🎗️Lonny's War Update- October 368, 2023 - October 8, 2024 🎗️

 

🎗️Day 368  that 101 of our hostages in Hamas captivity
**There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!**

“I’ve never met them,

But I miss them. 

I’ve never met them,

but I think of them every second. 

I’ve never met them,

but they are my family. 

BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!”

We’re waiting for you, all of you.
A deal is the only way to bring
all the hostages home- the murdered for burial and the living for rehabilitation.

#BringThemHomeNow #TurnTheHorrorIntoHope

There is no victory until all of the hostages are home!

‎אין נצחון עד שכל החטופים בבית

 The two sections at the end, personal stories and Dark Legacy - The Abandonment of October 7th Hostages are very important to read, as important or more than the news of the day.

The Year of Death

An incomplete list of losses to mark a year since October 7 -Dr. Elana Sztokman

LOST THIS PAST YEAR:

2000+ Jewish lives, including some entire families

40,000+ Palestinian lives, including some entire families

25 Jewish villages on the border with Gaza, including some that may never be rebuilt

A few dozen more on the north, including some that may never be safe

Thousands of Jewish homes and communities, with unknown futures

Tens of thousands of Gazan homes, with severely unknown futures

700 Jewish soldiers

Countless limbs of Gazan babies an children

Countless limbs of Jewish fighters

Freedom to breathe and leave the tunnel for 250 hostages… now only 101… whoever is left still breathing….

Freedom to get out of the West Bank, for 3 million Palestinians

Freedom to protest without fearing sinister repercussions

Freedom to speak without fearing the Bibi/Ben Gvir dogs

Trust in Israel’s leadership

Belief that Jewish-Israeli leaders have the best interest of their own people at heart

The idea that Jews will do everything to rescue one another. Lost. Gone.

The idea that the IDF “is the most moral army in the world”. Scratched out forever.

Belief that Israel has a plan, and some kind of moral underpinning guiding its actions. Gone. Destroyed. Replaced by nothing. By nothingness. By aimlessless. Distrust. Betrayal. Emptiness.

Blood. Lots of blood. Lost. So Much Blood.

The idea that Israel is, at its core, good. Not randomly bombarding tens of thousands of innocent bystanders while throwing hostages and reserve soldiers and their families under the bus all for the sake of leaders keeping their seats of power. Plato has lost, been replaced by Machiavelli. The idea of a righteous Israel is over.

Mutual responsibility. Gone.

Kol yisrael arevim ze laze? (All of Israel is bound to each other) Replaced by cynical laughter.

The idea that this model of Israel as a Jewish state is workable. Lost. Dead. Replaced with the clear and unambiguous understanding that as long as Israel keeps doing the exact same thing — brute force, zero self-awareness, relentless military bombardment, absence of humanity, refusal to dialogue, indoctrination into radical ideology, systematic dehumanization of the other, deprivation of basic human rights to entire swaths of people out of fear of “demography” or whatever — as long as Israel keeps doing this, the bloodshed will continue to get worse. The hate will get worse and worse. The spiral will continue, as it has continued. And people will either leave or die, and the only Jewish people left on this land will be the radicals with the insatiable bloodlust who do not represent anyone but themselves.

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NOT LOST: What has not (yet) died:

Hope. Among those still pursuing a vision of peace. Democracy. Humanity. Shared society.

Some of us are still here.

Still working.

We have not yet lost our spirit.

What has not yet disappeared: The belief that this CAN be different.

That we CAN created a different vision for this country. One in which all human beings count. Where all those who dwell here have basic rights, freedom, and the ability to live and thrive.

Belief in the possible. It’s still here. For some of us.

Oh, and 101 hostages. Still there. Still waiting for us.

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The war is still raging. Not just the military war, but the idea war. Over what it means to be a human being in this land. We’re still fighting that war, too. Like the military war, this battle also starts with words.

I’m here. I’m showing up for that war. Hineni.

‘We will rise from the ruins’: A bereaved audience pays homage on Oct. 7 anniversary

Tearful and singing softly, 2,000 bereaved family members and hostage relatives attend alternative ceremony that brother of slain captive helped organize ‘so it wouldn’t be political’

Jonathan Shamriz, bereaved brother of hostage Alon Shamriz who was killed by mistake by the IDF in Gaza on December 15, 2023, speaks at the alternative Bereaved Families Ceremony on October 7, 2024 at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park (Courtesy)

As dusk fell on October 7, the first anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack, guests entered Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, where the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony was being held as an alternative event to the official state ceremony.

It was an event partly organized by Jonathan Shamriz, the bereaved older brother of Alon Shimriz, who was taken hostage from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and then accidentally killed by IDF troops on December 15, when he and two other hostages, Yotam Haim and Samer Talalka, were trying to be rescued.

“We heard Miri Regev was going to run the [main anniversary] ceremony and we wanted the families to do it, so that it wouldn’t be political,” said Shamriz to The Times of Israel, referring to the transportation minister, adding that he initially thought it could be held somewhere smaller and more intimate.

It was clear that this commemoration — organized by Shamriz and other bereaved and affected families, including Shirel Hogeg, CEO of convenience stores AM:PM, whose sister Elai was badly hurt when Hamas terrorists set her Kibbutz Kfar Aza home on fire — was the main event for many Israelis, broadcast on Israeli television stations and with screenings hosted in dozens of cities in Israel and around the world.

Families of hostages and other victims of October 7 had fumed at the government’s decision in August to charge Regev, a close Likud ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with organizing the state event.

In the end, the families’ event was held in Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv’s largest outdoor venue, where tens of thousands often gather for headlining performers — from Bruno Mars performing three days before October 7, 2023, Imagine Dragons (August 2023) and Guns N’ Roses (June 2023), to Maroon 5, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bon Jovi in recent years.

Monday’s sad, emotional ceremony starkly contrasted with the usual raucous concerts, with each of the 2,000 guests seated in rows of chairs, rather than sprawled across the lawn.

