EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian Authority To Pay $315 Million to Terrorists and Their Families Across Middle East in 2026, Watchdog Report Reveals
The Palestinian Authority will dole out $315 million in payments this year to 23,500 terrorists and their families, earmarking more than $19 million a month for a terrorism incentive program, known as "pay-to-slay," that PA president Mahmoud Abbas declared dead last year, according to a new analysis by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research institution shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon.Despite Israeli demands, Bank of Palestine refuses to shut down pay-for-slay accounts
The PA has concealed these payments from Western governments by channeling them through alternate budgets controlled by the PA Security Forces (PASF), its civil services sector, and its pension office, PMW determined. More than 10,000 former inmates are receiving monthly stipends of around $1,280 to $3,800 each month, while the PA will provide another $87,000,000 throughout the year to 13,500 "martyrs and injured" in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.
The findings come just a week after the State Department formally determined that the PA shifted to a new terror payment system it hoped to hide from Western donors, the Free Beacon reported, and present the clearest evidence to date that Abbas is violating his February 2025 decree that he had ended the pay-to-slay program. International donors had asked the PA to stop paying terrorists and their families as part of a "reform" project, but Abbas's government "is not voluntarily disclosing that 10,000 terror reward recipients are hidden in the civil service, the PASF, and as 50-year-old PA pensioners," according to the PMW report.
An additional 6,000 pay-to-slay recipients are within the PA's pensioners program, obscuring the payments at a time when Abbas's government is maneuvering for a role in postwar Gaza, and that number only stands to increase over time. "As thousands of imprisoned terrorists will be released from prison in the coming years, they will be shuttled into government jobs and early pensions, and the hidden Pay-for-Slay will continue to grow, hidden from international donors," PMW stated.
By transferring terror-related payments to various government agencies, the PA has been able to declare pay-to-slay void and continue receiving millions from the international community, which largely froze its funding due to the pay-to-slay program. But most donor countries continue to award cash directly to the PA's civil service programs, including the security forces and pension offices. Even the U.S. government, which froze most of its aid in 2018, still provides funding to the PA's security forces.
PMW used newly unearthed Telegram chat logs to determine that the PA has rerouted terrorism payments through its pension program.
"The wounded and prisoners—6,000 of them [had their files] transferred to pensions in different offices, and they are now registered there, and they are calling them one by one, asking them for bank account numbers to confirm them as pensioners," one recipient wrote.
The Bank of Palestine has refused a request from Israel’s Finance Ministry to close 3,400 accounts reportedly used to distribute payments to released terrorists, two sources familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
The revelation emerged during a meeting of the security cabinet on Thursday. The accounts are linked to the PA’s controversial “pay-for-slay” program, which provides monthly stipends to Palestinians who were imprisoned for carrying out terrorist attacks, as well as to the families of those killed during such acts.
According to the sources, Israeli authorities had previously submitted an explicit demand to shut down the accounts. In contrast to a similar case several months ago, when the bank agreed to close 1,700 accounts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the bank’s management this time responded that it was “unable to act.” The prevailing assessment is that senior PA officials instructed the bank not to comply.
The Finance Ministry identified the accounts and warned the bank that failure to close them could prompt Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to block Israeli banks from continuing to act as correspondent banks for the Bank of Palestine.
Correspondent banks, such as Israel’s Discount Bank and Bank Hapoalim, provide services that allow the Palestinian banking system to conduct international transactions. Because Palestinian banks lack foreign branches, these Israeli institutions act as intermediaries. The State of Israel indemnifies the Israeli banks in the event that their services facilitate money laundering or the financing of terrorism.
Should the indemnification be revoked and intermediary banking ties severed, financial officials warn that the PA could face severe economic consequences, potentially even a collapse.
Israel's negligent ‘hasbara’ failure in Gaza could have been avoided
What is truly astonishing is that something as basic as responding credibly to genocide allegations and casualty claims has been neglected entirely.
If the IDF can locate a missile launcher in the middle of an Iranian desert, or recover the body of a hostage from a mass grave in Gaza, it can certainly assign a multi-disciplinary team of analysts to examine open-source intelligence, social media data, and battlefield reports to create a database of its own on the casualties and attempt to distinguish between civilians and combatants killed in Gaza.
Private researchers and think tanks have attempted to do this work. The fact that the Israeli military never launched a systematic effort of its own speaks volumes. No budget – not even the hundreds of millions of shekels that the Foreign Ministry now touts for public diplomacy in 2026 – can retroactively repair what every spokesperson knows instinctively: Credibility is built in real time, and once lost, it’s almost impossible to buy back. The damage is already done.
There is only one phrase that fits this situation, and that is gross negligence. So while it may be tempting to blame CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, or Le Monde, the real address for complaint is much closer to home.
It is the government in Jerusalem and the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv that dropped the ball. They are the ones who failed to do their job. And they are the ones who will carry this stain long after the war ends.
