[Garowe] The jacket wallah who detonated explosives at the legendary SYL Hotel has been identified by the al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... turbans, a week after the group waged a deadly attack in the Somalia capital, Mogadishu, leaving at least five people including soldiers, dead.
Last week's attack left Mogadishu security chiefs in shock even as they grappled with the hefty losses, the first in as many months within the country. Mogadishu has been relatively secure following surveillance by security teams who were recently deployed.
Al-Shabaab said the bomber, Hassan Mohammed Mohamud, 20, was the man who triggered the attack, leading to a fierce shootout that left his other four co-perpetrators dead. Mohammed comes from Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , the regional administrative capital of Jubaland.
Mohammed, the snuffies added in a statement, comes from the popular Hawiye clan.
An odd descriptor. Why would a clan be popular?
The attack was waged near the Presidential Palace, the official office and residence of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has been a key figure in operations against the al-Shabaab.
The attack ensued after al-Shabaab snuffies forcibly entered the hotel, engaging in extended combat within its confines, eyewitnesses said. The attackers would later be repulsed after a 13-hour battle, leaving four other fighters dead.
Dozens of people who were critically injured were rushed to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... for specialized treatment, authorities revealed. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was one of the individuals who saw them off from Aden Adde International Airport.
The Al Qaeda-linked terror outfit did not disclose the identities of the other five attackers. al-Shabaab used both local and imported muscle when waging attacks but recent reports established that Kenyan fighters are being executed for allegedly spying the group on behalf of KDF.
Executed? How very interesting, whether they are or are not sharing information with the wrong — or right — people.
[ShabelleMedia] Kenya’s counter-terrorism efforts against al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... are paying off and have earned global recognition.
Terrorism deaths attributed to the Somalia-based group fell from 800 in 2022 to 499 in 2023, a decline of almost 38 per cent.
Of these deaths, 86 per cent occurred inside Somalia and the remaining 14 per cent in Kenya.
Al-Shabaab was responsible for 70 deaths in Kenya in 2023, the most since 2019.
This is according to the Global Terrorism Index 2024, which shows the impact of terrorism in Kenya decreased from high in 2022 to medium in 2023.
The report authored by the Sidney-based Institute for Economics and Peace says Kenya scored 5.616 in the index. The country with the highest score, meaning grappling with biggest impact of terrorism in the world, is Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... that scored 8.571.
Malaysia has the least impact in the index at 0.192.
State security agencies are bullish in the war against al-Shabaab, saying the country attained the improvement in global rating due to ongoing multiagency collaboration in counter-terrorism.
Multiagency security operations against al-Shabaab are ongoing in Lamu and Northeastern region, which have led to killing of top terrorists, destruction of makeshift camps and successful arrest and/or prosecution of terrorists.
The report appreciates Kenya’s efforts in fighting al-Shabaab inside the country as well as offering a helping hand to Somalia, where the terrorist group is domiciled.
The government says it is committed to fighting terrorism to reduce its impact to guarantee security and prosperity.
This will be achieved by sustained modernisation of security establishment and equipment to ensure accurate intelligence gathering and processing, bearing in mind the need for precise operations that not only take out the malign actors but also deter future incidents.
"There are also deliberate efforts by the government to invest in soft power approach to empower communities to work with security agencies especially through sharing information on terrorism activities for action," the government said through the Office of the President.
"Additionally, the government is using development approach to deal with violent mostly peaceful extremism and terrorism by investing in infrastructure and other economic projects like LAPSSET to stimulate the economy across the country."
Citizens and other stakeholders are encouraged to support the government in fighting terrorism.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the report says al-Shabaab still poses a major threat to the country as the Al Qaeda affiliate retained its nine-year consecutive record of killing more than 400 people annually by its terror activities.
The group was rated by the index as the fourth deadliest globally, killing 499 people from 227 attacks in 2023.
In Kenya, the report says, terrorism deaths attributed to al-Shabaab increased from 58 to 70 in 2023.
Most of the deaths occurred in Lamu close to the Somali border, which recorded 26 deaths in 2023, ten more than the year prior.
