Iran-backed terror groups have launched 19,000 rockets at Israel over the last eight months. Hezbollah has launched thousands of rockets directly into homes and communities in Israel's north, setting it ablaze and displacing over 70,000 people. Ridiculously referred to as 'tit-for-tat" by the NYT. Recall that Israel withdrew from Lebanon after attacks by Hezbollah more than 20 yrs ago and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was supposed to help maintain peace and security at the border. During the 8 months of these increasing attacks from Lebanon into Israel, UNIFIL "peacekeepers" have been on the seen.

June 11-13 was the Jewish festival of Shavuoth, which celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Did the difficulty of celebrating it in wartime get any mention? This week we returned to see numerous articles about the difficulties of celebrating Eid and headlines about hunger in Gaza.   Nothing about how children are celebrating in West Bank. This report was released June 4th: Expert Panel Rejects Claims of Famine in Northern Gaza - have you seen any coverage?

On June 8, four Israelis: Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), Shlomi Ziv (40), were rescued from an apartment complex in the United Nations run-Nuseirat "refugee" camp in central Gaza. The camp is right next to the Izz ad Deen al-Qassam Mosque, named for a Syrian terrorist who hunted the British and Jews in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Three of the rescued hostages were being held in the house of Al Jazeera and Palestinian Chronicle "journalist" Abdallah Aljamal and his physician father. Many media outlets tainted the operation's morality by emphasizing the unverifiable Palestinian death toll figures touted by Hamas and whitewashed the terrorists’ use of civilians as human shields. They Criticized the Entebbe Rescue, Too - (Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Note: Ada Sagi, 75,, who was rescued in November, explained she was also held in "civilian homes" and a hospital; she describes how Hamas paid Gaza University students 70 shekels (~15 USD) per day to guard her and other hostages. She was held in different “civilian” houses in Khan Younis before being taken to Nasser Hospital with other hostages. almost a dozen hostages confirm they were held at Nasser Hospital. But the press continues to regularly cite hospital officials who were clearly complicit in such activities despite them clearly lying about it.

On June 3, we learned of the deaths of 4 hostages: Chaim Peri, 79, Amiram Cooper, 84, Yoram Metzger, 80, and Nadav Popplewell, 51, who were held captive together in Khan Younis and were likely killed together in Khan Yunis several months ago by Hamas terrorists.  A propaganda video released by terrorists weeks ago showed Nadav Popplewell  had been abused. https://x.com/AdamAlbilya/status/1797676908735566168

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CHINA

After Oct. 7, Antisemitism in China Reached Shocking Levels (Ha'aretz)

INDIA

India Is Providing Military Assistance to Israel  (Ynet News)

IRAN

About 40 House members signed a bipartisan letter calling on the Biden administration to implement new sanctions on Iranian petroleum and to fully implement the SHIP Act and the Iran-China Energy Sanctions Act. This as Washington Post reports, Iran is significantly expanding its nuclear enrichment capabilities.

ISRAEL

Just a reminder,  Israel is not a colonial state. If anything, it’s the reverse

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/15/israel-is-not-a-colonial-state-if-anything-its-the-reverse/

Israel's Response to UN Report on War Crimes in Gaza

https://mem.ai/p/nN7HDXFyYTB4zohu6Jj8

LEBANON

Hezbollah threatens Cyprus and Israel

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/middleeast/hezbollah-drone-video-israel-haifa-intl-latam/index.html and https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/head-lebanons-hezbollah-threatens-israel-cyprus-televised-address-2024-06-19/ and https://gem.godaddy.com/p/0bcbd91

Lebanon is the host of the highest per capita population of refugees in the world https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-syria-idlib-refugees-returns-smuggling-migration-4a7f0bc8bb1e3c39f8e7e92589b5733c

Lebanese Journalist: Shiites of South Lebanon Will Welcome Israeli Forces that Rid Them of Hizbullah (MEMRI-TV)

PALESTINIANS/GAZA/PA

Just a reminder, there is no genocide in Gaza. 

https://x.com/SpencerGuard/status/1785153068964692424 see also Genocide and Hamas Go Hand in Hand https://www.ajc.org/news/genocide-and-hamas-go-hand-in-hand

How Israel Renewed Gaza's Water Supply amid War  (Times of Israel)

Last week, Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar was quoted admitting that civilian bloodshed is a "necessary sacrifice" that benefits the terror group more than a ceasefire or a deal to free the hostages.

PA repays US generosity with hatred, says port for humanitarian aid is “plot to expel Gazans” https://palwatch.org/page/35143

2/3 of Palestinians Still Think Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack on Israel Was Correct Because It "Revived International Attention" to the Conflict  (PSR-PA)

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement has been promoting a video showing a boy from the Gaza Strip demonstrating the way children in Gaza are brainwashed. https://palwatch.org/page/35163

QATAR

Hamas political leaders are planning to leave Qatar and move to Iraq where the Islamic Republic of Iran promised to guarantee their safety.

