Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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If you think that Israel replaced a Palestinian state, of course you would be anti-Israel. This is exactly why so many social media posts represent British Mandate currency as if it was from a nation named "Palestine" and people named "Palestinian." The coin suggests a story, the reality shows the opposite, and a lot of people don't want the people to know the reality.

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67% of Democrats think there was once an independent Arab state called "Palestine." The more people know, the more they support Israel.

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65 Million Digital Files, Half-Million Documents: The Intelligence Exposing Hamas Tunnels

“The huge amount of materials that come from the field generate many intelligence opportunities to help operating soldiers,” explained Capt. (res.) S. of Amshat.

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The UN’s Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza

The United Nations’ bias against Israel is both obvious and, at times, poorly understood. So we should be thankful for moments in which top UN officials seemingly conspire to make

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The aroma of spices and the sound rattling of pans filled the kitchen of the Noor restaurant. The restaurant, nestled in the Galilee Druze village of Julis, was made kosher in an act of solidarity with soldiers passing through the town.

“I want to feed all the Israeli soldiers! They all are like my children, doesn’t matter, Druze or Jewish,” Basma Hino, the owner of the restaurant Noor, told TPS.

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Druze Restaurant Goes Kosher to Unite With Soldiers

“I want to feed all the Israeli soldiers! They all are like my children, doesn’t matter, Druze or Jewish,” said Basma Hino, the owner of the restaurant Noor.

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How senior was the Revolutionary Guardsman who was eliminated this week? Iranian leader Ali Khamenei next to Razi Mousavi's coffin in Tehran. An "honor" reserved for the few

 

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According to the report, the terrorist described in detail to his interrogators how the woman was raped and then murdered. The details even enabled Israeli authorities to identify the female victim.

Avishai Grinzaig, the author of the report, claimed that Israeli authorities have accumulated a large body of evidence, including testimonies by victims and perpetrators, proving the systematic use of sexual violence and other atrocities during the October 7th invasion, but has yet to release the information.

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Gaza terrorist confesses to raping then murdering Israeli woman | World Israel News

Islamic Jihad terrorist tells interrogators his terror cell raped and murdered an Israeli woman during October 7th massacres.

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The Global Empire of Palestine

The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.

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The Palestinian economy has lost billions since October 7, yet no one is protesting for Hamas to return the captives.​

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics issued a report showing the economic costs to Palestinians of the Gaza war, in both Gaza and the West Bank, through the end of November.

During the war, Israel has not allowed Palestinian workers into Israel. It has also not allowed Israeli Arabs to go to the PA-controlled areas of the West Bank, where they would often shop and obtain services at a lower price than they could get in Israel.

As a result, the Palestinian private sector lost about $1.45 billion compared to what would have been expected in October and November. It is losing about $25 million a day.

This is not including direct losses from the war of property damage.

Productivity in the West Bank has gone down by roughly half, which shows how dependent the Palestinian economy is on Israel. In Gaza, predictably, productivity has been slashed some 86%, The only sectors doing well in Gaza are humanitarian aid and health.

Yet there are no protests in the West Bank demanding that Hamas end the war. Zero.

There are no doubt that individuals are not happy about their wellbeing being affected by Hamas deciding that killing Jews is more important than Palestinian lives and livelihoods. But you won't hear about any of them, because every Palestinian knows that they must show unity with their leaders,and the West Bank leaders know they must show solidarity with whatever Hamas is doing. Any public disagreement is regarded as a source of shame.

Hamas and Palestinians take great pleasure in seeing any signs of a rift in Israeli society. They eagerly report about families of hostages pressuring the government for a deal. They regard internal debate as sign of weakness, and because they project their own honor/shame culture on others, they think that Israel must be in really bad shape to subject itself to such shame.

Supporting Hamas killing Jews is, bizarrely, considered honorable. It is far more honorable than having jobs or paying for food and living expenses.

It is a truly sick society.

The Palestinian economy has lost billions since October 7, yet no one is protesting for Hamas to return the captives.

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AP reported last week:

Israel wants to fast-track the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through a maritime corridor from Cyprus, bolstering stability in the region, the country’s foreign minister said Wednesday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said Israeli and Cypriot technical teams would spend Wednesday and Thursday hammering out the details of the initiative so that aid shipments from Cyprus’ port of Larnaca, some 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Gaza, can begin as soon as possible.

“Cyprus and Israel, together with other partners in the region are promoting the initiative for a secure maritime corridor to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian assistance to Gaza in an organized and well inspected manner,” Cohen said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Constantinos Kombos.

