[Garowe] The Somali Ministry of Information has announced that operations involving Somali forces, local militia, and foreign military support resulted in the deaths of up to 59 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... bandidosbully boyz in eastern Galgaduud and the Middle Shabelle regions. The operations, aimed at dismantling al-Shabaab's strongholds, were part of a broader strategy to combat terrorism in Somalia.
In one significant action near the Cowsweyne area of Galgaduud, 32 al-Shabaab fighters, including several commanders, were killed. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... this success came at a cost, with four Somali National Army soldiers also losing their lives in the clash.
Independent reports, however, paint a more complex picture of the conflict. While the government claims victories, sources on the ground suggest that the Somali army might have suffered significant losses near Cowsweyne, with over 20 soldiers and commanders reportedly killed by al-Shabaab krazed killers.
These military engagements are part of an ongoing effort to push back against al-Shabaab, which has maintained a significant presence in Somalia despite years of international and domestic military operations. The involvement of foreign troops underscores the international concern over the stability of Somalia and the broader implications of al-Shabaab's activities for regional security.
The Ministry's statement did not specify the exact number of foreign soldiers involved but highlighted their crucial support in intelligence and aerial operations. The operations have been described as a coordinated effort to disrupt al-Shabaab's networks, movements, and capacity to launch attacks.
Given the conflicting reports on casualties, the true extent of the losses on both sides remains unclear. This ambiguity often characterizes reports from conflict zones where access to information can be restricted, and where both sides might manipulate figures to suit their narratives.
The operations, which took place in the Galgadud and Middle Shabelle regions, targeted key Al-Shabaab strongholds around Gerile, Awsweyne, and Hawadley.
However, the operations were not without cost, as the government also reported the loss of four SNA soldiers in the eastern part of Galgudud, highlighting the fierce resistance encountered by the militants.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudanese police forces announced on Tuesday their redeployment in districts of Khartoum Bahri recaptured by the army, aiming to secure the areas and clear debris left by fighting.
The army retook the districts of Al-Halfaya, Al-Droushab, Al-Kadru, and Al-Samrab in a military operation launched with allied forces in Khartoum and Khartoum Bahri on Sept. 26. The operation has expanded to include areas in the states of Sennar, Al Jazirah, and Darfur.
''Khartoum State Police have begun deploying in the liberated areas in the Bahri locality,'' police spokesman Brigadier General Fathal Rahman Mohamed Al-Toum said in a statement.
He added that Khartoum State Police Director Lt Gen Amir Abdel-Monim ordered Bahri local police to immediately resume work and reopen Al-Halfaya, Al-Darushab, and Al-Sleit stations. Security forces will also be deployed to protect neighbourhoods and remove debris.
Al-Toum said police forces are prepared for further deployment in recaptured areas, including community policing in neighbourhoods and the rehabilitation of police stations.
Khartoum Bahri police media reported that Major General Sami Abdallah Abu Al-Hassan inaugurated the Al-Droushab police station, paving the way for deployment in other area stations. Forces have been deployed to conduct criminal investigations, maintain security, and participate in checkpoints and patrols.
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"... in a military operation launched with allied forces. Allied forces?
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 20 people were killed and others maimed in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Tuesday on the village of al-Damukiya, east of Khor Taqat area in Shikan locality, in the countryside of El Obeid, North Kordofan state.
An eyewitness from al-Damukiya told Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Tribune that the RSF attacked the village on Monday evening using 30 cycle of violences.
The attack resulted in the death of 20 people and the injury of 22 others, including elderly people and children, who were transferred to the El Obeid Hospital for treatment.
In the wake of these tragic events, several volunteers launched appeals on social media to collect donations to cover the costs of necessary surgeries for the injured.
The eyewitness added that the RSF has been attacking villages around El Obeid in recent weeks, noting that some villages resort to mobilizing armed residents to protect themselves from the attacks, which primarily aim to loot livestock and vehicles.
The witness explained that the RSF also targets vehicles transporting citizens to weekly markets in the El Obeid countryside and North Kordofan villages, where they loot money and belongings, including phones and cars. When citizens try to resist these attacks, they are shot.
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[TELEGRAFI] The Islamic organization Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... has massacred two thousand people north-east of the Nigerian city of Baga
…close to Lake Chad in Kukawa Local Government Area in Borno State…
in the last two days, the second deadliest action since they took control of the area.
