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ISRAEL WAR DIARY: 27 JULY 2025

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Sometimes – often – I’ve been waking up Sunday mornings with a deep pit of dread in my stomach knowing I have to write this weekly summary. The reason for this is that I like to be hopeful, rather than a bearer of doom, but honestly friends, things are so bad.

Take the fake “Starvation in Gaza” campaign by the terrorists of Hamas, who are determined to survive and all they need is the influx of UN donations via food trucks to do so. If they can’t steal the aid and sell it to the “starving” Gazans, what’s a terrorist organization to do? Lay down their arms? Give up the hostages? Go live in Qatar? Unthinkable. So why not use fake AI created images of a non-existent famine – you know skinny kids, crying moms, etc. – to get Israel to allow in the UN truckloads to fill their coffers? The Western media, that hates Israel, will lap it up. Lammy, that British Nazi, will viciously condemn Israel for human rights abuses against the barbaric Hamas. It would be funny if it wasn’t so deadly serious.

Now, I don’t blame Hamas. They are evil incarnate trying to survive. But that otherwise intelligent people all over the world are lapping this up? I have a dear friend, a rabbi I really respect, who wrote an embarrassing column about how Israel’s awful PR and the starvation campaign are hurting Jews in the Diaspora.  I had a faithful reader who wanted to know if it was true that the IDF was shooting dozens of Gazan civilians waiting on line to receive aid from the GHF (the American aid distributor which actually gives free aid to the Gazans).  Isn’t it clear that Hamas is shooting those on line to get the free aid??  Isn’t it clear that the IDF shoots when Hamas infiltrates and endangers aid seekers and IDF soldiers? Do I really have to spell that out?!

Well, primitive and ridiculous and transparent as the Hamas campaign may be, it has also been wildly successful, actually forcing Israel to suspend military activities and allow UN trucks to haul its treasures to Hamas warehouses, prolonging the war. Israel is also dropping aid from the skies! OMG! Sickening.

Abu Ali: “The Palestinian commentator and Hamas supporter, Saeed Ziad, summarizes the achievements of the ‘Hunger in Gaza’ campaign, which began about a week and a half ago, publishing documentation of newspaper headlines in Western media outlets and writes: ‘This pressure is what caused the enemy to make concessions. This pressure is what brought about the entry of the trucks. This pressure must continue.’ He then added the hashtag: #Gaza_is_dying_of_hunger”

In case you were wondering: IDF Spokesperson: “There is no starvation in Gaza; this is a false campaign by the terrorist organization Hamas.”

Tonight, the IDF will resume airdropping food over the Strip. The airdrop operation will be carried out in cooperation with international organizations and the IDF, led by COGAT and the Air Force. The airdrop will include seven pallets of aid containing flour, sugar, and canned food, which will be provided by international organizations.

This week alone, more than 250 aid trucks were unloaded, joining the hundreds of trucks waiting at the crossings to be collected by the UN and international organizations.

In addition, about 600 trucks were collected by the UN and international organizations and distributed throughout the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, in accordance with the decision of the political echelon, the IDF, through COGAT and in cooperation with the Israel Electric Corporation, connected the “Kela” power line to operate the southern desalination plant, which is expected to supply about 20,000 cubic meters of water per day, instead of the 2,000 supplied so far, in order to provide for approximately 900,000 residents in the area.

I’d like to point out that in Iran, there is no water. Water outages and electricity outages in Teheran can run for as long a 40 hours. But G-d forbid the terrorists of Hamas, and the people who put them in power and support them should be thirsty.  It makes me want to punch my fist through a wall!

Israel Today: “Hamas rejected the ‘Witkoff plan’ to end the war, and instead launched the ‘Gaza is starving’ campaign. The world ate it up (pun intended), and now Hamas is receiving supplies in return for nothing. Don’t expect a deal anytime soon. Not so long as Hamas can get what it wants for free.”

Yehoshua Mosbacher, 26, was wounded in southern Gaza on July 19 and succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

Amir Saad, 22, a Druze officer in the elite Golani Reconnaissance Unit, fell in battle in southern Gaza.

Yinon Nuriel Vana, 20, also from the Golani Reconnaissance Unit, fell in battle in southern Gaza.

May their memories be a blessing.

On Thursday, eight soldiers were hurt in a car-ramming terror attack at the Beit Lid Junction in central Israel, near Kfar Yona. The driver fled the scene. On Saturday, police arrested Arkan Khaled, a 27-year-old Israeli resident of Taybeh, who was caught while hiding at a construction site in the town of Kfar Yona.

