Vice President-elect JD Vance on Sunday warned that the incoming Trump administration will enable Israel to “knock out” Hamas unless a deal is reached to free dozens of hostages.
Vance made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. While Hamas has proved difficult to negotiate with, Vance said that Trump’s threats to allow Israel to obliterate the terror group will force its leaders to strike a deal and release hostages as early as this week.
“It&#8217;s very clear that President Trump threatening Hamas and making it clear that there is going to be hell to pay is part of the reason why we&#8217;ve made progress on getting some hostages out,” Vance told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream.
“We&#8217;re hopeful there&#8217;s going to be a deal that&#8217;s struck towards the very end of Biden&#8217;s administration, maybe the last day or two, but regardless of when that deal is struck, it will be because people are terrified that there are going to be consequences for Hamas,” he added.
According to Vance, the consequences against Hamas if a deal is not reached would be severe.
“I think number one, it means enabling the Israelis to knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas and their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East. It means actually doing the job of American leadership, which Donald Trump did very well for 4 years,” Vance said.
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J.D. Vance Explains Trump’s “Unleash Hell” Threat
Trump’s deputy, J.D. Vance, outlined the stakes of Trump’s warning to “unleash hell in the Middle East” if Gaza hostages aren’t freed before he takes office:
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Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Israel over the weekend to press for negotiations between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire and the release of dozens of hostages. Witkoff has pushed for the deal to be concluded before January 20 when Trump takes office, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/trumps-israel-gaza-deal-jan-20-witkoff">Axios</a>.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas – which have been mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the U.S. – are close to bearing fruit, according to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.
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“The final draft of a ceasefire agreement was reportedly presented overnight. A deal between Israel and Hamas could be just hours away to start a process that would see Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, followed by an end to the war in Gaza,” Yingst reported on Monday morning.
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The final draft of a ceasefire agreement was reportedly presented overnight. A deal between Israel and Hamas could be just hours away to start a process that would see Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, followed by an end to the war in Gaza.
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Vance: Trump Will Enable Israel To ‘Knock Out’ Hamas Unless Hostages Released

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Some of the 98 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza may be coming home soon following a breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and the terror group.
Mediators delivered both Israel and Hamas a final draft of a hostage and ceasefire deal on Monday, which has fueled optimism that the hostages will soon be released after being kidnapped 465 days ago.
Hamas has not yet sent its final answer on the deal, but a source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that if there were no major changes, then the “response will be positive,” <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/live-updates-837303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported the Jerusalem Post.</a>
A Hamas official reportedly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/middleeast/israel-hamas-deal-talks-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> that the two parties were “very close to an agreement.” On Monday, Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer told CNN “there has been significant progress made.”
Kan News reported that Israeli Defense Forces officials directed relevant Israeli government entities to prepare for the possibility of hostages arriving after an agreement takes effect.
About half of the hostages in Gaza — a mix of Israelis, Americans, elderly, women, children, and soldiers — are believed to be alive. Seven American hostages are still in Gaza, including Edan Alexander, Itay Chen, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Gadi Haggai, Judi Weinstein Haggai, Omer Neutra, and Keith Siegel.
According to the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-837342">Jerusalem Post</a>, 33 hostages will be released during the first phase of the deal and on the 16th day of the deal, negotiations are expected to begin for the following stages. The first phase is reportedly anticipated to last 42 days.
Envoys of both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump joined negotiations, the Jerusalem Post reported. Netanyahu spoke with Biden on Sunday to discuss the progress in the negotiations taking place in Doha. Netanyahu’s office released a statement in which the prime minister thanked both Biden and Trump for “cooperating in this sacred mission.”
Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-on-hamas-to-release-hostages-or-there-will-be-all-hell-to-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump warned</a> there would be “all hell to pay” if the hostages were not released before he takes office.
“Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action!” he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113584730902816413" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
Various Israeli factions have opposed any deal that permits the release of Hamas terrorists. On Monday, the head of the Benjamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council — a group that represents municipal councils in Judea and Samaria — wrote to Netanyahu opposing a deal that includes such terms, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called the emerging agreement a “catastrophe” for Israel’s security, <a href="https://www.jns.org/hostage-deal-nearing-completion-awaiting-hamass-final-approval/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish News Syndicate reported</a>.
“The emerging deal is a catastrophe for the national security of the State of Israel,” said <a href="https://www.jns.org/smotrich-slams-surrender-deal-urges-all-out-assault-on-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smotrich</a>. “We will not be part of a surrender deal that includes the release of arch-terrorists, halting the war, undermining the achievements that were secured with many lives lost, and abandoning numerous hostages.”
Hamas reportedly ordered its militants to be on high alert and avoid being in public, in case of Israeli assassinations before the agreement, according to a Monday report by Ashraq al-Awsat.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel And Hamas Could Soon Strike Deal To Release Hostages