Witnesses have said that the snuffies of this group killed every person who came in front of them, while the killed bodies were left on the streets, reports Koha.net.
The soldiers are protecting the city that has 10 thousand inhabitants.
The Nigerian government said today that troops have begun the battle against Boko Haram Islamist bully boys.
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And the world doesn't care, because they weren't jews, so they won't celebrate, and it doesn't fit their narrative that only white christian people are genocidal and evil.
[TELEGRAFI] Nineteen people were killed in the attack by the terrorist organization Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state.
Terrorists attacked a military convoy in Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region, killing 15 soldiers and four members of the Joint Task Force.
Army front man Mohammed Yerima said in a statement that several soldiers were also injured in the attack, reports said aa.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria, but later spread atrocities to Niger's neighbors Chad and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , prompting a military response.
More than 30 people have been killed and nearly three million displaced in a decade of Boko Haram terrorist activities in Nigeria.
[KhaamaPress] French Internal Security Sherlocks have arrested three individuals, including two Afghans, on charges of "planning violent mostly peaceful acts" and membership in a "terrorist criminal association." These individuals were detained on Tuesday in the southwest of La Belle France.
Sources familiar with the case confirmed to Agence La Belle France-Presse (AFP) that the two Afghan citizens were "planning to carry out a violent mostly peaceful act on French soil."
The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office told AFP that the three individuals are being interrogated as part of an initial investigation into their membership in a terrorist criminal association aimed at preparing one or more violent mostly peaceful acts against persons.
The arrests took place in the regions of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... and Haute-Garonne in southwestern La Belle France.
No further information regarding the identities of the individuals or details of the case has been released at this time.
This incident reflects the continued vigilance of French authorities in preventing potential terrorist threats within the country. It also highlights the ongoing concerns about radicalized individuals planning violent mostly peaceful activities, emphasizing the importance of international cooperation in counter-terrorism efforts.
As the investigation unfolds, more details are expected to emerge, shedding light on the extent of the planned activities and the network involved. The arrests serve as a reminder of the complex and evolving nature of terrorism-related threats in Europe.
[GEO.TV] A son of Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now beyond all cares and woe...... has been barred from returning to La Belle France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, after allegedly posting comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Bin Laden from La Belle France after the judiciary confirmed the legality of a prior deportation order issued on grounds of national security.
Retailleau gave no details about the timing of the deportation or where Bin Laden had been sent.
"Mr Bin Laden, who has lived in the Orne region for several years as the spouse of a Brit, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that glorified terrorism," Retailleau said on X.
"The administrative ban ensures that Mr Bin Laden cannot return to La Belle France for any reason whatsoever."
Omar could not be reached for comment.
Pascal Martin, who helped Bin Laden sell his paintings, described him as a man who opposed hard boy ideology, who earned a living from his artwork and paid his taxes. He was currently in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , Martin said.
"We became friends and I can tell you that nothing that is being said resembles the Omar I know," Martin told Rooters.
According to local weekly newspaper Le Publicateur Libre, Bin Laden caught the attention of French authorities over a social media post on the anniversary of his father's birthday. Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011.
Khaama Press has no additional information, but they do have a photo of Mr. Bin Laden and a woman who may be his English wife. Deutsche Welle has a photo of him in front of some of his paintings, which to my untutored eye qualify as art therapy, adding:
Omar, who left his family before the 9/11 attacks, first made international headlines in the mid-2000s for giving interviews to Western media outlets. He expressed affection for his father, but disavowed his terrorist acts, making him the only one of Osama bin Laden's more than 20 children to speak out against him publicly.
He also garnered headlines in 2006 for marrying Jane Felix-Browne, a British woman 24 years his senior who later changed her name to Zaina Mohamed Al-Sabah.
The UK government denied him a spousal visa to live in the country in 2008, as did Spain several months later.
He has published a memoir about growing up under his father's iron fist, describing routine physical abuse and exposure to dangerous and squalid living conditions across several different countries. However, upon his father's death in 2011 he complained that US special forces had "violated international law" by not allowing him to have a proper burial.
Bin Laden was granted a residency permit in France in 2016, where he began working full-time as a painter. Following his 2023 deportation, he and his wife are reportedly living in Qatar, where they had resided between 2008 and 2016.
