IDF IN GAZA,GET OFF ISRAELS LAND ARABS-KATZ WARNS OF GAZA, WESTBANK TOTAL DESTRUCTION - UNLESS ALL HOSTAGES RELEASED.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

 IDF IN GAZA,GET OFF ISRAELS LAND ARABS-KATZ WARNS OF GAZA, WESTBANK TOTAL DESTRUCTION - UNLESS ALL HOSTAGES RELEASED.

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements (NUKES) shall melt with fervent heat,(BLAST) the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.(BUT ITS NO END OF THE WORLD HOGWASH)
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,(BY NUKES INCLUDING 3 BILLION PEOPLE) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

NAHUM 3:13
13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

IDF ground forces operating in Gaza; Katz warns of ‘total destruction’ unless hostages returned-Defense minister issues ‘final warning’ to Gazans to eject Hamas, says combat zone evacuations will soon begin; military names 2 more senior Hamas officials killed in strikes-By Emanuel Fabian,Agencies and ToI Staff 19 March 2025, 6:51 pm

The IDF said Wednesday it had launched “pinpoint” ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip, as Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Hamas’s continued rule in the enclave would lead to its “total destruction and ruin.”The army said its operations were aimed at expanding the security zone near the border and creating a partial buffer between northern and southern Gaza. Troops of the 252nd Division entered the Netzarim Corridor area, a route that splits Gaza into north and south, capturing around half of it, up to the Salah a-Din road.At the same time, the IDF said it deployed the Golani Brigade to the southern part of the Gaza border, readying it for action in the Strip.Katz said Israel would soon issue evacuation orders for combat zones in the Strip.“Gaza residents, this is a final warning. The first Sinwar ruined Gaza and the second Sinwar will completely obliterate it,” the defense minister said, referring to the slain leader of the terror group, Yahya Sinwar, and to his brother, Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas military commander who is thought to have succeeded him.“The Air Force strikes against Hamas terrorists were just the first step. Things will become much more difficult, and you will pay the full price,” he said.Katz said that if the hostages are not released and Hamas is not removed from Gaza, “Israel will operate with strength you have not yet seen.”“Take the US president’s advice. Return the hostages and remove Hamas, and other options will open up for you, including leaving for other places in the world for those who desire,” he said.“The alternative is total destruction and ruin,” Katz added.The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Tuesday that Israel’s strikes have targeted cells of terror leaders and operatives, rocket-launching positions, weapons, and other Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror infrastructure.The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 400 people have been killed since Israel renewed its offensive, including women and children. Its unverified figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.Israel renewed its offensive overnight Monday-Tuesday, citing Hamas’s “repeated refusal” to free Israeli hostages.The sides have been unable to agree on the continuation of the ceasefire, with Israel insisting on extending the first phase — with more hostage releases in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further calm — while the terror group has insisted on moving to the second phase, which envisioned Israel fully withdrawing from Gaza and agreeing to permanently end the war in exchange for the release of the remaining living hostages.According to the terms of the January 19 deal, the sides were to launch negotiations over the second phase a few weeks into the first, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to do so, insisting that the war will not end until Hamas’s governing and military capabilities have been demolished.Netanyahu said Tuesday night that from now on, negotiations on a continued ceasefire would only be conducted “under fire.”Israel has previously made various offers including monetary rewards to Gazans who provide information that will lead to the release of hostages, to no avail.Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 59 hostages, including 58 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.Overnight, two United Nations employees were killed in an explosion at a UN facility in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Israel denied accusations it was responsible for the blast at the building. A UN source told AFP the two dead were employees of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the UN mine-mitigation service UNMAS.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said earlier that a foreigner was among those killed and five others were seriously wounded in the explosion in Deir al-Balah, which it blamed on Israel.In a statement, the IDF said, “Contrary to reports, the IDF did not attack a UN compound in Deir al-Balah. The IDF calls on media outlets to exercise caution with unverified reports.”Additionally, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that two more top Hamas officials were killed in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the past day.One of the dead was Yasser Mohammed Harb Musa, a member of Hamas’s politburo who headed the defense portfolio and ministry of development.