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Defense Minister calls to strengthen Palestinian Authority Israel National News
Minister Yoav Gallant’s remarks during a situational assessment at the Judea and Samaria Division sparked heavy criticism among his fellow benchmates.
Jan 14, 2024, 9:03 PM (GMT+2) – Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Sunday held a situational assessment at the Judea and Samaria Division together with Central Command Commanding Officer Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, Division Commander Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolef, and the regional brigade commanders.
He was briefed on the forces’ intensive activities against terror centers in the refugee camps, and the operational efforts to protect roads and communities.
Gallant praised the brigade commanders for their precise work to eliminate terrorists without harming civilians and emphasized that the security forces would be given all needed resources to eliminate terror in Judea and Samaria.
The Defense Minister stated following the assessment: “The activity in the region is very impressive, and the results speak for themselves. This shows two things: the amount of energy there is in the field to harm and the very high-quality work by the IDF and Shin Bet.”
According to him, at the moment, Israel must bolster the Palestinian Authority. “When it comes to Gaza there is a double effect, one is of inspiration, and the other is of anger. On this background, there are things that we must regulate and I hope that the government will accept the IDF and Shin Bet’s stance when it comes to laborers and funds. I say clearly: a strong Palestinian Authority is an Israeli security interest, no less.
“Hamas’s goal in Gaza is to ignite Judea and Samaria as well as the Temple Mount to get out of the IDF’s stranglehold, that’s the story, the IDF is choking them, they relied on the Iranians, they relied on Hezbollah, they relied on exhausting the Israeli public, they relied on a rift with the Americans, all that didn’t work for them. What do they have left? To try to move other things, what is the central thing? To try to do something that would ignite Judea and Samaria and that would ignite the Temple Mount. And on this matter I repeat, your obligation is to prepare for war, to be ready, to collect all relevant intelligence, and to get ready,” Gallant claimed.
He added, “On the other hand, it is our duty as an establishment to relieve the pressure. Relieving this pressure requires us to accept the recommendations provided by the IDF, regardless of one’s worldview. Our priority now is to win in Gaza, while defending Judea and Samaria and the northern arena.”
As for the local communities the Minister stated that] the number of violent incidents is decreasing significantly. “The involvement of the communities in this issue is only partial. This does not characterize the communities of Judea and Samaria.”
Gallant concluded: “We have decided that we will defeat Hamas – we will not stop until we dismantle the capabilities of this organization, all over Gaza. We have declared war on Hamas in Judea and Samaria, in Lebanon – wherever it may be necessary.”
The Defense Minister’s call to strengthen the Palestinian Authority was met with fury from his fellow cabinet members.
Economy Minister Nir Barkat criticized: “Minister Gallant lives in the misconception from October 6th. It is sad that Gallant still thinks that giving money to the Palestinians will by us quiet from terrorism. It’s as if nothing happened on the Black Saturday (October 7th)
“It is not the Israeli government’s job to make sure the Palestinian laborers have work. The Israeli economy needs the hands of workers from peaceful nations and not Palestinian laborers who threaten the Israeli public’s security. What was won’t be.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir commented: “The time has come that the Defense Minister stops dreaming that letting in workers who are full of hate towards Jews into Israel and that a strong terror funding chain is Israeli interests. The Defense Minister should be busy defeating Israel’s enemies, not strengthening them.”
[Ed.: When the guy in charge of your defense proposes to strengthen the enemy, you are doomed.]
17 injured in ramming attack in Raanana Israel National News
17 individuals were injured, three are in serious condition. At least Four of the wounded are children and teens.
Jan 15, 2024, 2:00 PM (GMT+2) – 17 individuals, including at least four children and teens, were injured after a vehicle plowed into them on Monday in two separate locations in Raanana in central Israel.
MDA reported that a 70-year-old woman is in critical condition, two males, aged 34 and 16, are in serious condition with head and limb trauma, eight are in moderate condition, and three are in light condition. All victims were evacuated to Beilinson and Meir hospitals.
An initial investigation found that the terrorist, a Hebron resident in his 40s, commandeered a car after he broke into it and stabbed the driver in her upper body. From there he drove and began running over pedestrians.
At one point, the terrorist hit a security barrier and was unable to start the vehicle. He then left the vehicle and commandeered an additional car, continued driving to Weitzmann Street, where he ran over additional victims and fled the scene. It is unsure at the moment if the terrorist was neutralized.
After that, a report came in of a woman who suffered stab wounds.
It is unclear if the terrorist who perpetrated the ramming was the same one who carried out the stabbing.
