ISRAEL HAMMERS THE LEECH DEATH CULT ARABS REAL GOOD. WAY TO GO BENJAMIN.

ISRAEL HAMMERS THE LEECH DEATH CULT ARABS REAL GOOD. WAY TO GO BENJAMIN.

RUSSIA,GERMANY, ARAB MUSLIMS COME AGAINST ISRAEL.

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19  For in my jealousy and in the fire (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20  So that the fishes of the    sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22  And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

CHINA AND KINGS O  F THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

I AM SUDDENLY ON AN ALLIGATOR KICK. NOW I BELIEVE ISRAEL SHOULD POUR PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER GAZA AND THE WESTBANK. AND ALSO IN EVERY TUNNELL. NOW WHY WOULD PIGS BLOOD BE GREAT ALL OVER GAZA, WESTBANK AND IN EVERY TUNNEL. WELL HERE COMES THE KICKER. THE ARABS WANNA DIE FOR THEIR NON EXISTANT MUHAMMAD SO CALLED LEADER. WHO DIED BEFORE MECCA WAS EVEN IN EXISTANCE. AND THEIR SO CALLED GOD THAT IS GREATER (SATAN) THEY CLAIME. BUT SINCE THEY WANNA DIE FOR A NON EXISTANT GOD BUT AN IMMITATER SATAN. WELL LET THEM. SO POUR TONS OF PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER GAZA, WESTBANK AND EVERY TUNNEL. GET READY THAT BLOOD WILL BE GREAT TO ATTRACT ALLIGATORS AT LEAST 3 TO EACH TUNNEL. THE DROP IN 50,000 ALLIGATORS ALL OVER GAZA. AND ANOTHER 50,000 ALLIGATORS DROPPED IN THE WEST BANK. THESE ARABS CAN GET A TASTE OF BEING EATIN BEFORE THE FINAL FEAST OF 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS EAT THEM  FOR 7 MONTHS IN EXEKIEL 38 & 39. THIS WILL GET THOSE OCCUPYING ARABS OFF YOUR GOD GIVIN LAND ISRAEL. ONCE AND FOR ALL. 

Displaced Palestinians seek protection or outpost demolition from High Court-Several dozen Palestinian Bedouin families fled Wadi as-Seeq in October 2023 in the face of persistent settler harassment and violence By Jeremy Sharon-21 July 2025, 9:38 pm

Former residents of the displaced Palestinian Bedouin community of Wadi as-Seeq are requesting ongoing protection from security services to enable them to return to their dwellings — or that the High Court of Justice order the destruction of an illegal settler outpost located just 100 meters (328 feet) from their hamlet.The residents made their demands Sunday in response to a proposal by the High Court in May that the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police physically enable the residents to return. But the court refused to order that the outpost be removed or that security services provide protection to the hamlet after the residents’ return.Several dozen Palestinian Bedouin families fled Wadi as-Seeq in October 2023, in the face of persistent settler harassment and violence after radical activists established an illegal outpost right next to the hamlet.The judges said during court hearing in May that if the residents suffered further violence after returning, they would have a better case to demand the demolition of the outpost.Filing a response to the court proposal on behalf of the Wadi as-Seeq residents, attorney Tamir Blank of the Torat Tzedek organization had tough words for the justices, saying it was “unjust” to expect the residents to endanger their own lives and property “just in order to prove with their own flesh that the violence continues.”The attorney argued that the court should not lend a hand to “the farce” of having the residents return without proper security arrangements for the future, since they would just be displaced again by extremist settlers, as has happened to numerous other Bedouin communities in other parts of the West Bank.The Wadi as-Seeq case is significant because it showcases one of the earliest examples of the tactic now increasingly used by extremist settlers of establishing an outpost as close as possible to a Bedouin hamlet, in order to harass, intimidate, and attack the residents, and ultimately drive them from their homes.The residents of Muarrajat were displaced in this manner earlier this month, as were the residents of Mughayyir al-Deir, 13 kilometers north of Muarrajat, in May this year.The residents of Wadi as-Seeq pointed to those examples of displacement as a result of settler harassment in their request to the court on Sunday, and said that without demolishing the outposts, it would be pointless for them to return.They also alleged that the refusal of the IDF and the Civil Administration, a department of the Defense Ministry responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank, to give any guarantees for the residents’ safety demonstrated that they were “at ease” with the fact that the residents would not return. They further charged that this was actually “in accordance with their policies and actions in different places as well.”Blank wrote that the residents would, however, be willing to return without the destruction of the illegal outpost, if at least several conditions were met.These included that security services set up a special emergency hotline for residents to call in the event of harassment or violence by the settlers, and the IDF declaring the boundaries of Wadi as-Seeq to be a closed military zone to prevent settlers from entering.They also asked that the IDF or the Civil Administration pay for a private security company to secure the hamlet, if security services themselves are unwilling or unable to do so. They noted that the state has paid for private security companies to provide security for Jewish residents of East Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Silwan.“It’s not possible that the state protects only Jews and not Palestinians, and will restrict private security to Jews only, without even considering the issue,” Blank wrote in the court filing.

