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[Regnum] Dozens of young women have been detained in the Afghan capital Kabul, presumably for their inappropriate appearance. This was reported by the Afghanistan International portal.
"Taliban [the Taliban are under UN sanctions for terrorist activities] morality police have detained dozens of young women in the Qala-e Fatullah and Kote Sangi areas of Kabul as part of an ongoing crackdown for allegedly violating a dress code," the authors said.
According to the publication's sources, the arrests were made on July 18 and 19 in restaurants, shopping centers and on the streets. There were no female police officers present during the operations, and physical force was used against the women during the arrests. The detainees were then taken away to an unknown location.
In just one week, about 100 women were detained. They were caught in markets and hospitals without being formally charged. Former Afghan officials and political leaders have condemned the arrests, calling them illegal and a violation of basic rights, the article noted.
I guess candlelit dinners and windy walks in the desert ain't working out so well for Russia.
They were determined to show the world they are the opposite of America. Except they’re still Sunday People, so …
[Regnum] The Russian Embassy in Kabul knows about the detention of Russian ethnographer Svyatoslav Kaverin in Afghanistan and is working to resolve this issue. Representatives of the diplomatic mission reported this on July 20.
“We are aware of this and are looking into the matter,” RIA Novosti reports a source in the Russian embassy as saying.
Svyatoslav Kaverin is an employee of the Center for Paleoethnological Research and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The day before, on July 19, he reported on his Telegram channel that he was detained in Kunduz on charges of attempting to export jewelry.
According to this information, the ethnographer is currently being taken to Kabul. Kaverin also stated that he is not always given access to his own phone.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The city of Aden, under Saudi-led coalition control, is witnessing a recurring tragedy as residents sell their household furniture in the streets due to severe economic and living conditions.
The economic situation in the city continues to deteriorate, coupled with a significant rise in exchange rates, with the dollar approaching 3,000 riyals, significantly deepening the crisis.
According to media sources, these scenes are evidence of the ongoing stifling economic crisis. A number of citizens have been publicly selling their home furniture at the ''Haraj'' market in Aden.
Photos circulated from the market reveal a touching scene, with bedrooms, sofa sets, and household appliances displayed on the sidewalks under the sun. This comes as a desperate attempt by the owners of these properties to obtain the necessary money to meet the basic needs of their families.
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…a project launched last October by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023, but at bottom it’s a Hezbollah front founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah (Dyab Abu Jahjah) …
claims to identify two people at Tomorrowland tied to ‘genocide’ in Gaza, shares photo of men waving flag of IDF’s Givati Brigade at concert.
Additionally, the activist group said a group of young Israeli men were seen at the festival waving the flag of the IDF’s Givati Brigade.
Tomorrowland, an electronic music festival held in the Belgian town of Boom, attracts some 400,000 people a year, according to The New York Times.
Launched in September, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers, and reservists in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad.
Though the group has been largely unsuccessful in court, it has managed to win widespread media exposure, allegedly caused an Israeli cabinet minister to rethink a trip abroad, and even prompted the IDF to create new rules to better protect troops’ privacy and keep them from being victims of doxxing — the practice of publishing someone’s personal information online to expose them.
Jesus.
Can Europeans have a single original thought in their heads without referring to America?
And Disney, too, which is top cringe America in their minds.
Just lie back and think what it’ll be like when the Moslem colonists are running things, boys and girls..
[Breitbart] Dozens of Afghans with serious criminal records were handed $1,100 in cash and put on a plane to Kabul on Friday morning, but a leading figure of Germany’s hard left came out against the idea, stating there was simply no point in trying.
Green party politician Anton Hofreiter — the party of so-called ‘watermelons’ because they are green on the outside but hard-left Marxist reds below the surface — decried the first German deportation flight to Afghanistan of the year taking off on Friday morning, because he found the exercise pointless. Those aboard would be murdered by the Taliban or would simply break into Germany again, he argued.
He said, reports national broadsheet Die Welt: “Under certain circumstances, some of them might be back here more quickly to commit further crimes in Europe than if they had remained in prison”. It would be safer to keep them in prison indefinitely on the German taxpayer’s dime, he said, while also criticising the government for having recently toughened border checks, arguing it is better to talk rather than throw up walls.
Hofreiter’s interjection came as the first deportation flight to Afghanistan of the year took off from Leipzig to Kabul on Friday morning. There were 81 people aboard, down from the 100 who were meant to fly due to incomplete paperwork, while Afghans are said to have gone to ground recently in a bid to resist being removed.
All abroad were described as serious criminals, with convictions including murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, and assault. Others were serious sex criminals, and the flight reportedly contained several convicted drug dealers. One passenger of the deportation flight was convicted for his part in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in Germany.
Deportees were handed €1,000 ($1,100) cash as they departed Germany. In the past, deportations have been blocked because lawyers argued that sending Afghans to Afghanistan with nothing would harm their human right not to be “impoverished”. The cash would give the passengers a fair start at a new life in their native land, therefore.
