JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN WITH PRECISE SHOTS.IT SHOULD BE NUKE AND OIL SITES-I WISH.
WARN THE PEOPLE-WW3
EZEKIEL 33:1-6
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man
of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not
warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall
deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow
not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and
take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but
his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
DANIEL 11:40-45 (WW3 BREAKDOWN)
40
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at
him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM
HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter
into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall
enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be
overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab,
and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43
But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and
over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the
Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the
east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS
LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he
shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away
many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the
tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy
mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
ISAIAH 24:1
1
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES
USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a
son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD
hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild
man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every
man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against
him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe
to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed)
and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee!
when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be
spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think
that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD
ALLAH)
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! (HEBREW MEANS CRESCENT MOON
ANGEL-ISLAM OVIOUSLY)(SATAN IS THE GOD OF ISLAM) how art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the
realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor
planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
EZEKIEL 31:10-17
10
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself
in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him
into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal
with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And
strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the
people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To
the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they
are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.(HELL).
15Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a
mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods
thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn
for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made
the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to
hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in
the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with
him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his
arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To
whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of
Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh
and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 32:17-32
17
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the
month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of
man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her,
and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the
earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20
They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The
strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain
by the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused
terror in the land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam (IRAN) and all
her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the
earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have
they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They
have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her
graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet
have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put
in the midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech,
Tubal,(RUSSIA) (GERMANY, TURKEY) and all her multitude: her graves [are]
round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall
not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which
are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid
their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their
bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the
living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29
There [is] Edom,(JORDAN) her kings, and all her princes, which with
their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall
lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30
There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that
be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to
the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with
[them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA)
the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy
against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and
Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with
all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields,
all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6
Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and
prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto
thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be
visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is
brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against
the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of
them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall
also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy
mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt
say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12
To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and
Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the
young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW
ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto
thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to
take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and
goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY
RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man,
prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my
people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And
thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a
mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel,
as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I
will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog
(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of
the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of
the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall
they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and
they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300
MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13
Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it
shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified,
saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual
employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to
bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth,
to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s
bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the
buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of
Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN
THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY
SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM
ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL
NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye
may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
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.(ON EARTH)
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
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.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE
60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned
in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error
which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And,
behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven
days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in
the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is
upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW
FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE
EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS
TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the
heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in
store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men.
EZIKIEL 38:12-13
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA
ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions
thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING
shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered
thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away
cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (AGAINST ISRAEL)
14
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, (RUSSIA AND HER
MUSLIMS HORDES)Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of
Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will
shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3
And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY)
him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of
the earth be blessed.
And here are the bounderies of the land
that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the
future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have
every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east
of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The
southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the
Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num
34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE
FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.(ALL THESE ARAB, MUSLIMS ARE OCCUPYING ISRAELS LAND. GET OFF
IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE YOUR DEATH CULT DAYS ARE NUMBERED)
ISLAMIC DEATH CULT AND FAKE MOHAMMAAD AND FAKE MOON GOD ALLAH WHICH IS SIMPLY SATAN IS THE LEADER OF ISLAM.
LEVITICUS 26:16
16
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden)
terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes,
and cause sorrow of heart:(WARS AND DEATH) and ye shall sow your seed in
vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(CHINA CONTROLS AMERICAS ECONOMY BY
BUYING UP DEBT)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that
spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and
when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think
that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD
ALLAH)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call
his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD hath heard thy
affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS
RAGE) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION)
and every man's hand against him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH
ISRAELIS)
The Family Tree of Ishmael
12 This is the family tree of Ishmael son of Abraham, the son that Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.
13-16
These are the names of Ishmael’s sons in the order of their births:
Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah,
Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah—all the sons of Ishmael.
Their settlements and encampments were named after them. Twelve princes
with their twelve tribes.
(ISLAM CLAIMS MOHAMMID IS A OFF SPRING OF
ISHMAEL THE FIRST BASTARD CHILD OF THE ARABS WITH A SLAVE MOTHER TO THE
ISRAELIS.DOES ANY ONE SEE THE NAME OF MOHAMMID IN ISHMAELS FAMILY TREE.
BECAUSE I SURE DON'T. I DOUBT MOHAMMID EVEN EXISTS. AND SATAN IS THE
LEADER OF ISLAM HHIMSELF. SO ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION AT ALL. ISLAM IS
NOTHING BUT A DEATH CULT THAT WORSHIPS DEATH. AND WILL BURN IN HELL
FIRE, THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT IN FRONT OF JESUS.ONLY TO BE THROWN IN
THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES.ISLAM EXPOSED AS A
FRAUD SATAN LIE AND MURDER DEAT CULT.
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 8:44
44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
ISRAEL IS
CURRENTLY ATTACKING IN IRAN.I DO NOT THINK THAT ISRAEL IS ATTACKING THE
NUCLEAR SITES OR THE OIL REFINERIES.PROBABLY ISRAEL IS ATTACKING THE
IRANIAN GUARDS BASES AND THE ROCKET LAUNCHER SITES.BRAIN-DEAD BIDEN AND
HIS BUNCH OF LIBERAL MISFIT BABY MURDERERS WERE QUICK TO GET A NEWS RELEASE
OUT WITH THEIR TALES BETWEEN THEIR LEGS SAYING. ITS ONLY ISRAEL
ATTACKING IRAN, NOT US AMERICANS. WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACK
CURRENTLY GOING ON IN IRAN.WE AMERICAN BIDEN AND HARRIS BRAIN-DEADS.WE
MUST HIDE UNDER A CHAIR NOW.BECAUSE WERE A BUNCH OF COWARDS LETTING
ISRAEL TAKE THE BLAME FOR THE ATTACK ON IRANIAN COCKROACH SEX FOR MURDER
PEDOPHILIA DEATH CULT SHIITE IRANIANS.I HOPE ISRAEL SENDS KHEMINI TO
HELL FIRE FOREVER TONIGHT.GO ISRAEL GO.
