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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)
THE MIDEAST REALLY HEATS UP.
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)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
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.
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 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the
daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those
who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her
allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those
slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23
Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all
around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who
once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there
with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen
by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who
once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their
disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they
prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves
all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They
bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed
among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all
their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are
uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in
the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen
warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose
swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their
bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the
living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29
Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite
their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with
the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM
93:
SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel
had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second
angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the
way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey
and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my
message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the
angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I
saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood
all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many
of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction –
men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the
great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the
remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children
of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final
judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the
final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the
Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those
countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken
in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no
more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6
the tents of Edom (JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO
CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
IDF
document shared with northern mayors sets out Hezbollah war
scenarios-Security establishment sees potentially unprecedented rocket
fire, major evacuations, power outages, water supply issues, disrupted
telecom service and brief internet disruptions-By Shalom Yerushalmi
Today, 5:05 pm-AUG 4,24
A document by the Israel Defense Forces
detailing the “Updated Scenario” in the event of an all-out war with
Hezbollah was recently shared with northern mayors, The Times of Israel
has learned.The document was shared as Israel braces for a threatened
response by Iran and Hezbollah to the killings last week of Hezbollah’s
military commander Fuad Shukr in an Israeli strike in Beirut and Hamas
leader Ismail Haniyeh in a blast in Tehran for which Israel has not
claimed responsibility.In the event of war with Hezbollah, the document
envisages a potential three-day power outage in some cities; breakdowns
in water supply that could last days; a disconnection of landlines for
up to eight hours and cellphone communications for up to 24 hours; and
brief local disruptions to radio and internet.Some 40% of the nation’s
workforce may be unable to work for the duration of the conflict, and
service providers from outside affected areas may become unavailable
throughout, according to the document.The security establishment, The
Times of Israel has learned, assesses that Israel could face an
unprecedented attack with hundreds of rockets, carrying warheads ranging
from payloads of 50 kilograms — like the one that hit Majdal Shams,
killing 12 children at a soccer field — to 10 times that.Hezbollah would
be expected to prioritize targeting IDF facilities, then
infrastructure, and then civilian targets, though that could change. It
would be expected to aim at targets far to the south of Haifa, including
Tel Aviv, possibly forcing the evacuation of large numbers of people to
Jerusalem and to the south.The evacuees would be housed in hotels, some
of which are already housing numerous displaced Israelis from the
north. If hotels in the Jerusalem area are full up, the evacuees would
be accommodated in schools in the city.Plans are being made for tent
cities in the south, including in areas such as Timna, north of Eilat,
and Eshkol Park in the Negev. The model for these is similar to that of
the tents set up by Arcadi Gaydamak on Nitzanim Beach in 2006, for
citizens evacuated from the north during the Second Lebanon War, and in
2007 at Yarkon Park for Sderot residents.According to senior IDF
sources, existing protective measures — notably including safe rooms —
are extremely effective against missiles, including those of Hezbollah.
Furthermore, according to the sources, the Home Front Command and local
authorities are properly prepared for the scenario.At the same time,
“the reality for the other side will be far worse, to put it mildly,”
one security official told The Times of Israel.In the event of a major
attack from the north, cities such as Sderot, Ofakim and Netivot would
ironically become relatively safe places as regards Hezbollah missile
strikes; cities in the south that were targeted in October 2023 would
thus become cities of refuge in August 2024.Yair Maayan, mayor of the
southern city of Arad, last week encouraged residents of the north to
consider evacuating to his quiet city, “and anybody who wants to, can
also stay.”
Report: Terror groups trying to use Arab Israeli
crime gangs to carry out attacks-Ministers told that weapons pilfered
from Gaza war are making their way into Arab community and posing a
serious threat to national security-By ToI Staff Today, 4:54 pm-AUG 4,24
Security
officials have warned government ministers that terror groups are
trying to utilize crime organizations in Israel’s Arab community in
order to carry out nationalistic attacks in the Jewish state, casting
the proliferation of illegal weapons as a tangible threat to national
security, the Haaretz daily reported Sunday.Citing unnamed sources, the
outlet said terror groups from abroad have already attempted to direct
such attacks, often without the local crime groups knowing they were
acting on the terrorists’ behalf. The report did not give any specific
details of such incidents.Haaretz said the security officials who
briefed ministers highlighted the ongoing failure to rein in an
unprecedented wave of violent crime in the Arab community, coupled with
wartime proliferation and increasing availability of illegal weapons in
the community. Among those who attended the meetings was National
Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is responsible for the Israel
Police.“The crime organizations are a strategic threat to national
security,” ministers were told. “The state is near the point of no
return in its ability to deal with the phenomenon.”“We see terror
entities that are ‘riding’ on the platform that crime creates,” a senior
security official told the newspaper.The official said that for Arab
citizens, the ruling authority is not the government but crime groups.
“This is a real danger.”There are believed to be hundreds of thousands
of weapons in the Arab community, including many considered of high
quality, and prices are dropping due to an influx made available by the
ongoing war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza
Strip. The war, triggered by the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel
that killed some 1,200 people, has seen massive army reserve call-ups
amid operations in Gaza involving tens of thousands of combat
troops.According to the report, enforcement services have in recent
months noticed a steady leak of weapons from IDF combat units to crime
groups, including anti-tank weapons and even advanced shoulder-launched
anti-tank systems such as the locally produced Matador.“The market is
overflowing because of the war,” a senior law enforcement official told
Haaretz.The low prices and easy availability of war materials have
brought about an increased use of more lethal weaponry in the criminal
world.“Instead of a stun grenade they are now tossing fragmentation
grenades, and whole militias have weapons,” the official said.Due to the
transfer of advanced weapons to the criminal world, the Shin Bet
security agency is in favor of legislation to set stiff minimum
sentences for those caught in possession of illegal weapons, Haaretz
said, with one senior official in the agency proposing eight to ten
years in prison. The official reportedly hoped that the threat of a
lengthy time behind bars would act as a deterrent or even encourage some
to surrender the stolen weapons they are holding. The proposal has been
passed to the Justice Ministry for preparation as a bill and some
ministers have reportedly already said they would back it.In 2021 the
law was changed to require courts to hand down a sentence of at least a
quarter of the maximum for weapons offenses with the alteration being
made at the time due to a sharp rise in violent crime in the Arab
community.The warning to ministers came amid a spike in violent crime in
the Arab community that saw 26 homicides in July alone, and 134 deaths
since the beginning of the year. By comparison, there were 138 homicides
in the Arab community during the whole of 2023.A recent meeting of the
Ministerial Committee for Arab Community Affairs was told that organized
crime groups are operating a form of “shadow government” in the Arab
community including a gray market and their own brand of judicial
procedures and punishments, Haaretz reported.