The police ask residents to be vigilant and follow the officers’ directions. Raanana Mayor Chaim Broyde asked residents to remain in their homes.
‘We’re frustrated’: Terrorist is treated by IDF, released back into Gaza Ohevya Sharabi
Terrorist exiting tunnel shaft receives medical treatment from IDF, is released back into Gaza, source serving in military capacity in Gaza tells Arutz Sheva – Israel National News.
Jan 14, 2024, 10:40 PM (GMT+2) – A source serving in a medical capacity in Gaza told Arutz Sheva – Israel National News about an incident during which a terrorist who had been neutralized was sent back into Gaza, without being taken for interrogation in Israel
According to the source’s report, two Hamas terrorists exited a tunnel during an operation, and attempted to harm IDF soldiers. They were neutralized by the soldiers at the scene: One of the terrorists was critically injured and died of his wounds, and the second suffered light injuries.
The source, who was at the scene, said that the terrorist who survived the incident was brought to a military clinic at the Gaza border, but a short while later was transferred, by order of the commanders in the field, back into Gaza, instead of being transferred to Israeli sources to be interrogated and charged.
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“Last night they brought us terrorists who attempted to harm IDF soldiers,” the source told Arutz Sheva – Israel National News. “They brought them to us in order to receive medical treatment. One of the terrorists was declared dead since his injury was very serious, and the second, who was lightly injured, was treated at the scene. And after we turned to sources in the military to take the terrorist who was lightly injured for interrogation, we were told that they had nothing to do with him and that he should be released to Gaza.”
“We felt frustrated that a terrorist who came out to fire at our soldiers received medical treatment, and afterwards was released back into Gaza. And it could be that after he was released back into the Strip, we will meet him again, threatening our forces and involved in terror activities.”
[Ed.: We have to get rid of the left-wing kumbaya-oriented military leadership! They cannot step on a line in the sidewalk, and will not win the war! Their continued ‘leadership’ will lead to the immanent demise of Israel.]
How much Hamas Spent on Gaza Terror Tunnels By Pesach Benson, TPS
Hamas diverts millions intended for Gaza Strip to build underground terror infrastructure, IDF finds.
Money down the hole
Jan 14, 2024 – Hamas spent tens of millions of dollars, which was intended for the Gaza Strip, building underground terrorist infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday evening, citing intelligence findings.
Hamas “opted to invest precious resources in building terrorist infrastructure used to harm Israeli civilians and IDF forces, while cynically exploiting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” the military statement said.
An analysis of tunnel shafts discovered since the start of Israel’s ground operation in the coastal enclave last year shows that Hamas diverted at least 6,000 tons of concrete and 1,800 tons of metal to build “hundreds of kilometers” of underground infrastructure, added the statement.
The IDF’s search for terror tunnels is aided by a trove of intelligence seized by soldiers, including 65 million digital files and half a million physical documents.
In some tunnels, soldiers found large sacks belonging to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The sacks were filled with sand, possibly intended to stabilize tunnels before concrete layers were added.
Earlier on Thursday, the IDF said it expanded its operations in the southern Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in the past 24 hours, exposing a vast tunnel network used by the terrorist group to hold hostages.
“The tunnel was connected to an extensive underground tunnel network beneath a civilian area in the city,” the army said. “Millions of shekels are estimated to have been invested in excavating the tunnel and equipping it with air ventilation systems, electrical supply and plumbing.”
Following an investigation, the IDF confirmed that some Israeli hostages had been held captive in the tunnel. They were held in cages, some 60 feet underground, per a CNN report that cited Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, commander of the IDF’s 98th Division.
WATCH: An In-Depth Look at the Tunnels Where Hostages Were Held
Jan 14, 2024 – As the footage rolls on, the immense size, depth, and intricacy of Hamas’s tunnels are staggering. This tunnel system where hostages were held is nearly 60 feet underground.
Lights, ventilation pipes, and running water show the dedication Hamas has to destroy Israel. Tons of cement were used to construct them, with millions of dollars funneled into the project, creating the hardest setting of urban warfare ever seen.
With no connection to the outside world, the hostages were kept in complete isolation, not knowing what to expect. It’s been 100 days since the hostages were taken.
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There are no ‘innocent’ Palestinians in Gaza Jonathan Pollard
57% of Gazans support Hamas, 71% have a favorable opinion of Islamic Jihad. Clearly, there are no “innocent” Palestinians in Gaza. Oped.