IDF announces Israel carrying out ‘precise strikes’ on military targets in Iran-By Emanuel Fabian-26 October 2024, 2:33 am
The
IDF confirms launching strikes in Iran.In a statement, the IDF says it
is carrying out “precise strikes” on Iranian military targets, in
response to “months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran
against the State of Israel.”“The regime in Iran and its proxies in the
region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th – on
seven fronts – including direct attacks from Iranian soil,” the military
says.“Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of
Israel has the right and the duty to respond,” the statement
continues.The IDF says its “defensive and offensive capabilities are
fully mobilized,” and that it “will do whatever necessary to defend the
State of Israel and the people of Israel.”
US National Security Council: Israeli strikes on Iran ‘an exercise of self-defense’By AFP Today, 3:06 am-OCT 26,24
Israeli
strikes on military targets in Iran are “an exercise of self-defense”
following Tehran’s ballistic missile attack earlier this month, the
White House says.National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett says
the “targeted strikes on military targets” are “an exercise of
self-defense and in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against
Israel on October 1.”
57sec ago
Israeli official to NBC: Strikes not targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities or oil fields.
Israel
is not striking Iranian nuclear facilities or oil fields and is
focusing on military targets, NBC cites an unnamed Israeli official as
saying.“We’re targeting things that might have threatened us in the past
or could do in the future,” the official is quoted saying.The Biden
Administration has been urging Israel not to strike such targets, while
backing Israel’s right to respond to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile
attack.
8min ago
IDF says Halevi commanding strikes on Iran alongside air force chief-By Emanuel Fabian
The
IDF releases an image of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi
commanding the strikes on Iran from the Israeli Air Force’s command
center, with the chief of the IAF, Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar.
24min ago
US National Security Council: Israeli strikes on Iran ‘an exercise of self-defense’ By AFP
Israeli
strikes on military targets in Iran are “an exercise of self-defense”
following Tehran’s ballistic missile attack earlier this month, the
White House says.National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett says
the “targeted strikes on military targets” are “an exercise of
self-defense and in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against
Israel on October 1.”
27min ago
PM’s office releases photo of him meeting defense brass in bunker as Israel strikes Iran
As
Israel strikes in Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office
releases a picture of the premier huddled with Defense Minister Yoav
Gallant and top IDF generals in the bunker below the Kirya military base
in Tel Aviv.
2 killed, 7 hurt as Hezbollah rocket
hits minimarket in northern town of Majd al-Krum-Earlier rocket salvo
injures 6 soldiers in border community of Shomera; IDF says it
intercepted rockets aimed at Haifa area, drones over Galilee and Golan,
amid fighting in Lebanon-By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 11:34
pm-OCT 25
Two people were killed and seven injured on Friday
after rockets fired by Hezbollah struck the northern Arab town of Majd
al-Krum, as several barrages from Lebanon targeted the north.Arjwan
Manaa, 19, and Hassan Suad, 21, succumbed to critical wounds sustained
when a rocket hit near a minimarket in the town. Manaa was working as a
cashier and Suad was a customer who was there buying produce.Television
footage from the scene showed the blood-stained floor around the cash
register and bags of fruit and vegetables still on the counter.Hezbollah
took responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted the adjacent
city of Karmiel. The Israel Defense Forces said some 30 rockets were
launched in the attack and 65 rockets were launched in total at northern
Israel on Friday.A 21-year-old man was critically hurt, a man in his
80s was seriously wounded, two others were in moderate condition and
three more were lightly hurt, the Magen David Adom ambulance service
said.Earlier on Friday, at least six soldiers were also wounded in a
rocket impact in the Shomera area in the Western Galilee, just south of
the border with Lebanon. First responders said the victims were in
moderate and good condition.Additionally, a barrage of five rockets was
launched from Lebanon at the Haifa area, according to the IDF.The
military said some of the rockets were intercepted, while others struck
open areas. There were no reports of injuries.The IDF also said it
downed a drone that crossed into the Western Galilee in the early
evening, and another drone that crossed into the Golan Heights from
Syria shortly before noon.The attacks on the north came as the army
pressed on in its ground operation against Hezbollah in southern
Lebanon. The IDF said Friday that it had carried out airstrikes on
Hezbollah’s intelligence division and air defense unit in Beirut; bombed
a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria which the army says
Hezbollah used to smuggle Iranian arms; and demolished two tunnels in
southern Lebanon, including one slated for a planned invasion of
Israel.Five Israeli reserve soldiers were killed during fighting with
Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon on Thursday night and 19 others
were wounded, some of them seriously, the IDF said on Friday-Hezbollah
began attacking Israel a day after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists
stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill nearly 1,200 people
and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.Shortly afterward,
Israel evacuated communities along the border with Lebanon, fearing
Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack.Israel stepped up its
airstrikes on the Iran-backed terror group in September, after adding to
its official war aims the return home of some 60,000 northern
residents. The airstrikes all but decimated Hezbollah’s leadership,
paving the way for the ground operation, launched on September
23.Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have
resulted in the deaths of 31 civilians. In addition, 55 IDF soldiers and
reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing
ground operation.
