The al-Qaeda turban group has grown slightly inside Afghanistan since U.S. forces left in late August, and the country's new Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders are divided over whether to fulfill their 2020 pledge to break ties with the group, the top U.S. commander in the region said.
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the departure of U.S. military and intelligence assets from Afghanistan has made it much harder to track al-Qaeda and other turban groups inside Afghanistan.
"We're probably at about 1 or 2% of the capabilities we once had to look into Afghanistan," he said, adding that this makes it "very hard, not impossible" to ensure that neither al-Qaeda nor 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's Afghanistan affiliate can pose a threat to the United States.
Speaking at the Pentagon, McKenzie said it's clear that al-Qaeda is attempting to rebuild its presence inside Afghanistan, which was the base from which it planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States. He said some bully boyz are coming into the country through its mostly non-existent borders, but it is hard for the U.S. to track numbers.
The U.S. invasion that followed the Sept. 11 attacks led to a 20-year war that succeeded initially by removing the Taliban from power but ultimately failed. After President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... announced in April that he was withdrawing completely from Afghanistan, the Taliban systematically overpowered Afghan government defenses and seized Kabul, the capital, in August.
McKenzie and other senior U.S. military and national security officials had said before the U.S. withdrawal that it would complicate efforts to keep a lid on the al-Qaeda threat, in part because of the loss of on-the-ground intelligence information and the absence of a U.S.-friendly government in Kabul. The U.S. says it will rely on Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s from drones and other aircraft based beyond Afghanistan's borders to respond to any turban threats against the U.S. homeland.
McKenzie said no such strikes have been conducted since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 30. He added that America's ability to conduct such strikes is based on the availability of intelligence, overhead imagery and other information and communications, "and that architecture is still being developed right now."
Al-Qaeda is among numerous turban groups inside Afghanistan. After 2001, it lost most of its numbers and its ability to directly threaten U.S. territory, but McKenzie said it retains "an aspirational desire" to attack the United States. During their first period of rule in Kabul, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban gave haven to al-Qaeda and refused Washington's demand after 9/11 to expel the group and turn over its leader, the late Osama bin Laden ...... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...... . The Taliban and al-Qaeda have maintained ties ever since.
"So we're still trying to sort out exactly how the Taliban is going to proceed against them, and I think over the month or two it'll become a little more apparent to us," he said.
Similarly, McKenzie said it's not yet clear how strongly Taliban will go after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, which has violent mostly peacefully attacked the Taliban across the country. The United States blamed ISIS for an Aug. 26 suicide kaboom at Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members in the final days of the U.S. evacuation.
ISIS was "reinvigorated," McKenzie said, by the release of numerous ISIS fighters from Afghan prisons in mid-August. He said both ISIS and al-Qaeda are recruiting from inside and outside Afghanistan.
"So certainly we should expect a resurgent ISIS. It would be very surprising if that weren't the case," he said, adding, "It remains to be seen that the Taliban are going to be able to take effective action against them."
He called al-Qaeda a more difficult problem for the Taliban because of their longstanding ties.
"So I think there are internal arguments inside the Taliban about the way forward," he said. "What we would like to see from the Taliban would be a strong position against al-Qaeda," which they promised as part of the February 2020 Doha agreement that committed the United States to fully withdrawing from Afghanistan. "But I don't believe that's yet been fully realized."
McKenzie declined to provide an estimate of the number of al-Qaeda operatives inside Afghanistan.
"I think it's probably slightly increased," he said. "There's a presence. We thought it was down pretty small, you know, toward the end of the conflict. I think some people have probably come back in. But it's one of the things we look at, but I wouldn't be confident giving you a number right now."
Not even a hint of this in our usual Afghan sources, except the eviction of Hazeras in September and complaints from Panjshir Valley after the Talibs put down the rebellion.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters have been accused of forcibly evicting more than 1,000 people in northern Afghanistan, with the evictions targeting members of the ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen communities.
Ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen allege that Pashtuns seized their homes and land in the northern province of Jowzjan with the help of the Taliban, a predominately Pashtun group.
The evictions came as Taliban fighters have expelled hundreds of Shi’ite Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... families from their homes and farms in five provinces since the bandidosholy warriors seized power in Afghanistan in August.
Rights groups say the Taliban’s forced displacement of residents is an attempt to distribute land to their own supporters and collectively punish communities that backed the former government.
Abdullah says he is among those who have been displaced in Darzab, a remote district in Jowzjan.
