Updated November 10, 2023 at 4:02 PM IST
A freshwater spring bubbles among mangroves, palm trees and cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited paradise about a mile off the coast of this small Gulf Coast town.
YANKEETOWN: A freshwater spring bubbles among mangroves, palm trees and cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited paradise about a mile off the coast of this small Gulf Coast town.
Pelicans dive near the cool waters of Florida’s Withlacoochee Bay, and the unobstructed view to the west dazzles the sunsets.
It would possibly have seemed like an ideal getaway for Florida businessman Patrick Parker Walsh. Instead, he’s serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence in federal criminal court for stealing nearly $8 million from the federal COVID-19 relief budget that he used, in part, to buy Sweetheart Island.
While Walsh’s personal island is among the largest purchases made through pandemic scammers, his crime wasn’t the only one. He is one of thousands of thieves who perpetrated the largest scam in U. S. history. They potentially looted more than $280 billion in federal COVID-19 aid; Another $123 billion was wasted or squandered.
The loss represents only about 10% of the $4. 3 trillion the U. S. government has spent to mitigate the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.
An AP review of a slew of pandemic fraud cases paints a picture of thieves and scammers spending lavishly on homes, luxury watches and diamond jewelry, Lamborghinis and other expensive cars. The stolen also paid for long nights at strip clubs and gambling sprees in Las Vegas. and unforgettable vacations.
Their crimes were relatively undeniable: the government’s purpose was to put cash into the hands of other suffering individuals and businesses with a minimum of inconvenience, especially in the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis. Safeguards have been removed to weed out fraudsters. As in the case of Walsh and thousands of others, they proved that stealing money was as undeniable as lying about a request.
The thieves came from all walks of life and from all corners of the world. There’s a rapper from Tennessee who bragged about how easy it was to borrow more than $700,000 in pandemic unemployment insurance on YouTube. A former pizzeria owner and host of a cryptocurrency-themed show. Radio Display bought an alpaca farm in Vermont with stolen aid. And a former Nigerian government official who recovered about a portion of $1 million in COVID-19 humanitarian aid was wearing a $10,000 watch and a $35,000 gold chain when he was arrested.
Nearly 3,200 defendants have been charged with COVID-19 relief fraud, according to the U. S. Department of Justice. Approximately $1. 4 billion in stolen pandemic aid was seized.
Investigators may not arrest all scammers. The scale and scope of the fraud is too great. Pandemic cases rely on virtual evidence, which is perishable, and the monetary trail can cool over time, said Bob Westbrooks, former executive director of the Federal Office of Accountability. Pandemic Response Committee.
“The uncomfortable fact is that the federal criminal justice formula is simply provided to fully address the unprecedented volume of pandemic aid fraud cases, giant and small, and involving thousands upon thousands of domestic and foreign actors,” Westbrooks said.
Senior Justice Department officials are disheartened by the enormity of the task. They have created special “strike forces” to hunt down COVID-19 humanitarian aid thieves and have vowed to abandon the hunt.
“We’re going to stay there for as long as it takes,” Assistant U. S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in August.
Konstantinos Zarkadas, a heavily indebted New York doctor, has joined the gallery of COVID-19 scammers by falsifying at least 11 separate pandemic relief programs that netted him an estimated $3. 8 million, according to prosecutors. He bought $140,000 worth of Rolex and Cartier wristwatches from himself and his family members and made a large down payment on a yacht, according to court records.
Zarkadas used about $3 million to pay off part of an earlier civil judgment against him for breach of a real estate lease. His boldest move was to return $80,000 of the looted money to the government to settle a federal lawsuit alleging he violated the Controlled Substances Act. Acting by distributing more than 20,000 doses of a weight-loss drug without keeping accurate records, prosecutors said.
New York state revoked Zarkadas’ medical license shortly after he was sentenced to more than four years in prison for pandemic-related embezzlement.
The stolen budget funded Lee E. ‘s hectic lifestyle. Price III, a Houston resident with a prior conviction for forgery and theft. He defrauded nearly $1. 7 million by submitting bogus relief programs on behalf of businesses that existed on paper, according to the court. Records.
It didn’t take long for Price to spend $14,000 on a Rolex and more than $233,000 on a flashy white Lamborghini Urus, a luxury SUV that can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds. He also spent thousands of dollars at Casanova, a Houston strip club. sentenced to more than nine years in prison.
Vinath Oudomsin, from Georgia, also set up a fake company that he said earned $235,000 a year and had 10 employees. A few weeks after Oudomsine implemented pandemic aid, the government sent him $85,000 to keep his nonexistent business afloat.
Oudomsine spent about $58,000 on a 1999 Pokémon Charizard card, which depicts a golden dragon-like creature with its jaw wide open, in position to attack.
While they’re just as valuable as rare baseball cards (a perfect Mickey Mantle card that sold for $12. 6 million last year), Pokemon products can fetch a lot of money, as creditors have increased the costs of collectibles issued through the popular franchise.
During Oudomsine’s sentencing last year, U. S. District Judge Dudley H. Bowen called Oudomsine’s theft an “$85,000 insult” to a country reeling from the pandemic.
“I feel like a fool every time I say it: Pokemon card,” Bowen said before sending Udomsine to prison for 3 years.
Patrick Walsh’s attempt to save his aerial advertising business began legitimately, but temporarily turned into a primary fraud.
Walsh operated a small fleet of cigar-shaped aircraft that waved corporate logos over crowded venues. In June 2017, one of its aircraft crashed and burned on live television at the U. S. Open men’s golf tournament, one of the world’s biggest sporting events.
“I was playing, I looked up, I saw the fire and my abdomen hurt,” said professional golfer Jamie Lovemark, according to an Associated Press report. The pilot, the only passenger, was seriously injured but survived, according to an investigation. through the National Transportation Safety Board.
