🎗️Lonny's War Update- October 399, 2023 - November 8, 2024 🎗️

🎗️Lonny's War Update- October 399, 2023 - November 8, 2024 🎗️

November 08, 2024

🎗️Day 399 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 will only be whole again when our 101 loved ones are released from captivity. For over a year, they have endured unimaginable suffering in the hellish conditions of Hamas tunnels in Gaza, while we are left in constant pain, endlessly worrying as their lives remain in danger every day and night.
‏We have no choice but to save them. We must continue the struggle until each and every one of them is back 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.

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

9:15pm yesterday - north - rockets/missiles
6:15am - south - hostile aircraft - Arava region of the Negev - Oron, Rotem, El Masek, Neot Hakikar, Ein Hatzeva, Ein Tamar
6:35am - north - rockets/missiles
6:45am - north - rockets/missiles
7:15am - cengter north - hostile aircraft - Foredis, Nachsholim
7:45am - Haifa and areas around - rockets/missiles
7:45am - Jezreel Valley - rockets/missiles
7:45am - Acre and areas around -rockets/missiles
9:30am - north - rockets/missiles
11:45am - Haifa, areas around, north of Haifa, Acre and areas around - rockets/missiles
9:15am -north - rockets/missiles
9:30am - north - rockeets/missiles
11:45am - Haifa, areas around, Acre, areas around - rockets/missiles-Two drones launched from Lebanon were shot down by the Israeli Air Force today, the IDF says.
The first attack took place earlier this morning, while the second incident took place an hour ago.
Separately, the IDF says one rocket was fired at the Haifa Bay area an hour ago, setting off sirens in Acre and nearby towns. The rocket struck an open area, according to the military.
11:50am -north - rockets/missiles
1:00pm - nroth - rockets/missiles
1:25pm - north - rockeets/missiles
2:15pm - north - rockets/missiles
2:55pm - north - rockets/missiles
3:00pm - north - rockets/missiles
3:20pm - north center - rockets/missiles - Yokneam, Eliyakim and areas around
3:20pm -Jezreel Valley, Petach Tikva, Sharon area - rockets/missiles
3:20pm - Areas around Haifa - rockets/missiles
3:20pm - Sharon areas, Kfar Saba -rockets/missiles
3:30pm - north - hostile aircraft - Leeman, Batzet, Naharia
3:35pm - north - hostile aircraft - Sheikh Danon, Beit Hillel, Sde Nehemia, Amir
3:40pm - Acre - rockets/missiles
3:40pm - north - hostile aircraft - Kfar Blum, Gonen, Lahavot Habashan, Bar Lev, Ahidod - The IDF says it shot down several drones that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon an hour ago.
The drones set off sirens in the Upper and Western Galilee. Separately, a barrage of 30 rockets was fired from Lebanon a short while ago. The IDF says that most of the projectiles struck open areas, and one rocket struck an urban area. There are no immediate reports of injuries.
Hezbollah has fired over 50 rockets at Israel today, according to an IDF tally.
3::50pm - north - rockets/missiles
3:55pm - north - rockets/missiles
3:55pm - Acre and areas around -rockets/missiles -A Hezbollah rocket caused heavy damage to a home in the northern Arab town of Kafr Yasif a short while ago.
There are no injuries, according to medics. Five rockets were launched from Lebanon in the attack, four of which were intercepted by air defenses, according to the IDF. video
5:00pm - north - rockets/missiles
5:10pm - north - rockets/missiles

IDF reserve soldier dies of wounds sustained in southern Lebanon two weeks ago

Master Sgt. (res.) Guy Shabtay, of the Alon Brigade's 8207th Battalion. (Israel Defense Forces)
An IDF reserve soldier seriously wounded during fighting in southern Lebanon two weeks ago succumbed to his wounds, the military announces.
The slain soldier is named as Master Sgt. (res.) Guy Shabtay, 39, of the Alon Brigade’s 8207th Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Shabtay was wounded in an exchange of fire with Hezbollah operatives in a village in southern Lebanon on October 26, in an incident in which five other reservists were killed and over a dozen were injured.
May his memory be a revolution

