Israel at war Wed Oct 18 Updates

 Day 12 of war, refresh page for updates 

11:00 pm

- Biden to speak tomorrow night to the nation about Israel and possible US involvement in the war, will ask congress for $100 Billion $60 Billion  for Ukraine $40 Billion  for Israel

Israeli Defense Force reportedly carried out an Airstike in Southern Syria tonight which resulted in the Destruction of a Hezbollah Military Convoy.

- Mekubal Rav Yaakov Adas said the military intelligence failures in the IDF started when they incorporated women into the army units something the chazon Ish said yehoreg vaal yaavor there's no kedusha and they had a culture mixed events this yom kippur. He said the it is up to us to strengthen our kedusha and shmiras shabbos.

8:00pm

- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for the individuals at the pro-Palestine protest at the Capitol to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." She also asserted that the incident was an "insurrection" and is demanding that the Capitol Police hand over all "surveillance footage, photographic evidence, police reports, and arrest records" relating to the protests.

More than 100 people were arrested according to CBS News.

- Group in capital wore taleisim during the protest

- Anti-Israel protesters have burned down the El Hammam synagogue in Tunisia. Ancient sifrei Torah were set on fire r"l

- The USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) a Blue Ridge-Class Command Ship is headed towards the Eastern Mediterranean in order to link up with U.S. Naval strike group.

- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered fighter jets with hypersonic missiles to patrol the Black Sea in response to the chaos in the Middle East. He ordered MiG-31 aircraft armed with Kinzhal missiles with a range of "more than 1,000 kilometers at a speed of Mach 9."

"This is not a threat, but we will exercise visual control, control with weapons over what is happening in the Mediterranean Sea,” Putin said.

- Germany deploys  Army Special Forces Command, and special forces of the GSG 9 Federal Police, who specialize in hostage rescues, to Cyprus.

5:25 pm

- Israel media reports the Amshinov rebbe told one of his chasidim that if there's a ground invasion than Hezbollah will also enter the picture  and better that people leave areas that atr sakanas nefashos

#Insurrection trending on Twitter 

- The United States Capitol has been taken over inside and outside by pro-Palestine protesters BDS activists as Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke with a crowd nearby. 

-Times Of London reports Binyamin Netanyahu, won private backing and a green light from President Biden to press ahead with a ground invasion of Gaza, according to accounts of closed-door meetings between the two men.

- IDF generals say units are in final prep for ground war the mission is not to leave any remembrance of Hamas 

- Anti-Israel protesters mob US Capitol calling for ceasefire, leading to arrests

3:45pm

- Minister Benny Gantz said during a funeral on Wednesday that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war is likely to take months, and could potentially including a northern front as well and the rebuilding will take years.

-Update Uber said it was unauthorized and the post has been removed. Switch to LYFT? Uber has announced it is donating funds for the palestinians of Gaza in light of the recent violence that has left hundreds dead and thousands injured and homeless in Gaza. Uber reportedly said that the post was unauthorized by them after backlash from Jewish employees 

- Trump hints  that he would be visiting Israel soon 

- 13 Hezbollah terrorists killed by IDF

- IDf commando units with zaka volunteers retrieved 65 bodies from over the border who were killed by Arabs they are working to identify them RL.

12:45pm

- Anger  at Netanyahu from families of hostages and Likud MK's for allowing humanitarian aid while the hostages are held underground in subhuman conditions.

-Egypt says Gaza residents should be moved temporarily to the negev in Israel, US offers egypt to forgive loans if they take palestinians in to the Sinai desert, Egypt declines 

-Saudi Arabia calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately

- IDF eliminates hezbollah terror cell killing 4 as attacks continue from Lebanon

- Rockets launched over petach tikva and gush dan from gaza iron dome shoots down over the sharon region 

- Biden departed from Israel on airforce one 

- Biden met with Ichus hatzolah ceo Eli Beer to hear first hand on what went on

- Zaka volunteers found the charred bodies of a child and mother on a rooftop in Kibbutz Beeri

- Former ambassador David Friedman and Dov Hikind  we are calling on the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, to take action against these dangerous terrorist-lovers in congress for reporting that israel bombed the hospital in Gaza, by opening an ethics inquiry into their tweets which had, within hours, incited violence against Israeli and American targets around the Middle East and America. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and any other member of Congress who promoted this nasty blood libel crossed all lines and exposed their truest intention which is not support for Palestinians but to harm and enfeeble Israel.

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-Israel refuses to send any  humanitarian aid as long as hostages are not returned in response to US pressure negotiators are suggesting that minimal aid come from egypt  and only for life saving measures with a guarantee that it wont go to hamas  

-Biden says during the holocaust  the world stood by and did nothing we wont stand by now. Israel is  still the safest place for jews and we would do everything that the world understands that pledges 100 million for residents in the south

- Cross border gunfire on the northern border after  Hezbollah attacked three sites with anti-tank guided missiles and gunfire.The IDF says it has been responding to the attack with artillery fire. It did not report any casualties among IDF troops.

- Residents up north in Kiryat shmona and border towns have begun to evacuate to hotels further away as the army expands the security buffer from 2-5 kilometers 

- Last night Thousand of Muslims marched on Washington Square Park in NYC, shouting the Islamic battle cry:  "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar"  and burned Israeli flags

-Seminaries in Israel remain open while some parents are sending their daughters back to the US there are reports that the parents were told there's no guarantee they will be allowed back. 

-IDF releases a recording of an intercepted phone call between two Hamas fighters discussing failure of Islamic Jihad rocket that landed on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

-Biden lands in Israel meets Netanyahu for N hour,and than joined the security cabinet

- Biden on Gaza hospital blast: "Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team."

Hamas committed evils and atrocities that make ISIS look somewhat more rational,” Biden said, as he noted that some 31 Americans were killed in that attack. He added that humanitarian assistance must be given to the Palestinians. 

- The IDF was instructed not to attack Hamas sites in Gaza during Biden's arrival in Israel, according to KAN news that the IDF will still thwart rocket launchers or terrorists.

- Rav Dov Kook of teveria donated blood for the war effort

- Chief Rabbi Lau went to Eilat with survivors of the massacre and said Hagomel with them

Gov Murphy criticized for not writing the worf Hamas in his tweet

"I am sickened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, which served as a safe haven for thousands of patients & individuals who fled their homes. We mourn the loss of these innocent lives & stand for the protection of all innocent civilians during times of conflict"