THESE COWARDS THAT SUCK HOLE UP TO THESE ARAB LEECHES.LET THESE 25 REPROBATE COUNTRYS TAKE ALL THE DEATH CULT ARABS INTO THEIR COUNTRIES. SO THEY GET THE HELL OFF ISRAELS LAND. THEN USE WILL NOT HAVE TO COMPLAIN OF THE POOR DEAD AHAB THE ARABS DEATH WORSHIPPERS..

British FM: Israeli aid system in Gaza a ‘grotesque spectacle’-25 Western nations say Gaza war ‘must end now,’ suffering has ‘reached new depths’Foreign ministers from UK, Canada, across EU say Israel-backed aid scheme ‘dangerous,’ ‘deprives Gazans of human dignity’; call ‘humanitarian city’ plan ‘completely unacceptable’By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg-21 July 2025, 7:36 pm

Britain and 24 Western allies, including Australia, Canada, France, and Italy, said in a joint statement Monday that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza “must end now,” arguing civilians’ suffering has “reached new depths.”The statement — which also denounced Israel’s plan to create a “humanitarian city” in Gaza’s south, as well as settler activity in the West Bank, while calling for the release of the hostages — came at a time of continued reports of mass casualty events in the vicinity of aid distribution sites, and of rising malnutrition that UNRWA has said affects some one-tenth of Gaza’s children. It also came as hostage-truce negotiations with Hamas have ground on, without any apparent breakthrough, despite expanded military operations.Israel rejected the statement, saying it “sends the wrong message to Hamas.”In the statement, the nations’ foreign ministers wrote that “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability, and deprives Gazans of human dignity.”Near-daily mass-casualty events have been reported in the vicinity of the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution sites, as Israeli troops have used live fire in attempts to control the crowds. The GHF has blamed Hamas for some of the violence, and similar scenes have been reported at sites that are run by other aid organizations.“We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food,” said Monday’s statement, calling it “horrifying” that “over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.”Israel has acknowledged deaths near aid sites and has confirmed that troops have fired warning shots when crowds have gotten too close, but has said the death tolls, which mostly come from Hamas-run authorities, are exaggerated.“The Israeli government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,” said the statement, calling on Israel to “immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life-saving work safely and effectively.”Israel has criticized the UN’s aid mechanisms as vulnerable to exploitation by Hamas, saying the terror group seizes aid and uses it to sustain itself and consolidate its control over parts of the Strip. The GHF said Monday that it has repeatedly offered to work together with the UN, but the UN has refused, saying that to do so would violate humanitarian principles.The Monday communiqué was signed by the foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, as well as the EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management.It also called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of the “hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 [who] continue to suffer terribly,” and asserted: “A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.”FMs: ‘Humanitarian city’ plan is ‘unacceptable’The statement also condemned Israel’s proposal to build a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of southern Gaza’s Rafah.“Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a ‘humanitarian city’ are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law,” it said.Defense Minister Israel Katz floated a plan earlier this month to build a “city” on the ruins of Rafah that would eventually contain all of the Strip’s residents; they would not be allowed to leave during ongoing fighting, as the IDF would operate against Hamas throughout the rest of the enclave.The military reportedly opposes the plan as “unworkable,” and it has been panned by Israeli opposition figures as “crazy, even by this government’s standards.”The diplomats also objected to “any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” singling out plans for the controversial E1 area in the West Bank as a “flagrant breach of international law,” and denouncing the surge of attacks on Palestinians by violent West Bank settlers, who have gone mostly unpunished.“We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” the statement said, affirming support for the US, Qatar, and Egypt, which have served as mediators in ongoing hostage-ceasefire negotiations.“We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians, and the entire region,” the foreign ministers concluded, without elaborating.Israel rejected the statement, with the Foreign Ministry writing in a statement that it “is disconnected from reality and sends the wrong message to Hamas.” It also asserted that “all statements and all claims should be directed at the only party responsible for the lack of a deal for the release of hostages and a ceasefire: Hamas, which started this war and is prolonging it.”The terror group has “stubbornly” refused the latest ceasefire proposal, which Israel agreed to, is “running a campaign to spread lies about Israel” and “deliberately acting to increase friction and harm to civilians who come to receive humanitarian aid,” the ministry added.“The statement fails to focus the pressure on Hamas … At these sensitive moments in the ongoing negotiations, it is better to avoid statements of this kind,” it said.US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also slammed the statement.“Disgusting! 25 nations put pressure on Israel instead of savages of Hamas!” Huckabee said in post on X.“Gaza suffers for 1 reason: Hamas rejects EVERY proposal. Blaming Israel is irrational,” he added.While several European allies — including Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia did not sign the document — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Monday that he had spoken on the phone with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and expressed his “greatest concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation, especially in light of the expansion of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.”In addition to the joint letter, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Monday strongly criticized Israel over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation while addressing Parliament, saying the “new Israeli aid system is inhumane, it’s dangerous, and it deprives Gazans of human dignity.”“It’s a grotesque spectacle, wreaking a terrible human cost,” he said.Lammy boasted that the current Labour government has sanctioned violent settlers and Israeli ministers, suspended trade negotiations with Israel, and signed an major agreement with the Palestinian Authority.The remarks came after Lammy spoke by phone with Sa’ar, who said he told his British counterpart that “Hamas is solely responsible for the suffering of the population and the continuation of the war.”In his Westminster speech, Lammy detailed attacks by Israeli forces that have killed Gazan civilians seeking aid, and added that “Hamas is contributing to the chaos and taking advantage of it.”“The Israeli government must answer: What possible military justification can there be for strikes that have killed desperate, starving children?” Lammy continued. “What immediate actions are they taking to stop this litany of horrors? What will they do to hold those responsible to account?”“I firmly believe the Israeli government’s actions are doing untold damage to Israel’s standing in the world and undermining Israel’s long-term security,” said Lammy, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should listen to “82 percent” of the Israeli public that wants a ceasefire.“This offensive puts them in grave danger,” he said. “But still Netanyahu persists.”He called Katz’s plan to move Gaza’s civilians to Rafah “a cruel vision which must never come to pass.”“The war in Gaza must end now,” said the top British diplomat. “There is no military solution. Negotiations will secure the hostages. Further bloodshed serves no purpose. Hamas and Israel must both commit to a ceasefire now.”“And the next ceasefire must be the last ceasefire.”Hamas, he said, can have “no role in the governance of Gaza nor use it as a launchpad for terrorism.”The war in Gaza started on October 7, 2023, when some 5,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.Some 20 living hostages remain in terror groups’ captivity in Gaza, alongside the bodies of 28 who are confirmed dead, and two about whom there are grave concerns. One of the slain hostages is an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014. The rest are civilians and soldiers abducted during the October 7 invasion.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 58,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