After the crash, Walsh’s clients began releasing their bail bonds, his attorneys wrote in court documents. To stay afloat, he took out high-interest loans that also allowed him to expand his business. In 2019, its businesses made $16 million in profits, and it expanded to Latin American and Asian markets.
Then the pandemic hit. ” COVID-19 didn’t slow down the business, it killed it,” Walsh’s lawyers wrote. He panicked.
Between March 2020 and January 2021, Walsh filed more than 30 fraudulent pandemic emergency assistance programs and won $7. 8 million, according to the Justice Department. Even if Walsh had followed the rules, his corporations would have benefited only from a “small subset” of those loans, federal prosecutors argued.
“His crimes are heinous and the product of greed,” prosecutors wrote in court documents. They cited the acquisition of Sweetheart Island, undisclosed “luxury goods,” oil fields in Texas and a dispossession of a home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Walsh’s lawyers said in a court filing that he was motivated not by greed, but by desperation. Walsh is under enormous pressure to save his businesses and supply his giant family, they write. He has 11 children.
U. S. District Judge Allen C. Winsor disagreed with this argument.
It wasn’t “a single moment of weakness,” Winsor said in sentencing Walsh in January to more than years in prison.
As part of his plea agreement, Walsh agreed to return the $7. 8 million he stole and sell Sweetheart Island, which was one of his first purchases with stolen federal money, according to court records.
Prosecutors said Walsh used $90,000 of his budget to help fund the acquisition of the island, valued at $116,000. Florida real estate records show the island sold for $200,000 in late June.
Walsh’s lawyers said he didn’t buy the island as a “tropical entertainment paradise,” but as a real estate opportunity. They did not explain how the businessman allegedly turned the remote island into a profit center.
Withlacoochee Bay is dotted with similar small, uninhabited islands. The only clue that anyone ever tried to expand Sweetheart Island is a few low walls of weather-worn cinder blocks that extend into the water. There’s still a “For Sale” sign posted on a A leafless, weather-stricken tree that looked like a scarecrow, warns others to stay away.
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Friday called for an end to hostilities in the besieged Gaza Strip. Speaking at the Saudi-African summit held in Riyadh on Friday, the Saudi prime minister and Crown Prince bin Salman said: “We are tense with the desire to end this war and the forced displacement of Palestinians. We condemn the experience of the Gaza Strip in terms of military aggression, attacks against civilians and continued violations of foreign humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying authorities. We emphasize the desire to create situations for the recovery of stability and the status quo of peace.
A rocket fired by Hamas landed near the armistice agreement line; According to Republic TV’s correspondent from Israel’s border with Gaza, in the war zone, a loud rocket landing strip can be heard.
Evacuees fleeing the combat zone in northern Gaza say thousands of displaced people who had sought safe refuge at Shifa Hospital in central Gaza City have fled after overnight explosions.
The hospital had housed an additional 80,000 people fleeing heavy ground fighting and airstrikes.
Some of those who fled on Friday said only a few hundred seriously injured patients and doctors remained.
Doctors at Shifa Hospital may not be able to be reached for comment due to disruptions in phone and internet connections.
The IDF said it is examining alarms of “hostile aircraft” in the area.
The Israeli military says it arrested 41 Palestinians in a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military said Friday that 14 of those arrested in last night’s attack were militants.
The Israeli military said it also destroyed the homes of two militants it said carried out an attack that killed an Israeli and seriously wounded an Israeli in August. At the time, an offshoot of the secular nationalist Fatah party, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israeli forces “sealed” a tent in Hebron that they said was used to print “incendiary fabrics for Hamas. “They also attacked three refugee camps in the West Bank, where they confiscated weapons.
The Israeli military says it has arrested 1,540 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the war, identifying 930 of them as Hamas affiliates. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, which represents Palestinian detainees, puts the numbers at a much higher number, at 90 so far. Thursday afternoon and 2,400 detained in the West Bank since the start of the war.
(AP Report)
The Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah said seven of its fighters were killed, but specified where they were killed and said only that they were “martyred on the way to Jerusalem. “A Hezbollah official and a Lebanese security official said all seven fighters were killed Friday morning. They spoke on condition of anonymity, in accordance with regulations.
Syrian pro-government media reported an Israeli airstrike in the central province of Homs on Friday morning. Hezbollah has fought in Syria alongside Syrian government forces, where they have helped tip the balance of forces in their favor during the 12-year Syrian conflict. The military said on Friday it had struck targets in Syria following a drone strike on the Red Sea city of Eilat, saying it was fired from Syria.
Since October 8, they have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops along the Lebanese-Israeli border. The latest deaths bring to 68 the number of Hezbollah fighters killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last month.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that his political component, the Palestinian Authority, was in a position to take the Gaza Strip after the IDF defeated Hamas, but only as part of a “broader agreement. “Abbas demanded that Israel and its allies negotiate negotiations like the U. S. deal. The U. S. is discussing a “comprehensive political solution” that deserves to come with a Palestinian state established along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
At the army headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with the heads of Israel’s southern regional councils for the first time since Hamas’ attack on Israeli territory on October 7. Civilians in Israel’s border communities killed after Hamas terrorists raided after breaching the fence and taking 240 hostages.
U. N. human rights chief Volker Turk is calling for an investigation into what he has called Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking in the Jordanian capital on Friday, Turk said Israel “will have to end without delay the use of such strategies and means of warfare and that the attacks will have to be investigated. “
He said the high number of civilian casualties and the extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure raise “serious considerations that this constitutes disproportionate attacks in violation of foreign humanitarian law. “
Turk came under pressure that movements in and near hospitals were “particularly intense,” adding that any use by Palestinian armed teams of civilians or civilian structures to protect themselves from attacks violates the laws of war.
But he said such conduct by Palestinian armed teams “does not absolve Israel of its legal responsibility to save civilians. “
(AP Report)
The U. N. humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon says the fallout from the Hamas-Israel war has already caused “significant damage” in Lebanon, where Hezbollah and allied teams have clashed with Israeli forces on the border for more than a month.
