Askar-UNRWA Cradle of Killers – Summer 2023

• Israel’s Real Borders
• The Jewish people: Myth or reality? A lie with a purpose
• State Department identifies Code Pink and other far-left groups as vectors of Chinese influence operations
• ISLAM NOT WELCOME IN JAPAN
• ‘Free Palestine’ stickers placed on 140 El Al passengers’ suitcases at LAX
• Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)
• First Intifada
• The Second Intifada: A defining event that reshaped the nation
• Remember all those killed by ‘Just throwing rocks’
• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) how terrorists operate inside Gaza Hospital
• Palestinians finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy
• $100 million spent on anti-Israel efforts yearly at UN, says Israeli envoy Danon
• UN Faces ‘Imminent Collapse’ as U.S. Funding Stalls
• Trump announces US exit from dozens of UN, international groups
• Why Israel Bulldozed UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ
• ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES
• Israel to strip licenses from aid groups in West Bank, Gaza over terror links
• UNRWA, Hamas & Palestinian Authority train Terrorists: Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel (BDS). The UN started BDS

• Regrets on the global stage as countries rethink bans on Israel
• How Israel avoided Eurovision ouster and the diplomatic push that changed the vote
• Yuval Raphael’s Eurovision2025 performance
• UN made ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Jew-hatred in 1975, expert says at Geneva event
• Always remember… Lies are spread by ‘Palestinians’, repeated by fools, and accepted by idiots.
• Gaza flotilla Consequences

• Children Soldiers

• BREAKING: UNRWA CAN NOW BE SUED IN ISRAELI COURTS
• Israel begins dismantling process of banned UNRWA’s Jerusalem headquarters
• Final approval: No water or electricity to be supplied to UNRWA properties
• UNRWA has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem
• Europeans finally waking up to Hamas-enabling UNRWA scam
• UNRWA incitement
• UNRWA’S TERRORGRAM – HOW A TELEGRAM GROUP OF 3,000 UNRWA TEACHERS IN GAZA CELEBRATED THE OCTOBER 7TH HAMAS MASSACRE
• UN finds out that UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism
• UNRWA mourns Hamas Head Yahya Sinwar
• UN demands immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 jihad massacre
• Trump administration strips UNRWA of legal immunity in court filing
• UNRWA a Hamas front
• Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that
• 22October2024-Terrorists use UN aid vehicles at UNRWA Logistics Compound in Eastern Rafah, Gaza
• The tunnel system beneath UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza used by Hamas as their main intelligence server hub
• UNRWA staff linked to October 7th Massacre
• UNRWA to be declared by the State of Israel as a terrorist organization
• Israel outlaws UNWRA
• UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem to be seized
• How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists
• UNRWA: Your child abuse must stop
• UNRWA: Raising the next generation of Terrorists
• UNRWA corruption vs. UNHCR
• The truth about UNRWA
• The UNRWA Constellation: Partnerships with UN Agencies and Terror-Linked NGOs
• Gaza resident tells IDF: Hamas has control of UNRWA in Gaza
• US MADE EXPLOSIVES sold to Egypt FOUND IN UNRWA school in GAZA

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Israel’s Real Borders

Kontorovich Reveals the REAL Legal Borders of Israel and Why the World Lies About It

The Elizabeth Farah Show

The United Nations did not create Israel. The Holocaust did not create Israel. The Balfour Declaration did not create Israel. And the borders of the modern Jewish state were not drawn by diplomats, activists, or postwar sentiment. International law scholar Eugene Kontorovich joins Elizabeth Farah to expose the real story, the one the media will not touch and most politicians do not understand.

Eugene dismantles every myth surrounding Israel’s sovereignty, showing how global powers tried to prevent the state’s creation, embargoed its weapons during its war for survival, and still push false narratives about its legal borders. He walks through the mandates, treaties, and governing doctrines that shaped the modern Middle East, and explains why the only binding international rule for new states, uti possidetis juris, places the borders of Mandatory Palestine, Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem squarely within Israel’s legal territory.

Together, Eugene and Elizabeth reveal how the collapse of the Ottoman Empire created every modern state in the region, why British obstruction trapped millions of Jews in Europe as the Holocaust unfolded, and how the same legal principles that define today’s borders for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Ukraine, and dozens of African nations apply with full force to Israel. This is the historical and legal record the world refuses to acknowledge.

They call out the diplomats, academics, and institutions that rely on political narratives instead of law, and they issue a challenge: if international law matters, then it must be applied consistently. And if it is applied consistently, Israel’s borders are not a debate. They are already defined.

This is the conversation that cuts through propaganda, resets the legal record, and exposes the truth about Israel’s sovereignty.

Guest: Eugene Kontorovich, 
Professor of International Law, Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the legal status of Israel’s borders.

Host: Elizabeth Farah
, Founder of The Elizabeth Farah Show and co-founder of WND.com

What You Will Hear
• Why the UN has no legal authority to create or dissolve nations
• How the League of Nations mandates shaped every modern Middle Eastern border
• Why the Holocaust made Israel’s creation harder, not easier
• How British policy blocked Jewish refugees from reaching the Mandate
• The legal doctrine that decides borders for every new country, including Israel
• Why Judea and Samaria fall inside Israel’s inherited borders under international law
• The global double standard that applies uti possidetis juris everywhere except Israel

Prof. of Law Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict.  Below, Kontorovich discusses Israel’s real borders and exposes many false narratives which defy reality and truth about those borders.

Key points 

• Israel was not created by the UN: The United Nations lacks authority to create states; its 1947 partition plan was both non-binding and rejected by Arab states.
• The Holocaust did not create Israel: The reconstitution of the Jewish state was accepted and planned decades before the Shoah; the Holocaust actually weakened Jewish capacity to establish it.
• The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine is the key legal foundation: It was a binding international instrument recognizing the Jewish national home.
• Borders follow prior administrative boundaries: Under the doctrine of uti possidetis juris, new states inherit borders of previous top-level administrative unit.
• Israel legally inherited Mandatory Palestine’s territory: This included all land west of the Jordan River at the time of independence.
• Arab occupation did not create sovereignty: Jordanian and Egyptian control of the West Bank and Gaza (1948–1967) had no legal effect on sovereignty.
• Israel became a state through self-declaration and defense: Effective governance and survival against invasion meet international law criteria for statehood.
• Israel is held to no special legal standard: The same international law rules applied to Israel apply to every modern state worldwide.

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The Jewish people: Myth or reality? A lie with a purpose

By: Dr. Alex Grobman February 11, 2026 https://diariojudio.com/opinion/the-jewish-people-myth-or-reality-a-lie-with-a-purpose/517123/

While the Prime Minister is in Washington fighting for Israel’s survival, it is crucial to remember that the Jewish people’s attachment to its tiny land was continuous, documented, and unmatched by any competing national claim. It was also legally recognized.<

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One of the oldest and most dishonest arguments used to deny Jewish rights in the Land of Israel is the claim that Jews are not a people-only a religion. This falsehood resurfaces whenever Israel asserts itself as a Jewish state and whenever Jews insist on their right to national self-determination.

It reemerged loudly in December 2019, after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at combating antisemitism on American college campuses. Almost immediately, critics claimed that Jews were merely adherents of a faith and therefore not entitled to the legal protections afforded to national or ethnic groups.

This was not an academic disagreement.

It was ideological warfare.

The argument that Jews are “not a people” is not an innocent error. It is a calculated strategy. Its goal is singular: to delegitimize Jewish nationhood and invalidate the Jewish state. Strip Jews of peoplehood, and Zionism becomes colonialism. Strip Jews of history, and Israel becomes theft. This argument has been recycled for generations-and it has never been honest.

>h3>International Law Settled This Long Ago

International law has never been confused on this question.

Professor George Scelle, one of the most influential international jurists of the twentieth century and a member of the UN International Law Commission, defined a “people” as any collective bound by conscious solidarity, as determined by its own members. By that standard, he concluded unambiguously that the Jewish people constitute a nation.

Scelle acknowledged that Jews were dispersed and lacked territorial continuity. But instead of weakening Jewish peoplehood, dispersion reinforced it. Jews retained their identity precisely because they refused to dissolve into surrounding societies. Their shared traditions, historical memory, religious practices, and-above all-the persecutions they endured forged a cohesion stronger than that of many territorially concentrated peoples.

Paul Fauchille, another leading French jurist, reached the same conclusion. Writing after World War I, he stated plainly that the war brought “official recognition of the nationhood of yet another persecuted people: namely the Jewish people.”

This recognition was not symbolic.

On July 24, 1922, the League of Nations formally recognized the Jewish people and their historic and religious connection to the Land of Israel through the Palestine Mandate. The Mandate explicitly affirmed Jewish national rights and recognized the Zionist Organization as the representative body of the Jewish people.

This was not charity. It was law.

Even the Nazis Knew Jews Were a People

After World War II, the Nuremberg Tribunals (1945-1949) reaffirmed this reality. The judges ruled that “atrocities against the Jewish people were committed.” Throughout their judgments, they referred repeatedly to the murder of “the Jews” across Europe.

Professor Nathan Feinberg, former dean of The Hebrew University Law School and a leading authority on international law, explained that the tribunal used the term “Jewish people” in an ethnic-not religious-sense. Jews were murdered not for what they believed, but for who they were. Converts were murdered alongside observant Jews.

The Nazis understood Jewish peoplehood clearly-even if today’s deniers pretend otherwise.

Jewish Nationalism Is Not Colonialism

From 1517 until World War I, the Ottoman Empire ruled the Land of Israel. Ottoman sovereignty collapsed with the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), transferring authority to the Allied Powers. This enabled the implementation of Jewish national rights that long predated modern international law.

Britain did not “give” the land to the Jews. As former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold explained, the Mandate constituted de jure recognition of a historical and legal reality-not an act of imperial generosity. Jewish attachment to the land was continuous, documented, and unmatched by any competing national claim.

The British hoped Arabs and Jews could live together and that Arab society would benefit from Jewish development. But even British officials recognized an overriding fact: the Jewish claim was unique-sui generis. No other people returned to its land after two millennia with its language, laws, religious observances, and national consciousness intact.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, noted that more than 3,000 years before the Mayflower sailed to the New World, Jews fled Egypt. Every year, Jews commemorate that liberation at the Passover seder, concluding with the words:

“This year we are here; next year in the Land of Israel.”

Ben-Gurion observed that he knew of no other people exiled from its land, scattered among the nations, hated, persecuted, expelled, and slaughtered-yet refusing to vanish from history, refusing to assimilate, yearning for two thousand years to return, and ultimately restoring its independence.

Former Israeli Ambassador Yaacov Herzog articulated this bluntly in his famous debate with historian Arnold Toynbee. The Jews, Herzog said, are the only people who insisted they could not live without their land-even after 2,000 years of exile. The normal laws of history do not apply here.

“If the world agrees that there is something unique about the Jews in the history of mankind,” Herzog argued, “it cannot deny the right of the Jews to this land.”

That uniqueness was recognized thousands of years earlier. The prophet Balaam described Israel as “a people that dwells alone.” Whether this reality inspires moral responsibility or provokes resentment is the central tension of Jewish history.

The Double Standard

Those who attack Israel’s Jewish character conveniently ignore a basic and damning fact: many modern states-Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and numerous Eastern European countries-were created in the twentieth century with artificial borders, invented identities, and no prior history of sovereign nationhood. Their legitimacy is rarely questioned.

The Jewish people, by contrast, existed as a nation thousands of years before the rise of modern nationalism. Jewish nationhood did not begin in 1948. It was restored in 1948.

-To deny Jewish peoplehood is not critical inquiry.

-It is historical falsification.

-It is ideological erasure.

-And it is the intellectual foundation of anti-Zionism-and increasingly, of modern antisemitism.

The question, therefore, is not whether there is a Jewish people. The question is why so many persist in denying what history, law, and even Jewish enemies have always known.

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State Department identifies Code Pink and other far-left groups as vectors of Chinese influence operations

By Victor Nava
Published 10February2026, 11:21 p.m. ET  https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/state-department-identifies-code-pink-and-other-far-left-groups-as-vectors-of-chinese-influence-operations/

The State Department transmitted a report to Congress Tuesday linking lefty nonprofits Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese influence operations.

“Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,” Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said in a statement provided to The Post.

“Organizations like Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for China while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party,” Rogers added.

“The State Department will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for our adversaries and seek to weaken the resolve of the United States.”

The report on “Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by nonprofit organizations like Code Pink, the People’s Forum and groups linked with the notorious Singham network.”

The so-called “Singham network” are nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink.

Singham, an American expat living in China, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,” the New York Times reported in 2023.

“Chinese diplomats, state media, and pro-China influencers use social media, content-sharing agreements, and local partnerships to publish pro-CCP propaganda,” the report continues. “China invests in [public diplomacy], exchanges, reporting tours, and educational and cultural initiatives to boost its image.”

“The Department assesses that China, Iran, and Russia aggressively use state media, proxies, and digital platforms to spread propaganda and falsehoods, undermine U.S. credibility and policies, and expand their influence.”

Code Pink, founded as an anti-war organization in 2002, has accused the US of launching a “war on China.”

The nonprofit peddles its pro-China talking points through its “China Is Not Our Enemy” working group, according to the State Department.

Code Pink encourages Americans to travel to China and solicits contact information of individuals interested in visiting the US adversary.

The group touts one such trip where participants “studied revolutionary history in Ruijin” and explored “villages transformed by poverty alleviation programs” on its website.

One participant reflected that the trip made him think people must “defend [China] from our government’s aggression.”

