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As the actual killer winds and storms from Hurricane Helene dissipate, residents of multiple southeastern states, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina in particular, are getting a look at what's left of their communities after one of the most devastating storms ever.
And it's not good.
Zach Dasher, of Swannanoa, N.C., said it's complete devastation there. Absolute decimation.
"I'm talking about not only have the buildings gone on one side of the road, the ground that the building sat on is no longer there. It's complete devastation. Lots of people lost their lives. Folks from our church that were helping rescue people out of the floods, they saw people lose their lives… We don't have a final count or anything like that… It's devastating.," he said in a Fox report.
While the storm came ashore as a Category 4 in Florida, it swooped north quickly, crossing Georgia then landing, more or less, on parts of North Carolina, where up to 30 inches of rain was reported.
And roads, buildings, bridges, even mountainsides, were reported gone.
Vast swaths of the region remained without power. No food, fuel or communications yet were available.
Appalachian State University student Dana Lheureux told Fox's Trace Gallagher, "The hurricane hitting us was devastating. None of us expected to be hit as bad as we were. The tree went through my building at 6 a.m. on Friday morning."
Fatalities were documented in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration for North Carolina and at the same time warned people they would need to donate to cover the costs of a recovery. GOP presidential candidate President Donald Trump announced the delivery of trucks loaded with supplies, and an online fundraiser that was collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to help.
Debris from destroyed buildings and vehicles littered waterways, which were at record flood levels as the rainfall drained away, a process that should take days.
Various locations declared public health emergencies. Tornado watches remained.
In Erwin Tennessee, officials reported dozens of people were rescued from the roof of a hospital.
Virginia state police said dozens of patients and staff were trapped on the building because of the quickly rising storm floods.
"I don't think very many people have seen something like this before," Ballad Health CEO Alan Levine said in a report. "The most important thing is the safety of our employees and patients. Thank God, thanks to the great work of Tennessee and Virginia partnering to help us get this rescue underway, they're all safe."
Hundreds of flights were canceled in Charlotte, Atlanta and Tampa, and there was a warning issued that electric vehicles, if flooded by salty seawater, could short out and explode.
ABC News reported sudden, heavy deluges still were being reported.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper called the wreckage left behind "beyond belief."
"Communities were wiped off the map," he said.
Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane and reports called it the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.
The Buncombe County region in North Carolina was among the hardest hit, with 35 fatalities there and an estimated 600 individuals still remaining unaccounted for.
Online, Biden and Harris were facing a backlash over a slow response, with one commenter suggesting they get that "check" back from Ukraine and send it to Asheville, N.C., which was a bull's-eye for the storm.
A report at BizPacReview scorched the Democrats for, as the storm destroyed lives, "Biden had returned to his beach and Harris had her handout as she continued bucking for a promotion."
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Colorado was taken over by liberals through a political coup a good number of years ago. Leftists with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank strategically donated to key state legislative races to defeat conservatives, and the result now is a legislature dominated by Democrats and other extremists.
The results were predictable: State and local boards have followed suit, and the state now has a defined agenda to attack Christians and their faith, what with formal state bureaucrats' attacks on a baker who refused to promote same-sex marriages and a web designer who did the same.
The state lost both of those fights, incidentally, at the Supreme Court, which scolded the far-left enclave in the Rocky Mountains for its official bigotry against Christianity.
But the state now has a homosexual multimillionaire governor, Jared Polis, who scooped buckets of cash from the internet when the medium was new, and a far-left secretary of state, Jena Griswold, who tried to throw the GOP's nominee for president this year, President Donald Trump, off the ballot because of her own opinions about him.
The latest battle now comes through the actions of a like-minded local board, a school board in Jefferson County, which encompasses suburbs just to the west of Denver.
There, its officials have decided to require students to share, on school trips, rooms, beds and showers and more with classmates of the opposite sex.
The ADF has brought a legal fight now to the district and lawyer Kate Anderson explained, "Parents, not the government, have the right and duty to direct the upbringing and education of their children, and that includes making decisions to protect their child's privacy."
She said, "JeffCo currently asks students who identify as transgender to choose, with their parents, whether they will share accommodations with students of the same or opposite sex. This is done confidentially, without divulging the private information of any other student. Yet JeffCo rooms all other children based on gender identity without giving those students or their parents the same information or choice."
She explained, "That policy violates parents' right to direct their children's care and protect their privacy. It violates students' rights to bodily privacy. And it threatens the religious freedom of parents and students alike. JeffCo must provide parents with the information they need to make the best decisions for their children. We urge the court to grant our clients' reasonable request for equal treatment and protect their constitutional freedoms as this case continues in the courts."