He says Taliban fighters accompanied by Pashtun nomads forced more than 1,000 ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen from their homes and farms in Darzab and Qush Tepa, a neighboring district in Jowzjan, on November 27.
Abdullah, who requested that his real name not be used out of concern for his safety, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi that the provincial Taliban authorities had promised to send a delegation to investigate the alleged land seizures. But he said on December 8 that the delegation had yet to arrive.
"This has been our land for hundreds of years," he says. "We have cultivated it and it belongs to us."
Faizullah, a resident of Qush Tepa, says Pashtun nomads with the help of the Taliban seized more than 20,000 acres of their land.
"Nobody could resist," he says. "If we raised our voices, we would be killed."
Ghulam Sarwar Alizai, a representative for Pashtun nomads in Jowzjan, says land ownership is often unclear because the disputed properties are on government land.
He says the nomads want to return to the pastures that they were prevented from accessing for around two decades.
"Some of our [Uzbek and Turkmen] brothers acknowledge that the land is owned by the government, but they had worked hard to cultivate the barren land," he told Radio Azadi. "A tribal council comprising five people from each side will be the best setting to find a solution."
The Taliban did not respond to calls and text messages from RFE/RL seeking comment.
But in comments to the BBC on November 29, Taliban front man Bilal Karimi denied any forced displacements had taken place in Jowzjan.
"No such thing has happened and the situation in Qush Tepa is calm," he said, adding that the authorities were investigating the issue "and would not allow anyone or any group to encroach on anyone's property."
Disputed sample censuses dating back to the 1970s estimate the Pashtun population at just over 40 percent, followed by ethnic Tajiks at less than 30 percent with Hazara and Uzbeks at around 10 percent. Various smaller minorities account for the rest of the population.
Since regaining power, the Taliban has been accused of forcibly evicting thousands of people across the country.
In October, the Taliban forcibly evicted hundreds of Hazara families from southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province and the northern province of Balkh.
In late September, some 700 Hazara were forcibly evicted by the Taliban in the central province of Daikundi. The Taliban claimed that they were implementing a Taliban court order that required the land to be returned to what it said were its original owners.
The evictions have not only targeted non-Pashtuns. The Taliban also evicted fellow Pashtuns in the southern province of Kandahar. The evictions targeted those who had served in the former government or its armed forces.
"The Taliban should cease forcible evictions and adjudicate land disputes according to the law and a fair process," Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), told RFE/RL.
Gossman said northern Afghanistan has a long history of collective punishment and forced evictions. She said that after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban regime from power, the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance "engaged in evictions of local Pashtuns."
The former Northern Alliance, a coalition of anti-Taliban groups that resisted Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, consisted mainly of ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazara.
Before the Northern Alliance, the "Taliban did it against other groups," Gossman adds.
"Efforts after 2001 to reform the land ownership system failed because of the power of strongmen and warlords, including those in the administration and parliament," she said.
Many of the land disputes in northern Afghanistan are a legacy of the forced and voluntary resettlement of Pashtuns in the region in the 19th century. Starting from the 1880s, Afghan King Abdur Rahman Khan, a Pashtun from the south, forcibly relocated thousands of people from rival Pashtun communities from eastern Afghanistan to the north, where there was only a tiny Pashtun population. The Pashtun settlers were often given free land and received tax exemptions. In the 20th century, Pashtuns also voluntarily settled in northern Afghanistan.
"Both the forced and voluntary migrants colonists were allocated land by the central government, a development that fostered tensions with communities that consequently lost access to farmland and pastures," said a HRW report released in 2002.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, refugees from Central Asia also arrived in northern Afghanistan. Many of them fled Tsarist Russia’s invasion of Central Asia and the emergence of the Soviet Union.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Two people were killed and four maimed in separate bomb explosions in the west of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Friday, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... said."Two civilians have been killed and three others were maimed" when a bomb went kaboom! on a minibus in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of Kabul, the Taliban’s interior ministry front man Sayed Khosti told news hounds.
"In another explosion in the same area, one woman was maimed," he added, specifying that the second blast was also a bomb.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.
Dasht-e-Barchi is largely populated by the mostly Shiite Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community, who for years has been the target of violence by 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.... -Khorasan (ISIS-K) group.
In November, a similar kaboom on a minibus in Dasht-e-Barch killed two people and maimed five others. That attack was claimed by ISIS-K.
ISIS-K grabbed credit for an October 15 suicide kaboom on a Shiite mosque in Kandahar that killed at least 60 people and injured scores more.
