The IDF is making preparations and building infrastructure in the Gaza Strip that will enable it to control the area for many years to come, a report by Israel’s Channel 14 said Sunday.

According to the report, the IDF is building a series of outposts along the Beeri Corridor, previously known as the Netzarim Corridor. The IDF has expanded the corridor in recent months, and it is now seven kilometers by seven kilometers (4.35 miles) in size.

The IDF has cleared several former villages for this purpose, as “we are here to stay, to maintain security control,” a security official stated, according to the report.

The IDF has also recently installed massive communication towers in the Rafah area, a clear indication of Israel’s plans to hold the area for the long term.

This strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt is crucial to quell Hamas’ attempts to rearm itself through the passages and tunnels running above and below the area.

Israel has repeatedly stated that its counterterrorism war against Hamas and the other Gaza-based terror organizations will last as long as needed to eradicate the terror groups who launched the October 7th attack, one of the worst, most deadly, and devastating days the Jews have experienced in modern Israeli history.

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Israel Preparing Infrastructure for Long-Term Stay in Gaza – Report, by Max Gelber/Jewish Press, November 4, 2024

Foreign Minister Israel Katz officially announced on Monday morning the cancellation of the 1967 agreement between Israel and UNRWA, the UN agency for “Palestinian refugees”. This agreement formed the legal basis for relations between the State of Israel and UNRWA.

Minister Katz said, “UNRWA – the organization whose employees participated in the October 7 massacre and many of whose employees are Hamas operatives – is part of the problem in the Gaza Strip and not part of the solution.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said in response to the letter, “Following the legislation on UNRWA, we officially informed the President of the General Assembly of the termination of cooperation with the organization. Despite the overwhelming evidence we submitted to the UN highlighting how Hamas infiltrated UNRWA, the UN did nothing to address this reality.”

UNRWA, which has long been criticized for cooperating with Hamas, has come under increased scrutiny as its workers have been found to have been directly involved in Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

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Foreign Ministry tells UN: The agreement with UNRWA has been cancelled, by Israel National News, November 4, 2024

Amid a controversy over Ramallah’s “pay for slay” stipends, Knesset lawmakers advanced legislation aimed at barring the Palestinian Authority from filing legal petitions at Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday.

The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.

According to the legislation’s explanatory notes, “The purpose of the bill is to correct an anomaly according to which elements hostile to the State of Israel, including those who work directly and in a declared manner to harm its citizens through acts of terrorism, are considered to have the right to stand before the High Court when they come to petition against the policies of the Israeli government.”

This effort is yet another front by which terrorism against the State of Israel needs to be addressed. We applaud Simcha Rothman for his work on this legislation

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Knesset Advances Bill Curbing Palestinian Authority’s Access to Israeli High Court Amid Terror Funding Controversy, by Pesach Benson/TPS-IL, October 31, 2024

In a vote of 92-10 on two related bills the Knesset overwhelmingly voted on Monday to bar UNRWA activities in the sovereign territories of the state of Israel. It also forbids any interaction by the Israeli government or its officials with UNRWA anywhere, which includes the areas of Judea and Samaria and Gaza

“There is no legal barrier for banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and in the Gaza Strip,” Yifa Segal, an expert in international law and the founder of the International Legal Forum NGO, told The Press Service of Israel.

This is a major achievement for the many politicians and activists who have been working tirelessly to remove UNRWA from Israel. But we are not done. The next step is to clean up the Jew hatred terrorist filth being taught in the UNRWA schools. Until that is cleaned out, there is still plenty of work to do.

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Knesset Bans UNRWA in Israel, by Jewish Press News Desk, October 28, 2024

The Yesha Council made an unusual request of Israel’s State Comptroller on Monday, urging him to review how Israel’s government deals with sanctions against Israeli citizens by foreign countries.

In a letter to State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, Yisrael Ganz, governor of the Binyamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council, pointed out the “worrying phenomenon” over the last several months of foreign states, with which Israel maintains relations, imposing sanctions against law-abiding Israeli citizens and legitimate organizations. All these foreign countries are motivated by politics.

The letter is a product of growing frustration on the part of the Yesha Council with what it perceives as Israeli government inaction on the issue.

No matter what the motivation is for these friendly countries, none should be dictating to Israel on how to run its sovereign nation. Israel is being attacked from every possible angle in the current war it fights against terrorism and this “worrying phenomenon” too must be won.

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Yesha Council pushes for gov’t action against ‘settler sanctions’, by David Isaac/JNS, October 29, 2024

On Friday night Israel attacked approximately 20 targets in Iran, in an operation which lasted several hours.

The IDF reported that Israel attacked “military targets” in Iran, in response to Iran’s attacks against the State of Israel in recent months.