While the initial 40,000 free tickets had been reserved within some eight hours of being offered, the gathering was ordered narrowed to just bereaved family members and press, after the IDF Home Front Command on Saturday imposed restrictions that prevent large gatherings amid the escalated fighting with Hezbollah.

About 30 minutes before the event was due to begin, indeed, sirens sounded throughout central Israel, sending all attendees flat on the ground, including the members of the press and television anchors setting up for the ceremony: A missile had been fired by the Houthis from Yemen; it was intercepted before it reached Israel, with no injuries or damage.

But the event began on time, leading with a moment of silence for those killed on October 7 and in the ongoing war. A raw, emotional, two-hour ceremony followed, emceed by entertainers Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, that included live and recorded accounts from bereaved family members interspersed with achingly familiar tunes performed by many of Israel’s best-known performers.

Gali Atari and Corinne Allal sang “I Have No Other Land” with Allal on guitar, followed by Rita, singing, “One day, it will happen, without us noticing, something will change, something will ease up inside us.”

On the whole, audience members didn’t sing along loudly, but accompanied the performers softly, often weeping, with the giant screens frequently showing family members who had just recounted a story of a fallen or abducted loved one.

The father of Hadar Miriam Cohen, a surveillance officer killed on October 7, spoke for the 16 female surveillance officers killed, demanding that the state take responsibility for the gross negligence that caused their deaths.

As he finished speaking, 16 white balloons were released into the dark night sky, and as five female surveillance soldiers still held hostage were named, their pictures flashed on the screens behind him.

Cohen’s words were echoed by another bereaved parent, Rafi Ben Shitrit, whose son, Alroy Ben Shitrit, was killed defending the Nahal Oz base.

“My son and his fellow soldiers took responsibility for their tasks out of love for this country, not out of politics,” said Ben Shitrit, who called for a full state investigation into what happened that day, and asked that Israelis stay united and together.

There were stories of bravery and of loss, stories from the kibbutz communities and towns in the south, of single mothers and solo fathers killed, of children young and old whose parents will never see what they become, of one of the 55 police officers killed, this one known as the angel from Nova.

Yuval Trabelsi mourned her newlywed husband, Mor Trabelsi, killed at the Nova desert rave, telling in a video how she and her friends wiped his blood on them so that the terrorists would think they were dead as well. Clutching a pearl necklace featuring her husband’s name, she spoke about hearing the screams of a woman being raped.

Trabelsi then joined singer Ivri Lider, as he sang one of the couple’s favorite songs. Lider wore a shirt scrawled with the message, “Let their memories be a revolution,” the saying coined by the parents of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

There was little applause heard at the ceremony, and when people did clap, it was to encourage those onstage, like Arin Habka and Ashira Greenberg, the wives of two commanding officers, friends and comrades killed within one month of each other while fighting in Gaza.

They clapped again when Nitza Korngold, mother of hostage Tal Shoham, said there can be no rehabilitation in Israel without the return of the 101 hostages.

When performers like Aviv Geffen, Shalom Hanoch, and Yehuda Poliker stood onstage, singing old favorites that audience members knew well, the crowd sang softly or silently, tears running down faces.

Finally, Shamriz, wearing a t-shirt printed with the name of his kibbutz, Kfar Aza, appeared on stage to speak about his beloved younger brother Alon, with a picture of the two brothers at a party years ago magnified behind him.

Shamriz recalled being in the shelter with his own young family, holding the door closed against the terrorists with a kitchen knife in his hand, and receiving updates on his phone about the massacre taking place.

“It was a day without an army, without a state – a day where all we had was ourselves, the citizens. This is what abandonment looks like,” said Shamriz.

A year later, he went on, “instead of standing here as multitudes of the people of Israel, united, we stand here waiting for the next siren. Instead of a state inquiry commission being established to investigate this colossal failure, we ask the questions ourselves without getting any answers.”

“There is no personal example, no vision, no leadership, no accountability,” he said, to applause.

Shamriz spoke about Alon, held for 65 days in Gaza with Yotam Haim and Samir Talalka, navigating for five days on their own in a bombarded neighborhood in Gaza after escaping their captors, desperately seeking to be rescued by the IDF.

They wrote a single word on a white sheet: “Help,” said Shamriz. “But it did not save them.”

He swallowed hard, trying to get the words out without crying, as the audience applauded him, encouraging him to continue.

“I believe that from the ruins and destruction, from the hell we went through, a new generation is rising,” said Shamriz. “A generation that believes in us, in a reformed and united Israeli society, a generation that believes in the Israeli spirit. A generation that will rebuild the ruins and create a better, more moral country – a country where truth is pursued, sanctified, and never let go.”

“We are the generation that will rise from the ruins, from the Holocaust, from the inferno, and fulfill the new Zionist vision,” he pledged.

“When that happens, I will know that Alon’s path has become reality.”

“Rise up! The people of Israel live!”

With a final song by troubadour Shlomo Artzi, joined onstage by released teenage hostage Yagil Yaakov, and the singing of Hativkah, the ceremony was over.

As audience members filed out, walking over the hilly lawns to the parking lots, they were silently met by locals, who couldn’t attend the restricted event but wanted to show their loyalty and support, with flags and flowers.  link

Red Alerts - Missile, Rocket, Drone (UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles), and Terror Attacks and Death Announcements

*9:35pm yesterday - north - rockets/missiles

*10:40pm yesteday - north - rockets/missiles
*10:45pm yesterday -north - rockets/missiles
*11:15pm yesteday - Tel Aviv and center - Herzlia, Ramat Hasharon, Petach Tikvah, Kfar Saba, Kfar Kassem, Yarkona, Kfar Malal, Rosh Haayin, Hod Hasharon, Jaljulia, Ganei Am, Kfar Shmaryahu, Raanana, Beit Berl,Even Yehuda, Rishpon, Shfayim, Tel Yitzhak, Tira, Hasharon prison,  Glilot -Hizbollah attempts to target the Mossad and Army Intelligence base at Glilot -rockets/missiles
*12:10am - north - rockets/missiles
*12:20am - north - rockets/missiles
*12:30am - north - rockets/missiles
*1:05am -north - rockets/missiles
*4:45am - north - rockets/missiles
*7:55am - north - rockets/missiles
*8:30am -north - rockets/missiles

*11:10am - north - rockets/missiles

*12:10pm - Haifa and all areas around Haifa -The IDF says another 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Haifa area, bringing the total number of projectiles launched by Hezbollah at the city within half an hour to over 100.