"This was followed by Garissa and Mandera counties, which collectively recorded 37 deaths," the index report says.
The deadliest al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya last year involved roadside kaboomings, one targeting soldiers in Lamu and the other targeting police in Garissa.
Ten people were killed in each attack and al-Shabaab grabbed credit.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the efforts by the Kenyan government are shown to have blunted the edge of the group as now most of its carnage is inside Somalia.
Also, although the bandidossnuffies killed 499 people in 2023, the figures show a decline, proving that the force against it could be working.
The report says that part of the problem in Kenya’s strategy is the failure to manage the spill over of its operation in Somalia against the group, making them cross over and commission attacks.
It says "the surge of al-Shabaab Lions of Islam crossing into Kenya [is] compounded by a lack of law enforcement personnel along the border."
Also, the "changes to Kenya’s security leadership have exacerbated the situation, leading to a security gap that Lions of Islam are exploiting to conduct attacks."
[Garowe] For the first time since 2019, al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... attacks increased in Kenya in 2023, leading to a serious security overhaul under the leadership of President William Ruto and Prof. Kithure Kindiki, the minister for interior and national administration.
A report dubbed 2024 Terrorism Global Index, which was published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, attributes the surge in the attacks to changes of security chiefs within the terror-prone areas. Top security organs were reorganized.
The al-Shabaab, the report says, took advantage of changes in the security chain of command. The far-reaching changes were effected in 2023, when many changes were authorized, including bringing Noordin Haji as the Director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Major changes were also made to the country's regional security teams with several deputy county commissioners being reshuffled in June 2023. The changes triggered al-Shabaab attacks, including by changing the strategy.
"Al-Shabaab was responsible for 70 deaths in Kenya in 2023, the most since 2019. Government-led counterterrorism operations in Somalia have led to a surge of al-Shabaab murderous Moslems crossing into Kenya, compounded by a lack of law enforcement personnel along the border.
"Changes to Kenya's security leadership have exacerbated the situation, leading to a security gap that murderous Moslems are exploiting to conduct attacks," read the report in part.
On the other hand, it was highlighted that most of the terror attacks were being witnessed in areas near the Kenya-Somalia border. The placement of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) on various roads was also noted to be one of the strategies that the gunnies employed during the attacks.
"In Kenya, terrorism deaths attributed to al-Shabaab increased from 58 to 70 deaths in 2023. Most al-Shabaab deaths in Kenya
in 2023 occurred in the Lamu district close to the Somali border which recorded 26 deaths in 2023, ten more than the year prior. This was followed by Garissa and Mandera counties, which collectively recorded 37 deaths.
"Both of the deadliest al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya in 2023 involved roadside kaboomings, one targeting soldiers in Lamu and the other targeting police in Garissa. Ten people were killed in each attack. al-Shabaab grabbed credit for both attacks," read the report in part.
But in recent weeks, the terror incidents have diminished, following increased surveillance and sharing of intelligence by locals. Locals have played an important role in fighting the murderous Moslems following collaboration by security agencies after a series of sensitization meetings.
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A load of turd polishing woke-gibberish by meaningless organizations designed to give a bright, optimistic story to a tired, meaningless internecine war in need of positive publicity. But the real story is the "strategy" involved:
"This will be achieved by sustained modernisation of security establishment and equipment to ensure accurate intelligence gathering and processing, ...
"There are also deliberate efforts by the government to invest in soft power approach to empower communities to work with security agencies especially through sharing information on terrorism activities for action,"
[ShabelleMedia] A military official in central Somalia announced they are planning to launch a counter-offensive days after losing several areas to the al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... Ali Ahmed, the commander of the 3rd division of the Gorgor brigade, an elite unit trained by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... warned residents in the al-Shabaab-held areas against staying in their houses.
He made the warning to avoid collateral damage as the impending assault could involve air bombardments by SNA’s foreign allies, including the American military, per sources.
