WRONG MOVES WHEN THESE IDIOT FOOLS WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM WITH DEATH CULT WORSHIPPING LEECH ARAB NUTCASES.1/2 EARTHS POPULATION DIE OFF FR THAT STUPID MOVE.BUT THE WORLD MUST BE JUDGED AS JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED THE BIBLE SAYS. DIVIDE ISRAEL. THE WORLD IS DIVIDED BY DEATH.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

WRONG MOVES WHEN THESE IDIOT FOOLS WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM WITH DEATH CULT WORSHIPPING LEECH ARAB NUTCASES.1/2 EARTHS POPULATION DIE OFF FR THAT STUPID MOVE.BUT THE WORLD MUST BE JUDGED AS JERUSALEM WILL BE DIVIDED THE BIBLE SAYS. DIVIDE ISRAEL. THE WORLD IS DIVIDED BY DEATH.

GODS PROMISED LAND FOR ISRAEL.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

GOD GAVE THE LAND TO ISRAEL.ARABS GET OFF ISRAELS LAND.YOU RABBID DEATH CULT COCKROACHES.TIME TO USE RAID ON THESE COCKROACH ARABS.

Netanyahu: Eliyahu doesn't speak for the government I lead-Far-right minister says Israel pushing to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, will make it Jewish-Amichay Eliyahu says planned settlements in Strip won’t be ‘fenced in,’ denies starvation claims; Lapid: Israel cannot win war ‘with ministers who sanctify blood and death’By ToI Staff 24 July 2025, 7:03 pm

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said Thursday that Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish, drawing outcry among opposition politicians and eventually from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself.“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu told Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on ‘Mein Kampf.'”Eliyahu said that Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlement and that Jewish towns won’t be “fenced in inside cantons.”“All Gaza will be Jewish,” he said, though he clarified that Arabs who are loyal to Israel will be tolerated.“We aren’t racists,” the far-right Otzma Yehudit politician added. “We are fighting those who fight us.”Eliyahu also denied that Gazans are not getting enough food, calling it a campaign against Israel, but noted that the country was at war and trying to kill “these monsters.”“There’s no hunger in Gaza,” he said. “But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip. Let the world worry about it.”Eliyahu’s inflammatory remarks came as Israel faces growing worldwide condemnation over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where aid groups and world leaders have protested that starvation is spreading and must be urgently addressed.Israel, which controls much of the enclave’s territory and backs the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial American initiative to deliver aid, says it makes extensive efforts to provide aid and denies claims of famine.It has published photos of aid trucks waiting for pickup in Gaza. The UN has countered that conditions are too dangerous to effectively deliver those supplies.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said Eliyahu’s comments on Gaza were “an attack on values and a public relations disaster.”“Israel will never convince the world of the righteousness of our war against terror so long as we are led by an extremist minority government with ministers who sanctify blood and death,” he said in a statement.Lapid added that Israel’s soldiers are not “fighting, dying, and being injured in order to wipe out a civilian population.”“This is a government that has lost its sanity, I told you,” The Democrats leader Yair Golan wrote on X.MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Hadash-Ta’al alliance, tweeted that “this is exactly how they spoke in Germany.”Labor MK Gilad Kariv said that Eliyahu’s continued tenure as a government minister “casts a stain and a disgrace on the State of Israel and the entire Jewish people.”“This is a violent, unrestrained nationalist who preaches carrying out war crimes, and in doing so violates not only international law but also the laws of the State of Israel,” he wrote on X.After holding his tongue throughout the afternoon and evening, Netanyahu issued an English statement on his office’s official X account after midnight on Thursday-Friday in which he declared that Eliyahu “does not speak for the government I lead.”“He is not a member of the security cabinet that determines the conduct of the war,” Netanyahu added.The prime minister did not announce any disciplinary action against Eliyahu, who has a history of incendiary rhetoric against Palestinians.An hour earlier, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter tweeted that the “quotes attributed to” the minister do not reflect government policy.“The quotes attributed to Minister Eliyahu are wrong, foolish and totally unrepresentative of the government and people of Israel,” Leiter wrote, apparently suggesting that Eliyahu may not have made the comments, even though they were recorded on the radio. No other government official condemned Eliyahu’s remarks.Eliyahu, an observant Jew and grandson of former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu, is no stranger to making controversial remarks. In May, he said Israel should bomb food and fuel reserves in Gaza to starve the population as part of a strategy of exerting direct pressure on Hamas by targeting the civilian population.In November 2023, he sparked international outrage by claiming that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “an option” — a statement called “detached from reality” by Netanyahu.This statement was later cited by South Africa in a motion accusing Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice, prompting Eliyahu to brag that “even in The Hague they know my position.”The incendiary comment from Eliyahu, along with similar ones from other Israeli leaders, was used to try and show that Israel had genocidal intent in Gaza. Israel vociferously denies the allegations and says Hamas is responsible for many civilian deaths because it uses the Gaza population as human shields.The war in Gaza began with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion and massacres, during which terrorists killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages to Gaza.In the ensuing war, some 58,000 people in Gaza have been killed, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. Hamas casualty figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

Knesset votes 71-13 for non-binding motion calling to annex West Bank-Symbolic resolution calls West Bank ‘inseparable part of the Land of Israel’; critics say it reflects misplaced priorities as PA calls it ‘dangerous escalation’By Sam Sokol-and ToI Staff 23 July 2025, 9:48 pm

