad Militant #1' repeated: 'No, no, we did it,' but Rachael still insisted: 'It's just going to stay a mystery.'

[45] A new banner across the screen in the satirical show read 'We love Hamas' with the BBC News logo next to it

The show then played a recording from who they call 'Jihad Militant #1', who said: 'My god, what a huge mistake. I fired our missile on our own hospital.' Another militant replied: 'It's ok not a big deal. Maybe we had there a few gays. That's life. You win some you lose some'

Newsreader Rachael ended her newscast with the words: 'Good night everyone and remember: Israel is (lol) ISIS'

'Jihad Militant #2' said: 'It's not a mystery. It's us. Totally us. Only us.'

Both fake BBC employees looked uneasy, until Harry declared: 'But it's still Israel's fault... because the Israel blockade prevented Hamas from getting proper functioning missiles and this is why tragic accidents like this happened indeed.'

Newsreader Rachael ended her newscast with the words: 'Good night everyone and remember: Israel is (lol) ISIS.'

This comes after the BBC was slammed for its coverage of the blast and even Israel warned the broadcaster it could be stopped from reporting in the country for refusing to call Hamas terrorists.

The BBC admitted it was wrong to speculate that a rocket that hit a Gaza hospital was an 'Israeli air strike'.

A senior Israeli official said the government could take action if the BBC continued 'crossing the line in accordance with our laws'. It came after Israel's president Isaac Herzog said its policy of referring to Hamas as militants was 'atrocious'.

Israel's communications ministry is currently looking at the possibility of closing Qatari owned Al Jazeera's local bureau over claims its coverage was favourable to Hamas.

The BBC refers to Hamas as a 'militant' group rather than a terror group and described the slaughter of civilians as a 'militant' attack.

It has a long-standing policy of only using the term 'terrorist' when it is attributed to someone else.

This comes after the BBC as slammed for its coverage of the blast and even Israel warned the broadcaster it could be stopped from reporting in the country for refusing to call Hamas terrorists. Pictured is the aftermath of the explosion

In the immediate aftermath of the blast, correspondent Jon Donnison said it was 'hard to see' what else could have happened at the al-Ahli Hospital other than an 'Israeli air strike'

John Simpson, its World Affairs Editor, has warned that calling Hamas terrorists would be 'taking sides' and 'it's not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn'.

The BBC was criticised after a reporter speculated that an 'Israeli strike' was responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people.

In the immediate aftermath of the blast, correspondent Jon Donnison said it was 'hard to see' what else could have happened at the al-Ahli Hospital other than an 'Israeli air strike'.

Despite this claim, growing evidence has emerged that the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was caused by a failed rocket launch by terrorist group Islamic Jihad.

Following huge criticism, the corporation issued a statement on October 19 on the 'Corrections and Clarifications' page of its website, which admitted 'it was wrong to speculate in this way'. Daily Mail

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N12 - The IDF spokesman revealed in a statement: "Hamas is using the hospital in Gaza as a terrorist headquarters."

During a briefing to the international media, Brigadier General Daniel Hagari showed intelligence information from the security system - according to which the central terror headquarters of Hamas is located under the central hospital in the Gaza Strip • "The hospital has several underground complexes, and a control center of Hamas," he said • A recording with a senior member of the system was revealed The energy in the Gaza Strip, which clarified: "It is certain that there is at least half a million liters of fuel underground" N12| Posted 10/27/23 17:04

The IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, today (Friday) gave a special statement to the international media - in which he showed intelligence information from the IDF and the Shin Bet that proves that the central terrorist headquarters of Hamas is located under the al-Shifa ["Shifaa"] hospital, the main one in Gaza City. [46]

The hospital has several underground compounds used by the leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas to direct their activities and a tunnel that reaches the hospital, which allows entry to the Hamas headquarters without going through the hospital," he said. He said that from the existing set-up in the hospitals, the intention is to fire rockets, store IEDs, weapons and ammunition.

The hospital is a human shield for the leaders of Hamas," he emphasized. "The hospital's energy infrastructure that is supposed to be used by its patients is actually used at the same time by the terrorist organization's underground terrorist infrastructure." Brigadier General Hagari added: "The heads of the terrorist organization are using this shelter while endangering the civilian population."

In a conversation revealed by the IDF spokesperson between an IDF officer and a senior official in the energy sector in the Gaza Strip, it is shown that there is still diesel and gasoline in the Gaza Strip. "Those who have protection go to the station and there is fuel," said the senior in the energy industry to the officer. "There is even gas, someone who has gas fills a tank and brings me gas" when in favoritism. He added to the IDF officer that "Hamas has diesel, at least a million liters. Now the stations are full and diesel is taken from them and brought to the hospitals." _

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu: Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it. Here it is: Oct 27, 2023 [47] Mako

IDF: Hamas’s terror command center built under Gaza’s main hospital. The Israeli military shares detailed information on how Hamas has turned hospitals into terror command centers and hideouts. Yaakov Lappin. (October 27, 2023 / JNS) [48] Hamas has systematically turned hospitals in the Gaza Strip into terror command centers and hideouts, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday, as volleys of rockets fired by Hamas targeted central and southern Israel.

Four people were injured in a direct rocket strike on a residential building in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, ranging from moderate to light injuries. Half an hour after that attack, central Israel was again targeted by rockets.

According to IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military is affixing a red flag to the world about Hamas’s war crime of using hospitals in Gaza as human shields and revealed intelligence for that purpose.

“Hamas has turned hospitals into command-and-control centers, and hideouts for terrorists and commanders,” he stated. “According to intelligence in our hands, there is fuel in hospitals in Gaza, and Hamas is using it for its terror infrastructure.”

The IDF shared this information and more with intelligence agencies from allied countries, he said.

Addressing Shifa Hospital in Gaza City—the largest in the Strip, with more than 1,500 beds, 4,000 staff and people arriving in recent weeks around the hospital grounds—Hamas is “cynically using” such places as a “shield for its underground terror complex,” said Hagari.

The Gazan network of underground combat tunnels, dubbed “the metro” by the IDF, is often placed right next to sensitive sites like hospitals, mosques, schools and UNRWA sites as part of a deliberate doctrine by Hamas to limit IDF airstrikes.

Pointing to a map of the Shifa Hospital, Hagari said that Hamas conducts its command and control out of places like the X-ray room for terror activities like launching rockets.

“It is here in Shifa Hospital where Hamas operates its command-and-control cells. Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa Hospital, with a network of terror tunnels. It also has an entrance to the tunnels from different places in the hospital,” said Hagari. “Right now, terrorists move freely at Shifa Hospital.”

‘Hamas’s use of hospitals is systematic’

Hundreds of terrorists flooded the Shifa hospital after the Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis by Hamas, stated Hagari.

“Hamas not only endangers the lives of Israeli civilians but also exploits the lives of innocent Gazans as human shields. Hamas’s use of hospitals is systematic. They do so precisely because they know Israel distinguishes between terrorists and civilians,” he said. “We already exposed that Hamas stole fuel from UNRWA—and UNRWA confirmed it.”

He was referring to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

Hagari played an audio recording between an IDF officer and a senior Gazan energy official, who stated that Hamas uses very large quantities of fuel for its underground tunnel activities, in addition to oxygen and electricity.

When medical facilities are used like this, they are liable to lose protection under international law, Hagari warned.

“For over two weeks, the IDF has called and continues to call the civilians of northern Gaza and Gaza City to temporarily move south for their own safety,” he stressed. “We continue to back efforts by Egypt and the United States to get food medicine and water to south Gaza. We will increase this humanitarian effort.”

Terror targets struck, Palestinian commander killed

Meanwhile, in recent hours, the IDF conducted a ground raid in the Gaza Strip and struck dozens of terror targets belonging to Hamas, it said.

IDF ground forces, accompanied by Israeli Air Force fighter jets and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), conducted the raid in the central Gaza Strip early on Friday.

As part of the activity, IDF aircraft and artillery struck terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Shuja’iyya area and throughout the Gaza Strip, the military said.

The troops exited the area at the end of the activity. No IDF injuries were reported.

During the activity, the IDF identified and struck numerous terror targets, including anti-tank missile launch sites, military command-and-control centers, as well as Hamas terrorists themselves.

Overnight on Friday, the IDF killed Madhath Mubashar, commander of the Western Khan Yunis Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization. Madhath took part in explosives and sniper attacks against Israeli civilian communities and IDF soldiers, the military said in a statement. JNS

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Detained terrorists admit Hamas using hospitals to shield themselves. Member of Hamas's elite Nukhba force says terror group using medical institutions, especially Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, because 'you won’t strike them'

Yoav Zitun | October 28, 2023. Hassan Zaarab told his interrogator that his a medic for the military wing of the organization, and that during the October 7 attack, he operated in Kibbutz Sufa near the Gaza border. He was then asked about Hamas's use of hospitals, and replied that “the Shifa hospital, they're using it, they're hiding there.” Ynet _

Terrorists admit: Shifa hospital being used for terrorist activity. The IDF and ISA reveal additional evidence of Hamas' use of the Shifa Hospital for terrorist activity Israel National News, Oct 28, 2023, 6:42 PM (GMT+2)

Following the IDF Spokesperson revealing yesterday that the Hamas terrorist organization uses the Shifa hospital for terrorist activity, the ISA has released footage from the interrogation of two terrorists who confirmed the hospital is being used for Hamas activity. INN

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The 22nd day of the war - Hamas "proposed a deal" that includes the release of all security prisoners, IDF spokesman: "This is psychological terrorism." Qatar: "The negotiations for the deal to release the abductees are proceeding at a 'slow pace' after the escalation of the Israeli attacks" - Netanyahu, Gallant and Gantz held a press conference, and the Prime Minister answered questions from journalists for the first time: "There was a terrible omission, there will be no stone unturned that will not be checked" - Two lightly injured From a rocket hit in Ashdod - The Chief of Staff on the activity in the Gaza Strip: "The war objectives require ground entry - there is no victory without prices" - Regular updates News reporters 12| N12| Published 00:45 28.10.23 | Updated 22:55 28.10.23 Mako

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Live updates - Week three: Direct hits on homes in Be'er Sheva and central Israel Rockets continue to be fired from Gaza and Lebanon terror groups throughout war's third week. Israel National News. Published: Oct 22, 2023, 3:08 PM (GMT+3) Updated: Oct 28, 2023, 10:10 PM

Israel entered its third week of war, which has been dubbed "Swords of Iron," on Saturday. The war was sparked on October 7th, when the Hamas terrorist organization launched a surprise attack by land, air, and sea. After a heavy barrage of several thousand rockets, Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli territory, infiltrating military bases and civilian population centers, where they massacred the inhabitants and took others captive. As of Sunday, October 22, over 1,400 Israelis have been killed, about 4,000 were injured, and at least 210 Israelis, including civilians, are in Hamas captivity. (Direct hit on a home in Rishon Lezion [49]) INN

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Israeli girl dies after cardiac arrest while running to bomb shelter. ... Israeli Tamar Torpiashvilli, 9, died days after suffering cardiac arrest while running to a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashdod, Oct. 28, 2023 JNS

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IDF ground forces stay in northern Gaza as incursion expands Former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: “If Sinwar thinks he can play for time, he's absolutely wrong.” Yaakov Lappin. October 28, 2023 JNS

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As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies

Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.

By Matthew Rosenberg and Maria Abi-Habib Oct. 27, 2023

As supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the besieged enclave remains well-stocked: Hamas.

Arab and Western officials say there is substance to Israeli claims of Hamas stockpiling supplies, including desperately needed food and fuel. Hamas, they say, has spent years building dozens of kilometers of tunnels under the strip where it has amassed stores of virtually everything needed for a drawn-out fight. It is a reality that Israel may soon find itself grappling with if it makes good on its threat to invade Gaza.

Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine, the officials said. A senior Lebanese official said Hamas, which is estimated to number between 35,000 and 40,000, had enough stocked away to keep fighting for three to four months without resupply.

Matthew Rosenberg was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump, and more recently exposed how Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from Facebook. He previously spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and was expelled from Afghanistan in 2014 because of his reporting.

Maria Abi-Habib is an investigative correspondent based in Mexico City, covering Latin America. She previously reported from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and in India, where she covered South Asia. More about Maria Abi-Habib... Hamas has grown adept at manufacturing its own weapons in underground bunkers and shielding them from Israel’s advanced surveillance systems, the Lebanese official said. NY Times

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Two Israeli soldiers wounded as ground op expands in Gaza. IDF continues to expand incursion • Over 450 Hamas targets hit in 24 hours • Internet service partially restored in the Strip • Hamas call for prisoner exchange dismissed by IDF as "psychological terror." Joshua Mark Oct 29, 2023 JNS

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IDF attacks over 450 Hamas targets in Gaza Strip. Jerusalem Post Staff October 29, 2023 IDF fighter jets attacked over 450 military targets of Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit announced on Sunday morning.

Among the targets that were attacked were military headquarters, observation posts, and Hamas anti-tank firing positions. JPost

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IDF strikes Lebanon as rockets pummel central Israel. Israeli forces responded to rocket attacks from the Land of the Cedars.

(October 29, 2023 / JNS) Israeli forces struck a terrorist cell attempting to launch anti-tank missiles from Lebanon at the area of Moshav Avivim in the Upper Galilee on Thursday afternoon, the military said. JNS

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The 24th day of the war. Reports in Syria: the air force attacked targets in the south of the country Hours after the thwarted infiltration attempt from southern Lebanon - Islamic Jihad accepted responsibility • In Gaza it is reported that the IDF attacked targets in the Al-Quds Hospital area - one of the many civilian facilities used by Hamas for terrorist purposes • About 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon, the IDF To attack Hezbollah infrastructure in response • IDF spokesman - we sent messages to the families of 239 abductees. News reporters 12| N12| Published 00:01 30.10.23 | Updated 03:06 30.10.23 Mako

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European Parliament calls for Hamas to be ‘eliminated,’ urges release of hostages. Non-binding resolution expresses concern for humanitarian conditions in Gaza Strip, calls for pause in fighting to allow for supplies to reach needy By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES Oct 19, 2023

The European Parliament on Thursday called for the Hamas terror group to be “eliminated” in a scathing rebuke of its devastating onslaught on southern Israel on October 7.

In a non-binding resolution passed 500-21, the body demanded the “unconditional release” of hostages held in Gaza, blasting their kidnapping as a war crime while expressing sympathy for civilian victims on both sides of the conflict. TOI

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JPost Editorial: What lessons can we learn from the Gaza hospital blast? There are several lessons here for our media colleagues.

October 19, 2023

The first is that no information released by the Gaza Health Ministry should be presumed true; in fact, it should be regarded as highly suspect. That’s because that ministry – like every other government agency in Gaza – is controlled entirely by Hamas and is utilized to advance its murderous agenda. In this case, Israeli officials say, Hamas knew immediately that it was a Palestinian rocket that had hit the hospital but it nevertheless fabricated an Israeli airstrike in order to smear Israel.

The second is that, in the fog of war, journalists must take extraordinary care in how they report events on the ground. What appears to be the story often is not, and misreporting an event as consequential as the deaths of a large number of civilians at a hospital exposes reporters to charges of journalistic malpractice. But perhaps the most important lesson here is that Israel and Hamas are not on equal moral footing.

Israel is a liberal democracy governed by the rule of law; Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization with an openly antisemitic and genocidal agenda. Israel protects civilians and considers the loss of civilian life on either side to be an operational failure; Hamas targets civilians and considers the loss of civilian life on either side to be an operational success. Israel takes seriously its commitment to report the truth and is held accountable by a vibrant and free press; Hamas openly and brazenly lies and tightly controls the flow of information from Gaza.

Journalists and media organizations wield enormous power in the global conversation and they bear tremendous responsibility to get the story right. Many have egg on their faces because of how they reported the incident at the Gaza hospital. They should have the integrity to apologize to their readers – and commit to doing better. JPost

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Full text: Netanyahu, Sunak presser in Israel “Eighty years ago, eighty years ago, Prime Minister, the civilized world stood with you in your darkest hour. This is our darkest hour. It’s the world’s darkest hour. We need to stand together, and we will win. ” (October 19, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday with his visiting British counterpart, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak. Below is the full text of their joint press conference.

Netanyahu:

“Prime Minister Sunak, Rishi, I want to thank you for your solidarity, your clear unwavering support from the minute this war began. I think the fact that you came to Israel tells us a lot.

“I said to [U.S.] President [Joe] Biden yesterday, if there is one thing more heartwarming than standing with Israel it’s standing in Israel. And the fact that you came here to do that is a very strong statement of support which we deeply appreciate it.

“Chancellor [Olaf] Scholz, who also visited here called Hamas the new Nazis. He was right. You fought the Nazis 80 years ago resolutely, and the entire world supported your action. President Biden called Hamas worse than ISIS. He’s right, too.

“Hamas are the new Nazis, they’re the new ISIS, and we have to fight them together just as the civilized world united to fight the Nazis and united to fight Hamas, it must together now stand with Israel as we fight and defeat Hamas.

“This is not merely our battle. It’s the battle of the entire civilized world. It’s the battle of Israel, it’s the battle of the moderate Arab countries, it’s the battle of Western civilization, the battle of the free world, the battle for the future.

“We have here two forces. One is an axis of evil, led by Iran through Hezbollah, Hamas and others that want to bring back the Middle East to the Middle Ages, to an age of bondage and war and slavery and annihilation.

“The other force are the forces of progress and humanity that want to push the Middle East into a world of peace and prosperity. We were on the cusp of expanding that peace and destroying that move was one of the reasons why this action was taken. We have to resist it, and we have to win.

“Above all, we have to win.

“We have to release the hostages. You have nationals. I understand, I know you do, that they have our children, babies, women, elderly, Holocaust survivors and your nationals. And we have to work together in every way possible, and we’re doing that, to get them back.

“I appreciate the fact that you also sent some military forces into the region. We discussed practical cooperation on many fronts, and I value that very much.

“Eighty years ago, eighty years ago, Prime Minister, the civilized world stood with you in your darkest hour. This is our darkest hour. It’s the world’s darkest hour. We need to stand together, and we will win. And this is why I support and value your support. And the fact that you’re here, we must win together.

“That means it’s going to be a long war, and we’ll need your continuous support, continuous support. There will be ups and downs. There will be difficulties. The people here are united; they’re prepared to take the necessary action. I’ve never seen the people of Israel as united, more united as they are now. But we need that unity across the board and continuous support as we prosecute and win this just war against the modern barbarians, the worst monsters on the planet. Thank you, Rishi, for coming here.”

Sunak:

“Prime Minister, thank you for your warm words and for welcoming me to Israel. I’m just sorry to be here in such terrible circumstances.

“In the last two weeks, this country has gone through something that no country, no people, should have to endure, least of all Israel which has lived through some of the most awful scenes, the specter of violence and terrorism every day of its existence.

“I want to share the deep condolences of the British people and stress that we absolutely support Israel’s right to defend itself in line with international law, to go after Hamas, to take back hostages, deter further incursions and to strengthen your security for the long term.

“Now, I know that you are taking every precaution to harming civilians in direct contrast to the terrorists of Hamas which seek to put civilians in harm’s way.

“But I also want to thank you for the support your government has given to the families of British nationals caught up in this horror, including your efforts to release the hostages, secure their release. And I know that we will continue to cooperate, particularly with regard to British nationals that are involved.

“We have seen the scenes over the past day that have shocked all of us, particularly at the hospital. And we mourn the loss of every innocent life, civilians of every faith, every nationality, who have been killed. And we also recognize that the Palestinian people are victims of Hamas, too.

“That is why I welcome your decision yesterday that you took to ensure that routes into Gaza will be open for humanitarian aid to enter. I’m glad that you made that decision. We will support it. We are increasing our aid to the region, and we will look to get more support to people as quickly as we can.

“The last thing for me to close on is this. You described this as Israel’s darkest hour. I am proud to stand here with you in Israel’s darkest hour. As your friend, we will stand with you in solidarity, we will stand with your people and we also want you to win.” JNS

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Three Israelis injured as Hamas claims rocket attacks from Lebanon Oct 19, 2023 A father and daughter were hurt when a rocket hit a residential building in Kiryat Shmona. JNS

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10 Israeli police officers hurt during Samaria counterterror op. October 19, 2023 An IDF drone struck a terrorist cell in the Nur Shams camp; 10 wanted suspects arrested there. JNS

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Israel says 30 Gaza hostages are children, IDF strikes in Lebanon. Over 4,600 wounded, 1,400 killed • IDF: At least 203 captives in Gaza, over 100 still considered missing By Jerusalem Post Staff Oct 19, 2023

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Death toll in Gaza hospital blast greatly exaggerated - independent intel Local Hamas-run Gazan sources allege that 471 people were killed at the hospital; foreign independent intelligence sources claimed instead that the number was closer to 10-50. By Maya Zanger-Nadis Oct 19, 2023 JPost

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U.S. Warship, Bases in Syria and Iraq Come Under Drone Attack. By Nancy A. Youssef, Oct 19, 2023 WJS

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US shoots down missiles launched from Yemen, perhaps towards Israel "Any response, should one occur, will come at a time and a manner of our choosing," said a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman.

(October 19, 2023 / JNS) The USS Carney, a U.S. Navy destroyer, shot missiles and drones from Yemen that could have been aimed at Israel, the Pentagon said on Thursday afternoon.

“The crew of the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney, operating in the northern Red Sea earlier today, shot down three land-attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen,” said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, a Defense Department spokesman. JNS

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Iran Proxies Target US Bases Amid Israel-Hamas Tensions. Oct 19, 2023 Author: Iran International Newsroom

Two US military bases in Syria have been targeted in drone attacks, suggesting Iran's proxies are becoming ever more emboldened to expand Hamas' proxy war further.

Both Lebanon's Iran-aligned Al Mayadeen TV and the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency, reported the news on Thursday though the US has not yet made official comment on the incidents.

According to Al Mayadeen, a drone strike occurred at the Al-Tanf base near Syria's borders with Iraq and Jordan, while a missile attack targeted the Conoco base in the northern Deir al-Zor region. However, no additional details have been provided.

The Al-Tanf base is notably significant for American forces in southeastern Syria and is situated in the triangular border area shared by Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.

Since Iran-backed Hamas declared war on Israel on October 7 after an invasion by air, land, and sea, there has been significant concern that the regime will activate its other proxies in the region on Israel's borders with Lebanon and Syria, and further afield including its Yemeni proxy, the Houthis. Iran Intl

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Iranian terror axis begins challenging US in Mideast U.S. warship intercepts projectiles off Yemen, as drone strikes on American bases in Syria and Iraq join ongoing Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Lebanon. Yaakov Lappin, October 19, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Jordanian man arrested for plan to ‘attack Jewish gathering’ Sohaib Abuayyash was not allowed to use firearms but posted with guns on social media.

By Ben Clerkin, November 03, 2023 22:58

A Jordanian man arrested in Houston was ‘plotting to attack a Jewish gathering’ and spoke of ‘martyrdom’, an affidavit has revealed.

It states that Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, had been studying how to build bombs and training with rifles and pistols.

He was ordered by a federal judge to be detained pending trial. His target was not disclosed.

Abuayyash allegedly spoke of committing ‘martyrdom’ in support of a religious cause and made statements ‘that he wants to go to Gaza to fight.’ The JC

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Foreign national charged with firearms violation. Friday, November 3, 2023 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas HOUSTON – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 20-year-old Palestinian citizen for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

The charges allege Sohaib Abuayyash was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States. He knowingly possessed a firearm, namely a Canik, model TP9 Elite SC, 9 mm pistol, according to the indictment.

The FBI arrested Abuayyash Oct. 19 who remains detained pending further criminal proceedings. He is set to appear for his arraignment Nov. 13 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Yvonne Ho in Houston at 2 p.m.

According to the criminal complaint filed upon his arrest, Abuayyash entered the United States on a nonimmigrant visa, which expired in 2019, and has allegedly been in direct contact with others who share a radical mindset. The charges further allege he has been conducting physical training and has trained with weapons to possibly commit an attack.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison as well as a possible $250,000 maximum fine.

The FBI is conducting the investigation.

An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.

Updated November 3, 2023 Southern District of Texas

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IDF eliminates senior Hamas engineer IDF eliminates Mahmud Sabih, who operated to facilitate the transfer of information for Hamas in the production of weapons and UAVs. Israel National News, Oct 20, 2023, 10:45 PM (GMT+3) INN

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For fifth time today, UAV kills terrorist squad on Lebanon border.

An Elbit Hermes 450 UAV, aka Zik, neutralized a terrorist squad in front of an IDF outpost on the Lebanon border. This was the fifth attack against terror squads on the Lebanon border on Friday. (Yoav Zitun) Oct 20, 2023 Ynet

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Yehudit and Nathalie Ra'anan are the abductees who were released from Hamas captivity. The two, a mother and daughter who live in Chicago and have American citizenships, were released from Hamas captivity due to "humanitarian (sic. Hamas propagated) reasons" • They came to Israel to visit their family in Nahal Oz - and were kidnapped in a surprise attack by Hamas • The Commissioner for Captives and Missing Persons informed that they are already in Israel • President Biden: thanks the Israeli government and to the government of Qatar for the efforts that led to the release • Qatar: We will continue to talk with Israel and Hamas about the release - of all the abductees Sapir Lipkin |Ehud Yaari, Dana Weiss| N12| Published 19:58 20.10.23

It should be noted that since the beginning of the war, Hamas has been using abductees for propaganda purposes - in the shadow of the sharp international criticism and its comparison to ISIS. The announcement of the release of the hostages, unusually published in English, is another clear example of psychological warfare that reflects the pressure the terrorist organization is under.

Comment: "If this is humanitarian release then let the children be released..."

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The radical Arab-Palestinian beasty fascists dare to talk about "humanitarian."

We don't know the money involved and Hamas terrorists financiers-Qatar steps in releasing only 2 out of 203 hostages by the cruel Hamas Gaza regime.

But we do know the psychological warfare the vicious inhumane people use these poor hostages as mere tools for propaganda.

"Humanitarian" - no less, their statement said on releasing two and not a single child freed. at EoZ

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PA: All mosques must teach that extermination of Jews is an Islamic imperative. Itamar Marcus  | Oct 22, 2023

The genocide message was included in the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs’ instruction sheet for all preachers for this past Friday. Palwatch

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IDF airstrike thwarts ‘imminent’ terror attack in Jenin. A Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror cell had been using the Al-Ansar mosque, which was hit in an airstrike, as an operations room, according to the IDF.

The entrance to a terrorist tunnel shaft inside the Jenin refugee camp's Al-Ansar mosque. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

(October 22, 2023 / JNS) Israel on Saturday night struck a “terror route” under a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, killing Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members planning an “imminent terror attack.”

The terror cell was using the Al-Ansar mosque as an operations room to plan and carry out acts of terror, including an Oct. 14 attack in which a bomb exploded close to Israeli soldiers operating near the security barrier in northern Samaria, the IDF said on Sunday. No soldiers were hurt in the blast.

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said two people were killed and several others injured in the strike.

It is believed to be the first strike carried out by an Israeli fighter jet in Judea or Samaria in more than two decades.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the terror cell that Israel targeted in Jenin overnight was a “ticking time bomb” planning a “murderous terror attack inside Israel,” and was it therefore struck while hiding in a tunnel under a mosque.

“Hamas desecrates holy places in the hope that we will attack them. They use the symbols of Islam as a human shield,” he added.

During a two-day incursion in the Jenin refugee camp in July, Israeli forces uncovered weapons and military gear in the Al-Ansar mosque. They also found a tunnel leading to a nearby kindergarten.

Lt. Col. M., who was involved in the operation, said that “the excavations carried out in the mosque turned it into a fortified target.”

Established in 1953, the U.N.-administered camp is often referred to by Palestinians as the “Martyr’s Capital.” Between 2000 and 2003, during the Second Intifada, at least 28 suicide bombers came from the Jenin camp.

In mid-June, an unusually large roadside bomb wounded seven Israeli soldiers during a counterterror operation in Jenin. The incident was followed by the launch of the first rocket from the city.

Earlier on Saturday, Israeli forces raided the Samaria home of top Hamas commander Saleh al-Arouri, detaining several of his relatives.

Al-Arouri, the commander of Hamas operations in Judea in Samaria and the deputy of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is currently based in Lebanon.

Israeli forces entered al-Arouri’s home in the village of Arura north of Ramallah at dawn and arrested more than 20 people, including one of his brothers and nine of his nephews, according to AFP.

Israeli forces reportedly raised a banner over the home showing al-Arouri on the backdrop of an Israeli flag. On it appeared the caption: “This was the house of Saleh al-Arouri and has become the headquarters of Abu al-Nimer.”

Abu al-Nimer is reportedly an alias for the Israeli intelligence officer responsible for the area.

The IDF has arrested 727 Palestinian terrorists across Judea and Samaria since the start of “Operation Swords of Iron” on Oct. 7.

Out of the 727 Palestinian terrorists arrested, more than 480 are affiliated with Hamas, including 27 Hamas members arrested overnight Sunday, the army said.

Over the past two weeks, there have been several clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and several attempted terrorist attacks. JNS

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A fighter jet bombed a mosque in Jenin where terrorists were hiding: "They planned an attack inspired by the massacre in Otef (Gaza-Envelope)" | Documentation.

For the first time since the second intifada, a fighter jet attacked in Judea and Samaria: the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin was used by terrorists from Hamas and Jihad as an operational headquarters for planning attacks. According to the army and Shin Bet, the five terrorists who hid in a tunnel in the mosque recently carried out a series of attacks, and planned to carry out today A terrorist attack with grenades and weapons. Yoav Zeitoun, Einav Halabi, Elisha Ben Kimon. 21.10.23 YNet

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IDF carries out airstrike on terror cell at Jenin mosque planning ‘murderous attack’ 2 said killed in what may be the 1st fighter jet attack in West Bank in 20 years; military, Shin Bet say Hamas, Islamic Jihad gunmen used al-Ansari mosque as base of operations. By Emanuel Fabian, 22 October 2023

...The cell was believed by the IDF to have a large number of firearms and explosives, and planning to carry out a deadly terror attack inspired by Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel. TOI

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Israel Says It Killed Hamas "Terror Operatives" In Jenin Mosque Air Strike

The strike hit the Al-Ansar mosque, which the Israeli military said: "was used by the terrorists as a command centre to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution." World News, Ritika Updated: October 22, 2023 6:18 am IST NDTV

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Israeli forces raid Samaria home of Hamas’s second-in-command. Troops reportedly entered Saleh al-Arouri’s home in the village of Arura and arrested more than 20 people. Oct 21, 2023 JNS

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Hezbollah 'dragging Lebanon into war,' Israel warns. IDF thwarts attack from Lebanon - 14 more northern Israeli communities to be evacuated - Two terrorists killed at Gaza security fence - Israeli military ups preparations for Gaza ground offensive. Joshua Marks (October 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Israel: Gaza aid shipments were inspected for weapons. The New York Times had reported that the first goods to enter the Hamas-ruled enclave since war erupted on Oct. 7 were not screened.

Charles Bybelezer (October 22, 2023 / JNS) Israel denied on Saturday that some 20 trucks carrying aid into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip earlier in the day were not checked for weapons and contraband.

“At the request of the U.S. administration, humanitarian aid [comprising] only water, food and medical equipment went through Egypt’s Rafah crossing into the southern Gaza Strip. All equipment was inspected before entering Gaza,” according to a statement from Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories.

“We emphasize that Israel has the ability to verify that nothing other than [the] aforementioned was brought in or removed,” the statement added.

The New York Times cited U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric on Saturday as saying that the first aid to enter Gaza since the war erupted on Oct. 7 was not screened. Instead, he said the trucks had entered the enclave via an “expedited process,” under which a cargo manifest was submitted to the United States, Egypt and Israel and the aid distributed by the Red Cross.

Dujarric said the process would not be used again, and could not confirm when additional trucks would be allowed to enter.

[The goods crossed into the Gaza Strip via Egypt on Saturday for the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel that left 1,400 people dead, at least 4,100 wounded and 200 others held hostage by the terrorist group.]

“The opening of this essential supply route was the result of days of exhaustive U.S. diplomatic engagement in the region and an understanding President [Joe] Biden reached with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday.

“We urge all parties to keep the Rafah crossing open to enable the continued movement of aid that is imperative to the welfare of the people of Gaza. We have been clear: Hamas must not interfere with the provision of this life-saving assistance. Palestinian civilians are not responsible for Hamas’s horrific terrorism, and they should not be made to suffer for its depraved acts,” added the statement.

More than 200 trucks carrying some 3,000 tons of cargo have amassed at the crossing after being held up for days.

Israel imposed a siege on Gaza following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre,...

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Saturday that food, water and medical supplies would be permitted into Gaza, but that “fuel will not enter.”

Families of the captives have expressed anger at Netanyahu’s approval of the aid deliveries. JNS

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Israel-Hamas war: IDF carries out limited Gaza incursion. October 26, 2023 DW

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Swastikas, Nazi slogan found graffitied on Jewish students' doors at American University dorm. University President Sylvia Matthew Burwell said the graffiti was "unacceptable" and campus police were conducting a thorough investigation. Author: Jordan Fischer, October 21, 2023. Wusa9

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Shati Barud, deputy head of Hamas intelligence who helped plot Israel terror attack is killed by Israeli air strike.

IDF strike kills deputy head of Hamas intelligence directorate

By Emanuel Fabian, October 26, 2023, 6:35 pm

The Israel Defense Forces says it has killed the deputy head of Hamas’s intelligence directorate, Shadi Barud, in a strike in the Gaza Strip today.

The IDF accuses Barud of planning the October 7 attacks in southern Israel with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Barud previously served as a battalion commander in the Khan Younis area and held other roles in the terror group’s intelligence directorate, and “was responsible for planning numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians,” the IDF adds.

The IDF publishes a video showing the airstrike that killed the senior commander... TOI

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StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites: UPDATE: this woman has been identified as Dr. Zena Al-Adeeb, an endodontist.

Her employer has announced she has been fired effective October 21st. Quote: StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites · Oct 20, 2023: Boston, MA - a woman at an upscale shopping center in Chestnut Hill was spotted removing posters of Israeli children kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. Oct 22, 2023 On X

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‘F*** Jews’: Antisemites Vandalize the Office of Bari Weiss’s Media Outlet. By Caroline Downey October 23, 2023 8:52 AM NRO

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House approves resolution backing Israel in first move by new Speaker. BY Mychael Schnell And Laura Kelly. 10/25/23 05:27 PM ET ... The House approved the resolution in a 412-10-6 vote, a strong show of support for Israel after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S. ally Oct. 7, massacring more than 1,000 civilians in the south of the country, kidnapping more than 200 and raining thousands of rockets down across the country.

The resolution declares that the House “stands with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists” and “reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense.” It also “condemns Hamas’ brutal war against Israel” and calls on the U.S.-designated terrorist group “to immediately cease these violent attacks and safely release all living hostages and return the bodies of deceased hostages.”

Hamas has so far released four hostages, with an estimated 220 people kidnapped from Israel still in captivity in the Gaza Strip. Americans and other nationalities are believed to be among them. Israel and the U.S. have not confirmed that any hostages have been killed, saying any claims by Hamas cannot be trusted.

Wednesday’s resolution was a long time coming.

Lawmakers in both parties and chambers have spoken about their desire to move a resolution supporting Israel since Hamas launched its attack earlier this month, but the decision by eight House Republicans and Democrats to vote to oust McCarthy plunged the chamber into a standstill, leaving members unable to move such a measure... The Hill

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White House spokesperson: Biden will not apologize for saying civilians will die in war.

Watch: White House spokesperson John Kirby fires back at reported when asked whether he thought Biden's comments on Gaza deaths are "harsh".

Israel National News .Oct 26, 2023, 11:17 PM (GMT+3)

John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, fired back on Thursday when asked by TV Globo’s Raquel Krähenbühl about President Joe Biden’s comments about the deaths of civilians in the war in Gaza.

Krähenbühl asked Kirby whether he thought it was insensitive for the President to say that “innocents will die and that this is the price of the war” and whether Biden would apologize.

Kirby said Biden would not apologize and dismissed her assertion that Biden’s comments were harsh

“What’s harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What’s harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That's what's harsh,” he said.

“And being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that's what war is. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's messy. I've said that before. President also said that yesterday,” added Kirby.

“Doesn't mean we have to like it. And it doesn't mean that we're dismissing anyone of those casualties. Each and every one is a tragedy in its own right...and each and every one we should try to prevent. And that is why we’re in close contact with our Israeli counterparts, to do everything we can to help them minimize the risk to civilians that are in harm’s way. It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave....we know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large, and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh,” he stated. INN

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Respect Where It’s Due: WH’s Kirby NUKES Reporter’s Far-Left Question on Being ‘Insensitive’ to Gazans. Curtis Houk | October 26, 2023

While not to be confused with anything more than a longtime Democratic regime official, Biden National Security Council official John Kirby showed surprising backbone all sides can applaud in Thursday’s White House press briefing when provided refreshing moral clarity upon being dealt a snarky question from the left by Raquel Krӓhenbühl of the Brazilian network TV Globo on whether he should apologize to Gazans for being “insensitive” for predicting innocent civilians will continue to die in the Israel-Hamas war.

Krӓhenbühl’s question came as a diversion from what was similarly a pathetic series of questions from her colleagues standing up for Hamas terrorists and showing scorn for Kirby and President Biden (correctly) showing severe skepticism toward Gaza death tallies put out by Hamas. She began by noting that, on Wednesday, Biden said “innocents will die and that this is the price of the war.” MCRTV

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Sapir Lipkin, reporters' chat: The Hizbullah announced two more terrorists who were killed in IDF strikes - thereby declaring 40 dead since the beginning of the war.

(Oct.25.23) Mako, writers chat

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Rocket fire from Gaza targets Tel Aviv, central areas; Gantz says returning hostages is moral and national duty Apartment in Petach Tikva takes direct hit causing fire, no injuries; hear Gazan saying Hamas blocking civilians from reaching south. October 26, 2023 YNet

‘They are shooting at people,’ Gazan says Hamas preventing evacuation to safety IDF releases recording of call urging civilians to move southward to safety ahead of Israeli strike as part of military intelligence effort to minimize civilian casualties. Yoav Zitun | published: :03 YNet

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The 21st day of the war Direct hit to a building in Tel Aviv; report: progress in ceasefire negotiations. The ceasefire - for a prisoner deal brokered by Qatar • A senior member of the Hamas delegation in Moscow: "We will not be able to release hostages without a ceasefire, it will take time for us to locate them all in the Strip" • An American source told Reuters: Qatar told the US that it was "open to reconsidering" the presence of Hamas in its territory • Documentation: This is how the naval fighters acted in Gaza tonight - the organization's naval infrastructure was destroyed • Regular updates News reporters 12 |N12| Published 01:21 27.10.23 | Updated 16:04 27.10.23

16:02 - Disclosure - Hamas's underground city of terror: The IDF spokesman disclosed to the international media a great deal of information proving that Hamas uses humanitarian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip on a routine and emergency basis for the benefit of its terrorist activities while taking advantage of the humanitarian shelter to protect its terrorists and the leaders of the terrorist organization.

Among other things, it was revealed that the [al-Shifa] "Shifaa" hospital has a number of underground complexes used by the leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas to direct their activities and a tunnel that reaches the hospital, and allows entry to the Hamas headquarters without going through the hospital. The place has 1,500 beds and about 4,000 staff members who are a human shield for the leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas.

In addition, the entrance to the underground headquarters is made from a number of tunnel shafts adjacent to the hospital, and there is also an entrance from the hospitalization and treatment departments of the hospital; The hospital's energy infrastructure, which is supposed to be used by its patients, is actually used at the same time by the underground terrorist infrastructure of the organization and the leaders of the organization.

16:27 - Rocket fire to Ashkelon: 2 direct hits on houses in the city; Firefighters are scanning the arenas for trapped people. [50] The direct hit in Ashkelon|Photo: Ashkelon Municipality

16:20 - Terrorists fired from Lebanese territory at the IDF post in the Avivim area and towards the Mashgav area. There were no casualties; IDF artillery forces are now attacking the sources of the fire.

16:19 - Alarms in Ashdod, Ashkelon and the surrounding area.

16:10 - In Amsterdam they placed empty carts with the pictures of the kidnapped babies - calling for their return [51] [...] [52] [53] 14:02 - a direct hit to a building in Tel Aviv, following a barrage of missiles to the center of the country and the lowlands; A 53-year-old and a 20-year-old were moderately injured and two other men were slightly injured from smoke inhalation. Apparently the damage is on the fourth floor of the building. At the same time, several successful interceptions of Iron Dome were carried out in the skies of Gush Dan.

13:43 - Alarms in Ashdod. One rocket was intercepted from the Gaza Strip and successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome system, no casualties or damage.

13:10 - The US Department of the Treasury announces additional sanctions against Hamas that focus on the organization's funding sources and Hamas representatives in Iran and elements in the Revolutionary Guards.

13:00 - The IDF released a recording of a conversation from the day of the massacre between a terrorist from the Hamas special forces and his commander in the Gaza Strip, in which he describes the murders he committed in the Gaza Strip. In the conversation, he is heard saying: "Inform all the members of the house that we are inside. These scoundrels live happily and we are humiliated, I will dismantle them one by one. Stay on the line with me, hear the shooting." He told the terrorists with him: "Whoever you catch, kill him." [...] 12:47 - The Kremlin spokesman clarifies that the Hamas representatives who arrived in Moscow met only with officials from the Foreign Ministry and not from the Kremlin, he also emphasized that Russia should maintain dialogue with all parties and continue the dialogue with Israel. He added that despite the US attacks tonight, there is no danger that Russia will be dragged in - but the American attacks reflect the existing tension in the region and that it is "very bad".

12:43 - after 10 hours without firing - alarms in the Gaza Strip. [...] 11:52 - The IDF and the Shin Bet killed the commander of the West Khan Yunis battalion in Hamas, Madhat Mabasher. Midhat took part in sniping attacks and large explosives against IDF forces and Israeli settlements.

Also, in the last 24 hours, the IDF attacked over 250 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Among them, terrorist tunnels, dozens of terrorists, operational headquarters and launching positions using fighter jets. [...] 10:46 - The IDF spokesperson updates: "We have sent a message to the families of 229 abductees in Gaza - and to the families of 310 IDF martyrs." ...

10:44 - IDF spokesman: "The raid on Gaza began in broad daylight and made it possible to eliminate terrorists and launch positions." He announced: "We will soon reveal materials that reveal Hamas' use of humanitarian facilities in the Gaza Strip for terrorist infrastructure in a way that endangers the residents of the Gaza Strip." 10:32 - At the end of an extensive arrest operation to counter terrorism and confiscate weapons tonight, 36 wanted persons were arrested in Judea and Samaria, including 17 Hamas operatives. The commander of the Central Command, Major General Yehuda Fux, signed the confiscation and demolition order for the house owned by senior Hamas terrorist Saleh al-Aruri, in the village of 'Arura. A military source clarified: "The situation has changed. We are fighting with all the tools against Hamas-ISIS. Terrorist operatives, homes, finances and businesses - we will continue to arrest, damage and destroy everything related to the murderous terrorist organization even in Judea-Samaria." So far, since the beginning of the war, about a thousand wanted persons have been arrested throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Emekim Division, over 670 are affiliated with Hamas. 10:30 - In an exchange of fire during an IDF operation in Jenin, Aisar al-Amar, a terrorist of the Islamic Jihad, was killed. In the city of Qalqilya, equipment was confiscated and a store that engaged in acts of incitement and support for terrorism was closed. Mako

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Nejwa Ali, PLO ex-spokeswoman, put on leave by Citizenship and Immigration Services - Washington Times.

DHS puts on leave a former PLO spokeswoman whom it had hired as asylum officer, after being confronted with her history as an operative for the Palestine Liberation Organization and a more recent series of pro-Hamas social media posts.

By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Homeland Security’s legal immigration agency put an employee on leave Wednesday after being confronted with her history as an operative for the Palestine Liberation Organization and a more recent series of pro-Hamas social media posts.

Nejwa Ali had been hired at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as an asylum officer in 2019 and is now serving as an adjudication officer, according to her LinkedIn profile.

That profile is also used to highlight her time as a public affairs officer for the PLO, an umbrella group that advocates for Palestinians and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S.

The Daily Wire first reported on Ms. Ali’s troubling history, saying she has been posting for years in support of Palestinian causes, and has intensified those comments in the wake of Hamas’ horrific sneak attack on Israel earlier this month.

The comments were a black eye for USCIS.

“USCIS strongly condemns antisemitism and the use of violent rhetoric in any form. USCIS employees are held to high ethical standards both on and off duty, including their presence on social media. Any violation of these standards is taken seriously by the agency,” Matthew Bourke, a spokesperson for the agency, said Wednesday afternoon.

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By the evening, the agency had put Ms. Ali on leave.

Former USCIS officials said the agency must figure out how someone with those views managed to secure such a sensitive job.

Ms. Ali’s online profile says she was responsible for ruling on immigration cases at Homeland Security and helped guide new hires.

She began as an asylum officer in July 2019 and started as an adjudication officer at the start of this year.

Her LinkedIn profile used to list her role as a public affairs officer for the PLO’s delegation to the U.S. in 2016 and 2017. The U.S. listed the PLO as a designated terrorist organization in 1987.

Her LinkedIn profile used to list her role as a public affairs officer for the PLO’s delegation to the U.S. in 2016 and 2017. But as of Wednesday afternoon, that part of her public profile had been deleted.

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The Daily Wire reported that Ms. Ali had posted images of Hamas militants and, after the initial Hamas attack, wrote on Instagram: “F*** Israel, the government, and its military. Are you ready for your downfall?”

“She should be terminated,” said Emilio Gonzalez, who ran USCIS in the Bush administration.

He was stunned that she was hired in the first place, given her background.

“The PLO is a designated foreign terrorist organization,” he said. “The fact that she worked for them and then was hired by the Department of Homeland Security tells me that somebody dropped the ball with her background checks.”

USCIS said applicants are “thoroughly vetted” and face “extensive” background checks before being hired for a permanent position.

The agency also said its handbook directs employees not to post anything to social media that is “discriminatory, obscene, harassing or intimidating.”

Former USCIS employees said asylum and adjudication officers hold sensitive positions with power over the fate of people’s lives. The employees said Ms. Ali’s expressed views raise questions about whether applicants whose cases came before her could have received fair treatment.

Ms. Ali assured The Daily Wire she was able to keep her views separate.

“That does not affect the ability to do my job at all. You can mind your own business,” she said, according to the news outlet.

Ms. Ali’s case harkens back to a case in 2020 in which a USCIS employee in Florida was caught in a viral video telling a Black teenage girl that she didn’t “belong” in his neighborhood. The girl’s family lived on the street.

Lee Jeffers, the employee, said his comments weren’t racially motivated and he was upset after seeing the girl and her friends driving a golf cart dangerously. Washington Times

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Ex-MLB Star Ian Kinsler Wears Israel Jersey, Throw First Pitch At ALCS.

10/19/2023 9:50 AM PT Ian Kinsler wasn't repping the Rangers or Astros last night, the former MLB star had a bigger cause on his mind than the ALCS ... the 4x All-Star, who is Jewish, threw out the first pitch wearing a Team Israel jersey.

Kinsler is a special assistant to the Rangers general manager ... and the organization invited him to kick off Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX with the ceremonial first pitch. TMZ

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Conservatives call for Congress to defund Palestinians across board.

PA to immediately reward families of Oct. 7 terrorists with nearly $3 million The "pay-for-slay" stipends will continue for the rest of their relatives' lives Oct 17. 2023 JNS

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Conservatives call for Congress to defund Palestinians across board. A group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence organized a letter from more than 60 activists, politicians and thought leaders. (October 17, 2023 / JNS)

Advancing American Freedom (AAF) has urged the U.S. House of Representatives to stop sending money to “any Palestinian entity or person, whether government or non-government, whether direct or indirect, and whether military, political or civilian.”

In a letter sent on Friday, the 501(c)(4) organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, wrote: “We the undersigned demand the immediate and complete defunding of the Palestinians via the appropriations process underway this fiscal year.”

The group said that “the language in the relevant appropriations legislation, including continuing resolutions, composite appropriations bills and individual appropriations bills, must be clear, very specific, comprehensive and not able to be circumvented by unscrupulous bureaucrats.”

Among the signatories offering to assist “in any way to accomplish these objectives” were former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese III; Robert Wilkie, the former U.S. secretary of veterans affairs; Ellie Cohanim, the former deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism; and Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America.

“The United States will not fund terrorist organizations like Hamas, that use whatever funding given to Palestinians to carry out terrorist operations and attacks like the one we just witnessed,” said AAF executive director Paul Teller. “Congress must demonstrate its unwavering support to Israel and cease funding the Palestinians.” JNS

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Despite US admission Hamas ‘may seize’ aid to Gaza, Biden announces $100m in Palestinian aid. "We know Hamas is going to commandeer that money, and Hamas is going to use it to advance terrorism," stated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presidential candidate. David Swindle, Menachem Wecker, Oct 18, 2023 JNS

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2024 GOP candidates condemn Biden’s $100M pledge to Palestinians. By Diana Glebova Published Oct. 19, 2023, 4:07 p.m. ET GOP presidential candidates largely condemned President Biden’s pledge to give $100 million to Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war, arguing the money will likely fall into the hands of terrorists.

The president promised to fund the Palestinian territories — including the approximately 2 million residents in Gaza — in a speech in Israel Wednesday. Biden’s $100 million would go to the West Bank and Gaza, the president said, and is intended to "support more than 1 million displaced and conflict-affected Palestinians, including emergency needs in Gaza."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum all said they are vehemently opposed to the US funding the Gaza Strip due to the presence of Hamas, while conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy denounced Biden’s reported request for an additional $100 billion for foreign wars and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the funding “low priority. NY Post

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Biden to Israel: 'You are not alone' Biden pledged “immense security.assistance for the State of Israel of an unprecedented scope, including assistance that further strengthens our war capabilities,” Netanyahu underscored. By Tovah Lazaroff, October 18, 2023 22:50 Updated Ooctober 18, 2023 JPost

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Jamila al-Shanti, 1st woman in Hamas political bureau, said killed in Israeli strike. October 19, 2023 | 8:58 am TOI

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Panic on the Internet: "Suspects photographed houses", the police: "There is no suspicion of attacks."

Surfers published posts on social networks in which they claimed that suspects were seen taking photographs near residential buildings: "They are scanning the area! It is clear that they are planning something" • The police clarified that all the reported incidents were investigated and there was no suspicion of an attempted terrorist attack or involvement in terrorism: "In order to avoid panic, the public is asked not to forward these messages" • Police spokesman: Some of the photos are not authentic, maybe a foreign country is involved

Moshe Nussbaum | Branu Tegene |N12 |Published 00:47 19.10.23 | Updated 08:59 19.10.23 The police responded tonight (between Wednesday and Thursday) to several posts published last night on social networks, in which surfers claimed that suspects were documenting houses in the center. "In all of the incidents examined by the police officers, there was no suspicion of terrorist activity (hostile sabotage activity)," emphasized the police. "In order not to cause panic, the public is asked not to chain these messages online."

The police added: "As a general rule these days, any report of this type is handled quickly and thoroughly by the thousands of police officers and soldiers who are in all the cities with increased forces and are ready for any scenario. The Israel Police is back and calls on citizens to continue to be vigilant and to call the 100 hotline in real time for any unusual incident." ... Buildings are photographed, they are very suspicious" One surfer wrote: "They posted in our group that they saw Arabs taking pictures of houses. Now I see reports like this from Petach Tikva and other places. They pass and take pictures of houses. Is anyone doing anything about it?" Another surfer joined in: "A significant number of Arabs pass between cities, taking pictures of buildings, entrances and what not?"

"There are a bunch of suspects walking around who pretend to be 'cleaners' of the building, even though its residents report that the cleaner was already that morning," added another surfer. They photograph buildings and scan the area! It is clear that they are planning something... very suspicious, anyone who sees them should report it to the police immediately." Mako

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Egypt willing to accept Americans from Gaza but Hamas stopping crossing, White House says. From CNN’s Nikki Carvajal and Jasmine Wright

Hamas has been stopping Americans from leaving Gaza through the Rafah crossing to Egypt, even though Cairo has agreed to let US citizens cross into the country, the White House said Sunday....

CNN spoke to several Gaza residents Saturday who said they tried to leave via the Rafah crossing but were eventually turned away. (10.15.23) CNN

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US says Israel resumed water supply to southern Gaza. Oct 15, 2023 JNS

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IDF Spokeperson: 'Hezbollah working to escalate tensions on the northern border'.

IDF Spokeperson: 'Hezbollah working to escalate tensions on the northern border' Until now, the IDF updated 289 families of fallen soldiers and 155 families of captives. Israel National News, Oct 15, 2023, 9:42 PM (GMT+3) INN

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The IDF eliminated the head of Hamas's general intelligence. Yair said, Srugim news 16.10.23 | The IDF acted against a series of targets in the Gaza Strip, killing in an airstrike the head of Hamas's general intelligence in the Khan Yunis Brigade The IDF published a series of documents from precise attacks against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, the elimination of senior officials and the elimination of launch squads. Among other things, during the last night the IDF eliminated the head of general intelligence in the Khan Yunis Brigade. Srugim

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IDF assassinates Hamas leader linked to Gilad Shalit prisoner swap. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 17, 2023 01:00 Updated: October 17, 2023 01:06 The IDF assassinated Osama al-Mazini, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau and the head of Hamas's Shura Council, on Monday, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit and the Shin Bet said in a joint statement. JPost

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UN refugee agency accuses Hamas of stealing fuel, medications from its Gaza premises.

October 16, 2023

UNRWA, the UN organization that treats Palestinian refugees and their descendants, says Hamas authorities in Gaza have apparently stolen fuel and medical supplies meant for refugees from its premises in Gaza City.

The agency says on X that the people claiming they were from the Hamas-run health ministry loaded the supplies on trucks, adding than any non-humanitarian use of the fuel is “strongly condemned.”

The agency deletes the posts shortly thereafter, without explanation.

Barak Ravid @BarakRavid: UNRWA deleted this tweet thread, but UN sources and Israeli officials tell me the incident did happen. [54] Oct 16 2023 [55] TOI

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UN Security Council rejects Russia’s resolution on Gaza that fails to mention Hamas. By Edith M. Lederer Updated 8:03 PM EDT, October 16, 2023 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council rejected a Russian resolution Monday night that condemned violence and terrorism against civilians but made no mention of Hamas, whose surprise attack that killed 1,300 Israelis was the worst Jewish massacre since the World War II Nazi Holocaust. AP

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Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on a Russia Drafted UN Security Council Resolution on the Situation in the Middle East. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Representative to the United Nations. New York, New York October 16, 2023 [...] Unfortunately, Russia’s resolution presented today does not meet all of these responsibilities. Russia’s resolution, put forward without any consultations, makes no mention of Hamas – none. By failing to condemn Hamas, Russia is giving cover to a terrorist group that brutalizes innocent civilians. It is outrageous, it is hypocritical, and it is indefensible.

Colleagues, the United States could not support Russia’s resolution – which, in ignoring Hamas’ terrorism, dishonors victims. We agree that this Council should take action, but we have to get it right. And we’ll work intensively with all members on the Council to do so.. USUN

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Islamic State flag found on slain Hamas terrorist.

While the Gaza-ruling terror group portrays itself as a humanitarian organization soliciting donations around the world, they are in fact a vicious murderous group perhaps worse than the Islamic State.

Yoav Zitun | Oct 12, 2023 YNet

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Al Qaeda and ISIS training booklet found on the terrorist. On the body of one of the terrorists who crossed into Israeli territory, a training and inspiration booklet of the murderous terrorist organizations ISIS and al-Qa'ida was found | The IDF spokesman revealed the cover this evening (Terrorists) Yair Toker, Kikar haShabbat (12.10.23) [56] Kikar

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Biden: Hamas's Attack 'Sheer Evil.' By Ken Thomas, October 10, 2023

President Biden condemned Hamas’s terrorist attack Tuesday, calling it “an act of sheer evil” that has killed 14 Americans.

Biden addressed the nation from the White House, describing the attacks in graphic terms. He said more than 1,000 civilians were “slaughtered” and 14 American citizens were killed in the attacks. The president noted that parents were “butchered” and cited reports of babies being killed, young people massacred and women raped. WSJ

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The White House

OCTOBER 10, 2023 Remarks by President Biden on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel.

BRIEFING ROOM SPEECHES AND REMARKS State Dining Room

2:24 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon.

You know, there are moments in this life — and I mean this literally — when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.

The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend. The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews.

This was an act of sheer evil.

More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered — not just killed, slaughtered — in Israel. Among them, at least 14 American citizens killed.

Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children.

Stomach-turning reports of being — babies being killed.

Entire families slain.

Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to celebrate peace.

Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.

Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention.

And thousands of wounded, alive but carrying with them the bullet holes and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured.

You all know these traumas never go away.

There are still so many families desperately waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones, not knowing if they’re alive or dead or hostages.

Infants in their mothers’ arms, grandparents in wheelchairs, Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage — hostages whom Hamas has now threatened to execute in violation of every code of human morality.

It’s abhorrent.

The brutality of Hamas — this bloodthirstiness — brings to mind the worst — the worst rampages of ISIS.

This is terrorism.

But sadly, for the Jewish people, it’s not new.

This attack has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people.

So, in this moment, we must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel. We stand with Israel. And we will make sure Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.

There is no justification for terrorism. There is no excuse.

Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination. Its stated purpose is the annihilation of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people.

They use Palestinian civilians as human shields.

Hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed with no regard to who pays the price.

The loss of innocent life is heartbreaking.

Like every nation in the world, Israel has the right to respond — indeed has a duty to respond — to these vicious attacks.

I just got off the phone with — the third call with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I told him if the United States experienced what Israel is experiencing, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming.

We also discussed how democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law.

Terrorists purpo- — purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war — the law of war. It matters. There’s a difference.

Today, Americans across the country are praying for all those families that have been ripped apart. A lot of us know how it feels. It leaves a black hole in your chest when you lose family, feeling like you’re being sucked in. The anger, the pain, the sense of hopelessness.

This is what they mean by a “human tragedy” — an atrocity on an appalling scale.

But we’re going to s- — continue to stand united, supporting the people of Israel who are suffering unspeakable losses and opposing the hatred and violence of terrorism.

My team has been in near constant communication with our Israeli partners and partners all across the region and the world from the moment this crisis began.

We’re surging additional military assistance, including ammunition and interceptors to replenish Iron Dome.

We’re going to make sure that Israel does not run out of these critical assets to defend its cities and its citizens.

My administration has consulted closely with Congress throughout this crisis. And when Congress returns, we’re going to ask them to take urgent action to fund the national security requirements of our critical partners.

This is not about party or politics. This is about the security of our world, the security of the United States of America.

We now know that American citizens are among those being held by Hamas.

I’ve directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise the Israeli counterparts on hostage recover- — recovery efforts, because as president I have no higher priority than the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world.

The United States has also enhanced our military force posture in the region to strengthen our deterrence.

The Department of Defense has moved the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Eastern Mediterranean and bolstered our fighter aircraft presence. And we stand ready to move in additional assets as needed.

Let me say again — to any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation, I have one word: Don’t. Don’t.

Our hearts may be broken, but our resolve is clear.

Yesterday, I also spoke with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK to discuss the latest developments with our European allies and coordinate our united response.

This comes on top of days of steady engagement with partners across the region.

We’re also taking steps at home. In cities across the United States of America, police departments have stepped up security around centers for — of Jewish life.

And the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are working closely with state and local law enforcement and Jewish community partners to identify and disrupt any domestic threat that could emerge in connection with these horrific attacks.

This is a moment for the United States to come together, to grieve with those who are mourning.

Let’s be real clear: There is no place for hate in America — not against Jews, not against Muslims, not against anybody. We reject — we reject — what we reject is terrorism. We condemn the indiscriminate evil, just as we’ve always done.

That’s what America stands for.

You know, just over 50 years ago — I was thinking about it this morning, talking with the Secretary of State, the Vice President in my office and — over 50 years ago, as a young senator, I visited Israel for the first time, as a newly elected senator.

And I had a long, long trip — or meeting with Golda Meir in her office just before the Yom Kippur War. And I guess she could see the consternation on my face as she described what was being faced — they were facing.

We walked outside in that — that sort of hallway outside her office to have some photos. She looked at me and w- — all of a sudden and said, “Would you like to have a photograph?” And so, I got up and followed her out.

We were standing there silent, looking at the press. She could tell, I guess, I was concerned. She leaned over and whispered to me — she said, “Don’t worry, Senator Biden. We have a secret weapon here in Israel” — my word this is what she said — “We have no place else to go.” “We have no place else to go.”

For 75 years, Israel has stood as the ultimate guarantor of security of Jewish people around the world so that the atrocities of the past could never happen again.

And let there be no doubt: The United States has Israel’s back.

We will make sure the Jewish and democratic State of Israel can defend itself today, tomorrow, as we always have. It’s as simple as that.

These atrocities have been sickening.

We’re — we’re with Israel. Let’s make no mistake.

Thank you.

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Blinken Calls Hamas Terror “Depravity” As Israel Releases Horrifying Photos Of Murdered Babies. Mike Jenkins October 12, 2023 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken showing the sheer evil and depravity during the siege of terror at the hands of Hamas in Israel. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken showing the sheer evil and depravity during the siege of terror at the hands of Hamas in Israel.

Blinken discussed the atrocity during a press briefing from Israel on Thursday.

“It’s hard to find the right words. It’s beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and God forbid experience,” said Blinken Thursday during a press briefing.

“A baby, an infant, riddled with bullets, soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or their highway rooms. I could go on, but it’s simply depravity in the worst imaginable way,” said Blinken.

“Here are some of the photos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Warning: These are horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters,” the post read.

Warning: Graphic content below. Following a roundtable discussion with Jewish community leaders on Wednesday, Joe Biden stated he had seen horrific pictures of slaughtered and beheaded Israeli children.

“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” said Joe Biden during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders.

These photos were then made public.

An IDF spokesman, Jonathan Conricus, said terrorists had likely carried out decapitations of babies in the Be’eri kibbutz.

Warning: These are horrifying photos below of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters were shown to Blinken Thursday and released by the Prime Minister of Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared photos with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken showing the sheer evil and depravity during the siege of terror at the hands of Hamas in Israel. [57] [58]. Source: Prime Minister Of Israel.

On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced leftists in the United States for protesting in support of Hamas terrorists, who have murdered more than 1,200 Israelis since launching an attack on Saturday.

“These demonstrations … where they’re cheering Hamas, knowing that Hamas has decapitated babies, they’re executing elderly people, raping women. … I think that they scraped the bottom of the barrel of human depravity on this,” DeSantis told Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on Wednesday.

“And to take to the streets and celebrate that there’s a sickness in our society here.”

In the news: Dershowitz Rips Harvard President’s Response To Student Orgs Blaming Israel For Hamas Attack

For those in America who have praised Hamas, said DeSantis, “I just wonder why are you even in this country, if that’s your belief on some of that stuff.”

“It’s almost like they’re pouring salt in the wound by going out and celebrating these atrocities,” he added.

Continuing, DeSantis said Israel’s response should not be “proportionate,” as it has done to reply to past terrorist incidents.

“It should be the elimination of Hamas and the terrorist infrastructure that has grown up in Gaza,” he told Schmitt.

The Republican governor and presidential candidate noted that Palestinians have rejected Israel’s offer of creating their own country because all they will accept is the elimination of the Jewish state.

“This will be the final battle with Hamas,” DeSantis predicted... Tampa Free Press

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Secretary of State Blinken: 'As long as there is the US, Israel will never be alone.' US Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken holds a press conference in Tel Aviv in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre of 1,300 Israelis.

Israel National News Published: Oct 12, 2023, 6:11 PM (GMT+3) Updated: 7:49 PM

US Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken held a press conference in Tel Avi this evening (Thursday) following his meetings with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, in the aftermath of the massacre of 1,300 Israelis by the Hamas terrorist organization.

"I came to Israel with a simple message: The United States stands with Israel and with its people, today, tomorrow, every day," the US Secretary of State opened.

Blinken explained that he discussed what Israel needs to defend itself with Israeli leaders. "We're delivering on those needs as we speak." He added that the US is doing everything it can to secure the release of the hostages that are being held by the Hamas terror organization.

"For the families of the missing, there is an unrelenting agony of not knowing the fate of their loved ones, something that I don't think most of us can truly understand, truly contemplate, if we're not in their shoes," he added.

Blinken described the civilian efforts in the wake of the war: "I also had the chance to see up close the genuinely inspiring solidarity of the Israeli people in the wake of Hamas' attacks when I visited one of the many sites where citizens have swiftly organized efforts to collect, to sort, to distribute donations to those in need, including many families who have been displaced from the south," he stated.

"In our time here, everywhere we've gone, we've met people who've been touched, in one way or another, by Hamas' bloody hand. We encountered a nation knit together by grief but also a nation united in resolve. The United States shares that resolve. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Israel," said Secretary Blinken.

Blinken discussed peace in the Middle East: "One path forward is a region that comes together, integrated, normalized relations among its countries, people working in common purpose to common benefit. More peaceful, more stable. Then there's the path that Hamas has shown in shark clear light. Terror, destruction, nihilism. The choice could not be clearer," he stated.

"Hamas launched this attack on Simchat Torah. This is the day that Jews celebrate finishing the reading of the Torah. This Saturday, Jews around the world will chant the first words of the book of Genesis. They'll read that 'In the Beginning, there was darkness, and then, there was light,' that the first person was alone until a partner joined them. I'm standing here today alongside our Israeli friends and all those who reject terror to help find the glimmers of light even in this moment of deep darkness and to make clear that as long as there is the United States, Israel will never be alone."

Secretary Blinken says his team saw images of the Hamas massacre. "It's hard to find the right words. It's beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and, God forbid, experience. A baby, an infant, riddled with bullets, soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. I could go on, but it's simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. It almost defies comprehension." He added that the images of the Hamas massacre "harken back to ISIS and some of the very things we saw when it was on its rampage, that thankfully was stopped.

When you see this, you can't help but imagine yourself, your family, your loved ones, our friends in that situation, in that predicament. And maybe the best word for me is overwhelming, This is a moment for moral clarity. This is a moment where everyone needs to make clear that there is revulsion, disgust, and determination not to allow this to go forward. Images are worth a thousand words. These images may be worth a million," he concluded.

In response to a question by the press on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Blinken says that the situation is "complicated" because "Hamas continues to use civilians as human shields, something that's not new, something that they've always done. Intentionally putting civilians in harm's way to try to protect themselves or to try to protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. So that's one of the basic facts that Israel has to deal with.

Civilians should not be used in any way as the targets of military operations. They are not the target of Israel's operations. We did discuss ways to address the humanitarian needs of people living in Gaza, to protect them from harm while Israel conducts its legitimate security operations to defend itself from terrorism and to try to ensure that this never happens again."... INN

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Austin to Netanyahu: "I know ISIS, what is happening here is worse." The US Secretary of Defense, who planned the war on ISIS, says in his meeting with Netanyahu that the atrocities committed by Hamas are worse than those of ISIS - "We are with you, Mr. Prime Minister," Austin told Netanyahu: "As the president said, you have our backs." Editors of Channel 14, 28 Tishrei 5784, 13.10.23 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today (Friday) with the Secretary of Defense of the United States Lloyd Austin, in Kirya in Tel Aviv. Austin, who was the person who planned the war on ISIS for the first time - said during the meeting that he does know the horrors of the murderous terrorist organization, but what Hamas did this week is worse.

"We are with you, Mr. Prime Minister," Austin addressed Netanyahu at the beginning of the meeting, "as the president said, you have our back. It has been a terrible week. We have seen the horrific acts of this terrorist organization. As you know, I was the one who planned the war against ISIS For the first time. So I know ISIS well, and it's worse than what I saw with ISIS. We are with you and we stand by you, Mr. Prime Minister." Now14

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100 ton... Oct 8, 2023. At the same time, a military infrastructure was attacked in the house of Farah Hamad, a senior operative in the terrorist organization Hamas, the military infrastructure in his apartment is located near a mosque and three schools, this target proves once again that the terrorist organization Hamas exploits holy sites and the civilian population in order to promote terrorism. 0404

Notice the extensive secondary explosions. Might want to ask why there was obviously a cache of weapons being stored in a mosque…  [59]

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 9, 2023 [60]

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Hamas again using human shields in Gaza "To mitigate harm to noncombatants, the IDF carries out surgical strikes," said the army.

(October 10, 2023 / JNS) Hamas continues to use Gazan civilians as human shields by building its terrorist infrastructure in densely populated civilian areas, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday, sharing evidence of the Islamist group’s facilities located near medical clinics, schools and U.N. buildings.

“Hamas infrastructure is deliberately embedded within civilian areas and in proximity to international assets, using the population as human shields,” said the report by the IDF International Cooperation Division.

“In order to mitigate harm to noncombatants, the IDF carries out surgical strikes,” it added.

The report included aerial maps of Gaza City’s Rimal residential neighborhood, showing Hamas facilities in or near commercial buildings, pharmacies, welfare offices, mosques and other public facilities.

Hamas’s well-documented use of its own civilians as human shields, as well as its use of mosques, hospitals, schools and private homes as weapons storage facilities and firing platforms, violates international humanitarian law.

The Israel Defense Forces continued to pound Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the war sparked by the Palestinian terrorist group’s brutal Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state entered its fourth day.

The military said it struck the shaft of a tunnel and other assets Hamas used to penetrate Israeli territory on Saturday and indiscriminately butcher at least 900 Israeli men, women and children.

Israel Air Force fighter jets also struck a mosque containing a Hamas operations and command center used to coordinate this weekend’s Iran-backed attack. The air force also carried out “widespread” strikes on weapons depots and other terrorist infrastructure.

As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, the IDF had conducted five waves of airstrikes in Gaza, attacking more than 1,500 terrorist targets, including attack tunnels, rocket launching sites, and command and control centers.

More than 400 Hamas terrorists have been killed inside the Gaza Strip so far, the report noted.

This is in addition to an estimated terrorist 1,500 terrorists slain inside Israel since Saturday.

IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht on Tuesday urged Gazans to leave the Strip immediately amid the intensifying war with Hamas.

Hecht’s warning came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night vowed that “every place in which Hamas hides will become a city of ruins.

“This war was forced upon us by a despicable enemy, human animals celebrating the murder of women, children and the elderly,” the prime minister said in an address to the nation. JNS

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CNN.com - Transcripts. CNN, Oct 9, 2023 [...] HALEVY: That's exactly what happened in actual fact. It was not only the fact that every day many, many thousands were leaving Gaza to work in

Israel. It is also a fact that Israel opened its hospitals for treatment of people in Gaza. In many cases, giving the best treatment that can be given, whether it's in the operating room or elsewhere.

And I think that in this, Israel more or less was extending a hand to Hamas without saying it in as many words. And they, at the same time -- and at the same time, as receiving all of this, they were planning something totally different and they were able to keep it secret. [61]

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Kibbutzniks who drove Arabs from Gaza for treatment in hospitals in Israel saw those Gazans participating in the looting of the kibbutzim. This is what Avigdor Lieberman says on N12 that he was told by people from the Kibbutzim. In addition, those Arabs from Gaza passed on information about the moshavs and kibbutzim.

16.10.23 Rotter

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Israel’s Work Permits for Gaza Enabled the Hamas Attack-Gazans got permits to work inside Israel. They came as killers and rapists. Daniel Greenfield, Oct 18, 2023 FPM [62]

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A look at how Israeli communities defended themselves during Hamas attack. CNN's Rafael Romo learns more about how some communities held off some of the Hamas terrorists on October 7th. 04:26 - Source: CNN October 29, 2023. (Except: They believed in coexistence with Arabs "that not all Arabs are bad.) CNN

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Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut. by Summer Said, Benoit Faucon and Stephen Kalin. Oct. 8, 2023 4:40 pm ET

DUBAI—Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group. WSJ

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Hamas Attack on Israel Brings New

Scrutiny of Group’s Ties to Iran Officials from Iran and Hezbollah helped plan the attack, people familiar with the operation said, but the U.S. and its allies have not found evidence directly linking Tehran.

By Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Published Oct. 13, 2023 Updated Oct. 14, 2023, 12:06 p.m. ET

Last weekend’s attack on Israel by Hamas has brought renewed scrutiny of the armed Palestinian group’s longstanding relationship with Iran, and questions about whether the Gaza-based group could have pulled off such a sophisticated and devastating operation on its own.

Iran has a long history of training and arming proxy militia groups in the region, from Gaza to Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. It supports Hamas militarily and has helped it design and produce a domestic missile and rocket system to match the capabilities and material available in Gaza — an impoverished, densely populated coastal strip that has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt for the past 16 years.

And over the past year, there have been signs that Iran and its proxies were preparing to take a more aggressive approach toward Israel. NY Times

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IDF hits hundreds of Hamas assets as Israeli death toll passes 900. Oct 9, 2023. JNS

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The dimensions of the massacre at the party are revealed: 260 bodies were evacuated. "Anyone who took out their head was murdered." The horror testimonies of the survivors Avi Sedrina, Oct 8, 2023. 23:27 N12

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Girls 'raped next to their dead friends' at rave massacre. A survivor of the attack said he saw scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot point-blank

By Orlando Radice, October 9, 2023, 11:03

([63] Screengrab from a video shot as revelers realize Hamas gunmen are attacking)

A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revelers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”.

Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later, while others were taken to Gaza. The JC

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Eyewitness Account of the Rave Massacre Scenes of young women raped next to the dead bodies of their friends. By Liel Leibovitz October 8, 2023 ...Later, when the gruesome attack was finally over and IDF soldiers managed to subdue the attackers, they searched these trucks and found RPG launchers, high-end communications devices, assorted AK-47s and other mostly Soviet-made weapons, along with numerous copies of the Quran. Tablet

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Music fest massacre Haunting pics show Hamas attack that killed at least 260 at music venue as Israeli officers acted as human shields. Graphic new images include a photo of the scores of dead lying in a tent from the rave in southern Israel, which turned into bloody mayhem as heavily armed Palestinian terrorists paraglided into the area and others stormed in on vehicles. [64] NY Post

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Tragic last dance for peace-loving tattoo artist murdered by Hamas: Shani Louk, who refused military service in Israel, is seen having fun.. before being slaughtered and paraded naked by terrorists. By Rachael Bunyan And Rob Hyde 13:35 09 Oct 2023, updated 17:21 09 Oct 2023 Daily Mail

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Please meet Mahmoud Abourjila.

He is one of the murderers of 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, whose half naked dead body was desecrated and paraded on a Hamas pick-up truck.

He was identified by German internet users.

The other men involved will also be identified. [pic.twitter.com/trEuXi5C8s]

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023 [65]

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'I Just Hope That They Are Alive': How Hamas Abducted 150 Israelis. Oct 9, 2023 NY Times

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Elderly Holocaust survivor in wheelchair kidnapped by Hamas. Isabel Keane Oct 8, 2023 NY Post

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Hamas Is Reportedly Using Rape as Warfare. Where Are the Feminists? | Opinion. Monica Osborne, Editor-At-Large at The Jewish Journal On 10/10/23 At 4:01 PM EDT

Just when you thought the news out of Israel couldn't get any worse, reports emerged Tuesday morning that 40 babies had been executed by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Some of these babies were reportedly beheaded. Read that again: So-called Palestinian resistance fighters, cowards targeting the most vulnerable, cut off the heads of babies.

The report joined widespread ones of sexual assault and rape during Hamas's medieval, ISIS-style rampage. It joined footage of women abducted with their babies, grandmothers taken hostage and paraded down the streets of Gaza. According to one survivor, "They came to slaughter, to destroy. I know they kidnapped girls. They raped women even after killing them." Another survivor tells of returning to the site later to look for his friends, and seeing mostly bodies "of young women, lying cold and mutilated." Another widely shared video showed a young woman's nearly naked body, lifeless and mutilated, being paraded through the streets of Gaza in the back of a pickup truck. Palestinian men sat on her, draped their legs over her, pulled at her hair, and spit on her: a broken female body brandished like a trophy.

Then there's the video of a teenage Israeli woman being pulled by terrorists from the back of a vehicle in Gaza. In the video, she is barefoot, wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt, and as she turns, you can see the back of her sweatpants covered in blood that came from between her legs.

These videos, broadcast on social media and Telegram for the world to see, were filmed and shared by Hamas with pride. There is no effort to hide or minimize what they are doing to women. In fact, the rape and brutalization of women has been the crucial hallmark of this brutal attack.

It's chilling and sickening. But nearly as disturbing is the complete silence of the largest and most visible international women's organizations supposedly dedicated to protecting women all over the world from rape and violence. They have all suddenly gone silent. Not one has spoken out against what appear to be the mass rapes committed by Hamas fighters.

Their silence sends a loud and clear message: We don't care about the rape of Israeli and Jewish women. We don't care if their broken bodies are paraded through streets by terrorists.

The silence of feminist and women's organizations authorizes rape as a weapon of war. It sanctions the beheading of babies when it is called "resistance."

I expected more from human rights organizations devoted to women, feminist organizations created to expose atrocities committed against women. Equality Now describes itself as an international women's rights organization working to end discrimination and violence against women and girls globally. But not one statement has been made on behalf of women violently raped by Hamas or the babies (presumably some of them girls) executed and beheaded.

It turns out that it's not rape these orgs care about; it's who is being raped, and whether these women meet their ideological criteria for qualifying as victims. Jewish women don't count. Women in Israel (who, by the way, aren't all Jewish) don't count.

Likewise, AWID, describing itself as a feminist and women's rights organization, hasn't made a peep about the mass rapes in Israel. Women for Women International? Also nothing. Feminist Majority Foundation, advocating for "women's social, political, economic equality around the world," has rightly spoken out this week against the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan, but nothing on the rape of Israeli women.

Hamas is using rape as warfare. This fact should be beyond politics and it's time for feminist and women's organizations around the world to start talking about it and to condemn it. Newswek

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In Kibbutz Be’eri, where at least 120 residents were killed by Hamas, Israeli officers survey aftermath of attack.

Mark Mackinnon Senior International Correspondent

Oct 11, 2023

Kibbutz Be’eri was a symbol of the Israeli national dream, the desire and ability to make the desert bloom. This tiny oasis of greenery on the northern edge of the Negev Desert was one of the most affluent of its kind and one of the few kibbutzim that remained true to the co-operative principles it was founded upon in 1946, two years before the state of Israel itself.

Today, Be’eri symbolizes the nightmare that has always haunted Israelis – that the massacres and pogroms that had driven their ancestors from Europe and from other parts of the Middle East would somehow follow them here to this supposed refuge for the Jewish people.

When Hamas militants launched their surprise invasion of Israel on Saturday morning, Be’eri had just over 1,000 residents. By the time Israeli forces finally recaptured Be’eri more than three days later, at least 120 of those kibbutzniks were dead. And an unknown number of others are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip.

“We find more and more bodies all the time,” said Major-General Itai Veruv, who led the battle to retake Be’eri and who accompanied foreign and Israeli journalists to the shattered kibbutz on Wednesday. “I served more than 39 years, and I am used to seeing problems and difficulties on the battlefield. But this is not a battlefield. This is a pogrom. This is an ISIS event, something you cannot imagine.”

Maj.-Gen. Veruv said it wasn’t clear yet how much of Be’eri’s population had survived. “There are survivors in Israel that ran away, that we took out of the kibbutzes during the fight. We don’t know how to count how much are in Israel, how much dead, how much kidnapped to Gaza, how much we still didn’t find. We still haven’t found survivors in the kibbutz, but we hope.”

One of those believed to have been taken hostage from her home in Be’eri was Vivian Silver, a 74-year-old grandmother and peace activist with roots in Winnipeg. Ms. Silver, who was a founder of a group called Women Wage Peace, is believed to have been taken to Gaza as a hostage by Hamas. Also seized in Be’eri was 85-year-old grandmother Yaffa Adar, who was filmed being driven into Gaza in a golf cart by laughing militants

Tragedy haunts every corner of Be’eri. On what was once a quiet cul-de-sac near the main gate to the community – a place small enough that there was no need for street names – entire homes are now reduced to piles of smashed concrete. In the remains of one, photographs documenting a family growing up together – a newborn baby lying in blankets, schoolchildren sharing a picnic, graduation photos, wedding pictures, precious time with grandparents – lay beside a metal shopping cart in the rubble.

Next to it was a metre-deep crater filled with water. Several doors down, in front of another destroyed home, the body of a Hamas fighter lay inside a zipped white plastic bag with the Hebrew word for “terrorist” written on the outside of the bag in red. The bagged bodies of more Hamas fighters were piled more than a dozen high. Four days after the shooting started in Be’eri, the stench of death still hung over the entire kibbutz.

Some of the damage to Be’eri, Israeli officers acknowledged, was done by Israeli weaponry during the prolonged battle to liberate the kibbutz that continued until Tuesday. At the western end of the cul-de-sac, a two-storey house was scorched and missing part of its outer wall. Two unexploded mortar shells lay on yellowing grass.

Across the road, a pile of captured Hamas equipment – including a rocket-propelled grenade, and a pile of cartridges for Kalashnikov assault rifles, plus binoculars, rope and several of Hamas’s signature green headbands – lay on the lawn of another abandoned home.

Major Doron Spielman, a spokesman for the Israeli army, said the scorched home was the scene of a standoff that saw 20 Hamas fighters holed up inside with 40 Israeli hostages until the house was stormed by Israeli troops on Sunday. He said six Israeli soldiers had died in the fight for that home, though he wasn’t sure what had happened to the hostages.

“The destruction, the devastation was so massive that we’re still not sure here which DNA we have that proves that people were killed, and which DNA we have here, that shows that people were taken hostage.”

The road leading into Kibbutz Be’eri was an equally grim scene. Just four kilometres south of the kibbutz stands the ghostly parking lot of the nearby community of Re’im. It was here that many of the young Israelis attending an outdoor music festival that began Friday night and continued until Hamas attacked on Saturday morning had parked their cars.

At least 260 festivalgoers were killed, many of them in the Re’im parking lot where they were shot point-blank in their cars while trying to escape. On Wednesday, the parking lot was a graveyard of vehicles with bullet holes through their doors and windows shot out.

Retribution is coming, Israeli soldiers deployed to the region vowed on Wednesday. Large numbers of tanks and troops were visible in the area around Be’eri and Re’im amid rising expectation that Israel will soon launch a ground invasion of Gaza. The Globe & Mail

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The stench of corpses, a living room that was hit by an anti-tank missile and a trail of blood: a report from Kibbutz of the inferno Be'eri. A toothbrush with children's toothpaste on a sink, a hole in the wall of a house through which a missile entered and cars crushed by tanks. The soldiers of the 890th paratrooper battalion were dropped into the killing fields on Saturday, and now the general has required all of them to be fit for the ground maneuver: "I took their phones, so that no video of horrors would be seen and they would not be diverted" Yoav Zeytoun Published: October 11, 2023 [...] At the entrance to the kibbutz, the vehicles are mostly white, light-colored, belonging to Zaka. Some of them are bulletproof, massive. Only last night, around 6:00 p.m., the white angels finished doing a real act-of-kindness, and removed the body of the last victim, who was found under a broken table." The smallest child we found is a shot baby, a few months old, the oldest murdered here is 85 years old," said Kobi Mazka, a 50-year-old veteran volunteer who collected body parts in the inferno bus bombings of Jerusalem during the second intifada. "Here it is different, really similar to the descriptions I read as a child about what the Nazis did to us.." [...] "I quickly realized that the terrorists had developed a method, a real technique to increase the dimensions of the massacre," said last night the commander of Division 99, Lt. Col. Barak Hiram, who arrived here at 9:00 a.m. and took over the fighting sector of the city of Netivot and the kibbutz Alumim and Re'im. "The terrorists knew that the residents would lock themselves in the safe-room, and those who refused to come out, they simply opened the trunk of his car in the yard, took out the spare tire, lit it on fire and rolled it into the house to hasten its burning. We found bodies of people who died of suffocation in the gas tanks. Others were burned alive and those who tried to escape from the window were shot to death." [...] Landau... Despite the mental stress and the heavy concern for his parents who shut themselves in the nearby kibbutz, he led his fighters into fierce battles from point blank range, to save those who remained from Kibbutz Nahal Oz. His commander, Majd 890 Lt. Col. Yoni HaCohen, is the one who was asked to explain what happened here. He preferred to skip over many graphic details. Occasionally a tear falls from his left eye, which is swollen and red, but not from crying. He was hit by shrapnel during the assault and did not stop for a moment, didn't stop. He fought in Tzuk-Eitan (op.) not far from here, in Khan Yunis, but the battles here were completely different: to open a 'firing angle' between the bodies of children, to jump over civilians who were handcuffed and shot. The tough Majd asks not to talk about his part in the battle The long one, which lasted almost a day straight. "Another force of ours was sent at the same time to rescue female observers and Golani fighters who were under heavy siege at the Nahal Oz outpost. We had to distribute the forces correctly," he said... YNet

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Bodies of Israeli dad, wheelchair-bound 16-year-old daughter found 12 days after Hamas’ music fest massacre. Oct 19, 2023 NYPost

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'It smells of death here': Surveying the atrocities committed by Hamas in Kfar Aza.

Nicole Zedek, October 10, 2023

The smell of death — that’s what’s left of a once vibrant community. Now, the foreign press were invited to witness the inhumane crimes, much like the Allies had done after they had won the second World War and liberated the Holocaust concentration camps. Upwards of 70 armed terrorists invaded the community, their bodies are still lying on the ground for the whole world to see the cruelty these Hamas terrorists committed.

“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mother, the father, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists killed them,” IDF Major General Itai Veruv first described the scene. “It’s a massacre.”... But first, the army unit is dedicating itself to removing the bodies of the Israeli civilians. We can see them covered in sheets being carried out of their own homes where they were murdered. The IDF does not have a definitive number of victims yet.

Many soldiers were called up for reserve service, and could be seen actively consoling each other after what they had to witness. They arrived expecting the worst, but the scenes are beyond anything that one could imagine. Some soldiers say they found babies with their heads cut off, entire families gunned down in their beds. About 40 babies and young children have been taken out on gurneys — so far. i24

Hamas terrorists 'slaughtered 40 babies and children with some beheaded' According to Israeli Defence Force's Major General Itai Veruv, some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed the quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz. By Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo Oct 10, 2023

Israeli soldiers remove the body of civilian in Kfar Aza (Image: Getty) Hamas fanatics 'slaughtered 40 babies and children with some beheaded', ...

Reports state that Hamas terrorists launched a horrifying massacre in the peaceful village of Kfar Aza, near the Gaza border.

The Israeli soldiers, who took back control of the besieged village after a two-day siege, revealed scenes of violence where families, including babies and children, were slaughtered in their homes.

According to Israeli Defence Force's Major General Itai Veruv, some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed the quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

[READ MORE: Sickening moment Hamas terrorists shoot pet dog dead and set fire to home]

The attackers, alleged Israeli forces, beheaded babies and gunned down entire families in their homes. "It's not a war. It's not a battlefield. It's a massacre," said Major General Veruv.

The Israeli troops, accompanied by foreign press, walked through the village on Tuesday, encountering a devastating scene of burned-out houses, strewn furniture, and torched cars.

The stench of death hung heavy in the air as reporters traversed the paths of the kibbutz, where the lifeless bodies of Israeli residents lay among the ruins.

[Hamas warns citizens of Israeli city to flee by 5pm as they prepare attack] Express UK

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The horror is revealed: 40 bodies of children and babies burned and beheaded The number of those murdered by Hamas terrorists rose to over a thousand - a mother was murdered and a dead fetus was found in her womb attached to the placenta - a foreigner wrote: "Babies' heads were cut off. People were burned alive in their homes. Women were raped and dragged through the streets." Idan Yosef - news editor - News1

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BEYOND HORRIFIC: 40 Babies & Children Murdered, BEHEADED In Kfar Aza [SHOCKING VIDEO REPORT]. October 10, 2023 11:45 am YWN

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Hamas Barbarities Include Decapitating Babies — Call It What It Is: Jihad. By Andrew C. Mccarthy October 10, 2023 11:19 AM

Personal belongings including a child’s stroller are seen on the road next to a car days after a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

Our Haley Strack’s documenting of Hamas’s atrocities is essential, if excruciating, reading. Haley’s latest on the Corner deals with yet more depravity: The jihadists’ slaughter of 40 babies at a kibbutz about a quarter mile from the Gaza border. Some of the babies were reportedly beheaded.

Understand: We are likely to continue getting more such reports because in many areas, Israeli security force have only just retaken control after clearing out lurking jihadist cells. The extent and shocking nature of the carnage is still being uncovered.

The shocking nature of the carnage is not a case of “militants” who got carried away in the heat of battle. This is the jihadist way of war. There was not much battling in any event: These were jihadists strategically using terror, as they are instructed is their divinely ordained obligation, to obliterate their perceived enemies. Not just break their will; extirpate them. In my column on the homepage this morning, I try to explain why it is important to call them jihadists and stop assessing them under Western standards of warfare. Further, we have to grasp that their Jew-hatred is doctrinal — this is not, pace the revisionism of transnational progressives, a mere territorial dispute in which aliens were intruded into Arab Muslim due to Western guilt over the Holocaust. We need to see clear that these are jihadists catalyzed by a fundamentalist, sharia-supremacist interpretation of Islamic scripture; otherwise, we will never understand their objectives, the atrocious lengths to which they will go to achieve them, and the need to defeat them utterly because there can be no modus vivendi with them.

From the column:

The Quran and hadiths (collections of the sayings and doings of Mohammed, Islam’s prophet), command jihadists to strike “terror” into the hearts of their enemies — to wage war ferociously and mercilessly. This includes regarding as their enemies all non-Muslims who decline to submit to the dominion of sharia. The distinction between combatants and noncombatants, so central to Western laws of warfare and human rights, is eviscerated in sharia. Those we regard as “civilians” the jihadist sees as loyalists of their non-Muslim enemies who pay taxes that stand up the armed forces arrayed against them. They are fair game for forcible attacks.

Understand: As we witnessed with the weekend’s unspeakable attacks on Israeli civilians — parents killed in front of their children, old women and children taken captive, revelers mowed down indiscriminately, and able-bodied men systematically killed — this includes rape and enslavement. The Quran (in sura 33:50) explicitly approves of jihadists’ using as concubines “those whom thy right hand possesses out of the captives of war whom Allah has assigned to thee.” (This endorsement is repeated in sura 4:23-24, which excludes captives — those “whom your right hands possess” — from the categories of women with whom Muslim men must abstain from sexual relations.) Furthermore, Reliance of the Traveller, a sharia manual endorsed by influential Islamic scholars, instructs: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s marriage is immediately annulled” — meaning she is available for sex slavery.

In fundamentalist strongholds, such as Gaza, non-Muslims are dehumanized in the education of Muslim children. The idea is not to raise an army of “militants.” The goal of jihad is to terrorize the enemy into surrender and submission; it is not to conduct combat operations limited to strategic military objectives that avoid or at least minimize civilian casualties. That kind of discrimination and proportionality, bedrock principles of Western warfare, is alien to jihad.

Classical sharia is systematically discriminatory against all non-Muslims, but the contempt for Jews is especially intense. As recounted over the weekend, Muslim scripture foretells an end-of-times war between Muslims and Jews. That vision is etched into the Hamas charter, which is unabashedly dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. Mohammed and his companions repeatedly warred with Jewish tribes. The Islamic claim on Israel is scripturally rooted in al-Isra’, the “night journey,” in which Allah is said to have arranged the prophet’s transport, on a winged beast, “from the sacred mosque to the farthest mosque” (sura 17) — i.e., from what is now the Kaaba in Mecca to the al-Aqsa Mosque at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Young Muslims are taught, based on hadiths (see, e.g., Bukhari 3:47:786 and Muslim 26:5430) that Mohammed was poisoned to death by a Jewish woman. NRO

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'They shot children, babies, old people’: kibbutz survivors describe Hamas’ deadly assault.

Israeli soldiers stand next to the bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas militants in kibbutz Kfar Azza on Tuesday By Euronews with AFP Published on 10/10/2023 - 19:01 [...] 'They shot children, babies, old people, anyone' In the Kfar Aza kibbutz, the bodies of Israeli citizens and Hamas fighters are still lying next to the burnt-out remains of homes - as soldiers just recently started the collection effort.

One resident described the harrowing events on Saturday: "[The militants] came into every home, into every room, every place.

"They would burn their house with them inside so they would die," he said.

"They shot children, babies, old people, anyone. No one was safe from it. The first victim was a 90-year-old woman who was sitting on her porch. She saw them coming and she got shot."

Another resident described hours spent hiding from the gunmen: "We were in this panic room for I think about over 30 hours. Then they broke windows and started shooting everywhere. I think at some point they shot at the door of the panic room." Euro News

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Corpses and kids’ bikes, burned homes and death in kibbutz where Hamas butchered 100. Foreign media shown grim aftermath of Palestinian terrorists’ massacre in Kfar Aza community where whole families were slaughtered, victims mutilated By AFP and TOI Staff Oct 11, 2023. TOI

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"They came to slaughter, not to conquer": the commander's testimony in the field. "They shot bound civilians and children. They entered not to occupy a settlement but to slaughter its inhabitants." Channel 7, 26 in Tishrei 5784. 11.10.23, 17:07 INN

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Kfar Aza kibbutz: Children, women, elderly 'butchered' in Hamas attacks on border communities, IDF says | CNN

Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge. By Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN.

Updated 3:20 PM EDT, Wed October 11, 2023

Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel.

Hamas sent waves of heavily armed fighters pouring across the border from Gaza and rampaging through rural communities – Israel said it found 1,500 bodies of militants in the aftermath of the assault.

Houses in Kfar Aza were ransacked and set ablaze. Overturned mattresses, destroyed furniture, broken trinkets and unexploded grenades lay strewn across the grounds, along with bodies – a window into the scale of devastation wrought by Hamas in this area.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my career, never in 40 years of service this something I never imagined,” Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told CNN on Tuesday, just a few hours after Israeli troops secured the kibbutz from Hamas assailants.

In Kfar Aza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was going house to house, collecting the dead in body bags and loading them onto a truck. The IDF told CNN that women, children, toddlers and elderly were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action.”..

Kfar Aza is one of the several kibbutzim, small farming enclaves, that bore the brunt of Hamas’ ground assault on Saturday. A number of kibbutzim and towns were targeted, including Kfar Aza, Be’eri, Ofakim, Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Yated, Kissufim and Urim. Revelers at a music festival held in the desert outside of Be’eri were also gunned down and taken hostage.

Bullet holes are seen in a cracked window at the entrance of a kindergarten in Be'eri, Israel, on October 11. The self-sustaining farming community near Gaza was one of the first places targeted by Hamas militants on October 7.

Israeli soldiers carry a body on October 10 in Kfar Aza, a village in Israel just across the border from Gaza. Hamas militants carried out a "massacre" in Kfar Aza during their attacks over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.

At least 1,200 people have died in Israel since the conflict erupted, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said in an update on Wednesday.

Israel has retaliated by pounding Gaza with a relentless aerial campaign that has flattened homes, schools, medical institutions and government buildings in the besieged strip.

‘Massacre’ in Kfar Aza

The kibbutzim go back to the time of the founding of Israel, when small groups of people set up communities based on the idea of communal living. About 125,000 people live across approximately 250 kibbutzim in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel. For many, they were symbols of good life and safety.

What happened at the weekend destroyed that idyll.

Babies and toddlers were found “decapitated” in Kfar Aza, Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Wednesday. CNN could not independently verify that report, and Hamas said media reports about attacking children were false.

This comes after the IDF told CNN Tuesday that the killings at Kfar Aza amounted to a “massacre.”

Maj. Gen. Veruv said his soldiers spent “about 48 hours” fighting “waves and waves of terrorists” on roads and in neighboring communities. He said he had started fighting militants in the Yakhini moshav (community) on Saturday, moving then “from battle to battle,” on the road to Sderot, before reaaching the Be’eri kibbutz on Monday evening.

“I saw hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability to make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms,” Veruv said.

“I have heard during my childhood about the pogroms in Europe, the Holocaust, of course. All my family came from Europe, they are survivors. But I never thought I would see…things like that,” he said about the scene in Kfar Aza.

Be’eri

More than 100 bodies were found in Be’eri on Monday. Civilians were killed and taken hostage in the kibbutz, which is home to about 1,000 residents, according to Israeli authorities and videos obtained and authenticated by CNN.

Heavily armed militants arrived in Be’eri on motorbikes around 7 a.m., just half an hour after they breached the typically high-tech, tightly guarded border fence between Gaza and Israel, videos show.

A screenshot from a video, geolocated by CNN, shows six Hamas militants arriving at Be'eri on Saturday morning local time. A screenshot from a video, geolocated by CNN, shows six Hamas militants arriving at Be'eri on Saturday morning local time. Obtained by CNN.

A bloodbath followed.

Footage shows militants pulling three bodies out of a car, before stealing the vehicle and driving north. The video, which first surfaced on Telegram, was taken by a surveillance camera in Be’eri. CNN has geolocated the video to an intersection in the northeastern part of the kibbutz.

Another video shows armed militants taking five Israeli civilians captive, with the bodies of four later seen lying on the ground nearby in another video verified by CNN.

More than 100 bodies found in Israeli kibbutz Be'eri after Hamas attack Terrified residents told Israel’s Channel 12 television station that assailants went door to door, trying to break into their homes.

Of at least 107 bodies discovered in the aftermath, most were of local residents of the kibbutz, though some were of Israeli security forces, a search and rescue spokesperson told CNN.

The IDF acknowledged on Monday that Be’eri was “very badly hit.”

“We thought we would need more rooms (to house the evacuees). We didn’t need all the rooms,” said IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht.

The attack on Be’eri came around the same time as Hamas militants descended upon a music festival, known as Nova, just three miles south, shooting revelers at point-blank range and looting their belongings.

More than 260 bodies were later found at the festival site, with many attendees believed to have been captured and brought to Gaza, sparking a desperate search by family members and foreign governments.

Urim

In Urim, a kibbutz 10 miles south of Be’eri, residents awoke at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday to the sound of sirens and rushed to above-ground bomb shelters. The routine reaction to incoming rocket fire soon became more concerning, as the sirens continued sounding throughout the morning and they went in and out of hiding.

Members of the community, which is not far from where militants rampaged the Nova music festival, began to see reports of Hamas attacks on kibbutzim and towns near the border.

Wayne Lucas, a Virginia native who serves as a “lone soldier” in the IDF and lives in Urim, said that he spoke to several friends “who were hiding in their houses from the terrorists,” and, as the day progressed, he heard of attacks closer to home.

“We learned that someone from our kibbutz who I know very well, whose family also hosts lone soldiers was shot at the junction outside our kibbutz near the gas station. Luckily, he was only shot in the hand,” he told CNN.

On Sunday, after a restless night, residents in Urim heard gunshots close by.

“Shortly after 1:30 in the afternoon, we heard gunshots coming from inside the kibbutz. We all dropped everything. We ran as fast as we could to the shelters. We locked the doors, and we were barricading ourselves inside. People had knives and random things to use as weapons,” Lucas said.

All Israeli buildings erected after 1993 are required to have bomb shelters – reinforced rooms with concrete walls and heavy steel doors. But these safe rooms are designed to withstand a rocket attack, not an armed incursion. The doors are heavy, but they don’t have locks – they are not supposed to be lockable, for safety reasons.

Another soldier who lives in Urim said he heard gunfire but couldn’t make it to the shelter in time. “I heard a round of six bullets being shot right outside my room. I cannot tell you how scared I was. I didn’t know what I needed to do first: hide, lock my door, find a weapon, run to the nearest shelter?” the soldier, who asked not to be named, told CNN. “There was nowhere good to hide, and I ended up hiding in my closet.”

The soldier and Lucas said that when they were given the all-clear, an Israeli army unit was outside and had apprehended several militants who had tried to storm the kibbutz.

Nirim

In Nirim, which lies less than a mile from the border with Gaza, residents had spent Friday – the day before the Hamas attack – celebrating the anniversary of the kibbutz’s founding. Guy, a 33-year-old painter, said he could not believe the horrors that began the next morning.

When he heard the alarm at 6.30 a.m., he did not think much of it. “Usually, it stops and starts after a few minutes then we get on with life,” he told a CNN team on the ground. But this time was different: The alarm did not stop, and rumors began to swirl. “Rumors started in the kibbutz that someone saw a terrorist in a car and heard Arabic,” he said. “It didn’t seem possible. We didn’t think it was happening.”

He had been waiting in the shelter with his wife, Tamar, and her mother. Tamar’s sisters had come to the kibbutz for Friday’s celebration, along with their husbands and three young children, who had stayed the night in another house in the kibbutz.

Although most houses in the kibbutz have shelters, they are designed to protect civilians from rockets – not armed intruders. “It’s impossible to lock from the inside. No one imagined there will be terrorists inside the kibbutz,” Guy said. He spent the next several hours holding the door “with my hand, with a knife in my pocket.”

“I was reading online: How can I fight with a knife?” he said. He had grabbed the only weapon he could find in his kitchen: “I could make a salad but I don’t think I could win against a gun.”

As he guarded the door, they heard gunshots and began to smell smoke. “Their strategy was to burn houses, to start fires so… people go outside,” he said. “Then they wanted to kill them or kidnap them.

“Finally, the military came at 7 p.m., something like that,” he said. Initially, they refused to open the door: They had been messaging others over WhatsApp all day, and had heard rumors “that the terrorists were also knocking on the door and saying they were military.”

He said his wife knew many people who had died. “They just slaughtered everyone. They killed kids, babies, grandmothers.” CNN

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Despite one infamous dreadful .. Israelophobe guy trying to deny the beheading because he “hasn’t seen the babies”… others did see it and confirmed it..”

Journalist slams doubts about her reporting of beheaded Israeli children: ‘I wish it wasn’t true’

By David Propper.Published Oct. 11, 2023

“You know, it’s sickening, really, that people are asking, ‘Where are the babies? Why aren’t you showing the babies?’” she shot back. “Is that something that anyone would want to see the first thing with their own eyes? Because after the graphic images that I saw of just children’s beds covered in blood I don’t think I would be able to stomach those atrocities as well.”

She credited Israeli soldiers who had to carry the children’s bodies into ambulances and conveyed the brutality of the killings.

“I could never imagine something like that happening so I could never speak those words if no one had spoken them to me because I didn’t know that was a possibility for someone to witness with their own eyes,” she said.

“I didn’t know anyone was capable of committing something like that so that’s the only way I could report it by speaking to these soldiers, these commanders, who witnessed it firsthand.”[66]

Asides from that i24 News [67] who made it public, there is also:

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(Margot Haddad is a multimedia journalist, a field producer and on air reporter for French, U.S. and U.K. media. She most recently served as an international news field producer for CNN. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Journalism School.)

✦Margot Haddad ✦ @margothaddad That’s it, the information is out. It’s so macabre that no one wanted to give it away before having 100% confirmation.

Infants and children under 2 years old were beheaded by Hamas in the Kibbutz of Kfar Aza. It is a horror, a massacre.

For those asking for the source. They are multiple: Israeli army, internal intelligence service and atrocious images which reached me and which I was able to cross-check. But the best source remains this: courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies in Kfar Aza.[68] [69]

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Inside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homes By Jeremy Bowen International editor, in southern Israel 10 October 2023 Updated 11 October 2023 Soldiers told the BBC’s International Editor Jeremy Bowen that Hamas stormed in, burning homes and killing families. An Israeli officer said some of the dead had been beheaded.[70]

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4:54 AM / OCTOBER 11, 2023 Israelis find “a massacre,” with children and adults beheaded, in Hamas-raided kibbutz

Yossi Landau, the head of operations for the southern region of Zaka, Israel’s volunteer civilian emergency response organization, told CBS News on Wednesday that he personally saw adults and children, including babies, who had been beheaded.[71]

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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal: 🚨CNN: “The Israeli Prime Ministers spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found, with their heads decapitated. The Israeli Prime Ministers spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found, with their heads decapitated. Oct 11, 2023. X

Babies and toddlers were found with “heads decapitated” in Kfar Aza, Netanyahu spokesperson says

From CNN’s Lauren Izso and Mostafa Salem. Oct 11, 2023

Babies and toddlers were found with their “heads decapitated” in Kfar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas’ attacks in the kibbutz over the weekend, Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday.

Heinrich's comments come after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN Tuesday that Hamas militants carried out a “massacre” in Kfar Aza, in which women, children, toddlers and elderly people were "brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action.” CNN

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Photos of babies being burnt, decapitated confirmed. By Tzvi Joffre Published: October 12, 2023 16:37 Updated: October 12, 2023 19:46

The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas's assault on Kfar Aza are correct. May their memory be a blessing.

The photos were shown to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Israel on Thursday by the Public Diplomacy Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office. Later in the day, the photos were published by the Prime Minister's Office on Twitter. The photos are graphic and have a content warning covering them until a button reading "show" is pressed.

Hamas attempts to deny murdering, abusing civilians In the past two days, the Hamas terrorist movement has launched a campaign denying that it kidnapped, murdered, and abused civilians during its attack on southern Israel.[72].

[Personal belongings including a child's pram are seen on the road next to a car days after a mass infiltration by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023 (credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)] [...] Footage from the area captured on Saturday showed individuals in the uniform of the al-Qassam Brigades and of other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip taking part in the massacre and mass kidnapping in southern Israel.

Jerusalem Post

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Mountains of rubble and sooty earth: first entry into the epicenters of the disaster - after the terrible massacre The extent of the destruction in Netiv HaAsara and Be'eri is not yet fully known, but it is known about dozens of murdered people and scenes that are difficult to describe in words • The photos of the horror illustrate the magnitude of the tragedy that occurred in the Eshkol Regional Council, with dozens of houses burned by terrorists - many times with their occupants • Our correspondents with the first documents from the settlements that were destroyed • Documentation Tamir Steinman, Adva Dadon N12 | Published 14:35 11.10.23 | Updated 15:34 11.10.23

As the days go by, the extent of the horror that occurred in the first days of the surprise attack by Hamas terrorists begins to become clear. Among the hard centers were Moshav Netiv HaAsara and Kibbutz Be'eri. There, armed terrorists from head to toe managed to take control of the settlement for a long time and commit atrocities on the residents. Today (Wednesday) our reporters Tamir Steinman and Edva Dadon were allowed to enter the disaster sites with News 12 photographers and provide first images.

When we arrived at Netiv HaAsara, we were surrounded by IDF soldiers who are still deployed in the area for fear of encounters with additional terrorists. As we walked alongside them, we could not believe our eyes. In shock and choked throats, we documented the mountains of ruins that remained from the place that was, until Saturday morning, a pastoral settlement of a strong and cohesive community which is no more.

Hamas terrorists who arrived at the scene went house by house and slaughtered the residents during incessant rocket barrages. The inferno began on Saturday at 6:30, when the first terrorists arrived on the scene using paragliders, armed with weapons. They shot everyone they could, burned houses and protected spaces. Any place where the inhabitants wanted to believe they were protected.

The terrorists managed to occupy the Moshav for many hours, during which time they tried to cause as much destruction and death as possible. With bravery that is hard to describe, the standby squad fought, almost alone and for hours, against the terrorists who were shooting at everyone already. They burned many houses with their occupants and also set fire to vehicles. In some places smoke is still billowing, as a result of a fire in one of the houses that was extinguished only recently.

Netiv HaAsara is just one of the localities where Hamas terrorists mercilessly slaughtered innocent civilians - along with Bari and Nahal Oz, which suffered many casualties. The IDF soldiers who arrived at the moshav engaged in face-to-face battles with dozens of terrorists who managed to capture the moshav and actually control it for many hours.

When you see the lists of those murdered in Be'eri, your stomach turns, and when you see the dimensions of the disaster, your eyes refuse to believe. The magical kibbutz that was full of children's laughter, remained silent with sooty soil and much destruction. The sights in the exclusive documentation from Be'eri are difficult, but they are not the most difficult. It is not possible to show the bodies of the murdered residents and the families who tried to escape as long as their souls are in them.

Yesterday, Brigadier General Givati ​​told, about 70 terrorists entrenched in the Kfar Aza village, but according to what can be understood today, hundreds of armed terrorists arrived in Be'eri. At first glance at the pictures of the horror, one could be mistaken and think that the houses were destroyed by rocket fire. But that is not the case. Each house was destroyed by a different act of hatred. Terrorists who burned down houses on their occupants, threw grenades, fired RPGs and sprayed large amounts of munitions.

The photos are shocking and the stories of the residents who were rescued are even more shocking. Some residents tell about their relatives, who simply stood in line and were shot to death. Without a distinction and in cold blood. Another resident says that she lost her husband and six-month-old baby son in an instant.

"The terrorists asked my husband to stand up after they shot him in the leg. He couldn't stand up, and then they shot him to death," she painfully recalls. The mother held her baby son on her shoulders, but the terrorists did not miss him either. The baby was murdered by the heinous terrorists and the mother was injured in her shoulder. Now she is being treated in the hospital without knowing what happened to her neighbors.

Netiv HaAsara, Be'eri and Nahal Oz are of course not alone: ​​the terrorists infiltrated and terrorized many settlements in the surrounding area. Helpless residents cried out for help from the security forces from inside the MAMAD, while they hear the terrorists raiding their homes. "We are in the MAMAD and we hear shots from all directions," Micah Biton, a resident of Netiv HaAsara in the midst of the terrorists' takeover, told N12.

Another center that suffered a heavy blow in the surprise attack was the settlement of Be'eri. Like Netiv HaAsara, the settlement, which is 4 kilometers from the Gaza Strip, was left destroyed and burned, with dozens of dead who saw their home destroyed before their eyes. Mako

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IAN AUSTIN Hamas is no different from ISIS – butchering kids at a music festival & kidnapping toddlers is terrorism, plain & simple. Ian Austin Published: Oct 8 2023

KIDNAPPING defenseless toddlers and old ladies, slaughtering families in their homes and kids at a music festival or raining thousands of rockets on civilians is not self-defense, as Hamas and their supporters claim. This is brutal terrorism, plain and simple. The Sun

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Sky News Australia, Oct 9, 2023

Hamas' attack on Israel a 'horror show' driven by 'malice and hate':

What's happening in Israel is a "horror show" and Australia needs to stand with them to condemn Hamas’ attacks on the world stage, says Sky News host Peta Credlin.

"We now have an even better idea of what being under existential threat looks like: rockets raining down on people's homes; innocent people being taken hostage; and civilians being massacred in the street in cold blood," Ms Credlin said.

“The Islamist fanatics behind the slaughter in Israel don't simply want to destroy the Jewish state, but quite literally to drive the Israeli people into the sea as part of their vicious 'death to the infidel' ideology.

“This was a completely unprovoked attack, driven by malice and hate.

“Yes, the Gaza Strip is poor and crowded, but as Israel has proven time and time again, it's more than happy to be a good neighbour, provided the Palestinian leadership is prepared to accept Israel's right to exist behind secure borders – and to stop the incessant hate against the Jewish people.” on Sky News Australia on YouTube

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Israel at War: What We Know about the Barbaric Hamas Attacks.

Philip Klein, Oct 7, 2023

... Some of the images and video emerging of the unfolding series of massacres are too graphic to share. But here are some videos providing an idea of what is going on:

Here is one of cheering and shouts of “Allahu Akbar” as Hamas terrorists unload an Israeli woman hostage:

Jewish Israeli woman reportedly kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza

The world ignored us when we said how sick Palestinian society is with a bloodlust for antisemitic violence.

Now everyone knows the truth.

Devastating day. [pic.twitter.com/q6nvODt5IH] [73] — Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 7, 2023

Here is another video of hostages:

Palestinian terrorists captured an Israeli woman and took her hostage. Just hear her screams. [pic.twitter.com/L8obwWxpL9]

— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 7, 2023

This is a building in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon hit by rocket fire:

A residential building in Ashkelon city was directly hit by a rocket fired from Gaza.

Tell the world – Israeli civilians are targeted in rocket fire. (#IsraelUnderFire) [pic.twitter.com/AoHdLKkgEd] — Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 7, 2023

Here are Palestinians cheering as Hamas terrorists parade dead Israeli bodies back in Gaza:

⚠️warning. disturbing content.

Hamas terrorists parade the bodies of murdered Israelis through Gaza.

Thousands of Palestinians are celebrating the slaughter of innocents, the elderly, the young, the infirm. [pic.twitter.com/B6ApQayNXE]

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 7, 2023. NRO

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Littlest victims of war: The faces of Israeli child hostages in Hamas slaughter. By Olivia Land Heartbreaking accounts are emerging of the scores of children who were taken captive by Hamas when the terrorist group unleashed its unprecedented assault over the weekend — and the innocent kids thought to be in the attackers’ hands are as young as 9 months old. Published Oct. 11, 2023, 11:59 a.m. ET NY Post

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Terrorists called and said: 'Your girl is in our hands, we will rape and kill her.'" Oct 8, 2023.

Many young people were murdered and wounded by the terrorists' shots at the nature party in the Reim forest and there are others who are missing and have been cut off from contact until this moment. One of them is Karin Giorno, whose mother In.. and sister Mei.. beg for information about her fate and reveal a disturbing phone call they received.

"Yesterday at 07:42 K. called me and said: 'Mom, they are shooting at us, I am scared to death. If something happens to me, I love you. They are shooting live fire at us,'" Inb.. described, "K. with a broken leg, with a brace on Right leg, she can't run. All her friends ran away, she stayed because she can't run. She had no way to escape. She said they were being shot at and there were a lot of wounded people next to her... Mako

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This is how the family found out about the grandmother's death: the terrorist posted a photo of her on Facebook. The granddaughter told about the shocking murder and the moment of discovery: "My grandmother was murdered yesterday in a brutal murder by a terrorist in her home. At 7:00 I saw the nightmare of my life, a terrorist entered her home, murdered her, took her phone, took a picture of the horror and posted it on her Facebook. That's how we found out" JDN staff, 23 Tishrei 5784 (October 8, 2023)

Shocking stories continue to be published on social media that reveal the strength of the blow that Hamas inflicted on the citizens of the State of Israel in the surprise war that began on the morning of Simchat Torah.

A shocking story was published by Mor Bayder, who told about the shocking murder of her grandmother, and the horrifying way in which the family members discovered the horror: the terrorist posted the photo of the dead grandmother, on her account on the social network Facebook.

"My grandmother, my whole world, the light of my life, the pillar of my life, the life of my family, my grandmother, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz all her life, was murdered yesterday in a brutal murder by a terrorist in her home. At 7:00 I saw the nightmare of my life, a terrorist He broke into her home, murdered her, took the phone, took pictures of the horror and posted it on her Facebook. That's how we found out."

"This morning I didn't get a 'Teacher, my love, are you up?' As you would insist on doing every morning at 7:00. It's not caught, my heart is shattered to pieces. Anyone who knows me, knows what she is to me, what a connection we had. What a person she is, pure and good, loves her kibbutz, the garden Hers who nurtured and invested in her."

"My flower. Grandma rode a bicycle to the commune every morning to wash and fold all the members of the kibbutz their clothes, returned in the afternoon to take care of the garden she loved more than anything. My grandmother loved life but how do we go on without you? Who am I without you? I'm not ready to talk about you in the past tense It's a nightmare of my life." JDN

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"Missing Israelis": Viral Post Shows Pics Of Men And Women Kidnapped By Hamas. Oct 8, 2023 Hamas seems to have kidnapped mostly women. It has already been confirmed that Hamas fighters are using rape as a weapon of war. There must be no mercy for these barbarians, they wrote on X, along with images of missing Israelis. NDTV

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Sunday the 23rd of Tishrei 5784. 08.10.23

Hamas terrorist under investigation: We prepared for more than a year. The demonstrations in Israel encouraged us. We were shocked that the IDF was not waiting for us.

From the investigation of a Hamas terrorist captured in Israel "We prepared for more than a year. The demonstrations in Israel encouraged us. It was 5 hours before we were shot at. We were prepared with 1,000 fighters, we made 15 breaches in the fence. We were shocked that the IDF was not waiting for us." Channel 13. Oct 8, 2023 [74] Rotter

N12, Oct 9, 2023, 9:21-4 AM:

Mr. Sari: You have to remember what happened in the last months. As one of the terrorists said who was investigated, we saw the divide in the people and we were happy. Mr. Blum: That's right, they saw a weakness.

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N12, Oct 8, 2023. 8:06 AM: Gilad Shalmor: A text I found (near the torched vehicles and shoes scattered) that expresses the [Islamic] religious mission in the violence.

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N12, Oct 8, 2023. 10:15 PM:

A family (with a large Sukkah seen) was saved as they just didn't open the door to the terrorists who rang in the intercoms. Though they wore clothes something similar local police.

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Ayelet and Nachmias Rabin of the Fund for Victims of Terror N12, Oct 9, 2023. 1:25 AM+ We receive phone calls from Yogis all over the world about how we can help... they say "All people of Israel is bound to each other".

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Jonathan Concricus, with Jake Tapper, CNN, Oct 8, 2023 9:12-9:16PM, Jonathan Conricus: we urged Gaza residents to leave and to stay as far as possible. Human shields, it's a feature of Hamas. They should have not allowed the Hamas from the beginning . Yes, we do care about civilian life. Israel is held to different standards when it comes to defending itself.

With Jake Tapper, CNN, Oct 8, 2023, 9:23 PM (interviewed with an Israeli resident chocking up on horror sites):

Parading with a body of a 5 years old. Another parade, with a girl half naked body bloodied - Shooting elderly people at a bus stop.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, with Jake Tapper, CNN, Oct 8, 2023, 9:48-54 PM "Evil terrorist Hamas group" ... "Bi partisan and unified letter." In defense of Israel.

Michael Oren, with Jake Tapper, CNN, Oct 8, 2023, 10:10 PM One should never compare tragedies. But in numbers, proportionally like twice that of 911.

N12, Oct 8, 2023, 10:47+ Ohad Hemo Many rush to shelters and to other places.

"The terrorists are knocking on our window, save us": the testimonies of the survivors of the massacre in the Gaza Strip For hours, Nofer Almog and her husband hid in a shelter together with their 3-year-old daughter: "We realized that we had no way to protect ourselves, we brought knives and tried to convey that everything was fine" • Ascher Eldan Cohen published regular updates on her parents' condition, until contact with them was cut off: "Mother She said she wanted us to know she loved us. Many hours passed before we found out she was alive."

Avivit Misnikov, N12 | Published 08/10/23

Long hours passed until they knew they were safe. They hid in hiding places, tried to arm themselves or escape and also offered prayers that they would stay alive. A day after the events in the Gaza Strip, survivors are telling today (Sunday) about the moments of horror, the neighbors who were hurt and the messages they received in the shared WhatsApp groups: "The terrorists are knocking on our window, save us."

"We felt that we were being watched over from above" Nofer Almog, her husband, and her 3-year-old daughter from Netiv Hathara hid in the shelter of their home yesterday from six in the morning until hours after midnight, when they were informed that the seat was safe and they could leave. Around them, 15 of their neighbors to the seat were murdered by Hamas, "We are on the face, we ran away to my mother-in-law in Ashkelon and will spend the night at her place. Now we are checking where to go."

"The moments were really difficult in the shelter, to understand that we are in a prison that cannot be locked and there are terrorists walking around the moshav," Nofer said. My girlfriend heard them going, we specifically felt that we were being watched from above." Mako

The couple held hostage in Ofakim recalls: "They threatened to kill, the bullets went over us." David and Rachel were besieged for hours in their home - together with 5 terrorists armed with weapons and means of warfare • During the negotiations that took place in front of the IMM, Rachel worked to distract the terrorists: "I made them coffee and cookies..." • David also recalled He is in the moments of horror: "They came with the aim of killing. I didn't believe there would be a break-in" • Documentation of the policemen's conversation with the terrorists - and the dramatic rescue. Omri Maniv | The main edition | Published 08/10/23 23:17 Mako

Mother of kidnapped children with Jake Tapper, CNN, Oct 7, 2023, 10:16-10:23 PM ET They took 2 years old they did nothing they were just in their beds... [someone] over 80, they took people who were shot... you just don't... just how cruel they are...what I'm going through... I don't know if they're fed if they're tortured ... it's a hard day for others...even war has rules ... you want to fight, fight the army."

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The massacre in Nir Oz An entire family was wiped out: parents and their three children were murdered Tamar Kedem Siman Tov, her husband Yonatan, their two 6-year-old daughters and their 4-year-old son were murdered in the kibbutz. Tamar ran for the presidency of the Eshkol Regional Council Channel 7, 24 in Tishri 5784. 9.10.23 ...Family friend Gilad Maman also eulogized: "Dear Tamari. The tears don't stop. I promise not to forget." "I will not forget your wedding on the grass in the kibbutz, how much happiness you had in your eyes. I will not forget your and Johnny's modesty, tenderness and love. I will not forget sweet Johnny with the light in his eyes and an endless tone. I will not forget the films we produced together in the years that followed To the senior high school with all the talented children, how important this place was to you, how important the children were to you."

"How important this whole area was to you, I have no doubt that you were elected to be head of the council, leadership flowed in your veins. Thank you. Thank you for who you were in the world for me. You are an example of people who are missing in this country and my heart aches for you, for Johnny and for the three Your sweeties. Sorry for not being there for you in the last moments to help. I promise I won't forget you." INN

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ADL on CNN, Oct 9, 2023. 11:30-11:40 AM Raping girls and then parading them as they bleed. Grandmother burned alive at her home. Do not call them fighters, please. They kidnap babies. It is also a result of dehumanizing Israelis / Zionists and falsely terming "genocide". Eradicating the ideology that justifies that leads to it. We have to treat this as ISIS. It's not a retaliation. Israel is forced to defend itself.. Human animals who shoot girls in the legs so that they can't run..

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CNN.com - Transcripts

Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees

IDF Soldiers Kill Three Militants In Exchange Of Gunfire In Ashkelon; Biden Condemns Hamas Attacks As Sheer Evil; Evidence Of Hamas' Brutality At Israeli Kibbutz; 100 Plus Bodies Found In One Israeli Kibbutz After Hamas Attack; Biden Condemns Hamas Attacks As "Sheer Evil"; Mother Of Shani Louk: We Have Received Information That She Has A Bad Head Injury And Is In A Gaza Hospital. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired October 10, 2023 - 20:00 ET

COOPER: The incoming rockets we have witnessed today are just one reminder of the war that began on Saturday here. We've also obtained new video from the Israeli Defense Forces showing how Hamas attackers got into one kibbutz on Saturday.

Now, like many of the videos circulating from that day, it's disturbing. There's no doubt about it. But the reason we're showing it to you is because it shows a level of planning and potential knowledge of how to infiltrate this particular kibbutz that is striking.

According to the IDF, the video begins outside the main gate of one of the kibbutz that was attacked on Saturday. You can see two Hamas gunmen in camouflage holding rifles at the top left of the screen. Now one of the gunmen eventually crosses to the other side of the road. You can see him standing next to what looks like a guard house or a security station.

Both then wait for someone to arrive and open the gate. A few seconds pass. Eventually a civilian car arrives. As the gate then opens, the two gunmen rush from either side of the car begin firing into it. We have cut that part out, murdering the people inside.

Moments later, the gate is now open, the two gunmen are then able to enter. The car with the apparently lifeless body of the driver rolls forward. One of the gunmen then appears to try to knock or tip down the camera filming the scene. The car keeps rolling forward. You then see one of the gunmen walking calmly into the kibbutz.

Now according to Israeli authorities, more than 100 bodies have been found at this particular kibbutz. That's how bad this slaughter was.

I'm joined now by the international spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus.

Lieutenant Colonel, what is your assessment on when you see a video like this of the level of training and experience of some of these Hamas fighters who took part early on in this terror attack?

JONATHAN CONRICUS, INTERNATIONAL SPOKESPERSON, ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: First of all, it hurts. It hurts to see that they were able to get into an Israeli community. And, yes, you cut out the really gory details of how they fire into the vehicle and what the viewers can't see. Or maybe they've seen in other clips is the results of these activities.

The whole attack, what we're seeing is the -- one of the last stages of a very meticulously planned and executed attack. This was what they were aiming for. This was the whole aim of the operation to get into Israeli communities, murder Israeli civilians, take hostages and get out.

And that is, unfortunately, sadly, exactly what they did. And today, the world, through the international media, was able to get a first access and see the carnage that they left behind. The dead bodies of Israelis, women, children, parents, grandparents in the kibbutz. And it's beyond words.

The monstrosity is beyond words. It's something in Israeli general who was there showing it to the journalist said that the only thing that he could reference it to would be scenes of a pogrom or something else from the Second World War or the Holocaust. There's no other historic reference for a Jew to look at the scene like this and understand what we're seeing.

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COOPER: Yes. It's really only in the last today. And I think, in no doubt in the coming days, the true horror of what occurred on many of these kibbutz agrarian communities is really coming to the fore. I mean, we saw as you're talking about it as Kfar Aza. There's also near Om (ph) and other kibbutz communities.

You know, these are --I mean, these are peaceful communities of 300, 400 people that have been there for decades and decades. These aren't new settlements that have popped up in East Jerusalem that may be controversial, that are controversial.

And yet, the level of brutality of the terror attacks in these kibbutz. I mean, it's really now just starting to be revealed.

CO[N]RICUS: Yes. You know, if we want to take it to the political, these kibbutzim were there. They were founded before 1948. And many of the people who live there, I know, because I have friends there, are people who believe in the two-state solution who had friends in Gaza, and who really believe that a long-lasting peace could be achieved with Gaza and Palestinians.

I've had discussions with people in the kibbutzim, friends of mine, who believe in that. And then they wake up to hear gunshots in their kibbutz, and they fight for their lives, barricading themselves inside their bomb shelters, only to have their houses torched for them to flee out of the burning house, and then massacred on the lawn in front of their house.

And today, we saw the bodies that were left outside of the houses and the kibbutz and it is appalling. So there's no -- you know, for anybody who is seeking to justify and explain, you know, on an academic level, why would Hamas attack these targets, there's nothing to it.

This is pure, unfiltered hatred, fueled by crazy religious extremism, and some crazy idea that by killing Israeli civilians, they can somehow beat Israel and create some Sharia-based political entity in the wake of what they will destroy.

All of these are, of course, dreams that never ever will come true. But it just goes to show the kind of organization and the kind of beasts that we have on the other side of that border, their line of thinking.

And again, this wasn't, you know, some local initiative and an operation that went astray or people, operatives on the ground who got carried away with themselves. This was the plan. The Hamas spokesperson, a day and a half after the attack happened, he said, the attack went according to plan, and we are happy with the consequences. So that is what we're looking at. CNN

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A mother shielding her son, a ‘pro-peace’ academic and 2 brothers are among the Americans killed in Israel.

Danielle Ben Senor was attending the Nova festival and has been reported missing. By CNN Newsource

October 9, 2023 Brothers Igal Wachs, 53, and Amit Wachs, 48, were killed when Hamas gunmen stormed their village of Netiv HaAsara, which borders Gaza, Igal’s ex-wife Liat Oren-Wachs told CNN on Wednesday. Ktzv

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Itai & Hadas Berdichevsky, both 30 years old, bravely shielded their 10-month-old twins in a shelter as terrorists invaded their home in Kfar Gaza, a Kibbutz in southern Israel. Despite their efforts to defend, they tragically lost their lives.

Their babies remained…  [pic.twitter.com/UfJrY658vu]

— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) October 9, 2023 [75]

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Remember their names. Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar (6), Arbel (6), Omer (4) were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz. An entire family vanished from the face of the earth. More than 700 Israelis were massacred by Hamas terrorists and the death… pic.twitter.com/Kdkf1mI6w8

— Elad Strohmayer (@EladStr) October 8, 2023 [76]

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She devoted her life to “ hospital treatments for sick Gazan children.” And they took her and killed her colleagues anyway. Hamas didn’t discriminate and didn’t check her resume first.  [77]

— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) October 8, 2023 [78]

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Mike Sington @MikeSington : Heartbreaking. Anderson Cooper struggles to speak after watching Israeli woman plea for the release of her kidnapped family. (Video: CNN) Oct 9, 2023 [79]

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Anderson Cooper Struggles to Speak After Israeli Woman Makes Harrowing Plea For Kidnapped Family. Jamie Frevele Oct 9, 2023 3:33 PM

In a stark reminder that covering tragedy can take its own emotional toll, CNN’s Anderson Cooper became visibly choked up on camera while reporting on the Hamas terrorist attacks that rocked Israel over the weekend.

After airing an interview with a distraught woman, Yifat Zailer, whose cousin’s family — including an infant and a three-year-old — was kidnapped by Hamas, Cooper was back on camera but silent for a moment. He then appeared to look down and off-camera for a moment before throwing to correspondent Hadas Gold. When he finally did speak, his voice was audibly shaky.

Cooper and Gold spoke about the dire situation that has cost 900 Israeli lives after a surprise attack by Hamas over the weekend. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to speak, and Cooper and Gold cut away when he began speaking.

The footage from Israel has been harrowing and while journalists know their job is not to provide commentary, it’s not unheard of for them to react to what they’re seeing. CNN’s Clarissa Ward was forced to hit the ground during an attack while live on camera, a situation that left her with her face in the dirt and cursing out of fear. Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst was also unable to control his emotions while reporting on the identification of dead children. Mediaite

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WATCH: White House spokesperson breaks down while speaking about scenes coming out of Israel. October 9, 2023 TOI

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The hero of Nir: "We encountered terrorists and killed them, I emptied a cartridge." From the morning hours, terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Nirim in the Gaza Strip and the residents hid in shelters. Those who bravely fought the terrorists were the members of the alert squad along with a policeman on leave who was present at the scene. Michael Bass of the alert squad, who was part of the first squad that eliminated terrorists who infiltrated the Nirim, told Mako. Terrorists arrived at the kibbutz fence, we waited for the troops to arrive and then we attacked them under fire" Shay Levi |mako| Posted 07.10.23 | 16:49 Mako

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She pretended to be dead. The battle over the Sderot station and the bravery of the police officer: "I was hurt and I continued to fight" Yanir Yagana Last updated: 10.10.2023 / 8:07 Mali Shoshana killed at least four terrorists from the roof of the station in a battle that lasted for many hours, while her friends were killed before her eyes. She threw the terrorists' grenade back at them, and when they managed to get in - she pretended to be dead and survived. "We asked in connection: save us" Walla

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Nir Am's heroine. The young woman who killed residents in minutes - and saved the kibbutz Yanir Yagana Last updated: 10.10.2023 / 7:18

As the shelling began at the beginning of the fighting, the kibbutz corporal, Inbal Lieberman, 25, heard noises in the area - different from the noises of the barrages that the kibbutz is used to absorbing. With unimaginable resourcefulness, she decided to be true to her gut feeling, opened her weapons and set up a standby squad - which eliminated 25 terrorists for hours of battle. Walla

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"Two heroes": Neta jumped on a grenade to save his lover.

"He love her true love, the wedding dress was in the closet": Neta jumped on a pomegranate to save Irann

Neta Epstein and Irann Shavit, only 22 years old, were in the shelter while the terrorists broke into their home in Kfar Aza. Yael Shavit, Irann's mother tells the heartbreaking story of Neta's heroism and the story of her daughter's survival. "She hid behind his body while the terrorists barricaded themselves in the apartment."

