Flotilla Boats Transferred to State Ownership Under 1864 Naval Prize Act

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Haifa court orders 11 Gaza flotilla boats from Oct. '25 fleet transferred to state ownership

The Haifa District Court, sitting as a maritime court, accepted the state’s request and ordered 11 vessels seized during the October 2025 Sumud flotilla transferred to state ownership, according to a partial judgment issued this week.

Boats were on their way to violate Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip

Senior Judge Ron Sokol ruled that the state may confiscate the 11 vessels, which were among dozens of boats seized by the navy on October 1-2 and October 8, 2025, while, according to the court, they were on their way to violate Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. The state filed its confiscation request on November 9, 2025, under the 1864 Naval Prize Act and wartime regulations governing admiralty proceedings.

The state argued that the owners of the 11 boats did not respond to the confiscation request for roughly six months.

According to the decision, formal notice was served to the owners of two vessels, Saad Umm and Alaa Al Najjar, but no response was filed. For the other vessels, the state said it could not complete formal service: French authorities did not provide ownership details for several boats; two vessels were owned by Libyan owners who could not be served; and the owner of Soul of My Soul, which bore an Italian flag, could not be located despite attempts to find an address.

Sokol accepted the state’s position, writing that although formal service was not completed for all the boats, there was “no doubt” the owners knew the vessels had been seized, both because of the public attention surrounding the seizure and because the boats had been held by the state for more than six months.

“The owners’ disregard of the confiscation proceedings for such a long period indicates that they do not object to the confiscation request,” Sokol wrote.

State must turn to the court without delay after seizing a vessel

The court said that under maritime prize law, the state must turn to the court without delay after seizing a vessel, so the court can decide what should be done with it. Since many months had passed since the seizure, Sokol wrote, the appropriate order was to confiscate the boats and transfer them to state ownership.

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Flotilla activists detained at Ashdod Port after Israeli Navy intercepts Gaza-bound vessels

“All 430 activists have been transferred to Israeli vessels and are making their way to Israel, where they will be able to meet with their consular representatives,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian flotilla activists were brought to Ashdod Port after the Israeli Navy intercepted Gaza-bound vessels attempting to breach Israel’s naval blockade, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel said Wednesday.

According to Adalah, attorneys from the organization, alongside volunteer lawyers, were allowed into Ashdod Port to hold legal consultations with the detained participants, who had been aboard vessels affiliated with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Global Sumud Flotilla. 

The group said the activists included international solidarity activists, human rights defenders, and medical volunteers who had set sail toward Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade.

Later in the day, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliated the activists being held by Israeli authorities.

In videos put out by his office, he was seen waving a massive Israeli flag and telling the room of activists, blindfolded and bent over, “Welcome to Israel, we are in charge here.” A later snippet shows the activists all lying on the ground as Hatikvah plays on loudspeakers.

“They came with such pride; look at them now, not brave at all,” said the national security minister.

He called on Netanyahu to imprison them with terrorists, saying that “that is how it should be.”

All 50 boats had been intercepted in the eastern Mediterranean, with 428 participants from more than 40 countries detained. 

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Illegal Pally Village Ordered Removed

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Smotrich declares: Illegal Arab outpost Khan al-Ahmar to be evacuated

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to evict Khan al-Ahmar while condemning ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.

     Khan al-Ahmar

Finance Minister and Religious Zionist Party Chairman Bezalel Smotrich declared during a press conference on Tuesday that he intends to sign an eviction order for Khan al-Ahmar, an illegal Bedouin outpost east of Jerusalem.

According to Smotrich, the order is a response to actions by the Palestinian Authority, which led the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and the intention to now issue one for him as well.

"Issuing of an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister is a declaration of war. Issuing an arrest warrant for the Defense Minister and the Finance Minister is a declaration of war. We will respond to a declaration of war with war. I am not a submissive Jew. The PA launched a war, and a war it will get," Smotrich declared.

He added, "At the conclusion of my remarks, I will sign the order to evict Khan al-Ahmar by the authority invested in me as a minister in the Defense Ministry. This is just the beginning."

He emphasized: "The hands are those of the Hague, but the voice is that of the Palestinians. The terrorist organization that is mistakenly called the Palestinian Authority. A despicable body that was created in the framework of the shameful Oslo [Accords] is the one who, by all indications, is behind the attack on the Israeli Prime Minister and the Israeli government ministers who dare to implement a policy that raises its head in the face of this terrorist organization."

