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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.(DAMASCUS FRYED TO A PULP)
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM
EZEKIEL 39:11-12,18
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
EZEKIEL 39:17-21
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF RUSSIAN/ISLAMIC HORDES AGAINST ISRAEL)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Liberman: Rockets from Syria were launched by Hezbollah-Defense minister calls on Russia 'to restrain' Lebanese terror group, says Israel holds Assad regime responsible for any fire from country-By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff-OCT 23,17
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday said four rockets fired from Syria that landed in the Golan Heights over the weekend were intentionally fired at Israel by the Hezbollah terror group and were not spillover from the fighting in Syria.“We are not talking about spillover. This is directed fire carried out by Hezbollah with [Syrian dictator Bashar] Assad’s permission, in an attempt to draw us into a conflict,” said Liberman at a faction meeting for his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset.The defense minister said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah personally ordered the firing of the rockets and said Israel holds Syria responsible for what happens in the territory under their control.“We want to say that we see Assad as responsible for any rocket fire from his territory,” he said.He also called on Russia, one of the Assad’s regime’s top military backers, “to restrain Hezbollah” and said the incident over the weekend “was another example of why [Hezbollah] needs to be removed from the area as quickly as possible.”The Israel Defense Forces initially said the rockets that landed in the Golan early Saturday were spillover from the fighting in Syria. Israel fired back into Syria, hitting three rocket launchers, in response to the rocket fire and warned that further fire would prompt a more intensive response.Later Saturday, however, military sources said the rockets appeared to have been deliberately fired at Israel.Channel 2 reported Saturday that although the IDF officially referred to “spillover” fire in its statements, there was “a growing sense” in the army that the Syrian fire was deliberate.There was no fighting going on in Syria at the time of the fire, the TV report said. It added that the area from which the rockets were fired is under the control of the Syrian army. And it noted that the projectiles fell deep inside Israeli territory on the Golan Heights, one after the other, rather than close to the border.The incident capped a week of tensions on the northern border.Last Monday, the Syrian army launched an interceptor missile at Israeli Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, which the IDF says were flying over Lebanon. In response, Israel sent out a second sortie of F-16 fighter jets to bomb an anti-aircraft battery that it believed launched the missile.The incident occurred as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Israel to meet with Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Liberman told Shoigu that Israel will take action against Iran and its proxies if they continue to entrench themselves along the Syrian border.Iran’s Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri, who spent several days in Syria last week touring war zones and meeting with high-level officials, on Wednesday said Tehran would not tolerate violations of Syrian sovereignty by Israel and vowed that the two countries would jointly fight against Syria’s enemies. “We cannot accept a situation where the Zionist entity attacks Syria from the ground and the air,” he said.At the conclusion of his visit on Saturday, he signed a memorandum of understanding with Syrian officials in which the two allies announced plans for tighter military cooperation and coordination — notably against Israel. The sides agreed to expand cooperation on intelligence, training, technology and against what they called “Zionist-American schemes,” the Ynet news website reported.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR BOOTS 3 COUNTRIES FROM THE EU OR THE DICTATOR TAKES OVER THE WORLD ECONOMY BY CONTROLLING 3 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
REVELATION 17:9-13
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-7 YEARS.THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Don’t push Israel on the Palestinians, Rivlin urges new EU envoy-Emanuele Giaufret acknowledges 'disagreements among friends,' says Europeans know from their own history 'how hard it is to reach peace'-By Raphael Ahren-OCT 23,17-TOI
President Reuven Rivlin on Monday welcomed the European Union’s new envoy to Israel, hailing bilateral relations but also admonishing the organization for its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.“Israel is part of Europe,” Rivlin told Emanuele Giaufret minutes after Giaufret presented him with his letter of credence, thus formally starting his term. “We’re very happy to be in Asia, we’re very happy to be in the Middle East, but we actually are connected with Europe.”Rivlin then proceeded to speak of the common fight against terrorism and anti-Semitism before addressing the “real tragedy” that is Israel’s ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.