Cyprus had been pushing this plan for over a month. Israel would inspect the aid to ensure that it does not have any weapons and put other controls in place. It would eventually replace Kerem Shalom as the main means for Gaza to get imports and exports, thereby decreasing the risk to Israel of another Hamas attack like October 7.

Over the years, Hamas and other terror groups have routinely attacked Kerem Shalom and the other crossings that brought imports and humanitarian aid, causing death and injuries to workers there.

So who could possibly be against creating such an aid corridor that would ?

Why, the Palestinian Authority, of course!


At the weekly PA cabinet meeting Tuesday, the plan was discussed - and rejected.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, ... spoke about the so-called water corridor that was recently agreed upon between Israel and Cyprus, under the excuse of transferring aid to the Gaza Strip. The Council confirmed its rejection of this corridor due to the risks it poses that target the demographic situation in the Gaza Strip, in light of the killings, starvation, and cutting off the lifeline in the sector.

The Council of Ministers demanded that aid be brought in through the five crossings that connect the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, and not through corridors carrying a humanitarian banner, which would cover up the passage of plans consistent with the objectives of the genocidal war committed by Israel against our people in the Gaza Strip. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was assigned to communicate with the Cypriot government to inform it of the rejection of this waterway.

The logic is that the PA insists that Israel remain responsible for Gaza - that way they can claim Israel "occupies" the sector. The mention of "five crossings" includes the crossings that Israel closed after Hamas took over and continuously attacked them. Even though Kerem Shalom was adequate for all of Gaza's needs, the PA wants an open border between Gaza and Israel - so there can be more vectors for Hamas to attack and more October 7ths.

If Cyprus replaced Israel as Gaza's main source for imports and exports, then the Palestinians are more independent - but they cannot blame Israel for all their problems. Their claim that there is an Israeli "blockade" on Gaza can no longer credibly be claimed when the bulk of Gaza trade is through Egypt and Cyprus.

It might help Palestinians, but it makes Israel safer and weakens anti-Israel propaganda and makes Israelis marginally more secure.

If the PA (and Hamas) really cared about their own people, they would insist on the corridor plus Israel keeping Kerem Shalom open. They aren't saying that.

So of course Palestinians are against the plan: like Hamas, their purpose is not to help their own people but to destroy Israel, and the humanitarian corridor goes against that desire.

Israel and Cyprus approved plan to send aid to Gaza via ships. The Palestinian Authority REJECTED it. The reason tells you everything about the conflict.

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Hamas alerted the leader of fellow terror group Hezbollah just minutes before launching its October 7 assault, according to a report this week, detailing rifts between various Iran-backed groups and within Hamas in the wake of the unprecedented assault.

According to the report in French daily Le Figaro, members of Iran’s so-called axis of resistance, including Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and other alleged proxies around the Middle East, have offered only middling support for Hamas as it faces off against Israel, along with alleged evidence of souring ties between Hamas’s Gaza leadership and the group’s Qatar-based politburo.

The report, largely based on sources with ties to various terror groups, including one said to be close to Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, describes Hamas’s exhaustive preparations for the attacks and expected reprisal, from appointing dummy commanders to take the brunt of Israel’s response, to sending members on secret training missions, all while keeping the timing of the assault and other details from all but a handful of people, a decision that may have wound up leaving the group largely isolated.

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Report details Hamas’s secret buildup to Oct 7, terror group’s isolation in its wake

Gaza terror leader Yahya Sinwar is said to have used 'dummy' commanders as cannon fodder, but now he is under fire for pre-empting Hezbollah and Iran while cutting off his bosses

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Mismah commanded the terrorists of this elite company who attacked Kibbutz Kissufim on Oct. 7, where eight residents and six Thai workers were murdered, and at least four people were abducted. Mismah directed other Hamas terrorists to communities near the Gaza border, including Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Nirim, where a total of 135 Israelis were murdered.


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IDF kills Hamas Nukhba commander who led Kibbutz Kissufim assault - JNS.org

"We are killing the terrorists who will want to commit terrorism in the future," army chief tells troops in the southern Strip.

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Oh, I forgot, fck #Hamas

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Former Miss Iraq: 'October 7th wasn't about freeing Palestine' | World Israel News

Idan had her Iraqi citizenship revoked in 2019 when she expressed solidarity with Israel at the UN.

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Beds, Baths & Beyond: Celebrating Israeli Home Front Innovation

Israeli individuals and organizations devise a range of innovative, creative and even downright unusual solutions to the IDF soldiers

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