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Reporter jumps into action to save slain friend's children after Hamas attack: 'Absolute chaos'
Journalist Ilana Curiel answered the call to action and saved two of her friend’s children after Hamas terrorists attacked his home. Photojournalist Roy Edan’s son Michael, 8, and daughter Amalya, 6, were barricaded in a closet with their mother’s body for hours when they managed to call their aunt, uncle and the police to tell them … Continue reading Reporter jumps into action to save slain friend's children after Hamas attack: 'Absolute chaos'
Iran's arch-terrorist was architect of Hamas massacre of 1,300 people: report
The Iranian’s regime organized plan to aid Hamas in its massacre of 1,300 people, including 27 Americans, was front-and-center in the thinking of the dictator who rules over Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to claims in a new think tank report.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) recently published a shocking report, noting the Islamic Republic leader “Khamenei Hinted In August 2022, August 2023 At ‘The Complete Conquest’ Of Israel.”
According to a MEMRI translation from Khamenei’s propaganda outlet, Kayhan, the plan of mass murder was engineered by the late Iranian global terrorist Qassem Soleimani in 2020. The U.S. military assassinated Soleimani in early January 2020 for his overseeing the killing of over 600 American military personnel.
Kayhan wrote, according to the translation, that in August 2023 “The significance is that, last year, the Leader [Khamenei] gave ‘the promise of the imminent conquest,’ and this year he gave ‘the announcement of the complete conquest,’ and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is part of this imminent conquest. This promise and announcement, along with the clarity and power of [Khamenei’s] statements and positions in his meeting [with leaders and ambassadors of Islamic countries] on the occasion of the Prophet [Muhammad’s] birthday, have profound significance and content.”
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When asked about the MEMRI report, a U.S. State Department spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to a media interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
America’s top diplomat said, “Iran has had a long relationship with Hamas, and Hamas wouldn’t be Hamas without the support that it’s gotten over many years from Iran. Having said that, when it comes to this specific attack, right now, as we speak, we haven’t seen direct evidence that Iran participated in or helped plan the attack. That doesn’t mean that it didn’t; we just don’t have the evidence to show it. And as I said, there’s a long relationship between the two.”
Hamas’ statements conform to the MEMRI Iran report that the planning of the massacre goes back several years. “In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ‘rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join the Islamic Jihad in its recent battle,” senior Hamas official Ali Baraka said in an interview that aired on Russia Today TV on Oct. 8. MEMRI located and translated the Baraka report.
The U.S. has designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization. Iran’s theocratic state has been designated the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, according to the U.S. State Department.
Lior Haiat, the spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, told Fox News Digital on the first day of the war last week, “Those terror organizations [Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad] are working as proxies of the Ayatollah regime,” in Iran. Haiat added that Tehran is “without a doubt… behind the scenes” of this war against Israel.
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MEMRI’s staff of Persian and Arabic language experts scour the media in the Muslim world for trends and indications of possible terrorist attacks. The president and founder of MEMRI, Yigal Carmon, is a retired Israel Defense Forces colonel who served as a counterterrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers. Fox News Digital reported last week that Carmon predicted the outbreak of the war in an Aug. 31 article titled “Signs of Possible War in September-October.”
In the preamble to its infamous 1998 Hamas Covenant, the Islamist terrorist movement laid out its principal goal: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
Hamas declares in article 7 of its manifesto, “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
A prescient MEMRI article from May, 2018, headlined its article: “The ‘Great Return March’ Campaign: An Initiative Sponsored By Hamas, Whose Goal Was To Breach The Border Fence, Penetrate Israeli Territory.”
MEMRI wrote at the time, “An examination of statements coming out of Gaza about the ‘Great Return March’ campaign, by Hamas officials, by campaign organizers, and by participants and supporters of the campaign, reveal that it was not merely a popular civilian campaign but was fully supported by Hamas, and that its goal was to breach the border fence in order to penetrate Israeli territory and march on Israeli communities.”
The MEMRI investigation added “Reports mentioned that special units had been established for the purpose of penetrating Israeli territory, such as the Fence-Cutting Unit and the Border-Storming Unit. Although the campaign organizers stressed that the marches would be peaceful, some Gazan social media users called to fight the ‘infidels’ in these communities and to murder them.”
A deadly Act 2 of the Hamas’s so-called “Great Return March” to conquer Israel would unfold five years later in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Numerous Fox News Digital press queries to Iran’s Foreign Ministry and U.N. mission were not answered.
Relatives of loved ones killed, kidnapped by Hamas plead for help: 'The world has to step up'
A distraught family member described on “FOX & Friends” Wednesday seeing videos of her relatives being taken from their home in southern Israel by Hamas.
LeElle Slifer said she recognized her mother’s cousin, Kinneret, in a newly surfaced video of hostages whose hands were tied as they walked alongside Hamas terrorists. Additional video showed four lifeless bodies with physical characteristics matching the hostages.
“She texted us that morning. She was in the house with her husband, her daughter, her son, and her daughter-in-law and her little granddaughter, three years old. They were all there celebrating the holiday, and she said she was safe,” Slifer told host Steve Doocy, who was also overcome with emotion over what happened to the family.
“Then we started seeing videos from the terrorists that she’d been taken, reports from her husband that their daughter was taken, their son, their daughter-in-law, their granddaughter… and we just kept searching for news, and we didn’t know for so many days.”
Her voice began to break. “Then I saw the video online, and I had to tell my family in Israel that I had seen [her] laying on the ground lifeless, and we still haven’t recovered her body yet.”
Before disappearing toward Gaza, Hamas militants tied Kinneret’s son’s hands and shoved him into a vehicle with his wife and three-year-old daughter. Another member of their kibbutz – or community – was shoved in the trunk.
When they encountered a tank, the terrorists stopped the vehicle and got out, giving Slifer’s loved ones a chance to escape.
“[They] knew that if they didn’t do something, they would be as good as dead,” she said. “So they jumped, ran from the car…” Kinneret’s son hid in a field with his daughter for 24 hours until silence replaced gunfire and shouting. He then made his way back to the kibbutz.
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“Thank God they’re alive,” Slifer said.
But Kinneret’s daughter-in-law had to hide someplace else and has been missing since. Slifer said the family has to assume the worst has happened: that she has been taken hostage in Gaza.
“This is jihad. There are no rules in jihad. They’re raping women in fields. They’re beheading babies. They’re executing the elderly in the street. They’re taking [people] back to Gaza to use as human shields. It’s appalling. And the world has to step up and get these hostages out,” she continued.
Terror in the Holy Land also devastated Ofri Levy, whose family was kidnapped by Hamas. She begged for their rescue on Wednesday.
“The only thing we know is that they were taken to Gaza on Saturday,” she told FOX News. Video showed her sister-in-law holding her two sons as they were taken from their home by Hamas terrorists.
“We knew [she] and the kids were taken because we got this video in already on Saturday. We didn’t know anything about my brother until yesterday, which was his birthday, and it was the first time we got any picture of him, any sign of life, and we saw him in a picture surrounded by terrorists leading into Gaza.”
“He was bleeding from his head,” she said. “One of the terrorists had a hammer in his hand.”
Levy said her brother stayed in contact with her via text messages leading up to the kidnapping, telling her he was terrified as he heard explosions, gunfire and screaming in Arabic.
“The last text I got from him was 9:45 Saturday saying they were coming inside their house. Later, we also saw a video of them breaking inside my brother’s house,” she explained.
“I can’t think of anything else. They have to come back home. They have to join us again…” she added.
The death toll continues to climb in the harrowing days since war broke out Saturday. As of early Wednesday, nearly 2,100 have been killed on both sides of the conflict, including more than 1,200 in Israel.
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