IDF on High Alert: Remains of Long-Lost Hostage Hadar Goldin Possibly Heading Home After 11 Years in Hamas Hell

Look, if there's one thing that's defined the grim calculus of Israel's endless tango with Hamas, it's the terrorists' macabre habit of hoarding the dead like bargaining chips in some twisted game of poker. But tonight, after more than a decade of stonewalling and heartbreak, there's a flicker of hope piercing the fog of Gaza's latest excavations. 

The IDF is gearing up to receive the remains of a deceased hostage, fingers crossed, it could be those of Hadar Goldin, the brave 23-year-old lieutenant snuffed out in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge, his body unceremoniously carted off to Hamas's underground trophy case.

Hamas, ever the reliable source of propaganda and torture, crowed to Al Jazeera on Saturday that they'd finally "recovered" Goldin's remains from a dig in Rafah. Yeah, like they searched high and low to find a person they captured and killed as a bargaining chip.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir didn't waste a moment, traveling to the Goldin family home as soon as the reports hit, per KAN. Smart move; in a story this raw, you lead with empathy before the facts start flying.

"The chief of staff reiterated his personal and the IDF's commitment to bringing back Hadar and all the fallen hostages and emphasized the importance of restraint at these sensitive moments, until his arrival and the completion of the necessary checks and verification," the military said. [Hold the cheers, folks, Hamas lies like it's an Olympic sport.]

The IDF's Southern Command, chatting with Walla, laid it out plain: Hamas's backhoe brigade in southern Gaza unearthed seven bodies from the site, and Goldin's might be in the mix. But they're not buying it wholesale. The report can't be verified, and "the source of all the publications is Hamas alone." In other words, treat this like you'd treat a promise from the ayatollahs: Skepticism is your best friend until the DNA says otherwise.

Through it all, the Goldin family, those quiet warriors who've kept the flame alive for 11 excruciating years, clung to cautious optimism. "An entire country is waiting for Hadar to be returned to us," the family said in a statement. "The chief of staff arrived at the end of Shabbat to update us on the tremendous efforts to free the hostages, and we salute everyone involved in this national mission. We are waiting for news of official confirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We ask that you remain calm. Until it’s confirmed, it’s not over."

Hadar Goldin is displayed during a protest at Hostage Square, November 8, 2025. (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

God, if that doesn't hit you right in the gut. Late last month, whispers from a source confirmed what many suspected: Hamas knew damn well where Goldin was buried but played the stall game, dragging out the agony like it was just another leverage point in their endless war of attrition.

Flash back to August 1, 2014, in the sweltering hell of Rafah. 

Goldin, part of an elite engineering unit, was knee-deep in dismantling one of those infernal terror tunnels when two Hamas goons popped out like jack-in-the-box demons and snatched him. At first, the horror was that he might still be breathing in captivity. Days later, the IDF's gut-wrenching verdict: He was killed in the chaos, his body the prize they dragged back anyway. Sick scumcrumpets.

The Military Rabbinate, sifting through the shards of certainty in an uncertain war, green-lit a funeral anyway, partial remains laid to rest in a ceremony that drew thousands, a nation mourning a son it couldn't fully bury. It's the kind of half-measure that sticks in your craw, a reminder that Hamas doesn't just fight dirty; they fight eternal and extremely dirty.

If these turns out to be Goldin's, it'll be a long-overdue gut punch to the terrorists' strategy of using the dead to bleed Israel dry. But until the lab lights confirm it, we're all just holding our collective breath. One more round in this marathon of memory and resolve. 

Stay tuned, and pray it's him.

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NY Times terminates Gaza "journalist" who calls for murder of Jews

Fady Hanona

Former New York Times Gaza stringer, Fady Hanona had contributed to six of the paper’s eight articles on Operation Breaking Dawn, until HonestReporting uncovered his anti-Semitic Facebook posts. On Friday, the former newspaper cut ties with him because it doesn't look good to keep him on board.

Of the eight articles the Times produced during the recent escalation of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-back terror group, six credited Hanona as contributing from Gaza City.

Hanona is a freelancer and had also been hired by The Guardian, VICE News, and the famously anti-Semitic BBC. His reporting clearly indicated his sympathy toward the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian terror organizations' ideology of the total destruction of the Jewish State.

During 2014’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza, Hanona went on social media to threaten the murder of Ghassan Alian, an Israeli Druze who commanded the IDF’s Golani Brigade at the time. That doesn't sound like objective journalism but still the Times and other outlets were okay with his reporting.

On August 18, 2014m just days before a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hamas, this so-called reporter urged the Palestinian “resistance” to reject a truce and continue its missile attacks on Tel Aviv, which had at that point already cost the lives of five civilians.

He went so far as to invoke Adolf Hitler to support his point about the strength of Gazan fighters. “As Hitler said, give me a Palestinian soldier and a German weapon, and I will make Europe crawl on its fingertips,” Hanona’s posted, citing an unconfirmed quote attributed to Hitler, a guy responsible for the Holocaust and the murder of 6,000,000 Jews.

Hanona had shared a now-deleted propaganda video of terrorist groups in Jenin on his Facebook page. He tells his FB followers that Palestinians should return to “the culture of fighting and killing Israelis.”

Hitler really would have been proud of him. 

