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Beastly Boy's JournalJordan's help against Iran shows relationship with Israel still strong, despite Gaza
On Saturday night, dozens of drones launched by Iran toward Israel were intercepted by Jordanian air force jets as they crossed the kingdoms airspace.
The military assistance provided by Amman to Israel was welcomed enthusiastically in the Jewish state, but also came as a surprise to many Israelis, since the Hashemite Kingdom has been a source of relentless criticism of Israels war against Hamas, and has been under intense domestic pressure to break off diplomatic relations with Jerusalem.
To some commentators, however, Ammans intervention on Saturday night did not come as a surprise. Ghaith al-Omari, a native Jordanian and a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the kingdoms dramatic show of support proved the strength of the security alliance between Amman and Jerusalem.
Despite all of the political tensions between Jordan and Israel, the military and intelligence relationship never stopped, he said. As a matter of fact, the worse the politics gets, the closer the militaries get, because they both understand the need to maintain this relationship. This is part of both Jordans military doctrine and Israeli military doctrine.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordans-help-against-iran-shows-relationship-with-israel-still-strong-despite-gaza/
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Several Gulf States, among them Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, passed on intelligence about Irans plans to attack Israel, providing vital information that was key to the success of the air defense measures that almost entirely thwarted the massive assault, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday citing Saudi, US, and Egyptian officials.
The cooperation was spearheaded by the US, which has for years been striving to form an informal military partnership to counter threats from Iran, the report said.
Overnight Saturday-Sunday Iran launched hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles alongside hundreds of drones at Israel. Yet by Sunday morning, the Israel Defense Forces, backed by the US and other allies, were able to confirm that some 99% of the incoming threats were downed, and the handful that made it through caused only minor damage.
While it was already known that Jordan actively participated in the downing of drones heading to Israel through its airspace, the Journal report for the first time revealed the scope of joint activities stretching across the region, and that included countries that have no diplomatic ties with Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-gulf-states-including-saudi-arabia-provided-intelligence-on-iran-attack/
Israel is no longer fighting Iran and their terrorist proxies alone. A major shift in the regional balance of powers, so far barely noticed by the media pundits.
With its aerial attack, Iran could break Israel's isolation and reframe the Gaza war
The result was underwhelming, to say the least.The attacks overnight Saturday-Sunday only managed to harm one Israeli, a 7-year-old Muslim girl.
Its kind of pathetic, said Danielle Pletka, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. This is not the outcome they were hoping for.
Even among Israels closest allies, pressure had been growing to end the war in the Gaza Strip. The focus since October 7 had shifted to suffering Gazan civilians, with the world losing sight of the need to decisively defeat Hamas on the battlefield.
With its missile and drone attack on Israel, Iran succeeded in rallying the US and top European powers to Israels side. Not only did the US, the UK, and France express their unequivocal support for Israel; they actively took part in its defense, using a network of satellite, planes, and radars on the ground and at sea. And instead of the UN Security Council discussing the need for a ceasefire in Gaza, it will be debating the Iranian threat and Israels right to self-defense on Sunday, with three permanent members sure to band together to condemn Tehran and Moscow.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-its-aerial-attack-iran-could-break-israels-isolation-and-reframe-the-gaza-war/?utm_source=article_hpsidebar&utm_medium=desktop_site&utm_campaign=liveblog-april-14-2024
Iran's spectacular display of weakness is a major and humiliating self-own, a loss of face for all the world to see. Who would even think of spinning it as a "measured" response, when it is so obviously a total failure, both militarily and politically?
If anyone wants to donate to the families of the World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza,
here is the link to the WCK gofundme page:
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Freed Gaza hostage says she was abducted by armed civilians, sold to Hamas
Nili Margalits revelation in an interview with the Le Point French magazine appeared to further highlight the extent to which participation in the shock attack in which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 253 were taken hostage extended beyond fighters in the Hamas terror group.
Margalit shared her story while on a Paris stop of a tour throughout Europe aimed at raising awareness of the 133 Israelis still in captivity.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/freed-gaza-hostage-says-she-was-abducted-by-armed-civilians-sold-to-hamas/
Isn't slave trade illegal, even in Gaza?
Islamic Jihad spokesman admits taking over all Gaza hospitals
Gaza terror groups use all of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip.... The organization lied and deceived regarding the story of an Israeli rocket hitting a hospital at the start of the war, he told his interrogators.
The PIJ spokesman was arrested recently during the second takeover of Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, along with 500 other Hamas and PIJ terrorists, plus another 200 whom the IDF killed when they refused to surrender.
The terror spokesman said his role was to fool the global media and foreign countries to turn them against Israel.
Previously revealed recordings of Hamas members blaming PIJ
On October 18, IDF Spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari laid out the IDFs full comprehensive intelligence case to prove that a failed rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza was the cause behind the damage and the death at al-Ahli Arab Hospital. This was the incident that Uda Abu was referring to.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-796006
Israel strikes Hamas launchers embedded in Khan Yunis humanitarian area
Source: Jerusalem Post
The Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets conducted multiple strikes over the last few days on three Hamas rocket launch posts, the IDF said on Monday.