“As part of his role, Musa handled the advancement and guidance of terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF and Shin Bet said, adding that he was considered close to slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.The second Hamas official the IDF said it killed was Mohammed Jamasi, the chief of the terror group’s so-called emergency committee.“Over the years, Jamasi held key positions in the political bureau and the leadership of the movement and as part of his role in the war, he coordinated a significant portion of the Hamas regime’s government activity in the Gaza Strip, including the guidance of terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the statement added.The two join a list of several senior Hamas leaders killed since the renewed offensive, including Hamas’s de facto prime minister of the Strip.Separately, the IDF said Wednesday that it targeted the main command center of Hamas’s Daraj-Tuffah Battalion, located in Gaza City, in one of its overnight airstrikes.The command center targeted overnight had been used by Hamas to plan numerous attacks against Israel and troops, the IDF said.Europe decries fresh fighting-UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he was “deeply concerned about the resumption of Israeli military action in Gaza.”“The images of parents carrying their children, young children to hospitals… are truly shocking,” Starmer told parliament.Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the renewed airstrikes “are shattering the tangible hopes of so many Israelis and Palestinians of an end to suffering on all sides.”Speaking before starting a trip to Lebanon, she called on “all sides” in the conflict to “show restraint, respect humanitarian law, and return to talks.”“The lives of dozens of hostages, including Germans… (and) of many thousands of Palestinians” depend on peace, she said.“The resumption of hostilities also puts at risk the positive efforts of Arab states who want to chart a peaceful path for Gaza, free from Hamas,” Baerbock added.Germany’s top diplomat said she was appealing “in particular to the USA to use its regional influence… now, because the security of the wider Middle East is affected by this.”She also warned that there was “a serious risk of wider regional escalation” at a time when “the situation in Lebanon has stabilized and there have been steps towards settling the conflict at the Israeli-Lebanese border.”European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she told Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar that the renewed campaign in Gaza is “unacceptable.” Kallas told reporters in Brussels she was referring specifically to “the loss of civilian lives.”Kallas said she will travel to Egypt on Sunday to discuss the situation with the “Arab Quint” — Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE — adding there was a need to increase diplomatic pressure on Israel.According to Israel’s readout of Tuesday’s phone call, Sa’ar told Kallas that Israel “has no choice” but to renew military operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that while Israel has endorsed proposals offered by US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff that would maintain the ceasefire, “Hamas has rejected them twice.”Sa’ar also emphasized to Kallas that the IDF is operating “solely against Hamas and terrorist targets while acting to minimize harm to the civilian population.”The conversation came the same day Kallas released a joint statement with EU commissioners saying, “The EU deplores the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza and the deaths of civilians, including children, in Israeli airstrikes,” calling on Israel to end the campaign and for Hamas to release all the hostages.“The EU believes that the resumption of negotiations is the only way forward,” the statement continued.President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday alongside Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Paris that the resumption of strikes was a major step in the wrong direction.“It’s dramatic for the Palestinians of Gaza, who are again plunged into the terror of bombardment, and dramatic for the [Israeli] hostages and their families who live in the nightmare of uncertainty.”Macron slammed Hamas, saying the “axis of resistance is today an illusion,” but also warned Israel that there could be “no Israeli military solution in Gaza.”Abdullah called the strikes “an extremely dangerous step that adds further devastation to an already dire humanitarian situation.”“The international community must act immediately and collectively push for restoring the ceasefire and the implementation of its phases,” he said. “Israel’s attacks and its blockade of aid, water, and electricity to Gaza are escalatory measures that risk the lives of a severely vulnerable population.”Much of Gaza now lies in ruins after 15 months of fighting, which erupted on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunmen attacked Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people and abducting 251 hostages into Gaza.The Israeli campaign in response has killed more than 48,000 people, according to unverified numbers from Hamas health authorities, and destroyed much of the housing and infrastructure in the enclave, including the hospital system. Israel says it had killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January 2025, and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.

IDF downs Houthi missile as sirens send millions in central Israel to shelters at 4 a.m.13 people injured as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem-area residents rush to bomb shelters; Yemeni rebels claim to have been targeting Ben Gurion Airport; flights briefly disrupted by attack By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 10:58 am-mar 20,25