PA and UAE condemn transfer of authority-Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work-Civil Administration says move temporary, authority will be returned to Palestinian Hebron municipality when work is finished, but settler council claims it’s now in charge at holy site By Jeremy Sharon-21 July 2025, 12:35 am

Israeli authorities have said they are taking control of the management of the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site in Hebron, in order to carry out construction work at the flashpoint West Bank shrine.According to the Civil Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator for Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) liaison to the Palestinians, the government has authorized a process whereby Israeli authorities will be able to build a canopy over a courtyard in the Tomb of the Patriarchs complex to provide shade to worshipers.The Civil Administration has said that the bureaucratic process for enabling this work to go ahead is in its “advanced stages,” and will be for the benefit of “all population groups who pray at the site.”The Tomb of the Patriarchs is revered in Judaism as the burial site of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. It is also a holy site for Muslims, and a large section of the compound serves as the Ibrahimi Mosque. The site features different times and spaces for Jewish and Muslim prayer, and any change to the arrangements typically attracts condemnation.Israeli authorities have accused the Islamic Waqf — a religious trust that, together with the municipal authority of the Palestinian city of Hebron, has administered the Tomb of the Patriarchs thus far — of failing to cooperate regarding necessary renovations to the site.In light of this position, a process for transferring the management authority from the Hebron Municipal Authority to the Civil Administration has been initiated, Israeli officials said.Officials connected to the religious council of the Hebron-adjacent Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, however, have claimed that the council will be in charge of carrying out the construction work at the contested site.The Civil Administration denied this was the case, saying authority for site management would remain in its hands.It also said that management authority would be restored to the Hebron Municipal Council once the construction work is finished.Amitai Cohen, an official with the Tomb of the Patriarchs Administration, which runs the Jewish part of the shared holy site, nevertheless stated that the religious council was now in charge of daily operations at the site.He said he was unaware of any arrangement whereby the management authority would be restored to the Palestinian Hebron Municipal Council.In a similar process in 2020, the Defense Ministry approved plans to install a controversial elevator for disabled access at the site, which was carried out by the Civil Administration.The elevator was inaugurated in June 2023.Defense Minister Israel Katz’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Times of Israel regarding the contradictory accounts over the management of the holy site.“The idea is to make order at the Tomb of the Patriarchs for everyone who prays there,” said Cohen.“We need to develop it and take it forward as a holy site, it’s something healthy that there will be an organization with authority and responsibility to deal with the issues there.”The Palestinian Authority and the United Arab Emirates both condemned the transfer of authority, however.Ramallah said that it would constitute “an unprecedented step in the occupation’s measures to impose its sovereignty over the mosque, Judaize it, and completely alter its identity and features.”The UAE’s foreign ministry said it had “expressed its strong condemnation” over the plans, and called it “a grave violation of the historical and legal status quo at the Ibrahimi Mosque.”The ministry added that it was calling for “an immediate halt to all unilateral and provocative actions that risk destabilizing the occupied Palestinian territories and undermining international efforts toward de-escalation.”

Source: Hamas negotiators unable to reach group’s Gaza leaders, slowing hostage talks-Sign-off needed from Hamas chiefs in Strip, who source warns may become even harder to reach as IDF expands offensive into Deir al-Balah; progress made in aid talks with Egypt By Jacob Magid-Today, 3:16 am-JUL 21,25