Netanyahu warns
Iran: We are ready, we’ll exact a heavy price for any aggression-PM
tells cabinet Israel striking hard against Iranian’s ‘axis of evil,’ is
prepared for any offensive or defensive scenario; Gallant: Israel is
‘prepared very strongly’ for any attack-By ToI Staff Today, 4:36 pm-AUG
4,24
As Israel waits for an expected strike by Iran, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday declared that the country is ready
for anything and will hit back hard if attacked.“We are prepared for
any scenario – both offensively and defensively,” Netanyahu said at the
start of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in
Jerusalem, according to a statement from his office.Iran has threatened
to respond after Hamas terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh was
assassinated in Tehran on Wednesday, a day after senior Hezbollah
commander Fuad Shukr was killed in Beirut.Israel has claimed
responsibility for killing Shukr, but has not officially commented on
Haniyeh, whose death has been blamed on the Jewish state by Hamas, Iran,
and their allies. Israel has pledged to kill the Hamas masterminds
behind the terror group’s devastating October 7 attack, which sparked
the war in Gaza.“The State of Israel is in a multi-front war against
Iran’s axis of evil,” Netanyahu said. “We are striking every one of its
arms with great force.”“I reiterate and tell our enemies: We will
respond and we will exact a heavy price for any act of aggression
against us, from whatever quarter,” Netanyahu declared.Israel’s security
establishment is on high alert for an Iranian response that it
reportedly anticipates could come on multiple fronts.Hours after
Netanyahu’s comments, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is
“prepared very strongly” and ready to respond quickly to any attack.“We
are prepared very strongly in defense, on land, and in the air, and we
are ready to move quickly to attack or to respond,” he said during a
visit to the IDF’s Ground Technological Division. “We will exact a price
from the enemy, as we have been doing in recent days. If it dares to
attack us, it will pay a heavy price.”During the cabinet meeting,
Netanyahu also pushed back against media reports over his handling of
the ongoing hostage crisis in the Gaza Strip amid the war there against
the Palestinian terror group Hamas. War erupted on October 7 when Hamas
led a devastating attack on Israel during which terrorists killed 1,200
people and took 251 hostages to Gaza. Israel responded with an offensive
to destroy Hamas and free the hostages, of whom 111 remain in
captivity, 39 of whom the IDF has confirmed are dead.The US has helped
mediate talks for a ceasefire and hostage release but on Saturday
Channel 12 reported that US President Joe Biden harshly criticized
Netanyahu over hostage talks. Those talks have been ongoing for many
months without results, and Biden has previously opined that Netanyahu
has been intentionally stalling for internal political
reasons.Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that Biden had said
during the call that the Wednesday assassination of Haniyeh in Iran was
“poorly timed,” coming “right at what the Americans hoped would be the
endgame” of talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.“I am
prepared to go very far to release all of our hostages while maintaining
the security of Israel,” Netanyahu told ministers at the Sunday cabinet
meeting. “Our commitment stands in complete contrast to the leaks and
mendacious briefings on the issue of our hostages.”“These briefings harm
the negotiations and, to my great regret, they also mislead the
hostages’ dear families. They create a false impression that Hamas has
agreed to a deal, while the government of Israel is opposed to it.”“The
complete opposite is true,” he said. “The simple truth is, that as of
now Hamas has not agreed to the most basic conditions of the
outline.”The day after the Hamas October 7 attack, Iran-backed Hezbollah
began attacking along Israel’s northern border saying it was acting in
support of Gaza. Amid near-daily attacks by Hezbollah, the IDF has
struck back amid concerns that the conflict could boil over into another
front. The killing of Haniyeh and Shukr and vows of revenge by Iran,
Hezbollah, and Hamas have pushed those concerns even higher.Iran has
already launched a direct attack on Israel in April following the
killing of two senior Iranian generals in a strike on Damascus that
Tehran blamed on Israel. The Iranian attack was thwarted by Israeli air
defense in cooperation with US-coordinated regional forces. The US is
reportedly trying to again build the alliance to fend off the expected
Iranian attack.
IDF finds tunnel large enough for vehicles to
drive through in Gaza-Egypt border area-At least 5 rockets launched from
Gaza, triggering sirens near Ashdod and sparking blaze; military says
it targeted Hamas cells operating out of 2 schools, Palestinians say 25
killed-By Emanuel Fabian,ToI Staff and Reuters Today, 4:13 pm-AUG 4,24
The
army has uncovered an unusually large tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border
area, big enough for vehicles to pass through, the Israel Defense Force
said Sunday.According to the military, the tunnel was around three
meters (10 feet) tall.It was located along the so-called Philadelphi
Route last week, as part of efforts to uncover all of Hamas’s
arms-smuggling routes in the area.The tunnel was being investigated by
combat engineers before it was to be demolished, the military
said.Dozens of tunnels have been found along the Philadelphi corridor,
including at least 25 that crossed into Egypt.The tunnel’s discovery
came amid continued fighting in Gaza’s south and center.A barrage of at
least five rockets was fired from the southern Gaza Strip, triggering
sirens in a number of towns near Ashdod for the first time in
months.Some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome and some
impacted open areas. The IDF said one of the rockets hit the Hof
Ashkelon Regional Council.The Fire and Rescue Service said it was
working to put out a fire sparked by a rocket that hit near the southern
town of Bitzaron.There were no injuries in the attack.There was no
immediate claim of responsibility for the long-range attack.IDF
strikes-Also Sunday, the army announced that a recent drone strike in
central Gaza’s Nuseirat had killed Ismail Nofal, who participated in
Hamas’s October 7 onslaught and was reportedly the son of Ayman Nofal,
the former commander of Hamas’s Central Gaza Brigade, whom Israel killed
in October.According to the army, the younger Nofal was a Hamas
terrorist who participated in the devastating October 7 attack and was
also involved in rocket fire on Israel amid the war.Meanwhile, a group
of Hamas members operating out of two schools in Gaza City were struck
by Israeli fighter jets on Sunday afternoon, the IDF said.According to
the military, Hamas embedded command and control rooms within the Hassan
Salama and Nasr schools in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbor hood.The
schools were used by the Hamas operatives as a hideout and as a command
room where attacks on IDF troops and Israel were planned and carried
out, the military said.To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the
IDF said it carried out “many steps,” including using precision
munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.“The Hamas terror
organization systematically violates international law, brutally
exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield
for terror activity,” the military added.In recent months, dozens of
airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within
schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the
IDF.Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said the strikes killed at
least 25 people.“The bodies of 25 martyrs, mostly children and women,
and 50 other wounded, also mostly children and women, were taken to
Baptist hospital after an Israeli strike targeted Hassan Salameh and
Al-Nasr schools in Gaza City,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told
AFP.The toll could not be verified.A separate overnight Israeli strike
killed at least five people in a tent area inside the Al-Aqsa Hospital
compound, in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, the Strip’s Hamas-run health
ministry said.The IDF said it struck a gunman in Deir al-Balah who
“conducted terror activities” and that secondary explosions were
identified, indicating weapons were present in the area.Elsewhere in
Deir el-Balah, three Palestinians were killed Sunday when an Israeli
missile struck a house, while eight other people were killed inside
their home in Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza City and three inside a car
in separate Israeli strikes, Reuters reported.More than 50 other
strikes were carried out in Gaza over the past day, targeting cells of
gunmen, buildings used by terror groups, observation posts, and other
infrastructure, according to the military.The war in Gaza was sparked
when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel on
October 7 to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.The
Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people in the Strip
have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll,
which cannot be independently verified, does not distinguish between
civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed about 15,000
combatants in battle, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists killed inside
Israel during the October 7 attack.
