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Was it only yesterday that Russell Brand was saying pornographic things on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday morning...

October 7th means Benjamin Netanyahu has freedom to act to do whatever he wants in fact he has a "Green Light" from the "Deep State".

"Yes there's a lot of political turmoil in Israel but it's a war people are in the middle of a war...

OPERATION: 'NORTHERN ARROWS'

IDF conducts extensive airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Avi Ashkenazi. 09/23/2024 06:46 AM JPost

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Gallant urges calm as conflict in North enters 'new stage'. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Benji Rubin. 09/23/2024 08:32 AM JPost

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IDF: 'We can neither confirm nor deny if Sinwar is alive'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 08:50 AM JPost

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China asks its citizens to leave Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 10:00 AM JPost

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They slaughtered, raped and buried us alive': Syrians praise blows to Hezbollah. Ynet | 9.23.24 YNet

Syrian Opposition Members Celebrate Killing Of Top Hizbullah Commander In Lebanon: He Starved Syrians And Buried Them Alive.

September 24, 2024. Numerous activists affiliated with the Syrian opposition published social media posts expressing joy at Israel’s extensive wave of attacks targeting top Lebanese Hizbullah officials between September 17 and 20, 2024, and especially celebrating the killing of Hizbullah commander Hussein Ali Ghandour in a September 20 Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district, a known Hizbullah stronghold.

Ghandour was notorious in Syria, primarily due to his role in the siege imposed by the Syrian regime and Hizbullah on the town of Madaya in Rif Dimashq Governorate between July 2015 and April 2017. According to reports from the Syrian opposition during this period, Hizbullah and the Syrian regime laid mines at the entrances to the town to prevent food from being smuggled in to residents, and several cases of death by starvation were also reported. Memri

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IDF thwarts attempted terror attack in Beit Guvrin army base. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 10:03 AM JPost

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Rocket hits east of Lebanon's Byblos in area previously not targeted - resident, state media report. By Reuters. 09/23/2024 10:10 AM JPost

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Hebron resident convicted of triple murder and of ISIS membership. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 10:20 AM Hebron resident Wasim a-Sayed has been convicted for the 2019 murders of Yehuda and Tamara Kaduri, the 2022 murder of Ivan Tarnovski, and the attempted murder of Hadar Bezalel in 2019. The District Court in Jerusalem delivered the verdict online as a-Sayed was reportedly not present in the courtroom. He was also convicted of being a member of the Islamic State. JPost

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From de-Nazification to de-Hezbollahization: The blueprint for a new Middle East - comment Nasrallah faces challenges in responding to Israel amid weakened Hezbollah forces, prompting discussions on long-term strategies against the Iranian threat. By Ohad Merlin. September 24, 2024 00:40 JPost

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IDF reveals Hezbollah planned to fire cruise missile from Lebanon apartment. Chief military spokesperson reveals footage of Hezbollah terrorists who removed the front wall of a residential home in order to fire the missile at Israel; IDF calls on Lebanese civilians to distance themselves from terror group's weapon silos. Elisha Ben Kimon | published: 09.23.24 | 09:18 YNet

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With top aides gone, Nasrallah faces critical decision on precision missiles. Analysis: Field commanders steering Hezbollah’s war effort, but group yet to deploy precision missiles, maybe holding back hoping to avoid IDF strikes on arsenal amid US pressure to prevent regional war with Iran Ron Ben-Yishai | published:09.23.24 | 22:39 YNet

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Tiberias hospital transfers, moves patients underground. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 10:25 AM JPost

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Zionist Native Americans: 'You're an example to our people'. Yoni Kempinski, Washington. Sep 23, 2024, 11:23 AM JPost

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Hamas rejects latest hostage-ceasefire deal proposal - N12. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 12:28 PM JPost

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Pres. Herzog: 'Would you accept missiles in your neighbor's home? Israel National News. Sep 23, 2024, 12:31 PM INN

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IDF hits over 300 Hezbollah targets during two major waves of airstrikes in Lebanon. Among the attacks was a significant strike against Hezbollah deep into Lebanon in the Bekaa Valley. By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Keshet Neev. 09/23/2024 12:16 PM JPost

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IAF strikes kill senior Hezbollah commander - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 02:00 PM JPost

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IDF Spokesman Hagari: 'Every house we attacked in Lebanon contained Hezbollah weapons'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 03:00 PM JPost

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IDF brings bodies back from Gaza to check if Sinwar is dead, no positive result so far - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024 03:54 PM JPost

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Direct hit in lower Galilee: House destroyed; family in safe room survived. Israel National News Sep 23, 2024, 4:09 PM INN

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'Northern Arrows': IDF announces the name of operation in Lebanon. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/23/2024.

IDF Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi announced that the name of the operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon is "Northern Arrows." JPost

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'Operation Northern Arrows': Israel’s war against Hezbollah. The Israeli Air Force struck more than 1,600 Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley over the past 24 hours as part of the campaign.

(Sep. 24, 2024 / JNS) The Israel Defense Forces on Monday night named its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon “Operation Northern Arrows.” JNS

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After pager explosions: IRGC bans communication devices Israel National News Sep 24, 2024, 5:45 AM INN

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Michigan AG Dana Nessel: Rashida Tlaib’s criticism is ‘antisemitic’. Michigan AG Dana Nessel condemns cartoon of Rashida Tlaib with exploding pager as she files charges against 11 pro-Palestinian protesters involved in antisemitic and anti-Zionist campus protests. Ron Kampeas, JTA. Sep 24, 2024, 7:58 AM (GMT+3) [...] In an interview with a local paper the following day, Tlaib likened the campus protests to other demonstrations against racism and for immigrant rights. She told the Detroit Metro Times that Nessel chose to prosecute the 11 because of “possible biases.”

“It seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs,” she said.

Nessel’s office confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she took that remark as a reference to her Jewish identity. In a social media post on Friday, she condemned a political cartoon that suggested Tlaib was affiliated with Hezbollah — and also called out the congresswoman for antisemitism. INN

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US officials estimate: Israel will intensify attacks on Hezbollah. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2024, 8:06 AM INN

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Netanyahu to cabinet: 'Pressure on Nasrallah will help advance hostage deal'. Nitsan Keidar. Sep 24, 2024, 9:00 AM INN

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Israel estimates: Top Hezbollah official only injured in Beirut strike. Israel National News. Sep 24, 2024, 9:35 AM INN

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Missile barrage on Jezreel Valley.

Magen David Adom teams treat a number of people who were injured on the way to shelter, as well as several people suffering from anxiety. Damage caused to MDA ambulance in Jezreel Valley. About 20 launches identified.

Israel National News. Sep 24, 2024, 10:33 AM INN

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IDF: The IDF struck dozens of Hezbollah terrorist targets overnight as part of Operation "Northern Arrows".

Overnight (Tuesday), with the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in numerous areas in southern Lebanon. During the strikes, the IDF struck the Hezbollah terrorist cell that carried out the attack and the launchers that were used to fire at the HaAmakim area overnight.

Furthermore, IDF artillery and tanks struck additional terrorist targets in the area of Ayta ash Shab and Ramyeh in southern Lebanon. Sep 24 [2024] at 07:21 on Telegram

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Reports of GPS disruptions in center of Israel. By Maariv. 09/24/2024 08:05 AM JPost

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Petah Tikva pharmacist arrested on suspicion of ISIS affiliation. By Uri Sela. 09/24/2024 08:12 AM JPost

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Goal of Lebanon operations is to cut Hezbollah from war with Hamas, Israeli official tells CNN. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 10:04 AM JPost

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More than 30 flights to and from Beirut on Tuesday canceled - Beirut airport website. By Reuters. 09/24/2024 10:41 AM JPost

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Hezbollah's precision missile supply cut in half - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 11:07 AM JPost

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IDF attacks south Lebanon, residents asked to evacuate. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 11:44 AM JPost

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Tehran in the crosshairs: the shock of the Iranians at the loss of Hezbollah's power.

Yakov Berdugo. Sep 24, '24.

The IDF was able to damage the capabilities of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in an unprecedented way • This damage reverberates all the way to Tehran - the financier and the power behind it • The signals coming from Saudi Arabia about their desire to return and consider regional initiatives • But with all the recent military successes, the enemy must not be underestimated. Now14

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Hezbollah rocket division commander reportedly killed in Israeli strike on Beirut. Security sources say Ibrahim Qubaisi killed in attack on six-story building in Lebanese capital's Dahieh district; 6 reported dead and 15 injured in strike Lior Ben Ari, Itamar Eichner, Elisha Ben Kimon | published:09.24.24 | 15:57 ... The IDF launched a targeted strike on Tuesday in Beirut’s Dahieh district, a Hezbollah stronghold, aiming at Ibrahim Qubaisi, also known as Abu Musa, the head of the terror group's rocket division.

Security sources told Reuters that Qubaisi, who is responsible for directing rocket attacks toward central Israel, was killed in the attack, which hit a six-story residential building, destroying three floors. Lebanese reports indicate at least six people were killed and 15 injured.

According to a senior Israeli official, Qubaisi had only recently been appointed to report directly to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. “We are in the midst of intense combat days in the north, and Israel has escalated its offensive against Hezbollah,” the official told Ynet. “We’ve been systematically dismantling Hezbollah’s capabilities, including destroying thousands of rockets and missiles. "Our strategy is not to enter a full-scale war but to increase pressure gradually. If Hezbollah didn’t understand the message with the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, it will in the coming days.".. YNet

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IDF strike in Beirut kills Hezbollah missile chief, as rockets pummel Israel. Lebanese authorities say 6 killed and 15 wounded in strike, some 560 killed since conflict spiked; IDF reservist moderately hurt by shrapnel. By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies. September 24, 2024, 4:49 pm. ...Intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Tuesday, including an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital, as the terror group fired some 300 rockets at northern Israel, setting off sirens in cities including Haifa, Safed, Nazareth, and Yokne’am as well as across the Galilee. The target of the strike in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut was the head of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division Ibrahim Qubaisi. The Israel Defense Forces said he had been killed in the attack, alongside at least two other top commanders in the terror group. Hezbollah confirmed his death hours later... TOI

Hezbollah rocket chief oversaw rocket fire to Haifa this morning, Hagari says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 09:04 PM JPost

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Residents of Golan Heights communities told to stay near safe rooms. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 05:04 PM JPost

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Hezbollah rocket chief oversaw rocket fire to Haifa this morning, Hagari says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 09:04 PM JPost

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Residents of Golan Heights communities told to stay near safe rooms. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 05:04 PM JPost

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Despite rocket fire, Birthright launches 1st volunteer mission for adults with disabilities. 10-day trip sponsored by Birthright and Camp Ramah enables a dozen adults on the autistic spectrum to lend a hand in Israel during the war. By Gavriel Fiske. September 24, 2024, 5:00 pm TOI

