WHATS AT THE CENTER OF A BLACK HOLE?

WHATS AT THE CENTER OF A BLACK HOLE?


DR DOCTORION-ANGEL OF THE MIDEAST
"The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

FIRST ANGEL: ASIA
But the angel said: "Millions will die in China and in India. Nation will be against nation, brother against brother. Asians will fight each other. Nuclear weapons shall be used, killing millions."Twice I heard the words, "Catastrophic! Catastrophic!"Then the angel said, "Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world."I was trembling while the angel was speaking.
SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come."

Jeremiah 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 

Isaiah 57:21
21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Ephesians 2:2
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,(LIBERAL GODLESS AIR WAVES) the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

EZEK 39:11-16
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (300 MILLION RUSSIA,GERMANY, IRAN, TURKEY, ARAB MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: (IN THE JORDAN VALLEY) and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, (NUCLEAR SPECIALISTS) 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, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

MEANING OF HAMONAH
Hamonah, ham-o'-nah (Heb.)-- host; multitude; noise; tumult; commotion of mind. The prophetic name of a city that is mentioned in conjunction with Hamon-gog: "And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city.
Metaphysical meaning of Hamonah (mbd) - Truth Unity

Strong's Lexicon-Hamonah: Hamonah-Original Word: הֲמוֹנָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location-Transliteration: Hamownah
Pronunciation: hah-mo-NAH-Phonetic Spelling: (ham-o-naw')
Definition: Hamonah-Meaning: Hamonah

Word Origin: Derived from the Hebrew root הָמוֹן (H1995), meaning "multitude" or "abundance."Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: There is no direct Greek equivalent for "Hamonah" in the Strong's Greek Dictionary, as it is a specific Hebrew proper noun. However, the concept of a multitude or abundance can be related to Greek words like πλῆθος (G4128), meaning "multitude."Usage: The term "Hamonah" is used as a proper noun referring to a specific location mentioned in the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. It is associated with the aftermath of a significant battle, symbolizing the multitude of the slain.Cultural and Historical Background: In the context of the Hebrew Bible, names often carry significant meaning and are used to convey theological and prophetic messages. "Hamonah" is mentioned in the book of Ezekiel, a prophetic text that addresses the restoration of Israel and the judgment of the nations. The name reflects the abundance of God's judgment upon the enemies of Israel, serving as a reminder of divine justice and sovereignty.

DAMASCUS DESTROYED

ISAIAH 17:1,3,13-14
17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; 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 in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(PALACES OF DAMASCUS)

ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.

NEHEMIAH 2:17
17  Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we (ISRAELIS) are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,(AD 70) and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,(DAN 9:24-27) that we be no more a reproach.

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM)(THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION AND THE LAST END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER)

MATTHEW 1:17
17  So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations;(14)and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations;(14)and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.(14)(42 GENERATIONS DIVIDED BY 2160 YEARS = 51.4 YRS TO A GENERATION)

LUKE 3:38,23
38  Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
23  And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,(SO HERE IN LUKE 3 WE HAVE 77 GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO CHRIST-77 DIVIDED BY 4,000 YEARS = 51.9 YRS TO A GENERATIN)(SO A TRUE BIBLE GENERATION IS FROM 40 TO 51 YEARS)

MATTHEW 24:33-36
33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,(ALL THE SIGNS OF PROPHECY HAPPENING IN THEIR BEGGINING STAGES AFTER ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM)(THEN) know that it is near, even at the doors.(THE RAPTURE)
34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass,(1967-ISRAELS RECAPTURE OF JERUSALEM=40-51 YRS(A GENERATION)=2007-2018+) till all these things be fulfilled.(ALL THE LITERAL PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE WILL BE FULFILLED(AT LEAST 500 WILL BE FULFILLED)
35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Iran says cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog will take 'new form'

Tehran, July 12 (AFP) Jul 12, 2025-Iran said Saturday its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency "will take on a new form", expressing a desire for a diplomatic solution to resolve concerns over its nuclear programme.Iran's 12-day war with Israel last month, sparked by an Israeli bombing campaign that hit military and nuclear sites as well as residential areas, rattled its already shaky relationship with the UN nuclear watchdog.The attacks began days before a planned meeting between Tehran and Washington aimed at reviving nuclear negotiations, which have since stalled.Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that Iran's cooperation with the IAEA "has not stopped, but will take on a new form", after the Islamic republic formally ended cooperation with the UN watchdog in early July.Iran has blamed the IAEA in part for the June attacks on its nuclear facilities, which Israel says it launched to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon -- an ambition Tehran has repeatedly denied.The United States, which had been in talks with Iran since April 12, joined Israel in carrying out its own strikes on June 22, targeting Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz.Araghchi said requests to monitor nuclear sites "will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis... taking into account safety and security issues", and be managed by Iran's Supreme National Security Council.- 'Assurances'-In early July, a team of IAEA inspectors left Iran to return to the organisation's headquarters in Vienna after Tehran suspended cooperation.The talks were aimed at regulating Iran's nuclear activites in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.Before agreeing to any new meeting, "we are examining its timing, its location, its form, its ingredients, the assurances it requires", said Araghchi, who also serves as Iran's lead negotiator.He said that any talks would focus only on Iran's nuclear activities, not its military capabilities."If negotiations are held... the subject of the negotiations will be only nuclear and creating confidence in Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions," he told diplomats in Tehran."No other issues will be subject to negotiation."Araghchi also warned that reimposing UN sanctions could eliminate Europe's role in the process.- Enrichment -"Such measures would signify the end of Europe's role in the Iranian nuclear dossier," Araghchi said.A clause in the 2015 nuclear agreement, which US President Donald Trump withdrew from during his first term, allows for UN sanctions to be reimposed if Iran is found to be in breach of the deal.Araghchi stressed that any new nuclear deal must uphold Iran's right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes."I would like to emphasise that in any negotiated solution, the rights of the Iranian people on the nuclear issue, including the right to enrichment, must be respected," he said."We will not have any agreement in which enrichment is not included."Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the BRICS summit in Rio on Monday that Moscow would remain a committed ally of Iran and support its nuclear programme."Russia has technological solutions for uranium depletion and is ready to work with Iran in this field," Lavrov said, as reported by Russian state news outlet TASS.

More than 20 civilians killed in Myanmar air strike on monastery: witnesses.

Bangkok, July 12 (AFP) Jul 12, 2025-More than 20 civilians, including children, were killed after a recent air strike on a monastery in central Myanmar, an anti-junta fighter and a resident told AFP Saturday.Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military ousted a democratic government in 2021, and central Sagaing region has been particularly hard-hit, with the junta pummelling villages with air strikes targeting armed groups.The most recent occurred around 1:00 am Friday in Lin Ta Lu village when "the monastery hall where internally displaced people were staying" was hit with an air strike, said an anti-junta fighter, who requested anonymity for safety reasons.He told AFP that 22 people were killed, including three children, while two were wounded and remained in critical condition at the hospital."They had thought it was safe to stay at a Buddhist monastery," the anti-junta fighter said. "But they were bombed anyway."Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun did not immediately respond to AFP's request for comment.A local resident confirmed that the monastery hall was "completely destroyed", adding that he saw some bodies loaded into a car and transported to a cemetery at dawn on Friday after the air strike.He said when he went to the cemetery to take photos to help with identifying the dead, he counted 22 bodies."Many of the bodies had head wounds or were torn apart. It was sad to see," said the resident, who also asked to remain anonymous.Sagaing region was the epicentre of a devastating magnitude-7.7 quake in March, which left nearly 3,800 people dead and tens of thousands homeless.After the quake, there was a purported truce between the junta and armed groups, but air strikes and fighting have continued, according to conflict monitors.In May, an air strike on a school in the village of Oe Htein Kwin in Sagaing killed 20 students and two teachers. 

London, Paris tighten nuclear bond over US, Russia concerns.

