Some 20 flotilla ships were seized and 175 activists detained. They are now being brought to Israel for processing and deportation.

In the video above, the detained flotilla activists can be seen entertaining themselves aboard an Israel Navy vessel.

A Hezbollah drone struck near the northern Israel border town of Shomra a short time ago. There is damage, but no reported injuries.

Trump is considering a name change for the Strait of Hormuz 😏

The US Navy continues seizing and turning back Iran-linked shipping as part of its blockade of the Islamic Repubic.

Over the past two weeks:

🔹️ 42 commercial vessels have been prevented from approaching or leaving Iranian ports

🔹️ 41 oil tankers with 69 million barrels of Iranian oil worth about $6 billion have been blocked

The effect has been crippling on the Iranian economy.

12 Israeli soldiers were wounded by the Hezbollah drone that struck near the northern border town of Shomra earlier today. Two of the soldiers were moderately wounded, the rest suffered light injuries.

Hamas official Osama Hamdan says the group refuses to advance to phase two of Trump's Gaza peace plan.

Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria–the biblical heartland–will be decided in Israel, not America, insist Israeli officials and activists.

They were upset after Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told American supporters that there are no immediate plans to implement Israeli sovereignty in the so-called “West Bank” due to opposition from US President Donald Trump.

But those same voices noted that Israel also isn’t waiting around for permission, and is quietly creating de facto sovereignty through steady building of Jewish towns.

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US President Donald Trump was briefed by top military commanders on battle plans to bring Iran to its knees.

In Israel, the assumption is that America will resume military operations against Iran in the coming days.

Israel would of course again take part in renewed strikes against the Iranian regime. And to that end, the Israeli army has received over the past 24 hours some 6,500 tons of ammunition and other equipment to resupply its forces.

US Congress calls out UN absurdities

US Rep. Brian Mast, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United Nations had become so absurd that its decisions sound like headlines from parody news websites.

Said Mast:

“What was this week’s headline? It was that the United Nations selected Iran to serve on the Board of Nuclear Non-Proliferation. I can’t even say it with a straight face.”

Mast noted that Iran had also been selected to sit on a UN committee tasked with shaping policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.

“There’s hardly a week that goes by that we don’t read some headline about the United Nations that reads like it’s something out of the Babylon Bee or Hollywood, like Sacha Baron Cohen.”

Israel has been saying this for decades.

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Only Israel protects Christian life

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee thanked Israel for its commitment to protecting and fostering Christian life in the Middle East:

“Israel stands out as the only country in the region with a growing Christian population — and for good reason. Both our nations cherish religious liberty as the foundation of a free and prosperous society.”

Huckabee made the remarks after meeting with George Deek, Israel’s new Special Envoy to the Christian World.

Deek is the first Arab Christian to serve as an ambassador for Israel. He most recently served as Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan.

A Holocaust-studies center in Norway — created in part as compensation for Norway’s wartime complicity in the destruction of Jewish life — is now hosting a lecture linking the Holocaust with the Palestinian “Nakba.”

This is the kind of moral confusion that turns Jewish memory into a platform for political inversion.

The Holocaust was not a metaphor.


October 7 was not an academic abstraction.


And Holocaust remembrance should not be repurposed to sanitize the movements still seeking Israel’s destruction.

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Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub refused to stand alongside Israel Football Association Vice President Basim Sheikh Suliman during a tense moment at the FIFA Congress in Vancouver yesterday.

Suliman is an Arab-Israeli official who represents Israeli soccer in international forums such as FIFA and UEFA.

Both officials were invited to the stage by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who attempted to bring them together.

Rajoub refused to move closer to Suliman despite Infantino placing a hand on his arm and gesturing for him to do so.

Kenyan influencer Bona Bismack Okello calls out a young American influencer for labeling Israel an “illegitimate” ethno-cracy.

As Okello points out, most countries in the world are dominated and ruled by one ethnic group.

No one is buying the Gaza flotilla narrative any longer.

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Weekend roundup:

🔹️ Trump says he is not pleased with the Iranian regime’s latest ceasefire counter-offer.

🔹️ Trump tells Congress the war with Iran has “terminated” after reaching the 60-day limit for presidential-approved military action. Continuation of military action would now require congressional approval.

🔹️ The Trump admin bypassed Congress to approve an emergency $8.6 billion arms deal for Israel and the Gulf states. The package includes air defense systems and precision-guided munitions.

🔹️ The Israeli Air Force carried out a number of strikes against Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours.

🔹️ 14 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including a senior commander, were killed while clearing unexploded American and Israeli ordinance.

🔹️ The Iranian regime says it intends to keep the internet shut down to prevent opposition groups from organizing.

WATCH: Israeli Foreign Ministry debunks widespread Hezbollah lies.

In the absence of the Iran-backed terrorist army, peace between Israel and Lebanon would flourish.