The Knesset approved a non-binding motion in favor of annexing the West Bank on Wednesday, a symbolic gesture that united the otherwise fractious right-wing governing coalition.The resolution, which passed 71-13, declared that the West Bank is “an inseparable part of the Land of Israel, the historical, cultural and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people” and that “Israel has the natural, historical and legal right to all of the territories of the Land of Israel.”It called on the government to “apply Israeli sovereignty, law, judgment and administration to all the areas of Jewish settlement of all kinds in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley,” the government’s term for the West Bank. The motion was advanced by Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, Likud MK Dan Illouz and opposition Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer.Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War, and the territory is now estimated to be home to more than 500,000 Israeli settlers, in addition to millions of Palestinians. Much of the international community says Israel is illegally occupying the territory and views the settlements as violations of international law, which Israel disputes.“This is our land. This is our home. The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel,” Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana said after the vote. “In 1967, the occupation did not begin; it ended, and our homeland was returned to its rightful owners. We are the original first natives of this piece of land. Jews cannot be the ‘occupier’ of a land that for 3,000 years has been called Judea.”Annexation of the West Bank, or of its Israeli settlements, is a longtime aspiration of the Israeli right. In 2019, ahead of an election, Netanyahu pledged to annex the Jordan Valley, on the territory’s eastern flank. But that pledge and similar efforts took a backseat amid a protracted political crisis that saw a string of inconclusive elections. The government has not pursued binding annexation legislation since, though it voted in similar numbers last year against the establishment of a Palestinian state.Wednesday’s vote came days before lawmakers will break for a nearly three-month recess, and as the coalition fights for its political life. On the same day, Likud MKs voted to unseat their colleague Yuli Edelstein as chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, replacing him with Boaz Bismuth, a loyalist of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is expected to advance a law regulating ultra-Orthodox enlistment.The ultra-Orthodox parties, which left the coalition due to disputes over the enlistment law, nevertheless joined Likud and other right-wing parties in voting for the annexation resolution. The opposition Yisrael Beiteinu also voted in favor.Voting against were the Arab parties as well as the left-wing Democrats. The largest opposition parties, Yesh Atid and Blue and White, did not vote on the motion.“Annexation of Judea and Samaria is a clear danger to the future of the state of Israel and the Zionist enterprise,” Democrats MK Gilad Kariv posted on X, calling the motion “a smokescreen for abandoning the hostages [held by Hamas in Gaza] and advancing an evasion law.”Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s deputy, Hussein al-Sheikh, called the annexation vote a “dangerous escalation that undermines the prospects for peace, stability and the two-state solution.”Sheikh also called the vote “a direct assault on the rights of the Palestinian people,” who ostensibly would not receive equal rights to their Israeli settler neighbors in a scenario where Jerusalem annexes the West Bank.Urging the international community to intervene to roll back Israeli “violations,” the senior Palestinian official said countries should recognize a Palestinian state in response.

After France, UK’s Starmer under increasing pressure to recognize Palestinian state-British premier says statehood is Palestinians’ ‘inalienable right,’ but hasn’t so far declared recognition, even as members of his cabinet, as well as Macron, urge him to do so By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 1:03 pm-JUL 25,25

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from senior members of his own government, as well as by French President Emmanuel Macron, to declare that the United Kingdom recognizes a Palestinian state.The UK premier said Thursday that “statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people,” in a statement decrying the humanitarian situation in Gaza and calling for a ceasefire, but he has not committed to a timeframe for recognizing a Palestinian state.Bloomberg reported Friday that the UK’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy have all called on Starmer to move more quickly on the matter.On Tuesday, in remarks decrying “Israel’s attacks on health care workers as well as other innocent civilians,” Streeting said in the House of Commons — where 60 Labour MPs have also called for Palestinian statehood recognition — that Britain should recognize a Palestinian state “while there’s still a state of Palestine left to recognize.”On Thursday, Macron announced France will recognize a Palestinian state in September at the UN General Assembly, a plan that drew strong condemnation from Israel and the US.The French president, who, together with Saudi Arabia, will host a confab in New York on the two-state solution this month, has been pressing Starmer to make the same move, according to Bloomberg.On Friday, Starmer was set to speak with Macron, as well as with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, about the situation in Gaza.Successive British governments have said they will formally recognize a Palestinian state at the right time, without ever setting a timetable or specifying the conditions for it to happen.“We want Palestinian statehood, we desire it, and we want to make sure the circumstances can exist where that kind of long-term political solution can have the space to evolve,” British science and technology minister Peter Kyle told Sky News on Friday.“But right now, today, we’ve got to focus on what will ease the suffering, and it is extreme, unwarranted suffering in Gaza that has to be the priority for us today.”UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy made similar remarks on Tuesday, telling the BBC: “We don’t just want to recognize symbolically, we want to recognize as a way of getting to the two states that sadly many are trying to thwart at this point in time.”Some opponents of countries unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state maintain that the move is merely symbolic when done without cooperation with Israel, adding that a Palestinian state can only be the result of negotiations between both sides of the conflict.But supporters of the move say the current Israeli government is uninterested in such talks or a two-state solution and that the framework can therefore only be advanced through diplomatic pressure.“We say that recognizing Palestinian statehood is a really important symbol that you can only do once. But if not now, then when?” one minister said in a recent cabinet meeting, according to The Guardian.London Mayor Sadiq Khan also called on Wednesday for the government to move forward with statehood recognition.Norway, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia all announced recognition of a Palestinian state following the outbreak of the Gaza war, along with several other non-European countries.Overall, at least 142 countries now recognize or plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, according to an AFP tally.Israel has rejected calls to recognize a state of Palestine, arguing that this would endanger Israel’s security and that recognizing one in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught that started the ongoing war would reward the terror group for its bloody rampage, even while it still holds hostages.

Immigration minister to French Jews: Come home to Israel-Israeli ministers ridicule Macron for ‘rewarding terror’ by recognizing Palestinian state-Several cabinet members call to annex West Bank in response; others mock French president with GIFs and AI photos; Labor MK laments ‘bunch of overgrown babies running our country’By Agencies and Jacob Magid-Today, 6:51 am-JUL 25,25

