On this day . . .
(copied from Facebook)
Today's list covers 722 years. People have been trying to ostracize, isolate, and destroy us for a long time . . . BUT we're still here and we ain't going nowhere!
Remember and do not forget that on, March 25 . . .
-In 1303, the Jews of Weissensse, Germany are massacred.
-In 1350, in the town of Eger, Bohemia (today the Czech Republic), the crowd is stirred up by the anti-Jewish sermon of a Franciscan. They begin looting and nearly the entire Jewish community is slain. The only survivors are Meir, the architect of the local synagogue, his mother and his wife.
-In 1525, the Janissaries loot & pillage the Jewish quarter of Constantinople.
-In 1817, Tsar Alexander I of the Russian Empire recommends the formation of the Society of Israeli Christians, whose primary function is to convert Jews to Christianity. It will fail.
-In 1903, the Jewish quarter of Port Said, Egypt is pillaged and looted by Egyptians in consequence of an earlier ritual murder charge that took place on September 17, 1902.
-In 1919, units of Simon Petlyura’s Ukrainian National Army carry out a pogrom in the town of Romanov in the Volhynia, Ukraine. They slaughter eight Jews and wound a great many others.
-In 1919, units of Simon Petlyura’s Ukrainian National Army reach the town of Tetiev, Ukaine, and 2,000 Jews take refuge in the synagogue. The soldiers set fire to it and the building burns to the ground. All the Jews inside are burned to death. The soldiers murder another 2,000 Jews, many of them with sabers. Altogether 4,000 of the 6,000 Jews of Tetiev are massacred.
-In 1942, 1,000 Jews from the ghetto in Tarnopol in the Polish province of Galicia (today Ternopil, Ukraine) are taken to a forest near the town, where they are shot to death by German commandos. Tarnopol was the first ghetto set up in the province of Galicia in Poland, back in September 1941 and by this day 12,500 Jews were forced into its small area.
-In 1942, members of the Nazi SS arrest 105 Jews in the Glebokie ghetto, Poland (today Belarus), and shoot them to death. After this massacre, the surviving YOUNG JEWS OF THE GHETTO SEEK CONTACT WITH THE PARTISANS OPERATING IN THE FORESTS.
-In 1942, several hundred Jews from Bratislava, Slovakia, are transported from the Sered slave labor camp to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland.
-In 1943, a second transport with 2,500 Jews from Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, is sent to the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.
-In 1943, the ghetto of Zolkiev, in the Polish province of Galicia (today Zhovkva, Ukraine) is liquidated and 2,000 Jews are slaughtered. One hundred young Jewish men and 70 Jewish young women are deported to the Janovska slave labor camp in Lvov, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine).
-In 1943, a convoy with 1,008 Jewish men and women leaves the Drancy transit camp in the German occupied zone of France for the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland. Immediately after their arrival, 970 of them are gassed to death. Only 5 of the men will survive until the liberation of the camp by the Russian army in 1945.
-In 1944, in a large scale Aktion, many Jews of Athens, Greece, are arrested by the Nazi SS and deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland.
-In 1948, two mines exploded under an unescorted Jewish convoy north of Gaza, killing one unidentified Jew.
-In 1948, as fighting continues along the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border ten Jews are wounded when four mortar shells fired by Arabs fell in southern Tel Aviv.
-In 1977, the Jerusalem Post reports that a terrorist cell of 16 members, preparing a car bomb, was caught at Jenin.
-In 2000, as he prepares to meet with Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem tomorrow, Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the Chief Islamic cleric in Jerusalem “said today that he believed that the number of 6 million Holocaust victims is exaggerated” and that Israel “considers its pain more important than anyone else’s.” [NOTE: This is classic antisemitic lying bullshit.]
-In 2019, seven people from Moshav Mishmeret, Israel, are injured in a rocket attack from Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. Among the injured are a 59-year-old woman injured in the attack with light burns, shrapnel wounds and trauma from the blast; a 30-year-old woman injured with shrapnel hitting her leg; a 30-year old man; a 12-year old girl; a 3-year old boy; and a six month old baby. The injured are all members of the Wolf family, who lived in two housing units connected by a hallway. They were taken to Kfar Saba’s Meir Medical Center for treatment. Several others in the area were treated for anxiety attacks and light injuries from falling while running to bomb shelters. Two dogs belonging to the family were also killed in the rocket strike.
-In 2024, the Shin Bet security agency reveals that it recently foiled attempts by Iran to smuggle large shipments of advanced weapons to terror operatives in the West Bank to be used to carry out attacks on Israeli targets. According to the Shin Bet, behind the plot was Iran’s unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, headed by Jawad Ghafari, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as unit 18840, which is subordinate to the head of Iran’s unit 840, Asghar Bakri.
