Hostages were forced to read the Quran

 The hostages who were freed from captivity during Saturday’s rescue operation in Nuseirat told the medical teams that they were emotionally abused while in captivity and that the terrorists forced them to read the Quran and learn Islamic rulings.

Channel 13 News reported that Noa Argamani told her family members that she was in captivity together with Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky, who were killed while in Hamas captivity.

Later, the IDF acknowledged that Sharabi was likely killed during an attack on a building near the place where he was held, and that Svirsky was murdered a few days later. Noa told her family, "I saw the missile enter the house, I was sure I was going to die. I thought that was it - but I remained alive."

Noa also said that throughout the period of her captivity, she was moved between several apartments, and was not kept in the underground tunnels. From time to time she went out to breathe fresh air, and did so while disguised as an Arab woman.

Noa was rescued on Saturday morning in the heroic operation of the IDF, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Yamam in the heart of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. She was held in an apartment on the first floor of a building in Nuseirat - hundreds of meters away from the building where the three other hostages who were rescued were held: Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov.

She told her family members that she heard loud knocks on the door on Saturday morning. "She told me that, out of nowhere, all of a sudden she was told that it was the IDF, 'we have come to rescue you,'" said her relative, Assaf Shahibi, who met her at Sheba Hospital, where the four rescued hostages were taken.

Sharon Sharabi, the brother of the late Yossi Sharabi who was with Noa in captivity and whose other brother Eli remains in captivity, told Ynet on Saturday night, "I feel enormous joy, I am so excited. This heroic operation lifted the nation, we were all grounded, we went through psychological ups and downs in the last few months.”

How Israel's daring hostage rescue mission unfolded: 'A surgical operation' Like Entebbe!

 

New details about Israel’s bold rescue of four hostages are coming to light with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) describing the daytime operation as a "high-risk, complex mission" that was "surgical" in its precision. 

The mission was planned for weeks using "precise intelligence" and took place at around 11 a.m. local time in the heart of Nuseirat in central Gaza, according to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari of the IDF.

Officers of the National Police special anti-terror unit of Yamam along with Shin Bet agents simultaneously raided two Hamas buildings to pluck the three male hostages and one female hostage to safety. The soldiers had been undergoing intense training for weeks in preparation for the rescue mission, Hagari said. 

Noa Argamani, 26, was rescued at one site, while Almog Meir Jan, 22, Shlomi Ziv, 41, and Andrey Kozlov, 27, were taken from the second location. Argamani has been one of the most widely recognized hostages since video of her abduction was among the first to surface. She can be seen in the video between two men on a motorcycle with one arm outstretched and the other held down as she screams "Don’t kill me!"

Dramatic aerial footage from this morning's rescue shows Meir Jan, Kozlov and Ziv running with Israeli forces to a waiting helicopter before the chopper takes off to bring them to safety. 

Chassidim in Bed Stuy say Lefists trying to force them out of neighborhood with landmarking designation

Rabbi Shaya Saks said the Orthodox Jews are “extremely hurt” by the landmarking effort.

I guess the Satmar argument of "Hisgaaris Be'Umois" (instigating the goyim) only applies to Israel, it doesn't apply when it affects Satmar itself. Bunch of hypocrites! 

A religious war is erupting in Brownstone Brooklyn.

An historic enclave in Bedford-Stuyvesant is being considered for landmarking — and some Orthodox Jews living there say it’s part of a hateful scheme led by antisemites and Councilman Chi Osse to push them out.

On May 21, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to add two blocks, Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Nostrand and Marcy avenues, to the calendar for consideration as a new historic district.

Landmark status severely limits owners’ abilities to renovate or expand their homes.

Large Orthodox families often need to expand their houses, Jewish homeowners explained, so limiting their ability to alter them will essentially force them to move or be unable to sell to other Orthodox families

“We need big houses,” Rabbi Shaya Saks, who owns a house on Hart Street, said recently while surrounded by a group of observant Jews on Willoughby Avenue. “We don’t have one or two children.”

“We feel that this is antisemitism because they are trying to stop us from moving in here,” said Hart Street homeowner Herman Bodek, an Orthodox Jew. “This will have us moving out.”

The roughly 50 Jewish owners on the leafy brownstone-lined blocks are speaking out after the commission’s decision to potentially create the so-called Willoughby-Hart Historic District.

The 100-plus homes in the enclave were built around 150 years ago and the area is unique for “the quality of its architecture, strong historic character and sense of place of its streetscapes,” as well as “its community history,” the commission said.

The commission said it received a letter of support for the designation from Osse, a far-left politician whose district includes Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, as well as pro-Israel Democrat state Assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman (D-Brooklyn) and state Sen. Jabari Brisport, a member of Democratic Socialists of America. Osse is a former member of DSA.

Osse and Brisport are perceived as anti-Israel. Brisport was one of the hosts of a rally last month for an Assembly bill cutting off funding to pro-Israel charities, according to Politico.

