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Hamas has explicitly threatened to carry out another October 7-style attack — not only inside Israel, but in Judea and Samaria and abroad.
According to Ynet, senior Hamas officials delivered the warning through UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov, asking him to convey it directly to Israel.
Israeli officials reportedly described the message as extraordinary and unprecedented in its bluntness. A document detailing the threat was urgently passed to Israel’s political and security leadership.
Hamas said Israeli military operations in Gaza, changes to the “Yellow Line” marking Israeli military positions, and the Palestinian Authority’s cancellation of elections were causing it to lose control on the ground — and warned it could strike “wherever the opportunity arises”.
The threat comes as Hamas faces growing military and financial pressure.
Israel has intensified targeted operations against senior Hamas figures and members of its elite Nukhba force. Meanwhile, Hamas reportedly needs around 90 million shekels — approximately $29 million — every month simply to pay its personnel.
Israeli security estimates put Hamas’s workforce in Gaza at around 30,000 people, from administrative staff and lower-level operatives to members of its military wing, receiving roughly 3,000 shekels each per month.
Three years after October 7, Hamas is not hiding its intentions. It is openly threatening to do it again — and potentially far beyond Gaza.
An east London 18 year old has been jailed after providing practical cyber-security assistance to al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was only 16 when he was stopped at Heathrow in January 2024 under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.
Police later discovered that he had downloaded instructions on making explosives and explosive devices, material on using different weapons, and an al-Qaeda publication containing practical guidance on carrying out terrorist attacks.
But Shah was not simply consuming propaganda.
On Telegram, he joined groups supporting terrorist organisations and offered his technical expertise. He advised members how to use an untraceable cryptocurrency to donate to al-Qaeda. A payment of $1,376.51 was subsequently made using the QR code and security methods he had recommended.
He was also approached to produce a cyber-security guide for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan after being told that a senior TTP official had requested help. Shah produced a document entitled “A Guide on Cybersecurity”, giving detailed instructions on cyber-security and cryptocurrency intended to help the terrorist group operate secretly.
Police say Shah had been discussing religion online since 2021, when he was 13, and by the end of 2022 was expressing support for al-Qaeda and TTP.
Now 18, he has been sentenced to four years and two months in custody and made subject to a 10-year notification order.
This case also leaves some important questions unanswered publicly:
• Where was Shah born, and what is his nationality and family background?
• What school did he attend?
• Did he attend a mosque, madrasa or other religious institution, and if so which one?
• Was there any offline ideological influence from clerics, teachers, friends or relatives?
• Did his family know about his extremist activity?
• Were there earlier warnings from his school, community, social services or police?
• Which online figures, channels and communities first introduced him to al-Qaeda and TTP propaganda?
• Did he have direct contact with terrorist operatives beyond the interactions already disclosed?
• Why was a 13-year-old able to progress from consuming extremist material to materially assisting terrorist organisations without earlier intervention?
What lies at the heart of the conflict? Caroline Glick says the problem with Palestinian nationalism is there's nothing Palestinian about it.
Full interview : youtu.be/Soahcftkj9o?is=1UFy…
As 'Palestine poppy' goes on sale, isn't it time to free Britain from Palestine? Must every cause be hijacked by Palestinianism?
A recording has been released which appears to show BBC's Jeremy Bowen accusing Israel of genocide. Is that against the BBC's own rules and guidelines?
Green party leader Zack Polanski is totally clueless when it comes to zionism and international law in general.
Jonathan Sacerdoti retweeted
🚨"I mean in all the footage we can see coming out of France you don't see many French flags."
Jonathan Sacerdoti and Peter discuss the riots in France that appear to be spreading across Europe.
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A man jailed for immigration deception after a judge condemned his “deliberate, extended manipulation” of the system is now the BBC’s principal data scientist for Responsible AI, helping shape how the corporation uses AI and how news is represented through it.
Hicham Yezza (picture here with Moazzam Begg, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee) was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2009 after falsely claiming he had permission to remain in Britain. He had overstayed his visa by more than five years. He later successfully appealed against deportation and is now a British citizen.
Before joining the BBC, Yezza also described Hamas rocket attacks as “resistance”, accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and called it an apartheid regime built on stolen land.
He founded the pro-Palestinian Ceasefire magazine and later joined BBC Monitoring in 2021, where The Telegraph says he produced reports concerning Gaza.
His current BBC role involves guiding responsible AI policy and developing benchmarks for how AI assistants represent public-service news.
There is an extraordinary contrast here.
When the Asserson Report used AI alongside data scientists and other researchers to analyse millions of words of BBC Israel-Hamas coverage, the corporation responded: “We have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its heavy reliance on AI to analyse impartiality.”
Yet the BBC now entrusts a senior role in determining how AI should approach and represent news to someone who had publicly expressed such strongly anti-Israel views before joining it.
The BBC says Yezza’s controversial statements and immigration case pre-date his employment, that he has not breached its social-media rules while working there, and that he stopped working for Ceasefire when he joined. So that's all OK then!
