ISRAEL REPORT
Many thanks, once more, to Mike Claydon for another watershed Israel Report. Israel’s attack on Iran has vividly demonstrated her laudable ability to show great restraint, discipline and matchless military expertise. We wait to see what response will be forthcoming from Iran Do not touch the Lord’s anointed:
2 Sam !:14 “And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?”
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Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
Israel Report – 26 October 2024
Iran Strike Begins….
Every day, hour and minute today the battle throughout the Middle East inches toward a global conflagration of such intensity as to have never been seen by mankind before.
This morning Israel has begun the long awaited response to Iran’s attack on Israel three weeks ago. Reports indicate explosions in both Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and in Basra.
Officials in Israel confirm: We have started strikes in Iran. The White House was updated shortly before the attacks began.
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence and the security top brass are in the underground IDF headquarters in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv. According to the reports, the military operation was confirmed by phone close to the attack in order to prevent leaks.
Iranian air defences have begun to confront the Israeli attack in Tehran. Explosions are being heard in the western part of Tehran, where the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards are located and Karaj.
A fire is burning at the base of the Revolutionary Guards in the Tehran area and damage in Isfahan and Shahid and an explosion has occurred at the Iranian Ministry of Defence in central Tehran.
A second wave of the attack has begun with explosions in Shiraz.
There are sounds of explosions in Damascus Syria as well. Citizens in Iran report explosions in the cities of Isfahan, Mashhad and in the Kurdistan region.
Reasonable and studied commentators now see the possibility of Israel being overwhelmed and defeated in the region being largely left alone to destroy the Islamic terrorist organizations bent on her demise, and when you calculate the enormous odds against her that is no surprise.
Israel has a population of around 10 million citizens, and the surrounding Muslim aggressors outnumber them at least ten to one. The odds are not good.
As the smoke clears over Iran and the region later today this war will have taken an enormous leap into the unknown and seen in the natural is beginning to look ominous and life-threatening to Israel.
In reality however, this is not an earthly battle, but a supernatural cosmic event – as Satan pulls out all stops to ensure that the TRUE Messiah will never be able to set foot again in little Israel – let alone the temple Mount as foretold by the prophet Zechariah. [chapter 14]
He is on a hiding to nothing.
Tucked away in the prophecy of Isaiah are these words of promise directly from the God of Zion. They are FAITHFUL and TRUE.
“The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously”. [Isaiah 24; 19-23]
“And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation”. [Isaiah 25; 7-9]
UPDATE
Following the completion of Israel’s strikes in Iran, IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari [above] in an English-language statement warns that if Iran was to “make the mistake” of escalating further, Israel would respond.
“I can now confirm that we have concluded the Israeli response to Iran’s attacks against Israel,” he says in a video statement disturbed to foreign media.
“We conducted targeted and precise strikes on military targets in Iran — thwarting immediate threats to the State of Israel. The Israel Defence Forces has fulfilled its mission,” Hagari says.
An historic humiliation: Israel’s precision strikes leave Iran defenseless…….
For over three hours, Israel has [struck] with unprecedented precision, unmasking a simple truth: Tehran, for all its bluster, isn’t untouchable. … Iran knows that Israel can … easily reach Tehran.
This isn’t a vague threat; it’s a promise that’s landed, with clarity and force, right on their doorstep.
[Israel is said to have struck about 20 targets in three waves of attack that occurred over three hours.]
LEBANON
Amid heavy fighting that resulted in the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers, and nearly 30 more wounded since Wednesday, the Israeli army continued to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon’s villages.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck dozens of targets, including a border crossing and a senior field commander.
On Friday, the IDF said it struck the Jousieh border crossing in the northern Bekaa Valley overnight “using precision munitions to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians.”
One of the main goals of the IAF’s campaign is to degrade Hezbollah’s weapons storage and production capabilities while disrupting its supply lines for weapons and ammunition.