Paris, July 10 (AFP) Jul 10, 2025-Britain and France took a key step to underpin Europe's security by agreeing to tighten nuclear cooperation, as the region frets over the US commitment to its defence and Russian ambitions.In targeting a "reboot" of defence ties with a focus on joint missile development and nuclear co-operation, while also firming up support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, Europe's two nuclear powers also hope to send a strong signal to Moscow.- What is the UK and France's nuclear stance? -Right from its inception, France's nuclear deterrent was designed to be independent, its potential deployment subject to the French president's evaluation of any perceived threat to the republic's strategic interests.According to the independent Stockholm-based Sipri Institute on global security, France has 290 nuclear warheads, some carried aboard four submarines and some by Rafale fighter jets.Britain for its part has 225 nuclear warheads. For now, the British nuclear deterrent is purely sea-based, carried by four submarines armed with ballistic missiles.However, the British government announced last month it would add an airborne component to its operational system with the purchase of 12 American F-35 fighter jets.Unlike France's, Britain's nuclear forces are fully integrated under the NATO defence umbrella to cover the Western military alliance's 32 member states.On Thursday during a visit by its President Emmanuel Macron to London, France agreed to the principle of coordination with Britain despite nominal national independence.Despite the cherished independence of the French deterrent, Macron remarked in 2020 that France's vital interests have an "authentically European dimension".In a 1995 joint declaration Paris and London acknowledged that "the vital interests of one (partner) could not be threatened without the vital interests of the other equally being at risk".- What's new? -Whereas that declaration was limited to the definition of the two neighbours' "vital interests", the latest cooperation accord goes much further.The 1995 accord "was a uniquely Franco-British declaration on a very political level", said Heloise Fayet, a researcher on nuclear issues at the French Institute for International Relations.In the latest announcement, "the reference to nuclear arms is much more visible and clear," Fayet told AFP."There are two advances: on the operational level with this coordination of the two deterrents. And the second is obviously the expansion of the joint European dimension."Thursday's declaration stated that the respective deterrents of London and Paris remain under national control "but can be coordinated".It added "that there is no extreme threat to Europe that would not prompt a response by both nations", the UK defence ministry and the French presidency said in a statement.London and Paris also said they would further underpin cooperation by creating a nuclear supervision group which, says Fayet, "deepens the existing consultation mechanism".- Complications for Russia? -For Artur Kacprzyk of Poland's PISM research institute, the declaration was "still ambiguous" regarding the possible response to an "extreme threat"."It obviously doesn't mean automatic use of nuclear," Kacprzyk told AFP, but sends an "additional signal to the Russians that there could be a joint French and British nuclear response to an attack on allies... It complicates the calculus for Russia."Fayet said London and Paris were sending a message that they can deal with "an extreme threat to Europe via conventional responses, cyber attacks -- and nuclear, evidently".She judged it "truly an additional step with an unprecedented level of military and political coordination", opening up the possibility notably of joint submarine patrols.That, for instance, could see an attack submarine from one cross-Channel partner escort a ballistic missile submarine from the other or participation of British aircraft in French exercises.- What's in it for the rest of Europe? -"It's a welcome development for European security and deterrence of Russia, although not a revolutionary one, at least not yet as we don't know the details," said Kacprzyk."It sends a strengthened message of deterrence to Russia" even if in practice this "depends a lot on implementation", he added.The move comes at a time when "a lot of Europeans are getting concerned about the US" and its commitment to Europe's defence, said Ed Arnold, an expert at Britain's Royal United Services Institute.For Fayet, "other European countries can only welcome Franco-British cooperation, as long as it translates concretely and swiftly in operational terms into Franco-British discussion mechanisms with other countries."Kacprzyk added: "There are many, many steps that both can take together or separately to further strengthen European nuclear deterrence, like having more nuclear forces or, as Macron mentioned, deploying some of them on allied territories."

Israeli F-15 malfunctioned above Iran amid war, just averted emergency landing — report-Aerial refueler said to have reached the jet deep inside Iran, fixed fuel tank issue; back-up plan had called for it to cross into unnamed neighboring country for landing By ToI Staff Today, 2:49 am-JUL 12,25

An Israeli fighter jet approaching Tehran amid the 12-day war with Iran last month suffered a fuel tank malfunction that almost forced it to stage an emergency landing, Channel 12 reported on Saturday, for the first time.The pilot of the F-15 fighter jet first noticed an issue with the fuel tank while already deep inside Iran’s borders, the report stated, and alerted the necessary personnel to the problem in real-time.As no aerial refueling craft had been accompanying the fighter jets on the mission, a plan was devised to dispatch one to resolve the issue, Channel 12 reported.At the same time, a second plan was drafted in case the refueling craft failed to reach the malfunctioning fighter jet in time. In this instance, the jet was to cross the border and make an emergency landing in a neighboring country, to avoid the risk involved in landing inside the Islamic Republic.The report did not identify which country was selected for the emergency landing.Ultimately, the refueling craft made it in time and was able to resolve he issue, without the pilot being required to pull out of the mission and land elsewhere.The report said that the mission was carried out successfully, without any additional issues.According to Channel 12, prior to the start of Israel’s surprise attack on Iran on June 13, which launched the 12-day war, Israeli Air Force commander Tomer Bar had presented an estimate in “internal forums” that as 10 Israeli planes could be downed within the first 72 hours of the attack.His estimate was proven wrong, however, and no Israeli planes were downed throughout the war, despite Iranian state media claiming at one point that the country’s forces down to Israeli fighter jets and captured a pilot.The claim was dismissed by the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee, as “fake” and “completely baseless.Israel said its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.Iran has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However, it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel said it had recently taken steps toward weaponization.Iran retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel.The attacks killed 28 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals.In all, there were 36 missile impacts and one drone strike in populated areas, causing damage to 2,305 homes in 240 buildings, along with two universities and a hospital, and leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced.

US urging Hamas to move on to discuss other remaining issues-Doha talks stuck on IDF withdrawal; Palestinian officials say discussions nearing collapse-Hamas rejects proposal showing continued Israeli control over parts of Gaza, including Rafah buffer zone, sources tell ToI; Palestinian official: Netanyahu ‘bought time’ with US trip By Jacob Magid,Agencies and ToI Staff 12 July 2025, 2:12 pm

No significant progress has been made in the ongoing hostage negotiations in Doha since Wednesday, an Arab diplomat and a second source familiar with the negotiations told The Times of Israel on Friday, as Palestinian officials said the talks were on the verge of collapse.While Israel agreed to ease some of its demands regarding the redeployment of its troops during the 60-day truce under discussion following US pressure, the new series of maps depicting the partial withdrawal of IDF troops was not sufficient to satisfy Hamas, the two sources said.The new maps still envision Israel maintaining control of roughly one-third of Gaza’s territory, including a three-kilometer (1.86-mile) buffer zone in Rafah to create a highly controversial “humanitarian city” to which Gaza’s entire population will be herded, checked for weapons and be barred from leaving as Israel will seek to encourage their emigration outside of the Strip.Channel 12 reported that Hamas agreed to expand the buffer zone Israel wants to create along much of the Gaza perimeter from 700 meters to one kilometer. However, Israel is still demanding that it be expanded to as much as two kilometers.Amid the apparent stalemate on the issue, the US is urging Hamas to move on to discuss other remaining issues — something the terror group has refused to do until disagreements regarding Israel’s partial withdrawal from Gaza are solved.“The negotiations in Doha are facing a setback and complex difficulties due to Israel’s insistence, as of Friday, on presenting a map of withdrawal, which is actually a map of redeployment and repositioning of the Israeli army rather than a genuine withdrawal,” a Palestinian official told AFP on Saturday.“Hamas’s delegation will not accept the Israeli maps… as they essentially legitimize the reoccupation of approximately half of the Gaza Strip and turn Gaza into isolated zones with no crossings or freedom of movement,” the source said.Palestinian officials told the BBC and AFP that negotiations in Doha between Israel and Hamas are on the verge of collapse and are being held up by Israel’s proposals to keep troops in the Strip.One Palestinian official told the BBC that Israel “bought time” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump, and that the decision to send a team to Qatar without a strong mandate was an act to deliberately stall the discussions.Israel’s delegation to Doha does not include the senior-most officials who have been involved in talks — Mossad chief David Barnea, acting Shin Bet head “Shin,” and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Army Radio reported earlier this week.A Palestinian official told AFP that Israel was “stalling and obstructing the agreement to continue the war of extermination.”Another said mediators had asked both sides to postpone the talks until the arrival of Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Doha. It is unclear if or when that will happen.The second Palestinian source told AFP that “some progress” had been made in the latest talks on plans for releasing Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and getting more aid to Gaza.GHF: Israel should meet its commitment to let new aid sites open-Meanwhile, the controversial Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation issued a statement Friday asking Israel to abide by its commitment to allow the opening of additional distribution sites.“GHF also continues to press the Government of Israel to live up to its commitment to allow us to open additional sites, including in the north of Gaza,” GHF said.The statement also welcomed reports of an agreement between Israel and the European Union to scale up humanitarian aid in Gaza, along with ongoing negotiations for a ceasefire in the Strip.Since late May, Israel has handed authority over aid distribution in Gaza to the GHF, in a stated effort to prevent aid supplies from reaching Hamas.The GHF’s operations have been strongly criticized by the international community for failing to address the humanitarian needs in Gaza.The UN said Friday that nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the GHF distribution sites.GHF, which denies that deadly incidents have occurred at its sites, said the UN figures were “false and misleading.” The IDF repeated Friday that it had issued instructions to troops in the field “following lessons learned.”Israel and the United States have publicly urged the UN to work through the GHF, but the UN has refused, questioning the group’s neutrality and accusing the distribution model of militarizing aid and forcing displacement. There have been multiple deadly incidents reported around the GHF sites in Gaza.According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, more than 57,000 people have been killed in the Strip since the war there began on October 7, 2023. The Hamas-provided death toll cannot be independently verified and does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.Hamas-led terrorists massacred some 1,200 people and took 251 hostage after invading Israel on October 7, 2023.Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 451.