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) said during an interview this week that there was a serious chance the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization will release the remaining Israeli and American hostages that it has before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Cruz made the remarks during a Tuesday night interview with Sean Hannity after Trump warned that there would be hell to pay if the hostages were not released before he is sworn in.
The Texas senator, who just won his third term in the U.S. Senate in November, said that Trump would immediately get the situation on the border under control, unleash American energy production, lower inflation, and strike fear in the hearts of America&#8217;s enemies.
&#8220;And I&#8217;m going to make a prediction,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;I think there is a very real possibility that we will see the hostages in Gaza released on or before January 20th.&#8221;
&#8220;If you go back to 1981 when Ronald Reagan was sworn in, Iran released the hostages on January 20th, the day he was sworn in,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think we will see that again either on or before January 20th, because Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, Donald Trump scares the living daylights out of them.&#8221;
&#8220;The message he gave that all hell will break loose, that was an incredibly important message and one, sadly, Joe Biden and the Democrats are incapable of giving because they don&#8217;t believe it and they wouldn&#8217;t follow through on it,&#8221; he added.
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The American people have given a clear and unequivocal mandate to Washington, D.C.
Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House.
We are going to secure the border, lower inflation, unleash American energy, end the weaponization of government, and confirm… <a href="https://t.co/xp2svhWant">pic.twitter.com/xp2svhWant</a>
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1876830590512558260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
At a press conference from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, Trump said, “If those hostages aren’t back … if they’re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.”
“And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” he continued.
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Trump’s use of the word “anyone” is likely a reference to Iran, which has propped up Hamas and is already facing Trump’s wrath for its increased terrorist activities, including attempts to assassinate Trump.
“All hell will break out,” Trump said. “I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is. And they should have given them back a long time ago, they should have never taken them. There should have never been the attack of October 7th, people forget that.”

Senator Ted Cruz Campaigns For Reelection

Cruz: There’s A ‘Very Real Possibility’ Hostages Will Be Released Before Trump Takes Office

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Donald Trump just gave one of the greatest press conferences in American history. He talked more in this press conference than Joe Biden has for four years. He spoke quite coherently and cogently.
The press conference was a doozy. It was wonderful in so many ways.
Trump is going to instruct the federal government to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and I am here for it. It is fantastic. If you look at a map, about 65% of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is in America.
Who&#8217;s going to stop us from renaming it? Mexico? Sure. They can’t even balance the budget or stop the cartels from running their country.
But that&#8217;s not the only item on the Manifest Destiny Agenda for the Trump administration that I love.
I love that Trump has been talking about making Canada the 51st state. I know that Justin Trudeau is out there tweeting how it&#8217;ll never be the 51st state, but he has no say in the matter because when we invade, he will be shipped to work the Panama Canal.
More America is better. Greenland, a vital place territorially, is on Trump’s list. Why not? The United States spends money on the military defense of Greenland, and we have military bases in Greenland. We use Greenland’s northern border in order to protect Arctic shipping. Greenland is very important because as ice melts in the Arctic Circle, there will be brand-new North Atlantic shipping lanes which have drawn interest from Russia and China. Either Russia and China are going to have an impact there, or we are. Arctic shipping has increased, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/01/08/why-does-trump-want-to-buy-greenland-heres-what-to-know-as-don-jr-arrives-on-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>, 37% over the past decade.
In addition, Greenland is part of the strategically important Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, a choke point that Russian ships actually have to transit to travel from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic.
And Greenland has a plethora of untapped mineral resources. Those include copper, iron ore, diamonds, and oil. We should purchase Greenland.
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The people of Greenland have been talking about independence for a very long time. If that were to happen, they would realign with the United States in a heartbeat. First of all, it&#8217;s better to live in the United States than it is to live in a principality of Denmark. Second, as far as security concerns to defend those Arctic Straits against Russia and China, do you think Denmark is going to go up against the Russians or the Chinese?
If that is a matter of national security for the United States, why not sell Greenland to the United States if you are Denmark?
Back in 1775, Denmark and Norway declared Greenland a colony. Greenland was then formally transferred from Norway to Denmark by a treaty in 1814. Denmark started trying to colonize the island in the 1880s.
But before the 1880s, a huge chunk was actually discovered by Americans. Charles Francis Hall saw northwest Greenland during the Polaris expedition, which was from 1871 to 1873. And another explorer named Robert Peary actually claimed much of the North.
The only reason that Denmark has any claim whatsoever to Greenland, as far as the United States is concerned, is because when the United States was interested in purchasing the Danish West Indies during World War I, Denmark required the U.S. to recognize its claim over the whole island of Greenland.
At the time, Peary, the explorer who discovered and claimed much of it, opposed the U.S. giving up the claim because the Monroe Doctrine said there should be no European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
He correctly suggested that we should have purchased the island outright. And then, as it turned out, we had to defend it anyway because in the early 1940s, Denmark had been conquered by the Nazis. Once that happened, the United States basically had to defend Greenland as its own principality because it was the only known significant source of a material called rhyolite. Because Germany was attempting to use the North Atlantic as a base during World War II, the United States actually did apply the Monroe Doctrine on European colonies in the North Atlantic Ocean.
By 1946, the joint chiefs of staff had listed Greenland and Iceland as essential international locations for American bases. In fact, when NATO was in its heyday, Greenland was seen as more important to both American and Canadian defense than some of the Western European countries. That was because the very, very north of Canada, the North American continent, gets pretty close to territory that is controlled by Russia.
In 1951, Greenland and the United States signed a treaty that gave the United States exclusive jurisdiction over defense areas within Greenland. So there is a significantly solid case that the United States actually ought to buy Greenland.
But there’s more. 
President Trump has made clear that he does not want the Panama Canal to be controlled by the Chinese. He&#8217;s half joking when he&#8217;s making fun of Justin Trudeau and talking about making Canada the 51st state, but the Greenland issue is actually a fairly serious proposal. And when it comes to the Panama Canal, there really is a serious problem. The Panama Canal was built with American labor and money. It was turned over idiotically by one of our worst presidents, Jimmy Carter.
The Panama Canal has run significantly worse since we turned it over to Panama. The Panamanians have turned over both ends of the canals to Chinese companies who could easily shut off the entrances and exits to the Panama Canal. 40% of all American container traffic goes through the Panama Canal. That&#8217;s a lot of American commerce moving through the Panama Canal.
If the United States were ever to get into a conflict with China, most shipping would cease because China would try to take control of the Taiwan Strait and the Strait of Malacca, which is basically the tip of the South China Sea. That would shut off another shipping route. If they could shut off shipping in the Western Hemisphere, they could absolutely cripple the American economy.
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On foreign policy, Trump was asked about what he&#8217;s going to do if the hostages are not freed by Hamas by the time he takes office in just 13 days. 
President Trump <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-vows-all-hell-will-break-out-if-hamas-hostages-not-released-before-he-takes-office-do-i-have-to-define-it-for-you/">answered</a>:
<blockquote>Do I have to define it for you? Look, all hell will break out. … If they’re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is. And they should have given them back a long time ago, they should have never taken them, there should have never been the attack on Oct. 7. People forget that, but there was, and many people [were] killed.</blockquote>
This is strength. Joe Biden never had any moral clarity about this because he&#8217;s a fool. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has moral clarity about this.
And this is the correct approach. If Hamas is not afraid, they&#8217;re not releasing the hostages. It is that simple. There&#8217;s nothing else that is going to make them release the hostages other than dire threats and action and allowing Israel to do exactly what it needs to do in the Gaza Strip.
And then Trump was asked about the possibility of a preemptive strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities if they were to ramp up their nuclear production. And Trump gave the correct answer on this one too.
Again, Trump gave more answers in this one press conference than Biden has given in four years. He made more intelligent statements in this press conference than Biden has ever said in his entire career. That’s because Biden was, is, and will be a dullard. 
President Trump explained that if Iran were to attempt a nuclear weapon, he wouldn’t tell the reporter what he would do because he&#8217;s the president, and he&#8217;s not going to tell some dumb reporter what he&#8217;s going to do because it&#8217;s a stupid question. That is correct.
Speaking of other good things, President Trump also had some words about Biden&#8217;s attempts to shut down drilling for oil off pretty much all of America&#8217;s Eastern seaboard on his way out. Trump said, we like to produce energy in America. American energy independence has made us less dependent on some of the worst places in the world. That is a good thing. And Biden is throttling America&#8217;s energy independence.
A great press conference.
He’s better than he ever was.