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that it had downed a missile fired from Yemen before the projectile had entered Israeli airspace, with the Iran-backed Houthi terror group claiming responsibility for what was its second attack on the country this week.The attack triggered sirens across a wide swath of central Israel, including the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas, sending millions scrambling to reach bomb shelters at 4 a.m.A statement from the IDF said “the sirens were activated in accordance with protocol,” apparently due to concerns about falling debris, which have in the past caused damage or even death.The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it received no direct reports of injuries from debris, though medics treated 13 people who were hurt while rushing to shelters, and another three who suffered acute anxiety.In a statement, the Houthis claimed they targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a “hypersonic ballistic missile,” adding that they had also again targeted an American aircraft carrier group in the Red Sea.The missile attack disrupted air traffic, with several flights to Ben Gurion briefly delayed, including an Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi and an El Al flight from London.Sirens were heard in the Tel Aviv metropolis, the Shfela region, Modiin and the Jerusalem area, among other places.Sirens and several explosions were heard from the capital, apparently the sounds of Israel’s interceptors in use.The sirens went off as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was addressing the plenum, alarming MKs, during a key vote on a bill that serves as a precursor for the state budget.A live feed from the Knesset channel of the proceedings showed a long list of locations on the right of the screen, highlighted in orange, where sirens were triggered.However, the Knesset does not alert lawmakers to leave the plenum unless sirens are sounded in the area of the parliament building, which was not the case overnight. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was elsewhere in the Knesset building and hastily made his way to a bomb shelter, according to Hebrew media reports.Leaving the Knesset later in the night, the prime minister told Channel 14 that “the Houthis are already paying the price, and they will pay more.”Houthi official Hezam al-Asad mocked the prime minister with a social media post boasting that “Netanyahu ran like a rat to the shelter. Our army is waiting for the enemy, victory for the children of Gaza is drawing close.”The targeting of Ben Gurion Airport came just as many international carriers were resuming services that they had abandoned due to missile attacks on Israel since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian terror group Hamas led over 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds as hostages to Gaza.Part of Iran’s “axis of resistance” against the United States and Israel, the Houthis have been firing on ships in the Red Sea and at Israel since early in the war against Hamas, claiming solidarity with Palestinians.They also directly targeted Israel with drones and missiles, killing one person and causing significant damage on several occasions. The attacks, usually in the small hours of the morning, also forced millions of Israelis to hurry to bomb shelters.The Houthis had paused their attacks for the duration of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire that began mid-January, but resumed launching missiles and drones at ships after the United States carried out deadly strikes on Yemen Saturday as well as at Israel after the truce collapsed on Tuesday.Washington has pledged overwhelming force until the rebels stop firing on key shipping routes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.On Tuesday, the Hamas-allied rebels claimed responsibility for a missile intercepted by Israel and vowed to escalate attacks after IDF military operations resumed in the Gaza Strip.Israel returned to bombing Gaza, saying Hamas was refusing to discuss continuing the complex ceasefire framework under which batches of hostages were released in return for a halt in the fighting, humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the release of thousands of Palestinian security inmates held in Israeli prisons.US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the Houthi rebels “will be completely annihilated,” while warning Iran against continuing to provide aid for the group.

Report: Trump letter to Iran set 2-month deadline to reach nuclear deal-Source quoted by Axios describes letter proposing renewed talks to Khamenei as ‘tough,’ threatening consequences if no accord achieved-By ToI Staff 19 March 2025, 11:17 pm

The letter US President Donald Trump sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this month included a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal, according to a Wednesday report by Axios.The letter, delivered to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi via an Emirati diplomat, proposed renewed nuclear talks between the US and Iran, while threatening Tehran with consequences should it continue pursuing its nuclear program, the report said.A source speaking to Axios described the letter as “tough,” since it reportedly ruled out open-ended negotiations and set a time limit for the parties to reach a deal.It is unclear whether the two-month countdown began on the day the letter was delivered, or with the start of negotiations.According to a US official and another unnamed source who spoke to the outlet, the White House briefed several US allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, about the letter’s contents before it was delivered to Iran.Trump revealed the letter’s existence in an early March interview with Fox Business News.“I’ve written them a letter saying, ‘I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing,’” Trump said. “You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”He added that there are “two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal… I would prefer to make a deal, because I’m not looking to hurt Iran. They’re great people.”The next week, Khamenei appeared to reject holding negotiations with the US, calling the proposal “deception” from Washington, designed to make it seem as if Iran was refusing to negotiate.He claimed that negotiating with the Trump administration, which he said had excessive demands, “will tighten the knot of sanctions and increase pressure on Iran.”An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman later told Reuters that Iran would respond to the letter “after full scrutiny.”In 2018, Trump withdrew the US from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy. Tehran reacted a year later by violating the deal’s nuclear curbs.While leaving the door open for a nuclear pact with Tehran, Trump has reinstated the “maximum pressure” campaign he applied in his first term as president to isolate Iran from the global economy and drive its oil exports towards zero.

