IDF And ISA Announce: Terrorist Who Held The Bibas Family Hostage, Eliminated
The IDF and ISA on Wednesday morning (3rd) confirmed the elimination of the terrorist who held Shiri Bibas and her two sons Ariel (4) and Kfir (10 months old) hostage.
During a joint IDF and ISA activity last week in the area of Nuseirat, the terrorist Musbah Salim Musbah Dayyah, who served as the head of the Mujahideen terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, was eliminated.
“In his role as the head of the terrorist organization, he was responsible for recruiting terrorist operatives in Judea and Samaria and in Israel, through whom he advanced and carried out terror attacks and terror activity,” the IDF noted. “Throughout the war, the organization under his leadership was involved in orchestrating terror attacks against the State of Israel and attacks against IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.”
”Musbah Salim Musbah Dayyah was appointed head of the terrorist organization following the elimination of its three previous heads in IDF strikes in recent months. His elimination further degrades the ability to direct terror attacks from the Gaza Strip in Judea and Samaria and in Israel.”
The statement added that Mujahideen terrorists took a significant part in the brutal October 7th massacre. They were involved in acts of abduction and murder. Despite being unaware of Hamas’ plans, they acted as an extension and exploited Hamas’ acts of terror within Israel.
Among other things, they held Shiri Bibas and her two young sons Areil and Kfir hostage. All three were murdered in captivity shortly after the start of the war.
“The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and to remove any threat posed to the State of Israel,” the statement concluded.
Netanyahu To IDF Soldiers: ‘What Began In Gaza Must End In Gaza’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video message on Tuesday night (2nd) to IDF soldiers about the next step in the war in Gaza, saying that “What began in Gaza – must end in Gaza.”
Netanyahu noted that the current war effort is focused on Hamas, but said that Israel has also “achieved wonders” against Iran and its regional proxies. “We broke the Iranian axis – in Gaza, in Lebanon with Hezbollah, with the Assad regime that collapsed, with Iran itself that threatened us with existential threats which we removed together, and now also against the Houthis,” he said.
The prime minister stressed that Israel is fighting, “a determined and supremely just war.” adding that the government does not forget “for a moment what was done to us on October 7: the beheadings, the women who were raped, the babies who were burned, the hostages taken into the tunnels of Gaza. We are acting to bring them back.”
Addressing the soldiers directly, Netanyahu said that the government had taken “very difficult decisions, decisions that no one believed we could actually implement.” He emphasized that these were carried out “because you gave us, and me, the strength to move the State of Israel toward decisive victory.”
“Now we again stand before the stage of decision,” Netanyahu added. “I believe in you, I trust you, and the entire nation embraces you. With God’s help – together we will win.”
“I want to strengthen you and express my deep appreciation to the IDF soldiers, reservists, and your families.” Netanyahu concluded. “I know you have paid a heavy price – at work, in your studies, and at home.”
The IDF is advancing preparations for a large-scale mobilization of reservists and an expected expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip, including a renewed push into Gaza City, the military announced on Tuesday (2nd).
The upcoming operation in Gaza City is considered a critical step in dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure. The city is viewed as the organization’s last significant stronghold and command hub within the enclave.
Netanyahu has already approved the IDF’s plan to capture Gaza City and simultaneously authorized renewed hostage negotiations. Officials say the objective is to conclude the conflict in accordance with the principles established by the security cabinet.
Notably, Netanyahu has told both the security cabinet and defense officials that a partial hostage deal is off the table and that he is only interested in comprehensive deals that would end the war on Israel’s terms.
IDF Chief of Staff LTG Eyal Zamir said last week that the army would continue until both of its stated missions are achieved: the return of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas. He added that the military is operating with determination and clear direction.
Houthi Leaders Flee Sanaa As Israel Targets Top Officials
Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday (2nd) that senior Houthi figures are fleeing the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, abandoning civilians as Israeli airstrikes continue to target the Iran-backed group.
“The remnants of the Houthi leadership are escaping Sanaa,” Katz stated. “As with other radical Islamist terror leaders, they prioritize their own safety while leaving residents behind.”
He drew parallels to Hamas leaders – some of whom, he noted, operate from “luxury hotels in Qatar.”
“We knew how to reach them this time, and we’ll know how to do it again,” he said.
According to a report by Al-Asharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned outlet based in London, several high-ranking Houthi officials have disappeared from the capital in recent days. The report identified those believed to have fled to fortified areas in Saada, Amran, and other Houthi-controlled regions as Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the group’s ruling council; Interior Minister Abdul Karim al-Houthi; intelligence chief Abu Ali al-Hakim, and council member Ahmed Hamed.
Sources told the outlet that buses were seen transporting the families of Houthi leaders northward. The group, seemingly aware that Israeli strikes were targeting leadership figures, reportedly instructed its commanders to avoid government facilities and public gatherings.
The apparent retreat follows a deadly Israeli strike last Thursday (8/28) on a government building in the Sanaa area. Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in one strike, including nine ministers and two other cabinet officials, while attending a meeting, according to the report.
In response, the Houthis vowed to intensify their attacks on Israel. The terror group, aligned with Tehran’s so-called “axis of resistance,” has claimed responsibility for launching drones and missiles toward Israeli territory in recent months.
While the Houthis maintain control over large portions of northern Yemen, their leadership appears to be recalibrating amid growing pressure from Israeli operations.