President-Elect Trump Holds Press Conference At Mar-A-Lago

Trump Gives The Best Press Conference Ever

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President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the Hamas terrorist organization must release the hostages that it kidnapped during its unprecedented October 7 terrorist attack against Israel before Inauguration Day or else &#8220;all hell will break out&#8221; in the region.
Trump made the threat against the Iranian-backed terrorist group during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago when asked about it.
&#8220;If those hostages aren&#8217;t back&#8230; if they&#8217;re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;anyone&#8221; is likely a reference to Iran, which has propped up Hamas and is already facing Trump&#8217;s wrath for its increased terrorist activities, including attempts to assassinate Trump.
&#8220;All hell will break out,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to say anymore, but that&#8217;s what it is. And they should have given them back a long time ago, they should have never taken them. There should have never been the attack of October 7th, people forget that.&#8221;
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Trump To Iran’s Axis Of Terror: Release Hostages Before Inauguration Or ‘All Hell Will Break Out’

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In the face of those who have criticized the Israeli military for targeting hospitals where Hamas terrorists hide, on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces released a video in which a member of the terrorist group Hamas admitted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad use hospitals to hide their terrorists and weapons specifically so that the Israeli military won’t target them.
The Israel Defense Forces released a video of Anas Muhammad Faiz Al-Sharif, 21, a Hamas terrorist who had been hiding out at Kamal Adwan Hospital, being questioned. Using a civilian or another protected person as a shield for military operations is a direct violation of International Humanitarian Law and is considered a war crime. That is clearly stated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“I work at Kamal Adwan Hospital as a cleaning supervisor,” Al-Sharif stated. “I joined the Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) in 2021 in the Nukhba forces in the Western Battalion.”
The “Nukhba forces” are an “elite unit within Hamas, which includes operatives chosen by senior Hamas leaders,” CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/israel-hamas-war-who-are-nukhba-force-military-unit-palestine-army-gaza-idf-18042121.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “Five Hamas leaders secretly planned the bloody invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, with 70 commandos from the terrorist group’s elite Nukhba Force leading the charge across the Gaza border, the London-based, pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Wednesday,” JNS <a href="https://www.jns.org/five-hamas-leaders-planned-oct-7-attack-70-nukhba-fighters-led-the-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January 2024.
“Where were you arrested?” the interrogator asked.
“Inside Kamal Adwan Hospital,” he replied.
“When you were at Kamal Adwan Hospital, who else was there?” the interrogator continued.
“There were people there, the staff — the medical team I work with daily and directly. There were also operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the Al-Nasser Division and other organizations in Northern Gaza,” Al-Sharif admitted.
“Why were you hiding in Kamal Adwan Hospital?” the interrogator queried.
“They believe it is a safe haven for them because the military cannot directly target it,” Al-Sharif said.
“What do you mean when you say it is a ‘safe haven’?” the interrogator pressed.
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“Because there are civilians and patients there,” Al-Sharif answered. “They think the military cannot bomb it, such as with a missile from an F-16 or by demolishing the building.”
“Now, when the operatives were in the hospital, what were they doing?” the interrogator wanted to know.
“The operatives were there transporting equipment and weapons like AK-47s &#8230; and pistols,” Al-Sharif revealed. “The weapons were transferred to and from the hospital from the outside in and from the inside out within the hospital. It was used for observation and patrols. They leave the hospital late at night; they arrive at the hospital in the morning. Inside the hospital, they distribute the grenades and mortars equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions and for tunnels underground to the command and control center, whether at Kamal Adwan, Faluja (Jabaliya Camp), or in new locations where the operatives are located.”
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Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli attacks on Gaza

WATCH: Hamas Member Admits Terrorists And Lethal Weapons Are In Hospitals So Israel Won’t Attack

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A Gaza doctor who has been published twice by The New York Times and profiled by CNN is actively detained and being interrogated by Israel, which believes he is a terrorist operative. But despite evidence suggesting close ties to Hamas, international organizations are hailing him as a humanitarian.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested on Friday along with 240 others during a raid on the hospital, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-detains-medics-after-hospital-raid-health-officials-say-2024-12-28/">Reuters reported</a>.
In the wake of his arrest, organizations including the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, and the Council on America-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have called for his release. But as the global campaign to free Abu Safiya from Israeli detention takes off, revelations have come to light about his alleged dual role as a Hamas colonel.
In a <a href="https://www.idf.il/260609">statement</a>, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reported that the hospital was being used as a terrorist command, where they recovered grenades, guns, ammunition, and other military equipment in the area. Patients and medical staff were reportedly relocated to the Indonesian Hospital, with additional fuel and medical supplies provided. About 15 of those arrested are believed to have infiltrated Israel on the October 7 attack.
