IS THIS BLACK HOLE THE LAKE OF FIRE.AND IRAN THREATENS ISRAEL IF THEY DO ANYTHING AGAINST IRAN.YOUR HISTORY.

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)

 IS THIS BLACK HOLE THE LAKE OF FIRE.AND IRAN THREATENS ISRAEL IF THEY DO ANYTHING AGAINST IRAN.YOUR HISTORY.

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEN OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE 60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

I MYSELF BELIEVE A GIGANTIC BLACK HOLE IN OUTER DARKNESS WILL BE THE LAKE OF FIRE. THAT EVERYBODY LOST WILL BE THROWN INTO AFTER THEY STAND IN FRONT OF JESUS TO BE JUDGED FOR THEIR WORKS. AFTER EVERY SECRETS BEEN REVEALED IN THEIR LIVES THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS IN HEAVEN ABOUT THEM. THEN THEY MUST SAY TO JESUS. YOU ARE THE ONLY GOD OF THE WORLD. TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER. THEN IF THEY HAD ABORTIONS IN THEIR LIFE. JESUS WILL LET THE CHILD THAT WAS MURDERER BY THE MOTHER. ASK THE MOTHER-MOM WHY DID YOU MURDER AND TORTURE ME BY ABORTION. THE MOTHER WILL NOT BE HAPPY BECAUSE THEIR MURDERED CHILD IS ACTUALLY TALKING TO THEM. AND CONFRONTING THE MOTHER. WHY SHE MURDERED HIM OR HER, HE OR SHE. BY ABORTION. THE MURDERED CHILD BY ABORTION WILL SAY TO THE MOTHER. IF JESUS WOULD NOT HAVE TAKIN ME TO HEAVEN IN A RAPTURE AFTER YOU MURDERED ME. I WOULD NOT BE ALIVE. AND THEN THE MURDERED BABY THANKS JESUS FOR KEEPING HIM OR HER ALIVE. AND JESUS SAYS TO THE MOTHER. I NEVER KNEW YOU. INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND SULFER FOREVER YOU GET THROWN INTO THE BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE WITH  YOUR NEVER DYING BODY.

IS THIS MASSIVE BLACK HOLE CLOSEST TO THE EARTH EVER JUST DISCOVERED. THE BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE OUT IN OUTTER DARKNESS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS. WERE HELL CURRENTLY IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. WILL ALSO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. AND CAST INTO THE BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE IN OTTER DARKNESS FOREVER. NO MORE HELL IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH ANY MORE. EVERYBODY IN HELL FIRE WILL BE CAST INTO THE BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE AND SULFER FOREVER, NEVER ENDING.

Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered 'extremely close' to Earth-News-By Ben Turner-published yesterday-APR 16,24

Astronomers found the most massive stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy after spotting a star "wobbling" nearby. The baby monster is the 2nd-closest black hole to Earth ever detected.Astronomers have found the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever discovered in our galaxy — and it's lurking "extremely close" to Earth, according to new research.The black hole, named Gaia BH3, is 33 times more massive than our sun. Cygnus X-1, the next-biggest stellar black hole known in our galaxy, weighs only 21 solar masses. The newfound black hole is located roughly 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, making it the second-closest known black hole to Earth.The researchers published their findings April 16 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics."No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far," Gaia collaboration member Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory, part of France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), said in a statement. "This is the kind of discovery you make once in your research life."Black holes are born from the collapse of giant stars and grow by gorging on gas, dust, stars and other black holes. Currently, known black holes fall into two categories: stellar-mass black holes, which range from a few to a few dozen times the sun's mass; and supermassive black holes, cosmic monsters that can be anywhere from a few million to 50 billion times as massive as the sun.Intermediate-mass black holes — which, theoretically, range from 100 to 100,000 times the sun's mass — are the most elusive black holes in the universe. While there have been several promising candidates, no intermediate-mass black holes have been definitively confirmed to exist. By finding baby black holes and studying how they might evolve, as well as their effects on their surrounding environment, scientists hope they can fill in this cosmic blank.To spot the nearby black hole, the researchers used the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which maps the positions and movements of the Milky Way's roughly 2 billion stars. By poring through Gaia's data, the astronomers found one star that appeared to have a distinct wobble — a slight limp in the usually smooth path of its trajectory. The only possible cause was the tugs of an invisible companion black hole, the researchers concluded.The astronomers followed up on Gaia's observations with more data from the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile and confirmed the existence of the black hole. The observations also helped them find a precise measurement for its mass. At 2,000 light-years from Earth, only Gaia BH1, a black hole 1,500 light-years away, is closer to us.
 
