IDF says over 70 Hezbollah sites hit as troops advance near south Lebanon’s Nabatieh

IDF says over 70 Hezbollah sites hit as troops advance near south Lebanon’s Nabatieh

Emanuel Fabian

The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it struck over 70 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, targeting rocket launchers and buildings allegedly used by the terror group to advance attacks, after the army issued evacuation warnings for over 20 locations.

The military added that it killed several Hezbollah operatives identified in areas of southern Lebanon where troops were operating.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported airstrikes in several areas covered by the evacuation warnings, including the villages of Rihan and Sujud, located not far from the city of Nabatieh, which is considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said one of its soldiers was seriously wounded in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese Armed Forces, the soldier was first targeted near a hospital in Nabatieh, without being injured.

He was then targeted again on a road between Kfar Roummane and Nabatieh, “resulting in him sustaining serious injuries,” the LAF said.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF.

The Lebanese army withdrew from its positions in the southern town of Kfar Tebnit, close to Nabatieh, as the IDF advanced in the area, according to Lebanese media.

Footage published by Lebanese media shows armored vehicles of the LAF driving away from Kfar Tebnit on the outskirts of Nabatieh.

In a separate statement, the IDF said that seven Hezbollah operatives who were operating out of a tunnel in southern Lebanon were killed in strikes this week.

According to the military, reservists of the 551st Paratroopers Brigade spotted two cells of Hezbollah gunmen emerging from the tunnel, which was used by Hezbollah to store weapons and to carry out attacks.

The operatives were killed in airstrikes, artillery shelling, and by explosive drones, the army said, adding that troops found weapons and equipment near the tunnel afterward.

Separately, the IDF said troops were continuing to scan a massive Hezbollah tunnel system near the Beaufort Castle. In one of the tunnel routes, where several Hezbollah operatives tried to break free several days ago, Israeli forces located maps “illustrating control of the area over the northern [Israel] communities.”

The major tunnel system, which the IDF says was built by Hezbollah with Iranian direct assistance, is to be demolished once troops have finished scanning it.

Additionally, the army said on Saturday that a suspected Hezbollah drone struck near Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon. No injuries were caused in the incident.

Israel has struggled to fend off growing attacks on troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel by Hezbollah’s first-person view drones, which are largely impervious to jamming technology. The terror group has also fired rockets and other types of UAVs, hitting both military and civilian targets.

The current bout of conflict began when Hezbollah started attacking northern Israel with rockets and drones in support of Iran days after the US and Israel launched the war with the Islamic Republic in late February.

An April ceasefire in Lebanon collapsed, and the fighting has continued despite a new conditional truce deal announced last week after Lebanese-Israeli talks in Washington.

Thirty IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah since hostilities escalated amid the Iran war. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.

UNRWA fires 70 Gaza staffers amid Israeli accusations agency staff riddled with Hamas operatives

UNRWA fires 70 Gaza staffers amid Israeli accusations agency staff riddled with Hamas operatives

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it fired 70 staffers in Gaza “to mitigate safety and security risks for the refugees” amid Israeli accusations that many of its staffers are Hamas operatives.

Announcing the move on Thursday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) temporary head Christian Saunders says the firings take place with “immediate effect” and “were taken further to an assessment of the safety and security of UNRWA operations in Gaza.”

However, the statement does not mention Hamas and states that “the dismissal of the staff is not part of a disciplinary process and does not constitute in any way a validation of the claims made against them.”

“UNRWA has repeatedly asked the Israeli authorities to provide information and evidence to substantiate allegations against individual UNRWA staff members in Gaza, but has received no response to date,” the statement claims.

Israel has repeatedly alleged and shown evidence that employees of the agency were actively involved in terror groups in the Gaza Strip, and some participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and slaughter. Israel has also shown repeated use of UNRWA infrastructure for terror activities and provided evidence that the agency’s schools incited hatred of Israel and glorification of attacks against Israelis.

UN Watch, the prominent pro-Israel lobbying group at the United Nations, welcomes the move, but accuses UNWRA of hypocrisy in refusing to openly acknowledge the links to Hamas.

“Our sustained documentation of UNRWA’s deep infiltration by Hamas — including our UNRWA Terror Network map identifying at least 400 culprits — together with the USAID Inspector General, has finally forced the agency’s hand,” says Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. “

“For years, UN Watch has exposed how UNRWA teachers, school principals and other employees are intertwined with Hamas, including terror chiefs heading the staff unions. Today’s action, while welcome, is only a small beginning,” says  Neuer.

“This incoherent position — firing people while refusing to acknowledge why — reveals an institution still more interested in protecting itself and its Hamas-embedded workforce than in genuine neutrality or accountability,” UN Watch says.

‘Epic Scandal’: Bill Gates Donated Hundreds Of Millions To NIH To Influence Research Priorities That Benefited His Foundation

‘Epic Scandal’: Bill Gates Donated Hundreds Of Millions To NIH To Influence Research Priorities That Benefited His Foundation

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Bill Gates used his wealth and influence to partner with key National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials in an attempt to steer NIH research toward priorities favored by Gates and the Gates Foundation, an NIH whistleblower alleges.

As Gates cultivated these ties, the NIH, under the leadership of Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci gave Gates the red-carpet treatment at NIH events, the whistleblower alleged.

RealClearInvestigations and The Disinformation Chronicle published the allegations on Tuesday. The whistleblower, a former NIH official, asked to remain anonymous.

