ISRAEL SENDING TO HELL FIRE FOREVER ISLAMIC DEATH CULT SEX FOR MURDERERS.

 ISRAEL SENDING TO HELL FIRE FOREVER ISLAMIC DEATH CULT SEX FOR MURDERERS.

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

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

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

Chose profit over 'basic counterterrorism obligations'Hundreds of Oct. 7 victims sue world’s biggest crypto exchange for Hamas money-laundering-US suit alleges Binance and its founder knowingly enabled multiple terror groups to move over $1B through its platform, including after massacre, and after paying earlier $4B fine-By Jonathan Stempel Today, 2:11 am-NOV 24,25

Reuters — Victims of Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel sued Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao, accusing them of facilitating millions of dollars in payments to the group and other US-designated terrorist groups.According to a complaint made public on Monday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange laundered money for Hamas even after pleading guilty in November 2023 and paying a $4.32 billion criminal penalty for violating federal anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws.The plaintiffs include 306 American victims of Hamas’s invasion and slaughter, including relatives of people killed, injured or taken hostage, and subsequent attacks by various groups.They accused Binance of knowingly enabling Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to move more than $1 billion through its platform, including more than $50 million after the October 7 onslaught.Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money-laundering violations in connection with Binance’s plea and served a four-month prison sentence. US President Donald Trump pardoned him on October 23.“Binance intentionally structured itself as a refuge for illicit activity,” the complaint said. “To this day, there is no indication that Binance has meaningfully altered its core business model.”In a statement, Binance declined to discuss the lawsuit but said “we comply fully with internationally recognized sanctions laws.” A lawyer representing Zhao in related litigation declined to comment.The lawsuit seeks compensatory and triple damages, among other remedies.According to the complaint, large sums of cryptocurrency went through accounts of people with no obvious financial means to explain them.They allegedly included a Venezuelan woman who appeared to operate a Brazilian livestock-related company, Fazenda Amazonia, or Amazonia Farm in English.Her account, opened in 2022 when she was 26, allegedly received more than $177 million in deposits, and more than $130 million in withdrawals were made, the complaint said.“When a company chooses profit over even the most basic counterterrorism obligations, it must be held accountable – and it will be,” Lee Wolosky, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement.The complaint was filed in North Dakota federal court. It said at least two suspicious transactions went through online addresses in Kindred, North Dakota, which has about 1,000 people.Binance and Zhao are separately defending against a lawsuit by other attack victims in Manhattan federal court. The lawsuit claims they provided a “clandestine” funding mechanism for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to raise money and transact illegal business for several years.A judge rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss that case in February.

Directive notably doesn't mention US allies Qatar or Turkey-Trump launches process aimed at potentially sanctioning Muslim Brotherhood-President orders cabinet members to present a report within 30 days on whether he should designate Brotherhood chapters in countries like Jordan, Lebanon or Egypt as terror groups By Jacob Magid-Today, 1:06 am-NOV 24,25

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday beginning the process of potentially designating certain country chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terror organizations.The directive stopped short of an actual designation, which will take more time, given that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a centralized organization with an international headquarters. Rather, chapters vary in ideology and politics depending on the country in which they are based.The executive order directs US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to submit a joint report within 30 days on whether to designate specific chapters, such as the ones in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).If the report concludes that such designations are warranted, the two secretaries will have 45 days to levy the sanctions, the executive order says.“The order’s ultimate aim is to eliminate the designated chapters’ capabilities and operations, deprive them of resources, and end any threat such chapters pose to US nationals and the national security of the United States,” read a statement from the White House.The White House claimed that the Lebanese wing of the Muslim Brotherhood helped terror groups launch multiple rocket attacks targeting Israel, while a senior member of the Egypt wing encouraged attacks against US allies in the Middle East hours after Hamas’s October 7 attack. Hamas began as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.The White House asserted that the Jordanian wing of the Brotherhood has also long provided support to the military wing of Hamas, which the US has already designated as an FTO.Notably, the executive order makes no mention of Qatar and Turkey, which both have had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but have also become close allies of the administration. Both countries have hosted exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders, albeit with the knowledge and sometimes urging of the US.A wide range of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations and charities operate in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party shares ideological affinities with the Brotherhood, even though the latter remains formally separate.Qatar has also historically been seen as a major backer of Muslim Brotherhood ideology via its diplomatic efforts and the media outlets that the government funds. However, there is no formal Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Qatar, and the organization’s members have faced limitations in recent years inside the country.It’s unclear how stridently the order will be upheld, even if specific chapters are designated.In February, Trump signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court over its efforts to prosecute Israeli and US officials. However, only three Palestinian human rights organizations were sanctioned for cooperating with those cases against Jerusalem and Washington, even though a wide range of organizations across the globe are believed to have assisted in the same effort.Regardless, the sanctioning of the Muslim Brotherhood will likely have a chilling effect on any organization considering doing business with local chapters around the globe who will think twice about the legal ramifications of such cooperation.Earlier Monday, the White House’s social media account on X posted, “TRUMP VOWS TO DESIGNATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” above a screenshot of an identically worded New York Post headline, which wasn’t in all-caps.On Sunday, the conservative outlet Just the News quoted Trump as having said in an interview that the move would “be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” and that “final documents are being drawn” up.Sunday’s report was quickly welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who indicated that he could follow suit. Netanyahu’s declaration was taken as a hint that he could ban the Islamist Ra’am party in Israel, which has denied links with the Muslim Brotherhood and decried the premier’s statement.Netanyahu sought to bring Ra’am into his coalition several years ago before talks broke down and the party, led by Mansour Abbas, decided to join the Bennett-Lapid government in 2021.Founded in 1928, the Brotherhood later established itself as the main Islamist opposition movement in Egypt, spread regionally with ardent offshoots from Tunisia to Turkey, and eventually, worldwide, with the terrorist group Hamas getting its start as the organization’s Palestinian branch.After the 2013 military overthrow of the elected Brotherhood Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist group was banned and deemed a terror group. The group is also banned in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Syria and Jordan.Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations.“This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down,” Abbott said on X.CAIR is one of the most prominent Muslim groups in the US. Abbott shared a proclamation that linked the designation to CAIR’s support for the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, the group’s past ties to a Hamas network in the US, and other issues.Agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Group leaders said favoring diplomacy, as Iran urges revenge-‘The Zionists should be worried’: Threats, anti-US chants at funeral of Hezbollah No. 2-Day after IDF assassination of Haytham Ali Tabatabai, thousands of supporters of terror group chant, ‘We will not leave our weapons,’ in defiance of year-old ceasefire’s terms By Noam Lehmann, Lazar Berman,Agencies and ToI Staff 24 November 2025, 11:31 pm

