JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET
SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO
OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 62 APR 30,26 - TEXAS STORMS.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
Knesset panel advances measure lowering bar to
compensate workers furloughed by Iran war-Following pressure from
business groups, government set to agree to shorten qualifying period
for entitlement to unpaid leave compensation from 10 days to 5 By Sharon
Wrobel-Today, 12:21 am-APR 30,26
Bowing to pressure from
business organizations, the government is set to agree to shorten the
minimum qualifying period for employees to receive benefits for unpaid
leave during the war with Iran.According to the revised compensation
framework, the government will agree to reduce the minimum leave period
that entitles furloughed private sector workers to receive 75% of their
full salary. The period will now be five consecutive days, down from 10
days.The amendment will cost the government about NIS 500 million ($168
million), the source of which has yet to be determined, according to the
Finance Ministry.The government backed down after the Finance Ministry
came under fierce criticism from employees and employer associations,
lamenting that the previous unpaid leave framework did not go far
enough. It left out earners who did not work during the first five days
of the Iran war and were furloughed due to security restrictions that
shut down the economy, but returned after the Home Front guidelines were
eased.The amendment to the unpaid leave outline and a framework to
compensate businesses whose revenues were hurt during the war with Iran
were approved by the Knesset Finance Committee late on Wednesday and are
expected to be submitted for final passage in the Knesset plenum early
next week.“There is an agreement that the first five days of the war, in
which workers could not work because the economy was closed, will be
recognized for unpaid leave benefits,” said Knesset Finance Committee
chairman MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud). “This is a dramatic development,
which was a result of the prime minister and the finance minister’s
understanding of the situation, and was done with their encouragement
and agreement and in cooperation with us.”For the first five days after
Israel and the US jointly launched the war against Iran on February 28,
most of the economy, except for essential businesses, was shut down.
While Home Front Command restrictions for workplaces were eased on March
5 to allow the economy to get back on its feet, some businesses
remained shut, particularly in the retail sector, and many workers were
unable to fully return to the workforce because schools in most places
remained closed under continuing missile fire.As in previous rounds of
war, the government has formulated a plan to compensate employees put on
unpaid leave, as well as a compensation framework to provide partial
financial relief to businesses whose revenues have been hurt by the
recent war with Iran.The current framework will compensate businesses
with an annual turnover of up to NIS 400 million ($134.5 million), which
suffered a decline of at least 25 percent, similar to the model applied
during previous wars. Those businesses can apply for reimbursement of
between 22% to 44% of fixed expenses, depending on their revenue
decline, and for up to 75% of salary costs of employees.Business owners
located in northern front communities, including the Golan Heights, the
Upper Galilee, Safed, Karmiel and Rosh Pina, will be entitled to claim
full compensation depending on revenue decline.While the government
agreed to the demand to shorten the qualifying period for entitlement to
unpaid leave payments, the Finance Ministry decided to tighten
conditions for businesses’ eligibility for reimbursement for salary
expenses.Employers who furloughed employees will only be entitled to
claim compensation for salary costs if an employee was put on unpaid
leave for a maximum of 10 days during the month of March.In practice,
that means that an employer who put an employee on unpaid leave for 11
days or more during the Iran war will not be entitled to receive
compensation for salary expenses after the employee returns to work,
even though business revenue was impacted.
US president appears
to confuse Iran with Ukraine-After rejecting Iran’s proposal to open
Hormuz, Trump says talks ongoing over the phone-US president: Iran
‘choking like a stuffed pig’; Iranian parliament speaker says Trump
imposing blockade to make Iran ‘collapse from within’; Hegseth: War has
cost $25 billion-By Lazar Berman,Jacob Magid,Agencies and ToI Staff 29
April 2026, 11:44 pm
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday
that talks with Iran have been taking place over the phone in recent
days, after he canceled a trip over the weekend for US negotiators to
travel to Pakistan to speak with Iranian officials.He made the comments
hours after rejecting an Iranian proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz
and lift Washington’s blockade on Iran while pushing off nuclear talks
to a later date. He had insisted that Tehran would have to agree to give
up its nuclear ambitions if it wished to bring the war to an
end.Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared before the
US Congress to defend the war and dismiss accusations that the Trump
administration had led the US into a “quagmire.” He said the war has so
far cost the US $25 billion.Trump, speaking to Axios on Wednesday,
stressed that the US would not lift its blockade of Iranian ports until a
nuclear deal is reached.“They want to settle,” he said. “They don’t
want me to keep the blockade. I don’t want to [end the blockade] because
I don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.”“The blockade is somewhat
more effective than the bombing,” Trump assessed. “They are choking like
a stuffed pig. And it is going to be worse for them. They can’t have a
nuclear weapon.”Iran’s energy infrastructure is going to “explode soon”
if it isn’t able to export oil, the president predicted.Later, while
taking questions in the Oval Office, Trump claimed that Iran had moved
closer to Washington’s positions in recent conversations, but said the
question was “whether they will go far enough.”At this moment, there
will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear
weapons,” Trump said.The president declined to clarify whether the talks
that he said were being held remotely were being conducted through
mediators, as is assumed to be the case.He argued, as he has previously
done, that it is not necessary for his negotiators to fly all the way to
Pakistan, which hosted previous talks, in order to hold discussions
that can be conducted over the phone.Yet despite his assessment that the
blockade was doing more to pressure Iran than the roughly six-week
bombing campaign launched by Israel and the US on February 28, Axios
reported that the president had not entirely ruled out the possibility
of returning to fighting.Three sources with knowledge of the matter told
the outlet that US Central Command had prepared a “short and powerful”
bombing campaign in order to push Iran to accept US demands.The strikes
would include infrastructure targets, said the officials.Despite Trump’s
remarks and his earlier comments warning Iran that it “better get smart
soon,” posted alongside an AI image of himself carrying a weapon in a
war zone, saying “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” Tehran showed no signs of
giving in on Wednesday.Instead, Iran has pledged to continue disrupting
traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key pathway for oil and gas
shipments, as long as it is threatened, which may mean more Middle East
oil supply disruptions from the conflict, which has killed thousands and
caused global economic upheaval.In remarks carried by state media,
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has emerged as a
key point of contact for Washington, accused the US of trying to create
division with its naval blockade and “make us collapse from
within.”Trump, he said, “divides the country into two groups: hardliners
and moderates, and then immediately talks about a naval blockade to
force Iran into submission through economic pressure and internal
discord.”With the killing of numerous Iranian leaders by US-Israeli
strikes, including former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, there has been
widespread speculation over the balance of power within the Islamic
Republic. The current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, hasn’t been
publicly seen or heard since he was appointed in March.Trump said
earlier this month that the government of Iran was “seriously fractured,
not unexpectedly so.”Ghalibaf, a powerful figure, has grown in
prominence since the start of the war and was the lead negotiator in the
so far only round of direct US-Iranian talks.“The enemy has entered a
new phase and wants to activate economic pressure and internal division
through naval blockade and media hype to weaken or even make us collapse
from within,” he said.He called for “maintaining unity” as the only
solution.Nuclear watchdog floats Russia taking Iran’s uranium-As
progress toward an agreement between Washington and Tehran appeared to
reach a standstill, the head of the UN nuclear agency urged both sides
to come back to the table, stressing that it would take “political will”
to make a deal.Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, told the Associated Press that his agency has been in
discussions separately with the US and informally with Iran.He suggested
that Iran’s proposal to lift the blockade but postpone discussions on
its nuclear program was an indication that Tehran wants to sequence how
it confronts the objectives mandated by the US, including curbing its
ballistic missile program and dealing with its proxy terror groups
Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in
Yemen.Anticipating future nuclear talks, Grossi said that the IAEA has
discussed with Russia and others the possibility of sending Iran’s
highly enriched uranium out of the country — a complex operation that
would require either a political agreement or a major US military
operation in hostile territory.“What’s going to be important is that
that material leaves Iran,” or is blended to reduce its enrichment, he
said.The majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely still at
its Isfahan nuclear complex, which was bombarded by US airstrikes last
year and faced less intense attacks in this year’s US-Israeli war,
Grossi said, adding that the IAEA has satellite images showing the
effects of the latest airstrikes against Iran and that “we continue to
get information.”Iran has 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that
is enriched up to 60% purity, which has no peaceful applications and is a
short, technical step from nuclear weapons-grade levels of 90%. Grossi
has said the IAEA believes roughly 200 kilograms (about 440 pounds) is
stored in tunnels at the Isfahan site.Trump appears to confuse Russia
and Ukraine-Addressing the possibility of Moscow taking Iran’s uranium,
Trump confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his help
on the issue in a phone call between the two leaders on Wednesday.But
Trump said he told Putin that he’d “much rather have you be involved
with ending the war with Ukraine.”“I said, before you help me, I want to
end your war,” said Trump.While speaking to reporters in the Oval
Office, Trump appeared to mix up Iran and Ukraine when answering a
question from CNN about the timelines of the two wars.“I think Ukraine
militarily they’re defeated,” he said. “Their navy — they had 159 ships,
every ship right now is underwater, typically that’s pretty good.”The
US targeted Iran’s navy repeatedly during the fighting, destroying much
of its fleet. The US has largely supported Ukraine since Russia’s 2022
invasion.Wait, what? Say that again? pic.twitter.com/RYFEITNKdz — Shaun
Pinner (@ShaunPinnerUA) April 29, 2026-Pentagon says war has cost $25
billion and counting-In Washington, Hegseth claimed that congressional
Democrats were “the biggest adversary we face,” as he parried
questioning from lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee for the
first time since the US and Israel launched the war with Iran on
February 28.And the Pentagon’s chief financial officer released a figure
Democrats have been demanding, saying the war has cost an estimated $25
billion and counting.Jules Hurst, who is performing the duties of the
comptroller, told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee that
most of that money was for munitions.Hurst did not detail what that cost
estimate included and whether it took into account the projected costs
of rebuilding and repairing base infrastructure in the Middle East that
was damaged in the conflict.Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the
House Armed Services Committee, responded to Hurst: “I’m glad you
answered that question. Because we’ve been asking for a hell of a long
time, and no one’s given us the number.”But it is unclear how the
Pentagon arrived at the $25 billion amount given that a source had told
Reuters last month that President Donald Trump’s administration
estimated that the first six days of the war had cost the United States
at least $11.3 billion.Hegseth told lawmakers that the cost was
justified given the US goal of ensuring Iran will not have a nuclear
weapon.“What would you pay to ensure Iran does not get a nuclear bomb?