A country at war cannot afford to treat its information front as an afterthought. Those of us who have stood in front of cameras and hostile panels did not ask for slogans. We asked for facts. We asked for systems. We asked for a state that understood that in the 21st century.
Credibility is a strategic asset, which, when squandered, becomes a national liability.
Pennsylvania's Office of General Counsel confirms inquiry into Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, after a request from some relatives of Raphael Lemkin, the Jewish lawyer who coined the term 'genocide' pic.twitter.com/cN6x5jXN00
— Luke Tress (@luketress) February 5, 2026
From Jihad to Justice: Hamas’s Outreach to the International Arena
The Centrality of the Narrative War in Hamas’s Strategy
One revealing indicator of how central Hamas considers the narrative battlefield is its classification of journalists as “civilian heroes,” alongside medical personnel, police, and civil defense. At first glance, the category is incongruous until one accepts Hamas’s premise that the war is cognitive as much as kinetic. If the decisive arena is perception, legitimacy, and outrage, then journalists become functional equivalents of first responders: essential to sustaining the story. Hamas reinforces this point by accusing Israel of killing journalists and preventing media access to the Gaza Strip. Israel, for its part, has argued that many of the journalists killed were active members of terrorist organizations and that it has facilitated the entry of international media into Gaza, albeit under IDF escort. Hamas nevertheless presses the allegation, aware that Israel’s defense has not been broadly accepted internationally, a point underscored by advocacy and legal efforts such as the by a petition filed by Reporters Without Borders with Israel’s High Court, alleging that Israel does not allow journalists to report freely from Gaza. The issue therefore becomes a standing instrument for reputational harm, and Hamas continues to foreground it across its publications. More broadly, throughout the war, Hamas has demonstrated a sophisticated grasp of modern media dynamics. According to organizational documents, the Qatari network Al Jazeera served as a propaganda arm of Hamas and had full cooperation from the organization, benefiting both parties. Social media influencers, the digital “counterparts” of journalists, were likewise granted access to senior Hamas figures and to areas of destruction and combat.
Conclusion
Hamas’s postwar narrative strategy, as reflected in its December 2025 document, is not incidental propaganda but a coordinated persuasion campaign aimed primarily at international audiences. By employing language and idioms widely recognized as morally and normatively significant within liberal democracies—human rights, international law, anti-racism, liberation, and victimhood—Hamas seeks to shift the conflict from a religious, political-territorial, or security dispute into a universal moral framework in which neutrality is unacceptable, let alone support for Israel. The toolkit presented in the document, including the rebranding of perpetrators of terrorism as “freedom fighters,” the shifting of responsibility and blame, and the appropriation of the language of international law, is designed to erode Israel’s basic legitimacy and to mobilize external pressure as a strategic asset. Even if public opinion polls should be treated with caution, the central claim remains valid: Hamas is investing in “soft power,” positioning the West as a central arena of struggle. Understanding this front is therefore essential for assessing how narratives are translated into cultural and political gains.
Israel, accordingly, would benefit from responding to Hamas’s claims in a systematic and sustained way, refuting them through the use of visual materials and by adapting its language to that of its Western target audiences. Over the two years of war, Israel often appeared to freeze in place, dismissing Hamas’s messaging as mere propaganda or psychological warfare, thereby avoiding direct engagement. Yet propaganda is most effective when it is left uncontested. Many in the West have absorbed Hamas’s framing; Israel therefore has to meet it with the seriousness the moment demands through credible civilian spokespeople, consistent messaging, and sustained attention to the audiences Hamas is most intent on influencing.
The Palestinians have never held sovereignty over an inch of Jerusalem.
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 5, 2026
However, it is interesting that they accuse Israel of colonizing it when it was built by Jews. So much so that it's the holiest place in Judaism and the Dome of the Rock sits on the holiest Jewish site. https://t.co/vuGmmpmG3n
Yes, I personally believe the US response would have been much more aggressive. For example, Americans would not have tolerated constant deadly rocket fire at their homes. Each rocket launcher would have been destroyed, mostly or completely regardless of civilians nearby.
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) February 6, 2026
TAX-EXEMPT TERROR: A U.S. 501c3 benefiting from tax-exempt status has funnelled over $28 million to an organization that was recently deemed “a subsidiary of Hamas” by the U.S. Secretary of State. https://t.co/u9wahrjp07
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) February 5, 2026
All the evidence is here:
🔗 https://t.co/huzPjGWHJg https://t.co/osCDM373F1
This you? https://t.co/sCmAkH3Tjw pic.twitter.com/dTwa6nxthv
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 5, 2026
The @UN_HRC should disband the @UN_SPExperts project. It’s a deeply unserious group of faux experts who don’t produce any good work.
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 6, 2026
Another example by this fake “lawyer,” @FranceskAlbs.
Also, @profbensaul ignored a report within his mandate for Iranian dissidents. https://t.co/BuQXeKarXe
Italian Senate advances bill to codify IHRA definition, ban antisemitic rallies
The Italian Senate has approved the base text of a bill which will – if passed – allow authorities to ban antisemitic rallies, and codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism into Italian law. The enactment of such a law would make Italy among the first countries to criminalize antisemitic hate speech according to the IHRA definition.