“Unfortunately, from time to time you really believe that by forcing either the Israelis or the Palestinians, you can bring to an end the conflict,” Rivlin told Giaufret. “Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts, and you know it very well. And we have to find a way to make it possible for both sides to understand that both sides have to face reality.”Israeli officials often complain about what they perceive as the EU’s preoccupation with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and accuse Brussels of a pro-Palestinian bias. In July, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced as “crazy” the union’s insistence on conditioning some agreements with Israel on progress in the peace process.Rivlin also asked Giaufret to pay attention to Iran’s attempts to establish itself militarily on Israel’s border, warning that the Islamic Republic is seeking to get access to the Mediterranean, which would threaten Europe as well. Linking the Israeli-Palestinian question with Jerusalem’s insistence on confronting Iran was “problematic,” he said.Giaufret stressed that Israel and Europe have a “common heritage,” intensive trade relations, flourishing scientific cooperation and increasing tourism in both directions.“Israel and EU are very close to each other, for many different reasons,” he said, before addressing the more controversial aspects of the relationship.“We do have disagreements from time to time, but I think these are disagreements among friends. And we can discuss and sit down,” he said. “Europe is a peace project, fundamentally. And we know how hard it is to reach peace because we’ve been fighting for so many centuries among each other. And the European project has managed to put us together.”Israel and the EU share values of democracy, rule of law, human rights, said Giaufret, who holds a PhD in the history of international relations from the University of Florence.“It is not an easy thing to uphold these values. We know it from our own experience, every day. It’s always a fight to remind ourselves that we have to stick to democracy because it’s the foundation of our societies. And I know we have a friend in Israel, someone we can talk to.”Thank you @PresidentRuvi for a warm welcome. I look forward to working to furthering EU ISRAELI relations https://t.co/QJNSDRA8mC— Emanuele Giaufret (@EGiaufretEU) October 23, 2017-Before arriving in Tel Aviv to replace Lars Faaborg-Andersen, whose term as EU ambassador to Israel ended in the summer, Giaufret served as head of the Division for Democracy and Electoral Observation within the EU’s external action branch.Previously, he headed the Political and Trade Section at the EU embassy in Tel Aviv, where he got married and where the first of his three sons were born.“On a personal note, I am extremely happy to be back in the country that I love, a country where I had fantastic years in the past,” he said. “I am sure I will spend another fantastic four years in Israel.”
Report: Trump peace proposal will seek regional deal, won’t set timetable-Channel 2 says administration wants to bring Arab states to table, thinks Abbas is 'serious,' will not impose terms. US, in response, says no imminent intention to unveil its plan-By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff-22 October 2017, 9:28 pm
US President Donald Trump’s administration will shortly unveil a formal proposal for Middle East peace that aims to enable a “comprehensive regional arrangement,” but that will not be imposed on the sides, and that will not feature a rigid timetable, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported on Sunday evening.The proposal has been drawn up on the basis that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a credible leader who genuinely seeks a permanent accord, the report said, quoting unnamed sources in the Trump administration.The sources said that, were that not the case, the Trump peace team would not have spent so much time on the issue.The TV report said the US proposal would be aimed at bringing Arab states to the peace table with Israel, and that its components would be open to negotiation by all sides.Such an approach would apparently represent a departure from previous US peace efforts, which focused primarily on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has argued repeatedly that progress on the Palestinian front can be best achieved in the wider context of warming Israeli ties with Arab states.President Donald Trump’s administration aims to act quickly and efficiently to advance the goal of a comprehensive regional deal, but will not impose an “artificial timetable” and will not seek to impose terms, the TV report said. Again, the absence of a timetable would mark an adjusted US approach.Contacted by The Times of Israel, an administration official said the US was continuing its peace efforts but had no immediate plans to present a proposal.“It would be more newsworthy if we weren’t working towards an enduring peace. We are engaged in a productive dialogue with all relevant parties about an enduring peace deal but are not going to put an artificial deadline on anything. We have no imminent plans beyond continuing our conversations. As we have always said, our job is to facilitate a deal that works for both the Israelis and Palestinians, not to impose anything on them,” the official said.Administration officials have in the past made plain that a proposal will be put forward at some point in the near future, and that the administration will discuss its specifics at that time.The TV report said administration officials have revealed aspects of the proposal to Democratic politicians. An unnamed Democratic source was quoted saying that the Trump officials promised the Democrats that they would be “pleased” with the approach.The TV report said the administration was highly aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security concerns.It said that Netanyahu has told his ministers that Trump is a businessman and that he would likely demand a price from those who say no to him. For that reason, Netanyahu prefers at this stage not to argue with the president, it further quoted the prime minister as saying.
