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http://youtu.be/fNAcrtWVAxY A young American-Israeli attending a rave that was disrupted by Hamas terrorists on Saturday texted his parents “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” before becoming unreachable — as horrifying videos of attackers paragliding into the party and kidnapping attendees emerge. Hersh Golberg-Polin, who just turned 23 this week, was celebrating in the desert in northern Negev when Hamas militants invaded the party and began attacking attendees, his father told The Jerusalem Post. After texting his parents, “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” Golberg-Polin became unreachable. “We just want him home and safe,” his father, Jonathon Polin told the outlet, adding that if he could tell his son anything, he would say: “We love you. Come home to us.” The 23-year-old had also been cele...

http://youtu.be/hoehyhxmYZo A young tattoo artist has been identified as the woman whose body was paraded through the streets in the back of a pickup truck by Hamas terrorists after they attacked an outdoor music rager during their sneak assault on Israel Saturday morning. Shani Louk was among the hundreds of victims in Israel when Hamas targeted the dance party near Kibbutz Urim and other Israeli communities. The cruel attack in the Jewish state has led to the deaths of over 600 Israelis with more than 1,500 injured and dozens more kidnapped. As disturbing footage of the violence quickly spread online, family members recognized Shani, in her early 20s, in a video, her first cousin told the Washington Post. Armed terrorists chanted “Allahu Akbar” — Arabic for “God is Great” as they pa...

http://youtu.be/VAG4X4I96WQ Israel battered Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday after suffering its bloodiest day in decades when Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns, with hundreds killed on both sides. The spiraling violence threatens a major new Middle East war. People search through the remains of a mosque in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israeli jets battered Gaza on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed "mighty vengeance" for the bloodiest attack in decades by Hamas. In a sign the conflict could spread beyond Gaza, Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah exchanged artillery and rocket fire. In Alexandria, two Israeli tourists were shot dead along with their Egyptian guide. Israeli air strikes also pounded housing blocks, tunnels and homes of Hamas officia...

http://youtu.be/uUfM7O5nE3M Former Vice President Mike Pence hit out at his former boss and his other Republican opponents for “signaling retreat” from Israel, allowing Hamas to launch the worst attack on the Jewish nation in 50 years over the weekend. Pence made clear in an interview with CNN Sunday that he blames the weakness of President Biden for having “emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world.” “But I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world,” the long-shot GOP presidential contender said of his rivals in the race. “Look, what happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia. What happened this weekend was an unprovoked invas...

http://youtu.be/bKPXVJ0Hi1k Firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz on Sunday insisted his efforts to sack former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were worth it — even if his fellow Republicans expel him from Congress as retaliation. Gaetz (R-Fla.) led a faction of eight Republicans in backing a motion to vacate the chair — or oust McCarthy (R-Calif.) — in a 216 to 210 vote, with a unified bloc of Democrats, last week, sparking condemnation from others in the GOP. “Absolutely,” Gaetz replied when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if the move was worth it even if it leads to repercussions for himself. “Look, I’m here to fight for my constituents,” he added. “And I’m here to ensure that America is not on a path to financial ruin.” Gaetz — who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Florida governor — was livid a...

http://youtu.be/r5IlEZM8Nxs Drone footage of Gaza City on Monday showed the scale of the destruction as Israel intensified its bombardment in retaliation for a major surprise attack by Hamas. Entire mosques were leveled, appearing from the air as piles of rubble. Israel hit more than 1,000 targets in Gaza, its military said, including airstrikes that leveled much of the town of Beit Hanoun in the enclave’s northeast corner. More than two days after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion from Gaza, the military said the fighting had largely died down for now. The attack caught Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence apparatus completely off guard, bringing heavy battles to its streets for the first time in decades. Israel formally declared war on Sunday, portending greater figh...

http://youtu.be/X4YepB5P0Bc An Israeli mother who evaded capture with her two young children recalled being led by Hamas to Gaza to the sound of blaring gunshots and seeing everything was “destroyed and covered in blood” before she could escape. Terrorists broke into Avital Aldjem’s home and dragged her out from the closet where she was hidden before forcing her and her two children — Negev, 4, and baby Eshel, just four months — to begin walking with them toward Gaza. “They took us from house to house, the whole time there were gunshots along the way,” Aldjem told i24news reporter Natasha Raquel Kirtchuk Gutman said in Hebrew. “Puddles of blood everywhere.” “They were burning the homes. Cars were on fire. Then they took me and my kids outside and took us to the fence that surrounds th...

