Important Takeaways:
- Report: Hamas calls for global Jihad, invasion of Israel, attack Jews worldwide on Oct. 13
- A leader and founding member of Hamas, Khalid Mashal, reportedly called for a global Jihad on Tuesday, asking Muslims around the world to target the people of Israel on Friday, Oct. 13.
- This is breaking news that will be updated as more information becomes available.
- Video of Mashal’s reported call to violence was posted on YouTube and remains up on the platform as of Wednesday at 10 a.m.
- According to a translation and analysis of the video by author Brother Rachid, Mashal referred to his proposed day of anger as “the Friday of Al-Aqsa flood,” which will “send a message of rage to Zionists and to America.”
- “The most important thing: He asked all Muslims around the world to carry Jihad by their souls; to fight and be martyrs for Al-Aqsa. He wants Muslims to fight against the Jews, starting with Muslims who live in the countries surrounding Israel: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt (but also other countries), to go to the borders and try to enter, each by his own means,” Rachid explained. “He said: This is the time for Jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory. He asked the Mujahedeen to go in long caravans to spell their blood on the land of Palestine.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Democratic senators break with Biden and call to refreeze $6 billion Iranian ‘ransom’ funds after horrific Hamas terror attack on Israel
- Influential Democratic senators have publicly pressed the Biden Administration to try to find a way to freeze $6 billion in Iranian funds over Tehran’s support for Hamas.
- The pressure from within the president’s own party comes as the White House says there is no confirmation of Iran’s support for the gruesome Hamas attack – even while acknowledging Iran’s longstanding support for the group.
- Jon Tester (D-Mont.), a Democratic centrist who is up for reelection in 2024, is among those calling for the funds to be refrozen.
- ‘As American intelligence officials continue to investigate the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas, we should review our options to hold Iran accountable for any support they may have provided,’ he said.
- ‘At a minimum, we should immediately freeze the $6 billion in Iranian assets and explore other financial tools we have at our disposal,’ he said, the Hill reported.
- Also weighing in was Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who is also facing reelection. ‘I wasn’t supportive of the initial $6 billion transfer. We should absolutely freeze Iranian assets while we also consider additional statements,’ he said.
- The administration negotiated the unfreezing of the funds in a deal last month that bought the release of five Americans held hostage in Iran. The then-frozen funds got transferred from South Korea to Qatar, where they are now being overseen.
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘Hamas is ISIS’: IDF Secures Border, Pounds Gaza as Hamas Terrorists Threaten to Execute Hostages
- Speaking in an address to the nation Monday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel is in “a war to ensure our existence, a war that we will win.”
- “Israel is at war. Israel didn’t want this war. It was forced upon us in the most brutal and savage way. But though Israel didn’t start this war, Israel will finish it … Hamas will understand that by attacking us they’ve made a mistake of historic proportions,” he said.
- “We have always known what Hamas is. Now the whole world knows. Hamas is ISIS,” Netanyahu said. “We will defeat [Hamas] precisely as the enlightened world defeated ISIS.”
- The IDF has called up a record 360,000 reservists to prepare for what many expect is a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
- There are more than 160 hostages in Hamas’ hands, and Hamas has warned they will kill one hostage on live TV every time Israel attacks “without prior warning.”
- “They were taken from their home, from their beds,” said one Israeli mother whose two sons are being held hostage.
- [During airstrikes from IDF] Gaza authorities say at least 687 Palestinians have died.
- Meanwhile, on Israel’s northern border, there have been several skirmishes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, leading many to believe a second front could be a real possibility.
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Important Takeaways:
- Israel Didn’t See a Hamas Strike Coming. The U.S. Could Be Next, McCarthy Warns
- Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), who told the Washington Free Beacon in a wide-ranging interview that the chaos at the U.S. southern border could set the stage for a similar type of terror attack.
- McCarthy said. “We caught more people on the terrorist watch list in February than we caught in the entire administration. We could have cells sitting inside of America right now.”
- Analysts are calling the attacks Israel’s 9/11, echoing a time when U.S. intelligence agencies completely failed to detect a shock al Qaeda operation that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
- “We should take a step back and look at ourselves,” McCarthy said. “Your intel is never perfect and we’ve got a wide-open border. They’re coming from 160 different countries,” including those known to harbor militant operatives loyal to Iran and other terror groups, like the Taliban.
- “How did we not know that is happening” in the Gaza Strip? McCarthy asked. “Everybody should look at their own intelligence right now.”
- McCarthy told the Free Beacon that the uncertainty created by his ouster is contributing to fears Congress will not be ready to ensure Israel is armed with the resources it needs to combat Hamas.
- McCarthy also said the Biden administration is “1,000 percent” responsible for creating conditions that enabled Iran to fund Hamas and help plan its attack on Israel.
- This includes a $6 billion ransom payment last month that gave Iran access to cash reserves that analysts and Republican lawmakers say helped pay for Hamas’s war.
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘Worse than ISIS’: Hamas terrorists ‘behead Israeli soldiers’ in sickening footage
- Hamas violence in Israel has been described as “worse than ISIS” as images shared online show a purported beheading of an Israeli Defense Force soldiers.