Analysis'No logic in remaining in Gaza' With no
exit strategy in Gaza, ex-IDF officers fear Israel will stay
indefinitely-Domestic critics, including ex-generals, warn that
indecisiveness will force Israel to rule Strip, pay a heavy price in
sporadic attacks by remaining Hamas operatives-By Reuters Today, 9:40
pm-OCT 25,24
Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland believes Israel faces
months of fighting in Gaza unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses
the chance offered by the IDF’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to
end the war.Since Sinwar’s death this month, Eiland has been one of a
chorus of former senior army officers questioning the government’s
strategy in Gaza, where earlier this month troops went back into areas
of the north that had already been cleared at least twice before.For the
past three weeks, the IDF has been operating around Jabaliya, in
northern Gaza, the third time they have returned to the town and its
historic refugee camp since the beginning of the war in October
2023.Instead of the IDF’s preferred approach of quick decisive actions,
many former security officials say the army risks being bogged down in
an open-ended campaign requiring a permanent troop presence.“The Israeli
government is acting in total opposition to Israel’s security
conception,” Yom-Tov Samia, former head of the military’s Southern
Command, told Kan public radio.Part of the operation has involved
evacuating thousands of people from the area in an effort to separate
civilians from Hamas operatives.The military says it has moved around
45,000 civilians from the area around Jabaliya and killed hundreds of
gunmen during the operation. But it has been heavily criticized for the
large number of civilian casualties also reported, and faced widespread
calls to get more aid supplies in to alleviate a humanitarian crisis in
the area.Eiland, a former head of Israel’s National Security Council,
was the lead author of a much-discussed proposal dubbed the “Generals’
Plan” that would see Israel rapidly clear northern Gaza of civilians
before starving out surviving Hamas fighters by cutting off their water
and food supplies.Israel’s moves this month have aroused Palestinian
accusations that the military has embraced Eiland’s plan, which he
envisaged as a short-term measure to take on Hamas in the north but
which Palestinians see as aimed at clearing the area permanently to
create a buffer zone for the military after the war.The military has
denied it is following any such plan. Netanyahu, in a meeting with US
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, denied Israel was pursuing
the “Generals’ Plan,” but refused to make a public declaration to that
effect, a US official told The Times of Israel.Eiland himself believes
the strategy adopted by the IDF in Gaza is neither his plan, nor a
classical occupation.“I don’t know exactly what is happening in
Jabaliya,” Eiland told Reuters. “But I think that the IDF is doing
something which is in between the two alternatives, the ordinary
military attack and my plan,” he said.No plan to stay-From the outset of
the war, Netanyahu declared Israel would bring back the hostages and
dismantle Hamas as a military and governing force, and did not intend to
stay in Gaza.But his government never articulated a clear policy for
the aftermath of the offensive it launched after thousands of Hamas-led
terrorists stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some
1,200 people and take 251 hostages. The offensive has all but made the
enclave into a wasteland that will require billions of dollars in
international assistance to rebuild.For months, there have been open
disagreements between Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant,
reflecting a wider division between the governing coalition and the
military, which has long favored reaching a deal to end the fighting and
bring the hostages home.With no agreed strategy, Israel risks being
stuck in Gaza for the foreseeable future, said Ofer Shelah, a former
lawmaker who directs the Israel National Security Policy research
program at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.“The
situation for Israel is very precarious right now. We are sliding
towards a situation where Israel is considered the de facto ruler in
Gaza,” he said.The government did not immediately respond to a request
for a comment on suggestions that the military is getting bogged down in
Gaza.Hit-and-run raids-With Israel’s military focus now directed
against the Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, the number of army
divisions engaged in Gaza is down to two, compared with five at the
start of the war. According to estimates from Israeli security sources
there are 10,000-15,000 troops in each IDF division.At the start of the
war, Hamas possessed 25 battalions, according to IDF estimates. The army
assesses the battalions were destroyed long ago, and half their
fighters — some 17,000-18,000 — have been killed. But bands of Hamas
operatives remain to conduct hit-and-run raids on IDF troops.“We don’t
engage with tanks on the ground, we choose our targets,” said one Hamas
operative, contacted through a chat app. “We are acting in a way that
keeps us fighting for the longest time possible.”Although such tactics
will not prevent the army from moving around Gaza as it wants, they
still have the potential to impose a significant cost on Israel.Col.
Ehsan Daqsa, the commander of the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade, was
killed in Gaza this week when he got out of his tank to talk to other
commanders at an observation point which gunmen had rigged with a booby
trap bomb. He was one of the most senior officers killed in Gaza during
the war.On Friday, three soldiers were killed in Jabaliya when a
powerful bomb was detonated against the tank they were in. The fourth
soldier in the tank was moderately wounded.‘No logic in remaining’Calls
to wrap up the fighting in Gaza have increased after Sinwar, the
architect of the October 7 onslaught, was killed in a chance encounter
with troops operating in Rafah.“With the killing of Sinwar, there is no
logic in remaining in Gaza,” said a former top military official with
direct experience of the enclave, who asked not to be named.“Methodical”
pinpointed operations going forward should be carried out if Hamas
regroups and resumes any war on Israel, but the risk of leaving troops
permanently in Gaza was a major danger, the former official said,
advocating securing the hostages and getting out.Netanyahu’s office said
on Thursday that Israeli negotiators would fly to Qatar this weekend to
join long-stalled talks on a ceasefire deal and the release of
hostages. But what Hamas’s position will be, and who Israel will allow
to run the enclave when the fighting stops, remains unclear.Netanyahu
has denied any plans to stay on in Gaza or to allow Israeli settlers to
return, as many Palestinians fear.But the hardline pro-settler parties
in his coalition — and many in his own Likud party — would like nothing
more than to reverse Israel’s unilateral withdrawal, which took place in
2005, under late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich, head of the pro-settler Religious Zionism party, said on
Thursday — at the close of the Jewish holiday of Simhat Torah — that he
hoped to celebrate the festival next year in Gush Katif, the old Gaza
settlement bloc.Times of Israel contributed to this report.