The legislation is considered by many in Italy to be the most divisive bill regarding antisemitism, not least because the IHRA definition is contested by many, but also because banning demonstrations would be possible when there is an “assessment of a serious potential risk related to the use of symbols, slogans, messages, and any other antisemitic act.” Some have argued that this is undemocratic and could blur the line between fighting antisemitism and limiting criticism of the Israeli government.
The base text was approved by the Senate committee on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The bill was brought by the right-wing Lega parliamentary leader, Massimiliano Romeo. Partito Democratico, Movimento 5 Stelle, and Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra voted against it.
This law does not do such a thing and @FranceskAlbs, who says she’s a “lawyer” but is not and has never been one, could simply read the definition and find that what she’s saying is a lie. https://t.co/UWJfRhGCRU
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 6, 2026
Senator Ester Mieli: “Thank you, President. What happened yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies is deeply disturbing.
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) February 5, 2026
The Left—together with AVS, the Democratic Party, and the Five Star Movement—organized a press conference with Francesca Albanese.
Francesca Albanese distorts…
.@Reuters Your profile on Francesca Albanese omitted 4 key facts: her unprecedented condemnation by France, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, for Holocaust inversion, antisemitism & ethical abuse; her support for Hamas; illegal renewal; financial corruption. https://t.co/bNvRY9h75c https://t.co/347tABcx8W
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 6, 2026
US-Iran talks begin in Oman amid threat of military showdown
Senior U.S. and Iranian officials held negotiations on Friday in Oman amid heightened tensions and warnings from both sides that the standoff could slide into a military confrontation.Diplomat: At talks with US, Iran refuses to end enrichment; missile capabilities not discussed
The talks come against the backdrop of a significant U.S. military buildup in the Middle East and escalating rhetoric between Washington and Tehran, following Iran’s violent crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests and continued disputes over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The U.S. delegation is led by President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, while Iran’s team is headed by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
“Iran enters diplomacy with open eyes and a steady memory of the past year,” Araghchi said in a post on X. “We engage in good faith and stand firm on our rights. Commitments need to be honored. Equal standing, mutual respect and mutual interest are not rhetoric—they are a must and the pillars of a durable agreement.”
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi said he held separate consultations on Friday with senior Iranian and U.S. delegations at a palace on the outskirts of Muscat before the talks began.
According to a statement on X by Oman’s Foreign Ministry, Al Busaidi met with the Iranian delegation led by Araghchi as well as with the U.S. delegation represented by Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
“The consultations focused on preparing appropriate conditions for the resumption of diplomatic and technical negotiations, while emphasizing their importance in light of the parties’ desire to ensure their success, in pursuit of sustainable security and stability,” he said.
Iran rejected calls by the United States to halt uranium enrichment on its territory during negotiations in Oman on Friday, as efforts to resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program resumed.
A regional diplomat briefed by Tehran told Reuters Friday that while the Islamic Republic would not budge on its right to enrich uranium inside Iran, it was willing to discuss the “level and purity” of enrichment or a regional consortium.
The diplomat added that Tehran believed the US negotiators “seemed to understand Iran’s stance on the enrichment … and they showed flexibility about Tehran’s demands.”
He added that Iran’s missile capabilities were not discussed during the talks in Muscat.
Iranian and US officials told the Axios news site that they expect further talks in the coming days.
US negotiators told their Iranian counterparts that they expect Tehran to come to the next meeting with a tangible and significant concession related to the nuclear file, Channel 12 reported.
The talks included an in-person meeting between US President Donald Trump’s top aides Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi, Channel 12 reported, citing two sources familiar.
The rest of the talks were held indirectly, with Oman mediating.
Trump’s true strategy on Iran | Bonus episode
In this bonus episode Andrew and Jake were on Iran International for a special joint appearance on the London based anti regime television channel, bringing the podcast’s analysis directly to an Iranian audience watching from inside the country and across the diaspora.
In a wide ranging conversation with Iranian presenter Negar Mojtahedi, who herself is on the regime’s death list, we discuss the brutal crackdown on protesters, the scale of the killings, and why Iran’s uprising has received so little sustained attention in the West. Drawing on reporting from inside the country, we examine mass executions, torture, internet shutdowns, and the use of fear to crush dissent.
The discussion turns to Donald Trump’s approach to Iran, the limits of diplomacy, and what military action would realistically look like. We explore whether the regime can be pressured into collapse, the risks of normalising Tehran through a deal, and why the Iranian leadership’s ideology makes genuine compromise unlikely.
We also address the information war now playing out on Western streets and online, where regime propaganda is amplified by activists who frame Iran solely through the lens of opposition to Israel. From protests in London to the exploitation of Western guilt and confusion, we examine how the Islamic Republic uses disinformation to shield itself from accountability.