What would you pay?” Hegseth asked.Hegseth sought to defend the Iran war
more broadly in fiery remarks, saying it was not a quagmire and
attacking Democratic lawmakers as “feckless” for criticizing the
unpopular conflict.“You call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our
enemies? Shame on you for that statement,” Hegseth said in response to
one lawmaker, and slammed “reckless, feckless, and defeatist”
congressional Democrats.Thirteen US troops have been killed in the
conflict and hundreds wounded.Despite Hegseth’s defense of the war,
Trump is under domestic pressure to end it, after giving shifting
rationales to a US public struggling with surging gasoline prices. His
approval rating fell to the lowest level of his current term, according
to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, which showed 34% of Americans approve of his
performance, down from 36% in the prior survey.On Wednesday, oil prices
spiked sharply again after a report that the US president had told
national security officials to prepare for a long blockade of Iran’s
ports and the Strait of Hormuz.At around 1:35 p.m. GMT, a barrel of
Brent crude for June delivery was up 5.16 percent at $117, its highest
level since the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran
came into effect.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR
TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH) (DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO ANYBODY
THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION WILL BE
LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR RULE)(THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE
THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS JUST
RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
And here are the
bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or
peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels
land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the
future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq
west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe
23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN
THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE
FUTURE.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead
with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And here are
the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war
or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE.
New maps provided to aid groups show expanded zone
of IDF control in Gaza-Maps include orange line with a restricted area
comprising some 11% of Strip’s territory, bringing two-thirds of Gazan
land under Israeli charge By Reuters Today, 5:53 am-APR 30,26
New
maps of the Gaza Strip quietly issued by Israel a little more than a
month ago have put thousands of displaced Palestinians inside an
expanded restricted area, within boundaries the military says it can
continue to change.The restricted area, marked on the maps with an
orange line, makes up an estimated 11% of Gaza’s territory beyond the
“Yellow Line” demarcating the part of Gaza occupied by Israeli troops
since an October ceasefire. The areas cordon off nearly two-thirds of
Gaza’s territory in total.Israel’s military sent the maps to aid groups
in Gaza in mid-March, two aid sources said, but has not released them
publicly.Israel says the area between the orange line and the yellow
truce line to which its troops withdrew under an October deal is a
restricted zone to enable aid delivery, and that aid groups must
coordinate their movements with the military. It says civilians are not
affected.The expanded zone has stirred fears from displaced Palestinians
living there that they could be deemed targets by Israel, and shot. It
has also stoked concerns that Israel may plan to hold the area
permanently.Israeli officials describe the territory they’ve seized in
Gaza, Syria and Lebanon as “buffer zones” that can stave off potential
terrorist attacks following the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of
southern Israel that set off the Gaza war.“In Gaza, more than half of
the Strip’s territory” is under Israeli control, Netanyahu said in a
March 31 video statement. “We are the ones who attack and initiate, and
we are the ones who surprise our enemies.”The "yellow line" is closing
in on Gaza from all directions, with orange marking its updated
location. It's creating a shrinking prison where tanks and daily gunfire
make life deadly even behind this boundary pic.twitter.com/MLZKR6vmkx
Advertisement — Free Palestine ???????? (@FreePalestineHQ) April 5,
2026‘People don’t know what is what’Israel’s expanding control beyond
the line agreed in the US-brokered October ceasefire casts further doubt
on President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, held up for months due to the
Iran war and disagreements over disarming Hamas.It also widens the zone
in which Israel’s military says it could operate and strike hostile
targets, without marking it on the ground. The October ceasefire line
was marked with concrete blocks painted yellow. Israel has previously
moved those blocks deeper into Hamas-controlled territory, Reuters has
reported.Issuing its first public comments on the expanded zone, COGAT,
the Defense Ministry body that controls access to Gaza, said it had
defined areas adjacent to the Yellow Line in which international
organizations including humanitarian groups were required to coordinate
their movements with the military.“The boundaries of these areas (the
Orange Line), in which coordination is required, are determined and
updated in accordance with the operational situational assessment, with
the aim of enabling humanitarian activity while safeguarding personnel
in a complex operational environment,” COGAT said.COGAT declined to
comment when asked how frequently it updates and distributes maps to aid
groups showing the location of the orange line, and whether it has
communicated its location to Palestinian civilians.At least three
Palestinians working with foreign aid groups — two with UNICEF, and one
with the World Health Organization — have been killed by Israeli attacks
in the area between the two lines since mid-March.In both cases,
Israel’s military said it had identified threats near the Yellow Line
and had opened fire as a result. UNICEF and the WHO did not immediately
respond to a request for comment on whether they coordinated their
workers’ movements with Israel.Rani Ashour, who lives in a camp for
displaced people near Gaza City that sits between the two lines, said
residents lacked water and other aid because humanitarian groups feared
sending staff there.“People don’t know what is what, (the orange) line
is here today, you sleep, and you wake up, and you find it has passed
you.”Since the ceasefire, local medics say Israeli fire has killed more
than 800 Palestinians in Gaza, many of them in the area near the Yellow
Line, which is dotted with displaced persons camps and people living in
bombed-out buildings. The unverified Palestinian figures don’t
differentiate between civilians and combatants. Four Israeli soldiers
have been killed during the same period.New map appears to show shifting
lines-The two aid sources, both working in Gaza, said the military
originally sent aid groups a map showing an expanded zone beyond the
Yellow Line after the October ceasefire. That map was published by
groups including UNICEF, but never by the military.The military sent the
groups an updated version of the map in mid-March, said the sources,
who shared images of the map with Reuters but declined for them to be
published directly. The new map shows the Yellow Line and marks the
expanded zone with an orange line.Reuters shared the images with
Palestinian researchers who superimposed the two lines onto a map. The
two aid sources said that the Yellow Line had moved forward to encompass
the original expanded zone, with the orange line marking the boundaries
of an even bigger restricted area.The military declined to comment when
asked whether the Yellow Line had been moved forward, but said that the
“area adjacent to the Yellow Line is a sensitive and dangerous
operational environment,” and that “(signs) are posted in the area
indicating that it is forbidden to approach.”That in effect leaves
Israel in control of at least 64% of Gaza, said Jad Isaac, director
general of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, an independent
Palestinian think tank in the West Bank, with the nearly 2 million
population almost entirely confined to a sliver of Hamas-controlled
territory along the coast.“They want to put as many Palestinians as
possible in the smallest area in order to drive them out because of the
absence of any viability or any sustainability in what’s left of Gaza,”
Isaac said.Israeli officials including Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich, a far-right leader in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, have
called for Palestinians to leave Gaza, reinforcing Arab fears that
Israel wants to drive Palestinians from land where they seek a future
state.Behind its Yellow Line, Israel has forced civilians out and
bulldozed most remaining buildings, while the US and UAE have drafted
development plans for the territory.Amjad al-Shawa, the head of the
Palestinian NGOs Network in Gaza, said the additional line of control
had caused confusion and concern.“Residents do not know where the lines
begin or end. One day, the boundary is in one location, and the next day
it shifts without warning,” Shawa said.Times of Israel staff
contributed to this report.
