NEWS FROM ISRAEL
Netanyahu: We’ll achieve all war goals; there will be no civil war
April 22, 2025 — Israel National News reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke this evening (Monday) at a memorial ceremony for Irgun fighters who fell in the battle for Jaffa during the 1948 War of Independence, and declared that the State of Israel is committed to completing all of its objectives in the current war.
‘We will complete all of the war objectives. We will destroy Hamas’s rule in Gaza, return the hostages, prevent any future threat from Gaza to Israel, and return the residents safely,’ Netanyahu said.
In his remarks, the Prime Minister linked the historic campaign to liberate Jaffa to the current campaign. ‘Just as the liberation of Jaffa ended in complete victory, today we too adhere to the concept of complete victory.’
Netanyahu also addressed concerns about internal radicalization, saying: ‘There will be no civil war – there will be no civil war.’…” (God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early – Psalm 46:1 – 5. See the next report.)
Netanyahu slams Iran, Hamas as Israel marks Holocaust
April 24, 2025 — SpaceWar.com reports: “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking Wednesday at an annual Holocaust commemoration, said Iran was an existential threat and warned that ‘the fate of all humanity’ was at stake if it acquires nuclear arms.
Netanyahu was speaking at the start of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II, and is observed every year in April or May according to the Jewish calendar. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27.
‘The regime in Iran is a threat to our destiny, to our very existence, and to the fate of all humanity,’ Netanyahu said in a solemn address at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem.
‘This is what will happen if it obtains nuclear weapons. If we lose this battle, the Western nations will be next,’ Netanyahu said, using the memorial day to deliver a political message.
‘Israel will not lose, will not give in, and will not surrender,’ he said…”
Netanyahu to Khamenei: Israel won’t be eliminated, Iran’s axis of terror must be
April 16, 2025 — Israel National News reports: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening responded to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s promise that Israel will be eliminated from the Middle East.
‘Today, the dictator of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, posted this,’ Netanyahu began, holding up a paper. ‘The title is, ‘Why must the Zionist regime (that’s Israel) be eliminated from the region.’
‘So here you have the ruler of Iran openly declaring – again – that his goal is to destroy the State of Israel. And the most brazen thing about this is that he issues this while he’s negotiating – supposedly negotiating – peace with the United States.
‘Well, Israel will NOT be eliminated. What must be eliminated is Iran’s axis of terror and its nuclear weapons program. Not only for the sake of Israel, but for the sake of our entire region, and for the sake of peace in our world,’ he concluded.” (Iran has a long history of calling for the destruction of Israel It will never happen. Almighty God has stated: …I will give them [Israel] an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off – Isaiah 56:5. Everlasting means everlasting. God promised to Abraham in Genesis 22:17: …in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the starts of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore… And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever – Deuteronomy 4:37 – 40.)
Hamas leaders asked Iran for $500 million in 2021 to destroy Israel within 2 years
April 7, 2025 — The Times of Israel reports: “Defense Minister Israel Katz revealed an intelligence document on Sunday showing that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif had sent a letter to Iran’s IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani in June 2021, seeking support for the terror group’s plans to invade Israel, which were ultimately carried out on October 7, 2023.
‘I am presenting here for the first time a document that was found in the tunnels of senior Hamas officials in Gaza, which proves a direct relationship between Iran and Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif, as part of Iran’s support for the Hamas plan to destroy Israel,’ Katz said in a video statement.
The statement was recorded during a visit to the Military Intelligence Directorate’s so-called intelligence collection and technical spoils unit — known by its Hebrew acronym, ‘Amshat.’
‘In the document, they (the Hamas leaders) ask of the commander of the [Islamic] Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force to transfer $500 million for destroying the State of Israel,’ he said.
The document shows that Hamas demanded $20 million per month from Iran over two years, ‘to achieve these great goals, through which we will change the face of the world.’
‘We are confident that by the end of these two years, or during them, God willing, we will uproot this monstrous entity, and we will end this dark period in the history of our nation,’ the letter reads…” (They may threaten Israel, but Psalm 121 states: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.)
Hamas rejects Israeli hostage-truce proposal, dismisses Netanyahu’s ‘partial deals’
April 18, 2025 — The Times of Israel reports: “Hamas on Thursday publicly rejected an Israeli proposal for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, reiterating that it opposes any truce deal that does not lead to an end to the war sparked by the terror group’s October 2023 attack and the withdrawal of Israel’s forces from the enclave.
A Hamas source told AFP that the terrorist organization also sent a written response Thursday to mediators on Israel’s latest proposal for a 45-day ceasefire. Israel had sought the release of 10 living hostages held by the terror group, according to Hamas.
The proposal also included the freeing of 1,231 Palestinian security prisoners from Israeli jails and the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. It also called for Hamas to disarm to secure a complete end to the war, a demand the terror group rejects.
Hamas leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, currently outside the enclave, said in a televised speech that Hamas will not be ‘part of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s policy of partial deals.’
‘We will not be part of passing this policy.’…” (Benjamin Netanyahu has stated: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
Israel does all that it can to protect civilians – Hamas uses civilians to protect their missiles; placing them next to schools and in residential neighborhoods. See the next three reports.)
Senior IDF officers: Hamas was surprised by the war’s renewal
April 17, 2025 — Israel National News reports: “Senior officers in the IDF Southern Command claim that Hamas was surprised by the renewed fighting, and the organization did not expect Israel to return to ground maneuvers.
‘The enemy was surprised by our initiative and by the firepower,’ sources in the military emphasized. ‘It was in the mindset that the war was over and that we wouldn’t return to fight, and therefore, the attack caught them by surprise.’
The IDF has identified that the Hamas leaders and operatives are hiding in hospitals and schools. During the ground maneuver, tunnels were located a kilometer underground and destroyed, and the forces continue to locate and map out terror infrastructure…”
‘Sons of dogs, release the hostages,’ Mahmoud Abbas tells Hamas
April 23, 2025 — The Jerusalem Post reports: “‘Sons of dogs, hand over the hostages,’ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Hamas in a televised speech at the PA’s Central Council on Wednesday.
He added that the ‘war must end,’ citing that hundreds are dying every day because ‘[Hamas] doesn’t want to hand over the American hostages. Sons of dogs – hand over the hostages and end the matter.’
Abbas said the goals are ‘Returning the hostages; lifting the Israeli blockade of Gaza; stopping the displacement of our people in coordination with Arab countries; defending the ‘Palestinian cause.’‘
He also stressed that ‘Hamas must end its control of the Gaza Strip and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority.’…”