That attack came a week after another deadly mosque blast claimed by the group in northern Kunduz province killed over 60 people.
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[ColonelCassad] Video of the Houthi defeat of a Saudi F-15 fighter jet using a modified locally produced Fater-1 missile.
The aircraft was not shot down and was damaged. The pilot went beyond the front line, most likely, reaching the airfield.
There was no information about its fall in the occupied territory of Yemen.
In general, if he made it to the airfield, then this is a reason for the Houthi comrades to work a little more on the missile warhead, so that next time no one could return to the airfield.
“Saudi Arabia does not even know how to make kites, let alone F-15 and F-16."
"America is behind the evil in our country, and it is she who kills and destroys in Yemen. The regimes of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates cannot carry out this aggression without America." -- Ansar Allah official military representative
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[Fuerzas Armadas Mexicanas - Facebook] Military shot down two hitmen and captured 17 criminals in Zacatecas.
Around 1030 hrs this Friday, an armed confrontation was recorded in the limits of the municipality of Pinos, Zacatecas with the state of San Luis Potosí between members of organized crime and personnel of the Mexican Army.
So far there is information of two hitters, one injured and 17 criminals arrested in addition to the insurance of weapons and vehicles of the crime.
[Fuerzas Armadas Mexicanas - Facebook] Military rescued four kidnapped civilians in Matamoros, in addition he secured five long weapons, chargers and cartridges, as well as tactical equipment and a truck. There were no arrests.
In the first event, through an anonymous complaint passed at 0930 hrs rescued four civilians who were kidnapped in a home located in Calle Colibri, between Calles Pavo Real and Madroño, from the colony Valle Verde in Matamoros.
There they secured two long weapons, chargers, cartridges, tactical equipment and two ballistic plates.
[DW] A man with Islamist connections was arrested before he was able to carry out a planned attack. Police found material that could have been used in a potentially deadly bomb.
German police revealed on Friday that they prevented a planned Islamist attack in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer.
Andy Grote, top security official for the city, which like the cities of Berlin and Bremen is a state in its own right, said that the plot had been "very, very serious."
On August 26, police arrested a 20-year-old German-Moroccan man after he tried to buy a firearm and hand grenade on the dark web — unwittingly from an undercover investigator.
The man had "numerous contacts to the Salafi-Islamist scene," Grote said in a presser.
BOMB-BUILDING MATERIAL FOUND
The suspect has been in detention since August after a judge ruled that he had been planning to carry out an attack, police said.
Investigators later searched a flat used by the man and found an array of chemicals and shrapnel used in bomb-making. Such a bomb could have caused "serious or evenly deadly injuries" according to the police.
Authorities also found Islamist propaganda videos and instructions for building a bomb at his parents' flat.
Further raids were carried out on suspected contacts across Germany resulting in the confiscation of phones, tablets and hard drives.
The man faces up to 10 years in prison. According to Hamburg's chief prosecutor Jörg Fröhlich, he was yet to comment on the allegations.
CONNECTIONS TO SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS
The police received tips from people inside the Islamist community. The man's father was also already known to security authorities because of to the role he once played in the al-Quds Mosque where several of the plotters of the September 11 attacks met.
The father is also believed to have met one of the attackers, Mohammed Atta.
The suspect, who is a German citizen, returned to Germany last year after completing his school studies in Morocco.
He took part in a pre-university course in the city of Wismar, but failed it. His peers described him as an introverted loner who went regularly to the Mosque and never spoke to women.
He drew the interest of authorities after getting in touch with Islamists based in a Mosque in the district of Harburg in the northern port city.
Breaking: Alissa Eleanor Azar, 30, an #antifa member who has attended most of the far-left riots in the Portland-area, was indicted for felony rioting, use of tear gas/mace & more for her alleged role in attacking people in Oregon City. She's scheduled to be arraigned today. pic.twitter.com/afcZqTvPzO
Update: After nearly a year and a half, one of the two youths who knocked a man unconscious in May 2020 & kicked his teeth in at a #BLM protest in downtown Portland, has pleaded guilty. Emilio A. Deleon (left) will be sentenced at a later date. pic.twitter.com/MtXc34R3ei
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Given the horrendous physical violence of these 2. They were charged with only Assault in the 2nd degree. Which is a Class B felony, under ORS 163.175.
While in Oregon, a person convicted of a Class B felony "could" be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, and/or a fine up to $250,000. What do you think will happen?
So place your bets.
