Brendan O'Neill: Death of a fascist
This is a man who deserved to die. His crimes against the Jews were legion. He took the postwar cry of ‘Never Again’ and stomped it into the dirt. ‘Again, again’ was his preferred slogan. His violent disregard for Jewish life was a function of his deep-seated anti-Semitism – you don’t get to be leader of a terror group whose founding covenant committed it to an apocalyptic war on the Jews without being a Jew-hater yourself. Yet he was horrendously cavalier about Palestinian life, too. He let Hamas’s war with Israel drag on because he believed the ‘spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza’ would drum up global hate for Israel and global pity for Hamas. He sacrificed Jews to his racist ideology, and Palestinians to his grotesque vanity.JPost Editorial: With Sinwar gone, Israel's next move must be decisive
So Gazans also benefit from the demise of this monster. They are a step closer to liberation from the tyrannical rule of the death-mongers of Hamas. Humankind benefits, too. For Israel’s righteous slaying of Yahya Sinwar is more than justice for 7 October. It is more than a brilliant and targeted strike in a now year-long war on terrorism. It is also a message to the world. It says this: you cannot kill Jews with impunity anymore. It reminds us that those days are gone. It reminds us it isn’t the Middle Ages anymore, when the Church would reward your Jew-hunting, or the 20th century, when pogroms had the blessing of governments. No, there are consequences now to singling out Jews for special opprobrium and wicked violence. Do that today and you might very well die. Do that now and you might get your head caved in, as Sinwar did.
And here’s the chilling thing, the thing that should truly unsettle those of us who live in the West: we needed this message. Our nations needed this reminder. Our young in particular needed to be told that fascist violence is intolerable and killing Jews will be rightfully avenged. For across America and Europe in the aftermath of 7 October, unreason reigned. On our campuses, our streets, in our art world and media world, the sympathies of the privileged went not to the victims of Hamas’s pogrom, but to Hamas. Israel was offered not support but condemnation – and the most shrill, hypocritical and borderline bigoted condemnation you could imagine. ‘You had it coming’ was the subtext of the Israelophobic insanity that swept our cities after the pogrom.
We found ourselves in the horrific situation where many of our fellow citizens were seemingly content to see Jews once again loaded into trucks, burnt to a cinder and killed on account of their ethnicity. This spoke to more than a failure of sense and solidarity. It spoke to how determinedly our societies had turned their backs on the values of the Enlightenment and the virtues of civilisation, and could thus find greater common cause with the anti-Jewish, anti-modernity hysterics of Hamas than with the democratic state of Israel.
So yes, we needed to hear it. We needed to hear that the murder of Jews will be met with the severest of consequences in the 21st century. The killing of Sinwar puts flesh on the bones of the cry of ‘Never Again’ that had come to be so weakened and withered in recent years. Jew-killers everywhere will tremble now, making this not a day of death, but a day of hope.
Hamas and Hezbollah have both suffered heavy losses over the last year, but Israel did what many thought was impossible and took down those responsible for October 7. At long last, all the ringleaders are down and out – for good.Abe Greenwald: Sinwar Is Gone, Hamas Isn’t Far Behind
Decisions will need to be made about what to do next, and this war is still not over. Hezbollah remains a well-armed threat against Israel and continues to regularly fire rockets, drones, and missiles into the Jewish state. Hamas still has men under arms and rockets at their disposal, and 101 hostages still remain in their possession. The Houthis in Yemen are still a threat that could strike at any moment, boasting an arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones, and their leadership remains intact. And then there is the ever-looming threat of Iran, a well-equipped nation who backs all the aforementioned actors and hosts a formidably large army of its own.
What's next?
So what comes next? Will Israel be able to start returning evacuees to their homes? Will they press for another hostage deal on favorable terms? Will the IDF turn its focus to Iran or the Houthis?
Those questions will need to be answered very soon, and it remains to be seen how Israel’s allies such as the US will want the Jewish state to proceed. But for now, we can take solace in the fact that at the very least, Israel’s archenemy over the past year is dead, and that some measure of justice has been achieved for all the people who have lost and suffered since October 7. Zman simchateinu indeed.
All of this also means that Hamas’s remnants might find themselves without the Iranian funds they’d have used to try to reconstitute the organization in the future. The regime in Iran has spent billions of dollars on its terrorist proxies. This was a good investment for decades, enabling Tehran to project power abroad and attack Israel without Iran sticking its neck out. But the mullahs can’t be happy looking at the present state of Hamas (and increasingly of Hezbollah). Iran’s return on its investment in proxy armies is vanishing fast. And with Israel about to take the fight straight to the regime, Iran needs to reallocate its resources.
So who wants to fill Sinwar’s shoes now? Israel took out Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in July. The crown then fell to Sinwar, and now he’s dead. The list of senior Hamas members killed by Israel is long and growing longer by the day. The same, rather suddenly, applies to the senior ranks of Hezbollah. There aren’t many takers for the job of next mole to be whacked. Especially if it means getting whacked for a crumbling cause with a spare and ruined fighting force. It’s not going to be easy recruiting new members to what’s left of Hamas.
But what about Hamas’s supporters over here in the U.S.? Are they still “exhilarated” by the October 7 attack? Do they still think that it was a “gift to Allah from the world”? That “Palestine has never been as within reach”? Are they satisfied with what Hamas has wrought for the people of Gaza? And do they still think they’re on the winning side against Israel? Even if they now recognize Hamas’s strategic failure, they undoubtedly still support its aims. And they’re the kind of enemy that’s truly hard to defeat because you can’t destroy moral imbecility. On October 7, 2023, Sinwar ensured his own demise and that of his monstrous organization. But the woke jihadists of the West will live to tweet another day.
And here’s a thought for the Biden administration. The U.S. has recently threatened to withhold arms shipments to Israel over concerns about humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. The greatest gift of humanitarian aid ever received by the people of Gaza was Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar. His death, and the destruction of Hamas, don’t by any means guarantee that the Palestinians will one day be able to thrive in freedom. But so long as he was in charge, that would have remained a certain impossibility. And if Israel had heeded the Biden administration’s calls for a ceasefire, this massive aid package would never have been delivered. Take the win, Mr. President.
Douglas Murray: War was never going to end without death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar — may his nihilistic fanaticism die with him
What it means in the short term is that an end to the war may finally be in sight. Israel’s prime minister has made it clear since last year that he is interested only in total victory against Hamas.
Many people said Benjamin Netanyahu would not be able to achieve that goal. It seems they are the ones being proved wrong.
In the longer term, it is possible that, with Sinwar gone, Israel and its regional and international partners will finally be able to imagine what a deradicalized, postwar Gaza might look like.
But it is too early to have that discussion before any surviving hostages are returned home. And not returned as bargaining chips, but as a prerequisite to the IDF halting its operations.
For now, there is a much wider lesson for the region and indeed for America.
Sinwar wished to annihilate the state of Israel. He took his best shot at it on October 7. Hassan Nasrallah also wished to annihilate the state of Israel. Both were also fanatical enemies of the West. Sinwar has the blood of many Americans as well as Israelis on his hands. Nasrallah also believed that he was free to murder and kidnap Americans — including 241 American Marines in Beirut.
Both have now been buried in the earth.
Will their fanatical, bloody and apocalyptic worldview die with them? It is possible. Observers often say that such fanatics are inevitably replaced by another fanatic. But Sinwar — like Nasrallah — was a fairly unique figure. Irreplaceable, you might say.
But will people in the region — as well as the West — who fell for their bloody propaganda now realize that their side is the losing one? It would be the best thing possible for peace in the region if they did. Figures like Nasrallah and Sinwar are not “saviors” of the Palestinian people.
They were always the worst menaces to the Palestinian people — ensuring by their actions that peace was not achievable and war would be the only end.
Sometime in the past year, Sinwar passed a message through the tunnels in which he said, “We have the Israelis right where we want them.”
He didn’t. But now the Israelis have Sinwar exactly in the place he deserves.
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— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 18, 2024
Caroline Glick: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar created Gaza genocide factory — his death could mean freedom from tyranny
Netanyahu’s message to the Gazans was simple: Sinwar is dead and Israel is winning this war. Hamas has no chance of ever defeating us. Turn on Hamas before it is too late.Melanie Phillips: The killing of Yahya Sinwar
His message reflected the truth that is being recognized regionwide: Israel has laid waste not only to Hamas’ regime in Gaza, but to Iran’s terror empire.
For the first time in decades, Israel is showing that victory over Islamic terror groups and regimes is not only possible, it is within reach.
Addressing what is left of Hamas’ terror army, Netanyahu said, “Your leaders are fleeing and they will be eliminated.”
“I call everyone holding our hostages: Anyone who puts down his arms and returns our abductees, we will permit to leave and live. And by the same token I say, anyone who harms our abductees will be signing his death warrant. We will settle scores with him.”
A statement like that six months ago, before Israel took over Rafah, when everyone from President Biden to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was waiting anxiously for a word from Sinwar, might have been disregarded as empty talk.
Today everyone understands that the choice is real.
Israel has killed Sinwar and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, dozens of other terror chiefs and thousands of mid-level commanders.
Israel has overturned Iran’s chessboard. And it will win this war, ensuring its survival and safeguarding the world from the scourge of Iran’s axis of terror.
Sinwar didn’t create this evil. He was the product of it, and was one of its many diabolical avatars. What created him was fanatical, genocidal Jew-hatred, the desire to remove Israel and the Jewish people from the face of the earth as an Islamic religious duty — the evil that animates the Palestinian Arab cause, the evil that has taken thousands of Jewish and Israeli lives without remission for the past century, the evil that has infused what the Palestinian Arabs have taught their children for generations: that their highest and most sacred calling is to kill Jews and take all their land.
This evil has not just corrupted the Palestinian Arabs but has also taken monstrous root throughout the west. Its media outlets pump out Hamas propaganda and blood libels demonising and delegitimising Israel through the Palestinian cause.
This cause has fried the western brain with a psychopathic, murderous narrative that masquerades as justice and compassion. It has created followers in the west with minds sealed shut against truth and morality, and turned others into shallow and confused fellow-travellers. They may believe they are supporting the rights of “oppressed” Palestinians but what each and every one of them is supporting — including, tragically, too many diaspora Jews — is a creed of murderous Jew-hatred.
This profound evil is now everywhere in the west. It is promoted throughout the institutions of civil society — in the medical and legal professions, among welfare workers, trade unions, university lecturers and students, the civil service, the literary, theatrical and artistic worlds and throughout the Church of England. It is systematically robbing Jews of their own history, obscenely turning the supreme victims of genocide into the alleged perpetrators of genocide and turning the victims of the Holocaust into the perpetrators of a holocaust — demonising Jewish victims as victimisers to delegitimise them as the prelude to erasing them from the world.
Israel’s task now is to retrieve the hostages alive or dead, finish the destruction of Hamas in Gaza and above all to neutralise the Iranian regime, thus removing for ever the evil it has inflicted upon the Jewish people and the world.
This will happen, whatever the cost. It’s just a matter of time. Israel will stay the course and will win this terrible war. It will do so because it has no alternative.
But the evil that has been unleashed in the west is, alas, a different matter.
Israel is reminding the West what winning a war actually looks like. And it’s not decades of protracted negotiations. https://t.co/j3NScbsFF3
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) October 19, 2024
Updated "playing card" chart.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
Israel is winning. pic.twitter.com/MlUrKuCzhT
How the IDF finally killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, after a year of hunting him
Unlike other senior terror leaders who were deliberately tracked down and eliminated by Israel, such as Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif who was killed following an airstrike on July 13, Sinwar’s death was not the result of a planned or targeted strike.
The operation was not carried out by elite commandos and was not the result of astute intelligence gathering. Sinwar was killed “by chance”, according to Kan Radio.
He was found by trainee commander soldiers from the Bislach Brigade, who were searching an area in the Tel Sultan region of southern Gaza on Wednesday, where they suspected senior figures of Hamas were located.
The troops opened fire when they saw three suspected fighters moving between buildings, leading to a gunfight during which Sinwar fled into a ruined apartment, which was then targeted with tank shells and a missile.
"He tried to escape and our forces eliminated him," Hagari told reporters in a televised briefing.
Describing the drone footage, he said: “Sinwar fled alone into one of the buildings. Our forces used a drone to scan the area”
“Sinwar, who was injured in his hand by gunfire, can be seen here with his face covered, in his final moments, throwing a wooden plank at the drone.”
Earlier yesterday, photographs circulated online showing the corpse of a man resembling Sinwar, lying in rubble with a gaping head wound, dressed in military-style vest.
Other photos of Sinwar’s belongings show that he was in possession of a passport belonging to an UNRWA teacher, who has apparently been in Egypt for the past few months, according to Israeli broadcaster Kan’s Palestinian affairs reporter.
Israel’s pursuit of the October 7 architect over the past year led him "to act like a fugitive, causing him to change locations multiple times", said the head of Israel's military, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi.
"The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and the ISA over the last year, and in recent weeks in the area where he was eliminated, restricted Yahya Sinwar’s operational movement as he was pursued by the forces and led to his elimination," the Israeli military said in a statement.
Officials had originally thought Sinwar was hiding in one of the underground tunnels beneath Gaza, and that he was using some of the 101 Israeli and foreign hostages as a human shield.
Full text of Netanyahu’s address after killing of Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar“Since the beginning of this war that Sinwar started on October 7 — we’ve said: Our war is with Hamas, not the people of Gaza. We mean it.”
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 17, 2024
IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari on the elimination of Yahya Sinwar and our operational goals in Gaza: pic.twitter.com/OgkgUc5Bhi
Yahya Sinwar is dead.
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 17, 2024
He was killed in Rafah by the brave soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.
While this is not the end of the war in Gaza, it's the beginning of the end. pic.twitter.com/C6wAaLH1YW
Hezbollah drone targets Netanyahu’s Caesarea home; he says ‘agents of Iran tried to assassinate me’
A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon that exploded in the central seaside town of Caesarea early on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home, his office said.
The premier and his wife were not present and no injuries were reported.
The short statement from Netanyahu’s office came after the IDF said that “a building had been hit” in the upscale town famous for its swanky villas and Roman ruins and amphitheater.
On Saturday evening Netanyahu said in a statement: “The agents of Iran who tried to assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake.” He said the attack would not deter him from continuing the war, and that anyone who harms Israelis will pay “a heavy price.”
“We will continue to eliminate your terrorists, we will return our hostages from Gaza, we will return our residents in the north,” he promised.
An Axios report said that the drone hit the prime minister’s house. “This is the first time since the beginning of the war that a target affiliated directly with Netanyahu has been hit,” it reported, without elaboration. The Guardian also said the house was hit and sustained “superficial damage.”