Imam in Bologna, Italy, Zulfiqar Khan who supported Islamic terrorism was sent back to Pakistan on one-way ticket. Every now and then good news. pic.twitter.com/SaB0QtHzt2
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activists targeted the British offices of German financial services firm Allianz, daubing the outside with red paint in protest over the company’s links to Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems.
Paleostine Action claims responsibility for the protest on social media platform X, and says demonstrators attacked 10 Allianz offices in the UK and "occupied" the insurer’s UK headquarters in Guildford, south of London, overnight.
"Without insurance, Elbit couldn’t operate in Britannia," Paleostine Action says in its post, describing Allianz as "investors and insurers of Israel’s biggest weapons firm."
UK-based spokespeople for Allianz, one of Europe’s biggest financial services groups, did not respond to a request for comment.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s interior ministry on Tuesday announced that it has detained 200 individuals in the past month over human trafficking charges while apprehending over 4000 "irregular" migrants colonists.
"In continuous operations carried out by the Gendarmerie over the past month across 81 provinces, 200 migrant smuggling organizers and 4,040 irregular migrants colonists were apprehended," Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X.
Yerlikaya said that 82 of the smugglers were arrested, and 31 others were referred to the judiciary, adding that the Ottoman Turkish security forces also took over 107 vehicles used in human trafficking and smuggling migrants colonists.
"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 who want to relocate to or use it 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. The country is also a hotspot for migrants colonists and refugees from the Middle East and Central Asia.
According to a January report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Turkey was the home of over 296,685 refugees and asylum seekers in 2023, most of who were from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Ukraine.
Ankara occasionally organizes crackdowns on human traffickers and irregular migrants colonists. In April, Yerlikaya announced that the security forces detained over 1000 migrants colonists in four days during the Eid holidays.
In 2016, Turkey and the EU signed a multi-billion euro deal to contain 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.
[KhaamaPress] The Turkish Ministry of Interior announced that over the past month, 4,040 “illegal migrants” have been arrested across the country. In addition, 200 people have been arrested on charges of human trafficking. Turkey has not disclosed the identities of these refugees.
Ali Yerlikaya, the Turkish Minister of Interior, stated on Tuesday, October 8, on the social media platform X that during simultaneous operations across the country, over a hundred vehicles transporting undocumented refugees were discovered and seized.
He emphasized that the arrested migrants have been handed over to the city immigration offices, and the process of their deportation has begun.
The identities of the detained refugees have not been clarified, but the majority of undocumented migrants in Turkey are from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria.
In recent months, Turkey has intensified its arrest and deportation of Afghan refugees. According to Minister Yerlikaya, Turkish security forces continue operations across the country to identify and deport undocumented migrants.
Amid the dire humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the forced deportation of Afghan refugees by Turkey has sparked international concern. Many of these individuals face severe economic hardship, violence, and instability in their homeland, making their deportation a matter of human rights and refugee protection.
As the situation escalates, organizations and governments are calling for a more compassionate approach, urging Turkey to ensure the safety and dignity of Afghan refugees during this challenging time. The global community’s focus on the Afghan refugee crisis highlights the need for broader solutions and humanitarian assistance.
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BREAKING: The FBI has arrested an Afghan national who they say was plotting an ISIS inspired terror attack on Election Day to target large crowds. According to the FBI, he entered the US on 9/9/21 on a special immigrant visa, days after the disastrous US Afghan withdrawal, and… pic.twitter.com/HNzcV2wSHx
… US Afghan withdrawal, and currently has parole status. The FBI has a has a photo allegedly from his iPhone they say depicts him describing to his daughter and another child "the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife."
For future searchability: Tawhedi, age 27, on Shartel Ave. in Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. His wife, 24, is the sister of Co-Conspirator #1, juvenile of uncertain age, who lives in Moore, OK with his parents and five other siblings.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail adds:
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, told investigators after his arrest Monday that he had planned his attack to coincide with Election Day next month. He and a juvenile co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs, according to charging documents.
Tawhedi, who entered the U.S. in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, had taken steps in recent weeks to advance his attack plans, including by ordering AK-47 rifles. He liquidated his family's assets and buying one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel home to Afghanistan.
After he was arrested, the Justice Department said, Tawhedi told investigators he had planned an attack for Election Day that would target large gatherings of people.