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Hezbollah announces use of new rocket, Fadi 3, in attack on Israeli army base By Reuters. 09/24/2024 05:05 PM JPost

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Despite rocket fire at Haifa, Israeli seaports operating as usual, authorities say In letter, Port Authority says Israel’s ‘multi-layered security,’ including Iron Dome, keeps ships safe from Eilat to Ashdod and Haifa amid rocket and drone attacks. By Reuters and ToI Staff. September 24, 2024, 5:13 pm TOI

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Airlines put brakes on Tel Aviv and Beirut trips as Israel-Hezbollah tensions soar. British Airways, Lot, Azerbaijan and Wizz all cancel flights to Ben Gurion Tuesday, while several Middle Eastern airlines announce planes will avoid Lebanon for next two days By ToI Staff and Agencies. September 24, 2024, 5:33 pm TOI

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Treasury is said to propose new taxes to bolster state coffers and finance war Among the draft proposals for 2025 is freezing tax credits, taxing advanced study funds, reducing tax benefits on pension deposits, and increasing the tax on electric vehicles. By Sharon Wrobel. September 24, 2024, 5:40 pm TOI

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News outlets worldwide set to cover families' Oct. 7 memorial ceremony. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 05:54 PM JPost

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Iranian president says Hezbollah ‘cannot stand alone’ against Israel. In interview ahead of his UN General Assembly speech, Masoud Pezeshkian calls on international community not to allow Lebanon to ‘become another Gaza’ By AFP and ToI Staff. September 24, 2024, 6:37 pm YOI

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IDF troops strike RPG-wielding terrorist in Rafah area. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 07:14 PM JPost

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Israel has additional strikes prepared against Hezbollah, says Gallant. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 08:01 PM JPost

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Israel open to ideas to de-escalate in Lebanon, says Israel's UN envoy. By Reuters. 09/24/2024 08:15 PM JPost

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Police are operating at the scenes where shrapnel landed. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 08:24 PM JPost

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UK’s Starmer calls for ‘return of the sausages’ instead of hostages in speech gaffe. British PM interrupted by heckler asking about Gazan children; ‘This guy’s obviously got a pass from the 2019 conference,’ he responds. By Agencies and ToI Staff. September 24, 2024, 8:34 pm TOI

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Hezbollah rocket chief oversaw rocket fire to Haifa this morning, Hagari says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/24/2024 09:04 PM JPost

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Israel defense minister says UN not fulfilling obligations in preventing Hezbollah attacks. By Reuters. 09/24/2024 10:07 PM JPost

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Syrian air defenses intercept suspected Israeli missiles in Tartous, army sources say. By Reuters. 09/24/2024 10:10 PM JPost

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BBC criticised for refusing to call Hezbollah terrorists.

Craig Simpson, 24 September, 2024

The BBC has been criticised for refusing to call Hezbollah terrorists in its coverage of conflict in the Middle East.

In BBC reports on Israeli operations against Hezbollah, the group has been described as a “militia” or an organisation “considered” to be terrorist.

The reporting has followed BBC guidelines, which stipulate that groups such as Hezbollah should be referred to as “militants” rather than terrorists.

They say journalists should “not use the term ‘terrorist’ without attribution”. The BBC will instead use terms that are less “emotive”, such as “gunmen” and “militants”.

The guidelines provoked anger in the wake of the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, when the BBC was criticised for not directly calling Hamas terrorists. tmg.video.placeholder.alt 5aLg7RnNLb0

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism has voiced concern about what it described as the corporation’s “resistance” to the term.

A spokesman said: “In the wake of the barbaric Oct 7 attacks, when Hamas murdered over 1,200 Israelis and took some 250 hostage, the BBC showed an unbelievable level of resistance to calling Hamas what it is – a terrorist organisation.

“Similarly, Hezbollah is a proscribed anti-Semitic genocidal terror group, and it began attacking Israel from across the border in Lebanon on Oct 8 with no respite.

“Again, the BBC is stubbornly failing to describe Hezbollah in legally accurate terms. Using any other descriptor risks legitimising or downplaying the actions and rhetoric of this and other terror groups. British Jews should be able to expect better from our national broadcaster.” Daily Telegraph

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A modern pogrom through history’s lens.

Phyllis Chesler, Sep. 25, 2024.

Can anyone really evaluate Oct. 7—the genocidal pogrom that took place barely a year ago and is not yet over?

After all, scholars are still analyzing pogroms that took place thousands of years ago all over the pagan, Christian and Muslim worlds. Only recently has the scholar Irina Astashkevich documented, in her 2018 work Gendered Violence: Jewish Women in Pogroms: 1917-1921, the terrifying but typical details of the rape and femicide of Jewish women during pogroms that took place more than a century ago.

More than 1,000 pogroms took place in 500 locales. Lives, as well as minds, were lost. Entire communities were erased. In the aftermath, some women attempted suicide, others succeeded, some women stopped menstruating and others had to be psychiatrically hospitalized, most were afraid to go outside forever afterward.

In Astashkevich’s words: “The carnival of violence, complete with scenes of torture, rape and murder, played out on the second day of the pogrom as ‘celebratory street theater.’ Pogrom perpetrators purposefully drove Jews into the streets and hunted down their victims … acts of torture took place in front of an audience of pogrom perpetrators, the local population and frightened Jews. The ritualized violence reiterated the previous pogroms, but often in a more grotesque and horrifying form … . Pogromschiki bayoneted their victims, careful not to kill them, but to leave the wounded to suffer and bleed to death in agony that sometimes lasted for several days … . Pogromschiki made sure that all the apothecaries were wrecked, and there was no medical assistance.”

Even now, decades later, original and important analyses are still emerging about the Holocaust.

Just this year, my friend and colleague, Shulamit Reinharz, published an extraordinary book, Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir, which breaks new ground about how some Jews may have survived the Nazis by hiding and by being hidden. Reinharz’s work, which relied upon her father’s “hidden” memoirs letters and conversations, required her considerable academic skills and access to a vast and still-growing literature on the Holocaust and the perspective that more than 80 years in the future can provide.

I immediately knew that Oct. 7 was a pogrom, yet my understanding of what was unique about this particular Iranian-funded crime against the Jewish people and humanity overall has evolved in the months since the initial attack. As we approach the first anniversary of that horrific event, a number of items stand out.

First: Hamas terrorists recorded live video footage of their atrocities and released it on social media. They even sent it to the families of those who were tortured, raped, murdered or kidnapped.

Second: The attacks unleashed an ugly and increasingly ominous global firestorm that has cheered on Hamas’s sadism as “resistance” and condemned all Israeli civilians—be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze or Buddhist. It has also led to a seemingly unstoppable, propaganda-driven, worldwide siege against the Jews.

Third: The alleged “progressives” in the West, including the feminists who have, at the very least, paid lip service in vocalizing their opposition to the torture, gang rapes and murders of women, children and dissidents in countries like Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan, have remained silent. They refuse to condemn Hamas’s brutality against women on Oct. 7 despite myriad video evidence of the atrocities.

Fourth: Many governments and international organizations keep demanding more and more proof of Hamas’s actions and continue to deny the Oct. 7 atrocities. Yet these same actors have not denied any other 21st-century genocides.

Fifth: More people now know that the raging, masked, keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators who have been flooding American and European cities and campuses since Oct. 7 have been bought and paid for by Russia, Iran, Arab oil money, and woke American philanthropists and foundations. It is also now clear that these same groups have been preparing for this moment for 60 years.

Sixth: As some have suggested, Hamas’s behavior on Oct. 7 seems to have been influenced by the most sadistic pornography, as well as by mood-altering drugs. This sadism rivals and may even exceed the horror of other pogroms or war zones. JNS

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Oppressed lovers of freedom everywhere are secretly rooting for Israel to win.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, September 25, 2024.

The war with Hamas is existential for all of Western civilisation

The circle is nearly complete.

It is almost the same picture, but worse, that we watched take shape at the time of the war against the Kurds and again with the war against Ukraine—which, incidentally, continued unabated in a world where everything was suddenly splitting in two: the media’s focus, the attention of foreign ministries, and even military aid, which some political leaders, expecting Trump to return to power and taking advantage of the general confusion, would like to let fall by the wayside.

Could it be said that this upheaval is not really an upheaval this time around since it is just the same old song?

Is it the fortress Europe (and America) emitting its endless but familiar supply of collaborators and appeasers?

Yes and no.

It is as if tectonic plates had been rubbing together, sliding, overlapping, and separating before suddenly interlocking in a new pattern.

And for today’s observers, the current scene is a panorama where everything seems perfectly in place.

Hamas is no longer Hamas but, instead, the sword and toy of a counter-empire wherein the protagonists of the preceding wars have come together permanently.

And Israel, reciprocally, is a little more than just Israel.

It carries the message, even if unknowingly, of the Uyghurs of China, the intrepid bloggers of the Arab autocracies, the proponents of the Armenian cause in Istanbul who detest Erdogan and his fables of the Grand Turk, the strong souls of Kurdistan, the Iranian insurgents who continue to cry “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the opponents whom Putin deports, sends into internal exile, and assassinates—and also, perhaps in spite of themselves, the Palestinians in silent revolt against the Hamas dictatorship.

This has nothing to do with a war between West and East.

Nor with the “war of civilizations” that some, already lining up their legions, are hoping for.

Or maybe it does.

But in that case, one of the civilizations is the fine Internationale of the friends of liberty, law, and the spirit of resistance, drawing its members from within the new and ancient empires alike.

And the other is the civilization of tyrants and demagogues whose followers are recruited in the West no less than in the East or South.

The Maharal of Prague wrote in Netzach Yisrael that, in contrast to kingdoms and empires, which are extensive, Israel is a point, a single point, but what a point!

The central and hidden point, secret and essential, upon which rests, in the terrible dramaturgy of history, a piece of human survival.

So there we have it. Israel is not a pawn, but a point.

It is the hearth that radiates a light and a language without which a part of humanity would be lost.

Israel exists in a kind of solitude, no doubt.

A terrible solitude.

But to paraphrase Albert Camus, there are women and men, many women and many men, who would be very alone indeed without this solitary presence and who pray each morning and each evening, more or less secretly and silently, summoning whatever boldness their status as hostages of the five kings allows, for Israel to win its war against the empire of Hamas.

Excerpted from Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy – Out in the UK October 24th. The JC

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A Lebanese doctor and friend of Iranian ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agitates against Israel on the German state broadcaster.

The Lebanese doctor Dr Mousa Youssef (right) made serious accusations against Israel in the ‘Tagesschau’ news programme. Here he poses with Iranian ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under whose rule opponents of the regime were murdered and terrorists financed Photo: ahmadinejadmedia/Instagram A‘ news report on the war between the terrorist militia Hezbollah and Israel raises questions.

On Tuesday evening, the German TV channel ARD had a Lebanese doctor present alleged casualty figures and serious accusations against Israel without categorising them. The doctor’s statements even contradict official Lebanese figures. An Instagram photo of the doctor casts doubt on his credibility.

