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A masked individual armed with a knife attempted to enter the town of Ofra in northern Samaria on Tuesday. The suspect fled after being fired on by Israeli security forces.

Tensions in Judea and Samaria are extremely high since the Oct. 7 massacre. Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Gantz issued a stark warning: ‘No one dares to approach our settlements. Whoever does this will be shot with the aim of killing.’

Though Israel is fighting a major war right now, there is still an ongoing war being fought for the daily safety and security of the residents in Judea and Samaria.

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Terrorist infiltration into Israeli town in Samaria foiled, by TPS, November 8, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The political and security cabinet on Thursday night announced it will deduct from the taxes and customs that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority all the funds that would have been transferred from Ramallah to Gaza – in addition to deducting the funds the PA is paying as monthly salaries to terrorists behind bars and their families.

On Tuesday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating that since the PA had violated the 1994 Oslo Accords in every conceivable way, he intends to cut off the entire amount that Israel collects on its behalf.

Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and DM Yoav Gallant worked hard to push and cajole the ministers into supporting the continued funding for Ramallah, albeit somewhat curtailed. Both argued that the PA must be protected from collapsing.

Smotrich, as Finance Minister, intends to call for the establishment of security zones to protect Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria from the threat of Palestinian terrorism.

In a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, the head of the Religious Zionism Party, who is also a minister in the Defense Ministry, demanded that they convene an urgent session of the Political-Security Cabinet to discuss the “continuing insecurity” of the residents of Judea and Samaria.

Despite the October 7 massacre and the war in progress, the issues of security and sovereignty, as we’ve been reporting on regularly, must not be overlooked or put on the back burner until the war is over, With the plethora of terrorist attacks there, the Knesset will still pay the PA. This perpetuates the perfect storm for terrorist attacks carried out by the PA against Israel to continue. What are we missing here?

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Netanyahu’s Cabinet Decides to Stop Funding Gaza Nazis, Keep Paying Ramallah Nazis, by David Israel/Jewish Press, November 3, 2023

Smotrich calls for security zones in Judea and Samaria, by Update Desk, Israel at War/JNS

 

 

 

 

Exactly 100 years ago, in his seminal essay, “The Iron Wall,” revisionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote these words: “As long as the Arabs feel that there is the least hope of getting rid of us, they will refuse to give up this hope in return for either kind words or for bread and butter.”

Sadly, Israelis witnessed this on many occasions over the last century and in ferocious and bestial form on October 7.

What Israelis have to understand is that the key to this conflict is hope. For too long, Israelis have scoffed at the incitement emanating from Hamas and Fatah, which not only call for the elimination of the Jewish state, but constantly drum into their followers that it is possible and will happen soon.

As Jabotinsky ended the “Iron Wall” essay, “the only way to reach an agreement in the future is to abandon all idea of seeking an agreement at present.”

Israel must send a message that it is here to stay, period.

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After October 7, Israel Must Finally Build Jabotinsky’s ‘Iron Wall’, by Nave Dromi/Middle East Forum, November 2, 2023

 

Undoubtedly most folks are constantly checking new sources during these very contentious times. Whether that is a good idea or not, this week we will make an even greater attempt to keep things brief and to the point, and of course as always, very accurate.

In the spirit of accuracy, the number of deaths of Israelis from the terror attacks of Simchas Torah has reportedly surprisingly gone down and it’s now estimated that 1200 were killed and 200 more bodies are actually those of killed terrorists. The current estimate for the number of terrorists who participated in the pogrom is now 3000, 1000 of which were killed in and around the Jewish communities. 243 hostages are believed to be still held by Hamas and other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.

Read Ben Packer’s Full Story Here

According to what the Israeli military says is an intercepted call between Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip, the terror group is stealing fuel from hospitals in the enclave.

The three-way phone call, a recording of which the Israel Defense Forces released on Wednesday, is between the deputy commander of Hamas’s Western Jabalia Battalion, a Hamas commander (identified as “Gaza resident”) and the director of the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, Dr. Atef Al Kahlout.

As usual, the United Nations refuses to face facts on the ground. In a statement, Mr. Guterres said depriving Gaza’s people of basic supplies was only “compounding the human tragedy” of the conflict, calling for unimpeded humanitarian access “to be granted consistently, safely and to scale in order to meet the urgent needs created by the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza.”

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IDF evidence shows Hamas stealing fuel from Gaza hospitals, by JNS, November 2, 2023

Guterres blasts ‘completely inadequate’ levels of aid for Gaza civilians, by UN News, October 31, 2023

 

 

 

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan spoke Monday to the United Nations Security Council, urging the international community to act on the promise of, “Never Again.”

“The Nazis sought a Judenrein – Jew-free – Europe, just as Hamas seeks a Judenrein Israel. Hamas, are modern day Nazis – from their appalling inhuman violence to identical genocidal ideologies. Hamas is not seeking a ‘solution’ to the conflict. They are not interested in dialogue. The only solution Hamas is interested in is the Final Solution – the annihilation of the Jewish people.”

