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At the opening of Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu dismissed talk that Washington dictates Israel’s  defense strategy. “Over the past month, we have been witnessing ridiculous claims regarding the relationship between the United States and Israel. When I was in Washington, it was said there that I control the American administration, that I dictate its security policy to it. Now, the opposite is being claimed – the American administration controls me and dictates Israel’s security policy. Neither of these is true,” Netanyahu stated firmly.

He emphasized that the bond between the two allies is one of cooperation, not control. “Israel is an independent country; the United States is an independent country. The relations between us are relations between partners, and this partnership, which has reached an all-time high, was also expressed in the operational cooperation in the second part of Operation Rising Lion. It is also expressed, and was expressed just recently, in the release of all the living hostages from Gaza, and of course in the effort to return all the fallen, and also in other areas in which we are changing the face of the Middle East together.”

Turning to Israel’s recent military activity, Netanyahu was adamant that Israel acts on its own judgment. “But I want to make one thing crystal clear: Our security policy is in our own hands. We are not prepared to tolerate attacks against us. We respond according to our own judgment against attacks, as we saw in Lebanon and most recently in Gaza. We dropped 150 tons on Hamas and the terrorist elements after the attack on our two soldiers. And of course, we also thwart dangers as they are being formed, before they are carried out, as we did just yesterday in the Gaza Strip.”

The prime minister wrapped up his remarks by underscoring Israel’s right to self-determination in all defense matters. “We do not seek anyone’s approval for this. We are in control of our security, and we have also made it clear regarding international forces that Israel will determine which forces are unacceptable to us, and this is how we operate and will continue to operate. This is, of course, acceptable to the United States as well, as its most senior representatives have expressed in recent days. Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves with our own forces, and we will continue to control our destiny.”

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Vice President JD Vance took aim at New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after the left-wing candidate broke down while recounting his Muslim aunt’s fear in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

“According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,” Vance wrote Shabbos morning on X, posting a clip of Mamdani’s emotional remarks about the bias his family faced following the terror attacks.

During a press conference outside the Islamic Cultural Center of The Bronx on Friday, Mamdani — a 34-year-old Queens Assemblyman and outspoken socialist — shared that his late aunt refused to take the subway in those tense days because she “did not feel safe in her hijab.” He pledged to continue standing up for Muslim New Yorkers, saying the community has long been forced to accept second-class treatment.

“The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated as any other New Yorker, and yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive,” Mamdani said, declaring that he would not alter his faith or identity to please critics. “No more. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I’m proud to call my own. But there is one thing that I will change. I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light.”

The remarks came as Mamdani continued to spar with rivals, including Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, who have both branded him antisemitic over his harsh anti-Israel positions. The Assemblyman, who once smiled for a photograph alongside an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, accused his opponents of “slandering” him and inciting Islamophobia to derail his campaign before early voting began on Saturday.

Cuomo fueled controversy earlier in the week when he mused on WABC radio with host Sid Rosenberg about how Mamdani might respond if the city were attacked again. “Any given moment, there’s a crisis, and people’s lives are at stake. God forbid, there’s another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo asked. “He’d be cheering,” Rosenberg replied.

Mamdani blasted those comments as deeply offensive and dangerous, adding that Sliwa falsely accused him during the final debate of supporting “global jihad.”

He also condemned Mayor Eric Adams for echoing Cuomo’s rhetoric while endorsing his independent bid, after Adams said, “New York can’t be Europe, you see what is happening in other countries because of Islamic extremism.”

