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by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Wednesday declared "Time is OVER!" for Israel in an ominous message posted on X.
“After the terrible crime of the Zionist regime in the bombing and massacre of more than 1,000 innocent women and children in the hospital, the time has come for the global unity of humanity against this fake regime more hated than ISIS and its killing machine,” Amirabdollahian wrote.
The Iranian embassy in Syria also posted "time is up" in both Hebrew and Arabic, the New York Post reported.
The statements came after the Hamas blamed Israel for a blast at a hospital in Gaza that killed as many as 500 people on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israel Defense Forces have said a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket misfired and caused the explosion and released audio evidence supporting their version.
President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he reviewed evidence suggesting Israel was not responsible for the explosion.
"I was outraged by the bombing of the hospital yesterday. Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by the other team. Not you," Biden said to Netanyahu. "But there’s a lot of people out there who are not sure."
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Iran calls on Islamic countries to impose oil embargo on Israel
by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Wednesday called for Islamic countries to expel Israeli ambassadors and impose an oil embargo and other sanctions on Israel.
Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas after a blast rocked a hospital in Gaza reportedly killing a large number of Palestinians.
"The foreign minister calls for an immediate and complete embargo on Israel by Islamic countries, including oil sanctions, in addition to expelling Israeli ambassadors if relations with the Zionist regime have been established," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Amirabdollahian also called for the formation of a team of Islamic lawyers to document potential war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.
Iran has no diplomatic relations with Israel, which it calls a "Zionist regime," and its supreme leaders have a long history of issuing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements calling for the Jewish state's destruction.
Reuters contributed to this update.
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IDF says report confirms misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad caused deadly blast at Gaza hospital
by Elizabeth Pritchett - FOX News
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Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari held a news conference Wednesday morning in efforts to prove a deadly explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza was caused by Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad, and not Israel.
The IDF conducted an after-action review with all relevant branches following the deadly explosion that left at least 500 people dead Tuesday evening, Hagari said. The review revealed that Hamas fired a barrage of rockets toward Israel at 6:15 p.m. local time, which was followed by the launch of around ten rockets by Islamic Jihad approximately 45 minutes later.
It was determined that one of the rockets launched by Islamic Jihad misfired and continued its flight toward the ground until it hit within the hospital compound, Hagari said, adding that intelligence captured two Hamas terrorists discussing the failed launch.
That conversation between the two was released publicly by the IDF Wednesday morning and translated into English. The two men can be heard acknowledging the misfire when one says "they are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad," and that the shrapnel looks like it is local, not from the Israelis.
Then they start discussing how the rockets were shot from a cemetery behind the hospital, which is what Hagari said was determined in the review based on the trajectory analysis.
Hagari also said the IDF has counted approximately 450 rockets that have misfired and failed inside Gaza since Oct. 7, adding that "Palestinians pay the price."
Fox News' Trey Yingst reported that the Israelis have been consistent in denying responsibility for the attack.
"The facts on the ground, what we can report, the Israelis have provided both drone evidence, they've provided images, videos, and they have provided intercepted phone calls to indicate this was an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired," Yingst said.
Yingst noted that Hamas stands by its initial claim that the Israelis are responsible for the hundreds killed at the hospital.
By Jesse O’Neill - New York Post
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Israel Defense Forces released an audio recording Wednesday morning of what it said were two Islamic Jihad terrorists admitting responsibility for the Gaza City hospital bombing a day before that killed hundreds of people.
The clip, posted on X, is captioned “Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not. Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves.”
It was released as Hamas and Israel blamed each other for the attack on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, which was crammed with Palestinians injured in retaliatory Israel airstrikes and residents seeking refuge.
“Is it from us?” one operative is heard asking on the recording, according to the IDF’s translation.
“It looks like it,” his cohort replies.
The purported members of Islamic Jihad – an arm of the ruling militant group Hamas – are then heard acknowledging that the shrapnel of the missile “are local pieces, and not Israeli shrapnel,” from rockets fired from the “cemetery behind the hospital.”
“But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?,” one of them asked.
Hamas leaders have fingered Israel and the US for the attack, while Israel claimed that a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch resulted in the devastation, as leaders noted some 450 other rockets fired from Gaza had fallen short of Israel in the past week and a half.
As protestors blaming Israel took to the streets in Arab countries throughout the region, President Biden spoke alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, and said that Israel was not to blame for the attack, citing “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”
“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden told Netanyahu.
