In Deep Community Appreciation

"Constable Jeff Smith is] recovering well at home."

"Constable Smith and his family remain incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support shown by the community and beyond over the past several weeks. Every well wish and message of encouragement has been sincerely appreciated."

"Regarding return to work question, right now, the priority is his recovery. We are encouraged by his progress and are pleased that he is able to recover surrounded by the support of family and loved ones." 

Belleville Police Service 

Belleville Police Service officer Const. Jeff Smith, left, with his wife, Ashley, right, and their children. (Ashley Smith/Facebook)

 

 Constable Smith, a 13-year veteran of the Belleville Police Service, was stationed in an unmarked police car outside the Belleville Sons of Jacob Synagogue on September 20, during a Yom Kippur service. A former member of the Canadian Military Force had scoped out the area where he had planned to mount an attack against the synagogue, noting the presence of Constable Smith. On his second round preparing to launch his attack, he came from behind the constable, shouting "You're going to die for the Jews", and shot the seated man. 

 

Several minutes later, another Belleville Police officer came on the scene, Constable Michael McCurdy, to join Constable Smith who despite his serious injuries, shot in the head and the back, had emerged from his vehicle to stop the attacker, 29-year-old Sean Ward. The two officers succeeded in their mission to apprehend what would have been a slaughter had the attacker entered the synagogue with its 25 congregants at prayer. Sean Ward was taken to hospital where he died a day later of the gunshot wounds he had sustained.

 

Constable McCurdy had not been injured in the exchange of gunfire. His colleague, Constable Smith remained in hospital for a number of surgeries addressing his critical injuries, for a month, before finally being released to continue his recovery at home. The event shook the already frail sense of security in the Jewish community, targeted by a viral wave of antisemitism following the Palestinian terror attack that took place in southern Israel three years earlier on 7 October 2023, when thousands of terrorists led by Hamas stormed across the border from Gaza to launch a horrifically savage mass atrocity of rape and slaughter.

 

Police officers talk near the scene of a shooting where a police officer was shot outside a Yom Kippur gathering at Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, September 21, 2026.

(photo credit: REUTERS/PATRICK DOYLE)

 

The courage and determination of the two Belleville police officers shone a badly-needed ray of hope among the Jewish community in the city that radiated outward to embrace the regional, provincial and Canada-wide Jewish community, left reeling after years of public demonstrations by anti-Israel campaigners from the radicalized Muslim community in Canada led by Palestinian students, fuelled by cash from abroad that attracted the support of Canadian academia, unions and far-left groups.

 

The Canadian Jewish community was quick to launch fundraising campaigns to benefit the two police officers. The fundraising campaign for severely wounded Jeff Smith raised an amount just shy of $1 million: $969,110, meant to help the family pay for any costly medical equipment, healing therapeutic requirements he may require, and associated medications. The fundraising campaign for officer Michael McCurdy, thanking him for having "prevented a deliberate, hate-motivated attack on the city's Jewish community from becoming a mass-casualty event", has raised $58,400.  

"Jeff, we wish you strength, healing and peace as you begin this next stage of your recovery."

"We hope you and your family can take some comfort in knowing that thousands of Canadians continue to stand beside you."

Campaign organizer, Derek Kreindler  

Sons of Jacob Synagogue President Norm Weddum sits next to a sign thanking Belleville police officers Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 in Belleville, Ont. Luke Hendry /The Belleville Intelligencer

  

An Active and Ongoing Investigation

"This is a very active and ongoing investigation. While we don’t have any detailed suspect information at this time, I can assure you that we are doing our best to provide information to you with regard to the potential three suspects that we are aware of at this time."

"Typically in an affluent neighborhood come nice things, and there are always people out there that want to acquire nice things. And carjackings used to be a way that criminals would acquire cars. That seems to have transitioned into breaking into a home to steal a vehicle [but not in this case]."

"Once inside, they confronted the family. A struggle ensued during this altercation, in which the suspects fired their guns multiple times and one victim was struck with a hammer." 

Toronto Police Service Inspector Kristy Smith, investigative unit Hold Up Squad  

Toronto police at the scene of the incident. CBC News: The National/ Youtube

 

The violent home invasion in Toronto's Bridle Path neighbourhood occurred as three masked men forced their way into the house owned by Toronto real estate CEO David Morton his wife and their two daughters. The men were armed with guns and a hammer and made their appearance at around 4:00 a.m. on Thursday. On entering the home the three thugs went directly to the second floor bedrooms where they confronted the residents, 75-year-old David Morton, his wife Doriana Zohil-Morton, 64, and their adult daughters Maggie and Cristina Zohil-Morton.