Germany says it’s ready to sign sale of 3 more submarines to Israel-Two billion euro transaction mired in controversy amid police investigation into alleged corruption-By TOI staff and AP-OCT 23,17
Germany said Monday it is ready to formally sign on the controversial sale of three submarines to Israel that was stalled in the course of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption and bribes to seal the deal.The purchase of the Dolphin-class submarines, costing a total of 2 billion euros, has been mired in controversy since it came to light that a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was representing the German company that manufactures them. A probe led to an ever-expanding investigation that saw several senior officials arrested or probed by police.Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the government plans to sign an agreement later Monday on German participation in financing three new vessels, as in previous deals.Seibert, who noted “our historical responsibility toward the State of Israel,” said the two sides agreed not to disclose details.Israeli media has reported that the agreement had been amended to allow Germany to pull out if the deal were found to have been corrupt at high levels.Israel and Germany were previously set to sign a memorandum of understanding in July but Germany imposed a freeze due to the investigation.The initial sale agreement was replaced with one that is said to include language precluding the sale if impropriety is found.The three new submarines are to replace three old ones in a decade and bring the number of new submarines at Israel’s disposal to six.Dubbed Case 3000, the corruption investigation centers around Miki Ganor, who had been the local representative of German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp. After being identified as a key suspect in the case, Ganor turned state’s witness in July.Investigators suspect that Ganor, along with former National Security Council deputy head Avriel Bar-Yosef, paid bribes in connection with the decision to buy three submarines from ThyssenKrupp, despite opposition from the Defense Ministry.They also reportedly influenced decisions to buy naval corvettes to protect Israel’s offshore gas fields and awarded ThyssenKrupp a contract to service other naval vessels.While Netanyahu is not suspected in the case, his personal lawyer, David Shimron, has been questioned several times by Lahav 433, the police anti-corruption unit.Ganor has reportedly claimed that Shimron (who was also his attorney) was to receive 20 percent of his own commission of $45 million. Shimron was hired by Ganor to negotiate the ship and submarine purchases.In a statement given to his attorneys, Shimron reportedly denied he was to receive a cut from the deal beyond his legal fees.When he turned state’s witness, Ganor was suspected of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit a crime. He has reportedly been transferred to a police safe house.While police have said several times that Netanyahu is not a suspect, he has been accused of corruption in the deal by former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.Ya’alon, who was ousted as defense minister last year, was known to have disagreed with Netanyahu over the need to purchase the three extra submarines. The purchase was opposed by parts of the defense establishment, including Ya’alon.