Hostage Updates
Former defense minister Yoav Gallant reportedly told families of hostages held in Gaza that Israel’s military has no reason to remain in the Strip, and that Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu is keeping soldiers in Gaza “out of a desire to stay there.”
The conversation came hours before his firing went into effect Thursday evening and the Knesset voted to approve the appointment of Israel Katz as the new defense chief.
According to a report on Channel 12, Gallant, who was abruptly ousted from his post, told the families that Netanyahu is the only one who can decide whether or not to agree on a hostage deal, and that he “tried and failed” to influence the premier on the matter.
“The head of the Shin Bet, the chief of staff and I think the head of the Mossad also agreed with me,” Gallant said, explaining that he told Netanyahu that “the conditions were ripe” for a deal in July, and that he and the prime minister have been in conflict about the parameters for a proposal ever since.
The ousted defense chief said that he and IDF head Herzi Halevi were both skeptical of claims that there were security or diplomatic justifications for leaving troops in the Strip.
“I can tell you what there was not, security considerations. The IDF chief and I said there was no security reason for remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor,” he reportedly said, referring to a strip of land in Gaza on the border with Egypt, which Netanyahu has championed as one of the key strategic gains of the war.
“Netanyahu said that it was a diplomatic consideration, I’m telling you there was no diplomatic consideration,” he added, according to the report, which is seemingly based on accounts from families who attended the meeting.
“There’s nothing left in Gaza to do. The major achievements have been achieved,” he’s quoted saying. “I fear we are staying there just because there is a desire to stay there,” apparently referring to far-right calls to occupy the Strip and create Israeli settlements.
He also said the idea that Israel must remain in Gaza to create stability was “an inappropriate idea to risk soldiers’ lives over.”
As for the “day after” the war, Gallant explained to the hostages’ families that he believes that “it would be bad for Israel to rule Gaza,” and that Israel has to establish a governing body “that is neither Hamas nor Israel, because otherwise we will pay a heavy price.”
“If this doesn’t happen,” he said, “the process will continue” and will endanger more soldiers by occupying Gaza.
The comments are the starkest yet highlighting differences between Gallant, who backed a ceasefire deal to bring hostages home.
Partnership with the US
As his dismissal took effect, Gallant posted a farewell message, saying that he had spoken to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to thank him “for his partnership and deep commitment to the defense cooperation between our countries, and to the security of the State of Israel.”
He praised Washington for its “extraordinary support” following the October 7, 2023 attack.
“It has been my honor and privilege to serve my country and to work together in further deepening the bond between our nations. Our ties are critical to the security and prosperity of the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” he wrote on X.
Gallant was seen as the main conduit for discussions between the Biden administration and Israel amid frequent tensions with Netanyahu.
In the wake of Gallant’s firing, Netanyahu told the Biden administration he was not planning a wider purge of Israel’s security leadership, two US officials told the Axios news site.
Hebrew media had reported that he planned to also fire IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.
The report said that the US officials were not sure that they believed Netanyahu.
They also expressed concern that coordination over the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and countering an expected Iranian attack could be hampered by the decsion to dismiss Gallant.
We still have a lot of things to do in the next two months. We don’t have a relationship with Katz, and we are concerned it is going to be much more difficult now,” a Biden administration official told Axios.
Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he had fired Gallant, whom he fired in March 2023 only to reverse the move amid intense public objection.
The premier announced that then-foreign minister Katz would replace Gallant as defense minister, with Gideon Sa’ar becoming foreign minister.
A modest handover ceremony for the defense minister role is planned for Friday morning.
Opposition politicians accused the premier of playing politics at the expense of Israel’s security. The move was largely seen by critics as motivated by political considerations, including efforts to pass legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox men from mandatory military service, which Gallant had opposed.
Wednesday night saw the second day in a row of protests in Jerusalem and other locations around the country against Gallant’s dismissal.
Israel is in the midst of a war that began on October 7, 2023, when Palestinian terror group Hamas led a massive cross-border attack on the south of the country that killed 1,200 people and saw 251 abducted as hostages to Gaza.
The fighting has spread as Iran’s proxy terror groups joined in support of Gaza, including Hezbollah in Lebanon where Israel has launched an air and ground operation to end rocket fire that has displaced tens of thousands of residents of northern Israel. Link

Gaza and the South

The IDF says troops demolished two large tunnel systems and killed several Hamas operatives, including two who participated in the October 7 onslaught, during a recent operation in the southern Gaza Strip.
The operation was carried out by the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, along with the Desert Reconnaissance Unit, commonly known as the Bedouin Reconnaissance Unit.
According to the IDF, the operation began with airstrikes on Hamas anti-tank missile positions, booby-trapped buildings, and observation posts in southern Gaza. The military says combat engineers, along with members of the Shin Bet, uncovered two Hamas tunnels in the area, which the IDF describes as attack tunnels. Together, the tunnels were over two kilometers in length. They did not cross into Israeli territory.
The tunnels featured around 10 exit shafts, some of which were booby-trapped with explosives, the IDF says. The soldiers also found weapons inside the tunnels.
During the operation, the troops exchanged fire with several gunmen who emerged from the tunnel system. The IDF says some of the Hamas operatives were killed by the ground forces and others in airstrikes.
According to the IDF, two of the Hamas operatives killed in the operation participated in the October 7 onslaught. They are named as Baha Abu Qarshin, a Hamas Nukhba Force commander, and Muhammad Ibrahim Sateri, a member of Hamas. link
Authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip say Israel struck a school-turned-shelter run by the United Nations in Gaza City, killing 14 people and wounding dozens of others.
The Israeli military does not immediately respond to a request for comment on the attack that hit a UNRWA facility in the Shati refugee camp, just west of Gaza City along the Mediterranean coast.
In recent months, Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes on schools across the embattled enclave, structures where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by fighting have sought refuge. Israel says Hamas fighters use schools and other protected humanitarian sites as cover, turning Palestinian civilians and aid workers into human shields.
Shortly after the strike, the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Shati camp among other neighborhoods west of Gaza City, spreading panic among Palestinians who in recent days had sought refuge in those areas from Israel’s renewed offensive against Hamas further north.
Meanwhile, the army says it will allow 300 truckloads of humanitarian aid supplied by the United Arab Emirates to enter the Strip in the coming days.
That’s less than the 350 trucks per day that the United States has said it wants to see enter the war-ravaged territory.
COGAT, the military body in charge of civilian affairs in Gaza, says the aid was brought in by sea and unloaded at the Israeli port of Ashdod, just north of Gaza. It says the shipment, which includes food, water, medical equipment, shelter and hygiene supplies, will be inspected before being trucked into Gaza, though it does not specify a date.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) confirms that Israel will be opening an additional crossing with the Gaza Strip for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

This image released by COGAT on November 8, 2024, shows engineering work at the Kissufim Crossing with the Gaza Strip. (COGAT)

The Kissufim Crossing will open soon following the completion of engineering work carried out in the area in recent weeks.
“As part of the works, forces worked to build inspection and protection infrastructures in the area as well as to pave roads, in the territory of Israel and in the territory of the Gaza Strip, which allow the entry of aid to the south of the Gaza Strip while strengthening the protection of the [Gaza border] communities,” COGAT says in a statement.
Israel currently allows aid to enter the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Strip’s south, Gate 96 in the center, and two crossings — Erez East and Erez West — in the north. Aid has also been delivered from the air by various nations.

