Author: AFSI Staff

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.”

Sources:
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.

Source:
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.

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

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered IDF Chief of Staff Major General Herzi Halevi to come up with alternatives to relying on UNRWA in the Gaza Strip in everything related to the transfer of humanitarian aid, which is currently being transferred directly to the UN agency.

According to intelligence reports examined by The Wall Street Journal, at least 12 UNWRA employees were linked to Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. Additionally, approximately 10% of the agency’s Gaza staff are reported to have connections to Islamist terror groups.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner stated in an interview today that, UNRWA “exists for the sole purpose of keeping the war of 1948 open until the war ends the way that the Arabs initially intended: for there not to be a Jewish State. UNRWA exists so that the refugees from that war, the Arab refugees, will continue generation after generation, never settling.”

Since UNRWA neither perpetuates nor contributes anything productive to its own people, it’s time to close it down. With so much fact emerging in the news about who they really are and what their goals are, the decision to close it should be easy to understand.

Sources:
Netanyahu Orders IDF to Replace UNWRA Distribution System in Gaza by Next Week, by David Israel/Jewish Press, February 6, 2024

Former MK: ‘UNRWA exists to keep the 1948 war going’, by Yoni Kempinski/Israel National News, February 8, 2024

Police have served a summons for a hearing before the imposition of an administrative restriction order to Yinon Levi, a husband, father, and farmer near the town of Michmas in the Binyamin region. The order comes from General Yehuda Fox, who is appointed over the IDF’s Central Command.

As part of the restrictions imposed on him, Yinon is forbidden to enter Judea and Samaria, including his house and farm, for four months, of which two have already passed. He is also forbidden to contact several dozen of his friends, has been dismissed from reserve service in the IDF, and his personal firearm confiscated at the direction of the Shin Bet, and against the advice of military officials in the area. The confiscation of his firearm has left the farm effectively defenseless.

A military source claimed that the orders are unconnected to the sanctions imposed by President Biden against four “settlers,” and added that the order had indeed been signed months ago, but that the responsibility for serving it lay with the police.

Just the other day, Bank Leumi notified Yinon, one of four Israelis who were targeted last week by US sanctions, that his accounts in Israel have been frozen.

The Israel Postal Bank has sequestered and closed the account of David Chai Chasdai, one of four Israelis who were targeted by US sanctions for claims of violence against Arabs in Judea and Samaria. The account is shared with Chasdai’s wife. “The fact that a government bank decides to sequester the accounts of settlers because of pressure from far-left organizations and the hostile American government is unfathomable, but the fact that it is happening under a right-wing government a moment after the worst massacre in history is a national embarrassment,” he stated.

Go ahead and make us believe this is unconnected to Biden’s recently signed executive order against Israeli “extremist settlers. We’ve seen this scenario before and it’s very obvious as to WHY this is happening now. This is clearly a theatrical performance to appease Biden. The fact that it’s taking place while a right-wing government is at war with terrorists is appalling.

Sources:
Day after US sanctions: Farmer served administrative restriction order, by Israel National News, February 2, 2024

Israeli bank freezes accounts of farmer targeted by US sanctions, by Israel National News, February 4, 2024

Joining US sanctions | Israel Postal Bank closes account of David Chasdai, by Israel National News, February 5, 2024

Bank Leumi has informed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that its account has been blocked following the detection of “unusual activity.”

Among other things, the bank suspected the funds in the account were being used for terrorist purposes against the State of Israel, and that funds were being transferred from the account to terrorist elements in Gaza.

This is a long overdue action that Israel should be taking. This is helpful and meaningful unlike the disgraceful actions we noted in the previous article against Israel’s “settlers.”

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UNRWA Account Blocked by Bank Leumi, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, February 4, 2024