Imran Riza said in a statement on Friday that there were “worrying symptoms of an escalation of tensions” along the border.
Riza said there have been “alarming attacks that have killed and injured civilians in southern Lebanon, including women, youth and media workers” and extensive damage to personal property, public infrastructure and farmland, forcing more than 25,000 people to be displaced.
On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike hit a car traveling between the towns of Ainata and Aitaroun, killing four civilians, adding three young people and their grandmother, and wounding the youths’ mother. An Israeli army later said the car had been “identified as terrorist. “and that it was investigating “allegations that there were civilians in the vehicle. “
An anti-tank guided missile fired from Lebanon at an Israeli army post near Menara. Israeli forces responded with artillery fire.
The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Seventh Armored Brigade on Friday attacked a Hamas outpost and camp in the northern Gaza Strip, seizing dozens of weapons and killing about 30 terrorists.
The IDF announced a six-hour deadline for the evacuation of Gazans from Salah Al-Deen Street. The room is open from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. m. local time (3:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. m. ). ” The northern domain of the Gaza Strip is considered a fierce battleground and time is running out to evacuate it. Join the thousands of people who have responded to calls and moved south in recent days,” IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee said in Arabic on X, formerly Twitter.
According to the Republic TV correspondent who covered the volatile Israel-Gaza border, the IDF continues its airstrikes on Hamas infrastructure. A military infrastructure of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas’ military wing was destroyed by the IDF near the armistice line. agreement.
White smoke can be seen billowing from the building after the airstrikes, Republic TV correspondent reports. Hamas is building a network of tunnels to open up spaces that have been cleared by the IDF since ground operations began on October 27.
IDF snipers were deployed at Israel’s last point in line with the armistice agreement on the Israel-Gaza border.
The World Health Organization warns of the spread of infectious diseases in Gaza due to contaminated water limited to sanitary facilities. The WHO reported Thursday that since mid-October 2023, more than a portion of the 33,551 reported cases of diarrhea have been in young people under the age of five.
The organization said this is a significant increase from an average of 2,000 cases per month among children under five in 2021 and 2022. It also reported 8,944 cases of scabies and lice, 1,005 cases of chickenpox, 12,635 cases of rash and 54,866 cases of upconsistent with diseases of the respiratory tract. Infections.
Israel’s hard-working minister has said that Benjamin Netanyahu will have to call early elections after the war.
Labor Minister Yoav Bentzur made the unusually public suggestion in remarks quoted by Maariv on Thursday.
Bentzur, of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said Netanyahu “will be forced to go to the elections within 90 days, even before a commission of inquiry (into the war) is established. “
He added: “We can’t go on like this. The public will give their opinion and then we will pass by to see if Netanyahu gets the mandate. “
Bentzur later tried to retract the comments, saying they were taken out of context and reflected the position of Shas, a close best friend of Netanyahu.
Polls in Netanyahu’s favor plummeted following the surprise Hamas attack, which killed more than 1,400 people and left more than 240 hostage, triggering a devastating Israeli war in the militants’ stronghold in the Gaza Strip.
Turkey’s president accuses Western nations of “weakness” in the face of civilian deaths in Gaza and called on Muslim nations to show unity in opposition to Israel’s actions.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has harshly criticized Israel’s moves in Gaza, made the comments Thursday at an assembly of the 10-member Economic Cooperation Organization in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Erdogan said Western nations and organizations were watching those “massacres perpetrated across Israel” from afar, but that they were “too weak to even call for a ceasefire, let alone criticize the child killers. “
He added: “If we, the Economic Cooperation Organization, as Muslims, are going to raise our voices today. . . When will we raise our voices?
Erdogan also said Turkey would continue its diplomatic efforts to enforce a ceasefire and prevent the confrontation from spreading.
The Economic Cooperation Organization includes five Central Asian countries, in addition to Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
(AP Report)
U. S. President Joe Biden’s leadership has said Israel will allow a four-hour humanitarian pause in combat operations in northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee south, starting Thursday.
Biden also told reporters that he had asked the Israelis for a “pause of more than three days” in negotiations over the release of some hostages held by Hamas, though he ruled out the option of a general ceasefire.
In Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron opened a convention on aid to Gaza, calling on Israel to civilians, stating that “all lives have equal value” and that the fight against terrorism “can never be fought without rules. “
Saudi Arabia sent a plane loaded with 35 tons of food and humanitarian aid to Egypt for delivery to the Gaza Strip. The Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday on the first such aid delivery from the kingdom.
Before the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Saudi Arabia was in talks with the United States to normalize relations with Israel in exchange for a U. S. defense pact, assistance in building a civilian nuclear program, and basic progress toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. conflict. Saudi Arabia condemned the violence and called for a ceasefire.
Several countries have sent aid for Gaza to El-Arish on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which borders Gaza and Israel. Under a diplomatic agreement, the aid is delivered overland through Egypt’s Rafah crossing with Gaza after being inspected in Israel. Aid workers say the truck loads that have been allowed into Gaza in recent weeks are not enough to meet the growing desires of the territory’s 2. 3 million Palestinians.
(AP Report)
CIA Director William Burns was in Doha on Thursday to discuss efforts to secure the release of hostages in Gaza with Qatar’s prime minister and the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, according to a U. S. official. Burns met with Mossad leader David Barnea and the prime minister. Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
The Hamas militant organization that controls Gaza is holding some 240 hostages captured during Hamas’ fatal raid on Israel on Oct. 7. International officials are reportedly seeking a deal whereby Hamas can release some hostages in exchange for a pause in Israel’s air. Qatar is a common intermediary in foreign relations with Hamas, and some of Hamas’ most sensible political leaders have set up shop in the Gulf country.