Israel said its radar and an independent video depicted a misfired rocket barrage that caused a large explosion as it hit the hospital. It also said the blast left no crater, as a deliberate strike would have.
The IDF’s audio post was met with widespread skepticism on X, as many users questioned the veracity of the high-quality recording and wondered why the military was now able to surveille Hamas operatives but was caught off guard by the group’s heinous and long-planned Oct. 7 surprise attack across the disputed border that killed more than 1,400.
The strike on the hospital was the deadliest single incident since war broke out following that onslaught. According to Gaza officials, it killed more than 500 people.
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Before the hospital attack, Israeli strikes had killed at least 2,778 Palestinians and injured nearly 10,000 with 1,200 others thought to be buried under rubble, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Israel also ordered the displacement of more than a million people from the northern part of the densely populated Gaza Strip, escalating an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the blockaded territory.
Unfortunately I dont believe anything anymore.
This one took a time to form an opinion on, but if I had to bet on this one, it really seems it was a failed Hamas rocket. And that they've grossly exaggerated the 500 figure based on the small crater and actually being in the parking lot not the hospital.Quote:
Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches
That said, totally agree. What a clusterfuck. Social media is our greatest failure. Millions of people completely assured of their opinion one way or another just from a grainy twitter video. MSM is to blame too... with all the evidence supporting the theory this was Hamas, they've been awfully quiet about correcting their articles blaming Israel.
By Lawrence Richard | Fox News
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The Hamas terrorists that carried out a barbaric assault in Israel on Oct. 7 likely used North Korean weapons, analysis and various evidence including a militant video and weapons seized by Israel now show. North Korea has previously denied selling arms to the terrorist group.
One weapon at the center of the controversy, used by Hamas, is the F-7 rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-fired weapon that fighters typically use against armored vehicles. A video of Hamas terrorists using the F-7 rocket launcher has been confirmed through analysis by two experts on North Korean arms and South Korean military intelligence. The Associated Press also conducted an analysis of weapons captured on the battlefield.
These rocket launchers fire a single warhead and can be quickly reloaded, making them valuable weapons for smaller militias and guerrilla forces running skirmishes against heavy vehicles.
"It is not a surprise to see North Korean weapons with Hamas," said Matt Schroeder, a senior researcher with Small Arms Survey who wrote a guide to Pyongyang’s light weapons.
In addition to the F-7 rocket launcher, Hamas propaganda videos and photos have shown its fighters with North Korea's Bulsae guided anti-tank missile.
Hamas also used North Korea's Type 58 self-loading rifle, a variant of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, according to N.R. Jenzen-Jones, a weapons expert who works as the director of the consultancy Armament Research Services.
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Jenzen-Jones cited imagery of the weapons wielded by Hamas terrorists.
"North Korea has long supported Palestinian militant groups, and North Korean arms have previously been documented amongst interdicted supplies," Jenzen-Jones told The Associated Press.
Russia uses similar weaponry and the North Korean F-7 resembles a widely distributed Soviet-era RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade, but has a few noticeable differences including a distinctive red stripe across its warhead.
Hamas has published images of their training that show fighters with a weapon with a rocket-propelled grenade with the red stripe, and other design elements matching the F-7, Schroeder said.
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A militant video examined by the AP shows one fighter carrying the F-7, with the evident red stripe. Weapons seized by the Israeli military and shown to journalists also included the red stripe and other design elements matching the F-7.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff specifically identified the F-7 as one of the North Korean weapons it believed Hamas used in the attack during a press briefing Tuesday.
The Israeli military declined to identify the origin and the manufacturer of those rocket-propelled grenades, citing the ongoing war with Hamas.
Jenzen-Jones said the F-7 has been documented in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
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Last week, Pyongyang dismissed that it was supplying Hamas with its weapons as "a groundless and false rumor" orchestrated by the United States.
"The U.S. administration's reptile press bodies and quasi-experts are spreading a groundless and false rumor that 'North Korea's weapons' seemed to be used for the attack on Israel," North Korean international affairs commentator Ri Kwang-song said through its state-run KCNA news agency.
"It is nothing but a bid to shift the blame for the Middle East crisis caused by its wrong hegemonic policy onto a third country and thus evade the international criticism focused on the empire of evil," the statement continued.
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In 2012, the United States detected a North Korean cargo plane reportedly carrying rockets and rocket-propelled grenades that had been bound for Hamas.
North Korea has maintained diplomatic relations with Palestinian leaders since 1966.