Code Pink has also hosted pro-China webinars, including one where an activist applauded the Chinese communist revolution, which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, arguing that it provides a “path forward to liberation,” according to the State Department.

“I had already been out of love with our country for a long time but this really … put the nail in the coffin,” another American activist complained on a webinar following her China trip.

Meanwhile, the New York-based People’s Forum praises the Chinese Communist Revolution and studies it as a potential model for revolutionary leftists in the United States, according to the State Department.

The department noted that the group once hosted a three-part lesson on the revolution intended for those “who aim to study revolutionary processes in order to make one!” and organized pro-Maduro protests in the wake of the ousted Venezuelan dictator’s capture by US forces.

The group’s founder, Manolo de Los Santos, reportedly met with Maduro in 2021.

Code Pink and the People’s Forum did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.

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ISLAM NOT WELCOME IN JAPAN

Japan gets it. pic.twitter.com/dwaPvFVCmR

— Alexander Duncan (@AlexDuncanTX) February 25, 2026

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Japan gets it.
Japan announces new Anti-Islam Laws
Halal – BANNED
Mosques – BANNED
Call to Prayer – BANNED
Praying in the Street – BANNED
ISLAM NOT WELCOME IN JAPAN

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JerusalemCats Comments: Remember the lockerbie bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 21December1988

‘Free Palestine’ stickers placed on 140 El Al passengers’ suitcases at LAX

Stickers placed on passengers’ luggage at Los Angeles airport triggered security checks, a two-hour delay and the removal of 140 bags from the flight to Israel, according to travelers

Itamar Eichner | 18February2026 | 21:57 https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bkw4otx00bl

An El Al flight from Los Angeles to Israel was delayed by about two hours Monday after 140 passengers’ suitcases were removed from the aircraft when “Free Palestine” stickers were found attached to them, prompting a security concern.

According to passengers, the incident occurred on a regularly scheduled afternoon flight that was set to depart at 2 p.m. The flight was largely filled with Israeli travelers returning home after attending the NBA All-Star weekend events to see Israeli player Deni Avdija.

Passengers said they were initially informed of a 25-minute delay. Shortly afterward, airline staff announced a longer delay due to an issue involving luggage. The aircraft ultimately departed at approximately 3:45 p.m.

One passenger described mounting frustration onboard as the delay stretched on. “It was a regular El Al flight on Monday afternoon from Los Angeles, full of Israelis who had gone to the All-Star to see Deni Avdija and were heading home,” the passenger said. “We checked our suitcases as usual and were supposed to take off at 2 p.m. At first they said there would be a 25-minute delay, then they said there was a bigger delay because of an issue with luggage. Only around a quarter to four did we take off.”

During the delay, a passenger shouted in frustration, according to those on board. The captain and the head purser later explained that 140 suitcases had not been loaded onto the aircraft after “Free Palestine” stickers were found on them. Security officials were required to inspect each suitcase individually to ensure there were no explosives, passengers said.

Because the inspection process was taking longer than expected, the airline ultimately decided not to load the luggage onto the flight and departed without the 140 suitcases.

One passenger who protested the delay said his wife’s suitcase contained a dress for their daughter’s wedding. The head purser responded that “it’s better to arrive safely without the suitcase than the alternative,” according to passengers.

After landing in Israel, travelers received notification from El Al that their luggage had not been sent on the flight. The suitcases are expected to be placed on the next direct flight from Los Angeles to Israel.

Passengers described the incident as a scandal and questioned how an airport worker had been able to place the stickers on the luggage.

“How did they allow this employee to put the stickers on?” passengers said. “If they allowed him to do that, how can they ensure that next time something won’t be put inside the suitcases?”

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Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)

Type: Information – Topic: Terrorism – Secondary topic: Palestinian Terror and Incitement – Publish Date: 06April1994 – https://www.gov.il/en/pages/suicide-and-other-bombing-attacks-since-the-declaration-of-principles

Suicide-bombings

Suicide terror attacks 2000-2007

Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 1994 – In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed.

Nov 11, 1994 – Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.

Jan 22, 1995 – Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 9, 1995 – Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 24, 1995 – Six civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.

Aug 21, 1995 – Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.

Feb 25, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 1996 – One Israeli was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 3, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).

Mar 4, 1996 – Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier).

Mar 21, 1997 – Three people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.

Jul 30, 1997 – 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.

Sep 4, 1997 – Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.

Oct 29, 1998 – One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.

Nov 2, 2000 – Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 20, 2000 – A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.

Nov 22, 2000 – Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.

Dec 22, 2000 – Three soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast.

Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 8, 2001 – A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people.

Feb 14, 2001 – Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv.

Mar 1, 2001 – One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.

Mar 4, 2001 – Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya.

Mar 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 27, 2001 – 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 28, 2001 – Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (“peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 22, 2001 – A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.

Apr 23, 2001 – Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers.

Apr 29, 2001 – A car bomb blew up close to a school bus travelling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the suicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 18, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 25, 2001 – 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

May 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
A bomb exploded at 9:00 in the morning near the intersection of the capital’s main Jaffa Road and Heshin Street. The bomb included several mortar shells, some of which were propelled hundreds of meters from the site of the explosion. 30 people were injured, most suffering from shock. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

May 30, 2001 – A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

June 1, 2001 – 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, June 1, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco.

June 22, 2001 – Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 2, 2001 – Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility.

July 9, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 16, 2001 – Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded – 3 seriously – when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 8, 2001 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded.

Aug 9, 2001 – 16 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 12, 2001 – 21 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 21, 2001 – A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled.

Sept 4, 2001 – 20 people were injured when a suicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded – one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.

Sept 9, 2001 – Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber.

Oct 1, 2001 – A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured.

Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.

Nov 26, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 29, 2001 – Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 1, 2001 – 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 2, 2001 – 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 5, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

Dec 9, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.

Dec 12, 2001 – Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two suicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim.

Jan 25, 2002 – 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday.

Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

Feb 16, 2002 – Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 – Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2002 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen.

Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 7, 2002 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commericial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 9, 2002 – 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 17, 2002 – A suicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured.

Mar 20, 2002 – Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 21, 2002 – Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 27, 2002 – 30 people were killed and 140 injured – 20 seriously – in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.

Mar 29, 2002 – Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2002 – One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 31, 2002 – 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 31, 2002 – An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a suicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.

Apr 1, 2002 – A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2002 – Eight people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 12, 2002 – Six people were killed and 104 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 7, 2002 – 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2002 – Three people were killed and 59 injured – 10 seriously – when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.

May 20, 2002 – A suicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries.

May 22, 2002 – Two people were killed and about 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.

May 23, 2002 – A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained.

May 24, 2002 – A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely.

May 27, 2002 – A grandmother and her infant granddaughter were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 5, 2002 – 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 11, 2002 – A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.

June 18, 2002 – 19 people were killed and 74 injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 19, 2002 – Seven people were killed and 50 injured – three of them in critical condition – when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 16, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001.

July 17, 2002 – Five people were killed – two Israeli and three foreign workers – and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 30, 2002 – Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a suicide bombing at a felafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely.

July 31, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 85 wounded, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 4, 2002 – Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 5, 2002 – A bomb exploded in a car at the Umm al-Fahm junction in northern Israel, killing the terrorist and wounding the driver, an Arab Israeli resident of Nazareth.

Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 19, 2002 – Six people were killed and about 70 wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.

Oct 10, 2002 – Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 21, 2002 – 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 27, 2002 – Two IDF officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The victims were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.

Nov 4, 2002 – Two people – a security guard and a teenage boy, both recent immigrants from Argentina – were killed and about 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 5, 2003 – Twenty-two people were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.

Mar 5, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2003 – Over 40 people were wounded in a suicide bombing on the pedestrian mall at the entrance to the London Cafe in the center of Netanya. The bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 24, 2003 – Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 30, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 60 peoople were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub “Mike’s Place” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the suicide bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.

May 17, 2003 – Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 18, 2003 – Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Steve Averbach died on June 3, 2010, succumbing to wounds suffered in the suicide bombing, bringing the death toll to eight.
A second suicide bomber detonated his bomb when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist was killed; no one else was injured.

May 19, 2003 – Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a Palestinian on a bicycle detonated explosives next to a military jeep near Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 22, 2003 – Nine Israelis were injured when a roadside bomb was detonated next to a bus near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

June 11, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Clal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

June 19, 2003 – Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 7, 2003 – Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 12, 2003 – Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.

Aug 19, 2003 – Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldier outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 9, 2003 – Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 4, 2003 – Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 9, 2003 – A Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself at the DCO located at the entrance to Tulkarm. The bomber approached the reception window and exploded himself, injuring two IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.

Oct 15, 2003 – Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.

Nov 3, 2003 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the West Bank village of Azun, near Kafr Qasem, when he saw Israeli security officials searching for him. One IDF soldier was lightly wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the failed attack.

Dec 25, 2003 – Four Israelis were killed and over 20 wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2004 – Four Israelis – three soldiers and one civilian – were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2004 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem.

Feb 22, 2004 – Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Mar 6, 2004 – Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a terror attack on the Erez crossing in northern Gaza involving rifle fire and suicide car bombs, including jeeps camouflaged as IDF vehicles. Two of the vehicles exploded on the Palestinian side of the crossing, and four terrorists were killed. There were no IDF casualties. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the military wing of Fatah all claimed responsibility.

Mar 14, 2004 – Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 17, 2004 – Border Policeman Sgt. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

May 22, 2004 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated an explosive device at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The commander of the IDF checkpoint was lightly injured, as well as several Palestinians. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 11, 2004 – Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.

Aug 11, 2004 – Two Palestinian bystanders were killed and 18 people were wounded, including six Border Policemen, when a bomb was detonated south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem.

Aug 31, 2004 – Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 8, 2004 – A booby-trapped car exploded next to Israeli security personnel at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint, near the Green Line border with the West Bank. The Palestinian driver of the car was killed in the blast. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sept 14, 2004 – A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep at an agricultural gate, south of Qalqilyah, injuring two IDF soldiers.

Sept 22, 2004 – Two Border Policemen were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 7, 2004 – A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded.

Nov 1, 2004 – Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.

Dec 7, 2004 – St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinsky, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 5, 2005 – A terrorist infiltrated the Erez crossing terminal in the Gaza Strip, activated an explosive device, hurled grenades and opened fire. An IDF force shot and killed the terrorist. The Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 12, 2005 – One Israeli civilian was killed and three IDF soldiers wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 – On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side of the crossing, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and during exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.

Jan 18, 2005 – An ISA officer was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and 4 IDF soldiers and 3 members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being carried out, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2005 – Five people were killed and 50  wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 12, 2005 – Five people were killed and about 90 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 28, 2005 – A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Beersheba Central Bus Station. Two security guards who stopped the bomber were  severely wounded and about 50 people were lightly wounded or  treated for shock. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 26, 2005 – Seven people were killed and 54 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 5, 2005 – Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 – Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

Jan 19, 2006 – Thirty-one people were wounded in a suicide bombing in a shawarma restaurant near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Jerusalem Battalions of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2006 – Four people were killed  when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.

Apr 17, 2006 – Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, site of the Jan 19 bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2007 – Three employees of a bakery in the southern city of Eilat were killed in a suicide bombing. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 4, 2008 – Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded – Razdolskaya’s husband critically – in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. A Hamas statement from Gaza praised the attack, calling it an “heroic act”.

Mar 6, 2008 – Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.

May 14, 2008 – At about 6 pm an Iranian-made Grad rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip hit a busy shopping mall in central Ashkelon. 90 people were wounded, four of them seriously, among them a 24-year-old mother and her infant daughter.

July 2, 2008 – Three people were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.

Mar 23, 2011 – One woman, a 59-year-old British national, was killed and about 50 wounded when a bomb exploded across from the Jerusalem Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb had been placed near a telephone booth at a crowded bus stop next to Egged city bus #74.

Aug 18, 2011 – In a series of terrorist attacks was perpetrated against civilians and IDF soldiers in Israel’s southern region, six civilians were killed as well as one soldier and a police officer, and at least 31 were wounded. The terrorists responsible for the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israel via Egypt. IDF forces pursued and killed a number of the terrorists responsible for the attacks.

July 18, 2012 – Six people, five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver, were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a bus carrying Israelis at Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria. The seventh body was identified as the suicide bomber.

Nov 21, 2012 – Shortly before noon a bomb exploded in a Dan city bus no. 142 on Shaul Hamelech Street in the center of Tel Aviv. 21 people were wounded, three in moderate to serious condition. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing.

Oct 11, 2015 – A female terrorist detonated an explosive device, lightly wounding a police officer near the checkpoint on the road between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A traffic police officer stopped the driver, who was in the lane reserved for public transportation, and approached the car. The driver exited the vehicle, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and detonated an explosive device. The terrorist was seriously injured in the attack and was evacuated to hospital in Jerusalem with burns to her entire body.

April 19, 2016 – Jerusalem: In the early evening, an explosion on a  bus and a subsequent fire led to the injury of 21 people, including passengers on a passing bus and in a nearby car. Two of the injured are in serious condition, 7 were moderately injured and 12 were lightly injured.

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Israel’s Wars & Operations: First Intifada

(1987 – 1993)
By Mitchell Bard

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False charges of Israeli atrocities and instigation from the mosques played an important role in starting the intifada. On December 6, 1987, an Israeli was stabbed to death while shopping in Gaza. One day later, four residents of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza were killed in a traffic accident. Rumors that the four had been killed by Israelis as a deliberate act of revenge began to spread among the Palestinians. Mass rioting broke out in Jabalya on the morning of December 9, in which a 17-year-old youth was killed by an Israeli soldier after throwing a Molotov cocktail at an army patrol. This soon sparked a wave of unrest that engulfed the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.