According to the military, some of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses, and some impacts were identified. A woman in her 70s was wounded by shrapnel, and damage was caused to several homes.

Damage to a building after rocket barrage fired at Haifa and surrounding communities on October 8, 2024 (

*12:45pm - north - rockets/missiles

*4:35pm - north - rockets/missiles
*4:50pm - north - rockets/missiles
*5:00pm -north - rockets/missiles
*5:40pm -north - rockets/missiles
*5:50pm - north - hostile aircraft - Ajar, Metulla, Dafna, Hagoshrim, Kibbutz Dn, Shear Hayeshuv, Snir
*5:55pm - north - hostile aircraft - Ajar
*6:05 - north - hostile aircraft -  Kibbutz Dan, Snir
*6:55pm - north - rockets/missiles
*6:55pm - south - Shikmin Farm (Ariel Sharon's family's farm), Gaza Envelop - Nir Am, Sderot, Ivim, Nir Am, Sapir College, Givim

The military announces that a solider was killed fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, raising the toll in the ground offensive sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught last year to 350.

He is named as Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu, 20, of the Bislach Brigade’s 17th Battalion, from Kadima-Zoran.

May his memory forever be a blessing 

The Israel Defense Forces says another soldier was seriously wounded in the same incident in which Abdu was killed.

Separately, a reservist from the the Alexandroni Brigade’s 7012th Battalion was seriously hurt during fighting in southern Lebanon.

Hostage Updates 

• My brother’s interview on CNN and his 3 week plan to end the war and bring home all the hostages CNN interview with Gershon Baskin
  
  
• The Chief Rabbi apologized to the hostages, Religious Zionist rabbis support a "responsible deal"

  At a mass forgiveness ceremony, Rabbi David Yosef said: "I apologize, we apologize, to the hostages - that we probably didn't pray enough for them." Meanwhile, senior rabbis in Religious Zionism - including four out of five members of Minister Smotrich's advisory forum - published a letter calling to intensify activities for the hostages, including through a "responsible agreement" At the same time, a series of senior rabbis in Religious Zionism published a letter calling for action for the hostages, including through a responsible deal. Among the rabbis who signed the letter are also four out of five members of the advisory forum that regularly consults with the chairman of the Religious Zionism party, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. This is a forum with which the Finance Minister discusses weighty issues and even advised him on issues of government expansion and other discussions. The four rabbis are Rabbi Chananel Etrog, head of the Shavei Hebron Yeshiva; Rabbi Chaim Gantz, head of the Ma'aleh Eliyahu Yeshiva; Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, head of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva; and Rabbi David Dudkevich, rabbi of the Yitzhar settlement and head of the Roeh Yisrael Yeshiva. Also signing were rabbis known for a tougher line on hostage deals such as Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi Elyakim Levanon and others. The rabbi of Gush Etzion, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, the rabbi of the Beit El settlement Rabbi Ariel Bar Eli, and the head of the Eli preparatory program Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, also signed the letter.

  
  

  In the letter, the Religious Zionist rabbis wrote: "We strengthen the Israeli government to intensify its actions with determination, courage, and bravery, without delay to return all the hostages, in any way necessary, and as much as possible also in a responsible agreement - which according to the assessment of the political leadership and security forces will not harm or endanger state security, and in a way that will not allow the return of the Hamas terror threat from Gaza." Three of the rabbis who signed the letter - Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, and Rabbi Elyakim Levanon - signed a rabbis' letter in July warning against the implications of a far-reaching hostage deal. The letter argued that alongside the importance of the mitzvah of redeeming captives, "the prices required for releasing the hostages endanger all citizens of the state, old with young, children and women. Such as: releasing all dangerous monsters so they can rebuild the collapsing Hamas army, withdrawal from strategic areas, stopping the fighting before defeating Hamas - in all these and similar things, the public cannot stand."

  
  

  **"Forgiveness from our brothers, the children of Israel"**

  "Day by day we mourn our brothers, the children of Israel in the war systems, the hostages still languish in captivity, 'for these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter is far from me,'" said Chief Rabbi David Yosef in his first speech since being elected to the position. Rabbi Yosef added: "Gentlemen, we say selichot. Selichot is to ask for forgiveness, I ask for forgiveness, we ask for forgiveness, from the hostages - that we probably didn't pray enough for them." He spoke about the importance of prayers: "The power of the prayer of the people of Israel is great. When we pray with all our heart, the Holy One, blessed be He, listens. Sorry we didn't pray enough, sorry we didn't fulfill enough mitzvot for all of Israel. Sorry to our brothers, the children of Israel, that we didn't feel enough of their terrible sorrow."

  
  

  A moving moment occurred during the event, when the children of Advanced Staff Sergeant (res.) Yossi Hershkovitz z"l, who fell in battle in the Gaza Strip, and the children of Major (res.) Eitan Menachem Naaman z"l, who fell at the outbreak of the war, said the Mourner's Kaddish in the presence of thousands at the Western Wall. During the event, a unique Torah scroll was introduced, written in the past year in memory of the victims of the massacre and the war, initiated by Haim Taib, president and founder of the Menomadin Foundation. The special Torah scroll was written during recent months by bereaved families, families of hostages, and wounded IDF soldiers, at various sites throughout the country, at the Nova complex, in kibbutzim, and in the surrounding settlements.

