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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)

Banner headline events almost always flow from quieter real-life causes, and the worst attack on Israel in fifty years is not an exception. The coordinated raids and massacres on October 7 were possible only because of more subtle interventions over two and a half years in rooms at the State Department and the White House, with indirect help from nonprofits like the Soros-funded International Crisis Group. These interventions were driven by a small network of government and interest group insiders whose actions have gone unreported in establishment media. Though their further consequences aren’t yet clear, they’ll almost certainly involve a...

Societal order is beginning to collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip after thousands of desperate people raided UN warehouses in search of food, amid continuing bombardment by Israeli airstrikes and a widening ground offensive as the war enters its fourth week. Thomas White, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday that wheat, flour and hygiene supplies had been taken the day before from several UN-run centres across the blockaded 41km by 12km strip, home to more than 2 million trapped people. “This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down...

With the immense 'struggle' to "cope" with Oct/7/23 animalistic onslaught by about 2,500-3,500 Islamic Arab Palestinians; (Hamas-regime/PIJ/ordinary Palestinians), on men women and children: massacres, dismemberment; beheading babies; mass rape while laughing; raping corpses; immense tortue, disfiguring injured girls; parading with the injured to be abused by other racist-Arab Palestinians... And maybe more embarassing are the sheer numbers of masses of Islamic celebrations to the savagery. So: Some try to minimize it by the comparing numbers game: wilfully ignoring Jihadists past/present 'dead baby strategy,' but quoting fake stats straight out of lying Hamas regime's "numbers" - that strangly never include terrorists...and...

Israel declared war against Hamas after the terrorist group launched a sneak attack on October 7. Since the war started, at least 5,600 lives have been lost, including 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 32 Americans, along with as many as 250 civilians held hostage, including young children. As a result of this unprecedented attack, which many call Israel’s 9/11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to defeat Hamas and “wipe them off the face of the Earth.” So what happens when Hamas is destroyed? Well, on Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant outlined a three-phase plan for the...

About two weeks into the Israeli-Hamas war, the Israeli Prime Minister's office has released some grim new arithmetic: 1,400 Israelis dead, 4,800 injured, and "at least 30 of the abductees are children under the age of 16." "Two weeks have passed since the attack on the seventh of October," the briefing began. "Israel demands the release of the abductees without conditions. We want our children at home." The Israeli Defense Force has also confirmed that 10 to 20 of the 203 kidnapped Israelis are 60 years old or older, the prime minister's office said. And it said some 7,380 missiles...

Reporting. Ow, two hostages released.

Former President Barack Obama is coming under scrutiny for his recent remarks on Israel’s war on Hamas, giving moral equivalence to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by linking them with Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinian lands. “What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it,” Obama said, following that statement immediately by saying, “And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.” Obama made the remarks Friday at his Foundation’s “Democracy Forum.” Video excerpts of Obama’s comments were posted Pod Save America’s X page.

Former President Barack Obama backtracked Friday on his early support for Israel against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, telling an audience at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum in Chicago that they had pushed him to modify his position. “I had a conversation with a group of you around this issue, and you were passionate and pushed me around some of the public statements I’d made,” Obama told a group of activists and supporters. He said that all agreed on the desired outcome — ” an end to the killing, peaceful coexistence between two sovereign and free peoples” — but that...

How do you know Hamas is on the ropes as Israeli forces continue to encircle Northern Gaza? Because they are making offers like this. According to a new report, the terrorist government has offered to release all the civilian hostages it took on October 7th in exchange for just a five-day pause in hostilities. Although the terms have varied in recent weeks, Hamas has indicated most recently that it would release all civilian hostages in exchange for a five-day pause, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive matter. Israeli military...

AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — Yasmine Faraa, a Jordanian of Palestinian heritage, was angered when an Israeli missile hit a building belonging to St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, killing 18 and injuring 20. Faraa, a Muslim, came up with the idea to hold a vigil outside the Orthodox Christian Church, in the Jordanian capital’s Sweifieh neighborhood, to show solidarity. The numbers that turned out for the vigil on Sunday (Oct. 22) surprised even the Jordanian police, who had initially decided that they didn’t need to block the roads leading to the church. The crowd was largely composed of middle-...

Republican Senator and Committee Vice Chair Susan Collins recently asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about a New York Times report that “Iranian-backed terrorists continue to attack U.S. forces in the region.” Here is the exchange:COLLINS: Secretary Austin, as you indicated in your opening remarks, Iranian backed terrorist proxy groups in the region have launched numerous drone and rocket attacks against our forces, U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq. According to press reports, there have been at least 20 such attacks and 19 U.S. service members have been wounded. It’s imperative that Iran and its proxy groups understand that they...

US forces are facing a wave of attacks across the Middle East as Iranian forces and their proxies test defences in response to Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, officials said that at least two dozen US troops had been hurt in a wave of attacks on their bases in Iraq and Syria over the past week. Tortoise understands that the attacks are more extensive than has been reported.

It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, erasing more of his neighborhood and sundering hundreds of families and friendships. Yet on this October week in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 32 members of his family who were killed in Israeli air raids last Sunday. Dirawi’s aunts, uncles and cousins from Gaza City had heeded Israeli...

In comments that have prompted Israeli outcry, and led the country to withdraw its diplomatic presence, president Erdogan suggested assaults on Gaza constituted a "massacre". In the same speech, he reportedly said that Turkey can "come at any night unexpectedly” to ecstatic reception from hundreds of thousands of attendees. The footage, which is currently circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter, purportedly showed the pro-Palestine crowd responding with the chant: “Turkish military to Gaza.”

Turkey's president appears to have threatened to intervene in Gaza in an impassioned speech at a pro-Palestine rally this evening. Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech to a rally this afternoon in which he told attendees Israel was responsible for war crimes, and framed Hamas as "freedom fighters". In comments that have prompted Israeli outcry, and led the country to withdraw its diplomatic presence, president Erdogan suggested assaults on Gaza constituted a "massacre". In the same speech, he reportedly said that Turkey can "come at any night unexpectedly” to ecstatic reception from hundreds of thousands of attendees. The footage, which...

Amid the early stages of its invasion of northern Gaza by land, sea, and air, the IDF has confirmed that it killed a senior Hamas commander. U.S. President Joe Biden also ordered airstrikes against Iranian positions in Syria on Friday night, after U.S. forces were attacked. This marks a significant escalation in the region and could suggest that the United States is being drawn in to fight alongside Israel against Iran and its terror proxies. More on that in a moment. “Overnight, based on IDF and ISA intelligence, IDF fighter jets struck the head of Hamas' Aerial Array, Asem Abu...

Israel may use a new weapon called “sponge bombs” to seal and block off Hamas tunnels. The Israel Defense Force could deploy the new handheld devices to negotiate Hamas’ labyrinthine tunnel system –and trap any hidden fighters in them once they launch their long-awaited ground invasion into Gaza, according to reports. The sponge bombs consist of chemical compounds based around a liquid emulsion. It can be thrown into a tunnel where it swiftly expands and hardens.

... "Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas,” he added, speaking in Hebrew. “Our war against Hamas is their war as well. Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity. “It is a struggle between the axis of evil of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas and the axis of freedom and progress." The prime minister referred to Israel and its allies as “the people of the light.” In Luke 16:8, Jesus spoke of the "people of the light": “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd...

A poll of Americans found that an overwhelming number support Israel's war on Hamas terrorists, but a majority of younger Americans were sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians. The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll found that 84% of respondents sided with Israel while only 16% sided with the Hamas militants. Among older Americans aged 65 years and older, 95% said they supported Israel while only 5% said they supported Hamas. A slight majority of 51% of Americans aged 18 to 24 years said that the terror attack by Hamas on Israel could be justified by the grievances of Palestinians. 49% of those...