Avivit Misnikov|N12| Published 13/10/23 11:45 | Updated 13/10/23 12:26 Mako

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"They were 100 terrorists, against 12 members of the standby squad." The former head of the Eshkol Regional Council told of the inferno in the kibbutz occupied by Hamas: "The families are crying out in the MAMAD (safe room), you understand that this is the end of them - and can't help." Channel 7, 26 in Tishrei 5784. 11.10.23, 14:41 INN

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"The values ​​of Zionism." Reuven insisted on milking the cows, and was murdered by a terrorist hiding in the barn in Kisufim

Eli Ashkenazi, 10.10.2023 / 8:26

Reuven Heinik from Ashkelon was the barn manager of Kibbutz Kissufim for the past 15 years. He was killed by a terrorist hiding in a barn. "He said he couldn't leave the cows without food and water" Walla

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At Magen David Adom blood drive, a show of force by Israelis of every type. Hundreds from all walks of life stand in line for up to 11 hours at Jerusalem's Pais Arena in order to donate for devastated nation after Hamas bloodbath By Jessica Steinberg Oct 10, 2023, 8:44 amUpdated at 6:35 am TOI

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Israelis donate blood and volunteer to help victims. Watch Uploaded: Oct 10, 2023

Hundreds are coming together to gather supplies for the Israeli community after the deadly Hamas attack. Many are giving blood and volunteering in an effort to assist those in need NBC News

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Israelis answer to call, donate blood, food, toys and support. Oct 9, 2023 Ynet

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Dashcam footage documents farmer who saved 120 lives on Oct. 7. Oz Davidian, from a local moshav, traveled again and again to the site of the attack to rescue survivors. David Isaac (November 18. 2023 / JNS) JNS

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The escape from the massacre - and the photograph under fire: "I said if we die at least they will see that we loved to the end." Amit and her partner Nir hid behind a bush - while Hamas terrorists were shooting in all directions at the "Nova" nature party • A few minutes before, their friend Ziv helped other people escape from the scene • From that moment, he no longer returned - and so far it is not known what happened to him • "He said he knew the area - and disappeared. Where is the army? We are frustrated," she told N12 • The difficult reconstruction, and the story behind the photo. [80] I said that at least if we die, our family will have a souvenir that we loved until the last moment." Amit & Nir Mako

Gabriel Noronha @GLNoronha: Washington Post analysis of Hamas videos shows they killed four hostages shortly after taking them captive on Saturday morning. Oct 9, 2023. [81]

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IDF commander: The terrorists arrived with enormous quantities of weapons. IDF commander: The terrorists arrived with enormous quantities of weapons Brigadier-General Dan Goldfus sums up the fighting so far: 'The enemy is super-cruel, they murdered men, took women and children into captivity.' Kobi Finkler Oct 10, 2023, 1:57 PM (GMT+3)

Commander of the Paratroopers Division and elite commando unit 98, Brigadier-General Dan Goldfus, who led his soldiers during the initial battles of the war, on Tuesday morning spoke about the three days of battle thus far.

On Saturday morning an estimated 1,500 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel via land, air, and sea, masacring Israeli civilians and taking others hostage.

"This morning, the fourth morning of fighting, we succeded in returning the situation in the Gaza border region to its previous condition - relatively speaking," Goldfus said. "There are still isolated clashes with the enemy. We are working to return the towns to their usual state. It will take time."

He noted that it is difficult to say for certainty that there are no terrorists in the Israeli communities around Gaza: "I say in the most realistic way: There was a terrorist who got into a closet in a home and waited. We are doing a lot of searches and cleansing the area, but I will not fly off my chair if there is contact with a cell which hid under a home."

"DIvision 98 was relevant with all its abilities, providing immediate responses from the first moment. We are talking about hundrds of terrorists, dozens of infilatration sites, difficult sights, murder of civilians, homes and command rooms which were burned together with their occupants. This is a super-cruel enemy, they murdered men, took women and children into captivity. INN

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IDF: 1,500 Hamas terrorists killed inside Israel. Israeli forces have "more or less" regained control over the Gaza border, says IDF spokesman.

(October 10, 2023 / JNS) Some 1,500 Palestinian terrorists have been killed in Israeli territory since Hamas launched its cross-border assault on Oct. 7, the Israel Defense Forces revealed on Tuesday morning. JNS

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian:

Hamas in Arabic: Publishes footage of it carrying out crimes against humanity during its murderous invasion of southern Israel.

Hamas in English: "These are lies by Israel" [82]. Oct 11, 2023 [83]

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Phillip Smyth @PhillipSmyth: 1. Don't assume *just HAMAS* was involved in the attacks on Southern Israel. A ton of other Iran-controlled subgroups were. Note: HAMAS had a rapprochement with Iran, are back in the orbit, but it's not black and white. Oct 7, 2023 [84]

Phillip Smyth @PhillipSmyth I'm waiting for the, "But Iran only really supports Shia, Palestinians are Sunni!" or the "sectarianism and Syria mean.. Thus, Iran had no role" lines. Someone is bound to say it. Also, they're painfully wrong. Oct 7, 2023. [85]

Phillip Smyth @PhillipSmyth: I'm going on @ErinBurnett on @CNN to discuss the events in Israel and Gaza at 7:30PM EST. Oct 7, 2023 [86]

Phillip Smyth of near East policy, Iran, "has internal problems..." CNN, Oct 7, 2023. (With Erin Burnett).

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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a communique saying it participated in the invasion of southern Israeli communities.  [pic.twitter.com/g8rl1VwMfj]

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 9, 2023 [87]

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine field commander Raed al-Zaza has been killed by Israeli security forces.  [pic.twitter.com/HilQxz8e1F]

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 9, 2023 [88]

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Captive Israeli child bullied by Gazans An Israeli child held captive by Hamas is bullied by children in Gaza. Israel National News, Oct 8, 2023 INN

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Israel’s UN envoy: Hamas holding dozens of American citizens in Gaza. "We have reports that several Americans were killed,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

(October 8, 2023 / JNS) The Hamas terrorist organization is keeping dozens of Americans hostage in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said on Sunday.

“We don’t have all the names yet, we’re still working to get all the names of the missing people, civilians and soldiers, but as I said, dozens are Americans,” Erdan stated during an interview with Fox News.

Erdan spoke shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that U.S. officials are working to verify reports of American citizens being killed or abducted by Hamas

“We have reports that several Americans were killed,” Blinken revealed on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

“We are working overtime to verify that,” the top diplomat said, adding that there are also reports of missing U.S. citizens.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch to coordinate the government efforts to locate missing persons.

Hamas killed at least 700 Israelis and wounded more than 2,000 since Saturday in a massive offensive launched from the Gaza Strip, including firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of terrorists to infiltrate the Jewish state.

The terrorist group claims to have taken 163 Israeli captives to Gaza... JNS

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Rocket barrage on southern Israel: 3 critically & seriously injured. A 50-year-old woman was seriously injured in Ashdod; in Ashkelon, four were injured from intercept shrapnel. Israel National News, Oct 9, 2023, 3:20 PM (GMT+3) INN

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US demands condemnation of Hamas at UN meeting, but Security Council takes no immediate action.

By Edith M. Lederer, October 8, 2023,

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting behind closed doors Sunday, with the United States demanding all 15 members strongly condemn “these heinous terrorist attacks committed by Hamas,” but they took no immediate action.

U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said afterward that “a good number of countries” did condemn the Hamas attack but not all council members. He told reporters they could probably figure out one of them.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, told The Associated Press the Americans tried to say during the meeting that Russia isn’t condemning the attacks, but “that’s untrue. Newsmax (from AP)

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Ohad Hemo N12, Oct 8, 2023, 12:03 PM:

Hamas that I spoke with, they have no problem with half of Gaza being wiped out. They speak of Israel will be eliminated. [They speak of with Islamist-Messianic visions].

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'Leave now': Netanyahu's warning to Gazans. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his second address to the nation on Saturday night, telling Gazan residents Israel will target terrorist hideouts. Leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere. By ILH Staff Published on 10-08-2023 ILH

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IDF spokesman in Arabic: "Residents of the Gaza Strip, for your safety, you must evacuate your residences." The IDF Spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, in .. message to the residents of the Gaza Strip, especially in the places near the border, in which he prepares them for the ground entry of IDF forces into the Strip, and orders them to evacuate their homes. "Residents of the Gaza Strip, pay attention! Hamas actions are forcing the IDF to operate where you live. For your safety, you must evacuate your place of residence immediately." Following his words, Adrei detailed the residential points near the border and ordered their residents to move to points that are deeper in the Strip. The meaning is actually a population movement inside the Gaza Strip - a warning to citizens to evacuate the areas before an attack.

Tal Lev Ram, 08/10/2023 02:02 Maariv

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The IDF to the residents of Gaza: "Those who can - let them flee to Egypt" | Attacks documents More than 200 targets were attacked in the Gaza Strip, a terrorist was located and eliminated tonight at the Saad junction. It appears that the conditions are ripe for the establishment of a national emergency government, the heads of the coalition will gather. The Chief of Staff spoke with his counterpart from the USA. The names of 38 other officers and soldiers who fell in the Gaza Strip were allowed to be published. Tonight it was allowed to be published that in an incident on the Lebanese border Lt. Col. Alim Abdullah was killed, five other Israelis were injured. About 2,700 have been injured since the beginning of the war. Ynet

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Watch: The IDF took over the Hamas TV channel.

Srugim News, 12.10.23 A message that appeared on the TV screens in the Gaza Strip warned the residents to stay away from places where the terrorist organizations stay "Run away while you can" According to reports coming from Gaza, cyber fighters took over Al Jazeera's broadcasts and published a video of IDF attacks in the Gaza Strip. In the strip that appeared on the broadcast, a warning was written to the citizens of the Gaza Strip to flee from areas where the terrorist organizations stay. The broadcast also stated: "Every target and every terrorist is a mortal, run away, as long as you can." Srugim

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Palestinian Media Watch - Hamas calls on Gazans to be human shields. Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Oct 11, 2023

Hamas’ Interior Ministry: “We again call on [Gazan] citizens not to cooperate with the recorded phone messages that the occupation (i.e., Israel) is sending at random, asking people to leave their homes” Using civilians as human shields, Hamas has called on Gazans not to leave their homes when Israel warns about bombings.

While the Israeli army has been notifying Gazan civilians to leave their homes and seek safety elsewhere before Israel attacks terrorists or terror infrastructure in their apartment buildings, Hamas’ Interior Ministry is calling on Palestinians to remain in their homes to serve as human shields:

Headline: "The Interior Ministry calls on citizens not to cooperate with the recorded messages the occupation (i.e., Israel) is sending at random”

“Important notice:

We again call on [Gazan] citizens not to cooperate with the recorded phone messages that the occupation (i.e., Israel) is sending at random, asking people to leave their homes. Their goal is to arouse panic and fear as part of the psychological warfare accompanying the occupation's aggression against our people.

Media Office, Ministry of Interior and National Security

Tuesday, October 10, 2023”

[Website of Hamas' Ministry of Interior and National Security, Oct. 10,2023]

It has always been Hamas' policy to use the civilian population in Gaza as human shields. Palestinian Media Watch documented that in the 2014 Gaza war, Hamas also demanded that Palestinians “return to their homes”. [89].

Even Fatah has mocked Hamas for its use of civilians as human shields [90] and criticized them for storing explosives among the civilian population. [91] [92][Website of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Aug. 29, 2021] Palwatch

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The IDF in a message to the UN: "Within 24 hours - residents of the northern Gaza Strip must evacuate to the south." 0404, Oct 13 2023

The IDF informed the UN tonight that all Arabs in the northern Gaza Strip must evacuate to the south in the next 24 hours. 0404

Israel's military orders civilians to evacuate Gaza City, ahead of a feared ground offensive. Israel’s military has directed the hundreds of thousands of residents in Gaza City to evacuate “for their own safety and protection,” ahead of a feared Israeli ground offensive

By Joseph Krauss, Edith M. Lederer and Wafaa Shurafa, Associated Press October 13, 2023, 12:00 AM ET ABC

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Israel attacked by Hamas live updates: Israeli ambassador to UN calls Hamas attack on Israel ‘our 9/11’, brands terrorists as ‘animals.’ By Post Staff Updated Oct. 7, 2023 ...Terrifying scenes have begun to emerge from the conflict, with one video – which has been verified by CNN – showing a woman being shoved into the backseat of a Jeep by Hamas militants with her hands zip-tied and arms bleeding. NYPost

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Haaretz's Michael Hauser Tov, (on N12 TV, Oct 8, 2023 at 1:44-7 AM), had to inject his politics (propagating for Yair Golan) while looking at his cell. This, even after a lefty Yoaz Hendel (interviewed) asked to refrain from politics - despite being critical of policies of Netanyahu.

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Testimonies of the survivors of the nature party: "We pretended to be dead, friends were missing." "As soon as a red alarm sounded, a rush of cars started trying to leave the party, but the terrorists surrounded us, shot everywhere, a grenade was thrown" Channel 7, 22 in Tishri 5784. 7.10.23 ... The terrorists arrived at the scene and actually surrounded the people who wanted to escape. "We saw people running for their lives. We hid like partisans under the trees. Every time someone raised their heads, we heard bursts of automatic rifle fire. Everyone present felt the impact of the bullets and explosions. It's not an easy emotional burden. And they took care of everything for us."

Sa'ar Rahamim, another witness, said: "I don't think it was a fake. It was planned. At about 5:30 in the morning, they started firing at us. As soon as a red alarm sounded, a rush of cars started trying to leave the party, but the terrorists surrounded us. They threw a grenade People were shocked, terrorists shot everywhere, policemen fell. It was a massacre. We hid in the forest for several hours. My friends are still missing. I don't know how to deal with what I saw. INN

The massacre at the party at Re'im: The terrorists shot at the young men who tried to escape Mako

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News from Israel and the world, military and security. "Murdered with an ax in front of his children": the horrifying testimonies from the settlements around Gaza While Israel is trying to recover from the murderous surprise attack that began a day ago, dozens of testimonies are being published. One of the testimonies is that of the children's mother who hid in the MAMAD. "He tried to protect -with his bidy- my two children who were with him in the MAMAD and was murdered" Maariv Online, 08/10/2023 [Tags: Terror / Operation Swords of Iron] Maariv

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Israeli reporter: 'They massacred my family, two little children were witnesses." Yuval Segev, Galei Zahal’s political reporter, learned that his uncle and aunt were murdered together in front of their children.

Israel National News, Oct 8, 2023, 7:20 PM (GMT+3). [Kibbutz Be'eri] ... Today, Segev updated with the sad news: "After my family hid in the bush together for hours, one of the terrorists spotted them and started shooting. My family was massacred." INN

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N12, Oct 8, 2023:

Regarding the party near Kibbutz Re'im, Laura Malu (interviewed) who was rescued after many hours, that God aswerd the prayers...

She recalls that the attack was via missiles

Yaniv from Kibbutz Be'eri, terrorists attacked a family home with thugs through the window. The terrorists shot and chased after them. I locked the house and so we were two families waiting for the army.

In Nahal Oz 13 hours after the start of the war, Jews in the MAMAD (Merkhav Mugan) are surrounded and there are shots fired...

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Videos show captives in Gaza and Israel. By Joyce Sohyun Lee and Imogen Piper October 7, 2023 at 2:05 p.m. EDT

The Washington Post has independently verified three videos appearing to show captives held in Gaza and surrounding areas in Israel. Both Hamas and the Israeli military have confirmed that Hamas militants are holding Israeli military personnel and civilians captive, but the total number is unknown.

The Post verified videos from three separate locations, spanning several miles — from Shejaiyia in Gaza to Be’eri, a Kibbutz in southern Israel.

Two of the videos alleging to show captured Israeli citizens appear to have been filmed 8 a.m. local time shortly after the attack, which began around 6:30 a.m. Saturday. They show graphic content.

In one video, from Be’eri, first geolocated on the platform X, armed men in military garb are seen dragging at least five people away from a residential area near the border with Gaza. One of the militants films the scene, and his shadow shows he is holding a walkie-talkie. Two of the captured appear older and thinly dressed. All are barefoot, with their hands tied behind them. Grey smoke rises in the background.

Captives in Be'eri

Video posted on Oct. 7 shows at least five captured people being walked through the streets of Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the border with Gaza. (Video: Twitter) In another video, filmed by a local journalist, Palestinian fighters drive around in pickup trucks, parading captured men through a busy downtown market area in Bani Suhella, Gaza. It is unclear whether the men are alive; they lie in the bed of the trucks, shirtless and immobile. Bystanders film, cheer and run alongside the vehicles. When the trucks slow down, young men draw close and beat the bodies.

Captured Israeli soldiers paraded around Gaza

Video shared on Oct. 7 and taken by a local journalist claims to show captured Israeli soldiers being driven through crowds in Bani Suhella, Gaza. (Video: Alkofiya/Amr Tabash via Storyful) Another video first geolocated on X, filmed late morning in Shejaiya, Gaza, shows a woman covered in blood with her hands tied behind her being driven in the back of a vehicle by several armed men. A man with a handgun removes her from the back and forcibly puts her into the back seat. Shouts of “God is great” and nearby gunshots can be heard.

Bloodied woman forced into back of vehicle in Gaza

Video posted on Oct. 7 claims to show Hamas militants with a woman covered in blood with her hands tied behind her back being forced in the back of a Jeep. (Video: Twitter) Washington Post

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Palestinian Hamas terrorists parading the bodies of dead Israelis as crowds cheer.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists parading the bodies of dead Israelis, civilians, children & soldiers around Gaza as tens of thousands of local residents cheer and hit bodies with sticks. Rumble

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The fighting in the south: at least 600 dead and over 2000 wounded. Srugim news, 08.10.23 | 14:11 The Ministry of Health has informed that 2,048 wounded are hospitalized, including 20 in critical condition and 330 in serious condition. The number of people killed in the war rose to over 600 people The number of people killed in the war in the south has risen to over 600 people - this is what sources in the security system estimate today (Sunday). This is alongside 2,048 wounded who have been evacuated to the hospitals so far. Srugim

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On N12 Oct 7, 2023 evening ("Yachad Nenatzeah", around after 9PM local time).

Amos Yadlin spoke about shattering Hamas, the complete change of the IDF how it operates that had taken with extra caution like "roof knocking: that the fatalities today it's equivalence of around 10,000 in the 911 proportion, whereby the US took on Al Qaeda.

Israel Hasson suggested an overall operation on every building to announce that all non combatants should be evacuated we are against a dangerous Islamic radical organization.

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Michael Oren: I can tell you the feeling of Istaelis...I can see Hebron from my window... Listening to Mustafa Barghouti speaking about "rights to defend themselves" does that mean killing women and children and taking 90 years old hostage? Abbas, Barghouti are alive because we are keeping them alive. Can you imagine what would have happened if there is a Palestinian, like Hamas controlled Gaza. I just watched a Hamas guy filmed hostage showing a V sign standing over a 90 years old woman held hostage. Is this "defending" itself?

CNN, Michael Oren, interviewed by Amanmpour, Oct 7, 2023 (after 1PM ET)

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Robert Baer:

I would say it's not so much of a failure of Israeli intelligence. Hamas has (gotten off cell phones) moved into residential homes and basements to have communications and with guerilla carriers. It's a black hole for the Israelis.

CNN, Robert Baer, interviewed by Amanmpour, Oct 7, 2023 (around 1:44 PM ET)

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Husam Zomlot ("Palestinian" Ambassador to the United Kingdom) started off first describing a Hamas military command, attacked, as "civilians."

CNN, Husam Zomlot, interviewed by Amanmpour, Oct 7, 2023 (after 2PM ET)

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IDF evacuating civilians from Gaza border region. “We’ll reach each and every community and kill every terrorist in Israel,” said IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari. Oct 8, 2023 JNS

IDF calls on Gaza residents to evacuate residential areas. Ynet | published: Oct 8, 2023

The IDF calls on the residents of Gaza to evacuate residential areas. The army added that the terrorist organizations are taking advantage of the residential areas. (Ynet) Ynet

Sunday the 23rd in Tishrei 5784. 08.10.23

IDF spokesman in Arabic to the residents of the Gaza Strip: for your safety, you must evacuate your residence immediately | watch

The IDF Spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, in an unusual message to the residents of the Gaza Strip, especially in the places near the border, in which he prepares them for the ground entry of IDF forces into the Strip, and orders them to evacuate their homes. Translation of his words: "Residents of the Gaza Strip, pay attention! Hamas actions are forcing the IDF to operate where you live. For your safety, you must evacuate your place of residence immediately."

Following his remarks, Adrei detailed the residential points near the border and ordered their residents to move to points that are deeper in the strip. [93] Rotter

The spokesman for the terrorist organization Hamas, Razi Hamed, tells the BBC network: "Iran supported the surprise attack on Israel." Oct 7, 2023 Rotter

Sunday the 23rd in Tishrei 5784. 08.10.23 Major General (Res.) Eliezer Marom: We did not lose a human being, the IDF will not attack innocents, it is a moral and ethical army and will remain so, we will not behave in the same way as the murderers

This is what Major General (Ret.) Eli [Eliezer (Cheney)] Marom, former commander of the Navy, said a short while ago on News 12: "We did not lose our humaneness - 'human character.' The IDF will not attack innocent targets, the IDF will not do this. We will not behave in the same way as these murderers did. We may remove the 'roof knocking,' we will not level villages, such things will not happen, because the IDF is a moral and ethical army and will remain so. Hitting Hamas hard to the point of crushing it, I think it is realistic, the IDF is capable and can do it and it should be done, and we need to see terrorists killed, unlike the last operations where the number of dead was low, we need to see Hamas killed, and in quantities, Because that's how you win a war in the end.

The second thing is the Arabs of Israel, we need to tell them out loud and in a clear way: whoever goes out into the streets now and tries to take advantage of the situation, blood on his head. He thought, we are in an emergency situation, we are in a different situation, not a normal situation." Rotter

The IDF recently completed an attack on ten terrorist targets of the terrorist organization Hamas; The targets were located in high-rise buildings used by the terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.

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IDF shells Lebanon after Hezbollah fires into Israel. The Israeli military subsequently carried out a drone strike against Hezbollah "infrastructure." JNS, Oct 8, 2023 JNS

Two Israeli tourists killed in terror attack in Alexandria. Their Egyptian tour guide was also shot dead and another Israeli was wounded. JNS, Oct 8, 2023 JNS

Reports in Lebanon: Five Hezbollah .operatives were killed in IDF strikes in southern Lebanon, including a commander in the organization. 09.10.23 Rotter

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Hamodia - Two Seriously Wounded as Rockets Strike Ashdod and Ashkelon. Oct 9, 2023. Hamodia

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7 hurt in rocket attack on Jerusalem area. Multiple people injured by 3 direct hits from rockets in towns surrounding Jerusalem. Israel National News, Oct 9, 2023, 6:17 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Giora Eiland suggested to call the Hamas regime the Gaza State (to show the dimensions) that the Gaza State attacked Israel, and to do what Golda Meir did, tgat when the situation in Gaza is going to be critical for the Palestinians and the UN will start pressuring, to condition to travel it with releasing Israeli hostages. (N12, 7:40 AM)

Cartoon - Words can hurt. We have been invaded by what most members of the United Nations recognize as the "State of Palestine." Yaakov Kirschen Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen. [94] (October 8, 2023 / JNS) When TV reported the horrifying news of the coordinated land, sea and air invasion of Israel, it was accompanied by quotes from heads of states condemning the “terrorism.” Shame on them. We have been invaded by what most members of the United Nations recognize as the “State of Palestine.” JNS

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Esther was saved from the nature party She says it was the Divine Providence... someone came and watched over us... I'm praying for everyone... it's terrible this thought that the parents don't know what's going on... at first we played it dead... for two and a half hours as the body is tilted... N12 Oct 8, 2023, 9:20-27 AM +

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"Iron Swords." IDF spokesperson:

The IDF recently completed an attack on ten terrorist targets of the terrorist organization Hamas; the targets were located in high-rise buildings used by the terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.

During the night, the IDF attacked ten operational infrastructures used by the terrorist organization Hamas which were used by the organization to direct terrorism in the Gaza Strip against the State of Israel, including an intelligence headquarters of the terrorist organization and a military structure that was used by the terrorist organization's air force.

At the same time, two bank branches used by the organization to finance terrorism were attacked, including the National Islamic Bank used by the organization to finance terrorist activities and the organization's first bank branch, a compound for the production of aerial weapons used by the air force of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in Gaza City, and a building in which There are offices and a warehouse where the terrorist organization stores weapons and military equipment.

Attached is documentation of the attack by many terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip during the last day: [95] Rotter

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'Squad' Dems face backlash calling for 'ceasefire' after Israel attacks: 'Can’t merely condemn terrorism.' Rep. Rashida Tlaib, at the time of publication, has yet to make a statement By Houston Keene, Fox News. Published October 7, 2023

Fox News

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Dem Congressional Staffer Shared Messages Justifying Hamas Terrorist Attack On Israel. Daily Caller | October 12, 2023 | Dylan Housman Deputy News Editor A staffer advising Democratic Indiana Rep. Andre Carson on Middle Eastern policy shared messages on her Instagram account sympathizing with Hamas after the terrorist organization killed more than 1,000 Israelis in an attack beginning last weekend.

Diala Qasem is a senior legislative assistant for Carson, including on Middle East affairs and Muslim issues, according to her own LinkedIn page. In recent days, the Daily Caller viewed multiple posts shared on Qasem’s Instagram story which expressed sympathy for, and justification of, the Hamas slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians, including the rape of women and execution of children. DK

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Hamas leader Mashaal calls for day of "rage" tomorrow against Zionists and Americans by Muslims and Arabs all around the world. Itamar Marcus | Oct 12, 2023 Palwatch

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The survivors of the nature party: "We encountered an ambush by terrorists - we saw many bodies." Shlomi Heller Last updated: 7.10.2023 Walla

Around a thosand terrorists infiltrated from Gaza into Israeli territory. At least a 100 dead. Hamal, Oct 7, 2023

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Dramatic documentation: the elimination of a squad of Hamas terrorists inside the settlement of Be'eri.

The IDF spokesman published dramatic documentation of the elimination of a terrorist squad that managed to penetrate into the territory of the State of Israel and murdered Israelis in the settlement of Bari | Watch (Army and Defense) | Kikar ha Shabbat | Oct 7, 2023 Kikar HaShabbat

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Testimonies of Otef-Aza residents from the surprise attack on Israel: "Babies are being massacred here."

Ilya Yagorov, Neta Bar, Yaron Doron 7/10/2023. ILH

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ynet blog

Israel confirms at least ... dead, dozens captured in Hamas offensive

Dozens of Israeli captives, including numerous women and children, believed to have been taken into the Gaza Strip as fighting continues in several locations along border area

Attila Somfalvi, | published

At 6:29am, the Gaza Strip terrorist group launched an incursion into Israeli territory by land, sea and air as well as some 3,000 rockets within hours.

Armed Palestinians managed to overwhelm several Israeli communities and military bases along the border, which have stayed under their control for hours. Dozens of Israeli civilians were believed to be held captive in Kibbutz Be'eri. Israeli forces poured into the conflict zones and engaged the terrorists. Ynet

Netanyahu: "Hamas kidnaps and murders children, a brutal war has been launched against us." The Prime Minister spoke and referred to Operation Iron Swords, and warned that the campaign is expected to continue for a long time, and also sent a threatening message to the leaders of Hamas: "What happened today did not happen in Israel." Anna Barsky, 07/10/2023

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke this evening (Saturday) and referred to Operation Iron Swords, and warned that the campaign is expected to continue for a long time, and also sent a threatening message to the leaders of Hamas.

[In the heart of Gaza: the IDF demolished buildings that were used for Hamas' terrorist infrastructure | Watch the documentation]

Hamas started a cruel and evil war," Netanyahu said. "We will win this war, but the price is too heavy to bear. This is a very difficult day for all of us. Hamas wants to murder us all. This is an enemy who murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds. An enemy who kidnaps the elderly, children, girls. Murderers who beat and slaughter our citizens, our children, in total Everyone went out to spend the holiday."

"What happened today will not be seen in Israel - and I will make sure it doesn't happen again," he continued. "The entire government stands behind this decision. The IDF will immediately use all its strength to destroy the capabilities of Hamas. We will beat them to the bone and take revenge with force for this black day they have inflicted on the State of Israel and its citizens. As Bialik said: "The blood revenge of a small child has not yet created the devil".

[Israelis are waiting to donate blood at the Ichilov Hospital. Photo: Dovrat Ichilov] "I say to the residents of Gaza: get out of there now, because we will act everywhere and with all the strength," he clarified. "At this time, IDF forces are clearing the last settlements of terrorists. They go settlement by settlement, house by house and return control to our hands. I send a hug and condolences from the bottom of my heart, to the bereaved families whose loved ones were murdered today in cold blood and with endless cruelty." "We all also pray for the peace of the wounded and all those held hostage. I say to Hamas: You are responsible for their safety. Israel will come to account with anyone who harms a single hair on their head," he threatened at the end of his speech. "I am turning from here to the residents of the south - we all stand by you, we are all proud of you for standing bravely, for fighting. This war will take time. She will be hard. Challenging days are still ahead. But I can guarantee one thing: with the help of God, with the help of the joint forces of all of us, with the help of our faith in the Eternal of Israel [God] - we will win." Maariv

Israel-Palestine latest news: Hamas committed 'cold-blooded murder', says Israeli President.

Hamas has committed “cold-blooded murder of innocent men, women, and children,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in an address to the nation after militants launched an unprecedented surprise multi-front attack.

KEY MOMENTS Chosen by us to get you up to speed at a glance:

3:51pm 'Normalisation' will not create stability or security for anyone, Hamas tells The Telegraph 8:17am Israel: 'Hamas has made a big mistake this morning' 8:06am Armed militants reported in a dozen cities 6:41am Israel calls up reservists. 6:29am Hamas launches surprise attack against Israel in biggest offensive in years. [96] Telegraph

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Hamas abducted 11 Thai nationals Five thousand Thais work near the Gaza border. Oct 8, 2023 JNS

IDF strikes Hamas as operation 'Iron Swords' commences By Jerusalem Post Staff October 7, 2023

The IDF was striking the southern region and communities near the Gaza Strip with multiple operational forces it said Saturday afternoon in an operation it is calling "Iron Swords."

"Operational commanders are arriving to manage the combat in all areas," explained IDF Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Hagari. "Concurrently, we have initiated the call-up of reservists for various units within the IDF."

According to the Hagari, some 2,200 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. Simultaneously, there were several infiltrations into Israeli territory in the southern part of the country.

Numerous IDF units, including special units, have been deployed to the Gaza periphery and are engaging in various combat zones to protect the residents of the southern region. Dozens of combat aircraft from the Air Force have recently struck several targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF Spokesperson calls on the public to listen to the instructions of the Home Front Command, which save lives. JPost

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Amid Hamas carnage, Abbas calls to ‘bolster steadfastness of the Palestinian people.’ October 7, 2023 JNS

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Fatah calls to expand war to West Bank – “confrontation in all arenas” Fatah calls to expand war. Oct 8, 2023 Palwatch

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Fatah: “Strike the sons of apes of pigs… slaughter everyone who is Israeli” Fatah: Slaughter everyone who is Israeli.” PA's Antisemitism & Demonization Oct 9, 2023 Palwatch

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The IDF destroyed a "pizzeria" in Hawara that mocked an Israeli kidnapped to the Gaza Strip | Documentation. The commander of the Central Command issued an unusual order to a business that mocked a Holocaust survivor who was reportedly kidnapped to the Gaza Strip - and within minutes, IDF forces were on the scene, destroyed the exterior, sealed it off, and detained the owner of the pizzeria for questioning. A short time later, an apology was published on Facebook in Hebrew: "The photo was not published in our opinion."

Elisha ben Kimon, October 12, 2023.

...The order states that the "pizzeria" is "Eiffel Bakery and Supermarket", or in Arabic - "mukhbiz wasubar markit 'iifil".[مخبز وسوبر ماركت إيفل] Ynet

Yossi Dagan: "Congratulations on the sealing of the Nazi pizzeria - we will not be complacent anymore" (Palestinians - Huwara [Hawara]) Two hours after the head of the Samaria Council, Yossi Dagan, called for the destruction of the pizzeria in Hawara [حُوّارة] that advertised itself while humiliating an elderly woman who had been kidnapped to Gaza, the IDF sealed the pizzeria with tons of sand - for all its contents. . Israel raises its head - what was will no longer be!" Channel 7, 28 in Tishrei 5784. 13.10.23.

Dagan emphasized the importance of quick and unequivocal action: "I congratulate the General of the Central Command, the Shomron Brigade and the backing of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense. For a clear statement against the Nazi, the scumbag, the terrorist who advertised his pizza - while mocking a Holocaust survivor who was kidnapped to Gaza. Like a barbarian-Nazi from the village of the murderers Huwara." INN

Nazi symbols resurface in Huwara for second time in 10 days. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 24, 2023. ([97] Nazi flags and PLO graffiti adorn a wall in Huwara, West Bank, October 24, 2023). JPost

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BBC guest compares Hamas onslaught to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Palestinian writer and educator Refaat Alareer told the news channel that the carnage in southern Israel was “legitimate and moral.” Georgia L. Gilholy.

(October 8, 2023 / JNS) A BBC News guest has compared terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians to a major episode of Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

The comments came during a discussion on the United Kingdom’s national broadcaster of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, following the incursion of Hamas terrorists into southern Israel on Saturday which has left hundreds of Israeli civilians dead and an unconfirmed number held hostage. There have been reports of sexual assault and torture.

Speaking from Gaza City on Saturday evening, writer and educator Refaat Alareer told the news channel that today’s scenes were “legitimate and moral” and “exactly like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.”

Lord Austin, a former Labour MP and independent member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords responded to the clip via X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Needs to educate himself. Clearly knows nothing about Hamas, their appalling atrocities and even less about the Warsaw Ghetto and the uprising.”

In 2018 Alareer took to social media to accuse “most Jews of being [Alareer:] evil,” and referred to Zionists as “the most despicable filth.” ...

What was The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a major act of Jewish resistance against the Nazi occupation during World War II. The Warsaw Ghetto, located in the capital of Poland, Warsaw, was established by Nazi forces in 1940 as a segregated and confined area where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live in extremely cramped and inhumane conditions.

In 1943, as the Nazis began the final stages of liquidating the ghetto and deporting its inhabitants to extermination camps, the ghetto’s Jewish inhabitants, primarily from various resistance organizations, initiated armed resistance against the Nazi forces who they were significantly outnumbered and outgunned by.

The face-off lasted over a month before the Nazi forces brutally suppressed the uprising and the ghetto was razed to the ground, but the episode has become a symbol of Jewish resistance and the struggle for human rights and freedom during the Holocaust. JNS

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UN staff celebrate Hamas massacre. October 16, 2023. Israel, United Nations

While Hamas terrorists were murdering babies in Israel on October 7, killing 1300 Israelis and wounding 3000, UN school teachers, principals and other staff in Gaza were publicly celebrating the massacre, as revealed by UN Watch. See the thread below.

(For our major reports on incitement to hate and terrorism in UNRWA schools, click here. [98]) UNWatch

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Nazism again in Huwara: Swastikas and PLO flags on a wall in Huwara.

'Destroy the wall immediately. The policy of accepting Nazi terror is over!' Samaria leader Yossi Dagan demands.

Israel National News, Oct 24, 2023, 12:03 PM (GMT+3) [99]

For the second time in 10 days, swastikas were scrawled on a wall on the main road in Huwara.

A week and a half after the IDF demolished a pizzeria that advertised itself using a photo of an elderly woman kidnapped to Gaza, Arabs painted a huge wall on the main road in the center of Huwara and filled it with PLO flags and swastikas.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan reacted angrily and demanded that the security forces immediately destroy the wall.

"This is the true face of the killers from Hamas and their financiers, the killers from Fatah - the Palestinian Authority: a bunch of warring Nazis," Dagan said. "I demand that the government and the security forces to respond as they respond to Nazis, and immediately destroy the wall on the main road in Huwara."

"The acceptance policy for Nazi terror is over. We will not go as sheep to the slaughter. We demand security, demand national honor, demand to run over these Nazis who did it. What was will not be anymore.

"The acceptance policy for Nazi terror is over!"

Earlier this month, an IDF bulldozer demolished a pizzeria in Huwara that encouraged terrorism and published an ad promoting its products which used a photo of an elderly Jewish woman who was abducted by Hamas terrorists to Gaza and forced by them to make a “V” sign with her fingers.

Following the outrageous publication, Dagan demanded that the government and the security forces to destroy the pizzeria. A short time later, the forces arrived on the scene - and an IDF bulldozer began the demolition INN

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Dr. Phil Shreds ‘Incredibly Racist’ Elite Universities For ‘Coddling’ Pro-Hamas Students: ‘We Must Call Out These Institutions.’ By Daily Wire News Oct 22, 2023 Daily Wire

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Second day in a row, Karine Jean-Pierre universalizes Jew-hatred. The White House press secretary, who began the daily press conference ostensibly to correct her pivot to Islamophobia the day before when asked about Jew-hatred, began discussing Muslims again.

(October 24, 2023 / JNS) White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came under fire on Monday for answering a question about the president’s concern about antisemitism by pivoting to Islamophobia. On Tuesday, she began the press briefing with a more than 100-word statement, ostensibly to correct yesterday’s error.

She quickly pivoted to universalizing hatred of Jews for the second day in a row.

“When Jews are targeted because of their beliefs or their identity, when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hatred, that is antisemitism, and that is unacceptable,” the press secretary began. JNS

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10 Hamas Terrorists Killed in Another Infiltration Attempt Near Zikim. By Hana Levi Julian - 10 Heshvan 5784 – October 24, 2023 Jewish Press

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IDF hits Hamas apparatus which prevented Gazans from evacuating south In widescale strikes, IDF hits Hamas terror tunnels, command centers responsible for arresting and imprisoning Hamas opponents. Israel National News, Oct 25, 2023, 10:00 AM (GMT+3) INN

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Israeli-American screenwriter quits Writers Guild over silence on Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli-American screenwriter Dan Gordon blasts Writers Guild of America: You're witness to the worst slaughter of Jews since Nazi Germany and you can't find a word to say.

Israel National News, Oct 25, 2023, 5:15 AM (GMT+3)

Israeli-American screenwriter Dan Gordon resigned from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Tuesday over the guild’s silence on the Hamas attacks on Israel, Variety reports.

Gordon, who wrote “The Hurricane” and “Wyatt Earp” among others, is also a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. He grew up in Israel and the US, and holds dual citizenship.

He wrote a letter to WGA West leadership on Tuesday saying he will elect “financial core” status, according to Variety.

In a separate interview, Gordon noted that the guild had previously taken stands in support of Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, and that its refusal to condemn the Hamas attacks is “appalling.”

“We had no trouble, as we should not have had, weighing in after George Floyd was killed. We had no problem, as we should not have had, weighing in on the #MeToo movement. No one said at the time, ‘I don’t want to offend Bill Cosby,'” he was quoted as having said. “And yet you’re witness to nothing less than the worst slaughter of Jews since Nazi Germany and you can’t find a word to say to condemn it.”

“We’re not the union of pipefitters. We’re not the plumbers union,” added Gordon. “We’re the Writers Guild. We stood up to McCarthyism. We stood up to fascism. It’s part of our job to bear witness.”

Writers who opt for “fi-core” status cannot vote in WGA elections, participate in awards, or enjoy other benefits of membership. They still pay a reduced dues rate and work under the same economic terms as apply to guild members. The guild does not allow members to rejoin after they elect “fi-core” status.

The WGA on Tuesday issued a lengthy apology in which its leadership explained that they drew a distinction between domestic social justice issues — which they have spoken out on — and international tragedies, which they generally have not.

“We are American labor leaders, aware of our limitations and humbled by the magnitude of this conflict,” the leaders stated, according to Variety. “However, we understand this has caused tremendous pain and for that we are truly sorry.”

Meanwhile, dozens of celebrities in the American entertainment industry signed a joint letter in which they thanked US President Joe Biden for his part in the release of four hostages from Gaza, and demanded the release of all the hostages held in Gaza.

Last weekend, 58 other celebrities published an open letter demanding that Biden call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. INN

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The UN Secretary General tried to correct, in Israel they do not forgive The UN Secretary General met with the families of the abductees after his outrageous statement that the massacre by Hamas was not "carried out in a vacuum". Arden: We will teach them a lesson.

Nitzan Keidar, 10 Cheshvan 5784. 25.10.23 Guterres tried to correct the outrageous statement he made just a few hours before in the Security Council according to which "Hamas attacks did not take place in a vacuum" and said that "nothing can justify the killing, injury and kidnapping of civilians by Hamas."

The political system in Israel was outraged by Guterres' words and his clarification did not quell the anger towards him either. Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, told Gali IDF this morning that significant steps will be taken in the field as a result. "As a result of these things, we will refuse visas to the UN representatives, we have already refused the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Aid Martin Griffith - it's time we teach them a lesson." INN

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Israeli UN ambassador demands UN secretary-general resign after 'shocking' speech. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: Palestinians ‘subjected to 56 years ..' Greg Norman By Greg Norman, Chris Pandolfo Fox News Published October 24, 2023 1:29pm EDT Updated October 24, 2023 2:26pm EDT

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations is ripping the "horrible views" that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres expressed at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday and is calling for his resignation.

Ambassador Gilad Erdan described Guterres’ remarks as "shocking" for stating that the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas "did not happen in a vacuum"... "The @UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN," he wrote in a follow-up post. "I call on him to resign immediately. There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words."

"The shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner," Erdan posted on X, formerly Twitter.

"His statement that, 'the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,' expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder. It’s really unfathomabale (sic). It’s truly sad that the head of an organization that arose after the Holocaust holds such horrible views. A tragedy!" Fox News

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Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: We Need The Blood Of Women, Children, And The Elderly Of Gaza – So It Awakens Our Revolutionary Spirit. October 27, 2023 Palestine | Special Dispatch No. 10911

Hamas leader Isamil Haniyeh called in an October 26, 2023 address upon all the "free people of the world" to stop the bombing of Gaza, which he referred to as the "new holo...st." He said: "The blood of the women, children and elderly […] we are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens with us resolve." He said that the demise of the Israeli occupation is "inevitable," and therefore, preparations must be made for the post-occupation phase. The address was aired on Mayadeen Network (Lebanon), and other TV networks. [100] Memri

Hamas Leader: ‘Women, Children, Elderly’ Must Die In Gaza To Help Our Fight Against Israel. By Daily Wire News Oct 28, 2023, DailyWire.com

Hamas leader Isamil Haniyeh called for Palestinian civilians to die in Israel’s strikes against Hamas terrorists inside of Gaza.

The remarks come as Hamas commits war crimes by using civilians as human shields and lies about events that have unfolded during the three-week war, including its false claims that Israel bombed a hospital. Daily Wire

Hamas Leader Calls for ‘Blood’ of Gaza Women, Children, Elderly to 'Awaken' Revolutionary Spirit Against Israel. Joshua Klein, 30 Oct 2023

The "blood" of Gaza’s women, children, and elderly is needed to "awaken" Palestinian resolve, according to the Hamas terror organization’s senior leader who continues making calls for Palestinian sacrifice from the comfort of his luxury home in distant Qatar.

Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh issued his latest appeal in an address aired Thursday on various TV networks, including Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen news channel.

In addressing future repercussions of a major geopolitical shift, Haniyeh urged for intellectual discourse and strategic planning.

“I call upon all the intellectuals and strategic experts to discuss the post-occupation phase, because [Israel’s] demise is inevitable,” he said. “This occupier will not be able to recover, because of the strategic blow and resounding defeat that befell it.”

Amidst Israel’s ground offensive in response to Hamas’ bloody October 7 massacre, the senior terrorist leader urged the global community to “exert all the necessary pressure, in all directions and in all forums, in order to end the aggression against Gaza, to stop this war against our children, women, and elderly, our mosques, our universities, and our homes.”

However, he insisted on the need for the “blood of the women, children, and elderly” of Gaza’s Palestinians in order to “awaken within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens within us resolve, so it awakens within us the spirit of challenge, and [pushes us] to move forward.”

His comments come in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history, which saw some 2,500 terrorists burst into Israel by land, sea, and air and gun down participants at an outdoor music festival while others went door-to-door hunting, torturing, shooting, and kidnapping Jewish men, women, and children in local towns.

The massacre resulted in more than 1,400 dead inside the Jewish state, over 5,300 more wounded, and at least 239 hostages of all ages taken.

The vast majority of the victims are civilians and include dozens of American citizens.

As the brutal events unfolded, Haniyeh along with other Hamas leaders were filmed watching coverage of the invasion with smiles as they performed a “prostration of gratitude” over the successful killing and torture of hundreds of innocents.

“Let us prostrate. These images were … See the guys with a new jeep. Look. Look. The Israeli jeep … Let’s do it. This is a prostration of gratitude for this victory,” Haniyeh says. “Allah, please bestow your support and glory on our people and nation. Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Allah be praised.”

Haniyeh, whose wealth has burgeoned since Hamas’ 2006 electoral victory, fueled by the group’s control over Gaza’s economy and taxation of goods, has long drawn criticism for his luxurious lifestyle in Qatar, which stands in sharp contrast with the poverty in Gaza.

Chairman of Hamas’ political bureau who once served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Haniyeh is now facing accusations of sacrificing his own people, all from the comfort of a luxury hotel in the far-off affluent Gulf country.

“Because nothing says ‘free Palestine’ like calling on Palestinian children to sacrifice themselves for Jihad while you hang out in your luxury Qatar apartment,” wrote journalist Emily Schrader.

“Hamas is the only ‘army’ in history that has planned its operations deliberately to have its own civilians killed by its enemy. Its whole strategy is based on that,” wrote former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp.

Israeli airstrikes continue on the 16th day in Gaza A view of destruction after Israeli attack in Nuseirat camp, Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“How is the civilized world to take this war against Hamas seriously while this Stone Age cultist remains alive, spewing hate in the lap of luxury in Qatar?” asked former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo. “We know exactly where he is. We know everywhere he goes. We know every blood-soaked hair on the heads of his entire clan.”

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed intelligence showing that Hamas uses hospitals to hide its facilities and to hoard fuel that it denies to the civilians of the Gaza Strip.

Last year, Haniyeh said it was incumbent on the Palestinians to start looking to form strategic alliances with Russia, Iran, and China because the U.S. is likely to lose its global hegemony once the Russia-Ukraine war is over.

Earlier this month, Breitbart News reported on a senior Hamas official admitting the ultimate aim of the Palestinian war with Israel is to conquer the planet, so the world could finally be rid of “Zionism” and “treacherous Christianity.” Breitbart

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World Leaders Condemn Hamas Terror Attacks on Israeli Civilians. Hamas rocket attacks on Israel. October 7, 2023.

At 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group controlling Gaza, launched an unprovoked and vicious surprise attack on Israel. Using rockets, paragliders, boats, motorcycles and other vehicles, and whatever other means they could, terrorists infiltrated Israel with one goal—to murder and kidnap Israelis.

Over 100 Israelis have been killed and more than 850 are critically wounded. There are multiple reports of hostages being taken. More than 3,000 rockets have been fired at Israeli towns and cities. Israeli families are huddled in bomb shelters.

Since the start of this unprovoked war, AJC has closely monitored the situation, doing all that we can to support Israel at this critical time. We continue to call on leaders across the globe to condemned these heinous terror attacks. Here are some of the world leaders who have spoken out against this Hamas terror attack:

Austrian President A. Van der Bellen:

I am horrified and strongly condemn Hamas’ ongoing brutal attack on #Israel and the terror and violence it is waging against innocent people. We stand in solidarity with Israel. This must stop now! (vdb)

— A. Van der Bellen (@vanderbellen) October 7, 2023

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala:

I condemn the terrorist attacks on Israel. My thoughts are with the innocent victims of the violence and I wish our friends in Israel the swiftest possible handling of the situation and the fulfilment of their ambitions to live in peace and security. The Czech Republic has always… — Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) October 7, 2023

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

Deeply shocked by the news of terrorist attacks in Israel. Our thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 7, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron:

Je condamne fermement les attaques terroristes qui frappent actuellement Israël. J’exprime ma pleine solidarité avec les victimes, leurs familles et leurs proches. — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) October 7, 2023

German Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock:

Hamas eskaliert die Gewalt. Ich verurteile die terroristischen Angriffe aus Gaza gegen #Israel aufs Schärfste. Gewalt & Raketen gegen Unschuldige müssen sofort aufhören. Israel hat unsere volle Solidarität & das völkerrechtlich verbriefte Recht, sich gegen Terror zu verteidigen. — Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock (@ABaerbock) October 7, 2023

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

I strongly condemn today’s atrocious terrorist attack against Israel, causing a high number of casualties among civilians. We stand by the people of Israel and fully support its right to self- defense. — Prime Minister GR (@PrimeministerGR) October 7, 2023

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen:

DK FM @larsloekke: “I strongly condemn the attack this morning by Hamas against Israel. We must stand firm together against terrorism. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and all of Israel.” — Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 (@DanishMFA) October 7, 2023

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles:

We follow with anguish the news coming from #Israel. We unequivocally condemn the attacks by Hamas. This horrific violence must stop immediately. Terrorism and violence solve nothing. The EU expresses its solidarity with Israel in these difficult moments. — Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) October 7, 2023

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:

I unequivocally condemn the attack carried out by Hamas terrorists against Israel. It is terrorism in its most despicable form.

Israel has the right to defend itself against such heinous attacks. — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) October 7, 2023

The Italian Government:

“The Italian government is closely following the brutal attack taking place in Israel. Condemns in the strongest terms the ongoing terror and violence against innocent civilians. Terror will never prevail. We support Israel's right to defend itself.” [101] — Italy in Israel (@ItalyinIsrael) October 7, 2023

Kosova President Vjosa Osmani:

Appalled by the terror attacks and killings of innocent civilians in Israel. We express our full solidarity with President @Isaac_Herzog, the people, and the State of Israel in these dark hours. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims. — Vjosa Osmani (@VjosaOsmaniPRKS) October 7, 2023

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs:

I strongly condemn terrorist attacks launched by #Hamas against innocent Israeli citizens. #Israel has right to defend itself. #Latvia stands in solidarity with the people of Israel and I offer my deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims #Israel_under_attack — Edgars Rinkēvičs (@edgarsrinkevics) October 7, 2023

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte:

I strongly condemn the terror attacks on #Israel this morning, and express my condolences to all those affected by these terrorist acts. Terror will never prevail. Our thoughts are with the people in Israel. — Ingrida Šimonytė (@IngridaSimonyte) October 7, 2023

Moldovan President Maia Sandu:

Appalled by the ongoing assault on Israel. I condemn the massive violence against innocent civilians. My thoughts are with Israel and all those defending against these ruthless attacks, @Isaac_Herzog. — Maia Sandu (@sandumaiamd) October 7, 2023

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau:

I condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing attacks by Hamas against Israel. Such indiscriminate violence and ruthless targeting of civilians is unacceptable. Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by these outrageous acts of aggression. — Zbigniew Rau (@RauZbigniew) October 7, 2023

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu:

Terrible news coming from Israel this morning. We stand in full solidarity with Israel and condemn the rocket attacks against Israel. We send our condoleances to the families and ask for these attacks to immediately stop. — Marcel Ciolacu (@CiolacuMarcel) October 7, 2023

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:

I am shocked by this morning's attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens. Israel has an absolute right to defend itself. We're in contact with Israeli authorities, and British nationals in Israel should follow travel advice. — Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) October 7, 2023

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly:

Hamas are not “fighters”. Hamas are not “militants”. Hamas are terrorists. There is no other word to describe the brutality of firing rockets or terrorist attacks targeting civilians. — James Cleverly🇬🇧 (@JamesCleverly) October 7, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden:

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: We unequivocally condemn the appalling attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israel. We stand in solidarity with the government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks. — Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) October 7, 2023 AJC

October 7, 2023 Statement from NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson Condemning Terrorist Attacks Against Israel. HOME - BRIEFING ROOM - STATEMENTS AND RELEASES - The United States unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. There is never any justification for terrorism. We stand firmly with the Government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken to Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and we remain in close contact with our Israeli partners. WH

WATCH: Biden pledges US will stand with Israel following Hamas invasion.

President Biden says US will help ensure Israel has military support needed to defend itself, after Hamas invasion leaves over 250 dead, 1,500 wounded, dozens kidnapped.

By JNS, World Israel News, Oct 7, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden delivered just over two minutes worth of remarks about the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Saturday afternoon and did not take questions from the press.

“Today, the people of Israel are under attack,” he began. “Orchestrated by a terrorist organization, Hamas. In this moment of tragedy, I want to say to them and to the world, and to terrorists everywhere: The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have her back.”

“We will make sure that they have the help that their citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves,” he said. “The world has seen appalling images. Thousands of rockets, in the space of hours, raining down on Israeli cities.”

“I got up this morning and started this at 7:30, 8:00, my calls,” the president added. “Hamas terrorists crossing into Israel. Killing not only Israeli soldiers, but Israeli civilians. In the street. In their homes. Innocent people murdered, wounded. Entire families taken hostage by Hamas.”

Read 'Shame on you, Biden' - Miss Iraq blasts US funding of Palestinian Authority He noted that all occurred “just days” after Israel the High Holidays. “It’s unconscionable,” he said. “You know, when I spoke to Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu this morning, I told him the United States stand with the people of Israel in the face of these terrorist assaults.”

“Israel has the right to defend itself and its people. Full stop. There’s never a justification for terrorist attacks,” Biden added. “My administration’s support for Israeli security is rock solid and unwavering.”

“Let me say this as clearly as I can,” the president added, pointing at the cameras. “This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching.”

Biden said he has also been in contact with King Abdullah II of Jordan and with members of the U.S. Congress.

He said that he has directed his team to be in touch with Israeli counterparts and to be in “constant contact” with leaders in the region, including Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, European partners and the Palestinian Authority.

“This is also a tragedy on a human level,” the president said. “It’s hurting innocent people. Seeing the lives that have been broken by this, the families torn apart, it’s heart-breaking.” He added that he and his wife, Jill Biden, are praying for those impacted and their families and for swift recovery of those injured. He also said he will personally be in “close contact” with Netanyahu.

Read First-ever official Israeli delegation arrives in Saudi Arabia The president also released a statement earlier in the day about the “horrific and ongoing attacks in Israel,” which the United States “unequivocally condemns.” He added that “Terrorism is never justified. Israel has a right to defend itself and its people. The United States warns against any other party hostile to Israel seeking advantage in this situation. My Administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering.” worldisraelnews

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Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons:

So many enablers of Islamist fascism blaming Israel for the assault against it! Bear this in mind: a Palestinian state could have been a reality many times over by now, including in 1948, an opportunity which was rejected by the extremists who had come to dominate the leadership. Another revealing moment came in 2008, when after intensive negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tabled an unprecedented offer. Its terms included: 94 per cent of the West Bank given to the Palestinians, with 6 per cent of Israeli land added to make up the difference; East Jerusalem placed under Palestinian sovereignty, making it the capital of a Palestinian state; Israel withdrawing from the Old City of Jerusalem, which would be under international administration; a tunnel connecting the West Bank and Gaza, ensuring Palestinian territorial contiguity; and Israel accepting a thousand Palestinian refugees annually for five years, with financial compensation provided for the rest. It is hard to imagine a more generous plan. Yet in a grotesque failure of leadership, Mahmoud Abbas turned it down. Writing in the Washington Post the following year, Olmert said: “It would be worth exploring the reasons that the Palestinians rejected my offer and preferred, instead, to drag their feet, avoiding real decisions.”  It is hard to resist the conclusion that Palestinian nationalism rests more on hatred of the Jews than the desire for statehood. With Abbas defending the appalling Hamas invasion, that conclusion seems clearer than ever today. Oct 7, 2023 X

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Western leaders stand by Israel amid Hamas attack. Messages from the US and European nations echo support and condemnation following the unexpected attack initiated by Hamas October 7, 2023 Itamar Eichner, News Agencies | Ynet

West decries 'brutal' Hamas attack on Israel. Condemnations by Western leaders keep pouring in as Israel faces a surprise attack by the terror organization. By David Baron Published on 10-07-2023

Leaders around the world the world condemned the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel Saturday morning.

"Sickened by the images coming out of southern Israel of dead and wounded civilians at the hands of terrorists from Gaza. The United States stands with Israel," acting US Ambassador in Jerusalem Stephanie Hallett said. ""I condemn the indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. I am in contact with Israeli officials, and fully support Israel's right to defend itself from such terrorist acts."

"I unequivocally condemn the attack carried out by Hamas terrorists against Israel," President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen tweeted. "It is terrorism in its most despicable form. Israel has the right to defend itself against such heinous attacks."

Similarly, President of France Emmanuel Macron said he "strongly condemn[ed] the terrorist attacks which are currently hitting Israel. I express my full solidarity with the victims, and their families and those close to them."

Foreign Minister of Britain James Cleverly tweeted, "The UK unequivocally condemns the horrific attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians. The UK will always support Israel's right to defend itself."

Germany too decried the attacks, with its foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, saying, "I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks against Israel from Gaza. Violence and rockets against innocent civilians must stop now. We stand in full solidarity with Israel and its right under international law to defend itself against terror."

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán tweeted, "We strongly condemn the brutal attack against Israel, and unequivocally support Israel's right to self-defense. I would like to express my sympathy and condolences to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Israel in these dark hours."

Foreign Minister of Italy Antonio Tajani said his government was "closely following the brutal attack taking place in Israel" and condemned "in the strongest terms the ongoing terror and violence against innocent civilians." ILH

Global leaders unite in solidarity with Israel following Hamas attack Reacting to the distressing developments in Israel, leaders from around the world were quick to condemn the attacks and offer their solidarity with the nation. CnbcTV18

'Terrorism in its most despicable form': World leaders unite to condemn unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas By Associated Press - Australian politicians are joining a growing group of world leaders condemning the deadly Hamas attack and voicing solidarity with Israel.

Foreign Minister, Senator Penny Wong, led the government's response with a short statement on social media on Saturday evening.

"Australia unequivocally condemns the attacks on Israel by Hamas including indiscriminate rocket fire on cities and civilians," she began on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. [102]. 9News.au

A bridge in Australia is illuminated tonight in blue and white: "Solidarity with Israel." Oct 8, 2023 [103] Hamal

Al Arabiya English - World leaders condemn Hamas for 'brutal' attacks on Israel Al Arabiya

Wall Street Journal - European Leaders Condemn Hamas Attack on Israel. By James Hookway October 07, 2023. European leaders condemned Hamas’s attack Saturday, with France, Germany and the U.K. declaring they would stand alongside Israel. French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “I strongly condemn the current terrorist attacks against Israel. I express my full solidarity with the victims, their families and loved ones.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the Palestinian militants’ attacks from Gaza “shock us deeply,” adding that “Germany condemns these attacks by Hamas and stands beside Israel.” WSJ

High Representative of EU condemns attack on Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff October 7, 2023 "We follow with anguish the news coming from Israel", said the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell in a statement on Twitter.

"We unequivocally condemn the attacks by Hamas. This horrific violence must stop immediately. Terrorism and violence solve nothing. The EU expresses its solidarity with Israel in these difficult moments." JPost

POLITICO - EU condemns Hamas attack on Israel as 'terrorism in its most despicable form.' October 7, 2023 Politico

Israeli flag hoisted outside EU Parliament in Belgium | AFP Oct 8, 2023 The Israeli flag is hoisted on the pediment of the European Parliament in Brussels, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel. youtube

Britain 'unequivocally' condemns Hamas attack on Israel. By Reuters October 7, 2023. Britain "unequivocally condemns" a surprise attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel on Saturday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.

"The UK unequivocally condemns the horrific attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians. The UK will always support Israel’s right to defend itself," Cleverly said in a post on social media. JPost

Condemned the French left Prime Minister of France: "Can only imagine the mental agony of the citizens of Israel." The Prime Minister of France expressed her solidarity with the people of Israel and attacked the extreme left in France that ignores the massacre that took place in Israel | "We are all struck with terror and anxiety when we see the pictures from Israel," she said at a panel for journalists in France (in the world) | Shabbat Square October 8, 2023 French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne was interviewed today (Sunday) by the French media outlet BFMTV and expressed solidarity and concern for the people of Israel.

"We are all horrified when we see these images. Rockets falling on residential buildings, victims in the street, Hamas commandos taking hostages, this is of course horror, horror, and we imagine the anxiety of the populations who see these rockets coming, who see these soldiers coming ", she said.

"I want to come back again and express my solidarity with the Israeli people, in the face of the terrorist attacks. Of course, France condemns them with all force. Israel has the right to security," she emphasized.

She then said that "we have seen horrifying images of hostages, of human beings, humiliated, dragged, and we can only condemn and condemn again these terrorist attacks and guarantee our support for Israel, we must guarantee the security of the State of Israel."

At the same time, the leader of the far-left anti-Semitic Jean-Luc Melanchon wrote a post in which he notes that the violence seen last night in Israel only proves that "violence begets violence", and later wrote that "Israelis and Palestinians should live in peace side by side", said the anti-Semitic.

The French Prime Minister was outraged by these things. "It is shocking. In the current situation, it is impossible to make a comparison between Israel and Hamas, which I mention is a terrorist organization, and is recognized as such by the European Union. On the other hand, we have a democratic country that is the victim of a terrorist attack, which is defending itself. So yes, these things are shocking and out of place ", said the Prime Minister.

The journalists on the panel asked the Prime Minister if she thought the extreme left party was anti-Semitic. The Prime Minister said that this is an anti-Zionist leftist party and sometimes the statements in the name of the leftist party LFI are anti-Semitic under the guise of anti-Zionism.

It should be noted that officials in the French Parliament even called for the abolition of parliamentary immunity for left-wing officials in order to prosecute them for supporting terrorism. Kikar HaShabbat

Shropshire Star - Irish deputy premier condemns Hamas attack on Israel. October 7, 2023 Shropshire Star

First News - Poland Polish foreign ministry condemns Hamas attacks on Israel October 7, 2023 TheFirstNews

Jerusalem Post - Germany 'strongly' condemns Hamas attacks on Israel October 7, 2023 JPost

Belgium condemns rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 7, 2023 JPost

Sweden says there are 'no excuses' for the violence against Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff October 7, 2023. "There are no excuses for the violent attacks by terrorist group Hamas on Israel. They must stop immediately," said Tobias Billström, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, in a Twitter statement.

"My full solidarity and thoughts with the people around Gaza, where terrorists have intruded. The Swedish Goverment condemns these ruthless attacks on civilians by air and land and stand together against terrorism." JPost

Spain Says 'Shocked By Indiscriminate Violence' Of Attacks On Israel.

AFP - Agence France Presse October 7, 2023 Spain expressed shock over the “indiscriminate violence” saying, “We strongly condemn the extremely serious terrorist attacks from Gaza against Israel. We are shocked by this indiscriminate violence.” Barrons

World leaders condemn Hamas violence, call for attacks to stop. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. October 7, 2023 JPost

Barron's - Czech Republic Slams Hamas For 'Terrorist Attacks' On Israel Barrons

Radio Prague - Czechia condemns Hamas attacks on Israel Radio.cz

Latvia condemns Hamas attack on Israel. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF October 7, 2023 "Latvia strongly condemns the recent attacks by Hamas on Israel, leading to civilian casualties. Such attacks are regrettable and fuel escalation in a highly flammable situation," stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia on Twitter. JPost

Foreign Ministry condemns attack on Israel. Greek embassy condemns attack on Israel

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The Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the rocket attacks against Israel, saying it stands with the country. “Greece strongly condemns today’s launch of heavy rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel. Greece stands with Israel and is deeply concerned by this unacceptable escalation of violence,” the ministry wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Ekathimerini

No one can forget what terrorists did in Israel. Thousands of missiles against peaceful cities. Shot civilian cars. Men, women, and children. No one was spared. Streets in blood. Hostages. The terrorists themselves shared the footage of their atrocities and were proud of them. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 9, 2023 [104]

NDTV - World Leaders React To Hamas Attack October 7, 2023

"We Stand With Israel," Says PM Modi. World Leaders React To Hamas Attack "I am shocked by this morning's attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens," Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.

NDTV News Desk (with inputs from AFP) Updated: October 7, 2023 5:07 pm IST 'We Stand With Israel,' Says PM Modi. World Leaders React To Hamas Attack Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel this morning

New Delhi: World leaders have called for end to hostilities and safe passage for civilians amid the "war" between Israel and Hamas, which started after the Palestine militant group launched thousands of rockets into Israel this morning. Reports say Hamas militants have taken several Israelis hostage.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X, "Deeply shocked by the news of terrorist attacks in Israel. Our thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour."

"I am shocked by this morning's attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens. Israel has an absolute right to defend itself. We're in contact with Israeli authorities, and British nationals in Israel should follow travel advice," Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.

"I strongly condemn the current terrorist attacks against Israel. I express my full solidarity with the victims, their families and loved ones," French President Emmanuel Macron said.

"Horrifying news reaches us today from Israel. The rocket fire from Gaza and the escalating violence shock us deeply. Germany condemns these Hamas attacks and stands by Israel," Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

"Just spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu about the unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel. I told him that the Netherlands unequivocally condemns this terrorist violence and fully supports Israel's right to defend itself," The Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed support for the surprise attack Hamas launched against Israel on Saturday, calling it a "proud operation". "We support the proud operation of Al-Aqsa Flood," Rahim Safavi said at a Tehran meeting held in of support Palestinian children. "We support this operation, and we are sure that the resistance front also supports this issue."

Egypt warned of "grave consequences" from an escalation in tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, in a statement from the foreign ministry carried by the state news agency. It called for "exercising maximum restraint and avoiding exposing civilians to further danger".

"We call for restraint from all parties," Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said at a congress for his ruling AK Party in Ankara. "They must refrain from aggressive acts," he said.

Russia is in contact with Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries in connection with the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Interfax news agency reported, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. "It goes without saying that we always call for restraint," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was at "war" with Hamas. "We are at war, not in an operation or in rounds, but at war," the Israeli leader said in a statement, adding Hamas had launched a "murderous surprise attack" on Israel and its people.

"I have ordered an extensive mobilisation of reserves and that we return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price," he said.

Israel's army said it was fighting Gaza militants who entered Israel by land, sea and air using paragliders.

It was a combined ground raid which happened through paragliders, through the sea and through the ground, Israel army spokesman Richard Hecht told reporters. "Right now we're fighting. We're fighting in certain locations around the Gaza Strip... our forces are now fighting on the ground" in Israel, he added.

22 Israelis Killed, Over 500 Injured After Hamas Fires 5,000 Rockets From Gaza 22 Israelis Killed, Over 500 Injured After Hamas Fires 5,000 Rockets

"We Stand With Israel," Says PM Modi. World Leaders React To Hamas Attack Video: After Rocket Attack, Hamas Militants Enter Israel Towns, Shoot At People. NDTV

Buenos Aires Herald buenosairesherald.com Argentina condemns Hamas ‘terrorist attack’ against Israel. Oct 7, 2023 Buenos Aires Herald

Mexico Condemns Attacks on Israel, Urges Peace Talks and Safety Measures for Citizens Abroad.

By Rizwan Shah, Oct 8, 2023 BNN

"Severe escalation": The United Arab Emirates strongly condemns the Hamas attack. The United Arab Emirates this evening issued a strong condemnation of the combined terrorist attack by the Hamas organization on Israel: "Horrified by the reports according to which Israeli citizens were kidnapped as hostages from their homes"

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France, Germany, Italy, UK, US support Israel, condemn Hamas. "The terrorist actions of Hamas have no justification, no legitimacy and must be universally condemned," the countries stated. (October 9, 2023 / JNS) In a joint statement on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and U.S. President Joe Biden expressed “steadfast and united support to the State of Israel” and "unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and its appalling acts of terrorism."

"We make clear that the terrorist actions of Hamas have no justification, no legitimacy, and must be universally condemned. There is never any justification for terrorism," the leaders stated. "In recent days, the world has watched in horror as Hamas terrorists massacred families in their homes, slaughtered over 200 young people enjoying a music festival, and kidnapped elderly women, children and entire families, who are now being held as hostages."

France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States "will support Israel in its efforts to defend itself and its people against such atrocities. We further emphasize that this is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage." [...] "Over the coming days, we will remain united and coordinated, together as allies, and as common friends of Israel, to ensure Israel is able to defend itself, and to ultimately set the conditions for a peaceful and integrated Middle East region," they stated. Algemeiner

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Elon Musk says ‘sorry to see what’s happening in Israel’ after surprise attacks by Hamas. Musk posted on X after the attacks on Israel by Hamas on Saturday, "I hope there can be peace one day." BY Steve Mollmam October 7, 2023 Fortune

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Amy Schumer mobilizes in favor of Israel: "Hamas does not want an end to the occupation, it wants to eliminate Israel." After many Israeli stars mobilized for advocacy in the world, Jewish Hollywood stars also stand up for Israel and embark on an advocacy campaign in order to mobilize global public opinion. "Over 200 Israelis were murdered this morning. It's terrible, these murders are celebrated in Iran," wrote Guy Oseary, Madonna's Israeli manager, whose post was shared by comedian and actress Amy Schumer. "They are financed by Iran, which is trying to destroy the peace agreements" mako celebs staff | Mako | Published 08/10/23 00:51 | Updated 08/10/23

Alongside Gal Gadot, who posted a support post for Israel on her Instagram account and wrote that she stands by the country, the American actress and comedian of Jewish origin, Amy Schumer, has been sharing in recent hours the videos of the abduction of Israeli citizens to Gaza with the addition of the words of Guy Oseary, Madonna's Israeli manager who wrote: "Over 200 Israelis were murdered this morning. These murders are celebrated in Iran. The girl in this video was at a music festival when she and others were shot and kidnapped. Many women, children and the elderly are taken from their homes and kidnapped. I have always prayed for peace. I have always spoken for my Jewish community, and I have also spoken for my Arab brothers and sisters . I have no words today. Only heartbreak. Only tears."

In addition to the words of Oseary shared by Shumer, she wrote: "The Jewish people are the only group that is not allowed to defend themselves. This has nothing to do with the occupation. Hamas does not want an end to the occupation, they want to eliminate Israel, they are financed by Iran, which is trying to destroy the peace agreement added Schumer.

Kris Jenner, the momager of the Kardashian-Jenner family, shared in her story a Stand With Us post that says: "Now and always we stand by Israel." Model Sofia Richie, daughter of singer Lionel Richie, also shared the same post. As you may remember, Richie underwent a conversion procedure a few months ago, and married her Jewish partner, Elliot Greene.

Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis didn't think twice either - and posted a photo of the Israeli flag on her Instagram account. The American star of Jewish origin, who has received countless hateful comments since the post was uploaded, also shared the video of the Israeli abductees by Hamas forces.

Jessica Seinfeld, the wife of the Jewish-American comedian Jerry Seinfeld, also uploaded a photo of the Israeli flag with the caption: "I stand by Israel" - and wrote: "Sending love to my sisters and brothers around the world. Thank you to those who asked if there was anything possible to do, we need you to stand by the Jews."

In addition to Gadot, there were other international Israeli actors who decided to break their silence and assist in Israeli propaganda regarding the war. The actress and star of "Fauda" Inbar Lavi, who lives in Los Angeles, writes: "Praying and thinking about the families of the victims of these heinous crimes committed against my people and our country. My heart is broken into pieces. Pray for Israel."

The Israeli actor Tomer Capone, who happens to be in Israel these days while he has been living in the US for the past few years, also published a sharp and firm explanatory video about the situation. "I am in Israel right now and my country is under attack. Imagine waking up at 6:30 to an alarm, but it's not an alarm clock alarm, it's an alarm that sounds like the end of the world is coming. 4000 rockets fly over your head and try to kill your country basically, then a group of brutal killers called 'Hamas' infiltrates the villages and starts shooting at everything that moves - children, women, old people, everything, civilians who have done nothing to them. They kill them, take hostages and hold them, humiliate them," says Capone and sent reinforcements to the security forces.

Although not from Hollywood, the Argentinian "Rebelde" star [Felipe Colombook], who since then has never hidden his great love for Israel and recently came to visit the country, uploaded a story to his Instagram account and wrote in Hebrew: "How terrible! How terrible! I am very sorry. My best thoughts and wishes . Absolute sadness." Mako

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'Savage': US College Students Condemn Hamas, Show Solidarity With Israel at Lincoln Memorial.

by Dion J. Pierre, Oct 9, 2023

Students from George Washington University assembled in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on Sunday to show solidarity with Israel in the wake of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’ shocking surprise attack over the weekend.

"We are here for each other, for our parents, for siblings, our grandparents, our aunts, our uncles our friends, but the reality is that all of Israel, the Jewish people, Arab, Druze, Muslim, Christian, we are a family and so is everyone here with us today," third-year student Sabrina Soffer, who organized the demonstration, said during a speech to open the event. “We are frustrated, we are angry, and that’s an understatement. This surprise attack is full scale and savage war by Hamas is a shock to us all.”

Soffer concluded by calling on Israelis and Jews around the world to be resilient, adding, "Our friends, our families, are on the front lines fighting for the security of our nation, our people. We are here for you."

Meanwhile, in New York City’s Time Square, a pro-Palestinian rally sent a starkly different message. Praising the violent actions of Hamas, which over the last few days has murdered hundreds of Israelis and taken at least dozens captive back to Gaza, the pro-Palestinian crowd chanted, "Palestine will be free."

During the rally, a pro-Palestinian sympathizer displayed in full view a picture of a swastika, the symbol of Adolf hitler's Nazi Party, on his cellphone.

A local newspaper called the pro-Palestinian rally "vile," while Jewish civil rights groups insisted that support for Hamas' violence reveals the presence of antisemitism in the anti-Zionist movement.

"As history has shown us, the hatred that engulfs Jews never stops with Jews but rather engulfs everything in its path," tweeted StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit that tracks antisemitic incidents across the world. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) added on Sunday that others who participated in the New York City protest "denigrated or called for the exclusion of Zionism and Zionists from public life and promoted antisemitic tropes." Algemeiner

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Hundreds Gather in Hamburg, Germany to Show Support for Israel. October 9, 2023. Algemeiner

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Thousands, Including Progressive Politicians, Rally in Boston to Back Israel. October 9, 2023 Algemeiner

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Hamas attacks on Israel 'funded' by Biden: GOP 2024 candidates. New York Post, Oct 7, 2023 NY Post

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Iran-Backed Hamas Unleashes Large Attack On Israel.

Author: Iran International Newsroom Middle East - Persian Gulf October 7, 2023.

Iranian-backed Palestinian Hamas launched a coordinated and large attack on Israel on Saturday, with gunmen crossing from Gaza and a heavy barrage of rockets.

News reports said the attack presents the largest clash since 2021 when Israel and Hamas fought a ten-day battle. Israeli media reports and videos show bands of armed Hamas fighters engaging in gunbattles with Israeli forces on the streets in towns in Southern Israel.

Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif announced the start of the operation in a broadcast on Hamas media, calling on Palestinians everywhere to fight.

"This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on earth," he said, adding that 5,000 rockets had been launched. Israeli media reported gunbattles between bands of Palestinian fighters and security forces in towns in southern Israel.

Adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, Rahim Safavi, commended the operation dubbed Operation Al Aqsa Storm, saying, "We support the commendable operation of Al-Aqsa Storm... We will stand alongside the Palestinian freedom fighters until the liberation of Palestine and Al-Quds."

Tasnim news agency in Iran, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, splashed a headline claiming Israeli soldiers and police were taken prisoner by Palestinians. It also claimed that many Israelis were killed and wounded. So far, initial reports say that at least 22 Israelis have died and more than 500 injured.

Palestinian media also reported that a number of Israelis had been taken captive by fighters and Hamas media circulated video footage apparently showing a destroyed Israeli tank. The Israeli military was aware of reports of captives, a security source said, but provided no further details. It said its forces were operating inside Gaza but gave no details.

Iran International reported in early September that some Israeli security experts believed a full-fledged conflict was possible within weeks. In the meantime, there have reports in recent months of the Lebanese Hezbollah massing forces near the Israeli border and threatening to join any Israeli military confrontation with Palestinians. The Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant threatened in August that if the Iran-backed group engages in conflict, Israeli will bomb Lebanon back “to the stone age.”

Hezbollah issued a statement saying they were closely following the situation in Gaza and are in "direct contact with the leadership of the Palestinian resistance". The statement added that it was a "decisive response to Israel's continued occupation and a message to those seeking normalization with Israel."

The Islamic Republic of Iran, which for decades has called for the destruction of Israel, intensified its rhetoric earlier this year, with officials repeatedly calling on Palestinians and other “resistance forces” to increase their attacks within Israel proper. Iranian officials began openly taking credit for support they provide to militant groups, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah that act as Tehran’s proxies in the region.

In August, after Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, the Revolutionary Guard issued a statement calling for the liberation of al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the removal of “the cancerous tumor, Israel” from the world map.

The Palestinian attack comes as talks are taking place to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iran has strongly condemned any move by Arab countries to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, which can further isolate the Iranian regime in the region.

On October 3, Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei repeated his fierce opposition, saying countries that seek to normalize relations with Israel are taking a big risk. "The position of the Islamic Republic is that countries that make the gamble of normalization with Israel will lose. They are betting on a losing horse.”

Jason Brodksy, policy director of United Against A Nuclear Iran, highlighted the meetings last month between Hamas, PIJ and the PFLP factions, in Tehran, attended by the groups' leaders, which he says "provide some clues as to [the] organization of this assault on Israel today."

Many Iranian on social media began expressing solidarity with Israel. Well-Known dissident Masih Alinejad spoke out in support of the nation, condemning the attacks and putting the blame firmly in the hands of the Iranian regime. In a long statement on X, she wrote, "We Iranians know very well who is behind this assault. Just a few weeks ago, the Hamas leadership visited Ali Khamenei the supreme leader of Islamic Republic in Tehran where Khamenei made direct threats of destruction against Israel, stating that 'Israel is dying'." She called once more on Western nations to designate the IRGC which orchestrates Iran's regionally destabilizing activity, including its proxies which surround Israel in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Iran Intl.

Hezbollah: Israel attack message against normalization. A terrorist armed with a knife shot by Israeli forces at the entrance to the settlement of Beit Aryeh. Riots by Palestinians reported across the West Bank. By Reuters and ILH Staff Published on 10-07-2023 ILH

Leaders Of Iran-Backed Militias In Iraq Vow Support To Palestinian Factions In Hamas Attack, Threaten To Respond To Any Israeli Or American Attack Against Them. Oct 7, 2023 MEMRI __

Hamas leaders are celebrating in Qatar, an ally of the US. Oct 8, 2023. Rotter

Qatar holds Israel 'alone responsible' for escalation of violence with Palestine. FP Staff. Last Updated:October 7, 2023 18:29 FirstPost

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Column In Qatari Al-Watan Daily: Hamas Attack On Israel – Like ... Muhammad's Attack On Jews Of Khaybar In 628. Oct 9, 2023. In his column in the Al-Watan daily, Palestinian journalist Samir Al-Barghouti called the Hamas attack against Israel “a first-class, high-quality military operation” reminiscent of the ... Muhammad's attack on the Jews of Khaybar in 628.” MEMRI

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The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority on the day after the war: Hamas is a central part of the .Palestinian political landscape. We are working to achieve unity, under the guidance of President Abu Mazen. 2023-10-29 AbuAliExpress

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ANALYSIS Israel-Palestinian Conflict.

Iran’s fingerprints seen behind Hamas’s murderous rampage.

"Both Hamas and Tehran want to spoil the Saudi-Israeli normalization process."

Yaakov Lappin, October 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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MEMRI's Early Warning About Today's Attack In Israel. October 7, 2023 ... MEMRI translated and published two clips from Iranian TV. One was from an Iranian TV broadcast of a military parade showcasing Iran's massive UAV and missile arsenal, as the announcer stated: "Israel will be erased from the face of the earth. Death to Israel!" He added that if Israel makes a "mistake," Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed to the ground... MEMRI

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Arab support for Palestinians swelled by euphoria over Hamas blow to Israel. Across the Middle East, people distribute treats, dance in streets and celebrate in displays of mass support for 'resistance'. By AFP and TOI Staff. 10 October 2023, 7:47 pm.

([106] Arab support for Palestinians swelled by euphoria over Hamas blow to Israel A member of the Al-Quds Brigades distributes candies in celebration of the deadly Hamas terror assault on Israel, at Lebanon's Beddawi refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon on October 7, 2023. Fathi Al-Masri/AFP)

In mosques, soccer stadiums and towns across the Arab world, pro-Palestinian sentiment has surged after a shocking, deadly Hamas terror attack on Israel that has killed at least a thousand people, sparking a groundswell of solidarity for the Palestinians.

From Ramallah to Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, people have distributed candies, danced and chanted prayers in support of the “resistance” to Israel’s long-standing control of Palestinian land.

... Farah al-Saadi, a 52-year-old coffee vendor from Ramallah in the Israeli-held West Bank.

“I was pleased by what Hamas did,” said the man, whose son is in Israeli detention, adding, however, that he feared the scale of “Israeli crimes in Gaza” in retaliation.

The war began after Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on Saturday and slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a series of border towns. Some 1,500 gunmen invaded after breaching the Gaza Strip border fence and then rampaged murderously for hours.

The death toll in Israel from the attack and subsequent battles rose above 1,000 by Tuesday, according to reports. Over 500 people remained hospitalized, many with life-threatening injuries, and over 2,900 have been injured since Saturday. The terrorists also kidnapped about 150 men, women and children and dragged them into Gaza. Hamas also launched over 5,000 rockets at Israel and has continued to bombard southern and central areas causing deaths, injuries, and damage.

([107] IDF soldiers remove the body of an Israeli killed during an October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel bordering the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023. Jack Guez/AFP)

The terrorists’ attack stunned Israel with a death toll unseen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria — and those deaths happened over a longer period of time. It brought horrific scenes of Hamas terrorists gunning down civilians in their cars on the road, in streets of towns, and at a music festival attended by thousands in the desert near Gaza, while dragging men, women and children into captivity.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has compared the atrocities against Israeli civilians on Saturday to the actions of Islamic State. Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday that in some attack locations, the terrorists beheaded their victims.

Israelis have found renewed dedication to their national cause, while Palestinians and their Arab supporters have also rallied in a rare mass show of popular unity in the region.

“I do not think there is a single Palestinian who does not support what happened,” said Issam Abu Bakr, a Palestinian official in the West Bank.

The Hamas attack was a “natural reaction to the crimes committed by Israel,” which has “turned its back on the political negotiation process,” he added.

([108] Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus celebrate on October 7, 2023, after terrorists from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) [...] Hours after the shock Hamas invasion began on Saturday, Palestinian supporters distributed sweets in south Lebanon and the capital Beirut.

Israel and Lebanon are still technically at war and Israeli troops established a security zone in the country’s south for 22 years.

Residents of the southern port city of Sidon set off firecrackers and gathered in public squares as mosques blasted chants praising “Palestinian resistance fighters who are writing the most wonderful, heroic epic.”

A rally was held at the American University of Beirut, where 18-year-old Palestinian student Reem Sobh said: “We are unable to carry weapons but at least, we are able to support them.”

([109] An IDF soldier prepares to remove the bodies of Israelis killed during an October 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian terrorists, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel bordering the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023. Jack Guez/AFP) On Instagram, Lebanese comedian Shaden Fakih explained the wave of support widely condemned in the West...

“They will carry arms and fight back. This is their right,” she added, noting that she “can be against Hamas and still support any armed resistance against the oppressor, against [Israeli] apartheid.”

In the Tunisian capital, schools raised Palestinian flags and a coalition of organizations and political parties have called for massive solidarity rallies.

The presidency declared its “full and unconditional support of the Palestinian people” and of their right to resist occupation.

In Damascus, the Palestinian flag lit up the city’s opera house. (In some Western countries public buildings were lit up in blue and white to show support for Israel, notably the White House in Washington as well as 10 Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament in London.)

([110] Iraqis burn Israeli flags during a rally held in central Baghdad on October 7, 2023, in support of the Palestinians, after Hamas terrorists launched a deadly air, land and sea assault into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Murtadha Ridha/AFP)

Syrian university employee Marah Suleiman, 42, said the Hamas attack “stirred up a feeling within us that had not been moved for many years, and revived the spirit of resistance.”...

In Egypt, which bans unauthorized protests, soccer fans turned matches into displays of solidarity, with pro-Palestinian chants.

In the war-scarred Iraqi capital Baghdad, Iran-backed paramilitaries trampled and torched Israeli flags during rallies in Tahrir Square.

Even Arab Gulf states joined the wave of solidarity despite the US-brokered Abraham Accords, which saw Israel normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in 2020.

The two countries released statements relatively sympathetic to Israel, but the popular mood told a different story.

Expressions of solidarity with Palestinians filled social media in the UAE, and prominent Emirati analyst Abdulkhaleq Abdulla condemned Israel’s attacks on Gaza as a “campaign of genocide” on X, formerly Twitter.

In Bahrain, protesters have covered their faces, some with Palestinian keffiyehs, during near-daily, unauthorized rallies.

“We will always support our brothers in Palestine,” said a 29-year-old demonstrator, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the authorities.

“If we were able to reach them, we would have fought alongside them,” he added.

Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have pledged to ensure Hamas can never again muster the capacity to harm Israel, stating that the terror group’s demise is critical to Israel’s future. TOI

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Anti-Israel Activists Celebrate Hamas Attacks that Have Killed Hundreds of Israelis.

Published: 10.07.2023 Anti-Israel Activity. Antisemitism Globally.

From: Center on Extremism Following Hamas's October 7, 2023, surprise invasion of Israel that has reportedly killed at least 700 Israelis, left more than 2,200 injured, and included the kidnapping of more than 100 children and adults, many prominent anti-Israel activists and organizations have expressed their full support for the Hamas actions on social media platforms such as X and Instagram. Anti-Israel campus groups, community organizations and journalists are framing Hamas’s terror attacks as part of an anti-colonial struggle in which any and all forms of “resistance” are justified.

Among those expressing complete support for Hamas’s deadly attacks: The Nation’s Palestine Correspondent Mohammed El-Kurd, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, popular New York City-based anti-Zionist group Within Our Lifetime and many other anti-Israel groups across the country. In their view, all Israelis are complicit in Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, and violence is a warranted response.

These reactions from noteworthy anti-Israel activists and organizations are reflected in a broader ecosystem in which many X users are posting similar messaging. Many posts compare Israel to Nazi Germany or state that Israel was deserving of the attack. Others refer to the news as cause for “a day of celebration,” lauding Hamas for their “bravery” and for crossing “into their colonisers’ territory.” ... ADL

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Zach Kessel @zach_kessel: This one might be the worst I’ve seen so far. Students for Justice in Palestine at @UVA says Hamas brutality makes them “hopeful for the future of Palestine.”

The indiscriminate murder of Jews is “a step towards a free Palestine,” they say. Oct 10, 2023 on X

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Zach Kessel @zach_kessel: Students for Justice in Palestine at @swarthmore “honors the martyrs” and calls for more indiscriminate killings of Jews. According to them, Nazi-like murders are justified by the existence of the Jewish people. [111] 9:33 AM · Oct 10, 2023 on X

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The Squad's Socialist Party Rallies in Support of 'Palestine' Hours After Hamas Terror Attacks. Dem members silent on 'All Out for Palestine' demonstration as Israel faces worst assault in its history

..The attacks on Israel have shocked both the Jewish state and the international community. Videos show Hamas terrorists gunning down women and parading victims' bodies through the street...

Joseph Simonson October 7, 2023 Free Beacon

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New York governor condemns pro-Palestinian rally. Gov. Kathy Hochul called the rally “abhorrent and morally repugnant” in a statement. By Kelly Garrity, Oct 8, 2023 Politico

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Morally repugnant' Palestinian supporter flashes swastika as protesters clash at 'abhorrent' NYC rally in wake of Hamas attack. [112] New York City Democratic Socialists of America are holding a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square following an attack on Israel by Islamist extremists — with Gov. Kathy Hochul calling it “repugnant.” NY Post

Pro-Palestinian rally met by Israel supporters in Midtown as Hochul slams ‘abhorrent’ demonstration after Hamas attack. By Jared Downing and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Oct. 8, 2023, 1:18 p.m. ET. ....One attendee in the pro-Palestinian camp was pictured holding up an image of a swastika on their phone — a day after 700 Jews were slaughtered by Hamas. NY Post

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Chanting ‘700,’ pro-Palestinian activists in New York fete Hamas attack Israel supporters rally to mourn hundreds of dead and express solidarity and outrage, as opponents mock them and applaud 'resistance' at dueling protests. By Luke Tress, Oct 9, 2023 TOI

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White Supremacist Leaders Applaud Hamas and Violence Against Israelis. Published: 10.10.2023 [113] ADL

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Pro-Palestine demonstrators spark anger after chanting 'gas the Jews' at Sydney protest. Chants heard at the rally on Monday also included 'f*** the Jews' and 'f*** Israel'

By Rosa Doherty October 10, 2023 12:04 The JC

Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA: UNCUT VERSION - SHOCKING "Gas the Jews' on the steps of the Sydney Opera House Oct 9, 2023 [114]

'Reprehensible' protestors chant 'gas the Jews' outside Sydney Opera House.

By Olivia Land Published Oct. 10, 2023, 10:08 a.m. ET

Around 1,000 protesters gathered outside Sydney's iconic performing arts hall late Monday carrying flares and Palestinian flags and chanting “gas the Jews,” “f–k the Jews” and “Allahu Akbar,” the troubling footage shared by the Australian Jewish Association. NY Post

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All you needed to know about twisted mind of "author"/propagandist racist Gilbert Achcar.

' "On Hamas’s October Counter(sic)-Offensive". 10/8/2023. Gilbert Achcar: "..Gaza’s latest counter-offensive brings indeed to mind the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." '

Nevermind his phrasing of the atrocities on civilians as "counter", but the sick glorification and belittling the Holocaust by such a terrible comparison is beyond justification. at EoZ

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Oct 13, 2023.

Madison, Wisconsin Friday Sermon By Imam Alhajie Jallow Following October 7 Attack: Our Brothers In Gaza Are Heroes; Only Jihad Can Bring Glory And Victory To The Muslims; The Jews Will Be Killed, Executed By The Muslims.

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Source: Online Platforms - "Madison Muslims on YouTube" Imam Alhajie Jallow said in an October 13, 2023 Friday sermon at the Madinah Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin and posted on the center's YouTube channel, that the Muslim “brothers” in Gaza are heroes. He said that only Jihad could bring glory and victory to the Muslims, not contracts or agreements, and that every Muslim should be a soldier today. Alhajie continued to say that all the Jews will be killed, executed by the Muslims and that this is a divine promise. Imam Alhagie Jallow was born in Gambia, and he studied at the Islamic University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the tutelage of Sheikh Sadhan, Sheikh Abdullah ibn Jibreen, and Sheikh Saalih ibn Fawzaan al Fawzaan. Memri

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Israel's embassy defaced twice with vile swastika graffiti in 'barbaric gesture.'

Western embassies in Colombia have roundly condemned the graffiti. However, Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, has yet to say anything.

By Jacob Kessler.

14:47, Thu, Oct 12, 2023 | UPDATED Express UK

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Israel-Palestine violence causes pain, frustration at UW-Madison. By Abigail Leavins, Oct 14, 2023

University of Wisconsin campus police stand between two groups on the Library Mall on Oct. 10 as pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students exchange heated words.

Jordana Resnikoff said that being Jewish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was isolating enough before last week.

“No matter where you are, there’s always going to be somebody who doesn’t like me because I’m Jewish,” Resnikoff said.

She felt even more targeted, she said, by some of the responses on campus after the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel near the Gaza strip on Oct. 7, killing and wounding hundreds of Jewish civilians and taking numerous hostages. The Israeli military responded with airstrikes that in turn killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, which further escalated tensions between student groups in Madison.

Rabbi Mendel Matusof from the UW Chabad, a Jewish service organization on campus, said some students have been organizing in favor of Palestine, focusing on the political conflict. They organized a sit-in Oct. 10 to promote Palestinian ideals.

Resnikoff said that seeing people walk down State Street and celebrate after the Hamas attacks for political reasons was “gut-wrenching.” She said she doesn’t understand why innocent deaths would be celebrated.

“Why is it OK to celebrate this? Is it just because we’re Jewish?”

Students for Justice in Palestine, which organized the sit-in, has not yet responded to the Cap Times’ request for a statement or interview. Captimes

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Darth Vrandon: Ok. So this may be the worst pro palestine post I’ve seen… literally praising hitler. I know this isn’t a representative of most pro Palestine people, but it’s still not great that this exists. [115]. October 16, 2023. Reddit

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 @MrAndyNgo Where’s Antifa? Oh, right, on that side. [ahmadbalousha1/status/1712702152253014444] [116] [117] Oct 14, 2023 on X

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Jewish students at Cornell urged to avoid kosher dining hall following threats. Jewish students at Cornell University advised to avoid kosher dining hall after threats to Jews were posted on university discussion forum. Israel National News, Oct 30, 2023, 3:13 AM (GMT+2) INN

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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt @StateSEAS: We were shocked to see Colombian President @petrogustavo compare the Israeli government to Hitler’s genocidal regime. We strongly condemn President Petro’s statements and call on him to condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, for its barbaric murder of Israeli men, women and children. Oct 12, 2023 On X

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Lior Haiat 🇮🇱🎗️ @LiorHaiat: At the instruction of Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, the Deputy Director General for Latin America at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Amb. Jonathan Peled summoned the Colombian ambassador to Israel, Margarita Manjarrez, for a reprimand conversation, following the hostile and anti-Semitic statements of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, against the State of Israel, during the last week.

At the meeting it was made clear to the ambassador that her statements were received in Israel with astonishment at the savage terrorist attack by Hamas terrorists who murdered more than 1,300 Israelis and kidnapped more than 150.

Israel condemns the president's statements that reflect support for the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists, fuel anti-Semitism, affect the representatives of the State of Israel and threaten the peace of the Jewish community in Colombia.

In response, as a first measure, Israel decided to stop security exports to Colombia. Oct 15, 2023. On X

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Ibrahim Bharmal - Canary Mission Overview.

Ibrahim Bharmal participated in physically and verbally assaulting an Israeli student during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest at Harvard University (Harvard) in October 2023. 

The incident occurred in the wake of a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,400 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped, as well as thousands wounded. The war crimes include mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, and were carried out on October 7, 2023. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

On October 18, 2023, Bharmal reportedly participated in an anti-Israel “die-in” protest on the Harvard campus. Protesters carried Palestinian flags and held up signs that read: “STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA.” 

At the rally, the protesters surrounded an Israeli student, grabbing and shoving him to the ground while covering their faces with keffiyehs. Bharmal was one of the assailants identified [00:01:54] in the video of the incident, published by the Washington Free Beacon.

As of November 2023, Bharmal was the co-president of the Harvard South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA), a student group that signed a statement by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) blaming Israel for the Hamas war crimes carried out on October 7, 2023. PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Canary Mission

REPORT: Harvard Law editor who assaulted Jewish student said by Stanford to have 'compassion and humility' Ibrahim Bharmal 'worked for the Council on American Islamic Relations,' according to Stanford University.

November 1, 2023, 4:41 pm ET

Video circulated online Wednesday morning showing a group of pro-Hamas students at Harvard University entrapping a group of Jewish students and shouting “Shame” at them.

The Canary Mission, a nonprofit that investigates anti-Semitism, is now claiming a ringleader in the physical confrontation is Ibrahim Bharmal.

”Ibrahim Bharmal participated in physically and verbally assaulting an Israeli student during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest at Harvard University (Harvard) in October 2023,” the nonprofit states.

[Campus Reform | Harvard creates anti-Semitism advisory board: report]

The organization also reports, “At the rally, the protesters surrounded an Israeli student, grabbing and shoving him to the ground while covering their faces with keffiyehs. Bharmal was one of the assailants identified [00:01:54] in the video of the incident, published by the Washington Free Beacon.” ... Bharmal reportedly has extensive involvement in campus groups in addition to editing the Harvard Law Review. Campus Reform

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Anti-Semitic Swastika graffitied on seat of tube after Hamas terror attack on Israel.

12 October 2023 A swastika on the Northern Line London.

(A swastika on the Northern Line London Underground tube [118] Image: Contributor) A swastika has been pictured graffitied on the seat of a tube train in London amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and the border of Gaza.

The swastika, which was used as a symbol of Nazism, was graffitied on the seat of a Northern Line Underground train. Police believe the graffiti was created on Wednesday, October 10. Yahoo

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Bates reports anti­semitic graf­fiti on its cam­pus.

The Boston Globe. Oct 13, 2023 Bates Col­lege pres­id­ent Garry Jen­kins said Fri­day after­noon that "anti­semitic and hate­ful graf­fiti" was dis­covered inside a res­id­ence hall on the Lewis­ton, Maine, cam­pus on Thursday, five days after Hamas mil­it­ants launched a bru­tal surprise attack on Israeli citizens.

Jenkins said in an email to students, faculty, and staff that the graffiti, which is being investigated by the campus's safety department, included a swastika drawn in a bathroom stall. "Let me say now, unequivocally, that this act and symbol of antisemitism is abhorrent and unacceptable,” Jenkins wrote. "I am especially disheartened that this would occur directly on the hills of this weekend's atrocious attacks on Israel." Boston Globe [119]

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After Hamas attack, swastikas surface in US cities. Swastikas in NYC and Irvine; anti-Semitic trolls upend meetings: This week in extremism. Will Carless, USA TODAY, Oct. 13, 3023

Online hate has surged in the days since Hamas launched brutal terrorist attacks against Israel, and social media companies are once again under fire for failing to quell the chaos. Meanwhile, swastikas are on display in New York and California, and hate speech invades Bay Area city council meetings.

It’s the week in extremism.

Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8.

Hate speech surging online since Hamas attack

Hateful and extremist speech on social media platforms has surged in the days since Hamas launched its brutal terrorist attacks on Israel on Saturday, USA TODAY reported Wednesday. In response, civil rights organizations are calling on tech companies to get much better at enforcing their terms of service and quelling hateful content.

Organizations who monitor hate speech online registered a significant surge in such content since Saturday’s invasion. The posts primarily target the Jewish population and Israel, but an organization that monitors anti-Palestinian hate has also seen increases. The large tech companies who run the major social media platforms appear overwhelmed by what is happening. But they have also worsened the situation by laying off hundreds, if not thousands, of trust and safety employees, experts said. This has created an environment where hate speech and disinformation is thriving. “Social media platforms are putting the burden of monitoring hate speech, incitement and violent speech on civil society organizations with limited resources and this is not OK,” said Mona Shtaya, a nonresident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.

Swastikas waved in NYC, California

The conflict in Gaza has brought out American anti-Semites. In addition to the online hate, there have been at least two incidents of people displaying swastika flags in the last week, at either end of the country.

In Times Square, New York City, a protester held up a phone displaying an image of a Nazi swastika on Sunday drawing condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, which reported on the rally: “Rally-goers cast Zionists as fascists and bigots and referred to Zionists as ‘colonizers’ who should be removed from American cities.” In Irvine, California, a man was seen waving a large swastika flag on a freeway overpass on Tuesday. Multiple witnesses posted about the sighting on social media. The swastikas were just one facet of protests around the country with anti-Semitic themes, according to the ADL.

Hate speech in California city council meetings. Several California cities have had to pause or cancel remote public comment sessions in recent days and weeks after meetings were hijacked by trolls shouting racist or anti-Semitic slurs. USA Today

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David Petraeus: 'Hamas is every bit as evil as Islamic State.' The former US Army general and CIA director explains why the war between Israel and Palestine reminds him of Iraq – and what may come next. Colin Freeman, Oct 20, 2023 — “Whatever replaces them will have to conduct not just governance, but restoration of what is likely to be hugely damaged infrastructure.” Daily Telegraph

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Kansas City, Missouri Friday Sermons By Rockhurst University Professor Mohamed Kohia: The October 7 Hamas Attack Was 'Amazing', 'A Miracle', And 'A Drill' For What Will Come Next'; 'Oh Allah, Annihilate The Crusaders.' October 20, 2023. Dr. Mohamed Kohia, Professor of Physical Therapy at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, delivered several Friday sermons at the Kansas City Islamic Center following the October 7 Hamas attacks. The sermons were posted on the center's YouTube channel. Kohia said in an October 20 sermon that Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel was "amazing" and a "miracle." He said that the whole world was shocked when a few people from the Islamic resistance crossed into Israel and killed and captured many Israelis. He prayed: "May Allah annihilate the Crusaders."

On November 17, Kohia said that the October 7 attacks were "just a drill for what is going to come next." He stated that the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestine in its entirety "is a possibility now." He went on to say that the West is not a civilization; it is merely technologically advanced, and he qualified that "civilization" applies only to Islam. Memri

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Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas · Oct 20, 2023: This is beautiful. The town hall in Vilnius, Lithuania is lit with 1,400 candles in memory of Israel's 1,400 victims. [120] on X

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Israel At War. Man arrested for painting swastikas on Israeli flags in Jerusalem. The suspect is a resident of the capital's Abu Tor neighborhood.

(October 22, 2023 / JNS) Israeli police on Saturday night arrested a resident of Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighborhood suspected of painting swastikas on several Israeli flags displayed in the south of the capital.

Jerusalem District police opened an investigation last week into several cases of flags being desecrated with swastikas.

Police have arrested dozens of suspects on charges of incitement and support for terrorism in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror assault on southern Israel.

Among those arrested were a 20-year-old female resident of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, for allegedly sharing pictures of fallen IDF soldiers on social media and praising their Palestinian killers.

In another case, officers detained a cook who worked in a central Jerusalem restaurant. After losing his job due to his public support for Hamas terror, he reportedly threatened to carry out an attack on the diner.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently warned of possible Arab riots in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, and ordered Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai to make preparations for “a scenario of ‘Guardian of the Walls II,’ which I think is looming.”

Ben-Gvir’s remarks referred to the widespread Arab rioting in Israeli cities with large numbers of Arab and Jewish residents during the IDF’s May 2021 operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. JNS

Domestic enemies. During the war: an Arab sprayed swastikas on Israeli flags and was arrested. Jerusalem district police arrested a suspect after he desecrated the flag of the State of Israel by spraying swastikas on several Israeli flags deployed in the south of the city (News). David HaCohen, Kikar haShabbat, 7th in Heshvan | 22.10.23

At the end of last week, the Oz station in the Jerusalem district opened an investigation following several cases of finding swastikas sprayed on the flags of the State of Israel deployed in the south of the city.

During the investigation, the suspect in the act was located, a resident of Abu Tor in his 40s, and he was arrested last night by Oz station policemen and MGB soldiers.

The suspect was detained for questioning at the Oz station on suspicion of the offense of insulting the state's flag on racist background and today, he will be brought to the court to discuss the extension of his detention. Kikar

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Teenager-Randale in Hamburg: Judenhasser ruft nach Hitler. by Franziska Ringleben, Bild, October 25, 2023.

[Teen riots in Hamburg: Jew haters call for Hitler. Hamburg – The war against Israel is far away? Hatred of Jews no longer a German problem?

Totally wrong! It plays out on our streets every day – and it shows itself in its ugliest face through this young person.

On Monday, a freelance journalist filmed an illegal pro-Palestine demonstration in the south of Hamburg. But it turned out to be a pure riot – up to 80 young people gave free rein to their anger. A teenager, presumably of Arab origin, shouted into the camera: "I want Adolf Hitler back, that's my opinion. I’m for Hitler, gas the Jews."

There were calls on social media for the illegal demonstration in the Harburger Ring, a social hotspot in Hamburg. The participants caused an explosion of hatred.

A police spokesman: "Between 6 p.m. and 1 a.m., politically motivated crimes related to the Middle East conflict occurred in the area of Harburg’s city center. State security has taken over the investigation."

Shocking: The rioting teenagers had brought spray cans, firecrackers and telescopic batons with them. They set off fireworks and smeared "F##k Israel" and "Free Palestine" on advertising at a bus stop and on the facade of the employment agency. A window pane was broken and construction site materials were thrown over. There was a fire at a construction site.

The police arrived in full force and dispersed the participants. A game of cat and mouse that took hours to end.

The police spokesman: "The police checked almost 40 males between the ages of 13 and 21 and determined their identities. 31 of them were sent off. The police also have videos in which young people appear to be making statements that may be criminal in connection with the Middle East conflict."

Fears of further hate escapades What’s in store for Hamburg? In recent years, the Harburger Ring has repeatedly achieved notoriety on October 31st. In the early evening hours of Halloween, dozens of young people repeatedly gathered together and attacked police officers and HVV buses.

There will also be calls for this online this yea]. Bild

Teenager-Randale in Hamburg: Judenhasser ruft nach Hitler. BILD. Oct 29, 2023. on YouTube

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Man arrested in L.A. after allegedly attempting to break into Jewish family’s home. Police said a man who was possibly experiencing mental illness shouted “Free Palestine” and “Kill Jews.” The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

Oct. 26, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT By Andrew Blankstein and Kimmy Yam. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to break into the home of a family of Jewish descent in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles and yelled antisemitic threats.

Daniel Garcia was arrested on suspicion of stalking and making criminal threats after he was accused of attempting to kick in the back door of the family’s home around 5 a.m. Wednesday, while dressed in only his underwear, according to an LAPD news release. The man was also heard screaming “Free Palestine” and “Kill Jews,” according to the statement. Authorities say they are investigating the incident as a hate crime... NBC

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Neo-Nazi Group Attend Pro-Palestine Demonstration In Midwest; Disseminate Antisemitic Flyers; Intimidate Jewish Protesters, And Threaten Violence At Further Rallies. October 27, 2023 Memri

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Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas: Swastika death symbol in Long Island, New York. Because Palestine. [121] 5:46 PM · Oct 30, 2023 on X

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Open hatred of Jews surges globally, inflamed by Gaza war.

Andrew MacAskill and Estelle Shirbon October 31, 2023

Members of white nationalist group NatSoc Florida protest in Lady Lake, Florida. By Andrew MacAskill and Estelle Shirbon

LONDON (Reuters) -In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are "stinking[sic]Jews" and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media, attracting thousands of "likes."... ...In Johannesburg, pro-Palestinian protesters marched to an area with a large Jewish community on Saturday, tearing off pictures of Israeli hostages in Gaza from the perimeter walls of a community centre while a Shabbat service was being held at a nearby synagogue. YahooNews

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Now the world knows 'why Hitler killed the Jews,' Pakistani senator writes. By Danielle Greyman-Kennard. Published: October 29, 2023. Pakistani Senator Afnan Ullah Khan has caused outrage on X after posting an image of Adolf Hitler with the caption “At least now the world know [sic], why he did, what he did. JPost

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Flight from Israel met by Muslim mob at Russian airport. Crowd chants ‘Allahu Akbar’ and seeks to harm Israelis who landed in capital of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan; Foreign Ministry: ‘Israel expects Russian law enforcement authorities to safeguard all Israeli citizens and Jews’ Itamar Eichner | published: October 29, 2023 [122]

Flight from Israel diverted as Muslim mob storms airport in Dagestan.

Russian Muslims seek to lynch Israeli passengers at airport. “We came for the Jews—to kill them with a knife and shoot them,” a rioter said.

(An antisemitic mob at Makhachkala Uytash Airport in Russia’s Dagestan Republic, Oct. 29, 2023. Source: Screenshot. [123])

(October 29, 2023 / JNS) A flight from Tel Aviv to Russia’s Dagestan Republic, in the North Caucasus along the Caspian Sea, was forced to redirect on Sunday after pro-Hamas rioters stormed Makhachkala Uytash Airport, seeking to lynch Jewish travelers. JNS

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Dagestan: Muslim rioters gather at airport to attack Israeli passengers Rioters gather at Makhachkala airport and search for Jews and Israelis. Flight rerouted to another airport. Israel National News Published: Oct 29, 2023, 8:23 PM (GMT+2) Updated: Oct 30, 2023, 12:54 AM Footage from the scene shows crowds chanting "Allahu Akbar," and according to reports, they also chanted antisemitic chants... According to local reports, the rioters also began to search for Israelis and Jews near the airport as well. INN

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Israeli flight landed in “Makhachkala”, the capital of Dagestan And crowds outside chant Allahu Akbar. Rumble

Pro-Hamas Rioters S_ earching For Jews At Russian Airport, Go Door-To-Door In Hotels by Gary Leff on October 29, 2023

Pro-Hamas demonstrators stormed Makhachkala Uytash Airport in Dagestan, responding to “rumors..that an Israeli aircraft was preparing to land.” Their mission: “Kill Israelis and Jews.”

Muslims within the Republic of Dagestan in Southwestern Russia are currently Storming the International Airport in the [...] OSINTdefender @sentdefender Replying to @sentdefender: Russian Police have Zero Control of the Situation with these Terrorists at the “Flamingo” Hotel being able to go Room to Room searching for Israelis. Oct 29, 2023 [124] [...] But I’ve been told they’re just “anti-Zionist” not “anti-Jew.”

While Russia has prohibited rallies, this one goes on with protestor chanting “kill, kill Jews.” [125] Here’s more footage from the airport [126]. Russia has sent in security forces to take control of the airport. Ironically, Russia invade Ukraine under the pretense of ‘de-Nazification’ when they could have looked inward? [127] Viewfromthewing

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In Dagestan, a crowd came to a hotel because of rumors about Jews there. Daniil Sotnikov, October 29, 2023 Residents of Khasavyurt staged a gathering near a local hotel due to rumors that Israeli citizens were staying there.. DW

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A Jewish cultural center was set on fire in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria). According to local residents, someone threw burning tires into the center's building under construction. Also on the wall appeared the inscription "death to the yahuds". "Yahud" is Arabic for Jew. Oct 29, 2023 Reddit

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Dagestan did not rule out the evacuation of Jews from the republic amid anti-Semitic actions. 29 October 2023, 19:23 The representative of the Chief Rabbinate of Russia in Dagestan, Ovadya Isakov, did not rule out that due to anti-Semitic actions, Jews would have to be evacuated from the republic. He told the publication “Rise” about this.

“The situation is very difficult in Dagestan, people from the community are afraid, they call, but I don’t know what to advise. One woman turned to the local police officer for help, and he said: “Well, you see what you are doing to their children there.” She tried to explain what Hamas was doing, but for the district police officer it was the opposite. The whole world is turned upside down for him and everyone else,” the rabbi said.

Isakov added that Jews may have to be taken out of Dagestan, but he does not know where exactly. ““There are about 300-400 families in Derbent, I think there are the same number throughout Dagestan. Is it worth leaving at all, because Russia is not salvation, there were pogroms in Russia too. It’s not clear where to run,” the rabbi explained.

According to Isakov, he himself does not feel safe, despite the fact that the synagogue is guarded.

On the afternoon of October 28, because of rumors about “Jewish refugees,” “concerned residents” gathered near the Flamingo Hotel in Khasavyurt, Dagestan. The police also arrived at the hotel. The security forces allowed several people to enter the hotel to make sure that there were no Jews in it. “ChP Kavkaz” reported that a notice was posted outside the hotel stating that Jews were prohibited from entering there. A rally in support of Palestine began in Makhachkala that evening.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, said that the gathering in Khasavyurt and the rally in Makhachkala took place “due to fakes spread by enemies” and called on the police to carry out “thorough actions to detect and neutralize the destructive forces that are pushing our guys to violate public order.”

The Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus repeated Melikov’s thesis about “destructive forces” organizing provocations, and said that it categorically does not support such actions. Today, according to local public reports, the police dispersed another rally in support of Palestine in Makhachkala.

Messages that refugees from Israel had arrived in Dagestan were also published in the “Morning Dagestan” telegram channel, which was launched by ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev.

An anti-Semitic rally the day before also took place in Cherkessk. Local residents came to the government house and demanded that the authorities support Palestine, “not allow Israeli refugees to enter the North Caucasus,” and also “evict ethnic Jews.”

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Karachay-Cherkessia reported that 34 people were detained at the rally. Today in Nalchik there was a fire in the Jewish religious national-cultural community center under construction. The inscription “death to the Yahuds” was left on his wall. ZonaMedia

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Calls on Telegram to reach the field and a post by a local legend: the early signs of riots in Dagestan. Behind the attack by dozens of pro-Palestinians on the Russian airport, there is a narrative that states that the Jews who arrived in Palestine received help from the local Arabs - and then occupied the country • Today - the citizens there fear that a similar incident will happen again • One of the local stars wrote on the networks: "Gaza - the open prison The biggest in the world" • According to reports in Russia, 60 rioters were arrested Shani Birnbaums | N12 | Published 12:49 30.10.23 "Israel lost the information war," claimed Rabbi Ovadia Iskov in an interview with the local media outlet Podium. "Misinformation is being spread here and it is shown that Israel is taking someone else's land. They even declare that they are ready to go to war - this has a great effect on people, one hint is enough for them."

Iskov pointed to the post published by the boxer Khabib Nurmagomedov who sympathizes with the Palestinians. On his Instagram page, he wrote that Gaza is "the biggest open prison in the world", and added that he stands by the Gazans. N12

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Newizv.ru, 2023-10-29:

Dagestan hotel bans entry to Jews after spontaneous rally. 29 October 2023, 04:36 The administration of one of the hotels in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, posted a notice prohibiting entry for Israeli citizens. The day before, local residents gathered outside the hotel and demanded that the Jews who had allegedly settled there be evicted. Alexander Kumanev, Oct 29, 2023

The day before, information spread in Dagestan tg channels that refugees from Israel who had come to visit their relatives had settled in the Flamingo Hotel.

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At least 80 detained after antisemitic lynch mob storms Dagestan airport. Israel warned its citizens against traveling to a number of Russian republics and regions in the North Caucasus following the incident. (October 31, 2023 / JNS) At least 80 people have been detained in Dagestan after pro-Hamas rioters stormed Makhachkala Uytash Airport on Sunday seeking to lynch Jewish travelers, Russia’s Kommersant news site reported on Tuesday.

Some 150 suspects have been identified and investigations were continuing, with the report stating that the effort is being led by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SKR).

More than 20 people were injured during the riot, including nine police officers, two of whom were hospitalized, the report said. JNS

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A swastika, a Hamas flag and a gun were found in a suspicious house in East Jerusalem. A suspect resident of East Jerusalem was arrested after threatening a man who had the symbols of the State of Israel and the Border Guard affixed to his car window • After obtaining a search warrant from the court, the security forces raided the suspect's home in Abu Tor and found a gun, a cartridge, a flag associated with the terrorist organization Hamas and an embroidered swastika.

Now 14, police and crimes, 15 Cheshvan, 5784, 30.10.23 - 9:34. During a search of a suspect's house yesterday (Sunday), the police found a gun and a cartridge, a flag associated with the terrorist organization Hamas and an embroidered "swastika". The detectives of the Beit Shemesh station of the Jerusalem district together with additional YASAM forces and the Border Guard carried out the search according to a court order. The relative of the suspect was also arrested and taken for questioning, and during the day he will be brought before the Criminal Court.

The (Arab) suspect, whose house was searched, was arrested on October 23 following threats against a man who had the symbols of the State of Israel and the Border Guard affixed to his car window. The suspect began to threaten him and hurt him and his property because of those stickers.

The suspect, a resident of A-Tor [Abu Tor] in East Jerusalem in his 30s, was arrested by the police and taken for questioning, at the end of which he was imprisoned. His detention was extended from time to time in court, until October 31. As part of the investigative actions carried out by the Jerusalem district police officers, additional findings were collected, which included, among other things, documentation of the suspect having weapons in his possession. Now 14

East Jerusalem resident found with gun, Hamas flag, and swastika badge By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: October 30, 2023 09:11 Updated: October 30, 2023 09:12

A resident of a-Tur in east Jerusalem was found to be in possession of a firearm, a Hamas flag, and an embroidered swastika, Israel Police said Monday.

Police searched the resident's home after he attacked and threatened a worker in Beit Shemesh due to stickers with the emblems of the State of Israel and the Border Police. A relative of the suspect was also taken in for questioning. The investigation is ongoing. JPost

Kann news @kann_news: A swastika and a Hamas flag: a suspect from East Jerusalem, threatened his co-worker in Beit Shemesh, after seeing the symbols of the State of Israel and the Border Guard on his vehicle. A gun with a cartridge, a Hamas flag and a swastika symbol were found in his house. @VeredPelman. (Photo: Police Spokesperson [128] Oct 30, 2023 on X

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A Shufersal employee who painted swastikas on deliveries will remain in custody. The company's employee acted as a courier and attached to the packages an envelope with a swastika and the middle finger pointing towards the Israeli flag.

By Shilo Freid, 16th of Cheshvan 5784. (10/31/2023 5:24 p.m.).

An indictment was filed today (3) against a young Arab resident of East Jerusalem who worked as a deliveryman in the Shufersal network in Jerusalem and was fired from it after it was discovered that he attached to customers notes that he had made with swastikas and an illustration denigrating the Israeli flag. Makor Rishon

Shufersal employee arrested after putting swastikas drawings in deliveries. By Jerusalem Post Staff. October 29, 2023.

Israel Police in Jerusalem on Sunday arrested a 20-year-old man from Shuafat after allegedly drawing swastikas on deliveries from the grocery store Shufersal, according to Israeli media.

The man is accused of drawing the swastikas on envelopes and a finger pointing to the Israeli flags and putting them in the deliveries, which were sent to several homes in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday.

The police located the man at the Shufersal store where he worked, detained him, and brought him in for further questioning at the police station.

Shufersal said in a statement that they condemned his actions and took measures against the employee.

"Shufersal views the incident with utmost seriousness and will show zero tolerance for events of this kind," the company said. "The involved employee has been identified, immediately summoned for a hearing prior to termination, and a complaint has been filed against him with the Israel Police. We deeply apologize for the incident and utterly reject such behavior. JPost

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Turns Out 'Palestinian (so-called) Anne Frank' Ahed Tamimi Is a Nazi After All. By David Israel - 16 Heshvan 5784 – October 31, 2023

Ahed Tamimi post on Instagram, October 30, 2023.

Remember Ahed Tamimi? She was the PA Arab teenager who slapped an Israeli soldier who, obeying the IDF rules of engagement, spared her what any other soldier in the Middle East would have done (Another Tamimi Sent to Jail for Attacking Israeli Officer).

Remember the poem of praise the popular Israeli songwriter Yehonatan Geffen (nephew of the late Moshe Dayan), who is no longer with us, wrote for her? Oh, I remember...

Man, I don’t know many people who should be better off dead, but Geffen certainly fits that condition, in light of the following Instagram post by the pretty redhead, which has since been blocked, but my good friend from the settlements WhatsApped it to me anyway, because, you know, the Internet, she don’t forget.

"Our message to the herds of settlers (i.e. all Israeli Jews) We’re waiting for you in all the cities of the West Bank, from Hebron to Jenin We will slaughter you and you will say that What Hitler did to you was a joke We will drink your blood and eat your skulls Come on, let’s go, we’re waiting for you."

I believe this is one of those occasions when no additional comment is required. JewishPress

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Terrible: The Olympic sprinter's anti-Semitic statement.

Mahiedine Mekhissi: "Hitler is a good boy compared to Netanyahu." In France they condemned: "Shame that he wore the national team shirt. Destruction" The sports channel website system

Sports 5 |Published 10:10 - 01.11.23

To read and not believe. The war in Israel creates echoes around the world, but we have never seen such a shocking reaction. The Olympic vice-champion in the 3000 steeplechase (Beijing and London) - Mahiedine Mekhissi tweeted tonight: "Adolf Hitler is a good boy compared to Netanyahu."

Following the shocking tweet, the mayor of Reims --where Mekhissi was born and raised-- immediately condemned the tweet and wrote: "And to think that this person wore the shirt of the French national team! I am ashamed for our city, what a disaster!". ..."This is simply a provocation", the French media were angry following the words. Mako

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IDF ground forces close in on Gaza City as Hamas fires on central Israel. More than 700 Hamas members arrested in Judea and Samaria since the start of the war; UAV strikes a terror squad in Jenin. Yaakov Lappin, October 30, 2023. ...IDF soldiers killed tens of terrorists overnight on Monday who fortified themselves and tried to attack them, he said. JNS

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Israeli forces in Gaza free captive IDF soldier. She was reunited with her family. (October 30, 2023 / JNS)

Israeli ground forces on Monday night freed a female Israeli soldier held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Pvt. Ori Megidish was freed after she was kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization on Oct. 7, the IDF said.

Following a medical exam, she was reunited with her family, the military added.

Megidish was among 243 people taken hostage by Hamas during its assault on Oct. 7, which left at least 1,400 people dead and more than 5,000 wounded. The terrorists have released four women.

She had been serving in the IDF’s Nahal Oz Base near the Gaza border as a spotter after enlisting six months ago, Channel 12 reported.

IDF special operations soldiers and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) agents freed her, Channel 13 reported. Though other members of her unit were also taken hostage, Megidish is believed to have been held alone.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on their “important and exciting achievement,” which he said “expresses our commitment to the release of all the hostages.”

“The entire nation of Israel salutes the Shin Bet and salutes the IDF,” commented the premier... JNS

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Battles in Jabaliya: This is the senior Hamas commander killed by the IDF. Ibrahim Biari, killed by an IDF airstrike using Shin Bet intelligence, was one of the leaders of the October 7 massacre. Yoav Zitun | October 31, 2023 - 12:31. Ynet

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Israeli Air Force jets conduct wide-scale strike on Hamas’s Jabaliya Battalion, killing its commander; Israeli Defense Forces Southern Commander: “We will fight in alleys; we will fight in tunnels.” Yaakov Lappin October 31, 2023 JNS

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Israel intercepts fresh Yemen aerial assault toward south. 3 surface-to-surface missiles launched from Red Sea area, at least one shot down by Arrow long-range air defense system; Houthis say launched 'large number' of ballistic missiles, drones with more to come Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari, Reuters | published: October 31, 2023 - 06:38 Ynet

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Anti-Israel JVP recites Ka_ddish for terrorists - opinion. By Rachel A. Elovitz. Published: October 31, 2023 04:58 'Jewish Voice for Peace' is neither Jewish nor an advocate for peace. They were protesting around the US last Tuesday, and did so in my hometown, at Woodruff Park, in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA.... “When we arrived,” Cheryl told me, audibly shaken, “they were chanting ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’” a cry for judenrein, for the end of a Jewish presence in our indigenous home. Cheryl estimated that there were about 200 JVP activists there, most of whom were not Jewish, and many of whom, she said, “didn’t hesitate to let me know it.” ...JVP ACTIVISTS know that Hamas committed the most heinous atrocities against Israelis on October 7, including gouging out a father’s eyes before cutting off his wife’s breasts and chopping off their daughter’s leg, burning babies alive in front of their parents, and kidnapping Shoah survivors, but they will not spare a fraction of a second to condemn those atrocities, to express any remorse for the victims or their families, or to say Kaddish for murdered Jews (just the terrorists who killed them). JVP perpetuates the stereotype of Jews... JPost

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In battle for Gaza stronghold, 100 women and children pushed forward by Hamas to act as human barrier.

IDF troops met with a disturbing tactic at base of Hamas's Force 17 near Jabaliya; 'We stand ready to face more instances of such cynical and brutal use of civilians,' Israeli officer says.

Yoav Zitun | published: November 1, 2023. 16:00

IDF troops who engaged in fierce combat with Hamas terrorists for control over an operations base in the Gaza Strip were met with a disturbing tactic: roughly 100 women and children were pushed forward by Hamas to act as a human barrier. Ynet

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Hamas siphons fuel from hospitals, IDF reveals in intercepted call. In recording, Hamas commander repeatedly alludes to Hamas taking fuel from Indonesian Hospital’s stocks Ynetnews | published: November 1, 2023, 14:46 Ynet

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Israel deploys missile boats to Red Sea after Houthi attacks. November 1, 2023 JNS

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Commander of all Hamas anti-tank forces in Gaza eliminated. Muhammad A'sar, who was responsible for all anti-tank fire at Israeli soldiers and civilians, eliminated in airstrike. Israel National News, Nov 1, 2023, 7:40 PM (GMT+2) INN

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When the anti-racists are racists. Andrew Pessin. (Nov 1, 2023 / JNS). I have a colleague at another institution, a person of color who has for years been vocal on matters of concern to people of color and to all marginalized people. He is the quintessential progressive. He speaks often of diversity, inclusion and allyship. He is quick to call out racism when he sees it and proudly declares himself anti-racist...

I wrote to him as follows... When the anti-racists are racists. What exactly do you think could possibly justify such barbaric cruelty? To babies, children, disabled people, grandmothers?...

When the Nazis showed up at Polish towns and forced all the Jews to strip and walk miles into the woods and dig their own graves and then shot them, mothers holding their babies, would you stop and say, “Wait a minute, I need to hear the Nazis’ perspective on this before I reach a judgment?”

Who watches little girls raped and then dismembered alive (yes) and says, “Well, I need to learn more before making a judgment”?

Who watches a mother and a father and their three small children tied up together and then burned alive (yes) and says, “Well I need to hear the other side before I make up my mind”?

When nine black people were gunned down in South Carolina in 2015, did anyone say, “Wait until we get the gunman’s point of view”? Or in regard to the 2019 mosque shootings in New Zealand in which 51 Muslims died?

Is there any other identity group whose massive slaughter is met with the search for justification, with the “need to learn more”?

Closer to home, when talking about your activism for important causes, you also said, “The George Floyd affair was about the daily police brutality black Americans have faced for centuries and the continued oppression of folks of African descent across the diaspora.”

Imagine someone responded to you and said, “Well, you know, that situation is actually extremely complicated. After all, black people do commit a lot of crime and have a lot of police interactions. And anyway, let’s hear from David Duke and the Proud Boys before we reach any conclusions.”

Do I need to go on to imagine how you would feel, and how pretty much everyone we know in academia would erupt against such a response, which would instantly be branded racist?

1,400 mostly unarmed Jews—babies, children, teenagers, pregnant women, grandmothers—were just slaughtered in the most sadistic manner possible by the members of an openly genocidal group. Their founding charter literally endorses the murder of all Jews on earth. They literally posted footage of the atrocities so everyone could celebrate it. And you need to “learn more”?

But you didn’t stop there.

Given the “complexity” of the conflict, you then endorsed the (otherwise surely laudatory) view that we needn’t play the “Oppression Olympics,” that “we must oppose all oppression, have empathy for every suffering person, etc.”

Of course. But when certain people responded to the Black Lives Matter campaign so dear to you by pointing out that, in fact, “all lives matter” and “unarmed white people are also shot by police,” well we know how that was received, not least as evidence of their racism. Yet when 1,400 Jews were slaughtered in the most cold-blooded manner possible, you responded, “Well, all lives matter.”

You literally just “all lives mattered” every Jewish person on earth. JNS

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House passes bill requiring annual report on Palestinian teaching materials.

The report, which would be publicly available, would cover "textbooks, leaflets, pamphlets, magazines, and other instructional materials."

(November 2, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would require the U.S. secretary of state to issue an annual public report on teaching materials “in schools in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority or located in Gaza and controlled by any other entity.”

“Among other topics, the report must address (1) whether the materials used encourage violence or intolerance toward other nations or ethnic groups, (2) the steps the Palestinian Authority is taking to reform such materials and (3) whether U.S. foreign assistance is used to fund the dissemination of the offending materials,” per H.R.3266, the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act.

The House passed the bill, which Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) introduced with Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and David Trone (D-Md.), on Nov. 1.

The legislation, which drew 30 more co-sponsors, heads next to the Senate.

If passed, it would require the U.S. State Department to produce an annual report on the “textbooks, leaflets, pamphlets, magazines and other instructional materials” used in Palestinian schools.

Textbooks that the Palestinian Authority uses in Judea and Samaria “include graphics portraying violence against Israeli soldiers, positive portrayals of individuals who have committed attacks against citizens of Israel and references to Palestinian efforts to target the ‘Zionists,'” according to the bill.

“P.A. textbooks are used at schools sponsored by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) because UNRWA schools use the textbooks of the host government,” the bill added.

A U.S. Government Accountability Office 2018 report found that Palestinian schools use “inaccurate and misleading maps of the region and include militaristic, adversarial imagery and content that incite hatred,” according to the bill.

“The Department of State raised with Palestinian officials the objectionable content in textbooks, including a specific math problem using the number of Palestinian casualties in the First and Second Intifadas,” per the bill. “UNRWA, in its review of the textbooks, identified content not aligned with United Nations values, the majority of which content related to neutrality or bias issues, including issues related to maps and references to Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.”

“It is the sense of Congress that the Palestinian Authority has not sufficiently eliminated content and passages encouraging violence or intolerance toward other countries or ethnic groups from the curriculum used in their schools,” the bill added.

Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America applauded the bill’s passage in the House.

“This bill takes on a great deal more urgency following the Oct. 7 massacre,” stated Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.

“Let’s be crystal clear: This modern-day pogrom was conducted with relish by thousands, with the majority likely graduates of UNRWA education in Gaza,” he added. “Where did they learn to ‘cut the necks of the enemy’? Where were they taught that ‘Jews spread corruption which will lead to their annihilation’? More than half of UNRWA’s budget is earmarked for education. No decent society can continue paying for this horror.”

Ahead of the vote, Sherman, one of the bill’s original sponsors, asked how the horror of Oct. 7 happened. “It occurs when generations are raised to hate, to kill, to behead, to murder, and it is a product of the schools that we have seen for decades on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,” the California congressman said.

‘Framework for cooperation’

“We should not be surprised that there is therefore significant support for the Hamas doctrine—from the River to the Sea, all Jews must be killed,” he said. “That is their position. That is what holds their organization together.”

“And I know the scenes that come now from Gaza are horrific. People say, ‘Let’s stop the fighting. Let’s have a ceasefire.’ Well, what would happen then? We don’t have to wonder, because just today Ghazi Hamad, a high-ranking official of Hamas, said exactly what would happen,” Sherman said. “He said, ‘We will repeat Oct. 7 one, two, three, four, five times, as many times as it takes until Israel is annihilated.’ That’s what happens if we have a ceasefire unless we have the kind of ceasefire that we should have. One in which Hamas releases all the hostages and disarms. Then we can have a ceasefire.”

The congressman noted that U.S. tax dollars provide more than half of the support for UNRWA schools, while oil-rich Arab states pay only a small portion.

“When we resumed funding for UNRWA in 2021, it was with the understanding that these schools would change, and we reached the 2021 framework for cooperation,” he said. “So far, not so good. … Education for terrorism has continued.” JNS

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House passes Hamas sanctions bill, Iran resolution in by wide bipartisan margins The House voted for new sanctions on Hamas’ international backers and a policy of opposing Iran’s nuclear program ‘by any means necessary’ but rejected an effort to censure Rashida Tlaib.

By Marc Rod, November 2, 2023

The House of Representatives voted last night by wide bipartisan margins in favor of new sanctions on Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist groups, and a nonbinding resolution opposing Iran’s nuclear program. But it defeated, in a bipartisan vote, an effort to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

The Hamas International Financing Prevention Act, the sanctions bill, passed the House by a 363-46 vote. Most of the 45 no votes came from progressive Democrats; Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote no. The bill would place new sanctions on individuals, entities and foreign governments that provide support to Palestinian terror groups. JewishInsider

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Dozens of rockets towards the Galilee, [2] injured by a rocket hit in Kiryat Shmona. Paratrooper was killed in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip, Netanyahu: We are already behind the outskirts of Gaza Mako

IDF's Golani Brigade take out 20 terrorists in Gaza Yoav Zitun, 2 November 2023 Ynet

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Iranian Jews cut off from relatives in Israel. Itamar Eichner, 2 November 2023 Ynet

Home, restaraunt struck by rockets from Gaza and Lebanon Terrorists in Gaza launch rocket attack on central Israel while terrorists in Lebanon launch attacks on northern Israel.

Israel National News, Nov 2, 2023, 5:37 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Week Four - Live Updates: Number of hostages rises to 242. Terrorists in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon continued to fire barrages of rockets at Israel on Sunday. Israel National News. Published: Oct 29, 2023, 3:19 PM (GMT+2) Updated: Nov 2, 2023, 5:31 PM ... Thursday, 5:44 p.m. Hamas claimed responsibility for the firing of 12 rockets at Israel from Lebanon.

Thursday, 5:32 p.m. A restaurant has reportedly been struck by a rocket in Kiryat Shmona in the north... Thursday, 4:16 a.m.: The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that earlier tonight, a surface-to-air missile was launched from Lebanon toward an IDF UAV. In response, the IDF struck the terrorist cell that fired the missile and the launch site. There was no damage to the UAV.

In addition, the statement said, a number of launches were identified from Lebanon toward the area of Har Dov and Mount Hermon in northern Israel. They fell in open areas. IDF artillery struck the source of the launches in response. INN

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The 28th day of the war - The IDF spokesman on the requests for a humanitarian truce: "They are focused on dismantling Hamas".

The IDF is approaching Gaza City: significant attacks in the Gaza Strip are felt in the lowlands, an ambulance was attacked after Hamas terrorists tried to hide inside it • Netanyahu in a message to Hezbollah: A mistake will come at a price you can't imagine • The US in a show of strength with aircraft carriers in an exercise in the Mediterranean • Blinken called for an increase in Humanitarian aid to Gaza • Nasrallah: "The surprise attack is 100% Palestinian" • Regular updates.

20:16 - Significant attacks in the Gaza Strip are felt in settlements in the Shefala region. The Palestinians reported an attack on a convoy of ambulances that left the Shifa Hospital located in the west of Gaza City, but an investigation by News 12 indicates that it was an attempt by Hamas terrorists to get out inside the ambulances and under the auspices of the Red Crescent. Several Hamas fighters were killed in the attack. The IDF spokesman said that he has information that Hamas uses ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons.