Iran still deciding on
extent, timing of reprisals-Iran said to dismiss US, Arab calls for
restraint — even if it sparks war-US warns Iranian attack will hamper
relations with West; Israel bracing for multi-day assault; Netanyahu
consulting with defense chiefs, considering ‘preventative measures’By
ToI Staff Today, 9:51 pm-AUG 4,24
Iran has rejected attempts by
the US and Arab nations to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East, as
Israel braces for an attack from the Islamic Republic and the Lebanese
Iran-supported Hezbollah, saying they would strike the Jewish state even
if it means war, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.Tensions
between Israel and Iran have escalated since Wednesday, when Hamas
leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran in an attack Iran blamed on
Israel, vowing to retaliate.According to the Wall Street Journal report,
foreign ministers from Jordan and Lebanon traveled to Iran in an
attempt to diffuse the situation, but Iran told the Arab diplomats that
it was set on striking back against Israel and “it didn’t care if the
response triggered a war.”Israel is preparing for the possibility of an
Iranian-led attack that would include missiles being fired at Israel
over the course of multiple days, according to a Sunday NBC report,
citing an unnamed Israeli official.Israel has said repeatedly that any
action against it would be met with retaliation, with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu repeating this while telling the weekly cabinet
meeting on Sunday that “the State of Israel is in a multi-front war
against Iran’s axis of evil.”Netanyahu was meeting with his security
chiefs on Sunday evening. Earlier, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a
similar consultation with senior military and defense officials.The
Defense Ministry said the meeting was focused on “the security
developments, and the various options to exact a price for attempted
attacks from Iran and its proxies.”Israel does not yet have a
“definitive picture” of the attacks it will be facing, Channel 12
reported.The TV news report also said Israel’s security establishment
was considering the possibility of “preventive actions or attacks”
Israel could initiate, “including in Lebanon or perhaps in other places
as necessitated.”Earlier Sunday, when asked why Israel was not taking
pre-emptive actions, IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “We are watching
our enemies on all fronts and certainly Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have
very wide-ranging plans, we have a high readiness to act. Any
instruction we get from the political echelon, we will carry out
immediately.”The TV report said that the US is also not certain what to
expect from Iran and Hezbollah, noting that the Iranians have likely not
made a clear decision yet, nor finished coordinating with their
proxies. Channel 12 said that a US-led international coalition to thwart
any attacks has taken shape, and will be directed from CENTCOM in
Qatar.Asked by numerous countries how it will respond to such attacks,
and whether it is heading for war, Israel has been saying “very
ambiguously” that it is “keeping all its options open,” the report
said.That ambiguous response is one of the reasons why many countries
are urging their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately, the report
said.It added that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is considering
visiting the region in the very near future, in light of US concern over
a potential regional conflagration.Meanwhile, the WSJ report noted, the
US asked European nations to urge Iran to de-escalate and warned that
any offensive action on the Islamic Regime’s part would greatly harm new
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s efforts to develop ties with the
West.The US’s message also said that it was urging Israel to
de-escalate. Nonetheless, the US has scrambled to revive a regional
coalition that, in April, succeeded in almost entirely thwarting an
unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and
missiles.Haniyeh was killed in Tehran early on Wednesday morning, hours
after an Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah’s military chief, Fuad
Shukr, near Beirut. Israel took responsibility for Shukr’s killing, but
has not commented on Haniyeh’s death, other than to say that the country
had not carried out any other airstrikes in the Middle East that
night.Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for Shukr’s killing, and regardless
of Israel not taking responsibility for Haniyeh’s death, Iran said it
would strike at Israel in response. As a result, the IDF was on high
alert over the weekend and remained so as the new week began.On April
13, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel, the vast
majority of which were intercepted by a coalition of Israel’s allies and
other nations in the region.While 99 percent of the projectiles were
downed in that attack and only one person was injured, Israeli officials
are said to assess that this time around there may be damage and more
casualties.The region has been in turmoil since October 7, when Hamas
launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel in which
terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251
hostages.Israel responded with a ground invasion in Gaza with the
proclaimed objectives of dismantling Hamas and getting the hostages
back.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people in
the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far,
though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between
civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants
in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7
attack.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and
in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at
331.Meanwhile, since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked
Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily
basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza during the
war there.So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 25 civilian deaths on
the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and
reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any
injuries.Hezbollah has named 387 members who have been killed by Israel
during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in
Syria. In Lebanon, another 69 operatives from other terror groups, a
Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
Report:
Netanyahu decides not to seek normalization with Saudis before US
election-Israel’s Channel 12 suggests PM is waiting to see who is
elected to White House this fall before deciding on approach to
Riyadh-By ToI Staff Today, 11:34 pm-AUG 4,24
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly decided not to pursue potential
normalization with Saudi Arabia before the US presidential election in
November.According to a report Sunday on Channel 12 news, Netanyahu made
the decision because of the fast-moving US political developments, with
the consideration that it might be worth waiting to see whether
Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump is returned to the
White House in the upcoming vote.The unsourced TV report suggested that
the decision has major implications, including for talks toward a
possible hostage-ceasefire deal, since potential normalization would
have constituted a “safety net” for Netanyahu: If his right-wing
coalition were to collapse during disagreements over a Gaza deal,
normalization with Saudi Arabia would have given him an
election-boosting trump card and the opportunity to secure a historic
legacy.The report comes barely a week after an Israeli official told
reporters during a briefing in Washington that a normalization agreement
between Israel and Saudi Arabia was still possible before the November
presidential election, and that Netanyahu discussed the matter with US
President Joe Biden during their White House meeting.Just before
Netanyahu left for Washington, Biden announced that he would no longer
be seeking reelection in November, and since then, current Vice
President Kamala Harris has clinched the Democratic nomination, gearing
up for a fierce battle against Trump for the White House.Normalization
efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia have been floated repeatedly in
the years since the 2020 US-brokered Abraham Accords, when Israel
established diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and
Morocco. Trump-era officials have often claimed that relations between
Jerusalem and Riyadh would have since been cemented had Trump been
reelected later that year.Under the Biden administration, however,
significant steps were taken toward securing such a deal, and the move
was said to be on the brink of fruition just before the October 7 Hamas
onslaught, which triggered the ongoing Israeli war on Hamas in Gaza,
with two Israeli ministers even visiting Saudi Arabia just days before
the terror group’s massacre in southern Israel.Even in the months since,
however, US officials indicated that the Saudis were still open to
moving forward with normalization, with officials in Riyadh leaving the
door open.But in recent weeks, with the US Congress wrapping up its
summer session ahead of the November election, the elusive deal has
appeared further away. The normalization deal was always an uphill
battle, since Saudi Arabia was demanding that Israel agree to establish a
pathway to a future Palestinian state — a framework Netanyahu has
repeatedly rejected and which, if adopted, could cause his far-right
coalition partners to bolt.Meanwhile, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman is slated to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
this week in Saudi Arabia.A Palestinian official told The Times of
Israel last week that with a normalization agreement effectively off the
table until at least the US presidential election, Abbas and bin Salman
will try and coordinate their approaches to Washington, preparing for
either Harris or Trump to enter the White House in January.Jacob Magid
contributed to this report.