“Of course they won’t say, ‘No we don’t want Jews here,” Saks said. “They won’t say that, but they will use government agencies like LPC against us and that’s why we are extremely hurt.”

The Orthodox group’s attorney, Adam Leitman Bailey, said: “This is de facto discrimination against Jews. By landmarking this district these Orthodox Jews with extremely large families requiring multiple and extensive alterations will be forced to move.

“By introducing this and being a leader of this, Chi Osse is committing the worst antisemitic act since Oct. 7,” Bailey added.

Osse, who declined to comment, has posted pro-Palestine messages on his X account, like this one two days after Hamas’ horrific attack on innocent Israelis:

“Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and its dominion over the Gaza Strip, now 56 years old, are the primary root of the violence . . . The Palestinian movement for national liberation is legitimate. It is a movement I support and endorse.” He has also denounced acts of antisemitism on X.

Orthodox resident Peter Kohn, who lives on Hart Street, said some non-Jewish neighbors have been harassing them for the last few years by calling the Department of Buildings about legal construction, tearing down their meeting signs, dumping garbage on doorsteps, and shouting antisemitic remarks.

“They became good friends with the councilman who helped them push the LPC to expedite the process,” Kohn said. 

Michael Williams, 67, is a lifetime resident of Willoughby Street who favors landmark status for “one of the best blocks” in Bed-Stuy. He added, “If you look at all the tree lines and all the brownstones, it’s beautiful.”

Williams said if his neighbors need to expand their homes they should just “buy a bigger house.”

A few years ago landmark advocates lost a battle to preserve historic 441 Willoughby Ave., a 19th-century mansion that ended up being razed in 2022. The advocates seek to prevent further demolition in the area.

In a petition to the commission, which garnered 1,129 signatures, the Willoughby Nostrand Marcy Block Association said the two blocks are the only “remaining blocks of exclusively brownstones” and deserve protection.

The Orthodox group amassed 1,755 signatures in a rival petition, arguing “the landmarking of these blocks would significantly impede the community’s growth and compromise the integrity of the buildings.”

The commission will hold a public hearing on the matter June 11. If it goes through, Bailey said, “we will be in court the next day.”

DARING RESCUE! Inside one of the ‘most complicated hostage rescue missions in history’ that saved four captured Israelis

The four Israeli hostages saved from Hamas gained their freedom in one of the “most complicated hostage rescue missions in history,” officials said.

Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were saved during the “Summer Seeds” operation in Nuseirat, central Gaza, at 11 a.m. local time Saturday, IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced.

In the days leading up to the raid, the elite Yaman unit drilled various means of extraction, which military officials compared to the 1976 Entebbe raid in Uganda, the Times of Israel reported.

The military also launched an operation to the east of Nuseirat in an apparent effort to reduce Hamas’ manpower in the city, the outlet explained.

When the order was given Saturday morning, Yamam officers simultaneously entered the two structures in the city, where the four hostages were being held above ground in three- to four-story buildings, the Times of Israel reported.

The decision was made to enter the buildings – which were about 650 feet apart – at the same time in the hopes of avoiding the possibility of the Hamas guards murdering the hostages after catching wind of a rescue operation nearby.

The soldiers were reportedly armed with weapons specifically designed for the operation,  Israeli writer Hen Mazzig said on X.

Argamani was found on the first floor of one structure, while the three men were discovered on the third floor of another building, he added.

Hamas supposedly pays Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip to keep the hostages in their homes, the Times of Israel said, citing the IDF.

The rescue of Jan, Kozlov, and Ziv resulted in a “major gun battle,” during which Yamam officer Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora was critically wounded.

Zamora later died of his wounds, and the operation was formally renamed “Operation Arnon” in his honor.

The Hamas guards at the second scene were also killed in the exchange, the Times of Israel reported.

The vehicle carrying the three male hostages came under fire a short time later. 

Footage shared by the IDF showed the heart-stopping moment a helicopter swooped down and extracted the men from a temporary helipad.

All four hostages were transferred to the Tel Hashomer Hospital in central Israel, where they reunited with their loved ones.

Over 200 Palestinian civilians were killed and over 400 others wounded in the operation, according to the Hamas-linked officials in Gaza, CNN said.

Aside from Zamora, several other Israeli officers were also wounded, mostly light injuries from shrapnel.

“The difference between success and failure in such an operation is a hair’s breadth, and we relied on exceptional technology from the Intelligence and Shin Bet. Without ground activity and maneuvering in the Gazan area, it would not have been possible to succeed in such operations,” the IDF statement read.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the public later on Saturday, saying that the operation was “very complex and dangerous.”

“But I approved it without hesitation because I trust the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Israel Police, the fighting heroes of the Shin Bet and the National Counter-Terrorism Unit,” he insisted, according to Haaretz.

The White House also commended the Israel Defense Force’s “daring” rescue in a formal statement issued Saturday morning.

“The hostage release and ceasefire deal that is now on the table would secure the release of all the remaining hostages together with security assurances for Israel and relief for the innocent civilians in Gaza,” the write-up added.

