A Lebanese woman was heard eulogizing her son, killed in an IDF airstrike for his involvement with Hezbollah, urging her toddler grandson to follow in his footsteps and become a martyr.

Mother of a Hezbollah fighter killed in the war to her young grandson: "You must continue your father's path." pic.twitter.com/4qefWXZwsN

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 28, 2026

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Zainab Nasrallah said she would willingly sacrifice her son as a “martyr,” framing death in Hezbollah’s cause as an honor for Shiites—even as she acknowledged that other Lebanese sects are no longer making such sacrifices.

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The father of one of the terrorists responsible for killing an Israeli and wounding three others in Tuesday’s Gush Etzion attack said he will hold his head high and had always wished for his son to become a martyr.

Watch: The father of the Palestinian terrorist from today’s deadly attack in Gush Etzion says the thing he most looked forward to in life was to be the father of a martyr.

: Zvi Yehezkeli pic.twitter.com/2qJUiVI0aJ

— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) November 18, 2025

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If Hamas leaders really cared about the suffering and pain of their people, they would have released all the hostages, disarmed and relinquished control of the Gaza Strip long ago.

By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute

On October 24, 2023, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad threatened that his Iran-backed terror group would carry out more massacres against Israelis — time and again until Israel was annihilated.

Referring to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel that resulted in the murder of more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, Hamad said:

“The Al-Aqsa Flood [the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 slaughter] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth…. Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”

Hamad, whose group continues to hold captive 50 Israeli hostages (only 20 of whom are believed to be alive), repeated Hamas’s call for the elimination of Israel:

“The existence of Israel is illogical. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears.”

Hamad made the threat from Qatar, where he and several other leaders of Hamas have been leading comfortable lives for the past few years.

Qatar and Turkey are among the few countries that continue to host and protect the leaders of the Palestinian terror group whose members have committed the worst crimes against Jews since the Holocaust.

Hamad and other Hamas leaders have no problem boasting about the October 7 massacres and threatening to launch similar attacks against Israel from their villas and hotel suites in Doha and Istanbul.

The Hamas leaders feel safe because they know they enjoy the luxurious support of governments far away from the fighting in Gaza.

On July 25, 2025, Hamad gave an interview to an Arab television station from Qatar. This time, however, he sounded different.

Asked about the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip because of the war Hamas launched nearly two years ago, Hamad said that his group’s primary goal now was to end the war with Israel.

“This is a painful and horrific war,” he remarked. “We fully understand the pain and suffering of our people in Gaza.” Hamad went on to praise the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for their “steadfastness and patience” during the war.

The Hamas leader’s recent statements came as Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to complain about death, destruction and lack of food.

According to Hamas sources, more than 55,000 Palestinians have died since the beginning of the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

Hamad’s statements also came shortly after US President Donald J. Trump announced that Hamas does not want to release the Israeli hostages and reach a ceasefire deal.

“I think they [Hamas] want to die, and it’s very, very bad,” Trump said. “It got to be a point where you’re gonna have to finish the job.”

Hamad and the Hamas leadership are in no rush to release the hostages or reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel because they would like to see more Palestinians sacrificed as “martyrs.”

As Hamad said two years ago, “We are called a nation of martyrs.”

Hamas’s leaders do not care if another 50,000 Palestinians are “martyred” in the war they started in 2023. The more bodies pile up, the more they can blame Israel. Hamas’s leaders seem convinced that the international community is on their side.

Hamas tells the international community that Israel is killing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In response, many in the international community rush to condemn Israel.

Buoyed by the condemnations, Hamas then calls on Palestinians to display more “patience and steadfastness” and encourages them to continue sacrificing themselves as “martyrs.”

Hamad has the wakkaha (effrontery) to tell the Palestinians who have fallen victim to the death and destruction brought upon them by their October 7 atrocities that Hamas “understands” their pain and suffering.

It is easy for someone well-fed and sitting in a villa or hotel in Doha to talk about the suffering and pain of others in a war far away.

Hamad and the Hamas leaders sheltering in Doha and Istanbul should be apologizing to the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip instead of praising them for their “patience, resolve and steadfastness.”

In fact, they should be arrested and put on trial for their crimes against both Israelis and Palestinians.

If Hamas leaders really cared about the suffering and pain of their people, they would have released all the hostages, disarmed and relinquished control of the Gaza Strip long ago.

Hamas leaders, however, seem determined to turn all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip into a “nation of martyrs.” Hamas wants more October 7-style attacks because it wants to see more Palestinians sacrificed as “martyrs” in its jihad (holy war) to destroy Israel.

Hamas leaders are selling illusions to their people that they are winning the war and that it is not impossible to exterminate Israel. They are telling the Palestinians that, thanks to their patience and steadfastness, as well as daily attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza, Israel will soon be defeated.

Hamas also has no problem lying to Trump and US envoy Steve Witkoff, as they have probably already figured out.

After months of direct and indirect negotiations with Hamas, Trump and Witkoff have finally understood that Hamas is not acting in good faith and, as Trump put it, “want to die.”

To be more accurate, it is not Hamas’s leaders who want to die. Instead, they want ordinary Palestinians to die so that the leaders can stay in power forever and remain wealthy — some are, or were, billionaires.

Those who actually know Hamas have always been aware that the terror group never acted in good faith. Hamas’s leaders have never hesitated to murder anyone who stands in their way, whether Israelis or Palestinians.

