ISRAEL (IINO)
No Evidence, No Explanation: Timing of This is Obvious by AFSI Staff
February 5, 2024 – Police have served a summons for a hearing before the imposition of an administrative restriction order to Yinon Levi, a husband, father, and farmer near the town of Michmas in the Binyamin region. The order comes from General Yehuda Fox, who is appointed over the IDF’s Central Command.
As part of the restrictions imposed on him, Yinon is forbidden to enter Judea and Samaria, including his house and farm, for four months, of which two have already passed. He is also forbidden to contact several dozen of his friends, has been dismissed from reserve service in the IDF, and his personal firearm confiscated at the direction of the Shin Bet, and against the advice of military officials in the area. The confiscation of his firearm has left the farm effectively defenseless.
A military source claimed that the orders are unconnected to the sanctions imposed by President Biden against four “settlers,” and added that the order had indeed been signed months ago, but that the responsibility for serving it lay with the police.
Just the other day, Bank Leumi notified Yinon, one of four Israelis who were targeted last week by US sanctions, that his accounts in Israel have been frozen.
The Israel Postal Bank has sequestered and closed the account of David Chai Chasdai, one of four Israelis who were targeted by US sanctions for claims of violence against Arabs in Judea and Samaria. The account is shared with Chasdai’s wife. “The fact that a government bank decides to sequester the accounts of settlers because of pressure from far-left organizations and the hostile American government is unfathomable, but the fact that it is happening under a right-wing government a moment after the worst massacre in history is a national embarrassment,” he stated.
Go ahead and make us believe this is unconnected to Biden’s recently signed executive order against Israeli “extremist settlers. We’ve seen this scenario before and it’s very obvious as to WHY this is happening now. This is clearly a theatrical performance to appease Biden. The fact that it’s taking place while a right-wing government is at war with terrorists is appalling.
[Ed.: They say ‘It’s hard to be a Jew’. This is especially true when you’re a Jew trying to live in the modern state of IINO.]
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🔻ROCKETS from Lebanon to near-border towns, 11 instances, multiple rockets per town – VERY HEAVY Hezbollah attack day.
▪️HEZBOLLAH (bad) DEAL.. US envoy Hochstein: Initial positive signs for the possibility of a political settlement in the north:
The American formula for settlement:
Phase I – Intermediate understandings:
• Withdrawal of Hezbollah forces about 8-12 km from the border
• Increased deployment of UNIFIL forces and the Lebanese army
• Returning the residents of the north
Phase B – Negotiations on the land border – Israel will be ready for compromises
According to reports, Israel has already agreed to the formula.
Hezbollah rejected this proposal when made by the French and the Germans, they also rejected the installation of any means of surveillance or monitoring of any deal.
( Will Hashem save us from bad political deals? )
Defense Minister: to American envoy Hochstein: “we prefer to solve the situation in the north in a political way but are prepared to solve it in another way as well.” (( repeating this weekly for 2 months doesn’t make the enemy believe it, quite the opposite ))
▪️HOSTAGE DEAL.. senior Hamas officials tell the Arab press that they will demand guarantees for the end of the war as a precondition for any deal.
Major argument in the cabinet meeting, where per leaks Ministers Barkat, Shikli and Gamliel expressed LOUD opposition to Hamas terms.
▪️HAMAS CHANGE OF STRATEGY.. The IDF has spotted a different method of operation of Hamas in south Gaza – they hide less in the tunnels, and more in the humanitarian shelters and population concentrations in the area – and from there they launch attacks.
The IDF takes a different method of action to catch the terrorists – surrounds the shelter, and evacuates the entire population from it – and thus identifies the terrorists hiding.
▪️ON US ATTACKS AGAINST SHIA MILITIAS.. Biden in a letter to the US House of Representatives “I instruct the military to take additional measures against Iran’s allies if necessary.”
▪️HOUTHIS PUBLISH ARMY MARCH TO ISRAEL.. this is the 3rd or so video of tens of thousands of soldiers who supposedly are going to march thousands of kilometers across the Saudi Arabian deserts and through Jordan to attack Israel. Note that neither country plans to allow this – just propaganda, where they all WALK, no trucks, no buses, walk.
Houthi General Abdul Ghani Al-Zubaidi to Al-Arabi Network: The developments in the Red Sea will be unprecedented in the coming days, and the US will lose the war. (( What’s crazy is not that they make such statements, but that they BELIEVE such statements from their post-truth world. ))
Houthis claim a U.S. F-35 was shot down, falling into Saudi territory. (( Seems highly unlikely. ))
Exclusive: US makes implicit threat to invoke Leahy Law over West Bank incidents By Ariel Kahana
The warning implies that should Israel fail to provide satisfactory answers, IDF forces serving in the West Bank will not get US-funded munitions.
