Defense and Security
The relatives of the Bibas toddlers Kfir and Ariel contacted the Redhead Days Festival organizers via social media, asking them to keep the captives in the participants’ thoughts, who are currently held in Gaza.
The community’s security team managed to hold off the terrorist onslaught on Oct. 7 but the children underwent immense trauma.
Even if the Air Force did destroy 6,000 enemy missiles on Sunday, this is less than 3% of their arsenal, Upper Galilee Regional Council chairman tells JNS.
Israel has sealed 150 terror smuggling tunnels so far; Egypt cannot be relied upon to prevent new smuggling, observers tell JNS.
“We want to get this ceasefire deal as soon as possible,” White House advisor John Kirby told reporters. “We haven’t taken our foot off the gas.”
“Words can’t describe knowing you gave the kids the chance of a lifetime when they needed it most,” Roy Shaul-Morgan, international delegation director of Tzofim Tzabar Olami, told JNS.
The body of Ruby Chen’s son IDF Sgt. Itay Chen is being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Time may be running out for Yahya Sinwar. “We have actually been minutes away more than once,” said a former Shin Bet official.
“We must never forget that each beloved service member we lost was a human being, who left behind entire families and communities,” the U.S. president said.
“We do not fear escalation, yet do not seek it—unlike Israel,” tweets Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Israel’s preemptive strike against Hezbollah “demonstrates why the Biden-Harris Administration must ... finally implement the new sanctions on Iran that Congress passed this spring,” says the House Speaker.
“Evil only respects one thing: unyielding strength,” the former president says.