What will the Portland DA office ask the Judge for a sentencing?
A few years in Jail?
A few $1,000 fine and couple 100 hrs community service cleaning up Portland?
Or something even more Portland DA creatively Liberal?
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The victim should also sue civilly. Make em pay
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Tell you something when he wouldn't ask for a jury trial in Portland.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one person in Bihar's Gopalganj district in connection with a terror funding case, police said on Thursday.
The agency recovered two laptops, six mobile phones and six SIM cards from the possession of Jaffar Abbas who was picked up from Manjhagadh cop shoppe area, Superintendent of Police Anand Kumar said.
The NIA took him to New Delhi on transit remand.
"Sleuths of the NIA on Wednesday arrested Jaffar Abbas, a resident Pathra village in Gopalganj district in connection with a terror funding case," Kumar said.
The NIA had intelligence inputs that Abbas was in touch with Pakistain-based terror outfits that are providing funds for carrying-out terror activities in India.
"The local police had been keeping a close watch on the activities of Abbas for the last several days. The NIA had shared inputs about him with the district police," said the SP.
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Lmao another talibani wannabe. Anyway there's a really weird 20-year-old guy on Quora named, Obvious Incel, who keeps fantasizing about raping beautiful virgin teenage girls [or something like that]. He's also heavily interested in Islam and...I think he might turn into another Jihadi. I hope he commits suicide as soon as possible.
The #Pakistan-i #Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban, accusing the government of violating the terms of the agreed truce.https://t.co/W6iomw8dmr
[GREATERKASHMIR] Militants attacked a police party at Gulshan Chowk in north Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Bandipora district on Friday, leaving two cops dead.Witnesses told Greater Kashmir that they heard indiscriminate gunfire at Gulshan Chowk Bandipora. Soon after the gunfire, they said, two police personnel fell on the ground with bullet injuries.
They were rushed to the nearby district hospital, however, as per hospital sources, both the police personnel gave up the ghost.
“They’re dead, Jim.”
"They had suffered multiple bullet wounds, and were brought dead to the hospital. The injuries indicate they had went titzup," said the MS district hospital Bandipora, Dr Mushtaq. The multiple bullet injuries were in parts of their abdomen and chest, he added.
A police front man also confirmed the deaths. He identified the slain cops as SgCT Mohd Sultan and Ct Fayaz Ahmad.
"Terrorists fired upon a police party at Gulshan Chowk area of #Bandipora. In this #terror incident, 02 police personnel namely SgCT Mohd Sultan & Ct Fayaz Ahmad got injured & attained #martyrdom. Area cordoned off. Further details shall follow," he said on Twitter.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) confirmed, on Friday, that its intelligence led to the killing of 10 of the most prominent leaders of ISIS in 3 provinces during 2021.The front man for the Diyala axis, Sadiq al-Hussaini, said that "the intelligence of the PMF has made qualitative breakthroughs for many of the ISIS networks in Diyala and neighboring provinces through security coordination and information exchange, which led to the killing of 10 of the most prominent leaders of the terrorist organization in the governorates of Diyala, Kirkuk and Salah al-Din."
Al-Husseini added, "50 percent of the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against ISIS targets, whether in Diyala, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... are carried out through accurate information by the PMF, which formed committees specialized in tracking down sleeper cells and revealing their leaders in the regions, in addition to controlling their secret hostels."
He pointed out that "the intelligence of the Popular Mobilization is in constant development, and this has contributed to achieving positive results in the past months in terms of tracking down the leaders of the terrorist group."
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[IsraelTimes] PA health ministry reports Jamil Abu Ayyash was shot in the head; military says aware of reports Paleostinian killed during violent mostly peaceful protest
A Paleostinian man in his 30s was killed by live fire during festivities with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Beita, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry reported Friday.
Paleostinian media reports identified the man as Jamil Abu Ayyash.
According to the health ministry, Ayyash was shot in the head. Paleostinians evacuated him to the Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where he died of his wounds.
Four other Paleostinians were maimed by rubber-coated bullets, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy. Another 63 Paleostinians were treated for minor injuries from tear gas inhalation and falling over during the protest, the medical service said.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that soldiers and Border Police officer responded to a violent mostly peaceful protest near the Evyatar outpost. Hundreds of Paleostinians took part in the festivities, including some who burned tires and threw stones at troops, according to the IDF.
The military said it was aware of reports regarding a Paleostinian killed.