PM said expecting Ben Gvir to resign from government if hostage-truce deal finalized-Netanyahu reportedly meets with far-right allies in effort to stave off rebellion over possible ceasefire, while also trying to put out fires over stalled Haredi conscription bill By Sam Sokol-and ToI Staff Today, 1:50 am-JUL 12,25

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to head off new and recurring difficulties in his governing coalition, according to reports on Saturday, and is holding various meetings to dispel threats from his ultranationalist allies over the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal negotiations, and from his Haredi partners over ultra-Orthodox conscription legislation.On one front, the premier reportedly expects National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to once again pull his ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party out of the government if another ceasefire and hostage release deal is signed with Hamas, the Kan public broadcaster reported on Saturday.Ben Gvir has been a vocal opponent of Israel signing any deal with Hamas to recover the remaining hostages and end the fighting in Gaza, even temporarily, after more than 640 days of war. Earlier this month, he was said to have attempted to persuade his far-right ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, to form a united bloc within the government against any such agreement.Both of the ministers have threatened to collapse the government if Israel agrees to any deal that would leave Hamas in power in Gaza, and claim to have foiled other deals that would have come to pass.Ben Gvir has pulled Otzma Yehudit from the government once already, after a ceasefire agreement was signed between Israel and Hamas in January of this year. The party returned to the coalition when fighting resumed some two months later.But now, with furious negotiations for a 60-day truce underway in Doha, Kan reported on Saturday night that Netanyahu expects him to quit again, and is trying to ensure that this won’t threaten the stability of his coalition government.To that end, both Kan and Channel 12 reported on Saturday evening that the premier had summoned Ben Gvir and Smotrich to meet with him, likely in an attempt to persuade the former to remain in government, and to dissuade the latter from following his lead if he resigns anyway.Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit and Smotrich’s Religious Zionism together have 13 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, where the ruling coalition fields a majority of 67 seats. Should the members of Otzma Yehudit resign, Netanyahu would retain a slim majority, but if Religious Zionism were to go with it, he would be left attempting to run the country with a minority government.The reports of Netanyahu’s efforts to keep his far-right allies on his side come amid reports that the intense negotiations in Doha for the 60-day truce and the return of 18 hostages to Israel — 10 living and 18 dead — are on the verge of collapse.Sources familiar with the negotiations told the Times of Israel that this was due to Israeli demands regarding the redeployment and withdrawal of IDF troops during the ceasefire.While Israel has agreed to ease some of its demands regarding troop redeployment, sources said the new series of maps depicting the partial withdrawal of IDF troops was not sufficient to satisfy Hamas, the two sources said.Coalition woes continue-The matter of his ultranationalist ministers and their ultimatums is far from the only coalition crisis that Netanyahu is facing, as Kan reported on Saturday evening that he is slated to meet with Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein this week to discuss the long-stalled ultra-Orthodox conscription legislation.Members of the committee have yet to be presented with a draft of the revised legislation, whose sanctions on draft dodgers were reportedly watered down by Edelstein last month as part of a last-ditch effort to prevent the Haredim from voting in favor of dissolving the Knesset.The new version of the bill had been scheduled to come to a vote in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee this coming week but was removed from the agenda, further angering Netanyahu’s Haredi coalition partners in Shas and United Torah Judaism, who have been boycotting votes on coalition legislation over the failure to exempt yeshiva students from military service.According to Kan, before it can come to a vote in the committee, the updated legislation is likely to be presented to the military in the coming days, during which time the Haredi United Torah Judaism and Shas parties’ legislative boycott, intended to pressure Edelstein to advance the bill, will continue.UTJ demanded on Thursday that Netanyahu “immediately” pass a bill broadly exempting Haredi men from IDF conscription, calling on him to honor his coalition agreements and “complete the settlement of the status of Torah students in the Land of Israel.”The removal of the bill from the committee’s agenda this week is a further delay to the bill’s advancement, just weeks ahead of the end of the Knesset summer session.A source familiar with the matter told the Times of Israel that it was removed from the agenda because “at the last minute, there were disagreements.”The vote would have allowed the bill to be referred to the plenum for the final two readings necessary before becoming law.

Syrian and Israeli officials expected to meet in Azerbaijan as Sharaa visits-Diplomatic source says Syrian leader won’t attend meeting in Baku, which will focus on ‘the recent Israeli military presence in Syria’By AFP and ToI Staff 12 July 2025, 8:15 pm

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian official and an Israeli official are expected to meet in Baku later Saturday on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s current visit to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source in Damascus with knowledge of the issue said.“There will be a meeting between a Syrian official and an Israeli official on the sidelines of the visit being conducted by Sharaa in Baku,” the source said, who requests anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.The source stressed that Sharaa himself would not attend the meeting, which would focus on “the recent Israeli military presence in Syria” since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December.Israel is a major arms supplier to Azerbaijan and has a significant diplomatic presence in the Caucasus nation, which neighbors its arch foe Iran.The Syrian president arrived in Baku earlier Saturday for talks with his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev.Azerbaijan announced it would begin exporting gas to Syria via Turkey, according to a statement from the Azerbaijani presidency.After the overthrow of longtime ruler Assad in December, Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria to prevent key military assets from falling into the hands of the Islamist-led interim administration headed by Sharaa.It also sent troops into the UN-patrolled buffer zone that used to separate the opposing forces on the strategic Golan Heights, from which it has conducted forays deeper into southern Syria.Sharaa has said repeatedly that Syria does not seek conflict with its neighbors, and has instead asked the international community to put pressure on Israel to halt its attacks.His government recently confirmed that it had held indirect contacts with Israel seeking a return to the 1974 disengagement agreement, which created the buffer zone.Israel says the accord fell apart since one of the sides was no longer in a position to implement it, and that the military action in Syria was a defensive move to protect the country from potential hostile forces that could have exploited the power vacuum. Israeli officials have referred to Sharaa as a terrorist due to his past affiliation with al-Qaeda.But late last month, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel was interested in striking a peace and normalization agreement with Syria.A Syrian government source quoted by state media responded that such talk was “premature.”But during a visit to Lebanon this week, US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said: “The dialogue has started between Syria and Israel.”After meeting Sharaa in Riyadh in May, US President Donald Trump told reporters he had expressed hope that Syria would join other Arab states which normalized their relations with Israel.“[Sharaa] said yes. But they have a lot of work to do,” Trump said.Syria and Israel have technically been in a state of war since 1948, the year Israel was established.

IDF says 35 Hamas targets hit in Beit Hanoun strikes-Several IDF troops hurt in Gaza fighting as Palestinians reported killed at aid site-Army reports the injured soldiers were moderately and lightly wounded in separate incidents; says unaware of any casualties near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution hubs By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff 12 July 2025, 5:33 pm

The military announced that two soldiers were moderately hurt on Saturday in separate incidents during fighting in Gaza, as fresh deaths were reported among Palestinians at an aid distribution site.One of the soldiers was hurt in the northern part of the coastal enclave, while the other was hurt in the southern part. In the latter incident, two other soldiers were lightly injured.All four were taken to hospitals, and their families were notified.The injuries came as the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that over 250 terror targets in Gaza were hit in airstrikes since Thursday. A fresh wave of airstrikes Saturday evening hit over 35 targets in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the military said.The IDF said the targets included operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels, and other terror infrastructure.At least 143 Palestinians were killed in Gaza since Wednesday, according to statistics published by the Hamas-run health ministry on Friday night.The strikes came as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continued to operate across Gaza.In a statement on the Beit Hanoun strikes, which could be seen from across the border in Israel, the military said dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets hit some 35 Hamas targets in the area.The targets included Hamas tunnels in the area, the IDF said.Earlier, the military said troops of the 98th Division located Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad observation posts and caches of explosive devices in Gaza City’s Shejaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods.Numerous operatives were killed elsewhere by the troops, including by calling in airstrikes, the IDF added.More deaths reported at aid sites-Palestinian reports, meanwhile, said that aid seekers were shot dead and injured Saturday around the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facility in northwest Rafah, with the Associated Press quoting hospital officials and witnesses as saying that at least 24 people were killed.The IDF pushed back on the Palestinian reports, saying the military was unaware of any casualties from troops’ gunfire near GHF distribution sites on Saturday.A military official did say that several suspects were spotted approaching forces in Rafah on Saturday, hundreds of meters from the aid site, and that “troops acted to prevent the suspects from approaching and fired warning shots. No injuries from the gunfire are known.”The IDF, in its statement, said it “continues to operate in order to enable the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Strip, and to allow passage to the distribution areas via organized and secured routes.”The statement added that the IDF is continuing to investigate the claims of injuries on Saturday near the aid site.GHF, an Israeli-backed US organization that seeks to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, has faced harsh criticism from the UN and other aid organizations, which charge that it fails to meet the needs of Gaza’s population. Gazans have reported near-daily incidents in which groups trying to reach GHF facilities are shot at by Israeli forces, leading to mass casualties.Israel, which accuses Hamas of hoarding aid, has also accused the terror group of attacking Gazan aid seekers near GHF sites and falsifying death tolls. However, Israel has also acknowledged that “several” Palestinian civilians have been killed near GHF aid distribution sites.GHF commenced operations in May as Israel lifted a nearly three-month aid blockade on Gaza, amid a renewed offensive there that seeks to take over 75% of the Strip.On Friday, the United Nations said nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the GHF’s distribution sites.GHF, which denies that deadly incidents have occurred at its sites, told Reuters the UN figures were “false and misleading.”The IDF said Friday that it had issued instructions to troops in the field “following lessons learned” after reports of deadly incidents at GHF distribution facilities.Swimming restrictions-The IDF on Saturday also reiterated a restriction on Palestinians, in place since the beginning of the war, forbidding them from entering the sea along the entire coast of the Gaza Strip.The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, reminded residents in a post on X that “security restrictions have been imposed in the maritime area adjacent to the Strip, and entry into the sea is prohibited.”He added, “The IDF will respond to any violation of these restrictions. We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip exposes you to danger.”Nevertheless, the IDF has not enforced the restriction against Palestinians seeking to cool off in the waters on the beach, but only those heading out deeper into the sea.The vast majority of the Palestinian population in Gaza is concentrated in areas on the coast, with tent camps set up on the beaches.The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, including 28 whose deaths the IDF has confirmed.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 53,000 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.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.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 451. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.Agencies contributed to this report.