-In 2024, ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 171
The IDF says troops of the Maglan and Egoz commando units, along with other forces, have killed dozens of gunmen during a new offensive against Hamas in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis. The raid, which began Sunday, is being carried out by the Commando Brigade, the Paratroopers Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, and the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion. The IDF says it has “precise intelligence” indicating that Hamas operatives are using civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, in the Al-Amal neighborhood for terror activities. Troops have also captured a large amount of weapons and located Hamas sites in the area, the IDF says. Meanwhile, the IDF releases new details into its 10-day operation at the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, which was wrapped up last week, where the military says troops captured some 300 terror operatives and killed around 100 gunmen. That raid was also carried out by the Maglan and Egoz commando units, along with other forces. The commandos had raided the multi-story buildings in the Qatari-funded neighborhood, where the IDF said there was Hamas infrastructure. Amid the raid at Hamad, troops also found the weapon of Col. Jonathan Steinberg, the commander of the Nahal Brigade who was killed during the October 7 onslaught.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who is currently visiting the United States for an official trip, says Israel has “no moral right to stop the war in Gaza until we return all the hostages to their homes.”
The IDF says troops of the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit located a cache of weapons at Shifa Hospital’s MRI center, during the military’s ongoing raid against Hamas at the medical center, the largest in the Gaza Strip. Mortars, grenades, firearms and ammunition were found hidden within the building, in some cases under the floors and in the drop ceiling, according to the IDF. The IDF says the Nahal troops killed several gunmen during their scans of the MRI center and Shifa’s maternity ward. Weapons were also found in the maternity ward, the IDF says.
A barrage of eight rockets was fired from the Gaza Strip at Ashdod, according to the IDF. Two of the rockets were intercepted, while the rest apparently struck open areas, the IDF says. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Hamas claims responsibility for the attack. The last time rockets were fired at the southern coastal city, some 25 kilometers from the Gaza Strip, was on January 14.
-In 2025, ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536
The protests in Jerusalem are currently divided into three areas near the government compound. Several hundred protesters mill around outside the Knesset. The mostly silent sit-in participants of Shift 101 include hostage family members and their supporters, sitting on the asphalt at the intersection between the National Library and the Israel Museum. Family members speak every so often, talking about their utter despair and the lack of contact with any members of the government. Down the road, a growing number of demonstrators join the crowds outside the Joint or Jewish distribution committee building, where the evening protest is planned with other hostage family members and members of Kibbutz Nir Oz.
The Israeli military estimates that it has killed over 150 Hamas operatives and members of other terror groups since it resumed its offensive in the Gaza Strip a week ago. Over 420 targets have been hit by the Israeli Air Force, Navy, and ground troops in the offensive so far, according to the IDF. The IDF has so far named 10 senior Hamas political officials and mid-level military commanders who have been killed in the strikes. Other Hamas commanders were targeted, and the IDF is still working to confirm they were killed.
Ground troops are currently operating in Rafah’s Tel Sultan and Shaboura neighborhoods in southern Gaza and several areas in the Strip’s north. The IDF also pushed into the Netzarim Corridor and captured about half of it.
Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky tells The New York Times that she was sexually assaulted during her abduction to Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023, and that her first memory from the Strip was waking up half-naked, surrounded by gunmen.
Gritzewsky recounts how she and her boyfriend Matan Zangauker — who is still held hostage — jumped out the window of the safe room of their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz after Palestinian terrorists shot at their door that morning, and ran in separate directions. She says gunmen seized her and put her between two men on a motorcycle while her head and face were covered. One of the terrorists groped her from behind, touching her breast under her shirt as well as her leg. Her leg was pressed onto the exhaust pipe, causing burns, and she lost consciousness before they crossed into Gaza. When she woke up, she was on the floor with seven gunmen standing over her, her shirt pulled up to bare her breasts and her pants pulled down, Gritzewsky says, adding that she doesn’t know what they did to her until that point. She then told them she had her period, which she believes likely saved her from worse. “They hit me and lifted me up. I felt they were disappointed. I don’t think I have ever been so thankful for my period,” she says. She adds that her captors stole jewelry from her, and that after her release in a hostage deal on November 30, 2023, she found out she had a broken hip.
Over the past few weeks, the IDF says the Paratroopers Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit carried out several raids in southern Syria, following intelligence on weapons storage sites. The troops seized and destroyed numerous weapons in the raids, including explosive devices, ammunition, mortars and other military equipment. The IDF has described its presence in southern Syria’s buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure, though Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that troops will remain deployed to nine army posts in the area “indefinitely.”
-In 2025, the Jerusalem District Court issues a first-of-its-kind order to freeze NIS 50 million ($13.7 million) worth of Palestinian Authority funds, the Ynet news site reports. The move comes after Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in April 2023, initiated a lawsuit against the PA’s Prisoners Club and Martyrs Fund over stipends known as the “pay for slay” policy, which provides monthly payments to the families of Palestinian assailants killed or imprisoned for attacking Israelis. “PA resources should not support terrorism,” Rabbi Dee says. “I urge other terror victims in Israel to pursue similar action. Together, we can strip the enemy of their assets.
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