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IDF releases audio recording of Hamas operatives talking about misfired rocket causing Gaza hospital blast

A Chicago alderman wants to fine parents of children he claims are 'out of control and cause 90 percent' of the city's problems up to $5,000. Alderman Ray Lopez, a Democrat, is suggesting the new punishment, which would be partnered with 'licensed family counseling.' 'We have children who are out of control causing 90 percent of the problems, particularly as it relates to the street takeovers, drag racing and all of the other illegal activities,' Lopez said. Video emerged of an incident from over the weekend as a flash mob that was part of a takeover sits on top of...

When Laima Springe-Janssen was looking to replace her French-made gasoline-powered SUV with an electric car, she considered models from Volvo and Nissan. The Volvo extras she wanted would have busted her budget, while the Nissan lacked the “wow factor.” The Copenhagen, Denmark, resident ended up buying a compact SUV from China’s BYD. “I really, really love the car,” Springe-Janssen said. For the equivalent of about $50,000, the Atto 3 SUV came with “all these goodies” like a 360-degree dash cam, two years of free charging and an extra set of winter tires. Her husband likes it so much he’s considering...

Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, is expected to take a plea deal after being charged in an extortion plot involving the Holloway family. Natalee Holloway was 18 years old when she took a senior trip to Aruba in May 2005 with Mountain Brook High School. Natalee Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, but she was never found. In January 2012, a judge legally declared Natalee Holloway dead after a request from her father.

‘Oscars of oil’: What is the Energy Intelligence Forum and why are activists trying to shut it down?Greta Thunberg has been arrested while disrupting a major oil industry conference in London today. The Swedish activist was detained by police after she joined hundreds of other protesters outside the Energy Intelligence Forum, which is taking place at the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel in Mayfair. Executives of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are taking part in the three-day conference which runs from 17-19 October, alongside financiers and UK ministers. Until 2019, the event was more transparently called the...

Islamic Jihad failed rocket destroyed Gaza hospital al-Ahli. Naturally guilty Palestinian Hamas regime blamed Israel for their "accident", which triggered protests among the Arab world. The failed jihadists' missile was one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip. In fact, "radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred," In addition, Gaza-regime Hamas, often working with Islamic jihadists at rocket launchers had warned, one minute before the hospital explosion on an upcoming missile to reach Haifa, which didn't reach that city at the end, and missiles launched do trigger second explosions....

Scotland's first minister, Humza Yousaf, has called for the UK to accept Palestinian refugees in the same way as was done for Ukraine following Russia's invasion. The SNP leader addressed the current conflict in the Middle East - to which he has a personal connection. His wife, Nadia El-Nakla, has been trying to get her parents out of Gaza following the outbreak of the current Israel-Hamas war. Speaking to the SNP's annual conference in Aberdeen, My Yousaf said that "any form of collective punishment, as we are seeing in Gaza, can never be justified". The "2.2 million innocent people cannot...

Iran's foreign minister declared on Tuesday that 'time is OVER' for Israel, as Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv to try and calm a rapidly-spiraling situation, with anti-Israel protests flaring up across the region. An air strike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday evening, killing at least 500 people according to Palestinian authorities, enraged people around the world. Israel and Palestinians both blame each other for the atrocity. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, called for 'a day of unprecedented anger' against Israel, while Libya's foreign ministry accused the Jewish state of 'war crimes and genocide'. Demonstrators in...

All the parts to generate electricity, and all the components needed to use electricity, are all made from the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil. Over the last 200 years, after the discovery of crude oil, the world populated from 1 to 8 billion. Today, all the electricity generation options available, such as wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, hydro, coal, and natural gas, are all dependent on the products and components manufactured from crude oil to be able to generate electricity. Looking back, the history of the petroleum industry illustrated that crude oil was virtually useless, unless it could...

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, has publicly asserted that from several different sources it is now clear that Egypt warned Israel in advance that “something big” was about to happen in Gaza, and that that warning was ignored by Israel. More on this can be found here: “Egypt warned Israel three days before Hamas massacre – US congressman,” Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2023: US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told reporters on Wednesday that Egypt had warned Israel three days before Hamas’s assault on southern Israel that “an event like this could happen,”...