Last week, SNA made a shocking withdrawal from key areas in the southern Mudug region under Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state, including Aad, Amara, and Shabellow, which have since fallen under al-Shabaab control.
The retreat of government forces from the hard-gained strategic locations in the Mudug region raises concerns about the resurgence of al-Shabaab and the stability of the area.
The Somali government’s offensive against al-Shabaab, initiated in August 2022, aimed at reclaiming control from the krazed killers, particularly in central regions such as Hirshabelle and Galmudug.
Initially, the operation saw significant territorial gains, supported by clan militias and international partners. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the momentum has waned due to logistical challenges, the difficulty of holding captured territories, and al-Shabaab’s persistent resilience.
[ShabelleMedia] As a speed boat carrying more than a dozen Somali pirates bore down on their position in the western Indian Ocean, the crew of a Bangladeshi-owned bulk carrier sent out a distress signal and called an emergency hotline.
No one reached them in time. The pirates clambered aboard the Abdullah, firing warning shots and taking the captain and second officer hostage, Chief Officer Atiq Ullah Khan said in an audio message to the ship’s owners.
"By the grace of Allah no one has been harmed so far," Khan said in the message, recorded before the pirates took the crew’s phones. The company shared the recording with Rooters.
A week later, the Abdullah is anchored off the coast of Somalia, the latest victim of a resurgence of piracy that international navies thought they had brought under control.
The raids are piling risks and costs onto shipping companies also contending with repeated drone and missile strikes by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia in the Red Sea and other nearby waters.
More than 20 attempted hijackings since November have driven up prices for armed security guards and insurance coverage and raised the spectre of possible ransom payments, according to five industry representatives.
Two Somali gang members told Rooters they were taking advantage of the distraction provided by Houthi strikes several hundred nautical miles to the north to get back into piracy after lying dormant for nearly a decade.
"They took this chance because the international naval forces that operate off the coast of Somalia reduced their operations," said a pirate financier who goes by the alias Ismail Isse and said he helped fund the hijacking of another bulk carrier in December.
He spoke to Rooters by phone from Hul Anod, a coastal area in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... where the ship, the Ruen, was held for weeks.
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Apparently some areas of Somalia need to be depopulated. Again.
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I watched an interview with Eric Prince who described how they stopped the piracy the first time. The pirate bases are very isolated geographically. He coordinated a paramilitary campaign that cut their logistics. The geography remains the same.
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A bunch of idiots with small arms in small boats. They could be wiped out completely every time, but the west doesn't have a collective stomach for the optics.
Of course, if media wasn't allowed to report on it and the Pentagone wasn't choc-a-bloc with idiots who want to bask in media attention any chance they get, it could be done thoroughly and quietly.
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Contract it out with letters of mark and reprisal.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Mohammed Abdulsalam, the official spokesperson for Ansarullah and head of the National Delegation, has affirmed that the aggressive Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out by the United States on the capital, Sana’a, are part of the ongoing aggression led by the US and Britannia against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
Abdulsalam stated on his X account that these airstrikes aim to protect the enemy entity and embolden it to continue its atrocities in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... .
He emphasized that no amount of aggression will deter the Yemeni people and their Armed Forces from targeting enemy ships or those heading to occupied ports.
Abdulsalam reiterated that Yemen’s Armed Forces will persist in their operations until the aggression ceases and the siege on Gaza is lifted. He emphasized Yemen’s right to self-defense and its determination to respond to any threats.
He stressed that the Yemeni people will not submit to the aggression and will not give up their right to defend themselves and their land.
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Arab mentality in action. When you respond to their attacks, it's aggression.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hundreds of people in Santiago the Capital of Chile staged on Saturday a demonstration to condemn the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Only hundreds? Pathetic.
They demanded a ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Protesters also called for the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador from Chile and cut ties with the Zionist entity.
They raised Palestinian flags and banners condemning the crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against the Palestinian people.
Protestors further called for an end to double standards and the need to prosecute the enemy for its massacres against the Palestinian people, especially children and women.
They also voiced their support for Yemen’s military operations against the Zionist entity in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.
