At 4:50 pm, sirens were heard in Tel Aviv, Rishon LeZion, Holon, and Bat Yam. 

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

After a period of relative quiet, Hamas fired 10 rockets into Tel Aviv which were intercepted by Iron Dome.

At 4:50 pm, sirens were heard in Tel Aviv, Rishon LeZion, Holon, and Bat Yam.

According to Magen Dovid Adom, no injuries were reported.

In Rishon Lezion, a car was pummeled with schrapnel, but no one was hurt.

In the last few weeks, fewer missiles have been fired into Israel than have been in the beginning of the war, and there has been speculation that Hamas may be running out of missiles as the IDF continues to target Hamas strongholds and remove ammunition.

However, The New York Times reported that Hamas is recycling unexploded bombs and missiles from Israeli airstrikes and repurposing them for their own attacks.

“Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, an ex-deputy head of Israel’s National Police Bomb Disposal Division. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course… for their explosives and rockets.”

Israeli investigators found proof of this after inspecting in turn Hamas rockets shot at the Jewish state that failed to explode, and finding that its military-grade contents were “probably” from an old missile fired by the Israeli air force, said the report.

Other weapons found to contain Israeli explosives include anti-tank mines, thermobaric and rocket-propelled grenades, and improvised devices.

On October 7th, Hamas fired 5,000 missiles into Israel.

Since then the terror group has periodically been firing into various locations, in some instances, reaching Tel Aviv, Beit Shemesh, and Jerusalem.

Hezbollah has also been firing rockets into northern Israel since the beginning of the conflict.

In early January, the Lebanese terror group fired 40 rockets that set off alerts in 90 Israeli communities.

Although Hezbollah boasted of significant Israeli casualties and injuries, there were no reports of people killed or wounded in the attacks.

Many of the missiles were aimed at Mount Meron, which houses a military radar station in northern Israel.

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The picture is  of a 5-year-old boy named Ido Avigal who died as a result of a Hamas missile strike in Sderot in 2021.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

At the United Nations in Geneva today, an Israeli delegation strongly criticized the Palestinian delegation for falsely representing the image of an Israeli boy killed by a Hamas rocket as an Arab child who died as the result of an IDF operation.

The picture is actually of a 5-year-old boy named Ido Avigal who died as a result of a Hamas missile strike in Sderot in 2021.

The Israeli delegation wrote in a harsh statement, “Hamas killed Ido. But today, the Palestinian Delegation presented an exhibition at UN Geneva, which included Ido as a Palestinian child supposedly killed by Israel in Gaza. This is despicable.”

the Israeli delegation demanded that UN Geneva Director-General Tatiana Valovaya “to immediately remove this exhibition, which spreads misinformation and is part of a propaganda campaign.”

Ido Avigal’s picture has been misused on various occasions by Palestinian groups claiming he was an Arab casualty of the IDF.

MK Ahmed Tibi posted the photo and the X social media platform.

In response, Ido’s mother Shani Avigal confronted Ahmed Tibi on X and wrote:

“Hey Ahmad, what’s up? Do you hear me? It’s totally fine to take all sorts of kids, put them in one photo, and tell the world that the IDF killed them, but is there a chance that you could take the photo of my child off there?”

She continued, “I am pretty sure Hamas killed him, and injured my daughter, and my nephews, and myself. But I’m not a kid, so whatever. Ah, yeah. They fired at a home!”

The UN has long been criticized for bias by Israeli politicians and organizations.

Two-hundred and fifty Israelis displaced by the October 7th massacre wrote a letter complaining to the UN that their plight had been ignored:
“Nothing has been done to fulfill the UNHCR’s principle of ‘leaving no-one behind’ or ‘build[ing] effective approaches to resilience’ and recovery for Israeli IDPs (internally displaced individuals) who bore witness to Hamas atrocities,” read the missive, an initiative of Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center.

“Such a distinction is completely unacceptable and disregards those who have lost everything to Hamas terror and face an uncertain future,” they charged, adding, “We can only draw the damning conclusion that you are ignoring the circumstances, danger and trauma of the Israelis because they are Jews and not Muslim Gazans.”

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