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A baby is expected to make a full recovery after being pulled from under a vehicle that had flipped during a crash, authorities said Friday after releasing dramatic video that showed the rescue effort along a busy highway. Officers responded to the scene Thursday morning after getting reports that the child and mother had been ejected from the car. Body camera footage shared Friday on social media by the Fort Worth Police Department shows an officer running toward the overturned car and beginning to search for the child as a distraught woman can be heard in the background yelling for her baby. The officer rallied other motorists who had stopped at the scene to help him lift the car. “Under here, we need to move the car,” the officer tells them, saying he thinks the child is pinned underneath. “Keep moving, keep moving,” the officer urges them as the car is lifted just enough for him to grab the child’s leg and pull it to safety. The child was unresponsive, but one officer said he felt a pulse. They attempted to get the baby to take a breath, with one officer using his fingers to push on the child’s chest. The baby eventually began to make noises and then started to cry. Police said both the mother and child were expected to make a full recovery. “Although this video may be extremely difficult to watch, it is an important example of the kinds of situations that our police officers may come across while performing their duties,” the department said in its post. Police Chief Eddie Garcia in a social media post referred to the child as a “little angel” and praised the officers for their heroism. The department also thanked the citizens who stopped to help with the rescue. (AP)

The convenience of artificial intelligence is coming at a dangerous cost, as more people are turning to AI chatbots for medical guidance—with sometimes devastating results. In case after case, individuals who trusted these systems for health advice have ended up seriously harmed, hospitalized, or worse.

According to The New York Post, the surge of generative AI technology has transformed how people search for answers about their health. But while chatbots promise instant information, their medical recommendations have repeatedly proven unreliable. From botched self-treatments to ignored medical emergencies, the fallout from misguided AI advice continues to mount.

One case that stunned doctors involved a 35-year-old Moroccan man who consulted ChatGPT after noticing a cauliflower-like lesion near his anus. The chatbot assured him it was likely hemorrhoids and even recommended an at-home fix: elastic ligation. Following that suggestion, the man tied a thread around the growth himself, triggering severe pain that sent him straight to the hospital. Medical tests later confirmed that the diagnosis and the treatment were entirely wrong.

Another frightening example centered on a 60-year-old man trained in nutrition who asked ChatGPT how to limit his sodium intake. The chatbot advised him to replace table salt with sodium bromide—a compound that, when consumed over time, is highly toxic. For three months, he followed that guidance. He ended up in the hospital for three weeks with bromide poisoning, suffering from paranoia, hallucinations, confusion, excessive thirst, and a skin rash.

A third case turned nearly fatal. A 63-year-old man in Switzerland developed double vision following a minor heart procedure. When the symptom reappeared, he asked ChatGPT for advice. The chatbot reassured him that “such visual disturbances were usually temporary and would improve on their own.” Convinced he didn’t need a doctor, he waited—until a day later, when he was rushed to the emergency room after suffering a mini-stroke. Researchers later found that his care had been “delayed due to an incomplete diagnosis and interpretation by ChatGPT.”

These incidents make one thing painfully clear: AI chatbots can dangerously overstep their bounds when it comes to healthcare. While they may be useful for explaining medical terms or helping patients prepare questions for real doctors, they are no substitute for professional expertise. Algorithms can easily misread symptoms, provide misleading reassurance, or completely miss red flags that a trained physician would immediately recognize.

The threat isn’t limited to physical health. Chatbots have also shown alarming potential for psychological harm—particularly among teenagers. Breitbart News recently reported on the Raines family, who filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT became their son’s “suicide coach.”

The lawsuit alleges that “ChatGPT actively helped Adam explore suicide methods” and that “despite acknowledging Adam’s suicide attempt and his statement that he would ‘do it one of these days,’ ChatGPT neither terminated the session nor initiated any emergency protocol.”

After their 16-year-old son’s death on April 11, 2025, Matt and Maria Raine reviewed his chat history, uncovering more than 3,000 pages of conversations with the bot between September 2024 and his passing. In a chilling revelation, Matt Raine said, “He didn’t write us a suicide note. He wrote two suicide notes to us, inside of ChatGPT.”