Hamas’s negotiators in Doha have been unable to reach the terror group’s leaders in Gaza since late last week, preventing talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal from moving forward, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Monday.Last week, Israel submitted updated maps showing its proposed redeployment of troops during the 60-day truce under discussion. The maps had mediators bullish about the chances for an agreement as they envisioned Israel coming down from previous demands to remain in control over larger swaths of Gaza territory, Arab diplomats told The Times of Israel at the time, adding that they expected Hamas to approve the Israeli maps.But Hamas deliberations on the updated Israeli proposal have continued since Thursday without a response, the source said Monday, lamenting the daily loss of Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip that have taken place in the interim.The source added that Israel’s decision to enter the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah for the first time since the start of the war may further harm efforts to reach Hamas leaders when seeking a response to developments in the Doha negotiations.With frustration growing from mediators over the perceived foot-dragging by Hamas, the source indicated that Hamas would likely issue a statement declaring that it is still conducting internal deliberations on the Israeli proposal in a positive manner.While talks in Doha have stalled, a separate track of negotiations has been taking place in Cairo between Israeli negotiators and Egyptian officials that have focused on advancing a new mechanism for aid distribution during the ceasefire under discussion.The source said Monday that those talks have been progressing well and that a meeting was being planned for Tuesday between Egyptian, Israeli and UN officials to discuss the new mechanism.The goal is to move away from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, while still satisfying Israel, which argues that Hamas has exploited existing UN distribution mechanisms to divert aid, the source said.The US- and Israeli-backed GHF has been heavily criticized for forcing Gazans to walk long distances, often coming under deadly fire as they cross IDF lines in order to pick up aid.An Arab diplomat separately told The Times of Israel on Monday that despite the delay in Hamas’s response, mediators are still optimistic about the chances to reach an agreement in the coming days, given the softened Israeli stance on its troop redeployment and Hamas’s willingness to forgo its demand for an upfront Israeli commitment for a permanent ceasefire.However, Channel 12 cited unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations who were less optimistic, saying that another week or possibly two may be needed due to the delays.The network said Israel was threatening to pull its negotiating team from Doha if talks did not advance.With the talks failing to yield a breakthrough, Israeli troops on Monday began ground operations in the Deir al-Balah area, one of the few places in the Strip where the IDF has, until now, not operated with ground forces because it believed Hamas to be holding hostages there, though it has conducted airstrikes in the city. Hamas has vowed to execute captives if the IDF approaches.Amid the IDF advance, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said it was “shocked and alarmed” at the decision and demanded the government explain the rationale behind it.The IDF has long said it doesn’t operate in areas in which it knows that hostages are located, though, former captives have testified to having come under Israeli fire that nearly lost them their lives. Six hostages were executed last year in Rafah after troops unknowingly approached an area near where they were being held.

Pro-Palestinian activist in New York charged by feds for torching 11 police vehicles-Jakhi McCray faces up to 20 years for alleged arson; separately, anti-Israel protesters vandalize Bronx office of US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez By Luke Tress-Today, 12:36 am-JUL 22,25

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a pro-Palestinian activist, Jakhi McCray, with torching 11 NYPD vehicles last month.McCray allegedly climbed a fence to access a parking lot for police vehicles on June 12 in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, according to the federal Eastern District of New York court.Once inside the lot, McCray allegedly ignited 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer, the US attorney’s office said.The cost to replace the vehicles was around $800,000, the statement said.McCray, 21, was charged in federal court with arson and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment.The NYPD identified McCray as a suspect last month. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at the time that McCray was “very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”Kenny also said McCray damaged a statue at Columbia University during protests on the campus last year.Court filings said that surveillance video and fingerprints found on a pair of sunglasses at the scene of the arson implicated McCray in the fires.Ahead of his arrest, police had offered up to $30,000 for information on McCray.NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Monday that McCray had turned himself in, accompanied by his lawyer, in Brooklyn earlier in the day. He was being held in federal custody.“Setting police vehicles ablaze is not a form of protest — it is a federal crime. Our office will not tolerate violence or destruction that undermines law enforcement efforts to ensure public safety and will prosecute this individual to the fullest extent of the law,” said US Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr.Anti-Israel activist groups, including at Columbia, rallied behind McCray ahead of his initial court appearance on Monday.“The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jakhi McCray,” said Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus alliance leading anti-Israel protests at the university. The group has backed other violent offenders in the past, including Tarek Bazrouk, an anti-Israel activist who pleaded guilty last month to assaulting Jews.Separately, anti-Israel activists in New York said on Monday that they had vandalized the Bronx office of Democratic US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of Israel’s leading critics in Congress.The anti-Israel protest group Decolonize This Place posted photos showing red paint, reminiscent of blood, splattered on Ocasio-Cortez’s office, and a sign that said, “AOC funds genocide in Gaza.”Decolonize This Place said the vandalism was an “anonymous submission” from a group called the Boogie Down Liberation Front. The group did not appear to have any previous history or online presence.Anti-Israel protesters have repeatedly vandalized the offices of elected representatives in New York, including US Representatives Adriano Espaillat, Mike Lawler, Ritchie Torres, and Daniel Goldman.The vandalism appeared to be a response to Ocasio-Cortez voting against a Congressional amendment, sponsored by US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, to cut funding for Israel’s air defense.“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on X last week. “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.”

