JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET
SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO
OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 142 JULY 19,26 - 9TH NIGHT AMERICA GOES AFTER IRAN.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
Senior Iranian official threatens 'full-scale
offensive'Iran said to tell Hezbollah, allies to prepare for wider
conflict, which could rope in Israel-8 reported killed in overnight US
strikes on Iran; IRGC says it targeted US aircraft, radar systems in
Jordan and Qatar; Kuwait says water plant hit, troops hurt in drone
attacks By Agencies and ToI Staff 17 July 2026, 6:07 pm
Iran has
reportedly told its regional allies, including Hezbollah, to prepare for
the possibility of a broader conflict amid military escalations with
the United States, raising the prospect of Israel becoming directly
involved in the fighting.Leaders of the Iran-backed regional “Axis of
Resistance” told allies that the current period of waiting is nearing an
end and that preparations for military scenarios have become a
priority, Lebanon’s Nidaa Al Watan newspaper reported on Friday, citing
information obtained from meetings held in Tehran on the sidelines of
the recent funeral of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who
was killed when the US and Israel launched the war with Iran at the end
of February.Friday’s report came as fighting between the US and Iran has
renewed a month after the signing of a preliminary deal that aimed to
end the conflict.So far, Israel has not been involved in the latest
escalation, and Tehran has not directly targeted the Jewish state. But
that could change if Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, gets
involved and resumes its attacks on Israeli territory.Hezbollah was
reportedly instructed to be fully prepared for any escalation, with
Iranian officials warning that any future conflict could be broader and
more severe than previous fighting.Nidaa Al Watan also reported that
Tehran still views Hezbollah as its most important regional asset
following setbacks suffered by Iranian terror proxies in recent months.
The terror group joined the wider regional conflict on March 2 by
attacking Israel, and has objected to US-led diplomacy between Jerusalem
and Beirut to solve the countries’ disputes.In response to the
Hezbollah attacks, Israel hit Hezbollah with heavy airstrikes and took
control of a buffer zone in southern Lebanon, meant to distance
Hezbollah from the border. Israel also decimated Hezbollah’s leadership
in a previous round of fighting in 2024.Another Iran-backed terror
group, the Houthis in Yemen, has also previously attacked Israel.US
strikes Iranian infrastructure;Iran fires at region-The US has struck
Iran for six consecutive nights and has expanded its airstrike campaign
by increasingly hitting bridges, part of US President Donald Trump’s
threats to start striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran to ease its
chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway for the global
energy supply. Iran launched new missile attacks against US-allied
nations in the Middle East and warned that its attacks would
escalate.The American military confirmed on Friday destroying a
surveillance tower at Iran’s Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman during
strikes the night before.In a statement, the US Central Command said the
site was “used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of
Hormuz.”“The destruction of the tower directly degrades IRGC’s ability
to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members,” CENTCOM said,
adding that the strike also “protects freedom of navigation in regional
waters for all vessels, except for ships attempting to violate the
ongoing US naval blockade against Iran.”CENTCOM also released footage of
the strike.On July 16, U.S. forces successfully destroyed the Chah
Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower, part of a maritime
surveillance network along Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline used for
decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and
target commercial… pic.twitter.com/CgBNvgOFf9 Advertisement — U.S.
Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 17, 2026-Iranian state media reported
Friday that overnight US strikes on infrastructure in southern and
western Iran killed eight people, up from the earlier seven reported,
and wounded 20 others.“Some infrastructure in several provinces of the
country came under US military attack,” the IRNA news agency said,
reporting that six bridges in the southern province of Hormozgan were
targeted.Iran’s energy ministry called on citizens to reduce electricity
use after the power grid came under strain following strikes on energy
infrastructure in the south.Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme
leader, warned on Friday against US escalation or any attempt to seize
Iranian territory.“If US strikes continue for several more days, we will
move into a phase of full-scale offensive operations,” Rezaei, a former
Revolutionary Guards top commander, told state television.In response
to the US strikes, the IRGC said it struck US military aircraft
stationed in Jordan with ballistic missiles and drones. Iran has fired
on several Middle Eastern countries with a US troop presence in response
to the American attacks.In a statement, the IRGC claimed to have
destroyed “several US refueling aircraft and fighter jets” and caused
“serious damage to many more.” It also called on Jordanians to target
“the interests of the aggressive and anti-Islamic Americans” in their
country.There was no immediate comment from Jordan or the US military
regarding the IRGC’s claims.Earlier on Friday, Jordan said it
intercepted three Iranian missiles targeting its territory, with no
reports of injuries or damage.The IRGC also said it targeted US radar
systems and military aircraft in Qatar to “punish the aggressor.”
Additionally, Iran’s Tasnim news agency cited an informed source as
saying that a Thai-flagged ship was targeted in the Strait of Hormuz
after it allegedly ignored warnings and attempted to pass without
permission from the IRGC. The source said the vessel was confronted by
the IRGC navy and targeted.The commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force
vowed that Tehran would not halt its attacks in the region until the US
stopped striking Iran’s southern coastline and the Strait of Hormuz.In a
social media post, Majid Mousavi said, “Tehran and the south are one
and indivisible as Iran”, adding that “effective and targeted strikes
from across Iran against the enemy will continue” until attacks on “the
southern coastline and the Strait of Hormuz” cease.Additionally, Kuwait
said that a power and water plant had been damaged by an Iranian
attack.“One of the power and water distillation plants was the target of
an attack as part of the Iranian aggression… resulting in a fire,
damage and the impairment of several production units,” the Electricity
Ministry said in a statement, urging users “to ration their electricity
consumption during this exceptional period.”The country’s army also said
that an Iranian drone attack wounded several military personnel in the
Gulf state.The army’s chief of staff “visited several wounded members of
the Kuwaiti land forces, who were injured after enemy drones targeted
several army facilities and camps this morning, as part of the criminal
Iranian aggression,” the army said in a social media post.Meanwhile,
strikes in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed eight members of an Iranian
Kurdish armed opposition group, the exiled party said, blaming the
attack on Iran.Idriss Kohlwazi from the Komala party told AFP that “the
Iranian regime attacked with drones and rockets a camp” belonging to the
party near the city of Sulaimaniyah in the early morning, resulting in
the “martyrdom of eight of our members and wounding others.”Earlier on
Friday, Kurdish forces said they downed eight drones over Erbil, with no
damage or casualties reported.Trump has returned in recent days to his
threats to target Iranian power stations and bridges to try to compel
Iran to loosen its hold on the strait, through which about a fifth of
all oil and natural gas traded once passed in peacetime. The US also
reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports to halt its shipments of
crude oil.Week-to-week cargo shipments through the strait dropped by
almost a quarter at the beginning of the month, according to maritime
data firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence, according to data from before the
recent surge in violence.Given the risks, some oil shippers are
transiting the strait with their location devices turned off, but many
are just staying put, Lloyd’s said Thursday. A growing amount of the
region’s energy is being shipped through pipelines, but not nearly
enough to offset the decline in shipping through the strait.