Israeli ministers railed against French President Emmanuel Macron after he announced Thursday that Paris would recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, with several senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition calling for Jerusalem to annex the West Bank in retaliation.Netanyahu in his own statement said Macron was recognizing a “state next to Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7 massacre.”“Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it.”“Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel,” the premier asserted.With Israel likely to take punitive measures against France, as it has done to other countries that have recognized a Palestinian state, some ministers argued that the most fitting reaction would be to annex the territory on which Palestinians hope their future state will be located.“I thank President Macron for providing yet another compelling reason to finally apply Israeli sovereignty over the historic regions of Judea and Samaria, and to definitively abandon the failed concept of establishing a Palestinian terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote in an English-language tweet.The far-right minister is opposed to granting equal rights to Palestinians living in areas that he wants Israel to annex.Justice Minister Yariv Levin said annexing the West Bank would be “a response of historical justice to the shameful decision of the French President.”“The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, and President Macron’s declaration will not change that,” he asserted.Immigration minister: French Jews, come home to Israel-Immigration and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer, meanwhile, called for French Jews to move to Israel.“The State of Israel welcomes the many immigrants from France who have chosen to return to their true home here in Israel since October 7, despite the war,” Sofer wrote Friday on X. “We are preparing with a variety of new and unique programs to expand absorption.”“French Jews, this is your home – the State of Israel,” Sofer added.Other ministers issued more tongue-in-cheek responses.“On behalf of the Government of Israel, here is our response to your recognition of a Palestinian state,” tweeted Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli above a gif of Macron getting slapped around by his wife, Brigitte, as they visited Vietnam in May.Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman tweeted an AI-generated photo of Macron puckering up with former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, adding the caption, “French kiss.”Responses among opposition lawmakers were slightly more diverse.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid denounced the move as “a moral error and diplomatically damaging,” tweeting: “The Palestinians should not be rewarded for October 7 and for supporting Hamas.”At the same time, Lapid took aim at the government for failing to prevent the move.“A functioning government doing basic diplomatic work could have prevented this harmful declaration,” he said.Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ayman Odeh welcomed the move as a “necessary step for a people that has suffered so much.”Labor MK Gilad Kariv used the opportunity to tear into the government for being more focused on issuing “childish” responses than actually coming up with a long-term strategy to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.“Now that I’ve seen the competition between government ministers against the French president and how they manage to stick it to him — some even in English — I’m convinced that our government has a strategy and a plan,” the left-wing lawmaker tweeted sarcastically.“I’m sure that with the resumption of the Knesset’s work, they’ll also push for a law banning the sale of baguettes and croissants in Israel (including in Judea and Samaria), and then we’ll really show [the French] what’s what,” he added.“A bunch of overgrown babies is running our country,” Kariv lamented.Others in the opposition joined the coalition’s criticism of Macron’s announcement, with Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman branding it a “prize for terror.”Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who is planning to re-enter politics at next year’s election, published two tweets decrying the move, including one with a video statement that included graphics.Explaining the decision in a lengthy tweet, Macron said it would help advance a two-state solution, adding that he was moving forward on the issue after receiving a series of commitments from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.Abbas, in a letter to Macron earlier this year, pledged to continue conducting reforms of the PA and agreed that the future Palestinian state would be demilitarized and live in peace alongside Israel.Some opponents of countries unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state maintain that the move is merely symbolic when done without Israel’s cooperation, adding that a Palestinian state can only be the result of negotiations between both sides of the conflict. But supporters of the move say the current Israeli government is uninterested in such talks or a two-state solution and that the framework can therefore only be advanced through diplomatic pressure.France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, will become the first major Western country to recognize a Palestinian state, potentially giving greater momentum to a movement so far dominated by smaller nations that are generally more critical of Israel.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a “reckless decision [that] only serves Hamas propaganda.”“It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th,” he wrote on X.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s deputy Hussein al-Sheikh welcomed the move, saying it “reflects France’s commitment to international law and its support for the Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination and the establishment of our independent state.”PA rival Hamas also hailed Macron’s pledge, characterizing it as a “positive step in the right direction toward doing justice to our oppressed Palestinian people and supporting their legitimate right to self-determination.”

Macron aide says Palestinian state would've prevented Oct. 7-France will recognize Palestinian state at September UN confab, Macron announces-Netanyahu: Palestinians want a state instead of Israel, this risks creating another Iranian proxy in West Bank; US: ‘Slap in face to Oct. 7 victims’; Hamas: Growing support for Palestinian cause-By Agencies and Jacob Magid-Today, 5:53 am-JUL 25,25

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country would formally recognize a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, which would make Paris the most powerful European nation to advance such a move.“True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine,” Macron said in an X post.“I will make this solemn announcement at the United Nations General Assembly next September.”Macron’s announcement drew immediate anger from Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it “rewards terror” and poses an existential threat to Israel.Netanyahu said in a statement that the decision “risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became,” which would be “a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it.”“The Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel,” he said.Several of his far-right coalition partners called for Israel to annex the West Bank in response to the move.Some opponents of countries unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state maintain that the move is merely symbolic when done without cooperation with Israel, adding that a Palestinian state can only be the result of negotiations between both sides of the conflict. But supporters of the move say the current Israeli government is uninterested in such talks or in a two-state solution and that the framework can therefore only be advanced through diplomatic pressure.France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, will become the first major Western country to recognize a Palestinian state, potentially giving greater momentum to a movement so far dominated by smaller nations that are generally more critical of Israel.At least 142 countries now recognize or plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, according to an AFP tally. Several countries have announced plans to recognize statehood for the Palestinians since the outbreak of the Gaza war, which was sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a “reckless decision (that) only serves Hamas propaganda.”“It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th,” he wrote on X.US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee mocked Macron’s announcement, tweeting: “How clever! If Macron can just ‘declare’ the existence of a state perhaps the UK can ‘declare’ France a British colony!”In a follow-up post, he added: “Macron’s unilateral ‘declaration’ of a ‘Palestinian’ state didn’t say WHERE it would be. I can now exclusively disclose that France will offer the French Riviera & the new nation will be called ‘Franc-en-Stine.'”In a diplomatic cable in June, the United States said it opposed any steps that would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state even saying it could go against US foreign policy interests and draw consequences.According to sources familiar with the matter, Israel’s warnings to France have ranged from scaling back intelligence sharing to complicating Paris’ regional initiatives — even hinting at possible annexation of parts of the West Bank.PA, Hamas both applaud France’s move-Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s deputy Hussein al-Sheikh welcomed the move, saying it “reflects France’s commitment to international law and its support for the Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination and the establishment of our independent state.”PA rival Hamas also hailed Macron’s pledge, characterizing it as a “positive step in the right direction toward doing justice to our oppressed Palestinian people and supporting their legitimate right to self-determination.”Hamas said Macron’s decision “reflects the growing international conviction of the justice of the Palestinian cause and the failure of the occupation to distort the facts.”“We call on all countries of the world — especially European nations and those that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine — to follow France’s lead,” the terror group added.Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, however, argued that “Hamas has always ruled out a two-state solution. By recognizing Palestine, France goes against that terrorist organization,” saying Paris was “backing the side of peace against the side of war.”Macron aide: Palestinian state would’ve prevented Oct. 7-Ofer Bronchtein, Macron’s longtime special adviser on Israeli-Palestinian affairs, argued in a Hebrew-language radio interview Friday that had there been a Palestinian state on October 7, 2023, the attack would not have occurred.“Everyone for 40 years has been talking about the two-state solution,” Bronchtein told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.“It angers me that people say we encourage terror,” he said. “Perhaps because there was no Palestinian state, October 7 happened.”“Had there been Palestinian sovereignty in Gaza on October 7 [2023]… October 7 wouldn’t have happened. Sovereignty is responsibility,” he repeated.Macron had been leaning towards recognizing a Palestinian state for months as part of a bid to keep the idea of a two-state solution alive despite the pressure not to do so.French officials initially weighed up the move ahead of a United Nations conference, which France and Saudi Arabia had planned to co-host in June to lay out the parameters for a roadmap to a Palestinian state, while ensuring Israel’s security.The conference was postponed due to the outbreak of the Israel-Iran war, during which regional airspace was closed, making it hard for representatives of some Arab states to attend.It was rescheduled and downgraded to a ministerial event on July 28-29, with a second event taking place with heads of state and government on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September.International concern is growing about the plight of the more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where the fighting has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis and warnings of mass starvation.Israel has rejected accusations it is responsible for Gaza’s deepening hunger crisis, which the World Health Organization has called “man-made” and France blamed on an Israeli “blockade.”Macron wrote in his Thursday X post that the “urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and rescue the civilian population.”“We must finally build the State of Palestine, ensure its viability and enable it, by accepting its demilitarization and fully recognizing Israel, to contribute to the security of all in the Middle East,” he wrote.While France would be the most significant European power to recognize a Palestinian state, others have hinted they could do the same.Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he would hold a call on Friday with counterparts in Germany and France on efforts to stop the fighting, adding that a ceasefire would “put us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state.”Norway, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia all announced recognition following the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, along with several other non-European countries.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose country already recognizes Palestinian statehood, welcomed Macron’s announcement.“Together, we must protect what Netanyahu is trying to destroy. The two-state solution is the only solution,” the Socialist leader, an outspoken critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, wrote on X.Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry hailed Macron’s announcement as “historic” and urged other countries to follow suit.On the streets of the West Bank, Palestinians told AFP that they hoped other countries would now follow suit.Mahmoud al-Ifranji called France’s pledge “a moral commitment” and a “political victory for the Palestinian people.”Another man, Nahed Abu Taima, said he hoped France’s decision will help lead to peace. “This recognition will lead to the recognition of Palestine by a number of countries in Europe and the world.”Nearly 60,000 Palestinians have been killed since the outbreak of the war, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.Some 1,200 people were killed during the Hamas-led October 7 attack and another 250 were taken hostage. Fifty of those captives are still being held in Gaza, including 20 who are believed to be alive.