UK cops arrest Palestine Action supporters demonstrating against terror proscription-Anti-Israel group says more than 40 arrested during rallies to protest ban, which bars expressions of support for outlawed organizations-By AFP 12 July 2025, 7:18 pm

LONDON — Police in London arrested dozens of protesters on a second successive Saturday for supporting Palestine Action, campaigners said, a week after the UK government banned the activist group under anti-terror laws.Campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had announced it would hold rallies Saturday in several UK cities “to defy” the ban, criticized the police response, saying law enforcement had arrested more than 40 people in the British capital.“The Metropolitan Police were out in force again today, arresting more than 40 people in Parliament Square for holding signs opposed to genocide and supporting Palestine Action,” a spokesperson told AFP.“Who do the police think they are serving in this?” the spokesperson added, calling the ban “Orwellian.”Footage showed police moving in on a small group of protesters displaying signs supporting Palestine Action who had gathered at the steps of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square.Those detained did not appear to put up any resistance.The Met confirmed on X that its officers were “in the process of making arrests” after “responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action.”Britain’s Press Association (PA) news agency reported that an officer at the scene stated that 46 people had been detained for offenses mainly related to a section of the Terrorism Act.The police’s actions come a week after the arrest of 29 people, including a priest and several health professionals, for offenses under the same law.Since the ban came into effect on July 5, police have warned that expressing support for Palestine Action is now a crime.“It is a criminal offense to invite or express support for a proscribed organization,” read a statement posted on X by the Met ahead of Saturday’s planned protests.“As we saw last week, those who do breach the law will face action.”Palestine Action’s proscription was approved by parliament in the first days of July, and a last-ditch High Court challenge failed to stop it from becoming law.The government announced plans for the ban under the Terrorism Act days after the group’s activists claimed to be behind a break-in at an air force base in southern England.The group said it sprayed two aircraft with red paint, causing an estimated £7 million ($9.55 million) in damage.Four people charged in the incident remain in custody.Palestine Action has condemned the proscription, which makes it a criminal offense to belong to or support the group, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, as an attack on free speech.

Iran says cooperation with IAEA 'will take on a new form'Putin said to tell Trump, Iran that he backs deal barring Tehran from enriching uranium-Iran’s FM stresses rejection of ‘any agreement in which enrichment isn’t included,’ says snapback sanctions ‘would signify the end of Europe’s role in the Iranian nuclear dossier’By ToI Staff and Agencies 12 July 2025, 6:49 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly told US President Donald Trump and Iranian officials that he supports the idea of a nuclear deal in which Iran is unable to enrich uranium.The communications between Putin and both Iranian and American leaders about enrichment was reported Saturday by US news site Axios, citing sources familiar with the discussions.According to the report, the Russian leader pushed Iran to agree to “zero enrichment,” with one European official telling the outlet that Putin “encouraged the Iranians to work toward that to make negotiations with the Americans more favorable.”However, the official added, “The Iranians said they won’t consider it.”The issue of enrichment has been one of the main obstacles to a nuclear deal, and the Islamic Republic has insisted on being able to enrich uranium on its soil, while both the US and Israel have demanded that Tehran completely give up this capability.After the Axios report, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that any new nuclear deal must respect what he claimed was its right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.“I would like to emphasize that in any negotiated solution, the rights of the Iranian people on the nuclear issue, including the right to enrichment, must be respected,” Araghchi said. “We will not have any agreement in which enrichment is not included.”Despite his rejection of any deal that bars enrichment, Araghchi did say Iran is considering the possible resumption of nuclear talks with the Americans, after they had been paused for over a month due to their 12-day war against Israel.“We are examining its timing, its location, its form, its ingredients, the assurances it requires,” Araghchi said.Tehran’s top diplomat added that any talks with major powers would focus only on Iran’s nuclear activities, not military capabilities like its ballistic missile arsenal.“If negotiations are held… the subject of the negotiations will be only nuclear and creating confidence in Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions,” he insisted. “No other issues will be subject to negotiation.”Araghchi also said that Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency “has not stopped, but will take on a new form,” after the Islamic Republic formally ended cooperation with the UN watchdog in early July.Araghchi said requests to monitor nuclear sites “will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis… taking into account safety and security issues,” and be managed by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.Before agreeing to any new meeting with the IAEA, “we are examining its timing, its location, its form, its ingredients, the assurances it requires,” said Araghchi, who also serves as Iran’s lead negotiator.He said that any talks would focus only on Iran’s nuclear activities, not its military capabilities.“If negotiations are held… the subject of the negotiations will be only nuclear and creating confidence in Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions,” he told diplomats in Tehran.“No other issues will be subject to negotiation.”Additionally, Araghchi warned that a so-called snapback of UN sanctions against Iran”would signify the end of Europe’s role in the Iranian nuclear dossier.”A clause in the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers allows for UN sanctions to be reimposed in the event Tehran breaches the deal.Israel launched a sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program on June 13, saying the operation was necessary to prevent Tehran from realizing its avowed plan to destroy Israel.Though Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons, it enriched uranium to 60 percent — far beyond what is needed for civilian use, and a short step away from weapons-grade. Israel says Iran recently took steps toward weaponization.Iran retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 28 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals. In all, there were 36 missile impacts and one drone strike in populated areas, causing damage to 2,305 homes in 240 buildings, along with two universities and a hospital, and leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced.For the nine weeks prior to the war, Iran and the US had engaged in a series of near-weekly talks, mostly held in Oman, to reach an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program.Iran has signaled that it is willing to restart the talks, with Araghchi saying that the two enemy countries were “on the cusp of a historic breakthrough” before the war with Israel.“In only five meetings over nine weeks, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and I achieved more than I did in four years of nuclear negotiations with the failed Biden administration,” he said earlier this week.For his part, Witkoff said Tuesday that the two sides will resume talks “in the next week or so,” but Trump was ambivalent about their necessity, saying he doesn’t completely see a purpose for them.“But [the Iranians] requested a meeting, and I’m going to go to a meeting, and if we can put something down on paper, that will be fine,” Trump said.

Ex-hostage to Trump: You brought me home; help bring 50 more-Eli Sharabi appeals for Trump’s help as hostage talks stall over IDF redeployment plans-Crowds at rallies nationwide plead for a deal; Israeli source blames Hamas for ‘refusing to compromise,’ but Israel also said set to present new maps on Gaza withdrawal By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff 12 July 2025, 11:41 pm

Anti-government protests and hostage rallies were held in cities across Israel on Saturday night, amid reports that the ceasefire talks have stalled, with Israel blaming Hamas’s intransigence for the lack of progress.At the main rally in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, ex-captive Eli Sharabi called on US President Donald Trump to seize the ‘window of opportunity’ to free the hostages.An Israeli official said Saturday evening that Jerusalem accepted a Qatari proposal for a 60-day ceasefire-hostage release deal, but Hamas rejected it, and charged that the terror group is “refusing to compromise.”“Israel has shown a willingness to be flexible in negotiations, while Hamas remains stubborn, taking positions that do not allow the mediators to advance an agreement,” the official said.The key issue in the negotiations remains the extent and locations of the military’s withdrawal from Gaza, with Hamas reportedly rejecting the latest maps that Israel presented.The rejected maps had Israel keeping control of roughly one-third of Gaza’s territory during the deal’s intended 60-day truce, including a three-kilometer (1.86-mile) buffer zone in Rafah to create a controversial “humanitarian city” to which Gaza’s population will be herded, checked for weapons and be barred from leaving as Israel will seek to encourage their emigration outside of the Strip.Citing an unnamed foreign official with knowledge of the details, Channel 12 news reported that Israel on Monday will present new maps on the IDF’s redeployment, specifically along the Morag Corridor and perimeter around Gaza.The outlet earlier reported that Hamas agreed to expand the buffer zone from 700 meters to one kilometer. However, Israel is still demanding that it be expanded to as much as two kilometers.The deal, if agreed upon, would see the release of 10 living and 18 dead hostages during a 60-day pause in fighting, during which the two sides would discuss an agreement to end the conflict.Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF.According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, more than 57,000 people have been killed in the Strip since the war there began on October 7, 2023. The Hamas-provided death toll cannot be independently verified and does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.‘Window of opportunity’Amid the reports of stalled talks, thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square and cities and junctions across the country for the weekly demonstrations calling on the government to reach a deal to end the war and return all the hostages.Before the rallies, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum released a statement decrying the reported lack of progress, saying that “Missing the current momentum would be a serious failure.”“Every day the war continues is an achievement for Hamas and a serious risk for our hostages and soldiers,” the statement read.The families referred to a Channel 12 poll showing that 74 percent of Israelis, including 60% of people who voted for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, back an agreement with Hamas that would release all the hostages at once in exchange for an end to the Gaza war.“All the polls and data show that an absolute majority of the nation of Israel wants an end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, and agrees that it is in Israel’s interest, including a decisive majority among coalition voters,” the statement said.At the main rally at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, Sharabi, who lost his brother, wife and daughters in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, called on Trump to step in to help bring back the remaining 50 hostages, including the remains of Sharabi’s brother Yossi.“The window of opportunity to bring home all 50 hostages — living and dead — is open now and it won’t be for long,” he said, speaking to some 2,000 demonstrators.“President Trump, being in those tunnels is hell. Thank you for bringing me — and so many others — back home,” said Sharabi. “We need your help now to bring back my brother Yossi, and 49 other hostages. Your vision for a new Middle East is possible only when all hostages are back home.”Trump hosted Netanyahu at the White House for two meetings this week, but without announcing any progress toward a hostage-ceasefire deal.In Hebrew, Sharabi called on Israeli decision-makers to show humility and end the war in Gaza to bring back the hostages.“You were elected to serve this nation with humility,” he said. “Arrogance is what brought the disaster upon us, and we must not return to that pattern of behavior.”“We can’t afford silence, we have to end this fighting, for our brothers and sisters, the hostages, for this nation. True victory will be when they’re all back home,” he said.At the main anti-government protest in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, the bereaved father of a victim of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attacks, blamed the government for her murder.“As far as I’m concerned, he, 68 members of Knesset… and his partners are guilty of her murder,” said Eran Littman, whose daughter Oriya was killed at the Nova music festival during the Hamas onslaught.His daughter died in a “religious war,” he said, having been murdered by “radical Islamists,” while accusing national religious members of the government of seeking to widen that war in Gaza and the West Bank, and ultra-Orthodox members of joining forces with Netanyahu “for budgets and draft evasion.”The government “isolates Israel and makes it into a leper… and doesn’t bring back the languishing hostages,” he said. “They are agents of chaos, and ignite chaos in the West Bank, banishing people from their homes and causing the desperate to become terrorists, turn into monsters and murder Israelis.”“We are a divided nation,” he said. “We must go back to being a peace-seeking nation. I have a dream that you’ll all wake up from your nightmare and your life will get back on track. And I’ll keep dreaming of Oriya.”After the speeches, the crowd marched to protest in front of the IDF headquarters, where some 400 left-wing activists held a silent vigil for Gazan children killed in the war.The protesters held candles and pictures of children killed in IDF strikes since Israel resumed hostilities in the Strip on March 18. Each picture showed the child’s name, date, place of death, and age when killed.Louder anti-government protesters passed by the vigil, making their way to the larger demonstration on Begin Road, where Yehuda Cohen, father of captive soldier Nimrod Cohen, accused Netanyahu of “buying time” to avoid his corruption trial, at the expense of his son.“The past 21 months of fighting have been to buy time for the accused, Netanyahu,” said Cohen, speaking to some 1,500 protesters.“Netanyahu is buying himself time for survival, to deflect his guilt and responsibility” for the failure of October 7, he said, vowing to continue the campaign to bring his son home.“Another Saturday night, another speech, more crap and more desperation,” Cohen said. “But Netanyahu, I won’t give up — my son Nimrod will go free despite your stalling. In the end, Trump will force you to end this damn war and release Nimrod and all the other hostages in a deal. We won’t give up.”