Finally, we ask what a free Iran could actually look like, the role of figures such as Reza Pahlavi, and whether the international community is willing to stand with the Iranian people rather than sacrifice them to geopolitical convenience.
This is a sobering and urgent conversation about tyranny, propaganda, and why Iran’s struggle matters not just to Iranians, but to the future of the free world.
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, accompanied by two military supply ships, and two U.S. Coast Guard cutters, sailed together in the Arabian Sea today as aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 9 flew overhead. Peace through Strength! ⚓️ pic.twitter.com/xkiCk8qymB
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) February 6, 2026
🚨 HISTORIC MOMENT: IRAN REGIME ON THE BRINK
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) February 6, 2026
Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane just said the quiet part out loud.
Negotiating with Iran doesn’t bring peace — it keeps the regime alive.
Sanctions relief is a lifeline. Deals buy Tehran another decade to regroup, rearm, and… pic.twitter.com/aNp2tKjNvR
U.S. Embassy issues update on land border crossings out of Iran, recommends U.S. citizens "leave now."https://t.co/aVSEZeDFTg pic.twitter.com/UuppXe9dyn
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) February 6, 2026
Some obvious flaws in what is reportedly being offered by Iran as a nuclear deal:
— David Albright (@DAVIDHALBRIGHT1) February 6, 2026
1) Temporary, short term deal is not enough anymore; enrichment must end
2) Removing HEU stock is not enough; leaves 20 percent and less than 5 percent stocks (can still breakout)
3) Need a ban on…
This is 2015. @marcorubio was 💯 right. Saying this is Zionism & America promoting imperialism is spouting Islamic regime narratives. This was always the reality recorded here, exactly as he intended, for posterity and for us to take note and urgently act on in 2026 ⬇️ https://t.co/THKTwExYTc
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) February 6, 2026
Satellite images show Iran is rebuilding missile arsenal, nuclear sites - New York Times
Iran seems to have repaired some ballistic missile facilities damaged in strikes last year, according to satellite images, with only limited fixes to major nuclear sites, The New York Times reported on Friday.
The regime’s reconstruction provides insight into Iran’s priorities as talks of diplomatic appeasement conclude in Oman for the time being.
According to the report, if the US were to attack, Iran would likely retaliate with ballistic missiles towards Israel and US assets in the Middle East.
The Times reported construction work at more than half of the two dozen locations struck by the US or Israel during the 12-day war in June of last year. The analysis was corroborated by experts who closely track Iranian nuclear and missile programs,” said the report.
Some repairs occurred soon after the strikes, suggesting that the regime is making missile production a short-term priority, with Iran picking up the pace to recover from the June attacks over the last few months.
According to The Times, Western and Israeli officials have found few signs that Iran is making significant progress towards enriching nuclear fuel and building a nuclear warhead.
🚨 Rehabilitation of an Iranian missile site near Amad pic.twitter.com/QLNUbe11SA
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) February 6, 2026
So after being shut - we assumed never to re-open under this regime - we see the British embassy in Tehran has now RE-OPENED according to Hamish Falconer, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East. Why is Britain the only country in the free world STILL in… pic.twitter.com/PopD08fdty
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) February 6, 2026
Masih Alinejad: Letter to Mayor Mamdani
While mass killings are unfolding in Iran, you have chosen silence.
While women are being beaten, imprisoned, and killed for refusing compulsory hijab and the entire Islamic regime in Iran, you have offered no sympathy, no solidarity, not even a basic condemnation.
This silence matters.
As the newly elected Mayor of New York, you are now a guardian of this city’s moral symbols and the values they represent. One of those symbols stands in our harbor, bearing words the world recognizes as a promise:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Those words were written by Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus. They are not abstract to me. They describe my life.
I came to New York yearning to breathe free. Free from the violent oppression imposed on women by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In my country of birth, women are forced by law to wear the hijab. Refusal is punished with beatings, prison, torture, and death. Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered in 2022 for showing her hair. Thousands of women since have paid a similar price. Schoolgirls are poisoned.
In Iran, the Islamic Republic has carried out one of the largest massacres of civilians in its history. Protesters are shot in the streets. Detainees are raped and killed. Hospitals are raided.
That is why your celebration of World Hijab Day, lacking your sympathy for women being oppressed in Iran, is not a neutral cultural gesture. For millions of Iranian women, the hijab is not a choice. It is the uniform of their oppressors. Celebrating it while women are being slaughtered for rejecting it is, at best, deeply insensitive. At worst, it normalizes and sanitizes the violence of a terrorist regime.
Terrifying and terrible record of one atrocious night of death and fire and killing in Rasht.
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) February 6, 2026
One night one place in the one of the greatest one-event coldblood slaughter of innocent unarmed people anywhere in recent times @guardian @NiloofarMM #IranMassacre… https://t.co/rv9VbroWFK
🚨 Time has nearly run out for these young people at risk of execution. This is what we are losing at the hands of this regime if these “talks” in Oman are not concluded quickly. #IranMassacre pic.twitter.com/vXxHqCHI24
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) February 5, 2026
Please watch this video I just received from inside Iran, sent after limited internet access.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 6, 2026
In it, unarmed Iranians are pulling down Qasem Soleimani’s statue.
