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1.

Remember I told you I stopped teaching full time.

And that means my small salary becomes very small.

But I told you that I started a business.

But that business is still in its infancy.

And that means all the profits I get is going into growing the business.

So when I told my dad I'll employ a teacher,

My dad almost froze.

"Where will you get money to pay your teacher? Do you think it's easy to become an employer? And how much do you want to pay your teacher?" he asked.

I çan't say it here because it's confidential.

But listen carefully,

Starting small is costly.

But that doesn't mean it's impossible.

I started in a very small shop but now there's one classroom and I need a teacher.

Dear friends, if you don't start walking you won't make any path.

If you don't have money to rent a shop, start in your house.

If your kind of business requires more money to start,

Start buying the tools one after the other.

If you don't have money at all,

look for employment.

Or write a business proposal to source for income from family and friends.

One must work.

If you don't start walking, you won't make any path.

One thing I learn is most people want to start walking like someone,

but it won't work that way because even if you resemble each other, you're not the same.

Most people find it hard to agree with this truth:

No matter who you're, there are many people who are better than you.

Once you agree with this truth, favour is your name.

As teachers especially those teaching in primary schools,

we see it everyday.

You'll see some children are so intelligent in primary one as if they had teachers when they were in their mothers' wombs.

Agree that we are never the same and stop trying to start walking like someone else.

Someone is born with special intelligence but you don't know.

Someone has big brothers abroad but you don't know.

Someone has sown many seeds since 2011 but you don't know.

Someone has been learning what you've not been learning but you don't know.

Someone has been focusing on the kind of a prayer point that you don't know.

Someone has ever sold human parts but you don't know....

The secret is, do your own walk only the way you can manage it.

If you can't start walking one Kilometer, don't start walking one kilometer.

If you do it beyond your strength, you'll slump.

The point is if you don't start walking, you won't make any path but start small.

The time is now.

When I started my tutoring business in late 2023, I didn't know how to give people reasons to buy my services.

I believed my only marketing job was to place an ad and show up every day.

Then something happened.

I got more than 10 visitors within three months but only two visitors registered. Visitors came desperately but, at the end, most left without registering.

In January 2024, I found out that most of them don't register because I didn't give them convincing reasons to trust me.

Then I took my time to source for a solution, and I got one.

I employed a strategy that assists visitors to trust me and it helps me hit more deals and close more sales.

Here is the Strategy:

1. I tell my visitors to trust me.

Before becoming my customers, visitors stand outside and ask me how much my services are and how much I can help them.

I don't like to speak with them aloud from inside so I call them in to negotiate and during the negotiation, I tell them to trust me.

By telling them to trust me, I make them feel their money is going to where they'll never regret: I give them hope and invite them to try me.

The best way to know whether people are interested to deal with you is to ask them to deal with you.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, said, "The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer."

2. I tell them that other customers trust me.

As people pass by my site, they see me teaching other customers and they become interested.

When we start talking, I look for opportunity and tell them other customers trust me because I'm faithful. They usually agree with me and become willing to pay me to help them or their wards.

If they don't have money, they usually look for it as I accept prepayment and disallow offering services on credit.

Telling my customers other customers trust me gives them reason to feel the money they are going to pay will work hard for them.

3. I offer quality services.

If you buy lessons from me--if you buy 12 lessons or 24 lessons or 36 lessons from me--I must offer all the quality lessons you buy come rain come shine, and I don't miss a schedule unless it's inevitable.

I use both the classroom and the office to deliver a lesson and I don't experience any stress or burn-out.

As a result, I got more clients and all of them after assessing themselves or their wards appreciate me and testified they saw significant improvement.


Want to advance faster in this kind of business?

"Invest in building trust."

Juliana Vergara, A clinical psychologist who coaches senior and emerging leaders in Latin America and the US, said:

"Trust is a currency; you can't afford not to invest in it...trust can only be built, maintained, and repaired through conversations."

P.S: Want to start an evening tutoring business that pays? You can contact me at: 0818 246 9977 or 0816 293 7155. You're going to learn how to: chose a location, what to put in place, how to cheaply create an ad, how to negotiate, more techniques on how to build trust and how to expand from tutoring business to establishing an elementary or high school.