German Foreign Minister Baerbock is visiting the Middle East for the third time in a month, with calls planned in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Baerbock’s meetings would deal with the release of German hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the humanitarian scenario there and efforts to avert a regional conflagration of the conflict.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has also visited Israel and countries in the region since Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll in Gaza stands at 10,818. In its latest update on Thursday, the ministry said the figure includes 4,412 young people and 2,198 women. The vast majority were killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit the enclave in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel.
In Gaza, another 26,905 Palestinians were injured.
Hamas has fired some 9,500 rockets at Tel Avvi since the start of the military operation against the terror group, the Israeli military said. They published information on the army’s air defense activity since the launch of the ground offensive. Israel has the “largest deployment of air defense batteries ever,” the Israeli military said. They intercepted more than 9,500 rockets and mortars, as well as dozens of drones smuggled through the terror faction into Israeli territory, the army said.
Most of the rockets were launched from civilian sites such as mosques, schools, hospitals and cultural centers. About 12% of the rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, according to IDF data.
As Israel continues its operations in Gaza, the White House said the IDF would begin implementing four-hour pauses in the fighting day in the northern Gaza Strip. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said an announcement would be made 3 hours in advance. “The Israelis have told us that there will be no military operations in those spaces for the duration of the pause and that this procedure begins today,” Kirby told a news conference Thursday.
The Israeli military said it struck two groups of Hezbollah anti-tank guided missiles in southern Lebanon, near the Biranit military base and the northern Yiftah network. “In the last few hours, IDF forces have met and attacked two known anti-tank sets. on Lebanese territory, in the domain of Birnit and in the domain of Yiftach,” the Israeli army wrote on X, officially known as Twitter. “Not long ago, terrorists fired on an IDF drone in the domain of Mount Dov. An IDF aircraft attacked the source of the fire and IDF forces attacked with artillery,” the organization added.
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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that Israel is in a “protracted war” with Gaza. “We want to resolve the messes quickly, even if it’s not perfect,” Gallant told a meeting with ministry directors-general and local officials, according to The Times of Israel. We are in a protracted war, and the issue of the [Israeli] civilian economy is paramount in controlling the war,” he added.
Egypt’s foreign minister said Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7 violence against Hamas “goes beyond self-defense. “Speaking at an aid convention in Paris, Shoukry said he also rejected any attempt by Israel to displace Palestinians from Gaza. Egypt’s relations with Gaza and Israel have played a huge role in allowing much-needed aid into the enclave, with the Rafah crossing ultimately being the only access between Gaza and the outside world.
An aide to Sara Netanyahu has resigned following a series of incendiary Facebook posts. According to news site Ynet, Tzipi Navon resigned after it became clear that his 14-day suspension was going to be extended. Navon posted a series of messages about the terms “traitors,” “traitorous kikes,” “scum,” and “fifth column. “
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a pressing ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas as the IDF continues its operations in Gaza City. “In the near future, we want to work to protect civilians. “There is a humanitarian pause and we want to move towards a ceasefire,” Macron said in a speech in Paris, The Guardian reported. “Civilians will have to be protected, it’s indispensable and non-negotiable and it’s an immediate necessity,” he added.
On Thursday, the IDF claimed to have managed to get rid of the Hamas regional commander blamed for recent anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli forces. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari later shared a video of the operation. “The IDF, guided through the Shin Bet and Amman intelligence services, deposed the terrorist Ibrahim Abu Ma’zib, head of the anti-tank missile system of the Hamas Brigade of the Central Camps, employing a fighter jet. As part of his role, he directed and carried out anti-tank attacks against Israeli citizens and IDF forces,” Hagari wrote on X, officially known as Twitter.
אבו-מע׳ ציב, ראש מערך טילי הנ”ט של חטיבת מחנות המרכז בארגון הטרור חמאס באמצע ו ת מטוס קרב. Are you your message? >> pic. twitter . com/vgw5XZYxHu
Here’s what happened when the war between Israel and Hamas comes to an end:
IDF infantrymen discovered a Hamas weapons production facility and garage used to produce and store drones and weapons. The site is located in a residential building, close to schools, in the middle of the community of Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza. In the building, explosives and Hamas’ operational plans were devised right next to a children’s room.
Former U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated her claims that there will be no ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. In a verbal exchange with ABC News, Clinton noted that there was a ceasefire in place before the Oct. 7 bloodbath and that Hamas “Remember there was a ceasefire on Oct. 6, which Hamas broke with its barbaric attacks on nonviolent civilians,” Clinton told ABC News. “There was a ceasefire. It didn’t hold because Hamas decided to break it. “Break. Hamas has consistently damaged ceasefires for several years,” he added.
The Israeli military claims to have secured a key Hamas stronghold after 10 hours of fighting.
Troops belonging to the Nahal Brigade, one of the IDF’s infantry units, have secured what they call a stronghold called “Outpost 17” west of Jabaliya in northern Gaza.
The Israeli military said it had engaged in fighting “above and below ground,” suggesting Hamas may have used part of its extensive tunnel network in the battle.
“The fighters completed the capture of the outpost after 10 hours of fighting, during which they eliminated the terrorists, seized many weapons and discovered terrorist tunnels, as well as a well located near a kindergarten and leading to a giant underground road. ” he said.
Israel’s Air Force says it has “hundreds” of Hamas targets over the past day as the bombardment of the Gaza Strip continues.
He shared the footage, in which he said the attacks.
חיל-האוויר ממשיך לתקוף בעוצמה מאות מטרות טרור ברצועה. מצורף תיעוד מ תקיפות מטוסי חיל-האוויר ביממה האחרונה. pic. twitter. com/lw0FyBFCk1
IDF combat engineers are lately working to uncover and destroy Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure in Gaza by adding tunnels. The water and oxygen supplies found inside the tunnels imply that Hamas is preparing to stay underground for a long time. They have. . . pic . twitter. com/McuxQHc1b2
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 9, 2023
According to the United States, the Rafah border crossing into Gaza was closed due to unspecified “security circumstances. “
State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said the U. S. expects the crossing to reopen at “regular intervals” so foreigners can enter and exit.