Northern Israel - Lebanon/Hizbollah/Syria

IDF says it hit Hezbollah drone force command center
Israeli fighter jets struck a command center belonging to Hezbollah aerial forces in the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre a short while ago, the IDF says. According to the military, the command center was being used by Hezbollah’s aerial forces to carry out explosive-laden drone attacks on Israel, as well as manage surveillance drones. videos
Separately, the IDF says fighter jets struck Hezbollah weapon depots and rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, including a launcher used to fire rockets at the Carmel region earlier today.
The Terror Villages Leveled, and Hezbollah's Cynical "For the Environment" Sign | Special Documentation from Lebanon

A total of 154 terror houses were destroyed, densely populated kasbahs in Hezbollah villages flattened with bulldozers, and at least 14 terrorists eliminated. In under two weeks, the Etzioni Brigade, the first reserve unit to enter southern Lebanon, has already achieved numerous successes, demolishing hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. This unit is expected to continue its ground operations in southern Lebanon in the near future, while other reserve brigades have returned to Israel for a significant refresh.

The brigade's mission, part of the Northern Command’s effort, has succeeded in its first month, aimed at removing the threat of Radwan forces’ invasion of the Galilee. The brigade, the first reserve unit deployed in southern Lebanon as part of the regular strike division of the Northern Command, has destroyed 154 Hezbollah terror structures near the border. As documented, commanders dedicated these achievements, over communications, to all IDF soldiers and the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.

The explosion of the terrorist structures in the villages near the border, in southern Lebanon (Photo: Yonatan Cohen)

Etzioni fighters also destroyed approximately 20 combat and launch tunnels near the border, cleared around 600 dunams of dense Hezbollah-held terrain that hid infrastructure intended for launching attacks into the Galilee, and killed at least 14 terrorists with no losses within the brigade.

In one recording, Etzioni forces identified a Hezbollah terrorist squad in dense fortified terrain during daylight. The squad included spotters and fighters who were only discovered after several minutes due to the dense terrain that acts as an overhead tunnel. With assistance from tanks and UAVs, the brigade eliminated the squad.

Rocket launchers and weapons captured

The fighters also encountered a cynical Hezbollah sign warning, in English, against entering, hunting, or cutting trees and vegetation at the entrance to a “nature reserve” between Bint Jbeil and the Israeli border. Hezbollah established a fake organization over a decade ago called "Green Without Borders," allegedly to protect the environment with "guards" who are actually fighters, preserving these so-called nature reserves as combat zones to be used by Radwan’s thousands of fighters from 12 battalions for an invasion into Israel.

Etzioni forces also destroyed hundreds of buildings in Shiite villages of southern Lebanon, flattening entire terror neighborhoods that had been transformed into full-fledged military bases, including the densely packed kasbahs of some villages. Due to increasing demand for engineering equipment, the brigade used not only bulldozers from its engineering battalion working around the clock in Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure but also civilian tractors contracted by the IDF and operated by Home Front Command engineering soldiers.

"Hezbollah exploited both the land and the open spaces to build itself up," said Etzioni Brigade Commander Col. (Res.) Sharel Sabag. "We saw the entire area as a combat zone, and that’s how Hezbollah set it up for its plan to invade the Galilee. Over the years, Hezbollah built itself up, even in this past year, we were able to observe and study the enemy’s deployments, which prepared us well. In the end, it’s also about the power of maneuver and the places we entered."

He described the combat in built-up and dense areas as challenging. "The ultimate achievement is the ability to destroy this infrastructure and create a transformed space," he explained, also recounting close-range encounters with the enemy, where "the enemy tried to draw us further in," as well as dealing with anti-tank and rocket fire. "This didn’t stop us. We continued with full force to complete the mission," he emphasized.
Col. Eli Escosido. Probably breaks the age record for maneuver fighters in Lebanon
His seventh grandson during the fighting

One standout in the brigade is Deputy Commander B, Lt. Col. Eli Ascusido, who is likely the oldest soldier fighting in southern Lebanon. Having served in the First Lebanon War, he is now well into his seventies, and during this campaign, he welcomed his tenth grandchild. link

IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon located a Hezbollah training facility, which was positioned some 200 meters from a UNIFIL base.
This image released by the IDF on November 8, 2024, shows a Hezbollah training facility in southern Lebanon, located some 200 meters from a UNIFIL base. (Israel Defense Forces)

Reservists with the Oded Brigade raided the Hezbollah site, which the IDF says was used by the terror group for training, studying combat theory and storing weapons.
The military says the troops found Hezbollah documents and textbooks, maps of Israel, guides of IDF vehicles, as well as tunnel shafts and weapons at the site.
In the area of the facility, the IDF says the soldiers also found rocket launchers that were primed for attacks on Israel.
The weapons were confiscated and the facility was demolished, the IDF adds.

West Bank and Jerusalem and Terror attacks within Israel

Minors accused of planning attacks on security forces
The Shin Bet and Israel Police say they are indicting two minors on suspicion of planning to attack Israeli security forces.
Both of the defendants are residents of the so-called Triangle region southeast of Haifa, where more than 260,000 Arab Israelis live. They were arrested for questioning weeks ago, but an indictment was only filed against them today, according to a statement.
One of the defendants, who recruited the second suspect, is accused of undergoing bombmaking instruction.
The two are also accused of watching training videos on making explosives and carrying out attacks, but its unclear how far along the plot was. When arrested, the pair were found to be in possession of vests and communication devices, authorities say.
Central District Police Commander Chief Superintendent Yair Hatzroni decries the “grave security issue” of “Israeli minors promoting terror activists against innocent people and the very security forces protecting them.
Paris is mulling new sanctions on those enabling the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says on a visit to the Palestinian territory earlier today.
“France has been a driving force to establish the first sanction regime at the European level targeting individuals or entities, either actors or accomplices of settlement activities,” Barrot says after talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
“This regime has been activated two times already and we’re working on a third batch of sanctions targeting these activities that again are illegal with respect to international law.”
Barrot renews France’s commitment to a two-state solution and says that settlement activities “threaten the political perspective that can ensure durable peace for Israel and Palestine.”
Before meeting Abbas, Barrot visited the adjacent town of Al-Bireh, where extremist settlers allegedly set fire to 20 cars earlier this week, damaging a nearby building.
“These attacks from extremist and violent settlers are not only completely inexcusable, not only contrary to international law, but they weaken the perspective of a two-state solution,” Barrot says.
Ramallah and Al-Bireh governor Laila Ghannam expresses outrage that settler attacks are “taking place in full view and hearing of the entire silent international community.”
“Perhaps today, with the visit of the French foreign minister, there will be a spotlight here,” she tells AFP. link Sanctions against the extremist settlers who attack, maim and kill Palestinians in the West Bank should be taken, but the real actions, not sanctions should be done by the Israeli government, the army and the police. Unfortunately, this failed extremist government has totally abandoned the rule of law when it comes to the settlers and their violence, with a Minister of National 'Insecurity' who not only doesn't act against them, he encourages their actions and instructs the police not to do anything about it, except arrest the Palestinian victims, and the prime minister who is so weak that he enables this criminal minister to take over the police to be his own private militia action according to the extremist agenda. Netanyahu has mainstreamed the racist criminal Ben Gvir and allows him to ride roughshod over him, the law that he is supposed to maintain and the entire country. Until our government takes the reigns and arrests and punishes these violent settlers whose numbers are growing, we will see more and more sanctions by the countries of the world, first against the settlers and then it will go beyond that and the sanctions will be against the State of Israel and its citizens.
Palestinian media: Israeli settlers torch car, attack home in northern West Bank
Israeli settlers torched a car and attacked a home on the outskirts of the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Jaba, Palestinian media reports.