Paid by Iran? That’s how they get their protesters back home, after all.
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[ColonelCassad] According to the situation in Crocus on the morning of March 23.
1. The fire has almost been extinguished. Firefighters say they will finish the fire by approximately 10 a.m. The fire was very difficult. The building received heavy damage.
2. Regarding casualties - so far they are talking about 82 dead (3 of them children) + more than 100 wounded (more than 60 seriously). The numbers are sure to rise as the day progresses.
3. The terrorists escaped from Crocus. There is still very little information about the operation to capture them. There are reports of arrests (and not only in Moscow), but here we still have to wait for the specialists to work.
4. More than 50 countries expressed condolences to Russia and condemned the terrorist attack in Crocus. The terrorist attack was also condemned by the Secretary General and the UN Security Council. Some of the condolences from the West are completely hypocritical.
5. The United States and Ukraine tried to make excuses at night that they had nothing to do with the terrorist attack and that it was ISIS. But given the fact that ISIS takes responsibility for everything and the fact that ISIS is directly connected to the United States, the ears of Washington and its warnings about the threat of a terrorist attack at a concert stick out very visibly.
6. All victims will be provided with medical and material assistance. The appropriate resources have already been allocated. The best medical personnel have been sent to treat the wounded.
7. Putin was informed about what was happening throughout the night. A speech is expected today in connection with the terrorist attack. After the terrorist attack, the authorities will have almost complete carte blanche for any tough actions.
Four of the six terrorists who participated in the attack at Crocus City Hall were detained alive in the Bryansk region while trying to escape to Ukraine (they did not reach less than 100 km).
All detainees are natives of Tajikistan. Tajik passports were also found on them.
The detained terrorists planned to cross the border of the Russian Federation with Ukraine in the Bryansk region, they had an approximate square in the forest through which they wanted to escape, they were supposed to be met there. Apparently someone from the pack of terrorist Budanov.
To date, 115 deaths are known. The organizer of the terrorist attack is clear. Now, if the descendants of the ancient Sumerians fled to the border of Tajikistan, then Tajikistan could be blamed!
But the terrorists fled to their owners... Towards Ukroreich.
Let me just remind you that Israel tore their neighbors to hell for this. And his team calmly played the match with Iceland for qualifying for Euro 2024 and will participate in the Olympics.
I am not for acting with the same fascist methods as Israel. In general, I’m talking about the duplicity of Western politicians.
What’s interesting here is the West’s attempts to extricate Ukraine from blame.
The very first version of the involvement of ISIS (a banned terrorist organization) was suggested by Hristo Grozev (recognized as a foreign agent). Grozev is in fact a CIA employee, their mouthpiece, everyone understands this. He was not even allowed into the UK for the BAFTA awards, literally with the wording “threat to national security” (and in fact, there is no reason for competing intelligence services to work and recruit here on our soil).
Grozev’s commentary came out on Dozhd (a foreign media outlet) at 21:53, that is, literally when we were still in shock and watched live as the roof of Crocus City Hall was collapsing.
At 00:24, the same Dozhd TV channel allegedly uploaded a screenshot of an official statement from ISIS that the banned terrorist organization was taking responsibility for the terrorist attack. After a fairly quick refutation, the news is not deleted, they only update that it is fake, so that the reposts will continue to circulate (any leading Telegram channel knows that reposts after making changes to the original post remain unchanged).
I will not make any versions about this heinous crime; I am a political analyst, not an intelligence officer. But who and how creates and distributes versions before the official ones appear must be remembered and taken into account.
Official representative Kirby also gave a very interesting explanation of why they warned about the terrorist attack (but at the same time provided the role of information to the Russian side): “We warned our citizens just like that. Well, that's what we decided. And it happened by chance that this coincided with the tragedy.”
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4 scruffy looking guys heading in car from Moscow to the Ukrainian border. Oh yeah, that looks like a clever escape.
And after one guy had to eat his ear (not his words apparently, and the other has is genitals fired up, they talk...