The posts were discovered using direct operational identifications in a designated humanitarian area in western Khan Yunis. Allegedly, they were used to carry out attacks towards southern Israel throughout the recent months of fighting.
Prior to the attack, the IDF verified the evacuation of civilians and accurately targeted the launchers.
The strikes harmed no innocent civilians.
The military added that Hamas's use of rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian area was further proof of the terror organization's exploitation of civilian populations and humanitarian compounds and areas.
On Sunday, three rocket launches were identified from the area of Khan Yunis, targeting communities near the Gaza Strip. Luckily, the launches fell in open areas.
Read more: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795924
Escalating tensions between Fatah, Hamas will impact post-war Gaza
The US and other influential entities anticipated that the Palestinian Authority would implement crucial reforms to function as a "normalized" authority.An Israeli official told the Wall Street Journal, "The understanding is that one way or another, we will work with entities connected to the Authority. However, it doesn't mean that the current format of the Authority will be the leading force in Gaza." Hamas, on the other hand, is intensifying efforts to ensure its central role in governing the Gaza Strip, aiming for significant political influence.
The terror organization arrested six Palestinians suspected of collaborating with PA intelligence operatives who entered Gaza with Egyptian Red Cross aid at the end of March.
Hamas targets PA for alleged collaboration with Israel
Hamas sent a sharp message to the PA, alleging cooperation with Israel in "the destructive war against Gazans." A Fatah spokesperson, in turn, stated that Hamas is focusing on activities against the Palestinian Authority and that "Palestinian Authority intelligence operatives operate in Gaza solely to distribute aid to residents."
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795909
The 'Tectonic Shift' in Media That Changed Perceptions of Israel: 'What's Left Is a System Run by Activists'
Friedman, a former reporter and editor at the Associated Press based in Jerusalem from 2006-2011, quit the global news agency after being censored by his editors, and realizing he would have to censor what he and his colleagues knew to be true about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And what was the case a decade ago is more true now, he told me.
The press has been gutted. The bureaus have shrunk, and into that vacuum have come ideological voices, he said. Now Human Rights Watch gives you a report, in English, and you write a story based on that report. And you end up serving as the media arm of the hard left, the world of NGOs.
This mattered less when the conflict had fallen out of the headlines. But now that the heated war between Israel and Hamas has come to dominate the global news cycle, this shift has dramatic consequences on regional tension amid a frightening spike in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment around the world.
Examples of this shift abound
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tectonic-shift-media-changed-perceptions-130000069.html
More at the link.
Hamas arrests PA intelligence officers, accuses them of collaboration with Israel - report
According to the reports, the General Intelligence Service members entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt during a mission to secure and facilitate the humanitarian aid truck convoys. At some point after entrance, they were apprehended by Hamas terrorists.
An unnamed Hamas official told Al-Aqsa TV that the PA General Intelligence Service leader, Majed Faraj, was using this mission as a guise with the aim of creating a "state of confusion and chaos among the ranks of the home front, and with security from the Israeli Shin Bet service and the enemy army.
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An unnamed PA official in Ramallah said in a separate statement, The statement of the so-called Hamas Interior Ministry about the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip yesterday is baseless, and we will continue to provide everything necessary to provide relief to our people.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794739
Palestinians in search of a two-state solution.
IDF troops find weapons at Al Shifa's hospital's MRI cener and Maternity Ward.
The IDF says troops of the Nahal Brigades reconnaissance unit located a cache of weapons at Shifa Hospitals MRI center, during the militarys ongoing raid against Hamas at the medical center, the largest in the Gaza Strip.
Mortars, grenades, firearms and ammunition were found hidden within the building, in some cases under the floors and in the drop ceiling, according to the IDF.
The IDF says the Nahal troops killed several gunmen during their scans of the MRI center and Shifas maternity ward.
Weapons were also found in the maternity ward, the IDF says.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-troops-find-weapons-cache-at-shifa-hospitals-mri-center/
The Israel Defense Forces releases evidence of Hamas weapons found inside Shifa Hospital during a raid in the medical center today.
It says members of the elite Shaldag unit and other forces of the 36th Division found the weapons inside Shifas MRI center.
Troops had battled Hamas gunmen outside the hospital, killing five.
During searches inside one of the hospitals wards, the troops located a room containing unique technological means, combat equipment, and military equipment used by the Hamas terrorist organization, the IDF says.
It publishes images and videos showing several assault rifles, grenades, and other military equipment. It says that in another ward, it found a Hamas operational headquarters and technological means which it says indicates Hamass use of the facility for terror
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-publishes-evidence-of-weapons-found-inside-shifa-hospitals-mri-center/
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