Friday, February 2, 2024

Day 119 Hostages Update: Hostage Ran Gvili Confirmed Murdered by Hamas on October 7, who then took his body into Gaza. Gvili, who is counted as a hostage held in Gaza, died while defending Kibbutz Alumim near the Gaza border. 

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Iran
Spotlight: Iran's Iraqi Militia Proxies (MEF) Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria have launched nearly 160 attacks on Washington's roughly 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in neighboring northeastern Syria since beginning of the Israel-Hamas war in October

Israel
EmojiIsrael Humanitarian Updates https://govextra.gov.il/cogat/humanitarian-efforts/home/ The flow of aid has not stopped from the Israeli side, the U.N. and UNRWA – which are responsible for managing the aid on the Gaza side – have left a massive buildup of supplies uncollected and undistributed.

EmojiThe Israeli-Palestinian Information Vault

EmojiIsrael’s War on Hamas is the Least Deadly War in the Region (Jihad Watch) Even accepting the Hamas casualty figures (tainted and inflated numbers in which there are no terrorists, only civilians, and fighting age men are really children) as the media does, this is still probably one of the least violent conflicts in the region

EmojiIsrael has implemented more measure to prevent civilian casualties in urban warfare than any other military in the history of war.  John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point. 

EmojiThe IDF has developed a method for injecting high-flow water into the Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza. Fresh water, not salt so as not to damage Gaza's ground water.  FYI on 10/7, Agriculture was also a deliberate target of Hamas.

PA/Hamas
Emoji661 terrorists tied to Oct. 7 to get PA ‘pay for slay’ financial stipends (JNS) The P.A. allocates 7% of its annual budget for its “Martyr’s Fund,” aka "Pay for Slay." 
EmojiBefore the war, Hamas had an estimated 30,000 operatives in its terrorist army. The IDF has removed 22,500 Hamas terrorists from the battlefield (with 10,000 killed, another 10,000 wounded, and 2,500 arrested)

Qatar

UK
UNRWA
EmojiWe must put the brakes on terror ambulances (Ocala Star Banner, June 2004) Footage of armed Arab terrorists in southern Gaza using an ambulance owned and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). 

US
Now is precisely NOT the time for a Palestinian state. Hamas must surrender. Hamas must release the hostages. Do not reward terrorists. The Palestinians, PA and Hamas, have rejected every opportunity to have a state of their own beside Israel.  Backing Palestinian statehood will not solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if it doesn't address the fact that Israel has no partner for peace.
EmojiToday the House passed an AIPAC-backed bill to prevent terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre from entering the United States. (Clerk US House of Rep) Reps. Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib voted against the bill to bar Hamas members and other participants in the Oct. 7 attack from the U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez voted present. Vote was 422-2-1.
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Education/Schools


EmojiVirginia high school teacher claims US is funding Gaza ‘genocide’ and ‘holocaust’ in classroom rant (Washington Examiner)  the teacher frequently attempts to push her ideology on the students in her classes and this has been going on for several years.

EmojiYork TAS told to make tutorials anti-Israel (National Post) A new tool kit circulated to York University teaching assistants instructs them to denounce Israel at every available opportunity, even when it has no apparent relevance to the subject being studied


EmojiStudents at Menlo Atherton High School in California's Sequoia Union High School District are being taught: "Israel is a country created on Palestinian land. The United Nations says this is illegal."


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