Hanan Yablonka and Orion Hernandez were at the Nova music festival when they were abudcted.

Michel Nisenbaum had left Sderot to rescue his granddaughter from the IDF base in Re'im near the festival and the Gaza border.

According to IDF intelligence, all three were murdered on October 7 and their bodies taken to the Gaza Strip.

"Protestors are taking to the streets all over the world, not because they care for Palestinians, but to shake their fists at the God of Israel."

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/blood-libel-re-enacted/

Israeli forces demolish the UNRWA terror school in eastern Rafah.

Even as Israel provides statistics showing there can't possibly be a real famine or humanitarian food crisis in Gaza, the International Criminal Court says there is, and will base its upcoming judgment on that false narrative.

Truth is dead.

‼️The ICJ has ruled that Israel must halt its military operation in Rafah.

Rafah, where the IDF just pulled the bodies of 3 more hostages from a tunnel, and where intelligence says additional hostages are being held.

For this ruling to be enforceable, it must be adopted by the UN Security Council, where the US would be expected to veto it.

But will the US veto it?

More specifically, will the US veto it without wringing some painful concessions out of Israel in return?

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

"Those who demand that the State of Israel stop the war, demand that it decree itself to cease to exist. We will not agree to that.

"If we lay down our weapons, the enemy will reach the beds of our children and women throughout the land.

"We continue to fight for ourselves and for the entire free world. History will judge who today stood by the Nazis of Hamas and ISIS."

Hamas has issued a statement thanking the ICJ for taking its side.

Amit Segal: A careful reading of the ICJ order reveals it doesn't necessitate a total halt to IDF operations in Rafah. But it does seek to severely limit them.

It will also create tremendous political pressure for Israel to end the war.

All told, details aside, it facilitates Hamas's survival and continued torture and rape of Israeli hostages.

Sorry, I've been writing "ICC" - but in this instance, the judges were sitting as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), not the International Criminal Court (ICC), which are different bodies.

I have corrected the previous posts.

Moments after the ICJ ruling, Israeli aircraft struck Rafah, and there are initial unconfirmed reports of a “dramatic” assassination.

The IDF and the Shin Bet (Shabak) reportedly tried to take out a very senior Hamas leader using bunker-buster bombs on a tunnel complex in Rafah.

We are waiting to hear if they were successful.

Eliminated: Mohammed Shabanah, commander of the Hamas battalions in Rafah.

Can’t say it any better than that.

Initial report: 4 wounded by Hezbollah fire in northern Israel.

Even Palestinians are against the opening of the Rafah border crossing! Why?

Because it would cause prices on the markets in the Gaza Strip to rise again. And why? Because the import of food via the official Rafah border crossing requires bribes to be paid to the Egyptians on the Egyptian side and to Hamas on the Palestinian side.

A Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip explains openly on camera why the coordination between Hamas and Egypt at the Rafah border crossing has driven up the prices of goods in the Gaza Strip and adds:

"Through the (Israeli) Kerem Shalom border crossing, which Hamas is fighting against, goods from Israel are entering the Gaza Strip and have brought prices to a level that we have not seen since the beginning of the war. The Rafah border crossing should remain closed."

Part of the American humanitarian pier in Gaza broke away due to wind and waves and washed ashore near the Israeli coastal town of Ashdod.