"Personally, they don't move me. I am prepared to pay personal prices to serve my nation. This is a price that if I must pay it, I will do so proudly and with my head high. But on a national level, they aren't hurting Benjamin Netanyahu or Bezalel Smotrich. They are trying to hurt us as the Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the State of Israel."

Earlier in the remarks, the minister noted, "Last night I was informed that a request for a secret international arrest warrant had been filed against me by the criminal prosecutor of the Antisemitic court in The Hague. This request joins the unprecedented arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The attempt to force on us a policy of security suicide through sanctions and arrest warrants will not succeed."

"As a sovereign and independent state, we will not accept hypocritical dictates from biased bodies that constantly oppose Israel, our Biblical, historical, and legal rights in our homeland, and our right and obligation to self-defense and security," Smotrich exclaimed.

“In this term, I didn’t make noise. I simply acted, and, thank God, I succeeded. I fulfilled my duty as finance minister and kept Israel’s economy stable amid the turbulent waters of a multi-front war, unlike anything Israel has known since its founding. I had the privilege of leading a revolution in our biblical, eternal homeland, in Judea and Samaria. I did this not only for my friends and brothers, the pioneering settlers, but because this is what I believe serves the interests of the entire State of Israel. I did it in the name of and for the citizens of Israel, for their welfare and security.

“I did it to prevent my brothers and sisters, the citizens of Israel, from facing a terrible and tangible danger, one that today, after the horrific massacre carried out against us by the Nazis of Hamas on Simchat Torah, we all understand is very real. For years, Israel stammered and feared saying the obvious: this is our land, and we will act in it as homeowners. Over the past three and a half years, we have been doing exactly that, and I am proud to lead this dramatic change. We led a revolution. We thwarted the dangerous Fayyad Plan, which was intended to create rings of pressure around Rosh HaAyin, Modi’in, and Kfar Saba.

“We established more than 100 new communities, along with 160 agricultural farms that safeguard more than one million dunams of state land. We are planning, building, paving, and regulating, making the pioneering settlement enterprise irreversible. I am proud of all this. Very proud," he concluded.

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      Khan al-Ahmar

     Smotrich

Hamas Military Chief Broke His Own Rules, Which Allowed IDF to Find Him

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Hamas's Gaza military chief broke his own rules, allowing IDF to find and kill him

Security officials say Izz ad-Din al-Haddad violated his own rules after months in Gaza’s tunnels, exposing patterns that helped Israeli intelligence close in.

Several months after a US-mediated ceasefire entered into effect, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Izz ad-Din al-Haddad made a series of critical mistakes that enabled Israel to track and ultimately kill him.

According to reliable sources in the defense establishment, Haddad initially hid and moved through a highly complex tunnel network. He insisted that only a very small circle know his movements and locations, and usually traveled from place to place through the underground system.

The sources said Haddad was also the Hamas figure who pushed at the last minute to enter the ceasefire, after realizing that IDF ground forces, encouraged by Defense Minister Israel Katz, had surrounded the core of Gaza City, where he was hiding.

Haddad understood that if Hamas’s leadership rejected the ceasefire, his days would likely be numbered.

Defense officials claimed Haddad had effectively pleaded for the ceasefire. In exceptional cases, shortly before the fighting stopped, he would emerge from the underground network into buildings and look outside, in direct violation of the security rules he had set for himself.

Haddad cracked under pressure, Israel spotted him

That type of error, according to the sources, helped the Israeli intelligence community locate and eliminate much of Hamas’s senior leadership. Haddad, too, appeared to break under pressure and violate his own operational discipline.

Haddad, who often received policy and operational instructions for Gaza from Khalil al-Hayya, was tempted to go above ground and move through the streets of Gaza when Israel’s attention was focused on Iran and Lebanon.

Like a senior fugitive seeking to prove control, Haddad reportedly showed his face in a limited and calculated way to maintain authority on the street and signal that he did not fear Israeli intelligence or Israel Air Force missiles.

Some defense officials, however, assessed that his primary motivation was longing for his family, including his wife and children, after a prolonged period underground. Haddad had also been responsible for Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers held captive.

He distanced from his inner circle anyone suspected of loyalty problems.

Military Intelligence officials identified the windows of time in which Haddad “made mistakes,” traced his new movement patterns, and presented senior defense officials with opportunities in which there was a high probability of targeting him.