Tawhedi was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, which is designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years for providing support to ISIS and 15 years for obtaining a firearm to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.
According to the criminal complaint, Tawhedi entered the United States on September 9, 2021 on a special immigrant visa.
It said an FBI 'confidential human source' contacted Tawhedi after he recently advertised the sale of his family's personal property on Facebook. The FBI source said he needed a computer for a gun business he was starting and Tawhedi expressed interest in purchasing two AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition, according to the complaint.
On Monday, Tawhedi and the juvenile met with 'FBI assets' at a rural location in Oklahoma and purchased two AK-47 assault rifles, 10 magazines, and 500 rounds of ammunition, it said.
They were immediately arrested.
Tawhedi entered the U.S. on a special immigrant visa, a program that permits eligible Afghans who helped Americans despite great personal risk to themselves and their loved ones to apply for entry into America with their families. Eligible Afghans include interpreters for the U.S. military as well as individuals integral to the American embassy in Kabul. While the program has existed since 2009, the number of applicants skyrocketed after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
US authorities did not provide details about the co-conspirator, who is reportedly also Afghan and is A. T.'s brother-in-law, as he is a minor and therefore under special privacy protections.
In a chilling Telegram message found on Tawhedi's phone, he told an ISIS recruiter who goes by the alias Abdul Malik, "Brother, our house was sold today. We'll receive the money by the 15th of October, next month. After that, we will begin our duty, Allah willing, with the help of Allah we will get ready for the election day."
The Telegram messages detailed a plan for Tawhedi's family to leave the United States for Kabul on Oct. 17, 2024, using one-way tickets. His Google history revealed searches on how to access cameras in Washington, D.C., and which states allow permitless carry.
Tawhedid also has a history of donating to "charities" that funnel money to ISIS.
More from the press release:
According to the criminal complaint, as part of the investigation into Tawhedi, the FBI searched Tawhedi’s phone and obtained communications between Tawhedi and a person who facilitated recruitment, training, and indoctrination of persons who expressed interest in terrorist activity and who Tawhedi understood to be affiliated with ISIS. Tawhedi was also seen in a video recorded on July 20 reading to two children text that describes the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife. Tawhedi also allegedly accessed, viewed, and saved ISIS propaganda on his iCloud and Google account, participated in pro-ISIS Telegram groups, and contributed to a charity which fronts for and funnels money to ISIS.
There’s a SCRIBD thingy of the entire complaint at the link.
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Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood is way more dangerous because they prepare the media and political institutions to view any violent attack such as this to mean that Muslims are the victims of Islamophobia
meaning import more and give access to power and free stuff.
It's the peaceful hardworking ones moving into key positions in advocacy groups, media and human rights organisations that are the big threat
[GEO.TV] The government has evacuated 71 Paks from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... and Syria as a special flight of Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) carrying them arrived in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The flight transported sixty-seven Pak nationals repatriated from Lebanon who travelled to Damascus by road before being airlifted to Pakistain, said the Foreign Office.
Four other Paks from Syria were also evacuated, according to the FO.
The Foreign Office said in a statement that the security, transport and food arrangements were made by the Pakistain Embassy in Lebanon and Syria to ensure incident-free evacuation through Lebanon.
Upon their arrival, the evacuees were welcomed at the airport by Governor Sindh Kamran Tessori, Federal Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, and Sindh Industries Minister Jam Ikramullah Dharejo.
Governor Sindh Kamran Khan Tessori highlighted the government's commitment to ensuring the safe return of Paks from Lebanon, assuring that the remaining Paks stranded in Lebanon would also be repatriated soon.
He also acknowledged the timely actions of the embassies in facilitating the swift return of the Paks, expressing gratitude that 71 Paks had safely returned from war-hit Lebanon.
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[GEO.TV] Chaos ensued in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday after politicians of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) and PTI-Parliamentarians (PTI-P) exchanged heated words which eventually led to physical fight.
The incident took place after KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur's speech in the assembly when PTI's Nek Muhammad and and PTI-P's Iqbal Wazir — both hailing from Wazoo — started verbally abusing each other.
The matter then escalated after which Nek engaged in a fight with Iqbal's supporters which involved fistfighting and kicking in the KP Assembly, leading the security personnel to take action against the politicians' supporters present inside the legislature.