An ambulance that was attacked in Gaza after Hamas terrorists tried to hide inside it 20:15 - IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, stated that since the beginning of the war, the IDF and the Shin Bet have eliminated 10 senior Hamas officials - equivalent in rank to battalion and brigade commanders. "These are the leaders of fighting against us who also planned the massacre on October 7," he said. "We are focused on Gaza, the goal - to dismantle Hamas and return the abductees." Mako

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IDF says ambulance attacked in Gaza transported Hamas terrorists and weapons IDF says several terrorists were killed and that it holds information that Hamas the uses ambulance for transport; The military also reports that intelligence was recovered from a captured Hamas base inside the Gaza Strip Yoav Zitun, Einav Halabi, Reuters, Lior Ben Ari, Elisha Ben Kimon, | November 3, 2023 updated:11:27 Ynet

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Hamas terrorists were killed in ambulance strike, IDF says IDF international spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus comments on reports that IDF killed Hamas terrorists in an ambulance strike. Nov 3, 2023 Fox News

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The 28th day of fighting. The IDF eliminated from the air terrorists who were hiding in an ambulance near Shifa' Rockets fired at an American airport by pro-Iranian militias in Iraq • An IDF tank attacked two anti-tank launching positions and a Hezbollah military position • IDF forces eliminated a terrorist who got out of his vehicle and advanced toward them armed with a knife in the Bekaa • Alarms in Ashkelon, Mateh Yehuda and Shfela • Netanyahu  : "We refuse a ceasefire that does not include the return of the abductees" | Regular updates.

Kan News 17:01 | November 03 2023 18:00 | Firing rockets towards Sderot and surrounding settlements: a direct hit on the territory of a kindergarten in Sderot, no casualties

17:57 | An IDF tank attacked two anti-tank launching positions and a Hizbollah military position, in Lebanese territory in the Yiftah area.

17:30 | Political factor: There are advanced contacts for Zelensky's visit early next week

17:00 | Alarms in Netivot and the Gaza Strip; 2 falls in an open area in a chain seat, no injuries

16:35 | The ground activity in the Gaza Strip continues: IDF fighters identified terrorists coming out of a tunnel shaft and we shot down an aircraft that eliminated them. In another battle, several terrorists came out of a shaft inside a house and fired at our forces, the forces returned fire and eliminated several terrorists. ...15:46 | In light of manifestations of anti-Semitism in the world: the National Security Headquarters called to consider the necessity of traveling abroad these days - and to postpone travel to countries with travel warnings. At this point, the National Security Agency recorded a negative record of traffic since the days of the Corona virus. In the current period, between 15-20 thousand people a day passed through the airport in both directions, with the number of take-offs being lower than the number of landings. 15:41 | Nasrallah in his speech: "Hamas' attack was smart, brave and timely and it justifies the victims. The United States is fully responsible for the war in Gaza. Israel is merely its servant to carry it out. The victory of Gaza and the Western countries today is in the national interest of Lebanon." Kan

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Russia’s Wagner Group Plans to Send Air Defenses to Hezbollah, U.S. Says. Lebanese militant group could potentially create a second front against Israel. By Michael R. Gordon and Vivian Salama Updated Nov. 2, 2023 9:48 pm ET

After the death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin is putting a new power structure in place that will take over the group’s sprawling operations in Africa, which have advanced Russian influence on the continent for almost a decade. Photo.

Wagner Group, the Russian paramilitary organization, plans to provide an air-defense system to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, U.S. officials say, citing intelligence.

The Russian SA-22 system they plan to send uses antiaircraft missiles and air-defense guns to intercept aircraft. WSJ

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If Israel is really that bad - why doesn't the IDF just carpet bomb Gaza.

By today, sadly, some 20 IDF soldiers already died heroically while fighting the fascistic brutal Gaza regime.

But why does Israel sacrifice its finest, brave, young precious soldiers going street by street?

And this is not today with 242 hostages at the tunnels. 

This was always the case, humane Israel risking its lives by going door to door, engaging in dangerous urban warfare - where the enemy is the only side that seeks civilian deaths of both sides.

Gaza, Lebanon, Judea Samaria, Ramallah, you name it. Any anti terror operation. 

And while Israel will keep sacrifice for the sake of human lives, haters will utter the fake G word. But not on genocidal Hamas charter, rhetoric, aims, plans, or other jihadists for that matter. at EoZ

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Israeli slain in Samaria terror attack. The victim's vehicle overturned after being targeted by Palestinian gunfire. Elhanan Klein, 29, was killed on Nov. 2 in a shooting attack on Route 557 near the town of Einav in Samaria.

(November 2, 2023 / JNS) An Israeli man was killed on Thursday in a shooting attack on Route 557 near the town of Einav in Samaria.

Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel said the victim’s vehicle overturned after being targeted by gunfire.

One terrorist was shot and captured, according to reports. JNS

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Gaza resident among the ruins: "All this is because of Hamas's dogs".

A woman who was filmed next to the bodies of those killed in the bombings chose to attack the terrorist organization - and was silenced immediately • Surfers on the Arab networks wrote: "This is the opinion of the innocent in Gaza"

Shahar Kleiman

2/11/2023, 07:51, updated 2/11/2023, 08:48

The war against the terror regime of Hamas results in damage to the Gazans who serve as human shields. Hamas is taking advantage of this through their propaganda emissaries to press for a ceasefire, but one document distributed on the Arab networks created a boomerang effect.

In the video, which scorched the networks in the Arab world, she appears fierce during the evacuation of victims of an attack, as she shouts: "This is all because of the dogs of Hamas." Within seconds, those around her make sure to silence her and remove her from the scene.

"All this because of the dogs of Hamas": A resident of Gaza is furious with the terrorist organization

Within a few hours the hashtag "Hamas's dogs" became one of the most popular on the X network, formerly Twitter. Many surfers in the Arab world commented on the video and harshly criticized the terrorist movement.

The Saudi journalist Abdullah al-Twilei wrote: "A Palestinian mother in Gaza cries for her son." A-Twilei, who enjoys 170,000 followers, added in the comments to the video that received hundreds of thousands of views: "Yes, they are afraid of Hamas killing her."

Another surfer wrote: "This is the opinion of the innocent in Gaza. Hamas are dogs. This is their honest voice. The rats of the tunnels are afraid." A resident of Saudi Arabia wrote: "This is the truth that the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran do not want you to know." ILH

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The criticism in Gaza: "All this happened because of the dogs of Hamas" | Watch the video A resident of Gaza who was documented among the ruins, decided to condemn the terrorist organization in an unusual step - but she was immediately silenced and removed from the scene • Protests are also on social networks: "Hamas is hiding in the tunnels and uses residents as human shields" • The Green Prince claims: "Hamas must be reckoned with" Sapir Lipkin | N12 | Published 22:59 02.11.23

Since the beginning of the war, Hamas continues to use the residents of Gaza as human shields and uses the humanitarian infrastructure for terrorist purposes - at their expense. In the document that was published today (Thursday) and caused a stir, an unusual criticism of the terrorist organization is heard that is usually only heard in private rooms.

"All this happened because of the dogs of Hamas, enough!", a resident of Gaza can be heard shouting among the ruins, while the victims of the attack were being evacuated. However, in a short time - she was already silenced and removed from the place.

The condemnation that the Gazan heard spread on social media and drew many responses from surfers in the Arab world who used the hashtag #dogsofhamas [كلاب_حماس] and expressed sympathy with her, while criticizing Hamas.

"Hamas launched the attack against Israel, hides in the tunnels and uses the residents of Gaza as human shields," attacked one of the social-media users. "The reality is that many residents of Gaza do not want Hamas, but the fear motivates them because anyone who criticizes Hamas will find his death within days," another user added.

In the meantime, the Green Prince Mossab Hassan Yousef (son of a senior Hamas official in Judea and Samaria), who was one of the most important Shin Bet agents, published a video in which he claimed that "We must come to terms with Hamas. He planned something dangerous and no one listened to it. We cannot continue to live in the same denial."

"These voices calling for a ceasefire mean that Hamas should be allowed to escape punishment for its crimes. Escape with the strategy that aims to destroy the State of Israel and endanger the lives of the Palestinians while using them as human shields," added the Green Prince. "No. We must take power from Hamas. This is a war imposed on Israel." Mako

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Exposed: Hamas’s propaganda team.

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, November 2, 2023

Around five dozen individuals, some associated with Hamas and collectively boasting more than 100 million social media followers, have been waging a propaganda campaign against Israel on various social media platforms since the start of the Swords of Iron war on October 7.

These influencers, who identify as independent journalists, are often seen sporting blue press vests and helmets. They have also reportedly found refuge in Al-Shifa hospital, which the IDF recently disclosed serves as a Hamas command and control center, providing them with access to electricity and the internet.

While these individuals may appear to be speaking independently, they effectively act as the mouthpiece for the terrorist organization. Furthermore, they frequently feature in interviews and are quoted in mainstream media, causing their lies to spread.

The Jerusalem Post has located some of these influencers through inside and open sources. It plans to reveal their identities in the coming weeks.

Here are some examples:

Plestia Alaqad (Instagram handle @byplestia) has more than a million followers and calls herself an independent journalist but spread the lie on Instagram and in an interview with British TV that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Hospital and killed more than 1,000 people.

“Yesterday, a complete massacre happened,” she said of the missile, which was quickly proven to be a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket and not connected to Israel at all. “Around 1,000 civilians were killed and martyred.”

Fewer than 50 people were killed in the incident, according to international independent investigations.

“It’s a genocide, literally a genocide, not a massacre,” she told Britain’s GB News. She threw out several numbers of people dead, including 10 journalists at the time, which the station noted could not be verified.

In her posts, she has not provided any explanation for the commencement of the airstrikes on Gaza – namely, the October 7 massacre…. JPost

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Horrific video purportedly shows Gaza street strewn with at least a dozen bodies gunned down by Hamas. By Chris Nesi Published Nov. 3, 2023, 5:32 p.m. ET

WARNING: Graphic and distressing content.

A horrifying new video purportedly shows at least a dozen Gaza residents shot dead in the streets by Hamas terrorists as they were attempting to flee from the north to the south of the Hamas-controlled region.

In the video posted on X, a man films the carnage as he rides a bicycle down the Al Rasheed beach road, crying out in anguish the camera focuses on the dead bodies, many of them lying in pools of blood.

In a separate post, author and journalist Amjad Taha said the victims were among “dozens” killed by Hamas snipers, including women and children, because “they do not want citizens to leave.”

“They want to use them as human shields and will kill anyone who attempts to leave. Hamas terrorists in Gaza will, as usual, blame #Israel because it is easy and there is media that accepts this propaganda,” he wrote.

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A horrifying new video purportedly shows at least a dozen Gaza residents shot dead in the streets by Hamas terrorists as they were attempting to flee from the north to the south of the Hamas-controlled region.

In a separate post, author and journalist Amjad Taha said the victims were among “dozens” killed by Hamas snipers, including women and children, because “they do not want citizens to leave.”

The video is fueling disturbing speculation that Hamas has been killing Gaza citizens and attempting to blame their deaths on Israeli airstrikes.

Taha says the man shooting the video from the bicycle is saying “Airstrikes? Does this look like airstrikes?” in Arabic.

Israel has faced mounting pressure to broker a temporary ceasefire with Hamas in recent days, including from President Biden and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, following a prolonged military campaign in Gaza that began when terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people. NY Post

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Nasrallah: 'America is the great devil' Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech this afternoon threatening both Israel and the United States of America.

Israel National News, Nov 3, 2023, 4:23 PM (GMT+2)

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech this afternoon (Friday) full of lies and threats against the State of Israel. INN

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US 'must pay' Hezbollah leader threatens to escalate his group's fighting in 'holy war,' says US will have to 'pay dearly'

By Melissa Koenig Published Nov. 3, 2023, 12:48 p.m. Nasrallah came short of saying Hezbollah would get involved in Hamas’ fight in Gaza, claiming it is “already doing its part” by drawing Israeli forces north to the border with Lebanon — and away from the southern border with Gaza. NY Post

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Faced with rise in Jewish hate, Kamala Harris tackles made-up ‘Islamphobia’ By Douglas Murray, November 2, 2023

The Biden administration faced backlash after announcing they would develop “the first ever US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” in the US amid rising levels of antisemitism.

If you aren’t Jewish then imagine for a moment that you are. And the fact that your people had just suffered the worst mass-murder since the Holocaust.

All committed by people shouting the most Nazi-like slogans.

Imagine all that had only just happened.

And then imagine what it must have been like to have gone through these past few weeks.

To have seen crowds in American cities not even draw breath before turning out on the streets to celebrate the killings.

Imagine, what´s more, that instead of a great wave of sympathy and support, in city after city and campus after campus it seemed like the country was turning on the Jews.

Instead of even giving them time to breathe and bury the dead, sick people everywhere suddenly crept out and openly celebrated the killing.

But there is a worse turn.

Which is that instead of people in a position of leadership being on your side they decided, instead, to play identity politics.

And particularly — for political reasons — to offer sympathy to the co-religionists of the Jews’ killers

That is what is happening right now.

On Wednesday Vice President Kamala Harris had a big new announcement.

A new strategy to counter “hate” in America.

Kamala may not be able to fix the southern border crisis.

Or anything much.

But she does plan to eradicate “hate.”

After her success in this effort I’m sure we can look forward to her getting rid of other human evils next.

Perhaps she could move on to “envy” or “gluttony”?

Who knows?

In any case the Veep had a very specific form of hatred she said she wants to fight.

And that is the thing called “Islamphobia.”

Personally I do not care for this word. It has always seemed to me to be — as my late friend Christopher Hitchens put it — a word “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

He must have seen Kamala coming.

Because on Wednesday Harris announced that the Biden–Harris administration were planning to leap into action and present a new “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.”

You might have thought that it is Jews who most need a strategy right now to counter Jew-hatred.

But no, despite the fact that the figures are in.

As FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a Senate hearing this week on hate crimes against Jews, “The reality is that the Jewish community is uniquely targeted by pretty much every terrorist organization across the spectrum. And when you look at a group that makes up 2.4%, roughly, of the American population, it should be jarring to everyone that that same population accounts for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes, and so they need our help.”

That’s quite a stat that: 2.4% of the population, but 60% of the victims of hate-crimes.

But Kamala doesn’t seem to know this figure, or doesn’t know what to do about it, and so on a video posted to X this week she said “For years, Muslims in America and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate fueled attacks. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents across America.”

Of course if there is any such thing as “Islamophobia” it has a very straightforward explanation.

“Islamophobia” is the expression of distaste many people feel about the murderous behavior of radical Muslims.

And while most Muslims in the West don’t engage in such acts, too many are willing to condone them, or fail to condemn them. A lot of people notice that, and don’t like it.

But this stupid moral inversion is all that this administration seems to be capable of.

VP Harris’s statement echoed White House Press Spokeperson KJP’s declaration that: “For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents.”

What people like KJP may not realize is that the false narrative they pump out gives cover to people who should have none.

For instance, Rashida Tlaib is very keen to denounce her critics as “deeply Islamophobic.”

Whereas most people who dislike her dislike her because she is a Palestinian extremist.

One who finds it morally complex to condemn the deliberate murder and abduction of Jewish children.

But even the President is at it.

In a speech on October 20th he said, “I know many of you in the Muslim American community or the Arab American community, the Palestinian American community, and so many others are outraged and hurting, saying to yourselves, ‘Here we go again,’ with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11.”

In fact, considering the scale of the 9/11 attacks it is a testament to the decency of the American people that there were so few attacks or criticisms of Muslims in the US.

Had the followers of any other religion committed that act I would expect any backlash to have been far worse.

But contrary to the false narrative there has been no spike in anti-Muslim hate.

And especially not since 7th October.

Yet liars are going to lie.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an organization which has been linked to numerous terrorist groups.

But it still claims to be the main Muslim spokesgroup in the US.

Which is a problem right there.

But its Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor recently said: “Many companies have previously pledged their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Yet, the disregard for the Palestinian and Muslim employees affected by this current conflict has indicated otherwise.”

And that, of course, is simply not true.

There has been no “disregard for Palestinian and Muslim employees” in the US. It is a fiction created by CAIR to turn themselves into the victims.

But here’s the thing.

Muslims aren’t the victims here.

The Jews of Israel were.

And the Jews of the US now are as part of that blowback.

So return to where I started.

Imagine you were a Jew.

And then imagine how it must feel to see your persecutors and tormentors — from Gaza to Brooklyn — being turned into the actual victims.

Sick, sick, sick. NY Post

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House passes Hamas sanctions bill, Iran resolution in by wide bipartisan margins The House voted for new sanctions on Hamas’ international backers and a policy of opposing Iran’s nuclear program ‘by any means necessary’ but rejected an effort to censure Rashida Tlaib

By Marc Rod,.November 2, 2023

The House of Representatives voted last night by wide bipartisan margins in favor of new sanctions on Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist groups, and a nonbinding resolution opposing Iran’s nuclear program. But it defeated, in a bipartisan vote, an effort to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

The Hamas International Financing Prevention Act, the sanctions bill, passed the House by a 363-46 vote. Most of the 45 no votes came from progressive Democrats; Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote no. The bill would place new sanctions on individuals, entities and foreign governments that provide support to Palestinian terror groups. JewishInsider

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A lawyer who represents terrorists to an IDF officer: "a st##y Jewess" According to the eyewitnesses at the military court in the Ofer camp, a verbal confrontation developed between the lawyer who represents the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the IDF officer who was present at the hearing • According to them, the lawyer shouted at the officer, spat and even attacked her in order to beat her and she was referred to the hospital • The police to N12: We opened an investigation on suspicion of assault • First publication Branu Tegene | N12 | Published 22:22 02.11.23

A serious incident: About 250 terrorists who were arrested in the Judea and Samaria sector on suspicion of belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, were brought today (Thursday) to discuss the extension of their detention at the military court in the Ofer camp. During the hearing, a verbal confrontation developed between the lawyer who represented some of the suspected terrorists and the IDF officer - during which she spat at her, cursed and even attacked her and scratched her.

According to eyewitnesses who were present at the hearing, the lawyer suddenly began hurling serious accusations at the IDF officer, who is responsible for arranging and conducting the court hearing. According to them, at one point she called the officer "a sti##ing Jewess." After that, she spat at her - and at one point even attacked her to beat and scratch her. The officer needed medical attention and was taken to the hospital. [130]

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StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites: When your Jew hate accidentally lands you a cover girl spot.

Meet Aya Baraket, left turtleneck. [131] Quote: StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites Oct 31. Upper West Side NYC - “f*ck you and f*ck Israel” … other woman “f*ck you b*tch … f*ck you and Israel” while both tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children taken by Hamas terrorists.. Nov 2, 2023 [132]

Adrien Langlois @AdrienL42: Not a shred of decency caught on camera... #AmYisraelChai. Nov 2, 2023. [133]

New York Post slams activists removing posters of Israeli hostages Front page shows two women ripping apart posters of Israelis being held in Gaza; 'Not a shred of decency,' cover reads Ynetnews | published:11.02.23 | 11:15 [134]. ..."Hamas vows to kill Jews 'again and again,'" the paper added on the cover, referring to an interview given by a senior Hamas official earlier this week, to a Lebanese outlet. "Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country. We are not ashamed to say that with full force. We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again," Ghazi Hamad said from his home in Beirut. Ynet

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A printing house in Kalandia distributed inflammatory posters, this is how the IDF responded

Yehuda Klein, 03.11.23 | 11:39 |

Tonight IDF forces sealed off a printing house in Qalandia that printed and distributed posters supporting and inciting terrorism, the sealing and closing of the building was done according to a special order signed by the commander of the Central Command.

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After reports of a printing press in Qalandia that prints and distributes incendiary material and supports terrorism, the commander of the Central Command signed an order to close it, and during a night operation by IDF forces tonight (Friday), the order was carried out, all the equipment was confiscated and it was sealed by forces from the Binyamin Regional Brigade.

After the store was sealed, a sign was hung comparing Hamas to ISIS and on it was written: "This store supports terrorism and is therefore closed."

During an activity in the Maskan neighborhood of Nablus in the Samaria Division, engineering forces worked to demolish the apartment of the terrorist Khaled Kharushah, who is affiliated with the terrorist organization Hamas and was a participant in the shooting attack in Hawara carried out by his father, in which the late Hillel and Yigal Yaniv where murdered.

In addition, the IDF and the Israel Defense Forces arrested three terrorists belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas in the area of ​​the city. During the activity, terrorists shot and threw explosives at our forces, who returned fire and neutralized the threat.

So far, since the beginning of the war, about 1,260 wanted persons have been arrested throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Valleys Division, about 760 associated with the terrorist organization Hamas. Srugim

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Al Mazen and El Haq - Haaretz sources for what is happening in the Gaza Strip

Based on reports from "aid organizations", Haaretz accuses the IDF of committing war crimes. Are these "aid organizations"?

Hanan Amior 08.11.23 |

Tell me who your sources are and I'll tell you who you are (Haaretz newspaper)

An article published in Ha'aretz accuses the IDF .... On this basis, the article calls for the "presence of inspectors and international organizations to document the damage" the IDF causes to the civilian population in the Strip.

It gets interesting when you check the sources of the accusations, referred to in the article as "aid organizations". Are these aid organizations?

Three organizations are cited in the article: Al-Mazen Organization, Al-Haq Organization and Gisha Organization.

The more minor claims, about difficulty in communicating with its operatives in Gaza, are claimed by the organization 'Gisha', which can indeed be called an "aid organization".

But the serious claims, quoted above, are claimed in the ears of the reporter, Jacky Khoury, Al Mazen activists and Al Haq.

But Khoury and 'Haaretz' are misleading the readers, because these organizations are not "aid organizations" as they are presented in the article.

The Al-Mazen organization [136] has already been exposed [137] as a Palestinian propaganda organization that spreads lies against Israel.

The Al Haq organization [138], which is related to the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and actually serves as its hidden arm [139], is itself defined as a terrorist organization [140] operating under the guise of an "aid organization".

And as if to prove this, activists of these organizations are quoted in the article as insisting on the Palestinian version of the Al Ahli hospital bombing: 'One of the most prominent examples is the controversy surrounding the attack on Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. In the Gaza Strip they reported 500 dead in the explosion ...'

"Backing up the numbers published by the authorities in the Gaza Strip"?

As everyone remembers, it quickly became clear that Israel was not responsible for the explosion at the hospital, but rather a failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad, and this is not only the Israeli version, which is supported by unequivocal evidence , but the version that [141] is also accepted by the international community . [142] In 'Haaretz', it turns out, this is still a "controversial" issue, which the "aid organizations" quoted in it, surprisingly, back up the Palestinian version of it, which has been proven to be false.

The same organizations that accuse the IDF of war crimes that were not committed. Presspectiva

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Why neo-Nazi groups are popping up at pro-Palestinian rallies. White supremacist groups see an opportunity to further mainstream antisemitic tropes — and create new opportunities for extremist violence. Nov. 9, 2023, 6:00 AM EST By Karen Dunn, co-lead counsel in Sines v. Kessler. Why are white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups popping up at pro-Palestinian rallies across America, including most recently in Washington, D.C.; Orlando, Florida; Boston; and Missoula, Montana? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not because they care particularly about the situation in Gaza. No, for these groups, the large-scale protests across America present a golden opportunity to mainstream the same antisemitic tropes they have been pushing for years and, if they get their way, create new opportunities for extremist violence... Msnbc

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London Holocaust library defaced in latest incident of pro-Palestinian graffiti on Jewish site. By Ben Sales, November 3, 2023 9:35 AM

([143] In the Bronx, London and Los Angeles, Jewish sites have been graffitied with pro-Palestinian messages. Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center picture via X; Wiener Holocaust Library via X; Canter's Deli via ADL California)

(JTA) — A Holocaust library and research center in London was defaced with graffiti reading “Gaza,” the latest in a string of Jewish institutions and sites areound the world that have been vandalized with pro-Palestinian slogans.

Staff at the Wiener Holocaust Library discovered the spray-painted graffiti on Thursday morning on a prominent sign affixed to a fence outside the building, which is the world’s oldest Holocaust library and research center. The center will be replacing its sign, director Toby Simpson told the Jewish News.

“To use ignorance as a weapon against an institution of learning is stupid and wrong. To lash out against Israel by targeting a Holocaust institution is an action that can only make sense to antisemites and their enablers,” Simpson said. “The proliferation of antisemitic hate in the current climate should be a matter of grave concern to us all.”

One day earlier, on Wednesday, a wall in a Jewish cemetery in Vienna was defaced with a swastika and the word “Hitler,” and someone set fire to the cemetery’s ceremonial hall, according to London’s Jewish Chronicle. Firefighters extinguished the flames. Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer said in response to the incident, “Antisemitism has no place in our society and will be fought against by any political and legal means necessary,” he said.

On Tuesday, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in New York City was graffitied with the words “Free Palestine” near the doorway. It is a Yiddish culture center in the Bronx that also rents space to Montefiore Medical Center, whose staff discovered the graffiti, according to the New York Post.

“Writing ‘Free Palestine’ or anything on a Jewish institution is an apparent attack against the Jewish community,” said Jeffrey Dinowitz, a New York State assemblymember representing the Bronx, in a statement. “Nonetheless, the act of vandalizing the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx with the words ‘Free Palestine’ is not solely an expression of anti-Zionism; it has antisemitic connotations.”

Pro-Palestinian graffiti was also reported this week at Canter’s Deli, a Los Angeles Jewish deli that opened in 1931. “How many dead in the name of greed[sic]?” and other slogans were painted underneath a mural showcasing Jewish life in Los Angeles in an incident that local police are investigating as a hate crime.

And last week, a wall outside of a high school in Pittsburgh’s Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill was graffitied with the words “Free Palestine from PGH to Gaza,” according to the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. The graffiti was found shortly before the fifth anniversary of the synagogue shooting in that neighborhood, the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Multiple pro-Israel signs in the neighborhood were also graffitied. The high school’s principal condemned the graffiti “hurtful and divisive.” JTA

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Reporters chat - Sapir Lipkin: Hezbollah announced another terrorist who was killed - the 58th since the beginning of the war. Nov 4, 2023 Mako - Reporters Chat

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Hamas tried to send fighters to Egypt in ambulances for wounded Gazans — US official. Israeli officials say inspectors uncovered oxygen concentrators for tunnels used by Palestinian terror groups inside truck carrying aid to Strip. By Jacob Magid, November 4, 2023.

Hamas tried to sneak its fighters out of the Gaza Strip in ambulances that evacuated dozens of wounded Palestinians to Egypt earlier this week, a senior Biden administration official said Friday. Hamas had compiled a list of the seriously wounded that it wanted to evacuate from Gaza for treatment in Egypt, along with thousands of foreign nationals looking to flee the enclave.

The list was then vetted by Egypt and the United States, which found that a third of the names on it were of Hamas fighters, the administration official said, adding that the list was rejected and none of the 76 wounded Palestinians who were ultimately evacuated in ambulances out of Gaza were members of the terror group. TOI _

Hamas put wounded fighters on departure lists, delaying efforts to evacuate foreigners, a U.S. official says.

People holding dual, U.S. or other foreign citizenship had been unable to cross the Gaza border into Egypt for weeks.

([144] Ambulances carrying wounded people from Gaza waited to cross the Rafah border into Egypt from southern Gaza on Wednesday).

By Michael D. Shear. Published Nov. 3, 2023 Updated Nov. 4, 2023, 4:18 a.m. ET

A Biden administration official said on Friday that efforts to get Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza, a process that began on Wednesday, had been held up by a Hamas attempt to get its own wounded fighters included among those to be escorted into Egypt through the Rafah gate.

The explanation offered the first window into the kinds of details that were being negotiated with the leadership of Hamas, even as Israel began a campaign of airstrikes in response to the slaughter of 1,400 people and the taking of more than 200 hostages by Hamas terrorists in attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 launched from Gaza. Hamas rules Gaza politically and also has an armed wing whose fighters are embedded within the enclave’s civilian population.

People holding dual, U.S. or other foreign citizenship repeatedly gathered at the gate, at Gaza’s southern border, starting shortly after Oct. 7. But for weeks, the Rafah crossing remained closed. For most of that time, American officials said only that Hamas was preventing the departure of foreign nationals, and that the group was making unreasonable demands.

On Friday, a senior administration official provided more detail about those demands, speaking with reporters on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations. The official said that Hamas had repeatedly provided to Israel, the United States and Egypt lists of Palestinians who were wounded and should be allowed to depart with the Americans and others. But vetting showed that many of them, the official said, were Hamas fighters.

The official said that about a third of the wounded Palestinians on the first list were Hamas fighters and that allowing them to exit Gaza was unacceptable to officials in Egypt, the United States and Israel. The delays continued for some time, the official said, because Hamas kept offering lists that turned out to include its members.

Biden administration officials have said that the negotiations with Hamas for the release of Americans and other foreign nationals was indirect, and undertaken with the help of representatives of the government of Qatar, which has long maintained lines of communications with Hamas.

The official who spoke to reporters on Friday said that Hamas had eventually relented in its demands for the passage of its fighters. The prospect of Hamas fighters leaving Gaza was especially troubling for Egypt, which remains concerned about the possibility of terrorists flowing into its country.

Eventually, the official said, the parties settled on a list of wounded Palestinians who were not Hamas fighters. Those Palestinians who did leave were legitimately caught in the middle of the fighting, the official said.

The official said that negotiations with Hamas and Israel over the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza had also been difficult, but that it was now expected that about 100 trucks with aid would be entering Gaza each day. NYTimes

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Blinken brushes off Arab leaders' calls for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict. "A ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on Oct. 7," the U.S. official maintained. "No nation, none of us would accept that ... So it is important to reaffirm Israel's right and its obligation to defend itself." ...London police authorize rule to prevent protesters from hiding faces amid anti-Israel rally... The Israeli embassy to the United States reported on Saturday that a nearby building was spray-painted with antisemitic and "violent" language, on the same weekend as a massive pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital.

The video posted by the Embassy of Israel to the USA showed graffiti reading "Free Gaza" and "F--k Israel" on the building's walls.

"In our backyard: 'Death to Israel' and 'Glory to our Martyrs,' among other violent antisemitic graffiti spotted in Washington DC," the account posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. "#WhereIsTheOutrage." ...An employee of the US Department of State accused President Biden of being 'complicit in genocide' over the Israel-Hamas conflict. Foreign affairs officer Sylvia Yacoub harshly criticized the president on social media for his lack of full-throated support for Palestine, according to Axios. November 4, 2023. Fox News

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Israel strikes Hezbollah posts, deepens IDF operation in Gaza 1,400 Israelis murdered since October 7, including 339 soldiers • 241 held hostage by Hamas, four hostages released, one rescued By Jerusalem Post Staff, Nov 4, 2023.

Israel's Givati Brigade uncovers Hamas intel in northern Gaza stronghold Operational maps, command and control tables and personal details of commanders who operate within the terrorist organization, were discovered.

Soldiers for the Givati brigade of the IDF took control over a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip, uncovering documentation that could be crucial for the IDF moving forward in the war, according to a Friday statement from the IDF spokesperson.

The facility was said to house Najaba terrorists and the Jabaliya-based Hamas intelligence headquarters.

Within the stronghold, soldiers uncovered Hamas intelligence headquarters and associated documentation, complete with detailed maps, tables, means of communication and personal details about Hamas terrorists and commanders.

Similar content was found on the bodies of both captured and dead terrorists following the October 7th attacks.

Command and control charts as well as operational orders for the terrorist organization were also uncovered. JPost

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Extensive attacks in the Gaza Strip - and the IDF spokesman's message to the residents: "Turn south." While the ground activity continues, in Gaza, powerful attacks are reported throughout the Strip and documents have been published - which reveal the destruction • Since the beginning of the war, the IDF has been urging the residents of the northern part of the Strip to evacuate, but the success is partial - "about 400,000 Gazans are still staying" there Sapir Lipkin | N12 | Published 04.11.23. Today (Saturday), the IDF is deepening its ground operations in Gaza and at the same time, attacking with intensity throughout the Strip. At the same time, Israel continues to push the residents of the northern Strip to evacuate to the south and allow a humanitarian corridor, while so far the success has been partial. The documents that reveal the destruction from the attacks....

During the morning, in Gaza, it was reported that the Air Force attacked central centers in the Gaza Strip - that Hamas is cynically exploiting them for terrorist purposes, including in the area of ​​Shifa' Hospital and Alupaa' Hospital.

The IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avihai Adrei, once again urged the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south: "The IDF will allow free movement on the Salah al-Din route between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. For your safety, use the time to move to Wadi Gaza. Be sure that the leaders of Hamas are already taking care of protecting themselves," he wrote.

The IDF has defined humanitarian corridors, two longitudinal roads of the Strip - the Salah al-Din axis on one side and the sea road - on the other side, as safe for the movement of residents to the south. And along the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in places of shelter of the UN relief agency, UNRWA, in schools or in tents.

Despite the great efforts that Israel has been making since the beginning of the war to move the residents of Gaza and the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to the south - the success at the moment is still partial. David Satterfield, the special envoy for humanitarian affairs in the Middle East, said that between 400,000 and 350,000 Gazans are still staying in the northern part of the Strip, while at least 800,000 have already evacuated to the south.

Hamas implores the residents of the Gaza Strip to refrain from cooperating with Israel's calls and not to move south, to the extent that some say there that it is "bringing Nakba upon us." The operatives of the terrorist organization have already forcibly prevented some of them from leaving and have even placed roadblocks on the way. Thus some of them stayed there against their will or are afraid to leave - despite the IDF's repeated warnings. Mako

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Documentation: This is how Hamas attacked forces that opened a humanitarian axis in Gaza. "I think they shot at me" - Hamas fired at IDF forces that were acting to open the humanitarian axis • The IDF published the documentation and condemned: "They took advantage of the humanitarian window of opportunity that the IDF gave to the residents of Gaza" • There were no IDF casualties in the incident, IDF To publish the contact networks. Nir Dvori | N12| Published 17:34 04.11.23

The cruelty of Hamas towards the residents of Gaza - and the shooting towards the IDF forces: While the IDF was opening a humanitarian axis for the movement of the residents of Gaza to the south, Hamas terrorists attacked the forces involved in opening it. In the documentation published this evening (Saturday) by the IDF spokesman, the action of Hamas members against the humanitarian axis is visible.

On the contact network published by the IDF, the exchange can be heard: "From our point of view, a population transition has begun here. For little one, I think I'll be shot, little one. RPG shooting". In this incident there were no casualties from among the security forces...

"The terrorist organization Hamas took advantage of the humanitarian window of opportunity that the IDF gave to the residents of Gaza," said an IDF spokesperson. "The organization's terrorists attacked with mortar fire and anti-tank missiles the IDF forces that arrived at the axis and were engaged in opening it, this in order to prevent its opening to the movement of the residents of the Gaza Strip." Mako

This is how Hamas-ISIS attacked forces that opened a humanitarian axis in Gaza.Documentation. While our forces opened a humanitarian axis that allows the residents of the Gaza Strip to pass through it, the Nazi terrorist organization Hamas-ISIS took advantage of this and attacked with mortar fire and anti-tank missiles the forces that arrived at the axis and engaged in opening it |20 Cheshvan 5784. (04/11/23) | 18:20

The IDF opens a humanitarian axis for the movement of Gaza residents to the south | Photo: IDF spokesperson this needs to be shown to the world : the idf spokesman announced today (saturday) that while the idf opened a humanitarian axis for the movement of gaza residents to the south, the terrorists of the nazi terrorist organization hamas-isis attacked the forces involved in opening it.

The idf spokesman in Arabic informed earlier today that between the hours of 13:00 and 16:00 the "saleh al-din" axis in the gaza strip will be used for humanitarian transit for residents of the northern part of the gaza strip who have not yet moved south in order to maintain their safety. [145].

The terrorist organization hamas took advantage of the humanitarian window of opportunity that the idf gave to the residents of gaza and the organization's terrorists attacked with mortar fire and anti-tank missiles the idf forces that arrived at the axis and were engaged in opening it, in order to prevent it from being opened to the movement of the residents of the gaza strip. there were no casualties to our forces in this incident. Now14

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After the rocket barrage: a direct hit to a residence in Sderot | Documentation. News 0404 04/11/2023 0404

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Israeli drone strikes Gaza home of Hamas chief in exile A drone struck Ismael Haniyeh's home in Gaza City. November 4, 2023 / JNS

...Earlier in the war, Palestinian media reported that an IAF strike in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed 14 relatives of Haniyeh. The terror leader’s brother and nephew were killed in the alleged strike, reports said. In an Oct. 26 address, Haniyeh called for "the blood of the [Palestinian] women, children and elderly. … We are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens with us resolve." JNS

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Hamas exploits ambulances for terror:' Israeli envoy slams UN chief

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman Published: November 4, 2023 19:33Updated: November 4, 2023 21:50

...The IDF said Friday evening that an aircraft struck the ambulance, killing several Hamas terrorists inside. The IDF noted that it had information that Hamas used ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons. It said it would look into the Hamas Health Ministry’s claim.

Hamas uses ambulance in battle Erdan wrote on X that “once again, you rush to condemn Israel without even bothering to ask what happened. You blatantly lie regarding the lack of aid entering Gaza, and you completely ignore the fact that Hamas intentionally exploits ambulances for terror.

“You didn’t ask for the truth bc [because] you don’t care about the truth,” the ambassador continued. “Instead, you prefer to falsely condemn Israel while making our hostages a literal footnote. It’s absolutely disgraceful. Where was your ‘horror’ when Hamas deliberately targeted Israeli ambulances with RPGs and executed paramedics in cold blood?” JPost

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Israel: UN's Guterres spreads Hamas lies to the point of complicity in terror

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Israel slams Turkey for recalling envoy, ‘siding with Hamas.’ "Hamas commits war crimes and crimes against humanity and is the real enemy of the Palestinian people," said an Israeli official. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo by Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock.Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo by Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock.

(November 4, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Apology for terrorism and incitement to hatred: the imam of Beaucaire is sentenced to eight months in prison. François Barrère. Nov 2, 2023. Yassin El Himar, 32, pleaded at the hearing that he was clumsy to explain his publication on Facebook of a religious text in which the phrase "O Muslim, come and kill this Jew who is hiding behind me" appeared. Midilibre

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Palestine protest: Hate on London's streets as swastika on banner and families abused. British Transport Police are cracking down on pro-Palestine protesters after a massive sit-in demonstration sparked chaos at Charing Cross station in Central London. By Ciaran Mcgrath, Senior News Reporter, Christopher Sharp, News Reporter, Oli Smith, News Reporter 22:39, Sat, Nov 4, 2023 | Updated: 22:40, Sat, Nov 4, 2023. The latest wave of pro-Palestine protests saw families abused in McDonald's and a Swastika painted on a sign as thousands flooded London's streets. Train services were brought to a halt at Charing Cross station during a sit-in, with police filmed tackling people to the ground earlier in the day. So far, the Met Police say they have made 11 arrests as crowds made their way through Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. A huge sit-in protest at Charing Cross station has sparked chaos during this afternoon's pro-Palestine rally. Express

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French Jewish woman stabbed, swastika found on her door. By Gabe Friedman November 5, 2023 9:23 PM

(JTA) — French police are searching for a man who stabbed a young Jewish woman in her home in Lyon on Saturday.

A swastika was found scrawled on her door, and police said they are investigating whether the symbol was connected to the assault. The woman, who was stabbed twice in her stomach after opening her door to the attacker, is recovering in a hospital and is not in life-threatening condition. JTA

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Bill Maher pummels leftwing antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war: 'You’re the ones with the tiki torches now!'

The HBO host rejects the 'proportionality' argument against Israel's response in Gaza By Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News Published November 4, 2023 7:26am EDT ... "I mean, the young people who hated Trump because he wouldn't condemn the people with the tiki torches talking about Jews- you're the ones with the tiki torches now!" he exclaimed.

Maher was alluding to the 2017 Charlottesville protest where white nationalists and neo-Nazis holding tiki torches chanted "Jews will not replace us."... ..."They don't want to learn anything… They want to have a cause," Maher said. "It's not about Israel, it's about this cause, the Palestinians. Like I said, there's many people around the world who could have similar causes… This is the one that they latch on to. They don't learn anything about the history of the region or who's right and who's wrong and where they'd be more comfortable."

"Can you imagine how these people would feel if they had to move to Gaza, how disruptive their life would be?" he added. Fox News

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Who’s Funding the Pro-Hamas Rallies? Taxpayers. We are literally funding the Muslim Brotherhood. November 5, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield.

In the last 15 years, Islamic political interests have dug deep into New York City politics. What does that mean? Beyond the obvious, political power, money. That’s what the currency of power comes down to anyway. And that means government contracts going to so-called community groups. More Muslims living in NYC meant more money was going into Islamist organizations. And much like funding Hamas, that adds up to pro-Hamas rallies [146].

Big Apple taxpayers have shelled out nearly $9 million since 2010 — including $3.3 million the past two years — to four nonprofits that helped spearhead anti-Israel protests where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas’ terrorist attacks on the Jewish State.

…The biggest winner: The Arab American Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based group that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where protestors called for the eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read "Please keep the world clean!"

It’s received $6.8 million in Council pork and city contracts – including $3 million-plus the past two years – for criminal justice services, adult literacy programs, mental health aid through ex-First Lady Chirlane McCray’s failed ThriveNYC initiative and other services, records show.

That would be Linda Sarsour’s group [147] [148].

The Muslim American Society of New York, another southern Brooklyn-based group that co-sponsored the Bay Ridge rally. It’s received more than $260,000 in city contracts and Council funding.

So taxpayers are literally funding the Muslim Brotherhood. [149] [150].

MAS, like the Muslim Brotherhood, wishes to see the United States governed by sharia, or Islamic law. “The message that all countries should be ruled by Islamic law,” writes Gartenstein-Ross, “is echoed throughout MAS’s membership curriculum. For example, MAS requires all its adjunct members to read Fathi Yakun’s book To Be a Muslim. In that volume, Yakun spells out his expansive agenda: ‘Until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful.’”

Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and taxpayer money is being directed to Brotherhood organizations. Who’s funding the pro-Hamas rallies? We are.

Ya’ll are probably getting tired of hearing me say this but, it’s just another example as to why conservatives shouldn’t live in big BLUE cities in big BLUE states because YOU (not me) ARE funding this nonsense.

Admittedly, it was easier for my wife and I to migrate to a very RED section of a RED southern state after the military because we were moving all the time while I was in, never staying anywhere longer than two years. And though my wife wasn’t too keen on the idea at first, she’s been thankful for my decision for many years. No, we don’t have the amenities and niceties of a large city (cable just made it to our neck of the woods two years ago and we still don’t have it), but at what price amenities? Pro-Hamas rally funding? I don’t think so.

What we DO have is low crime, low taxes, constitutional carry, a conservative state House and Senate, beautiful scenery and deer that I can almost feed from my hand coming into the backyard. It’s a very good life.

I understand trying to make a difference in this cities and I wish you all the luck in the world…but in the meantime, your city and state tax dollars are funding hate and whatever else the left can dream up. Consider a change of address kit. You’ll thank me later. FPM.

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At Anti-Israel March in D.C., Explicit Expressions of Support for Terror and Antisemitism.

[151] Published: 11.04.2023 Anti-Israel Activity Antisemitism in the US From: Center on Extremism Hundreds of organizations from across the country marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 4, 2023. The official published demands of the protest included ceasefire to the Hamas-Israel war, an end of the “siege of Gaza” and the termination of all U.S. aid to Israel. Yet attendees, who numbered in the tens of thousands, went much further and leaned into rhetoric supporting the October 7 Hamas massacre and other acts of terror targeting Israel, calls for the end of Israel, comparisons between Israel’s military actions and the Holocaust and language amplifying antisemitic themes. ... ADL

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Noa Tishby slams Rashida Tlaib for 'from the river to the sea' claim By Sam Halpern Published: November 4, 2023 08:28 Updated: November 4, 2023 14:57 ... Noa Tishby posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday slamming prominent anti-Israel Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for her claim that the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call for freedom and peaceful coexistence.

Tishby is Israel’s former Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel and author of Israel, A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth.

“From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity,” the Michigan congresswoman wrote on X.

Tishby quickly responded, denouncing the chant as a call for ethnic cleansing.

“Let me set the record straight, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, means from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, will be free from Israel, where 9 million Jews, Muslims, and Christians live. From the river to the sea is a chant that has been championed by fundamentalist Islamist terrorists for years, and it calls for ethnically cleansing the Jews from their ancestral land."

Tishby’s voice was joined by others who took to the social media platform to criticize Tlaib’s statement.

Are there malicious origins of the "From the river to the sea" chant? Pro-Israel peace activist and Vice President of the Global Imams Council, Mohammad Tawhidi, otherwise known as the Imam of Peace, claimed the origins of the chant prove that it is a call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews and other non-Arabs.

“Rashida is a liar,” Tawhidi wrote. “Why? Because the chant ‘From the river to the sea’ is a translation of the original Arabic chant “from the water to the water, Palestine will remain Arab.” This is a genocidal call to ethnically cleanse the land from all non-Arabs, i.e. the Jews.”

Tishby, went a step further, accusing Tlaib of advocating on behalf of genocidal terrorists.

“On October 7, Hamas showed us exactly how they plan to free Palestine,” Tishby continued. “And you Congresswoman, are advocating on behalf of a genocidal terrorist organization. Shame on you, Congresswoman Tlaib. JPost

Israeli actress Noa Tishby 'sets the record straight' for US Rep. Rashida Tlaib

By Arya Vaishnavi, Nov 04, 2023 05:40 PM IST

Israeli actress and producer Noa Tishby slammed US Representative Rashida Tlaib in a video shared on X, formerly Twitter

Israeli actress and producer Noa Tishby shared a video criticising US Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Saturday, November 4. The 48-year-old actress slammed the Michigan congresswoman, who is known for her anti-Israel stance, in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter after she tweeted, “From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.”

Tishby, who was enraged by Tlaib's statement wrote, “Hamas sympathizers have infiltrated the halls of Congress. Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib just tweeted this, ‘From the river to the sea,’ she says, ‘is an aspirational call for freedom.’” The Israeli star continued, “Let me set the record straight, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, means from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, will be free from Israel, where nine million Jews, Muslims, and Christians live. From the river to the sea is a chant that has been championed by fundamentalist Islamist terrorists for years, and it calls for ethnically cleansing the Jews from their ancestral land.”

She further added, “On October 7th, Hamas showed us exactly how they plan to free Palestine. And you Congresswoman, are advocating on behalf of a genocidal terrorist organization. Shame on you @RepRashida” In light of this incident, Pro-Israel peace activist and Vice President of the Global Imams Council, Mohammad Tawhidi explained the origins of the statement in question, as per The Jerusalem Post. Taking to social media, Tawhidi wrote on X, “Rashida is a liar. Why? Because the chant ‘From the river to the sea’ is a translation of the original Arabic chant ‘from the water to the water, Palestine will remain Arab.’ This is a genocidal call to ethnically cleanse the land from all non-Arabs i.e. the Jews.” Hindustan

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Colombia: Dressed up as Hamas terrorists riding in a van at the Halloween celebrations ... "People got into the van to take pictures And they made one big 'fun' out of it" N12| Published 04.11.23. [152] ...For anyone who came near them they made a scene where they seemed to shoot him... Mako

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The 30th day of the war: at least one wounded by anti-tank fire on a vehicle near the Lebanese border Netanyahu: "Sinwar doesn't care about his people and is behaving like a little Hitler in a bunker" • The IDF spokesman revealed: Hamas launched rockets only 75 meters away from a hospital in Gaza • The IDF located dozens of guns, explosive drones and ammunition in the Gaza Strip • Iron Dome intercepted a Tab in the territory of Lebanon • Publication was allowed: the Nahal patrol fighter, Yonatan Maimon, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip • Regular updates News reporters 12 | N12 | Published 00:42 05.11.23 | Updated 18:12 05.11.23 Ongoing updates.

18:40 - The IDF attacks extensively in the northern Gaza Strip and around Gaza City.

18:35 - Reports in Gaza: The internet has been cut off in the entire strip. The Palestinian communication company Paltel claimed that all communication and internet services in the Gaza Strip were completely stopped, following the disconnection of the main lines that were previously connected by the Israeli side.

18:12 - Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Sinwar doesn't care about his people and he behaves like a little Hitler in a bunker. His people are as interesting to him as the peel of garlic."

18:01 - The instructions of the Home Front Command have been updated: a restriction on holding studies in the Sharon settlements has been removed - and now there is no dependence on a protected area.

17:45 - The IDF eliminated 3 terrorists using a UAV in Lebanese territory near Kibbutz Yiftah, after they were identified as those who were preparing to shoot at Israel.

17:42 - The body of the late Ruth Peretz, a girl with special needs who was murdered in a massacre at a party in Re'im , has been identified .

Eric Peretz and his daughter Ruth who were murdered at a party in Ra'i Eric Peretz and his daughter Ruth who were murdered at a party in Ra'i

5:28 p.m. - A vehicle was hit by gunfire in the surrounding settlements - no casualties.

17:20 - Alarms in the envelope.

17:06 - IDF spokesman: IDF forces located dozens of guns, explosive drones and ammunition in the Gaza Strip, along with a laboratory for the production of explosives and destroyed it. In the activity, Kalashnikov and submachine guns, cartridges, grenades, explosives, protective equipment, armed drones and RPG missiles were found. Some of the means of warfare were destroyed and some were brought to Israel for research purposes.

17:05 - Leader of the opposition Yair Lapid at the headquarters of the families of the abductees: "I was with the prime minister last week. I told him that the opposition will back every step, every deal, no matter how far-reaching it may be. The main thing is that the abductees return. We will not say that we would have managed it better. We will not say that the price is too expensive."

16:58 - Red color in the envelope.

16:53 - The Iranian leader's office confirms that Khamenei met in Tehran with senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh. The photo published by the Iranian leader's office is not new, but from the month of June.

16:51 - Alarms in Be'er Sheva and in Hatzerim.

16:42 - It was allowed to be published that the death of R' Naran Chaim Ashchar, who was mortally wounded last week in the tank accident in which Yanon Fleishman was killed, has been determined.

16:34 - Following the words of MK Iman Khatib-Yasin, the Ra'am leadership informed her that she had no place on her list for the Knesset and demanded that she resign immediately .

16:21 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Ramon Air Force Base: "There will be no ceasefire without the return of our hostages, we say this to both our enemies and our friends. We will continue until we defeat them."

16:10 - The IDF spokesperson revealed to the media that the IDF is working to evacuate the civilian population while avoiding harm to the uninvolved through announcements, phone calls, SMS messages and recorded messages. The IDF spokesman also presented a document of the cynical use of Hamas terrorists in the hospitals in Gaza, in which an underground infrastructure is visible in the Sheikh Ahmed Hospital that connects to the underground infrastructure of Hamas. In another document, the IDF spokesman presented how Hamas built a terrorist infrastructure in the Indonesian hospital In the Gaza Strip - from 2010 until 2023.

([153] This is how Hamas uses hospitals in Gaza for military purposes - photo: IDF spokesman)

16:03 - IDF spokesman: "Hamas launched rockets only 75 meters away from a hospital in Gaza."

16:00 - Red color in Sderot, Ivys, Nir Am.

15:50 - IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, presented evidence of Hamas' use of medical facilities for terrorist purposes. "We are at war with Hamas, not with the civilian population in Gaza," he said. "We told the Gazan citizens to move away from the fighting areas to a safe area. Hamas is blocking the crossings and stopping the Gazans from moving south."

15:44 - MK Iman Khatib-Yasin (RA'AM) caused a stir after she denied the atrocities of the October 7 massacre. "Babies were not slaughtered, ..," she said in an interview on the Knesset channel. "If it was, it's shameful, but you can't ignore what happened before and what happened after." When asked if she had watched the film that was screened for MKs, she replied: "I can't watch, I heard firsthand." [...] 13:15 - Hundreds demonstrated for the release of the kidnapped in London.

13:10 - Iran's Defense Minister: We advised the Americans to immediately stop supporting Israel and the war, and they will not suffer heavy losses.

12:56 - Alarm in Netivot, MDA informed that no calls were received about falls or casualties.

12:45 - The tensions on the northern border: Iron Dome intercepted a UAV that approached Israel from Lebanese territory. The IDF said that the suspected aircraft did not enter Israel's airspace and was intercepted deep in Lebanon by the air defense fighters. Earlier, alarms were triggered in the Upper Galilee - an anti-tank missile was fired at an IDF force in the Avivim area, no casualties. In the area of ​​Rosh Hankara - the IDF attacked a terrorist squad that tried to shoot at Israel. Hezbollah: 60 operatives were killed.

12:30 - Rocket launchers in playgrounds and near children's pools: IDF forces continue to expose the exploitation of the population in the Gaza Strip for the terrorist needs of the Hamas organization. During the fighting and ground maneuvers, the forces uncovered rocket launchers near a children's pool and rocket launcher pits in an old playground inside Gaza. The IDF said: "This is further proof of the Hamas terrorist organization's incessant use of the civilian population as a human shield."

([154] IDF forces uncovered rocket launchers in playgrounds and near children's pools | Photo: IDF spokesperson)

12:13 - Publication was allowed: The Nahal patrol fighter, Yonatan Maimon, fell in the Gaza Strip. [...] 02:00 - Documentation from the Shifa Hospital: Crowds of Gazans gathered and watched the footage of Hamas terrorists attacking IDF vehicles - while shouting joy. Contrary to claims, electricity flows in every corner and the videos are projected on the screen.

01:58 - Anti-tank fire was fired at IDF soldiers in the south of the Gaza Strip - the force returned fire. [...] 01:00 - Against the background of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations - the London police announced that they arrested 29 people today on suspicion of committing hate crimes, including anti-Semitic acts and an offense under the terrorism clauses.

00:20 - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will meet today with Abu Mazen in Ramallah. This, after the latter did not participate in the meeting of foreign ministers of Arab countries that took place in Amman. Blinken's arrival in Ramallah is unusual - and signals a loss of patience on the part of the Americans with the conduct of the Palestinian Authority.

00:19 - Although Hamas attacked the IDF forces that opened a humanitarian axis today - the IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avihai Adrei, announced that tomorrow the residents of Gaza will be allowed to move freely along the Salah al-Din axis between the hours of 14:00 and 10:00: 00 - and urged the residents of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south. Mako

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Hamas using Qatar-funded hospital for terrorism, IDF says. The Israeli military also presented evidence of terrorist activities at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. The Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital in Gaza. Source: X/Qatar Fund for Development.The Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital in Gaza. Source: X/Qatar Fund for Development. ... in a briefing for international media showed visual proof of a terrorist tunnel entrance that was exposed by Israeli soldiers at Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital, located along the coast north of Gaza City. Hagari also presented a video of Hamas terrorists firing at Israeli soldiers from inside the hospital, which was established in 2016 by its namesake, the former emir of Qatar. The facility specializes in physical rehabilitation and providing prosthetic limbs.

Hagari also showed evidence that the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, which was funded by NGOs from Indonesia and was also inaugurated in 2016, was built on top of Hamas terror infrastructure. There were underground terrorist facilities there before the hospital was constructed, he demonstrated.

The IDF spokesman showed a rocket launch pad located some 245 feet (75 meters) from the hospital.

“Hamas launches rockets on Israel 75 meters from a hospital,” he said.

The evidence from the Qatari and Indonesian hospitals builds upon the case presented earlier about Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, that Hamas uses these medical centers for terrorism and their patients and staff as human shields.

Hamas’s headquarters is located under the massive Shifa complex in Gaza City, the IDF said.

"Hamas is hiding behind hospitals, sickly behind hospitals to hide its war machine,” Hagari said. “We will not accept Hamas’s cynical use of hospitals to hide their terror infrastructure. It must come to an end. It is a war crime."... JNS

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IDF reopens Gaza humanitarian corridor despite Hamas attacks. Over 2,500 targets have been hit since the start of ground operations in the Strip, according to the IDF. Joshua Marks, November 5, 2023 / JNS JNS

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IDF shows Hamas rockets next to children’s pool, playground. “This is further proof of the terror organization’s constant use of the civilian population as a human shield for terror purposes." [155]. November 5, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Israeli killed in Hezbollah missile attack from Lebanon. The IDF returned fire against the source of the attack in Lebanon, according to Hebrew media. November 5, 2023 / JNS JNS

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The Chanukah miracle of the last drops of Gaza fuel lasting three weeks.

The World Health Organization warned that Gaza hospitals are at a breaking point.

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That was October 12.

UNICEF warned that incubators were hours away from being shut down due to lack of fuel in Gaza:

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That was October 22.

Now, let's look at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City last night, where Hamas held a rally, complete with huge video screen:

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Notice all the lights, inside and outside the hospital.

Looks like they had plenty of fuel there, three weeks after supplies were supposed to run dry. It's a miracle!

UNICEF and WHO are useful idiots, willing to believe the lies that are told by Hamas and their partners. 

And notice that none of the attendees seem at all concerned to go out in the open, publicly, when they accuse Israel of "genocide." If they really thought that Israel was hellbent on murdering all Gazans, why would they go out in the open?

They are all voluntary human shields for Hamas, whose headquarters is directly underneath them. 

Notice also that all the attendees are young men of military age.  EoZ

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The 31st day of the war - 450 targets were attacked, the IDF took over a Hamas outpost. [...] In the Gaza Strip it was reported that there is a gradual return of the communication services that were cut off in the IDF attack last night • A stabbing attack in Jerusalem: an MGB fighter was mortally wounded, another fighter was slightly injured • After the inciting post she published, Ahed Tamimi was arrested • Report: Biden administration to Iran Hezbollah - "We will intervene militarily if you launch an attack on Israel" • Regular updates News reporters 12 |N12| Published 00:25 06.11.23 | Updated 12:53 06.11.23 Israel at war - coverage N12

12:53 PM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Dankov, who is currently visiting Israel. Netanyahu thanked the Prime Minister of Bulgaria for his support for Israel, and clarified that "we are fighting the most brutal enemy we have seen since the Holocaust." Dankov said at the meeting that "Hamas and its entire military and administrative infrastructure must be eradicated - because it cannot continue like this."

12:18 - Shurat Hadin organization turned to Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the world, and demanded that he help the Israeli evacuees. Because they are Jews." In a letter signed by attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Commissioner Grandi was told that on the seventh of October the State of Israel was attacked by the terrorist organization Hamas in an act of massacre of children, women and innocents, and the firing of rockets at population concentrations.

11:45 - In the anti-terrorism operation in Judea-Samaria, 38 wanted persons were arrested and three printing houses used by Hamas to print incendiary materials were sealed. In addition, during searches for weapons, an improvised weapon, an air rifle and military equipment were found. During anti-terrorism activities in Halhoul, Beit Anan, and Jabel a-Smali (Mount Ebal), there were disturbances and stones were thrown at the forces. The fighters responded by shooting and identified casualties. Since the beginning of the war, more than 1,350 wanted persons have been arrested in Judea-Samaria, more than 850 of them are associated with Hamas. [...] 11:07 - Red color in Cedar, Yad Mordechai and Netiv Hatara in the West of the Negev.

11:02 - The nuclear submarine "Florida" that arrived in the Middle East last night is now in the Red Sea after crossing the Suez Canal. On board 154 Tomahawk missiles.

10:12 - IDF Spokesman in Arabic Lt. Col. Avihai Adrei appeals to the residents of the Gaza Strip again and urges them to evacuate to the south: "The IDF will once again allow traffic on the Salah al-Din route between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. For your own safety, take the opportunity to move south across the Wadi Gaza [..] 09:46 - On the one month anniversary of October 7 and the start of the war, tomorrow the education system will commemorate the brutal attack. The secondary schools (grades 7-12) will hold talks and activities tomorrow to mark the day, according to the different ages and the different sectors. Due to their young age, in the kindergartens and elementary schools, the educational and social activities will continue as usual.

"The education system marks the date and unites with the memory of the fallen and murdered, and prays for the safety of the abducted and missing," the Ministry of Education said in a statement. "The education system will convey a message of growth, hope and faith in the ability of Israeli society to pick up the pieces, to rise from the disaster, to grow renewed strength, to rehabilitate and rehabilitate." [...] 08:20 - Stabbing attack at the Flower Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem: A terrorist stabbed security forces near the Shalem police station in the east of the city. A female fighter was fatally wounded and another fighter was slightly injured. Police forces neutralized the terrorist. MDA medics and paramedics gave them medical treatment and evacuated them to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in the city. This is the second attack in Jerusalem since the beginning of the war. The terrorist who carried out the attack is a 16-year-old boy from Issawiya in the east of the city. He was killed at the scene, a suspect was arrested and checked to see if he helped him. The area of ​​the attack and Sultan Suleiman Street were blocked to traffic until the end of treatment at the scene.

08:01 - The IDF forces took over a Hamas outpost, attacked 450 aerial targets and killed Hamas commanders. In the outpost that the forces took over, Hamas had observation posts, training facilities, and terrorist tunnels. In this operation, a number of terrorists were eliminated. In addition, during the last day, fighter jets of the Air Force About 450 Hamas targets were attacked, including military compounds, observation posts, anti-aircraft positions and more.

In addition, the naval forces attacked headquarters, anti-tank launching positions and other observation posts. As part of the operation, IDF warplanes, under the intelligence guidance of the Amman and the Shin Bet, eliminated additional Hamas commanders, including Jamal Musa, The person responsible for the special security in the terrorist organization. In 1993, Jamal Musa carried out a shooting attack against IDF forces who were on patrol in the Gaza Strip. Also, commanders at the field level in the battalions in which the forces were fighting were eliminated.

07:57 - In a joint activity of the police, the IDF, the Ministry of Health, the Pathology Institute for Forensic Medicine and volunteer organizations at the concentration camp of the dead in the Shura camp, the effort to identify the victims of the October 7 murder continues. To date, 834 murdered civilians have been identified, whose bodies have been brought to the camp for identification. For burial 736 of the deceased...

07:33 - Red color in Kfar Gaza, Nahal Oz and Netiv Hatara.

07:31 - Due to an alert for a security incident, residents staying in the settlements of Yiftah, Menara, Mein Baruch, Mashgav Am, Yaraon, Baram, Kfar Giladi, Dafna, Malkiah, Dan, Gosher, Shenir, Sasa and Tzabon on the northern border are asked to enter the protected areas until further notice .

([159] Ahed Tamimi during her arrest - and the inciting post)

07:30 - Ahed Tamimi was arrested in the village of Nabi Saleh, after she published an inciting post on social media in which she wrote: "Our message .. [we] are waiting for you in all the cities of the West Bank, from Hebron to Jenin, we will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke, we will drink your blood And we will eat your skulls, come on, we are waiting for you N12

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Terrorist kills Israeli American police officer in Jerusalem. Another officer was moderately wounded The terrorist was killed at the scene. November 6, 2023. Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai arrived at the scene and was holding an assessment with Jerusalem District commander Doron Turgeman and other officers.

Fifty-nine police officers have been killed since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel.

The scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, Nov. 6, 2023. Credit: MDA. Last week, an Israeli policeman was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack near the Shivtei Yisrael light rail stop in Jerusalem.

On Oct. 12, two police officers were injured in a terrorist shooting just outside Jerusalem’s Old City.

On Sunday night, Israeli police arrested 23 terror suspects in Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood and the town of Anata northeast of the capital.

Alleged offenses included involvement in violent disturbances in recent weeks, including throwing stones and firebombs. Others were arrested on suspicion of publishing incitement to violence and terrorism and supporting Hamas.

One suspect was arrested for funding the riots that took place in the weeks after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, during which Palestinian death squads rampaged through western Negev communities, murdering 1,400 people, wounding thousands more and taking over 240 hostages back to Gaza. JNS

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THE SCROLL: Israeli comedy show roasts 'racist fluid' Columbia students The Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet posted a skit Sunday parodying LGBTQH (H is for Hamas) students at Columbia University. Campus Reform November 6, 2023, 9:26 am ET

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The Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet posted a skit Sunday parodying LGBTQH (H is for Hamas) students at Columbia University.

”Stupid?” the male student says. “I major in queer post colonial astrology.”

”And no I’m not antisemitic, I’m racist fluid,” he states.

The female student interviews Mr. Fatwa, a Hamas terrorist hiding in a tunnel beneath a Gaza hospital. She responds with “community is so important” after the terrorist states that he has 2 million civilians “protecting” him.

”I have everything. I am only hungry for rockets,” the terrorist states.

”As long as it’s organic,” the male student replies.

The interview concludes with the male student being excited to attend a rooftop party in Gaza, from where the terrorist and his colleagues will the “homosexual dirt” to his death. CampusReform

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One more time: "Eretz Nehderet", ("Wonderful Country") fights back in English in a special edition.

After the BBC, now it's the turn of the members of the campuses at the leading universities in the USA to hijack. "Wonderful Land" aired a skit in English last night (Sunday) mocking the hypocrisy, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity that young students at the leading institutions in the strategic ally are discovering. Similar to last time , this time too the skit became viral overnight, when Yonit Levy also chose to share it on social networks. Gil Mishali | tvbee| Published 10:02 06.11.23 | Updated 19:08 06.11.23

("Columbia Untisemity": Israel's No. 1 Satire program mocks the support for Hamas on college campuses @mulisegev @Eretz_Nehederet. Nov 5, 2023. [161])

"We will finish Israel, America next in line": alongside the military fighting, in recent weeks Israel is in the midst of an equally complex campaign on world public opinion. One of the main focal points in the propaganda and consciousness war is the universities in the United States, where many students hold pro-Palestinian demonstrations and work against Israel and Jews.

Last night (Sunday) in the special edition of Eretz Nehderet ("Wonderful Land"), they addressed the support of the young students abroad for Hamas and the Palestinians, when they presented two "students", played by Liat Har Lev and Tamir Bar, at the "anti-Semitic Columbia" University in a skit in English, which has already gone viral on the Internet. In the skit, the two condemn Israel and present it as a liar. The two made a big deal and hosted Abu Fatwa, a Hamas terrorist in Gaza, and showed empathy towards him even though he was not ashamed to say that after Israel, America is next in line.

At the "anti-Semitic" University in a skit in English, which has already gone viral on the Internet. In the skit, the two condemn Israel and present it as a "liar". The two made a big deal and hosted Abu Fatwa, a Hamas terrorist in Gaza, and showed empathy towards him even though he was not ashamed to say that after Israel, America is next in line.

"Hello everyone, we are live on YouTube with the Anti-Semitic Colombia News. Everyone is welcome here, LGBTQH, with H of course representing Hamas," said the student played by Liat Har Lev. "I really admire Hamas, it's so trendy," added the boyfriend next to her, played by Barr.

The two enthusiastically chanted "freedom for Palestine", claimed that Israeli propaganda was poisonous and doubted the fact that there were indeed Israeli hostages in Gaza. "Do they think we're stupid? I'm doing a degree in queer post-colonial astrology. Jews are polluting the world, and no I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm a fluid racist," the student claimed while throwing the abductee notice on the floor.

Along with the hatred for Israel, the skit highlighted the compassion, so-called progressive, of these students in Hamas - and the two young men talked to a Hamas terrorist, who is now in the tunnels under the hospital in Gaza. Even when the terrorist expressed himself in an offensive manner towards the LGBT community, the two chose to interpret his words in a positive way and invited him to America. "We will finish Israel first, and America will be next in line. you are so stupid I won't even bother killing you, waste of bullets. It is better that you kill yourselves," he answered them.

"Are you missing something, food, medicine?". The students worry about the safety of the Hamas terrorist

.... French-Israeli journalist Julien Bahlul added: "The video is genius. To all these 'queers' and 'feminists' who don't see the danger of Hamas."

The two enthusiastically chanted "freedom for Palestine", claimed that Israeli propaganda was poisonous and doubted the fact that there were indeed Israeli hostages in Gaza. "Do they think we're stupid? I'm doing a degree in queer post-colonial astrology. Jews are polluting the world, and no I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm a fluid racist," the student claimed while throwing the abductee notice on the floor.

Along with the hatred for Israel, the skit highlighted the compassion, so-called progressive, of these students in Hamas - and the two young men talked to a Hamas terrorist, who is now in the tunnels under the hospital in Gaza. Even when the terrorist expressed himself in an offensive manner towards the LGBT community, the two chose to interpret his words in a positive way and invited him to America. "We will finish Israel first, and America will be next in line. you are so stupid I won't even bother killing you, waste of bullets. It is better that you kill yourselves," he answered them. Mako

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30+ Rockets Launched from Lebanon at Israel By Hana Levi Julian - 23 Heshvan 5784 – November 6, 2023 JewishPress

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ABC reporter ripped for calling anti-Israel protest 'passionate' that defaced White House gates. Antisemitic graffiti calling for 'Death to Israel' was found in DC after pro-Palestinian protesters gathered last weekend By Kristine Parks Fox News Published November 6, 2023 12:45pm EST

ABC News' Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce was criticized for her characterization of a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington D.C., which left the White House and other buildings vandalized, over the weekend.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators descended on Washington on Saturday night, protesting President Biden's support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Some in the crowd could be seen vandalizing and shaking the White House fence at one point.

Antisemitic graffiti was also left on several buildings along the protesters' path through the city, according to social media posts. Some protesters were heard chanting, among other slogans, "F--k Joe Biden," "Allahu akbar" and "Cease-fire now!" Fox News

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Dozens of Hamas rockets found inside youth center, mosque. Over 50 rockets found inside youth center in Gaza together with launchers, rocket launching sites found inside mosque. Israel National News, Nov 6, 2023, 6:32 PM (GMT+2). [162] rocket launchers found in youth center IDF Spokesperson

During combat operations in the Gaza Strip, IDF forces located and uncovered additional evidence of Hamas' use of civilian sites for terrorist purposes and especially for launching rockets at the State of Israel.

During activity by a team of soldiers of the 460th Brigade to locate terrorist infrastructure and clear the area, rocket launch pits found by the soldiers in a mosque were destroyed.

In addition, during several activities in the past day, the soldiers found over 50 rockets ready to be launched into Israel from inside a youth movement compound in Northern Gaza.

Earlier, it was announced that overnight, an IAF fighter jet, directed by ISA and IDF intelligence, killed the Commander of Hamas’ Deir al-Balah Battalion in the Central Camps Brigade, Wael Asefa. Asefa, together with other commanders of the Central Camps Brigade, was responsible for sending Hamas “Nukhba” terrorists into Israeli territory during the barbaric massacre on October 7th. Following the massacre, he planned additional terrorist attacks.

Wael Asefa was imprisoned between 1992-1998 for his involvement in terrorist attacks against Israeli communities and has been involved in the incitement and promotion of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers for decades. INN

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Meaww.com / News / Crime & Justice. Who is Ruba Awni Almaghtheh? Palestinian woman slams car into building after mistaking it for Jewish structure By Poulami Sengupta Published on : 04:32 PST, Nov 6, 2023

Ruba Awni Almaghtheh has been charged with reckless endangerment (Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA: A Palestinian woman named Ruba Awni Almaghtheh, 34, slammed her car into a building mistaking it to be owned by a Jewish congregation.

Almaghtheh admitted to the police that she “did do it” on purpose after watching the coverage of the Israel-Hamas War that started after the Palestinian militant group’s offensive in southern Israel on October 7. Meaww

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Palestinian woman 'smashes car into anti-Semitic group after mistaking them for Jews.' The woman admitted she 'did do it purpose' after watching the coverage of the ongoing war Israel is waging on Hamas in Gaza, according to cops. By Aurora Bosotti 09:01, Mon, Nov 6, 2023 | Updated: 13:57, Mon, Nov 6, 2023 Express.uk

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Shmira Member Pepper-Sprayed in Flatbush by Suspect Chanting 'Allah Akbar.' By Baruch Green. November 6, 2023.

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A Shmira member was pepper-sprayed on Shabbos afternoon in Flatbush, near the intersection of Avenue N & East 22nd Street.

The volunteer was sprayed directly in his eyes, after asking a female why she was ripping down posters of hostages kidnapped by Hamas. The individual pointed a knife at the Shmira volunteer, and yelled “Allah Akbar, I will cut all you Jews up”.

The member requested backup and the suspect was quickly apprehended by additional members. NYPD officers responded and placed the female under arrest.

The suspect’s family came down as she was being arrested and began making anti-Semitic remarks toward bystanders…. vin

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin: The suspect is a female... The suspect had a knife and pepper spray on her. [163] Nov 6, 2023 [164]

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London student calls for world clean of Jews in pro-Palestinian protest. By Zvika Klein. Published: Novembet 6, 2023 The pro-Palestinian demonstrator seen smiling while holding a "Please keep the world clean [of Jews]" sign. (photo credit: TIKTOK/SCREENSHOT) The pro-Palestinian demonstrator seen smiling while holding a "Please keep the world clean [of Jews]" sign. (photo credit: TIKTOK/SCREENSHOT) "The sign calls for the genocide of Jews. Her name is Mehak Qureshi, a student at Goldsmiths. She should be arrested for incitement of racial hatred." A pro-Palestinian protester is under fire for holding a sign in a London demonstration on Saturday calling for cleaning the world of Jews.

“Meet Mehak Qureshi, internship designer in K2X Tech and Part-time Barista in Costa Coffee in London whose goal is to clean the world of Jews,” a pro-Israel activist shared on X, relating to the young British demonstrator who held a sign with the wording: Keep the world clean [of Jews], while instead of writing Jews, she drew blue a Star of David... JPost

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Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom:

1. BREAKING: Elderly Jewish Man Dies After Vicious Assault At Palestinian Protest | The Yeshiva World [165]

7:09 PM · Nov 6, 2023 [166]

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Pro-Palestinian protester a suspect in death of pro-Israel demonstrator in Los Angeles. By Jerusalem Post Staff November 7, 2023 02:26

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator is under suspicion for allegedly beating to death an elderly pro-Israel demonstrator at a protest in Los Angeles, United States according to Ynet following confirmation from the Los Angeles Police Department. JPost

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Pro-Palestinian protestor suspected of killing Jewish man in LA. Los Angeles police confirms Jewish man dies as a result of a brain injury he suffered after a verbal altercation he had with a pro-Palestinian protestor

Daniel Edelson, New York | published: 18:41

Tensions in the United States following the Israel-Hamas conflict have claimed their first casualty: Local Los Angeles law enforcement confirmed late Monday that a Jewish man died as a result of a head injury after being assaulted by a pro-Palestinian protester with a Megaphone during demonstrations that took place in a neighborhood in North Los Angeles.

According to witnesses at the scene, a verbal altercation broke out between an older Jewish man and a young pro-Palestinian protester. Suddenly, the protester struck the older man in the head with a megaphone he was holding.

The injured man fell to the ground bleeding and was rushed to the hospital. His death was confirmed to have been caused due to a brain hemorrhage. Israelis who were present at the scene described it as "a terrifying sight" and expressed shock that such an incident took place in their neighborhood.

The incident was filmed on the attacker's mobile device and has been seized by local police as evidence in their investigation into the incident. While the police have confirmed the case was being looked into, they haven't provided further details at this time, including whether the suspect has been arrested. This is a developing story. [167]

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Leebra1015 @Leebra1510: Posted by @blackandjewishunity: Palestinian mob killed a Jewish man yesterday at the pro Palestinian protest in west lake village, Los Angeles. Only one side ☪️🇵🇸is okay with killing an old man in cold blood. Jewish women stabbed to death outside their homes ✡️students attacked 6:59 PM · Nov 6, 2023 [168]

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Former L.A. pro soccer player flashes Nazi salute at pro-Israel demonstrators Marc Sternfield, Nov 7, 2023.

Angel City Football Club is condemning the actions of a former player who was seen on video giving a Nazi salute at a pro-Israel rally in Beverly Hills.

The video, which was first shared on social media Monday morning by the watchdog group, StopAntisemitism, shows Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel riding in the passenger seat of a car driven by another pro soccer player, identified by the group as Samim Haydari.

Ferrer Van Ginkel flashes a “Sieg Heil” salute as pro-Israel demonstrators shout “Shame on you!” It was unclear what occurred before the recording started.

Ferrer Van Ginkel, 25, played in Angel City FC’s inaugural season in 2022. The Brazil native left the team in November of that year after her contract was not renewed.

California cities ditching online comments due to surging hate speech “Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel does not play for Angel City Football Club, nor has she been affiliated with the club since November 2022. We condemn her recent actions and statements,” the team said in a statement Monday afternoon.

According to a now-deleted Instagram post, she and Haydari recently launched Juega Bonita, a brand “created to grow the girls soccer game.”

The pair issued an apology in a video posted to social media late Monday.

“I know we have approached the situation with hate and made it worse with our actions,” Haydari said. “We acted childish … All we can do is become better [and] learn a lesson from this. We cannot change the past.”

Ferrer Van Ginkel did not speak in the video.

Haydari was last listed as a player with United City FC, a developmental team, in 2022. Ktla

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Hamas tunnels, weapons found near amusement park and university.

By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 7, 2023 20:11

[169] IDF soldiers operate near an amusement park in the Gaza Strip.

A weapons warehouse containing chemicals, RPGs, and explosives, among other objects, was found near a university in Gaza.

Tunnels and weapons warehouses used by Hamas were found near an amusement park and a university in the Gaza Strip during the IDF's ongoing operations in the coastal enclave, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit revealed on Tuesday.

The Paratrooper Brigade found a tunnel opening near an amusement park in the Strip. The opening was destroyed by the IDF.

Maj. Roi, a commander in Sayeret Tzanhanim, stated "we found a logistic tunnel. The tunnels didn't pass over this area. We blew it up now, the opening has been destroyed and we intend to do this in every place we get to."

Explosives, RPGs found near university The Paratrooper Brigade and the 7th Brigade also found a tunnel opening and a weapons warehouse near a university, uncovering chemicals, RPGs, and explosives, among other objects.

[170] Weapons found in a tunnel near a university in the Gaza Strip.

The commander of the 202nd Battalion, Lt.-Col. Almog, stated "we uncovered a very significant tunnel opening seemingly leading to a tunnel system. We'll continue destroying infrastructure."

"All of this is further evidence of the Hamas terrorist organization's cynical use of facilities and the civilian population as a human shield for the terrorist organization's needs," said the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. JPost_

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Terror tunnel shafts, weapons found near Ferris wheel, university. IDF continues to find more proof of Hamas' exploitation of civilian areas for military purposes, use of human shields.

Israel National News, Nov 7, 2023, 7:16 PM (GMT+2)

As part of the ground operations in the Gaza Strip, the Paratroopers Brigade led a targeted operation in northern Gaza, during which the soldiers completed taking control of the area.

During the operation, soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade exposed the shaft of an underground tunnel adjacent to an amusement park. The soldiers then destroyed the shaft. In addition, in cooperation with soldiers of the Armored Corps from the divisional combat team of the 7th Brigade, an underground tunnel shaft and a weapons warehouse were found near a university, containing chemical materials, RPGs, Claymore mines and more.

"This is all further evidence of Hamas’ cynical use of the civilian population and various facilities as a human shield for its needs," the IDF stated. INN

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Hamas terrorists’ last stand at Gaza hospital. In showdown witnessed by a Telegraph reporter, Israeli warplanes, tanks and infantry corner last remains of 1,000-strong battalion

By Paul Nuki in Gaza, 7 November 2023 • 10:25pm

(Hamas terrorists were making a “last stand” in a hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday night in a showdown witnessed by agraph reporter). [...] “They talk the talk, but they don’t walk so good,” said Lieutenant Colonel Blick of the Israeli 551 Reserve Paratroop Battalion, which escorted The Telegraph to the front line on Tuesday.

Pointing to the plumes of dust rising about 2km to the south, Lt Col Blick said fewer than 100 Hamas fighters were taking shelter in the Indonesian Hospital, the last survivors of a thousand-strong unit.

“They fought when we came in but folded after a day. Their command lines were cut. Now, where you can see the dust rising, in the hospital, they are making their last stand,” he said.

Until five weeks ago, Beit Hanoun was home to more than 50,000 people. About half would have been under 20. Now it is broken, the devastation total.

The Telegraph was driven in by open-top Humvee, whipping down a dirt track with a gunner poised above our heads. The city’s perimeter was a jagged mess of shattered homes. The convoy stopped at what would have been a communal area but now houses Israeli tanks, heavy armour and a platoon of troops.

One of the soldiers took reporters to see a Hamas rocket launcher, dug into the garden of a house just a few yards from a pool where children would have played. The launcher was so hidden that it would have been close to impossible to spot by drone.

The commanding officer of the 551 Battalion, Lt Col Ido, said booby-trapped houses, tunnels and alleyways were the biggest threat when soldiers first entered the area. Air strikes took out most of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs), but he and his men have cleared more than 150 themselves.

“They are buried in the ground, some in the woods, some in the kindergarten rooms, some in the schools”, he said, adding that some of the charges were designed to pierce armour with technology imported from Iran.

“The biggest threat was the IEDs. But luckily, we didn’t lose anyone,” he said. “Some of these guys are engineers, some of them doctors. They’re reservists. They are mature. They’re specialist. They’ve got life experience. So they work slow and secured.”

Lt Cols Ido and Blich struck a measured tone as they addressed reporters. Lt Col Ido was one of the first into the kibbutzim on the Gaza border on Oct 7 – the “Black Sabbath” – and saw some “very tough sights”.

His concern now, he said, was how to guide his men. “They saw. We all saw it. A massacre. Bodies that were mutilated... We saw bodies of little kids that have been abused.”

But he emphasised that his troops must maintain a level head in combat, adding: “When I did my last brief the night before we came in here, my last sentence was that we are not like them and must not become like them.”

The 551 say they did not find civilian corpses in Beit Hanoun when they came in. People had moved south, and only dead animals and Hamas terrorists lay strewn on the ground.

Asked about the thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza, Lt Col Ido said that, for the most part, those people had nothing to do with Hamas.

Choking back emotion, he said: “The people of Gaza are not our enemies. I’m telling you, these houses are ruined but we’re not touching any personal stuff. We’re not taking things from the kitchens here. Because this is not our mission.

“I don’t have any business with the population here. I’m a father. I’ve got three kids. But I know my mission – my mission is to protect Israel.”

As the battle in the Beit Hanoun hospital raged, the IDF said it was pushing into “the heart of Gaza City” for the first time since its withdrawal from the territory in 2005.

Israeli troops have conducted routine counter-insurgency operations here in the past – cynically described by politicians as “mowing the lawn” – but this latest operation aims to wipe out Hamas and its military infrastructure for good. It’s a war aim around which the Israeli public is united, but one that could yet prove difficult to achieve. ... describing the ongoing offensive as “a complex and difficult war”.

Despite the firepower being deployed, he said his troops had the 240 hostages held by Hamas uppermost in their mind, and that “returning them is our compass”...

“They’re watching a train wreck, and they can’t do anything about it, and the trains are speeding up,” a person familiar with the US administration’s thinking told The Washington Post earlier this week. “The train wreck is in Gaza, but the explosion is in the region.”

Israeli forces appear to be in control of the coastal road inside Gaza City, and only about a mile from the Al Shifa hospital, where Israel says senior Hamas commanders are hiding in underground bunkers.

Hospitals... The IDF counters that the facilities are being “cynically” used as military bases by Hamas in a flagrant abuse of the conventions of war.

Most agree that the Indonesian Hospital is empty now of patients and is simply being used by Hamas to wage war. Taking it down with an air strike to finish the fighting must surely be tempting, but the IDF knows that would hand its enemy a propaganda coup.

In the past week, Israeli commanders have produced video evidence showing how hospitals around Gaza are connected to the Hamas “Metro” – the network of underground tunnels and bunkers the group has built...

On Tuesday, it released footage of an air strike on a building close to the Al Quds hospital, where it claimed a number of Hamas operatives had hidden. The strike set off a major secondary explosion, which the IDF said indicated that a Hamas weapons store had been hit.

([171] A Hamas tunnel unearthed by Israeli forces. Many such tunnels have been booby-trapped by the terror group, Israel says)

Meanwhile, Hamas said the Al Rantisi hospital in Gaza City was being evacuated after heavy shelling of nearby roads.

At one point on The Telegraph’s embed, the tempo of gun and mortar fire coming from the Indonesian Hospital increased and was answered with a massive blast from a nearby tank.

None of the soldiers flinched. They’re inured to it. “We’re making tapes so we have them to fall asleep with after the war,” joked one.

Lt Col Ido pressed home the asymmetric nature of the war, saying: “They are hiding inside schools. Just 10 minutes ago, we had a serious battle with a group of Hamas inside the school that they built tunnels in. They fill it with the IEDs. Now the leadership of this battalion is hiding inside the hospital.”

The hospital is empty, something Israeli forces have verified with drones and other “tactical measures”, he said, adding: “They are firing on us from this hospital. So I think the world should understand what we are dealing with … they are terrorists. Can you imagine the Israeli state or England or Germany putting rockets inside their cities, in the City of London?”

His colleague Lt Col Blich, reflected that, ultimately, the terror of Oct 7 and the war in Gaza may bring a lasting peace. He said it had deeply shocked everyone, Israelis and Palestinians alike.

“My hope is that out of all this tragedy people would come together and rebuild and finish all this,” he said. “Israel is not going anywhere. Jews are not going anywhere. Palestinians are not going anywhere. We need to find a way to coexist, otherwise it’s a nightmare for everyone.

“So hopefully out of this tragedy – and it is a tragedy – what we’ll see is a new Middle East or a new Israel or a new Palestine, whatever you want to call it. Something [positive] like what happened to Europe after the defeat of the Third Reich.” Daily Telegraph

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IDF takes control of another Hamas compound in Gaza. Israelis mark one month since the Oct. 7 massacre. Joshua Marks November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family "This is a second Holocaust for me,” Ruth Haran, whose family was devasted by the Oct. 7 attacks, told JNS. Etgar Lefkovits November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Netanyahu: Israel will have ‘security responsibility’ for Gaza. November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Lebanese terrorists fire 20 rockets into Israel. November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Israeli forces foiled a terrorist attack by neutralizing a Palestinian woman .wrapped in a Hamas flag and armed with a knife at the Qalandiya crossing near Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2023. Israeli forces thwart attack by woman draped in Hamas flag JNS

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Armed terrorist attempts to infiltrate Samaria town. November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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‘Hard to believe’ Qatar claim it doesn’t support Hamas, says British parliamentarian. Georgia L. Gilholy November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Montreal synagogue firebombed amid sharp rise in antisemitism. November 7, 2023 / JNS JNS

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NBC News Quietly Stealth-Edits Headline After Downplaying Death Of Jewish Man Killed In Pro-Palestinian Protest.

Daily Caller, 11/7/2023

NBC News quietly stealth-edited a headline previously downplaying the death of an elderly Jewish man who died during an altercation with pro-Palestinian counter-protesters.

NBC News initially headlined its report on Kessler’s death as “Man dies after hitting head during Israel and Palestinian rallies in California, officials say,” according to an archived version of the report. It later changed the headline to read, “Jewish man killed in altercation at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies in California.. Daily Caller

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House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Israel-Hamas war comments. Claudia Grisales, 11/7/2023

The House voted 234-188 to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her remarks related to Israel and Palestinians. Twenty two Democrats joined Republicans in voting to formally rebuke Tlaib for her comments.

The measure, which accuses Tlaib of "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel," is the second attempt to formally punish Tlaib over her comments about the war.

Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, has made several controversial comments about the war. She has defended her comments and says she is simply availing herself of freedom of speech.

Censure is a symbolic move where the member who has been censured is called to the House floor as the Speaker of the House reads the text of the measure.

Members from both parties have criticized her comments, but most Democrats say they do not support censure as a response.

Among the comments in question is a post on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, where Tlaib shared a video featuring a Palestinian slogan that has been called antisemitic. NPR

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80 years ago they gassed us, now they gaslight us so they can do it again. Prominent anti-Israel figures like Rashida Tlaib and Marc Lamont Hill try to claim ‘From the river to the sea’ isn’t a call for genocide. Their own histories prove otherwise. Gary Willig, Nov 8, 2023, 2:41 PM (GMT+2)

On October 7, the Hamas terrorist organization committed the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. More than 1,400 people in southern Israel were butchered, the vast majority of whom were civilians. Babies were burned alive, shot in the head, and beheaded. The Hamas terrorists gleefully filmed their acts of barbarism and posted the videos online.

Throughout the world, antisemites rejoiced. On the streets of New York, London, and Sydney, celebrations were held for the mass murder of innocents and calls have been consistently made since thne for the genocide of the Jewish people. Sometimes it’s “gas the Jews.” Other times it’s “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It all has the same meaning: dead Jews.

So of course many of the leading antisemites are trying to gaslight the Jews and all other decent people by claiming they really mean something nicer when they chant slogans that have only one meaning, which is not very nice at all.

Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, perhaps the leading antisemite in the US Congress, insists that “From the river to the sea” is merely “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence” and not a call for the destruction of the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens.

The phrase was prominently featured in a video Tlaib posted to X attacking US President Joe Biden for standing with Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre, along with the chant “No peace on stolen land.”

Tlaib may claim that “From the river to the sea” is merely a call or peace and equality, but her own actions prove that peace and equality are the last things she wants.

Tlaib has refused to condemn Hamas in the month since the massacre. She has continued to spread the blood libel that Israel was behind the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza even after it was conclusively proven that the explosion in the hospital parking lot was an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired, while accusing both the Israeli and American governments of lying about it to cover up Israel’s guilt. These lies fan the flames of anti-Jewish violence around the world.

In 2019, a Jewish resident of Michigan asked Tlaib after hearing her speak about coexistence: “So would that be a right for Israel to exist?” Her response to being asked if Israel has the right to exist was to get angry. “Do they pay you guys? Do you work for Netanyahu?” she demanded, as if the issue of Israel’s right to exist was merely a right-wing talking point.

When pressed on if “the Jews would have a state that they felt safe in,” she flat out said “no,” because in her opinion, the existence of a Jewish State meant her grandmother could not achieve equality.

So yes, when Rashida Tlaib says “From the river to the sea,’” she means “destroy Israel.”

The phrase was also defended by CUNY Professor and Al Jazeera host Marc Lamont Hill, who brought “From the river to the sea” to global prominence when he uttered those words in a speech to the United Nations in 2018, an act which got him fired from CNN the next day.

“When I say, ‘Free Palestine from river to the sea,’ I wasn’t echoing the Hamas charter. When you go to any ‘Free Palestine’ rally, when you go to a Palestinian rights rally, you’re going to hear ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ … these aren’t calls to kill Jews. These are calls for Palestine and Palestinians to have freedom, safety, dignity and self-determination in all areas of historic Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,” Hill claimed last week.

Left unsaid is why use a phrase associated with Hamas and its genocidal intentions in the first place? Would he also say that it was ok to chant Ku Klux Klan slogans on the grounds that the chanter had a different meaning in mind than the KKK does?

Between Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and the nation which does the most to protect the civilians on the side of its enemies during wartime, and Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization which beheads babies, throws gays off rooftops, and is dedicated to the eradication of the Jewish people, Hill sides with Hamas.

On Briahna Joy Gray’s “Bad Faith” podcast, Hill said that the media should not treat Hamas as terrorists, saying: “And it’s part of a broader project, I think, of framing Hamas not as a government organization – even if you think that what happened on October 7 was an act of terrorism – by framing them as a terrorist organization rather than a government, rather than a democratically-elected government and/or political party, it makes it easy to avoid political and diplomatic solutions.”

In 2014, Hill lamented the existence of the Iron Dome system, a purely defensive system which saves Israeli lives by shooting rockets launched at civilian areas out of the air, because it “takes away Hamas’ military leverage.” He opposes any form Israeli self-defense and any effort to keep Hamas from murdering Jewish children, putting the lie to the weak, token condemnations of the October 7 massacre he makes so that he can he can condemn Israel for not agreeing to commit suicide and allowing all of its citizens to be brutally murdered.

Hill has even endorsed violence against Israel. During his hate-filled speech to the UN in 2018, he said that the international community cannot “fetishize non-violence” when it comes to the Palestinian Arabs.

Often, the atrocities an antisemite wants to inflict on the State of Israel are mirrored in the accusations they level at the Jewish State. The thousands who scream at rallies around the world that Israel is committing genocide themselves chant genocidal slogans and openly declare their desire to wipe out the Jewish people. Rashida Tlaib also accuses Israel of genocide and amplifies the demonstrators who call for genocide. She refuses to condemn Hamas’ deliberate slaughter of women and children for the sole reason that they were Jewish and gets angry when asked if Israel has the right to exist. Does she seek genocide against the Jewish people in Israel? It sure looks that way.

Marc Lamont Hill loves to accuse Israel of Apartheid and ethnic cleansing. In a rally in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre, Hill screamed that there “will be no peace until there is justice.” What is justice to him? In his own words: "Justice looks will be no more settlements, justice means getting rid of the current settlements.” The most charitable interpretation is that he means removing every last Jewish man, woman, and child from Judea and Samaria, as well as Jerusalem. Funny how this opponent of ethnic cleansing is demanding the cleansing of an entire ethnicity from a region. A less charitable and more likely reading is that he means cleansing the land of Israel of the Jews, given his statement that “for 100 years, there's been a settler-colonial project,” opposing the Jewish immigration to Israel in the decades before the establishment of the state.

“Tonight we demand that no more Palestinian children are killed,” he yelled. No demand has been heard from him that no more Jewish children be killed, nor will there be.

Because to them, if you demand that no more Jewish children be killed, you are not just part of the problem, YOU are the problem. If you are a Jewish person and demand the right to send your children to school or go to synagogue without fear, the right to simply live without being shot, stabbed, blown up, or burned in an oven, YOU are the problem.

Don’t notice the crowds chanting “gas the Jews” in Sydney. Don’t pay attention to the crowds chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahud,” a threat to repeat the massacre of an entire Jewish city by Mohammed.

Jewish students are trapped in a college library by rabid anti-Israel protestors? It was just a peaceful protest, don’t overreact. Jewish students are assaulted at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts? They had it coming for being Zionists. People are tearing down posters of children who were kidnapped by Hamas? They can’t help themselves because thy care so much about the innocent people of Gaza, and it’s the Zionists’ fault for provoking them in the first place.

Mobs storm airports in Russia looking for Jews to lynch? The protest just got out of hand. A woman rammed her car into a Black Hebrew Israelite building hoping to kill Jewish children? What do you care since she chose the wrong target? An elderly Jewish man was murdered by an anti-Israel activist in Los Angeles? Nothing to see here.

Hamas committed an act of mass murder against the civilian population of a specific ethnic group with the explicit goal and intention of reducing the population of that ethnicity as close to zero as possible. That is the textbook definition of genocide.

People like Rashida Tlaib, Marc Lamont Hill, Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, and so many more want the Jews to ignore that, to let Hamas off the hook so they can do it again. No matter how much they may say they oppose violence, they do not care how many Jewish children have to die to achieve their goal of a “Free Palestine from the river to the sea,” whether those children live in Israel or in the Diaspora.

They are gaslighting us that the crowds that chant “From the river to the sea,” “We don’t want two states, we want 48,” and “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yahud,” are not chanting for the same things as the people who chanted “gas the Jews.” They are gaslighting us that the supporters of Hamas and its genocidal aspirations are just passionate for justice. They are gaslighting us that the explosion of antisemitism around the world over the last month doesn’t exist.

“Free Palestine from the river to the sea” has only ever meant one thing – dead Jews. They know this, and still they demand it.

80 years ago they gassed us to death in the millions. Now they gaslight us so that those who want to gas the Jews in 2023 can get their wish. INN

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G7 countries express support for Israel’s self-defense. (November 8, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IAF strike kills senior Hamas weapons developer. Israeli forces are closing on Hamas headquarters in Gaza City Joshua Marks (November 8, 2023 / JNS) Hamas has no interest in governing JNS

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Anti-tank missile from Lebanon wounds two IDF soldiers. (November 8, 2023 / JNS). Israeli artillery units responded by firing at the source of the attack. JNS

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Hamas: We want permanent war with Israel. “Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such" but to "completely overthrow the situation," said a member of the terror group's political bureau. Joshua Marks

(November 8, 2023 / JNS) Hamas has no interest in governing Gaza but wants a never-ending war with Israel, members of the terrorist group told The New York Times in a feature piece published on Wednesday.

According to the Hamas leaders, that was one of the primary goals of their Oct. 7 invasion of the northwestern Negev, in which thousands of armed terrorists massacred 1,400 people, mostly civilians, wounded over 5,000 others and took back to Gaza more than 200 hostages.

“I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us,” Taher el-Nounou, a Hamas media adviser, told the U.S.-based newspaper.

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the terrorist group’s politburo in Qatar, said they planned the Oct. 7 assault to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” adding that “we succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.”

“Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such,” said al-Hayya. “Hamas, the Qassam and the resistance woke the world up from its deep sleep and showed that this issue must remain on the table.” JNS

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Suspect identified in death of Jewish man in Los Angeles. Suspect identified but no arrest in death of Jewish man at Israel rally, Ventura County sheriff says. Jacob Gurvis, JTA, Nov 8, 2023 INN

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Murdered for being Jewish: Last photo of LA man beaten to death by pro-Palestinian protester.

([172] Photo snapped minutes before fatal assault shows Paul Kessler, 69, holding an Israeli flag as antisemitism surges worldwide)

Daniel Edelson, New York | published: 11.07.23 | 05:22

(Pro-Israel protester Paul Kessler lying on the ground after being attacked by a pro-Palestine protester)

Minutes before he was beaten to death by a pro-Palestinian protester, a photo of Paul Kessler was taken showing him holding an Israeli flag during a pro-Israel rally in Westlake Village, Los Angeles.

Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man from Thousand Oaks, California, was assaulted by a pro-Palestinian protester with a megaphone during pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations that took place simultaneously.

According to witnesses at the scene, a verbal altercation broke out between an older Jewish man and a pro-Palestinian protester. Suddenly, the protester struck the older man on the head with a megaphone he was holding.

The injured man fell to the ground bleeding and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead the next day due to a fatal brain hemorrhage. According to an autopsy, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide. Israelis who were present at the scene described it as "a terrifying sight" and expressed shock that such an incident took place in their neighborhood. The incident was filmed on the victim's cellphone which has been seized by local police as evidence in their investigation into the incident. While the police have confirmed the case was being looked into, they haven't provided any further details at this time, including whether the suspect has been arrested.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance from the public in locating the suspect.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles said that the local Jewish community is ״devastated to learn of the tragic death of an elderly Jewish man who was struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protestor in Westlake Village. Our hearts are with the family of the victim. While we wait for more information from our law enforcement partners, we remind you that this is the fourth major antisemitic crime committed in Los Angeles this year alone. Violence against our people has no place in civilized society. We demand safety. We will not tolerate violence against our community. We will do everything in our power to prevent it.״ Ynet

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The 33rd day of the war Publication was allowed: Sergeant Noam Yosef fell in the battle in Gaza, four fighters were seriously injured. The Shin Bet and the IDF revealed - this is how the terrorists use the hospitals: "I have ambulances, I can go with whichever one I want" • The IDF spokesman updated that the number of abductees stands at 239, Prime Minister Netanyahu: "There will be no ceasefire without release of our hostage" • An attack against Israelis was thwarted in Brazil, the Mossad: "Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continue to operate around the world" • Regular updates News reporters 12 | N12 | Published 01:01 08.11.23 | Updated 19:59 08.11.23. Ongoing updates

20:30 - The security bodies in Brazil together with the Mossad thwarted an attack planned by the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Mossad: "We thank the security forces in Brazil for arresting a terrorist cell. These days, against the background of the war in Gaza, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continue to operate around the world to carry out terrorist attacks."

20:27 - IDF spokesman, Lt. Col. Daniel Hagari, updated that the updated number of abductees stands at 239. In the daily statement to the media, Hagari said: "We captured many weapons - including more than 700 RPGs. We hit the Hamas air and sea formations hard, these are formations that planned to carry out strategic attacks."

Hagari continued: "Fifty thousand Gazans crossed from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south today, they understand that Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza. We will continue to hold the humanitarian crossing to the south - we will allow them to get off the shackles of Hamas."

20:20 - Updated estimate: 1,185 murdered and fallen Israelis since the beginning of the war, not 1,400 - alongside the 239 kidnapped and other unidentified bodies, it is not clear if most of them are terrorists.

20:17 - Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Central Command headquarters: "There will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages." Netanyahu, who met with heads of authorities from Judea and Samaria at the headquarters of the Central Command, commented on the events in Judea and Samaria: "There is a tiny handful of people who do not represent this public, who take the law into their own hands. We are not ready to tolerate it, we will act against it in any way."

20:05 - Senior security official: We should oppose a ceasefire that does not include a significant release of hostages, even at the cost of a confrontation with the US.

20:00 - Red color in the spells that surround Gaza.

20:00 - The IDF and Shin Bet revealed: This is how Hamas uses hospitals, ambulances, mosques and schools for terrorist purposes. "I have ambulances, I can go out with any ambulance I want," said a Hamas terrorist in a conversation with a Gaza resident.

In the Shin Bet's investigations of terrorists who entered Israel on October 7, they admitted: "Most senior Hamas officials are hiding in the hospitals. Many places in the Gaza Strip are trapped, while the cables that lead to the operating system are in mosques and civilian clinics." Another terrorist said: "During fighting, the ambulances are used, among other things, to evacuate fighters and activists. They transport food, cargo and weapons in them because this is the safest way to transport them."

19:48 - The alarms in the Upper Galilee: contrary to the Home Front Command's announcement of a successful interception - the Northern Command says it was a false alarm.

19:36 - Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir asked to convene the cabinet to discuss imposing the death penalty on terrorists. "The order of the hour mandates that a death sentence be imposed on terrorists who come to destroy and kill the citizens of Israel, men, women and children," the minister wrote to the head of the MLA.

19:25 - IDF fighters destroyed a terrorist tunnel that was located near a school in the Gaza Strip. The fighters, from the 551st Brigade in cooperation with the Yalam Force, operate in the Beit Hanun area and destroy terrorist tunnels. The destroyed tunnel shaft - near a UNRWA school. [173]

19:23 - Suspicion of hostile aircraft infiltration in the north: alarms in Avivim, Yaraon and Baram.

19:20 - The IDF attacked terrorist targets of Hezbollah in Lebanon using fighter jets, in response to the earlier shooting at border posts.

19:17 - The White House: "It is still too early to formulate a governance plan in Gaza, any future plan will be made in consultation with our partner in the region." ...

19:03 - NATO Secretary General: The alliance supports humanitarian ceasefires in the fighting to allow the introduction of aid to the Strip.

18:45 - The Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel reports from a source close to Hamas: negotiations are underway for a three-day ceasefire - in exchange for the release of 12 hostages, half of them Americans. It was reported on the Al-Arabi Al-Jadid website that the dispute over the number of days of the ceasefire is delaying the completion of the deal.

- IDF Spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avihai Adrei: Ahmed Tsiam, commander of the Nasr-e-Rachuan Company in the Al-Farkan Battalion of Hamas - is now hiding in Rantisi Hospital and is preventing its residents from evacuating south. About a thousand of the residents of Gaza are held hostage by him, and are unable to go out and defend themselves and their loved ones. "He uses the displaced and the patients inside the Rantisi hospital as a human shield and puts them at risk," he wrote.

Ahmed Siam, commander of a division in Hamas [174]

17:45 - IDF assessment: Since the ground maneuver began, over 2,000 terrorists have been eliminated, most of them under the tunnels.

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Chilling survivor testimony: Hamas terrorists used mass rape as weapon of war. Police collect 700 testimonies from survivors of October 7 massacre, 50,000 videos from attack in biggest investigation in Israeli history.

Israel National News, Nov 8, 2023, 6:14 PM (GMT+2)

The Hamas terrorists who massacred over 1,400 Israelis and took over 140 people hostage on October 7 committed mass rape against their victims during the massacre, according to survivor testimony and interrogation of captured terrorists gathered by the Israel Police's special Lahav 433 unit.

According to the evidence, which was cleared for publication today (Wednesday), dozens of cases of sexual assault and sexual crimes by Hamas terrorists have been documented.

One massacre survivor testified that she saw another woman being raped in front of her. "I saw the Palestinians bending her down, raping her and simply passing her on to the next. She was alive when they raped her. She was on her feet and bleeding from her back. He pulled her hair. He shot her in the head while raping her, didn't even lift his pants. They cut her breast and played with it. They just carried around someone's head as if showing strength, walked with it like a bag," said the survivor.

Multiple terrorists revealed during their interrogations that they had received permission and instruction to kill Jewish children because the children would become IDF soldiers when they grow up, as well as to abuse the corpses of their victims in order to sow fear in Israeli society.

So far, more than 700 testimonies have been collected from survivors of the massacre. Police officials said that "this is the largest investigation case since the founding of the state."

Lahav 433 has been gathering evidence against the Hamas terrorists in order to prosecute them for the crimes committed on October 7.

The police have more than 50,000 videos from the terrorist attack and are using facial recognition software to identify which terrorists committed which specific crimes. The police also have hundreds of cell phones which belonged to terrorists from Gaza. INN

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UNRWA school celebrates Hamas's 'jihad warriors' in Gaza - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 8, 2023

An UNRWA school in the West Bank posted a video of students celebrating Jihad against Jews, as several October 7 terrorists were found to have graduated from UNRWA schools in Gaza JPost

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Week 5 - Live updates: IDF troops destroy terror tunnel shaft near UNWRA school. November 8, 2023 Rocket attacks against Israel continue as IDF strikes Hamas military compound containing command and control centers, observation posts, and additional terrorist infrastructure. INN

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IDF kills Hamas's head of weapons production. By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 8, 2023 09:32

The targeted senior Hamas member specialized in the production of strategic ammunition and rockets. The head of Hamas's Weapons and Industries Department, Mahsan Abu-Zina, was eliminated by the IDF in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the IDF and Shin Bet said on Wednesday. JPost

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WATCH: Hamas uses ambulances to transport terrorists, weapons - IDF. By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 8, 2023 21:07 Updated: November 8, 2023 21:11

"Most of Hamas' senior political and military figures are hiding in hospitals especially Shifa Hospital," the terrorist said. JPost

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Hamas operative boasts he ‘can leave with any ambulance,’ in call overheard by IDF.

Shin Bet releases footage of captured terrorists describing group's use of ambulances, hospitals, school; IDF spokesperson says Hamas commander preventing evacuation of hospital

By Emanuel Fabian  and Michael Horovits, 8 November 2023, 11:01 pm   TOI

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The IDF destroyed 130 Hamas tunnel shafts, 50 thousand Gazans evacuated to the south | Documentation from the attacks. The head of Hamas's industries and weapons department was eliminated • The terrorist organization's infrastructure was attacked, the terrorists escaped - and were killed in another attack • Even today: masses of Gazans left the northern Gaza Strip - under IDF security • Summary of the 33rd day of the war Sapir Lipkin | N12| Published 01:15 09.11.23 Mako

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Donald Trump’s rivals vow to back Israel and argue over China and Ukraine at the third debate.

The field of candidates onstage for the third Republican presidential debate will be the smallest yet. By Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin Updated 11:30 PM EST, November 8, 2023. Republican presidential candidates used the third debate of the GOP primary campaign to show their support for Israel. AP

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[175] Our forces enter the surrounded building in Bethlehem. You cannot miss the swastika on the house of the despicable Nazi in Bethlehem. Nov 8, 2023. on X

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WATCH: Kirby Shoots Down Arab Reporter Who Accused Israel of Violating International Law. November 8, 2023 4:27 pm19 By Baruch Green.

WHITE HOUSE (VINnews) — John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, made scathing comments when confronted by a Palestinian journalist Tuesday, who accused him of parroting Israeli military leaders.

In response to claims that the Biden administration is covering up for Israeli war crimes, Kirby replied, “I heard this word genocide tossed around about. Hamas actually does have genocidal intentions against the people of Israel. They’d like to see it wiped off the map. They said so on purpose. So, that’s — that’s what’s at stake here and we’re going to keep making sure that Israel has that ability to do that.”

During Tuesday’s White House press conference, Nadia Bilbassy, born and raised in Gaza and now works for the Saudi-controlled Al-Arabiya news channel, claimed that Israel was “in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention” and asked why the Biden administration would not “embrace” those who want Israel to be admonished by the U.S.

“With due respect, John, some people think that you repeat what the Israeli army spokesman [is] saying,” she claimed. “It’s exactly what they’re saying, you’re repeating here. So, how can you — why not — [the dissenting] voices, not just understanding them and ‘we have a channel because we’re a democracy.’ Why not — what’s wrong with them?”

“What’s wrong with standing here and say when Israel do something wrong because you’re the best friend, you have leverage on them, why not criticizing them?” she asked.

Kirby replied, “Well, your question presupposes that we’ve made some determination that the law of armed conflict has been violated and I don’t think — we’re not at that point.”

The reporter then asked if the U.S. disagreed with the UN’s claims.

“I would just tell you that we’re not going to react in near real time to every event,” Kirby responded. “Israel has a right and responsibility to defend itself and we’re going to make sure they have the tools and capabilities to do that. Again, we’re one month after this, and we ought not forget what happened one month ago. 1,400 people slaughtered in their homes, at a music festival, and when Hamas decided to conduct operations, it was with the intent of killing people.”

Here is the full transcript:

Al-Arabiya’s Nadia Bilbassy-Charters: “So why not embrace the dissent voices call for a balance between private and public message and criticize Israel when actually it is in violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention. With due respect, John, some think people you repeat what the Israeli army spokesmen saying. It’s exactly what they’re saying you’re repeating here. So, how can you — why not — the dissenting voices, not just understanding them and we have a channels [sic] b/c we’re a democracy. Why not — what’s wrong with them? What’s wrong with standing here and say Israel do something wrong because you’re the best friend, you have leverage on them, why not criticizing [sic] them?”

John Kirby: “Well, your question presupposes that we’ve made some determination that the law of armed conflict has violated and I don’t think — we’re not at that point.”

Bilbassy-Charters: “So, that — you’re disagreeing with the U.N.?”

Kirby: “I — I would just tell you we’re not going to react in near realtime to every event. Israel has a right and responsibility to defend itself and we’re going to make sure they have the tools and capabilities to do that. Again, we’re one month after this and we ought not forget what happened one month ago. 1,400 people slaughtered in their homes and at a music festival and when Hamas decided to conduct operations, it was with the intent of killing people. You know, I heard this word genocide tossed around about. Hamas actually does have genocidal intentions against he people of Israel. They’d like to see it wiped off the map. They said so on purpose. So, that’s — that’s what’s at stake here and we’re going to keep making sure that Israel has that ability to do that. Now, as for the voices, of course, we respect all different voices and perspectives on this and we know that there’s a lot of high emotion here when it comes to what’s going on. We have never shied away from criticizing our friends and partners when we believe it’s warranted and we’ll continue to do that. We also believe that — that — that — the — the best diplomacy, the best progress and diplomatic pursuits is to do it privately, and outside the public eye and we’ll continue to do that as well. We’ll continue to have the tough conversations with our good friend.” VIN

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Israel, US strike Iranian proxies in Syria. Pesach Benson (November 9, 2023 / JNS) U.S. aircraft struck a weapons warehouse belonging to the IRGC in eastern Syria, according to the Pentagon. JNS

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Israeli forces capture key Hamas stronghold in northern Gaza. November 9, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Twelve terrorists killed in Jenin counterterror raid. November 9, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Shooter wounds two Israelis near Nablus. November 9, 2023 / JNS JNS

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One person injured in drone explosion at school in Eilat. November 9, 2023 / JNS JNS

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IDF finds Hamas weapons factory next to Gazan children's bedroom. By Tzvi Joffre. Published: November 9, 2023.

The IDF found a Hamas tunnel entrance placed near a kindergarten in northern Gaza on Thursday.

The IDF said that it had found a rocket and drone production site in the middle of a residential building in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza.

The building where the weapons productions site was located was also near schools. The IDF published footage showing the weapons storage site next to rooms where children sleep.

Israeli forces from the IDF's Nahal Brigade succeeded in taking over Hamas's Outpost 17 in western Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. JPost

IDF online @idfonline: In a building in the heart of the Sheikh Radwan residential neighborhood in the north of the Gaza Strip and near schools, IDF soldiers located a site for the production and storage of remotely piloted aircraft and a weapon belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas... [176] [177] [178] [179]

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Photojournalists covering Oct. 7 attacks raise ‘ethical questions,’ watchdog says. HonestReporting: “When international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it.” David Swindle

(November 8, 2023 / JNS) The placement of freelance photographers, who captured some of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7 for AP and Reuters, raises questions about how much and when they knew about the attacks in which more than 1,400 people were killed, according to a new analysis from HonestReporting.

The watchdog identified six freelance photographers—Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, Hatem Ali, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih—who were present during the attacks, and whose work the Associated Press and Reuters are selling to other publications.

“What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning?” HonestReporting asked. (It was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah as well.)

“Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators?” HonestReporting added.

The freelancers snapped photos of a burning Israeli tank and of Hamas terrorists kidnapping people, including the German-Israeli woman Shani Louk, who has since been found dead.

HonestReporting published screenshots of since-deleted social-media posts in which Eslaiah stood before the Israeli tank without a press vest or helmet. He captioned the image in Arabic: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”

The watchdog also noted that the AP apparently removed the names of the freelancers from some photos in its database. “Perhaps someone at the agency realized it posed serious questions regarding their journalistic ethics,” HonestReporting wrote.

Mostafa photographed a lynch mob “brutalizing the body of an Israeli soldier who was dragged out of the tank” for Reuters, according to HonestReporting. The news agency labeled the image with a graphic warning—and “shamelessly” made it one of its “Images of the Day” in its editorial database.

“Let’s be clear: News agencies may claim that these people were just doing their job. Documenting war crimes, unfortunately, may be part of it. But it’s not that simple,” per HonestReporting.

“It is now obvious that Hamas had planned its Oct. 7 attack on Israel for a very long time: its scale, its brutal aims and its massive documentation have been prepared for months, if not years. Everything was taken into account—the deployments, the timing, as well as the use of body cams and mobile phone videos for sharing the atrocities,” it added. “Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”

“Even if they didn’t know the exact details of what was going to happen, once it unfolded, did they not realize they were breaching a border? And if so, did they notify the news agencies? Some sort of communication was undoubtedly necessary—before, after or during the attack—in order to get the photos published,” HonestReporting wrote.

“Either way, when international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it,” it added. “And if their people on the ground actively or passively collaborated with Hamas to get the shots, they should be called out to redefine the border between journalism and barbarism.”

In the past, there has been extensive discussion about how journalists should operate in war zones and in circumstances where they are in a position to provide aid. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN reporter, drew on his medical training to assist people and became part of the story while reporting in Haiti.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that appeared in The New York Times in 1993 of a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture also raised serious questions at the time about a photographer’s ethical responsibilities while on the job. JNS

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Government Press Office demands news services explain photographer's involvement in massacre.

Ynetnews | published: Nov 9, 2023 - 04:29

GPO Director Nitzan Chen has demanded explanations from the bureau chiefs of AP, Reuters, CNN and The New York Times regarding the findings in the HonestReporting NGO's report on the involvement of their photographers in the events of October 7th, "which crosses every red line, professional and moral." Four photographers who work for these networks documented the horrors perpetrated by the Hamas terrorists after they broke through border fence with Israel, filming the murder of civilians, the abuse of bodies and the abduction of men and women. (Ynetnews)

Nov 9, 2023 Ynet

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Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an @AP and @CNN contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter.

Quote: Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: Important expose by @honestreporting: Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it. [180] NoahPollak

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Cotton: Investigate news outlets over freelancers 'embedded with Hamas.'

“According to reports, members of your staff were embedded with Hamas, knew about the attack and not only went along with it but accompanied members of Hamas as they carried out the attack,” Sen. Tom Cotton said. Andrew Bernard (November 10, 2023 / JNS) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote to executives of the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times and Reuters on Thursday about concerns that freelance journalists they have employed might have had foreknowledge of the Oct. 7 mass murders by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.

“According to reports, members of your staff were embedded with Hamas, knew about the attack, and not only went along with it but accompanied members of Hamas as they carried out the attack,” he wrote.

“If your employees, as part of their work, participated in terrorist activities or if your organization or employees provided material support (including any funding) to Hamas, the leadership of your organization may also face criminal penalties under federal law,” the Arkansas Republican added.

Cotton also penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the media companies.

“The Department of Justice must immediately open a national security investigation into these four media outlets to determine whether they or their leadership committed federal crimes by supporting Hamas terrorists,” Cotton wrote. JNS

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The 35th day of the war barrage to Gush Dan and the center, 3 aircraft penetrated into Israeli territory - one was intercepted, 2 fell in the northern region.

Netanyahu to the heads of the councils in Otef: Even after the war, the Strip will be controlled • Alarms were raised in the north: 3 aircraft penetrated Israeli territory - 1 was intercepted and 2 fell in the area • Palestinian reports: The encirclement of Shifa Hospital has been completed, there are battles between IDF forces and Hamas terrorists • After three days of silence: Hamas launched a salvo into Gush Dan and the Shefala, 9 rockets were intercepted | Current updates News reporters 12 | N12 | Published 01:07 10.11.23 | Updated 16:14 10.11.23 Mako

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UCLA students batter Bibi piñata to chants of ‘Beat that f–king Jew!’ By Yaron Steinbuch Published Nov. 10, 2023, 1:24 p.m. ET Pro-Palestinian students at UCLA were captured on video battering a piñata bearing an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to the chant of “Beat that f–king Jew!”

A crowd of students assembled around the effigy on Wednesday to express their anger at Israel’s retaliatory strikes in Gaza after the Hamas attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, according to a clip posted on X. NYPost

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Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch: Today at @Concordia in Montréal Jewish and Israeli students set up a table to call for the release of hostages currently held by HAMAS. They were attacked, berated and harassed, and this lovely young lady in particular decided to call a Jew a k*ke. Welcome to Canada in 2023. Nov 8, 2023 [181]

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‘Go back to Poland, sharmuta,’ Montreal professor tells Jewish students. By Danielle Greyman-Kennard Published: November 10, 2023

([182] University of Montreal Professor Yanise Arab (photo credit: screenshot) University of Montreal Professor Yanise Arab)

Jewish students at Concordia University have faced a large number of verbal and physical threats over the last week.

Footage of University of Montreal Professor Yanise Arab telling Jewish Concordia students to “go back to Poland, sharmuta" (wh*re in Arabic) has circulated online after the November 8 incident drew wide outrage.

The identity of Arab was confirmed by X users and later reconfirmed by multiple media sources.

Arab, a humanities professor, specialized in “dominance and resistance in the Arab world.” However, Arab’s staff page at the university has been removed and it is unclear if he is still employed.

Jewish students at Concordia University facing increasing hostilities Yesterday, Jewish students were holding posters of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas when they were attacked by other students.

The situation began when a student called the Jewish students a “k*ke” (an offensive term for Jews) and attempted to snatch the posters of hostages. Soon, students began to wrestle for the stolen hostage photos.

A 22-year-old student was arrested for assaulting a security guard during the attack, CBC News reported. Other security guards also suffered injuries during the attack.

Sarah Wolman, a Jewish student at Concordia, told CBC that Jewish students had organized a peaceful demonstration in support of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas. However, pro-Palestinian students had set up a table only meters from the demonstration and they began loudly chanting...

Wolman described the situation as "very scary, very scary as a Jewish person on campus."..

‘We terrified them!’

A day after the violent interaction, pro-Palestinian students were filmed celebrating on university grounds.

“I was at Concordia University,” said the student speaker, “I was at the University. I was at the Hull building that yesterday witnessed a very intense altercation, and I would like to thank every one of you who came out yesterday to show your support. Whether you were there to purchase keffiyehs for charity or whether you were simply there to show our numbers, to show you are standing in solidarity with us. We terrified them!” JPost

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Concordia University is investigating after swastikas found, online threat made. The university says the incidents occurred the same day as a violent altercation between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups on campus

Author of the article: Jesse Feith, Katelyn Thomas - Montreal Gazette Published Nov 09, 2023 Montreal Gazette

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1 arrested, 3 injured in violent clashes between Concordia University students over Israel-Hamas war. CTV News Nov 9, 2023 Genevieve Beauchemin reports on arrests after a fight broke out between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students at Concordia University... On YouTube

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IDF has struck 15,000-plus terror targets in first month of war. Acting on precise intelligence, the Israel Defense Forces eliminates numerous Hamas Nukhba terrorists who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre; IDF spokesperson says Israel is facing a multi-front dynamic. Yaakov Lappin (November 10, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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‘She was gang-raped, then executed’: Testimonies from Oct. 7 .

The Israel Police questioned perpetrators and interviewed victims and others, shedding light on the sadistic nature of the Islamic terrorists. Itsik Saban

(November 10, 2023 / JNS) A month has passed since the Oct. 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered some 1,400 Israeli residents, but the shocking testimonies are only now emerging as the Israel Police’s special felony unit, Lahav 433, continues with the meticulous documentation of the atrocities.

The detectives have been processing statements of perpetrators and survivors. One of them is a chilling testimony of a young woman who hid with her boyfriend in a shelter, where she witnessed the rape and murder of another Israeli woman.

“I saw them forcing her to bend forward and then someone rape her,” the testimony reads. “They were dressed in olive-toned fatigues, she was alive, and then she fell silent. She was raped and then killed.”

For the first time, the investigators were exposed to messages from ZAKA—Disaster Victim Identification volunteers describing the horrifying scene as they collected bodies and body parts. These testimonies will be used in legal proceedings in the future against Hamas and also as a way to remember the atrocities.

The ZAKA testimonies are graphic and include descriptions of the horrors the volunteers saw when they arrived at the massacre sites to collect the remains of the victims. They, too, confirmed that Hamas terrorists committed sexual offenses against women before killing them.

‘It was hard to tell if it was a man or a woman’

According to the testimonies of the volunteers, there were also sexual abuses against some of the men who were found. In some cases, the victim’s private parts were mutilated. One volunteer said that in many cases, “it was hard to tell if it was a man or a woman.”

Unit Lahav 433 is closely collaborating with the Shin Bet and other security agencies in the interrogation of captured terrorists. Through their investigations, the police aim to assign collective responsibility for the massacre. In one of the investigations, a Hamas operative described how he killed a man and a woman with a hammer.

As part of building the case against the Gaza Islamic terrorist group, the investigators have been collecting testimonies from survivors. “It is challenging to establish contact with people who have undergone such trauma,” members of Lahav 433 said. “It requires emotional and mental intelligence.”

The unit is relating to the atrocity as the biggest case Israel has ever seen, even more significant than senior Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s prosecution for his role in orchestrating the Holocaust. In the case of prisoner exchanges, the testimonies and evidence could also be used in international lawsuits.

One of the horrifying calls that reached the police during the massacre was from a teenage girl.

“I’m a 15-year-old girl, I have school tomorrow,” the girl said on the phone just before the terrorist holding her took her device. The police officer who took the call tried to beg for the girl’s life, but it was in vain, and she was killed.

“A significant portion of the murders were committed by civilians [who crossed the border from Gaza],” the detectives of Lahav 433 disclosed.

The investigators want to prove that the Hamas atrocities were systematic and premeditated. Furthermore, the investigators succeeded in monitoring Hamas groups on Telegram, where terrorists sent some of the documentation of their crimes to encourage one another.

It was revealed in the investigation that for every team of terrorists, there were documenters who recorded the atrocities on GoPro cameras and used smartphones to livestream the massacre to their commanders in Gaza.

At the top levels of Lahav 433, they say that some social networks like Facebook and Instagram cooperate with them, while others have been less cooperative. “Not everyone has shifted to a war mode,” said the police, adding that they estimate it will take many more weeks to collect all the material.

At this stage, the police refuse to disclose whether individuals from within Israel assisted the Hamas attack, but they do say there is evidence that non-residents of Gaza participated in the massacre.

Survivors have reported that they had heard Hamas terrorists speaking among themselves in Persian.

One of the Hamas operatives who was captured said in his interrogation that each cell had a mission, and the terrorists were divided into squads for training. He described how they trained for years. Each cell received a battle plan, and to prevent leaks only the cell leaders were briefed on the actual missions.

The terrorists had ambitious plans, one of which was to take over a community and hold the residents hostage. JNS

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Amid war and urgent need to ID bodies, evidence of Hamas’s October 7 rapes slips away.

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 9 Nov 2023, 3:18 pm Hebrew-language media reported on Wednesday that the Israel Police investigations unit, Lahav 443, has been collecting evidence from terrorist interrogations, witness testimony, and various footage sources about sexual crimes committed by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 onslaught.

These eyewitness testimonies from survivors of the Hamas massacre — in which some 1,400 people were murdered and 240 were taken hostage, the majority of them civilians — are horrific. The sexual abuse committed by Hamas includes acts of gang rape, genital mutilation and necrophilia.

But in the wake of the unprecedentedly large mass-casualty event, physical evidence of sexual assault was not collected from corpses by Israel’s overtaxed morgue facilities amid their ongoing scramble to identify the people killed, many of whose bodies were mutilated and burned. More than a month after Hamas rampaged through border communities near the Gaza Strip and a massive outdoor music festival, Israel is still identifying the dead through disaster victim identification protocols. [...] What the victims’ bodies show

IDF Captain (Res) Maayan, part of the medical staff at the makeshift mass casualty morgue, at Shura Base, October 31, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel) At Shura, IDF Captain (Res.) Maayan, who said she was unable to share her last name, is a dentist and part of the medical forensic team working to identify bodies.

Maayan said on October 31 that she has seen several bodies that had signs consistent with sexual abuse.

“I can tell that I saw a lot of signs of abuse in the [genital region],” Maayan said, using her hand to euphemistically demonstrate. “We saw broken legs, broken pelvises, bloody underwear,” and women who were not dressed below the waist, she said.

Ina Kubbe, a gender and conflict scholar with Tel Aviv University, confirmed that these are signs consistent with sexual violence, but that a forensic investigation is required for any formal determination of rape.

Shari, another IDF reservist working in the Shura morgue, offered similar testimony from firsthand observation of the deceased, in a recorded video verified by the IDF.

An Israeli woman responsible for identifying female victims of the Hamas massacre confirms that Hamas terrorists raped children and elderly women. [pic.twitter.com/izslqX7S6H]. — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 24, 2023

“Yes, we have seen that women have been raped. Children through elderly women have been raped. Forcible entry, to the point that bones were broken,” said Shari, who asked not to share her last name. “We saw genitals cut off,” she added. Shari is part of a special women’s unit that prepares female soldiers’ bodies for burial after mass casualty events. She, too, is not legally qualified to determine rape.

The IDF has also screened, behind closed doors, a 47-minute compilation of raw footage from the Hamas assault, including a video of a mutilated woman whose undergarments had been removed. There are also pictures and videos uploaded to social media providing additional circumstantial evidence supporting rape claims.

Yes, we have seen that women have been raped. Children through elderly women have been raped. Forcible entry, to the point that bones were broken

In their own words: Hamas interrogations Israeli intelligence services have released several clips from interrogations of Hamas terrorists captured after taking part in the October 7 attack.

In one video, a man said that terrorists were “having sex with dead bodies,” with the intention “to dirty them, to rape them.”

Gender violence scholar Kubbe said that “the concept of ‘dirtying’ is significant because it reflects the intention of the perpetrators to tarnish the honor and dignity of the targeted population.”

“By violating the physical and psychological integrity of individuals through sexual violence, the perpetrators aim to degrade and stigmatize the victims and their entire community. This can have long-lasting consequences, including social ostracism, trauma, and a breakdown of social structures,” Kubbe said.

And why take the kids and babies? "To rape them".

This is a Hamas terrorist, during interrogation.

I can't. I just can't. They're worse than even ISIS. What monstrous evil! [pic.twitter.com/e6Gfz2mWPX]. — Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) October 11, 2023

Another videotaped testimony by a captured terrorist who identified himself as Muhammed Nahed Ahmed El-Arsha said bluntly that Hamas committed acts barred by Islam, including rape. [183]

“According to religion, all of what happened is forbidden,” he said, specifying that he meant “the kidnapping, the raping, the whoring of children.”

LEAKED FOOTAGE: Interrogation of Hamas terrorist captured by IDF security in which he admits both beheadings and rape. Disturbing! [pic.twitter.com/FlBaQdOuGQ]. — Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 13, 2023

Another interrogated terrorist also said that Hamas had given them permission to rape the corpse of a girl.

He said that compatriots did “things a person doesn’t do – beheading people, having sex with dead bodies, meaning the body of a dead young woman,” adding that: “It’s not humans that do that.”

A Hamas terrorist who participated in the attack in his interrogation in Israel: Hamas ordered us to kill, behead and even to "have sex their bodies" [pic.twitter.com/55Sqn2LdpD]. — Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) October 23, 2023

“Rape has been used as a tool of war and conflict throughout history, and it continues to be a disturbing and pervasive issue in contemporary conflicts as well,” Kubbe said.

She added that rape is “used as a tool to target specific ethnic or religious groups,” here Jews, and that sexual violence “can be a means of asserting dominance and control over the targeted group.” TOI

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@GLZRadio Galei Zahal @glzradio IDF spokesman in Arabic: A failed missile by the terrorist organizations in Gaza hit Shifa Hospital. @Doron_Kadosh. Nov 10, 2023 [184]

IDF: Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza hit by terrorists. i24NEWS November 11, 2023 at 12:54 AM latest revision November 11, 2023 at 03:30 AM

The facility is said the hide the key command center of Hamas

The Al-Shifa hospital, the biggest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, was hit on Friday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that the attack originated from a misfire by a terrorist organization targeting the IDF troops in the vicinity of the hospital.

The IDF Spokesperson Avichay Adraee stated: "The analysis conducted by the IDF's operational systems indicates that sabotage elements fired rockets targeting the IDF forces operating near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. According to IDF systems, rocket-propelled grenades hit the hospital." i24

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return,”

This is a reference to the Khaybar Oasis, where Mohammed’s forces took action against the tribal Jewish communities, leading to their subjugation, mass expulsion, and slaughter. Nov 11, 2023 [185]

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Microsoft Chief Says Russia Is Spreading Middle East Disinformation. November 11, 2023 14:24 GMT By AFP

Russia has been spreading "disinformation" about the situation in the Middle East, the president of Microsoft said on November 11, as tensions soar in the region. Brad Smith was asked about the role of the U.S. tech giant in promoting peace at an international forum in Paris. He said Microsoft and its competitors were fighting against disinformation. "We are getting very good at identifying a Russian campaign, like when they tried to tell people not to get the COVID vaccine," he said. "Or today, when we see Russian disinformation in the Middle East." Radio Free Europe

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The 36th day of the war 5 fighters were killed in Gaza, 4 of them from an explosive device explosion in a tunnel shaft The IDF spokesman stated that Hamas has lost control of the northern Gaza Strip: "Residents from the Strip are leaving contrary to its instructions" • Earlier, the IDF intercepted a UAV in the skies over Nahariya, two more targets were intercepted on the northern border • Gallant on the northern border: "Hezbollah is close make a grave mistake, they know how to do in Beirut what they do in Gaza" • Regular updates N12 | Published 01:22 11.11.23 | Updated 20:28 11.11.23

The main headlines from today:

The names of five IDF martyrs were allowed to be published. A hostile aircraft is launched towards Sderot and surrounds Gaza - and is intercepted. 2 rockets from Syria fell in an open area in the Golan. Gallant on the northern border: "Hezbollah is close to making a grave mistake." A hostile aircraft entered Israeli territory in the Western Galilee - and was intercepted. Falls in open areas in the Western Galilee ongoing updates.

20:34 - The British Prime Minister condemned the violence in the pro-Palestinian demonstration in London

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the violence seen around the pro-Palestinian march in London, including from far-right protesters who clashed with the police. "What we have seen today does not protect the honor of our armed forces, but rather disrespects them," Sunak said in a statement. "This is true for thugs of the 'English Defense League' (extreme right-wing protesters) who attack policemen and trespassers, and it is true for those who chant anti-Semitic slogans and wave pro-Hamas signs."

(Thousands of participants in the support rally for the families in Hatofim Square in Tel Aviv, this evening | Photo : Amir Goldstein) 20:28 - IDF Spokesman: Hamas has lost control over the northern Gaza Strip - residents are leaving contrary to his instructions

The IDF spokesman said this evening that Hamas has in fact lost control of the northern Gaza Strip and that residents of the northern Gaza Strip are leaving their homes contrary to its instructions. "Yesterday they rushed to accuse us of attacking a hospital, and once again we discovered that it was a mistaken launch," added Brigadier General Daniel Hagari. "Hamas shoots and kills its own people, commits a war crime by using the hospitals."

He clarified that the IDF is not firing at Shifa Hospital, but battles are taking place in its vicinity. "There is a safe and permanent exit and entrance in the eastern part of the hospital," said Brigadier General Hagari. "We also spoke with hospital staff members and said clearly: "The IDF will not attack. We will continue to allow the hospital and the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move south safely."