Then listen to the interviews below.
Seven years ago, after president @realDonaldTrump removed Qasem Soleimani, I was… https://t.co/PWDu53KrS7 pic.twitter.com/6TabOyLYD1
A large fire broke out in the Army Joint Staff building in Tehran tonight
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 6, 2026
pic.twitter.com/dVGzY62L3k
One of multiple fires at an industrial complex in Iran used to store corpses.
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) February 6, 2026
According to sources, the Regime is now covering up its crimes against humanity by burning the bodies of murdered protesters.
90,000 protesters have been killed to date.
pic.twitter.com/Z5pkdd0Caa
From Olympic glory to armed enforcer of Islamic Republic tyranny.
— The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 (@prznsoccer) February 5, 2026
Masoud Khosravinejad once represented Iran as a judoka in the men’s half-heavyweight category at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Today, photos show him in regime camouflage with an assault rifle, deployed on the… pic.twitter.com/m60M53OB1a
https://t.co/hQ5aK3BMSa pic.twitter.com/gwdCzuT4Rf
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 6, 2026
No Shame: 🇿🇦 South Africa's Minister for Women today celebrates the Islamic Regime in Iran that assaults women who stand up for their rights and which just slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranian people in two days. https://t.co/IYJZ3r7r2w
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 6, 2026
.@gbsumudflotilla Could you spare any of your 100 medical boats to go help the people in Iran? https://t.co/VC0TJK9ICT
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 6, 2026
When NIAC says “cite our actual work,” let’s do exactly that:
— Lawdan Bazargan (@LawdanBazargan) February 6, 2026
1.Parsi v. Daioleslam (U.S. Court of Appeals, 2015) – A federal judge sanctioned NIAC for withholding and altering documents, misleading the court, and abusing the judicial process. Internal emails obtained in… https://t.co/2uH6ib6bmv
Hasan's moral bankruptcy is betrayed by the circular logic:
— Stephan Jensen (@StephanAJensen) February 5, 2026
The Iranian protestors are accused of being islamophobic precisely because they protest against their islamist government.
The fact that this government is literally killing them is treated like an irrelevant detail. https://t.co/qCYoMmzVbd
IDF says it hit Hamas arms depot after issuing evacuation warning for Gaza City building
The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a Hamas arms depot in Gaza City on Friday in response to an attack on troops a day earlier, after issuing an evacuation warning for a residential building for the first time since the start of the ceasefire.
Gunmen attacked troops in the Strip’s north on Thursday, in an incident described by the IDF as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. No soldiers were wounded.
The IDF said Friday that an overnight strike on a Hamas weapon production site in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis was also in response to the attack on troops.
There were no reports of injuries in either of the strikes.
“As part of the strikes, the IDF targeted a site used by the Hamas terror organization for weapons production and a weapons storage facility belonging to the organization,” the military said.
The IDF carried out the strikes, reportedly on a three-story residential building, an hour after it warned it would strike “Hamas terror infrastructure” at the location.
Zeitoun was cleared at least eight times by the IDF during the war. It is a symbol of how not removing Hamas and having an alternative government leads to endless cycles like this. https://t.co/9OTIIrveaE
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) February 6, 2026
Footage published by Palestinian media shows the moment of the Israeli airstrike against a building the IDF said contained "Hamas terror infrastructure" in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. https://t.co/aiFcfxMrAU pic.twitter.com/BdzN6m4wOO
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 6, 2026
A Hamas weapon production site and an arms depot were targeted in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in response to an attack on troops yesterday, the military says.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 6, 2026
One of the sites was struck in southern Gaza's Khan Younis overnight, and the second site, in Gaza City's… pic.twitter.com/LU35Xf4QQJ
Palestinians handed life sentences for deadly 2007, 2021 West Bank terror attacks
An Israeli military court on Thursday sentenced two Palestinians to life in prison for separate terror attacks they carried out in the West Bank in 2007 and 2021.IDF arrests 60 and seizes weapons in West Bank raids
The first attacker, Ali Dandis, who was arrested in December 2024, carried out a shooting at the Nahal Telem stream in the West Bank in December 2007, in which two off-duty soldiers — Staff Sgt. David Rubin and Cpl. Ahikam Amihai — were killed.
Dandis was handed two life sentences for the 2007 attack and ordered to pay NIS 5.2 million ($1.6 million) in compensation to the families of the soldiers.
The Samaria Military Court also gave Dandis an additional life sentence for a separate shooting attack targeting a bus in the West Bank in 2012, which caused no injuries, at a time when he had temporarily left the custody of the Palestinian Authority.
According to an indictment filed last year, Dandis planned the Nahal Telem shooting attack with his friends Omar Taha and Basel al-Natsha.