  
  

  The event was held in the presence of Rabbi David Yosef, the Admor of Nadvorna, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites Shmuel Rabinowitz, Minister of Religious Services Michael Malchieli, Minister of Health Uriel Busso, Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Lion, Director General of the Ministry of Religious Services Yehuda Avidan, Director General of the Chief Rabbinate Yehuda Cohen, CEO of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation Mordechai (Soli) Eliav, and a large crowd. link

Gaza 

• "A huge mistake. What was Sinwar thinking?": Frustration and despair in Gaza, a year after the 10/7 massacre
  Many Palestinians celebrated the atrocities of the massacre, but a year later Gaza is destroyed, 42,000 are dead, a million are still refugees - and frustration with Hamas is growing. 52-year-old Samira yearns to return to her old life as a teacher with a comfortable home: "Despite the difficulties, our lives were good. We had jobs, homes, and a city." The terror organization tries to silence criticism: "It stems from pain, nothing more"

  
  
  
  A year after Hamas's terror attack on October 7, 2023, today's Gaza is a completely different place. Destruction and carnage are everywhere, with reports stating the number of Palestinian casualties at almost 42,000, and more than a million still homeless refugees.
  
  
  Masses of Palestinians celebrated the horrific massacre acts committed by Hamas terrorists when they invaded the surrounding settlements - which caused Israel to wage a war of annihilation against the terror organization - but throughout the past year, voices of frustration with Hamas's conduct have also been heard in the Strip, while Hamas terrorizes Gazans and tries to silence criticism. Despite attempts to silence them, it seems that more and more in Gaza are asking whether the price of Hamas's actions was too high for them. One of them is Samira, a mother of two who was interviewed by Reuters and said she yearns to return to her old life - as an Arabic teacher who lived in a spacious and comfortable home. "Despite all the difficulties, our lives were good. We had jobs, homes, and a city," says the 52-year-old woman - who, like many others who dare to criticize Hamas, asked not to publish her full name for fear of retaliation.
  
  
  Samira emphasizes that she too believes Israel is "our main enemy," and claims it is "the source of all our troubles." However, alongside this, she blames Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 massacre, for a "huge mistake" in how he weighed the consequences of the attack. "What was he thinking? Didn't he expect Israel to destroy Gaza?"
  
  
  **The forged survey, and the father who protested against Hamas in the refugee camp**
  Reuters notes that they conducted conversations with dozens more residents in Gaza and while some describe the Nukhba militants who invaded Israel as heroes, others also expressed frustration that Hamas doesn't address their great suffering at all. They believed, like Samira, that the surprise attack that started the war was a mistake. Surveys also attest to this, and last August the IDF revealed that in an attempt to create a false display of support for the terror organization - Hamas falsified data from a Palestinian pollster who enjoys international recognition. The real data from his surveys in the Strip showed that most Gazans oppose Hamas, after the disaster it brought upon them. The gaps between the falsified results and the true results of the survey, according to the IDF, are dramatic: According to the documents, when the Gazan public was asked if Hamas's decision to attack Israel on October 7 was correct, 64.4% replied that it was wrong. Hamas changed the results so that 71.3% supported the attack on Israel, compared to only 30.7% in reality. Additionally, according to the true results of the survey, the Gazan public's satisfaction with Hamas in March stood at 31.9%, but in the survey by pollster Khalil Shikaki it was written that the rate is 62%; satisfaction with Yahya Sinwar stood at only 22.1%, but in the survey actually published this figure jumped to 52%. The IDF emphasized when exposing the extensive forgery that Shikaki, who heads the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah - and whose surveys receive recognition and reference in international media - was not himself involved in the falsification of data collected from Gaza, and that there is no evidence he collaborated with Hamas. Shikaki denied that the data was falsified, and in September published another survey - which also showed, allegedly for the first time, that most Gazans oppose Hamas.

  
  
  
  According to the survey conducted in early September, 57% of respondents in the Gaza Strip said the decision to launch the terror attack on October 7 was wrong, while only 39% supported it. According to the survey, only 36% of Gazans want Hamas to rule the Strip the day after the war. The September survey shows that support for Hamas in the West Bank has also waned, although two-thirds of Palestinian respondents in the West Bank still supported the October 7 massacre. Reuters asked Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri about the critical voices within Gaza, and he dismissed them as nothing more than "limited statements." In an interview with the news agency, he claimed that this criticism stems from pain, "and nothing more than that." He promised that the Palestinians' spirit "will not be broken," and claimed: "We had no choice but to start this great battle, no matter what its price, because the Palestinian issue was about to end due to increasing Israeli aggression and crimes against our people and our holy sites."

  
  
  
  But contrary to his words, in recent months there have been quite a few signs from Gaza of growing frustration among residents - despite fears of retaliation from Hamas and its militants, who have been accused more than once of horrific murders against those who dare to disobey. Reuters cites as an example a former Hamas official, a man named Ahmed Yousef Saleh, who in July posted on his Facebook questioning whether Hamas "thought about the consequences" before launching the attack on Israel. This post had hundreds of responses, and many there also criticized the terror organization. Saleh, who continues to post on his account, did not respond to Reuters' request for an interview.
  
  
  In another incident in July, after masked men beat Palestinian activist Amin Abed, who criticized the October 7 massacre - his father walked the streets of Jabalia refugee camp and announced with a megaphone that Hamas was responsible for the attack on his son. Whether internal criticism in the Strip will increase or eventually subside, Hamas continues to try to maintain control over Gazans' lives and rebuild its military power - and the IDF continues to fight against it at all times, with a renewed raid currently taking place in Jabalia. In the afternoon, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza claimed that in the last day another 56 Palestinians were killed in attacks across the Strip and 278 were injured. These are relatively unusual numbers for recent months, and the spike may be due to the IDF's renewed raid on terror centers in Jabalia. According to the Gaza ministry, since the beginning of the war 41,965 Palestinians have been killed and another 97,590 injured. link
  

Northern Israel - Lebanon/Hizbollah/Syria

• Troops of the Golani Brigade captured a Hezbollah fighting position in southern Lebanon, located in an olive grove and an adjacent home, the IDF says.

  The military says the troops found a primed mortar launcher aimed at Israel, ammunition, tunnel infrastructure, and resting areas for the Hezbollah operatives.

  Inside the home, the IDF says the soldiers found a cache of weapons, including firearms, anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.

  The IDF says the equipment and site would have been used to ambush Israeli soldiers and attack towns in northern Israel.