Reporter's notebook Home prices in
Kiryat Shmona are down 5-15% since 2023-‘The city is dead’: Israel’s
north struggles to recover as war leaves uneven economic scars-In Kiryat
Shmona and across the Galilee, shuttered businesses, slow returns and
shifting demand for homes indicate a patchy recovery after more than two
years of conflict By Zev Stub-Today, 9:29 am-APR 30,26
KIRYAT
SHMONA — Driving along Tel-Hai Street, the main commercial strip of this
northern city, storefronts were open on a recent weekday afternoon, and
cafes and shawarma stands were busy.But just beyond the front line of
shops, a different picture emerged, showing the pain that the “capital
of the north” has endured through more than two years of war.Some
commercial areas were almost completely shuttered due to a lack of
customers. Temporary missile shelters, known in Hebrew as miguniot, have
been erected on virtually every street corner, providing emergency
respite when sirens give residents just 15 seconds to run for cover from
Hezbollah rockets. A high-tech incubator near the top of the strip,
once bustling with innovation, is now nearly empty.There aren’t many
damaged homes around anymore, since most of those hit during the 2024
war have already been repaired, residents say. The latest round of
fighting in March and April, currently halted by a fragile ceasefire as
of this writing, has caused some new damage, farther off the strip. But
the holes in residents’ lives, and in the local economy, will take much
longer to fix.“Before the war, this area was full of people, and
businesses were making good money,” said Eldar, a barber, sitting
outside his salon waiting for customers. “Now, almost all of the stores
in this area are closed, the city is dead, and no one goes out at
night.”More than 900 days after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack that
triggered the war — and after repeated rounds of fighting along the
northern border — recovery in Israel’s north remains uneven. While some
areas are rebounding, others, particularly communities near the Lebanon
border like Kiryat Shmona, continue to face deep economic and
demographic challenges.“When you talk about the housing market in the
north, you really have to divide it into two categories,” said Nimrod
Bousso, chief editor at the Israeli Real Estate Center website. “In the
places on the front lines of fighting, where people were evacuated
during the war, real estate activity is very low, and most construction
projects are on hold. But for areas that aren’t being directly targeted,
like many towns in the Golan Heights, agents say that sales volume has
returned to normal.”In those places, Bousso said, “there is a sense that
we are getting back to some sort of routine.”Slow recovery in the
Galilee-Kiryat Shmona, just over a mile from the border, is in the first
category of very slow recovery. Shortly after Hamas launched its war
against Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel evacuated the city’s 24,000
residents in anticipation of military conflict with Hezbollah in
Lebanon.Government stipends paid for them to relocate to homes in other
parts of the country during that time, and government grants covered
damages to people’s homes from the constant barrages of rockets,
missiles and drones. But economic activity in the region all but
ceased.Of 104 tech startups operating in the Galilee before the war,
only three survived the war, as human resources were scattered around
the country and lost focus, noted Noam Josef, head of the Margalit
Startup City Galil innovation center, which seeks to represent
technology interests in the region.The local housing market also
suffered greatly during that time, noted Tzahi Hafzadi, who manages the
Kiryat Shmona office of Remax Realty.“Things were pretty slow then,”
said Hafzadi, who grew up in the city. “It wasn’t exactly zero, but it
was close to that.”But when permission was finally given to return in
March 2025, many residents said they didn’t plan to come back. Only
about 60% of Kiryat Shmona’s residents have returned to the city, and
about half of local businesses have reopened, official data shows.“A lot
of people decided to stay where they were instead of coming back,”
Hafzadi said. “There is cautious growth in the real estate market now,
but prices have come down since before the war.”Homes in new buildings
cost about 5% less than before the war, while those in older buildings,
without any shelters or elevators, are down about 15%, Hafzadi
said.Family apartments of 70-90 square meters (750-970 square feet)
start as low as NIS 600,000 (about $200,000), while large private houses
on 500 square-meter (1,640 square-foot) lots can go for as much as NIS
3.5 million ($1.17 million), he noted.Things are starting to improve,
Hafzadi said. Young families are showing new interest in the city,
especially those who can work remotely, and the government offers
significant economic incentives for people moving there.Residents can
pay no income tax on income of up to NIS 20,000 per month, and a recent
government decision will provide new families with grants of NIS 2,500 a
month for two years, Hafzadi said. Childcare is also subsidized, and
the cost of living is lower than in the center of the country, he
added.Meanwhile, tech is slowly making a comeback in the Galilee, with
20 new companies formed in the past year, Josef noted. Margalit Startup
City Galil is planning a major “business revival” conference in late May
to galvanize political support and spread the organization’s optimism
for the region, he said.The government has also pledged to invest
billions of shekels in rehabilitating the region, although locals say
they haven’t seen much benefit from that yet. There are plans to extend
the country’s main railroad line to Kiryat Shmona in the coming years, a
move that will ease transportation to the center and open a new world
of employment options.There have been initial talks to develop housing
specifically for English-speaking immigrants, although that plan is
moving slowly, representatives from Nefesh B’Nefesh have said. And the
city’s Tel Hai College is set to be expanded into a full-fledged
university in the coming years.“People who move here can benefit from
living in a beautiful place with no traffic, and they get a higher
salary because the income tax is lower,” Hafzadi said. “I would
definitely invest here. I think it’s going to get better and
better.”Stronger demand in the Golan-The situation is a bit different in
the Golan Heights, where price changes since the October 7 attack have
been more in line with the rest of the country, said Avigail Fink, who
heads Remax’s offices there.The housing market there saw a significant
boom post-COVID, driven by remote work and positive immigration, with
prices rising from 2021 to 2023, Fink said. A 2021 government decision
allocated about a billion shekels to double the area’s population from
about 50,000 by increasing infrastructure investments, attracting a new
cadre of investors and developers.But when the war broke out, everything
froze, and since then, prices have remained stable or fallen slightly.
Structural challenges to the Israeli market, including high prices, high
interest rates, and a record-breaking supply of new housing, have
tempered growth, leading to an average price decline of about 1% over
the past year.Since Israel reached a ceasefire with Hamas in October,
prices have been gradually climbing, Fink said, and homes take a bit
longer to sell now than they did before the war. The numbers are small —
there are typically only about 300 homes on the market in all of the
Golan at any given time, Fink said — but there is a prevailing sense
that the worst is behind them.Unlike in the Galilee, Golan towns weren’t
evacuated after the October 7 attacks, a decision that Fink credits for
their current comparative strength. Tourism, one of the Golan’s main
economic engines, suffered greatly during the war, but the housing
market is much better off due to residents’ decision to stay, Fink
said.“We expect that 2,000 homes are going to be sold in Katzrin during
the next 1-3 years, and this will lead to major changes in market demand
and places of work,” Fink said. “I think the market here is going to
change tremendously for the best in the next few years.”Moving forward,
some areas are going to develop faster than others, said Michal Korland,
a Remax realtor specializing in the Galilee. Cities along the coast
like Nahariya, Akko and Shlomi lie farther from the Lebanese border than
Kiryat Shmona, and fared comparatively better during the war.Nahariya
already has hospital facilities and train access, and the expected
completion of Route 6 — Israel’s main north-south highway — to the area
within one to two years could accelerate a rebound, Korland noted.“When
things are quiet, this area will be a great opportunity for investors,”
she said. “The north is the nicest place to live in Israel, with amazing
people and a great quality of life. We’ll need a lot of help from the
government over the next few years, but we hope that we’ll start seeing
big things happen soon.”