Donald Trump Threatens To Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship; She Calls Him “A Danger To The Nation” In Response — Update-Ted Johnson-Sat, July 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM EDT

Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.The president posted on Truth Social, “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”The president cannot revoke the citizenship of someone born in the U.S., something that legal scholars have long noted. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”O’Donnell, who was born in New York, is a longtime Trump nemesis. She moved her family to Ireland earlier this year, saying in a TikTok video that “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”O’Donnell has continued to be critical of Trump on TikTok and other social media, posting earlier this week that Trump “has put this country in danger” with his “horrible decisions.” She said that the cuts to the National Weather Service were linked to the deaths in the flash floods in Texas. “These are the results that we are going to see on a daily basis,” she said.After Trump’s Truth Social post, O’Donnell wrote on TikTok, “the potus ladies n gentlemen is a disgrace to all our beautiful country stands for – he is a danger to the nation – a mentally ill untreated criminal who lied to america for a decade on the apprentice – thanks mark burnett – and u fell for it – its so tragic – had u grown up in Ny – as i did and he did – u too would know what a total fool he is – add me to the list of people who oppose him at every turn – its now or never america 🇺🇸 – my little posts from dublin upset him – go arrest a few brown people u truly evil man child.”Trump has sought to end the practice of “birthright” citizenship via executive order. That has been challenged in the courts, and this past week a judge blocked Trump’s effort.Despite signing an executive order earlier this year to ensure that the federal government would not engage in “any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen,” Trump has sought to sanction dissenting voices. Among other things, he recently threatened to prosecute CNN for reporting on an app that tracks sightings of ICE agents, and earlier this year barred AP reporters and photographers from the Oval Office and other White House venues because their Stylebook did not recognize the president’s change of the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.In May, Trump called for a “major investigation” of Bruce Springsteen, alleging that Kamala Harris paid for his endorsement during her 2024 campaign. Her campaign has denied that claim. Springsteen has been critical of Trump while on a European tour, calling the president’s administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.”

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.

USA TODAY-What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer.Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY-Sat, July 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM EDT-(I BELIEVE THE LAKE OF FIRE IS A GIGANTIC BLACK HOLE FOR GODLESS TO BURN IN FOREVER)

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe.Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black holes for decades, but so far it seems they’ve found more existential questions than answers.We know a black hole is so heavy that its gravity creates a kind of divot in the geometry of the universe, said Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale University."A black hole is so concentrated that it causes a little deep puncture in space/time. At the end of the puncture you have a thing called a singularity where all known laws of nature break down. Nothing that we know of exists at that point."Understanding what science knows about black holes involves mysterious little red dots, the formation of galaxies, and spaghettification (the unpleasant thought experiment about what would happen to a person unlucky enough to be sucked into a black hole).First, the good news: Black holes aren’t out to get us. They aren’t whizzing around the universe looking for galaxies, suns and planets to devour."They don't just sneak up to you in a dark alley," said Lloyd Knox, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Davis.But our understanding of the very fundamentals of the universe has been transformed over the past decade by new telescopes and sensors that are letting scientists see more black holes and at every stage of their lives."Our understanding of the role black holes play, that they are an essential part of the formation of galaxies, is new," said Natarajan.Here what cosmic secrets are being revealed:A new kind of black hole and a newly proven theory-The original understanding of how black holes formed was that when a sufficiently large sun (about 10 times or more massive than our Sun) reached the end of its life, it could explode into a supernova that then collapses back into a black hole. The matter can collapse down into something only a few miles across, becoming so dense that its gravity is strong enough that nothing, not even light, can escape. This is what is called a stellar mass black hole.But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they form. Called supermassive black holes, they have been found at the center of pretty much every galaxy and are a hundred thousand to billion times the mass of our Sun. But how did they form?"The original idea was that small black holes formed and then they grew," said Natarajan. "But then there's a timing crunch to explain the monsters seen in the early universe. Even if they're gobbling down stellar gas, did they have the time to get so big? That was an open question even 20 years ago."In 2017, she theorized that these supermassive black holes from the early beginnings of the universe happened when galactic gas clouds collapsed directly in on themselves, skipping the star stage entirely and going straight from gas to a massive black hole seed, with a head start, that could then grow."Then guess what? In 2023 the James Webb telescope found these objects," she said. "This is what a scientist lives for, to make a prediction and see it proven."Black holes don't suck everything into them-Because they have such massive gravity, black holes gobble up stellar gases and anything else that gets too close to them. But it's not an endless process that ends up with the entire universe being sucked into them.People sometimes worry that black holes are these huge vacuum cleaners that draw in everything in sight. "It's not like a whirlpool dragging everything into it," said Knox.Black holes are really like any other concentration of mass, whether it's a sun or a planet. They have their own gravitational pull but it isn't infinite."If you're far enough away, you'd just feel the gravitational force, just the way you'd feel it from a planet," said Brenna Mockler, a post-doctoral fellow at the Carnegie Observatories at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California.If you fell into a black hole, you'd be 'spaghettified'All matter causes a dip or pothole in space/time, said Natarajan. A black hole is so heavy that its gravity creates a kind of divot in the geometry of the universe."The bigger the mass, the bigger the pothole," she said.Where that puncture leads is unknown."It's an open question," said Natarajan. "We don't think it could be another universe, because we don't know where in our universe it could go. But we don't know."So what if a human being fell into a black hole? Astrophysicists have a word for it – spaghettification."If you were to fall head first into a black hole, the difference in gravity between your head and your toes would be so intense that you'd be stretched out and spaghettified," Natarajan said.Our Sun will never become a black holeThere's no fear that our own Sun will become a black hole, said Knox. It's not big enough."Lower mass stars burn through their hydrogen to make helium and then they’ll start burning helium into carbon. And then at some point it ends up just pushing itself all apart," he said."Our Sun will eventually expand and envelop the Earth and destroy it – but that’s in 5 billion years, so you have some time to get ready. But it won’t become a black hole."A still unanswered mystery – 'little red dots'NASA's super powerful James Webb Space Telescope began its scientific mission in 2022 and almost immediately picked up something that so far no one can explain: small red objects that appear to be abundant in the cosmos.Dubbed "little red dots," these objects have perplexed astronomers. They could be very, very dense, highly star-forming galaxies."Or they could be highly accreting supermassive black holes from the very early universe," said Mockler, who is an incoming professor at the University of California, Davis.This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What is a black hole? Scientists scramble to untangle cosmic mystery

Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News-Victor Tangermann-Fri, July 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM EDT