Israel has come under intense criticism for failing to crack down on such attacks, with arrests of perpetrators rare. In response, some Western countries began imposing sanctions against settler extremists earlier this year.

Settlers filmed breaking into Palestinian home, destroying property

Settlers vandalize a home in the Palestinian village of Surif in footage published by the Yesh Din rights group on November 8, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
The Yesh Din rights group publishes home security camera footage showing armed settlers breaking into a Palestinian home in the southern West Bank village of Surif and vandalizing property.
Israel has come under intense criticism for failing to crack down on such attacks, with arrests of perpetrators extremely rare. In response, some Western countries began imposing sanctions against settler extremists earlier this year. video of the settler vandalism

Politics and the War (general news)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the White House he does not intend to fire any more security chiefs following the dismissal of Yoav Gallant as defense minister, but US officials do not necessarily trust his assurances, Axios reports.
According to the outlet, administration figures are wary of the possibility Netanyahu will seek to remove more top figures with whom they have working relationships.
“We still have a lot of things to do in the next two months. We don’t have a relationship with [the new defense minister Israel] Katz, and we are concerned it is going to be much more difficult now,” an official tells Axios.
Galant Opens Up: "Netanyahu Decides Alone; I Couldn't Influence Him" | New Quotes
Outgoing Defense Minister Yoav Galant met with families of hostages, admitting, "The Prime Minister's considerations aren't based on security or diplomatic concerns; I was alone in my stance in the Cabinet." Galant stated, "We have already achieved major successes in Gaza that we won't be able to replicate." Regarding negotiations in July, he said, "At the end of the month, we sent Hamas a proposal we knew they wouldn’t accept. I asked, why did it take three weeks to submit it?"

On Thursday, families of hostages met with Galant, who expressed that the security conditions were ready and there was no reason not to make a deal. "Staying in Gaza for the sake of staying is not a worthy cause to endanger soldiers for," he said. Galant told the families that there is no forum discussing the hostages' release, with the Prime Minister being the sole decision-maker. "I don’t know if it’s possible to influence him. I tried and didn’t succeed. I was alone in the Cabinet, and the heads of the Shin Bet, the Chief of Staff, and even the Mossad agreed with me. As for Netanyahu's considerations, I can only say what they're not – they’re neither security-based nor diplomatic."

The outgoing Defense Minister further emphasized that, unlike the start of the war, Hamas's demands are no longer "sky-high." "In the beginning, their demands were extreme. Now, they’re negotiable, based on quantity and degrees, and we can resolve this."

Galant shared that back in early July, Hamas agreed to a deal to return the hostages in two stages. "From that moment, I said the conditions were right. Since then, we’ve been in disagreement about whether the conditions are ready or not." He added, "Only at the end of July did Israel respond to Hamas with an offer we knew wouldn’t be accepted. I asked, 'If you want to make an unacceptable offer, why not do it on July 4? Why wait three weeks?'"

Galant explained to the families that "there are things that force alone cannot achieve." Reflecting on Israel's past, he said, "We’ve undertaken great efforts to rescue hostages. If we don’t resolve this, it’s not just about the families’ suffering; it will be a scar on Israel’s conscience."

With his tenure ending, the families thanked Galant for his efforts over recent months. The meeting started warmly, as they acknowledged his focus on the hostage issue. They wanted to understand where past opportunities for deals were missed and the current direction of negotiations.