Over the next week, rock-throwing, blocked roads and tire burnings were reported throughout the territories. By December 12, six Palestinians had died and 30 had been injured in the violence. The following day, rioters threw a gasoline bomb at the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem. No one was hurt in the bombing.

In Gaza, rumors circulated that Palestinian youths wounded by Israeli soldiers were being taken to an army hospital near Tel Aviv and “finished off.” Another rumor, claimed Israeli troops poisoned a water reservoir in Khan Yunis. A UN official said these stories were untrue. Only the most seriously injured Palestinians were taken out of the Gaza Strip for treatment, and, in some cases, this probably saved their lives. The water was also tested and found to be uncontaminated.

This uprising or intifada was violent from the start. During the first four years of the uprising, more than 3,600 Molotov cocktail attacks, 100 hand grenade attacks and 600 assaults with guns or explosives were reported by the Israel Defense Forces. The violence was directed at soldiers and civilians alike. During this period, 16 Israeli civilians and 11 soldiers were killed by Palestinians in the territories; more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 1,700 Israeli soldiers were injured. Approximately 1,100 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

Throughout the intifada, the PLO played a lead role in orchestrating the insurrection. The PLO-dominated Unified Leadership of the Intifada (UNLI), for example, frequently issued leaflets dictating which days violence was to be escalated, and who was to be its target. The PLO’s leadership of the uprising was challenged by the fundamentalist Islamic organization Hamas, a violently anti-Semitic group that rejects any peace negotiations with Israel.

Jews were not the only victims of the violence. In fact, as the intifada waned around the time of the Gulf War in 1991, the number of Arabs killed for political and other reasons by Palestinian death squads in what amount to an “intrafada” exceeded the number killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat defended the killing of Arabs deemed to be “collaborating with Israel.” He delegated the authority to carry out executions to the intifada leadership. After the murders, the local PLO death squad sent the file on the case to the PLO. “We have studied the files of those who were executed, and found that only two of the 118 who were executed were innocent,” Arafat said. The innocent victims were declared “martyrs of the Palestinian revolution” by the PLO (Al-Mussawar, January 19, 1990).

Palestinians were stabbed, hacked with axes, shot, clubbed and burned with acid. The justifications offered for the killings varied. In some instances, being employed by Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank and Gaza was reason enough; in others, contact with Jews warranted a death sentence. Accusations of “collaboration” with Israel were sometimes used as a pretext for acts of personal vengeance. Women deemed to have behaved “immorally” were also among the victims.

Eventually, the reign of terror became so serious that some Palestinians expressed public concern about the disorder. The PLO began to call for an end to the violence, but murders by its members and rivals continued. From 1989-1992, this intrafada claimed the lives of nearly 1,000 Palestinians.

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The Second Intifada: A defining event that reshaped the nation

20 years on, the memory of the Second Intifada still lingers

A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001
(photo credit: REUTERS)

By HERB KEINON
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 14:34 https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-second-intifada-a-defining-event-that-reshaped-the-nation-642644

The place names still send shivers up and down the spine.

The police station in Ramallah; Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood; the Dolphinarium discotheque in Tel Aviv; the Sbarro Pizzeria and Cafe Moment in the capital; the Park Hotel in Netanya; Maxim Restaurant in Haifa. The names bring to mind some of the bloodiest atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists during the Second Intifada that began 20 years ago this month, on September 28, 2000.

Each of Israel’s wars have had their memorable battles. There was Operation Nachshon in the War of Independence; the Battle for Sharm e-Sheikh in the Sinai Campaign; Ammunition Hill in the Six Day War; the Chinese Farm during the Yom Kippur War; the Battle of Jezzine in the First Lebanon War; Bint Jbeil during the Second Lebanon War.

But those were battles: tanks vs. tanks, artillery vs. artillery, even hand-to-hand combat. And while during the Second Intifada the Battle of Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield, the intifada’s turning point, has been seared into the country’s memory, for the most part it is the names of eateries, road junctions or markets – Mike’s Place, Megiddo Junction, the Carmel Market – that are associated with this period. Because it was the restaurants, bars, buses and road junctions in the heart of the country that constituted the main front in that war

More Israelis were killed during the Second Intifada – 1,053, according to Foreign Ministry figures – than were killed in the 1956 Sinai Campaign (231), the 1967 Six day War (776) or the 2006 Second Lebanon War (164). More civilians, about 70% of the total fatalities, were killed in the Second Intifada than in any campaign with the exception of the War of Independence, when 2,400 civilians were among the 6,400 Israeli dead.

The Second Intifada, which for the average citizen felt very much like a war in everything but name, was a defining event in Israel’s history, akin to the War of Independence and the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars. Israel after September 2000 is not the same as Israel before September 2000.

This harrowing period fundamentally altered Israeli society because it impacted everyone. No one, regardless of their political opinions, level of religious observance or ethnicity, was left unaffected.

Mind-numbing terrorism made it scary to ride a bus, nerve-wracking to send kids to school, a psychological effort to take the family downtown for a falafel. Everyone eyed fellow passengers warily on the bus at one time or another during these years – especially fellow passengers wearing coats on a sunny day – wondering if they may be hiding explosives.

And the trauma of that period remains. Time may have dulled the intensity of the trauma, but it has not erased it.

To understand Israel today – to understand its political turn to the Right, why it has voted time and time again for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its complete lack of confidence in the Palestinians, its indifference to the lack of a diplomatic process with the Palestinians – is to understand the strain and pressure that everyone in the country labored under during the four years and five months of that intifada.

Israelis were well acquainted with security challenges before September 2000. But for the most part there was a strong sense of personal security in the cities up until then. Sure, you didn’t want to walk along the borders or traipse around in the West Bank cities or even part of east Jerusalem, but there was a sense of being safe at home, in the streets, in the cinema, at restaurants.

The Second Intifada changed all that. Then no place seemed safe: riding the bus felt like a dice roll, coffee shops a potential deathtrap. The whole security equation changed.

A reservist wearing a flak jacket and carrying an M16 serving in a small outpost just across the Syrian border fence on the Golan Heights in March 2002 – the deadliest month of the intifada – felt more secure in his well-guarded base ringed by tanks than his elementary school children felt riding public buses to school in Jerusalem.

And everyone, literally everyone, knew someone either killed or injured during the violence – a relative, friend, coworker, schoolmate, client, business partner. The intifada was not something out there happening far away to other people, it was real and happening next door.

This reality of intense insecurity seeped into everyone’s lives and left an indelible impact.

ONE OF the ways to gauge that impact is to look at the country’s political map. Israel goes to elections quite a bit. Since 1999, the year before the Second Intifada, it has held 10 elections, including an election just for the prime minister – not the Knesset – in 2001.

The results: The Left won one election, Ehud Barak in 1999. The Center won one, 2006 with Kadima headed by Ehud Olmert, and tied another, Blue and White’s showing in September 2019. The Right won six times, and battled to a draw in one (March 2020).

Why? Did the country all of a sudden grow callous? Did it give up on a dream of peace? No, coming out of the Oslo euphoria of the 1990s, Israel was simply mugged by the reality of the Second Intifada.

“The voting patterns shows that the right wing not only now has a majority, but has even gotten stronger, and this is a result of the scope and intensity of the intifada,” said Meir Elran, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv who has written extensively on Israeli national resilience during and after the intifada. “This was mainly terror against civilians. And unlike the First Intifada, which took place mainly in the territories, this took place for the most part inside the Green Line – it was extremely traumatic.”

One of the reasons it was so traumatic, said Elran, who was deputy director of Military Intelligence during the beginning of the First Intifada that began in 1987, was its intensity and duration.

Elran dates the Second Intifada from September 28, 2000, when opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount and the Palestinians responded with riots that swiftly spread, to September 2004, when the number of terrorist attacks began to decline. Others, however, extend the intifada’s duration another five months until February 2005, after Yasser Arafat’s death three months earlier, when Sharon – then prime minister – met new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a summit at Sharm e-Sheikh.

Regardless, this was a long war, of at least four years, even four years and five months. Not only was it long, it was harsh – with more than 130 suicide bombings.

“It is an event that left emotional and cognitive scars,” Elran said. “There was also the sense of a great insult involved. What did they do to us? They hit us at home. They undermined our sense of security. The trauma was physical as well as psychological.”

The intifada, Elran said, disabused many Israelis of a belief in being able to reach any agreement with the Palestinians and created a sense in the mind of millions that there was simply no one on the other side to talk to.

TAMAR HERMANN, director of the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and a political science professor at the Open University, agrees with Elran and said the now deeply held belief among many Israelis that there is simply no partner on the other side is one of the most significant lasting impacts. She characterized this as a “major change.”

“It is quite obvious that the Second Intifada made even those Jewish Israelis most supportive of the peace process rethink not their perspective on the desirability of peace, but rather on its feasibility,” she said.

Paradoxically, Hermann added, it was Ehud Barak who pumped up the notion of there being no Palestinian partner when he came back from the failed Camp David summit in July 2000 and said the refusal of the Palestinians to accept his generous offer was proof there was no one to talk to on the other side.

“Israelis still support the idea of peace – we all allegedly support peace – but they don’t see it as a feasible political goal anymore, and put most of the blame on the other side,” she said.

Elran takes this even further and said that not only do Israelis not believe there is a partner on the other side, but because of the intifada “the Israeli public doesn’t want to hear about the Palestinians, they don’t want to see them.”

The pain caused to Israel during the intifada led Israelis into wanting an “emotional separation from the Palestinians. It created this feeling, we don’t want to see them, they don’t concern me, I don’t care,” he said.

“The violence led Israelis to place an ‘X’ on the Palestinians,” he said. “And there are two factors now reinforcing that ‘X’ – one is the behavior of Hamas in Gaza, which always reminds Israelis of what they are dealing with, and the second is the leadership in Ramallah, whose behavior only reinforces the feeling that there is no one to talk to.”

Hermann said that another significant element of the intifada is that the Israeli public credits Israel’s security apparatus for ending it.

“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”

“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”

“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”

“The First Intifada did one thing clearly: it made clear to the Israelis that there are no free lunches, and that there is a price to holding on to the territories,” he said.

And the main lesson for Israelis from the Second Intifada, he said, “is that if you do not control the territory, you can’t fight terrorism.” The intensity and lethal nature of the Second Intifada could only happen, he argued, “because we did not control the territory.”

Another key lesson the public took away from the rampaging violence, said Amidror, today a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, is that it “is impossible to trust the Palestinians.”

Amidror noted that the intifada broke out “after we had an agreement with Arafat. This wasn’t the First Intifada, where there was nothing between us and the Palestinians beforehand. We were after the Oslo Accords when we let them back into the territory. This led to a dramatic loss of confidence in them.”

Amidror said that a key operational lesson learned from the violence is that force is not the only way to deal with local uprisings, and that force – the “stick” – must be combined with “carrots” in the form of economic benefits and enhanced personal security.

Amidror, who stressed that he is not a psychologist, said that what remains in the minds of Israelis two decades after the eruption of the Second Intifada is “the sense that in the final analysis our security has to be in our own hands,” and that this “cannot be compromised in any way.”

Asked if this was not something obvious to most Israelis even beforehand, he replied: “We had illusions. Oslo was built on the premise that we could work with the Palestinians.”

Amidror argued that this premise was embraced by the politicians who negotiated the Oslo Accords, but was never accepted by the security establishment or “professional echelon,” of which he was a part at the time in his role as head of Military Intelligence’s research division.

“We said this won’t work, and the reality turned out to be even more difficult than we imagined.”

As to the intifada’s long-term impact on the Palestinians, Amidror said they realize now that if they initiate violence against civilians, they will “pay a much heavier price than we will.”

“I think they now understand that if they use violence we will respond in a much stronger way because our capabilities are so much greater, and that if they pass a certain line we will respond with great strength, so they need to keep things below that line,” he said.

Amidror said the Palestinian Authority now also understands that the only guarantor keeping Hamas from taking over all the territories is Israel.

THOSE TWO lessons, in addition to an Israeli policy aimed at improving the economic and security situation for the Palestinians in the West Bank, is preventing another intifada-type explosion, he maintained.

“If you take an average Palestinian in Nablus, and ask him where it is better to live today – in Cairo, Amman, Damascus or Baghdad, without occupation, or in Nablus with all the limitations of Israeli occupation, what do you think his answer will be? He has to be stupid not to think that life is better in Nablus.”

Reminded, however, that people are motivated not only by material good but also ideology, Amidror replied, “I’m not saying that the occupation doesn’t bother him, and that if you give him independence tomorrow he will not grab it. But when he wakes up and asks where life is better for him and his children, the answer is clear.

“People are not driven only by ideology,” he continued. “It is part of the drive, but not the only thing. If you don’t think I give enough importance to ideology in what motivates people, perhaps you give it too much importance and do not give enough weight to people wanting to live well and give their kids a better future.”

And finally, Amidror said, the Second Intifada also left its mark on Israel’s neighbors. He drew a direct line from the way Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000 – he used the expression “ran away” – to the outbreak of the intifada, saying this created a perception that Israel was not as strong as it appeared.

This intifada was the result of a decision taken by Arafat, not a spontaneous combustion, he stressed, adding that Arafat’s decision was made within the context of the Lebanon withdrawal.

“There is not doubt that the intifada came against the background of a perception in the Arab world of Israeli weakness following the retreat from Lebanon,” he said.