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered Monday in southern Beirut for the funeral of the Iran-backed terror group’s military chief, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, a day after he was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces in an airstrike in the Lebanese capital, with attendees threatening retaliation.Those present walked by Tabatabai’s coffin, draped in the group’s yellow flag, as it was carried through the crowd. The burial of Tabatabai and two other Hezbollah members took place in a cemetery in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a densely populated area where Hezbollah holds sway, in which the terrorist organization’s fighters are traditionally laid to rest.The crowd yelled slogans against Israel and the United States, while supporters carried portraits of Hezbollah’s leaders and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.“We will not leave our weapons! We will not leave our land!” the mourners chanted. Top Hezbollah political officials attended the funeral in person, but it was unclear if any military officials were present.Hezbollah executive council head Sheikh Ali Daamoush said Israel should be wary of Hezbollah’s response.Daamoush said: “The Zionists should be worried, because they’ve committed a grave crime against the resistance and against Lebanon.”Referring to a potential diplomatic resolution to the tensions, Daamoush said: “We won’t concern ourselves with any proposals as long as the enemy doesn’t commit to the ceasefire agreement” that Israel and Hezbollah reached a year ago. Israel has accused Hezbollah of breaching the accord and says its strikes against the terror group are meant to prevent it from rearming.Alluding to US and other countries’ pressure on Beirut to disarm Hezbollah, as outlined in the ceasefire agreement, Daamoush added: “It’s the state’s duty to defend its citizens and its sovereignty. The government needs to draw up plans for that and reject foreign diktats and pressure.”A Hezbollah supporter at the funeral, Fatima Shehadeh, told the Associated Press that “no matter how much blood is shed, we will never surrender, and we will never hand over the weapons of the resistance.”Israeli drones flew overhead during the funeral, Lebanese media reported, with footage showing the drones flying low over the area.Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides, sparked when the terror group began firing rockets and drones at northern Israel a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023.Tabatabai was considered second only to Secretary-General Naim Qassem in Hezbollah’s command structure. He was killed in a targeted airstrike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah’s main military and financial backer, called for “revenge” in a statement.“The right of the Axis of Resistance and Lebanese Hezbollah to avenge the blood of the brave fighters of Islam is unquestionable,” it said, referring to Iran’s regional network of terror proxies.In October 2024, Iran launched a missile barrage at Israel to avenge the killing of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other senior members. However, Iran has since been weakened by a 12-day war with Israel that saw nuclear sites and numerous other targets bombed, and scientists and officials killed.A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on condition of anonymity that there were “two opinions within the group — those who wish to respond to the assassination and those who want to refrain from doing so — but the leadership tends to adopt the utmost forms of diplomacy at the present stage.”Later Monday, Channel 12 cited unnamed security officials as similarly saying Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem was at a crossroads over how to respond.Sources close to Hezbollah reportedly said the organization currently lacks the capability to launch a significant response, though they warned that the next conflict with Israel was “only a matter of time.”According to the report, Israel has told the Lebanese government that it will continue efforts to weaken Hezbollah, urging cooperation in eradicating the group from the south of the Litani River and across Lebanon.While Israel remains on high alert in the north, there has been no change in guidelines for Israeli residents.Also on Monday, France’s foreign ministry expressed “deep concern” over the assassination, saying that it “increases the risk of escalation in an already highly tense situation.”“France calls on all sides to exercise restraint,” the ministry continued in a statement. “It emphasizes the importance of using the ceasefire monitoring mechanism, which is designed for reporting threats. This framework, which all sides have recognized, is essential for preventing unilateral actions and ensuring the security of the civilian population in Lebanon and Israel, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement of November 27, 2024.”Meanwhile, IDF artillery strikes were reported in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar reported that Israel launched munitions at the area of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, causing fires.There was no immediate comment from the IDF.Israel has been escalating its strikes on Hezbollah in recent weeks, accusing the terror group of violating the year-old ceasefire and increasingly attempting to rebuild its capabilities, and expressing frustration at lagging Lebanese efforts to disarm the group.Israel says that under the terms of the ceasefire, it has the right to strike at Hezbollah threats.