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth.The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos' moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course.But three years later, astronomers found that the collision had some unintended consequences. As detailed in a paper published last week in the Planetary Science Journal, a team led by the University of Maryland found that the DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders, some of which carried more than three times the energy of the spacecraft itself."We succeeded in deflecting an asteroid, moving it from its orbit," said lead author and UMD research scientist Tony Farnham in a statement about the research. "Our research shows that while the direct impact of the DART spacecraft caused this change, the boulders ejected gave an additional kick that was almost as big."The researchers warn that much like a game of pool, smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to save the Earth could set off a powerful sequence of events that needs to be taken into account."That additional factor changes the physics we need to consider when planning these types of missions," Farnham added.Pictures taken by a tiny spacecraft called LICIACube, developed by the Italian Space Agency and which has been hanging around the impact site to assess the aftermath, allowed astronomers to track 104 boulders, which ranged anywhere from 0.6 to 11.8 feet in radius, as they hurtled away from Dimorphos.But the researchers observed something strange about the behavior of those boulders."We saw that the boulders weren't scattered randomly in space," Farnham explained. "Instead, they were clustered in two pretty distinct groups, with an absence of material elsewhere, which means that something unknown is at work here."The team hypothesizes that "DART's solar panels likely hit two big boulders, called Atabaque and Bodhran, on the asteroid," as second author and UMD astronomy professor Jessica Sunshine explained, right before DART's main body made contact.DART "hit a surface that was rocky and full of large boulders, resulting in chaotic and filamentary structures in its ejecta patterns," Sunshine added.Fortunately, thanks to the European Space Agency's Hera mission, which is scheduled to rendezvous with the asteroid system next year, we could soon have "another direct view of the impact's aftermath," Farnham said.Tasting Table-The astronomer and his colleagues are hoping to use the latest data to help their peers make more informed decisions when it comes to future deflection missions like DART."If an asteroid was tumbling toward us, and we knew we had to move it a specific amount to prevent it from hitting Earth, then all these subtleties become very, very important," Sunshine explained."You can think of it as a cosmic pool game," she added. "We might miss the pocket if we don't consider all the variables."

What happened in the hours before, during and after a catastrophic deluge hit Texas Hill Country-By Ray Sanchez and Rebekah Riess-JUL 12,25

For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country last week came too late. Many were asleep. Others, in a region long accustomed to extreme weather, were kept up by heavy bursts of rain and earsplitting cracks of thunder that shook buildings.“I thought it was just lightning and thunderstorm,” recalled Caroline Cutrona, a counselor at Camp Mystic, where young girls bonded in rustic cabins with names like the Bubble Inn and the Giggle Box. “I had no idea of the severity.”She was not alone. Still, state emergency management officials had activated emergency response resources as early as Wednesday evening, warning of potential flooding heading into the July Fourth holiday weekend. The alerts – including critical warnings the National Weather Service said gave preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred – would grow more dire.Torrential rains transformed the pristine Guadalupe River, unleashing roaring cascades in the predawn hours of Independence Day along 40 miles of Kerr County, claiming at least 103 lives there alone, including 36 children. The confirmed death toll in Texas was 129 as of Friday evening.At least 150 people are still missing statewide – at least 140 of them in Kerr County.More than a summer’s worth of rain had fallen in the area overnight into the holiday, swelling part of the river from about 3 feet to 30 feet in just 45 minutes and turning the beloved waterway into a killer. The catastrophic deluge laid waste to communities across Kerr and Kendall counties, where neighborhoods and RV parks, as well as the 18 or so youth camps attended by thousands of kids each summer, were swept away in its fury.“The first thing I thought, ‘This is not real. Wake up, Caroline. Wake up,’” Cutrona told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “‘I’m in a dream,’ and that’s what I wanted it to be.”Here’s what we know about how a nightmare scenario unfolded in Texas:How the first 48 hours of the Texas floods unfolded-Wednesday, July 2-6:9 p.m. CT-The Texas Division of Emergency Management announces activation of state emergency response resources in anticipation of “increased threats of flooding in parts of West and Central Texas heading into the holiday weekend.” It urges residents to “follow instructions from local officials, make an emergency plan, and prepare an emergency supply kit.”Thursday, July 3-6:36 a.m. CT-The National Weather Service issues short-term guidance, valid until Thursday afternoon, indicating morning thunderstorms and a humid, moist environment capable of producing flooding rainfall. The guidance flags the NWS office for Austin and San Antonio to note the flood risk.7 a.m. CT-The NWS releases a flood outlook noting flash or river flooding is possible in parts of Central Texas over the coming days. It describes a very tropical atmosphere with the potential for producing flooding rainfall in central and southern Texas.10 a.m. CT-County judges and city mayors are invited to join a daily call to discuss weather forecasts. A regional coordinator reached out personally to officials in the area, making sure they “were aware there could be flooding,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick later said.“The message was sent,” Patrick said. “It is up to the local counties and mayors under the law to evacuate if they feel the need.”How climate change made Texas flooding more violent“I will tell you personally, I did not receive a call,” Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. told reporters this week, adding he could not speak for the Kerr County judge.1:18 p.m. CT-The NWS issues a flood watch, highlighting Kerrville, among other locations, as being at risk of flash flooding through the night into Friday. It forecast 5 to 7 inches of rainfall.6:30 p.m. CT-The NWS issues an updated forecast for the Guadalupe River: “Rapid runoff is expected, with locally considerable flash and urban flash flooding possible … the nocturnal timing will also enhance the hazard potential and impacts.” It notes the potential for a historic rainfall event, though it’s unclear if that messaging reached emergency managers.The weather service’s forecast offices for Austin, San Antonio and San Angelo, as well as the West Gulf River Forecast Center in Fort Worth, assign extra personnel to work Thursday night into the next day, according to NWS spokesperson Erica Grow Cei.How religious leaders are talking — and listening — about the losses at Camp Mystic-Kerrville Mayor Herring later said he went outside Thursday night before the storm and looked at the sky. “Partly cloudy. The sky was not angry and I thought to myself, ‘someone’s going to get rain, but it’s probably not going to be us.’ And I was wrong,” he said. “I was awakened in the middle of the night by thunder. I looked outside, we had a light rain. In fact, the city of Kerrville really didn’t have a lot of rain until later in the day.”Midnight CT-Glenn Juenke, a Camp Mystic staffer, told CNN he was monitoring the rain gauges on the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s website. “Many of the rain gauges were out of order or offline and were useless. They provided no information about the level of rainfall upstream of Camp Mystic where I was acting in the capacity of night watchman.”Friday, July 4-1:14 a.m. CT-The NWS issues a flash flood warning, upgraded from the earlier watch, for parts of Kerr County.2:30 a.m. CT-Lorena Guillen, who owns an RV park and restaurant in Kerrville, told CNN she closed her restaurant around 12:45 a.m. CT after July Fourth celebrations. When rain started to pour heavier over the next two hours, she drove to the edge of the river and observed its height. The water level appeared normal, she said.She called the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office to ask whether the Guadalupe would rise with the rain and put her RV tenants in danger. She said she was assured they would be safe. About an hour after the call, Guillen said, she saw lights from a rescue team. One of the park’s long-term residents had heard screaming and called 911.3 a.m. CT-At Camp Mystic’s Bug House cabin, owner Dick Eastland and his son, Edward, a camp director, helped a group of girls – clutching pillows and blankets – evacuate in ankle-deep water to a nearby recreation hall, a 12-year-old camper told CNN. With the water rapidly rising, the campers spent the night on the second floor, illuminated by flashlights.“Everyone was scared because there was water coming in,” said the girl, whose mother asked she not be identified to protect her privacy.The girls sang, prayed and slept until about 6 a.m. when the rain stopped. When counselors did a roll call later, the girls realized some campers were missing.At Chatterbox cabin at the same camp, girls screamed as floodwaters swept inside, according to 9-year-old twin sisters who were there. Their mother also asked they not be identified. One twin let campers keep their “lovies” and “stuffies” on her top bunk for safety.The twins said they watched a car they believed would rescue them wash away in a surge of water. With counselors, the campers climbed out a window and waded through chest-high waters to higher ground. They later learned three Chatterbox campers were among the missing. “We didn’t know if they got … washed away in the rapids,” one girl said.“Whenever we were cold, they kept giving us hugs and we were crying, they would always comfort us,” one twin said of the counselors.A rainbow appeared later that morning – which the girls said was “a sign from God.”3:27 a.m. CT-A local firefighter calls dispatch to report high water on the main highway getting to Hunt, Texas, from the east. “Yes ma’am … Guadalupe is starting to come up and Schumacher is no longer passable at this time,” the firefighter says, referring to the scenic Schumacher Crossing over the river.3:30 a.m. CT-Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said first responders started to get swept away by floodwaters. “That’s how quick it happened,” Rice said. “First responders who have experience, who are swift-water qualified.”3:50 a.m. CT-A dispatcher tells first responders about people in distress along State Highway 39, which crosses the Guadalupe and runs through Texas Hill Country: “We’re getting multiple calls off of 39. People are stating their houses are flooding. We’re trying to advise them to get to higher area.”About 4 a.m. CT-Camp Mystic counselor Caroline Cutrona said the roar of thunder and lighting kept her awake. She noticed the camp had lost power. The cabin, where she watched over 14 girls ages 9 and 10, shook violently.Around the same time, video obtained by CNN shows a cabin at the boys Camp La Junta floating away in the floodwaters.Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings4:03 a.m. CT-The NWS issues a flash flood emergency warning for Kerr County, stating, “Move to higher ground now! This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation.”4:22 a.m. CT-A firefighter calls dispatch, asking for a CodeRED emergency alert to be issued: “Is there any way we can send a CodeRED out to our Hunt residents, asking them to find higher ground or stay home?” The dispatcher responds: “Stand by, we have to get that approved with our supervisor.”4:45 a.m. CT-A gauge along the Guadalupe River, in Kerrville, shows water levels hit 23.4 feet. Water levels in that spot almost certainly crested above 23.4 feet, but the gauge didn’t record data for three hours – between 4:45 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. local time –before picking back up its measurement.5 a.m. CT-The raging river bursts from its banks around this time, sweeping homes, cars, campers and cabins downstream. It took about 90 minutes for the 20-foot flood wave to move down the Guadalupe River overnight, triggering the river’s second-highest crest on record.5:03 a.m. CT-Kerr Fire dispatch announces: “The river is completely swollen … there is a car with occupants in it floating down the river.”Rice, the Kerrville city manager, started getting phone calls around 5 a.m. local time. “By the time we got back out there, the river had already risen 20 or 25 feet. It rose significantly in that amount of time. We almost got stuck when we went back,” he told CNN. “Nobody could have ever predicted this.”5:30 a.m. CT-Notifications sent by Kendall County indicate the first wireless emergency message for a flood warning was sent to residents at this time. Three more alerts were issued on the wireless warning system between 7 a.m. and 8:06 a.m. CT.Herring, Kerrville’s mayor, told reporters: “I individually did not receive a warning in time. When I woke up, I got a call from the city manager” around 5:30 a.m. local time. He said he went downtown and Louise Hays Park, which is perched on the river, “was already inundated. That was the first time I knew.”5:32 a.m. CT-A unit identified as “Utility 51” asks a dispatcher at Kerr County Fire Operations: “Can you advise who’s running command?”Central dispatch responds: “Sir, we don’t have an incident command right now.”5:34 a.m. CT-The NWS issues a more dire flash flood emergency warning of an imminent threat, specifically for Kerrville.5:57 a.m. CT-The US Coast Guard receives an initial call, although their specific launch time is unavailable. What was supposed to be an hourlong flight took between seven and eight hours due to weather conditions, according to the air crew.Around 6 a.m. CTMayor Herring Jr. told the Texas Tribune he received an alert on his phone from the CodeRED system.6:02 a.m. CT-Video obtained by CNN showed law enforcement officers in Kerr County shouting evacuation orders.6:31 a.m. CT-Kerr County posted on social media: “Flooding along the Guadalupe River is happening now. Be safe and move to higher ground. Do not drive through water. Turn Around - Don’t Drown!”8:30 a.m. CT-The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office confirms people have died during the “catastrophic flooding event” in a post on social media. “Those near creeks, streams, and the Guadalupe River should immediately move to higher ground,” the post said.10:04 a.m. CT-A source told CNN affiliate KSAT neither the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office nor the Kerrville Police Department sent a CodeRED Alert to some residents until this time.11:59 a.m. CT-Kerr County officials declare a disaster due to “extreme, life-threatening” flooding.When everyone remaining at Camp Mystic had finished lunch, Cutrona said one of the camp’s directors pulled counselors aside and informed them 27 girls and the camp’s owner, Dick Eastland, were missing. “Camp Mystic’s the safest place I’ve ever known, and I just couldn’t believe it,” Cutrona said.6:30 p.m. CT-The US Coast Guard’s MH-65 air crew arrives in the area and begins to rescue survivors. It is uncertain what time the air crew completed rescue efforts.“The last live rescue, unless there’s new information, and I don’t believe there is, was made on Friday,” Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.As searchers agonizingly scour the area for unaccounted flood victims, local officials have been adamant they could not have done more to prevent the tragedy.CNN’s Pamela Brown, Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, Mary Gilbert, Holly Yan, Alisha Ebrahimji, Alaa Elassar and Dalia Faheid contributed to this report.