In isolation, Haddad expanded Hamas influence, funding, range of attacks

At the same time, Haddad had built a well-oiled financial mechanism in Gaza. Defense officials said he was accumulating power, money, and influence as part of a broader plan to rebuild Hamas’s military wing, tighten links between Gaza and the West Bank, expand the range of attacks, restore Hamas’s influence on the Palestinian street, and block any diplomatic move that could weaken the group.

In the end, Haddad was killed above ground in a hideout apartment in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, surrounded, among others, by members of his family.

When people attempted to flee the building in vehicles, the IDF struck again to prevent escape by Haddad’s associates or any survival attempt by Haddad himself.

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Netanyahu praises IDF for strike killing Hamas ‘chief murderer’ and Oct. 7 mastermind

“Every terrorist is a marked man; we will pursue and reach them all,” the premier stated.

     Pallys at his funeral.

Nicknamed “The Ghost,” Haddad had survived multiple assassination attempts by Israel.

Haddad joined the fledgling terror group in the 1980s and became one of its longest-surviving commanders.

He led Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade during the October 7 onslaught, and was one of the last remaining senior commanders “who directed the planning and execution of the October 7 massacre and the management of combat operations against IDF troops.” 

    Former hostage Liri Albag

Former hostage Liri Albag, one of the surveillance soldiers abducted from the Nahal Oz military base during the Hamas-led attack, celebrated the reported strike writing: “Every dog has its day — and he was one huge dog.”

Thank you to all the security forces and everyone involved,” former hostage Emily Damari wrote alongside the song “What a Happy Day.” “This is a very, very important closure for many people. He planned October 7, he murdered my friends and many other dear people. He planned my abduction and also personally held me in Hamas tunnels. With God’s help, we will reach every one of them.”

Pally discrimination against Black Slaves

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MASS IGNORANCE? Ever wonder why so many Black people continue to support ‘Palestinian’ Muslims?

May 13, 2026 by BareNakedIslam4 Comments

Probably because they never heard about the ‘Al-Abeed’ area – a segregated section of Gaza, in which thousands of Black Palestinians today are forced to live, where they are discriminated against, and treated as the lowly descendants of slaves owned by Arab Muslim slavemasters.

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• Muslim slave trade in Africa has lasted 14 centuries and continues to this day in places like Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

• Over 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were transported out of Africa by Islamic traders. Another 85 million are believed to have died en route.

• The Prophet Muhammad practiced and approved of slavery, and directed his men to do the same. 

• The Qur’an devotes more verses to informing Muslim men of their right to keep women as sex slaves, than it does to telling them to pray five times a day. 

• The Arabic word for “black” (Abd) is synonymous with the word for “slave”.

• Muhammad’s father-in-law, Umar declared that Arabs could not be taken as slaves, and freed all Arab slaves.  This led to the wide Islamic campaign to capture slaves in Africa, Europe and Asia.  

• Western slave trade exploited Africans primarily for agricultural labor. The Arab slave trade on the other hand, has more often used men for military service, and women for sex and for their wombs – to produce children who will be Muslims.

• Many Muslim leaders since Muhammad have had harems of hundreds (or even thousands) of non-Muslim young girls and women to service their desires.

• Converting to Islam does not automatically grant a slave his freedom, although this is said to increase the slave master’s heavenly reward.

• According to Islamic courts, slave masters may treat their slaves however they choose without fear of penalty.

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Why isn’t BLM demanding that Muslims pay reparations for their long and sordid history of enslaving black people, that continues even to this day?

PREEMINENT ISLAMIC HISTORIAN: “The Negro nations as a whole are submissive to slavery because they have attributes that are similar to dumb animals”

The most brutal, inhumane slave masters in history were NOT white men, they were Muslims

How come Black Lives Matters ignores their long history of being slaves for the Muslim world, which continues even today?

EX-MUSLIM scholar says “Muslims have enslaved more Black Africans than any other ethnic group in history”

KUWAITI MUSLIM CLERIC: “Slavery should be celebrated as one of the virtues of Islam”

SELLING BLACK MEN as slaves is alive and well in some Muslim countries

ARAB MUSLIM SLAVE MASTERS

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Development Plan for Jerusalem

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Smotrich unveils development plan for Jerusalem at Flag March

Smotrich spoke with Arutz Sheva during the Flag March and described a new government decision aimed at strengthening the city in infrastructure, tourism and innovation.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich took part in the Flag March in Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, and spoke with Arutz Sheva - Israel National News about the day's celebrations and plans to strengthen the capital.

Smotrich described the atmosphere in Jerusalem, "an atmosphere of great joy", and said that it is a day that expresses love for Jerusalem and broad unity. He said that during the day he visited several sites in the city, including Ateret Kohanim, Beit Orot and the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.

