Incredible pictures show moment USS Carney fired RIM-66M surface-to-air missiles to intercept drones and rockets 'headed for Israel' during NINE-HOUR battle with Iranian-backed militants in the Red Sea

 

Newly released photos show the dramatic moment a US Navy warship shot down multiple drones and missiles during a nine hour onslaught near the Yemeni coast.

The USS Carney was stationed in the Northern Red Sea on Thursday when it intercepted 15 drones and four cruise missiles which were fired by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen. 

Images from onboard the vessel show the launch of RIM-66M surface-to-air missiles to destroy the devices which were 'headed for Israel'.

It shows fiery explosions mid-air as well as several military service members in the control room of the warship. No injuries were reported onboard or on land among civilians. 

The incident was the fourth in three days of increased aggression against US troops in the region as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East. 

Pictures show the USS Carney's close-in weapon system pointing towards a target which has been struck and a fiery cloud is seen in the background. 

A second image highlights another missile which has been successfully shot in the air with a view of the side of the warship. 

Military personnel are seen concentrating on computer screens in the control room as they intercept the drones and missiles. 

An official from the Defense Department said the drones and cruise missiles were shot down using SM-2 surface-to-air missiles.

The source added that the rockets fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militants were clearly headed for Israel.

While a US official added that they do not believe the missiles, shot down over the water, were aimed at the US warship.

The Houthi terrorist group in Yemen has signaled its intention to join the war against Israel.

The Al Tanf Garrison military base in Syria, where there are American troops present, was targeted by two drones on Wednesday.

One was destroyed while the other impacted the base following joint action by US and coalition forces.

Another attack was reported at the Conoco airfield. Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed group, has claimed credit for the attempted strike against the Conoco base, but US officials are yet to confirm that specific strike.

On Tuesday, troops at the al-Asad airbase in Iraq intercepted three drones. To the north, troops the Al-Harir Air Base intercepted another two.

On Wednesday, a contractor at the al-Asad airbase in Iraq died of a heart attack while sheltering amid reports of an incoming attack.

There were minor injuries at the al-Asad base, where troops were only able to intercept one of the drones and damage the other. The extent of those injuries is unclear.

It also remains unclear whether the strikes against the al-Tanf airbase resulted in any damage or injuries.

The strikes come amid increased tension in the Middle East over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which many now view as a conflict between the West and the Arab world.

President Biden has been steadfast in his support of Israel since Hamas attacked on October 7, supplying military aid and flying to the region in a show of strong alliance.

His visit and ongoing support of Israel whipped up anti-American protesters in Lebanon, where crowds laid siege to the US Embassy in Beirut yesterday.

The State Department has now issued a rare worldwide caution travel advisory for Americans traveling overseas, citing the potential for terror attacks and 'increased tensions' as reason to be on high alert.

video of Hamas militant's interrogation by Israeli military

 

Fox News reviews video of Hamas militant's interrogation by Israeli military 

 The post below contains graphic descriptions Hamas militants were told by their commanders to behead and step on the heads of civilians, the Israeli Military said, citing an interrogation of a Hamas militant reviewed by Fox News. 

 The Hamas militant said they became animals during the Oct. 7 attack, doing things that humans don't do. According to the Israeli military, the Hamas militant said that videos of the attack were shared in a Telegram group during the Oct. 7 attack while people were still being killed. Some of the details shared by the Hamas militant are too graphic to describe.

Insane MSNBC’s Reid: Even if Hamas Is Using it as a Shield, Israel Is ‘Bombing a Church’

 

Let me remind the imbecile that calls herself Joy Reid that it was the Christian Churches that advocated the death of Jews for centuries!

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “ReidOut,” host Joy Reid reacted to an Israeli airstrike targeting what it says was a Hamas command center that caused damage to Saint Porphyrius Church by saying that even if “the church is hiding munitions, you’re bombing a church? And, at the end of the day, there is international law?”

NBC News Correspondent Hala Gorani noted that “[T]he Israeli military has said that because Hamas hides among the civilian population, because they have networks and perhaps stockpiles of weapons that they will hide in schools, that they will target those stockpiles and those weapons wherever they are. There are claims that, perhaps, this church was used for that. Although, on the ground, we’re not hearing that.”