Israeli forces in Nablus kill Palestinian behind deadly car-ramming attack last year-After killing two soldiers outside West Bank city in May 2024, assailant handed himself in to the PA, which later freed him from custody By Emanuel Fabian-24 November 2025, 11:29 pm

A Palestinian assailant accused of being behind a deadly car-ramming attack in May 2024 was killed by counterterrorism police in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday evening, the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet, and Israel Police said.On May 29, 2024, Abdel-Raouf Shatyeh rammed his vehicle into an Israeli army post just outside Nablus, killing two soldiers: Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel, and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj, both 20-year-old infantrymen in the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion.During a raid on Monday night, officers of the police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit closed in on a building in eastern Nablus where Shatyeh was holed up.After it emerged that he was armed, the troops opened fire on the building, and later, using a drone, identified that he had been killed, police said.The IDF and Shin Bet said that they had been working to track down Shatyeh since he fled the scene of the attack in 2024.After the attack, Shatyeh fled to Nablus and initially turned himself over to the Palestinian Authority’s security forces. However, instead of being handed over to Israel, he was freed from the PA’s custody, and he had been wanted ever since.In addition, several “accomplices” who were working with Shatyeh were detained by IDF soldiers in Nablus, the military added.Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023.More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the PA health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.During the same period, 63 others, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in clashes during raids in Palestinian cities in the West Bank.The same period has also seen a major surge in attacks by settler extremists on Palestinians across the West Bank.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announces end of operations in Strip after 5 months-Head of controversial aid distributor says group aimed to produce new approach for handing out aid, claims ceasefire oversight mechanism to adopt model By Jacob Magid-24 November 2025, 7:59 pm

The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) confirmed on Monday that it has wrapped up its operations in the Strip after a rocky five-month tenure distributing aid in the war-torn enclave.“From the outset, GHF’s goal was to meet an urgent need, prove that a new approach could succeed where others had failed, and ultimately hand off that success to the broader international community. With the creation of the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and a rejuvenated engagement of the international humanitarian community, GHF believes that moment has now arrived,” GHF’s executive director, John Acree, said in a statement.The Times of Israel revealed last month that GHF was undergoing financial woes and was boxed out of humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire took effect.Acree claimed that the CMCC, the US, and the Israeli-led mechanism that monitors the ceasefire will be adopting GHF’s model of humanitarian aid distribution, which sought to prevent Hamas from diverting aid by handing it out at militarized hubs separate from the civilian population.While technically an American organization, Israeli officials and business leaders with links to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government were closely involved in the GHF’s establishment, according to sources familiar with the matter.Israel has long accused Hamas of co-opting humanitarian assistance and argued that the goal of GHF was to exclude the terror group from aid distribution by setting up sites in areas cleared and controlled by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu said Israel’s goal was for GHF to eventually become the sole provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza, replacing the UN and other international agencies that Jerusalem says Hamas exploits.But GHF’s rollout was marred by near-daily reports of shootings by IDF troops at Palestinians seeking to reach the aid distribution sites, with the UN saying that over 1,000 people were killed in those incidents. The IDF has stated that the death tolls have been inflated, that its troops only fired warning shots at those who posed a threat to troops, and that Hamas operatives and other gunmen were also opening fire at crowds of aid seekers.The deadly incidents outside GHF sites began to decrease toward the end of the summer, and the aid group has managed to distribute what it says were over 187 million meals to Gazans. There are some 2 million people in Gaza.But by September, it was only distributing a small fraction of the aid entering Gaza, and pledges by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee that GHF would scale up its operations from three to 16 sites never materialized.Aid organizations and much of the international community opposed GHF, criticizing it for requiring Gazans to walk long distances in order to pick up boxes of dry food products that needed to be prepared elsewhere in the Strip, where cooking fuel and equipment have been scarce. But GHF’s defenders argued that the group played an important role when the UN and other aid organizations were plagued by corruption and constant looting.Israel has increased the amount of aid entering Gaza since the ceasefire, with an average of over 800 trucks entering the Strip every day, according to officers at the CMCC last week.However, food is being distributed by aid agencies under the original UN-backed model.There are almost daily attempts by Hamas to commandeer some of the aid, according to CMCC staffers, but the number of incidents is declining

ToI in Gaza'Either they surrender or we'll kill them'IDF vows to hunt down dozens of Hamas fighters still holed up in Rafah-Gunmen believed to be short on supplies after being trapped for months under what is now Israeli side of Yellow Line; IDF says it destroyed hundreds of meters of tunnels in area By Emanuel Fabian 24 November 2025, 5:00 pm