The statement adds that Abu Safiya was taken for questioning due to being suspected of being a Hamas terrorist operative. The IDF confirmed to The Daily Wire that Abu Safiya is still currently detained and being interrogated.
Media outlets <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/29/middleeast/kamal-adwan-hospital-director-detained-hnk-intl/index.html">including CNN</a> have profiled Abu Safiya without investigating his ties to Hamas. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/hussam-abu-safyia">published two</a> op-eds authored by Abu Safiya where he begged for help for his hospital. Abu Safiya’s family issued a statement demanding his release and urging the media to apply pressure for his freedom.
Abu Safiya, a pediatrician who has cultivated an image as a defender of human rights to mask his terrorist ties, was exposed first by Israeli activist <a href="https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1872625254788722784">Eitan Fischberger</a>. In multiple Arab media reports or social media posts, Abu Safiya is referred to as a Colonel.
In five Arabic news articles, from four different articles, spanning from 2017 to 2021, Abu Safiya was referred to with his Hamas terrorist military rank of Colonel. These articles are published in <a href="https://archive.is/MSfVZ">Quds Net News Agency</a>, <a href="https://archive.is/4Ueb8">Alray</a>, <a href="https://archive.is/1KsC7">Pal Times</a>, and <a href="https://archive.is/6PiWN">twice</a> in <a href="https://archive.is/6PiWN">Al Watan</a>. 
A 2018 <a href="https://archive.is/WNcaC">Facebook post</a> by the Hamas-run Medical Services in Gaza refers to Abu Safiya as “Director of the Children&#8217;s Hospital, Colonel Hussam Abu Safiya.”
“It’s clear these news articles are using the word ‘aqeed’ to describe Hussam Abu Safiya which means military colonel,” Yigal Carmon, the president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) told The Daily Wire.
“This word would not be used to describe someone running a hospital as a civilian,” he added. “Besides, a few of the articles mention his role in the hospital in addition to using the word Colonel. Other doctors are mentioned too with military ranks and some doctors are mentioned just as doctors. They are distinguished.&#8221;
Apart from IDF accusations, Kamal Adwan hospital has been described as being overrun by Hamas. In the Pal Times article mentioned above, the Kamal Adwan hospital is described as belonging to the military medical services in the northern Gaza region. Dr. Baxtiyar Baram, a Kurdish physician who volunteered in Al-Awda hospital and Kamal Adwam hospital, accused Hamas of exploiting the hospital. 
“I saw that hospitals had been used for hiding Hamas leaders,” Baram said in an interview, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-804116#google_vignette">reported the Jerusalem Post</a>. He added that he believes Israel’s accusations of using human shields is correct because he has “seen it with my own eyes.”
Safiya’s social media shows his support of the October 7 attack and hostility towards Jews. The day after the attack, Safiya <a href="https://archive.is/9M2H9">shared a graphic</a> of Palestinians breaching the Israeli border with the caption, “We are coming back to you, we are coming back, oh our country we are coming back.”
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He writes about the October 7th massacre: &#8220;And they thought their fortresses would protect them from God, but God came upon them from where they did not expect, 
and cast terror into their hearts.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/NXIwp9ppRO">pic.twitter.com/NXIwp9ppRO</a>
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1872625316205842530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
The next day, Abu Safiya <a href="https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1872625316205842530">wrote</a> in a now-deleted Facebook post: &#8220;And they thought their fortresses would protect them from Allah, but Allah came upon them from where they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts.&#8221;
Safiya’s social media history gave an insight into his beliefs before the Israel-Hamas war as well.
In 2020, Abu Safiya <a href="https://archive.is/CLrgN">used a verse</a> from the Quran about not allying with Christians or Jews to encourage against “normalizing with the enemy.” In 2021, <a href="https://archive.is/ZnuYB">he shared</a> an image of terrorists with terrorist logos including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In a <a href="https://archive.is/HgVoS#selection-1369.0-1369.109">2022 post</a>, Abu Safiya called for the “beloved people of Palestine and Al-Aqsa Mosque” to be protected from &#8220;the injustice of the Jews and their aggression.”
&#8220;Nobody should be surprised that even doctors and hospital directors are part of Hamas,” Carmon said. “Hamas leaders are not uneducated thugs. They are the top of their society and highly-educated idealists, but their ideal is to annihilate the Jews.”
Abu Safiya has been especially outspoken on Instagram and Facebook as the IDF has waged a new offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza. The doctor told CNN he was briefly detained and interrogated in October.
Aby Safiya’s family <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DENSb8YIslT/?hl=en">posted to his Instagram account</a> on Monday calling for his immediate release.
“Detained by Israeli occupation forces while performing his humanitarian duty, he now suffers severe mistreatment in Sde Teiman detention center, including humiliation, exposure to freezing cold, and denial of medical care,” the post states.
CAIR <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-action-alert-demand-ama-call-for-the-release-of-gaza-hospital-director-dr-hussam-abu-safiya-now-held-in-israeli-torture-center/">described</a> Abu Safiya as “kidnapped” and called on the Biden Administration to demand his release. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <a href="https://x.com/DrTedros/status/1873595575167283556">also called</a> for his release.

