The IDF dropped thousands of leaflets over Gaza City and Jabalia, warning residents ahead of time to evacuate as military operations are planned in those areas.
ELIMINATED: Iranian state media confirmed that senior IRGC officer Abolfazl Nikoei, also known as “Haj Younes,” was ELIMINATED in an Israeli airstrike last week. Released photos show him alongside Qassem Soleimani, the former Quds Force commander eliminated by the U.S.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the U.S. and Israel, says its operation that began on May 26 has just delivered its 50,000,000th meal in Gaza.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi informed CBS that although recent attacks significantly damaged Iran’s nuclear program, they did not completely destroy it.
Over 60 Hamas operatives were detained and 22 weapons were captured during a crackdown on one of the largest terror networks in the West Bank in recent years, the Shin Bet security agency says.
Over the past week, Israeli troops conducted several raids in southern Syria, the IDF says. Reservists of the Alexandroni Brigade nabbed several terror suspects and brought them to Israel for questioning, and raided weapon depots, according to the military.
The IDF’s new 96th “Gilad” Division, set to be responsible for the entire Jordan border area, completed a first division-level drill last week, the military announces. The exercise on Thursday simulated “emergency scenarios and rapid response to sudden events, while increasing the division’s readiness for combat,” the IDF says.
The IDF has re-issues a wide evacuation warning for Palestinians in the Gaza City and Jabalia areas in the northern Gaza Strip. The area was already ordered to evacuate on May 29, and has been part of a no-go zone since.
The Jerusalem District Court announced that it is canceling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled testimony in his criminal trial this week, following his appearance in a closed-door court session today on the matter. Netanyahu requested in court that his scheduled testimony for the next two weeks be delayed due to diplomatic and national security issues, after two such requests were rejected on Friday. The head of IDF Military Intelligence as well as the head of the Mossad were also present in today’s court hearing, both of whom explained to the judges why it was necessary to postpone the testimony hearings. The move comes hours after US President Donald Trump insisted that the trial should be dropped because it was getting in the way of efforts to end the war in Gaza and bring hostages home, as well as diplomacy regarding Iran, sparking accusations that the premier was using major national security issues to escape prosecution. The judges state in their ruling that the explanations provided had substantial additional information over what was presented in the requests on Friday, and therefore decided to cancel this week’s two scheduled hearings. The court decided not to cancel next week’s hearings yet, but said that it would consider well-founded requests to do so if submitted. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The IDF has announced the tragic death of Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld HY”D, a 20-year-old soldier from Ra’anana, who was killed earlier today during active combat operations in the northern Gaza Strip. Sgt. Rosenfeld served in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion.
A bombshell classified assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency stating that Iran’s nuclear program was not majorly affected by U.S. and Israeli bombings, leaked in the chaotic aftermath of U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, is being ripped apart by current and former intelligence officials as a deeply flawed product built on lies peddled by Iran itself. The top-secret report, which claimed the strikes caused only “moderate damage” to Tehran’s nuclear program, triggered headlines in CNN and the New York Times portraying the mission as a half-success. But veteran intelligence sources told the Washington Free Beacon the DIA’s conclusions were so riddled with Iranian deception that one former officer dismissed it as “worthless.” “The DIA basically repackaged propaganda,” fumed Michael Pregent, a former U.S. Central Command intelligence officer with nearly three decades in the region. “The Iranians knew their phones were tapped, they deliberately gave fake reports to their own leadership, and somehow DIA turned that into gospel.” According to sources speaking to the Washington Free Beacon, including a current U.S. official, intercepted Iranian communications — known in the trade as SIGINT — fed directly into the DIA’s hasty report, even though it was rated “low-confidence” from the start. Israeli intelligence quickly poked holes in the narrative, reporting that Iranian military officers were feeding false damage estimates to their political bosses. Those same phony figures appear to have made their way into DIA’s assessment, said multiple former operatives. “It’s basically IRGC messaging,” Pregent said, referring to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “NSA scoops it up, DIA slaps a label on it, and CNN runs with it. That’s not intelligence — that’s a joke.” A senior U.S. official confirmed the damage report has since been “completely debunked,” including by international inspectors. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the official said, determined Iran’s nuclear centrifuges were “completely destroyed,” requiring years to rebuild. CIA Director John Ratcliffe backed up those findings, citing “an historically reliable and accurate source/method” showing catastrophic damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment sites. One former intelligence officer, speaking on background, described the DIA’s performance as “embarrassing,” noting that analysts failed to grasp the realities of a bunker-busting strike on the deeply buried Fordow facility. “You’re not going to see a giant hole,” the source said. “The bombs penetrate, then explode underground. But apparently these analysts didn’t understand what they were looking at.” Another ex-official who worked the Iran portfolio agreed, calling the DIA product nothing more than “Iranians repeating propaganda to each other,” which was then packaged by over-eager analysts. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