The IDF spokesman announced that a message was given to the 361 IDF martyrs since the beginning of the war. He also referred to the situation on the northern border, noting that "we attacked a wide range of Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory in response to the shooting." According to him, "Hezbollah, directed by Iran, is trying to challenge Israel. We are focused on Gaza and will continue to act and respond to Lebanon for every shot, for every cell that tries to harm Israel." He added that "for the past six weeks we have been proactively engaged in a variety of moves to return the abductees. It is complex and takes time. We have to wait until we update the families. The IDF and the other security organizations are doing everything to return them."

20:20 - Israel estimates: most of the abductees are being held in the south of the Gaza Strip

In Israel, it is estimated that even before the start of the IDF's ground attack in the north of the Gaza Strip - most of the Israeli abductees were held in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to the estimate in Israel, most of the abductees were taken from Kibbutzim Reim and Nir Oz - which are parallel to the south of the Gaza Strip, and were apparently taken there. [...] 19:20 - Publication of the names of five IDF martyrs was allowed

18:50 - The Shin Bet and the IDF eliminated about 20 terrorists who had been involved in promoting terrorist attacks in recent years.

As part of the Air Force strikes in the Gaza Strip, so far the Shin Bet and the IDF have eliminated about 20 terrorists who in recent years have been promoting attacks from the Gaza Strip to the Otef and Israel. Half of the terrorists who were eliminated belong to the "W Bank Headquarters", the body entrusted with recruiting operatives from the Gaza Strip and (E.) Jerusalem to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, financing and managing Hamas activities.

In addition, more than 10 targets were attacked in the neighborhood of "El Amal State", where Hamas terrorists who were released from Israeli prison in a prisoner exchange deal stay - and since their release have continued to engage in promoting terrorist activity, with an emphasis on funding Hamas attacks in the West Bank and in Israel.

Among the terrorists who were eliminated: Abdullah Abu Seef - originally from Hebron, arrested in 2003 and sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in the murder of Israelis, was released as part of the "Shalit deal" and began operating in the "West Bank headquarters" of Hamas. Ramzi Ok - originally from the Bethlehem area, was arrested in 2003 after recruiting a suicide bomber who carried out a suicide attack, in addition to his involvement in other attacks. He was released as part of the "Shalit deal" and since then has been involved in directing terrorist operatives from Judea-Samaria to carry out attacks against Israelis.

Mahmoud Halabi - Hamas operative, was dominant in the events of the riots on the fence in the Gaza Strip in 2021. In the last year, he served as an inter-regional coordinator for the execution of terrorism in Israel. Muhammad Awadallah - Hamas operative, head of the office of the head of the production headquarters, one of the heads of the interregional guidance infrastructure of Hamas, his father is a veteran Hamas operative, secretary of the executive committee of the Hamas leadership.

18:00 - Reservists destroyed weapons they found in a kindergarten.

Brigade 551, the reserve brigade of commando veterans and paratroopers, is fighting in the Beit Hanun area and destroying Hamas infrastructure, including many weapons, and eliminating terrorists. Among other things, the forces destroyed weapons, ammunition and explosives found in a kindergarten in the Beit Hanoun area. The brigade has been fighting in the area for about two weeks, when during the fighting, the fighters of the brigade eliminate terrorists, scan buildings for weapons, locate and attack hundreds of precise targets in cooperation with air force, engineering and armor forces.

Also, the fighters of the brigade located and destroyed many tunnel shafts, took control of military and even civilian buildings where a large amount of weapons, maps and intelligence materials of the terrorist organization Hamas were found.

17:45 - Galant on the northern border: "Hezbollah is about to make a grave mistake."

Defense Minister Yoav Galant held a situation assessment in the Galilee formation, near the Lebanese border, together with the commander of Division 91, the commander of Hiram formation and the commanders of the battalions in the brigade. "Hezbollah is close to making a grave mistake - the residents of Beirut may end up in the same situation as Gaza where they are already raising a white flag and running away from home," Gallant said. At the end of the assessment of the situation, the Minister of Defense held a dialogue with the brigade's regular and reserve fighters... Mako

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IDF kills Hamas commander who held Gazans hostage at Al Rantisi Hospital Ahmed Siam was killed while hiding in a school. By Jerusalem Post Staff November 11, 2023

The IDF eliminated Ahmed Siam, a company commander of Hamas's Naser Radwan Company, the terrorist responsible for holding approximately 1,000 Gazan residents hostage in Gaza's Rantisi Hospital preventing them from evacuating south to safety, the IDF said on Saturday.

The assassination succeeded with the efforts of both the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). Ground and air troops participated in the operation.

Siam was struck while hiding in a school IDF aircraft struck Siam two days ago, the IDF spokesperson said. He was killed while hiding in the "al Buraq" school, where additional terrorists under this command were also hiding and were killed.

"Siam demonstrates once again that Hamas uses the civilians of the Gaza Strip as human shields for terror purposes," the IDF said.

Since the Swords of Iron war started on October 7, the IDF has killed numerous terrorists involved in the massacre and other leaders. JPost

Hamas’s human shields: ‘Terrorists left the hospital with civilians’ IDF allows terrorists to leave Rantisi Hospital in Gaza to avoid harming Palestinian noncombatants, but later kills Hamas commander.

Yaakov Lappin (November 11, 2023 / JNS)

The Israel Defense Forces evacuated Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City and chose not to target Hamas terrorists leaving it with civilians on foot and in cars and ambulances, military officials said on Saturday. The decision was made to avoid harming Palestinian noncombatants.

The IDF said it worked with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) to later kill the terrorist who held hostage approximately 1,000 Gaza residents at the same hospital.

“Based on precise IDF and ISA intelligence, and with the direction of IDF ground troops, IDF aircraft struck Ahmed Siam, a commander of the Naser Radwan Company of the Hamas terrorist organization. Two days ago, the IDF spokesperson exposed that Siam held hostage approximately 1,000 Gaza residents at the Rantisi Hospital and prevented them from evacuating southwards for their safety,” said the Israeli military.

“Ahmed Siam was killed while hiding in the Al Buraq school, where additional terrorists were found and were killed. Siam demonstrates once again that Hamas uses the civilians of the Gaza Strip as human shields for terror purposes,” added the IDF.

The head of the IDF’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, Col. Moshe Tetro, said on Saturday that “there is no shooting at [Shifa Hospital] and there is no siege. The east side of the hospital remains open. Additionally, we can coordinate [with] anyone who wants to leave the hospital safely.”

Nevertheless, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. (res.) Peter Lerner said on Saturday that hospitals would have to be evacuated in order to go after Hamas.

Maj. (res.) Shay, an operations officer in the Givati Infantry Brigade, stated: “Our mission is to destroy Hamas by reaching its infrastructure and leaders and making sure that Oct. 7 never happens again.

“We’ve seen hundreds of terrorists in underground facilities, in schools, mosques and clinics,” said Shay. “We were in the security quarter in Gaza. We saw a rocket launching site and rocket manufacturing facility along with a tunnel entrance right next to a school.”

A Givati Brigade unit reached Rantisi Hospital this week and had been asking civilians to leave for three full days, calling the hospital director and distributing pamphlets, said Shay. The unit eventually realized Hamas was holding hostages in the facility.

At this point, soldiers approached the hospital, placing themselves at risk, to create an exit route for Palestinian civilians.

“For me, as the operations officer in the command room, I can tell you clearly, we saw terrorists in the hospital and among those evacuating from the hospital. They were using the civilians as a human shield,” said Shay.

“We had a huge dilemma. We looked to identify terrorists in the hospital, trying to figure out if we could use snipers, but we decided not to, firstly to avoid panic and also because it was so hard for us to identify,” he added.

“The overall decision was that attempting to reach terrorists in the hospital would do more harm than good,” said Shay. So the IDF allowed Hamas operatives to leave with civilians.

Terrorists still shot at civilians evacuating the hospital, Shay said.

Meanwhile, IDF ground troops killed numerous terrorists and struck infrastructure and weapons belonging to Hamas’s Zabra Tel Elhua Battalion.

Israeli soldiers also carried out raids that included extensive battles in the southern part of the Sheikh Ijlin neighborhood, in western Gaza City, where a significant number of Hamas terrorists were located.

“Since the beginning of the ground operation, the IDF has taken control of 11 military posts belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization,” the IDF stated Saturday.

Israeli troops identified and neutralized a suspicious vehicle rigged with explosives in a crucial transit area. They also discovered and destroyed an underground tunnel near a school. Forces identified a terrorist cell and directed an aerial strike, eliminating the threat.

The Israel Navy conducted operations against Hamas in northern Gaza, striking infrastructure and weapons depots. IDF infantry identified targets within the Al-Shati Camp, directing naval forces to execute strikes.

Also on Saturday, the IDF and Shin Bet said they killed some 20 Gaza-based terrorists who orchestrated attacks in Judea and Samaria and Israel proper.

On Saturday night, the IDF announced that five additional soldiers had been killed in action in Gaza, bringing the death toll since the launch of the ground operation two weeks ago to more than 40.

In the north, Israel Air Force fighter jets struck terror infrastructure belonging to Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Sirens signaled a possible hostile aircraft intrusion, but no breach was confirmed. A rocket launched towards Moshav Margaliot hit an open area, prompting IDF artillery fire at the source in Lebanon. Additionally, an Israeli drone hit a launch site that had targeted an IAF aircraft near the northern border.

In a televised speech on Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah stated, “There are two incidents that are getting bigger, the first is the Israeli aggression against civilians in Gaza and the second is the heroic and large response by the Palestinian resistance against the enemy forces.

“Those who can stop the aggression are those who manage it—the United States. Those who manage, decide and conduct this battle are in the [Biden] administration. And all of the pressure should be directed at the Americans,” said Nasrallah. JNS

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SHOCKING: "Hitler knew how to deal with these people."

Rebel News UK Nov 11, 2023 #RebelNews SHOCKING: "Hitler knew how to deal with these people"

One of the pro-Hamas supporters speaks his mind on Israel on the streets of London, England.

Antisemitism is on the rise globally. [186]

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Hamas fires on IDF soldiers evacuating civilians in Gaza. The IDF is said to be encircling a triangle area of three hospitals where the Hamas terror group maintains its headquarters. Pesach Benson (November 12, 2023 / JNS) Hamas terrorists on Saturday fired on Israeli forces securing the evacuation of Gaza civilians from the Shati refugee camp, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday morning. JNS

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WATCH: Hamas blocks IDF fuel delivery to Gaza's Shifa Hospital. By Maya Zanger-Nadis. Published: November 12, 2023

The IDF released three separate recordings of the event.

Israeli security forces delivered 300 liters of diesel fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza early Sunday morning and later received intelligence indicating that Hamas had intercepted the delivery, according to a Sunday night IDF statement. JPost

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Hamas nixed Israeli fuel delivery to Shifa Hospital in Gaza. There is no siege on the medical facility, the IDF spokesman said.

(November 12, 2023 / JNS) Hamas prevented the Israeli military from providing 300 liters of fuel for urgent medical purposes at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces revealed on Sunday. JNS

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Herzog: Copy of “Mein Kampf” found in children's bedroom in north Gaza.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 12, 2023

In an interview with the BBC, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed that Israeli security forces had discovered an Arabic copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf in a children's bedroom of a civilian home in northern Gaza that was being used as a terror base.

The civilian home included an explosives laboratory and represented further proof of Hamas’s terrorist activity in the heart of the civilian population in Gaza... that led to World War II. This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a child's room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied again and again, the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing.” JPost

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‘Mein Kampf’ found in kids’s room used as Hamas terror base. "This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II," said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

([188] Israeli President Isaac Herzog holds up a copy of an Arabic translation of "Mein Kampf" that was found by IDF troops in a children's room used as a Hamas terror base in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 12, 2023). (November 12, 2023 / JNS)

A copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” was found in a children’s room that was used as a Hamas terror base in the northern Gaza Strip, Isaac Herzog has revealed.

The Israeli president held up the copy of the Nazi party leader’s autobiographical manifesto during an interview with the BBC on Sunday.

“This is Adolf Hitler’s book, ‘Mein Kampf,’ translated into Arabic. This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II,” Herzog said, according to a statement from the President’s Residence.

“This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a children’s room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied over and over the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing,” said Herzog.

([189] The annotated copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” found at a Hamas terror base in Gaza).

“After the massacre and atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7—the day on which the largest number of Jews were murdered since the Holocaust—this is another revelation that testifies to the sources of inspiration of the terrorist organization Hamas, and proves once again that all its actions have the same goal as the Nazis—the destruction of Jews.”

Herzog last month blasted the BBC for refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organization, choosing to call its perpetrators “militants.” Parts of a previous interview with the British public broadcaster were not aired, including a reference to this criticism.

In interviews, Herzog has also forcefully pushed back against criticism that Israel is not doing enough to protect Gaza civilians, explaining how Hamas cynically hides behind human shields at hospitals, schools, mosques and other civilian sites used to attack Israeli civilians.

During the BBC interview, Herzog addressed the false claims that Shifa Hospital, where the main Hamas headquarters is located, is under siege by Israeli forces.

“Hamas lies and gives false information—there is electricity in Shifa Hospital, everything is working, we are talking to the hospital administrators. We did not enter Shifa Hospital, where unfortunately there is a huge, huge terrorist base operating underneath it,” Herzog said.

“The headquarters and the entire activity headquarters of Hamas-ISIS is right below Shifa. What exactly are we supposed to do? Leave it as it is and then in a few years we will go through the same thing again? And you will tell us that it is disproportionate, and they will kill our civilians again? So we are calling on all uninvolved citizens to move to another hospital nearby, we are coordinating this very delicately with all the forces around the place. Hamas is the one stopping them,” said Herzog. JNS

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IDF strikes terror infrastructure sites in Syria. Israel National News. Nov 12, 2023, 3:27 AM INN

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IDF opens, secures evacuation routes from north Gaza hospitals. IDF publishes recording of conversation with Shifa Hospital manager about opening of evacuation route for civilians and ambulances.

Israel National News, Nov 12, 2023, 12:03 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF hits targets in Lebanon after 21 Israelis wounded by Hezbollah.

By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 12, 2023

Six of the wounded Israelis are employees of the Israel Electric Corporation. Seven others are IDF combat soldiers. JPost

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Kan@kann_news: Exclusive documentation: Hamas operatives brutally beat Gaza residents who tried to take food from a humanitarian aid truck. Afterwards - Hamas took the contents of the trucks for use by the terrorist organization. Nov 12, 2023. [190] Kan News

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EU condemns Hamas for using 'hospitals as human shields.' i24NEWS November 12, 2023 at 06:00 PM latest revision November 12, 2023 at 06:01 PM i24

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Hamas' "Numbers Warfare."

Prof. Kobi Michael, November 12, 2023.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMH) in Gaza is tightly controlled and operated by Hamas, a barbaric radical Islamic terror organization whose charter calls for the mass murder of Jews. Any report by the ministry, by definition, is a Hamas report.

The PMH reports on Palestinian casualties with attribution exclusively to IDF strikes. Reports of Hamas fighters’ casualties are noticeably absent. In short, five weeks after the outbreak of the war, neither the Hamas leadership nor the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported a single casualty among Hamas forces.

No one questioned how PMH reported 30,000 Palestinians wounded when the total number of hospital beds in all medical facilities in Gaza, including UNRWA clinics, did not exceed 3,000. So, where exactly are all the 30,000 wounded? According to PMH reports, there are already more than 13,000 Palestinians dead. If that casualty number is accurate, where were they buried?

Due to the zero reliability of Hamas and its strategic manipulations, we offer an alternative analysis to help determine an objective measure of casualties in Gaza. It starts from a number of dead and wounded which is about half of the number reported by Hamas, although it is possible, and even with high certainty, to assume an even lower number.

At least half of the number of dead and wounded are probably Hamas members, whether armed terrorists, whose identity is disguised as civilians by Hamas, or members of the Hamas establishment. A significant number of the “children” reported as killed or wounded are young people aged 13-18, who were in Hamas facilities or even took an active part in the fighting. (Israeli Minister Ron Dermer, in an interview with Sky News, reported 3,000 Hamas members killed.)

From the remaining number, a significant number of Palestinian dead and injured resulting from nearly 1,000 failed rocket launches that landed short must be subtracted, such as the one that fell on the al-Ahali hospital. From the remainder one must subtract all the Palestinians who fled northern Gaza for the safe zone in the south and who were killed by Hamas.

The small balance of casualties is indeed comprised of unarmed civilians who were regretfully and unintentionally killed by IDF attacks. But compared to every other war in the last hundred years, the collateral damage caused by IDF is low compared to other Western military campaigns, particularly by the UK or U.S. military.

This relatively small civilian collateral damage is the result of Israel’s strict adherence to the international laws of war and the utmost efforts made by the IDF to convince the Gaza civilian population to evacuate battle zones while opening humanitarian corridors and securing safe civilian passage JCPA

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ADL Debunk: Myths and False Narratives About the Israel-Hamas War. October 12, 2023 ADL

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Commander of Hamas anti-tank force killed in Gaza.

Yaakub A'ashur, Head of the Anti-Tank Missile Array of Hamas' Khan Yunis Brigade, killed along with senior operative Mohammed Dababash.

Israel National News Nov 13, 2023, INN

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Israeli civilian murdered by Hezbollah anti-tank fire. By Jerusalem Post Staff November 13, 2023 JPost

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Stabbing attack thwarted in Tel Aviv, 2 arrested. By Jerusalem Post Staff November 13, 2023 JPost

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Terrorists shoot at IDF soldiers from Gaza hospital. RPGs and bullets fired by terrorists embedded among civilians at Al Quds Hospital in Gaza City.

Israel National News, Nov 13, 2023, 3:10 PM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF soldiers kill 21 terrorists in Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City. IDF in Gaza: Weapons found in children's bedroom, university • Israeli military strikes over 300 tunnel shafts, thousands of Hamas installations. By Jerusalem Post Staff November 13, 2023.

Israeli military forces strike Hamas terrorists who launched RPG attack on IDF soldiers from Al-Quds hospital in northern Gaza, November 13, 2023.

...Several terrorists hidden among civilians fired two RPG launchers at IDF soldiers in front of the hospital, the statement said. The combat brigade, which included armor, engineering, and infantry forces, responded with live fire and shelling, with air support. About 21 terrorists were killed, the IDF said, with no Israeli casualties. 

A video of the battle released by the IDF shows civilians leaving the hospital building, as well as other terrorists emerging from adjacent buildings to hide among the civilians and join in the attack, per the statement.... JPost

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IDF reveals how Hamas turned hospital into terror base. [191]. Real Admiral Daniel Hagari delivers statement to media on terror. infrastructure found at Rantisi Hospital. Israel National News, Nov 13, 2023, 9:30 PM INN

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IDF reveals Hamas tunnels leading into Gaza hospital. Signs showed that the terror group had kept hostages in the basement alongside a variety of explosives. (November 13, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IDF: Hamas operated command center, likely held hostages under Gaza kids’ hospital. Army spokesman releases video from basement of Rantisi hospital showing stash of weapons, accuses terror group of using medical facilities in Strip 'as an instrument of war.' By Emanuel Fabian 14 November 2023, 1:06 am Among the weapons found in the hospital basement were suicide-bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and other weapons, according to the IDF. Hagari described the area as a Hamas command-and-control center.

“Hamas uses hospitals as an instrument of war,” said Hagari in a video from the hospital basement, standing in a room decorated with a colorful children’s drawing of a tree above the weapons displayed on the floor.

Speaking in English, Hagari presented evidence showing Hamas weapons being stored underneath Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza, as well as rooms seemingly used to hold hostages. One room staged to look like a living room featured window curtains covering a tiled wall and a calendar of guard shifts starting on October 7, the day Hamas sent thousands of terrorists into Israel, where they slaughtered some 1,200 people and took another approximately 240 people hostage.

In an adjoining room was a chair with a woman’s robe and rope next to one of its legs, which Hagari said was evidence of constraints used.

The chair sat under a piece of equipment donated by the World Health Organization, with a baby bottle on top and diapers on the floor.

“This is a war crime, this is a crime against humanity,” Hagari said, accusing international organizations funding the hospitals of aiding terror.. TOI

T@)_ @malachovsky:

Only the Jews have have to prove every single thing with 50 pieces of evidence and it will still be denied at large. They can provide an MRI, three videos cam with different angles, an explanation, Hamas calling his father to brag about how many people he killed, 20 photos, eyewitness testimony, DNA evidence, and it will still be denied by people like Cassandra McDonald, the filthy Jew-hating douchebag. On the other hand Hamas ministry of health says it and it's gospel across the globe. Nov 13, 2023 [192]

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Golani soldiers raise Israeli flag in Hamas parliament. Israel National News Nov 13, 2023, 8:49 PM INN

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Revealed: Pro-Palestinian protester waving swastika placard on Armistice Day march is ex Labour activist who once accused the party leadership of acting like the Third Reich. By Jack Hardy and Andy Jehring 13:52 13 Nov 2023, updated 16:54 13 Nov 2023

A pro-Palestinian protester seen waving a swastika on Saturday is a former Labour activist who once accused the party leadership of acting like the Third Reich, it can be revealed.

Kate Varnfield, 66, was pictured attending the rally in London this weekend with a placard showing the Star of David enmeshed with the Nazi swastika above the words: 'No British politician should be a 'friend of Israel'.'

It was one of several displays of antisemitism at the rally which is now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police as a possible hate crime... Labour sources in the South East have said that Ms Varnfield joined the Eastbourne Constituency Labour Party (CLP) around the time that Jeremy Corbyn became party leader... DailyMail

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IDF coordinates transfer of incubators to Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Israel National News Nov 14, 2023, 4:09 AM INN

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IDF hits 200 targets in Gaza; Troops uncover tunnel shaft in mosque. Israeli incubators being transferred to Shifa Hospital - Two more IDF soldiers killed in Gaza - Two soldiers seriously wounded on the Lebanon border. Joshua Marks (November 14, 2023 / JNS) ... Israeli forces operating on the ground in Gaza also uncovered a tunnel shaft in a mosque, the IDF said on Tuesday. Israel transfers incubators to Shifa Hospital Also on Tuesday, the IDF announced the start of an “extensive” effort to transfer incubators to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “The pediatric ward at Shifa Hospital needs assistance. Israel is ready to assist. We made a formal offer to health officials in Gaza to transfer incubators into the Gaza Strip to assist the pediatric ward of Shifa Hospital,” said Shani Sasson, spokeswoman for Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). JNS

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WATCH: Gaza resident criticizes Hamas on Al Jazeera, reporter turns away and ignores him.

By Maariv Online, Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 15, 2023. A resident in Gaza publicly criticized Hamas during an interview on the Qatar-run news channel on Tuesday. In response, the reporter turned away and ignored his statement.

Since the outbreak of war since the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, much of the foreign media around the world has covered the war in a biased way and favored reports from the terrorist group. One of the networks that has received the most criticism from within Israel is the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, which broadcasts non-stop from the Gaza Strip.

In a short interview that was broadcast on Al Jazeera Tuesday from the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza, a Gazan resident publicly criticized Hamas. "Why are the members of the organization hiding among the citizens?" the man asked.

Upon hearing the man’s statement, the Al Jazeera reporter of the network took the microphone and immediately changed the subject – presumably because the elderly wounded man dared to challenge the ruthless Hamas regime, which does not allow dissent against their rule... JPost

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24:

Al-Jazeera reporter interviews a wounded elderly man at a Gaza hospital about how he got hurt.

His answer?

“Why is Hamas hiding among us civilians? Why don’t they go to hell and hide there instead?"

The reporters quickly ends the interview….

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New US designations, sanctions on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. "We will continue to work with our partners and allies to disrupt Hamas’s terrorist financing channels," stated U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

(November 14, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. State and Treasury Departments announced sanctions and designations on Tuesday for the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations and their supporters.

The new measures represent the third round of sanctions on those affiliated with Hamas who were involved in the Oct. 7 terror attacks on southern Israel.

Foggy Bottom labeled Akram al-Ajouri, deputy secretary general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and “leader of its militant wing,” a “specially designated global terrorist.”

“Iran’s support, primarily through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, enables Hamas and PIJ’s terrorist activities, including through the transfer of funds and the provision of both weapons and operational training,” stated U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Iran has trained PIJ fighters to produce and develop missiles in Gaza while also funding groups that provide financial support to PIJ-affiliated fighters.”

Blinken added that Washington was coordinating with London “to protect the international financial system from abuse by Hamas and its enablers.”

The Treasury Department’s foreign assets control office designated seven people and two organizations.

The organizations are the Gaza-based Muhjat AlQuds Foundation, “a PIJ-run, Iran-funded organization, whose primary mission is to provide financial support to the families of PIJ fighters and prisoners”; and the Lebanon-based Nabil Chouman & Co, which “has served as a conduit for transferring funds to Hamas, transferring tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist organization.”

The seven are Nasser Abu Sharif, PIJ representative to Iran; Jamil Yusuf Ahmad ‘Aliyan, who leads the Muhjat AlQuds Foundation; Nabil Khaled Halil Chouman, owner and founder of Chouman, and his son, Khaled Chouman; the Lebanon-based money exchanger Reda Ali Khamis; Mahmoud Khaled Zahhar, a Hamas co-founder; and Mu’ad Ibrahim Muhammed Rashid al-Atili, another key Hamas official.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that Washington will continue to work with partners, including the United Kingdom, “to deny Hamas the ability to raise and use funds to carry out its atrocities.”

“Hamas’s actions have caused immense suffering and shown that terrorism does not occur in isolation,” Yellen stated. “Together with our partners we are decisively moving to degrade Hamas’s financial infrastructure, cut them off from outside funding and block the new funding channels they seek to finance their heinous acts.”

The sanctions block property and interests of the designated people and groups, including entities, in which designated people individually or collectively own more than a 50% stake. “The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish but to bring about a positive change in behavior,” the Treasury Department stated.

Washington also designated Hamas operatives and financial backers on Oct. 18 and Oct. 27, as well as in May 2022. JNS

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Israel air defense systems intercept missile over Red Sea area. By Jerusalem Staff. Published: November 14, 2023. JPost

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Kirby: US has information Hamas, PIJ held weapons, hostages at Al-Shifa. Hamas and the PIJ members operate a command and control node from Al-Shifa in Gaza City, and they are prepared to fight the IDF from there, John Kirby said. Tovah Lazaroff, November 14, 2023 JPost

US confirms Israeli claim that Hamas using Gaza hospitals, including Shifa, for military operations. By Jacob Magid. 14 Nov 2023, 9:38 pm TOI

U.S. Says Hamas Using Tunnels Under Gaza Hospitals For Military Operations—And To Hide Hostages. Molly Bohannon Forbes Staff, Nov 14, 2023 Forbes

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IDF unveils Hamas 'pit' under headquarters. Yonah Jeremy Bob, November 14, 2023 JPost

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US lawmakers horrified by video of Hamas atrocities: It's like visiting Auschwitz.

House lawmakers from both parties left in shock and disbelief after seeing footage of Hamas atrocities committed on October 7. Israel National News, Nov 14, 2023.

House lawmakers on Tuesday attended a screening on Capitol Hill of the video assembled by the Israeli government which shows footage of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on October 7.

The roughly 45-minute video includes graphic footage of the murders and atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel that day. Some of the footage was taken from the terrorists’ body cameras.

The screening was attended by lawmakers from both parties, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Greg Casar (D-TX), and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

According to Jewish Insider, lawmakers left the screening largely in grave silence, visibly shaken, several of them openly crying and comforting one another. One lawmaker, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), left in tears less than five minutes after entering.

Speaker Johnson later described the video as “harrowing” and pushed for the Senate to pass House legislation that coupled aid to Israel with cuts to the IRS.

“We had a large group of Republican and Democrat House members in the auditorium this morning, and you could have heard a pin drop — except for the sighs and the cries in the room because the video would make anyone with a soul cry,” Johnson said, according to The Hill.

“I agree with our friend, Prime Minister Netanyahu who said this is a battle between good versus evil, between light versus darkness, between civilization and barbarism. And we want to make absolutely clear where America stands in that fight, and we’ll continue to do that,” he added.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Fox News Digital he felt sickened after viewing the footage.

"I've seen decapitation and I've seen just beating, and beating on both dead and alive bodies," Issa said. "And quite frankly, I'm just sick to my stomach."

"I mean, the details. And you can hear it, but when you see it, it's like visiting Auschwitz or Birkenau, except it's still going on visually," he added. INN

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Nearly 300K descend on DC’s National Mall for march: ‘Largest pro-Israel gathering in history’. Published Nov. 14, 2023, 7:00 p.m. ET NYPost

Nearly 300,000 Israel Supporters Rallied in DC; 900 Stuck as Bus Drivers Refuse To Serve Jews. Clint Van Winkle 11/15/2023 Medialine

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IDF offers incubators for Gaza newborns, aid to Al-Shifa Hospital.

By Sam Halpern. Published: November 14, 2023. JPost

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'BBC' interviews Hamas leader. Yoni Kempinski Nov 15, 2023, 3:46 PM. The popular Israeli program mocked the British broadcaster's anti-Israel bias for a second time, this time with an interview with Yahya Sinwar. INN

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Two IDF soldiers killed, four wounded in Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 15, 2023. JPost

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Five Hamas terrorists killed as IDF battles into Shifa hospital. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. Published: November 15, 2023

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have used Gaza hospitals to store weapons and hold hostages, and are prepared to fight the IDF from medical facilities, John Kirby said.

The IDF entered a specific area of Shifa Hospital early Wednesday morning while seeking to keep its exact goals, timing, and mission classified as the operation is still ongoing, as leaking certain details could endanger IDF forces.

The military also announced that they successfully delivered crucial medical equipment and supplies, such as incubators for babies and baby food. JPost

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Missile fired at Eilat intercepted over Red Sea. Israel National News, Nov 15, 2023, 3:20 PM INN

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Dozens of US troops injured in attacks in Iraq, Syria. (November 15, 2023 / JNS) Fifty-nine U.S. troops have been injured in 56 attacks on American assets in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17, the Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday. JNS

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IDF finds weapons in Shifa hospital as war rages on. November 15, 2023 JPost

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Over 20 rockets fired from Lebanon toward Israel, IDF strikes Hezbollah. Tzvi Joffre. November 15, 2023 JPost

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'We can never forgive': Knesset hosts second screening of October 7 doc. By Ariella Marsden. Published: November 15, 2023. The documentary, which the IDF put together from footage from security cameras and body cams taken from terrorists who were killed and captured, includes uncensored footage of the Hamas's massacre. JPost

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Rashida Tlaib member of secret Facebook group where Hamas terrorists glorified. By Peter Hasson, Fox News, November 15, 2023.

([194] Rashida Tlaib is a member of the private Palestinian American Congress Facebook group. Fox News Digital screenshot of the secret Palestinian American Congress Facebook page)

Exclusive: Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.

The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook. The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform’s search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.

The group’s founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.

Rashida Tlaib The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

On Oct. 12, one group member posted: “We don’t want to throw you in the sea…we want you to ride it back from where you came.” The message was accompanied by a picture of an elderly Israeli woman and a Hamas fighter holding her captive.

Tlaib FB group

On Oct. 19, another group member wrote about the “achievements” of the “resistance in Northern occupied Palestine,” including dozens of dead Israeli soldiers. The post included a picture of a Hamas fighter…. Fox News

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Jewish students sue NYU claiming university allows students to chant ‘gas the Jews. by Richard Percival, The JC, November 15, 2023.

New York University (NYU) has been sued by three Jewish students for allegedly failing to protect them against “festering Jewish hatred permeating the school.”

Bella Ingber, Sabrina Maslavi and Saul Tawil accused the university of “egregious civil rights violations” by allegedly allowing students to chant antisemitic phrases like “gas the Jews” and “Hitler [sic] was right.”

In a lawsuit filed at Manhattan district court, the students claimed antisemitism had been a “growing institutional problem” at NYU even before the war between Israel and Hamas began last month.

The lawsuit also alleges Jewish students’ complaints are “ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting” by NYU administrators.

According to the lawsuit, university president Linda Mills this month dismissed a petition from 4,000 NYU members expressing concern about antisemitism.

The three students in the lawsuit urge NYU to terminate employees and suspend or expel students responsible for antisemitic abuse and pay compensatory and punitive damages.

In one instance, Ingber and Maslavi said that while attending a silent vigil on 17 October supporting Israel, they saw nearby faculty and student members of on-campus pro-Palestinian groups burn an Israeli flag, make “slit-your-throat” gestures toward Jewish students and scream epithets…. The JC

Jewish students sue NYU over ‘egregious’ antisemitism on campus that’s left them ‘under siege’ By Priscilla DeGregory and David Propper Published Nov. 14, 2023, 9:13 p.m. ET Mobs of students have harassed and intimidated NYU’s Jewish population — which is regularly confronted with chants of “Hitler [sic] was right,” and “gas the Jews,” among other hateful phrases, according to the lawsuit.

Additionally, many students and faculty have “enthusiastically endorsed” Hamas’ deadly assault on the Jewish state, the suit states.

When Jewish students plead for help from administrators, complaints from them are either “ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting,” the lawsuit alleges.

As a result, the students have been left “traumatized” and feel like they are treated as “second-class citizens” at NYU because of their Jewish identity and ancestry, the suit states.

“The effect of NYU’s inaction and, indeed, complicity in the torrent of anti-Jewish hatred that has engulfed its campus has been the normalization of antisemitism in the NYU community,” part of the lawsuit states.

“Whereas pro-Hamas faculty and students are permitted to engage in vicious antisemitic hate speech, Jewish students are told to keep quiet, maintain a low profile, avoid making waves, and call a wellness hotline.”

The three students suing the school want a court to force NYU to enact measures that will better combat antisemitism, including disciplining students and staff that are behind the hateful actions. NY Post

Jewish students sue NYU for allegedly enabling antisemitism: 'Given carte blanche to abuse' by Ray Lewis | The National Desk Wednesday, Nov 15th 2023 ... Jewish students have suffered through acts of hatred, discrimination, harassment and intimidation, according to the plaintiffs. The acts allegedly include chants like "Hitler [sic] was right," "gas the Jews" and "from the river to the sea." Abc3340

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Israel: UN agencies ‘complicit’ in Hamas war crimes. David Isaac November 16, 2023 / JNS JNS

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One Israeli killed, five wounded in terror shooting near Jerusalem. The slain victim was identified as 20-year-old Cpl. Avraham Fetena from Haifa. Charles Bybelezer November 16, 2023 / JNS Hamas terrorists shot and killed an IDF soldier and wounded five other members of the security forces near the “tunnel road” checkpoint between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem on Thursday morning. Three Palestinian gunmen arrived at the crossing by car and opened fire on Israeli forces, who responded by shooting and killing the terrorists, authorities said. JNS

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Israeli Soldier Killed in Hamas Terror Attack Near Jerusalem, Police Say Massacre Prevented. by Troy O. Fritzhand, November 16, 2023

An Israeli soldier was murdered in a terrorist attack carried out by Hamas near Jerusalem on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed.

Three Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli security forces at the “tunnels” checkpoint connecting Jerusalem with settlements in the southern portion of the West Bank, police and medics said earlier in the day.

The terrorists wounded six Israelis — including one man listed by Israel’s emergency response service Magen David Adom as in critical condition — before being killed by Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint.

The man in critical condition later succumbed to his injuries, according to the Israeli army. He was identified as 20-year-old Cpl. Avraham Fetena, from Haifa, a soldier of the IDF’s Military Police.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was “in revenge for the blood of the martyrs in Gaza.” While the Palestinian terrorist group is based in and rules Gaza, it also operates out of the West Bank.

According to police, guns, hundreds of bullets, two axes, clothing similar to Israeli military uniforms, and fake Israeli license plates were found in the terrorists’ vehicles.

“They intended to carry out a massacre, an attack on a completely different scale,” said Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai.

Jerusalem District Police Commander Doron Turgeman expressed similar sentiments.

“Axes and a lot of ammunition were found in the terrorists’ vehicle,” Turgeman said. “They were probably planning to carry out a more significant operation in Jerusalem, but we eliminated them before they could do so.”

Last month, Hamas launched the current war in Gaza with its brutal invasion of Israel. On Oct. 7, terrorists infiltrated the Jewish state from Gaza and murdered over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 240 others as hostages.

After the attack, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is also the chairman of the Otzma Yehudit Party, called for tougher measures against both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.

“We need to deal with Hamas in the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority, which has similar views to Hamas and its heads identified with Hamas’ [Oct. 7] massacre, exactly like we are dealing with Gaza,” he said.

While the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have freedom of movement in the West Bank, the PA is in charge of security in most parts of the territory. Over the past few years, however, the PA’’ control in the area has weakened substantially due to local Palestinians not trusting their rule, as well as anger directed at PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

The terrorists in Thursday’s attack were identified as members of Hamas who lived in Hebron. While Hamas is based in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian terrorist group also operates in the West Bank.

“We are warning that the checkpoint has become a death trap because of the bottleneck it causes which endangers the residents who wait along the whole length of the road for too long, and the crowding which doesn’t provide for any solution during a tragic event,” said Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat, a settlement near Jerusalem.

He called for “an immediate solution” to the problem, expressing his fear of the security risk of “terrorists [opening] fire on a group of cars in a traffic jam, and the physical inability of emergency service vehicles to reach them.”

Following the attack, the checkpoint was closed while security forces scanned the area for more potential threats. Algemeiner

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IDF finds hostage photos on laptops at Shifa Hospital. "We uncovered a lot of equipment that can shed light on the current situation, hopefully also regarding the hostages." JNS

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Terror tunnel entrance uncovered at al-Shifah Hospital. IDF Spokesman says Yehudit Weiss was murdered in Gaza. 'We didn't reach her in time.' Israel National News, Nov 16, 2023.

IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari revealed that the IDF had discovered a tunnel shaft at al-Shifah Hospital in the Gaza Strip during operations at the hospital which Hamas has been using as a command and control center.

IDF troops belonging to the Shaldag Unit, the 7th Brigade, and additional special units continue at this hour to conduct targeted activity in the al-Shifa Hospital. Today, Hamas's tunneling infrastructure was exposed inside the hospital. Furthermore, a booby-trapped vehicle that was prepared for the October 7th massacre was discovered, containing a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

In parallel, as part of the ongoing ground activity and searches in the Rantisi Hospital, troops of the Yahalom Unit and 401st Brigade continued to unearth an operational tunnel.

Hagari also addressed the recovery of the body of Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7. Weiss' body was found near al-Shifah Hospital.

"Yehudit was murdered in the Gaza Strip. Unfortunately, we did not reach her in time," he said.

IDF troops continue to operate in the area of al-Shifah Hospital as well as Rantisi Hospital and Al Quds Hospital, were further evidence of Hamas' exploitation of Gazan hospitals for military purposes is being uncovered. INN

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Rockets inside a girl’s bed: IDF reveals more evidence of Hamas' use of civilians. In recorded conversation, two Islamic Jihad terrorists describe how weapons are transferred inside baby strollers. Israel National News, Nov 16, 2023 INN

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Israeli fighter jets hit home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The terrorist group used the residence to direct attacks against IDF soldiers and civilians. (November 16, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Israel: UN agencies ‘complicit’ in Hamas war crimes. David Isaac November 16, 2023 / JNS JNS

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Pro-Al-Qaeda Media Outlet Incites Muslims To Conduct Martyrdom Operations. In The "Heart Of Crusaders' Lands," Praises Attacks On Synagogues In Montreal, Threatens Similar Attacks To 2015 Attacks In Paris. November 16, 2023. On November 16, 2023, the pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet Jaysh Al-Malahem Al-Electroni (Electronic Army of Epic Battles) published a three-page statement, in Arabic, praising three recent attacks that targeted two synagogues in Montreal, Canada, using rifles and Molotov cocktails.

The statement called on Muslims to carry out additional attacks in the land of the "Crusaders," to show their support of Gazans. The statement also incited violence, similar to the 2015 attacks on the office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris following that magazine's publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. The statement argued that jihadi operations today are not the sole responsibility of jihadi groups, but available to all Muslims. Memri

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Pro-Palestinian group shares ‘reprehensible’ antisemitic map of NYC targets on social media. By Jesse O’Neill and Carl Campanile Published Nov. 16, 2023, 6:35 p.m. ET A pro-Palestinian activist group shared a frightening map of New York City newsrooms, businesses and landmark buildings — and called for “direct action” to “globalize intifada.”

In addition to news buildings, Within Our Lifetime, which describes itself as a Palestinian-led community organization, called for followers to target the offices of technology companies. NYPost

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Fairfax County Public Schools suspends student for allegedly blowing whistle on swastika flag By Asra Q. Nomani / Special to the Fairfax County Times Nov 16, 2023 Updated Nov 17, 2023. Last week, Jewish students at Langley High School were stunned to see the image of a U.S. flag that a classmate had drawn in Room 1406 during a meeting of the Muslim Students Association, replacing the stars on the flag with swastikas and the message “Free Palestine!” in between squiggles for stripes. The image circulated quickly at school, as pro-Palestine students staged a “walkout” on Friday, carrying another sign with swastikas on it and chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a call-to-action that Jewish groups have decried as an anti-semitic war cry to destroy the state of Israel.

Now, Jewish students and parents are shocked to learn that Langley administrators this week suspended not only the Muslim student who drew the swastikas on the U.S. flag but also an Asian American classmate whom school officials accused of leaking the photo to the public. Local Jewish community members and their allies plan a rally on Nov. 17, at 11 a.m., at Fairfax County Public Schools’ Gatehouse headquarters, which they have renamed “Hatehouse,” to protest the retaliation against the Asian American teen and the lack of school district action on anti-Jew hate. Fairfax Times

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US officials: Intercepted conversations show Hamas operating in Shifa Hospital. US officials tell CNN the US collected "solid" intelligence that Hamas was using Shifa Hospital as a command node.

Israel National News, Nov 17, 2023, 5:38 AM (GMT+2)

The intelligence the United States has collected that Hamas was using Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a command node is primarily signals intelligence, three people familiar with the assessment told CNN on Thursday.

This included intercepted conversations among the militants discussing the infrastructure, the sources said. Two of the people said the intelligence was solid.

"The US would not have said this if we did not buy the intelligence we’re seeing," one of the sources told CNN.

Earlier this week, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that the US has independent intelligence showing that the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations have been using the Shifa Hospital to conduct their military operations and, among other things, are storing weapons at the hospital.

Israeli special forces raided the hospital early Wednesday morning, finding a Hamas command center there.

On Thursday, Israel released footage of an operational tunnel shaft which was found inside the hospital complex.

An IDF spokesperson later told CNN there are hundreds of miles of tunnels all around the Gaza Strip, including near the hospital.

“We have already found 300 shafts that go into these tunnels, most of them booby trappers, including in the vicinity of that hospital,” the spokesperson, Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler, said. “Now some of these have been also closed by Hamas and others will be revealed when we find them.” INN

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Netanyahu says there were "strong indications" Hamas hostages were held in Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital. evening-news By Caitlin Yilek, November 16. 2023 / CBS News. Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that there were "strong indications" that hostages held by Hamas were at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, but they were no longer there when the Israeli military launched a ground operation there earlier this week.

"We had strong indications that they were held in the Shifa Hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital," Netanyahu told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell.

"If they were [there], they were taken out," he said.

Netanyahu said his government has "intelligence about the hostages," but declined to be more specific.

"The less I say about it, the better," he told O'Donnell.

The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out a "precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area" of the hospital early Wednesday after it warned the terrorist group against using the medical complex as a base. Israel has accused Hamas of having a command center underneath the hospital. Hamas has denied the charge.

Roughly 240 hostages were taken during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Only four have been released, including two Americans.

Israel is considering a proposal in which Hamas would release some of the women and children it's holding hostage in exchange for a cease-fire that would last between three and five days, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan reported earlier Thursday. A number of Palestinian women and children in Israeli prisons could also be released as part of the proposed deal, an official with knowledge of the negotiations said.

Asked about the proposed deal and how close Israel is to securing the release of hostages, Netanyahu told O'Donnell, "We're closer than we were before we began the ground action." He said the ground operation has "put pressure on Hamas to achieve a cease-fire."

"We'll have a temporary cease-fire if we can get our hostages back," he said. "I don't think it serves that purpose for me to elaborate further on that."

He declined to say whether Israel would agree to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages, saying it's "confidential."

There was nearly a deal at the end of October for a hostage release, but it was scrapped at the 11th hour, as CBS News previously reported.

Netanyahu also insisted Israel is trying to wipe out Hamas "with minimal civilian casualties" and that it is "not seeking to occupy" Gaza.

"We want overall military responsibility to prevent the reemergence of terror," he said. "We're not seeking to occupy. That's not our goal. But our goal is to make sure what happens there is different. To do that we have to [do to] demilitarize Gaza and we have to deradicalize Gaza."

"Just as you had to have a different future after the conquest of Germany, you deradicalize, denazify Germany," he said. "After the conquest of Japan, you make sure that the aggressive policies of Imperial Japan are different. There was a cultural change. We need a cultural change here. We can't have a civilian administration enter Gaza that will not fight terrorists, that is committed to funding terrorists as opposed to fighting terrorists."

He said that liberating Palestinians from Hamas will "give them a real future."

When O'Donnell asked whether that also means moving forward with a two-state solution, Netanyahu said the Palestinians need a leadership change.

"I say let the Palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten Israel," he said. "And that means not only making sure that Gaza is demilitarized, but also that Gaza is deradicalized. And if you ask me, we need a different civilian leadership than the one that has been offered to the Palestinians today."

Netanyahu also said that anyone committing violence against innocent Palestinians in the West Bank should be held accountable.

"We hold anyone taking the law into their own hands or committing vigilante violence: that is out," he said. "We cannot accept that." CBS

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Missing text --from the interview-- in above link:

Netanyahu: I have condemned it in Hebrew and in English and here again with you. [We have] condemned any committing vigilante justice. I said that in the Judea Samaria community and by the way they agree with me. 99% of the settlers community in Judea Samaria are law abiding. It's only, a tiny, tiny fraction and some are teenagers who come from ouside the area. But even a tiny fraction is unacceptable.

But I wouldn't make a false symmetry. There is no moral equivalence against the hundreds and hundreds of [terror] attacks. Even today, in Jerusalem.

And, this is a big one. Every violence by extremists we condemn, by anyone. Yet, we are 42 days into the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust, the horrific raping, the burning of babies, slaughtering children in front of their parents, slaughtering parents in front of their children and Mahmoud Abbas is yet to condemn it. Not only that, but officials in his government lauded, lauded this.

There is no symmetry betweem Israel and its foes. at EoZ

(CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 11/16/23 app.podscribe.ai).

Netanyahu to CBS: We're trying to wipe out Hamas with minimal civilian casualties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells CBS News’ Norah O'Donnell that a deal to secure the release of hostages is closer than before.

Israel National News, Nov 17, 2023, 4:49 AM (GMT+2)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News’ Norah O'Donnell, in an interview which aired on Thursday, that a deal to secure the release of some hostages held by Hamas is closer than before.

The proposal would see Hamas release some of the women and children hostages in exchange for a ceasefire that would last between three and five days.

Asked about the proposed deal and how close Israel is to securing the release of hostages, Netanyahu replied, "We're closer than we were before we began the ground action" and added the ground operation has "put pressure on Hamas to achieve a ceasefire."

"We'll have a temporary cease-fire if we can get our hostages back," Netanyahu told O’Donnell, adding, "I don't think it serves that purpose for me to elaborate further on that."

Netanyahu also insisted Israel is trying to wipe out Hamas "with minimal civilian casualties" and clarified Israel is "not seeking to occupy" Gaza.

"We want overall military responsibility to prevent the reemergence of terror," he said. "We're not seeking to occupy. That's not our goal. But our goal is to make sure what happens there is different. To do that we have to [do to] demilitarize Gaza and we have to deradicalize Gaza."

"Just as you had to have a different future after the conquest of Germany, you deradicalize, denazify Germany," he said. "After the conquest of Japan, you make sure that the aggressive policies of Imperial Japan are different. There was a cultural change. We need a cultural change here. We can't have a civilian administration enter Gaza that will not fight terrorists, that is committed to funding terrorists as opposed to fighting terrorists."

Netanyahu also said that liberating Palestinian Arabs from Hamas will "give them a real future." When asked whether that also means moving forward with a two-state solution, Netanyahu said the Palestinian Arabs need a leadership change.

"I say let the Palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten Israel," he told O’Donnell. "And that means not only making sure that Gaza is demilitarized, but also that Gaza is deradicalized. And if you ask me, we need a different civilian leadership than the one that has been offered to the Palestinians today." INN

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TikTok ‘aggressively’ removing content praising Osama bin Laden after letter goes viral By Lauren Irwin, 11/16/23 04:54 PM ET The Hill

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Think Osama bin Laden is trendy, TikTokkers? Try #Talibanlife. Kirsten Fleming. Published Nov. 16, 2023, 6:45 p.m. ET NY Post

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TikTok bans content promoting Bin Laden's 'Letter to America.' TikTok is pulling videos from the app that are promoting Osama Bin Laden's "Letter to America" after they started gaining momentum. Users are focusing on one paragraph in the letter that refers to Palestine. NBC News, Nov. 16, 2023 NBC

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White House denounces TikTok users lionizing Osama bin Laden. by Christian Datoc, White House Reporter November 16, 2023 05:34 PM The White House forcefully denounced a growing number of American TikTok users voicing support for the ideas outlined in Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America."

Dozens of TikTok accounts have circulated the letter, which the former al Qaeda leader published in 2002 as a means of justifying the 9/11 terror attacks, this month. Videos of the trend have garnered nearly 15 million views on TikTok as of Thursday.

"There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history – highlighting them as his direct motivation for murdering 2,977 innocent Americans," White House spokesman Andrew Bates said of the videos on Thursday.

"No one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden," he continued, "particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories."

In one now-deleted video, which previously recorded more than 1.6 million views, a TikTok user asked other users, "If you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis because in the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed, and I have lived, has changed."

"If we’re going to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist, so is the American government,” a TikTok user claimed in a separate video that had earned more than 100,000 views.

TikTok itself also denounced the videos Thursday but claimed that "reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate." Washington Examiner

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Sacha Baron Cohen: TikTok ‘creating biggest antisemitic movement since Nazis.’ Celebrities and social-media executives express concerns about hate online. Names and faces on social media, TikTok..

(November 17, 2023 / JNS) More than 30 people participated in a video call on Wednesday with Adam Presser, TikTok’s head of operations, and Seth Melnick, the company’s global head of user operations. Included were actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing and Amy Schumer.

Cohen said “shame on you” to executives, demanding that they “flip a switch” to stop the flow of hate. “What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” he noted. JNS

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Three in four Palestinians support Hamas’s massacre.

Ninety-eight percent of respondents said the Oct. 7 slaughter made them feel "prouder of their identity as Palestinians." Akiva Van Koningsveld

(November 17, 2023 / JNS) Slightly more than three in four Palestinians have a positive view of Hamas in the wake of its Oct. 7 slaughter in Israel, according to a survey by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) research firm.

The Ramallah-based institute polled 668 Palestinian adults in the southern Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria between Oct. 31 and Nov. 7. (The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points, AWRAD said.)

The Palestinian poll, the first of its kind since the Oct. 7 attacks, found that 48.2% of respondents characterize Hamas’s role as “very positive,” while 27.8% view Hamas as “somewhat positive.” Almost 80% regard the role of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades “military” wing as positive.

The Al-Qassam Brigades killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and wounded thousands in the Oct. 7 attack on southwestern Israel. In addition, terrorists took some 240 people hostage.

When asked whether they support or oppose Hamas’s actions on Oct. 7, 59.3% of the Palestinians surveyed said they “extremely” supported the attacks and 15.7% said they “somewhat” support the murderous rampage.

Only 12.7% expressed disapproval, with 10.9% saying they neither support nor oppose the attack.

Almost all (98%) of the respondents said the Oct. 7 slaughter made them feel “prouder of their identity as Palestinians,” with an equal percentage saying they would “never forget and never forgive” the Jewish state for its ongoing military operation against Hamas.

Three-quarters said they expect the Israel-Hamas war to end in a Palestinian victory.

In response to the question “What would you like as a preferred government after the war is finished in Gaza Strip,” 72% said they favor a “national unity government” that includes Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Approximately 8.5% said they favor a government controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

In addition, more than 98% of Palestinians surveyed by AWRAD hold negative views of the United States.

On Nov. 8, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Gaza must be handed over to the P.A. following hostilities. The solution in “must include Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,” stated Blinken.

During an Oct. 18 visit to Tel Aviv, U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a speech in which he claimed that “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.”

AWRAD said that “the poll’s sample includes all socioeconomic groups, ensuring equal representation of adult men and women, and is proportionately distributed across the West Bank and Gaza.” JNS

Imshin @imshin: Amit Segal: A new survey by Bir Zeit University among the Arabs of Gaza and Judea & Samaria, a wake-up call to anyone who mistakenly believes that it is possible to separate Hamas and Gaza or between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea & Samaria:

Support for Hamas: 59% fully justify the October 7 massacre.

Another 16% support "to a certain extent" (only the murder of girls? only beheadings?)

More supporters of the massacre in Judea & Samaria than in Gaza... Nov 16, 2023. [195]

Are the Arabs of Judea and Samaria different? 68% of them fully justify the massacre and support Hamas Is it possible to separate Gaza from Judea and Samaria? An in-depth survey conducted by a research institute at Bir Zeit University revealed that a large majority of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria, an even larger majority than residents of Gaza, support Hamas and the barbaric acts they committed in the attack on Israel | The complete data (survey) | Kikar haShabbat, 16.11.23

A new survey conducted by a research institute at Bir Zeit University among the Arabs of Gaza and Judea and Samaria is a wake-up call for anyone who believes, probably wrongly, that it is possible to separate Hamas from Gaza or between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria.

According to the survey, carried out by Nader Said and the Orad Institute, in which approximately 670 Palestinians participated, most of them residents of Judea and Samaria, the majority of Palestinians support Hamas and justify the barbaric massacre of Israeli citizens on the morning of Simchat Torah.

As for support for Hamas: 59% of the participants in the survey answered that they fully justify the October 7 massacre. Another 16% answered that they support "to a certain extent" the massacre.

If you divide the results by residential areas, the picture is even more horrifying: most of those who support the massacre are residents of Judea and Samaria (68%) compared to 47% in Gaza.

Since the outbreak of the war, there have been various calls, mainly on the left, to transfer control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority the day after the war. Opposition leader Lapid also stated that in his opinion this is the right thing. Netanyahu, for his part, made it clear in press conferences that he opposes it. ... The data from the published survey can be a wake-up call. Kikar

Survey finds majority in the West Bank support the Oct 7 massacre Guy Azriel & Paz Grace November 16, 2023 at 01:23 PM latest revision November 16, 2023 at 04:30 PM

The Birzeit University poll finds that Palestinian terror groups are widely supported, with over 80 percent supporting the various factions

An opinion poll conducted by Birzeit University's Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD) revealed that a majority of surveyed Palestinians in the West Bank support the October 7 massacre carried out by Hamas, and an even wider majority have a positive view of the various terrorist factions.

After over 1,200 people were brutally murdered and over 240 taken hostage, including children and elderly, many civilians tortured and raped, the survey showed that 68 percent in the West Bank strongly supported the massacres and kidnapping, while another 16 percent supported to some extent.

Asked on their view of various entities, respondents answered overwhelmingly in support of the military wings of the terrorist organizations; Palestinian Islamic Jihad with 84 percent; al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades with 80 percent, and al-Qassam Brigades with the highest 89 percent, though Hamas as a whole received a lower 76 percent.

Political bodies, the press, and and other countries were much less appraised. The governing Palestinian Authority was with only 10 percent, though the ruling party Fatah got a slightly higher 23 percent, and the UN received nine.

Russia was the most positively viewed country with 40 percent support, Iran received 32 percent, the UK got 3, and dead last were the United States and Israel with zero.

After the October 7 attacks, 98 percent felt more proud to be Palestinian. Due to the solidarity marches across the world, 78 percent "felt strongly or to some extent that there is hope for humanity in the future."

Furthermore, 65 percent identified the war as being against all Palestinians, and 98 percent reported that they will "never forgive and never forget."

As such, 68 percent indicated that their support for a two-state solution decreased, and 80 percent were more determined for a Palestinian state. However, 90 percent responded "coexistence is increasingly impossible."

AWRAD "surveyed 668 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, during the fourth week of the ongoing Gaza War. The team conducted the survey through tablet-assisted, face-to-face interviews," according to its press release.

It added that "the poll’s sample includes all socioeconomic groups, ensuring equal representation of adult men and women, and is proportionately distributed across the West Bank and Gaza." i24

After her body was recovered: Noa Marciano was laid to rest. Uriel Be'eri 17.11.23 |

A day after her body was recovered from the Gaza Strip by IDF forces, the late Corporal Noa Marciano was laid to rest in the cemetery in Modi'in. The mother witnessed the eulogy: "You watched over us, but we didn't watch over you." The funeral of the late Corporal Noa Marciano was held today (Friday) at the cemetery in Modi'in, a day after her body was rescued by IDF forces from a building near the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Before the funeral, residents of Modi'in were called to accompany Marciano through the streets of the city with Israeli flags. Srugim

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Israel attacks Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 17, 2023 11:55

IDF fighter jets struck several Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon on Friday, including terrorist infrastructure, a weapons storage facility, and a military structure.

The Israeli military also struck a terrorist cell in the area adjacent to Arab al-Aramshe. JPost

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Attempted shooting attack near Hebron, terrorists neutralized. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/17/2023 . 10:28 AM JPost

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Armed suspect arrested near Israel's embassy in Azerbaijan. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/17/2023 09:42 AM JPost

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IDF 'close to dismantling' Hamas military system in north Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/17/2023 08:04 AM JPost

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IDF troops eliminate five terrorists in northern Samaria. By Walla! 11/17/2023 07:52 AM JPost

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Senior Hamas political bureau member Ahmed Bahar killed in IDF strike - report. Ariel Oseran November 17, 2023 at 04:37 AM latest revision November 17, 2023 at 04:49 AM i24

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Top Hamas Official Ahmad Bahr And Palestinian Freedom Movement Secretary-General Khaled Abu Hilal Killed In IDF Gaza Airstrikes; Bahr Prayed For Killing Every American And Jew 'To The Last One,' Glorified Martyrdom; Abu Hilal Called On Palestinians Abroad To 'Target Every Infidel Zionist.' November 17, 2023 Memri

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Blinken speaks to Gantz, discusses efforts to boost Gaza aid. By Reuters 11/17/2023 01:17 AM JPost

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IDF locates more Hamas terror tunnels, uncovers info on Gaza hostages. Gadi Zaig, November 17, 2023. The IDF earlier also found RPG bombs, mortar bombs, and weapons in a Gaza kindergarten. JPost

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The police investigation reveals: 364 were slaughtered at the nature party in Re'im. With the publication of the investigation, 3 significant findings become clear - The number of those murdered at the party constitutes a third of all those murdered on October 7th - Despite the initial suspicion, the party was not one of the terrorists' targets at all - When did the district commander warn of the terrorists' infiltration and what really happened at the nature party on Black Saturday? Branu Tegene | The main edition | Published 22:25 17.11.23 Mako

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The 43rd day of the war. Alarms in Safed were activated due to the interception of a missile launched from Lebanon to an Israeli drone.

Palestinian reports: 5 terrorists, including a battalion commander in Fatah, were killed by a UAV in the refugee camp in Balata • The Arab media report that the IDF attacked in southern Lebanon, near Rosh Hanikra • Negotiations for a deal: Israel insists on the release of all the mothers and the children held in the Gaza Strip • Biden spoke with the Emir of Qatar about "the need to release the abductees" • IDF spokesman: "We will act wherever Hamas is - and it is also in the south of the Gaza Strip." News reporters 12 | N12| Published 18.11.23 |

([196] Mahmoud Zahad al-Zoufi, one of the leaders of the Balata Battalion in Fatah) Mako

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Brother of the tunnel road attack perpetrator was arrested in Hebron. By Amir Bohbot/Walla! Published: November 18, 2023. JPost

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Successful interception: missile launched from Lebanon at IDF drone. By Walla! 11/18/2023 JPost

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5 Palestinians said killed in strike in West Bank’s Balata refugee camp. 11/18/2023 [...] Haaretz reports that four of those killed were affiliated with Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, citing “hospital testimonies.”

Ynet reports that among the five killed was a terrorist who killed an Israeli man in a shooting attack on a West Bank road Thursday early this month, sparking a manhunt for the assailants and revenge attacks by settlers, amid spiking tensions in the territory. Elhanan Klein, 29, was killed as he was returning from army reserve duty to his home in the settlement of Einav in the northern West Bank on November 2. Medics found him dead in his car, which crashed and overturned on the side of Route 557 near the Palestinian town of Bayt Lid, northwest of Nablus.

Earlier Friday, the IDF said troops had killed seven Palestinian gunmen in two separate incidents throughout the West Bank. TOI

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Residential building damaged after rocket attack targets Sderot. By Jerusalem Post Staff, 11/18/2023. JPost

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IDF's Duvdevan Unit raids Hamas infrastructures, finds weapons in school. By Jerusalem Post Staff, 11/18/2023. JPost

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Israel calls on Gazans in south to evacuate, kills Hamas terror cells. By Jerusalem Post Staff, 11/18/2023. JPost

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The investigation of the terrorist of the Nukh'ba force | The terrorist reveals in the investigation: "Hamas operatives place civilians on the roof of the house so that the IDF does not shell".

New documentation from the investigation of one of the terrorists who carried out the massacre, shows how Hamas uses the residents of Gaza as a human shield • "Israel will see 20, 30 or 50 civilians - therefore it will not shell the house", he claimed • Former prosecutor Mandelblit explained how the death penalty could be imposed on The captured Noh'ba terrorists. N12 | Published 20:46 18.11.23

New documentation from the investigation of a terrorist: a terrorist from the Nuh'ba force who was caught during the massacre on October 7 in Kibbutz Miflasim. The documentation reveals how Hamas operatives use the residents of Gaza as human shields to save themselves.

In the documentation uploaded to the account of network influencer Yosef Haddad on the social network X (formerly Twitter), the terrorist is seen saying:

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"Citizens are being taken advantage of. For example, we have heard a lot that the house of a Hamas operative should be bombed, so Hamas operatives place civilians, the 'wretched of the people', on the roof of the house." . The terrorist also says in the documentation, "Israel will see 20, 30 or 50 civilians - therefore it will not bomb the house." Also, the terrorist says in the documentation that he knows of cases in which the residents of Gaza were exploited for the purposes of Hamas.

Another photo was published this evening that shows how Hamas uses civilians: soldiers documented how armed men hide among a group of children so that they would not be harmed. The photo came to News 12 through a military source. ([199] Terrorists in Gaza are surrounded by children who act as human shields)

Earlier this evening, Avichai Mandelblit, the former Attorney General, spoke on "Meet the Press" regarding the death sentence for the terrorists in the October 7 attack: " This is the most shocking event at the most serious levels of crimes against humanity and it is probably genocide. Therefore, there is no question . I can present four formats of imposing the death penalty. Even in a district court it is possible to reach these crimes."

Mandelblit added in an interview with Amit Segal and Lev Caspit, "If the prosecution asks for the death penalty - and it is justified to ask for the death penalty - the court will impose the death penalty. It is possible to re-establish the military court in Lod that was frozen. If terrible things happen - we will bring it back. This is the worst thing that has happened to us from the beginning of Zionism". Mako

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UK doctor who worked at Shifa confirms Gaza hospital used for ‘non-medical purposes.’ ‘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. By Gianluca Pacchiani, 19 Nov 2023.

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 doctor, who declined to give his name for fear of endangering his colleagues in Gaza, said he had worked at Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank for three months, three years ago.

“When I was first asked to work there [at Shifa], I was told there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot,” he was quoted as saying.

“Was it explained to you why that was?” asked journalist Irris Makler in the recorded conversation.

“No, but implicit was that it was being used for non-medical purposes,” replied the doctor.

“And did you see anything non-medical or did you obey the instruction and stay away?” the interviewer continued.

The doctor said: “I stayed away, but I saw a few dodgy-looking non-medical characters going in and out all the time. It was a ward leading to a basement. As I said, I didn’t go there; so I behaved myself.”

“They would say there could be many other reasons that you would be told not to go to a particular area of a hospital. It’s not unusual,” the journalist argued.

“Well, I was welcome everywhere else, and as I say, the doctors and nurses there were very welcoming and very kind, and the hushed tones under which this was said were consistent with all the other hushed tones with which Hamas was discussed. You know, people were genuinely fearful,” the doctor replied.

“I cannot emphasize too much the air of collective paranoia that existed there,” he continued.

The physician also reported to the journalist that if hospital staff were 10% frightened of possible Israeli airstrikes, they were 90% frightened of being persecuted by Hamas.

Separately, a journalist from Italy who spoke to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity recounted that in 2009, right after Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Hamas, he visited Gaza’s hospitals looking to interview wounded members of Fatah — the rival Palestinian faction that Hamas violently ousted from the coastal enclave in 2007.

“Eventually, I realized that they were all at home — Fatah members were too afraid to stay in the hospital, even if they were wounded,” the journalist said.

“Shifa is a very large compound. I got lost inside it, and at some point I ended up on an underground floor, and I found myself in front of two armed Hamas men in military attire, who told me to get out.”

“I got the impression they were guarding a security door that gave access to their underground infrastructure. Several Palestinian sources I spoke with later on confirmed that Hamas’s command and control center was located under Shifa Hospital and that [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh had been hiding there throughout the duration of Operation Cast Lead.”

A satellite image issued by the IDF shows what the military says are Hamas command centers located underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza, October 27, 2023 (IDF) Shortly after the October 7 onslaught in which 1,200 Israelis were brutally slaughtered by Hamas terrorists and around 240 were kidnapped into Gaza, the IDF revealed that Hamas has been using Gaza’s hospitals for military operations, a claim confirmed by the US administration.

Shifa Hospital is believed to be one of the nerve centers of Hamas’s underground terror infrastructure. The IDF has been operating around and in the medical center for more than a week, uncovering what it has said is evidence of Hamas’s use of the site for terrorist activities.

The hospital was almost completely evacuated on Saturday, with most patients, staff and displaced people who were sheltering in the building departing, leaving behind only a basic crew to care for those too sick to move, and Israeli forces in control of the facility.

Denying an AFP report, the military said it did not order an evacuation, and that medical personnel were being allowed to remain in the hospital to support patients who cannot be moved.

The IDF also said soldiers transferred over 6,000 liters of water and over 2,300 kilograms of food to the medical facility.

“This activity was done in parallel with the IDF activities to locate and thwart terrorism in the hospital,” the IDF said. Israeli forces uncovered an entrance to a Hamas tunnel and a cache of weapons, in addition to other findings over the past few days.

“We see the presence of Hamas in all hospitals, it is a clear presence. They make cynical use of the hospitals, like here in the heart of Shifa,” Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, head of the IDF Southern Command, said on Friday. TOI

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Fortified terror tunnel exposed underneath Gaza's Al Shifa hospital complex. IDF says tunnel, outfitted with blast-proof door and firing hole, found alongside booby-trapped vehicle loaded with weapons

Yoav Zitun | published: 11.19.23. Ynet

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Special documentation: The IDF uncovered a terror tunnel under Shifa Hospital.

Under the guidance of the Shin Bet and Amman: the route of a terrorist tunnel about 55 meters long was uncovered near the internal department of the hospital • The tunnel shaft that was found contained various protective measures, including the top door and a firing slit • A captured vehicle hid the shaft, after its explosion - the tunnel was exposed • Explosive charges were also found in the physical therapy department, an investigation room in the heart department, and weapons and intelligence in the MRI complex Nir Dvori| N12| Published 18:59 19.11.23

The tunnel shaft was located on the hospital grounds under a shed, where there was also a vehicle with many weapons on it including, among others, RPGs, explosives and Kalashnikov weapons. After the explosion of the trapped vehicle - the tunnel was revealed. Mako

Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid: One-shot footage of entrance to Hamas tunnels deep under Shifa hospital. @UN, @antonioguterres, you there? Nov 19, 2023. [200]

Eylon Levy @EylonALevy: Today’s revelation of Shifa Tunnels shines a spotlight on the @IDF’s professionalism and the media’s sensationalism. This was filmed two days ago. For two days, we’ve faced criticism that the Shifa Terror Complex is all a big [supposed] "hoax." Patience pays. Nov 19, 2023. [201]

WATCH: Fortified Terror Tunnel Exposed Underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza. By Jewish Press News Desk - 7 Kislev 5784 – November 19, 2023  Jewish Press

Israel: 55-Meter Fortified Tunnel Found Under Shifa Hospital. November 19, 2023 6:06 PM VOA News. An opening to a tunnel that, according to Israel's military, was used by Palestinian militants under Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip as seen in this screen grab taken from a handout video released by the Israel Defense Forces, Nov. 19, 2023. An opening to a tunnel that, according to Israel's military, was used by Palestinian militants under Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip as seen in this screen grab taken from a handout video released by the Israel Defense Forces, Nov. 19, 2023. VOA

Israel war room @IsraelWarRoom: Joint IDF and ISA announcement: Fortified Terror Tunnel Exposed Underneath the Shifa Hospital Complex Based on IDF and ISA intelligence, IDF troops exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 meters deep underneath the Shifa Hospital complex. A deep staircase leads to the entrance of the tunnel shaft, which consists of various defense means including a blast-proof door and a firing hole. This type of door is used by the Hamas terrorist organization to block Israeli forces from entering the command centers and the underground assets belonging to Hamas. The tunnel shaft was uncovered in the area of the hospital underneath a shed alongside a vehicle containing numerous weapons including RPGs, explosives, and Kalashnikov rifles. IDF and ISA forces are continuing to uncover the route of the tunnel. Nov 19, 2023. [202] [203] [204]

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IDF reveals: How intel led Israel to Hamas's Shifa terror tunnel. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. November 19, 2023

Israeli Military to blow through additional tunnel door • Intelligence estimates indicate that other tunnels are likely to be found shortly

The IDF on Sunday unveiled its military moves and intelligence process which led to revealing Hamas’s 55-meter-long tunnel at Al-Shifa Hospital. JPost

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Dramatic footage: Hostages led through Shifa Hospital on October 7th. In footage from the hospital on the day of the massacre, October 7th, 2023, between the hours of 10:42 and 11:01 a.m., hostages abducted from Israeli territory are seen surrounded by armed Hamas terrorists. Israel National News  Nov 19, 2023, 9:01 PM (GMT+2) INN

Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid: Breaking: Israel military uncovered footage of hostages being led INSIDE Shifa Hospital Nov 19, 2023 [205]

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian: IDF releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7. Nov 19, 2023 [206]

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COGAT @cogatonline: These are Hamas operatives running into the Rantisi during combat.

Hamas released this bit on an official bragging video. No shame.

1. FreeGaza from Hamas
2. NotATarget

Nov 19, 2023 [207] Israel to discuss death penalty for terrorists in Knesset committee. November 19, 2023 JPost

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Remains found of 12-year-old girl burned alive by Hamas. Archaeologists identified Liel Hetzroni's remains. Etgar Leflovits

(November 19, 2023 / JNS) The remains of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, burned alive alongside her twin brother and great-aunt in the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught on southwestern Israel, have been identified by archaeologists sifting through the rubble, family members said on Sunday.

Liel Hetzroni was murdered, together with her twin brother Yanai and their 73-year-old great-aunt Ayala, in the attack on Kibbutz Be’eri after they were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists, who were then engaged in a firefight with Israeli security forces.

The twins had been raised by their grandfather’s sister after their single-parent mother suffered brain damage immediately following their C-section birth due to a tragic hospital mistake.

Their grandfather Aviya was also killed in the attack on the kibbutz.

Family members held a symbolic, funeral at a temporary resting place at Kibbutz Revivim last Wednesday, burying Liel’s belongings since her remains had not yet been identified.

The family said Sunday that they will inter her remains at her home kibbutz, which is currently a closed military zone, when the survivors of the terrorist rampage are allowed to return.

About 10% of the 1,000 members of Be’eri, which faces the Gaza Strip, were murdered during the assault. Overall, more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed, and some 240 others were kidnapped in the onslaught. JNS

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International media and the Hamas supporting Doctors of Shifa.

November 19, 2023

With every step Israeli soldiers take inside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the hysteria of Hamas propaganda goes up a notch. We are presented with a string of doctors talking about incubator babies, corpses being eaten by dogs, a lack of electricity, and medical procedures being performed without drugs...

Mohammed Abu Salmiya – Head of Shifa Hospital Mohammed Abu Salmiya is the head of Shifa hospital. His name is spelt in various ways in the media, but I found him quoted everywhere from the BBC and the Guardian to CNN and the NYT.

On FB he spells his name ‘Abu Selmia‘. According to his own posts – his brother was killed by the Israelis in September 2004 in Gaza.

His brother was a leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the Hamas military wing. His death was a targeted strike.

Abu Salmiya has been the source of several of the most outrageous stories into the mainstream.

His own timeline is full of support for terrorism. In the image below is a celebratory attack following a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on 23 November [208] (a better translation is ‘fight fire with fire’), and praise for terrorists Udai Tamimi [209], Ibrahim al-Nabulsi (Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) and Khaled Mansour [210] (Islamic Jihad).

It seems the BBC or NYT have a particular talent for finding hospital staff who openly celebrate when Israelis are murdered, such as when seven Israelis were murdered outside a synagogue on January 27 2023.. David Collier

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Israel pounds Iran proxies in Lebanon as US assists with Hamas hostage negotiations in Gaza.

The Israeli military continued to pound Hezbollah and Iran's other proxy terrorist groups in Lebanon on Sunday as media reports suggested there may be a tentative hostage release agreement with Hamas. Israel has allowed shipments of fueld and aid into Gaza, restarting some phone and internet communications.

Covered by: Anders Hagstrom, Andrea Vacchiano and Landon Mion, November 20, 2023.

Israel-Hamas war: IDF says hostage Noa Marciano was murdered inside Al-Shifa Hospital.

IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari released new details about the death of an Israeli hostage during a press conference on Sunday.

IDF servicemember Noa Marciano, 19, was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

"Noa was taken into Gaza alive, she was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza City next to the Shifa Hospital," Hagari said. "During ongoing combat, in the vicinity of where she was held captive, Noa’s Hamas captor was killed and Noa was injured."

Hagari said that Noah's injuries were "not life-threatening" and said that Hamas terrorists murdered her inside the Al-Shifa Hospital after she was wounded.

"Hamas terrorists took Noa into Shifa hospital where she was murdered quickly," he continued. "Hamas murdered Noa inside Shifa hospital. Our thoughts are with Noa’s family. We send our heartfelt condolences to Noa’s family. We did not reach Noa in time."

"This has only made the IDF more determined to do everything, everything in our power, to bring all our hostages home," Hagari added.

Fox News Digital's Dana Karni contributed to this report. Fox News

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Watch: Chris Christie shows off dog tag from hostages' families. Former NJ Governor says Israel and US should work out a deal to free hostages. Israel National News, Nov 19, 2023, 11:11 PM (GMT+2)

Former New Jersy Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie spoke to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday about the situation in Israel and his recent trip to the country.

At the start of the interview, Christie showed a dog tag he received from families of individuals taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 8th with the inscription "Bring them home now."

"I really believe that it's time for the Israeli government and the US government to work out a fair deal to bring some of these hostages home. The torture the families are going through is extraordinary, and they need to get their family members home. There are some children who are hostages and some folks in their 70s who are being held hostage, their health certainly must be at risk. So I would support a deal that is fair and equitable and one that gets these people home now."

Christie was also asked whether he believed Israel was following international law, to which he answered with a strong affirmative. "I absolutely do think Israel is following international law. I will tell you, unlike a lot of other people who are expressing opinions about this, I was there and spoke to the leaders in Israel. I spoke to the President of Israel. I spoke to members of the Israeli Defense Forces. I was 600 yards from the Gaza border. I went everywhere in Israel to see what was going on, and they are doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties. The problem is that Hamas is forcing these civilians to stay in places where Israel's warning them out of, dropping hundreds of leaflets and sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to warn people away from areas before they're attacked. It is Hamas that is doing this."

He noted: "And let us not forget, for those who are advocating for a ceasefire, there was a ceasefire on October 6th, and it was Hamas that broke it on October 7th. I will tell you, I saw the 43-minute video that's been put together by the Israeli government from raw footage from not only Israeli sources but also from body cams and dash cams from the Hamas terrorists. What they did on October 7th was the greatest violation of international law and the greatest violation of humanity, and the worst part was that they did it with joy."

The former governor was also asked about the situation in Judea and Samaria and what the interviewer referred to as "settler violence." Christie said that the US needs to tell Israel to "get control over what's happening with settlers" but refused to call for a building freeze in the region, saying he would not want to "dictate policy to the Israeli government." According to him, "That kind of violence in the West Bank is a distraction from what needs to be done, which is to protect Israel's territorial integrity, protect the safety and security of their citizens, and to make sure that Hamas' capability to commit this type of act again degraded militarily." INN

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Infant photos at Shifa are not believable.

November 19, 2023.

Over the past couple of days, we've seen photos like these out of Shifa hospital:

The caption from Reuters says, "Newborn babies in al-Shifa hospital are swaddled and laid down seven or eight to a bed in a desperate effort to keep them warm and alive."

But if you want to keep the babies warm without an incubator, you would swaddle all of them - not leave some naked. You would cover their heads with the knit caps some of us are familiar with.Or, ideally, you would find people to hold them - preferably their mothers - and give them skin to skin contact to keep them warm.

You don't just lie them on a bed, some of them without clothes, one of them (who does not look premature or sickly at all) with their face pushed up against the sharp corner of a box.

This is not treating premature babies. This is abusing them for a photo-op.

Another photo of babies from Shifa hospital shows something interesting:

There is equipment and lights in the background that is clearly running on - electricity. .. EoZ [211]

Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas:

A photo of Gaza babies has appeared all over social media saying they were taken out of their incubators because the hospital doesn’t have electricity.

The thing is there’s also an uncropped photo that clearly shows a functional electrical monitor in the background.

Did Hamas endanger these babies for their propaganda war. Nov 12, 2023 [212] [213]

(Flashback to January 2008: LIARS in ACTION in Gaza - (and ..ckers will buy the lies as usual) Look at these telling photos: [214] Poor Palestinians have to be with candles everywhere; in the streets, in conference rooms, even babies in incubators! Or, can it be a staged lie?! Watch the windows and the artificial lights on the photos made with wider angles ... How sad! The only problem is that for seeing the candle-lights they had to darken all these rooms with shades first, and in the street they forgot to turn off the advertisement lights. Look at all these fakes in the really telling photos by the AP and Reuters... Liars are in action as usual, and ..ckers will buy their lies as usual... TakeAPen [215])

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Israel, Hamas and the Rules of War Nov. 17, 2023.

To the Editor:

Re “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide,” by Omer Bartov (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Nov. 10):

Mr. Bartov, a Holocaust scholar, warns that Israel is very likely committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza that can devolve into genocide. To show “genocidal intent,” he cites furious Israeli statements made immediately after Oct. 7.

But these do not reflect actual Israeli policies toward civilians. Israel’s targets are military: Hamas’s soldiers, tunnels, headquarters and weapons stocks. By placing military targets in and under civilian structures, it is Hamas that violates laws of war.

The 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention mentions demonstrable intent to destroy a national, racial or religious group. Mr. Bartov is mute about Israel’s hundreds of phone calls to Gazans warning them to leave buildings in which Hamas fighters were located. Israel has urged civilians to evacuate to the south to escape battle. A government intent on genocide would do the opposite.

A cease-fire now would leave Hamas’s leadership and its massive tunnel structures intact. Hamas would declare victory and prepare for the next round of killing. Mr. Bartov’s article and the demonstrations around the world accusing Israel of genocide would, intentionally or not, have the effect of consigning Israel to live next to a terrorist state committed to its destruction. No state in the world would accept such a situation.

Norman J.W. Goda Jeffrey Herf Mr. Goda is a professor of Holocaust studies at the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida. Mr. Herf is professor emeritus of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. NY Times

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Sunday, November 19, 2023. There are "As-A-Jews.." There are also "As-A-Genocide-Historians" in the pages of the @NYTimes - like @BartovOmer - who lie about Israel with impunity. "While he doesn't quite accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza, he claims that Israel's intent..." EoZ

Professor says Israel is not conducting genocide now, but worries it might happen. November 22, 2023 Wbur

On That G Slur (PallyWeid).

Of the first to come up with the G slur at the Oct 7 war: On Nov 10, 2023, radical Israel critic Omer Bartov wrote in NYTimes. "While he doesn't quite accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza, he claims that Israel's intent to commit genocide[sic] is clear, quoting statements by Israeli officials" [EoZ, Nov 19.11.23] [216].

Naturally, longtime Israelophobe C. Amanpour was so excited to interview him on Nov 15, 2023, and she anxiously asked him when the G word can already/finally be applied. He didn't give her her entire wish, as he basically concluded Israel needs to get rid off right wingers in its cabinet.

That was long before Gaza's 'dead baby strategy' human-shields en-masse genocidal Hamas Jihadofascist regime sent it's allies in South African government to file at ICJ.

On July 25, 2014 racist Francesca Albanese (who recycled antisemitic tropes in 2014 [TOI, 14.12.22] [217]; [UNWatch, 6.2.23] [218], her husband worked for Palestinian Authority [UNWatch, 29.3.22] and in 2023 had justified Arab Palestinian Oct 7 atrocities [NRO, 12.2.24] [219]), uttered the PallyWeid G slur, by pushing Ilan Pappe's garbage.

Pappe: dishonest sloppy "historian" [Benny Morris, 17.3 11] [220] and radical-Communist [Camera, 20.10.05] [221] inventor of fake quotes[Camera, 24.2.12] [222] and bigot [ADL, 14.5.07][223]

On 27 March, 2024, the US' State Department [224] denounced Albanese's antisemitic record and rejected her genocide-lie. at EoZ

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PA deletes statement denying Hamas massacre. Israel National News Nov 20, 2023, 5:33 AM INN

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SWC condemns Washington Post headline blaming Israel for suffering of Palestinian babies.

Israel National News, Nov 20, 2023, 11:04 AM (GMT+2)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) on Sunday condemned a recent article by The Washington Post in which the headline read, “Israel’s war with Hamas (Louisa Loveluck, Sufian Taha and  Hajar Harb clain, supposedly) Separates Palestinian babies from their mothers.”

Following the article's publication, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action at the SWC, said: "So-called coverage that features headlines like the one created by The Washington Post brings tears of joy to Hamas terrorists – who, as a reminder to anyone who has forgotten, led the deadly attacks over a month ago that slaughtered Jews and kidnapped innocent civilians."

"Continued demonization of Israel will only create increased misinformation and hate against Israelis who are fighting to destroy terrorists who have one goal in mind—murder Jews and destroy the only democracy in the Middle East – Israel.

"They prove every day, including today when they destroyed a hospital in Gaza, that Hamas doesn’t give a damn about live Gazans.

"They’re thrilled when the death toll ramps up so that they—with the assists from much of the media-- can blame Israel for the death toll," SWC concluded. INN

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The 45th day of the war - UAVs hit near an IDF post in the north, no casualties About 25 rockets were launched from Lebanon, Hezbollah fired a heavy rocket at a border post • Publishing was allowed: 3 fighters fell during an operational activity in the Gaza Strip • The forces in Gaza are operating near the Indonesian hospital • In Israel they denied a report of a firefight as part of a deal to release hostages: there is no such thing • Updates washing News reporters 12| N12 | Published 00:40 20.11.23 | Updated 15:22 20.11.23

Main headlines from today: Three drones hit near the outpost, the IDF attacked in Lebanon... Shooting to the north, a sequence of events on the Lebanese border The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated three additional Hamas division commanders. Mako

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Group of premature babies evacuated from Gaza into Egypt. By Reuters, 11/20/2023 JPost

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Israel strikes in Lebanon, responds to rocket fire on North. By Jerusalem Post Staff, November 20, 2023. JPost

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Attempted terror attack in Samaria, no casualties reported By Jerusalem Post Staff, November 19, 2023. JPost

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2 more soldiers killed in Gaza, IDF announces; Rocket alert sirens in south and north overnight. Japan appeals to Yemen, as well as Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iran, to help free cargo ship hijacked by the Houthis; Progress reported in hostage negotiations. 11.20.23 YNet

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'Genocide' accusations by anti-Israel activists 'pretty inappropriate' — White House. By Jacob Magid, November 20, 2023, 9:27 pm . White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tears into anti-Israel activists who have been accusing the Jewish state of carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

He clarifies that the demonstrators have a first amendment right to free speech, "but this word ‘genocide’ getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks."

"Israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel is not trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we’re going to start using that word, Fine. Let’s use it appropriately," Kirby says. TOI

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Israel posts pics of the 40 kids held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Jerusalem is raising awareness of their plight on World Children's Day. November 20, 2023 / JNS. [225]. JNS

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Detained Gaza terrorist says Hamas hid as hospital staff in Al Shifa. Yoav Zitun | published: November 20, 2023 | 12:47

The IDF reported on Monday that over 300 terrorists from different groups have been apprehended and brought to Israel for interrogation since the beginning of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

These interrogations, led by Unit 504 of the Intelligence Corps, which specializes in operating undercover agents, have provided substantial and valuable information aiding forces on the ground and leading to strikes against numerous terrorist targets.

To highlight the significance of these interrogations, the army released footage from the questioning of three detained terrorists. In the footage, one terrorist confesses to Israeli investigators that not only Hamas but also Palestinian Islamic Jihad members were active in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. He revealed that some even disguised themselves as medical staff, a fact known to the hospital’s staff, who were “angry about it” but seemingly took no action.

Another terrorist told investigators that terrorists concealed rockets in mattresses in the Palestine Red Crescent building, where a large number of displaced Gazans were staying, and decried Hamas’ practice of using civilians as “human shields.”

A third detainee informed his interrogators of terrorist activities at Al Rantisi Hospital and what he referred to as the “Swedish hospital” in Gaza, likely alluding to a clinic in the city. He observed around 100 “organized” terrorists in several groups near Al Rantisi Hospital. He reported that these terrorists used hospitals as bases for launching attacks while disguised in civilian clothing… YNet

IDF: Some 300 Gaza detainees questioned, give vital details on Hamas bases in hospitals. Military says suspects being interrogated at new facility in southern Israel; other Gazans in unprecedented numbers said willingly providing intel on Hamas activities. By Emanuel Fabian and TOI Staff. 20 November 2023. TOI

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Kidnapped sign outside ‘Times’ office accuses paper of ‘whitewashing Jew-hatred’.

The New York paper of record has drawn a “false moral equivalence” between those who put up posters calling for the release of hostages and those who tear the posters down, per CAMERA.

([226]. Posters depicting Israeli hostages that Hamas terrorists are holding in the Gaza Strip near a large billboard that the watchdog group CAMERA took out near the Midtown Manhattan offices of “The New York Times,” November 2023. Credit: Courtesy).

(November 20, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Who is the mystery man bringing hateful anti-Jewish swastika signs to protests across NYC? By Isabel Keane and Steven Vago. Published Nov. 30, 2023, 5:06 p.m. ET. ...Sources told The Post the swastika-toting man has been making regular appearances at pro-Palestinian rallies across New York City in recent weeks, always with an antisemitic sign. The same man appeared to have been kicked out of a protest Tuesday outside the Egyptian Consulate... Outlive Them NYC @outlivethemnyc: NYC! This person, a known Christian nationalist, has been infiltrating Palestine Solidarity actions in NYC this month. He was at Brooklyn Museum 10/28 and in Manhattan last week with a sign that said "J... CONTROL US UK & EU" NY Post

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Pro-Israel libertarian is Argentina's new president. Nov 20, 2023. Juan Melamed/JTA, Associated Press YNet

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Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei says first overseas trips to be U.S., Israel.

Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei said his first overseas trips ahead of his inauguration will be to the United States, then Israel, in a radio interview on Monday, following his election victory over the weekend. He added he would also look to privatize state-energy firm YPF. (Reuters). Nov 20, 2023. YNet

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The UN Secretary General attacked Israel, was caught in a lie - and slammed by users

Guterres claimed: "We are witnessing an unprecedented killing of civilians that has no parallel in any conflict since I assumed my position as UN Secretary-General" • Many users, both from Israel and around the world, were outraged by his words, and proved that these are things that are far from reality • A community comment was attached to the official tweet, And many surfers attacked in the comments N12 | Posted 11/21/23 12:31 p.m .... Many readers, including many Israelis, were outraged by Guterres' words, and attached to the tweet a "community comment" that corrects the statements and explains that the information conveyed in it is incorrect. "UN Secretary-General Guterres took office in 2017, which is considered the deadliest year for Syrian citizens, with more than ten thousand dead. Although the war in Yemen began before Guterres took office, the number of deaths in it reached 377 thousand during his term."

One of the Israeli surfers wrote in response to the tweet: "Syria - 500,000 dead, Yemen - 377,000 dead, Afghanistan - 176,000 dead, Darfur - 300,000 dead, Iraq - 400,000 dead, Ukraine - 500,000 dead, Congo - 860,000. These are data from the United Nations, for your information." [227]

Researcher and journalist Ksenia Svetlova also responded: "God, you really don't know what's going on in Sudan right now, do you?" With reference to non-stop reports and testimonies about a widespread massacre of the civilian population under the auspices of the civil war in the country. Another surfer wrote: "You are a shameless liar, here are the casualty figures in the war in Syria since 2017 when you became the UN Secretary General." [228].

Ella Kenan.. activist on social media, published the tweet and called on users to rate the community comment attached to it as "helpful". Since the beginning of the war, Guterres voiced a clear anti-Israel line, and among other things he said that the terrorist attack by Hamas "did not take place in a vacuum", and he was accused of justifying the massacre. In addition, he also said that "Gaza is turning into a children's [sic] cemetery." [229]. Mako

Maor Malul @maor_x: When @antonioguterres is caught lying once again to further his agenda of lies @UN @UN_News_Centre. Nov 21, 2023 [230]

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IDF surrounds Jabalia; IAF hit 250 Hamas targets in 24 hours. Fighter jet destroys launch site from which rockets were fired at central Israel on Monday • Haniyeh says hostage release deal close • Two more fallen soldiers named. Joshua Marks (November 21, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Iron Beam laser intercepts Hamas rocket from Gaza. (November 21, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IAF strikes three armed terror cells at Lebanese border. (November 21, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IDF surrounds Jabalia; IAF hit 250 Hamas targets in 24 hours. Joshua Marks (November 21, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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'Adolf was right,' 'gas the Jews' written on NYC subway train. Israel National News Nov 21, 2023, 6:04 PM INN

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Northern front: IDF eliminates senior Hamas official in Lebanon. Israel National News Nov 21, 2023, 5:20 PM INN

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Freedom Center cuts ties with Candance Owens over Israel stance. Gary Willig Nov 21, 2023, 3:50 PM INN

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'Nasrallah, do not endanger Beirut for the sake of Tehran.' Israel National News Nov 21, 2023, 4:49 PM INN

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IDF launches website revealing how Hamas uses Gaza hospitals. Israel National News. Nov 21, 2023, 4:09 PM. ...As part of the effort to reveal Hamas’ use of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has launched a dedicated website [231] that contains all the evidence that has been discovered at hospitals so far. The website contains both newly discovered and existing information. It will continue to be updated as additional materials become available.

The IDF stated that the central feature of the website is a 3D illustration of some of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Clicking the “+” button will reveal information distributed by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit regarding the relevant hospital. INN

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Israeli source: We are close to closing a prisoner swap. Israel National News Nov 21, 2023, 10:12 AM INN

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How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it? By Richard Goldberg. Published Nov. 20, 2023, 7:04 p.m. ET

Hamas used [232] Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital as a base of terror operations. That’s the obvious conclusion following Sunday’s discovery of a large terror tunnel under the hospital along with videos of Hamas bringing Israeli hostages inside. Now comes an important question for Congress: Which US-funded international organizations knew the truth about al-Shifa and helped Hamas conceal its war crimes? [233]

The Israel Defense Forces this weekend discovered a tunnel beneath al-Shifa Hospital [234] that extends 10 meters down and 55 meters across — leading to what might be a booby-trapped door. Special units that specialize in handling explosives have been summoned to break through to the next section.

Meanwhile, Israel also released security footage showing two hostages brought through al-Shifa by Hamas terrorists following the Oct. 7 massacre as hospital workers looked on — suggesting a widespread conspiracy to conceal both the presence of hostages at al-Shifa and Hamas’ terror infrastructure within the compound.

Israel last week found two other hostages dead near al-Shifa. One of them, according to Israel, was murdered inside the hospital.

The Hamas has long denied it used al-Shifa as a terror site is not surprising. Nor is it shocking to learn the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health — the same one that reports civilian casualty numbers — has been lying about al-Shifa’s true terror nature all along.

What should be showstopping, however, is the possible complicity of prominent international organizations that receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States — groups that are supposed to uphold international law but appear to have enabled Hamas war crimes instead.

Within days of the Hamas massacre, Fabrizio Carboni, the Middle East regional director for the International Committee of the Red Cross, began spreading Hamas disinformation — telling international media that Gaza “hospitals risk turning into morgues.”

When Carboni said this, he may have already known that hospitals in Gaza were used as terror bases and hostages were being stashed under those hospitals. [235].

In the days that followed Israel’s first public messaging that al-Shifa Hospital is a key Hamas terror site — an indication that the Israel Defense Forces at some point would seek to remove Hamas from that hospital — Carboni kicked into overdrive with propaganda designed to keep al-Shifa squarely in Hamas’ hands.

As the IDF approached al-Shifa, he claimed that “information coming from the al-Shifa Hospital is distressing. It cannot continue like this. Thousands of wounded, displaced people and medical staff are at risk. They need to be protected in line with the laws of war.”

Carboni apparently forgot to mention how Hamas is the party violating the laws of war by basing terror operations inside a hospital — and hiding the very hostages the ICRC is sworn to protect in that hospital, too.... NY Post

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Grenade found near synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey. Bomb squad removes grenade that was taped to a pole near the Satmar Shul. Incident being investigated. Israel National News, Nov 20, 2023, 1:10 AM (GMT+2) A bomb squad in Lakewood, New Jersey, found and removed a grenade that was taped to a pole near a synagogue on Sunday morning, NBC Philadelphia reported. INN

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REPORT: Grenade Found On Pole Outside Synagogue

Ilan Hulkower, November 20, 2023

State police reportedly found a grenade Sunday morning on a utility pole across the street from an ultra Orthodox synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Police shut down the area and called a bomb squad after determining the grenade looked real, The Lakewood Scoop reported.

“The threats against Jewish communities are insane,” Aviva Klompas, co-founder of Boundless, said on X. She also posted a photo of the grenade. Daily Caller

Notes Part IIII

Israeli Arabs arrested in Turkey on terror charges.

Yousef Janid and Issa Bichon had plans to "liberate" the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City from Israeli control.

(November 21, 2023 / JNS) Two Israeli Arabs were arrested in Turkey last month after they were caught attempting to join a terrorist organization in neighboring Syria with the goal of “liberating” Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control, the Israel Police announced on Tuesday JNS

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‘Hamas Restricts Journalists in Gaza,’ New York Times Confesses — That Could Explain the Hospital Obsession avatar by Ira Stoll, November 21, 2023..

Instead of covering the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas, the New York Times has turned itself into the newsletter of the Gaza hospital association. Algemeiner

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The release of at least 50 live hostages, which will be spread over 4 days: these are the salient details of the hostage deal.

According to the outline that appears, Hamas will release 50 Israeli abductees, mainly children and their mothers, in increments of 12-13 abductees daily • In return, Israel will stop the fighting for 4 days and release about 150 security prisoners • Political factor: The deal could reach the release of up to 80 kidnapped, Israel agreed to refrain from aerial activity in the Gaza Strip for 6 hours each day • R.Z. and Otzma Yehudit oppose, Shas in favor.

Dana Weiss | Yaron Avraham | Amit Segal | N12 | Published 16:38 21.11.23 | Updated 20:01 21.11.23

The government will convene this evening (Tuesday) to approve a deal for the release of abductees, which is expected to be implemented towards the end of the week. According to the emerging outline, the terrorist organization Hamas is expected to release 50 children and women in the first phase in exchange for four days of respite. The release of the abductees will be carried out in beats of 12-13 every day on the days of respite. The release of the abductees will probably begin on Thursday or Friday.

In exchange for the release of the abductees, Israel will release approximately 150 female prisoners and terrorist operatives, allow fuel to enter the Strip and increase humanitarian aid. Israel also agreed to refrain from air contract activity in the Gaza Strip for six hours each day during the ceasefire. A political official confirmed that 50 hostages will be released alive as part of the agreement and 10 more will be released on each day of respite. Within four days all 50 will be released. According to him, Hamas may eventually release more than 50 abductees, and the number may reach 80 women and children. Mako

12 to be released each day, respite set for 4 days. A political official outlined the agreement for the release of the hostages in Gaza - which may be expanded during implementation. Nitsan Keidar. Nov 21, 2023, 6:27 PM INN

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Chief of Staff: 'IDF pressure on Hamas makes better conditions for hostages.' Israel National News Nov 21, 2023, 6:39 PM INN

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Who Funds AMP and SJP? | Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).

Data Center: Who Funds AMP and SJP? By Sam Westrop, November 21, 2023 [..] The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) argues a similar point, stating: “AMP has its organizational roots in the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an anti-Semitic group that served as the main propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States until it was dissolved in 2004. Since its creation in 2005, AMP continues to work closely with some former IAP leaders who currently hold positions as AMP board members.”

Osama Abuirshaid, AMP’s executive director has previously expressed his admiration for Hamas for resisting and not negotiationg with Israel, and for avenging the “blood of its martyrs.”

In 2021, Abuirshaid spoke alongside terrorist members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), including Sami Khater, a senior Hamas Politburo leader and co-founder, and Mohammad Nazzal, Hamas’s official representative in Jordan.

In addition, notes Max Samarov in the Forward, “AMP chairman Hatem Bazian … has repeatedly spread anti-Semitism on social media, while other AMP leaders and speakers have engaged in racism, homophobia, genocide denial, and praise for terrorist groups. One AMP employee listed as a contact in the handbook has said that Israel is, ‘an illegitimate creation,’ and that ‘Israelis have to be bombed.'”

Since the October 7th attacks, AMP officials have led a forceful campaign to justify Palestinian “resistance.” Webinars organized by AMP and other Islamist groups (including Mercy Without Limits, profiled above), have featured Nihad Awad, head of the Islamist-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations, who denounced President Biden as a “Zionist” who spews “Israeli propaganda”; as well as references by Muslim American Society’s Ibrahim Zeini to Hamas terrorists as “resistance fighters” who are beginning to “shift” the Palestinian cause to “victory.”

AMP’s Director of Outreach & Community Organizing, Taher Herzallah, has been particularly vociferous at these webinars. In one event, he referred to “Jews and Christian Zionists,” as “enemy number one,” although later conceded that anti-Zionist Jews can be partners.

[236]

Herzallah has previously declared “Hamas’ rockets are an oppressed people’s cry for help.” He has also, the Investigative Project on Terrorism notes, posted “photos of injured Israeli soldiers and a destroyed tank to his personal Facebook page. The caption for both photos read: ‘The most beautiful site in my eyes.'” [237]

(Muslim American Society, Oct 17, 2023 [238])

Canary Mission @canarymission: Meet @TaherHerzallah, Associate Director at @AMPalestine - an org dedicated to the destruction of Israel. He said this!

"Anybody who... identifies themself as a Jewish person or as a Christian Zionist... are enemy number one." [239] Dec 9, 2023 [240]

American Muslims for Palestine Director: A “Jewish Person” is “Enemy Number One” AMP's co-founder also created Students for Justice in Palestine. December 10, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield.

The Biden administration was forced to condemn CAIR after its boss, Nihad Awad, who had a history of supporting Hamas, attended the American Muslims for Palestine conference and bragged about how happy he was about the Oct 7 attacks.

Awad claims that his remarks were taken “out of context”.

Now here’s Taher Herzallah, Outreach and Grassroots Organizing Director for AMP, talking about how Jewish people are the enemy. "Anybody who has any relationship or any support or identifies himself as a Jewish person or as a Christian Zionist then we shall not be their friend, I will tell you they are enemy number one and our community needs to recognize that."

I’m guessing this one will also be described as “taken out of context”.

The AMP conference included Awad, Herzallah, and Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as AMP, who pretty much single-handedly made antisemitism the norm on college campuses.

Also present were Lena Masri, CAIR’s Civil Rights Director, and Fatima Mohammed: whose deranged CUNY Law grad speech went viral.

See if you can spot the pattern here. Taher Herzallah is just quoting the Koran....

So this hatred of Jews or Christians didn’t emerge on Oct 7 or 1967, 1948 or during any recent period. It was always there. It’s just more out in the open now. FPM

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German police raid homes of 17 accused of antisemitic hate speech on social media Suspects from Bavaria said to range in age from 18 to 62; one reportedly posted to WhatsApp school class chat 'Gas the Jews', another called for extermination of Jewish people. By AP and TOI Staff 21 November 2023, 2:36 pm German police raid homes of 17 accused of antisemitic hate speech on social media Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue to secure the building in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023. (Michael Probst/AP) BERLIN — German authorities on Tuesday raided the homes of 17 people in the state of Bavaria accused of spreading antisemitic hate speech and threats targeting Jews online.

According to the Bavarian criminal police, the suspects were 15 men and two women, aged between 18 and 62, the German news agency dpa reported. Police questioned the suspects and confiscated evidence from their homes, including cell phones and laptops, the agency said.

The suspects were said to have celebrated the attacks by Palestinian terror group Hamas on Israel on October 7 that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. They were also accused of spreading hate speech against Jewish people on social media, using symbols of banned terrorist organizations, dpa reported.

The police operation focused on Bavaria’s capital city of Munich where nine of the accused resided. Further searches were carried out in the Bavarian towns of Fuessen and Kaufbeuren as well as in the counties of Passau, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Berchtesgadener Land, Coburg, Aschaffenburg and Hassberge.

One suspect allegedly sent a sticker in a WhatsApp school class chat showing a clown with the words “Gas the Jews.” Another person, a German-Turkish dual citizen, allegedly posted on his account that “the Jewish sons” deserved nothing more than to be “exterminated,” dpa reported.

Another suspect, a Turkish citizen, is accused of posting a picture of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler shortly after the October 7 attacks with the caption “I could kill all the Jews, but I left some alive to show ...” Next to it, he posted a Palestinian flag, the caption “Free Palestine” and an emoji with a victory sign.

“Unfortunately, antisemitism has an impact on the daily life of many Jews in Germany,” Michael Weinzierl, the Bavarian police commissioner against hate crime told dpa, “the terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel also has an impact on their lives in Germany.”

Weinzierl said it was important to show Jews and Israelis living in the state “that we stand behind them here in Bavaria, that we protect them here and also protect them from hostility.”

Last month, Germany’s chancellor and president strongly denounced a rise in antisemitism in the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Germany has strict rules against hate speech. Raids in connection with the publication of banned symbols such as swastikas and other Nazi symbols are not uncommon. The denial of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis and their henchmen murdered 6 million European Jews, is also banned.

Antisemitism has spiked in cities across the world following the Hamas attack and subsequent conflict.

War erupted on October 7, when Hamas-led terrorists from Gaza breached the border and then rampage murderously through southern Israeli communities, killing over 1,200 people and abducting some 240. The attack came under cover of a barrage of thousands of rockets fired at Israel. Hamas and other terror groups have continued to launch rockets at Israel, displacing over 200,000 people... TOI

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IDF: Nazi Propaganda Book Denying The Holocaust Located Inside Gaza School. By Ryan Saavedra. Nov 21, 2023. DailyWire.com

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a photograph this week of a Nazi propaganda book that denies the Holocaust found inside a school in Gaza.

The book, “The Big Lie[sic]: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers,” was located inside Al-Quds University, according to the IDF.

“Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people,” the IDF said. “This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it.”

According to an Arabic website, the book reportedly claims that Jews invented a lie claiming that Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler exterminated them in concentration camps.. when, in fact, the Nazis systematically murdered 6 million Jews in concentration camps.

The discovery comes after the IDF found an Arabic copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in a children’s room at a home in Gaza.

“IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler’s infamous book ‘Mein Kampf’ — translated into Arabic — in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza,” the IDF said on X. “The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and highlights.”

“Hamas embraces the ideology of Hitler, the one responsible for the annihilation of the Jewish people,” the IDF added.

During World War II, Hitler met with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, whom Palestinians see as one of the fathers of Palestinian nationalism, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin.

During the meeting, al-Husseini conveyed to Hitler that he was “admired by the entire Arab world” because “of the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially the Palestinian cause,” according to an official German record of the meeting. He told Hitler that the Arabs were natural friends with Nazi Germany because they both hated Jews.

Hitler told al-Husseini that Germany’s war against the Jews was “uncompromising” and that he actively opposed “the Jewish national home in Palestine” because he claimed it was “nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests,” the record said.

Tens of thousands of Muslims also fought for Germany during WWII as Nazi Germany “made significant attempts to promote an alliance with the ‘Muslim world’ against their alleged common enemies,” according to a report from German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Today, there are multiple schools in the Palestinian-controlled territories — both in Gaza and in the Judea and Samaria Area — that have been named after Nazi collaborators, according to a report from Palestinian Media Watch.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has also posted the covers of anti-Semitic children’s books from Nazi Germany on their social media pages.

Fatah posts Nazi children's book: Don’t trust a fox or a Jew [241][pic.twitter.com/dEck63Qvht] — Pal Media Watch (@palwatch) October 29, 2015 DailyWire

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United Airlines removes pilot Ibrahim Mossallam from service amid anti-Semitic claims after he posted messages supporting terror group Hamas’ vile slaughter of 1,200 Israelis hours after the Oct 7 invasion, calling it ‘resistance by brave people.

Paul Farrell. November 21, 2023.

A United Airlines pilot has been ‘removed from service with pay’ after posting dozens of messages on Facebook expressing support for Hamas in the aftermath of the terror group’s barbaric assault on Israel that killed 1,200 people on October 7.

United pilot Ibrahim R. Mossallam described the attack on civilians across southern Israel as ‘resistance by brave people who have endured decades of occupation, oppression, humiliation, apartheid, and straight up murder.’

‘For all my friends here in FB land with Questions/Thoughts/Assumptions/Critique about what’s transpiring in Palestine, currently in response to the Zionist occupation, please work on expanding your media literacy,’ he added.

Mossallam said that the US media is ‘heavily politicized and skewed to show a non-occupying narrative of Palestine.’

The disgraced pilot also argued that the attack on Israel was ‘not provoked’ but rather was a ‘response to years of attacks by the Zionist regime.’

On Tuesday, United told DailyMail.com that Mossallam was taken out of service with pay as an investigation is carried out. The carrier said that Mossallam was only removed from service on November 20, the same day that his social media posts became public knowledge.

In addition to his flying career, Mossallam is also the board vice president for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Israel Relations… Daily Mail

United Airlines suspends pilot who allegedly praised Hamas terrorists as ‘brave people’ on October 7 By Social Links forDavid Spector Published Nov. 21, 2023, 12:57 p.m. ET. United Airlines has suspended one of its pilots after disturbing comments he reportedly posted to social media on October 7 calling Hamas terrorists “brave people” resurfaced online.

Ibrahim R. Mossallam allegedly praised Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and took around 240 hostage — including elderly Holocaust survivors — as acts of “resistance from brave people who have endured decades of occupation,” according to the account Stop Antisemitism on X. Mossallam also allegedly wrote that “mass media is heavily politicized and skewed to show a non-occupying narrative of Palestine,” and went on to say that the October 7 attacks, which saw babies burned alive, were not “unprovoked.” [242]. NY Post

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יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad Jackson Hinkle, an American antisemitic social media activist, and idiot, posted a viral tweet with millions of views showing a coin from the British Mandate era to prove that Palestine was here before the State of Israel. The problem is that the imbecile doesn't understand that this coin is the proof of the opposite, and its Hebrew initials read: Land of Israel! [243] No brain, no worries! Nov 21, 2023 on X

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Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer: Danielle Haas’ farewell email to her colleagues @hrw:

Dear Human Rights Watch,

Because we live in dangerous times and this is a human rights organization dedicated to free speech, open dialogue, and rights for all, I’m sending a final email before leaving HRW. I’m hopeful, but wary, that an organization with a mission to “Expose. Investigate. Change” can do just that when it comes to its own practices regarding its Israel work, with authenticity and without retaliation.

When I joined Human Rights Watch over 13 years ago as senior editor, I did so with years of experience in journalism covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and time in academia.

Human Rights Watch seemed to be a good blend of both; a leading human rights organization dedicated to rigorous research, focused on international law and human suffering, with a mandate to bring about change. I believed in, and stayed for, the broader mission.

But as the organization grew and its composition shifted, so too did the focus, tone, and framing of its Israel-Palestine work. Following the Hamas massacres in Israel on October 7, years of institutional creep culminated in organizational responses that shattered professionalism, abandoned principles of accuracy and fairness, and surrendered its duty to stand for the human rights of all.

HRW’s initial reactions to the Hamas attacks failed to condemn outright the murder, torture, and kidnapping of Israeli men, women, and children. They included the “context” of “apartheid” and “occupation” before blood was even dry on bedroom walls. These responses were not, as some have since characterized it internally, a messaging misstep in the tumult after the Hamas assault. It was not the failure of a few to follow robust internal mechanisms of editing and quality control, as others have claimed.

It did not happen in a vacuum.

Rather, HRW’s initial response was the fruition of years of politicization of its Israel-Palestine work that has frequently violated basic editorial standards related to rigor, balance, and collegiality when it comes to Israel.

It was the expression of years of select historical and political framing that could always contextualize and “explain” why Jewish Israeli lives were lost in Palestinian violence.

And it was the domination of HRW’s Israel-Palestine work by some voices that drown out others to the point where those who feel uncomfortable with HRW’s approach and processes – and they do exist – feel silenced.

To be clear: focus on, and criticism of, Israeli policies and actions is valid for a human rights organization.

But what I know from over 13 years at HRW is:

• Israel has featured in the World Report annual global review of human rights I oversaw for more than a decade almost as extensively as world powers including China, Russia, and the United States, and that the Israel-Palestine chapter has always been longer than those of rights-abusing goliaths such as Iran and North Korea.

• The 2021 “Apartheid” report, hailed internally in its goal to affect “narrative change,” sealed the slide. HRW knew its careful, legal argument would rarely be read in full. And there is little doubt it has not been by those – including Hamas supporters – who now bandy about the term with appalling ease. It’s a one-word gift to those who want to characterize Israel in as few words as possible with as little nuance as possible, a go-to “context” for any fate that befalls Israel and Jewish Israelis; 120 HRW researchers recently signed a petition calling for its inclusion in a press release about Israeli hostages.

• Internal fora nominally dedicated to both Israel and Palestine were, in practice, mostly dedicated to expressions of outrage over Israeli abuses and their consequences, both real and speculated. The focus on Israel dominated those spaces both before and after October 7, including the links shared; the space given to colleagues to articulate their lived realities and trauma; and ultimately advocacy.

• Some types of Israeli-Palestine expertise were valued more than others. There was no value placed on having a Jewish Israeli staff member who spoke Hebrew, had covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for international media, a rich academic background, and 17 years’ immersion in the country. The profile of those entrusted with HRW’s-related work is different. The only contact I had with Israel-Palestine content over the years, despite working on virtually every other area of the world, was as World Report editor. I received thinly veiled insinuations and pushback when I highlighted factual inaccuracies in the Israel-Palestine chapter that were later corrected.

• HRW has so little credibility for most Israelis they do not even trust it with their corpses. Zaka, the emergency responder group that collected body parts after the Hamas massacres, said it did not want to talk to HRW because its members did not have faith the organization would not misuse and distort their eyewitness accounts of the carnage they had seen.

• When I named the constellation of my experiences over years to a senior manager as feeling a lot like antisemitism, he replied: “You are probably right.” He did not ask or do anything further.

Three weeks after the October 7 massacres, Human Rights Watch told staff it was “proud” of its response to the crisis.

The self-affirmation failed to address output that included, but is not limited to:

HRW’s first matter-of-fact announcement following the October 7 massacres that barely addressed what had happened, contrasting starkly with its thousands of statements over the years condemning a range of human rights abuses:

“Palestinian armed groups carried out a deadly assault on October 7, 2023, that killed several hundred Israeli civilians and led to Israeli counterstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians,” Human Rights Watch said in releasing a questions and answers document about the international humanitarian law standards governing the current hostilities.”

An early press release that could easily be construed as blaming the victim:

“The unlawful attacks and systematic repression that have mired the region for decades will continue, so long as human rights and accountability are disregarded.”

A piece on Israeli attacks on Gaza being devastating for Palestinians with disabilities that failed to mention the devastating impact of Hamas’ attacks on Israelis with disabilities. They included those murdered on October 7, among them a 17-year-old girl with muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy killed at a music festival; those who are now disabled because of the attacks; and Israeli hostages with pre-existing health conditions ranging from heart problems to diabetes.

Lack of context when using controversial figures that came from a Hamas-run ministry:

“[Washington Post] Reporter Adam Taylor quoted Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch Omar Shakir, who said, “Everyone uses the figures from the Gaza Health Ministry because those are generally proven to be reliable. In the times in which we have done our own verification of numbers for particular strikes, I’m not aware of any time which there’s been some major discrepancy.”

It is not logical, not possible, and not the case that everyone at HRW agrees with its pre- and post-October 7 Israel work or feels safe. Instead, it is a deeply worrying indication that staff are self-censoring because they fear isolation if they speak and that nothing will be done even if they do. It is a warning that they are cowed by the way in which critics of Human Rights Watch are talked about internally, and by the tone and content of banter before and during meetings, in listservs, and in message chats.

Maybe they’re also not reassured by responses like the one senior management sent me regarding a recent email I sent them, in which they said they “appreciate” my “feedback” and “learn” from it.

I hope so, but I doubt it.

The serious professional concerns I raised over the years with the Program Office, General Counsel, and MENA managers never went anywhere. They were always received – it appeared – through a filter of me being a Jew and/or Israeli, even though Muslim and Arab staff and those with overt political backgrounds are trusted as advocates and to oversee research.

Also, my comments are not “feedback.”

Rather, they amount to a charge and a challenge to Human Rights Watch: tackle the long-standing issues infecting your Israel work and the hostile internal climate that Hamas’ attacks brought into sharp relief but did not birth. Face down the conscious and unconscious biases that inform them. Address inaccuracies by omission.

Do so not because you are under pressure to be seen to be listening, but because you respect the professionalism and expertise of your many thoughtful, serious colleagues from diverse backgrounds who cannot do their work without fear of stigma and retaliation if they speak.

Do so because you care about the health of the organization, upholding your internal standards, and ensuring human rights advocacy is not a fig leaf for political beliefs, or worse.

Do so because you want not just to claim your mantle of moral authority, but to earn it. Dani. Nov 22, 2023. Hillel Neuer on X

Ex Human Rights Watch editor explains 'shocking indictment of politicized organization' - confirms what was known all along: 'the organization is wildly biased against Israel.'

Thursday, November 23, 2023.

HRW worker confirms what we've known all along: the organization is wildly biased against Israel

This is the text of the farewell letter written by Danielle Haas, senior editor at Human Rights Watch, It confirms everything we've been saying for years [244] about its obsessive anti-Israel bias... ([245] Here is a screenshot of Haas' former bio at HRW.) EoZ

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White House warns: Wagner Group plans to provide air defense system to Hezbollah. Israel National News. Nov 22, 2023, 5:41 AM INN

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Calls to oust U.N. official over Australian trip sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups. November 22, 2023 Australia, Palestine, UN Officials, United Nations. GENEVA, November 22, 2023 — An expensive Australian trip last week by a UN official who told Hamas they have “a right to resist” was sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups in breach of the UN’s own Code of Conduct, according to a watchdog group that today filed papers with the world body calling for her removal.

In a letter sent today by UN Watch, an independent Swiss non-governmental watchdog group that holds special consultative status with the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is being asked to take action to remove Francesca Albanese from her post as the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur tasked with investigating “Israel’s violations.”

The full text of the letter follows below:

22 November 2023. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres The United Nations New York, NY 10027 United States.

Dear Secretary-General Guterres,

We are deeply concerned over gross violations of UN rules and basic professional ethics by Ms. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. Her recent trip to Australia as Special Rapporteur was sponsored by known Palestinian lobby groups in that country: The Australian Friends of Palestine Association and Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, as well as the Free Palestine Melbourne and Palestinian Christians in Australia. As part of this trip, Ms. Albanese delivered the annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide and made media appearances, including an address to the National Press Club, in which she repeatedly echoed the Hamas narrative, claiming Israel’s right to self-defence was “non-existent.”

As you know, independence and impartiality are basic requirements for UNHRC Special Procedures under Article 3 of the Code of Conduct, which requires them to be “free from any kind of extraneous influence…either direct or indirect.” In addition, they may not “seek nor accept instructions” from any “non-governmental organization or pressure group whatsoever,” or accept any “favour, gift or remuneration” from any ”non-governmental source for activities carried out in pursuit of his/her mandate.”

The lobbyists’ sponsorship of Ms. Albanese’s trip constitutes a blatantly prohibited form of favour, gift or remuneration under Article 3. The financial favour further subjects Albanese to prohibited direct or indirect influence. Indeed, these groups have urged her to sue an organization that called out­­­ her pro-Hamas remarks. All of this is on top of Ms. Albanese’s disgraceful antisemitism and support for terrorism.

She has said that “America is subjugated by the Jewish Lobby.”

Last year, she told a Hamas conference, “You have a right to resist.”

Since October 7th, she has whitewashed Hamas’ atrocities. She routinely portrays Israelis as Nazis.

In light of the above gross violations of UN rules and basic ethics, we urge you to take action to remove Ms. Albanese immediately from her position as Special Rapporteur.

Sincerely, Hillel C. Neuer, Executive Director. UN Watch

UN Rapporteur Faces Accusations Amid Controversy. Nov 25, 2023, 5:27 PM. Francesca Albanese, the “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” for the United Nations, finds herself at the center of a growing controversy. Her alleged violations of the UN code of conduct, combined with her outspoken positions in the Israel-Hamas conflict, have coalesced into intensified scrutiny and raised new significant questions about her suitability for the role.

Despite the expectation of impartiality for UN special rapporteurs, Albanese’s statements have consistently reflected a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli stance. The special rapporteur, in fact, has a history of making inflammatory remarks, such as accusing the “Jewish lobby” of controlling the United States of America, comparing Israel to the Nazis, and referring to Israel as a settler-colonial enterprise.

In 2022, a report titled “Mandate to discriminate” by UN Watch, an NGO monitoring UN activities, highlighted a significant omission in Albanese’s conflict of interest declaration signed as part of her UN application process. UN Watch alleges that she failed to disclose that her husband, Massimiliano Calì, had worked for the Ministry of Economy of the Palestinian Authority.

This week, UN Watch has brought to light further concerns about Albanese’s independence and impartiality. They claim that her recent trip to Australia, sponsored by Palestinian lobbying groups, violates Article 3 of the UN code of conduct, which mandates independent action free from external influence. The organizations involved include the Australian Friends of Palestine Association, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Free Palestine Melbourne, and Palestinian Christians in Australia. Albanese delivered the annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide on November 11, accusing Israeli leaders of genocidal intent towards Gaza. During a subsequent event at the National Press Club, she faced controversy when asked by a journalist about her accusation of Israeli “dominance” and whether the term constituted a trope. Albanese, seemingly irritated by the question, invited the journalist to read the convention on racial discrimination, claiming that Israel legally operated as an “apartheid[sic] regime.”

Hillel C. Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, has formally requested UN Secretary-General António M. de Oliveira Guterres to remove Albanese from her role, citing the alleged violation of the UN code of conduct. Article 3, Neuer explains, specifically requires special rapporteurs to be free from any kind of extraneous influence and not seek or accept instructions from non-governmental organizations during their mandate.

Adding to the controversy, questions have been raised about Albanese’s professional qualifications. Italian journalist Antonino Monteleone has examined her claim to be a “lawyer”, after discrepancies emerged in her curriculum vitae. Despite her later admission of not being registered with the Bar Council in Italy, she referred to herself as a “lawyer” multiple times in her UN application and did not correct others addressing her as “counsel” in the course of official hearings and on TV.

In response to the challenges to her Bar credentials, Albanese defended herself on Facebook, explaining that she used the term ‘avvocato’ to style herself, translating it as ‘advocate’, and clarified her non-registration with the Bar Council. However, the incongruity in her self-designation as a “lawyer” in her UN application has drawn criticism from prominent figures, including Francesco Giubilei and Riccardo Puglisi. The latter, known for investigating false academic credentials, has called for Albanese’s removal from her post, in an op-ed on Il Riformista.

As the controversy deepens, the credibility of the United Nations in addressing human rights issues in the Middle East hangs in the balance, emphasizing the organization’s lack of impartiality when appointing officers in such critical geopolitical roles. TOI

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'Threat the PA built in the heart of the country and Greater TA.' Regavim: PA built 18,899 illegal buildings in Area C on Judea and Samaria border, which can turn into a terrorist outpost in seconds. Shimon Cohen Nov 22, 2023, 9:30 AM INN

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Top Fatah official promises: "The next and more violent [than Oct. 7] explosion will be in the West Bank". Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Dec 4, 2023 ... [Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Nov. 22, 2023].. PalWatch

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Week 7 - Live updates: Ahead of prisoner swap, rocket barrages intensify. Israel National News. Nov 22, 2023, 11:26 AM INN

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Hostage deal: These are the 300 terrorists on the list for release. The Ministry of Justice published a list containing the names of 300 prisoners 'intended for release,' as part of the hostages deal. Orly Harari, Nov 22, 2023, 10:44 INN

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Hamas to provide Israel with list of 10 hostages to be released. Israel National News. Nov 22, 2023, 10:39 AM INN

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IDF: We destroyed 400 terror tunnel shafts in Gaza . Israel National News. Nov 22, 2023, 12:11 INN

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IDF Spokesperson provides new details on tunnels at Shifa Hospital. Israel National News. Nov 22, 2023, 12:07 AM INN

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Behind the Blast Door: Hamas Terrorist Base Under a Hospital. Israel Defense Forces. Nov 22, 2023 IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari reveals a hidden Hamas terrorism base beneath Gaza's largest hospital—stark proof of Hamas' direct threat to innocent lives. [246]

Israel Defense Forces @IDF: A first look into Hamas’ underground city, underneath the Shifa Hospital complex: Nov 22, 2023. [247]

'Post' joins Israeli forces in Hamas's Gaza tunnel underworld.

This was the first time a reporter from the Jerusalem Post crossed into Gaza since the IDF withdrawal in 2005. By Yonah Jeremy Bob, November 22, 2023

The IDF on Wednesday brought The Jerusalem Post and selected other media outlets to view Hamas’s terror infrastructure at Al Shifa Hospital, especially its several-hundred-meter tunnel network, up close.

This was the first time that a reporter from the Post had crossed into Gaza since the IDF withdrawal in 2005, and it brought up close everything the IDF had found since November 15 that Hamas had tried desperately to hide at Shifa Hospital.

Laid out next to the Qatar facility within the Shifa complex was a vast amount not only of Hamas guns and grenades which the IDF found hidden throughout the hospital, but also rocket-propelled grenade launchers, large and small advanced drones for delivering explosives, and a variety of sophisticated intelligence platforms.

JPost enters the depths of Hamas's terror tunnels.

The vastness of the tunnel itself, with the Post viewing a variety of sophisticated rooms and the blast door which the IDF displayed earlier this week, was testimony to how important this location was to Hamas.

Among the rooms was a spacious bedroom with two large beds and a large modern air conditioning unit, a kitchenette, a bathroom, and other facilities, as well as extensive plumbing and electrical wiring to enable all of the infrastructure.

([248] The entrance to an underground terror tunnel at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip)

Two members of the IDF’s special Yahalom unit for uncovering tunnels and IDF Chief Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari described the process of discovering the tunnel as a “huge riddle.”

They had intelligence about Hamas’s tunnel network at Shifa Hospital long before arriving at the site. However, not only is the hospital site immense, with an extensive number of spread-out buildings and courtyards, but also, they said, they had found signs that Hamas went out of its way to cover up and fill in the already well-concealed tunnels once they suspected that the IDF might take control of Shifa.

([249] IDF reveals comprehensive footage of Hamas's 55-meter-long tunnel under Al-Shifa Hopsital in Gaza).

This meant that the Yahalom unit had to survey and inspect a large amount of land and courtyards around and between the Shifa Hospital buildings.

An initial breakthrough came on November 17 when the IDF destroyed a small structure that looked suspicious and was able to find one of the shafts and entrances to the greater tunnel network under the rubble of that structure.

The IDF showed the Post where the structure had previously stood and the initial shaft of the tunnel which they found, including the unusual spiral staircase which the IDF had presented at a press conference.

However, only several days later were they able to locate the more important part of the tunnel network, including all of the specialized rooms, likely used by Hamas battalion commanders.

Part of the delay was due to the priority of searching room-to-room for Hamas terrorists, weapons, intelligence, and anything linked to hostages or murdered Israelis.

Another delay came when the IDF announced on November 19 that it had arrived at a blast door whose breach required great care if troops were not to lose the opportunity to follow the tunnel beyond the door.

([250] A blast door breached by the IDF in a tunnel under Shifa hospital in Gaza).

The Post was able to see the broken door and the hundreds of additional meters of the Hamas tunnel network beyond that point.

A taste of Hamas's Shifa secrets

The extensive weapons that IDF Col. Elad Tzuri presented were, he said, just a taste of what Hamas had hidden throughout the Shifa Hospital complex, considering that all the displayed weapons were only found in the last 48 hours.

This meant that all of the weapons, military equipment, and intelligence material that the IDF seized and publicized to the world in the early days of the Shifa-Hamas discoveries, including those hidden behind an MRI machine, were located in another area.

Tzuri said, “These items were found both in indoor and outdoor common areas – courtyards of the hospital as well as in patients’ rooms, and some in the vehicles of Hamas’s Nukbeh [elite] unit,” which were found on the hospital’s grounds.

([251] Hamas weaponry found in Al-Shifa Hospital by Israeli forces)

Further, Tzuri noted that the IDF had found RPGs, improvised explosive devices, grenades, guns, drones, and materials used by Hamas naval commandos.

The IDF colonel said that Hamas had been completely rooted out of the Shifa area which was once one of its top locations, but that there were still pockets of Hamas resistance in other parts of northern Gaza.

Tzuri admitted that until he was given the order to go into Shifa, he had never imagined he would set foot on such a key Hamas command center, but added that he felt it was an honor to have been given the mission “to allow future generations of our children to live securely.”

In addition, Tzuri emphasized how the initial Hamas tunnel shaft discovered was near the outside of the Shifa complex, whereas the other end of the tunnel with the extensive rooms, was right next to the Qatari facility deep within the complex.

Hagari pointed out to the Post a spot some 50 meters away where the body of hostage Noa Marciano was found concealed after Hamas killed her.

IDF Maj. “D.” of the special forces Maglan Unit described to the Post special orders and training that he and his unit were given for handling medical staff and patients as they took control of the complex.

Senior IDF officials have emphasized that they were deeply involved in ensuring that Maglan soldiers had extra restrictive rules of engagement when entering the complex, which Hagari said on Tuesday had contributed to not a single civilian being killed during the IDF’s operation to take control.

D. said, “On Tuesday we were given responsibility for taking control of Shifa, along with IDF Brigade 7 and other units... the first mission was to take control. He also said that they worked with the Yahalom Unit to uncover tunnels.

The second mission had a technological focus, to bring as much information as possible to our defense establishment” for additional efforts against Hamas and for locating hostages.”

“The third mission was a humanitarian one,” D. said, detailing the provision of medical care, food, and water to patients who have not been able to evacuate, adding that his forces regularly interact with Palestinian civilians in the hospital, appointing a liaison for each facility to ensure orderly responses to the civilians’ needs.

Further, D said, “We enable the IDF to make progress without harming any civilians,” as well as providing specific intelligence to defense officials “to bring the hostages home.”

Asked about fighting related to Shifa, D said that they had not encountered resistance within the hospital, but he revealed that the IDF utilized a mixture of his forces and tanks on site to kill the five Hamas terrorists who tried to prevent the initial IDF intervention as Israeli forces were first entering.

([252] The underground tunnel system below Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza).

The Post entered Shifa after crossing five or six checkpoints coming in from Kibbutz Be’eri near the border.

Initially, the journey was in jeeps across the no-man’s land fences between Israel and Gaza, which Hamas had bulldozed to carry out its October 7 massacre.

Next, there was a stage of crossing through the northern Gaza outskirts, with some “built-up” areas, though, since the war, all of these areas were destroyed, with mere shells of houses and buildings left in what has become a wasteland.

No Palestinians were to be seen anywhere in any of these areas, though the Post witnessed around 1,000 IDF troops split mostly into units of 10-50 in a variety of locations, along with tanks, D9s, and many other vehicles.

Eventually, the Post came to the famed Gaza beach area, which clearly once boasted fancy hotels, children’s attractions, and the full range of beach life.

All of that was shattered and steamrolled by the war.

([253] Ruins of the area near Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip).

After some minutes driving along the Gaza beach, the Post entered the highly armored “Nimarim” which sources say have been able to take hits by five to eight Hamas anti-tank missiles and continue on their missions.

The armored vehicles have no regular windows for the approximately eight passengers, except one which can be opened on top and which the IDF forces opened once, they said, in order to better navigate a narrow area without crashing.

Mostly, the driver navigates with help from an additional soldier who has a highly sophisticated camera that shows the street ahead and behind.

The noise from the Nimarim was intense, but it felt more secure when entering the heart of Gaza City where Shifa is located.

On the way out of Gaza, the bleakness of what was left of Gaza City stood out starkly since some of the initial fear of what would greet us at Shifa had subsided and it was easier to look directly at the multi-year challenge of what rebuilding Gaza will look like... whenever the war is over and the future fate of Gaza is decided. JPost

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Verifying BBC (Hamas) propaganda – presenting exhibit A.

Bombshell exclusive: The BBC doesn’t just push Hamas propaganda. The BBC even gets a Hamas terrorist supporter to help write the story for them!

(November 22, 2023)

To say the BBC has been in trouble over their reporting of the conflict would be a grievous understatement. The BBC has rushed to present Hamas propaganda as news. It has relied on the words of terrorist supporters to create stories that demonise Israel. The immediate public outcry has been so bad that they had to publicly apologise twice when cornered. Since October 7 the BBC has sided with – and chosen to believe – a radical Islamic terror group over Israel – a democracy and staunch ally of the United Kingdom... David Collier

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Palestinian Media Watch. Little girl tells the truth: Hamas is “underneath, in tunnels, and we – the victims who are dying – are civilians”.

Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Nov 22, 2023 Civilian in Gaza about Hamas: They are “hiding among the people… Let [them] go hide in Hell”

Hamas terror leader admitted in 2021 that they hide their military bases among civilians “in multistory buildings and in residential buildings”

“Children, the drunk, and the angry tell the truth,” goes the adage. This young Palestinian girl from Gaza certainly did so when she stressed the fact that members of the Hamas terror organization are hiding in tunnels, while they use civilians like her as human shields above ground:

Al-Mayadeen TV reporter: “What do you say to the resistance? They say that you are resistance fighters. You are children and [the Israelis] are killing you, and they say to the world that you are resistance fighters. What do you say to the Palestinian resistance?”

Girl: “They put the Arabs in danger. They are underneath, in tunnels, and we – the victims who are dying – are civilians.”

Posted text: “A reporter of the [Al-Mayadeen TV] channel that is affiliated with Hezbollah and Iran attempts to get a response in favor of Hamas out of the girl, but she told him the truth.” [“Yalla The Good News,” X (Twitter) account, Nov. 11, 2023]

Another Gazan civilian expressed similar anger at Hamas and the other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip who “hide among the people”:

Palestinian man: “Regarding the resistance hiding among the people – why is it hiding among the people? Let it go hide in Hell.”

The reporter abruptly ends the interview and moves away from the Palestinian man: [254]. Al-Jazeera TV reporter: “These are the testimonies from the civilians.” [Karim Gahin, X (Twitter) account, Nov. 14, 2023]

The previous video shows a live broadcast from Al-Jazeera TV, in which an Al-Jazeera TV reporter is interviewing a Palestinian man in a hospital in the Gaza Strip. When the reporter heard the man criticizing “the resistance” – a Palestinian euphemism for terror and the terror organizations – he moved away from the man, who tried to follow him to continue the interview. Apparently, his message is not one Al-Jazeera wants to broadcast.