On December 28, 2007, the trio arrived at Nahal Telem, a stream in the southern West Bank, in an attempt to locate and kill Israeli soldiers, the indictment said.
Dandis opened fire on Rubin, killing him, and moments later, Taha opened fire on Amihai, killing him as well. Al-Natsha, the third assailant, was killed by the soldiers returning fire.
The two surviving gunmen turned themselves in to Palestinian Authority security forces following the attack. In 2008, the PA sentenced them to 15 years in prison. Dandis, who was subsequently released from PA custody, was detained on December 26, 2024, in Bethlehem by members of the police’s elite Yamam unit.
The IDF carried out counterterrorism operations across the West Bank, arresting approximately 60 wanted individuals, seizing six firearms, ten airsoft weapons, and dozens of other weapons, the military confirmed on Friday.
These operations included arresting 15 wanted individuals, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who were involved in creating explosive devices, in the Menashe Regional Brigade area.
The military also seized M16 rifles, weapon parts, and other military equipment in the region.
Additionally, soldiers from the Etzion Regional Brigade carried out over 100 operations, destroying the house of a terrorist responsible for killing Shalev Zevoluni last July.
The military did not indicate a timeframe for when these operations occured.
IDF forces arrested around 60 wanted militants in Judea and Samaria, including Hamas and PIJ operatives linked to bomb-making. Dozens of weapons, including M16 rifles, were seized. pic.twitter.com/tzkSGFT4PO
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 6, 2026
Tikvah Podcast: Rod Dreher on the American Right's Anti-Semitism Problem
In November 2025, Rod Dreher published an essay in the Free Press, based on an earlier Substack post he'd written, about anti-Semitism on the American right. Dreher had just returned from Washington, where he'd spent several days speaking with young conservatives working in think tanks and in government. What he discovered was that a significant portion of young men on the right, perhaps as many as 30 or 40 percent, expressed sympathy for Nick Fuentes, the white-supremacist podcaster who denies the Holocaust and openly attacks Jewish institutions and Jewish people.JPost Editorial: People, not products: Ehud Barak’s 'quality control' aliyah comment is a moral failure
The trigger for Dreher's reporting was an interview of Fuentes in late October by another media personality, Tucker Carlson. Having watched that interview, Dreher witnessed what he called a Rubicon-crossing moment: the most influential conservative media figure in America giving a remarkably soft platform to someone who has praised Hitler and has made all manner of psychotic claims about the Jewish people. Dreher had considered Carlson a friend. That friendship ended when he called him out over the Fuentes interview.
Dreher's voice is particularly important because he speaks from deep within the world of American Christian conservatism. He is the author of The Benedict Option, a defining text for thinking about Christian cultural withdrawal, published in 2017. He has also written extensively about his own conversion to Orthodoxy, and has spent much of his career reporting on the institutional health of American Christianity. So when he sounds an alarm, as he does in this conversation with Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver, about anti-Semitism spreading among young Christian conservatives, Jews should listen.
The newest wave of disclosures tied to the so-called Epstein Files has left people stunned, sickened, and angry. The crimes associated with Jeffrey Epstein belong in the darkest category of public scandal, and every new detail tests the public’s tolerance for how long powerful circles looked the other way.Latest Epstein files release unleashes wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media
One line in the reporting also deserves serious attention, especially from an Israeli and Jewish perspective. The reports attribute remarks to Ehud Barak about immigration to Israel and the need to “control the quality” of olim (Jewish immigrants to Israel).
According to those reports, Barak told Epstein a little over a decade ago that Israel could absorb another million immigrants from Russian-speaking countries, and added that authorities should be more selective than during the mass aliyah of the 1990s, aiming for “quality” among new arrivals.
That wording carries a heavy charge. It treats human beings as a sorting exercise, and it invites the ugliest kind of shorthand about who counts as “good” and who arrives with a question mark over their head. Leaders can debate housing, jobs, infrastructure, and schools in plain terms. “Quality control” belongs to products, not people.
Israel’s immigration story also makes the language feel especially out of place. Israel was founded to be the national home and refuge for Jews, including Jews who arrive with trauma, poverty, imperfect Hebrew, unfamiliar degrees, or no degrees at all.
A bank account named for an ancient god in Israel. A “synagogue of Satan.” References to “goyim” that hint at a Jewish-run global cabal. The mystery of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged visit to China.
These are among the latest antisemitic conspiracy theories to be born from the Jeffrey Epstein files, following the document dump that has occupied online commentators for days.
Since the financial advisor and sex trafficker’s arrest by federal authorities in July 2019 and death by suicide a month later, antisemitic conspiracy theories about him have circulated widely, often invoking his Jewish identity and connections with Jewish and Israeli leaders.
But the Justice Department’s newly released batch of Epstein files on Friday, which contained over 3 million pages of documents, has taken things to a new intensity.