But, Amidror continued, the manner in which Israel dealt and eventually put down the intifada “made clear to the neighborhood, that if Israel is cornered, it will respond with great might. I think the Arab states saw that there is a line which, when passed, Israel will respond forcefully. You can push a long time – it took a long time before Sharon gave the order to move back into Judea Samaria [March 2002] – but when you cross a certain point, and nobody knows exactly where that point is, Israel will respond with great power and might.”

It is that power and might that eventually did put an end to the nightmare of the Second Intifada, but its memory more than just lingers 20 years after its start and continues to impact strongly on how the country acts, votes and views solutions to the Palestinian issue.

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Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”

Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”:

Esther Ohana, H”YD, a 20-year-old girl who was driving to her wedding rehearsal when she was murdered by rock throwing.

Vardi Bamberger, 25, was severely injured when rocks were thrown at the vehicle in which she was riding at… https://t.co/23QXxwt7cL

— Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English (@ShalomArushEN) October 21, 2025

Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-21October2025-Remember all those killed by Just throwing rocks
Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”:

Esther Ohana, H”YD, a 20-year-old girl who was driving to her wedding rehearsal when she was murdered by rock throwing.

Vardi Bamberger, 25, was severely injured when rocks were thrown at the vehicle in which she was riding at the same spot where Ester Ohana was killed. Bamberger suffered a fractured skull, but B’H survived.

Yehuda Haim Shoham, H”YD, just five months old, was hit by a rock to the head while he was strapped into his car seat killing him.

Eleven year-old Chava Wechsberg, H”YD, was killed when the car in which she was riding was attacked by rocks in the Gush Etzion region on February 24, 1993, causing it to crash.

Amnon Pomerantz, H”YD, drove by mistake into the Arab town of El-Bureij on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 1990. Arabs stoned the car until he crashed. Then, as he lay slumped unconscious over the driving wheel, they burned him alive.

Yeshohua Weisbrod, H”YD, made a wrong turn into Rafah on March 4, 1993. Arab rock-throwers attacked, causing the car to crash. A terrorist with a machine-gun then walked up to the vehicle and finished him off.

Asher Palmer, H”YD, and his baby son Yonatan, H”YD. On September 23, 2011, they were driving on Highway 60, on their way to Jerusalem to meet Palmer’s wife, who was then expecting their second child. Near the village of Halhoul, rocks were thrown at their car from passengers in an Arab car traveling towards them from the opposite direction. The tremendous impact of the rocks smashed the front windshield of Palmer’s car and fractured Palmer’s skull, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. Both he and his son were killed in the crash.
Caт Bee-tweet-21October2025-Tell that to Adele Biton, age 4, killed by one.
“He only threw a rock.”
Tell that to Adele Biton, age 4, killed by one.

Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-21October2025-Remember all those killed by ‘Just throwing rocks’

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🚨A PUBLIC ADMISSION BY DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) EXPOSES THE TRUTH ON GAZA HOSPITAL:

🚨A PUBLIC ADMISSION BY DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) EXPOSES THE TRUTH ON GAZA HOSPITAL:

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has now made the rare, public acknowledgment, of how terrorists operate inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, with details most… pic.twitter.com/oXfKnx9jWi

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) February 17, 2026

Mossad Commentary-tweet-17February2026-MSF how terrorists operate inside Gaza Hospital
🚨A PUBLIC ADMISSION BY DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) EXPOSES THE TRUTH ON GAZA HOSPITAL:

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has now made the rare, public acknowledgment, of how terrorists operate inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, with details most international aid organizations have ignored or denied altogether.

The IDF and Israeli Foreign Ministry have been warning about this for years:

🔹 Terrorist groups exploit medical facilities as cover and operational space

🔹 This further proves why Hamas must be comprehensively disarmed

MSF’s workers allege facing intimidation, armed men, and kidnapping of patients being treated, many still requiring care. MSF has chosen to scale back it’s presence due to safety and security threats.

Nasser Hospital is in Khan Yunis is the largest functioning hospital in Gaza.

Will the international media report these findings, or continue to neglect these reports, risking injury or death to those wishing to offer aid to those needing care?

Source: Israel Today

Mossad Commentary-tweet-17February2026-MSF how terrorists operate inside Gaza Hospital

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Palestinians finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy

We believe Europeans don’t want to finance terror
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Palestinians finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy
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European aid liberates other cash from the PA budget to finance terror
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European taxpayers effectively finance terror
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Demand an end to Pay-for-Slay pic.twitter.com/o6C07aefLQ

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) February 9, 2026

Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-9February2026-PA finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy
We believe Europeans don’t want to finance terror
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Palestinians finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy
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European aid liberates other cash from the PA budget to finance terror
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European taxpayers effectively finance terror
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Demand an end to Pay-for-Slay

Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-9February2026-PA finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy

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$100 million spent on anti-Israel efforts yearly at UN, says Israeli envoy Danon

“It is a shame that so much money is dedicated to activities against Israel instead of going to places that really need the investment.”

Mike Wagenheim

https://www.jns.org/100-million-spent-on-anti-israel-efforts-yearly-at-un-says-israeli-envoy-danon/

Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council on June 4, 2025. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. photo.

(26December2025 / JNS) Israel’s envoy to the United Nations claimed this week that the global body spends upward of $100 million on anti-Israel activity each year.

Ambassador Danny Danon said the United Nations intends to soon approve its 2026 operating budget, and that his office has identified the $100 million “which is dedicated to activities against the state of Israel—to investigations, to discussions, to comprehensive decisions that work against us.”

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, commonly known as UNRWA, is tabbed to receive $86.5 million next year, according to documents viewed by JNS.

The Palestinian-only aid and social-services agency is under fire for ties to Hamas, and several countries and entities, including the United States, have suspended and reduced funding for the agency.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told JNS at a press briefing last week that “I think we can deliver humanitarian aid without UNRWA,” calling it “a corrupted organization that’s unsalvageable, period.”

Critics have accused the agency of primarily serving a political agenda, but U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres refused to propose financial cuts or related reform for UNRWA, despite the severe cash crunch the United Nations currently finds itself in.

Outside UNRWA, documents viewed by JNS attribute $4 million in budget requests for entities housed within the U.N. Division for Palestinian Rights, including the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which largely acts as an advocacy organization.

Without parallel in the U.N. system, the Division for Palestinian Rights employs 15 people. Israeli officials accuse the entity, which falls under the purview of the U.N. Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, not of aiming to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but of disseminating a one-sided narrative.

Elsewhere, the budget documents viewed by JNS show approximately $800,000 a year dedicated to funding travel and training for Palestinian journalists—some $4 million for the U.N. Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has issued a series of reports highly critical of Israel, including charges of genocide and calls for boycotts; and nearly $1 million promoting a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone, which Israeli officials say singularly targets Jerusalem.

Additionally, the United Nations itself estimates that the cost of a debate runs between $11,000 and $17,000, and an 8,500-page report costs around $24,000 for production and translation services.

With debates and reports aimed at criticizing Israel running at around 100 per year across the U.N. system, according to figures viewed by JNS, the cost runs at around $3 million a year, and with 30 regular U.N. General Assembly debates last year dedicated to recurring Israel-related items, plus other Israel-focused debates at other U.N. institutions, the cost for those likely exceeds $1 million.

Other costs were more difficult to pin down. These include the salaries and related expenditures for four U.N. High Commission for Human Rights staff members dedicated to investigating, compiling and publishing the annual U.N. blacklist of companies that do business in Judea and Samaria, as well as five staff members employed by the same entity’s Working Group of Business and Human Rights that focus on encouraging boycotts of Israel.

While U.N. special rapporteurs and so-called independent experts are not salaried, their travel and other administrative costs are paid for by the United Nations. This includes Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, who was sanctioned by the United States for threatening American businesses with reputational harm and prosecution for doing business in and with Israel.

“It is a shame that so much money is dedicated to activities against Israel instead of going to places that really need the investment,” said Danon.

Israel paid nearly $21 million in dues to the United Nations this year, while the Palestinian Authority, which holds non-member observer status but was granted enhanced rights last year by the U.N. General Assembly, contributes nothing to the general budget since it is not required to do so.

Guterres’s office has repeatedly demurred when asked by JNS about the significant financial costs of anti-Israel activity within the U.N. system, saying that it is a matter for member states.

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UN Faces ‘Imminent Collapse’ as U.S. Funding Stalls

Trump withdrew the U.S. from multiple U.N. agencies and bodies, citing mismanagement, waste, and redundancy… including UNESCO and WHO.

Posted by Ben Smith 31January2026 at 07:00pm https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/un-faces-imminent-collapse-as-u-s-funding-stalls/

The United Nations is sounding the alarm again about an “imminent financial collapse,” but it is not hard to see why the institution is panicking. The bill is coming due, and the organization that has spent decades scolding the United States is now warning it may have to literally close up shop in New York if Washington and other deadbeat contributors do not pay.

“The crisis is deepening, threatening program delivery and risking financial collapse. And the situation will further deteriorate in the near future. I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face.”

The numbers are staggering, and they cut through the usual U.N. talking points. The General Assembly approved a $3.45 billion regular budget for 2026, and U.N. officials told the New York Times that the United States is responsible for about 95% of the money currently owed, roughly $2.2 billion, combining unpaid 2025 dues and the 2026 assessment. The U.S. also owes far more beyond the regular budget, including about $1.9 billion for active peacekeeping missions, $528 million for closed missions, and $43.6 million for tribunals.

In other words, the U.N. financial model still assumes America will keep paying, even while U.N. actors and allied governments posture as if the U.S. is just another member state to be lectured.

President Trump has responded the way a lot of Americans have wanted presidents to respond for years. The Times reported that Trump withdrew the U.S. from multiple U.N. agencies and bodies, citing mismanagement, waste, and redundancy, including pulling out of UNESCO, the World Health Organization, and the U.N. Human Rights Council. He also moved to reduce funding for peacekeeping operations, while U.N. officials said Washington indicated it would pay only about $160 million toward active peacekeeping and would not pay for tribunals.

The BBC’s reporting underscores that the U.N. understands this is not a routine cash flow squeeze. It is a credibility crisis and a structural failure.

“Either all member states honour their obligations to pay in full and on time, or member states must fundamentally overhaul our financial rules to prevent an imminent financial collapse.”

So here is the part the U.N. does not want to say out loud. If your institution can collapse because the United States stops writing checks, then you were never a serious independent global body. You were a dependency. And after years of waste, perks, and anti-American political theater, the shock on display now is not that the money is drying up. The shock is that the U.N. ever believed the American taxpayer would keep financing an institution that so often treats America like the problem.

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Trump announces US exit from dozens of UN, international groups

“The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over,” the U.S. secretary of state said.

Mike Wagenheim

https://www.jns.org/trump-announces-us-exit-from-dozens-of-un-international-groups

(8January2026 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw Washington from 66 United Nations and international organizations, agencies, commissions and conventions.

Trump signed and published a presidential memorandum on Wednesday which, he said, followed a review of which “organizations, conventions and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States.”

The withdrawals will come with full U.S. funding cuts for all of the entities.

“The Trump administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms and general prosperity,” stated Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state.

Washington will exit the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which serves as the central international agreement on climate crisis solutions, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other assorted environmental organizations.

America joined the convention via Senate ratification. It was not immediately clear if Trump had the authority alone to order a unilateral withdrawal. Trump announced last year that the United States would exit the Paris climate deal as well.

The memo on Wednesday also calls for withdrawals from the U.N. Population Fund, which focuses on maternal and child health, and the U.N. offices of the special representative of the secretary-general for children in armed conflict and sexual violence in conflict.

The children in armed conflict office has accused Israel for two years in a row of being a mass violator of children’s rights, despite wildly-inconsistent, internal U.N. data and standards.

António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, warned Israel it was in danger of appearing on this year’s sexual violence in conflict blacklist, as well. (The Israeli mission to the United Nations declined to comment.)

“President Trump is clear: It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it,” Rubio stated. “The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over.”

Since the start of his second term in January last year, Trump has withdrawn the United States from other U.N. bodies, including the World Health Organization and the U.N. Human Rights Council, and he has called for dismantling UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinians, which Washington, Jerusalem and others have said has extensive ties to Palestinian terror organizations.

“The secretary-general regrets the announcement by the White House regarding the United States’s decision to withdraw from a number of United Nations entities,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Guterres, said on Thursday.

“As we have consistently underscored, assessed contributions to the United Nations regular budget and peacekeeping budget, as approved by the General Assembly, are a legal obligation under the U.N. charter for all member states, including the United States,” he said.

Dujarric said that all U.N. agencies would continue to implement their mandates.

According to Trump’s memo, the United States intends to exit other entities, such as the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.

A U.S. State Department source said that no decision has been made about personnel affected by the withdrawals and would likely be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, told JNS that the administration’s decision to “disengage from dysfunctional U.N. agencies highlights a broader credibility crisis.”

U.N. Women, for example, failed to take meaningful action against its deputy chief, Sarah Douglas, who endorsed more than 150 anti-Israel social media posts that violated the U.N. code of conduct, Neuer said.

“That absence of accountability, compounded by electing regimes like Saudi Arabia to lead its women’s rights commission last year, reinforces why reform—or recalibration of U.S. engagement—is necessary,” Neuer said.

Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University Scalia Law School and executive director of its Middle East and international law center, stated that the Trump administration’s action is “beginning to dismantle the opaque web of globalist institutions—including numerous organizations, whose exit I have called for over the years.”

“Some of these are minor niche organizations that do no harm but cannot be justified from the point of taxpayer expense,” wrote Kontorovich, who is also a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “Others, like the Vienna Commission, seek to manufacture lay down astroturfed international ‘soft law’ that overwhelmingly aligns with progressive values. U.N. Women neglected mass rape by Hamas but remembered Amal Clooney’s birthday.”