A record heat wave that spread across the East Coast of the United States during the first week of summer has child advocates warning parents and caretakers about the risks of heatstroke to children left inside hot vehicles. So far this year, nine children have died after being left unattended in vehicles in California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico, New Jersey and North Carolina, according to Kids and Car Safety, which collects data on hot car deaths. Five died in June. And last year, 39 children in the U.S. died after being left in hot cars. Why hot cars are so dangerous for children Human-caused climate change keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists say. But the temperature outside doesn’t have to be super hot for a child left in a vehicle to be affected by the heat, said Kathy Wall, director of Safe Kids Palm Beach County. “Inside, the vehicle can heat up 20 degrees in just 20 minutes,” Wall said. “So if you imagine it’s an 80 degree day, which in South Florida is a cool day, it could be over 100 degrees within 10 minutes inside the car.” Hot car deaths can happen any time of year, and since 1998, every state but Alaska has reported a hot car death, according to the National Safety Council. In both 2018 and 2019, a record 53 children died after being left in hot cars. About 80% of the heat rise in vehicles happens in the first 30 minutes of a child being left inside, when maximum temperatures can exceed 150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 degrees Celsius), according to data compiled by Jan Null, a certified consulting meteorologist at San Jose State University. “Children sweat a lot less than adults do and their internal temperature can increase three to five times faster than an adult. So that’s why it’s just as important to make sure that your child isn’t left in the vehicle, especially during these rising temperatures,” said Capt. Karen Derogatis of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. It can happen to anyone While it’s easy to place blame for leaving a child in a vehicle, even people trained to know the dangers have made that tragic mistake, Wall said. “It’s not a socioeconomic group, it’s not a cultural group,” she said. “This sadly has happened to doctors, it’s happened to dentists, it happened to school teachers, it’s happened to child care workers. Nobody is exempt from this.” Distraction often leads to forgetting about a child in the backseat, which is why it is important to create routines and reminders, she said. “It sounds crazy, but sometimes people get out of routines or are distracted, especially in today’s world. There’s lots going on in the news, lots going with families,” she said. A parent who normally doesn’t drop a child off at a day care facility might become distracted and forget that the child is in the vehicle, she said. Create a reminder that a child is in the backseat She encourages parents and caregivers to establish routines. “We have an acronym, ACT,” Wall said. A stands for avoiding leaving a child unattended in a vehicle. C stands for creating a reminder that works best for you. Authorities suggest leaving a personal item such as a purse or briefcase in the backseat so you’ll have to open the back door […]
An Israeli Air Force husband-and-wife team revealed they took part in high-risk bombing missions over Iranian skies, targeting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear infrastructure and military assets. The wife, known only by the alias “Yud” in accordance with strict security protocols, is the first woman to serve as deputy commander of a fighter squadron in Israel’s history. Her husband, “Bet,” commands an air squadron and is slated to take command of a fighter squadron. The couple, who share two young children, described to Channel 12 how they balanced family life with the pressures of a full-scale air campaign. During the conflict, they did not see their children for two weeks, relying on family and friends to care for them. Reflecting on what it meant to leave for war as a mother, Yud told Channel 12: “It was a different hug, toward an unknown place. We didn’t know how these two weeks would end. We prepared, we got ready, we knew it would be difficult. And as we saw, unfortunately, we experienced losses on the home front of civilians being killed, civilians who were under rocket fire.” Iran’s missile salvos killed 28 people and wounded thousands more, devastating residential areas, universities, and a hospital, according to Israeli health authorities. Still, Yud said she believed in the mission: “On the one hand, it was not simple — knowing the home front was under fire. On the other hand, there is the thought and knowledge that what we’re doing is so that they will have a better future, without an Iranian threat.” Both pilots acknowledged compartmentalizing their emotions to remain focused. Yud explained that while she worries for Bet when he flies, she draws confidence from firsthand knowledge of their shared mission: “I know what he’s fighting for. I was there yesterday; I know the threat picture, and I’m not worried. On the other hand, I looked at the plane monitors and made sure our jets crossed the line back safely — and then I stayed for another five minutes to watch and make sure he came back safely too.” For the pilots in the skies, the mission was as personal as it was national. Yud concluded: “We’re doing this so that our children — and all of Israel’s children — can have a safer future.