 

The residents attempted to defend themselves from the armed masked marauders and in the melee that erupted all four of the residents were badly injured, repeatedly shot and bludgeoned with the hammer. Mrs. Zohil-Morton and one of her daughters received non-life-threatening injuries, but her husband and a second daughter were in what was described as suffering from life-altering injuries. 

 

Photos of David Morton and Doriana Zohil-Morton. CITYNEWS/Supplied

 

Listed as the CEO of the MAC Group, a real estate services company, David Morton's profile describes him as having been a graduate of the Hospitality and Tourism program at Toronto Metropolitan University (then-Ryerson Institute before the name change). Wife Doriana Zohil-Morton is president of the MAC Group, their daughter Maggie, a graduate of Queen's University, with a master of arts in health promotion from Dalhousie works in sales, operations and marketing at the company. Daughter Christina founded Zohil-Morton Law practise with a focus on immigration. 

 

Police released descriptions of the three suspects warning they are armed and dangerous. All three had worn dark clothing and face masks. All three are described as being in their 20s. One of the intruders, a Black man, had been injured in the cross-fire of the house invasion, shot by one of his colleagues. He had taken himself to hospital to be treated for his wound, and was reported by the hospital to the police. Who picked him up, questioned him, and then released him. The search for the other two is ongoing.  

 

Police tape blocking off the entrance to the Bridle Path home. CBC News: The National/ Youtube

 

Toronto mayor Olivia Chow expressed her sympathies on X, "My thoughts are with the family and their loved ones, who are going through something no family should have to face. I am praying for their full recovery", she wrote. She may be aware that this is a Jewish family; she could give a master class in hypocrisy. Jewish Torontonians have no reason to believe that this mayor of all the people with the exception of the Jewish community, really cares one whit about the safety and security of that segment of the population. Her sanctimonious hypocrisy is highlighted against her record of neglect of Jewish safety in Toronto.

 

For that matter, crime has skyrocketed in the city overalls, and the mayor and the Toronto Police Service appear to have made little effort in bringing down the incidence of violent crimes. Their lack of diligence to the growing problem even as they are aware that criminal gangs prey on residents in home invasions and vehicle thefts requires action, speaks volumes about their incompetence. But then, this is the same mayor and police force that does nothing when Jews in the city are harassed and threatened by 'pro-Palestinian' mobs whose public utterances of racist threats have inspired viral antisemitism to new levels of deliberate terrorism. 

Russia, A Perpetrator of Odious War Crimes

"How many such terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on some Russian oligarchs and the energy sector, instead of de-escalating?"

"These are deliberate strikes against civilians, brazen in their cruelty, and the Russians are carrying them out right as the humanitarian operation in Oleshky is unfolding."

"We need diplomacy to move forward."

"[Our pressing issues are] protecting our power grid from Russian attacks before winter, more U.S.made Patriot air-defence interceptors [to counter Russia's ballistic missiles] and more financial support from our allies abroad."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 

Emergency employees work at a railway station hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine October 29, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

 

At least 14 people were killed and many more wounded Thursday when a Russian drone crashed into a busy railway station platform in Dnipro. This, even while Russia and Ukraine struggle to with a fragile local ceasefire in Oleshky a ravaged city under Russian occupation since 2022, where residents have for months faced severe shortages of food, water and medicine. The third day of the truce passed, but elsewhere Moscow continued its bombing of Ukraine.

 

Ukrainian emergency services released images of bodies lying on the railway platform with rescuers helping victims to safety amidst two burnt-out passenger trains, windows shattered. The strike hit a platform "where a regular commuter train and a regular passenger train were standing", said an outraged Zelenskyy. Russia has, since the first days of its February 2022 invasion, fired drones on trains across Ukraine, in the process destroying hundreds of locomotives and killing railway workers. 

 

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Three jet-powered drones had been intercepted by the Ukrainian air force in the daytime attack; a fourth evaded air defences and slammed into the station. The attack, infuriating Ukraine's president, brought him back to his grievance over U.S. President Trump's catering to Vladimir Putin, easing some sanctions to allow Moscow the release of diesel oil as a placatory measure, into global markets.

