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 130 JULY 07,26 - HAMAS DESOLVES GAZA GOVERNMENT.
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)
Iran said to fire at 2 commercial ships in Hormuz,
including Qatari gas tanker-Both vessels reportedly damaged but none
hurt; Iranian state TV confirms attacks, but does not claim them;
Tehran’s FM warns talks could collapse after another Trump threat-By
Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid-Today, 10:38 am-JUL 7,26
Iran’s
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired at least two missiles at
commercial ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz overnight
Monday-Tuesday, according to reports, causing significant damage to both
ships but no casualties.Iranian state television confirmed that a
liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack off the coast of Oman in
the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring warnings, and implied that Tehran
was behind the attack, though there was no official claim of
responsibility from the Islamic Republic.Tehran has repeatedly declared
that only its approved route through the strait is safe and is suspected
of attacking ships that have used another route close to the Omani
shore. Iran’s joint military command warned on Thursday that all oil
tankers moving through the strait must use its designated route, and
said that interference by US forces in the strait “will be met with a
rapid and decisive reaction.”The United Kingdom Maritime Trade
Operations agency (UKMTO) said earlier that a tanker was hit by an
unknown projectile on its port side while traveling southbound about
eight nautical miles (15 km) east of Oman’s Limah, causing a
fire.According to the Wall Street Journal, one of the vessels under
attack appeared to be Al Rekayyat, a liquefied natural gas tanker owned
and managed by Nakilat, the shipping arm of Qatar’s LNG industry. The
report added that the ship had been hit on the port side, at the top of
the engine room.The vessel was at the mouth of the strait, in the Gulf
of Oman, when it was attacked, the report said.UKMTO WARNING 080-26 –
ATTACK Click here to view UKMTO Products⤵️
https://t.co/Oc7hGsk3Do#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec
pic.twitter.com/uK8cm9a76M Advertisement — UKMTO Operations Centre
(@UK_MTO) July 6, 2026-Another commercial ship also suffered significant
damage but had no casualties, Axios reported, citing a US official.US
Central Command did not immediately respond to request for comment.The
development comes after indirect US-Iran talks ended last week without
any public sign of headway toward a lasting peace, despite a 60-day
ceasefire intended to create space for diplomacy following the US and
Israeli strikes that triggered the conflict.Trump again threatens to
‘finish the job’; Iranian FM fumes-US President Donald Trump warned Iran
at the White House on Monday that the US would either “make a deal or
we’re going to finish the job.”He also claimed that Iran had offered
concessions in the nuclear talks, before admitting that those proposals
weren’t final.“We’ve gotten concessions, now they have to hold [to]
those concessions,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He insisted
that the US will be allowed to extract Iran’s stockpiles of highly
enriched uranium, even though Tehran has never confirmed agreeing to
that.The US president then went on to insist that the goal of the war
was never to collapse the Iranian regime, even though on the first night
of the operation, he called on Iranians to oust their government once
the US-Israeli bombing campaign ceased.“We’re close to maybe making a
deal… I don’t know. We’re going to win one way or the other. Either
we’re going to make a deal, or we’re going to finish the job,” Trump
repeated.Talks between the US and Iran aren’t currently taking place, as
the sides agreed to pause for the week of the slain supreme leader Ali
Khamenei’s funeral proceedings.“I’d rather make a deal, because I don’t
want to affect 91 million people,” Trump said, noting that he has held
off on targeting much of Iran’s civilian infrastructure but could decide
to do so if necessary. “We can knock down their bridges in one hour. We
can knock out their energy supply.”After Trump’s message, Iran’s
foreign minister said that talks to reach a final deal between Tehran
and Washington would not restart if US threats continue.“Negotiations on
final deal will not commence if threats continue. Honor your
signature,” Abbas Araghchi wrote in a post on X early Tuesday.Millions
of proud Iranians rallied in unity to honor Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and
his legacy. Neither them nor our Brave Armed Forces are moved by any
threats. Advertisement Para 13 of the MoU is clear: Negotiations on
final Deal will not commence if threats continue Honor your signature.
pic.twitter.com/uQ7OoFyp8U — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 7,
2026-The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohammad,
Baqer Zolqadr, called Trump’s threat “delusional.”“Iranians are
unfamiliar with the language of threats. So speak to the Iranian people
with respect, otherwise we will respond in another language,” Zolqadr
said in comments carried by state media.An interim deal signed last
month by Iran and the US called upon both sides to refrain from both the
threat and the use of force against each other.The US and Israel
launched the war on Iran in late February in a bid to destabilize its
leadership and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The
fighting entered a truce on April 8, and the US and Iran are engaged in
peace talks based on the memorandum of understanding they reached last
month.Israel is not a party to the memorandum or the talks, and Israeli
officials have criticized the document for failing to secure a concrete
concession from Iran on its nuclear program.
Top officials appear
in public, signaling feeling of safety-At Khamenei funeral, speaker
calls to kill Trump; posters and grafitti urge death to Netanyahu,
too-Iranian poet leads chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to
America,’ threatens Trump’s life, as mourners declare fealty to new
leader and urge revenge; 3 of Khamenei’s sons appear, but not Mojtaba By
Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell 5 July 2026, 2:27 pm
TEHRAN, Iran
(AP) — Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme
leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for
the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling a new confidence in their
safety as calls grew for the killing of US President Donald Trump.Their
presence before hundreds of thousands of people in the capital Tehran
would have been unthinkable during the Iran war, which saw airstrikes in
its opening moments on February 28 kill the 86-year-old Khamenei, his
family members, and other officials.Israel also targeted others who
appeared publicly during the war, in at least one case likely using
their public appearance to fix their position for a strike.But still
unseen was Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. He is
believed to be in hiding after being wounded in the airstrike that
killed his father. His face was disfigured, and he suffered a
significant injury to one or both legs, people close to his inner circle
told Reuters.Israel has threatened to kill him as well, as he leads a
theocracy now negotiating with the United States over a permanent end to
the war and over Iran strangling traffic through the Strait of Hormuz,
disrupting global energy supplies.Ziba Naderi, a 42-year-old nurse
attending the funeral Sunday, said Iran needed to follow whatever
Mojtaba Khamenei commands regarding the nation.“I heard the call for
revenge, but our leader should say what we need to do,” she said. “And
we must listen to him.”Funeral includes prayers and calls for
revenge-Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a 97-year-old Shiite cleric, led the
prayers at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla for Khamenei and his late family
members.On hand were Khamenei’s sons Masoud, Meysam, and Mostafa, who
haven’t been seen since the war. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps head
Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who had only been photographed for the first time
since the war on Thursday, could be seen in the crowd by Associated
Press journalists, flanked by plainclothes security forces as he wore a
black baseball cap.Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament
Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Esmail Qaani, who leads the IRGC’s
expeditionary Quds Force, also attended.Their appearances came as
posters and graffiti at the Grand Mosalla called for the killing of
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.In this video, this
man, Mohammad Rasouli is seen at Khamenei’s funeral calling for the
assassination of President Trump. @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump @DavidVance
https://t.co/lMPbILTSTD — Reyna (@ReynaIion) July 5, 2026-Mohammad
Rasouli, a poet who emceed the event prior to the prayers, drew calls of
“Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”Speaking to the crowd over
loudspeakers at the funeral, Rasouli asked, referring to Trump, “Why is
the most bastard man in the world still alive?”The question drew cheers
from the crowd, and again when Rasouli said “the world is no longer a
good place for” Trump. It marked the first direct threat to Trump’s life
by an official during the funeral.“Why should we not kill the man who
killed my imam?” he declaimed. “It would be a disgrace if we did not
kill your killer.”Trump threats grow at funeral-The American president
was giving a speech at the same time across the world in Washington, DC,
for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.“We’ve had tremendous
success,” Trump said about the US military. “You look at Venezuela, you
look at Iran. We wiped it out, wiped out their military.”A far larger
crowd for Khamenei’s funeral than the day before attended
Sunday.Mourners dressed in black walked to the site, carrying banners
and flags honoring Khamenei and also calling for Trump’s killing.“I came
here to shout and seek revenge,” said Gholamreza Sabooni, a 29-year-old
man who works in a grocery. “They killed our imam; we should kill their
leader, Trump.”US federal authorities have been tracking Iranian
threats against Trump and other administration officials for years. That
stems from Trump ordering the 2020 killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani,
who had led the Quds Force. Iran repeatedly has denied plotting to kill
Trump, though hardline propaganda footage long has suggested Trump was
in Tehran’s crosshairs.Trump, meanwhile, promised to destroy Iran’s very
civilization during the war, among a variety of other threats.Funeral
postpones talks with US-Khamenei’s body will be transported to cities in
Iran and neighboring Iraq, with authorities planning to drive his
casket and others through the streets of Tehran on Monday. Authorities
have shut down streets, airspace, and daily life for the mourning, which
will end Thursday as he is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad,
Khamenei’s place of birth.Authorities offered no attendance count for
the event on Saturday and Sunday, but have said they expect more than 10
million people to take part in ceremonies in Tehran.Significant
security measures have been imposed in the capital, and official media
has warned attendees of the risk of crowd crushes.Organizers have also
taken measures to mitigate a heatwave that may nudge 40°C in Tehran over
the next few days, with crowds on Saturday and Sunday sprayed with
mists of water to keep cool at the Grand Mosalla complex.Other cities
across Iran also held mourning ceremonies.Water is sprayed over mourners
to help cool the crowd as Iranian, Pakistani and other flags are raised
during the dayslong funeral ceremonies for the slain Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family outside the Imam
Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, July 5, 2026. (AP
Photo/Altaf Qadri)For now, talks over reaching a permanent end to the
war are on hold until the end of the funeral. Having a major turnout
could prove important as Iran tries to leverage its hold on the Strait
of Hormuz in negotiations, as concern lingers that Israel could attack
again.“Our foreign policy should not be shaped in a way that allows our
martyred leader’s blood to be dishonored and other countries can afford
to do such things, without any serious response from our government and
diplomatic system,” mourner Mohammad Reza Sharifi said.The US and Israel
launched the war on Iran in late February in a bid to destabilize its
leadership and destroy its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The
fighting entered a truce on April 8, and the US and Iran are engaged in
peace talks based on the memorandum of understanding they reached last
month.Israel is not a party to the memorandum or the talks, and Israeli
officials have criticized the document for failing to secure a concrete
concession from Iran on its nuclear program.Agencies and Times of Israel
staff contributed to this report.
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.”
Board
of Peace to assess progress 'by actions, not promises'Hamas dissolves
Gaza government ahead of eventual transfer of power to technocrats-While
move marks political shift, Israeli official downplays it as ‘spin’ and
‘stalling’ as civil servants set to keep their jobs; Hamas has so far
refused to disarm-By Nurit Yohanan,Nava Freiberg,AFP, Jacob Magid and
Emanuel Fabian-6 July 2026, 3:40 pm
The Hamas government in Gaza
on Monday announced the resignation of the so-called “Emergency
Committee” — the Hamas-led administration that governs the Strip — in
preparation for the transfer of authority to the technocratic National
Committee for the Administration of Gaza.The Hamas government said in
its announcement that all civil servants will continue providing
services as usual, describing them as “public employees who are ready to
work under the responsibility of the National Committee for the
Administration of Gaza (NCAG).” Hamas also said it has completed all the
administrative steps necessary to transfer authority.“The head of the
government’s emergency committee Mohammed al-Farra has officially
submitted his resignation,” Ismail al-Thawabta, head of Hamas’s
government media office, told AFP.The NCAG, headed by Palestinian
technocrat Ali Shaath, was created by the Board of Peace that US
President Donald Trump established when he brokered the ceasefire
between Hamas and Israel in October 2025.The move appears intended to
demonstrate that the terror group is willing to hand over the
administration of the Gaza Strip to the technocrats, in line with
Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, despite its foot-dragging on the
requirement for it to disarm.It also appears to mark a significant
political shift by Hamas, which has run Gaza since it violently seized
control from rival Palestinian movement Fatah in 2007.The Board of Peace
said it would assess developments in Gaza “by actions, not promises,”
after the announcement.The Board has “taken note” of Hamas’s
announcement, it said in a statement on X, adding that, “ultimately, our
assessment will be guided by actions, not promises, to meet the
critical needs of the people of Gaza.”We have taken note of the
announcement today regarding the dissolution of the “Emergency
Committee” in Gaza. Ultimately, our assessment will be guided by
actions, not promises, to meet the critical needs of the people of Gaza.