Harvard, Trump admin fight in court over funds axed due to antisemitism allegations-Hearing ends without ruling in case that marks key moment in White House’s conflict with university-By Agencies 21 July 2025, 11:06 pm

Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order US President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.The administration canceled hundreds of grants awarded to researchers on the grounds that Harvard failed to do enough to address harassment of Jewish students on its campus. A lawyer for the Trump administration told the judge that the canceled grants reflect a government priority not to send money to institutions that practice antisemitism.“Harvard prioritized campus protesters over cancer research,” said Michael Velchik, a senior lawyer at the US Justice Department. He told the judge she should not be hearing the case in the first place, arguing the matter belonged in the US Court of Federal Claims, which handles monetary disputes.The court hearing before US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston lasted more than two hours, but ended without a ruling. The case marks a critical moment in the White House’s escalating conflict with Harvard, which is being widely watched across higher education and beyond.The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university, the US’s oldest and richest, has become a central focus of the administration’s broad campaign to leverage federal funding to force change on campuses, which Trump says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies. Harvard has been in the administration’s crosshairs particularly since it rejected a list of demands to make changes to its governance, hiring, and admissions practices in April.The administration’s effort comes in the wake of widespread anti-Israel — and in some cases antisemitic — protests on campuses across the US that saw frequent expressions of support for Hamas and its October 7, 2023, attack, as well as violations of school rules and local laws. It also echoes decades of criticism by conservatives who point to a lack of “viewpoint diversity” at colleges and universities.Harvard says it has taken steps to ensure its campus is welcoming to Jewish and Israeli students, who it acknowledges experienced “vicious and reprehensible” treatment following the October 7 attack and the onset of the war in Gaza.But Harvard President Alan Garber has said the administration’s demands have gone far beyond addressing antisemitism, and unlawfully seek to regulate the “intellectual conditions” on its campus by controlling who it hires and who it teaches.Those demands, which came in an April 11 letter from an administration task force, included calls for the private university to restructure its governance, alter its hiring and admissions practices to ensure an ideological balance of viewpoints, and end certain academic programs.After Harvard rejected those demands, it said the administration began retaliating against it in violation of the free speech protections of the US Constitution’s First Amendment by abruptly cutting funding the school says is vital to supporting scientific and medical research.Harvard says hundreds of research projects, including ones concerning cancer treatments, infectious diseases, and Parkinson’s disease, will be in jeopardy, unless the judge declares the grant cancellations unlawful.Steven Lehotsky, a lawyer for Harvard, said the government has made wholesale cuts to research under the guise of combating antisemitism, but has not identified any connection between the two.“The administration has given no consideration to patients, the public at large, and the harm of all this research being cut off,” Lehotsky told the court.In addition to the grant cancellations, the Trump administration sought to bar international students from attending the school; threatened Harvard’s accreditation status; and opened the door to cutting off more funds by finding it violated federal civil rights law.Velchik said the government has authority to cancel research grants when an institution is out of compliance with the president’s directives. He said episodes at Harvard violated Trump’s order combating antisemitism.Burroughs questioned how the government could make “ad hoc” decisions to cancel grants and do so across Harvard without offering evidence that any of the research is antisemitic.She also argued the government had provided “no documentation, no procedure” to “suss out” whether Harvard administrators “have taken enough steps or haven’t” to combat antisemitism.“The consequences of that in terms of constitutional law are staggering,” she said during Monday’s hearing. “I don’t think you can justify a contract action based on impermissible suppression of speech. Where do I have that wrong?”Velchik said the case comes down to the government’s choosing how best to spend billions of dollars in research funding.“Harvard claims the government is anti-Harvard. I reject that,” Velchik said. “The government is pro-Jewish students at Harvard. The government is pro-Jewish faculty at Harvard.”Meanwhile, as part of Trump’s spending and tax bill, the Republican-led US Congress increased the federal excise tax on Harvard’s income from its $53 billion endowment to eight percent from 1.4%. Income from the endowment covers 40% of Harvard’s operating budget.Garber said last week that the various federal actions since Trump returned to office in January could strip the school of nearly $1 billion annually, forcing it to lay off staff and freeze hiring. The amount includes the impact of the multi-year federal grants canceled by the Trump administration.Burroughs, an appointee of Democratic former president Barack Obama, in a separate case has already barred the administration from halting Harvard’s ability to host international students. She is expected to issue a written ruling in the funding case in the coming weeks.Following the hearing, Trump took aim at Burroughs in a post on his Truth Social platform. The president called her a “TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling.”“She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic ‘loss’ for the People of our Country! Harvard has $52 Billion Dollars sitting in the Bank, and yet they are anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-America,” Trump wrote.Luke Tress and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report. 
 
US, Israel resolve issue of visas for visiting Christians, after row went public-US Ambassador Huckabee says Israel will ‘completely restore the long-standing process’; last week, he threatened to declare Israel no longer welcomes Christians By Lazar Berman-21 July 2025, 11:54 pm