And while it takes 5 minutes to get a babushka arrested for laying down a flower for Navalny, it takes one hour (!) for special forces to arrive at the concert hall. I know, stuck in hellish Moscow traffic...
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Evidently in Riga, flowers laid at the Russian Embassy were removed by the cops.
[IsraelTimes] FM Israel Katz praises move, vows UN relief agency for Palestinians won’t be part of Gaza’s future; Congress redirects $175 million to other West Bank and Gaza projects.
[AFRICANEWS] U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... stood near a long line of waiting trucks Saturday and declared starvation inside Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... a "moral outrage."
He called for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... He spoke on the Egyptian side of the border not far from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where Israel plans to launch a ground assault despite widespread warnings of a potential disaster.
More than half of Gaza's population has taken refuge there.
"Any further onslaught will make things even worse — worse for Paleostinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all people in the region," Guterres said.
the UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres, stood today on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing and blamed Israel for the humanitarian situation in Gaza, without condemning in any way the Hamas-ISIS terrorists who plunder humanitarian aid, without condemning @UNRWA that…
… without condemning @UNRWA that cooperates with terrorists - and without calling for the immediate, unconditional release of all Israeli hostages.
Under his leadership, the @UN has become an antisemitic and anti-Israeli body that shelters and emboldens terror.
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I remember when the World discovered that UN SG is a Nazi criminal. The organization went downhill from there.
[IsraelTimes] Amid a shortage of troops, thousands of soldiers who were set to be released from their mandatory service have received orders that they will serve for a further four months, Channel 12 news reports.
The military is suffering manpower shortages caused by the war against Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and hostilities on the northern border.
The army called up some 287,000 reservists in the immediate wake of the October 7 onslaught, marking the largest-ever mobilization in Israel’s history.
The issue of conscription is a hot-button topic, as the ultra-Orthodox have long enjoyed exemptions from military service, protesting or refusing draft orders and seeking to enshrine the exemption in law. Many in the Haredi world view army service and wider integration with the secular world to be a threat to their religious identity and the continuity of insular community traditions.
Ultra-Orthodox politicians have long pushed for legislation formally codifying their constituents’ exemption from military service, which has been among the most contentious issues in society over the last two decades.
[IsraelTimes] UK-Med field hospital already treating over 200 patients a day and will soon include an emergency medical department with surgical facilities, organization says.
[IsraelTimes] After months of silence, some Arab Israelis join with left-wing Jewish activists to call for an end to the war. Others say the ‘day after’ is already here – and they don’t like it
Support among Jewish Israelis for the Gaza war stands at about 80 percent, according to a January poll by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
As the Israeli offensive in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... nears the six-month mark, some 50 left-wing and Arab-Jewish shared society groups have coalesced to launch a campaign for a ceasefire. Lately, they have been stepping up their efforts — and out of the shadows.
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There were some Jews who collaborated with Nazis - most of them were hoping to save themselves & families. What justification is where for modern Jewish leftists?
Consequences. None of this was seen to be needed on October 6th.
[IsraelTimes] From a buffer zone to attack drones and more troops, the army plans to keep Israel safe by taking a zero-tolerance approach to tunnel building or any other disturbance.
Fewer than two kilometers (1.2 miles) separates the towns of Khuza’a from Kibbutz Nir Oz. The land between the Gazook and Israeli communities is taken up by a patchwork of neat farm fields and a fence that Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... commandos from Khuza’a tore through with ease on October 7. The turbans of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force that invaded Nir Oz made the journey from Khuza’a in minutes, equipped with maps and cycle of violences. Hours later, they left behind a demolished kibbutz soaked in the blood of 38 slain victims, taking 77 hostages with them.
To ensure such horrors never occur again, the army, while fighting a war inside Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , is also fundamentally reconceiving how it defends Israel, especially the towns closest to the Paleostinian enclave.