Israel Today: “Over 1,000 Druze residents on the Golan Heights have applied for Israeli citizenship in the first half of 2025, double the total who applied in all of 2024. Golan Druze for decades rejected Israeli citizenship for fear their region would one day be returned to Syria as part of a peace deal and they’d be branded traitors. They now realize Israel is their only hope.”

And now to end on the only hopeful note I can think of. The Israeli Knesset voted 71-13 to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

“Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley are an inseparable part of the Land of Israel – the historic, cultural and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people,” the preamble to the resolution states. “Centuries and millennia before the establishment of the modern state, the forefathers and prophets of the nation lived and acted in these regions,” it continues. “Here, the foundations of Jewish faith and culture were laid. Cities like Hebron, Shechem (Nablus), Shiloh and Beit El are not merely historical sites – are living expressions of the continuous Jewish presence in the land.”

The motion was passed as a Hatza’a l’Seder Yom, or “Suggestion for discussion on the agenda,” a parliamentary tool equivalent to a resolution that does not obligate the government to act on its content.

This makes perfect sense. This territory was part of the Mandate meant to form the Jewish State (along with all of the land illegally and viciously handed over to the Arabs to form Transjordan.) The hostile Arab villages there are filled with terrorist activities and weapons manufacturing plants, and are close to the heart of the country. They must be eliminated. The Arab inhabitants of this area were solidly behind the Hamas October 7 massacre. There can be no peaceful coexistence with them.

Now, after the Knesset vote, it remains to be seen if the Netanyahu government will have the guts to implement the will of the people and go against the worldwide condemnation that is sure to ensue. I say, go for it! We have nothing to lose but our chains to discredited and murderous Leftist concepts of the past that have endangered us and seen us murdered in cold blood. The fake Oslo Accords need to be uprooted root and branch.

If we are going to be at war, and are going to be bombed, and are going to be hated anyway when we do nothing to deserve it, we might as well get something positive out of it.

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9 comments on “ISRAEL WAR DIARY: 27 JULY 2025”

  1. Geraldine Richmond

    Has the world gone crazy? Our Jewish people were murdered , mutilated, raped, our babies were burned to death, and Israel is the driving force sending food to those who abhor us? Did America or Europe supply food to the Jews in Auschwitz? Enough of the mitzvot, get the hostages out .

  2. Adele Gladstone-Gilbert

    Dear Naomi,

    I can’t read your blog entries without responding. I feel saddened and sickened by the callousness of intelligent and influential people such as yourself, who turn a blind eye to the monumental suffering inflicted on an entire population by your own government and military. Hamas is awful but tell me… What have the children in Gaza done to deserve this nightmare, this Hell? It’s too easy to blame it on Hamas for sacrificing its own people. The UN waits with trucks full of aid to enter Gaza, while your government (and mine) intentionally forbid them from doing so; meanwhile offering crumbs to the starving masses. And to add insult to injury, Israeli soldiers take aim and maim and kill desperate men, women and children whose crime is wanting to eat. In the last several weeks, Israeli soldiers have killed at least a thousand civilian Palestinians desperately trying to get food at one of only 4 existing distributions sites. (There had been 400 sites months ago.) The people are being intentionally starved to death on our watch. Tell me… How can Israeli Jews condone what is going on in their name when they so vividly remember what was done to them in the Holocaust? It doesn’t make sense. And finally, Donald Trump and his sycophants are dismantling American Democracy; destroying everything that has worked for the American people and replacing it with the rule of a tyrant who promotes corruption, graft, constant lying, bullying, causing as much chaos as possible. Don’t be fooled. He is a monster. He doesn’t give two whits about the Israeli people; he cares only about enriching himself.

    I ask you to read this opinion piece from your own Israeli newspaper and think about how you too are being deceived. Can you handle the truth? In any case, I can’t sit idly by while tens of thousands of civilians die from hunger, disease and Israeli bullets.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the?r=2crip&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

    Hoping you and yours are safe and well.
    Your cousin,
    Adele

    • KD

      What do people expect to happen in a time of war? There are no good wars. Sir Max Hastings said that when he spoke to people about their experiences during the second world war, the only way they could describe it was to say, “All hell broke loose.”

      Think about that for a moment.

      During the second world war, Churchill needed the help of the Soviet Union, and to show that the British were doing something while the Soviets were fighting on the Eastern Front, the British set out to bomb German towns and cities. During the air campaign, urban areas were targeted, and thousands and thousands of German people, many of whom were women and children, many of whom had not voted for the National Socialists, were killed, often in the most horrific manner imaginable.

