On 3 september 2026, Houthi fighters started a large ground attack alongside 14 ballistic missile strikes and drone attacks in the western Taiz and southern Hodeidah regions.
The Houthi rebels tried to cut the road linking Taiz city to the port city of al-Makha (Mocha) and push toward the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern entrance of the Red Sea.
Yemeni government forces and aligned National Resistance Forces fought back, shooting down drones and launching counter attacks. By 4 September 2026, the Yemeni army stated it had recaptured key positions, including the al-Khazan and al-Makahna hills in the Jabal Habashi district west of Taiz.
Saudi forces also launched airstrikes targeting Houthi positions in Taiz to support Yemeni government troops attempting to push back a major Houthi offensive near the Red Sea coast.
On 8 September 2026 the Houthis launched missiles and drones at four southern Saudi cities—Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran—including attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. Saudi authorities reported 73 people wounded, including women and children. No Saudi fatalities had been reported.
As of 8 september 2026 more than 500 killed ( atleast 278 houthi and 216 yemen fighters and 29 civilians ) due to this houthi yemen conflict started in 3 september 2026.
US military destroyed 5 Iranian crude-oil tankers on 8 September 2026, in retaliation for attempted Iranian ballistic-missile attacks against a U.S. Navy warship over the preceding two days. US military also destroyed another 5 Iranian tankers in the week before 8 september 2026.
On 10 september 2026, houthi's captured strategic mokha port and on 11 september houthi's captured strategic hanish islands without any real resistance from yemeni forces. Thus houthi's improved their ability to disrupt traffic through red sea at bab el mandap strait.
Saudi's say they called on US to help fight against houthi's twice on 10 september 2023, but US denied troop deployment against houthi. US is already giving military intelligence and weapon support to saudi-yemen forces.
On 11 september 2026 iraqi shiite militia's drones struck areas along the saudi oil pipeline near riyadh and medina, causing minor injuries to people and material damage to the facilities, causing saudi to shut down its east west oil pipeline.
- On 30 September, 2026 in Flydubai Flight 1073, en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe in a designated attempted terrorist attack, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. UAE prosecutors reported the co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani national who was banned from flying omani airplanes in 2024 due to his terrorist ideologies, intended to crash the plane into the passenger terminal at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.
Passengers subdued the attacker as the captain was able to just open the cockpit door in time despite the multiple severe attacks on his head by the terrorist co-pilot and a reserve pilot safely landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia. Other accomplices are also suspected which include the onboard flydubai crew.
Iran could also be involved, besides obvious knowing or unknowing negligence from Oman, UAE and even Israel, as after this incident it was reported that more than 1200 airplane crews are currently flying to Israel from countries without diplomatic relations with Israel like Oman.
As of 5 october, 2026 Yemeni government forces have beseiged Perim Islands isolating houthi forces there, and Yemeni government forces retaken Mokha, Dhubab (including Dhubab airport and surrounding towns), and secured the Bab al-Mandeb Strait with help from saudi airforce and US inteligence support. Yemeni government forces have not retaken the Hanish and Zuqar Islands as of October 5, 2026, which is still under houthi control.
On 9 October 2026 US President Donald Trump announced a U.S.-Russia Diesel Deal, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to supply diesel fuel to American and global markets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sharply criticized the deal, calling it a "gift to Putin" that provides the Kremlin with revenue to sustain its war. Kyiv briefly paused refinery strikes before resuming them. Trump stated the agreement was meant to lower soaring domestic diesel and fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on November 3, 2026. However, average U.S. diesel prices have continued to hover around $6.35 a gallon.
Since the full-scale Russian invasion began on February 24, 2022, which was a sharp escalation of small scale war which began by Russia annexing Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine in march 2014, tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and over 100,000 Ukrainian military personnel have been killed. Western intelligence agencies and military analysts estimate that roughly 450,000 to 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in action since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. In May 2014, pro-Russian separatists backed by Moscow held unrecognised referendums and proclaimed the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic. On September 30, 2022, following staged referendums condemned by Ukraine and the international community, Russia formally declared the annexation of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (along with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia) into the Russian Federation.