Devastating tornado damage and multiple injuries in Kansas after two DOZEN twisters rip through heartland-Two people were injured after a tornado with 100 mph winds flipped over their RV near Overbrook, Kansas In central Iowa, a barn was demolished and other buildings were damaged after a tornado touched down-A camper was blown over and the roof was ripped off a building when a strong storm hit western Missouri-By Rachel Bowman For Dailymail.Com and Wires-Published: 09:35 EDT, 17 April 2024 | Updated: 11:09 EDT, 17 April 2024

Dozens of tornadoes swept through the Midwest damaging homes and buildings and injuring at least two people.Forecasters said the central U.S. in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and northwestern Illinois were under threat of severe weather through Tuesday, with thunderstorms, potentially large hail and damaging winds.Authorities have started to assess the damage of the storms that saw winds reach up to 110 mph in some areas.Millions were under tornado warnings and thousands were without power as the storms ripped through the region.The National Weather Service Quad Cities office reported multiple storms on Tuesday that produced severe winds, hail and at least one damaging tornado-The National Weather Service Quad Cities office reported multiple storms on Tuesday that produced severe winds, hail and at least one damaging tornado-In central Iowa, a barn was demolished and other buildings were damaged after a tornado touched down in a rural area of Dallas County.Iowa-In central Iowa, a barn was demolished and other buildings were damaged after a tornado touched down in a rural area of Dallas County. The weather service also reported ping pong ball-sized hail in Bloomfield, just north of the Missouri line. The National Weather Service Quad Cities office reported multiple storms on Tuesday that produced severe winds, hail and at least one damaging tornado in southeast Iowa. The Johnson County Emergency Management Agency reported downed powerlines on Ellis Avenue and River Street and round 120th Street NE in Swisher after wind speeds reached over 60 mph, according to KCRG.The Sioux County Sheriff's office shared photos of a destroyed farm with buildings ripped apart and downed trees.Iowa State Patrol public resource officer Trooper Paul Gardner posted a video of a tornado in Pocahontas County and photos of a tornado near Mason on Tuesday.The Dallas County Sheriff's office said three agricultural buildings were severely damaged or destroyed due to the tornado that traveled for six to seven miles, reported the Des Moines Register.Kansas-An EF1 tornado touched down near Overbrook, Kansas with winds up to 100 mph that flipped over an RV and injured two people on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Kyle Michael, who was in the RV, told WIBW: 'I got up and turned on the news and about that time everything got dead still and I ran and grabbed my wife which we were in the camper at the time and it picked the camper up and tossed us out of it and basically destroyed everything.''It happened so quick, it was so quiet and it was just like being inside a dryer and being tumbled around and next thing you know I was laying in the grass in the rain then trying to find my wife.'Earlier on Tuesday, an EF1 tornado touched down in central Osage County with 110 mph hour winds that caused tree damage and shifted a home's foundation-Earlier on Tuesday, an EF1 tornado touched down in central Osage County with 110 mph hour winds that caused tree damage and shifted a home's foundationA mobile trailer is shown in pieces following a tornado ripping through Overbrook Tuesday morningA mobile trailer is shown in pieces following a tornado ripping through Overbrook Tuesday morning-'From there I was just yelling for her and she was still in the rubble of the camper. I found her and we found our two dogs that are still alive and well and we got to the last vehicle we had that wasn’t damaged to get out of the weather and call 911,' he said.Earlier on Tuesday, an EF1 tornado touched down in central Osage County with 110 mph hour winds that caused tree damage and shifted a home's foundation. Dusty Nichols with Shawnee County Emergency Management told KSNT there is damage reports from SE 105th Street and SE Dupont Road. Two local homes have damage to their roofs with some trees uprooted. Osage County Emergency Management says there is confirmed damage between E 165th through to 173rd Street on S Croco Road. There is also damage being reported on S Shawnee Heights Road from E 125th Street north to the county line. Missouri-A camper was blown over and the roof was ripped off a building when a strong storm hit the area around Smithville Lake in western Missouri, the Clay County Sheriff's Department said. 'A mom, dad and 11-year-old boy, as well as their dog and cat, lived in this camper full-time. It was blown over and severely damaged today. The family managed to make it to safety in one of the campground’s bathrooms, which also serve as storm shelters. They and their pets are safe, but they lost nearly everything else,' said the sheriff's department.The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado with max wind speeds of 95 mph occurred over Smithville Lake. Downed trees and power lines were reported in several communities near Kansas City. A Chicago-bound American Eagle Flight 3661 returned to Kansas City International Airport just before 6 a.m., soon after it took off, due to a possible lightning strike, American Airlines spokesperson Gianna Urgo said in an email. Maintenance workers were inspecting the aircraft to see if it was damaged. The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado with max wind speeds of 95 mph occurred over Smithville Lake-The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado with max wind speeds of 95 mph occurred over Smithville LakeNebraska-At least one tornado was reported overnight in south central Nebraska and five were reported in northeast Nebraska on Tuesday, according to KLKN. Damage to a detached garage was reported in Platte County, Nebraska after several tornadoes touched down in the area. The Platte County Emergency Manager’s office shared photos of farm ripped apart from storm damage near Creston, reported WOWT.