In the 8 p.m. news broadcast, ‘Tagesschau’ interviewed Dr Mousa Youssef, the director of a clinic in southern Lebanon. The area is controlled by the Islamist Hezbollah; the militia has fired thousands of rockets at Israel since October.

Youssef says in the programme about the operation in southern Lebanon, which Israel’s army has launched in its defence: ‘These are massacres of civilians and not military attacks, as they claim.’ The doctor does not mention the fact that Hezbollah is firing rockets at Israel from there and endangering the entire region. He claims: ‘90 per cent of the injured here are children.’

Are nine out of ten victims of Israeli airstrikes really children? This figure, which was not commented on in the ‘Tagesschau’ programme, would not only be shockingly high. It would also be extremely untypical for Israeli attacks on terrorist targets, although civilian casualties do occur in all military operations, especially when terrorists are hiding in residential neighbourhoods. If 90 per cent of the casualties were children, this would mean that an army was firing on full schools or kindergartens. This is not the case, according to official figures: According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, 558 people died in the airstrikes, although the authority deliberately does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians. 50 of the dead are said to be children, which would be 8.9 per cent. The fact that around nine per cent of the dead and 90 per cent of the injured are children is hardly possible.

Dr Mousa Youssef, who spoke of ‘90 per cent children’ in the ‘Tagesschau’, does not attract attention on social networks for his political statements. However, he seems to have no fear of contact with the world’s worst Islamists, Jew-haters and terror princes, posing in a photo with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (67), the former president of the Iranian mullah regime. The same regime that finances and controls the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which started the war against Israel.

Ahmadinejad made a name for himself worldwide by calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state and organising a Holocaust denial conference. The Iranian president invited neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists from all over the world to the conference. Even by mullah standards, Ahmadinejad was considered particularly crazy.

Like all mullah leaders, he brutally oppressed his people and financed terrorists all over the world. These included the Palestinian Hamas, whose murderers he supported with money and weapons. He also had the 2009 wave of protests crushed and dozens of demonstrators killed.

Dr Youssef gave him a hug and a friendly smile in 2019.

Israel-Bericht: „Tagesschau“-Doktor posierte mit Mullah-Mörder | Politik | BILD.de

Posted onSeptember 25, 2024. Medforth

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Erdoğan: Hamas is a resistance group that is defending its lands. A News, September 25, 2024. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday that he does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization but a resistance group defending its lands. [1]

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Armed by Iran to the teeth, Hezbollah gears up for ground war in Lebanon. Ynet|09.24.24|22:38 YNet

The dangerous missile Hezbollah will use in ground combat.

The Wall Street Journal reveals that one of Hezbollah's most dangerous weapons is the 'Almas' anti-tank missile, reverse-engineered by Iran from Israel's Spike missile.

Tziki Brandwine. Sep 24, 2024, 10:43 PM (GMT+3) INN

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UN Security Council to meet on Lebanon on Wednesday. By Reuters. 09/24/2024 11:25 PM JPost

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Explosions heard in Lebanon's Jiyeh, south of Beirut - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 01:00 AM JPost

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Drone lands in open area near Arava region, IDF says no one wounded. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 01:27 AM JPost

UAV fired from the east falls in the Arava region. Siren warning of hostile aircraft infiltration activated in the Arava region. IDF says a UAV crossing from the east fell in the area. Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq claim responsibility. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2024, 1:37 AM INN

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IAEA chief sees willingness from Iran to re-engage on nuclear file. By Reuters. 09/25/2024 01:36 AM JPost

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Danon says thank you. Argentina's President blasts UN over anti-Israel bias. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2024, 3:10 AM JPost

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Trump briefed on alleged assassination threats by Iran, his campaign says. By Reuters. 09/25/2024 03:37 AM JPost

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Live updates: Over 270 rockets fired at northern Israel so far today. Israel National News. Sep 25, 2024, 3:58 AM INN

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IAF begins another wave of strikes on Lebanon - report. By Maariv. 09/25/2024 9:12 AM JPost

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IAF intercepts UAV approaching Israel from Syria. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 9:34 AM JPost

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Israel dragging region into war, say foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 10:01 AM JPost

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Hezbollah attempts to hit Israel Electric facility, no damage reported. By Yoav Itiel.09/25/2024 10:21 AM JPost

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Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack. By Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan and Sophie Tanno, CNN. Updated 11:33 AM EDT, Wed September 25, 2024 CNN

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Palestinian arrested on Highway 55, weapon and drugs found in vehicle. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 10:59 AM JPost

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Killing valuable Hezbollah members will not beat it, Iran says. By Reuters. 09/25/2024 11:21 AM JPost

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Hezbollah rocket hits assisted living building in the Safed area, no dead reported. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 11:58 AM JPost

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IDF Northern Command chief: We have entered a new phase of the campaign in the North. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 3:37 PM JPost

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Police arrest two more suspects for Ramla car-bombing which killed four. By Uri Sela. 09/25/2024 5:57 PM JPost

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This is the missile Hezbollah used to target Tel Aviv area. Hezbollah's Qader 1 missile, with a 118-mile range and 1,100-lbs. warhead, was intercepted by Israel's David's Sling system; The launch triggered sirens across central Israeli cities; 'Hezbollah attempted to send a message'. Lior Ben Ari|09.25.24 [2] YNet

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French far-left leader, long accused of antisemitism, backs Hezbollah ‘resistance’ over Israel’s ‘invading army,’” Algemeiner, September 25, 2024:

The leader of France’s largest leftist coalition in government appeared to have declared open support for Hezbollah as the Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon continued to clash with Israel.

“Mass killing in Lebanon by Netanyahu’s invading army,” Jean-Luc Melenchon posted on X/Twitter on Monday, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The toll is getting worse by the hour. Full support for the national resistance of the Lebanese.”

Then on Tuesday, Melenchon continued to attack Israel on social media, tweeting, “After the terrorist attacks in Lebanon, Netanyahu inflicts bombings on this country up to 130 kilometers deep! The so-called international community lets it happen. The Lebanese are despised and abandoned. Shame on Europe that looks the other way.”

Hezbollah has been pummeling northern Israeli communities almost daily with barrages of drones, rockets, and missiles from its stronghold of Lebanon, which borders the Jewish state, since the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas invaded southern Israel from neighboring Gaza on Oct. 7.

More than 60,000 Israelis have been forced to evacuate their homes in northern Israel and flee to other parts of the country amid the unrelenting attacks from Hezbollah…. Algemeiner

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BBC told director of Nova massacre film to not describe Hamas as terrorists. "It was a price I was willing to pay so that the British public will be able to see these atrocities and decide if this is a terrorist organization or not," Mozer said. By Mathilda Heller September 25, 2024. JPost

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Syrian Writer: Hizbullah, Which Has Carried Out Horrifying Massacres Against Arab Civilians, Has Earned The Hatred Of The Arab Nations. September 27, 2024. The recent assassination of many senior Hizbullah commanders in the context of the military escalation between Hizbullah and Israel has sparked gleeful responses in the Arab world on the part of Hizbullah opponents and victims.[1] At the same time, Hizbullah supporters have spoken out against the glee at Hizbullah’s plight.

Against this backdrop, Syrian journalist Rami Al-Khalifah Al-Ali wrote in his column in the Saudi daily Okaz that the Arab nations hate Hizbullah because it has carried out crimes and sown chaos in many Arab countries.

He wrote that as one of the key allies of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Hizbullah carried out “horrifying crimes” and “massacres” against unarmed Syrian civilians during the Syrian civil war, including: a brutal siege against civilians that prevented them from receiving food and medicine; the total destruction of entire cities; and the transfer of extremist operatives into Syrian territory. Al-Ali also wrote that in addition to Syria, Hizbullah has sown chaos in Lebanon and Yemen, has supported the Houthis in their war against Saudi Arabia, has killed innocent civilians, and has developed a large drug trafficking industry throughout the region. Al-Ali concluded that it is therefore not surprising that the Arabs hate Hizbullah.

Hizbullah fighters in Al-Qusayr, Syria. Source: An-Nahar (Lebanon), November 20, 2016.

The following is a translation of Al-Ali’s article:

“In the summer and fall of 2015, the residents of the Syrian city of Madaya were subject to the worst siege humanity has seen in the 21st century. This siege was a live example of the brutality and barbarity of the Hizbullah militias, which denied the residents of the city their most basic human rights by denying them food and medicine, leading to the death of many children, sick people, and elderly... Memri

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US leads new effort to end wars in Lebanon and Gaza. By Reuters. 09/25/2024 6:00 PM JPost

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Over 40 Hamas operatives killed in past day as IDF launches fresh raids in Gaza. Military says commanders and members of rocket and propaganda divisions killed, as troops enter Beit Lahiya area in north to destroy Hamas infrastructure. By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters. 25 September 2024, 6:17 pm TOI

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Key Muslim group endorses Harris, labels Trump the bigger danger. By Reuters. 09/25/2024 7:53 PM JPost

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Two drones breach Eilat airspace. By Jerusalem Post Staff, Yinah Jeremy Bob. 09/25/2024 8:38 PM JPost

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US sanctions four individuals, entities, blocks nine ships for operating for Iran, Hezbollah. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 9:25 PM JPost

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Missile hits cable car at Hermon site. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 9:39 PM JPost

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New commander takes over Military Intelligence Directorate operations division. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 9:47 PM JPost

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IDF begins new round of strikes in Lebanon - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/25/2024 11:18 PM JPost

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IDF troops detect suspicious movement on Lebanese border, open fire. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 1:11 AM JPost

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Netanyahu leaves for New York ahead of UN address. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 3:58 AM JPost

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German court upholds ban on phrase 'From the river to the sea' - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 04:56 AM JPost

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Residents in Safed, surrounding areas asked to stay near shelters. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 07:15 AM JPost

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Biden highlights support for 21-day ceasefire between Israel, Hezbollah. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 07:39 AM JPost

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US-French ceasefire proposal pausing Northern Arrows op. for 21 days to begin on Thursday - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 08:56 AM JPost

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Due to security concerns, Saturday rally for a hostage deal is cancelled. By Maya Cohen. 09/26/2024 09:22 AM JPost

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As Christians, we stand with Israel, especially in times of great trouble'. America’s most prominent evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham praises Trump who would maintain 'good relationship with whoever runs Israel because he loves Israel'. Mayaan Hoffman/The Media Line | published:09.26.24|09:13 YNet

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Israeli strike kills 23 Syrians in Lebanese town Younine. By Reuters. 09/26/2024 11:15 AM JPost

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'There's a 'tsunami' of antisemitism in Germany'. The Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish life in Germany and the fight against antisemitism is concerned about the surge of antisemitic incidents post-October 7, says Jews concealing Jewish markings to avoid harassment and possible violence. Ze'ev Avrahami, Berlin | published:09.26.24|09:30 YNet