http://youtu.be/wBQ0rgz1QD4 More than 30 Harvard University student organizations are holding Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ mass slaughter — sparking outraged condemnation and calls by a congresswoman for the Ivy League school to denounce the “abhorrent and heinous” support of “evil and terrorism.” In a letter titled “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine,” 31 student organizations — including the Ivy League’s affiliate of Amnesty International — condemned Israel, even as its residents are kidnapped and more than 700 have been killed by the terrorist organization. The groups claim Hamas’ attack “did not happen in a vacuum,” and the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in an “open-air prison for over two decades,” ac...

http://youtu.be/5WwTXQ97ZGg A Long Island school bus driver caught drinking while bringing students home last week will not face charges — because police believe her story that she grabbed a hard seltzer without realizing it was alcoholic. The 60-year-old driver, Amal Hanna, told News 12 Long Island that she is teetotal because she’s undergoing chemotherapy for cancer — which also leaves her unable to taste if drinks are alcoholic. She said she grabbed a White Claw from the fridge she shares with a roommate in Hauppauge, thinking she was drinking a regular fruit-flavored seltzer while driving kids home from Smithtown High School West on Wednesday. “It was just a mistake, it was a mistake,” the newly fired driver said through tears, fearing she could end up homeless from going through c...

http://youtu.be/0Uibt7N8ivQ An Israeli actor who is dating one of the country’s most prominent television news journalists is being hailed as a hero after he was seriously wounded while fighting Hamas gunmen during an attempt to rescue trapped families near the Gaza Strip frontier over the weekend. Yadin Gellman, 30, a theater and film actor who serves as a reservist in the Israeli military, underwent emergency surgery after sustaining gunshot wounds to his chest and hand during a gunfight with Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Be’eri, a kibbutz located two miles from the border with the Gaza Strip. Gellman is dating Adva Dadon, a correspondent for N12 News, Israel’s most popular television news station, according to the Israeli news site Ynet. “Thank you to everyone for your concern,” ...

http://youtu.be/Fk9I9-H5l1Y An Israeli couple held hostage for 20 hours by Hamas militants bought themselves time while waiting to be rescued by offering their captors beverages, making jokes, and asking for lessons in Arabic. After a rocket siren forced Rahel Edri and her husband to enter the bomb shelter in their Ofakim home, five men claiming to be police officers broke in and began giving orders, Edri told Walla, according to Haaretz. The men, who were speaking Arabic, forced the couple upstairs, broke both of their phones and began rummaging through their closets. “They pointed a gun at me and held a grenade over my head,” Edri recalled. “I told him I had to inject insulin, trying to distract them from the fact I have children who are police officers … I offered them drinks: Coke ...

http://youtu.be/qdVDma_Mlvc The director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) blasted MSNBC — while he was appearing on the left-leaning broadcaster — for referring to Hamas terrorists as “fighters” and trying to rationalize the surprise attack against Israel that killed more than 800 people over the weekend. Speaking with the network Monday morning, Jonathan Greenblatt said he took issue with the coverage of Saturday’s massacre in Israel and the violent fallout, claiming MSNBC and other media organizations were not fairly portraying the plight of his nation. “I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the view of Hamas,” Greenblatt said. “I love this show and network, but who’s writing the scripts? “The people who did this are not fighters, they...

http://youtu.be/7iBgZGdKBPc Kevin McCarthy isn’t ruling out a surprise return to the House speakership if his fellow Republicans can’t agree on who should replace him. Although not actively running to reclaim the gavel he lost last week, McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed willingness Monday to serve again if called upon by his colleagues. “Look, whatever the conference wants, I will do. I think we need to be strong. I think we need to be united,” McCarthy told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt when asked if he would step in if the House GOP conference proves to be deadlocked. McCarthy became the first speaker ever voted out of office Oct. 3, when eight Republicans banded together with a united bloc of Democrats to remove him by a vote of 216-210. “The eight, in my view … it was a persona...

http://youtu.be/5mgRFAOKedE A former New York City television news reporter has been stranded in Israel since Hamas terrorists ruthlessly attacked the country early Saturday in a devastating ambush that has pushed the country into war. Rebecca Solomon, who left PIX11 at the end of last month, recounted what her family experienced when armed militants launched thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israeli communities by ground, air and sea. The married mother is among many Americans who have not yet left the country as war rages on. “When the sun goes down and it gets dark again, I get scared,” she told her former employer in an interview Sunday over the phone. “I’m scared for what’s to come at night.” The veteran reporter, who also used to work at News 12 Westchest...

http://youtu.be/QungL183X78 The Israeli military said on Monday (October 9) it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and was imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, signs it could be planning a ground assault there to defeat Hamas after it launched a humiliating attack. Footage showed the skyline over Gaza lit up with fire and smoke as Israel launched attacks. Hamas gunmen burst across the fence from Gaza on Saturday (October 7), killing Israeli soldiers and civilians and taking dozens of hostages back to the coastal enclave. Israel responded with its heaviest bombardment of Gaza and could be contemplating a ground assault on the territory it withdrew from nearly two decades ago after 38 years of occupation. With Israel cutting off electricity supplies into Gaza, a loo...