In his final hours as Defense Minister, Galant expressed his concerns. "I'm not optimistic on this matter," he admitted. The handover ceremony between Galant and his successor, Israel Katz, is set for tomorrow at 9:00 AM. This modest ceremony will follow the Knesset’s expected approval of Katz’s appointment tonight, along with Gideon Sa’ar’s appointment as Foreign Minister. Before officially taking on the role of Defense Minister, Katz met with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, with Galant’s approval.  link
Associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gathered surveillance camera footage of a scuffle between recently-fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and security staff at the Prime Minister’s Office at the IDF’s Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, according to the Ynet news site.
The video footage was gathered with the intention of using it to discredit the defense minister, who Netanyahu fired this week citing a lack of mutual trust during a time of war.
According to the Ynet report, the incident in question took place on October 12, 2023, five days after the war in Gaza erupted with Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre.
Gallant is said to have arrived late to a meeting at Netanyahu’s office in Tel Aviv, having been told that it would be held in the “the pit,” the Kirya military headquarters’ underground command room.
According to the report, he was shocked when he was then forbidden from entering the Prime Minister’s Office, and a physical confrontation broke out between Gallant and one of the security guards.
The report quotes an unnamed source as saying that former Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich had “removed the footage from the security cameras in order to use it against Gallant or to threaten him.”
Urich claims not to be aware of the incident, Ynet reports.
A senior political official cited in the report says that at the time, Netanyahu and his associates would frequently attempt to “humiliate” Gallant.
Netanyahu fired Gallant for the second time this week, having previously dismissed and then reinstated him in March 2023.
Gallant was at the helm of the Defense Ministry when Hamas committed its deadly terror assault in southern Israel on October 7 last year. He remained in his post throughout the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip, the fighting on the northern border and the ground operation in southern Lebanon.  link 5 days after the worst day in the history of Israel, Netanyahu didn't stop showing his true stripes. His political agenda, his personal and political needs above everything else.
PMO reportedly suspected of holding ‘sensitive, personal footage’ of IDF officer
Reports by two Israeli news channels claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is facing suspicions surrounding sensitive footage of an IDF officer found in its possession.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, a complaint filed to the bureau of IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi two months ago claimed that the PMO was holding “sensitive personal footage related to an IDF officer.”
The report says that the officer in question worked with the PMO, but raised the complaint after concerns the material was being held for nefarious purposes.
A separate report by Channel 12 news claims that a probe is underway to look into whether two “very senior officials” in the PMO were involved in leaking sensitive material on a military official taken from security cameras.
There are scant other details on the alleged affair, the latest to suggest possible issues with the PMO’s handling of sensitive information and questions over their possible use for political means.
In response to the reports, the PMO says in a statement that they are “inventions with nothing behind them but an attempt to defame the office and its workers.”
The statement claims the PMO is the victim of a witchhunt.
“The facts will speak for themselves clearly,” it says.  link And yet another security scandal coming out of the Prime Minister's Office. This appears to be that Pandora's box has finally been opened and we will be hearing about more and more security violations and scandals coming from the PMO, yet we will learn very little of the actual information due to the highly secret nature of them all. No one should be surprised by this as Netanyahu and his cronies who manage the PMO have made careers out of doing Netanyayu's dirty business to protect him, boost his publicity and lie for him
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Suspected Misuse of Senior Officer’s Documentation to Access Sensitive Documents in the PM’s Office
Recent scandals uncovered in the Prime Minister's Office appear to be connected. According to sources familiar with the details, the latest revelations involving intimate documentation of a senior officer might explain how staff in the office gained access to highly sensitive documents and records.
The series of scandals emerging from the Prime Minister's Office, and potential new ones that may surface, are not isolated incidents. Some insiders suspect that these cases are part of a complex web of intrigues and deceit that has plagued the office over the past two years. Sources suggest that the incident recently reported by Kan News, and under investigation by Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, is closely tied to two previously exposed cases: one involving the office’s deployment of spies within the IDF to steal ultra-classified documents for the office, and subsequently releasing distorted versions to the media to support a narrative opposing the hostage deal. Additionally, there’s an ongoing investigation regarding the falsification of sensitive documents within the office that began some time ago.
The latest (so far) exposed case may shed light on how office personnel gained access to some of the most sensitive records and documentation available. In other words, there is suspicion that officials used potentially embarrassing personal information about a senior officer in a way that facilitated their access to these documents.
Around six months ago, an individual with access to Israel’s most classified information and knowledge of sensitive decision-making processes met with a legal advisor in the IDF. This individual came to discuss an incident that, while perhaps embarrassing for its central figure, posed a potentially severe threat to Israel’s security and its decision-making integrity. According to knowledgeable sources, the individual reported that two senior officials in the PM’s office held compromising personal documentation of a senior IDF officer with close ties to the PM’s office. This documentation had been acquired using office resources and extracted from those resources. Allegedly, one of these officials even informed the officer that the documentation was in his possession.
It is unclear whether the officer confirmed when approached that he was notified about this documentation by the official or if he acknowledged being subjected to undue pressure. The individual reported this to senior IDF legal advisors, who referred him to the Attorney General due to the severity and involvement of civilians.
During discussions, the individual raised concerns that ultra-classified documents might have reached unauthorized individuals and potentially been misused due to the compromising documentation and the officer’s access to highly classified information.
Israeli Police and the Shin Bet, investigating the spy deployment and the removal of classified documents from the central 8200 repository, revealed irregularities in the handling of classified materials in the PM’s office. The most closely guarded secrets of Israel are stored in safes within the PM’s military secretary offices. However, some documents were not kept in the designated safe, and suspicions arose that additional copies of sensitive documents were printed without proper logging or assigned copy numbers as required. link

The Region and the World

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posts another threat to Israel on his new Hebrew-language account on the social media platform X.
“The world will certainly see the day when the Zionists are defeated in a resounding defeat by the resistance,” he writes, amid indications of an imminent Iranian response to Israel’s recent retaliatory strike.
Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance” of proxies in the Middle East includes Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Syrian and Iraqi militant groups.
It has vowed a “punishing” reprisal to Israel’s October 26 airstrikes, which Jerusalem said took out the Islamic Republic’s air defenses and missile production capabilities.