  

  A mortar launcher is seen at Hezbollah fighting position in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on October 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

  
  

• Extraordinary attack sortie in southern Lebanon: 100 aircraft struck 120 Hezbollah targets in an hour
  The missile from Yemen was intercepted by the Arrow system outside the country's borders, dozens of foreign journalists lay on the ground in Yarkon Park during the alarm. Earlier: A large Air Force sortie to attack Hezbollah's command layer in southern Lebanon, and to support the continued ground operation. Watch the footage **A ballistic missile from Yemen to the center, on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre - and an extensive attack by the Air Force in Lebanon before that:** Alarms in 132 settlements were heard shortly after 17:40 (Monday), following the firing of a ground-to-ground missile launched by the Houthis. The Air Force successfully intercepted the missile outside the country's borders, using the Arrow system. An alarm was also heard at Ben Gurion Airport, and takeoffs and landings were briefly suspended.
  
  
  The Fire Department reported that after the interception, actions were taken to extinguish fires at several locations in the Beit Shemesh area and in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, apparently due to interception debris. The Tzur Hadassah Local Council informed residents: "About half an hour ago, a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted and an alarm was activated in the Beit Shemesh area and surroundings. Missile fragments fell in Tzur Hadassah (Lonny's note - I live in Tzur Hadassah and we heard some of the booms - we did not receive a red alert in Tzur Hadassah but we went into the safe room when we heard the booms)- without damage and without casualties. A bomb disposal expert is on the way to the site of the debris fall. We ask to stay away from the area." After the launch, senior Houthi official Nasreddin Amer wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter): "To the shelters, Zionists, this is October 7, this is the Al-Aqsa flood." During the alarm, preparations were completed for the "National Memorial Ceremony" in Yarkon Park, and footage showed more than 100 international media personnel - who came to cover the families' ceremony - lying on the ground as a result.
  
  
  In the past day, Israel has been attacked from Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza - with some interception attempts missing and being investigated by the Air Force. In any case, so far - from all fronts - about 90% of all launches have been intercepted in the past year.
  
  
  The missile fire from Yemen occurred a few hours after an extensive IDF attack in southern Lebanon, after which heavy barrages were fired at the Krayot, the Galilee Panhandle, and Kiryat Shmona. The attacks were intended to hit Hezbollah's command layer in southern Lebanon on a large scale, also to assist the divisions fighting on the first line of villages in southern Lebanon. In total, 100 Air Force planes attacked, in an extensive air sortie, more than 120 Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon, for more than an hour. The IDF said that targets of geographical units of the Southern Front, Radwan Force targets, missile and rocket array, and Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in southern Lebanon were attacked.
  
  
  These attacks are essentially a continuation of the waves of attacks in Beirut, where Hezbollah's production facilities and weapons warehouses were bombed from the air, some in basements, others in buildings, and more underground. The IDF identified that these large weapons depots were transferred by Hezbollah from the Bekaa and other areas in Lebanon to Dahieh, hoping they would be protected there.
  
  
  "We have reasons to believe that our intelligence on the targets we attacked in Lebanon is better than what we had on Hamas over the years, but this is why we don't settle for that and therefore we are operating on the ground also in the first line of villages where Hezbollah established itself to carry out its plan to invade the Galilee," say military officials.
  
  
  "In our performances against what the enemy did, we did not encounter an operational surprise," they added. "The functional continuity and operational activity of the Air Force was not affected for a moment." Regarding the ballistic missile attack from Iran, they said link
  
  

• Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem says in a televised address that the Iran-backed terror group’s capabilities are intact and its fighters are pushing back against the Israeli ground operation, despite the “painful blows” inflicted by Israel in recent weeks.

  “You see that our daily accomplishments are great. Hundreds of rockets and dozens of [drones], a great number of [Israeli] settlements and cities have come under rocket fire,” he says. “I would like to reassure you that our capabilities are fine.”

  He says Hezbollah’s top leadership is directing the war and that the commanders slain by Israel have been replaced, saying “we have no vacant posts.”

  He says that Hezbollah will name a new leader to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in an underground base in Beirut last month, “but the circumstances are difficult because of the war.”

  Qassem says the group supported the efforts of Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri — a Hezbollah ally — to secure a ceasefire, without providing further details on any conditions demanded by the terror group.

  It is Qassem’s second public speech since Nasrallah was killed. Nasrallah’s presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine has not been heard from since he too was targeted in a Beirut strike last week.

  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 Palestinians in Gaza amid the war there triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault. link Of course, they are not going to admit to the huge damage inflicted upon them and their leadership. However, we should not discount what Qassem is saying. Hizbollah still maintains a huge arsenal of rockets, missiles, ballistic missiles as well as tens of thousands of highly trained terrorist soldiers. Anyone who tries to downplay Hizbollah's strength is dangerously naive or downright stuped. While the IDF has had great success in attacking Hizbollah strongholds and weapons depots and eliminated many in the upper levels of upper levels of Hizbollah, the solution in Lebanon, just as in Gaza, is not a military solution, it is only a diplomatic one. And unfortunately, our weak leadership led by the indicted weak prime minister refuses to work on diplomatic solutions and ignores the reality. This can't go on. We are losing more and more soldiers and civilians and this doesn't even touch on the destruction in both Gaza and Lebanon and the civilians there killed and maimed.

• A week into the ground operation in Lebanon: The maneuver expands to the western sector, and here are the signs that the IDF has already managed to identify in Hezbollah.  

  A fourth division has entered Lebanon, and the IDF is already drawing initial conclusions about the fighting on the northern front and Hezbollah’s behavior. Many terrorists have fled the front to outposts, and many more in the northern part of the country are unwilling to come south. Hezbollah’s morale problem, the foiled invasion plan of the Galilee, and the attack order issued to the fighters of Division 146: "Tonight, the enemy will feel the power of the Blast Division and the strength of the entire IDF."