According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (OHCHR), between January and September 2026 alone, verified civilian casualties reached 2,570 killed and 15,211 injured, with September 2026 recording 328 civilians killed and 2,105 injured (an 85% increase compared to September 2025). Overall cumulative verified figures since February 2022 show at least 17,257 civilians killed and 53,693 wounded, though actual numbers are acknowledged to be significantly higher.
- Intensified Long-Range & Drone Strikes: Long-range missiles and drones accounted for roughly 53% of recent monthly casualties, while short-range frontline drones saw a massive spike (with short-range drone casualties up over 121% in frontline regions). [1, 2]
- Targeting of Energy and Heating Infrastructure: Russia has continued systematic bombardment of Ukraine's power plants, electricity grids, and heating facilities. Recent strikes temporarily left hundreds of thousands of residents—particularly in Kyiv and frontline hubs—without power heading into vulnerable winter conditions. [1, 2]
- Geographic Spread: Attacks have spanned 22 regions and Kyiv, with the heaviest daily tolls concentrated in frontline and border areas including Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv. [1, 2]
- Vulnerable Populations: Older persons aged 60 and above have borne a disproportionate brunt of the violence, accounting for nearly half of all civilian deaths in frontline communities. [1]
Between 6-11 october, 2026 houthi's attacked various saudi airports killing 19 and injuring more than 320. Following Saudi coalition airstrikes on Houthi fuel and oil depots in Yemen (Sanaa and Hodeidah) on 13 october, 2026 , the Houthis launched a major retaliatory strike using ballistic/cruise missiles and drones against Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran, sparking a multi-floor fire on evening 13 october, 2026.
On october 15, 2026, Houthis launched 9 ballistic missiles and 7 additional projectiles at Aden, striking the Al-Maashiq Presidential Palace and killing 5 people.
As of 18 october, 2026 US forces have redirected 138 commercial vessels to ensure compliance in hormuz strait since US blockade of iran linked vessels restarted on 15 july, 2026.
On 19 October 2026 Houthi ballistic missile strike on the Yemeni forces al-Alam training camp near Ataq city in the Shabwa Governorate killed 60 and injured more than 200.
On late 21 October 2022, falling debris from an intercepted houthi drone 2 dead and 8 others injured in Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia, mirroring a separate incident earlier that same day where falling debris from an intercepted drone killed 2 workers and injured another 2 at the nearby Shaybah oilfield.
On 27 October 2026, the overall voter turnout was 77.7% while it was 80% in arab sector which is highest since rebirth of Israel in 1948. And as of 7:25 pm Israel time on 29 October 2026, with 100% of votes counted Netanyahu's coalition bloc has 53 seats and Eisenkot's change bloc has 48 seats, while arab parties have 19 seats. This signifies Jews have not yet awaken up to the reality of the conspiracy of these arab enemies within Israel and in the surrounding nations of Israel to destroy Israel. This conspiracy of surrounding arab enemies to destroy Israel has been confirmed right since 1948 rebirth of Israel, during 1948,67,73 wars and smaller wars till 2023, October 7 hamas massacre of Jews, and Israel's war with iran and its proxies for it's existence till this day.
In 1949 also Arab population in Israel was 20%, and then they had only 2 seats in 120 member Knesset. Now also Arab population in Israel is only 21%, yet the anti-Zionist arab parties now have 19 seats with more than 90.5% of votes counted as of 1:51 am Israel time on 29 October 2026 Israel time, which surpasses the 15 seats they had in 2020 elections. Even in 2021,22 they ( ant-Zionist arab parties ) had only 10 seats.