Reid then asked,

 “[I]sn’t the challenge here that saying the church is hiding munitions, you’re bombing a church? And, at the end of the day, there is international law? And in the case of the bombing of [a] Baptist hospital in Gaza, the archbishop of Canterbury might be surprised to find out that they’re run by Hamas. The doctors there who are trying to save lives might be surprised to find that they’re a legitimate target. Isn’t that the challenge here, that this is a small, compact area, and people can’t leave, in part because the Egyptian leadership has said, … ‘What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refuge and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted.’ ‘Egypt rejects any [attempt] to resolve the Palestinian issue by military means or through the forced displacement of Palestinians’ there’s nowhere for them to go, and their neighboring countries are saying, you can’t force them here to become refugees in Egypt.”

Israel Creates Special Unit to Hunt and Kill Every Participant in Hamas Terror Attack

 

Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, has created a new unit, “Nili,” whose mission is to find and kill every single individual who participated in the Hamas terror attack on October 7, which saw over 1,400 Israelis murdered.

The Jerusalem Post reported:

In Israel’s ongoing effort to track down all those involved in the brutal terrorist attack that left more than 1,400 victims, the Shin Bet has established a new unit named Nili, an acronym in Hebrew that translates as “The Eternity of Israel Will Not Lie”.

This unit is dedicated to hunting down and eliminating every individual who played a role in the massacre in the western Negev settlements two weeks ago.

This force was specifically set up to target members of Nukhba (a special commando unit within Hamas’s military wing) who infiltrated Israel, executed mass killings in various villages and IDF outposts, and subsequently returned to the Gaza Strip.

Israel has carried out such operations before, notably in the effort to track and kill every Palestinian terrorist who participated in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes at the Olympics in Munich, Germany, in 1972.

As the Jewish Virtual Library notes, “Nili” was also the name of a spy ring operated by Jewish settlers in Palestine during the Ottoman Empire that assisted the British in the First World War.

Detroit Synagogue President Samantha Woll Stabbed to Death...She Co-Founded Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit

 

Samantha Woll, 40, board president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, Michigan, was murdered Saturday, and was found stabbed to death outside her home.

Update: In addition to being a Jewish community leader and a prominent Democratic Party activist, Woll was a co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Greater Detroit, an interfaith organization. The forum posted on Facebook: “Sam was one of the dear founders of this forum. She was such a sweet, cheerful, thoughtful soul. May her memory be a blessing.”

The Detroit Free Press reported:

A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed dead this morning outside her home in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood, east of downtown.

Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue and previously worked for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and on the re-election campaign of Attorney General Dana Nessel, both Democrats.

…

“I am shocked, saddened and horrified to learn of Sam’s brutal murder,” Nessel said in a statement. “Sam was as kind a person as I’ve ever known. She was driven by her sincere love of her community, state and country. Sam truly used her faith and activism to create a better place for everyone.”

No motive has yet been identified, but Jewish institutions have been under threat ever since the Palestinian terror group Hamas carried out a massive attack in Israel on October 7, murdering over 1,400 people.

The Detroit area is home to a large Arab population, and a large rally in support of Hamas was held in nearby Dearborn on Oct. 12.

Developing Story: Shin Bet Thwarted an "immediate timeframe" Attack in Jenin Moments ago ..Multiple terrorists eliminated

 

Israel Brings the BBC antisemites to see the devastation in the Kibbutzim

 

Chareidim from Beit Shemesh See off IDF Neighbors with Food and Drink

2,000 Chareidim Ask to Join the IDF

 

 IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says there have been increasing requests by ultra-Orthodox Israelis to join the military amid the war.

Hagari says the IDF has so far received more than 2,000 requests, and on Monday, they will begin to be drafted as volunteers.

Israel-Hamas war articles in New York Times are Written by an Avowed Nazi

 

Thde Nazi 

A New York Times reporter who came under fire last year for a praising Adolf Hitler in multiple resurfaced Facebook posts was rehired by the Gray Lady to cover the Israel-Palestine war.

Palestinian filmmaker Soliman Hijjy hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting.

That same year, Hijjy was hired by the Times as a freelance journalist and worked on a slew of “visual investigations” published by the organization through 2021, including one on an Israeli airstrike that killed 44 people.