Trump vows to ‘annihilate’ Houthis, warns Iran against support, as US strikes Yemen-Tehran must ‘immediately’ stop sending Yemeni rebels weapons supplies, US president says, shortly after American airstrikes hit Houthi targets in Sanaa By Agencies and ToI Staff 19 March 2025, 10:04 pm

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels “will be completely annihilated,” warning Tehran against continuing to provide aid for the group during an ongoing US military campaign against them.“Iran must stop the sending of these Supplies IMMEDIATELY. Let the Houthis fight it out themselves. Either way they lose, but this way they lose quickly,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.The American leader referred to reports that Iran “has lessened its intensity on Military Equipment and General Support” for the Houthis, though he added that “they are still sending large levels of Supplies.”“Tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians, and watch how it will get progressively worse — It’s not even a fair fight, and never will be. They will be completely annihilated!” his post continued.Shortly before Trump posted his threat to Iran and the Houthis on social media, the US military carried out a series of airstrikes on a Houthi stronghold in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, three residents told Reuters.The strikes hit a neighborhood close to the capital’s airport, the residents said.According to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV, “an American attack targeted the capital Sanaa… and the area of the town of Saada” in the north. It later added that strikes had also hit the district of Al-Sawadiya, southeast of Sanaa.The United States began launching heavy strikes against the Houthis on Saturday, as Washington pledged overwhelming force until the rebels stop firing on key shipping routes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.On Saturday, the Houthi-run health ministry said US strikes killed 53 people and wounded nearly 100 others. The United States has said the attacks killed several top officials.On Tuesday, the rebels took responsibility for a missile fired at Israel and intercepted, and vowed to escalate attacks, in the wake of the resumption of massive military operations in the Gaza Strip.The missile, which the Houthis said targeted an airbase, was the first reported attack on Israel from Yemen since a January 19 ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.Part of Iran’s “axis of resistance” against the United States and Israel, the Houthis have been attacking ships in the trade lane since the start of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, claiming solidarity with Palestinians.Attacks by Houthis — whose slogans call for “Death to America,” “Death to Israel,” and a “curse on Jews” —  have forced many vessels to take a much longer, more expensive route around Africa.Washington has pledged overwhelming force until the rebels stop firing on key shipping routes.

Civil defense team stopped major Hamas invasion at Alumim, but dozens were murdered outside-IDF finds around 100 terrorists reached kibbutz during Oct. 7 onslaught, killing 22 foreign nationals in industrial area and many more who fled Nova festival at main entrance-By Emanuel Fabian19 March 2025, 9:39 pm

