Channel 12 Hebrew:

Ben Gvir and Smotrich's silence this morning is interesting.

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Hezbollah source to Alaraby TV:

Hezbollah had deceived Israel by preparing decoy rocket launchers to lure Israeli jet fighters into engaging & leave Israel’s air space unprotected, and it worked.

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Israel Hayom:

If Hezbollah is satisfied with its response today, Israel will not expand the campaign and the Fouad Shukr assassination file will be able to be closed.

LOL

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The Guardian UK:

The head of Shin Beit, Ronen Bar, sparks row with letter to Netanyahu about actions of ‘hilltop youth’ being a ‘large stain on Judaism’


The head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has warned the country’s leaders that Jewish terrorism in the West Bank is out of control and has become a serious threat to national security.

Ronen Bar issued the warning in a letter to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the attorney general and members of the Israeli cabinet, some of whom are outspoken backers of the extremist settlers responsible for the escalating violence.

Bar’s letter focused on Jewish extremists known as the “hilltop youth”, violent militants who have been conducting a campaign of murder, arson and intimidation against Palestinians on the West Bank, aimed at driving them from their land, furthering the far right’s pursuit of complete annexation.

Bar said their actions should not be described as criminality but as terrorism.

"It isn’t crime because it’s the use of violence to create intimidation, to spread fear. That is terror,” he wrote, describing how the campaign had “significantly expanded” in the absence of an adequate police response and with the connivance of some national leaders. The militants had gone from using “cigarette lighters to the weapons of war”, the security chief said, adding that some of those weapons had been provided by the state.

The terror campaign, the letter said, was “a large stain on Judaism and on all of us”.

The nationalist leadership, Bar concluded, was “willing to jeopardise the state’s security and its very existence” in the name of their ideology.


The occupation is unravelling before our eyes.


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