The finance minister noted that the government is advancing for the fourth year a dedicated government decision to strengthen Jerusalem. He said that under the decision investments are planned for infrastructure, tourism, the development of the Old City area and the City of David, as well as the establishment of an artificial intelligence complex at the entrance to the city with an investment of tens of millions of shekels.

He said the goal is to strengthen Jerusalem as Israel's capital and as a national and spiritual center. He added that Jerusalem continues to develop alongside the development of the State of Israel as a whole.

Addressing the nature of the Jerusalem Day celebrations, Smotrich said that efforts should be made so that the day becomes the preserve of broader segments of Israeli society. He said that the national-religious public is particularly identified with the day's celebrations, but that Jerusalem belongs to the entire public in Israel.

He also said that Jerusalem represents the heart of the State of Israel and that alongside Jerusalem there are also Judea and Samaria, the Negev, the Galilee and Gush Dan as parts of one whole. He said that Israel will not be divided again, not in Jerusalem nor in any other part of the country. Smotrich emphasized that Jerusalem Day is first and foremost a day of gratitude and prayer, and noted that the celebrations include saying the Hallel prayer and giving thanks for the reunification of the city.

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Smotrich: Erase Areas A, B, and C of Samaria

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at Jerusalem Day event at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, noting achievements in Judea and Samaria and laying out a new vision.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the central Jerusalem Day celebration at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, presenting his his diplomatic vision for the continued development of the settlements and called for a fundamental change in the administration of Judea and Samaria.

"Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda taught us that the meaning of the Jerusalem Talmud’s statement that Jerusalem is more sanctified than the Land of Israel is not only in the sense of superiority - that the sanctity of Jerusalem is greater than that of the Land of Israel - but in the sense of ‘from within’: from within the sanctity of the Land of Israel, the sanctity of Jerusalem appears."

Regarding the government’s actions in the field of settlement, Smotrich said, "Since the start of the term, we have been leading a revolution for the honor of the Land of Israel. We normalized all the young settlements and approved more than 100 new communities in Judea and Samaria, including a historic correction of the injustice of the expulsion from northern Samaria. We returned to Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim, and Kadim."

"Over the past three years, we approved 60,000 housing units in Judea and Samaria. The People of Israel are returning home - this time forever."

Referring to the administrative structure in Judea and Samaria, Smotrich said, "The time has come for us to forever erase the lines distinguishing between Areas B, A, and C. This week I placed a detailed plan on the Cabinet table, and from here I call on the Prime Minister to adopt it. The entire Land of Israel is ours."

Regarding the state of the war, he said: "For two-and-a-half years already, we have been in the midst of a difficult and long war, a war that is also exacting heavy prices from us, but also bringing great achievements on all fronts. We eliminated [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar, [Hamas leader Ismail] Haniyeh, [Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, [Hamas military chief Mohammed] Deif, and [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah."

Smotrich also praised the law to bring Hamas' Nukhba terrorists to trial, stressing, "This week we finally passed in the Knesset the law to put the Nukhba terrorists on trial, sponsored by MK Simcha Rothman - the law that will ensure that soon they too will reach hell. We still have work left on all fronts. The Six Day War, which returned us to Jerusalem in a glorious victory, did not end the wars, either. But even now, the State of Israel is stronger than ever, and its enemies are weaker than ever."

Smotrich also praised Israel’s economic strength, noting that despite fighting on seven fronts, the shekel is strengthening and the stock market is breaking records: "In the economy as well, we are privileged to see the fulfillment of the prophecies. From a country of refugees with an austerity regime and shortages - to an economic power. While fighting a war on seven fronts, the shekel is strengthening, the stock market is breaking records, and foreign investments are flowing into the country. As the prophet said: 'But you, O mountains of Israel, shall yield your produce and bear your fruit for My people Israel, for their return is near (Ezekiel 36:8).'"

In conclusion, he said: "The spiritual engine of our entire national revival enterprise is the Torah that our teacher, Rabbi Kook of blessed memory, bequeathed to us here, between these walls. It is a Torah that does not shut itself within its own four cubits, but illuminates the mundane with holiness; that combines the book and the sword; and that sees the physical building of the land - in cranes, tractors, and homes - as an inseparable part of the revelation of the Divine Presence in Zion. Tonight we celebrate the miracle, and tomorrow we continue the work, by building, and by planting! The nation of Israel lives on."

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