Elam (IRAN IN THE BIBLE) passed into the hands of the Persians" (A.H. Sayce).
Jeremiah 49:35-39
35-Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36-And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37-For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
38-And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
39-But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 32:24
24-There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

EZEK 38:4-13
4  And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5  Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6  Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7  Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8  After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10  Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11  And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12  To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
EZEK 39:11-21
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY) and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(CEMETARY OF THE HORDE)
12  And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13  Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; (ALL AVAILABLE ISRAELS WILL BURY THE RUSSIA,MUSLIM HORDE) and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14  And they shall sever out men of continual employment, (NUCLEAR PROFFESIONALS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.(SO BY THE SOUNDS OF IT AFTER 7 MONTHS THE NUKED RUSSIA,MUSLIM HOARDES BONES WILL STILL BE FULL OF RADIATION, SO VISITERS TO ISRAEL WILL JUST PUT A SIGN BY THE BONES.NOT TOUCH THEM.OR THEY WOULD STILL GET RADIATION POISONING FROM ISRAEL NUKING THEM 7 MONTHS EARLIER.SO THE SIGN GOES BY THE BONES.THE NUCLEAR PROFFESIONALS WILL PICK UP AND TAKE THE BONES TO THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIAL SITE.
15  And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.(VALLEY OF GOGS HORDES)
16  And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.(MEANING CITY OF THE HOARDE) Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17  And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(RUSSIA,ISLAMIC HORDE)
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

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)

IRAN YOU ARE SO BRAVE BUT YOUR 2 ALLAH AND WELLBOY MAUHDI GODS ARE A BUNCH OF NOSE PICKERS AND EATERS.THEIR USELESS EATERS.

AND ONE SIDE BREAKING NEWS. 3 PEOPLE DIED IN ONE NIGHT WHEN WE LAST GOT THE VACCINE BOOSTERS HERE WERE I LIVE. I WAS TOLD BY A NURSE YESTERDAY AND TODAY. THE SUCKERS WILL BE TAKING THE BOOSTERS AGAIN. IN THE NEXT MONTH I PREDICT AT LEAST 3 WILL BE DEAD AT LEAST FROM THE KILLER BOOSTER.

COWS TO HUMAN BIRD FLU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH3lw7mNRk4

Iranian president: ‘Tiniest invasion’ by Israel will be met with a massive response-At annual military showcase, Ebrahim Raisi hails ‘success’ of country’s weekend missile and drone strike on Israel, as Tehran’s navy commander pledges greater presence in Red Sea
By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 4:14 pm-APR 17,24

