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Sounds like the Persians have launched a massive time-on-target attack, leading with a big wave of slow drones with missiles to follow later. I wonder if we will see Tehran nuked.
[FoxNews] A Memphis, Tennessee, police officer and an 18-year-old male suspect were killed during an early morning shootout Friday – with the deceased suspect having been arrested last month with an illegal weapon and subsequently let go without bond, law enforcement officials say.
A second officer was also struck and is in non-critical condition while a third officer was grazed by a bullet during the gunfire. A second suspect, a 17-year-old, was also shot and is expected to survive, police say.
Officer Joseph McKinney, who joined the department in 2020, was shot dead when police responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle at Horn Lake Road and Charter Avenue in Whitehaven, about nine miles south of Downtown Memphis, Interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis announced during an emotional press briefing Friday.
When officers approached the dark-colored sedan, they were fired upon by the two suspects inside the vehicle, Davis said.
Police immediately returned fire and the pair sped off in the car only to stop a short time later in the area of the 400 block of Hewlitt Road as officers gave chase.
One of the suspects was immediately apprehended while the other ran off but was later caught nearby, Davis said.
The suspects were rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition and the 18-year-old was later pronounced dead, Davis said. The pair have not been identified.
She said that McKinney was also struck and succumbed to his injuries.
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Davis revealed that the 18-year-old who died had been arrested inside a stolen vehicle last month where he was armed with a modified semi-automatic weapon with a Glock switch attached.
"The Glock switch converted the weapon to a fully automatic machine gun," David said.
He was also charged at that time with two stolen vehicles and having a programming device commonly used to steal cars, Davis said, and was released without bond.
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[IsraelTimes] Teens’ plans allegedly included Molotov cocktail and knife attacks against synagogues and churches in the name of the Islamic State
Four teenagers suspected of planning Islamist terror attacks have been arrested in Germany, authorities said on Friday, with churches or synagogues as possible targets.
Three of the suspects — two girls who are 15 and 16, and a 15-year-old boy — come from various parts of the western North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous. They were arrested after a court issued warrants for them over the Easter weekend, prosecutors in the city of Duesseldorf said.
Separately, prosecutors in Stuttgart said a 16-year-old suspect is in jug on "suspicion that he was preparing a serious crime endangering the state."
The three detained in western Germany are suspected of having declared themselves prepared to carry out an "Islamist-motivated terror attack" and planning such an attack, prosecutors said in a statement. They didn’t specify how advanced the plans were, and said they couldn’t give further details because of the suspects’ young age and the ongoing investigation.
They are in detention pending possible charges of declaring themselves ready to commit murder and manslaughter and preparing a serious act of violence.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s top security official, state Interior Minister Herbert Reul, said the investigation was prompted by the 16-year-old girl’s suspected plans to leave Germany to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They"re really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they"re not really Moslems.... group.
Chats on her cellphone, in which possible attacks in Dortmund, Duesseldorf or Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... were discussed but also churches and synagogues in her hometown of Iserlohn, led Sherlocks to the other suspects, German news agency dpa reported.
The young age of the suspects left Reul "speechless," with the minister adding it posed a "huge challenge for society as a whole."
Citing unidentified security sources, the agency reported that the teenagers hadn’t yet drawn up a concrete attack plan with a time and place.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people"s bad habits... Germany’s biggest-selling daily Bild reported that the four youths were allegedly planning to carry out Molotov cocktail and knife attacks in the name of the Islamic State group.
The report added that the suspects were also weighing whether to obtain firearms.
Germany has been on particularly high alert for Islamist attacks since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... war on October 7. Germany’s domestic intelligence chief warned that the risk of such assaults is "real and higher than it has been for a long time."
The country is also nervous about security breaches as it prepares to host the European soccer championships from mid-June to mid-July.
’DANGER REMAINS ACUTE’
Police had already foiled a suspected plot earlier this year. Investigators in January arrested three people over an alleged plan targeting the cathedral in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Bild reported that the suspects were Tajiks acting for Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), the same group believed to have been behind March’s deadly massacre in a Moscow concert hall.
"The danger from Islamist terrorism remains acute," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said at the time, describing the Khorasan offshoot as "currently the biggest Islamist threat in Germany."
