As the IDF interrogated Hamas captives from Gaza, Israel learned how the United Nations agency in charge of Gaza has colluded with Hamas to build and hide server communications equipment, in attempts to keep the IDF from ever discovering it. From Feb 2024:
“…The revelation of the server farm comes amid other accusations of UNRWA collusion with the Gaza-ruling terror group and the entanglement of the UN body that provides welfare and humanitarian services for Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars and their descendants…”
In 2014, ISIS captured this Yazidi woman at age 11 and sold her to a Gazan for marriage. Now, ten years later, a Jewish philanthropist worked with the US Embassy and the IDF to rescue her from Gaza and return her to her family in Iraq:
“The military said the incident provided further proof of the ‘connection between the Hamas terror group and the Islamic State and further evidence of the crimes against humanity that the murderous terror group was carrying out in Gaza.’” [Times of Israel]
Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces.
For years, she was held captive by a Palestinian Hamas-ISIS member.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
Times of Israel, retrieved on 2 Oct 2024.
After the security services in Nablus opened fire on him.. The wanted man Abdul Hakim Shaheen: "I rejected all the extradition offers they made, and this gun will continue to fire at the occupation pic.twitter.com/NNJxqgebLI
🚀 After 8,000 missiles that Hez has fired at Israeli civilians–although Israel did nothing to harm Hez or Lebanon–now–after nearly 12 months of illegal attacks, suddenly now when Israel has exhausted all diplomatic efforts and begins to attack the Hez and Hamas leaders – and not the civilians of Lebanon – this is when the Biden/Kamala administration wants a ceasefire.
Let them target Israeli civilians, let Israel do defense operations, no ceasefire demanded. Israel never responded in kind by targeting Lebanese civilians. But the minute Israel says enough, and targets the Hez and Hamas leadership, then the Democrat party – in power in the USA – calls for ceasefire.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
The USA prevented Israel from engaging Hezbollah in the North, and also demanded that Israel delay or cancel the ground op in Rafah, Gaza.
All that pressure on Israel – where was the pressure on Hez or Hamas?
Pray for the leaders of nations that they would follow YAH’s will.
In 2013, Iran tricked the West into believing that the regime had reformed. This led to relief from economic sanctions and a nuclear deal that allows Iran to achieve nuclear weapons within one generation. Iran did not actually reform, though. That much ought to be clear.
“Charm Offensive,” by Editors; Jerusalem Post, 26 Sept 2024, pg 9.
Israel’s Prime Minister warned the world about all this in 2013, and the West in large part, under Obama & Biden’s leadership, did not listen.
What will be the situation this time? Let’s pray for the nations to have wisdom.
Hezbollah launched missiles at Tel Aviv and Central Israel. Oh so now you want diplomacy? Hezbollah fired missiles at civilians for 11 months and the world was silent, never asking for diplomacy; never noticing that Israel has done nothing to hurt Lebanon; the world never attempted to ask Lebanon or Hezbollah what is their problem with Israel, and how does Lebanon and Syria justify firing missiles at Israelis for 11 months when Israel has not hurt Lebanon at all.
Now all of a sudden when Israel finally decides to make efforts to make Hezbollah stop, suddenly the world demands diplomatic verbal discussions after eleven months of silence while Hezbollah launched missiles at Israelis, and twenty years of building cruise missile launch pads into southern Lebanese homes.
Lebanese homes with cruise missiles launching from the attic.
This is why Netanyahu spoke on behalf of Israelis, telling the Lebanese people to get away from Hezbollah weapons.
Netanyahu’s safety advice did not include any condemnation of Lebanese civilians for allowing Hezbollah to install cruise missile launchpads in their homes; he did however make the case that those missiles are pointed at Israeli civilians, and the situation cannot continue any longer. Israelis care for all lives – that’s why they send warnings.
The IDF releases footage of an airstrike against a home in Lebanon where Hezbollah had stored munitions.
Update: the number is now reported at around 2800 injuries and 9 deaths, but in the first moments afterward it was reported as around 1100.
1100 Hezbollah pagers suddenly explode in attack, resulting in injuries, no deaths.
The pagers had been delivered to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria by Iran, in an attempt to use low-tech to prevent Israel from cell phone tracking. Israel will not take responsibility, at least not at first.
Pray for safety: Israel defense has stated that right now, Israel is closer to all-out war with Hezbollah than at any time since Oct 7. Clearly, this seems like an attempt to discourage Hezbollah from escalating.
It must be so demoralizing: 2800 Hezbollah fighters are suddenly forced to rethink their decision to accept a job offer from Iran. I pray that they will realize that it’s better to take the path of peace.
2024-09-18 Further updates:
As reported, the beeper explosions started around 3:30 in the afternoon and continued for about one hour:
“Experts were mystified by the explosions but several who spoke to Reuters said they doubted the battery alone would have been enough to cause the blasts.” – ToI
“The Israeli concerns that led to the decision to conduct the attack were first reported by Al-Monitor, which said two Hezbollah operatives raised suspicions about the pagers in recent days.” -Axios
“The unidentified [Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] member says the pager belonging to the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon had beeped for a few seconds before he raised it. According to the outlet, the envoy has lost one eye and the blast severely injured his second.” -NYT, ToI
Look at all these nice neat rows of tents, made of white cloth to reflect the hot sun:
Times of Israel, as captured on 17 Sept 2024.
The IDF protects this area from the Arab armies in order to shield these Arab civilians. The IDF has moved these Arab civilians here because other areas were converted into military assets by the Arab army – rendering them unsafe for civilians.
When Arab militants violate international laws of war to set up missile launchers in civilian locations such as mosques, hospitals, and schools, and then they launch from there, expecting the civilian presence to shield them from counterattack (a second violation of law), the IDF evacuates the civilians before the counterattack. By law, the IDF is not required to do this: When the opponent violates the law by converting a civilian location into a military location, by law that location may legally be attacked as a legitimate military location. The militants by their action have converted the location. When that occurs, wise civilians will flee that area unless prevented from doing so. Foolish civilians will naively stay, either trusting in the good-heartedness of their opponents to not attack, or for the purpose of willingly laying down their lives in support of their own army.
Beyond all that, this again begs the question: What genocide? When the IDF establishes and protects civilian tent cities for its enemy – how does that accomplish any genocidal goals? Israel is not genocidal against anyone, not even against its most committed enemies.