The results in court, of course, often are unpredictable, and especially so in Colorado where the judiciary has fought multiple corruption scandals in recent years.
The new case is on behalf of three families asking the court to stop Jefferson County Public Schools from requiring their children to share beds, bedrooms, and shower facilities with students of the opposites sex on school-sponsored overnight trips.
The school imposes those requirements on students with no advance notice, or alternatives.
In fact, the Jefferson County schools demand that students be assigned roommates on school trips based on "gender identity."
The current motion pending in the Wailes v. Jefferson County Public Schools case, in federal court in Colorado, is a request that the court instruct the district to stop the schools from requiring "children …. share beds, bedrooms, and shower facilities with students of the opposite sex."
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JERUSALEM – Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an interview Monday to CNN Turkey in which he said Tehran established a special intelligence unit to hunt down Mossad operatives working in the country. Astonishingly, he said the person recruited to head up this elite unit was himself discovered to be a Mossad agent.
Furthermore, the alleged Mossad agent employed up to 20 Israeli agents to work alongside him. Based on Ahmadinejad's account of facts that had been reported earlier, these agents were responsible for a number of intelligence operations inside Iran, including one of the more spectacular ones of recent years, namely the squirreling out of the country of a half ton of highly classified information about the depth of Iran's lying to the so-called international community, and the reality of its nuclear program.
It was thought that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation of this evidence to then-President Donald Trump was instrumental in the United States' decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Barack Obama had so forcefully championed.
"Israel organized complex operations inside Iran. They could easily obtain information. In Iran they are still silent about this. The man who was in charge of the unit in Iran against Israel was an Israeli agent," he said. Ahmadinejad claimed the double agent at the head of the intelligence unit and all the other operatives are currently living in Israel.
In addition to the theft of the nuclear documents, several high-ranking Iranian scientists – including the person considered "the father of the Iranian nuclear program," Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, were eliminated. In Fakhrizadeh's case, the November 2020 hit was apparently carried out via a remotely operated computerized machine gun, which required no on-site operability. However, it is assumed the people who assembled this weapon and placed it in a position most beneficial to taking out the nuclear scientist were at the time on the ground, and are now assumed to be members of this special intelligence unit.
Ahmadinejad, whose term of office ended in 2013, was replaced by Hassan Rouhani. The latter's former chief of staff – former intelligence minister Ali Younisi – admitted in an interview in 2022, "The Mossad has infiltrated many government departments in the last ten years, to such a degree that all the country's top officials should fear for their lives," according to Ynet.
There are such fears about the depth of Israel's penetration into Iran's intelligence and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) establishment – particularly following the July elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Guard Corps property – that long-time Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has been moved to a secret location out of concern for his well being. It is not clear how the people entrusted with either protecting him or the knowledge of his whereabouts are not either compromised in some way, or may indeed be Israeli operatives themselves.
It is not certain why Ahmadinejad has decided to air this information again now, except the timing of it coalesces into the broader picture of just how much intelligence Israel has on Iran, and its Shiite Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah. Although Ahmadinejad has already served as Iran's president, it did not stop him from throwing his hat back into the ring for the most recent round of (s)elections – in which Masoud Pezeshkian was victorious – and occasioned by the helicopter crash which killed incumbent President Ebrahim Raisi in May.
Until two weeks ago when Hezbollah was hit by the stunning "Grim Beeper operation," which simultaneously wounded, maimed, or killed thousands of operatives, including those of the IRGC, it was widely assumed the helicopter Raisi was traveling in had indeed plowed into a mountainside as a result of poor weather conditions. However, some more conspiratorial minds have suggested Israel's intelligence agency may have had a hand in this, too – although, like the beeper operation, it is not something they would publicly acknowledge.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, already facing criticisms for his multiple lies about his military record, awards received and more, now is having to change his statement about his trips to China.
This topic already is the subject of an investigation by Congress for his potential interactions with the Chinese Communist Party.
But now a report from the Washington Examiner notes while Walz has "touted" traveling to China some 30 times, and "being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on student protests in 1989," "public records and a new statement from the Democratic vice presidential nominee's campaign tell another story."
The report noted contemporaneous news reports from 1989 show Walz was in Nebraska as the massacre unfolded, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
"And contrary to Walz's claim that he has visited China 30 times, the Harris-Walz campaign told Minnesota Public Radio that he has actually been to the country 'closer to 15 times.'"