Israeli commander fatally wounded in daring Gaza raid that brought four hostages home

The lone Israeli soldier killed in the daring raid to rescue four hostages in Gaza was a commander in the country’s élite Counter-Terrorism Unit, officials said.

Arnon Zamora’s unit played a pivotal role in the successful return of hostages Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andri Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv who were being held captive at the Nuseirat refugee camp.

“Behind every rescue mission, are Israeli men and women who risk their lives. We are devastated to share that Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, commander and tactical operator in the Yamam (National Police Counter-Terrorism Unit), who was critically wounded in the operation to rescue hostages this morning, has succumbed to his wounds,” Israeli’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Saturday on X, without providing more specifics.

Zamora lived in the village of Sde David, near the Israeli city of Sderot — less than 15 miles from the Gaza border.

He leaves behind a wife Michal, two children and his parents Reuven and Ruthi, Haaretz reported.

Zamora fought on Oct 7 at the Battle of Yad Mordechai, halting the advance of dozens of Hamas terrorists attempting to penetrate the country, officials said.

Other tributes to Zamora poured in Saturday.

““I salute Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, Commander in the elite Yamam Unit, who fell while leading a daring operation to rescue 4 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. He lived and fell a hero,” Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement on X.

 
 

Watch footage from inside the helicopter in which Noa Argamani was rescued

 

Four hostages rescued from Gaza, A knock on the door: 'It's the IDF, we came to rescue you'

 

On Saturday morning, in a joint IDF, ISA and Israel Police (Yamam) complex, special, daytime operation in Nuseirat, four Israeli hostages were rescued.

Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization from the 'Nova' music festival on October 7th.

The hostages were rescued by the IDF, ISA and Yamam counterterrorism forces from two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat.

During the battle, Arnon Zamora, the Yamam (counterterrorism) officer who led the rescuing force was injured. He later died of his wounds.

They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the Sheba Tel-Hashomer Medical Center for further medical examinations.

"The security forces will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home," the statement stressed.

Noa Argamani, who was rescued Saturday morning in a complex and daring operation from the Nuseirat "refugee camp" in Gaza, arrived Saturday evening at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, where her mother Liora, who is battling terminal cancer, is hospitalized.

Noa was held on the first floor of a building in Nuseirat, a few hundred meters from the building in which three other hostages - Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv - were held.

Speaking to her family, Noa said that on Saturday morning, she heard loud knocks on her door.

"She told me that 'out of nowhere' suddenly they told her that it's the IDF. 'We came to rescue you.' She was in shock," Argamani's relative Asaf Shahibi at Sheba Tel Hashomer, where the released hostages were originally taken.

After Noa was released, she was documented embracing her father, in tears. Speaking Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she said, "I am very emotional, I haven't spoken Hebrew in such a long time."

Zera Shimshon Parshas Bamidbar

 

 

Ok Guys, I've Seen it all now!

 

Totally Deranged Biden Now Forcing Israel to Stop War in the North and Allowing Hezbollah to Control the Entire North in Israel ..Time to tell Carzed Joe to "GO TO HELL!"

 

Iran’s multi-front war on Israel escalated this week as Tehran’s flagship terrorist proxy rained down missiles and drones on northern Israeli towns, killing an Israeli soldier, leaving more wounded and igniting massive wildfires.

While President Biden is squeezing Israel to surrender to Iran on all fronts, northern Israel is burning with the rest of the country in existential danger.

“Whoever thinks that they can harm us and we will sit idly by is making a big mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.

“We are prepared for a very strong action in the north.”

Israel must fight back, and Americans should understand why. 

Iran activated Hezbollah to open a northern front against Israel within hours of Hamas launching the Oct. 7 massacre.

Israel evacuated 100,000 of its people from communities along the Lebanese border, justifiably fearing Hezbollah’s special forces might attempt a similar invasion.

An already tiny country the size of New Jersey has been effectively reduced in size, as a daily dose of rockets, missiles and drones target border towns, destroying buildings and occasionally inflicting casualties.  

Earlier this year, multiple Israeli sources assessed Hezbollah’s arsenal included 160,000 mortars with ranges up to six miles, 65,000 short-range rockets with ranges up to 50 miles and 10,000 medium- and longer-range rockets with ranges from 50 to more than 120 miles.

It also possesses thousands of armed drones, hundreds to thousands of precision guided munitions, anti-tank guided missiles, surface to air missiles and short-range ballistic missiles with ranges up to 186 miles or more.

Hezbollah is a threat to all of Israel, not just towns close to the Lebanese border. 

This threat did not materialize overnight.

Despite a UN Security Council resolution requiring Hezbollah to be disarmed south of the Litani River — some 18 miles north of the Israeli-Lebanese border — Iran spent the last 17 years flooding its flagship terrorist proxy with weapons.

Over that period, US taxpayers sent billions of dollars to UN peacekeepers and the Lebanese army, purportedly to intercept those weapons — one of the worst returns on investment in American history.