Decisions must be comprehensive with respect to the… — Board of Peace
(@BoardOfPeace) July 6, 2026-The Board said it looks forward to
advancing “the implementation mechanisms necessary to enable the
National Committee for the Administration of Gaza to assume full
governing authority,” stressing that this will require “the
consolidation of all weapons under the control of the NCAG as provided
for in the Comprehensive Gaza Peace Plan and United Nations Security
Council Resolution 2803.”“A genuine transfer of authority must enable
the NCAG to exercise its mandate independently, including taking the
administrative and governance decisions entrusted to it,” the Board
said.An Israeli official appeared to downplay the significance of the
move, calling it “spin without any meaning.”“Hamas fears that
[mediators] will declare them to be violating the agreement, and
therefore it is stalling and engaging in spin,” the official told the
Kan public broadcaster.A Palestinian source familiar with the matter
told The Times of Israel that the move by Hamas is aimed at turning
Hamas’s existing governing structure into a caretaker framework, while
increasing pressure on the Board of Peace and Israel to allow the NCAG
to enter Gaza.Last month, diplomats from each of the Middle Eastern
mediating countries — Egypt, Qatar and Turkey — told The Times of Israel
that Hamas has sought to drag out negotiations on the issue of
disarmament. They also argued that Israel’s refusal to adhere to the
terms of the first phase of the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire has posed a
major obstacle as well.Alongside the strikes across Gaza targeting
terrorists, the Israel Defense Forces has slowly been pushing out the
boundaries of the area inside the enclave still under its control,
saying it now controls at least 60 percent of the Strip, rather than the
roughly 53% it held following its pullback on the first day of the
truce. Netanyahu said last month he had ordered the military to retake
additional territory, amounting to 70% of the enclave.In the areas not
controlled by Israel, Hamas has remained in place as the enclave’s de
facto government, where it is reported to be maintaining its control by
executing its opponents and those it views as posing a threat to its
rule.“Hamas has taken a new step in that it will no longer be in charge
of the Gaza Strip, in order to remove any pretexts for the occupation,
which continues its aggression and war of extermination,” Hamas
spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP.“We hope for the swift entry of the
National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, and Hamas affirms its
readiness to hand over governmental responsibilities to the committee
to ensure its success.”A Hamas official earlier told AFP that the group
had already informed other Palestinian factions about its decision at a
recent meeting in Cairo.“The factions welcomed Hamas’s decision,
describing it as a serious step towards enabling the National Committee
to take up its governing role,” the official said.The NCAG has remained
based outside Gaza for months, reportedly due to Israeli objections to
its entry into the war-devastated territory.Hamas and other Palestinian
factions have held several rounds of talks in Cairo with mediators to
narrow differences, particularly over the second phase of the Gaza
ceasefire.The first phase involved the release of the last Israeli
hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians security prisoners
held by Israel.The transition to the second phase, which was to involve
Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from
Gaza, has been stalled for months. Under Trump’s plan, Israel will only
fully withdraw upon final verification that the terror groups in the
Strip have disarmed.Meanwhile, Hamas is demanding the establishment of a
Palestinian administration before it will consider handing over any
part of its arsenal.The question of Gaza’s postwar governance remains
one of the main sticking points in negotiations on implementing phase
two.Israel rejects any return of Hamas to power, but also rejects a
direct takeover by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, which it
accuses of supporting terrorism.Israel launched the war in Gaza
following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel that
killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage.Despite the
ceasefire reached in October, Israel has continued to carry out strikes
on what it describes as terror operatives posing a threat to Israeli
soldiers inside the more than half of the Strip held by the IDF.On
Monday, the army said that an airstrike in northern Gaza over the
weekend had targeted five Hamas operatives who were attempting to
restore a tunnel system.The IDF said the tunnel was located on the
western side of the Yellow Line, in Hamas-run territory.The strike on
Saturday killed Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajr, a Nukhba Force
operative in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion, the army said. The other
four operatives were hit in the strike, but their conditions are
unknown.
Parched Jordan fuming at Israeli refusal to renew
expired water deal – report-2021 agreement doubled the original 50
million annual cubic meters specified in 1994 peace pact; the increase
was repeatedly renewed until November, when fraying relations ended
it-By Lazar Berman-Today, 10:06 am-JUL 7,26
Jordan is furious
about Israel’s continued refusal to renew a 2021 water agreement between
the two neighbors, the Kan public broadcaster reported Monday.The 1994
peace treaty between Israel and Jordan mandates that Jerusalem supply 50
million cubic meters annually to its eastern neighbor. In 2021, during
the Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government, Israel agreed to double the
amount of fresh water it provides to Jordan, one of the world’s most
water-deficient countries.The 2021 agreement expired in late 2025 after a
series of extensions, though Israel still supplies the initial 50
million cubic meters laid out in the peace treaty. Israel reportedly
conditioned the supply of the additional volume on Jordan moderating its
rhetoric toward Israel and restoring full diplomatic ties.A Jordanian
source close to the royal family told the outlet: “The water issue is
very important to us, and is part of the peace treaty.”Jordan’s King
Abdullah declined repeated requests from Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to meet in March, according to Israeli media reports. One of
Abdullah’s demands for agreeing to a meeting was the renewal of the
water agreement, the report said.Energy Minister Eli Cohen had been
renewing the additional agreement every six months, reportedly under
pressure from the US and because Jordan helped shoot down Iranian drones
fired at Israel, the Ynet news site reported. However, Jerusalem became
reluctant to continue the process in the face of repeated criticism of
Israel by Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.The water issue is one
of the topics that would be on the agenda of a possible trilateral
energy summit that would be hosted by the United Arab Emirates, Ynet
said.Israel is interested in the summit, which would be held in Abu
Dhabi and attended by the Israeli, UAE, and Jordanian energy ministers,
the outlet reported, citing an unnamed Israeli official.Israel has no
obligation to provide the additional water but could do so if “there is
goodwill between the two countries,” the official said.“Jordan needs the
water, but when you help your neighbors, you expect warmer relations,”
the official said. “If there is a meeting, everything will be on the
table — normalization, water, and strengthening bilateral ties.”The
official noted that 2025 was Israel’s driest year in the past 100 years
and that the government has placed a priority on refilling the country’s
water reservoirs as well as supplying local agriculture.Aside from the
water agreement, talks would also be held at the summit on the so-called
“Prosperity” initiative to build a desalination plant for providing
potable water to Israel and Jordan, as well as a Jordanian solar plant
that would supply electricity to both countries.Israel, Jordan, and the
UAE signed a declaration of intent for the project in 2021. If
completed, Israel would provide Jordan with 200 million cubic meters of
water each year, while Jordan would supply 600 MW of
electricity.According to the report, efforts would also be made to patch
up relations between Israel and Jordan, which have not maintained
ambassadors in each other’s countries since 2023, when the war against
Hamas in Gaza started
Israeli envoy says Jerusalem views deal
with Lebanon as superseding US MOU with Iran-In onstage interview in DC,
Yechiel Leiter dimisses reports of Netanyahu-Trump rift as media
‘drama,’ says upcoming round of Israel-Lebanon talks slated for next
week in Rome-By Jacob Magid-Today, 5:06 am-JUL 7,26
Israeli
Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said Monday that
Jerusalem views the framework deal it inked last month with Lebanon as
superseding the memorandum of understanding that Washington signed with
Iran just over a week earlier.During an onstage interview hosted by the
Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, Leiter also argued that
reports of a rift between the US and Israel are overblown, and said the
next round of Beirut-Jerusalem talks is slated to begin next week.“Both
Israel and Lebanon clearly see our trilateral agreement superseding the
first clause of the MOU. Whether or not the United States does, you’ll
have to ask an administration spokesman,” Leiter said.While the US
brokered the talks between Jerusalem and Beirut that led to the
framework deal in which the sides agreed to prevent Iran from
influencing developments in Lebanon, the MOU that US President Donald
Trump went on to sign with Iran appeared to undermine the Israel-Lebanon
channel by specifically extending the US-Iran ceasefire to include
Lebanon and call for an end to military operations in the country.Leiter
said he recognizes that Iran, along with Pakistani and Qatari
mediators, believes the MOU should override the Israel-Lebanon framework
deal. However, he argued that the MOU is merely a document aimed at
reopening the Strait of Hormuz after Iran closed the channel in response
to US and Israeli strikes. Leiter suggested the MOU “is not a closure
of the operation against Iran and its nuclear pursuits.”The Israeli
envoy also argued against the MOU’s envisioned sanctions relief to Iran,
insisting that Tehran will use that money “for nefarious
purposes.”Israeli Ambassador to the U.S: Yechiel Leiter “Lebanon is
gonna have to get ahold of itself.. make the choice— that it comes down
to the side of accommodationism— those who have threatened the notion of
Israel’s existence and that Lebanon can be used as a conduit to
fulfill… pic.twitter.com/zVN33tSJI8 Advertisement — MJTruthUltra
(@MJTruthUltra) July 6, 2026-At the same time, the Israeli envoy
recognized the limits of Israel’s ability to influence US
decision-making: “All we can do is weigh in… We can’t be part of that
decision-making process. That’s too big for us. We know our size.”He
said there are some members of the Israeli government who are panicking
over the MOU and its meaning for Iran and the region, but said he is
“much more sanguine,” and urged a wait-and-see approach regarding
ongoing talks on a final deal that would more holistically address
Iran’s nuclear program, missile program and support for proxies.“Whether
that’s in 60 days or 90 days or after the midterms… I’m quite sure that
the administration didn’t go to war to go back into a situation where
Iran has a pathway to once again try and produce nuclear weapons” by
creating a shield via the mass production of ballistic missiles, Leiter
added.While Trump made the destruction of Iran’s missile program an
initial war aim, he shifted after signing the MOU last month to arguing
that Tehran should be allowed to have some missiles as a means of
self-defense against neighbors that also possess them.For his part,
Leiter said he “can’t imagine that any ultimate agreement with Iran
would be absent a clause limiting the development of ballistic
missiles.” He noted that Trump had also said any deal with Iran would
have to address its support for proxies — notably Hezbollah in Lebanon
and the Houthis in Yemen — though that issue, too, went unmentioned in
the MOU.With little apparent progress made in further US-Iran talks,
Leiter indicated that the next round of negotiations between Israel and
Lebanon will take place next week in Rome.“Next week, we’re going to be
sitting in Rome on the 14th and 15th, bringing teams for each issue,”
Leiter said.He also revealed that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will be
meeting with Trump at the White House on July 21 — a date that had not
yet been publicly confirmed. The US has sought to organize a trilateral
meeting between Aoun, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump, but
Beirut has pushed back on the idea so long as Israel maintains forces in
southern Lebanon. After a call last week between Trump and Netanyahu,
the Prime Minister’s Office said the pair would be meeting soon in the
US, with no date confirmed.Despite a number of highly publicized
differences, Leiter insisted Monday that reports of a rupture in ties
between Israel and the US were overblown.“The media loves drama. So, if
the president and the prime minister have 100 conversations that are
pleasant, and then there are two conversations in which the president is
having a bad day or is a little irritable and makes that known — that
becomes the tenor of the relationship between the two men,” Leiter
lamented.“The relationship is good and solid. There are differences
along the way, and they are legitimate,” he said, using as an example
Israel’s opposition to the potential US sale of F-35 fighter jet parts
to Turkey. Leiter noted that Israel has made its position known and that
the US has the right to decide how it wants to proceed.The Israeli
ambassador insisted that Israel does not have any territorial ambitions
in Lebanon — something leaders in Jerusalem have repeatedly stressed —
but will remain there until the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) can
verifiably prove it has begun disarming Hezbollah.The Israeli envoy
argued that one of the obstacles in the way of that goal is the presence
of Hezbollah activists and sympathizers inside LAF units. Accordingly,
Israel has submitted a proposal to have the US vet existing LAF units to
weed out Hezbollah sympathizers.While Trump suggested during a May Oval
Office meeting that Israel be the one to vet and train Lebanese
soldiers, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio “came to the rescue and
said, ‘Well Mr. President, they hate Hezbollah, but they’re not ready to
love the Israelis yet.”Pressed for additional details on this plan to
vet LAF units, Leiter admitted that it was still in the works. However,
he asserted that some LAF units are not “saturated” with Hezbollah
operatives and therefore can already begin operating against the terror
group.Leiter said Israel is prepared to strengthen the current,
anti-Hezbollah Lebanese government by providing intelligence on anyone
seeking to harm its leaders. He added that Jerusalem is also prepared to
lobby Washington to increase its financial assistance to the LAF if the
latter proves that it is willing to take on Hezbollah.Israeli
Ambassador Yechei Leiter criticizes U.S. media: "If we were guilty of
the things that we're accused of my son would be alive today…Because we
don't strike bomb population centers from above and we don't starve
population centers and we don't commit genocide."
pic.twitter.com/Ml6tFJqPwJ — CSPAN (@cspan) July 6, 2026-Leiter also
pushed back against claims that it was a mistake for Israel to kill
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, even though it has led to the
elevation of more hardline IRGC officials. He argued that it is too
early to say who will fill the leadership vacuum in Tehran, and that in
some previous cases, such voids have been filled by individuals willing
to make peace.The ambassador also dismissed US Vice President JD Vance’s
recent claim that Trump was the only world leader left who is still
sympathetic toward Israel, pointing to strong Israeli ties with India,
the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Somaliland and Armenia,
highlighting Israel’s recent recognition of the Armenian genocide. That
decision, however, received a somewhat chilly response in Armenia, amid
accusations that it was only made in order to snub Turkey.While arguing
that Vance was incorrect in describing Israel as diplomatically
isolated, Leiter clarified that he has never detected “a scintilla of
antipathy toward Israel” from dozens of meetings with Vance.