Hamas 'surprised' by Witkoff's rejection, wants to make deal-Israel, US recall negotiators from Doha after ‘selfish’ Hamas response to truce offer-US envoy Witkoff says terror group ‘doesn’t appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith,’ though senior Israeli official denies crisis in talks; hostage families demand update By Lazar Berman,Jacob Magid-and Agencies 24 July 2025, 10:39 pm

Israel and the United States both recalled their negotiators from Qatar on Thursday, after weeks of mediated talks there with the Hamas terror group aimed at reaching a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza.US envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff said the terror group’s most recent response was “selfish” and that Hamas “does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith.” Jerusalem’s statements were more measured, with a senior Israeli official telling reporters the negotiators’ return did not signal a crisis, and that efforts to reach a deal would continue from within Israel.Proximity negotiations have been taking place in Doha since July 6, with the deal on the table envisioning the release of 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 slain hostages from Gaza in exchange for a yet-to-be-agreed-upon number of Palestinian security prisoners during a 60-day truce.A senior Israeli official told Israeli reporters Thursday that the return of Israel’s negotiating team did not indicate a crisis in talks, saying there was “no explosion, no collapse.”At the same time, the current situation is evidence of Hamas’s “rejectionist and unfortunate approach,” according to the official.The terror group’s answer, received by mediators at 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning, “does not allow progress without a shift in Hamas’s positions and without consulting on ways to do this both with the mediator and with ourselves,” the official said.There are still gaps between the sides on all the topics, the official said, but he asserted that “progress has been made” in the 18 days of talks in Doha.“We reached the stage where we actually need to return, and we will return here as soon as the right way is found to reduce the gaps and reach the closing stage,” he said.According to the official, Hamas has not offered any compromise on the demilitarization of Gaza or the end of the war, and there are “difficulties” around the potential release of Palestinian prisoners.The sides did not discuss guarantees about ending the war, a key Hamas demand, or the technical arrangements around the implementation of a deal, the official said, but he added: “We can arrive at this quickly.”Israel is under the assumption that Hamas wants an agreement, the official said, adding that the team will continue to work “from the moment it lands and there is reception.”The official praised Egypt and Qatar, “who showed a proactive approach, activity, and very, very significant efforts throughout all these 18 days.”“I am realistic, and I still think we can continue to operate to reduce the gaps and bring about an agreement,” the official said.Witkoff: Hamas doesn’t appear to be acting in good faith-Witkoff’s statement announcing Washington’s recall of the American negotiators, on the other hand, said, “While the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith.“We will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza,” he said.“It is a shame that Hamas has acted in this selfish way. We are resolute in seeking an end to this conflict and a permanent peace in Gaza.”Witkoff did not elaborate on what “alternative options” the US might consider, and it was unclear if the statement was an attempt to ratchet up pressure on the terror group to compromise.Hamas said it was “surprised” by Witkoff’s comments, insisting in a statement of its own after midnight Thursday-Friday that it has engaged constructively in the negotiations and submitted a response that was well-received by other mediators.“We are surprised by the negative statements made by US envoy Steve Witkoff regarding the movement’s position at a time when the mediators welcomed and expressed their satisfaction with [our] constructive and positive stance that opens the door to reaching a comprehensive agreement,” Hamas said in its statement.The group added that it remains committed to reaching a ceasefire agreement and is working to overcome remaining obstacles.At a state ceremony Thursday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed not to compromise on achieving Israel’s war aims.“If Hamas understands our readiness to reach a deal as weakness, as an opportunity to dictate terms of surrender to us that will endanger Israel, it is greatly mistaken,” the premier said, speaking to commemorate 85 years since the death of Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.“We are determined to achieve all the aims of the war,” he said. “We are determined to bring everyone back, and that is what we will do.”Source to ToI: Gaps not so wide, Hamas’s offer a starting bid-A senior official and source familiar with the details told Axios on Thursday that Hamas is insisting that Israel free 200 Palestinians serving life sentences and 2,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza since the October 7, 2023, attack in exchange for the release of 10 living hostages.One source involved in mediation efforts affirmed this account to The Times of Israel, saying Israel was upset over the proposal, but claimed that the number was merely a starting bid and that the terror group is prepared to come down closer to a number Jerusalem deems reasonable.The gaps between Israel and Hamas are not actually very wide, the source said.The vast majority of the 2,000 Palestinians detained in Gaza since the war’s outbreak, who Hamas is also demanding be released as part of the swap, have not even been charged, the non-Israeli source said, accusing Israel of arbitrarily detaining Gazans for use as barter in the negotiations.As for the scope of the Gaza border belt that the IDF would remain in during a truce, the source described Hamas’s response issued last night as only roughly 200 meters less than what Israel has been demanding.Israel earlier demanded a two-kilometer buffer zone, which Hamas countered with a one-kilometer buffer. Israel then lowered its demand to 1.2 kilometers; the source’s description on Thursday meant Hamas is continuing to hold firm on its 1-kilometer demand rather than compromise in turn.The source said both Egyptian and Qatari mediators believe that the gaps can be bridged within days and hope Israel has not recalled its negotiating team to withdraw from the talks.Meanwhile, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum issued a statement in response to reports of the negotiators’ return, saying: “Negotiations have dragged on for too long already.” The families called on Netanyahu, as well as Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and IDF hostage point-man Gal Hirsch, to provide an update on the state of the negotiations and the central areas of dispute.“Another missed opportunity to return all the hostages is unforgivable. It will be another failure of ethics, security, and politics, in an unending series of squandered opportunities,” the families said.Shortly thereafter, in a video statement filmed at the White House during a visit to mark one year since Netanyahu’s visit to Washington in July 2024, a group of freed captives and remaining hostages’ family members called on US President Donald Trump to keep pushing for a deal.“We want to thank President Trump for his focus on this issue, and on the region, and his help in bringing hostages back in the past —  we need you to stay with us, please, President Trump, bring all the parties back to the table. We need to continue working on this until they all come back, until they are all home.”Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists during the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel that started the ongoing war.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 201
 