 

Another strike in Chernigiv, north of Kyiv, hit the city centre, killing two 15-year-old girls, and wounding close to two dozen other civilians, including four children. A multi-storey residential building in the central city of Kremenchuk was also hit by a drone, where three people died and many others were wounded. These strikes all represent war crimes. Under international rules of conflict, military strikes against civilian populations are prohibited. 

 

A paramedic and police officers carry a person wounded at a railway station platform hit by a Russian drone. Reuters

 

One Count of Offence Motivated by Hatred

"While I wanted to draw attention to the incident, I wanted to focus more on their response."

"These kids are warriors ... Instead of fear and intimidation, these kids have responded with courage and pride and that's what our community needs right now." 

"I'm furious [that the community had to] deal with this garbage. [It made my] blood boil [but I felt] unbelievable pride [in my daughters and their friends]."

Father of two Jewish Western University students 

Police have charged a 56-year-old London man. (Michelle Both/CBC)

 

London, Ontario has become yet another antisemitic hotspot for Canadian Jews beleaguered since 7 October 2023, by festering, viral hatred from unions, university student groups, far-left anti-social groups and in particular the combustible spark that lit these fires, Palestinian students studying in Canadian universities with funding from abroad enabling them to launch never-ending anti-Israel protests that champion Palestinian terrorist groups as 'liberators' from 'occupation'. 

 

Two Jewish students in the city attending Western University, and living in university housing specifically for a majority of Jewish students off campus in downtown London were witness to an incident where a man from a local construction site used a commercial chemical oil-based spray to draw a large Nazi swastika on the ground before their housing complex. His actions were viewed by many, including non-Jews in the neighbourhood, some of whom took videos of the occurrence.

 

The father of the two students who reported the event to news media, mentioned in very particular how buoyed he felt over the fact that non-Jewish neighbourhood allies gave their full support to the Jewish students over the hateful outrage. He posted a video of the event to Instagram of the swastika drawn next door to his daughters' home.   

"To those who believe they can frighten Jewish students into hiding their identity, I've got news for you. You're dealing with the wrong generation."

"[Rather than victims] our kids are growing up to be warriors."

"Warriors of courage. Warriors of conviction."

Jewish father  

Ring camera footage captured by a property on St. George Street in downtown London shows a man drawing a swastika onto the surface of a gravel parking lot. (Submitted by Darren Slavens)

 

A police statement described having been informed that a man "completing construction work" in the city had used workplace equipment to create the hateful Nazi symbol. Nearby residents who had taken photographs and videos of the incident as it unfolded, provided police with the evidence required to track down the identity of the man and apprehend him with commission of a criminal act.

 

Which led to the arrest on October 23 of a 56-year-old resident of London who was charged with one count of offence motivated by hatred.  

"Chabad at Western's Rabbis arrived on the scene within minutes to support Jewish students and ensure they felt safe and cared for."

"They immediately contacted the London Police Service and the hate crime unit to help emphasize the urgency and seriousness of the incident, contributing to a swift police response."

Local Jewish groups joint statement 

 

Canada's Globe-Trotting Prime Minister Visits The Middle East : Addled or Evil?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara last week. Photo by ADEM ALTAN /AFP via Getty Images

 

"As NATO Allies, Canada and Turkiye are bound together by shared values: human rights, individual liberties, democracy and the rule of law."

Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joint statement 

 

"[Canada could not defend the gay rights of its own citizens other than as a] truly sovereign nation."

"[Sovereign nationhood requires a] broad range  of partnerships." 

"The engagement in those partnerships does not mean approval." 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

 

"Saudi nationals and foreigners have been sentenced to lengthy jail sentences for social media activities, including posts or simple 'likes'."

"This included social media activity that took place outside Saudi Arabia and sometimes many years in the past."

Canada's Global Affairs, travel warning to Canadians 

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he arrives at the Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, July 9, 2026. Adrian Wyld (The Canadian Press)

 

Back in the summer of 2026, Canada's Prime Minister Carney decided on a trip to Saudi Arabia which his office lauded as "the first visit to the country by a Canadian Prime Minister in 26 years". In his zeal to reach out to prospective trade partners in the midst of a prolonged trade war with American President Donald Trump, Mr. Carney has sought out potential trade partners. In a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon, Mr. Carney enthused over a "partnership ... based on trust, friendship and a shared vision of confronting global challenges with pragmatic, swift and tangible cooperation", in Jeddah.  