Since its establishment in the late 1980s, Hamas has been consistent and clear about its goals: the elimination of Israel through jihad. That is the real reason Hamas has never accepted any peace process with Israel.

That is also the real reason Hamas views as traitors those Palestinians who recognize Israel’s right to exist and are willing to make peace with Israel.

The only reason Hamas’s leaders might want a ceasefire is to allow their members to rearm and regroup. The leaders want to ensure that after the war with Israel, they will continue to hold onto power in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Hamas’s leaders evidently do not mind if dozens of Palestinians are killed and wounded every day, because the international pressure is directed against Israel.

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Mujtaba Milhem, a young boy and the son of a deceased Hezbollah member, said that he wants to build drones to fight Israel, the ‘enemy,’ and that martyrdom is the loftiest achievement to strive for.

Mujtaba Milhem, Son of a Hizbullah “Martyr”: I Want to Die and Join the Martyrs; My Father Taught Me to Be a Mujahid; I Want to Build Drones and Kill the Enemy – Israel, Germany, America, and Their Supporters pic.twitter.com/F3KAGalrKE

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) January 7, 2025

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Deputy Sec.-Gen. of the PIJ Muhammad Al-Hindi also said eventually Fatah and PA members will join the resistance.

Deputy Sec.-Gen. of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Muhammad Al-Hindi: Members of Fatah and Palestinian Authority’s Security Forces Will Ultimately Join the Resistance; Recruiting Fighters Is Easy When They Know They Will Go to Paradise if Martyred pic.twitter.com/rjsR6T41dS

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 10, 2024

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There is some indication that he planned to carry out an arson jihad attack on New Year’s Day 2024.

By Robert Spencer, Frontpage Magazine

What’s the deal with converts to Islam?

Last April, a teenager in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, named Alexander Scott Mercurio was caught plotting jihad massacres in local churches, “using weapons, including knives, firearms, and fire.”

On New Year’s Eve in 2022, a 19-year-old named Trevor Bickford traveled from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square, where he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete.

In April 2021, a Zion, Illinois, man named Edward Schimenti got thirteen and a half years in prison for aiding the Islamic State (ISIS).

These are just three men who are on a long and ever-lengthening list of converts to Islam who turn to terrorism, even in the United States, and are largely ignored by the establishment media.

As everyone knows or should know by now, the media is interested only in shoring up its narrative, not in reporting actual facts.

Now another young man has joined their ranks.

Las Vegas’ KLAS reported Thursday that Joshua Robles, 16, has been “accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack.”

After Robles was arrested last November, prosecutors considered him to be so dangerous that they asked that his bail be set at a million dollars; Las Vegas Justice Court Pro Temp Judge Lauren Diefenbach, however, instead decided to set it at $10,000, “adding should Robles post bail, he would be placed on house arrest with electronic monitoring.”

Oh. That’ll fix everything.

Ultimately, Robles was deemed to be so dangerous that bail was set at $1 million after all. That’s good, as he doesn’t appear to be a choirboy:

“On Aug. 23, staff at the Clark County Detention Center found a handwritten note in Robles’ cell, which included an ISIS flag and phrases such as, ‘Welcome with death.’”

This was after a sheet of notebook paper was found in his bedroom at the time of his arrest; Robles had completed a faithful recreation of the Islamic State (ISIS) flag, which features in Arabic the Islamic profession of faith: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.”

Underneath that, the earnest young convert wrote in all caps: “DEATH TO JEWS.”

Around that time, Robles was proudly posting online about his enthusiasm for his newfound faith: “Peace by [sic] upon all brothers who see this,” he wrote.

“I am here to announce that I will be starting lone wolf operations in Las Vegas against the enemies of Allah.”

When police raided his home, they found “components they said could be used to make an explosive device.”

Authorities think that Robles was “building explosive devices similar to the ones that killed three and injured hundreds in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.”

There is some indication that he planned to carry out an arson jihad attack on New Year’s Day 2024.

He was also doing online searches for “information and floorplans for Chaparral High School in the east valley.”

If he had managed to carry out a jihad attack there, police would still be saying that they didn’t know his motives.

Prosecutors explained that Robles’ “radicalization to violent extremist has developed over several years and continues despite his detention status.”

That’s no surprise, since America’s prison system, like every other institution in the country, is committed to the proposition that Islam is entirely peaceful and benign.

Nothing whatsoever is done to disabuse young men like Robles of their jihadist sentiments; instead, such inmates are given Qur’ans and allowed to pray regularly with other Muslim inmates.

Authorities think this will help them discover the true, peaceful Islam. Instead, it all too often breeds more hardened jihadis.

Robles has been a bad actor for quite a while:

“In 2020, while in junior high, defendant was threatened to shoot up the school. In March of 2023, defendant was created a list of ISIS leader and pledged allegiance to ISIS. He also announced the creation of a local terrorist cell. By May of 2023, Defendant was advising an unknown individual on how to obtain news on ISIS through email and was giving instructions on how to travel in the Middle East.”

Yet while authorities know all about all this, none of them seem to care about where or how he converted to Islam, or about how he came to believe that his new religion required him to do violence to non-Muslims.

Until such issued are addressed, and addressed realistically, we will see many more young men like Joshua Robles.

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The Palestinian refused persistent efforts by the IDF to get his family and others to safety saying, ‘We love death as you love life.’

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