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IDF: Hamas official who smuggled arms at Rafah crossing killed in strike-Israel blames UN for Gaza aid shortage, says Hamas exploiting famine claims at talks-UN says Israel not creating conditions to enable safe aid delivery, while rejecting half of the requests it submits to transport aid within Gaza; 8 troops wounded in ‘operational accident’ in north Gaza
By Emanuel Fabian,Stav Levaton,Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid-24 July 2025, 11:34 pm

KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, Gaza border — Israel on Thursday blamed a “lack of cooperation from the international community” for the limited aid entering the Gaza Strip while dismissing Hamas’s “famine narrative” as a tactic used in the hostage talks.Speaking to reporters on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, Col. Abdullah Halabi, head of COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, said that approximately 1,000 trucks’ worth of aid are piled up inside the Strip, awaiting collection by the United Nations and aid groups.The senior officer in the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said truckloads are waiting on the Gaza side of the crossing “due to a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organizations.”“We have seen in the last two days a slight improvement in their work, especially in the UN’s position and the UN’s organizations. We invited them here as we have done several times to continue to encourage them, to check together with them what can be done to transfer this aid in,” he said.The UN has repeatedly claimed that COGAT has refused its requests for collection and distribution authorization, and that dangerous and complex conditions inside Gaza made aid distribution very difficult.Amid the issues, aid groups and world leaders have protested that starvation is spreading and must be urgently addressed. A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Thursday said 9 percent of 56,440 children under the age of five screened in Gaza clinics were found to be suffering from severe malnutrition, compared to 6% a month prior.Halabi said Israeli moves in recent weeks to facilitate the delivery of aid include “expanding” the Kerem Shalom Crossing, and opening up three other terminals in the north and center of the Strip.“We allowed longer work hours, and we took all the necessary steps to allow the international community to bring a very large amount of humanitarian aid into [Gaza], to combat the famine narrative, which Hamas uses to fight against us,” he said.“The State of Israel allows the entry of humanitarian aid beyond the standards of international law, without restriction. As long as the international community makes an effort to bring in the aid, we will allow them to bring it in,” he continued.According to Halabi, the military and COGAT have identified an “intense and violent campaign” by Hamas against Israel’s humanitarian aid mechanism.“This campaign is based on lies,” he said, referring to claims of widespread starvation in Gaza. “It was created not to help Gaza’s population receive the aid, but primarily to improve Hamas’s standings in the [hostage] negotiations that are taking place over the last few days, and it is using different means, in particular the famine narrative, to improve their standings.”Halabi noted recent reported attacks by Hamas against the new aid distribution sites, run by the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, accusing Hamas of working “to create chaos and to create a reality in which the humanitarian situation is depicted poorly.”The UN has said more than 1,000 people have been killed at aid distribution centers since May, many of them at GHF sites. Israel says those figures are inflated, though it has acknowledged firing at crowds. It has not provided alternative numbers.Israel and GHF have accused Hamas of trying to disrupt the aid operation, with the Israel Defense Forces saying the terror group fired a rocket at one of the distribution sites on Wednesday night.The UN and major aid groups have refused to work with the GHF over concerns that it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives and violates basic humanitarian principles.The depiction of the humanitarian situation in Gaza “doesn’t correspond with the 4,500 trucks that entered in the last two months, carrying everything, from personal humanitarian aid for families to medical equipment, hygienic supplies, and more,” Halabi claimed.“We, the army and COGAT, will continue doing whatever is possible and necessary, improve the relevant conditions, strengthen our relationship with the international community and with the different humanitarian organizations, and help them to allow the entry of aid,” he continued.“We are fighting Hamas, we will continue to fight Hamas. We will not allow a reality in which Hamas uses anything, whether it is humanitarian aid or any other means, to strengthen its interests or itself,” Halabi said.Separately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to hold an urgent meeting in Jerusalem on the allegations that there is starvation in Gaza, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.The premier will be joined by representatives from the Foreign Ministry, COGAT, the National Security Council, and others.The allegations and larger issue of getting aid to Gazan civilians dominated discussions in the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday, the official said, on condition of anonymity.UN: Israel rejects half of our requests to transport aid inside Gaza-The United Nations said Thursday it did not know how many truckloads of aid were awaiting distribution inside the Gaza Strip because Israel has not granted it access.“Despite our repeated requests, Israel has not allowed the UN to be present at the crossings, which are militarized areas,” said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA.“We therefore cannot verify the amount of supplies currently at the crossing,” he told AFP.Laerke explained that the UN needed multiple approvals from the Israeli authorities: firstly, to get aid across the border from Israel into the Gaza Strip, where it is dropped off — the trucks returning to Israel — followed by another approval to drive trucks from inside Gaza to collect it.However, “it is not just about denials of requests to pick up the cargo,” Laerke added.“Israel — as the occupying power and a party to the conflict — must facilitate humanitarian operations all the way till it reaches people who need it to survive.”This means “they must provide the green light for trucks without unnecessary delays; allow teams to use multiple, safer routes; and order troops to stay away from the convoys, and never shoot at civilians along the allocated routes — or anywhere else,” Laerke explained.“Without the full set of conditions in place, safe and principled delivery cannot take place at scale. So even when approved, those missions are often impeded on the ground.”Separately, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters during a Thursday briefing that Israel rejected eight of the 16 UN requests to transport humanitarian aid in Gaza on Wednesday.Two other requests were initially approved, but UN staff faced impediments on the ground, Dujarric said. One denied request was for UN staff to pick up medical supplies that have been waiting on the Gazan side of the border.“Bureaucratic, logistical, administrative and other operational obstacles imposed by Israeli authorities; ongoing hostilities and access constraints within Gaza; and incidents of criminal looting, and more shooting incidents that have killed and injured people gathering to offload aid supplies along convoy routes” have hampered UN efforts to deliver aid, Dujarric said.“Taken together, these factors have put people and humanitarian staff at grave risk and forced aid agencies on many occasions to pause the collection of cargo from crossings controlled by the Israeli authorities,” he added.The UN spokesperson also noted that Israel is trying to squeeze Gaza’s entire population into an area that makes up just 12 percent of the Strip.“Meanwhile, the entry of shelter materials has been banned by the Israeli authorities for over 20 weeks, and the trickle of fuel now let in is also wholly insufficient,” Dujarric asserts.A screening conducted earlier this month found that nearly 5,000 of the 56,000 Gazan children under the age of 5 were found to be acutely malnourished.The nine percent rate is a uptick from 6 percent just a month earlier and from 2.4% in February.Meanwhile, the US State Department said it was continually working to get more aid into Gaza without it being looted by Hamas.The department’s deputy spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, accused Hamas of “weaponization” of aid through looting during a regular press briefing and added: “We have a system in place, attempting to get as much aid into Gaza as possible in a way where is not being looted by Hamas … that is the reality that we’re pushing for — trying to get as much aid in there as we possible.”Hamas official who helped smuggle arms at Rafah crossing killedMeanwhile, a key Hamas official who helped the group bring in arms was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis earlier Thursday, the IDF announced.Muhammad al-Amour, according to the military, was responsible for the goods terminal at the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza. “As part of his role, he oversaw the smuggling of hundreds of weapons and military equipment into the Gaza Strip, directly contributing to Hamas’s military buildup,” the IDF said.Over the years, the military said Amour “played a key role in the smuggling network of Hamas’s military wing, coordinating and leading efforts to bring weapons into the Gaza Strip and to Hamas with the help of collaborators.”The Rafah Crossing, which Israel took over in May 2024 and has since razed, “served as a gateway for smuggling military equipment and weapons into the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said.Additionally, eight IDF soldiers were wounded, including two moderately and six lightly, in an “operational accident” in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military saidThe troops were taken to a hospital, and their families were notified, the army added.Amid efforts to reach a ceasefire-hostage release deal, Israel on Thursday said it was returning its negotiators back home for consultations after Hamas’s response to a proposal for an agreement. The United States said it was pulling its mediators from Doha, with special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff stating that Hamas’s response showed it lacked the desire to reach a deal.An Arab diplomat and a second source involved in mediation efforts told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s response was constructive enough to enable the sides to move forward.The war began with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre, in which invaders killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 hostages. Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, at least 20 of whom are thought to be alive.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says nearly 60,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified. As of January, Israel said it had killed some 20,000 combatants in battle, and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.Israel says 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 456.Agencies contributed to this report.