The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen take responsibility for this morning’s ballistic missile attack on Israel.
In a statement, the Houthis say they targeted the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel.
According to the IDF, the missile was successfully intercepted by air defenses.
King of the Netherlands: ‘We failed the Jewish community during World War II, and last night we failed again’
President Isaac Herzog spoke with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands a short while ago, his office says in a readout of the call.
Herzog told the King that the events in Amsterdam, where Israeli soccer fans were attacked by an anti-Israel mob, was reminiscent of “dark and grim times for the Jewish people” and stressed that it must be “unequivocally condemned,” the President’s Office says.
He reiterated his expectation for the Dutch authorities to do everything within their power to ensure the safety of all Israelis and Jews in the Netherlands going forward.
The King expressed “deep horror and shock” over the attack, the statement says, and told Herzog: “We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again.” link
Amsterdam police say that five people were hospitalized and 62 arrested after anti-Israel rioters carried out an apparently organized, widespread attack against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam.
The attacks have been widely condemned by Israeli and Dutch politicians as antisemitic.
The police say in a post on X that they have started a major investigation into multiple violent incidents. The post does not provide further details about those injured or detained in Thursday night’s violence.
Earlier, a statement issued by the Dutch capital’s municipality, police and prosecution office said that the night following the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv “was very turbulent with several incidents of violence aimed at Maccabi supporters.”
Israel Police says officers are on site at Ben Gurion Airport to gather identification details, forensic evidence and testimony from Maccabi Tel Aviv fans returning from Amsterdam after being violently attacked by pro-Palestinian mobs.
Israel Police are working together with police in Netherlands to prosecute those behind last night’s attacks.
Antisemitism is strongly on the rise around the world and it includes physical attacks and even murder. This seemingly organized attack was abhorrent and horrifying. One of the reasons for the growth of this antisemitism and the greater acceptance of it in many areas is, obviously due to the war in Gaza, but it could have been better controlled if we had a different leader and government. Netanyahu and his government have gone above and beyond in their behavior and actions to alienate even our greatest allies in the world. We know that his extremist messianic coaltion partners of Smotrich and Ben Gvir don't care about what happens in the world and certainly don't give a crap what their actions and those of their constituencies do and their impact on our relations with the world outside. Netanyahu, as our failed and weak prime minister has allowed and enabled them to go beyond the pale of anything that was unacceptable just a short time ago, thus weakening the state and its people and putting us all at great risks wherever we are, as seen last night in Amsterdam. I don't believe that this will be a one off. Instead, I believe it is the start of many more attacks on Israelis and Jews in many different places around the world. Perhaps they won't be as large with mobs in multiple locations attacking random Israelis, but then again, maybe it will be. Israelis have always had to be extra vigilant but now, this government and its actions have put big red targets on all of our backs.

Survivors

Personal Stories
Taken captive: Sagui Dekel-Chen spotted first incoming terrorists
Captured in Kibbutz Nir Oz after ascertaining family’s safety and fighting invaders hand-to-hand on October 7

Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, was about 200 yards away from his Kibbutz Nir Oz home on Saturday, October 7, when he first noticed Hamas terrorists entering the kibbutz.
In media interviews, his father, Connecticut-born Jonathan Dekel-Chen, a Hebrew University professor who also lives at Nir Oz but was away on business, and mother, Neomit Dekel-Chen, are telling the details of that terrifying day, when “heavily armed and precisely organized” Hamas terrorists began moving through the kibbutz.
Sagui and a few others raised the alarm about what was happening, and residents began entering and locking the sealed rooms of their homes, said Dekel-Chen. Sagui checked that his wife, Avital, and their children were safe and then went back outside with the rest of the kibbutz security team.
The siege went on for hours, but Sagui was last heard from at 9:30 a.m., said his father.
“My daughter-in-law and the kids are now traumatized,” said Dekel-Chen. “Avital heard her husband struggling in hand-to-hand combat.”
Sagui’s mother, Neomit, 63, also lives at Nir Oz, and was taken captive along with her neighbors in an electric cart headed toward Gaza, when an IDF helicopter shot at the terrorists and driver. Neomit, injured, made her way back toward the kibbutz to her family and was eventually rescued and evacuated.
Jonathan Dekel-Chen has been part of the American delegation of family members of those missing with US citizenship, telling the family’s story widely to gain attention for the ongoing plight of those taken captive.
“This is my struggle to free Sagui or ascertain that he and the others are alive,” he said. “These are my friends, my neighbors, teachers, students, nurses, farmers. I, like the other families, desperately want our loved ones back and to do anything to come home and fulfill their dreams.”
A Life Held Hostage
Sagui Dekel-Chen was taken by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. Without him, a family, a community, a country, is incomplete.

In August 2015, at the height of summer, we arrived in Israel to paint a performing arts school. Bikurim, also known as the Village, was established the previous year in the Eshkol region of Israel, minutes from Gaza. The residential school was founded to give talented young musicians opportunities for excellence close to home. Before the Village, budding musical artists from southern Israel had to travel long distances to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Now, they could receive a world-class education in the country’s breadbasket.

The Village was first conceived in 2010; with hard work and some help from the Jewish National Fund UK, it became a reality. The school acquired a building, an abandoned regional boarding school. They recruited a director, Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov. An idea had come to life.

This was my first time in such a remote place—I grew up in and had lived up to this point in London—and a far cry from the familiarity of Israel’s major population centers. In the Negev, if you want something done, you build it yourself. Sagui Dekel-Chen, son of the Village’s co-founder Jonathan Dekel-Chen, had done just that, renovating the first site for the school, working with his hands, shortly after finishing his service in the Israeli army. Sagui was raised just 10 minutes’ drive away, in the “paradise in the desert” of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a wealth-sharing community where the family had lived since 1990.
Avital and Sagui with their two daughters

Some classrooms and dormitories at the Village needed to be painted, and here we were, myself and two friends, the painters. Seventeen, with no experience doing things with our hands, with poor Hebrew and a love of music, we picked up some brushes and tape. Sagui, our guide at the Village, showed us the way, making a tough (for us) job simple, rewarding, and fun. I never knew people could be so content just doing things with their hands. We filmed silly videos singing and dancing with our paintbrushes. We didn’t need to see museums, wartime ruins, or even religious sites. The Negev, arid and empty when viewed from above by satellite, was, on the ground, alive with potential to be fulfilled.

We decided—along with the spirited teens we befriended there, working at the Village as part of their national service—to record a music video to raise money. We played and sang “Hallelujah” in Leonard Cohen’s “myth home,” as he once described the country on a visit with Israeli musicians to the not-too-far-away Sinai Desert, during the Yom Kippur War. I understood the phrase “to live as a free people in our land,” from Israel’s national anthem. This was what it felt like.