Illustrating the extent of Gates’ influence, the whistleblower told The Disinformation Chronicle that the combined funding of Gates and the NIH represents “57% of global health R&D” — or research and development.

“If you’re a researcher complaining about the two entities that control over half of the funding for public health, where do you then go to get funding for public health?” The Disinformation Chronicle wrote in a follow-up post today.

Paul D. Thacker, who authored the report for both outlets, said documents shared by the whistleblower show that Gates used his wealth to curry influence at NIH.

“What I found so interesting when reporting this piece is how nobody wanted to speak on the record,” Thacker said. “Nobody wants to get in crossways with either NIH or Gates by criticizing their cozy relationship.”

The whistleblower produced evidence of NIH-Gates partnerships in Africa to promote vaccines for Ebola and other diseases — partnerships that originated after substantial financial contributions by the Gates Foundation to the NIH.

According to the whistleblower, the partnerships also involved alleged conflicts of interest with McKinsey & Company, a private consulting firm that advised pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers while working with Gates and the NIH to promote vaccines in Africa.

The allegations follow the Trump administration’s announcement last week that it would reengage with the Gates-linked Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, one year after ending its funding of the organization. The Gates Foundation funded Gavi’s launch in 1999 and holds a permanent seat on its board.

Gates testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight, as part of its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. He told the committee that Epstein tried to use information about his marital infidelities to pressure him to “re-engage with him.”

Revelations contained in the Epstein Files showed that Gates and Epstein worked to finance “pandemic preparedness” initiatives and online research platforms to help influence scientific research.

Jeffrey Tucker, president and founder of the Brownstone Institute, said the whistleblower’s allegations are a “rare example of a fully documented case of agency capture.”

“Bill Gates had zero training in virology and no understanding. And yet he bought influence at NIH that fit with his investment interests,” Tucker said. “Thacker’s investigative reporting here is not only a bombshell, it reveals an epic scandal stretching back decades.”

According to Thacker’s report, the Gates Foundation has donated “hundreds of millions of dollars” to NIH in the last 25 years, allowing the billionaire “to shape the direction of the country’s health strategy in ways that have benefitted his own priorities and pet causes while polishing his image as a benevolent global do-gooder.”

Gates Foundation donations led to partnerships with “high-ranking NIH officials to steer taxpayer research funding and design scientific policies for several federal programs.”

The partnerships began soon after the Gates Foundation (then the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) was established in 2000 with an initial $20 billion endowment.

“Rather than working exclusively through non-governmental agencies, the Gates Foundation began contributing to the NIH through the agency’s own nonprofit, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH),” Thacker reported.

In 2003, the Gates Foundation launched its relationship with the FNIH by means of a $200 million donation, intended to fund NIH scientific programs. Thacker described this as “an unprecedented sum,” citing warnings by scientists and researchers that the donations were shifting the NIH’s research priorities.

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Pakistan PM says US-Iran peace deal signing expected within 24 hours

Pakistan PM says US-Iran peace deal signing expected within 24 hours

Reuters

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says that the United States and Iran have agreed to a framework for a peace deal that would end the months-long conflict in the Middle East, with a final text of the deal reached.

Pakistan is now preparing for an electronic signing expected within the next 24 hours, followed by technical-level talks next week, Sharif added.

The Spirit Of Antichrist:

The Spirit Of Antichrist: Humanity Is Increasingly Looking For Answers, Hope, And Salvation From Sources Other Than The Creator

David Bowen

Anti-Christ: Opposite of Christ or Instead of Christ? The greatest deception of the last days may not be the rejection of God, but the acceptance of substitutes for God. “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour” (1 John 2:18).

Is the Antichrist alive today? Will he be European? How much of today’s technology is capable of fulfilling Revelation 13? These are questions I have been asked just this week. Yet while these questions are important, they often miss a deeper truth about the spirit of antichrist already at work in the world.

Most people think “antichrist” means someone who stands in direct opposition to Christ. While opposition is certainly involved, the Greek meaning carries another powerful implication: instead of Christ.

Humanity is increasingly looking for answers, hope, security, wisdom, and salvation from sources other than the Creator. The spirit of antichrist is conditioning mankind to trust something—or someone—instead of God.

On July 23, 2025, the White House released Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan, a roadmap designed to secure American dominance in artificial intelligence. The stated goal was clear: to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security through AI.

To support this initiative, three executive orders were issued that accelerated AI infrastructure, expanded governmental adoption of artificial intelligence, and promoted American leadership in AI worldwide.

Among the priorities were:

• Massive expansion of data center infrastructure

• Government standards for AI deployment, eliminating all “woke” AI.

• Global leadership and influence through artificial intelligence

The message is unmistakable: technology will solve our problems, secure our future, and elevate humanity. Scripture warns us that mankind has always sought salvation through human achievement. From the Tower of Babel to the coming Beast system, humanity repeatedly attempts to build a future apart from God.

Artificial intelligence itself is not the antichrist. Technology is not inherently evil. However, when society begins placing its faith in technological solutions rather than God’s wisdom, it reveals a heart posture that is increasingly comfortable with living instead of God.

The Bible also speaks of a future period, the Tribulation, of unprecedented death and suffering. However, Scripture identifies the source not as random demographic trends but as the judgments associated with the coming Tribulation period.

The world eagerly listens to scientific predictions about the future while largely ignoring biblical prophecy. The issue is not whether scientists possess useful information. The issue is where humanity places its ultimate trust. When people accept scientific forecasts as certain truth while dismissing God’s revealed Word, they are choosing authority instead of God.

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