“I don’t accept a Jew, Israeli or Zionist, or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people, and soldiers,” Hanona asserted, adding: “The Jews are sons of the dogs… I am in favor of killing them and burning them like Hitler did. I will be so happy.”

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A spokesperson for the New York Times told media outlet The Algemeiner on Friday that, “The New York Times had worked with this freelance reporter only in recent weeks. We are no longer doing so.” But they are no friend of Israel nor the Jews.

Now all we need is for the BBC, VICE News, and The Guardian to follow The Times' lead. And may get the IDF or Mossad to find this guy and talk to him.

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Hamasshole dies in Gaza tunnel:

"This is my rifle, this is my gun . . ."

A member of Hamas' military wing died in a tunnel incident on Tuesday near the Israel-Gaza border in Rafah, according to the Gaza-based terrorist group.

The Hamasshole's name was Hani Shlouf--he was a mere lad of 24 years and was best known for saving water. He was identified by Ashraf al-Qidra, of the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.

The group's military wing said the scumcrumpet died after he carried out "a great and honorable Jihadi mission in one of the resistance tunnels," which it was later learned consisted of emptying out and burning the excrement from the Port-O-Sans in the tunnel. 

It was also learned that there was a misstatement by Ashraf al-Qidra due to his poor English language skills. When he referred to 'the resistance tunnels' he meant that Shlouf was resistant to having to burn the crappers but he did so like a good jihadi.

The military wing said that Shlouf came from the Shabura neighborhood in Rafah, where he was known to the local kids as the weird boy who beheaded the neighborhood dogs.

7 dead from collapsed tunnel

"He was a good boy," said his mother, Mrs. Shlouf, who works as a cashier in a munitions depot. "All he ever wanted to do is kill for Allah and look what happened to him. He's in a better place now with all those brown-eyed virgins. I hope he's having a good time . . . Allahu Akbar!"

Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordehai said Shlouf was electrocuted to death when his potty shovel hit a live wire connected to a reading light.

Since Operation Protective Edge began, (not to be confused with shaving commercials) dozens of Hamassholes have died in tunnel collapses and incidents which can be attributed to their breathtaking stupidity. 

Just last week, two idiot militants died in tunnel collapses and Islamic religious leaders are concerned that Paradise is getting low on virgin women--they may need to substitute. 


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Hamas holds AP journalist at gunpoint, beats AFP photographer

[Photo credit: Mohammed Othman/Flash90]

The darlings of the UN and the left, Hamas, has blocked journalists from filming a major protest against power cuts in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. They detained and held an Associated Press journalist at gunpoint and brutally beat up an Agence France-Presse photographer who refused to hand over his camera.

The AP journalist was trying to cover a demonstration against frequent electricity shortages in Gaza, described by that press outlet as "one of the largest unauthorized protests in the territory since the Islamic militant group took power a decade ago."

The AP reported that: "Hamas forces blocked journalists from filming the gathering, and an Associated Press journalist was briefly detained at gunpoint until he handed over his mobile phones to plainclothes security men."

The Foreign Press Association said the Hamassholes "stuck a pistol in his chest and verbally threatened the reporter until he agreed to give them the phones." In the same statement, they said "an AFP photographer was badly beaten to the head by uniformed policemen [and] required medical care after he had refused to give up his camera. The memory card of his camera was confiscated and he was placed under arrest. He was subsequently released and the memory card was returned."

One day prior to the protest, Hamassholes arrested a local comedian who wasn't being funny when he made a video that went viral about the power outages.

In spite of all the love Hamas gets from the UN and our leftists here, they often are criticized for limiting press freedoms such as warning journalists against sharing negative incriminating details in their reports from Gaza and forcing them to delete such details if included in their coverage.

But at least they aren't Israel, John Kerry says to himself when shampooing his hair.

Palestinian affairs journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, in a 2009 report for the Gatestone Institute wrote:

Foreign journalists who manage to cross into the Gaza Strip face many restrictions imposed by the Hamas government. Local facilitators hired by foreign journalists are also under scrutiny by the Hamas government. That is why they are careful not to bring the dirty laundry out by telling the foreign media about things that could reflect negatively on Hamas.

During Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, it was clear how the latter restricted the reporting. Foreign reporters admitted after they left the Middle East that they had waited to report news that put Hamas in a bad light, such as their use of human shields, and their decision to fire rockets next door to their hotel. The reporters were afraid of Hamas' retaliation, so they waited until they were safely home or at least out of the area. 

In fact, a Hamas spokeswoman admitted in August of 2014 that Hamas had intimidated journalists into providing more favorable coverage of them.

Mark Lavie, a former AP journalist wrote that the intimidation of reporters was the main reason news from Gaza is skewed.

Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit organization, condemned the treatment of journalists by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, saying that their tactics led to a "chilling effect" on freedom of expression in the Palestinian territories.

"Both Palestinian governments, operating independently, have apparently arrived at similar methods of harassing, intimidating and physical abuse of anyone who dares criticize them," said Sari Bashi, the HRW's Israel-Palestine director.

Freedom House's press freedom score  of 84 (with 100 being the worst) was given to the Palestinian territories in 2015. And a survey in 2014 found "80% of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza practice self-censorship of their writing." The same year, a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found 70% of Palestinians didn't believe they could criticize the PA.

But these are simply facts and not feelings so what and who are you going to believe?




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