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, warned on Wednesday that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response, as the region braces for a potential Israeli retaliation after Iran’s attack over the weekend.The weekend attack, dubbed “Honest Promise” by Tehran, “brought down the glory of the Zionist regime,” Raisi said at an annual army parade near Tehran on Wednesday, in a speech addressed to the regular army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.“This operation showed that our armed forces are ready,” said the president, as his chief naval officer announced he was beefing up security for Iranian commercial ships in the Red Sea as tensions in the vital maritime route persist.In the first direct volley of the two countries’ decades-long shadow war, Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend in response to an alleged Israeli strike on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria on April 1 that killed 12 people, including two IRGC generals.Israel, with help from the United States, the United Kingdom, neighboring Jordan and other nations, successfully intercepted nearly all the missiles and drones, with one person, a 7-year-old Muslim girl, wounded in the attack. Israel has vowed to respond, with military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari saying Tuesday that Iran would not get off “scot-free.”The annual military parade at which Raisi celebrated the “success” of Iran’s weekend strike on Israel saw the Iranian armed forces showcase a range of military equipment including drones and long-range ballistic missiles.Among them were multiple versions of the Ababil, Arash and Mohajer drones, as well as the Dezful medium-range ballistic missile and S-300 air defense missile system.The Wednesday parade had been relocated to a barracks north of the capital, Tehran, from its usual venue on a highway in the city’s southern outskirts. No explanation was given for the event’s relocation, and state television did not broadcast it live, as it has in previous years.Also on Wednesday, Tehran’s Naval Commander Shahram Irani said that Iran’s navy would escort Iranian commercial ships to the Red Sea, adding that Iran would be prepared to escort ships from other nations, according to the country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.This year we will conduct several naval exercises and also engage unmanned surface vessels (USVs). — Shahram Irani, Commander of the Iranian Navy pic.twitter.com/jEgntyuAYe — Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) August 16, 2023-“The Navy is carrying out a mission to escort Iranian commercial ships to the Red Sea and our Jamaran frigate is present in the Gulf of Aden in this view,” Irani said.Irani’s comments came a day after the European Union’s naval mission to the Red Sea announced it would require more combat ships. The mission’s commander, Rear Admiral Vasileios Gryparis, added that its operations had not been affected by the Iranian weekend attack on Israel.Hours before the attack, IRGC forces near the Strait of Hormuz seized MSC Aries, a Portuguese-flagged container ship that Tehran said is linked to Israel.Other vessels suspected of links to Israel had earlier been targeted in the Red Sea by Iran’s Houthi proxy. The Yemeni rebels say they are acting in support of Palestinians in Gaza amid Israel’s war against Hamas, triggered by the Iran-backed terror group’s October 7 shock assault on southern Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 253 kidnapped.

14 troops, 4 civilians wounded in Hezbollah drone attack on northern border town-One victim listed in critical condition, another four seriously hurt; footage shows projectile slamming into community center in Arab al-Aramshe-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 2:56 pm- APR 17,24

Fourteen soldiers and four civilians were wounded as an explosive drone fired from Lebanon struck a community center in the northern border town of Arab al-Aramshe on Wednesday, medics and the military said.The victims were taken to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, which said that one was listed in critical condition and four others were seriously wounded. The remaining victims were moderately and lightly hurt, the hospital added.According to the Israel Defense Forces, 14 of the victims were soldiers, including the five listed in critical and serious condition. The four civilian victims were all lightly hurt.Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted a building being used by the Israeli military with guided missiles and explosive-laden drones.Though the town has been largely evacuated, soldiers are stationed there and may have used the building as a gathering space.Warning sirens did not sound. The IDF was investigating why the alarms were not activated before the strike, and why the drone was not intercepted.Footage posted to social media showed what appeared to be an explosive-laden drone crashing down on the community center.Not long after the strike, alarms warning of incoming rockets sounded twice in Arab al-Aramshe.Additional footage shows the Hezbollah explosive-laden drone striking the community center in Arab al-Aramshe, wounding seven people. pic.twitter.com/DEE13pxE26- Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 17, 2024-Following the attack, the IDF said it targeted the launch sites.Fighter jets also struck buildings used by the terror group and where Hezbollah operatives were gathered, along with other infrastructure, in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab, Naqoura and Yarine, the military added.Since October 8, Hezbollah has attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a daily basis with rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles and other means, saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.Earlier Wednesday, Hezbollah fired several rockets from Lebanon at the Biranit army base. The IDF said no injuries were caused, and troops shelled the launch sites with artillery.Overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, the IDF said Wednesday morning.The targets included military compounds and buildings used by Hezbollah in Khiam, Mansouri, Aalma ash-Shab and Yater, according to the military.The exchange of fire Wednesday came a day after Hezbollah launched two explosive-laden drones at northern Israel, wounding three people.Also on Tuesday, the IDF killed two top Hezbollah commanders and a third member of the terror group in airstrikes in southern Lebanon.Israel has threatened to go to war to force Hezbollah away from the border if it does not retreat and continues to threaten northern communities, from where some 70,000 people were evacuated to avoid the fighting.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 278 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 54 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 60 civilians have been killed.