Police
investigating antisemitic abuse of Jewish marchers in London pride
parade-Metropolitan Police says it is looking into videos showing
‘antisemitic verbal abuse directed towards attendees’ at annual LGBTQ
event in British capital-By Kelly Hartog Today, 1:43 am-JUL 7,26
JTA
— London’s Metropolitan Police launched an investigation Monday into
antisemitic abuse at a Pride parade in the capital after videos and
pictures circulated on social media showing Jewish participants enduring
taunts at Saturday’s event.The Met said in a statement that officers
were “aware of videos circulating online that show antisemitic verbal
abuse directed towards attendees” at the parade in central London, and
that footage was being reviewed to assess whether criminal offenses had
been committed. They added that the force “continues to work hard to
tackle hate crimes of all types.”Videos shared online show people
carrying rainbow flags incorporating the Star of David being confronted
by individuals shouting “Free Palestine.” The harassment escalated with
attendees shouting, “Go back to your Zionist homeland,” “You kill Arab
children, you kill gay children,” “F*** you, Jew,” and “How many babies
did you kill?”The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reached out to Pride in
London for comment. They had not replied by press time.The incident
comes amid heightened concern over antisemitism in Britain since Hamas’s
Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. There have been a record number of
antisemitic incidents in the UK over the past two years.Pride in London
drew tens of thousands of participants and visitors to Soho in the
capital. This year, around 150 people marched as part of a Jewish bloc
at the event. Some Jewish LGBTQ+ organizations have in recent years
chosen not to participate in Pride, citing hostility towards Zionist
Jews.'Fuck you Jew' said to Jews celebrating Pride in London today.
Watch till the end@metpoliceuk pic.twitter.com/Q8aa6Tzi5m —
JewishWomenCount (@jwomencount2) July 4, 2026-Organizers said the return
this year followed discussions with Pride in London over Jewish
inclusion and commitments that organizers would undertake antisemitism
awareness training in partnership with the Community Security Trust, the
main security consultant to the Jewish community. Jewish LGBTQ group
Keshet UK stated earlier this year that the measures were intended to
help ensure Jewish LGBTQ+ participants could march “safely and openly”
following concerns raised after Oct. 7.It was not clear whether the
Jewish marchers who endured the abuse were part of the Jewish bloc –
accounts from marchers who stayed with the Jewish bloc were generally
positive.“A few people came and chanted ‘free, free, Palestine,’”
Israeli author and LGBTQ+ activist Hen Mazzig told JTA. “They were
passing through. And there was another person who was at a cafe and
then they came by and they were just staring at us.”Mazzig shared
footage from the event on X, ”My pride is not affected by the opinions
of others. I am gay, I am Jewish, and I’m here to stay. Am Yisrael
chai,” he said.Mazzig splits his time between London and Tel Aviv,
because his husband is British. He told JTA in a phone interview that
Saturday’s incidents “were scary, especially when a Pride parade is
supposed to be inclusive.”Mazzig said that since Oct, 7, circumstances
have been exceptionally challenging for the British Jewish community
“but specifically for LGBTQ youth that are being forced to choose
between their Jewish identity and their queer identity.”Unless Jewish
marchers specifically say they are anti-Zionist they will not be
accepted, Mazzig claimed. “Every statement of solidarity with LGBTQ Jews
seems to come with a ‘but,’” he said. ‘We support you, but not if
you’re physically Jewish, not if you’re supporting Israel. You have to
renounce half of your identity first.’ That’s not equality.”In advance
of Saturday’s event, some 650 Met police officers were deployed to
enforce “zero tolerance” on hate crime and to ensure that attendees
could “safely and securely” enjoy the parade.When JTA asked the
Metropolitan police why at least two police officers appeared to stand
by as Jews were subject to abuse, the Met requested that JTA provide the
video in question. After being supplied with the video, the Met later
told JTA that it had nothing further to add at this stage but would
provide an update if they did.
UN deems Israel’s detention of
Hamas doctor ‘arbitrary’ as health fears mount-Working group says
holding Hussam Abu Safiya, a colonel in the terror group and a Gaza
hospital director, is a human rights violation, calls for his immediate
release-By Reuters and ToI Staff 6 July 2026, 10:47 pm
A UN human
rights body on Monday called Israel’s detention of Gazan doctor Hussam
Abu Safiya, a colonel in the Hamas terror group, arbitrary and urged his
immediate release, as rights groups and his lawyer warned that his life
was in imminent danger.In its finding, the UN Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention said that Israel’s actions contravened multiple
articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.“The appropriate
remedy would be to release Mr. Abu Safiya immediately and accord him an
enforceable right to compensation and other reparations,” it said.The
panel also raised broader concerns, saying the case — one of several
submitted to it — “may indicate a widespread or systematic practice of
arbitrary detention in the country.”The Israel Prison Service and the
Israeli diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a
request for comment. Israel did not respond to the UN working group when
approached about the case last July, it said.MENA Rights Group, which
filed the complaint, said the 52‑year‑old pediatrician and director of
Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital has been held since December 2024. It said
he has faced repeated solitary confinement, lengthy interrogations, and
beatings with batons and electric shock sticks.Abu Safiya was arrested
by Israeli forces during the war against Hamas in Gaza in December 2024
and is one of the most prominent Gazan detainees. He is being held in
solitary confinement, and rights groups have called for his release.He
holds the rank of colonel in the Hamas Military Medical Services,
according to the service itself and Palestinian media reports. A
photograph from 2016 showing him wearing a Hamas uniform and sitting
next to senior members of the terror group emerged after his
arrest.Earlier on Monday, his lawyer, Nasser Odeh, said via a prisoners’
group that Abu Safiya’s health was in grave danger and that he had been
subjected to daily abuse.Video footage of him from a Supreme Court
hearing last month showed him looking visibly thinner.“If Dr. Abu Safiya
dies in that cell, it will be murder, and everyone who had the power to
stop it — and did nothing — will be complicit,” said Steve Cutts, CEO
of charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.The Israel Prison Service
previously rejected allegations that Abu Safiya and other doctors have
been mistreated in prison.Last month, the Supreme Court rejected Abu
Safiya’s appeal against his ongoing detention, ruling that he can
continue to be held under Israeli law for unlawful combatants despite
criminal charges not having been brought against him. The text of the
decision and its reasoning have yet to be released.The IDF has
previously said that Abu Safiya was a high-ranking Hamas operative, but
did not accuse him of participating in any specific acts of
terror.Another director of Kamal Adwan, Ahmed Kahlot, who was captured
by the IDF earlier in the war, revealed in an interrogation that the
MMS-affiliated hospital was turned into a military facility under
Hamas’s control and that at one point it housed a kidnapped
soldier.According to Kahlot, who himself has been a lieutenant colonel
in Hamas since 2010, some 16 members of the hospital’s staff – including
doctors, nurses, and paramedics – are also Hamas operatives who serve
in the al-Qassam Brigades.Over 240 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
were detained by troops at Kamal Adwan during an operation there in
December 2024, according to the military.In January 2025, the IDF
released interrogation footage of a Hamas operative detained by troops
at Kamal Adwan in which he said that the terror group uses the medical
center as a shelter.Anas Mohammad Faiz a-Sharif said Hamas operatives
would move weapons to and from the hospital, as well as set out from the
medical center at night to carry out surveillance operations and
patrols.It was unclear whether the statements were made under duress and
whether they represented the stances of the other detainees.The war was
triggered by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion of southern
Israel.Abu Safiya is among at least 14 doctors from Gaza who have been
detained in Israel without charge for more than a year.His case is
emblematic of “Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian healthcare
workers, which has contributed to the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare
system,” Tanya Boulakovski, research lead at MENA Rights Group, told
Reuters.In 2023, Abu Safiya was among the doctors who refused to leave
the dozens of newborn infants they were treating after the Israeli
military ordered them to leave.The UN working group’s legal
interpretations are non-binding but are sometimes cited as evidence in
cases before international courts.Israel currently holds over 1,300
Palestinian detainees under the terms of the law for unlawful
combatants, in a practice known as “administrative detention.”Such
detainees include those arrested by the IDF and security services inside
Gaza during military operations, but who have not been charged with a
crime.The measure sees individuals held without charge for up to six
months at a time, under limited court review. The detentions can be
renewed indefinitely, while allowing military prosecutors to keep
suspects from being able to see the evidence against them.The tool is
typically used when authorities have intelligence tying a suspect to a
crime but do not wish to reveal the source of the information.
US
liberals ‘license’ antisemitism when framed as Israel criticism – psych
study-Researchers find that progressive Americans, but not
conservatives, like prejudiced individuals more when they justify
Jew-hatred with statements about Gaza or Palestinian rights-By Luke
Tress-6 July 2026, 10:07 pm
US liberals judged individuals who
expressed unqualified prejudice more harshly than conservatives did, but
liked prejudiced individuals more when they justified antisemitism with
statements about Israel, according to a recent peer-reviewed psychology
study.In two out of three experiments, anti-Jewish prejudice justified
by Israel’s actions increased liking from liberals, but the “licensing
effect” did not apply to conservatives. A third experiment did not find
conclusive differences between liberals and conservatives.The American
Psychologist journal published the study in its June edition, an issue
that focused on antisemitism. The authors were Jordan W. Moon of the
UK’s University of Southampton and Brunel University of London, and
Michael Barlev and Steven L. Neuberg, both of Arizona State
University.The article cited previous research that found that people
“rarely express prejudices without accompanying justifications,” some of
which make prejudice more socially acceptable.The researchers defined
prejudice as a negative view of a social group, or its members,
regardless of the prejudice’s justifications. Liberalism and
conservatism were self-reported on a scale, not defined by affiliation
with political parties.The researchers recruited 979 participants, using
the online platform, Prolific, in a sample meant to resemble the
broader US population. The surveys took place in late 2024, and Jewish
participation was negligible, the study said.Participants read about
hypothetical individuals expressing prejudice toward minority groups —
either Jews, Muslims or Black people — with or without justification for
their prejudice.For unqualified prejudice, researchers told
participants that “[Name] doesn’t like Jews,” and for justified
prejudice, they said, “[Name] doesn’t like Jews, because [Name] strongly
disapproves of Israel and its war in Gaza.”Prejudice against Black
people was justified by a belief that they “commit crimes,” and the
anti-Muslim character was prejudiced against Muslims because their
“culture and values conflict with Western culture and values.” The
subjects were then asked how much they liked the hypothetical
individuals.If there were no justifications for prejudice, liberals
viewed the prejudiced individual more harshly than conservatives in each
set of questions, and viewed antisemitism as negatively as prejudice
against Black people and Muslims.When anti-Jewish prejudice was
justified by “Israel and its war in Gaza,” liberals viewed the
prejudiced individual more favorably by 1.1 points on a scale of 1-7.