US
launches 8th night of strikes on Iran to ‘punish’ IRGC for deadly Jordan
attack-Iran reports strikes in south and in Strait of Hormuz; US bases
in Kuwait come under fire, UAE threatened; Washington warns Iran-backed
groups might target Americans abroad-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today,
9:57 am-JUL 19,26
The United States on Sunday said it had
completed an eighth straight night of strikes against Iran, saying they
were intended to “punish” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for a
deadly strike that killed two US military personnel in Jordan and left
another missing.Amid the spiraling conflict in the region, the US issued
an alert to its citizens across the globe, warning they could be
targeted by Iran and its allies.US Central Command said in a statement
that the airstrikes began at 6 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Saturday, at the
direction of US President Donald Trump.“The strikes are designed to
further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the
Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan
last night,” the command said.CENTCOM did not provide any details on the
retaliatory strike against IRGC forces or its results.But it said that
airstrikes “successfully hit Iranian military coastal surveillance and
air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone
storage sites to continue degrading Iranian military
capabilities.”Iran’s Mehr news agency said the US carried out an attack
near Sirik in southern Iran, adding that no casualties or damage to
infrastructure have been reported.A location near Hajiabad, in the same
province, was also targeted, and explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas,
according to state-run IRNA.An area near Qeshm Island, inside the
strait, was also targeted, according to Iran’s IRIB broadcaster.Iran
targets US bases in Kuwait, drone hits near Erbil-The Iranian army then
carried out a drone attack that targeted US military assets and
equipment at Kuwait’s Al-Adiri camp and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Iran’s
state TV reported early Sunday, citing a statement from the army.Both
bases were targeted as part of Iran’s attacks against US assets and
allies in the Gulf since last week.In neighboring Iraq, a base of the
Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish dissident group, near Erbil
was also struck by a drone early Sunday, wounding eight of its members,
Rebaz Sharifi, a military official with the group, said.Residents of
Erbil itself also heard explosions from air defenses.No group has
claimed responsibility for the attacks, but in the past, both Iran and
Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched attacks in the semi-autonomous
Kurdish region, where both US troops and armed Kurdish Iranian dissident
groups are present.After avoiding attacks on UAE, Iran issues
threat-Nearly every Gulf Arab state has been targeted by Iran for
retaliatory strikes, with a missile alert sounding Saturday in Saudi
Arabia. However, the United Arab Emirates has yet to be targeted.The
semiofficial Iranian news agency Fars, believed to be close to the
Guard, issued a threat Saturday to the UAE.Quoting an anonymous
official, Fars said continued strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure
would mean that the “airports of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as the
ports of Fujairah and Jebel Ali, must be immediately
evacuated.”Apparently responding to the threat, the Emirates’ Foreign
Ministry issued a statement calling “for exercising the utmost restraint
in order to avoid dangerous repercussions, and the region being pulled
into new levels of violence and instability.”“The UAE emphasized that
the targeting of civilian infrastructure and civilian facilities in the
region… constitute a flagrant and grave violation of the established
principles and provisions of international law, and cannot, under any
circumstances, be accepted or justified,” the statement added.US:
Iran-backed groups could target Americans abroad-The US State
Department, meanwhile, issued a Worldwide Caution alert for US citizens
overnight Saturday, “due to heightened tensions in the Middle East.”It
urged US citizens worldwide, and “especially in the Middle East,” to
“follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest US embassy
or consulate.”“Flight cancellations and periodic airspace closures may
cause travel disruptions. US diplomatic facilities, including outside
the Middle East, have been targeted,” it said, without offering further
details.It warned that “groups supportive of Iran may target other US
interests overseas or locations associated with the United States”
around the world.The US had already issued a travel warning for the
Middle East in light of the escalated fighting with Iran, and the US
Embassy in Jerusalem warned Americans to avoid traveling to northern
Israel, Gaza, and the Egyptian border.Worldwide Caution: Due to
heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains
complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation. We remind
Americans in the region of the continued need for caution and encourage
them to monitor the news for breaking… pic.twitter.com/A3LKEQSRiO —
TravelGov (@TravelGov) July 18, 2026-The US and Israel together launched
a campaign against Iran on February 28 to degrade the regime’s military
capabilities, distance threats posed by the country — including its
nuclear and ballistic missile programs — and “create the conditions” for
the Iranian people to topple the regime, the military and other Israeli
leaders have said.Israel respected the US-Iran ceasefire that began
April 8, and the government, while not included in the process of
negotiating the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed last month,
did not object it even though it purported to bind both the US “and its
allies.”Iran has refrained from attacking Israel amid the latest
tit-for-tat fighting
US embassy issues travel warning for
northern Israel-US strikes Iran for seventh night in a row; Iranian
forces launch strikes across Gulf-US sending dozens of refueling jets
back to Israel as Trump mulls renewing massive bombing campaign; Iran
attacks Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq-By Agencies and
ToI Staff 18 July 2026, 10:01 am
The United States and Iran
exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on
Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified, with the
US shifting dozens of additional refueling aircraft to Israel, as US
President Donald Trump weighs launching another massive bombing
offensive against Iran.The region has endured days of back-and-forth
attacks in a conflict increasingly focused on control of the strait. The
collapse of an interim ceasefire leaves no clear end in sight for the
war that the US and Israel began more than four months ago.The US
Central Command said early Saturday that its seventh straight night of
strikes had hit “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure,
underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities.”Kuwait said
Saturday it was intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, while Iraq
said it had shot down attack drones over the city of Irbil. Saudi Arabia
reported attacks for the first time in months. Jordan’s state-run Petra
news agency said that the kingdom’s air defense systems had downed
Iranian missiles, while air sirens sounded in Bahrain, according to the
government there.Iranian officials say recent US strikes have killed
dozens of people and wounded hundreds, with new casualties reported
Friday, when the US military also acknowledged more injured service
members.Both sides also took aim at shipping traffic, with the US saying
it was enforcing a naval blockade while Iran said it targeted vessels
that violated its rules on navigating the Strait of Hormuz, the vital
waterway for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.Iran effectively closed
the strait to shipping traffic after the war started on February 28.
That sent the price of oil soaring and gave Iran significant leverage in
negotiations. The price of oil rose on Friday above $86 a barrel, close
to its highest level in a month, as crossings through the strait fell
to a three-week low, according to an international shipping tracker.In
an address to the American public on Thursday evening, Trump insisted
the war was going well. “We are likewise winning big in Iran, and you
will see the fruits of that labor very, very shortly,” he said.Before
the war began, the US had been in talks with Iran over its nuclear
program. Trump now faces political pressure to bring the war to a close
and avoid the kind of prolonged Middle East conflict he had campaigned
against.Refueling jets to return, US issues travel warning-In a sign
that the US was looking to expand the campaign, the US military was
gearing up to send dozens of additional refueling aircraft to be based
in Israel, to be used in the campaign.The Axios news site reported
Friday that the US had notified Israel that it was sending back the
planes. The Israeli military on Saturday confirmed the report, and said
that the incoming planes would be stationed at military bases, and not
at Ben Gurion Airport, where space is limited and the presence of US
military planes has complicated civilian flight arrangements.US and
Israeli officials told the Axios news site that Trump could escalate the
strikes against Iran in the coming days, following consecutive nights
of American bombing campaigns of targets across Iran, after the
breakdown of last month’s MOU.Israel was not a party to the MOU and has
not been involved in the recent fighting.However, Iran has reportedly
told its regional allies, including Hezbollah, to prepare for the
possibility of a broader conflict amid military escalations with the
United States, raising the prospect of Israel becoming directly involved
in the fighting.In a further sign of fears of an expanded conflict, the
US Embassy in Jerusalem issued a travel warning to American citizens
late Friday, telling them to reconsider travel in the Middle East and to
specifically avoid northern Israel, Gaza, and the Egyptian border.“Due
to high tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains
complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation. We remind
Americans in the region of the continued need for caution and encourage
them to monitor the news for breaking developments,” the embassy
wrote.“Americans traveling in or through the region should also check
with their air carriers to make sure their flights are still scheduled.
Americans should consider these factors when planning travel to Israel
and the West Bank, and should not travel to Gaza, Northern Israel, and
the Egyptian border except for the Taba crossing, and reconsider travel
to/through the Middle East,” the alert added.There are currently 33 US
aerial refueling tankers parked at Ben Gurion Airport, which has crowded
out other planes used for commercial flights. Transportation Minister
Miri Regev announced earlier this week that the number would drop to 20,
as she tried to prevent summer flight disruptions.The Axios news site
first said the US “notified” Israel of the planned arrival of additional
refuelers, suggesting Jerusalem doesn’t have a say in the matter, but
the report later said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have a
final say on the issue.The decision to send the tankers to Israeli
airbases was made by the US in coordination with the Israeli military,
which allowed the Israeli Air Force to make preparations, the military
said.The military said it was acting to enable the US’s deployment in
Israel as much as possible while preserving Israel’s civilian aviation
needs.Hebrew media reports said that five to eight planes were slated to
arrive per day.Vigilant, lethal, and ready-The US military’s Central
Command said Saturday it concluded its latest round of attacks by
hitting surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure,
underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities.“US forces
employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones, and warships in addition to
other assets,” Central Command said in a statement. “More than 50,000
American service members are operating across the Middle East and remain
vigilant, lethal, and ready.”https://t.co/7V8iGAGbGh — U.S. Central
Command (@CENTCOM) July 18, 2026-Iranian media reported on Saturday that
several missiles struck power facilities and desalination pumps in the
southern Iranian city of Jask, citing a local official. The official
said drinking water had been cut off in villages in Jask due to the
attack.The US said its forces redirected four commercial vessels,
disabled one, and boarded another to enforce its naval blockade of
Iran.In turn Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said four vessels violating its
rules on shipping traffic were stopped from going through the strait
with a combined missile and drone operation.In addition, Iranian media,
citing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, reported that two oil tankers
exploded and caught fire after passing through a mined route south of
the strait. The US military labelled that report as false.The US
military’s Central Command said its targets included “military logistics
infrastructure,” the first time it mentioned infrastructure in more
than a week.Iranian media reported enemy strikes early on Saturday in
coastal Hormozgan Province on the Iranian side of the Strait of Hormuz.
State TV said three people were killed and eight wounded while two
bridges and a road tunnel were damaged.Iranian media reported explosions
heard or strikes carried out in Sirik, Ahvaz, Yazd, Jask and
Khorramabad late Friday or early Saturday.On Friday, Iranian state media
said at least five bridges were struck in the south in US attacks.