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Suspected Hamas Operative Hailed As A Humanitarian After Arrest

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Birzeit University

The Dark Relationship Between U.S. Universities And An Anti-American School Controlled By Terrorists

Georgetown University

Harvard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Rutgers University

Media outlets around the world reported Thursday that five Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza by Israel, even though those “journalists” were members of a terrorist group.
The BBC’s headline <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg57wrgl7o?xtor=AL-99999-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_link_id=54910A0E-C370-11EF-9ED0-BBDB6976FC3C&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_format=link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared,</a> “Five Gaza journalists killed in Israeli strike targeting armed group,” and began its coverage by citing Quds TV, a Palestinian TV channel that is affiliated with the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The PIJ is described by the BBC merely as “an armed group that took part in 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.” The BBC also, early in its report, mentioned that the wife of one of the “journalists” was about to give birth. The outlet waited until the fourth paragraph to mention that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted “Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists&#8221; and that steps were taken to avoid harming civilians.”
But immediately after, the BBC included a comment from the Committee to Protect Journalists saying it was “devastated by the reports” and that &#8220;Journalists are civilians and must always be protected.&#8221; The outlet spends most of the article claiming that Israel has been killing “journalists” in Gaza.
The five men killed were Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali, Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan, Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Ladaa, Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi, and Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna, all of whom the IDF labels as PIJ operatives.
Other outlets also followed the framing that the men were merely journalists. The Associated Press, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-12-26-2024-2e8c33648410c2da94ae7d0d73c0b1a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for example</a>, cited the notoriously unreliable Gaza Health Ministry as its source that the men were journalists. Only after claiming they were journalists did the AP acknowledge that the Israeli military says the men were posing as journalists and were actually Islamic militants.
CNN also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/middleeast/journalists-death-israeli-strike-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used this framing</a>, citing Gaza authorities.
Eitan Fischberger, a former staff sergeant for the IDF, posted a thread on X identifying each of the men as terrorists, including their public postings, which include pro-terrorism statements.
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Faisel likes to indoctrinate children into a life of terrorism, because “journalism” <a href="https://t.co/C3S9iiQ3ZN">pic.twitter.com/C3S9iiQ3ZN</a>
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1872244010376744974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Media outlets routinely present stories from the side of the Palestinians over Israel. In August, more than 80 outlets had to issue a correction after republishing an article from the AP that falsely stated the civilian death toll in Gaza had “exceeded 40,000,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eighty-media-outlets-issue-correction-on-ap-story-that-inflated-gaza-civilian-death-toll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
But “not even Hamas has alleged that more than 40,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed in the war between Israel and the terror organization,” the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), which monitors Arab media, <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/press-release-more-than-80-north-american-media-outlets-correct-after-ap-outflanks-hamas-casualty-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“While the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported over 40,000 total deaths among Gaza’s residents, its data does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israeli sources, meanwhile, estimate that over 17,000 of those killed are Hamas combatants,” the organization added.
Media outlets have also repeatedly cited the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, even though it routinely lies about civilian casualties, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

