Israel at War Oct 12 Updates

Simchas Torah massacre day 6 refresh for updates

11:00 pm

- Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours.

7:30 pm

- IDF hitting Gaza with bunker buster bombs that were recently brought from the US. The numbs weigh 2 ton and are being dropped in tunnels in northern Gaza where many terrorists are hiding. The ground is shaking and people can hear the booms across Southern israel.

- Reb Elimelech Biderman speaking at the Atzeres Tefilah  in Boro park via hookup.

- NJ 30th District republican legislators Senator Robert Singer and Assemblymen Sean Kean and Ned Thomson are now pushing back and urging the Biden administration to bring American citizens back home and not leave them stranded in Europe.

- After a  pizzeria in Hawara was celebrating the terrorist attacks, along with a flier of a kidnapped elderly Israeli, the IDF  demolished the store.

- Rav Dov Landau shlita advised talmidim not to follow the news non stop besides for the basic information it is not healthy and wastes time from learning. He added it is a segula to say kapital צ"א in Tehillim during war. 

- Russian sources Turkey sending humanitarian ships to Gaza. Israel has a blockade 

- The NYPD ordered all officers to report in uniform, beginning Friday, in response to the call by Hamas international representative Khaled Masha’al urging Muslims worldwide to stage protests. All 77 precincts will see increased security, with additional police officers monitoring parking areas and entrances at all police stations

IDF confirms one soldier was killed by Hizbullah rocket fire on the northern border yesterday 

- Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) continues to demand that  the US govt plans to evacuate citizens ’ are comprehensive, broadly applicable and for real. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has vocally criticized the government decision to charge its citizens for the transportation costs.

- Gov Murphy: United airlines will add two additional flights in the coming days from Athens to Newark Int'l Airport 

- Governor Phil Murphy: Law enforcement also is actively monitoring New Jersey schools, colleges, & universities for any threats. We want to reassure parents, students, and educators that we’re doing everything possible to ensure our schools remain safe.

- US citizens stranded in Israel will be evacuated by the US Army starting Shabbos The rescue flights will take the US citizens to Greece and other European destinations, where they will need to arrange their own flights back to the US.  Reports are that American citizens have to pay reimbursements if they’re evacuated from Israel. Those who observe Shabbos and cannot fly on that day will need to ask their case manager to reschedule their rescue flight for Sunday

- US reached a “quiet understanding” with Qatar not to release any of the $6b in Iranian oil money that was transferred as part of a U.S.-Iranian prisoner swap Source: Chief White House Correspondent for CB

- Shooting attack at police station near shaar shechem in e jerusalem 2 police injured terrorist killed 

- The official state of Israel twitter account released a shocking photo of a baby beheaded and  murdered by hamas "This is the most difficult image we’ve ever posted.As we are writing this we are shaking. We went back and forth about posting this, but we need each and every one of you to know. This happened".

- Iranian Foreign Minister: Israel cannot put Gaza under complete siege, bomb citizens, and commit war crimes without a response

- Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita speaking on the matzav: Its not pashut he heard from a choshuv youngenman who is a baki in the toras hagra and Tikunei Zohar that the milchama of Gog Umagog is sof sukkos and would break out on hoshana rabba or shminin atzeres

- To hear recording of the women's asifa in Lakewood last night call Chayeinu hotline at 732-301-4043 press 2 and 2 

- Divrei hisoirerus from Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita 732-301-4043 press 1 2 1 and 15 

-  Yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael for American bochurim will be opening the winter zman in Lakewood as many bochurim who came home for sukkos will not be going back for the near future

- El Al Israel national airline announced that for the first time in 41 years, it will fly on a Shabbos,  to bring back Israelis called up for emergency military reserve duty.

- Rocket sirens sound in Bait Shemesh, serious injuries in sderot from rockets

- Death Toll in Israel climbs to 1300 R"L  over 3,300 injure

- Massive atzeres tefilah today in Boro Park today erev rosh chodesh mukdam at  5:00PM on 14th Avenue, from 45th Street to 55th street.

- Halachik debate on those who did not hear the leining of vezos habracha on simchas Torah due to the massacre, Rav Mazzuz paskened they should call a kohen and  lein vezos hbracha this shabbos from one sefer Torah and continue leining parshas Breishis until sheini from a second sefer Torah 

- Israeli army spokesman: We bombed Damascus and Aleppo airports in response to the firing of mortar shells from Syria

- 500 pairs of tefillin were donated to soldiers and families who had their pairs burned buy the terrorists  

- IDF spokesman  says Israel is targeting those who filmed and broadcast Hamas's murderous invasion of southern Israel on Saturday morning. Overnight, the military killed Mustafa Shahin, a Hamas operative the IDF identified from footage online.

- The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas's assault on Kfar Aza are correct. May their memory be a blessing.

- Former ambassador to Israel David M Friedman: In Judaism there is an obligation of “Hakarat Hatov” — saying thank you to those who perform good deeds. While I have been, and remain, deeply critical of the Biden Administration, the moral, tactical, diplomatic and military support that it has provided Israel over the past few days has been exceptional. As one living in Jerusalem with children who are Israeli citizens, I am deeply grateful. I pray that American support continues in the difficult days ahead.

- A spokesperson from the White House subsequently clarified that neither the President nor U.S. officials had seen such images or independently verified reports of beheaded children. The White House stated that President Biden based his statement on information provided by a spokesperson for Israel’s Prime Minister and media reports originating from Israel.

- IDF continued to attack Gaza with over 200 killed on today's bombings

- IDF attacked airports in Syria in response to artillery fired from those locations 

- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), responsible for assisting Palestinian refugees, has reportedly received over $730 million from the Biden administration. This renewed funding effort under President Joe Biden has occurred despite a 2021 State Department report that pointed out the agency’s alleged allowance of Hamas terrorists to construct tunnels beneath its schools and store weapons in or near its other facilities, as reported by the New York Post.