The report explained, "News of the holes in Walz's resume comes as the vice presidential nominee faces scrutiny over many other parts of his background that appear to have been embellished. Walz's telling of his 2004 political origin story at a GOP rally contains significant inaccuracies, and he has come under fire from combat veterans over false claims about his military service, among other matters."
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., heads the House Oversight Committee and is looking into Walz's "extensive" ties to China, and has issued a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for records on that topic.
It is known that Walz organized trips for students to China, and later took a position teaching there for a time.
A report at Fox News confirmed Walz had claimed, as recently as a 2016 congressional hearing, to have been to China "about 30 times."
The report noted that Minnesota Public Radio actually was able to confirm only 12 Walz trips to China.
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The People's Republic of China is celebrating 75 years since its founding by Chinese Communist Party dictator Mao Zedong, whose policies resulted in the deaths of up to 80 million Chinese citizens.
Nationalist Kuomintang forces were defeated by the Communist army in 1949 after a bloody 20-year civil war, with many fleeing to Taiwan.
During an address at a celebration banquet for the nation's founding, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for opposition to "separatist activities" of those who continue to support the independence of Taiwan.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory through its "One China Principle," and Xi reiterated his desire to "reunite" China with the democratically run Taiwan, whose President Lai Ching-te has been labeled as a "dangerous separatist."
"Achieving complete national reunification is the common aspiration of the Chinese people … It is an irreversible trend, a matter of justice, and it is in accordance with the popular will. No one can stop the march of history … Taiwan is sacred territory for China. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have blood ties, and these family ties will always be stronger than others," Xi said.
On Monday during an address to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Xi expressed his gratitude to "friendly" countries and "international friends" who support the development of China.
Xi stressed the need for a united China.
"The great motherland and great nation nurtured by over 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, have always been the deepest and most enduring emotional ties of all the Chinese people. On this vast, beautiful, and fertile land, people of all ethnic groups share a common homeland, China; a common identity, the Chinese nation; a common name, Chinese; and a common dream, realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," Xi said.
While Xi calls for peace and unity, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a different message to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying Taiwan will return to its "motherland" of China.
"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. This is the history and the reality. The complete reunification of China will be achieved. Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland," Wang said.
Wang argued there are declarations that declare Taiwan as part of China, and which decreed all territories stolen by Japan, including Taiwan and the Ponghu Islands, should be returned.
"This constitutes an important part of the post war international order. Right here … 53 years ago, the 26th session of the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758 with an overwhelming majority, deciding to restore all the rights of the People's Republic of China at the UN, to recognize the representatives of the government of the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representatives of China to the UN," Wang said.
Wang added that representatives of Taiwan should be "expelled""from the UN, and doubled down on the resolution giving China sovereignty over Taiwan.
"It made clear that there is no such thing as 'two Chinas' or one China, one Taiwan. On this matter of principle, there is no gray zone, or room for ambiguity," Wang said.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement prior to the UNGA, calling the Chinese views on the resolution distorted, and stated China is attempting to "mislead international opinion."
The ministry further stressed points regarding the resolution which threatens peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. Taiwan states the resolution does not exclude it from engaging with the UN, and urged the UN to remain neutral, and to allow Taiwanese nationals and journalists to enter UN premises for visits, meetings, and newsgathering activities.
"MOFA reiterates that UNGA Resolution 2758 does not mention and therefore has nothing to do with Taiwan. The resolution neither reflects nor equates to China's "one China principle," nor does it block Taiwan from participating in the UN system or other international organizations. MOFA strongly condemns China's continued malicious distortion of the resolution in attempts to mislead international opinion. It calls on the international community to jointly oppose China's false narratives and urges the UN Secretariat to actively uphold the principle of universality embodied in the UN Charter, honor its commitment to leave no one behind, and promptly allow Taiwan's participation," the ministry said.
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Leftists have made a practice in recent years of advocating violence against their political opponents, especially President Donald Trump.
Joe Biden has claimed the ability to beat up Trump, if they were in school and they'd out behind the barn.
That rhetoric, going on for years already and routinely describing Trump as a "Hitler," is thought to be at least partly to blame for the two assassination attempts against Trump in recent weeks.
According to Collin Rugg of Trending Politics, "MSNBC panelist Eddie Glaude nearly starts crying on live air, says Kamala Harris needs to win to protect babies and so children don't get bombed. Glaude was so emotional that Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill had to tell him to take deep breaths."
What Glaude said included, "[Harris] needs to bust him in his mouth. I'm saying it like that because he's dangerous. He's dangerous to particular people. … We got to keep this troglodyte out of office because if he comes in, our babies are gonna be in danger because, remember, we know children are gonna grow up with the memory of having to not go to school for the threat of bombs, and somebody told them that their moms and dads eat cats and dogs."