“If you think Epstein was just some rich pedo, you’re missing the big picture,” wrote the X/Twitter account Clandestine, which has more than 734,000 followers. “Epstein was part of the satanic global elite that pull the strings from the shadows. Epstein was a Deep State puppet master.”
Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite.
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) February 6, 2026
Stuck on his election loss from over two decades ago, Barak has for years obsessively attempted to undermine Israeli democracy by working with the…
Apparently Epstein personal hacker sold intelligence to Hezbollah
— Adin - عدین - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) February 6, 2026
Typical Mossad behavior pic.twitter.com/p2gKPmaIUv
Ah, but here is the catch, Peter. Former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is not in the Epstein files.
— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) February 6, 2026
This is a baseless conspiracy. Shamefully, it is one that was believed and spread further by Social Democrats TD (MP) Gary Gannon on his Instagram page. Gary has now deleted… https://t.co/WJLCitpezA
This conspiracy was debunked by Irish publication The Journal. However, as ZZ Flop says, The Journal didn’t include the fact that a current member of parliament helped spread it. https://t.co/qlv78U1OzI
— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) February 6, 2026
This post claiming that a “picture of Jeffrey Epstein” is real obviously uses an AI photo… because the Hebrew above “Tel Aviv” reads “Hor Lon.” But with 1.1M views, this monetized account is raking in ad revenue from @X for spreading an obvious fake. pic.twitter.com/GYsB7S7lv0
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) February 5, 2026
Go read the 20-point peace plan again. There is no "ceasefire." There is a conditions-based cessation of hostilities.
— Dr. Brian L. Cox (@BrianCox_RLTW) February 6, 2026
When your friends #Hamas comply with the conditions, you'll get your "ceasefire." When armed hostilities stop, incidental harm does as well.
⤵️⤵️⤵️#BlameHamas https://t.co/M9W4I2rNLy pic.twitter.com/7N9rR2uP7Q
Five. The answer is five Al Jazeera terrorists🧵 https://t.co/2MjtM3MW9V pic.twitter.com/PQzULPF5zF
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) February 6, 2026
Bongino stands up against antisemitic bullshit! https://t.co/ENH8dgTRKI
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) February 6, 2026
🚨 Pastor @DumisaniTemsgen BLASTS Republicans too AFRAID to call out Tucker Carlson’s LIES about Israel
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) February 6, 2026
They had NO problem condemning Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
But when it’s Tucker? SILENCE.
Cowards.
Full video: https://t.co/0yUY7OLcT4 pic.twitter.com/Qrr9XQdfAh
Mentions of just of 'ISRAEL' last year, June - August on Tucker's show...pic.twitter.com/8VyzIMXR6C
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) February 6, 2026
2/2
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) February 6, 2026
2023–2024, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.
ISIS-linked militants carried out beheadings and attacks on Christian civilians and burned churches during raids on Christian communities.
2023–2024, Sudan.
Churches were burned and Christian communities targeted during violence…
Perhaps the worst thing about Tucker isn’t even his views. It’s that — more often than not — he’s too much of a coward to state them outright.
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) February 6, 2026
Instead, he platforms people far dumber than he is to say what he won’t, while he nods along like a bobblehead pic.twitter.com/4krtdvFqSI
This is who Tucker Carlson is having on to discuss the latest Epstein Files dump. I'm shocked. pic.twitter.com/nMyvnkybkP
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) February 6, 2026
The always honest, and not deceptive or misleading at all, like at all, Tucker Carlson. pic.twitter.com/3rrrCJ4fI5
— Ami Kozak (@amiKozak) February 5, 2026
"NY is my home," says the Islamist who showed up 4 years ago at age 27 and started agitating for Palestinianism whose core mission is to deny Jews a home in Israel despite being there for many generations. https://t.co/XLlTzPSDUp
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) February 6, 2026
Syrian-born, Algerian-citizen Khalil who come to NY from Lebanon 4 years ago claiming to be Palestinian, says NY is his home.
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) February 6, 2026
Meanwhile, his claim to fame is militancy for a movement whose core claim is that Jews born/or who live in Israel for decades can't call Israel home.
Let's just say it: Antisemitism in the NHS has been imported from the Middle East, where it originally came from the Nazis. pic.twitter.com/fLOsoyag85
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) February 6, 2026
This is a friendly reminder that 4 months ago, two members of the Manchester Jewish community were murdered in a synagogue by a terrorist. https://t.co/dhicOfUPYP
— Elad Simchayoff (@Elad_Si) February 6, 2026
Is that right, Dick? @ShaiDavidai's name is a Hebrew name that means "gift," and Hebrew, as a language, comes from the Levant.
— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) February 5, 2026
This is among the dumbest posts that Dick has ever posted. https://t.co/kQbmvaB3a9
Imagine if the people who erected these flags knew (or cared) who Seán Rooney was.
