Yom Chamishee
Thursday
4 Cheshvan 5784
October 19 2023
UPDATE 9:15 PM
Announcement
IDF troops have just been given the greenlight
by the government to enter Gaza.
UPDATE 9:00 PM
Are there telltale signs that a ground invasion of Gaza is imminent?
An order of battle has gone out to commanders on the ground: “Crushed and Conquered”.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told soldiers this afternoon: “The next time you see Gaza will be from the inside.”
PM Netanyahu came to a staging area of the Golani Brigade this afternoon and said: “We are going to win with all our strength.”
Ruse or reality? Your humble servant suspects that the next 48 hours may tell the tale.
The Postwar Plan?
The following is being posted by a reliable journalist who regularly reports on military matters. After the war the Cabinet has decided:
*A border will be created that looks like the one between North and South Korea. It will include a vast no-man’s land with a dead zone: anyone who crosses a certain line will be shot without question.
*No more workers from Gaza will be permitted in the country. Israel will not supply water and electricity to Gaza. There will be a complete disconnection.
The defense budget will increase dramatically; mandatory service for men will return to what it once was: 3 years.
UPDATE 8:00 PM
The Israeli Children Who Are Being Held Hostage by Hamas-ISIS
The horror. How can anyone with a conscience be out in the streets celebrating and supporting Hamas?
The Iranian Pincer Plan is Taking Form
The post-massacre missile fire continues from Hamas in Gaza. The northern front is beginning to be hit hard with attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas-ISIS Lebanon (of course, we all know that nothing happens in southern Lebanon without Iranian-Hezbollah approval).
Next will come attacks from Iranian proxies in Syria.
Fraud Further Revealed
A source in the European Union has revealed that according to information on the ground in Gaza, between 10-50 people actually died at the hospital in Gaza–and they were all in the cars in the parking lot.
Not the 3000 in the hospital that Hamas once claimed.
The Insanity of Our Government, Again
Remember how we updated earlier that the PLO wants 100 Kalashnikov assault weapons, pistols, and ammunition. Apparently the move to facilitate this began tonight under cover of darkness as the Civil Administration is trying to hand over an armored vehicle to the PLO.
As of this moment, the truck is stopped between Shiloh and Ali by residents of our communities in Samaria who have just issued this statement:
“Just today a Palestinian police officer was killed by the IDF when he fired at our forces. We will not allow armored personnel carriers to be transferred to our enemies. What was is not what will be.”
Kolakavod to our brave Samarians for taking matters into their own hands.
UPDATE 6:00 PM
Hezbollah says that it has hit 5 IDF outposts this afternoon. Meanwhile, Hamas/ISIS Lebanon claims that it has launched 30 missiles into the Nahariya area. In the last few minutes, there was a direct hit on a 9-story building in Kiryat Shmona.
Disgusting “Humanitarian Aid”
Here we are in a situation in which virtually whole Israeli communities were wiped out–people slaughtered and homes burned, and the few survivors that are left are in vast need humanitarian aid. We don’t even know how many dead there are (bodies are still being found), or how many hostages there are–and how many of them are alive or dead.
So what do we have instead of a vast outpouring of aid to these massacred communities?
A vast outpouring of aid for the “poor Palestinians.” A sample in the last 24 hours:
The U.S. $100 million dollars; the European Commission 75 million Euros; the Netherlands 61 million Euros; Spain 400 million Euros; Russia 27 tons of aid (via Egypt), and on and on. There is no end to the gravy train headed for the pockets of the Hamas-ISIS terrorists.
Do you think you’ve heard everything?
PLO Chairman and head of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, has instructed his personal guard to request that Israel to transfer more than 100 Kalashnikov assault rifles and hundreds of handguns with ammunition which the IDF captured in Jenin to them in Ramallah.
Yes you read that correctly.
Mahmoud Abbas’ personal guard are all members of Fatah which is directly under Mahmoud Abbas himself. Members of Fatah participated in the October 7 Gaza Border massacre. And they want us to give them weapons.
Unbelievable.
UPDATE 4:05 PM
Click here to see and hear the gruesome description in English of a ZAKA volunteer of what he and others found when they entered their first house in the Gaza community.