6. Think big.

To many people in their 20s, think big means "Think you're big."

They don't know the origin of the phrase and they don't know what it means.

They look at it in a simple direction that won't make their dream come true.

Think big means think of how to create a source or sources of millions or billions of money.

I started thinking big in 2018 but I got more serious in it in 2022 and started my big project in late 2023.

I learned that...

7. Go for something big.

Some pundits say "have a big picture", some say "have a mission and vision", others say "have an ongoing big project."

They mean the same. But I lacked the wisdom early in my life.

I was living a daily life--the kind in which the only thing I thought of was what to eat, what to wear and where to socialize. My thinking never went in the direction of creating something to leave behind.

I was very less ambitious.

And it took a lot of my time.

Good life is when you start creating lasting sources of income or generational wealth in your early 20s so that you can start enjoying financial freedom in your late 30s.

I had no one to tell me this or to put me in a condition that could enable me to know it.

Now I want people in their 20s to heed to this advice.


8. Start saving early.

Warren Buffet did this and was fortunate to be introduced to investment, and he's now a billionaire in dollars.

Saving early is one way of creating wealth but only a very few people do it.

In my 20s, I thought my salary was too small to save even a little even though I ate my parents' food and lived in a free house.

Saving means avoiding arbitrary spendings.

I didn't realize this until much later.

Then I started saving with an objective to buy a plot of land to start building my first house, knowing that real estate is a good business.

9. Read financial books.

When I became business savvy, I learned there were financial books on earth before I was born.

In the list of things I regret not doing in my 20s, reading financial books will never be absent.

In my 20s my attention didn't go to business. So in my reading list or library, I only had fiction books, website links, newspapers, textbooks, Holy Bible and magazines.

10. Attend business seminars or webinars.

Millions of good opportunities presents themselves everyday but only a tiny fraction of population, who want to become rich, pays attention to them.

I never had an opportunity to attend or hear of a business seminar or webinar in my 20s (maybe because I didn't care about business). This is the major reason I started learning business in my 30s.

Business seminars are opportunities for everyone to start learning business in the early adult age.

If you pay attention to radio programs or Facebook feeds, you may hear or read someone talking about business or advertising a seminar or webinar. Don't be afraid to attend--that may be the only chance you have to leave financial problems.

Note: If you seek for advice to attend a seminar or webinar, someone may poison your mind that there are scammers.

There are scammers, yes, but your objective of attending it is to learn. Most of the seminars or webinars are free.

11. Pray for wisdom and riches.

Prayer is key that can open many doors.

While this is true many people don't know.

Those people, instead of directly telling God what they want, they want people to hear them so their intention is to impress people not God

That's how I viewed prayer when I was in my 20s: something to show mastery of.

Now in my 30s, I noticed that God isn't a managing director of a company who wants to read a letter of complain or of application in professional language. Nor does He care about the language you use because He listens to every language: Chinese, Japanese, German, etc.

God also prefers that you pray in a place where no one can eavedrop.

My advice to you is:

Tell God what you want.

Four things I wished I knew when I was in my early 20s

1. Work to learn.

I bought a mattress and a piece of carpet and kitchen materials and that was all when I started teaching.

I had no plan for business and investment and I wasn't looking for a better job.

I didn't realize I will regret this in future because I thought I've done the difficult part and any other thing will work on its own.

I spent three years becoming miserable instead of becoming successful.

I became stressful and sick that my savings went to medications.

So I figured out that relying on a single source of income as an employee is disastrous.

I started learning how to set up my business.

Robert Kiyosaki said don't work for money but work to learn.

2. Start small.

When my eyes opened, I wanted to start big to command honor and roam the street like a public figure. I visited the bank and solicited for N2million loan (thanks they said they temporarily stopped issuing loan).

A lot of people have similar mindset. In one year they want to become like that guy who built a mansion for his parents or like that young man who built a plaza. They don't know how he started and they're not interested to know.

Learning the business and starting small are the important things to do to start making it. The goal is to make the kind of money that will make you proud of yourself and allow you to sleep well.


3. Do the business that works.

Having stopped working full time in 2022, I ignore tutoring business and started setting an edutainment business I had never seen someone doing.