If You Start A War, You Should Expect War – Brendan O’Neill
If I had spent a large chunk of the past two years firing missiles into France, at some point I’d expect a missile back. I would know that the French would target me for death one day, and that they would have every right to do so. So what’s with all the wailing and fainting following Israel’s decapitation of the Houthi terror group?
This is a virulently anti-Semitic militia that has been terrorizing the Jewish state with bombs and drones for two years straight. Israel’s strike back is not a “war crime,” as the moral illiterates of the Israelophobic mob would have you believe – it’s justice.
To depict Houthi leaders as innocent victims of a mad, bloodlusting Jewish state is to be recklessly and unforgivably ignorant of the reality on the ground. The Houthis have been firing hundreds of projectiles at Israel for two years, since Oct. 7, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas’ fascistic slaughter of Jews in Israel. This has included scores of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
So what are all those people weeping and hollering about Israel’s blast at the Houthis saying exactly? That anti-Semites should have the right to strike the Jewish state but the Jewish state has no right to strike back? The Houthis’ very flag says: “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
You can’t kill Jews with impunity anymore. You can’t just go around plotting the death of Jewish people. It’s not 1492. Or 1942. Violent anti-Semitism and fascistic intrusions into the safety and sovereign rights of the Jewish people have consequences now.
The anti-Israel movement is a gathering of pathetic cry-bullies. Hamas carried out the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust and then wailed “War crimes!” when those Jews fought back. Hezbollah rained missiles on northern Israel for two years, causing mass destruction, forced displacement and the deaths of Druze kids, and then cried “Barbarism!” when Israel responded.
The Houthis say “We hate the Jews and we want to kill them” and then act all affronted when the Jews say “Nah, not today.” The Israelophobes of the West seem to think it’s “war” when you kill Jews and a “war crime” when Jews fight back. I can’t believe this needs to be said, but if you start a war, you should expect a war.
Why There Never Will Be A Palestinian State – Elliott Abrams
• Why, after 80 years of efforts to partition the Holy land, has a Palestinian state never been created? Why am I persuaded that this objective will never be achieved? What is unique about the struggle for “Palestine” that has doomed it?
• The UN General Assembly voted in November 1947 to create two new states, one Arab and one Jewish. The Jews said yes and the Arabs said no. The essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains in 2025 what it was in 1947: the Arabs said no.
• As Daniel Pipes has written: “If your enemy wants to eliminate you, telling him that you’ll get him clean water is not going to convince him otherwise. What’s so striking is that the Palestinians have retained this genocidal impulse for such a long period. I would argue, as an historian, that this is unique. No other people have ever retained that kind of hostility for such a length of time.”
• The problem is not the technical challenge of delineating borders or some diplomatic failing, that if solved will lead to Palestinian statehood. The problem is that Palestinian nationalism is fundamentally about destroying the Jewish state, not building a Palestinian one.
• In his famous Bar-Ilan speech of 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The root of the conflict was and remains that which has been repeated for over 90 years – the profound objection by the hard core of Palestinians to the right of the Jewish people to its own country in the Land of Israel.”
• State-building is not a Palestinian priority, and the absence of a state is not the cause of the conflict. A Palestinian state will fail to meet Palestinian aspirations since it will have to exist alongside Israel. Why would the violence not continue (or increase) across the border of an Independent Palestine, as it did across the border from the West Bank and from Gaza?
• Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, who have written books about their decades of efforts to promote Palestinian statehood, said ”October 7 was uniquely Hamas nor distinctively Islamist. It was Palestinian through and through…. There is no denying that Palestinians largely embraced the events of October 7 because they spoke to their most profound feelings. October 7 was Palestinian to the core.” Will Palestinian society ever abandon support for violence and terrorism?
The writer, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Served as White House deputy national secretary advisor. Where he supervised US policy in the Middle East
Israel’s UN Ambassador: ‘We Will Remember Who Is Unilaterally Going Against Us
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, addressed the campaign led by France to promote recognition of a Palestinian state.
“We are working very closely with the Americans on a daily basis. We sit together, coordinate positions, and we’ve seen strong American stances – on UNIFIL, on the refusal to issue visas to the Palestinian delegation. We must also commend Secretary of State Rubio for his leadership on this matter,” Danon said in an interview with radio 103FM.
He stressed that “at the end of the day, it is Israel’s decision how to respond to these unilateral moves. I tell representatives, including the French: do not think you can act against us now, and later expect to be welcomed into future initiatives or negotiations. We will remember who chooses to move unilaterally against us, and they will have no role in what comes next. Everyone wants to be involved in Gaza’s rehabilitation and future planning – but those who act against Israel in an uncoordinated way should not expect cooperation afterwards.”
Danon noted that despite mounting pressures, “fortunately we still have friends inside the European Union who are blocking these efforts. You hear the representatives of Ireland, Norway, and Spain every week bringing new ideas to restrict Israel and harm us. Yet primarily the Eastern European states are preventing such moves, and they deserve our thanks and appreciation.”
Asked if he was concerned about a diplomatic “tsunami,” Danon replied: “This battle is not easy, but I prefer today’s situation where Israel is strong and decisive, where we determine when to enter Gaza and when not to, over the situation on October 8, 2023. I would rather face international criticism than pity, when the world only felt sorry for us.”