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Dozens of Hamas operatives remain trapped in an area of the southern Gaza Strip that is under Israeli control, military commanders told reporters on Sunday, vowing that they would hunt them all down.“Our main mission is to destroy or capture the enemy in Rafah,” Col. Adi Gonen, the commander of the Golani Brigade, said in the southern Gaza city’s Jenina neighborhood.The Hamas operatives trapped on the Israeli side of the so-called “Yellow Line” — separating Gaza in accordance with the October ceasefire agreement — are believed by the military to have been there since the collapse of a previous truce in the Strip earlier this year.Since the start of the latest ceasefire, the United States has been pressuring Israel to allow the gunmen safe passage back to Hamas-held areas of Gaza.The operatives are not all located in a single tunnel, but rather split up among several in the Jenina neighborhood, according to IDF assessments. The military believes that they are being led by a Hamas battalion commander and several company commanders in the terror group.The IDF does not know exactly how many gunmen remain in the area. Some early assessments put that number at 200, but now the military believes that number to be far lower, saying dozens of the operatives likely died in the tunnels following Israeli strikes on them.On Monday, the military reported that in the past week, combat engineers had destroyed hundreds of meters of tunnels in the area, and the Israeli Air Force struck over 60 targets — including 15 tunnel shafts and some 40 buildings used by terror groups.Those who have survived after months of holding out in the tunnels — likely several dozen — are thought by the IDF to be running out of supplies and starving.At times, the Hamas gunmen have tried to sneak up above ground to search for food, such as bags of flour that had fallen off aid trucks, or supplies left behind by the army.Recently, military officials said that the operatives have been increasingly trying to flee back to Hamas-held areas of the Strip.A week ago, IDF troops spotted and shot dead four operatives who emerged from a tunnel in the area. In an incident over the weekend, 17 gunmen emerged from tunnels at two locations in the Jenina area, and were either killed or captured.“Our main mission is to continue to try to locate them in the area. Most of them are underground. Some of them try to come out of the ground. We are working day and night with different techniques to locate them,” Gonen said.“It’s simple, either they surrender or we’ll kill them,” the commander vowed.

IDF on alert as Hezbollah weighs response to military chief’s killing-No change in Home Front guidelines to public as Air Force bolsters defense systems in north against possible rocket fire; IDF holds snap drill to test readiness for surprise attack By Emanuel Fabian-24 November 2025, 12:35 pm

In the wake of the killing of Hezbollah’s military chief in Beirut on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces geared up for a potential response by the Iran-backed group, though there was no change in the guidelines for civilians.The Israeli Air Force bolstered air defenses in the north for possible rocket fire by Hezbollah from Lebanon, and has also raised its level of alert, military sources said Monday.However, the military had no specific information indicating that Hezbollah was planning a rocket barrage.The Home Front Command, meanwhile, did not issue any changes to its guidelines for civilians.Haytham Ali Tabatabai was the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a ceasefire in November 2024 that sought to end more than a year of hostilities that began with cross-border attacks by the terror group, including rocket fire at communities.Tabatabai was considered second only to Secretary-General Naim Qassem in Hezbollah’s command structure. He was killed in a targeted airstrike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.Iran on Monday slammed Israel over the killing of Tabatabai.“The Iranian foreign ministry strongly condemns the cowardly assassination of the great commander of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance, the martyr Haytham Ali Tabatabai,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.The killing “constitutes a flagrant violation of the November 2024 US-brokered ceasefire and a brutal breach of Lebanon’s national sovereignty,” it said.Hezbollah rocket fire at the north of the country, which began the day after the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, forced the evacuation of 60,000 residents and caused widespread damage to some communities. The escalation in the north led to all-out war in September 2024, in which Israel decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and arsenal.Israel has been escalating its strikes on Hezbollah in recent weeks, accusing the terror group of violating the year-old ceasefire and increasingly attempting to rebuild its capabilities, and expressing frustration at lagging Lebanese efforts to disarm the group.An unnamed Israeli security source told the Saudi-based Al-Hadath outlet that with just a few days of warfare, Hezbollah could be significantly weakened for many years. The source said that the Lebanese government is not going to deal with disarming Hezbollah, as it has committed to do, and that Israel will not sit back and wait. The source stressed that if Israel does not act against Hezbollah by the end of the year, the terror group could launch a surprise attack on the country.Israel says that under the terms of the ceasefire, it has the right to strike at Hezbollah threats.Meanwhile Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announced a snap drill aimed at testing the military’s readiness for various scenarios, starting with sudden developments on the northern border.The IDF said the drill will last several days and will “assess and improve the IDF’s readiness for a range of scenarios.”The drill opened with an inspection of the 210th “Bashan” Regional Division — responsible for the border with Syria in the Golan Heights and the Mount Dov area on the border with Lebanon — to examine their readiness for an unexpected incident, the military said.Zamir visited the 210th Division on Monday morning, according to the IDF. In addition to inspecting the drill, the military said Zamir was updated on the army’s preparations on the Lebanon border, and he instructed troops to increase their level of alert following the killing of Tabatabai.The military said situation assessments and decision-making processes would be checked at all levels as part of the drill, along with the activation of troops and the management of forces on the battlefield.The IDF warned that there may be sounds of explosions and an increased presence of military forces and aircraft in the Golan Heights during the drill.The exercise was pre-planned, according to the IDF, apparently indicating that it was not due to a change in circumstances after the slaying of Tabatabai the day before.