Inside story Mideast official: PA has a
few months to 'clear up holes'US says PA continuing to pay security
prisoners despite reformed welfare criteria-Citing information from
Israeli government and groups critical of the Palestinian Authority,
State Department informs Congress that Ramallah not meeting benchmarks
for lifting sanctions By Jacob Magid-Today, 5:02 am-APR 30,26
The
US State Department informed Congress this month that the Palestinian
Authority has not ceased making payments to the families of security
prisoners and slain attackers, despite reforming, and ostensibly ending,
its system of cash transfers awarded in accordance with the amount of
time served behind Israeli bars.“The PA continues to provide a system of
compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a
different name,” the State Department said in a report submitted to
Congress earlier this month.US President Donald Trump’s administration
made the unusual decision to publicize the report on Wednesday, which
exclusively relied on open-source information from the Israeli
government and several organizations that have long been critical of the
PA.Under a 2018 US law, the secretary of state is required to report to
Congress every 180 days if the PA is ending payments to the families of
prisoners and slain attackers, which are based on the length of one’s
sentence. Critics have dubbed the policy “pay-for-slay,” saying it
incentivizes terrorism against Israelis.While Ramallah long sought to
defend the payments as a form of social welfare and necessary
compensation for victims of what it says is a callous Israeli military
justice system in the West Bank, PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a
decree last year scrapping the legislation conditioning payments on
one’s prison sentence.Abbas also revived an agency called the
Palestinian National Foundation for Economic Empowerment (PNEEI) and
tasked it with responsibility over a new welfare system that offered
stipends strictly based on economic need.“Despite changing the
mechanisms, the PA continued payments and benefits to Palestinian
terrorists and their families,” the State Department wrote in its report
to Congress.Accordingly, the Trump administration concluded the PA is
not in compliance with a 2018 US law known as the Taylor Force Act,
which barred American economic aid to Ramallah as long as the
controversial payments continued.Israeli figures-To prove its
assessment, the State Department cited figures publicized by Israeli
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, according to which the PA provided $156
million in payments to the families of security prisoners and slain
attackers.The State Department appeared to be referring to a November
2025 tweet from Sa’ar, though that post said the PA “committed” to
paying $214 in 2025, as opposed to money actually spent.The Foreign
Ministry has not revealed how Sa’ar arrived at the figure, but Jerusalem
has been quick to dismiss the PA’s prisoner payment reform as a guise
aimed at fooling the international community.Israel has maintained this
stance as it continues to withhold several billion dollars in funds that
belong to the PA, which have brought Ramallah to the brink of
collapse-Jerusalem, under the Oslo Accords, is supposed to carry out
monthly transfers of clearance revenues collected on Ramallah’s behalf.
For several years, it unilaterally withheld the portion of those funds
that it said Ramallah was allocating for terrorists and their families.
But for the past year, Israel has refused to send any of the clearance
revenues. As those funds make up the majority of the PA’s budget, the
Palestinian Authority has been able to pay a fraction of public sector
salaries, which this month were uniformly cut to NIS 2,000 ($675) for
over 150,000 Palestinians.A senior European diplomat told The Times of
Israel that Israel’s rejection of the prisoner payment reform is part of
a broader effort to collapse the PA, a policy openly supported by
several key ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
government.Who is eligible for welfare? The reform allows the families
of Palestinian security prisoners and slain attackers to receive
stipends from the government. However, they must apply through PNEEI
like all other potential welfare recipients, who are only eligible if
they meet the necessary socioeconomic criteria, as is the standard for
most Western welfare systems.A former US official told The Times of
Israel that Jerusalem privately welcomed the reform when presented with
it during US president Joe Biden’s administration.But after Abbas
announced the reform in February 2025 — weeks after Trump entered office
— Israel was quick to reject the framework, arguing that the families
of prisoners and slain attackers should not receive benefits from the
PA, regardless of their financial status.Moreover, Israel went on to
report that PA payments to the families of security prisoners and slain
attackers continued, not just through PNEEI, but other mechanisms as
well, the State Department report released Wednesday noted.“A shift to a
welfare system like the PNEEI that fails to end specific payments and
benefits for Palestinian terrorists and their families is not compliant
with the provisions of the Taylor Force Act,” the report added.The State
Department did acknowledge internal PA documents — revealed by The
Times of Israel last year — which stated that 3,000 families who
previously received stipends would no longer receive assistance under
PNEEI, while 2,000 new families were deemed eligible for the first
time.It was not clear from the report if the Trump administration has
adopted Israel’s position rejecting any payments to security prisoners’
families, regardless of whether they qualify for welfare assistance.The
State Department did not respond to this and several other questions
regarding its report, including why it only relied on open-source
information from entities seen as hostile to Ramallah and whether it
verified the information cited in the report.A second former US official
said that previous reports to Congress on this issue relied on some
open source reporting but also used classified information to ensure
accuracy.The official also noted that Israel’s hardened stance regarding
PA welfare payments would appear to go further than the Taylor Force
Act itself, which stipulates that compliance with its terms requires the
PA to revoke any system that compensates prisoners based on the length
of their sentence for an act of terrorism.The case against Ramallah-The
State Department report also pointed to public comments made by PA
Finance Minister Estephan Salameh, who said in February that despite the
financial constraints, the authority has continued to provide for its
people.“We have not abandoned any Palestinian resident, whether they are
prisoners or families of martyrs and wounded. This is a clear
fundamental issue,” he is quoted to have said in remarks that in and of
themselves did not appear to violate the Taylor Force Act.The Times of
Israel revealed in November 2025 that Salameh was appointed finance
minister after his predecessor, Omar Bitar, was deemed responsible for
illicit payments to the families of security prisoners that had
continued after Abbas announced the reform.The State Department also
cited reporting from the Israel-based research institute Palestinian
Media Watch (PMW) to argue the PA has recently taken steps to ensure
security prisoners can receive stipends following their release.Those
prisoners included several convicted of murdering Israeli civilians,
according to documents obtained by PMW, a pro-Israel watchdog that
focuses on incitement in Palestinian society.The State Department noted a
statement from the European Commission in November that also
acknowledged illicit payments made to security prisoners under the old
mechanism, which led to Bitar’s ouster.“The EU Commission requested
clarity from the PA, and a subsequent Euronews investigation alleged
that applicants for PNEEI are also receiving supplementary payments in
addition to payments issued to welfare recipients,” the State Department
report said.The State Department also highlighted a statement from the
Foreign Ministry referencing footage of Palestinians waiting in line at
the post office for stipends as further proof that the illicit payments
were still in place, given that recipients picked up their checks from
the post office during the old scheme.The State Department did
acknowledge a series of protests against the PA that have broken out
across the West Bank in recent months, with participants lamenting the
cuts. Analysts previously speculated that such protests would prove that
the reform was in place, though the Trump administration seemed to
argue otherwise.Incitement allegations-The Taylor Force Law also
conditions US aid to Ramallah on PA officials publicly condemning acts
of violence and taking steps to crack down on such activity.The State
Department report maintains that Ramallah has not lived up to that
standard, pointing to comments from Abbas’s top adviser Mahmoud Habbash
who called the terror attack targeting Jews in Bondi Beach Australia a
“crime,” while arguing that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians was
also to blame.The report cited November 2025 findings from IMPACT-se, a
pro-Israel organization that analyzes schoolbooks, “which found that PA
school textbooks for grades 1-12 continue to glorify jihad and
incitement to violence.”Lastly, the State Department cited a PMW report
on Abbas dispatching aides to Egypt to honor the security prisoners
released in last year’s hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and
Hamas.‘Clear up any holes’A Middle Eastern intelligence official told
The Times of Israel that, contrary to the report’s suggestions,
independent reviews of PNEEI from recent months have found it to be in
compliance with the Taylor Force Act.However, the official acknowledged
that a small number of payments to some families of prisoners and slain
attackers by Palestinian bodies other than PNEEI may have continued.The
Middle Eastern intelligence official said it would be up to Ramallah
“clear up any holes” in the coming months, or risk losing critical
international support.The official admitted that it would be an uphill
battle for the PA, given how unpopular it is among Palestinians to be
seen as working against the families of prisoners.He pointed to the
thousands of Palestinians currently held under administrative detention,
a legal mechanism that allows Israeli authorities to indefinitely keep a
suspect in custody without charge, based on covert intelligence
information.The practice is controversial due to due process concerns,
with Defense Minister Israel Katz barring its use against Jewish
suspects, and it is only used against Palestinians and a small number of
Arab Israelis.“The PA is seen as turning its back on all prisoners,
whether they’re convicted of a crime or not,” the Middle Eastern
intelligence official said.A spokesperson for Abbas did not respond to a
request for comment.