To Kontorovich, the biggest thing was the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, “because it was joined via a Senate ratified treaty, making reentry by a subsequent president almost impossible.”

“UNFCCC violated federal law by admitting the PA as a ‘state,’ and will now reap the consequences,” he stated.

There has never been such a broad shakeout of America’s position in international organizations, and it is much overdue. Needless to say, a Democratic president will undo much of this, because these organizations embody their globalist worldview,” he added. “But for decades Republican presidents played along. The Left had normalized their preferences as ‘good global citizenship.’ Trump’s action puts an end to all that.”

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Why Israel Bulldozed UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ

Key Takeaways: Israel’s dismantling of UNRWA represents a shift from diplomatic opposition to direct action against an agency whose unique mandate entrenches permanent Palestinian refugeehood rather than resolving it. Assertions that Israel lacks evidence of…

Ben M. Freeman 22January2026 3:00 pm https://honestreporting.com/why-israel-bulldozed-unrwas-jerusalem-hq/

Why Israel Bulldozed UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ

Key Takeaways:

• Israel’s dismantling of UNRWA represents a shift from diplomatic opposition to direct action against an agency whose unique mandate entrenches permanent Palestinian refugeehood rather than resolving it.
• Assertions that Israel lacks evidence of UNRWA’s terror links are undermined by findings from Israel Defense Forces intelligence and UN investigations confirming staff ties to Hamas and participation in the October 7 atrocities.
• Far from advancing peace, UNRWA functions as a structural enabler of radicalization, particularly through its education system, which normalizes violence against Jews and sustains a grievance-based conflict across generations.

Israel’s Challenge to UNRWA’s Immunity

On January 21, Israel began dismantling UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. By demolishing UNRWA’s East Jerusalem offices, Israel took a further step following its October 2024 decision to bar the organization from operating within Israel’s borders. The site is now reportedly slated for redevelopment for public use, including the construction of approximately 1,400 apartments.

In short, this represents a decisive shift from diplomatic and legislative opposition to a direct challenge to UNRWA’s physical and institutional presence in Jerusalem.

The international media responded somewhat predictably to the move, accusing Israel of violating international law in coverage that led with colorful descriptions of bulldozers massing as the eastern Jerusalem site. Jonathan Fowler, a UNRWA spokesman, described the move as “an unprecedented attack against UNRWA and its premises,” claiming it constituted “a serious violation of international law and the privileges and immunities of the United Nations.” Absent from this coverage was any sustained engagement with the underlying question of whether UNRWA’s conduct warrants immunity from state action.

Founded in 1949, UNRWA presents itself as a humanitarian agency providing relief and support for Palestinian refugees. In practice, however, it has entrenched a permanent refugee status that is unique in international law, one that is inherited by descendants rather than resolved. No other refugee population is governed by a dedicated UN body whose mandate explicitly preserves refugeehood across generations. Rather than resettlement, rehabilitation, or integration, UNRWA has institutionalized a frozen political and national identity rooted in 1948.

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These headlines tell you everything the media doesn’t want you to notice.

AP and the BBC aren’t just reporting what happened; they’re quietly framing how you’re supposed to understand it.

Look closely. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/M532lVU9qE

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) January 21, 2026

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These headlines tell you everything the media doesn’t want you to notice.

AP and the BBC aren’t just reporting what happened; they’re quietly framing how you’re supposed to understand it.

Look closely. ⬇️
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AP says Israel claims, “often with little evidence,” that UNRWA staff are tied to Hamas.

That line does a lot of work by quietly telling readers not to believe what comes next.

Except the evidence exists. And it always has.
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The BBC doesn’t just report here, but adjudicate sovereignty.

By declaring “occupied East Jerusalem” as fact in the headline, the BBC isn’t describing a dispute.

It’s unilaterally drawing the borders of another country’s capital.
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UNRWA is not a normal refugee agency. It is the only UN body that exists solely for Palestinians, while every other refugee population on earth is handled by a single agency.

And it is the only one that:
🚩Passes refugee status down generations
🚩Defines “refugee” as permanent
🚩Has no mandate to resolve displacement

That isn’t humanitarianism. It’s institutionalised dependency.
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Media reports say Israel merely “claims” UNRWA is infiltrated.

But this isn’t abstract.
It isn’t theoretical.
It’s documented.
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This is audio from October 7.

The speaker: an UNRWA employee. He describes infiltrating Israel and holding Israeli captives.

This is what the media calls “little evidence.” ⬇
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UNRWA benefits from what we call the humanitarian halo effect.

Journalists suspend skepticism. Evidence is minimized.
Terror infiltration becomes allegations.

Take this claim, reported uncritically: that UNRWA leased the land from Jordan since 1952, even though Jordan claims no sovereignty there, and all water and electricity in Jerusalem are provided by Israeli authorities.

Absurd on its face. Reported anyway.
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This story isn’t “Israel demolishes UN compound.”

It’s media institutions protecting a failed UN agency, even after terror infiltration and involvement in October 7 massacre.

Notice what’s framed. Notice what’s omitted.

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Terror Affiliation and Institutional Radicalization

Defenders of UNRWA frequently argue that Israel has provided little or no evidence that the agency is implicated in terrorism, or that it plays a role in fostering hatred of Israel and Jews. This claim does not withstand scrutiny. According to Israel Defense Forces intelligence, more than 450 individuals employed by UNRWA in Gaza are also members of terrorist organizations, primarily Hamas. This assessment is reinforced by evidence of UNRWA employees’ direct involvement in the October 7 massacre, including participation in the kidnapping of Israeli hostages. Among these was the abduction of the body of Israeli civilian Jonathan Samerano, which was taken into Gaza. An investigation conducted by the UN’s own Office of Internal Oversight Services found that at least 19 UNRWA staff members took part in the atrocities committed that day.

Criticism of Israel’s actions also ignores UNRWA’s broader role in perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is the central issue. Israel banned UNRWA and dismantled its extensive office complex, reportedly spanning nearly two city blocks, because the agency functions not as a neutral humanitarian body but as a structural enabler of Palestinian terrorism and political radicalization. Despite its stated mission, UNRWA does not work to improve Palestinians’ prospects for peace or stability. It exists to preserve a narrative of permanent grievance and displacement.

UNRWA’s ties to extremism are not limited to Gaza or the West Bank. The agency operates across the Arab world wherever Palestinians are deliberately kept in perpetual refugee status, including Lebanon and Syria, exporting the same patterns of incitement. In Syria, UNRWA math teacher Adnan Shteiwi publicly praised Diaa Hamarsheh, who murdered five Israelis in the March 2022 Bnei Brak terror attack, calling him a “martyr” whose name should “forever remain in letters of fire, might, and magnificence.” Another UNRWA employee in Syria, Labibeh Iskandarani, shared an image of Hitler online, urging him to wake up because “there are still some people you need to burn.” In Lebanon, Fathi Sharif, Hamas’s leader in the country, also served as head of UNRWA’s 2,000 teachers. He was killed in Israeli airstrikes in 2024. Taken together, all of these incidents demonstrate a consistent ideology rather than random extremism or “bad apples”.

Terror Affiliation and Institutional Radicalization

These cases illustrate one of UNRWA’s most serious failures: its role in indoctrinating Palestinian children. As the primary education provider in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA has shaped generations of students. This constitutes institutionalized harm. UNRWA curricula and teaching practices promote violence against Jews, as documented by UN Watch. In one widely circulated video, a young Palestinian girl attending UNRWA’s Tulkarm Camp Girls’ School states that she has been taught that Palestinians should shoot Israelis and that she hates Jews “a lot.” This is consistent with recordings released by the IDF of UNRWA teachers participating in the October 7 attacks, declaring, “I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” and, “We have female hostages, I captured one.”

Journalist Nicole Lampert interviewed Dr. E. J. Brearley, an aid professional with direct experience working alongside UNRWA, who described an education system designed not to prepare children for civilian life but for perpetual conflict. He characterized the indoctrination as so sophisticated that it eclipsed even the propaganda of Rwanda’s Radio Mille Collines, noting that whistleblowers inside Gaza who warned about UNRWA’s collaboration with Hamas were ignored because the aid industry was financially invested in maintaining the status quo.

The reality is that UNRWA obstructs peace by denying Palestinians a future beyond victimhood. It conditions children to view martyrdom as destiny and embeds hatred of Jews at the core of its institutional culture. Its employees have not merely tolerated violence but, in documented cases, actively promoted or participated in it. In response to growing scrutiny, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated bluntly that “UNRWA is a subsidiary of Hamas.” In both its aims and its practices, the evidence strongly supports that conclusion.

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ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES

🚨 ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar @gidonsaar announced the immediate suspension of contacts with seven UN bodies, following a Foreign Ministry review and the US withdrawal from similar organizations.

🔹 Ties cut with:
• Office of the… pic.twitter.com/Q7z9dqP7bg

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) January 13, 2026

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🚨 ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar @gidonsaar announced the immediate suspension of contacts with seven UN bodies, following a Foreign Ministry review and the US withdrawal from similar organizations.

🔹 Ties cut with:
• Office of the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
• UN Women
• UNCTAD
• ESCWA
• UN Alliance of Civilizations
• UN Energy
• Global Forum on Migration and Development

🔹 Israel says additional UN bodies are under review.

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Israel to strip licenses from aid groups in West Bank, Gaza over terror links

The government has begun revoking licenses from several international aid groups operating in the West Bank and Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, citing refusal to complete legal registration and the employment of staff linked to terror groups

Itamar Eichner | 30December2025 | 04:37  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1svo2e4z

The Israeli government has begun a process to revoke operating licenses from international organizations working in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after they failed to complete registration procedures required by law. The decision also followed findings that some employees at the organizations were involved in terrorist activity.

The move, led by an interministerial team headed by the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, includes sending formal letters to more than 10 international organizations, among them Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF. The letters state that their licenses to operate in Israel will be revoked as of Jan. 1 and that they must wind down their activities by March 1.

The action comes after the organizations were given extensive time to comply. The original deadline was Sept. 9 and was later extended to Dec. 31 to allow for full preparation, a total of about 10 months. Despite the extensions, some groups refused to meet a central requirement: submitting full lists of their Palestinian employees for security screening.

Security checks found that employees of Doctors Without Borders were involved in terror activity. In June 2024, an Islamic Jihad operative employed by the organization was killed, and in September, another employee was exposed as having served as a Hamas sniper. In both cases, the organization refrained from providing information about the employees’ identities and roles.

Political and security officials stressed there is no intention to disrupt the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip. They said the organizations facing license revocation account for only a small portion of overall aid, most of which continues to be delivered through other bodies and controlled channels.

This is your employee, @MSF. A physical therapist by day and terrorist by night.

Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was eliminated by the @IDF 2 days ago, worked both as a physical therapist for Doctors Without Borders and as a prominent terrorist in the PIJ terrorist organization.

Fadi… pic.twitter.com/N1FiO6QgLz

— COGAT (@cogatonline) June 27, 2024

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This is your employee, @MSF. A physical therapist by day and terrorist by night.

Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was eliminated by the @IDF 2 days ago, worked both as a physical therapist for Doctors Without Borders and as a prominent terrorist in the PIJ terrorist organization.

Fadi Al-Wadiya developed and advanced the terrorist organization’s rocket array for 15 years, and was a central figure in the terrorist organization’s knowledge of electronics and chemistry.

The same year that Al-Wadiya joined the MSF, he tried to leave Gaza to Iran, along with two other terrorists, in order to engage in terrorism training there.

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Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said it expects the organizations to launch what it described as false campaigns aimed at smearing Israel and claiming the move will worsen humanitarian conditions in Gaza. The unit said, however, that enforcement of the law will not affect the scope of humanitarian aid, noting that the organizations warned of closure have not delivered aid to Gaza during the current ceasefire.

COGAT also said the organizations’ refusal to operate transparently and cooperate with required screenings is not incidental but raises serious suspicion about the nature of their activities and their partners.

Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said he was proud the government had empowered his ministry to lead the effort to end activity against Israel under humanitarian cover. “The message is clear,” he said. “Humanitarian aid, yes. Exploiting it for terror purposes, no.”

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Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Type:Information – Topic: Terrorism – Publish Date: 30January2003 – Updated date: 30November2021
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Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the “Al-Aqsa” Intifada

(Communicated by Israeli security sources)
January 2003

During the Al-Aqsa intifada we have witnessed an evolving phenomenon of the exploitation of teenagers and children by various terrorist organizations in order to perpetrate terrorist attacks, among them suicide attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets. Children and teenagers between the ages of 11 and 18 have over the past few months carried out suicide and other terrorist attacks in which innocent Israeli civilians have been killed and injured. In addition, Israeli security forces apprehended a considerable number of these teenagers and children prior to the perpetration of the terrorist attacks. Terrorist organizations exploit the innocent look of children and teenagers, which does not arouse suspicion and enables them to blend into populated areas. In addition, these children and teenagers, who have not yet reached adulthood, are more susceptible to the terrorist organizations’ influence and the recruitment of suicide bombers.

Children and teenagers who are supposed to dream of a better future and enjoy innocence and happiness are thus sucked into the reality of killing and hate. The terrorist organizations which convince the children and teenagers that they will enjoy a life of happiness after death, are actually uprooting these children from their homes and families, and by religious or nationalist incitment are encouraging them to perpetrate terrorist attacks.

Salah Shehade, one of the heads of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip, recently deceased, discussed the use of children in terrorist attacks in an interview on the Islam On Line internet site (May 26, 2002). He said that the children must be trained well prior to perpetrating terrorist attacks and be recruited into a special branch within the organization’s military apparatus in order to instill the Jihad culture and teach them right from wrong. Expressions such as these represent one of the primary elements in convincing parents to send their children to perpetrate terrorist attacks.