The process will see the military shift away from more passive defensive measures to the adoption of a security doctrine that will see Gazooks pushed away from the border and a beefed-up force along the fence actively engaged in keeping Israeli towns safe by building deterrence, according to a well-placed defense source who briefed The Times of Israel on the development of plans for securing the border with Gaza. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Standing near the barrier separating Khuza’a from Israel on Monday, echoes of gunfire and explosions could be heard from battles taking place in Khan Younis, just a few kilometers to the west.
Nir Oz is hard to miss from the Gazook side of the fence. Even from the town of Abasan, a bit deeper inside Gaza, the kibbutz’s paint factory, Nirlat, is perenially visible.
A walk through the farmland near the fence outside Khuza’a and Abasan can feel misleadingly pastoral, until one notices markers placed by Israel Defense Forces troops to indicate the entrance to a tunnel.
The underground passage is what the IDF terms as an "approach tunnel" — it begins at the first line of houses in Khuza’a and leads to the fence.
The opening of this particular tunnel, just a few dozen paces from the fence, was discovered by chance when smoke began to rise from the ground following an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in an urban area elsewhere on the tunnel’s route.
Until the war, the IDF turned a blind eye to the construction of tunnels throughout the Strip due to a tacit agreement with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar designed to de-escalate tensions. Israel estimates that there are hundreds of approach tunnels near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, meant to allow terrorist cells to mount a surprise attack on the fence.
On October 7, however, Hamas turbans did not use the tunnels. Instead, they stormed the fence in plain sight, broke through the barrier in multiple locations and dashed toward Israeli towns uninterrupted.
An interrogation of a Hamas prisoner revealed that the plan was to use the tunnel system for a second wave of attackers, though in the end those who broke into Israel later on October 7 also did not need to bother hiding underground.
The tunnels were only used later when Israeli ground forces moved into the Gaza Strip, allowing Nukhba forces to attempt to sneak up on soldiers deep inside the enclave.
The IDF was surprised by the number of tunnels that were discovered, especially in the south of the Gaza Strip. Israeli intelligence knew Hamas had invested significant time and resources in the project, but underestimated its scope.
The army has found that Hamas built its subterranean warren in this area in an organized way, with a feeder tunnel deep inside Gaza connecting passages that stretch toward the border, allowing it to secretly move large numbers of forces toward Israel.
The system was seemingly built out from the remains of Hamas’s attack tunnel network that it used to mount sneak assaults inside Israel during the 2014 war. Though Israel destroyed much of that system, Hamas not only repaired it in the nine intervening years, but expanded it as well.
The IDF has said that a zero-tolerance approach to tunnel digging will be part of its post-war operational standards; any identification of tunnel digging will be immediately attacked on the ground or by air.
The source described the protocol as a "lawnmower working systematically over the next few years to nip any threat in the bud."
BUFFER ZONES
The Sisyphean task of destroying the tunnel network, which has fallen to the IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps, is part of a larger plan to create a buffer zone along the border. Officials are careful to use the term "buffer zone" and not "security zone" lest it harkens back to the southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... security zone maintained by the IDF from 1985 to 2000 and regarded internationally as a military occupation.
The decision to create a buffer zone was made early in the war, after the events of October 7 led the military to conclude that an early warning apparatus relying on intelligence and surveillance was insufficient to protect Israeli towns near the Gaza border. Commanders in the field found that it would be necessary to shift away from passive defense to actively meeting each threat with a strong operational response.
Since receiving a green light from the government, the army has been working to clear a one-kilometer-wide (0.6-mile) strip of land running along the border, inside Gaza, for the buffer zone.
Besides destroying dozens of kilometers of tunnels, creating the zone includes clearing away any vegetation, including farm fields, and razing homes or other buildings.
The destruction is evident in Khuza’a, whose eastern edge practically kisses the border. Houses that sat only a few hundred meters (1,000 feet or more) from the fence before the war are now mostly reduced to rubble.
The army is still working on the administrative plan for the buffer zone: how it will look, what capabilities it will include, what the rules will be for opening fire on those who enter, and whether there will be a visible demarcation of where it begins.
The work is being done in conjunction with the military’s legal division, which may one day have to defend the decision to expropriate a chunk of land from the Gaza Strip.