Jewish Israeli political parties splitting into smaller parties like Ofer Winter's party and Reservist party and many others have contributed to the rise of 2 arab parties raam and joint list getting 19 seats.
For example, both Ofer Winter's party and Reservist party failed to cross the electoral treshhold of 3.25% and thus the votes of those who voted for parties like this that failed to cross the treshhold has been wasted. If both Ofer Winter's and reservist party were united they would have secured 4.2% of votes giving them 5 seats as they would have crossed the electoral treshhold of 3.25%, as 0.78% to 0.83% counts as 1 seat in Israeli election system. Besides Ofer Winter's Amcha Israel party and Reservist party there were 25 other Jewish parties and no arab parties that failed to cross the election treshhold of 3.25%. Thus according to the official vote counts from the Central Elections Committee (CEC), no predominantly Arab political parties failed to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold. [1]
Both major lists representing the Arab sector cleared the requirement with substantial margins, driven by a historically high voter turnout of 80%: [1] - The Joint List: Led by Yousef Jabareen, they secured 8.76% of the national vote (yielding 11 projected seats).
- Ra'am (United Arab List): Led by Mansour Abbas, they secured 5.9% of the total vote (yielding 8 projected seats).
Ra'am received 8 seats instead of its exact mathematical share because of "wasted votes" from failed parties and Israel's surplus-vote allocation law.
Under a perfectly proportional division, 1 seat would equal exactly 0.83% of the vote (100% divided by 120 seats). However, the final math changes significantly due to two legal mechanisms:
1. The Discarding of "Wasted Votes"
In every Israeli election, several parties fail to cross the mandatory 3.25% electoral threshold. Under the Knesset Elections Law, all votes cast for parties that do not clear the threshold are completely discarded before seats are distributed. [1, 2] Because those votes are thrown out, the pool of "valid qualifying votes" becomes smaller than the total number of ballots cast nationwide. This recalculation automatically boosts the true weight of every remaining party. [1, 2] 2. The Bader-Ofer Method & Surplus Agreements
Knesset seats cannot be split into fractions; they must be awarded as whole numbers. The seat allocation happens in two steps: [1, 2] - First Pass: The total votes of all qualifying parties are combined and divided by 120 to establish a "seat quota". Parties are awarded seats based strictly on their whole numbers. Ra'am’s base vote comfortably secured them an initial batch of whole seats. [1, 2, 3]
- Second Pass (The Bader-Ofer Law): The first round typically leaves 4 to 7 "leftover" seats unassigned because of fractional remainders. To distribute them, Israel utilizes the Bader-Ofer method (internally similar to the D'Hondt method), which sequentially awards leftover seats to the parties with the highest "cost per seat" ratio if they were to receive the next seat. [1, 2, 3]
- Surplus-Vote Pacts: Crucially, Ra'am signed an official surplus-vote agreement with the Joint List ahead of the election. This legally permitted both Arab-led lists to pool their leftover fractional votes together during the second pass. Because their combined mathematical remainder was highly competitive, it successfully pulled an extra leftover seat to Ra'am's column.
Thus under a raw mathematical division, 1 seat in the 120-member Knesset should require exactly 0.83% of the national vote (100% divided by 120). The fact that the Arab parties captured 19 seats with a lower average percentage per seat comes down to the mechanics of the Israeli electoral system. [1]
This occurs due to two major structural factors:
1. The Discarding of "Wasted Votes"
In Israel, the first step in counting votes is removing all ballots cast for parties that failed to cross the mandatory 3.25% electoral threshold. [1] In this cycle, numerous smaller parties fell short, completely discarding their votes from the final calculation. When a substantial chunk of the total vote share disappears: [1] - The remaining pool of "qualifying votes" shrinks.
- The value of a seat is recalculated based only on that smaller pool of valid votes.
