[AnNahar] The U.N. Security Council has voted to impose an expanded arms embargo on 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... rebels, saying they have threatened the peace, security and stability of the war-torn country.
Council members said the rebels are responsible for attacking civilians, commercial shipping in the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates.
The Security Council had already imposed an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo against Houthi leaders and brass hats, but this resolution dramatically expands the arms embargo to include all Houthis.
The British-drafted resolution said the Iran-backed Houthis "implemented a policy of sexual violence and repression against politically active and professional women, engaged in the recruitment and use of children," indiscriminately used land mines and improvised bombs and obstructed humanitarian aid to Yemenis.
Monday's vote was 11-0, with Ireland, Norway, Brazil and Mexico abstaining amid concerns about the negative impact on the humanitarian situation in the Arab world's poorest nation and the risk of undermining a fragile political process.
The resolution says there is no military solution to the current conflict and that the only viable path forward is "dialogue and reconciliation among the multiple and varied parties."
It extends the mandate of the U.N. panel of experts monitoring implementation of the sanctions until March 28, 2023.
In their last report circulated on Jan. 29, the experts said nearly 2,000 children recruited by the Houthis died on the battlefield between January 2020 and May 2021, and the Iranian-backed rebels continue to hold camps and courses encouraging youngsters to fight.
[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Benny Gantz says Israel is planning on increasing the number of Paleostinian workers who can enter Israel from the 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 Hamaswith 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... Strip.
"We intend to expand [our] civilian humanitarian policy, including an immediate increase in the quota of [Paleostinian] workers [who can enter Israel]," Gantz says during a tour of the southern frontier with military officials.
"If, along with maintaining relative quiet, we also make advances in the path to returning the Israeli prisoners and missing persons, we will be able to expand this policy and develop the Gaza Strip," he adds, referring to two Israeli civilians and the remains of two IDF soldiers being held by the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group in the coastal enclave.
"Unfortunately, the residents of Gaza are captives of Hamas leaders who deprive them of a better livelihood and future for their children. The leaders of Hamas and the residents of Gaza will also be the ones to bear responsibility, if the peace in Gaza or elsewhere is disturbed," Gantz warns.
In October, as part of the ongoing ceasefire efforts with Hamas, Israel expanded the work permit program to allow up to 10,000 workers into the country. It is not immediately clear how much further Israel intends to expand the program.
[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... on Tuesday strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! a media report claiming that Israel had recently destroyed a drone depot belonging to the group.
"Hizbullah strongly denies the reports about a Zionist force entering into one of the resistance’s drone depots and destroying it," the group said in a statement, describing the reports as totally baseless.
“And there absolutely were no secondaries,” he strongly denied saying.
Hizbullah expert Qassem Qassir, who is close to the party, has claimed in a report published Tuesday on the Asas Media news website that Israeli commandos had recently "managed to infiltrate and destroy one of Hizbullah’s drone depots."
"Hizbullah only discovered this operation after the commandos returned to where they came from," Qassir quoted "sources informed on the Hizbullah-Mossad war" as saying.
"Hizbullah possesses accurate information about the enemy’s readiness to carry out other operations in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... and Syria, with the aim of destroying the workshops where long-range missiles are being transformed into precision-guided missiles," the sources added.
The sources also said that Israel wants to destroy Hizbullah’s drone factories.
"The drones that the enemy is sending are gathering information about these targets, and sometimes special operations to strike the arms and missile factories are being conducted without being announced," the sources added.
In response, Hizbullah has intensified its drone overflights in Israel’s airspace and is gathering intel about the movements of the Israeli army and Mossad, the sources said.
The sources added that Hizbullah might also set up ambushes for the Israelis similar to the 1997 Ansariyeh Ambush
A unit of Israel’s naval special operations, Shayetet 13, were ambushed by Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Twelve Israeli troops were killed.
Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai had also recently quoted U.S. diplomatic sources as saying that Israel has carried out "sabotage and espionage operations that targeted sensitive Hizbullah posts inside Lebanese territory."
Israeli elite commandos managed to "destroy secret facilities inside those posts and to seize important information related to Hizbullah’s arms program and the means of communication between its combat units," the U.S. sources added.
"Over the past months, Israeli elite forces conducted operations in various areas of Lebanon and entered into Hizbullah posts. These forces left messages to Hizbullah asking it to dismantle what is present in the manufacturing plants," the sources went on to say.
The Kuwaiti daily also suggested that Hizbullah sent the ’Hassan’ drone deep into Israel "in response to the intelligence breaches that were made by the Israeli elite units."
In an annual speech last month, Hizbullah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... had warned Israel against carrying out any operations inside Lebanese territory.
"Should the enemy dare to carry out a certain operation in search of our missiles, it might face an ’Ansariyeh 2’ operation," Nasrallah said, referring to Israel’s 1997 botched landing on Ansariyeh’s shore in which 12 of its troops were killed.
Because being Hezbollah means smashing holes in the bottom of the lifeboat.
[AnNahar] Head of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... ’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad warned Tuesday that some consider "the person who cooperated with the Israeli invasion in 1982" to be "the qualified and eligible candidate for the presidential post," in apparent jab at Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... "They want to return us to the Israeli era after we got rid of it. Their arrogance has reached this extent!" Raad added.
"Despite the pride, dignity and superiority over the enemy, some want to return us to the Israeli era, but this time he is using the Arab stance as an excuse," the politician want on to say, referring to Geagea.
"During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... in 1982, this person and his camp were against Arabs and they are the ones who wanted to bring the Israelis so that they rule our country Lebanon, but today they have taken all Arabs to their side and they have become with the Israelis," Raad charged.
As for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Hizbullah politician said the issue is not about seats but rather about the "political" implications of these elections. "Will the elections bring a President who would achieve our national illusory sovereignty or a President who would find it easy to sign agreements with the enemy," Raad added.
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