RUSSIA

Russian rights commissioner calls for swift release of Russians held by Hamas

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-rights-commissioner-calls-swift-release-russians-held-by-hamas-2024-06-11/

Whilst in the UK

On same day Imperial College was announced to be the best college in the UK, we were on campus and saw a small "Free Palestine" encampment. The setup with tents was exactly the same as we've seen across the US, though it was small and easy to avoid. 

An organization called Fossil Free Books, which is against Fossil fuels and Israel, managed to scare off authors from participating in book festivals and Baillie Gifford being forced from sponsoring festivals. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stratford-also-loses-baillie-gifford-funding-as-group-mulls-pulling-out

5 Security Staff at Heathrow were removed.  The people responsible for making sure terrorists don’t blow up the airport were wearing badges that identify with terrorists and harassing passengers departing for Israel.

UK pop star working with Dudu Tassa hits back against cultural boycott (Point of No Return)

Catching the BBC Pushing Fake News (David Collier) see also https://camera-uk.org/2024/06/19/bbc-news-continues-to-promote-a-narrative-on-famine-in-gaza/

UN/UNRWA

 “I was held hostage by an UNRWA teacher” Over 100 Victims of Hamas’ October 7th Massacre File Major Lawsuit Against UNRWA 

https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2024/05/UNRWA_Complaint_w.pdf

Hillel Neuer Addresses the Dutch Parliament on UNRWA https://unwatch.org/hillel-neuer-addresses-the-dutch-parliament-on-unrwa/

The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) issued an appalling report that baselessly asserts Israel’s defensive military campaign in Gaza against Hamas violates international law, and turns a blind eye to the terror group’s continued flouting of that law and disregard for civilian lives

Australia, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Japan and others have resumed funding UNRWA

Israel, Jews and Peace in Schoolbooks and Teachers'  Guides Used in UNRWA Schools in Judea,  Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip - Here is what is in all Palestinian school books. https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2024/05/E_114_24.pdf and Israel, Jews and Peace in Schoolbooks Used in UNRWA Schools 

The UN figures not only inconsistently record humanitarian trucks from the private sector and other NGO trucks, but is also missing data on UN aid entering Gaza. These gaps have become extreme in April and May 2024 - underreporting of over 8,000 trucks since Oct. 7, 2023, with 4,880 "missing" trucks in May 2024 alone.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres took to social media today to issue "profound concerns about escalation between Israel and Hezbollah along the Blue Line." There was no condemnation of the Iran-backed terror army for starting a war against Israel on October 8. No call for the terrorists to stop launching rockets, missiles, and drones indiscriminately at Israeli towns. No demand that Israel's 70,000 residents be allowed to return home, or No insistence that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 -- which called for the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon -- be enforced.

UNITED STATES

Bill Maher Calls Out Campus Protesters for Ignoring the Oppression of Women in Muslim Countries

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/bill-maher-calls-out-campus-protesters-for-ignoring-the-oppression-of-women-in-muslim-countries/

Biden's "Peace Now" Plan  (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

The ongoing U.S. policy of slow-walking munitions deliveries to Israel isn’t about Rafah  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-italian-strike-israel-arms-shipments

Hostages Update: Add this to the long list of Hamas human rights violations - more hostages murdered. 

May their memories be a blessing.

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Tanzanian Hostage Felix Mtenga Found Dead
Israel just recovered the body of 22-year-old Felix Mtenga, a Tanzanian student studying agriculture and working at Kibbutz Nir Oz’s dairy farm. He, and another Tanzanian student, Joshua Loitu Mollel, who is still missing, were taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oc‍to‍be‍r 7.

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 In a heart-wrenching update, the IDF re-confirmed that Noa Marciano was murdered by Hamas terrorists, despite their false claims that she was killed by an Israeli airstrike. 

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Shmulik was murdered in Be’eri, and his 64-year-old wife Yehudit was kidnapped to Gaza. Today, the IDF located her body in Gaza and returned it to Israel.

Yes, she was also murdered by Hamas! Apparently, she was executed as a hostage. Yehudit was a cancer patient, but the one who murdered her was the cruel terrorist organization Hamas, which is itself a cancer that needs to be eradicated from the world!

https://x.com/YosephHaddad/status/1725220273874522515?s=20

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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has announced that 76 y/o Katzir Hanna is dead; Hanna, a Mother of 3 and Grandmother of 6 was Kidnapped from the Town of Nir Oz in Southern Israel on October 7th while her Husband was Killed on the spot. The PIJ had previously stated on November 9th that they were considering Releasing her on Humanitarian Grounds because of her requirement for Daily Life-Saving Medication, but they never did.