 

First was a trip to China in January where meeting with Premier Xi Jinping in Beijing, Canada's premier praised the People's Republic of China as a partner in a "new world order". How quickly and conveniently is forgotten the Canadian Parliament's censure of China over its cultural genocide of the Uyghurs. Meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Mr. Carney said effusively "The world has changed much since that last visit (by previous PM Jean Chretien) and I believe the progress that we have made, and the partnership, sets us up well for the new world order." Followed by a joint statement pledging closer "law enforcement cooperation" between Beijing and Canada.

 

Both China and Canada are looking to strengthen trade ties amid Trump's tariffs

 

These trips were followed up more recently by trips to Qatar and Turkey, both allies of the terrorist group Hamas, proscribed as such on Canada's official terrorist list. Doha has been the locale of the official political office of Hamas for over a decade. Only two weeks before Mr. Carney's visit to Turkey, a Hamas delegation was hosted by Turkey's foreign Minister, where President Erdogan praised Hamas as a "group of liberators". 

 

Canada, through the outreach of its latest prime minister, has chosen ostensible trade partners in a strange coalition where both Qatar and Turkey according to the Global Slavery Index, are both involved in slave labour. "Turkey has up to 1.3 million people living in modern slavery". Rights organizations accused Qatar of constructing its venue of the 2022 World Cup with migrant forced labour. Unenviable human rights abuse practices, glossed over by a Western democracy that prides itself on its defence of human rights.

 

Qatar was graced by a visit with Mr. Carney in January, and a three-day visit to Turkey wrapped up last week. During the Carney visit to Turkey a government crackdown took place on gay rights organizations. According to Human Rights Watch, infractions such as a social media post of two men embracing could result in raids on gay rights non-profits and the arrests of staff. Global Affairs Canada signed a letter by the Equal Rights Coalition that denounced the persecution of LGBTIQ+ activists ... "under the pretext of protecting children, adolescents, or the family". 

"Qatar is an effective, expansive, and increasing diplomatic force in the world today."

"[Looking forward to a] future marked by even deeper cooperation and prosperity, that is strengthened by mutual trust, close friendship and a common vision for advancing the partnership between the two friendly nations." 

Prime Minister Mark Carney 

Carney is greeted by Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as he arrives to Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

 

 

Muslim Brotherhood Entryism in Canada

"[The TCMV] is a national, non-partisan charity empowering Canadian Muslims through civic engagement and education."

"[It does not] endorse parties, tell you how to vote, lobby politicians, or preach religion."

The Canadian Muslim Vote website

 

"[The Canadian Muslim Vote's mandate is to] empower Canadian Muslims through civic education, political engagement, and leadership, fostering an informed and active community that contributes to Canada's democracy."

"That means encouraging everyone, including our community, to get involved in Canada's democratic system."

"[TCMV does not target some 60 to 80 ridings for the purpose to mobilize Muslim voters, but it] encouraged all Canadians, including all Canadian Muslims, to get out and vote."

Jeff Saikaley, TCMV legal spokesperson

 

"Under the radar, Canada is being infiltrated."

"In the West -- in Canada, but in other Western democratic countries -- we don't really understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is."

"It sounds like a benevolent organization. It's a nice name, [but] we don't understand the ideology, the goals, the religious worldview of the Brotherhood, what the strategic and military or philosophical underpinnings are, and they have mastered us."

Charles Small, founder/director, ISGAP (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy) "The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research."

"It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias."

"It amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society."

Muslim Association of Canada 

Recently releasing a 200-page study, ISGAP outlines an organized campaign of pro-Palestinian activism and anti-Islamophobia charges that -- the international Islamist group that is outlawed in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, but has sprawling outreach globally -- the Muslim Brotherhood and other allied groups have been engaging in, fomenting antisemitism in Canada. Funded through sophisticated financial channels by Qatar, they have infiltrated and established positions of influence within many of Canada's largest and most academically trusted universities.

 

The University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Toronto Metropolitan University are given special attention in the report where "consistent concerns are identified". Those concerns are inclusive of limited disclosures on sources of foreign funding, a reluctance to disclose intellectual property contracts, plus "use of campus environments as platforms for sustained mobilization, coalition building, and narrative development", among other allied issues.