The Israel justification did not produce a statistical effect on
conservatives.For the prejudice against Muslim and Black people, the
researchers did not find significant evidence that the justifications
had a different effect on liberals and conservatives.For another subject
group, experimenters linked Jewish Americans to Israel “violating the
human rights of Palestinians,” while linking Black, Muslim, Chinese, and
Russian Americans to other human rights violations abroad. The
researchers defined this as a “left-coded” justification for
prejudice.Again, without justifications, liberals judged the
hypothetical, prejudiced individual more harshly than conservatives.When
the prejudice was justified by human rights violations against
Palestinians, however, liberals, but not conservatives, viewed the
prejudiced individual more favorably, by a score of 0.78 on a scale of
1-7.The human rights justifications also “licensed” some prejudice
against Black, Muslim, Chinese, and Russian Americans, although there
was no statistical difference between liberals and conservatives.“When
an individual expressing antisemitism justified their prejudice by
disapproval of Israel and the war in Gaza or violations of the human
rights of Palestinians, liberal, but not conservative, participants
liked him or her more,” the researchers wrote, summing up their
findings.A third line of questioning asking participants about a broader
range of justifications for antisemitism — such as anti-Jewish
conspiracies, race, and religion — did not find statistical differences
between conservatives and liberals.The researchers carried out further
analysis on “ingroup favoritism” to measure how ideologically similar
the subjects believed the hypothetical bigot was to themselves. The
subjects rated their own political liberalism or conservatism, and how
liberal or conservative they believed the prejudiced individual
was.Liberal participants viewed prejudiced individuals as more liberal,
and similar to themselves, when the prejudice was coupled with a
left-coded justification, such as the Gaza war. There was a similar
effect among liberals for left-coded prejudice against other
groups.Liberals also saw conspiratorial justifications for antisemitism
as closer to their own ideology.“This was unexpected as narratives about
Jewish power and influence have traditionally come from the political
right,” the authors wrote.Liberals also viewed racially coded
antisemitism as worse than prejudice without any justification, the
researchers said.The authors suggested that individuals seen as broadly
prejudiced against many groups could threaten political coalitions of
minority groups, and that left-coded justifications made a prejudice
seem more specific, and less threatening, than general
intolerance.“Although we do not suggest that liberals are generally more
lenient toward antisemitism — our findings show that this is not the
case — it is clear that certain framings do license some degree of
antisemitism,” the researchers said. “Curbing antisemitism in liberal
circles might require targeted interventions, aimed at recognizing
antisemitism when it occurs and reminding liberals that it is wrong
regardless of the guises it takes.”
Macron arrives in Syria for
first post-Assad visit by West European head of state-French president
says he came to show commitment to Syrian people, seek a ‘Syria, united
in its diversity,’ and at peace with its neighbors-By Agencies and ToI
Staff 6 July 2026, 9:21 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron
arrived in Damascus on Monday for the first visit by a Western European
head of state since Syria’s new authorities took power in 2024.“I have
come to express France’s commitment to the Syrian people,” Macron posted
to his official X feed. “For a sovereign Syria, united in its diversity
and at peace with its neighbors. Together, let us open a new chapter of
stability and peace.”Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani welcomed
Macron upon arrival.Macron, who will depart on Tuesday, will advocate
for “a free, pluralist Syria that respects each of its components”; he
plays a role in moderating Middle East tensions, the French presidency
told journalists ahead of his visit.He was accompanied on the trip by
France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.President Ahmed
al-Sharaa has been rebooting Syria’s international credentials and
seeking to revive his struggling country after toppling longtime ruler
Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.The visit underlines Syria’s
geopolitical transformation under Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda commander
who has established close ties with Western and Middle Eastern powers
that shunned Assad.The last French president to visit was Nicolas
Sarkozy in 2009, before Assad brutally crushed pro-democracy protests in
2011, sparking a conflict that killed more than half a million people
and devastated Syria’s infrastructure and industry.A deadly bombing at a
Damascus cafe last week was the latest security challenge for the new
Islamist authorities, who are trying to reunify the country after more
than 13 years of civil war.Syrian state news agency SANA described the
visit on Monday as “a pivotal step in the process of restoring Syria’s
international presence.”It added that with the visit, “Syrian-French
relations are entering a new phase based on mutual respect and a
balanced partnership.”Syria’s reconstruction is set to be one of the key
themes of the trip, and Macron will be accompanied by business leaders,
including the CEOs of TotalEnergies and French container shipping group
CMA CGM, a French presidential official told reporters in a briefing
ahead of the visit.Early last year, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
Al-Thani became the first foreign head of state to visit Damascus after
Assad’s December 2024 ouster.European Commission chief Ursula von der
Leyen visited in January, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky
followed in April.The French president’s visit comes during a period of
relative calm in the Middle East after the monthlong war in Iran and
Lebanon. He will travel next to Ankara, Turkey, for the NATO summit,
where Sharaa is also expected to attend and hold a high-profile meeting
with US President Donald Trump.Macron hosted al-Sharaa in Paris in May
2025, and urged European and US leaders to lift longstanding sanctions
on Damascus. Most of those sanctions have since been lifted.
Explosions
heard in Damascus during Macron visit, security source says-France's
President Emmanuel Macron (C) speaks as he attends a breakfast to meet
with representatives of Syrian civil society in Damascus on July 7,
2026. Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed France's "constructive
role" in the transition since the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar
al-Assad, as French leader Emmanuel Macron made the first post-conflict
visit to Damascus by a Western European leader. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN /
POOL / AFP)
Explosive devices blew up on Tuesday in Syria's
capital Damascus near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron was
meant to be staying, a security source said.Roads were sealed off and
security measures were implemented after the blast.A Reuters witness
heard explosions in the vicinity and smoke was seen rising.Macron is
first major EU leader to visit Damascus since Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad was toppled.- Reuters.
Central bank trims borrowing
costs to 2022 low, sees room for further rate cuts-Finance minister and
manufacturers criticize Bank of Israel’s 0.25% rate cut to 3.5% as
insufficient, say it doesn’t reflect the needs of businesses and
householdsBy Sharon Wrobel-6 July 2026, 8:12 pm
The Bank of
Israel on Monday decided to lower interest rates, following the US deal
with Iran, eased global geopolitical tensions, and a stable inflation
environment, and said it sees the economy growing at a slightly faster
pace this year.The central bank reduced interest rates from 3.75 percent
to 3.5%, the lowest level since November 2022. It marked the third rate
cut this year, after borrowing costs for households and businesses came
down in May and January.“The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed
between the US and Iran led to a decline in energy prices and moderation
in global geopolitical tension,” Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron
said at a press conference in Jerusalem. “However, the level of
uncertainty remains high…tension continues in the north, and its
ramifications continue to be reflected in economic activity.”Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in recent months repeatedly criticized
the central bank’s conservative monetary policy, called for steeper
interest rate cuts to ease the financial plight of households and
businesses, and help weaken the strong shekel, which is harming
exporters.“The minimal interest rate reduction does not match the
challenges facing households and businesses, is not aligned with the
needs of the economy, and makes things harder for the high-tech sector
and exporters,” Smotrich lamented. “A sharp reduction in the interest
rate is the step needed that will ease the cost of living and balance
the strengthening of the shekel.”Over the past year, the shekel, which
recently reached a 33-year high, has risen by as much as 20% against the
dollar despite an economy strained by military campaigns in Iran,
Lebanon, and Gaza. The strength of the local currency has been driving
up local operational costs, forcing tech exporters and startups to make
tough decisions about sweeping layoffs, hiring abroad, and moving
R&D centers out of Israel, stirring fears about future growth.“Given
the severity of the crisis facing Israeli exports and industry, the
central bank’s move is insufficient,” said the Israel Manufacturers’
Association following the rate decision. “The decline in the economy’s
risk level sets the conditions for further and steeper interest rate
cuts that would safeguard Israel’s key growth engines and support
investment and employment.”Yaron acknowledged that the “sharp
appreciation of the shekel in the recent period poses significant
challenges for the export and high-tech sectors, which are key growth
drivers of the Israeli economy.”The Bank of Israel’s research staff
expects inflation during 2026 and 2027 to hover around 1.8%, well within
the government’s price target range of 1% and 3%. Over the coming year,
the central bank forecast that interest rates would be lowered to
3%.“To the extent that inflation expectations decline more aggressively,
and especially if they approach the lower bound of the target range, it
will justify more accommodative monetary policy, and at faster paces,”
Yaron said.Still, the governor also cautioned that the inflation
environment was greatly influenced by “geopolitical developments in the
region and their effects on economic activity and on energy prices,” as
well as “fiscal developments,” including the possibility of an increase
in the defense budget.Alongside the rate decision, the central bank said
it expected the economy to grow by 4% in 2026, up from its March
forecast of 3.8%. In 2027, the pace of growth is expected to pick up to
5.5%, similar to the previous forecast. Israel’s economy grew 2.9% in
2025, which was overshadowed by the war with the Hamas terror group in
Gaza for most of the year and fighting on multiple fronts with
Iran-backed proxies.“Economic activity continues to recover gradually,
against the backdrop of domestic and global uncertainty,” said Yaron.
“The economy is facing what I have termed a ‘fiscal trilemma’ — the
challenge of putting the debt-to-GDP ratio on a declining path while
financing defense expenditure and investing in growth drivers.”
Ahead
of Trump’s trip to Turkey, Netanyahu says Ankara shouldn’t get F-35
jets-PM also laments sale of fighter engines, warns providing Ankara
with advanced weapons will upset balance of power in region; rejects
notion of tension with US president By Lazar Berman-6 July 2026, 5:22 pm
As
US President Donald Trump heads to Turkey for a NATO summit, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged Washington not to sell
advanced weaponry to Ankara, and in particular F-35 jets.Speaking to Fox
News, Netanyahu called Turkey “a regime infected by the Muslim
Brotherhood, an extreme movement that hates America and chants ‘Death to
America.'”“I don’t think they should be given F-35s or engines for
their fighter jets,” he insisted.Last month, Trump seemed to indicate he
would agree to sell Turkey F110 fighter jet engines and readmit the
country to the F-35 program. Turkey needs the engines for its KAAN
fifth-generation fighter jets, which it began developing after it was
excluded from the F-35 program in 2019.Netanyahu argued that such a move
would “upset the balance of power in the Middle East, which is
ultimately guaranteed by Israel’s air superiority and also America’s
posture in the Middle East.” Israel has dozens of F-35s in its
inventory.He called Turkey “a great country” but lamented that it is
ruled by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, he said, openly threatens Israel
with destruction and occupies half of Cyprus.Reuters reported last month
that the Trump administration has formally notified Congress of its
intention to sell more than $700 million of jet engines to Turkey. The
report cited two sources and a copy of the formal notification seen by
the news agency.Asked at the time if he was preparing to sell the
engines and F-35s to Turkey, Trump said, “I think so, look… I’m going to
probably do something that’s going to make him [Erdogan] very
happy.”Pressed on what specifically needs to happen for the F-35 sale to
go through, Trump punted the question to Vice President JD Vance.“There
are certain things that we have to certify that have happened in order
to comply with American law. The president has asked us to do that… so
they can get the F-35s… This is really a congressional thing,” Vance
said before Trump chimed in, insisting that the issue would be sorted
out.The sale of the F-35 to Turkey would be seen as an important gesture
to Ankara ahead of the pivotal NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, as
well as to Erdogan, whom Trump considers a key ally. Aside from Israel,
Greece is also opposed to such a sale.The fighter jet, a
top-of-the-line stealth plane, was originally developed by the US in
partnership with other NATO countries under a program called the Joint
Strike Fighter. However, the US booted Turkey from the development of
the F-35 after Erdogan went ahead with purchases of the S-400 missile
defense from Russia.US law does not permit Turkey to operate or possess
the S-400 system if it wishes to rejoin the F-35 program. However, US
Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said in December that the warm
relationship between Trump and Erdogan helped the two sides hold “the
most fruitful conversations we have had on this topic in nearly a
decade.”Israeli companies manufacture some key components of the F-35
system, including a state-of-the-art helmet that is a joint project by
Elbit Systems and the American Rockwell Collins.While Israel’s relations
with Turkey, which were once the Jewish state’s strongest with any
country in the region, have drastically deteriorated following Erdogan’s
rise to power, they have been particularly strained since the start of
the Gaza war sparked by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack.No date on
Netanyahu visit to Washington-In other remarks to Fox, Netanyahu said
that no date has been set for an upcoming visit to Washington, DC, to
meet with Trump, and once again downplayed recent tensions over the
US-Iran memorandum of understanding.“We see eye-to-eye on just about
everything,” Netanyahu claimed.“We have disagreements from time to time,
but we work them out because we’re allies,” he said, noting that he and
Trump speak about disagreements “in open conversation.”“The president
has his way of expressing things, and so do I,” Netanyahu said.“We’re
allies,” he repeated. “We’re your model ally.”He stressed that Israel
respects the US, and that there are “multiple ways of ironing out our
differences as allies that respect each other.”The MOU extended by 60
days a temporary ceasefire in the joint US-Israel war with Iran, though
Israel was not a party to the deal. Israeli officials are concerned that
the MOU does not do enough to prevent the weaponization of Iran’s
nuclear program or place restrictions on its ballistic missile
development.The MOU also called for an end to hostilities in Lebanon,
where Israel has been battling Hezbollah after the Iran-backed terror
group attacked Israel in support of its patron. US-hosted talks led to
Israel and Lebanon signing an agreement to stop the war, which Hezbollah
rejected, though it reached its own shaky understanding with Israel to
reduce the fighting.Netanyahu said Israel would “like to see peace with
Lebanon advance” during his trip to Washington. “The fact that we
basically hammered the Iranian regime, we weakened it substantially, and
that opened the path for more peace deals.”He emphasized that the
Islamic Republic is “not America’s friend, and we should not let them
have nuclear weapons or the means to deliver them.”“This is a battle of
freedom versus fanaticism,” Netanyahu said.Asked why the regime in Iran,
which is avowed to destroy Israel, is still standing despite the
widespread joint bombing campaign by the US and Israel, Netanyahu said
it was because it has “a few hundred thousand goons who kill, murder in
broad daylight and at night. They murder their own people.”Reflecting on
America’s 250th anniversary, Netanyahu called the US “a tremendous
force for good…without America there wouldn’t be any democracy in the
world or any freedom in the world.”“God bless America,” he concluded.