Meanwhile, U. N. human rights chief Volker Turk said aid reaching Gaza “arrives slowly and with a very limited geographic reach. “
According to Egyptian security sources, at least another 500 people entered Rafah, Egypt, on 7 November.
For the fourth day in a row, the IDF opened an evacuation room to ensure the safe passage of thousands of Gazans from north to south Gaza. We will continue to take every conceivable measure to protect the lives of inocentes. pic. twitter. com/ 2dz0M15KY8
– Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@IsraelMFA) November 8, 2023
Below are excerpts from most of his speech.
Living a nightmare
“In Rafah, I witnessed the gates of a living nightmare. A nightmare in which other people suffocate under persistent shelling, mourn their families and suffer from lack of water, food, electricity and fuel.
“My colleagues are among those trapped and among those who have lost members of their family circle, suffering sleepless nights filled with agony, anguish and despair. “
Fears of conflict
“We have fallen off a cliff. This continues. Even in the context of a 56-year occupation, the current scenario is the most damaging in decades, facing the other peoples of Gaza, Israel, the West Bank, but also regionally. .
Shrapnel kills pregnant woman’s fetus
“Today, at El Arish Hospital in North Sinai, I met Ikram. Ikram was 8 months pregnant when her stomach was hit by shrapnel. She missed childbirth and had to undergo a hysterectomy. She’s alive, but her eyes were lifeless. “
The movements of one party absolve the other.
“Movements by one party do not relieve the other party of its obligations under foreign humanitarian law. Attacks on medical facilities, the medical corps of workers and those who are injured and in poor health are prohibited. “
He said: “What extremists need us to do is look at the global in black and white, with no prospect of pain on the other side. We allow ourselves to be drawn into this monochromatic vision of the global. »
Ending the profession is enough
“It is no longer enough to say that 56 years of the profession will have to end. The foreign network will have to participate in the search for a long-term just and equitable for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. They are everyone’s only hope for peace. “
Breakdown: A recorded verbal exchange between a Hamas terrorist and a Gaza resident shows that Hamas has ambulances to transport weapons and terrorists to the Gaza Strip. Hamas terrorist: “I can leave with whatever ambulance I want. Hamas exploits civilians. . . photo. twitter . com/oPpslmAzMn
– Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@IsraelMFA) November 8, 2023
On Wednesday, a long line of thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza on foot — families, young and old, little children crying — dressed only in what they could sometimes hold in their arms or on their backs.
They were seen in an Associated Press video walking along Gaza’s main north-south highway, obeying evacuation orders from the Israeli army for a span of five hours as its troops battled Hamas militants inside Gaza City. Some evacuees were pushing their relatives in wheelchairs, while an elderly user was driven down the road in a hedgerow.
Abeer Akeila left her home in Gaza City after relentless movements forced all of her neighbors to flee to the south. He said life in the city has become increasingly complicated due to water and food shortages.
“There was shelling during the night,” he said. We had no food or drinking water. . . They attacked the bakeries. There is no life in Gaza.
U. S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Israel would most likely maintain a military presence in Gaza for “some time” after the ongoing war, but said the U. S. believed it would be a “mistake” for Israel to reoccupy the territory.
“I think we can all foresee an era after the standoff is over in which Israeli forces will most likely remain in Gaza and have some initial security responsibilities,” Kirby told CNN on Wednesday. “But for how long, where, and in what size?”, what scale and scope, I think it’s too early to tell. “Kirby said the U. S. is focused on designing a long-term governance design for Gaza after the ongoing standoff, but said so far there is little chance of reaching an agreement. workable plan.
“I think where we are: a lot of questions and few answers,” he said. “We know what we don’t need to see in Gaza after the conflict, we don’t need to see Hamas in charge, and we don’t need to see a reoccupation through Israel. “
He added: “We know that the United States solves this challenge alone” and that the United States is collaborating with regional and foreign partners on this issue.
There is no express time limit for the IDF’s operation in Gaza against the Hamas terror faction, Israeli Foreign Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday. “As for the duration of the operation, there is no limit,” Gantz reportedly told Israeli reporters at a press conference.
“The war here is about our lifestyles and about Zionism, so I can’t give an estimate of how long the level of war will last and the fighting that will continue. We cannot go back on our strategic objective. “He added that Hamas threatens “Zionist and democratic concepts. “
Egypt intends to reach an agreement for a humanitarian pause in the Gaza war, in exchange for an exchange of prisoners and hostages held through Hamas, reports the semi-official Egyptian newspaper Al-Akhbar.
Spain’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that a Spaniard who disappeared in Israel had died after the Hamas attack in October. The ministry knew him as Ivan Illarramendi. Se declined to elaborate.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Israel’s ambassador to Spain, Rodica Radian-Gordon, said: “Our hearts are torn by the news of the brutal murder of Ivan Illarramendi. He met him a month after the terrorist bloodbath committed through Hamas. in Israel, along with his wife Dafna Garcovich. “
The Israeli embassy could not say where the death occurred.
The official Spanish news agency Efe and other Spanish media reported that Illarramendi and his Chilean wife lived on a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
The ministry reported the death of the Spanish Israeli national, Maya Villalobo Sinvany, on October 11.
Following the attacks, the ministry claimed that two Spaniards had been “hit” by the attacks.
Villalobo was reportedly serving in the military at an Israeli army base at the time of the attack.
Italy will send a hospital for Palestinians off the coast of Gaza, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto announced on Wednesday.
The Crosetto project is a concrete sign of Italy’s “closeness to the Palestinian people and its distance from the Hamas terrorists. “
The Vulcan shipment has another 170 people on board, in addition to medical and military personnel, and includes operating rooms. He will travel first to Cyprus and then as close as possible to the clash zone to provide emergency medical assistance, Crosetto said.