Beita residents have been holding regular protests near neighboring Evyatar for the past several months in protests of the illegal outpost’s establishment on what they say is private Paleostinian land. Israeli authorities have not yet determined whether that is the case, but have not objected to the outpost’s illegal establishment.
The wildcat community initially consisted of several dozen Israeli families and homes, but they agreed to vacate in a July agreement with the government, which saw the outpost illegal structures remain intact and the army establish a permanent presence on the hilltop.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... the protests continue. More than 700 Paleostinians have been injured and with Friday’s reported death, the number of Paleostinians killed since the unrest erupted in May climbed to at least nine, according to the PA health ministry.
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Egypt has a natural gas pipeline that runs through Sinai to Aqaba and then north through Syria with an arm into Lebanon. However, the Egyptian Islamists have blown it up so many times in the Sinai it is considered undependable.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese judge charged with investigating the Beirut port blast, Tarek Bitar, demanded Friday the immediate arrest of a former minister who has refused to appear before court, a judicial source said.
The investigation into the massive explosion at Beirut port on August 4, 2020 resumed Wednesday after a two-month hiatus caused by multiple lawsuits seen as seeking to hamper the work of Bitar.
The judiciary rejected the lawsuits against the judge -- filed primarily by senior political figures who have been targeted in his investigation -- allowing Bitar to resume his work.
His first task was to submit to the top prosecutor an arrest warrant against former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil, the judicial source said on condition of anonymity.
Bitar demanded the "immediate" arrest of Khalil, who is considered the right hand man of Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... who heads the Amal Movement.
The director-general of the Interior Security Forces, Maj. Gen. Imad Othman, had refused an earlier request for the arrest of Khalil, citing an article of the constitution.
"The refusal of a security apparatus to implement an arrest warrant constitutes a dangerous precedent that goes against the decisions of the judicial authority," the source said.
In a country where politicians determine judicial appointments, including in top courts, there is little room for the judiciary to work against Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... 's ruling elite.
Bitar's determination to question bigwigs over the blast has earned him the respect of the victims' families -- and the enmity of the political elite, particularly the Shiite alliance 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... and Amal.
Deadly festivities broke out in October after the two Shiite parties called for his removal as head of the probe.
The two parties have since prevented the Lebanese cabinet from meeting in a bid to force Bitar's removal.
The 2020 blast killed 216 people and injured more than 6,500 others, destroying much of the Beirut port and devastating entire neighborhoods of the capital.
The explosion was caused by a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate that had been improperly stored at the port for years, prompting accusations of gross negligence on the part of the authorities.
[SHAFAQ] A large explosion rocked a Paleostinian camp in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Friday night causing a number of deaths and injuries, state media reported.A Paleostinian source inside the camp said at least 12 people had been injured and there were an unknown number of fatalities.
The explosion took place at a Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, weapons depot in the Burj al-Shemali camp and a judge had ordered security forces to launch an investigation, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Shehab News Agency, seen as close to Hamas, quoted a Paleostinian source as saying the earth-shattering kaboom was caused by the ignition of oxygen canisters stored for use in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hamas maintains a presence in a number of Paleostinian camps in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... The surrounding area had been evacuated and rescue crews had deployed, the Paleostinian source said.
Videos from the scene shared by local media show a number of small bright red flashes above the southern city, followed by a large explosion and the sound of glass breaking.
A number of armed Paleostinian factions, including Hamas and the Fatah Movement, hold effective control over roughly a dozen Paleostinian camps in the country, which Lebanese authorities by custom do not enter.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported an unspecified number of deaths, but local media and civil defense workers on scene said there had been no fatalities. A security source also said fatalities had not been recorded.
The NNA reported that the blast emanated from a Hamas weapons depot in the Burj al-Shemali camp and a judge had ordered security forces to launch an investigation.
The area surrounding the blast had been evacuated and rescue crews had deployed, the Palestinian source said.
Videos from the scene shared by local media show a number of small bright red flashes above the southern city, followed by a large explosion and the sound of glass breaking.
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The explosions occurred in a training facility that is also used for the manufacturing and storage of ammunition, of Hamas' Lebanon branch. The site, which was exposed by us, WorldNews-IL, is called "The Jihad Hall", and is located next to Abi Bin Ka'ab mosque. https://t.co/o28y5zFrcN
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[SHAFAQ] A large explosion rocked a Paleostinian camp in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Friday night causing a number of deaths and injuries, state media reported.A Paleostinian source inside the camp said at least 12 people had been injured and there were an unknown number of fatalities.
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