AnalysisPA
chief's Fatah eulogized Sinwar as 'great national leader' Abbas treads
tightrope as PA cracks down on terror groups in the West Bank-Campaign
in Tubas shows authority’s resolve to disprove its many skeptics, but
represents ‘low-hanging fruit’ unlikely to loosen Hamas, PIJ grip on
West Bank’s north, says analyst-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 7:19
pM-OCT 25,24
In the West Bank city of Tubas, the Palestinian
Authority has been rounding up terror operatives who are spoiling for a
fight with Israel and challenging its own rule, seeking to show it can
help shape the future for Palestinians after the war in Gaza.PA
President Mahmoud Abbas has poured forces into Tubas in an avowed push
to quash lawlessness and deny Israel pretexts to raid the city.His
adversaries, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), say the PA is
serving Israel’s agenda at a time when Israel is going after their
operatives in the West Bank as they battle Israel in Gaza, sharpening
old divisions between Abbas and the terror groups.Residents of Tubas
said clashes between the terrorists and the PA this month involved heavy
machine guns and bombs in some of the worst violence they can
remember.It highlights the precarious position of the PA, which was
established by the 1994 Oslo Accords with Israel, as a stepping stone to
a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.The so-called
two-state solution appears as far as ever, though it has come back into
international focus of late as a way to bring peace. Israel, however,
mistrusts Abbas and the PA, accusing it of incitement to terrorism in
its education system and by paying stipends to jailed terror operatives
and families of slain terrorists.Abbas’s secularist Fatah faction also
recently issued condolences on the “martyrdom” of Hamas chief Yahya
Sinwar, hailing as “a great national leader” the architect of the
assault that sparked the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, when thousands of
Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people
and take 251 hostages.Amid the war in Gaza, Israel has also launched
several counterterrorism raids across the West Bank, especially in the
north. The army says it has arrested 5,250 wanted Palestinians,
including 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.According to the PA health
ministry, 716 Palestinians have been killed in the raids. Israel says
the vast majority were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who
clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.The
Ramallah-based PA controlled Gaza until 2007, when Hamas routed forces
loyal to Abbas, but is now confined to running patches of the West Bank —
often in coordination with Israeli security forces, who control the
territory.The United States has said it wants to see the war in Gaza end
with the Strip and the West Bank unified under a reformed and
revitalized PA.For Abbas, 88, the Tubas campaign is partly about
weakening the grip Hamas and PIJ have gained over the northern West
Bank, in what his Fatah sees as an Iran-backed attempt to undermine its
position, according to Fatah officials and security sources.It is also
about disproving critics who view the PA as ineffective — a reputation
that has overshadowed US-led diplomatic contacts over the role it might
eventually play in Gaza, according to a former PA security official and
an analyst.A US State Department spokesperson declined comment on the
Tubas operation, but acknowledged that US security cooperation with the
PA includes funding, training and equipment.Tubas Governor Ahmed
al-Asaad said the PA had decided to strike with “an iron fist” against
what he described as lawlessness and anarchy.Two PA security men have
been wounded as their forces fought members of the “Tubas Battalion,” an
armed group dominated by PIJ, and detained at least three of its
members, including its leader.Standoff-Al-Asaad said the PA was
responding to public concern, giving the example of a bomb that had been
recently planted near a school — apparently in preparation for an
attack on Israeli forces.“We don’t want — under the slogan of resistance
or any other slogan — to destroy our country and to destroy Tubas,” he
said.“Our approach is clear and is the approach of the president: the
approach of peaceful, popular resistance and safeguarding security and
order,” he told Reuters in an interview.The Palestinian Authority has
overhauled its operations in a variety of areas, assuaging some of the
concern expressed by countries that provide aid.On the whole, the
revitalization effort had been “pretty well received,” a European
diplomat said.On Saturday, dozens of PA security men surrounded a
building near Tubas where two Battalion gunmen were holed up, with one
of them, Obada al-Masri, threatening to blow himself up, a source
familiar with the incident said.“We negotiated with him for almost five
hours,” said his father, Abdel Majid al-Masri, who was called to the
scene to help convince his son to surrender.He said his son eventually
agreed after receiving guarantees he would be held in Tubas rather than
at another PA jail where he was previously incarcerated and had suffered
mistreatment.Masri expressed relief that his son had been taken into PA
custody rather than killed by Israeli forces, which have also been
raiding Tubas in search of terror operatives and had previously jailed
his son for three years.His son had chosen “the route of struggle to
liberate Palestine,” he said, rejecting PA accusations that Battalion
members were engaged in lawlessness.PIJ condemned the operation, saying
PA forces appeared to be aiming to eliminate resistance to Israel and
their methods were no different.Low-hanging fruit-PA security forces
were heavily deployed, with a checkpoint on a road into the city, when
Reuters visited Tubas this week, but the city was calm.Ghaith al-Omari,
an expert on PA affairs at the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, said the Tubas campaign was a much-needed attempt by the PA to
assert itself in a part of the West Bank where its control had been
“practically absent.”“The PA understands that nobody sees it as being
capable of running Gaza and everyone cites the fact that they can’t even
run the northern West Bank,” said Omari, who has advised both Abbas and
his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.But one operation did not make a
reputation, Omari said, noting that Tubas represented “low-hanging
fruit” and that Hamas and PIJ were weaker there than in Jenin, also in
the northern West Bank.With US support, the 35,000-strong PA security
forces were reconstituted after the 2007 Hamas takeover of Gaza.Yet, the
Washington Institute said in a July policy note, for the PA to assume
governance in Gaza it would need extensive recruitment, equipment,
vetting and training, a process it said would take years.Israel, which
accuses the PA of support for terrorism, has also rejected the notion of
PA governance in Gaza.While declining to comment on a potential role
for PA security forces in post-war Gaza, the US State Department
spokesperson reiterated that sustained peace in Gaza “must include
Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the
Palestinian Authority.”In the West Bank, the biggest issue was that PA
security forces were “really, really unpopular in the north,” Omari
said.A September opinion poll showed that 89% of Palestinians in the
West Bank want Abbas to resign, and that Hamas has more support than
Fatah there. Polls by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey
Research have consistently shown that Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader
jailed by Israel for murder, would win any presidential vote.Omari said:
“To do effective security you need both capabilities but also you need
credibility and legitimacy.”