Shin Bet said to prepare bunker for
Netanyahu, senior leadership amid Iranian threat-Known as the National
Management Center, Jerusalem bunker can reportedly withstand hits from a
range of existing weaponry, keep communications open to IDF
headquarters-By ToI Staff Today, 10:14 pm-AUG 4,24
An underground
bunker in Jerusalem where senior leaders can remain for an extended
period during a war has been prepared by the Shin Bet security service
and is fully operational, the Walla news site reported on Sunday, amid
fear of attacks on Israel from Hezbollah and Iran.The bunker, reportedly
built almost 20 years ago, can sustain hits from a range of existing
weaponry, has command and control capabilities, and is connected to the
Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, the report said.The bunker,
which is also known as the National Management Center, has not been used
in the past 10 months of Israel’s war in Gaza.It has, however, been
prepared for use now by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other
senior figures as Israel braces for possible attacks from Iran and
Hezbollah amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.Iran, its Lebanese
ally Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas blame
Israel for a blast that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran
last week. His assassination came just hours after a strike claimed by
Israel killed Hezbollah’s military chief, Fuad Shukr, on Tuesday evening
near Beirut. Israel has claimed responsibility for killing Shukr but
has not officially commented on Haniyeh.Both Iran and Hezbollah have
vowed revenge for the killings, which came amid already explosive
tensions against the background of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas in
the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel following
Hamas’s October 7 invasion and massacre in southern Israel.As things
stand, Home Front Command instructions to the Israeli public are
unchanged, but if something changes, the IDF has stressed, the public
will immediately be told.The National Management Center was built in the
Jerusalem Hills at the cost of billions of shekels following the end of
the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Its precise location and depth are
unknown, according to a Ynet report. It can hold hundreds of people and
is intended for the government as well as other essential civil
bodies.According to Ynet, the National Management Center has not been
deemed necessary in the war thus far. Preparing it for use at this time
may be an indication of the severity of the threat from Iran and
Hezbollah, especially considering it was not used during Iran’s attack
on Israel in April when it launched over 300 missiles and drones at
Israel, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israel and its
allies.The US is scrambling to revive a regional coalition that
succeeded in almost entirely thwarting the previous direct Iranian
attack on Israel, reports said, while Israeli officials concede that
this time around there may be damage and casualties.The last time the
bunker is known to have been used was in 2018 when Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a series of high-level security cabinet
meetings to be held there, likely to prevent leaks to the media.Regional
tensions have spiraled dangerously since October 7, when Hamas led a
devastating cross-border attack on Israel in which some 1,200 people
were murdered and 251 hostages taken. Israel responded with a military
campaign to destroy Hamas and free the hostages.The day after the Hamas
assault, Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border with
Lebanon. As Israel and the terror group have traded fire, the violence
has increased, with Hezbollah carrying out nearly daily attacks, firing
dozens of rockets at the north on Saturday.
Jordan’s FM makes
rare visit to Iran as US allies scramble to prevent escalation-Ayman
Safadi is first top Jordanian official to visit Islamic Republic in two
decades-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 2:37 pm-AUG 4,24
Jordan’s
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will travel to Iran on Sunday in a rare
visit to discuss regional developments with his Iranian counterpart
following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran,
Iranian state media reported.Safadi, who will be the first senior
Jordanian official to pay an official visit to Iran in 20 years, is
expected to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Bagheri Khan, and
other senior officials in Tehran later on Sunday, Iran’s state-run IRNA
news agency reported.Safadi “will deliver a message from His Majesty
King Abdullah II to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the situation
in the region and bilateral relations,” Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said
in a statement.Regional tensions have spiked following the assassination
of Haniyeh on Wednesday, which came hours after an Israeli strike in
Beirut that killed Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander from the
Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Fearing an all-out war in Lebanon,
Jordan has called on its citizens to evacuate the country.Hamas and
Iran have both accused Israel of assassinating Haniyeh and have pledged
to retaliate. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the death nor
denied it.Safadi has also accused Israel of becoming a “rogue state” by
assassinating Haniyeh, who was in Iran for the inauguration of newly
elected Pezeshkian.Safadi’s visit to Iran follows continued diplomatic
contacts by the United States and its partners including France,
Britain, Italy, and Egypt on Saturday to prevent further regional
escalation.Jordan, which borders Israel to the east, would likely be in
the path of any Iranian attack.Meanwhile, citing “the developments
taking place in the region” and concerns for its citizens’ safety,
Jordan’s foreign ministry on Saturday urged all Jordanian nationals in
Lebanon to leave as soon as possible, and said those planning to travel
to Lebanon should not do so.The Hashemite Kingdom’s flag carrier, Royal
Jordanian Airlines, resumed flights to and from Beirut on Thursday
morning. The carrier suspended the route on Monday, as Lebanon awaited
an Israeli response to Hezbollah’s missile attack on Saturday, which
killed 12 children in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan
Heights.Iran and Jordan are seeking to improve their relations following
recent tensions related to Amman accusing pro-Iranian militias in Syria
of smuggling narcotics into the country.Tensions have also flared over
Jordan’s participation in a US-led coalition that intercepted Iran’s
unprecedented attack on Israel the night of April 13-14, which Iran said
was in retaliation for the killing of its generals in an alleged
Israeli strike in Syria on April 1.Jordan cooperates with American
forces under the umbrella of the US Central Command, which oversees US
military operations in the Middle East and works closely with other
militaries, including those of Israel and Saudi Arabia.The last time a
senior Jordanian official traveled to Iran on an official visit was in
2004 when then-prime minister Faisal al-Fayez went to Tehran.Last week,
Jordan sent a lower-ranking official to Pezeshkian’s inauguration.
Hamas
commander, eight other gunmen killed in IDF drone strikes near
Tulkarem-First strike hit terror cell en route to carry out attack,
military says; second drone strike hits operatives amid clashes in West
Bank city-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 2:54 pm-AUG 3,24
Nine
Palestinian gunmen were killed in two Israeli drone strikes near the
West Bank city of Tulkarem on Saturday morning, the military and
Palestinian media saidIn the first incident, the Israel Defense Forces
said it had targeted a cell of terrorists en route to carrying out an
attack.The strike hit a vehicle on the outskirts of Tulkarem, killing
all of those inside.According to the military, the five gunmen were “on
their way to carry out a terrorist attack.”The IDF published footage of
the strike.Palestinian media said that among the dead was Haitham
Balidi, a commander in a local wing of Hamas in Tulkarem.Two others were
identified as Abd al-Jabber al-Sabbagh and Ahmed Mahajna.Shortly after
the drone strike, Israeli troops entered Tulkarem to carry out a
counterterrorism operation, the IDF said.Amid the raid in Tulkarem, a
second drone strike was carried out against a cell of gunmen who had
opened fire at troops, the military said.At least four gunmen were
reported dead in the strike, according to Palestinian media and Israeli
military sources.The IDF published an image of the weapons and military
equipment seized from the celL.In the past nine months, the IDF has
carried out more than 55 airstrikes in the West Bank, using drones,
attack helicopters, and fighter jets.Tensions have been high in the West
Bank amid the war in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7 when
thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel under a barrage
of rockets fired at population centers all over the country. They
brutally killed some 1,200 people, amid instances of torture and rape,
and seized 251 hostages.Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,400
wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,850
affiliated with Hamas.According to the Palestinian Authority health
ministry, more than 590 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that
time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in
exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists
carrying out attacks.During the same period, 23 Israelis, including
security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the
West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in
clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
PM sent team
after harsh Biden call, negotiators' criticism-Israeli team said to
arrive in Cairo for hostage-truce talks with Egyptian
mediators-High-level delegation to meet with officials in Egypt,
according to Hebrew media, after Netanyahu gives green light; Qatar
reportedly sitting out this round over Haniyeh’s killing-By ToI Staff
Today, 5:27 pm-AUG 3,24
A high-level Israeli delegation
reportedly arrived in Cairo on Saturday for indirect talks with American
and Egyptian negotiators on reaching a hostage-truce deal in the Gaza
Strip with the Hamas terror group, according to two sources with
knowledge of the details quoted by Hebrew media.The Walla news site
reported that Mossad spy agency chief David Barnea, Shin Bet security
agency head Ronen Bar and Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, head of the
Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), were
set to hold meetings in Cairo with Egyptian Intelligence head Abbas
Kamel and senior Egyptian military officials.Discussions were expected
to focus on the release of hostages, as well as security issues
regarding the Egypt-Gaza border, according to the sources quoted in the
report, which came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on
Friday evening that he had approved the delegation’s participation in
renewed indirect talks.Hamas was quick to brush off Netanyahu’s
announcement, with senior official Sami Abu Zuhri telling Reuters,
“Netanyahu does not want to stop the war and is using these empty
statements to cover up his crimes and evade their consequences.