- Consequently, the "real cost" of a seat drops significantly below the 0.83% baseline for the parties that survived. [1, 2]
Because the Arab parties (The Joint List and Ra'am) cleared the threshold comfortably, their share of the surviving vote pool was automatically worth more seats than their raw share of the total national vote pool. [1] 2. The Bader-Ofer Formula and the Arab Vote Pact
Knesset seats are distributed in two distinct phases:
- Initial Allocation: Parties receive seats based strictly on the whole numbers generated by dividing their votes by the new seat quota. This almost always leaves 4 to 7 "leftover" seats unassigned due to fractional remainders. [1, 2]
- Leftover Distribution: To award the remaining seats, Israel uses the Bader-Ofer method (a highest-average system). This system naturally gives an advantage to larger lists or blocks of votes by sequentially giving leftover seats to the list with the highest ratio of votes per seat. [1, 2, 3]
Crucially, Ra'am and the Joint List entered into a formal "surplus-vote agreement" before the election. Under Israeli law, this allowed the Central Elections Committee to combine the fractional leftovers of both Arab-led lists and treat them as one large pool during the seat-distribution phase. [1, 2, 3] Because of their record-breaking voter turnout, their combined remainder was mathematically large enough to secure additional leftover seats through the Bader-Ofer formula, driving their total count up to a historic 19 seats. [1, 2] The lack of intelligence and disunity of Jewish political leaders leading to 27 smaller split political parties that failed to cross the threshold of 3.25%, that wasted votes and gave more seats to arab parties and the unity in the only 2 arab parties that led them to gain more seats by surplus vote sharing along with a historic high arab voter turnout of 80 % led to the historic 19 seats for arab parties. Also the lack of support of general Israeli Jewish public for such a disunited unintelligent political leadership that led to lower voter turnout among Israeli Jews compared to Israeli arabs, led to this debacle. Also the fact that these 2 arab parties that Jewish political leaders allowed to secure 19 seats, have actually praised hamas and want destruction of Israel, further points to lack of intelligence and disunity of Israeli Jewish political leaders.
The saudi and other arab gulf countries and all surrounding nations of Israel want a fake deceptive narrative for their conspired intent to destroy Israel. For this they now claim US is declining in world stage, which could be partly true. But on the other side, the emerging power is the sino-russian-islamic terrorist alliance ( gog magog ) which has always been anti- Israel, to which the surrounding nations of Israel ( Psalm 83 alliance ) openly place their allegiance, after unashamedly and spinelessly taking all military and economic aid from USA. The wars of these surrounding nations with Israel in 1948,67,73 and milder wars till 2023, and from October 7, 2023 onwards war with iran and its proxies, all prove this reality.
Soon syria, jordan and west bank will carry out a sudden devastating attack/attacks on Northern Israel which is the ancient Israel kingdom - samaria - Isaiah 17:14, 4-11, with iran nukes, on a day evening time, but Israel will hit back in revenge before morning that day, causing devastating attacks on syria,jordan and west bank ( Isaiah 17:1-3,12-14 ). Thus northern Israel which was the ancient Israel kingdom - samaria, which being devastated by this attack/attacks from syria, jordan and west bank will be dominated by surrounding arab enemies. Still saudi, egypt, gaza, lebanon along with remaining militia of devastated syria, west bank and jordan which shall be aided by iraq ( assyria ) will continue seige on southern Israel - Israel south to Northern Jerusalem - Ancient Jerusalem and Judah - Zechariah 12:2, Psalm 83:1-18.
Then God will suddenly and miraculously cause weapon malfunctions and confusions in the surrounding nations military equipments and soldiers respectively that lay siege of Jerusalem and Judah. This will embolden the Israeli military and they will cause devastating attacks on all surrounding nations ( Zechariah 12:3-8 ), specifically in gaza ( Zephaniah 2:5-7, Ezekiel 25:13-17, Obadiah 1:18 ) syria, jordan and west bank ( Isaiah 17:1-14 , Jeremiah 49:1-25), along with parts of lebanon, egypt ( Isaiah 19:1-25, Ezekie, 29:12,13 ) and saudi arabia ( Isaiah 21:13-17, Ezekiel 25:13, Jeremiah 49:8 ). Elam - south,central and western iran will be devastated and people of that area will be scattered to all nations of the earth ( Jeremiah 49:35-39 ).