Ala Saftawi, the chief editor of the Islamic Jihad’s “Alastaklal”, said on Tehran radio that Gaza Strip residents, especially children, have a high level of willingness to die a martyr’s death, because they have nothing to lose.

On June 27, 2002 Palestinian television screened a movie entitled “Children who love the homeland and the martyr’s death,” in which Dr. Fadel Abu Hin, a psychologist, speaks of the evolving phenomenon of children’s involvement in the intifada. Abu Hin mentioned that the word “shouhada” – martyrdom – has a multitude of meanings for Palestinian children in particular and for the entire Islamic community, and it is not simply a matter of putting an end to one’s life. Through this action, the children are able to take an active part in the intifada.

Abu Hin produced a poll carried out in the Islamic University in April 2001, on 1,000 teenagers between the ages of 916 in the Gaza Strip: 49% claimed to have taken an active part in the intifada and 73% expressed the desire to be a “shahid” (martyr). These statistics clearly show the growing radicalism among children and teenagers in the territories, who are easily recruited by the terrorist organizations to perpetrate terrorist attacks. During the interview the anchorwoman stated, “The hearts of the Palestinian children are filled not only with anxiety and fear, but also with a strong will to achieve ‘Shouhad’a (martyrdom)… Shouhada has become the greatest aspiration for many children who believe that this is the way to win prestige, and to be immortalized among their people.”

Not only does the Palestinian media incite and influence the children and teenagers, but the education system and summer camps “brainwash” the adolescents. The adolescents are inculcated with Islamic precepts that call for and encourage Jihad against Israel. At the beginning of July the Islamic Foundation in Gaza organized summer camps called the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs summer camp”. These camps continued until the end of July. On July 2, the “Al-Quds” newspaper quoted Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Baher, the chairman of the Islamic Foundation, as saying that the foundation attempted to keep the summer camps going despite the ongoing conflict, because they deeply believe in the values the summer camps are instilling in the children.

In addition, Dr. Baher stated that there is a constant stream of children who want to participate in the Hamas summer camps, where the children receive uniforms, shoes, exercise books and attention from the camp organizers. According to him, non-religious children join the summer camps due to the vast number of attractions that the organization offers. In addition, they teach the children the history of Islam, with pictures of the “martyrs” displayed everywhere, and in this way “instill the seeds of hate against Israel.”

Similar summer camps are being conducted by the Palestinian Authority Ministry for Youth and Sport, designed to incite the children, recruit them against Israel and train them in the use of weapons for future terrorist attacks against Israel.

An additional phenomenon worth mentioning is the fact that parents are allowing their children to dress up as “martyrs”. More and more, we are witnessing the phenomenon of children participating in marches and parades while dressed as “martyrs” and wearing props similar to explosive charges and slogans proclaiming their “martyr” status. A picture was recently found of a baby wearing an explosive charge and a headband with a slogan dedicating his life to Allah. There is no doubt that this phenomenon has a destructive effect on the education of these children, who imbibe the Jihad culture, making them easy targets for recruitment by terrorist organizations for perpetrating attacks.

The Involvement of Children and Teenagers Between the ages of 11-18 in Terror

• On July 6, 2002 two minors, both 11 years old and carrying knives, were apprehended by Israeli security forces near the Dugit outpost. During their questioning by the IDF, they stated that had planned to plant a bomb in the area. One of the youths stated that he wished to commit suicide and had hoped to be killed by IDF fire.
• On the night of April 23, 2002 three Palestinian children, students at a Gaza school, attempted to infiltrate the community of Netzarim in order to perpetrate a suicide attack in the town. The three were Ismail Soubh Ibrahim Abu Nada, age 12, Wael Ghazi Moustafa Hamarna, age 13, and Yousef Bassam Yousef Zakout, age 14. IDF forces killed the three adolescents as they attempted to infiltrate the town. The following day, the Hamas Internet site announced that the three, who were sent by the Hamas, belonged to a mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza. As part of their special activities, they set up their own terrorist group and decided to wage a Jihad against the Jews. The youths each left behind a last will and testament stressing their desire to die a martyr’s death. An ax and a hedge cutter were found on one of the bodies, presumably used to cut the fence that surrounds the town.
• A 13 year old youth, a resident of Tulkarem, is suspected of having been recruited during March 2002 by PIJ operatives from the Tulkarem area in order to perpetrate a suicide attack within Israel. The attack was thwarted by Israeli security forces.
• Aytham Asad Abu Shoka, 14 years old, a resident of Sheikh Radwan/Gaza, was killed by IDF forces near the Dugit outpost, after being spotted with another individual near the town’s fence. Two pipe bombs, a knife and a map of the Gaza Strip, on which Israeli towns were marked, were found on his body.
• Fahed Taisir Ali Azazi, 16 years old, a resident of Rafah, was killed at the beginning of February 2002 by IDF fire after he threw a grenade at the Tarmit outpost.
• A 15 year old girl, a resident of Bethlehem, was questioned at the beginning of April 2002 following information that indicated she was preparing to perpetrate a suicide attack. She confessed that she planned to carry out a suicide attack with the help of her uncle, a senior Tanzim operative in Bethlehem. She asked her uncle to recruit her to the Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, and her uncle agreed. Her uncle asked her to recruit additional girls from her school into the organization.
• Jamil Khalaf Moustafa Hamid, 16 years old, a resident of Bethlehem, was recruited by the Tanzim. On March 31, 2002 he perpetrated the suicide attack at the Magen David Adom station in Efrat. Six Israeli civilians were injured in the attack.
• Noura Jamal Mouhamad Ghanem, 16 years old, a resident of Tulkarem, attempted to stab an IDF soldier at the Taibe check-point near Tulkarem on February 24, 2002. Noura approached the checkpoint during the late evening hours, while her family was asleep in their home. The IDF forces opened fire during an “arrest of a suspect” procedure, which ended in the subject’s death. The adolescent’s last will and testament was found in her home, in which she had written that she dedicated her terrorist action to her Palestinian brethren who had been killed during the intifada. The Fatah claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
• A 16 year old youth, a resident of the Askar refugee camp, was arrested in May 2002 while traveling in a taxi and carrying an explosive charge. During questioning by the ISA, he confessed that when he was 14 he was recruited into a small Hamas terrorist group, of which two members were 16 years old. The youth stated the two had proposed that he carry out a suicide attack, and he agreed. They introduced him to a Tanzim operative, also a resident of the Askar refugee camp, who manufactured an explosive charge and videotaped him while he read his last will and testament. On the day of his arrest he had a haircut, put on the explosive charge, and met two individuals who transported him to Jenin in a taxi, where he and his escorts were arrested by the IDF.
• A 16.5 year old youth was caught while attempting to carry out a suicide attack in the Beit Shean area on August 2, 2001. He confessed during questioning by the ISA that he had been a member of an Islamic Jihad terrorist group, all of whose members were prepared to commit suicide attacks. He mentioned that another youth, also 16.5 years of age, had recruited him to carry out a suicide attack. The latter, who turned himself in to the Israeli security forces in January 2002, confessed that he had recruited a number of additional suicide bombers to perpetrate suicide attacks. In addition he was involved in planning terrorist attacks.
• Anwar Ahmed Abd El Khalek Hamed, currently 18 years old, an illiterate resident of Rafah, was previously involved in drug trafficking and use. He is affiliated with the Abu Rish faction of the Fatah and was apprehended on his way to perpetrate a suicide attack when he was 16.5 years old. He confessed during questioning that he was on his way to carry out a suicide attack against a convoy of IDF soldiers along the Gaza coastal road. The attack was planned and directed by Mohammed Sinwar, a senior military operative in the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. In addition, Anwar confessed that PFLP activists had proposed that he perpetrate a terrorist attack in the community of Morag during the month of Ramadan.
• Ahmed Salmi: A 16.5 year old teenager, resident of the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, was killed on April 16, 2002 by IDF forces near the town of Dugit. Two pipe bombs and a bottle of gunpowder were found in his possession. The Hamas claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
• A 16.5 year old high school student, resident of Tulkarem, was arrested on his way to carry out a suicide attack. During questioning by the ISA, he confessed that a Hamas operative from Tulkarem had recruited him, and proposed that he perpetrate a suicide attack on behalf of the Hamas and Fatah. In addition, he mentioned that he had spoken before his entire school class, and announced that he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack and that he might not return. He requested that his classmates leave his seat empty and place flowers on his chair every day. Subsequently, the youth met with Mohammed Shreim, a Tanzim activist from Tulkarem, who told him he had obtained an explosive charge for him to carry out a suicide attack within Israel. The youth agreed. Mohammed supplied him with the explosive charge and directed him to carru pit the attack at a bus stop within Israel, between two buses, or to board a crowded bus and blow himself up. Mohammed videotaped the youth holding the Koran and taking responsibility for the attack on behalf of the Hamas’ “Iz-A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades” and the Fatah’s “Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades”. Mohammed had written a last will and testament for the youth. Israeli security forces near Tira arrested the youth in February 2002, while he was on his way to perpetrate the terrorist attack. During the course of the arrest the youth attempted unsuccessfully to detonate the explosive charge.
• Issa Abd Raba Ibrahim Badir, 17 years old, a resident of Doha/Bethlehem, perpetrated the suicide attack in Rishon Lezion on May 22, 2002, in which two Israelis were killed and over 30 injured. Issa was directed by the Fatah military infrastructure in Bethlehem, headed by Ahmed Moughrabi, who was arrested by Israeli security forces on May 27. Ahmed’s 16-year-old brother was with him at the time of the arrest, and was arrested along with his brother. Ahmed confessed during questioning that he had directed his brother to pay a suicide bomber and to obtain a stolen car in order to perpetrate the suicide attack. The teenager confessed that he knew the suicide bomber and that he had videotaped the terrorists prior to the attack.
• Saed Wadah Awawda, 17 years old, carried out the terrorist attack at the hitchhiking stop in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem on June 19, 2002. As a result of the attack 7 citizens were killed and 37 injured. The “Mourabitun Brigades” took responsibility on the “Al-Manar” television.
• The hitchhiking stop in French Hill
• Jihad Gawdat Mohammad Jarrar – A resident of Hashmiya/Jenin, a student, he was 17 years old when he was caught on his way to perpetrate a suicide attack in Afula on behalf of the Islamic Jihad. He is currently 18 years old. Jihad was arrested on July 11, 2001, while he was carrying a bag that contained an explosive charge. During questioning by the ISA, he confessed that since he started to think of carrying out terrorist attacks at the age of 12, he dreamed of shooting Israeli soldiers. About three years ago he manufactured an improvised rifle and purchased ammunition. Jihad then told his uncle, a member of the Islamic Jihad, that he wished to join the organization and his uncle introduced him to Thabet Mirdawi, a senior Islamic Jihad operative who was arrested during Operation Defensive Shield. Jihad added that approximately a month and a half prior to his arrest he met with Mahmoud Nursi, a senior Islamic Jihad operative in Jenin, who was killed during Operation Defensive Shield. Jihad told Mahmoud that he was interested in carrying out a suicide attack and the latter manufactured an explosive charge that he placed in a bag for Jihad. Mahmoud instructed him to travel to Afula and detonate that explosive charge in a crowded area. Mahmoud videotaped Jihad reciting his last will and testament. On the day of his arrest, Mahmoud gave Jihad the explosive charge and instructed him on how to detonate it. Jihad took a taxi to Afula and upon his arrival attempted unsuccessfully to detonate the charge. He was subsequently arrested.
• Imad Farhan Hamran – A resident of Hashmiya/Jenin, he was 17 years old when he attempted to perpetrate a stabbing attack in Afula, along with Jihad Jarar and another terrorist a year ago. Imad was arrested during operation Operation Defensive Shield and confessed during questioning that he had been a member of a terrorist group from his village. The members of this group were adolescents between the ages of 16 and 18, and their goal was to become “martyrs”. The terrorist group members underwent physical training. Imad stated that approximately six months ago Jihad Jarar had proposed to him that he carry out a suicide attack. Imad then added that prior to the IDF operation in the Jenin refugee camp, he manufactured explosive charges which he placed in the ground and in long pipes along the walls.
• Hazem Atta Yousef, 17 years old, a resident of Beit Jala. On July 30, 2002 he carried out the suicide attack at the falafel stand on Nevi’im Street in Jerusalem, as a result of which 5 people were lightly injured. The Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Hazem was a student at the “Talita Kumi” high school, which is a private Christian-Lutheran school. According to his teachers and principal he was a good student. Hazem arrived at Nevi’im Street, in the center of town. He noticed two police officers and panicked. He ran to the entrance of the falafel stand and detonated the explosive charge he carried on his body. The police officers described the youth as a cleanshaven boy with gel in his hair, wearing jeans and a black shirt. He carried a bag in his hand.
  The scene at the falafel stand
• A 17.5 year old youth, a resident of Yamoun/Jenin, was arrested at the beginning of July 2002. The adolescent confessed during questioning that approximately a year ago he offered himself to his friend, an Islamic Jihad operative, as a possible suicide bomber on behalf of the Islamic Jihad. The youth’s friend told him that could join the organization, but that he would get back to him regarding his readiness to commit a suicide attack. Approximately a week prior to the suicide attack at the Megiddo junction on June 5, 2002, in which 17 Israeli citizens were killed and 42 injured, the Islamic Jihad operative proposed that he participate in a car bomb attack. The youth refused and stated that he was afraid of his parents and that he was worried that Israel would demolish his home if he carried out the attack.
• A 17.5 year old youth, a resident of Yamoun/Jenin, was arrested in June 2002. The youth confessed that during the summer of 2001 a Tanzim operative proposed that he carry out a suicide attack within Israel, and he agreed. Half a year later, the Tanzim operative instructed the youth to meet with Ali Safouri, a senior Islamic Jihad operative in Jenin who was arrested during Operation Defensive Shield, so that Safouri could train him to carry out the attack. Safouri then gave the youth two options for perpetrating the attack: first, a suicide attack in a crowded area using an explosive charge, or second, to enter Israel with a weapon and open fire at a crowd of civilians. The youth said that he would prefer to carry out a shooting attack, because he preferred that his body remain whole for his arrival in heaven. The youth then videotaped himself reciting his last will and testament, holding a Koran and a rifle. A few days later, he met with Safouri, who told him that now was not the time for a terrorist attack and that he should stay in the Jenin refugee camp and die fighting IDF soldiers. Another Tanzim operative then proposed that he perpetrate a shooting attack using a Kalashnikov rifle with which he would supply him. The youth attempted twice, unsuccessfully, to enter Israel.
• Tawfiq Hashem Mahamid and Jalal Khalil Mahamid, residents of the Jenin area, were both 17.5 years old when they were killed as a result of an explosion in a vehicle near Mei Ami on February 8, 2002. The two were on their way to carry out a terrorist attack in a Tel-Aviv nightclub, under the direction of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin.
• Ahmed Abd-El Mounem Ahmed Daraghma, a resident of Toubas, was 17.5 years old when he carried out the suicide attack at the entrance to Kibbutz Sheluhot on October 7, 2001. An Israeli citizen was killed in the attack.
• Safout Abd-El Rahman Mohammed Khali, a resident of Beit Wazan/Nablus, was 17.5 years old when he carried out a suicide attack on Neve Sha’anan street near the old central bus station in Tel-Aviv on January 25, 2002. As a result of the blast 23 people were injured. The Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades and the Islamic Jihad’s Jerusalem company claimed responsibility for the attack.
  The old central bus station in Tel Aviv
• Bilal Wagia Kamel Walid-Ali, a resident of Yamoun/Jenin, was arrested on March 8, 2002 after attempting to perpetrate a suicide attack using a booby-trapped bird cage in the town of Karkur. Bilal was arrested three months before he turned 18. During questioning by the ISA, Bilal confessed that he was a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and that his cousin, Riad, proposed that he carry out a suicide attack within Israel, after he discovered that Bilal and his fathers were at odds. Bilal agreed to the proposal. On the day of the attack Bilal was given a Kalashnikov rifle from Zeid Younes, a member of the Fatah Force 17 Presidential Guard. He was videotaped taking responsibility for the terrorist attack. Rabia Abu Roub, a senior Islamic Jihad operative from Qabatiya/Nablus, then dressed Bilal in the explosive charge and placed another charge in the birdcage. Zeid Younes taught him how to detonate the explosive charges. Bilal was then instructed to detonate both charges simultaneously once he arrived at his target area or in the event he was caught. Upon Bilal’s arrival in Karkur, a civilian noticed him and called him to stop. Bilal attempted to flee, and during the course of his escape left the birdcage behind. Bilal was arrested the next day.
  The boobytrapped bird cage
• Ghassan Mahmoud Naif Steiti, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, was arrested on March 31, 2002 during the IDF operations in Ramallah, two months before he turned 18. During questioning by the ISA, he confessed that he had been recruited to the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, and that he had agreed to carry out a suicide attack on their behalf. In December 2001 terrorists from Jenin, with connections in Ramallah, proposed that he perpetrate a suicide attack. Subsequently, he left Jenin for Ramallah in January 2002. During his stay in Ramallah he met Abd El Karim Aweis, a senior and wanted Fatah operative who turned himself in to IDF forces during Operation Defensive Shield. Aweis then proposed that he carry out the attack and Ghassan agreed. Ghassan was then videotaped reciting his last will and testament and taking responsibility for the attack on behalf of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
  Ghassan left in order to perpetrate the suicide attack in Tel-Aviv. On his way he noticed combat helicopters, was afraid that they were following him and postponed the attack. A few days later he attempted to travel to Tel-Aviv in order to carry out the attack, however the road was blocked and he returned to Ramallah. The third time he attempted to perpetrate the attack, he was stopped by the Palestinian General Intelligence. He was arrested by Israeli security forces during Operation Defensive Shield.The Use of Children’s Props in order to Perpetrate Terrorist AttacksDuring the course of questioning by the ISA, and from findings discovered during operations by Israeli security forces, it was revealed that various terrorist organizations are using children’s toys and props, such as backpacks and toys, in order to camouflage explosive charges. Although these props appear innocent and are not usually considered suspicious, they contain explosive materials designed to injure Israeli civilians and soldiers. For example, during IDF operations in Qalqilya on April 26, 2002 three explosives laboratories were exposed, containing explosive charges, explosive materials, grenades and weapons. A child’s backpack was found in one of the laboratories, containing explosive devices ready for use.A school backpack containing explosive devices ready for useCamouflaging Terrorist Activity near Schools and KindergartensDuring questioning by the ISA, senior operatives from various terrorist organizations stated that they often established explosives laboratories near schools and kindergartens in order to camouflage their activity, thus placing the Palestinian children at risk. Slaim Haga, a senior Hamas operative in Samaria who was arrested during Operation Defensive Shield, confessed during questioning that he had established an explosives laboratory near a school and that terrorists had disguised themselves as students by carrying backpacks and school books. The lab equipment included test tubes, glass vessels, gas masks and raw material used to manufacture explosive devices. The location of the laboratory near the school exposed the children to many dangers such as explosions, work-related accidents while manufacturing explosive materials, and exposure to dangerous toxins and materials. In addition, the terrorists exploited the innocent appearance of children entering and leaving school in order to camouflage their activities.In addition, Ahmed Moughrabi, a Tanzim operative from Bethlehem who was arrested on May 27, 2002, confessed during questioning by the ISA that he had situated an explosives laboratory within the Deheisha refugee camp, near a kindergarten. Ahmed and other activists would conduct experiments and manufacture explosive materials in the laboratory.Palestinian Summer CampsPalestinian youths participating in a summer camp in
  Kfar Salem, near Nablus, using fake rifles in order to attack
  a model of a settlement at the camp’s graduation ceremony.

