Shalom and good evening, this is TV7 Israel
News broadcast to you from Jerusalem.
And in today’s top stories:
Terror continues to plague Israel’s southern
region – drawing near-daily Israeli attacks
against Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
vows to avenge the death of one of its operatives
that who was killed in an alleged Israeli
strike in Syria earlier this year.
A joint Israeli-German aerial drill, as part
of NATO’s “MAG Days” exercise, concluded
after two weeks of joint maneuvers.
Terror continues to plague Israel’s southern
region.
Dozens of incendiary and explosive devices
attached to clusters of balloons were sent
sailing from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory
over the weekend, sparking numerous blazes
in agricultural fields and wild forests.
Furthermore, sporadic explosions were reported
in numerous areas, including in several populated
communities.
Thankfully, however, no injuries were reported.
In response, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
informed TV7 that “tanks struck military
posts belonging to the Hamas terror organization
in the southern Gaza Strip.”
While the targets were completely destroyed,
Gazan sources confirmed to TV7 that no militant
casualties were reported.
Turning to Jerusalem, where
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
reiterated his excitement over the ground-breaking
achievement: normalization of relations between
the United Arab Emirates and the Jewish State.
Speaking alongside U.S. National Security
Adviser Robert O’Brien and Senior White
House Adviser Jared Kushner, who headed a
senior American delegation to the region;
the Israeli leader underscored the fact that
the historic peace accord between Jerusalem
and Abu Dhabi would not have materialized
without Washington’s tremendous proactive
support.
“The day will come - and it won’t be far
away - when we will ask how could it have
been any other way?
Because today’s breakthroughs will become
tomorrow’s norms.”
“I believe that peace favors the strong.
Peace favors those who innovate.
Peace favors those who are willing to confront
the neighborhood bully.
Peace favors Israel.
Yet we could not seal this historic peace
with the Emirates and with others that are
in line, without the tremendous support of
our great and loyal friends from the United
States of America.”
Netanyahu further asserted that the normalization
accord came as a result of extensive efforts
by the Trump Administration, which culminated
in a first realistic initiative for Israeli-Palestinian
peace.
Consequently, these efforts (which focused
on a regional approach to the decades old
conflict) have stimulated a growing number
of Arab and Muslim countries to seek long
overdue reconciliation with Israel – a reality
acknowledged by President Trump’s National
Security Adviser Robert O’Brien – and
the architect of the American regional peace
initiative, senior Presidential Adviser Jared
Kushner.
“The Trump plan is the first realistic initiative
for an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Israelis and Palestinians won’t have to
leave their homes.
No one will be uprooted.
Areas of Jewish population and areas vital
to Israel’s security are being incorporated
into sovereign Israel and Israel will retain
overriding security control in the areas West
of the Jordan River, both on the ground and
in the air.
I have expressed my willingness to negotiate
peace, on the basis of the Trump plan, and
as more Arab and Muslim countries join the
circle of peace, the Palestinians will eventually
understand that their veto is dissipated and
they will be hard-pressed to remain outside
the community of peace.”
“We believe that other Arab and Muslim countries
will soon follow the United Arab Emirates
lead and normalize relations with Israel and
Jared and his team and our NSC team are working
very hard on that front.”
“Four years ago, my father-in-law (President
Trump) asked me to work on peace in the Middle
East.
I have given it my all.
There is still much work left to accomplish,
but the Abraham accords is a giant step forward.
To have played a role in its creation, and
I say this as the grandson of two holocaust
survivors, it means more to me and to my family
than I could ever express.
We will continue to pursue peace between Israel,
the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people
and its Arab and Muslim neighbors and I have
never been more hopeful about peace.”
While the benefits of regional peace between
Israel and the Arab and Muslim world are evident,
not all regional actors are seemingly happy
about these developments.
“Four years ago, my father-in-law (President
Trump) asked me to work on peace in the Middle
East.
I have given it my all.
There is still much work left to accomplish,
but the Abraham accords is a giant step forward.
To have played a role in its creation, and
I say this as the grandson of two holocaust
survivors, it means more to me and to my family
than I could ever express.
We will continue to pursue peace between Israel,
the Biblical homeland of the Jewish people
and its Arab and Muslim neighbors and I have
never been more hopeful about peace.”
“Because President Trump refused to continue
appeasing Iran, the Mullahs have seen their
oil and other revenue reduced to the lowest
point in history.