Palestinians say 78 killed in
strikes and raids across Gaza-3 soldiers killed in north Gaza as troops
raid hospital in pursuit of Hamas operatives-IDF says it has facilitated
the evacuation of patients and sent in medical supplies; Palestinians
say dozens detained; WHO says it has lost contact with Kamal Adwan
Hospital-By Emanuel Fabian,Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 6:36 pm-OCT
25,24
Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed Friday
during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip’s Jabaliya as the military
pushed ahead with an offensive in the neighborhood, including taking
control of the area’s last functioning hospital in pursuit of Hamas
operatives.The IDF also continued with widespread strikes and raids
across Gaza, with Hamas-run health authorities reporting more than 70
people killed in the past 24 hours.The slain troops were named as Cpt.
Barak Israel Sagan, 22, from Petah Tikva; Sgt. Ido Ben Zvi, 21, from
Shomrat; and Sgt. Hillel Ovadia, 22, from Jerusalem.All three served
with the 460th Armored Brigade’s 196th Battalion. The brigade is the
IDF’s school for tank commanders during peacetime. Sagan was a commander
at the school, while Ben Zvi and Ovadia were cadets.The three were
killed in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya early on Friday morning when a
powerful bomb was detonated against the tank they were in. The fourth
soldier in the tank was moderately wounded.Following the incident,
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in
military operations along the border with the Strip stood at 361.Also
Friday, the IDF said it was operating at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the
northern Gaza Strip amid “intelligence information on terrorists and
terror infrastructure in the area.”In the weeks before the operation,
the IDF said it enabled the evacuation of patients and staff from the
hospital, while also ensuring that the medical center’s emergency
systems continued to function.So far, some 45,000 Palestinian civilians
have evacuated from Jabaliya amid the IDF’s operation in the area,
according to the military’s latest estimates. Hundreds of suspected
terror operatives were detained, and hundreds of gunmen were also
killed, the IDF added.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said hundreds of
patients and staff were detained in the raid on the hospital.“They are
detaining hundreds of patients, medical staff and some displaced
individuals from neighboring areas who sought refuge in the hospital
from continuous bombardment,” the ministry said.COGAT — the Israeli
defense ministry body that manages civilian affairs in the Palestinian
territories — said Friday it had allowed the transfer of 23 patients out
of the hospital the previous night by Palestinian ambulances and UN
vehicles.Kamal Adwan is the last functioning hospital in Gaza’s north.
The facility said it has been struggling with shortages since the start
of the war, which has been increasingly aggravated by the launch of an
Israeli operation in northern Gaza earlier this month.“There has been no
supply or provision of food, medicine, or essential medical supplies
needed to save the lives of the injured and sick in the hospital,” the
ministry claimed, calling the situation inside “catastrophic in every
sense of the word.”COGAT said in its statement it had allowed the
transfer of one fuel truck, “180 blood units and a truckload of medical
equipment” donated by UN agencies.Hamas called the storming of Kamal
Adwan “a war crime and a flagrant violation of international
laws.”Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said it had lost contact
with the hospital.“Since this morning’s reports of a raid on Kamal Adwan
Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost touch with the personnel
there,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X on Friday.“This
development is deeply disturbing, given the number of patients being
served and people sheltering there.”Tedros confirmed that the WHO and
partner agencies had reached the hospital and managed to transfer 23
patients and 26 caregivers to Gaza’s main Al-Shifa Hospital.“Kamal Adwan
Hospital has been overflowing with close to 200 patients — a constant
stream of horrific trauma cases. It is also full of hundreds of people
seeking shelter,” said Tedros.“Accessing hospitals across Gaza is
getting unbelievably harder and exposes our staff to unnecessary
danger.”He called for an immediate ceasefire and the protection of
hospitals, patients, health professionals and humanitarians.In recent
months, the IDF has carried out dozens of airstrikes on what it says are
Hamas sites embedded within locations used as shelters for civilians,
including hospitals, schools and UN facilities. It says it regularly
takes steps to limit the harm by such strikes.Also Friday, Palestinian
officials said that 72 Palestinians had been killed in strikes and raids
across Gaza since Thursday night.The ministry said a strike on houses
in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least 38, claiming many of
them were women and children.Meanwhile, Israeli strikes on three houses
in the nearby Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed 25 people and wounded
dozens more, medics said.Later on Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed
nine people in Shati camp in Gaza City, medics said.The figures could
not be verified and did not differentiate between civilians and terror
operatives.The Israeli military said its forces had killed a number of
Palestinian gunmen in air and ground strikes in the southern Gaza Strip
and dismantled military infrastructure.Meanwhile, UN human rights chief
Volker Turk said the “darkest moment” of the conflict in Gaza was
unfolding in the north of the territory, warning Friday that Israel’s
actions could amount to “atrocity crimes.”“Unimaginably, the situation
is getting worse by the day,” Turk said.“My gravest fear is, given the
intensity, breadth, scale and blatant nature of the Israeli operation
currently underway in north Gaza, that number will rise
dramatically.”Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, warned that Israel’s policies in northern Gaza “risk emptying
the area of all Palestinians.”“We are facing what could amount to
atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against
humanity,” he claimed, calling on the world’s leaders to act, stressing
that all states are obligated under the Geneva Conventions to ensure
respect for international humanitarian law.His statement stressed the
urgency of the situation, warning that “today the darkest moment of the
Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip, where the Israeli
military is effectively subjecting an entire population to bombing,
siege and risk of starvation.”“The bombing in north Gaza is non-stop,”
he claimed.At the same time, “the Israeli military has ordered hundreds
of thousands to move, with no guarantees of return. But there is no safe
way to leave,” he warned.The UN rights chief cautioned that there was
“extremely limited access to this part of Gaza, (and) next to no aid has
reached the area in weeks, with unlawful restrictions remaining.”Turk’s
statement also pointed out that Palestinian terror groups also continue
to operate among civilians, including in places of shelter, putting
civilians in harm’s way “which is totally unacceptable.”After nearly a
year of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror onslaught,
Israel kept up the pressure on Hamas, and launched a new operation in
the northern Gaza Strip earlier this month, which it said was aimed at
preventing terror operatives from regrouping in the war-torn territory.