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At the start of Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected claims that either Washington dictates Israel’s defense policy or that Israel controls the American administration. “Over the past month, we have been witnessing ridiculous claims regarding the relationship between the United States and Israel,” Netanyahu said. “When I was in Washington, it was said there that I control the American administration, that I dictate its security policy to it. Now, the opposite is being claimed – the American administration controls me and dictates Israel’s security policy.” “Neither of these is true,” he continued. “Israel is an independent country; the United States is an independent country. The relations between us are relations between partners, and this partnership, which has reached an all-time high, was also expressed in the operational cooperation in the second part of Operation Rising Lion.” Netanyahu pointed to the successful cooperation that led to “the release of all the living hostages from Gaza,” and broader efforts “to return all the fallen, and also in other areas in which we are changing the face of the Middle East together.” Reiterating Israel’s full autonomy in matters of defense, the Prime Minister declared, “Our security policy is in our own hands. We are not prepared to tolerate attacks against us. We respond according to our own judgment against attacks, as we saw in Lebanon and most recently in Gaza. We dropped 150 tons on Hamas and the terrorist elements after the attack on our two soldiers. And of course, we also thwart dangers as they are being formed, before they are carried out, as we did just yesterday in the Gaza Strip.” “We do not seek anyone’s approval for this,” he said. “We are in control of our security, and we have also made it clear regarding international forces that Israel will determine which forces are unacceptable to us, and this is how we operate and will continue to operate.” “This is, of course, acceptable to the United States as well, as its most senior representatives have expressed in recent days,” Netanyahu added. Concluding his remarks, the Prime Minister emphasized: “Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves with our own forces, and we will continue to control our destiny.”

Kamala Harris appears unwilling to leave the political stage behind. In a new interview with the BBC, she offered her clearest signal yet that she plans to make another run for national office. “I am not done,” she declared, emphasizing that “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.” Harris, who served as vice president under Joe Biden and as a U.S. senator from California, added that she’s confident her young relatives will see history made one day, saying her grand-nieces will witness America elect its first female president “in their lifetime, for sure.”

Her remarks come on the heels of a bruising loss in the 2024 presidential race, when she fell to Donald Trump by roughly two million votes and lost the Electoral College by a decisive 312–226 margin. That defeat, which ended her first presidential bid, still looms large among Democrats. But in Washington, critics say the message from voters couldn’t have been clearer. “When Kamala lost the election in a landslide she should’ve taken the hint – the American people don’t care about her absurd lies,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Post. “Or maybe she did take the hint and that’s why she’s continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications,” she added.

Since leaving office, Harris has been on a national media blitz to promote her new memoir, 107 Days, chronicling her turbulent campaign after President Joe Biden abruptly dropped out of the race in July 2024, following his disastrous debate performance against President Trump. During the interview, she brushed off grim predictions about her political future. “If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office — and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” she told the BBC.

Despite those polls, Harris still maintains an edge over several Democratic rivals, including Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, according to recent internal party surveys. Yet, according to the betting exchange Polymarket, her odds of capturing the 2028 Democratic nomination hover at a meager two percent. The site currently gives the advantage to Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

In her book, Harris takes aim at Biden’s decision to seek reelection at 81, describing it as a costly mistake. While some Democrats accused her of offering little distinction from his policies, Harris insists the problem began with the decision itself. She recalls hearing the “mantra” that it was “Joe and Jill’s decision” — referring to Biden and the former first lady — but now questions that deference. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

For now, Harris says she has ruled out seeking the governorship of California, announcing last July that after “deep reflection,” she would not enter the state’s upcoming Democratic primary. Still, her renewed public appearances — and the unmistakable tone of unfinished business — suggest that Kamala Harris isn’t ready to bow out of politics just yet.

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Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House. In an interview with the BBC posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could “possibly” be her. “I am not done,” she said. The former vice president said she hasn’t decided whether to mount a 2028 presidential campaign. But she dismissed the suggestion that she’d face long odds. “I have lived my entire career a life of service and it’s in my bones. And there are many ways to serve,” she said. “I’ve never listened to polls.” She’s recently given a series of interviews following the September release of her book, “107 Days.” It looks back on her experience replacing then-President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee after he dropped out of the race. She ultimately lost to Republican President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Harris, 60, also made clear that running again in 2028 is still on the table. She said she sees herself as a leader of the party, including in pushing back against Trump and preparing for the 2026 midterms. Asked in an Oct. 17 interview with AP whether she had plans for a 2028 bid, Harris said, “I haven’t decided. Sincerely. I have not decided. I may or I may not. I have not decided.” Asked specifically whether she still wanted to do the job itself, she used the past tense, saying, “It’s a job I wanted to do.” But she noted that the only way to do it “is to run” and win. Meanwhile, political jockeying among Democrats for the 2028 presidential contest appears to be playing out even earlier than usual. Several potential candidates are already taking steps to get to know voters in key states, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, term-limited Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and California Rep. Ro Khanna. Upwards of 30 high-profile Democrats could ultimately enter the primary. (AP)

Lebanese media report that an Israeli drone strike near Naqoura in southern Lebanon has killed one person, with Saudi al-Hadath citing reports that the individual may be Abd a-Sayed, a Hezbollah terrorist.

Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign is scrambling to explain a short-lived social media post that ignited accusations of racism. The campaign said an artificial intelligence-generated video — showing “criminals for Zohran Mamdani” — was uploaded by mistake. “The video was a draft proposal that was neither finished nor approved, did not go through the normal legal process, and was inadvertently posted by a junior staffer — which is why it was taken down five minutes later,” said campaign spokesperson Rich Azzopardi.

The AI clip, briefly visible on Cuomo’s X account Wednesday evening before being deleted, portrayed Mamdani alongside an assortment of caricatured offenders, including a pimp, a drunk driver, a shoplifter, and a domestic abuser. These crudely rendered figures, identified as “criminals for Mamdani,” mockingly praised the Democratic nominee’s policies. One of them sneers, “When a woman’s being domestically abused she finally won’t have to deal with some pesky cop to arrest the abuser, but now a social worker to help, you know, kumbaya the situation,” as a frightened woman hides behind him.

Another figure in the video — a black man whose facial features morph as the animation glitches — is shown stealing from a convenience store. Grinning, he declares, “Decriminalizing misdemeanors, like shoplifting,” before donning a keffiyeh and mask to commit the robbery.

Although the Cuomo team quickly removed the video, copies circulated widely online. Many denounced it as offensive, including Bill de Blasio, who leapt to Mamdani’s defense. “This is disqualifying. No candidate who approves a racist, disgusting ad like this can be allowed to govern,” the former mayor wrote on X.

Ironically, Cuomo had recently targeted de Blasio in another AI-driven parody, portraying him as Dr. Evil and Mamdani as his “mini me” in a mock Austin Powers spoof — a move that already raised eyebrows about the campaign’s approach to digital messaging.

Azzopardi insisted the campaign never intended to release the latest clip and emphasized that it wasn’t an official ad. The incident, he said, was a regrettable mishap during Cuomo’s effort to modernize his outreach strategy after suffering a crushing defeat to Mamdani in June’s Democratic primary.

During last week’s debate, Cuomo acknowledged that his younger rival had outperformed him on social media. “I think the assemblyman did do a better job on TikTok and social media than I did during the campaign. And that has changed now,” Cuomo, 67, said.

The controversial AI venture marks a dramatic shift from the ex-governor’s old-fashioned political branding. Back in 2020, Cuomo distributed a self-designed State of the State poster featuring a Leonard Cohen quote about leadership and perseverance: “Past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate, sail on, sail on.”

