(25/28) Deceased hostage returned by Hamas identified as Meny Godard, from Kibbutz Be’eri

  

Military representatives have notified the family of Meny Godard that his body was returned to Israel by Hamas tonight, after forensic experts completed their identification.

Godard, 73, was murdered by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, alongside his wife Ayelet, 63, and his body was abducted to Gaza by the Hamas-allied terror group.

The couple is survived by their children, Mor, Gal, Bar, and Goni, a number of grandchildren, and several siblings.

In March, troops recovered findings belonging to Godard at an Islamic Jihad post in southern Gaza’s Rafah. The findings found at the post were taken to Israel and identified as belonging to Godard, but his body remained held in Gaza.

Hamas, in a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said that the body had been located in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza earlier today.

The bodies of three slain hostages now remain held in the Strip — two Israelis and one Thai national: Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, Dror Or and Sudthisak Rinthalak.

read more from source - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/deceased-hostage-returned-by-hamas-identified-as-meny-godard-from-kibbutz-beeri/

Israel to receive one more captive’s body from Gaza. that be 25 of 28

 

Hamas says one more Israeli captive’s body will be handed over today.

Israel has carried out air raids on Beit Lahiya, eastern areas of Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis, where artillery shelling has also been reported.

read more from source - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/13/live-israel-attacks-gazas-south-north-during-repeatedly-violated-truce

that will be 25 out of 28 deceased hostages by my calculation.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS's tail is still growing, new image shows

 

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS exhibits a bright, extended ion tail while releasing gas and dust as it travels through the inner solar system.

A stunning new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1 ATLAS) reveals the cosmic visitor's ion tail has grown dramatically longer and more structured — a sign of intensifying activity as it continues its journey through the inner solar system.
The image, captured by the Virtual Telescope Project at 11:31 p.m. EDT on Nov. 10 (0431 GMT on Nov. 11), is composed of 18 separate 120-second exposures, remotely taken by robotic telescopes located in Manciano, Italy. Despite the comet being just 14 degrees above the eastern horizon and a bright 61% moon shining about 70 degrees away, a sharply defined, luminous ion tail is seen.
"Exploiting the unusual good weather of this season, we imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1 ATLAS) again, recording a much more developed ion tail," Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project founder and astronomer, said in a post sharing the new image. "Looking at the picture, we see how the ion tail of 3I/ATLAS is clearly showing better and better."
read more from source - https://www.space.com/stargazing/interstellar-comet-3i-atlass-tail-is-still-growing-new-image-shows

4 hostages remain in Gaza after Hamas returns body of IDF soldier killed in 2014

 

Israel received the remains of two hostages in two days, the most recent of which came on Sunday, as the initial terms of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire near an end. Hadar Goldin’s body was taken hostage during the 2014 six-week war between Israel and Hamas, making him the only remaining hostage to have been held by the militant group since before the start of the current war. 

read more from source - https://san.com/cc/4-hostages-remain-in-gaza-after-hamas-returns-body-of-idf-soldier-killed-in-2014/

Sharaa: Trump supports Damascus’s position on Israeli withdrawal from Syria, will push for it

  

There is a “good distance to go” before his country can reach an agreement with Israel, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa tells The Washington Post after becoming the first Syrian leader to meet the US president in Washington.

“To reach a final agreement, Israel should withdraw to their pre-Dec. 8 borders,” he says, referring to the date of the fall of the Bashar Assad regime and the simultaneous Israeli advance into the buffer zone between the two countries, and beyond, confirming that the two sides are involved in “direct negotiations.”

Sharaa argues that Israel’s invasion of Syria comes from “expansionist ambitions” and not security concerns.

read more from source - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/sharaa-trump-supports-damascuss-position-on-israeli-withdrawal-from-syria-will-push-for-it/

Israel parliament passes first reading of death penalty for ‘terrorism’ law

 

Israel’s parliament has passed the first reading of a bill that would introduce the death penalty for “terrorism”.

The amendment to the penal code, proposed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, was approved by 39 votes to 16 in the 120-member Knesset on Monday, signalling it has support from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

read more from source - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/11/israeli-parliament-nods-to-bill-to-introduce-death-penalty-for

Four dead and a million evacuated as Super Typhoon Fung-wong hits Philippines

  

Filipinos are still dealing with the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed more than 200 people earlier this week.

More than one million people were evacuated and at least four killed as a super typhoon made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday.

Fung-wong battered eastern and central parts of the country, causing power outages, and forcing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to declare a state of emergency.

One person drowned in Catanduanes and firefighters recovered the body of a woman trapped under debris of a collapsed home in Catbalogan City, officials said.

Two children also died after a mudslide buried a house in the Kayapa, in Nueva Vizcaya province, civil defence official Alvin Ayson told Reuters.