Eventually his diatribe trickled to a halt, and McCaskill told him, "Okay, take a minute. Deep breath."
An editorial at Twitchy explained, "Everyone at MSNBC is not well. They don't call it Trump Derangement Syndrome for nothing."
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a far-left extremist picked by Kamala Harris to be her vice presidential candidate this year, turned up ready for the vice presidential debate with GOP candidate JD Vance on Tuesday night in New York.
And in answer to the first question, about whether Israel should take a first-strike attitude in response to Iran's terrorist attack just hours earlier, delivered a word salad.
Much like Harris has done over and over.
And he talked about state-sponsored terrorism.
And he talked about "fundamental steady" leadership.
And he talked about President Trump, "nearly 80-year-old" in the presidential debate against Harris earlier.
He talked about Vladimir Putin and North Korea.
Vance pointed out that it is up to Israel to make that decision, based on what its population feels is needed to protect themselves.
Walz also claimed that Trump left an "agreement" with Iran, apparently referring to the nuclear deal orchestrated by Barack Obama with Iran, and Trump's explanation at the time was that the deal did nothing or little to hinder Iran's nuclear plans, including its intention to destroy Israel.
The moderators, despite assurances they would not fact-check the candidates, insisted on imposing their opinion about climate change, that it is alarming.
Walz repeatedly hesitated during his delivery of his comments.
Asked about separating parents from children among illegal alien families, Vance pointed out that's already happening under Harris.
Walz also claimed that Trump left an "agreement" with Iran, apparently referring to the nuclear deal orchestrated by Barack Obama with Iran, and Trump's explanation at the time was that the deal did nothing or little to hinder Iran's nuclear plans, including its intention to destroy Israel.
The moderators, despite assurances they would not fact-check the candidates, insisted on imposing their opinion about climate change, that it is alarming.
Walz repeatedly hesitated during his delivery of his comments.
Asked about separating parents from children among illegal alien families, Vance pointed out that's already happening under Harris.
The Biden-Harris administration has, in fact, allowed him millions and millions of illegal aliens after destroying Trump's security plans.
Vance said Walz's comments don't "pass the smell test."
He noted Harris bragged about undoing Trump's security, and "now there's a record number of illegals."
"Now she says she somehow got religion and cares about a piece of legislation. All she did was undo 94 Donald Trump executive orders that addressed the problem," Vance said.
At one point, when the moderators repeatedly "fact-checked" Vance, he pointed out that they were not living up to their own agreement, and they responded by arbitrarily cutting his mike and then boasting that the audience could not hear anything from him.
On the economy, Walz, asked about the $1.2 trillion deficit that the Democrat economic plan would produce, failed to answer how that would be funded.
Except that he would insist on the "wealthiest pay their fair share."
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A family wrongly targeted by a violent SWAT-style raid from the federal government is fighting back, and trying to hold accountable those officers who picked their home, instead of the correct one, and broke in waving guns and threats.
The Institute for Justice explains it was before sunrise one morning in Atlanta that Trina Martin and her seven-year-old son, Gabe, and her partner, Toi Cliatt, were bludgeoned with a flashbang grenade in their living room, and violent attack by FBI agents.
"Toi, fearing that the home was being robbed, pulled Trina into the bedroom closet and reached for his legally owned shotgun. Just as he was about to grab it, an FBI agent barged in, threw him to the ground, and began interrogating him and Trina. All the while, Gabe was separated from his mother as officers stormed into his bedroom with guns drawn," the IJ documented.
But when Toi gave agents the address of the home they had just violated, it didn't match the address on the warrant they had.
Now, the Institute for Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit for accountability, which has been thrown out by the lower courts, the IJ said.
"My son was alone in his room, trembling in fear with an armed agent standing over him. Those are memories neither he nor I will ever be able to shake. Gabe transitioned from being a happy, active, and outgoing child to becoming timid, introverted, and living in constant fear. This experience made him acutely aware of death, as he repeatedly expressed that he believed he was going to die. What happened to us was wrong, but there's been no accountability. This shouldn't happen in America," Trina said.
One of the FBI agents did apologize, but the government simply refused to pay for any of the damages, which insurance ended up covering.
But the government still refused to cover costs from the trauma inflicted on Trina, Gabe, and Toi—including lost wages and therapy.
They sued.
And for seven years, the government has fought any efforts to hold responsible those so negligent they couldn't even find the correct address.