Seven people were reported killed in attacks on bridges in the southern
port of Bandar Khamir, where a train station was also hit. An airport
was reported hit further east and away from the coast in Iranshahr, in a
province bordering Pakistan.Iran acknowledged “attacks on power
infrastructure” during the US airstrike campaign for the first time
Friday when its Energy Ministry issued a call for people to use less
power in southern provinces “experiencing extreme heat.” The ministry
did not specify what was hit.Trump has threatened to launch broad-based
air strikes on Iran’s infrastructure and has also declined to rule out a
ground assault on Iran’s coast or islands. US officials have said
attacks on southern Iran are designed in part to give Trump options.Such
moves risk provoking Iran to attack the vital infrastructure of
vulnerable Gulf states, or having its allies in Yemen further disrupt
global energy supplies by attacking shipping from the Red Sea.Kuwait
shuts airspace amid strikes-Iran announced attacks on Gulf countries
that host US airbases, including Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan, in
addition to a US vessel in the northern Indian Ocean. Saudi Arabia’s
civil defense issued early warnings, the first in several months, in at
least two places but had yet to report any damage. Earlier in the war,
Iran hit some of the oil-rich kingdom’s energy facilities.Kuwait came
under sustained attack, with Iranian forces saying they targeted an
ammunition depot in the Al-Adiri camp, the headquarters buildings and
ammunition depots in the Ali Al-Salem base and several communication
bridges.Authorities in Kuwait said one of the country’s power generation
and water desalination stations had been hit in an Iranian attack,
causing damage, a fire and the disruption of a large number of
electricity generation units.Iran does not claim, it acts. Iran will
repel any aggression. Thick smoke plume in Kuwait after successful
Iranian attacks ▪️ Kuwait announced that Iran had attacked a power plant
and a desalination plant in the country. pic.twitter.com/LfY4MVzBae —
nilofareaabi80 (@nilofareaabi57) July 18, 2026A desalination plant was
also reportedly hit, and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation later said one of
its oil facilities had been hit in “repeated Iranian attacks,” causing
significant damage and some injuries, according to the state news
agency.“The repeated targeting of these vital facilities reveals a
systematic hostile approach targeting civilian sites and vital
infrastructure that endangers the lives and safety of civilians,”
Kuwait’s foreign ministry said.Kuwait Airways later said it had
rescheduled most flights after the country temporarily suspended
operations at Kuwait International Airport following Iranian missile and
drone attacks.The airline had earlier said the rescheduling was due to
the closure of Kuwaiti airspace.Saudi Arabia attacked for 1st time in 3
months-Iran also launched attacks on Saudi Arabia for the first time in
about three months, according to two people familiar with the matter,
triggering early warning alarms in Al-Kharj, east of the capital Riyadh,
and at Yanbu on the kingdom’s Red Sea coast.The people said one attack
had targeted the Prince Sultan Airbase in Al-Kharj, which hosts US
forces.Saudi state media did not elaborate on what triggered the early
warnings and the government media office did not respond to a request
for comment. The IRGC made no mention of any attack on Saudi Arabia.In
Jordan, fuel tanks at the Al-Azraq base were also targeted, the state
broadcaster said on Telegram.The Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain was also
targeted, the Iranian army said, adding that it “is “one of the most
important operational and logistical centres” for the US military in the
region.State news agency IRNA reported the Iranian navy fired a
shore-to-sea cruise missile towards what it called a hostile US vessel
in the northern Indian Ocean. Iran’s army said the missile launch caused
“fear and panic” and forced the vessel to move out of range of Iran’s
navy.Iranian authorities said at least 46 people have been killed and
more than 400 wounded in recent US strikes, including eight killed in a
strike on a bridge Friday.US officials acknowledged 13 additional US
service members — 10 Army soldiers and three Navy sailors — had been
injured since Monday, but offered no further details. Since the war
began, 14 US service members have been killed and 427 wounded.
Israel
said bracing for uptick in fighting next week-US hits airport, bridges
in Iran in escalation on 6th consecutive night of strikes-Tehran targets
Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, while threatening to strike civilian
infrastructure across region; 7 people killed in southern Iranian
province, state TV reports-By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid-17
July 2026, 1:08 amUpdated at 5:51 am
The United States struck
Iran and Tehran hit back at US allies in the Gulf on Thursday, as the
foes battled over the vital Strait of Hormuz in the renewed Middle East
war.The rekindled fighting came a month after the signing of a
preliminary deal that aimed to end the conflict, which broke out in late
February with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran. So far Israel has not
been involved in the latest escalation and Tehran has not directly
targeted the Jewish state.In his speech on election security Thursday
night, US President Donald Trump said the US is “winning big in Iran and
you will see the fruits of that labor very, very shortly.”The US
expanded its airstrike campaign by increasingly hitting bridges, part of
Trump’s threats to start striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran to
ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran launched new missile
attacks against US-allied nations in the Middle East and warned that its
attacks would escalate.In Qatar, authorities warned the public to take
shelter as a barrage of Iranian missiles targeted the nation. People
heard explosions overhead as air defenses fired to intercept the
missiles. Iran earlier also targeted Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.The US
military said its latest wave of strikes “hit dozens of Iranian military
targets such as coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military
logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities,” according to the
US Central Command.U.S. Air Force F-35A stealth fighter aircraft are
refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker while flying patrols over the Middle
East. pic.twitter.com/KSbmYTH2LT — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July
16, 2026-The US airstrikes hit bridges overnight into Friday in Iran’s
southern Hormozgan province, killing at least seven people, Iranian
state television reported. The attacks hit Bandar Khamir, a city on
Iran’s coast on the Strait of Hormuz.On Thursday, Tehran warned it would
target infrastructure across the region if Trump followed through on
his threat to attack power plants and bridges in Iran — though the White
House said the US president remained “open to diplomacy.”Earlier,
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck a US airbase in Jordan with
ballistic missiles in response to what they described as an American
attack near a children’s cancer hospital in the Islamic Republic.Iranian
state media said the hospital in Ahvaz, in the southwest, was evacuated
following US airstrikes on the area that foreign ministry spokesman
Esmaeil Baqaei slammed as “barbaric.”Hani, a 34-year-old teacher from
Ahvaz, said the strikes were “very intense,” adding: “My hands are
shaking. There were at least 11 or 12 explosions. My ears are
exploding.”U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a
verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.
Advertisement As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial
vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and
boarded 1 to… pic.twitter.com/vbjArHuLaO — U.S. Central Command
(@CENTCOM) July 16, 2026-CENTCOM said its forces hit military targets in
multiple locations to “degrade Iran’s ability to threaten innocent
mariners” in the Strait of Hormuz.Iranian state news agency IRNA said a
projectile struck parts of Semnan airport in the north, without injuring
anyone. It also reported explosions elsewhere in the country, while air
defenses were triggered in parts of Tehran.Soon after, US allies in the
Gulf began responding to attacks, with Kuwait saying it intercepted
Iranian drones and Bahrain sounding air raid sirens.Iranian news
agencies later reported that the United States launched new strikes
around the Gulf island of Qeshm near the Strait of Hormuz, as well as on
the port city of Bandar Abbas.State TV reported two explosions in the
city of Bushehr — home to Iran’s only civilian nuclear plant — in a
“continuation of the American enemy aggression,” as well as a series of
unattributed explosions in coastal Bandar Abbas.The official news agency
IRNA also reported “American enemy attacks on areas around Ahvaz,”
where fearful residents told AFP they had heard intense strikes for a
second night in a row.A senior Iranian military spokesman later called
for the US to withdraw from the region, saying “we will never back down
over the Strait of Hormuz,” state TV reported.Channel 12 news reported
on Thursday that Israel is preparing for a possible further escalation
in the exchange of fire between the United States and Iran next
week.According to the report, Israel believes the US may begin targeting
more of Iran’s civilian infrastructure, in line with Trump’s recent
comments. Until now, US strikes have been focused primarily on Iranian
military infrastructure.Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired
Tuesday night on “Special Report with Bret Baier”: “We’re going to hit
them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow
night. We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next
week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power
plants. Next week comes the bridges. We’re going to knock out all their
power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get
to the table and negotiate.”He added: “I’ll save the energy targets for
last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets.”Channel 12 also
reported, citing two Arab diplomats, that Qatar has submitted a new
proposal to Washington and Tehran aimed at resuming negotiations between
the two countries and reducing tensions. According to the report,
Iranian officials view the proposal as relatively favorable to their
position, and attacks on Qatar have reportedly ceased since the proposal
was presented.‘No reason to adhere’The Strait of Hormuz has been at the
heart of the recent fighting and is crucial to global oil and gas
flows.The strait was briefly reopened after the US-Iran deal in June,
but Tehran said last week it would be closed again “until the US ends
its aggression.”The United States has also reimposed a blockade of
Iran’s ports.Pakistan’s foreign office spokesman, Tahir Andrabi, said
Islamabad would “continue to encourage all sides to end violence and
resume technical-level talks” under the memorandum of understanding it
helped mediate last month.But Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher
Ghalibaf has warned that a deal “only has meaning when its clauses are
valid and being implemented.”White House Press Secretary Karoline
Leavitt told reporters Thursday that Trump would hold Iran “accountable”
for going back on its word, “but he is always open to diplomacy at the
very same time.”“They have expressed that they still want to make a deal
to the president. We’re talking to them, but again, the president is
not going to allow them to fire on ships in the strait without paying a
consequence for that,” she said.Trump previously threatened to hit
Iranian power plants and bridges unless Tehran returned to the
negotiating table.“Next week it gets really bad for them,” he told Fox
News.On Thursday, the spokesman for Iran’s military headquarters said
that if the US followed through on its threats, “all infrastructure in
the region” would be “crushed.”‘Gesture of goodwill’Iran’s Guards said
US forces had “used airbases located in Jordan to target” the Islamic
Republic and that its aerospace force had responded by “launching two
waves of missile strikes” on a base in the country.Iran’s military
separately said it targeted US facilities in Jordan with drones.Earlier,
the US military said one of its aircraft fired on and disabled an empty
oil tanker that was trying to break the naval blockade of Iran’s
ports.In Iraq, Kurdish forces said the US-led coalition downed eight
explosive-laden drones over Erbil, the capital of the northern Kurdistan
region, where AFP journalists heard explosions and saw smoke near the
US consulate.Trump said Wednesday that an American citizen — identified
by her lawyer as Dena Karari — had left Iran in “good condition” after
being detained there since December 2024.He said the US appreciated
“this gesture of goodwill by Iran.”Iran’s judiciary however said
Thursday that no American prisoner had been released or exchanged from
its prisons, Iranian state media reported. The judiciary said checks
show no convicted American prisoner, person accused of spying for the
United States matching Trump’s description, or any other American
detainee has been released from Iranian prisons or exchanged.Since last
week, renewed US attacks have killed at least 30 people in Iran,
government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said.