The Israeli military says the goal of its assault is to destroy the
operational capabilities that Hamas is trying to rebuild in the
north.Amid the operation, the IDF has ordered the evacuation of Jabaliya
and surrounding towns in northern Gaza, where several hundred thousand
Palestinians are believed to still reside, despite repeated urgings by
Israel to leave since the start of the war.While tens of thousands have
fled, many more have remained either because they are unwilling or
unable to evacuate, and there have been reports that Hamas has been
trying to prevent civilians from evacuating.The war in Gaza began with
the brutal massacre carried out by Hamas in southern Israel on October
7. Israel vowed to destroy Hamas’s military and governing capabilities
and to ensure that Gaza’s terror groups no longer posed a threat.The
Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 people in the Strip
have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll
cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and
fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle as
of August and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
ICC
chief seeking arrest warrant for Netanyahu facing sexual misconduct
accusations-Karim Khan denies trying to coerce female aide into
relationship, groping her; court officials assert Israeli smear
campaign, others claim his focus on Israel was attempt at distraction-By
Joshua Goodman and Molly Quell Today, 4:23 pm-OCT 25,24
THE
HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — As the International Criminal Court’s top
prosecutor sought war crimes charges this year against Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu over actions in Gaza, he was engulfed in a very
different personal crisis playing out behind the scenes.Karim Khan faced
accusations that he tried for more than a year to coerce a female aide
into a sexual relationship and groped her against her will. He’s
categorically denied the allegations, saying there was “no truth to
suggestions of misconduct.”Court officials have suggested they may have
been made as part of an Israeli intelligence smear campaign. However,
others have suggest that the high-profile charges against Israeli
leaders — brought after the sexual misconduct probe began — were meant
to distract from Khan’s misconduct.Two co-workers in whom the woman
confided at the ICC’s headquarters at The Hague reported the alleged
misconduct in early May to the court’s independent watchdog, which says
it interviewed the woman and ended its inquiry after five days when she
opted against filing a formal complaint. Khan himself was never
questioned.But the matter may not be over.While the woman declined to
comment to The Associated Press, people close to her say her initial
reluctance was driven by distrust of the in-house watchdog and she has
asked the body of member-states that oversees the ICC to launch an
external probe. An ICC official with knowledge of the matter who spoke
to AP on condition of anonymity confirmed that the request remains under
consideration.Those efforts were applauded by those close to the woman,
who still works at the court.“This wasn’t a one-time advance or an arm
around the shoulder that could be subject to misinterpretation,” one of
the people told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity to shield the
woman’s identity. “It was a full-on, repeated pattern of conduct that
was carried out over a long period of time.”While the court’s watchdog
could not determine wrongdoing, it nonetheless urged Khan in a memo to
minimize contact with the woman to protect the rights of all involved
and safeguard the court’s integrity.Within days of the watchdog’s
shelving of the case, the court’s work went on. Khan on May 20 sought
arrest warrants against Netanyahu, his defense minister Yoav Gallant and
three Hamas leaders — all of whom have since been killed — on war
crimes charges. A three-judge panel is now weighing that
request.International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan (center)
announces that he has requested arrest warrants against Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas
leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, May 20, 2024.
(Courtesy, International Criminal Court)-US President Joe Biden’s
administration said it was blindsided by the move, with the president
calling the prosecution “outrageous” for implying an equivalence between
Israel and Hamas.In announcing the charges, Khan hinted that outside
forces were waging a campaign to derail his investigation.“I insist that
all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the
officials of this court must cease immediately,” Khan said, adding he
wouldn’t hesitate to use his authority to investigate anyone suspected
of obstructing justice.The allegations-AP pieced together details of the
accusations through whistleblower documents shared with the court’s
independent watchdog and interviews with eight ICC officials and
individuals close to the woman. All spoke on the condition of anonymity
due to the sensitive nature of the allegations or fear of
retaliation.Among the allegations told to AP is that Khan noticed the
woman working at another department at ICC and moved her into his
office, a transfer that included a pay bump. Their time together
allegedly increased after a private dinner in London where Khan took the
woman’s hand and complained about his marriage. She became a presence
on official trips and meetings with dignitaries.During one such trip,
Khan allegedly asked the woman to rest with him on a hotel bed and then
“sexually touched her,” according to the documents. Later, he came to
her room at 3 a.m. and knocked on the door for 10 minutes.Other
allegedly nonconsensual behavior cited in the documents included locking
the door of his office and sticking his hand in her pocket. He also
allegedly asked her on several occasions to go on a vacation
together.Upon returning to ICC’s headquarters after one trip, she
tearfully complained to two co-workers about Khan’s behavior and the
anguish she felt for not standing up to a boss she once admired.Those
co-workers were shocked because Khan always seemed to show exemplary
behavior around women and has been outspoken against gender-based
crimes. They also weighed the accusations against the backdrop of
well-publicized attempts by intelligence agents from Israel and
elsewhere to penetrate the court, which created a work environment
plagued by intrigue and mistrust.But in the wake of the #MeToo movement,
no powerful man is above scrutiny, and the co-workers complied with
court workplace guidelines that encouraged the reporting of misconduct
by senior officials.After months of inaction and whispered rumors of a
brewing scandal, an anonymous account on X called @ICC_Leaks last week
began bringing some of the allegations to light.Israel’s allies in the
US Congress have also seized on the would-be scandal. Sen. Lindsey
Graham is seeking records about whether the misconduct accusations