As pope heads to Turkey, Christian community still battling inequality, exclusion-Christians struggle to achieve representation under Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted government, with many civil service positions closed to them despite no legal ban on non-Muslims By Burcin Gercek 24 November 2025, 10:11 am

ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Despite some progress in restoring their rights, Christians in Turkey are still struggling against inequality and a sense of exclusion as Pope Leo XIV visits the country this week.“In Turkey, 99 percent of the population is Muslim,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan often likes to say of his officially secular Muslim-majority nation of 86 million people.“Every time he says that I feel excluded because he always fails to mention the non-Muslim minorities,” said Yuhanna Aktas, president of the Assyrian Union, which represents Assyrian Christians in southeastern Turkey.“We are not seen as full citizens.”Historians say there are around 100,000 Christians in Turkey today, compared to nearly four million at the start of the 20th century, with the numbers falling significantly due to forced exile or massacres as the Ottoman Empire crumbled and modern Turkey emerged.When Pope Leo visits, he will meet with local Christian leaders at Istanbul’s Assyrian Orthodox Mor Ephrem church, which was inaugurated just two years ago.Although the land was granted by the state, it is the only new church built in Turkey since it became a republic in 1923.Christian minorities have also struggled to achieve representation, with many civil service positions closed to them despite no legal ban on non-Muslim minorities holding office.“The only non-Muslim senior official in Turkey today is a local administrator from the Armenian community,” said Yetvart Danzikyan, editor-in-chief of the Armenian weekly Agos.“This lone example sums up the civil rights situation.”‘The enemies inside’For decades after Turkey became a republic, Christians and Jews were regularly described by certain government officials and media outlets as “the enemies inside” and were targeted by discrimination and violence — even into the early 2000s.And the word “Armenian” is still sometimes used as an insult.In its 2024 report on Turkey, the London-based Minority Rights Group (MRG) said “non-Muslims were constantly discriminated against because the promoters of Turkish nationalism considered them incapable of becoming Turks due to their religious identity.”Laki Vingas, founder of a Greek community support group called Rumvader, said the government had been attempting to address that.“For 20 years, both the state and ourselves have been striving to fix the injustices of the past. This process is not yet complete, but at least we have no difficulty meeting with the authorities,” he told AFP.At the same time, certain unnerving events have left the community on edge, such as the growing shift towards conservative nationalism under Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted government, Danzikyan said.Violence-There has been violence: Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul in 2007, and four years later, a young Armenian was murdered while doing his military service.In 2020, Armenians faced threats during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and in 2024, two gunmen burst into a Catholic church in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring another.Another unsettling development was the controversial decision to convert Istanbul’s iconic 4th-century Hagia Sophia basilica from museum to mosque in 2020, said Danzikyan.“At the same time, there’s talk about reopening the Greek Orthodox seminary,” he said of an Istanbul theological college closed in 1971, depriving the church of its only facility for training clergy in Turkey.Blocked for years, the matter was raised by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the White House in September, with US President Donald Trump pledging his help, raising hopes it could soon be reopened.Observers also say society has progressively opened up over the past 20 years, with Turkish civil society more willing to commemorate the Armenian genocide — a term firmly rejected by Ankara — despite a ban on such gatherings in public spaces.“More and more people are asking questions instead of holding onto their prejudices,” Vingas said, hailing the emergence of “a much more open society, mainly in Istanbul,” where most of Turkey’s Christians live.

Analysis-After weeks of warnings over slow Hezbollah disarmament, Israel shows it’s ready to escalate-Backed by the US, the IDF put firepower behind its threats with Sunday’s hit on the senior terrorist; Hezbollah is unlikely to retaliate, but also won’t be giving up its weapons By Lazar Berman-24 November 2025, 9:58 am