Islamist gunnies have carried out several attacks in Germany in recent years. Two Afghans linked to IS were arrested in Germany in March on suspicion of planning an attack around Sweden’s parliament in retaliation for Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women"s noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s.
In October, German prosecutors also charged two Syrian brothers for planning an attack inspired by IS on a church in Sweden.
In December 2022, a Syrian-born Islamist was tossed in the slammer Don"t shoot, coppers! I"m comin" out! for 14 years for a knife attack on a train in Bavaria in which four people were maimed.
The number of people considered Islamist gunnies in Germany fell from 28,290 in 2021 to 27,480 in 2022, according to a report from the BfV federal domestic intelligence agency.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people"s bad habits... in presenting the report, Faeser said Islamist extremism "remains dangerous."
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s security forces captured over 1,000 "irregular migrants colonists" during the Eid al-Fitr holidays, the country’s interior ministry announced on Friday.
Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Friday announced on X that from April 6 to April 10, Turkey’s security forces captured 1,177 "irregular" migrants colonists in over 30 provinces across the country.
"The captured irregular immigrants colonists were handed over to the Provincial Directorate of Immigration Management and deportation procedures were initiated immediately," said Yerlikaya.
No information was provided regarding the nationality of the migrants colonists.
Turkey is a popular destination among migrants colonists from the Middle East and several central and southern Asian countries to relocate to or use as a transit destination to reach Europe.
Roughly 3.2 million Syrian refugees who fled war are currently residing in Turkey and have been granted temporary protection status, according to the Ottoman Turkish Presidency of Migration Management.
"As of 2023, there are 296,685 refugees and asylum-seekers in Turkiye, most of whom from Iraq, Afghanistan, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, and Ukraine," according to a January report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) regarding the situation of migrants colonists in Turkey.
Thousands of migrants colonists brave the waters of the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas in boats in the hope of reaching the shores of Europe.
Turkey says it "has taken a certain position on irregular migration both by taking effective measures against irregular migration at national level and by actively participating in most of the activities regarding the identification of the problems, information exchange, joint struggle and cooperation on irregular migration at international level."
In 2016, Turkey and the EU signed a multi-billion euro deal aimed at containing a wave of migration towards Europe. Under the deal, Ankara agreed to stop people from traveling irregularly to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and to accept asylum seekers rejected by the EU.
[JPost] IDF troops destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility, and seized additional military equipment belonging to the terrorist organization.
As IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip continued precise operations against entrenched targets, the military announced on Saturday that it had destroyed launchers containing ready-to-launch rockets aimed at central Israel.
Following sirens yesterday in the Sderot area, three launches crossed over from the Gaza Strip, which the IDF Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted. IDF artillery responded by striking the area from which the launch was carried out.
Additionally, IDF fighter jets struck and destroyed three launchers containing 20 rockets that were ready to fire toward central Israel, the military reported.
IDF ELIMINATES HAMAS INFRASTRUCTURE
IDF troops also destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility, and seized additional military equipment belonging to the terrorist organization.
Simultaneously, during operations in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, IDF troops used a drone to locate several armed terrorists operating in the area. An Israeli aircraft subsequently struck the terrorists, eliminating them.
The IDF also noted that, in a series of precise strikes, Israeli fighter jets struck over 30 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorist infrastructure, military compounds, and anti-tank missile launchers.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Israeli forces shot and killed the son of a leader of Hamas in the West Bank in an early-morning raid on Friday.
Muhammad Rasoul Daraghmeh was killed in the city of Tubas during a shootout with Israeli soldiers after they allegedly discovered automatic weapons in his car.
A second man also travelling in the car was also reportedly killed in the clashes.
The Israeli army claimed Daraghmeh had been planning attacks on Israeli targets but provided no evidence. It also said assailants hurled explosives at soldiers.
Hamas confirmed the death of Daraghmeh and his affiliation with its Al Qassam Brigades.
Daraghmeh, a local commander in his own right, was the son of Omar Daraghmeh, a West Bank leader who died in an Israeli prison following his detention after the October 7 attacks.
Photos from Tubas showed a white car with blown out tyres and windows, allegedly after an intense confrontation between Daraghmeh and Israeli forces.
In a statement, the IDF said: 'The IDF, Shin Bet and MGB forces killed Muhammad Omar Daraema [sic], the head of Hamas's terrorist infrastructure in Tubas, in a divisional operation in the Valley and the Valleys tonight.