Reports: Israel
readies to join the fray-Iranian strike kills 2 US troops in Jordan, 3rd
is MIA, as Tehran vows ‘unforgettable lessons’CENTCOM says another four
service members injured; Iran says it has suspended implementation of
MOU; Washington said sending warplanes to Mideast By Agencies, Emanuel
Fabian and ToI Staff Today, 12:02 am-JUL 19,26
The US military
said on Saturday that two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and
another was missing after an Iranian attack, while Tehran said it had
suspended adherence to its memorandum of understanding with Washington
and published a message, purportedly from its supreme leader, saying the
US would pay an “unforgettable” price for “seeking to incite war” amid
daily tit-for-tat attacks.The US and Iran have intensified attacks since
the interim ceasefire deal signed a month ago fell apart, raising the
possibility of a return to all-out war. The US has struck Iran for seven
consecutive nights now, and the Islamic Republic has responded each
time with attacks it said targeted American bases in several Middle East
countries, though it has thus far avoided firing at Israel.US Central
Command said the two service members were killed in an Iranian ballistic
missile attack on Jordan on Friday. It said a third US service member
was missing in action and four others were wounded.CENTCOM said the
wounded soldiers were taken to Jordanian hospitals and later discharged,
and “other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have
returned to duty.”“Out of respect for the families, CENTCOM will
withhold additional information, including the identities of the fallen
warriors, until 24 hours after the next of kin have been notified,” the
statement added.Since the war began, 16 US service members have been
killed and over 430 wounded.US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on
X: “Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”Iran,
responding to US attacks on bridges, power facilities and other
infrastructure, also struck US Gulf allies and appeared to target Saudi
Arabia.In a written statement carried by the official social media
accounts of Iran’s supreme leader and Iranian state media, Mojtaba
Khamenei — who hasn’t been seen or heard in public since taking office —
was quoted as saying that repeated US breaches of the interim deal had
shown that US President Donald Trump’s signature was “utterly worthless
and devoid of credibility.”“Now that the American enemy is seeking to
escalate the conflict, thereby incurring even heavier costs and further
humiliation, it should know that the noble nation of Iran and the axis
of resistance have unforgettable lessons in store for it,” the statement
said, referring to Iran’s terror proxies across the region.Khamenei’s
whereabouts remain a mystery.Meanwhile, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister
Kazem Gharibabadi said Tehran had “suspended” commitments to the
memorandum of understanding.“The US has violated and suspended all its
commitments within the framework of the Islamabad MOU,” he said in a
statement carried by the Revolutionary Guard-linked Fars news agency.“We
have also suspended our commitments; we are not implementing them, and
we are busy defending the country,” he said.The conflict — which began
when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran at the end of February,
killing supreme leader Ali Khamenei and reportedly wounding his son and
successor Mojtaba — has led to major disruption to energy supplies,
fears over global inflation and a battle for control of the Strait of
Hormuz.Israel readies to potentially join the fray-As the US sent dozens
of refueling jets back to Israel in anticipation of a possible further
escalation, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported, citing an unnamed
American official, that the US was also sending dozens of warplanes to
the Middle East, bolstering its F-16 and F-35 fleets there.While the
escalation has so far excluded Israel, Hebrew media reported Saturday
night that Jerusalem has made and is continuing to make extensive
preparations for potential Iranian attacks and a regional flare-up that
could include new fronts.Israel estimates that Iran isn’t interested in
attacking the Jewish state, due to the anticipated severity of the
response, but may nevertheless carry out such an attack or order its
regional proxies to attack, according to Channel 13 and the Ynet news
site.Ynet and Channel 12 reported Saturday that Israel had asked to join
the strikes on Iran, but that Washington had refused.Jerusalem has
reportedly prepared a new list of targets focused on infrastructure,
aimed at weakening the regime.Channel 12 and Ynet also reported that the
security cabinet has discussed the option of banning the use of small
multicopter drones throughout Israel, for fear that Iran and its proxies
may start launching attack drones — similar to those currently used by
Hezbollah in Lebanon — from neighboring countries, or that their use
will even spread to the West Bank.The drone threat has posed a
significant technological challenge, with air defenses struggling to
prevent the attacks.Iranian strikes reported in Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia-On Saturday, Kuwait came under sustained attack, with the armed
forces saying they had intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles and
drones, and that a number of firefighters and oil sector workers had
been injured while responding to the attacks.Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had struck a US military support
center at Kuwait’s Camp Arifjan and destroyed a radar facility at Ali Al
Salem Air Base. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation later said one of its oil
facilities had been hit in “repeated Iranian attacks,” causing
significant damage and some injuries, according to the state news
agency.As well as hitting Kuwait, the IRGC targeted a site in Bahrain
where US combat aircraft were gathered at Sheikh Isa Air Base and an
intelligence data center, Iranian media said.Saudi Arabia’s early
warning system issued alerts early on Saturday urging residents of
Al-Kharj and Yanbu to seek shelter. Al-Kharj, east of Riyadh, is home to
a military base that hosts US troops, while Yanbu, on the Red Sea, has a
key oil export terminal.Two people briefed on the matter said an
Iranian missile attack, the first on Saudi Arabia in more than three
months, had triggered the alerts. Saudi state media did not say what had
prompted the alerts and the government media office did not respond to a
request for comment.The IRGC made no mention of any attack on Saudi
Arabia.The secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned
the Iranian attacks, saying strikes on civilian infrastructure amounted
to “war crimes.”“Iran’s actions constitute a highly dangerous
escalation, a grave violation of international law and the United
Nations Charter, as well as war crimes requiring international
accountability and prosecution, given the deliberate targeting of
infrastructure and civilian facilities,” Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said in
a statement.Earlier, CENTCOM said it had completed its seventh
consecutive day of strikes by hitting Iranian surveillance sites,
military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage and
maritime capabilities.US airstrikes early on Saturday killed three
people and wounded eight others in the southern Hormozgan province,
which borders the Strait of Hormuz, while two bridges and a road tunnel
were damaged, Iranian state TV reported.The US carried out further
airstrikes in the same province on Saturday afternoon, Fars said,
quoting provincial authorities, but there were no reports of civilian
casualties.Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that 50 people had
been killed and more than 500 injured in US strikes on the country over
the past three weeks. It did not say how many were members of its armed
forces.Battle for control of the strait-The battle over the Strait of
Hormuz has intensified in a conflict increasingly focused on control of
the essential waterway that previously carried a fifth of the world’s
crude oil. The strikes threaten civilians and infrastructure, including
desalination plants for drinking water, while the global economy is
again on alert.Iran effectively closed the strait to shipping traffic
after the war started in late February. That sent the price of oil
soaring and has given Tehran significant leverage in negotiations.Iran
has asserted the strait must be under its sole control and that vessels
should pay fees to Tehran, even though the world for decades has
considered it an international waterway. It fired on ships on recent
days, contributing to the escalation. Crossings through the strait fell
to a three-week low, according to an international shipping
tracker.Trump has resumed threats to target power stations and bridges
to try to compel Iran to loosen its hold. The US in the past week
reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports to halt its shipments of
crude oil.A growing amount of the region’s energy is being shipped
through pipelines, but not nearly enough to offset the decline in
shipping.Oil prices rose more than 4 percent on Friday, to their highest
level in more than a month, adding to political pressure on Trump as
his Republican Party tries to hold on to power in November congressional
elections.