The White House said last week that North Korea continues to supply conventional arms to Russia, after it delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to resupply Russia’s military in its war with Ukraine.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
By Greg Norman - FOX News
A Hezbollah official is warning that the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group is "thousands of times stronger" than before, and that U.S., Israel and other "malicious Europeans" should be careful, reports say.
The comments were made Wednesday by senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine during a rally in a suburb of Beirut, where protesters also waved Hezbollah and Palestinian flags and chanted "Death to America and Israel," according to The Guardian.
"The response to the mistake you might make with our resistance will be resounding," Safieddine also was quoted by Reuters as saying. "Because what we have is faith, and God is stronger than you, all your battleships, and all your weapons."
The fiery remarks came on the same day President Biden visited Israel and cautioned other countries from becoming involved in the Israel-Hamas war.
"The world will know that Israel is stronger than ever. And my message to any state or any other hostile actor thinking about attacking Israel remains the same as it was a week ago. Don't, don't, don't," Biden said.
"And later this week, I'm going to ask the United States Congress for an unprecedented support package for Israel's defense. We're going to keep Iron Dome fully supplied to continue standing sentinel over Israeli skies, saving Israeli lives," he added. "We moved U.S. military assets to the region, including positioning the USS Ford carrier strike group in the eastern Mediterranean with the USS Eisenhower on the way to deter further aggression against Israel and to prevent this conflict from spreading."
Well duh, now they have all the weapons we left in Afghanistan
By Melissa Koenig - New York Post
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Israel appeared to be readying its expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip early Friday, with a large border town evacuated and fleets of tanks lining up on the border where hundreds of thousands of soldiers are already camped out.
Israeli officials have been warning for days that it will soon launch its ground invasion, as they massed at least 300,000 troops along the border in response to Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, when the terrorist organization killed at least 1,400 people — mostly civilians — and took more than 200 others hostage, the Voice of America reports.
Speaking to those troops Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said they would soon see Gaza “from the inside.
“Whoever sees Gaza from afar will soon see it from the inside,” he said. “The order will come.”
Gallant’s meeting with troops came as Economy Minister Nir Barkat announced that the Israel Defense Forces had been given a “green light” to bring the offensive to Gaza — a roughly 140-square-mile parcel of land between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea.
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“We shall [make] all efforts to bring our hostages, to bring our hostages [back] alive,” he insisted to ABC News while acknowledging that the “first and last priority” is destroying Hamas.
The terrorist group has claimed it is holding about 203 Israeli hostages within the network of tunnels it built underneath Gaza — which Barkat vowed will become the “world’s biggest cemetery.”
As tanks appeared at the ready Friday, there were also reports of heavy airstrikes hitting Gaza, where Israel says it has struck more than 100 targets linked to Hamas, including a tunnel and arms depots.
Israel has evacuated its own communities near Gaza and Lebanon, putting residents up in hotels elsewhere in the country.
The Defense Ministry announced evacuation plans Friday for Kiryat Shmona, a town of more than 20,000 residents near the Lebanese border.
The IDF is intent on decimating the terrorist group “even if it takes a year” — with hostages and civilian casualties taking a backseat, Barkat explained.
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Israeli officials have been adamant that they have no choice but to launch the massive assault, codenamed Operation Swords of Iron.
Since Hamas seized power in the region 16 years ago, they argue, Israel has fought three major conflicts.
But each of those operations was aimed at keeping Hamas in check, rather than destroying the terrorist group as they are now planning.
“The strategy was to have a longer gap every time between the different conflicts, but it failed and it cannot happen anymore,” an unidentified senior IDF official told the Guardian.
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“So the only conclusion is that we have to go in, we have to go in and clear it and eliminate Hamas from the roots, not only militarily, but also economically, its administration.”
“Everything should go away.”
“That’s the idea now, and we are getting prepared for that,” the official said.
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“It won’t be as clear cut and it won’t be as short as we would like as Israelis. It will be a prolonged campaign. It will take time.”
As part of the ground invasion, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi instructed troops to find and destroy the hideouts used by Hamas as they try to target top Hamas officials, the Times of London reports.
At the top of the target list is Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, and Mohammed Deif, the head of the al-Qassam Brigades — the military arm of Hamas.
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But as the Israeli forces enter the Palestinian-controlled land, Hamas will likely adopt terrorist tactics like positioning snipers in the windows of apartment blocks, using tripwires to set off IEDs, dropping grenades on armored vehicles, and disguising their members as civilians, according to Gen. Sir Richard Barrons, the veteran British commander of counter-insurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He told the UK Times that “the chances of being so successful that they destroy Hamas entirely are very slim indeed.