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that Hamas as a matter of policy uses civilians as human shields – in this war [255] and in previous ones [256]. Even PA Chairman Abbas’ Fatah Movement has criticized Hamas for endangering civilians by storing live ammunition in popular markets [257].

Truth is also said to come from “the horse’s mouth” – an authoritative source – and indeed, none other than Hamas terror leader Yahya Al-Sinwar admitted in 2021 that Hamas does indeed place “military and security bases among civilian residents,” including in “multistory buildings and in residential buildings and the like”:

Hamas terror leader Yahya Al-Sinwar: “Regarding the [Hamas] military and security bases that are located among civilian residents [in the Gaza Strip], this was a serious problem in the previous stages, and we and the resistance factions made efforts to carry out an operation of gradual movement and transfer of a large number of these bases from among the civilian residents, and we succeeded in carrying out a large portion of it. But there is still a portion that needs to be transferred, and Allah willing this operation will continue... We decided to transfer a large portion of the bases, especially those that are in multistory buildings and in residential buildings and the like.” [Al-Jazeera Live, YouTube channel, June 6, 2021]

Yahya Al-Sinwar - Palestinian terrorist and senior member of the Hamas terror organization. Al-Sinwar was involved in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman in October 1994. Israeli soldier Nir Poraz was murdered during Israel's attempt to rescue Wachsman. Al-Sinwar was sentenced to 4 life sentences, but was released in the exchange deal for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.

Hamas war on Israel October 2023 - At least 1,200 Israelis, including over 1,000 civilians, were murdered and over 4,800 wounded, in addition to at least 244 (including 5 later released or liberated, 1 born in captivity, and 2 found murdered) who were abducted into the Gaza Strip, in a Hamas terror war that began when approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns and attacking a music festival on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. During the massacre the terrorists tortured, raped, shot, beheaded, and burned their victims alive, murdering entire families and leaving at least 21 children without parents. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 5,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon joined Hamas' terror war starting from the following day, attacking Israel from the north. Occasional rocket launches and shootings continued from Lebanon throughout the war. Palwatch

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Arab Journalists: Al-Jazeera Is A Mouthpiece Of The Terrorist Organizations November 22, 2023 Qatar, Palestine | Special Dispatch No. 10974

Since Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 Israelis were murdered and about 240 were kidnapped, Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel has been serving as a major mouthpiece for Hamas and the Iran-backed terror militias. This is part of Qatar's policy of extending support to Hamas and other terror organizations, including global jihad organizations such as Al-Qaeda.

Al-Jazeera's bias in favor of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and other terror organizations in the Iran-led resistance axis sparked criticism from Arab journalists and intellectuals who took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam the channel and its coverage. They called Al-Jazeera a mouthpiece for terror organizations that serves them by spreading lies and inciting terror, and accused it of jeopardizing Arab national security.

This report presents some of the criticism voiced by Arab journalists and intellectuals against Al-Jazeera.

Criticism Of Al-Jazeera Reporter Who Cut Short Interview With Gazan Who Complained About Hamas. Memri

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Israel-Hamas war not over after hostage release deal - Netanyahu. Jerusalem Post Staff, November 23, 2023. JPost

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WATCH: IDF paratroopers raid Hamas military intelligence headquarters Gadi Zaig, November 22, 2023 JPost

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Hamas morale suffers as Israel gains ground in Gaza, fleeing from IDF. Amir Bohnot/Walla! November 22, 2023 JPost

IDF arrests director of Shifa Hospital Muhammad Abu Salmiya was detained "following evidence showing that Shifa Hospital, under his direct management, served as a Hamas command and control center." (November 23, 2023 / JNS). Israeli forces arrested the director of Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced in a joint statement on Thursday afternoon.

Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested earlier Thursday along with several other hospital staff members while attempting to evacuate southward along the humanitarian corridor.

“The director of the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip was apprehended and transferred for ISA questioning following evidence showing that Shifa Hospital, under his direct management, served as a Hamas command and control center,” the statement read.

“The Hamas terror tunnel network situated under the hospital also exploited electricity and resources taken from the hospital. In addition, Hamas stored numerous weapons inside the hospital and on the hospital grounds.”

The statement continued, “Furthermore, after the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists sought refuge within the hospital, some of them taking hostages from Israel with them. A pathological report also confirmed the murder of Cpl. Noa Marciano on the hospital premises.

“In the hospital, under his [Abu Salmiya’s] management, there was extensive Hamas terrorist activity. Findings of his involvement in terrorist activity will determine whether he will be subject to further ISA questioning.”

Also on Thursday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said that the IDF issued an alert to evacuate the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia within four hours.

In recent weeks, the IDF has provided evidence that Hamas uses Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza for its terrorist activities, which are conducted in a massive tunnel system underneath the complexes.

The IDF released extensive video evidence of Hamas’s tunnels under Shifa Hospital on Wednesday, saying its latest findings “unequivocally prove the modus operandi of the terrorist organization Hamas, which systematically operates from hospitals.

“The Hamas terrorist organization builds underground complexes under hospitals while exploiting the hospital infrastructure and conducts warfare from them,” the military said.

Israeli forces have operated in and around Shifa since Nov. 15, uncovering weapons and other terrorist infrastructure inside the medical center, and killing terrorists in the larger compound.

The military on Nov. 5 also presented evidence that the Indonesian Hospital, which was funded by NGOs from Indonesia and was inaugurated in 2016, was built on top of Hamas terrorist infrastructure. There were underground terrorist facilities there before the hospital was constructed, the IDF spokesman demonstrated.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari showed a rocket launch pad located close to the hospital.

“Hamas launches rockets on Israel 75 meters [82 yards] from a hospital,” he said.

Hagari also presented evidence that Hamas is using a Qatari-funded medical center in the Gaza Strip to pursue its terrorist warfare.

He showed visual proof of a terrorist tunnel entrance that Israeli soldiers exposed at Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital, located along the coast north of Gaza City. JNS

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IDF hits 300 Hamas targets ahead of expected Friday ceasefire. IDF to continue combat operations in Gaza until the agreement takes effect • IDF chief: War to continue until Hamas destroyed • U.S. warship downs Houthi drones heading toward Israel. Joshua Marks. (November 23, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Hamas-linked group claims it fired rocket from Jenin area. (November 23, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Hundreds of German police raid properties of Hamas supporters in Berlin and across the country. Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press, November 23, 2023.

BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of police officers searched the properties of Hamas members and followers in Germany on Thursday morning following a formal ban on any activity by or in support of the militant group.

The German government implemented the ban on Nov. 2 and dissolved Samidoun, a group that was behind a celebration in Berlin of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service estimates that Hamas has around 450 members in the country. Their activities range from expressions of sympathy and propaganda activities to financing and fundraising activities to strengthen the organization abroad.

“We are continuing our consistent action against radical Islamists,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said. “By banning Hamas and Samidoun in Germany, we have sent a clear signal that we will not tolerate any glorification or support of Hamas’ barbaric terror against Israel.”…. AP

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Israeli minister targets Haaretz newspaper for 'anti-Israel incitement' By Ariella Marsden. Published: November 23, 2023

Karhi explained that much of the paper’s funding comes from ads and subscriptions purchased by the government.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (Likud) seeks to sanction the Haaretz daily, he told Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs in a letter on Thursday.

“Since the beginning of the war, my office has received many complaints about Haaretz taking a harmful direction that undermines the war’s objectives and weakens the military effort and our social resilience,” wrote Karhi. “It’s possible that some of its articles even cross the legal line in the sections of the Penal Code that are unique to wartime.”

Karhi went on to explain that much of the paper’s funding comes from ads and subscriptions purchased by the government... JPost

Shlomo Karhi @shlomo_karhi: In light of the consistent distribution of "defeatist and false propaganda, and incitement against the State of Israel during the war" in the Haaretz newspaper, I have now submitted to the government, a resolution proposal to stop the funding of the Haaretz newspaper, including the cessation of publication and the subscription fees of all users of the state service, including the IDF, police, IPS, government offices and any government company. [258]. Nov 23, 2023. [259]

Karhi against Haaretz: "Defeatist and false propaganda" Amir Levy, 11/23/2023 The Minister of Communications seeks to promote an end to government funding for the newspaper: "undermining the goals of the war and weakening the military effort and our social resilience"

Communications Minister Dr. Shlomo Karhi asked the Cabinet Secretary to advance a proposed resolution according to which the government ministries will cease all contact with the Ha'aretz newspaper, due to what he defines as "an offensive line that undermines the goals of the war and weakens the military effort and our social resilience." According to Karhi , although "it is possible that some of his publications cross the criminal threshold established in the penal law for wartime.." Mida

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Amanpour selecting interviewees and desperately begging: please say "genocide" (On civilians used by 'Palestinian' regime as shields)

Longtime anti-Israel activist Christiane Amanpour, as part of demonizing Israel has also an obsession with semantics. At the time of protests against Judicial reform (Mar/2023), Amanpour pressed at least one Israeli interviewee to use the T word - 'totalitarian,' in case reform goes through. But to her disappointment, it did not.

Now, after Oct 7 atrocities by the Gaza fascist genocidal regime, who foresaw Israeli response and have always been using non -combatants to make sure they die, Ananpour knows all that, but her israelophobia virus has a particular obsession with name calling on the victim and only democratic entity in the region. The G word, she is so desperate about that. So first she had Mr. Bartov on, and she tried to extract from him her desired slur, struggling, she kept pushing like, "when is going to be the line.. crossed" so it can finally --to her joy-- be called that. But the real gist of lefty Bartov was, that he is against certain people in the coalition and as soon as they are out. All is fine.

Of the "amazing" points was, deeming "ethnic cleansing" on evacuating people so they're not killed. Would anyone terming this as such, really prefer for those people to stay?

But Amanpour didn't give up, after Antonio Guterres was slammed for a lying post [260] [261] [262] (Nov.20.23) about "unprecedented" she found UN's Griffiths still recycling Guterres pseudo line. She was so enthusiastic to post it on X. info and data

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IDF uncovers more weapons hidden under children’s beds in Gaza. The army also discovered four deep tunnel shafts in Jabalia. ([263] The 401st Brigade found four tunnel shafts on the outskirts of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 23. 2023).

([264] Weapons found under children’s beds in Jabalia, near Gaza City, Nov. 23, 2023).

Hamas frequently places its weapons and infrastructure among the civilian population, which it uses as human shields, knowing Israel will be hesitant to harm noncombatants.

On Nov. 5, for instance, the IDF shared video evidence [265] of Hamas rocket launchers placed next to a children’s swimming pool and a playground in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israel has long decried the terrorist group’s practice of committing war crimes by deliberately placing rocket [266] launchers near and in civilian sites such as hospitals [267], schools, mosques and United Nations buildings. JNS

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Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons Jeremy Bowen: “My reporting was wrong but I don’t regret a thing and I don’t feel bad at all” From We Stand With Israel Nov 25, 2023 [268]

Video of Massive Terror Complex Under Al Shifa Hospital Makes Media Look Ridiculous

The problem with the journalism industry boiled down to one clip. There are no consequences for getting things incredibly wrong and no feelings of remorse/regret as long as your mistakes are aimed at the side others in the newsroom don’t like. [269]

Video of Massive Terror Complex Under Al Shifa Hospital Makes Media Look Ridiculous. Drew Holden. November 25, 2023 The Israel Defense Forces brought cameras into the tunnels under Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip this week and exposed not just Hamas's sprawling operations there but also the terrorist group's enablers in the media. Free Beacon

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Hamas naval commander in Khan Yunis eliminated. Israel National News. Nov 23, 2023. INN

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Eylon Levy.@EylonALevy: The first question that left me speechless (but only for a second).. Nov 23, 2023 [270]

Sky News accusation Israel values Palestinian (supposedly) lives less, goes viral At least 12 million views of clip showing veteran Sky broadcaster Kay Burley suggesting Israel agrees to releasing three Palestinians for each hostage freed, is indication of its view of Palestinian lives; Burley says she just posed question Ynet | November 24, 2023

Just one day after a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was dumbfounded by a question that he was posed in an interview with Sky News, a clip of his reaction went viral. Kay Burley, a veteran moderator on Sky News asked Levy if the fact that Israel was prepared to release three Palestinian prisoners in exchange for each hostage held by Hamas, meant Israel valued Palestinian lives less than the lives of Israelis.

Levy was stunned and needed a second to respond. "That is an astonishing accusation!" Levy exclaimed. "It is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we willing to release prisoners who were convicted of terrorist offenses, more of them than we are getting out own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don't care about Palestinian lives, really that is a disgusting accusation." Sky News has outdone itself this time.

"We often put one side of an argument to a guest so they can offer a counterclaim Yesterday, I raised a controversial view from an earlier guest to allow another to respond Each morning we’re dedicated to presenting fairly the news of this war," Burley wrote in a post on X although she did not apologize for her line of questioning or the suggestion she made about Israeli morals.

In an interview for GB News, a right-wing media outlet, Levy said he was flabbergasted by the question posed by Burley. He said the effort to turn Israel's willingness to do anything to free innocent children and turn it into a narrative of de-humanization of Israel, is outrageous. He went on to say that the coverage of the British Media shows Israel was not given a fare shake.

"We’re trying to present our side of the story. We're explaining why we're having to fight this awful war… and why we have no choice but to win," he said. "To take the suffering and the trauma that we have suffered, the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and to somehow turn this against us and to turn us into the villains shows an atrocious degree really of total moral bankruptcy. "

Meanwhile Levy's astonished expression when hearing the question, has become a meme, causing him, some delight. He posted it on his social media feed saying, "Look at me, mummy, I’m a GIF." YNet

(GIF of Levy's astonished expression. [271])

Israeli spokesman's shocked face goes viral over bizarre question about hostage deal: 'Left me speechless'. Sky News interviewer repeats suggestion Israel values Palestinian lives less. because it would trade 150 prisoners for 50 Hamas-held hostages. By David Rutz Fox News. Published November 23, 2023

An Israeli government spokesman is going viral for his gobsmacked reaction to a media question about the value of Palestinian versus Israeli lives based on the Israelis receiving back fewer hostages in a potential swap with Hamas.

Eylon Levy was astonished as Sky News interviewer Kay Burley suggested that because Israel would get back 50 hostages taken by Hamas last month in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners in the agreed-upon temporary cease-fire deal, it placed less value on Palestinian lives.

"I was speaking to a hostage negotiator this morning. He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas promised to release, as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has said that it will release," Burley said. "And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that does Israel not think Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?"

Levy's eyes popped open before he responded, saying, "That is an astonishing accusation."

([272] Eylon Levy Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy reacts to a question on Sky News about a potential hostage deal.)

"If we could release one prisoner for every one hostage, we would obviously do that. We are operating in horrific circumstances," he said.

Levy said the Palestinian prisoners who could be released included those who have been convicted of violent attacks, as opposed to the hostages held by Hamas, who comprise innocent civilians.

"Notice the question of proportionality doesn't interest Palestinian supporters when they are able to get more of their prisoners out," he said. "It is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we are willing to release prisoners who are convicted of terrorism offenses, more of them than we are getting our own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don't care about Palestinian lives? Really, that's a disgusting accusation."

Burley appeared unfazed by his response and immediately pivoted to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and whether his career would survive the war. Netanyahu has come under domestic criticism for the security failures around the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas, which killed more than 1,200 people and was the single worst slaughter of Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Levy posted the exchange on X, saying it left him "speechless" for a moment. The clip has already received over 2 million impressions on the platform. Another user said that it was life imitating satire, as he had previously quipped that foes of Israel would criticize the cease-fire deal despite Palestinians getting back more people. He predicted they would claim that three Palestinians per Israeli hostage suggested their lives meant less.

At one point during the interview, Levy held up the photo of an orphaned 3-year-old girl who is being held hostage in Gaza, calling the crisis "intensely personal" for the entire State of Israel.

"We are committed to the pledge that we will bring all of them back and there will be nobody left behind," he said.

Qatar, which is acting as a mediator in the war, said the first group of hostages would be turned back over to Israel on Friday, after the cease-fire begins at midnight ET. The first group to be freed will include 13 women and children.

Levy said it was a product of the successful Israeli military operation to squeeze Hamas into submission. Fox News

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: Spokesman of the Israeli government experiences one of the greatest shocks of his life when hearing the opening question during an interview with British media… Where do these journalists come from? Where have they studied? From Eylon Levy. Nov 23, 2023. [273]

HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY: UK Host Claims Israel Devalues Palestinians By Swapping 1 Captive For 3 Prisoners [VIDEO] November 23, 2023 4:15 pm.

Just when you thought that British TV hosts may have come to their senses following the overwhelming evidence of the Hamas presence in Shifa Hospital, British Sky News host Kay Burley asked a question unprecedented in its absurdity.

Speaking to Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy, she accused Israel of not valuing Palestinian lives as highly as Israeli lives since it agreed to swap 50 hostages for 150 Palestinian prisoners.

Yes, she asked this question in all seriousness. And no, she did not mention the fact that the “Palestinian lives” are people who have committed violent crimes, including attempted murder, and will be released back to the streets of Israel.

Watch Levy’s response below. Levy, who somehow manages to remain calm despite speaking to outrageously anti-Israel morons on a regular basis, wrote on Twitter that the “question left me speechless (but only for a second).” YWN

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Dozens of terrorists will return to the streets of Jerusalem - who will protect the residents? The deal with Hamas is expected to begin, and as part of it, 77 terrorists may be released into the streets of Jerusalem • Among the terrorists, 10 are associated with Hamas, 11 are with Fatah and a number of terrorists who were convicted of attempted murder • A political source confirmed that "every terrorist who is released will return to his city of residence", but it seems that the municipality does not Disturbing and the police show indifference

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Week 7 - Live updates: Ahead of prisoner swap, rocket barrages intensify. Israel National News. Nov 24, 2023, 7:16 AM INN

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85 Jews graves vandalized in Belgian cemetery. Israel National News. Nov 24, 2023. INN

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Hostage release deal begins today. Ceasefire went into effect at 7:00 a.m. At 4:00 p.m., 13 hostages will be freed. Their families were informed about it on Thursday. Israel National News. Nov 24, 2023. INN

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Why Israel had no choice but to make a ‘bargain with the devil’. To understand the dilemmas and pressures Israel is facing, I spoke with law professor Robert Mnookin, author of the 2010 book, “Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight.”

In pressing for a deal that could see the release of 50 of the more than 200 hostages held in Gaza in return for a four-day pause in hostilities the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners, Israel’s National Unity Party Minister Benny Gantz described the return of the hostages as a “moral imperative and part of the resilience that enables us to win wars.”

But what if negotiating with Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, creates a dangerous precedent and further encourages its enemies to view hostage-taking as a weapon? By putting its war on Hamas on a four-day hold, does Israel appear to be giving in to an enemy it has vowed to destroy? And by releasing three Palestinian prisoners for every hostage returned, does Israel risk allowing violent prisoners to go free?... JPost

A Sky News reporter claimed that Israel released "children" - the Prime Minister's spokesman attacked: "Do you even know what he was accused of?"

Once again there was a storm on the broadcast of the important British network: Mark Regev did not remain indifferent to the problematic definition of the foreign reporter. Was he accused?", and she admitted: "I don't know"

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Once again an approach from the "Sky News" network is embarrassingly exposed in front of an Israeli official. Mark Regev, Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman for foreign media, was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Network last night (Friday) and emphasized to the journalist interviewing Yalda Hakim the great difference between the Israeli abductees who were released from Hamas captivity - compared to the Palestinian prisoners who were released in exchange from prison in Israel. In response to Regev's words, the interviewer was speechless and had difficulty responding.

During the interview, Regev said to her: "It's like you're saying they released children and we released children. I don't accept that, we have two, four, five and nine year old children here - how can you compare that to a 16 or 17 year old minor who is involved in a stabbing attack or Throwing a Molotov cocktail or other acts of violence? You can say women and minors, but comparing it to a two-year-old Israeli baby is an exaggeration."

The interviewer Hakim told him in response: "Yes, I understand what you are saying, but there is also a 14-year-old boy (a released Palestinian prisoner)." Regev immediately answered her: "What was he accused of? Do you know? Did you check? Did he stab someone or did he pass explosives?", and the interviewer replied in response: "I don't know."

Regev continued to emphasize to her the big problem in comparing the two cases - on the one hand Palestinian boys who committed terrorist offenses and acts of violence, and on the other hand helpless and innocent toddlers and children from Israel. Regev's response left the interviewer confused and speechless for a few seconds.

This is the second time in the last few days that an Israeli official reacts angrily to an outrageous statement by the presenters of the "Sky News" network. Two days ago, an excerpt from the conversation of Eilon Levy, a spokesman for the information system in the Prime Minister's Office, was published,  who was stunned by a Sky News journalist's question - whether the fact that Israel releases three Palestinians for every Israeli abductee indicates that Israel underestimates the importance of Palestinian lives compared to Israeli lives. Mako

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IDF destroys home of terrorist who murdered Chen Amir. November 24, 2023. Jerusalem Post Staff. The IDF on Thursday night destroyed the home of the terrorist who murdered Chen Amir in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv in August, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Friday. Israeli forces also operated in Jericho, killing a terrorist affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a firefight. Additional suspects were arrested in Hebron and Nablus. JPost

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Just before the ceasefire: the IDF destroyed the terror tunnel in Shifa Empty heading Published: (Nov 24, 2023) 00:45

The IDF stated that the forces have completed their operational preparations for a four-day pause, during which the abductees will be released, and destroyed the terrorist tunnel that was exposed at Shifa Hospital. bottoms and a number of tunnel shafts in the Shifa Hospital area," it was reported. "During the last day, IDF forces continued on land, in the air, and at sea to destroy terrorist targets and to operate in the various areas to locate and scan suspicious buildings while encountering terrorists, the forces destroyed a tunnel route that had been identified in recent days." (Yoav Zeyton). YNet

IDF to tens of thousands of Gazans who are trying to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip: "This is a dangerous area" A significant movement of a crowd of Gazans trying to return to the north of the Gaza Strip has been recorded since the ceasefire came into effect in the morning • This is happening despite the IDF's explicit warning that "the war is not over" and they must avoid coming to this area: "Your fate and the fate of your family is in your hands" • This is how it is seen Nir Dvori|N12| Published 08:47 24.11.23 | Mako

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Toys for children and 4 helicopters: Operation "Heaven's Doors" to receive the kidnapped The IDF is preparing to take in the abductees and provide them with medical and psychological treatment upon their arrival in Israel. They will be taken together to the Israeli air force base in the courtyards. After an initial investigation, medical and psychological treatment, they will be transferred by helicopter or minibus - at their request - to hospitals. Their families will speak with them immediately upon their arrival and will be allowed to visit them Or Heller, Novenber 24, 2023. (Published: 12:29, updated 13:06). 13TV

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49 days later: First group of hostages returns to Israel Hamas releases first batch of 13 hostages as agreed upon in ceasefire deal. Israel releases 39 security prisoners.

Israel National News. Published: Nov 24, 2023, 3:42 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 6:56 PM

49 days later: Hamas on Friday released the first batch of 13 hostages it had been holding since October 7, as agreed upon in a deal between Israel and Hamas.

IDF Spokesperson: 'Our forces will stay along the ceasefire lines within Gaza' by TaboolaPromoted Links The IDF's operation to receive the hostages, codenamed "Heaven's Doors", began at 4:00 p.m. (Israel time).

11 additional Thai nationals were released as well.

Two hours later, Israel released 39 Palestinian Arab prisoners.

Shortly before 7:00 p.m., the IDF confirmed that the hostages are in Israeli territory.

“IDF Special Forces and ISA Forces are currently with the released hostages. The released hostages underwent an initial medical assessment inside Israeli territory. They will continue to be accompanied by IDF soldiers as they make their way to Israeli hospitals, where they will be reunited with their families,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

“The Israel Defense Forces salutes and embraces the released hostages upon their return home. The IDF, together with the entire Israeli security establishment, will continue operating until all the hostages are returned home,” it added.

“The IDF Spokesperson reiterates the importance of demonstrating patience and sensitivity during this time out of respect for the released hostages and their families,” the statement concluded.

The hostages were released from the Khan Yunis Hospital, where they were held for a short time and were then handed over to the Red Cross, which then transferred them to Egypt via the Rafah Crossing.

As of 5:00 p.m., Israeli officials confirmed that the 13 hostages are in Egypt and will be making their way to Israel soon.

The President of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, later said that the organization that 13 Israeli hostages, as well as the 11 Thai hostages who were freed as part of a different deal arranged by the Thai government, are making their way to the Rafah crossing.

The hostages reportedly underwent initial eye tests after being held for in the dark for a long time.

Residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz identified two of the hostages through videos of them travelling in Red Cross vehicles to the Rafah Crossing: Margalit Moses, 77, and Adina Moshe, 72.

Also identified through the videos are Danielle Aloni, 44, and her daughter, Emilia, 5.

In addition, Ruth Munder [Mundar], 78, her daughter Keren, 54, and Keren’s son, Ohad, who celebrated his ninth birthday in captivity last month, were identified in the footage.

Also freed was Hannah Katzir, 77, who recently appeared in a propaganda video released by the Islamic Jihad. The terrorist group just days ago falsely claimed that Katzir had died in captivity.

Yaffa Adar, 85, who was seen being driven in a golf cart from Kibbutz Nir Oz to Gaza, has been released as well.

Doron Katz Asher, 34, and, her daughters Raz, 4, and Aviv, 2, were freed from captivity.

Video: Red Cross vehicles with the Israeli hostages inside

First footage of Israeli hostages inside Red Cross vehicle:

During the operation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will be at the IDF Operations Branch control center at the Kirya in Tel Aviv.

The Prime Minister and the Defense Minister will closely monitor the management of the operation to bring the Israelis who have been released from Hamas captivity back to the country.

Prime Minister Netanyahu will be accompanied by National Security Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi and his Military Secretary, Maj.-Gen. Avi Gil. Defense Minister Gallant will be accompanied by his Military Secretary, Brig.-Gen. Guy Markizano and the head of his staff, Shachar Katz.

The hostages will receive noise-canceling headphones especially purchased for them which are suitable for children in order to make the anticipated helicopter ride back into Israel more pleasant and to make them feel more calm and secure. Each helicopter will be equipped with a medical team from the IDF's pararescue unit, Unit 669, which will include an officer, three combat soldiers, and two doctors. The hostages will also be welcomed by representatives of the IDF Manpower Directorate, who have accompanied them throughout the ordeal. INN

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Gigi Hadid DELETES 'anti-Semitic' post claiming Israel is 'only country that keeps children as prisoners of war' - while Israeli kids are still kept captive by Hamas - and calls terrorist who tried to murder Jews a POW. By Noa Halff For Dailymail.Com. 23:51 24 Nov 2023, updated 23:51 24 Nov 2023.

American model Gigi Hadid posted a picture of Palestinian terrorist Ahmed Manasra as a 'child prisoner of war' and was blasted by online critics On the same day Hamas released 13 hostages, Hadid claimed Manasra was 'abducted' and bizarrely accused Israel of 'raping and murdering' people In the since-removed post, Hadid shared a photo of Manasra, who was imprisoned for going on a stabbing rampage in Jerusalem in 2015.. Daily Mail

AG @AGHamilton29: Absolutely despicable.

Gigi Hadid just posted the below to her millions of followers falsely accusing Israel of abducting, torturing, raping children.

Her example was Ahmed Almansara.

Here is video of Ahmed and his cousin running through a Jewish settlement looking for people to stab, settling on critically stabbing a 13 year old boy and another man. [pic.twitter.com/LQOhDUbQc8] Nov 24, 2023 — AG (@AGHamilton29) November 24, 2023. [274]

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'There wasn’t a dry eye in the hospital’' as hostages reunite with family.

According to hospital staff at Wolfson Medical Centre, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room as some families were reunited with loved ones who were taken hostage by the terror group Hamas.

CNN reporter Oren Liebermann said the five elderly women who were released in the first group of hostages held by Hamas were given a private area of the Wolfson Medical Center.

“As they came in, they have been receiving medical checks and that includes their physical condition but also their mental conditions for nearly 50 days of captivity at the hands of Hamas,” Mr Liebermann told Sky News Australia.

“They have been given a special area of the hospital which is secluded so they can maintain their privacy and that’s for the freed hostages and their families,” he said.

It comes as two dozen hostages who were held for almost seven weeks at the hands of Hamas were released from captivity under a temporary truce on Friday afternoon (local time). Nov 25, 2023 SkyNews AU - on YouTube

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'Palestine is ours, ours, ours': PA schools celebrate Oct. 7

The P.A. curriculum is replete with antisemitism, incitement to violence, demonization of Israel and the promotion of jihad, IMPACT-se said.

([275] Children sang at a rally to celebrate the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, at the Azzun Elementary School for Boys in Qalqilya. Source: Facebook).

(November 24, 2023 / JNS) Palestinian Authority schools are joyously celebrating the horrors of the October 7 massacre in song, coloring books and plays, a new report reveals.

At least 11 schools, including eight operated by the P.A. in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, have enthusiastically celebrated the horrific Hamas attack, which killed 1,200 persons in Israel, mainly civilians, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) said in its report published on Thursday.

This follows years of P.A. schools teaching hate. The P.A. curriculum is replete with antisemitism, incitement to violence, demonization of Israel and promotion of jihad, which IMPACT-se has documented.

The P.A. curriculum is taught throughout Judea and Samaria and also in the Gaza Strip, indicating Hamas approval of its contents.

“Schools operated by the Palestinian Authority are teaching the same curriculum as that studied by the thousands of Oct. 7 terrorists from Gaza, and are publicly celebrating the unspeakable atrocities,” IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff, said in a statement.

“It is critical that not a single cent of international aid, including European Union funds, continues to fuel this deadly process of murderous indoctrination,” he added.

The European Union is the largest single donor to the P.A. Contributions via the E.U.’s PEGASE funding instrument directly pay the salaries of P.A. education sector civil servants, including those of the “Palestinian Curriculum Development Center,” who draft, implement and teach the curriculum, IMPACT-se noted.

(PEGASE is a French acronym for Mechanism “Palestino-Europeen de Gestion et d’Aide Socio-Economique,” or Palestinian-European Management and Socio-Economic Aid.)

The amount totals €220 million ($240 million) a year.

Other contributors to P.A. education include a basket of funds known as the Joint Financing Arrangement, under which Germany, Norway, Finland and Ireland bilaterally finance the P.A.’s Ministry of Education, IMPACT-se said.

Among many examples taken from open-source material representing just a sample of activity at P.A. schools in Judea and Samaria is the Ya’bad Secondary Boys School, where parents were informed that the school would be closed on Oct. 18 “out of respect for the pure blood of our martyrs and to denounce the massacres made by the cowardly Nazi Occupation.”

The letter from school officials signed off: “There is no might and no power except by Allah. God punish the Jews and those who support them.”

At the Fadwa Touqan Mixed Elementary School in Nablus (biblical Shechem), second-grade pupils colored in drawings made by their art teacher, depicting Hamas terrorists on gliders (motorized gliders were used by Hamas on Oct. 7, becoming a massacre motif). [276].

The drawings also include the words, “Glorious Gaza.” The school posted the pictures on its Facebook page.

Typical of P.A. schools, a celebratory rally was held to mark Oct. 7 at the Azzun Elementary School for Boys in Qalqilya.

Fourth-grade school students stood together to sing the words to the song “Our Al-Aqsa.” Lyrics include “place a dagger on your waist,” “water us with martyrdom,” and “Jerusalem is ours, the land is ours.” The song also declares that “the Jew desecrated Jerusalem, acted unjustly and tyrannically.”

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At the same school, fourth-graders performed a class play in solidarity with Gaza in which children played out graphic scenes, some lying on the floor representing corpses and others drenched in red paint representing blood.

Students at the Rafedeen Mixed Elementary School in the South Hebron Hills also participated in a school rally in honor of the Hamas massacre.

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A video on the school’s Facebook page shows a fourth-grade pupil reciting a poem urging that the Palestinian flag “be hoisted even by force, be hoisted even by blood.” The poem concludes with a call to Palestinians: “We shall water Al-Quds [Jerusalem] with blood. Palestine is ours, ours, ours.”

In one textbook from the P.A. curriculum, an eighth-grade Arabic reading comprehension is taught through a violent story promoting bombings in which Palestinians “cut the necks of enemy soldiers” and “wore explosive belts.” An accompanying illustration depicts Israeli soldiers shot dead by a Palestinian.

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Meanwhile, a fifth-grade study card tells children they are duty-bound to “committing jihad and dying as a martyr” for the sake of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, or Temple Mount.

A reading comprehension for fifth-graders glorifies as a hero Dalal Mughrabi, who participated in the murder of 13 Israeli children and 25 civilian adults on a bus in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre. Math is taught to fourth-graders by asking them to add the numbers of “martyrs” from the First and Second Intifadas.

Earlier this month, IMPACT-se published a related study that found teachers and staff employed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which teaches the P.A. curriculum in its schools, publicly supported the Oct. 7 attacks. JNS

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The moment nine-year-old Ohad Munder, held hostage in Hamas since October 7, reunited with his father following the former's release on November 24, 2023 (photo credit: VIia Maariv Online). at JPost

Father reunites with wife, children, after 49 days in captivity, says hostages are 'my new family' By Jerusalem Post Staff. November 24, 2023 JPost

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'I dreamt we came home' says Israeli girl released from Gaza. Reuters. November 24, 2023. [280] JPost

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'I'm not dead,' Thai hostage says after 'miracle' release in Gaza. Reuters. November 24, 2023 JPost

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The senior officer who fought bravely with his son and saved dozens. Li Naim 24.11.23. N12

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Report: Two Gazans were killed by IDF fire when they tried to return to the north of the Gaza Strip | Documentation: Crowds flee The IDF spokesman clarified in Arabic that the ceasefire is temporary, and announcers warned against returning to the northern Gaza Strip - but clashes broke out after some decided to return anyway: "Israel will not scare us." The AP network reported that two were killed and 11 wounded, the IDF: A distance shot was fired." Crowds took to the streets of Khan Yunis, residents were seen among the ruins

Einav Halabi Published: Nov 24, 2023.

Israel has warned the residents of the northern Gaza Strip against returning to their homes - but in the shadow of disinformation spread by Hamas about the nature of the ceasefire, clashes are being recorded between the IDF and residents who are trying to return to the northern Gaza Strip, which was for that. Later, the AP network reported that two were killed and 11 were injured in an attempt to return to the northern Gaza Strip. A document was published on the Arab networks of the escape of masses of returning Gazans, claiming that the IDF was firing live fire at them. The army, on the other hand, claimed that they only used distance fire.

(The "humanitarianism" of Hamas: helps abduct adults, while babies are held captive in an unknown condition) [...] A dentist from Gaza City, Abu Salah, claimed: "In Israel they said 'we will destroy Gaza and return the abductees', in the end they surrendered to Gaza and we returned home." Khaled Abu Anza, a resident of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, told the Reuters news agency about his feelings regarding the ceasefire: "We are full of hope, optimism and pride in our resistance. We are proud of our achievements, despite the pain we have caused."

IDF announcements - asking the residents not to move to the north of the Gaza Strip Announcements distributed by the IDF Against the background of the photos of Gaza residents walking among the ruins, some of them stunned, the IDF dropped warning leaflets against returning to the northern Gaza Strip. "Gaza residents, the war is not over yet," the leaflets read. You must stay in the southern area of ​​the Gaza Strip."

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At the same time, trucks of humanitarian aid and fuel continue to enter the Strip through the Rafah crossing. Egypt said that 130,000 liters of diesel fuel and four trucks of cooking gas would be delivered to Gaza daily when the ceasefire began, and that 200 aid trucks would enter Gaza daily.

As part of the attempt to paint the temporary ceasefire as a victory for the terrorist organizations, the Secretary General of the Jihad movement Ziad Nachala said: "The ceasefire comes after a month of ground aggression with big slogans raised by the enemy. The resistance forced the enemy to accept a prisoner exchange negotiation, and the remaining enemy prisoners would not be released without releasing our prisoners. With the steadfastness of our fighters, a prisoner exchange process was later imposed on the enemy that would ensure the release of all our prisoners under the title 'all for all'."

Nachala claimed that "the aggression launched by the enemy was not only a response to the action of the resistance on October 7, but is also related to new arrangements for the Middle East. What the resistance is doing has become a source of pride for all the peoples of the world. We are proud of what the resistance is doing in Lebanon to support their brothers in Palestine. The Zionist goals that the enemy raised They still exist and we must continue to fight. We will not break, we will not give in, and we will fight, which is our choice today and more than ever." YNet

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Hamas's cheap propaganda: terrorists pick up a child and "help" the elderly women they kidnapped

The terrorist organization published an outrageous and edited video of the release of the first batch of the kidnapped - in which it tried to portray itself as a "humane body" • In practice, these images reveal the true face of Hamas, which does everything to legitimize its atrocities - on the backs of those who spent 50 days in captivity

Sapir Lipkin | N12 | Published 16:17 25.11.23 

Hamas' outrageous video: Yesterday (Friday), the terrorist organization published a cheap and well-edited two-minute long propaganda video - designed to paint it as a "humane organization" that cares for its abductees. The video was distributed immediately after the release of the 13 Israeli abductees, ignoring the fact that he held them for more than a month and a half.

In the Hamas video, which we chose not to publish in order not to echo its messages and support the cynical use of hostages, the terrorists of the terrorist organization are seen "helping" the freed - while armed and masked. One of them was recorded lifting one of the children into the Red Cross vehicle and others lifted the older women who had been released from captivity - all this without their consent and against their will. The manipulative video published by Hamas ignores the fact that the same terrorists carried out a brutal massacre in an October 7 attack, in which they abducted the same children and the elderly from their homes - without any human victims.

Another example of the nasty propaganda of Hamas is the false announcement by the Islamic Jihad, according to which the 77-year-old Hana Katzir, who was released last night, is no longer alive. But upon her return home, the good news arrived - Katzir, from the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz, is safe and sound.

Hamas worked to echo its vile messages on social networks as well, as part of its trend to portray a "humane organization". For example, he wrote: "Have you seen a Palestinian prisoner waving to her jailer on her way out of prison? Here you see the Israeli woman who was detained in Gaza by the resistance, waving her hands to the residents of Gaza during the transaction. You discover the difference between Islam and the infidels, between the truth and the lie." Mako

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Azzat Alsalem @AzzatAlsaalem: Two Palestinians have been killed publicly and their bodies were drugged by Hamas terrorists and their supporters in Tulkarm.

They were accused that they are cooperating with Israel and were executed.

“Civilians” celebrated murdering them. Nov 24, 2023 [282]

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‘BBC’: Not impartial to rally vs. Jew-hatred, Palestinian flag on Macy’s parade float. Nov. 23-24 antisemitism roundup. Menachem Wecker. (November 24, 2023 / JNS).

“We want to make it very clear that the tribe takes no stance on the conflicts overseas,” stated the Mashpee Wampanoag, after a member displayed a Palestinian flag on the American Indian tribe’s float. “It’s unfortunate that we are not focused on the beautiful display of our culture and history at the Macy’s Day Parade but rather on the actions of an individual tribal citizen.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had thanked the tribe “for showing solidarity with the Palestinian people,” and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a member of the “Squad,” wrote: “This is what solidarity looks like.”

Anti-Israel protesters disrupted the parade, with some gluing themselves to the ground along the parade route.

The BBC has reportedly told news staff that attending a march against antisemitism would be seen as “controversial” and a violation of the company’s policy on impartiality. “Many people here have been to the pro-Palestine marches and are happy to talk about it at work. People here seem to think Zionists are evil. One colleague said I was OK because I wasn’t ‘a proper Zionist,’” one source told the Daily Mail Online. “They don’t have a clue.”

Three British police forces are investigating antisemitic hate speech at local mosques after “footage of preachers calling for Jews to be slaughtered and Israel to be destroyed has been handed to detectives at West Midlands Police, Scotland Yard and Northamptonshire Police,” the Daily Mail reported. “Oh God, limit their number. Kill them indiscriminately and do not leave any of them alive,” one reportedly said. “Oh God, our Lord. Disperse them. Weaken their strength, shake the ground beneath their feet and freeze the blood in their veins. Make them captive to the Muslims.”

From Oct. 7 to Nov. 20, Toronto experienced a 192% increase in reported antisemitic incidents compared to that span last year (38 anti-Jewish hate crimes compared to 13), per Myron Demkiw, the city’s police chief. “The numbers are deeply unsettling but not surprising,” said Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, which has been fielding reports of daily antisemitism from Toronto Jews. (In the same spans, there were 17 anti-Muslim incidents reported in 2023, compared to one in 2022—a 1,600% increase.)

At least 85 Jewish graves were desecrated in Belgium. “The chosen location and the theft of numerous Stars of David leave little doubt about the antisemitic nature of the intentions,” wrote Paul Magnette, mayor of the nearby city of Charleroi, in French. “I strongly condemn these despicable actions. … Antisemitism is an evil that we must continue to fight with all our strength.”

Protesters reportedly lit smoke bombs, spilled red paint and chanted that Michael Tuchin was a baby killer outside a home belonging to the AIPAC leader in Los Angeles. StopAntisemitism shared video footage on social media and wrote: “What’s next? The burning of Synagogues and schools like in 1939 Germany?” JNS

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The abductees say: In the last two weeks the food ran out. On the way to the Rafah crossing they threw stones at the cars, they were afraid it would end in a lynching. (Yael Odem). Nov 25, 2023. Amit Segal

The abductees who were released yesterday said: We were afraid of lynching on the way to Rafah. New details. In the hours that have passed since their return to Israel, the abductees who were released told why they were recorded as being scared on the way to Israel • They also said that the food ran out during the captivity, and in the last two weeks they only lived on rice • One of the abductees, Hana Katzir, found out only after the release what happened to her family Yael Odem | N12 | Published 25.11.23

The abductees who were released yesterday (Friday) told the women of the community about what they went through in Gaza - and the moments of drama when they were transferred to Israel. Contrary to reports, the abductees were not held together and therefore, each of them has a different story. In the hours that have passed since their release, the abductees told the members of Kibbutz Nir Oz what they had been through.

Regarding the frightened looks when getting off the Red Cross vehicles, the abductees said that during the trip to the Rafah crossing, stones and other objects were thrown at them. They were afraid that they would be lynched and were in real, existential fear, on the way to the Rafah crossing.

The abductees also said that in the last two weeks in captivity in Gaza, the food ran out except for rice, so they also lost weight. The kidnapped Hana Katzir, who the Islamic Jihad claimed died in captivity, returned safely last night - and only when she arrived in Israel did she discover that her husband Rami had been murdered and her son had been kidnapped. Only when the abductees arrived in Israel and asked did they find out what had become of the families.

78-year-old Ruthie Munder, who was released last night from Hamas captivity, discovered upon arriving in Israel that her husband, Avraham Monder, had been kidnapped and held captive, and that her son Roy had been murdered on Black Sabbath. "I don't know how they murdered him, in what form," said Ruthie. Mako

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A Sky News reporter claimed that Israel released children - the Prime Minister's spokesman attacked: "Do you even know what he was accused of?" Once again there was a storm on the broadcast of the important British network: Mark Regev did not remain indifferent to the problematic definition of the foreign reporter. Was he accused?", and she admitted: "I don't know" N12 | Published 25.11.23

Once again an approach from the "Sky News" network is embarrassingly exposed in front of an Israeli official. Mark Regev, Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman for foreign media, was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Network last night (Friday) and emphasized to the journalist interviewing Chila Hakim the great difference between the Israeli abductees who were released from Hamas captivity - compared to the Palestinian prisoners who were released in exchange from prison in Israel. In response to Regev's words, the interviewer was speechless and had difficulty responding.

During the interview, Regev said to her: "It's like you're saying they released children and we released children. I don't accept that, we have two, four, five and nine year old children here - how can you compare that to a 16 or 17 year old minor who is involved in a stabbing attack or Throwing a Molotov cocktail or other acts of violence? You can say women and minors, but comparing it to a two-year-old Israeli baby is an exaggeration."

The interviewer Hakim told him in response: "Yes, I understand what you are saying, but there is also a 14-year-old boy (a released Palestinian prisoner)." Regev immediately answered her: "What was he accused of? Do you know? Did you check? Did he stab someone or did he pass explosives?", and the interviewer replied in response: "I don't know."

Regev continued to emphasize to her the big problem in comparing the two cases - on the one hand Palestinian boys who committed terrorist offenses and acts of violence, and on the other hand helpless and innocent toddlers and children from Israel. Regev's response left the interviewer confused and speechless for a few seconds.

This is the second time in the last few days that an Israeli official reacts angrily to an outrageous statement by the presenters of the "Sky News" network. Two days ago, an excerpt from the conversation of Eilon Levy, a spokesman for the information system at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was published, who was stunned by a Sky News journalist's question - whether the fact that Israel releases three Palestinians for every Israeli abductee indicates that Israel underestimates the importance of Palestinian lives compared to Israeli lives. Mako

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The Foreign Affairs Ministry announces treatment plan for the foreign citizen hostages released. By Walla! Published: November 25, 2023.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on November 25 that it has started a special treatment program for the foreign citizens who were released from captivity, after earlier today 10 Thai citizens and one Filipino citizen - out of 50 foreign citizens who will be returned as part of the deal - joined the Israeli abductees.

As part of the program, called "Nurse's Hand", the returnees will undergo a series of medical tests and will later undergo a mental health evaluation by a team of psychologists and social workers.. JPost

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Red alert sirens sound in northern Israel. November 25, 2023. JPost

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IAF intercepts suspicious aerial target that crossed Lebanon border - IDF. November 25, 2023. JPost

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Israel-Hamas war: Rocket sirens sound in north, another 14 hostages to be released today. November 25, 2023. JPost

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IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee to Gazans: 'Please don't head north in Gaza.' November 25, 2023. JPost

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IDF operating in Nablus and Qabatiya, one killed, 10 arrested. November 25, 2023. JPost

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Israeli cargo ship attacked by Iranian drone in Indian Ocean - AP. Jerusalem Post Staff, November 25, 2023 JPost

Israeli-owned ship attacked by Iranian drone in Indian Ocean. The attack on the CMA CGM Symi caused no injuries. Charles Bybelezer. (November 25, 2023 / JNS). JNS

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2 Palestinians were brutally executed: "They cooperated with Israel" The crowds in Tulkarm rejoiced, desecrated their bodies and shouted: "You traitors" Sapir Lipkin Nov 25, 2023 Hamza Mabarech and Azzam Joabra were murdered by Hanas people... N12

Hamas military wing executes three Palestinians in W. Bank on suspicion of spying for Israel By Jerusalem Post Staff, Maariv Online. November 25, 2023.

Their execution was later confirmed to have been committed by a firing squad, according to a document published by Hamas's military wing in the West Bank.

Two Palestinians were murdered in the city of Tulkarm and another was murdered in Jenin in the West Bank on Friday under suspicion of spying for Israel.

Many people had either participated or watched the event and took very graphic photos and videos documenting the murder, which can be seen on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The two that were murdered in Tulkarm are 31-year-old Hamza Mabarech and 29-year-old Azzam Joabra, according to N12.

A Palestinian mob can be seen in the videos abusing the bodies and hanging them on an electric pole as crowds surrounded the area, screaming "You traitors!" N12 reported.

Hamas's statement on the murders Hamas's military wing in the West Bank published a hard document of the two Palestinians who were executed, which was later revealed to have been done by a firing squad, KAN reported.

The document confirms the charges that the two Palestinians were accused of collaborating with Israel. They were hanged after their murder on an electric pole with crowds surrounding the place.

The two were also accused of providing information to the IDF and Israeli intelligence about wanted individuals.

Social media reactions

Journalist David Collier wrote on X, "If this is how they treat their own. What chance do Jews have? Guess what @amnesty and @BBCNews will say? Nothing."

Journalist Tal Lev Ram implied that the murders of the three Palestinians may be because of the lack of control the Palestinian Authority has in those areas and the security mechanisms there compared to other areas in the West Bank.

Editor Laura E. Adkins wrote "What happens to Palestinians who are accused of collaborating with Israel? Two were just executed by a Hamas firing squad." JPost

Tal Lev Ram @tallevram: At least 3 executions tonight in Tulkarm and Jenin on suspicion of collaboration with Israel. Past experience shows that many times there are mistakes in identification, closing accounts for other things and sometimes not. This does not change the fact that Israel needs to present these photos in every possible diplomatic mission and in addition they represent the atmosphere of war in Tulkarm and Jenin and the loss of control of the Palestinian Authority and the security mechanisms there compared to other areas that are less so. Nov 25, 2023 [283]

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Defense Minister Galant assessing the situation in the Gaza Strip: "We will not leave Gaza until all the abductees are returned." News 0404 25/11/2023 19:54. 0404

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Is the ceasefire collapsing? Israel in an ultimatum to Hamas.

Hani Edri, 25.11.23 | 19:07

After Hamas rejected the release of the additional 13 abductees who were supposed to go to Israel today - Israel sent a message to Hamas according to which if the abductees are not returned by midnight - the ceasefire will end. After Hamas announced that the release of the abductees had been postponed, and that the 13 additional abductees who were supposed to cross over to Israel today remained in their hands - Israel sent a message to Hamas: If the abductees are not released by midnight - the ceasefire will end," it was reported.

Qatar, which is involved in the details of the deal, also sent a message to Hamas: "Enough with the games, it will harm you."

The military wing of Hamas claims this evening that it has decided to postpone the release of the abductees - until Israel "meets the terms of the agreement to bring humanitarian aid trucks into the northern Gaza Strip."

Security officials in Israel say that Hamas's claims are false and that, "This morning we transferred to the northern Gaza Strip no less than 61 aid trucks out of 200 that were transferred today, including oil and gas tanks. Hamas knows that if the abductees are not released by midnight - the IDF will return to maneuvering in the war - and therefore it Trying to control the narrative."

A political source clarified "All claims by Hamas as if Israel violated the agreement are false. This is a propaganda attempt by Hamas. Israel has met all its obligations. Hamas is embarrassing the mediators - Egypt and Qatar." Srugim

Hamas started the games by claiming that Israel is not complying with the agreement. Nov 25, 2023. Amit Segal

Israel threatens that if there is no release by midnight, the maneuver in Gaza will be renewed. 25.11.23 Rotter

Israel warns: If hostages not released by midnight, ground offensive continues Israeli security officials addressed the delay in the release of the hostages, stating Saturday that, "Hamas is aware that if the captives are not released by midnight, the IDF will continue the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, so they are trying to control the narrative." "Hamas played the same games yesterday, altering the travel route and transfer of the captives contrary to the plan," the official added. According to the officials, "More than 61 aid tracks were transferred to the northern Gaza Strip out of 200 scheduled for the day, including solar and gas." [Nov 25. 2023. 11:59]. Ynet

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Report: Qatar tells Hamas to 'quit the games.' Magen David Adom explains why hostage release not on the horizon at the moment. Israel National News. Published: Nov 25, 2023, 7:50 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 8:46 PM. INN

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Red Cross shows clear anti-Israel bias, Jerusalem Institute of Justice claims. By Jerusalem Post Staff. November 25, 2023. Despite numerous social media posts on Palestinians suffering from the war with Hamas, the Red Cross failed to make a single mention of Israeli civilians suffering on October 7 or thereafter.

The Red Cross's social media apparatus disproportionately focused on the suffering of civilians in Gaza while ignoring the suffering of Israelis since Hamas’ October 7 attack, the Jerusalem Insitute of Justice (JIJ) found.

JIJ conducted a thorough analysis of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s social media following Hamas's October 7 massacre, in which they murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped over 200 more.

The analysis comes at a time when the Red Cross has been scrutinized heavily for failing to visit Israeli hostages and not reporting that the hostages had been taken to Shifa Hospital.

During the analysis, JIJ reported that they were concerned to find that there were no posts, images, graphics, or videos highlighting the damages suffered by Israel as a result of Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups. There were no posts addressing the October 7 tragedy, rockets launched by Hamas indiscriminately at civilian populations, or the hostages kidnapped. JPost

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"We don't stop until everyone returns": thousands at a support rally in Tel Aviv. In the shadow of the delay, family members and artists gather in the "Square of the Hostages." N12 | Nov 25, 2023 19:23 N12

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The 50th day of the war Officials in Israel and Egypt: the problems have been resolved - the transaction will be carried out soon Israel is preparing for the second round in which 13 more abductees will be released, after Hamas rejected the release • The list of abductees expected to be released has been transferred to Israel - and it includes more children than yesterday • 2 targets were intercepted in Eilat, no alarm was raised • After 49 days in captivity, the children and adults who were released were reunited with their families • Updates washing News reporters 12 | N12 | Updated 20:40 25.11.23.

The release of the kidnapped - all the updates 20:49 - 13 Israeli hostages are expected to be released, in addition to 7 foreign citizens..

20:39 - An Israeli source confirms: the transaction will be carried out Mako

The crisis is over: 13 abductees are expected to be released

Amichai Stein, Suleiman Maswadeh | November 25, 2023.

Hours after Hamas announced the delay of the second release of the hostages...Israel confirmed this evening (Saturday) that the crisis between the parties has been resolved and that 13 abductees are expected to be released...

Israel did not commit to releasing prisoners based on seniority but indicated that it might do so. Regarding the provision of humanitarian aid, the source said that Israel is not responsible for the arrival of the trucks in the northern Gaza Strip - but is responsible for their entry. Kan

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Fire exchange in Jenin between IDF forces and terrorists.

Gunfire was opened toward IDF forces operating in the Jenin refugee camp to dismantle terrorist infrastructure and apprehend terrorists. The forces responded with gunfire, hitting at least one terrorist. 11.25.23 Ynet

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Following the investigation: the foreign activist was deported from Israel.

The Belgian activist from ISM, the Hamas supporter who interfered with the activities of the IDF, was deported from the country last weekend. The activities of the ISM organization were recently revealed in the Jewish Voice investigation.

Following the Hakol.h. investigation: the foreign Belgian activist from the ISM organization, a supporter of Hamas, was deported from Israel last weekend.

This is Alison Bertram Russell, who was arrested on Wednesday last week while she was interfering with the activities of the IDF forces on Mount Hebron. On Thursday, her detention was extended until Sunday, when the police representative clarifies that the police intend to deport her from the country.

"We continue with a policy of zero tolerance for terrorism!", wrote the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir. "Tonight, the Belgian terrorist supporter who supported the Nazis from Hamas on social media was deported from Israel and was arrested in the determined work of the Sheriff's Office. What was is not what will be. Kudos to the Israel Police!" the minister wrote.

Bertram, an activist in the pro-Hamas organization ISM, was arrested following the Jewish Voice's investigation into the ISM activists, an investigation that reached the heads of the security establishment in recent days. This is an activist from Belgium who, among other things, participated in Hamas events, demonstrations, clashes with soldiers on Mount Hebron - and all under the "tourist" visa with which she entered Israel. The police charge her with the offenses of obstructing a public servant, publishing a call to commit an act of violence, supporting and identifying with and damaging the state symbol.

About two weeks ago, the Hakol.H. investigation revealed a number of foreign activists from the ISM organization who are now working in Israel. The ISM organization was exposed in the series 'Hashtoola' by the 'Ad Kan' organization and Zvi Yehezkali on Channel 13, as an organization working with the aid and cooperation of Hamas against Israel.

Paul Larudi, the leader of the organization, even expressed support for the massacre by Hamas of Jews on Simchat Torah and published a video in which he explained that "our Palestinian brothers and sisters taught the Zionists a lesson." The activists currently staying in Israel, mainly in Judea and Samaria, some explicitly support Hamas, Hezbollah and the bombing of Israel. Hakol

Belgian ISM activist Alison Russell expelled from Israel. Thierry Debels on Nov 25, 2023

Left-wing pro-Palestinian activist Alison Russell has been deported from Israel.

This is reported by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) organization and, according to Belga, it is confirmed by the FPS Foreign Affairs. “Because it concerns an individual case, we will not provide any further comment,” the FPS Foreign Affairs said, according to Belga. ISM is described by security services in Israel as pro-Hamas.

Russell was born in Scotland and lives in France and our country.

The woman was arrested by police in cooperation with IDF at an ISM protest on the hills of South Hebron in the West Bank.

Russell, an activist in the pro-Hamas organization ISM, was arrested after the Hakol Hayehudi newspaper's investigation into ISM operatives, which reached Israel's security services in recent days...

She was deported following legal proceedings at the Jerusalem Subdistrict Court. The police published a statement accusing Alison of 'supporting a terrorist organization'. (read more below the photo posted by Russell on Facebook) Pnws.be

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These are the 13 hostages released from Gaza on Saturday. By Yuval Barnea. Published: November 25, 2023 23:47 .

([284] The thirteen hostages released from Gaza on Saturday, November 25, 2023)

Israel on Saturday confirmed the identities of 13 Gaza hostages released, bringing the total of hostages released as part of the truce deal to 26.

Here are their names and faces:

Emily Hand, nine years old, and Hila Rotem, 13 years old Emily Hand, who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre and was reported as having been killed. The Irish-Israeli girl was abducted from a sleepover at her friend’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri, along with her friend Hila and her mother, Raya Rotem.

Emily turned nine while in Hamas custody. Hila will be returning without her mother, according to Israeli officials.

([285] Emily Hand, a resident of Kibbutz Be'eri who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from her friend's house on October 7, turned 9 in Hamas captivity in Gaza on November 17, 2023.)

Mia Regev

Mia Regev, 21 years old, was taken from the Nova party on October 7 along with her brother Itay. On the morning of the attack, Mia's dad got a call from her who screamed "Dad they're shooting at me, I'm dead". Maya is set to return without her 18-year-old brother.

Noam and Alma Or, brother and sister, father remains in Gaza Several members of the Or family were abducted on October 7, father Dror (48) and brother and sister Noam (17) and Alma (13). Yonat, their mother, was killed during the attack, and their brother Yahli survived because he was doing national service in the North. Dror is a chef and cheesemaker in the Be’eri Dairy. His wife Yonat, created her own furniture line in Be’eri.

([286] Maytal Weiss)

Shiri and Noga Weiss, mother and daughter

Shiri (53) and her daughter Noga (18) were abducted from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7. Ilan, father and husband, left their home in Kibbutz Be'eri armed on the morning of October 7 after receiving his call to the kibbutz's emergency response squad. But he never arrived at the armory, that was the last they heard from him.

Terrorists broke into their home and kidnapped Shiri from the safe room and then set the house ablaze, while Noga was still inside. Noga eventually escaped but was still caught by the terrorists later and taken to Gaza. Two of the Weiss sisters, Meytal and Maayan, escaped abduction through sheer luck as the terrorists hadn't attempted to enter their apartments.

Haran-Kipnis-Shoham-Avigdori family Several members of this extended family were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri, with some estimates being as high as 10 members.

([287] The Avigdori family: Hen, Noam, Sharon, and Omer.)

Sharon, 52, and her daughter, Noam, 12, were kidnapped on October 7, while on a visit to family members at Kibbutz Be’eri. Hen Avigdori, father and husband, is a television writer whose mission is usually to make people laugh, but now, things are different and he's "on a mission to bring back my girls." Their 16-year-old son, Omer, was with Hen in Hod Hasharon so was spared the horror.

Shoshan Haran

Haran, 67, founder of the Fair Planet NGO which helps bring innovative farming and agricultural techniques to less developed parts of the world. The project received praise from the Prime Minister of Bhutan and has been key in increasing food security for nearly a million people in Africa.

The Shohams, Adi, Yahel, and Neveh

Adi, 38, her son Naveh, 8, and his sister, Yahel (Yula), 3, were all abducted from Kibbutz Be'eri along with the rest of their extended family members. 

Despite the miraculous return of six family members, four still remain behind in Gaza, waiting to be released. JPost

These are the hostages who were released Saturday night

As the second group of released hostages reaches the Rafah Crossing, friends and neighbors in Israel learn of their return. Israel National News, Nov 25, 2023, 11:48 PM (GMT+2)

Thirteen Israelis and four foreigners were released from Hamas captivity Saturday evening.

The first hostages to be released were identified by members of their kibbutz, Kibbutz Be'eri, who were watching the live coverage from their hotel near the Dead Sea.

Sharon Avigdori, 52 years old, is a drama therapist who works with people on the autism spectrum. She employs endless sensitivity and compassion to reach children on the autism spectrum, working patiently within their world to nurture each child's potential.

Additionally, Sharon mentors therapists and counsels parents of children on the spectrum.

Sharon loves people and animals, and anyone who knows her immediately falls in love with her because it’s impossible to miss her enormous heart.

Sharon was kidnapped with her daughter Noam from Kibbutz Be'eri. Additionally, seven more members of her family were kidnapped and 3 were murdered.

Noam Avigdori, 12 years old, about to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. She is a cheerful girl who is always surrounded by many friends.

Noam is a member of the Scouts youth movement, a good friend to all, and very funny.

Because of her love for dogs, she would occasionally work as a dog walker for the dogs in the building.

Noam is described as a ray of light for their family, friends, and anyone who meets her and her radiant smile. Bursting with energy and charisma, always caring for others and volunteers whenever possible.

Noam was kidnapped along with her mother Sharon from Kibbutz Be'eri while visiting Sharon’s brother. In addition, 7 more members of her family were kidnapped and 3 were murdered.

Alma Or, 13 years old, is a very pretty girl, a good friend, and a funny kid. She was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri along with her older brother Noam and their father Dror.

Their mother Yonat was murdered. Their older brother Yaheli survived the inferno, as he was at his post in northern Israel where he is doing a year of national service.

Noam Or, 17 years old, kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Be'eri along with his little sister Alma and their father Dror.

Their mother Yonat was murdered and their older brother Yaheli survived the inferno as he was at his post in northern Israel where he is doing a year of national service.

Emily Hand, 9 years old, from Kibbutz Be'eri, celebrated her birthday last night, Friday, November 24th.

Emily's mother, Liat, passed away from cancer when Emily was only two and a half years old. Despite all the pain, Emily's small family rallied to raise her and be by her side with lots of love, providing security and giving her everything a child her age only needs and wants.

On Saturday, October 7th, Emily was sleeping at her best friend's house when terrorists broke in. Contact with her was lost by the afternoon. After a few days, the family received notice that Emily's body was found but as days passed, the IDF informed the family there was evidence indicating Emily was among the hostages in Gaza. Since then, the family waits for the moment they can hug her again.

Hila Rotem, 13 years old, is a friendly girl with a good heart who could never harm anyone else.

She loves making TikTok videos, eating sushi, and riding her skateboard.

She signed up for a gel polish course and excitedly awaited the start of classes, but her kidnapping abruptly ended that.

In the days before Black Saturday, she vacationed in Korea and Thailand for her uncle's wedding.

Hila managed to escape from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri from which her mother Ra'aya was kidnapped. She succeeded in hiding in the bushes, where she was then found and kidnapped.

Shoshan Haran, 67 years old, an exceptional woman, and the founder of FAIR PLANET - a non-profit organization whose goal is that no child goes hungry.

Shoshan has a PhD in Agronomy. She previously worked in Africa on agricultural projects to improve seed quality and develop advanced cultivation methods to help residents of Ethiopia and Tanzania. In addition to her, 8 members of her family were kidnapped and 3 were murdered (her husband, sister, and brother-in-law).

Adi Shoham, aged 38, resides with her husband and their two children in Ma'ale Tzviya. All four of them were kidnapped together from Kibbutz Be’eri during a visit with 5 other members of the family. Adi is a clinical psychologist, an intelligent and uplifting woman.

Nave Shoham, aged 8, a second-grade student. Nave loves playing soccer and is a fan of Messi. He's an active child and is full of energy. He participates in an extreme climbing class, and enjoys jumping on a trampoline and swimming in the pool with Yahel, his younger sister, who was kidnapped along with him and their parents.

Nave enjoys baking with his mother and eating ice cream and mango, but most of all, he loves the schnitzels his grandmother prepares for him. He, his parents, and his younger sister Yahel were kidnapped together from Kibbutz Be’eri during a holiday visit with five other members of the family.

Yahel Shoham, aged 3, is a cheerful girl who loves to sing and out on acts for the family. She loves listening to music. Yahel has a toy kitchen set and spends many hours playing with it. She loves jumping on the trampoline with her brother Nave. She has many dolls to whom she reads stories and sings.

Yahel loves to goof around with her father and listen to the stories that her mother and her older brother Nave read to her.

She, her parents, and her older brother Nave were kidnapped together from Kibbutz Be’eri during a visit with five other members of the family.

Shiri Weiss, 53 years old, works in Kibbutz Be'eri as an accountant for the agricultural association.

She is very family-oriented and loves spending time at home with her loved ones. Her perpetual concern and caring for her daughters constantly shine through.

She likes being in charge of planning family trips.

Shiri was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, while her young daughter Noga hid under the bed and witnessed the kidnapping. Her husband Ilan was also kidnapped.

Noga Weiss, 18 years old, loves teaching and working with children. She loves sports and plays volleyball. What Noga enjoys most is spending time with her friends.

Her mother was kidnapped in front of her eyes from their home in Kibbutz Be'eri, as Noga hid under the bed. As the terrorists burned down the house, Noga had trouble breathing and escaped through the window, managing to get away and hide in the bushes until the terrorists reached her too, and kidnapped her. Her father Ilan was also kidnapped.

Maya Regev, 21 years old, is very funny and charismatic.

Maya is athletic and mostly enjoys running and doing yoga.

A resident of Herzliya, she arrived at the Re’im festival together with her brother Itay (18) and their good friend Omer She-Tov (both of whom were also kidnapped), just a few hours after landing from Mexico where she vacationed with her family. Itay is still being held hostage by terrorists in Gaza.

On December 28th she is scheduled to fly out on a trip across South America. INN

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יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad: "Keep waving" - the instructions Hamas terrorists gave to the Israeli hostages are exposed... They tried to present themselves as humane and as if they were taking care of the hostages who love them - but these are cruel terrorists who make propaganda about the lives of our kidnapped civilians! [288]

Hamas's propaganda is revealed: the instruction to the kidnappers - "keep waving."

Sharon and Noam Avigdori were recorded by the terrorist organization waving peace to their captors upon their release • Listening to the audio of the video reveals the deception of Hamas |N12| Published 11:56 26.11.23.

We saw some of the abductees who returned from the Gaza Strip in recent days waving goodbye and smiling as they said goodbye to the Hamas terrorists who held them. However, in the video released last night (Saturday) by Hamas, the truth is also revealed which is actually very clear to the Israelis - everything is staged.

Sharon and her daughter Noam Avigdori were recorded on Hamas cameras saying goodbye to each other with smiles and waving goodbye to them from the Red Cross vehicle. However, unlike the video released by Hamas upon the release of the previous group of abductees, which came without sound, this time the video came with sound. In the recording, as noticed by Yosef Haddad who is involved in informing the world, the instruction to the two is clearly heard in the English language - "Keep waving".

Judging after two days of the release of two groups of hostages, Hamas is trying to present itself as humanitarian and as having given good treatment to those it held captive. Hamas militants are seen physically supporting the abductees, helping to load them into the Red Cross vehicles. However, it is important to remember that this is a terrorist organization that carried out a murderous attack and mass kidnapping of civilians, including the elderly, toddlers and children, and there is no connection between the organization and humanitarian acts. Mako

Hamas ordered hostages: 'Keep waving' Pro-Israel activist Yoseph Haddad shows Hamas forcing prisoners to act cheerful for the camera before the exchange.

Israel National News, Nov 26, 2023, 11:52 AM (GMT+2)

Pro-Israel activist Yose Haddad, an Israeli Arab specializing in online Israel advocacy, posted a video on X of the hostages being released by Hamas.

The clip shows hostages being loaded into vehicles to be handed over to Israel through the International Red Cross. As they prepare to move, one of the terrorists can be heard ordering them: 'Keep waving'.

Haddad denounced Hamas in his post: "'Keep waving' - the instructions Hamas terrorists gave to the Israeli hostages are exposed," he wrote.

"They tried to present themselves as humane and as if they were taking care of the hostages who love them - but these are cruel terrorists who make propaganda about the lives of our kidnapped civilians!" INN

End Wokeness @EndWokeness": “The hostages look so happy”.

1. Hamas has 7 of their family members in captivity

2. You can literally hear a Hamas terrorist telling them to “keep waving” (0:03)

3. Hamas released this video Nov 25, 2023 [289]

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Adam Albilya - אדם אלביליה @AdamAlbilya:

"Did they treat you well?"

Meanwhile, their loved ones still in captivity... [290] Nov 25, 2023 [291]

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HATE IN FLATBUSH: “Free Palestine” Hate Crimes Target THREE Orthodox Jews in Flatbush on Shabbos Afternoon [VIDEOS]. 25 Nov 2023. YWN

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Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’. By Susan Edelman and Georgia Worrell Published Nov. 25, 2023 Updated Nov. 25, 2023, 8:53 p.m. [...] Gennaro, whose district includes the school, said the Israel-Gaza war gave kids “a convenient excuse” to act out. “It went from a teacher just changing a photograph on her social profile to this contagion of hate being released in the halls of Hillcrest High School,” Gennaro said. “It’s a sad commentary on the rancid hate that exists within the hearts of students — for Jews.” Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) called it shocking that high school kids “would gang up on a teacher and harass her.” “I don’t know why these students are so misinformed, so intolerant and so radicalized. They don’t even know the history of the Middle East. They haven’t been taught that,” he said. Several students agreed. “I doubt half of them know how to spell Palestine,” a senior said. “They just wanted to make drama about it,” a sophomore said of the teacher’s pro-Israel stance. “Just, like, chaos. They thought of it as fun.” Students said rumors spread that the teacher “was abusing Muslims” and had taught “it was okay that children were being killed in Palestine.” Another teacher called the accusations “100% false.” At least three students who organized the riot face superintendent’s suspensions, the most severe punishment, said a source familiar with the incident. NY Post

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Report: Netanyahu pledged not to target Hamas leaders in Qatar. 11/26/2023. The hostage deal which has seen the release of 26 Israeli hostages from Gaza so far includes a commitment by the Israeli government not to target the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization in Qatar, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported. According to the newspaper, Qatar received from Israel as part of the outline for the release of the hostages from Gaza a promise according to which the Mossad would not carry out assassinations of senior Hamas members on Qatari soil. It was also reported that the Qataris set conditions on their role as mediators between Israel and Hamas.. INN

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Now we know: Israel was right about how Hamas operates - editorial By JPost Editorial. November 26; 2023.([292] An Israeli soldier walks through a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, November 22, 2023).

The evidence that Israel had been correct all along about Hamas’s nefarious mode of operation began to pile up soon after the IDF began its offensive.

For years Israel has said that Hamas conducts its ongoing campaign of terrorism against Israel from within civilian sites in Gaza: homes, businesses, schools, refugee facilities… and hospitals.

And for years it had always been dismissed by the international community as paranoia or disinformation, or met with shrugs from those who agreed but had no idea what to do about it.

The horrific October 7 massacre by Hamas that forced Israel to declare war against the terrorist government of Gaza was launched with the declaration that Israel, once and for all, was going to do something about it.

The evidence that Israel had been correct all along about Hamas’s nefarious mode of operation began to pile up soon after the IDF began its offensive.

Early last week, IDF Spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari revealed an underground Hamas command center under Gaza’s Rantisi Hospital that contained not only suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and a variety of weapons, but also signs, such as baby bottles, that Hamas had held Israeli hostages there.

([293] Israeli soldiers stand near the opening to a tunnel at Al Shifa Hospital compound in Gaza City, November 22, 2023)

Hagari said there was both evidence and independent intelligence information that Hamas terrorists had returned directly to the hospital after committing the atrocities of October 7.

He also noted that an IDF robot found additional terror tunnels, which were powered by electricity being siphoned off from the hospital for use by the terrorists underground.

That prompted US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to tell CNN, “You can see even from open source reporting that Hamas does use hospitals, along with a lot of other civilian facilities, for command-and-control, for storing weapons, for housing its fighters. Without getting into this specific hospital or that specific claim, this is Hamas’ track record, both historically and in this conflict.”

We saw the evidence ourselves Later in the week, the IDF took control of Shifa Hospital, long asserted to be the location of a Hamas headquarters. On Wednesday, the IDF brought The Jerusalem Post and other selected media outlets to view Hamas’s terror infrastructure, including its several-hundred-meter-long tunnel network, up close.

The Post’s Yonah Jeremy Bob reported on his eyewitness visit that next to the Qatar facility within the Shifa complex was a vast amount not only of Hamas guns and grenades – which the IDF found hidden throughout the hospital – but also rocket-propelled grenade launchers, large and small advanced drones for delivering explosives, and a variety of sophisticated intelligence platforms.

The vastness of the tunnels themselves, illustrated by the variety of sophisticated rooms and the blast door the IDF had displayed earlier last week, was testimony to how important this location was to Hamas.

Adding to that irrefutable evidence that Shifa was being used as a terror base, the IDF last week also released information and video footage showing that Hamas brought some of the hostages it kidnapped in Israel to Shifa.

The footage shows Hamas terrorists inside the hospital on the morning of October 7 forcibly transporting a Nepalese and a Thai civilian, both kidnapped from Israeli territory.

In a statement on Thursday, the IDF said that Hamas “used the hospital as a refuge for its terrorist forces and even brought Israeli hostages there who were kidnapped during the day of slaughter. A pathology report confirmed that soldier Noa Marciano was murdered on the grounds of Shifa Hospital.”

The IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Thursday that they had arrested Dr. Muhammad Abu Salamiyah, the director of Shifa. According to a statement, he was being interrogated by the Shin Bet after significant testimony and video evidence that Shifa had been used as a command center for Hamas during his tenure.

There were reports on Thursday night that Hamas was demanding that the IDF withdraw from Shifa as part of the hostage deal, a demand that Israel rightly rejected.

The longer Israel stays in Gaza, the more it is discovering about Hamas’s web of evil and its cynical use of civilians, especially the infirm, to provide a cover for their murderous actions.

The world should be coming together to back Israel’s actions and encourage it to continue its efforts to uproot the terror that has held Gaza captive for close to two decades. JPost

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Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons: Jeremy Bowen: “My reporting was wrong but I don’t regret a thing and I don’t feel bad at all” From We Stand With Israel Nov 25, 2023 [294]

Video of Massive Terror Complex Under Al Shifa Hospital Makes Media Look Ridiculous

The problem with the journalism industry boiled down to one clip. There are no consequences for getting things incredibly wrong and no feelings of remorse/regret as long as your mistakes are aimed at the side others in the newsroom don’t like. [295]

Video of Massive Terror Complex Under Al Shifa Hospital Makes Media Look Ridiculous. Drew Holden. November 25, 2023 The Israel Defense Forces brought cameras into the tunnels under Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip this week and exposed not just Hamas's sprawling operations there but also the terrorist group's enablers in the media... retrospect, the widespread both-sides news coverage of the Al Shifa saga appears hard to justify, not to say ridiculous. The media have made a practice of presenting Hamas's propaganda as at least as credible as Israel's evidence-backed claims, despite the group's record of lying about everything from Palestinian deaths to its massacre Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.

(The latest video of Hamas's terror tunnels just confirmed what Israel had been saying and showing for weeks, with the backing of American intelligence. Mainstream media reports about Hamas's use of Al Shifa date back at least to 2006, when a PBS documentary showed terrorists from the group appearing to run the place. In 2008, the New York Times reported how "armed Hamas militants in civilian clothes roved the halls." [296]).

Nevertheless, until as recently as a few days ago, news outlets questioned the evidence that Hamas was operating out of Al Shifa. They took Hamas's denials deadly seriously and suggested Israel was running out of time to make its case. Free Beacon

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US support for Hamas office in Qatar backfired, must end policy immediately: experts. The US has used the Hamas office in Doha to negotiate for the release of hostages with Qatari help. By Peter Aitken Fox News. Published November 26, 2023 4:00am EST Fox News

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HonestReporting @HonestReporting: What does it say about @nytimes that the lead photo on its online frontpage features freed Palestinian terror offenders rather than an image of released Israeli kids being reunited with their families after being held hostage by Hamas? Nov 26, 2023 Honest Repporting (on X)

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: Palestinian terrorists exchanged for Israeli hostages return home to the West Bank.

They quickly put on Hamas headbands and have green Hamas flags hoisted in front of their bus.

To those who aren’t blind, it’s all very clear who these people are… From Madhubanti Chatterjee (মধুবন্তী চট্টোপাধ্যায়) Nov 24, 2023. on X

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Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins:

Hila Rotem is a 13-year-old hostage who was released yesterday, but her mother wasn’t. Hamas claimed they couldn’t find her, even though Hila said they were together until two days ago. IDF spox Conricus says that’s a violation of the agreement not to separate mothers from kids. Nov 26, 2023. [297]

Hamas accused of violating truce by separating mother, child. Twelve-year-old Hila Rotem Shoshani's mother, Raya, was not among the 13 Israeli hostages released on Saturday. Joshua Marks. (November 26, 2023 / JNS) Kibbutz Be’eri, from where 12 of the 13 Israeli hostages released on Saturday were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, says Hamas has violated the terms of its ceasefire agreement with Israel by not releasing 12-year-old Hila Rotem Shoshani’s mother.

“Hila is returning home without her mother, Raya [Rotem], who remains in captivity. Hamas grossly violated the agreement and separated mother and daughter,” according to the statement. JNS

The girl who was released from captivity exposes the lie of Hamas. Hila Rotem Shoshani, the girl who was released last night from Hamas captivity without her mother Raya, revealed to her family members the lie of the terrorist organization Hamas.

Srugim news, 11/26/23.

([298]. The girl who was released from captivity exposes the lie of Hamas).

Last night a drama unfolded that almost led to the cancellation of the second round of the release of 13 Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity.

After many hours and after the 13 abductees were released, it was revealed that the reason for the crisis was Hamas's refusal to release her wife, Hila Rotem Shoshani's mother, claiming that he could not find her because they were not together in captivity.

But now, according to a report in News 12, it turns out that Raya Shoshani was in captivity together with her daughter Hila, when two days before the release Hamas separated them.

According to a report in News 12, Hila told her family members: "My mother was with me the entire time of captivity. Hamas separated us two days before the release. Mother's condition was good. We were together with Emily. Hamas informed us that there was a ceasefire and we were being released."

The political commentator of News 12, Amit Segal, revealed last night the real reason for the crisis, and wrote: "Now we can tell. Throughout the day there was drama because Hamas refused to release Hila's mother. Unfortunately, it did not happen today, but if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow."

In Kibbutz Be'eri they also attacked the terrorist organization Hamas and said that not releasing Hila's mother is a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement. Srugim

Kibbutz Be'eri: Hamas callously trampled the agreement. Israel National News Nov 26, 2023, 1:05 AM INN

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IDF eliminated five senior Hamas commanders prior to ceasefire. The commanders operated both in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria and participated in planning the October 7th massacre. Israel National News, Nov 26, 2023, 3:44 PM (GMT+2) INN

IDF kills 5 terrorists in Jenin raid, guts bomb lab. Troops arrest Hamas member suspected of murdering two Israelis in Huwara. ([299] The military equipment confiscated during an IDF raid in the Jenin camp, Nov. 25, 2023). (November 26, 2023 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces killed five Palestinian terrorists and destroyed an explosives laboratory in the Jenin camp in an overnight counter-terrorism operation, the army said on Sunday morning. JNS

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The 51st day of the war - On the way to Israel: 4-year-old Abigail, the Brodutch family and the Elyakim sisters. 14 Israeli abductees, including nine children and four women, were transferred from the Red Cross to the IDF • Among the freed: Chen Goldstein-Almog and her 3 children, Hagar Brodutch and her 3 children, sisters Dafna and Ella Elyakim, 4-year-old Abigail Idan, Alma Avraham and Aviva Adrian-Siegel • At Putin's request: Hamas released an Israeli hostage with Russian citizenship • Netanyahu we will enter the Gaza Strip: "Nothing will stop us" News reporters 12 | N12| Published 00:42 26.11.23 | Updated 18:34 26.11.23 [...] 18:33 - One of the released abductees was evacuated by helicopter to Soroka, in a serious condition The condition of one of the abductees released from Hamas captivity is dire. She was flown by helicopter to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva. Mako

Israel-Hamas hostage deal: The 13 hostages released by Hamas on Sunday. By Jerusalem Post Staff. November 26, 2023.

([300] The thirteen Israelis released from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Sunday, November 26, 2023.)

The release of the 13 brought the total amount of Israeli hostages released as part of the hostage deal with the Palestinian terrorist group to 39.

Israel on Sunday evening confirmed the identities of some 13 Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip.

The release of the 13 brought the total amount of Israeli hostages released as part of the hostage deal with the Palestinian terrorist group to 39.

Here are their names and faces:

Avigail Idan, three years old Avigail Idan, a 3-year-old hostage, became an orphan during the October 7 massacre, when her parents, Roy and Smadar, were killed. She was singled out by US President Joe Biden.

Idan, who holds American citizenship, has become a symbol of sorts for the nearly 40 children held captive by Hamas after US Biden discussed her plight with Qatar's Emir. She hid in her neighbor’s home, the Brodutch’s, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Avigail’s father, Roye Idan, was a Ynet photographer who tried to capture photos of the Hamas terrorists on gliders entering the Kibbutz.

The Brodutch family: Hagar (40), Ofri (10), Yuval (8) and Uriah (4) Avihai Brodutch has not heard from his wife, Hagar, 40, and their three children, 10-year-old Ofri and sons Yuval, 8, and Uriah, 4, since they were taken into Gaza by Hamas gunmen during the attack on Israeli villages on October 7. A few weeks ago, He expressed deep anguish over their uncertain fate and their innocence in the situation.

Kfar Aza, where his family was abducted, suffered heavily during the Hamas attack, with hundreds of gunmen infiltrating Israeli communities and taking over 240 hostages.

Ella and Dafna Elyakim, eight and 15 years old

Sisters Ela and Dafna Elyakim, aged 8 and 15, were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7 from their father's home in Kibbutz Nir Oz. The terrorists live-streamed the attack on Facebook, forcing the family to identify themselves.

The girls' father, Noam Elyakim, and his partner, Dikla Arava, along with Dikla's son, Tomer, were taken outside by the terrorists and later found dead near the Gaza border.

The girls' mother, Maayan Zin, has expressed concerns about the traumatic experience her daughters went through, as they were seen in different clothing in videos from Gaza.

([301] Dafna and Ella Elyakim, released from Hamas captivity on Sunday, November 26, 2023)

The Almog-Goldstein family: Chen (48), Agam (17), Gal (11) and Tal (9) Chen Almog-Goldstein, 48, and her three children, Agam (17), Gal (11), and Tal (9), have been missing since October 7 when they were abducted during a Hamas attack on Kfar Aza.

Chen's husband, Nadav, and their eldest daughter, Yam, were killed on the same day while in the safe room of their home. Yam remained with her father as he was recovering from surgery and couldn't easily move. The family lost contact with Yam at noon, and her body was later found. The rest of the family was initially considered missing and later categorized as hostages.

The Almog family previously lost five members in a suicide bombing attack in Haifa in 2003. Their close relative is Doron Almog, the chairman of the Jewish Agency.

Elma Avraham, 84 years old On October 7, Uri Ravitz last spoke to his mother (84), Elma Avraham, who was in her home at Kibbutz Nir Oz during a Hamas attack. She was trapped in her safe room and couldn't lock the heavy door.

Ravitz's brother was also in Nir Oz but unable to reach their mother in time.

Later, a photo emerged showing Avraham seated on a motorcycle surrounded by two armed terrorists, indicating she had been abducted during the attack.

Aviva Siegel, 64 years old Keith (64) and Aviva (62) Siegel live in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Keith was born in the United States and has lived in Kibbutz Kfar Aza for over 40 years.

Aviva is originally from South Africa and shared Keith's deep connection to the kibbutz, which they had both come to adore. According to their son, Elan, who wrote an op-ed for Fox News, Keith and Aviva are known for their unwavering belief in peaceful coexistence. Keith worked closely with many doctors, while Aviva dedicated her efforts to working with children, regardless of their background, be they Jewish or Arab.

On that fateful day of October 7, their peaceful existence was shattered when terrorists invaded their homes and forcibly taken from their residences to Gaza. JPost

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At the request of President Putin: Hamas released Roni Kariboy, an Israeli with Russian citizenship, from captivity. The release from captivity of the 25-year-old, who was kidnapped from the party in Re'im, is not part of the deal - and he will return to Israel in addition to the 13 abductees who arrived as part of the third round. that he asks them to release. N12| Published 16:46 26.11.23 | Updated 18:23 26.11.23. Mako

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Yaron Nadbornik @YaronNadbornik: Abductee who was released yesterday, Roni Kariboy, says that the building where he was being held in Gaza was bombed and collapsed & he managed to escape and for 4 days tried to reach the Israeli border. In the end he was captured by "Gaza civilians” who handed him to Hamas. Nov 27, 2023. on X

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Israelis greet newly freed hostages with joy, but can’t forget those left behind Spontaneous celebrations welcome. returnees on way from Gaza; grandfather of 4-year-old Avigail Idan elated, but her parents' deaths are 'an open wound that will never heal'. By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Canaan Lidor, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian. 26 November 2023, 10:33 pm TOI

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Hamas confirms five of its senior commanders killed. November 26, 2023. YNet

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4-year-old US national Abigail Edan 4 released from Hamas captivity. 51 days after being abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Abigail Edan, daughter of Ynet photographer Roy Edan who was killed by Hamas terrorists along with his wife Samdar, returned to Israel. Ilana Curiel, Alexandra Lukash, Sharon Kidon, Nir (Shoko) Cohen | November 26, 2023. Ynet

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Murderous organization Hamas presents 'farewell party' to hostages. Hamas propaganda video shows hostages waving goodbye to their captors as they are freed and handed over to the Red Cross. Israel National News,Nov 27, 2023, 12:01 AM (GMT+2)

Hamas on Sunday once again released a video showing the release of the latest group of hostages. This time, the video was without sound, after one of the Hamas terrorists was heard instructing hostages "keep waving (to the camera)" in Saturday night’s video.

Sunday’s video shows Hamas members traveling around Gaza with footage from a drone. INN

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Hamas formally requests Gaza ceasefire extension from Israel. November 26, 2023. JPost

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Israel pushing to allow probing of Gaza border children by social workers. By Bini Ashkenazi/Walla! November 26, 2023. Israel's Justice Ministry published on Sunday a memorandum of law that will make it possible to investigate the children of the Gaza border region. JPost

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March against antisemitism draws thousands in London. Thousands of demonstrators against antisemitism marched in London on Sunday to protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jews since the attack by Hamas militants on Israel in October and Israel's subsequent bombardment of Gaza. Protestors carried placards bearing the messages "Shoulder to shoulder with British Jews" and "Zero tolerance for antisemites." Others showed the faces of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas. Some people sang in Hebrew while others chanted "Bring them home" in reference to the hostages. "I'm here to support my Jewish community and I think we must stand up for ourselves, otherwise if we won't stand for ourselves who will, you know?" Avraham El Hay, a student, said. London's Metropolitan Police received reports of 554 antisemitic offenses between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1, up from 44 a year earlier, a more than 10-fold increase... (Reuters) November 26, 2023. Ynet

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Turkish, Iranian leaders affirm mutual stance against Israel. November 26, 2023. JPost

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Israeli strikes said to target Damascus airport. The airfield had just reopened after multiple Israeli rendered it inoperative. (November 26, 2023 / JNS) Israel Air Force strikes caused damage to Damascus International Airport and other targets near the Syrian capital on Sunday, according to local media... Israel has struck hundreds of targets in Syria in recent years as part of an effort to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in the country. However, Jerusalem rarely acknowledges these incidents... JNS

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Herzog blasts Irish PM: 'Emily was kidnapped at gunpoint by vile murderers'. Hezki Baruch Nov 27, 2023, 5:07 AM INN

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Elon Musk to meet Israeli president, Gaza hostage families on Monday. Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, accused by civil rights groups of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform, will meet President Isaac Herzog on Monday along with Israelis whose relatives have been held by Hamas in Gaza. Herzog's office announced the meeting on Sunday night, saying, "In their meeting, the president will emphasize the need to act to combat rising antisemitism online." Musk, a billionaire who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, did not respond to requests for comment through spokespeople for Tesla and X, formerly known as Twitter. Musk's visit coincides with a four-day truce in an Israeli war with Palestinian Hamas terrorists in Gaza during which 40 of the 240 hostages Israel says have been held by Hamas have returned to Israel. (Reuters). YNet

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Viral News NYC @ViralNewsNYC: Earlier today, @shaunking posted a misleading video of fatima amarneh , editing out the part of her stabbing an IDF soldier. Trying to make it look like she did nothing wrong before her arrest. the video racked up over 3 million views. Today, fatima was released by Israel as part of the hostages deal. I'll post his video below. Nov 24, 2023. [302]. [303]

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Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's Post About Emily Hand Sparks Backlash. Nov 26, 2023 at 12:59 PM EST Newsweek

Ireland's PM Leo Varadkar under fire for comments on release of Irish-Israeli girl held captive by Hamas.

By Kieran Kelly @kellyjourno Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is under fire for his response to the release of an Irish-Israeli hostage, Emily Hand, by Hamas.

November 26, 2023. Emily, who spent who ninth birthday being held in captivity by Hamas, was freed by the terrorist group on Saturday evening. LBC

Conor McGregor torches Ireland's PM over response to Hamas release of child hostage McGregor called Irish PM Leo Varadkar a 'disgrace'. By Stephen Sorace Fox News. Published November 26, 2023 1:33pm EST

([304] 9-year-old Emily Hand embraces her dad after Hamas captivity)

Former UFC champion Conor McGregor ripped the prime minister of Ireland for "downplaying" the kidnapping and eventual release of an Irish-Israeli child by Hamas terrorists on Saturday.

McGregor called Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar a "disgrace" after he used the terms "lost" and "found" to describe the abduction and release of 9-year-old Emily Hand.

"She was abducted by an evil terrorist organization," the UFC superstar wrote on X. "What is with you and your government and your paid for media affiliates constantly down playing / attempting to repress horrific acts that happen to children. You are a disgrace."

McGregor was referring to Hand, who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from her friend Hila’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel on Oct. 7, along with Hila and Hila’s mother. Fox News

Herzog blasts Irish PM: 'Emily was kidnapped at gunpoint by vile murderers'. Hezki Baruch Nov 27, 2023, 5:07 AM INN

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Released Female Hamas Terrorist's Chilling Response Shows Exactly Why Israel Can't Stop.

Republican Times, Nov 26, 2023

Following a delay, Hamas released more hostages, prompting Israel to free a larger group of terrorists. Disturbing reactions in Gaza and the West Bank were captured in videos of terrorists embracing Hamas symbols. A video featuring Roda Agamiya [Rawda Abu Ajameyyeh / Ajamieh] a released female terrorist, went viral for her call for more Jewish blood. Contrary to Western ideals, recent polls show over 75% support for Hamas and its violent acts among Palestinians. The prevailing sentiment suggests there is no peace to be had, and the only way to stop attacks is to end Hamas. Despite being unpopular in certain media circles, Israel must respond to the reality on the ground, where force appears to be the only language understood by those endorsing violence against Jews. RepublicanTimes on YouTube

This terrorist, just released from Israeli prison, calls on Palestinian television for Hamas to spill more blood of Jews.

You will only get a lasting solution if you get rid of Hamas .

Hamas is a terrorist organisation just like IS (Daesh) and a threat to the world. [pic.twitter.com/9CeJ6WSuB2]— Darya Safai MP (@SafaiDarya) November 26, 2023 [305]

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Daughter of Elma Avraham, 84-year-old in serious condition, says Red Cross refused to accept medication to pass to her mother. Israel National News, Nov 27, 2023, 2:56 PM (GMT+2)

The daughter of Elma Avraham, 84-year-old in serious condition, said that the Red Cross refused to accept medication to pass to her mother.

"My mother did not deserve to come back this way," said Tal Amano, Avraham's daughter. "She came with a heartbeat of 40 and a body temperature of 28 degrees (82.4F), semiconscious and injured all over. She was kept in unfair conditions."

Amano stressed that her mother "was abandoned twice: Once, on October 7, and a second time by all of the organizations which were supposed to rescue her. We met, the entire family, we recovered in no time at all, in an attempt to organize her list of medications. Clalit (their HMO - ed.) helped us and printed us prescriptions, they made the medications accessible and they gave them to my brother in his hand."

"My brother came to the meeting with the representative of the Red Cross and tried to give her the medications. They told him no: 'We cannot take them.' We were at the protest opposite the Red Cross building, and we were rejected again at the entrance: 'Again you came with her package of medications?'"

"My mother did not need to come back this way; I have no idea how she will survive these days. I want to utilize this stage to say thank you to everyone who was responsible for her care - the headquarters, Clalit, everyone who supported us. I hope you will be successful, I hope they did not manage to defeat her. My mother is a strong woman, she simply did not deserve this. The only reason we are standing here and exposing ourselves is in order to save those who remain. Someone needs to move the Red Cross and all the women's organizations, someone needs to shout this out: What are you there for?"

Uri Ravitz, Avraham's son, added, "I was at the Red Cross twice. I fought for my mother together with everyone else. We see how Hamas is trying to make it seem, using psychological warfare, as if they are humanitarian and take care of [people]. They are not."

"My mother is proof of the insane cruelty of this organization. All of the international rescue organizations must do everything, Israel needs to do everything, to make the aid accessible as quickly as possible. Every hour is critical. If she had arrived after one more day, she likely would not be here. She is fighting for her breaths."

Earlier on Monday, Soroka Medical Center reported that Avraham's condition is still serious, and her life is still in danger.

"She is hospitalized in the general ICU, and is still in danger of her life," the hospital said. INN

"We tried to give her medicine, the Red Cross said no": Elma Avraham's children tell about her situation The abductee, who returned to Israel last night in the third heartbeat, was rushed to the hospital in serious condition • Her daughter Tal said in pain: "Mother arrived with a pulse of 40, with a body temperature of 28 degrees" - Dr. Nadav Davidovitz, who treated her, emphasized: "They brought her 52 days To a situation that no human being should be in, unreasonable abuse and extreme hunger. You don't see situations like this in the world" N12 | Published 15:29 - 27.11.23 . "My mother is proof of the insane cruelty of Hamas": 7 weeks have passed since Elma Avraham was kidnapped from her home in Nahal Oz to the Gaza Strip; More than 50 days in which her condition got worse and worse until last night she returned to Israel and was referred to the hospital in serious condition. While she was hospitalized, her children gave a joint statement to the media today (Monday), sharing her condition - and accusing the Red Cross of refusing to give her life-saving drugs.

"We waited for my mother for 52 days," said her daughter Tal Amano. "She is an 84-year-old woman with underlying illnesses. They abandoned my mother in terms of health. She was neglected during the entire stay. She did not receive life-saving drugs." She later said that according to her doctors, if Elma had arrived a few hours later, she would probably no longer be alive.

"She arrived with a pulse of 40 and a body temperature of 28 degrees," said her daughter. "She was unconscious and completely injured." Later, the daughter pointed an accusing finger at the representatives of the Red Cross: "She was abandoned twice - once on October 7 and a second time by all the organizations that should have saved her and prevented her situation."

She also said that the Klalit health services brought her medication to her brother so that he could pass it on to her, but he refused: "My brother came to a meeting with the Red Cross representative. He tried to hand over the medication and was told no. We can't. A few days later we were at a demonstration in front of the Red Cross building. My mother should not have returned like this. I have no idea how she will make it through the days. I wish the doctors succeed. I wish Hamas did not succeed in defeating her."

Elma Avraham's daughter

"We stand on stage not whining or peeping, the only reason we expose ourselves is to save those who are left there," Tal clarified. "For someone to move the Red Cross and the women's organizations. What is the Red Cross there for?"

"Mom lived a wonderful life. When I realized that she was kidnapped - I went to the media and said that she came out in good physical condition, but that I know she needs her medication and that every day that passes works against her," added her son Uri Ravitz. "I have been to the Red Cross twice. My mother is proof of the insane cruelty of this organization. Israel and all the international rescue organizations must do everything to make help available as quickly as possible. Every hour is critical."

Dr. Nadav Davidovitz also says that he was present at the meetings with the Red Cross and asked that they make every effort to bring the medicines to Alma and to the abductees, of whom: "Some are simply dying." He also said: "What we saw with Elma's admission is criminal neglect. 52 days brought her to a state no human being should be in. Loss of a humanity, unreasonable abuse. Things that I, as a specialist in public health, of extreme hunger and hypothyroidism, do not see such situations in the world. The fact that it reached such a situation at the hands of Hamas is a testimony of poor morality and shame to the world. No one and no one should be in this situation." Mako

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Report: 4th hostage release delayed due to Hamas violations of agreement. Hamas reportedly reduces number of hostages to be released on the final day of the ceasefire from 13 to 11, including 9 children. Israel National News, Nov 27, 2023, 3:15 PM (GMT+2)

The fourth and final round of releases of Israeli hostages by the Hamas terrorist organization under the current ceasefire deal has been delayed due to ongoing issues over the list of which 13 hostages will be released, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) stated. The releases were scheduled to take place at 4 pm.

“We are aware of the tension experienced by the families, and we will add information when this becomes possible,” the PMO statement reads. “We request avoiding spreading rumors and unreliable information.”

CNN reported that the issue is that the list provided by Hamas includes just eleven people, nine children and two elderly women. This violates the agreement between Israel and Hamas.

A senior Israeli political official stated that Israel will not tolerate any deviation from the terms of the agreement, which Hamas has breached twice already.

Hamas has released 13 hostages a day over the last three days, totaling 39 hostages. Reducing the number of hostages released on the final day by two would result in a total of 50 hostages released, rather than the 52 who would be released if the numbers remained consistent. INN

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CNN: Over 40 hostages held by others, not Hamas. According to foreign sources, dozens of hostages are being held by Islamic Jihad or individual Gazans not affiliated with terror groups. Israel National News, Nov 27, 2023, 3:46 PM (GMT+2) INN

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4-year-old Avigail reunited with family after 50 days as hostage Israel National News Nov 27, 2023, 5:23 PM INN

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Qatar: Ceasefire extended for 2 days, 20 more hostages to be freed. Ceasefire originally scheduled to end tomorrow morning extended until Thursday as final 11 hostages from original deal set to be released. Israel National News, Nov 27, 2023, 6:17 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Elon Musk: 'No choice but to kill those who insist on murder'.

Elon Musk met with President Isaac Herzog and laid out three things he believes Israel must do in Gaza. Israel National News, Nov 27, 2023, 6:42 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Israel-Hamas deal: These are the 11 hostages released on Monday By Jerusalem Post Staff. November 27, 2023. ([306] The eleven Israelis released from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday, November 27, 2023)

The group includes nine children and two mothers.

Israel has confirmed the identities of the 11 hostages that were released Monday evening, after 51 days of being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The group includes nine children and two mothers.

The Cunio family

Sisters Sharon Aloni Cunio, 33, and Danielle Aloni, 44, along with Sharon’s husband David Cunio, 34, were taken hostage when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and attacked Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.

Sharon and David’s three-year-old twin daughters, Emma and Yuli, and Danielle’s five-year-old daughter Emilia were also taken captive.

The family initially told their relatives that they were safe and that they had sealed themselves inside a safe room as rocket sirens sounded that morning, but they later told relatives that terrorists had entered their home.

Sharon sent a voice message telling them that their house was on fire. Their last communication was at 11:20 a.m.Danielle and her daughter Emilia were released on Friday.

The release of Emma and Yuli is expected. David is still being held captive in Gaza.

Ronen Engel, 54, his wife Karina, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18, and Yuval, 10, had been missing since Hamas terrorists attacked Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of October 7.

The family hid in a safe room and their calls to relatives indicated they were aware of the horrific rampage taking place in their kibbutz.

While on a phone call with her sister, Paula, Karina suddenly mentioned the terrorists’ presence and then the call cut out. That was their last communication.

A video from Gaza was posted to Ronen’s Facebook page later that day and the family’s phones were traced to Gaza.

Mika volunteers with special needs children and Yuval enjoys horseback riding. Both sisters share a love of animals.

Eitan Yahalomi

Twelve-year-old Eitan Yahalomi was kidnapped with his father, Ohad, from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Eitan’s mother, Bat Sheva, said that when the terrorists entered the community they tried to kidnap her and her children while they were riding on motorcycles. With great resourcefulness, she managed to jump off the motorcycle along with her two daughters, 10 and nine months, but she was unable to save her son. Bat Sheva said she is fearful that Eitan won’t be the same once he returns. He is a keen Manchester City supporter and has a poster of star player Phil Foden on his wall. Ohad remains in captivity.

The Calderon family

Three members of the Calderon family had been missing from Kibbutz Nir Oz since October 7. Ofer, 53, and two of his children, Sahar, 16, and Erez, 12, were taken hostage when Hamas terrorists attacked the kibbutz, killing over 100 residents and taking around 80 hostages.

Gaya Calderon, 21, the older sister of Sahar and Erez, received a message from her family that they were trying to hide outside but later saw a video of Erez being taken away by terrorists.

Erez Calderon turned 12 in captivity on October 27.

The Yaakov family

Brothers Or Yaakov, 16, and Yagil Yaakov, 12, were sleeping alone at their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas terrorists attacked on the morning of October 7.

The two boys hid in a safe room and called their mother, whispering to her on the phone.

When the terrorists entered their home, Or tried to hold the door of the safe room closed but was overpowered.

On November 9, Yagil Yaakov was shown in a propaganda video posted by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization. JPost

Nine children, two mothers released from Hamas captivity as truce holds for 4th day After delays, uncertainty, latest group of hostages – all from Nir Oz – freed from Gaza; IDF says Hamas handed Bibas family off to a different terror faction in Khan Younis. By TOI Staff, November 27, 2023. 11:14 pm.

Eleven Israeli children and mothers were released from Hamas captivity Monday night, arriving in Israel after several hours of uncertainty over the fate of a deal for their freedom. They were freed amid ongoing intense diplomatic efforts to extend the four-day humanitarian pause in Gaza, which began on Friday, for two more days.

The group was originally slated to be the last of four scheduled groups of hostages freed as part of a deal for the release of 50 Israeli women and children kidnapped by the Hamas terror group on October 7. However, hours before they were transferred to the Red Cross, Qatar announced that a deal had been reached to extend the truce by two days, paving the way for 20 more hostages to be released. Israel had not confirmed this deal as of late Monday.

Israel agreed to free 150 Palestinians serving time in Israeli prison for security offenses as part of the initial truce, and released 33 women and young men to the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Monday night. A two-day extension may see another 60 inmates freed.

According to an Egyptian report, another six Thai citizens were also slated to be released from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday evening, as part of a separate agreement not involving Israel — but there was no word of any such transfer late Monday.

The eventual release capped a day of tensions, as Israel appeared to balk at an initial list of hostages to be released, the latest in a series of snags that have threatened to torpedo the truce and send the region hurtling back into full-blown war.

After they were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza, two mothers and nine children were brought back to Israel, reportedly via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel — sidestepping a transfer in Egypt. Fathers of all five families with hostages released Monday are still being held in Gaza.

Among those freed were Sharon Aloni Cunio, 34, and her 3-year-old twin daughters Yuli and Emma Cunio. Husband and father David Cunio, 34, remains a hostage.

Once again, Hamas published propaganda footage showing the handover inside Gaza to the Red Cross, as the hostages were loaded into the aid group’s vans by armed terror operatives.

The Prime Minister’s Office said before 6 p.m. that families of those being released were notified, indicating that the previous issues with the list had been resolved. It did not say what the issues were, but the PMO said previously that it was “evaluating” the list of potential returnees.

Officials said the Hamas list for Monday would have separated mothers from their children.

“Mothers were not originally going to be able to come out with their children,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday. “And that’s been resolved.”

According to Channel 13 news, two elderly women had initially been placed on the list instead of the mothers.

A Qatari source told the Reuters news agency that Hamas also had problems with the names on the list of Palestinian security prisoners set to be released by Israel as part of the deal.

All 11 hostages released Monday came from Kibbutz Nir Oz, including mother Karina Engel-Bart, 51, and daughters Mika, 18, and Yuval, 11. They were captured along with their father, Ronen, 54, who is still held hostage.

In the family’s last messages to relatives, they said that they were hiding in their sealed room, aware of what was taking place on the grounds of the kibbutz, before contact was lost.

Engel-Bart, a recent cancer survivor, holds Argentine citizenship. Footage showing Hamas handing the hostages over to the Red Cross appeared to show Yuval in a wheelchair with a cast on one of her legs.

Sahar Calderon, 16, and her brother Erez Calderon, 12, were also let go, though their father, Ofer Calderon, 53, remains a hostage. Mother Hadas Calderon, who is divorced from Ofer, has been a vocal campaigner for her children, standing vigil outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv every day. “These children are never away from me for more than two or three days,” she told reporters on a trip back to the destroyed kibbutz.

Brothers Or Yaakov, 16, and Yagil Yaakov, 13, were also set to be reunited with their mother, Renana Gome, whom they last spoke to in whispers from a safe room, as they hid from Hamas gunmen on October 7. The last thing Gome heard was her younger son, Yagil, saying, “Don’t take me, I’m too young.” Gome was then called by her sons’ abductors, who told her they had her sons.

Yagil Yaakov appeared in a propaganda video posted on November 9 by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.

The boys’ father, Yair Yaakov, 59, and his girlfriend, Meirav Tal, 54, were also taken captive on October 7.

Eitan Yahalomi, 12, was initially taken captive with his mother and two sisters, but somehow they managed to escape and ran away, returning to Israel, as Eitan was carrying into Gaza on a moped.

Separately, Eitan’s father, Ohad, who was shot in a gun battle with the Hamas terrorists, was also apparently taken captive to Gaza, where he remains following Eitan’s release.

Kibbutz Nir Oz resident Eitan Yahalomi was taken captive to Gaza on October 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists. (Courtesy) Not included among those released were members of the Bibas family, whose 9-month-old Kfir was kidnapped from Nir Oz along with his 4-year-old brother Ariel and parents Yarden, 34, and Shiri, 32, and whose release had been widely expected.

On X, IDF Arabic-language spokesman Avichai Adraee said the family had been taken by Hamas on October 7, but subsequently transferred to another Palestinian terror faction in Gaza. They are currently being held in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The message dampened hopes that they would be among the 20 hostages slated to be released in the coming days.

Also not included were two women holding American citizenship whose release the US has pushed for. On Sunday, US President Joe Biden feted the release of 4-year-old dual citizen Avigail Idan, saying “I wish I was there to hold her.”

Before Monday’s release, hours of delays had renewed fears that the shaky truce, in place since Friday, could fall apart prematurely. On Saturday, a dispute also threatened to scupper the agreement, with Qatar dispatching officials to Tel Aviv to salvage the deal, and hostages only arriving in Israel around midnight.

A planned release on Sunday night went off with few hitches, though one freed hostage, 84-year-old Elma Avraham, was medevacked to an Israeli hospital in critical condition.

Avraham’s daughter, Tali Amano, said her mother was “hours from death” when she was brought to the hospital. Avraham is currently sedated and has a breathing tube, but Amano said she told her of a new great-grandchild who was born while she was in captivity.

Avraham suffered from several chronic conditions that required regular medications, but was stable before she was kidnapped, Amano said Monday.

Others were in good condition and reacclimating to life outside of Gaza, sharing tearful hugs with family and friends. In Hod Hasharon, well-wishers lined streets, waving flags and celebrating as five freed members of the Haran-Avigdori-Shoham family made their way home after being discharged from the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center.

[The scene at Hod Hasharon upon arrival of the Avigdori family who were held by the #HamasTerrorist for 50 days. #HamasisISIS #HamasMassacres [pic.twitter.com/LOiYizvCxo] — ‏Tal Schneider טל שניידר تال شنايدر [(@talschneider) November 27, 2023

Nine of 13 hostages treated there had been discharged by Monday evening, the hospital said, including Emily Hand, a 9-year-old initially feared dead, but later released from Hamas captivity.

Safra Children’s Hospital head Prof. Itai Pessach said the overall physical health of the 13 freed hostages treated there was good. All underwent extensive physical and mental health evaluations, and some have required medical treatment, he said.

“Seeing the hostages reunited with their families and the fact that they are recovering physically gives a sense of optimism,” Pessach said. “But given their difficult, complex stories of captivity, they will have a long way to go until they are [fully] healed.” TOI

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Daily Briefing Nov 27: Day 52 – On hostage return, joy and vows to rebuild Gaza border area. By TOI Staff, November 27, 2023 TOI

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Two terror victims request attacker be taken off prisoner release list. Yaakov Mozes and Moshe Haas, who were shot and seriously injured in East Jerusalem by 16-year old Ibrahim Sultan Zamer, say news he may be released is hindering their recovery. Jeremy Sharon, November 27, 2023. TOI

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Palestinian Terror Group Holding Israeli Baby Hostage Refusing to Release Him, Israel Says. 10-month-old Kfir Bibas was abducted by Hamas but has since been transferred to a different group that has been unwilling to cooperate with his release, according to the IDF. Published 11/27/23. Bruce Golding. A10-month-old Israeli baby remained in captivity Monday as Hamas began handing over a fourth group of hostages following a deal to extend by at least two days the cease-fire that has seen nearly 70 captives freed by the terror group.

Kfir Bibas is believed to be the youngest of about 240 people who were kidnapped during the surprise Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people and sparked the latest war between both sides.

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Baby Kfir had reportedly just learned to crawl when he was abducted.

An Israeli-American girl who turned 4 last week, Abigail Edan, was part of the third group of hostages released on Sunday.

But Kfir and his older brother are no longer believed to be in Hamas custody after they were among a group that was transferred to "other organizations," an Israeli military official reportedly told Arabic media on Monday.

Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Col. Avihai Adrei said the "babies with the red hair" were "now being held by one of the factions" in the area around Khan Younis, Gaza, according to a message posted on X, formerly Twitter.

"Some of the factions are delaying and hindering the negotiations," wrote Roi Kais, Arab affairs correspondent for the Israeli Kan public broadcasting outlet. The Messenger

Warped Hamas warlords REFUSE to release youngest hostage instead handing TEN-MONTH-OLD Kfir Bibas to separate Palestine terror group operating in southern city expected to be obliterated by IDF when ceasefire ends - as Israel welcomes 11 captives home.

By Perkin Amalaraj01:52 28 Nov 2023, updated 02:12 28 Nov 2023.

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Hostages return to Israel, land in Ichilov Hospital. Among those released are 9 children and 2 mothers. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/28/2023 12:26:13 AM JPost

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The rise of Hamas popularity in the West Bank. Since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, support for Hamas has surged in the West Bank, where the rival Fatah party that runs the Palestinian Authority is deeply unpopular. By Mohammad Al-Kassij/The Media Line 11/28/2023 12:24:34 AM JPost

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As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia. While motives remain unclear, experts have noted that fomenting already brewing divisions and chaos in the West has been a tradition of Russia’s security services since the Cold War. By David Klein/ JTA 11/28/2023 12:44:17 AM JPost

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Hostage releases and family reunions clouded by Hamas's psychological warfare. Hamas is clearly the one setting the tone here from day one, taking the lead in psychological warfare. Israel is lagging behind. By Keren Setton/The Media Line 11/28/2023 12:53:37 AM JPost

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‘New year, new plans,’ says Mehdi Hasan, announcing ‘MSNBC’ departure The British-American host has been one of Israel’s most vociferous critics on cable television. (January 8, 2024 / JNS) The cable-TV news network MSNBC canceled “The Medi Hasan Show” in November in the early months of Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. As of Sunday, the popular program host has decided to step away from the station.

He announced his plans in a video, saying: “Tonight is not just my final episode of the ‘Mehdi Hasan Show,’ it’s my last day with MSNBC. Yes, I’ve decided to leave.”

The now-former MSNBC contributor has long been a harsh critic of Israel. He has called non-Muslims “animals.” [308].

“You cannot kill your way to victory over a foreign, occupied people,” Hasan wrote on Nov. 9. “My ‘Mehdi Hasan Show’ commentary on how Israel’s killing of innocents in Gaza only strengthens Hamas and its recruiting efforts—as America discovered the hard way in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

“Ever since 9/11, we have just taken it for granted that certain countries can send drones or bombs into foreign sovereign countries, across national borders, to kill people they’ve decided, without an arrest or trial, are guilty of crimes,” Hasan wrote on Jan. 2. “But most other countries can’t do this.”

StopAntisemitism wrote that “Qatari mouthpiece and anti-Israel propaganda machine Mehdi Hasan leaves MSNBC after the network dumps his show.”

Hasan previously worked as an anchor for Al Jazeera and as a podcaster at the left-wing website The Intercept. JNS

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show in major shakeup of its weekend lineup: Far-left host has criticized Israel's war on Hamas and once compared non-Muslims to 'animals' and homosexuals to 'pedophiles'. By Alice Wright For Dailymail.Com 21:49 30 Nov 2023, updated 22:51 30 Nov 2023

MSNBC has cancelled far-left presenter Mehdi Hasan's show as part of a wider shake-up of its weekend lineup Hasan will remain with the network as an on-camera analyst and fill-in host It comes after Hasan's strong on-air criticism of Israel provoked backlash online Daily Mail

Jon Levine @LevineJonathan: MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has compared non-Muslims to "animals" and homosexuals to "pedophiles" and "sexual deviants".

Hard to imagine MSNBC allowing someone on television who said similar things about a different religion — let alone giving them a show! Last edited Nov 27, 2023 on X

Liberal MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan history of controversial rhetoric in spotlight amid hostile coverage of Israel. Hasan previously apologized for recently resurfaced remarks. By Brian Flood , Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News. Published November 28, 2023 6:00pm EST

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has been one of the strongest critics of Israel in the mainstream media during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, but it's nothing new for the hard-left anchor who has never been shy about offering strident commentary.

During the conflict, he has consistently voiced hostility toward Israel, which he has long opposed as an "illegal[sic]" occupying[sic] power of Palestinians.

While with The Intercept, he frequently blistered the country, blaming it for the rise of Hamas in the first place and defending the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against its critics...

Mehdi Hasan on 9/11

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasans problematic commentary continues to haunt him as he contributes to his network's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. (MSNBC)

(MSNBC host commemorates 'another 9/11' the US government 'helped produce' in Chile Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the September 11 terror attacks By Lindsay Kornick Fox News Published September 11, 2023 7:12pm EDT [309])

Inflammatory remarks he made in 2009 before becoming an MSNBC personality began circulating online again, when he compared non-Muslims to "animals" and linked homosexuals to "pedophiles" and "sexual deviants." New York Post reporter Jon Levine said it's "hard to imagine MSNBC allowing someone on television who said similar things about a different religion."

"We know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we are no different from the rest of the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire," Hasan said in one of the unearthed clips.

In 2019, Hasan apologized for those comments, calling them "dumb offensive ranty stuff" and admitted that he said "extreme-sounding things" as a young man...

But his controversial comments didn't end there. In 2021, Hasan rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who suggested the U.S. and Israel were just as guilty of "war crimes[sic]" as terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban.

"Look, Americans get very upset when our nation is accused of war crimes, but I'm sorry to break this to you, our nation has done some pretty awful things abroad, and we have to be able to talk about them," Hasan wrote at the time.

(MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan lashes out after being fact-checked on Twitter for his statements on racial crime stats Hasan began the ordeal by criticizing Bill Maher for his comments about crime in Chicago By Alexander Hall, Fox News, May 1, 2023. [310])

During the 2019 uproar over Omar's antisemitic rhetoric, Hasan downplayed the controversy, saying the Democratic lawmaker "maybe unwittingly echoed tropes" but directed most of his ire at then-President Trump and Republicans as well as the media's coverage of her comments.

"She hasn’t said anything about Jews. She has not said one word about Jews," Hasan argued, then an MSNBC guest. "She talked about supporters of Israel insisting that politicians in the U.S. should show allegiance to Israel and that’s kind of undeniable. I mean, that’s been reported on for years… A lot of the good-faith criticism is based on kind of misreporting of what she’s said and done."

He also compared past Israeli airstrikes against Hamas in Gaza to Russia bombing Ukraine in March 2022 in the early weeks of the ongoing European war.

It's not just his commentary on Israel and Islam that has raised eyebrows. His own journalistic credibility was drawn into question earlier this year when he was accused of plagiarizing a piece arguing in favor of parents spanking their children.

(Israeli senior adviser Mark Regev then scolded Mehdi Hasan for not informing views that Hamas controls the Gaza Health Ministry, which has been putting out statistics related to how many people have been killed during the war. MSNBC screenshot)

Hasan, who worked at Al Jazeera before joining MSNBC, recently held a combative interview with Israeli advisor Mark Regev. On November 16, prior to Israel and Hamas reaching a deal to free some of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, Hasan accused Israel of turning down a similar deal.

"Sorry, Mehdi, that’s just disinformation. There was not a real option for a deal before the grand operation. It was looked at seriously but Hamas put nothing on the table that could be worked with and so that’s just not correct to say there was an option," Regev said before noting that a deal could still be worked out because military pressure was "making Hamas understand" they need to release hostages.

Regev then scolded Hasan for not informing viewers that Hamas controls the Gaza Health Ministry, which has been putting out statistics related to how many people have been killed during the war.

"You have to say the ‘Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry," Regev said before Hasan shot back, "You can say that, I don’t have to say what you ask me to say."

"Please, tell the viewers the truth, that information is provided by Hamas," Regev said.

Hasan also accused the Israeli government of k... children and of spreading propaganda and false information during the tense exchange.

Hasan has condemned the brutality of the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 and scolded opponents of Israel who downplay or ignore the group's atrocities from that day, writing on X last month, "Too many people on this hellsite and elsewhere have weirdly & cruelly decided that opposing Israel’s war in Gaza requires them to try & deny the sheer scale of Hamas brutality on Oct 7th. It doesn’t."

Hasan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report. Fox News

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This fight Is not over: Itay Svirsky’s family urges not to forget remaining hostages. As the world celebrates the liberation of children and women from Hamas’ captivity, family members of the abductees fear they will be forgotten. By Debbie Mohnblatt/The Media Line 11/28/2023 01:11:53 AM JPost

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Int'l Awareness Day highlights gender violence, but ignores Israeli victims. WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT. Despite efforts, violence against women remains a critical issue globally, with stark statistics underscoring the need for action. By Aaron Poris/The Media Line 11/28/2023 01:43:49 AM JPost

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Israel seeks recognition of Hamas sexual violence at UN meeting UN rights bodies "downplayed" and "minimized" the sexual violence, said Ruth Halperin-Kaddari. By Reuters. November 28, 2023. JPost

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UN Women posts, then deletes, statement condemning Hamas attack in Israel. Spokeswoman Inés Esteban González claimed the release of some hostages over the weekend as part of a temporary truce changed the organization’s priorities and claimed that explained the deleted post. By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA 11/28/2023 01:53:11 AM JPost

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Ahed Tamimi headlines new list of Palestinian prisoners slated for release. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/28/2023 02:39:41 AM JPost

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Israel receives list of additional Gaza hostages to be released. By Reuters 11/28/2023 03:00:55 AM JPost

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Hate Crime: 2 US women charged with assault, tearing down hostage posters. Mehwish Omer, 26, and Stephanie Gonzalex, 25, were charged with assault as a hate crime, criminal mischief and attempted robbery and assault as a hate crime. By Luke Tress/JTA 11/28/2023 03:30:33 AM JPost

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Malmö school students make death threats against Jews, perform Nazi salutes. During a moment of silence for Palestinian victims in a Malmö, Sweden classroom, students began making violent antisemitic statements. By Zvika Klein 11/28/2023 03:23:18 AM JPost

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Multiple US synagogues hit with anti-Israel, antisemitic graffiti 7 weeks into Israel-Hamas war. By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA 11/28/2023 03:19:42 AM JPost

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Large Swastika Found in New York’s Baruch College Bathroom. By Hana Levi Julian - 16 Kislev 5784 – November 28, 2023.

A Jewish student at New York City’s Baruch College was startled to find a large white swastika on the floor next to a toilet when he entered the school’s bathroom on Tuesday morning.

According to a relative of the student who spoke exclusively to JewishPress.com, the student “first took the photo, reported it to the local Hillel and then later to security, so they would not just wipe it out.”

The swastika was made of two layers of wet toilet paper “meticulously adhered to the tile floor, obviously by a student of geometry,” the relative said.

The student’s name and that of the relative are being withheld due to concerns over possible attacks by antisemitic elements in the city, “as he encounters different acts of antisemitism on his way to school, either on the NYC subway or in the streets with painted swastikas or anti-Jewish slogans on the store windows or on the sidewalks,” the relative said.

“Last week he entered the lobby of his school and there was a Palestinian flag hanging from the balcony above. The security had to wait for NYPD to come in to protect them and only then removed it,” he added.

“Excellent. A symbol of hatred and intolerance next to a toilet — where it belongs!” another New Yorker commented.

Baruch College, a public college in New York City, is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, which has had myriad, escalating antisemitic incidents that have skyrocketed since the start of the October 7th war launched by Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization against Israel.

On that day, the terrorists invaded southern Israel and slaughtered more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, torturing, raping, beheading and burning some of them alive before murdering them. The terrorists — and the Gaza civilians who followed them into the Jewish communities — abducted 240 other people, including many dual nationals and foreigners, dragging them back into Gaza where nearly 200 remain. JewishPress

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Freed hostage's aunt: 'Hamas forced 12-year-old to watch films of the horrors.' Israel National News. Nov 28, 2023, 3:59 PM Aunt of 12-year-old Eitan Yahalom says Hamas 'monsters' threatened any child who cried with rifles, forced them to watch videos of Oct. 7. INN

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Forced to whisper, watch horror videos: Children recount chilling details of Hamas captivity. i24NEWS, November 28, 2023 I24

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Hamas attacks IDF troops in Gaza, breaking ceasefire. Terrorists detonated three IEDs at two different locations, wounding several soldiers, according to the Israel Defense Forces. (November 28, 2023 / JNS) Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in violation of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Several Israeli soldiers were wounded, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

“Over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in northern Gaza, violating the framework of the operational pause,” said the military.

Israeli forces were also fired on in one of the locations, according to the IDF.

Soldiers returned fire while staying within the agreed ceasefire lines, the military said. JNS

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9-year-old Emily Hand's father: 'She'd been conditioned not to make any noise' By Zvika Klein. Published: November 28, 2023 16:44

([311] Irish-Israeli girl Emily Hand, who was abducted by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack on Israel, meets her father Thomas Hand after being released as part of a hostages-prisoners swap deal, November 26, 2023).

According to Hand on CNN, Emily told him she thought he had been taken hostage too.

"The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips," disclosed Thomas Hand, the father of 9-year-old Emily Hand, one of the hostages, told CNN. "She’d been conditioned not to make any noise."

Thomas's anguish was palpable as he described the moment he reunited with his daughter after her release. "The most shocking, disturbing part of meeting her was she was just whispering, you couldn’t hear her. I had to put my ear on her lips," he said. "She’d been conditioned not to make any noise." JPost

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Women held hostage by Hamas in Gaza kept in cages - report. By Joanie Margulies. Published: November 28, 2023.

Women who were abducted from Israeli territory and held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were kept in cages, according to a report by Israeli media, citing a statement from a member of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

This claim is not the first of its kind: In the days immediately following the October 7 attacks, videos from Hamas's Telegram channel showed child hostages being kept in cages for the majority of their time in captivity.

Hamas distributed a letter on Monday allegedly written by Danielle... This letter is one of many that hostages were forced to write, according to Israeli media reports.

Survivors reported being provided with limited food while being held hostage, without clear reports of physical abuse or torture. Of the small rations they received – sometimes only rice and pita at best – the hostages were often left to cook the food for themselves and for the children held with them. They also said how their final two weeks had seen supplies running low.

Supplies running low

Merav Mor Munder, the cousin of Keren Munder who was released on Friday, told N12 "There were days when there were no supplies, so they only ate pita bread. They were not tortured, but there were days when they barely had any food, in the last few days they only ate very little rice."

She relates how one of the hostages, Hannah Katzir, who was also released, learned of her son’s murder on one of the few occasions they would be permitted to listen to Israeli radio. It was upon her own release that she found out that her husband had also been kidnapped and remains in Gaza.

Some of the hostages spoke of their worry about last-minute attempts by Hamas or Gazans – who had thrown stones at the vehicles taking them to Egypt – to attack them before they got home. "Until the last moment we weren't sure," a hostage said: "We thought they would lynch us on the way to Israel." JPost

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Released child hostages share heartwarming reunion with family dog. Their four-legged friend, Rodney, did not skip a beat before asking for a belly rub.

By Jerusalem Post Staff? 11/28/2023 11:44:05 AM JPost

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12 hostages, 10 Israelis and 2 others, on way to Israel. Fifth group of hostages in process of being released after ceasefire extended by two days. 9 women and a 17-yearold girl are being released.

Israel National News Nov 28, 2023, 8:30 PM. INN

Israel has confirmed the identities of the 10 hostages that were released Tuesday evening, after 52 days of being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The group is made up of mainly elderly hostages and certain family members.

An additional two Thai citizens were released by Hamas on Tuesday.

Ditza Heiman

Ditza Heiman, 81, lived alone on Kibbutz Nir Oz and was famous for her "grandma's soup." As she locked herself in the safe room during the Hamas attacks on October 7, she spoke with family members as they as they checked up on the mother of four, stepmother of three, grandmother to 20 and great-grandmother of five.

The last time contact was made with Heiman was around 10 a.m., when, at 4 p.m., someone answered her phone and began speaking in Arabic.

Tamar Metzger

Tamar Metzger, 78, was born in Tel Aviv into a Yemenite family. On October 7, along with her husband Yoram, 80, she went into their bomb shelter on Kibbutz Nir Oz as Hamas launched hundreds of rockets toward Israel. Ofir, the Metzger's grandson, said after the attacks that he was in touch with his grandfather via WhatsApp and that Yorem appeared to suggest everything was ok until contact was cut.

A week later, the family was told that phone tracking proved that Yoram and Tamar were in Gaza. When Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Yitzhak, also members of Kibbutz Nir Oz, were released from Hamas captivity on 26 October, Yocheved let the family know that she had seen Yoram and Tamar alive in Gaza.

Noralin Babadilla Agojo

Noralin Babadilla Agojo, 60, and her partner, Gidon Babani, were visiting friends in Kibbutz Nirim to celebrate its 70th anniversary when Hamas attacked. Gidon was tragically killed and Noralin was kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza.

Exo, her brother, recalled later her last words to him before contact was cut: "We just wanted to celebrate. I'm shaking; maybe I won't come home."

Ada Sagi

Ada Sagi, 75, is a mother of three and described as a kind, peace-loving person. Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland, Ada learned Arabic in order to make friends with her neighbors close to Kibbutz Nir Oz and later taught the language to others as a way to improve communication with the Palestinians who live on the Israel-Gaza border.

Her son Noam stated he last heard from his mother at 9:20 a.m. on October, when his mother called to say she could hear voices speaking in Arabic outside her home, after which she entered the safe room.

Ada suffers from asthma and other significant allergies and it is assumed she has had not had access to an EpiPen during her time in captivity.

Ada Sagi was preparing to travel to London to celebrate her birthday.

Merav Tal

Yair Yaakov, 59, and his girlfriend, Merav Tal, 53, were taken captive from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home during the Hamas attacks on October 7.

Yair's two sons, Or and Yagil, 16 and 12, were not with the couple but were at their mother's house, also on Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Merav sent a voice message at 9:20 a.m. that Hamas terrorists had entered their home and that Yair was trying to secure the door to the safe room to fend off the terrorists. That was the last time they were heard from.

Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav

Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav, 36, who worked in alternative medicine, and her husband, Yagev Buchshtav, 34, were taken hostage from Kibbutz Nirim on October 7..

The couple met in high school and married in 2021. They were hiding in the safe room of their home when Rimon messaged her family saying she saw fire and terrorists shooting outside “everywhere.” She sent her parents, who were also sheltering in nearby community, a voice message saying, " “I love you, Mom. I’m so sorry I can’t be there with you. I love you.”

Rimon was later seen looking gaunt and without her glasses in a video of hostages released by Hamas.

Ofelia Roitman

Argentine olah, Ofelia Roitman, 77, has been held in captivity since Hamas captured her from her home on Kibbutz Nir Oz, where Ofelia has lived for the last 38 years.

Early in the morning of October 7, as Hamas terrorists reached the Kibbutz, Ofelia contacted her family and told them what was happening at the kibbutz.

At 9:37 a.m., the family received their last text message from her: “Please send help, the Palestinians are here,” she wrote.

Marman-Leimberg family

Argentina-born Clara Marman, 62, and her partner Louis Har were hiding in their home’s safe room on October 7, together with Marman’s siblings Fernando Marman and Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela’s daughter, Mia Leimberg, 17, attempting to keep the door to the safe room locked. They were captured and taken to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.

([القسام يسلم أسيرة و معها كلبها .#غزة pic.twitter.com/39EunIAJXt] — ahmad.ibraa (@ahmadibraa47) November 28, 2023)

Clara was a retired kindergarten teacher.

Gabriela Leimberg is the director of Eyal’s Farm, an ecological ranch for autistic adults at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem.

Gabriela and Mia were down South visiting their family on the kibbutz for the Simchat Torah festival. JPost

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Rosen, Rubio host Oct. 7 raw footage screening for fellow senators. "The one thing that struck me was how proud and gleeful these people were with what they were doing to civilians," said Sen. Marco Rubio. ([312] Personal belongings gathered from the grounds of the Supernova music festival in southern Israel, which was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7).

(November 28, 2023 / JNS) Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) hosted a closed-press showing of raw footage from Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday morning, a senior member of Rosen’s staff told JNS.

About 40 Democrats and Republicans attended the senators-only screening, which ran 47 minutes and was compiled by the Israeli government, the staffer said. JNS

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Front pages and balloons: Everyone waits for baby Kfir to come home. 10-month-old Kfir Bibas is the youngest of all Hamas' hostages, and the spotlight has now shifted to him and his family; Supporters are flying orange balloons in Tel Aviv and newspapers around the world are putting his picture on their front pages. Liran Tamari, Sivan Hilaie|11.28.23 - 16:47

Carrying orange balloons, hundreds flocked to what has become known as Hostage Square in central Tel Aviv to support the Bibas family, after the list of hostages to be released from Gaza did not include 10-month-old Kfir, 4-year-old Ariel, and parents Shiri and Yarden.

Process of transferring 10 Israeli hostages to Red Cross begins IDF announces 3 soldiers killed on Oct. 7 whose bodies are held in Gaza; Gantz says war will resume after cease-fire 'Forced to watch film of the atrocities. When a child cried, they were threatened with a weapon' - Eitan was alone in captivity for 16 days.

Yarden's sister, Ofri Bibas Levy, expressed her deep concern over the family's 53-day captivity in Gaza at the hands of Hamas. "We are in the dark about how Kfir, just 10 months old, Ariel, and their parents are faring. We wonder who consoles them when they cry, whether they are fed, and if they have the means to maintain their hygiene," Levy said. "Their location is known - they were abducted by Hamas and they should be brought back without delay," she added. "The accountability for their well being falls squarely on Hamas. I ask Hamas - who do you consider your enemies? To abduct children - what does this say about your principles? Does Islam sanction such actions?"

Levy said that the family is "deeply grateful to the citizens of Israel for their unwavering support and expressions of solidarity, which fuel our determination to bring our loved ones home. We share the joy of those who have been reunited with their families. We urge the government to fulfill its duty and ensure the immediate return of our family members, all of them, without delay. Their lives are increasingly at risk with each passing day they spend in captivity. We call for the involvement of the United States and Qatar, and insist on giving the Red Cross access to them, to provide essential life-saving medications during their imprisonment. We hope that our message, symbolized by these balloons, will reach Gaza." As the families of the ten hostages released on Tuesday were informed about their impending release, the Bibas family has made it known that their four relatives, abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, were not included on the day's release list. Although the present agreement, which only accounts for the release of women and children, did not cover the liberation of Yarden, Kfir and Ariel's father, the continued captivity of his wife and their two children after 53 days, has caught the public's attention.

The Bibas family have made their way to major publications all over the world as global media outlets persist in tracking every turn of events in the hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas. The news of a prolonged cease-fire aimed at freeing an additional 20 hostages from Gaza, coupled with the releaseof 11 more Israelis in the fourth release wave Monday night, dominated the headlines on Tuesday morning on newspapers and websites worldwide. The front page of Britain's Daily Mail included a large picture of 10-month-old Kfir with the words: "The tiniest human shield." The front page also said that "Hamas have refused to let him and his family go and handed him over to another terror group, which is based in Khan Younis." The Daily Telegraph also displayed a picture of Kfir on the front page, and other major publications, such as The Times and The New York Post put major emphasis on the story of hostages in Gaza, with the Post writing "Stolen Childhood" and showing a picture of 4-year-old Abigail Edan, recently released from Hamas captivity.

