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Times Square Billboard Displays Images From Oct. 7 Hamas Terrorist Attack in Israel
A partial video of a digital billboard displayed in Times Square, New York City, on Dec. 15, 2024, about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. Photo: Screenshot
A digital billboard displayed in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday featured images of the destruction and devastation that took place on Oct. 7 of last year during the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel.
The billboard, located above the Pele Soccer store in the heart of Manhattan, ran throughout the day and showed pictures from the Oct. 7 massacre along with the cover of the book Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023. The book is an uncensored, unfiltered, and verified collection of first-hand testimonies from survivors of the attack, as well as volunteers of the Israeli emergency response organization ZAKA, the head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, and others with firsthand knowledge of what happened that day.
Testimonies Without Boundaries was written by Alon Penzel, who also funded the digital billboard that was featured in Times Square on Sunday. A journalist and former Israeli government spokesperson, Penzel told The Algemeiner that Sunday’s billboard highlighting the Oct. 7 atrocities will be displayed again after Christmas. He explained that he organized the billboard in an effort to fight back against whose who want to stifle and ignore discussions about the terrorist attack that took place in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Testimonies Without Boundaries was initially blacklisted by Amazon, which later reversed its decision and approved the book,” he told The Algemeiner. “Throughout time, there have been many attempts to not only silence my voice, but also the victims’ voices from the book — silence the atrocities that took place, deny Oct. 7 ever happened, calling us ‘liars’ [and] blaming Israel for the massacre. But while they are trying to silence me, I will speak up even louder.”
“I decided to place the book, with all its uncensored atrocities, as well as images from the massacre in the world’s most famous square — in the face of anyone who might be trying to deny Oct. 7 – so they and everyone else would see exactly what happened,” he added. “We have the duty to commemorate Oct. 7, as well as bringing 100 hostages back to their homes. I made sure everyone in New York understands just that.”
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Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lays a wreath as he visits the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday.
The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as a bodyguard for Hezbollah’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. The source said Khalil had been on a religious pilgrimage to Iraq when he met up with a member of the Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada group.
They traveled together to Tehran and were both killed in an Israeli strike there, along with Khalil’s son, the senior security source said. Hezbollah has not joined in Iran’s air strikes against Israel from Lebanon.
Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada published a statement confirming that both the head of its security unit and Khalil had been killed in an Israeli strike.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September.
Israel and Iran have been trading strikes for nine consecutive days since Israel launched attacks on Iran, saying Tehran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it does not seek nuclear weapons.
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Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip
Israeli soldiers operate during a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, July 3, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet), announced on Friday the killing of Ibrahim Abu Shamala, a senior financial official in Hamas’ military wing.
The operation took place on June 17th in the central Gaza Strip.
Abu Shamala held several key positions, including financial officer for Hamas’ military wing and assistant to Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing until his elimination in March 2024.
He was responsible for managing all the financial resources of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, overseeing the planning and execution of the group’s war budget. This involved handling and smuggling millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip to fund Hamas’ military operations.
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Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
i24 News – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing unnamed Iranian officials. It is understood the Ayatollah fears he could be assassinated in the coming days.
Khamenei reportedly mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications.
Khamenei has designated three senior religious figures as candidates to replace him as well as choosing successors in the military chain of command in the likely event that additional senior officials be eliminated.
Earlier on Saturday Israel confirmed the elimination of Saeed Izadi and Bhanam Shahriari.
Shahriari, head of Iran’s Quds Force Weapons Transfer Unit, responsible for arming Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike over 1,000 km from Israel in western Iran.
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