I spent more than N80,000 on gadget already, but thanks I hadn't spent more than that.

I'm not saying trying a new business is bad (if I didn't try my new business, I wouldn't have known it would never work) but I want you to know that it's too risky to try a new business if you aren't well financially established.

Studies found that more than 80% of new busineses fail. The ones that work are not new but old ones that are reinvented, reintroduced, modernized or relocated from offline to online.

If you want to start a business, start a business that works. Look for a problem many people want to solve and then create a platform that can help them solve the problem.

You can also try to modernize or reinvent an old business.

4. "Start Afraid."

I read the above quote on Facebook in late 2022. I wrote it in my personal note book immediately.

When I started teaching, I was afraid but as I continued doing it I became confident in it.

In late 2023, I applied the knowledge when I started my tutoring business and two months later, I didn't know where the fear went to.

The major price to pay in starting afraid is consistency.

5. Plan how to become a millionaire or billionaire and immediately stick to your plan.

Yogi Berra, an American professional baseball catcher, said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

I didn't know where I was going in my 20s because I was still blinded by the fact that I was still young under my parents.

I didn't know anything about investment and business plan too.

I was just going to end up where I didn't want to.

Ordinarily, you won't think about planning to be rich if you don't have a desire for more money.

But to be a millionaire or billionaire, you need to start with planning.

11. Learn to speak like a leader.

In my 20s, I believed only those chosen to lead an institution, organization, ministry or country are leaders.

But that wasn't true.

According to Gen. Colin Powell, a former United States Secretary of State, “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

Leaders are solutions givers.

Want to be a thoughtful revered leader? Speak like a thoughtful revered leader.

Be a problem solver.

Show people the right way.

Obviously, this principle seems too simple to most people in their 20s but not everyone knows it in his 20s.

In my 20s, for example, I feared contributing ideas during staff meeting. As a result, I lost recommendations and valuable life lessons in the early days of my teaching career.

If you want to start creating opportunities for youself, start speaking like a leader.

12. Seek to recognise social class.

At 20, I knew my dad wasn't among the wealthy where we lived but I didn't recognise that fact. I refused to recognise it.

When I tell people this, they often thought I was arrogant or too proud. But I was ignorant.

I didn't know the importance of recognising social class and recognising it is the first step to take in the course of wealth creation.

13. Concentrate on who not what you want to be in future.

From elementary to high school, none of my teachers, parents, friends and siblings (nobody) ever asked me "Who do you want to be in future?"

The question they asked me was "what do you want to become in future?"

When you reach 30, looking back, you'll regret many things but regretting not concentrating on WHO you want to be in future can be very annoying.

I learned that if you use WHAT you'll end up in a circle of profession whereas if you use WHO, you'll end up trying to lead and fix things up.

WHO is you while WHAT is something else.

WHO is me, my body and soul while WHAT is my teaching profession.

14. Behave like someone who is trustworthy.

When I started doing business, I discovered that lucky people are those who win people's trust. And those who win people's trust are those who keep to their words.

If people have a business with you for the first time, they may not trust you even if you haven't messed up.

As an entrepreneur, I notice that some people who have never had a business with me don't trust me.

It isn't easy to trust someone you have never known.

In January 2024, one woman told me why she doubted before paying for my tutoring program: she said the man she hired before was inconsistent.

Another reason is she has never had a transaction with me.

So to make people trust you, the secret is give them reasons to trust you. Here are two examples of what you should be telling them:

1. All my customers trust me so much because I do my work in fear of God.

2. Trust me, I will never disappoint you.

These sentences are ordinary but they're capable of bringing in more money for you.

Continue saying it until you can say it even in your dream.

Sing it.


15. Practice waiting.

In late 2023, I began my tutoring business for the first time, but it was boring because I spent many days without having a client.

Despite the borringness, I kept waiting.

In early 2024, things changed as I welcomed and registered 4 customers: my place becomes a go-to area for tutoring services and I began to receive commendations, compliments and thanks from the sponsors of my learners.

As a tutor who runs a profitable tutoring business, I saw everyone can achieve his dream if he puts in the right work.