This could partially be attributed to the fact that among those freed last night, were individuals holding dual citizenships of countries including France, Germany and Argentina, which explains why French newspaper Le Parisien also included the story of the hostages on its front page.

The abduction of Shiri Bibas along with Ariel and Kfir – the youngest captive in Gaza - from Kibbutz Nir Oz, has become a potent symbol of Hamas' brutality and an enduring image of the October 7 massacre. This month, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, reflecting on baby Kfir's situation, said: "He is the same age as my youngest grandson. I find myself wondering who plays with him, who cares for him, and who feeds him among these people? This thought persistently troubles me. I want to make it clear to everyone: We have a paramount duty to bring the hostages home."

Dalit Ram Aharon from Kibbutz Nir Oz spoke Tuesday afternoon about the emotional roller coaster that the kibbutz members have been on, particularly those in Eilat, who recently reunited with friends returning from Hamas captivity. "Shiri Bibas is a close friend of mine; we experienced pregnancy together," she shared. "Upon hearing about the hostage deal, I initially assumed they would be among the first to return. As time progresses, I've come to realize that their 'fame' is being used as a bargaining chip by Hamas. We yearn for their swift return, holding them in our hearts and minds every single moment." YNet

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PIJ armed wing says it handed over 'some civilian detainees' as part of exchange deal. By Reuters. Published: November 28, 2023 21:40

The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, said on its Telegram account on Tuesday it handed over 'some civilian detainees' as part of an exchange deal with Israel.

Hamas started handing over more Israeli hostages on Tuesday to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a Palestinian official said, on the fifth day of an extended six-day truce in the Gaza war. JPost

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US pausing drone flights over Gaza during truce - Pentagon. Reuters, November 28, 2023. JPost

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Sky News cuts part of interview with Jerusalem deputy mayor. In the unaired segment, Fleur. Hassan-Nahoum explained why Hamas is committing war crimes and Israel is practicing self defense. ([313] Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum during an interview with Sky News).

(November 29, 2023 / JNS) Britain’s Sky News TV channel chose not to air a segment of an interview with Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum in which she defended Israel’s actions in Gaza against Hamas.

“For some reason @SkyNews took down this part of my interview shortly after they shared it. I wonder why? Thank God for screen recording #hamascommitsgenocide,” Hassan-Nahoum tweeted on Tuesday.

(For some reason @SkyNews took down this part of my interview shortly after they shared it. I wonder why ? Thank God for screen recording #hamascommitsgenocide [pic.twitter.com/UNDDwJOgcW] — Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (@FleurHassanN) November 28, 2023 [314]).

In the unaired segment, the interviewer cited comments from Jordan’s foreign minister who claimed that some of Israel’s actions in Gaza could be “tantamount to genocide[sic].”

“Well, he obviously hasn’t looked at the law books. International law, first of all, obligates a country to defend itself from a massacre,” Hassan-Nahoum, a U.K.-trained lawyer, responded.

“There’s no genocide going on. Israel is basically waging a war that it was forced into by the massacre of Oct. 7. We are there to eliminate the infrastructure of Hamas, which has inculcated itself within the civilian population in order to use the civilian population to protect themselves. And so, if anybody’s committing a war crime here, a double war crime, it is Hamas and not Israel,” she remarked.

BBC editor on false report: “I don’t regret one thing”

BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen said that he has no regrets about falsely reporting last month that a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in a blast, which the BBC initially speculated was caused by an Israeli strike.

It was later determined that a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch caused the blast, which hit the parking lot next to the Al-Ahli Hospital, leaving the building standing.

Bowen admitted that he misled viewers by saying that the hospital was “flattened” in his reporting. “Oh yeah, well I got that wrong,” he said during an interview on the British public broadcaster that aired on Saturday.

(Jeremy Bowen: "I don't regret one thing in my reporting because I was measured throughout, I didn't race to judgement." Interviewer: But you said that building had been flattened? Jeremy Bowen: "Oh yeah well I got that wrong because I was looking at the pictures and what I could… [pic.twitter.com/6Ge9I5zYrd] — Avi Bitterman, MD (@AviBittMD) November 26, 2023). JNS

When SkyNews's Yalda Hakim ("innocently") quoted Jordanian FM about some of the actions "in Gaza could be tantamount to" the G word:

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum:

'Well he hasn't looked into law books. International law, first of all obligates a country to defend its country from a massacre. There is no genocide going on, Israel is basically waging a war that it was forced into by the massacre of October the 7th. We are there to eliminate the infrastructure of Hamas who are actually committing the war crime, by pushing itself into and intricately into the civilian population, under hospitals, under mosques, under schools and under children's bed, we found rockets. I think that nobody can doubt the evidence that Hamas has inculcated itself within the civilian population in order to use the civilian population to protect themselves. And so if anybody's is committing a war crime, a double war crime, [it] is Hamas, not Israel. Israel is very careful. Israel has a whole legal department that checks every single strike before they happen. And defending your country from an existential threat from Hamas - themselves, their leaders are saying, we're going to do Oct the 7th again, again and again.

So if he looks into the law books he'll understand that what he's saying is wrong.' at EoZ

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N12 - This is the organization that holds the two children of the Bibas family

Works under Hamas and cooperated in the attack: this is the organization that is believed to be holding the children of the Bibas family.

The IDF spokesman informed in Arabic that the Ni Oz babies, who were kidnapped by a Hamas operative, are apparently being held in Khan Yunis by another faction, and according to estimates in Israel, this is the terrorist organization the Popular Front. Very much in Gaza • On the other hand, in the West Bank his influence is greater with strict discipline, despite his small size Sapir Lipkin| N12 | Published 14:54 29.11.23

The organization that is believed to be holding the red-haired children: 4-year-old Ariel and 11-month-old Kfir from the Bibas family were also not included today (Wednesday) in the list of abductees who are expected to be released - and are still being held captive in Gaza, by the Popular Front. N12 with everything that is known about the organization that has weakened in Gaza, but operates under Hamas.

Metzada Ze'evi, the daughter of the late Rehavam Ze'evi, whose frontline terrorists who murdered her father are imprisoned in Israel, supports their release if this leads to the release of the children of the Biebs family. These two children sit firmly in my soul, like any abductee, and they must return to their home, their family and their country," she wrote in the post.

([315] An entire family was kidnapped into the Gaza Strip - photo: from Documenting the kidnapping of the children of the Biebs family and their mother Shiri Photo : From "Morning News", Keshet 12)

The Popular Front in Gaza: Weak and affiliated to Hamas

The Popular Front in Gaza is admittedly very weak and is not considered to have power or influence, unlike the Islamic Jihad. But it cooperates with Hamas and is affiliated with it - which explains its involvement in the severe atrocities and its possession of a very limited number of abductees, according to the estimates.

On October 7, the Popular Front called the murderous attack carried out by the terrorists in the surrounding settlements a "heroic campaign" and announced maximum alertness among its operatives. "We are operating in the field on several axes alongside our comrades in blood and arms," ​​the organization stated. "We stand by our brothers in the Al-Qassam Brigades (the military arm of Hamas) and with all the resistance forces and join this campaign," they added and called on the other factions to participate.

[The terrorists of the Popular Front on October 7 [316])

On Black Saturday: Post photos and receive responsibility for their participation

The Popular Front even published photos of its armed activists on Black Saturday and worked to echo their participation in the atrocities. "Operatives of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (the military arm of the Popular Front) invaded several areas and inflicted heavy losses on the Zionists," they stated, adding that "other groups are operating in the field."

On October 12, the Popular Front announced that Oucha-e-Saltan, a member of the Central Committee and responsible for the organization's prisoners and "martyrs" file, was killed - along with some of his family members - when his home in the Jabalia refugee camp was attacked.

([317] Uch al-Saltan, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front who was eliminated).

Coordination with Hamas and the terrorist organizations

At the end of October, a joint statement was published by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front and the Democratic Front, in which they stated that they held a joint meeting of the leaders of the organizations in Beirut to discuss the war in Gaza. "They call for escalating all forms of resistance and struggle," they noted.

And going back to Yom Kippur, two weeks before October 7, the terror summit was held in Beirut, attended by the number 2 of Hamas, Saleh al-Aruri, and the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad, Ziad Nakhala - alongside the leader of the Popular Front, Jamil Mazhar. They emphasized the importance of "escalating The resistance" and the coordination between the various factions, and the need to stand "as one body in the face of any battle that may come."

Adraee: "The babies from the Biebs family are kept in Khan Yunis

The IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee said in an interview with Sky News in Arabic, which took place at the beginning of the week: "Hamas treats some of the Israeli abductees as loot and also transferred some of them to other terrorist organizations located in the Gaza Strip."

"Perhaps you remember the picture of the Biebs family. An Israeli family from Kibbutz Nir Oz, two babies with ginger hair were kidnapped by an operative in the Hamas organization. The two children are being held in the Khan Yunis area by one of the Palestinian factions. Some of the organizations that hold Israeli hostages harming their conduct in the negotiations conducted by Hamas," Lt. Col. Adraee emphasized.

Hamas's psychological warfare against the younger brothers

Adraee's exposure came in the face of psychological warfare and the cynical use that Hamas makes of the abductees and their families. The terrorist organization Gateway to the great support of the Israeli public for the Bibas family, takes advantage of the pain and the fact that they became a real symbol after their kidnapping was documented. The bottom line is Hamas's ability to reach the younger brothers and release them, even if in his statements he excuses himself for not yet locating all the abductees.

Saleh al-Aruri, Ziyad al-Nakhalah and heads of terrorist organizations Meeting in Beirut of Saleh al-Aruri, Ziyad al-Nakhalah and heads of other terrorist organizations

The Popular Front in the West Bank

The Popular Front organization, which over the years has carried out many attacks in which hundreds of Israelis were murdered, has a higher influence in the West Bank - compared to its minimal force in the Gaza Strip. But it is still considered the least relative to other terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The Popular Front enjoys a few percentages of support in the West Bank, about 4% according to my estimates. However, the organization has an iron meaning and holds rigid positions. Sometimes his military arm, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, takes responsibility for the attacks that are carried out.

The organization's military arm is the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades - named after the organization's secretary general who was killed by Israel during the second intifada. Besides the massacres in the Gaza Envelope, they participated in Operation "Guardian of the Walls" and Operation "Breaking Dawn", and are also responsible for a series of terrorist attacks.

Last August, it was allowed to be published that Palestinians were arrested from the West Bank who planned attacks against Israeli citizens, under the direction of Popular Front terrorist Alam Kaabi, originally from Nablus, who was deported to the Gaza Strip as part of the Shalit deal and is staying in Lebanon.

In 2019, the Shin Bet revealed the existence of a broad terrorist infrastructure of the Popular Front that operated in Judea and Samaria and planned several attacks - including the bomb attack in which Rina Shnerb was murdered and her brother and father were injured. At the head of the organization's formation was, unusually, a woman - a 56-year-old resident of Ramallah .

Following the war in Gaza and the massacre committed by Hamas terrorists, about a week ago the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it was ending support for three non-governmental organizations - the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), the Palestinian Network of Non-Governmental Organizations (PNGO) and the Al-Shabaka organization. The NGO Monitor Institute has published several studies on the connections of PCHR and PNGO to the Popular Front. Mako

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After October 7, Many People Are Becoming Israeli Again. By Gidon Ben-Zvi, November 28, 2023. Algemeiner

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Supermodel Gigi Hadid apologizes for claiming Israel abducts and rapes Palestinians. “I shared something that I did not fact check or deeply think about prior to reposting,” Hadid wrote in a new post on Tuesday to her 79 million Instagram followers. By Gabe Friedman/JTA 11/29/2023 02:02:07 AM JPost

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Israeli forces kill commander of Islamic Jihad’s Jenin Battalion. The IDF also arrested 17 wanted terrorism suspects. (November 29, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Military says 2 senior terror operatives killed in West Bank operation. Emanuel Fabian, November 29, 2023.

Border Police, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet say troops killed two senior terror operatives in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.

Another two Palestinians were reported killed amid clashes in the area.

The joint statement says troops killed Muhammad Zubeidi, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in the Jenin camp who was responsible for several shooting attacks in the area, and Hussam Hanoun, another local operative.

The Shin Bet says Zubeidi was involved in a terror attack near the settlement of Hermesh in May, in which Meir Tamari was killed, and another attack in June, in which a civilian and four soldiers were wounded. It says Zubeidi was involved in planning the attacks and providing the car for the attacks.

The IDF and Border Police say that overnight, forces surrounded a building in the camp where Zubeidi and other operatives were holed up, and opened fire. The troops later entered the building and seized two assault rifles from the bodies of Zubeidi and Hanoun.

Separately, troops arrested 17 wanted Palestinians in the area, seized weapons, and located a tunnel shaft and a lathe for manufacturing guns, the IDF says…. TOI

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US sanctions 21 of the Iran military’s financial backers. (November 29, 2023 / JNS) U.S. Department of Treasury headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 21 individuals and groups on Wednesday who are part of “financial facilitation networks” that benefit the Iranian military. JNS

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IDF looking into Hamas claim that Bibas mother, children are dead. By Tzvi Joffre. Published: November 29, 2023 16:46. Updated: November 29, 2023 19:43. Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups use such announcements for psychological warfare. JPost

Hamas claims 10-month old, 4-year-old, and their mother are dead. Israel National News Nov 29, 2023, 6:42 PM INN

IDF investigating ‘cruel’ Hamas claim that Bibas children, mother killed in Gaza. Emanuel Fabian, TOI Staff, November 29, 2023. Shiri Bibas, 4-year-old Ariel and 10-month-old Kfir believed to have been transferred by Hamas to smaller terror group in southern city of Khan Younis. TOI

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Thai foreign minister welcomes releases of two more Thai hostages held by Hamas. By Reuters. 11/29/2023 03:31:43 AM JPost

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Queers for Palestine' shows how stupid our society is. In a recent interview with UnHerd, prominent ex-Muslim author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali slams the "Queers for Palestine" movement. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/29/2023 05:32:13 AM JPost

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Italian rabbi attacked with screwdriver in antisemitic attack. The Genoa Police Headquarters promptly intervened, responding to Cipriani's call, and fortunately, he emerged unharmed. By Zvika Klein 11/29/2023 08:20:34 AM JPost

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Jewish School administrators from Latin America visit Israel in solidarity mission. During their visit, they explored the Gaza envelope area and held a meeting with the President of Israel Isaac Herzog. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/29/2023 08:38:04 AM JPost

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This Jewish American school will volunteer in Israel for a month, as result of Hamas massacre. The students will engage in various volunteer activities, including working on farms, providing support to families of soldiers, assisting in hospitals, and preparing care packages for the military. By Zvika Klein 11/29/2023 08:47:20 AM JPost

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Dying mother of hostage Noa Argamani releases video plea to see daughter. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/29/2023 JPost

Mother of hostage begs to see her before she succumbs to cancer. Israel National News Nov 29, 2023, 5:23 PM INN

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Hamas founder's son calls for Israel to kill his father if hostages not released. Jerusalem Post Staff. November 29, 2023. JPost

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IDF eliminated three terrorists who violated ceasefire - IDF spox. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 29, 2023 21:02 JPost

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Israel-Hamas War Day 54: Hostage release delayed, Hamas blames logistics. Qatar, US pushing to extend ceasefire beyond Thursday morning. By Jerusalem Post Staff. JPost

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Hostages held in homes of Hamas-sympathetic UNRWA employees. Released hostage was held for 50 days in the attic of an UNRWA teacher, another was held captive by a children's doctor. Israel National News, Nov 29, 2023, 9:51 PM (GMT+2) INN

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After extended delay: 12 Israeli hostages released from captivity. 12 Israeli hostages, including two dual Russian-Israeli citizens, released from Hamas captivity. Four Thai nationals released as well. Israel National News. Published: Nov 29, 2023, 5:54 PM (GMT+2) Updated: 11:24 PM INN

Israel-Hamas deal: These are the 12 hostages released on Wednesday. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 29, 2023.

([318] The 12 Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity on Wednesday, November 29, 2023)

An additional two Russian citizens were released by Hamas on Wednesday.

Israel has confirmed the identities of the 10 hostages who were released on Wednesday evening, after 53 days of being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

An additional two Russian citizens were released by Hamas on Wednesday.

Raya Rotem

Raya Rotem, 54, mother to Hila Rotem, was taken captive by Hamas terrorists during an attack on their community in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7. This attack resulted in the death of an estimated 10% of the residents and the kidnapping of dozens of people.

She was hiding in her safe room with her daughter that morning and sent a message to Raya's brother at 12:05 p.m., informing him that they were being abducted and taken to Gaza.

This was the last communication anyone had with Raya or Hila.

It wasn't confirmed that they were Hamas hostages until October 29 when their family was informed that they were officially captives in Gaza.

Raz Ben Ami

Raz Ben Ami, 55, and Ohad, 57, were abducted from their home by Hamas in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 during a violent attack.

One of their daughters, Ela, survived and communicated with her father until his abduction.

Both Ohad and Raz were later photographed being pulled by terrorists, and Raz, who has a serious illness, requires medication for pain management, making her situation critical.

Yarden Roman, 36, was also among those released.

Liat Beinin Atzili

American-born couple Liat Beinin Atzili and Aviv Atzili, 49, have been missing from Kibbutz Nir Oz since October 7. Aviv left in the early morning as part of the security response team when Hamas terrorists entered the kibbutz, while Liat remained in their safe room, last contacting a friend at 11:30 a.m.

Aviv's phone was tracked to Gaza, and their house was found burned, though without signs of struggle.

Aviv's mother, Telma Atzili, 78, hid for 10 hours during the attack and is now in Eilat with her grandchildren.

Liam Or

Liam Or, 18, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists along with his cousins and uncle from their home in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7.

Ofir Enge

Ofir Engel, 17, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists when they attacked his kibbutz on October 7. The Engel family has been missing since then, with the last known communication being with Ofir's mother and her sister when she told her that there were terrorists in their home.

The family's phones were traced to Gaza, and while there were no signs of violence in their home and their dog was alive, their fate remains uncertain.

Amit Shani

Amit Shani, 16, was staying at his mother's home in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 when seven Hamas terrorists came into the home and kidnapped him from his room.

According to Amit's father who spoke to BringThemHomeNow, Amit, his mother, and his two sisters were hiding in the safe room when the terrorists came in, threatened them at gunpoint, grabbed Amit, and pushed him into a vehicle with two other hostages.

Gali Tarshansky

Gali Tarshansky, 13, was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7. Gali and her older brother Lior were hiding in the saferoom when Hamas terrorists came in, killed Lior, and kidnapped Gali. Her dog Moka was also killed.

Gali Tarshansky, 13 (credit: Bring Them Home Now)Enlarge Image Gali Tarshansky, 13 (credit: Bring Them Home Now)

Yarden Roman, 36

Yarden Roman was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri the morning after she returned to Israel to celebrate Simchat Torah after a trip abroad with her husband, daughter, and sister. Yarden, husband Alon, and daughter Geffen hid in their family's safe room until terrorists broke into their home and loaded them into a car. As they approached the Gaza border, the terrorists paused for a moment, and Alon and Yarden escaped. She handed Geffen to her husband, and the two of them made it to safety, while Yarden was recaptured and abducted to Gaza.

Itay Regev, 18

Itay Regev, from Herzliya, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival along with his sister Maya, who was released on Saturday. The morning of the attack, Maya called their father, and screamed, "Dad, they're shooting at me, I'm dead." Itay was later seen in a Hamas video, handcuffed in the back of a vehicle.

Moran Stela Yanai, 40

Moran Yanai, a jewelry designer, was selling her work at the Nova festival on October 7. She made several frightened calls to her parents the morning of the attack, who then lost contact. A video later surfaced showing terrorists taking Yanai from a ditch where she was hiding. Family have described her to media as a caretaker of her elderly parents and a committed animal-rescue activist.

Yelena Trupanob and Irena Tati

Yelena Trupanob and Irena Tati, two dual Russian-Israeli citizens, were taken hostage by Hamas from their home in Nir Oz on October 7. Hamas stated on Wednesday afternoon that they were released as a gesture to Russian President Vladimir Putin in addition to the 10 Israelis released as part of the ceasefire deal on Wednesday.

Trupanob's son Sasha and Sasha's partner, Sapir Cohen, are still being held hostage by Hamas. Trupanob's husband, Vitaly, was murdered on October 7. JPost

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Thai national who returned from captivity: Hamas terrorists beat Jews with electric cables. Thai citizen who was held captive and released recalls the conditions in which he was held and the harassment of the Jewish hostages.

Israel National News, Nov 30, 2023, 6:51 AM (GMT+2)

A Thai national who was freed from Hamas captivity testified in recent days before the IDF and officials of the Population and Immigration Authority about what he went through during the days when he was in the hands of Hamas terrorists.

"The compound we were in was quite large. I would walk back and forth there, counting steps to pass the time. Every now and then they would put us in a smaller cell, like solitary confinement," the Thai citizen said, as quoted by Channel 12 News.

"We ate little, one pita a day. Sometimes there were cans of tuna that were divided among four people, sometimes with a piece of cheese. Only one time, in 50 days of captivity, were we allowed to shower," he added.

He pointed out that the Jewish hostages were harassed by Hamas terrorists more than the foreigners. "I was with Israelis, and there were guards all the time. The Jews who were with me were treated more harshly. Sometimes they were beaten with electric cables."

19 Thai citizens were kidnapped on October 7 from towns located near Israel’s border with Gaza, most of them working in agriculture who came to Israel with a work visa.

The report joins previous reports by freed hostages about deplorable conditions they suffered under Hamas captivity, including denial of showers and starvation. INN

Thai hostages: ‘Jewish hostages beaten with electric cables, held in worse conditions than us.’ Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. JPost

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Freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz: I asked Sinwar how he wasn’t ashamed. He didn’t reply. Amy Spiro. November 29, 2023. TOI

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The Source with Kaitlan Collins.

Henry Kissinger Has Died At Age 100; Less Than Three Hours Before Israel-Hamas Truce Expires; Israel Says It's Assessing Hamas Claim That Youngest Hostage, a 10-Month-Old Boy, And Family Members Are No Longer Alive. Aired 9-10p ET

Aired November 29, 2023 - 21:00 ET

COLLINS: Thank you very much, Doctor.

In addition to that, we showed you, last night, an 84-year-old grandmother. She was in a wheelchair. She was among the hostages who was being jeered, it appeared, by the crowds, in Gaza, as Hamas was handing them over, to the Red Cross. Her family is here next, to share what she has been through.

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COLLINS: As we're waiting, right now, at this hour, to see if this temporary truce, between Israel and Hamas is going to expire, or whether or not it will be extended, what it's supposed to do, at Midnight Eastern Time? There's a tremendous amount of relief being felt, tonight, for the family of 84-year-old Ditza Heiman.

She was one of the 10 Israeli hostages, released yesterday. You saw her, in that video. She was the one in the wheelchair. And now, her family is learning details, about what her time was like, as a hostage of Hamas.

Joining me now is Ditza's grandson-in-law, Asaf Zohar.

And thank you so much for being here. ASAF ZOHAR, WIFE'S 84-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER RELEASED BY HAMAS: Thank you.

COLLINS: How is she doing, tonight?

ZOHAR: Physically, she's doing OK. And we are extremely relieved that she is doing OK. Because, when we saw, the images of her, in a wheelchair, that was heartbreaking, because Ditza was never ever in a wheelchair.

She's an 84-years-old, extremely proud person. And she's independent, and she's living on -- living on her own. She cooks for herself. She cleans for herself. She used to play the host for all 25 of us, when we showed up at her house.

COLLINS: Yes, I loved those photos of everyone having a meal together.

I mean, but you're hearing more about what she went through? I know it's not -- you know, it's a slow process. But what have you heard from her?

ZOHAR: The story is coming out of her very, very slowly. And she keeps telling us that it's her story to tell. So, the only thing that we can tell, for now, is that she thinks she was up in an attic, for quite a while. And she was away from everybody else. She was being held isolated from everybody else.

But I got to tell you that the amazing thing about Ditza, that the story that Ditza is telling is the story of 240 other hostages that have been taken. And when you say these words, the hostages that have been taken, it doesn't even -- it doesn't even begin to describe what really happened there. It's just a crime against humanity.

And when you say a crime against humanity, you actually mean that they are taking an 84-years-old grandmother, from her home, in a kibbutz? That is, I can't even explain to you how easygoing the kibbutz was.

You go into the kibbutz, and everything is green, and everything is nice. And you live right next to Gaza Strip. And you try to imagine that it's a peaceful place.

And then, this happens, on October 7th, which explains to you that these guys, who live across the fence from us are just savages. There's no other way to describe the amount of pain that we are experiencing, right now, as a nation.

Yes, I'm her grandson-in-law, and I experience this pain very, very personally. But I also lost 17 friends. 17 of my friends are dead, right now, because of that attack. And four of my friends are still being held hostage. Yosef (ph), his two sons and his daughter --

COLLINS: Yes.

ZOHAR: -- are still being held in Gaza Strip. And we don't even know what's going on with him.

So these crimes are crimes against me. They're crimes against you. They are crimes against entire the State of Israel and humanity.

COLLINS: And you mentioned the kibbutz, and what life is like there. These are like villages, where it's very familial, everyone knows everyone. And a lot of Gazans worked there. And there was, I mean, this was more of a left-leaning community than what you see. I think that's something that people outside of Israel may not know.

But you talked about your grandmother that Ditza was released. But she doesn't have a home to go to.

ZOHAR: That's one of the things that you have to tell your grandmother. How do you tell your grandmother that she doesn't have a home to go back to? Many of them --

COLLINS: Did she know about the full scope of what had happened to her home?

ZOHAR: We haven't talked about that yet because it's very emotional. I mean, you are talking about an entire community that's just gone. And there are several communities there that are gone right now.

I'm talking to my friends, on October 7th. I was talking to my friends, to three families. One of them has been murdered, as we were talking, on WhatsApp, texting each other back and forth.

COLLINS: Wow.

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ZOHAR: Some of them are hiding in the attic, waiting for this to be over. Some of them were in a bomb shelter, telling me that there are grenades thrown at the door. And I can't believe what I'm reading, and I'm texting back, and I'm trying to talk to them, and I'm trying to call them.

And one of them, Mae (ph) and Liz (ph), were actually murdered, as we were talking. And then, her sister is writing to me, "They have been shot. They have been killed." Their 7-years-old daughter is hiding in a closet, right now, texting me that "Mom and dad have been shot."

COLLINS: Wow.

ZOHAR: And this has been going on everywhere, in Holit, Nir Yitzhak, I can tell you all these weird names of these kibbutzim. But you have to understand that these small communities have been trying to live, next to Gaza Strip, and have been trying to make a living, right next to the Palestinians, and trying to trade and trying to --

COLLINS: Yes.

ZOHAR: Like you said, Palestinians were working there, with them together.

COLLINS: That's just heartbreaking. We're glad that she's safe. But I know it's a long road ahead.

ZOHAR: Yes.

COLLINS: Thank you for coming, to share what that's been like for her.

ZOHAR: Thank you.

COLLINS: And obviously, we're keeping her in our thoughts... CNN Transcript

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Three murdered by Hamas terrorists in Jerusalem shooting attack. By Tzvi Joffre. Published: November 30, 2023 07:45 Updated: November 30, 2023 09:44

The two terrorists who carried out the attack were shot and killed by police and a nearby civilian.

Three people were killed and six other people were wounded in a shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday morning, according to emergency services.

A 24-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man were killed in the attack, while one other was in critical condition, three others were seriously wounded, and three others were in light to moderate condition.

According to police, two terrorists from east Jerusalem carrying an M16 and a handgun arrived at the Givat Shaul junction near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday morning and began firing at civilians at a nearby bus stop. The two terrorists were shot and killed by security forces and a civilian who was at the scene.

Police quickly closed off the scene of the attack and launched searches to ensure there were no other attackers on the loose.

Video from the scene showed people running as gunshots were heard in the background.

Two terrorists affiliated with Hamas

The two terrorists were identified as Murad and Ebrahim Nemer, brothers from Sur Baher in east Jerusalem who were affiliated with the Hamas terrorist movement. Murad was imprisoned in Israel from 2010-2020 due to his intention to conduct terrorist operations in Gaza and Ebrahim was imprisoned in 2014 due to terrorist activity.

Highway 1 from the Motsa Junction toward Jerusalem was closed to traffic after the attack, with police directing traffic to Highway 16.

Two weeks ago, an IDF soldier was shot and killed and five other Israelis were wounded by a Palestinian terrorist at a security checkpoint on the Bethlehem bypass road south of Jerusalem.

US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew condemned the attack on Thursday, posting on X "Abhorrent terrorist attack in Jerusalem this morning. We unequivocally condemn such brutal violence. My thoughts are with the families of the victims and I offer my sincere condolences to all those affected."

The European Union's Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev condemned the attack as well, writing "I condemn the terrorist shooting attack in Jerusalem this morning, which killed two and wounded many other Israelis. Condolences to the loved ones of the victims. Refuah shleimah to the injured. The EU condemns all forms of terrorism and stands with Israel in this difficult time."

Attack comes a year after bombing attack at same bus stop

Last November, two Israelis, Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada and Arye Shechopek, were killed in a bombing attack which took place at a nearby bus stop and at a bus stop near the Ramot neighborhood. JPost

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Joni Ernst @joniernst: Hamas uses civilians as shields.

Those who claim to stand up for Palestinians without condemning Hamas's brutality need to get their priorities straight.

We must #standwithIsrael to completely destroy Hamas. Nov 30, 2023 On X

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Christian cowboys give most wanted Hamas terrorists playing cards to IDF. By Maatmyan Jaffe-Hoffman. Published: November 30, 2023. ([319] Trading cards the cowboys provided).

There are 12 terrorists and two jokers included in the deck. Some of the seedy characters include senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh; Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.

A group of Christian cowboys who came to Israel to volunteer are distributing decks of playing cards with photos of the most wanted Hamas terrorists to IDF soldiers in southern Israel and Gaza. JPost

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Jaime Kirzner-Roberts on X: Another “peaceful protest,” another Nazi swastika being proudly waved around - this time in #Toronto at a rally organized by TMU students. [320] Nov 30, 2023 on X

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Despite lack of formal agreement: Ceasefire extended, 8 hostages to be released. Israel National News Nov 30, 2023, 9:21 AM INN

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Yaffa Shir-Raz @YaffaRaz: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome the new Pallywood star - the terrorist *Mohammad Nazal*, recently released from Israeli prison. On the left: Muhammad at the time of his release - healthy and chubby, with 2 healthy hands. On the right - our Mohammed after release, still chubby, but claims he was starved in prison and both his hands in cast... Nov 29, 2023 [321]

Israel Nitzan🇮🇱 @IsraelNitzan:

Welcome to #Pallywood. Left image: Palestinian propaganda claims that the arms of Mohamed Nazal, a released Palestinian terrorist, were broken in prison by Israel. Right image: a video clearly shows both his arms well & functioning when he goes on an @ICRC bus.

1. FAKE #Busted

Nov 28, 2023. [322]

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Terrorist wounds two Israelis in Jordan Valley car-ramming. Security personnel killed the attacker. (November 30, 2023 / JNS) Two Israel Defense Forces reservists were lightly wounded on Thursday afternoon in a car-ramming attack near Moshav Beka’ot in the Jordan Valley.

The troops were evacuated to the hospital and their families were notified, according to the military.

Israeli forces killed the Palestinian terrorist.

Earlier on Thursday, three Israelis were killed and six other persons were wounded in a terrorist shooting on Weizman Boulevard at the main entrance to Jerusalem.

The fatalities were identified as 24-year-old Livia Dickman, from the city’s Har Nof neighborhood; Hanna Ifergan, a school principal in Beit Shemesh in her 60s; and Rabbinical Court Judge Elimelech Wasserman, 73. JNS

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: The Bedouin Muslims siblings Aisha (17) and Bilal (18) Alziadana photographed in a hospital after having been released from Hamas captivity.

This was one of those hostage releases during which there were no cheering Palestinian crowds present. [323] Dec 1, 2023. [324]

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'Oct. 7 was just a rehearsal,' warns Sinwar. Cairo pressuring the Hamas leader to honor the hostage release deal.

(November 30, 2023 / JNS) Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughter was "just a rehearsal," the Islamist group's leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar threatened on Thursday, in his first public statement since the terrorist organization massacred more than a thousand people in Israel. JNS

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Report: US pressuring Turkey to end support for Hamas, Russia. Wall Street Journal reports Biden Admin. warning Turkish officials Turkey's financial support for Hamas and Russia will have consequences. Israel National News, Nov 30, 2023, 6:24 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Antonio Guterres: 'Accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 must be investigated.'

A UN commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. By Reuters And Jerusalem Post Staff. 11/30/2023 12:19:45 AM JPost

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Antisemitic incidents have surged 320% in Germany since Oct. 7. Jewish life is becoming less visible in Germany, as Jews refrain from wearing identifiable symbols and speaking Hebrew in public.

By Shira Li Bartov/JTA 11/30/2023 01:40:22 AM JPost

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Released hostage says he was held by UNRWA teacher in Gaza - report. Boker's report also cites another hostage saying that he was held by a Gazan doctor as he was treating children patients. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 11/30/2023 02:40:02 AM JPost

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Still-captive hostage Shani Goren took care of Eitan Yahami while in captivity, her sister says. According to Shira Goren, her sister Shani was an instructor at Kibbutz Nir Oz at a children's home, where she met Eitan.

By Uri Sela/Walla 11/30/2023 05:39:17 AM JPost

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Hamas, Nazi ideology linked to Kishinev pogrom and Oct. 7 massacre - analysis. "Commemoration without action is not enough," said Mark Weitzman, a renowned expert on antisemitism. By Zvika Klein 11/30/2023 02:12:38 PM [325]

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'We Stand With Israel' – Live from Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global Conference. WATCH LIVE - Opening Plenary of the Global Conference for Israel, from Denver, Colorado. By Jerusalem Post Staff 11/30/2023 05:26:27 PM JPost

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Antisemitic incidents have surged 320% in Germany since Oct. 7.

By Shura LI Bartov/JTA. Published: November 30, 2023 01:40. Jewish life is becoming less visible in Germany, as Jews refrain from wearing identifiable symbols and speaking Hebrew in public. JPost

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Reporter's Notebook: The ICC chief prosecutor interview that didn’t happen.

Despite the ICC reneging with the Post, it is our hope that it will show the courage to reach out to some Israeli media outlets in the near future. By Yonah Jeremy Bob 11/30/2023 08:13:25 PM JPost

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Son of Hamas co-founder: Death penalty for October 7 massacre terrorists. Says Israel is the victim of genocide • "We cannot bend under global pressure no matter what. We have to eradicate Hamas. If we don’t, humanity will pay a huge price." By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman. 11/30/2023 09:58:23 PM JPost

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Hamas drugged children; burned legs with motorcycle exhaust for identification. Each child seized by Hamas was placed on a motorcycle. They positioned the child's leg against the bike's exhaust pipe, causing burns. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 11/30/2023 10:02:20 PM JPost

Uncle of freed hostages says Hamas branded them using motorcycle exhaust pipe. November 30, 2023, 10:47 pm

([326] Yaniv Yaakov (holding poster) speaks during an event with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in North Macedonia's capital Skopje, November 30, 2023).

The uncle of brothers Yagil and Or Yaakov says Palestinian terrorists branded the boys using the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle after they were abducted to Gaza on October 7.

Yagil, 12, and Or, 16, were returned to Israel earlier this week.

“They told us stories about what they went through inside Gaza. The stories are horrible,” Yaniv Yaakov says during an event in North Macedonia with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. “Each child that was taken by Hamas was taken on a motorbike and they took every child, took his leg and put it on the exhaust of that motorbike, so they have a burn so they will be marked if they run, if they escape, so [Hamas] can find them.”

“They were drugged, they were treated so bad, but at least they are with us,” Yaakov adds. TOI

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Australian PM Albanese slams protest against Israeli hostage families: 'Unjust, unhelpful.' Families of kidnapped Israelis were prevented from entering a hotel in Melbourne by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. By Zvika Klein 11/30/2023 10:42:18 PM JPost

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Starvation, whispering and psychological terror: Life of captives in Gaza. They were beaten, haven't showered for 50 days, provided with almost no food, held captive in tunnels underground, slept on chairs and barely received medication; Some completely cut off from world, children forced to whisper, not allowed to cry. YNet correspondents | published: November 30, 2023 15:48 Ynet

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Cruel psychological terrorism: Hamas publishes video of Yarden Bibas in captivity. In the footage, the father is seen begging to be released from captivity. His statements were dictated to him by his ruthless captors. Israel National News, Nov 30, 2023, 9:23 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Hamas Playing Games: Only 8 Hostages on Thursday’s List. By David Israel - 17 Kislev 5784 – November 30, 2023. Jewish Press

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Hamas Releases Israeli Nurse Who Used Her Skills to Care for Wounded Hostages. The nurse from Soroka Hospital was abducted from her home on Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 Published 11/30/23. Christopher Gavin. ...Nili Margalit, 41, a nurse at Soroka Hospital, among eight Israeli women and children released under the terms of an extended ceasefire arrangement. The terror group also returned the bodies of three hostages who it says died in an Israeli air strike. The Messnger

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8 Israeli hostages freed from Gaza at end of seventh day of truce. Two women returned in late afternoon, while six others released to Israel shortly before midnight; unclear whether ceasefire will be extended further. By Amy Spiro and TOI Staff 30 Nov 2023, 9:02 pm

Eight Israeli hostages were released from Hamas captivity Thursday, the seventh group freed by the terror group under a temporary truce agreement with Israel.

Two women, Mia Schem, 21, and Amit Soussana, 40, were freed in the late afternoon, while six others returned to Israel shortly before midnight.

The delay in releasing the six once again led to a nerve-wracking wait for their families.

Hamas had indicated earlier it could also free an additional two Russian-Israeli citizens, as it has done in previous days as a gesture to Moscow, but did not ultimately do so. Instead, it appeared to calculate, and Israel to accept, that two Russian-Israelis free on Wednesday would count toward the 10-hostage daily minimum agreed in the truce deal.

At the same time, it remained unclear whether the temporary truce with Hamas, coupled with the release of further hostages, would be extended to another day.

Hamas had also previously said it would return three bodies of Israelis on Thursday, but there was no indication that it had done so.

Thursday’s release of two teens meant that all but two of the hostage Israelis in the child category had been returned from Gaza: the two young boys of the Bibas family, four-year-old Ariel and 10-month-old Kfir. The pair were taken hostage with their mother Shiri, 32; father Yarden was also abducted, but separately.

In a statement Wednesday, Hamas claimed the three had been killed. Israel says it is investigating the claim. Hamas on Thursday released a propaganda video appearing to show Yarden alive and relating to the rest of his family. IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari described the video as “psychological terror.”

Thursday’s hostage releases came after a deal to extend the ongoing truce was reached early Thursday morning, just ahead of a 7 a.m. deadline for it to expire. The agreement was made after Israel reportedly rejected an early list of hostages sent by Hamas which it deemed unacceptable.

The same situation appeared to be repeating itself Thursday night, with the sides widely reported to be disagreeing over who would be released in a potential eighth group. Israel has insisted Hamas must free more women it is holding in the next release.

The military warned Thursday evening that it was prepared to resume Israel’s offensive at a moment’s notice. Hagari said: “We are prepared to attack at any hour, tonight as well.”

Israel has insisted Hamas release all children and civilian women held hostage by the terror group within the framework of the current truce deal. Hamas-led terrorists took about 240 hostages of all ages during the October 7 shock assault when it massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel.

The temporary ceasefire agreement has so far seen 105 civilians released from Hamas captivity in Gaza: 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and 1 Filipino.

Israel estimates that about 137 hostages are now being held in Gaza and insists the terror group release all remaining civilian women and children hostages before additional agreements are considered.

Those released Thursday included:

Mia Schem, who was kidnapped on October 7 from the Supernova music festival near Re’im. Schem was the first Israeli seen in a Hamas propaganda video released nine days after she was taken hostage.

Schem could be seen in the video being treated after she was wounded in her arm, and later speaking to the camera. Her mother, Keren Schem, welcomed the sign of life and begged for her daughter to be freed: “I see that she’s very terrified, in a lot of pain, and I can see that she’s saying what they’re telling her to say.” Her family said they believe she was shot in the shoulder before being taken hostage.

Schem’s aunt said Thursday that a Palestinian veterinarian had operated on her arm while she was held hostage. “She underwent trauma. She’s thin, she’s weak,” Vivian Hadar told reporters. “She did physical therapy for herself.”

“We’re happy she’s with us. It’s really tough to see her like this,” Hadar added.

Also freed was Amit Soussana, 40, from Kfar Aza, a lawyer who was home sick with a fever when she was abducted.

She texted her family on October 7 that there were terrorists “outside my window… it’s scary, it doesn’t seem real.” Around 10 a.m. she told them she was going to hide in a closet and that her cellphone battery was about to run out — the last they heard from her.

The only minors freed on Thursday were siblings Aisha Ziyadne, 17, and Bilal Ziyadne, 18, members of a Bedouin family from Rahat who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Holit while Bilal was working in a cowshed there, less than a mile away from the Gaza Strip.

Their father Youssef, 53, and brother Hamza, 23, were taken captive alongside them and are still held hostage in Gaza. Youssef has 18 total children with his two wives and 20 grandchildren, and is the primary breadwinner. Bilal and Aisha are the first Arab Israelis to be released since October 7; at least five are believed to remain in Gaza.

Sapir Cohen, 29, was also freed on Thursday, a day after Yelena Trufanova and Irena Tati — the mother and grandmother of her boyfriend, Sasha Trufanov, who is believed to be a hostage — were released. The four were taken captive together from Nir Oz on October 7, as Sasha’s father, Vitaly, was murdered.

Trufanova and Tati, both natives of Russia who have lived in Israel for decades — were freed outside the framework of the ongoing truce deal, as a “gesture” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Hamas on Wednesday. Earlier this week, Russian-Israeli hostage Roni Krivoi was also freed under the same terms. But since only 8 Israelis were freed on Thursday, Trupanov and Tati were retroactively included in the needed daily tally of 10.

Also freed Thursday was 30-year-old Ilana Gritzewsky, a dual Mexican-Israeli citizen who was taken hostage from Nir Oz along with her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, 24, who is still held captive.

Gritzewsky made aliyah from Mexico 14 years ago, on the Naale program, and her parents and sister later immigrated to Israel.

Shani Goren, 29, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz on October 7, and returned to Israel on Thursday night. Eyewitnesses said she was loaded onto a trailer with two other families from the kibbutz on October 7.

Goren, a teacher and youth counselor, was grabbed alone from her bed inside her safe room, her mother Tamar Goren said. Freed hostage Eitan Yahalomi, 12 — who was kidnapped from the same kibbutz, as was his father, Ohad, who remains hostage — said after his release that after a couple of weeks in captivity, he was brought together with Goren, who had previously been his counselor, and she cared for him until he was freed.

Also from Nir Oz, 40-year-old Nili Margalit, a nurse at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, was returned to Israel with the latest group of released hostages.

When former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz was released on October 23, she reported that Margalit had been held captive with her, and was working as a nurse, caring for people, “just like she always does,” said one of Margalit’s friends in a Kan video. TOI

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Israel says no patience for Hamas games as efforts to free 10 women continues. Officials say Hamas claims that the remaining women in captivity not found, are lies and refuse to abandon women captives; extending truce beyond Saturday must pass cabinet vote Itamar Eichner, Einav Halabi | published:November 30, 2023| 15:39 Ynet

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House passes bill to freeze Iranian prisoner-swap funds. The vote split the Democratic caucus, with 90, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), joining Republicans in telling President Biden to re-freeze the money. Andrew Bernard. (November 30, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday intended to permanently freeze $6 billion in Iranian funds released as part of a prisoner swap in September. JNS

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The New York Times Sanitizes Palestinian Provocateur Ahed Tamimi. "We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke. We will drink your blood and eat your skull." Rachel O'Donoghue, November 30, 2023 Honest Reporting

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PA: Israeli civilians murdered in Jerusalem terror attack were "colonialist settlers" Itamar Marcus | Nov 30, 2023 All Israelis are legitimate targets

Palestinian terrorists are victims The PA, like Hamas, does not recognize Israel's right to exist. Every Israeli is a "colonialist settler" according to the PA. Every Israeli is a legitimate target. All Palestinians including terrorists are victims.

This morning, 2 Palestinian Hamas terrorists murdered 3 Israeli civilians waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem, and wounded 7 others, some severely. The terrorists were killed at the scene.

Right away, the PA issued an announcement claiming the 3 Israeli murder victims were “colonialist settlers,” whereas the terrorists were “young Martyrs.” Palwatch

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PA: The US is directing the war against Gaza, Israel is its "colonialist pawn". Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Nov 30, 2023 Abbas’ advisor:

“The US is using Israel as a pawn… to weaken Arab/Islamic region, and keep it divided, backward, strife-ridden."

"Israel is not an independent state but rather a state that is subordinate to the US." Israel’s counter-terror response against Hamas is “a purely American massacre committed by Israel, [its] pawn state” Oct. 7 massacre served Israel as “an opportunity” to “uproot the Palestinian people. Palwatch

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Israel Knew Hamas's Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago. A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

By Ronen Bergman and Adam Goldman Reporting from Tel Aviv. Nov. 30, 2023

...While ominous, none of the emails predicted that war was imminent. Nor did the analyst challenge the conventional wisdom among Israeli intelligence officials that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was not interested in war with Israel. But she correctly assessed that Hamas’s capabilities had drastically improved. The gap between the possible and the aspirational had narrowed significantly. The failures to connect the dots echoed another analytical failure more than two decades ago, when the American authorities also had multiple indications that the terrorist group Al Qaeda was preparing an assault. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were largely a failure of analysis and imagination, a government commission concluded.

"The Israeli intelligence failure on Oct. 7 is sounding more and more like our 9/11," said Ted Singer, a recently retired senior C.I.A. official who worked extensively in the Middle East. "The failure will be a gap in analysis to paint a convincing picture to military and political leadership that Hamas had the intention to launch the attack when it did... NYT

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Old, unrelated images shared out of context to show Israeli forces and Hamas treating kids in contrasting ways. 30th November 2023 / 10:27 AM altnews.in

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MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan’s weekend show amid poor ratings, anti-Israel views: sources. By Ariel Zilber and Alexandra Steigrad

Published Nov. 30, 2023, 4:08 p.m. ET MSNBC pulled the plug on lightning-rod anchor Mehdi Hasan’s weekend prime-time talk show as part of a wider shakeup Thursday, with sources citing a sharp drop in ratings and uproar over his anti-Israel views... Along with fellow anchors Ali Veshi and Ayman Mohyeldin, Hasan was lambasted for commentary in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ deadly terror attack in Israel on Oct. 7. NY Post

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Most terrorists freed in political deals resume violence. Amelie Botobol. (December 1, 2023 / JNS) ...The Almagor Terror Victims Association previously released a study that found that 80% of Palestinian terrorists released in political deals resumed their violent activities. JNS

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Terrorists fire at Israeli vehicle in the West Bank. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 1, 2023 JPost

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PIJ rockets target Jerusalem, Hamas barrages reach central Israel; IDF strikes Gaza. Kibbutz Nir Oz says 4 abducted by Hamas are dead - US: Hamas to blame for truce's end - IDF: Map splitting Gaza into zones will help civilians avoid fighting By TOI Staff and Jacob Magid Dec 1, 2023 4:37 am . IDF spokesperson says Hamas was supposed to release members of Bibas family in truce deal it violated... IDF confirms deaths of hostages Eliyahu Margalit, Mia Goren, Ronen Engel and Aryeh Zalmanovich.. TOI

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IDF resumes combat in Gaza after Hamas violates ceasefire. The Israeli military was conducting a wave of airstrikes after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets at the Jewish state. Charles Bybelezer. (December 1, 2023 / JNS) JNS

Barrages to the center for the first time since the resumption of fighting, alarms in the Galilee as well. Shooting at Kiryat Shmona, the White House: Hamas is to blame for the collapse of the ceasefire , ongoing updates. Mako

The list did not arrive, Hamas fired at Otef and the IDF renewed fire | This is how the truce ended. During the night, it was given the impression that the release of the abductees would continue today, except that shortly before 06:00, Hamas fired the first rocket into the surrounding settlements. The self-defense instructions were tightened • Nir Dvori |Dana Weiss | N12 | Mako

IDF strikes more than 200 Hamas terror sites in Gaza. (December 1, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IDF hits terror cell in Lebanon as Hezbollah renews fire. (December 1, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Five soldiers injured by mortar landing in southern Israel. Three IDF soldiers are moderately injured and two lightly injured after mortar lands near Nirim. Uzi Baruch Dec 1, 2023, 2:52 PM INN

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IDF confirms two residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, dead after being taken hostage published: December 1, 2023 08:57

IDF on Friday confirmed the death of two more of the residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz who were thought to be missing or in captivity. 54-year old Ronen Engel was confirmed to have been killed in Gaza , two days after his wife and two daughters were freed and 57-year old Mia Goren, whose husband was murdered in the October 7 massacre and was who was abducted by the terrorists. Ynet

Aryeh Zalmanovich, 85, was murdered by Hamas terrorists Kibbutz Nir Oz announces: Aryeh Zalmanovich, one of the founders of the kibbutz, died hostage in Gaza, and his body is being held by Hamas. Orly Harari, Dec 1, 2023, 1:58 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Maya Goren, 56, was murdered by Hamas terrorists. Kibbutz Nir Oz announces murder of Maya Goren, 56, following her abduction to Gaza. Israel National News, Dec 1, 2023, 2:51 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Eliyahu Margalit, 75, was murdered by Hamas terrorists. Family of Eliyahu Margalit from Kibbutz Nir Oz informed that he was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Israel National News, Dec 1, 2023, 8:35 PM (GMT+2) INN Israeli hostages recount beatings, death threats. David Isaac. (December 1, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Breaking In Flatbush: NYPD Arrests Three For Pro-Palestinian Hate Attacks Against Orthodox Jews.. December 1, 2023 11:25 am.

Three suspects wanted for assaulting Orthodox Jews last Shabbos have been arrested, thanks to incredible detective work by the NYPD.

It is believed that at least one of the suspects was also involved in a separate, previous hate crime assault in Flatbush. YWN

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Tufts University Student Group Honors Palestinian 'Martyrs'—Including Hamas Terrorists Who Died Attacking Israel. School’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter praised 'creativity' of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack. Jessica Costescu, December 1, 2023 Free Beacon

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United Nations Officials Complicit in Hamas’s Atrocities, Lawmaker Says Rep. Waltz presses UN to investigate agency’s role in hiding Israeli hostages. Adam Kredo, December 1, 2023 Free Beacon

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Ambassador Erdan: Israel has zero trust in antisemitic UN Commission of Inquiry. Israel’s UN Ambassador rejects UN Commission of Inquiry’s probe of sexual crimes perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. Elad Benari, Dec 1, 2023, 5:04 AM (GMT+2). Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said on Thursday that Israel will not cooperate with a UN Commission of Inquiry’s probe of sexual crimes perpetrated by Hamas during its October 7 attack on Israel, citing the body’s anti-Israel bias.

The UN commission of inquiry, which is investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict, announced on Wednesday that it will focus on sexual violence by Hamas and is about to launch an appeal for evidence.

The chair of the commission, Navi Pillay, said she would pass the evidence onto the International Criminal Court and called for it to consider prosecutions, reported Reuters.

"I'm now sitting as chair of a commission with the power to investigate this. So there's no way we will not do so," said Pillay, chair of the three-member commission of inquiry into abuses committed in Israel and Palestinian Authority (PA) territories.

In response, Erdan said on Thursday, “The antisemitic Commission of Inquiry, established by the morally distorted Human Rights Council which recently appointed Iran as Chair of the Council’s Social Forum, is 100% biased against Israel.”

“Therefore, Israel has zero trust in its findings and its illegitimate activities. Its ‘investigation’ into the terror organization’s sexual crimes against Israeli women on October 7 is akin to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, investigating its crimes,” he added.

“The Commissioners’ pre-existing prejudice against Israel is abundantly clear: they have denied Israel's right to be a member of the UN, they have undermined the accepted working definition of antisemitism, and they support the boycott of Israel. Israel will not cooperate in any way with such a discriminatory and antisemitic body,” Erdan clarified.

Pillay, who was named as the head of the Commission of Inquiry in July of 2021, has a history of anti-Israel statements.

In 2014, she condemned Israel for "targeting" UN-run schools and hospitals in Gaza, while failing to mention three UN-run schools in Gaza had been used as rocket warehouses, a gross violation of international law that clearly falls within the category of war crimes.

Her announcement that the Commission would investigate Hamas’ crimes came weeks after the UN chose to ignore these crimes altogether.

On Wednesday, nearly two months after the October 7 attack, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres finally acknowledged that Hamas committed acts of sexual violence during the attack.

“There are numerous accounts of sexual violence during the abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas on 7 October that must be vigorously investigated and prosecuted,” Guterres wrote on X, adding, “Gender-based violence must be condemned. Anytime. Anywhere.”

Erdan said in response, “The Secretary-General's words only sharpen the fact that when it comes to Israeli women, sexual violence that has been proven by state authorities still needs to be ‘investigated.’ For him, when it comes to Israeli women, you can doubt the facts and wait 55 days to call an unknown party to conduct an ‘investigation.’ He does not acknowledge that Hamas committed these crimes!” INN

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U.N. Agency for Palestinians Asks Israeli Journalist to Remove Post about Its Alleged Link to a Hostage-Taker By Jimmy Quinn December 1, 2023 4:19 PM

The U.N.’s controversial agency for Palestinian refugees is making a remarkable, if not unprecedented, attempt to censor an Israeli journalist.

On Thursday, Almog Boker with Israel’s Channel 13 posted a remarkable report to social media: “One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRA teacher — a father of ten children.” (Boker was referring to UNRWA, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees that critics say has enabled Hamas terrorism and even hosted rocket-launch sites.) The hostage, he added, was locked up, malnourished, and not given proper medical care. Boker did not name the person who said this, but the information presumably comes from one of the hostages released during the recent cease-fire.

UNRWA took issue with the claim today and issued what might be an unprecedented demand: That Boker, a journalist, provide further information to the agency’s satisfaction or delete the post. It said in a statement that the U.N. has asked Boker “to provide more information on what we consider to be a very serious allegation.” “Despite repeated demands,” the agency said, “the journalist has not responded,” and it added that Boker should clarify his reporting.

“In the absence of credible information to support this claim, UNRWA requests that the journalist immediately deletes the post. Making serious allegations in the public domain, unsupported by any evidence or verifiable facts in support thereof may amount to misinformation.” It went on to condemn the “defamation attacks and the spread of misinformation about UNRWA.”

In the coming days, Boker’s reporting ought to be fleshed out and corroborated by other sources, ideally identifying the name of the hostage who said that he or she had been held by an UNRWA employee and providing further details. But, in the meantime, it’s important to note that Boker is a professional reporter with a reputable outlet, not an anonymous online troll. The demand that he retract his reporting is nothing short of authoritarian absent subsequent information that proves it to be false.

It also comes from an untrustworthy actor. In recent weeks, the agency has exhibited a strained relationship with the truth.

Take what happened last month, after the watchdog group UN Watch published a bombshell report that 20 members of UNRWA’s staff variously endorsed terrorism and, in many cases, the October 7 massacre. The findings were based on analyses of the social-media profiles of UNRWA employees in Gaza and elsewhere and followed a series of previous reports by the nonprofit group that had unearthed the pro-terrorism sentiments expressed by more than 100 UNRWA employees. “Even when UNRWA has taken disciplinary action, its approach has been inconsistent, equivocal, and non-transparent, sending the counterproductive message that employee violations of UNRWA’s neutrality are, in practice, tolerated,” the UN Watch report stated.

In response, UNRWA accused UN Watch of lying, without providing any evidence to substantiate its accusations. Addressing an emergency summit of Arab leaders six days after UN Watch released its report, UNRWA’s commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini urged audience members to “firmly defend the agency against false and insidious claims that its schools teach hatred or that it has let the civilians in Gaza down.” He added, “These accusations come from those who want us to fail.”

There’s also the matter of UNRWA’s bizarre statement that accused Hamas of stealing fuel from one of its facilities in Gaza in October. It was deleted, and agency officials gave the press a strange explanation referring to “images circulating on social media” that had been misinterpreted. But what had sparked interest in the removal of fuel and other supplies from the UNRWA facility in question was the agency’s own statement, not any information that had originated online.

Representative Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) has written to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres asking that he investigate the allegations in Boker’s report. That’s a start. Ultimately, Waltz and other lawmakers can do their part by asking U.N. officials to testify at hearings on the recent UNRWA controversies, while reevaluating U.S. appropriations for the U.N. NRO

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Israel says it wants buffer zone in post-war Gaza. Reuters. Dec 1, 2023 - 13:38

In what will likely be a series of steps to ensure the lives of Israelis who would live in the Gaza border region after the war, Israel has notified its Arab neighbors it intends to erect a buffer zone on the Gaza border to help prevent further attacks and incursions into nearby local communities Ynet

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IDF providing information to Gazans on how to move to safety. IDF publishes interactive map to allow Gaza residents ot orient themselves, evacuate from specific locations if necessary. Israel National News, Dec 1, 2023, 10:22 AM (GMT+2) INN

IDF Publishes Interactive Map Showing Gazans the Quickest Routes to Safe Zones. The Media Line Staff 12/01/2023

To help reduce the number of civilian casualties, the IDF has published a map of alert zones within the Gaza Strip that are intended to help Gazans locate safe regions while following the Israeli army’s instruction to evacuate specific areas in Gaza as fighting between Israel and Hamas resumes. The cease-fire came to an end on Thursday night after Israel charged the terrorist group with violating the terms of the agreement by firing rockets. [327]

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Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas: According to an Israeli official, Hamas didn’t want to release the remaining female hostages because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they have endured.

Imagine what that means. Dec 1, 2023 [328]

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Hamas Leader Threatens Israel: Oct. 7 ‘Was Just a Rehearsal’ Lucy Gilbert / December 01, 2023

([329] Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, indicated during this week’s cease-fire that there are more attacks to come. Pictured: Sinwar holds up a young boy as he speaks to a crowd in Gaza City on May 24, 2021).

The architect of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sent a threat to the Jewish state this week, claiming the massacre “was just a rehearsal.”

Yahya Sinwar made the threat in his first public statement since the terrorist attack, Israeli media network Arutz Sheva reported.

“The leaders of the occupation should know,” Sinwar said, referring to Israeli leaders.

The attack was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas murdered 1,200 people and took 240 as hostages, including children, women, and the elderly.

Sinwar’s threat came during a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas to allow for the release of dozens of women and children being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas in return for Palestinian criminals held in Israeli prisons.

Some of the Israeli hostages who were released said Sinwar went to see them when they were in captivity. He reportedly spoke fluent Hebrew with the hostages.

“Sinwar was with us three or four days after we arrived,” Yocheved Lifshitz, a former hostage, told the Davar news outlet. “I asked him how he was not ashamed to do such a thing to people who, for all these years, supported peace. He didn’t answer. He was silent.”

Sinwar’s threats track with top Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, who said in an interview last month on Lebanese news channel LBC TV, “We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again.”

Less than a year ago, Sinwar threatened Israel in front of cheering crowds in Gaza.

"We will come to you, God willing, in a roaring flood. We will come to you with endless rockets, we will come to you in a limitless flood of soldiers, we will come to you with millions of our people, like the repeating tide," Sinwar said on Dec. 14 last year, according to Reuters.

Many of the Hamas leaders are hiding in different areas across the Middle East, including Qatar, Lebanon, and Turkey, according to media reports. However, Sinwar is reportedly in bunkers under Gaza, according to Reuters.

Sinwar was arrested in 1988 and spent 23 years in Israeli jails for attempted murder and sabotage.

“He’s 1,000% committed and 1,000% violent. A very, very hard man,” said a former Israeli interrogator who worked in the same jail where Sinwar was held. Daily Signal

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U.S. Blames Hamas for End of Cease Fire in Gaza. By WSJ Staff. Dec 1, 2023 — Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed Hamas for the collapse of a temporary cease fire with Israel on Friday. WSJ

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Oli London @OliLondonTV: A Palestinian woman surrounded by media sheds ‘tears’ while clutching a plastic baby doll that she is attempting to pass off as her dead child during a staged Hamas propaganda video. [330] Dec 1, 2023 [331] (by Omar_aldirawi)

Oli London @OliLondonTV: Video from Gaza shows a Palestinian man showing a plastic baby doll toy that had been ‘killed’ in an air strike.

The man has a microphone attached to his clothes with the wire clearly visible in the staged video.

[332] Dec 1, 2023 [333] (By Hani Abu Rezeq)

Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it to be a dead Palestinian baby By Danielle Greyman-Kennard Published: December 1, 2023

([334] Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it is dead Palestinian baby)

The footage shared on Al Jazeera's X account claimed that the doll was a "month-and-a-half-old baby" killed by an Israeli bomb.

Al Jazeera has published on X footage of an emotional man holding a ‘baby’ with a blurred face wrapped in white.

However, social media users quickly shared footage of the ‘baby’ without the blurred edits shared by the News source, revealing it to be only a doll.

“He was born and martyred during the war...a month-and-a-half-old baby was martyred in the hands of his mother, after an Israeli bombing targeted the family home in the Al-Mughraqa area, south of the city,” Al Jazeera wrote alongside the doctored footage.

It is unclear if Al Jazeera had edited the footage themselves in an attempt to deliberately mislead the public or if they had shared the footage without properly researching the background. However, despite numerous people contacting the site about the falsified footage, the X post has remained published.

Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it is dead Palestinian baby (credit: screenshot)Enlarge Image Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it is dead Palestinian baby (credit: screenshot)

The X post has garnered over 17,000 views but only reposted 56 times.

While this footage could not be located on Al Jazeera’s Arabic website, other footage was found with adults crying over the death of dolls.

The bias of Al Jazeera

The reporting of Palestinian-related News has been heavily criticized since Hamas’s October 7 terror attack which resulted in the brutal murder of 1200 people. Israel’s foreign ministry has told the Jerusalem Post [335] that the “pro-Hamas” site was being monitored and that Israel had planned to shut it down.

In one such Post piece [336], an Al Jazeera journalist was seen cutting off a Palestinian in Gaza condemning Hamas. JPost

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'For them, this is no game': Israeli gaming industry release video calling for release of hostages. The video reads "For them, this is no game" and then encourages the viewer to retweet the video with the hashtag #FordstillAFK.

By Yuval Barnea 12/2/2023 JPost

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German soccer team Borussia Dortmund honored for fighting antisemitism. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed the dinner portion of the summit, amplifying his strong support for the Jewish people and Israel.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/2/2023 JPost

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Troops in Gaza find dozens of rockets under UNRWA boxes. By Emanuel Fabian December 2, 2023. ([337] Dozens of rockets found by Israeli troops inside a residential home in northern Gaza, December 2, 2023).

The Israel Defense Forces says troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip have located dozens of rockets hidden under boxes with UNRWA markings in a residential home, and other weaponry belonging to Hamas.

Troops of the 7007th Reserve Battalion were searching a home in a neighborhood when they found a room full of boxes bearing the logo of the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees.

Underneath the boxes, dozens of rockets, mortars and other explosives were found, the IDF says.

Separately, troops of the 414th combat intelligence collection unit operating in a home in northern Gaza found grenades, weapon parts and other military equipment inside a child’s bedroom, the IDF says. TOI

IDF discovers Gaza rockets, missiles hidden under UNRWA equipment. IDF destroys Gaza mosque used by Islamic Jihad as operational HQ - IDF strikes over 50 terror targets in Khan Yunis from air, land, and sea.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/2/2023 JPost

Rockets under relief supplies raise questions about UNRWA. Released hostages says UNRWA teacher held him captive. Pesach Benson ([338] Hamas rockets found hidden among boxes of UNRWA relief supplies in northern Gaza, Dec. 2, 2023).

(December 3, 2023 / JNS) Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday.

One hundred ten rockets, including 30 Grad rockets, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which supports Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the IDF said.

Russian-made Grad rockets have a range of 12.5-25 miles.

The rockets were found inside a home in a densely populated area of northern Gaza.

In October, the UNRWA reported that fuel humanitarian aid was stolen from one of its compounds by men using trucks purporting to be from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

The discovery of the rockets raised further questions about UNRWA.

On Wednesday, one of the released hostages told Channel 13 reporter Almog Boker that he had been held captive by a UNRWA teacher. The hostage said the teacher locked him away and barely fed or cared for his medical treatment.

The UNRWA denied the accusation and asked Almog to provide further proof. Almog responded on X, formerly called Twitter, on Saturday, saying that revealing the identity of the freed hostage would endanger those still captive in Gaza.

“One of them testified he was held hostage and starved by an @UNRWA teacher. That’s not an ‘allegation’. That’s a survivor testimony, and more testimonies are coming,” Almog tweeted.

“While Hamas holds 136 Israeli hostages in Gaza, I can’t share information that could endanger them or identify the survivor. I hope UNRWA treats this more seriously than Hamas’s theft from its stocks and abuse of its civilian facilities for terror activity.”

In November, the U.K.-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) issued a report detailing how at least 14 UNRWA teachers celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres of Israelis on social media. The report included links and screenshots.

The report also noted that the UNRWA curriculum helped fuel the massacre by noting that IMPACT-se was able to identify at least 118 participants in the Oct. 7 attack as former students of UNRWA schools.

The U.S. State Department allocated more than $220 million for UNRWA in June despite its schools’ curriculum glorifying violence and terrorism, as well as an agreement conditioning funding on the prevention of teaching hate and antisemitism. JNS

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Documentation: IDF forces located and destroyed an operational shaft in a school in the northern Gaza Strip. The fighters, in cooperation with special forces, worked to neutralize the underground infrastructure, secured and isolated the area north of the Jabalia camp. Channel 7, 2.12.23, 7:28 p.m INN

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First Hamas fighters raped her. Then they shot her in the head. The terrorists were ‘on a mission’ to carry out sexual attacks on October 7. Campaigners have asked why the UN stayed silent.

([339] Israeli soldiers pay their respects at memorials to those killed in the Hamas terrorist raid on the Supernova music festival ABIR SULTAN/EPA)

Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent, Sitria Saturday December 02 2023, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times

She had, he says, the face of an angel. Night after night Yoni Saadon, 39, wakes in anguish to the faces of women.

First, that of the young woman hiding next to him under the stage of the Supernova festival where he had been dancing to electronic music as the sun rose on October 7 and Hamas militants opened fire.

“She fell to the ground, shot in the head, and I pulled her body over me and smeared her blood on me so it would look as if I was dead too,” he said. “I will never forget her face. Every night I wake to it and apologise to her, saying ‘I’m sorry’.”

After an hour, he peeked out. “I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.

“I kept thinking it could have been one of my daughters,” added the father of four. “Or my sister — I had bought her a ticket but last minute she couldn’t come.”

The horror did not end there. Hiding in bushes, he saw two more Hamas fighters. “They had caught a young woman near a car and she was fighting back, not allowing them to strip her. They threw her to the ground and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her and her head rolled along the ground. I see that head too,” he says.

Saadon, a shift manager in a foundry, told his story to The Sunday Times in a support area set up in Sitria, southeast of Tel Aviv, for survivors of the festival.

Israeli police say sexual violence was planned as an integral part of Hamas’s attack

Three times a week survivors from around Israel get together with parents whose children were among those slaughtered. On Wednesday evening they gathered on sofas as people brought them beers and steaming bowls of vegetable soup, then went outside to sit round a firepit as the singer Rona Kenan strummed her guitar and sang ballads.

Volunteer therapists on hand included Bar Yuval-Shani, 58, who lost her only sister, Deborah, and brother-in-law, Shlomi Matias, both musicians and peace activists, killed on Holit kibbutz by militants who broke into their safe room. “She was eight years younger but [it was] as if we were twins,” she said tearfully. “I held all her secrets and I miss her terribly.”

Deborah died shielding her son Rotem, 16, who was shot in the abdomen then hid for nine hours as fighters returned again and again, and Yuval-Shani guided him over the phone in how to treat himself.

Yoni Saadon’s account is one of several witness accounts of rape Yuval-Shani has heard from festival survivors, all of whom, she says, are “deeply traumatised”.

Eight weeks after the attack in which 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage, there is mounting evidence of widespread rape on October 7. Israeli police have begun their biggest investigation into sexual violence and crimes against women. “It’s clear now that sexual crimes were part of the planning and the purpose was to terrify and humiliate people,” says Shelly Harush, the police commander leading the investigation.

They have collected thousands of statements, photographs and video clips, which she says “as a Jewish mother the mind and soul cannot bear”, including “girls whose pelvises were broken they had been raped so much”.

The first indications came on the day itself when Hamas livestreamed some of the horrors it was perpetrating. Footage showed several women stripped of their clothing. One video showed a young woman with bloodstains on the crotch of her underwear.

“We didn’t understand at first,” says Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, an expert on international law who heads a civilian commission into Hamas crimes against women on October 7. Survivors arriving at hospitals were not asked about sexual abuse or given rape kits for evidence.

However, those tasked with collecting the bodies began reporting that many of the women were naked and bleeding from the genitals.

Haim Outmezgine, commander of a special unit of Zaka, a voluntary religious organisation that collects the remains of the dead, including their blood, so they can be buried in accordance with Jewish tradition, has no doubt about what they saw.

“We collected 1,000 bodies in ten days from the festival site and kibbutzim,” he said. “No one saw more than us. “It was clear they were trying to spread as much horror as they could — to kill, to burn alive, to rape … it seemed their mission was to rape as many as possible.”

(Volunteers collected 1,000 bodies from the site of the festival and nearby kibbutzim)

He describes finding two girls’ bodies in a field, both shot in the head, legs apart, one with shorts ripped and shot in the vagina and other with jeans pulled down and bruises on her legs. A father of six, he finds it hard to talk about. “One of my girls is 24, around the same age,” he says. His team are all receiving therapy.

Once the bodies were collected they were taken to the main morgue at the Shura military base to be identified and prepared for burial. Among volunteers in an all-female team to prepare female corpses was Shari, 60, an architect who lives in Jerusalem.

Working there day and night for two weeks starting the morning after, she describes scenes of unimaginable horror. “This is a huge building but there were literally body bags filling every room and lining corridors floor to ceiling, all oozing liquids.

“Opening the body bags was scary as we didn’t know what we would see. They were all young women. Most in little clothing or shredded clothing and their bodies bloodied particularly round their underwear and some women shot many times in the face as if to mutilate them.

“Their faces were in anguish and often their fingers clenched as they died. We saw women whose pelvises were broken. Legs broken. There were women who had been shot in the crotch, in the breasts … there seems no doubt what happened to them.”

Her team had to wait while doctors, dentists and DNA experts worked to identify the bodies before they could then gently put them in white linen burial shrouds. “We are just normal women not doctors, we never expected to see such horrors,” she said. Yet what really made them cry was the occasional flash of colour. “Some bodies we took out had pretty pink or bright purple nails — and we would all pause and at that point many of us broke down.”

As more and more reports emerged, Elkayam-Levy was shocked at the lack of international reaction from bodies such as UN Women. On the eighth day she gathered a group of international law and women’s rights experts, including 160 law professors, and drafted letters to UN agencies sharing everything.

(Many of the women’s bloodied bodies had been mutilated)

The initial response, she says, was silence. “It was absurd that it was so documented yet accompanied by so much silence. One of the UN’s own values is ‘believe women’ as crimes against women are always denied but they failed to believe us — the very organisations meant to protect us failed us.”

The women established a civilian commission to collect videos, photos, and witness statements into a database, both as an archive but also to raise international awareness.

Elkayam-Levy says these make clear what Hamas was trying to achieve. “They wanted to terrorise us for generations to come and instil in us insecurity in the most basic way, and that’s why they targeted women in this way.

- Janice Turner: Why’s the #MeToo crowd silent on Hamas rape?

“I’m a feminist,” she adds, “I teach and fight for women’s rights, yet after October 7 I told my husband to get a gun. For me to want a weapon and put it in my house — against everything I believe in and ever believed in — shows what they did to us.”

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) sources claim that Hamas fighters captured in Gaza have told them in interrogations that they were instructed to “dirty” or “whore” the women. They also showed The Sunday Times photographs and footage not previously seen and too graphic to publish.

Some have questioned the accounts because of the IDF use of propaganda and the fact no victims have come forward. But Dr Dvora Baumann, director of the Bat Ami Centre for Victims of Sexual Abuse at Hadassah hospital, points out: “Usually people who are sexually abused don’t report it for a long time because it is so hard to talk about and they worry they will be judged. We have plenty of other evidence. I’ve been in this field over 20 years and I have never heard such horrific things.”

(Some festival survivors have reportedly taken their own lives and others are being treated in mental institutions)

Most of the women are believed to have been killed or taken hostage. There are reports some survivors of the festival survivors have taken their own lives, while 18 are receiving treatment in mental institutions.

Some fear that those remaining are being held as sex slaves by Hamas commanders in the same way as Islamic State (Isis) did with Yazidis in 2014.

Paradoxically, in a world where rape is being used as a weapon of war everywhere from Ethiopia to Ukraine, this had been cited as one conflict where it did "not" happen. [...]

The International Criminal Court has announced it will investigate the October 7 attacks and the situation in Gaza where about 15,000 people have been killed and fighting resumed on Friday. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor, has spent the last two days in Israel meeting survivors and hostage families in Tel Aviv and visiting the West Bank. “We will investigate crimes within our jurisdiction … depending on the information we have and evidence potentially available,” he said. This is expected to include sexual violence.

For the past week, a delegation of Israeli feminists and human rights experts have been in Geneva and New York lobbying to be heard. Tomorrow they will protest outside the UN headquarters, and Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Facebook, will speak.

On Friday night UN Women finally issued a statement condemning the October 7 attacks. “We are alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during these attacks,” it said.

Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, who spent 12 years as a committee member on the UN convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (Cedaw), said: “This is the statement they should have issued two months ago.

“It’s mindblowing. We were there for our sisters when terrible things happened across the ocean, when they took away abortion rights in US, the killing of women in Iran, the abduction of Yazidis … but with us they looked away and I can’t think of a reasonable answer.”

Ayelet Razin Bet Or, the former director of Israel’s authority for the advancement of the status of women, does have an answer. “Israeli women have been betrayed,” she said. “What they are saying is MeToo except if you’re a Jew.” Times UK

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Turkey's Erdogan mediates release of Hamas terrorists from Libya - report.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/2/2023 JPost

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Two Iranians killed in alleged Israeli airstrike on Syria.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/2/2023 Two Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) were killed in a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria, Iran announced through its state-run media on Saturday afternoon. JPost

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Police ID suspect accused of vandalizing pro-Israel sign at Miami Beach business Video shows North Miami Beach cop fatally shoot machete-wielding man who took woman hostage December 1, 2023.

Police ID suspect accused of vandalizing pro-Israel sign at Miami Beach business MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Police announced the arrest of a 24-year-old man Friday who they accused of committing a hate crime after he allegedly vandalized a pro-Israel sign placed outside of a Miami Beach business.

It happened in late October at Bagel Time Cafe, located at 3915 Alton Road, just south of 41st Street.

The business had placed a banner stating “Bagel Time proudly stands with Israel.”

Police said Nour Abaido, of Coral Springs, was seen in the video exiting his vehicle after stopping in the middle of traffic, trying to take down the sign and then slashing it after he fails.

Authorities said Abaido was caught on camera causing significant damage to the sign which was valued at approximately $400.

“Acts of antisemitism in the United States and throughout the world are on a dramatic rise. This is a serious concern for the Jewish people worldwide and we are making a statement here in Miami Beach that acts of antisemitism will be enforced and prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner told Local 10 News on Friday.

Miami Beach Commissioner Joe Magazine echoed Meiner’s statements in an interview with Local 10 News reporter Cody Weddle on Friday,

“Miami Beach is a welcoming place for all, but if you come here and you think you’re going to intimidate our residents, intimidate any types of our community with hate, or prejudice, and especially antisemitism, Miami Beach will not stand for that,” he said. “We have one of the finest police departments in the world, and they will find the people that responsible for this.”

Authorities said with the support of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office Hate Crimes Unit and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office’s Violent Intervention Proactive Enforcement Response (VIPER) unit, an arrest warrant was executed, and Abaido was taken into custody without any further incident.

“I appreciate the collaborative effort of our partner agencies in bringing the perpetrator of this horrendous crime to justice,” added Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne Jones in the news release. “This act, fueled by hate, has no place in the City of Miami Beach, and I am immensely proud of our investigators for their diligence and meticulousness, which led to a successful apprehension.”

Detectives said Abaido bonded out of jail and is facing a charge of criminal mischief with prejudice for damages over $200.

Investigators are also searching for a woman who they said was caught on surveillance video vandalizing an Israeli and an American flag placed outside the same bagel shop early Tuesday morning.

Police have not said if the two incidents are connected. Local10

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UN Women finally says something about October 7 - but it is almost as bad as its silence. 12/3/23. Finally, nearly two months after Hamas' systematic mass sexual assault on Israeli women and after withering criticism, UN women has issued a statement of condemnation.

The details of the statement show that they are not serious at all about caring about Israeli women.

This is the same UN Commission of Inquiry whose very mandate is stacked against Israel. It is headed by Navi Pillay who is an apologist for both terrorism and antisemitism. One member has engaged in absurdly antisemitic tropes. 

We also know from previous "calls for submission" that this same Commission of Inquiry has a history of ignoring hundreds of submissions that don't fit its predetermined anti-Israel stance.  To give an idea of how twisted this commission is specifically in the context of accusing Israel of hurting Palestinian women..

Gaza women specifically act as human shields and participate in terror activities because Israeli soldiers are less likely to shoot them. 

And this UN commission tries to spin this as a source to prove Israel is discriminating against Palestinian women! EoZ

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IDF warns Hamas's Shujaiya commanders: 'You are all targets.' "This is a final announcement, you are all targets. The IDF will act in the area to dismantle Hamas," Adraee wrote.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/3/2023 01:11:41 PM JPost

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UNRWA fact-checked after calling report about hostage 'unsubstantiated.'

UNRWA claimed that a report that a hostage was held by a teacher in the agency's schools was "harmful and presumably gratuitous." By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/3/2023 02:41:30 AM JPost

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IDF uncovers 800 Hamas tunnel shafts since start of war, destroys 500. Hamas has spent years and billions of dollars perfecting its underground tunnel network, with many routes leading into Israeli territory.

By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/3/2023 01:02:44 PM JPost

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Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Aqil - Head of the deadly Radwan unit. The Alma Research and Education Center noted on November 29 that "Hezbollah’s Radwan unit is capable of invading the Galilee at any given moment."

By Seth J. Frantzman 12/3/2023 10:30:06 AM JPost

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Dr. Shmuel Katz: Arab countries invested billions which have shaped academic discourse. Dr. Shmuel Katz, a leader in Israel Advocacy in the United States, relates to the rise in anti-Semitism on US campuses.

Yoni Kempinski, Dec 3, 2023, 5:59 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Sunday, December 03, 2023. Proof that Gaza Health Ministry just makes casualty statistics up. Here is a table of the number of Palestinians killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry (as reported by UN-OCHA), on these days in mid-October.

Date - Number claimed killed

                        Cumulative number 
  

13-Oct 1900 14-Oct 328 2228 15-Oct 442 2670 16-Oct 138 2808 17-Oct 192 3000 18-Oct 478 3478 19-Oct 307 3785 20-Oct 352 4137 21-Oct 248 4385 22-Oct 266 4651 23-Oct 436 5087

According to the ministry, Israel killed several hundred people on most days.

Now, look at the figures from October 18, covering the alleged deaths from October 17.

The ministry claimed that 471 people were killed at the Al Ahli Hospital on October 17, but for the entire day they only counted 478 dead.

The ministry swears that Israel bombed that hospital. Which means that outside that one explosion, only 7 additional people were killed! Suddenly, the death toll went to practically zero on that one day.

Of course, every observer of the aftermath of the rocket explosion believes that the 471 figure was grossly exaggerated to begin with.

But that is hardly the only bizarre anomaly in the Hamas health ministry numbers.

Here are their numbers from October 28 and 29 in the UN report:

[340] [341] On October 29, the ministry said the total number killed in the previous 24 hours was 302 (8005-7703.) But the number of women and children killed in the same 24 hours was 328! (2062-1863=199, 3324-3195=129, 199+129=328.)

Yes, more of the deaths were women and children than...the total. 109% of those killed in that day were women and children.

Sure it's impossible, but why let that dissuade you from believing their statistics?

Similarly, the November 6-7 reports indicate 306 killed, yet they claim 337 - over 110% - were supposedly women, children and elderly.

[342] [343]

Almost as unlikely is the October 29-30 reports, which indicate that 210 out of 216 killed - over 97%! - were women and children (They didn't count elderly until October 30th, if we had those alleged numbers, almost certainly the count would go above 100% as well.)

And somehow, we never see women and children looking at damage after an airstrike. They all seem to be men of fighting age.

These numbers are all randomly made up. There is no other explanation. The news media has no independent source for casualties, as they did in previous wars, so Hamas can issue whatever numbers it wants without fear of anyone calling them out on it.

Even though their numbers literally don't add up. EoZ [344]

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Actress Julianna Margulies Slams Lack of Solidarity With Israel, ‘Laughable’ Support for Hamas in Podcast Interview. by Shiryn Ghermezian, December 3, 2023. In a recent podcast interview, award-winning Jewish actress Julianna Margulies gave her brutally honest opinion about the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas terrorist organization, the resulting Israel-Hamas war, the lack of solidarity with Israel and the support Hamas terrorists are getting among many college students.

At one point during her guest appearance on The Back Room With Andy Ostroy, she targeted youths using “they/them” pronouns who’ve been voicing solidarity with Hamas, saying they would be the first to be “beheaded” if they ever stepped foot in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the terrorist group.

“It’s those kids who are spewing this antisemitic hate that have no idea if they stepped foot in an Islamic country, these people who want us to call them ‘they/them’ or whatever they want us to call them … it’s those people that will be the first people beheaded and their heads played like a soccer ball on the field,” said The Morning Show star. “And that who they’re supporting? Terrorists who don’t want women to have their rights? LGBTQ people get executed, bar none. And this is who you’re supporting? It’s so insane to me that it’s laughable if it wasn’t so sad.”

The Good Wife star also found fault with college educators and asked, “Where are the professors calling all of these students into the auditorium and saying ‘Hold on a minute. Guys, do you understand what a terrorism organization is about? Learn what you are supporting.’”

“There are Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Buddhists, and Jews that are being held hostage, and you’re ripping down posters? Why?” she further asked. “What is that going to do? What are you actually trying to say? … I really wish all these kids would just for one minute stop screaming and hurting people and actually learn of which they speak.”

Later on in the interview, which aired on Nov. 20, the actress said TikTok “should be banned” after its users recently promoted a 2002 “Letter to America” written by Osama bin Laden that defended the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Margulies said “social media literally has distorted pretty much all of history.” She also said she is “really disappointed” with the disinformation The New York Times and BBC are spreading in their reporting of the Israel-Hamas war, calling it “careless.”

Margulies, who is the founder of The Holocaust Educator School Partnership at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, spoke at the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit last month about the “deafening silence” from her colleagues in the Hollywood industry when it comes to antisemitism. She further said on the podcast she is “stunned” at the lack of response given in the industry to the atrocities that unfolded in Israel on Oct. 7. She specifically addressed her non-Jewish peers in Hollywood, saying, “it’s the non-Jews that need to speak up, and it really brings me back to the Holocaust and how our ancestors must have felt when their friends suddenly were like ‘Sorry, I can’t come over any more.'”

Towards the end of the podcast, she said it hurts that her non-Jewish friends have not checked in on her amid the hate Israel and Jews around the world are now facing since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

“When girlfriends of mine — who were at my wedding, where I got married under a chuppah by a rabbi — have still yet to reach out to me to say ‘Are you OK?’ that’s where the hurt comes in,” she explained. “From people that you thought valued your life the way I value theirs. The hurt for me and for most of my girlfriends who are Jewish is like, how have our friends not reached out?”

Algemeiner

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Hamas delegation in South Africa for Palestinian solidarity event. “The population is generally supportive of Israel but intimidated by a loud radicalized Muslim community.” Rolene Marks. (December 2, 2023 / JNS) A senior Hamas delegation arrived in South Africa to participate in the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine.

The delegation includes politburo member Bassem Naim, Hamas representative in Iran Khaled Qaddoumi and Hamas representative in East, Central and Southern Africa Emad Saber. The delegation will meet representatives of political parties, civil society groups and the Palestine solidarity movement...

Revolutionary attachments

Howard Sackstein, founder of the Jewish Anti-Apartheid movement and chairperson of the South African Jewish Report, told JNS: “South Africa’s foreign policy is stuck in the 1960s Cold War with deep ideological revolutionary attachments to the oppressive regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and Palestine. Although claiming to support a two-state solution, for the South African government, Israel is a colonial manifestation of Western imperialism.”

Since the Oct. 7 atrocities and in light of the South African government’s growing alliance with Hamas, the country’s chief rabbi, Warren Goldstein, has been increasingly critical. The rabbi changed the wording of the weekly prayer for the protection of the government of South Africa to read for the protection of the people of South Africa.

In recent weeks in a variety of YouTube addresses, Goldstein has accused the government of being “Iran’s useful idiots,” and this week he said that President Cyril Ramaphosa “promotes global antisemitism.”

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has been captured by a small group of jihadists. The minister of foreign affairs, Naledi Pandor, a convert to Islam, and her radical director-general, Zane Dangor, whose sister accused Israel of wanting to drive black people out of Africa into the sea, have used and abused their positions to propagate an Islamic agenda and weave it into a cornerstone of South African foreign policy.

Hamas claimed that Pandor called to congratulate it on the success of their murderous assault on Israel on Oct. 7. Pandor said this was not the reason for her call, a call whose existence DIRCO denied until the denial became impossible to sustain. No call was made to the Israeli government to offer condolences. DIRCO recently referred to Israeli civilians murdered in communities near the Gaza Strip as “settlers.”

Incalculable failures

South Africa has a substantial array of domestic challenges and many believe that focusing on Israel’s war with Hamas proves a convenient distraction.

Rowan Polovin, the chairman of the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF), opined: “Amidst the incalculable failures of the ANC’s rule in South Africa—including 4.8 million starving children, world-record unemployment, daily electricity cuts, dysfunctional state-owned enterprises, widespread looting, corruption and lack of water and sanitation to millions—parliament saw fit to deflect attention from domestic issues and focus energies on Israel.

“The parliamentary resolution is a travesty and does significant damage to South Africa’s reputation and international standing. We call on the South African government to ignore this vile resolution and refocus its attention on resolving South Africa’s domestic challenges.”

Polovin thanked the millions of South Africans who support Israel.

Pretoria has also written to the International Criminal Court (ICC), asking it to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF brass on charges of war crimes as well as to formally declare Israel an apartheid state.

South Africa’s stance has angered the Jewish community as well as many in the opposition parties and private sector who are concerned about the impact on the country’s international standing and economy.

Sackstein told JNS, “Ramaphosa, who presides over a failing state and collapsing economy, refers to Gaza as a concentration camp. The vote in parliament is merely a manifestation of a radical popularism competition between [members of] a tiny elite who are trying to outdo each other in their opposition to Israel.

“The South African population is generally supportive of Israel but intimidated by a loud, radicalized Muslim community who believe their shouts can drown out the screams of those their friends butchered. For Israel, the potential closing of an Israeli embassy in Pretoria is of little consequence,” he said.

“South Africa is an irrelevant, distant failing state of minor influence. The South African Jewish community, however, will take this as a major slap in the face. The president has failed to meet with the Jewish community despite their request. The current president, whose personal fortune was created on the backs of many Jewish entrepreneurs and whose internal election campaign was supported by many in the Jewish community, has betrayed some of his closest allies and alienated the entire Jewish community. For him, the war in Gaza is a welcome distraction from dealing with his mounting problems and collapsing support at home,” Sackstein said.

As South Africa approaches an election year, it remains to be seen how much of a factor the country’s international standing and deepening alliances with pariah states will influence voters. The Jewish community remains vigilant—and vulnerable. JNS

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Storm at the Technion: incitement to terrorism by students; Hitler's book is in the dormitory.

Ishay Fridman, 12.03.23

A group of students, and at least one donor, claim that the Technion's administration is not doing enough against the supporters of the Hamas organization that were discovered at the institution."

The Technion began disciplinary proceedings against four Israeli Arab students who allegedly incited or expressed support for the actions of the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7. Against one of the students against whom a criminal proceeding was initiated and her name was mixed with the kidnapping deal as a stop released by Hamas - it was decided at the Technion not to allow her to continue her studies.

However, a group of students, and at least one donor of the prestigious institution, claim that the Technion's conduct in this case is insufficient. A group of students organized a presentation in which about twenty cases in which students, most of whom study at the Technion (and a small part of them physically study at the Technion but belong to another academic institution) expressed in one way or another expressions of joy and identification with terrorist acts.

The same students uploaded pictures of Hamas attacks against neighborhood kibbutzim and wished for a "victory" for the terrorist organization. Others contented themselves with likes and emojis of joy and hearts for the terrorists or expressed ridicule at the sight of Israeli hostages being led on the way to Gaza.

One of the Technion's donors spoke to Channel 14 and said that he is considering stopping donating to the respected institution. It is about a turn whose family members serve in the army and according to him it is "unbearable" that while 3000 students and lecturers from the Technion are serving in the reserves and are at the front and within the campus there will be students who support the terrorist organization Hamas.

([345] The Atrocities in Kibbutz Be'eri).

Another recently revealed event is the discovery of the book 'Mein Kampf' which Hitler wrote in one of the rooms of a student at the Technion. This is an event that happened a few months ago, but some students started spreading it recently. Now14

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Outcry over Hamas visit to SA. Published on Dec 7, 2023 By Nicola Miltz

South African Jewry is outraged by the visit to the country of a senior Hamas delegation to participate in the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine. This comes just weeks after Israel suffered on 7 October the gravest act of mass murder, including inhumane torture of Jews, since the Holocaust at the hands of this internationally designated terrorist organisation.

Still reeling in the aftermath of the brutal pre-dawn unprovoked attack in which 1 200 civilians were slaughtered, raped, maimed, and burned, and 240 people including babies, children, women, and the elderly were taken hostage into Gaza, the community has been angered by pictures on social media of Hamas delegates being warmly welcomed and embraced by representatives of political parties including the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the Anglican Church, civil society groups, and the Palestine solidarity movement.

“We are disgusted by Hamas’ presence in South Africa,” said the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.

Rolene Marks, the spokesperson for the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) said, “The SAZF condemns the audacious admittance of extremists and terrorists into our country by the South African government, raising serious concerns about their potential involvement in fomenting extremism within our borders.”

The Hamas delegation included politburo member Dr Basem Naim; Hamas representative in Iran Dr Khaled Qaddoumi; and Hamas representative in East, Central and Southern Africa, Emad Saber.

Naim has publicly and consistently denied that Hamas kidnapped innocent women and children, killed civilians, and raped women, putting it all down to “fabricated Israeli propaganda”. This in spite of the fact that Hamas terrorists filmed themselves perpetrating these heinous crimes and posted live images of them doing so for the world to witness.

Only a week ago, Naim referred to the hostages as “guests”. This week, before delegates in Johannesburg, he described 7 October as a “glorious operation”. Naim said the narrative that Hamas attacked civilians at a music festival was “fabricated”. He went on to say that though Hamas did in fact initiate an attack on Israel on 7 October, he denied that it had targeted civilians. This same man told Australia’s 60 Minutes: “Our fighters haven’t committed any crimes”.

His colleague, Qaddoumi, lied on SABC News and other international media platforms that there were any children being held captive in Gaza. This is in spite of the fact that following 50 days in captivity, Hamas started to release Israeli child hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement.

In Naim’s address to the convention he said, “I’m filled with pride and glory to be a son of this heroic city, which has openly declared its willingness to sacrifice and martyrdom for our sincere national objectives, and indeed, for the salvation of humanity from the nasty entity known as the Zionist entity [Israel].”

The Hamas representatives took centre stage at the convention, which was jointly organised by the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine and the Royal House of Mandela, fronted by anti-Israel lobbyist Mandla Mandela, Mandela’s grandson. It also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Global Campaign’s launch and the death of Nelson Mandela.

Representatives of Hezbollah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation were also present. Sajr

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IDF eliminates commander of Hamas’ Shati Battalion. Haitham Khuwajari oversaw raids into Israeli territory on October 7th during the invasion and massacre in southern Israel. Israel National News, Dec 3, 2023, 10:02 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: Angry men chanting “from the river to the sea” at 2 Jewish women on the subway in Toronto, Canada. [346] Via @ShirionOrg From Shirion Collective Dec 3, 2023 [347]

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IDF uncovers tunnels under Gaza school, attacks 200 Hamas targets overnight. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 4, 2023 09:49 Updated: December 4, 2023 09:53

Strikes against Hamas in Gaza came from the Israeli Air Force, ground forces, and Navy alike.

The IDF attacked some 200 Hamas targets overnight as they continued the ground operation deep inside Gaza, according to a statement by the IDF spokesperson.

Extensive strikes were carried out by the Israeli Air Force, operating alongside soldiers on the ground.

The Negev Brigade reportedly destroyed terrorist infrastructure set up within a Beit Hanun-based school where Hamas terrorists launched attacks against IDF soldiers. Within that same school complex, two additional tunnels of the terror organization's extensive network tunnels.

The uncovered tunnels were also holding an arsenal of weapons.

Weapons of mass destruction uncovered in Gaza The IAF struck vehicles such as mortars, missiles, and other weaponry for war in addition to striking Hamas military infrastructure believed to be planned for an attack against Israeli forces.

Reservists in the 551st Brigade, under the instruction of the IAF, were able to eliminate a terror cell and launch an attack on a weapon warehouse.

The Navy also struck terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza harbor. JPost

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Hamas violated hostage deal so women wouldn't talk, US spokesman alleges.

By Tovag Lazaroff. Published: December 4, 2023 20:45 Updated: December 4, 2023 20:46

The hostage deal partially fell apart last week because Hamas wanted to prevent the remaining Israeli women it holds in Gaza from talking about their time in custody, US State Department spokesman told reporters in Washington on Monday.

“It seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over that they have been holding hostage and the reason this pause fell apart is that they do not want these women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody,” Miller said during an emotional moment in the press conference. Miller spoke four days after a week-long pause in the Gaza war ended on December 1. That deal allowed for Hamas to release 81 of the 240 captives it had seized during its October 7 infiltration into southern Israel in which it also killed over 1,200 people. Some 17 to 20 women and children remained behind, with the US and Israel charging that Hamas violated that deal. Some eight of those captives also hold US citizenship. JPost

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IDF opens safe corridor for civilians near Khan Yunis. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 4, 2023 16:21 Updated: December 4, 2023 16:25

The IDF opened up a safe corridor for the humanitarian movement of civilians on a bypass road west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Monday, according to the IDF spokesperson for Arabic media, Avichay Adraee. [348].

Traffic from Rafah and Khan Yunis toward Deir al-Balah and central Gaza will be possible along the al-Rashid Coastal Road from southern Gaza and al-Shuhadaa Street in Deir al-Balah.

Adraee warned that Salah al-Din road is considered a war zone and is "extremely dangerous." JPost

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Turkey warns of ‘serious consequences’ if Israel targets Hamas members on its soil. Reports say Ankara has cautioned Jerusalem against any 'illegal activities,' a day after recording emerged of Shin Bet chief vowing to kill Hamas chiefs ‘in Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar’ By TOI Staff 4 Dec, 2023 8:35 pm TOI

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‘More than 11,500 rockets launched at Israel since Oct. 7.’ On Monday afternoon, shrapnel from a Palestinian rocket landed inside the courtyard of a school in Ganei Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv.

(December 4, 2023 / JNS) Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 11,500 rockets towards Israeli territory since Hamas launched a war against the Jewish state on Oct. 7, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Monday. JNS

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US points to Iran after ships attacked. U.S. destroyer, commercial vessels attacked by drones, missiles in Red Sea

This US Navy handout shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney. Picture: AFP anonymous-breach-pixel By NANCY A. YOUSSEF and SALEH AL-BATATI 5:32PM DECEMBER 4, 2023 U.S. destroyer and three commercial ships operating in the Red Sea came under drone and ballistic-missile attacks, the Pentagon said Sunday, marking the most significant escalation of a weekslong military attack on ships operating in those waters. The Australian

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Sheryl Sandberg on Hamas attack: Rape should never be used as act of war. By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Dec 4, 2023. [...] ‘Systemic’ sexual violence In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attacks, Israeli police are interrogating suspects and compiling evidence, including video, forensics and witness testimony, to investigate accusations of rape during the attacks. Witnesses to the aftermath of the attacks say women and girls were sexually assaulted, tortured and killed.

Hamas on Monday doubled down on its denial...

Organizers of Monday’s meeting refuted that by showing mounting evidence that rape occurred during the attacks on Oct. 7, including graphic video footage of bodies, videos of Hamas fighters admitting under interrogation that rape occurred and testimony from Israeli police officers and witnesses to the attack and its aftermath. Speakers who prepared bodies for burial described evidence that militants gang raped some victims, purposely shot or mutilated victims in genital regions and murdered victims with cruelty such as multiple gunshots wounds.

“A survivor from the Nova rave party testified, ‘Everything was an apocalypse of corpses, girls without any clothes on, without tops, without underwear, people cut in half, butchered, some where beheaded,” said Yael Reichert, a chief superintendent with the Israeli national police who is helping lead the investigation into sexual offenses committed on Oct. 7.

Moreover, there seemed to be “a systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims,” said Shari G. Mendes, who worked in an Israeli military reserve unit to prepare deceased female soldiers for burial after the attacks. She said she witnessed the body of one young woman arrived “with no legs, they had been cut off.”

Mendes said she “saw several severed heads. One with a large kitchen knife still embedded in the neck.”

Simchat Greyman, a volunteer for ZAKA Search and Rescue, which recovered bodies from Southern Israel near Gaza after October 7th, testified to seeing a murdered woman with “nails and different objects in her female organs.” He also recalled a body they found that was so brutalized they “couldn’t even identify if it was a man or women.”

World leaders speaking up

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also shared a video message at the event, calling on the global community to respond to "weaponized sexual violence where ever it happens with absolute condemnation." wsiltv

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Hostages young and old endured physical and psychological torture.

Family, doctors and some of the 110 hostages released tell of the suffering under Hamas captivity.

By Lahav Harkov, December 4, 2023

Some lost 20% of their body weight, one even resorting to eating toilet paper because food was so scarce. Others went weeks without vital medication. A child was kept in solitary confinement for 16 days. Terrorists took a three-year-old from her parents and twin sister. With more than 100 hostages now free from Hamas captivity, testimony of the relatives and Israeli doctors who are caring for the women and children released from Gaza paint a vivid picture of the inhumane conditions in which they were held.

“We were brutally kidnapped from our house,” said Danielle Aloni, who was taken hostage by Hamas with her daughter Emilia, 6. “Our girls saw things that kids that age, or any age, should not see.”

After Aloni was released to Israel as part of an exchange of civilian hostages — mostly children, their mothers, and elderly women — for Palestinians held on terrorism-related charges, Hamas-affiliated social media channels sent out a letter purportedly from Aloni in which she said she and her daughter were treated like “queens.” Yet, once safe at home in Israel, Aloni described her experience as “a horror movie.”

“You feel like you want to pinch yourself and wake up from this movie,” Aloni said in a video produced by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. “I’m speaking now and I’m shaking — I’m sorry. It was terrifying…We just slept, cried. Every day that passed was an endless eternity.”

Malnutrition is a recurring theme in the testimonies of hostages, families and medical staff.

Ditza Heiman, 84, who was in Hamas captivity for over 50 days, said in another video from the forum that “there was little food…and as time went on, the food kept decreasing.”

“As time went by, the damage [from malnutrition] increased, and the body’s ability to survive decreased. It is life-threatening and mentally threatening,” she said.

Doctors who treated hostages reported loss of 8-15 kg (15-33 pounds) by the elderly hostages, accounting for 10-20% of their body weight, and relatives of children who returned from captivity said they lost significant amounts of weight as well.

Some spoke of eating one piece of bread, or less, each day, and occasionally having additional food such as olive oil, beans, tuna or cheese. A Filipino caregiver taken hostage reported being so hungry that he ate toilet paper. He and others said they were given unclean water to drink.

Several hostages sustained injuries, such as Nurit Cooper, 79, whose shoulder was broken while she was kidnapped. Mia Schem, who was forced to record two hostage videos, one in which she praises her captors for treating her well, was shot in her arm and operated on by a veterinarian. After Hamas released Yuval Engel, 11, she was transferred to a Red Cross vehicle in a wheelchair and was treated for a leg injury in an Israeli hospital. Moran Stella Yanai, 40, injured her leg when trying to run away from terrorists on Oct. 7 and was not given medical treatment during her time in captivity; she appeared to be limping in video of her entering an International Red Cross vehicle.

At least two hostages were beaten, with Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, whose husband Oded is still hostage, saying she was tied to a motorcycle and hit with sticks while Hamas took her to Gaza, and Eitan Yahalomi, 12, was struck by people on the street in Gaza, according to his aunt. A Thai hostage who was released said that the Israelis kept with him were beaten with electric cables.

Hamas terrorists reportedly branded Or Yaakov, 16, and Yagil Yaakov, 12, on their legs so that they would be easily identifiable if they escaped captivity. They were also drugged when moved from place to place in Gaza, according to a Channel 12 report. 

Relatives of children held by Hamas, like Avigail Idan, 4, and Emily Hand, 9, reported that they came back covered in lice. Many hostages were not able to shower or only showered once in more than six weeks. 

Some hostages were held underground and squinted when they were first exposed to sunlight again.

Lifshitz described being held in a “spider’s web” of tunnels. In a video released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, she said that the oxygen supply in the tunnels diminished over time and food began running out. She said she was only released in the early weeks of the war, before the deal between Hamas and Israel, because she fell ill and her captors were concerned that she was contagious.

Relatives of nearly all the elderly hostages mentioned that they were not given access to the medications that they take regularly.

Elma Avraham, 84, was in critical condition as a result, and required a ventilator for over a day, but is now breathing on her own.

In addition to the physical conditions, the intense anxiety of being held hostage took its toll, and Hamas made sure to add to the psychological torture.

Twelve-year-old Eitan Yahalomi was kept in solitary confinement for 16 days.

Several of the children taken hostage were forced to watch videos of Hamas’ brutal attacks on Oct. 7, relatives said, documentation that many adults had difficulty stomaching.

Daphna, 15, and Ella, 8, Elyakim — who witnessed their father’s murder — were told by their captors that no one wanted them at home. When they were on the way to be released, Hamas terrorists threatened to come into Israel and kill them if they spoke of their captivity.

Some of the kidnapped children were separated from their parents. Three-year-old twins Emma and Yuli Cunio were taken hostage with their parents Sharon and David on Oct. 7; two days later, terrorists took Yuli from the rest of the family. Ten days after that, a woman brought Yuli back, though apparently it was unintentional — the toddler was just supposed to be moved from place to place. Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13, was separated from her mother two days before her release, in contravention of the agreement between Israel and Hamas that said mothers, children and siblings would be released together; her mother Raaya Rotem was freed days later.

Released hostages told their relatives that Hamas threatened the lives of children as young as three years old if they made noise, and their relatives noted that they continued to whisper for days after returning.

Professor Itai Pesach of Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center told Channel 12 that “you could see the marks that the suffering in captivity left on them. They were very depleted and very weak — strong in spirit and weak in their bodies,” Pesach said.

The protocol at Sheba Hospital was that hostages who didn’t need immediate medical care would receive psychological care first.

The stories the hostages told are reminiscent of ones “from 80 years ago, from World War II,” Pesach said. “The social workers don’t rest from [caring for] the released and the families for a moment, because they need the embrace.”

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said these stories are “only the tip of the iceberg of revelations about the Hamas terror dungeons.”

“As the survivors of Hamas captivity begin to open up to their families, we are beginning to learn about the psychical and psychological abuse to which Hamas subjected our people,” Levy said in a briefing on Sunday.

“We are fighting to secure the release of all the hostages. Women and men. Young and old. Civilians and soldiers. No one left behind. None of us are free until all of them are free,” he stated. JewishInsider

Yesha's heroes: the weapons were taken from the emergency room - but three residents managed to save the Moshav. 20 Hamas terrorists raided the small settlement, about six months after the IDF took the weapons from the members of the Moshav's standby squad • The only armed men who were in the Moshav that morning, a soldier on leave and two civilians from the standby squad, managed to single-handedly save the entire Moshav - and fell in battle • "It just suits him To be a hero," said the late Itay's brother • "It makes me proud, but there is no one who will bring my father back," added the son of the late Gil

Tamir Steinman|N12|December 4, 2023 Mako

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Leaked IDF document suggests anti-Arab violence in Judea and Samaria dropping. (December 4, 2023 / JNS) JPost

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Washington Post’ says Israel, Hamas exchanged ‘captives,’ seeming to equate credibility of two. “The Washington Post is a pro-Hamas newspaper,” Sean Durns, a senior research analyst for CAMERA, told JNS. JNS Staff (December 4, 2023 / JNS)

A Dec 2 Washington Post article about the claim that Israel allowed four premature Palestinian babies to decompose in a Gaza hospital refers to a “prisoner exchange” between Israel and Gaza, to Hamas and its “allied fighters,” and to an Israeli “full siege” of the Gaza Strip.

In the article with a tripartite byline, Miriam Berger, Evan Hill and Hazem Balousha also appear to take statements from Hamas, which the United States has designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since October 1997, as seriously as Israeli ones, without noting that Hamas is a terror group. JNS

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Watch: Amit Soussana fights 7 Hamas kidnappers. Woman who was kidnapped on October 7 bravely fought 7 men as she was dragged into Gaza, knocking one of them down.

Israel National News, Dec 4, 2023, 10:02 PM (GMT+2)

New documentation published this evening reveals the heroic fight waged by Amit Soussana against the seven Hamas terrorists who kidnapped her to Gaza on October 7.

In the footage, which was published by Channel 12 News, Soussana can be seen struggling against the terrorists who dragged her into Gaza.

When one of the terrorists picked her up and attempted to carry her on his back, Soussana's struggles caused him to fall to the ground.

Soussana was kidnapped from her home in Kfar Aza after telling her family that she was attempting to hide in her safe room.

She was among the last group of hostages who were released by Hamas last week. INN

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Philadelphia Jewish restaurant faces 'genocide' chants by hundreds of anti-Israel protesters. Zvika Klein, December 4, 2023. JPost

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Jewish group blames antisemitism for 17 cancelled buses to pro-Israel rally. Thousands expected at Ottawa rally on Monday afternoon.

Ryan Tumilty, Dec 04, 2023 .

OTTAWA — A Toronto Jewish group believes antisemitism is behind 17 buses being cancelled ahead of a rally in Ottawa planned for Monday afternoon.

Thousands of Jewish Canadians and their allies are expected on Parliament Hill for a rally in support of Israel and against antisemitism in Canada and around the world, many of them travelling from Toronto and Montreal.

Adam Minsky, President and CEO of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of Greater Toronto said 17 buses meant to take people from Toronto to the Ottawa rally simply didn’t show up on Monday morning.

“We were shocked that, of more than 70 buses UJA booked, 17 did not show up. Those 17 buses were the responsibility of a particular sub-contracted company. Despite charging in full in advance and confirming its participation, the company did not send a single bus and has declined all communications while refusing to provide any explanation,” said Minsky.

Minsky said they have made alternate arrangements, but the last-minute cancellation combined with the silence from the bus company left them with no other conclusion than this was an act of antisemitism.

“We are driven to the view that this shameful decision is intended to disrupt our peaceful rally out of hatred toward Jews,” he said. “What happened today is sickening and outrageous. We will respond aggressively with every legal and public affairs tool at our disposal.”

The UJA identified the subcontractor as Prestige Worldwide Transportation Network LLC, owned by Mohammed Ashfaq. The National Post attempted to contact the company on Monday, but the number had been disconnected. National Post

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The IDF strikes Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanese territory. December 5, 2023 02:24 AM JPost

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Echoes of explosions were heard in the capital Sana'a, the attack was attributed to Israel. By Maariv 12/05/2023 02:51 AM JPost

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Exchange of fire in Jenin, ten arrested on suspicion of terrorist activity in Ramallah and Nablus. December 5, 2023 06:18 AM JPost

HAMAL staff. 12/05/2023 02:59 Countering terrorism: 21 wanted persons were arrested throughout Judea and Samaria. The soldiers of the IDF, the Shin Bet and the MGB carried out an operation tonight in the Jenin refugee camp and mapped two houses of one of the terrorists from the attack in which the late Meir Tamari was murdered; 21 wanted persons were arrested tonight throughout Judea and Samaria and two printing houses used by Hamas were closed. Hamal

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White House, Pennsylvania officials denounce anti-Israel restaurant protest: 'Blatant act of antisemitism.' 'Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide,' the protesters chanted at the falafel restaurant. Houston Keene By Houston Keene Fox News Published December 4, 2023 11:10am EST

Alarming report shows antisemitism.

Goldfarb joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss his organization's report that found identity politics have been adopted by U.S. medicine and resulted in a 'fertile ground' for antisemitism.

The White House, the governor of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia officials denounced the anti-Israel protest that targeted a Jewish-owned restaurant in the City of Brotherly Love.

Sunday night saw anti-Israel protesters in Philadelphia stop outside of Goldie Falafel, a Jewish and Israeli-owned restaurant in the city.

"Goldie, Goldie, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide," the protesters chanted at the falafel restaurant.

([349] From left: President Biden, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images | Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images | Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Goldie Falafel is owned by American-Israeli chef Michael Solomonov, who started out cooking Italian food before shifting to Israeli and Jewish cuisine in the wake of his brother David's 2003 death at the hands of Lebanese snipers while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, National Review reported Monday.

Solomonov's restaurant was reportedly vandalized by the protesters as they targeted the restaurant on Sunday night.

The protesters' chants accusing the falafel restaurant of genocide went viral on social media, with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — a Jewish Democrat — denouncing the protest as "a blatant act of antisemitism."

"Tonight in Philly, we saw a blatant act of antisemitism — not a peaceful protest," Shapiro wrote.

"A restaurant was targeted and mobbed because its owner is Jewish and Israeli," the Pennsylvania governor continued. "This hate and bigotry is reminiscent of a dark time in history."

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said it "is Antisemitic and completely unjustifiable to target restaurants that serve Israeli food over disagreements with Israeli policy, as Governor Shapiro has underlined."

"This behavior reveals the kind of cruel and senseless double standard that is a calling card of Antisemitism," Bates said. "President Biden has fought against the evil of Antisemitism his entire life, including by launching the first national strategy to counter this hate in American history."

"He will always stand up firmly against these kinds of undignified actions," Bates continued.

Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman, an outspoken supporter of Israel, posted that the people accusing the falafel restaurant of genocide "could be protesting Hamas."

"They could be protesting Hamas' systematic rape of Israeli women and girls or demanding the remaining hostages be immediately released," Fetterman wrote. "Instead, they targeted a Jewish restaurant."

"It's pathetic and rank antisemitism," he added.

Democrat Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle, who represents Philadelphia in Congress, also denounced the anti-Israel protest.

"I can’t believe I even have to say this but targeting businesses simply because they’re Jewish owned is despicable," Boyle wrote.

"Philadelphia stands against this sort of harassment and hate," he continued.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney told Fox News Digital his team knows "that residents are concerned about the protest outside of Goldie on Sunday, and the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) is reviewing this incident."

"While the City of Philadelphia will always protect free speech and peaceful protest, we must stand united against acts of hate and bias," Kenney said. "We know the devastating violence in the Middle East has led to increased hate crimes and bias incidents against Jewish, Palestinian, and Arab peoples, and tensions are understandably high in communities across the country, including Philadelphia."

"Here in Philadelphia, we have always prided ourselves on being a welcoming city to people of all faiths and nationalities. If you have experienced a hate crime or bias incident, you can report this to PCHR. Please call 911 if you have immediate safety concerns. Our priority in the City of Philadelphia is to consider and care for every community in our region that may be experiencing pain and uncertainty due to the conflict abroad."

"We encourage Philadelphians who are in need of support to make use of the City and partner resources available to them. Our administration will follow up with the restaurant to address any safety concerns," Kenney continued. "We are committed to supporting local businesses, and business owners seeking assistance can always contact Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce at business@phila.gov."

The targeting of Goldie Falafel came amid a larger protest that reportedly saw chants of "long live the intifada" and "there is only one solution: intifada revolution."

Antisemitism has shot up in the wake of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas' deadly surprise attack on Israeli civilians on October 7. Fox News

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Some 20,000 brave sub-freezing temperatures for pro-Israel Ottawa rally. Dave Gordon (December 5, 2023 / JNS) "It was really important to see the love, the support and the solidarity of Jewish people in Canada," Ohad Lapidot, whose daughter Tiferet was murdered at the Supernova music festival, told JNS. [350] JNS

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Ministry of Health: Hamas drugged the abductees to present a "positive experience" of captivity At the hearing in the Knesset Health Committee it was revealed that the abductees were given tranquilizers before being released "in order to make them look happy" - Shir Siegel, whose mother was released and her father is still abducted, cried out: "While we are talking there is a holocaust (type treatment), three hours away from here" - The chairman of the Health Committee ordered For the Ministry of Health to publish a report on the situation of the returnees to international bodies N12 | Published 14:11 05.12.23

The transfer of the freed hostages to the Red Cross was a Hamas propaganda event. While the terrorists hugged the freed and asked them to "wave for peace", today (Tuesday) the Ministry of Health revealed in a hearing in the Knesset that the abductees were given tranquilizers before returning to Israel. Shir Siegel, whose mother returned from captivity and whose father was kidnapped in Gaza, called in the Knesset for the return of the abductees: "They are not given food and water."

The Hamas terrorists apparently gave tranquilizers so that the abductees would "look happy" when they returned from captivity. According to representatives of the Ministry of Health, who participated today in the discussion of the Knesset's Health Committee, the abductees were given Klonx type pills aimed at improving their mood. The delegation also added that the abductees were given a larger meal before returning to Israel. The representatives clarified that there is no long-term effect from using those pills.

The terrorist organization Hamas took care to document and film the return of the abductees to Israel for propaganda purposes. The level of production of the Hamas videos showed high professional abilities, and they used several cameras and drones. The documentaries were filmed even after the organization was beaten in fighting against the IDF in recent weeks.

The Red Cross in Khan Yunis

The discussion in the health committee in the Knesset dealt with the torture given to the abductees who returned to Israel. Shir Siegel, whose mother was released and whose father is still in captivity, cried out: "My mother came back with testimonies that I can't hear. I can't hear her talking about the fact that they were handcuffed, that they were abused. There were rumors that the conditions are "fine" - they are not given food and water . For us to speak, there is a Holocaust treatment, three hours' drive from here."

Shir continued: "I'm no longer able to function. It doesn't make sense that my mother is returning to Israel and the only thing she cares about is that my father is still there. My mother said to me: 'How can I function when I know what's going on there and my husband is still there'. What should I tell her? ?" Mako

Hamas drugged hostages before releasing them. Israeli Health Ministry confirms Hamas gave hostages tranquilizers, extra food, right before their release so they would look better than their actual health condition.

By Lahav Harkov, December 5, 2023

Hamas gave Israeli hostages tranquilizers to make them appear to be in good spirits when their release was filmed, an Israeli Health Ministry official confirmed on Tuesday.

The revelation came during a Knesset Health Committee meeting on the health conditions of the 110 civilian hostages returned to Israel from Gaza last week, in a swap for Palestinians held on terrorism-related charges.

Some large accounts on X, TikTok and other social media had claimed that hostages looked at the Hamas terrorists who were handing them over to the International Red Cross with affection....

Clonex is the Israeli brand name for what is known in America as Klonopin, a tranquilizer of the benzodiazepine class. It is a sedative and muscle relaxant with hypnotic properties that takes effect within an hour. It can give those who take it a euphoric feeling, and is sometimes used as a recreational drug.

“This is part of the psychological terror Hamas put [the hostages] through,” Saada said. “A pill like this, for someone who is not used to its influence, works quickly to give you a feeling that you’re high when their mental state was actually very low.”

The drugging is part of the physical violence, psychological torture and neglect to which the hostages were subjected. Jewish Insider

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IDF, Shin Bet raid Hamas security headquarters in Jabalia. Joshua Marks (December 5, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Palestinian rockets wound three Israelis. (December 5, 2023 / JNS) JNS

Rocket shrapnel in Tel Aviv injures 40-year-old man. JPost

Two injured from rocket fall in Ashkelon. Jerusalem Post Staff, December 5 JPost

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Hamas raped men as well as women during October 7 attack: Investigators reveal how sex assault victims were tied up, stripped and mutilated as Israel launches its 'biggest ever criminal investigation.' By Summer Goodkind and David Averre, Daily Mail, December 4, 2023. ... One horrifying image he described was the moment a woman's decapitated head rolled across the road, after she was beheaded for refusing to be stripped naked. Daily Mail

Hamas terrorists had ‘a thing with sexual organs’ and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims: UN testimony. By Yaron Steinbuch Published Dec. 5, 2023, 11:50 a.m. ET Barbaric Hamas terrorists had “a thing with sexual organs’’ and targeted the genitalia of male and female victims during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to harrowing United Nations testimony Monday.

There were “horrific things I saw with my own eyes and I felt with my own hands,” said stricken Simcha Greinman, a volunteer who helped collect the remains of the slaughtered victims, according to the New York Times. [351]

The Jewish state accused the UN during the special session of moving too slowly to address reports that the terror group unleashed sexual violence as a weapon of war in its attack, NBC News reported. [352].

“This was premeditated. This was planned. This was instructed,” Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said at the session, held at the UN’s Manhattan headquarters, according to All Israel News. [353]... NY Post

Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears. By Lucy Williamson, Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Dec 5, 2023

([354] Captain Maayan IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/NIK MILLARD Image caption, "We see women of all ages... We see the bruises, we learn about the cuts and tears, and we know they have been sexually abused," Captain Maayan told the BBC)

The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.

WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE

Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack told us they had seen multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.

Video testimony of an eyewitness at the Nova music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.

Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers.

Few victims are thought to have survived to tell their own stories.

Their last moments are being pieced together from survivors, body-collectors, morgue staff and footage from the attack sites.

Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony that they filmed of a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the attack.

She describes seeing Hamas fighters gang rape a woman and mutilate her, before the last of her attackers shot her in the head as he continued to rape her.

([355] Nova festival destruction IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/NIK MILLARD Image caption, Hamas fighters stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds)

In the video, the woman known as Witness S mimes the attackers picking up and passing the victim from one to another.

"She was alive," the witness says. "She was bleeding from her back."

She goes on to detail how the men cut off parts of the victim's body during the assault.

"They sliced her breast and threw it on the street," she says. "They were playing with it."

The victim was passed to another man in uniform, she continues.

"He penetrated her, and shot her in the head before he finished. He didn't even pick up his pants; he shoots and ejaculates."

One man we spoke to from the festival site said he heard the "noises and screams of people being murdered, raped, decapitated".

To our question about how he could be sure - without seeing it - that the screams he heard indicated sexual assault rather than other kinds of violence, he said he believed while listening at the time that it could only have been rape.

A statement he made through a support organisation describes it as "inhuman".

"Some women were raped before they were dead, some raped while injured, and some were already dead when the terrorists raped their lifeless bodies," his statement says. "I desperately wanted to help, but there was nothing I could do."

([356] Nova Festival site after attack IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/DAVE BULL Image caption, Israelis are still grappling with the Hamas attack in October)

Police say they have "multiple" eye-witness accounts of sexual assault, but wouldn't give any more clarification on how many. When we spoke to them, they hadn't yet interviewed any surviving victims.

Israel's Women's Empowerment Minister, May Golan, told the BBC that a few victims of rape or sexual assault had survived the attacks, and that they were all currently receiving psychiatric treatment.

"But very, very few. The majority were brutally murdered," she said. "They aren't able to talk - not with me, and not to anyone from the government [or] from the media."

Videos filmed by Hamas include footage of one woman, handcuffed and taken hostage with cuts to her arms and a large patch of blood staining the seat of her trousers.

In others, women carried away by the fighters appear to be naked or semi-clothed.

Multiple photographs from the sites after the attack show the bodies of women naked from the waist down, or with their underwear ripped to one side, legs splayed, with signs of trauma to their genitals and legs.

"It really feels like Hamas learned how to weaponise women's bodies from ISIS [the Islamic State group] in Iraq, from cases in Bosnia," said Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, a legal expert at the Davis Institute of International Relations at Hebrew University.

"It brings me chills just to know the details that they knew about what to do to women: cut their organs, mutilate their genitals, rape. It's horrifying to know this."

([357] Cochav Elkayam-Levy IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/DAVE BULL Image caption, "It really feels like Hamas learned how to weaponise women's bodies from ISIS in Iraq, from cases in Bosnia," said Cochav Elkayam-Levy)

"I spoke with at least three girls who are now hospitalised for a very hard psychiatric situation because of the rapes they watched," Minister May Golan told me. "They pretended to be dead and they watched it, and heard everything. And they can't deal with it."

Israel's police chief Yaacov Shabtai said that many survivors of the attacks were finding it difficult to talk and that he thought some of them would never testify about what they saw or experienced.

"18 young men and women have been hospitalised in mental health hospitals because they could no longer function," he said.

Others are reportedly suicidal. One of those working with the teams around survivors told the BBC that some had already killed themselves.

Much of the evidence has come from the volunteer body-collectors deployed after the attacks, and those who handled the bodies once they arrived at the Shura army base for identification.

One of the body-collectors volunteering with the religious organisation Zaka described to me signs of torture and mutilation which included, he said, a pregnant woman whose womb had been ripped open before she was killed, and her foetus stabbed while it was inside her.

The BBC has not been able to independently verify this account, and Israeli media reports have questioned some testimony from volunteers working in the traumatic aftermath of the Hamas attacks.

Another, Nachman Dyksztejna, provided written testimony of seeing the bodies of two women in kibbutz Be'eri with their hands and legs tied to a bed.

"One was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed," his statement says.

At the festival site, he says small shelters were "filled with piles of women. Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked. Piles and piles of women. […] When you took a closer look at their heads, you saw a single shot straight to the brain of each."

Hundreds of bodies were collected from the attack sites by volunteers.

([358] May Golan IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/DAVE BULL Image caption, May Golan: "For the first five days, we still had terrorists on the ground in Israel. And there were hundreds, hundreds of bodies everywhere.")

Investigators admit that in those first chaotic days after the attacks, with some areas still active combat zones, opportunities to carefully document the crime scenes, or take forensic evidence, were limited or missed.

"For the first five days, we still had terrorists on the ground in Israel," May Golan said. "And there were hundreds, hundreds of bodies everywhere. They were burned, they were without organs, they were butchered completely."

"This was a mass casualty event," police spokesman Dean Elsdunne told journalists at a briefing.

"The first thing was to work on identifying the victims, not necessarily on crime scene investigation. People were waiting to hear what happened to their loved ones."

It was staff at the army's Shura base, where bodies arrived for identification, who have provided investigators with some of the most crucial evidence.

This evidence emerged from a makeshift hub of tents and refrigerated shipping containers set up at the base to identify the bodies.

When we visited, hospital trolleys, their iron skeletons topped with khaki stretchers, stood neatly lined up in front of the containers that housed the dead; the white plastic overalls of those on shift translucent under the floodlights.

Fighter jets roared overhead, drowning out the cicadas, as Israel's bombardment of Gaza continued.

Teams here told us they'd seen clear evidence of rape and sexual violence on the bodies coming in, including broken pelvises from sustained violent abuse.

"We see women of all ages," one of the reservists on the forensic team, Captain Maayan, told the BBC. "We see rape victims. We see women who have been through violation. We have pathologists and we see the bruises, we learn about the cuts and tears, and we know they have been sexually abused."

I ask her what proportion of the bodies she's handled show signs of this.

"Abundant," she said. "Abundant amount of women and girls of all ages."

([359] rope at nova festival site IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/DAVE BULL Image caption, Debris litters the ground at the Nova festival site)

The number of victims is hard to define, partly because of the state of the bodies.

"It's definitely multiple," said another serving soldier who asked use to use only her first name, Avigayil. "It's hard to tell. I've dealt with more than a few burned bodies and I have no idea what they went through beforehand. And bodies that are missing the bottom half - I also don't know if they were raped. But women that were clearly raped? There are enough. More than enough."

"Sometimes we are left only with a very small part of the body," Dr Elkayam-Levy tells me. "Maybe it's a finger, a foot or a hand that they're trying to identify. People were burned to ashes. Nothing was left. […] I want to say that we'll never know how many cases there were."

Privately some of those working on this talk in terms of "dozens" of victims but quickly caution that evidence is still being gathered and pieced together.

The civil commission headed by Dr Elkayam-Levy, to collect testimony on sexual crimes, is calling for international recognition that what happened on 7 October was systematic abuse, constituting Crimes Against Humanity.

"We see definite patterns," she told me. "So it wasn't incidental, it wasn't random. They came with a clear order. It was […] rape as genocide."

Avigayil agrees there were similarities in the violence visited on the bodies that arrived at the Shura base.

"There are patterns in that groups of women from the same place were treated in a similar manner," she said.

"There might be a set of women who were raped in one way, and we're seeing similarities in the bodies; and then a different set that were not raped but shot multiple times in the exact same pattern. So it seems that different groups of terrorists had different forms of cruelty."

"This was a premeditative, systematic event," police chief Yaacov Shabtai told journalists.

([360] IMAGE SOURCE,BBC/DAVE BULL Image caption, "Israel on 7 October is not the same country that woke up the following morning": police chief Yaacov Shabtai)

David Katz from Israel's cyber crime unit which is involved in the investigation, told journalists that it was too early to prove that sexual violence was planned as part of the attack, but that data extracted from the phones of the Hamas attackers suggested that "everything was systematic".

"It would be reckless to say we can already prove it […] but everything that was one there was done systematically," he said. "Nothing happened by coincidence. Rape was systematic."

Israel's government points to documents it says were found on Hamas fighters that appear to support the idea that sexual violence was planned. It's released clips of interrogations with some captured fighters in which they appear to say that women were targeted for this purpose.

Last week, UN Women put out a statement saying it "unequivocally condemn[ed] the brutal attacks by Hamas" and was "alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks".

Dr Elkayam-Levy said before the statement that international women's rights organisations had taken far too long to respond to her call for support.

"This is the most documented atrocity humanity has known," she told me.

"Israel on 7 October is not the same country that woke up the following morning," said police chief Yaacov Shabtai.

Amid the horror of what happened to women here, Captain Maayan from the Shura identification unit says the hardest moments are when she sees "the mascara on their eyelashes, or the earrings they put on that morning". I ask where that lands in her, as a woman. "Terror," she replied. "It terrorises us."

Additional reporting by Scarlett Barter. BBC

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House committee probes university presidents on campus antisemitism. “Your institution is clearly producing students who are sympathetic to a terrorist organization,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Don’t you think that’s a misuse of taxpayer dollars?” Andrew Bernard (December 5, 2023 / JNS) JNS

Shocking: Harvard, MIT, Penn: "It’s ok to call for the genocide of Jews." J-TV: Jewish Ideas. Global Relevance.

Dec 5, 2023 This just happened during a congressional hearing with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik - Presidents of Harvard, UPENN, & MIT Refuse to Condemn Calls for Genocide of Jews. On YouTube

Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents face grilling by Congress over antisemitism. By Katie Lobosco, CNN.

Updated: 10:37 AM EST, Tue December 5, 2023. Source: CNN

The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are facing questions from Congress Tuesday about their responses to alleged incidents of antisemitism on their campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

“Today, each of you will have a chance to answer to and atone for the many specific instances of vitriolic, hate-filled antisemitism on your respective campuses that have denied students the safe learning environment they are due,” Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said. CNN

Stefanik grills Harvard president over students calling for 'intifada,' rampant antisemitism on campus. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., grilled Harvard's president over students calling for intifada, or 'genocide of Jews' on campus. Danielle Wallace By Danielle Wallace Fox News Published December 5, 2023 [...] Stefanik demanded that Gay respond to the "yes or no question," before asking the Harvard president if she was familiar with the term "intifada" and cited multiple instances of Harvard students chanting, "There is only one solution. Intifada, Revolution," and "globalize the intifada" since Hamas' October 7 massacre and Israel's counteroffensive in Gaza that followed.

The House GOP chair stated, "the use of the term intifada in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict is indeed a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel, including violence against, civilians and the genocide of Jews." Gay admitted she had heard the term before and said, "That type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me." . While Gay admitted that speech calling for intifada, and therefore genocide against the Jewish people in Israel and globally, was "at odds with the values of Harvard," but deflected when pressed by Stefanik if those sorts of remarks were against Harvard University's code of conduct.. Fox News

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Bus company leaves pro-Israel supporters stranded en route to rally: ‘it’s obvious what happened here.' Peter Aitken, Fox News, December 6, 2023. Fox News

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With 92 Democrats voting ‘present,’ House calls anti-Zionism Jew-hatred. Andrew Bermard (December 5, 2023 / JNS)

([361]Final vote count for H.Res.894, "Strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world," which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 5, 2023. Source: C-Span). (December 5, 2023 / JNS)

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning the rise of global antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks and declaring "clearly and firmly" that anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. JNS

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EXCLUSIVE US News FIENDISH TACTICS Hamas ‘cowards’ stash AK-47s in babies’ cots and ‘send children to the frontline’ in Gaza as they cower under nurseries Explosives also found in a baby formula tin - as a soldier describes hunt for Hamas as 'like fighting ghosts' Nick Parker Published: 14:43 ET, Dec 5 2023. Updated: 15:02 ET, Dec 5 2023

HAMAS terror troops have been hiding weapons in babies’ cots and sending children on to the frontline in Gaza, shocked Israeli soldiers told The Sun yesterday.

Terror tunnels have been found under a kindergarten and mosques have been used to store huge stashes of weapons among fiendish tactics.

([362] IDF handout pictures showing an AK47 in a cot Credit: IDS)

[363] IDF handout pictures showing Hamas gear in a home. Credit: IDS)

But the most shocking ploy has been the alleged use of children as young as 10 and old folk to scout Israeli positions.

An army captain who has spent weeks in Gaza - and lost a comrade in battle - called The Sun from north Gaza yesterday to describe his daunting task as “like fighting ghosts.”

He described living hour-by-hour on the frontline, never knowing when elusive Hamas fighters might spring from a tunnel to attack before vanishing.

But the 27-year-old reservist officer insisted morale remained high among troops determined to wipe out the terrorist savages behind the October 7 attacks which claimed 1,200 lives.

The soldier - who The Sun agreed to name only as “Captain Daniel” - said: “Our enemy are cowardly - they don’t stand and fight and exposure to them is usually very short.

“It‘s 100 per cent true that it’s like fighting ghosts.

“Since we’ve been on the ground here there is not a single unit, not a single platoon, that hasn’t come across deeply troubling and disturbing signs.

“There was a situation where a very old man and a boy no older than around 10 appeared in front of us.

“They seemed entirely innocent and obviously appeared to be no threat, but it became clear very soon after that Hamas were using them to scout our position.

“Soon after we saw them we came under heavy fire and it’s now a tactic that we have to expect all the time as we move forward.

“Civilians are being used like this to either distract us and get our attention or tell the enemy where we are.”

Captain Daniel, of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 7007th Battalion, told how structures including schools and mosques are also being used as terror bases.

He said: “We went into a kindergarten with a playground with see-saws and slides outside and children’s pictures on the walls painted pink.

“But an entrance to a Hamas tunnel was inside which linked to their underground network and we found weapons, ammunition and explosives inside.

“Tactics like this are troubling but we are learning about our enemy and determined to finish the job here.

“We all appreciate the importance of our mission.”

IDF chiefs yesterday released exclusive images to The Sun which they claimed exposed their enemy’s twisted tactics.

The Israeli Defence Force’s 261st Division said they had unearthed an array of weaponry in “cynical places” during the recent ceasefire.

Pictures showed a Kalashnikov assault rifle hidden under the cot mattress with explosives next to it, said to have been found in the Naveh-Said neighbourhood of Al Atatra in north Gaza.

Other finds - which could not be verified - included explosives hidden in a container of baby formula booby trapped to a grenade.

