Top News
* Iran Goes Ballistic - full analysis coming soon
* Fear is growing that only 40 of the hostages held in Gaza remain alive, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported, based on intelligence from the Shin Bet. In addition, the source quoted in the report said that "Hamas is trying to keep everything secret, it will not release all the hostages."
https://www.ynetnews.com/category/3089
* Looks like Hamas leadership is being tossed out of Qatar. They may be heading to Turkey.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-explores-moving-political-headquarters-out-of-qatar-8a3a794b
* The US House of Representatives, by a vote of 377 to 44, passed a resolution that the chant “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” is antisemitic. The resolution has no legal status.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4598347-house-approves-resolution-condemning-palestinian-rallying-cry-as-antisemitic/amp/
Terrorism, spurred by the Iranian attack
Terrorist incursion into Beit El; shots fired in Efrat; shooting of a soldier in Benyamin; terrorist with a knife at Magalim; car ramming terrorism in Haifa; another shepherd attacked by 15 terrorists; when IDF forces were called and arrived, they were also attacked. 17-year-old terrorist in Old City, Jerusalem; Ramallah ISIS terrorists apprehended. Knifing terrorist arrested and shooting in Gan Yavneh, both on Friday. Attempted terror attack near Hebron this morning. Attempted stabbing and shooting at Beit Enun. Arson via Molotov cocktails hurled from vehicles in Benyamin. Israeli wounded in an explosion on Route 465 near El Muayir; Palestinians violently rioting in Nablus last night. (These aren’t even all making the news anymore.) The latest: They’re reporting a spate of boobytrapped Palestinian flags; when someone tries to pull down the flag, the bomb explodes.
And the rest of the news, in roughly chronological order:
* Europeans belatedly decide it’s a good idea to remove blatant violence against Jews from their funded Palestinian textbooks.
https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/european-parliament-votes-on-financing-education-for-palestinians-that-promotes-nonviolence-797330
* Haifa is naming a neighborhood after the President of the United States, Joe Biden, in appreciation for President Biden's uncompromising support for Israel.
* Hamas continues to reject ceasefire deal
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-796881
* Turkey again with a flotilla
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-796939
* Israeli airspace is open again, but Europe’s budget airline easyJet has cancelled thousands of tickets from Israel to European destinations over the month of April (and through October - do they know something we don’t?) as have other airlines.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/flights-israel-resume-after-airspace-reopened-2024-04-14/
* Israelis won’t be allowed to speak at the Bergen-Belsen Holocaust ceremony. (Yes, you read that correctly.)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388533?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
* Latest Hamas hostage deal has offered just 20 hostages in return for hundreds of terrorists murderers.
* A bishop in Sydney, Australia was stabbed Monday in his church by a 16-year-old Muslim screaming Allah hu Akbar.
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/16/sydney-church-stabbing-bishop-mar-mari-emmanuel-wakeley-assyrian-christ-the-good-shepherd-terrorist-attack-what-we-know-so-far-ntwnfb
* Pro-Hamas activists blocked US bridges, highways, and airports Monday, including Chicago Airport, Golden Gate Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, and Seattle Airport. In most locations, they wore Hamas headbands and waved the Hezbollah flag. There was some chanting of “Death to America.”
https://apnews.com/article/protests-chicago-ohare-palestinian-war-traffic-30da0602309a1645a5c59e10bce83b9c
* Successive waves of Lebanon-fired rockets hit the Arab town of Arab al-Aramshe in northern Israel injuring six. Lebanon continued firing in successive ways as emergency medical vehicles wishing to help the injured. The town is too close to the border to make Iron Dome feasible. (So much for the international rules about not firing at medical and rescue vehicles. Apparently those rules only apply to Israel.)
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388640
* Google tangling with Palestinian protesters; 28 fired.
https://m.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-797582
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/google-firing-israeli-cloud-contract.html
* Humanitarian aid entering Gaza includes trucks of free cigarettes. (Wouldn’t this be a good time to wean everyone off? Here also?)
* Columbia U might discipline river-to-sea. Over 100 students arrested in Columbia pro-Hamas protest Thursday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/nyregion/columbia-university-president-nemat-shafik-hearing.html
* Jewish NPR editor resigned criticizing anti-Israel bias
https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-797616
* UNRWA anti-Israel bias (sense a theme here?)
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-797615
* The U.S. voted against a Palestinian state in the UN. Twelve countries, including Russia, Japan, China and France voted in favor. Britain and Switzerland abstained. Palestinian Authority reconsidering US ties in light of the vote.
* Hebrew U Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who denied October 7 arrested for incitement.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388728
* Israel concerned about the possibility of arrest warrants against PM Netanyahu and other Israeli officials by The Hague based on claims regarding the humanitarian issue in Gaza.
* Rachel Polin Goldberg named one of Time Magazine top 100 people of the year.
https://time.com/6965236/rachel-goldberg-polin/
* The US likely to be sanctioning an IDF unit. Benny Gantz explains why it’s a bad idea.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/20/us-israel-sanctions-idf-west-bank
https://x.com/gantzbe/status/1781785299724403053?t=ctTB3Y5lFJ1YTx_G5eEQAg&s=08
* US House just passed a foreign aid bill for Israel ($17 billion), Ukraine ($60 billion), Gaza ($9 billion), Taiwan ($8 billion), and forcing Chinese ByteDance to sell TikTok. 316-94. The Israel portion of the bill saw 173 Democrats and 193 Republicans voting yes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/04/20/ukraine-israel-border-funding-house-vote/?itid=hp-mv-top-stories_top-table-main_p001_f002
(This link includes the breakdown of how everyone voted on each of the separate issues.)
* As of Shabbat and today, rockets (from Gaza) and missiles, rockets, & drones (from Lebanon) were still being fired from both Gaza and Lebanon into Israel.
* Students for Justice in Palestine announced that they are replicating their protest at Columbia University and will begin occupying college campus grounds across the country. At Columbia protesters chanted to 'Never forget the seventh of October' and pledged to carry out similar attacks '10,000 times.'
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Catch up on last week’s Sunday Round-Up
https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-191-israel-under-attack
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Please keep in mind that numbers are sometimes corrected by the press after their initial publication; aka, there might be a disconnect between what the linked article ends up concluding and what I’ve written here.
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