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1727060267807162441?s=20

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The body of Shani Gabai was identified by Israel today. She was at the Nova peace music festival and was believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas for weeks. This serves as a tragic reminder of the brutality of the Hamas October 7 massacre, with victims still being identified over 45 days later, using body parts and DNA

https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1727333761669349684

https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1727450269938500068?s=20

They are still counting bodies and searching for the abducted. Every Israeli knows someone who was murdered, kidnapped, injured, or called up to duty. 260 bodies have been recovered from the site of a peaceful music festival near Kibbutz Reim. At least 100 Israelis were massacred at Kibbutz Be'eri. At Kibbutz Kfar Aza, they found 40 murdered babies. Let's be clear, no matter your grievance, real or imagined, there is never any justification for the heinous and vial crimes of the Iran/Qatar-backed Hamas terrorists.

While there has been unparalleled support for Israel from the Biden administration, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/09/joint-statement-on-israel/

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres, said that the UN would ignore Israel's search and rescue mission for Jewish hostages marked for public execution in Palestinian territory, and instead focus on Palestinian civilians who were "trapped and helpless" ruled by Arabs which they support  https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21984.doc.htm 

UN Security Council Fails to Condemn Hamas Attack on Israel  (UPI) Have you heard anything from the UN or ICC about prosecuting Hamas for crimes against humanity mass murder, kidnapping, rape, targeting of civilian families?

The EU late Monday reversed an earlier announcement by EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi that the bloc was “immediately” suspending development aid for Palestinian authorities and instead said it would urgently review such assistance to ensure no money was misused. Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Luxemburg  openly opposed the suspension of aid. 

“Resistance” from Gaza: NGOs Justify Hamas Atrocities Against Israeli Civilians (NGO Monitor) Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Save the Children, World Council of Churches...

Arab Social Media Users Criticize Hamas (MEMRI) 

For some strange reason, Palestinians didn't behead Egyptian babies between 1949 and 1967 (Elder of Ziyon)

A Plan to Get Israeli Hostages Back Alive   (Globes)

Apollo CEO Marc Rowan on UPenn (CNBC)

Pro-Hamas Islamists Celebrate, and Gather in London, in the Wake of Israel Slaughter (Middle East Forum) 

Pro-Hamas Rally in Times Square (Daily Mail)

Harvard Students for Hamas (Twitter)  30+ Harvard University student organizations consider Israel “entirely responsible” for the Hamas terrorist attacks. Harvard Professors Respond, https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRrU_R4lJMubYBFX5KePu9RclIerKeXVWtEFKHvsetG7sXUTFdDfLF9TBJDe_Qra2Pmf1gMbyfdrJdJ/pub

Columbia University Professor Cheers Hamas Barbarity (IPT)

Hamas terrorists showed how they make rockets out of water pipes. They actually dismantle critical infrastructure for the survival of their people to build rockets to try to kill Israeli civilians. https://9gag.com/gag/aPg0QQQ Fact check, only 6% of water in Gaza came from Israel. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyUbtUSMIou/

Hamas founding member  Khaled Mashal has issued a statement designating tomorrow, Friday, October 13, 2023, a day of Global Jihad and to attack Jews worldwide. New York is on high alert. https://palwatch.org/page/34647

David Lange of IsraellyCool reported: Received from my daughter's school: Dear Parents, We have been informed that videos will be sent soon of our abductees begging for their lives. Please remove the Tiktok app from the children's mobile phones. We cannot afford our children to watch this!

When someone says they support the Palestinian "resistance", please refer to Hamas' foundational charter. We all know Article 7 talks about destroying Israel. See Article six  where it specifically mentions the goal of coexistence: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned. In the absence of Islam, strife will be rife, oppression spreads, evil prevails and schisms and wars will break out." The goal of Hamas and its supporters is not a two state solution but one state ruled under shariah law where non-Muslims can live as second class citizens as dhimmis, paying a special jizya tax for having the privilege to live "under the wing of Islam." It's called Jihadi Coexistence, and is actively being marketed - and showcased - by radical socialists and Islamists.

Qatar - State Sponsor of Terrorists (MEMRI) and here

Obama: Stand by Israel "as It Dismantles Hamas" (The Hill)

As Israelis Are Slaughtered, MSNBC Says Palestinians in Chicago Also in 'Pain' (CAMERA) MSNBC's coverage is inconsistent. Watch Mika and Joe on Morning Joe or Velshi and Reid later in the day, seems like different networks.

Joy Reid and Her Guests Blame Israel for Hamas Massacre (Legal Insurrection)

If you live in Canada, Please email your MP using We Believe in Israel campaign website: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rcbej to urge support for Israel