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IDF officer injured in West Bank raid carried bullet resistant grenade
The IDF Duvdevan officer who was injured during a deadly anti-Hamas raid in the West Bank last week was carrying a bullet-resistant grenade when he was struck by nine bullets.
The grenade, made by Israel Military Industries (IMI), was struck by at least one of the bullets but did not explode.
The father of the officer was quoted by Walla as saying that it was “a miracle” and that he was optimistic as the condition of the officer continued to improve over the past three days.
The M26 IM-HE hand grenades developed and patented by IMI are an upgraded version of the M26 fragmentation grenade that was designed with enhanced safety features including a unique fuse and safety clip.
The grenade, which has peripheral protection on the fuze housing and needs two-movement factors to remove the safety pin, only ignites once the safety pin is removed.
אביו של מפקד הפלגה מדובדבן סרן ד׳ שנפצע בארוע בבורקין סיפר הבוקר כי הרימון שנשא בנו נחצה לשניים מהקליעים שספג בנו אולם לא התפוצץ. מדובר ברימון יד חדש שפותח בשנים האחרונות בידי תעש כלקח מנפילתו של אלירז פרץ זל בעזה ב2010. החלק הפנימי של הרימון שונה כך שפגיעת קליע בו לא תפוצץ אותו. pic.twitter.com/oIsKo2tJS5— Or Heller אור הלר (@OrHeller) September 29, 2021
The grenade was been dubbed “Eliraz” in honor of Eliraz Peretz, an IDF major who was killed in August 2010 when the grenade he was carrying exploded after it was hit by an enemy bullet.
The grenade is combat-proven after being used extensively by the IDF in Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“This is a miracle. Nine bullets struck him and he’s still alive. One of the bullets hit a grenade he was carrying and it broke into two pieces and didn’t explode,” his father said.
One of the men was shot in the chest and lost one of his lungs while the other man was shot in the jaw and stomach. The two are also suffering from shrapnel wounds.
Rambam health care campus. (credit: MIKI AND GAL KOREN)
Both are being treated at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus where they’ve undergone hours of surgery. Their conditions have improved, with the director of Rambam’s Intensive Care Unit Dr. Yaron Bar-Lavi said that they are both awake, in stable and in good condition.
“When I went over and asked him if he knew what happened or if it hurt he nodded his head. He knows what had happened and remembers everything,” his father said.
Sources said that the large and heavily armed Hamas cell that was targeted during the arrests planned to carry out attacks in the West Bank and inside Israel. Both Defense Minister Benny Gantz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi have visited the troops in the hospital.
Kohavi called the arrests a “significant achievement” that prevented “significant terror attacks ”that could have taken place in Jerusalem, Netanya, Tel Aviv, Afula, and elsewhere in the country were thwarted because of the “extraordinary cooperation” of all security forces.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian joked a day after Israel’s strikes in Iran that the weapons used were “more like toys that our children play with – not drones,” according to a Saturday article from Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency.
Making the comments in an interview with NBC News, Abdollahian said “As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions.”
Threats against Israel
“If Israel takes a decisive action against my country and this is proven to us,” he said, “our response will be immediate and to the maximum and will cause them to regret it.”
The foreign minister went on to threaten that his comments were only a warning, and that “We could have hit Haifa and Tel Aviv… We could have also targeted all the economic ports of Israel.”
Abdollahian said that the only reason that Iran had not successfully hit Haifa, Tel Aviv or any major port was because Iran’s “red lines [were] civilians…We only had a military purpose.”
A 7-year-old Arab girl was killed during Iran’s mass drone attack which saw hundreds of UAVs and multiple ballistic missiles fired seemingly randomly at Israel. While few Iranian aerial assault weapons successfully hit Israel, one hit a northern Arab village and one hit Arad- which is where the 7-year-old girl was killed.
Passing the national security supplemental bills would send a powerful message about the strength of American leadership at a pivotal moment, the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a statement released Friday morning as the House continues debates on rules for proceeding with the bills.
The supplemental funding package provides long overdue funding to support Ukraine as it continues defending itself against Russia’s brutal war of aggression. Ukraine must prevail, the White House said.
This supplemental funding also helps Israel protect its people against Hamas and Iran and its other proxies, including Hezbollah.
The White House’s statement
“It is critical that we quickly help Israel replenish its air defenses following Iran’s recent brazen and unprecedented attack and ensure Israel maintains its military edge against Iran or any other adversary,” according to the statement.
The funding would also provide urgent life-saving humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza and vulnerable people suffering around the world, the statement said, as well as critical support to Indo-Pacific partners.
“The world is watching what the Congress does,” the White House said. “The Administration urges both chambers of the Congress to quickly send this supplemental funding package to the President’s desk.”
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American money ear-marked for PA security used to pay families of terrorists from Jenin – report
The Palestinian Authority’s General Security Service (GIS) has apparently admitted to using American money earmarked for security to pay the family of terrorists from Jenin, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report.
According to the report, on April 4, 2024, PA news agency WAFA published that the GIS in Jenin had given a grant to “the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners from the service’s ranks in the district.”
The GIS gave grants to around 36 families from among the “martyrs and prisoners.”
The vast majority of those identified as “martyrs” or “prisoners” were members of the GIS who had committed acts of terror, according to the PMW.The grant was given at the direction of PA General Intelligence Chief Majed Faraj, who emphasized a core principle of Mahmoud Abbas: “If we are left with one penny, it will be paid to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners.”
Taylor Force Act
The US had all but ceased providing funds for the PA after the implementation of the 2017 Taylor Force Act, which blocked all funding for the PA general budget.
The act was named for Taylor Force, an American citizen killed in a terror attack in 2016, where the attacker’s family received money from the PA’s pay-for-slay program.
The exception to this was the funding of the PA’s security sector, which received around $45 million in 2022, according to the State Department’s website.
The PMW says that this money was then used to not only provide funds for terrorists and their families but also to train PA security forces, many of whom end up involved in terrorism, according to PA statements in 2023.
The PMW charge that US funds are now being used to directly fund and train terrorists in the West Bank.
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