The IDF said the drone was one of three launched from Lebanon, and that the other two were shot down.
The military said it was investigating the incident that apparently saw several failures of Israel’s warning system.
🚨 What a leader.
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 19, 2024
Netanyahu in English, after the Iranian regime’s attempt to target his home in Caesarea
The drone was allegedly an Iranian Shahed 101 - same drone Russia has been using against Ukraine
Nothing can touch this man.@HuntersOfNazis 👈🏽
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Israeli Prime Minister's Spokesman:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 19, 2024
A UAV was launched towards the Prime Minister's house in Caesarea.
The Prime Minister and his wife were not there, and there were no casualties in the incident. pic.twitter.com/kkOdH07UaA
Israel has shown it can defeat terrorism. Now let’s give it a free hand to deal with Iran
President Biden described the killing of Sinwar as “a good day for the world”. But this is the same President Biden who, months ago, urged the IDF not to enter Rafah. It was in Rafah this week that the IDF found Sinwar and killed him.Ryan McBeth: The B-2 Strike on Yemen was really about Iran
How could Israel follow such muddled advice from those who say they are its friends? One’s best hope must be that the Western powers know they are talking nonsense but feel they must keep up the “peace” patter for domestic reasons and to ward off international condemnation. This may indeed be the case, because that much tougher-minded side of Western governments which handles military affairs, security and intelligence knows the realities well. We and Israel are trusting and partially interdependent on such matters: even politicians know that.
Yesterday, on the BBC Today programme, Jeremy Bowen was asked to analyse the state of play after Sinwar’s death. His villain, as usual, was Netanyahu, thanks to whom “the war very much goes on”. Bowen made no suggestion that Hamas should or would down tools. Yes, he said, Sinwar had been “a big block to negotiations” but “so has Netanyahu”, as if the terrorist aggressor was the moral equivalent of the democratic leader of the nation which that terrorist attacked. Netanyahu has got his “victory picture”, said Bowen with distaste, but “to get a ceasefire and a deal you need every side really in it”. It sounded like an almost desperate plea for poor little Hamas to be kept in the game.
What are the lessons which Israelis will derive from the story so far?
One is that the West, though full of moralistic condemnation, will want to bank their success. Another is that Israel can, in military and intelligence terms, beat the terrorist proxies financed and run chiefly by Iran.
A third is that Sunni Arab countries detest the thought that Shia non-Arab Iran should control the future of the Middle East. Continuing Israeli victories will embolden them to re-engage with the genuine peace process of the Abraham Accords.
A fourth lesson is that Western countries like ours with large, sometimes angry Muslim populations may secretly welcome a situation in which Israel shows who’s boss and the extremists are losing.
A fifth is that although Western domestic audiences rightly feel uneasy about civilian suffering in Gaza and Lebanon, many are elated that men like Sinwar and Nasrallah are getting their comeuppance. Britain’s new Defence Secretary, John Healey, struck the right note by saying he would not mourn Sinwar’s passing.
Perhaps the biggest lesson concerns Iran. If its proxies lie in ruins, what is the state of the Islamic Republic itself? Perhaps Israel, with some surreptitious help, now has the power to decapitate Tehran’s own ayatollahs and politicians or even attack Iran’s nuclear weapons sites. Why shouldn’t it? This is not a rhetorical question: there may well be good reasons why such attacks would be a step too far. I should like to hear them.
But Israel, by its courage and skill, has now shifted the burden of proof on to Western countries who wring their hands. All these Bowens have been insisting since October 7 that Israel cannot win. Perhaps their real fear is that it can.
The B-2 is a very rare and expensive aircraft. It was likely chosen for this Yemen strike as a warning to Iran that the US Air Force has global strike capabilities that far outweigh Iran's capability to counter that strike.
NYT’s Brooks: Bibi Has ‘Been Absolutely Right’ Ignoring U.S., World Opinion in Past Month, He Knows Better on Hamas
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s not a huge fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range of issues, and he’s been absolutely right” in a way that has “served world peace” by weakening terrorist groups, and so those calling for him to declare victory in the wake of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should accept they don’t have the same intelligence as Israel and Netanyahu has “been making some right calls over the last month.”Two US intelligence documents outlining Israel's potential attack plan on Iran leaked
Brooks said, “I’m no big fan of Bibi Netanyahu, but I have to admit, over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range of issues, and he’s been absolutely right. They have seriously weakened Hezbollah. They’ve now seriously taken out the leadership — now almost the complete leadership of Hamas. So, these are two Iranian-backed terror militias. And, sometimes, in war, you have to defeat your enemies. So, he’s made them weaker. Obviously, there’s still going to be Hamas. There’s still going to be a very powerful Hezbollah. But he’s made his enemies weaker. And, in my view, that’s served world peace.”
Brooks continued, “Now, is this a moment for him to turn the corner and now say, okay, we won? I have some sympathy with that view, but I confess, unless you have access to Israeli intelligence and know how much of Hamas is still there, I don’t think we can know that. And, frankly, I’m not — I don’t think any Americans could know that. And I don’t like trusting Bibi Netanyahu, but he’s been making some right calls over the last month.”
Later, Brooks argued that, on a two-state solution, Netanyahu is standing in the way of peace.
Senior American officials voiced serious concern on Saturday following the leak of two US intelligence documents allegedly outlining Israel’s preparations for a potential strike on Iran. These documents were published by a Telegram account linked to Iran.With jihadist mass murderer dead, Israel takes another stride forward
While both the US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, they did not deny their authenticity.
The timing of the leak comes as Israel is completing preparations for a retaliatory strike on Iran in response to the October 1 missile attack. An unnamed senior Israeli official remarked, “Israel’s defense establishment is aware of the leak and takes it very seriously.”
The leak occurred on Friday when the Middle East Spectator Telegram channel claimed it had received documents about Israel’s strike preparations from a source within the US intelligence community. This Telegram channel is known for publishing pro-Iranian propaganda, and its associated Twitter account states that its operators are based in Iran.
The documents included an alleged report from the US Department of Defense's visual intelligence agency, which had been circulated within the US intelligence community three days earlier. The report detailed alleged recent actions at Israel Air Force (IAF) bases, including the movement of advanced munitions believed to be intended for a strike on Iran. The report also noted that intelligence obtained through wiretaps indicated that the IAF conducted an exercise this week involving fighter jets and drones as part of its strike preparations.
A breach in security
The leaked documents reportedly revealed close surveillance by US intelligence on Israel’s preparations for a strike on Iran, including the use of satellites to monitor activities at Israeli Air Force bases. The alleged leak also highlights a severe security breach within the US intelligence community, allowing highly classified information to reach entities affiliated with Iran.
American officials described the incident as "extremely serious" but noted that, in their view, the leak is unlikely to affect Israel’s operational plans.
Unprecedented leverageSeth Frantzman: Killing of Sinwar is huge achievement but no magic wand
The death of Sinwar also provides Israel with unprecedented leverage in negotiations concerning the remaining 101 Hamas-held hostages. He was known for his hardline stance and unwillingness to compromise on his demands; his absence opens the door to possible approaches by surviving Hamas members holding the hostages.
Israel now has the opportunity to offer immunity or other deals to lower-ranking Hamas terrorists in exchange for the safe release of hostages. With their morale degraded and Israel’s determination to prevent them from retaking Gaza clearer than ever, the remaining Hamas leaders may be more willing to negotiate, offering Israel a new path to secure the return of its citizens.
While Sinwar’s elimination is a significant victory, it does not signal the end of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The goal to prevent Hamas from regrouping and reconstituting its terrorist capabilities remains.
Col. (res.) Amit Assa, a former senior member of the Shin Bet intelligence service, stated in a call organized by Media Central that eliminating terrorist leaders is crucial, especially during wartime, when it is more difficult for an organization to replace its leadership efficiently.
Assa highlighted that Sinwar had expected Iran and Hezbollah to join Hamas in the initial Oct. 7, 2023, attack but that the timing wasn’t right for the Iranian axis to join an all-out attack. This despite the fact that Hezbollah had prepared its own mass murder ground assault from Southern Lebanon, whose infrastructure is now being destroyed by the IDF.
Sinwar’s elimination will help “people in Gaza, also terrorists, know that this is the end of the Hamas. And if it’s the end of the Hamas, they have no advantage keeping the hostages,” said Assa. “I think what will happen now is as the time will go by, we will see hostages getting free and we hope every one of them.”
Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former IDF international spokesperson, highlighted the implications of Sinwar’s death, stating, “When I scan the horizon of Hamas leadership and I look at who is next in line …, they are way down, many levels down the food chain from where Yahya Sinwar was.”
He named Sinwar’s brother Muhammad as a lead candidate to replace him.
For the broader Middle East, Sinwar’s death could serve as a catalyst for change. Without Hamas’s iron grip on Gaza, there is potential for Palestinian factions and civilians to explore new possibilities for governance and cooperation.
“I think that this poses a lot of opportunities for Israel, but most importantly for Palestinians, for those who want to seize opportunity and get free of Hamas rule and oppression of Gaza and perhaps turn the page on a better future for Gaza,” said Conricus.
Ultimately, the elimination of Sinwar is more than the death of a terrorist mastermind. It is a significant milestone in Israel’s broader fight against Iranian-backed jihadist movements that seek to destroy the Jewish state and take over the Middle East.
Israel has not only weakened its enemies; it is creating new possibilities for the wider region.
The death of Sinwar is a major accomplishment in the war against Hamas. His elimination was the last in a series of targeted strikes against terror leadership in both Gaza and Lebanon.Seth Frantzman: Sinwar’s death will hurt Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’
Earlier this year, Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, Mohammed Deif was killed in July, Marwan Issa, another key Hamas leader, was killed in March and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in September. The death of Sinwar leaves Hamas with very few leaders in Gaza. Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of Yahya, is apparently still alive. Otherwise, Hamas probably has a few battalion and brigade commanders, most of them replacements for commanders killed earlier in the war.
The death of Sinwar is an important achievement for the IDF and Israel. However, in the past, Israel has eliminated Hamas leaders and seen Hamas regrow its leadership. Every leader of Hamas that has been assassinated has seen a replacement even more hellbent on Israel’s destruction.
Sinwar was key to this recovery after the assassination of Sheik Yassin in 2004. Born in 1962 in Khan Younis, Sinwar was one of the key figures in Hamas from its founding in the 1980s. He was sentenced to prison in Israel but not before he had the chance to kill Palestinians in Gaza and help Hamas become the brutal terror group it became. Released in a prisoner deal in 2011 he quickly rose to power as other Hamas leaders moved to Doha where they lived in a gilded cage, backed by Qatar. Sinwar helped turn Hamas into a terror behemoth, replete with masses of rockets and cadres of young men ready to fight Israel. He largely failed in his early years to secure victory. However, since 2018 he honed his abilities and transformed Hamas into the group that was able to surprise Israel on October 7.
This time may be different. Hamas doesn’t have a deep bench of people to draw on to assume leadership in Gaza. It will turn to its Qatar-based Hamas leadership. This includes Khaled Meshaal, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Ghazi Hamad and Osama Hamdan. But this is risky as it will make Hamas largely an organization of exiles. It has been here before. In 1992 Israel exiled Hamas leaders to an area between Israel and Lebanon. They eventually came back due to international pressure. Meshaal was also exiled. Israel even tried to kill Meshaal in the 1990s.
Hamas knows how to operate abroad. It has increased coordination with Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has strong Iranian backing and it is backed by Turkey, Qatar, Russia and possibly even China. This means Hamas has more street credit abroad today. Does it have street credit at home. It has lost some support in Gaza, but it may have gained some in the West Bank. The ruin it has brought on Gaza likely gives Palestinians pause about what it might do the West Bank.
It is important to be wary of seeing the death of Sinwar as a magic wand. Cairo recently hosted the Iranian foreign minister and Egypt has expressed interest in a Palestinian unity deal. If the regional countries cannot be weaned of this idea of a unity deal that will save Hamas then the organisation may continue to survive. Hamas will continue to try to get a unity deal and access to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Hamas is a genocidal group and its October 7 massacre was designed to showcase this quality. Now is the time for Israel and its friends in the West to leverage the death of Sinwar to achieve victory.
It’s important to look at the regional blow that Iran has suffered now. It has lost Sinwar and Nasrallah. These were major figures in two powerful groups that have been harming Israel. For most of the year, Iran felt it was winning. It had helped massacre 1,000 Israelis. It had depopulated the northern border. It carried out direct attacks with drones and long-range ballistic missiles in April and early October. The militias in Iraq have also targeted Israel with drones. The Houthis have been wreaking havoc in the Red Sea – they even targeted Tel Aviv with a drone.
However, for Iran, it was Hamas that was the pawn closest to Israel. Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a smaller proxy group. Hamas is a powerful group and a key to Iran’s plans. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite group in Lebanon. It was Hamas that Iran hoped could advance the plans to defeat Israel and destroy the two-state solution.
Now that Sinwar is dead, Iran will have to rethink the equation. Qatar had been backing Hamas and paying money to Sinwar’s Hamas. Via Qatar, Tehran hoped that they could influence the US to pressure Israel into a ceasefire. Doha had tried to get a ceasefire to preserve Hamas in Gaza and preserve Sinwar.
But Israel turned the tables by eliminating Hamas leaders. Ismail Haniyeh was killed and so was Salah al-Arouri. Marwan Issa and Mohammed Dief were killed.
Now Hamas has very few leaders. Most of them reside in Doha. Now is the time that the US can use pressure on Qatar to stop hosting Hamas. Iran is now on the back foot. It could lose in Lebanon; it could face humiliation at home. The death of Sinwar could cause other dominoes to fall in the Iranian multi-front war on Israel.
Israel must play its cards right now. It has a chance now to reverse a year of difficulty. It has a chance to remake this regional chess board. Removing the Sinwar pawn on Iran’s chessboard is important. Now is the time to take a shot at Iran’s proverbial “queen” in this game and strike at the regime itself.
“Killing Sinwar is the result of a year of operational and intelligence efforts to bring him and other Hamas leaders to justice. Sinwar has been eliminated, but our mission is not over.”
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 19, 2024
Watch IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari’s statement regarding the impact of eliminating… pic.twitter.com/INbLoMWBJx
https://t.co/1AcaOpID0B pic.twitter.com/tCGh3uCVUH
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) October 18, 2024
Biden hoped that Sinwar's death would force Hamas to negotiate a ceasefire. But the killing simply vindicated Netanyahu's demand for "total victory."