Hurricane center eyes potential system to form near Florida-Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel-Sat, July 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday began forecasting a system to form later this week near Florida with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.In its 8 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said it expects a broad area of low pressure to over the next couple of days near the southeastern U.S. coast and then move westward across Florida into the northeastern Gulf by Tuesday“Environmental conditions could support some gradual development of this system during the middle to late part of next week while it moves westward over the northeastern and north-central portions of the Gulf,” forecasters said.Regardless of whether it develops, the NHC said heavy rainfall is possible over portions of Florida and north-central Gulf Coast through mid- to late next week.The NHC gave it a 20% chance to develop in the next seven days.If it were to spin up into a named storm, it could become Tropical Storm Dexter.The state was previously doused by rains associated with what developed into Tropical Storm Chantal earlier this month. That storm ended up striking the Carolina coast and dumped flooding rains inland.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had before the start of hurricane season forecast an expected 13 to 19 named storms for the year, of which six to 10 would grow into hurricanes. Three to five of those would develop into major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher.Researchers out of Colorado State University this week, though, updated their forecast saying they expect the season to be slightly less busy than what they had predicted earlier this year.Hurricane season runs June 1 to Nov. 30.

Thousands without power after thunderstorm hit northern Greater Cincinnati-Hailey Roden, Cincinnati Enquirer-Sat, July 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM EDT

Update 4:45 p.m.: Thousands of residents are reporting power outages after a brief but strong thunderstorm blew across the northern parts of Greater Cincinnati.Areas that have been hit the hardest include Finneytown, North College Hill and Green Hills, with over 6,000 without power, according to Duke Energy. Estimated times of restoration in most areas are either 7 or 8 p.m.Check the latest outage maps on Duke Energy's website.Original coverage: The Greater Cincinnati area is under a severe thunderstorm warning on Saturday, July 12, until 4:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.The agency is reporting wind gusts up to 60 mph, with damage possible to trees and power lines.This alert includes Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren county neighborhoods including Cincinnati, Hamilton, Fairfield, Mason, Lebanon, Norwood, Forest Park, Sharonville, Monroe, Blue Ash, Loveland, Springdale, Reading, Montgomery, North College Hill, Madeira, Wyoming, Milford, Mount Healthy and Deer Park.Interstate 71 between mile markers 7 and 31 and Interstate 75 between mile markers 6 and 26 will also be affected, according to the National Weather Service.While the weather alert is in effect, the National Weather Services recommends residents move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building for their safety.

Police urge people not to call them about hosepipe rulebreakers as third heatwave of summer set to peak at 34CTemperatures reached 34.7C on Friday as Britons brace for possibility of even hotter weather on Saturday, with amber heat health alerts in place warning of potential rise in deathsTara Cobham-Sunday 13 July 2025 01:27 BST

Police have asked the public not to contact them about incidents of people breaking the hosepipe ban ahead of what is expected to be the hottest weekend of the year with highs of 34C forecast.Temperatures reached 33C at Ross on Wye in Herefordshire on Saturday, the Met Office said, with similar temperatures expected on Sunday. Scotland recorded its warmest day in more than two years on Saturday as the mercury hit 32C in Aviemore.Amber heat health alerts are in place for the Midlands and southern and eastern England until 9am on Monday, warning of the potential for a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions.Hosepipe bans have also been introduced across parts of England, with swathes of the country suffering drought conditions and water shortages after the driest spring since 1893.However, Chief Superintendent Tracy Bradley, from Humberside Police, has urged people not to reach out to police about those flouting the bans but to contact Yorkshire Water instead.She explained to the BBC that calls “could divert call handlers away from dealing with emergencies or other policing matters”.Nearly 7 million Britons, more than 10 per cent of England’s population, are facing restrictions on how they can use their water, with those who ignore the bans threatened with fines of up to £1,000.Yorkshire Water brought in restrictions on using hosepipes for activities such as watering the garden, cleaning cars and filling paddling pools on Friday, as part of efforts to protect supplies in the face of yet more dry weather forecast for the coming weeks.South East Water said demand for drinking water had reached “record levels since May”, adding: “This situation has left us with no choice but to restrict the use of hosepipes and sprinklers, so we can help our reservoirs and underground water storage recover.”It means customers in Kent and Sussex are banned from using a hosepipe to water gardens and plants, clean vehicles, fill swimming pools or ponds or clean paths, walls or windows.On Saturday, the Met Office said Aviemore hit 32.2C, adding that Scotland last exceeded 30C on 13 June 2023, and that Saturday is only the seventh time since at least 1961 that the same high has been recorded in the country.Temperatures in Wales hiked to 33.1C in Cardiff’s Bute Park, beating the 2025 record set on Friday of 32.4C at the same location.Although England was also hot, with maximum temperatures also hitting 33.1C in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, it did not break the country’s current record for the year of 35.8C – recorded in Kent at the beginning of July.The Met Office said that it will remain “very warm” across the country on Sunday.Meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said: “While we’ve seen the peak of the heat in this heatwave through today [Saturday] it’s still going to be very warm on Sunday before turning cooler for many of us on Monday.“So we’ve got this ridge of high pressure extending across the UK, helping to keep things settled, but out towards the west an area of low pressure moving through Sunday night and into Monday.“So if you’re not a fan of the heat, temperatures will be falling away but also bringing some heavy spells of rain, or welcome rainfall, for many of us.”As well as the amber alerts, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has yellow alerts in place until Monday for the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.Fire chiefs have urged people to stay safe as they warned of the increased risk of wildfires and drowning during the heatwave.The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) asked people not to enter water to try to cool down and urged parents and carers to ensure children are supervised around water at all times.NFCC chair Phil Garrigan said: “We are urging people to take simple but vital safety precautions to protect themselves and their loved ones during this period of hot, dry weather. Our experience tells us that wildfires can start in an instant and escalate rapidly. That’s why we’re asking everyone to stay alert and act responsibly.”HM Coastguard also issued safety advice for people heading to the coast, as data from the water incident database shows most drownings occurred in July over the last three years.The London Fire Brigade said it has responded to 24 wildfires this year, five of which occurred this week, including one in Manor Park, east London, on Friday afternoon, where 70 firefighters fought to tackle a grass fire on Wanstead Flats.The risk of wildfires in London is currently rated at “severe” by the Natural Hazards Partnership.National Rail has warned train passengers that the hot weather may cause disruption this weekend. “Heat can cause overhead lines to expand and sag, rails to buckle, and also line-side fires,” it said on its website.Meanwhile, the RNLI warned beachgoers that, despite the heat, there is still a risk of cold water shock.Ross Macleod, the charity’s water safety manager, said: “Even in hot weather, the seas around our coasts are cold enough year-round to trigger cold water shock, while waves and rip currents can overpower even the most experienced water users.”He added: “We encourage people to choose a lifeguarded beach and swim between the red and yellow flags, which is the area most closely monitored by the lifeguards.”

