Posted FBI warning October 15th.
(Worthy News) – FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning after the brutal Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that there is an increase in reported threats in the United States and there is a possibility of copycat attacks.
“In this heightened environment, there’s no question we’re seeing an increase in reported threats, and we’ve got to be on the lookout, especially for lone actors who may take inspiration from recent events to commit violence of their own,” Wray said Saturday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego, Calif.
“So I encourage you to stay vigilant, because as the first line of defense in protecting our communities, you’re often the first to see the signs that someone may be mobilizing to violence,” Wray also said. “And I’d also ask you to continue sharing any intelligence or observations you may have.”
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah Threatens To Join War Against Israel
By Worthy News’ George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Israel faced a second front Saturday with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group warning it will join the Hamas war against Israel.
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem, in an address during a protest, stated: “We in Hezbollah are participating in this war [to an extent], and we are closely and carefully monitoring the situation, for whenever the time arrives for us to act…we will.”
Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire, while Israel warned the group to stay out of the war, Worthy News monitored.
Yet Hezbollah, like Hamas designated a terrorist organization by most Western nations, has shared video footage to propagandize their “precise strikes” on Israeli bases Saturday.
The group said it reacted to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip after what Israeli officials view as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, also known as Shoah.
It has expressed support for Hamas, the group that killed at least 1,300 people in Israel since it launched an offensive more than a week ago.
IRAN MINISTER
Both groups are backed by Iran as they both seek the destruction of Israel. More evidence emerged Saturday of Iran’s direct support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, arrived in Qatar to meet with Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, footage obtained by Worthy News showed.
Earlier this week, he held talks with Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and other representatives and Syrian officials.
With tensions rising, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier belonging to the U.S. Navy, departed from its homeport in Norfolk, officials said, amid concern about security challenges faced by Israel.
It is expected to be en route to the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly supporting the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, already positioned off the coast of Israel.
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Israel Strikes Back At Syria; Iran Furious
DAMASCUS/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Israel’s military confirmed Saturday its artillery had struck targets in Syria from where two rockets were fired toward Israeli territory, falling in open areas. The Syrian defense ministry said Israel had been targeting its Aleppo airport late Saturday.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage to the airport and it being out of service,” the ministry said.
Syrian state media reported that the Aleppo airport is out of service following the airstrike. The well-informed Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday’s strikes hit the airport “hours after it went back into service, knocking it out of service again.”
The reported strikes come just days after Israeli forces reportedly launched missiles at the airports in Aleppo and Damascus, damaging their runways.
Reuters news agency quoted unidentified sources saying Israel’s strikes on the airports are intended to disrupt Iranian supply lines into Syria.
ROCKETS FROM SYRIA
Saturday strikes followed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmation that two rockets were launched from Syria at northern Israel on Saturday, setting off sirens in the Golan Heights town of Avnei Eitan.
The IDF said both rockets landed in open areas, causing no damage. Separately, the IDF confirmed that it launched an Iron Dome missile at a “suspicious target” that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon but said it was still investigating. The second incident set off an alarm in the northern town of Alma, close to the Lebanon border, Israeli media reported.
Israel has traded fire with Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions several times in Lebanon recently, including rocket fire and drones being launched at Israel.
However, besides fighting militants in neighboring Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, Israel faced challenges from Iran on Saturday: Tehran warned of “far-reaching consequences” if Israel’s “war crimes and genocide” are not stopped immediately.
On Saturday, the permanent mission of Iran to the United Nations said on X, formerly known as Twitter: “If the Israeli apartheid’s war crimes and genocide are not halted immediately, the situation could spiral out of control and ricochet far-reaching consequences—the responsibility of which lies with the UN, the Security Council and the states steering the Council toward a dead end.”