Israel
launches tender to search for more natural gas in Mediterranean-Energy
minister says industry has proved to be economically viable; petroleum
commissioner believes as much as 400 billion cubic meters yet to be
discovered in Israel’s waters By Steven Scheer 6 July 2026, 3:40 pm
Reuters
— Israel has launched its fifth competitive process to search for more
natural gas in the country’s economic waters, Energy Minister Eli Cohen
said on Monday, seeking to bolster domestic reserves while increasing
exports.Israel’s gas needs are served by a number of fields off its
Mediterranean coast, mainly Tamar, while most exports — largely to Egypt
and Jordan — come from the nearby Leviathan site 130 kilometers (81
miles) offshore.Both sites are part of the Eastern Mediterranean’s
Levant Basin.The tender will comprise three phases and take about a year
to complete, Cohen said.Chevron, which operates Tamar and Leviathan,
will be allowed to bid as part of a consortium.“The gas sector has
proven its economic viability,” Cohen told a news conference, adding
that exports to Egypt and Jordan “help to promote regional
stability.”Israel approved a $35 billion deal in December to supply 130
billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Egypt through 2040.The tender has
been ready for months but has been delayed by regional conflicts. A deal
between Israel and Lebanon, which could attract more foreign companies,
made the time ripe to launch the process, Cohen said.By law, the first
50 bcm of gas discovered must be for local consumption, with the rest
split between domestic consumption and exports.Petroleum Commissioner
Chen Bar Yoseph believes there is as much as 400 bcm of gas yet to be
discovered. Israel consumes 14 bcm a year while another 14 bcm is
exported. Leviathan holds an estimated 600 bcm of natural gas.Bar Yoseph
said Europe remains interested in Israeli gas, but a pipeline is
lacking. At the same time, Israel does not have sufficient reserves to
export to Europe but that could change if the latest exploration leads
to large gas discoveries.Last year, Israel awarded licences to BP, Azeri
national oil firm Socar, and local company NewMed Energy to explore for
natural gas in Israeli water
At least 14 killed in Russian
strikes on Kyiv ahead of key NATO summit-Zelensky urges alliance to
bolster Ukraine’s air defenses in face of deadly Russian attacks ahead
of meeting with Trump on Wednesday in Ankara-By AFP 6 July 2026, 12:15
pm
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired missiles and drones into
apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week on Monday,
killing at least 14 people on the eve of a crucial NATO summit,
authorities said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the
alliance to take “strong decisions” on boosting Ukraine’s air defenses
following the strike, which came just days after another Russian attack
killed more than 30 people in Kyiv.The European Union also said that
Ukraine needs air defense reinforcements.The morning strike punched a
crater into a multi-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian capital,
ripping its top floors into two.AFP reporters heard more than 10
explosions during a ballistic missile alert during the night, with
flashes in the sky as the blasts rang out.It was the second attack in a
week in which Russia deployed the hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles —
triggering Zelensky’s desperate new appeal for allies to send advanced
missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense systems.He is to discuss
the war with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO
summit in Ankara, which begins Tuesday.“It is critically important that
the world – first and foremost the United States and our European
partners – come out of the NATO Summit in Ankara with strong decisions
in support of our air defense, and thus the protection of ordinary
people’s lives,” he said on social media.At least 14 people were killed
in Kyiv and the surrounding region, with around 60 more wounded, he
said.Russia fired 68 missiles and 351 attack drones, he added.Officials
in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve said they were evacuating residents due
to the possibility of unexploded munitions in the debris.‘Massive
strike’Locals in the northern Podilsky district of the capital said
their area had been targeted heavily in recent Russian strikes.“At 1:30
a.m., a powerful hit occurred. A blast wave, all the windows blew out.
And then it hit three more times,” Oleksandr Bakhlukov, who lives in a
nearby building, told AFP.“Glass was falling down. There wasn’t a single
pane of glass left in the apartment,” the 68-year-old added.Russia’s
Defense Ministry said it had carried out a “massive strike” using
missiles and drones against what it described as “military-industrial
enterprises,” fuel and energy complex facilities in several Ukrainian
regions.Around 30 residential buildings in Kyiv were hit, with rescuers
still sifting through the rubble hours after the attack, officials
said.Zelensky said Ukraine’s army had shot down the Russian drones and
cruise missiles, but had “insufficient supply of interceptor missiles”
to stop the ballistic missiles.European Commission president Ursula von
der Leyen said the attack showed that Ukraine “urgently” needs more air
defense and that this would be discussed at the NATO meeting.Russia’s
army said its forces also shot down more than 500 Ukrainian drones
overnight.Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on state-backed Max that
several waves of drones were bound for the Russian capital.Kyiv has
increasingly targeted energy facilities inside Russia in recent weeks in
an effort to weaken the Kremlin’s war effort, triggering fuel shortages
across the country.Both sides had vowed fresh attacks after Russia
struck apartment buildings in Kyiv last week, killing more than 30
people, including entire families.US-led attempts to broker an end to
the more than four-year war have gone nowhere.The White House said Trump
would meet Zelensky on Wednesday during the NATO summit in a big to
invigorate diplomacy.“The president’s obviously getting together with
him to talk about how we can end the war. That’s been a priority of his
for a long time,” a senior US official said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.The official said Trump would then “follow up” with Russian
President Vladimir Putin.The Kremlin chief has refused to back down on
hardline territorial and political demands that Ukraine and its allies
say amount to capitulation.On the front, Moscow’s army said last week it
had captured the strategic eastern town of Kostyantynivka, though
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were still fighting for the stronghold.
Border
Police officer throws stun grenade into Palestinian car, blocks
driver’s exit-Police says officer suspended, incident under
investigation; video shows flashbang going off while occupants inside,
driver apparently unharmed; 6 said injured in settler attack By ToI
Staff and Nurit Yohanan-6 July 2026, 10:43 am
A Border Police
officer was filmed Sunday throwing a stun grenade into a Palestinian car
in East Jerusalem, forcing the door closed while the explosive goes off
in the vehicle with its occupants inside.The incident, which took place
at the Qalandiya refugee camp, was being “viewed seriously” by police,
which said that the officer would be suspended and a disciplinary
decision would follow after a formal investigation.In the video, which
was captured by nearby security cameras, the officer can be seen in the
doorway of the car, in an apparent argument with the driver.The officer
then reaches towards his belt and grabs a stun grenade, before pulling
its pin and tossing it into the vehicle while forcing the door closed
and preventing the driver from exiting. Another officer is seen on the
other side of the car, apparently also preventing the passenger door
from being opened.The flashbang then explodes in the front seat of the
car with the driver and passengers still inside, as smoke can be seen
pouring out of the crack in the door.Two passengers who were in the back
of the car immediately throw open the door and escape as smoke pours
out of it, but the officer blocks the door next to the driver, leaning
on it to prevent him from exiting the vehicle. He then moves away after a
moment to train his gun on the passengers who escaped the vehicle, and
fires at them as they duck for cover behind the car with their arms
raised.The soldier then is seen walking away while cursing at the two
men, who did not appear to have been injured.The driver was apparently
unharmed despite being prevented from exiting the vehicle, the Ynet news
site reported.Stun grenades contain a small amount of explosives
combined with a pyrotechnic agent to produce a bright flash of light and
a loud bang. While technically nonlethal, such devices can cause
serious injury or even death when detonating in close
proximity.Commenting on the incident, Israel Police, which oversees the
paramilitary Border Police force, said: “The attached documentation
shows an officer acting in a manner that is inconsistent with
procedures. Accordingly, the incident has been transferred to the
Department of Internal Police Investigations for further
investigation.”Police added that the officer has been suspended from
duty.6 said injured in settler attack-Elsewhere in the West Bank,
Palestinian media reported early Monday that six Palestinians were
injured by settlers in the village of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron
Hills during an overnight attack.Footage published from the scene showed
Palestinians and settlers engaged in a physical confrontation,
apparently in the area where Umm al-Khair and the nearby settlement of
Carmel border each other.No further details about the incident were
immediately available.Settler attacks on Palestinians take place on a
daily basis in the West Bank, often with the tacit approval or active
participation of IDF soldiers, including settlers tasked with protecting
their own communities as part of the IDF reserves.The attacks, which
have spiked since the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, are rarely
prosecuted. However, six teenagers were indicted Friday on terror
charges for allegedly attacking Palestinians in the Ramallah area
earlier this month, including setting fire to a mosque with worshipers
inside.
Premier cites 'overwhelming support' on his Facebook
page-Netanyahu rejects Vance’s claim Trump is Israel’s only friend, says
‘many’ seek ties-PM insists he and US president are ‘set on the same
goal’ of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, says Israel
will make sure of this, even if US fails at forging deal-By Nava
Freiberg-5 July 2026, 11:35 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
pushed back in an interview with Fox News on Sunday against US Vice
President JD Vance’s recent claim that US President Donald Trump is
Israel’s only ally, insisting that Jerusalem still has “many friends”
around the world, while still highlighting its unique relationship with
Washington.Netanyahu also took the opportunity to reiterate that he and
Trump share the same goals when it comes to Iran, but stressed that even
if Washington doesn’t reach a nuclear deal with Tehran, he will ensure
that it never obtains a nuclear weapon so long as he is prime
minister.The premier was questioned during the interview about public
disagreements between Washington and Jerusalem over the memorandum of
understanding signed by the US and Iran to end the war that began on
February 28.Israel was not a party to the agreement and is not involved
in the resulting negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, but was
nevertheless required by it to halt its fight against the Islamic
Republic. Israeli officials have made their displeasure over the terms
of the agreement known, and Netanyahu said last week that he would
dispatch a delegation to Washington to discuss the MOU.Nevertheless, he
insisted to Fox News that he and Trump “are set on the same goal.”“We
want to see Iran give up its nuclear weapons program. We want to see the
nuclear-enriched material removed. We want to see the enrichment sites
for nuclear material dismantled. We have other common objectives,” he
said.“President Trump believes that after the battering that the two of
us — Israel and the United States — gave to Iran, he thinks that he can
generate enough leeway, enough pressure, through the negotiations to get
these goals achieved. And, you know, we respect that, and I hope he
succeeds,” Netanyahu continued, before adding, “I can tell you this:
Deal or no deal, as long as I’m prime minister, Iran will not have
nuclear weapons.”He declined to comment on criticism from his supporters
who have argued that the MOU leaves the Iranian regime intact and
poised to recover, saying that the negotiations between Tehran and
Washington are “not over,” and he will only pass judgment once they
are.“Believe me, if I have things that I want to point out in my own
opinions, I do so in a free way. And when he has things he wants to tell
me, he does that in a free way, too. That’s what friends and allies do
with each other,” Netanyahu added, again highlighting what he said was
his close relationship with the US president.“The most important thing
is that we have a common goal. And that means Iran does not have nuclear
weapons or the capacity to make nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that
the world was “very lucky” that Trump is “leading the free world in this
common effort.”The prime minister was keen to dismiss any notion of a
“rift” between himself and Trump, after several instances of the US
president publicly insulting him over matters relating to the fighting
in Iran or against Hezbollah in Lebanon.In the last few weeks alone,
Trump has referred to Netanyahu as “fucking crazy,” said he has “no
fucking judgement,” and said that the Israeli leader “knows who the boss
is.”But Netanyahu downplayed those comments to Fox News, insisting that
“America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally
than the United States.”“Trump is the leader of the United States; he
does what’s good for America. I am the leader of Israel, the one and
only Jewish state. I do what’s good for Israel,” the premier said.