16. Practise public speaking.

As my tutoring business advances, I initiate programs such as quiz and spelling bee where I address my learners and their sponsors. To show I'm the best, I write a list or a topic and a short bio or intro and rehearse. Doing this aids my memory to process information so I don't struggle during presentation.

If you want to address people, commit yourself to this practice and you won't fail to perform excellently.

17. Agree that reading financial books can save your life.

Before, I couldn't invest N30,000 let alone N1million. My money went to clothing, drinks and friends. After reading financial books, however, I know how to invest money.

In the period of inflation and economic recession, business or investment is a key because money can be lost in savings. But you can never know this unless you're financially-intelligent.

Reading financial books is worth it.

18. Have a prayer lifestyle.

In mid 2022, I discovered secret of success in Mark 11:24. "Whatever you ask for in prayer", the verse said, "believe that you have received it and it will be yours."

I scheduled a personal prayer session where I commit my desires to prayer.

As I indulge in this prayer, I found business ideas, made business expansion, achieved good health, good income and so much more.

This is something I will never regret doing in my life.

19. Have low expectation.

If you serve as an employee, have low expectation of salary income and salary increment. Similarly, if you start a business, have low expectation of customers or sales. And the result? You won't give up early because you will have contentment. In the word of Warren Buffett, the oracle of Omaha: "The secret to happiness is having low expectation." When you refuse to have high expectation in what you do, you can easily become rich.

20. Tell God to remember all the good things you have done and reward you for it.

I know all the good things I've been doing since I know my left and right. But instead of leaving these deeds unannounced, I remembered what Nehemiah told God in Nehemiah 5:19.

"Remember, O my God, all that I have done for these people, and bless me for it", he said.

I tell God to remember all the good things I've done and reward me for them.

Today, I can point at the results of telling God that: business success, good health, cashflow, career success, unlimited favor, etc.

If you tell your fellow men to remember all the good things you have done for them, some of them will feel to attend to you and favor you the best way they can. Why not God?


30.

I received an unexpected phone call from a client telling me this:

"Thank you so much Sir. My son can read well. May God bless you."

I realized God has already blessed me.

At the time, from working in a tiny shop, I had a classroom and offer more learning skills and knowledge.

The following principles help me:

Unless you're unemployed, maintain your work while maintaining your business so you can afford more risks.

Make it clear that you're a trust worthy person set to satisfy your clients.

To eliminate doubts, don't hesitate to tell people how client A or B appreciate your services.

Point at the proof that you're the best.

If you're in a kind of a business like mine where your client has to pay you first before you getting the job done, obey this principle:

Never abuse trust.

Making it in good business isn't crunching numbers unless you're a trust-abuser.

To avoid trust abuse, give your clients excellent service.

Give your clients the time that you're sure you'll be there to cater for them.

When your clients complain, tell them sorry instead of defending yourself.

Above all, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you.

But how many times will customers continue to link their NIN. Will you give them transport money and food allowances to stand in the queu? Stop wasting people time.

If you look at your mother and if you have a daughter, truly you may agree with her.

Early marriage usually badly affects a woman's future.

Most of our mothers would have been richer and more satisfied assuming they waited for like 5 years before saying "Yes, I do."

One of the men came forward holding a bottle of Swan Water.

Most audience seating at the back gave him a standing ovation as he took the stage, which gave us an impression that he was one of their revered leaders.

I became interested in him as he began to express himself weaving motivational and inspiring speech.

He said going to university is good but it doesn't guaranty financial success and he quoted notable financial experts and authors including Robert Kiyosaki and Brian Tracy to back up his points.

He also said that he was a university graduate but he dumped his university degree.

He didn't spend up to 5 minutes he had drunk half of his Swan Water.

And that became a problem.

I could hear other audience murmuring and I could feel the presence of deception.

A lady occupying a chair behind me said he didn't drink the water until he came on stage to show us he was rich.

Three minutes later, she and a woman beside her stood up and walked away.

The man wanted to convince us that he can mentor us to become rich and he thought he had to first show us he was rich so he used Swan Water as a symbol of riches.

And that is why he lost our trusts. We understood his gimmicks.

Some entrepreneurs will pause behind someone's car and snap a picture just to show they are rich.

Some will snap a picture in a fine hotel or resident just to show they live in luxury.