Israel will also conquer parts of surrounding nations ( Obadiah 1:19,20, Zecheriah 12:6-8, Zephaniah 2:6-9, Isaiah 19:18 ) and will be at peace till the 1st Gog Magog War as described in Ezekiel 38:11.
Ezekiel 38:12 has already been fulfilled by restoration of Israel starting in 1948. And the Psalm 83 conspiracy is in the making from 1948 restoration of Israel onwards as seen from 1948, 1967 and 1973 wars of surrounding nations against Israel, which continued in low intensity till october 7, 2023, when iran and its proxy groups started all out attacks on Israel. This will escalate into the Psalm 83 war, which will result in Israel defeating and making devastating attacks on surrounding nations. Israel will also conquer parts of the surrounding nations -( Obadiah 1:19,20, Zecheriah 12:4-8, Zephaniah 2:6-9, Isaiah 17:1-14, 19:18, 21:13-17, Jeremiah 49:1-39, Ezekiel 25:13-17,29:12,13 ). And thus Israel will be at peace till 1st Gog Magog War as mentioned in Ezekiel 38:11.
From 2023 onwards iran has also restored its alliance with sudan ( Cush ), thus moving closer to their alliance mentioned in first Gog Magog War with russia, turkey and other countries, who shall fall defeated on mountains of Israel before they can attack Israel as God revealed in Ezekiel 38,39 chapters some 2600 years ago.
Despite regional variations, the overall iranian environment is restrictive, but northern iran stands out as relatively more liberal socially and culturally. This is perhaps the reason why God excludes northern iran from his wrath and concentrates on ancient Elam ( south, central and western iran ) in outpouring his wrath in Jeremiah 49:35-39.
Despite this iran is also included in the coming first gog magog war in which russia, turkey, iran, libya, sudan, ethiopia, central asian countries etc. will come to attack Israel but will fall defeated in the mountains of Israel by God's miraculous intervention before they can even make an attack - Ezekiel 38.39 chapters.
Israelites will take 7 months to bury the dead of Gog's Armies in the Travellers Valley, East of Sea which shall be called valley of Hamon Gog. There shall also be a town called Hamonah. And Israelites will burn the fuel from the military equipments of the defeated Gog Magog alliance for 7 years. All these will occur as prophesied in Ezekiel 39 chapter. And during this time God will pour out his Holy Spirit upon Israel nation and Israel as a nation will look unto the God Yeshua The Mashiah, whom they pierced on the cross at Calvary, Jerusalem some 2000 years ago and cry out in repentance - Ezekiel 39:29, Zechariah 12:10-14.
The Rapture / Departure ( second coming of The Lord Yeshua The Christ in the mid-heavens to take his God's Assembly / Church from this earth to 3rd heaven) could happen shortly after this and after that the 7 year great tribulation period, second coming of The Lord Yeshua The Christ to defeat satanic forces and set up The Eternal God's Kingdom First as The Millenial Global Rule The Lord Yeshua The Christ of all earth from Jerusalem which shall continue forever after the 2nd Gog Magog war, Final Judgement of all, in the New Jerusalem, New Heaven, New Earth. All those who reject the God's salvation plan by the sacrificial death of The Lord Yeshua The Christ on the cross at Calvary, Jerusalem some 2000 years ago, shedding his precious sinless blood and his resurrection from the dead after 3 days and 3 nights, and go against commandments of The Lord Yeshua The Christ will be cast into eternal hell fire originally prepared for satan and fallen angels. -Revelation 19:11-22:21, Isaiah 66:22-24, Matthew 25:41.
