U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was giving Hamas 48 hours to return the hostage remains still in Gaza. “We have a very strong PEACE in the Middle East, and I believe it has a good chance of being EVERLASTING,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “Hamas is going to have to start returning the bodies of the deceased hostages, including two Americans, quickly, or the other Countries involved in this GREAT PEACE will take action.” Some of the Palestinian terrorists whose sentences were commuted by Israel as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip stayed at Egypt’s Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel following their release, Israeli media reported on Saturday. In a call with Kan News, the Cairo hotel initially denied that the former Palestinian prisoners were among its guests, claiming: “We only have customers here. I don’t check what each customer’s intentions are.” However, when asked by the Israeli broadcaster if Mahmoud Issa, who founded the special kidnapping unit of Hamas’s military wing, was staying at the hotel, the representative answered in the affirmative. Asked who was footing his bill, the representative answered, “Turks.” https://www.jns.org/hamas-terrorists-seen-at-five-star-cairo-hotel-after-release-under-gaza-deal/ [Just over an hour] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Hamas positions in Gaza on Tuesday night after the terror organization staged a fake transfer of the body of one of the deceased hostages Monday. Hamas is supposed to return 28 bodies under the terms of the ceasefire that went into effect earlier this month. It has only returned 15 thus far; 13 remain. As Breitbart News reported, citing Israeli media and official sources, Hamas was caught on video digging a hole, putting human remains in it, then summoning the Red Cross to watch as it “retrieved” the remains. The remains were transferred to Israel via the Red Cross in a coffin. Netanyahu’s office issued a terse statement to the press: “Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip.” [One hour seven minutes] The Sanhedrin issued a sweeping religious and political declaration this week, calling the release of Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity a fulfillment of biblical prophecy and demanding immediate action on three fronts: nationwide gatherings with the freed captives, Israeli sovereignty over all of Gaza, and the execution of every terrorist who murdered Jews. The Sanhedrin’s statement draws on Isaiah 9:1 to interpret the hostages’ experience: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isaiah 9:1). According to the court, “The hostages felt tangibly that God was close to them, despite being in complete darkness and despite sitting in the land of the shadow of death.” Second, the Sanhedrin issued a direct instruction to the Israeli government: “We instruct the Government of Israel to apply Israeli sovereignty over all of the Gaza region (as well as Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, and the Bashan). And also to establish a body that will be responsible for planning and managing Jewish settlement in the Gaza region. To strengthen the hands of the settlement nuclei that have already been established for this purpose, of the Nachala movement and additional movements.” Third, the court commanded all government systems to fulfill Torah law requiring the killing of all terrorists who murdered Jews and were released, as well as Israeli state law: “The Law on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1950.” The Sanhedrin drew a direct parallel: “Just as the State of Israel acted in other events in the state’s history, such as after the massacre of the athletes in Munich, and the law of bringing Nazis to justice, so it must do now—to eliminate and execute all the murdering terrorists.” The Sanhedrin’s statement concluded: “May it be God’s will that all the prophecies of the kingdom of God be fulfilled with all abundance, blessing, and joy. With blessings for complete redemption in the kingdom of God, Blessed be He. The Sanhedrin Court.” Of the five cities mentioned in Genesis as located in the Jordan Valley, one, called Zoar, was never lost to history. Named in numerous ancient documents and located on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, Zoar provides the key to finding its infamous neighbors. Kennedy, who headed excavations in the area of ancient Zoar, explains that when angels came to save Lot from Sodom, he escaped to Zoar that same day. This means archaeologists searching for Sodom have a limited area to cover. About 20 kilometers south of Bab edh-Dhra lies the site of Numeira, tentatively identified as Gomorrah. There, Kennedy discovered human skeletons beneath a collapsed tower. “We don’t usually find complete skeletons just lying around in excavation sites from this period,” Kennedy noted, because it was customary to bury the dead in sealed tombs. This suggests a sudden catastrophe in which people died where they stood, much like what happened in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Near Zoar, Kennedy excavated a cave containing Early Bronze Age pottery. Byzantine Christians built a church there, inscribed with the name “Church of Saint Lot,” the cave where Lot and his daughters fled after arriving in Zoar. The location fits the Biblical description perfectly. Genesis 19:30 states that Lot “went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he feared to dwell in Zoar.” The southeastern sites near Zoar have a documented history spanning decades of research. After a decade of digging, archaeologist Phillip Silvian of Trinity Southwest University reported in 2018 that the 15-square-mile circular Middle Ghor was a fertile plain, populated continuously for at least 2,500 years. Some form of catastrophe 3,700 years ago brought this to a sudden end, wiping