Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip” after Hamas’ violation of the hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas.   The order comes after Netanyahu met with the leaders of Israel’s security establishment to determine a response to Hamas’ failure to return the remains of deceased hostages.   Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip.— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 28, 2025 On Monday night, Hamas said it handed over the remains of a former Israeli hostage. Israel quickly determined the remains did not belong to one of the 13 hostages still in Gaza, but to Ofir Tzarfati, whose body the Israel Defense Forces recovered in Gaza in 2023.   Israel and Hamas agreed in early October to a ceasefire based on President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the region. The plan required Hamas to return all living and deceased hostages within days of the deal being signed. While all 20 of the living hostages were released on Oct. 13, Hamas has only returned the remains of 15 other hostages, leaving 13 still in Gaza.   Israel has accused Hamas of slow-walking the return of the deceased hostages and, according to The Times of Israel, Israeli intelligence has identified the location of nine of the deceased hostages still in Gaza.   “Despite claiming difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, Hamas continues to hold and manipulate the remains it refuses to release under the agreement,” the IDF wrote on the social media platform X on Tuesday.   Hamas has claimed it lacks proper equipment to locate the remains of some of those hostages, but the IDF calls the claim “baseless,” contending that “such tools are unnecessary for the transfer of remains and do not prevent the return of the deceased hostages.”   Hamas announced plans Tuesday to hand over the remains of a hostage later in the day, but, following Israel’s announcement of a response to Hamas’ violations, said it would “postpone” the handover “due to violations by the occupation.” “We emphasize that any Zionist escalation will hinder search, digging, and retrieval operations of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in the occupation recovering the bodies of its dead,” Hamas said, according to reporting from author and pro-Israel advocate Aviva Klompas. Trump has previous said he would consider giving Israel the green light to resume fighting in Gaza if Hamas does not uphold the terms of the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal.    The escalation in Hamas’ failure to return all hostage remains is not the first time the ceasefire agreement has been violated. Israel carried out strike on targets in Gaza on Oct. 19 after it said Hamas had killed two IDF soldiers in an Israeli-controlled section of Gaza. Yet the ceasefire resumed and has continued to hold. This is a developing story and may be updated. The post BREAKING: Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful Strikes’ in Gaza appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has launched the preliminary phase of rulemaking for Senate Bill 976, the “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act.” The legislation mandates that social media companies use “age assurance” systems to determine whether a California user is an adult or a minor. The Attorney General has until January 1, 2027, to complete and adopt the final regulations. The California Department of Justice (DOJ) will host a public meeting on November 5, 2025, to gather feedback from residents, experts, and organizations about how these rules should be structured. The DOJ is seeking public comment on the potential effects of the proposed regulations. Citizens can send their comments in written form to sb976@doj.ca.gov. Note that any information provided is subject to the Public Records Act.  SB 976 was introduced to limit the impact of addictive online design features on minors. It requires the Attorney General to create standards for age assurance and parental consent that align with the Act’s stated purpose of child protection. However, privacy advocates have raised alarms that the “age assurance” requirement could erode online anonymity, forcing individuals to hand over sensitive identification data to access social platforms. Such systems could expose Californians to new risks of data collection, profiling, and potential misuse of personal information. The DOJ has requested public input in three main areas: Methods and technical standards for age verification on social media and digital platforms used by minors. Continuing obligations for platform operators tasked with performing age checks. Procedures and protections surrounding parental consent for minors’ participation online. The law’s age verification provision has already faced legal challenges. NetChoice, a trade association representing major technology firms, filed suit against Attorney General Bonta, asserting that SB 976 violates the First Amendment by requiring Californians to surrender personal documentation in order to engage in lawful online speech. On September 9, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit mostly upheld SB 976 but did not rule definitively on the age assurance section, noting that it could not yet determine its effect on free expression until the regulations were finalized. On September 23, NetChoice submitted a petition for rehearing en banc, seeking review by the full court rather than the original three-judge panel. Unless the Ninth Circuit agrees to rehear the case, the Attorney General may continue developing the rulemaking framework. However, if the court grants the rehearing, it could temporarily halt enforcement of the age assurance provisions or even suspend the law altogether. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post California Opens Public Comment on Online Age Verification ID appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Hamas Faked the Discovery of Hostage Remains But Was Caught on Camera