'Muhammad is a central Hamas operative in the area and has been engaged in the promotion of significant terrorist operations against Israel in recent months.
'During the operation, Daraama shot at the forces who returned fire and killed him, the fighters confiscated many weapons found in his vehicle, including weapons and other military equipment.
'During the brigade operation, terrorists threw explosives and fired at the force who responded by firing, hits were detected.
'The forces eliminated another terrorist after he tried to attack them, arrested two wanted persons and confiscated weapons. During the operation, the forces uncovered charges planted under the axles with the aim of harming our forces.'
Also on Friday, after the raid in Tubas, dozens of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian village in the West Bank, shooting and setting houses and cars on fire.
The rampage killed a Palestinian man and wounded 25 others, Palestinian health officials said.
The violence was the latest in an escalation in the West Bank that has accompanied the war in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din said that settlers stormed into the village of al-Mughayyir late Friday, searching for a missing 14-year-old boy from their settlement.
After the rampage, Israeli troops said they were still searching for the teen.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that one man was brought dead to a hospital and 25 were treated for wounds.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said eight of the injured were hit by live fire from settlers.
The deceased man was later identified by his family as 26-year-old Jehad Abu Alia.
His father, Afif Abu Alia, said he was shot and killed but was unsure whether the fatal bullet was fired by an armed settler or an Israeli soldier.
'My son went with others to defend our land and honor, and this is what happened,' Afif Abu Alia said from a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where his son's corpse had been transported.
The attack was condemned by Mohamed Mustafa, the new Palestinian prime minister.
The Israeli army said it was searching for the 14-year-old boy, and that forces had opened fire when stones were hurled at soldiers by Palestinians.
It said 'hits were identified,' and soldiers also cleared out Israeli settlers from the village.
'As of this moment, the violent riots have been dispersed and there are no Israeli civilians present within the town,' it said.
U.S. officials, including President Joe Biden, have repeatedly raised concerns about a surge in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank since Israel's war with the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip began.
Rights groups have long accused the military of failing to halt settler violence or punish soldiers for wrongdoing.
[IsraelTimes] ‘Northern Crossing’ opens after army declares ‘next phase’ of humanitarian operations in Strip; leaflets reportedly dropped over Rafah urging Palestinians to help find hostages
The military announced Friday that the first convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Paleostinians was transferred to the northern 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... Strip via a new land crossing the night before, as Israel works to significantly ramp up the amount of assistance entering the enclave amid heavy United States-led international pressure.
The "Northern Crossing," located on the northern border of Gaza, was built as a part of a series of steps by the Israel Defense Forces aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in the Strip amid the ongoing war there. It is located near Kibbutz Zikim, defense officials have said.
The IDF said the aid was "thoroughly" inspected by authorities at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on the southern Gaza border before entering via the Strip’s north.
The statement does not specify how many trucks were in the convoy.
At the start of the war, trucks only entered Gaza from Egypt’s Rafah Crossing, with the IDF later opening the Kerem Shalom Crossing from Israel to the south of the Strip. More recently, the IDF has also allowed aid trucks to use a military road in central Gaza and enter via a crossing known as Gate 96.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari Hagari said Thursday the new crossing was expected to handle at least 50 aid trucks per day, and will "enable more aid to flow directly to civilians in the areas that have been challenging for trucks to access."
The opening of the crossing came a day the military declared the start of its "next phase" of humanitarian operations in Gaza. The White House praised the Israeli moves, saying there was "good progress, but it’s still not enough."
Earlier Friday, the IDF and Shin Bet said the head of Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s internal security in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... the day before. In addition to serving as a Hamas police chief in Jabaliya, Radwan Muhammad Abdullah Radwan, according to the IDF and Shin Bet, was an operative in the military wing of the terror group.
"Radwan gave orders to Hamas operatives and was responsible for directing armed gunnies to take control of humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip," the IDF said in a statement.
It added that his killing "degrades Hamas’s capabilities to attack and take control of humanitarian aid" in the Jabaliya area.
Another strike Thursday killed Hamed Muhammad Ali Ahmed, a commander in the Hamas military wing who was also responsible for internal security in Jabaliya, and another operative in the terror group’s Jabaliya Battalion, the IDF added.