Oct 19, 2023, 9:39 PM (GMT+3) – As I listened to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and President Joe Biden drone on about the need for us to allow an unmonitored humanitarian aid corridor to be created for the displaced Palestinians of Gaza, I was reviewing a recent poll of Gazans issued by the Israel Advocacy Movement. The results of the poll indicated that 57% of Gazans supported Hamas, while 71% had a favorable opinion of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. These numbers were then compared unfavorably to the 44% of Germans who voted for the Nazis. Clearly, there are no “innocent” Palestinians in Gaza.
Why the international media has taken up the cause, once again, of these murderous people is not hard to understand. After all, most of the press enjoys disseminating the false impression of Israelis as wicked colonial oppressors, which is an antisemitic narrative echoed on virtually every college campus around the world. But what could be the reason for our ostensible allies, the Americans, to forget that both our countries have legally defined Hamas, in particular, as a terrorist organization and that all this unchecked humanitarian aid is most likely going to flow directly into their hands to do with as they see fit. Are the Americans really so dense that they actually believe a distinction can be drawn between a terrorist organization and its supporters? Apparently, they can’t or won’t.
We have to remember that we are currently engaged in an existential struggle for survival with Hamas. Indeed, after what their blood-crazed zombies did to our people in the south, no one should be laboring under any illusion as to what their intentions are towards us. They are totally committed to carrying out a genocide of our people. And this is a goal that their ostensibly “innocent” civilian supporters thoroughly endorse. Just watching thousands of them rejoicing at the news of our slaughtered fellow countrymen on October 7 should dispel any doubt about their wholehearted support of our extinction. Indeed, once our security barrier had been breached, a horde of them poured across the border, pillaging our frontier communities and actively participating in the slaughter of our men, women, and children. Without a doubt, these Palestinians were not acting as “innocent” civilians. Rather, they were eagerly performing the role of Hamas auxiliaries, just as eagerly as Ukrainian and Baltic civilians assisted the Nazi Einsatzgruppen exterminators of our people in Eastern Europe during the Churban. But this similarity of the Gazan “civilians” with their European predecessors is apparently lost on Blinken and Biden, who feel that they’re somehow worthy of our compassion and humanitarian aid rather than a prison cell- or worse!
Does anybody really have a doubt as to what these “innocent” Palestinian civilians would have done had Hamas managed to overrun Ashkelon? Does anyone question that they would have helped Hamas slaughter and dismember our babies in their cribs and engage in an orgy of rape? However, according to the Biden Administration, we are supposed to overlook this probable outcome and treat these Palestinian “civilians” as innocent victims of Hamas intimidation and brainwashing.
During the Second World War, the Allies understood that there could be no distinction drawn between a murderous aggressor regime and its willing civilian enablers. That is why both the RAF’s area bombing raids against Nazi Germany and the 2Oth Air Force’s comparable firebombing campaign against Imperial Japan’s cities went largely unopposed by the citizens of Great Britain and the United States. This didn’t mean that there was a desire to massacre German or Japanese civilians in cold blood. Rather, it was felt that by dehousing Nazi Germany’s industrial workers and destroying Imperial Japan’s largely urban-based military industrial workshops, such aerial operations would bring the war closer to an end.
Likewise, we in Israel have finally realized that if Hamas chooses to embed their fighting forces amidst their civilian auxiliaries, the latter should not expect to be accorded any degree of compassion or consideration. Whether willingly or not, Gaza’s civilians are either voluntary human shields or simply unavoidable casualties of war. To be sure, we are not purposely killing them. On the contrary! We have gone to the trouble of warning Gazans living in the northern part of the Strip to leave before our anticipated ground invasion occurs. If they are without food, housing, or medicine as they assemble in the southern part of Gaza, it is not up to us to facilitate the provision of so-called humanitarian aid to these terror-supporting individuals. Indeed, for us to do so would make about as much sense had the English in 1943 provided humanitarian aid to German industrial workers who had been blown out of their homes by the RAF.
And lest we forget, these particular Palestinians voted for Hamas by a very wide margin and have enthusiastically endorsed this organization’s desire to exterminate us “from the river to the sea” ever since. Now, it’s time for them to reap the consequences of their bestial hatred. Let the UN take care of them all in a camp based in Sinai, as Avigdor Lieberman has correctly suggested. And let Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken refrain from coercing us into taking care of Hamas’ civilian auxiliaries. We owe these Arab Nazis nothing but our contempt and indifference.
Houthis train to attack Israeli towns [Video] Israel National News
A new video by the Houthi faction in Yemen shows training to attack an Israeli town and take the residents hostage before demolishing the town with explosives.
Jan 13, 2024 – The Houthi faction in Yemen has published a video of a military exercise held in the Sa’ada region in northern Yemen which simulated the conquest of an Israeli town and the capture of hostages.