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Regrets on the global stage as countries rethink bans on Israel

There was a price to be paid for withdrawing from one of the most forward-thinking, productive and defense-oriented countries in the world.

Anti-Israel protests march through Madrid calling for a boycott of Israel after the cancellation of the Vuelta a España cycling race. 14September2025. Credit: Barcex via Wikimedia Commons.

Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center and editor of inFOCUS Quarterly

https://www.jns.org/regrets-on-the-global-stage-as-countries-rethink-bans-on-israel/

(10November2025 / JNS) The timing was extraordinary. As I was moderating a conference entitled “U.S.-Central Asian Relations in the Era of the Abraham Accords,” Kazakhstan announced that it was, in fact, joining the pact. The reasons are many, and more Central Asian countries are likely to join, but it is the timing that leads to a larger understanding of Israel and the often hypocritical world. To be clear, it is neither the Abraham Accords countries nor those of Central Asia that are hypocritical.

Before the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and the gruesome massacre of more than 1,200 people, Israel and the countries of Europe had deep and long relations: political, economic, defense, cultural and sporting. But, in the eyes of many European governments, it was Israel that had to be penalized in all of those areas.

In 2023, the pan-European UniCredit put Israel on a “forbidden list.” Norway’s Storebrand group and French insurer sold shares of some Israeli firms, including banks. In 2024, several of Europe’s biggest financial firms cut back their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country.

Spain maintained what it called a “total embargo” on Israeli weapons. Madrid canceled a $207 million deal to buy targeting systems, following Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s description of Israel’s operations as “the genocide in Gaza.”

The British government canceled partnerships between the United Kingdom and Israel worth 6 billion pounds and supporting 38,000 jobs, as well as the provision of “significant information” to U.K. intelligence by Israel, including information that thwarted an Iranian-linked terrorist plot.

Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia and others announced varying degrees of suspension of military and economic cooperation with Israel. The United Kingdom banned Israeli soccer fans, and the Netherlands had an actual pogrom.

But it was always a convoluted set of decisions.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund had loudly announced its divestiture from Israel. Yet, at the end of 2024, the fund had more than $2 billion invested in 65 Israeli companies. The Norwegian Parliament rejected calls for a blanket ban, but the fund blacklisted 11 Israeli companies for assisting Israel’s “occupation,” primarily by providing gas and electricity to Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.

French and British pandering for a “Palestinian state” garnered headlines and victory cheers from Hamas, which credited Oct. 7.

Countries wanted to look strong, often in the face of violently anti-Israel and antisemitic mobs at home. But now, things are getting real and, as one analyst noted, “When things get real, countries put politics aside and go for Israel.”

The reality is that there was no famine in Gaza. There was no genocide. Hamas committed various heinous crimes against Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians. And there was a price to be paid for withdrawing from one of the most forward-thinking, productive and defense-oriented countries in the world.

According to World Israel News, Israel’s Ministry of Defense reported that Israeli arms exports hit a record $14.8 billion in 2024, with 54% of those exports going to European countries; a dramatic rise from just over 33% in 2023.

World Israel News also reported: “Despite public statements about severing ties with Israeli defense firms, Spain has authorized a €350 million ($420 million) deal with Elbit Systems for tactical radio communication systems.”

Norway declined to enforce its rules requiring divestiture from companies that have investments/facilities in Israel, including Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet. Finance minister Jens Stoltenberg said withdrawing “would undermine the purpose of the fund to be a broad, diversified global investment fund.”

After a September announcement that German arms exports to Israel had fallen to zero, Ha’aretz reported in October that Germany had, in fact, approved arms exports worth at least $2.9 million.

The Israeli and Greek Air Forces held a joint aerial refueling drill, and Israel, Greece, Cyprus and the United States met to discuss restoration of the East Med Gas Pipeline, which had been nixed by the Biden administration.

The “State of Palestine” offered little in the way of progress to real Palestinians.

And, on the side, after months of nasty rhetoric emanating from Cairo, and weapons smuggling in Sinai near the Israeli border, Egypt acknowledged its dependence on Israel and signed a new natural gas deal. Israel still has to address the weapons in Sinai.

Even in Hollywood, reality may be intruding on fantasy. In October, as the ceasefire was drawing closer, a new boycott of the Israeli film industry and Israeli actors took shape. But Warner Bros. Discovery told Variety, “Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies.” After a boycott letter circulated at Paramount, the studio released a statement condemning it for “silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality.”

To close the loop, the countries of Central Asia were always smarter about their interests. They have longstanding ties with the State of Israel. They are increasingly interested in increased relations with the Gulf states and the United States, particularly in light of their concerns about China and Russia, the historic powers in the region. Neither they nor the Abraham Accords countries were taken in by the propaganda shared by Hamas, Russia, Iran and Qatar about Gaza (although Gulf state concerns were sincere and expected).

Central Asia and the Abraham Accord countries are moving ahead, and Europe and Hollywood are catching up.

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How Israel avoided Eurovision ouster and the diplomatic push that changed the vote

Israel’s delegation mounted an intensive lobbying effort in Geneva, backed by a special team formed by President Herzog, as the EBU advanced new rules critics said targeted Israel

Ran Boker | 4December2025 | 22:24 https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/rjx22d1mwg

Israel secured its place in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest only after an intensive, months-long diplomatic campaign that unfolded largely behind the scenes, Israeli officials said Thursday, describing a coordinated effort involving KAN executives, government advisers and the President’s Residence to prevent the country’s expulsion.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) approved rule changes at its general assembly in Geneva that cleared the way for Israel to participate in next year’s competition in Vienna. The decision followed rising calls from several European broadcasters to bar Israel, and what officials described as the most serious push yet to force a vote on its removal.

Eden Golan’s Eurovision2024 performance

Am Ysroel Chai עם ישראל חי

KAN chief executive Golan Yokhpaz and attorney Ayala Mizrahi, who has handled legal strategy for two years of mounting boycott efforts, led Israel’s delegation in Geneva. Both engaged in direct lobbying of EBU members, aiming to prevent the assembly from moving to a binding vote that Israel feared it might lose.

President Isaac Herzog created a dedicated team at his residence to coordinate diplomatic outreach, convinced that an expulsion could snowball into a broader political setback for Israel in Europe. Israeli officials said Herzog personally urged international partners to oppose a vote on Israel’s removal and instead back reforms that would ease tensions inside the EBU.

Those reforms — including restrictions on governmental involvement in song promotion and adjustments to jury-public voting rules — were widely interpreted as compromises aimed at addressing complaints raised by critics of Israel without triggering expulsion. EBU members adopted the package in a secret ballot.

But the move immediately triggered a backlash: the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia announced they would withdraw from the 2026 contest in protest of Israel’s continued participation.

A senior EBU official, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to comment publicly, told ynet the organization now faces “a major challenge,” pointing to a wave of cancellations and reputational damage.

Herzog praised the Israeli delegation for what officials described as a painstaking diplomatic effort. “Israel deserves to be represented on every stage,” he said, adding that the decision reflected “solidarity and cooperation” among those who defended Israel’s participation.

In its statement, the EBU said the reforms were designed to strengthen trust and preserve the contest’s neutrality, and that all members agreeing to the new rules may participate in 2026.

The next Eurovision is set for Vienna in May.