Israel’s dramatic strike on Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in Beirut on Sunday should not come as a particular surprise.The assassination came after a series of warnings from Jerusalem and Washington that the Israel Defense Forces would intensify its air campaign if Lebanon did not move much more quickly to disarm the Shiite terrorist group.Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned publicly that Israel would do whatever was necessary to keep Hezbollah from rearming, after the terror group was battered by the Jewish state last year.“We expect the Lebanese government to uphold its commitments, namely, to disarm Hezbollah. But it’s clear that we’ll exercise our right to self-defense as stipulated in the ceasefire terms,” said the premier. “We won’t let Lebanon become a renewed front against us, and we’ll do what’s necessary.”A senior IDF official recently told Channel 12 news that stepped-up airstrikes in recent weeks were a “preview” of what Lebanon would face if it did not enhance its disarmament campaign.“If the Lebanese army does not disarm Hezbollah and fails to meet the demands of the ceasefire,” said the officer. “Israel, with US backing, will attack Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including in Beirut.”On Sunday, Israel appeared to make good on those threats, killing Hezbollah’s second-in-command Tabatabai and dramatically escalating already building tensions, apparently with Washington’s blessing.While there are significant gaps between Israel and the US on Gaza, on Lebanon there seems to be consensus between the allies. They both recognize that the deterrent effects of Hezbollah’s military defeat last year are starting to wear off, and that if another war is to be avoided, both Lebanon’s government and Hezbollah need to take the possibility of a significant Israeli military operation seriously.A senior American official told Channel 12 Sunday that the US is “pleased with the elimination of the number two in Hezbollah.”“We think it’s a wonderful thing. Yalla, mazal tov, mabruk,” said the official.According to the IDF, after the end of the fighting in November 2024, Tabatabai was officially appointed as the military chief of staff in the terror group.“He led Hezbollah’s renewed efforts to rearm,” charged Netanyahu on Sunday.“Israel will not allow Hezbollah to rebuild its power,” he stressed. “I expect the Government of Lebanon to fulfill its commitment to disarm Hezbollah.”Not quite disarmed-Israel has been striking Hezbollah targets since the November 2024 ceasefire, in an attempt to stop imminent threats and to further degrade the group’s weapons stocks.Under the terms of the 2024 ceasefire deal, which followed fighting that broke out on October 8, 2023, and escalated into all-out war a year later, Hezbollah was required to vacate southern Lebanon and be replaced by the Lebanese military.“Lebanon’s official military and security forces, infrastructure, and weaponry will be the only armed groups, arms, and related materiel deployed in the southern Litani area,” reads the ceasefire agreement.Israel also received a “side letter” of guarantees from the US, in which Washington affirmed and detailed Israel’s right to defend itself against renewed threats.Lebanon’s pro-Western president, Joseph Aoun, has been challenged with finding a way to disarm Hezbollah without pushing the powerful Iranian proxy too hard and sparking a civil war.On Friday, Aoun said that a state monopoly on weapons was inevitable, and urged a committee supervising the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to ensure Lebanon’s army was the only armed presence in the country’s south.In August, his government instructed the army to come up with a plan to eradicate weapons outside state control by year’s end. In September, LAF Commander Rodolphe Haykal presented a five-stage plan to disarm Hezbollah, starting with a three-month effort south of the Litani River, the part of the country along the Israeli frontier.It is not that the army hasn’t been working on that mission. It has successfully removed nearly 10,000 rockets, almost 400 missiles, and over 205,000 unexploded ordnance fragments during the past year. according to the US Central Command.Lebanon’s army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, sources recently told Reuters.But the campaign is not likely to solve the problem of Hezbollah arms. The LAF has operated only south of the Litani, and it is questionable whether the campaign will get to the subsequent stages further north, where Hezbollah’s strategic weapons are stored.Hezbollah sent a letter this month to Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salaf, and Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri decrying potential negotiations with Israel and arguing that disarmament north of the Litani “was neither stipulated in the ceasefire declaration, nor can ever be accepted or imposed.”Even in the south, it is unclear what exactly the army has destroyed, as it does not publish images or detailed reports of its operations.Hezbollah itself says it will not disarm. Secretary-General Naim Qassem has accused the Aoun government of “serving the Israeli project” and issued not especially subtle threats about a civil war, a potent threat for a country still recovering from its last internecine conflict.Not only is Hezbollah refusing to give up its current stocks, it also seems to be energetically restocking its supplies.Hezbollah is “rebuilding its armaments and battered ranks,” including replenishing its rocket, antitank missile, and artillery supply, The Wall Street Journal reported recently.Will Hezbollah answer? The question now is whether the elimination of Tabatabai means that Israel is at the start of a significant escalation in Lebanon.Much depends on how Hezbollah reacts. It has been surprisingly passive in the face of a year of Israeli strikes, losing over 300 fighters after the ceasefire was signed. Nor did Hezbollah respond to Israel’s devastating strikes on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs in June.Based on the group’s tepid response Sunday  — that it would “coordinate” a response with the Lebanese government — it doesn’t appear that Hezbollah has decided that now is the time to change its calculus.But at some point, the need to save face will likely force the Shiite militia to react in some way.Israel may still expand its campaign and initiate a broad wave of airstrikes if it doesn’t see any change in the Lebanese government’s behavior. It doesn’t face a deterrent threat from Iran or Gaza, and appears to have enough legitimacy in the eyes of US President Donald Trump.The planned visit of Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon a week from now is likely the only major factor holding Israel back.A bombing campaign that causes civilian suffering ahead of the pontiff’s visit would represent a public relations disaster for Israel in the West.It could also undermine support for Israel in Trump’s circles, which include a significant number of conservative Catholics in his second term.But even the pontiff cannot stop the bombast now emanating from Jerusalem.“Israel is determined to act to achieve its goals, in any place and at any time,” said Netanyahu on Sunday.“We will continue to act forcefully to prevent any threat to the residents of the north and the State of Israel,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said following the strike. “Whoever raises a hand against Israel — that hand will be cut off.”He and Netanyahu, Katz added, are “determined to continue the policy of maximum enforcement in Lebanon and everywhere else.”Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report. 

Venezuela says US terrorist designation a 'ridiculous lie'.

