A fifth tunnel found to infiltrate Israel from Gaza has been destroyed by the IDF.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Office said that the tunnel was in the area where rioters near the Gaza border had been in recent days. Sources said the riots were apparently intended to distract the IDF from infiltration attempts via tunnels.
A senior Israeli military official confirmed that Israel’s air force was responsible for last week’s bombing of the T-4 airbase in Syria last Monday, adding that the conflict between Israel and Iran had entered a new phase of direct confrontation.
Read Arutz Sheva’s report HERE
Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center 2017 Annual Report on Anti-Semitism Worldwide was released this week. Not surprisingly, Europe’s largest Jewish communities are experiencing a normalization and mainstreaming of anti-Semitism not seen since the Second World War.
“…anti-semitism has transformed more openly into classic anti-Semitism.”
Yasser Murtaja, the Palestinian journalist who was killed by Israeli soldiers during protests along the Gaza border on Friday, was actually a Hamas activist, security officials told Israeli news site Walla!.
According the the report published Tuesday morning, Murtaja had been a senior officer in the Hamas security apparatus in Gaza for years.
An interesting article in today’s Jerusalem Post suggests that the PA is worried that Hamas’s “Great March of Return” in Gaza may upstage and eclipse it. Palestinian political movements compete for who can be the most anti-American and anti-Israeli. So it is logical that the PA will stage their own march, only this time from the West Bank into Jerusalem, Hebron, or Bethlehem
With that said, believe it or not, Israel may have been given a gift, as its adversary is clearly signaling in advance what it is planning to do. It is up to Israel to come up with an effective plan to deal with tens of thousands of Palestinians crossing the ’49 armistice lines from both Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously.
A lawyer who represents American victims of terrorism has called on the U.S. Senate to hold hearings into the events that led Department of Justice Solicitor General Noel Francisco to file a brief with the United States Supreme Court siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority against American victims of terror.
AFSI joins the call for Congressional hearings.
Read the full story in the Israpundit article by Sara Carter
A meeting was held in in Ramat Gan to discuss plans for AFSI’s visit to south Tel Aviv for an update on the illegal infiltrators issue. This effort was spearheaded by May Golan.
Pictured L – R: Judy Freedman Kadish, AFSI Co-Executive Director with May Golan CEO of the Hebrew City, an NGO, and a campaigner against illegal immigration.
In Israel, when the sirens sound off at 10 AM, for a full two minutes the entire country comes to a standstill in silence to pause and remember the Six Million who perished in the Holocaust. People all over Israel from local cafes, beaches, neighborhood residences, schools, and major highways observe Yom HaShoah together as a People and a Nation. Please take a moment to remember the Six Million.
View the video below. More photos HERE