02-04-2024 11:10 – The Biden administration has been pressing Israel to provide answers regarding a series of incidents in which, it claims, IDF units operating in Judea and Samaria violated the so-called “Leahy Law”, a set of legal amendments that restrict the funding of military aid to units over human rights concerns, Israel Hayom has exclusively learned.
The Leahy Law states that Pentagon-appropriated funds “may not be used for any training, equipment, or other assistance for a foreign security force unit if the Secretary of Defense has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.”
The warning implies that should Israel fail to provide satisfactory answers, IDF forces serving in the West Bank will not get US-funded munitions.
According to information obtained by Israel Hayom, the warning was conveyed to Israel over a month ago and is known to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
In order to deal with the claims, the International Law Department in the Military Advocate General’s office and other legal entities have been in contact with the US and are supposed to answer their questions regarding the incidents under discussion, with only two months left to send the response.
The Foreign Ministry confirms that “over the years, the ministry has cooperated with requests from the American administration in the context of the Leahy Law.” However, an Israeli official said that there was no knowledge of a concrete warning being issued.
A spokesperson from the US Embassy in Israel said the “Leahy vetting” was an effective foreign policy tool, which promotes respect for human rights by America’s security partners, and the accountability of security force units credibly implicated in gross violations of human rights. It further noted that the law’s requirements apply to all countries receiving relevant US assistance, including Israel, and the State Department provides assistance consistent with the law’s requirements.
Every Israeli security force unit proposed to receive relevant US assistance is subject to Leahy vetting as a matter of course. As provided for under the law, the State Department also has a process for assessing reports of potentially serious human rights violations by Israeli security forces, the spokesperson said.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that the Leahy Law requirements have been mentioned in the context of Israel. Senator Patrick Leahy himself tried, in the final stages of the Obama administration, to use the law to stop security assistance to certain IDF units over allegations of human rights violations.
Two weeks ago, the British Guardian published that the State Department was conducting an in-depth, extensive examination according to the Leahy Law requirements regarding IDF activities in the West Bank. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the IDF has also operated intensely in these areas, killing over 500 terrorists and arresting thousands of suspects in terror activities.
[Ed.: Fine! That’s a blessing in disguise, if there ever was one! The US is truly an enemy of ours, and it shows. Israel should just tell them to pack up their Consulate and Embassy and get out. Tell them that if they want to play hard-ball, Israel will no longer share intelligence (with an enemy) and declare American government personnel as personas non-grata. Israel does not need or want their ‘support’ with strings attached! The losers in the US administration have a lot more to lose than Israel does by an official termination of this so-called ‘friendship’! We should tell them that we will not share intelligence with them until an unless they return Trump to office!]
Hamas reasserts control of parts of Gaza after Israeli withdrawal Einav Halabi
Month after IDF withdrawal from key northern Gaza regions, terror group slowly returns, paying partial wages to public workers amid IDF bombings; IDF footage shows Hamas attacking civilians in Khan Younis, blocking their move to safety
February 3, 2024 – Hamas reasserts control of parts of Gaza after Israeli withdrawal
Month after IDF withdrawal from key northern Gaza regions, terror group slowly returns, paying partial wages to public workers amid IDF bombings; IDF footage shows Hamas attacking civilians in Khan Younis, blocking their move to safety
On November 11, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas had “effectively lost control over the northern Gaza Strip.”
On December 11, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant remarked that the organization was “on the verge of disintegration.”
However, nearly two months have passed, and Hamas has begun to resurface in areas where Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces a month ago, deploying police officers and making salary payments to some of its civil servants in Gaza City in recent days, four residents and a senior official in the terrorist group told the Associated Press on Saturday.
Four Gaza City residents told The Associated Press that in recent days, uniformed and plainclothes police officers deployed near police headquarters and other government offices, including near Al Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest. The residents said they saw the return of civil servants and subsequent Israeli airstrikes near the makeshift offices in the western and northwestern parts of Gaza City.
The return of police marks an attempt to reinstate order in the devastated city after Israel withdrew a significant number of troops from northern Gaza last month, a Hamas official told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The official said the group’s leaders had given directions to reestablish order in parts of the north where Israeli forces had withdrawn, including by helping prevent the looting of shops and houses abandoned by residents who heeded repeated Israeli evacuation orders and headed to southern Gaza.