played any role in Khan’s decision in May to cancel an aide’s planned
visit to Israel and move ahead with the war crimes charges.“Another
cloud — a moral one — hangs over prosecutor Khan’s abrupt decision to
abandon engagement with Israel and seek arrest warrants,” the South
Carolina Republican wrote in a letter to the court’s oversight
authority.Khan, who is 54 and married with two children, said in a
statement there was “no truth” to the accusations, and that in 30 years
of scandal-free investigative work he always has stood with victims of
sexual harassment and abuse.Khan added that he would be willing, if
asked, to cooperate with any inquiry, saying it is essential that any
accusations “are thoroughly listened to, examined and subjected to a
proper process.”Without naming any entity directly, he noted that both
he and the court have been the target in recent months of “a wide range
of attacks and threats,” some also aimed at his wife and family. Khan’s
office declined to provide specifics because the incidents are under
investigation.A growing list of enemies-Under Khan, the ICC has become
more assertive in combating crimes against humanity, war crimes and
related atrocities. Along the way, it has added to a growing list of
enemies.Last September, following the opening of a probe into Russian
atrocities in Ukraine, the court suffered a debilitating cyberattack
that left staff unable to work for weeks. It also hired an intern who
was later criminally charged in the US with being a Russian spy.Israel
has also been waging its own influence campaign ever since the ICC
recognized Palestine as a member and in 2015 opened a preliminary
investigation into what the court referred to as “the situation in the
State of Palestine.”London’s The Guardian newspaper and several Israeli
news outlets reported this summer that Israel’s intelligence agencies
for the past decade have allegedly targeted senior ICC staff, including
putting Khan’s predecessor under surveillance and showing up at her
house with envelopes stuffed with cash to discredit her.Netanyahu
himself, in the days leading up to Khan’s announcement of war crimes
charges, called on the world’s democracies “ to use all the means at
their disposal ” to block the court from what he called an “outrage of
historic proportions.”The Israeli foreign ministry referred AP’s
inquiries about the case to the Prime Minister’s Office, which did not
respond. The US State Department declined to discuss the matter but said
in a statement that it “takes any allegation of sexual harassment
seriously, and we would expect the court to do the same.”The Dutch
foreign ministry and several lawmakers in the Netherlands have called
for an investigation into whether the Israeli embassy has been
conducting covert activities against the ICC.Who is Khan? Khan, a
British international lawyer, had a long history defending some of the
world’s most ruthless strongmen – including former Liberian President
Charles Taylor and the son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi —
before being elected in 2021 in a secret ballot to become chief
prosecutor.The Rome Statute that established the court took effect in
2002, with a mandate to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocide — but only when domestic courts fail to initiate their own
investigations. Neither the US, Israel nor Russia are among the 124
member nations recognizing the court’s authority, although their
citizens can be charged with crimes committed in countries that are ICC
members.Still, Washington welcomed Khan’s election, especially after he
moved to “deprioritize” an investigation opened by his predecessor into
abuses by US military personnel in Afghanistan.Khan also broadened the
court’s focus, bringing criminal charges for the first time against
individuals outside Africa. He charged Russian President Vladimir Putin
with kidnapping children in Ukraine and opened an investigation into
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for his crackdown on protesters.“He
is by far the most professional jurist the court has had in its short
history,” said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights
Watch. “He’s articulate, sophisticated with the media and has extensive
courtroom experience working with the highest standards of evidence.”But
Khan’s reputation with the US came crashing down when he announced he
was seeking the arrest of Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes including
starvation of civilians. Israel vociferously denies the claims.To
insulate himself from attacks that he held an anti-Israel bias, Khan, a
practicing Muslim whose father migrated to the UK from Pakistan, shared
the evidence with a panel of experts including British human rights
lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of actor George Clooney.‘Extreme fear’ to
report misconduct-Although the 900-employee ICC has long had a
“zero-tolerance” policy on sexual harassment, an outside review of the
court’s inner workings in 2020 found an unacceptable level of predatory
behavior by male bosses, a lack of women in senior positions, and
inadequate mechanisms for dealing with complaints and protecting
whistleblowers.“There is a general reluctance, if not extreme fear,
among many staff to report any alleged act of misconduct or misbehavior”
by a senior official, the review concluded. “The perception is that
they are all immune.”Although the ICC’s policies have been updated since
the report, there’s no explicit ban on romantic relationships like
there is in many American workplaces. And while elected officials such
as Khan are expected to show “high moral character,” there’s no
definition of “serious misconduct” that would warrant
removal.“International organizations like the ICC are some of the last
places where men in positions of power treat the organization like their
playgrounds,” said Sarah Martin, a gender equality expert who has
consulted for several United Nations agencies. “There are so many
complaints that don’t even get investigated because there’s a perception
that senior officials protect each other.”People close to Khan’s
accuser say investigators from the court’s watchdog — known as the
Independent Oversight Mechanism — showed up for an interview on a Sunday
and asked for intimate details about her relationship with Khan as her
child listened. Without any emotional support and wary of the process,
she decided not to file a complaint at that moment.In the weeks since,
she’s decided to go up the chain of command, reaching out to the
Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, which oversees the court
and has the ultimate say about Khan’s future.Paivi Kaukoranta, a
Finnish diplomat currently serving as president of that body, did not
comment specifically when asked if it had initiated a new
investigation.But in a statement she asked people to respect the
integrity and confidentiality of the process, “including any further
possible steps as necessary.”TOI staff contributed to this report.