We raised a modest amount of money for the Village with our music video. But as often goes for diaspora travelers volunteering for Israel, the Village did far more for us than we did for the Village. Watching Sagui work was a marvel. He got up every morning and dedicated himself to doing, finding a solution to each challenge that came his way by thinking outside of the box. Nothing was impossible. The goal in mind was the flourishing of the Jewish people. The Village, one of many successful projects he contributed to, has since moved to a new location in Ein Gedi, giving hundreds of gifted young Israelis the opportunity to pursue their passions and cultivating professional artists across the entertainment industry, from musicians to actors. “Two-and-a-half miles from Gaza, music is made and the land is worked. They work the land in the day and build things up for themselves. Then they play music at night,” I wrote in my journal. The Israeli south quickly became my symbol of hope. The Israelis who made it their home were indeed mythic creatures, superhuman in my eyes.

This was shattered on Oct. 7, 2023, when Sagui Dekel-Chen was taken hostage by Hamas.

On the morning of the Black Sabbath, as it is known locally, 35-year-old Sagui got up early, kissed his wife and two daughters, and went to the kibbutz machine shop to work on one of his many social entrepreneurial projects, refitting an old municipal bus. He spotted Hamas terrorists infiltrating the kibbutz, climbed onto the roof of the communal dining room, issued the warning, and ran home. His pregnant wife, Avital, was in the bomb shelter with their two young daughters.“He looked at me and said, ‘If they come in, it’s over,’” Avital would later recall to Israel’s Channel 12. “I’ll do everything I can, OK? But they can’t come in,” Sagui told her, and off he went. He disappeared fighting off Hamas terrorists. On that day, some 80 of the approximately 400 residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, including Sagui, were taken hostage, and the kibbutz was destroyed.

Siman Tov, the first director of the Village, was murdered along with her three children, husband and mother-in-law, all dear friends of the Dekel-Chens. Siman Tov’s husband and mother-in-law were U.S. and Israeli citizens. They are among the more than 40 members of Nir Oz who were slaughtered by hand and by fire.
Avital in the hospital with her new baby, as one of her older daughters looks on

A kibbutz is marked by its shared spaces, facilitating community. All of these, including the kindergarten Sagui worked on, were barbarically damaged. The kibbutz was immediately unlivable. The survivors, including Sagui’s pregnant wife, his two daughters, and his mother—the latter escaping from a Hamas truck en route to Gaza—were evacuated to a hotel in Eilat. They now live temporarily in apartments in Carmei Gat, 50 minutes’ drive away, surrounded by cranes and concrete, a far cry from the green of their kibbutz.
Avital (with a family member) returns to her and Sagui's home in Nir Oz, following Oct. 7

Since Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, security in the area, home to dozens of Jewish communities within 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) of the Gaza Strip, had been especially precarious. Indeed, violence loomed since the very establishment of these kibbutzim and villages—for strategic security reasons—in the 1950s, with a brief period of calm between the signing of the Oslo Accords and the First Intifada. When I was there in 2015, a year after Israel’s third war with Hamas, known as Operation Protective Edge, a cease-fire was technically in place, but explosions still rang loud. They rocked the ground beneath us in what felt like earthquakes. A banal occurrence to its residents, it caused us much panic. The campus of the Village shook with dust as we ran to shelter, with Bedouin workers poking fun at our inexperience. (We were told the booms were farther away, from Egypt, not Gaza, and we believed them.) Still, no one ever fathomed that the precarious security situation would turn into a massacre—the single-largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.

Since I found out on Oct. 10 that Sagui had been taken hostage, I have been in a sort of daze. I now live even farther away from Israel, in Washington, D.C. Far enough to delude myself. I only came to terms with reality during my second phone conversation with Jonathan, Sagui’s father. Being on the other end of the phone is too much to take. I can’t even fathom the agony of living it. My life goes on because it can. But it doesn’t go on for the victims of Oct. 7. Their lives are stopped in time. Their lives as they knew them are no more. Speaking to Jonathan, I asked questions as though what happened at Nir Oz was a historical event that had concluded. I was totally wrong, unfathomably wrong. “It’s not that there are unsolved issues—there are no certainties,” Jonathan said. Nir Oz has been decimated, and it seems unlikely it will be built anew. Returning to its ruins en masse feels impossible, but finding a new shared home also seems out of the question, for now.

Sagui met his wife Avital—known affectionately to the kibbutz as Mili after the Israeli actress Mili Avital—at age 14. As a teen, he was on Israel’s junior national baseball team, fueled by his father Jonathan’s “addiction,” as he put it, to the sport. Starting out with the Village, Sagui for years has led various initiatives to contribute to the flourishing of Israel’s south. Often finishing his workday at 11 p.m., he somehow found time to create other impactful social entrepreneurial projects. “It’s a product of his creativity and the skills he acquired since he was a little boy,” his father told me. “He grew up on the kibbutz tagging along at the agricultural machine shop with me. At a very early age, he had a really good skill set, but mostly an innate mechanical understanding, a very orderly mind.”

Sagui’s passion is refitting buses, creating something new out of the discarded. He first turned a disused bus into a mobile home, intending to travel in it as a retreat that could be towed around the country. He bought another bus, then another, then another, creating a series of mobile technological classrooms. In videos shared with Channel 12, Sagui is seen with successive newly purchased buses, playfully telling his wife, “I promise, Mili, that’s the last one, the last one,” he says with his characteristic radiant grin. With his wife, Sagui came up with the idea to refurbish a bus into a mobile grocery store for communities without supermarkets. It ended up serving the remote village of Giv’ot Bar, south of the Bedouin township of Rahat.

The original bus accidentally burned. So, Sagui built another. As his colleague and one of his close friends, Director of JNF UK Israel Yonatan Galon described it to me, “Any project we started where Sagui was in charge, it would be completed.” This is unusual in bureaucracy-laden Israel, where projects are often tied up in the planning stages, never making it to execution. Not Sagui’s projects, said Galon: “Sagui is a doer. An extremely hard worker.” If they didn’t have enough funds to complete a project, Sagui would say, “We will find a new way. We will do it differently.”

“He would always remember to ask me how you were,” my father, who kept in touch with Sagui on missions to Israel with the JNF UK, told me. I pored through photos to look for something with Sagui. My father had plenty of group photos and videos. In one, a group of volunteers are hoisting a tree, a JNF tradition, for a patron to plant. The tree is about to topple over when Sagui steps in. With an unassuming poise he fixes the situation and carries the tree upright, so its roots can be planted.