The IDF also said Friday that troops raided a school used by button men in the central Gaza Strip, as part of an ongoing pinpoint operation against Hamas and other terror groups on the outskirts of Nuseirat. At the Martyr Ibrahim al-Maqadma School, just northeast of Nuseirat, the IDF said troops of the Nahal Brigade located and neutralized several heavy primed explosives that were hidden in the classrooms and courtyard. The IDF said the troops also located an observation post at the school that had been used by the button men. When the troops arrived, the operatives had already fled, according to the IDF, leaving behind some equipment.
Prior to the "targeted operation" announced Thursday, Israeli ground forces had not previously entered Nuseirat, though last month Hamas’s third-in-command, Marwan Issa, was killed in an airstrike in the area.
The operation occurred as Israel appeared to dial back the use of ground troops and shift from a wide-scale offensive to pinpoint operations. This was in line with US demands for changes to the way fighting is taking place amid international concern over the deaths of civilians in the Strip and claims of near-famine conditions.
Israeli officials have said that 18 of Hamas’s 24 original battalions in the Gaza Strip have been dismantled, meaning they do not function as an organized military unit, although smaller cells still exist. Four Hamas battalions remain virtually untouched in southern Gaza’s Rafah, and another two are in the central part of the Strip, according to Israeli assessments.
On Friday, the IDF reportedly dropped leaflets in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, urging Paleostinians seeking refuge there to help locate hostages held by Hamas.
"If you want to protect your families and guarantee your future, do not hesitate to provide us with information about the hostages or those holding them," read the flyers, which show the names and photos of 35 hostages. The leaflets included a phone number that can be contacted via the Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal messaging apps. There was also a link to a website that displays similar information.
The IDF has made use of leaflets to encourage Gazooks to share information on hostages’ whereabouts throughout the war, as well as on the location of Hamas leaders, placing sizable bounties on the enclave’s arch-terrorists.
[IsraelTimes] Army says Mohammad Omar Daraghmeh was a ’central Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... operative’ in the Tubas area, was planning ’significant terror acts’ against Israel
Two Paleostinian button men were killed early Friday in confrontations with Israeli forces in the West Bank, Paleostinian medics and the army said, with the Islamic terror group Hamas later acknowledging one of those killed was a local commander in its military wing.
The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society said another three people were maimed, including one who sustained serious injuries, during the festivities in the northern West Bank town of Tubas and the adjacent refugee camp of al-Faraa. The area around Tubas is a stronghold of Paleostinian gangs and the frequent target of Israeli military incursions.
Mohammad Omar Daraghmeh, the head of a local Hamas infrastructure in Tubas, was killed during an exchange of fire with troops, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Amid the overnight incident, Daraghmeh shot at troops from a vehicle, who then returned fire, killing him. Several firearms and other military equipment were seized from his car.
Daraghmeh was a "central Hamas operative" in the Tubas area and in recent months was working on "advancing significant terror acts against Israel," according to the IDF.
Hamas confirmed Daraghmeh’s death and that he was a member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
The IDF said the second Paleostinian man, named by Paleostinian media as Mohammad Shahmawi, was killed when troops opened fire on Paleostinians who were shooting and throwing bombs at them.
Hamas said it mourned Shahmawi’s death, but did not claim him as a member of the terror group.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 3,700 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,600 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 450 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men or Lions of Islam carrying out attacks.
[IsraelTimes] IDF still probing circumstances of 14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir’s disappearance; at least one Palestinian said killed in al-Mughayyir as settlers, troops clash with locals
The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday that troops, including special forces, were working alongside police to locate a missing 14-year-old boy in the West Bank, as violent mostly peacefulfestivities broke out in one of the villages they searched.
Jerusalem resident Benjamin Achimeir left a farm near the outpost of Malachei Shalom in the early morning hours to go shepherding and has not been seen since. The sheep returned to "Gal Farm" without him, according to police.
The chief of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox and the head of the West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf, were at the scene leading the searches, the military said.
Police and military forces were blocking roads in the area. The Shin Bet security agency was also involved in looking for Achimeir.
Malachei Shalom is located near the West Bank town of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.
The circumstances around the boy’s disappearance were still unknown and the military was not sure if the incident was terror-related.
Amid the searches, settlers entered al-Mughayyir and clashed with locals, with the Yesh Din rights group reporting they employed live fire.