  Seven days after the ground entry, the IDF announced this morning (Tuesday) the expansion of the maneuver to the western sector and the entry of a fourth division into southern Lebanon. At the same time, the military is also beginning to draw initial conclusions regarding Hezbollah’s preparations and the terror organization's plan to invade the Galilee. Soldiers encountered Hezbollah’s strongholds and found more extensive infrastructure than the IDF had previously known, as well as more weapons and ammunition than estimated before the entry.

  Israel is currently carrying out four different actions simultaneously to weaken Hezbollah and allow evacuated northern residents to return home. The first action is the ground maneuver itself, which, as mentioned, expanded last night to the western sector. The ground operation aims to target Lebanese villages located just a few kilometers from the border and eliminate the threat from them. The maneuver also has a psychological aspect, intended to instill confidence among the evacuees as they prepare for a possible return home.

  A military blockade on Lebanon, Iranian planes forced to turn back mid-air:  

  The second action is reducing Hezbollah’s capabilities—targeting launchers, production facilities, and essentially all of the organization's infrastructure. The third is a series of assassinations that have severely damaged the terror organization's leadership’s ability to command and control the fighters on the ground. The fourth action is the imposition of a military blockade on Lebanon, aimed at preventing Hezbollah from rearming. According to foreign reports, Israel is repeatedly striking Lebanon’s border crossings with Syria, targeting trucks and any attempts to smuggle weapons. As part of this blockade, Iranian planes are also being warned not to approach Lebanon, to the point where they are forced to turn back mid-flight.

  Despite the maneuver’s expansion, the operation on the Lebanese border remains limited, raising the question of whether it is enough. Israel's new and clear demand is that Hezbollah should not be present at all in the area south of the Litani River, a requirement that will ultimately necessitate dual enforcement in Lebanon—both by the local army and by international oversight, alongside Israeli enforcement through firepower if the agreement is violated.

  One interesting phenomenon observed by the soldiers on the ground is Hezbollah’s "morale problem." Israel has identified that the terrorists of the murderous organization, which just a few weeks ago planned to invade the Galilee, have suffered a series of blows and fled the front to defensive outposts of the Lebanese army. Furthermore, many of its fighters in the north of the country are refusing to go south to fight.

  For example, one soldier shared: "We left Lebanon for a 36-hour leave at home before the next mission—a good time to summarize the first phase... There's no visible enemy; the villages are almost entirely deserted. The few terrorists that were there were eliminated in close coordination between the UAVs and the Air Force. There are no face-to-face encounters. Everything is very organized and methodical. There’s a feeling of a clear plan, clear stages, and amazing cooperation between ground forces, artillery, and air. The Israeli settlements we pass through are dotted with destroyed homes, and the streets are deserted and overgrown with weeds. It’s a sight that burns the heart and reminds us why we’re here."

  The foiled invasion plan and the first reserve division to enter Lebanon:  

  The security establishment has learned from the findings on the ground just how much Hezbollah had planned and refined its invasion of the Galilee. Among other things, the findings show that after the IDF cut off the terror organization's cross-border tunnels in 2018, Hezbollah shifted to bunkers in the complex terrain near the border. These bunkers, according to Hezbollah’s plan, were intended to equip and organize Radwan Force fighters and other units before penetrating Israeli territory—above ground.

  Hezbollah’s preparations to invade the Galilee were somewhat similar to Hamas’ plans but with smaller forces and far superior firepower and weaponry. The invasion was planned to be carried out by terrorist cells, not in a massive invasion like the one from the Gaza Strip.
  

  Last night, the army announced that, based on the situation assessment, it was decided to declare several areas in the western Galilee as closed military zones. These include Rosh Hanikra, Shlomi, Hanita, Adamit, and Arab al-Aramshe. Shortly after, residents in northern Israel reported hearing loud explosions throughout the region. This morning, the IDF officially confirmed that Division 146, known as the "Blast Division," which includes the Carmeli Brigade (2) and the Iron Fist Brigade (205), entered that sector of Lebanon last night.

  "The 'Blast Division' is the first reserve division deployed in combat in southern Lebanon as part of Operation 'Northern Arrows,'" the military stated, adding that "over the past year, the division's command functioned as a regional defense division, and its forces have been recruited for various combat missions in the north, Gaza, and the Judea and Samaria region. The forces are currently operating alongside artillery forces from the 'Tekuma' (213) formation and additional forces to expose and destroy enemy infrastructure."

  "Tonight, we have the privilege of embarking on this mission."  

  Upon entering Lebanon, Division 146 commander, Brigadier General Yiftach Norkin, addressed his soldiers over the radio, saying:  

  "Tonight, we have the privilege of embarking on a mission of paramount importance—to restore security to the residents of the north so they can return to their homes. This week reminds us even more of the significance of our mission and the duty we bear: One year ago today, the cursed enemy launched a heinous terrorist attack against children, women, the elderly, and men. Fifty-one years ago this week, in the midst of Yom Kippur, enemy forces sought to threaten the very existence of the State of Israel."

  "Today, Division 146 and its brigades are heading into a complex and challenging mission, but I am confident that with the experience you've gained, the tremendous strength you bring, and the values that guide us, we will defeat the cruel enemy and destroy them. The enemy thought this would be a war of attrition, that they could attack our territory and weaken our resolve, but we will attack—and strike them with great force. We will go into this critical and necessary battle, remembering our brothers and sisters who risked their lives and those who have yet to return to their families. Tonight, the enemy will feel the power of the 'Blast Division' and the full strength of the IDF. Stations, this is the commander: commence the attack, I trust you. End." link

West Bank and Jerusalem and Terror attacks within Israel

•   The Shin Bet security agency says two Palestinians have been arrested and charged with throwing explosives at Israeli buses in the West Bank.

  Muhammad Takataka and Muhammad Abu Hossein, residents of a village near Bethlehem, were detained in recent weeks over two attacks on buses near the settlement of Tekoa on March 21 and August 25, the Shin Bet and IDF say in a joint statement.

  “The Shin Bet’s investigation of the suspects revealed that the two carried out the bomb attacks with the intention of harming Israeli civilians and against the background of the war in the Gaza Strip,” the agency says.

  There were no injuries in the attacks.

  The pair were charged with a series of security offenses, the Shin Bet adds.  

