Out of Israel

Israel is active on all fronts.

On the homefront, the Israeli parliament voted overwhelmingly to ban United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) operations in Israel after hearing evidence that the humanitarian organization has been infiltrated by Hamas. The Biden administration and international community strongly oppose the move, worried it will push the UNRWA out of the region and deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.

In northern Gaza, more than 50,000 civilians have been evacuated as Israel seeks to eliminate “pockets of Hamas militants.” After the IDF surrounded a refugee camp and conducted a hospital raid, some 600 terrorists were apprehended and hundreds more killed. An overnight Israeli strike in a residential area of the same city killed 50-100 Palestinians, including civilians.

Farther north in Lebanon, Hezbollah, whose previous commander was killed in September, named its new leader. 

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Verse to consider as you pray for the peaceful end of conflicts worldwide…“I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and he will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.”
Zechariah 9:10 (CSB) (read full passage)