“Ninety-nine percent of the time we see eye-to-eye, but as in any
family, in any close friendship, there are sometimes differences of
opinion, and we discuss them openly, I can tell you, and in a free
spirit, and usually we resolve them.”Netanyahu announced on Friday that
he and Trump had agreed to meet in Washington in the near future, which
Trump later confirmed to Axios while noting that the meeting was being
set up at Netanyahu’s request.PM insists Israel has ‘many, many
friends’Although keen to stress the unique closeness enjoyed by Israel
and the US under their respective leaders, Netanyahu disputed the
accuracy of Vance’s portrayal of Trump as the only world leader to still
have Jerusalem’s back.“Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the
entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment
in time,” Vance declared last month while castigating the Jewish state
for its response to the US-Iran MOU. “If I was in the cabinet of the
Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that
I have anywhere left in the entire world.”Pushing back, Netanyahu
didn’t deny that Trump was “the greatest friend we ever had in the White
House,” but denied that he was the only one.India, he said, “has 1.4
billion people. And boy, do we have tremendous support there.” He also
cited the “overwhelming support” he said he receives on his Facebook
page, apparently referring to engagement from Indian users, as
evidence.“And we have many others,” the premier continued, without
identifying any of the countries by name. Instead, he repeated a claim
he has made in the past that, despite the rise of anti-Israeli and
antisemitic views among many countries’ populations, global leaders
continue to approach him seeking cooperation with Israel, especially on
defense and technology.“In many countries, because their media and their
social media are inundated with anti-Israel, antisemitic material, many
leaders, you know, call me up and say, ‘Hey, look, I’ve got this
problem with public opinion, but I want you to know, we respect you, and
can we make some deals, and can you teach us some of the things that
your military does, and can we have some of your AI and cyber
expertise?’”“You know, Israel is the number two country in cyber in the
world, and our technology is so good. So the relations are not quite as
they appear, and we have many, many friends,” Netanyahu insisted.‘More
cards to play’ in Lebanon-Warming to his theme, the premier said that
Israel also “takes care of its friends,” and claimed that some Christian
villages in Lebanon have “asked to be annexed to Israel because we
protect them against the Hezbollah fanatics who want to kill them — and
we do the same things with Christians everywhere.”The premier did not
specify which Christian villages he was referring to, or if such calls
were made privately or publicly.Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and
Defense Minister Israel Katz have both said Israel does not have
territorial ambitions in Lebanon, but that it won’t withdraw from the
security zone it has established in southern Lebanon so long as
Hezbollah remains a threat.Later in the interview, Netanyahu said the
recent Israel-Lebanon deal brokered by Washington has shown that he and
Trump “have more cards to play” in terms of expanding Israel’s ties in
the region, adding that Lebanon “would like to free itself of
Hezbollah.”Without offering specific evidence, Netanyahu argued: “It’s
not only the Christians in Lebanon who asked for our protection. It’s
the Druze, it’s Muslims, the Sunni muslims and quite a few of the Shiite
muslims too… they’d like to free Lebanon. I hope we can get more peace
deals.”While not a formal peace deal, the Israel-Lebanon framework
formalized both countries’ intent to eventually normalize relations
following the disarmament of Hezbollah and a full Israeli withdrawal
from its southern Lebanon security zone.PM optimistic despite waning
support for Israel in US-Turning to the matter of waning support for
Israel in the US, and among young Republicans in particular, Netanyahu
acknowledged that he was “worried about it,” but didn’t expect it to
shatter the relationship between the two countries.The premier
suggested, as he has in the past, that nefarious messaging on social
media was to blame for declining support for Israel among young people,
saying social media platforms have “been used and abused by countries,
three in particular, and they have bot farms that push the stuff against
America and against Israel, and it focuses on young people and young
Americans.”While the premier did not identify the three countries he was
referring to, he has previously accused both Qatar and China of
influencing Western media “using bots, artificial intelligence, and
advertisements.”Still, the premier said he was not worried about the
declining support having a long-term impact on the US-Israeli
relationship, as it is one “not merely based on common interests” but on
“common values” as well.“I think as long as we have that, our alliance
will be fine,” he predicted.Times of Israel staff contributed to this
report.
IDF says Hezbollah cell hit in south Lebanon, warns it
will attack if truce violated-Military reports operatives spotted close
to buffer zone; Zamir tours Beaufort Castle, nearby Hezbollah tunnels;
Netanyahu claims Christian villages seek annexation to Israel By Emanuel
Fabian-5 July 2026, 10:56 pm
A cell of Hezbollah operatives
identified near Israeli troops in southern Lebanon was targeted in an
airstrike, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday, as its top officer
warned the military is ready to go on the offensive if the terror group
violates a recent ceasefire arrangement.The military said troops of the
Commando Brigade spotted the operatives riding motorcycles in the
village of al-Aaqaide, near Nabatieh and close to Israel’s self-declared
security zone.“The terrorists’ activity posed a threat to our forces,”
the military said, adding that they were struck “to remove the
threat.”Lebanese media had reported an Israeli airstrike between Kfar
Tebnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa, near the Ali Taher ridge in southern
Lebanon.The military has previously said it continues to operate at the
Ali Taher ridge, beneath which the Iran-backed Hezbollah has a massive
underground complex, where some 30 operatives are holed up.The military
has said it will “not allow Hezbollah terrorists to exit the underground
tunnel network or move in the area of the ridge.”IDF Chief of Staff Lt.
Gen. Eyal Zamir toured the Beaufort Castle area in southern Lebanon
during the morning, including a major Hezbollah tunnel system built
beneath the ridge, the military reported.Zamir said the Beaufort Ridge
is a strategic area that is “saturated with terror infrastructure,”
according to remarks provided by the IDF.“The Hezbollah terror
organization, financed and directed by Iran, built underground routes in
the area over the course of decades to threaten the northern
communities. Our forces now control the key terrain aboveground and
these underground routes belowground,” he said.Zamir said that the
Lebanese army “is required to fulfill its commitment under the historic
agreement that was signed, and act to clear the area of Hezbollah
terrorists,” referring to areas in southern Lebanon outside of the IDF’s
control.Zamir was referring to the agreement signed between Israel and
Lebanon last month in Washington following US-hosted talks. It calls for
the disarmament of the Iran-backed terror group, a gradual Israeli
withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and the deployment of the Lebanese
army there, starting with two “pilot” areas. Hezbollah has rejected the
deal, which does not set a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal.“At the
same time, the IDF will continue to operate decisively to remove threats
in Lebanese territory and is prepared to launch a rapid offensive if
the ceasefire is violated,” Zamir added.Israel is currently maintaining a
security zone in southern Lebanon, from which residents have been
ordered to evacuate, and where troops are dismantling the terror group’s
infrastructure, which was used for attacks on Israel.Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Sunday that some Christian villages in
Lebanon have asked to be annexed by Israel in order to receive
protection from Hezbollah.Talking up Israel’s treatment of Christians in
the Middle East during a Fox News interview, Netanyahu said that “the
Christian villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be
annexed to Israel because we protect them against the Hezbollah fanatics
who want to kill them — and we do the same things with Christians
everywhere.”The premier did not specify which Christian villages he was
referring to, or if such calls were made privately or publicly.Foreign
Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Defense Minister Israel Katz have both said
Israel does not have territorial ambitions in Lebanon, but that it won’t
withdraw from the security zone it has established in southern Lebanon
so long as Hezbollah remains a threat.Later in the interview, Netanyahu
said the recent Israel-Lebanon deal brokered by Washington has shown
that he and US President Donald Trump “have more cards to play” in terms
of expanding Israel’s ties in the region, adding that Lebanon “would
like to free itself of Hezbollah.”Netanyahu: We also take care of our
friends, especially the Christians in the Middle East. The Christian
villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be annexed to
Israel. We protect Christians in the Middle East
pic.twitter.com/SyeCM2PHMm — Acyn (@Acyn) July 5, 2026-Without offering
specific evidence, Netanyahu argued: “It’s not only the Christians in
Lebanon who asked for our protection. It’s the Druze, it’s Muslims, the
Sunni Muslims and quite a few of the Shiite Muslims too… they’d like to
free Lebanon. I hope we can get more peace deals.”While not a formal
peace deal, the Israel-Lebanon framework formalized both countries’
intent to eventually normalize relations following the disarmament of
Hezbollah and a full Israeli withdrawal from its southern Lebanon
security zone.Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into the war with Iran in March
by attacking Israel in support of Tehran, resulting in the destruction
of large parts of southern Lebanon and the disruption of the lives of
those living in northern Israel. The US-sponsored efforts to halt
fighting between the two sides have reduced hostilities, but have yet to
achieve peace or bring the war to a definite end. On Saturday, the IDF
said it killed an armed Hezbollah operative after a manhunt.Agencies
contributed to this report.
Syria expecting Macron in first
post-Assad visit by Western head of state-Damascus says French, Syrian
presidents will discuss ‘issues of common interest,’ but gives no date
for trip and Paris does not immediately confirm By Acil Tabbara and
Francesco FONTEMAGGI 5 July 2026, 8:21 pm
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) —
Syria said on Sunday it was expecting a visit by French President
Emmanuel Macron, the first by a Western European head of state since
Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa took power in 2024.State news agency
SANA, citing the Syrian presidency’s media office, said “Macron is
expected to visit Syria to discuss ways of strengthening bilateral
relations and issues of common interest,” without specifying a date for
the trip.The French presidency did not immediately comment.The last
French president to visit was Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009, before longtime
ruler Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed pro-democracy protests in 2011,
sparking a conflict that killed more than half a million people and
devastated Syria.SANA said Macron would be accompanied by a delegation
“including investors and representatives of French companies” and
discussions would also address “regional and international”
developments.The announcement came after a bombing at a Damascus cafe on
Thursday killed 10 people, the latest challenge to Syria’s new
authorities as they seek to reunify the country after more than 13 years
of civil war.Early last year, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
Al-Thani became the first foreign head of state to visit Damascus after
Assad’s December 2024 ouster.European Commission chief Ursula von der
Leyen visited in January, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky
followed in April.But Macron is the first head of an EU state and
prominent Western leader to head to the Syrian capital, after hosting
Sharaa in Paris last year despite controversy over receiving the former
leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate turned statesman.That visit
preceded Sharaa’s Washington trip last year to meet US President Donald
Trump.Kurds, fight against IS-Sharaa is seeking to rebuild his country
after the easing of Assad-era Western sanctions.Syria specialist Arthur
Quesnay told AFP that Macron was a driving force behind the new Syrian
leadership’s normalization of ties with Western countries.“He gave
Sharaa a leg up on the international stage,” Quesnay said, adding that
Macron “needs to show it was a good bet.”Bassam Barabandi, a Syrian
diplomat and founder of the Nexus MENA think tank, said that with a
visit by Macron, France “is telling the Americans that we have a share
in the Syrian market as much as you have. And we would love to have
influence in Syria the way you have.”But “I think they came late and
after many mistakes,” he said, noting in particular French support for
the autonomy of Syrian Kurds.Earlier this year, Damascus took control of
swathes of north and northeast Syria previously under Kurdish control,
and the Kurds agreed a deal to integrate their civil and military
institutions into the state, in a blow to their aspirations for
autonomy.With international support, Syria’s Kurds were key to the fight
against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria during the civil war,
leading to IS’s territorial defeat there in 2019.Macron is eager for
Sharaa to maintain his pledge to protect minorities, after sectarian
bloodshed in the country’s Alawite and Druze heartlands last
year.France, which itself has seen deadly IS attacks, is also likely to
have the fight against the jihadists on the agenda, after Syria joined
the international anti-IS coalition last year.A handful of French
jihadists are still present on Syrian soil.