Navy begins intercepting Gaza flotilla
hundreds of miles from the Strip-Tracking data shows vessels near Crete
as they are confronted by Israeli forces; 175 activists detained, 21 of
58 vessels intercepted overnight By Emanuel FabianToday, 3:15 amUpdated
at 9:51 am-APR 30,26
The Israeli Navy late Wednesday began
intercepting an activist flotilla sailing to the Gaza Strip in a bid to
breach Israel’s naval blockade on the Hamas-ruled enclave, according to
the activists and Israeli officials.According to tracking data, the
Global Sumud Flotilla — which includes 58 vessels — was located near the
Greek Island of Crete, hundreds of nautical miles (over 1,000
kilometers) from Israel, when confronted by Israeli forces.By the
morning hours of Thursday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the Navy had
detained some 175 activists. In total, the Navy intercepted 21 of the
Global Sumud Flotilla’s 58 vessels, security sources said.During past
attempts to challenge the naval blockade, the Navy has intercepted the
boats much closer to Gaza’s shores, which the flotilla was expected to
reach over the weekend.In footage published by flotilla organizers, an
Israeli Navy officer could be heard calling on the activists to change
course.“If you wish to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, you may do so
through established and recognized channels. Please change course and
return to the port of origin. If you are carrying humanitarian aid, you
are invited to proceed to the port of Ashdod,” the officer said.The
Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, released a video it said showed “condoms
and drugs” were found aboard one of the intercepted vessels.Same script,
different year. The israeli navy thinks a radio warning can drown out
the cries for justice. You call it a "maritime security blockade" — the
rest of the world calls it a crime scene. We aren't "invited" to Ashdod;
we aren't your guests. We are the witnesses you…
pic.twitter.com/dElolWN59Y Advertisement — Global Sumud Flotilla
(@gbsumudflotilla) April 29, 2026-In a later post on X, the Foreign
Ministry published a video showing some of the activists “enjoying
themselves aboard Israeli vessels,” while adding that “approximately 175
activists from more than 20 boats of the condom flotilla are now making
their way peacefully to Israel.”The activists claimed that they faced a
“violent raid in international waters,” during which the Israeli forces
“systematically disabled various boats of the Global Sumud
Flotilla.”Approximately 175 activists from more than 20 boats of the
condom flotilla are now making their way peacefully to Israel. In the
video: the activists enjoying themselves aboard Israeli vessels
pic.twitter.com/0sz8kDpKLX — Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April
30, 2026-Global Sumud Flotilla claimed that “after smashing engines and
destroying navigation arrays, the military retreated — intentionally
leaving hundreds of civilians stranded on powerless, broken vessels
directly in the path of a massive approaching storm.”“Furthermore,
communications with multiple vessels have been jammed, severing their
ability to coordinate or signal for help,” they added.The activists
aboard the flotilla departed from Spain earlier this month, after
organizing a similar operation last year with Swedish activist Greta
Thunberg and hundreds more participants that was carrying a symbolic
amount of humanitarian aid.Israeli officials repeatedly denounced that
flotilla and previous smaller-scale attempts to reach Gaza by sea as
publicity stunts, saying they brought insignificant amounts of aid,
which Israel insists sufficient amounts of are entering the Strip,
though humanitarian organizations have said it is not enough.Earlier
Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced he was imposing
sanctions on a crowdfunding campaign launched by Global Sumud Flotilla,
which he said was “organized by the Hamas terror organization, in
cooperation with additional international organizations and under the
guise of a humanitarian aid flotilla.”“The imposition of sanctions on
the crowdfunding campaign constitutes a significant step in the effort
to disrupt the flotilla’s sources of funding,” said a statement from
Katz, adding that the move was “intended to deter donors from
contributing to a terror organization.”It was unclear what practical
effect the sanctions would have. The statement noted that according to
Israeli law, the defense minister can order the seizure of property of a
designated terror organization or property intended to be used for
terrorism.Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of blockade on
Gaza since the Hamas terror group seized power from rival Palestinian
forces in 2007 in a violent coup.Israel said it was necessary to limit
Hamas’s ability to smuggle in arms, a stance it has reiterated since the
October 7, 2023, attack that started the Gaza war. Critics of the
blockade said it amounts to collective punishment of the Strip’s roughly
2 million Palestinians.Agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed
to this report.
Ukraine: Israeli actions will determine our help
with drones-Senior diplomat meets Russian envoy, spurns EU rep amid
stolen Ukraine grain fight-Jerusalem says ‘tweets’ from Kyiv not
sufficient to prove grain seized by Russia is reaching Israel; Ukraine
working with EU to sanction those involved in ‘this theft and illegal
trade’By Lazar Berman-Today, 2:24 am-APR 30,26
As the diplomatic
war of words between Jerusalem and Kyiv over stolen Ukrainian grain
escalated this week, a senior Israeli diplomat met with Russia’s
ambassador while declining to make time to meet with the European Union
envoy, two foreign diplomatic officials told The Times of Israel on
Wednesday.EU envoy Michael Mann has been trying for over a week to meet
with Simona Halperin, the Foreign Ministry deputy director general in
charge of ties with Europe, said the officials.Halperin met with
Russian Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov on Tuesday, according to the Russian
embassy.“An exchange of views took place on current topics of
international cooperation, with particular attention paid to European
issues,” said the Russian readout. “A mutual commitment to maintaining a
constructive Russian-Israeli dialogue was reaffirmed. It was agreed to
continue maintaining contacts.”However, Halperin pushed off a potential
meeting with Mann to next week at the earliest, according to the two
foreign officials, who said the European diplomat is seeking to discuss
allegations that grain poached by Russia from Ukraine is being sold in
Israel.The EU mission to Israel declined to comment, as did Mann. The
Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment.On April 28, in
Jerusalem Ambassador of Russia Anatoly Viktorov held a working meeting
with Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Israel Simona Halperin. An exchange of views took place on current
topics of international cooperation, with particular…
pic.twitter.com/Z335fQyLDP Advertisement — Russia in Israel
(@israel_mid_ru) April 28, 2026-Meanwhile, a senior Ukrainian official
told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem’s handling of the stolen grain
would affect how willing Kyiv is to offer expertise on countering
Hezbollah drones.Israel has asked for assistance, said the official, as
Hezbollah steps up its use of attack drones against Israeli forces in
southern Lebanon.On Sunday, Sgt. Idan Fooks, 19, was killed and six
other soldiers were wounded in a Hezbollah explosive drone strike in
southern Lebanon. On Tuesday, a soldier was seriously wounded and
another lightly hurt by a Hezbollah UAV, after which a Defense Ministry
contractor Amer Hujirat was killed and his 19-year-old son was lightly
injured.We will consider this request in contingency with their behavior
with the stolen grain.“We will consider this request in contingency
with their behavior with the stolen grain,” said the Ukrainian
official.While providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Jerusalem has
pursued a relatively restrained response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
due to Russia’s military presence in Syria, Israel’s northern bellicose
neighbor, and has sought to balance security interests at home and
policy abroad while maintaining relations with both Moscow and
Kyiv.Following the fall of the Russia-allied Bashar Assad regime in
Syria over a year ago, a moderate warming of ties between Kyiv and
Jerusalem had taken place.However, last month Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
sought to maintain a neutral stance between Moscow and Kyiv, even though
Russia has been providing critical intelligence to Iran in the
US-Israel war against Iran.The two leaders have not spoken in over a
year.No evidence, claims Israel-Israel repeated on Wednesday its stance
that it has yet to receive evidence a shipment of Russian grain was
“stolen” from occupied Ukrainian territory, while Kyiv continued to
threaten sanctions.Kyiv considers all grain produced in the four regions
