Yom Shleeshee
Tuesday
6 Iyar 5784
May 14 2024
Happy Birthday Israel! Am Israel Chai!!
Click here to see and hear the wonderful celebrations at the Kotel last night–despite the wars we are fighting on many fronts.
OneIsrael’s Campaign For Our Soldiers
IDF soldiers on the ground need basic protective gear, armaments, and supplies.
OneIsrael is now engaged in a campaign to help protect our soldiers. This campaign will extend to Shavuot.
Please consider donating to our campaign by clicking on the donate button in the right hand column on this page. All donations go directly to our soldiers.
Thank you to those of you who have already contributed to the protection of our brave men and women in uniform; we are half way to our goal of $10,000!
UPDATE 7:00 PM
On the Ground In and Around Gaza
Sderot was targeted by 3 incoming missiles fired by Palestinians in Gaza at 2:04 pm this Independence Day afternoon.
The missiles were fired during a “march for settlement in Gaza” by Israelis demanding that Israel reestablish the communities in northern Gaza that were unilaterally and forcibly abandoned in 2005:
The absolute insanity of it all: citizens hitting the ground as missiles were intercepted overhead. Even after more than 221 days of fighting, the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza are still firing missiles at Israeli children, women, and men. Note the baby carriage.
Meanwhile, dozens of terrorists were killed in massive IDF attacks throughout Gaza including helicopter attacks on Zeitun, artillery fire on east Rafah, and ground assaults in Khan Younis and Beit Lahia.
The IDF Spokesman in an unusually detailed statement:
“The forces of Division 162 continue fighting in the east and the Rafah crossing on the other side of the border against terrorist targets in the area. At the Rafah crossing on the Gaza side, the fighters of the 401st Brigade combat team eliminated a number of armed terrorist squads in face-to-face battles.
In eastern Rafah, the combat team fighters of the Givati Brigade eliminated a number of terrorists in encounters and located weapons. The IAF hit a squad of terrorists who had just left a launch area. In addition, a position was attacked from which other terrorists were operating who fired at the fighters.
The combat teams of the Paratroopers Brigade, 460, and Division 98 expanded the fighting in Jabaliya tonight and raided additional terrorist targets in the area. In the last day, the forces fought many battles, killed dozens of terrorists who shot at them with tank fire and destroyed an area of explosives planted in the area. An aircraft attacked and eliminated a terrorist who was identified carrying an RPG near the troops and was on his way to fire at them.
In the Zeitun area, the fighters of the 99th Division continued in the last day the attack against terrorist targets in the area. During the operation, the fighters of the 2nd Brigade combat team located tunnel shafts and destroyed several launchers. The fighters of the Nahal Brigade’s combat team eliminated a number of terrorists and destroyed a warehouse of weapons and other terrorist infrastructure.
Air Force fighter jets directed by the 99th Division attacked a terrorist organization’s compound in the center of the Gaza Strip last night (Monday) and eliminated five terrorists who were there. Also, the fighters of the 679th Israel Defense Forces killed a number of terrorists with tank fire that moved towards the forces operating in the area.
During the last day, fighter jets and aircraft of the Air Force attacked more than 100 terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including armed terrorists, trapped buildings and other terrorist infrastructure.”
*”Humanitarian” aid trucks are flowing into Gaza again following the brave efforts of Israeli citizens to block junctions and unload trucks. Click here to see how one truck convoy today was protected by police vehicles and a helicopter.
Confirming what we have known and written about all along: the PLO was heavily involved in the slaughter of Israelis on October 7th.
Abu Muhammad, the official spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military arm of the Fatah movement led by PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen):
“On the seventh of October our heroes in the brave unit participated in the invasion of the colonies in the Gaza Envelope and the (military) positions known as the Gaza Division, and together with our brothers in the Palestinian struggle organizations we captured dozens of Zionists; some of them were transferred to Hamas and some are still in our hands.”
And this is who the Bidenites want to turn Gaza over to after the war.
Incredible.
On the Ground in the North
*There have been numerous missile attacks in the north today from Kiryat Shmona to Metulla to Arab Al-Aramshe.
*An IDF observation balloon was shot down by Hezbollah missiles this afternoon.
*24 Israelis have been killed by Hezbollah missiles since October 7th–6 in the last month. On the other hand, 24 Hezbollah terrorists have been killed by the IDF in the last month.
We will continue to update this blog as necessary today.
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.