“Hezbollah exploits the Jousieh civilian crossing, which is under the control of the Syrian regime and is operated by Syrian military security, to transfer weapons from Syria to Lebanon by Hezbollah’s 4400 Unit,” the IDF said.
“The IDF will continue to operate to thwart Hezbollah’s weapons transfers and urges Syrian and Lebanese authorities to prevent the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s unrestricted movement between the two countries.”
The IAF also struck more weapon production sites in Beirut, as well as intelligence headquarters and sites belonging to Hezbollah’s air defence system. “All of the targets were located under and inside buildings in the heart of a civilian population,” the IDF noted.
Another strike killed the commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in the Aitaroun district, Abbas Adnan Musallam.
“Musallam was responsible for the execution of many launches against IDF forces and against Israeli towns in the north of the country,” the army said.
Overall, IAF jets attacked about 200 terror targets in Lebanon in the past 24 hours.
GAZA
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had killed a Hamas commander who led the attack on dozens of civilians on October 7, 2023, who had fled the Nova music festival and hidden in roadside shelters.
In addition to being a mass murderer, the IDF said, Mohammad Abu Itiwi [above] had also worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
The IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shabak, or Shin Bet) said in a statement:
Yesterday in a joint IDF and ISA operation, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist MohammadAbu Itiwi, a Nukhba commander in the Al Bureij Battalion of Hamas’ Central Camps Brigade. Mohammad Abu Itiwi has also been employed by UNRWA since July 2022.
On October 7th, Mohammad Abu Itiwi was involved in the murder and abduction of Israeli civilians. Abu Itiwi led the murderous attack on the bomb shelter on Route 232 in the area of Re’im in southern Israel.
Throughout the war, Abu Itiwi directed and carried out numerous attacks on IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.
Following the incident, representatives of COGAT solicited clarifications from senior officials in the UN and international community and requested an urgent investigation into the involvement of UNRWA employees in the October 7th Massacre.
The IDF also provided documentation with evidence that Mohammed Abu Itiwi had been employed by UNRWA.
The shelters were the scenes of some of the most brutal murders on October 7. Many such shelters, made of concrete, stand alongside bus stops in southern Israel, due to the threat of rocket fire that existed for years before October 7.
SYRIA
Syrian state news agency SANA reported that at around 2:00 a.m. local time, Israel launched strikes toward sites in the southern and central regions of Syria.
SANA said that Syrian air defence systems intercepted and shot down a number of missiles, but the results of the attack are still being investigated.
IRAN
Israel launched retaliatory strikes inside Iran early Saturday morning local time in retaliation for its missile attack on October 1. According to Israeli authorities, the strikes hit Iranian military targets as explosions were reported across Iran.
Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a statement early Saturday that Israel “is now striking with precision military targets in Iran,” citing attacks by “Iran against the state of Israel in recent months” as the reason for the strikes.
“The Israeli military is fully prepared” for offensive and and defensive situations, Hagari said, adding that at this stage there are no changes to home-front instructions.
The US administration was told in advance of the attack, Israel’s official news agency KAN reported.
White House National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett [above] said in a statement after the attack, “We understand that Israel is conducting targeted strikes against military targets in Iran as an exercise of self-defence and in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1.“
What happened: Regional outlets reported that dozens of jets hit targets in the Iranian cities of Tehran, Mashhad and Karaj, where explosions had been reported.
The attacks started around 2:30 am local (7:00 pm ET). Mashhad is the hometown of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Karaj, a city just west of Tehran, is home to a nuclear research centre.
Iranian outlets Mehr and Tasnim reported that some of the sounds heard in Iran were due to air defence activity. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported that the several military bases west and southwest of Tehran were targeted in the attack.
The Tasnim news agency, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), later reported that no IRGC centres west and southwest of Tehran were hit.
“Iran will retaliate,” a source told The New York Times. “The officials said Ayatollah Khamenei had directed that a response would be certain if Israel strikes oil and energy infrastructure or nuclear facilities, or if it assassinates senior officials.