Netanyahu: Despite allies’ advice, Israel will ‘make our own decisions’ on security-PM tells cabinet that input from visiting British, German foreign ministers on how Jerusalem should respond to Iran’s attack is appreciated, but will not necessarily be followed-By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 6:15 pm-APR 17,24

Following meetings with the British and German foreign ministers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at Wednesday’s cabinet meeting that Israel will make its own decisions and do whatever is necessary to protect itself, even if it is contrary to the advice offered by its allies.British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock both arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a flying visit in the wake of Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel overnight Saturday-Sunday, in which it launched some 350 attack drones and missiles at the country.Both Germany and the UK have urged Israel to show restraint in the aftermath of the attack, warning that any additional direct hostilities with Iran could send the Middle East spiraling into an all-out war. Israel, however, has vowed to retaliate against Iran, saying that it cannot be allowed to attack without facing repercussions.Appearing to respectfully reject Baerbock’s and Cameron’s counsel, Netanyahu told the cabinet meeting that the two had “all kinds of suggestions and advice,” and while it was appreciated, Israel would nevertheless “make our own decisions, and the State of Israel will do everything necessary to defend itself.”Acknowledging Israel’s right to make its own decisions, Cameron told the press in Israel on Wednesday that while it was clear there would be retaliation against Tehran, he hoped that it would be carried out “in a way that is smart as well as tough and also does as little as possible to escalate this conflict.”Germany’s Baerbock was more vocal in her opposition to Israel’s plan to strike back at Iran, but stressed that nevertheless, her country remains in full solidarity with Israel.“Iran and its proxies such as Hezbollah or the Houthis must not be allowed to add fuel to the fire,” she said, adding that there would be consequences to the strike, as the European Union was working on imposing further sanctions against Tehran.Netanyahu’s office said earlier that during his meetings with the German and British foreign ministers, the prime minister “reiterated that Israel would maintain its right to self-defense.”The two visiting diplomats also met earlier Wednesday with President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Israel Katz, with all the conversations focused on the potential of an Israeli retaliation.Both Baerbock and Cameron are due to attend a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers in Italy on Wednesday afternoon, where among other things, they will discuss imposing new sanctions on Iran.Reiterating her call for Israel to exercise restraint, Baerbock said that “everyone must now act prudently and responsibly.”“I’m not talking about giving in. I’m talking about prudent restraint, which is nothing less than strength,” the German minister said. “Because Israel has already shown strength with its defensive victory at the weekend.”Nobody would benefit from hitting back at Iran, she said. “Not Israel’s security, not the many dozens of hostages still in the hands of Hamas, not the suffering population of Gaza, not the many people in Iran who are themselves suffering under the regime, and not the third countries in the region who simply want to live in peace.”Cameron too, urged Israel to turn its attention back to Gaza, where the war against the Hamas terror organization is in its seventh month.“The real need is to refocus back on Hamas, back on the hostages, back on getting the aid in, back on getting a pause in the conflict in Gaza,” he told the press.

UN Security Council slated to vote on full Palestinian membership on Friday-US expected to use its veto power to block the vote if it goes ahead with a majority consensus, after admission committee was ‘unable to make a unanimous recommendation’By Reuters and Jacob Magid
APR 17,24-Today, 8:10 pm

The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for full UN membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel ally the United States is expected to block because it would effectively recognize a Palestinian state.The 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. in New York City on Friday on a draft resolution that recommends to the 193-member UN General Assembly that “the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations,” diplomats said.A council resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the US, Britain, France, Russia or China to pass. Diplomats say the measure could have the support of up to 13 council members.In such a case, a senior diplomat for a country on the Security Council told The Times of Israel, that the US is expected to veto the resolution.Council member Algeria, which put forward the draft resolution, had requested a vote for Thursday afternoon to coincide with a Security Council meeting on the Middle East, which is due to be attended by several ministers.The United States has said that establishing an independent Palestinian state should happen through direct negotiations between the parties and not at the United Nations.“We do not see that doing a resolution in the Security Council will necessarily get us to a place where we can find… a two-state solution moving forward,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Wednesday.The Palestinians are currently a non-member observer state, a de facto recognition of statehood that was granted by the 193-member UN General Assembly in 2012. But an application to become a full UN member needs to be approved by the Security Council and then at least two-thirds of the General Assembly.‘Peace-loving states’The Palestinian push for full UN membership comes six months into a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, following the terror group’s devastating October 7 assault.Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said earlier this month that “whoever supports recognizing a Palestinian state at such a time not only gives a prize to terror, but also backs unilateral steps which are contradictory to the agreed-upon principle of direct negotiations.”A Security Council committee on the admission of new members — made up of all 15 council members — met twice last week to discuss the Palestinian application and agreed to a report on the issue on Tuesday.“Regarding the issue of whether the application met all the criteria for membership…the Committee was unable to make a unanimous recommendation to the Security Council,” the report said, adding that “differing views were expressed.”UN membership is open to “peace-loving states” that accept the obligations in the founding UN Charter and are able and willing to carry them out.