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[Rudaw] At least six suspected members of 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.... (ISIS) were killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... carried out by the Iraqi army in Salahaddin province, the army said on Monday, with jihadist cells yet to be ousted from the country’s disputed areas.
The strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is the latest in an ongoing effort by Baghdad to rid the country of ISIS cells, in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate.
The Iraqi air force "carried out successful airstrikes using F-16 aircraft, targeting a terrorist hideout in the al-Aith area within the Salahaddin Operations Command sector," the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
Six ISIS members were killed in the strikes, according to the statement, which said that the operation was "in Dire Revenge for the deaders of Kirkuk."
On Wednesday, an ISIS ambush in western Kirkuk province - which also falls in the disputed territories - killed four Iraqi army soldiers. At least six suspected ISIS members, including a leader, were killed in an operation carried out by Iraqi forces in Kirkuk on September 19.
On Saturday, the Iraqi army announced that over 100 ISIS members have been killed since the beginning of the year.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] So proud of launching… actually hitting anything is Allah’s job.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a Coalition of Iranian-Backed Paramilitary Groups in Iraq and Syria, announced that they had launched Drones against a “Vital Target” in Israel. With this likely being one of the Drones that was Downed earlier by the Israeli Air Force. pic.twitter.com/9vxYI7loQl
The Iraq Resistance Front is just the Iran-linked Shiite Popular Mobilization Force paramilitaries with a false nose and mustache. Mostly they shoot rockets at American forces in Iraq — shooting missiles at Israel is something new for them.
[Aljazeera] Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza has unleashed yet another deadly, but silent enemy on the people there — asbestos.
A mineral that poses little risk to humans when undisturbed but that is highly carcinogenic when dispersed and released into the atmosphere, asbestos is present throughout much of Gaza’s structures.
Over the past year, Israel’s bombs have caused vast amounts of it to be broken into tiny, airborne particles, which can potentially cause cancer in those who breathe it in, leading experts to say cases of cancer will likely be reported "for decades" in Gaza.
According to United Nations estimates, some 800,000 tonnes of the bombed-out debris across Gaza may be contaminated with asbestos.
This is a "death sentence" for Palestinians trapped in Gaza, leading asbestos expert Roger Willey told Al Jazeera.
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security agency says two Paleostinians have been arrested and charged with throwing explosives at Israeli buses in the West Bank.
Muhammad Takataka and Muhammad Abu Hossein, residents of a village near Bethlehem, were detained in recent weeks over two attacks on buses near the settlement of Tekoa on March 21 and August 25, the Shin Bet and IDF say in a joint statement.
"The Shin Bet’s investigation of the suspects revealed that the two carried out the kabooms with the intention of harming Israeli civilians and against the background of the war in 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 a rusty 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," the agency says.
There were no injuries in the attacks.
The pair were charged with a series of security offenses, the Shin Bet adds.
[GEO.TV] Israel sent tanks deeper into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday and advised people to leave as it pounded the historic Palestinian refugee camp from the air, residents said.
Palestinian medics said casualties had been reported in Jabalia but that they were unable to reach areas under fire.
[IsraelTimes] Death of Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu brings Israel’s toll in ground offensive against Hamas to 350; another soldier seriously wounded
An Israeli soldier was killed during a fresh ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu, 20, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 17th Battalion, from the central town of Kadima-Zoran, was killed on Monday as troops battled Hamas in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya.
The Bislamach Brigade is the IDF’s School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders during peacetime. Abdu, who was a member of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, served with Bislamach as he was going through a squad commander’s course at the school.
His death brought Israel’s death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in operations along the border to 350. The toll comprises 348 soldiers, a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission, and a civilian Defense Ministry contractor.
The IDF said another soldier with the battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident in which Abdu was killed.
On Sunday, the IDF said that troops of the 162nd Division had encircled Jabaliya in a new ground operation targeting efforts by Hamas to reestablish itself in northern Gaza. The military said the operation was launched following intelligence on Hamas operatives and infrastructure as the terror group engaged in efforts to regroup there. Several dozen terror operatives were killed in airstrikes and tank shelling as the offensive began, according to the IDF.
On Tuesday, the IDF said some 20 Hamas operatives were killed in airstrikes and close-quarters combat in Jabaliya over the past day.