(AP Report)
Qatar is reportedly negotiating a deal with Hamas in coordination with the United States to secure the release of 10 to 15 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for a short-term ceasefire. The sources told the agencies that a one- to two-day ceasefire could simply be under discussion.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza is “the war of the free world,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told EU lawmakers in Brussels. Cohen denounced Iran as “the world’s leading financier of terrorism,” reiterating that Israel was not only targeted through Hamas. on October 7, but now it is being bombed by other terrorist teams on fronts.
The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Nahal Infantry Brigade captured a Hamas educational camp in northern Gaza. Israeli infantrymen destroyed some 130 tunnel shafts belonging to a terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip. The IDF’s 460th Brigade and its engineering forces discovered a complex of tunnels. Entrances near car batteries. IDF combat engineering forces clear land roads so that infantrymen can maneuver, locate and destroy Hamas assets.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed 130 tunnel shafts belonging to the Hamas terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip. IDF combat engineers are clearing roads to allow Hamas assets to maneuver, locate and destroy them, the IDF said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen claimed that his Iranian rival is investing in Hamas and supporting attacks against Israel in order to create obstacles to normalization and peace in the region.
Speaking to MEPs in Brussels, Cohen said that “we have to win this war so that the West is not next, because terrorism is like a cancer. “
Cohen accused Hamas of providing foreign monetary aid to build tunnels and rocket factories while leaving Palestinians “starving. “
“We are only being attacked through Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We are also under attack through Hezbollah on our northern border and the Houthis in Yemen,” Cohen added.
Iran is the main financier of terrorism in the world,” he said, accusing Tehran of acting to try to “stop the process of normalization and peace that has been taking place over the past three years. “
Hamas has lashed out at UNRWA for its “collusion” with Israel in evacuating civilians from Gaza to the south. “UNRWA and its officials have a duty to this humanitarian catastrophe, especially the citizens of the Gaza domain and the north of it,” the terror faction said. the press service said.
The IDF has suggested to civilians in the northern component of the Gaza Strip to move south while conducting operations inside Gaza. The Israeli military has accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields.
U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel also cannot occupy Gaza after the standoff, but that a transition is mandatory. It is “clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza,” Blinkn said, adding that “an era of transition would possibly be mandatory at the end of the Israel-Hamas standoff. “
Blinken noted that there will have to be “lasting peace and security” in Gaza and that it is “imperative that the other Palestinians be at the center of government in Gaza, as well as in the West Bank, and that, once again, I don’t see reoccupation. “
The Gaza-based Hamas terror organization has expressed a preference for starting a permanent war with Israel and “changing the whole equation” than focusing on the Palestinian cause, according to an interview with The New York Times.
According to Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the terror group’s political bureau in Qatar, Hamas rejects the concept of governing the besieged Gaza Strip, but needs a never-ending confrontation that absolutely destroys Israel.
“What could replace the equation is a wonderful act and we certainly knew that the reaction to this wonderful act would be wonderful,” Khalil al-Hayya was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “We had to tell other people that the Palestinian cause will not die,” he added.
For his part, the representative of Hamas’ press service, Taher El-Nanou, told the US newspaper that he hoped that “the state of war with Israel will be permanent on all borders and that the Arab world will be on our side. “
“Hamas’ goal is not to rule Gaza and bring it water, electricity, etc. ,” al-Hajya stressed. This war didn’t take place because we were looking for fuel or manpower,” he continued. “He has not looked for the scenario in Gaza. This war is intended to completely change the scenario.
The Israel Defense Forces said thousands of Palestinians were evacuating a humanitarian hall in northern Gaza on the road to Salah al-Din.
The IDF released a video showing civilians heading south waving white flags.
At 10:00 a. m. it’s time to head to the hotel. אלדין. pic. twitter. com/JZeq3HyUaL
– Daniel Hagari (@IDFSpokesperson) November 8, 2023
(AP Report)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said forty-three Ukrainian citizens had been evacuated from Gaza. In a Wednesday post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Ukrainian leader noted that citizens are “now in Egypt, where Ukrainian diplomats offer them mandatory assistance. “”.
“Our embassies in Israel and Egypt, as well as other applicable agencies, are working hard to remove more citizens from Gaza,” he said.
An Israeli airstrike hit a residential area in the community of Zannah, east of Khan Younis, on Wednesday, destroying at least one space and damaging surrounding buildings.
Rescuers searched through the rubble for dead or injured as a result of the attack. At least three other people, two women and a child, were killed, according to an Associated Press reporter. Ambulances were transporting the injured to a hospital, he said.
Khan Younis is in southern Gaza, where the Israeli army has ordered Gaza City’s citizens to move.
U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the G7 that those calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip “have a legal responsibility for how to deal with the potentially unacceptable end results that may result. “
The U. S. is at odds with its Arab partners, who find it not easy to achieve an IDF ceasefire in the besieged strip. He opposed a ceasefire and argued that any cessation of hostilities would involve a regrouping of Hamas and a new attack on Israel.
Asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision that Israel would take responsibility for ensuring security in Gaza indefinitely, Blinken said “possibly an era of transition would be necessary. “
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israel fired on the humanitarian convoy operated through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
“Today, the IOF attacked the ICRC’s humanitarian convoy in #Gaza city,” the PRCS said on X, formerly Twitter, the acronym for “Israeli Occupation Forces. “
Today, the IOF attacked the ICRC’s humanitarian convoy in #Gaza City. The convoy of five trucks was carrying vital medical supplies to fitness facilities, including the PRCS #AlQuds hospital, when it was hit by a fire. ?broken and a driver was herido. pic. twitter. com/3lSB6QJhBU
– PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 7, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with local leaders at the Gaza border, the first of its kind since Hamas introduced a brutal incursion into Israel. The meeting was detailed in a statement released by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, seen on Channel 13.
