Author: AFSI Staff

During Sunday’s cabinet discussion of the coming month of Ramadan on the Temple Mount (March 11), Israel Police put forward a compromise proposal regarding limiting the entry of Israeli Arabs to the holy site. According to this proposal, only men aged 40 and over will be allowed in during the first week of Ramadan, and at the end of the week, it will be decided whether to continue imposing the curbs. Curbs on women and children will be decided later.

The position of the head of the Shin Bet and the representatives of the IDF in the discussion was that restrictions on Israeli Arabs could give Hamas what it wanted – unification of arenas and unrest among a population that avoided conflicts throughout the war.

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Defying Security Experts, Bibi Dares to Stand Up to Hamas, Limits Muslims’ Access to Temple Mount on Ramadan, by David Israel/Jewish Press, February 19, 2024

Two individuals were murdered and four people were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack at the Masmiya (Re’em) Junction between Gedera and Kiryat Malachi in southern Israel last Friday afternoon. An armed civilian battled the terrorist and eliminated him.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived at the scene and stated: “This attack proves again that guns save lives. I will expand and grow the program for the right of Israelis to arm themselves. You fight terror not with blinking or with words but with a determined line. That’s how it should be Gaza, Lebanon, and everywhere else. No tolerance against terrorism.”

There’s no doubt that Ben-Gvir is right. With the threat of terrorist attacks still looming over the residents in southern Israel, the powers that be must to come to their senses before they find themselves next victim – powerless, unarmed – and unable to protect themselves.

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Two murdered in shooting attack in southern Israel, by Israel National News, February 16, 2024

The IDF announced late Wednesday afternoon that it completed an “extensive wave” of airstrikes in Lebanese territory following a barrage of precision-guided missiles fired at northern Israeli military bases and the cities of Tzfat and Kiryat Shmona.

A female IDF soldier was killed in the terrorist attack and eight others were wounded. An IDF military base in Tzfat sustained a direct hit in the attack.

IDF Chief of Staff LTC Herzi Halevi said, “We are intensifying the strikes all the time, and Hezbollah are paying an increasingly heavy price. The next campaign will have a very strong offensive, and we will use all our tools and capabilities. There is still a long way to go, and we will do it together.”

Today, Halevi told reserve commanders on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon to prepare for war with Hezbollah, vowing not to return the residents of northern Israeli communities unless they can assure a “very high” level of security.

The only way to secure a safe Israel is for the IDF to fully eliminate the terrorist scourge that has targeted and demonized the Jewish Nation State. October 7 was the straw that broke the camel’s back. We continue to pray for the protection and success of the IDF as its dangerous missions press on.

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IDF Retaliates Deep in Lebanon After Hezbollah Rocket Fire Kills 1, Wounds 8, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, February 14, 2024

IDF Chief of Staff: ‘Prepare for War in the North’, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, February 15, 2024

IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Daniel Hagari on Tuesday night revealed intelligence findings seized by IDF forces in Gaza, including footage recorded on October 10, 2023, in which Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar appears with his family in tunnels beneath the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Sinwar can be seen fleeing together with three of his children and his wife in one of the tunnels beneath the city, led by his brother Ibrahim. The room in which Sinwar stayed contained a safe filled to the brim with Israeli money; huge amounts of money were discovered there in a separate safe as well.

If this video goes back to October 10, 2023, we have every confidence the IDF has more incriminating material they have not yet shared with the public. We continue to pray for the safety of all IDF forces and that they finish the job without opposing opinions and intellectual babble telling them how to run the Jewish Nation State.

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IDF Releases Footage of Sinwar and Family in Tunnels Beneath Khan Younis, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, February 13, 2024

Shurat HaDin, a Tel Aviv-based organization representing families of victims and survivors of the October 7th massacre, is demanding that UNRWA be listed as a terror organization because of its proven ties to Hamas.

It has been revealed that 12 UNRWA workers took an active part in the October 7th massacre along with the discovery that a Hamas data center was located directly below UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. Shurat HaDin is pursuing action to ensure the UN “humanitarian” organization’s involvement with terrorism is investigated and exposed.

We applaud Shurat HaDin for advocating to designate UNRWA as the terrorist entity we’ve always known it is. The cascade of emerging revelations about UNRWA cannot be stopped and for any rational minded individual paying attention, they clearly provide the proof of UNRWA’s evil intent – to wipe Israel off of the map.

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Lawyers for Oct. 7th victims demand designation of UNRWA as terror group, by Vered Weiss/World Israel News, February 13, 2024

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on Saturday night responded to the revelation of the terror tunnels under UNRWA’s main headquarters in Gaza. The 401st battalion discovered a hi-tech Hamas server farm and data center hidden dozens of meters underneath UNRWA’s headquarters.

Lazzarini claimed, “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza. UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified in the area. We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there.

Dear Mr. Lazzarini:

It takes an awfully long time to build terror tunnel headquarters and it was impossible that it was built between the time UNRWA vacated the space on October 12 and now. Construction of this sort is also kinda noisy and rattles the walls, the ceiling, etc. How naive do you have to be to not know a massive terrorist operation was underneath your feet?

COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) quoted Lazzarini’s post and gave the best response: “You chose to ignore the facts so you can later try and deny them.”

With daily information now emerging on the truth about UNRWA, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, responded to Lazzarini’s forgetful mind, “Take responsibility and resign today! Anything the UN says or claims about Gaza cannot be trusted.”

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UNRWA chief: UNRWA ‘didn’t know’ what was under its Gaza HQ, by Israel National News, February 10, 2024

Erdan to UNRWA chief: Take responsibility and resign today!, by Israel National News, February 11, 2024

WATCH: Secret Hamas Server Farm Discovered Under UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza, by Jewish Press News Desk, February 10, 2024

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressed his weekly meeting on the operation in Rafah which freed two hostages, Fernando Marman and Louis Har. He also commented on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to send the head of the Shin Bet (ISA) to Cairo for talks to free the remaining hostages.

After praising the daring rescue, Smotrich said that “last night’s action proves once again what we have said many times, that the way to bring the hostages home is through the victory and destruction of Hamas. The delusional demands of Hamas for the release of thousands of terrorists and murderers, for the expulsion of Jews from the Temple Mount, for the end of the war and the withdrawal of IDF forces oblige us to give them One clear and decisive answer: W-A-R!!!”

Israel must be allowed to finish the job. Anything less is caving in to world leaders and the wider population who do not understand terrorism and its ultimate goal – the destruction of Israel.

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Smotrich: ‘Send Shin Bet to kill Hamas leaders instead of Cairo’, by Israel National News, February 12, 2024

Hakol Hayehudi reporter Elchanan Groner last week presented a UN Excel sheet depicting Jewish visits to the Temple Mount as violent incidents. The description is always, “Israeli settlers and other groups, accompanied by Israeli forces, entered and toured the yards of Al Aqsa Mosque compound.”

The UN reported 5,656 incidents of “settler violence against “Palestinians” between 2016 and 2022. It turns out that many of these Arab-on-Jew attacks were recorded by the UN as… “settler violence.”

The numbers speak volumes, yet the UN just can’t help itself when it comes to Jew hatred and demonization of Israel.

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Believe It or Nuts: the UN Counts Jews Visiting the Temple Mount as ‘Settler Violence’, by David Israel/Jewish Press, February 9, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference on Wednesday, during which he criticized the executive order signed by US President Joe Biden to impose sanctions on four Judea and Samaria residents accused of violence against Palestinian Arabs.

“This order is a very severe and inappropriate thing which harms an entire population of law-abiding citizens, among whom are soldiers who fell in the fight to eliminate Hamas. If they were using it equally- they would have imposed sanctions on Palestinians as well,” the Prime Minister said when asked on the matter.

The Prime Minister opened his statement by proclaiming: “We are on the road to complete victory. It is in reach – it is a few months away, not years.”

When asked about an Israeli agreement to release terrorists as part of a hostage deal, he answered: “We have not committed to anything, not the crazy things that Hamas is demanding, not the nature of the terrorists, and not the inflated numbers. There is supposed to be a negotiation process through mediators, but from Hamas’s reaction, as I see it, they aren’t there.”

Regarding the humanitarian aid, the Prime Minister stated that “according to one of our security officials – up to 60% of the humanitarian aid that enters Gaza is taken by Hamas. I instructed the IDF to find solutions that would reduce Hamas’s takeover of humanitarian aid.

The facts about the “violent and extremist Israeli settlers” and the real percentage of humanitarian aid that reaches Gaza’s legitimate needs are not reaching far enough. That Netanyahu publicly addresses this is obviously good. That the wider public audience doesn’t hear it due to suppression, demonization, and politicization continues to hurt Israel. Israel is long overdue for a true public relations campaign to mass communicate to the world. If the IDF can carry out a mass communication campaign to warn residents to leave Gaza in advance of the IDF going, then Israel surely can develop a true public relations department informing the world daily on the truth about what really goes on.

WATCH NETANYAHU’S FULL ADDRESS

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PM Netanyahu: ‘US sanctions severe and inappropriate – harms law-abiding citizens’, by Israel National News, February 7, 2024

Israeli forces seized cash and financial documents from an underground compound in Khan Yunis showing direct Iranian financial support for Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces disclosed on Tuesday night.

“We found official documents from 2020 detailing the funds transferred by Iran to Hamas between the years 2014 and 2020 and to [Hamas leader in Gaza Yahyah] Sinwar. More than $150 million were transferred from Iran to Hamas,” said IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

The intelligence indicated a “direct connection from Iran to Hamas—and more so to Yahya Sinwar,” he added.

The IDF released photos of envelopes of U.S. dollars, Israeli shekels and Jordanian dinars intended for Sinwar, who masterminded the Oct. 7 massacre.

“In the same subterranean space, we also found a safe with banknotes and bags containing more than 20 million shekels in cash. These amounts join tens of millions of shekels we located during the war in Hamas tunnels,” said Hagari.

Hagari said the intelligence would be shared with international partners. This information also needs to be widely disseminated among the many media outlets that refuse to report on the truth about Israel.

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Amid Gaza offensive, IDF seizes docs proving Iran-Hamas links, by JNS, February 7, 2034