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IDF discovers a dug-out pit in the yard of a house in Jenin. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 01:20 PM JPost

IDF uncovers terror tunnel in Jenin. Elisha Ben Kimon, Yoav Zitun|09.26.24. [3]. YNet

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Police thwart bombing, shooting attack targeting Jews visiting graveyard. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 01:22 PM JPost

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IDF targets Hezbollah infrastructure on Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 01:35 PM JPost

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IDF targets infrastructure to move weapons between Lebanon, Syria. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2024, 1:56 PM INN

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IDF commander tells northern municipality heads IDF is making 'significant offensive efforts'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 02:27 PM JPost

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Police arrest schoolteacher, imam in Hebron area for inciting terrorism on social media. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 02:44 PM JPost

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Gaza: Terrorist who directed Judea, Samaria, terror attacks eliminated. Uzi Baruch . Sep 26, 2024, 3:11 PM INN

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Hezbollah fires 40 rockets in recent barrage, hits reported in the area. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 04:31 PM JPost

Barrage of 40 rockets fired at northen Israel. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2024, 5:10 PM INN

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Minister Gallant: 'We are continuing our sequence of operations'. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2024, 5:21 PM INN

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Israel must continue to strike Hezbollah, Halevi says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/26/2024 05:48 PM JPost

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Member of PM's entourage: Ceasefire not being discussed, we will continue to attack. Nitsan Keidar. Sep 26, 2024, 6:37 PM INN

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Live updates: Approx. 80 missiles launched at Tzfat area after elimination. Israel National News. Sep 26, 2024, 6:03 PM INN

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IDF confirms: Hezbollah aerial commander eliminated in airstrike.

The IDF struck the Dahieh suburb south of Beirut, killing Muhammad Hussein Srour, the commander of Hezbollah's aerial unit.

Uzi Baruch. Sep 26, 2024, 5:55 PM INN

Israel kills Hezbollah drone chief in Beirut, rockets fly at north as truce rebuffed. IDF also hits bridge on Syria-Lebanon border, used by Lebanese terror group to smuggle arms; Beirut says nearly 2 dozen Syrians killed in strike. By Emanuel Fabian. ToI Staff and Agencies. September 26, 2024, 4:38 pmUpdated at 7:18 pm.

An airstrike killed a senior Hezbollah leader in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon, the military said, with fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group showing little sign of slowing as an international bid to secure a ceasefire appeared to fall apart.

The strike in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh targeted the head of Hezbollah’s aerial forces, Mohammed Srur, who is largely responsible for the terror group’s drone fleet along with cruise missiles and aerial defenses.

Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed in the attack.

According to the military, Srur directed and commanded numerous and various aerial attacks on Israel, including explosive-laden drones and cruise missiles.

In recent years, the IDF said, he led Hezbollah’s drone manufacturing, and established sites in Lebanon where the terror group would build explosive UAVs, some of which were under civilian buildings in Beirut. TOI

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Shin Bet thwarts attack on Israelis visiting tombs of sages in north. Basel Abahra, 23, from the Galilee village of Arraba, planned a coordinated shooting and explosives assault against Israeli pilgrims visiting the graves of revered figures; 'Particularly serious as they were to be carried out by Israeli citizens during wartime,' says Shin Bet official.

Yoav Zitun | published:09.26.24| 07:54 YNet

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WATCH: IDF eliminates Hezbollah drone chief Muhammad Sarur in strike on Beirut, Lebanon. By Sam Halpern. Published: September 26, 2024.

Israeli fighter jets strike a building in southern Beirut, eliminating Hezbollah drone unit chief Muhammad Hossein Sarur. September 26, 2024.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the operation from onboard the Wing of Zion plane while en route to the US, the Prime Minister's Office stated...

Sarur oversaw numerous drone and missile attacks on Israeli territory and, over the last few years, had been a project leader in drone production and had established drone production sites, a number of which were embedded in civilian structures in Beirut and other locations in Lebanon.

Sarur joined Hezbollah in 1980 and held numerous positions in the terror organization, including the commander of the "Aziz" Unit, the Radwan Force's surface-to-air missile unit, the military added.

He was also reportedly Hezbollah's representative to the Houthis in affairs related to the Yemeni terror group's air array. JPost

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Flashback: Remember the June celebrations by Lebanese racist Arabs as Israeli northerners have been evacuated to avoid Hezbollah's fire? _

Documentation: Northern residents are evacuated - Lebanese residents celebrate.

While the residents of the north were evacuated from their homes, in southern Lebanon hundreds took to the streets to celebrate the Ashura holiday • Hezbollah leader Nasrallah set the fire in order to allow the celebrations • This is how the organization is expected to use the next two days - under the guise of mass processions and silence.

Guy Varon | N12| Published 21:52 16.07.24

While the residents of the north are still being evacuated from their homes and the directives of the Home Front Command prohibit gatherings in the area, the residents of the neighboring country are celebrating the Day of Ashura en masse. In the footage from a prison village in southern Lebanon, hundreds of residents are seen marching in the street waving flags and pictures of Hezbollah terrorists who were residents of the village, who were eliminated by the IDF in recent weeks. [4] Just Sayin'

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25 arrested at NYC anti-Israel protests Within Our Lifetime states plan to 'turn the city into a frozen zone' during protest against Benjamin Netanyahu's arrival to speak at the UN, demands disbanding of NYPD anti-terror force. Sep 26, 2024, 10:26 PM (GMT+3)

([5]. Pro-Palestinian Arab demonstrators gather in New York. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs).

At least 25 people were arrested at anti-Israel demonstrations held by the Within Our Lifetime organization in New York City on Thursday, the New York Post reported. The demonstrations were held to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who landed in New York today ahead of his speech to the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow. INN

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Children were shot and burned alive on October 7, forensic evidence shows. Police cyber and forensics teams work tirelessly collecting hundreds of thousands of video clips and testimonies across communities near the Gaza border to uncover facts about Hamas' brutal killing of children. Warning: viewer discretion is advised. Ariela Ayalon | published:09.26.24 | 14:38

Warning: The article contains graphic descriptions. Viewer discretion is advised.

Israel Police data released on Thursday revealed 27 children between the ages of 0-17 were shot and burned alive on October 7. Commander Dudi Katz, the Israel Police special investigations unit’s Lahav 433’s cyber unit chief, was tasked with analyzing digital forensic evidence.

One of the recordings received by the cyber team investigating one of the kibbutzim near the Gaza border featured a child's voice. The girl was on a call with the police emergency center while being held by a terrorist. She begged the terrorist to let her go, saying she was just a child and had school the next day. Despite the police dispatcher's pleas, the terrorist shot her to death. Her burnt remains were later located.

([6]. Photo: REUTERS /Ronen Zvulun)

This is just one of the many heartbreaking stories that police investigators have uncovered. The data, testimonies and hundreds of thousands of videos have been analyzed by Lahav 433, the national unit investigating the events of October 7. "We collected 11,666 videos that provide a comprehensive evidentiary basis gathered from various sources from just one kibbutz, which will enable us to file some of the most severe indictments against the perpetrators of these brutal terror acts," said Superintendent Reut Anoim, head of Lahav 433’ cyber investigation division.

The data and testimonies were also collected from ZAKA Search and Rescue volunteers who operated in the kibbutz. Six days after the deadly assault began, ZAKA personnel returned to ensure no evidence was overlooked, guided by the smell of decay, flies and other signs. In one room, they found the small body of a child and the body of a woman in the stairwell. Both bodies were so badly burned they were nearly unrecognizable. The only thing left of the mother was her bra, and of the child, only ashes remained.

([7] Devestation after the Hamas massacre at Kfar Aza. Photo: Gil Yohanan)

"Each cyber unit and the International Crime Investigations Unit was assigned to gather and analyze evidence based on specific areas. We relied on a web of testimonies collected from CCTV cameras in the affected towns, private homes near the Gaza border, testimonies from hostages, ZAKA volunteers, Hamas terrorists' body cameras and social media posts,” Anoim said. Any evidence that could not be verified was dismissed. "All the materials we used helped complete an evidentiary framework as we worked hard to maintain the highest standards of verification and cross-referencing, compared to the fake materials circulating on social media,” she added, Katz explained the challenge was interpreting the significance of the evidence they located. "As a law enforcement officer, I only work with definitive evidence. When I see a child shot with a severed finger, I can describe and document the scene but cannot definitively state the cause, as the finger may not have been intentionally severed but instead was injured by a fragment from the explosion in the safe room."

However, Katz was unequivocal about one fact: the torture of children by Hamas' Nukhba terrorists. "That children were burned, shot and murdered alongside their parents is a proven fact. Children witnessed their parents being murdered and we found a scene with a pile of bodies from the same family more than once."

Among the other harrowing scenes was a photograph of a baby who was murdered alongside her father who tried to protect his family. She was the youngest victim of October 7. Another case that Katz said he would never forget was the tragic story of the Taasa family from Netiv HaAsara. The father, Gil, threw himself on a grenade that terrorists had tossed into their home to save his children from witnessing the horror. In another video, "We identified a child around six or seven years old whose body was burnt, but his face remained intact. His glazed expression indicated that he had been burned alive,” Katz recounted.

([8] Home in Kibbutz Be'eri after Hamas' attack. Photo: Gadi Kablo).

Over 90 members of Kibbutz Be'eri were murdered on October 7. The kibbutz secretary, Gal Cohen, said that the highest number of children murdered was in his community. "What the children here went through is incomprehensible and we’re still burying our dead. This is an open wound, and we haven't digested it yet.” “We’re scarred, but we’re rebuilding and trying to recover. Parents and grandparents who lost their children and grandchildren have said they will never set foot in the kibbutz again because they see the victims everywhere they look,” he added. YNet

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Mossad stopped over 50 Iran-backed attacks against Jews abroad since Oct. 7 - sources. By Yonah Jeremy Bob. Published: September 26, 2024 13:17 Updated: September 26, 2024 14:48.

Although the world has learned about a relatively small number of these incidents, there are far more that the world has no idea about. JPost

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Assessment in Israel: Iran increasing the arms smuggling to Hezbollah. Defense establishment believes that, after the attacks on airports in Syria, from where weapons were smuggled to Lebanon, Hezbollah is now smuggling by land. Israel National News, Sep 26, 2024, 11:45 PM (GMT+3) INN

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Hezbollah fires ten rockets at Haifa, hits reported in open areas. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 09:03 AM [https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-822017

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Two additional Hezbollah officials killed on Tuesday strike on Kabisi, IDF says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 09:32 AM JPost

Additional Hezbollah commanders eliminated.

In the Beirut airstrike in which Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi, Head of Hezbollah's Missiles and Rockets Force was eliminated, Hezbollah leaders Abbas Ibrahim Sharaf Ad-Din and Hussein Hany were also eliminated.