“He never went to university. He is brilliant. Very, very much an autodidact,” Galon explained. “Whenever we had a project that demanded knowledge in a new field, he got to learn this field.” Developing a boarding school, Sagui had to find a way to build the kitchen. It was designated a public space, which came with endless rules and regulations. So, he mastered the regulations, and became expert enough to consult on the topic.

Galon visits Sagui’s family every two weeks in Carmei Gat. The family has grown, with the arrival of their third child, born with Sagui held hostage in Gaza. Avital’s birth was filmed by Channel 12. Cameras are in her face, but she manages to keep in good spirits. “I can deal with terrorists in my home but not with contractions,” Avital says. You can see in the delivery room there is a presence missing: Sagui.

“I’m not the story. Sagui is the story,” she says. “This baby is here thanks to him. He protected us, so it happens thanks to him … Do you realize that my girls and I could have been hostages sitting in Gaza? It doesn’t make sense, really.” Avital named their child Shahar Mazal, retaining her “belly name” Mazal, luck, chosen by Sagui, and adding Shahar, “dawn,” after Siman Tov’s daughter, murdered by Hamas.

Sagui’s father, Jonathan, is a powerful, eloquent voice, meeting with Congress and the U.N., writing articles and speaking on television and podcasts, advocating for his son, an American citizen. The last he heard of Sagui was in late November and early December, when the first hostages from Nir Oz were released. Some of the traumatized women and children confirmed they had encountered Sagui in the tunnels under Khan Younis. Since then, no news. How does Jonathan know what to do? “There’s no game plan, no handbook, no guidebook,” he told me.
“This is an unprecedented situation. Day by day, week by week, trying to figure out what is the most effective use of time and resources.”

Jonathan is a scholar of Eastern European history at the Hebrew University and the son of a Holocaust death-march survivor and a refugee from Nazi Germany. Some have compared the events of Oct. 7, events Jonathan is in part grateful his parents were not there to witness, to the Holocaust. But as Jonathan notes in Haaretz and elsewhere, the Holocaust was different. The Jewish people did not then have a sovereign home.

Now they do. And we have put all our eggs in one basket, in this sovereign home. As the late Charles Krauthammer wrote, “It is my contention that on Israel—on its existence and survival—hangs the very existence and survival of the Jewish people.”

Israel wasn’t destroyed on Oct. 7, thank God. But parts of it were destroyed, and pieces of the country are now held hostage in Gaza. Without them, the country is incomplete. Sagui Dekel-Chen must come home to meet his new daughter. He must come home to continue work on his buses. As Galon told me: “I know he will come back. He’s not one in a million, he’s one out of 10 million.” Israel has a population of about 10 million. Without Sagui, and without the other 130 hostages still held in Gaza, Israel’s survival, and the survival of the Jewish people, hangs in the balance. link

Dark Legacy - The Abandonment of October 7th Hostages

“Every Moment that One Delays in Redeeming Captives...is Considered as if One has Shed Blood” (Shulchan Aruch)
Shimshon Liebman
Former head of the public campaign for the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, currently serving in an advisory capacity to the families of the hostages.

Each individual has a number of opportunities to be a human being. Every leader has a number of opportunities to be a true leader.
The individual sitting at the head of the table has a number of opportunities to pick up a paintbrush of values and highlight the essential essence of the flag flying at the entrance to his office, to his heart.
Someone who has earned the right to lead a nation has a number of opportunities to remember the binding contract between the state and its citizens, its soldiers, and everyone who is part of the nation.
The person who holds the reins of power has several opportunities to remember from whence he came and to reconsider where he is going, to do so in light of a tradition in which the wisdom of strength emerges from the Jewish spirit and the Zionist conscience, a tradition that forges leaders as a light unto the Jews. (Really?)
These trail markers illuminate the Israeli path, which sees the values of life, of camaraderie, of not abandoning the lifeblood as the true source of our strength. For the sake of this light, our young people are willing to place themselves at risk for our beloved nation. And every mother who sends her sons and her daughters to serve this country does so with the knowledge that they will not be left behind. This is all the more true when it comes to ordinary civilians, who place their trust in the leadership’s promises of security, knowing that these leaders hold the power to protect us from those who plot against us across the border.
Benjamin Netanyahu!!! You are that person. You are that man (or are you?). You are that leader (or are you?). You will be remembered forever for your choices, your decisions, your actions.
I knew you back then, during the years of struggle for those same values, when we sought the release of Gilad Shalit, and also as a remedy for the open wound left by the disappearance of Ron Arad into the abyss of captivity. When we sought a way out of that same sense of having lost our way and having lost our values.
I knew you when you courageously made the right decision. Even though it took time, we had an opportunity to bless you and thank you. At that time I thought I had discovered the man and the leader within you.
A few days after October 7th, I answered the call to join the civilian forum, where I told the hostages’ families what appeared to me to be obvious. Right here and now, immediately, Israel must talk with the devil and offer a very high “price” for the sake of bringing the hostages home.
Yes. Immediately. Because “together we lost”, and in order to turn the tables and restore the secret of our national security we must first and foremost rectify the “contract that was breached”. There will be time for war. The first priority is the obligation to bring the hostages home!!!
I naively thought you would courageously rise to the occasion and declare the proper list of priorities. I thought that you still retained the qualities of a human being and a leader. That you still had a modicum of humility and respect for the people for whose security you are responsible. That you still had a modicum of compassion and the “yearning of the Jewish soul”. That you still had the spirit required of the leader of a nation that arose after the Holocaust.
To my regret, the image that you are now presenting us serves as an exemplar of evading responsibility, of abandoning the hostages, of distorting the list of moral priorities in running the country, of not setting a personal example, and of dismantling and breaking down Israeli society.
I regret that this is the path you have chosen. I regret that you may leave behind the heritage of a glorious state in ruins!

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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