Hijjy’s 2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a photoshopped image of Hitler seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as freelancers.

At the time, Hijjy didn’t appear to be working for the Times anymore, and had since taken down his controversial pro-Hitler posts.

However, the Times rehired the antisemitic freelancer last week.

Hijjy’s byline has appeared in the publication nearly every day since Oct. 12, with his latest story from Gaza published on Thursday.

Hijjy wrote a piece titled, “At a hospital in southern Gaza, a backup generator becomes a critical lifeline,” about a facility two miles from the Ahli Arab hospital bombing by a Palestinian terrorist organization that falsely blamed Israel for the attack.

A Times spokesperson defended the outlet’s decision to rehire Hijjy.

“We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future,” the rep said.

Once Israel denied any involvement, the Times swapped it out with one that said: “Hundreds Dead in Blast at Gaza Hospital, Palestinians Say.”

“Mr. Hijjy followed those steps and has maintained high journalistic standards. He has delivered important and impartial work at great personal risk in Gaza during this conflict.”

The Post has sought comment from Hijjy.

The Times had drawn scorn from media critics for running an initial headline about the hospital explosion that pointed the finger at the Jewish State: “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinian Officials Say.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan slammed the Times for its decision to bring back Hijjy.

“The @nytimes has just rehired a NAZI. Let that sink in. Soliman Hijjy praises Hitler, and the NYT rehired him,” Erdan tweeted Friday.

Meanwhile, Times freelance photographer Hosam Salem was also accused last year of sharing antisemitic social media posts, though he shared last October that the outlet severed ties with him.

“After years of covering the Gaza Strip as a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, I was informed via an abrupt phone call from the US outlet that they will no longer work with me in the future,” Salem shared on X, then known as Twitter, in October 2022.

Salem went on to blame an article by HonestReporting, which pointed to his pro-Palestine Facebook posts, as reason for his firing.

It’s unclear why the Times didn’t make similar moves to distance itself from Hijjy, whose pro-Hitler posts were included in the same HonestReporting story.

Biden is being played by Hamas, Iran and Qatar — with American and Israeli lives at stake

 

Despite telling the world Hamas is evil, President Joe Biden is pursuing policies of appeasement toward the terrorist group’s two largest patrons and, in so doing, undermining American and Israeli deterrence.

To secure the release of hostages, enable an Israeli victory over Hamas and hold off a Hezbollah assault on Israel’s northern border, Washington must first put the squeeze on Iran and Qatar.

While Biden Thursday night promised the American people we would hold Iran accountable for its sponsorship of Hamas, the mullahs in Tehran do not today perceive any credible threat of coercion from the United States.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

NYC Department of Education won’t let Jewish staffer stuck in Israel work remotely "DOE preaches equity" Except for Jews

 

The city Department of Education is refusing to let an early-childhood staffer work remotely while stranded in war-torn Israel, raising questions whether it’s simply bureaucratic callousness or antisemitism.

“It just sickens me that I work for a government institution in the USA which preaches equity, harmony and caring for everyone, but in fact there is an exception — for Jews,” Tova Plaut, an instructional coordinator for pre-K classroom teachers, told The Post from Israel.

Plaut, 53, an Orthodox Jew, was visiting relatives for Sukkot when Hamas terrorists attacked on Oct. 7 and war erupted. US airlines immediately suspended all return flights until at least Oct. 31. 

Plaut went on a waiting list for Israeli airline El Al.

She turned down a US government offer to ride a cruise ship to Cyprus or take US chartered flights to Europe because it would be too hard on her 78-year-old mom, who traveled with her.

But, still hunkering down with her family just north of Tel Aviv, she is eager to work until she can get back to New York.

Fully equipped with a computer and Internet service, Plaut asked permission to advise teachers by phone or email and attend Zoom meetings – instead of using her sick and personal days and not working.

Plaut and her co-workers each get seven sick days and three personal days a year.

Once that’s used up, she would have to take a non-medical leave of absence — and lose her pay, $76,000 a year, and health insurance.

As of today, she has lost seven days while stuck in Israel.