USAID finds no proof Hamas systematically loots aid; State Department, IDF push back-Report completed in June says majority of aid theft incidents can’t be ‘definitively attributed to a specific actor,’ but acknowledges recipients are unvetted and could be Hamas-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 11:56 am-JUL 25,25

WASHINGTON — An internal US government analysis has found no evidence of systematic theft by the Hamas terror group of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.The analysis was conducted by a bureau within the US Agency for International Development and completed in late June. It examined 156 incidents of theft or loss of US-funded supplies reported by USAID partner organizations between October 2023 and May.It found “no reports alleging Hamas” benefited from US-funded supplies, according to a slide presentation of the findings seen by Reuters.The analysis was unable to attribute most instances of theft to a particular actor, although it noted that because Palestinians who receive aid cannot be vetted, US-funded supplies might have been going to Hamas nonetheless.A State Department spokesperson disputed the findings, saying there is video evidence of Hamas looting aid, but provided no such videos. The spokesperson also accused traditional humanitarian groups of covering up “aid corruption.”The findings were shared with the USAID’s inspector general’s office and State Department officials involved in Middle East policy, said two sources familiar with the matter, as dire food shortages deepen in the devastated enclave.The study was conducted by the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) of USAID, which was the largest funder of assistance to Gaza before the Trump administration froze all US foreign aid in January, terminating thousands of programs. It has also begun dismantling USAID, whose functions have been folded into the State Department.The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to IDF actions, according to the briefing slides.The IDF did not respond to questions about those findings.One source familiar with the study cautioned that the absence of reports of widespread aid diversion by Hamas “does not mean that diversion has not occurred.”The study also noted that because Palestinians who receive aid cannot be vetted, it was possible that US-funded supplies did go to Hamas, even when looters were not specifically identified as belonging to the terror group.Israel, which controls access to Gaza, has accused Hamas of stealing food supplies from the UN and other organizations to use to control the civilian population and boost its finances, including by jacking up the prices of the goods and reselling them to civilians.Asked about the USAID report, the IDF told Reuters that its allegations are based on intelligence reports that Hamas terrorists seized cargoes by “both covertly and overtly” embedding themselves on aid trucks.Those intelligence reports also show that Hamas has diverted up to 25 percent of aid supplies to its fighters or sold them to civilians, the IDF said, adding that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which accuses Hamas of massive aid theft, has ended the terror group’s control of aid by distributing it directly to civilians.The UN and other groups have rejected calls by the GHF, Israel and the US to cooperate with the foundation, claiming it violates international humanitarian principles of neutrality.Hamas denies stealing aid. A Hamas security official said that Israel has killed more than 800 Hamas-affiliated police and security guards trying to protect aid vehicles and convoy routes, asserting that their missions were coordinated with the UN.Reuters could not independently verify the claims by Hamas or Israel.The 156 reports of theft or loss of supplies reviewed by the BHA were filed by UN agencies and other humanitarian groups working in Gaza as a condition of receiving US aid funds.The second source familiar with the matter said that after receiving reports of US-funded aid thefts or losses, USAID staff followed up with partner organizations to try to determine if there was Hamas involvement.Those organizations also would “redirect or pause” aid distributions if they learned that Hamas was in the vicinity, the source said.Aid organizations working in Gaza are also required to vet their personnel, subcontractors and suppliers for ties to extremist groups before receiving US funds, a condition that the State Department waived in approving $30 million for GHF last month.Reporting theft as Hamas-related helps avoid loss of funding-The slide presentation noted that USAID partners tended to over-report aid diversion and theft by groups the US defines as foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, because they want to avoid losing US funding.Of the 156 incidents of loss or theft reported, 63 were attributed to unknown perpetrators, 35 to armed actors, 25 to unarmed people, 11 to Israeli military action, 11 to corrupt subcontractors, five to aid group personnel “engaging in corrupt activities,” and six to “others,” a category that accounted for “commodities stolen in unknown circumstances,” according to the slide presentation.The armed actors “included gangs and other miscellaneous individuals who may have had weapons,” said a slide. Another slide said “a review of all 156 incidents found no affiliations with” US-designated foreign terrorist organizations, of which Hamas is one.“The majority of incidents could not be definitively attributed to a specific actor,” said another slide. “Partners often largely discovered the commodities had been stolen in transit without identifying the perpetrator.”It is possible there were classified intelligence reports on Hamas aid thefts, but BHA staff lost access to classified systems in the dismantlement of USAID, said a slide.However, a source familiar with US intelligence assessments told Reuters that they knew of no US intelligence reports detailing Hamas aid diversions and that Washington was relying on Israeli reports.The BHA analysis found that the Israeli military “directly or indirectly caused” a total of 44 incidents in which US-funded aid was lost or stolen. Those included the 11 attributed to direct Israeli military actions, such as airstrikes or orders to Palestinians to evacuate areas of the war-torn enclave.Losses indirectly attributed to the IDF included cases where they compelled aid groups to use delivery routes with high risks of theft or looting, ignoring requests for alternative routes, the analysis said.