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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is once again at the center of controversy — and this time, critics say, his efforts to portray himself as a misunderstood progressive are collapsing under the weight of his own record. During Wednesday night’s debate against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, Mamdani indignantly denied accusations that he has ever supported “global jihad.” But a review of his public statements, musical career, and long association with radical figures tells a far more complicated story — one that is increasingly unsettling Democrats and alarming Jewish and moderate voters across the city. “I have never, not once, spoken in support of global jihad,” Mamdani declared on stage, framing the criticism as a racist attack on his faith. “This is being ascribed to me because I am Muslim.” But his record suggests otherwise. Mamdani has praised controversial Islamist figures, echoed their rhetoric, and repeatedly refused to condemn violent anti-Israel slogans, even as he insists that his critics are motivated by Islamophobia. Among those Mamdani has embraced is Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the most controversial clerics in the United States, who once served as a character witness for the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman — the man convicted of orchestrating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj has repeatedly described America as a “garbage can” and once called for raising an “army of 10,000 men” to “declare jihad.” Far from distancing himself, Mamdani spoke at Wahhaj’s Brooklyn mosque last week, calling him “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.” Wahhaj, in turn, told his congregation, “Allah has blessed us. We have a very, very good candidate — his name is Zohran Mamdani.” For Mamdani, who has also cultivated ties with activist Linda Sarsour, the self-proclaimed “unapologetic pro-BDS, one-state solution supporting, resistance supporter,” such alliances appear to be a feature, not a flaw. Both figures have long drawn accusations of antisemitism for their support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and incendiary comments about Israel. Since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist massacre in southern Israel, Mamdani has accused Israel of “genocide” dozens of times on social media — but has repeatedly avoided condemning Hamas. The day after the attack, his statement made no mention of the terror group that murdered and kidnapped civilians, instead blaming “Netanyahu’s declaration of war.” Even his attempts at clarification have been evasive. Asked on Fox News earlier this month whether Hamas should disarm, Mamdani dodged: “I don’t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety.” He later backtracked at a mayoral debate, claiming, “Of course I believe that they should lay down their arms.” Before entering politics, Mamdani dabbled in rap — releasing a 2017 song that sent “love” to the Holy Land Five, Hamas financiers convicted in 2008 for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist organization. He’s also repeatedly tweeted support for the “Globalize the Intifada” slogan — a rallying cry for violence against Jews — and has defended it as a mere call for “struggle.” The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned that defense as “outrageous and especially offensive to survivors,” calling on all leaders to “condemn its use and the abuse of history.” Republicans have seized on the controversy — but concern is also growing among Democrats. “Zohran Mamdani […]

Israeli military prosecutors have filed an indictment against a Palestinian man accused of orchestrating a failed bombing attack targeting public buses in central Israel earlier this year, a case that officials say could have caused mass casualties had the plan succeeded. The suspect, Abed al-Karim Snober, was detained in July following months on the run and now faces multiple charges related to the February 20 explosions that rocked parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon. According to the indictment, Snober was part of a cell that sought to “harm a large number of civilians” by placing shrapnel-packed explosive devices in crowded urban areas. Investigators say Snober manufactured several improvised bombs filled with nails and screws before entering Israel to plant them on public buses. On the evening of February 20, three empty buses exploded in quick succession, while two additional devices were discovered and defused before detonating. The blasts, which occurred after the buses had completed their routes, caused no injuries but set off panic in the surrounding communities and triggered a large-scale security response. Military officials said Snober fled back to the West Bank immediately after the failed attack, hiding in multiple locations until his capture five months later. During his time in hiding, prosecutors allege, Snober began planning a second attack — a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv — and was in the process of assembling new explosive devices when he was arrested. The indictment, filed in a military court, also names several alleged accomplices, including an Israeli resident of Holon accused of transporting Snober to one of the bombing sites in Bat Yam. Prosecutors said additional indictments are expected as the investigation continues. The IDF said Snober will remain in custody until the conclusion of legal proceedings. “This case underscores the continued efforts by terror elements to strike inside Israel’s civilian centers,” the IDF said in a statement. Although the February incident caused no casualties, Israeli officials described it as one of the most serious attempted attacks in recent years, given the scale of planning and potential for mass fatalities. The case comes amid heightened security concerns following a series of attempted infiltrations and foiled bomb plots in central Israel this year. The indictment also reflects a shift in terrorist tactics, officials say — from lone-wolf stabbings and shootings to coordinated bomb plots reminiscent of the attacks that defined earlier decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Aboard Air Force One after meeting with Qatar’s Emir, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the Middle East is now enjoying an era of “great peace,” attributing the breakthrough to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and the broad coalition of nations now cooperating in the region.

“We talked about peace. We have peace in the Middle East. That’s all we have. Great peace in the Middle East,” Trump said. “[The Emir] thinks it’s enduring. He’s never seen anything like it. And he’s very happy that I got involved. And he helped, and we had a lot of help. We have 59 countries. We have a lot of countries that are signed on. This should be an enduring peace.”