— John Walters (@john_walters_) October 18, 2024
My colleague @Doranimated details the breakdown in Biden's approach to the Middle East: https://t.co/MCo4ha71Vk pic.twitter.com/YCcPqaJiZJ
'A small, ugly, and broken figure': IDF officer reflects on time alone with Sinwar's body
One of the officers in the unit that killed Yahya Sinwar, Lt. Col. Itamar Eitam, shared a post on social media Friday in which he described the minutes he spent alone with Sinwar’s body after the operation.
Eitam wrote: “I just left Rafah. Not long ago, I looked him—Sinwar—in the eyes. I had a few minutes alone with him, and I looked at him—a small, ugly, and broken figure, lying on a shattered couch."
Itam said he thought “about all the good people who are no longer here: Amishar, Banba, Roy, Tomer, Salman, Eder, Ran, and many, many more—fallen soldiers, orphans, hostages, and the wounded.
'I feel insulted on behalf of God'
"So much pain this man caused," he wrote. "I looked at the ruined city, and I even felt pain for them, but more than anything, I felt insulted—insulted on behalf of God. Because he, too, was once a baby and a child, and he had a choice, and he chose evil. He chose wickedness. What an insult that he was also a person created in Your image. How distorted. How much better the world is now. We won't be confused, and we won't give up. Together we will win. Happy holiday."
Hilit, Eitam's mother, told Walla, “Everyone is happy, thank God—less wickedness. The world is better now; the world is better.”
She added, “We live in a world of miracles all the time. My son wasn’t there alone. He was with the best forces, and we have to say thank God they succeeded. My daughter-in-law is also a hero; she has been waiting at home for a whole year for him to do his duty. I wish the people of Israel a happy holiday and hope we continue to hear good news.”
This is one of the soldiers who is in Gaza who was part of the attack which eliminated Yahya Sinwar.
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) October 17, 2024
In the end he was eliminated by an IDF sniper. They didn't know that it was him until afterwards when they went to go check the bodies pic.twitter.com/klMOwuFgsb
IDF Arabic spokesman:
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 18, 2024
I remember what the Arabs did to Gaddafi’s body…
I remember how they treated even the bodies of their own opponents when they died or were killed in the streets.
I remember what Hezbollah did to the bodies of Syrians.
I remember what Hamxs did to the… pic.twitter.com/bN2aiWySA0
Israeli FM: UN chief leading ‘extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda’
Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Friday slammed U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres for failing to commend Jerusalem for killing Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar.
Katz charged that the U.N. boss had failed to “welcome the elimination of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, just as he refused to declare Hamas a terrorist organization after the October 7 massacre.
“Guterres is leading an extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda. We will continue to designate him as persona non grata and bar his entry to Israel,” added the Jewish state’s top diplomat.
UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres did not welcome the elimination of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, just as he refused to declare Hamas a terrorist organization after the October 7th massacre. Guterres is leading an extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda. We will continue… pic.twitter.com/Twg1O67NRp
— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) October 18, 2024
Just hours after Bin Laden's death, the former UN Secretary-General released a statement congratulating the U.S. and reaffirming the fight against terrorism.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
It's been over 24 hours since Sinwar's death, and Antonio Guterres has remained silent. pic.twitter.com/M32tk9aGGU
UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres did not welcome the elimination of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, just as he refused to declare Hamas a terrorist organization after the October 7th massacre. Guterres is leading an extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish agenda. We will continue… pic.twitter.com/Twg1O67NRp
— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) October 18, 2024
Fixed it for ya @antonioguterres https://t.co/EQZ9M7hdr1 pic.twitter.com/hD7gykdssb
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 18, 2024
Israel, ignore Democrats’ warped cease-fire calls after Hamas big’s death
Thankfully, the Jewish state made a very different choice.Trump: Sinwar ‘wasn’t a good person,’ his death makes peace in Gaza ‘easier’
Withstanding immense pressure, not just from Washington but from its many domestic cronies in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fight on.
Instead of agreeing to engage yet again in negotiations with two terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, that have been brazenly violating agreements and flouting internationally imposed restrictions for decades, Netanyahu had the IDF eliminate Hezbollah’s top leadership, take out its commander Hassan Nasrallah and make sure that Hamas’ Sinwar, too, died like a dog.
In doing so, Netanyahu and Israel taught America a lesson our spineless and rudderless elites desperately need to learn: Winning is possible.
Winning is desirable.
Winning is good.
True, war comes at a terrible price.
But refusing to fight and insisting that diplomacy is the only acceptable route only serves to embolden our worst enemies, prolong the misery of innocent people on all sides and ensure that the war we’ll eventually have to fight will be much deadlier.
In killing Sinwar, Israel gave the world another reminder about not politics or military strategy, but basic human nature.
When someone marches into your home, rapes your daughter and burns your baby alive, the normal human response isn’t to weep and then slouch towards the negotiations table.
It’s to pick up a gun and go seek justice.
It’s the sort of logic Americans inherently understand, and one more reason why so many are rejecting the defeatist and delusional policies of an administration committed to absurd abstractions rather than concrete victories.
America has very real foes taking very real steps to jeopardize our national security interests, Iran first and foremost among them.
Instead of kowtowing to our murderous enemies, here’s hoping we take a page out of Israel’s playbook and refuse to budge until they’re all lying dead in the dirt.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday that the death of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Palestinian Islamist terror group, would make the prospect of peace easier in Gaza.Commentary Podcast: The Significance of the Sinwar Killing
“I think it makes it easier,” the former US president told reporters as he arrived in Detroit for campaign events. “I’m glad that Bibi (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) decided to do what he had to do.”
Sinwar, 62, the architect of the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, was killed in an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. During the onslaught last year, Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, triggering the ongoing war in Gaza.
Trump also said he plans to talk to Netanyahu soon. He praised the Israeli leader as doing a good job while attacking President Joe Biden’s administration.
“He’s called me. I haven’t spoken to him. I’m going to speak to him probably now,” Trump said of Netanyahu. “Biden is trying to hold him back… and he probably should be doing the opposite actually.”
Biden and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who Trump faces in a tight race for the November 5 US election, have maintained strong support for Israel in its wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Still, Washington earlier this week sent a letter to Israel demanding that it improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid.
Eli Lake joins the podcast as we debate just how meaningful the killing of Yahya Sinwar by IDF troops is—is it a major turning point, a climactic event, one of the most important days of the 21st century, or something else? And what about the Biden administration's response to it?
This is why Israel ignores Kamala Harris… pic.twitter.com/2uUBy1Addd
— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) October 18, 2024
Some of the Items that were found on the Body of Yahya Sinwar, including an AK-47, a Vest with several Grenades, Mentos, Cash, as well as multiple Passports and IDs; with one of the IDs belonging to a UNRWA Teacher. pic.twitter.com/FELUtzvcFY
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 17, 2024
Damn straight! Thank you @Mr_Andrew_Fox for speaking the truth, even if @Matthew_Wright refuses to see it. https://t.co/rYYVFPAgM4
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 19, 2024
IDF kills Sinwar's bodyguard, Hamas's Tel al-Sultan Battalion commander Mahmoud Hamdan
Mahmoud Hamdan, the Hamas commander responsible for guarding Yahya Sinwar and overseeing the six hostages murdered in the Tel al-Sultan area, was eliminated by the IDF on Friday.
Hamdan, the commander of Hamas’ Tel al-Sultan Battalion, was initially believed to have been killed several weeks ago based on intelligence assessments. However, it was later revealed that this intelligence was insufficient, and Hamdan continued his role of guarding Sinwar.
The encounter, during which Hamdan was eliminated, occurred approximately 200 meters from the location where Sinwar had been killed.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by the IDF in Tel Sultan in Rafah on Wednesday in an unplanned operation, the IDF announced on Thursday.
IDF troops suspected there were Hamas terrorists in the building area, which they eventually fired on. Afterward, they found Sinwar’s body inside.
"Sinwar was responsible for the most brutal attack against Israel in our history when terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel," IDF Chief Spokesperson R-Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a press conference.
"For the past year, Sinwar tried to escape justice. He failed. We said we would find him and bring him to justice, and we did. It was Yahya Sinwar who decided to wage war with Israel while hiding behind civilians in Gaza," he added.
According to reports, Mahmoud Hamdan was killed together with Yahya Sinwar
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 17, 2024
Mahmoud is the brother of Osama Hamdan, one of the top-level “politicians” of the Hamas political bureau hiding in Qatar
In a recent interview, he said that Israel will have “disappeared” within 10 years pic.twitter.com/ba1kJh21GV
This is the difference between Jews and Palestinians. When the Palestinians kill Jews they abuse the bodies and drag them through the streets, desecrating and spitting on the body.
— Uri Pilichowski (@RationalSettler) October 18, 2024
When Jews kill their enemies (this is Sinwar) they wrap the body and treat it with respect because… pic.twitter.com/0wrwXcCYxY
The IDF spokesman publishes a video of dominos in Arabic. pic.twitter.com/zovO2550me
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 17, 2024
FDD: Sinwar is Dead: Now What? | FDD SITREP w/ Jonathan Conricus, Hussain Abdul-Hussain & Jon Schanzer
Breaking news out of the Middle East: Israel has confirmed the elimination of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Hamas’s political leader in Gaza since 2017, Yahya Sinwar is considered one of the masterminds behind the October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
Sinwar rose through the Hamas ranks as a fierce advocate of violence against Israel, helping establish Hamas’s military, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and the Majd, an internal security service for the Qassam Brigades.
What does the death of Sinwar mean for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza? How does it impact the broader war that Iran’s proxies are waging against Israel? What is the reaction within Israel – and within the Arab world? How might Israel, the United States, and our allies capitalize on this strategic shift on the battlefield?
FDD hosts a live SITREP with former IDF International Spokesperson and FDD Senior Fellow Jonathan Conricus and FDD Research Fellow Hussain Abdul-Hussain, moderated by FDD Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer.
Call me Back Podcast: EMERGENCY EPISODE: SINWAR DEAD — with Nadav Eyal & Haviv Rettig Gur
Yahya Sinwar is dead. To help us better understand what happened in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the reaction in Israeli society, and what is likely to happen next in Gaza and in Israel, Nadav Eyal and Haviv Rettig Gur join us for an emergency episode of the podcast.
NADAV EYAL is a columnist for Yediiot. He is one of Israel’s leading journalists. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news.
Haviv is the senior political analyst at The Times of Israel. He was a long time reporter for the Times of Israel. He’s also working on a book. Haviv was a combat medic in the IDF where he served in the reserves.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:33 Immediate reactions to Sinwar’s death
06:34 How was Sinwar killed?
14:06 Were hostages kept with Sinwar?
28:29 How does this development impact Palestinian society?
The Free Press: Sinwar Is Dead: Former IDF Lieutenant Colonel on the Future of the War
Michael Moynihan and Mike Pesca interview Jonathan Conricus from Tel Aviv about the future of the war.
We hope you enjoy—and that you tune in live next week on X or right here on this page for another installment with Michael, Batya, more Free Pressers, and surprise guests to discuss the news.
Tom Gross: IDF kills Yahya Sinwar – is this the end of Hamas?
Leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a surprise encounter with Israeli forces. The mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, Sinwar has been Israel’s top target in Gaza for some time. Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said ‘our enemies cannot hide. We will pursue and eliminate them.’ What does the death of Sinwar mean for the wider conflict? Will this mark a winding down of operations in Gaza, with Israel turning its focus to the North? Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ‘destroy’ Hamas when war began, with many arguing this was an impossible task. Is the death of Sinwar the beginning of the end? Assistant online editor Angus Colwell is joined by Tom Gross, Middle East expert and commentator.
Sinwar is gone, but the war is not over: Son of a Hamas founder | Cuomo
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founding member of Hamas, tells “CUOMO” that the Israel-Hamas war is not over just because Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead. He says the U.S. should pressure Egypt to send troops into Gaza “and bring the hostages back!”
"Congratulations to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the elimination of Yahya Sinwar, the mass-murdering leader of the terrorist group, Hamas...Those who choose the path of terrorism should expect the same fate as Sinwar."
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 17, 2024
General Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM Commander pic.twitter.com/LIXIb8TnAY
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead.
— President Biden (@POTUS) October 17, 2024
This is a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world.
Here’s my full statement. pic.twitter.com/cSe1czhd9s
Breaking: State Department Spokesperson, Matthew Miller, confirms that Sinwar was the obstacle to a ceasefire.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 17, 2024
“Over the past few weeks, there has been no negotiations because Sinwar has refused to negotiate. There’s been no path to ending this war because of Sinwar.” pic.twitter.com/o22nE2gT7t
🚨 Kamala speaks out about Sinwar.
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
“Know this, we will always bring you to justice”
Wait a minute… We? Sinwar was found in Rafah.
Wasn’t it Kamala who said going into Rafah would be a “huge mistake”?pic.twitter.com/quvg3jO7oR
The mother of American hostage, Omer Neutra, released a powerful video after the killing of Sinwar.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 17, 2024
She is completely right, the hostages must return home immediately. pic.twitter.com/iBtRCxMrJU
SEAL Rob O'Neill to Newsmax: Israel 'Showing Us How to Win a War'
Israel's killing of Yahya Sinwar will have a huge impact on their fight against Hamas, retired Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill told Newsmax on Thursday.
On "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE," O'Neill said, "This is huge for them. And I love that they were able to do it with soldiers. So the last thing that Yahya saw was probably the Israeli flag.
"And it's just good on them. Good for the pursuit. And just like the rest of them, you know, he died running away afraid. And the good guys finally caught up to him.
"I couldn't be happier," he said, adding that Sinwar's death "takes away a lot of" Hamas' "abilities."
"And what Israel is doing right now is they're showing us how to win a war. They're taking out the top leaders. They're going to keep doing it.
"And they're proving to everyone, including like, even right now, our president will say, 'Well, now he's dead, we can work on a cease-fire.' You don't don't let someone start a war and then whine about a cease-fire," O'Neill said, adding that Israel "did a great job, and I couldn't be more proud."
"This could be the beginning of the end." My talk about the possible death of Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas, on @MSNBC this morning. #LetThemGoNow pic.twitter.com/1mRDSPpsuC
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) October 17, 2024
Thoughts on the death of Yayha Sinwar. Hamas is on the ropes even psychologically. War is a contest of wills. Wars are won when the enemy loses the means and will to continue fighting towards their political goals. Sinwar was killed looking desperate, dirty, disheveled, living in…
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) October 19, 2024
Gazans suddenly calling for peace. In Hebrew. Talking about their tent encampments as “Sukkot,” talking about the coming winter, asking for help, and ending with “shalom.”
— Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) October 17, 2024
Do I think they’d come to our rescue if our positions were reversed? No, I do not.