 

Through Qatar's sovereign Qatar Investment Fund or Qatar National Research Fund, financing activities have backed Canadian university programs which frequently  have rules on limited disclosures. A number of research projects backed by Qatar in such strategic fields as smart grids, carbon systems and secure communications are listed. Details surrounding issues such as intellectual property rights, data access or contractual terms, fail to be disclosed at Toronto Metropolitan University, Waterloo and University of Toronto.

Anti-Israel Protest on the anniversary of 7 October 2023, Moment of silence during vigil held outside of Sidney Smith Hall. CELESTA MANIATOGIANNI/THE VARSITY University of Toronto

 

The influence that has permeated these universities has resulted in their campuses becoming hotbeds of pro-Palestine sentiments, university administrators frequently opting to silence critics and bypass pro-Israel events, according to the report. Responding to an investigative journalist's requests, a spokesperson for University of Toronto  confirmed 11 research grants totalling $1.75M in value from the Qatar National Research Fund. An amount, pointed out the university, minuscule in comparison to the billions it receives from fundraising sources. 

"The university is not subject to foreign influence via research awards, donations or partnerships."

"The university has robust policies that protect the academic integrity of the institution and safeguard research independence and autonomy, and all partnerships and funding agreements comply with these policies and with Canadian regulations."

"[Claims by the report that campus groups at University of Toronto and students support anti-Israel ideation are] without merit." 

University of Toronto spokesperson (name withheld)

An anti-Israel protest outside Concordia University in Montreal on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia

 

The ISGAP report outlines how groups such as the Muslim Association of Canada aid in advancing ideologies of interests sympathetic to the causes of the Muslim Brotherhood through affiliation with non-profits and other groups based in Canada. The Canada Revenue Agency preliminary audit of Muslim Association of Canada alleged that some of its activities "appear to be in furtherance of the Muslim Brotherhood organization"; that many activities of the charity failed the test of explicit charity designation.
 

 That the Muslim Association of Canada had widened its holdings of real estate property which totalled $12 million in 2006 to over $51 million nine years later, it was the Canada Revenue Agency's position that these property holdings investments were of a non-charitable purpose, in direct contradiction to their claims. "There appears to be a significant difference between what the MAC represents it stands for and the activities that it appears to conduct." To substantiate the CRA's observation of links to the Muslim Brotherhood, it pointed out that members of the Brotherhood on coming to Canada, become members of the Muslim Association of Canada

 

The ISGAP report concludes by calling for a number of policy changes; greater oversight of academic partnerships with foreign entities at universities, among them. Along with greater transparency for foreign funding to universities, and granting additional review powers for government agencies toward non-profits and charities. A universal unfamiliarity with the geopolitical aims of these foreign entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood invariably leads to a lack of critical sovereign awareness.

 

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney poses for a photo at the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) Eid Festival in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 6, 2025.  Arab Weekly

  

"Recent Islamist terror attacks in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu remind us of the mounting terrorist threats facing Canadians. But evidence gathered by Point de Bascule indicates that the main danger facing Canada may go beyond the violent jihadist threat — and be made worse — by a little-discussed associated phenomenon, the penetration of our institutions by Islamists."

"There are two consequences to this penetration. First, it reduces Canada's ability to respond to the violent Islamist threat, and second, it leads to the gradual introduction of sharia rules in Canada."

"By penetration, I refer to the presence of Islamists and their sympathizers within a range of institutions from political and government organizations to NGOs and corporate entities. Those involved could themselves range from non-violent fundamentalists attempting, whether clandestinely or otherwise, to sway policy from the inside, to those that are violently inclined."

"Particular concerns have been raised about sabotage risks that could be posed by penetration of security or emergency services, no small worry when one considers what the Muslim Brotherhood revealed in a document produced for evidentiary purposes in the most important anti-terrorism trial in the U.S. in 2008.

This is an excerpt from what is described as an internalization memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it comes from their own memorandum: "The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers."

Marc Lebuis, founding director, independent research organization Point de Bascule, 2015 testimony at the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence  

"[The Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood] support violence and destabilization campaigns that harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests.

"The military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian factions to launch multiple rocket attacks against both civilian and military targets within Israel."