On the morning of October 7, 2023, during the Hamas-led terror onslaught on Israel, some 100 terrorists reached the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Alumim, where they murdered nearly two dozen foreign agricultural workers and abducted others. Outside the kibbutz, the terrorists also murdered many partygoers who had fled a nearby music festival.The community’s local security team, along with other security forces, managed to fight off the terrorists, killing and capturing many of them, thus largely preventing a widescale infiltration of the kibbutz.On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces presented its probe into the battle at the kibbutz — the latest in its detailed investigations of some 40 battles that took place during Hamas’s October 7 attack, when some 5,600 terrorists stormed across the border, massacred some 1,200 people, and took 251 hostages to Gaza.The probe highlighted the heroism of Alumim’s civil defense squad — who fought for over eight hours — and other Israeli forces that participated in the fighting.Still, it concluded that the IDF “failed in its mission to protect” Alumim and the surrounding area, largely because the military had never prepared for such an event: an Israeli community being attacked by numerous terrorists during a widescale assault on numerous other towns and army bases simultaneously by thousands of terrorists.In all, 57 civilians and five members of the security forces were killed in and around Alumim that day. Five hostages were taken by the terrorists.According to the probe, 22 agricultural students and workers from Thailand and Nepal were murdered by the terrorists inside Alumim, and another two foreign nationals were abducted to Gaza.An Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed by members of the kibbutz’s local security team, and an unidentified Thai man was mistakenly killed by soldiers, during the onslaught. Both cases were described by the probe as incidents of mistaken identity, in the throes of the chaos of the attack.Nearly three dozen more civilians were murdered by the terrorists outside the kibbutz, mostly at Alumim Junction. Most of those people were partygoers fleeing the Nova music festival near Re’im, south of Alumim. Three others were abducted from the area outside Alumim.Four soldiers and a police officer — whose body was abducted to Gaza — were killed during the fighting.The dead Israeli soldiers included reservist brothers Master Sgt. (res.) Noam Slotki and Sgt. First Class Yishay Slotki, who rushed from Beersheba to defend the kibbutz despite not being called up for duty that morning; Chief Warrant Officer Ido “Crido” Rosenthal, a member of the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit; and Cpt. Etai Cohen, an officer in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.Nepalese agricultural student Bipin Joshi, and the body of police officer Sgt. First Class Ran Gvili, remain captive in the Strip.The other hostage taken from the kibbutz, Thai national Phonsawan Pinakalo, was released by Hamas in November 2023. The two hostages abducted from the Alumim Junction were Romi Gonen and Ofir Tzarfati. Gonen was released by Hamas in January, while Tzarfati’s body was recovered by the IDF in Gaza in December 2023.The probe into events at Alumim, led by Col. Ido Saad — chief of operations at the IDF Depth Corps — covered all aspects of the fighting in the kibbutz and surrounding area on October 7.Saad and his team spent hundreds of hours investigating the onslaught and battle at Alumim. The IDF said the investigators reviewed every possible source of information — footage taken by terrorists with body-mounted cameras, residents’ WhatsApp messages, surveillance videos, and interviews with survivors and those who fought to defend the kibbutz — and made visits to the scene.The Alumim probe was aimed at drawing specific operational conclusions for the military. It did not examine the wider picture of the military’s misperception of Gaza and Hamas in recent years, which was covered in separate, larger, investigations into the IDF’s intelligence and defense failures.The army is also not looking at policies set by the political leadership. That way, it has avoided conflict with government leaders who have insisted such investigations must wait until after the war against Hamas ends.The investigation team stated that “the IDF failed to defend the residents of Kibbutz Alumim and the civilians in the area.”Saad’s team found that from the beginning of the attack and until around 1:30 p.m., the defense was led by the local security team and some 17 different Israeli units whose members randomly found themselves fighting there, without any clear direction. The troops had been heading south, mainly to Kibbutz Be’eri, when they got caught up fighting in and around Alumim.“Their action and resourcefulness was what stopped the enemy from expanding its attack to other areas of the kibbutz. Members of the civil defense team continued to fight even after the arrival of IDF troops, guided them, and fought alongside them with exceptional heroism,” the team stated.The probe also found that the IDF’s chain of command had collapsed in the area; that the military struggled to construct an accurate picture of what was happening in the area; and that there was little coordination between the forces in the area.A major turning point in the onslaught at Alumim, according to the investigation, was the organized arrival of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion. The troops eliminated a large number of the terrorists outside Alumim and later managed to restore control over the kibbutz.Of the 100 terrorists who attacked the Alumim area, some 40 were ultimately killed by Israeli forces in the kibbutz and adjacent areas. Another 10 were captured alive by the IDF.The timeline of the attack-At 5:30 a.m. on October 7, Israeli troops of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion serving in the area between Be’eri and Mefalsim — Alumim is located between the two — took their stations along the Gaza border in a shift change. The Hamas assault began an hour later.During an initial barrage of around 1,000 rockets — which began at 6:29 a.m. — largely aimed at Israeli military posts, Hamas terrorists broke through 114 locations along Israel’s border barrier. Many of the breaches