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said Monday that a solution had been reached on the issue of visas for visiting Christian groups, after a furious letter from him leaked to the press last week.In the letter, Huckabee threatened to declare that Israel no longer welcomes Christians, over what he said was Jerusalem’s failure since January to approve tourist visas for evangelical missions, after launching investigations into several Christian groups at the start of 2025.On Monday, Huckabee posted on X: “I am delighted to report that the issue has been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction and the strong support that Israel enjoys from American evangelicals will continue.“I’m convinced the Interior Minister was not fully aware of the change being imposed and I’m grateful he has personally intervened to completely restore the long-standing process,” he continued.“Attorney Calev Myers, an Israeli attorney who represents some 150 Christian groups in Israel, was instrumental in outlining the request and the Prime Minister’s Office was supportive and involved in the resolution, along with the Minister of the Interior,” Huckabee said.The Prime Minister’s Office has been silent regarding the visa affair.After meetings with the Minister of the Interior and with the help of @IsraeliPM , I’m happy to report that the issue concerning visas for American Evangelical organizations has been fully resolved.Starting in January, a change in the manner which visas for Christian…— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 21, 2025Prior to Huckabee’s announcement, Myers told The Times of Israel that a solution had been reached, and credited “the hard work and fruitful cooperation between the US ambassador, the Ministry of Interior, and the Prime Minister’s Office.”“The Evangelical Christian organizations active in Israel, which represent the vast majority of Zionists in the world today, will receive all of the visas they need through a streamlined and efficient application process,” Myers said.The US ambassador fired off a seething letter to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel last Wednesday, in which he asserted that at the start of 2025, the Interior Ministry launched investigations into several evangelical Christian organizations with long ties to Israel, including the Baptist Conference in Israel and the Christian Missionary Alliance.In the letter, Huckabee informed Arbel that these organizations were required to complete lengthy questionnaires and that they had still not received new visas for religious leaders to travel to Israel, despite submitting their applications at the beginning of the year.Copies of Huckabee’s letter were also sent to Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana.The private exchange that quickly turned public was followed by an apparent Israeli strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic church on Thursday that killed three people and injured several, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, drawing international condemnation and expression of “deep sorrow” from Israel. The military said the church was struck by accident, and that it was investigating what happened, and Netanyahu’s office issued a statement expressing regret.Earlier last week week, Huckabee weighed in on unchecked settler violence in the West Bank for the first time, calling on the Israeli government to investigate the “terrorist killing” of a 20-year-old Palestinian-American in the village of Sinjil last week.On Saturday, Huckabee visited the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, which has been the scene of several attacks by settlers in recent weeks.

Soldier killed in blast, as IDF pushes into central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah for 1st time-Staff Sgt. Amit Cohen killed in Khan Younis; hostage families alarmed by new ground offensive; undercover troops said to nab Hamas health official in Rafah By Emanuel Fabian,Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid-21 July 2025, 10:42 pmUpdated at 2:30 am

