War Day #142 Sunday News Round-Up
Sunday, February 25
Quotes of the Week:
Unclear on concept
“This (Gaza) is genocide. It only happened once; when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
— President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
“We have never said that was our policy,”
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew, adroitly backtracking on the Biden unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787634
Top News:
* The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel published a report detailing the rape and torture by Hamas of Israeli women on October 7. The report was sent to the UN.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787994
Breaking news on a possible hostage return and Palestinian elections coming in next week’s round-up.
And the rest of the news, in roughly chronological order:
Terrorism this week:
Israeli police found an East Jerusalem man with a MATADOR rocket launcher, ammo, and grenades in his trunk; a Hadera policeman was murdered; a West Bank Palestinian threw an explosive device at an Israeli vehicle; a car ramming in Gush Etzion; shooting with one Israeli murdered and 11 wounded near Maale Adumim by 3 Bethlehem Palestinians; and an attempted bombing in Bat Yam (Tel Aviv) among the terrorism reported; much isn’t reported by the press. I hear we’re expecting more terrorism during Ramadan; what happened to the good old days when people just fasted?
Number of terror attacks in Judea and Samaria rose 350% in 2023. Around 300 terror attacks were shooting attacks - the highest number since the Second Intifada, IDF data shows.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385449
* Heavy rains and flooding affected transformers and the electric company Monday, resulting in no electricity in Herzliya, Ra'anana, Dimona, Ashkelon, Tsfat, and Beer Sheva.
* Gazan aid trucks have been being attacked by the populace; Hamas has been opening fire upon them. Egyptian police are increasingly reluctant to drive the aid trucks in.
* There was a neo-Nazi march in Nashville.
https://news.yahoo.com/neo-nazis-march-nashville-leave-053514155.html
* Through February 26, the Hague is discussing Israel’s occupation.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787694
* Hostile elements attempted to divert an El Al plane returning from Thailand to follow an unsafe flight plan; the pilots ignored the instructions and kept to their safe flight path.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-787692
* Many Hamas terrorists posing as doctors were apprehended at Gaza’s Khan Younis Nasser Hospital. Weapons were also confiscated.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787622
* Hamas is still launching missiles daily at the Israeli southern border areas.
* The Palestinian Authority is considering cutting employee salaries significantly to make up for the amount Israel has cut because of the pay-for-slay where Palestinians (and their families) who murder Jews are paid handsomely.
https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-787695
* Ramadan Temple Mount entry will be restricted because of the situation.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-787704
* The army found Iranian equipment under UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, including drives and servers that connected directly to Iran.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385452
* The US walked back its plan for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787634
* If the hostages aren’t freed, Israel will enter Rafah, war cabinet member Benny Gantz warned.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-israel-will-invade-rafah-if-hostages-not-returned-by-ramadan/
* The US announced that the suspension of UNRWA funding is now permanent.
* Hamas’s leader Yoyo Sinwar has disappeared; uncertain whether he is in Egypt, in hiding, or killed.
* Muslim parents in DC are waiting for a federal appeals court to rule on whether their school district can continue to allow children to read LGBTQ+ books without parental consent. In Minneapolis, St. Louis Park Schools let Somali-American families opt out, but not before a white lesbian school board member chastised the Somali women, all of whom wore hijabs, for “refusing solidarity with another historically marginalized community”. Aka intersectionality.
* In contradiction to Hamas allegations that the family was killed entering Gaza, the IDF found video footage of the red-haired Bibas family hostages inside Gaza taken a few days after their abduction.
* Soldiers who served more than a month after October 7 are being gifted a free European flight from El Al for use anytime this year.
* Humanitarian aid to Gaza has been limited, most recently because the Egyptian truck drivers have been consistently having their trucks attacked, looted and damaged. Civilians are attacking the aid when it enters, and then Hamas militants are firing on the crowds to confiscate the aid and remove it to Hamas storehouses.
* The US House is considering a bill passed in a bipartisan Senate vote last week, with $14 billion to Israel, more than three times the usual $3.8 billion, as part of a $95 billion foreign aid bill, including the majority to Ukraine.
* The Israel Democracy Institute poll just showed 63% of Jewish Israelis oppose a Palestinian state, with 71.5% believing terrorism will stay the same or increase as a result.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788114
* The Bedouin who heroically saved several Israeli lives on October 7 was granted permanent Israeli residency.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788201
* By April 1, the Israeli army either needs a new deferment or it will have to draft Haredi Jews, according to the Attorney General. 66,000 received exemptions last year; 540 of those enlisted.
* Yoyo Sinwar accused of pedophilia, sexual crimes.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-788195
* Houthi missiles aimed at Eilat.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-arrow-intercepts-apparent-houthi-ballistic-missile-headed-for-eilat/
* Confirmed UNRWA workers abducted bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas terrorists.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/does-the-un-hold-my-son-mother-of-murdered-hostage-tells-unrwa-to-clean-house/
* Americans were 23% less likely to support a Palestinian State after seeing Israeli educational materials about October 7, said a study by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with 46% also supporting an operation in Rafah.
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Catch up on last week’s most-read pieces:
The Handwriting on the Wall
https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-137-the-handwriting-on-the
Throwback Thursday to war day #6 We’re out of body bags
https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-139-throwback-thursday-to
Funny Friday: In Gaza
https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-140-funny-friday-in-gaza
Last Week’s Sunday Round-Up
https://open.substack.com/pub/fernmusing/p/war-day-135-sunday-news-roundup
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