Israeli Strike On Gaza

Media Claims 5 Gaza Journalists Were Killed By Israel. They Were Terrorists.

Media Bias

Palestine

Two Congressional California Democrat House members are being <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/401234" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeted</a> by anti-Israel groups after they voted for $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel last April.
Some residents of Northern California have filed a lawsuit targeting Democrat Reps. Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman, alleging the plaintiffs caused “moral and emotional/psychic injury” to taxpayers by their vote. The lawsuit attempts to bar the two congressmen from approving future military aid to Israel.
Last January, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of Oakland, who in 2012 ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act,  dismissed a lawsuit by anti-Israel forces who wanted to force the Biden administration to withdraw support for Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas. But he also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/world/middleeast/joe-biden-israel-support.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a>, “It is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide,” and <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/israel-gaza-genocide-lawsuit-oakland-18640646.php">declared</a> that Israel’s efforts were “intended to eradicate a whole people and therefore plausibly falls within the international prohibition against genocide.”
Last month, a courageous woman from Kenya who serves as the United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide was fired after she stood up to the Israel-haters in the U.N. and refused to declare that Israel has committed “genocide” in its war against Hamas, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Alice Nderitu said Israel’s campaign in Gaza doesn’t meet the definition of genocide. She was fired,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-ns-anti-israel-genocide-purge-c8feef1a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.”
“As a legal matter, establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent,” WSJ explained, adding, “Israel’s campaign of self-defense doesn’t qualify. The war against Hamas has had many deaths, but Israel’s strategy is intended to dismantle a terrorist regime, not eliminate an ethnic group. The Jewish state has gone to great lengths to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties, even as Hamas uses civilians as shields so their deaths can be used as propaganda.”
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Within weeks after the Hamas massacre of more than 1200 Israelis, Thompson issued a <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/thompson-huffman-israel-lawsuit-19991013.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> in which he said, “Israel has a right to defend itself and its people from terrorism like we saw on October 7, but they must do so while prioritizing the safety of civilians. President Biden is correct in reminding Israel that its military response must respect international law. Notwithstanding Hamas’ well-documented strategy of using innocent Palestinians as human shields, every effort must be made to minimize non-combatant civilian casualties and avoid any form of collective punishment.”
Thompson’s office also has issued a statement apparently designed to pacify anti-Israel forces, saying, “Congressman Thompson understands that it has been the civilian population that has paid the cost of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and he remains gravely concerned about the scale of civilian loss in this war. That’s why he has advocated and continues to advocate for the Biden Administration to work with the State Department and our allies to help secure a negotiated bilateral ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, and the establishment of a two-state solution to ensure peace and self-determination for the Palestinian and Israeli people.”

Congressman Mike Thompson (left) talks with congressman Jared Huffman (right) before a community meeting for north bay fire victims at Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, in Santa Rosa, Calif.  Rep. Mike Thompson leads much of the Ho