“The chances of deepening the conflict around Israel and Gaza are already much greater,” he warned. “Hamas intended to do that.”
How do you eliminate a bunch of people that can blend in to look just like civilians? :wha:
By Lawrence Richard | Fox News
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The United States is poised to get involved in the Israel-Hamas war should the conflict escalate into regional forces intentionally targeting American personnel, senior officials said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that the U.S. expects Iranian proxies to seek opportunities to escalate the Israel-Hamas war and asserted that the Biden administration is prepared to respond accordingly if American civilians or armed forces become targets.
"This is not what we want, not what we're looking for. We don't want escalation," Blinken said. "We don't want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire. But if that happens, we're ready for it."
Austin added: "What we’re seeing is a prospect of a significant escalation of attacks on our troops and our people throughout the region. We’re going to do what’s necessary to make sure that our troops are in that position and they were protected and that we have the ability to respond." He affirmed that the U.S. has the right to defend itself and said, "We won't hesitate to take the appropriate action."
Austin also said the U.S. would continue to increase its presence in the region to "send another message to those who would seek to widen this conflict."
"If any group or any country is looking to widen this conflict and take advantage of this very unfortunate situation that we see. Our advice is don’t," he continued. "We maintain the right to defend ourselves and we won’t hesitate to take the appropriate action."
The high-ranking U.S. officials issued the warning ahead of Israel's expected ground invasion of Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, a terror group that led a deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians. The attack left more than 1,400 Israelis dead.
Blinken, who spent several days meeting with regional leaders in the Middle East, also suggested there was a "likelihood of escalation" while clarifying that no one wants to see Israel forced to respond to hostilities on a second or third front as it fights Hamas.
Blinken said he expects "escalation by Iranian proxies directed against our forces, directed against our personnel," and added, "We are taking steps to make sure that we can effectively defend our people and respond decisively if we need to."
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Iran actively calls for the destruction of both Israel and the U.S.
President Biden has urged terror groups and other militant factions in the region not to get involved in the current conflict.
"Don't, don't, don't," Biden repeated at various public speeches, including a press conference in Israel and an address at the Oval Office. He also continues to emphasize the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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"Today, I spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about developments in Israel and Gaza," Biden wrote on X Sunday. "The first two convoys of humanitarian assistance arrived in Gaza yesterday, and we affirmed that there will now be a continued flow of this critical aid to Palestinians in need.
The president added: "I also expressed appreciation for Israel’s support in helping to secure the release of two American hostages, and Prime Minister Netanyahu and I discussed ongoing efforts to secure the release of all remaining hostages taken by Hamas. We’ll continue to stay in close touch."
Israel's military continues its air assault on Hamas in Gaza and other targets used by terror groups, it said.
Israeli warplanes struck 320 targets across Gaza on Sunday and into Monday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants as the war threatened to engulf more of the Middle East.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
By Greg Norman | Fox News
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One of the two Israeli hostages released yesterday by Hamas is now speaking out about her time as a captive of the Palestinian terrorist group, describing a "spiderweb" of tunnels underneath the Gaza Strip where she was fed only one meal per day.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, was taken from Israel on Oct. 7 alongside her 83-year-old husband Oded, who still remains held inside the Gaza Strip. Lifshitz said civilians beat her once she was brought into Gaza before being moved into an extensive tunnel system where Hamas did provide hostages with some medicine and hygiene supplies, according to Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst.
"My mom is telling the horrific stories. She is saying that many, many people -- a swarm of people came through the fence," her daughter, Sharone Lifschitz, told reporters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, describing the moments in which Yocheved saw the Hamas militants approaching.
"My mom is saying she was taken on the back of a motor bike with her body with her legs on one side and her head on the other side," Sharone Lifschitz added. "That she was taken through the plow fields with men in front on one side and men behind her."
She also said how her mother was brought into a "a huge network of tunnels underneath Gaza that looked like a spiderweb," according to the BBC.
Yocheved herself said people assigned to guard her had "told us they are people who believe in the Quran and wouldn’t hurt us," also noting how she and other hostages were fed one meal a day of cheese and cucumber, The Associated Press reported.
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Prior to their capture from their home in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border, Yocheved and her husband were activists who helped sick Gazans receive medical care in Israel, her grandson Daniel Lifshitz told Reuters.
"They are human rights activists, peace activists for all their life," Daniel Lifshitz was quoted as saying.
