#BREAKING: Israel announces that the IDF and Shin Bet eliminated the head of a terrorist cell in Nablus, who together with members of his cell, planned to carry out an imminent, large-scale terror attack.
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) January 17, 2024
Amed Abdullah Abu-Shalal, the cell's commander, was eliminated during a… pic.twitter.com/u4nKus52NQ
⚠️WARNING: DISTURBING⚠️@CNN has obtained new footage from Nir Oz on October 7, of a Hamas terrorist sawing off the heads of his victims with a knife.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) January 17, 2024
We are fighting psychopaths. Don't look away. pic.twitter.com/gUG5OFbCDn
A video clip making the rounds in Hebrew media features Ofakim Mayor Yitzhak Danino revealing disturbing details of a conversation he had with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as the Oct. 7 attack unfolded, in which he pleaded for army helicopters to save the small southern city, which Gallant promised but were never sent.
Located 18 miles east of the Gaza Strip, Ofakim suffered more than 50 dead during the Hamas attack. The death toll would have been still worse but for the heroic actions of local residents, most armed only with handguns.
Danino describes in the undated speech how he realized what was happening by 7 a.m. and called Gallant, saying, “There are bands of terrorists going from house to house and murdering my residents and if a helicopter doesn’t arrive within a half hour they’ll slaughter the entire city.”
The mayor said there was silence on the other end for 20 to 30 seconds, which “seemed like an eternity,” before Gallant spoke. He said, “I’ll take care of it.”
“In those moments, I felt like I’d done something meaningful to save my residents,” Danino said, describing how even in that difficult situation he felt “elated” knowing help was on its way.
“I wait half an hour. I call him again. And I say to him, “Mr. Minister, I don’t hear helicopters. I don’t hear rescue forces. And he says to me, ‘I’ll take care of it,’” Danino related.
“The first soldier to arrive at Ofakim was at 2 in the afternoon,” he said.
Danino had spoken about the conversation before, relating the story to Radio Darom on Oct. 26.
Danino told the Israeli station that he first called then-Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who promised to reach out to the National Security Council, but Danino realized that wasn’t the answer, and then it hit him he should call Gallant.
The only help for Ofakim came from its residents, who rushed out of their homes to defend the city “spontaneously” and on their own initiative against the terrorists. They “saved hundreds of residents” that day, the mayor said.
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In a macabre description of the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, a bereaved father recounted on Israel’s channel 14 how terrorists had killed and then decapitated his 19-year-old son Adir, a soldier in the Golani brigade. The terrorists left the headless body in the base and returned to the Gaza strip with his head, which they then tried to sell for $10000.
“It is barbaric beyond comprehension,” the father, David Tahar, said in the interview. I received a body without a head.” Adir was partially buried a few days after his death.
“For two and a half months, I tried every avenue to found out where his head was. I insisted on seeing his body. I had lost trust in the army,” David said.
Towards the end of December, soldiers from a special forces unit received information from the Shin Bet, which had interviewed two captured terrorists, one of whom had tried to sell Adir’s head.
“A special unit was sent in with tanks to central Gaza,” David related. The head was eventually located in Palestine Square in Jabalya, in the refrigerator of an ice cream store.
“They managed to bring me what was left and we buried it with the help of the Army Rabbinate,” David concluded.
The family is now conducting a campaign to perpetuate Adir’s memory by establishing a center for at-risk youth. The campaign can be reached at: https://charidy.com/ezra23/bbq?utm_source=c_whatsapp
"Hamas terrorists beheaded my son and tried to sell his head in Gaza,” revealed David, the father of Adir Tahar, a victim of a brutal terrorist attack on October 7th. He detailed the horrific treatment of his son's body.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 17, 2024
"My son's death was incredibly difficult to come to terms… pic.twitter.com/NwG7hSrLcF
DIN: The dumb Blinken, he should have diverted that question knowing it was coming from an avowed antisemite, he should have replied. "We have International Laws, that state when one comes to kill you, you defend yourself , period."
Palestinian lives are as important as Jewish ones, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, when quizzed on the matter by veteran journalist Thomas Friedman.
“Do Jewish lives matter more than Palestinian and Muslim and Christian lives, given the incredible asymmetry in [civilian] casualties” in the Gaza war, Friedman said.
Blinken quickly replied: “No.”
He then expanded on the answer, stressing that “for me and for so many of us, what we are seeing every single day in Gaza is gut-wrenching. The suffering we are seeing among innocent men and children breaks my heart. The question is, what is to be done.”
While for most Israelis, Oct. 7 was a wake-up call to the dangers of a “Palestinian” state (a Jan. 10 poll found 74% opposed to the idea), within weeks of the massacre a New Israel Fund (NIF)-supported think tank started working to shape Israeli policy for the “day after.”
In their vision, the “day after” means a two-state solution in which the Palestinian Authority would become the government of the new country
Mitvim (its full title is The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies) partnered in October with the Berl Katznelson Foundation, another NIF-funded organization, to form a working group composed of “Israel-Palestinian experts from various disciplines, research institutes, academia and civil society organizations.”
Among those apparently hoping to see Israel’s demise, oddly, is the Kingdom of Jordan, Israel’s neighbor to the east with whom the Jewish State has “enjoyed” icy but quiet relations under a peace treaty signed by both on October 26, 1994.
Despite that peace treaty, Mohannad Al-Mubaideen, a spokesperson for the Jordanian government, has told Arabi 21 that “Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh’s speech before the House of Representatives was clear, which is that Jordan will submit the necessary legal investigations and pleadings as soon as the International Court of Justice decides to consider the genocide case.”
Jordan, Turkey, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Djibouti, the Muslim member states of the Organization of Islamic Countries, and the Arab League, all expressed their support for South Africa in its effort to rescue Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization from contending with the consequences of its October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel and its massacre that day of more than 1,200 people in some 22 Israeli villages and several other military bases along the Israel-Gaza border.
Germany has announced its decision to intervene in the Court on Israel’s behalf, which will require Berlin to file a “declaration of intervention” with the Court in order to present its legal arguments. The European nation is adding its voice to those of the United States, Guatemala, Canada and the United Kingdom, all of whom have also publicly declared their support for the Jewish State.
“Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, killed and kidnapped innocent people in Israel,” German government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement. “Since then, Israel has been defending itself against the inhumane attack by Hamas.”
From the outset, both the United States and Canada slammed South Africa for its attempt to paint the victim as the aggressor: both have said its case against Israel is “baseless.”
The Court ended its first two days of hearings on Friday, with ICJ President Joan E. Donoghue announcing the Court will rule on South Africa’s request for urgent measures — the demand for Israel to immediately halt the military operations against Hamas aimed at eliminating the existential threat to Israelis posed by the terrorists — “as soon as possible.”
A network of public interest groups and lawmakers, nervous about former President Trump’s potential return to power, is quietly devising plans to foil any effort on his part to pressure the U.S. military to carry out his political agenda. https://t.co/jLbRqC2riT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 14, 2024