Katz: Israel will react with 'full force' if Iran
attacks-IDF fires interceptors over Eilat as Iranian missiles target
nearby Aqaba in Jordan-Military says it shot down missile debris, while
its interceptor fragments landed in open area near Eilat; Israeli source
tells Saudi outlet that Mojtaba Khamenei is ‘not in Iran’By Emanuel
Fabian,Lazar Berman and Agencies Today, 7:41 pm-JUL 19,26
Israel
launched interceptors on Sunday after fragments from Iranian missiles
fired at Jordan’s southern city of Aqaba potentially threatened the
nearby city of Eilat, as the escalation in US-Iran fighting showed no
signs of abating.The missiles were intercepted by American air defense
systems, according to initial Israel Defense Forces assessments, while
the military said it also launched Iron Dome interceptors amid the
missile attack to shoot down fragments.No sirens sounded in Eilat, as
the fragments were shot down. Interceptor fragments fell in an open area
near the city, without causing any damage or injuries, the IDF said.The
Jordanian military said three Iranian ballistic missiles were
intercepted while a fourth hit an open area, according to a statement
carried by the official Petra news agency.There were no reports of
injuries in the attack.Iran launched fresh missile attacks against
nations allied with Washington as the US has struck Iran for eight
consecutive nights and has expanded its airstrike campaign by
increasingly hitting civilian infrastructure. The operations followed US
President Donald Trump’s threats to start striking infrastructure to
pressure Tehran to ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, the vital
waterway for the global energy supply.IDF has identified missiles
launched from Iran in Jordan's southern city of Aqaba. Explosions were
heard in Eilat from an interception. The IDF warns the public that there
may be debris that spills over. pic.twitter.com/DhPKZsqm9x — Emily
Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) July 19, 2026-So
far, Israel has not been involved in the latest escalation, and Tehran
has not directly targeted the Jewish state.Echoing similar comments by
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz said
Sunday that Israel would respond powerfully to any attack by Iran.“If
Iran fires missiles at Israel, we will attack them with full force,”
Katz said during a visit to a rescue service facility. “If the United
States changes its policy, which is also something that could happen, we
are prepared for both defensive and offensive” action against Tehran,
he added.IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the military is
“closely monitoring the developments in Iran and maintaining a high
level of readiness.”“We monitored the launch toward the Aqaba area
today, and our air defense array is on alert to protect the citizens of
Israel,” Zamir said during a visit to the West Bank today, according to
remarks provided by the military.“We are prepared to immediately resume
fighting and will act with great force against anyone who harms us,” he
added.The US said strikes overnight Saturday-Sunday were intended to
“punish” the IRGC for a deadly strike that killed two US military
personnel in Jordan and left another missing.Iran’s Atomic Energy
Organization on Sunday condemned a US attack on the site of the nuclear
power plant under construction in Darkhovin, saying the strike violated
international law, Mehr news agency reported. It did not say when the
strike occurred.Construction of the plant in southwestern Iran’s
Khuzestan province began in 2022.In response to the latest strikes, Iran
carried out a drone attack that targeted US military assets and
equipment at Kuwait’s Al-Adiri camp and Ali Al Salem Air Base, Iranian
state TV reported early on Sunday. Both bases have been targeted as part
of Iran’s attacks against US assets and allies in the Gulf since last
week.Kuwait’s Electricity Ministry said a desalination plant had been
attacked for the second day running, causing a fire. Kuwait’s armed
forces said earlier they had again intercepted Iranian missiles, after a
sustained Iranian attack on Saturday.Bahrain’s air defenses also
intercepted an Iranian attack on Sunday, its state TV reported.In recent
days, both sides have taken aim at shipping traffic, with the US saying
it is enforcing a naval blockade on Iran and Tehran saying it targets
vessels violating its rules on navigating the Strait of Hormuz, which
usually handles one-fifth of global oil supply.The IRGC said on Sunday
that four vessels had attempted to transit the strait via an “unsafe
route” with US backing after ignoring IRGC warnings. It said two had
abandoned the attempt while the other two were involved in an
“accident.” It did not elaborate.New supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei
reportedly ‘not in Iran’An Israeli security source cited by the Saudi
al-Hadath outlet on Sunday said Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei “is not
in Iran.”Khamenei, who was appointed supreme leader shortly after his
father was killed in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, which sparked
the war, has only communicated via written statements since, and has
made no public appearances.The source told al-Hadath that Khamenei’s
messages are written by the new Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief
Ahmad Vahidi, and other members of the IRGC.“Iran’s internal divisions
are deep and threaten the existence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps,” the source was cited as saying.The Israeli source also said that
the US does not want Israel to participate in strikes on Iran, even if
Tehran attacks Israel.Separately, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
said Sunday that an intelligence breach that allowed Israel to
assassinate the senior Khamenei has likely not been patched.In a
Persian-language interview, Araghchi said that he told President Masoud
Pezeshkian on the morning of February 28 that “the atmosphere is war.”
He said that he then met with Khamenei aide Ali Asghar Mir Hijazi at 9
a.m., shortly after which Israel carried out the deadly attack on a
Tehran compound where Khamenei was having a high-level meeting.Araghchi
said that at the time of the strike, Khamenei was in his office, the
advisory Strategic Council for Foreign Relations was holding its weekly
meeting, and the Defense Council had also convened.“Holding simultaneous
meetings was not unusual in those days,” said Araghchi, “but the
enemy’s knowledge of these meetings was the result of an information
breach that probably still exists.”Araghchi also said that he has yet to
meet with Mojtaba Khamenei in person: “Only a handful of people have
met him,” he claimed.The US and Israel together launched a campaign
against Iran on February 28 to degrade the regime’s military
capabilities, distance threats posed by the country — including its
nuclear and ballistic missile programs — and “create the conditions” for
the Iranian people to topple the regime, the military and other Israeli
leaders have said.Israel respected the US-Iran ceasefire that began
April 8, and the government, while not included in the process of
negotiating the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed last month,
did not object to it even though it purported to bind both the US “and
its allies.”
Kuwait says air defenses engaging Iranian drones-By AFP-JUL 20,26
Kuwaiti
air defenses are “engaging hostile drone attacks following Iranian
aggression,” the army says.“The General Staff of the Army notes that any
explosions heard are a result of air defense systems intercepting the
hostile attacks,” the Kuwait Army says in a post on its official X
account.
42min ago-US military launches strikes on Iran for 9th consecutive night-JUL 20,26
The
US military announces the launch of strikes against Iran for a ninth
consecutive night, which it says are aimed at “degrading Iranian
military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels and civilian
mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
54min ago-Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim ‘surprise attack on enemy special ops command center’ in Syria By AFP-JUL 20,26
Iran’s
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it launched a “surprise attack”
on an enemy command center in Syria, in a statement reported by state
news agency IRNA.The IRGC announces “a surprise attack on the enemy
special operations command center in the Al-Tanf region of Syria in
revenge for the blood of martyred soldiers of Iranshahr,” a city in
southeast Iran, in an IRNA statement posted on Telegram.
PROOF
HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON
EARTH) (DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS
NEVER GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS"
1000 YEAR RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY
ONE, DOES IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are
the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war
or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE.
LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”
France
commemorates 1942 roundup of Jews, after plaque honoring rescuers
defaced-Deputy minister vows to restore memorial honoring family that
saved 13-year-old from deportation when 13,152 Jews were rounded up at
Vel d’Hiv and sent to Nazi camps By AP Today, 3:50 pm-JUL 19,26
PARIS
— France on Sunday commemorated the Vel d’Hiv roundup, a mass arrest of
Jews by French police in 1942, one of the most shameful acts undertaken
by the country’s wartime government.French police rounded up thousands
of Jews over two days in July 1942, wresting children from their
mothers’ arms and dispatching everyone to Nazi death camps. At a time of
rising antisemitism, France honors those victims every year as it tries
to keep their memory alive.France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish
population and has seen a surge in antisemitic acts, including threats,
vandalism and physical violence, following the October 7, 2023, Hamas
attacks on Israel and the ensuing war.A plaque in Paris honoring a
couple and their daughter who saved a 13-year-old child during the
roundup and were recognized by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations was
vandalized ahead of the ceremony, French authorities said.“To attack
the Righteous is to desecrate the entire universe,” said Alice Rufo, a
deputy defense minister. “The plaque will be restored. Their memory
remains undiminished. In the face of antisemitism, in all its forms, the
Republic will not yield an inch.”Following the Nazi invasion of France
in 1940, the country was ruled by a government commonly known as Vichy
France, which collaborated with Nazi Germany.Vel d’Hiv derives from the
name of the Winter Velodrome that many of the detainees were confined in
before they were deported to concentration and extermination camps.On
July 16 and 17, 1942, more than 4,500 police officers were mobilized and
dozens of buses requisitioned. It was the largest roundup of Jews
carried out in France during World War II. Arrests continued until July
20. A total of 13,152 people were deported, a third of them children.It
took France’s leadership 50 years after World War II to officially
acknowledge the state’s involvement in the Holocaust, when
then-president Jacques Chirac apologized for the French authorities’
role in the Vel d’Hiv raids.
MAMDANI IS A CRUSIN FOR A HELL BOUND
BRUSIN BY SOMEBODY.FOR WANTING TO BAN NETANYAHU FROM NEW YORK.MAMY IS A
RADICAL DEATH CULT MUSLIM.