Netanyahu said he spoke by phone with southern leaders while meeting with others.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched apparent airstrikes on Hezbollah’s weapons depot in southern Lebanon.
It’s time to worry about pic. twitter. com/NlunpF8U1O
– Israel Air Force (@IAFsite) November 8, 2023
At a press conference after the conclusion of the G7 in Tokyo, U. S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the United States envisions a post-war future in Gaza without Israeli intervention or blockade.
The U. S. suggested that Israel reoccupy Gaza, adding that there could simply be a “transition period” in governance.
“The only way to ensure this doesn’t happen again is to create situations that allow for lasting peace and security,” Blinken said. “No forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, neither now nor after the war. No use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism or other violent attacks. No reoccupation of Gaza after the end of the conflict. We will also have to make sure that no terrorist risk arises from the West Bank,” he added.
Speaking from Beirut, Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad denied that Israeli forces had made military or complex advances deep inside Gaza City on Tuesday.
“They never reveal the fact to the people,” Hamad said, adding that many Israelis were killed on Monday and that “many tanks were destroyed. “
“The Palestinians are fighting, fighting, fighting and fighting Israel until we end the occupation,” said Hamad, who left Gaza a few days before the attack.
The Israeli military claims to have killed thousands of Hamas fighters during the month-long war.
G7 leaders met in Tokyo for meetings governed by the war between Israel and Hamas. The foreign ministers, together with the American Antony Blinken, have just published a joint document condemning Hamas and supporting Israel’s right to self-defense. But the nations sought to balance grievances over Hamas attacks on Israel with pressure for “urgent measures” to help civilians in the besieged Palestinian enclave. The foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy said they “support humanitarian pauses to facilitate urgent aid, organize civilian movements and the release of hostages. ” They call for humanitarian pauses instead of a general ceasefire. They have been hotly debated, and many Western countries have suggested that the latter could simply hamper Israel’s defense. While much of what is said is what was intended, perhaps most compelling is the resolution that notes “the rise in extremist settler violence committed against Palestinians. ” Ministers described the scenario as “unacceptable” and said it “undermines security in the West Bank and puts customers of lasting peace at risk. “
A humanitarian hall is open to civilians from northern Gaza fleeing to the south, the Israel Defense Forces’ Arab media spokesman said.
As he did yesterday, Avichay Adraee said the Salah al-Din road, which runs from the north to the south of the enclave, would be safely available between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. time.
“For your safety, take advantage of the next time to move south, beyond Wadi Gaza,” he said. He added: “The northern domain of the Gaza Strip is considered an area of fierce fighting and time is running out to evacuate it. . They are among thousands of others who answered calls and moved south in recent days.
According to the IDF Telegram, sirens were heard at other times in Kibbutz Kissufim and in northern Israel. However, we decided that these were false alarms.
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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also said the IDF was operating in the center of Gaza City and was “tightening the chokehold” around it. In a televised interview Tuesday, Galan rejected any humanitarian pause without the return of the hostages.
Tonight many people gathered in front of #Lisbonne City Hall to commemorate the 30th day of the terrorist attack in #Israël. We, the more than 1,400 people killed, call for the release of the 244 hostages and call for a fight opposed to #antisémitisme. pic. twitter. com/7SXImO1J24
The United States does not deserve Israel to reoccupy Gaza, the White House said after Netanyahu’s comments. National security spokesman John Kirby added Tuesday that “Hamas cannot be part of the equation” over who will administer Gaza.
IDF and ISA killed a Hamas weapons developer; IDF troops continue to operate in the Gaza Strip
IDF troops continue to operate in the Gaza Strip to kill terrorists and direct planes to terrorist infrastructure.
According to ISA and IDF intelligence, an IDF warplane killed Mohsen Abu Zina, Hamas’ director of weapons and industries in its production department.
In this position, Mohsen Abu Zina is one of Hamas’ most sensible weapons developers and an expert in the development of strategic weapons and rockets used by Hamas terrorists.
Overnight, IDF troops also detected a terrorist mobile planning to fire anti-tank missiles at the forces. The troops directed a plane that crashed into the mobile and killed several terrorists.
In addition, IDF troops directed an aircraft to attack a terrorist mobile tasked with firing rockets into Israel. Several terrorists were killed in the attack.
The Israeli military has released its morning update, in which it claims to have killed a “senior Hamas weapons progression official. “
“Based on ISA and IDF intelligence, an IDF warplane killed Mohsen Abu Zina, Hamas’ head of armaments and industries,” he said in a message posted on the Telegram channel.
The IDF said Mohsen Abu Zina was one of Hamas’ “top weapons developers” and “an expert in the development of strategic weapons and rockets used through Hamas. “
Speaking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Herzog wrote: “Today I hosted more than 30 foreign ambassadors and dignitaries at the Israeli embassy for a projection of the frame camera that Hamas terrorists have used to document and celebrate their barbaric atrocities in Israel.
Today, I welcomed more than 30 foreign ambassadors and dignitaries to the Israeli Embassy for a screening of the framed camera footage that Hamas terrorists used to document and celebrate their barbaric atrocities in Israel on October 7. Together, we have been a month since. . . pic. twitter. com/WR0K60L7iQ
– Ambassador Michael Herzog (@AmbHerzog) November 8, 2023
Joe Biden said that yesterday he asked Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in the fighting in a phone call.
According to U. S. and Israeli officials, President Biden said a three-day pause could help secure the release of some hostages in Gaza.
A proposal being discussed between the United States, Israel and Qatar would allow Hamas to release 10 to 15 hostages and use the pause to determine the identities of all hostages and provide a list of names of those in its possession, a U. S. official said.
The White House had said in the past that Biden and the Israeli prime minister had discussed “the option of tactical pauses. . . to allow for the conceivable release of hostages. “
Israel’s envoy to India, Naor Gilon, calls for the “Diya of Hope” to be lit for Israeli hostages held by the Hamas terrorist organization.