The IDF said that amid the searches, "violent mostly peaceful disturbances erupted at several points in the area," and that soldiers and Border Police worked to disperse them and get the Israelis out of the Paleostinian town.
According to the IDF, troops had shot up Paleostinians hurling stones at them amid the festivities, not settlers as Yesh Din claimed.
At least one Paleostinian was said to have been killed by gunfire amid the festivities.
The IDF said one soldier was lightly injured by a stone hurled at him.
Video from the town showed mask settlers throwing rocks, while reports said they also burned a number of cars there.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says air defenses intercepted 2 UAVs and some of the projectiles fired by the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group; no injuries reported
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... ’s Hezbollah terror group fired a large barrage of rockets at northern Israel on Friday night, as the country braces for an expected retaliatory attack by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... or its proxies to an alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members.
A statement from the Iran-backed terror group claiming responsibility for the rocket fire on the Galilee Panhandle said Hezbollah operatives launched dozens of Katyushas at Israel Defense Forces artillery positions in northern Israel.
The military said around 40 rockets were launched, some of which were intercepted, while others impacted open areas or fell short in Lebanon.
There were no reports of injuries in the attack.
The IDF also said air defenses shot down two explosive-laden drones launched by Hezbollah at northern Israel.
Sirens sounded amid the incident, including as a result of falling shrapnel from the interception.
Hezbollah also fired several projectiles from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee earlier in the day, which, according to the IDF, caused no injuries.
The IDF said it also shelled the launch sites.
The attacks Friday evening came not long after the IDF said it struck several buildings used by Hezbollah, where operatives were gathered, in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab.
Another building belonging to the terror group in Taybeh was also hit, the IDF added.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a daily basis with rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles and other means, with the group saying it is doing so to support 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... amid the war there. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in Lebanon and Paleostinian terror groups Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... are backed by Iran.
Israel has threatened to go to war to force Hezbollah away from the border if it does not retreat and continues to threaten northern communities, from where some 70,000 people were evacuated to avoid the fighting.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 273 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 53 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier and at least 60 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
[Al Jazeera] The armed wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , the Quds Brigades, has fired rockets from 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... towards southern Israel, including at the city of Sderot.
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Any reports of retaliation against the launch sites?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The U.S. has moved more forces into the Middle East to prepare for what officials believe could be an 'imminent' strike by Iran on Israel that could spark a full-scale war.
The Pentagon is beefing up its presence in the region and the USS Dwight Eisenhower has been sent into the Red Sea in a warning to Tehran and to protect American personnel should the violence spill over, multiple reports suggest.
U.S. officials fear that hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles could be used in a retaliation for an April 1 strike on a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed retribution in the wake of the Damascus attack, for which Tel-Aviv has yet to take responsibility.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to respond with force to any assault by Iran, leaving tensions in the Middle East on a knife-edge.
Defense officials on Friday said they are moving 'additional assets to the area', hours after the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem locked down it's staff.
The USS Dwight Eisenhower would be able to intercept missiles and drones fired by Iran.
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Every time crap like this gets hyped, it turns out to be a big nothingburger......no reason to assume anything different this time.
If the Iranians DO actually attack, I simply expect Israel to rip Iran's balls off to shove up their nose as an 'example' of they they should stay home.
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I am leaning more toward the US supporting Iran than Israel with the Biden administration in charge. Netanyahu should watch this action very carefully.
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With Team Brandon, betrayal is always a possibility. One would hope that the presence of US forces would discourage 3rd parties from joining the festivities.
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Here's the mighty Iranian revenge: Iranian forces take over Israel-linked* Portuguese ship MCS ARIES
*"MSC is responsible for all vessel activities including cargo operations and maintenance. Title to the vessel is held by Gortal Shipping Inc as financier and she has been leased to MSC on a long-term basis. Gortal Shipping Inc is affiliated with Zodiac Maritime," said the Zodiac Maritime Shipping Company, partly owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer
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Why an aircraft carrier? Arleigh Burke-class and Ticonderoga-class are custom built to intercept planes and missiles. Me thinks the Daily Mail is talking out its ass again.
#13
Things are getting seriously close to kinetic if they need diconnect from the IV drip and drag Jojo back from Weekend at Bernies!
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