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday took note of American universities supporting the terrorists of Hamas and insisted they should be even more supportive, which might be the most extravagant demand to come from the Chinese Communist Party since it drew a map that said the entire South China Sea, plus a good deal of India, belongs to Beijing. The Global Times pushed Beijing’s phony moral equivalence line whereby the Chinese government pretends to be “neutral” and deplore all violence but actually supports the killers of Hamas and seeks to protect them from any Israeli military response. The regime in...

The Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization was responsible for an explosion at the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, due to a misfired rocket intended to kill Israeli civilians, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The explosion, which reportedly killed hundreds of people, sparked outrage, with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas pulling out of a meeting Wednesday with U.S. President Joe Biden over the issue. Biden has backed Israel’s war of self-defense against the Hamas terror group, which rules Gaza and which killed over 1,400 Israelis in a massive terror attack on October 7. Hamas and critics...

Chad Pergram A) Jeffries: There have been ongoing informal conversations that have been undertaken over the last few days. I think there's a possibility those can accelerate now that Jim Jordan clearly does not have the votes to be Speaker. For good reason. B) Jeffries: are many good men and women on the Republican side of the aisle who are qualified to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives. There is no circumstance where Jim Jordan is one of them.

Just three days: That’s how long it took for Republicans to adopt a new orthodoxy on how the Biden administration should respond to Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Gaza.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went first.“I don’t know what Biden’s going to do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” DeSantis said in Iowa on Saturday, establishing a red line that the other frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination would soon adopt.As many as 2 million civilians are without food, water, and shelter in Gaza as Israel prepares to invade the densely populated region in response...

The Hamas/Israel conflict isn’t the only event in the world worth covering, although of the “news,” it is the most “new” and compelling story out there. Unfortunately, COVID and the continued (and also unique) push in the United States to get every person with a heartbeat a new COVID shot continues, despite growing doubts in both the American public and health officials outside the US that doing so is the smart thing to do.FDA Has Results of Subclinical Myocarditis Studies, but Won't Release Them Yet | The Epoch Times https://t.co/9PDGFJllIj— Dr David Cartland (@CartlandDavid) October 12, 2023The Epoch Times has...

In many parts of the world, nations are noticing some of the growing pains associated with trying to do away with fossil fuels and rely increasingly on “green energy” such as solar and wind power. We’re seeing the same effects in the United States. One of the main obstacles is the inability of aging power grids to not only provide enough energy to keep the world moving but to accept the newer forms of energy being provided. The International Energy Agency in Europe is sounding the alarm, warning that rolling blackouts are once again becoming a very real risk if...

On October 7, thousands of Hamas terrorists together murdered over 1,300 Israelis in villages near the border of the Gaza Strip. Most of their victims were civilians. Among their infamies, the terrorists torched the homes of families hiding in in-home bomb shelters, burning the families to death; they killed 260 partygoers at a music festival and raped many of the young women in attendance; and they took some 200 Israelis into captivity in Gaza, including toddlers and grandmothers. All told, Hamas was responsible for the largest and most horrific attack on Jews since the Holocaust ended in 1945.Two days after...

From Ali Sina's book "Understanding Muhammad". p. 39 Rape Muhammad allowed his men to rape the women captured in raids. However Muslims faced a dilemma. They wanted to have sex with their female captives, but also wanted to return them for ransom and therefore did not want to make them pregnant. Some of these women were already married whose husbands had escaped when taken by surprise and were still alive. The raiders considered the possibility of "coitus interruptus" (withdrawing from intercourse before ejaculation). Unsure of the best course of action, they sought the counsel of their Prophet. Buhkari reports: Abu...

In perhaps the biggest news of the Israeli-Hamas war since the initial attacks on October 7th, claims are circulating that the Israeli Air Force bombed a hospital in Gaza. But like the claim that Israel bombed a highway some days ago that was debunked through video analysis, there appears to be more to this story. Here are some of the initial videos and statements being made.🚨JUST IN: The moment an alleged Israeli Air Force struck the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip a few minutes ago.Some are alleging the rocket could have been a failed Hamas rocket, however we...