”Netanyahu’s statement came immediately after a Channel 12 news report
Friday that claimed he had rejected calls from his security chiefs to
seize the current opportunity for a deal, and after Axios reported that
US President Joe Biden pressed the Israeli premier in their call on
Thursday to stop escalating tensions in the region and move immediately
toward a deal.The Walla report added that Qatar was sitting out this
round of talks in Cairo due to political sensitivity, having just buried
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Friday after he was assassinated
in Qatar early Wednesday, in a strike widely ascribed to Israel.The
participation of the Israeli team followed heavy pressure from the Biden
administration on both Jerusalem and Cairo to continue the talks
despite Haniyeh’s death, according to the sources, a week after
Netanyahu returned from a trip to Washington.Axios also reported that
the Biden administration was frustrated that it was kept in the dark by
Israel about the assassination plans after Netanyahu gave the impression
in Washington last week that he was taking on board the president’s
ardor to close a deal with Hamas in Gaza.While Israel has claimed
responsibility for killing Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr in
Beirut on Tuesday night, it has not officially commented on the
assassination of Haniyeh, which Hamas, Iran and their allies have blamed
on the Jewish state.Despite the US pressure, the sources quoted by
Walla said that Netanyahu does not believe the Cairo talks are likely to
bear fruit, and as such chose not to send the IDF point man for the
hostage talks, Nitzan Alon, as part of the delegation.The countries
acting as mediators for the Gaza deal warned on Wednesday that the
strikes on senior terrorist leaders could get in the way of an
agreement.“Political assassinations & continued targeting of
civilians in Gaza while talks continue leads us to ask, how can
mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator on the
other side?” wrote Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin
Jassim Al Thani on X. “Peace needs serious partners & a global
stance against the disregard for human life.”Egypt’s Foreign Ministry
said that the strikes undermine “the strenuous efforts made by Egypt and
its partners to stop the war in the Gaza Strip,” and “indicate the
absence of Israeli political will to calm the situation.”Washington,
which sponsors the talks, has repeatedly said a deal is close. The
latest talks are based on an Israel-backed proposal unveiled by Biden in
May. But the US did not indicate any concern on Wednesday that the
assassinations would hold up negotiations. US Secretary of State Antony
Blinken would only say that a ceasefire in Gaza was “the enduring
imperative.”Hamas wants a ceasefire agreement to end the war in Gaza,
while Israel has vowed that the conflict will stop only once the
hostages are released and Hamas is defeated. There have also been
enduring disagreements over how the deal would be implemented.
UK
police mobilize for far-right protests after third night of anti-Muslim
riots-Eight injured, three police officers wounded as mob rampages
through Sunderland; London police put plans in place for rival
pro-Palestinian and anti-immigration protests-By Peter HUTCHISON Today,
2:50 pm-AUG 3,24
LONDON (AFP) — UK police readied Saturday for
more far-right protests across England after a third night of rioting
linked to misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young
girls.The violence, which has seen scores of arrests and put Britain’s
Muslim community on edge, presents the biggest challenge yet of Labour
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s month-old premiership.It has also put
hard-right agitators linked to soccer hooliganism in the spotlight at a
time when anti-immigration elements are enjoying some electoral success
in British politics.Police were gearing up for dozens of demonstrations
after officers faced “serious and sustained levels of violence” during
rioting in Sunderland, northeast England, on Friday night.Eight people
were arrested and three officers required hospital treatment following
hours of “utterly deplorable” disturbances, Northumbria Police Chief
Superintendent Helena Barron said.Two officers remained in the hospital
early Saturday, she added.Footage broadcast by the BBC showed a mob of
several hundred rampaging in Sunderland’s city center, attacking police
and setting fire to at least one car and a building next to a police
office.Sunderland, UK. This happens when politicians flood European
cities with fake asylum seekers and fail to protect European children.
Patience seems to be running out. pic.twitter.com/6TPOviPpEp— RadioGenoa
(@RadioGenoa) August 3, 2024-Other images shared on social media showed
balaclava-clad youths throwing bricks and other missiles as fireworks
and flares were let off.“The shocking scenes we have witnessed in
Sunderland this evening are completely unacceptable,” Barron said,
adding the “disorder, violence and damage” seen “will not be
tolerated.”The unrest followed two nights of disturbances in several
English towns and cities in the wake of Monday’s frenzied knife attack
in Southport, near Liverpool on England’s northwest coast.They were
fueled by false rumors on social media about the background of
British-born 17-year-old suspect Axel Rudakubana, charged with several
counts of murder and attempted murder over the attack at a Taylor Swift
dance party.After the violence in Southport late Tuesday, unrest rocked
the northern cities of Hartlepool and Manchester as well as London 24
hours later, where 111 people were arrested outside Starmer’s Downing
Street residence.Thugs-In Southport, the mob threw bricks at a mosque,
prompting hundreds of Muslim places of worship across the country to
step up security amid fears of more anti-Islamic demonstrators.Police
blamed supporters of the disbanded English Defence League, an anti-Islam
organization founded 15 years ago whose supporters have been linked to
soccer hooliganism.In Sunderland on Friday, rioters attacked police
officers, set a police station and two cars on fire, and again targeted a
mosque.Anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate has identified more
than 30 events planned for Saturday and Sunday.Far-right social media
channels have advertised “enough is enough” anti-immigrant rallies, and
anti-facism groups have vowed to stage counter-protests.London’s
Metropolitan Police said it had a “proportionate and risk-based” plan
for rival pro-Palestinian and anti-immigration protests Saturday.Counter
protests were also expected in the central city of Nottingham while
South Yorkshire police said Friday they knew of a planned protest in the
town of Rotherham.Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused “thugs” of
“hijacking” the nation’s grief to “sow hatred” and pledged that anyone
carrying out violent acts will “face the full force of the law”.He has
announced new measures that will allow the sharing of intelligence,
wider deployment of facial-recognition technology and criminal behavior
orders to restrict troublemakers from traveling.Labour politicians have
accused Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage of stoking the trouble.At
last month’s election, his anti-immigrant Reform UK party captured 14
percent of the vote — one of the largest vote shares for a far-right
British party.