Israel National News Sep 27, 2024, 9:27 AM INN

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Live updates: Man moderately-severely wounded by rocket debris in north Israel National News Sep 27, 2024, 10:20 AM INN

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Five Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strike on Damascus countryside, state news agency says. By Reuters. 09/27/2024 10:20 AM JPost

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Residents of Safed told to stay near safe rooms. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 10:20 AM JPost

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Pro-Hamas vandals deface, burn ancient Judea synagogue. The Eshtemoa Synagogue south of Hebron dates to around the 4th century C.E. (Sep. 27, 2024 / JNS)

Palestinians spray-painted pro-Hamas graffiti on and set fire to an ancient Jewish synagogue south of Hebron in Judea on Thursday morning.

The Eshtemoa Synagogue, which dates to around the fourth to fifth century C.E., is located in as-Samu, some 7.5 miles south of Hebron and 37 miles southwest of Jerusalem. JNS

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US universities that cut deals with anti-Israel protesters are now paying the price. Hoping to rein in protests on campuses post-October 7, several universities agreed to mull Israel divestment, but even this unprecedented move is inadequate for some activists. By Andrew Lapin. September 27, 2024, 5:24 am. TOI

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IDF says it shot down missile from Yemen, after sirens sound across central Israel. Surface-to-surface missile intercepted using Arrow 3 air defense system; 17-year-old moderately hurt by car pulling off road amid attack; Houthis take responsibility. By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff. September 27, 2024, 5:57 am TOI

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Trump ally says $14.88 sale price for pillows not intended as pro-Nazi symbolism. MyPillow chief Mike Lindell says he didn’t know the numbers are used by white supremacists, links criticism to his backing of GOP candidate By Ron Kampeas. September 27, 2024, 6:40 am TOI

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BBC airs Nova massacre film after insisting references to Hamas as terrorists removed. ‘We Will Dance Again,’ renowned 90-minute documentary detailing Palestinian terror group’s Oct. 7 onslaught at Israeli music festival, altered to align with contentious BBC policy By ToI Staff. September 27, 2024, 9:37 am

"Will Dance Again," a full-length documentary film about the Hamas massacre of over 360 people at the Supernova music festival during the terror group’s October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel last year, aired on Britain’s BBC2 on Thursday evening, though only after filmmakers agreed not to refer to Hamas as terrorists. TOI

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Moody's expected to downgrade Israel's credit rating. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 12:22 PM JPost

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Over 30,000 crossed into Syria from Lebanon in past days, says UN. By Reuters 09/27/2024 12:57 PM JPost

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Iranians indicted for hack of Trump campaign. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2024, 1:15 PM INN

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New Oct. 7 footage shows victim sticking tongue out at terrorists before her murder Kinneret Gat, 67, a teacher from Kibbutz Be’eri, whose daughter and daughter-in-law were kidnapped to Gaza, showed defiance in her final moments, newly released clip reveals. By ToI Staff. September 27, 2024, 1:30 pm Kinneret Gat, 67, is seen sticking her tongue out at Hamas terrorists shortly before her murder during the terror group's October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel, as seen in a Channel 12 documentary broadcast on September 26, 2024. ([9]. Screen capture via N12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law). TOI

The brazen act of Oct. 7th victim Kinneret Gat. Newly published footage from Kibbutz Be'eri shows the heroism of the residents and how 69-year-old Kinneret Gat stuck her tongue out in defiance at the terrorists before they murdered her. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2024, 1:56 PM (GMT+3). Keshet 12's Uvda program hosted by Ilana Dayan published new footage from October 7th in Be'eri in a special episode.

One of the videos reveals how Kinneret Gat OBM stood before a threatening terrorist who wanted to take her with him. She turns to him, looks him in the face and at the camera, and sticks out her tongue contemptuously. About an hour after the video was taken, Kinneret was murdered. INN

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Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 25 since early on Friday, health minister says. By Reuters. 09/27/2024 02:21 PM JPost

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IAF strikes rocket launchers responsible for morning barrage toward Tiberias. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 02:32 PM JPost

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Israeli moderately hurt by shrapnel as Hezbollah barrages target Tiberias, Haifa IDF hits dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, as alleged Israeli strike said to kill 5 soldiers in Syria; Iraqi militia says it shot drones, missiles at Israel, but army unaware. By Emanuel Fabian. September 27, 2024, 3:00 pm. TOI

Live updates: Man moderately-severely wounded by rocket debris in north. Israel National News. Sep 27, 2024, 3:50 PM JPost

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'Hezbollah sought to wear us down, but they are getting crushed,' Gallant says from Israel's North. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 04:02 PM JPost

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French foreign minister expected to visit Lebanon in the coming days - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 04:32 PM JPost

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Military wing of Hamas defeated, group functioning as guerilla group, IDF says - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 05:08 PM JPost

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I have a message to the world - we are winning.

Netanyahu at UN: I have a message to the world - we are winning. The Prime Minister spoke at the General Assembly of the UN, against the backdrop of escalating conflict with Hezbollah and nearly a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip. Yoni Kempinski, Sep 27, 2024, 4:04 PM (GMT+3)

After nearly a year since the outbreak of the war, and in the height of the conflict with Hezbollah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today (Friday) at the UN General Assembly. In his speech, he addressed the continuation of the fighting in Lebanon and the Iranian threat.

"On October 7th, terrorists invaded Israel and inflicted the worst atrocities imaginable. We will not rest until the remaining hostages are brought home," he declared.

"I have with me family members of the hostages. I promise all families, we will return your loved ones home. We will not stop until this is accomplished."

"We are facing the curse of Iran or the blessing of Jew and Arab," Netanyahu stated, while displaying maps of two possible futures in the Middle East - one showing normalization with Arab countries, the other showing continued war against Iran and its allies. "Israel seeks peace, Israel makes peace, and Israel will make peace again."

"Iran funds terror networks on five continents. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. That appeasement must end now."

"I call on the Security Council to stop support for Iran, we must ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons. Iran's militia have targeted us as well. Residents of Judea and Samaria have also attacked Israel."

My message to Tehran: "If you strike us, we will strike you. We will reach everywhere in the Middle East."

United States President Joe Biden addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, which was opened in New York for the 79th time, discussing his vision for the future of the United States and the conflict in Israel.

"The nations of the world must not ignore the horrors that were committed on October 7," he said.

"Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 people, including people who were dancing at a party, and committed acts of rape and sexual violence. I met with families of the hostages who are enduring unimaginable suffering."

"Terrorists steal food that we allow into Gaza, then they hype the prices, and that's how they stay in power. Hamas has got to go."

"This war can come to an end now - Hamas has to surrender, lay down its arms and release all the hostages!"

"On the day after the massacre, Hezbollah attacked Israel causing thousands of Israelis to be displaced. This has been going on for almost a year. The US would not accept this for even a day."

"Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles from private homes, schools and hospitals. Israel has no choice and Israel has every right to stop this. And that is exactly what we are going to do."

"Peace with Saudi Arabia would enable partnerships in many, many fields, a true pivot of history, historical reconciliation between Mecca and Jerusalem."

"One of the best ways to foil Iran's plans is to achieve this peace - also with the US and others who choose peace."

"I believe this can materialize and much sooner than we believe. This is an opportunity that we and the world cannot let go by."

"What choice would the world make - stand with a democracy and peace or a country that supports terror?"

"Even in this hall - evil is portrayed as good and good is portrayed as evil. This is an absurdity - that all that we do - bringing food into Gaza - and we are portrayed as evil. No army has done what Israel has done to protect civilians."

"I spoke from this podium, as Ambassador to the UN, in 1984 - 40 years ago. Then I spoke against a proposal to expel Israel from the UN. Now I am talking against the same proposal - not by Hamas, but by Mahmoud Abbas, who is supposed to be our peace partner."

"During that speech, I told everyone - check your fanaticism at the door. And today I say the same. For the Palestinians this home of darkness is their home court."

"The ICC does not consider Israel the democracy that it is. The real criminals are in Gaza, Iran, Yemen."

"Those who stand with the side of evil, should be ashamed of yourselves. Israel will win this battle - because we don't have a choice. After generations where we were slaughtered and nobody stood up for us - we are now defending ourselves."

"The torch of Israel will shine forever. Am Yisrael Chai." INN

Full text of Netanyahu’s UN speech: ‘Enough is enough,’ he says of Hezbollah, also warns Iran. PM tells world to choose peace and battle ’Iranian curse’; vows to keep hitting Hezbollah; says Hamas must go; denounces UN; promises Israel ’won’t go gently into that good night’. By ToI Staff. September 27, 2024, 7:26 pm

([10]. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement on September 22, 2024. Screen grab/GPO) TOI

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IDF strikes Hezbollah strategic assets in Beirut, issues evacuation warning. Army plans to escalate strikes as large secondary explosions reported in Lebanese capital; Israel warns Iran it will block any weapon transfers, including hostile flights to Beirut Yoav Zitun, Lior Ohana | published:09.27.24 | 18:11 YNet

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Houthis boast they fired missile, drone at Tel Aviv and Ashkelon, vow to launch more. Sirens were set off overnight in central Israel amid missile attack, but IDF says it is not aware of a drone ostensibly fired at southern city. By Emanuel Fabian. September 27, 2024, 6:26 pm TOI

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Palestinian gunmen slay female aid worker in Gaza in volley of bullets. Anti-Hamas activists reported to say woman was killed for not handing over funds to terror group; Hamas officials tell family shooting was mistaken identity. By Reuters and ToI Staff. September 27, 2024. ([11]. Islam Hejazy, an aid worker working for HEAL Palestine who was killed by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza on September 27, 2024, in an undated photo. HEAL Palestine) TPI

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Netanyahu at UNGA: Israel is fighting for its life. “If Hamas stays in power, it will regroup and rearm and attack Israel again and again and again as it has vowed to do. Hamas has got to go.” i24NEWS. September 27, 2024 at 10:18 AM I24

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"Moved by pure anti-Semitism": Prime Minister Netanyahu against the prosecutor in The Hague.

Tzipora Simantov. 09.27.24, 17:32

In his speech at the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu harshly attacked Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who is seeking to issue arrest warrants against Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Prime Minister • "It is impossible not to call this pure anti-Semitism," he said. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today (Friday) in his speech at the UN General Assembly harshly attacked Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who is seeking to issue arrest warrants against Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Prime Minister.

"The court refuses to treat Israel like other democracies - it is impossible not to call it pure anti-Semitism," said the Prime Minister and added: "The amount of condemnations against Israel in the UN is unlike anything else the UN condemns. How ridiculous, what a joke, what hypocrisy." Now14

In blistering UN speech, Netanyahu says Israel seeks peace but will fight until victory. Shortly before huge IDF strike on Hezbollah HQ, PM says Israel will keep hitting terror group; calls UN ‘swamp of antisemitic bile,’ tells world to choose between Israel and Iran. By Lazar Berman. September 27, 2024. TOI

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Nasrallah targered: IDF strikes Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut.