He emphasized that the decisive shift came once Iran’s nuclear ambitions were neutralized. “I think the big thing was when we took out the nuclear power of Iran, when we took out that nuclear capability, which would have happened over the next month to two months, that made a whole big difference in the Middle East. It made it possible to do the deal.”

Trump named an array of regional and global partners who are now aligned behind the peace framework. “Everybody’s on board. It’s pretty amazing,” he said, listing Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia, Jordan, and Egypt among those backing the initiative.

Discussing the Gaza ceasefire, Trump said he was optimistic that it would endure. “I think it’ll hold, yeah. Well, if it doesn’t hold, that would be Hamas. Hamas will be not hard to take care of. It’ll be very quickly. But I hope it holds for Hamas, too, because, you know, they gave us their word on something.”

He noted that Hamas recently “took out gang members,” claiming it was part of their effort to maintain order, but cautioned that breaking the agreement would lead to “a very big problem.”

Turning to the deployment of the multinational stabilization force entering Gaza, Trump said the operation was already in progress. “Pretty soon. Pretty quickly. A period of time. You know, I don’t want to give you… We’re doing it right now. They’re actually picking leaders right now.”

“You’re going to have peace in the Middle East. This is real peace. It’s never happened before. 3,000 years, it’s never happened,” he continued, portraying the development as a historic milestone.

Trump confirmed that peacekeeping troops would move into Gaza when circumstances required. “Israel will go in there very easily. You know that, right? So right there, you have a country. But you have the Arab countries or everybody, Muslim, Arab, Israeli, everybody’s on board. It’s been really an amazing thing. It’s a great success. And it’s going to be a long-lasting, hopefully everlasting, but long-lasting.”

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Iraq’s Ministry of Oil announced that a large fire at the Zubair warehouse of a Basra oil company left one employee dead and four others injured.

WATCH: Stunning video captures the eruption of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the families of American citizens Itay Chen and Omer Neutra, whose remains are being held by Hamas.

Freed hostages Evyatar David, Eitan Mor, and Guy Gilboa-Dalal have been discharged from the hospital.

Military prosecutors have indicted Abed al-Karim Snober, a Palestinian terrorist accused of orchestrating a failed bus bombing attack in central Israel on February 20. That day, three empty buses exploded in Bat Yam and Holon, while two more bombs were found and defused, causing no casualties. According to the indictment, Snober and accomplices aimed to kill civilians using shrapnel-filled explosives placed on crowded buses. After the attack failed, Snober fled to the West Bank, where he later planned a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv before being captured in July. He will remain in custody until the end of legal proceedings, and indictments have also been filed against additional suspects.

TRUMP: “We meet, as you know, in South Korea with President Xi. I think we’re going to have a good deal with China. They want to make a deal, and we want to make a deal… I think we’re going to have a very fair meeting with China.”

President Trump joins leaders for a group photo at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after signing a Cambodia–Thailand peace treaty, a major trade agreement with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, and a historic trade deal with the Malaysian Prime Minister.

A Qatari news outlet has released images that it says shows members of Hamas’s so-called “Shadow Unit” — the secretive wing tasked with guarding hostages — alongside a Red Cross vehicle in southern Gaza, raising new questions about the terror group’s coordination with humanitarian agencies amid the fragile post-war environment. The video, published Sunday by the Qatari network Al-Araby, depicts Hamas fighters standing near a Red Cross-marked vehicle in the al-Mawasi area west of Rafah — territory that remains outside Israeli military control. According to the report, the group and Red Cross personnel were jointly searching for the body of an Israeli hostage believed to have been buried in the area. The “Shadow Unit,” a small and secretive contingent within Hamas’s armed wing, gained notoriety during the war for overseeing the captivity and movement of Israeli hostages taken during the October 7 attacks. Neither the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) nor Israeli officials immediately commented on the footage. The Red Cross has previously said it operates in Gaza solely to deliver humanitarian aid and facilitate the transfer of released hostages under agreements brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States. On Friday, there were indications that Hamas was also preparing to return remains; however, the terror group did not. Hamas could return eight more hostages to Israel; however, there are another five whose whereabouts are unknown, a senior Israeli official told Ynet. There have not been any remains of hostages returned since Tuesday night. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)