Sweden closing its Beirut embassy, evacuating
staff-Iran warns Hezbollah will strike civilian targets deeper in Israel
as war fears heighten-Tehran says it expects group to carry out
‘broader and deeper’ strikes in the wake of killing of Fuad Shukr; IDF
strike kills ‘a main terrorist’ in Hezbollah’s southern command-By
Agencies, Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 1:49 pm-AUG 3,24
Iran
said on Saturday it expects Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror
group to strike deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to
military targets after Israel killed Hezbollah military commander Fuad
Shukr.The warning comes amid increased fears of a major escalation in
the area and continued cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah,
which started attacking Israel the day after the October 7
Hamas-launched onslaught on Israel from Gaza.But a strike claimed by
Israel in a crowded residential area of South Beirut changed the
Lebanese terror group’s calculus, Iran’s mission to the United Nations
said.A spokesperson for Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations
told CBS that until now, Hezbollah has limited itself according to an
“unwritten understanding” with Israel “confining their actions to border
areas and shallow zones, targeting primarily military
objectives.”“However, the [Israeli] regime’s attack on the Dahieh
[neighborhood] in Beirut and the targeting of a residential building
marked a deviation from these boundaries. We anticipate that, in its
response, Hezbollah will choose both broader and deeper targets, and
will not restrict itself solely to military targets and means,” the
spokesperson said.The strike on Tuesday killed Shukr. According to
Lebanon’s health ministry, five civilians — three women and two children
— also died.Israel said Shukr was responsible for the rocket attack
that killed 12 children and teens playing soccer in the Golan Heights,
and had directed Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel since the Gaza war
began.Hours after Shukr’s killing, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, was
killed in a pre-dawn explosion in his accommodation in Tehran, Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards said.Israel has not claimed responsibility.On
Thursday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Israel and “those who
are behind it must await our inevitable response” to the killings of
both Shukr and Haniyeh.Iran and Hamas have also vowed to retaliate.A
main terrorist-The clashes continued over the weekend.A prominent
Hezbollah operative in the terror group’s so-called Southern Front unit
was killed in an Israeli drone strike on Saturday in southern Lebanon,
the IDF said.The strike in the town of Bazourieh, near the coastal city
of Tyre killed Ali Abd Ali.The IDF said Ali was a “main terrorist in the
Southern Front of the Hezbollah terror organization,” and involved in
planning and carrying out numerous attacks.His killing is a “significant
blow to the functioning of the Southern Front and the Hezbollah terror
organization in the region,” the IDF added.The Southern Front is a
Hezbollah regional unit responsible for the terror group’s activities in
the entire southern Lebanon, the equivalent of a regional command.A
source close to Hezbollah said late Friday that Israel also carried out
strikes on a convoy of trucks entering Lebanon from Syria.“Three Israeli
strikes targeted a convoy of tanker trucks on the Syrian-Lebanese
border in the Hawsh el-Sayyed Ali area, injuring one Syrian driver,” the
source told AFP.It was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes in the
border area, the source added.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
war monitor also reported Israeli strikes inside Syria near the border
with Lebanon, without mentioning any casualties.The strikes targeted an
area near a border crossing “used by Hezbollah to move trucks and group
members” between Lebanon and Syria, said the Britain-based Observatory,
which relies on a network of sources inside Syria.“One of the strikes
targeted a truck convoy,” while another targeted “a farm on the
outskirts of Qusayr in Homs province,” the Observatory said on
Saturday.Iran-backed Hezbollah has a strong presence on both sides of
the eastern stretch of the Lebanese-Syria border, where it supports the
regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Meanwhile, incoming rocket
sirens were activated in the Western Galilee community of Matat, with at
least one rocket exploding in an open area.In a further sign of
tension, Sweden said Saturday it was shutting its embassy in Beirut
after urging thousands of its citizens to leave Lebanon.“The foreign
ministry has instructed its staff to leave Beirut and travel to Cyprus,
and the foreign ministry is planning a temporary relocation of its
embassy,” Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Swedish
Radio.The decision had been taken “initially for the month of August but
may be extended depending on the security situation.”“The ministry is
monitoring developments closely,” he said.According to the foreign
ministry, as many as 10,000 Swedish nationals may have traveled to
Lebanon this summer, defying a travel warning in place for the country
since October 2023.“I urge Swedes in Lebanon to leave the country by
whichever means possible, while they still can,” he said.
At
least 32 killed in Islamist suicide bombing, shooting attack on busy
Mogadishu beach-Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, claims
responsibility for attack on popular Lido beach area; police kill five
gunmen in addition to suicide bomber-By AFP Today, 12:13 pm-AUG 3,24
MOGADISHU,
Somalia — An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a busy
beach in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, killing 32 people and wounding
scores more, in one of the deadliest attacks in months, police said on
Saturday.The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been waging an insurgency
against the internationally backed federal government for more than 17
years and have previously targeted the Lido beach area, popular with
business people and officials.Unverified videos shared online in the
immediate aftermath of the attack showed people scattering along a
street, with a number of clips purporting to show bloodied bodies lying
on the beachfront.“More than 32 civilians died in this attack and about
63 others were wounded, some of them critically,” police spokesman
Abdifatah Adan Hassan told reporters during a press
conference.“Targeting and blasting to kill 32 members from the civilian
population means these Kharijites are not going to target only
government centers, soldiers and officials,” he said, using the term
Somali officials adopt to describe Al-Shabaab.The assault, for which
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility in a post on a pro-Shabaab website,
began late on Friday when a suicide bomber detonated a device and gunmen
stormed the area, police and witnesses told AFP.Officer Mohamed Omar
told AFP they had “shot civilians randomly.”Al-Shabaab claims
responsibility for the Beachview hotel in Mogadishu attack last night
which left 32 dead and over 63 wounded. pic.twitter.com/Xb200ePcYJ— Omar
Nor (@Omaarnor) August 3, 2024-He said security forces had ended the
attack and killed five gunmen, while a sixth member of the group “blew
himself [up] at the beach.”Witnesses said there were many people at the
popular location when the explosion occurred, describing how gunmen then
stormed the area.“Everybody was panicked and it was hard to know what
was happening because shooting started soon after the blast,” witness
Abdilatif Ali told AFP.He said that people attempted to take cover on
the ground or flee.“I saw many people strewn [on the ground] and some of
them were dead and others wounded,” he said.Ahmed Yare witnessed the
attack unfold from a nearby hotel.“I saw wounded people at the
beachside. People were screaming in panic and it was hard to notice who
was dead and who was still alive,” he told AFP.Al-Shabaab has claimed
responsibility for numerous bombings and attacks in Mogadishu and other
parts of the country, whose government is pressing on with an offensive
against the Islamists.The Lido area has been the target of previous
attacks, including a six-hour Al-Shabaab siege of a beachside hotel in
2023, which left six civilians dead and 10 wounded.Five people were
killed in a powerful car bomb blast at a cafe in the capital last
month.In March, the militants killed three people and wounded 27 in an
hours-long siege of another Mogadishu hotel, breaking a relative lull in
the fighting.
