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‘Our missiles are with you’: Hamas, Islamic Jihad threaten to join Jenin terrorists

Posted on July 3, 2023 by admin

Despite the rhetoric, Hamas is reportedly intent on keeping Gaza out of the conflict and has even prevented rocket fire multiple times.

By World Israel News Staff

The Hamas terror group issued a call for Palestinians to join the “resistance” in Jenin following a large-scale anti-terrorism operation by the IDF in the Palestinian city, while other terrorists based in the Gaza Strip threatened to launch rockets at Israeli cities.

Hours after Israel initiated the campaign, their largest offensive in the West Bank in approximately two decades, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh issued a statement, “Our people and their resistance everywhere know how to respond to this barbaric aggression.”

Hamas official Mushir al-Masri addressed Jenin-based terrorists during a rally in Gaza, saying: “Our missiles are next to your guns, and we will not leave you alone.”

Some 1,000 IDF troops are involved in the operation against Jenin, which has become a hotbed of terror.

According to Palestinian health officials, 8 Palestinians have died in the operation.

Haniyeh urged, “We call on our people throughout the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] to stand by Jenin and defend its people in order to thwart the enemy’s plan.”

“The blood being shed in Jenin will determine the nature of the next stage in all directions,” he said.

Deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, encouraged Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to participate in the Jenin conflict. He stated, “We are ready to sacrifice our lives, and the enemy’s threats do not scare us. We will hit the enemy at the time and place of our choosing, and by any means, whether with stones, bullets or rockets, like the Kassam that was launched a few days ago from Jenin.”

Ziad Nakhleh, a Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, labeled the IDF operation in Jenin as a “massacre”, and announced that the Gaza-based, Iran-backed terror group will retaliate. “What is happening in Jenin is a massacre by the enemy against the Palestinian people,” Nakhleh said according to a translation of his remarks by The Times of Israel.

Despite the rhetoric, there has been no rocket fire from Gaza until now and Israeli reports said Hamas is intentionally keeping Gaza, which it rules, out of the conflict and has even prevented rocket fire multiple times since the launch of the operation in Jenin.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demanded that Palestinian leaders urgently meet to discuss the operation in Jenin, as reported by the official Wafa news agency.

Spokesperson for Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, termed the operation as a “war crime” against “our defenseless people.”

Nabil Abu Rudeineh called on the international community “to break its shameful silence and take serious action to compel Israel to stop its aggression against our Palestinian people, and to hold it accountable for all these crimes.”

Jordan also issued a condemnation of the “Israeli aggression” in Jenin, and has urged the international community to apply pressure on Israel to halt the operation before the situation “explodes.”

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Netanyahu: Jenin operation aims at targeting those who seek to obliterate Israel

Posted on July 3, 2023 by admin

July 4th is a day to remember that “freedom is precious and it’s never free – it involves firm and decisive efforts against those who seek to destroy it and pursue terror.”

By World Israel News Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday stressed that the objective of the ongoing IDF operation in Jenin is to thwart terrorists intent on obliterating Israel.

“In recent months, Jenin has become a safe haven for terrorism, and from that haven came vicious attacks against Israeli men, women and children,” Netanyahu said during a speech at the US Embassy’s Fourth of July Party. “Last night, Israeli soldiers tried to reach undetected the most legitimate target on the planet – people who would annihilate our country.”

“Israeli soldiers are doing everything to avoid civilian casualties as Israel does everything to exercise its right to self-defense,” he added.

July 4th is a day to remember that “freedom is precious and it’s never free. Often, it involves firm and decisive efforts against those who seek to destroy it and pursue terror,” he went on, before recalling events of July 4, 1976, when his brother Yoni Netanyahu lost his life in the course of saving Israelis from a plane hijacked to Entebbe. The current operation was a continuation of such efforts against terror, the prime minister said.

Simultaneously, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht maintained that Jenin has become a hotbed of terrorism and that Israel had been waiting for more than two years to initiate a wide-ranging operation to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure there, with the hope that the Palestinian Authority would do it first. It never did. The city is rife with weapons, command centers, IEDs, and ammunition.