Troops also located and destroyed a weapons depot and other weapons amid the fighting, according to the military.
“The operation will continue as long as necessary, while systematically striking and thoroughly destroying the terror infrastructure in the area,” the military said.
Prior to the operation, the 162nd Division was withdrawn from Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor — the Egypt-Gaza border area — after five months there, and handed over responsibility for the area to the IDF’s Gaza Division, the first time that the regional division was given responsibility over a large portion of the Strip. The IDF said there was no reduction in forces in the Egypt-Gaza border area, and troops were continuing to operate there.
The operation marked the fourth push into Jabaliya by the IDF since the start of the war a year ago. The most recent round of fighting there in May was described by the IDF and some officers as “intense” and the “most violent” of the war.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are believed by Israel to still be in northern Gaza despite repeated evacuation orders, among them thousands of terror operatives who survived previous IDF operations that saw Hamas’s battalions in the area dismantled.
On Monday, the IDF called on Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, and Beit Lahiya to evacuate to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Strip’s south.
A day earlier, the IDF said that it was preparing to evacuate civilians from all of north Gaza, and would increase the size of the humanitarian zone.
The zone, where the vast majority of the Gazan population currently resides, is where most humanitarian aid is being delivered. There are also field hospitals there.
The military also said it was opening up two evacuation routes for Palestinians — along the Salah a-Din road and the coastal road. Aid groups have warned against repeated displacement of already malnourished Palestinians.
In the central Gaza Strip, the IDF said Tuesday the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade launched a new raid in the Bureij area, where it said troops were demolishing Hamas infrastructure and killing gunmen.
Also in the past day, the IDF said 70 Hamas sites were struck across the Gaza Strip by fighter jets and other aircraft.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency said that three Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 onslaught were killed in airstrikes in recent days. According to the military, a strike on a Hamas command room embedded within a school in Gaza City on September 30 killed several Hamas operatives, including Muhammad Rafai. Rafai participated in the massacre at Kfar Aza and Nahal Oz on October 7, and was involved in other attacks on troops throughout the war, according to the military.
Another strike, on October 1, killed two more Hamas terrorists, named by the IDF as Muhammad Zanun and Bassel Akhars, who the military says participated in the October 7 attack.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media reports 7 killed in Damascus after building hit near Iranian embassy; not immediately clear if reported assassination attempt successful
An alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Damascus Tuesday targeted a top Hezbollah official who is part of a unit tasked with delivering weapons from 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... and its proxies to the terror group in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... , according to a Saudi report.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency claimed seven non-combatants were killed and 11 others were maimed in the strike, which hit a residential and commercial building in the Mezzeh district of the capital a few hundred meters from the Iranian embassy.
Multiple reports said the targeted building is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
SANA cited a military source who said the strike also caused "significant material damage." It added that rescue forces were still working to extract people from under the rubble.
State media earlier claimed that Syria’s air defenses had intercepted "hostile" targets in the vicinity of Damascus. "We intercepted the attack with several targets buildings"
The Saudi news outlet al-Hadath reported the target of the Damascus strike was a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, but did not say if the attempt was successful. The IDF has overseen efforts in recent weeks to stop the unit’s arms smuggling to Hezbollah.
Last week, the commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, Muhammad Ja’far, was killed in a strike in Beirut, while his brother was reportedly killed days later in an alleged Israeli strike in Damascus.
On Friday, the IDF said that fighter jets struck a two-mile-long tunnel that crossed between Lebanon and Syria, and which the military said was used by Unit 4400 to smuggle weapons.
Last month, it was reported that Israeli special forces carried out a massive raid on an Iranian weapons facility in the Masyaf area in Syria, killing at least 14 people, wounding 43, and sparking fires.
[GEO.TV] The deputy leader of Hezbollah said on Tuesday the Iran-backed group had moved beyond "painful blows" inflicted by Israel as Israeli forces began ground operations in the southwest of Lebanon, expanding its incursions into a new zone.
I have no idea what that means. But they’ll be within reach of painful blows so long as they’re south of the Litani River.
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Hezbollah members visiting the Imam Ali Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran
[GEO.TV] The Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned that it would intensify attacks on Israel, including the northern port city of Haifa, if it continues to strike Lebanon.