It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security
breach' Mossad hired IRGC agents in May to plant explosives that killed
Haniyeh — report-Iran said to arrest dozens, including senior officials
over killing; UK daily says Israel planned to target Hamas chief at
Raisi funeral but opted to wait, hit him in IRGC guesthouse-By ToI Staff
Today, 9:18 am-AUG 3,24
The Mossad spy agency enlisted agents
from within the Revolutionary Guards to plant explosives in the Tehran
guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a
Saturday article in The Telegraph.The report came amid news that the
authorities in Tehran were carrying out a series of arrests in
connection with the killing, with the New York Times saying senior
Iranian intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at the
guesthouse were among some two dozen people held.The Telegraph report
appeared to corroborate a New York Times article on Thursday that said
the Palestinian terror chief was not killed in an aerial strike as Iran
has claimed.Israel has not commented on Haniyeh’s death since the
explosion early Wednesday morning, though Iran and its proxies in the
region, including Hamas, have vowed revenge on the Jewish state.The
Telegraph cited two Iranian officials as saying that the initial plan
was to assassinate Haniyeh when he was in Tehran in May for the funeral
of the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a
helicopter crash. That operation was reportedly called off due to the
large number of people in the building and the seemingly high
possibility of failure.Instead, according to the British daily, the
agents went ahead and planted explosives in three different rooms at the
compound, and later left Iran. The sources quoted in the report said
surveillance footage shows them moving discretely from room to room.
They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.“They are now certain
that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi security unit,” an
official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told the newspaper,
referring to a unit tasked with protecting senior officials.Another IRGC
official was quoted as saying: “It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge
security breach.” The IRGC runs the guesthouse in an upscale
neighborhood of Tehran where Haniyeh and other dignitaries were
staying.“It’s still a question for everyone how this happened, I can’t
understand it. There must be something higher in the hierarchy that no
one knows about,” the official added, noting that a team was working on a
spin that would paint the attack as a lesser security breach.Both
Iranian and Hamas officials have claimed that Haniyeh was killed by a
missile fired from the air, even launched from outside the country. But
asked about the killing on Thursday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel
Hagari said the Israeli military did not carry out any other airstrike
overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday aside from the assassination of
Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut.“We struck on Tuesday
night in Lebanon and killed Fuad Shukr in an accurate aerial strike. I
want to emphasize, there was no other aerial strike, not a missile and
not an Israeli drone, in the entire Middle East that night, and I won’t
comment further,” Hagari said during a press conference.Earlier on
Thursday, The New York Times had reported that the explosion that killed
Haniyeh and his bodyguard was set off by a sophisticated,
remote-controlled bomb smuggled about two months ago into his room at
the Tehran guesthouse, which lines up with Raisi’s funeral in May.The
official also told The Telegraph that addressing the security breach was
more important to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei than seeking
revenge, though he reportedly ordered a direct strike on Israel hours
after the explosion.The New York Times reported early Saturday morning
that Iran had arrested at least two dozen people over suspected
connection to Haniyeh’s death, citing two Iranians familiar with the
investigation.Those arrested were said to include senior Iranian
intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at the IRGC-run
guesthouse.The Revolutionary Guards Corps’ specialized intelligence unit
for espionage has taken over the investigation and was hunting down
suspects that it hopes will lead it to members of the assassin team that
planned, aided and carried out the killing, two Iranian officials told
the Times.The Telegraph report also suggested that the killing was
purposely timed to coincide with the swearing-in ceremony of new Iranian
President Masoud Pezeshkian, which Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend, to
besmirch the new premier’s reputation.“No intact brain can accept that
this happened by accident, especially on Mr. Pezeshkian’s first day in
office,” a source close to Pezeshkian was quoted as saying. “He may have
to go to war with Israel within his first few days in office, and it’s
all because of the IRGC.”Israel pledged to target Hamas leaders over the
Iran-backed terror group’s devastating October 7 massacre, which saw
thousands of terrorists murder some 1,200 people and seize 251 hostages,
mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.Iran
and its allies are widely expected to respond militarily to the killings
blamed on Israel, though experts have said the retaliation would be
measured to avoid a wider conflagration.The IDF said on Thursday evening
that it was on “high alert” and ready to handle any threat, as the
country braced for a response to the terror leaders’ assassinations.The
United States, which Iranian and Hamas officials have accused of having
approved the Tehran hit, has stressed its commitment to defending Israel
against possible ballistic missile and drone attacks from Iran. The
Pentagon said on Friday that the US was moving a fighter jet squadron to
the Middle East and maintaining an aircraft carrier in the region, both
to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies and
to safeguard US troops.In April, a US-led coalition intercepted dozens
of missiles and drones fired by Iran against Israel and helped down
nearly all of them.
Israel said to strike known Hezbollah
smuggling area along Syria-Lebanon border-Source close to Lebanese
terror group tells AFP that 3 Israeli strikes targeted convoy of tanker
trucks, injuring a Syrian driver-By AFP and Emanuel Fabian-Today, 4:46
am-AUG 3,24
A source close to Lebanese terror group Hezbollah
said late Friday that Israel carried out strikes on a convoy of trucks
entering Lebanon from Syria.“Three Israeli strikes targeted a convoy of
tanker trucks on the Syrian-Lebanese border in the Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali
area, injuring one Syrian driver,” the source told AFP.It was the latest
in a series of Israeli strikes in the border area, the source
added.Iran-backed Hezbollah has a strong presence on both sides of the
eastern stretch of the Lebanese-Syria border, where it supports the
regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and has been known to use the
area to smuggle Iranian weapons into Lebanon.Hours before the attack in
Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, media outlets in Lebanon reported an Israeli strike
several miles away in the Lebanese village of Qasr.Separate reports
later said the strike targeted the Dabaa Airport in Syria.Israel has for
years carried out attacks on what it has described as Iran-linked
targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it began
supporting Assad in a civil war that started in 2011, but rarely
comments on them publicly.Since Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre, which
saw some 1,200 people killed in Israel and 253 kidnapped, Israel has
escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed terror targets in Syria and has
also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.Hezbollah
has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israel since it started
launching attacks from Lebanon a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas’s
terror onslaught, which sparked the war in Gaza.Hezbollah has muted its
attacks following the killing of its military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut
on Tuesday and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday.The
Lebanese terror organization group claimed responsibility for five
attacks on military positions in northern Israel on Friday.Since the
Hezbollah attacks began on October 8, the skirmishes in the north have
resulted in 25 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the
deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several
attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 385 members
who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing clashes, mostly in
Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 69 operatives from
other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have
been killed.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION)
the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing
them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST
JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST
GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING (BUT WILL NOT KILL EVERY BODY WITH
WATER)(BUT 50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE (4 BILLION PEOPLE) FROM NUCLEAR
WAR)(THE BIBLE SAYS BY FIRE OR ATOMIC BOMBS THIS TIME)
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22
And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED)
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE)
those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID
HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him
glory.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every
living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6
For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion)
have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink; for they are worthy.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
BIG
SUNSPOT ALERT: A potentially significant sunspot group is emerging over
the sun's southeastern limb, right here. Astronomers are encouraged to
monitor the active region, which may be unusually large and a source of
strong flares. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text.THE STORM IS SUBSIDING: A
close encounter with a CME during the early hours of Aug. 4th sparked a
strong G3-class geomagnetic storm. Just before sunrise in Colorado, "we
saw a nice display of auroras," reports Aaron Watson, who sends this
picture from Grand Mesa, CO:"There was a brief burst of color at the
start of the storm just after 3 am local time (9:00 UTC), then it faded
for awhile, then came back even stronger just before morning twilight,"
says Watson. "Once it got going, the aurora was visible as a glow to the
north with the unaided eye, although I couldn't distinguish the pink
hue without the camera."Storm levels are now subsiding to category G1
(Minor). This will cause auroras to withdraw toward the Arctic Circle.