Caracas, Nov 25 (AFP) Nov 25, 2025-Venezuela on Monday rejected the US terrorist designation of an alleged drug cartel on its territory as a "ridiculous lie" aimed at paving the way for an "illegitimate" military intervention.A major US military build-up near Venezuela has led to speculation that President Donald Trump is planning to try to topple Venezuela' Socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.Washington accuses Maduro of heading an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel, "Cartel de los Soles" (Cartel of the Suns), which the United States on Monday designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).Venezuela's foreign ministry on Monday rejected what it called "the new and ridiculous lie from Secretary of State Marco Rubio" which it said aimed "to justify an illegitimate and illegal intervention against Venezuela."On Tuesday, the top US military officer, Dan Caine, will visit the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, a US ally situated a few miles from Venezuela that recently hosted US troops for training exercises.The US embassy said that the visit by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff would focus on "countering illicit trafficking and transnational criminal organizations."The visit is part of a months-long campaign of maximum pressure on Maduro, whose reelection last year was widely dismissed by the international community as fraudulent.Maduro appeared at two public events on Monday without mentioning the designation, instead reiterating that Venezuela will remain triumphant."Whatever they do, wherever they do it, however they do it, they will not be able to defeat Venezuela. We are invincible," Maduro said during his weekly television program.The US has deployed the world's largest aircraft carrier and other military forces to waters near Venezuela as part of a stated campaign to dismantle Latin American drug trafficking routes.The Trump administration claims that the Cartel of the Suns is a drug trafficking syndicate run by Maduro and has issued a $50 million reward for the president's capture.But Venezuela and countries that support it insist no such organization even exists.Several Venezuela experts say what Washington calls the Cartel of the Suns refers to the corruption of senior officials by criminal gangs.- Flights cancelled -US forces have killed at least 83 people in strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs from Latin America towards the United States since September, according to an AFP tally of publicly released figures.No evidence has been made public that drugs were on board, and experts say the strikes are likely illegal even if the targets were proven to be drug traffickers.The terrorism designation will give Washington legal cover for more pressure on the Venezuelan authorities.The Trump administration has been vague about how far it is willing to go in Venezuela, but the huge military build-up and regular killings of people in small boats have rattled nerves -- and prompted concerns in Washington that the US military may be breaking the law.On Saturday, six airlines announced they were canceling flights to Venezuela due to safety concerns.The US Federal Aviation Administration on Friday urged civilian aircraft in Venezuelan airspace to "exercise caution" due to the "worsening security situation and heightened military activity in or around Venezuela."burs-cb/jgc/sla

Chinese humanoid robot's three-day walk sets world record.

Shanghai, Nov 24 (AFP) Nov 24, 2025-A Chinese robot has stepped into the Guinness World Records after completing a three-day, 100-kilometre trek, the longest reported distance ever walked by a humanoid machine.The 169-centimetre (five foot six inch) AgiBot A2 set off from the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou on the evening of November 10, traversing highways and city streets before arriving at Shanghai's historic waterfront Bund area on November 13, according to Guinness World Records.Shanghai-based robot maker AgiBot said its two-legged ambler "navigated varied surfaces... all while adhering to traffic regulations" during its continuous 106.286-kilometre (66-mile) journey, which was certified as the first feat of its kind on Thursday.Video clips published by AgiBot showed the silver-and-black A2 trudging along a road past cyclists and scooters, before picking up its pace and marching down the Bund in front of the Shanghai skyline.The world's tech firms are pouring massive sums into physical AI, with Morgan Stanley predicting that the world could have more than a billion humanoid robots by 2050.The Chinese government has encouraged domestic firms to develop humanoids, in the hopes of leading the global robotics industry.Beijing hosted the world's first-ever humanoid robot games in August, where more than 500 "athletes" vied in disciplines ranging from basketball to competitive cleaning.AgiBot says the A2 is designed for customer service roles, and is equipped with a chat function and lip-reading capabilities.

Ink-credible-Meter-long squid washes up on northern Israeli beach-Rarely seen in Israel, the flying neon squid specimen offers ‘a small glimpse of a wonderful world hidden from us,’ says marine expert who spotted it half-buried in the sand By Sue Surkes-Today, 1:21 am-NOV 24,25

A roughly meter-long (3.3 feet) dead squid, half buried in the sand, caught the eye of a marine expert Sunday as he walked along a northern Israeli beach.Bar Sternbach, who coordinates marine projects at the Society for the Protection of Nature — including its SeaWatch application — spotted what was later identified as a specimen of flying neon squid at the Kfar Galim beach near Haifa.Upon noticing something red in the sand, he approached and identified tentacles. “I started digging around it, and couldn’t believe what appeared in front of me — the largest squid I’ve ever seen. It was about a meter long, lifeless, of course,” he told Channel 12.The average length of a neon squid is closer to half a meter (1.6 feet).“As someone who spends a lot of time on beaches and in the sea, it was amazing to see it for the first time. I took a picture and reported it on the SeaWatch app,” which gave a specific identification for the squid, Sternbach said.“It’s hard for us to imagine the richness and diversity of life in the sea, and here, walking on the beach, we got a small glimpse of a wonderful world hidden from us,” he added.The species Ommastrephes bartramii is common in most of the world’s seas and oceans, but it is relatively rare in the Mediterranean.It swims quickly and can shoot out of the water, like a flying fish, for reasons biologists still do not fully understand. It lives for around a year.It feeds on small fish, crustaceans, and even other squid, playing a significant role in the ecological balance of open waters. Its main predators — which it tries to confuse by shooting out ink — are larger marine mammals, big fish, and sharks.The species migrates over vast distances during the seasons, rising to shallow water layers at night to hunt. It reproduces by releasing large balls of eggs. Shortly after spawning, it dies.