that Russia claims as its own since invading Ukraine in 2022 — as well
as Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014 — to be stolen and has protested
over its export to other countries.Russia calls the regions its “new
territories,” but they are still internationally recognized as
Ukrainian. Moscow has not commented on the legal status of grain
collected in them.“We will go after Russia’s shadow grain fleet and its
enablers across all geographies,” wrote Ukrainian Foreign Minister
Andrii Sybiha on X.Ukraine, said Sybiha, will initiate “new sanctions in
the EU, G7, and other jurisdictions on everyone involved in this theft
and illegal trade.”“We warn all entities and nations that we will react
strongly to any theft of our grain,” he said.Sybiha said on Monday that
Israel’s Ambassador Michael Brodsky had been summoned to his ministry
over what he described as Israeli inaction in allowing shipments of
grain to enter the country from Russian-occupied Ukraine.“The Europeans
are ready to support us” on sanctions, said the senior Ukrainian
official. “I’m sure that Israeli importers wouldn’t care about Ukrainian
sanctions, but they would care about European sanctions, because Europe
is the biggest trade partner of Israel. And we already have permission
from all the Europeans for that.”Earlier Wednesday, Foreign Minister
Gideon Sa’ar confirmed that Israel received Ukraine’s request for legal
assistance regarding a vessel waiting to dock in Haifa, while taking a
swipe at Kyiv’s handling of the issue.In a post on X, Sa’ar said the
request was submitted “late last night” after earlier public statements
by Ukrainian officials, adding, “One would expect the submission of a
legal request before Tweeting. You chose differently, for your own
reasons.”“With all due respect, Your Excellency,” responded Ukrainian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi, “we expect action, namely for
the State of Israel to stop accepting grain stolen from Ukraine’s
temporarily occupied territories. When such action is taken, we will be
most happy to receive relevant messages via X (former Twitter),
WhatsApp, Signal, email, paper post, or any other channel of Your
Excellency’s convenience.”To that post, Israel’s own Foreign Ministry
spokesman responded on X that Ukraine hasn’t provided evidence to back
its claims.“‘If the law is against you, pound the facts,” wrote Oren
Marmorstein on X, citing an adage among trial lawyers. “‘If the facts
are against you, pound the law. If both are against you, pound the table
and yell.’”“With all due respect, if action is being requested, we
expect evidence,” Marmostein continued. “Not tweets. So far evidence
hasn’t been provided.”“If the law is against you, pound the facts. If
the facts are against you, pound the law. If both are against you, pound
the table and yell.” With all due respect, if action is being
requested, we expect evidence.Not tweets.So far evidence hasn’t been
provided. https://t.co/wdlGWYs4ZW — Oren Marmorstein (@OrenMarmorstein)
April 29, 2026-However, according to the Ukrainian official, the deputy
chief of mission at the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel provided the Foreign
Ministry and Justice Ministry with evidence on Wednesday morning.“Of
course they are lying,” says the senior Ukrainian official.Not
legitimate business-Wednesday’s back-and-forth continued a fight that
raged on Tuesday.Zelensky, in a post to X, wrote: “In any normal
country, purchasing stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability.
This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another vessel
carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to
unload.”“This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business. The Israeli
authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the
country’s ports and what cargo they are carrying,” he said.Sa’ar pushed
back against the allegation, reiterating an accusation that Kyiv was
conducting “Twitter diplomacy” and failing to provide evidence for the
Russian cargo’s purportedly illicit origin.“Up until this point, the
Ukrainian government has not submitted a request for legal assistance.
They submitted tweets,” he said at a press conference, alongside
visiting Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric. “Nor has the Ukrainian
government provided evidence for its claims.”Sa’ar said he spoke with
the Israel Tax Authority on the matter, but stressed that, at this
stage, “the vessel has not entered the port and has yet to submit its
documents,” and that it is impossible to verify claims that shipping
records were forged.Israel, he added, “is a state that abides by the
rule of law,” and any legal action must be based on substantiated
evidence submitted through proper channels.“We say again to our
Ukrainian friends: If you have any evidence of theft, submit it through
the appropriate channels,” Sa’ar said, adding that Israel “will not be
influenced” by public pressure.Sa’ar also expressed surprise at the
criticism, noting Israel’s past support for Ukraine in international
forums and through humanitarian assistance during its ongoing war with
Russia.According to a report by the Haaretz daily, the vessel Panormitis
– allegedly carrying grain from occupied areas – was awaiting
permission to dock in Haifa, with four similar shipments already
unloaded in Israel this year.Traders have told Reuters that it is
impossible to track the origin of wheat once it is mixed.In his post to X
on Tuesday, Zelensky wrote that “Ukraine has taken all necessary steps
through diplomatic channels to prevent such incidents. However, we see
that yet another such vessel has not been stopped. I have instructed the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to inform all partners of our
state about the situation.”“Based on information from our intelligence
services, Ukraine is preparing a relevant sanctions package that will
cover both those directly transporting this grain and the individuals
and legal entities attempting to profit from this criminal scheme,” he
warned, adding Kyiv would “also coordinate with European partners to
ensure that the relevant individuals are included in European sanctions
regimes.”Tykhyi, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters
that Kyiv provided “extensive information and proof” that the cargo was
illegal before going public. The ministry published a timeline of its
actions and contacts with Israeli authorities.“We will not allow any
country in any geography to facilitate illegal trade with a stolen grain
that finances our enemy,” Tykhyi said.Earlier this month, Israel
reportedly allowed a Russian vessel carrying stolen Ukrainian grain to
dock at a Haifa port, claiming it was too late to turn the ship
around.Sa’ar, at the time, sent a message to his Ukrainian counterpart
claiming that the vessel could not be detained due to the late notice,
even though Israel had reportedly been aware of it two weeks before it
arrived.Senior Ukrainian officials had been demanding the confiscation
of the wheat cargo.Stav Levaton contributed to this report.
Palestine
Action ban is risk to free speech, watchdog says, as UK gov’t appeals
to bar group-Lawyers for anti-Israel group tell court that government
should have taken criminal measures against it rather than ban it, as
state argues such steps would have been insufficient By Agencies and ToI
Staff 29 April 2026, 11:59 pm
LONDON, United Kingdom — Britain’s
terrorism watchdog on Wednesday said the government risked stretching
counterterrorism laws beyond their original purpose, as the government
appealed in court to uphold its ban on the anti-Israel group Palestine
Action.The watchdog said using such powers against activist groups could
blur the line between protests and national security threats.In his
annual report examining the use of Britain’s terrorism legislation in
2024, independent reviewer Jonathan Hall said the subsequent banning of
Palestine Action had exposed “real uncertainty” over whether serious
damage to property alone should qualify as terrorism.The law’s broad
wording could, without clearer limits, risk pulling protest activity
into terrorism policing, even where there is no intent to harm people,
Hall said.“There is no legal authority on what ‘serious damage to
property’ means,” Hall wrote, saying the definition could extend beyond
violent attacks to acts such as criminal damage, depending on how courts
interpret the threshold.While he said it was unthinkable to remove
property damage entirely from the legal definition of terrorism, he
suggested lawmakers could narrow the test, for example, by requiring a
risk to life, a national security dimension or exclusion for non-violent
protest.The ban on Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000, which
began on July 5, made membership of or support for the direct action
group a criminal offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison.His
report comes as the government appeals a High Court ruling that found
the banning of Palestine Action unlawful on the grounds of free speech.