On the southern border–missile and mortar fire from Gaza since 12:00 PM:
Ashkelon (12:47), Avshalom, Dekal (1:47), Ramat Gan, Kiryat Ono, Tel Aviv (2:32), Holon, Rishon Lezion (2:33), Netivot (2:40), Sde Avraham, Yad, Sderot (3:04). Ashdod 4:00 (at this moment!)
On the northern border:
Anti-tank missile and IEDs at Manara in the upper Galilee (11:47).
In Judea and Samaria:
Two more terrorists (total 3) have been killed in the firefight outside Tulkarm at Nur Al Shams.
UPDATE 12:00 PM
The number of Israelis held hostage by Hamas-ISIS has been raised to 203. It is believed that Hamas has hidden many in tunnels under private homes. The IDF spokesman this morning said that the IDF has conducted raids into Gaza to try to locate the hostages.
Totally Exposed IDF Soldiers On The Border
It has just come to light that soldiers from the reserve paratrooper brigade who have now been on the border since October 8 have been sleeping on the ground with no protection rain and cold in their area.
Yesterday, they pooled their money to buy tents.
The Idiocy of the IDFs Southern Command, Again
It turns out that for the last year and a half, the communities in Judea and Samaria have had a warning system for terrorist infiltrations. The system is connected to the IDF, Police, and other security agencies that protect the communities.
In May of last year (2022), the Home Front Command intended to install the same system in the Gaza border communities, in communities along the Egyptian border, and in communities along the northern Lebanon border.
But guess what?
The IDF Southern and Northern Commands decided there was no need for such a system. The Southern Command–the one whose headquarters were overrun by terrorists on October 7—said the system was not needed because the Gaza security fence was “an impassable obstacle.”
Now this morning, with perhaps more than 2000 Israelis dead, the Southern Command (and Northern Command) have begun installing the system.
UPDATE 9:00 AM
Quote of the Morning
“I never said that we would join the war if Hezbollah attacked Israel.”
President Biden to an Israeli reporter on the flight back to the U.S. yesterday.
The U.S. providing deterrence?
Bodies Found Everywhere
According to an aerial search yesterday, an estimated 250 more bodies are strewn in ditches, fields and elsewhere in the border communities. If this report is accurate, it could mean that more than 2,100 residents were slaughtered on October 7.
One pair of bodies found yesterday were that of a mother and her wheelchair-bound daughter who were found beside the fence in Be’eri. Another pair found were Carmela Dan (an 80 year-old grandmother with dementia), and Noya Dan (a 13 year old with autism):
Noya and Carmela Dan–gruesomely shot to death.
On the Ground in Gaza Yesterday
According to the IDF spokesman, the IDF:
**destroyed dozens of “mortar” launch sites
**destroyed hundreds of Hamas facilities in the Sujayieh neighborhood
**killed more than 10 terrorists in a targeted attack
**killed Hossein Abu Halal, the head of the military wing of the terrorist organization “People’s Resistance Committees” in Rafah
Overnight in the North
The IDF attacked Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. This comes after Hezbollah attacked more than a dozen IDF sites yesterday.
Another American Ship on the Way
The USS Mount Whitney is on its way to our neighborhood here in the eastern Mediterranean. The flagship of the U.S. 6th Fleet, it is one of two Amphibious Command & Control ships in the Navy. It is captained by a 3-Star Admiral (vs. 1 star admirals on U.S. aircraft carriers).
In Judea and Samaria
IDF forces operated in Nur Al-Shams beside Tulkarm last night. A major firefight ensued. One terrorist was killed and a number were wounded.
Another terrorist who attacked our forces was killed in Dura Al-Qara.
Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and . . .
After forcing the evacuation of Israel Embassies in Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, rampaging Arabs burned down a synagogue in Tunis, Tunisia.
Police Insanity: “Don’t Report Suspicious Activity”
In a number of locations this week, Israelis have noticed Arabs in their neighborhoods taking photographs of homes and apartments. Two days ago, a Tel Aviv resident called police who came and arrested the “photographer”, yesterday, he noticed another “photographer” who was also arrested.
By last night, both “photographers” were released (the police: “there is no law against taking photographs of houses”). This morning, the Israel police issued this statement: “We ask residents not to report Arabs taking pictures and not to report these on social media in order to not cause panic.”
After all we know about how Hamas used Arab workers to gather intel on the border communities prior to its attack, can you believe this?
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.