Saeed Abdel-Bar, a resident of Gaza City, said a cousin received funds from a makeshift Hamas office that was set up to distribute $200 payouts to government employees, including police officers and municipal workers.
The partial salary payments for some government employees signal that Israel has not delivered a knockout blow to Hamas, even as Gallant has previously claimed that the IDF has killed more than 10,000 Hamas fighters.
Ahmed Abu Hadrous, a Gaza City resident, said Israeli warplanes struck the area where the makeshift office is located multiple times earlier this week, including Saturday.
[Ed.: Oh, NICE! They must’a snuck back in with all of those ‘innocent civilians’!]
IDF Central Command passes 3000 arrests Israel National News
IDF reservists have carried out thousands of operations in Judea and Samaria since the war began, arresting more terrorists than over the entire preceding year.
Feb 2, 2024, 3:17 PM (GMT+2) – Since the beginning of the war, the Central Command has adopted a more aggressive policy, which has led to the arrests of more than 3,000 suspects in slightly less than four months.
The policy includes daily operational activity in Judea and Samaria by various Israeli security forces, based on ISA intelligence.
The IDF notes that several senior members of Hamas, inciters, and supporters of terror were arrested at the beginning of the war, which is one of the reasons that Judea and Samaria have not yet experienced open hostilities. Additionally, many terrorists have been assassinated or arrested while planning attacks, with the decisive majority of the operations being carried out by reservist battalions operating in a professional, aggressive, and precise manner.
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A security source stated: “More than 3,000 arrests and thousands of aggressive operations have been carried out in the Central Command since the start of the war. We have surpassed the number of arrests carried out over the last year. When the war began, everyone with the slightest inclination towards terror was arrested and imprisoned. The number of terrorists arrested is one of the reasons that the situation here has not yet exploded. Reserve forces operating in our area have made an unprecedented operational achievement, but we still have considerable work ahead.”
Teen freed from Hamas: ‘We saw burned houses and bodies’ [VIDEO 2:13] Israel National News
Released hostage Hila Rotem Shoshani: ‘Truthfully I thought the whole kibbutz was either taken hostage or killed.’
Feb 3, 2024, 9:08 PM (GMT+2) – Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13, who was held captive by Hamas for 50 days, gave a video testimony recalling her experience in Gaza.
Hila was taken hostage by Hamas with her mother Raaya and her friend Emily Hand.
The testimony was screened at Saturday evening’s rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages.
“The lives of the hostages are in danger every moment,” she said in her testimony. “There is no food, no water, and no daylight. In the end, there will be no one left to save from there.”
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Hila recalled, “Me, Emily, and my mom woke up at 6 in the morning and ran to the safe room when there were missiles and sirens. We heard Arabic talking and then the terrorists opened the door and came in with guns and knives. They took us to the fence, put us in the car and we started driving. We saw burned houses and bodies, and didn’t see a single soldier. Truthfully I thought the whole kibbutz was either taken hostage or killed.”
“I was lucky to have Emily, we spoke a little in whispers. But there was no food and no water, and we were in the dark without daylight. If we spoke loudly they would take us from the room we were in as punishment. Yes, alone, they took me from everyone. There are a lot of fears”.
Hila ended with a message to the world: “It’s terrible that the lives of the hostages are in danger every moment there. In the end, there will be no one left to save from there. We need to return everyone quickly.”
Footage shows Hamas beating civilians waiting for aid Israel National News
IDF spokesman reveals footage from Khan Yunis showing Hamas terrorists beating Gazan civilians waiting in line for aid, preventing them from evacuating to humanitarian zone.
Feb 3, 2024, 9:07 PM (GMT+2) – IDF spokesman has revealed footage from Khan Yunis, showing Hamas terrorists beating Gazan civilians waiting for aid and preventing them from evacuating to the humanitarian zone.
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1,500 wounded soldiers evacuated: Footage of a special unit’s operations in Gaza [VIDEO] Israel National News
IDF’s Operational Mobility School conducts hundreds of evacuations of wounded soldiers in Gaza.
Feb 3, 2024, 6:17 PM (GMT+2) – IDF soldiers in both mandatory and reserve service in the Operational Mobility School (BALNAM) have been operating since the beginning of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
The soldiers carry out complicated missions while under fire, deep inside enemy territory.
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They mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers to and from the Gaza Strip and are in continuous contact with both the forces in the field of battle and the medical units in Israel. Thus, the unit connects the inside of the Gaza Strip to the territory of Israel.
In over 1,500 operations, the soldiers of the Operational Mobility School evacuated many wounded soldiers.
The swift evacuation has saved the lives of many of these soldiers, the IDF noted.