“We launched a surprise assault – they anticipated a land attack, but we struck from the air. Our elite forces have been methodically moving from one target to another within the [refugee] camp,” Hecht told Israel National News. IDF operations specifically target armed gunmen who pose a threat to Israeli lives, he said, adding that Jenin was “infested with weapons, command centers, IEDs, munitions.”

“We’re trying to break the mindset of the camp as a safe haven for terrorists,” he told the outlet.

As the operation continues, Hecht emphasized the need for the international media to maintain journalistic standards and report the IDF perspective accurately and responsibly. He maintained that the IDF remains dedicated to conveying the truth.

“We say outright ‘Yes, something happened, we had to go in, it was a battle zone, and some people who were uninvolved got killed. People were firing at our soldiers, and mistakes happen. We don’t have to justify ourselves, but we have to say the truth,” he said.

Netanyahu, affirming Hecht’s statements, vowed that the operation “will continue as long as it takes to complete the mission.”

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WATCH: IDF Maglan special forces clash with armed Palestinian terrorists in Jenin

Posted on July 3, 2023 by admin

The IDF released footage of Israeli soldiers from the elite Maglan Unit conducting counterterrorism activity in the Jenin Camp.

No, this is not an episode of Fauda, but real life IDF soldiers from the elite Maglan Combat Unit, conducting counterterrorism activity in #Jenin. pic.twitter.com/Gzpy51Bnqx

— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) July 3, 2023

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California Jews most targeted religious group, government report says

Posted on July 3, 2023 by admin

Antisemitic hate crimes saw a 24 percent increase in 2022 than the previous year.

By Dion J. Pierre, The Algemeiner

Members of California’s Jewish community are the group for most targeted for hate crimes motivated by religion, according to a new report by state’s Attorney General office, which has tracked data on religious-bias crimes since 1995.

According to the report, antisemitic hate crimes increased by 24 percent in 2022, with 189 counted — 37 more than occurred in 2021.

Notable incidents from the year include one from May 2022 in which a white supremacist group calling itself the Goyim Defense League (GDL) drove through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills in a truck exhibiting disturbing antisemitic messages. In Santa Monica, fliers blaming Jews for covid-19 vaccines were posted at several elementary and middle schools. Containing a red and green Star of David with “anti-vaxxer” written in white block letters, they were also tacked on the walls, and in one instance, a crate of books. Another was posted to an electrical unit.

Additionally, in Oct., the GDL in Oct. hung an antisemitic banner over the 405 freeway, an act inspired by Kanye West’s manic outbursts about antisemitic conspiracies of Jewish power and control around that time. Both incidents prompted Governor Gavin Newsom (D) to address the issue in a statement condemning antisemitism and noting the state legislature’s efforts to support Jewish life and promote tolerance.

The GLD has been active across the US and the world. On Friday, its leader, Jon Minadeo, 40, was arrested during an antisemitic demonstration staged outside a synagogue in Bibb County, Georgia. In February, GDL crashed the Daytona 500 speedway race, holding up signs that said, “Henry Ford was right about the Jews” and “Communism is Jewish.” That same month, one of its members, 41 year old Canadian citizen Robert Wilson flashed on the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam an offensive message alluding to a conspiracy which claims that the pen Anne Frank used to write diary entries was not invented during World War II.

“This report is a stark reminder that there is still much work to be done to combat hate in our state. I urge local partners and law enforcement to review these findings and recommit to taking action,” California attorney general Rob Bonta said last Tuesday in a statement. “The alarming increases in crimes committed against Black, LGBTQ+, and Jewish people for the second year in a row illustrates the need for our communities to join together unified against hate.”

Hate crimes of all kinds against Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Muslims, and Gay men in California have increased immensely since 2013, the report noted, showing 100 percent increases for each category.

Antisemitic incidents in the United States increased 36 percent in 2022, according to an annual audit issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in March. The ADL recorded 3,697 incidents — ten per day — across the US, the highest ever since the group began track them in 1979.

Incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault all spiked by double digits and occurred most frequently in New York, California, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas, which accounted for 54 percent of the ADL’s data. New York had the most, with 580 incidents. California came in second, with 518.

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