Do I think they… https://t.co/ovLGGyqrFM
Additional Footage from Wednesday’s Elimination of Yahya Sinwar, the Senior Leader of Hamas; with him being seen on a Thermal Camera right before a Pair of Merkava lV Tanks fired Shells into the Building. pic.twitter.com/s29fe4PLvn
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 19, 2024
Supporters of the Iranian Regime as well as Youth Militias with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) stormed the Offices of the Saudi-Based “MBC Media Group” tonight in Baghdad, after the News Channel referred to the Former Leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, as a Terrorist. The… pic.twitter.com/Cm1Wqn9iUu
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 19, 2024
In case you’re wondering why @antonioguterres has been too distraught to comment on Yahya Sinwar! 😭 🍉 pic.twitter.com/rcQh5Rs5mM
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 18, 2024
IDF shows Sinwar, with family and TV, fleeing to tunnel the night before Oct. 7 attack
📷 The tunnel where Yahya Sinwar stayed in the Tel al-Sultan area: pic.twitter.com/0aojYjn9KY
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 19, 2024
Yes. That appears to be a black Hermes Birkin 25, estimated retail value $32,500 — but you also have to buy $32,500 (an equal amount) at Hermes to qualify to buy. So let’s say, conservatively, they stole $65K from Gaza residents just to buy Sinwar’s wife a handbag. https://t.co/i6teoAGJ8A
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) October 19, 2024
Abbas’s PLO mourns ‘martyrdom’ of Hamas chief Sinwar, a ‘great national leader’
The Palestine Liberation Organization, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and seen internationally as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, expressed its condolences Friday on the “martyrdom” of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, calling him a “great national leader” and urging Palestinian national unity.
Some of the PLO’s constituent factions also expressed condolences for the terror chief’s demise, including Abbas’s secularist Fatah party, which said Israel’s “killing and terrorism will not succeed in breaking the will of our people.”
Sinwar was the architect of the October 7, 2023 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst through the Gaza border and massacred 1,600 people in their homes, communities and at a music festival, and abducted 251 to Gaza where 97 are still held hostage. He was killed by IDF troops in Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday.
Among the condolences quoted by WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, were messages from the Palestinian National Initiative and the Palestinian Democratic Union, left-wing members of the PLO which, like Fatah, have expressed opposition to armed struggle against Israel.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks on Friday with representatives of Hamas and expressed condolences over the death of Sinwar, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
During the meeting, Fidan said that Turkey will “use all diplomatic means to mobilize the international community against the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” the ministry said.
Turkey’s relations with Israel have significantly deteriorated under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has repeatedly expressed support for Hamas and hosted its representatives in Turkey since the October 7, 2023 attacks, while comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
The PLO leadership observed a moment of silence in memory of the leader of the Hamas gang of rapists and murderers, further proof that there isn't much difference between the terrorists. pic.twitter.com/nWxY3CEn0E
— עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) October 17, 2024
Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian politician often framed by the media as a 'moderate', calls Sinwar a "hero". https://t.co/TajZhUvtvc
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) October 18, 2024
Al-Jazeera praising eliminated Hamas chief Yehia Sinwar, describing him as the only Palestinian who threatened the existence of the Jewish state, and that's what earned him a comparison with Hitler (for being the biggest threat against the existence of Jews).
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) October 17, 2024
Antisemitism gloves… pic.twitter.com/sNlRIFOhch
In an obvious reference to Yahya Sinwar and those who died with him, Al-Azhar, one of the greatest centers of Islamic learning:
— Mike (@Doranimated) October 17, 2024
1) Mourns the heroic martyrs of the Palestinian resistance targeted by the criminal hand of Zionism, which spreads corruption and devastation.
2)… https://t.co/U7YHeKgyGE
The elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is good news for all those who stand against terrorism.
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 17, 2024
Sinwar was a malicious and sadistic man whose life was devoted to maximizing the suffering of innocent civilians, and he was responsible for the genocidal attacks of October 7th.…
If you're not unequivocally supportive of our objectives to remove terror from our region, you don't get to piggyback on our successes.
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 17, 2024
Hypocrite. https://t.co/n8MhSin4mr
Our condolences. https://t.co/eKwaahEVEM
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 17, 2024
Everything your government has done in the last year has been an effort to prevent this very moment.
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 17, 2024
Hypocrite. https://t.co/6G3Kh5y6da
Most consider Sinwar to be a bloodthirsty genocidal rapist… but to the BBC "he exhibited a friendly demeanour" pic.twitter.com/xFRVOIfH1m
— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) October 17, 2024
The New York Times' obituary of Sinwar includes reports of celebrations in Gaza:
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 17, 2024
“He humiliated us, started the war, scattered us and made us displaced, without water, food or money,” said one Gazan, calling today “the best day of my life.”https://t.co/XAWkgnadha
Sinwar did not “allegedly” plot October 7th. He actually plotted October 7th.
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 18, 2024
Sinwar was actually rather than allegedly one of the world’s worst war criminals. pic.twitter.com/22he4gmOYE
Pro-Palestinians usually love to quote Ha'aretz. They won't quote this.
— Joo🎗️ (@JoosyJew) October 18, 2024
Sinwar was the enemy of Palestinian people. pic.twitter.com/CpyGwEMTva
Once again the repellent likening between a democratically elected leader and a terrorist mass murderer. Nice work, Jeff Goldberg, you shameless popinjay. https://t.co/ijMH4hKMjE
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 19, 2024
Only a fool like @NickKristof would suggest that, after eliminating Yahya Sinwar, Israel should release yet another mass murderer from prison pic.twitter.com/cgQU2XH8Tf
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 19, 2024
Every time pic.twitter.com/hojJJu5gsV
— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) October 18, 2024
Leila Molana-Allen is allegedly a “special correspondent” at @PBS, which is a broadcaster funded by American taxpayers.
— Itamar 🇮🇱🎗️ אִיתָמָר הַמּוֹכִיחַ (@ItamarHaMochich) October 18, 2024
She glorifies an arch-terrorist who butchered Palestinians and was the architect of Oct 7.@PBS must terminate Leila Molana-Allen. @StopAntisemites https://t.co/FAmX8Ujj1b
Washington Post Gives Entire Staff Day Off To Mourn Loss Of Hamas Leader https://t.co/ARzSjXkjmh pic.twitter.com/NBnlrtFory
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 17, 2024
At least now we can stop pretending this “comedian” isn't just another Islamofascist terrorist sympathiser pic.twitter.com/LHiC7IuXK8
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) October 17, 2024
Schrodinger's Sinwar. He died fighting bravely but he wasn't fighting so it was illegal to kill him.
— Until They Glow☢ (@nukepolicywonk) October 18, 2024
There are 101 innocent people still being held hostage in Hamas hellholes. What a turd this man is pic.twitter.com/pgDaPFXpJZ
— Zac Goldsmith (@ZacGoldsmith) October 18, 2024
Pacifism is a merkin for slavish devotion to anyone who claims to resist the Principle of Evil the pacifist always locates in the civilization he loathes from the margin.
— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) October 17, 2024
(Scahill was mentored by the pacifist priest, Daniel Berrigan.) pic.twitter.com/qsSMpZF46m
ok he's dead but on the other hand he threw a stick https://t.co/cjgoTlHsdz
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) October 18, 2024
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 #𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦 #𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗬𝗔𝗛𝗬𝗔 #𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗦 #𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔𝗛𝗨 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 pic.twitter.com/qVXqwfTs8V
— Matt Forrest (@arcticmatt) October 18, 2024
I wrote an obituary for Sinwar in the expected style of the NY Times and Guardian:
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) October 17, 2024
Yahya Sinwar, a key figure in Palestinian leadership, has passed away, leaving behind a lasting imprint on the struggle for Palestinian self-determination. Born in Gaza in 1962, Sinwar was known…
Mehdi Hasan quotes Haaretz as if his life depends on it. You will never see him quote this headline. pic.twitter.com/H8keiXDEBV
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
For anyone thinking that Sinwar was a Palestinian hero, the reason he was arrested in the first place was that he murdered 4 Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/XtIHXpQT8t
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
I recall a lot of Sinwar'a quotes but this one always stood out to me. I suppose someone can say that Netanyahu had the last laugh. pic.twitter.com/tManQt0sE7
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 17, 2024
I want to salute Israel and celebrate the elimination of Yahya Sinwar—a necessary move for any future enduring peace.
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) October 17, 2024
Eliminating the mastermind of the 10/7 massacre is the definition of justice served.
My vote and my voice for Israel will not waver.
Dear American Media:
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 17, 2024
Please do not eulogize Yahya Sinwar as a “father figure” or a “moral compass” or a “charismatic orator” or an Abrahamic egalitarian fighting for “the equality of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.” Sinwar’s legacy of barbaric bloodlust has been deadly for…
NEW LOW: Sky News implies Yahya Sinwar was a freedom fighter in an analysis of his elimination.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 19, 2024
Mainstream media's attempt to frame the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as "resistance" will be remembered as some of the most egregious antisemitism in the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/CsFELXAbvL
Sky News inviting a paid IRGC propagandist to deliver a case in defense of Sinwar and to explain to us why rape is resistance.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 17, 2024
For shame. https://t.co/wlexid02I7
What the f*ck did I just hear?!
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
A massive NEW LOW from Sky News.
Listen to this.
I knew @SkyNews were bad but the guest saying this is a Professor at the London School of Economics??!
What? pic.twitter.com/vJpXC9UYjr
https://t.co/xd0wSPUcLR https://t.co/jnIs4E7Cch
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
Oh my…
— Nervana Mahmoud (@Nervana_1) October 19, 2024
Aya Hijazi, the American Egyptian who was released from Jail, thanks to @realDonaldTrump is pro-Hamas and glorifying Sinwar?
Why I am not surprised!!!🤮 https://t.co/yfKYB9V1K1
When my husband’s cousin Tsachi was kidnapped he was in his pyjamas covered with the blood of his child who Hamas murdered. He is not the same as the violent terrorists that Sinwar wanted to set free.
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) October 17, 2024
You disgust me. pic.twitter.com/SP6xxV8ekL
For liberal Zionists like myself, Palestinians should live in peace and prosperity with their Israeli neighbors.
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 17, 2024
For Anti-Zionists like Nerdeen Kiswani, watching from comfort of their Western ivory tower, every single Palestinian abroad is a human shield that must be sacrificed… pic.twitter.com/vTW1pMT5hF
Jewish Currents has a writer named Dylan Saba, who is seen enjoying a drink named “Sweet Sinwar.” Saba not only justifies October 7th. He visibly relishes it. The enjoyment of “Sweet Sinwar” is a metaphor for the antisemitic spasms of schadenfreude that have taken hold in the… pic.twitter.com/d5C5mBrWz9
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 18, 2024
The far left has often spoken about the need to “abolish billionaires.”
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) October 18, 2024
No nation has abolished more billionaires in the past month than Israel. Ismail Haniyeh, worth 4 billion dollars, has been abolished. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas’ multi-billion dollar empire, has… pic.twitter.com/4viDpTgbph
Haniyeh - Eliminated
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) October 17, 2024
Deif - Eliminated
Nasrallah - Eliminated
Sinwar - Eliminated
Kol Hakavod to all the units of the IDF, we love you guys!❤️🇮🇱💪 pic.twitter.com/7cE9uird3U
Rest in pieces Sinwar 🙏💀🇮🇱#israel #idf #palestine #gaza #sinwar #news #jews #war #breakingnews pic.twitter.com/tOo5dp3qPr
— Zach Sage Fox (@zachsagefox) October 17, 2024
Still think Israeli Arabs don't support terrorists like Yahya Sinwar?
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) October 17, 2024
Israeli "journalist", Yedidya Epstein, went to try get the Arabs by Damascus Gate in Jerusalem to celebrate the death of Sinwar with him but obviously they are not happy about it. Things got violent pic.twitter.com/IypDUFoUr6
"Happy Yahya Sinwar Day" - Demonstrators celebrate the killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar outside of the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan. Handing out candy to passersby.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) October 17, 2024
Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 (@FreedomNTV)
Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/lpKwfWMx5C
Can you guys please leave children out of your sociopathic Bronze Age jihad death cult. pic.twitter.com/g1INdogjz7
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@DrewPavlou) October 19, 2024
BREAKING
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 17, 2024
The last moments of Yahya Sinwar, now with audio. 🔊 pic.twitter.com/wKPghxFqZm
IDF says Hezbollah toll at 1,500; Lebanese PM: A lesson to stay out of regional conflicts
Israel’s military chief said Friday that at least 1,500 Hezbollah operatives are believed to have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the conflict there, while adding that the numbers could be higher.PM after Sinwar killing: Those holding hostages will be spared if they lay down arms, release them
“We have taken out their entire command layer,” Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi told commanders of the Golani Brigade, referring to airstrikes that killed terror leader Hassan Nasrallah and many other top leaders. “And you are taking out the local command structure.”
Hezbollah “continues to shrink and shrink,” he said.
At the same time, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati voiced rare criticism of the terror group that has a stranglehold over his country, saying during a meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that “what is happening today is a lesson for all Lebanese to stay out of regional conflicts.”
Both agreed that a diplomatic solution must take precedence over violence.
Hezbollah began attacking northern Israel a day after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on the country’s south, saying it was doing so in support of the Gaza-based terror group. But after suffering nearly a year of cross-border attacks, Israel launched a major offensive against Hezbollah in September with catastrophic consequences for the group, decimating its leadership and crippling much of its capabilities.
This month it launched a ground offensive in southern Lebanon to dismantle terror infrastructure that threatened communities near the border.
“We are very determined to hit Hezbollah as hard as possible,” Halevi said during a visit to troops in southern Lebanon.
“Hezbollah is hiding casualties, hiding dead commanders. We estimate that we have killed some 1,500 Hezbollah operatives, and our estimates are conservative. I imagine there are more that we don’t know about from dozens of strikes.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar marks “the beginning of the day after Hamas.”
“The one who carried out the worst massacre in the history of our people since the Holocaust, the mass murderer who murdered thousands of Israelis, abducted hundreds of our people, was eliminated today by our heroic soldiers,” Netanyahu says in a video statement. “Today, as we promised we would, we settled accounts with him. Today, evil suffered a heavy blow, but our mission is not yet completed.”
Turning to the hostages’ families, Netanyahu says: “This is an important moment in the war. We will continue with full force until all your loved ones — our loved ones — are returned home. That is our supreme obligation. That is my supreme obligation.”
To the residents of Gaza, he says: “Sinwar destroyed your lives. He told you he was a lion, but in practice, he hid in a dark tunnel and was eliminated when he fled in a panic from our soldiers. His elimination is an important milestone in the demise of the Hamas axis of evil.”