"The Israeli enemy's intensifying strikes" mean that "Haifa and other locations will be targeted by our rockets just as much as Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other" locations, the group said.
[GEO.TV] Thirty six people were killed and 150 others wounded in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said on Tuesday.
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[IsraelTimes] Barrage of 25 rockets fired at Kiryat Shmona, launchers used in earlier Haifa attack destroyed; military says strike killed chief of Hezbollah’s logistical HQ
Israeli forces have demolished a small Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into Israeli territory from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... , the military announced Tuesday, as its ground operation north of the border continued to target the terror group’s infrastructure.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the 20-meter-long tunnel had no exit in Israeli territory, and its path crossed the UN-recognized Blue Line by about 10 meters, in the western sector of the border, near the Lebanese village of Marwahin, just across from the Israeli community of Zar’it.
No towns were ever under any threat by the tunnel, the military said
According to Israeli military assessments, Hezbollah began the construction of the tunnel about two years ago, and it was quickly identified by the IDF. The military said it wanted to keep tabs on the tunnel as it was being built, rather than reveal to Hezbollah that it had intelligence of the underground route.
That’s enough to give bad guys nightmares. What and where else have they been watching? Other than everywhere there was a cell phone, beeper, or walkie-talkie, I mean….
The tunnel was physically located by commandos during raids in southern Lebanon several months ago, though the military stressed that it was previously known to the IDF and it had full control over the area. The military said troops searched the tunnel and found weapons inside, including explosives and anti-tank missiles. Now that the IDF is operating in southern Lebanon with larger forces, it said it took the opportunity to demolish the tunnel.
According to the IDF, there are no other tunnels known to cross into Israel from Lebanon.
So they say now. But until the beepers started exploding, they never said a word about them either, so there you go.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... a barrage of some 25 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona Tuesday evening, the IDF said. According to the military, some of the rockets were intercepted, while others impacted in the area. There were no reports of injuries or major damage.
Some of the rocket launchers used by Hezbollah to fire 105 projectiles at Haifa earlier in the day were struck by an Israeli Air Force drone, the military said, adding that it carried out several strikes against Hezbollah buildings and anti-tank missile launch posts in southern Lebanon over the past day.
After the barrage, the IDF Home Front Command issued stricter guidelines in several cities near Haifa, preventing schools from operating in Kiryat Ata, Kiryat Bialik, Kiryat Yam, and Kiryat Motzkin. Schools will stay open in Haifa itself, provided that a bomb shelter can be reached quickly enough, the IDF said.
AIRSTRIKE KILLS CHIEF OF HEZBOLLAH’S LOGISTICS CENTER
Overnight, the IDF said it struck a weapons depot and another Hezbollah site in Beirut, and Monday night, the military said a dronezap was carried out against a school in southern Lebanon’s Tayr Harfa, where a group of Hezbollah operatives were spotted.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday that 50 operatives and at least six top commanders in Hezbollah’s so-called Southern Front were killed in a wide wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in southern Lebanon the previous day.
"The turbans we killed yesterday are the commanders and turbans who were set to — on the day that the order would be given — infiltrate Israel, into towns in the north, to murder and kidnap Israeli civilians," Hagari said.
The IDF named one of those killed as the head of Hezbollah’s logistical headquarters, Suhail Hussein Husseini. He was also a member of Hezbollah’s Jihad Council, the terror group’s top military body.
"Husseini played a crucial role in weapon transfers between 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... and Hezbollah and was responsible for distributing the advanced weaponry among Hezbollah’s units, overseeing both the transportation and allocation of these arms," the IDF said.
The military said that he was "responsible for the budgeting and logistical management of Hezbollah’s most sensitive projects, including the organization’s war plans and other special operations, such as coordinating terrorist attacks against the State of Israel from Lebanon and Syria."
The military said the headquarters also included Hezbollah’s R&D, which is responsible for the manufacture of precision-guided missiles.
On the ground, troops of the Golani Brigade captured a Hezbollah fighting position in southern Lebanon, located in an olive grove and an adjacent home, the IDF said. The military said the troops found a primed mortar aimed at Israel, ammunition, tunnel infrastructure, and resting areas for the Hezbollah operatives. Inside the home, the IDF said the soldiers found a cache of weapons, including firearms, anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
The IDF said the equipment and site would have been used to ambush Israeli soldiers and attack towns in northern Israel.