The flight is the first this year and only the second from Germany to Afghanistan after the Taliban took power following the Joe Biden withdrawal in 2021.
Afghanistan is one of the largest origins for non-European migrants in Germany, with over 440,000 known to reside in the country.
Earlier this year, the German government published per-capita crime rates for the first time. It found that non-migrant Germans were listed as the suspect in a crime at a rate of 18 per 1,000 head of population. Afghans were four times more likely to be named as the suspect in a crime than Germans — even when excluding migration-related crimes, like being in the country illegally — at a rate of 87 per 1,000.
#2
It is against European human rights to deport people anywhere they may face harm.
A while back they kept a rapist because they said if he were sent home he would be at risk of violence since his country looks poorly on rapists.
It sure must feel good, sitting on top of morality like that and looking down on Americans.
[IsraelTimes] Canada’s probe into the Israel-Hamas conflict doesn’t explicitly target Israelis, but its unclear scope has alarmed Jews amid rising international lawfare against soldiers
When Nati Hubberman was given back his phone in March after weeks of reserve duty on Israel’s northern front, he was inundated with messages from friends about a website he’d never heard of.
"People were texting me saying, ’Watch out, your name is on it,’" he said. "It" was FindIDFSoldiers.net, a site created in February by Davide Mastracci, a Canadian journalist who has harshly criticized Israel, accusing it of orchestrating a "planned genocide 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... Mastracci, an editor for an outlet called the Maple, aimed to identify Canadians who had fought for the Israel Defense Forces, either during the current war or previously. At the time, Hubberman said, the exposure felt disturbing but marginal.
Then, in June, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that it had opened an investigation into "matters related to the Israel-Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... armed conflict," with the possibility of uncovering "a perpetrator of core international crimes — such as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity."
In previous years, the RCMP has conducted similar investigations relating to crimes against or by Canadians in the context of other foreign conflicts, including in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. But this is the first time Canadian authorities have launched a war crimes-related probe connected to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict — a development that has generated particular anxiety within Canada’s Jewish community, which has documented a rise in antisemitism since the October 7, 2023, attack.
The RCMP stated that its investigation wasn’t focused on "any community or group." But to Hubberman and others, the target appeared clear: Canadian IDF soldiers.
’A LOT OF MISLEADING INFORMATION’
News of the investigation prompted anxiety among Jews in Canada, with Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador, telling the Canadian Jewish News that he was "flabbergasted" and "concerned" by media reports on the probe. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, a leading Canadian Jewish organization, likewise called reports of the investigation "deeply concerning."
But in the weeks since, Canadian Jewish leaders have been told that Canadian-Israeli soldiers are not under criminal investigation — and that the initiative began with a focus on Hamas’s crimes.
"There was a lot of misleading information when it first broke," said David Cooper, CIJA’s vice president of government relations. "People thought this was a targeted investigation into IDF soldiers — it’s not."
Cooper said CIJA has been in regular contact with the RCMP, which he said has "confirmed to us on multiple occasions" that no criminal investigation is currently underway.
He added that the RCMP’s involvement began with "investigations into Canadians that were murdered by Hamas" — a focus CIJA has urged the Canadian government to maintain.
"Hamas’ atrocities are well documented, including the murder of multiple Canadian civilians in Israel," read a statement by Noah Shack, CIJA’s interim president, on the day of the RCMP announcement. He encouraged "anyone who has information on Hamas’ crimes against humanity — including murder, torture, sexual violence, and abduction — to submit this evidence to the RCMP’s portal once in place."
Shack added, "Any suggestion that Israeli-Canadians should be targeted for their service — particularly in a war of self-defence waged by a close ally of Canada — not only represents a cynical distortion of the law, but fuels the violent mostly peaceful hatred faced by Israelis and Jews in North America."
Tensions between Jerusalem and Ottawa have also escalated in recent months. In May, Canada joined the United Kingdom and La Belle France in threatening "concrete actions" if Israel refused to stop the war in Gaza and allow in more aid. Canada has also instituted a halt to arms sales to Israel and has voted against it in the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... "It wasn’t like this when I was a kid. Canada was a great place. Antisemitism was nominal," Hubberman said. "Now, there are protests outside my parents’ synagogue."
A GROWING TOOL, A WIDER NET
At least one Canadian-Israeli soldier has sought legal representation from Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, the former head of the IDF’s military prosecution in the West Bank.
While he declined to comment on the specifics of his client’s case, Hirsch warned that the broader trend signaled by the RCMP probe raises serious concerns regarding Canadian-Israeli relations.
"I’m not surprised by the investigation," said Hirsh, who is now director of the Initiative for Paleostinian Authority Accountability and Reform at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. "It seems to be the continuation of a stance that the government of Canada has adopted: while feigning friendly relations with Israel, they are simultaneously accusing Israeli soldiers of war crimes."