“The retaliatory strike has been completed, and its objectives have been achieved,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said. “Israel now has broader aerial freedom of operation in Iran.”

Among the targets were missile manufacturing facilities used by Iran in its attacks on the State of Israel over the past year, as well as Iran’s surface-to-air missile arrays and Iranian aerial capabilities that were intended to restrict Israel’s aerial freedom of operation in Iran.

Many have commented, posted and reported on their disappointment that Israel did not target and disable Iran’s nuclear facilities. Would it have been better if Israel hit Iran much harder than it did or has Israel employed a deception tactic here? Perhaps this attack is simply setting the stage for something greater to come in a second phase whether Iran retaliates against Israel or not? Either way, we must trust the decision the government and the IDF made.

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Operation Days of Repentance: Historic Israeli attack on Iran, by Uzi Baruch/Israel National News, October 27, 2024

MK Almog Cohen on Sunday tweeted: “Following the wave of attacks carried out on the citizens of the country by terrorists with blue ID cards (meaning Israeli citizens), as I promised, we will vote this coming Tuesday in the Knesset committee in a second and third reading on the Law on Deporting Terrorists’ Families. This Wednesday or next Monday, we will vote in the Knesset plenum and the law will be entered into the State of Israel’s book of law.

Let anyone who plans to harm the citizens of our country know that his family would be expelled from here in disgrace.”

According to the opinion of Attorneys General Eliakim Rubinstein and Avichai Mandelblit, deporting families of terrorists is contrary to the Geneva Convention. However, Article 78 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Security measures. Internment and assigned residence. Right of appeal) clearly states: If the Occupying Power considers it necessary, for imperative reasons of security, to take safety measures concerning protected persons, it may, at the most, subject them to assigned residence or to internment.

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Knesset Committee to Vote on Terrorist Family Deportation Law this Tuesday, by David Israel/Jewish Press, October 27, 2024

A large truck struck pedestrians Sunday morning near the Cinema City in Glilot in the Tel Aviv area, injuring at least 35 people killing one. The murdered victim was identified as 72-year-old Bezalel Karmi from Rishon Lezion.

The police reported that near Cinema City, there was an incident where a truck ran over a number of people who were standing near a bus stop. A significant police force was summoned to the scene.

One of the victims succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon despite the efforts of doctors at Ichilov Medical Center to save his life.

The possibility that the incident is a terrorist attack is being investigated. The truck driver was neutralized.

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One murdered, 35 injured in ramming attack in northern Tel Aviv, by Israel National News, October 27, 2024

The IDF and ISA confirmed last Thursday that after a year-long pursuit, on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, IDF soldiers from the Southern Command eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip.

“Yahya Sinwar planned and executed the October 7th Massacre, promoted his murderous ideology both before and during the war, and was responsible for the murder and abduction of many Israelis,” the IDF stated.

The Hamas leader was eliminated after a tank fired at a building in Rafah which was thought to contain terrorists. After that, infantry from the 450th Battalion raided and searched the building. During the searches, the forces found Sinwar’s body.

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant hinted at the elimination in a post on X in which he quoted the verse from Leviticus: “‘You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.’ We will reach every terrorist, and we will eliminate him.” Alongside the post, Gallant added a picture with an empty space between Mohammad Deif and Hassan Nasrallah.

There is no question that the elimination of Yahya Sinwar was nothing short of a modern-day miracle. The IDF’s unexpected success during this stage of the war has badly humiliated Israel’s critics. Everything will be OK. We trust they’ll get over it.

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IDF confirms: Yahya Sinwar eliminated, by Uzi Baruch/Israel National News, October 17, 2024

What Iran doesn’t know the U.S. will gladly share with them. And then lie about it to Israel.

The media has been filled with anonymous ‘leaks’ and ‘quotes’ from Biden-Harris administration officials regarding Israel’s attack plans on Iran. It was all too obvious that these leaks were deliberate and orchestrated.

The leaks now appear to have escalated to directly passing material on to Iran.

Senior American officials voiced serious concern on Saturday following the leak of two US intelligence documents allegedly outlining Israel’s preparations for a potential strike on Iran. These documents were published by a Telegram account linked to Iran.

While both the US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, they did not deny their authenticity.

The leak occurred on Friday when the Middle East Spectator Telegram channel claimed it had received documents about Israel’s strike preparations from a source within the US intelligence community.

Brigadier General (ret.) Amir Avivi shared during an IDSF briefing this morning that this was simply part of a much bigger campaign, nevertheless, Israel must keep its strategy to itself.

At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. He carries his men deep into hostile territory before he shows his hand. ~~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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Biden-Harris Admin Spied on Israel to Learn Iran Attack Plans, Leaked Them to Iran. Treason., by Daniel Greenfield/Frontpage Magazine, October 20, 2024