http://youtu.be/mzI7EPIFoGQ In the piney woods and wetlands 35 miles north of Houston, one of the biggest housing developments in the country has become one of the most controversial. NY Post Investigative reporter Dana Kennedy shares this story. Colony Ridge, a sprawl of homes, trailers and even tents, is home to as many as 75,000 people in an area at least 50 percent bigger than Manhattan. But next week, it will be the subject of a special session of the Texas legislature, ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott, because of claims it is a “no-go area,” a home to criminals and drug cartels, and a magnet for “illegal immigration.” Texas’s 25 House Republicans, who’ve also called for an investigation, said it is “an optimal haven for illegal aliens amid a historic border crisis.” The 40-square-mi...

http://youtu.be/oKqqdye5kpQ A 27-year-old Israeli woman was killed “execution style” while playing dead in hopes of being spared by Hamas gunmen who invaded a trance music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip and massacred scores of partygoers on Saturday. Ma’ayan Adam, 36, a television host who appeared on Israel’s version of “Dancing With The Stars” and anchors a news program on one of the country’s popular TV stations, posted a heartbreaking message to her 300,000 Instagram followers announcing the death of her 27-year-old sister, Mapal Adam. According to her sister, Mapal Adam was killed while being held by her boyfriend, who suffered gunshot wounds to the back. He is reportedly expected to survive. “On Saturday afternoon, in this idyllic setting, Mapal, our baby, hid unde...

http://youtu.be/kZuwxBDmMdc The mother of a young tattoo artist whose body was paraded through the streets of Gaza says her daughter was “panicked” and was trying to leave an outdoor music festival when Hamas terrorists abducted her during their surprise attack on Israel Saturday morning. Shani Louk, 23, rushed to leave after Hamas struck the festival near Kibbutz Re’im, close to the Gaza Strip, telling her mother that she was headed to her car after rockets began sounding off at about 6 a.m. “She was panicked a little bit, and she said she was going to take the car now and go to a safe location. And then we stopped talking and since then I didn’t hear anything from her anymore,” her mother Ricarda Louk told CNN. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/mom-of-shani-louk-whose-body-w...

http://youtu.be/ecG1ivqI8og A violent California felon desperate to get away with kidnapping a stranger and stealing beer from a gas station led police on a wild chase through an orchard last month — and even aimed a stolen gun at a pursuing helicopter. Jason Benson Dingler, 43, allegedly carried out a series of petty crimes across the 16-hour spree before officers shot the fugitive on the side of a highway near Modesto, surveillance and bodycam footage released by the Stanislaus County Sheriff Monday shows. Dingler kicked off the wild spree at a home in the central Californian city just after midnight Sept. 22., police said. After loitering on the front porch for nearly an hour, a shirtless and filthy Dingler can be seen breaking down the door and breaking into the house as the homeow...

http://youtu.be/FWCN2INmODk A New York porch pirate targeted homes in broad daylight under the guise of delivering food as she canvassed residential neighborhoods for her next target, police said. Juliana Saggaram, 33, of East Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested Wednesday after she used her position as a DoorDash driver to approach two homes and swipe packages. Saggaram conducted the scheme twice in 48 hours before she was caught in the act on Sept. 3 in Manhasset, when a 54-year-old victim reported the stolen package. The alleged thief had stopped at a nearby Chipotle for a DoorDash order to use as cover, police said. Saggaram was captured on a doorbell camera as she walked down the street with the DoorDash order in hand before approaching the home. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/1...

http://youtu.be/-3EEwmaazPA Rescue workers were searching for more than 100 people on Thursday after flash floods triggered by a sudden heavy rainfall swamped several towns in northeastern India, killing at least 14 people, officials said. More than 2,000 people were rescued after Wednesday’s floods, the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority said in a statement, adding that state authorities set up 26 relief camps for more than 22,000 people impacted by the floods. The Press Trust of India news agency reported that 102 people were missing and cited state government officials saying 14 people died in the floods. Among the missing were 22 army soldiers, officials said. One soldier who had been reported missing on Wednesday was later rescued by authorities, local media reported. Re...