The ban, imposed in July 2025, remains in force pending the outcome of
the appeal.On the second day of the appeal hearing on Wednesday, Raza
Husain, the rights lawyer representing Palestine Action’s co-founder
Huda Ammori, told the court that the ban had had a “colossal impact on
individuals, a colossal impact on rights.”The ban “has very serious
consequences for free speech on a matter of the most acute public
interest,” and as a result, there is a “risk of over-broad police
action,” Husain added.Ammori herself suffered a “severe” impact and had
been dropped as a speaker at public events “because organizers are
scared of committing offenses,” he said.The vast majority of protests
were “low-level civil disobedience” such as sit-ins and lock-ons, the
lawyer claimed, while “a smaller cohort engaged in more serious damage
to property.”In 2025, two activists broke into the Royal Air Force Brize
Norton base in southern England and sprayed two planes with red
paint.The previous year, six Palestine Action members raided Israeli
defense firm Elbit’s UK factory. During that attack, one member of the
group hit a police officer with a sledgehammer. The officer suffered a
fractured spine from the attack and remains on restricted duty.Criminal
damage caused by activists at military facilities “has historically not
been regarded as terroristic,” Husain said.“Criminal, yes, terroristic
no.”Another lawyer for the group, Owen Greenhall, argued “there were
plenty of alternative measures that could be used,” including charges
for criminal damage and trespass and civil injunctions.In a written
submission to the court, however, James Eadie, who was representing the
government, said that the High Court’s previous ruling had “ignored” the
Home Office’s explanation of why criminal charges would be
insufficient.He said that counterterrorism police had “specifically
advised” that existing criminal options against Palestine Action would
be “insufficient,” prompting the government to pursue proscribing it
instead.One final hearing in the appeal is expected to be held behind
closed doors on Thursday, according to Scottish newspaper The
National.UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk warned when the ban was
imposed that using counterterrorism legislation to implement the ban on
Palestine Action risked “hindering the legitimate exercise of
fundamental freedoms across the UK.”Hall’s report also highlighted
growing reliance on counterterrorism laws to police online propaganda
and political expression.The independent reviewer also looked at the
2024 banning of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and the extreme right-wing
online Terrorgram network, describing both as cases where organizations
were banned primarily for online rhetoric rather than operational
violence.Terrorism offenses linked to proscribed organizations rose in
2024, driven in part by arrests following Britain’s ban on Hamas after
its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, with Hall saying that prosecution
numbers would rise further after Palestine Action’s ban in
2025.Interior minister Shabana Mahmood said in a statement that she
would review Hall’s recommendations before responding.
Syria
arrests former Assad-era general accused of 2013 chemical attack
involvement-Interior Ministry says it detained Adnan Abboud Hilweh, who
it says was responsible for sarin nerve gas ‘massacre’ on Damascus-area
suburb Ghouta, which killed over 1,000 By AFP Today, 12:11 am-APR 30,26
DAMASCUS
— Syria’s interior minister on Wednesday said the country detained an
Assad-era general accused of involvement in the 2013 Ghouta chemical
attack.In a post on X, Anas Khattab said that “Adnan Abboud Hilweh, one
of the most prominent officers responsible for the chemical massacre in
Eastern Ghouta in 2013, is now in the custody of the Counter-Terrorism
Department.”US intelligence says more than 1,000 people were killed with
sarin nerve gas in the suburb of Damascus in 2013 during Syria’s civil
war.The attack was attributed to the Syrian government under the rule of
Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled in late 2024.At the time of the
attack, the government denied involvement and blamed rebels.Hilweh was
one of three Syrian generals accused by the US State Department in 2022
of involvement in “gross violations of human rights, namely the flagrant
denial of the right to life of at least 1,400 people in Ghouta,”
banning them along with their immediate family from entering the
country.Hilweh was also sanctioned by the European Union, the United
Kingdom and other countries.Syria’s 13-year civil war killed more than
half a million people and displaced millions of others. Tens of
thousands of people disappeared, many into the country’s brutal prison
system.Syria’s new authorities have repeatedly vowed to provide justice
and accountability for Assad-era atrocities, while activists and the
international community have emphasized the importance of transitional
justice in the war-ravaged country.On Monday, a Syrian court conducted
the first hearing in the trial of Assad, in absentia, and of senior
figures from his government, one of whom appeared in person.Former
security official Atif Najib, a relative of Assad’s, was in the dock in
handcuffs.Assad fled to Moscow with only a handful of confidants as
Islamist-led forces closed in on Damascus in December 2024, abandoning
senior officials and security officers, some of whom reportedly went
abroad or took refuge in the coastal heartland of Assad’s Alawite
minority.
IDF chief says there’s ‘no ceasefire’ in south Lebanon
amid continued fighting with Hezbollah-Trump reportedly pushing back on
Israeli efforts to limit talks with Beirut, return to large-scale war; 1
million Lebanese will face food insecurity in coming months, monitor
warns By Emanuel Fabian,Lazar Berman,ToI Staff and Agencies 29 April
2026, 11:13 pm
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said during
a visit to troops posted in southern Lebanon on Wednesday that there
“is no ceasefire,” as Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire
despite a truce that’s been in place for almost two weeks.Zamir’s
comments came amid a reported push from Jerusalem to get the US to limit
its historic direct talks with the Lebanese government to a two-week
timeframe, and to sign off on a large-scale IDF campaign against
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group, if the talks fail.The
US-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which started on
April 17, was extended on April 24 for an additional three weeks, US
President Donald Trump announced at the time. His announcement came as
Israeli and Lebanese diplomats met for US-brokered talks.But
cross-border fighting has continued. Speaking in the southern Lebanese
town of Taybeh, one of the border villages where Israeli troops are
deployed, Zamir said that the IDF “will not tolerate” Hezbollah’s
attacks, while adding that Israel will not leave the security buffer
zone it holds in south Lebanon until the threat to Israel’s northern
communities is removed.“In Lebanon, the mission assigned to us by the
political echelon is to position ourselves along the line to prevent
direct fire on the communities. We have achieved this; this is the line
we are on. We may be required to remain on it,” Zamir said.“We will not
tolerate attacks and fire on our communities, and we will not leave
until long-term security for the northern communities is ensured,” he
said, according to remarks published by the IDF.The IDF is continuing to
fight, the chief of staff added, saying that the military is “working
to deepen the operational achievements and to protect our forces.”“On
the combat front, there is no ceasefire; you continue to fight, to
remove direct and indirect threats from the northern communities, to
thwart terror infrastructure, to locate and kill terrorists,” he
continued.“Any threat, anywhere, to our communities or our forces,
including beyond the Yellow Line and north of the Litani [River], will
be removed. Your mission and duty are to act with freedom of action and
remove any threat,” Zamir said.“At this stage we are not advancing
beyond the line, but we will continue to act and remove threats freely,”
he added, saying there “is no restriction on [destroying]
infrastructure and killing terrorists.”During Zamir’s visit, the IDF
continued its operations in southern Lebanon, saying that it struck some
20 Hezbollah sites with airstrikes and artillery shelling in the
southern Lebanon towns of Baraashit and Shaqra on Wednesday morning.The
sites hit by the Israeli Air Force and the artillery regiment of the
91st “Galilee” Regional Division included weapon depots and other
buildings used by Hezbollah for “military purposes,” the IDF said.“The
Hezbollah terror organization used these infrastructures to advance and
carry out terror attack plans against IDF troops and Israeli civilians,”
the military added.The IDF said it also struck and destroyed a
Hezbollah rocket launcher, and shot down two explosive drones that the
terror group launched at Israel.Hezbollah launched several more
explosive-laden first-person view (FPV) drones at Israeli troops in
southern Lebanon, in two separate incidents Wednesday, the army said.