Israel's UN envoy says it's Mamdani
who should be arrested-Mamdani: Netanyahu should be arrested if he
visits NYC; I’m discussing it but won’t rewrite laws-New York mayor says
he’s having ‘an active conversation’ with city’s legal department to
see what steps he could take should the the PM attend UN General
Assembly in September By ToI Staff 18 July 2026, 2:47 pm
New York
City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an interview published Saturday that
he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war
crimes if he visits the city in September for the United Nations
General Assembly, but indicated that he would not try to amend laws to
do so.Speaking to The New York Times, Mamdani was asked about his
campaign pledge to arrest Netanyahu, who has been accused of crimes
against humanity by the International Criminal Court for Israel’s war
against Hamas in Gaza, following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre
in southern Israel.“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in
The Hague. He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International
Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is
held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these
last many years,” Mamdani said.“I’ve also said that I will follow the
laws that we have here in New York City because I believe that there is
an importance in following the law as a leader who presides over our
city,” he said, indicating that he would not seek to actively follow up
on his threat.Pressed on his intentions, Mamdani said that “whatever the
law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we
won’t be writing our own laws to that end.”Asked specifically what the
laws allow, he said there was “an active conversation with our legal
department.”Mamdani had vowed to send the New York Police Department to
enforce arrest warrants against leaders wanted by the International
Criminal Court, including Netanyahu or Russian President Vladimir
Putin.Mamdani has in the past cited the ICC war crimes arrest warrant as
grounds for arresting Netanyahu, but the court does not have
jurisdiction in the US, and US federal law makes it illegal for local
government to cooperate with the court. A separate federal law prohibits
imprisonment and obstruction of foreign officials, including heads of
state.Also, last year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul stated that “The
New YorkCity mayor does not have the power to do that.”Legal experts
have also said Mamdani’s threat to arrest Netanyahu is baseless.The
Hague-based ICC in 2024 said it had reasonable grounds to believe
Netanyahu was responsible for alleged war crimes and crimes against
humanity in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza following the
unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack.Israel vociferously denies the
allegations and accusations of genocide in Gaza.Since the arrest
warrants were issued in November 2024, the International Criminal
Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been suspended following a
probe into accusations of sexual harassment made against him.New York is
home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel, as well as the
United Nations, where Netanyahu has regularly attended the annual
General Assembly. Netanyahu has said he does not intend to be deterred
from attending by Mamdani’s threats.Responding to Mamdani’s comments,
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Mamdani,
not Netanyahu, should be arrested.“Mamdani is failing to govern New
York. Instead of focusing on his responsibilities as mayor and
confronting the rising wave of antisemitism in his city, he has chosen
to incite hostility and generate headlines by attacking the State of
Israel,” Danon charged.“Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will come to
New York, address the United Nations General Assembly with pride, and
stand before the world to state Israel’s truth and its unwavering right
to defend its citizens,” Danon promised. “And if anyone should be
arrested, it is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”In the wide-ranging interview,
Mamdani was also asked about the centrality of his anti-Israel policies
to his worldview and his refusal to support pro-Israel candidates in
the Democratic Party.“I think what we have seen from New Yorkers, what
we’ve seen from Americans, when we talk about this hunger for a new kind
of politics, it’s a hunger to move beyond the bankruptcy that
characterizes a lot of politics today. And it is hard to find a more
bankrupt policy approach than what our country has done to Gaza and to
Palestine and how it hasn’t been specific to any one party,” Mamdani
said.Asked if a politician’s views on Gaza and a willingness to call it a
genocide would be a litmus test for him, Mamdani replied: “I think it’s
an important part. I wouldn’t say that there’s a specific litmus test
as to creating a cookie cutter of a person that I would endorse in any
one seat. What I would say is that you have to have a clear vision of
being able to describe things as they are, and being able to fight for
that which working people have been denied.”Asked if he would back
former vice president Kamala Harris in another run for the presidency,
Mamdani said he would only do so if she changed her support for military
assistance to Israel.“I think that the first step for anyone looking to
run is to be honest about what we see today and what it would take to
change that. And when I say what it will take, one of the common
features between all of the people that I endorsed for Congress was that
each one of these candidates spoke about how they would sign on to the
Block the Bombs legislation [which would restrict the sale or transfer
of specific weapons to Israel]. It speaks about an unwillingness to
continue to be complicit in a genocide,” he said.“And we’re talking
about billions of dollars in material support. So I think the first step
for any presidential candidate looking to earn the trust of people
across the country is a recognition of what our policy has wrought and
what a different policy would deliver,” Mamdani said.However, Mamdani
indicated that he would still accept pro-Israel Democrats in the
party.“My point is that the importance of a big tent; it’s critical that
we can work with those with whom we might not have agreement on every
single issue. And you can even see in the administration that I’ve put
together, it’s not an administration where at every job interview I ask
someone, ‘What are your thoughts about Israel and Palestine?’” he said.
Netanyahu:
Mamdani trying to distract from failed policies by seeking to arrest
me-Statement from PM’s office says NYC mayor ‘should focus on fixing the
damage his policies have caused New York’; US senator calls Mamdani ‘a
clown’ for his suggestion By ToI Staff Today, 11:40 pm-JUL 19,26
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office hit back on Sunday after New York
City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a recent interview that he was
reviewing ways to arrest the Israeli leader if he comes to New York.In a
statement, the Prime Minister’s Office called the International
Criminal Court — which issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024
over the war in Gaza — “a kangaroo court that has no jurisdiction over
Americans or Israelis,” and accused Mamdani of seeking to distract the
public from his own failed policies.The ICC’s “bogus arrest warrant
against Prime Minister Netanyahu was issued by a disgraced former ICC
prosecutor, Karim Khan, a few days before allegations of sexual
misconduct against him became public,” Netanyahu’s office continued. “It
was a clear attempt by Khan to divert public attention and seek
protection from scrutiny.”Israel, said the PMO, “has taken unprecedented
wartime measures to minimize harm to civilians while confronting Hamas,
a genocidal terrorist organization that uses Palestinians as human
shields and deliberately targets innocent Israeli civilians.”“Instead of
backing Khan’s criminal behavior, Mr. Mamdani should focus on fixing
the damage his policies have caused New York,” the statement
continued.“Like Karim Khan, Mamdani appears interested in diverting
public attention from his follies and attacking the leader of the Jewish
state and the only democracy in the Middle East,” it said of the ICC
chief prosecutor who filed the charges against Netanyahu and
then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.Since the arrest warrants were issued
in November 2024, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was
suspended, following a probe into accusations of sexual harassment made
against him. A full vote by member states on his dismissal is slated for
this week.Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman on Sunday called
Mamdani a “clown” for suggesting he would seek to have Netanyahu
arrested.“He has no way to do that,” Fetterman asserted during an
interview with “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News. “America’s not even
part of that corrupt court,” he said of the ICC.Fetterman, a staunch
Israel supporter, said Mamdani is “just a clown to even say that, so he
won’t try that.”“Just sit down and focus” on New York problems, “that’s
really not your purview. You and I know that. Sit down,” the senator
added.Speaking to The New York Times in an interview published Saturday,
Mamdani was asked about his campaign pledge to arrest Netanyahu.Mamdani
said, “I will follow the laws that we have here in New York City” and
that “whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we
will do, but we won’t be writing our own laws to that end.” Asked
specifically what the laws allow, he said that there was “an active
conversation with our legal department.”Mamdani had vowed to send the
New York Police Department to enforce arrest warrants against leaders
wanted by the International Criminal Court, including Netanyahu or
Russian President Vladimir Putin.Mamdani has, in the past, cited the ICC
war crimes arrest warrant as grounds for arresting Netanyahu, but the
court does not have jurisdiction in the US, and US federal law makes it
illegal for local governments to cooperate with the court. A separate
federal law prohibits imprisonment and obstruction of foreign officials,
including heads of state.Also, last year, New York Governor Kathy
Hochul stated that “the New York City mayor does not have the power to
do that.”Legal experts have also said Mamdani’s threat to arrest
Netanyahu is baseless.The Hague-based ICC in 2024 said it had reasonable
grounds to believe Netanyahu was responsible for alleged war crimes and
crimes against humanity in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza following
the unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack.Israel vociferously denies
the allegations and accusations of genocide in Gaza.New York is home to
the largest Jewish population outside Israel, as well as the United
Nations, where Netanyahu has regularly attended the annual General
Assembly, which is slated for September. Netanyahu has said he will not
be deterred from attending by Mamdani’s threats.
At meeting in
DC, Rubio lauds Lebanon president’s ongoing push to disarm
Hezbollah-Aoun says Beirut and Washington must align on achieving
initial Israeli withdrawal from negotiated ‘pilot zones,’ ahead of his
scheduled meeting with Trump on Tuesday-By Lazar Berman and AFP Today,
10:49 pm-JUL 19,26
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s efforts to disarm the Hezbollah terror
group during their meeting in Washington, DC, on Sunday.It was the first
trip to the US capital by a Lebanese head of state since Michel Sleiman
was received by Barack Obama in 2009. Aoun is slated to meet with US
President Donald Trump on Tuesday.Rubio “commended the courage of the
government of Lebanon, under President Aoun’s leadership, for their
determined effort to reclaim Lebanon’s sovereignty, disarm Hezbollah and
dismantle its terrorist infrastructure, and move towards peace,”
according to a US State Department readout.Hezbollah pulled Lebanon into
the Middle East war on March 2, when it began striking Israel in
support of its backer, Iran.Israel responded with airstrikes and a
ground invasion, and, despite a ceasefire, it continues sporadic attacks
while IDF troops remain stationed in several areas in the south, in
what Israel describes as a security zone.Israel and Lebanon — which do
not have formal diplomatic relations — began US-sponsored negotiations
in April aimed at reaching a peace deal and permanently ending the
Israel-Hezbollah war.On June 26, they reached a framework agreement in
Washington under which the Israeli military is to withdraw from southern
Lebanon and the Lebanese army is to deploy, starting with two “pilot
zones.”But the agreement is contingent on the disarmament of the
Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, which has flatly rejected both the
deal and the Israel-Lebanon negotiations that underpin it.At Sunday’s
talks, the Lebanese president stressed that Lebanon and the US must
“align… regarding the implementation of the tripartite framework,
through achieving the first Israeli withdrawal from the first pilot
zone.”The State Department added Sunday that Washington was committed to
the framework and to backing “Lebanon’s efforts to deliver
peace.”US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon were held in Rome
last week, without an exact timeline for when Israel will fulfill its
pledge to withdraw from the two pilot zones, though officials described
the dialogue as “positive.”According to Lebanon’s Al Jadeed TV channel,
Israeli and Lebanese officials discussed during their meeting on
Wednesday how to verify that pilot zones under Lebanese army control are
free of Hezbollah weapons and fighters.A third party will verify
disarmament, according to the report. No final decision has been
reached, though United Nations forces have been brought up as a
possibility.The first pilot zone will include the villages Zatar
El-Gharbiyeh, Zatar El-Sharqiya, Ghandouriyeh, Froun, Srifa, and Burj
Qalaouiyah, which sit on both the northern and southern banks of the
Litani River.Israel agreed to withdraw from two pilot zones as part of
the framework deal inked with Lebanon last month. Jerusalem described
the withdrawals as a very minor concession, given that the pilot zones
are located in areas beyond the original buffer zone that the IDF had
established in southern Lebanon.IDF officials have said that while they
are ready to implement the withdrawal, they have yet to receive a
directive from the political leadership.On Friday, local media outlets
reported that the Lebanese army had redeployed forces to the southern
towns of Froun and Burj Qalaouiyah.Both towns are located outside of the
IDF’s south Lebanon buffer zone, meaning that no Israeli soldiers
withdrew from the area for the Lebanese army to enter.Israeli forces
are, however, currently stationed in the Zatar al-Sharqiya area, and
will be required to withdraw as the deal progresses.