Two CA House Dems Sued For Supporting Israel’s War Against Hamas

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American Israeli Defense Forces reservist Chaim Meisels didn’t just fly from New York to Israel on October 7, 2023, to fight against Hamas — he also helped the IDF acquire the drone that located Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Sinwar, 61, was killed in October after the drone detected a group of militants moving between buildings. The drone helped pinpoint the terrorists’ location, leading to a firefight and the terrorists splitting up before being killed. Sinwar ran alone into a building and was eventually killed.
Sinwar&#8217;s final moments were captured by another drone, which recorded him sitting with his head covered and throwing what appears to be a stick at the device. The IDF was not immediately aware that Sinwar was part of the group of militants.
The first drone, donated by a group in New Jersey, was a DJI Mavic equipped with thermal imaging and primarily used for general observation. The second drone, a DJI Avata, was donated by London fashion designer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chansufrin/?hl=en">Hannah Lancry Sufrin</a>, and is designed for navigating small spaces, such as entering buildings through windows, according to Meisels. Lancry told The Daily Wire she has raised close to half a million dollars since the war began to assist with getting supplies to the IDF.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> Drone footage shows the last seconds of Sinwar’s life <a href="https://t.co/XwmEZRzWfo">pic.twitter.com/XwmEZRzWfo</a>
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1847007721922744415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Meisels, 30, told The Daily Wire that after being honored as a guest of a synagogue in Teaneck New Jersey, a family hosting him asked how they could support the 828th Bislamach Brigade he belongs to. Meisels explained that his unit would benefit from more equipment, including drones. 
“When I got to my unit after October 7, it’s sad to say but we had almost nothing,” Meisels said. “After October 7, there were close to 300,000 reserve guys that joined in and had to become part of the fight and the IDF did not have helmets or vests for them. Jews in America pitched in and donated so we could do our job.”
Lindsay, who requested her last name be withheld for fear of her safety, told The Daily Wire she organized the fundraising, which amounted to about $10,000, given by members of her shul, the rabbi’s discretionary fund, and a few donors from another state.
“The excitement we all felt when we heard Sinwar was dead and that the drone we donated helped locate him was unreal,” Lindsay of Teaneck, New Jersey, who helped organize the fundraising for the drones told The Daily Wire. “It was great news to receive.”
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<div id="attachment_848885" style="width: 334px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-848885" class="size-large wp-image-848885" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af-324x576.jpg" alt="" width="324" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af-324x576.jpg 324w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af-169x300.jpg 169w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af-768x1366.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/7dfd9771-8a37-4357-96e8-644578bde6af.jpg 899w" sizes="(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px" />DJI Mavic drone donated to the IDF by a group of Jews in New Jersey. (Photo: Courtesy of Chaim Meisels)</div>
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Lindsay and her family purchased the drones in May and provided them to Meisels. According to Meisels, the drones were fully operational in Gaza by June.
“October 7th wasn&#8217;t an attack just on Israel. It was an attack on Jews all over,” Meisels explained. “So they wanted to help and one of the ways they were able to help is by donating equipment to the guys on the front lines in Israel. So a lot of drones were donated, a lot of helmets, a lot of vests, a lot of tourniquets or basic stuff for the guys in order to be able to fight better.”
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Meisels explained that while the IDF has many drones, they are often shot down and need to be replaced, which is costly. He said that when one is donated, its software is modified to function in combat and connect to IDF systems. 
Though Meisels is proud of his unit, which used the drones to help eliminate Sinwar, he was not present during the operation because he decided to take a few hours off to see his wife and newborn daughter on what appeared to be a low-action day.
“Because my wife came to Israel I went to visit her,” Meisels explained. “When I came back I realized that they had killed Sinwar and they were doing a lot of good stuff. I was kind of sad to not be part of it, but we put in a tremendous amount of work the days later to find hostages.”
<div id="attachment_848881" style="width: 423px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-848881" class="size-large wp-image-848881" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/c28eb201-6d2f-47c6-b0d6-138f50f5d169-413x576.jpg" alt="" width="413" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/c28eb201-6d2f-47c6-b0d6-138f50f5d169-413x576.jpg 413w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/c28eb201-6d2f-47c6-b0d6-138f50f5d169-215x300.jpg 215w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/c28eb201-6d2f-47c6-b0d6-138f50f5d169-768x1070.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/c28eb201-6d2f-47c6-b0d6-138f50f5d169.jpg 888w" sizes="(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px" />Chaim Meisels sitting on the chair Sinwar was seen sitting on before he died. (Photo: Courtesy of Chaim Meisels)</div>
Meisels, a native of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was raised in the Orthodox Jewish Satmar community — one of the largest Hasidic groups. He is the great-grandson of the famed Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the former leader of Satmar, who passed away in 2006. 
Meisels says he is the only grandchild (of about 500) fighting in the IDF, as the group does not support its members fighting in Israel’s military. But Meisels said he felt a connection to Israel at a young age and agreed to a short commitment that turned into nearly six years of service, during which time he rose to the rank of captain.
“It ended up that I was there for close to six years after becoming a commander and then going to the Israeli West Point, which made me an officer and later a captain,” he said. “After my service, I moved back to the United States to continue my life over here.”
Meisels served about six years in Israel as a “lone soldier,” a term used for Jews from the diaspora fighting in the IDF without any immediate family present in the country. He said most of the time he was training for a potential war, but on October 7, just four months after his wedding, he flew to Israel to fight.
“I went to JFK to be on the first flight to Israel, and I was there on Sunday,” he said. “Only when I landed in Israel, I realized what actually happened. I knew it was very bad but I didn&#8217;t know how bad it was.”
Meisels first went to the Lebanon border with his unit in case Hezbollah decided to replicate Hamas’s attack. Then he was one of the first units to enter Gaza to help bring back the hostages. 
Fighting in Gaza has been difficult because of the urban warfare environment, said Meisels.
“It just changed my whole perspective on fighting in a neighborhood where the civilians might be terrorists,” he said. “We got shot at by people who looked like regular people. So we didn&#8217;t want to open fire on them in the beginning. But then they see you start shooting at you in civilian clothing and it kind of made the world very tough for us to be able to differentiate when you&#8217;re going to shoot back and when not because we didn&#8217;t want to kill civilians.”
Meisels said it shocked him that he found weapons in every Gazan house he entered. He said he also found traces of hostages in civilian homes.
“You go into a house and everything is normal and then you find papers or an I.D. from one of the hostages so you knew those guys had to be involved with that, which was very shocking to me in the beginning,” he said. “There isn&#8217;t a lot of civilians and a lot of the people there identify with Hamas and will try to kill you if they can.”
Meisels supports balance when it comes to having more Orthodox men fighting in the IDF, a topic that has caused stark divisions in Israeli society. Many religious groups prefer to have men studying the Torah in religious programs, called yeshivas, while other religious groups and secular society believe fighting-age men should participate in Israel’s mandatory draft.
<div id="attachment_848877" style="width: 778px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-848877" class="size-large wp-image-848877" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/729b7958-6f57-49a5-a954-97390be8c3c7-768x576.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/729b7958-6f57-49a5-a954-97390be8c3c7-768x576.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/729b7958-6f57-49a5-a954-97390be8c3c7-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/729b7958-6f57-49a5-a954-97390be8c3c7-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/729b7958-6f57-49a5-a954-97390be8c3c7.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" />Chaim Meisels praying while serving in Gaza for the IDF. (Photo: Courtesy of Chaim Meisels)</div>
“There are 7 to 9 million Jews living in Israel and we want to protect them,” he said. “You can’t force people to join the IDF though, so to get this group to join it has to be done in a smart way, including making following religious observance possible while serving.”
He added that though he believes more men should serve, not everyone is cut out.
“I think that most of the Haredi community should serve, but not everyone,” he said.  “Some people are just not made for the army system. There&#8217;s a lot of people who should, but you can&#8217;t make it everyone, because then it&#8217;s going to become very hard for some guys that I don&#8217;t want to get a gun.”
He said that other roles for mandatory service, such as in the ambulance system, fire department, or police may be a suitable compromise.
“We, as Orthodox Jews believe that a lot of men that are able should be learning and become rabbis because we believe that that&#8217;s also helping to protect Israel and it&#8217;s good for the future we need,” he said. “Like we need professors and doctors in the secular world, we need people who learn and know Torah very well.”
While Meisels is not on reserve duty in the IDF, he serves as the National Chapters Director at the nonprofit <a href="https://nevut.org/about-us/">Nevut</a>, where he spearheads efforts to support returning lone soldiers as they transition back to the United States.
“There are a lot of guys who went to Israel to fight and then when they come back, some are struggling with PTSD,” he said. &#8220;We just basically try to tell them they&#8217;re not alone and we didn&#8217;t forget their service and we try to take care of them.”