Abu Dhabi man accused of selling sorcery for cash-Court hears man took $16,300 to help infertile woman get pregnant using 'special water' and a broken eggshell-By Sue Surkes-OCT 23,17
A man has appeared in an Abu Dhabi court for allegedly cheating a woman out of Dh60,000 ($16,300) after promising to help her conceive through sorcery.The woman had failed to get pregnant after six years of marriage and fertility treatments and had taken a friend’s advice to consult with a witch doctor, the Khaleej Times reported Monday.They got in touch with a man who claimed to be able to treat jinns, or evil spirits, to reverse infertility and to improve marital relationships.The man allegedly told the woman to smear a powder on her face and body, to shower with a bottle of “special water,” and to break an egg at her front door at dawn on a Saturday and to bring him the eggshell to be buried in a cemetery.The woman’s husband saw her breaking the egg and complained to local police when he found out how much the suspected sorcerer had taken in payment.Accusations of witchcraft are not uncommon in the Middle East.Earlier this month, the Kaleej Times reported that Abu Dhabi police had launched a program to educate people about the dangers of witchcraft.That was after they had arrested two sisters for allegedly swindling women into paying for witchcraft to sort out bad relationships.Early last year, recruits in an anti-witchcraft unit within Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious police began a new training course on theoretical and practical aspects of countering sorcery and the black arts, the practice of which is punishable by death, according to the Emirates 24/7 news site.They completed a five-day course on combating magic at the headquarters of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the Gulf Kingdom’s capital, Riyadh,
Islamic State said to slaughter 128 in revenge campaign-Jihadists executed Syrian civilians in 'reprisal killings' for allegedly collaborating with regime forces — report-By Agencies and TOI staff-OCT 23,17
The Islamic State group killed at least 128 people it suspected of collaborating with the Syrian regime in al-Qaryatain this month before losing the desert town to government forces, a monitor said Monday.Over 20 days, IS had slaughtered civilians in “reprisal killings, accusing them of collaboration with regime forces,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The Observatory said most of the dead were killed during the terror group’s three-week seizure of the town.The activist-run Palmyra Coordination Committee published the names of the killed. It said at least 35 of the victims were found shot and their bodies dumped in a shaft.IS, which has suffered major setbacks in recent months, recaptured the mainly Christian al-Qaryatain late last month by activating sleeper cells in the town.Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed militiamen covered by Russian airstrikes retook the town on Saturday after nearly three weeks of fighting.
Israel bags thousands of Gaza-bound military gloves-Shipment smuggled in consignment of clothes at Kerem Shalom crossing; truck, contents confiscated-By Stuart Winer-OCT 23,17
An attempt to smuggle thousands of military tactical shooting gloves into the Gaza Strip was thwarted by border crossing officials, the Defense Ministry said Monday.The gloves were hidden in a shipment marked as clothing and brought to the Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement. Security checks carried out by border control staff uncovered the gloves.Officials believe the gloves, which help users maintain a better grip on a gun and also protect the hands during combat operations, were intended for the Hamas terror group, which has controlled the Gaza Strip for over a decade.IDF Col. Fares Attila, head of the Defense Ministry’s Coordination and Liaison Department, said Hamas was trying to exploit Israel’s regulations regarding civilian goods in order to stock its military.“The Hamas terror group tries time and again to use Israeli civilian policies for the terror purposes it is advancing at the expense of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “We will continue to thwart and prevent exploitation of the civilian policies for terror purposes and the needs of the Hamas terror organization.”The truck that was transporting the shipment and the rest of its goods was impounded by the joint task force responsible for combating attempts to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip, the statement said.The task force is made up of representatives from the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Shin Bet security service, Israel Police, the Tax Authority and the Crossing Authority.“Attempts to smuggle military equipment into Gaza are part of the daily war that is mostly hidden from the public eye and is carried out by the best of security checkers,” said Ami Shaked, the head of the Kerem Shalom Crossing Authority.The announcement of the smuggling attempt as Israel has been registering its stark disapproval of a recent power sharing agreement between Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority that does not mandate the disarmament of Hamas.In October, Defense Ministry Crossing Authority officials intercepted a shipment of military-style boots bound for the Gaza Strip that had been hidden inside colorful, cartoon-adorned slippers.Thousands of olive green, black and camouflage army boots, made by the specialty Magnum Boots and Apparel company, were sewn inside bedroom slippers decorated with various emojis, simple cartoons that are often used in social media and smartphone messages.They were discovered while the shipment was being inspected at the Kerem Shalom crossing.Also on Monday, the IDF said it apprehended a man who crossed the border fence into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip. The man, who was not armed, was detained close to the point where he crossed the border and taken away for questioning.Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