Knesset expected to
dissolve July 17, paving way for October 27 election-After shelving
plans for early vote, government now appears headed for latest possible
date-By Ariela Karmel-5 July 2026, 5:14 pm
The Knesset is set to
dissolve on July 17, putting Israel on course for national elections
likely to be held on October 27 — the latest date permitted by law.While
no official decision has been announced, Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit
Afik last week recommended dissolving parliament on July 17, and both
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Coalition Whip Ofir Katz have indicated
that this is the expected timetable.Although October 20 remains a
possible election date, the statutory length of the campaign period, the
High Holidays and the proximity of the anniversary of the October 7,
2023, attack have increasingly narrowed the practical options to late
October, with the 27th emerging as the likeliest date.A spokesperson for
Ohana confirmed to The Times of Israel that, under the current legal
timetable, “the elections will be held on October 27. According to the
legal situation, as a result, the Knesset must dissolve on July
17.”Hebrew media also reported that Ohana and Katz relayed the same
timetable to coalition lawmakers.The timing also aligns with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political interests. The premier is not
believed to favor bringing the elections forward. Since reaching an
agreement with the ultra-Orthodox parties to stabilize his coalition, he
has focused on advancing as much legislation as possible before the
Knesset dissolves, when those efforts are likely to be frozen or require
opposition consent.Opposition leaders have argued that the premier also
has an electoral incentive to delay the vote as, based on current
polling, he will be unable to form a coalition.According to longstanding
legal practice, the Knesset must dissolve at least 90 days and no more
than 150 days before an election in order to allow for the statutory
campaign period.As Israeli law requires elections to be held every four
years unless the Knesset is dissolved earlier, October 27 is the latest
possible date on which the next vote can be held.Although October 6 and
October 13 remain legally possible if the Knesset dissolves in time,
both are highly impractical dates, since they closely follow the High
Holidays.Additionally, an October 6 election would take place on the eve
of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, and an October 13
vote would come less than a week after nationwide commemorations,
forcing the coalition that was in power during the attack to campaign in
the immediate shadow of its anniversary. As a result, October 20 and
October 27 emerged as the most plausible dates, with Likud party leaders
favoring the latter.Afik told lawmakers on the Knesset House Committee
last week that “in the unique circumstances of this Knesset, the
appropriate date for its dissolution is July 17.”Such a date would
“create legislative transparency” and provide stability for the Knesset
Legal Department as regular legislative work gives way to the
restrictions governing the election period, thereby avoiding
“unnecessary disputes” over when those limitations take effect.The
expected timetable marks a dramatic reversal from just a month ago, when
the coalition itself advanced legislation to dissolve the Knesset and
potentially trigger early elections amid an escalating crisis with the
ultra-Orthodox parties, which threatened to bring down the government
over its failure to advance legislation preserving military exemptions
for Haredi men.The Knesset dissolution bill, which passed its first
reading in June unanimously, 106-0, was advanced without specifying an
election date. Katz, the coalition whip, states at the time that it
would be held between September 8 and October 20, with the exact date to
be determined before the final votes on the bill.That effort has since
stalled after Netanyahu reportedly reached a deal with Shas and United
Torah Judaism to advance key Haredi legislative priorities, including a
proposed Basic Law on Torah study intended to shield draft evaders from
sanctions, a temporary order to freeze arrests of draft dodgers, and a
bill repealing the kosher reform passed by the previous government.In
return, the Haredi parties are expected to support coalition initiatives
including a controversial pair of bills curbing the power of the
attorney general — one of the few checks on executive power in Israel —
Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi’s bill to overhaul broadcast media,
and legislation establishing a politically appointed probe into the
failures surrounding October 7.Since then, the government has embarked
on a legislative blitz aimed at passing as many of its own contentious
bills as possible before parliament dissolves, when legislation
generally grinds to a halt unless agreed to by both coalition and
opposition.
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN ( 500 million Dead )
REVELATION 6:7-8
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) of (8 billion)
to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500
million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the
beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8
Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he
may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle
shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and
of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants
were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all
nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of
their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG
PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION
FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22
And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED)
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE)
those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID
HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him
glory.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every
living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6
For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion)
have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink; for they are worthy.
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.
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about
the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of
the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
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-HEAVENLY OBJECTS) for the
powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THIRD ANGEL: EUROPE
Then
one of the angels with wings showed me Europe from one end to the other
- from the north all the way down to Spain and Portugal. In his hand he
had a scale of measurement. I saw him fly over Europe, and I heard the
words: "I am grieved. I am grieved. Unrighteousness, uncleanness,
ungodliness - all over Europe. The sin has risen to heaven. The Holy
Spirit is grieved."I saw the rivers of Europe flooding and covering
millions of houses. Millions drown. After seeing this, I read the news a
few weeks ago: Czechoslovakia had the worst flooding ever. I also heard
that the big river in China is in tremendous danger of thousands of
houses being destroyed in flooding. I didn't know all this news until
after I had seen the vision and heard what the angels told me.Suddenly I
heard earthquakes all over Europe."Countries that have had no
earthquakes shall be shaken," said the angel.And suddenly, in my spirit,
I saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris crumbling and falling down. A great
part of Germany destroyed. The great city of London - destruction
everywhere. I saw floods all over Scandinavia. I looked to the south and
saw Spain and Portugal passing through hunger and great
destruction.Many will die from hunger all over Spain and Portugal. I was
disturbed by all this news, and I said:" Lord, what about your
children?"The angel said: "I shall prepare them. They shall be looking
for the appearing of the Lord. Many will cry to me in those days and I
will save them. I shall perform mighty miracles for them and show them
My power."So in the midst of great destruction, there will be the grace
of God in those countries. I was happy that God has His protection over
His children.
Massive wildfires tear through southern Europe,
forcing thousands to flee-Fires have devastated area over double the
size of Manhattan across Portugal, Spain, Greece, and France, where
officials have banned spectators from stage of Tour de France race By
AFP 6 July 2026, 10:11 am
ILLE-SUR-TÊT, France — Wildfires raged
across southern Europe on Monday, forcing thousands of people to
evacuate their homes and prompting officials to ban spectators from a
stage of the storied Tour de France cycling race.Hundreds of
firefighters are battling blazes that have devastated more than 19,000
hectares (42,000 acres) of land — an area more than twice the size of
Manhattan — across Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.And temperatures
are on the rise again, predicted to reach 40°C in parts of a region
still suffering the aftermath of a recent record-breaking heatwave.In
southwestern France near the city of Perpignan, 700 firefighters backed
by special aircraft battled to control a “gigantic” blaze spreading in a
hard-to-reach remote area, with more than 10,000 local residents
evacuated.Fanned by wind, intense heat and exceptionally dry air, the
fire has nearly tripled in size since early Sunday, devouring 4,600
hectares and leaving a firefighter and a resident injured, local
authorities said.“The fire came within 300 meters of the houses. We were
taken aback by how fast it spread; it was staggering — bordering on
panic,” said Patrice, a 53-year-old resident of the village of
Trevillach, who did not wish to give his surname.“We started seeing
smoke around 10:30 pm, then it kept coming closer and closer. Someone
from the town hall knocked on our door around 1 a.m. to tell us to
leave,” said Charlotte Pignol, 30, who was among the first to be
evacuated from her home early on Sunday.The blazes come shortly after a
heatwave in June, one of Europe’s worst, during which thousands of
excess deaths were registered and which would have been “virtually
impossible” without climate change, the World Weather Attribution group
of scientists said.With the mercury set to rise again in the coming
days, authorities expressed alarm that the annual summer wildfire season
had started a month early.“Climate change is here, we are living the
consequences, and it is only the start of July,” said French fire
service Colonel Eric Belgioino as he appealed to people near the
Pyrenees inferno to take precautions to avoid starting fires.“The season
is going to be long for the soldiers fighting fires. You have to help
us,” he pleaded.Tour de France-In France, officials announced that
Monday’s third stage of the Tour de France cycling race through the
Pyrenees would take place without spectators who normally line the
routes of the storied competition.The stage, which on Monday will see
cyclists ride from Spain into France, “will be limited to the passage of
the riders only and the vehicles essential to organizing the race” on
French territory, regional prefect Pierre Regnault de la Mothe told
reporters.“The public is asked not to go near the route or to the finish
area,” he said.“In other words, and I regret having to say this, it
will be, in France at least, a stage of the Tour de France without
spectators.”Poisonous cloud-In Greece, flames set off by a forest fire
tore through two factories in Thessaloniki in the north of the country
over the weekend, forcing authorities to evacuate the surrounding area
and to warn households to keep their windows closed.In Spain, a fire
near the northeastern Costa Brava coast burned more than 2,200 hectares
in two days, and firefighters said their efforts would be “complicated”
by rising temperatures and the many “smoking hotspots” within the fire’s
perimeter.In Portugal, emergency services said they had controlled “80
percent” of a wildfire that has devastated some 13,000 hectares of
forest and scrub land in the north of the country.Elsewhere, major fires
also destroyed hundreds of hectares of forest, vineyards and scrub land
on the Croatian island of Hvar and at Tale in Albania, authorities
said.Regions across Portugal, Spain, and southern France have stepped up
heat alerts for the coming days.On Monday, the latest heatwave was
expected to move north, with forecasters saying it could last until next
weekend.
El Niño could bring deadly floods, vicious winds, huge
hailstones to Israel-Israel Meteorological Service presents three
scenarios to help authorities prepare for events that are ‘low
probability’ but would have ‘severe potential impact’By Sue Surkes-5
July 2026, 9:50 pm
Life-threatening urban flooding, wind gusts of
up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour, oversized hailstones and
extensive lightning storms could hit Israel as the El Niño phenomenon
tightens its grip, the Israel Meteorological Service has warned, in a
report intended to help authorities prepare.In its first detailed report
on the likely local effects of El Niño, the service on Thursday
presented three specific scenarios: one of short, intense rain lasting
up to four hours; prolonged rain lasting 24 to 48 hours; and a
“Medicane,” or Mediterranean hurricane.El Niño is a phenomenon that
occurs every two to seven years, during which surface temperatures in
the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warm up and the global
jet stream is disrupted. Predictions are for wetter weather and coastal
flooding in the US; severe drought and hotter-than-average temperatures
in Australia, Indonesia and parts of Southeast Asia; disrupted monsoon
rains in India; and higher temperatures and a wetter winter in the
Mediterranean region.“Climate change presents a growing challenge for
all of humanity and affects all areas of life, from short-term
decision-making and preparation for emergency situations to long-term
planning,” the report said. “The Meteorological Service identifies an
increase in the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events,
as well as the appearance of events that were previously considered
unlikely in terms of their timing, location, or intensity in Israel.״It
continued, “In the autumn of 2026, an especially powerful ‘El Niño’ is
expected to develop, which may be counted among the strongest El Niño
events observed in recent decades.”Under the first scenario, coastal
cities such as southern Ashkelon and Ashdod, central Rishon LeZion, Tel
Aviv and Netanya, and northern Haifa and Nahariya would be the worst
hit, at any time between September and January 2027. Rain could be
accompanied by wind gusts of up to 150 kilometers per hour, hailstones
with a diameter of five to seven centimeters (roughly two to 2.75
inches), and intense lightning storms, with damage likely to
transportation infrastructure, energy and agriculture.Under this
scenario, the potential for an extreme event can be identified three to
five days in advance, the report said, with more accurate data available
24 hours before.The second scenario of prolonged rainfall — lasting 24
to 48 hours and dropping 270 to 400 millimeters (roughly 10.5 to 15.75
inches) — would threaten the coastal plain, the Shfela lowland area, and
the central and northern mountain ranges, the report added. Most likely
between November and January, such rain could bring serious urban
flooding, flash floods in river basins, road closures and threats to
critical facilities, including military airfields.Although usually
smaller and shorter-lived than tropical hurricanes, third-scenario
Mediterranean cyclones between September and January could bring storms
that drop hundreds of millimeters, as well as winds of up to 120
kilometers (75 miles), and turbulent seas.The downpours, large
hailstones and intense lightning storms would be felt most along the
central and southern coastal plain, bringing dangerous urban and flash
flooding as stream and river levels rise, and causing severe damage to
energy and transportation infrastructure.In this case, as in the second
scenario, the service would be able to flag the potential for such
events five to seven days in advance, with more focused data one to
three days before.The IMS said that these are all “low probability”
events but have “severe potential impact,” and that with such irregular
conditions in the atmosphere, “relying on historical statistics alone
may not be enough for preparedness needs. This is especially true when
processes of warming and climatic extreme expansion broaden the range of
physical possibilities beyond extreme events that have been documented
in the past.”
Troops assist in rescue, relief efforts as typhoon floods Guangxi-2026-07-07 13:23 Last Updated At：16:47
Armed
police troops in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have
been mobilized to assist in disaster relief and recovery efforts
following widespread flooding caused by Typhoon Maysak since July 3.In
Fangchenggang City, 53 armed police officers were deployed to clear mud
and debris from major roads and storefronts after floodwaters receded.