A 50-foot terror tunnel shaft was also pictured, said to be inside a kindergarten in the same neighbourhood.

A whiteboard normally used by nursery school teachers inside a mosque also appeared to have been used to sketch diagrams depicting rocket-firing tactics.

And large caches of arms and explosives were also reported to have been recovered from two mosques in the same area by the same unit.

Captain Daniel, from Ra'anana, central Israel also told yesterday of the personal dangers he has faced during weeks of fighting - and the pain of losing a comrade in battle.

The officer was listening in on his radio when a firefight erupted nearby and comrade Lieutenant Yuval Zilber, 25.

Captain Daniel said: “Unfortunately, in the first week of our mission, my comrade Yuval Zilber was killed.

“A terrorist appeared from a tunnel shaft and he was killed by gunfire before we engaged and neutralised him. The Sun

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Man arrested over Hitler salute. 5 Dec 2023. A man has been arrested after he was seen making a Nazi salute.

A member of the Jewish neighbourhood watch group Shomrim had witnessed the man make the gesture and and shout "Heil Hitler" at Jews in a street in Stamford Hill, north London.

Metropolitan Police confirmed: “A man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and was taken to an east London police station on Sunday.

“He was arrested at the scene after a member of public alerted them to an incident in West Bank Road N16.” TheJC

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Swastikas and rockets in the mosque: watch the documentation of the Nahal forces in Jabalia [جباليا]. As part of the attack by the Nahal's combat team in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, the fighters eliminated terrorists in face-to-face battles at short range. In addition, in a mosque and a school in the area, the fighters located sniper weapons, explosives, anti-tank missiles and rockets.

Tal Lev Ram, 16:31 06/12/2023

Iron Swords war: As part of the attack by the Nahal's combat team in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, the fighters eliminated terrorists in face-to-face battles at short range, using tank fire and lightning strikes directed by them and by the brigade's fire complex.

In addition, in a mosque and a school in the Jabalia area, the fighters located sniper weapons, explosives, anti-tank missiles, rockets, operational shafts and swastikas painted on its walls. Rocket launchers and warehouses were located in the vicinity of the school.

The commander of the Nahal brigade told the fighters in connection: "We are preparing for another successful day of combat in the Jabalia sector. Yesterday, 16 terrorists were eliminated in face-to-face encounters and nine were eliminated with the cooperation of the Air Force. We are launching an attack on terrorist infrastructure and continuing to kill terrorists." At these hours, while the fighters of the Nahal Brigade are fighting in the Jabalia camp, a recruitment day for the brigade is taking place. Hundreds of new recruits begin their training and upon completion they will also join the fighting forces in the field. Maariv

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Israel revokes UN Humanitarian Coordinator’s visa. He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages. By Tovah Lazaroff, December 6, 2023 00:28.

Israel revoked the visa of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings amid growing tensions with the global body due to the Gaza war.

“I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen wrote in a post on X.

He took issue with her position concerning Hamas’s October 7 infiltration of southern Israel, where it killed over 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages.

“Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel!,” Cohen wrote.

“We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN!,” he exclaimed.

([364] Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023 - credit: REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON) Hastings had harshly criticized IDF actions in Gaza He revoked Hastings' visa after she harshly criticized Israel’s military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza. The UN has warned that the campaign, which has displaced some 1.8 million of the enclave’s 2.3 million people, has created a humanitarian disaster. Hamas has asserted that some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in war-related violence.

Hastings said on Monday, “Nowhere is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go.

“The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist. If possible, an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold, one in which humanitarian operations may not be able to respond.” JPost

אלי כהן | Eli Cohen @elicoh1 We will no longer be silent in the face of the bias of the UN!

I decided to revoke the residence visa to Israel of the UN "humanitarian" coordinator Lynn Hastings.

Someone who did not condemn Hamas for the brutal massacre of 1,200 Israelis, for the kidnapping of babies and the elderly and for the horrific acts of abuse and rape, and for using the residents of Gaza as human shields, but instead condemns Israel, a democratic country that protects its citizens, cannot serve in the UN and cannot enter Israel! Dec 5, 2023. [365]

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Israel releases image of eliminated Hamas figures enjoying meal, other leaders killed, IDF says. One of images showed senior figures of the Northern Gaza Brigade, the second largest in Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces said. Louis Casiano By Louis Casiano, Fox News. Published December 5, 2023 4:48pm EST Fox News

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IDF finds massive weapons cache near Gaza clinic, school. The stockpile contained "hundreds of missiles and RPG launchers of various types, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive charges, long-range missiles aimed at the center of the State of Israel, dozens of grenades and unmanned aerial vehicles."

([366] IDF troops confiscating one of the missiles found among hundreds of other weapons in a large stockpile in Gaza, Dec. 6, 2023. Screenshot: IDF/YouTube).

(December 6, 2023 / JNS) Israeli forces have located a massive stockpile of weapons near a clinic and school in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Wednesday, describing it as “one of the largest found” since the start of the ground invasion on Oct. 27.

The arsenal, discovered by soldiers from the 460th Brigade of the 50th Battalion during operational activity, contained “hundreds of missiles and RPG launchers of various types, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive charges, long-range missiles aimed at the center of the State of Israel, dozens of grenades and unmanned aerial vehicles.”

Troops confiscated or destroyed many of the weapons. Some were transferred for further investigation.

“All of the terrorist infrastructure [was] found near civilian buildings in the heart of a civilian population. This is further proof of the cynical use that the terrorist organization Hamas makes of the residents of the Gaza Strip as a human shield,” the IDF said.

Earlier this month, Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip.

More than 100 rockets, including 30 “Grad” rockets, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the IDF said.

In November, the IDF’s 401st Brigade found a large number of weapons in bedrooms and under children’s beds in a building linked to a senior Hamas operative on the outskirts of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

The military also discovered four tunnel shafts in Jabalia of significant depth from which heavy mortar fire had been directed towards Israel. The shafts connected to a central tunnel located in a building linked to another senior Hamas operative. JNS

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Israel intercepts missile over Red Sea targeting Eilat. (December 6, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Cohen slams US college heads’ failure to condemn calls for genocide. (December 6, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Judea, Samaria leaders bash US visa bans on ‘extremist settlers.’ David Isaac. Washington wants to present itself as even-handed and so has adopted a false narrative of "settler violence," say settlement leaders. (December 6, 2023 / JNS) Leaders of communities in Judea and Samaria criticized America’s new “visa restriction policy” targeting “extremist settlers” who engage in violent acts against Arabs in the region. ... The number of acts committed by Jewish extremists in Judea and Samaria is minuscule, he said.

“I sat with the police commander of the whole region of Judea and Samaria just last week. And this topic came up. And we asked him please to include the actual figures. How many acts of violence are we talking about?

“The biggest [number] that we were quoted was that for every act of violence done by a Jewish person in this scenario, we have about 150 times more acts of violence done by the Palestinians,” Revivi said.

According to Israeli Police figures made public in November, in the period from the war’s start on Oct. 7 through Nov. 7, police registered 97 incidents of illegal activities attributed to Jews in Judea and Samaria, down from 184 offenses in the same period in 2022.

In the first six months of 2023, Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) recorded 3,640 acts of Palestinian and Arab terror throughout Israel, including 2,118 cases of rock-throwing, 799 fire-bombings, 18 attempted stabbings and six vehicular assaults.

“We have small extreme minorities in every society. And the expectation is that law enforcement people will deal with them. In Israel, it’s done. In the Palestinian Authority, we know it’s not done. And, therefore, comparing the situation in Israel with the Palestinian Authority is really, I would say, out of order,” Revivi said. JNS

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IDF Commando Brigade raids Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

IDF spokesperson: Israeli military breaks through defense lines; terrorists surface from tunnels; Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar remains underground. Yaakov Lappin (December 6, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Malaysian police arrest man over statements supporting Israel relations. By Reuters 12/06/2023 01:21 PM JPost

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Israeli Foreign Minister: 'Guterres's tenure is a danger to world peace' By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 6, 2023 23:37 JPost

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Notes Part IIIIIII

Israeli airstrike eliminates terrorists exiting tunnel shaft. Israel National News Dec 7, 2023, 10:16 AM INN

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Blinken: 'Israel is taking important steps to better protect civilians Secretary of State praises Israel's efforts to make sure there are safe areas for civilians during its offensive in southern Gaza. Israel National News Dec 7, 2023, 6:52 AM INN

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These are the 90 soldiers who heroically fell in the war. Israel National News Dec 7, 2023, 12:32 PM INN

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Terrorists fired rockets from humanitarian zone in Gaza.

"The rockets were launched near the tents of Gazan citizens who were evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip for their protection."

([367] Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza's humanitarian zone near tents for displaced residents and a U.N. facility. Credit: IDF.Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza's humanitarian zone near tents for displaced residents and a U.N. facility. Credit: IDF).

(December 7, 2023 / JNS) Hamas terrorists on Wednesday launched rockets at Israel from the humanitarian zone in southern Gaza near displaced civilians and a United Nations facility.

The Israeli military on Thursday published visual evidence of the launch site where, around 3:59 p.m., a barrage of 12 rockets was fired at the city of Beersheva.

“The rockets were launched near the tents of Gazan citizens who were evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip for their protection and near the U.N. facilities,” the IDF said.

Earlier on Wednesday, at 12:52 p.m., Hamas attempted a rocket launch at Israeli territory from the humanitarian zone; it hit in the Gaza Strip, endangering local residents.

Another rocket launch from the humanitarian zone took place at 2:12 p.m.

Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 11,500 rockets towards Israeli territory since Hamas launched a war against the Jewish state on Oct. 7, when thousands of terrorists stormed the border, murdered more than 1,200 persons, mostly civilians, wounded over 5,000 others and took approximately 240 hostages back to Gaza.

Three people were lightly wounded in Israel on Tuesday by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.

Israel has long noted that Hamas fires rockets from civilian areas, including next to schools, hospitals, mosques and U.N. buildings, and has found evidence of this during its ground operation that began on Oct. 27.

Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said on Dec. 2.

One hundred ten rockets, including 30 Grad projectiles, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which supports Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the IDF said.

The rockets were found inside a home in a densely populated area. JNS

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Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus calls to dismantle UNRWA. The U.N. agency was created to perpetuate the conflict, MK Sharren Haskel tells E.U. lawmakers. Etgar Lefkovits.

(December 7, 2023 / JNS) The United Nations has become an accomplice to Palestinian terrorism, and UNRWA, its organization that deals exclusively with Palestinian refugees and their descendants, needs to be dismantled, a leader of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus told European parliamentarians on Wednesday.

The remarks come amid a groundswell of reports of terror ties among UNRWA officials following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, including an eyewitness account that a UNRWA school teacher held one of the Israeli hostages in the basement of his Gaza home and the discovery of missiles and other weapons hidden among UNRWA relief supplies.

“The most deeply engrained institution in Gaza—that allows for the indoctrination of Gaza youth, so that some of them eventually grew up to join Hamas, becoming the terrorists who raped women, beheaded men and took babies as hostages—is an international institution, which your governments fund,” Knesset member Sharren Haskel (National Unity) said in a keynote address to lawmakers at the European Parliament in Brussels.

“An accomplice to the indoctrination of Palestinians in Gaza, which culminated in the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre—is the United Nations, and specifically UNRWA,” she continued.

In her remarks, Haskel, who co-chairs the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus, called for a cutoff in E.U. funding, reiterating longstanding Israeli views that UNRWA was created to perpetuate the conflict by granting Palestinians refugee status seven and a half decades after the establishment of the State of Israel although no other persons in the world would qualify under the same circumstances. JNS

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IDF fighter jets strike Hezbollah terror targets inside Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/07/2023 12:06 PM JPost

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Hamas launches rockets near Gazan civilian tents, UN facilities - IDF. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/07/2023 11:32 AM JPost

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US has always wanted to see Saudi-Israel normalization, energy envoy says. By Reuters 12/07/2023 08:50 AM JPost

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IDF reveals luxury jewelry purchases by son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The discovered receipts, totaling five in number, detail luxury jewelry acquisitions in Gaza Strip and Qatar jewelry stores attributed to Maaz Ismaïl Haniyeh.

i24NEWS December 07, 2023 at 10:41 AM i24

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'Take your pants off' in translation guides of Hamas terrorists on Oct 7: Report. The Arabic-to-Hebrew translation guide consisted of phrases such as "put your hands up and spread your legs", "lay down", "take your pants off", "take your clothes off", "I will kill you" and "we will kill the hostages", among others. Dec 7, 2023 IndiaToday

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77% of British Jews say BBC biased against Israel during war. Israel National News Dec 7, 2023, 6:56 PM BBC

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Watch: Hamas terrorists fire anti-tank missiles from civilian areas. IDF troops directed a precise aerial strike against the cell. All of the terrorists in the cell were eliminated. Israel National News, Dec 7, 2023, 5:49 PM (GMT+2) INN

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CAIR executive director ‘happy to see’ Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.

Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Muslim civil rights organization, defended the Oct. 7 attack while claiming Israel has no right to self-defense. By Gabby Deutch,  December 7, 2023

The co-founder and executive director of a major American Muslim civil rights organization characterized Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel in which more than 1,200 were killed as Gazans “break[ing] the siege, the walls of the concentration camp.” 

“Yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in,” Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad said at a November conference hosted by American Muslims for Palestine. Audience members cheered Awad’s remarks.. [368]

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Foundation to Combat Antisemitism: A pro-Israel sign was vandalized in Swampscott, MA with "Free Palestine" and a swastika. “It's a shame that we came to this country to escape antisemitism, and now we have to tell our children the same thing our parents told us,” said Faina Snitkovsky. [369] Dec 7, 2023 on X

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Khan Yunis: Over 150 Hamas terrorists surrender to the IDF. The terrorists were checked by the IDF soldiers and transferred for initial questioning by the security forces. Israel National News, Dec 7, 2023, 9:07 PM INN

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U.S. resumes drone flight over Gaza to help locate hostages, Pentagon says  Gal Eizenkot killed in action when tunnel shaft explodes in Shijaiyah; Father, former IDF chief and member of war cabinet informed while visiting troops in south.. 12/7/23 YNet

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US sanctions Iran-backed funding for Houthis. Reuters. 12/7/23. YNet

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Watch detained Hamas terrorists captured in Gaza.

Suspected members of Hamas heed IDF warnings and surrender in the dozens, are stripped down to ensure they do not have explosive devices on them; detention of large group marks both a tactical and morale victory for Israeli forces. Yoav Zitun, Einav Halabi | published: 12/7/23 11:54 YNet

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White House: Calls for Jewish genocide are ‘vile,’ says Biden offered moral clarity. Press secretary declines to say whether college presidents should resign. By Tom Howell Jr. The Washington Times Wednesday, December 6, 2023 Washington Times

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Ask Your University or College President: Is calling for the genocide of Jews a violation of your school’s policies? This week, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT testified before Congress on the topic of rising campus antisemitism. When asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” could violate school policies, these university presidents equivocated, suggesting it “depends on the context.” This utter failure to show moral clarity at a time when antisemitism is surging on college campuses is dangerous. This is not a question of free speech, but rather a question of whether genocidal calls on campus will be met with consequences. The only acceptable answer is yes. They couldn’t say it. Will your president do so now?

Jewish students and faculty need to know that they’re protected against this threatening behavior. Join ADL in asking the presidents of universities across the U.S. to affirm that calling for the genocide of Jews violates their schools’ policies.

ADL

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Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents under fire over ‘despicable’ testimony on antisemitism and genocide.

By Matt Egan and Donald Judd, CNN Updated 8:06 PM EST, Wed December 6 CNN

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MIT, Harvard, UPenn presidents under fire over testimony on antisemitism, genocide Claudine Gay, Harvard president, has tried to clarify answers she gave. By Sarah Beth Hensley, ABCNews. Thursday, December 7, 2023 11:44AM ABC

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College Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism

The leaders of Harvard, M.I.T. and Penn appeared to evade questions about whether students should be disciplined if they call for the genocide of Jews. By Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis. Published Dec. 6, 2023 Updated Dec. 7, 2023, 12:11 a.m. ET NYTimes

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Students protest University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill after comments at hearing on antisemitism. Brandon Goldner, Dec 7, 2023 CBS News

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Pfizer CEO slams Harvard, MIT, and Penn leaders for their ‘despicable’ testimony about antisemitism and genocide Two of the university leaders refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews was against their schools’ policies, saying it depended on the context. By Simone Foxman And Bloomberg December 06, 2023 5:17 PM EST Fortune

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Donor ‘appalled’ by Penn’s ‘stance on antisemitism on campus’ pulls $100 million. (December 7, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh: ‼️Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff expected to condemn university presidents who refused to say that calling for genocide of Jews is harassment in remarks at annual lighting ceremony of the National Menorah on The Ellipse.

“The lack of moral clarity is unacceptable,” Emhoff will say Dec 7, 2023 [370]

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Drone from Lebanon aimed at Israel carried prayer in Arabic, name of imam on its wings The unmanned aerial vehicle flew under the radar and crashed near Moshav Margaliot in the upper Galilee on a day of increased Hezbollah attacks on northern border; Words of praise of Allah and prayers were written on its wings Yoav Zitun, Yair Kraus | published:12.06.23 | 02:12. YNet

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In UK-funded schools in Gaza, pupils learn maths by counting martyrs John Jeffay, December 7, 2023

..The UK is among the top 20 donors globally to Unwra for education as well as healthcare, social services and emergency response. The US, Germany and the EU gave Unwra even larger grants last year, at £273million, £160million and £91million respectively.

There​ is a direct link between the education provided by Unwra – which educates the majority of school-age pupils in Gaza – and the October 7 massacre that claimed 1,200 lives, according to IMPACT-se, an NGO that monitors the content of school textbooks globally.

"These schools are clearly a breeding ground for extremism and ultimately for Hamas to recruit people for terror,” it said. Unwra schools use the same textbooks as the Palestinian Authority (PA), which, it said, teach jihad, martyrdom and armed struggle as a divine right, and hatred of Jews, who are presented as devious, treacherous and hostile..." the JC

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US House Committee opens investigation into Harvard, Penn, MIT after antisemitism hearing. By Reuters, 12/7/2023. JPost

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Foundation to Combat Antisemitism adds $200 million to expand efforts. (December 7, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Hate-crime investigations up 60% since Oct. 7, says FBI. (December 7, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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CAIR leader was 'happy' to see October 7 massacre. Gary Willig, Israel National News, Dec 8, 2023 INN

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White House removes CAIR from national strategy on antisemitism. A White House spokesman also condemns "shocking, antisemitic statements" from the Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director.

(December 7, 2023 / JNS) When the White House announced its new national strategy to counter antisemitism on May 25, it stated that 24 organizations were supporting “the whole-of-society call to action.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations was among the two dozen, per an archived version of the page.

As of 1:51 p.m. on Dec. 7, the archived page continued to reference CAIR, but at some time thereafter, the White House removed that reference.

([371] Screenshots on Dec. 7, 2023, of a page on the White House website before (left) and after it scrubbed a reference to CAIR from its national strategy on antisemitism. Source: JNS highlighted CAIR on the left and where CAIR had appeared on the right. Source: Archive.org, White House website).

Also on Thursday, Andrew Bates, White House deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser, told reporters that the White House condemns “shocking, antisemitic statements” of CAIR’s executive director “in the strongest terms.”

Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, spoke at the American Muslims for Palestine convention in Chicago on Nov. 24. “The people of Gaza have the right to self-defense,” he said at the time. “Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense.”

He added that he was “happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land.”

Thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded the northwestern Negev from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and wounding thousands. They took at least 240 Israelis and foreign nationals back to Gaza as hostages.

“The horrific, brutal terrorist attacks committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 were, as [U.S.] President [Joe] Biden said, ‘abhorrent’ and represent ‘unadulterated evil,’” the White House spokesman said. “Oct. 7 was the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust. The atrocities of that day shock the conscience, which is why we can never forget the pain Hamas has caused for so many innocent people.”

“There are families who are in agony mourning loved ones, and there are also families in agony as they do everything in their power to free loved ones being held hostage,” he added. “Every leader has a responsibility to call out antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head.”

In June, Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told The Jerusalem Post that the CAIR should be judged going forward, and not on its “problematic” past.

JNS sought comment from Lipstadt after CAIR was part of a group statement and released its own statement blaming Israel for being attacked on Oct. 7.

In response to a question from JNS about whether CAIR still deserved that second chance after its comments on Oct. 7, Lipstadt said: “It is irresponsible and abhorrent to try in any way to justify Hamas’s murder of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians, including through indiscriminate attacks.”

“The United States stands resolutely in solidarity with the government and people of Israel, as they consider steps to mitigate this vicious, lethal terrorist threat,” she added. JNS

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White House Disavows U.S. Islamic Group After Leader's Oct. 7 Remarks. The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a speech that he was “was happy to see” Palestinians break out of Gaza on the day Hamas attacked Israel. Peter Baker, December 8, 2023 NY Times

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White House condemns pro-Oct. 7 comments by CAIR director By Jerusalem Post Staff. 12/8/2023 JPost

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How UN's War Against Israel Prevents Aid From Gazans.

[CBS' Charlie] D'agata: The UN has said repearedly there is no safe zone in Gaza. Your answer to them?

IDF: 'There is.'

D'Agata: The Israeli military insists that they've assured safe passage of aid, but trucks are lined up on Egypt's side of the Rafah crossing, waiting to cross.

IDF's Elad Goren: And we want to increase the humanitarian assistance. Now if the UN tomorrow will come to us and say, we need 300 trucks, they will get 400 trucks. [...]

D'Agata: So how do you move trucks in a conflict zone?

IDF's Elad Goren: Rafah is a big place. There is a corridor. And this corridor we are not attacking. So they can move inside that corridor.

D'Agata: There is a different battle here between Israel and the UN, and again, it's civilians, who are caught in the middle.

And tonight, the Israeli military report that two soldiers were seriously wounded in a failed attempt to rescue a hostage, several kidnappers were killed...

12/8: CBS Evening News HOW UN'S WAR AGAINST ISRAEL PREVENTS AID FROM GAZANS

[CBS' Charlie] D'agata: The UN has said repearedly there is no safe zone in Gaza. Your answer to them?

IDF: 'There is.'

D'Agata: The Israeli military insists that they've assured safe passage of aid, but trucks are lined up on Egypt's side of the Rafah crossing, waiting to cross.

IDF's Elad Goren: And we want to increase the humanitarian assistance. Now if the UN tomorrow will come to us and say, we need 300 trucks, they will get 400 trucks. [...]

D'Agata: So how do you move trucks in a conflict zone?

IDF's Elad Goren: Rafah is a big place. There is a corridor. And this corridor we are not attacking. So they can move inside that corridor.

D'Agata: There is a different battle here between Israel and the UN, and again, it's civilians, who are caught in the middle.

And tonight, the Israeli military report that two soldiers were seriously wounded in a failed attempt to rescue a hostage, several kidnappers were killed...

(12/8/23: CBS Evening News). c. at EoZ

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US hasn’t given Israel deadline for when it must end Gaza military op — senior Biden official. By Jacob Magid 7 Dec 2023, 10:58 pm. TOI

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White House not limiting Israeli timeline in war, believes Iran involved in Houthi attacks. IDF says rocket fire detected from Syria, Lebanon targets Israel's north, force returns fire at source. YNet

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We are all Israelis': Arab sector leaders watch October 7 horror film. In attendance were heads of local municipal authorities, community leaders, media personalities, journalists, and thought leaders from the Arab community in Israel. By Shaked Sadeh/Maariv December 6, 2023 21:36 Updated: December, 2023 17:32

The IDF Spokesperson's Unit held a screening on Tuesday night for leaders of the Israeli-Arab sector, showing them the video testimony of the horrific events of October 7.

In attendance were heads of local municipal authorities, community leaders, media personalities, journalists, and thought leaders from the Arab community in Israel.

The screening took place in Nazareth and was also attended by Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism and Social Equality Minister Amichai Chikli.

The film reveals the degree to which "education can lead to murderous hatred: to the point of erasing the essence of God in a person, even if he shouts [God's] name while slaughtering women and children," Chikli said.

Arabs and Jews going through this together "Today is the second time I watched the film," said Maher Khaliliya, head of the municipal council of Yafia. "We support the victims of the massacre: Israelis who experienced inhuman acts by Hamas.

"It is important to me that we convey the message that we, the Arabs and the Jews... are going through this period together," he said.

([] The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 14, 2023).

"I strongly condemn the terrorist acts of Hamas," continued Khaliliya. "What we saw in the movie is... not human behavior. It does not matter if we are Jews, Muslims, Christians, or Druze - the main thing is that we know how to remain human."

"It was important for me to see the film again and express a deep sympathy for the victims," he said.

"As a person living in Israeli society, I [share] deep pain with the citizens who received this blow on that Saturday, on their holiday, on their [day of] rest," the municipal council head said. "Every father and every mother just wants to protect their children—and when they come in to murder you and your children and commit terrorist acts inside your home, it's simply the end of the world.

"We will continue to live together and take care of each other," he concluded. "We are one society... We need to continue to live together: Jews alongside Arabs. We are all Israelis." JPost

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nycphotog @nycphotog: Oakland, CA - 3 antisemitic employees at Farley's East coffee house (33 Grand Ave.) are filmed denying a Jewish woman's access to a bathroom after she complained that it was filled with antisemitic graffiti.

After FINALLY allowing her inside the restroom, the employees start on fanatic rants, including "it’s not 1948” and “you can’t steal private property like in Israel."

Farley's East has issued an apology on their Instagram page (turning off comments), stating they have taken "corrective action" - we hope that action includes terminating the three employees. Dec 7, 2023 [372]

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Menorah Lighting at Kosel Dedicated to Hostages. 12/7/2023 Hamodia

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Netanyahu warns Hezbollah: You will be responsible for turning Lebanon into Gaza. (December 7, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Terror tunnel, weapons found in Al-Azhar University in Gaza. Terror tunnel running from university yard to a school 1 kilometer was uncovered along with weapons, explosives, and rockets. Israel National News, Dec 8, 2023, 12:58 PM (GMT+2) INN

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PA envisages ruling Gaza with Hamas as a junior partner. U.S. officials visited Ramallah earlier this week to discuss a plan for the day after the war in Gaza. Aviva Van Koningsveld (December 8, 2023 / JNS JNS

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240,000 Israelis living in limbo after Oct. 7 Amelie Botbol. (December 8, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Haredis' heartfelt campaigns for hostages. Haredi community's heartfelt campaigns for hostages' safe return. Ultra-Orthodox sector joins efforts to raise awareness about the urgent need to release all hostages held in Gaza. Ynetnews | published: 12/8/23 10:18 YNet

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Shooting attack in West Bank, one Israeli injured. Yoav Zitun, 12/8/23 YNet

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IDF: 2 soldiers killed in Gaza; Shrapnel across Tel Aviv after Gaza rocket attack Army confirms 188th Armored Brigade soldiers MSG (res.) Naftali Yonah Gordon and SFC (res.) Omri Rot killed in action; multiple attacks from Gaza, Lebanon recorded within less than half an hour; incoming hostile aircraft alert near Lebanese border. Ynet

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Hamas uses female terrorists, as battles in Khan Younis intensify. Dozens of terrorists were eliminated in the fierce fighting in Khan Younis, and the elite IDF 98th Brigade identified a new and alarming trend – the deployment of women as terrorists, serving in roles as observers and carriers of explosive devices.

Yoav Zitun | published: 13/8/2023 11:14 Ynet

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A ticking bomb in Judea-Samaria: "We have declared war on terrorist organizations" Report: 5 Palestinians who shot and threw explosives were killed in the Tubas area. Sapir Lipkin, 12/8/23. At the same time as the fighting in Gaza, the eyes are also on the terrorist cells in the refugee camps in the West Bank, including Jenin and Nur al-Shams. The Palestinian Authority must recognize the opportunity - and increase governance Mako

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‘We are in Khan Yunis city center,’ 98th Division commander says. The IDF division, which includes the commando brigade dismantling a Hamas stronghold, will fight "for as long as it takes," said IDF Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus. Yaakov Lappin. (December 8, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IDF strikes 450 terror sites in Gaza in past 24 hours. Charles Bybelezer. (December 8, 2023 / JNS) JNS

Harvard, Penn Heads Under Fire for Answers on Antisemitism. December 8th, 2023, 1:29 PM EST Bloomberg

UPenn students hold rally outside President Liz Magill's office amid uproar over testimony on antisemitism. By Alex George Published Dec 8, 2023, FOX 29 Philadelphia Fox29

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2 troops seriously hurt in failed Gaza hostage rescue; Gallant: signs Hamas is breaking.

Rockets target southern Israel, Tel Aviv; army says it has designated 150 safe centers for civilians in Gaza, in addition to al-Mawasi safe zone; ground op death toll rises to 91.

By Emanuel Fabian, TOI Staff and Agencies, 8 December 2023,

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were seriously wounded in a failed attempt to rescue hostages held by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip overnight, the army said Friday, adding that several of the hostage takers were killed.

The rescue attempt comes as the military increased its push into Hamas strongholds across the Strip amid what it said were signs the terror group’s defenses were cracking.

“The troops raided a Hamas site, killed terrorists who took part in the abduction and holding of the hostages,” said IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari... ([373] People take part in a protest calling for the release of Bibas family, 10 month old Kfir, 4-year-old Ariel, and their parents Shiri and Yarden Bibas, from Hamas captivity at ‘Hostage Square’ in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2023). [...] ([] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, lights Hanukkah candles with troops on the Gaza border, December 8, 2023). TOI

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One-fifth of Hezbollah's rockets land in Lebanon, IDF says

Lior Ben-Ari, 12/8/2023 07:36

IDF Arabic Spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee reported on Friday that a fifth of Hezbollah's rocket launches toward Israel since the start of the war have landed in Lebanese territory.

"Hezbollah continues to violate [UN] Resolution 1701 by firing missiles and mortars from southern Lebanon. The fact that a fifth of the launches toward Israeli territory have fallen in Lebanon poses a danger to residents and is a blatant violation of the international resolution," he said. YNet

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Peace not possible if Hamas can continue to attack from Gaza, Germany says. Ensuring lasting peace in the Middle East will not be possible as long as Hamas can continue its attacks from the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson from Germany's foreign office said on Friday. At the moment "we advocate for further cease-fires", the spokesperson said at a regular press conference in Berlin, adding that Israel should avoid civilian suffering in the southern Gaza Strip and is bound to abide by humanitarian law. (Reuters) YNet

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US: Haredi man violently robbed in New York by a suspect who called him a 'filt#y Jew.' A 40-year-old Haredi Brooklyn resident was brought to the hospital after being violently robbed by a suspect who called him a "filt#y Jew", in what local police describe as a hate crime. The victim is stable, and in an attempt to locate the suspect, the police distributed photos of him fleeing the scene of the incident on the subway. YNet

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With or without baking powder': Gaza academic who made fun of baby stuffed in oven by Hamas killed in Israel strike.

Dr Refaat Alareer was considered as a key figure in Gaza who devoted his life to raising awareness about the region’s situation globally

FP Staff December 08, 2023 13:13:39 IST

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Fascist Refaat Alareer: 'Hitler was peaceful,' I can't tell my child 'who created the Jews,' "most Jews are - Alareer claimed - evil." joked about Israei baby baked in oven.

2008/9: His daughter is about 5. He can't answer his daughter's question, he claims, 'who created the Jews.' [374]

Nov 16, 2012: Refaat Alareer: "most Jews are [Alareer wrote] evil." Alareer: "You Jews won;t understand, you will never, yo are a jew after all." [375] [376] [377] [378] [379]

Sep 25, 2020: Hitler was [Alareer wrote] a peacemaker, like Rabin.. [380]

August 2021: Alareer attacked Hamas because they were negotiating with "terrorists" and "Nazis[sic]" – i.e. with Israel.

Nov. 21, 2021: the day that Eliyahu David Kay was murdered in Jerusalem's Old City, Alareer shared a picture of the murderer Fadi Abu Shkhaidem on his Twitter account. Among the comments were "May Allah bless (sic. Alareer) his soul," and underneath, " Amen [381]

Dec 13, 2021: 2019 Video of Alareer demonizes, misrepresents, and incites hate, prompts the the NYT effectively retracting its entire --previously glowing-- article about this Anti-Semitic Gaza Professor. [382] [383]

October 8, 2023: Refaat Alareer condemned Ilhan Omar and compared her to “an Israeli Nazi” because she denounced Hamas hostage taking and murder of civilians on October 7. This is despite Ilhan Omar’s long record of criticising the Israeli government and supporting Palestinians [384]

Oct 10, 2023: Compared Hamas led butchers to Warsaw Uprising. [385]

Oct 29, 2023: Jokes about a Jewish boy found in oven after Hanas left attack Oct 7, "with or without baking powedr" - Refaat asked. [386] c. at EoZ

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CNN airs Gazans voices condemning Hamas. Jake Tapper interviews founder, president advocacy group claiming some recordings made since breakout of war; in clips, Hamas blamed for poverty and civilian damages.

CNN's Jake Tapper featured on his show late on Friday, recordings of Gaza residents slamming Hamas and blaming the ruling terror group for the civilian cost of the war.

The recordings were published by the Center for Peace and Communications, an advocacy group for "resolve identity-based conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa."

([387] Recording of Gaza resident condemning Hamas for war).

The speakers were translated and voiced over, and their identity protected, using animated pictures after, according to the groups founder and president, Joseph Braude, protests of Hamas in the Strip, as recently as last July, were violently shut down. Braude said some of the recordings were made since the outbreak of the war.

In the recordings, one woman said the wars in Gaza are waged by Hamas for political reasons alone. "If you're a Gazan citizens who opposes war and says, "I don't want war," you're branded a traitor. "They exploit us under the pretext of resistance," another resident of the Strip, says in the clip shown on CNN. He accused Hamas of profiting form the wars since 2008. "Whenever there is a war, when they get more aid money, they're the ones who benefit and we get nothing."

In a recording made on October 24, a man says his immediate enemy is Hamas and not the occupation. "I have no house, no life, nothing. We're condemned to suffer because of this stupid organization," he is quoted as saying. "Who made us live in poverty in Gaza? Not the Jews, Hamas.

In a recording from October 28, a Gazan says that because of the events of October 7 everybody believes Gazans are terrorists who cut people's heads off. An earlier recording from October 18 presents a Gazan who says Hamas has wrecked the Palestinian people. YNet

What ordinary Gazans think about Hamas. The Lead. CNN's Jake Tapper speaks with Joseph Braude, president of The Center for Peace Communications. 12/9/2023 - Source: CNN CNN [388]

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Israeli forces arrest eight terrorists in West Bank raid. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/09/2023 JPost

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IDF eliminates terrorist after attack in Samaria. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/09/2023. ...after the attacker opened fire on a military post in Samaria, near the village of Kharas, Ynet reported. The terrorists attacked IDF soldiers with a knife, which left one soldier wounded... JPost

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Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel's north, IDF responds to threat By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/09/2023 JPost

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Biden gives Israel until end of year to finish Gaza war - POLITICO By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/09/2023 JPost

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As IDF ups ops in Gaza, Hamas targets troops from schools, mosque. Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli soldiers from an UNRWA school in Beit Hanun. Charles Bybelezer (December 9, 2023 / JNS)

Israel Defense Forces troops continued to operate deep inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday as fighter jets struck Hamas assets across the Palestinian enclave.

In one operation, terrorists holed up in a school in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City ambushed Israeli soldiers, who responded with fire to eliminate the threat. The IDF on Saturday published video of Hamas terrorists in Shejaiya beating Palestinian civilians and stealing their supplies.

“The Hamas terrorist group deprives Gaza residents of food and equipment, delivering them instead to its members to satisfy their needs,” said IDF Arabic-language Spokesman Avichay Adraee. “Hamas is the enemy of the people in Gaza.” [389]

The IDF also said Hamas was continuing to fire rockets at Israel from humanitarian safe zones in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Palestinian terrorists on Saturday opened fire on troops from an UNRWA school and a mosque in Beit Hanun, in the northeastern Strip. JNS

Documentation: Hamas members beat and steal food and humanitarian supplies from the residents of the Gaza Strip. With fists and clubs: additional documentation proves the gap between the residents of Gaza and the Hamas leadership. Channel 7, 26 in Kislev 5784. 9.12.23, 17:53

IDF Spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, published a document showing Hamas members robbing food that was intended for the residents of Gaza, and taking it for themselves in Sheja'ia, east of Gaza City.

"Hamas members are beating Gazan citizens in the neighborhood of Shejaiya, and taking bags of humanitarian supplies that were brought into the Gaza Strip. The documentation shows Hamas members taking supplies from civilians, loading them onto a Hamas vehicle, beating the citizens and driving to a Hamas-identified site." INN

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Baby doll? weapons and ammunition were found inside Teddy bear in Gaza. IDF forces located a teddy bear, and inside it sniper weapons and ammunition. Also, in a nearby school, weapons were found that were disguised inside classrooms, some of them were hidden in UNRWA bags 12/9/2023 Maariv

America Reports, December 09, 2023. CLIP. IDF finds sniper rifle, ammunition hidden inside teddy bear. The Israel Defense Forces said troops in the 551st Division found weapons and ammunition inside of schools in Gaza, including a sniper rifle that was stashed inside a teddy bear. (Credit: Israel Defense Forces) FoxNews

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After tearing down the flag of Palestine; The supporter of Israel was attacked and wasn't a quitter. In an extraordinary document published online, a supporter of Israel in London is seen being attacked, after tearing the Palestinian flag from a pole in London | View the documentation

The ammunition and weapons found by the IDF in the school (photo: IDF spokesperson)

Maariv online, 09/12/2023

In an extraordinary document published online, a supporter of Israel in London is seen climbing a ladder in the middle of the street in order to take down the Palestinian flag that was hanging on it. An Israeli protester who was passing by, got out of his vehicle and started beating him. The two clashed in the middle of the street for many minutes, and even used the ladders against each other.

Meanwhile, the CNN network published today (Saturday) recordings of Gaza residents from the first weeks of the war, in which harsh criticism of the Hamas government is voiced. In order to protect the residents who fear for their safety, their words were brought under a pseudonym from the mouths of animated characters.

"You mustn't say you don't want war, they are taking advantage of us under the excuse of 'resistance,'" a Gaza resident was heard in the video, referring to the rounds of fighting between Israel and Hamas since 2008: "They benefited from them, and only the citizens suffer. Every time there is a war, they get more money Aid, they are the ones who benefit and we get nothing."

[Tags: London / War of Iron Swords] Maariv

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Terrorists surrendered in Jabaliya and handed over weapons; The War Cabinet convened. [390].

The 64th day of the war The IDF spokesman published the names of five martyrs and announced the injury of 15 soldiers The names of five IDF martyrs were allowed to be published. L eliminated a terrorist squad in a school in Shuja'iyah and attacked the headquarters of Hezbollah • In Be'eri they announced: Sahar Baruch was murdered in the captivity of Hamas - News reporters 12| N12 | Published 09.12.23 |

The 64th day of the war: the main headlines The IDF spokesman allowed the publication of the names of five IDF martyrs The head of the National Security Council: "If information is received about Sinwar's location and we know that he is surrounded by Israeli hostages - there will be a heartbreaking dilemma." Defense Minister Galant in northern Gaza: "We will reach the top of Hamas." The Houthis: We will block the passage of any vessel that intends to reach Israel. IDF forces located weapons hidden inside a teddy bear in a school in Gaza. Documentation. 22:47 - The War Cabinet convenes in Kirya in Tel Aviv

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the War Cabinet in ha-Kirya in Tel Aviv.

22:01 - Fighter jets attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

The IDF spokesman announced that the IDF attacked military sites and positions from which launches were made into Israel. "Fighter planes attacked targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanese territory," the IDF said. "The fighter planes of the Air Force completed an attack in Lebanon in which they attacked Hezbollah targets. Among the targets that were attacked - several military positions from which launches were made into the territory of the country, military sites where the organization's terrorists operated and other terrorist infrastructures." ...

20:44 - IDF spokesman: "From the investigations of the terrorists it emerges - the Hamas leadership denies reality."

IDF spokesman Brigadier General Daniel Hagari said in a statement that from the investigations of the terrorists who surrendered it appears that the situation of the Hamas operatives in the field is difficult. " The Hamas leadership denies the reality. The activists complain that the leadership is disconnected and the general feeling is that the Hamas leadership, which is underground, does not care about the residents above ground."

About the abductees and captives, Hagari said: "The IDF and the Shin Bet will continue to work to return the 137 abductees, as well as Hadar Goldin, Oron Shaul, Avra ​m Mengisto and Hisham A-Sayed home. To return them all home."

20:15 - Abductees who returned from captivity spoke at a rally for the release of the abductees

Videos of some of the abductees who were released from captivity were shown at the rally for the release of the abductees. 77-year-old Margalit Mozes, who was released from Hamas captivity, said: "On Saturday, October 7, they took me down to the tunnel. I took the breathing apparatus with me so I could sleep, someone who was there got angry with me and took the apparatus from me. I told him it was my oxygen, and I spoke to him in Arabic. He understood exactly - but he didn't care." ... 15:37 - Opposition leader Lapid in response to the UN Security Council debate: "How do we know this is anti-Semitism? because there is no other logical explanation."

After the proposed resolution on a cease-fire failed in the UN Security Council only due to the American veto and despite the clear majority, the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid commented on the matter and criticized UN Secretary General Guterres: "The UN Secretary General did not activate Article 99 For decades now. It was not used against Syria, half a million murdered, against Congo, 4 million murdered, against Sudan, 450 thousand murdered, against Russia, tens of thousands dead and millions of refugees from Ukraine." Mako

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Penn’s Leadership Resigns Amid Controversies Over Antisemitism. The president, Elizabeth Magill, and the chairman of the board of trustees, Scott L. Bok, are leaving after intense pressure from donors, politicians and alumni.

Stephanie Saul and Alan Blinder Dec. 9, 2023 Updated 5:50 p.m. ET NYTimes

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US admin approves emergency sale of tank rounds to Israel.

The State Department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for immediate delivery of the tank rounds. (December 10, 2023 / JNS) The Biden administration approved the sale of 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition to Israel for about $106.5 million, the Pentagon said on Saturday.

The State Department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for immediate delivery of the ammunition to Israel, bypassing congressional review. JNS

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Netanyahu asks Putin to pressure Red Cross to visit hostages. Israeli PM criticizes Russia's support for Hamas in conversation with President Putin.

Israel National News Dec 10, 2023, 2:19 PM INN

Netanyahu, Putin speak for close to an hour amid cold Russia-Israel ties. Tovah Lazaroff 12/10/2023 JPost

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More than 7,000 Palestinian terrorists killed in Gaza war, Israeli official says. By Reuters 12/09/2023 08:36 PM JPost

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IDF attacked from UN school in Gaza; 5 soldiers, hostage Sahar Baruch killed. Hamas again fires rockets at Israel from within the humanitarian zone, some target Tel Aviv, others fall short in Gaza; IDF toll in ground op at 97. By Emanuel Fabian, TOI Staff and Agencies, 9 Dec 2023, 2:56 pm TOI

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Six soldiers injured in attacks from Lebanon. Israel National News Dec 10, 2023, 1:18 PM INN

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2 Iranian agents planning attacks on Jews arrested in Cyprus. Israel National News Dec 10, 2023, 1:54 PM INN

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Netanyahu to US: 'You can't support end of Hamas and call on us to end the war' Israel National News Dec 10, 2023, 11:53 AM INN

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Watch: Dr Phil demands resignation of university presidents. Israel National News Dec 10, 2023, 8:45 AM INN

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With supreme bravery Aner Shapira saved many lives with his bare hands By Irit Mathias. Published: December 10, 2023. ([391] Aner Shapira z"l. photo credit: Shapira Family)

Tiv Taam CEO: Aner Shapira, a Hero of courage, nobility, and sacrifice - His love for country and people shaped his ultimate act of selflessness...

Sgt. Aner Shapira from Jerusalem was a combat soldier in the elite Nahal unit who was at the fateful Supernova event in the South. Aner hid with dozens of revelers in a small shelter, and with supreme bravery saved many lives with his bare hands. He threw back eight grenades. The last one exploded in his hands and killed him... JPost

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Israeli forces push deeper into Khan Younis; 250 Hamas targets hit "We see terrorists surrendering, a sign of the disintegration of the system, a sign that we need to push harder," said the IDF chief of staff. (December 10, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Palestinian Authority PM: Eliminating Hamas is unacceptable. The terrorist group is an "essential part of the Palestinian political mosaic," P.A. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told world leaders in Qatar. (December 10, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Netanyahu to Hamas terror operatives: ‘Don’t die for Sinwar — surrender now.’ By Michael Bachner and TOI Staff Dec 10, 2023. TOI

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IDF says it has killed new commander of Hamas's Shejaiya battalion. Emanuel Fabian, December 9, 2023. ...Emad Qariqa recently replaced Wissam Farhat, after the latter was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 2. TOI

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Torture, humiliation, sexual violence and danger of death: testimonies of those returning from captivity. A new report collected the testimonies of the Israelis who were released from Hamas - and calls for international action to release the abductees immediately. "and to starvation and mental harm." N12 | Published 18:27 10.12.23 The headquarters of the families of the abductees published a report today (Sunday) on the conditions in which the abductees are being held in Gaza, as they claimed from the released abductees. In the document, they called for international action due to the violation of the human rights of the abductees that require their urgent release and immediate medical assistance. To view the full report, click here - the details are difficult to read

According to the evidence provided in the report, the abductees undergo psychological and physical torture and abuse. They are locked in tunnels and small spaces, threatened with weapons and beaten. The detail of the document states that children are forced to watch footage of massacre and mutilation, all the abductees suffered pain and humiliation.

A meal a day, lack of medical care: the alarming evidence The report also revealed that many of the released abductees testified to criminal neglect, their nutrition was poor, and the hygienic conditions were difficult. Abductees who were released told of a meal with one or two servings a day. Others described being able to obtain a limited amount of sandy and salty water, sometimes only one bottle a day.

The document detailed the lack of medical treatment. According to the evidence presented, the freed abductees testified to an alarming lack of care for the wounded who were still in captivity. The few who received medical treatment reported poor treatment, such as surgery by a veterinary surgeon. Medicines are not delivered to them, even though a third of the abductees who remain in captivity suffer from illnesses that require medical treatment.

Another issue addressed in the document is violence and sexual abuse. It is claimed that the freed abductees testified that men and women suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity. Mako

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Hezbollah launched rocket ’20 meters’ from UN compound . IDF Chief of Staff on Lebanon border: “This must end with a very clear change” - IDF kills new Shejaiya Hamas battalion commander. Yaakov Lappin. (December 10, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Mossad says helped Cyprus foil Iranian plot against Israelis. Itamar Eichner, December 10, 2023. YNet

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IDF slays dozens of terrorists in Gaza Strip. Gallant says Hamas underestimated Israel's response to the Oct. 7 massacre. Names of more fallen soldiers published. (December 11, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Menorah from Gaza border kibbutz sent to President Biden. (December 11, 2023 / JNS) A menorah from a home in a kibbutz that Hamas attacked during the Oct. 7 massacre was sent to U.S. President Joe Biden by Israeli President Isaac Herzog as a token of the deep friendship between the two Countries.. A few days after the massacre, Hermesh returned to his ruined home to look for objects that may have survived the terrorist attack. His tefillin (phylacteries) and menorah were among the only items left unscathed.

Upon hearing the moving story, Herzog sent the menorah to Biden to mark Chanukah, the Jewish festival of light.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, lit the first Chanukah candle on Thursday evening at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

“We are here by the remnant of our Temple from 2,000 years ago. The Maccabees of that time liberated the Temple, purified it, re-established Jewish sovereignty and independence, and saved the heritage, religion and people of Israel. Without them, the thread of our lives would been torn and we would not be standing here today,” said Netanyahu.

“The battle then was against the forces of evil who came to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the Earth JNS

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Israeli injured in rocket barrage targeting center Medics treated a 45-year-old for shrapnel wounds in the city of Holon. (December 11, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Missiles continue to be launched at northern and southern Israel. Israel National News Dec 11, 2023, 12:31 PM INN

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Terrorists armed with shoulder-fired missiles struck by the IDF. Israel National News Dec 11, 2023, 10:21 AM IDF locates truck containing long-distance rockets near a school in Gaza, explosive devices inside UNRWA-labeled bags in civilian residence. INN

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Italy, France, Germany call for ad hoc EU sanctions on Hamas. Reuters. December 11, 20231: ROME, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Italy, France and Germany called on the European Union to impose ad hoc sanctions against Hamas and its supporters, the foreign ministers of the three nations wrote in a joint letter to the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

"We express our full support for the ... proposal to create an ad hoc sanctions regime against Hamas and its supporters," said the letter seen by Reuters.

"The swift adoption of this sanctions regime will enable us to send a strong political message about the European Union's commitment against Hamas and our solidarity with Israel," the letter said.

Reporting by Angelo Amante; Editing by Crispian Balmer. Reuters

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California: Employees who harassed Jewish woman at coffee shop dismissed. Israel National News Dec 11, 2023, 5:39 AM The owners of a coffee shop in Oakland, California, have fired employees who were filmed blocking a Jewish woman from a bathroom while making anti-Israel comments, Fox News reported on Sunday. INN

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Over 500 Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists arrested over last month.

140 terrorists apprehended since end of operational pause and transferred to ISA and Unit 504 for questioning.

Israel National News, Dec 11, 2023, 8:24 PM INN

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Live Updates: Missiles continue to be launched at northern and southern Israel. Israel National News, Dec 11, 2023, 5:42 PM INN

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Hamas RPG training site found inside mosque. Weapons found inside UNRWA bags found in mosque in Jabalya, Gaza. Israel National News Dec 11, 2023, 6:37 PM. [392] INN

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Hamas Creates New Terrorist Group to Destroy Lebanon. By Khaled Abu Toameh. Gatestone Institute. December 11, 2023.

On December 4, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas announced the establishment of a new terrorist group in Lebanon with the goal of “liberating Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” In the past two months, Hamas terrorists in Lebanon have carried out rocket attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians in northern Israel.

Hamas has called on the Palestinians living in Lebanon to join the group, “Vanguards of the Al-Aqsa Flood,” the name it chose for its barbaric invasion of Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip on October 7, when it massacred 1,200 Israelis and abducted 240 others to the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, in short, is saying that it is planning a similar invasion of Israel, but this time from Lebanon.

The announcement has drawn sharp criticism from many Lebanese, who fear that the Palestinian terror group and its patrons in Tehran are seeking to drag Lebanon into a destructive war with Israel. The Lebanese see how Hamas has brought devastation down on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a result of their attack on Israel. They fear the same consequence in Lebanon...

A poll conducted in Lebanon between October 13 and 17 showed that 73% of Lebanese oppose Lebanon’s entry into the current Israel-Hamas war…. Gatestoneinstitute

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A look inside: How Hamas prepared civilian residences with combat positions and weapons.

IDF reveals how Hamas prepared civilian residences for extended combat against IDF soldiers.

Israel National News, Dec 12, 2023, 11:49 AM (GMT+2)

Hamas prepared civilian residences with combat positions and weapons for extended combat against IDF soldiers, the IDF revealed Tuesday morning.

Soldiers of the Nahal Brigade operating in the Jabalya area in the northern Gaza Strip located several combat posts and weapons caches used by the Hamas terrorist organization in a residential area and near a school.

The weapons cache located included RPG missiles and launchers of various types, explosive devices, grenades, AK-47 style rifles, magazines and military vests. The combat equipment was taken by the soldiers, who detonated some of it on site, while other materials were processed for further examination.

All of the terror infrastructure found was located near civilian buildings and infrastructure.

As part of the operation, the soldiers demolished the residence of a Nukhba terrorist, after finding that the residence had been prepared for attacking IDF soldiers. The residence served as a command center of the Hamas terrorist organization, and contained combat-related documents and laptops belonging to Hamas and containing operational plans for the October 7 massacre.

"This is further proof of the cynical use by Hamas of the residents of the Gaza Strip as human shields," the IDF emphasized. JPost

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Over 1,600 IDF soldiers injured since start of Israel-Hamas War. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/12/2023 09:15 AM JPost

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Netanyahu: Only difference between PA and Hamas is how they want to destroy us. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/11/2023 04:55 PM JPost

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IDF recovers bodies of two hostages from Gaza. The bodies of Eden Zakaria and Ziz Dado were recovered in a special forces mission in Gaza and have since been brought back to Israel.

Israel National News Dec 12, 2023, 6:43 PM INN

Hostages Families' Forum mourns hostages recovered from Gaza. Israel National News Dec 12, 2023, 7:00 PM INN

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Terrorists pound northern Israel, IDF hits back. Israel National News Dec 12, 2023, 3:56 PM INN

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Report: Israel begins flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater. Israel National News Dec 12, 2023, 9:24 PM INN

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Watch: IDF soldier eliminates terorrists while wounded. Israel National News Dec 12, 2023, 8:02 PM INN

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Erdan: If you want a real ceasefire in Gaza, call Sinwar. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN presents General Assembly with the phone number of Hamas’ headquarters in Gaza ahead of vote on ceasefire.

Elad Benari Dec 12, 2023, 11:35 PM INN

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IDF troops in Gaza uncover arms, footage of Oct. 7 massacres as battles rage. Palestinians say military raided hospital in north Gaza amid exchanges of fire; rockets target Gaza border communities, Ashkelon By Emanuel Fabian, TOI Staff and AFP 12 December 2023, 5:07 pm TOI

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WELT @welt: „Free Palestine ist das neue Heil Hitler“ [393] 8:27 AM · Dec 12, 2023 on X [394]

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Rutgers University suspends Students for Justice in Palestine. Elad Benari Dec 13, 2023, 4:02 AM [...] The statement noted that university policies and procedures grant the authority to suspend a student organization's activities when it is determined "that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the continued activities by the student organization pose a substantial and immediate threat to the safety and well-being of others, or the suspension of organizational activities is needed to maintain preservation of the university."

A number of universities have recently announced measures against SJP in the wake of its anti-Israel activity. INN

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Biden on flooding of tunnels: 'There are assertions there are no hostages there.' Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 1:07 AM INN

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American University threatens pro-Israel student chapter after exposing vandalism. "We demand that these hearings be canceled and that the students who were taking down the fliers be held accountable," Ilan Sinelnikov, SSI’s founder and president, told JNS. David Swindle.

(December 12, 2023 / JNS) Students Supporting Israel sent a letter of protest to top administrators of American University in Washington, D.C., following the school’s threat of sanctions against the campus chapter. JNS

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'Death to Jews': Joshua's Tomb vandalized Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 2:56 PM

([395] The vandalism at Joshua's Tomb).

The gravesite of Joshua bin Nun in Samaria was vandalized, with malicious graffiti, including encouragement of Hamas and the October 7 massacre.

Among the words spray-painted on the wall were, "Death to Jews," the names of terrorists who carried out attacks in Jerusalem, and other things.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan called on the government and security forces to clamp down on terror in Judea and Samaria, just as the US dealt with ISIS.

"This is a barbaric hate crime and a terror attack in every way," he said. "We received another reminder that the enemy in Gaza and the enemy in Samaria have a single goal: to destroy the State of Israel and murder Jews."

"It is not coincidence that the barbarians do these two things together - using the same methods that ISIS used, to both hurt the soul and to murder Jews in a barbaric fashion, while at the same time also harming our historical roots here, in the holy places in Israel. They understand very well that everything starts from our roots, from our moral right to the land and our national honor."

"Under our watch, Samaria will not become Hamastan or Fatahistan. Whoever harms us, whoever harms our heritage, whoever harms our holy sites and national symbols - will not be here. The nation of Israel will be victorious."

Dozens of visitors arrive at Joshua's gravesite annually, in a number of organized trips secured by the IDF and security forces. In the village near Joshua's Tomb, Caleb ben Jephunneh is also buried. INN

Joshua’s Tomb Again Defaced with Hamas Support, Swastikas. By Hana Levi Julian - 13 Tevet 5784 – December 24, 2023 ([396] Joshua's Tomb vandalized with antisemitic graffiti and calls to support Hamas). The tomb of the Biblical Yehoshua (Joshua) ben Nun was defaced for the second time in as many weeks by Palestinian Authority supporters of the Hamas terrorist organization, according to the Samaria Regional Council. JewishPress

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Anna Ahronheim @AAhronheim: According to Israeli media, Hamas used poisonous gas during its attack on the Nachal Oz army base on Oct7th. An IDF investigation found that the gas caused suffocation and loss of consciousness that resulted in death within a few minutes... Dec 13, 2023 on X

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Intensive battles in Gaza as terrorists fire from civilian infrastructure. In advanced stage of efforts to clear Gaza City of terrorists, IDF forces engage with terrorists operating from inside civilian buildings and tunnel networks below ground, in Shejaiya Kasbah. Israel National News, Dec 13, 2023

The Golani Brigade is fighting in the Shejaiya Kasbah in Gaza, engaging in intensive battles as terrorists fire from civilian and underground infrastructure. INN

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Hamas terrorist wounded in battle treated at Israeli hospital. Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 3:33 PM INN

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Swiss parliament votes to halt funding for UNRWA. Or Yisraeli Dec 13, 2023, 7:56 PM INN

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WATCH: IDF confronts terrorists in Gaza school. Dec 13 — The battlegroup of the IDF's 55th Brigade battled terrorists in a school in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, according to the IDF.. JPost

Khan Yunis: IDF eliminates terrorist cell operating inside a school. Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 8:21 PM INN

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Since war began: 116 rockets fired from inside humanitarian zone. Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 8:01 PM INN

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Shrapnel lands in Ashdod supermarket. Israel National News Dec 13, 2023, 6:07 PM INN

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'Israel is protecting civilians in ways even we wouldn't.'

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby highlights some of the steps the IDF has taken to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza.

Elad Benari Dec 14, 2023, 3:04 AM INN

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US antisemitism: 13-year-old accused of planning mass shooting at Ohio synagogue. 13-year-old boy accused of planning a mass shooting at a Reform synagogue in Canton. He will appear in court next week. Israel National News, Dec 14, 2023, 4:13 AM INN

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House condemns antisemitism on college campuses. Elad Benari Dec 14, 2023, 5:04 AM INN

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Antisemitic vandals target Chanukah menorah in Oakland, Calif. Jessamyn Dodd. (December 14, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Historic menorah-lighting at US Capitol by leaders of Senate and House. (December 14, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Eight soldiers suffered serious injuries today during engagements with Hamas. All were evacuated to hospital care.

Israel National News Dec 14, 2023, 7:15 PM INN

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Mossad foils attempted attack on Jews in Denmark. Israel National News Dec 14, 2023, 4:37 PM INN

Germany, Denmark nab Hamas members planning terror attack on Jews, Israelis. Families of hostages demand ICRC see captives, Eli Cohen says organization failing everyday that a visit is not made; says rather than accusing Israel of humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Hamas should be held responsible. Lior Ben Ari, Moran Azulay, Sharon Kidon, Yoav Zitun, Reuters | 12/14/2023 updated:08:17 YNet

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House passes annual defense bill with key Israel provisions. Under the bill, Israel will receive hundreds of millions of dollars for defense cooperation with the United States, as well as training on aerial refueling its air force. (December 14, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Antisemitic vandals target Chanukah menorah in Oakland, Calif. Jessamyn Dodd. (December 14, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Historic menorah-lighting at US Capitol by leaders of Senate and House. (December 14, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Shooting positions, terrorist processions and a speech by Abu Obeidah - this is the terrorist mosque in Jenin.

The IDF fighters in Jenin who announced "Shema Israel" on the mosque's loudspeakers in the city during the activity were suspended. We went to check the great terrorist mosque of Jenin.

Elhanan Groner, HakolHayehudi, 2nd Tevet 5784 - 21:30 12/14/2023

The networks are abuzz following the IDF's decision to suspend reservists who proclaimed "Hear Israel" from the terrorist mosque in Jenin during the military operation in the camp, claiming that they had damaged religious shrines.

At the direction of the Chief of Staff, it was even decided that the fighters would be put on trial this evening before Brigadier General Menashe Ayoub Kiouf.

However, on the website "HakolHayhudi" we reveal this evening that the mosque - known as the "Great Mosque of the Jenin Camp" (مسجد مخيم جنين الكبير) constitutes a terrorist base for all intents and purposes, and in fact serves as one of the main strongholds of the "Jenin Battalion".

The HakolHayehudi learned that just today IDF fighters located a large amount of bullet casings in the mosque that terrorists fired from the mosque's minaret at IDF forces in a previous operation, as well as an explosive device. In addition, an alarm was triggered in the mosque, following which shots were fired at the troops. In fact, say military officials, the mosque is used as a terrorist base for everything.

In addition, a machine for forging Israeli identity cards and licenses was found in the mosque.

Even in previous activities of the IDF in the Jenin camp, it was reported many times about IDF activity in the mosque - including exchanges of fire with terrorists near it and even in the mosque compound itself against terrorists who had barricaded themselves in it.

In addition, a check on the Arab networks shows that the mosque is a regular exit point for terrorist and incitement processions in the Jenin camp, as well as an exit point for the funerals of the many terrorists who are eliminated in Jenin by the IDF.

In addition, during the war, the very same speakers of the mosque played the inciting speeches of Abu Obeidah, the spokesman for the military wing of Hamas.

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Over 2/3 of Palestinians want to see a return to terror attacks against Jews. AP doesn't report that part of the survey. I reported on a new PCPSR survey yesterday showing that Hamas' popularity has surged since October 7.

Thursday, December 14, 2023.

While I report on these polls often, major news media almost always ignore them. This time, though, AP highlighted the part about how Hamas is now far more popular than Fatah, especially on the West Bank, and how Palestinians do not want Abbas as their leader.

That is indeed an important story. But AP continues to ignore one critical question that is in every poll, that is even more important.

69% of the respondents say they support "a return to confrontations and armed intifada."

By a greater than 2-1 ratio, Palestinians want to go back to the days of suicide bombings and blowing up buses filled with Jews.

Media and politicians love to talk a lot about ceasefires, and the importance of peace, and the desirability of a two-state solution. But this single fact means that none of that matters.

More than half of Palestinians have been supporting a return to terrorism for a while now. Hamas' pogrom increased that desire by 11 percentage points.

Palestinian support for terror isn't a side issue. It is the issue.

Palestinian antisemitism isn't something to be minimized. It is prevalent and it is a major factor behind every Palestinian political decision.

The media and politicians actively choose to ignore what Palestinians happily tell pollsters, and instead choose to pressure Israel to keep making concessions to these people that want so see Israel destroyed and Jews living, at best, as second-class citizens. It isn't exactly a conspiracy, but it is an active choice made by the most influential people in the Western world to ignore reality and try to impose their own wishful thinking instead. But the end result is not the peace they desire, but more war.

It is way past time to remove the blinders to the real obstacles to peace in the region. EoZ

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US leaves open possibility of Hamas retaining power "Palestinians' voices and aspirations must be at the center of post-crisis governance in Gaza," a U.S. government spokesperson told JNS. Akiva Van Koningsveld. (December 15, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. State Department on Thursday refused to rule out the possibility of the Hamas terrorist organization retaining power or joining a Palestinian Authority-led governing body for the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria.

"We have been clear about our position on Hamas, which the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 due to its premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets," a U.S. government spokesperson told JNS. JNS

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US shoots down aerial vehicle launched from Houthi-controlled area. BY Reuters 12/14/2023 07:45 AM JPost

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IDF eliminate dozens of Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza, Khan Yunis. 12/14/2023 09:21 AM JPost

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IDF releases footage of troops killing Hamas operatives inside ‘significant’ tunnel.

By Emanuel Fabian 14 Dec 2023, 8:03 pm  TOI

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Mossad chief David Barnea lights Hanukkah candles with Jake Sullivan In meeting at Mossad headquarters, chief David Barnea tells US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan of threats from Iran, challenges in returning hostages.

Israel National News, Dec 15, 2023, 10:48 AM (GMT+2) INN

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IDF uncovers Hamas ambush utilizing children's cries in Hebrew. Military reports Hamas terrorists attempted to draw soldiers into a tunnel shaft in Jabaliya using rigged children's toys and school bags.

Yoav Zitun | published 12/15/2023: 08:09

The IDF published on Friday footage of an attempted Hamas ambush in Jabaliya, where children’s dolls connected to speakers played sounds of crying in an attempt to attract soldiers in the direction of terrorists hiding in a nearby underground tunnel shaft.

"As part of searches conducted by reserve soldiers in the Strip, the troops exposed the attempted ambush that included the use of a decoy by Hamas terrorists in order to draw the forces into a tunnel shaft located close by," the military said in a statement.

([400] Hamas equipment used in the ambush )

According to the IDF, "the ambush included speakers connected to dolls and children's backpacks located near a wide shaft leading to the underground tunnel system. The system passes through civilian structures, including a school, a clinic, and a mosque. At its center a Hamas command post was located, equipped with cameras observing our forces while connected to the clinic's electric infrastructure.

The military added that forces also identified sniper positions and observation points close by to the point of the ambush, as well as a high number of explosive charges designed to harm the soldiers.

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IDF forces clearing out Hamas' ambush)

Lt. Col. Yisrael, commander of the 8717th Battalion, described what happened on the scene while pointing out where Hamas observers and terrorists were located. "Tale a look at what's here – children’s toys, school bags," he said. "The goal is to try to lure us into noticing these things. There's a speaker here that plays children's voices, sometimes even in Hebrew, to make us think there might be hostages here." Ynet

IDF soldiers discover advanced IED trap. Soldiers discovered an elaborate trap including children's backpacks, electronic surveillance, and IEDs. Israel National News Dec 15, 2023, 2:33 PM [402]. INN

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'Don't remain silent': Harvard rabbi slams president in Hanukkah ceremony Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi speaks to Claudine Gay while describing fears of antisemitism on campus and imploring strong action.

Daniel Edelson, New York | published: 12/15/2023 06:20 ...Harvard University’s president Claudine Gay participated in the Hanukkah menorah candle-lighting ceremony traditionally held on campus, where the ceremony's director, Harvard’s Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, openly criticized her. Zarchi referred to a message sent on behalf of the institution's board of directors, who supported Gay and said she would not be dismissed despite the controversial hearing. " “The email referred to you as ‘Our President,’” he said. “We in the Jewish community are longing for a day that we can refer to the president and all of Harvard as ours.”

In his 15-minute-long speech in front of dozens of Jewish students and faculty, Zarchi described the fear and anxiety Jews have been feeling on campus since Hamas’ attack on October 7. YNet

Antisemitism at Harvard. Harvard Chabad, Dec 13, 2023. on YouTube

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IDF Recovers Bodies of 3 Hostages During Gaza Operation. Dec 15, 2023 — The IDF on Friday reported on the recovery of the bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas. They are: Elia Toledano, Corp. Nik Beizer, 19, and Sgt. Ron Sherman, 19, hy"d. Hamodia

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Father of hostage held in Gaza: The Red Cross refuses to take the medicines my son needs. Families of hostages demand that the Red Cross do its job and visit the hostages being held by Hamas.

Yoni Kempinski, Dec 15, 2023, 1:05 AM (GMT+2) [403] INN

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White House ups pressure on Israel to end ‘high-intensity’ fighting in Gaza soon Officials say visiting Sullivan urged Israeli leaders to scale down military ops Hamas in coming weeks; Biden tells Israel: Go after Hamas but 'be more careful' with Gaza civilians By Jacob Magid and TOI Staff Dec 15, 2023, 1:44 am TOI

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Kerem Shalom crossing to open in allowance of aid trucks into Gaza.

The Prime Minister's Office has announced that the Kerem Shalom crossing will be temporarily opened to allow aid trucks into Gaza, in accordance with the agreed-upon limit of 200 trucks per day. (Ynet). 12/15/23 YNet

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IDF attacks Hamas facilities on Egyptian border. Israel National News Dec 15, 2023, 2:39 PM INN

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Sirens warning of rocket fire sound off in Jerusalem. Sirens have just sounded off in the greater Jerusalem area, covering not only the city itself but many neighboring communities, such as Eshtaol, Shoresh and more. (Gilad Meiri). 12/15/23. YNet

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US agrees with Israel that Gaza war 'could go on for months.' By Reuters 12/15/2023 JPost

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Rocket strikes open area in Beit Shemesh, no casualties reported By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/15/2023 JPost

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Yemen's Houthis attack two ships with missiles. By Reuters 12/15/2023 JPost

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IDF thwarts stabbing attack in Nablus, terrorist killed. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/15/2023 JPost

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Cabinet approves humanitarian aid through Israel-Gaza crossing. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/15/2023. JPost

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IDF announces more fallen soldiers killed in southern Gaza. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/15/2023 JPost

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Putin is no longer a "friend": this is how Russia's cyber and fake attack against Israel worked. Russia and President Putin did not stop with anti-Israeli statements and diplomatic activity. Since October 7, hackers working with the Kremlin have attacked and damaged Israeli network targets such as the Red Color app, government websites, banks, media websites and more. At the same time, Russian bodies launched a disinformation campaign, the aim of which is to encourage massive distribution of anti-Israeli fake news in the world. Investigation "Guards" Milan Cerni |Shomrim, N12 | Published 12/15/23 [404] [405] (Forgery Auschwitz prisoners apologize..) [406] Mako

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U.S. lauds UN human rights award to supporter of Hamas massacre, ringleader of antisemitic Durban Conference. December 15, 2023 Israel, United Nations. UN Watch expressed alarm that the U.S. today lauded the award of a UN human rights prize to an antisemitic Jordanian group that endorsed the Hamas massacre of October 7th and played a leading role in subverting the 2001 Durban Conference on Racism into an antisemitic hatefest.

“It is essential that the U.S. distance itself from the 2023 UN Human Rights Prize award to a NGO that abuses its UN accreditation to support the mass murder of Jews. We respectfully urge you to intervene and condemn Nizam Assaf and ACHRS for fueling antisemitism and for its role in hijacking the 2001 Durban conference,” wrote Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva, in a letter today to U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. (See below.) UNWatch

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Blasts heard above Lake Kinneret, Tiberias in northern Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/16/2023 06:52 PM JPost

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UK shoots down suspected drone targeting commercial shipping in Red Sea. By Reuters 12/16/2023 01:43 PM JPost

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Egypt air defenses shot down flying object off Red Sea coast. By Reuters 12/16/2023 JPost

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Israel and Qatar explore revival of deal for Gaza hostages. By Reuters 12/16/2023 JPost

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US Defense Secretary Austin to visit Israel, Bahrain, Qatar. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/16/2023 JPost

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'IDF and I, as its commander, are responsible.'

Halevi says accidental IDF shooting of hostages, who approached forces with a white flag after escaping captivity, violated rules of engagement; top general says incident followed days of combat against terrorists using civilian disguises and deceit. Yoav Zitun, Moran Azulay | 12/16/2023 YNet

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IDF troops find weapons concealed in incubators at Gaza hospital. Army IDF completes large-scale operation at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya; firearms, anti-tank missiles, explosive and valuable intelligence recovered; 90 terror suspects apprehended Ynetnews | 12/16/23 YNet

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Etzion Brigade seizes hundreds of thousands of Hamas shekels. Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 2:24 PM Security forces found a massive amounts of money for terrorism in a variety of currencies spread through several Palestinian towns. INN

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Rocket debris found in Jerusalem kindergarten. Remains of rocket fired at capital on Friday night found in preschool yard and construction site.

Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 1:42 PM INN

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Gallant: 'If Hezbollah goes up 1 level, we'll go up five.' Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 4:04 PM INN

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Watch: Gazans loot aid trucks at Rafah border crossing. Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 3:01 PM INN

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Live updates: 9 rockets fired from Lebanon. Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 4:00 PM INN

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Man seriously injured after touching rocket part in Ashkelon. Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 1:05 PM INN

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Tunnel tunnel shaft found in children's room in Gaza. Israel National News Dec 17, 2023, 11:53 AM INN

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Israeli strikes reported in Rafah, Khan Yunis as war enters 72nd day. Two more Israeli soldiers slain in Gaza • Netanyahu laments as a "terrible tragedy" the accidental killing of three Israeli hostages. Joshua Marks (December 17, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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'Soup Nazi' goes on antisemitic tirade outside kosher restaurant, throws chairs Woman throws soup at Manhattan restaurant employee filming her going on antisemitic tirade after seeing US-Israeli flag.

Israel National News, Dec 17, 2023, 7:38 AM (GMT+2)

A woman who has been dubbed the 'soup Nazi' on social media went on an antisemitic tirade and threw hot soup at an employee at a kosher restaurant in New York City on Wednesday night.

The woman, who was identified by the New York Post as Paterson, New Jersey resident Mayra Teke, was set off by the sight of an American-Israeli flag outside the Hummus Kitchen restaurant on Second Avenue and shouted ... She attempted to tear down the flag and began throwing tables and chairs before realizing that people inside the restaurant were filming her on their phones.

Teke opened the door to the restaurant, flipped off those inside, and said: "Record me, b-, record me. I'm cute, right?"

Teke then threw the soup she was carrying at the employee who filmed her.

Multiple videos of the incident were uploaded to social media by the Stop Antisemitism organization, where the Teke was called a 'soup Nazi' by multiple people. One commenter called to "make the soup Nazi famous."

The employee called the police to report the incident. INN

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Iran, Hezbollah behind attempted cyberattack on Israeli hospital. Israel National News Dec 18, 2023, 11:45 AM INN

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Police detain Ramle resident after finding IED, ammunition. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/17/2023 12:28 PM JPost

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PMW calls on Red Cross to stop facilitating Pay-for-Slay terror salaries. PA Salaries to Terrorists & Payments to “Martyrs”’ Families. Dec 17, 2023. [407] Palwach

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Gallant meets with Secretary Austin, US Army officials. Yonah Jereny Bob Dec 18, 2023, 01:23 PM JPost

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IDF Spokesman Hagari: 'We abort attacks when we see unexpected civilian presence.' Israel National News Dec 18, 2023, 1:50 PM INN

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IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorists, infrastructure after rockets launched from Lebanon. By Jeeusakem Post Staff 12/18/2023 04:35 PM JPost

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IDF seizes $1.4m in terror funds from Hamas home in Jabalia. Hamas leaders held secret summit in Turkey • Israel hits over 150 Hamas targets in 24 hours • Five IDF soldiers killed in Gaza. Joshua Marks. (December 18, 2023 / JNS) ([408]Suitcases containing millions of shekels for terrorists activities found in the Jabalia home of a senior Hamas terrorist, Dec. 17, 2023). JNS

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Mossad chief meets Qatari PM, CIA director in Warsaw for hostage talks. By TOI Staff Dec 18, 2023 4:18 pm Renewed Israeli interest in second hostage deal comes after three were mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza; sources familiar with negotiations warn of ‘long, complicated’ process ahead. TOI

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Yemen's Houthis prepared to confront any US-formed coalition that deploys to the Red Sea. By Rueuters

12/18/2023 10:04 PM JPost

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Court docs: Man in U-Haul sprayed substance, yelled antisemitic phrase outside DC synagogue. Scott Gelman | sgelman@wtop.com

December 18, 2023, 4:26 PM ...Brent Wood is accused of driving a U-Haul van around security poles and parking directly on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to Kesher Israel Congregation. Wood sat down on the hood of the van and then tried to open the synagogue’s front door, but it was locked, according to charging documents.

There was a class going on inside the synagogue at the time of the incident, documents say, and the building was being evacuated after getting a bomb threat via email. Wtop

Man arrested for shouting 'gas the Jews' outside DC synagogue. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 18, 2023 09:16 Updated: December 19, 2023 16:41.

The incident is being investigated as a hate or bias-motivated crime. Police in Washington, DC, have arrested a man in connection with an antisemitic attack outside a synagogue Sunday morning in the district’s Georgetown neighborhood.

A statement from law enforcement says that Brent Wood, 33, is suspected of having sprayed an unknown substance on two people outside Kesher Israel Congregation, a prominent Modern Orthodox synagogue also known as The Georgetown Synagogue, “while shouting an anti-Semitic phrase.” The phrase, according to local news reports, was, “Gas the Jews.”

The attack came the same weekend as a new spate of bomb threats targeted hundreds of synagogues across the United States, heightening worries for American Jews as the Israel-Hamas war continues to stoke antisemitism globally. In recent weeks, there were shots fired at a synagogue and preschool in Albany, New York, and false bomb threats made at synagogues in Orange County, California, among other incidents.

Wood has been charged with simple assault and resisting arrest, and police said they are “investigating this offense as being motivated by hate or bias.” The suspect’s last known address was in Toledo, Ohio, police said.

The victims themselves were not injured, and it is unknown if they were congregants. In a statement, Kesher Israel Rabbi Hyim Shafner told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the attack demonstrated why Jewish communal organizations need increased security funding.

ADL: None of this is normal, and no one should think this is okay “Every American should feel safe in their place of worship, and I am deeply disturbed by the increased frequency and intensity of antisemitic incidents targeting our congregation,” Shafner said. “We thank God no one was seriously hurt, but this event further demonstrates why Jewish people are feeling unsafe in their institutions. All too often, the burden of protecting ourselves falls to our congregants... JPost

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Wellesley College President Denounces Extreme Anti-Zionist Rhetoric, Rebuffing School Faculty. By Dion J. Pierre, December 18, 2023.

Wellesley College President Paula Johnson has pushed back on faculty pressuring her to condone certain anti-Israel rhetoric on campus, stating in an open letter that the Massachusetts school interprets “some” anti-Zionist speech as harmful to Jewish students.”

Johnson, who has served as college president since July 2016, made the declaration on Saturday in response to a faculty letter demanding that she go on record saying that no criticism of Israel or Zionism should be described as antisemitic... Johnson added that the faculty members’ own statements in their letter, which accused Israel of committing a (supposed) "genocidal[sic] assault on Gaza," are part of the problem…. Algemeiner

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Top Hamas financier eliminated in IDF strike.

Subhi Ferwana was involved in the transfer of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas and its military wing in the Gaza Strip.

Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 11:49 AM INN

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Watch: IDF troops discover explosive device in Gaza medical clinic. Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 11:03 AM INN

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Report: Israel demands Hezbollah be pushed 6 miles from border. Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 7:54 AM INN

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Live updates: Missile from Lebanon lands in open area. Israel National News, Dec 19, 2023, 11:54 AM INN

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These are the 131 soldiers who heroically fell in the war. Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 6:29 AM INN

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AMBUSH HELL Twisted Hamas fighters ‘playing recordings of Israeli kids screaming “save me, save me” to lure troops into booby traps’. Israel claims to have seen videos of 'a circle of babies' toys, children's toys that were all booby trapped'. Ellie Doughty, David Ross. Published: 13:46, 19 Dec 2023 Updated: 19:15, 19 Dec 2023 The Sun

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Netanyahu, India's Modi discuss Houthi threat to maritime security. By Jerusalem Post Staff

12/19/2023 03:10 PM JPost

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US issues new round of Iran-related sanctions -Treasury website By Reuters 12/19/2023 09:10 PM JPost

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White House: About 8 Americans held hostage by Hamas. By Reuters 12/19/2023 09:27 PM JPost

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Israel informed Qatar that they're ready for week-long truce for 40 hostages. By Barak Ravid/Walla 12/19/2023 11:43 PM JPost

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IDF troops find hundreds of rockets intended to be fired at Israel Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 2:59 PM INN

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Gaza hospital director describes how Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes. Ahmed Kahlot, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya, details how Hamas had private ambulance and phones in his hospital.

Israel National News, Dec 19, 2023, 3:45 PM (GMT+2) INN

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This is how an IDF soldier found Sinwar's bunker in Gaza.

The house, one of Sinwar's four houses, was networked with 40 perimeter security cameras. Suspicious tiles led to a bunker.

Israel National News Dec 19, 2023, 10:51 PM INN

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Documenting Israel @DocumentIsrael: Eyewitness accounts of sexual violence against Israeli women on October 7th by Hamas terrorists. Eyewitness Accounts of Sexual Violence Against Israeli Women on... [409] Warning: graphic accounts of sexual violence. Breasts chopped off. Women shot in the groin. Dead bodies of women without underwear. These are just some of the eyewitness accounts of sexual violence against Israeli women on October 7th. Don't look away. Dec 19, 2023 On X

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Anti-Israel protesters in Midtown Manhattan hurl profanity at Alec Baldwin. The longtime actor refused to condemn the Jewish state.

(December 19, 2023 / JNS) Hundreds of activists flooded Penn Station and Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan on Monday night in an anti-Israel demonstration with some breaking off to taunt an actor known for his advocacy of progressive causes as he was on his way to teach an acting class.

Alec Baldwin, star of TV’s “30 Rock,” which was filmed in New York City, received a flurry of verbal abuse from protesters while he was passing by a crowd.

The protesters said the actor, who parodied former president and now Republican frontrunner for the 2024 elections Donald Trump on “SNL,” had a “tanking” career and “no ****** shame.”

When asked to condemn Israel, Baldwin responded, “No, I support peace in Gaza,” to which he received more harassment in return.

“You ask stupid questions,” the actor said back, according to the Post. “Ask me a smart question, and I’ll answer your question.”

Police officers ended up escorting Baldwin away from the protesters as they chanted “ceasefire now.” JNS

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Former Palestinian Ambassador To India Osama Al-Ali: 'I Am Not Surprised Hitler Committed the Holocaust against the Jews; Israel Is Paving the Ground for a New Holocaust against Future Jews.' (2023-12-19)

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Source: Al-Mashhad TV (UAE) Speaking on two occasions on Al-Mashhad TV (UAE), on November 5 and December 11, 2023, Osama Al-Ali, the former Palestinian ambassador to India, warned of a "new Holocaust" against future generations of Jews. He said that Hitler committed the Holocaust against the Jews because[sic] they brought[sic] a "catastrophe[sic]" on Germany, and now the Jews are bringing a similar[sic] catastrophe[sic] on the Palestinians, which will pave the road for a "new Holocaust."

Osama Al-Ali: "Today, I am not surprised why Hitler committed the Holocaust against the Jews..." Memri

Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid: Osama Al-Ali, the Palestinian 🇵🇸 ambassador to India: "I am not surprised that Hitler committed the holocaust" 👇

Palestinian Authority is not part of any solution... From Israel Uncovered إسرائيل ع المكشوف 🇮🇱 Dec 16, 2023 [410]

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UN’s Guterres views Oct. 7 Hamas massacre film, said to call it ‘humanity at its worst’. United Nations leader watches footage following pressure to do so from Israeli officials; international body to vote on resolution calling for a surge in Gaza aid, halt to fighting By TOI Staff and Agencies 20 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres watched the IDF’s 47-minute documentary of Hamas atrocities screened as part of Jerusalem’s campaign for international support, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan confirmed on Wednesday.

Guterres watched the video in a private screening at UN headquarters after considerable pressure from Israeli officials, Channel 12 reported on Tuesday. Guterres had not attended previous screenings organized by Israeli officials at the UN, citing scheduling difficulties.

According to Erdan, Guterres said after watching the footage that the Hamas onslaught in southern Israel was “humanity at its worst.”

“Now we will see if his public statements change and if he truly understands Israel’s mission to eradicate this evil from the face of the earth and bring home the hostages,” Erdan wrote on X. “If the UN held to its founding principles, we would have heard this on the first day of the war.”

The footage shown to Guterres was first screened for foreign journalists in Israel, and has since been shown to Israeli and foreign government officials, diplomats, and Jewish community leaders abroad.

It includes harrowing scenes of murder, torture and decapitation from the Hamas slaughter in southern Israel, including raw videos from the terrorists’ bodycams.

Finally, the UN Secretary-General watched the @IDF’s film of Hamas atrocities from October 7.

After he watched it, the Secretary-General himself said that it was humanity at its worst. Now we will see if his public statements change and if he truly understands Israel’s mission… [pic.twitter.com/M8ggJukjtG]

— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) December 20, 2023

Some 1,200 people were killed and around 240 were taken hostage in the terror onslaught which began early in the morning on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists poured into Israel from the land, air and sea and attacked on more than 20 communities across southern Israel.

In response, Israel launched an aerial campaign and subsequent ground operation in Gaza, vowing to eliminate Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has said that more than 19,600 people have been killing in the coastal enclave since October 7, although this number does not differentiate between combatants and civilians and cannot be independently verified. Included in the death toll are some 7,000 Hamas and Hamas-affiliated terrorists, Israel has said, in addition to civilians killed by misfired Palestinian rockets.

Guterres has faced significant backlash from Israeli officials since the outbreak of war due to comments that have been interpreted by some as anti-Israel and pro-Hamas.

In October, the UN chief appeared to suggest that the impetus for the devastating Hamas assault was the Jewish state’s control of Palestinian territories, despite Israel having unilaterally withdrawn from Gaza in 2005.

“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” Guterres said, prompting both Erdan and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen to call for his resignation.

More recently, Cohen accused Guterres of supporting Hamas and again called for his resignation after the UN chief wrote a letter pressing for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Cohen also condemned Guterres’s decision to invoke a rare clause in the UN charter to urge Security Council intervention.

On December 8, the US vetoed a Security Council resolution backed by almost all council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood criticized the council after the vote for its failure to condemn Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres in Israel, or to acknowledge Israel’s right to defend itself.

The 193-member General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a similar though nonbinding resolution on December 12 by a vote of 153-10, with 23 abstentions.

An additional UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a surge in humanitarian aid and an urgent halt to the Israel-Hamas war is expected to take place later in the day on Wednesday after it was delayed on Tuesday.

The council had scheduled a vote late Monday afternoon, but it was initially postponed until Tuesday to try to get the US to support the resolution or abstain.

“We’re still working through the modalities of the resolution,” US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday afternoon before the vote was delayed. “It’s important for us that the rest of the world understand what’s at stake here and what Hamas did on the 7th of October and how Israel has a right to defend itself against those threats.” TOI

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UN General Assembly condemns Israel 14 times in 2023, rest of world 7. December 20, 2023 Israel, Press Releases, United Nations UNWatch

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British foreign minister to visit Jordan, Egypt this week. By Reuters 12/20/2023 03:23 AM JPost

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How the IAF wiped out much of Hamas' Aerial Unit. Israel National News Dec 20, 2023, 7:06 PM INN

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IDF takes control of Hamas' 'Elite Quarter.' Israel National News Dec 20, 2023, 9:05 PM INN

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Hamas official who proudly flaunted massacre thanks Canada. Israel National News Dec 20, 2023, 10:50 PM INN

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New York Times Reporters Act As Hamas Stenographers, Forget to Omit ‘Israeli Occupation Forces.' By Tamar Sternthal, December 20, 2023.

The masks slipped for New York Times reporters-cum-Hamas stenographers Raja Abdulrahim and Iyad Ibuheweila this week when they absently neglected to tone down Hamas' preferred language before passing off the terror organization’s talking points as original reporting.

In their Dec. 16 item, "Israeli forces withdraw after besieging Gaza hospital, leaving behind bodies and destruction," Raja Abdulrahim and Iyad Abuheweila wrote: "For a week the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia was surrounded and raided by Israeli occupation[sic] forces, who destroyed the southern part of the hospital, according to the health ministry." (Emphasis added.)

"Israeli occupation[sic] forces" is a vilification of Israel’s military favored by anti-Israel activists along with terror organizations including Hamas. Notably, this language is not consistent with Times‘ style and practice. It indicates a total departure of journalistic norms guiding objective reporting.

Shortly after CAMERA's Israel office called out the paper for this egregious formulation and directly contacted an editor the word "occupation" disappeared…. CAMERA

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CAMERA Challenges Washington Post's Pro-Hamas Bias with Mobile Billboard Campaign.

Dec 20, 2023. CAMERA initiated the mobile campaign due to concerns about the Washington Post’s reliance on Hamas-provided casualty figures, notably those from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. [411] CAMERA YouTube

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Rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona, Hezbollah claims responsibility.

At least eight rockets fired, of which two exploded in the city. Hezbollah: A response to Israel's continued aggression.

Israel National News Dec 21, 2023, 2:00 AM INN

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Foreign Minister instructs: Oppose the budget for UNRWA at the UN. Nitsan Keidar Dec 21, 2023, 2:10 AM INN

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Lebanese Journalist: Iran Exploiting The War In Gaza To Undermine Stability Of Jordan. December 21, 2023 Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority | Special Dispatch No. 11034

Jordan has recently foiled repeated attempts by Syrian cells to smuggle weapons and drugs into its territory. According to reports, these cells are operated by the Syrian security apparatuses, as well as Hizbullah and Iran, and the weapons are intended for Palestinian elements in the West Bank. On December 18, 2023, the Jordanian army announced that it had foiled a large-scale attempt to smuggle drugs, machineguns and – for the first time – rockets into the country, after several days in which the number of smuggling attempts had dropped. The army reported that, early in the morning that day, severe clashes had broken out on the Syrian border between Jordanian border guards and the armed cells that were trying to bring in the contraband, and that Jordanian border guards had been wounded. In response, Jordan reportedly carried out several airstrikes in southern Syria in areas along the border where the smugglers were operating. Jordanian government spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin said that the kingdom's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, had spoken to his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian about the matter. Mubaidin added: "We clarified to Iran that the smuggling attempts by its militias in Syria must stop Memri

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Rocket launchers used to attack Israel this week seized. IDF troops locate weapons storage facility containing large quantities of weapons, long-range rocket launchers in Juhor ad-Dik. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 9:26 AM INN

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Policewoman injured in suspected ramming attack in Barta'a. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 10:07 AM INN

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Nikki Haley: 'Pro-Hamas countries should take in Gazans.' Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 6:49 AM INN

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Beloved Jerusalem high school principal killed on October 7. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 9:18 AM INN

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These are the 139 soldiers who heroically fell in the war. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 7:01 AM INN

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John Kirby: Israel planning to transition to different phase of fighting in Gaza. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 5:05 AM INN

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Security Council vote on Gaza aid delayed again, US willing to support. Elad Benari Dec 22, 2023, 4:07 AM INN

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Israel considering 'improving' its offer to Hamas. Israel National News Dec 22, 2023, 2:04 AM INN

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Watch: How the IDF destroyed the tunnel network in Hamas' 'Elite Quarter.' Israel National News Dec 21, 2023, 8:42 PM INN

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Open Source Intel @Osint613: Some reports coming out of #Gaza indicating that this store has been destroyed. [412] Dec 21, 2023. [413]

Will UN Condemn Israel for Blowing Up ‘Hitler 2’? What could be more genocidal than blowing up Hitler 2? December 22, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield.

Gaza, according to Hamas supporters, is suffering genocide. And what could be more genocidal than blowing up Hitler 2?

Hitler 2 is not some clone of Hitler grown in a lab in Argentina by escaped Nazi scientists. It's a Gaza store that sounds like it was made up on social media, but actually has been around since at least 2015 as a sentiment to the noble character of "Palestinians". FPM

(Name of shop is Hitler and I like him because he was the most anti Jewish person' By Reuters. Published: November 5, 2015 18:19 'Hitler 2' clothing store in Gaza uses conflict to promote sales. Clothing store in Gaza displays merchandise on masked mannequins, some with knives taped to their hands. JPost)

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Likud MK to US news website: Establishing a Palestinian state would be rewarding Hamas. Hezki Baruch Dec 22, 2023, 12:10 AM INN

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Netanyahu answers Hamas: 'We won't stop the war, surrender or die.' Israel National News Dec 21, 2023, 7:04 PM INN

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'We won't stop the war, surrender or die' Benny Gantz: 'As long as it may take, we will fight, and we will win' Israel National News Dec 21, 2023, 7:04 PM INN

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Mike Huckabee in Kfar Aza: These sights are worse than I could have imagined. Yoni Kempinski Dec 21, 2023, 5:55 PM INN

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Hamas' inspiration | Mein Kampf found in home of Hamas terrorist. A soldier operating in the home of a Hamas operative found an Arabic copy of the book penned by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Israel National News, Dec 21, 2023, 8:56 PM (GMT+2).

([414] The soldier holding the book).

New footage posted on X joins the many reports regarding the inspiration that Hamas terrorists draw from the Nazi agenda that was outlined by Adolf Hitler.

In the footage, an IDF soldier is seen holding an Arabic edition of Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."

"In the home of a Hamas operative, look what we found; this is what guides them," the soldier says, pointing to the book, which has a photo of the tyrant on its cover.

The footage joins a long list of reports on the similarities between Hamas terrorists and the Nazis. Last month, President Isaac Herzog revealed in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that IDF forces operating in northern Gaza had discovered a copy of Hitler's book on the body of a terrorist in a children’s bedroom in a civilian home being used as a Hamas terror base. INN

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Iranian Spy Ship Helps Houthis Direct Attacks on Red Sea Vessels. Assistance raises pressure on Israel and the U.S. to take action against the Yemen-based rebels By Benoit Faucon and Dov Lieber Dec. 22, 2023 9:41 am ET

Iran’s paramilitary forces are providing real-time intelligence to Yemen’s Houthis that the rebels are using to direct drones and missiles to target ships passing through the Red Sea, Western and regional security officials said.

Tracking information gathered by a surveillance vessel controlled by Iran’s paramilitary forces in the Red Sea is passed to the Houthis, who have used it to attack commercial vessels passing through the Bab el-Mandeb strait in recent days, according to the officials. WSJ

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'Many of freed female hostages assaulted in Gaza' i24NEWS 12/22/23 YNet

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IDF soldier killed by Hezbollah fire on Lebanon border. Army identifies fallen soldier as 188th Armored Brigade's Sergeant Amit Hod Ziv; Air Force fighter jet strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory in response. 12/22/23 YNet

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UN approves watered-down resolution on Gaza aid without call for cease-fire. 12/22/23 YNet

US changes finally clear, UN Security Council votes to expedite aid to Gaza. Mike Wagenheim. (December 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Jordan intercepts armed drone fired at Israel by Iran-backed Iraqi militia. Yaakov Lappin. (December 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Gadi Haggai, 73, is first US citizen confirmed killed by Hamas as a hostage.. (December 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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IDF troops engage in fierce Gaza battles, seize weapons. (December 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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‘Daily Mail’: 56% of likely US voters say Harvard, MIT heads should resign over Jew-hatred policies. (December 22, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Red Cross taps new chief who quit UNRWA amid ethics, abuse & corruption scandal. December 23, 2023 Press Releases, United Nations. The Red Cross just named ex-UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl as its new head, even though he was forced to quit UNRWA in 2019 in wake of a damning internal ethics report that implicated him in an alleged sexual affair with a staffer during world trips, abuse of power and corruption, causing Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand to freeze funding at the time.

UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said the appointment was inappropriate, and called on the ICRC to cancel it. UNwatch

Red Cross names embattled former UNRWA chief as new head.

published:12/22/23 |

The Red Cross announced on Friday that former UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, who resigned due to corruption allegations, has been appointed as the organization's director-general.

Investigations against Krähenbühl raised claims of sexual harassment, nepotism and abuse of power. Among other allegations, it's claimed that Krähenbühl appointed the Palestinian Maria Mohammedi, with whom he supposedly had an intimate relationship, to a senior position in UNRWA on a $200,000 salary. (Daniel Edelson, New York) YNet

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US professor who denies Oct. 7 rape cases up for top role at campus diversity office. by Michael Horovitz. December 23, 2023.

A University of Minnesota associate professor who has denied that Hamas-led terrorists committed rape and sexual violence during their devastating onslaught on October 7 in Israel is a candidate for a senior position at the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department, according to a Friday report.

Sima Shakhsari, who works at the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, said she had not seen evidence of Israeli victims of rape and sexual violence while testifying last Thursday to the university review panel, part of the application process for the associate dean role at the office, Jewish Insider said.

“Of course, any person who has been raped — I am a rape crisis counselor, I believe the survivors. I am yet to see Israeli rape survivors of Hamas come and speak,” Shakhsari said.

The Palestinian terrorists’ widespread sexual assault during October 7 and their use of rape as a weapon of war have been widely documented amid a mounting body of evidence.

Investigators have begun building several sexual assault cases against terrorists who rampaged through communities in southern Israel on October 7, citing eyewitnesses, video evidence, testimony from captured terrorists, and photographs of victims’ bodies that all point toward systemic sexual violence.

It is believed that some female and male hostages among the 240 people taken by terrorists on October 7 and who have since been released were raped while in captivity.

Shakhsari argued during her application review that it was racist to claim the Palestinian terrorists committed the acts, comparing it to false accusations of rape against men of color in the United States.

“We know the history of lynching, of black man, lynching, of indigenous man lynching Latinos in this country… because of accusations and they’re kind of violating the innocence of white women, right? And I think that is also this force that is repeated in the context of Israel and Palestine, because Arab men have been demonized and have been marked as monstrous people who are rapists and for violence.”

Shakhsari is associated with radical pro-Palestinian groups on campus, such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and has been seen at recent protests chanting “Globalize the Intifada.” Palestinian terror attacks during the Second Intifada, two decades ago, killed an estimated 1,000 Israelis, and the chant is therefore viewed by some as a call to violence against Jews across the world…. TOI

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The Washington Post in an outrageous article: "The displacement of the largest population in the region since 1948." One of the most important newspapers in the world published a comprehensive article about the human tragedy in the Gaza Strip, but received a lot of criticism • Many criticized the text chosen, with great historical inaccuracy • For comparison, in the wars in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan a much larger population was displaced • The article completely ignores the use Hamas's cynicism towards the civilian population, and the events of the October 7 massacre. N12 | 23.12.23

The Washington Post newspaper succeeded last night (Friday) in provoking the anger of many in Israel and in the world in general, after publishing an article with a significant historical inaccuracy. "Nearly 1.9 million people, approximately 85% of the population of Gaza, were displaced from their homes, the largest population transfer in the region since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948," reads the opening of the article, and this was also the text published in the article's "push" message.

The article extensively reviews the human tragedy occurring in the Gaza Strip as a result of the war between the IDF and Hamas following the October 7 massacre, after the IDF proactively and deliberately called on the civilian population to leave their homes to avoid harm to their lives. Although this is a comprehensive and extensive article, it does not mention at all the fact that the terrorist organization Hamas bases its entire war strategy against the IDF on the cynical exploitation of the civilian population in Gaza. The article does not mention at all the fact that Hamas has placed large terrorist infrastructures in civilian sites, including schools, hospitals And also civilian homes, including the storage of amlach in children's and toddlers' bedrooms.

Many surfers expressed great shock and criticism over the Washington Post's article and wording, and wondered about the concept of "the zone". For example, many have emphasized that as a result of the war in Syria, a country that by all accounts is "in the region", more than 13 million people (according to UN data) have been forced to leave their homes. In Syria or about the war in Yemen, how the hell does this lie get published?", wrote Nadav Pollak, a researcher at Reichman University.

In addition to the difficult civil war that was and is still going on in Syria, there have been several other very difficult wars in recent years, which have resulted in the forced transfer of a much larger population than the current transfer of the population in Gaza. Also, according to UN data, more than 4.5 million people were forced to leave their homes in the civil war in Yemen, and more than 3.2 million were forced to leave their homes in the war in Afghanistan.

Along with the ignoring of the authors of the article about the cynical use that Hamas terrorists make of the civilian population in Gaza, there is also a complete ignoring of the terrible massacre of Israeli citizens on October 7. Alongside the important report on the great distress of the residents in the Gaza Strip, it is evident that it comes completely detached from the wider context of the events.

The Washington Post reporter's tweet has since been deleted.

John Hudson, a senior reporter for the Washington Post, tweeted the link to the article yesterday, and attached the text that appears at the beginning of the article, about "the largest population transfer in the region since 1948", and was heavily criticized online. Shortly after, he deleted the tweet, apparently after realizing it was a significant inaccuracy. N12

House committee to probe UN agency for Palestinian refugees for suspected Hamas ties: ‘Troubling connection.’ By Jon Levine Published Dec. 23, 2023, 11:54 a.m. ET. NY Post

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IDF reservist lightly injured from shrapnel following mortar fire from Lebanon. 12/23/23 ..."Several launches from Lebanon into different areas in northern Israel were identified. In response, IDF forces struck the sources of the fire. Throughout the day, IDF forces attacked several areas in Lebanon with artillery. Additionally, Air Force fighter jets targeted a Hezbollah military command center." (Yoav Zitun) YNet

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Gallant, Gantz hold situation assessment in northern Gaza; IDF chief in Khan Younis. 12/23/23 Minister Gallant told them, "Every house from which they fire and every place where there was terrorist activity should be demolished. There must be a price for those who fight against the State of Israel. I am sure Yahya Sinwar is sitting in his bunker watching TV, and he can also see what Beit Hanoun and Shijaiyah look like." Minister Gantz added, "This battle is one of the most important Israel has faced. It serves both the residents of the south and projects to other arenas. I am sure Hassan Nasrallah is watching what's happening here and he doesn't want this at his doorstep." ... YNet

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Biden spoke with Netanyahu to discuss Israel, Gaza, White House says. Reuters. 12/23/23 YNet

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UKMTO reports 'incident' in Bab el-Mandeb Strait off coast of Yemen. 12/23/23 YNet

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Minister Gantz speaks to Canada's Trudeau about Gaza, Houthi threat. 12/23/23 YNet

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Sirens sound in Ashkelon, Mavki'im and Zikim in southern Israel. 12/23/23 YNet

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Hamas military supply chief killed in Israeli airstrike, IDF says. 12/23/23 The IDF reported on Saturday that it eliminated a senior Hamas official responsible for arms trade, production and procurement for the terror organization's military wing in an airstrike in southern Gaza's Rafah the day before. According to the statement, Hassan al-Atrash, who was killed in an attack on a vehicle he was driving in, also participated in smuggling weapons from various countries to the Gaza Strip and, more recently, was involved in smuggling weapons into the West Bank. (Ynetnews) YNet

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Sirens sound in Shlomi and Betset near Lebanon border. 12/23/23 YNet

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Sirens sound in Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza and Sa'ad near Gaza border. 12/23/23 YNet

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Egyptian, Iranian presidents discuss Gaza developments, restoring ties. 12/23/23 YNet

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Sirens sounded in Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza Strip. 12/23/23 YNet

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Iran threatens Mediterranean closure over Gaza, without saying how. 12/23/23 ...Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen. YNet

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Israel-affiliated merchant vessel hit by aerial vehicle off India. 12/23/23 YNet

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Israel says 200 Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists arrested in Gaza. 12/23/23 YNet

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In planned ambush, IDF lures dozens of terrorists from headquarters. Tens of terrorists eliminated in joint IDF ground and air forces' operational effort.

Israel National News, Dec 23, 2023. INN

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IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including a military complex. YNet

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Dozens Hamas terrorists eliminated in Gaza City by sniper fire and fighter jet attacks. 12/23/23 A joint operation between IDF ground forces and the Israeli Air Force led to the elimination of dozens of terrorists in the southern part of Gaza City... YNet

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News. Sunday, December 24, 2023. Is Hamas shooting Gazans while dressed in IDF uniforms? I'm becoming more and more convinced that Hamas has its terrorists putting on IDF uniforms to murder Gazans and blame Israel.

Last week, the UN Human Rights Council issued a press release claiming that the IDF rounded up 11 men in Gaza City on Tuesday, separated them from their families, executed them in front of their families and (depending on the "witnesses") either shot at or threw a grenade into the room with the women and children.

The claim is beyond absurd. The men are worth much more to Israel alive than dead. If the med were suspects, Israel would get valuable intelligence from captured prisoners, and they wouldn't miss an opportunity to see if any of them know anything about the hostages, as well as current command and communications situation with Hamas and other groups. If they weren't suspected terrorists, there is no reason at all to act this way and it violates all IDF regulations and policies.

There is no upside, no gain, no possible advantage to murdering 11 men in front of their families and then attacking women and children, and huge downsides (media, NGOs, being charged in Israel, soldiers running to "Breaking the Silence" and Haaretz and more.) It is unlikely but conceivable that an individual soldier would act this way by cracking under pressure; it is literally impossible to imagine a group of IDF soldiers all doing this together. This story fits how antisemites view the IDF, but it is not at all how the IDF acts in reality. It is a sick fantasy and conspiracy theory that conforms to Palestinian propaganda but not reality.

Beyond the illogic of the accusations, the IDF strongly denied even being in the Rimal neighborhood that day. They didn't say that they killed terrorists who were ambushing them or that there was activity nearby that might have spilled over as they have with other incidents - they simply said that there wa no activity there, period. (Of course, the UN never reported that denial. The press release remains on its sites saying the IDF has not released any information on the incident.)

As Sherlock Holmes says, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Al Jazeera did interview injured women and older men who "testified" about the incident. Their accounts are wildly different. Some say they were machine gunned; other say that an Israeli tank shot rounds at the fourth floor, or that the IDF shot mortars directly at them. Some say women were killed, which the UN did not say.

A conspiracy to make up a story like that is conceivable but the injuries appear to be real.

Now, we know that Hamas uses IDF uniforms to attack - that's what they did on October 7. The survivors would not be able to tell the difference between a real IDF soldier and a Hamas member wearing a uniform with the wrong helmet, boots and weapons. We have reports and videos from other incidents that Hamas shoots at their own people. We know for sure that they steal aid from Gazans. We know they are not even wearing uniforms anymore and pretending to be civilians. And we know that they employ huge levels of deception in their war strategy - that's how October 7 was so deadly.

Given all that, why would anyone doubt that Hamas is capable of staging a massacre of Gaza men - men who have not joined their ranks, and who may have even been suspected of collaborating with Israel - in such a way that the world would blame Israel? It is not as if they have any moral qualms about such a move. October 7 proved they have no morality altogether. And they've used war as a cover to kill Gazan men who they regard as their enemies in the past.

Hamas is not adhering to a single customary rule of war, yet the media still treats them as if their military activities and statements are consistent with how a legitimate military acts.

Sacrificing a few Gazans for propaganda purposes is certainly something Hamas would do. It is far more likely than the IDF massacring innocent people at point blank range. And it achieved the desired effect: the UN publicized the incident the exact way Hamas would have wanted.

The media and much of the world has still not accepted the idea of Hamas as monsters who happily sacrifice their own people's lives to hurt Israelis. But that is the definition of what Hamas is. Their entire war strategy is built around using Gazans as human shields, and using their deaths as a means to pressure Israel to stop fighting or to leave parts of their military assets intact. Israel is facing an enemy that is abusing its own civilians in ways never before seen in any war in history.

Hamas dressing up as IDF and shooting Gazans dead is perfectly aligned with how Hamas acts in all other aspects of this and previous wars. And it happens to be the most logical explanation of what happened last Tuesday. EoZ

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News, December 24, 2023. Bot attack on EoZ tweets indicates an Iranian-backed social media campaign to divide Israelis.

Over the past couple of weeks, nearly all of my tweets have been responded to - often immediately - with bots.

These bots almost always post in Hebrew, and their accounts pretend to be Israelis their names spelled in Hebrew. Many use names like "Schwartz" and "Cohen" and "Levy" and "Goldstein." The accounts will put lots of Jewish and Israeli symbols on their profiles, and even retweet pro-Israel accounts here and there. But their main thrust is to post Hebrew tweets that try to turn Israelis against the government and the IDF, and indeed against each other.

They claim Hamas is winning the war, showing Hamas videos; or that Israel isn't doing anything to free the hostages; or that Netanyahu must go. The messages are repeated verbatim among different fake accounts.

You can see here a number of bot responses to my "Shabbat Shalom" message on Friday.

And they have hundreds, maybe thousands, of bot accounts. Many were created only this month, but they appear to be related to pre-existing bot accounts that are more generic (no Hebrew names).

Many of the accounts follow each other, giving the impression of being a little less "bot-like."

I've reported and blocked hundreds of them but more are generated every day. Occasionally I'll see that some have been suspended, but it is a tiny percentage.

It costs money to set up a campaign like this. Not a huge amount - it could probably be done for a couple of thousand dollars - but large enough to see that there is an organization, or a government, behind the campaign, and someone who is refining the messages depending on the reactions. Laughable mistakes from two weeks ago are rarely being repeated..

Who might be behind it? I suspect Iran or Iranian proxies, and this article in Hezbollah's Al Madayeen seems to support that theory... EoZ

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Watch: Jews confront Pro-Palestinian protesters in Beverly Hills Israel National News Dec 24, 2023, 5:18 PM INN

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Eli Cohen אלי כהן @elicoh1: We will no longer remain silent in the face of the UN's hypocrisy!

I instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to extend the visa of one of the organization's employees in Israel, and to deny the visa request of another employee.

The conduct of the UN since October 7th is a disgrace to the organization and the international community. This disgrace began with the Secretary-General who legitimized war crimes and crimes against humanity, continued with the Human Rights Commissioner who publishes unsubstantiated blood libels, and with UN Women, an organization that for two months ignored the acts of rape committed against Israeli women.

We will stop working with those who cooperate with the Hamas terrorist organization's propaganda. Dec 25, 2023 On X

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Olia @oliaklein An Arab blogger, Hoda Jannat, writes:

🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza, which is inhabited by 2 million people has 36 hospitals. There are Arab countries with 30 million citizens and they do not have this number of hospitals.

🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was getting water, electricity, gas, and fuel for free from Israel. Of course, there is no other Arab citizen who does not pay water, electricity and fuel bills.

🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was receiving $30 million a month from Qatar alone And $120 million a month from UNRWA And $50 million a month from the European Union And $30 million a month from US There are Arab countries drowning in debt and they can’t find anyone who would help them even with one million dollars.

🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was not besieged, and all goods were entering it, as were foreigners and people of foreign nationalities. Its residents were traveling to Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, and Fafo is the biggest example.

🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was living better than many Arab countries...and its people were living better than many Arab people.

🔴 Suddenly...we discovered that our minds were besieged by a programmed lie...by the (Muslim) Brotherhood media. 10:31 PM · Dec 24, 2023. on X

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Support for Hamas and swastikas: the tomb of Yehoshua ben Nun in Samaria was vandalized. For the second time in two weeks, the compound of Yehoshua bin Nun's tomb was vandalized by Palestinian rioters • Inscriptions supporting the terrorist organization Hamas were sprayed on the compound, along with a number of swastikas • "The fact that such an incident is happening for the second time in two weeks indicates a serious damage to the Israeli warning, said the head of the Samaria Council.

Channel 14 editors, 12 Tevet 5784, 12.24.23 - 5:36 p.m.

Palestinian rioters vandalized the tomb of Yehoshua bin Nun in the village of Kifl Haris in Samaria for the second time in just two weeks since the previous vandalism incident, the Samaria Regional Council reported.

Inscriptions supporting the terrorist organization Hamas and the massacre it carried out on October 7 were sprayed on the tomb structure, along with several swastikas.

([415] The inscriptions sprayed on the structure of the tomb Photo: Samaria Regional Council)

"Twice a fortnight damage to deterrence - it is imperative to restore deterrence against these Nazis," said the head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan, "the enemy in Gaza and the enemy in Samaria have one goal - the destruction of the state of Israel and the murder of Jews."

"I call on the government and the security forces to deal with these barbaric terrorists the same way the USA dealt with ISIS, under our watch Samaria will not turn into Hamestan or Fatahstan," Dagan demanded of the government, "the fact that such an incident is happening for the second time in two weeks indicates a serious violation of the Israeli warning, which must be returned soon".

As recalled, just last week, the tomb of Yehoshua bin Nun was renovated and repainted and all hateful inscriptions were erased from the place with the help of IDF forces. Now14

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Terrorists, weapons found hiding in 2 more Gaza schools.

IDF soldiers located dozens of explosive devices in UNRWA bags, Kalashnikovs and 15 explosive belts; Hamas terrorist fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops.

Yoav Zitun | published: 12/25/2023 10:47 [...] ([416] Weapons found inside a school during an encounter with terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip) YNet

IDF kills Hamas terrorists hiding in Gaza schools. The Islamist gunmen were operating inside two UNRWA facilities in Gaza City. Israeli troops operating in the (December 25, 2023 / JNS) Israeli soldiers fought Hamas terrorists operating inside two United Nations schools in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.

The military said the terrorists were hiding inside the Al Rafaa and Zavaha schools in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

“This is further evidence that Hamas uses the civilian population and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as human shields for its terrorist activity,” added the IDF.

After killing the terrorists, IDF Nahal Brigade troops located dozens of explosive devices hidden inside UNRWA bags, along with Kalashnikov rifles and 15 suicide belts.

The IDF said that some of the terrorists in the schools were members of Islamic Jihad. Several had participated in the Oct. 7 massacre of some 1,200 persons during Hamas’s attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza border.

The use of the sacks belonging to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) raises further questions about its role in supporting Hamas.

Earlier this month, Israeli soldiers discovered more than 100 rockets hidden in UNRWA boxes inside a home in northern Gaza.

In October, UNRWA reported that fuel and humanitarian aid was stolen from one of its compounds by people purporting to be from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

One released hostage told Israeli Channel 13 reporter Almog Boker that he was held captive by a UNRWA teacher. The hostage said the teacher locked him away and barely fed him or provided him medical treatment.

Also on Monday, Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis raided a complex featuring a weapons-making facility and a concrete factory producing material that Hamas used for the construction of tunnels.

Combat engineers destroyed the compound along with a lathe and a large quantity of munitions.

According to the IDF, the Armored Corp’s reserve Kiryati Brigade, which located and destroyed the complex, has destroyed more than 100 Hamas sites in the area of Khan Yunis, including underground facilities and tunnel shafts.

Khan Yunis, the second largest city in Gaza, is a personal stronghold of Hamas leader in the Strip Yahya Sinwar, whose family lives there.

On Sunday night, the IDF announced the completion of a “large-scale operation to dismantle the northern underground headquarters of Hamas in Gaza.”

Troops retrieved the bodies of five hostages earlier this month after discovering the subterranean tunnel network during activities in the Jabalia camp, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps. JNS

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Netanyahu in WSJ Op-Ed: Hamas must be dismantled and Gaza demilitarized. 12/25/2023 11:11 YNet

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Iran says will respond at 'appropriate time' for assassination of senior official. (12/25/2023 11:18) Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to the assassination blamed on Israel of Revolutionary Guards senior official Sayyed Reza Mousavi in ​​Syria, and stated that "Tehran reserves the right to respond to this crime at the appropriate time and place." The ministry added that "We condemn this terrorism and see it as another sign of Israel's character...." (Lior Ben Ari) YNet

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'War will continue until Hamas is finished, not before.' Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 5:58 PM INN

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Findings prove Gaza hospital's link to October 7 massacre. Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 8:08 PM INN

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Gallant in the north: 'We pushed Hezbollah back, we will not go back to the past.' Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 9:02 PM INN

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Netanyahu: I asked Xi Jinping to help recover hostages. Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 8:08 PM INN

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Israeli airstrikes target special Iranian logisitical unit. Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 10:16 PM The recent Israeli bombing in the Damascus region targeted a unit specifically tasked with transferring arms from Iran to Syria. INN

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IDF attacks rocket launch pads in Lebanon. Two launches from Lebanese territory toward the Manara area were detected in the last few hours, and because of this the IDF attacked the source of the shooting, including two launch positions and other areas in Lebanon. The IDF spokesman added that earlier today a surface-to-air missile was launched from Lebanese territory at an Air Force aircraft operating in the area. The missile did not hit the aircraft, which completed its mission successfully. (Yoav Zitun and Yair Kraus). 12/25/23 YNet

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Rockets fired on Sderot, Gaza border communities. 12/25/23 YNet

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NYT runs Op Ed by Hamas-appointed Gaza City mayor. Israel National News Dec 25, 2023, 10:58 PM INN

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Muslim girl tells Rabbi Shmuley 'go kill yourself' in Times Square.

Rabbi accosted by Muslim family on Christmas eve shouting antisemitic chants at him as anti-Israel protestors sought to 'cancel Christmas.' Israel National News, Dec 26, 2023, 7:29 PM (GMT+2)

A Muslim girl who claimed to be eleven-years-old told American Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to "kill himself" in a video that has gone viral on social media.

The incident occurred on Christmas Eve in Times Square in New York City, as anti-Israel activists attempted to 'cancel Christmas' in midtown. The girl approached Rabbi Boteach and told him that if he had a problem with 'Free Palestine,' "go kill yourself."

The girl's mother supported her daughter's antisemitism when Rabbi Boteach said that he would report the incident to the police, and the girl declared that she was "not sorry" for calling for his death.

Rabbi Boteach wrote on X (formerly Twitter), "An "11-year-old" Muslim girl with her family walked over to me in Times Square and told me to kill myself because I’m a Jew. I am not making this up. You must watch this. They then had their small child kick me to humiliate me whole their daughter continued to say that I should kill myself. Identify who these people are. Also, other passersby yelled at me that she’s white, and I should kill myself as a Jew. All of this happened right in the middle of New York City the night before Christmas. Anti Semitism is becoming unbelievably dangerous and deadly in the United States and around the world. We must fight this disease."

On Monday, Christmas, a mob of about 500 anti-Israel activists gathered at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and chanted "Christmas is canceled here" and "long live the Intifada." The protestors brought with them a mock Nativity scene colored red.

Multiple people were arrested during the protests, and several violent incidents occurred, including a fight outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. INN

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US strikes pro-Iranian militia in Iraq. Elad Benari Dec 26, 2023, 4:49 AM INN.

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Courage and bravery: These are the 162 soldiers who heroically fell in the war These are the 162 soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice fighting terror.

Israel National News Published: Oct 27, 2023, 4:06 PM (GMT+3) Updated: Dec 26, 2023, 6:59 AM INN

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Japan freezes assets, imposes sanctions on Hamas. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/26/2023 03:52 PM JPost

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Gaza rocket strikes synagogue in southern Israel. Synagogue in Sdot Negev Regional Council suffers extensive damage after being struck by a rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Israel National News, Dec 26, 2023, 5:10 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Bereaved father wants to hug soldiers who shot his son in friendly fire.' Bereaved father invites soldiers who shot his son in friendly fire to come to his home. "Remember that our strength is in our unity".

Israel National News, Dec 26, 2023, 6:32 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Yemen's Houthis carry out attacks on Israeli city of Eilat and cargo ship in Red Sea. By Reuters 12/26/2023 08:31 PM JPost

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"Doctors Against Genocide" - brand new pro-Hamas, antisemitic Muslim front group. This flyer stunned a lot of people over the past day.

will surprise no one that "Doctors Against Genocide" was created not in response to any actual genocide but only in the past month, and only for one reason: to make this sort of antisemitism mainstream and acceptable.

Their website does not list the name of one doctor or member. No founders, no committee, no spokesperson.

The "Donate" page of "Doctors Against Genocide" gives a hint as to who is behind it. "Doctors Against Genocide is a program of Jetpac, a 501(c)3 nonprofit," it says.

Jetpac is a Muslim political advocacy group. "Jetpac (Justice Education Technology Political Advocacy Center) seeks to build a strong American Muslim political infrastructure and increase our community’s influence and engagement. Our philosophy of change is rooted in a community-based approach, grassroots mobilization, civics training, and technology application. We have developed our own training curriculum, as well as proprietary social media technology and automation tools, to give our Fellows the skills and resources they need to win elections."

Jetpac was founded by Nadeem Mazen, a Cambridge, MA city council member and leader of CAIR Massachusetts. CAIR has links to Hamas and indeed has never condemned Hamas by name.

So these aren't doctors against genocide against Jews.

Mazen himself is an expert at trying to sneak antisemitic propaganda into mainstream discourse, which is the entire purpose of DAG. He even suggested to cast members of Saturday Night Live how they can create a "funny" sketch about Israel's "baby murder addiction.."

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That is how propaganda is done, and that is the entire purpose of Doctors Against Genocide.

Not that "Doctors Against Genocide" doesn't attract useful non-Muslim idiots. Earlier this month they joined other anti-Israel protesters in Washington, and Code Pink has a video where three people who claim to be healthcare workers - again, without full names - weigh against Israel by pretending to care about healthcare. One of them, "Lana," absurdly claimed said that Israeli actions could cause a new worldwide pandemic because of mosquito-borne diseases from decaying bodies of Gazans under rubble could spread throughout the planet.

Anti-Israel members of Congress were thrilled to claim that they had doctors on their side in speeches.

A frightening article in Tablet last month showed how the medical profession in the US is succumbing to DEI-type philosophy that leads to antisemitism.

Needless to say, these "doctors" have nothing to say about thousands of Israelis injured and killed, or the mental health of Israelis who witnessed the massacres, or the lifetime trauma of being raped by the Islamist savages that they defend. (Tuesday, December 26, 2023). EoZ

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Iran ramps up production of highly enriched uranium, nearing weapons' grade levels. The UN nuclear watchdog said production increased to about 9 kilograms per month, up from 3 kilograms per month since June By Michael Dorgan, Fox News Published December 26, 2023 2:45pm EST Fox News

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Hezbollah fires anti-tank missile at church in northern Israel, wounding civilian. By Emanuel Fabian 26 Dec 2023 1:34 pm

The Hezbollah terror group fired an anti-tank missile from Lebanon at a church in northern Israel, wounding a civilian.

In a statement, Hezbollah claims to have targeted an IDF position near the northern community of Shomera.

But Hebrew-language media reports say the target is actually a church in the nearby depopulated Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit.

A civilian man in his 80s guarding the church was moderately wounded in the attack, reports say…. TOI

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Live updates: 9 soldiers hurt in attack while evacuating wounded civilian from church. Israel continues to battle the Hamas terrorist organization more than 2 months after the October 7 massacre. Israel National News Published: Dec 24, 2023, 10:34 AM (GMT+2) Updated: Dec 27, 2023, 12:39 AM

Live updates: 9 soldiers hurt in attack while evacuating wounded civilian from church. Israel continues to battle the Hamas terrorist organization more than 2 months after the October 7 massacre. Israel National News Published: Dec 24, 2023, 10:34 AM (GMT+2) Updated: Dec 27, 2023, 12:39 AM

The war against Hamas in Gaza entered its twelfth week on Saturday, more than two months after Hamas massacred over 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 240 hostages on the morning of October 7, Simchat Torah.

On Sunday morning, the IDF announced that troops have located a weapons compound with dozens of mortar shells and hundreds of grenades embedded inside a civilian building.

Live updates:

Wednesday, 12:39 a.m.: Lebanese media reported the Israel Air Force attacked targets in the city of Bint Jbeil and the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon.

Tuesday, 4:57 p.m.: Nine IDF soldiers were wounded in the area of Moshav Shomera by anti-tank fire from Lebanon.

The soldiers came under fire while attempting to evacuate a civilian who had been wounded in a previous attack on a church. One soldier was seriously wounded while eight were lightly to moderately wounded.

Tuesday, 4:46 p.m.: The IDF announced that a short while ago, a launch was identified from a location near a mosque in the town of Yaroun in southern Lebanon toward Israel.

"This is further proof of Hezbollah's cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians and holy sites for its terrorist activity," the IDF stated. ... INN

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Netanyahu slams Turkish President Erdogan for Kurdish ‘genocide’ after Hitler comparison. By Ryan King Published Dec. 27, 2023, 12:53 p.m. ET. NY Post

(Turkey [Türkiye] Islamist oppressor Erdogan's obsessive long record of Hitler / Nazi comparison. All the while, he himself actually has a Hitler-problem... 2016: Erdogan’s Hitler Problem. The Turkish presidency is seeking to clarify President Erdogan's recent remarks in which he favorably compared his vision of an executive presidency with Nazi Germany. This is not the first time he has said outrageous things only to walk them back. Blog Post by Steven A. Cook, January 4, 2016 11:30 am (EST). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a Hitler problem. When he was asked last Friday to comment on his strong desire to establish what Turks call an “executive presidency” and how that might affect the “unitary structure” of the Turkish state, Erdogan replied, “There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany.” In the firestorm of criticism that followed, the Turkish presidency sought to clarify Erdogan’s remark. The Guardian quoted an anonymous official stating, “There are good and poor examples of presidential systems and the important thing is to put checks and balances in place…Nazi Germany, lacking proper institutional arrangements, was obviously one of the most disgraceful examples in history.” The same official also accused the president’s opponents of purposefully distorting his remarks. Fair enough, but one has to wonder why Nazi Germany was the first example Erdogan could think of... [418]

2017: Turkey hurls “Nazi” allegations to boost its president’s support. Recep Tayyip Erdogan reckons an anti-European frenzy will help him win a constitutional referendum. Mar 15th 2017 [419]

Erdogan: If You Call Me Dictator, I Will Call You Nazi. Mar 24, 2017 — Turkish president has said he would keep throwing Nazi slurs as long as he is called “a dictator,” refusing to tamp down his [420]

Erdogan Calls Dutch ‘Nazi Remnants’ After Turkish Minister Is Barred. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at a rally in Istanbul on Saturday. He threatened to retaliate against the Netherlands for denying the foreign minister permission to fly in. By Alissa J. Rubin March 11, 2017 PARIS — The Dutch government on Saturday intensified a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and its NATO allies in Europe by refusing to let the Turkish foreign minister fly into the Netherlands to campaign on behalf of a referendum that would augment the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. In response, Mr. Erdogan compared the Dutch to “fascists” and said they were “Nazi remnants,” echoing the description he used for the Germans last Sunday, after two Turkish politicians campaigning for Mr. Erdogan scrapped rallies when the German government told them it could not guarantee their safety. Mr. Erdogan accused Germany of using “Nazi practices” to block him from campaigning, drawing a rebuke from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who called the comparison “completely unacceptable” and said the remarks trivialized the suffering of the Nazis’ victims. [421]

Erdogan calls Dutch government ‘Nazis’ after Turkish foreign minister’s plane prevented from landing in Netherlands Protests at Dutch embassy in Turkey as diplomatic row escalates. Lizzie Dearden, Harriet Agerholm. Saturday 11 March 2017 [422]

Germany Turkey Tensions on Rise following Nazi Comment by Erdogan Mar 19, 2017 — Turkish President accuses German chancellor of Nazi practices in escalating war of words ahead of Turkish referendum. [423]

Turkish President Erdogan calls Germany's Merkel “Nazi”. Mar 20, 2017 — Turkish President Erdogan calls Germany's Merkel “Nazi” ... YEREVAN, MARCH 20, ARMENPRESS. Ankara launched a new wave of anti-German rhetoric.. [424]

Germany says Erdogan has 'gone too far' with Nazi jibe. Germany's FM Sigmar Gabriel branded Erdogan's comments "shocking". AFP PTI Berlin Last Updated : Mar 20 2017 | 4:06 AM [425]

Germany rejects Erdogan's 'absurd' Nazi comparison, calls for calm. By Andrea Shalal March 6, 2017 [426]

Merkel: Turkish comments about Nazis trivialize to victims. By David Rising and Josh Lederman. Published 7:49 AM PST, March 9, 2017 Share BERLIN (AP) — Comments from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Turkish officials accusing Germany of “Nazi practices” cannot be tolerated and need to stop, Chancellor Angela Merkel told Parliament on Thursday. In her strongest comments so far about Erdogan’s statement, Merkel said the Nazi comparisons were “sad” and “so incredibly misplaced that one really can’t comment, but they cannot be justified.” “We will not allow the victims of the Nazis to be trivialized,” she said. “These comparisons with the Nazis must stop.” [427]

In 2018: Turkey daily portrays Merkel as Hitler, decries 'Nazi mentality'. Mar 26, 2018 [428]

In 2020: With Nazi reference, Turkey's Erdogan escalates dispute with Greece over migrants. Greece calls comments unhelpful, has denied accusations it has mistreated migrants. The Associated Press Posted: March 11, 2020 Last Updated: March 11, 2020 [429]

In 2022: Erdoğan likens removal of Dostoyevsky from curricula in Europe to ‘Nazi mindset’. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called the removal of Dostoyevsky’s works from academic curricula in some European countries a "Nazi mindset." Meanwhile, social media users mocked Erdoğan for his pronunciation of Dostoyevsky as “Dostoviski,” as “viski” means “whisky” in Turkish. 09.03.2022 Duvar English [430]

In 2023: Turkish FM Compares Sweden to Nazi Germany After Court Ruling. [Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu]. The Turkish foreign minister’s remarks do not bode well for Sweden’s eventual accession into NATO. Robert Semonsen — April 6, 2023 [431] at EoZ)

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Blast rattles Israeli embassy in India; ‘abusive’ letter to envoy said found nearby No injuries in explosion, which comes amid rising threats to Israeli and Jewish targets abroad; Israeli security officials, Indian police working together on investigation. By TOI Staff 26 December 2023, 6:30 pm TOI

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Letter calling for 'revenge' over Gaza was found at site of New Delhi embassy attack. Dec 26, 2023 | 22:15

Next to the bomb that exploded Tuesday evening near the Israeli embassy in India, a threatening letter addressed to Israel's ambassador to India Naor Gilon was discovered. The letter was wrapped in an Israeli flag, and it dealt with the military activity in the Gaza Strip, calling for "revenge." The letter was signed by an organization that identified itself as "Sir Allah Resistance," and Israel estimates that Iran is behind the attack... YNet

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IDF says West Bank terrorists killed since Oct. 7 more than in 2002 Operation Defensive Shield. By Elisha Ben Kimon Dec 26, 2023 | 22:41 YNet

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NYT criticized for running op-ed by Hamas-appointed Gaza mayor. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: December 26, 2023 JPost

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New York Times editorial written by Hamas-appointed mayor sparks outrage. By David Millward, Telegraph Staff. December 26, 2023. Readers slam US newspaper for publishing comment piece by Gaza leader who was quick to criticise Israelis. Daily Telegraph

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18 rockets launched from Lebanon; IDF attacks sources of the fire. Some 18 rockets were fired from Lebanon in a barrage to the Western Galilee on Wednesday morning, and eight of them were intercepted, according to the IDF. .. By Yoav Zitun Dec 27, 2023 | 2:50 AM YNet

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Netanyahu: Turkey's Erdogan cannot preach morality to us. Reuters Dec 27, 2023 | 7:04 AM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who he said commits genocide against Kurds and imprisons journalists, is the last person who should be preaching morality to others. Netanyahu was speaking after the Turkish president described the Israeli leader as .... YNet

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Egyptian official: ‘Hamas must agree to a new deal’ A senior Egyptian official told Saudi paper Elaph on Wednesday that “Hamas must agree to a new hostage release deal.” The official added, “It should use the cease-fire to reorganize and put serious pressure on Israel to stop its war.” (Einav Halabi) YNet

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Rabbis condemn Hamas propaganda in NY Times. Publication of op-ed by Hamas leader represents New York Times' 'long & sordid history of antisemitic bias,' Coalition for Jewish Values says. Israel National News Dec 27, 2023, 11:20 AM (GMT+2) ...By printing propaganda from an anti-Jewish terrorist organization,” said CJV Vice President Rabbi Dov Fischer, “The New York Times continues its long and sordid history of antisemitic bias. America’s 'paper of record' buried news of the Holocaust and Hitler’s atrocities from readers, and due to its influence much of the nation’s media followed suit. Today the Times publishes libelous screeds about Orthodox Jewish institutions, and maintains a steady beat of distorted reporting on Israel that has poisoned generations of subscribers.”

In his published submission, Yahya Sarraj admits that, far from being democratically elected, he was appointed mayor of Gaza City by the Hamas terror organization, responsible for the mass murder, rapes, and beheadings that characterized its unprovoked attack upon Israel on October 7. Neither the genocidal charter of Hamas, nor the vile atrocities that initiated the current conflict, were deemed worthy of mention by Sarraj, and no Times editor demanded basic factual context before publishing Hamas propaganda. INN

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CNN presenter burst into tears when reading hostage mother's plea. John Vause, CNN presenter, burst into tears when reading plea to President Biden, from Liora Argamani, mother of Noa, kidnapped to Gaza. Tziki Brandwine, Dec 27, 2023, 3:47 PM (GMT+2) ...Liora Argamani wrote in her letter to President Biden: "I am terminally ill with Stage 4 brain cancer. All that’s running through my mind before I part ways with my family forever is the chance to hug my daughter, my only child, one last time." INN

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Watch: London cyclist assaults Orthodox Jews. Man on bicycle assaults multiple Jewish men in Stamford Hill neighborhood as London sees hundreds of percent rise in antisemitism. Israel National News Dec 27, 2023, 7:21 PM ...Police are still attempting to identify a man who earlier this month threatened Jewish children before accosting a Jewish mother pushing her baby in a stroller and shouting at her "I will kill you."

The "Campaign Against Anti-Semitism" organization published additional videos in which an unidentified woman was seen shouting at Jewish children who were standing outside a synagogue "I will kill all of you Jews", and another person who was shouting "Heil Hitler."

According to data from the London police, there has been an increase of hundreds of percent in the number of antisemitic incidents in London since the Hamas massacre of October 7. INN

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Samaria Council report: UN presents attacks against Jews as 'settler violence' Israel National News Dec 27, 2023, 6:38 PM INN

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'Claims of indiscriminate bombing are misleading.'

Brigadier General Omer Tischler discussed the IAF's operations planning principles and addressed misleading claims about its operations.