“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” Netanyahu promises. “This is the beginning of the day after Hamas, and this is an opportunity for you, the residents of Gaza, to finally break free from its tyranny.”
“To the Hamas terrorists I say: your leaders are fleeing and they will be eliminated,” he continues.
He says that anyone holding hostages will be allowed to live if they lay down their weapons and release their captives.
“And at the same time I say, whoever harms our hostages, his blood will be on his head,” says Netanyahu. ” We will come to a reckoning with him.”
Netanyahu says freeing the hostages brings the end of the war closer.
Addressing the people of the Middle East, Netanyahu says there is “a great opportunity to stop the axis of evil and create a different future — a future of peace, a future in which the entire region thrives. Together we can push away the curse and advance the blessing.”
“In Gaza, in Beirut, in the streets of the entire area, the darkness is withdrawing and the light is rising,” he says, and lists Hamas and Hezbollah leaders eliminated. “Deif, Haniyeh, Sinwar, Nasrallah, Mohsen, Aqil and many of their partners are no more.”
Israel is offering the hostages’ captors an amnesty if they release them and surrender.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 18, 2024
I haven’t seen any pro-Palestinian voices telling the terrorists to take the offer.
They want Hamas to fight.
They want to see dead Israelis more than they want to see live Palestinians.
IDF drops leaflets in Gaza showing Sinwar's body, message to Hamas
Israeli planes dropped leaflets over southern Gaza on Saturday showing a picture of the dead Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar with the message that "Hamas will no longer rule Gaza," echoing language used by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The move came as Israeli military strikes reportedly killed at least 32 people across the Gaza Strip and tightened a siege around hospitals in Jabalya in the north of the enclave, Palestinian health officials said. The statement did not differentiate how many of those were civilians and how many were Hamas terrorists. The IDF said it was unaware of the incident.
“Whoever drops the weapon and hands over the hostages will be allowed to leave and live in peace," the leaflet, written in Arabic, read, according to residents of the southern city of Khan Yunis and images circulating online.
The leaflet's wording was from a statement by Netanyahu on Thursday after Sinwar was killed by Israeli soldiers operating in Rafah, in the south near the Egyptian border, on Wednesday.
Residents and medics said Israeli forces had tightened their siege on Jabalya, the largest of the enclave's eight historic camps, which it encircled by also sending tanks to nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and issuing evacuation orders to residents.
Israeli officials said evacuation orders were aimed at separating Hamas fighters from civilians and denied that there was any systematic plan to clear civilians out of Jabalia or other northern areas.
Soda Stream's CEO offers 100k $ to every gazan that will bring or free a living Israeli hostage pic.twitter.com/0V3ZFuuQvd
— Ben Caspit בן כספית (@BenCaspit) October 19, 2024
Yazidi woman freed by IDF from Gaza reveals ISIS fed her babies
It is now two weeks since the rescue of the Yazidi hostage Fawzia Amin Sido from captivity in Gaza by the IDF, in a joint operation also involving the US Embassy.
Fawzia has been returned to her family in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq. This week, she sat for her first filmed interview since her liberation.
Alan Duncan, a former British soldier and volunteer fighter with the Iraqi Kurds who is now a documentary filmmaker, was part of a small group of people in Israel made aware of Fawzia’s plight in July. He was involved in subsequent efforts to lobby the Israeli authorities to act to free her. (Full disclosure: I was also a part of this group.)
Because of this involvement, the Sido family decided to grant Fawzia’s first recorded interview to Duncan.
Parts of the interview were published by The Sun newspaper, based in the UK, this week. Because of my own involvement on the matter, I have also been able to view the full two-hour recording of the conversation between Duncan and Fawzia Sido.
Fawzia Amin Sidou, a 21-year-old Yazidi woman, shares a gut-wrenching story of survival after being kidnapped by ISIS at just 11 years old and trafficked into Gaza, where she remained enslaved under Hamas.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 18, 2024
During the recent war in Gaza, Fawzia was forced to work in hospitals,… pic.twitter.com/2w0ocJfdTS
WSJ Editorial: UN Peacekeepers Are Hizbullah's Best Friend
The UN peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL had one job: Keep armed terrorists out of southern Lebanon, where they could shoot at Israel. It failed so abysmally that Israel has had to go to war to clear out the terrorists. UNIFIL refuses to fight, refuses to move, and blames Israel for putting its non-peacekeepers at risk.UNIFIL in South Lebanon Didn't See, Hear, or Stop Hizbullah
UNIFIL has allowed Hizbullah to entrench itself in southern Lebanon, storing arms in homes and building a network of fully stocked attack tunnels and weapons depots in preparation for an Oct. 7-style assault. Israeli troops have found a tunnel 100 meters from a UNIFIL outpost. For 11 months Hizbullah fired 8,500 rockets and missiles at Israel from Lebanon, under UNIFIL's nose.
Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Oct. 1 and requested several times that UNIFIL move out of harm's way. But the peacekeepers won't budge, though there's no peace to keep. UNIFIL finally seems to have found its calling: Getting in Israel's way. France, Spain and Italy express "outrage" at the injuring of two UNFIL troops. These injuries are regrettable, but they show that it isn't safe to remain in a war zone. Where was this diplomatic energy when Hizbullah dominated the area, and used it to force the depopulation of Israel's north?
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, is the world's largest peacekeeping force. It has around 10,000 troops in southern Lebanon, an annual budget of $500 million, and broad international support. According to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, UNIFIL has the authority "to take all necessary action" to prevent the use of the territory south of the Litani River for military purposes, to assist the Lebanese government in exercising its sovereignty, and to implement the UN resolutions calling for the disbanding of the militias in Lebanon.
Yet the UN troops never reported the extensive military infrastructure that Hizbullah deployed along the border as part of its plan to capture the Galilee. Instead, it produces reports that include piles of bureaucratic text about the training of staff members and local officials aimed at preventing sexual harassment and abuse.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Assaf Orion, who was in charge of communications between the Israeli army and the UN forces, calls the situation an arrangement of convenience built on a pyramid of lies. Hizbullah benefits from a human shield to conceal its activities, and also from the money that UNIFIL spends in Shi'ite villages. The Lebanese government and army receive international legitimacy and assistance, while Western governments clear their consciences and "support Lebanon."
.@UNIFIL is providing Hezbollah with granular, actionable battlefield intelligence about Israeli troop movements, functionally in real time.
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 19, 2024
Their excuse is that they're just fulfilling their mandate to report violations of UNSCR 1701. It's nonsense but also easy enough to fix. pic.twitter.com/pElIXDLtmB
UNIFIL spokesperson in an interview to Israeli channel 12: “we knew about them [Hezbollah’s terror tunnels from Lebanon into Israel] but we couldn’t do anything as we’re not allowed to search in civilian homes”
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 18, 2024
China releases video of its UNIFIL soldiers filming Hezbollah terrorists launch rockets at Israel from a site that is right next to a UNIFIL base.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 19, 2024
China is aiding Russia and North Korea in their war of aggression against Ukraine while hindering Israel from defeating Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/kFoyXkqgk5
Five soldiers KIA in Lebanon, bringing IDF toll to 745
Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed fighting Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the military announced on Thursday.
The slain men were named as Maj. Ofek Bachar, 24, from Ness Ziona; Capt. Elad Siman Tov, 23, from Tzofim; Staff Sgt. Elyashiv Eitan Wieder, 22, from Jerusalem; Staff Sgt. Yakov Hillel, 21, from Jerusalem; and Staff Sgt. Yehudah Dror Yahalom, 21, from Hebron.
All five served in the Golani Brigade’s elite Reconnaissance Battalion.
Eight soldiers were wounded in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday, while another sustained wounds in Gaza, the military added.
We are heartbroken to report on the death of five additional IDF soldiers:
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) October 17, 2024
🕯️Major Ofek Bachar (24)
🕯️Captain Elad Siman Tov (23)
🕯️Staff Sergeant Elyashiv Eitan Wieder (22)
🕯️Staff Sergeant Yakov Hillel (21)
🕯️Staff Sergeant Yehudah Dror Yahalom (21)
They were killed during the… pic.twitter.com/XQsbF9o0Bb
We are heartbroken to report on the deaths of two additional IDF soldiers:
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) October 19, 2024
🕯️First Sergeant Ofir Berkovich (20)
🕯️Sergeant Elishai Young (19)
They were killed during the current operation against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
May their memories forever be a blessing. 🕯️ pic.twitter.com/5RC6Un5bU1
We are heartbroken to report on the death of an additional IDF soldier:
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) October 19, 2024
🕯️Sergeant Major (res.) Yishai (Netanel) Greenbaum (38)
Yishai was killed during the current operation against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
May his memory forever be a blessing. 🕯️ pic.twitter.com/UueZa75WPt
Terrorists wound two Israelis near Dead Sea
Two Israelis were wounded, one moderately and one lightly, in a shooting attack at Moshav Neot HaKikar in the northern Arava area, just south of the Dead Sea, on Friday morning.
The army killed two terrorists, and residents of the area were ordered to remain inside their homes.
The victims were taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva.
“IDF forces recently identified a number of terrorists who crossed from Jordan into the country south of the Dead Sea. IDF troops were dispatched to the spot and neutralized the two terrorists,” the military Spokesperson’s Office said.
Soldiers were searching for a possible third attacker who fled the scene, with the Air Force assisting from above, the military added.
Last month, three security guards at the Allenby Bridge crossing in the Jordan Valley were murdered in a terrorist shooting.
The gunman, who according to the IDF was a Jordanian citizen, was killed. He was later named as Maher D’yab Hussein Jazi, a 39-year-old truck driver from the city of Irbid.
Palestinian channels publish the recorded wills of two of the Jordanian terrorists who carried out the attack south of the Dead Sea today:
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) October 18, 2024
Amer Kuas
And Hassam Abu Ghazala
The two state that the planned attack is for the sake of the Gazans who have been at war for over a year.… pic.twitter.com/JNNUUU5Q3E
At least nine people are wounded in rocket impacts in northern Israel amid a Hezbollah attack on the Haifa area and Western Galilee this morning.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 19, 2024
In a direct impact in Kiryat Atta, a 28-year-old is listed in light-to-moderate condition after being hit by shrapnel, the Magen… pic.twitter.com/2QT8Ts7WNN
Approx. 55 projectiles have been launched by Hezbollah toward Haifa and northern Israel this morning, causing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to spend their weekend running to shelter. pic.twitter.com/RYxRRZHI1Q
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 19, 2024
May his memory be blessed! Israeli driver killed by Hezbollah rocket near Acre today, identified as Alexei Popov, 50, who had pulled his car to the side of the road, when the siren started. Popov is survived by his wife in Israel. Remainder of his family is in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/QBQDs4FPTO
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 19, 2024
Today, Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets, and this is what’s left of a home that was directly hit.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 19, 2024
Hezbollah fires rockets indiscriminately, and this is the result: pic.twitter.com/uSRNfr7bnP
A tunnel in southern Lebanon that the IDF says belonged to Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force was recently demolished by combat engineers.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 19, 2024
The military describes the underground passage as one of Radwan's central tunnels in Lebanon, which included a command center, a weapon depot,… pic.twitter.com/JmABpG9xWO
Car rams into police vehicle in suspected West Bank attack; no casualties
A Palestinian driver swerved into a parked armored police vehicle at high speed on Saturday in a suspected car-ramming attack in the West Bank, police said.
The driver was killed in the incident, and no police officers were wounded.
Security camera footage showed the car speed toward an armored vehicle and a police patrol car, as a number of officers stood around. Right before the car rammed into the police vehicle, a seemingly unaware officer stepped out of the way of the vehicle, narrowly missing being hit.
The incident occurred on Route 60 near the Ofra settlement in the West Bank.
Police said that “during an operational activity by the police of Judea and Samaria District on Route 60 near the settlement of Ofra, a Palestinian vehicle collided with a police car, for a reason that has not yet been clarified at this stage. There were no casualties in the incident, police forces are on the scene.”
Police later stated that the attacker was a 27-year-old Palestinian from the Nablus area, and was alone in the car. They clarified that he was killed as a result of the collision.
Police said that a bomb squad was dispatched to the scene to inspect the vehicle, and that the incident was being investigated as a terror attack.
🚨 Insane footage from the sight of the attempted terror attack: pic.twitter.com/AqMnw7NjhG
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 19, 2024
The command and control center where they were operating was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 17, 2024
Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of…
WSJ Editorial: Biden Once Pledged Gaza Aid Would Stop if Hamas Stole ItAdditionally, in one of the classrooms, a chalkboard was found, which had been used by the terrorists, with Arabic statements praising the October 7th massacre. pic.twitter.com/2h88bjIs0j
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 17, 2024
On Oct. 18, 2023, President Biden announced that humanitarian aid would move from Egypt to Gaza with Israel's consent "based on the understanding that there will be inspections and that the aid should go to civilians, not to Hamas....If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance, they will have demonstrated once again that they have no concern for the welfare of the Palestinian people and it will end. As a practical matter, it will stop the international community from being able to provide this aid."Col. Richard Kemp: Israel is being sacrificed to hand Kamala Harris’ failing campaign a few extra votes
Now, the President has demanded that Israel transfer ever more aid, even as Hamas steals it to keep power over Gaza's population. On Sunday, the Biden Administration threatened Israel in a letter from senior U.S. officials Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin: Surge aid to Gaza within 30 days or risk a weapons embargo. The timing couldn't be worse. Israel may soon retaliate against Iran for its recent missile attack, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needs to know that America has Israel's back.
The Biden team supports Israel, but not the moves that might deliver victory. The Administration suggests it could withhold offensive weapons from Israel - while maintaining missile defense. Under duress, Israel has signaled it will cooperate on the aid. The question is why he so often threatens Israel, and never Hamas or Iran.
The Administration's threat letter also urges Israel to keep the status quo with UNRWA and schedule Red Cross visits for Hamas prisoners in Israel, which isn't required for unlawful combatants. Meanwhile, Hamas refuses Red Cross visits to the hostages it holds.
In the middle of a war, the White House is threatening America's closest ally in the Middle East with cutting off arms supply in 30 days if its demands are not met. The U.S. is ordering Israel to facilitate increased aid delivery. But I have witnessed first-hand the Israel Defense Forces' efforts to get aid into Gaza.CBS’s Duthiers to IDF: How Are You Ensuring Hamas Doesn’t Steal Aid from Civilians ‘Under the Boot’ of Hamas?
Israel's policy has been to flood Gaza with aid. Israel has created new aid crossing points and built roads inside Gaza specifically for aid delivery. I am not aware of any other conflict in which one of the combatants has taken such steps, or anything like them, to get aid to its enemy's population at the same time as it is actively involved in combat operations. But as with so much else in this conflict, different rules and standards are expected of Israel than the U.S. would even consider applying to itself or any other country.