The troops cleared 4.5 kilometers of roads and transferred 16 tons of
relief supplies, helping restore traffic and reduce safety hazards in
the city.In Hengzhou, a county-level city under Guangxi's capital
Nanning, more than 160 officers and 14 vehicles were dispatched to
rescue residents trapped by flooding after two reservoirs overflowed,
inundating several villages.Working through the night in heavy rain, the
rescuers used rubber boats to search flooded areas house by house. They
safely evacuated over 130 residents, including the elderly and
children, and delivered emergency supplies to affected areas."My
granddaughter had a high fever today, and the soldiers and officers took
care of us. Thank you so much. You've worked so hard," said Mr Wei, a
local resident.The troops also transported medical personnel and
supplies to the hardest-hit areas, treated eight injured residents and
delivered disinfection materials to support disease prevention efforts
in temporary shelters.Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of the year, made
a second landfall on the evening of July 4 along the coast near the
border between Guangxi and northern Vietnam, after first striking the
island province of Hainan.The typhoon triggered severe flooding and
landslides across Guangxi, affecting hundreds of thousands of residents
in multiple cities. Local authorities said the relief operations have
helped stabilize living conditions and expedite the region's recovery
from the disaster.
Reservoir dam break, collapse prompt mass evacuations in south China's Guangxi-2026-07-07 06:36 Last Updated At：13:33
Several
reservoirs in Hengzhou City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region experienced dangerous situations including dam break and collapse
on Monday due to the landfall of Typhoon Maysak, with the evacuation of
affected residents becoming a top priority.Since July 3, Guangxi,
affected by Typhoon Maysak, has seen persistent heavy rainfall, leading
to severe flooding in some areas.The Liulan and Yunbiao Reservoirs in
Hengzhou experienced dam break and collapse due to the flood, while the
Liuwang Reservoir in Binyang County also saw overtopping.In response,
local departments of emergency management, fire rescue and water
resources have been mobilized for rescue and relief operations, and the
evacuation of affected residents is underway.Temporary command centers
have been set up in multiple towns, with the evacuation of residents
identified as the absolute priority of the current response efforts."At
present, there is a command center in Yunbiao Town and another one here
in Xiaoyi Town. The main command center has now been moved to Yunbiao
Town, because the water from the two reservoirs eventually flows into
the Yunbiao River and then into the Yujiang River. Currently, we are
evacuating residents and delivering supplies to those in safe areas,"
said Xiao Cai, deputy mayor of Hengzhou.Weather forecast shows that
heavy rains will continue from July 6 to 8, posing severe challenges to
local flood control efforts.
City of Ottawa boosting funding for
flooding grant program in wake of Canada Day storms, will study
impacts-By Ted Raymond-Updated: July 06, 2026 at 2:54PM EDT
Families
are calling for more assistance from the city and the province as the
cleanup of more than 4,500 flooded basements continues.Ottawa Mayor Mark
Sutcliffe says he will move a motion at the next city council meeting
to help compensate residents affected by basement flooding following the
record-breaking rainfall on Canada Day.Speaking at a news conference on
Monday afternoon, Sutcliffe said his motion would boost the funding to
the Compassionate Grant program, which offers $1,000 to qualified
property owners and tenants affected by flooding due to a sewer
surcharge event.Sutcliffe says the program is rarely used, but staff are
already seeing a surge in requests.“In the last 16 years, we’ve
received about 55 applications through this program,” he said. “Our
current budget is $150,000 per year. Given the events of last Wednesday,
we know a lot more people are going to be applying, so we will increase
it so that all eligible residents can receive funding from the city.
Since Wednesday, we have already received 203 applications, and I expect
there will be many more.”Sutcliffe said nearly 4,500 homes were
affected by flooding following the 118 millimetres of rain on Canada
Day.“At the height of one of our most devastating river floodings in
2019, approximately 2,000 homes had flooded basements. The number of
homes we are dealing with today is more than double that,” he
said.Sutcliffe said he spoke with Premier Doug Ford on Friday and is
expecting Ontario will allow Ottawa residents to apply for Disaster
Recovery Assistance for Ontarians (DRAO) funding.“The Premier and his
team have confirmed that they will support our recovery efforts. I’ve
since spoken to Minister Jill Dunlop and Minister Rob Flack, and we’re
working together to ensure that affected residents will be able to apply
for the Disaster Recovery Assistance for Ontarians program, or DRAO. We
will share more details as they become available,” he said.Several
local MPPs and councillors signed an open letter to the provincial
government, asking for the same.Under DRAO, residents and small
businesses can apply for financial assistance to recover after a natural
disaster. The program is only accessible if activated by the government
for a specific region when a “sudden, unexpected natural disaster
causes costly and widespread damage.”Claimants can receive up to
$250,000, the Ontario government’s website says.In a statement, the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing confirmed it is assessing the
situation in Ottawa.“Once the assessment is finalized, the Disaster
Recovery Assistance for Ontarians (DRAO) program may be activated in
areas where there is costly and widespread damage to homes or small
businesses. When the program is activated, a news bulletin is issued,
and details are posted on the DRAO website,” a Ministry spokesperson
said.Residents will have four months to apply for funding from when the
program is activated, the Ministry added.“Affected residents are
encouraged to document all damage and retain photos, receipts, and
records of clean-up and repair costs. They should also contact their
insurance company to determine coverage.”Sutcliffe stressed this is a
program that must be applied for after going through the insurance
process.“Just to be clear, and to condition expectations, that’s not
something that is going to happen in the next few days,” he said.
“People have to go through the process with their insurance company and
then apply to the provincial government. The provincial government will
review their application and determine if they’re eligible for
additional funding.”Since the July 1 storm dumped 118 millimetres of
rain on Ottawa officially, with some areas reporting even larger
amounts, Sutcliffe says the city has taken steps to ease the recovery,
such as relaxing garbage collection rules in affected areas, adding
extra collection days, and cutting fees at the Trail Road landfill for
flood-related waste.Sutcliffe said additional trucks are already on the
roads picking up flood-related garbage and will continue through the
recovery process.City to study flood impacts-Sutcliffe also said he
would be directing staff to study what happened on Canada Day and report
back to council with recommendations on strengthening city
infrastructure.“I want to make sure we get a full understanding of what
happened, and that we find out what can be done to prevent this kind of
event in the future. Our team will come back with recommendations, and
if investments are required to protect homes and prevent this type of
event from happening again in the future, we will make those
investments,” he said.Tammy Rose, general manager of Infrastructure and
Water Services, said the city’s sewer system has stabilized but also
said recovery will take time. Her immediate focus is on repairing
storm-damaged infrastructure and supporting residents, she said.Hydro
Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad said the repairs from the July 1 storm were
officially completed on Saturday, but some customer-owned electrical
equipment must still be repaired, which requires turning power off to
homes temporarily.“We understand that this is extraordinarily
frustrating to be disconnected, even when the water levels have
receded,” he said. “Because flooding compromises electrical integrity,
we must meticulously dry, inspect and test each piece of infrastructure.
This methodical approach is the only way to guarantee that your home
and your family will be safe and reliable in the long term.”He told
reporters that every part of the city was affected by the rainfall, but
some areas did experience more damage than others, which he said was
simply bad luck.“The grid is the grid… This hit the entire city, as did
the derecho in 2022, as did the tornadoes in ’18,” he said. “There’s
nothing to the idea that these specific areas are weather magnets or
anything like that, it just happens to be bad luck.”
Dramatic
roof collapse at New Jersey BJ’s rattles witness: ‘I’ve never seen
anything like that’July 6, 2026, 3:08 PM EDT / Updated July 6, 2026,
4:11 PM EDT-By David K. Li
Heavy rain pounded New Jersey on
Monday and caused the roof over a big box store to partially collapse,
temporarily trapping two people inside, authorities said.Ocean Township
police, Monmouth Court sheriff’s deputies and other first responders
rushed to BJ’s Wholesale Club about 11:16 a.m., the sheriff’s office
said.There were 27 people inside the store when the ceiling fell, and
two “individuals were partially entrapped but were able to free
themselves and safely exit the structure,” it added.“This incident is
another reminder of how quickly severe weather can create dangerous and
unpredictable conditions,” Sheriff Shaun Golden said.“We commend all
first responders who worked with urgency under challenging
circumstances. Despite the ongoing flooding and severe weather affecting
our communities, all worked seamlessly together to ensure everyone was
safely accounted for. Their dedication and teamwork exemplify the very
best of public safety.”No injuries were immediately
reported.Representatives for BJ’s Wholesale Club, whose corporate
headquarters are in Marlborough, Massachusetts, could not immediately be
reached for comment Monday.There was no answer late Monday afternoon at
phone lines of the various departments inside the south Jersey
location.More than 60 million people across the mid-Atlantic and the
Northeast were subject to flood watches Monday afternoon.At least 3
inches of rain had fallen on nearby communities such as Philadelphia
(3.22 inches), Cherry Hill (3.60), Oceanport (3.51) and Cream Ridge
(3.14) in the previous 24 hours by late Monday afternoon.
David K. Li Senior Breaking News Reporter-Steve Strouss contributed.
Extreme heat in the eastern U.S. sparks a scramble to protect the vulnerable.
With
record-high temperatures expected through Saturday, summer camp
directors, nonprofit leaders and local officials are racing to keep
children and older people safe.
25 dead in ongoing heat wave as
storms bring flood, wind threats to East Coast-At least 18 record highs
were set on July Fourth as celebrations kicked off in mid-Atlantic
cities, including Washington and Baltimore.July 5, 2026, 12:13 PM EDT /
Updated July 5, 2026, 2:42 PM EDT-By Mirna Alsharif and Christine Rapp
A
weeklong heat wave that officials believe has killed at least 25 people
continued Sunday, with 40 million people under heat alerts across the
East Coast, Southeast and Southwest.At least 18 record highs were set on
the Fourth of July as celebrations kicked off in cities including
Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; Raleigh, North Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia;
and Atlantic City, New Jersey.On Sunday, alerts will continue into the
evening on the East Coast as heat index values reach 100 to 105 in
cities including Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Raleigh, as
well as Charleston, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. Heat
index values reflect what the temperature feels like to the human
body.Temperatures will finally start to drop this week, with highs
generally in the 70s to low 90s throughout the East Coast.In the
Southwest, extreme heat watches cover parts of Arizona and California,
including Phoenix and Tucson, and go into effect Tuesday through
Thursday. Dangerously hot conditions are expected through midweek, with
daytime highs reaching as high as 114 degrees.At least 25 people have
reportedly died in the ongoing heat wave, with most of the suspected
deaths in New Jersey, where 22 people have died across 10 counties,
according to the state’s Department of Health.Two deaths have been
reported in Hinds County, Mississippi, and one in Cook County, Illinois,
officials said.In New York City, more than 378 people have visited
emergency rooms for heat-related illnesses, according to the city’s
Health Department.Thousands of people were without power across the
eastern U.S., including over 215,000 in Michigan, 151,700 in
Pennsylvania and 94,200 in New Jersey, according to
PowerOutages.us.Summer storms-Saturday’s storms produced more than 540
damaging wind gust reports across the central and eastern United States.
Some of the strongest gusts reported include 92 mph in Norman,
Oklahoma, and 87 mph in Suffolk County, New York, according to the
National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center.Sunday’s forecast
calls for widely scattered showers and thunderstorms across parts of the
Plains, Southeast and mid-Atlantic, where 25 million people are under
storm alerts. This risk area includes Philadelphia, Washington,
Baltimore and Arlington, Virginia, where conditions are favorable for
storms to produce damaging wind gusts over 70 mph and quarter-sized
hail. Tornado risk remains relatively low nationwide.Though some storms
may not be severe, scattered thunderstorms still pose a threat of
frequent lightning and could cause travel delays Sunday afternoon and
evening at major airports in Dallas; Nashville, Tennessee; Chicago;
Cincinnati; Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta; New York; Philadelphia;
and Washington.Through Monday, 34 million people from Delaware to
Connecticut are under flood alerts, though the severe weather risk is
noticeably lower. Slow-moving storms carrying ample moisture will raise
the risk of localized flash flooding, especially across the
mid-Atlantic.The New York City Emergency Management Department warned
residents to prepare for heavy rain from Sunday to Tuesday. Up to 3
inches of rain have been forecast in the city, with rainfall rates of up
to 2 inches per hour.“Periods of heavy rain may cause flooding in the
city, including highways, streets, basements, and underpasses,” the
department said.Storms could bring rainfall rates of 2 inches per hour,
raising the risk of urban flash flooding in cities including
Philadelphia, New York and Hartford, Connecticut. In total, 2 to 8
inches of rain is possible through Monday.Mirna Alsharif-Mirna Alsharif
is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.Christine Rapp.Christine Rapp
is a meteorologist for NBC News.Brittany Kubicko and Emma Caughlan
contributed.