were in the northern Gaza border area — across from Alumim. Through them, hundreds of terrorists streamed into Israel in pickup trucks, on motorbikes, and on foot.According to the investigation, 125 Hamas terrorists had received instructions that morning to reach Alumim and an adjacent IDF post. In reality, the terrorists never reached the military post, and not all of them reached the community.At 7:01 a.m., 10 terrorists on five motorbikes infiltrated Alumim through a back entrance, and several minutes later reached the kibbutz’s main entrance, located adjacent to the Route 232 highway.On the way, as they drove through the kibbutz, the terrorists opened fire on several Nepalese students at the foreign workers’ residences, located in the kibbutz’s industrial area, outside the main residential area.As the terrorists reached the entrance of the kibbutz and the nearby Alumim Junction at 7:14 a.m., they massacred more than 20 partygoers who had fled there from the Nova festival. Eight of them were killed by the terrorists inside a bomb shelter just outside the community.A police officer who reached the area fought back against the terrorists, wounding their commander. At the same time, Golani soldiers arrived at the area and exchanged fire with the same group of terrorists, halting the attack.At 7:19 a.m., the group of terrorists withdrew, evacuating their wounded commander, and heading back through the kibbutz and out the back entrance.At this stage, the community’s 16-strong civil defense squad was unaware that terrorists had infiltrated the kibbutz, and only began to gather their gear at around 7:24 a.m., after the first terrorists left.Local security rushed to the foreign workers’ residences after receiving reports of gunfire there, and a short while later to the main entrance, where they found the aftermath of the killings.Among those who survived the massacre at the bomb shelter outside Alumim were Ofek Atun and his girlfriend Tamar, who had fled the Nova festival. The pair, following the attack, entered the kibbutz at 7:23 a.m. and broke into the home of an elderly couple, who had locked themselves in their bomb shelter.At 7:30 a.m., the local security team was alerted by the elderly couple that terrorists — later revealed to be the two partygoers — had entered their home.The local security team surrounded the home, managing to evacuate the elderly couple through the window to the bomb shelter before two members entered the house. Ofek tried to attack one of the security officers from behind, thinking he was a terrorist. The officer returned fire, killing him, also thinking he was a terrorist.A second figure — Tamar — was then spotted trying to come out of the house, and the head of the security team fired a single shot, hitting her. She was wounded in the incident, and taken to a hospital.At 8:40 a.m., the local security team identified a group of 10 terrorists heading for Alumim from the direction of Kibbutz Be’eri, further south on Route 232. Two members of the team and an off-duty IDF battalion commander rushed to the entrance and opened fire on the terrorists, killing three of them. The terrorists then withdrew back toward Be’eri.At 9:20 a.m., another group of around 15 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Alumim through the kibbutz’s back entrance, reaching a recreational area known as Gan Hadar, which includes a basketball court and a swimming pool. A major battle erupted between the local security team and the terrorists at Gan Hadar, preventing the terrorists from advancing further into the kibbutz. Four civil defense officers were wounded in the exchange.During the battle, some of the terrorists flanked the Gan Hadar area, heading for the foreign workers’ residences, where they gathered up Thai and Nepalese agricultural students and workers, murdering 22 of them and abducting two others.At 9:30 a.m., another group of some 40 terrorists of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force on pickup trucks reached Route 232 and stopped outside Alumim’s main entrance.Other troops who had reached the area earlier, along with some members of the civil defense team, exchanged fire with those terrorists, preventing them from entering Alumim. Many of those terrorists were eliminated by the troops.Among those hit by gunfire from the terrorists was Sgt. First Class Ran Gvili, the police officer whose body was later abducted.At 9:45 a.m., Yishay and Noam Slotkin, brothers, who headed from Beersheba of their own accord, reached Route 232, where they came under fire by Hamas terrorists outside Alumim. The two returned fire with their handguns before they were killed.At around 10:45 a.m., another group of some 15 Hamas terrorists infiltrated the kibbutz from the back entrance, heading for the industrial and agricultural area in the south of Alumim. The terrorists set fire to the kibbutz’s barns and packing center.At 11:40 a.m., soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion were airlifted to the Alumim area by helicopters. After disembarking, the troops exchanged fire with terrorists outside Alumim, killing many of them. Three soldiers were wounded in the exchange.Shortly after, members of the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit, who were trying to head to Be’eri, came under fire at Alumim. During the fighting, Shaldag Chief Warrant Officer Ido Rosenthal was killed.One of the companies of the 890th Battalion joined forces with the Shaldag officers and together they killed several more terrorists at Alumim.At around 1 p.m., members of the Yahalom combat engineering unit received reports from the local security team in Alumim that another group of terrorists had infiltrated the community. The troops rushed to the back entrance and eliminated the terrorists. Yahalom officer Cpt. Etai Cohen was killed in the fighting.Over the following hours, the troops carried out searches in the kibbutz, escorting residents out, treating those wounded in the fighting, and clearing bodies.In the evening hours, an apparent Thai national, who the investigation team believes came from the nearby community of Shuva, tried to climb over Alumim’s perimeter fence. Believing him to be a terrorist, the Yahalom soldiers opened fire, killing him.Israeli authorities to this day do not know his identity, despite many efforts to investigate the matter.

