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If there is no emotional connection to their own children, how could there ever be a desire for peace, coexistence, and mutual respect for the Israeli people? Speaking to the children of Jenin in their native Arabic language, N12 Israeli television reporter Ohad Hemo confirmed what we’ve all known for a long time: the realization of why there can never be peace between Israel and the so-called Palestinians who live in Samaria. With special permission from the IDF, Hemo made his way through the rubble, which was once home to 14,000 people who lived in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp,...

A photo from the Jenin area reveals: a swastika is proudly affixed to one of the pillars on the street • In recent days, the IDF has been expanding its activities in northern Samaria as part of Operation "Iron Wall," which is intended to thwart terrorism in the area. A photo from the Jenin area reveals: a swastika proudly plastered on one of the street pillars. Our reporter Hillel Biton Rosen commented on this on his Twitter account: "There is no difference between the Arabs in Gaza and those in Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem, where the phenomenon of...

TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas, Hezbollah War. Pinto reports on day seven of Operation “Iron Wall” in Samaria as the IDF intensifies efforts to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Tulkarem and confronts challenges in Gaza and Lebanon. Pinto also shares updates on hostages, ceasefire agreements, and regional developments under the shadow of Iran’s influence in the Middle East. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel. 0:00 Intro 3:42 Hamas Commander Eliminated 7:30 Hezbollah Attempts To Enter South Lebanon 13:07 Gazans Return North 18:06 Day-After Plans For Gaza 23:34 Hostage Release Update

Gunmen in the streets, snipers on the rooftops, shooting all the time: Palestinians fight Palestinians in Jenin. Rare clash between Palestinian Authority security forces and the armed Jenin Brigades in the West Bank city as observed by the Washington Post; The PA hints at a similar model in Gaza. Jenin Brigades fighters race through alleys flooded with sewage to evade the gunfire that echoes all around. "Quickly," one of the fighters urges his comrades as they pass through patrols and barricades of the Palestinian Authority security forces. "Watch out," another cautions at an intersection where an improvised explosive device had...

Wassem Hazem, head of the Hamas terror organization in the West Bank area of Jenin, was killed on Friday in a joint IDF, ISA, and Israel Border Police counterterrorism operation in the northern Samaria area, Israel's military announced shortly afterward. Hazem was killed in his vehicle after an exchange of fire during the joint operation. His role in the terror group involved carrying out and directing shooting and bombing attacks. Hazem continuously advanced terrorist activities in the Judea and Samaria area, the IDF added. Following the elimination of Hazem, two additional terrorists, Maysara Masharqa and Arafat Amer, who were in...

The IDF fighters in Jenin who announced "Shema Israel" on the mosque's loudspeakers in the city during the activity were suspended. We went to check the great terrorist mosque of Jenin Elhanan Groner, HakolHayehudi, 2nd Tevet 5784 - 21:30 12/14/2023 The networks are abuzz following the IDF's decision to suspend reservists who proclaimed "Hear Israel" from the terrorist mosque in Jenin during the military operation in the camp, claiming that they had damaged religious shrines. At the direction of the Chief of Staff, it was even decided that the fighters would be put on trial this evening before Brigadier General...

The military wrapped up a counter-terrorism operation in Jenin Thursday, some 60 hours after launching a major raid in the northern West Bank city and adjacent refugee camp. According to the IDF, troops scanned hundreds of buildings, arrested 60 wanted Palestinians, and seized 50 weapons and hundreds of explosive devices during the 60-hour incursion that began late Monday. The IDF said the troops also found more than 10 tunnel shafts, seven labs used to manufacture explosive devices, and five war rooms used by local terror operatives to monitor IDF operations. Some of the sites were blown up by the troops....

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike Sunday on a compound beneath the al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank after receiving intel that indicated "terrorists...were organizing an imminent terror attack," the military said in a statement. While most of Israel’s offensive against Hamas has been targeted at Gaza, which is fully under Hamas control, this is the second Israeli air strike on a West Bank target in recent days. The IDF & ISA just conducted an aerial strike on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist compound in the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.Recent IDF intel revealed...

🚨BREAKING: Israeli Ground Forces Enter Nablus City, West Bank. pic.twitter.com/WGMOlpSjjQ— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 14, 2023

The two Palestinian polities in Gaza and in the West Bank, are both in an advanced state of deliquescence. Their disastrous condition is discussed here: “Palestinian Society Sinks into Shambles,” by James Sinkinson, JNS.org, August 10, 2023:Palestinian society is in disarray.In two major West Bank towns—Jenin and Nablus—the Palestinian Authority has lost control, and rogue gangs rule the land. Last week, thousands of Gazans protested in the streets—risking brutal backlash from the Hamas regime. Meanwhile, talks in Egypt meant to reconcile the PA and Hamas after 17 bitter years have again hopelessly failed.The PA’s authority no longer extends much beyond...