U.S. government 2025 terrorism designation for the Muslim Brotherhood  

 

The Death Cult That Refuses to Fade Into Obscurity and Failure

"Senior group members claimed that IDF activity in the Gaza Strip, the moving of the Yellow Line, and the cancellation of the [Palestinian] elections by the Palestinian Authority are leading Hamas to lose control in the field, and clarified that they are unwilling to accept the continuation of this situation." 

"Against this backdrop, they threatened that, as they see fit, Hamas is ready to again carry out an attack such as the October 7 attack, and that it is prepared to act in this vein on any front in which this becomes possible — in the State of Israel, in Judea and Samaria, and abroad."

"This is an unusual threat message, which hasn’t been previously conveyed in this level of bluntness and directness."

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoram Halevy

Palestinians wave the national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the southern Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis on October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

The Israeli news website Ynet reported that senior Hamas officials had given a message to Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN humanitarian coordinator, meeting at his office in Gaza a week ago, that it was prepared to carry out another attack similar in its savage sadism and scope to that of October 7, 2023, when thousands of Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas jihadi operatives flooded into Israel to launch a planned massacre of Israelis. 

Its options, it indicated, went beyond southern Israel, the regional locale of its 7 October attack which could take place anywhere in Israel, in Judea, Samaria, and quite possibly at an overseas locale of their choice. They plan to seize an opportunity wherever it may arise and then strike. Hamas, they informed Dr. Alakbarov, is constrained in its Gaza operations, with the presence of Israeli military operations still ongoing.

 

The IDF's decisions to shift the Yellow Line demarking the border with Israel, alongside the cancellation of Palestinian elections scheduled for November, by a decision made by President Mahmoud Abbas who is obviously quite aware of his personal unpopularity among Palestinian voters, who would vote instead to elevate the Hamas leadership to the governing role of the Palestinian Territories has aggravated them beyond endurance. 

 

Upon receiving the message from the terrorist group which is adamant it will not surrender its weapons as demanded by the international group overseeing Gaza prior to taking steps for reconstruction, Dr. Alakbarov advised Major General Yoram Halevy, Israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT), of the Hamas threat to resume where they left off, before Israel's response in invading Gaza to flush out the terrorist hordes and destroy their weapons and command depots. 

 

From there the message was relayed directly to Israel's political and security leaders, engrossed in the upcoming general election for October 27. According to Ynet, Hamas refused to accept the continuation of the stalemated situation, with the IDF continuing to occupy and control a major portion of the Gaza Strip, leaving Hamas with the remainder where they fought against Gaza tribal forces determined to unseat them from power. The message received by Israeli authorities represented a threat 'unprecedented' in its blunt directness.

 

Leading to intensified concerns that Hamas has made preparations for another violent confrontation. Israeli authorities are well aware that since the ceasefire, Hamas has taken advantage of the time to rearm, recruit and turn once more to schemes of achieving its goal of destroying Israel. Hamas leaders deemed Israel's focus on its elections with their inner disputes would represent a distraction from giving the threat uts full attention, to advantage Hamas in its plans of returning to the offensive. 

 

Hamas fighters secure an area in a square before handing over four Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Gaza City on Jan. 25, 2025. Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images

The Israeli security cabinet was forced to take time out from election pursuits to analyze the threat of renewed conflict where Hamas has reportedly transferred military equipment into civilian areas in its usual pattern of shielding itself behind the civilian population, using schools, hospitals and private homes to camouflage its presence, with the intention of having civilian casualties as they accumulate, used in accusations against Israel deliberately harming Palestinian non-combatants, women and children that the West takes as reality as a cudgel to beat Israel with, charging the Jewish state with 'genocide'.

Even as Israel understands that Hamas anticipates its response will be restrained by the chaos of the looming election, and with the United States embroiled in its own midterm elections failing to react as previously, Israel will not be constrained, it is more than able to handle both its polls and its security. This, while reports advise that Hamas may no longer be capable of launching an attack on the scale of its devastating October 7 stealth slaughter. 

Word also is that the terrorist organization is in financial crisis, unable to meet its military payrolls -- with estimates that the number of Hamas personnel stands at approximately 30,000, each of whom is given the equivalent of $970 as a monthly combat wage. U.S. President Trump's Board of Peace still calls upon Hamas to disarm under the July 30 Gaza Roadmap, the framework for the U.S.-brokered plan to end the conflict to be implemented. 

Masked members of the special unit of the Al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas, demonstrate their military skills during a pro-Hamas election rally on April 29, 2005, in the Nusairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. (Abid Katib/Getty Images)