Analysis-Hamas squandered the few chances it had left. Will Netanyahu do the same? Even after Trump took office, Hamas had opportunities to move toward the 2nd phase of the ceasefire deal. That window has closed, but will Israel now pursue a clear plan for victory? By Lazar Berman-19 March 2025, 7:16 pm

Hamas’s strategic position is badly compromised.Iran, Hezbollah, and almost all of Hamas’s allies are exhausted, at least for the foreseeable future, with apparently no appetite to lift a finger or fire a rocket to save the terror group. The exception, the Houthis in Yemen, are still launching missiles, but they have no deterrent effect on Israeli operations in Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have sufficiently solidified his coalition to keep domestic demonstrations from affecting his calculus on a hostage-ceasefire deal.And Hamas shouldn’t expect the international community to push Israel to end the war in Gaza either. The US is the one country that could conceivably dictate Israeli decisions, but President Donald Trump is more focused on trying to hammer out a truce in Ukraine, and has said repeatedly that he is “really” fine with any decision Israel makes on Gaza.Even with its options restricted, Hamas has had brief opportunities to improve its negotiating position, and even to achieve its aim of getting to the second phase of a hostage-ceasefire deal. But the terror group repeatedly misplayed its hand, calling into question its ability to accurately read both Israel and the international community.Struggling to get to phase 2-In early February, it seemed that Hamas had somehow managed to weather the first month of the Trump administration and was potentially on track to get what it wanted from the ongoing deal — a permanent end to the war and a chance to rebuild its military sometime in the future.Talks on the second phase, which envisions an end to Israel’s campaign in Gaza and the release of all the remaining living hostages, were supposed to start on February 3, but Israel had not made moves in that direction. Without many cards left to play, the badly bruised Hamas tried to make its displeasure clear by announcing it would freeze future hostage releases “until further notice.”The tactic backfired. Trump told reporters that if all hostages weren’t released by midday a few days later, the ceasefire should be canceled and “let hell break out.” Hamas backed down, and carried out the release of three hostages as originally planned.Then it looked like there was finally some good news for the terror group.While US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff promised that the second phase of the hostage deal is “absolutely going to begin,” and that the president “wants to see” it happen. The US goals aligned with the wishes of the majority of the Israeli public as well, according to recent polls.Shortly after Witkoff’s interview, Netanyahu’s office — insisting that it was coordinating fully with the White House — announced that he was sending a negotiating team to Cairo.A gruesome spectacle-Things were slowly starting to swing in Hamas’s direction. Then the terror leaders in Gaza made a series of decisions that reminded the world that Hamas is a fanatic and bloodthirsty organization that cannot be trusted.As it was preparing to hand over the bodies of the most recognizable hostages in the world — Shiri Silberman Bibas and her two young, orange-haired sons Ariel and Kfir, along with Oded Lifshitz — Hamas thought it would be a good idea to stage a grotesque ceremony with their coffins, complete with crowds of Gazans taking pictures with smartphones, children playing with guns, upbeat music blasting through speakers, and crude posters showing Netanyahu as a vampire.They slapped propaganda material on the coffins, and proudly broadcast the spectacle for the world to see.If that wasn’t enough, Hamas sent to Israel the body of a Gazan woman instead of Shiri Bibas, which was only discovered after work by an Israeli forensics team.And Hamas didn’t stop there. Days later, it published a video showing two Israeli hostages being forced to watch as other captives were freed, begging to be saved as well.Hamas’s decisions around the releases clearly had an effect in Washington and beyond. US hostage envoy Adam Boehler called them “horrific” and a “clear violation” of the ceasefire.Netanyahu “is very angry; he’s a very angry man at what happened, especially what happened yesterday with these kids,” said Trump, referring to the return of the murdered hostage children. “It’s so barbaric. You wouldn’t think that would happen in the modern age, but it happened.”Even UN Secretary-General António Guterres — whom Israel does not see as a friend — condemned Hamas for “the parading of bodies and displaying of the coffins of the deceased Israeli hostages.”After Hamas’s renewed acts of depravity, the US fully backed Israel’s decision to delay the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners over the Hamas ceremonies, and did not push it to move toward the second phase.Boehled over-Hamas had another small opening earlier this month. Trump’s hostage envoy Boehler embarked on secret direct talks with senior Hamas officials in Qatar, something most terror groups could only dream about.Analysts saw the development as a worrying omen for Israel.