Others will go as far as hiring a car and lying that they live in UK or USA just to convince
people.

This is not how to win.

Be patient to adhere to moral practices.

The #ForefrontWriter, Maren John Mafuyai

3.

Even the fastest car in the world starts slowly from gear one.

Remember even growth is slow.

If you're faster than the earth, you can never meet your destiny.

Give your life time to evolve;

Give you skills time to evolve;

Give your plans time to evolve.

Starting slow can mean starting small.

One of my childhood friends, Ezekiel Jatau, used to say:

"From the start, a dog moves faster than a car."

Yes it is true.


The #ForefrontWriter, Maren John Mafuyai

Entrepreneur | Teacher | Believer


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5.

I hardly take my time to talk about my niche struggle in serious note.

Well, today I do justice to my content writing hobby as 2023 is fast-rounding up.

I wrote contents on my Linkedin account in November and December 2022.

In 2023 I focused on writing contents on my Facebook accounts.

In the first half of the year, I wrote contents that support the less-privileged people but I'm yet to publish them.

Also in 2023 I tested content strategies that can improve the quality of my service to humanity.

In the same year, I had various content writing breaks to think more for clarity to add more value.

Now in my writing I choose to avoid creating hunger for simplicity.

After gaining enough focus on writing personal story contents, I know that sitting myself down to write is enough to teach me how to be a brilliant writer.

On social media, I respect terms, conditions and copyright laws for honesty, fairness, peace and justice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer and philosopher, said:

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived....”

Me too.

The #ForefrontWriter, Maren John Mafuyai

Entrepreneur | Teacher | Believer

I often asked God this question;

"How can I achieve my dreams?"

I got the answer in late 2022.

It may surprise you!

The answer is positive thinking.

Positive thinking has been helping me since then, I celebrated over six months of it in 2023.

You may want to know what positive thinking means to me, here are three definitions:

1. It means counting my good moments;

I would sit alone and tell myself:

-I'm healthy;

-I have a big ongoing project;

-I can achieve my top prioritized goals;

etc.

I would count only my good moments.

I would never count my errors and setbacks, never do that.

2. My positive thinking means being grateful to God and all those who supported me.

I would sit down alone, write or tell myself the following:

-I thank God Almighty;

-I thank my parents and all my lovers;

-I'm grateful for having people around me;

-I'm so much grateful for having all I need to survive in this universe.

3. My positive thinking means declaring that I believe I have received wealth from God

I would declare it with faith and deep belief through what Jesus said in the book of Mark 11:24-25.

I would say, for example, "As You say in the book of Mark 11:24-25 whatever I ask for in prayer I should believe I have received it and it will be mine, I beleive I have received wealth...."

I would imagine myself receiving wealth as I declare.

Doing all these three put me in the right frame of mind to achieve my dreams.

It has given me tremendous knowledge and wisdom that help me expand my business and command abundance.

I've scheduled to practise another round of this positive thinking starting from 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024.

The goal is to become used to doing it always.

This can be hard for me but I won't quit.



The #ForefrontWriter, Maren John Mafuyai

Entrepreneur | Teacher | Believer



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I temporarily stopped teaching full time in September 2022.

In that month I started my education business with point of sale (POS) in a shop in the main street.

One day, one of my ex-students, who was supposed to have been a graduate, called into the shop.

As he stood over me, I could see how he looked surprise.

"Hmm, God," he exclaimed immediately, "so this is how life is.... This is where you ended up."

I smiled at his ignorance, execute the transaction, collected my money and thanked him.

He left me without knowing me well.

What a loss!

Here is what most of these people think:

-They think a small-scale business man doesn't have a future.

-Their definition of a rich man is:

a nigerian who live abroad

a director or a permanent secretary in civil service

a lecturer

a medical doctor

a high-ranking police man, soldier, etc

a banker

a political leader

someone who has a car and an apartment

They are so ignorant they don't value learning.

"I want to be like this uncle, I want to be like that aunty...," they say.

They are so lost in their desire to be like someone.

As the result, they pity a wrong person.

Because my shop is empty today, that doesn't mean it will be empty next month or next year.

Because I sat down quietly as if I'm famished, it doesn't mean I ended here.

Because I don't look rich, it doesn't mean I'm not rich.