  

Israel has received the body of Lt Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in an ambush by Hamas in 2014 and whose body has been held in Gaza since then.

The Israeli military said Lt Goldin, who was 23 when he died, was formally identified and will now be buried. He left behind parents, a sister, two brothers, and a fiancée.

Hamas's armed wing had said on Sunday that it would hand over Lt Goldin's body as part of a ceasefire deal.

Hamas has now returned all 20 living hostages, and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of the deal.

read more from source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kp3yjy8q7o

The Sabbath Days in the Feast of Tabernacles Two.

  

This being the Feast of Tabernacles Two.

The Moon become Full on November 5th (Bonfire night here in the uk)

The 1st and the 8th Day of the Feast are both Sabbath Days.

Lev 23:39
on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

This means the 6th was the Sabbath Day and the 13th will also be a Sabbath Day.

Israel says body of Lior Rudaeff has been returned from Gaza

  

The Israeli military says it has identified a body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.

The 61-year-old was killed while attempting to defend Nir Yitzhak kibbutz during the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 and his body was taken to Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group, the military said.

PIJ said the body was found on Friday in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Hamas has now returned all 20 living hostages and 23 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal that started on 10 October. Four of the five dead hostages still in Gaza are Israelis and one is Thai.

Israel has criticised Hamas for not yet returning all the bodies. Hamas says it is hard to find them under rubble.

PIJ is an armed group allied with Hamas. It took part in the 7 October attack and previously held some Israeli hostages.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a campaign group, welcomed the return.

read more from source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykw15dx56o

ANOTHER...!!! New Comet C/2025 V1 Borisov Is Speeding Past Earth Nov 14th-16th

  

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 V1 Borisov, is speeding through speeding through the solar system between the Earth and interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, drawing attention from astronomers worldwide. The object was recently observed with a brightness, or magnitude, of 13.8, and a coma spanning 2.3 arcminutes, according to the Comet Observers Database (COBS).

Its closest approach to Earth will occur on 11 November 2025, when it passes at a distance of about 103 million kilometres (0.68 AU), which is safely distant, yet close enough to provide excellent observation opportunities.

Key Orbital Details

According to the JPL Small-Body Database, Borisov’s orbit has an eccentricity of 1.00958273 and an inclination of 112.7°, meaning it follows a highly elongated and steep path around the Sun. It will reach its perihelion, the point closest to the Sun, on 16 November 2025, just days after its nearest approach to Earth.

The comet is currently about 106 million kilometres away, with light taking nearly six minutes to reach us. From the UK, it rises around 4:01 a.m., reaches its highest point near 10:01 a.m., and sets by 4:03 p.m.

read more from - https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/11/07/new-comet-c-2025-v1-borisov-racing-through-virgo-ahead-of-close-earth-pass/

Turkey issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu over Gaza genocide

  

Turkey on Friday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and dozens of other Israeli officials on “genocide” charges.

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said it has issued warrants against 37 people. Besides Netanyahu, warrants target Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and military chief Eyal Zamir, among others.

The warrants charge the Israeli officials with “crimes against humanity” and “genocide” committed in Gaza and against the flotilla carrying aid to the enclave, according to the prosecutor’s office. That flotilla was intercepted by Israeli authorities last month.

Israel was quick to condemn and reject the warrants.

read more from source - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/07/middleeast/turkey-issues-genocide-arrest-warrant-against-netanyahu-intl-latam

Israel receives coffin Hamas says contains body of Gaza hostage

  

Israel has received a coffin that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said contains the body of a hostage, Israel's military says.

Hamas's armed wing said the body had been found on Friday in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The body has been transported to Israel via the Red Cross for identification.

Before this handover, Hamas had returned all 20 living hostages and 22 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal that started on 10 October. Five of the six dead hostages still in Gaza were Israelis and one was Thai.

Israel has criticised Hamas for not yet returning all the bodies. Hamas says it is hard to find them under rubble.

read more from source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykw15dx56o

Israel ramps up Lebanon strikes as Hezbollah vows to defend itself

  

‘We reaffirm our legitimate right to defend ourselves against an enemy that imposes war on our country’, Hezbollah says.

The Israeli military says it has launched a wave of air strikes targeting what it says are Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon as Israel escalates daily attacks on its northern neighbour in flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire.

The barrage on Thursday came soon after a separate Israeli raid targeted southern Lebanon’s Tyre district. The Israeli army claimed it hit members of Hezbollah’s construction unit and that it would “continue to operate in order to remove any threat to the territory of the state of Israel”.

read more from source - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/israel-ramps-up-lebanon-strikes-as-hezbollah-vows-to-defend-itself