Detained activist Mahmoud Khalil urges renewed student pro-Palestinian protests-In letter from jail, Columbia student accused of pro-Hamas views calls himself a ‘political prisoner,’ describes his arrest as a ‘consequence of exercising my right to free speech’ By JTA and ToI Staff Today, 8:16 am-mar 20,25

Mahmoud Khalil, a US-based Palestinian protester arrested at Columbia University nine days ago, has written that he is a “political prisoner” in a letter sent from a Louisiana detention center.Khalil was arrested on March 9 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and has been threatened with deportation for leading activities that the Trump administration says were “aligned to Hamas.” He was a leader of the hardline pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel group Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and his detainment was part of a broad crackdown on campus anti-Israel protests that the Trump administration says has included support for terrorism and is responsible for a surge in antisemitism. Another person who demonstrated at Columbia has also been arrested.In his letter, which was dictated to his family Tuesday, Khalil urged the protests to continue.“If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation,” he wrote. “In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.”Khalil called his arrest “a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night,” a reference to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that ended a two-month ceasefire. Israel rejects the accusation that it is committing genocide in its war against Hamas, which was triggered on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian terror group led over 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages.Israel says the resumed airstrikes are because Hamas refused offers to extend the first phase of the truce framework under which batches of hostages were released in return for a halt in the fighting, humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the release of thousands of Palestinian security inmates from Israeli prisons.Khalil also blamed Columbia’s leaders for his arrest, accusing them of having “laid the groundwork for the US government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation —to go unchecked.”Khalil was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and came to the US on a student visa in 2022, getting his US permanent residency green card last year.Columbia University Apartheid Divest is a consortium of dozens of student groups that took a leading role in the anti-Israel encampment protest last spring. In December last year, it was banned from the Instagram platform after posting plans for a protest that included an image of a figure holding a Molotov cocktail.The protest announcement also had photos apparently of university trustees, saying they were “enemies,” “murderers,” and “violently genocidal Zionists,” and included inverted black triangles on a red background. Red inverted triangles, which Hamas uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos, have been adopted as a protest symbol by anti-Israel activists.The Trump administration, along with a range of Jewish groups, have long faulted Columbia for not doing enough to curb disruptive anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests that, according to many Jewish students, created a hostile atmosphere. Shortly before Khalil’s arrest, the Trump administration froze $400 million in grants to Columbia over campus antisemitism, and the school responded last week by expelling and suspending a range of students.

Netanyahu gifts silver-plated pager to visiting US Senator Fetterman-Pennsylvania Democrat, who says he loved the Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah, in turn gives PM a framed photo of news article about an effort to memorialize his brother Yoni-By Ben Sales Today, 6:52 am-mar 20,25

JTA — When US Senator John Fetterman said he loved the Israeli operation that sent exploding pagers to members of Hezbollah, he probably never expected that Israel would give him a beeper, too.But that’s what happened this week, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Fetterman, an outspokenly pro-Israeli Democratic lawmaker, to his office in Jerusalem.The beeper handover took place during an exchange of gifts. The Pennsylvania senator gave Netanyahu a framed news article about an effort to memorialize Netanyahu’s brother, the fallen Israeli soldier Yoni Netanyahu, in Philadelphia — where Netanyahu lived as a teenager.Netanyahu’s gift was smaller — and didn’t explode.“What can I give a man who has everything? How about giving him a beeper?” Netanyahu said, handing over a small silver box to Fetterman. “This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is, like, one-tenth the weight. It’s nothing, but it changes history.”Fetterman responded, “When that story broke, I was like, ‘Oh, I love it, I love it.’ And now, it’s like, thank you for this.”Pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon in September, wounding and killing many, in addition to a number of civilians, in a long-planned Israeli operation. The operation came 10 days before Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, in an airstrike, and two weeks ahead of an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. That conflict ended in a ceasefire in late November.Fetterman has praised the beeper operation before, including in comments to a representative of the militant right-wing pro-Israel group Betar US.And Netanyahu has gifted a pager to a US official before. In a visit to the White House last month, he gave one to US President Donald Trump. That one was plated with gold.