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Israel frees four hostages from Hamas in daring rescue reported by John Solomon

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The Israeli military freed four hostages taken captive by Hamas in daring rescue operations Saturday in the Gaza Strip that were conducted in the shadows of a pressure campaign by the United States to force a ceasefire. 

Officials said three males and a female who had been taken captive during the attack on the Nova Music festival on Oct. 7 were rescued and taken to hospitals for treatment.

Officials identified those rescued as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40,

All were reported in good medical condition.

Hamas took about 250 hostages during its terrorist attack on Oct. 7, and about half were released during a November cease-fire.

Saturday’s operation was the largest rescue since the war began.

Officials said Saturday’s hostages were freed in daytime raids at two separate locations in a Nuseirat refugee camp. 

All the while our incompetent administration is calling for a ceasefire that the Hamas terrorist do not want. Let Israel do what it needs to do. Finish the war and secure all the living hostages. Rh

Prophetic Times

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 We are that generation that will see the return of the Lord.  I truly believe that from the bottom of my  heart and from the cry of the Spirit.  Even so come Lord Jesus. 

Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and it’s continual victories over it’s enemies have proven that God is in control of their destiny.  After wars, and multiple violet terror attacks, Israel is stronger than it’s ever been.  

What comes next, we know, but the timetable is up to the Almighty.  Know this for certain, that Israel will stand and not be driven into the sea.  The inner circle around Israel that seeks it annihilation will have their threats turned back onto them and they will suffer a crushing defeat.  the Israeli army will with God’s help prove victorious and live in a short time of peace, having vanquished their mortal enemies.

The outer circle and the lands from the north and the far north will be dealt with by God with 100 pound hailstone falling upon them and they shall also be devastated and destroyed.  This war will be short with God proving who He is and that His word and His people will always survive and live and prosper in the land given to them many centuries ago.  Praise the Lord!

God is faithful to His Word!  Psalms 138: declares “For you have magnified Your Word above all your name.”  Rh

IDF withdraws all troops from southern Gaza 

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Only one brigade remains in the Strip; terrorists in Khan Yunis fire rocket barrage at Israeli towns.

(April 7, 2024 / JNS)

The Israel Defense Forces has withdrawn all ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, with only one brigade remaining in the coastal enclave, according to reports on Sunday.

This comes after four months of fighting in the former Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis and six months since the start of the war.

According to IDF sources on Sunday, the IDF’s 98th Division has concluded its mission in Khan Yunis. The division left the Gaza Strip to recuperate and prepare for future operations. A significant force led by the 162nd Division and the division’s Nahal Brigade continues to operate in the Gaza Strip, and will preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence-based operations, the sources said.

The move also comes after last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again reiterated that the IDF would defeat Hamas by entering the last terrorist stronghold of Rafah, south of Khan Yunis.

“There is no victory without entering Rafah; there is no victory without destroying the Hamas battalions there,” said Netanyahu in a primetime address, adding that the operation “will take time, but it will happen.”

Ben-Gvir: Biden sides with Tlaib, Sinwar over Netanyahu 

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The national security minister told The New York Times that the US president is “enormously mistaken” to pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas. 

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(March 27, 2024 / JNS)

Israel’s National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of siding with the enemies of the Jewish state.

During an interview with The New York Times published on Tuesday, Ben-Gvir said, “Presently, Biden prefers the line of [Palestinian-American Democratic Representative from Michigan] Rashida Tlaib and [Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya] Sinwar to the line of [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir.”

While the Biden administration provided unwavering early support for Jerusalem in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, including Biden becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit Israel during wartime, Washington has taken an increasingly critical stance as the ground war against Hamas in Gaza enters its sixth month.

This culminated on Monday with the Americans deciding not to use their veto power at the United Nations Security Council, allowing a resolution to pass that for the first time decoupled a demand for a temporary ceasefire from the release of 134 Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.


In response to the U.S. move, Netanyahu canceled a high-level delegation’s planned visit to Washington.

Netanyahu said that the changed U.S. position “hurts the war effort and the effort to release the hostages” by giving Hamas hope that international pressure will bring about a ceasefire without requiring the terror group to release the captives.

The Israeli delegation was supposed to discuss alternatives to a pending IDF ground operation in Rafah city, Hamas’s last bastion in the Gaza Strip. While Israel is adamant that the operation is required to achieve its war goals of destroying Hamas as a political and military entity in Gaza, the Biden administration opposes a full-scale offensive.

For his part, Ben-Gvir in a statement called the passage of the U.N. resolution “proof that President Biden is not prioritizing Israel and the free world’s victory over terrorism, but rather his own political considerations.”

Ben-Gvir called for Israel to ramp up its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.

News From Israel reported by Amir Tsarfati

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Netanyahu on Iran: “We are working on other fronts. If Hezbollah expands the war, it will receive blows it never dreamed of. So is Iran. Iran leads the axis of evil. We act against Iran everywhere and in every way.’

“The war will continue for many more months, we will continue to fight until the elimination of Hamas and the release of all our hostages. We are not giving up on our efforts to return our abductees.

We will not agree to have a factor in Gaza that encourages terrorism.”

Standard Chinese weapons were seized in huge quantities in the Gaza Strip points at an emerging axis of evil: China – Iran – Russia – North Korea – Hamas