EU pushing for Palestinians, ‘especially Gazans,’ to be included at US-led Gaza ceasefire HQ – official By Nava Freiberg-24 November 2025, 11:16 pm

The European Union is pushing for the inclusion of Palestinian representatives – “especially Gazans” – at the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, where dozens of nations are monitoring the Gaza ceasefire, a senior European official tells The Times of Israel.According to the official, who has direct knowledge of the issue, “The thing that’s missing from the CMCC as far as the EU is concerned is that there’s no Gazans there, there’s no Palestinians. So they’re talking about the future of Gaza without any Palestinian input.”The official says that EU officials are currently “trying to persuade the people at the CMCC who are implementing the Trump plan to take account of Palestinian views,” by involving Palestinians in the discussions about the future of the Strip under US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan.Asked if any specific Palestinian candidates have been suggested as representatives, the official says not yet, noting that the US and Middle Eastern mediating countries “are still putting together candidates” for the committee of Palestinian technocrats to be responsible for the postwar management of Gaza under the peace plan.The New York Times reported last week that the absence of formal Palestinian representation at the center has prompted criticism among some diplomats and aid workers.

Based in US or Nigeria? Musk's X erupts over location feature.

Washington, Nov 25 (AFP) Nov 25, 2025-Elon Musk's X erupted in uproar after the rollout of a feature revealing an account's location, exposing what users describe as global troll farms and influence operations on the platform -- including in support of Donald Trump.X's head of product Nikita Bier launched the feature over the weekend, allowing users "to see the country or region where an account is based," in a bid to boost transparency on a platform that tech experts say is rife with disinformation."This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square," Bier wrote on X.The launch triggered a wave of online sleuthing.Almost immediately, the platform flooded with posts flagging dozens of right-wing internet personalities -- promoters of Trump's "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) or "America First" political slogans -- whose location data showed they were in Nigeria, Bangladesh, or Eastern Europe.Influential pro-Trump accounts that present themselves as US-based but actually operate overseas have circulated 31 false claims over the past 15 months -- including allegations of Democratic corruption -- according to a NewsGuard analysis using the location feature.The feature also seemed to vindicate researchers who warned during last year's US presidential election that a network of MAGA accounts -- posing as "Trump-supporting independent women" and using stolen photos of European models and influencers -- was operating overseas."X's new account info showed many of these 'American' women were actually based in Thailand, with some tied to Myanmar," Benjamin Strick, the London-based director of investigations at the Centre for Information Resilience, told AFP."Before this change we could show these profiles were fake, but we had almost no visibility on where they were run from, and often had to rely on 'slip ups' posted by the accounts, time posting patterns and irregularities in language."Now we can see that many of the accounts in this specific network are linked to Southeast Asia, which brings us closer to understanding who might be behind them," Strick added.- 'Rough edges' -Reflecting a hyperpolarized political climate, some right-wing personalities also pointed fingers at left-wing users seemingly posting from suspicious locations.X, however, cautioned that the location data "may not be accurate and can change periodically."When users clicked on an account's location, a pop up noted: "The country or region that an account is based can be impacted by recent travel or temporary relocation."Some users may also be connected via a VPN that can mask their real location."There are a few rough edges that will be resolved by Tuesday," Bier wrote after the feature's launch.Late Sunday, Bier said an "upgrade" was upcoming that will ensure "accuracy will be nearly 99.99%"Some users criticized the launch, warning that it could expose the locations of dissidents and protestors in autocratic states. Bier, however, said that for users in countries "where speech has penalties," the feature includes privacy toggles that reveal only the region.Soon after the launch, some apparent imposter accounts with vast followings were suddenly taken down.One X handle posing as a fan account for Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, was suspended after users noted that its location was listed as Nigeria.The account, which had amassed one million followers, regularly posted pro-Trump content as well as Islamophobic and anti-immigration messages.As tech platforms scale back content moderation and reduce their reliance on human fact-checkers, disinformation researchers warn of a growing threat from Russian and Chinese actors seeking to sow political chaos in Western countries -- as well as from overseas influencers driven by the prospect of monetary gain.The new feature "shines a light on a fundamental problem with social media today: paid actors are deliberately inflaming difficult issues because controversy attracts attention," Amy Bruckman, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told AFP."It's a difficult situation, and I believe we need more trustworthy platforms that don't allow people to behave badly."Last month, X laid off half of its engineering team responsible for fighting influence operations, spam, and illegal content on the platform, reflecting a push to replace staff with artificial intelligence, The Information reported on Monday.X did not respond to AFP's request for comment.burs-ac/jgc.