- This comes as the death toll is estimated to be over 700 following Hamas’ brutal assault in southern Israel. Hamas terrorists have been seen piling up the bodies of 260 young ravers at a horrific massacre at a music festival…
- Users on X have been left shocked as the horrifying images of Hamas terrorist violence, which so far has seen nine Americans in Israel confirmed dead, were shared on the platform.
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Important Takeaways:
- We just witnessed the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, and as a result the Israeli government has declared war on Hamas.
- All the way back in 2018, Gruver issued a very ominous warning. According to James Bailey, Gruver stated that “when Israel sends troops into Gaza, it will be a sign the Middle East War has started”…
- First of all, Middle East War would have to pull the trigger on a full-blown ground invasion of Gaza.
- If an invasion does actually happen, then we will want to watch what Hezbollah does in the north.
- On Sunday, they did fire a bunch of missiles into Israel…
- For the moment, Hezbollah has ceased fire, but a Hezbollah official has also issued a very alarming warning…
- The Hezbollah official referred to his group’s shelling of Israel, saying: “The resistance sent a message this morning.” He said “it is our right to target the enemy that is still occupying our land and the Israelis must read this message well.”
- He continued: “There is a message to the Americans and Israelis that what happened in Gaza means that your protracted foolishness and underestimation have led you to the Al-Aqsa Flood [operation], and if you go further today you will witness the flood of the entire nation, not only Al-Aqsa,” Al-Aqsa Flood is the name given to the Hamas assault on Israel.
- Safi al-Din warned that “the scene of the storming of settlements around Gaza coupled with rocket shelling will one day be repeated dozens-fold stronger, from Lebanon and from all the areas that are adjacent to occupied Palestine.”
- According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran played a major role in helping Hamas to plan the surprise attack against Israel…
- …according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.
- Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions…
- The IRGC’s broader plan is to create a multi-front threat that can strangle Israel from all sides…
- So all of the pieces on the chess board are moving into position for the sort of “Middle East War” that Henry Gruver warned about.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hamas Launches Unprecedented Terror Attack on Israel
- Responding to the surprise attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the nation is “at war” and the terrorists “will pay a price it has never known before.”
- Thus far, the attacks in Israel have reportedly left over 600 people dead and 2,048 wounded.
- Hamas claims it has captured Israel Defense Force soldiers and civilians during its assault on Israeli border towns outside Gaza.
- Israel’s military response –“Operation Sword of Iron”– has led to the deaths of 198 Palestinians and 1,864 people injured.
- The attack occurred on the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret, the final day of the annual High Holy Day cycle.
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Important Takeaways:
- U.S. Weapons from Afghanistan Ended up with Palestinian Groups Operating in the Gaza Strip
- According to a Newsweek report published in June, an Israeli commander said some of the US small arms seized in Afghanistan have already been observed in the hands of Palestinian groups operating in the Gaza Strip.
- The report began recirculating on social media, amid accusations that the Biden administration funded Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel by releasing $6 billion in frozen funds to Iran, the main backer of Hamas.
- Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Saturday:
- The $6 billion has not been accessed completely by Iran yet, but the fact of the matter is if you have a credit on your account for $6 billion, typically, people count that as access available today, tomorrow, whenever, so you start reworking your spending budget.
- And by doing so, you put yourself in a position to use that money even though you have not had access to it yet. So the $6 billion that they know they’re getting, they’re using already.
- Newsweek also reported that another source disclosed a specific event on August 20 where a Russian Il-76 transport aircraft allegedly dropped off cargo in Tehran worth an estimated $100 million, which included Western weapons such as U.S.-made Javelins and United Kingdom-made Next Generation Light Anti-armor weapons (NLAWs).
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Important Takeaways:
- IDF Says Territory Back Under its Control After Battling Hamas Invaders, Long Fight Still Ahead
- The IDF deployed four divisions to the south to expel Hamas operatives from Israeli soil. Israeli warplanes are carrying out widespread strikes on Hamas targets and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday ordered a “complete closure” of the Gaza Strip.
- “No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” will be allowed into the coastal enclave, Gallant said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
- Meanwhile, Hamas continues to rain down rockets on communities in south and central Israel.
- The numbers reported since the war began are staggering. More than 4,000 rockets fired into Israel, as many as 700 Israelis murdered, almost three thousand injured, many seriously— and about 100 kidnapped and taken into captivity in Gaza.
- Israel is now on a war footing with up to 300,000 reservists called up to action. Many anticipate a ground incursion into Gaza soon with the likely goal of the destruction of the Iranian-backed terror group, and they’re evacuating some communities near Gaza.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hamas issues terror threat to Israel: ‘We will return to the Intifada’
- Saleh al-Arouri, Deputy Head of Hamas’ political bureau, met in Beirut on Saturday with a delegation from the leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – led by its Deputy Secretary-General, Jamil Mazhar.
- The two called on Hamas and the Popular Front to escalate their opposition against Israel.
- The two factions also called on the Palestinian Authority leadership to “return to the intifada in order to achieve national unity and the settlement of the Palestinian home on national and democratic bases.”
- Last month, Arouri threatened regional warfare against Israel, to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas and Iran would pay “full price” for their terrorist attacks against Israel.
- Arouri also said that the Israeli government would “suffer a resounding defeat, which will lead to their withdrawal from the entire West Bank.
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