Nasrallah's exact fate is unknown at this time, but an Israeli official says there are indications he was in the building at the time of the strike. Netanyahu approved the strike moments before his UN speech, cuts short his visit to New York.

Israel National News (Canada). Sep 27, 2024, 10:48 PM INN

'Nasrallah was present at command center,' Israeli officials say. Israel and the world await updates on Hezbollah leader's fate following Beirut strike; 'No one there could have survived,' Israeli official says; Nasrallah was reportedly on brief visit to Beirut Itamar Eichner, Yossi Yehoshua | published:09.27.24|15:39 YNet

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Ceasefire talks between Israel and Lebanon ongoing, unnamed American official says - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024 07:24 PM JPost

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For the second time in a month: a resident of Yitzhar was stoned in Hawara. Arab rioters threw stones at a female car driver in Hawara. 09.27.24, 18:01 Naomi Rahelis. Now14

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Public shelters opened in Tel Aviv following IDF strike on Hezbollah headquarters. By Liat Ron. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Home Front Command issues new guidelines for northern communities. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Vehicle attacked in Tyre, southern Lebanon - report. By Amir Bohbot. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Israel's UN ambassador says Beirut bombing targeted meeting of 'bad people'. By Reuters. 09/27/2024. JPost

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IAF strikes Hezbollah launchers aimed at Israel, strikes conducted deep in Lebanese territory. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Hezbollah rocket hits Safed home. Shimon Elbaz|09.27.24. YNet

Shrapnel falls in Safed, hitting a house, MDA and police investigating. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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'Other leaders will take their place,' top adviser to Iran's supreme leader says. By Reuters 09/27/2024. JPost

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Iraqi Airways suspends all Beirut flights due to 'deteriorating security situation'. By Reuters, 09/27/2024. JPost

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Geert Wilders congratulates Israel for striking Hassan Nasrallah. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Blinken says Middle East parties will decide future path for region in coming days. By Reuters. 09/27/2024. JPost

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IDF warns residents of two south Beirut suburbs to evacuate. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Iran’s Khamenei said to convene emergency meeting after strike targeting Nasrallah. As Tehran lambastes Israeli ‘war crime’ in Beirut, top adviser to supreme leader says: ‘With the assassination of resistance leaders, others will take their place’. By ToI Staff and Agencies. September 27, 2024. TOI

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68-year-old woman wounded in Safed region, MDA says. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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Israel hopes not to launch ground invasion of Lebanon, Israeli source says. By Reuters. 09/27/2024. JPost

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US says it only got heads up from Israel minutes before Beirut strike, wasn’t involved. Israeli officials appear to confirm notice given when jets were in the air; Gallant, Lloyd speak via phone during massive airstrike; US president briefed by national security team. By Reuters and ToI Staff September 27, 2024 TOI

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Moody's downgrades Israel's credit rating from A2 to Baa1. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/27/2024. JPost

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IDF on Nasrallah's death: 'We will update as soon as we know the situation'. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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IDF Spokesperson: 'We will strike buildings where Hezbollah is hiding missiles'. Israel National News Sep 28, 2024. INN

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Communication lost with Hezbollah head, says source close to Hezbollah. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Death toll in Israeli strike on Beirut rises to six, Lebanese health ministry says. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Israeli military says it is striking in southern Beirut. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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US to 'adjust' its military force posture in Middle East after Israeli strikes in Beirut. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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West Bank, Galilee, northern plains under attack after IDF pounds Beirut from air, sea. Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari, Itamar Eichner|09.28.24. YNet

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Hezbollah has lost its leader before. Would it manage without Nasrallah? By Timour Azhari and Samia Nakhoul. September 28, 2024. TOI

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Official: With strike on Nasrallah, Israel hopes to avoid ground-op in Lebanon By Reuters and ToI Staff. September 28, 2024, 7:05 am TOI

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IDF confirms Hezbollah chief Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike. Military says it can confirm that the Hezbollah leader was eliminated in the attack on the terror group's central command bunker in Beirut. Yoav Zitun | published:09.28.24|

The IDF said on Saturday that it can confirm the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the strike on Beirut on Friday. YNet

IDF, Hezbollah confirm Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike | LIVE BLOG. Also killed in the massive strike on the jihadist group's south Beirut bastion were Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders. i24NEWS. September 28, 2024 at 03:59 AM latest revision September 28, 2024 at 10:42 AM [12] I24

Hassan Nasrallah: Terror chief made Hezbollah a regional force, ignored Israeli warnings. Lebanese cleric, 64, was threatening public face of anti-Israel Hezbollah terror group founded by Iran. Was killed by IDF after intensifying rocket attacks on north since Oct. 8 By Agencies and ToI Staff September 28, 2024.

Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, who led the Iranian-backed terror group through decades of conflict with Israel, was killed in an airstrike in Beirut on September 27, the Israel Defense Forces has confirmed.

Born in the Shia suburbs of Beirut in 1960, the radical Lebanese cleric oversaw Hezbollah’s transformation into a military force with regional sway to become one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations. An astute strategist, Nasrallah reshaped Hezbollah into an archenemy of Israel, cementing alliances with Shiite religious leaders in Iran and Palestinian terror groups such as Hamas.

Nasrallah became secretary general of Hezbollah in 1992 at just 35, the public face of a once shadowy group founded by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 1982 to fight Israel. It was the first group that Iran backed and used as a way to export its brand of political Islam.

Despite the power he wielded, Nasrallah lived largely in hiding for fear of an Israeli assassination. Israel killed his predecessor, Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi, in a helicopter attack. Nasrallah led Hezbollah when the IDF withdrew its forces from southern Lebanon in 2000, after 18 years.

Nasrallah grew up in Beirut’s impoverished Karantina district. His family hails from Bazouriyeh, a village in Lebanon’s predominantly Shiite south which today forms Hezbollah’s political heartland.

He is part of a generation of young Lebanese Shiites whose political outlook was shaped by Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Before leading the group, he used to spend nights with frontline guerrillas fighting Israel in the so-called security stone that the IDF had set up inside southern Lebanon to distance terror groups from the border. His 18-year-old son, Hadi, a Hezbollah fighter, was killed with three other gunmen in an Israeli ambush in 1997, a loss that gave him legitimacy among his core Shiite constituency in Lebanon.

He was targeted on Friday in an Israeli attack on Hezbollah’s main underground headquarters that rocked Beirut, the latest in an escalating series of blows over 10 days that have shaken the group he has led for 32 years.

Nasrallah was unreachable following Israel’s strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday evening, a source close to the Lebanese armed group initially told Reuters. His death was confirmed on Saturday morning by the IDF. Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah had not made a statement on his fate.

Among supporters, Nasrallah was lauded for standing up to Israel and defying the United States. To enemies, he was head of a terrorist organization seeking to destroy the Jewish state and a proxy for Iran’s rapacious Shiite Islamist theocracy in its tussle for influence in the Middle East.

His regional influence has been on display over nearly a year of conflict ignited by the Gaza war, as Hezbollah entered the fray by firing on Israel from southern Lebanon in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, and Yemeni and Iraqi groups followed suit, operating under the umbrella of “The Axis of Resistance.”

Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel on October 8, the day after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

“We are facing a great battle,” Nasrallah said in an August 1 speech at the funeral of Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut.

Yet when thousands of Hezbollah members were injured and dozens killed, when their communications devices exploded in an apparent Israeli attack last week, that battle began to turn against his group. Israel has not commented on the attack, even though it was widely blamed for it.

Responding to the attacks on Hezbollah’s communications network in a September 19 speech, Nasrallah vowed to punish Israel.

“This is a reckoning that will come, its nature, its size, how and where? This is certainly what we will keep to ourselves and in the narrowest circle even within ourselves,” he said. He did not have a broadcast address since then.

Charismatic orator.

Recognized even by his enemies as a charismatic orator, Nasrallah’s speeches were followed by friend and foe alike.

Wearing the black turban of a sayyed, or a descendent of the .. Mohammad, Nasrallah used his addresses to rally Hezbollah’s base but also to deliver carefully calibrated threats, often wagging his finger as he did so.

Conflict with Israel has largely defined his leadership. He declared “Divine Victory” in 2006 after Hezbollah waged 34 days of war with Israel, winning the respect of many ordinary Arabs who had grown up watching Israel defeat their armies.

But he became an increasingly divisive figure in Lebanon and the wider Arab world as Hezbollah’s area of operations widened to Syria and beyond, reflecting an intensifying conflict between Shiite Iran and US-allied Sunni Arab monarchies in the Gulf.

While Nasrallah painted Hezbollah’s engagement in Syria — where it fought in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war — as a campaign against jihadists, critics accused the group of becoming part of a regional sectarian conflict.

At home, Nasrallah’s critics said Hezbollah’s regional adventurism imposed an unbearable price on Lebanon, leading once-friendly Gulf Arabs to shun the country — a factor that contributed to its 2019 financial collapse.

In the years following the 2006 war, Nasrallah walked a tightrope over a new conflict with Israel, stockpiling tens of thousands of Iranian rockets and missiles to form a deterrent “balance of terror” in a carefully measured contest of threat and counter-threat.

The Gaza war, ignited by the October 7 Hamas invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, prompted Hezbollah’s worst conflict with Israel since 2006, after the terrorist organization began raining down barrages of projectiles and drones on northern Israel. Some 60,000 Israelis have been forced from their homes, and Israel stepped up its attacks on Hezbollah in a declared effort to enable their return. The IDF’s retaliation to the Hezbollah strikes has cost the terror group hundreds of its fighters, including many of its top commanders.

After years of entanglements elsewhere, the conflict put renewed focus on Hezbollah’s historic struggle with Israel.

“We are here paying the price for our front of support for Gaza, and for the Palestinian people, and our adoption of the Palestinian cause,” Nasrallah said in the August 1 speech.

Powerful enemies – and a powerful protector. Nasrallah had a track record of threatening powerful enemies.

As regional tensions escalated after the eruption of the Gaza war, Nasrallah issued a thinly veiled warning to US warships in the Mediterranean, telling them: “We have prepared for the fleets with which you threaten us.”

In 2020, Nasrallah vowed that US soldiers would leave the region in coffins after Iranian general Qassem Soleimani — head of the Quds Force of the IRGC, a US-designated terror group — was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq.

He expressed fierce opposition to Saudi Arabia over its armed intervention in Yemen, where, with US and other allied support, Riyadh sought to roll back the Iran-aligned Houthis.

IRGC operative Hajj Muhammad Radwan, better known as Mohammed Bashir, is seen in an undated photo with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. (Shin Bet)

As regional tensions rose in 2019 following an attack on Saudi oil facilities, he said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates should halt the Yemen war to protect themselves.

“Don’t bet on a war against Iran because they will destroy you,” he said in a message directed at Riyadh.