Politics and the War (general news)

• Ceasefire could still be reached in Gaza: Hostage negotiator -A hostage negotiator say Israel and Hamas could still reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

  Gershon Baskin helped negotiate the release of an Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit 13 years ago - and continues to negotiate behind the scenes with Hamas, to secure a ceasefire. He says "there are only political solutions" to the current situation.
  Radio interview with Gershon Baskin - worth listening to

 
• AG, IDF deny minister's claims of 'legal impediments' to int'l screenings of Hamas atrocities
  

  Both the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit and the Attorney-General’s Office denied claims by ministers on Monday that the latter had prevented international screenings of a film compilation of Hamas atrocities on October 7, 2023, due to legal issues.

  The issue arose during a government meeting on Monday designated as a “special bereavement meeting” commemorating a year since the massacre, during which the ministers watched the film.

  The film, which is officially called Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre, is a compilation by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit of raw footage from the Hamas massacre. It includes footage captured from body cameras worn by Hamas members on October 7 and contains scenes of extreme violence.
  According to a number of reports, an argument broke out during the meeting after ministers wondered why the film had not been made available to audiences worldwide. Ministers then began to criticize the attorney-general after claiming that the IDF Spokesperson had cited “legal issues” and had directed blame at the attorney-general’s office. Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara denied the claims and reportedly left the meeting in protest.
  

  The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said it had never made such a claim and that the comments at the government meeting were “taken out of context.”

  The IDF Spokesperson also said that the claim itself was false and that “there is no legal directive prohibiting the screening of the film.” It was added that the film has been continuously screened around the world to politicians, ambassadors, media networks, and influencers.

  “During the government meeting, a false argument was made that the Attorney-General’s Office allegedly prevented and is preventing international publication of footage of the atrocities from October 7. The claim is false,” the A-G’s office said in a statement.
  

  According to sources, the responsibility and decisions regarding international screenings of the film were not the IDF’s but rather the National Public Diplomacy Directorate’s, which is a part of the Prime Minister’s Office.

  A number of ministers in recent months accused Baharav-Miara of intentionally attempting to undermine the government by ruling that many of its decisions were “not legally viable.” None of the ministers provided proof of this claim.

  The accusations were accompanied by increasing occurrences where the government as a whole, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and specific ministers, ignored the A-G’s legal opinions, contrary to numerous High Court rulings, including as late as June 2024, that the opinions were legally binding.  link When it comes to the question of who to believe, the government ministers or the Attorney General, I go with the AG every time as do most people in Israel.
  
  

• Netanyahu held a consultation that also dealt with the response to Iran - and Gallant was not invited

   The PM summoned ministers for a "general consultation on security issues," which also dealt with the response to the Iranian attack - but the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff were not present. A political source responded: "The PM holds ministerial discussions from time to time on various issues on the agenda" At the government meeting marking one year since the October 7 massacre, the Prime Minister requested to change the name of the war, and another storm began at the end of the discussion - when he did not invite the Defense Minister to the consultations that dealt, among other things, with the response to the Iranian ballistic missile attack. This was learned by ynet.

  
  

  After the special government meeting, ministers were called for consultation, and the Prime Minister's Office said it was a "general consultation on security issues." During the consultation, the Prime Minister discussed with the ministers, among other things, the response to the Iranian attack, but Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was not invited. The Chief of Staff was also not present at the consultation.

  
  

  On the other hand, it was attended by, among others, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Transportation Minister Miri Regev.

  
  

  Following the storm, a political source said: "The ministers were not invited to any 'urgent' meeting in the Prime Minister's Office. The Prime Minister holds ministerial discussions from time to time on various issues on the agenda, and he is doing so now as well."

  
  

  While the war is in full swing, a political battle was waged in Israel's home front following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intention to dismiss Gallant and appoint the chairman of the State Right party, Gideon Sa'ar, in his place. The political move sparked sharp criticism and protest in the media and on the streets, until Sa'ar announced to Netanyahu his decision to give up the position of Defense Minister in light of recent developments in the war with Hezbollah. Last week, the Knesset plenum convened to approve Sa'ar's appointment as minister, following a joint statement with Netanyahu. Until the statement, when Sa'ar joined Netanyahu's coalition as mentioned, the State Right party still sharply criticized the Prime Minister, claiming he was unfit to lead the country.  link This is one more in a long list of things that Netanyahu does to undermine the security establishment for his own political benefit. It is absurd that a Prime minister would do such a thing while we are battling a war on 7 fronts (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, West Bank). But Netanyahu does what he believes is more important, his political position and future over what is important to the country.
  
  
• Netanyahu is unhappy with the war: "We will change its name."  

  A year after October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to take responsibility for the failure that led to the massacre, and now he wants to change the war's name.  

  A year after Hamas's attack in southern Israel, the Prime Minister has not yet found the right time to take responsibility for the significant failure. However, Netanyahu found other matters to focus on, proposing during a government meeting to change the name of the war from 'Operation Iron Swords' to 'The War of Resurrection.'

  
  

  It was also reported that the meeting began with a moment of silence, after which a video depicting the horrors of the massacre was shown to the ministers. The Hostage Families' Headquarters issued a statement: "The Hostage Families' Headquarters reminds the Prime Minister that there will be no resurrection without the return of all the hostages—the living for rehabilitation and the fallen and murdered for proper burial in their homeland."

  
  

  Opposition leader Yair Lapid also commented, saying, "There will be no resurrection until all the hostages and displaced people return to their homes. You can change as many names as you like, but you won't change the fact that under your watch, the worst disaster to befall the people of Israel since the establishment of the state occurred. This government is not the government of resurrection; it is the government of blame."  link    Netanyahu wants to change the name of the war. I agree. It needs to be called “The War of Netanyahu’s Abandonment “ A reader of the article suggested this name "The War of the criminal accused of fraud and breach of trust?" Another suggested "The War for Bibi's and the ultra orthodox's survival
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The Region and the World

• US officials tell Axios that the Biden administration is increasingly distrustful of what Israel is saying about its military and diplomatic plans.