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Yuval Raphael’s Eurovision2025 performance

יום חדש יזרח 🇮🇱 🌟 הביצוע המלא של יובל רפאל בחצי גמר האירוויזיון 2025 pic.twitter.com/HwtBbA9vrZ

— כאן (@kann) May 15, 2025

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יום חדש יזרח 🇮🇱 🌟 הביצוע המלא של יובל רפאל בחצי גמר האירוויזיון 2025

A new day will shine 🇮🇱 🌟 Yuval Raphael’s full performance in the Eurovision 2025 semi-final

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UN made ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Jew-hatred in 1975, expert says at Geneva event

Antisemitism at the global body “hides behind a veneer of commissions, rapporteurs, expert reports and biased agenda items and resolutions that disproportionately single out Israel year after year,” a U.S. diplomat said.

Mike Wagenheim

https://www.jns.org/un-made-rosetta-stone-for-jew-hatred-in-1975-expert-says-at-geneva-event/

A banner by the collectif Palestine 69 with the words “Fascism, Racism, Zionism: Same Enemy, Same Fight,” using 50-year-old terminology begun by the United Nations. The cross-party call to bring together political parties, associations and trade unions against racism and push for equal rights for all took place at a demonstration in Lyon, France, on March 22, 2025. Photo by Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/ Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.

(14November2025 / JNS) Nearly 35 years have passed since the United Nations voted, in 1991, to revoke its 1975 resolution declaring Zionism to be racism. But that statement 50 years ago set the stage for the attacks on the Jewish state today, several speakers said during an event hosted this week by the U.S. and Israeli missions to the global body in Geneva.

“U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, which wrongly declared that Zionism is a form of racism, was a symbolic assault on the Jewish people and the legitimacy of the State of Israel,” Mireille Zieseniss, acting U.S. deputy chief of mission, said at the event.

“The adoption of this antisemitic resolution marked an unfortunate chapter in the U.N.’s history, undermining the organization’s founding principles,” she said. “Then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned in his remarks opposing the resolution that ‘a great evil has been loosed upon the world.’”

Though revoked, the “resolution’s impact, including the establishment of anti-Israel bodies within the U.N. system, reverberates to this day, emboldening those who seek to delegitimize Israel and marginalize Jewish communities worldwide,” Zieseniss said.

She added that “in the U.N. context, antisemitism, which is among the world’s oldest hatreds, hides behind the veneer of commissions, rapporteurs, ‘expert’ reports, and biased agenda items and resolutions that disproportionately single out Israel year after year.”

“Ancient prejudices are perpetuated, masquerading as criticism of Israel,” she said.

She spoke as part of a discussion that ran for about an hour and 45 minutes on “1975-2025: Confronting antisemitism and racism at the U.N.,” which the two missions hosted.

‘It planted seeds of hostility’

Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, delivered recorded remarks at the event, a half-century after his father, Chaim Herzog, then the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, tore a copy of the resolution and delivered a stinging rebuke in the General Assembly’s hall after it passed.

Chaim Herzog’s granddaughter, Ariel, attended the event on Nov. 12, as did representatives of 37 countries, according to the Israeli mission.

Daniel Meron, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, told JNS that the 50th anniversary of the resolution offered a chance to highlight its current impact on the global body.

“There are forces which are continuing to try to use the United Nations as a platform to portray Israel as the mother of all evils, and where the anti-Zionism and antisemitic notion is very prevalent,” he said. “We thought it was very good to have this event.”

Meron told JNS that the U.S. mission is to be applauded for seeking and obtaining a waiver so that its members could participate during the government shutdown.

The resolution fueled racism rather than fought it, Meron told the audience.

“It emboldened extremists, legitimized hatred and provided ideological cover for the oldest hatred known to humanity,” he said in his remarks. “It planted seeds of hostility that continue to bear poisonous fruit today, in the streets, on university campuses and across the digital world.”

‘It created the playbook’

Gil Troy, an author, historian and senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, told attendees that “one of the key words that’s often missing from definitions of antisemitism is the word ‘obsession.’”

He stated that “anti-Zionism has become a modern obsession. What do we know from obsession? We put the Jew, as we did in the Middle Ages, and now the Jewish state, at the center of all the world’s troubles.”

Troy denounced the United Nations for “betraying its founding ideals” by adopting the resolution.

“The United Nations created the Rosetta Stone for antisemitism and anti-Zionism, because the two merged. It created the playbook,” he said. “It created the precedent for institutions to single out Israel. It created the playbook for uniting on campus, uniting in the media, uniting in the art world against Israel and the Jewish people.”

David Harris, former CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told attendees that many Israelis thought of the 1975 resolution as “a mosquito bite.”

“‘We’ve had them before.’ ‘We’ll have them again.’ ‘It’ll go away.’ ‘It doesn’t matter,’” he said. “But it mattered.”

Meron told JNS that the U.N. plan to combat Jew-hatred, which it debuted in April, has had little if any practical impact.

“I’ve seen a lot of talk,” he said. “I put together a report, which I delivered here in Geneva and in Washington, of how the United Nations needs to reform and get rid of all this singling out of one country, and nobody’s taking it seriously except the American administration.”

“The United Nations is not taking it seriously,” he said. “If they were really serious about antisemitism, they would stop singling out one country: the Jewish state.”

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Always remember… Lies are spread by ‘Palestinians’, repeated by fools, and accepted by idiots.

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— Brock Profit (@BrockProfit9185) March 6, 2026

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Gaza flotilla Consequences

🇨🇭 SWISS GOVERNMENT TO ACTIVISTS: YOU PAY FOR YOUR OWN STUNT

Switzerland has issued invoices of up to €11,000 to the 20 Swiss nationals who joined the pro-Gaza flotilla “Sumud.”

According to officials, the charges cover:
👉 Arrest-related assistance in Israel
👉 Consular care… pic.twitter.com/TH51DutwpS

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) December 11, 2025

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🇨🇭 SWISS GOVERNMENT TO ACTIVISTS: YOU PAY FOR YOUR OWN STUNT

Switzerland has issued invoices of up to €11,000 to the 20 Swiss nationals who joined the pro-Gaza flotilla “Sumud.”

According to officials, the charges cover:
👉 Arrest-related assistance in Israel
👉 Consular care
👉 Prison visits
👉 Diplomatic coordination
👉 Return travel arrangements

A Swiss government spokesperson said the move reflects a clear policy:
Individuals engaging in high-risk political actions abroad are financially responsible for the consequences.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

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BREAKING: UNRWA CAN NOW BE SUED IN ISRAELI COURTS

We’ve just filed the first lawsuit against UNRWA on behalf of the Samerano family, whose son Jonathan was kidnapped to Gaza by a UNRWA employee on October 7.

This legal breakthrough isn’t just about one case.
It’s the start of something bigger. pic.twitter.com/55rM4PurQf

— Shurat HaDin – שורת הדין (@ShuratHaDin) January 19, 2026

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We’ve just filed the first lawsuit against UNRWA on behalf of the Samerano family, whose son Jonathan was kidnapped to Gaza by a UNRWA employee on October 7.

This legal breakthrough isn’t just about one case.
It’s the start of something bigger.

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Israel begins dismantling process of banned UNRWA’s Jerusalem headquarters

The measures against UNRWA began in late 2024 with Israel’s decision to outlaw all of the organization’s activities within the country’s borders.

By TPS, SHIR PERETS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
JANUARY 20, 2026 09:47
Updated: JANUARY 20, 2026 17:20 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-883911

Israeli personnel arrived to dismantle the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) headquarters on Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.

Ammunition Hill is the central headquarters from which all of the organization’s activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem were managed. UNRWA’s main logistical infrastructure was concentrated within the building.

Israel Police noted that security forces were at the scene to ensure the safety of workers demolishing the site, which had been vacant for at least a year.

Since the beginning of the war, UNRWA’s ties with the terrorist organization Hamas have been exposed, and it was discovered that some UNRWA operatives even took part in the October 7 massacre. In addition, numerous tunnels and terrorist infrastructures were found under buildings belonging to UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.

“This is a historic day, a holiday, and a very important day for Jerusalem’s governance,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated.

“For years, these terror supporters were here, and today they are banished with everything they built.”

“This is happening as a result of the laws I initiated to expel UNRWA from Israel. And redemption has come to Zion!” MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beytenu, one of the initiators of the bill to sever ties with UNRWA, said.

The Foreign Ministry stated that the demolition was not because of any new policy, “but rather the implementation of existing Israeli legislation concerning UNRWA-Hamas.”

“The State of Israel owns the Jerusalem compound in which the Israel Land Authority operates today. Even prior to the passage of legislation in January 2025, UNRWA-Hamas had already ceased its operations at this site and no longer had any UN personnel or UN activity there,” the ministry stated.

“The compound does not enjoy any immunity, and the seizure of this compound by Israeli authorities was carried out in accordance with both Israeli and international law.”

“The evacuation of UNRWA’s offices is not collective punishment or politics, it is the legal consequence of an organization that lost its neutrality,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, which represents victims of the October 7 attacks in a major lawsuit against the UN body. “When UNRWA facilities and staff are tied to Hamas terror, Israel has both the right and the obligation to remove that presence from its capital.”

Measures against UNRWA started in 2025

The measures against UNRWA began in late 2024 with Israel’s decision to outlaw all of the organization’s activities within the country’s borders.

In December 2025, the Knesset voted to disconnect UNRWA facilities from water and electricity.

Less than two weeks ago, Israeli forces arrived to evacuate the UNRWA facility in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

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Final approval: No water or electricity to be supplied to UNRWA properties

The Knesset has approved the bill by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, which imposes sanctions on UNRWA, including cutting infrastructure, revoking immunities, and seizing assets.

Israel National News / Published: 29December2025, 6:35 PM (GMT+2)

The Knesset plenary approved tonight (Monday), in the second and third readings, the bill proposed by the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Limor Son Har-Melech, which aims to stop the activities of UNRWA within the State of Israel.

The bill, which received broad support, includes a series of sanctions against the organization, marking the end of UNRWA’s operations in the country.

The new law revokes the United Nations immunity that UNRWA, its employees, and its assets have enjoyed, and imposes significant economic and infrastructural restrictions. Among the sanctions are: cutting off electricity, water, and gas services to any property where UNRWA is listed as a consumer, a ban on financial institutions providing banking or payment services to the organization, and a demand for communication providers to disconnect telecommunication services to UNRWA.

The new law revokes the UN immunity that UNRWA, its employees and its assets have enjoyed. NO electricity, water & gas services, NO banking or payment services, Communication providers to disconnect telecommunication services to UNRWA.

In addition, the law stipulates that the state and local authorities will have the authority to seize land held by UNRWA within 30 days.

Following the approval of the law, MK Son Har-Melech stated, “UNRWA is a terrorist organization that was a full partner in the massacre, abduction, and murder on October 7th. Today, the State of Israel has made it clear in no uncertain terms that it has no place within its borders. We didn’t come to make declarations, but to change the reality on the ground and restore national sovereignty and honor.”

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UNRWA has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem

Before the propaganda machine takes over and falsifies the situation, here is why @UNRWA is being kicked out of Jerusalem.
And rightfully so.

UNRWA does not pay its bills.
It has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem.

The Municipality sent the debt to Israel’s… pic.twitter.com/lATTjXuB13

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) December 8, 2025

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Before the propaganda machine takes over and falsifies the situation, here is why @UNRWA is being kicked out of Jerusalem.
And rightfully so.

UNRWA does not pay its bills.
It has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem.

The Municipality sent the debt to Israel’s civil enforcement authority, which is fully empowered to:
• Garnish bank accounts
• Seize property
• Place liens on assets

@israelpolice are on site to ensure security for municipal staff carrying out a lawful enforcement action.
International media are already spinning this as a dramatic “police raid.”

The reality: UNRWA failed to pay what it owes. And Jerusalem is enforcing the law like it would with any debtor.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil

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Europeans finally waking up to Hamas-enabling UNRWA scam

By Post Editorial Board

Published 10December2025, 10:55 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/opinion/europeans-finally-waking-up-to-hamas-enabling-unrwa-scam/

It looks like the days are numbered for the terrorist-infested UN Relief and Works Agency, as UNRWA loses support from major European nations that have long backed it.

Cheers for Germany, Italy, Czechia and Hungary, joined by Bulgaria and Latvia last Friday in withholding support for the renewal of UNRWA’s charter. Austria, Romania and Lithuania joined in on a separate resolution.

Close observers have always known that UNRWA — the special UN agency charged with caring for Palestinian refugees, and only Palestinian refugees — works hand-in-glove with Hamas in Gaza.

But then it turned out that UNRWA directly employed Hamas fighters who joined in the Oct. 7, 2022, terror assault on Israel; the course of the war exposed many more, deep Hamas-UNRWA ties.

Israel has since banned UNRWA from working in its territory, and Washington cut off aid to the agency early this year, following a temporary suspension under President Joe Biden.

Israel, citing non-payment of taxes, even took over a former UNRWA center in East Jerusalem, raising the national standard in place of the flag of the United Nations.

Without Israel’s cooperation, UNRWA’s capacity to work in Gaza is next to zero, but that didn’t stop more than 150 nations voting Friday to keep the agency rattling along.

Remember: Every other refugee population in the world is helped by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists people displaced by war or persecution in resettlement and integration into their new homes; former refugees become residents and eventually citizens, losing their refugee status.

Only Palestinians, under UNRWA’s “care,” retain refugee status forever, even unto the third, fourth and fifth generations — and so perpetuating the eternal victimhood of the Palestinian people by shackling them to aid and legalizing their segregation inside neighboring nations long decades after their forebears arrived.

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