An Israeli soldier was killed by an explosion in southern Gaza on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces announced, as troops began ground operations in the Deir al-Balah area in the Strip’s center for the first time since the beginning of the war.The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Amit Cohen, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Holon.According to a preliminary IDF investigation, Cohen was killed by a blast from Israeli military munitions that detonated inside a building in Khan Younis.The explosion also seriously wounded an officer in the 13th Battalion, the IDF said.The military said it was further investigating the cause of the explosion, including the possibility that it was an “operational accident.”Cohen’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 455.Earlier Monday, media in Gaza reported that IDF tanks had pushed into the southern and eastern districts of Deir al-Balah.It is one of the few places in the Strip where the IDF has, until now, not operated with ground troops because it believed Hamas to be holding hostages there, though it has conducted airstrikes in the city. Hamas has vowed to execute captives if the IDF approaches.As a matter of policy, the IDF has said it avoids ground operations in areas of Gaza where it believes Hamas to be holding hostages or cannot rule out the presence of captives, in order not to endanger them.The push into the southeast of Deir al-Balah was being led by troops of the Golani Infantry Brigade, along with tanks and combat engineers, according to military sources. The ground operations came after Palestinian reports of artillery shelling and airstrikes overnight and on Monday morning in the area.A day earlier, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for several zones in the southwest of Deir al-Balah, where many Palestinians had sought refuge. According to United Nations figures, between 50,000 and 80,000 people were in the area when Sunday’s evacuation order was issued.Sunday’s announcement told civilians to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast, where at least 600,000 Palestinians were already massed.During a briefing on Monday, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric warned that the southern Gaza desalination plant and other vital water infrastructure are located within the Deir al-Balah areas from which the IDF has ordered Palestinians to evacuate.The plant is a main source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in the coastal Mawasi zone, producing 660,430 gallons of water per day.“The loss of this facility would be catastrophic for the people who depend on it for access to fresh water,” Dujarric said.As of early July, 80 percent of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities fall within Israeli-militarized zones or in areas that have been placed under evacuation orders, said the UN spokesperson, adding that 93% of households in Gaza had no access to water as of last month.Over 87% of Gaza is currently under Israeli evacuation order, which has squeezed about 2.1 million people into fragmented areas of the Strip where hardly any services are available, Dujarric said.He noted that UN humanitarian staff will remain in Deir al-Balah areas that the IDF has ordered to evacuate and has shared its coordinates with all parties of the conflict.According to the World Health Organization, its staff residence and main warehouse in Deir al-Balah were attacked three times on Monday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the IDF entered the UN agency’s staff residence, forced women and children to evacuate on foot, and handcuffed, stripped and interrogated male staff at gunpoint.Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, three of whom were later released while the other remains in detention, according to Tedros.“WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff,” he said.Tedros also said “the latest evacuation order in Deir al-Balah has affected several WHO premises, compromising our ability to operate in Gaza and pushing the health system further towards collapse.”“WHO’s main warehouse located in Deir al-Balah is within the evacuation zone, and was damaged yesterday when an attack caused explosions and a fire inside,” he added.Earlier, following reports of the IDF’s push toward the city, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said it was “shocked and alarmed” at the decision, and the mother of one of the hostages thought to be alive said she was perplexed by it.The expanded military operation commenced as global criticism mounted over the war and the US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism in Gaza. At the same time, negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage release deal were ongoing in Qatar. Should those talks prove fruitless, the IDF is proposing a further intensification of the fighting, even as it acknowledges burnout among troops after more than 21 months of war.Deir al-Balah resident Abdullah Abu Saleem, 48, told AFP that “during the night, we heard huge and powerful explosions shaking the area, as if it were an earthquake,” which he attributed to “artillery shelling in the south-central part of Deir al-Balah and the southeastern area.”“We are extremely worried and fearful that the army is planning a ground operation in Deir al-Balah and the central camps where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering,” he said.Local medics said tank shelling in the area hit houses and mosques, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding several others. At least 130 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,000 wounded by Israeli gunfire and military strikes across the territory in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Monday.The ministry’s figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.Also on Monday, Marwan al-Hams, an official in the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, was reportedly detained by an undercover Israeli force outside the field hospital of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip.Hams is the director of Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, and also serves as the head of all field hospitals in the Gaza Strip.The Hamas health ministry said that Hams was on his way to visit the ICRC hospital in Rafah when an Israeli force “abducted” him after opening fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian nearby.Medics said the person killed was a local journalist who was filming an interview with Hams when the incident happened.An ICRC spokesperson said the ICRC hospital had admitted and treated patients injured in the incident but would not comment further on their status in order to protect their privacy. It said it was “very concerned about safety and security” around the field hospital.The IDF did not immediately comment on the incident.Also in southern Gaza, footage showed several dozen people, including children, protesting in the Khan Younis area against Hamas and in support of ending the war.In the footage published by Gaza-based media outlets, protesters can be heard chanting “Hamas out.”One demonstrator is seen holding a sign reading “Stop the war,” while another sign says “Stop exploiting the blood.”The demonstration appeared to be the first in Gaza against the terror group, since it violently suppressed a series of protests in March and in April.Meanwhile, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the relatives of many of the 50 remaining hostages, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive, asked the government to explain the move into Deir al-Balah.“The families demand that the prime minister, defense minister, chief of staff, and IDF spokesperson appear before them and the Israeli public this evening to clearly explain why the offensive in the Deir al-Balah area does not put the hostages at serious risk,” said the group. “The people of Israel will not forgive anyone who knowingly endangered the hostages — both the living and the deceased.”Ruhama Bohbot, whose son Elkana Bohbot is held captive by Hamas and thought to be alive, told a gathering of supporters Monday that she felt “a little tense” over the military’s entry into the city.“The IDF have begun operating in Gaza in the place where Elkana is being held, and I’m a little worried and suspicious like the other families,” Bohbot said. “I don’t have any idea why they started doing this now — now, when there’s supposed to be a deal.”“I hope that the army will know what to do and how to do it,” she said. “And God forbid not touch the hostages. The government said it wouldn’t be the worst thing if some hostages were harmed, an unbelievably terrible thing to say.”It was an apparent reference to Orit Strock, the minister of national missions and settlements, who said in an interview Monday that while the IDF should make a “great effort” to avoid harming hostages, “it’s not right to refrain from vanquishing Hamas” in areas where they might be held.“That also risks lives,” said Strock, a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party, adding that she “cannot make calculations about whether this person’s life is more important than that person’s life.”Negotiations over a 60-day ceasefire that would see the release of about half the hostages are continuing in Qatar, though difficulties reaching Hamas’s Gaza leadership are reportedly slowing the process. Should those talks fail, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir was drawing up plans for an expansion of the fighting.A Channel 12 news report that quoted sources familiar with the proposal described it as “the plan for taking over Gaza,” and said it was an alternative to the controversial “humanitarian city” in Rafah pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, which Zamir opposes.Global criticism of the war, and reports of a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, mounted on Monday. In a call for the war to end, 25 countries zeroed in on criticism of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began operating aid distribution sites in May under American and Israeli backing.Hundreds of people have been reported killed around the sites, according to Hamas officials. Israel has acknowledged deaths near aid sites and has confirmed that troops have fired warning shots when crowds have gotten too close, but says the death tolls, which mostly come from Hamas-run authorities, are exaggerated.The UN’s World Food Program, in a rare condemnation, said a crowd surrounding its aid convoy in northern Gaza on Sunday “came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire.” It said “countless lives” were lost. Hamas authorities reported nearly 80 dead from Israeli gunfire in the area of the convoy, which is unrelated to the GHF aid distribution sites.Responding to the reports, the IDF said it had fired “warning shots to remove an immediate threat posed to the troops” in northern Gaza, but denied the steep death toll, insisting that the “reported number of casualties does not align with the existing information.”An Israeli reservist told the Wall Street Journal that soldiers fired at aid-seeking Palestinians who veered off approved paths even though some of them were carrying white flags. The report, published Monday, said that Israeli soldiers fired on Palestinians who strayed from the paths or came too close to the troops.“We have an unwritten rule that if you are worried and they get too close and you see that it could be something that puts you and your team at risk, you don’t take that risk,” the reservist said.A spokesman for the GHF, Chapin Fay, said Monday that it was willing to deliver food to Palestinians for the UN, which he says “has given up distribution altogether.” He added that “desperation levels” in Gaza are rising.“We can get their aid into Gaza safely and securely and have offered to help repeatedly, but they continue to reject our offers,” Fay said in a media briefing.The UN has argued that it will not cooperate with the GHF, as its distribution mechanism has placed Palestinians at risk.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza.“The last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” his spokesman said in a statement. The United Nations chief “deplores the growing reports of children and adults suffering from malnutrition.”Jessica Steinberg, agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Knesset approves compensation package for businesses hurt by Iran conflict-With summer recess looming, coalition and opposition race to complete plan that focuses on maintaining economic ‘continuity’ for small- and medium-sized businesses By Sam Sokol-21 July 2025, 8:43 pm