The drones exploded near the forces, but did not cause any
injuries.Trump said to rebuff Israeli efforts to renew fight-According
to a Wednesday report on Channel 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
held a phone call with Trump, during which the Israeli premier asked for
further freedom of action in Lebanon and for a two-week time limit on
the peace talks with Beirut.Israel has argued that Hezbollah attacks on
Israeli soldiers and communities in Israel’s north are making an
agreement extremely unlikely, while Israel’s deterrence in the area is
eroding as it holds off from a major response to the rocket fire.If no
deal is reached by mid-May, according to the report, Israel wants
Trump’s blessing to launch the expanded campaign in Lebanon that it had
been planning.However, Trump insisted that Israel “restrain itself,” the
outlet added, citing an unnamed Israeli source. The president
reportedly urged Netanyahu not to “take actions that could jeopardize
the ceasefire.”The report said that Israel is also pushing for the
Lebanese military to take more concrete action against the Iran-backed
terror group, but the source cautioned: “The situation is very complex
and it is difficult to see Hezbollah being restrained by the weak
Lebanese army.”Netanyahu updated his limited security cabinet during a
meeting on Wednesday, at which he said that Trump still views the
ceasefires in Iran and Lebanon as linked, and he does not want Israel to
restart the war before he feels that talks with Tehran have been
exhausted, the source told Channel 12.According to the report, Israel
estimates that, even if the negotiations with Lebanon progress, the
continued Hezbollah fire in the north could still continue for a while
longer.Sa’ar: Hezbollah continuing to ‘drag Lebanon into this
war’Regarding the talks with Beirut, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun
said Wednesday that he is waiting for the White House to set a date for
the next round of direct negotiations with Israel.The only path for
Israel to achieve security is through negotiations, Aoun said, but it
must abide by the ceasefire.“If Israel believes that through its
violations and the destruction of border villages, it can achieve
security,” he said, “then it is mistaken, because it has tried that
before and it did not lead to any result.”Speaking to Saudi Arabian
state-owned Al Arabiya English, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused
Hezbollah of continuing to “drag Lebanon into this war,” warning that
Israel will keep responding to attacks from across the border.Israel
supports the ceasefire, Sa’ar said, but will not hesitate to act when
its northern communities or IDF troops in southern Lebanon are targeted,
saying: “When they attack… we need to respond.”He stressed that Israel
has “no territorial ambitions in Lebanon,” describing Hezbollah as “a
mutual problem for us and for the Lebanese.”Israel will have “no problem
to withdraw” once the group is dismantled alongside other armed
factions, Sa’ar said.“We must do today what the army of Lebanon should
have done a long time ago,” he added.1 million Lebanese said to soon
face food insecurity-Amid the fighting, a global hunger monitor on
Wednesday warned that more than 1 million people in Lebanon are expected
to face a food insecurity crisis in the months ahead as a result of
renewed conflict and mass displacement.A new analysis by the Integrated
Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has found that 1.24 million
people will be unable to consistently meet basic food needs and will be
forced to reduce the quality and quantity of foods consumed, or resort
to harmful coping strategies to survive.“These results underscore the
severity of the current situation in Lebanon, where conflict intersects
with economic pressures putting national food security under critical
risk and juncture,” said Nora Ourabah Haddad, the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations’ representative in Lebanon.The nearly
two-month war has displaced more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon,
with many heads of households out of work and relying on donations to
survive as the regional conflict drives up food prices.The IPC said
Lebanon’s agricultural sector, once a critical source of food and
income, has suffered from damage to farmland, displacement of farmers
and rising input costs.More than 76 percent of south Lebanon’s farmers
have been displaced and 22% of all agricultural land damaged in the
latest bout of fighting, according to Lebanon’s agriculture ministry.It
remains unclear how many will be able to return.“[After] a war like this
war, the agriculture sector would need years and years of
rehabilitation,” Lebanese Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani told
Reuters.He said the sector had not yet fully recovered from the
2023-2024 war sparked by Hezbollah in the wake of the Hamas-led October
7, 2023 attack on Israel. He said that conflict hiked the costs of
diesel on which most farmers rely for their equipment.The previous war
cost the country’s agricultural sector $586 million in losses and
destroyed nearly 5,000 hectares of forest cover, according to Lebanon’s
National Council for Scientific Research.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22
And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED)
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE)
those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID
HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the
sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR
ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth
distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the
waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION-HEAVENLY OBJECTS) for the
powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
At least
2 injured as storms tear through Texas and damage homes-Multiple homes
and businesses were damaged and families were displaced in Mineral
Wells, a small city about 45 miles west of Fort Worth.April 29, 2026,
7:44 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press
MINERAL WELLS, Texas —
Thunderstorms tore through parts of Texas on Tuesday, sending at least
two people to the hospital as powerful winds ripped roofs off homes,
flattened buildings and tossed debris through the air.Multiple homes and
businesses were damaged and families were displaced in Mineral Wells, a
small city about 45 miles west of Fort Worth. Two people were taken to
the hospital and others with minor injuries were treated at the scene,
according to Ryan Dunn, the city’s fire chief. There were no immediate
reports of fatalities or people missing.Dunn warned people to stay out
of an industrial area where there’s “major damage and major hazards that
are all across the roads.”The wild weather came just days after a
tornado-producing thunderstorm left at least two people dead in northern
Texas and displaced at least 20 families.Tuesday’s thunderstorms,
including at least one unconfirmed tornado, were caused by large storm
cells that were drifting southeast from north-central Texas, said Brian
Hurley, a meteorologist with National Weather Service.The storms
continued Tuesday night as they moved across Texas and into Arkansas and
Mississippi, according to the National Weather Service. The storms
could produce hail larger than 2 inches damaging winds and some
tornadoes, according to the agency.At least 1 dead amid severe weather
across Midwest, with millions more under warnings-In Mineral Wells,
where the streets were left littered with fallen trees and other debris,
the mayor declared a local state of disaster. The city also instituted a
10 p.m. curfew that will be lifted around daylight as authorities
continue to assess the damage, said Tim Denison, the city’s police
chief.He said the curfew was to “make sure that we keep people out of
the areas and also try to help these victims out, and keep their
personal belongings safe.”Officials directed anyone who needed help to
the local high school, where the Red Cross was setting up.Ventamatic, a
fans and ventilation manufacturer in Mineral Wells, said its facilities
would be closed Wednesday “due to severe damage and ongoing safety
hazards — including downed power lines.” The company announced on its
website that all of its employees had been evacuated before the storms
and everyone was safe.
Georgia officials warn wildfires are still
a threat as firefighters report progress-A fire that has burned roughly
35 square miles and destroyed more than 80 homes in rural Brantley
County was 32% contained, authorities said.April 29, 2026, 4:38 AM EDT /
Source: The Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Officials battling
two large wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in southern
Georgia warned Tuesday that firefighters are bracing for a prolonged
battle even after weekend rains gave a big boost to containment
efforts.“A little bit of rain is going to help us, but it’s not going to
get us out of this situation,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp told a news
conference after touring the fire areas Tuesday. “We’re going to be in
this for a while.”A fire that has burned roughly 35 square miles and
destroyed more than 80 homes in rural Brantley County was 32% contained,
the command team overseeing the fire response said Tuesday. That’s up
from just 6% containment reported Monday.Rains on Sunday slowed the fire
enough to give crews an opening to widen containment lines along the
perimeter and to snuff out some smoldering pockets, said Johnny Sabo,
director of the Georgia Forestry Commission.“As that number increases,
our confidence at holding it in that footprint increases,” Sabo told
reporters. He added: “We have a long way to go. I just want to stress
that.”A larger wildfire in sparsely populated Clinch and Echols counties
has charred more than 50 square miles at the Georgia-Florida line. Sabo
said crews have held that fire to roughly the same footprint for four
days. It was considered 23% contained Tuesday.One home and several dozen
sheds and other smaller structures were destroyed, said Don Thomas, a
Georgia Forestry Commission spokesperson.An unusually large number of
wildfires are burning this spring across the Southeast. Scientists say
the threat of fire has been amplified by a combination of extreme
drought, gusty winds, climate change and dead trees and other
vegetation.No fire injuries or deaths have been reported in Georgia. A
volunteer firefighter in Nassau County, Florida, died last week after
suffering an unspecified medical emergency while suppressing a brush
fire.Wildfires Burn In Drought-Stricken Georgia-A sign reads "Pray for
our emergency responders and Brantley County" near an auto lot scarred
by the Brantley Highway 82 Fire in Atkinson on Thursday.Progress made
against the Brantley County blaze prompted local officials to lift
evacuation orders Monday for roughly 1,500 people who had fled their
homes. About 2,500 remained displaced, said Susan Heisey, a spokesperson
for the fire command team.Local officials have warned people returning
home to be prepared to evacuate again if necessary.Both Georgia fires
ignited as the state’s worst drought in two decades has rendered vast
pine forests and swampy lowlands tinder dry and highly
combustible.Investigators concluded the Brantley County fire began April
20 when a foil balloon touched a power line, creating an electrical arc
that set the ground ablaze. The fire in Clinch and Echols counties
started April 18 by a falling spark as a man was welding a gate,
according to state officials.Forecasts showed a high chance of more rain
over the fires this weekend. There’s also a possibility of
thunderstorms, which can produce lightning that causes new
fires.Officials haven’t said how long the Georgia fires might burn, only
that it will take significant rainfall to extinguish them.Sabo noted
that a vast fire sparked by lightning in the nearby Okefenokee Swamp in
2011 burned for just shy of a year.