Because I don't tell the world my plan, it doesn't mean I don't have a billion naira plan.

Dear entrepreneurs,

In your journey to become a leading brand, you'll meet this sort of people and even worse than them.

When they pity you, smile at their ignorance, execute the transaction, collect your money and thank them.

They're your customers and a customer is always right.

Tony Elumelu, the owner of United Bank for Africa (UBA), said:

“The kind of challenges we face on the continent require not only vision but also patience and perseverance.”

Patience and perseverance should be our watch-words.

The #ForefrontWriter, Maren John Mafuyai

Entrepreneur | Teacher | Believer

Did Buhari's administration ignore the culture of imposition? Is Buhari's apology enough? You the dominant tribes are the issue. If Hausa/Fulani did this, Yoruba will do the same and Igbos won't be left behind.

The jagaban of rivers

we should 'kwantinue' to appreciate and support nigerian soldiers.

Fchristo:
Pls send me their website

To find it easier,

1. enter your Facebook account

2. Go to a search bar and type Palmpay

3. Watch as the search results pop in.

4. Select palmpay page

5. On palmpay page, lay your complain via direct message.

They will response within a few minutes.

If they don't response to your satisfaction, look for any palmpay agent near you to direct you to palmpay branch where you will lay your complain to palmpay customer care staff.

Which palmpay account do you use? Personal or agent account? If you use personal account, you need to extent your complain to palmpay website and they will rectify it. But if you use an agent account, just visit their nearest branch in your city. You'll talk to them in person. They will check and rectify it. Don't panic yet.

If you chop alone without sharing it with others, the investigation will never end. You can see that the report is not even clear.

dealslip:
Brnin Republic has it worse. I paid for my house help to get her passport, she had to go back twice. It was tough cumbersome and very unpleasant for her. Her only help was that she looked to foreign and so the officers were fixated on her, thinking she wanted to get their passport illegally. Because she was separated from the rest of the crowd, she proved her citizenship, they had to go get her card and we're scrutinizing her. She didn't have to wait with the crowd

so unfortunate! But is she a Benin citizen?

placeofallure:
I got mine at the Ikeja Passport Office, that Assbifi Road. That was some months ago just before Tinubu was sworn in. I got the VIP treatment. They called me from home that I should come pick it. I got there, despite the mammoth crowd that they refused entrance, I only needed to mention a name and they flung the doors open. I looked at one of the officers intensely, he couldn't resist the charm, he led me to the office and returned to his post. At the office, they were expecting me, I just filled some form and I was done. Altogether, I didn't spend 20 mins at the Passport Office. Don't ask me how, wads of currency have gone in between, not at my expense so e no concern me.

If you want it sharp sharp...wads of currency have to go in between... Naija

He understood how to make more money as an author as he markets his book.

Must I study medicine or pharmacology in order to sell drugs in Nigeria?

Teachers should be careful nowadays as beating students like animals has become obsolete and is no longer tolerated.

A christian doesn't speak like that.

Thanks Israeli considered the innocent as they fired a warning just before the strike.

Smoke looks like kingkong over Gaza


https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/10/1200/675/Israeli-airstrike-in-Gaza.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

Israeli forces launched retaliatory strikes against Hamas terrorists in Gaza on Sunday, while also trading fire with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in the north. Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, blasting residential buildings to the ground, including a 14-story tower that held dozens of apartments as well as Hamas offices in central Gaza City. Israeli forces fired a warning just before the strike.


https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-strikes-hamas-gaza-surprise-attack-exchanges-fire-hezbollah

Will church still collect it after knowing the satanic activities going on in BBnaija?

rottennaija:
Analysis by pro Russian TG Channel Military Chronicle:

it seems they studied hard how to successfully launch the attack.

This will affect mostly the innocent ones. Israel should suffer the terrorists only and spare the innocent.

Smoke looks like a giant beast with a red face over Israel

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/10/IsraelPalestine-1024x683.jpg

In an unprecedented surprise attack, the militant Hamas rulers of Gaza sent dozens of fighters into Israel by land, sea and air. Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians are reported dead between the attack and Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza cities.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/war-grips-israel-gaza-after-surprise-hamas-attack-and-israeli-retaliation