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In maybe the most tense day on the northern border since the outbreak of the war with Hamas one week ago, Hezbollah and Hamas attacked Israeli targets six times on Sunday, killing one Israeli civilian, while Israel reacted by striking multiple targets across southern Lebanon. The Lebanon branch of the Hamas military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Kassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack. In the morning, one Israeli citizen was killed and three others were injured by an anti-tank missile fired at a construction site in Moshav Shtula from southern Lebanon. The IDF in response shelled targets in southern Lebanon...

In addition, the President presented shocking photos of atrocities in the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri, which he visited this morning. In the booklet, recovered on the battlefield from a Hamas terrorist who was killed after taking part in the attack on Israel, terrorists are advised in detail on how to carry out the kidnapping. According to the description, the kidnappers are required to create chaos and intimidation, coercing and blindfolding captives, using electric shocks, and instructing them to execute any person who may pose a threat or distraction. They were also instructed to collect the captives and use them as...

Pro-Hamas rally in Iraq, October 14In 2008, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri bizarrely castigated Hamas, saying that their "blessed Qassam rockets" do not differentiate between Israeli soldiers who are legitimate targets, and children and Arabs who are not.Hamas was embarrassed at being given a morality lesson from Al Qaeda, and it went on to deny that they targeted civilians, saying all of their rockets were only aimed at military sites.After that incident, Hamas press releases on their rocket fire changed the names of the targets from "settlements" to "military bases" that has the same names - like "military base Sderot"...

Hamas’ obsession with the evil [sic] of Jews down the centuries is more or less indistinguishable from the Nazis, writes James Campbell. ...So while Hamas might be an Islamist organisation, aside from the local twist about the Caliphate and the Balfour Declaration, its obsession with the evil of Jews down the centuries is more or less indistinguishable from the Nazis. People will say that Hamas’s views aren’t necessarily the view of the people they rule. But it’s also the case that although the last Palestinian elections were held as long ago as 2006, Hamas got 44 per cent of the...

(Exerpt from) Israel urges civilians in northern Gaza to go South Michael Holmes talks with IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. ["The problem with the aid that goes in intended for Palestinians is taken by Hamas..."] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/world/2023/10/14/exp-israel-view-gaza-civilians-conricus-intv-101412aseg2-cnni-world.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/14/exp-israel-view-gaza-civilians-conricus-intv-101412aseg2-cnni-world.cnn

Israeli troops on Saturday were hunting a Hamas commander described as Palestine's Osama bin Laden, vowing to find him wherever he was hiding and insisting his days were numbered. Yahya Sinwar, 60, is the current head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He has been arrested by Israel multiple times and spent 24 years in Israeli prisons: he was freed in 2011, as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Sinwar is being held responsible for the murder of 1,300 Israelis in the October 7 attack. The U.S. death toll rose to 29 on Saturday,...

Iranian Regime Mouthpiece Kayhan: Iran Is The Mind And Hands Behind Hamas; Operation 'Al-Aqsa Flood' Was Planned, Orchestrated By Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani Before He Was Killed; Khamenei Hinted In August 2022, August 2023 At 'The Complete Conquest' Of Israel. The war on Israel by the Palestinian Islamic resistance organization Hamas was the result of long planning.[1] Iran has been leading the cause of eliminating Israel, on the ideological and operational levels, since the founding of the Islamic Revolution regime in 1979, and has been working tirelessly to achieve this goal by means of the resistance axis it has...

IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis. Following Shin Bet (ISA) intelligence, IDF fighter jets operated in the Gaza Strip and killed Billal Al Kedra last night, the Nukhba commander of the forces in southern Khan Yunis, who was responsible for the Kibbutz Nirim massacre. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives were also killed. The IDF also struck over one hundred military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization, by...

A message that appeared on the TV screens in the Gaza Strip warned the residents to stay away from places where the terrorist organizations stay "Run away while you can" According to reports coming from Gaza, cyber fighters took over Al Jazeera's broadcasts and published a video of IDF attacks in the Gaza Strip. In the strip that appeared on the broadcast, a warning was written to the citizens of the Gaza Strip to flee from areas where the terrorist organizations stay. The broadcast also stated: "Every target and every terrorist is a mortal, run away." As long as you...