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"For more than a decade, they took... sick Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, not from the West Bank, from the Gaza Strip every week from the Erez border to the hospitals in Israel to get treatment for their disease, for cancer, for anything," he added.
Last three paragraphs...wow.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">These fuel tanks are inside Gaza. <br><br>They contain more than 500,000 liters of fuel.<br><br>Ask Hamas if you can have some. <a href="https://t.co/Dlag6VdbMq">https://t.co/Dlag6VdbMq</a> <a href="https://t.co/WXzZMFr8yI">pic.twitter.com/WXzZMFr8yI</a></p>— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1716884494131868138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to Hamas terrorists as a "liberation group" trying to protect the Palestinian people.
In an address to his ruling party’s legislators on Wednesday, Erdogan also said he has canceled plans to visit Israel as part of his country’s policy of normalizing its relations with the Jewish state, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “misused our goodwill.”
Erdogan sharpened his criticisms of Israel, describing the siege of Gaza as one of the "bloodiest, most disgusting and most savage attacks in history."
“We have no problem with the Israeli state, but we never have, and never will, accept the atrocities committed by Israel and the fact that it acts as an organization rather than a state,” he said.
The Turkish leader called for an immediate cease-fire, for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza and for talks for the release of hostages to begin. He also suggested the establishment of an international peace conference for Israel and the Palestinians.
“All sides must pull their fingers off the trigger, a cease-fire must be declared,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this update.
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Israel air force reveals note Hamas fighter allegedly carried during October 7 attack
by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
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The Israeli air force published a chilling, handwritten note Wednesday that it alleged was found on a Hamas fighter who invaded the country on Oct. 7.
"The words from Hamas commanders," according to the Israeli air force, "consist of an order to kill Jews and encouragement to decapitate their victims and tear out their hearts and livers.
"Know that this enemy of yours is a disease that has no cure, other than beheading and extracting the hearts and livers!" the Israeli military agency quoted the note as saying in a post on X.
The emergence of the purported note comes days after Israel released what it described as "gruesome" and "unseen" bodycam footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack in order to counter a "Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time."
The screening happened in Israel Monday morning. Some of the content, according to Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin, included Israelis being ambushed in their cars, a girl being executed after Hamas terrorists found her hiding under a desk and a father dying after a Hamas fighter threw a grenade into a bomb shelter that he and his two children were seeking cover in.
Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said in a video posted on X before the release that the Israel Defense Forces have "been collecting footage from bodycams taken by the Hamas death squads," and that they would be making the footage public to maintain a record to counter those who doubt whether certain events took place.
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Iran supreme leader Khamenei accuses US of 'managing' bombing of Gaza
by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States is complicit in alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.
"The U.S. is definitely an accomplice of the criminals," Khamenei said during a speech in Tehran. "In other words, in this crime the U.S.'s hand is drenched and stained up to its elbow with the blood of the oppressed, the children, the sick, women and others."
He went on to accuse the U.S. of "managing the crime that is being committed in Gaza."
Khamenei insisted that the Palestinians will ultimately prevail in the war against Israel, which started when Hamas infiltrated the Jewish state on Oct. 7 and brutally tortured, raped, killed and dismembered as many as 1,400 Israeli civilians.
The United States has supported Israel's right to self-defense and the bombing campaign to eradicate Hamas while calling for humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Palestinian people caught in the crossfire in Gaza. The U.S. has moved two aircraft carriers into the eastern Mediterranean to deter Iran-backed terrorist groups like Hezbollah from joining the war on the side of Hamas.
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Saudi Arabia intercepted Houthi missile fired at Israel: reports
by Chris Pandolfo - FOX News
Saudi Arabia intercepted at least one of the cruise missiles launched at Israel by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to reports.
Last week, the USS Carney, a guided missile destroyer operating in the Northern Red Sea, intercepted several missiles fired towards Israel near the coast of Yemen. The Pentagon confirmed the Navy destroyer shot down four land attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Houthi militants fired five cruise missiles, and that at least one of them was intercepted by Saudi Arabia as it protected its airspace. Saudi Arabia's involvement in the incident was previously unknown. The Arab country's Patriot Missile Defense system is provided by the United States.
There were no reported casualties to U.S. forces in the missile and drone attack.
A senior U.S. Defense official said Monday the military expects a "significant escalation" of attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East and pointed to Iran meddling in the region.
"I think it’s fair to say when you see this uptick in activity in attacks by many of these groups, there’s Iranian fingerprints all over it," the defense official said.