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Amb. Erdan wears yellow star: Israel will no longer live with brutal Nazis on her borders, by Israel National News, October 31, 2023

 

 

When developers broke ground on a horse farm across a narrow, sun-dappled street from Kezban’s house about seven years ago, she had just got engaged.

Two years passed and Kezban got married, became pregnant and gave birth, shortly before the shiny complex was unveiled. New neighbours began moving into the gated community in Bursa, Turkey’s fourth-largest city.

But the US government believes this compound, Anda Park Balat 2, to be a high-value asset in a secret global investment portfolio that could be worth as much as $1 billion run by Hamas, potentially making it one of the richest terrorist groups in the world.

On Friday, the US Treasury announced its third round of sanctions since 2022 targeting Trend GYO, the Turkey-based developer of Anda Park Balat 2 and several other projects, for being part of Hamas’s international financing network.

Hamas has built a global operation to funnel funds to support its activities – using shell companies, physically moving cash, transferring via cryptocurrencies, syphoning support from charities, and receiving infusions from friendly nations such as Iran, which supports several militant groups in countries that border Israel.

H/T to AFSI member Glenn Richter for bringing this article to our attention

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Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a $1bn terror group, by Sophia Yan/The Telegraph

 

As Israel approaches its fourth week of war, which has been dubbed “Swords of Iron,” sparked on October 7th, when the Hamas terrorist organization launched a surprise attack by land, air, and sea. After a heavy barrage of several thousand rockets, Hamas terrorists invaded Israeli territory, infiltrating military bases and civilian population centers, where they massacred the inhabitants and took others captive. As of this writing over 1,400 Israelis have been killed, roughly 4,000 in many cases critically injured and at least 220 kidnapped remain in Hamas captivity.

Since the invasion and brutal massacre, the IDF has been striking terror targets in Gaza as their terror organizations continue to fire rockets into Israel. Meanwhile during the second week of the war, Hezbollah and other groups in Lebanon upped their attacks as well, targeting towns and military installations in northern Israel with rockets and anti-tank munitions. IDF forces have responded as needed and many villages and communities have been evacuated. There have been uprisings in Judea & Samaria, Southern Israel remains under attack, missile sirens are sounding in central Israel and today buildings in both Tel Aviv and Ashdod were directly hit. Not surprisingly, while pressure for “humanitarian aid” comes from many sources and anti-Israel and antisemitic rallies grow around the world (and particularly in the U.S.) in volume, Hamas seems to have no shortage of missiles to fire into the homeland.

There’s way too much for us to try to cover here but as we wish you all a Shabbat Shalom and send prayers for strength and safety to all of Israel and the IDF, we ask you to please read and share the below messages from our most dear friends Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar of the Sovereignty Movement on the definition of Victory and Aharon Pulver, of the Israel Independence Fund on living through these nightmarish times. Finally, we highlight an important article and video on Ambassador Gilad Erdan’s address to the UN regarding not caving into Iran, the country that has surrounded Israel with all of its terror proxies.

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Live updates – Week three: Initial reports of missile impact in Tel Aviv building, by Israel National News, October 27, 2023

 

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations played a video of a Hamas terrorist attempting to decapitate one of its victims as he addressed the General Assembly during a debate on a Gaza war ceasefire.

“The man on the ground is an agricultural worker from Thailand. He is not Israeli. He is not Jewish. He was merely alive, trying to make a living for his family,” Erdan said as he held up a tablet with the video.

He spoke during the start of a two-day debate on a cease-fire for the Gaza War that began on October 7 when Hamas infiltrated southern Israel killing over 1,400 people and taking more than 224 hostages.

Erdan urged the UNGA not to call for a ceasefire which he said would only support the Iranian proxy group Hamas and allow it to rearm itself so it could launch further attacks against Israeli civilians.

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Erdan shows UNGA video of Hamas decapitation at ceasefire debate, by Tovah Lazaroff/Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2023

 

Five Israeli Border Police officers were injured during a counter-terrorism operation in Samaria Thursday morning, the Israeli military said. The five officers were injured when an explosive device detonated while Israeli security forces were engaged in a firefight with Palestinian terrorists in a refugee camp adjacent the city of Tulkarem in western Samaria before dawn Thursday.

IDF soldiers and Border Police officers entered the camp overnight as part of an arrest operation to apprehend a wanted terrorist.

Rioters attacked the security forces with stones and firebombs, prompting the security personnel to respond with crowd dispersal techniques, including the use of smoke grenades.

Shortly thereafter, a terrorist shooting attack was reported outside of the Israeli town of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria.

“We hold Iran directly responsible for the wave of terrorism in Judea and Samaria, in encouraging and financing murderous operations against the citizens of Israel.”

Israel knows who is responsible and acts accordingly to defend itself. Now the US must come to its senses and remember who they are dealing with. The US needs to stop enriching Iran with sanctions relief, stop paying outrageous sums puportedly in exchange for the release of prisoners which only encourages the taking of more prisoners, and stop attempting to get into what will surely be disastrous deals with Iran. These necessary actions will remove the Iranian threat for not only Israel, but the US as well.

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David Rosenberg/World Israel News, October 5, 2023