http://youtu.be/_wnV_kTL56g An Australian woman fears she has a fatal virus after getting bitten on the head by a bat while on vacation. “I didn’t want to believe a bat had bitten me,” Sandi Galloway, told the Cairns Post of the attack, which occurred while she and her husband Gordon were sightseeing in Cairns, Queensland. The couple was strolling back to their hotel at around 11 p.m. after having coffee with friends when all of sudden Galloway felt something flapping close to her “I felt something flying over my head,” said the horrified Aussie, recounting the “Dracula”-evoking encounter. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/tourist-bitten-by-bat-feared-to-have-fatal-virus/ #tourist #bat #virus The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports...

http://youtu.be/Ovcu7YlQZV4 New York authorities defended the state trooper who failed to immediately follow the man who was later arrested as a suspect in the kidnapping of Charlotte Sena when he dropped a ransom note off — saying the girl’s frantic family was receiving a steady stream of well wishes. New York State Police spokesperson Deanna Cohen insisted to the New York Times that it did not seem unusual that Craig N. Ross Jr., 46, would drop off a note around 4:20 a.m. Monday at the Sena family’s home in Corinth because visitors had come “throughout the night.” “Like many other instances where families are experiencing something traumatic, we anticipated there would be a flow of constant traffic in front of the house throughout the night to show support for the family,” NYSP public...

http://youtu.be/d3zh8UW7Efw Newly released surveillance footage shows four people being sought over the mass shooting that left five people wounded during Morgan State University‘s homecoming week. The four are seen walking across a lawn around the time of Tuesday night’s shooting, with three dressed all in black — including one who appears to have his face covered, according to grainy footage released early Thursday. The clip then cuts to three of the group — including one in a white T-shirt carrying a backpack — rushing back in the opposite direction. Cops said the four in the video were being sought because they were seen near the shooting at the historically black college, where photos suggest the gunman may have fired through a window from inside a dorm building. Officials have y...

http://youtu.be/j1t87Vj3qcE A 76-year-old Florida woman was seen in a wild video fleeing from the scene of a hit-and-run crash — with the other driver draped over the hood of her SUV. Cheryl Henderson, from Palm Coast, was involved in a collision with a pickup truck on Belle Terre Parkway Saturday afternoon, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. The driver of the Ford truck had blocked Henderson’s way with his vehicle to stop her from taking off — and then got out and stood in her path, telling her not to leave, according to ClickOrlando. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/video-show-76-year-old-woman-driving-with-man-on-her-hood/ #hitandrun #florida #news The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, ...

http://youtu.be/Q8T2vnI2Y60 Welcome to the wild world of pilots’ and air crews’ parties that turn layovers into Tinder-fueled bacchanals. NY Post Senior Writer Joshua Rhett Miller shares this story. The spotlight was cast on the untamed scene by the revelation that married British Airways pilot snorted cocaine off a topless woman’s breasts hours before a London-bound flight then turned up to fly the plane. “I’ve been a very naughty boy,” he texted a colleague. And while he might be an outlier, say cabin crew, there’s no doubt that he’s not alone. “I’ve seen a pilot puking at dinner on a layover from drinking so much,” one flight attendant for Alaska Airlines said. “He must have had some in his hotel room, so he was on another level when he got to dinner. The captain after dinner wal...

http://youtu.be/STkrM9EVrik President Biden said Thursday that he “can’t stop” construction of new sections of the US-Mexico border wall because Congress wouldn’t rescind spending on it — as he waived 26 federal laws to restart former President Donald Trump’s pet project amid record-breaking illegal immigration. “The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office. “In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,” he insisted. Asked if he thought the border wall was effective, the president replied, “No.” The administration said Wednesday it was waiving 26 federal laws — ...

http://youtu.be/9M7Uc4-mXtg WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. At least 49 civilians were killed Thursday in a Russian rocket strike on a village store in eastern Ukraine, one of the deadliest attacks in recent months that came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a summit of around 50 European leaders in Spain to drum up support from the country’s allies. Zelensky denounced the attack on the store and cafe in the village of Hroza as a “demonstrably brutal Russian crime” and “a completely deliberate act of terrorism.” He urged Western allies to help strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses, saying that “Russian terror must be stopped.” “Russia needs this and similar terrorist attacks for only one thing: to make its genocidal aggression the new norm for the whole world,” he said. “No...

http://youtu.be/hZ7XapUuTIc A Long Island school bus driver has been fired and reported to police after being photographed boozing while taking home high school students Wednesday, officials said. NY Post reporter Melissa Koenig shares this story. The unidentified driver was seen “drinking an alcoholic beverage” while taking home students from Smithtown High School West, school district Superintendent Mark Secaur told parents in an email. “Once aware, the district intervened immediately and bus company staff met the bus driver at Great Hollow Middle School prior to dismissal,” Secaur said. “It was confirmed that an alcoholic beverage was on board, and the driver was promptly taken from the bus, and a different driver completed the route,” he wrote. Secaur said there is “zero toleranc...