Israel National News Dec 27, 2023, 6:20 PM INN

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IDF says troops destroyed 3 shafts connecting to tunnel under Gaza hospital. By Emanuel Fabian Dec 27, 2023, 8:17 pm TOI

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Anti-Israel agitators stop traffic at airports in Los Angeles, New York City. (December 27, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Penn ‘failed to take concrete action’ on Jew-hatred, state governor says. (December 27, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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HIAS accused of failing to prioritize Jewish safety after Oct. 7. David Swindle. (December 27, 2023 / JNS) HIAS generated critical headlines earlier this month when Ashley Chteh, a volunteer at HIAS Pennsylvania, was recorded helping to burn an Israeli flag and saying "Down with the N... regime."

The nearly 145-year-old nonprofit founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society quickly noted that HIAS Pennsylvania was an independent partner of HIAS. “This person is not and never has been affiliated with HIAS, and is no longer affiliated with HIAS PA,” it stated. “We strongly condemn antisemitism in all its forms. Hate has no place in our world.” JNS

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Austrian University Severs Ties with Harvard amid Antisemitism Row. By Ari Blaff December 27, 2023 9:29 AM

The Lauder Business School in Vienna announced it would be cutting ties with Harvard University amid the elite college’s failure to tackle growing concerns about antisemitism on campus.

The Austrian institution decided to sever its relationship with Harvard as an expression of “solidarity with the Jewish student community at Harvard,” an official statement, first obtained by the Jerusalem Post, reads. “Our university is proud to create partnerships, but these must consistently align with our moral standards and criteria,” a spokesperson for the Lauder Business School told the Post in a comment about the development.

The English-language program was created in 2003 with the financial support of Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, and heir of cosmetics company, Estée Lauder. The philanthropist, also a University of Pennsylvania alumni, threatened in mid October to pull money from the Ivy League school, pointing to its handling of antisemitism on campus. “You are forcing me to reexamine my financial support absent satisfactory measures to address antisemitism at the university,” the Wharton Business School grad wrote in a letter to then-president Liz Magill prior to her resignation.

Harvard has seen donors pull money from the school following the Hamas invasion of Israel in early October that led to the deaths of over a thousand people. Immediately following the atrocities, student groups issued statements supportive of the Palestinian terror group’s massacre. “Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum,” a joint letter signed by dozens of Harvard student groups argued. “The apartheid[sic] regime is the only one to blame.”

The statement was widely condemned by leaders across the political spectrum, including Harvard alumni. “Israel is the victim of a terrorist attack. Hamas is the perpetrator. It’s as simple as that. There are no ‘both sides,’” Representative Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.) wrote following the Harvard statement.

“Yet here you have 30+ student organizations from Harvard University, blaming the victims, Israelis, for their own murder, rape, and abduction, rather than blaming the perpetrator, Hamas, for murdering, raping, and abducting them. Demonizing Israel — to the point of denying the humanity of Israeli victims and the inhumanity of their perpetrators — is moral confusion masquerading as moral clarity.”

In late October, Harvard announced the creation of a task force aimed to “disrupt and dismantle” antisemitism at the Ivy League school. “Antisemitism has a very long and shameful history at Harvard,” President Claudine Gay said during a Hillel Shabbat dinner announcing the body’s creation. “For years, this University has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer.”

“They will help us to identify all the places — from our orientations and trainings to how we teach — where we can intervene to disrupt and dismantle this ideology, and where we can educate our community so that they can recognize and confront antisemitism wherever they see it.”

The eight-member panel includes journalist Dara Horn as well as Rabbi David Wolpe, the Harvard Crimson reported at the time. However, the distinguished conservative religious figure stepped away in early December, citing Gay’s poor performance before Congress and her waffling responses to Harvard’s position on the genocide of Jews. “The system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil,” Wolpe explained on X announcing his decision. NRO

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Hassan Nasrallah’s assistant dead in Lebanon, local media report. By Jerusalem Post Staff 12/27/2023 03:24 PM JPost

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See how Israel-basher Sari Bashi avoids question re Hamas using children.

CNN, 'The Source' with Kaitlan Collins, 12-27-2023:

COLLINS: So, when you see these videos, I mean, there are still a lot of questions, I should note, about the longevity of these videos, how long these detainees have been stripped, but the two children specifically, I think, I'm curious your thoughts on that, given we hear from the IDF that they say that they're worried about explosives, that's why they do strip them down to their underwear. But what do you make of the two children who are included here? And also, if there are questions here, what that could say about Hamas and the claims that they use children and civilians as shields?

BASHI: So, I don't have information about those two children or about any of the detainees. I don't know what it is they're suspected of doing. What I can say is that when you detain children, you have to be particularly conscious of respecting their rights and treating them in a way that's appropriate to children... at EoZ

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Andy @andyayalla: Today, the police confirmed that Aya Abu Hajjaj, a 24 year old Palestinian woman in her final term of pregnancy who was fatally stabbed last month, was killed by her 14 year old brother, her 51 year old father, and a 15 year old cousin.

The Palestinian account lied!! Dec 27, 2023. [432]

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Senior Palestinian official criticizes Hamas: 'Led to catastrophe'. Osama al-Ali, the Palestinian ambassador to Oman and a member of the Palestinian National Council advising the Fatah movement, sharply criticized Hamas, saying they made a mistake and brought "100 catastrophes on Gaza." Ynet News 12.27.23 YNet

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Hitler video, claimed to call for the extermination of Jews, is soaring in popularity among Arabs. December 28, 2023. [433] This video of an Adolf Hitler speech has been exploding across Arabic social media channels... The clip is so popular that AFP Arabic tracked down the original speech and debunked the subtitles - it was really an election campaign speech... EoZ

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US sanctions alleged conduits of Iranian funds to Yemen's Houthis. By Reuters. 12/28/2023 05:55 PM JPost

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Next phase of war will be 'more powerful than Hamas imagines,' Gantz says. Anti-tank missiles cause damage in Kiryat Shemona; IDF strikes back at Hezbollah targets; Hamas tells Tehran it can continue fighting for 'several months' Ynet corresponents | 12/28/2023 :09:19 YNet

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Mia Shem opens up about Gaza captivity: 'Everyone there is a terrorist.' "It's important to me to reveal the truth about the people who live in Gaza, about who they really are," Shem says in a preview of an interview. (December 28, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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After canceling Christmas, PA nixes New Year’s celebrations. (December 28, 2023 / JNS)

Instead, Palestinians will observe a "Day of Rage," P.A. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced. Palestinian localities in Judea and Samaria will not celebrate New Year’s next week, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced on Wednesday, days after the P.A.-controlled city of Bethlehem moved to cancel its traditional Christmas festivities.

Instead of marking New Year’s Eve, Palestinians will observe a “Day of Rage” ... JNS

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2 wounded in stabbing attack south of Jerusalem.

Young woman seriously wounded, young man moderately wounded in stabbing attack at the Mizmoriya Checkpoint.

Israel National News Dec 28, 2023, 9:20 PM INN

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New October 7th footage: Single neighborhood guard fights terrorists in Kibbutz Re'im. Israel National News Dec 28, 2023, 6:51 PM INN

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Investigation: Soldiers did not hear orders during shooting of 3 hostages. Chief of Staff concludes killing of 3 hostages by IDF forces could have been prevented, but soldiers acted according to their understanding. Israel National News Dec 28, 2023, 8:10 PM INN

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NY native held hostage in Gaza has been killed — Hamas terrorists still holding body. By Social Links forMelissa Koenig Published Dec. 28, 2023 A New York native who was believed to be held captive by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip was killed during the initial Oct. 7 attack, and her body is still being held by the terrorists, it was confirmed Thursday.

Judith Weinstein Haggai, 70, was on a morning walk with her husband when armed Hamas militants invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz and ambushed them, the kibbutz announced. She died as a result of injuries.

“She was a poet and an entrepreneur who loved to create and was dedicated to working for peace and friendship,” the kibbutz’s statement read.

News of her death comes just one week after officials confirmed her husband, Gadi Haggai, 73, was killed in captivity.

[Judith Weinstein Haggai and her husband, Gadi Haggai, were taking their morning walk near Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 when they were ambushed by radical Hamas terrorists during the attack on Israel. AP]

Weinstein, a native of Goshen in upstate New York, moved to Israel 30 years ago, seeking solace in the Jewish state — until Hamas’ surprise terror attack on Oct. 7 shattered their peaceful existence.

She worked as an English teacher who specialized in working with children with special needs and attention and concentration problems, according to Israel National News.

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Weinstein also helped children who suffered from anxiety and depression due to living under the threat of rockets from Gaza.

Her family described her as a peaceful person — a vegan who wrote daily haikus, CNN reported.

But her world turned upside down during the Hamas terrorist attack, when Weinstein informed a kibbutz member she had been shot in the arm and was wounded in the face and Haggai had been shot in the head, according to Haaretz.

Shortly before the couple was believed to be taken hostage, Weinstein was also able to text her daughter in Singapore. A paramedic later told the couple’s children that she had called for medical help — but they lost contact with her.

“She said they were shot by terrorists on a motorcycle and that my dad was wounded really bad,” Iris Weinstein Haggai told the Times of Israel.

“Paramedics tried to send her an ambulance. The ambulance got hit by a rocket.”

The family had not heard from the elderly couple since.

The Haggai family. 3 Judith Weinstein and her husband, Gadi Haggai, with their family. Haggai Family “We know that they were badly wounded. We know that [Weinstein] still had the phone with her to be able to call and ask for help and provide details. But ever since then, we lost all contact with them,” the couple’s niece, Ofri Haggai, 47, told The Post last month.

The phone was found hours later by the Israeli military — raising hope that the couple might have been among the more than 220 Israelis taken hostage during the brutal assault, instead of among those killed, she added.

Family members had pushed for Weinstein to be released, and initially thought she could be among the 50 women and children set free under a deal last month.

What do you think? Post a comment. But she never came home, and was believed to be the last remaining American woman held hostage in the Gaza Strip. Six other American citizens, all men, also remain in captivity.

President Joe Biden paid tribute to Weinstein in a statement on Thursday.

“Jill and I are devastated to learn that American Judith Weinstein is also believed to have been killed by Hamas on October 7,” Biden said. “This tragic development cuts deep, coming on the heels of last week’s news that Judith’s beloved husband, Gad Haggai, is believed to have been killed by Hamas.”

The Haggais leave behind four children and seven grandchildren.

“I will never forget what their daughter, and the family members of other Americans held hostage in Gaza, have shared with me,” Biden added.

“They have been living through hell for weeks. No family should have to endure such an ordeal. And I reaffirm the pledge we have made to all the families of those still held hostage: we will not stop working to bring them home.” NYPost

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Rockets and drones launched at northern Israel. Israel National News Dec 28, 2023, 7:22 PM INN

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'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7. A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

([434] A woman links arms with a man on a gray sofa in a living room with a white wall. The couple is flanked by two younger women. A wedding portrait hangs on the wall. Gal Abdush’s parents, center, and her sisters. The photograph on the wall shows Gal and her husband, Nagi. The couple had been together since they were teenagers).

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella Photographs by Avishag Shaar-Yashuv. Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella reported from across Israel and interviewed more than 150 people.

Dec. 28, 2023 At first, she was known simply as “the woman in the black dress.”

In a grainy video, you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes.

The video was shot in the early hours of Oct. 8 by a woman searching for a missing friend at the site of the rave in southern Israel where, the day before, Hamas terrorists massacred hundreds of young Israelis.

The video went viral, with thousands of people responding, desperate to know if the woman in the black dress was their missing friend, sister or daughter... NYT

Is this a ploy by -- Arabized "Palestinian" Nazi Hitler-fan employer -- NYT to get credibility for its weekly Pallywood garbage?

Whatever happened to the extremely biased paper that has full of garbage written by its racist-Arab writers: "Palestinian" [435] Raja Abdulrahim] and Iyad Ibuheweila and a nazi "palestinian" Hitler fan? [436] Soliman Hijjy?

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Suddenly it decided that in order to get some credibility its routine Pallywood... it wrote about the real pure innocent victims in the hands of barbarian jihadi-fascist regimeordinary "Palestinians."

[438] 'In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7. Publication uncovers new information, devastating testimony, on systemic targeting of women and girls, use of sexual assault and mutilation during savage Hamas onslaught in Israel.' at EoZ

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Brooklyn: Palestinian Arab restaurant under fire for 'openly genocidal' menu.

Residents furious after new restaurant prints 'From the River to the Sea' in large letters on menu along with other anti-Israel material. Israel National News, Dec 28, 2023, 6:12 PM (GMT+2)

A new Palestinian-Arab-owned restaurant in Brooklyn, New York sparked controversy for including the phrase 'From the River to the Sea' on its menus, the Daily Beast reported.

The restaurant, Ayat, was opened earlier this month in the Ditmas Park neighborhood and is the third to be opened from a small chain owned by Ayat Masoud and her husband, Abdul Elenani.

The seafood section of the restaurant menu features the term 'From the River to the Sea' a call for the complete destruction of the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The phrase is featured above the menu options in larger print than anything else on the page...

Local residents strongly criticized the menu for its political and divisive content on a community Facebook page, with one calling the menu "openly genocidal." INN

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IDF expands Gaza ops, digs deep into Khan Yunis tunnel system. Israeli military releases results of investigation into accidental fire that killed three hostages; since Oct. 7, casualties of Israel Defense Forces reach 501. Yaakov Lappin (December 29, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Antisemitic vandals target offices of two pro-Israel New York congressmen. “I, for one, will not be intimidated,” wrote Rep. Ritchie Torres. (December 29, 2023 / JNS) Antisemitic vandals defaced the offices this past week of two pro-Israel New York congressmen.

“The vandalism of one of our offices yesterday is just the latest escalation in the tactics being used by those who sympathize more with Hamas than with Israel,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) wrote on Dec. 28.

“As I’ve said repeatedly, I want the Palestinian people to be free from their true oppressors—Hamas, a terrorist organization that has been the governing body in Gaza for nearly two decades and has used the Palestinian people as human shields,” he added.... JNS

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'Hamas murdered us while we were still in pajamas.' Ori Megidish, IDF lookout rescued from Hamas captivity, shares: 'Despite the pain and loneliness, I had hope that they would rescue me.' Israel National News Dec 30, 2023, 8:58 PM INN

Julia Haart at family rally: I have never been prouder to be a Jew, we will not be silent. Fashion designer Julia Haart took the stage at a rally for the hostages' families to deliver an impassioned message to the nation. Israel National News Dec 30, 2023, 10:12 PM

Fashion designer Julia Haart spoke at a rally for the hostages Saturday evening. Haart has become famous as her story was featured on the Netflix miniseries "My Unorthodox Life". INN

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IDF arrests terrorists who hided in a school, used women and children as shields.

Yoav Zitun | published: 12.30.23 |

The 188th Brigade has been operating in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip since the beginning of the week. In their operations, the brigade's soldiers have encountered numerous terrorists launching attacks from buildings and civilian areas. Since the commencement of their mission in the camp, the troops have discovered and destroyed four rocket launchers, exposing nine explosive devices. YNet

IDF Rescues Palestinian Civilians from School Used by Hamas for Attacks. Joel B. Pollak. 30 Dec 2023. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) evacuated Palestinian civilians from a school in central Gaza that was being used by Hamas terrorists to fire at Israeli soldiers, and arrested and interrogated the terrorists from the building, Israel announced Saturday. Breitbart

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Reports in Gaza: Right-hand man of Hamas 'Engineer' eliminated. Israel National News Dec 31, 2023, 1:05 AM INN

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After attack on Maersk vessel: US shoots down Houthi-fired ballistic missiles. Israel National News Dec 31, 2023, 3:59 AM INN

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Bodycam footage: Rocket launchers found in school, community center in Khan Yunis. In raid on Hamas stronghold in Gaza, IDF forces find large quantities of weapons, grenades inside bedroom closet. Israel National News, Dec 31, 2023, 2:04 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Report: Tony Blair to promote emigration of Gazans to other countries. Hezki Baruch Dec 31, 2023, 9:56 PM INN

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Dance star Montana Tucker: 'Hatred of Jews is trending, I had to come to Israel' Yoni Kempinski Dec 31, 2023, 5:42 PM INN

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Two wounded in stabbing attack near Mishor Adumim. Two security guards were lightly wounded. The terrorist was neutralized. Israel National News Dec 31, 2023, 7:58 PM INN

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700 North Americans make aliyah following Oct. 7 attacks. (December 31, 2023 / JNS) Nefesh B’Nefesh, together with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and JNF-USA, has helped more than 700 North American immigrants move to the Jewish state since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, NBN announced on Sunday. JNS

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US pressure causes Israel to tighten rules of engagement—report. (December 31, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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UN calls for meeting on Judea and Samaria, focuses on Gaza, ignores Hezbollah. Mike Wagenheim. (December 31, 2023 / JNS) JNS

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Israeli indicted for identification with ISIS. The suspect stated that he did not recognize the State of Israel and that an Islamic state should be established in its place. Israeli soldiers hold an ISIS flag found on the body of a Hamas terrorist at Kibbutz Sufa on Oct. 12. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.Israeli soldiers hold an ISIS flag found on the body of a Hamas terrorist at Kibbutz Sufa on Oct. 12. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.

(December 31, 2023 / JNS) Israeli authorities revealed on Sunday that a resident of the Arab city Tira, located in the southern Galilee region known as the Arab Triangle, was arrested on suspicion of security offenses, including identification with the Islamic State terrorist organization.

The suspect was indicted in the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court on charges including incitement to terrorism.

According to the Israel Police, the suspect stated that he did not recognize the State of Israel and that an Islamic state should be established in its place. He also stated that anyone who is not Muslim should be killed.

The 22-year-old allegedly published social media posts hailing ISIS and calling for attacks on Jews during the ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Last month, Israeli security forces arrested three residents of southeastern Jerusalem’s Umm Tuba neighborhood on suspicion of being members of ISIS.

The three men, all in their 20s, are believed to have made contact with ISIS terrorists through social media. They allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and had concrete plans to leave Israel and join the terrorist group.

According to the Israeli statement, pro-ISIS materials and large amounts of cash were found during a police search of the suspects’ homes.

On Nov. 5, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian ISIS operative, Nabil Halabia, during an overnight arrest raid in the Arab village of Abu Dis outside Jerusalem. Halabia was recently jailed in Israel but was released in July.

The Israel Defense Forces said that from the moment he was released, Halabia “recruited a squad, purchased weapons and carried out a shooting attack against IDF forces in the area.”

In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 cross-border attack on southwestern Israel, security forces found an ISIS flag on the body of one of the terrorists they killed in Kibbutz Sufa.

“Hamas is ISIS—this is not a slogan because we found terrorists with ISIS flags. We also found ISIS booklets. Hamas is ISIS,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari noted on Oct. 12.

In November, Israel’s parliament passed a law banning for two years the “systematic and prolonged” online viewing of pro-terrorist content.

The law, which expires in 2025 but can be extended, bars Israelis from systematically viewing online content that glorifies ISIS and Hamas. Anyone found guilty faces a prison sentence of up to one year.

The law contains an exception for people who watch terrorist content “randomly, in good faith, or for a legitimate reason including providing information to the public, preventing terror attacks, or for research purposes.” JNS

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Israel-Hamas War: Iranian ship enters Red Sea, US carrier departs. IDF strikes Hamas commander, four Hezbollah terrorists killed • Hamas terrorists admit to exploiting civilians in IDF investigation. By Jerusalem Post Staff

Iran stations warship in Red Sea as US aircraft carrier leaves Middle East - analysis The story about the US carrier leaving the region was covered in Al-Mayadeen media, which is pro-Iran, showing that pro-Iran figures in the region are watching. By Seth J. Frantzman, Reuters

Iran's Alborz warship has passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea, the country's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.

Iranian warships have been operating in the region "to secure[sic] shipping lanes since 2009," Tasnim said.

Iranian-backed groups have not reduced their attacks in the Middle East. On the opposite, pro-Iranian media sought to highlight how the attacks are increasing. Al-Mayadeen media, which is pro-Iran, claimed that there were attacks targeting Al-Asad based in Iraq and Shaddadi in Syria, two places where US forces are located. The US is in Syria and Iraq to help defeat ISIS.

Reports on December 31 that the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier is heading out of the Mediterranean is also raising eyebrows in Iran and the region. While Gaza fighting appears to be reduced slightly, Iran continues to want to manage the conflict against Israel. Towards that end, Iranian Tasnim ran a long interview about the role of Qasem Soleimani in the region. Although the interview is ostensibly about Soleimani, who was killed in January 2020 by the US, the report examines recent details about the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen targeting ships and Palestinian terror groups targeting Israel...

Hamas terrorist admits Hamas stopped Gazans fleeing south. By Jerusalem Post Staff ([439] Footge from the investigation of Zohadi Ali Zahadi Shahin. January 1, 2024. Credit: IDF) JPost

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WATCH: Hamas terrorists admit to exploiting civilians in IDF investigation. By Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: January 1, 2024 23:27 Updated: January 2, 2024 01:22

([440] Footage from the investigation of Muhammad Darwish Amara. January 1, 2024. Credit: IDF)

Operatives exploited civilians by invading personal space, telling them they would be bombed if they moved south, and several other threats.

Interrogation of terrorists in an investigation by the IDF's Unit 504 has exposed tactics used by Hamas to exploit Gazan civilians, a report by the IDF revealed.

Two terrorists from different factions within Gaza - Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad - have divulged details on Hamas threatened residents of Gaza to meet the needs of the terrorist organizations.

Zohadi Ali Zahadi Shahin, a Hamas terrorist in their Shati Battalion, admitted during the investigation that Hamas not only stopped Gazans fleeing south towards Rafah and relocated them back north to Shifa Hospital. There, civilians were kept while Hamas terrorists waited in hiding under the hospital in tunnels.

([441] Footage from the investigation of Zohadi Ali Zahadi Shahin. January 1, 2024. Credit: IDF)

Shortly after realizing that the IDF would be on the hospital grounds, he said that the terrorists went to the ground floor where the civilians were being hosted.

Entering homes without permission Shahin spoke about Hamas terrorists would overtake civilian homes and make them their own, plant explosives next to doors in homes where small children were staying, and tell the residents that they could "leave if [you] have a problem with it."

He added that a Hamas operative threatened him and said, "If you don't like it, I'll put the bomb between you and your wife."

Muhammad Darwish Amara, an Islamic Jihad operative from the group's Gaza Brigade admitted that Hamas terrorists planted a bomb in his home, where his children were staying, to coerce him into participating in their terrorist actions.

Amara described the feeling of being used as human shields for Hamas' gain. JPost

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Yemen's Houthis attack American warship in Red Sea - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/01/2024 09:03 PM JPost

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'Honestly, I prefer the IDF': Palestinians in Gaza speak out on Hamas abuse Interrogated Palestinians reveal the level of abuse and neglect they've endured by Hamas, even going so far as saying they'd be much better off with the IDF in charge because being among Israeli soldiers 'felt safe'

Yoav Zitun | published: 01.01.24 | 13:18

Recent IDF interrogations of Gazans captured during the war have revealed the severe and worsening conditions of living in close proximity to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, revealing the extent of the hardship and the systematic deterioration of daily life for residents in these areas.

According to testimony, "A man discovered they took an explosive charge and placed it near his door, a couple of feet away. The man said 'don't put it there, it could kill me and my children'. They told him that if he was unhappy about that, he could leave. When he protested, he was shot in the leg." The investigation of Zohadi Ali Zahadi Shahin

Mohammed Darwish Amara, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, spoke of how Hamas operatives have been moving around and embedding themselves within the population. "I was at a school and I told a kid to go by the house every now and then to make sure nothing is stolen, and when he got there, he saw a bunch of Hamas operatives just resting in the apartment, using it as a firing nest. They came into my apartment without authorization. "My brothers and I inherited a plot of land, but my cousin, who is a member of Hamas, won't give it up. He placed artillery there. When I told him he could hurt the children living there, he said it's his land and he'll do whatever he wants with it."

([442] The prisoners who spoke to IDF interrogators Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit).

([443] Hamas supporters wave green Islamic flags during a rally in solidarity with fellow Palestinians in Jerusalem Hamas holds rallies but abuses civilians when times get tough - Photo: AP)

Zuhadi Ali Zahadi Shahi, a former Hamas operative, said, "We felt we're being used as human shields. Why should we protect them? We want to live too. IDF gave us a clear path south, where there would be food and water, but Hamas stopped us along the way and took us to sit with them inside Al-Shifa Hospital. I even argued with one of them, telling him he should be out there, fighting, but he just threatened me in return. "In all honesty, I prefer the IDF. If they had been there, right where we lived, we wouldn't have been starving. At first, we were scared about what would happen when the IDF came inside Al-Shifa, but they actually gave us food and water and sat with us. We felt safe." YNet

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Over 150 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza - COGAT. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/02/2024 06:10 AM JPost

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Israeli attack on outskirts of Damascus caused material damage, Syrian military says. By Reuters 01/02/2024 07:01 AM JPost

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Drone attack targeting air base housing US forces in northern Iraq thwarted- sources. By Reuters 01/02/2024 09:56 AM JPost

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Two anti-tank missiles fall in Shlomi, one causes minor damage to property. By Yoav Etiel 01/02/2024 10:16 AM JPost

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Israel says it struck Syrian military targets in response to rockets. By Reuters 01/02/2024 10:58 AM JPost

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Hamas, Islamic Jihad respond to Egyptian deal proposal - Al Mayadeen. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/02/2024 05:18 PM JPost

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Maersk will continue to pause all Red Sea shipments. By Reuters 01/02/2024 06:00 PM JPost

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Top Hamas official killed in Beirut explosion, Hezbollah media says. Israeli officials have not taken responsibility for the attack but noted its 'surgical' precision. By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi. Fox News Published January 2, 2024 12:37pm EST Updated January 2, 2024 1:27pm EST

Hezbollah-linked news outlets are reporting that deputy Hamas leader Saleh Arouri was killed by an Israeli air strike.

Al-Mayadeen, a publication linked to Hezbollah, reported that the high-ranking Hamas official was killed in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.

Israeli officials have denied involvement in the strike, but noted the "surgical" precision of the attack. Fox News

Hamas' 2nd in command killed in Beirut explosion. Saleh al-Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, reportedly killed in car explosion in southern Lebanon.

Israel National News Jan 2, 2024, 7:48 PM Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, was killed in an explosion in the neighborhood of Dahieh in southern Beirut this evening (Tuesday), Arabic and Hezbollah media sources reported... Two other people were reportedly killed in the blast, which occurred while al-Arouri was reportedly in a meeting with other terrorist operatives from Hamas and Hezbollah. According to reports, one of the operatives who was killed in the strike together with al-Arouri was Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of the Hamas political wing... INN _

Who is Saleh al-Arouri, the senior Hamas leader killed in Beirut? The Hamas deputy, who the group said had been killed, helped usher in closer ties with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia and was accused of masterminding attacks in Israel. By Daniel Victor Jan. 2, 2024 Updated 6:41 p.m. ET NYT _

Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in alleged Israeli strike in Beirut. Israel mum on blast at Hamas office in Dahiyeh suburb said to kill 7 including terror chief; all eyes on Hezbollah, which said it would respond to any targeting of Hamas in Lebanon By TOI Staff and Agencies 2 January 2024, 8:39 pm Updated: Today, 1:07 am. Hamas’s deputy leader abroad Saleh al-Arouri, wanted for years by Israel and seen as the group’s prime orchestrator of West Bank terrorism, was killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah said.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast was carried out by an Israeli drone.

Israeli officials declined to comment. Unnamed US officials told the New York Times and Washington Post that Israel was responsible.

The explosion shook the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, which are a stronghold of Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. The explosion caused a fire on Hadi Nasrallah Street, south of Beirut. Hamas confirmed that seven people in total were killed in the explosion, a precision strike on a third-floor apartment said to serve as an office for the terror group. The others besides Arouri were identified as military commanders Samir Findi and Azzam Al-Aqraa, along with Hamas figures Mahmoud Shaheen, Muhammad Bashasha, Muhammad al-Rayes and Ahmed Hammoud.

According to reports, Findi oversaw Hamas military activities in Lebanon — including the firing of rockets at Israel — and was considered the terror group’s point man with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Al-Aqraa reportedly orchestrated terror activities in the West Bank from overseas. TOI

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Top Hamas leader linked to Oct. 7 killed by Israel. Josh Meyer. USA TODAY. Jan 2, 2024 — Israel kills Hamas leader as part of its global effort to neutralize those involved in the deadliest terrorist attack in country's history. Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader and a linchpin between the group and terrorist affiliates in Iran and Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to Lebanon's state-run news agency and the Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen media outlet. USAToday

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Sderot: One rocket fell on city outskirts, no reported injuries. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/02/2024 06:17 PM JPost

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37 buildings, tunnel combat: IDF captures key Hamas stronghold. 01.02.24 YNet

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German Islam researcher sees worrying alliances in anti-Semitism.

DPA, Tue, January 2, 2024 at 10:43 PM PST

...This false but powerful construction can be directly linked to Islamist narratives," and this attitude is also compatible with right-wing narratives, said Schröter.

There had already been an alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and the National Socialists (Nazis) in the 1930s, she said.

"They had a common goal: the extermination of the Jews." To this day, there are ideological "overlaps between Islamist and right-wing circles." Yahoo

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Hizbullah Facing Criticism In Lebanon For Firing Rockets From South Lebanon Villages, Thus Endangering Their Residents And Forcing Them To Leave. Jan 2, 2024 Memri

IDF lookout’s father: "They found her documents in Gaza. Maybe she is alive?" IDF lookout Roni Eshel’s ID card, driver's license and credit cards were found in Gaza. 'I don't know what we buried, they didn't let me open the coffin and say goodbye to her.' Israel National News Jan 3, 2024, 3:03 PM [444] INN

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IDF forces find tunnel shaft inside Gaza school. Terrorist attempting to plant bomb on IDF tank killed in Khan Yunis, terror tunnel found inside school in Khirbet Khuza'a. Israel National News Jan 3, 2024, 10:45 AM INN

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MKs from Judea and Samaria receive helmets, bulletproof vests. Knesset guard gives protective gear to MKs who live in Judea and Samaria in light of security threats following killing of Hamas leader. Israel National News Jan 3, 2024, 6:20 PM INN

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Foreign Min. Israel Katz speaks with British counterpart David Cameron. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 06:31 PM JPost

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Two IDF soldiers wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank fire. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 12:50 AM JPost

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IDF soldier killed in Gaza fighting, two wounded in fire on North. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 06:20 AM JPost

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IDF launches major operation in West Bank refugee camp, 18 detained. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 12:25 PM JPost

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Anti-tank missile from Lebanon lands near kibbutz, damages electrical grid By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 04:21 PM JPost

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Hezbollah announces deaths of two terrorists, claims 140 killed since start of war. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 03:27 PM JPost

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Blinken to visit Turkey on Saturday - Turkish FM. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/03/2024 04:07 PM JPost

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Senator Graham to Pres. Herzog: Your security, destruction of Hamas are non-negotiable. Senator Lindsey Graham meets with Israeli President during visit to Israel, says he is 'determined to break the status quo.' Israel National News Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Hezbollah vows revenge for a Hamas chief killed in Beirut; IDF ‘at very high readiness’ Haniyeh says Hamas ‘won’t be defeated’ after Saleh Arouri killed in precision strike blamed on Israel; Gaza-ruling terror group decries ‘cowardly assassination by the Zionist enemy’ By TOI Staff and Agencies 3 January 2024, 1:24 am Updated: 3 January 2024, 1:59 am YOI

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Senior adviser to Iran's president blames US, Israel for twin blasts that killed 103. By Agencies and TOI Staff 3 January 2024, 12:31 am A US official said the attacks today near the grave of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq exactly four years ago, “does look like a terrorist attack, the type of thing we’ve seen ISIS do in the past, and as far as we are aware that is kind of, I think, our going assumption at the moment.”

The ceremony was to commemorate Soleimani who was killed by a US drone in 2020 ordered by then-President Donald Trump.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosions. TOI

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Who were senior Hamas operatives killed with al-Arouri. Samir Fendi identified to Hezbollah by Beirut officials, as planning attacks on Israel from Lebanon soil, liaised with Houthi rebels in Yemen, Al Aqra directed terror attacks on West Bank from his exile in Saudi Arabia after Hamas booted from Syria in civil war. [445] Einav Halabi, Saar Haas | (Jan 3, 2023) updated:10:47 YNet

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Beirut is home to many senior Hamas leaders Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas's number two, reveals the location of Hamas leaders in Lebanon, nestled in the heart of the Dahiyeh quarter, Hezbollah's stronghold aiming to align Gaza with Lebanon, against Israel Einav Halabi, Lior Ben Ari | published:13:54 YNet

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Israel says Hamas deployed more than 170 children to the front lines while terrorists 'hide in shelters.' By Alyssa Guzman, January 3, 2024.

Israel claims Hamas has been training children to join their campaign of terror and has even deployed the youngsters to the front lines to “deliver messages and ammunitions.”

Israel Defense Force (IDF) released photos Wednesday that show the aspiring child soldiers posing alongside Hamas terrorists while holding semiautomatic weapons and manning deadly rocket launchers.

“Terrorism is not innate, it is learned,” IDF wrote in a post on X, alongside a video of children running through Hamas tunnels.

“During the ongoing war, Hamas has positioned children on the frontlines, sending them to deliver messages and ammunition while its operatives hide in shelters.”

IDF claimed Gazan children are taught in “schools, youth movements, and summer camps” that “killing Jews and Israelis is justified.”

IDF claims Hamas is using children on the frontlines to “deliver messages and ammunition while its operatives hide in shelters.”

“Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks, and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing,” IDF told Fox News Digital.

The Israeli military also said Gazan children are “trained to fight in tunnels, shoot, and [to] kidnap.”

The kids are handed explosives to hide and deliver to Hamas operatives to ambush Israeli soldiers.

The footage was reportedly taken in Khan Younis in Gaza, IDF told Fox News.

“The transfer of explosives from place to place in Gaza by children, in vegetable bags and placing them in the Hamas ambushes,” IDF told the outlet. “Also, children are sent to the battlefields after an attack in order to assess the damage and report it to the terrorists who are hiding in shelters.”

IDF claims that more than 170 minors are working for Hamas and the Islamic Jihad throughout Gaza, it told Fox…. NY Post

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WATCH | Israel says Hamas deploys children to the frontlines to deliver messages, ammunition. Israel accuses Hamas of training children for involvement in their terrorist activities, alleging that youngsters are being deployed to the frontlines. Manasvi Asthana. Updated January 4th, 2024 at 14:23 IST Republic World

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A Hamas Terror Network in Europe.

By Daniel Greenfield, Jan 3, 2024

A terror plot in Berlin shows the Islamic terror group has a bigger plan.

Hamas have been described as Nazis and recent arrests shows that the Islamic terror group tried to live up to the name by planning to kill Jews in Berlin.

The first warning that Hamas, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, was preparing to deploy its international capabilities came when Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas spokesman, called for “violent acts against American and British interests everywhere, as well as the interests of all the countries that support the occupation.”

The question of whether this was anything more than empty rhetoric was settled when 7 Muslim terrorists were arrested across Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. While Islamic terrorist plots are nothing new in Europe, these arrests reveal that Hamas has built an international terrorist network across a number of nations in preparation for carrying out attacks.

The official release from Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed [446] that four of the Muslim men arrested “have been longstanding members of HAMAS and have participated in HAMAS operations abroad.”

It revealed that Hamas had set up “an underground weapons cache in Europe… created in the past in a conspiratorial manner.” This weapons cache had been set up well before the Oct 7 atrocities committed by the Islamic terror group and the terrorists were activated and told to search for it “no later than spring 2023” making it clear that this was not an attack planned in response to Israel’s bombing of Hamas targets in Gaza, but long before the Oct 7 attacks.

The spring 2023 timetable makes sense as Hamas had originally planned its butchery for Passover. The spring attack was aborted when Israeli intelligence learned of the plans. Hamas then became paranoid and proceeded in greater secrecy. Israeli intel viewed the Passover attack as a false alarm and then failed to take the High Holy Day attack plan seriously.

The European operation suggests that Hamas had prepared for a Passover attack beyond Israel. Its European cell tried to locate its underground weapons cache and the “weapons were due to be taken to Berlin and kept in a state of readiness in view of potential terrorist attacks against Jewish institutions in Europe.” But the terror cell had trouble finding its cache.

It is unclear why exactly the Hamas operation in Europe had lost track of its underground weapons cache leading the four terrorists to travel around searching for it, but it’s likely that Israeli attacks on the terrorist group took out vital links in the chain so that the location was lost.

An underground weapons cache also suggests that Hamas was planning something bigger than just a shooting. Despite what some Americans think, guns are not that hard to come by in Europe for criminals and terrorists. And this might have been why the trail of the Hamas cell led to Denmark and the Netherlands in search of the weapons they needed to massacre Jews.

The Copenhagen arrests were linked to Loyal to Familia. A Front Page Magazine article [447][448] recently profiled the high level of Muslim gang violence in Sweden and Copenhagen which includes heavy firepower and hand grenades. These groups control drug smuggling routes and have ties to Islamic terrorism. They would have also had the weapons that Hamas needed.

Loyal to Familia’s Muslim thugs have terrorized Copenhagen while claiming that they’re suffering from Islamophobia. Weapons stockpiles held by the Muslim gangs in Denmark have included not only actual machine guns, but grenades and mortar shells. If anyone could get Hamas what it needed in Europe, it would have been the Loyal to Familia Muslim drug gang.

The arrests of members of Hamas and Islamic gang members links immigrant organized crime and Islamic terrorism in a way that poses a serious threat to Europe and ties it to Iran.

The European Hamas operation was being run out of Lebanon where the Islamic terror group has been able to operate safely under the protection of Hezbollah and its Iranian allies. Beyond the “political leadership”, Hamas has a terrorist operation in Lebanon which has launched raids and rocket attacks into Israel after Oct 7. But Hamas in Lebanon was also reaching into Europe.

In November, Israel took out Khalil Hamed Al Kharraz, the deputy commander of the Hamas forces in Lebanon, along with three other terrorists in an airstrike on their car. The strike was timely, but not timely enough because Al Kharraz had been talking to the European cell.

The European Hamas attacks were being run by top Hamas figures out of Lebanon.

Abdelhamid, the apparent leader of the European Hamas cell, was Lebanese born and was taking “orders from HAMAS leaders in Lebanon”. Another, Ibrahim, was also from Lebanon. A third, Mohammed, was from Egypt. While Hamas is generally portrayed as a “Palestinian” group with “ceasefire” supporters who oppose further attacks refusing to even say its name and chanting only in support of “Palestine” or “Gaza”, in reality it’s a regional terrorist group.

The Hamas members arrested in Europe reflect the reality that the “Palestinians” are a myth and that their cause is just the familiar Arab and Islamic nationalism of the regional majority.

It’s unknown exactly how far along the Hamas terror plot was, but while members frantically searched for their underground weapons cache, Ibrahim, the other Lebanese Hamas member, had taken up residence in Berlin near the Jewish Museum. Such an apartment could have been an ideal staging ground for attacks on the museum and any Jewish targets in the area.

More significant than the actual plot is the revelation of a Hamas cell operating in Europe.

The Lebanon section of Hamas closely coordinates with Hezbollah and shares a joint operations room with it. The growing Islamic influence over Hamas in the wake of the failed Syrian Civil War appears to have pushed the group toward grander schemes like the Oct 7 attack and now, under Iranian influence, apparently to expand its terror plans into Europe.

By backing Hamas, Iran not only secured a terrorist force inside Israel, but one that is capable of expanding and recruiting across Europe. Al Qaeda’s current leader is already operating out of Iran. Now the Islamic regime in Tehran wants another large scale Sunni Islamic terror group that can operate not only in Israel or the Middle East, but that will be able to strike around the world.

The international migration of Sunni Arab Muslims from Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere has created a large ‘Palestinian’ base that Iran can use Hamas to recruit. While few Iranian immigrants actually want to support the regime and carry out attacks, the same is not true for Arab Muslims who tend to be fanatical, tribal, devout and xenophobic.

The European terror network shows that Hamas poses a threat not only to Israel, but to Europe and America. A senior Hamas spokesman has called for attacks against America and the UK. A Hamas cell was operationalized in Germany to carry out attacks there. As a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas can call on support from Brotherhood front groups, including CAIR and MPAC in America, as well as many others in Europe, giving it a solid base of allies.

The Oct 7 attacks were meant to go beyond Israel and position Hamas as a rival to ISIS: an Islamic terror group capable of achieving what ISIS and Al Qaeda had not. The European arrests show that Hamas has a network, operations and ambitions that go beyond Israel.

But this is true of all Islamic terror groups. Al Qaeda operations had brought together Jihadists in the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Europe and America. Despite the claims of its apologists, Islamic terrorism is never truly local, it is not a response to the “oppression” of some Christian, Jewish or insufficiently Muslim government, it is aimed at a global Islamic agenda.

“The day will come, within several years, when this world will change, submitting to the Arab Islamic will, Allah willing,” former Hamas leader and co-founder Khaled Mashal had predicted [449].

“Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world,” he warned [450].

Former Hamas Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad had predicted that “Jerusalem will be the capital city of the Islamic Caliphate” that will rule the world [451] under a “global Islamic civilization”.

“Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was,” a Hamas cleric predicted. “Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam… this capital of theirs will be an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.”

“The entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity,” top Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar had boasted [452].

Hamas, like ISIS and like every Muslim terrorist group, envisions and works for the Islamic conquest of the world. The struggle against Hamas is not just an issue for Israel, but for the entire world. Much as the struggle against Islamic terrorists in India, America, Europe, Russia, China or anywhere else is also a matter for the entire world. This is a world war. And it is probably the truest world war that there ever was with an enemy aimed at world conquest.

The Hamas terror network in Europe shows that the terror group won’t stay in Israel. And that the war against Hamas and every Islamic terror group is a fight for the survival of the world. FPM [453]

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Mother of hostage: 'All I want is unity amongst the people.' 103FM Jan 4, 2024, 2:35 PM INN

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Ambassador Erdan: 'The UN's silence makes it party to Hamas's crimes in Gaza.' Yoni Kempinski Jan 4, 2024, 4:29 PM INN

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Live updates: Terrorists fire anti-tank weapon at IDF helicopter over Gaza. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 6:57 PM INN

Hamas rocket fired at IDF helicopter hits Israeli clinic near Gaza. (Jan 4, 2024, 9:20 AM). A rocket fired at an IDF helicopter by Hamas terrorists on Thursday missed and hit a clinic in an Israeli community located close to the Gaza border instead. According to reports, no injuries were reported in the incident. (Yoav Zitun, Ilana Curiel) YNet

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COGAT again slams UN for ‘stalling’ entry of aid to Gaza and ‘avoiding the facts.’ 4 Jan 2024, 11:54 am

The Defense Ministry body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs again accuses the United Nations of not doing enough to process humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

“You can’t keep avoiding the facts: There is no collective punishment. 2 crossings are open. You said you can transfer 200 trucks a day in Kerem Shalom, yet you’re not scraping 100,” says COGAT in a post on X, responding to claims by Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, who says “the Palestinian people subjected to collective punishment with too little humanitarian aid allowed in.”

“Over the last 80 days, we’ve adjusted ourselves, all you’ve been doing is stalling,” COGAT adds.

Prior to Hamas’s shock assault on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war with the Gaza terror group, around 500 trucks of humanitarian aid would enter Gaza on a daily basis, primarily through Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing.

However, following the terror onslaught, Israel had permitted aid to enter Gaza only via Egypt’s Rafah Crossing after each individual truck is inspected. In a bid to facilitate an increase in the number of aid trucks that can enter Gaza each day, Israel recently also reopened Kerem Shalom Crossing for the transfer of aid. TOI

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A world renowned legal expert | The man who will represent Israel in the Hague. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 7:21 PM INN

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IDF Soldiers expose and destroy Hamas underground military compound on Gaza Coast. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 8:58 PM INN

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In 40 hour operation: IDF locates booby-trapped UNRWA kindergarten near Tulkarem. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 9:25 PM IDF locates booby-trapped UNRWA kindergarten near Tulkarem. INN

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Gallant's plan for the 'day after' in Gaza revealed. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 9:59 PM INN

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Hanan Yablonka, Idan Shtivi & Ilan Weiss, who were classified as missing, abducted to Gaza. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 10:44 PM INN

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Gallant on the Gaza border: 'The terrorists should start counting down to their end.' Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 8:24 PM 'The terrorists should start counting down to their end' INN

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Tel Aviv exhibit recreates Nova music festival massacre. To preserve the memory: Tel Aviv exhibit recreates Nova music festival massacre Yoni Kempinski Jan 4, 2024, 8:53 PM INN

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‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick.'

([454] Eden Yerushalmi, who was abducted at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7).

‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick’ Eden Yerushalmi was taken from the Supernova festival, 91 days ago. Amelie Botbol. January 5, 2024

“When her phone died, I said, ‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick.’ Shani Yerushalmi, 25, from Tel Aviv, told JNS. “I never thought they’d kidnap her.”

Hamas terrorists kidnapped Shani’s sister Eden, a 24-year-old Pilates teacher, from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7.

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On that day, rockets began raining down on Israel at 6:30 a.m. Eden, who was working as a bartender at the festival, phoned her mother to inform her that the event had been stopped and she’d soon be home.

An hour later, Eden called again.

“I was woken up by the sound of my mother screaming over the phone,” Shani recounts, as terrorists had opened fire on revelers.

Shani grabbed the phone from her mother, initiating a conversation with her sister that would last for more than three hours.

Initially, Eden hid in a car, motionless alongside the bodies of friends who had been shot and killed.

“She could hear the sound of blood dripping on the floor as she played dead,” Shani said of her sister’s experience. “I told her not to listen and instead concentrate on the sound of my voice.”

Moments later, a phone belonging to one of the slain rang, sparking fears that Shani would be discovered.

Eventually, someone approached the car, an Israeli man urging her to flee in the direction of a forested area.

“I thought I had lost my little sister as her phone had died. Shortly after that, I got a call from an unknown number. Eden had taken a friend’s phone.

“She told me she’d separated from the Israeli man and that he’d been caught,” said Shani.

Eden remained in the bush, in a fetal position, for hours.

“At one point, ants were crawling up her face and biting her. I yelled at her not to cry. I knew if she did they’d find her but they did anyway,” Shani said.

“I told her that the police were on the way. We called the army; no one came.”

Eden Yerushalmi at the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, Oct. 6, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of Shani Yerushalmi. Then, Eden heard men shouting in Arabic.

“I could hear them through the phone,” Shani recounted. “I knew that those were my last moments with my sister. I had started recording the call when she whispered, ‘They caught me.’”

On the recording, Hamas terrorists can be heard saying the word, ‘Ta’ala,’ before the phone conversation ends.

Ta’ala, a term of exaltation in Arabic, means “[Allah], the Most High.”

During the whole conversation, Shani had set herself up in her bedroom, away from the noise and hysteria of the rest of the family. She was unaware of the scope of Hamas’s massacre, and that some 240 persons had been abducted into Gaza, including 40 from the Supernova festival.

Shani admitted feeling relief that her sister was not killed on the spot, hoping she would not be held captive alone and that the sheer magnitude of the crisis would create sufficient pressure to secure the release of all the hostages.

In November, 105 Israelis and foreign nationals were indeed freed as part of a week-long ceasefire with Hamas, a ceasefire the latter soon breached.

Ninety-one days later, Eden is still in Gaza.

Of the approximately 1,200 persons terrorists murdered on Oct. 7, some 364 were shot, mutilated, sexually abused and/or burned beyond recognition at the Supernova event near Kibbutz Re’im.

Exactly one week later, Eden spent her 24th birthday in captivity.

Shani says she remains hopeful that a new negotiating process will result in her sister’s release.

“They [the terrorists] were supposed to free young women on the day the truce ended. Some say that they didn’t because they did not want them telling what happened in Gaza,” Shani said.

“I hope there was no rape, but if so, some could already be three months pregnant. We need to have them released now,” she added.

Despite the intelligence and security failures of Oct.7, Shani says the government has prioritized the hostage issue.

“Soldiers as young as Eden die every day. I know some people say the government does not do enough. I don’t understand how anyone could say that,” she said.

Shani has no doubt that her sister will come home.

“She wasn’t injured when they caught her. She did not pose a threat to them; they had no reason to hurt her. But we’re not dealing with rational beings,” she said. “Eden was strong on October 7. She had all the right reflexes to stay alive. I know she is just as strong in captivity. She wants to survive and she will be back.” JNS

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Muslim academics spew anstisemitism in Texas, Southern CA. JNS

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Even pre-Oct. 7, Jewish groups struggled with security, burnout. A survey of more than 18,000 employees and CEOs puts forth ideas on how to keep Jewish employees energized and engaged. David Swindle. (January 4, 2024 / JNS) Leading Edge released its report “The State of the Jewish Workplace 2023” based on data from 18,212 employees and 304 CEOs at 327 organizations. The information comes from a May 2023 survey. JNS

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Opeds: The treason of the intellectuals - again. David Herman Jan 4, 2024, 11:00 PM INN

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How and why Harvard's DEI policy must go Bill Ackman Jan 4, 2024, 12:04 PM INN

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Scary times ahead The silence of the pro-Palestinian groupies Giulio Meotti Jan 4, 2024, 10:15 AM INN

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The silence of the pro-Palestinian groupies A longer Gaza conflict's implications for nuclear war with Iran. Prof. Louis René Beres Jan 4, 2024, 9:27 AM A longer Gaza conflict's implications for nuclear war with Iran. INN

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MIT Jewish alumni urge donors to withhold donations. Israel National News Jan 4, 2024, 6:47 AM INN

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Jordan attacks Iran-backed drug smugglers' warehouses in Syria. (Jan 4, 2024, 23:11 PM) The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan conducted airstrikes in Syria against warehouses and hiding places of drug smugglers linked to pro-Iranian militias according to local intelligence officials. Reports in Syria say that the attack occurred in the As-Suwayda area in southern Syria near the Jordanian border. Lately, drug smuggling between the two countries increased and during December, there have even been confrontations between smugglers and the Jordanian military. (Lior Ben Ari, Reuters) YNet

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Pro-Iranian militias claim attacking US base in Syria. (Jan 4, 2024, 12:42 PM) Iraqi and Syrian pro-Iran militias calling themselves the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” said Thursday they’ve attacked an American military base in Syria. (Lior Ben Ari) YNet

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PA lies and libels: “Israel deliberately… spread(s) (so the Palestinian Authority lies) lethal epidemics and infectious diseases among children in Gaza” Gaza War (2023) Jan 4, 2024 Palwatch

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Hanan Amiur Hanan Amiur 🇮🇱 @hananamiur: What you see here is a headline now in Israel. Its essence: the international press says that Netanyahu should be fired. And who writes the articles about Israel in The Economist? Anshel Pfeffer. And what else does the energetic guy do in his life? You guessed it - a member of the Haaretz staff.

In other words, Haaretz's journalist will write Haaretz's position in the Economist, and Haaretz will make headlines because the international press also shares their position.

Haaretz is an anti-Israeli propaganda leaflet, with the ethics of a propaganda leaflet. Jan 4, 2024. on X

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Toronto: Jewish-owned store vandalized before being set on fire. Elad Benari Jan 5, 2024, 12:00 AM INN

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ISIS claims responsibility for Iran attacks Elad Benari. Jan 5, 2024, 1:07 AM ISIS claims responsibility for Iran attacks. INN

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State Department: 'We will have tough conversations about the day after the war' Israel National News Jan 5, 2024, 5:17 AM 'We will have tough conversations about the day after the war.' INN

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Medical staff demands terrorist be removed from Wolfson Hosp. Israel National News Jan 5, 2024, 8:21 AM INN

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Rockets continue to be fired from Gaza as war passes day 90. Israel National News Jan 5, 2024, 2:54 PM INN

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India govt providing security escort for container ships around Red Sea - source. By Reuters 01/05/2024 01:34 PM JPost

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Tamir Adar, grandson of freed hostage, murdered in Gaza captivity By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/05/2024 09:38 AM JPost

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Lebanon files complaint to UN Security Council over al-Arouri killing. By Jerusalem Post Staff 01/05/2024 01:30 PM JPost

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US intelligence confirms Islamic State's Afghanistan branch behind Iran blasts, sources say. Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State's (IS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, two sources familiar with the intelligence told Reuters on Friday. "The intelligence is clear cut and indisputable," one source said. That source and a second, both of whom requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, said that the intelligence comprised communications intercepts without providing further details. The collection of the intercepts has not been previously reported. (Reuters) [Jan 5, 2024] YNet

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IDF strikes Hezbollah command center in southern Lebanon. An Israeli Air Force fighter jet struck a Hezbollah operational command center in the town of Blida in southern Lebanon, the IDF said Friday evening. Since the morning, the IDF has been targeting several areas in Lebanese territory with tank and artillery fire. (Yoav Zitun) [Jan 5, 2023] YNet

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Families of Gaza hostages land in Qatar in bid to kickstart deal talks. (Sivan Hilaie) [Jan 5, 2024] YNet

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Kibbutz Nir Oz announces death of Tamir Adar, 38, presumed kidnapped on October 7 Grandson of Yaffa Adar, who was seen in video being abducted on her golf cart, left family in safe room and was killed fighting terrorists. By TOI Staff 5 Jan 2024, 10:56 am Tamir Adar, 38, was killed and abducted by Hamas terrorists while he was defending his kibbutz, Nir Oz, on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy) Tamir Adar, 38, was killed and abducted by Hamas terrorists while he was defending his kibbutz, Nir Oz, on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy) Kibbutz Nir Oz resident Tamir Adar, 38, whose family had previously been told he was taken hostage during the Hamas-led massacres on October 7, was killed on the day of the assault while defending the kibbutz, his community announced on Friday.

Adar was part of the kibbutz’s emergency response squad, and left his house at 6:30 a.m. on October 7 when he received an alert that hundreds of terrorists had infiltrated the kibbutz. He texted his wife, Hadas, and told her to stay locked inside with their two young children.

The three survived the attack, while Adar was killed fighting the terrorists and his body was abducted to Gaza.

His grandmother Yaffa Adar was also taken captive on October 7 — when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing an estimated 240 hostages, mostly civilians — but was released during a weeklong ceasefire in late November.

Adar was “born and raised in the kibbutz and lived there with his family,” said the statement from Nir Oz. “Tamir was a family man, he loved people and nature.”

In posts on Facebook as his death was announced, friends and family remembered Adar as an educator and a budding farmer, a hobby he had taken up only in recent years.

It is believed that 132 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November. Four hostages were released prior to that, and one was rescued by troops. The bodies of eight hostages have also been recovered and three hostages were mistakenly killed by the military.

The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed the deaths of 25 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are both thought to be alive after entering the Strip of their own accord in 2014 and 2015, respectively; as well as the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014. TOI

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Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah: In what world is it okay for a @UN employee and consultant, who worked on human rights-related issues, to share these horrifically antisemitic tweets, call for the ethnic cleansing of Israel, as well as target me and Rabbi @ReichmanShmuel?

Lamia Burkart is a dual French-Tunisian national who lives in Germany. Lamia will be held accountable! Dec 28, 2023 [455] _

UN claims antisemitic posts are due to employee account being hacked. The world body, which has long been accused of Jew-hatred, waffled on its explanation of the situation. Mike Wagenheim

(January 5, 2024 / JNS) In what reads like the plot of a thriller no one would write, the United Nations claims that an unknown party hacked an employee’s social-media account, posted Jew-hatred (including comparing Israelis to [supposedly] Nazis) and then evidently out of concern for the reputation of the woman that he or she had hacked, deleted the account.

Even that sequence of events took some time to get there. At first, the United Nations claimed that the account was a fake and didn’t belong to its employee in Germany, a writer and consultant named Lamia Burkart, and told a man being targeted by the account to delete his posts connecting the account to Burkart.

Khaled Hassan, a researcher on Islamist terrorism and former member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, posted a video, including screenshots, on Jan. 5, following what he said were deceptive and inadequate responses from the United Nations.

Hassan noticed last month that Burkart posted a string of tweets comparing Israel to [supposedly] Nazi Germany and declared, “We prefer Hamas to Israel 1,000 times.” Those posts came to his attention after the account bearing Burkart’s name—the one that the United Nations first said wasn’t hers and then says was hers but was hacked—accused him of being a paid agent of Israel who supported [supposedly] “genocide” in Gaza.

Soon thereafter, as Hassan tells it in the video, he noticed that a LinkedIn account bearing Burkart’s name had viewed his profile on the professional social network. Information from his LinkedIn profile was used in a public attack on him, he said.

When Hassan contacted the United Nations about the posts, Alessandra Vellucci, director of the U.N. Information Service in Geneva, told him that Burkart did not own the X account in question and hadn’t been active on the platform for years. Vellucci further claimed that Burkart’s LinkedIn account was hacked and told Hassan to urgently delete his accusations, and thus correct the record.

Hassan replied, noting the string of coincidences that made Vellucci’s claims highly unlikely. He received no response, he said in the video.

‘The matter is being dealt with’

When the Jewish Chronicle of London sought further comment, the United Nations changed its response. It acknowledged that the offensive messages did come from Burkart’s X account but said now that her X account was also hacked. Burkart had since closed the account to prevent further use, it said.

The United Nations, which has long been accused of Jew-hatred at much higher levels than a writer and consultant, has thus far provided no evidence that Burkart’s accounts were hacked nor explanation why it changed its story.

Last week, the United Nations told JNS that Sarah Douglas, a senior official at U.N. Women, breached its code of conduct over a series of anti-Israel social-media posts and endorsements. It said the matter was “being dealt with.”

“We are aware of reports relating to a mid-level manager in personal social-media activity and its compatibility with the standards of conduct required of U.N. staff members,” Kiri Jo Ginnerup, a U.N. Women spokeswoman, later told JNS.

“U.N. Women takes these concerns seriously,” she added. “The standards of conduct are clear and breaches are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with U.N Women’s accountability and legal framework. Such processes are internal and not made public.” JNS

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Revealed: The Palestinian Authority helped South Africa sue Israel in The Hague. The help was done secretly, out of fear of an Israeli reaction.

Kan 11's disclosure: The Palestinian Authority helped South Africa sue Israel in The Hague. 05.01.24

...The help was done secretly, out of fear of an Israeli reaction.

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Wall Street Journal rebukes Biden for US aid ending up in terrorists' hands. Editorial in conservative paper blasts president for providing aid to PA, which pays stipends to terrorists and their families, and criticizes insistence on handing Gaza over to it after war Ynet | published:Jan 5, 2024 | 14:03 YNet

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BDS blow to Big Mac, London Jewish student assaulted, more synagogue bomb threats Antisemitism roundup, Jan. 3-5 David Swindle. (January 5, 2024 / JNS) The Jewish Community of Chile said that Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta, earned his spot on the Wiesenthal Center’s 2020 top 10 list of antisemitism. Jadue recently referred to J... as a “supremacist[sic]” religion. JNS

Comunidad Judía de Chile @comjudiachile: Repudiamos las declaraciones del alcalde Daniel Jadue. [456] [457] Ariela Agosin and 5 others Last edited 11:52 AM · Jan 2, 2024 [458]

Chilean mayor under fire for saying being Jewish is a '[supposedly] supremacist[sic] conception.' Daniel Jadue, a onetime presidential candidate of Palestinian descent, also says it’s a ‘contradiction’ to be both a Jew and a leftist. By Jackie Hajdenberg 5 January 2024, 7:49 pm TOI

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IDF discovers military equipment in UNRWA medical clinic. locates Nukhba military vests hidden by Hamas in UNRWA bags in a medical clinic. Israel National News Jan 6, 2024, 5:46 PM INN

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IDF neutralizes terror infrastructure in Gaza civilian's home. Egoz Special Forces Unit head cams show terrorists inside a school and terrorist infrastructure inside a residence. Israel National News Jan 6, 2024, 5:50 PM INN

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IDF retaliates following massive volley of rockets from Lebanon. Israel National News Jan 6, 2024, 6:05 PM INN

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The morality of IDF maneuvers in Gaza. The Israeli military has taken all reasonable measures to achieve its mission while minimizing harm to the civilian population and maximizing humanitarian relief. Op-ed. Col. Richard Kemp. Israel National News Jan 6, 2024, 7:24 PM INN

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IDF strike takes out chief, deputy chief of Hamas's Nuzirat Battalion | LIVE UPDATES

Regular visit by the UN peacekeeping chief comes 'during an extraordinarily challenging time,' said the UN spokesperson

Matthias Inbar, Jonathan Regev, Ariel Oseran, January 06, 2024. i24

IDF kills commander, deputy behind Be'eri attack. IDF says Ismail Siraj, Hamas' Nuseirat Battalion Commander, and his Deputy Commander, Ahmed Wehbe killed in an airstrike Dennis Bihler | Jan 6, 2023 YNet

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The most anti-Israel cities in the United States. Richmond and Oakland councils embody a sentiment labeled as 'unhinged progressivism,' distinct from classic antisemitism. Daniel Edelson, New York. Jan 6, 2023 YNet

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Released Gaza hostage tells of trauma, Hamas's sexual violence. By Uri Sella Published: January 6, 2024 22:50 ([459] Agam Goldstein Almog- photo credit: Screenshot/Walla!)

17-year-old Agam Goldstein Almog watched her father get murdered by Hamas before she was abducted to Gaza. She later witnessed Hamas's use of torture and sexual violence against the hostages... Many girls experienced severe sexual assaults, they were wounded with very severe and complex injuries that are untreated. They bandaged themselves or we helped them do so." She added, "I can't even imagine what their condition is, what hope they are clinging to."

Romi Cohen, whose twin brother, Nimrod, remains captive in Gaza, expressed her anguish, "We're stuck in the day of his kidnapping. He's enduring starvation, cold, sleep deprivation, and psychological trauma. At 19, he's just a child, his life barely begun.".. JPost

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YouTuber ripped as antisemite after defacing Israeli flag at NYC cafe, harassing customers. By Deirdre Bardolf, January 6, 2024.

A controversial Muslim YouTuber who rocketed to internet stardom in street fight videos has been posting footage of himself harassing customers in an Israeli café and at a Starbucks in Manhattan, revolting some fans who ripped him as “antisemitic.”

Adam Saleh — who’s been seen in photos with Mike Tyson and Andrew Tate and was set to fight on a Jake Paul undercard last February before the match was canceled last minute — stormed Union Square cafe Blue Stripes and pulled down its Israeli flag in December.

“Free, free Palestine,” chanted Saleh, 30, as he and two friends paraded around the café in the Dec. 15 video, which collected over 50,000 “likes” before being deleted following The Post’s inquiry….

In the video, Saleh — a Brooklyn native whose parents are from Yemen, and who has 4.7 million YouTube subscribers and 1.5 million Instagram followers — turns to a huge Israeli flag hanging in the window of the coffee shop.

“I should take that off,” he says as he unhooks one corner of the flag, letting it fall to the side.

“You don’t have a right to do that,” one shocked patron countered.

“I don’t give a f–k what you say,” Saleh responds.

“You know they’re killing kids, they’re promoting killing kids,” he continues, repeating claims by the Hamas terrorist group.

Café owner Alon Kazdan, 49, said he put up the Israeli flag after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on his country, and now protestors come in every day to disrupt his shop.

“I get these people who come in saying, ‘Free Palestine,’ and cursing and doing whatever they feel like doing, you know, but I’m okay with it,” Kazdan, who is from Tel Aviv, told The Post. “I’m just doing it because this is who I am. I’m proud of who I am.”… NY Post

Sources published since Jan 7 2024

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CNN & BBC Give Airtime to Woman Who Celebrated Hamas Massacre & Wished Hitler Had Finished the Job Chaim Lax October 19, 2023 6:00 pm As the world’s attention continues to be focused on the war between Israel and Hamas, mainstream media have relied on people on the ground in both Israel and Gaza as vital sources of information or eyewitness accounts.

Dunia Abu Rahma, a 22-year-old architecture student from Gaza, has appeared in recent days on both CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and NBC News to tell her story.

Abu Rahma told the veteran CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, “All I want them to know that there are civilians, people who wish to live a normal, peaceful life, to feel safe, because we are human, and all we want is to have our rights and live peacefully. As a woman and as a girl, all I want in this life [is] to educate and to graduate and have a job and have a family.”

However, behind her sympathetic public appearance, HonestReporting has discovered that Abu Rahma’s social media features posts that celebrate the October 7 massacre, demonize Jews, and promote the destruction of Israel. Honest Reporting

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"I differentiate between the Gazans and the Palestinians in the West Bank" The Israeli media base a claim according to which there is a difference between the Arabs of Gaza and Israel regarding the degree of cruelty and hatred towards us. Both history and the reaction to the Simchat Torah massacre show that the only difference is the ability to carry it out.

Hanan Amior 22.10.23 |

[A demonstration of support for Hamas in Hebron two days ago. Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90]

In last Saturday's Yediot Ahronoth newspaper ('7 Yamim' 10/20 p. 13) in a sobering article regarding the murderous and animalistic commitment of the Arabs to destroy us in the most holocaust ways, the journalist Dror Foyer wrote that he "differentiates between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea-Samaria" .

The journalist Ohad Hemo also said similar things in News 12:

That is, according to them, the Judea-Samaria Arabs are not similar to the Gaza Arabs in the context of the Simchat Torah massacre.

Foyer and Hemo are wrong and misleading.

Without going into the horrific graphics of the actions of the Palestinians in the settlements of the Otef-Aza [Gaza Envelope] and the IDF bases on the morning of Simchat Torah, the actions committed there are not foreign to the Arabs of Judea-Samaria throughout the history of the conflict.

They have already been carried out by them in the past in a precise manner, literally one by one, also in the events of 1929 [460] , also in the battle of 'Convoy of 35' [461], also in the last battle on Gush Etzion [462], and also in later years, for example in the mass lynching of two IDF soldiers in Ramallah In the second intifada.. in the suicide bombings [463], in their attempt to carry out a mass slaughter of thousands by means of the attempt to blow up Pi Glilot , in the massacres of the Fogel [464] or Solomon [465] families and much more.

Have they changed and mended their ways?

Their stubborn refusal to condemn the actions of Hamas in Otef [466], the joyous processions in the main Arab cities of Judea-Samaria [467], and their fresh attempt last night [468] to imitate the massacre of Hamas with a similar massacre of their own, which was thwarted by the IDF, indicate that they are not.

There is still one difference between the Gazans and the Judea-Samaria Arabs. And that is the difference in the ability to execute. All the signs show that they could have, if the Judea-Samaria Arabs had carried out the exact same massacre in the settlements surrounding the Judea-Samaria.

I presented the things to Dror Feuer and Ohad Hemo and offered them to respond. Foyer's response will be published if and when he chooses to respond.

The reaction of a Ohad Hemo (from what he said last night in 'Meet the Press', two weeks after the outbreak of the war):

We have all failed to understand the other side and their intentions and DNA. And me too. We knew about his cruelty but we didn't know to what extent. For 20 years I've been walking around the Judea-Samaria and East Jerusalem. I hear unusually difficult texts. We thought it was possible to contain this thing. It is no longer possible to contain this thing. Many there are very happy to see this thing. There are human animals there. Presspectiva

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Largest US Muslim group: ‘Maximum pressure’ on Israel, renege on Abraham Accords The statement from the United States Council of Muslim Organizations came just hours after widespread Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

(October 7, 2023 / JNS) Instead of expressing condolences to innocent Jewish victims, the United States Council of Muslim Organizations, which bills itself as the “largest American Muslim civil society umbrella organization,” issued a statement urging Arab countries that had normalized relations with the Jewish state to reconsider. JNS

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57% of US Muslims Believe Hamas Atrocities Justified America, we have a problem. October 22, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield

America, we have a problem.

The Cygnal poll [469] is unique in that it polled Muslims in America as a separate group about the Hamas attack on Israel during which the Islamic terrorists massacred civilians, raped and kidnapped women, and killed and kidnapped children.

28% of Muslims in America strongly agree that Hamas was justified whle 29% somewhat agree. On the other side, 16% strongly disagree while 25% somewhat disagree. Notably, Muslims in America have been following the situation fairly closely, with 44% saying that they have a high awareness of Hamas, 66% believe they’re well informed about the conflict, and 65% believing that they are informed about the Hamas, Fatah lineup of ‘Palestinian’ terror politics. Support for Hamas per se is not a given. Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh has a 38% favorability among Muslims in America and 34% unfavorable. (Unlike the 7% favorable among Jews, and 12% favorable among Evangelicals, the Muslims polled presumably know who Haniyeh is. Alternatively, 7% of Jews and 12% of Evangelicals love Hamas. Who knows these days.) Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has a 31% favorable among Muslims in America and a 34% unfavorable. 52% of Muslims in America equate Hamas to Al Qaeda while 18% say it’s not as bad. (It’s unclear how many of the 52% dislike Al Qaeda or support it.) 49% equate it to ISIS. About a third of Muslims in America do rate Israel and even Netanyahu positively. They are however outnumbered. FPM [470].

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Haaretz justifies the massacre and mocks the kidnapped victims

Hanan Amior 23.10.23 |

And again, as always, the issue is not who wrote the article, but the decision of the newspaper’s editors that it is worthy of publication On Monday, October 9, two days after the massacre in the Gaza Strip, Amira Hass published an article in Ha’aretz entitled…

But the article did not describe any circle, but was entirely a song of praise and praise for the barbaric Nazi massacre carried out by Hamas throughout the enclave, and a song of mockery and joy for the IDF’s defeat on that blackest of black Sabbaths.

Already at the beginning of the story, Haaretz’s story about the IDF is a vile and despicable lie…

I noticed that since the beginning of the war, all daily Israeli newspapers incorporate the Israeli flag in the newspaper logo. Thus Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel Hayom, Ma’ariv, Jerusalem Post.

They do this because they feel Israeli. A part of Israeli society that stands on its own.

The only newspaper that does not do this is Haaretz, for the exact same reason.

He does not feel part of Israeli society. once felt Then he moved to look at us from the side. Then he adopted a critical look from the side. Then a hostile look.

The wagon goes unstoppable and now he, quite simply, sympathizes with the enemy and supports him, even when he commits the most barbaric crimes, which human history will forever remember.

But there is another thing that history, especially Jewish history, will forever remember: and that is the negative, debilitating, inciting, divisive and enemy-justifying content that the newspaper published systematically and consistently from the beginning of the war. Presspectiva

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Black Lives Matter Chicago blasted for celebrating Hamas attack with paraglider image By Valerie Richardson The Washington Times Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Washington Times

BLM Chicago under fire for pro-Palestinian post featuring paragliding terrorist: ‘Disgusting and disgraceful’ By David Propper and Alex Oliveira Published Oct. 10, 2023, 9:05 p.m. ET A Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago is under fire for seeming to celebrate Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens in a “disgusting and disgraceful” social media post on Tuesday.

The post on X, formerly Twitter, includes an image of a person paragliding with a Palestinian flag attached to its parachute with “I stand with Palestine” written beneath.

[Powerful images display agony, savagery of Israel-Hamas war]

“That is all that is it!” it added.

The post was an apparent reference to Hamas terrorists who descended on Israeli communities with parachutes and gliders over the weekend, butchering hundreds and taking civilian hostages in a brutal surprise attack.

BLM Chicago also posted a number of cartoons depicting somebody expressing outrage over the attacks on Israel, while another calmly lists off talking points blaming Israel for the situation.

“This isn’t about Hamas — this is about Palestinians right to resist 75 years of Israeli settlers colonizing their native land,” one of the cartoons read.

BLM Chicago under fire for a pro-Palestine post.

X / @BLMChi The post of the paraglider was blistered by social media users.

“Unapologetically standing with butcherers and rapists,” author and former speechwriter Aviva Klompas tweeted.

“BLM Chicago, like many leftists, comes out in support of slaughtering innocent people they don’t like,” GOP commentator and former congressional candidate Robby Starbuck tweeted. NY Post

Black Lives Matter, Chicago Celebrates Massacre Of Jews In Israel Posts Image Of Killer Paragliders

10/11/2023 5:37 AM PT

Black Lives Matter came under heavy fire after its Chicago chapter released an online image celebrating Hamas' slaughter of more than a thousand Israeli citizens, including babies.

In a message posted on X, formerly Twitter, BLM proudly wrote, "I stand with Palestine," underneath a picture of someone paragliding with a Palestinian flag sticking up from its inflatable wing. The image was accompanied by the caption, "That is all that is it!"

The despicable illustration is reminiscent of last Saturday's sneak attack by Hamas terrorists, some of whom paraglided into Israel in order to massacre 260 people at the Supernova Festival.

The terrorists then went house to house, fatally shooting men, women, children -- and even babies -- before mutilating their bodies.

Some of the babies were decapitated. Some of the women were raped before being murdered or held hostage. Entire families were slaughtered as the terrorists went door to door.

Hamas also fired rockets into Israel, blowing up buildings and killing everyone inside.

Many on social media blasted the Chicago activist group for its total lack of sensitivity.

One person wrote, "Unapologetically standing with butcherers and rapists."

Another said, "This is so disgusting and disgraceful on so many levels."

A third fumed, "Pure. Absolute. Trash.....and whoever had a hand in it is trash as well."

And a fourth raged, "BLM Chicago, like many leftists, comes out in support of slaughtering innocent people they don’t like."

Shalomyah Bowers, a rep for The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, says the organization is not affiliated with the Chicago chapter. Bowers has not yet condemned the posting by the Chicago org. TMZ

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Harvard Faces Backlash Over Statements About Hamas Attack On Israel Michael T. Nietzel Senior Contributor I am a former university president who writes about higher education. Oct 11, 2023, 05:35am EDT Harvard University is being denounced from several quarters after dozens of its student groups issued a statement claiming that Israel was “entirely responsible” for the brutal Hamas attacks on the country this past Saturday... Forbes

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Terrorist-loving students ask for 'mental health support'

Students from over 30 campus organizations at Harvard University are now dealing with the consequences of supporting Hamas terrorists.

Campus Reform October 12, 2023, 2:34 pm ET Several Harvard University students came out quickly after Saturday’s terrorist attacks in Israel to blame Israelis for the carnage and support Hamas.

Public scrutiny fell on these individuals and now many appear to regret their pro-Hamas position.

The Harvard Arab Alumni Association has reportedly put out a statement requesting aid for the students whose first reaction was to stand in solidarity with the terrorists who raped, killed, captured, and decapitated innocent civilians.

”They may require legal counsel, healthcare, mental health support, financial aid, or mentorship to navigate these turbulent and uncertain times,” the statement reads.

The death toll stands at approximately 1,200 and dozens of Israeli hostages remain in Gaza uncertain of if or when they will make it out alive.

The Harvard Arab Alumni Association has expressed concern for the students’ “immigration status and future career prospects.” [471]. Campus Reform

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WATCH: Rashida Tlaib Refuses To Condemn Beheadings Of Israeli Babies When Confronted By Media By Daily Wire News Oct 10, 2023 DailyWire.com

US Representative Rashida Tlaib (R-MI) walks out of the US Capitol after voting in the House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2023.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who has an extensive history of anti-Semitism, refused to condemn the beheadings of Israeli babies on Tuesday when confronted by a reporter on Capitol Hill. Daily Wire

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Miami dentist fired after he was caught tearing down posters of Israeli hostages By Katherine Donlevy Published Oct. 18, 2023, 11:40 p.m. ET South Florida dentist was fired Wednesday after he was caught on camera tearing down posters of Israeli hostages plastered across Miami — an act he claims was intended to quell racially charged hatred in the city.

Dr. Ahmed ElKoussa was quickly identified as one of the two men who on Tuesday destroyed banners of the roughly 200 people kidnapped by Hamas that were posted throughout the trendy Brickell neighborhood. NY Post

Miami dentist Ahmed Elkoussa is FIRED after he's seen on video with his friend Xave Ramou ripping down posters of kidnapped and murdered Israelis By Noa Halff For Dailymail.Com 01:18 19 Oct 2023, updated 03:59 19 Oct 2023 Ahmed Elkoussa, a 31-year-old dentist, was fired from his position at CG Smile after he was caught ripping down posters of Israeli hostages Dental clinic CG Smile announced his termination Wednesday on Instagram after facing backlash, and condemned Elkoussa's disgraceful actions The viral video shows Elkoussa with 'Instagram model' Xave Ramoul ripping down posters of Israeli hostages in Brickell, Miami . Daily Mail

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World shows support for Israel in international rallies. Thousands of people and officials in Europe and the U.S. gather to attend pro-Israeli rallies while calling to release captives held in Gaza and combat antisemitism. Itamar Eichner | published: 10.22.23 | 20:13 YNet

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In London’s Trafalgar Square, ‘largest gathering of British Jewish community in decades’ October 22, 2023 An estimated 15,000 in London showed solidarity with and demanded the release of those whom Hamas is holding hostage in Gaza. Several days after London police shut down the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s billboards showing images of kidnapped children held in Gaza, 15,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square “to stand in solidarity and to call for the release of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists,” per the Board of Deputies of British Jews. JNS

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Iranians desecrated tombs of Mordechai and Esther, Jews asking for protection Residents of the Hamadan province, site of graves of Mordechai and Esther, demonstrated, burned Israeli flags and desecrated the site. October 26, 2023 INN

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Andrew Kerr @AndrewKerrNC: 800k+ views later he admits this is fake news. The author has admitted that the church is fine and accepting refugees. Oct 9, 2023. [472]

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The Antisemitic Social Media History of AP’s Correspondent in Gaza HonestReporting Staff October 11, 2023 5:01 pm The main reporter covering the war in Gaza for the Associated Press has called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and a “Palestinian revolt” and compared Israel to the Nazis, HonestReporting revealed Wednesday in an investigation of his social media accounts.

The social media history and pro-Palestinian activism of Issam Adwan, who joined the wire service in August after working for Al Jazeera English and anti-Israeli non-governmental organizations, reveals some disturbing and antisemitic content, demonstrating that he cannot be relied upon for objective coverage of the conflict. Honest Reporting

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Jewish BBC reporter resigns over refusal to call Hamas terrorists

Oct 12, 2023 — Noah Abrahams, who is 22 and worked on BBC Radio Derby, said the decision to not describe Hamas's actions as terrorism was 'unjustified Daily Mail

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The coverage of the war on the BBC, NBC and Reuters networks (biased coverage against Israel)

Posted on 12.10.23 Last edited on 13.10.23

Reuters network (starts off by counting children, based on Hamas controlled Gaza source)

NBC network - note the wording 27 American citizens were killed in the war between Israel and Hamas without specifying that they were killed by a terrorist attack by Hamas.

A lot of focus on the situation in Gaza... Rotter

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StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites We have just obtained what appears to be a leaked email written by CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) employee George Achi instructing reporters to:

1. not to mention Gaza has not been occupied since 2005 2. not refer to Palestinian terrorists as terrorists

If true, this employee, must be fired. [473] StopAntisemitism

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After the Hamas Massacre, UK Paper Hates Israel Even More

by Adam Levick, November 1, 2023.

In his Wall Street Journal column (“Why Hamas Atrocities Lead the Left to Hate Israel More,” Oct. 20) Shany Mor wrote that "many would think that an atrocity like Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel would lead opponents of the Jewish state to temper their attacks."...

No British institution has demonstrated this pathology more than The Guardian, which, since Hamas’ Oct. 7 ISIS-style massacre of more than 1,400 Jews — which included rape, and murdering scores children and even babies in cold blood, and which forced hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens of those border communities from their homes — has published multiple pieces accusing not Hamas, but Israel, of (so-called) ethnic cleansing.

Here’s another horrific description of the videos, as observed by a journalist at [474] The Atlantic:

'The videos show pure, predatory sadism; no effort to spare those who pose no threat; and an eagerness to kill nearly matched by eagerness to disfigure the bodies of the victims. In several clips, the Hamas killers fire shots into the heads of people who are already dead. They count corpses, taking their time, and then shoot them again. Some of the clips I had not previously seen simply show the victims in a state of terror as they wait to be murdered, or covered with bits of their friends and loved ones as they are loaded into trucks and brought to Gaza as hostages. There was no footage of rape, although there was footage of young women huddling in fear and then being executed in a leisurely manner.'

But, The Guardian will not allow the story to be about the Jewish victims of such unimaginable Hamas cruelty, and the fact that the worst antisemitic attack in the world since the Holocaust was perpetrated by Palestinians. The paper also won’t objectively report on the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London shortly after the Oct. 7 massacre, which can accurately be described, as the CST’s Dave Rich observed, as rallies to celebrate murder. Algemeiner

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Letter Sent to the Editor: Washington Post misses central point about UNRWA October 23, 2023

B’nai B’rith International CEO Dan Mariaschin and AJIRI-BBI Chair Richard P. Schifter sent a letter to the Washington Post regarding its recent, misleading article about UNRWA (“What is UNRWA, the U.N. agency in Gaza struggling to help Palestinians?” Washington Post, October 16).

From Daniel S. Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International CEO and Richard P. Schifter, AJIRI-BBI Chair:

The Washington Post unfortunately misses a crucial and central point in its article about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) (“What is UNRWA, the U.N. agency in Gaza struggling to help Palestinians?” Washington Post, October 16). Far from being an agency acting merely “to protect and support civilians,” it is an extremely problematic entity that for 75 years has exacerbated the Palestinian problem and symbolized the failure to solve it.

As the article itself casually states, UNRWA is “unique…in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees.” UNRWA is, in fact, an outrageous anomaly (all other refugees in the world are covered by UNHCR—the U.N. refugee agency) that has perpetuated the Arab-Israeli conflict and has thus cost many thousands of lives, including the lives of over 1,300 innocent Israelis massacred on October 7 by Hamas terrorists claiming the phony grievances—of “dispossession”—that are pushed by UNRWA.

The refugees from 1948 (refugees from a war initiated by Arab states against the new State of Israel, the aim of which was to destroy the latter) should have been resettled long ago, as have been millions of refugees from other conflicts all over the world. They were purposely kept as “refugees” by the Arab governments and by UNRWA to whip up hatred against Israel.

Although there are believed to be only some 30,000 living Palestinian refugees from 1948, UNRWA incredibly recognizes over 5.9 million descendants of these refugees, as eligible for its services. UNRWA schools, far from teaching Palestinian children to become “confident, innovative, questioning, thoughtful, and open-minded, to uphold human values and tolerance,” as the article falsely claims, inculcate generation after generation with hatred of and resentment against Israel and with the false fantasy that they will one day “return” to their homes.

As pointed out in Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s excellent book, “The War of Return,” numerous terrorists (including at least one of the surviving Munich Olympic massacre perpetrators) were direct products of UNRWA schools. UNRWA is simply not a neutral humanitarian institution. It is a malign actor that exacerbates the problems and suffering of the Palestinian people. Bnai Brith

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WaPo Columnist: Oct. 7 Massacre a 'Bad Thing' That Doesn't Justify Other 'Bad Things'

October 25, 2023

On Oct. 7, 2023, more Jewish civilians were slaughtered than at any point since the Holocaust. More than 1400 Israelis were brutally murdered by Hamas and other Gaza-based Iranian proxies in barbaric fashion.

Children were burned alive, toddlers shot in car seats and cribs, parents tied up and tortured in front of their children, their eyes, feet, fingers, and hands cut off. Women were raped on the corpses of their dead friends before being executed, the elderly shot in their living rooms. And much of it was live streamed by terrorists who were exceedingly proud of their work, as they perpetrated a massacre that was proportionally multitudes larger than the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Or, as Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor put it in an Oct. 23, 2023 tweet[475]: “a bad thing happened.” But the World Views columnist shared his real concern: “it’s perhaps not great to do other bad things” in response. Those who fail to see that, Tharoor unironically remarked, “seem to lack a moral imagination.”

Someone said this. And the Washington Post, which is already bleeding[476] subscribers and laying off staff, employs him.

The same day that Tharoor shared his concern, the Israeli government hosted foreign journalists for a 43-minute viewing of footage that the terrorists themselves took. The viewing was necessary, officials contended, because denialism of the atrocities has already begun, no doubt enabled by a fourth estate that has too often sought moral equivalence between terrorists and the terrorized.

Several journalists recounted the horrors of the footage that they were shown. One terrorist, using the phone of a dead Israeli woman that he had just murdered, called his parents: “Dad, I killed 10 Jews with my own hands!” he proudly proclaimed. “I killed 10! 10! Please be proud of me, Dad.” The terrorist promised to send footage to his parents over WhatsApp.

As the journalist Melissa Weiss has noted[477], “the screening was necessary to counter disinformation.” Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy warned that “we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon unfolding in real time.” Denialism, of course, is also made possible by minimization and false moral equivalency. And this is where Tharoor comes in.

Tharoor’s anti-Israel biases have attracted attention before. Referring to the columnist, the journalist Armin Rosen once tweeted [478] that it is kind of “interesting that the Washington Post [479] has a designated anti-Israel newsletter.” The Jewish state, Rosen observed, “is discussed far more” by Tharoor “than almost any other country, almost always in terms of whatever the activist talking points happen to be at the time.”

Indeed, as CAMERA has noted, in the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Tharoor wrote almost as many columns about Israel, a tiny nation of nine million, as he did China. And it is a curiously twisted world view that the author projects.

Tharoor has authored dozens of articles blaming Israel for the lack of a Palestinian state. Not once has he noted that Palestinian leaders themselves have rejected no fewer than three offers for statehood in the last two decades alone. This skewed view has led to faulty analysis.

In a column before the September 2019 election in Israel, Tharoor warned [480] of a “shadow of (so-called) apartheid,” claiming that Israeli Arabs—whom he refers to as Palestinians—were being disenfranchised. Instead, the election witnessed record turnout from Israeli Arabs—disproving Tharoor’s entire thesis less than 48 hours after it was published. And despite his professed concern for apartheid, Tharoor hasn’t once noted that the areas ruled by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are Judenrein Those caught selling land or even renting an apartment to a Jew can face death.

Tharoor also perennially ignores [481] the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in boosting terrorism. During the 2021 Israel-Hamas War, as well as the current war, the Post columnist has incorrectly argued that Israel’s “occupation” is at the root of the conflict, overlooking attempts by Iran to seize control of the PA-ruled West Bank. That Iran and its proxies consider all of Israel to be an “occupation” and openly call [482] for the Jewish state’s destruction is omitted.

Tharoor also has a track record of boosting antisemites. In a Sept. 28, 2018 interview [483], he called Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed—a man who once said that “Jews rule the world by proxy” and “I am proud to be antisemitic”—a “venerable statesmen.” He has described [484] the anti-Israel activist Issa Amro as a “non-violent dissident” and a “Palestinian Gandhi” even though Amro has perpetrated antisemitic blood libels, accusing Israel of “drinking our children’s blood.".. Camera

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October 25, 2023 10:41 AM

Fact-Checking Website Snopes Shills For Hamas & Debates Beheaded Babies in Sickening ‘Debunking’ Articles

by Rachel O'Donoghue

Snopes is one of the most well-known “fact-checker” websites worldwide, regularly posting articles debunking online conspiracy theories, dispelling media misinformation, and separating satire from serious news.

Its website boasts of the stringent process that its editorial team undertakes to ensure the veracity of information, including contacting primary sources, finding experts who have relevant expertise in the subject at hand, and using non-partisan information and data sources to inform its pieces.

However, since the outbreak of the October 7 war against Israel, Snopes has been producing some dubious content that requires some fact-checking of its own.

Here are just a few examples of Snopes’ problematic fact-checking on the Israel-Hamas war:

Sneaky Editing on Gaza Hospital Blast

The explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital sparked a flurry of media misinformation and social media disinformation.

From The New York Times headline that an “Israeli airstrike” was responsible for “killing 500″ to the BBC’s correspondent Jon Donnison confidently announcing live on-air that he found it “hard to see” who else could be responsible other than the IDF, the lie that Israel bombed a civilian hospital spread like wildfire.

But then the truth emerged — the Israeli military released satellite imagery, videos of the blast, and tapped phone recordings that proved it was caused by a misfired rocket shot by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

What’s more, further evidence came out that the rocket did not directly hit the hospital, and that nowhere near 500 people died.

On October 19, two days after the explosion, Snopes published an article asking, “Did Israel Warn Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza to Evacuate?” written by former Al Jazeera journalist Nur Ibrahim.

In addition to relying on widely discredited reporting on the events from The New York Times for its “fact-checking,” the article also fails to acknowledge the many pieces of evidence released by Israel that exonerate itself, as well as the United States’ own findings that Islamic Jihad was responsible.

Perhaps owing to her employment history, Ibrahim uses a statement given to Al Jazeera without noting the outlet is a state-run propaganda arm of the Qatari government, and fails to note that the “unnamed senior health official in Gaza” who spoke to Al Jazeera would be affiliated with Hamas, which controls the Gazan health authorities.

It is also clear that Snopes did some sneaky editing of the article where it had initially made errors.

An original version of the piece states unequivocally that “500 people were killed” which was later amended to read “hundreds of people” even though that figure is still in dispute.

Fact-Finding Over Beheaded Babies

One of the most disgusting “debates” that has taken place during the war is whether Hamas terrorists beheaded babies or merely shot them during the murderous onslaught in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7.

Also written by Nur Ibrahim, the Snopes article allegedly debunking the claim flippantly describes the beheading atrocity as a “viral rumor spread by news media, the US president, and so on.”

It also includes this disturbing paragraph: “As we looked into the claim, we found contradictory reports from journalists, Israeli army officials, and almost no independent corroborations of the alleged war crime, leading to concerns among fact-checkers that such a claim may be premature or unsubstantiated.”

This is a lie.

In addition to numerous eyewitness accounts, including from independent journalists who saw the aftermath of the massacre and photographic evidence, there is enough proof to say that babies were indeed beheaded during the Hamas rampage.

More importantly, Ibrahim’s insistence on calling it an “alleged war crime” is baffling. For, even if babies had not been beheaded, what Hamas did would have still amounted to a war crime — there is nothing “alleged” about the events of October 7.

Lastly, Ibrahim claims details of the massacre being released could lead to hatred toward Muslims, explaining that people should be “wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric, or statements that compare the violence in Kfar Aza to ‘ISIS-style’ killings — i.e., beheadings that have taken place in a different context and were committed by a different group” because they have the “potential to become dangerous propaganda.”

Ibrahim acted as an apologist for another Islamist regime in an October 10 article that asked, “Did Iran Say It Will Hit Israel with Missile Strikes from Lebanon, Yemen and Iran if Attacked?”

According to the Snopes piece, the following claim that appeared in The Wall Street Journal remains unproven: “During the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Iranian officials said that if Iran were attacked, it would respond with missile strikes on Israel from Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, and send Iranian fighters into Israel from Syria.”

Citing the fact the WSJ only cited one source for the threat, Ibrahim concluded Snopes “cannot independently verify whether such a threat was sanctioned by the Iranian state.”

But just days after the Snopes article was published, Iran effectively confirmed its threats when its foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned the regime may take “preemptive action” against Israel via its proxies, which happen to be based in Lebanon and Yemen.

“Today, when we talk about the resistance in the region, it is not only Hezbollah, and we are witnessing the activities of various resistance groups in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian added.

Did Snopes update its article to reflect this? Nope.

The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared. The opinions presented by Algemeiner bloggers are solely theirs and do not represent those of The Algemeiner, its publishers or editors. If you would like to share your views with a blog post on The Algemeiner, please be in touch through our Contact page. Algemeiner

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Bari Weiss slams NY Times for quoting ‘experts’ who praised ‘mass murder of Jews’ By Ariel Zilber Published Oct. 31, 2023, 11:05 a.m. ET

Ex-New York Times writer Bari Weiss lashed out at her former employer for citing pro-Palestinian experts who praised Hamas for the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre.

Weiss took aim at the Gray Lady for employing a “Hitler-loving reporter in Gaza” — a reference to Soliman Hijjy, a Palestinian filmmaker who in years past hailed the Nazi leader in social media posts.

“If you thought that the Hitler-loving reporter in Gaza was the only scandal @nytimes, think again,” Weiss wrote on her X social media account Monday.

She then posted a link to a New York Times story published last week “about the atmosphere in Saudi Arabia post-Oct. 7 massacre,” which quotes Sultan Alamer, a graduate student at Harvard’s Center for Mideast Studies.

Weiss noted that Alamer “is presented as an expert by the Times.”

“But it took about five seconds for me to discover that he is also a person that celebrates the mass murder of Jews,” Weiss wrote.

She cited an X post from Alamer from the morning of Oct. 7, when he wrote: “What a sweet day.”

The tweet was posted as the world learned of Hamas’ surprise cross-border assault that left more than 1,400 dead in Israel. More than 200 others were kidnapped and are being held in Gaza.

The Post has sought comment from Alamer.

Weiss then posted a link to a 2021 profile of a Palestinian professor, Refaat Alareer, who teaches Israeli poetry at Islamic University in Gaza City.

She noted that the Times invited Alareer to write an op-ed in May 2021 during an Israeli aerial bombardment campaign against the Gaza Strip.

Weiss attached a screenshot of an X post by Alareer in which he joked about whether an Israeli baby rumored to have been burned alive in an oven by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attacks was cooked “with or without baking powder.”

“What’s going on here? Pretty simple,” Weiss wrote.

The conservative writer said that “institutions” like the Times “are a reflection of their people.”

“This is what happens when a newspaper is overrun by reporters and editors, trained at elite schools, who have embraced a ‘decolonial’ worldview,” Weiss wrote, adding: “Reader, beware.”

The Post has sought comment from Alareer and the Times.

Weiss resigned as an opinion writer and editor from the Times in July 2020 after calling out “bullying by colleagues,” which created a “hostile work environment” that included calls for her removal on the internal Slack channel.

The Times last week was criticized for continuing to employ Hijjy, who hailed Hitler as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting.

That same year, Hijjy was hired by the Times as a freelance journalist and worked on a slew of “visual investigations” published by the organization through 2021, including one on an Israeli airstrike that killed 44 people.

Hijjy’s 2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a Photoshopped image of Hitler seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as freelancers.

At the time, Hijjy didn’t appear to be working for the Times anymore, and had since taken down his controversial pro-Hitler posts.

Weiss attached a screenshot of an X post by Refaat Alareer ..in which he joked about whether an Israeli baby rumored to have been burned alive in an oven by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attacks was cooked "with or without baking powder."

"This is what happens when a newspaper is overrun by reporters and editors, trained at elite schools, who have embraced a 'decolonial' worldview," Weiss wrote, adding: "Reader, beware."

However, the Times rehired Hijjy as a freelancer earlier this month.

A Times spokesperson defended the outlet’s decision to rehire Hijjy.

“We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future,” the rep said.

The Times has also been pilloried for its Oct. 17 coverage of the explosion at Gaza’s Al Ahli Hospital.

The newspaper admitted that it relied too heavily on Hamas claims of Israeli responsibility for the blast. NY Post

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Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim Eissa Slams Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk's Claim That Gaza Civilians' Safety Is The Responsibility Of The U.N., Not Hamas: This Is An Insolent And Disgraceful Statement; Hamas Government Must Step Down.

Nov 01, 2023.

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Source: Al-Kahera Wal-Nas TV (Egypt) Egyptian TV host Ibrahim Eissa slammed in his November 1, 2023 show on Al-Kahera Wal-Nas TV (Egypt) the statement by Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk that Hamas is not responsible for the safety of the people in Gaza. Abu Marzouk said in a Russia Today interview on October 27, 2023 that the tunnels in Gaza are meant to protect Hamas fighters, and the U.N. should provide shelter for the people of Gaza, because most of them are refuges (see MEMRITV clip number 10585). Eissa said that this statement is disgraceful because the number one responsibility of a government is to provide security for its people. He continued to say that if Hamas will not protect its people, it should step down from government. Eissa stated that Hamas had the opportunity to focus only on resistance, but it chose to stage a coup, drive out the Palestinian Authority, and even throw some of its officials off rooftops. Memri

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Censorship: BBC interviews Herzog, omits his criticism of the network British network chooses not to air portion of interview in which Israeli President criticized its biased coverage of Israel. Tziki Brandwine, Oct 31, 2023, 11:35 PM (GMT+2)

British network chooses not to air portion of interview in which Israeli President criticized its biased coverage of Israel.

President Isaac Herzog was interviewed on Tuesday by the BBC.

Throughout the war, the BBC has been criticized in Israel and the world for its biased coverage of the goings on in Israel, among other things when it accused Israel of an explosion in a hospital in Gaza, which turned out to have been caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket.

The network chose to broadcast only a small part of the interview with the President, and the segment in which Herzog criticized the channel's coverage of the war was omitted.

In the interview, he was asked about humanitarian aid to Gaza and said, "We are supplying humanitarian aid. We are doing our best to move all the civilians down south to be fully protected, and then the army goes in, fights and cleans up the place from Hamas."

On the issue of the hostages, President Herzog said, "We are in contact with Qatar all the time. They play an important role in the effort to return the hostages and I hope that there will be results. So far we have not seen any real proposals." INN

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Nov 2, 2023

"BBC speaks to Israeli whose family is missing."

Caitríona Perry interviews [485] Gilad Korngold whose grandchild aus captive by Hamas taken as he is with his pajamas.

She asked him how he feels about the situation in Gaza and she quoted Hamas sources of thousands and she added that "most of them are women and children [sic]" - so she claimed.

Gilad: "I trust my army. I'm not sure about the numbers. I'm sorry, I don't have any idea what's happened there, nobody has any idea what's going on there.

I'm sorrry. But I can't comment on this." at Eoz

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This is how a meme was born: the Gazan influencer who became the biggest network joke in Israel

Saleh al-Jafarawi has become an internet star since the fighting began, first he laughed and praised Hamas and then cried when the IDF bombed in response. Now his video from the hospital, where he looks seriously injured, has become a new joke when surfers realized that it was a particularly bad game Yonatan Apolet| Digital |Published 13:04 26.10.23 Mako

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Yoseph Hadhad:

A Palestinian network personality from Gaza celebrated at the beginning of the war and uploaded a video of himself happy about the rockets to Israel... Now he uploads videos of himself crying when the IDF responds... We will make sure to erase the smile from the faces of all those who celebrated in Gaza!

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Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo: At the Brooklyn anti-Israel protest, a person waves a new LGBTQ+ flag variation that has the Palestine colors. Homosexuality is widely condemned in the Palestinian territories & is even criminalized in Gaza. Watch on X. Oct 28, 2023 [487]

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Brazil President supports Hamas; his Parliament sings Hatikva. President of Brazil Lula da Silva refuses to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization, claiming Israel is committing (supposedly) "genocide." His parliament sings Hatikva to show solidarity with Israel. Tziki Brandwine, Oct 29, 2023, 6:12 PM (GMT+2) INN

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Enthusiastic supporter: the European country that stands by Israel

Time and again the Czech Republic proves that its friendship with Israel is unquestionable. Between her war at the UN, through statements about leaving following the decisions against Israel to citizens who support the fight against Hamas, to the fact that Prague is one of the safest European cities for Israelis. Right now the relationship with the country is stronger than ever Daniel Arazi |mako freedom | Published 08:18 31.10.23 | Updated 15:21 31.10.23. When the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, Jana Chernochova, saw the results of the vote in the UN General Assembly demanding a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, she called on her country to leave the organization immediately. For her, such a declaration did not include an unequivocal condemnation of the terrible massacre of Hamas, is a disgrace to the entire organization. "I am ashamed of the United Nations. In my opinion - the Czech Republic has nothing to expect from an organization that supports terrorists and does not respect the basic right to self-defense. Let's get out," she wrote.

While the Czech Republic was one of the 14 countries that opposed the decision, it stands out as one of Israel's closest allies in Europe, and perhaps the world in general. Last week the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, came to Israel, and in his meeting with Netanyahu he described Hamas as a "common enemy" of Israel and Europe. He pledged to work to isolate the organization in the institutions of the European Union. In fact, the Czech Republic was the first country to send a government representative after the war began, with Foreign Minister Jan Lipevsky meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen for a visit of solidarity and support, further emphasizing the deep connection between the two countries. A connection that has continued since the first moments of Israel as a state. Mako

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The historic condemnation of [Hamas, by] the world's largest democracy: India is no longer just "sitting on the fence"?

[Uncompromising condemnation of the Hamas attack at the beginning of the war - Narendra Modi]

Since 1948, India has not supported Israel's wars even once. In the past, it supported its enemies, and even sent Arab countries aid. Interpretation Dr. Oshrit Birvadker| N12| Published 18:29 01.11.23 | Updated 22:01 02.11.23

A few hours since the images of the massacre taking place in the south of Israel began to flow on the morning of October 7, a series of condemnations from world leaders began to accumulate. One condemnation was particularly historic: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leader of the world's largest democracy and one of its most popular leaders, tweeted his uncompromising support for Israel. Since 1948, India has not supported Israel's wars even once. In the past it supported its enemies, and even sent aid to the Arab countries. The year 2023 will be remembered as the year when India left its historical fears behind and stood bravely by its friend's side. The real support will of course only be measured in the long term.

In the past, India has traditionally supported the Palestinians. Today, Modi's support for Israel is part of a series of course changes from decades of cautious policy regarding the Middle East in general, and toward Israel in particular. If support had not come from Delhi, it would have raised questions about the ruling BJP's fight against terrorism and Islamic extremism. Modi's statement left no room for doubt. In his tweet on the X network (Twitter), he wrote: "Deeply shocked by the news of terrorist attacks in Israel. Our thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims and their families. We stand in solidarity with Israel at this difficult time." Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar retweeted the statement. The wording of the statement and the speed of the response were impressive, and are evidence of the changes that have taken place in India's foreign policy and domestic politics.

Since Modi came to power in 2014, we have witnessed isolated instances of deviation from the long-standing foreign policy formulated by the country's founding fathers under the long-term rule of the "Congress Party". Among these exceptional cases, we can mention the Indian choice to refrain from voting against Israel in the UN Human Rights Council in 2015 and 2016. Delhi's moves were made sparingly, as it pursues a foreign policy that advocates multiple partnerships. For example, Delhi hosted the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, before Modi's historic visit to Israel in 2017. Shortly before that, India joined the countries opposing the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

A balanced policy

In the current crisis, the Modi government stands by Israel. Israeli officials also report that "we get full backing from the Indians". The BJP's political rival, the "Congress Party", which is in the middle of an election campaign, behaves differently. The party committee, in an official statement, expressed its "dismay at the war that broke out in the Middle East and in which over a thousand people were killed in the last two days. The committee reiterates its long-standing support for the Palestinian people's rights to territory, self-government, and a life of dignity. The committee calls for an immediate cease-fire and to open negotiations on all The existing issues, including the essential issues that gave rise to the current conflict." The reaction of the "Congress Party", which branded itself as the "defender of human rights" in the country, disappointed many in India and became a subject of controversy. BJP leaders have attacked the rival party for supporting Hamas and terrorism and using the war as a means of pandering to its Muslim voters... Mako

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"The world is moving quickly from empathy to Israel - to blame": Yonit Levy's interview on CNN The presenter of the main edition spoke on the GPS program about the struggle of the citizens of Israel in the war, the concern for the abductees and appreciation for the Biden administration. Oct 29, 2023 Mako

Israeli news anchor to CNN: 'World moved quickly from showing empathy to blaming Israel' Yonit Levi explains that Israelis feel they shouldn't be allowed such a short window of support when fighting Hamas.

Israel National News, Oct 29, 2023, 7:57 PM (GMT+2)

Israeli news anchor Yonit Levi spoke with CNN on Sunday about the situation in Israel since the October 7th massacre by Hamas.

Levi described the public sentiment on the war, which has entered its next stage with IDF ground forces entering the Gaza Strip. "Israelis are still very much in this. They are reeling from the worst terror attack that they have ever suffered. Every day, more and more information is coming out. Sources told me that there are still more than 100 Israeli bodies that haven't been identified. Understand what has been done to these people before death and after. This is where we are; the public is watching this very closely, concerned about the hostages and also about what the next steps of this war will look like."

When asked about foreign support for Israel she explains that US support is not only in the form of aircraft carriers but also in the form of advisors who are experts in the type of situations that Israel is facing in the Gaza Strip.

Despite this, Levi feels the foreign support for Israel is waning fast: "I think, from the Israeli point of view, the world has moved on quite quickly from showing very, very brief empathy for what we are still going through to, in many cases, even blaming Israel for what has happened. And I think that now many Israelis feel like their case isn't clear enough, maybe hasn't been clear enough for years. But how do you wage this war against this terror organization, which has been so cynical, that starts by murdering your own children and then hides under their population, not at all caring if they're hurt? So it's a very difficult thing to manipulate and maneuver, I think that Israelis on the one hand do feel like the stopwatch has begun to run its course, Israel always has a short window. But we are also kinda angered by the fact that there is a stopwatch to begin with because they feel like they have been through something that should never happen again." [488] INN

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The Global War on the Jews

Anti-Semitism surges, even in the West, which shows why Israel exists.

The Editorial Board, 10/30/2023

The disturbing fact of the past month is that Jews are under attack not only in Israel and not only by Hamas. The weeks since the barbaric Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel have witnessed physical assaults on Jews the world over, including in the U.S. and Europe. This most modern of pogroms—global, televised, politicized—demonstrates exactly what is at stake as Israel ramps up its defensive war against its defensive war against Hamas in Gaza.

The Islamist group and its Western enablers are pursuing or justifying a genocidal war against Jews, not merely a territorial dispute with Israel. And since Western governments too often seem unable to protect the Jewish minorities in their midst, Israel must defend itself as the only safe home for the Jewish people.

This weekend hundreds of rioters in Dagestan, Russia, stormed an airport in search of Jewish travelers. Mobs raided hotels in other parts of the North Caucasus looking for Jews, and a Jewish community center under construction in the city of Nalchik was the target of an apparent attack.

Germany has witnessed a spate of anti-Semitic incidents, including an attack with Molotov cocktails against a synagogue in Berlin on Oct. 18. Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the Nazi persecution. German politicians have been forceful in their denunciations, but apparently not forceful enough in their policing.

Two Jewish schools in London closed for a period over safety concerns, and some British Jews no longer feel safe wearing visible symbols of their faith. They’re probably right to worry the state can’t protect them. Tens of thousands of protesters in London over three successive weekends called for “jihad” and chanted “from the river to the sea,” a demand for the erasure of Israel and by extension its citizens. A crowd in Sydney, Australia, chanted “gas the Jews” after the Hamas attack. WSJ

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Gaza Hospital Explosion: The Evidence. Chaim Lax October 18, 2023. Honest Reporting

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CNN Investigates: Forensic analysis of images and videos suggests rocket caused Gaza hospital blast, not Israeli airstrike By Paul P. Murphy, Katie Polglase, Benjamin Brown, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN. Updated 6:12 PM EDT, Sat October 21, 2023 CNN

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NYT rehires Hitler-praising Soliman Hijjy to cover Israel-Hamas war By Shannon Thaler Published Oct. 20, 2023, 4:11 p.m. ET Comedian Sarah Silverman claims she A New York Times reporter who came under fire last year for a praising Adolf Hitler in multiple resurfaced Facebook posts was rehired by the Gray Lady to cover the Israel-Palestine war.

Palestinian filmmaker Soliman Hijjy hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting. NY Post

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'How great you are, (sic) Hitler,' posts journalist rehired by the New York Times

By Danielle Greyman-Kennard. Published: October 21, 2023.

Freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy was rehired by the New York Times despite his history of antisemitism. ...Hijjy reappeared in the NYT bylines on October 12, only five days after the massacre that shook Israel.

Hijjy’s history of antisemitism

In 2012, Hijjy praised Hitler on a Facebook post, writing: “How great you are, Hitler,” while sharing Pro-Hitler memes in several other posts.

In 2018, Hijjy continued his social media praise of the genocidal Nazi leader, writing that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.” A photo of himself accompanied this post.

In 2020, the journalist justified war crimes committed against Israeli civilians by Hamas when he described the indiscriminate rocket fire as "resistance."

Problematic reporting

NYT was one of the many newspapers falsely claiming that Israel was behind the explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Fox News confirmed that Hijjy was one of the professionals involved with the story.

While covering stories on the Hamas conflict, Hijjy has repeatedly failed to describe the October 7 attack as a terrorist attack, instead referring to it as a “Hamas attack,” The Algemeiner reported. Hijjy has also referred to “the Gaza health ministry,” not to the Hamas-terrorist-controlled Gaza health ministry, like other Times articles have done. JPost

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ADL’s @JGreenblattADL blasts MSNBC for calling Hamas “fighters” & rationalizing terror attacks: “Who’s writing the scripts?” [pic.twitter.com/2QHGdrKvcu]

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 9, 2023 [489]

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Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel of Perpetrating ‘Child Genocide [sic] in Palestine’ Using 2013 Syria Image By Haley Strack October 16, 2023 1:39

Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) falsely claimed over the weekend that a photo of children killed in a 2013 Syrian chemical weapons attack was a photo of the “child genocide in Palestine.”

The since-deleted post was fact-checked by community notes.

“This photo is NOT from Gaza/Palestine,” the fact check noted. “It’s from the sarin attack launched by Assad’s forces against E. Ghouta, Syria in August 2013.” ...

Since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, the terrorist group has killed 1,400 Israeli citizens. Hundreds remain missing, including at least 13 American citizens.

Omar has not publicly addressed the false tweet. NRO

Ilhan Omar falsely claims photo is of dead Palestinian kids

By Jesse O’Neill. Published Oct. 16, 2023

[490] X had added a community note to the post clarifying that it featured a widely published photo of the aftermath of a sarin gas attack launched by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s civil war in Ghouta 10 years ago.

“This photo is NOT from Gaza/Palestine,” the platform noted. The ghastly attack it depicted had killed “more than 1,400 Syrians, many of them children,” according to the US State Department.

NYPost

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Chriscoveries @Chriscoveries: “Get the f###ing Jews wiped out!” Shouts ring out at today’s Palestinian protest in Sydney. Police step in, but to prevent the only attendee trying to prevent the angry man from yelling the anti semitic hate speech who is now yelling allahu akbar. Police watch listening as the Man repeats his hateful anti semitic speech before affirming he has freedom of speech to do so, then confirm he is free to leave into the rest of the crowd who listened to his speech. Moments later police grab and detain me, seeking my ID and to come with the police. After a discussion back and forth I am released from the brief detainment. Last edited Oct 15, 2023 [491]

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Oli London @OliLondonTV: Woman in Warsaw, Poland hold’s antisemitic poster ‘Keep The World Clean’ with an image of the Jewish Star of David in a trash can. She has been identified as Marie Andersen, a student at the Medical University of Warsaw. [492]. She has a history of posting extremely antisemitic content online. Source: @nexta_tv/ @visegrad24. Oct 21, 2023 [493]

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The French daily Libération reports on its front page a photo of a protester holding up a photo of a child allegedly lying in the rubble of Gaza. This picture, which was already used in February 2023 in connection with the earthquake in Turkey, was generated by IA.

Medforth, October 19, 2023 Medforth

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CNN.com - Transcripts CNN, Oct 9, 2023 [...] GREENBLATT: No, it's a good question. And so, the answer, like what comes after we start with how we got here. And there's been a lot of questions raised in all the coverage about the intelligence failure and the military failure.

But, Kate, if I'm honest with myself and all of us, this was a moral failure. Not on the part of Israelis. On our part. Those in the West who thought dehumanizing Israelis or Zionists was just part of the culture, and that its resistance to say things like Zionism is [supposedly] genocide.

Because if you think the Israelis are committing genocide, and they are not, then it's OK to objectify and literally steal their children and butcher their grandparents. And I say all this for the following reason. This is not just about defeating Hamas. This needs to be about eradicating an ideology that dehumanizes.. [494]

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Brendan O’Neill: 'The shameful gloating at Israel'. 7 October 2023, 8:46pm.

Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d have said something’, they insist. Well, Jews are being rounded up again. They’re being kidnapped, humiliated, paraded through the streets, slaughtered. And leftists are definitely saying something. They’re saying: ‘Good’.

These are war crimes. They are acts of genocidal bigotry carried out by a movement whose founding charter committed it to an existential ‘struggle against the Jews’. If you ‘celebrate’ this, you are truly lost.

The radical gloating over Israel’s suffering today is beyond the pale. It’s a new low for a left that was already in the moral gutter. Across social media you will see radicals cheering Hamas’s invasion of Israel. That nasty Jewish State had it coming – that’s the implication of their rank apologism for this radical Islamist assault on a democratic nation.

Consider Rivkah Brown, who works for Novara Media. She is calling today a ‘day of celebration’. It’s wonderful to see ‘Hamas fighters cross into their colonisers’ territory’, she says. To us softies who think the massacre of Israeli-Jewish civilians is a bad thing, Ms Brown says: ‘The struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless.’

Struggle for freedom? Israeli women and children are being kidnapped. [495]. The elderly are being kidnapped. At least 150 Israelis have been killed. There are video clips seeming to show the ritual humiliation of dead Israeli soldiers. These are war crimes. They are acts of genocidal bigotry carried out by a movement whose founding charter committed it to an existential ‘struggle against the Jews’. If you ‘celebrate’ this, you are truly lost.

Ms Brown is not alone. Many others are chirping the praises of the ‘Palestinian resistance’. From the comfort of their Dalston flats and Home Counties houses, the middle-class left raises a collective fist as elderly Israeli women are taken hostage and a dead young woman, half naked, is paraded before a cheering mob in Gaza. It’s sickening.

Let’s remind ourselves what is being ‘celebrated’ here. Hamas is a virulently anti-Semitic movement. It started out, in the late 1980s with the express intention of killing Jews. As recently as 2021, one of its senior officials was telling Palestinians to ‘cut off the heads of Jews’ [496]. Is there anything more ridiculous than plummy, pink-haired, trans-friendly lefties in the West siding with the boorish, bigoted, Islamist patriarchs of Hamas? These people wouldn’t last five seconds in Gaza.

Alongside the shameful celebrations of the Israelophobic left, there has been a notably muted response to the Hamas invasion in the liberal media. ‘Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza Strip… after Palestinian gunmen infiltrate its territory’, said BBC Breaking News. What nice, neutral language to describe an extremist onslaught against a sovereign nation.

To get a real sense of what happened today – the kidnappings, the killings, the criminal humiliation of civilians – you need to look to the internet rather than the mainstream media. The opinion-forming set’s longstanding agitation with the uppity State of Israel has led to a situation where they can’t even bring themselves to give a full, clear account of the atrocities visited on it today by an army of hardcore religionists.

The Western world has been found seriously wanting today. Unforgiving extremists, as hostile to us as they are to Israel, attacked men, women and children for the ‘crime’ of being Jews in Israel, and too many over here either looked the other way or said: ‘Well, what did Israel expect…? Those women and kids being abducted in trucks? They were asking for it.’ The Spectator

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Brendan O'Neill: After the slaughter, the victim-blaming October 9, 2023

We can now see the double racism in pseudo-progressive politics. There’s the racism of hating Israel above all other nations. And there’s the racism of viewing Palestinian Arabs as so childlike, so fundamentally lacking in agency, that they can never be held meaningfully responsible for what they do. Make no mistake: when radicals say Israel is ‘the only one to blame’ for the atrocities it experienced on Saturday, they aren’t only demonising Israel – they’re also infantilising Palestine. They’re reducing the Arabs of Gaza to a kind of pre-human species capable of nothing more than reacting to stimuli. In this case, the stimuli of Israeli policy. Israel acts and these people – these curious, blameless people – respond in a Pavlovian fashion. That’s what they’re saying.

It’s a bigoted lie. At every stage of their barbarous assault on Israeli civilians, the Hamas terrorists were making a choice. They chose to plan the attack. They chose to load their guns. They chose to fire them at elderly people waiting for a bus and twentysomethings dancing at a festival. They chose to kidnap grandmothers. They chose to parade distressed or dead women before the mob. And at every stage they could have chosen not to do those things. In claiming Israel is wholly responsible for what Hamas did, the racial paternalists of the supposedly pro-Palestine woke left dehumanise Arabs to a staggering degree. They make Israel the only adult in the Middle East, the only entity with agency, the only nation mature enough to enjoy criminal responsibility, while its attackers are reduced to the naïfs of world affairs.

This is racist. There is no other word for it. We are witnessing the rise of a neo-Orientalism. The great Palestinian writer Edward Said described Orientalism as a Eurocentric prejudice against Arab peoples that tended to view them as deviant and lascivious. It was a mix of curiosity and contempt for the Arab world, he said. Under the neo-Orientalism of today’s army of upper-middle-class Palestine pitiers, Arabs are innocents, not deviants; blameless, not cruel. Of course it is racist to depict all Arabs as evil – but it is equally racist to depict them as being incapable of evil. To imply that they lack the free will to choose between good and bad that is enjoyed by us white Westerners, and also by the Jews of Israel. The woke elites might be enemies of Israel, but with their ironically imperious absolution of Palestinians of the burdens of agency and adulthood, they’re no friends of Palestine. Spiked Online

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'Haaretz': "Israel did nothing to offer a normal life to Gaza. It only made their lives miserable" Haaretz criticizes Israel for not giving the Gazans any other option. As usual, the newspaper distorts history. Israel offered everything to Gaza, Hamas rudely rejected everything

Shlomi Ben-Meir 15.10.23 | Presspectiva

... Unfortunately, as usual, in the rest of the article she lies and presents a distorted picture of reality and the conditions that led to Black Sabbath. Of course, in her eyes “the occupation is the root of all evil” and the “inhumane[sic], violent and brutal blockade” is what creates the motivation in the Palestinians to become human animals and support monstrous massacres.

For one moment she does not think that the events of that Saturday actually proved decisively the need to impose restrictions on the Strip, and what happens when the Israeli security measures collapse.

Majadli is allowed to err on the side of illusions, but when she claims that Israel never left Gaza any other option – she is simply recycling a lie that her newspaper has been spreading for years. This is how Majadala claims: “I fell short of offering a solution, but not only did Israel not do anything to offer a prospect of a normal life to the residents of Gaza living under its military blockade, on the contrary. She did everything she wanted and everything she could to make their lives miserable.”

Did Israel never offer the residents of Gaza a different life? The answer :

In August 2005, Israel carried out the disengagement plan, in which it displaced its citizens and withdrew the IDF forces from the Gaza Strip. Although the plan was announced and implemented unilaterally, after that Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached agreements regarding the affairs of the Strip.

In November 2005, the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the ‘crossings agreement’, which included for the first time an Israeli relinquishment of full control of the outer shell of the Gaza Strip, and a limitation of Israel’s control over the border crossings and its freedom of action in closing and opening them; arrangements for the passage of Palestinian convoys between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; A commitment to establish a seaport in the Gaza Strip, and to continue the discussions to establish an airport there.

The implementation of the agreement encountered difficulties following the victory of Hamas (which does not recognize Israel, and anyway not the agreements signed with it) in the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006; And due to a wave of kidnappings of foreign citizens (who were supposed to operate the crossings instead of Israel) in the Gaza Strip and incessant attempts to break through the crossings by force. Finally, all hope of its implementation collapsed after Hamas took over the Strip in June 2007. Then a blockade was imposed on the Gaza Strip, which included restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from it.

In this context, there were proposals from the international community for Hamas – whether they came on behalf of the Quartet or as an American initiative – to commit to ending the violence and to recognize Israel and the agreements signed with it, in exchange for ending the blockade. These proposals have been on the table for years and years, and the Hamas rulers of Gaza have consistently refused them.

You will search in vain among the writings of Hanin Majadli – or in fact, in every article written in Haaretz in the last 15 years – for criticism of the reluctance of Hamas, which rudely rejected the proposal to allow a better life for the residents of Gaza and preferred to drown the entire region in rivers of blood and despair.

For them, criticism will always fall on the shoulders of Israel, which should care more about the Palestinians than the Palestinian leaders themselves. Even over a thousand dead Israelis will not challenge this sacred principle. Presspectiva _

At lying Haaretz, racist-Arab Hanin Majadli, on Oct 13, 2023, propagating veiled terrorists apologetic after paying lip service to be shocked. Her real aim: rewriting history . (Haaretzism: the trend since at least 2000, to explain Arab supremacy and demonize those fearing radical Arab-racism, Arabization and Islamic bigotry).[497] comment at JR

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Hamas, a reincarnation of Nazis and all others targeting Jews must pay Opinion: Heartbreaking images scorch social media showing armed thugs dragging mothers holding on to babies and small horrified children captive; Jews can no longer be victims of the hate lasting generations. Alon Goldstein | October 9, 2023|

An armed thug drags a terrified mother, holding on to her two babies He is shouting at her to walk. Other thugs take an old woman through the streets in the heart of Gaza. A thug holding an AK47 is grabbing onto a nine-year-old boy. Children, old people, women and girls. All cruelly abducted by human beasts.

Those pictures, in color – not black and white, spread quickly in WhatsApp groups, even before being recorded in print. They are intolerable and were taken in Israel in 2023, not in the Warsaw Ghetto under Nazi occupation in 1940.

85-year old Israeli paraded in Gaza They must warn all Jews living in Israel and those living around the world that they must not be confused. This is not a conflict, nor is it a war. It is part of our historic struggle.

As terrible as it is, it is also that simple; throughout each generation, there are those aiming to annihilate us because we are Jews. Now we face despicable creatures, reincarnated Nazis, Amalek.

Israel was established to be a safe home for mothers, children and elderly Jews. That is its purpose, to provide a safe haven, have a strong army of Jews and not have to ever rely on anyone else.

Israel has failed in its first historic test. Complacency, failed management, and such failure on all fronts, brought us to this disastrous point. There will be time to settle that account but for now, the county's leaders and the heads of the security services must look back 80 years, into the eyes of a small Jewish boy in ragged shoes, holding up his hands before a laughing Nazi soldier. Then they must look at their citizens in the eyes and vow that despite the horrors of the past days, no such atrocities would ever be seen again. We cannot let our parents and grandparents beg for their lives faced by human scum. We cannot let our children crow out in horror, besieged for hours. Just for those images, Israel must go to war of historic proportions against its enemies, no matter the cost. It must not stop, blink, or doubt and must listen to no one, but the eyes of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who will come into the world in Israel. We must strike the Arab enemy with a force that would bring it to its knees, hurt each and every family and rue the day that they ever crossed the Gaza border.

October 2023 must be remembered by all nations of the world as the month when Jews finally declared, we will not allow you to take us on, ever again. YNet _

Shaked says international community must remember that ‘Hamas acted like Nazis’

Former justice minister calls on world to 'express unwavering support for Israel' in coming weeks, says attack on Saturday was ‘total failure of military, intelligence, government’

By Jeremy Sharon, 9 October 2023 TOI _

Campbell: Hamas’ obsession with Jews indistinguishable from Nazis Hamas’ obsession with the evil [sic] of Jews down the centuries is more or less indistinguishable from the Nazis, writes James Campbell. James Campbell, October 14, 2023 The Sunday Telegraph

... So while Hamas might be an Islamist organisation, aside from the local twist about the Caliphate and the Balfour Declaration, its obsession with the evil of Jews down the centuries is more or less indistinguishable from the Nazis.

People will say that Hamas’s views aren’t necessarily the view of the people they rule. But it’s also the case that although the last Palestinian elections were held as long ago as 2006, Hamas got 44 per cent of the vote. Daily Telegraph (AU) _

Goals of Hamas, Nazis appear to be the same: Vittert Leland Vittert, Oct 11, 2023.

(NewsNation) — After the Holocaust, the world said “never again.” But now, it’s happening again.

Videos coming out of Israel show the worst of humanity and will make any decent human being uncomfortable, and might even make viewers sick to their stomach. But that’s the point. People need to see them. NewsNation _

'This is not complicated, America’: Sen. Booker condemns 'Hitler-like' Hamas

MSNBC, Oct 12, 2023 #hamas #msnbc #corybooker “This is why as an American, as a Black American, I will always stand against hate and stand with the people who are targets of hate,” says Sen. Cory Booker. “This is not complicated, America. It is not complicated. We all must denounce hate, and those people who use hate to destroy. That is Hamas.” MSNBC On YouTube _

In Israel, Italy FM Compares Hamas To ISIS, Nazis. AFP - Agence France Presse October 13, 2023 Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and the Nazi SS during a visit to southern Israel on Friday. Barrons _

How the Nazis helped to inspire Hamas Islamist terrorists are pursuing an anti-Semitic agenda that long predates the state of Israel.

How the Nazis helped to inspire Hamas Alaa Al-Ameri 9th October 2023 Spiked

Don’t believe the lies: Hamas massacre was only possible because Gaza is not occupied Anti-Israel forces have changed and twisted the meaning of words in order to find Israel guilty of crimes it did not commit. Gary Willig, Oct 9, 2023, 4:09 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hamas's al-Aqsa Lie Has a Long and Disgraceful History The pro-Nazi mufti of Jerusalem first accused the Jews of targeting the Muslim holy site. By Douglas J. Feith Oct. 9, 2023 2:34 pm ET

Review and Outlook: Hamas’s surprise attack, aided by Iran, is a reminder of Israel’s existential peril—and the growing risk to U.S. allies. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Most of the coverage of the Hamas-Israel war omits the reason for Hamas’s attack. Reports that do address the question often cite the official Hamas explanation that Israel is plotting to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Hamas calls this war “Operation al-Aqsa Deluge.” But that justification is a fraud. The mosque is in no danger, and Hamas isn’t defending any Muslim holy site. The attack is offensive. Hamas wants to torture and kill Israelis in hopes of triggering mass uprisings by Muslims and perhaps spurring a larger war that might wound and isolate Israel, with the ultimate aim of destroying the Jewish state. WSJ

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After, the Haaretz (Haaretzism: excusing Arab-supremacy / Arab-racist / Islamist-fascist terror and hurling slurs and terrible terminology on those who fear this very racism) type of liberals who hate and are bigoted against conservative-Jews, have also been on a demonization campaign against those who were calling to obtain arms... Oct 10, 2023 at EoZ

Now:

‘Too little, too late’: Israel issues emergency directive to ‘allow’ citizens to arm themselves

October 9, 2023 | Kevin Haggerty Bizpacreview

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Go out and defend yourself: these are the new concessions for a license to carry a weapon Minister Itamar Ben Gvir today (Sunday) directed the Firearms Licensing Division to launch an emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves. The plan will go into effect within 24 hours • Telephone interview at a physical location, approval within a week to carry a weapon, approval to carry a weapon after the license has expired and a series of additional steps

Now 14 Oct 8, 2023 Now14

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Haim Yelin: "Individual citizens with weapons fought against hundreds of terrorists" Former member of the Knesset Haim Yelin, who was evacuated from his home in Be'eri, was interviewed by Galatz, and told painfully: "This is the saddest day of my life, they massacred us in the settlement. We waited eight and a half hours until the first evacuation began - I call it the second Yom Kippur war, we were captured by Hamas. Individual citizens with weapons fought against hundreds of terrorists."

Maariv Online 08/10/2023 Maariv

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Recall that the Squad voted 'no' or 'present' on 100% defensive Iron Dome funding for Israel. Without this life-saving technology being constantly deployed, the death and destruction would be even worse. Many of these same lawmakers have now demanded Israel not defend itself:  [498]

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 8, 2023 [499]

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Trump promises to expand Muslim travel ban to include GAZA if elected and will revoke student visas of 'radical anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners at our colleges and universities' By Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com 20:59 16 Oct 2023, updated 22:57 16 Oct 2023 Daily Mail

Ron DeSantis says U.S. should NOT take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza and demands Arab nations open for those fleeing Israeli counterstrikes By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com 20:40 15 Oct 2023, updated 20:56 15 Oct 2023 [500]

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"Progressives call for US to take in some of the expected 1 million Gaza refugees," by Jon Levine, New York Post, October 14, 2023

Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.

"Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York member of the Socialist-Democratic "Squad" who remains under investigation for pulling a fire alarm in the House Cannon Office Building earlier this month. NYPost.

Hamas & fascism

On the Fascism of Hamas Jul 1, 2010 —  The Atlantic

The evil ideology that fuels Hamas: The term 'Islamic fascism' is completely apt Jun 28, 2010 NY Daily News

Why They Fight: Hamas’ Too-Little-Known Fascist Charter Aug 1, 2014 —  The American Interest

The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression ASMEA

Al Jazeera propaganda

Reporting Biases. Jan. 2, 2002 6:12 pm ET. Amir Taheri's ("Bin Laden's Private TV Channel") insightfully exposes the true nature of Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV channel and its adversarial role in the current conflict. Perhaps a more fitting name for this channel would be "Al-Jihadzeera"! With regard to the Bush doctrine that "You are either with us or against us", the article makes it abundantly clear where this particular Arab institution stands. WSJ

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Fatah: Al-Jazeera is a mouthpiece for Hamas By Khaled Abu Toameh Published: March 9, 2008 JPost

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Meet Al-Jazeera's pro-Hamas mouthpiece The al-Jazeera network has chosen a clear side in the Gaza–Israel conflict, and anchorwoman Ghada Owais is taking the lead in the network's one sided-coverage. Roi Kais |Published:  08.11.14 Ynet

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Hamas Has Fractured the Arab World America Must Help Prevent a Wider Conflict—in the West Bank and Beyond By Ghaith al-Omari, October 13, 2023 The situation among the Arab Gulf states is similarly complex. Qatar, which backs Hamas and funds Gaza, has held Israel “solely responsible” for the escalation, mirroring Hamas’s rhetoric. Moreover, Al Jazeera’s Arabic language channel, a news station funded by Qatar that reaches tens of millions of people across the Arab world, has effectively served as a mouthpiece for Hamas. Foreign Affairs _

Al Qaeda tape 'given' to 'Al Jihadzeera' shows Bin Laden 'lieutenant' Al Zawahiri threatening attacks on UK and US Bush dismisses Al Qaeda warning August 5, 2005 MIM _

Al Jihadzeera' Reporters Charged With Belonging To A Terrorist Group February 1, 2014 MIM

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[House Hearing, 113 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] Denouncing The Use Of Civilians As Human Shields By Hamas And Other Terrorist Organizations. July 25, 2014 ... Qatar, the same question that we entrusted to watch over to the Taliban 5 that has been supporting terrorists and radicals all across the globe and offers them sanctuary. Qatar, the same country that we just signed an $11 billion arms deal with, $11 billion, is the very same country that serves as Hamas' mouthpiece through Al Jazeera, airing Hamas propaganda that then gets broadcast to the world. Govinfo.gov

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Al Jazeera thanked by Hamas for “exemplary coverage,” as reporter’s story of Jerusalem arrest appears to be debunked Jun 11, 2021 | Judy Maynard and AIJAC staff Aijac

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Vicious "Palestinian" Islamist murder of Naomi Pilichowski VS accident of Jihadzeera's propagandist Shireen Abu Akleh [on item: CAIR and American Islam] Submitted by Karen (United States), Nov 27, 2022 DP

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Islamist media competes in portraying Palestinian terrorists as victims By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury- October 15, 2023 ...Qatari regime’s propaganda machine Al Jazeera... Weeklyblitz _

The Real Story Behind the Anti-Israel Al Jazeera Network – A Mouthpiece for Qatari Propaganda. 10/13/2023 ...the worst offender of them all is none other than the Al Jazeera Media Network. It is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language international news television network that failed miserably at an attempt to gain a foothold in the cable news business in the United States. Ultimately, they were compelled to shutter their doors due to exceptionally poor ratings. Since the war began last weekend and for many years prior to that, Al Jazeera’s anti-Israel agenda was in high gear as their biased and slanted reporting was illustrated through their own inimitable style of propaganda. Al Jazeera has taken heat in the past for their coverage from some unlikely sources at times. At the onset of the Qatar diplomatic crisis in 2017, several national governments of the Arab League called for the closure of the entire Al Jazeera conglomerate as part of a list of thirteen demands that were presented to the Qatari government in exchange for re-normalized relations... Al Jazeera has been accused of pushing “Qatari propaganda” by many countries and organizations, including those in the Arab world. An article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review (AJR) noted that critics of Al Jazeera have “assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel’s news content,”... On May 30, 2017, Al Jazeera’s English-language account retweeted an Anti-Semitic meme. The network tweeted an apology after the incident, calling it a “mistake.” In May 2019, AJ+ produced a video denying and minimizing the Holocaust. Al Jazeera suspended two journalists over the video. Wikipedia reported that the video stated that “the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust had been exaggerated and ‘adopted by the Zionist movement’, and that Israel is the ‘biggest winner’ from the genocide.” During the Second Intifada, Palestinians killed by Israelis were referred to as “martyrs”; Israelis killed by Palestinians were not... JV

Further reading

• Mapping the Massacres

• Special Announcement – The Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center (HADC) (MEMRI)

• Testimonials from the War in Israel, Oct 23

• Hamas Massacre

• Hamas.com warning, graphic!

• List of Companies That Have Condemned Hamas' Terrorist Attack on Israel

See also

• Guardian of Walls
• Dogs of Hamas
• Loay Alnaji
• Columbia Untisemity

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."