On Nasrallah’s watch, Hezbollah also clashed with adversaries at home in Lebanon.

In 2008, he accused the Lebanese government — backed at the time by the West and Saudi Arabia — of declaring war by moving to ban his group’s internal communication network. Nasrallah vowed to “cut off the hand” that tried to dismantle it.

It prompted four days of civil war pitting Hezbollah against Sunni and Druze fighters, and the Shiite group to take over half the capital Beirut.

He strongly denied any Hezbollah involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, after a UN-backed tribunal indicted four members of the group.

Nasrallah rejected the tribunal — which in 2020 eventually convicted three of them in absentia over the assassination — as a tool in the hands of Hezbollah’s enemies.

Israel in recent days and weeks had vowed to gradually escalate its attacks on Hezbollah unless it halted its rocket fire and entered a diplomatic process for withdrawing its forces deeper into Lebanon. Nasrallah ignored the threat and the escalating attacks.

On Friday, in a speech to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel “must defeat” Hezbollah.

“It has tentacles that span all continents. It has murdered more Americans and more Frenchmen than any group except Bin Laden,” he said. “And it has attacked Israel viciously over the last 20 years.”

“In the last year, completely unprovoked,” he went on, Hezbollah’s attacks “turned vibrant towns in the north of Israel into ghost towns… Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, I’ve come here today to say enough is enough.”

Shortly before delivering the speech, Netanyahu had approved the deadly strike on Nasrallah. TOI

Decades of global terrorism: it is Hassan Nasrallah who was eliminated. His son was killed in an encounter with Nut fighters, after the Second Lebanon he went underground. N12 | 11:02 Mako

Terror Chief Dead. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed by airstrike in Beirut: IDF.

Longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed by airstrike in Beirut: IDF. His death is considered a major victory in their ongoing campaign against hostile regional forces in the aftermath of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 assault on Israel. NYPost

Radio transmissions from Nasrallah op: 'We will reach everyone in every place'. Listen to the radio transmissions from the IAF commander Tomer Bar, during the operation to strike Hezbollah's HQ, eliminate Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2024, 7:58 PM (GMT+3) INN

'Nasrallah wanted to destroy Israel - we eliminated him'. IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaks following elimination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, stresses, 'IDF at peak readiness, is prepared for what comes next.' Israel National News. Sep 28, 2024, 8:05 PM (GMT+3) INN

Who was Hassan Nasrallah? The profile of a terror leader. Hassan Nasrallah began his journey in terror at the age of 16, and headed the Hezbollah terror organization for 32 years. He is responsible for the murder of thousands of American, Lebanese, and Israeli civilians. Israel National News. Sep 28, 2024, 8:15 PM (GMT+3)

In a Friday afternoon operation, the IDF eliminated Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during an airstrike in Lebanon.

In 1976, at the age of 16, Hassan Nasrallah traveled to Iraq where he met Abbas al-Musawim, who later served as the Secretary-General of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, and he joined the Shia Islamic movement, the Dawa Party, many of whose members later joined Hezbollah.

In 1982, he left the Amal Movement and, with the help of other Shia Islamic figures and Iranian support, established the Hezbollah terrorist organization, in which he obtained a senior position among Hezbollah’s founders. Shortly after, he was given responsibility for the Beqaa area, at just 22 years old.

In 1985, he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Beirut Council, one of the three branches of the organization at that time, and quickly became the organization's military leader in the city. Additionally, he served as a member of Hezbollah's Political Bureau.

In 1987, he was appointed Head of the Operational Executive Council of the organization, and became a member of Hezbollah's Supreme Council. Following the elimination of Hezbollah leader Abbas Musawi, Nasrallah was appointed to replace him at just 32 years old, and has since served as the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

During his 32 years as Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah was responsible for the murder of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers, planning and executing thousands of terrorist actions against Israeli citizens and others around the world. He served as the central decision-maker of all strategic decisions within the terrorist organization. INN

Opinion: Eliminating Nasrallah: Israel's genius line of moves.

A new order now prevails in the Middle East, and an Iranian response will only worsen its already precarious situation. However, in order to eliminate the threat from the north, the IDF must operate on the ground in Lebanon, and its destruction will only come by taking territory. By Boaz Haetzni. 25 of Elul 5784. (09/28/2024 21:32)

Eliminating Nasrallah: Israel's genius line of moves.

Some preliminary insights into the "New Order" in the Middle East.

Within two weeks, Israel managed to break into pieces the most significant Iranian arm , in a series of moves that the word "genius" is a few measures short of.

-Nasrallah and the top left of the organization would not come together to the headquarters for the meeting . This was made possible by a deception exercise from the most sophisticated in the history of talks about a ceasefire and Netanyahu's trip, who gave a rather banal speech at the UN. They thought that against the background of global pressures to stop the war, and to take the foot off the gas that was manifested in Netanyahu's trip, it would be possible to come to the headquarters and enjoy the speech. They were a little wrong.

-It was impossible to go out to eliminate Nasrallah when his entire system was in place, because we would have taken unimaginable amounts of missiles on our heads and paid huge prices. We had to first deal a fatal blow to their precise and long-range launch capabilities.

-It was impossible to break these capabilities as long as Radwan's force sat on the border and was able to invade the Galilee. It was necessary to hurt him significantly. Indeed, most of his commanders were eliminated with Ibrahim Akil in Beirut.

-It was impossible to carry out this elimination as long as Hezbollah was an organized and hierarchical organization with enormous capabilities. The top command of the organization had to be hit and this was done by the unbelievable operation of the pagers and walkie-talkies. The loss of trust in electronic means of communication meant that they had to gather together, and there they were eliminated together, again and again.

All of this could not have been accomplished without intelligence at an unprecedented level, through which Israel simply knows everything and only chooses the timing of each action. All this could not have been accomplished without the imaginative capabilities of the Air Force. It was impossible to do this if they did not prepare enough armaments for Lebanon in advance, and probably for Iran as well, and not be dependent on American pressure. In Gaza they underestimated Hamas and did not prepare anything, and there a dependency was created. In Lebanon it is a completely different story. And this is the place to compliment the Aman, the Mossad, the IDF, all the commanders, the government and the prime minister. Yes, yes, all those reviled, quite rightly, should now receive applause when it comes, and the day is very, very coming.

One of the results of the new situation is that Israel announced through the communication of the Beirut airport control tower that it must not allow an approaching Iranian plane to land, and on the order of the Lebanese Minister of Transport, who is a representative of Hezbollah, the plane turned around and returned. Someone new is handing out the instructions in Lebanon starting this morning.

Hezbollah is now reacting like a snake whose head has been cut off. Twisting, twisting but not really existing. Of course, now we must finish the work, destroy the missile stockpiles, eliminate the operatives, and change the situation on the ground. Iran must not be allowed to rebuild this monster.

The security of the north will only come after the IDF enters Lebanon by ground. First of all, the firing of the short-range rockets, 0-13 km, is the most massive, because these rockets are small, cheap, easy to hide and difficult to destroy, therefore only ground entry will stop the shooting This will remove the danger of invasion and kidnapping.

Israel, like it or not, must place the border on the Litani River, which is a natural and defensible border, in contrast to the current absurd line established more than a century ago by France and Great Britain for their imperialist considerations, and is dangerous for Israel. Israel has been suffering from Lebanon for 50 years of shelling and terrorist attacks, so it is justified in taking territory that will ensure that this stops.

By the way, until Litani this is the northern part of the Upper Galilee, part of Eretz Israel, it's time to settle this account as well. Shiite residents who have been poisoned for 24 years by Hezbollah's education system must not remain in this area. There is a price for attacks, shelling, and plots and threats of annihilation. The law of the territory up to the litany is the law of the Golan Heights. There is no victory in the Middle East without taking territory, and this is another reason to do it. Likewise in Gaza.

After the fall of Hezbollah, the Shiites are exposed to the revenge of the Sunnis, and there is a situation that they will now receive the treatment they gave to the Sunnis in Syria and Lebanon. And now Iran stands naked in the middle of the field, entangled in a crazy dilemma.

Its main force, Hezbollah, is incompetent. She prepared him for the day when Israel would want to attack its nuclear facilities, and now he is gone. If it attacks, it will thereby give Israel a great reason to attack it, and it has no idea about the depth of Israel's intelligence and penetration into its systems, that is, it has an idea, and therefore it trembles and did not react to the elimination of the Niyya, despite the promises and the flags of revenge. If she doesn't attack, she is eliminated in the eyes of everyone who trusted her, all her allies, and that's after she oversaw the destruction of Hamas and Gaza.

This could also be the end of her dream of an empire which was supposed to be a continental continuum from Iran, through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, to the Mediterranean Sea. All her investment went down the drain and was thwarted.

Iran, like many scum throughout history, used anti-Semitism to sneak its strengthening and conquests. As soon as someone speaks and acts against the Jews, he is forgiven in the world for every evil and injustice. Nazi Germany peacefully ruled most of Europe throughout the war years. They forgave her for everything because she did the work for them against the Jews.

Part of the European tolerance today for Muslims who take over their countries stems from the fact that Muslims are at the forefront of hatred and murder towards the Jews and Israel. The world saw this Nazi Germany resurrected in the form of Iran and shrugged its shoulders, because it wrapped the intensification with hatred of Israel and solemn promises of its destruction.

But here is the twist in the plot. The State of Israel could not but prepare accordingly, and prepared the response well, and it was this anti-Semitic exercise that led to its downfall. If she had not put Israel at the center of her goal, she could have realized this imperialist dream of hers without interruption.

This will perhaps be a lesson for the future for all scum, that it might actually be better not to mess with the Jews, according to the old rule "started with us, finished with the angel of death". Can you hear Hassan?

If Israel finishes the job in Lebanon and Gaza, its deterrence will be restored for many years, many countries will seek its proximity, the sales of the defense industry will skyrocket, and the effect of American pressure will also decrease, because if the immediate danger from Israel is removed, the threat level will decrease, and Israel's need for American assistance will not will be so desperate, all this together with the Israeli understanding of the need for as much independence as possible in the production of military equipment. MakorRishon

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Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a ‘measure of justice’. By Aamer Madhani and Matthew Lee Updated 3:25 PM EDT, September 28, 2024.

Rehoboth Beach, Del. (AP) — The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice” for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday.

The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day.

Biden noted that the operation to take out Nasrallah took place in the broader context of the conflict that began with Hamas’ massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.

“Nasrallah, the next day, made the fateful decision to join hands with Hamas and open what he called a ‘northern front’ against Israel,” Biden said in a statement.

He also noted that Hezbollah under Nasrallah’s watch has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, Israelis and Lebanese.

Hezbollah attacks against U.S. interests include the truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy and multinational force barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the kidnapping of the Central Intelligence Agency chief of station in Beirut, who died while held captive. The U.S. said Hezbollah leaders armed and trained militias that carried out attacks on American forces during the war in Iraq. AP

'Today, Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of justice’: VP Harris echoes Biden’s approval of Nasrallah killing. By Jacob Magid. September 28, 2024, 9:01 pm

US Vice President Kamala Harris echoes President Joe Biden’s tepid approval of Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah yesterday in Beirut.