Nevertheless, camera-only (too faint for the naked eye) auroras may
still be photographed across central Europe and northern-tier US states
during the night of Aug. 4-5. Aurora alerts: SMS Text-Spaceweather.com-A
CONVERSATION BETWEEN SUNSPOTS: Sunspots do like to talk to one another.
Yesterday, Aug. 3rd, sunspot AR3775 produced a strong M7.3-class solar
flare. An unnamed sunspot just behind the sun's eastern limb quickly
responded with its own M5.4-class explosion:These are called
"sympathetic solar flares"--that is, pairs of explosions that occur
almost simultaneously in widely-spaced active regions. Long ago,
researchers assumed the eruptions were just coincidence, but a 2002
study proved otherwise. Some sunspots are linked by nearly-invisible
magnetic loops in the sun's corona. Instabilities can rapidly travel
from one to another, creating a chain reaction of explosions.If AR3775
is indeed linked to the unseen sunspot, more twin flares may be in the
offing as both turn toward Earth in the days ahead. Solar flare alerts:
SMS Text
Debby expected to become hurricane before hitting Florida's Gulf Coast-By Rich Mckay-August 4, 20246:51 PM EDT
Aug
4 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Debby is expected to strengthen rapidly
into a hurricane before making landfall in the Big Bend region of
Florida's Gulf Coast by midday on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center (NHC) said on Sunday, warning of life-threatening ocean
surges.The hurricane center forecast life-threatening conditions,
including storm surges up to 10 feet (3 meters) in some areas. As it
slowly moves north through the week, the storm may bring "potentially
historic rainfall" of between 10 and 20 inches (25 and 50 cm) and
catastrophic flooding to Georgia and South Carolina, it said."This is
going to be the story of this storm," said Jamie Rhome, the deputy
director of the hurricane center. "It's slow motion is going to dump
historic amounts of rainfall - potentially over 20 inches. You're
talking about catastrophic flooding."The storm could be like Hurricane
Harvey, which slammed into Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 2017. While
downgraded into a tropical storm as it moved inland, it lingered over
the state, dumping about 50 inches of rain on Houston.Harvey is rated as
one of the wettest storms in U.S. history, causing more than 100 deaths
and $125 billion in damage, primarily from flooding in the Houston
metropolitan area.Rhome said Debby is fueled by exceptionally warm Gulf
waters.Climate scientists believe man-made global warming from burning
fossil fuels has raised the temperature of the oceans, making storms
bigger and more devastating.Preparing for Debby, Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis called up 3,000 National Guard troops and placed most of the
state's cities and counties under emergency orders, while mandatory
evacuations were ordered in parts of the Gulf Coast counties of Citrus,
Dixie, Franklin, Levy and Wakulla.DeSantis said there are more than
17,000 linemen and other electric workers ready to restore power.The
governors of Georgia and South Carolina also declared states of
emergency ahead of the storm.HEAVY RAIN-Debby became a tropical storm
late on Saturday. As of 5 p.m. EDT (2200 GMTDebby was about 120 miles
(193 km) west of Tampa and moving toward the Gulf Coast at 12 mph (19
kph), with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph), the NHC said.To
become a hurricane, sustained winds must reach 74 mph.The center of
Debby will move across the eastern Gulf of Mexico through Sunday and
reach the Florida Big Bend coast by midday on Monday, the hurricane
center added. Debby is then expected to move slowly across northern
Florida and southern Georgia on Monday and Tuesday, it said.The storm is
expected to lose some strength after landfall but bring heavy rain as
it crosses central Florida out to the Atlantic coast, before crawling up
to Savannah, Georgia, and then onward to Charleston, South Carolina,
early in the week.Ocean surges forecast for Bonita Beach northward to
Tampa Bay could send sea waves further inland than normal, damaging
structures and endangering anyone in their path.A tropical storm warning
is in effect for the Florida and Georgia coasts from Ponte Vedra Beach
to the Savannah River, including the Fort Myers area, which was crushed
by Hurricane Ian in 2022.The last hurricane to make a direct hit on the
Big Bend region was Hurricane Idalia, which briefly gained Category 4
strength before making landfall as a Category 3 in August 2023, with
winds of more than 125 mph. The National Centers for Environmental
Information estimates it did $3.5 billion in damage.Forecasters expect a
large number of Atlantic hurricanes in the 2024 season, which began on
June 1, with four to seven seen as major. That exceeds the
record-breaking 2005 season that spawned the devastating Katrina and
Rita hurricanes.Only one hurricane, Beryl, has yet formed in the
Atlantic this year. The earliest Category 5 storm on record, it struck
the Caribbean and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula before rolling up the Gulf
Coast of Texas as a Category 1 storm, with sustained winds up to 95 mph
(153 kph).Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Additional reporting by
Chandni Shah, Jonathan Allen and Surbhi Misra; Editing by William
Mallard, Jane Merriman, Will Dunham, Mark Porter and Paul Simao
California wildfire now fourth-largest in state history, hot weather offers no relief-By Rich Mckay-August 3, 20249:27 PM EDT
Aug
3 (Reuters) - More than 6,000 firefighters in California's Central
Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the U.S. on Saturday,
which burned its way into the history books as the state's
fourth-largest conflagration on record.There was barely a taste of rain
on Saturday from thunderstorms that brought wind and rainfall of zero to
one-tenth of an inch, forecasters said.The heat of 100 degrees
Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) along with winds up to 25 mph or more in some
spots, offered little relief to the firefighters trying to contain the
Park Fire, scorching the wilderness terrain some 100 miles (161 km)
north of Sacramento, the state capital."We had some thunderstorms that
just brought us down-drafts, that's a problem," said Christopher Young, a
spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection, or Cal Fire. "Lightning is a factor we worry about."Blazes
from the Park Fire, started by an alleged arsonist who pushed a flaming
car down a 60-foot gully near Chico, California, on July 24, has since
burned more than 400,000 acres (162,200 hectares) or more than 600
square miles, an area larger than the city of Los Angeles.The
42-year-old man arrested had not entered a plea as of Saturday, but was
charged with arson and held without bail, officials said.More than 560
homes and other structures were destroyed since the blaze started 11
days ago, feeding off of downed timber and tinder-dry grass and brush.
The fire was 27% contained on Saturday, officials said.More than 4,000
people were evacuated in the Park Fire including retiree Jim Young, 65,
of Red Bluff, California, where he lived in a trailer home with his dog,
a black Labrador Retriever named Sparky.He and the dog spent the last
eight days camped out with some other families in a gravel lot at a
wilderness trailhead about 6 miles from his home, worrying every day if
it was safe."We just found out we can go home," Young told Reuters on
Saturday evening. "Our property is safe. So many lost everything. But me
and Sparky can go home now."The rough, wilderness terrain means it
takes two to three hours to reach the fire lines, officials said. Some
firefighters are being flown to the front lines by helicopters, with
some expected to stay there for days with supplies also flown in.The
national wildfire season has had an intense start, raising the risk of
stretching firefighting resources too thin. The National Interagency
Fire Center has already requested help from firefighters in Australia
and New Zealand, who will arrive starting Aug. 7 and deploy to Oregon
and Washington.Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Nick
Zieminski and Matthew Lewis