By the ‘maximum pressure campaign’ led
by the United States, Iran is facing an unprecedented
financial crisis; and what that means is that
Iran does not have the funds to support their
proxies to pursue wars across the Middle East
and to support terrorists.
The United States designated the IRGC as a
foreign terrorist organization and restored
deterrence against Iran through decisive action.”
It is important to note that the American
delegation had departed Israel this morning,
accompanied by a senior Israeli delegation
headed by Jerusalem’s National Security
Adviser Meir Ben Shabbat, for an historic
visit to the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi where
the delegations are currently meeting with
their Emirati counterparts for the purpose
of ratifying the historic accord.
Turning now to Israel’s northern front with
Lebanon, where
the Commanding Officer of the IDF’s Galilee
Division, Brigadier General Shlomi Binder,
revealed that the Lebanese Iranian-proxy Hezbollah
had attempted several times to attack Israel
in the past month.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the appointment
of a new brigade commander in his division
last week; General Binder noted, however,
that the IDF’s preparedness thwarted Hezbollah’s
repeated efforts to execute its malicious
plans.
“It has been over a month that we are on
alert for an anticipated Hezbollah terror
attack.
It tries to harm our soldiers and to breach
the quiet on this front (Israel-Lebanon).
We can unveil in this forum that Hezbollah’s
terror army had already attempted several
times yet failed its malicious plans.”
General Binder further highlighted that Hezbollah
persists with its malign activities to target
Israel.
“The Hezbollah organization, which is fighting
for its position in Lebanon; suffers over
Iran’s weakening and is forced to deal with
criticism and harsh allegations, both domestic
and foreign, which portray its actions, chooses
a time when humanity as a whole is combating
the corona pandemic and the state of Lebanon
is still bleeding in the aftermath of the
tragic explosion in Beirut Port, to exacerbate
the level of flames along (Israel’s) north.
Our message to it (Hezbollah) is sharp and
clear; we will continue to thwart it, and
we will prevent its attempts to attain any
kind of achievement in a professional and
resolved manner.”
Despite Hezbollah’s repeated failures to
target Israeli soldiers, the organization’s
Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah pledged
to persist with its efforts until the life
of one of its operatives is avenged.
"There is an equation that we should clarify.
I will be more honest than ever.
Israel needs to understand that when they
kill one of our mujahideen (fighters), we
will kill one of their soldiers."
Nasrallah’s vow to avenge the death of one
of its operatives pertains to an alleged Israeli
bombardment on the 20th of July of this year,
which destroyed an Iranian-installation near
Syria’s Damascus airport.
Alongside the death of a Hezbollah member,
a number of Iranian operatives were also reportedly
killed in the attack.
Turning now to Germany, where
a joint Israeli-German aerial exercise, which
lasted two weeks on German soil and in German
skies, concluded over the weekend.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit released a statement
in which it underscored that “The exercise
was a significant milestone in the process
of strengthening the international-strategic
cooperation between Israel and Germany and
was beneficial to both forces.”
“We are summing up a meaningful and historic
deployment here, and we are looking forward
to a different future, a better future with
more cooperation with the German Air Force.
We are summing up a high-quality deployment,
from which we learned a lot and we intend
to use these lessons to be implemented in
our area of operations.”
“The cooperation between the State of Israel
and Germany, and between the Air Forces, in
recent years has tightened.
It has quickly turned into a close, brave
and personal friendship, wherein we have created
a commitment for both states’ future, and
a commitment to strengthen our mutual cooperation
along the way.”
“We can learn a lot from the Israelis, how
they prepare, how they do their work, and
especially how they understand the situation
in which we are.
So we can share experiences that we have which
is the biggest thing in terms of understanding,
so if one day we are called to work together,
we’ll be able to work together without having
to discuss issues beforehand.”
It is important to explain that the exercise,
dubbed “MAG Days,” is an international
event that takes place four times a year,
as part of the operational preparations of
NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization),
in which several of the organization's member
states participate.
This was the first time in history that the
Israeli Air Force participated in the exercise.
Thank you for watching us.
As part of TV7’s prayer initiative, I would
like to encourage you to join myself and the
team here in Jerusalem to once again lift
up Germany in prayer, for its salvation and
peace – in addition to our ongoing prayers
for the peace of Jerusalem and Salvation of
Israel and for all those who are impacted
by the corona contagion and its economic ramifications
worldwide.
Furthermore, I would like to thank all of
you who partner with us through prayer and
finance.
I am Jonathan Hessen, wishing you a Shavua
Tov U Mevorach and we will see you again tomorrow
at the same time.