AFTER 3 DAYS OF HORSE RACES BEING CANCELLED.SUNDAY NIGHT WAS BACK TO ACTION.THE AIR QUALITY HAS IMPROVED A BIT.
Marchers
do not appear to succeed in crossing into Gaza-Ministers join settler
activists on march through closed military zone to Gaza border-Security
forces do little to stop thousands of marchers from breaching IDF
checkpoints while demonstrating for the reestablishment of settlements
in the Strip; no arrests reported-By Charlie Summers-20 July 2026, 2:34
am
Government ministers on Sunday joined thousands of settler
activists in a march through a closed military zone to the Gaza border,
flouting the orders of IDF officers at the scene in a show of support
for Jewish settlement of the territory.The “March of Thousands,” marking
21 years since Israel’s evacuation of its Gush Katif settlement bloc
inside the Gaza Strip, drew leading politicians from the religious
Zionist camp, such as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, as well as politicians from Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.According to event organizers
in the Nachala settler group, a total of 28 ministers and coalition
lawmakers attended the event. A spokeswoman called the support from more
mainstream elements of the Israeli right “very significant”relative to
previous attempted marches into the Strip.The marchers did not appear to
succeed in crossing into Gaza.The Israel Defense Forces declared the
area surrounding Gaza a closed military zone ahead of the march, from
Sunday at 8 a.m. until the same time on Monday.Despite the order — and
the hundreds of police officers and IDF soldiers dispatched to the scene
— the marchers gathered at 5 p.m. near Zikim Beach, and within less
than ten minutes, managed to pass the first army roadblock.When marchers
began to cross past the checkpoint, soldiers appeared visibly agitated
but refrained from making arrests, and retreated to a point further down
the route, erecting another roadblock.This pattern repeated itself
before marchers reached the Gaza border fence, with The Times of Israel
witnessing participants skirt at least four roadblocks erected by the
army as they inched closer and closer to the Strip, with some nearing
the frontier in an anarchic procession southward.Younger and more agile
marchers initially traipsed up sand dunes, through brush and over barbed
wire to reach their destination, as army jeeps and ATVs were blocking
the roads. As security forces let their guard down, larger families
began to proceed down the paved road without interference.Religious
Zionist marchers sang and chanted gleefully during the procession. Many
wore stickers reading, “Gaza is ours forever,” and held flags calling to
build a Third Temple. Some participants attended alone, but the vast
majority came with their families.Nachala claimed shortly before the
march set out that organizers had reached an agreement with the army
permitting them to gather at the entrance to Zikim Beach, though several
IDF officers at the scene insisted no such permit was given for the
march to proceed.“Thank you to the tens of thousands that came as close
as possible to our Gaza region with a clear call: we are settling Gaza
now!” read a statement from Nachala.According to organizers, the march
was aimed at pressuring the government to sign off on the
reestablishment of three evacuated settlements in northern Gaza — Elei
Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit.The official endpoint was atop a hill with a
view of what was once Elei Sinai. Many of the marchers made it to the
site, where they erected an Israeli flag. Nachala’s founder, Daniella
Weiss, went back and forth down the road, urging participants to
complete the march’s final leg.Ben Gvir, meanwhile, commended the
marchers and expressed his wish for Jewish settlement throughout Gaza.
“If they had said three years ago that we would control 70% of the
territory of the Gaza Strip, no one would have believed it,” he said.“I
say from here: There will be Jewish settlement in all of Gaza. Encourage
voluntary immigration [of Palestinians to other countries], send those
who need it to their countries. And we return home. Gaza is ours,” he
continued.Speaking about a kilometer from the border, Communications
Minister Shlomo Karhi of Likud also expressed his support for Jewish
settlement in Gaza, calling to “settle in all the regions of land
granted to our forefathers, to show our enemies that it’s not worth
messing with us, to show a meaningful picture of victory.”Karhi went on
to urge Israelis to “plant deep roots in every land granted to our
forefathers, including the Gaza region.”Smotrich was seen shaking hands
with and offering his support to the marchers near the beginning of the
route. “God forbid, if the left comes to power, this whole thing could
go down the drain, and we will march here again to prevent evictions and
destruction,” he said.Thousands attended the march, though exact
estimates varied. Police told the Ynet outlet that some 5,000 people
joined in the procession, while organizers insisted the number was
closer to 15,000.
HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
LEVITICUS 20:13
13
If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
LEVITICUS 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of
themselves with mankind,
PSALMS 14:1
1 To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that
doeth good.
ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth
of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave
them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the
natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of
their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that
do them.
GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE
GENESIS 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS
CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH
OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.
GENESIS 2:21-24
21 And the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
MATTHEW 19:4-6
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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story 'Life is hard here, but its still better than being killed'-Study
of gay Palestinians who fled West Bank finds persecution by both PA and
Israel-HIAS report says Palestinian cities are distributing flyers
instructing residents to report, beat LGBTQ individuals, while Israeli
authorities are making it harder for them to find refuge or lead normal
lives-By Nurit Yohanan-Today, 1:28 pm-JUL 18,26
Mahmoud, a
Palestinian man from the West Bank, has been living in Israel for the
past seven years, since fleeing there after his father caught him being
intimate with another man in the family’s home.In an interview with The
Times of Israel, Mahmoud, a pseudonym, recalled how his father beat him
and his partner after finding the two together. Sending the partner to
his own family, the father then summoned other relatives to beat up
Mahmoud as well.Afterward, Mahmoud said, his family locked him inside
the house, starving and beating him while telling him they would
eventually kill him.After a week of captivity, he managed to escape
through a hole in the roof while his relatives were asleep. Eventually,
he contacted an Israeli woman he knew, who helped him reach Israel.Like
other gay Palestinians, Israel had allowed Mahmoud refuge with a
temporary residency permit. However, his permit has not been renewed
since September and he faces deportation to the West Bank, an outcome he
is now fighting a legal battle to avoid.“I’m in Israel because I have
nowhere else to escape my family,” Mahmoud said. “I hope I never have to
return to the West Bank, because if my family finds me, I’ll die.”For
Mahmoud, however, the danger extends beyond encountering his family
should he be forced back to the West Bank, where discrimination against
gays is both institutionalized and deeply ingrained in society,
according to a rare new study on Palestinian members of the LGBTQ
community who fled to Israel.The study, which focuses on individuals
born in the West Bank, describes persecution faced under the Palestinian
Authority and the hardships they continue to experience after arriving
in Israel.According to researchers who produced the report, conditions
for gay Palestinians in Israel have worsened since the October 7, 2023,
Hamas attack, with tighter restrictions on residency permits and growing
hostility from segments of Israeli society and state authorities.The
report was commissioned by HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society, which assists Palestinian LGBTQ asylum seekers, among other
types of refugees.It is the first such study from the group in seven
years. Unlike reports from the other non-governmental organizations or
the United Nations, the HIAS study relies on first-hand testimonies from
those fleeing to Israel and those aiding them.Researchers conducted
in-depth interviews with eight LGBTQ Palestinians who fled the West Bank
for Israel, and included accounts from four Israeli activists who have
collectively assisted hundreds of gay Palestinians seeking
asylum.Daniella Danial, who authored the study, told The Times of Israel
that many in Israel do not recognize the systemic nature of homophobia
in the West Bank, viewing those who flee to Israel as doing so for
increased comfort rather than threats to their life.“Israel strongly
resists acknowledging that there is persecution in the Palestinian
territories,” she said. “Israel says, ‘They come here to live a liberal
lifestyle,’ as if it’s like someone moving from Bnei Brak to Tel Aviv.