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Israel and Syria are on track to sign a landmark peace agreement before the end of 2025, according to a Syrian source speaking to i24NEWS. Under the reported framework, Israel would gradually withdraw from all Syrian territory it seized during its incursion into the buffer zone on December 8, including the strategic peak of Mount Hermon. The deal, if finalized, would fully normalize ties between the two longtime adversaries, with one source describing the Golan Heights as being transformed into “a garden for peace.” The potential breakthrough comes as the region experiences a wave of dramatic diplomatic movement. U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff revealed Wednesday that additional countries are expected to join the Abraham Accords soon. Speaking to CNBC, Witkoff expressed optimism about broader regional normalization, and confirmed ongoing negotiations with Iran centered on a civilian nuclear program that strictly prohibits uranium enrichment. “It is a red line if Iran tries nuclear enrichment again,” he warned. Meanwhile, in the wake of the massive U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a late-night call described by officials as “euphoric.” According to a Yisrael Hayom report, the two leaders agreed to push for an end to the Gaza war within two weeks, with plans to replace Hamas rule with a coalition of Arab states, exile Hamas leaders, release all hostages, and expand the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia and Syria. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Israeli authorities have revealed that a 24-year-old Israeli man charged with aiding the enemy was directly involved in a plot to assassinate Defense Minister Yisrael Katz. According to explosive new details aired by Channel 12, Roy Mizrachi allegedly planted powerful explosives near Katz’s home in Kfar Achim as part of an Iranian-directed conspiracy. The bombs were reportedly intended to detonate as Katz passed by, with sources suggesting the plot was perilously close to being carried out. Although the report did not specify how near the explosives were to the minister’s home, or whether they were primed to explode, officials confirmed Mizrachi had advanced the scheme well beyond mere surveillance. Prosecutors say Mizrahi acted “knowingly and deliberately” for Iran at a time of war. Mizrachi’s alleged espionage activities began after he was recruited via a Telegram channel by an Iranian handler using the alias “Alex.” Together with a friend, 24-year-old Almog Atias, Mizrahi reportedly filmed sensitive sites including the Shin Bet security agency headquarters and the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv. The pair also attempted to place surveillance cameras in Katz’s hometown but aborted after noticing a police vehicle nearby. Their mission, however, did not stop there. Investigators say Mizrachi was later approached by another Iranian agent, “Getz,” who instructed him to plant explosives near Katz’s residence. Mizrachi picked up a blue bag containing the devices and placed it in the vicinity of the defense minister’s home. Astonishingly, he allegedly kept a brick of the explosive at his own home as well. The suspect, who was paid in cryptocurrency, also turned down a separate $1 million offer to assassinate a scientist at the Weizmann Institute, reportedly because the Iranians refused to pay half the sum upfront. Mizrachi’s attorney described his client as a naive young man who “caused no actual harm,” but security officials reject that portrayal. Investigators assert he was fully aware he was working under Iranian direction and carried out several missions in coordination with Tehran. The new revelations come against the backdrop of a dramatic rise in Iranian espionage operations on Israeli soil. Authorities have reported a disturbing trend of local recruits being used to gather intelligence and even lay the groundwork for attacks on senior public figures. During the recent 12-day war with Iran, Superintendent Maor Goren told Channel 12, multiple Israeli targets were bombed based on footage gathered by domestic spies working for Tehran. Just last week, three more Israelis were arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran — including one alleged to have tracked the future daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and another believed to have photographed military bases and senior officials’ homes. In May, prosecutors charged 18-year-old Moshe Attias of Yavne with gathering intelligence on former prime minister Naftali Bennett while he was hospitalized. Earlier this year, two IDF reservists — Yuri Eliasfov and Georgi Andreyev, both 21 — were arrested for allegedly leaking details about the Iron Dome missile defense system to Iran in exchange for payments as low as $50. Israeli intelligence officials warn the arrests are only the tip of the iceberg in what they say is a sophisticated, ongoing Iranian effort to destabilize the country from within. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The Shin Bet has uncovered an extensive Hamas terror infrastructure in Chevron, arresting more than 60 operatives who were allegedly preparing to carry out imminent attacks against Israeli targets. According to officials, the network was divided into approximately ten separate cells, each engaged in advanced planning for shooting and bombing attacks. Many of those arrested were previously convicted terrorists who had been released. The suspects reportedly underwent weapons training, gathered intelligence on Israeli targets, produced explosives, and assembled explosive devices in preparation for coordinated terror operations. During interrogations and subsequent raids, security forces seized 22 firearms of various types, 11 fragmentation grenades, and large amounts of ammunition. Authorities also discovered an underground hideout used to conceal wanted individuals and store weapons. The Shin Bet revealed that several of the detainees had taken part in past terror attacks, including one individual responsible for murdering four Israelis in 2010. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking at a moment when threats against judges are on the rise, warned on Saturday that elected officials’ heated words about judges can lead to threats or acts of violence by others. Without identifying anyone by name, Roberts clearly referenced Republican President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York when he said he has felt compelled to issue public rebukes of figures in both parties in recent years. “It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,” Roberts said at a gathering of lawyers and judges in Charlotte, North Carolina. “And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that. And we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work. So I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.” Roberts appeared at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judicial conference on the day after the Supreme Court issued the final decisions of its term, including a major victory for Trump that limits judges’ ability to use court orders with nationwide reach to block his agenda. C-Span carried Roberts’ conversation with Judge Albert Diaz, the 4th Circuit’s chief judge. Roberts first took issue with Trump’s comments in 2018, when Roberts responded to Trump’s description of a judge who rejected his migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.” In March, Roberts rejected calls for impeaching judges, shortly after Trump demanded the removal of one who ruled against his deportation plans. In 2020, Roberts called out Schumer for remarks that Roberts termed inappropriate and threatening after the senator said Trump-nominated Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch “will pay the price” for votes in a then-pending Louisiana abortion case. Schumer later said he should not have used those words. Two years later, with the court on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortion, police arrested an armed man outside Kavanaugh’s home in suburban Washington. In April, Nicholas John Roske pleaded guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh. (AP)
Elon Musk on Saturday doubled down on his distaste for President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill, arguing the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries. “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country,” Musk wrote on X on Saturday ahead of a procedural Senate vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. “It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.” The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, whose birthday is also Saturday, later posted that the bill would be “political suicide for the Republican Party.” The criticisms reopen a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency and the administration he recently left. They also represent yet another headache for Republican Senate leaders who have spent the weekend working overtime to get the legislation through their chamber so it can pass by Trump’s Fourth of July deadline. Musk has previously made his opinions about Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” clear. Days after he left the federal government last month with a laudatory celebration in the Oval Office, he blasted the bill as “pork-filled” and a “disgusting abomination.” “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he wrote on X earlier this month. In another post, the wealthy GOP donor who had recently forecasted that he’d step back from political donations threatened to fire lawmakers who “betrayed the American people.” When Trump clapped back to say he was disappointed with Musk, back-and-forth fighting erupted and quickly escalated. Musk suggested without evidence that Trump, who spent the first part of the year as one of his closest allies, was mentioned in files related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Musk ultimately tried to make nice with the administration, saying he regretted some of his posts that “went too far.” Trump responded in kind in an interview with The New York Post, saying, “Things like that happen. I don’t blame him for anything.” It’s unclear how Musk’s latest broadsides will influence the fragile peace he and the president had enjoyed in recent weeks. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk has spent recent weeks focused on his businesses, and his political influence has waned since he left the administration. Still, the wealthy businessman poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign in 2024, demonstrating the impact his money can have if he’s passionate enough about an issue or candidate to restart his political spending. Though he was silent on Musk, Trump laid on pressure and lashed out strongly at Republican holdouts in the Senate as lawmakers spent hours taking a procedural vote during a rare Saturday evening session. He accused Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina of seeking publicity with his no vote and threatened to campaign against the senator’s reelection. The legislation narrowly cleared its test vote in the Senate late Saturday evening, allowing senators to begin debate. (AP)
Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem on Saturday as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary, telling the crowd that people struggling to pay for housing, groceries and bus fare are hungry for change. Mamdani appeared at a National Action Network rally days after declaring victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the presumed favorite in the primary. Results will be finalized after the city’s ranked choice vote-counting resumes Tuesday. “What our victory showed on election night was less a victory between one man and another, but a victory for a city that New Yorkers can afford,” Mamdani said at a rally attended by Black clergy and filmmaker Spike Lee The Rev. Al Sharpton, the influential leader of the network, praised Mamdani for coming to the rally, despite reports that he lost some of the city’s most solidly Black neighborhoods in the primary. “He could have went the other way and said, ‘It’s me against them.’ But he came this morning and he proclaimed something. And I gave him a lot of credit for that,” Sharpton said. The winner of the Democratic primary advances to November’s election. Mayor Eric Adams is running for reelection as an independent candidate. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the crime-fighting Guardian Angels, is running as a Republican. Cuomo, who has conceded defeat in the primary, also could run as an independent candidate. In Harlem, the 33-year-old state lawmaker stuck to a cost-of-living theme that skyrocketed him to political stardom, weaving in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., the Bible and the city’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins. He said people question whether the city will become “a museum” of a place where working people could once thrive. “What we have seen in the last two weeks is a hunger from New Yorkers to move beyond the days of museums and relics and make this city a living, breathing testament to what is possible.” (AP)
Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they race to advance President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline. The tally, 51-49, came after a tumultuous night with Vice President JD Vance at the Capitol to break a potential tie. Tense scenes played out in the chamber as voting came to a standstill, dragging for more than three hours as holdout senators huddled for negotiations, and took private meetings off the floor. In the end, two Republicans opposed the motion to proceed, joining all Democrats. It’s still a long weekend of work to come. Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks. Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks. “It’s time to get this legislation across the finish line,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. Ahead of the expected roll call, the White House released a statement of administrative policy saying it “strongly supports passage” of the bill. Trump himself was at his golf course in Virginia on Saturday with GOP senators posting about the visit on social media. But by nightfall, Trump was lashing out against holdouts, threatening to campaign against one Republican, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who had announced he could not support the bill because of grave Medicaid cuts that he worried would leave many without health care in his state. Tillis and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against. Pressure was mounting from all sides — billionaire Elon Musk criticized the package as “utterly insane and destructive.” The 940-page “One Big Beautiful Bill Act was released shortly before midnight Friday, and senators are expected to grind through all-night debate and amendments in the days ahead. If the Senate is able to pass it, the bill would go back to the House for a final round of votes before it could reach the White House. With the narrow Republican majorities in the House and Senate, leaders need almost every lawmaker on board in the face of essentially unified opposition from Democrats. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Republicans unveiled the bill “in the dead of night” and are rushing to finish the bill before the public fully knows what’s in it. He immediately forced a full reading of the text in the Senate, which would take hours. Make-or-break moment for GOP The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump’s party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan. Trump is pushing Congress to wrap it up and has admonished the “grandstanders” among GOP holdouts to fall in line. The legislation is an ambitious but complicated series of GOP priorities. At its core, it would make permanent many of the tax breaks from Trump’s first term that would otherwise expire by year’s end if Congress fails to act, resulting in a potential tax increase on Americans. The bill would add new breaks, including no taxes on tips, and commit $350 billion to national security, including for Trump’s mass deportation agenda. But […]