An extraordinary background — and an extraordinary contrast in the BBC’s attitude towards AI scrutiny of news.
ISIS terrorist Mohammed Yaseen was reportedly free to walk the streets near Windsor Castle last week after serving around six months of a two-year sentence for entering Britain illegally by small boat. He was later recalled to prison after the Home Office was contacted about the case.
The facts behind his case are extraordinary. German prosecutors said Yaseen planted at least 13 roadside bombs in Iraq, carried a Kalashnikov and guarded ISIS stonings, beheadings and mass executions, including executions in which children were among the victims. He was convicted in Germany of ISIS membership and jailed for nearly five years.
After Germany tried to deport him to Iraq, a court blocked his removal because he could face mistreatment or execution there. He then travelled to Britain, reportedly telling officials he had seen on TikTok that the UK “accepts everyone” and “respects human rights”. He initially gave authorities a false identity and was only identified after fingerprint checks revealed who he really was.
A British prosecutor later said Yaseen had a “deeper and lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology” and posed “a danger to the whole of the UK”.
See more here: dailymail.com/news/article-1…
Slavery In Modern Britain: More Than 7,000 Children Flagged As Potential Victims:
A total of 7,028 children were referred as potential victims of trafficking or modern slavery in the UK in 2025 — up 16.5% in a year. More than half were British nationals, with 3,049 UK children referred.
Criminal exploitation was the most common form recorded, accounting for half of child referrals. This includes children being used to supply or produce drugs, shoplift, launder money and carry offensive weapons. Among British children, referrals of boys exploited for criminal activity rose 22%.
Sexual exploitation remained the main form reported among girls, with 549 referred in 2025. ECPAT UK warns the real scale of child exploitation is likely far higher, with many victims never identified by the authorities.
When anti-racism makes an exception for Jews: Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro exposes the truth behind the hate, and how Soviet antizionism has shaped the current rise in anti-Jewish hate.
BBC at it again. I actually wrote about this woman back in 2021. Plus ça change…
“A BBC Arabic reporter who wrongly described terrorists killed in Gaza as “journalists” has a history of glorifying the murder of Jewish people, The Telegraph can disclose.”
telegraph.co.uk/gift/590595d…
This was always the point: whatever the Labour government throws their way, this sort of organised campaign supported by a mob will never be content. They will take every concession as weakness, bank it, and go for more. Much like negotiating with Hamas over the last three years. So Starmer ‘recognising Palestin’ and Burnham and Miliband announcing sanctions on ‘settlers’ are simply met met with demands to do the same in the entire state of Israel — full ostracisation of the Jewish state. This was predictable. Miliband says to them “you were right”. They were never right. Still aren’t.
So depressing seeing the UK government rapidly destroying our once healthy and beneficial relationship with Israel. All to help a worldwide attack on Jews by a reprehensible movement determined to undermine both Israel and the west, in the desperate hope it will buy Labour some votes.
Statement by Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa'ar
We established a clear principle: It is not possible to act against Israel without Israel taking appropriate measures in response.
In this spirit, the measures I announced on 8 September have been implemented:
1.The removal of the British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat.
2.The termination of British activity to train Palestinian Authority forces in Judea and Samaria.
3.The denial of entry to Israel of 12 British elected officials and other British citizens involved in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity, as well as those who deny our very right to exist.
4.The British Consulate in Jerusalem is ending its operations today. Accordingly, the sign of the British Consulate in Jerusalem has been removed.
We did not want to reach this point, but the actions of the UK Labour Government brought us here.
Their latest decision in this series was to initiate a range of far-reaching sanctions against the communities in Judea and Samaria, as well as additional sanctions on defence exports to Israel. All this was accompanied by hostile rhetoric, including false accusations against Israel, such as accusations of “ethnic cleansing.”
This decision adds to a growing and escalating series of unilateral measures against Israel adopted by the Labour Government since taking office in July 2024.
These measures included, among others, unilateral recognition of a virtual “Palestinian state” in September 2025; the renewal of funding to UNRWA; the suspension of licences for defence exports to Israel; the imposition of sanctions on Israeli ministers; the imposition of sanctions on Israeli individuals and entities; the suspension of negotiations on a free trade agreement; restrictions on Israel’s official participation in an international defence and security equipment exhibition in Britain; the freezing of military dialogue and security cooperation; the prevention of IDF officers from participating in training at the Royal College of Defence Studies; and repeated, biased and unilateral attacks against Israel in the international arena.
Jonathan Sacerdoti retweeted
Breaking: "As retired senior military leaders and legal experts, on this, the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7, 2023 brutal attack on Israel, we reject claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza." @jinsadc
I am honored to be a part of 76 retired U.S. officers (including 13 Generals, 27 Lieutenant Generals, 19 Major Generals, 5 Brigadier Generals) Refuting the Genocide Allegation Against Israel.
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"The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide."