Any shortage of vital commodities should not be blamed on Israel, but on the failure by the UN and other agencies to actually deliver the aid to the people who need it. The UN's efforts have been impeded by inefficiency, but even more by Hamas's seizure of aid. Media reports have shown Hamas terrorists proclaiming that their warehouses are full.
Blaming Israel for the humanitarian crisis rewards Hamas, empowers its continuing terrorist campaign, and will help prolong the conflict. Where are the demands on Egypt to allow refugees to cross onto their side of the border? Where are the demands on Cairo to re-open the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza?
On Friday, CBS host Vladimir Duthiers asked IDF Spokesman Maj. Doron Spielman how Israel is ensuring that aid going into Gaza “is actually reaching those who need it, which are not the terrorists, but the people who are trapped under the boot of those terrorists?”
Duthiers asked, “[T]he United States has asked Israel — or has warned Israel that it faces a potential of stoppage of military support if it does not do more to allow aid into Gaza in the coming weeks. Can you explain to the American people what you are doing to ensure that, not only more aid is entering Gaza to those civilians who need it, those innocent civilians, those children, but that the aid is actually reaching those who need it, which are not the terrorists, but the people who are trapped under the boot of those terrorists?”
Spielman responded, “Absolutely, we take the United States’ concerns very seriously. I, myself, take them very seriously. And Israel takes the concerns, also, of the Gazan people very seriously. We have sent in thousands of tons of aid since the beginning of this war, and we’re continuing, even today, we had over 60 trucks of aid reach into northern Gaza. The situation is incredibly difficult, because, still, whatever remains of Hamas, their first priority is to get their hands on that aid. Also, all of the humanitarian agencies — whether it be the United Nations agencies — in most cases, have not been helpful. They’ve been unhelpful about distributing that aid. And so, it’s an incredible challenge, however, we’ve taken it very seriously, we’ve ramped up as much ability as we can to allow that aid into Gaza. I don’t want to see these pictures on the screen any more than you do. This was really Sinwar’s plan. He was hoping that he would starve his own people so that world pressure would come on Israel, and, in that respect, there has been some success.”
New IPC data dropped. It shows continued improvement of the situation from past reports.
— Avi Bitterman, MD (@AviBittMD) October 18, 2024
It's truly remarkable how the IPC, by their own numbers shows continuous improvement with each newly released projection, yet they somehow manage to frame this in such a way where readers… https://t.co/ILgJME8jPe pic.twitter.com/6K3vKSBeQ6
At the time of the strike, dozens of terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations were present in the compound, including:
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 17, 2024
* Hussam Muhammad Atiya Salah
* Ahmad Abd al-Naser Awad Hamdouna
* Akram Maher Namar Zaqoul
* Ahmad Abd al-Rahman Mahmoud Abu al-Jabeen
*…
Call me Back: Biden-Harris ‘Jekyll-Hyde’ Israel Policy - with Rich Goldberg
In the past week, the Biden-Harris administration has announced it would deploy the THAAD system to Israel — THAAD is an advanced missile defense system that can thwart short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, as well as the U.S. military personnel to operate it.
At the same time, the Biden-Harris administration has issued a blistering letter to Israel’s government threatening to withhold military resources at the time that Israel is planning its response to the October 1st Iranian attack (here’s a copy of the letter: https://www.documentcloud.org/documen....
To help us understand what is going on with U.S. policy, Rich Goldberg returns to the podcast. Rich is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. From 2019-2020, he served as a Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as a national security staffer in the US Senate and US House. Rich is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve with military experience on the Joint Staff and in Afghanistan.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:40 What has been learned from the October 1st attack against Israel?
13:25 What are Israel’s Iron Dome and Arrow missile defenses?
17:33 How much R&D and production of these systems can be credited to Israel?
22:09 What is the THAAD system?
32:24 What is the Biden-Harris administration expressing in their letter to Israel’s government?
42:56 What does the administration mean by ‘withholding assistance’ to Israel?
49:50 How do we reconcile these two policies that are in conflict with one another?
A ‘good day for world peace’ as ‘centre of evil’ is eliminated
Vision has emerged of the ‘final moments’ before Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza.
The IDF released footage of the mastermind behind the October 7 terror attack hiding in a building in the southern city of Rafah.
Sky News contributor Michael Kroger described his death as a “good day for world peace”.
“This man was the centre of evil in the Middle East,”
“It is a good day for the world, because there is an increased chance of peace in the Middle East because he’s gone” Mr Kroger said.
‘Extremely disturbing’: Douglas Murray hits out at UN peacekeeping force over Hezbollah
Author Douglas Murray has hit out at the UN peacekeeping force after he was shown by the IDF, two Hezbollah tunnels near the border with Israel.
A Hezbollah tunnel was revealed to be just 100 metres away from a UN peacekeeping base and observation point.
Mr Murray was taken into southern Lebanon recently and was shown by the Israeli Defence Force the tunnel close to the watch tower of the UN peacekeeping force.
“The thing about this that’s extremely disturbing among others is that all of this happened literally right under the watch towers of the so-called UN peacekeeping force,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“They literally watched ... as Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets from that allegedly demilitarised area into Israel – it’s all there, visibly on the ground.”
🚨🚨STOP THE PRESS🚨🚨PLEASE SHARE THIS WIDELY
— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) October 18, 2024
The sensational and superb @Erin_Molan delivers the single best monologue you will EVER see and hear. Just WOW.
Thank you for saying exactly what the world needed to hear.
This is simply brilliant. pic.twitter.com/wRmXfGjcmD
UKLFI: Dr Efrat Sopher discusses opportunity for a new Middle East following death of Sinwar on LBC (audio)
Dr Efrat Sopher, UKLFI Director and Chair of the Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States Research at the University of Haifa, discusses the opportunity for a new Middle East following the deaths of Sinwar and other terrorist leaders with Matt Frei on LBC
I joined the @FoxNews @kilmeade podcast show (1:31:52) yesterday to discuss the death of Sinwar, performance of the @IDF , hostages, Hamas, Rafah, tunnels, Hezbollah, UNIFIL, and much more. https://t.co/7diRpGb4Sb
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) October 19, 2024
What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Live! The Future Of The Israel-Iran War. Elliott Abrams, David Deptula, and Eyal Hulata Explain Explicit
After a year of fighting between Israel, Iranian proxies, and now Iran itself, it’s still unclear how this war will end. Hezbollah and Hamas are militarily devastated. The Iranian regime has never looked weaker. But the Israel-Hamas war is also nowhere close to being settled, Israel is only now beginning its operations in southern Lebanon, and the world is still awaiting Israeli retaliation for Iran’s October 1 missile attack. In this episode of WTH Live! Elliott Abrams, David Deptula, and Eyal Hulata join Dany at AEI to discuss what the future of Israel’s de facto war with Iran should and will look like.
Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.
Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula (Ret.) serves as the Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Gen. Deptula was the principal attack planner for the Operation Desert Storm air campaign, commander of no-fly-zone operations over Iraq in the late 1990s, director of the air campaign over Afghanistan in 2001, and has served on two congressional commissions charged with outlining America’s future defense posture. Gen. Deptula retired from the Air Force in 2010 after more than 34 years of distinguished service.
Eyal Hulata is a senior international fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Eyal previously served as Israel’s national security advisor and head of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC). During his tenure, Eyal coordinated the national effort on Iran, coordinated the maritime border agreement with Lebanon, and co-headed the Strategic Consultation Group with his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan.
“Thank You For Taking Out All These Horrible Terrorists” | Alex Phillips On Hamas Chief’s Death
Alex Phillips says she plans to send Benjamin Netanyahu a jeroboam of kosher wine and a box of celebrations following the death of Yahya Sinwar.
The Hamas chief was killed by the IDF in southern Gaza on Thursday evening following the Israeli forces raid in a war struck building.
AIJAC executive manager not ‘surprised’ by comments during October 7 rally
Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council Executive Manager Joel Burnie says Khaled Beydoun’s October 7 remarks are not “unfamiliar” to the Jewish community.
Mr Beydoun called October 7 a day of ‘celebration’ at a pro-Palestinian rally on the anniversary of October 7.
The Arizona State University professor reportedly had his visa revoked by the Australian government.
“His [Beydoun] comments unfortunately are not unfamiliar to my community since the horrific events just over a year ago on October 7,” Mr Burnie told Sky News host Gabriella Power.
“For someone to call it a day of celebration unfortunately not surprising.”
🇮🇱 Holy cow, @elonmusk truly gets it!!
— Etana Hecht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 (@etanadeeIL) October 17, 2024
When asked about what's going on in Israel, Elon responded with a well thought out and reasoned response that got to the ROOT of the issue with clarity.
He said they MUST stop teaching their children to hate.
Once they are not taught… pic.twitter.com/iE2Yihplk7
Dr. Phil on Pro Hamas Universities
Dr. Phil and Bill Maher agree and disagree, as per usual on a ton of topics, including on how to feel good, the importance of toeing the line in art, the challenges posed by bureaucracy and regulations, particularly in industries like entertainment and energy (solar anyone?). They get serious about stupidity on campuses, Israel, and the reactions on university campuses and moral equivalency. And fittingly, they end on the finite nature of life.
John Anderson Media: Global Instability: Rogue States, Western Failures, and Military Strategy | Tim Cross
Major-General Tim Cross joins John to discuss his experiences in the military amidst global security challenges. Reflecting on his involvement in the 2003 Iraq invasion, he acknowledges the failures of the post-war period, criticising the poor decisions that undermined lasting nation-building efforts. He also examines the growing threats from authoritarian regimes like Russia and China.
Cross argues that the West is facing a leadership crisis and must embrace morally courageous decision-making to survive. He advocates for a strategic defence posture that enhances military capabilities to address modern threats, while also defending the core democratic values that are increasingly under pressure in the West.
Responding to criticism of my Israel video, especially from @ComicDaveSmith:
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) October 17, 2024
Watch to the end to see the actual truth about why jihadis like Hamas and Hezbollah fight and hate us in their own words. pic.twitter.com/jUiOWANkl0
We are very concerned Germany last year gave $213 million to UNRWA to knowingly employ thousands of terrorists and promoters of terrorism to teach young Palestinians to kill Jews. Mr. @NilsSchmid, here is the dossier on UNRWA terrorism: https://t.co/ftDG2RmCB8 You've been served. https://t.co/lumDsuUz3T
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 18, 2024
No mention of storing weapons in tunnels in and under these houses, or of Hezbollah terrorists planning an October 7 style invasion into Israel, or of a year of firing at Israeli civilians. You @carlbildt are such a cynical hypocrite. https://t.co/LCZ5mn6V7W
— Jonathan Conricus (@jconricus) October 17, 2024
🔥MUST WATCH AD FOR JEWISH VOTERS🔥
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) October 18, 2024
I can't tell you how many conversations I've had—with neighbors, family and friends—that sound just like this!
This ad by @RJC really captures the choice we face this election! pic.twitter.com/iFPDwE6YiM
Today is the one year anniversary of the Al Ahli Hospital explosion, where an errant PIJ rocket landed in a hospital killing a few dozen people, by most investigations. But don't let the propagandists stop their relentless lies. https://t.co/RqiU48TH3Khttps://t.co/aglkJB5Rgv
— Strxwmxn 📟 (@strxwmxn) October 17, 2024
Islamists brutally murdered a young African student, Joshua Molito Mollel, in Israel on October 7th, 2023.
— Joshua Washington (@JoshWashIBSI) October 17, 2024
His crime? Standing on Israeli soil… and being an African. pic.twitter.com/J23yx4rcJu
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed public support for Hamas just days after the October 7 massacre in Israel.
— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) October 17, 2024
He justified the rape and murder of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists and described Hamas as a “liberation group” (source attached below).
Under… pic.twitter.com/p92Lvg4kAK
Wow. Holy sh*t.
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
I can’t believe I am saying this, but Jacob Rees-Mogg just 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙮𝙚𝙙 David Miller
Miller is a man that targeted Jewish schools and charities, even named Jewish children publicly a while back.
Mogg absolutely pulled him apart
pic.twitter.com/9LwTmpktNt
He also made the claim that it’s not Jews that are under represented in these positions, it’s Muslims.
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 17, 2024
Since 2000 there has only been in this 32 Jewish people in government positions. Thats 24 years.
In this current government ALONE there are 24 Muslims and that is quoted from…
Arab Muslim Zionist Educates College Students on Israel and The War! @JustLuai #factsforpeace pic.twitter.com/edbK97z9pk
— FactsForPeace (@Facts_For_Peace) October 18, 2024
Bill Maher sets David Hogg straight about his anti-Israel views:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) October 19, 2024
Bill Maher: "But certainly since October 7th of last year was that it's a place [Harvard] where a lot of people go to get stupid. This week the Israelis finally got Sinwar, the head of Hamas. Would this be a day of… pic.twitter.com/FSFUWq3s3A
Palestinian immigrant murdered this man's daughter.. https://t.co/2gjOiGPJhe
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) October 19, 2024
Hamas Leaders, Retired U.S. Officials, Academics Convene Pro-Oct. 7 Conference in Istanbul
A conference commending Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, named "the Al-Aqsa Flood," convened in Istanbul this week.Reporter who called Oct 7 ‘moment of triumph’ to speak at London Muslim conference
The event was organized by the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), headed by Sami Al-Arian, who was deported from the U.S. for providing services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The opening speaker was Hamas official Osama Hamdan, who lauded the massacre and predicted a future in which Israel does not appear on the map.
Another main speaker was former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad, who stressed that Israelis and Zionists control the world.
Other speakers included Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of the U.S. State Department under Colin Powell, who argued that the war was initiated by Israel and prophesied that Israel as a Jewish state will soon cease to exist.
Former U.S. Marines intelligence officer Scott Ritter claimed that the entire world owes Hamas gratitude for the attack.
A reporter from Iran’s Press TV who described the Oct 7 attacks on Israel as a “moment of triumph” will speak at a London Muslim conference.Musician who sang about stoning ‘Jewish demons’ to perform at ‘outrageous’ London Islamic festival
Latifa Abouchakra, a presenter at the banned Tehran-backed channel, is scheduled to speak at a seminar, entitled Palestinians are humans not heroes, during the Global Peace and Unity festival.
Last year, ITV was forced to apologise after platforming Ms Abouchakra as a British Palestinian concerned about prejudice without explaining her background.
The apology came after a video emerged of Ms Abouchakra praising the Oct 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas, in which the terror group killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostage, sparking over a year of conflict in the Middle East.