"The FBI can't undo the damage it caused by raiding the wrong house, but the government needs to pay for its mistake," said Dylan Moore, an attorney at IJ. "Congress created the [Federal Tort Claims Act] to give people like Trina, Gabe, and Toi a remedy. Courts should not do backflips to read that remedy out of existence."
In fact, Congress specifically recognized situations such as this unwarranted attack.
But lower courts have refused the family members' rights.
"FBI agents don't have discretion to raid the wrong house. And doing so certainly does not further any federal policy. Other courts have recognized this. Had Trina, Gabe, and Toi brought their lawsuit in most other circuits, the discretionary function exception likely wouldn't apply at all," the IJ said.
The 11th Circuit created its own ideology and went the other direction.
"The federal government made a terrible—albeit easily avoidable—mistake when it kicked in an innocent family's door," said Patrick Jaicomo, a senior attorney at IJ. "The Supreme Court should take this case to ensure that the government, not the innocent family, pays the price for the mistake. Congress could not be clearer that it should."
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John Kerry, the onetime Democrat party chieftain who served as Joe Biden's climate spokesman, jetting around the world in carbon fuel-belching jets to accept awards and such, has said the quiet part out loud.
Regarding the nation's First Amendment, that critical protection guarding the rights of individuals from shore to shore.
He wants it changed. And all because it gets in the way of what information he doesn't like, and thinks should be censored.
"The dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. It is part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't – the referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn't a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And people go and self select where they go for their news, for their information. And then you get into a vicious cycle.
So it is really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 40-50 years I've been involved in this.
You know there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have some accountability on facts, etc.
But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change."
Real Clear Politics explained his comments came at a World Economic Forum meeting.
"Near the end of the panel, a member of the audience asked what can be done to push back against disinformation surrounding climate change online," the report said.
Democrats and other leftists in American for years already have been insisting that ideas with which they disagree must be suppressed. They call it misinformation, or disinformation, or malinformation, but essentially it's just differing opinions.
But such an agenda also has moved far into the active manipulation of elections. Dozens of so-called national security veterans during the 2020 election insisted that the accurate, and devastatingly bad, details contained about the Biden family operations in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation.
They weaponized the federal government to tell social media and other companies to suppress it.
The laptop scandals proved to be completely accurate, but the suppression agenda run by federal agencies and others probably, a later polling revealed, cost President Donald Trump his re-election bid at the time.
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JERUSALEM – Having given its emphatic response to the Franco-American idea, floated on Thursday, of a 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, by eliminating Hassan Nasrallah with more than 80 tons of high explosive on Friday, the IDF is attempting to press on with dismantling more terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon.
Over the weekend and continuing Monday, the Israel Air Force has pounded certain suburbs of Beirut, such as Dahiyeh, which are known to be nests of Hezbollah loyalists, as it maintains the enormous pressure it has exerted on the Iranian proxy – and also the Iranian regime itself – over the last two weeks or so.
In two separate strikes Monday, Israel's military eliminated Hamas' leader in Lebanon – Fateh Sherif Abu el-Ami – along with his wife, son, and daughter in a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Tyre. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, Hezbollah's Telegram channel posted about the death of three People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) commanders in Beirut's Kola district.
It provides yet more evidence of the symbiotic, even parasitic, relationship between UNRWA, the only refugee agency devoted to keeping any group of people in that perpetual status, and Hamas.
Sherif was quick to praise the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of mostly Jewish Israelis in southern Israel, an attack – followed by Hezbollah's support of it – setting into motion events which might change the face of the entire Middle East. A statement from the terrorist group identified him as a "successful teacher and excellent [school] principal."
In March, UNRWA told Reuters that Sherif had been suspended for three months over allegations of involvement in activities "that are in violation of the Agency's regulatory framework governing staff conduct."
Meanwhile, in a Sunni-majority suburb of Beirut, Kola, a strike on an apartment building killed three members of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the group said, marking the first time Israel carried out an attack inside the heart of the capital since the outbreak of the war in Gaza last year. However, in Judea and Samaria, Israel's military has been working for months to undermine and neutralize the threat posed by heavily armed so-called Palestinian resistance groups – including the PFLP – which have received weapons and training either directly or indirectly from Iran.
While the IDF has largely gone on the offensive, taking the fight to Hezbollah and its allies in Beirut, the threats to Israel and its domestic assets remain. Early Monday morning, an Israel Navy "Sa'ar 4.5"-class missile ship successfully intercepted an unmanned aerial target that was approaching Israel from the area of the Red Sea outside of Israeli territory.
Israel's defense establishment has not identified what the intended target was, although speculation on X and other platforms was rife it may have been heading to the Karish gas field.