Gaza hospitals say kids without underlying health conditions now dying of starvation-At least 48, including adults, have died in July due to malnutrition, Hamas ministry says, up from 10 in previous 5 months; IDF says terror group creating shortages by looting aid-By AP and ToI Staff Today, 11:30 am-JUL 25,25

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Five starving children at a Gaza City hospital were wasting away, and nothing the doctors tried was working. The basic treatments for malnourishment that could save them had run out. The alternatives were ineffective. One after another, the babies and toddlers died over four days.In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient’s Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza.The deaths last weekend also marked a change: the first seen by the center in children who had no preexisting conditions. Symptoms are getting worse, with children too weak to cry or move, said Dr. Rana Soboh, a nutritionist. In past months, most improved, despite supply shortages, but now patients stay longer and don’t get better, she said.“There are no words in the face of the disaster we are in. Kids are dying before the world … There is no uglier and more horrible phase than this,” said Soboh, who works with the US-based aid organization Medglobal, which supports the hospital.This month, the hunger that has been building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid workers and health staff say. Not only children — usually the most vulnerable — are falling victim, but also adults.In the past three weeks, at least 48 people died of causes related to malnutrition, including 28 adults and 20 children, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday. That’s up from 10 children who died in the five previous months of 2025, according to the ministry.The World Health Organization said Wednesday it has documented 21 children under 5 who died of causes related to malnutrition in 2025. The UN humanitarian office, OCHA, said Thursday at least 13 children’s deaths were reported in July, with the number growing daily.“Humans are well developed to live with caloric deficits, but only so far,” said Dr. John Kahler, Medglobal’s co-founder and a pediatrician who volunteered twice in Gaza during the war. “It appears that we have crossed the line where a segment of the population has reached their limits.”“This is the beginning of a population death spiral,” he said.The UN’s World Food Programme says nearly 100,000 women and children urgently need treatment for malnutrition. Medical workers say they have run out of many key treatments and medicines.Israel, which began letting in a trickle of supplies two months ago following a two-month blockade of aid and has endorsed the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation mechanism for its distribution, has blamed Hamas for disrupting food distribution, and has pointed to some thousand trucks’ worth of aid waiting inside Gaza to be distributed.The UN — which has refused to work with GHF, saying it violates humanitarian principles — has said more than 1,000 people have been killed near aid distribution centers since May, many of them at GHF sites. Israel says those figures are inflated, though it has acknowledged firing at crowds. It has not provided alternative numbers.The Patient’s Friends Hospital overflows with parents bringing in scrawny children – 200 to 300 cases a day, said Soboh.On Wednesday, staff laid toddlers on a desk to measure the circumference of their upper arms — the quickest way to determine malnutrition. In the summer heat, mothers huddled around specialists, asking for supplements. Babies with emaciated limbs screamed in agony. Others lay totally silent.The worst cases are kept for up to two weeks at the center’s 10-bed ward, which this month has had up to 19 children at a time. It usually treats only children under 5, but began taking some as old as 11 or 12 because of worsening starvation among older children.Hunger gnaws at staff as well. Soboh said two nurses put themselves on IV drips to keep themselves going. “We are exhausted. We are dead in the shape of the living,” she said.The five children died in succession last Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.Four of them, aged 4 months to 2 years, had suffered gastric arrest: Their stomachs shut down. The hospital no longer had the right nutrition supplies for them.The fifth — 4.5-year-old Siwar — had alarmingly low potassium levels, a growing problem. She was so weak she could barely move her body. Medicine for potassium deficiency has largely run out across Gaza, Soboh said. The center had only a low-concentration potassium drip.The little girl didn’t respond. After three days in the ICU, she died Saturday.“If we don’t have potassium [supplies], we will see more deaths,” she said.In the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City, 2-year-old Yazan Abu Ful’s mother, Naima, pulled off his clothes to show his emaciated body. His vertebrae, ribs and shoulder blades jutted out. His buttocks were shriveled. His face was expressionless.His father Mahmoud, who was also skinny, said they took him to the hospital several times. Doctors just say they should feed him. “I tell the doctors, ‘You see for yourself, there is no food,’” he said,Naima, who is pregnant, prepared a meal: Two eggplants they bought for $9 cut up and boiled in water. They will stretch out the pot of eggplant-water – not even a real soup – to last them a few days, they said. Several of Yazan’s four older siblings also looked thin and drained.Holding him in his lap, Mahmoud Abu Ful lifted Yazan’s limp arms. The boy lies on the floor most of the day, too weak to play with his brothers. “If we leave him, he might just slip away between our fingers, and we can’t do anything.”Starvation takes the vulnerable first, experts say: children and adults with health conditions.On Thursday, the bodies of an adult man and woman with signs of starvation were brought to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, hospital director Mohammed Abu Selmia said. One suffered from diabetes, the other from a heart condition, but they showed severe deficiencies of nutrients, gastric arrest and anemia from malnutrition.Many of the adults who have died had some sort of preexisting condition, like diabetes or heart or kidney trouble, worsened by malnutrition, Abu Selmia said. “These diseases don’t kill if they have food and medicine,” he said.IDF: Aid is waiting inside Gaza, aid groups won’t distribute it-On Tuesday, David Mencer, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, denied there is a “famine created by Israel” in Gaza and blamed Hamas for creating “man-made shortages” by looting aid trucks.According to Col. Abdullah Halabi, head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, the military has identified an “intense and violent campaign” by Hamas against Israel’s humanitarian aid mechanism.“This campaign is based on lies,” he said, referring to claims of widespread starvation in Gaza. “It was created not to help Gaza’s population receive the aid, but primarily to improve Hamas’s standings in the [hostage] negotiations that are taking place over the last few days, and it is using different means, in particular the famine narrative, to improve their standings.”Speaking to reporters on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing on Wednesday, Halabi said that approximately 1,000 trucks’ worth of aid are piled up inside the Strip, awaiting collection by the United Nations and aid groups.The senior officer blamed “a lack of cooperation from the international community and international organizations.”The UN has repeatedly claimed that COGAT has refused its requests for collection and distribution authorization, and that dangerous and complex conditions inside Gaza, including hungry crowds and gangs, made aid distribution very difficult.Israel cut off the entry of food, medicine, fuel and other supplies completely to Gaza for some two and a half months starting in March, estimating that enough aid had accumulated in the Strip to last some two months and that allowing in more would help Hamas, which still holds 20 living hostages and the bodies of 30 more.During that time, food largely ran out for aid groups and in marketplaces, and experts warned Gaza was headed for an outright famine.In late May, Israel slightly eased the blockade. Since then, it has allowed in around 4,500 trucks for the UN and other aid groups to distribute, including 2,500 tons of baby food and high-calorie special food for children, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.That is an average of 69 trucks a day, far below the 500-600 trucks a day the UN says are needed. The UN has been unable to distribute much of the aid because hungry crowds and gangs take most of it from its trucks.The UN denies that Hamas siphons off significant quantities of aid. Humanitarian workers say Israel just needs to allow aid to flow in freely, saying looting stops whenever aid enters in large quantities.The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, of whom 50 are still held, among whom 20 are believed to be alive.

