End Times Headline News. December 16 2023
IDF troops mistakenly kill 3 hostages. Mossad chief meets Qatari PM. Iran sent an ultimatum to the US. Joe Biden's World War III Fantasy. Machine intelligence now capable of replicating without humans
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IDF troops mistakenly open fire and kill 3 hostages in northern Gaza battlefield
IDF spokesperson: Army bears responsibility for ‘tragic incident’; PM: Unbearable tragedy; Gantz: Heartbroken; Hamas fires barrage at Jerusalem, rocket lands near Ramallah hospital
Israel Defense Force troops mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages in northern Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood as a threat and opened fire at them, killing them, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari announced Friday evening.
Hagari said the IDF bears full responsibility for the “tragic incident,” which took place on Friday morning, “in an area where the soldiers encountered many terrorists, including suicide bombers.”
Initial IDF probe: 3 hostages were shirtless, waving white flag when troops shot them
One of the 3 killed in tragic mistake shouted ‘Help’ in Hebrew; IDF says soldiers fired against protocols; on Wed., troops found ‘SOS’ and ‘Help, 3 hostages’ spray-painted nearby
Three hostages shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood Friday were shirtless, and one of them was carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag, the IDF said Saturday after an initial probe into the tragic incident.
Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz managed to escape Hamas captivity before they were mistakenly shot dead by troops on Friday morning at around 10 a.m.
Mossad chief meets Qatari PM amid Gaza hostage release talks
Barnea is expected to fly to Europe to discuss continued negotiations for hostage release with Al Thani, the Prime Minister of Qatar, for the first time since the collapse of the ceasefire deal.
The head of the Mossad, David Barnea, met with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, in Europe this weekend, to discuss the continued negotiations for a deal to release the hostages in Gaza, Israeli media reported.
Israeli media reported this was the first time that a meeting took place between an Israeli senior official and a Qatari official since the collapse of the week-long ceasefire.
Egypt shoots down Houthi drones aimed at Israel's Eilat
Egyptian air defense shot down a suspected drone off the Red Sea coast near the resort town of Dahab on Egypt's eastern Sinai coast, two security sources said.
A spokesman for Yemen's Iranian-allied Houthis said the group had attacked the Israeli Red Sea resort city of Eilat on Saturday with a swarm of drones.
Egyptian air defense shot down a suspected drone off the Red Sea coast near the resort town of Dahab on Egypt's eastern Sinai coast, two security sources said. The security sources said the drone's origin was unknown.
Hamas fires rocket salvo at Jerusalem for first time since Oct. 30, while Hezbollah escalates in the north
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Emergency sirens sounded in Jerusalem on Saturday as Hamas terrorists fired a barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel’s capital city.
It was the first salvo of rockets aimed at Jerusalem since Oct. 30 and caught residents completely off guard. At least three rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome system.
Sources tell ALL ISRAEL NEWS that two additional rockets landed in the area of Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Palestinian Authority.
Gantz: If world doesn’t push Hezbollah from the northern border, we will
IDF attack helicopter, drone strike South Lebanon targets; sirens blare in Kiryat Shmona; US national security adviser calls for ‘diplomacy’ in eliminating terror threat from north
War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz on Friday warned that Israel would be forced to push the Hezbollah terror group away from the Lebanese border if the international community could not do so through diplomatic means.
Gantz, speaking during a visit to Ma’alot-Tarshiha in the Upper Galilee, said he had invited top Western diplomats to visit the area and realize the threat posed by Hezbollah.
Ukrainian deputy detonates grenades in local parliament (VIDEO)
Explosions in a council chamber in the Transcarpathia Region injured 26 people, according to authorities
At least two dozen people have been injured in a series of blasts during a session of a council in western Ukraine, officials have said, adding that the suspected perpetrator was a local deputy who brought grenades to the meeting.
Local police said that emergency services performed “resuscitation measures on the man who detonated the grenades,” adding that law enforcement operatives and forensic experts were working at the scene.
Cargo ship from EU nation hijacked in Arabian Sea
The incident was reported near the Yemeni coast on Thursday and comes amid attacks by Houthi rebels in the region
A Bulgarian-owned cargo vessel sailing under the Maltese flag was boarded in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Yemen on Thursday, Bulgarian National TV (BNT) has reported. The incident comes amid repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels on shipping in the region, prompting the US to take countermeasures.
Details on the current whereabouts of the vessel, the Ruen, remain unclear.
Biden Administration Empowered Iran's Terror Group, the Houthis
The Houthis have been fortunate to have, as a powerful patron and sponsor, Iran. Their backers in Tehran will not let them run out of ammunition and the Biden administration will not let the Iranian regime run out of funds.
Iran has been employing every political and military tactic possible -- including racing toward nuclear weapons capability -- to complete its objectives of annihilating Israel, driving the United States out of the Middle East, and establishing an Islamist caliphate.
Douglas McGregor: Iran sent an ultimatum to the US after the Houthi attack Navy warship in Red Sea
US Allies scramble fighter jets to intercept China and Russian nuclear bombers
American defense treaty allies South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday in response to long-range air patrols by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers, their militaries said.
The warplane formations merged in the Sea of Japan, or what both Koreas call the East Sea, before carrying out the joint exercises in South Korea’s air defense identification zone within international airspace, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
US knows Ukraine can't win – Kremlin
Washington is basically telling Kiev’s soldiers to “go and die” for nothing, Dmitry Peskov has told NBC
The US has to review its current position on both the Ukraine conflict and relations with Russia if it wants to restore dialogue with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told NBC in an interview published on Friday. Russia is ready to work with any American administration but would very much prefer a “more constructive” approach from Washington, he added.
