Israel’s government has confirmed the country is “at war” with Hamas after the nation’s security council voted in favor of invoking Article 40 Aleph for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the nation’s armed forces are now able to undertake “significant military activities” as a result.
Terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, claiming the lives of up to least 600 Israelis so far, with thousands suffering severe injuries and many believed to be hostages.
JUST IN – Israel's cabinet invokes Article 40 Aleph, officially declaring war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Israel's government has confirmed the country is "at war" with Hamas after the nation's security council voted in favor of invoking Article 40 Aleph for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is at war after Hamas militants launched a surprise attack against the nation and its citizens in the early morning hours.
Netanyahu ordered a mobilization of reserves and promised a forceful response that the enemy has not experienced before.
Hamas militants are believed to have killed at least 100 people in the overnight raid which has also seen a large number of kidnappings of Israeli citizens, some of whom are thought to have been dragged over the Gaza border.
Reports suggest a whopping 700 injured, with militants breaking through the border at key points to launch their sneak attack which also included thousands of rockets.
The Israeli response is believed to have killed over 200 Gazans so far, with thousands believed injured.
For those playing catch up on Israel —
According to reports: At least 60 Israelis taken hostage and brought to Gaza, including IDF members and a former commanding general of the Gaza Division. Air land, and sea infiltration under the cover of thousands of rockets. Terrorists…
The Israeli military struck targets in Gaza in response for some 2,500 rockets that sent air raid sirens wailing constantly as far north as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. It said its forces were engaged in gunfights with Hamas militants who had infiltrated Israel in at least seven locations. The fighters had sneaked across the separation fence and even invaded Israel through the air with paragliders, the army said.
“The United States unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians,” said U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
“There is never any justification for terrorism. We stand firmly with the Government and people of Israel and extend our condolences for the Israeli lives lost in these attacks,” she added.
Former President Trump released a statement Saturday morning: “These Hamas attacks are a disgrace and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force. Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration. We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is at war after Hamas militants launched a surprise attack against the nation and its citizens in the early morning hours.
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Only one major donor is publicly standing by the embattled Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). NORPAC, a political action committee dedicated to promoting U.S.-Israeli relations, told its donors after news of Menendez’s indictment broke “It is our intention to continue to support his re-election efforts.” NORPAC has so far raised half-a-million in cash for Menendez’s 2024 re-election bid.
Since being elevated to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Menendez has cultivated a who’s-who of powerful corporate donors including Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, Merck, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Other than NORPAC, most of Menendez’s major donors have remained silent as to whether they’ll continue to contribute to his political campaign. Jon Kaiden, founder of Baleon Capital, appears to be the only major donor to publicly announce that he will no longer contribute to Menendez’s re-election bid.
Over half of the Democrat members in the U.S. Senate have now called on Menendez to resign from public office. Despite the calls the New Jersey Democrat has remained defiant, telling reporters at a press conference on Monday that he intends to fight the federal indictment for bribery and corruption against him while running for re-election in 2024. When Menendez entered a ‘not guilty’ plea when he was arraigned in federal court on Wednesday.
Last week, Sen. Menendez was indicted by a federal grand jury over allegations of public corruption involving attempts to influence a federal prosecution, as well as participating in a foreign influence operation. The federal indictment alleges Menendez and his wife Nadine received payments in cash, gold bars, and a luxury vehicle for working to disrupt the prosecution of long-time donor and associate Jose Uribe and for acting as an unregistered foreign agents on behalf of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Only one major donor is publicly standing by the embattled Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). NORPAC, a political action committee dedicated to promoting U.S.-Israeli relations, told its donors after news of Menendez's indictment broke "It is our intention to continue to support his re-election efforts." NORPAC has so far raised half-a-million in cash for Menendez's 2024 re-election bid.
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An inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into a government contractor using Israeli spy software to monitor U.S. citizens has discovered it was doing so on behalf of the FBI itself.
Reporters discovered that Landmark spy software developed by Israel’s NSO Group, blacklisted by the Joe Biden government as a national security threat in 2021, had been purchased and deployed by government contractor Riva Networks later the same year.
It now transpires that one of Riva Networks’ clients was the FBI.
Like the White House, the FBI claims it had no clue the contractor was using Landmark to geolocate U.S. citizens in Mexico without their consent, and Director Christopher Wray has cancelled the contract. Yet reporters seeking more information about the secretive nature of the bureau’s dealings with Riva Networks are now being stonewalled.
Government lawyers responding to efforts by The New York Times to sue to the FBI for “documents related to the bureau’s purchase of NSO tools and… documents about the bureau’s relationship with Riva Networks” have told the courts the FBI’s relationship with the contractor should be protected from scrutiny, because they “either already do, or may in the future, offer other products… used for investigative purposes.”
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An inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into a government contractor using Israeli spy software to monitor U.S. citizens has discovered it was doing so on behalf of the FBI itself.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lashed out at NATO members, calling it “absurd” that the bloc is not willing to immediately set a date and offer an invitation to Ukraine – a move which would almost certainly trigger a full-scale global war.
“[We have] received signals that certain wording is being discussed without Ukraine,” Zelensky wrote in a rambling statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday morning, calling it “unprecedented and absurd when [a] time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership.”
“It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance,” he added.
NATO is an alliance based on mutual defense, and Ukraine is currently at war. Bringing the country into NATO now could lead to Ukraine invoking Article 5, which requires other NATO members, from North America to Asia Minor, to enter the conflict.
Former US Nato ambassador Ivo Daalder recently concluded: “Bringing Ukraine into the alliance is tantamount to joining the war.”
Four leading members of NATO, namely America, Britain, France, and Germany, are set to propose “Israel-style” security guarantees for Ukraine as an alternative. Officially, the Jewish State is not part of NATO and the West is not obligated to protect it, but the U.S. does provide substantial military aid to ensure it retains a “qualitative military edge” over its neighbors.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lashed out at NATO members, calling it "absurd" that the bloc is not willing to immediately set a date and offer an invitation to Ukraine – a move which would almost certainly trigger a full-scale global war.
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