      For example: in July and August of 1943, the British bombed Hamburg and one one of those nights, created a “firestorm” which raged throughout the city. The bombing raids on Hamburg killed approximately 37-40 000 people.

      The Americans tried to target military targets, and the industrial infrastructure of the enemy, but this was not effective, and in March 1945, the Americans (who had invented napalm in 1942) decided to do as the British had done, and firebomb Tokyo. On this single bombing raid, which was the deadliest bombing raid in history, over a million people were made homeless and it is estimated that approximately 100,000 people were killed.

      This doesn’t even get into what the enemy was doing. We need say nothing about the National Socialists here. As for the enemy the Americans were facing in the Pacific theatre – religious fanatics, suicide bombers, who hid in tunnels and had to be burned out with flamethrowers – consider Saipan. When the Americans took the island, they found that the enemy had brainwashed the people to such an extent that they chose to commit suicide by throwing themselves off the cliffs on to the rocks below rather than be taken prisoner by the Americans. That was the nature of the enemy.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Cliff

      So: these things happen in war. It may be awful, but it does not mean that whoever is winning the war should stop fighting. It is the nature of war. The British, the Americans, the Soviets did not stop during the second world war until victory was obtained, regardless of everything that was happening. I put it to you that your emotions, although understandable, are blinding you to the reality of what war is.

      The best way to avoid all of this is not to start a war in the first place.

      But October 7th was a casus belli if anything in the history of the world ever was.

      And here we are.

  3. Gig Berkowitz

    Hello Naomi, once again you’ve hit the nail on the head. As a Jew who strongly supports Israel, I’m constantly amazed that Hamas cries wolf and the world replies with tissues. Just the other day, Steve Witcoff noted that Hamas is the problem and don’t seem to want an end to the war. That story left the front pages in record time only to be replaced by the hunger stories. As one respondent noted, we need better national reporting but since President Trump has called them out, the press will never acknowledge that he’s right and they’re wrong on so many issues, they’re not worth reading. Getting journalists to be consistent is a real problem but one thing for sure is that they have no problems damning Israel every opportunity they get. Maybe keeping foreign money from our prestigious universities, and their communications departments may be a start in the right direction. Hopefully, in our lifetime!

  4. Sara

    It feels so hard to have no control over the narrative of the mainstream media. I blame them profusely for supporting Hamas and the stench of antisemitism within the reporting. We’re in a very sick time where social media clucks mandate the twisting of information for votes of popularity. Somehow, no
    Matter the amazing bravery of the sweet saviors of the IDF, Hamas continues to win the digital propaganda war. All hail the fake victims. Also the ignorance of the western population and their belief that their left media sources are giving them the truth. These sources are like Gods to the average person. But Israelis are beautiful strong and brilliant. Something has to be done to up the media war. I’m no genius but as a Jew this is what I see. We need more Jewish media personalities to call out the lies and the propaganda. We appreciate your weekly reports so much Naomi. You are doing a mitzvah in keeping us informed and connected. Thank you.

  5. Brenda

    Yes to all you’ve put out today. Talib was banging an empty bowl. In front of the Capitol this week. There was a photo of a Gazans holding something wrapped that was supposedly a starved 4 year old. It was not small enough to be a 4 yr old. There were men walking around, looking very well and even a bit overfed. And as for stupid rat, Macron, as DJT stated when asked ” the good news is, he doesn’t matter”. This Administration made Colombia I. Pay 220 million in fines, for doing nothing about anti-Semitism or no more Fed. Funds. Those who took over the library in Keffiyehs had diplomas taken away and other punishments as part of keeping funds AND Accreditation. The White House will email or text you after an brief link set up. I received an update this week, also asking me what I would like to ask the President !!! I had one ? re: Trade Schools and one request, to put Sanctions on Syria for what is happening to Druze and Christians. Horrifying!!The U.S. announced withdrawing from UNESCO, as it is a divisive arm of U.N. Yay! Was saddened to learn of ramming attack by, who else? but a Palestinian. Also of the young Soldiers in S. Rafah. May their families be comforted by their memories. As always, Aloha from your friend in Hawaii.

  6. Barbara Calderon

    You’re right the news here in south Florida shows babies starving but their mothers look just fine, I wish we could see the real truth as you see it. Stay safe

  7. Sylvia Knoop

    Dear Naomi,
    Horrible that a wonderful writer like you dreads writing…
    I really wish the world would focus on the many places in the world that people are really hungry!
    Just look at pictures of the real starving people, no energy just starving to death.
    And the fake, full of energy to protest and well fed, some even fat …

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