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As part of the effort to reveal Hamas’ use of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit has launched a dedicated website that contains all the evidence that has been discovered at hospitals so far. The website contains both newly discovered and existing information. It will continue to be updated as additional materials become available.

The IDF stated that the central feature of the website is a 3D illustration of some of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Clicking the “+” button will reveal information distributed by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit regarding the relevant hospital.

It is critical that this website – a treasure trove of proof – be shared widely among media sources. More than this, it’s time the haters of Israel wake up already.

HAMAS OPERATION IN HOSPITALS – VIEW THE WEBSITE

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IDF launches website revealing how Hamas uses Gaza hospitals, by Israel National News, November 21, 2023

The families of the hostages kidnapped from Israel last month and their supporters expressed outrage in various rallies and campaigns on World Children’s Day on Monday over the silence from international bodies like the UN regarding the 40 children and babies being held by terrorists in Gaza.

Hundreds of people held simultaneous protests in Tel Aviv and New York outside the offices of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. Protesters noted that the UN agency ignored the children abducted by the Hamas terror group but did mark World Children’s Day by posting a video on X/Twitter highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Israelis Rally on World Children’s Day, Slam UN Silence on Kids Held Hostage in Gaza, by Debbie Weiss/The Algemeiner, November 20, 2023

Israel has no intention of handing Gaza over to the PA once the war is over, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday night as he rebuffed US pressure to do so.

“The Palestinian Authority in its current form is not able to take responsibility for Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “After we fought and did all this, how could we hand it over to them?”

Netanyahu stated, “There is another condition that I set for the day after: the IDF will have complete freedom of action in the Gaza Strip against any threat. Only in this way will we guarantee the demilitarization of Gaza.”

He added that he has clarified that Israel won’t agree to a ceasefire until it has ousted Hamas, and it would only agree to a temporary one in exchange for the return of all the hostages. Netanyahu stressed that Israel won’t rest in its pursuit of eliminating Hamas, noting “all Hamas members are dead men whether they are located in or out of Gaza.”

The pain of the Gush Katif expulsion in 2005 still lingers. Since then, the PA has proven itself to be void of any serious leadership and only has evil intentions against Israel. Israeli demilitarization over Gaza is now mandatory. This time Israel must get it right.

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Israel did not enter Gaza to hand it over to the Palestinian Authority, Netanyahu says, by Tovah Lazaroff/Jerusalem Post, November 18, 2023

After Israel succeeds in its mission to eradicate the Hamas terror organization, it will negotiate with Arab countries about Gaza’s future, according to Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.

“We are doing the dirty work for many of these Arab countries,” Gilad Erdan told the Tazpit Press Service earlier this week. Erdan continued, “The U.N. played a big role in allowing Hamas to turn the Gaza Strip into a war machine, a terror machine against Israel and against the civilized world.”

After Israel wins the war, Erdan thinks the Israeli government should hold “a serious assessment regarding our relations with the U.N.” “My recommendations will be to expel and not to issue visas to some of the U.N. officials, who are exploiting their position in order to spread lies, in order to enable Hamas to embed themselves within an under civilian population in Gaza and many other terrible things that Hamas have been doing for the last 16 years under the nose of U.N. agencies,” the senior diplomat said.

We agree with Erdan. It’s an idea that’s long overdue and it also helps get to one root of many problems in this area.

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Israel doing ‘dirty work’ for Arab countries that might govern Gaza, says envoy, by Mike Wagenheim/TPS via World Israel News, November 20, 2023

Americans for a Safe Israel congratulates Javier Milei on becoming president-elect of Argentina.

Milei has declared his intentions to make Israel one of his first official destinations. The trip is planned to take place even before his inauguration. The only country Milei plans to visit before Israel is the United States of America.

AFSI looks forward to Israel’s new relationship with president-elect Milei and thanks Milei for his support and friendship, especially during this most challenging time.

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Argentinian president-elect already planning to visit Israel, by Israel National News, November 20, 2023

The Biden administration on Tuesday reapproved a sanctions waiver that will allow Iran to access upward of $10 billion in frozen assets, the State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

The sanctions waiver, which was set to expire today after first being authorized for a period of 120 days in July, allows Iraq to transfer payments for multibillion-dollar electricity imports from Iran into accounts outside of the country that can be used by Tehran. This is the first time the Biden administration has renewed the waiver since the Iran-backed terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel that was reported to have been planned with Tehran’s support.

The Biden administration insists that, like the $6 billion held in Qatar, Iran can only use the $10 billion for non-sanctioned purposes. The access to these funds allows Iran to free up cash in other places for illicit activities.

