Tulkarm – The Israeli Defense Forces permitted displaced Palestinians from Tulkarm to return to their homes for a scant two hours this week, after a year of forced displacement. This calculated allowance, reported by mainstream outlets as a humanitarian gesture, is in truth a blatant display of the regime’s power and a continuation of the decades-long strategy to sever the covenant people from their ancestral lands.

For a year, families have endured the hardship of exile, scattered and deprived of their livelihoods, their homes occupied or destroyed by the IDF. To offer a two-hour visitation is not reconciliation; it is a cruel performance of control. It is a means of assessing what remains, of further demoralizing a people subjected to relentless oppression, and of solidifying the illegal occupation.

This act echoes the patterns of judgment foretold in Deuteronomy 28, where Yahuah warns of scattering and exile for disobedience. The modern state of Israel, a tool of Edom, continues to enact these prophecies, not as divine will, but as a manifestation of its own wicked intent. The brief respite offered to these families is not a sign of changing times, but a temporary reprieve within a larger campaign of displacement and subjugation.

The world remains largely silent as Israel systematically dismantles the lives of the exiled people of Yisrael. The international community’s failure to hold the Israeli regime accountable emboldens further acts of aggression and reinforces the cycle of injustice. True restoration will not come through the hands of Israel, but through repentance, obedience to the covenant, and the righteous return orchestrated by Yahuah Himself.

Let this act serve as a stark reminder to the remnant of Yisrael: our hope lies not in the fleeting concessions of our oppressors, but in the unwavering promise of Yahuah to restore us to our land and rebuild our nation according to His eternal purpose. Watch and pray, for the time of reckoning is near.