Lawmakers voted 55-2 to approve the government’s plan to compensate those affected financially by last month’s conflict with Iran, in its third and final Knesset reading on Monday afternoon, including grants for businesses whose income streams were reduced and workers who were furloughed.“Our message to businesses is clear: the state is with you. The approval of the compensation outline today in the Knesset is an important step in ensuring business continuity and economic recovery following Operation Rising Lion,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.“We will act quickly, efficiently and sensitively, so that every business owner, in every part in the country, receives the assistance they deserve.”The outline, whose aim is to create “as broad a safety net as possible for the working public,” was first presented at a joint press conference last month by officials including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, then-Knesset Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafni, Business Sector Presidium chair Dubi Amitai, and Histadrut Labor Federation chief Arnon Bar-David.According to the Finance Ministry, the outline is focused on maintaining economic “continuity,” with an emphasis on small- and medium-sized businesses. Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 12,000 ($3,450) to NIS 400 million ($114 million) that has decreased by more than 25 percent month over month will be compensated from the Property Tax Compensation Fund.Businesses bringing in less than NIS 300,000 ($86,000) a year will be eligible for a fixed business continuity grant “depending on the level of damage to the business,” while businesses earning NIS 300,000 to NIS 400 million will be eligible for the reimbursement of 7% – 22% of their expenses, “depending on the rate of damage to business turnover, as well as a refund of 75% of salary expenses in relation to the level of damage.”Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 300,000 to NIS 100 million ($28 million) will have compensation capped at NIS 600,000 ($172,000).Employees placed on unpaid leave due to the cessation of economic activity during the war will receive payments from the National Insurance Institute and will not be forced to use any of their accrued vacation days.According to officials, an online system for claims under the new compensation plan will be opened by the Tax Authority “in the coming days.”Aside from assisting businesses and employees, the government will also offer compensation to landlords of residential apartments or commercial properties damaged as a result of the war.Overall, the war caused economic damage of at least NIS 4.5 billion ($1.2 billion), officials said last month.Progress on the compensation law was temporarily halted last week when the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party’s quit the coalition to protest its failure to pass legislation exempting yeshiva students from military service.In the wake of his resignation, UTJ lawmaker and then-committee chairman Moshe Gafni failed to show up for a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on the compensation bill, taking participants in the scheduled discussion by surprise.Without Gafni, the parliamentary panel had no chairman, and the discussion of the bill could not move forward, causing what committee member MK Vladimir Beliak (Yesh Atid) called “an absurd and unprecedented situation.”“Representatives from government ministries, the business sector, and opposition members arrived this morning for a discussion on the compensation outline for businesses. But here’s the thing: committee chairman Gafni resigned overnight, didn’t cancel the meeting, and currently, no one has the authority to lead the committee,” Beliak tweeted at the time.Within a day, the committee had approved a Knesset House Committee recommendation to appoint Likud MK Ofir Katz as chairman of the influential panel and announced that it would hold a meeting to advance the compensation outline prior to the upcoming Knesset recess.The Knesset is set to enter a nearly three-month-long recess on July 27. It will reconvene on October 19 for the winter session.“There is an urgency to finish with the compensation outline, on which most of the work has already been done,” Katz said at the time, adding that he intended to “finish the work in the committee, and bring the legislation up in the plenum next week.”

Romania, on edge over Russia, to buy Israeli anti-aircraft system for $2.3 billion-NATO member state signs 7-year framework agreement with Iron Dome maker Rafael for six short-range air defense systems-By Reuters and Emanuel Fabian-21 July 2025, 8:10 pm

Romania has signed a framework agreement to buy Israeli-made short-range and very-short-range anti-aircraft systems for more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), the Romanian defense ministry said on Monday.Under pressure from US President Donald Trump, Romania and other European countries have been looking to increase their defense spending since Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022.The European Union and NATO member state, which shares a 650-kilometer (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall in its territory repeatedly over the past two years, as Moscow attacks Ukrainian port infrastructure.The framework agreement with the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems — the maker, with US backing, of the Iron Dome defense system — provides for the signing of three further contracts, through which six integrated anti-aircraft systems will be acquired.The contracts will also cover training, ammunition, and logistical support.The framework agreement will run for seven years, with the first two Vshorad systems to be delivered within three years of the signing of the first of the three further contracts, the ministry said.Defense Ministry figures released in June showed that Israeli arms sales reached a new record in 2024, for the fourth consecutive year, totaling nearly $14.8 billion, amounting to double the value of exports of five years ago.Europe was the largest purchaser of Israeli defense goods, buying 54 percent of the total exports in 2024, and ministry officials attributed the increase in demand from European countries to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.At the same time, ministry officials said they were increasingly concerned by some governments, especially in Western Europe, who have canceled weapon deals with Israel or otherwise sanctioned Israeli defense firms over the war.