EZEK 39:4-20
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

Believed to be one of the oldest burial sites in the world-100,000-year-old burial site in Israel reveals complex rituals of early humans-Archaeologists find skeletons at Tinshemet Cave in north, along with pebbles, animal remains and a reddish pigment made from rocks, which experts think were part of burial practices By Melanie Lidman 24 July 2025, 8:26 pm

AP — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits.The findings at Tinshemet Cave in central Israel, published in an academic journal earlier this year, build on previous discoveries in northern Israel and add to a growing understanding of the origins of human burial.Of particular interest to archaeologists are objects found beside the remains that may have been used during ceremonies to honor the dead and could shed light on how our ancient ancestors thought about spirituality and the afterlife.“This is an amazing revolutionary innovation for our species,” said Yossi Zaidner, one of the directors of the Tinshemet excavation and a professor of archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It’s actually the first time we are starting to use this behavior.”Archaeologists working at Tinshemet since 2016 have discovered the remains of five early humans that date back to around 110,000 to 100,000 years ago, according to various technologies.The skeletons were discovered in pits and carefully arranged in a fetal position, which is known as a burial position, said Zaidner. Many were found with objects, such as basalt pebbles, animal remains, or fragments of ochre, a reddish pigment made from iron-rich rocks.These objects, some sourced from hundreds of kilometers (miles) away, had no known practical use for daily life, so experts believe they were part of rituals meant to honor the dead.A window into early human burials-Tinshemet Cave is a dark slash in central Israel’s rolling hills filled with squeaking fruit bats. Inside and around the cave is an unassuming stone mound, which Zaidner calls “one of the three or four most important sites for study of human evolution and behavior during the Paleolithic time.”The Paleolithic era, also known as the Stone Age because of the onset of stone tools, lasted from as early as 3.3 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago. Tinshemet Cave is from the Middle Paleolithic era, roughly between 250,000 to 30,000 years ago.Some of the Tinshemet researchers’ core findings were published in March in Nature Human Behavior. A key discovery was the remains of five early humans, including two full skeletons and three isolated skulls with other bones and teeth. Also of note were more than 500 differently sized fragments of red and orange ochre, a pigment created by heating iron-rich stones to a certain temperature — evidence that early humans had the means to create decorative objects.“Here we see a really complex set of behaviors, not related to just food and surviving,” Zaidner said.Using hand chisels and delicate, pen-sized pneumatic drills that resemble dental tools, archaeologists will need many more years to excavate the site. The field work, which started in 2016, is usually done over the summer months. This year, a dozen archaeology undergraduate and graduate students fanned out across the site, painstakingly documenting and removing each fragment of tool, object or bone.At the entrance to the cave, the skull of one of the early humans is slowly emerging from the rock sediment; it will be years before it is fully excavated. Tinshemet is exceptionally important to archaeologists because the local climate preserved the bones, tools, and ornaments in good condition, unlike many other parts of the world where these items were lost to time, said Christian Tryon, a professor at the University of Connecticut and a research associate at the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution, who was not involved in the study.The skeletons and objects were so well preserved because of ash from frequent fires, likely for rituals. This large amount of ash mixed with rainfall and Israel’s acidic limestone, creating optimal conditions for preservation. One skeleton was in such good condition that archaeologists could see how the fingers were interwoven, hands clasped beneath the head.A window into a little-known period-Tryon said the Tinshemet findings are bolstering earlier discoveries from two similar burial sites dating back to the same period in northern Israel — Skhul Cave and Qafzeh Cave. Skhul Cave was excavated almost 100 years ago, and Qafzeh Cave mostly around 50 years ago, when archaeological practices were more haphazard.“There were so many uncertainties with those sites, but this is confirming it’s a pattern we know, and they’re really nailing down the dates,” Tryon said.Tinshemet has helped archaeologists conclude that burial practices started to become more widespread during this time, representing a shift in how early humans treated their dead.Some archaeologists believe intentional burials started earlier. In South Africa, the Homo naledi species – an ancient cousin of Homo sapiens – may have been intentionally placing their dead in caves as early as 200,000 years ago. But many archaeologists said the findings are controversial and there is not enough evidence to support the claim of intentional burials.A bridge between peoples-In ancient times, Israel was a bridge between Neanderthals from Europe and Homo sapiens from Africa. Archaeologists have identified other subgroups of early humans in the area, and believe the groups interacted and may have interbred.Experts have been studying the two full skeletons brought from Tinshemet for years, but it’s still unclear if they were Neanderthals, Homo sapiens, a hybrid population or another group altogether.The mix of subgroups created opportunities for different groups of early humans to exchange knowledge or express identity, said Zaidner. It’s around this time that archaeologists first see examples of early jewelry or body painting, which could be ways early humans started outwardly belonging to a certain group, drawing boundaries between “us” and “them,” he said.Israel Hershkovitz, a physical anthropologist at Tel Aviv University and the co-director of the Tinshemet site, said the concept of cemeteries in prehistoric life is important because it symbolizes “a kind of a territory.”He said that same kind of claim over land where ancestors are buried still echoes in the region. “It’s a kind of claim you make to the neighbors, saying ‘this is my territory, this part of the land belongs to my father and my forefather’ and so on and so on.”