It acknowledges that there are individual cases [of danger], but there
needs to be recognition that there is a broader problem.”Danial, an
Israeli citizen who identifies as Palestinian, argued that Israel cannot
avoid addressing that reality.“I’ve worked with many vulnerable
populations,” she said. “In my view, this is the most marginalized group
within Israel’s borders.”From family abuse to institutional
persecution-Although Palestinian Authority law does not criminalize
same-sex relations, a rare statement issued in 2019 highlighted the
systematic persecution of LGBTQ people.The statement, issued by the
Palestinian police, announced a ban on all organized activities and
gatherings organized by Al Qaws (“The Rainbow” in Arabic), a Palestinian
LGBTQ advocacy group founded roughly a decade earlier that focused on
promoting tolerance through online outreach. Those who took part in the
groups’ events would be arrested, police said.The police later deleted
the statement from its official platforms, a move the study says
reflected an attempt by the PA to avoid projecting an image of
intolerance to Western audiences.Al Qaws has significantly curtailed
public activities since then, though it continues to publish educational
content on social media.In 2022, the plight of gay Palestinians briefly
drew international attention after the brutal beheading of a West Bank
man who had been living under asylum in Israel but returned to the
territory under unclear circumstances.Palestinian police opened an
investigation at the time but did not determine that the killing was
motivated by homophobia, and the perpetrator has never been arrested.The
new study argues that although the PA has largely remained silent on
the issue since 2019, severe persecution of LGBTQ Palestinians — both
within their families and by public institutions — has continued, in
some cases escalating to attempted murder.Manar, a 25-year-old lesbian
from a West Bank village, recalled that “when my father discovered I was
attracted to women after searching my phone and finding intimate
messages, he started beating me all the time.”As with all interviewees
cited in the report, her identifying details have been altered for her
protection.Manar said her family forced her into marriage with a man
following her father’s discovery.Ahead of the wedding, Manar filed a
complaint with PA officials over her father’s violence, she said. Police
arrested her father, but he was released without charges or even a
warning after investigators learned that his actions stemmed from his
daughter’s sexual orientation, she claimed.The PA did not respond to a
request for comment on Manar’s claims or regarding the wider allegation
of systematic persecution of gays.Yaman, a 23-year-old gay man from
Nablus, described how his family failed to protect him after he was
abducted and beaten because of his sexual orientation.“One day I was
just walking down the street when about 20 men attacked me. They strung
me up inside an abandoned building and started beating me. Then they
called my family and told them, ‘Your son is [gay],'” he said.Instead of
defending him, Yaman said, his family blamed him. According to Yaman,
police initially opened an investigation into his kidnapping, but
quickly closed the case because “no one cared about the gay guy who had
been kidnapped.”“I realized no one was willing to protect me, and that I
had to flee Nablus if I wanted to stay alive.”While conducting research
for the report, Danial said she obtained flyers bearing official stamps
of Palestinian municipalities that allegedly identified LGBTQ
individuals by name and encouraged local residents to locate, report and
attack them. The report cites the flyers as evidence that persecution
extends beyond families to public institutions.Because the flyers
include the victims’ full identifying details, they were not reproduced
in the report. The Times of Israel could not corroborate claims about
the flyers.Danial, who has spent years providing legal and psychological
assistance to Palestinian LGBTQ individuals and other asylum seekers in
Israel, said seeing the documents firsthand had a profound
impact.“Seeing the official municipal stamps and instructions telling
people what to do to them was terrifying and shocking,” she said.The
flyers, which are shared between authorities in different parts of the
West Bank, are one of several factors making it nearly impossible for
LGBTQ Palestinians to relocate within the West Bank.As a result, many
feel they have no choice but to flee to Israel.Mahmoud told The Times of
Israel that his family spread information about him among his extended
family across the West Bank, making it impossible for him to hide
anywhere in Palestinian-controlled areas.According to Danial, the
interviews also revealed what she described as a pattern of systematic
persecution by Palestinian Authority institutions, including arbitrary
detention and fabricated criminal charges.Because there is no law
criminalizing same-sex relations in the West Bank, LGBTQ Palestinians
are sometimes accused of unrelated offenses, including collaborating
with Israel, she said, citing the interviews.Amjad, a gay man who fled
to Israel and has since been resettled in a third country, described how
police officers searched him on the street and found intimate messages
exchanged with his partner. He was immediately arrested and held for
three weeks, during which he was threatened, starved and physically
assaulted. He was released without being charged and fled directly to
Israel.Not refugees-Israel is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention
that prohibits states from returning people to countries where they
face persecution on the basis of religion, nationality, or membership in
a particular social group.Although Israel never incorporated the
convention into domestic legislation, asylum seekers from countries such
as Eritrea and Sudan have been able to apply for refuge through the
Population and Immigration Authority at the Interior Ministry. Though
asylum is rarely granted, and the process can take years, those with
open applications are permitted to remain in Israel while awaiting a
decision and are afforded various rights.However, Israel does not allow
Palestinians to submit asylum applications through the Interior
Ministry, in line with its longstanding claim that the Refugee
Convention does not apply to Palestinians.In 2014, an interministerial
team created a pathway for Palestinians fleeing to Israel to apply for
“welfare residency permits” through the Civil Administration, the
Defense Ministry body responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank.
The process is open to gay Palestinians as well as those seeking
protection for other reasons, such as domestic violence or collaboration
accusations.The permits are valid for periods ranging from one month to
one year, but can be renewed.However, they come with significantly
fewer rights. Until 2022, welfare residency permit holders were not even
allowed to work legally, a policy that changed only after human rights
organizations successfully petitioned the High Court of Justice.Permit
holders are ineligible for unemployment benefits or disability payments,
which are open to other asylum seekers, according to attorney Adi
Lustigman, who represents Palestinian LGBTQ asylum seekers.They also
have no access to health insurance, which can create significant
bureaucratic obstacles when attempting to secure employment.Amir, a
28-year-old gay man from a major West Bank city, recalled in the study
that he arrived in Israel with NIS 3,000 ($1,000) he had saved for an
emergency.“Once the money ran out, it became very difficult to find
work. Everything had to be documented, and no one wanted to hire me… You
need a bank account, an ID card,” documents he had difficulty obtaining
because of his temporary permit.Danial said many Palestinians who flee
to Israel — including from middle-class backgrounds — end up on the
street, turning to prostitution or criminal activity to get by. Some are
exposed to drugs for the first time.One interviewee had been pursuing a
physics degree when they fled, turning their ambitions upside down,
Danial said.“Why would he [otherwise] be hanging around transgender
women looking for Johns?” she asked. “They’re exposed to these worlds,
and that’s how they deteriorate here. It’s a sensitive point — because
if life is so difficult here, why would they come? Because it’s still
better than being killed. But they arrive here and suddenly they’re
using drugs.”Tighter restrictions since October 7-According to the
report, Israel has sharply reduced the entry of Palestinians from the
West Bank since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, including those
fleeing persecution because of their sexual orientation.Before the war,
roughly 90 percent of applicants seeking welfare residency permits due
to persecution received temporary permits. Since the war began, that
figure has dropped to around 60 percent, according to the study, which
cited interviews with permit-seekers.According to Lustigman, before the
war, those seeking protection could obtain a short-term entry permit,
allowing them to remain in Israel legally while they waited for an
interview with a Civil Administration representative to make their case
for a welfare residency permit.Following October 7, she said, that
practice ended without any formal announcement, forcing Palestinians
fleeing the West Bank to risk living in Israel illegally for months
until an aid organization can arrange an interview on their behalf.The
attorney cited anecdotal evidence from her own clients indicating that
the Civil Administration was now more likely to issue permits valid only
for a month or two. She also said officials have increasingly required
applicants to repeatedly produce fresh evidence that they remain under
threat in the West Bank.“They constantly demand that people prove
they’re still being threatened,” she said. “Someone may have had their
application approved two years ago, but now every time they renew their
permit, they’re asked to show new threats. There aren’t always new
threats. So they end up calling a relative, hearing them scream, ‘Don’t
come back,’ ‘They’ll kill you,’ recording the call or taking screenshots
of threatening messages, and submitting them. Otherwise, the permit
won’t be renewed. They’re constantly being forced to relive the
trauma.”Mahmoud said that the Civil Administration had demanded new
evidence of recent threats when he applied for his permit to be renewed
in September, something which had not occurred in previous years.After
his request was denied, Mahmoud appealed the decision to Israel’s
Administrative Affairs Court.In March, the court ordered that he not be
deported but also declined to grant him legal status, meaning he can
stay in Israel but not work. The court did not provide an explanation
for the decision, which it has since appealed.The Civil Administration
did not respond to The Times of Israel’s request for comment.Growing
hostility toward Palestinians-Beyond the bureaucratic hurdles,
interviewees described what they said was growing hostility from Israeli
police toward Palestinians since the October 7 attack.According to the
study, several Palestinian asylum seekers holding valid residency
permits were nevertheless deported from Israel after police officers or
soldiers allegedly told them that “it doesn’t matter — there are no
permits for Palestinians anymore.”Issam, a gay man from the West Bank,
said he was detained by police while taking out the trash outside his
home because he was not carrying identification or his wallet.Although
he tried to explain that he held a valid residency permit, he was
deported to the West Bank. Only after his attorney intervened was he
allowed to return to Israel.Upon his return, while on his way to catch a
bus home, Issam said he was stopped again by a police officer and
beaten by several officers. He was once again taken to a checkpoint, and
only a second legal intervention prevented him from being deported
again.The Israel Police did not respond to The Times of Israel’s request
for comment.Danial said the problem extends beyond interactions with
law enforcement to broader public attitudes that, she argued, have
hardened during the war.“Suddenly, employers don’t want to pay their
Palestinian workers,” she said. “We heard many cases of economic
exploitation. People work 10-hour shifts washing dishes, and at the end
of the month, they simply aren’t paid.”For many LGBTQ Palestinians
fleeing the West Bank, Israel is just a stopping point on the way to
refuge in a third country. Until recently, an average of 15 LGBTQ asylum
seekers a year were resettled from Israel to third countries through a
program administered by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.However,
officials say that the effort has been curtailed since 2025 due to
funding cuts by US President Donald Trump’s administration, part of
Washington’s broader pullback from foreign assistance.According to
Danial, the number of Palestinian LGBTQ asylum seekers who can now be
resettled has fallen to just two people a year.“If there are 300
Palestinian LGBTQ people here, even by the most conservative estimate,
it’ll take another 150 years for everyone to leave,” Danial said
sarcastically. “In the past, Israel could say: ‘You can stay here
temporarily until you’re resettled in a third country.’ When 15 people
were leaving every year, that was a bit more realistic. Today, it’s a
dead end.”