While the Gaza-ruling terror group portrays itself as a humanitarian organization soliciting donations around the world, they are in fact a vicious murderous group perhaps worse than the Islamic State

The use of graphic images...What is less stressed in the media, is: In Israel, there is high sensitivity to the families. In addition, graphic images usage was / is rarely Israel's policy. Unlike on the Gaza / West Bank / Lebanese side, where every child (used by Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, other jihadists - directly or indirectly by using residents) is photographed a thousand times. (And pro Jihadists Al-Jazeera enthusiastsic to inflame the Arab world.). The Israelis usually refrain from this routine. This goes too, of course, to the beheaded babies by "Palestinians" - case. Asides from the unreliable Hamas controlled...

Reports in the Arab media claim that Israel attacked targets at Syria's international airport in the city of Damascus, the Iranian foreign minister returned to Iran after the attack.

The morning after the discovery of the enormous horrors revealed yesterday (Tuesday) in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where Hamas terrorists massacred an unimaginable number of residents, many of the world's newspapers do not remain indifferent. Many leading media outlets in the US, the UK and more cover the atrocities extensively, and are amazed at the extent of the cruelty and violence demonstrated by the terrorists. NYT - Brutality of Hamas' attacks in Israel becomes apparent WP - Inside an Israeli Tmtown destroyed by Hamas Daily Telegraph - Hamas massacress babies and children Metro - '40 Babies Murdered by Hamas'. Kfar Aza...

Heartbreaking accounts are emerging of the scores of children who were taken captive by Hamas when the terrorist group unleashed its unprecedented assault over the weekend — and the innocent kids thought to be in the attackers’ hands are as young as 9 months old.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, repeatedly dodged a Fox Business Network reporter’s questions about “Hamas terrorists chopping off babies’ heads” Tuesday night. The video, which was aired on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” showed correspondent Hillary Vaughn trailing Tlaib through a House office building hallway — with the journalist invoking the decapitation of Jewish children by jihadists at least a half-dozen times in just over a minute. “Congresswoman, Hamas terrorists have cut off babies’ heads and burned children alive. Do you support Israel’s rights to defend themselves against this brutality?” Vaughn asked Tlaib (D-Mich.), who ignored...

Mountains of rubble and sooty earth: first entry into the epicenters of the disaster - after the terrible massacre The extent of the destruction in Netiv HaAsara and Bari is not yet fully known, but it is known about dozens of murdered people and scenes that are difficult to describe in words • The photos of the horror illustrate the magnitude of the tragedy that occurred in the Eshkol Regional Council, with dozens of houses burned by terrorists - many times with their occupants • Our correspondents with the first documents from the settlements that were destroyed • Documentation Tamir...

these are peaceful communities of 300, 400 people that have been there for decades and decades. These aren't new settlements popped up in East Jerusalem.. And yet, the level of brutality of the terror attacks in these kibbutz. I mean, it's really now just starting to be revealed. CORICUS: Yes. You know, if we want to take it to the political, these kibbutzim were there. .. founded before 1948. And many people who live there, I know, because I have friends there, .. believe in the two-state solution who had friends in Gaza, and who really believe that a long-lasting...

Rep. Mike Lawler: "you have one in the House, Rashida Tlaib who couldn't condemn the of beheading babies." On CNN, interview by Kaitlan Collins - The Source. Oct 10, 2023. The Source with Kaitlan Collins

They raped the girls, then they killed them. Then they switched - did the opposite, first murder then rape them. They always laughed when they did it, I can't forget how they laughed ...We are all one big family on Israel. All of us are brothers and sisters Raz Cohen Survival music event, interviewed on PBS News Hour, Oct 10, 2023 18:18

The granddaughter told about the shocking murder and the moment of discovery: "My grandmother was murdered yesterday in a brutal murder by a terrorist in her home. At 7:00 I saw the nightmare of my life, a terrorist entered her home, murdered her, took her phone, took a picture of the horror and posted it on her Facebook. That's how we found out" JDN staff, 23 Tishrei 5784 (October 8, 2023) Shocking stories continue to be published on social media that reveal the strength of the blow that Hamas inflicted on the citizens of the State of Israel in the...