— Phillip Smyth (@PhillipSmyth) February 6, 2026
See also: https://t.co/vW7c4OiGcl pic.twitter.com/LecmnWlsq2
Police launch criminal investigation into ‘Anti-Zionist’ group over social media post
West Midlands police have confirmed they have begun a criminal investigation with regard to a group calling itself the “Anti-Zionist Movement”, due to a social media message promoting the organisation’s launch event, due to take place on Sunday.Charity Commission investigating planned ‘Jewish supremacists’ host venue
The “Anti-Zionist Movement” publicised its launch event in Birmingham by describing itself as an organisation that is “unapologetically anti-Zionist, pro armed resistance, upholds the thawabet [and] campaigns against Jewish supremacy.” Another post referred to its support for “Zio eradication”.
The event is due to feature notorious ‘Jewish supremacy’ conspiracists, including sacked academic David Miller, who now produces a show for Iranian state television, and Rahmeh Aladwan, who had her medical licence suspended for 15 months in December while the General Medical Council undertakes a full investigation into her conduct. Aladwan was arrested last year on suspicion of ‘malicious communications’ and ‘inciting racial hatred.’
The event was due to be held at The Old Print Works in Birmingham, but the venue cancelled the booking earlier this week, saying that it would be unable to provide a “safe space” to participants. While it is believed that the event will still go ahead, the rearranged venue has not been made public.
A spokesperson for West Midlands police said: “We’re aware of an event which had been due to take place at a venue in Balsall Heath on Sunday. We are also aware that the venue has since announced that it will not be hosting the event.
The Charity Commission has opened a case into the charity that owns the Birmingham venue which was due to host ‘Jewish supremacist’ conspiracists this Sunday, with further evidence that last month the location hosted an event featuring a hate preacher who lauded the 7 October mass terror attack by Hamas.
Make It Sustainable Ltd is the charity which owns The Old Print Works in Balsall, which was due to host the launch event of the “Anti-Zionist Movement”, featuring individuals such as David Miller, who was sacked from the university of Bristol in 2021 and now produces a show for Iranian state television. Another individual due to speak was Rahmeh Aladwan, whose medical licence was suspended in December while the General Medical Council conducts a full investigation into her conduct. After significant outcry, the venue announced that it had cancelled the event because it could not provide a “safe space” for participants.
The Charity Commission has confirmed to Jewish News that it is now investigating the charity in question, with a spokesperson saying: “Following significant concerns raised about an event organised by a campaign group at a venue owned by the charity Make It Sustainable Ltd, we immediately opened a regulatory compliance case to thoroughly assess this matter and contacted the charity’s trustees for more information.
“In line with our policy on evidence of potential criminal activity, we reported our concerns to the police. While the charity has now cancelled the booking, we continue to engage with its trustees, which will include a review of its policies on external events and speakers.”
This nasty little event was cancelled from its last venue. Now they’ve secured another and are keeping it secret because they know it’s bad.
— Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) February 6, 2026
Disgusting people and shame on the new host for this hate. pic.twitter.com/nv9h4JBgbL
"Never again means never again for everyone." Casting Israel as a successor to the Nazis is for the lowest of the low. So of course the Green Party leader Zack Polanski did just this last year.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) February 6, 2026
By the way, is Hamas "anti-war"? Perhaps Zack could tell us. pic.twitter.com/IzQPirlQUS
This is the mother of Zoe Rogers (of Palestine Action). She's written a poem absolutely dripping with coded antisemitism. In it she describes how an Israeli company her daughter tried to shut down, is taking the food of poor Britons and feeding on the blood of innocents, immune… pic.twitter.com/uJ9dG1cnZN
— Yonatan יונתן #AdoptIHRA (@__jacker__) February 6, 2026
This is what this Palestine Action criminal posted on October 7. He planned to “stand with the Palestinian resistance” on the “second day of the Al-Aqsa Flood”. That’s the name Hamas gave to the attacks on Israel. Why was he not charged with a terror offence? pic.twitter.com/KAqNaOjDKD
— Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) February 6, 2026
He had to do community service for the 2021 attack on Elbit and it changed nothing. When will his next crime be? pic.twitter.com/wZPoCUEOW0
— Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) February 6, 2026
I just don’t see how a jury hears these admissions from the defendants themselves and acquits. Nuts. pic.twitter.com/nPCDGzsgvD
— Heidi Bachram (@HeidiBachram) February 5, 2026
Um https://t.co/Dx8Nw0hx8l pic.twitter.com/LlE1FmxRw3
— Kamel Amin Thaabet (@K_AminThaabet) February 5, 2026
Iran is Voldemort for the Pro Palis (DISGUSTING) pic.twitter.com/n7nCn5FztD
— Tal Oran (@travelingclatt) February 6, 2026
This emotional Super Bowl commercial will make you think twice about hate #endjewhatehate pic.twitter.com/JWgy7AfW0b
— Lyle Culpepper (@ShutupLyle) February 6, 2026
We all need to do our part to help turn New York into an Islamic state. pic.twitter.com/AxYWtmSYGc
— Lyle Culpepper (@ShutupLyle) February 6, 2026
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