During a broadcast on the day of the attacks, she told viewers: “As fragile as a spider’s web, the Zionist entity is shaking with fear. In an early morning shock, Palestinian resistance factions from Gaza launched an unprecedented three-pronged attack on the entity.
“What ensued was the homecoming of at least 1,000 Palestinians from the resistance factions into the fragile Zionist entity. Over 100 settlers have been taken as prisoners of war by the resistance – the vast majority are members of the occupation forces.”
In an Instagram post on the same day, she said: “Nothing will ever be able to take back this moment, this moment of triumph, this moment of resistance, this moment of surprise, this moment of humiliation on behalf of the Zionist entity.”
In the ITV interview, Ms Abouchakra said she had been a victim of Islamophobia, adding: “I’ve been called a terrorist, I’ve been asked to go back home, I’ve had people in their cars making threatening gestures.
“Muslims and Palestinians are inherently terrorists according to the system here, according to the narrative of the media here and according to the narrative of the politicians.”
Last week, The Telegraph revealed that the Metropolitan Police had distanced itself from the Global Peace and Unity festival after it was called a “supporting partner” of the event on its website. The move was revealed by think tank Policy Exchange.
A singer whose songs feature lyrics like “all the Jews will pay” and “we throw stones, small and big, at the Jewish demons” is billed to perform to an audience of thousands at an “outrageous” Muslim festival at London’s Exel Centre this weekend, the JC can reveal.
Abdel Fattah Owainat, a Jordanian vocalist who posted footage of terror attacks and training with a soundtrack of one of his own songs glorifying violence after October 7, is advertised on the festival website as focusing “on themes of faith, devotion, and spirituality”.
In 2020, the musician, whose music features on a compilation album called “Jihadi Hills”, was accused of performing traditional songs “in the name of” Hamas in an academic paper published by Edinburgh University Press.
A video showing rockets being launched by militants was accompanied by his song: “Strike, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, oh fire, make the enemies drink humiliation… The lands are forbidden to enemies… Allah is the greatest, proclaim it, all the Jews will pay.”
Another of his lyrics runs: “Know me, O Son of Zion: no matter how strong you are, for my country, blood is cheap… We throw stones, small and big, at the Jewish demons.”
The revelations add to growing concerns about the upcoming Global Peace and Unity (GPU) festival – the largest of its kind in Europe, which has previously attracted audiences of 55,000 – and the alleged connections of a number of its speakers to extremism.
The Metropolitan Police’s logo was included on GPU material as a “supporting partner” of the festival. But last week the force had it removed after a complaint by the Policy Exchange think-tank. “The organisers were never given formal permission to use the Met logo,” a spokesman said. “We have asked for it to be removed from the website and any related materials.”
In response to the JC’s disclosures, the Met pledged to scrutinise the event. “We’ve passed the material you provided to officers for further assessment,” a spokesman said. “It isn’t typical for the police to determine whether private events take place or who is invited to speak.
Malaysia’s prime minister, long known as a dissident and supposedly democratic Islamist, openly mourns mass murderer Sinwar — all of Ibrahim’s long lectures about humanity didn’t stop him from supporting a killer of civilians — the world is a depressing place https://t.co/kbfift9y7o
— Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی (@arash_tehran) October 19, 2024
Though this is up there too. Unconscionable denial of the Hamas atrocities at the music festival and its rapes.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 19, 2024
The GPU organisers say they aim to "promote peace through understanding".
The “understanding” that is needed here is that this is a gathering of extremists. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/3HRRlD4FrU
Hey, perhaps Quick could lead prayers. Another October 2023 offering:
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 19, 2024
“Humiliate the polytheists”
“Destroy the religion’s enemies”
“Give victory to our brothers in Palestine”
“Destroy who ever wishes ill for us”
“Deal with the usurping Zionists … Scatter them” pic.twitter.com/9ZB1qUlxpt
In another disgusting passage, Finkelstein presented Hezbollah and the Houthis as champions of “Responsibility to Protect”.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 19, 2024
“They rose to the occasion”, he said of terrorists dedicated to genocide for the Jews.
This line earned loud cheers.
After Hezbollah released @RichardEngel in 2000, he says they were "being on their best behavior, because I think they think that journalists & international attention can help their cause."
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 18, 2024
Now why would a terror org possibly think that journalists could help their cause? 🤔 https://t.co/KVC16rFUuO
What happened to your support for Palestine, Bella? Hadid sister is slammed for walking in Victoria's Secret show despite brand's ties to Israel
Pro-Palestine protesters have accused Bella Hadid of hypocrisy for taking part in the Victoria's Secret's 2024 Fashion Show because the brand has ties to Israel.
The supermodel, 28, wowed as she closed the show in red lingerie set with a statement coat on Tuesday night in New York.
And while Bella has been praised for her catwalk comeback, Palestine supporters criticised the model who has been vocal in opposition to Israel's occupation of Gaza and and whose father Mohamed Hadid was born in Palestine.
Bella, and her sister Gigi, 29, - who also walked in the show - have spoken against Israel's occupation and the war in Gaza on dozens of occasions.
The younger Hadid sister has even gone as far to say she's 'not afraid to lose modelling jobs' due to her stance - which has left fans baffled as to why she walked for a brand with ties to Israel.
One of the main suppliers of Victoria’s Secret merchandise is the Israeli textile giant Delta Galil Industries Ltd.
The underwear brand also opened two new stores in Israel last year, while the country was at war.
Shouting shame when the yellow ribbons are entwined within the Israeli flag, a call to bring our hostages home, and how this conflict started, says more about you than the multi cultural Israeli players on the pitch
— Jonny B ג'וני ברהם (@jonnybraham) October 14, 2024
You’re nothing but a Jew hating washed up senile old prick
— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) October 19, 2024
The ideology of intersectionality is both insane and dangerous. As seen here, it entails that literally no action done by people in groups deemed "oppressed" can be considered immoral, condemned, or even criticized.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) October 16, 2024
This is an absolutely horrific view to support. https://t.co/UT04cxlC01
San Francisco hit by ‘vandalism’ wave of fake ads attacking Israel
San Francisco is facing a surge of fake ads at city bus shelters attacking Israel.
The posters, which were generating comments on X last week, are disguised as ads celebrating San Francisco Fleet Week, but quickly reveal themselves to be anti-Israel propaganda.
One ad shows an image of U.S. serviceman Aaron Bushnell engulfed in flames.
The mentally ill airman set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. in February in protest over the war in Gaza.
Above his burning body a message read “Honoring Aaron Bushnell.”
A second poster showed an image of the USS Liberty.
The Navy research vessel came under attack by Israel after it was mistaken for an Egyptian ship during the six day war in 1967.
Though Israel apologized and the error did not impact US-Israel relations, the incident has become a lightening rod for anti-Israel conspiracy theorists.
The USS Liberty poster also featured a symbol of the National Cryptologic Memorial with their logo “They Served In Silence.”
Clear Channel, a company which manages bus shelters ads in the city confirmed to SFGATE that the displays were “vandalism.”
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency additionally told the outlet that they would be coming down.
Breaking: Senator Marco Rubio has sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding they open an investigation into Palestine Action.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
Palestine Action has been responsible for assaults, vandalism, and harassment. The West can no longer tolerate these domestic terrorists. pic.twitter.com/dJADVDnHBD
Bloomfield Township (Detroit), MI - rabid Jew hater goes on an insane antisemitic rant during a town meeting earlier this week.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 19, 2024
Fun fact: DNA tests are not illegal in Israel. MyHeritage, one of the top genealogy platforms, was founded by an Israeli and is headquartered in Or… pic.twitter.com/DJG724XOXg
“Are you gonna call me a Jew-hater after this?”
— Pamela Paresky🎗️(Habits of a Free Mind) (@PamelaParesky) October 18, 2024
I’m she’s been accused of being a Jew-hater. I can’t imagine why. https://t.co/Hn4yt0xEwQ pic.twitter.com/RZx84hYsQk
At today’s “peaceful” protest, @MetPoliceUK officers were hounded away for doing their jobs as a mob swore at them and chanted “Zionist police, off our streets.”
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) October 19, 2024
What had the officers done to deserve this?
In this footage, captured by our Demonstration and Event Monitoring… pic.twitter.com/EQDHfe3Hqz
Then the same guy leading the whole crowd in chanting! pic.twitter.com/mCIlJXuzCz
— The Electronic Uprising (@uprising_1) October 19, 2024
These brave people are starting a boycott against these allegedly pro-Israeli companies.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 19, 2024
Let’s help them by providing them with an exhaustive list of Jewish and Israeli solutions, innovations, inventions and products so that their boycott can be more complete! pic.twitter.com/lAvJIPrMar
Breaking: A protestors was arrested after riding through Trump’s secret service barricades yelling “Free Palestine.”
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 17, 2024
He was formally detained when he tried to burn an IDF flag outside of where Trump was expected to get a haircut. pic.twitter.com/KRY3EAWhzs
Her name is Amirah Zaky. She only targets Muslim men because... ? https://t.co/FQxMIr4SOE pic.twitter.com/3eR1CRdpa7
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) October 17, 2024
Earlier this year, many council meetings were disrupted by creeps shouting "for Palestine".
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 17, 2024
They're back at it. This was Bradford on Tuesday night. The police had to be called.
These people have nothing but contempt for our democracy. Treat them accordingly. pic.twitter.com/KlxXO92Rxo
Liberals Replace Star Of David On 'Coexist' Sticker With Hamas Paraglider https://t.co/eJh6TUiCR8 pic.twitter.com/S0MINg1650
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 17, 2024
This Anti-Israel Professor Blamed Israel for Hamas Terrorism. The Biden-Harris Admin Gave him $60K for His Book on 'Palestinian Self-Determination.'
On Oct. 1, the Biden-Harris administration awarded $60,000 to anti-Israel scholar Seth Anziska to write a book about "Palestinian self-determination." One day later, the University College London professor criticized the Jewish state for fighting Hamas, condemned Israel's assassination of Hezbollah's leader, and called U.S. officials "merchants of death."
The National Endowment for the Humanities granted Anziska the taxpayer-funded award on Oct. 1 for his book project focused on the "1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel," also known as the First Lebanon War. The conflict, according to the grant description, "influenced movements for Palestinian self-determination."
The war began with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a terrorist group, conducting a series of strikes on Israel from Lebanon. Israel eventually invaded its northern neighbor to expel the PLO after a terrorist cell attempted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, leaving him paralyzed for life. The Jewish state withdrew after successfully driving out the terrorist organization, but Hezbollah grew in the PLO's place.
"My book project offers the first publicly accessible international history of the war, which has been elided in public discourse. At a moment of profound rupture for Israel, Palestine, and the wider region, how can the historian make sense of this contested past and its multiple legacies?" Anziska wrote in the description of his project, which he said "seeks to deepen public engagement with the past while underscoring the vital urgency of historical thinking to make sense of violence unfolding today."
But Anziska, an associate professor of Jewish-Muslim relations focused on "Israeli and Palestinian society and culture," has a history of pushing an anti-Israel bias and sympathizing with the terror groups that look to destroy it. On Oct. 2, Anziska published an essay blaming the Jewish state for Hamas's and Hezbollah's rise and criticized the United States for supporting Israel's retaliation against the terror groups.
"Decades of repeated efforts to destroy Palestinian political aspirations through recurring violence have not succeeded in stamping out the liberation struggle, nor has the Israeli army managed to contain Hezbollah absent a reckoning with Palestinian demands for self-determination," Anziska wrote in a Jewish Currents essay. "On the contrary, militant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas have emerged as byproducts of successive invasions; Israeli violence breeds military resistance like a 'cure' producing the 'disease.'"
Anziska called Biden-Harris administration officials who backed Israel's recent retaliations against Hamas and Hezbollah "American enablers."
"These are just some of our modern-day merchants of death; they have nothing to offer us but more violence," he wrote. "Israel is now a rogue state consumed by a forever war—weak where it appears strong, and dragging a constellation of Western powers with it into a battle of folly."
He also criticized Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, calling it an "extrajudicial killing," and worried that "such vigilante violence … might engender long-term instability for the entire Middle East and well beyond its borders."
Jew hate has turned schools like my Alma Mater @UofPenn into a fenced up prison… pic.twitter.com/EPJHpDRCuY
— Zach Sage Fox (@zachsagefox) October 18, 2024
"The People's University" is the next phase of the encampment, which will be a Student Strike in the Spring. Much like the encampment, they will do political training instead of class. I have detailed this plan in this thread. https://t.co/vD89hfB2up
— Stu (@thestustustudio) October 18, 2024
Here is some video of the march that led up to this moment. pic.twitter.com/wAZ4HlHmkB
— Stu (@thestustustudio) October 18, 2024
BREAKING: Cornell students have walked out of their classes in mass to protest for divestment. pic.twitter.com/MeTO5d1x1J
— Stu (@thestustustudio) October 18, 2024
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, whose members include Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, mourning Yahya Sinwar. pic.twitter.com/flIjzOj9i1
— Andrew Bernard (@andrewjbernie) October 19, 2024
Isra Hirsi, Ilhan Omar’s daughter, is disseminating pro-terror propaganda on US soil. Not only should she be expelled, but she should be arrested for aiding and abetting US designated terrorist organisations. There is no world in which “globalising the intifada” is not an… pic.twitter.com/BxmOkZo08V
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 17, 2024
NEW: Harvard punished a Taiwanese student, Cosette Wu, who disrupted a talk by China's ambassador.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) October 17, 2024
But it declined to punish a Chinese student who forcibly dragged Wu from the event.
After video of the assault went viral, Harvard even gave that student a letter of apology .🧵 pic.twitter.com/n4NhmB15ke
Amnesty Australia employee Veronica Koman: “My respect to Yahya Sinwar, the true leader of Palestinian independence. He was born in a refugee camp in Gaza, and breathed his last fighting on the front lines of Gaza. Legend!!“ pic.twitter.com/0MfK4obhpd
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@DrewPavlou) October 18, 2024
Does someone like Michael Shank reflect your university’s values, @GeorgeMasonU?
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 17, 2024
Concerned?
Email president@gmu.edu
All of Michael Shank's posts have been archived here:
- https://t.co/4hkZ8rZFKj
- https://t.co/Y8QfuzWN4M
- https://t.co/cvwhoZFBgb
- https://t.co/ERVK768YAO
-… pic.twitter.com/kiVncssvwt
UPDATE: antisemite Stephanie Fakih has been censured in a 6-1 vote during a special Monday evening meeting the town held.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 16, 2024
Only one member of the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees voted in her favor - Stephanie herself 😂.