OUTPOSTS, DRONES AND ARMED LOCALS
Along with the buffer inside Gaza, the IDF is planning moves that will fundamentally transform its defense posture on the Israeli side of the fence. In the past, the risk of an invasion from Gaza ranked near the bottom of what the IDF considered to be a probable threat. But now, it is the logical point to underpin a new defense doctrine, which will see a buildup of forces and the development of new operational protocols.
This will include a line of military outposts to be built along the fence and next to communities near the border, promising a massive military presence and immediate response to threats.
On the morning of October 7, there were four IDF battalions stationed along the border with Gaza, comprising a few thousand soldiers. That number will now double, if not more.
The military is also expediting existing plans to move the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade’s headquarters to a new building closer to its area of operation, rather than being commanded from the same base near Re’im where the Gaza Division and its other brigade is also headquartered. On October 7, turbans managed to pin down the division’s complete command structure by launching a massive assault on the base, disrupting its ability to coordinate an effective response to the multifaceted Hamas onslaught across the south.
Along with manpower, firepower will also be beefed up. Hamas’s explosive drones largely disabled IDF equipment stationed near the fence to surveil the border and to remotely fire at suspects approaching the border. Now, the army is looking to both improve those systems and add a large number of attack drones to the bag of tools at troops’ disposal, giving soldiers stationed on the border the ability to deploy air power before the Air Force can arrive.
Beyond that, the IDF is replanning its surveillance array, adding tools and allowing troops to control various surveillance systems from multiple places at the same time.
One plan already nearing implementation is the creation of a quick response counterterror reserves force made up of residents living near the Gaza border with experience in special forces. The unit is modeled on LOTAR Eilat, a counterterror unit made up of residents of the Red Sea city and others in the area, which has been called upon several times to respond to terror incidents before other forces could arrive.
The unit’s volunteers train once a week and engage in advanced training once a month. Permanent emergency teams within the unit remain in place even when others are called to fight elsewhere, ensuring that civilians are continually protected.
BACK TO 2002
The more apt parallel to how defense in the south will look after the war, however, may be to the West Bank, where the IDF protects settler communities and secures the barrier with Israel while also implementing offensive operations aimed at diffusing any terror threat that may emerge from Paleostinian areas.
The situation in Gaza and on the Israeli side of the border today is not unlike the end of Operation Defensive Shield, a massive military operation in the West Bank launched in 2002 to stem the terror of the second intifada, including large incursions into Paleostinian cities.
Then, as now, Israel struggled with how it could maintain the operation’s gains once fighting ended and troops pulled back. The difference is that Hamas in Gaza is much stronger, and has ground infrastructure that didn’t exist in the West Bank in 2002.
It’s clear that even after the war ends, troops will need to continue operating inside Gaza. Once the buffer zone is established, the army is hoping to build up deterrence by deploying an immediate response to any possible disturbance, keeping things from snowballing out of control. On Tuesday, for instance, forces in Khuza’a fired warning shots multiple times at Paleostinian civilians trying to reach homes in the buffer zone.
October 7 did not begin on that bloody morning. For years, Gazooks chipped away at Israel’s deterrence with seemingly small-scale acts like launching incendiary balloons and noisy border riots.
These provocations escalated into the massacre in which Hamas rampaged through the south murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 253 others. This time, the army does not plan on giving any inches.
"The principle will be clear," said the defense source. "The rate of destruction of [Hamas’s abilities] and the erosion of its powers will be higher than the rate at which it can build them back up. Only that way can we ensure that what was will be no more."
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Before Oct 7 the IDF and other intel had an AI component that worked with intercepted Communications and other electronic signals. It is clear that this needs to be augmented with signals from actual Hamas troop and equipment movements which means lots of UAVs monitoring the buffer area continuously. Probably with some of the UAVs having firepower also.
It would also be nice if 99% of Hamas's soldiers were eliminated (I think about 60-70% is current estimate).
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It would also be nice if 99% of Hamas's soldiers were eliminated
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