  “Our trust of the Israelis is very low right now and for a good reason,” says one of the four US officials who spoke with the outlet.

  Two of the officials tell the outlet that White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer on Friday that that the US expects “clarity and transparency” from Israel over its plans for a potential attack on Iran after Tehran fired some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel last week.

  The officials note that any Israel strike would have an impact on US forces in the region.

  An official says that Sullivan’s message was a signal that if the US is not given a heads-up as to Israel’s plans, it won’t necessarily join a coalition to defend Israel against a potential future attack from Iran. However, the officials admitted to Axios that it was likely that this was an empty warning and the US would in fact step up.

  The report says the US is also concerned about the most recent operation launched by the IDF in north Gaza, despite the fact that Israel has told Washington that the evacuation orders for civilians there will not lead to a permanent displacement of the population.

  “They tell us what we want to hear — the problem is lack of trust,” a US official says.   link The US administration hasn't had trust in Netanyahu for a long time and there is good reason for it. Netanyahu is a liar and his actions firstly serve his own interests. Netanayahu has proven this time and time again. Fortunately, for the country, Biden is the strongest supported of Israel that could possibly be in the White House and he is not willing to forgo that support for the country because of the man.
  
  

Personal Stories

  Rotem Rachel Levi, 22, from Yokneam, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7.

She attended the rave with a group of friends, three of whom — Sivan Shaarbany, Aviya Genut and Michal Roimi — were also slain in the terror onslaught. The friends tried to hide together in a ditch near the site of the festival, but were cruelly murdered by the terrorists.

Her body was discovered and identified several days later.

Rotem was buried on October 11 in Yokneam. She is survived by her mother, Ariella, and her brothers Elad and Guy. Her father, Ofer, died suddenly of a heart attack when Rotem was 8.

Born and raised in Yokneam, Rotem served in the Border Police during her mandatory military service, and also completed a squad commander’s course, according to a state eulogy. Despite enjoying her time in the Border Police, Rotem decided to leave at the end of the mandatory period and travel the world, intending to return to the police force later, her family said.

In the year and a half before she was killed, Rotem spent several months in the US, then traveled with her mother to Morocco, and in January 2023 she headed off for eight months in South America, returning a few months before the Supernova festival. Rotem had already purchased tickets to Mexico to celebrate her 23rd birthday in December 2023.

Her grandfather, Shlomo, told a local news site that he was especially close to Rotem after her father — his son — died suddenly, “and since her murder the sadness is enormous… we hung photos of Rotem in every room of the house, she is with us, she was really close to me. She didn’t have a father, so I tried to fill that huge void for her.”

Even when Rotem was traveling the world, he said, “she would always call and tell me what she was doing and where she was… I love traveling and she knew that, so maybe that’s why she always updated me and told me, I experienced her trip through our conversations.”

His granddaughter, he said, “was a fighter, she was an athlete and we believe she could have run to save herself, but with her heart there’s no way she would have left her friends.” At her funeral, he said, he introduced himself to her friends “as Rotem’s grandfather, and they immediately said, ‘Oh, Grandpa Shlomo,’ and they told me how much she would talk about me.”

Rotem’s brother Elad wrote online that “there is one thing you left behind you, our little brother. Do you remember how much you wanted the three of us to fly to Japan together? We’re planning to do it and to fulfill your ambition, but we never thought it would be without you.”

“We’ll walk as if we’re walking behind you, we’ll only eat ramen as you demanded, and most importantly we’ll tell Naruto about you — we’ll tell him that you could have fled but you decided not to abandon your friends, we’ll tell him that there was no fear in your eyes, only bravery, and we’ll tell him that the smile on your face could never be wiped away.” link

Dark Legacy - The Abandonment of October 7th Hostages

Does One Really Need to Be a Psychiatrist to Determine What Kind of a Person This Is?

Dr. Daphna Shefet

Psychiatrist in the Public Health Services.

As a psychiatrist, I am often asked: Is he a megalomaniac? A psychopath?

Is he paranoid? Professional ethics prevent me from answering these questions, since it is forbidden to diagnose a person you did not examine.

But the real question is: is that important?

Who is this person? A person who is standing trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Who incites, is divisive, and sows dissension, who surrounds himself with sycophants, ignoramuses and racists. Who rushes to take credit for successes, but disowns all failures. Who turns his back on true friends, those who were there for him in times of need. Who ignores the bereaved and grieving families, despite being a bereaved brother himself. Who legalizes draft dodging and the plundering of the public coffers during wartime. Who refuses to look straight into the eyes of members of displaced and broken communities, of members of

the media who refuse to tow his line, of the citizens of his nation. Who stands between the hostages and their freedom.

Do you really need to be a psychiatrist to answer the question,

what kind of a person such a person is? A psychological conceptualization of a person may provide depth and interest for discussion; but, in the end, a person is the sum of his choices. These are his choices, and this is the person.

Mr. Abandonment.

The only important question is: who are we? We are one people, despite deep differences and diverse beliefs. We are also a people that mobilized as one, absolutely and immediately, to embrace our fellow brothers and sisters. We are a people that are sad, anxious, and angry, And we are also a people that are brave, mobilized and loving. We are a people that has repeatedly chosen a failed leadership. But also a people that seized command where its leaders failed. A people that has erred, been hurt, and fallen, but with a yellow ribbon and a dog tag on its heart. We are a people that experienced a Holocaust, and resurrection, a massacre and

abandonment - and now...?

It is not only a person that is the sum of his choices. A people is also the sum of all its choices. Let’s choose better leaders, Let’s choose better ways. Let's choose responsibility, integrity, justice, and solidarity.

Let's choose hope.

Acronyms and Glossary

COGAT - Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories

ICC - International Criminal Court in the Hague

IJC - International Court of Justice in the Hague

MDA - Magen David Adom - Israel Ambulance Corp

PA - Palestinian Authority - President Mahmud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen

PMO- Prime Minister's Office

UAV - Unmanned Aerial vehicle, Drone. Could be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, or be weaponized with missiles or contain explosives for 'suicide' explosion mission

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