Luongo: Running On Empty, The US Leaves Zelenskyy Hanging
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made one last ditch effort to plead for US monetary and military support for the war against Russia. President “Biden” all but blackmailed the American people last week over this issue, threatening us with sending our children to fight a war to cover up his corruption and Davos’ antihuman agenda.
The contempt with which I hold these people cannot be overstated. Biden has no more legitimacy to threaten us with fighting a war with Russia for Ukraine than Zelenskyy does. Yet his handlers think nothing of putting those words in his mouth after shoving his morning dose of stimmies into him to prop him up in front of the teleprompter for him to hopefully not misread.
Ukraine on Brink of Humanitarian Collapse, Authorities Admit
Amid battlefield disappointments, the Kiev regime is facing financial woes, with patron states increasingly less eager to send billions down the Ukraine “sinkhole.” President Volodymyr Zelensky returned basically empty-handed from his US visit, while in Europe, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban threw water on Kiev’s fiscal appetites.
Ukrainian citizens will have a hard time scraping by next year, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk warned on Telegram.
Russia Warns If NATO Bases Used For Ukrainian Jets They Could Be Targeted
With the Russia-Ukraine war now approaching the two year mark (in February), Americans might need reminding that the conflict remains a highly dangerous situation which could at any moment escalate into a WW3 scenario.
Zelensky's visit to Washington this week was lackluster, and he left without securing what Kiev is hoping for - that Congress would quickly pass Biden's $106 billion war funding request, which also includes defense funds for Israel. Of course, at this point Zelensky has complained publicly that the crisis in Gaza has taken the world's focus off the need to defend Ukraine from Russia's onslaught.
Scott Ritter: Joe Biden's World War III Fantasy
On July 13, 2023, US President Joe Biden confidently announced to the world that “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin has already lost the war.”
The “war” Biden spoke of was Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.
Biden’s bold statement was made during a press conference with Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, following a meeting with Nordic leaders that came on the heels of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
4th Generation Devastation: The West Has Been Targeted In A Cowardly Globalist Mind War
When I first encountered the concept of 4th Generation Warfare around 20 years ago I was studying the basics of propaganda and how it works. While the core issue is deeply disturbing on a number of levels I also found it fascinating – The ways in which governments and elitists have endeavored to control the masses while at the same time trying to avoid direct confrontation whenever possible.
WHO Recommends No Changes to Current COVID Vaccine
The agency asserts that the current monovalent vaccine, developed for the XBB.1.5 strain, effectively protects against severe illness and death.
The current COVID-19 monovalent vaccine continues to work against new and evolving virus variants, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Advisory Technical Board on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition.
The advisory board meets twice a year to discuss the ongoing efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine and determine whether any changes are needed in the vaccine’s makeup.
Pro-Vaccine Canadian Journalist Who Advocated for Vaxx Passport and Called for Unvaccinated to be Fired Dies at Age 33
Canadian leftist reporter Ian Vandaelle has died at age 33.
Ian promoted the dangerous COVID-19 vaccines and called for those police officers who refused the jab to be fired. Journalist who advocated that the unvaccinated be put in concentration camps dies suddenly at the young age of 33:
“Ian Vandaelle has died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead,” his family revealed.
COVID Kill Shots Poster Boy for the US Military Passes Away SUDDENLY and UNEXPECTEDLY at Age 39
10 Key Measures In The Mammoth Defense Policy Bill
The $886.3 billion defense budget is headed for President Joe Biden’s desk and Congress is headed home for the holidays, its business concluded—albeit not finished—for the year.
The House on Dec. 14 approved the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (FY24 NDAA) in a 310–118 vote, ensuring its passage a day after the Senate adopted the massive appropriations measure in an 87–13 tally.
DAYS OF LOT: Senate staffer caught filming gay sex tape in Senate Hearing Room
Leaked amateur pornography shows a congressional staffer having anal sex with an unknown man in the Senate hearing room, video obtained by the Daily Caller shows.
The alleged staffer can also be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where Senators often sit to ask questions during a hearing. It appears to be unprotected sex.
POINT OF NO RETURN: Scientists say machine intelligence now capable of replicating without humans
Artificial intelligence models can now create smaller AI systems without the help of a human, according to research published Friday by a group of scientists who said the project was the first of its kind.
Essentially, larger AI models — like the kind that power ChatGPT — can create smaller, more specific AI applications that can be used in everyday life, a collaboration between Aizip Inc. and scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several University of California campuses demonstrated.
The following passage is from where I happen to be in my in-depth study. It sums up all I see going by in all my news feeds. One source believes we need to focus here and another says no, focus there, and it's all foolishness that will never resolve anything for any great length of time. Always, the message is "this is all somebody else's fault."
Meanwhile, the Cross and the wisdom of God are rejected as foolishness.
CHRIST THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD
1Cor. 1:18 (CSB)
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved. For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish? For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached. For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
Regarding the three escaping hostages killed by the IDF in Gaza, it’s not the first case of Israelis (and citizens of other countries) being killed by (so-called) “friendly fire” from the Israeli military. See https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/12/15/henningsen-truth-on-oct-7-israel-gunned-down-its-own-people/
I realize that many people who are pro-Israel are blind to the crimes against humanity committed by the state of Israel JUST AS MUCH as I realize that many people who are pro-Palestinian peoples are blind to the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October. Murdering innocent civilians, regardless of the nationality or ethnicity of the victims, is evil. It really ought to be a punishable war crime, but those who (so-call) “win their wars” will never punish themselves. They just want more and more power to “win” the next war. “War is a racket.” https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/198259#:~:text=Originally%20printed%20in%201935%2C%20War,puppet%20for%20big%2Dbusiness%20interests.