A force from the YAMAM unit on Sunday eliminated three terrorists who were on their way to carry out a terror attack near Jenin. No Israeli forces were injured. The operation was a joint effort between the IDF and the Shin Bet, during which a vehicle carrying a team of terrorists was identified leaving the Jenin Refugee Camp on its way to carry out an attack. Security forces operated to prevent an immediate threat and thwarted the terrorist cell. The head of the terrorist cell, Naif Abu Tsuik, was killed. He was a resident of the Jenin Camp, aged 26,...

The number of shootings has already surpassed last year's total. Israeli security personnel and ZAKA rescue and recovery organization workers at the scene of a deadly shooting attack near the Jewish community of Eli in Samaria, June 20, 2023. Credit: Flash90. (July 18, 2023 / JNS) The escalation in Palestinian terrorism that started over a year ago shows no signs of abating, data from Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) published on Tuesday indicates. In the first six months of 2023, the emergency service recorded 3,640 acts of terror throughout Israel, including 2,118 cases of rock-throwing, 799 attacks with...

A @NYTimes essay by @TareqBaconi justifies, and ultimately cheers, murdering Israeli civilians How many ways can one minimize and then legitimize terror attacks against Jews? Tareq Baconi, former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group and the author of “Hamas Contained” who is now president of the board of al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, displays a lot of them in New York Times guest essay. Purportedly an analysis of Jenin, he breaks new ground in first obfuscating, and ultimately justifying, Palestinian attacks on civilians .. Latest virus in israelophobia is the term: "resistance". The Pallywoody whitewashing of raw...

UN - "Excessive force..." advanced weapons in a densely populated area, etc. - Then why is it that only 18 were eliminated and no civilan was killed? Will some of the anti-Israel goons who acts as so called "human rights" activists be happier if Israel had used less advanced weapons so that it loses more of its anti-terror fighters and cause collateral damage so graphic photos of dead kids can then be cynically be propagated with? "In almost every house we found a bomb or an explosive device": exclusive documentation of Yehalam in Operation Home and GardenElisha ben Kimon, 07.07.23...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday launched a scathing criticism of Israel over what he claimed was its excessive use of force during the counterterrorism operation in Jenin. Guterres said the operation had left over 100 civilians injured, forced thousands to flee, damaged schools and hospitals and disrupted water and electricity networks, reported The Associated Press. He also criticized Israel for preventing the injured from getting medical care and humanitarian workers from reaching everyone in need. “I strongly condemn all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror,” Guterres was quoted as having told reporters. Asked whether this...

BBC and UN accuse Israel of killing “children” in Jenin when in fact they were armed terrorists BBC’s libel went even further: "Israeli forces are happy to kill children" After broad condemnation, BBC issued a so-called “apology” – but only because the “questioning was not phrased well" Neither the UN nor BBC has admitted that the “children” were in fact armed terrorists ...Neither the BBC nor the UN have apologized or admitted that they are creating cover for armed terrorists, and for playing a central role in the PA’s war propaganda, by calling them “children” and blaming Israel for...

BBC malice Anja Gadgil, in her promoting antisemitic bloodlibel (as if IDF just "wants to" or "happy to", etc.), quoted (on July 4, 2023) the UN in terming the butchers as "children," ... The very infamous UNRWA who shares responsibility in Arab Jihadi crimes on their own people and on Israelis. A day after that vile anti-Semitic slur/idea, Jeremy Bowen "avenging" BBC was in overdrive presenting the gunmen as heroes. From his reporting which was a mishmash of chronology and Shahid propaganda, you might get confused from the rambling that the 18 years old Arabs are "refugees" since 1948 -...

Regarding UN UNRWA definition of bloody terrorists as "children"...Which BBC quoted in its blood libel * Over 100 UNRWA teachers incite violence, antisemitism online - report Jerusalem Post, Aug 3, 2021 . * PMW Op-Ed: UNRWA - the worst thing that ever happened to Palestinians - UNRWA - possibly the most human rights abusing institution funded by the international community Jerusalem Post, Nov 14, 2021.By refusing to resettle the original refugees, UNRWA intentionally turned a limited problem into permanent misery, both for those actual refugees and the 5.5 million people who were born refugees. Possibly, the worst thing that ever...

According to the Minister of Defense in the summary conversation of Operation Home and Garden, it appears that the goals were fully achieved, but he is afraid of the possibility that the phenomenon of explosives will expand to more places | In his words Galant scoffed at the terrorist commanders in Jenin, "They are strong on TikTok, at the moment of truth they chose to hide" (News, Defense) Kikar haShabbat, 05.07.23 At the end of Operation Home and Garden, the Minister of Defense held a security briefing for reporters a few minutes ago (Wednesday) and concluded the operation in Jenin....

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Nissim Vaturi stops plenum discussions to ask for moment of silence, read chapter of Psalms, in memory of IDF soldier killed in Jenin.Hamas leader: 'We taught Israel a lesson, they were defeated' Israel National News