We are at a loss for words as to how blatantly evil and downright stupid and dangerous the Biden regime is. It’s obvious that the October 7 massacre in Israel does not register anywhere in their unapologetically anti-Semitic brains that something is gravely wrong with buddying up to Iran. Biden is an absolute disgrace, the minions around him remain clueless, and frankly, all of them are unconcerned about the very real existential threat that Iran poses to the entire world. This gift to Iran undermines Israel and at this most horrific time in Israel’s history, Biden should prove himself to be a friend to the Jewish Nation State. Instead, he’s shown us he is truly an enemy. Any words we’d really like to convey about this disgusting decision and the Biden regime can’t be said in this respectable publication.

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Biden Unlocks Fresh Funds to Iran Totaling Billions, by Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon, November 14, 2023

Biden Mulls Approval of Fresh $10 Billion for Iran, by Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2023

The IDF entered a specific area of Shifa Hospital early Wednesday morning while seeking to keep its exact goals, timing, and mission classified as the operation is still ongoing, as leaking certain details could endanger IDF forces.

Underneath Shifa Hospital was discovered, as expected, military headquarters for Hamas. This is a very significant development in enabling the IDF to eradicate the terrorist entity. A military source says that concrete evidence has been found of the use of Shifa Hospital as a Hamas headquarters, and in due time much of it will be visible to the public.

The military, always mindful of the safety of innocents, also announced that they successfully delivered crucial medical equipment and supplies, such as incubators for babies and baby food.

On Tuesday the IDF announced that it had captured a number of Hamas governmental sites in the heart of Gaza City as its troops engaged in fierce battles with Hamas gunmen in the city, while continuing to enable humanitarian corridors to allow for civilians to evacuate to the southern part of the Strip.

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Five Hamas terrorists killed as IDF battles into Shifa hospital, by Yonah Jeremy Bob/Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2023

IDF proclaims it has captured Hamas parliament, government seat and police HQ, by Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel, November 14, 2023

Three hundred Thousand people on the national mall gave a strong message to the US government showing a unified front of many streams of Judaism and other religions.

It also gave a morale boost to the people of Israel.

While it was generally an upbeat event, three relatives of Jewish and Israeli people who were kidnapped by Hamas and held as hostages in Gaza spoke at the March for Israel rally at the National Mall in Washington DC on Tuesday.

Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a civilian American citizen who was kidnapped from the music rave for peace on October 7, demanded to know why so much of the world is ignoring the plight of the hostages.

“We hostage families have lived the last 39 days in slow-motion torment,” she said. “But the real souls suffering are those of the hostages. And they want to ask everyone in the world, all the screamers, the indifferent, the experts, the academics, the knowledgeable, the passives, the perfectly outraged, the righteous, the indignant, the haters, the leaders, the lovers. the every single one of us: Why is the world accepting that 240 human beings from almost 30 countries have been stolen and buried alive?”

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Family of hostages at rally: Why does the world accept that 240 people are buried alive?, by Gary Willig/Israel National News, November 14, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the IDF will control the Gaza Strip after the end of the war against Hamas.

Meeting with mayors of Gaza border communities in the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said “IDF forces will maintain control in the Strip; we will not hand it over to external forces.”

According to a statement from Netanyahu’s office, he told the mayors that “There is a very strong determination from both you and the government to restore more than what was before. First and foremost, to bring back security, but also to ensure a stronger life thereafter.”

“There will be Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip, including complete disarmament, to ensure that there is no longer a threat from Gaza to the citizens of Israel,” the statement added.

While this sounds promising, we await the actual implementation of Netanyahu’s plan. The residents of the border communities have been suffering long enough. The next stop on this train needs to be the long-awaited and badly needed full application of Sovereignty.

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Netanyahu: IDF will control Gaza after war, by Yoav, Zitun, Daniel Edelson, New York, Reuters, Einav Halabi, Matan Tzuri, Lior Ben Ari/Ynetnews, November 10, 2023

For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s “settlement” movement. Weiss became involved in related politics in the wake of the 1967 war. In the early seventies, her family moved to communities in Judea and Samaria, and she later served for a decade as mayor of Kedumim, a community in the north. More recently, she has been affiliated with the Nachala organization, which helps the younger generation establish communities in that area.

AFSI is proud to be associated with Daniella and the Nachala movement. Her interview with The New Yorker, a left-leaning source, puts the truth about Israel in the forefront and sets the record straight.

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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers, by Isaac Chotiner/The New Yorker, November 11, 2023