“Hassan Nasrallah was a terrorist with American blood on his hands. Across decades, his leadership of Hezbollah destabilized the Middle East and led to the killing of countless innocent people in Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and around the world. Today, Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of justice,” Harris says in a statement.

“I have an unwavering commitment to the security of Israel. I will always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis,” she adds.

“President Biden and I do not want to see conflict in the Middle East escalate into a broader regional war. We have been working on a diplomatic solution along the Israel-Lebanon border so that people can safely return home on both sides of that border. Diplomacy remains the best path forward to protect civilians and achieve lasting stability in the region,” Harris concludes. TOI

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Nasrallah elimination will return residents to north and bring home Gaza hostages, Netanyahu says. 'Settled accounts with those responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of Americans,' Netanyahu says in address to the nation. Itamar Eichner | 09.28.24 YNet

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'Draft your will': The message Nasrallah got – but refused to heed. By Shachar Kleiman. September 28, 2024. Lebanese Shiite scholar and former acquaintance wrote, "We began our journey together," but Nasrallah chose Iran over the Arabs. "You, however, post-liberation, fell into Iran's embrace...I forewarned you of the impending destruction that would befall you and the Lebanese people." ILH

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Hezbollah fires at West Bank, rockets hitting Palestinian villages. Rocket sirens sound in northern West Bank for second time since war, just five days after previous attack; large interception fragments cause damage in Palestinian town of Huwara, south of Nablus. Einav Halabi, Hassan Shaalan | published:09.28.24|04:44 YNet

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Report: The IDF took over the control tower at the airport in Beirut. Israel warned the inspectors: do not let the Iranian plane land near you. Yaron Schneider|09.28.24| 12:01 Mako

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Report: Panic in Iran following the assassination: Khamenei was moved to a secure location. The supreme leader in his first reaction to the assassination: "We stand by Hezbollah and the resistance." Assaf Rosenzweig|09.28.24| 12:35 Mako

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IDF says Hezbollah terror chief Nasrallah, other top commanders killed in Beirut strike. By Emanuel Fabian. September 28, 2024, 1:02 pm TOI

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28/09/2024, 13:49 Idlib, Syria, last night.

The crowd chants: حسن نصر الله عجهنم ياالله Hassan Nasrallah go to hell. AbuAliExpress

WATCH: Syrians Celebrate Reported Death of Hezbollah Head Hassan Nasrallah. Adam Kredo, September 27, 2024. [13] Free Beacon

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Abu Ali, 09/28/2024, 10:41 am..

Idlib, Syria. [14] On the signs it says: Thank you Netanyahu. Now the head of the criminal Bashar Assad. Thank you Netanyahu. Warmed the hearts of Syrian children. AbuAliExpress

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28/09/2024, 12:36.

The celebrations of the Syrian exiles in Germany of the death of Nasrallah, tonight. AbuAliExpress

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Khamenei moved to secure location after Nasrallah attack. Reuters|09.28.24. YNet

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A senior member of the Revolutionary Guards was killed alongside Nasrallah. The operations manager of the Quds Force was in the bunker that was bombed.

In Iran they confirm: a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards was killed alongside Nasrallah in an attack in Dahiya. The official media in Iran and channels associated with the "Axis of Resistance" report the death of a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards, Abbas Nilforoushan. Assaf Rosenzweig | N12 | Published 15:14 28.09.24 Mako

IDF follow-up strikes eliminate Hezbollah missile unit, IRGC commanders - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024.

IDF strikes also targeted Hezbollah weapons depots and manufacturing sites in Beirut, Tyre, and the Bekaa Valley. IDF follow-up strikes on the Beirut suburb of Dahiya have eliminated a Hezbollah missile unit commander and his deputy and may have eliminated an IRGC commander, according to Israeli media early Saturday morning.

The IDF struck several targets across the country only hours after a strike on Beirut, which targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The Israeli military that the commander of Hezbollah's missile unit, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hossein Ahmed Ismail, had also been killed in southern Lebanon.

Ali Ismail was responsible for many attacks against Israel, including the launch of missiles toward the center of the country on September 25, according to Walla.

IDF strikes also targeted Hezbollah weapons depots and manufacturing sites in Beirut. The military had forewarned residents of these districts that they would need to evacuate immediately, only a few hours prior.

Hezbollah denied that the targeted buildings were used as weapons depots.

The IDF also launched a series of strikes on the area near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after rockets had been launched at Safed.

Several hours later, the IDF updated that it had also struck Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley.

IRGC commander eliminated. Additionally, IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan may have been eliminated in the IDF strike on the Beirut suburb Dahiya, according to Iranian media.

Nilforoushan was a key player in Iranian actions in the region, advising Hezbollah on military and diplomatic affairs, according to Khabar Online.

He is believed to have played a major role in crushing protests against the Iranian regime and fought with the Assad regime during the Syrian Civil War. JPost

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IDF strikes Hezbollah missiles threatening navy, Haifa port. Yoav Zitun |09.28.24 YNet

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IDF tightens restrictions in central Israel after eliminating Hezbollah leader. In first statement since Nasrallah assassination, army says gatherings in central Israel limited to 1,000 people, though schools will remain open; 'This isn't over yet,' warns military spokesperson Hagari. Lior Ohana | published:09.28.24| YNet

Following Nasrallah's elimination: IDF imposes restrictions on central Israel. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 28, 2024, 8:43 PM INN

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Nasrallah’s elimination is a direct blow to Iran, and a revival of Israeli deterrence. Amir Bar Shalom. September 28, 2024. TOI

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They Got Him: Israel Confirms It Killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah in Underground HQ. Andrew Tobin, September 28, 2024. Free Beacon

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Israeli Airstrike Killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. The attack flattened part of a Beirut neighborhood to eliminate the cleric who led the group for three decades and built it into a fearsome foe. September 28, 2024 WSJ

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Nasrallah’s Death Deprives Hezbollah of Its ‘Beating Heart’. The single-most important leader in Iran’s constellation of allied militias, turned the Shiite militant group into the world’s most powerful nonstate armed force.

September 28, 2024. WSJ

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Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC. Democratic politician’s windows defaced with anti-Israel graffiti, including inverted red triangle, a symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos. By Luke Tress. September 28, 2024 New York Jewish Week — The uptown Manhattan district office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat and the surrounding area was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti on Thursday night.

According to security footage police viewed at the scene the following morning, the vandalism took place at around 11 p.m., on a night when pro-Palestinian protests took place around the city, on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly. TOI

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Israeli strike hits Lebanon mountain town of Bhamdoun, Lebanese lawmaker says. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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IDF recruits three additional reserve battalions. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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'New Order': IDF announces name of Friday Beirut strike eliminating Hezbollah leader Nasrallah. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Lebanon blocks Iranian plane from entering airspace after Israeli threats, ministry source says. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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France says it has information confirming Hezbollah chief Nasrallah is dead. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Hezbollah confirms Nasrallah killed, Hamas mourns. By Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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IDF targets senior member of Hezbollah intelligence, in Dahieh strike. He was in charge of identifying civilian and military targets on the northern border and deep within Israeli territory Yoav Zitun, Niv Shaiovich, Yossi Yehoshua | 09.28.24. The IDF said on Saturday evening that it carried out a targeted attack on Hassan Khalil Yassin, a senior member of Hezbollah's intelligence array.

"Yassin stood at the head of a department responsible for the identification of civilian and military targets, on the northern border and deep within Israeli territory," the military said in a statement. "As part of his role, Yassin collaborated with all of Hezbollah's offensive units, was personally involved in the planning of terror attacks that were executed during the war against Israeli civilians and soldiers, and planned additional attacks to be carried out in the coming days." YNet

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House with no shelter in Safed suffers direct rocket hit. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Iran Air cancels flights to Beirut until further notice. By Reuters. 09/28/2024. JPost

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PM Netanyahu lands in Israel after Israeli strike eliminated Hezbollah leader Nasrallah. By Maariv Online. 09/28/2024. JPost

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IDF again strikes southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024 JPost

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UN Sec. Gen. Guterres: I call again for immediate release of hostages. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024. JPost

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Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei issues five days of mourning in Iran due to Nasrallah's death. By Walla! 09/28/2024 07:17 PM JPost

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Netanyahu to speak on Nasrallah killing after returning to Israel. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024 08:38 PM JPost

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Israel preparing limited ground incursion into Lebanon, senior US official says. Ynet|09.28.24. YNet

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Rocket from Lebanon explodes on outskirts of Jerusalem. Roni Green Shaulov, Elisha Ben Kimon|09.28.24. YNet

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Who is Hashem Safieddine, Hezbollah’s next projected leader? A cousin of Nasrallah, Safieddine is blacklisted by the US and has expressed views in line with those of Palestinian terror organizations By Reuters and ToI Staff September 28, 2024, 7:13 pm TOI

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Houthis: We targeted Ben Gurion Airport. Israel National News Sep 28, 2024, 9:32 PM INN

IDF intercepts Houthi ballistic missile fired at central Israel for 3rd time this month. By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff. September 28, 2024, 9:35 pm TOI

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Politicians across spectrum praise assassination of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah. By Sam Sokol. September 28, 2024, 11:07 pm TOI

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: The Atlantic writes that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has told Antony Blinken that he doesn’t personally care at all about the "Palestinian issue”. 🇸🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸 5:57 AM · Sep 28, 2024 on X

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Iran International English @IranIntl_En: Elon Musk has praised a community note on one of the posts on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's X account, as "hall-of-famer". Khamenei's account had called Hezbollah the "victor", but a community note provided context that "the entire Hezbollah leadership including Nasrallah has been eliminated" in an Israeli air strike. [15] Sep 28, 2024 on X

Hananya Naftali (Sep 8, 2024). The Supreme Leader of Iran, Khamenei, posted a few days ago "Hezbollah is the victor". Victor? I'm not sure. It took Israel just a few days to take out the entire leadership of Hezbollah. [16] onnFB

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Defense Minister Gallant holding talks on possible expansion of offensive. By Reuters. 09/28/2024 09:34 PM JPost

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Hezbollah rocket sparks fire in West Bank settlement. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024 10:17 PM JPost

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Iraqi forces enter high alert in case of Israeli attacks - report. By Jerusalem Post Staff. 09/28/2024 11:48 PM JPost

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Biden calls for ceasefire in Lebanon. By Reuters. 09/29/2024 12:18 AM JPost

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IAF strikes targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut. By Maariv. 09/29/2024 12:26 AM JPost

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Jordanian army says grad rocket from southern Lebanon fell in uninhabited desert area. By Reuters. 09/29/2024 12:29 AM JPost

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