Archaeologists Found a 5th-Century Church Inscribed With a Message to Early Christians-Tim Newcomb-Fri, July 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT

A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the iceberg. The mosaic itself extends from the entrance to inside the church, and it’s just one of many ruins from the time period that archeologists have recently discovered, even after years of excavating the city.As crews continued to excavate Olympus’ ancient Kumluca district, they discovered the mosaic outside the early Christian church, known as Church No. 1. The entrance bears an inscription which translates to: “Only those on the right path may enter here,” according to Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as reported by Türkiye Today.“This mosaic inscription is strategically placed at the very entrance of the church,” Gokcen Kutulus Oztaskin, associate professor at Pamukkale University and excavation director on the project, said according to Anadolu Agency.The mosaics throughout the church contain both geometric patterns and botanical motifs, stretching from the main entrance into multiple areas of the building. Additional inscriptions reveal the names of churchgoers who financially backed the construction of the church. “These finds confirm Olympus as one of the richest ancient cities in the Lycia region in terms of mosaic flooring,” said Oztaskin, according to Türkiye Today. “Olympus continues to surprise us with its rich mosaic heritage.”Beyond Church No. 1, the team discovered a residential structure atop a Roman-era burial ground. Experts believe that the site was repurposed during the Byzantine period to help house the region’s growing populations, highlighting a change in urban planning. The residential building—complete with a stone floor and also originally constructed in the fifth century—appeared to have been reconstructed (in accordance with the original design) in the sixth century following a fire. It came complete with additional artifacts, including a large clay storage vessel known as a pithos, which are now housed in the Antalya Archaeology Museum.While crews have been on site since 2006 sifting through the city’s Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine remains, plans still call for continued exploration of the city (including what could be a temple in the city center). Already, teams have discovered examples of the masonry technique known as bossage, which features protruding blocks in finely cut stone walls, which they took to mean that the structure was likely a key religious building.Soon, the team will excavate a bishop’s palace and Church No. 3. Already known as one of the most mosaic-rich ancient regions in Turkish history, crews hope to find even more patterns and inscriptions that help tell the story of ancient Olympus.

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A crisis of faith: ICE raids force some churches to take 'extraordinary' action-Hannah Fry, Christopher Buchanan, Andrew J. Campa-Fri, July 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT

As word spread among Catholics that immigration agents were visiting places of worship to carry out deportations, the pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles became less and less crowded.Isiah, a devout Catholic, was so frightened he stopped attending weekly Mass for fear that he could be swept up in the raids. Isiah, who declined to provide his last name to The Times because of concerns about his immigration status, prayed the rosary as a substitute for two weeks before his faith brought him back to church."Church is not a place for threats," he said Thursday in Spanish.A month of sweeping immigration enforcement actions has sent people underground, leaving businesses empty and upending daily life across Southern California. It's also sparked a crisis of faith for many Catholics who have spent their lives worshiping at Sunday Mass and are now questioning whether it's safe to connect with God in such a public space.In an extraordinary move this week, Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino told his diocese of about 1.2 million people that they could stay home on Sundays to avoid Mass as concerns about immigration sweeps loom. It came after arrests near or at local churches."I want our immigrant communities to know that their Church stands with them and walks with them through this trying time," he said in a statement.Rojas' decree — the first of such to be given by a Catholic leader in Southern California — underscores the challenge religious institutions are grappling with as the Trump administration carries out its deportation agenda. Religious leaders want people to turn to faith to help them navigate challenging times, but they also don't want the exercising of that faith to bring harm, experts say."Bishop Rojas’ decision signals that the Church’s mission encompasses a higher calling: to embrace the downtrodden, welcome the stranger and distance itself from policies that dehumanize them. The Church sees that mission as a higher kind of patriotism — care for humanity and calling government enact the higher angels of human nature," said Richard Wood, president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC.In May, following immigration raids in Nashville, the city's diocese became the first to say that no Catholic would be "obligated to attend Mass on Sunday if doing so puts their safety at risk.”It's a rare step for a bishop to excuse congregants indefinitely from Sunday mass, said Brett Hoover, professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University.The last time dioceses took such an action was during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were instructed to isolate to slow the spread of the virus. Such decrees were also issued during the flu epidemic in the early part of the 20th century. Decrees excusing certain individuals from Mass are generally issued on much smaller scales, giving certain congregants a pass because of issues like illness or natural disasters, Hoover said."Bishop Rojas is registering that this is traumatizing for people — seeing families being separated," Hoover said. "Catholic teaching is very clear that immigration, particularly deportations, should not split up families."For Catholics, historically, not attending Sunday Mass was seen as a potentially "very serious sin," Hoover said. While time has softened the tradition, Rojas' decree is a way to relieve people from feeling as though they are doing something sinful if they're afraid to attend Mass."Part of it is a symbolic gesture, and then part of it is to kind of relieve the more scrupulous Catholics of their worries about attending Mass," Hoover said. "It's very practical and pastoral too."Rojas' decree comes as more bishops have begun to speak out about the administration's deportation policy in which agents have deployed aggressive tactics and, at times, concealed their identities in ways that have terrified immigrant populations. People have been detained while carrying out typical daily activities in shopping center parking lots, car washes, bus stops and other public spaces.Since early June, nearly 2,800 people have been caught up in the immigration enforcement push in the L.A. area alone, including U.S. citizens and hundreds of undocumented immigrants without any criminal record.The raids have hit the Catholic community particularly hard, given that such a large portion of worshipers are immigrants or have family members who were born outside of the United States. More than a quarter of U.S. Catholic adults were born outside the country, compared with 15% of U.S. adults overall, according to data from a 2015 study by Pew Research Center.Archbishop José Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, who has long called for immigration reform, criticized the Trump administration in a column published in Angelus last month, saying it has "offered no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day.""This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes. Already we are hearing stories of innocent fathers and mothers being wrongly deported, with no recourse to appeal," he wrote.On Saturday, about 300 Catholics from across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles joined Gomez for Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City during the sixth annual Archdiocesan pilgrimage to the Basilica, the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world. Gomez addressed the burden of fear and anxiety caused by immigration enforcement during the homily.“Today we lay all our cares at the feet of Our Lady," he said. "And if we open our hearts today, if we fix our eyes on Our Lady’s, we will hear her tender words to St. Juan Diego: Am I not your mother? Are you not under my shadow and my gaze? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not sheltered underneath my mantle, under the embrace of my arms?"In Orange County, Bishop Kevin Vann has not offered a dispensation from attending Mass, but the diocese has started bringing Holy Communion to celebrate Mass in the homes of people who are afraid to go to church.Vann and his auxiliary bishops posted a letter last month condemning the raids, which they said "invoke our worst instincts" and "spread crippling fear and anxieties upon the hard-working, everyday faithful among us."Rojas' decree comes after he said individuals were recently apprehended at two Catholic parishes in the area, something that intensified fear already being experienced by his congregation — many of whom are immigrants. Some houses of worship say between a third or half of their congregants are no longer showing up in person as the raids continue.According to the National Catholic Reporter, multiple people were arrested at or near diocese churches on June 20, including a man at Our Lady of Lourdes in Montclair, which ICE officials dispute."The accusation that ICE entered a church to make an arrest [is] FALSE,” wrote Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in an email to The Times. “The illegal alien chose to pull into the church parking lot [and] officers then safely made the arrest."Rojas wrote in the decree Tuesday that many churchgoers have shared “fears of attending mass due to potential immigration enforcement action” and that “such fear constitutes a grave inconvenience that may impede the spiritual good of the faithful.”In lieu of Sunday service, Rojas encouraged his members to “maintain their spiritual communion” by praying the rosary or reading scripture and directed diocese ministers to offer support and compassion to the affected.On Thursday, a quiet congregation gathered for Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, just blocks away from the site where protesters gathered to oppose immigration raids last month. For some attendees, the spiritual safety of the church has proved to be a physical source of strength amid the uncertainty."We hope the collective prayer will bring some kind of change," said Maria Machuca, whose parents are immigrants.Santi Camacho, who rarely attended church before the raids, said immigrant communities everywhere are finding themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place: facing possible arrest during worship, or hiding in their homes until they potentially subside.Still, many members of the church don't want to stop attending Mass even if leaders give them permission.“If all you have is family and your family is at the church, you’ll risk it,” Camacho said.Isiah, who had paused attending Mass during the raids, said church is really the only place he feels safe anymore. He has faith that the spiritual strength found inside the building — a place where he goes to worship God — will shield him from harm.“My belief is that if the police came, the church and God would protect me.”This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.