[33 minutes] [One hour] Israel identified on Saturday the latest hostage remains sent back from Gaza by Palestinian militants, leaving only five more bodies to be returned under the US-brokered truce that halted the two-year war. The Israeli military identified the body handed over on Friday as that of volunteer ambulance driver Lior Rudaeff, who was killed in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza war. Under the stark mathematics of the ceasefire plan, for every dead Israeli hostage returned the bodies of 15 slain Palestinians are handed back. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again demanded that Hamas “uphold its commitments” and return the last five bodies. “We will not compromise on this and will spare no effort until we return all of the deceased hostages, every last one of them,” it said. https://www.breitbart.com/news/israel-names-latest-hostage-body-as-families-await-five-more/ Five Doves, Donna Danna (7 Nov 2025) After numerous countries, led by France, recognized Palestinian statehood in September, P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Sept. 1 in virtual remarks to the U.N. General Assembly that the P.A. was ending what it calls its “Martyr’s Fund” as part of a “comprehensive reform agenda.” The fund is a program through which terrorists are rewarded stipends for carrying out attacks against Israelis. Payments typically go to the terrorists’ families." FULL STORY at above link. Earlier this month, reports circulated in Israeli media outlets that some 200 Hamas terrorists were holed up in areas on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line in southern Gaza. A report by Al Jazeera later claimed that the terrorists are located in tunnel networks under the city of Rafah. On Sunday, however, the al-Qassam Brigades confirmed the presence of its operatives in Rafah but emphasized that under no circumstances would they surrender to Israeli forces. https://worldisraelnews.com/hamas-admits-terrorists-trapped-in-rafah-says-they-wont-surrender/ Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, presented data this week that cut through political rhetoric and exposed a stark pattern: approximately 80 percent of convicted terrorists who murdered Jews and were later released from prison returned to terrorism. The figures were delivered during a Knesset committee hearing examining recent and past prisoner releases tied to hostage and ceasefire deals. As part of the most recent U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, nearly 2,000 Palestinian security prisoners were released. Many had been convicted of violent attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. The Shin Bet noted that the same pattern appeared following the 2011 Gilad Shalit exchange, when more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners were freed. About half returned to terrorism, but among those convicted of murder, the rate rose to 80 percent. The data presented raises a direct and consequential question: how does Israel safeguard its citizens when prisoner releases, intended as humanitarian gestures, repeatedly strengthen those actively committed to carrying out further attacks? The committee also examined the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay program, under which terrorists imprisoned for attacking Israelis receive monthly salaries that increase based on the severity of their crimes. Many of the prisoners released in previous deals became millionaires through accumulated payments and bonuses. Israeli intelligence officials told lawmakers that a significant number of the Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 attacks are currently being paid through this program. None of those tied directly to the October 7 massacre were included among the newly released prisoners, but the financial incentives that reward violence remain unchanged. The Shin Bet concluded that as long as the pay-for-slay system continues to function, released prisoners reenter an environment that celebrates and funds further violence. The cycle of release followed by renewed attacks is not an accident of circumstance. It is the expected outcome of a system designed to perpetuate terrorism. As the world marks the 87th anniversary of the Nazi-penetrated Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors warn that the levels of antisemitism in the post-Oct. 7 era are comparable to the pre-Holocaust Jew-hatred in 1938. "We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked," the 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Walter Bingham warned in an interview with the Associated Press. He was 14 years old when Nazi mobs plundered and destroyed Jewish shops and synagogues in Germany and Austria during the Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” Ninety-one Jews were murdered during the antisemitic atrocities when the Nazis set fire of over 1,400 synagogues and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses. Some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. "Today, we have, thank God, the state of Israel, a very strong state," he [87-year-old Holocaust survivor Paul Alexander] explained "And whereas antisemitism is still on the increase, the one thing that will not happen would be a Holocaust, because the state will see to it that doesn't happen." There are currently only 200,000 remaining Jewish Holocaust survivors and their numbers are dwindling due to their advanced age. A report in April predicted that 70% of the remaining Holocaust survivors would be gone in the next decade. This has resulted in a growing focus on Holocaust education among the young generation. "What we have to do ... in addition to education, is to actually, literally, fight," Bingham said on the issue of Jew-hatred; " If we see it, we have to hit back." [One hour, four minutes] Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran, a city of more than 10 million, may soon be uninhabitable if the drought gripping the country continues. President Masoud Pezeshkian has cautioned that if rainfall does not arrive by December, the government must start rationing water in Tehran. "Even if we do ration and it still does not rain, then we will have no water at all. They (citizens) have to evacuate Tehran," Pezeshkian said on November 6. The stakes are high for Iran's clerical rulers. In 2021, water shortages sparked violent protests in the southern Khuzestan province. Sporadic protests also broke out in 2018, with farmers in particular accusing the government of water mismanagement. Decades of mismanagement, including overbuilding of dams, illegal well drilling, and inefficient agricultural practices, have depleted reserves, dozens of critics and water experts have told state media in the past days as the crisis dominates the airwaves with panel discussions and debates. "It’s one hardship after another- one day there’s no water, the next there’s no electricity..."
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