out an estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people who inhabited the area. The event was so catastrophic that the region remained unpopulated for 600 years. Studies of 120 small settlements in the region showed signs of extreme, collapse-inducing heat and wind. Pottery was exposed to such intense heat that it melted into glass. Zircon crystals in those glassy coats formed within one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the surface of the sun. ...in the journal Scientific Reports involved 21 co-authors...They determined that bricks melted at temperatures of 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than a volcano. They concluded that about 3,600 years ago, an icy space rock measuring 50 meters across entered the atmosphere at 38,000 mph and exploded about 2.5 miles above the ground. The resulting blast was about 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The debate took an unexpected turn when Dr. John Bergsma, a Catholic theologian and professor...When Bergsma asked what destroyed the cities, Collins showed him glazed pottery from the Bronze Age, a technique not invented until a thousand years later. “That glass layer that you get when you basically set off an atomic bomb in the desert,” Bergsma explained. “This pottery was raised to over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit for a brief moment.” The timeline matches the Biblical chronology. The nature of the destruction matches the Biblical description. And the long-term abandonment of the region matches the prophetic declarations that these cities would never be rebuilt. The skeptics who dismissed the Bible’s account as mythology now face a mounting pile of physical evidence that demands explanation. Fire from heaven no longer sounds like ancient superstition when pottery melted at temperatures hotter than the sun’s surface and entire cities were incinerated in moments. The question is no longer whether divine judgment fell on Sodom and Gomorrah. The question is whether modern archaeology has finally located where it fell. [Not in Israel, not in the Middle East, but in New York City] Israeli educator and lecturer in the IDF Rami Glickstein, 59, suffered a vicious antisemitic attack while in New York last Monday, resulting in a brain bleed and a broken nose. “I’m not so well,” he told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “I can stand up, I can speak, but the doctors are very worried because of the bleeding inside my head. I also have a broken nose, and my head and leg are very painful.” Glickstein was on his way to the Mr. Broadway kosher restaurant in Midtown Manhattan a week ago, when a man approached him and gestured at his kippah, yelling, “What is your religion?” When Glickstein did not respond, the man grabbed the kippah from his head, threw it on the ground, and spat on it. Glickstein bent down to pick it back up, and the man punched him in the face, knocking him to the floor. He was saved by two Orthodox Jewish men in kippahs, who intervened in the attack and gave Glickstein a chance to flee into the restaurant. The people in the restaurant called the police, and an ambulance took Glickstein to Mount Sinai Hospital. He and his wife are still waiting for their medical insurance to allow them to fly back to Israel, as he needs a doctor to accompany him on the plane. “You have to understand, this guy attacked me in front of a very big and a very famous Jewish restaurant. A lot of Orthodox Jews come here. I wasn’t in a dark street in Harlem or somewhere like that. It was in the middle of Manhattan, middle of the city, in the middle of the day.” “It’s only because I’m Jewish. It’s like something from the past, from 1939.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Monday denied reports that Israel was considering allowing hundreds of Hamas terrorists trapped in tunnels beneath Rafah to cross safely into Hamas-controlled areas of Gaza. Channel 12 earlier reported that Israel was weighing a proposal to let the operatives pass into Hamas-held territory if they agreed to disarm or if Hamas returned additional bodies of Israeli hostages. According to the network, the idea was being discussed as part of a broader framework supported by Washington, Cairo, and Doha to advance the next phase of the ceasefire based on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan. The Prime Minister’s Office dismissed the report outright. “The prime minister persists in his firm stance on the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Strip while eliminating terrorist threats to our forces,” an official statement said. “There will be no safe passage for Hamas terrorists.” Israeli intelligence estimates that around 200 Hamas operatives remain underground in areas currently controlled by the IDF, especially in Rafah. These gunmen are unable to withdraw without surfacing and exposing themselves to Israeli forces. Hamas still holds the bodies of eight hostages: six Israelis, Tanzanian agricultural worker Joshua Mollel, and Thai worker Sudthisak Rinthalak. Israel has made clear that no movement of Hamas operatives will be permitted until all captives—living and deceased—are returned.
President Trump says Hamas has 48 hours to return hostage remains before other nations will ‘take action’:
Hamas terrorists seen at five-star Cairo hotel after release under Gaza deal:
CONNECT Round Table: Antisemitism From Within:
Netanyahu Orders Airstrikes on Hamas in Gaza After Fake Body Transfer:
The Bigger Prophetic Picture Unfolding | MidEast & Beyond:
Sanhedrin Calls for Rallies with Released Hostages, Declaration of Sovereignty Over Gaza:
New Archaeological Evidence Points to Sodom and Gomorrah’s Location Near the Dead Sea:
'It's like 1939': Israeli Jewish tourist suffers brain bleed after NY attack - interview:
Netanyahu Rejects U.S. Pressure to Grant Safe Passage for Hamas Terrorists in Gaza:
