by the Home Front Command starting at 18:00 today.
Haifa is on the "front line" in any action in the north but this blog looks at life in the shadow of danger to all of Israel
The Gazans claim: “A new massacre among those waiting to receive aid packages.”
It seems the Gazans are trying to get some attention back, after “all eyes” are currently on Tehran…
The Gazan Ministry of Health claims there are 45 dead and hundreds wounded as a result of gunfire directed at Gazans who were waiting for aid near “Al-Takhliya Junction” in Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Strip.
The Gazan channels are endlessly “pumping up” the event, but it’s clear that there’s an “organized show” going on here. Videos from the entrance to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis show there is a lot of noise, a lot of shouting, a lot of extras putting on a performance – but there are hardly any casualties…
They even bothered to bring in, as an extra, our acquaintance from previous videos, the TikTok star Awad Barbach – who shouts a bit at the hospital entrance.
Gaza is not the main event anymore, they want their stories back in the headlines...
Iran is resorting to the use of cryptrocurrency in order to bypass the sanctions imposed by the West.
It is now reported that 95% of the assets of the Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex vanished due to a breach by a hacker group called “The Predatory Freedom,” which is identified with Israel.
According to an Israeli military correspondent, the Nobitex exchange is linked to Iranian efforts to circumvent the sanctions imposed on Iran by using cryptocurrencies.
As of today, according to foreign sources, the amount of digital currency
in wallets connected to this exchange dropped from $1.8 billion to just $100
million.
For full report see https://honestreporting.com/cnn-exploits-arab-israeli-familys-death-to-push-narrative-of-bomb-shelter-discrimination-against-palestinians/
In the early hours of Sunday
morning, a missile launched by Iran struck the northern Israeli town of Tamra,
near Haifa, killing four women from the same Arab Israeli family.
But CNN wasn’t content to report the tragedy with facts.
Instead, it used the Khatib family’s death to push an ugly and misleading
narrative: that Israel is running a system of bomb shelter “inequality” between
Israelis and “Palestinian citizens of Israel.”
In a report titled “Iranian strikes expose bomb shelter shortage for
Palestinian towns inside Israel,” published after Chief
International Correspondent Clarissa Ward’s visit to Tamra, CNN describes the
town as “somber, compounded by anger over a lack of adequate bomb shelters—an
issue that Palestinian citizens of Israel have long warned was a glaring inequality.”
They cite the town’s mayor, who
claims just 40% of Tamra’s 37,000 residents have access to a safe room or
shelter. CNN offers no evidence that the Khatib family lacked a shelter. In
fact, other international outlets—including The Guardian—have reported that the family had
two safe rooms, one on each floor of their home. Yet CNN builds an entire
narrative on the unverified assumption that they did not.
Instead of establishing facts, the report relies on implication
and generalization—using one family’s tragedy to frame a broader accusation of
systemic discrimination.
But here’s what CNN doesn’t tell its audience:
·
Over
half of all Israeli homes—Jewish, Muslim, or Christian—lack access to a safe
room. According to the Israel Builders Association, as of late 2024,
roughly 1.67 million of Israel’s 3 million residential units still have no
reinforced shelter.
·
Many
Israeli cities—including Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, and Rishon LeZion—have huge
populations living in older buildings without safe rooms. Bat Yam, where two
children were killed by Iranian missiles, has long been flagged for its
vulnerability.
·
In
1992, Israel amended its Civil Defense Law to focus on private shelters,
aiming to allow people quicker access within their homes instead of forcing
them to run through streets. But the effort has been uneven. Israel’s aging
population—over 1.2 million people above age 70—still faces serious risks. These
are not comfortable statistics. But they are the reality for millions of
Israelis—Jewish and Arab alike.
So when CNN isolates Arab towns like Tamra from this broader
national picture, it doesn’t shed light on inequality—it distorts it. The
result is a politicized narrative built on omission and insinuation.
To wield the unspeakable loss of one family as a political
cudgel, as CNN has done, is not only dishonest—it’s disgraceful.
This photo follows an interception of the "Aid" boat.