Press statement pictured. https://t.co/2fpWgh7jjy pic.twitter.com/8ZZMyiuw1I
Update: antisemitic rape denier Ahmad Braizat is no longer employed by Coldwell Banker 👏 https://t.co/x8eva6F8kf
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 16, 2024
Patti definitely has a problem with Jews. She's also extremely ignorant. pic.twitter.com/d1WQnrH7tv
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) October 18, 2024
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 17, 2024
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 17, 2024
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 17, 2024
Update: antisemite Bobby Mozumder is no longer employed with Cadence 👏 https://t.co/aMeFHQuhCn
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 18, 2024
Charlotte based Victor Ignacio refers to the vast majority of Jews as "rats".
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 18, 2024
What is his employer - @PontoonSolution - doing?
Nothing.
ACT HERE: https://t.co/nF1pRFoxlg https://t.co/GOpcbcTv8e pic.twitter.com/Lzqv7ntOgJ
The UCLA Cultural Affairs Instagram released a post memorializing the Oct. 7th massacre. The post featured the Hamas terrorists who flew into Israel to murder innocent civilians.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2024
UCLA students are once again openly supporting the murder that took place on Oct. 7th. pic.twitter.com/wZ5Tgcri9K
Disgusting: Professor at UPenn, Anne Norton, compares the death of Yahya Sinwar to George Floyd.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
Not only is memorializing Sinwar disgusting, but to compare him to George Floyd is completely racist. pic.twitter.com/3Kj14yvZYB
The Philly Palestine Coalition, a group made up of the chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine at UPenn, Drexel, and Temple, posts in "unconditional solidarity with Samidoun."
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2024
Samidoun is a designated terrorist organization. This is disgusting. pic.twitter.com/OwyA55VC7e
The UPenn SJP has become so radicalized that they are now describing the former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority a genocide supporter.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
These students pose an increasing threat to the safety of others on campus. pic.twitter.com/Yvqd8RULZu
Disgusting: Overnight, multiple signs on UPenn's campus were vandalized with "Sinwar Lives." This comes after students and faculty posted repeatedly about Sinwar as a "hero."
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2024
Will the Penn administration finally admit they have a problem or continue their appeasement? pic.twitter.com/n8O8AnkWPG
@_ZachFoster did someone hack your account or have you actually spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to be this dull?
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2024
Nothing to see here, just @UTAustin student Reyan Ghanim mourning the death of Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar and referring to him as "honorable".
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 18, 2024
In reality, Sinwar orchestrated the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/FEOOLP9tXc
Here she is at Penn pic.twitter.com/5o9y2jhqYj
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 18, 2024
More on Ali Jamal Awad's antisemitism and pro terror views here: https://t.co/yqAot6FZpH
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 19, 2024
“Quite Sickening” | BBC Slammed For Not Mentioning Hamas A ‘Terrorist Group’
Talk’s Mike Graham slams BBC's Jeremy Bowen for not mentioning "the fact" that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group in his website story.
Former military intelligence officer Philip Ingram joins Mike to discuss this further.
Here’s @BBCNews casually claiming Hezbollah "prides itself" on only targeting Israeli military. The BBC’s borderline fanatical obsession with so-called "balance" leads it to broadcast brazen lies to millions—even as its own reporter admits in the next breath that it's not true. pic.twitter.com/20c2UsQDAn
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 19, 2024
It's really bad when the Iranian Foreign Ministry basically plagiarizes the Sinwar obituary from the Washington Post and the Guardian. https://t.co/38qIaW8ko6
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 18, 2024
The BBC is just a HAMAS PUPPET!
— David Collier (@mishtal) October 17, 2024
Tonight on @bbcnews Worldservice newsroom from Wyre Davies.
"civilians are still being killed - more than 42000 CIVILIANS have been killed."
Who will stop the BBC telling Hamas lies?
Who will stop the BBC spreading antisemitism? pic.twitter.com/yFLdHhyPUA
Sometimes @bbcnews is so eager to push pro-Hamas propaganda they cross over into obscene.
— David Collier (@mishtal) October 18, 2024
From the master of anti-Israel hate Jeremy Bowen last night.
He is suggesting 0ct 7 was a military attack (you can't 'lose' a terrorist attack). Was 9/11 or 7/7 also a 'defeat' BBC? pic.twitter.com/i3fyEzszYA
Jeremy Bowen calling Oct 7 a “defeat” isn’t a neutral word - it echoes Hamas’s own narrative that it was primarily a military engagement rather than a massacre of civilians. Bad enough to refuse to call Hamas terrorists - so much worse to use their own language instead. pic.twitter.com/vTbrnDfeIZ
— Dave Rich (@daverich1) October 18, 2024
It's telling that cartoonist @BrookesTimes @thetimes responds to the death of Sinwar NOT by asking whether his decision to launch the Oct. 7 massacre was worth it, in terms of Israeli and Palestinian lives.
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) October 18, 2024
Rather, he points the finger at Israel, who didn't start or want the… pic.twitter.com/XHyzWOD1K7
You’ll all be interested in his word salad of an explanation:
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) October 19, 2024
“I would be concerned about stereotyping if I thought the the sense of her remarks was that she now knew Jews who resembled Fagin, but surely the most natural understanding of ‘I didn’t know Jews like that then, sadly…
The New York Times ran a front-page story whitewashing Mia Khalifa's antisemitism. She's posted drinking Nazi wine, discussed Jews controlling the government, and spread repeated blood libels.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 19, 2024
Not surprising the NYT calls this 'activism.' pic.twitter.com/WXllxV3Jlw
A BBC investigation into antisemitic speeches by Iranian generals, given to UK students, confirms that the "organizer" on CNN is IRGC General Hossein Yekta.https://t.co/o5UMy4eNOr pic.twitter.com/vrK02NW9E8
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 16, 2024
Where, @IsaCNN, are you getting a figure of 64,000 dead Palestinians in Gaza? Not even the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has quoted such a number.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 17, 2024
Is it now @CNN policy to inflate disputed Palestinian casualty figures? pic.twitter.com/9P7Pvafsxx
Those @guardian 'editorial standards' we heard about recently have apparently vanished, as editors ok'd this vile piece by an official at the terror supporting @jvplive arguing that Jews' duty to honor Holocaust victims & survivors demands NOT opposition to the annihilationist… pic.twitter.com/3cP5SdoJ6m
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) October 18, 2024
No doubt when she was employed she was an objective journalist, ensuring the publication of unbiased news. https://t.co/CcV6boOevG
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 18, 2024
Here’s @DailyMirror disgustingly referring to Israeli hostages, kidnapped by Hamas—who massacred civilians on Oct 7—as being held in "Hamas care." Terrorists portrayed as babysitters, while Israel is falsely accused of "indiscriminately bombing Gaza." Journalistic Depravity.… pic.twitter.com/BGlsISq0vZ
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 19, 2024
Hey @bbcnews - aren't you even the slightest bit embarrassed?
— David Collier (@mishtal) October 17, 2024
I mean the 'victim' star of your recent Gaza doc had to lock her Facebook profile - because it was overflowing with years of celebrations of the terrorist murder of Jews.
Don't you care about the lies you spread? pic.twitter.com/5IaqFUtsNB
During the first nine months of 2024, the BBC News website reported 0.41% of the terror attacks which took place and 64.7% of the resulting fatalities. https://t.co/w0ZUmsWK5v
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) October 18, 2024
Jerusalem man arrested for plotting terror attack at hostage rally
A resident of eastern Jerusalem was arrested for plotting a terrorist attack against Tel Aviv demonstrations in support of the hostages being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said on Friday.
The suspect, a 22-year-old from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, north of the Old City, planned to attack one the weekly rallies in Tel Aviv, as well as shooting attacks on IDF soldiers and attacks on freight trains.
He tried to contact Hamas terrorists in Samaria and recruit the assistance of the Jenin Brigades terrorist group to acquire arms for the attacks.
According to police, the suspect’s aim was to “murder as many people as possible in revenge for the people of Gaza and the terrorist organization Hamas.”
During the investigation, authorities found that the terrorist had started a social media group called “Soldiers of God,” and written a will.
The suspect was set to be indicted in court later on Friday.
Hema Barbakh often films himself distributing cash, in this case €51k donated by Lutfi Kawarha from Tunisia, to displaced men in Khan Younes Mawasi, South Gaza. Everyone gets 100 shekels ($27).
— Imshin (@imshin) October 18, 2024
I confess I'm only sharing this particular video because of the guy at the front of… pic.twitter.com/pMdhAK2UeP
Flour trucks arrive in North Gaza (timestamp 1 day ago).
— Imshin (@imshin) October 18, 2024
Let's hope they don't throw the sacks away in the street this time.#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link in 1st comment https://t.co/FvN6VQd996 pic.twitter.com/VSMowFA5zW
Abu Taha alternative energy solutions, Khan Younes near the beach, next to the fishermen's port, South Gaza Strip.
— Imshin (@imshin) October 18, 2024
TikTok timestamps: 17 October 2024.
Many of you ask how Gazans have electricity in wartime.
You have to understand that Gazans haven't relied on Hamas' corrupt… https://t.co/n0Q9YWZhF4 pic.twitter.com/rUUXpeExK2
Pet shop vendor in North Gaza showing his large variety of cat food, by feeding the local street cats.
— Imshin (@imshin) October 18, 2024
TikTok timestamp: 8 hours ago
Cats are popular pets in Gaza.
If Gazans are really starving to death, why are they not eating cat food to save their lives?#TheGazaYouDontSee… pic.twitter.com/K7bR2NoHku
Hezbollah fighters wounded in Operation Grim Beeper made a pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq pic.twitter.com/iQcL83TPKw
— Mike (@Doranimated) October 17, 2024
Extremely alarming speech today inciting terrorism in Australia. Sydney based imam Ibrahim Dadoun: “Our brothers in Hamas are fighting with their blood and with their children so that Islam will dominate. ISLAM WILL DOMINATE. Victory is coming. We are on the path of… pic.twitter.com/6hnAv0sPiT
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@DrewPavlou) October 19, 2024
Tarek Muhammad in LA Friday Sermon: The Zionists Seek Global Dominion through Their Control of Banking, Media, Hollywood, American Politics, Spreading Homosexuality and Pornography pic.twitter.com/NGgjOU0XUB
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) October 18, 2024
Arrests made after shots fired at Toronto Jewish girls' school
The Toronto police department arrested two individuals on Thursday for firing gunshots at a Jewish girls' elementary school, the department reported.Polish police probe ‘Jews to the gas’ sign at building occupied by anti-Israel students
A 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old minor were arrested in connection to shots fired at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School on October 12. The police said that the shots were fired from a vehicle and hit a window of the school, though there were no reports of gunfire in the area at that time.
"I’m pleased to announce the arrest of two individuals in connection with the incident that took place at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School on Saturday, October 12," said Deputy Chief of Police Robert Johnson. "Both males face multiple charges, including unauthorized possession of a loaded firearm—a Glock handgun modified to be fully automatic. While I can't share details on the motivation behind this incident due to the ongoing investigation, we are thoroughly exploring why these two individuals committed these crimes and any connections to the previous shooting incident at this school on May 25, 2024."
“This is the second incident at the school and it occurred on Yom Kippur, a sacred day for the Jewish community, making this even more devastating," Johnson said in a press conference Friday. “The safety of our communities remains our top priority, particularly as global tensions rise and the Jewish community observes the High Holidays.”
“The safety and well-being of our communities remains our highest priority," said Chief of Police Myron Demkiw. "Our increased police presence across the city will continue for as long as necessary, demonstrating our commitment to keeping all neighborhoods safe. As I’ve said before, our investigations are ongoing, and charges can be laid at any time—whether immediately after the incident or in the days and weeks that follow."
Polish police are investigating antisemitic signs that were spotted among banners that pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students hung outside a Krakow university building that they have occupied for over six months, local media reported Thursday.
The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper said the signs, including one reading “Jews to the gas,” were spotted Monday morning on a wall outside the Collegium Broscianum, which houses the sociology and philosophy departments of the Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest university, which has a long history of antisemitism.
A university spokesman apologized for the incident, saying the institution swiftly removed the signs and alerted the local police, who confirmed investigating the “incitement to hatred on national grounds.”
Academy for Palestine, the student group occupying the building, denied putting up the signs, calling them a “provocation,” the news outlet reported.
Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne took to X Friday to condemn the “Israel-haters” at the university who “apparently want to murder Jews by gas, as was done in nearby Auschwitz.”
“I call on the Polish authorities to look closely into the events taking place on this campus,” he added.
'Jews to the gas chambers': Pro-Palestinian poster at Polish university draws condemnations https://t.co/E25rN2xJNa
— Jeffrey Zimmerman (@Zimmlaw175) October 18, 2024
Breaking: South African Minister, Gayton McKenzie, explains why he should be president and why there is no genocide in Gaza.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 17, 2024
"If I become president, I will stop that case of the ICJ... They are wearing scarves of Palestine while our people die here." pic.twitter.com/oYAepsmu1R
The Land of Israel has changed hands many times over the centuries. But it has always been the homeland of one particular people. @noatishby, author of Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth, explains. pic.twitter.com/pZ3jwh3Clt
— PragerU (@prageru) October 18, 2024
From Big Bang Theory to Big Bold #Zionist | EP 13 Mayim Bialik
Welcome to the 13th episode of "Here I Am with Shai Davidai," a podcast that delves into the rising tide of antisemitism through insightful discussions with top Jewish advocates.
In this engaging conversation, host Shai Davidai interviews actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, starting with Mayim's multifaceted identity as an actor, neuroscientist, and proud Zionist. They delve into her experiences in Hollywood, where she often faced challenges due to her Jewish identity and distinctive features. Mayim shares her journey of embracing her Jewish identity publicly, despite the pressures to conform to Hollywood's standards.
The conversation shifts to the impact of social media and the role Mayim played in amplifying voices during significant events, highlighting her influence in spreading important messages. They discuss the complexities of Zionism and anti-Semitism, particularly in the context of recent global events, and Mayim's efforts to educate and advocate for Jewish civil rights.
Mayim reflects on her family history, including her connection to the poet laureate of Israel, Chaim Nachman Bialik, and how this heritage influences her activism. The dialogue also touches on the challenges of maintaining Jewish identity in the diaspora and the importance of storytelling in preserving cultural heritage.
The interview concludes with a discussion on Mayim's current projects, including a film about Yeshiva University's basketball team, and her thoughts on the future of Jewish representation in media. Throughout the conversation, Mayim's passion for her heritage and her commitment to advocacy shine through, offering viewers a deep insight into her personal and professional life.
A young nation with deep roots 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/ZvJD2aHEpv
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) October 18, 2024
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