Drone and Sinwar

Drone That Caught Yahya Sinwar Was Donated By New Jersey Jews Says IDF Captain

Yahya Sinwar

The Palestinian Authority (PA), which for years has had a “pay for slay” reward program for Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis, and the terrorist group Hamas, which committed the brutal October 7 massacre, are going to war in Samaria.
Iran has been trying to foster war against Israel in Judea and Samaria by smuggling sophisticated weapons to Palestinians there, but with Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah and Hamas and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Iran has been stymied.
With Hamas losing control of Gaza, the Biden administration has indicated that it would prefer the PA— which was ousted in 2007 in Gaza in a bloody war with Hamas— to take control of Gaza. Thus, the PA has been trying to assert control in the terrorist hotspot Jenin in Samaria, as Hamas has tried to expand its influence there.
“For the last eight days, PA security forces <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-833797" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have battled Hamas</a> and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in Jenin, determined to regain control over the refugee camp that had fallen under the sway of terrorists unaffiliated with the PA,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="//07EBBD99-0DF3-45AD-94B1-0F749807E355/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “These terrorists, aligned with Iran’s ‘axis of evil,’ were a cornerstone of the Islamic Republic’s strategy to ignite an explosion in Judea and Samaria.”
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A PA senior security official <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday, “Since Hamas lacks the political courage to apologize to the Palestinian people, especially the residents of Gaza, and since it cannot reform its policy, which is leading to disaster and undermining the steadfastness of the people, it is now dragging the West Bank into flames, gambling with what remains of the Palestinian people&#8217;s resources under the pretext of struggle and resistance.&#8221;
As the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg20651/html/CHRG-114hhrg20651.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in 2016:
<blockquote>Since 2003, it has been Palestinian law to reward Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with a monthly paycheck&#8211;legislation which creates jihad. Under this act, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization use a so-called &#8220;martyrs&#8217; fund&#8221; to pay the families of Palestinian prisoners and suicide bombers. One prominent Palestinian says that these inducements have become “sacred in Palestinian politics.”</blockquote>
Last February, Yasser Abu Sido, a senior official of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, Fatah, <a href="//07EBBD99-0DF3-45AD-94B1-0F749807E355/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I am not a fan of Hitler, but when Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust, he had obvious reasons. &#8230; They planned to take control of Germany. They started to bring down Germany in terms of the economy and moral values. Hitler reacted by making the Jews go on the streets and lick the sidewalks. They know this very well.”

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT

Hamas, Palestinian Authority Go To War Against Each Other In Samaria

Judea and Samaria

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