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Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and spam phone calls. Robocalls are on the rise these days with an estimated 2.5 billion calls targeted at U.S. residents per month. Instead of letting your phone ring off the hook, try out these free spam-blocking tools for Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel.It’s easier than ever to block calls with the latest anti-spam features built directly into your phone.How to block spam calls on Apple iPhonesTo use Apple’s new call-blocking features, you’ll need to download the latest iOS 26 update. If you don’t like the way it looks, don’t worry; here are some quick tips to make it a little easier on the eyes. Once you’re ready, open the Settings app on your phone, scroll down to Apps, then tap Phone. Scroll down again and find the Screen Unknown Callers section. Now choose from one of the three options:Never: allows spam callers to continue to bother you, unabated.Ask Reason for Calling: will prevent your phone from ringing when an unknown number tries to reach you. Using AI, your iPhone will send the caller a message, asking them why they’re calling. You will then receive a notification with their response. If the call is legitimate, you can pick it up and speak to the person on the line, or if it’s spam, you can simply ignore it. Most of the time, scammers will hear the call screen message and hang up on their own, leaving you in peace.Silence: prevents your phone from ringing when an unknown number calls.Beneath this section, you’ll also find Call Filtering. This setting lets you completely silence missed calls and voicemails from unknown numbers. This is especially useful if you get a lot of unknown calls and you simply don’t want to be bothered. Screenshots by Zach LaidlawHow to block spam calls on Samsung Galaxy Android phonesBuilt with the anti-spam service Hiya, Samsung’s Smart Call feature is baked directly into Samsung Galaxy phones starting with the S8 and newer. You can enable it by opening the Phone app on your Galaxy phone, tap on the three dots in the top right corner, tap Settings, and then flip on the Caller ID and spam protection toggle. Tap on this section one more time to go a bit deeper, and choose whether you’d like to block high-risk calls or spam calls altogether.Once that’s complete, all incoming phone calls will run through Hiya’s robust spam detection database. If you only choose to block high-risk numbers, a message will pop up on your screen to identify other potential spammers, scammers, or fraudsters as they come in, and you’ll have the option to report or block them. If you choose to block all spam calls, suspected spammers will be silenced entirely, restoring a modicum of peace to your digital life. Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw How to block spam calls on Google Pixel Android phonesBuilt exclusively for Google Pixel phones, Call Screen uses AI to identify suspicious phone numbers. When a call comes in, Google Assistant can answer on your behalf, ask the caller why they’re trying to contact you, and provide a live transcription of their answer so that you can decide if you’d like to pick up. Call Screen can also automatically decline calls from spammers without alerts or notifications, leaving you blissfully unbothered.To enable Call Screen and other useful spam-blocking features, open the Phone app on your Google Pixel and tap the hamburger menu in the top left corner. Under Call Assist, enable Caller ID & Spam to identify spam numbers. You may want to check Spam Detection next, which will alert you, in real-time, if a caller is trying to scam you during an active conversation. Finally, enable Call Screen to automatically review your incoming calls and manage them based on one of these three settings:Maximum Protection screens all unknown numbers and declines spam.Medium Protection only screens suspicious numbers and declines spamBasic Protection only declines spam, leaving you open to the widest range of unknown callers. Screenshots by Zach LaidlawOne last word of warningWhile most spam-blocking tools will silence robocalls, scammers can still use call screening to trick you. Thanks to AI, scammers can leave messages that sound like your friends and family, begging for help, money, or worse. To make sure you’re always talking to the real person, set up a verbal password — something random, like "platypus" or the number "18" — that your friends and family can use to verify their identities, especially if they call from an unknown number. RELATED: Thin is NOT in: Why nobody is buying the new Apple and Samsung phones Photo by NurPhoto / Contributor via Getty ImagesIn most cases, robocalls are trivial at best, and it’s easier than ever to block them with the latest anti-spam features built directly into Apple iPhones, Samsung Galaxy devices, and Google Pixels. Simply turn them on and enjoy that much-needed peace and quiet from those forever-unknown callers.

The Department of Homeland Security appears to be shifting tactics in order to drastically increase the number of daily arrests of illegal aliens by changing leadership at field offices across the country.First reported by the Washington Examiner, DHS is set to replace directors at field offices that are normally staffed with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with U.S. Border Patrol agents. While both agencies fall under DHS and carry out similar immigration enforcement duties, they have been employing different tactics to target illegal aliens.Because of the shock-and-awe tactics ... the White House favors Border Patrol to lead operations.As previously reported by Blaze News during a ride-along near Miami, ICE agents mainly do targeted enforcement of illegal aliens who have gone on to commit more crimes while in the United States. Intelligence is gathered to determine a target's behavior before making arrests. If they have the ability to take in other illegal aliens near the target or targets, agents can do so now under the Trump administration.Border Patrol, on the other hand, has been let loose by the Trump administration to conduct sweeps in sanctuary cities across the country, employing daytime raids to arrest illegal aliens and to send a message that things are different than they were under the Biden-Harris administration. Border Patrol agents are eager to do missions in the interior after being forced to allow illegal immigrants into the United States during the Biden border crisis.Border Patrol's random sweeps at job sites worked by illegal immigrants have resulted in the arrest of people with serious criminal backgrounds.RELATED: Border Patrol arrest at Home Depot punches hole in Democrats' narrative Julio Rosas/Blaze Media Because of the shock-and-awe tactics, which have increasingly resulted in mobs forming to attack the agents, the White House favors Border Patrol to lead operations in order to get more illegal aliens out of the country. DHS posted video on Tuesday showing an anti-Border Patrol crowd in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago attacking agents. Tear gas had to be used after some in the angry crowd threw objects at agents.Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said the leadership changes are happening in cities such as:Los AngelesPhoenixPhiladelphiaDenverEl PasoSan DiegoSeattlePortlandNew OrleansThe different tactics have reportedly caused tensions between the two agencies and their allies in the White House and DHS. One DHS official told Melugin the department has "lost" its way trying to solely focus on increasing arrests, while a Border Patrol official reportedly said, "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the U.S. illegally is on the table."Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said on X that the DHS has "no personnel changes to announce right now."Addressing tensions between the two sides, McLaughlin noted, "This is one team, one fight. President Trump has a brilliant, tenacious team led by [Secretary Kristi Noem] to deliver on the American people's mandate to remove criminal illegal aliens from this country."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the arrest of federal ICE agents for doing their jobs — and it did not go unnoticed by the Trump administration.Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed in a statement earlier this week that local police could “arrest federal agents if they break California law.”“Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law, and if they are convicted, the president cannot pardon them,” Pelosi said in a statement on October 23.Pelosi also wrote in a post on X: “A mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area is an appalling abuse of law enforcement power. The people of San Francisco stand with our patriotic immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America. We will not be intimidated by politically motivated fear tactics.”BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey’s father and BlazeTV contributor Ron Simmons could not be more thrilled with the response her comments inspired.“That statement is so inappropriate and, in some ways, factually incorrect that it’s just appalling,” Simmons says, noting that Attorney General Pam Bondi did not let Pelosi’s comments slide.Bondi responded to Pelosi’s nonsensical statements on Fox News, explaining that “Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco.”“We told them, ‘Preserve your emails. Preserve everything you have on this topic because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that. You’re impeding an investigation. And we will charge them. If they think I won’t, they have not met me, because we will charge them if they are violating the law,” she added.Simmons couldn’t be happier with Bondi’s response.“I say hooray. Thank goodness. Thank goodness that they’re willing to do that,” he says, pointing out that Blanche went on in his letter to write, “Any attempts to arrest or interfere with federal agents is illegal and futile.”“So, I hope that they’ll enforce that to the fullest extent of the law. All these men and women are trying to do is carry out their responsibilities that are passed down from the leaders of the executive branch,” Simmons says.“And again, they’re not deporting U.S. citizens, and they’re focusing primarily on those that have committed crimes here in the U.S. or at home,” he continues.“So ... it's just sickening,” he says, adding, “and almost, in my opinion, what some of these people are trying to do is on the border of treasonous. When you’re trying to impede federal law being upheld, I don’t know what else there could be. I mean, you become almost an enemy of the state.”Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

With only a week left before the election in the contentious New York City mayoral race, socialist Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism for a photo with a Ugandan lawmaker who supported legislation restricting LGBTQ behavior.The criticism stems from his July visit to Uganda, where he was born. During his visit, he met with Rebecca Kadaga, a well-known Ugandan lawmaker who served as speaker of the Parliament of Uganda from 2011 to 2021. She has been the first deputy prime minister since 2021, according to the New York Post. Mamdani appeared at a 'Gays for Zohran' event, posing with two drag queens.Mamdani and Kadaga appeared in a photo together during his return to Uganda."Delighted to meet with Zohran Mamdhani [sic] incoming Mayor of New York City. Good luck in the next phase of elections," Kadaga said in a post on X at the end of July.RELATED: Stop calling Zohran Mamdani a communist — he’s something worse Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesUganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 features a variety of punishments for homosexual behavior, including seven years in prison for a variety of acts. A more recent expansion on the law includes the death penalty."Ugandans want that law as a Christmas gift. They have asked for it, and we'll give them that gift," Kadaga told Reuters in 2012, prior to the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act.However, Mamdani has strongly advocated for LGBTQ issues. One X user pointed out Mamdani appeared at a "Gays for Zohran" event, posing with two drag queens. According to one source, Mamdani joined the event for National Coming Out Day on October 11.“Zohran Mamdani ran into the First Deputy Minister while he was at Entebbe airport waiting to board his flight back to New York City. She asked to take a photo,” Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec told the Post about the photo with Kadaga. “If he was aware she was the architect of this horrific attack on queer Ugandans, he would not have done so,” Pekec continued. “Zohran’s belief in universal human rights extends to all people, and he has put forward the most comprehensive plan of any candidate to protect LGBTQ+ New Yorkers."In July, Zohran Mamdani posted a video on X announcing that he would be heading to Uganda to celebrate his marriage to wife Rama Duwaji with family and friends. The video mocks the "thousands of messages" telling him to "go back to Africa." In late June, Kadaga extended her congratulations and greetings from Uganda after he won the Democratic nomination in the mayoral race. Blaze News reached out to Zohran Mamdani's campaign for comment but did not receive a response. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!