450 HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVES KILLED IN WEEK OF OPERATIONS
According to fresh IDF assessments on Tuesday, some 450 Hezbollah operatives had been killed by troops and airstrikes amid the past week of ground operations. Four IDF divisions are currently operating in Lebanese villages along the border, the latest being deployed on Monday night.
The IDF’s 98th Division summarized a week of operations in southern Lebanon, reporting that its troops had killed over 200 Hezbollah operatives in several villages adjacent to the Israeli border.
The elite formation of paratrooper and commando units, joined by the 7th Armored Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, were the first Israeli forces to enter Lebanon when the official ground operations began on September 30.
The IDF said the division had demolished several tunnels and located hundreds of weapons in villages close to the border, which were intended to have been used by Hezbollah to attack northern Israel.
More than 100 tons of explosives have been used by the division to demolish Hezbollah sites above and below ground, according to military sources.
The division, which previously battled Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 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 a rusty 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... for months, said Hezbollah is a different enemy from Hamas, but not necessarily stronger. The division has found Hezbollah to be a far more organized fighting force than Hamas, but largely operating above ground and not in tunnels like the terror group in Gaza. Hezbollah also has more advanced weapons and better fortifications, the division has identified.
Still, the division said it has the upper hand and has been successful with its operations.
Last week, six members of the Egoz Commando Unit were killed during a fierce battle with Hezbollah operatives, and another three paratroopers were killed in separate incidents that same day.
Separately Tuesday evening, in Syria, an alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus targeted a top Hezbollah official in the terror group’s Unit 4400, the Saudi news outlet al-Hadath reported. Unit 4400 is tasked with delivering weapons from Iran and its proxies to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, citing a military source, reported that seven non-combatants were killed and 11 others were maimed in the strike, which hit a residential and commercial building in the Mezzeh district of the capital.
In addition to the casualties, the strike caused "significant material damage," it said. It added that rescue forces are still working to extract people from under the rubble.
Hezbollah’s top leaders have repeatedly stated over the last year that the group would not stop its fire until a Gaza ceasefire was reached, but that appeared to change Tuesday after deputy leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... expressed support for efforts to reach an end to the fighting without mentioning the war in the enclave.
Israel stepped up its strikes on Hezbollah in recent weeks as it seeks to push the terror group away from the border in accordance with a 2006 UN resolution.
The escalation followed Israel’s decision last month to make the return of northern residents to their homes an official war aim. Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, out of fear Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack.
Attacks on northern Israel have resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians in Israel. In addition, 33 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers in northern Israel have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there ihave also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 516 members — including Nasrallah — who have been killed by Israel during the war, mostly in Lebanon but also some in Syria. Another 94 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began its new offensive against Hezbollah in September, including the ground operation in which the military says at least 450 Hezbollah operatives have been killed.
Naim Kassem, Nasrallah’s former deputy, admitted Hezbollah’s military distress by calling for an unconditional ceasefire. He demanded Israel halt its fire first, with details to be discussed later— a move… pic.twitter.com/CDvMpAP5xB
Israel’s response is just like UNSC Resolution 1701, that ended the 2006 Lebanon War. The one that Hassan Nasrallah swore Hezbollah would respect, back in the day. Sadly, he can’t swear again to respect it now.
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The French Foreign Ministry announced this evening (Tuesday) that Israel has set conditions for a ceasefire in Lebanon, requiring Hezbollah’s disarmament and its withdrawal north of the Litani River.
According to a Channel 12 report on Tuesday citing unnamed sources in Beirut, Iran is pushing Hezbollah to seek out a ceasefire deal in order to "cut its losses" after a long list of brass hats in the group have been killed in recent weeks.
Visiting Beirut on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran backs efforts for a ceasefire in Leb on the condition it would be backed by Hezbollah and be simultaneous with a ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip.
US State Department front man Matthew Miller said Tuesday that Qassem’s public backing of ceasefire efforts shows that Hezbollah is "on the back foot and is getting battered," leading the group to "change their tune."
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I think the Litani River would make an excellent northern Israeli border. Since Jordan captured the West Bank, and Egypt captured Gaza, those two nations should now take all the Muslim residents of those territories, transferring the land to Israel. Sigh. . . nobody cares what I think.
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