“Hamas does not have a humanitarian bone in their body.” “They [returned the Raanans] for calculated reasons,”

 

Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian from Kibbutz Kfar Azza into the Gaza Strip during a deadly attack on the community on Oct. 7.

Hamas terrorists only returned the American mother and daughter who were being held as hostages on Friday for “calculated” reasons, one expert claimed.

In a conversation with The Post Friday, former FBI agent and hostage team expert Christopher O’Leary cautioned the public not to fall for Hamas’ claim that they released Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie, for “humanitarian reasons.”

“They [returned the Raanans] for calculated reasons,” O’Leary scoffed, noting that “Hamas does not have a humanitarian bone in their body.”

“This is a deliberate and calculated move, not a good-will or good-faith gesture … they are playing a long game with the hostages,” he concluded.

O’Leary speculated that either Judith or Natalie possibly had “medical issues” that precluded the terror group from holding them in Gaza long-term; sources later told the Times of Israel that the two women were released due to Judith’s health.

“[Hamas] may be doing this to build some credibility as negotiators,” O’Leary opined, referring to the ongoing effort to broker some peace between Hamas and Israel, who had been locked in a bloody back-and-forth since the former unleashed Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7.

“Right now they do not seem like a legitimate negotiator,” he explained.

“You need to be able to demonstrate that you are a legitimate partner in an exchange.”

“[Releasing the Raanans] also helps counter the narrative Biden put out yesterday, going directly after Hamas, categorizing them as a terrorist organization,” O’Leary added.

But despite Hamas’ supposed best efforts, O’Leary concluded, the group is still “the quintessential terrorist organization.”

“The taking of hostages is a violation of international law and human rights,” he noted.

Speaking to The Post just one day before Judith and Natalie Raanan were released, O’Leary admitted that military rescue was likely out of the question for the 203 hostages being held in the Gaza Strip..

“We’ve not seen a case quite like this in the modern era,” he said.

Instead, he suggested, the US and Qatar should take the lead on negotiating favorable releases.

In its official statement on the Raanans’ release, Hamas confirmed that the agreement was reached in part due to Qatar’s intervention.

X (Twitter) Platform Removes NYT Gold Verification Badge, Likely Due to their constant Fake News

 

The New York Times, the ‘paper of record’ that was once considered the gold standard of journalism, has come stunningly close to being labeled fake news by X (formerly Twitter).

The Times is no longer a gold-badge verified account on Elon Musk’s platform. However the outlet does now have a blue-check verification.

Hours after Twitter users discovered that the Times was missing its original golden check mark which media accounts are given, a new blue check mark appeared, paid for by the outlet (something presumably the Ayatollah of Iran can do as well).

Musk has long been critical of the outlet, and engages with a NY Times parody account on the platform.

Although no official reason has been given, the Times has been guilty of reporting false and premature information, which can be harmful and toxic, especially regarding Israel.

This week, the Times rushed to publish a fake news story, with the headline and subhead: “ISRAEL STRIKE KILLS HUNDREDS AT HOSPITAL, PALESTINIANS SAY. At least 500 dead; Israel urges caution as it investigates.”

The story was debunked at every level, and while the death toll was exaggerated by hundreds, the actual culprits were the Palestinians themselves.

“The ‘New York’ Times is a declining, once-powerful, but fundamentally doomed to be regional & increasingly archaic legacy publication,” Musk tweeted in August.

Musk also once said the Times’ readership “is tiny compared to this platform.”

Drugs that stimulate and keep you up and suppress hunger and fear Were Found on the Bodies of Dead Hamas Murderers

 

תיעוד שצילם חבר שלי בישובי העוטף: המחבלים הגיעו עם שקיות של קוקאין לתמרוץ היצר השטני שלהם pic.twitter.com/fq0ITQZp9d

— אלחנן גרונר (@elchangr) October 12, 2023

 According to a News12 report, some of the terrorists who participated in the surprise attack on October 7 used the drug Heptagon when they committed the inhuman murders. Evidence of this was found both on the person of Hamas prisoners and in the pockets of terrorists’ corpses.