240 of our relatives have been held hostage by the terrorists in #Hamas for a month. Every #Diwali, we celebrate the return of Lord Ram through Diyas. THIS #Diwali2023 we invite you to light up a Diya ? in hopes of seeing our happy returnees ? ?. pic. twitter. com/281xfx4Xa1
– Israel in India (@IsraelinIndia) November 8, 2023
Unedited footage: Here are some of the weapons discovered on Hamas terrorists on October 7: 1,493 hand grenades and explosives, 760 role-playing sets, 427 explosive belts, 375 firearms, 106 rockets and missiles. These are some of the weapons used to massacre more than 1,400 Israeli civilians. . . pic. twitter. com/TFVpSqNxtH
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 7, 2023
Netanyahu said Israel could simply make “small tactical pauses” in the fighting to allow aid in or hostages out of the Gaza Strip and said it could rule the territory indefinitely. At a rally on Monday afternoon, the Israeli prime minister said: “Israel will take over, indefinitely. . . the overall duty of security [in Gaza] because we’ve noticed what happens when we don’t,” ABC News reported.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would assume “the overall duty of security” in Gaza “indefinitely” after its war with Hamas. His comments in a televised interview gave the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain its control over the territory, which is home to some 2. 3 million Palestinians.
These are some of the terrorists’ weapons discovered by the IDF after the October 7 massacre. Do it in perspectiva. pic. twitter. com/seXFrxH3Rj
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 8, 2023
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The heads of Israeli and U. S. intelligence facilities held a trilateral assembly in Qatar and Doha on Thursday with Arab partners to discuss negotiations to secure the release of hostages in exchange for a humanitarian pause in Gaza. The leaders held a debate to call for more humanitarian aid. aid to besieged Gaza, a diplomatic source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The trilateral talks included CIA Director William Burns, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, and Qatari officials. During the meeting, the officials recommended a draft plan in which Hamas would take at least 10 to 20 civilian hostages in exchange for a brief ceasefire. That would last 2-3 days. The pause would be used to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, officials reportedly said.
Burns was part of the meeting between Barnea and Qatar’s prime minister as they discussed the release of Hamas hostages held since the Oct. 7 raid. The Doha meeting comes days after U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a phone conversation with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh. Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on the release of the American hostages. Blinken was briefed on the prestige of negotiations with Hamas through Qatar, which mediates between the Arabs, the Israelis, the Palestinian Hamas and Egypt. Two appeals were cited through the agencies.
U. S. President Joe Biden has in the past praised efforts by America’s regional partners to pave the way for wounded Palestinians and foreign nationals, in addition to Americans, to leave the besieged Gaza Strip. “Personally, I’ve spent a lot of time talking with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Egyptian President Sisi and others, to make sure that we can open that access for other people to get out,” Biden said in a speech in Northfield, Minnesota.
“I need to thank our partners, especially Qatar, who have worked intensively with us in the negotiations to facilitate the departure of those citizens,” the U. S. president said. Biden added that more work needs to be done to “significantly increase the flow of critical humanitarian aid to Gaza. “
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Updated November 10, 2023 at 4:02 PM IST
On Friday, the Iranian terrorist faction Hezbollah fired an anti-tank guided missile from the Lebanese border at an Israeli army post near the town of Menara. The Israel Defense Forces responded to artillery fire at the source of the missile launch. Dozens of missiles and rocket attacks have been carried out across Israel’s northern Hezbollah, while the Lebanese terror organization has entered the war signaling that it will militarily assist its Palestinian best friend, Hamas, in the resulting war against the Jewish state. and Hezbollah are waging hostilities on the Lebanese border. The Iranian-backed group fired a barrage of rockets at several IDF posts, opening the war on a second front.
#عاجل يواصل جيش الدفاع وجهاز الأمن العام تصفية مخربي النخبة التابعين لمنظمة حماس الإرهابية ومن بينهم أولا ئك الذي ن شاركوا في المجزرة الدموية بحق منطقة غلاف غزة حيث تمكنت قواتنا من تصفية المدعو أحمد موسى، قائد سرية ن خبة، والمدعو عمر الهندي، قائد فصيلة والذين تحصنا غرب جباليا. Hello. . . pic. twitter. com/mRWbJ3Jm6a
– افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) November 10, 2023
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech last week that the terror faction’s military wing engaged in unprecedented fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border. He threatened further escalations as the war between Hamas and Israel surpassed a month.
Nasrallah said there are possibilities for the Palestinian war to turn into a broader regional clash and that “we can confront them at any time. “He announced that his fighters had attacked several Israeli army posts with “rockets and appropriate weapons. “Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV channel Hezbollah used Burkan rockets that have already been widely used by the Syrian government forces of Bashar al-Assad to destroy the fortifications of the Syrian opposition army. The IDF introduced an airstrike on the villages of Rmeish, Labbouneh and Hibarieh, on the border with Lebanon, to counter the incoming fire.
Trained to clear minefields and enemy obstacles, meet 1LT A. , an officer in the IDF Combat Engineer Corps Special Forces unit. Since October 7, the 1LT A. and his fellow officers and infantrymen have been tasked with making the routes for the IDF ground forces transparent. To move forward in. . . pic. twitter. com/UgRtgmdOSN
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 10, 2023
Israeli warplanes, tanks and artillery fired at the source of the fire on the Lebanese side of the border, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee told X. He added that the IDF also attacked some Hezbollah weapons depots, infrastructure and posts that were used throughout Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had claimed in the past that his main rival, Iran, was the investor Hamas, and that Lebanon was a subsidiary and supported attacks on Israel in order to create obstacles to normalization and peace in the region. Speaking to MEPs in Brussels, Cohen said that “we have to win this war to make sure that the West is not next, because terrorism is like a cancer. “
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