The exercise was part of a larger operation that has been dubbed, “Preparing for the Battle of Assured Victory and Holy Jihad.”
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In one of the buildings that served as the targets in the exercise, the militants fired at and stepped on a picture of Prime Minister Netanyahu, and destroyed US and Israeli flags. Other portions of the exercise included attacking Israeli targets from the air and ground, as well as taking over military positions.
The exercise comes against the backdrop of recent US airstrikes against the Houthis. According to American sources, the main target was a radar base near Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. The sources claim that Tomahawk cruise missiles were used, and that the strikes were a continuation of the attacks from January 12th.
[Ed.: Houthi militia totals 2,000 (+or-) men! It’s an Irani proxy group backed by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who are on the ground in Yemen directing them.]
Nadia Matar, Sovereignty Movement: ‘From the river to the sea, Israeli sovereignty’ [Video 7:02] Israel National News
The co-chair of the Sovereignty Movement says that there is only one way to victory: Full Israeli sovereignty over the Gaza Strip, and the emigration of Arabs from Gaza.
Jan 13, 2024, 10:47 PM (GMT+2) – Nadia Matar, co-chair of the Sovereignty Movement, spoke with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News from the Land and Nation Sovereignty Conference in Jerusalem. Matar called the entire event “a wake-up call” from Gaza.
“We are in an insane situation. We were attacked, fourteen hundred Israelis were murdered, and we went to war in Gaza, and now we hear from international parties that we need to drive out Hamas so that the Gaza Strip can be handed over to another terrorist group, the Palestinian Authority,” she said.
“We are here to say to them: ‘No way.’ We need full Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, renewed Jewish settlement in Gaza, and voluntary emigration of the Arabs from Gaza. The war, of course, is not only about Gaza, and so we are also here calling for full Israeli sovereignty over all of Israel, starting with the Jordan Valley.”
She said that her message is directed to the government of Israel as well: “We are also speaking to the government, calling on them not to give in to international pressure. There are plenty of other countries that have expelled hundreds of thousands of enemies, and no one has said ‘boo’ to them. We must be the same way, and say that the Gazans are the people of Hamas and should be expelled. Gaza is part of the land of Israel, and we are making our slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Israeli sovereignty.’”
She also presented a poll showing how widespread the call for Arab emigration has become: “74% of the population is against the creation of a Palestinian state. 76% are in favor of Arabs emigrating from Gaza. It has become a national consensus of right and left.”
“The Arabs want to leave as well – if they want to leave, it is immoral to keep them in the prison of Gaza. Why did the nations that welcomed Ukrainian refugees close their gates now? They want to keep the Gazans as Israel’s problem. We call on the government to send them out, and we will take care of Gaza, turning it into a more beautiful place than they ever could, with 300,000 Jews and huge cities in Gaza. We want the same for Judea and Samaria, starting with the Jordan Valley.”
“We also want, just maybe, to send a message to the Arabs. They do not care how many people we kill or houses we destroy, only about losing territory, especially territory that was never theirs in the first place. Victory will be when we return to the land we so foolishly abandoned in 2005, and apply sovereignty there and in Judea and Samaria, finally ending the Six Day War. Only then will the Arab states understand that there is no room for a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the sea – only Israeli sovereignty.”
Jonathan Pollard supports Mothers’ March Israel National News
Jonathan and Rivka Pollard meet with and encourage the director of the organization demanding an end to aid in Gaza.
Jan 14, 2024, 1:05 AM (GMT+2) – The director of the Mothers’ March organization, Sima Hasson, met with Jonathan Pollard and his wife Rivka, who expressed their support for the demand by the parents of soldiers and the Torat Lehima organization to reach a victory over Hamas.
Hasson, a mother to two soldiers, told the Pollards about the activities by the mothers of soldiers and their demand to end humanitarian aid to Gaza, which they claim reaches Hamas.
The Pollards expressed their appreciation for the activities and said: “Since the beginning of the second war for our national survival on October 7th, two groups of Israelis have shown unconditional loyalty to our state.”
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“One of these groups is our brave soldiers, who with their blood and faith have prevailed over our lack of leadership and our enemies. The second is the patriotic parents of these wonderous soldiers who demand complete victory over Hamas. These women have proven why, throughout history, it is our women who have show morality without parallel to the land and people of Israel.”
“When the question arises where our soldiers get their bravery, everyone knows the answer – they got it from their mothers.”
Hasson said after the meeting: “The touching statements from the Pollards have encouraged us and given us the strengthen to continue our fight to support our dear sons, the soldiers. We call for all the public to demand an end to humanitarian aid and to continue fighting to victory.”