Captagon, Biocapton, and Fitton are brand names for the psychostimulant Fenethylline. Fenethylline is metabolized by the body to form two drugs, amphetamine, and theophylline, both of which are active stimulants. Fenethylline is mostly produced in Syria and Lebanon. Reports in the British press have suggested the drug is playing a role in the Syrian Civil War, as the production and sale of fenethylline generates large revenues, and fenethylline is used as a stimulant by combatants.

ISIS fighters were known to ingest fenethylline to suppress their fear before going to battle.

IDF eliminates senior Hamas engineer

 

The IDF on Friday eliminated Mahmud Sabih, a senior Hamas terrorist who served as a senior engineer and unit head in Hamas’ projects and development department, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

The department operated in order to increase Hamas' weapons capabilities, exchanging knowledge with terrorist organization across the Middle East, it added.

Mahmud Sabih operated to facilitate the transfer of information for Hamas in the production of weapons and UAVs, said the IDF.

Overnight Thursday, the IDF struck over a hundred operational targets belonging to Hamas terrorist organization, and killed a Hamas terrorist who took part in the murderous massacres in southern Israel.

The targets struck include an underground tunnel, weapon warehouses, and dozens of operational command centers.

During the strikes, Amjad Majed Muhammad Abu 'Odeh, a Hamas naval operative who took part in the massacre of Israeli civilians in southern Israel, was killed.

In addition, a terror squad belonging to the Hamas aerial array was neutralized in a targeted strike on Gaza City, after they attempted to fire rockets at a jet.

The forces also destroyed terror assets and weapons located in a mosque in the Jabaliya neighborhood, which was used as an observation post and staging ground by Hamas terrorists.

Hamas frees mother and daughter nearly two weeks after they were abducted to Gaza

 

Hamas on Friday evening freed two of the hostages it captured during its deadly terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, citing “humanitarian reasons” for doing so.

The two have been identified as Judith Raanan, 59, and Natalie Raanan, 18, a mother and her daughter who are dual Israeli and US nationals.

The two are residents of Chicago and had been visiting family in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the day of the attack.

Israeli sources confirmed that the two had been handed over to the Red Cross and would be transferred to Egypt. Their families have been notified.

A source told CNN that the two are being released on “humanitarian grounds” because the mother is in poor health.

Gal Hirsch, the coordinator of the issue of prisoners and missing persons, said that the two are in Israeli territory and are making their way to meet their family.

IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari confirmed in a press statement that Judith and Natalie Raanan were met by Hirsch at the border.

The Prime Minister’s Office said, “This evening, Judith Raanan and Natalie Raanan were released from the hands of the terrorist organization Hamas.”

“The two were kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas in the murderous surprise attack on Saturday, October 7, 2023, when they were staying at Kibbutz Nahal Oz.”

“The person in charge of the abductees and the missing, Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, together with the IDF and the security forces, received them at the Gaza Strip border and at the moment they are on their way to a meeting point at a military base in the center of the country, where their family members are waiting for them.”

“The Government of Israel, the IDF and the entire defense establishment will continue to operate to the best of their abilities and efforts in order to locate all of the missing and return all of the hostages,” the statement concluded.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Two of our kidnapped are home. We will not relent in our effort to return all of the kidnapped and the missing.”

“At the same time, we continue to fight till victory,” he added.

The release of the two is the result of negotiations between Qatar and Hamas which started after Hamas abducted around 200 people from Israel during its October 7 attack.

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum welcomed the return of the two hostages, saying, "Continuing the holding of the hostages is a war crime. Hundreds of families are expecting assistance from the leaders of Arab countries after the actions of Hamas shocked the entire world."

‘Mutiny Brewing’ Inside State Department Over Israel-Palestine Policy

 

Story by Akbar Shahid Ahmed from Huffington Post

President Joe Biden’s approach to the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at the U.S. government agency most involved in foreign policy: the State Department.

Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is based.

“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official said.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, fighting in the region has killed more than 4,000 people, and Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza that is expected to claim tens of thousands of additional lives.

Target Aventura Florida Employees Tearing Apart Images Of Missing Jewish Children Held Hostage in Gaza

 

Aventura, Florida. ⁦@Target⁩, I doubt you stand by employees tearing apart images of missing children being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

Please, do the right thing. pic.twitter.com/pLfIrnUBE5

— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) October 19, 2023

Zera Shimshon Parshas Noach