“The officials, including two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that if Israel inflicted major harm, “the responses under consideration included a barrage of up to 1,000 ballistic missiles; escalated attacks by Iranian proxy militant groups in the region; and disrupting the flow of global energy supplies and shipping moving through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.”
Developing..
TURKEY
Turkey has intensified its airstrikes targeting positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria, just hours after an attack carried out by unknown assailants, which Ankara described as “terrorist,” targeted a private military industries company in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
The Turkish Ministry of Defence stated that its forces destroyed 32 “terrorist” sites in an air operation in northern Iraq and Syria since the evening of Wednesday, October 23.
It added that the attack was “in accordance with the right of self-defense as per Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.”
According to the Turkish Defence Ministry, the air operation aimed to eliminate the “threat of terrorist attacks targeting the Turkish people and forces and to ensure border security,” as reported by the Turkish Anadolu Agency.
The Turkish ministry noted that its air operations are still ongoing in Syria and Iraq.
So, it is OK for Turkey to attack her “Terrorist” enemies but Israel should never do so? Even in self defence? Hypocrite.
Erdogan, a radical Islamist and faux NATO ally, addressed the ongoing summit of BRICS member states on Thursday, demanding an arms embargo on Israel and stating he was committed to bringing Turkey deeper into the fold of the anti-American coalition.
BRICS is an anti-Western union of states led by the core members that give it its name: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The original members formally inducted four more countries – Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates – into the fold in January.
The summit taking place this past week in Kazan, Russia, is unprecedented in the short history of the BRICS coalition, as member states opened up the second and third days of the conference to friendly countries seeking to bolster the bloc.
Vladimir Putin claimed this week that upwards of 30 nations were participating in the summit at a high level, nearly two dozen of them sending their heads of state.
[More below]
UKRAINE
Zelensky cried earlier in the week that he needed a “security umbrella” from NATO, since the alliance had deemed Ukraine too corrupt to join before and after the war began.
Every day these world leaders put us on the brink of World War III with no regard for their actions. In the most recent vote, seven NATO members once again prevented Ukraine from joining.
The United States and Germany voted no. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that more thought would be required to permit Ukraine to join the alliance, and that the support of the United States was crucial.
Joe Biden has previously stated he would not support membership amid the ongoing war as doing so would invoke Article V and immediately lead to World War III.
Biden has said that he supports a “rational path” for Ukraine’s membership in the future. The neocons are strategically holding off for now.
Europe is in deep trouble if the NATO alliance dissolves. They have been attempting to cohesively build a defence system but as we saw with the creation of the European Union it is impossible for every nation to agree, hence why they install unelected officials to call the shots.
BRICS
BRICS just wrapped up its 16th summit in Kazan declaring;
“BRICS supports “global governance” and “the central role of the United Nations in the international system”, plus the leading role of the IMF in global finance.
It supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. public-private partnerships to help nations achieve their Sustainable Development Goals.
The reduction and removal of greenhouse gases to combat climate change, the creation of carbon markets, the World Health Organization and its “central coordinating role” in strengthening “the international pandemic prevention, preparedness and response system”
Looks like they are a part of the BIG club after all?
WORLD NEWS BRIEFING – with Tom Hughes and Dr. Hillel Newman – from Jerusalem – 24 October 2024
Israel Report
Editor; Mike Claydon
2 thoughts on “ISRAEL REPORT”
What a dangerous and complicated world we’re living in!
I see in the BRICS photo that 3 nations with massive military might were present – Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of China and Modi of India. Mike’s report tells us that this group is anti-American. And all this is happening with the prospect of a weak and vacuous Kamala Harris to possibly soon be elected (by fair means or foul??) as the next US President!!
When looking at the Middle East and the moral demise of western nations, and then the apparent solidarity of the BRICS nations….we surely must be on the brink of “something” big!
Could that “something big” be the Rapture of the Church? Gibber! Gibber! Chugley