Days
after Re'im shelter killer shown to be UNRWA staffer-Israel set to pass
laws Monday that will heavily restrict UNRWA in Gaza, West Bank-MKs set
to prevent UN’s Palestinian refugee agency from operating in Israel,
close Gaza and West Bank access points to it, radically complicating its
work there; US, UN, EU object-By Sam Sokol-Today, 3:45 pm-OCT 25,24
Despite
strong objections from the United Nations, European Union and Biden
administration, lawmakers on Monday are slated to approve a pair of laws
that will essentially bar UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees
and their descendants, from operating in Israel, and severely curtail
its activities in Gaza and the West Bank.The first bill, sponsored by
Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky and Likud lawmaker Dan Illouz, among
others, would ban state authorities from having any contact with UNRWA.
The second, sponsored by Likud MK Boaz Bismuth, would effectively
prevent the organization from operating in Israeli territory by revoking
a 1967 exchange of notes providing the basis for its activities.Without
coordination with Israel, it will be almost impossible, in turn, for
UNRWA to work in Gaza or the West Bank, since Jerusalem would no longer
be issuing entrance permits to those territories or allowing
coordination with the IDF. Israel also currently controls access to Gaza
from Egypt, with the IDF deployed along the Gaza-Egypt Philadelphi
corridor.Asked to respond to widespread international opposition ahead
of Monday’s vote, several of the bills’ sponsors dismissed criticism of
their legislation, stating that it is both necessary and just.The
68-strong coalition is likely to support the legislation; several
opposition MKs are also expected to do so.The expected approval of the
legislation in the Knesset follows UNRWA’s confirmation on Thursday that
Muhammad Abu Attawi, who led the killing and kidnapping of Israelis
from a roadside bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7 last year,
had been employed by the agency since July 2022 while serving as a
Nukbha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion.
UNRWA — short for
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East — provides education, health care and aid to millions of
Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.Israel
alleges that more than 10 percent of UNRWA’s staff in Gaza have ties to
terror, and that educational facilities under the organization’s
auspices consistently incite hatred of Israel and glorify terror. In
February, the IDF revealed the existence of a subterranean Hamas data
center directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters. The IDF has
also repeatedly targeted Hamas command centers and gunmen hiding out in
UNRWA schools.Numerous Israeli lawmakers have long argued that UNRWA
must not be allowed to continue operating, with MK Malinovsky previously
stating that the agency “should not exist at all.”Additional
legislation advanced by Malinovsky requiring Israel to brand UNRWA a
terrorist organization is no longer on the Knesset table.United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that passing the bills would
be a “catastrophe,” while European Commission Vice President Josep
Borrell recently warned that it “would have disastrous
consequences.”Such a move would prevent UNRWA “from continuing to
provide its services and protection to Palestine refugees in the
occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza,” Borrell
stated.Similarly, writing to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic
Affairs Minister Ron Dermer last week, US Secretary of State Antony
Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed concern over the
bills.The senior American officials stated that while they recognized
Jerusalem’s concerns over some UNRWA members’ ties to Hamas and
involvement in the October 7 onslaught, they believed that the
“enactment of such restrictions would devastate the Gaza humanitarian
response” as well as the provision of “vital” services in East
Jerusalem.“The recent revelation that Mohammad Abu Attawi — a Hamas
commander and UNRWA employee — personally led the October 7 massacre of
civilians at the Re’im shelter is a shocking but unsurprising
confirmation of what Israel has long known: UNRWA is deeply complicit in
terror,” said Likud’s Illouz.“This agency employs hundreds of Hamas
operatives and routinely allows its facilities to be used as command
centers and weapons depots. UNRWA doesn’t just harbor terrorists — it
educates Palestinian youth to hate, fueling a dangerous cycle of
violence that obstructs any path to peace,” he argued, insisting that
“instead of fostering stability, UNRWA entrenches the conflict, keeping
millions of Palestinians in a state of dependency and using the inflated
refugee numbers as a political weapon against Israel.”“My legislation
aims to end this exploitation, dismantling a toxic agency that sustains
conflict rather than resolves it,” Illouz said.Claims that the
legislation would specifically prohibit UNRWA from operating in the
territories are incorrect, even though they would significantly hamper
its activities, a spokesman for MK Malinovsky told The Times of Israel
on Friday.“After the bill passes, UNRWA can work in Gaza and the West
Bank, although it will not be able to operate in Israel,” and the
borders between Israel, Gaza and the West Bank “will be closed to them,”
the spokesman explained, adding dryly that UNRWA staffers “can use
parachutes” to get in.“The UNRWA workers’ organization is controlled by
Hamas and Islamic Jihad. So they have a connection between Hamas and
UNRWA. And therefore, we don’t want to have a connection with them,” the
spokesman stated.Israel had been extremely critical of UNRWA long
before the Hamas invasion and slaughter in southern Israel on October 7,
2023, saying that its near uniqueness in the world — granting refugee
status not just to the first generation of refugees but to their
descendants — perpetuated the conflict and a culture of dependence among
Palestinians. At the same time, some Israeli politicians and officials
saw the relief that the agency provided as a means of keeping the Gaza
Strip, and parts of the West Bank, from deeper poverty and thus greater
violence and terrorism.Asked about his legislation banning UNRWA from
operating on Israeli territory — which would have a much more limited
impact than that of Malinovsky’s bill — MK Bismuth told The Times of
Israel that “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”“There’s no reason whatsoever
that UNRWA is functioning in Israel. With all due respect, we’re a
sovereign country, and we can deal with our citizens,” he said,
insisting that Israel could and should take over the UN agency’s
activities in East Jerusalem.Responding to Blinken’s concerns, Bismuth
insisted that Israel “would never embarrass America” and that “there
will not be a vacuum.”Jerusalem, he argued, has been providing
unprecedented quantities of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and “if we do that
in Gaza, after October 7, do you expect us not to give services” to the
residents of East Jerusalem?“On the contrary, not only will [Israel
provide] services, it will give better services” than UNRWA, he claimed.
“And I think that if the secretary of state would have been an MK in
the Likud on the seventh of October, he would have done this thing” as
well.