If the Canadian government does begin investigating specific IDF soldiers, it will join a growing list of countries where such investigations have been initiated. As of January, the Foreign Ministry identified at least 12 legal complaints targeting Israeli soldiers over alleged war crimes in Gaza, filed in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Serbia, Ireland, and Cyprus, according to Hebrew media reports.
In most of those cases, the soldiers under investigation were Israeli nationals traveling abroad, not citizens of the countries pursuing the complaints. By contrast, the RCMP investigation referred to an "appropriate nexus to Canada," potentially meaning either those who committed crimes against Canadians or Canadian citizens who may have themselves committed crimes during the Israel-Hamas war.
Most of the complaints in other countries have not led to investigations, and none have resulted in arrests, but they have raised diplomatic concerns in Jerusalem.
One of the groups fueling the investigations is the Hind Rajab Foundation, which tracks IDF soldiers abroad, collects open-source material and submits legal complaints to foreign governments, often in countries where probes have been opened, though not in Canada. Dyab Abou Jahjah, one of the organization’s leaders, trained decades ago with Hezbollah, according to The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... In January, a reservist who had survived the Nova music festival massacre was urged by Israeli authorities to leave Brazil after the country’s Federal Court ordered police to open a war crimes investigation against him, according to Brazilian media reports. A month earlier, another Israeli soldier quietly fled Cyprus under similar circumstances, after the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint against him with the International Criminal Court.
"In some cases, it seems that simply being in Gaza at the time is being treated as grounds for suspicion," Hirsch said. "That has no precedent whatsoever. You will find no tribunal that would charge a soldier under that definition, just for being a member of the armed forces."
He added that the accusations against IDF soldiers rely heavily on open-source material — media reports, social media posts, and politically motivated NGO findings, often taken out of context.
"If Canada is signalling a willingness to rely on social media evidence and NGO reports as a basis for criminal investigations, that should concern anyone who cares about due process," Hirsch warned.
Still, Hirsch believes prosecutions in Canada are unlikely.
"War crimes require a systematic policy of attacking civilians. That is not what the IDF is doing. Professionally and objectively evaluated, I don’t think there is a prosecution in the world that could come to a different conclusion," he said.
He added that if soldiers engage in unlawful behavior, the Israeli military justice system investigates and prosecutes legitimate cases of misconduct.
Hubberman’s father, a lawyer who has worked with the RCMP, reassured him that the RCMP agency conducting the investigation had never made an arrest and that the probe is largely a political show.
But rather than feeling relieved, Hubberman said it only underscores a deeper shift taking place in the country of his birth — where he feels that he is increasingly seen as a criminal on par with those who committed the atrocities of October 7.
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[Breitbart] The Trump administration is reportedly offering former ICE agents “reinlistment” bonuses of up to $50,000 if they come back to the agency. Many ICE agents and officers left the organization during the chaos of the prior administration.
“You served the United States of America with distinction and honor. Now, your country calls upon you to serve once more,” ICE officials wrote in an email obtained and published by the New York Post. “By returning to ICE, you are providing an honorable, indispensable service to our nation.”
Funding for the bonuses is coming from the recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBB),” the Post states.
The Post wrote:
ICE is offering a signing bonus of $10,000 upon returning to service; another $10,000 bonus for those who submit applications by Aug. 1; and annual $10,000 bonuses, for up to three years, for those who take part in Operation Return to Service.
The agency will also reportedly allow returning employees to retain their pension payments and benefits if they return to “active duty.”
The BBB provided ICE with an additional $75B in funding for the expanded deportation mission that is currently underway across the nation.
During the BBB signing ceremony, Trump said the bill allows ICE to “significantly”expand its team. Part of this expansion will start “with bringing back our former colleagues,” the president said.
The agency established a “Return to Mission” website to provide information to former employees who may be interested in rejoining the agency.
“Your country is calling upon you to serve. Due to the prior administration’s disastrous immigration policies, the men and women of ICE now face unprecedented challenges,” the website states. “You are critically needed to secure our communities and uphold our laws.”
The offer is extended to Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers and Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
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[Regnum] US presidential administration officials were irritated by the latest Israeli army strikes on Syria and called the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu destructive. This was reported on July 20 by the American portal Axios, citing informed sources. Axios must have the master list of unnamed, undescribed sources.
The journalists' interlocutors said that US President Donald Trump did not know in advance about Israel's strikes on Syria and received this information from a news release.
First unnamed source(s)
Trump aims to ensure peace in the region, the portal's sources noted. The White House is dissatisfied with Netanyahu's policies, and some US administration officials call him uncontrollable, the article says.
Second unnamed source(s)
"Bibi (Netanyahu. - Ed.) behaved like a madman. He constantly bombs everything," one of the publication's sources said.
Third
Another Axios source compared the Israeli prime minister to a child who doesn't want to behave. Skepticism toward Netanyahu is growing in the White House, he said.
Fourth.
Axios journalist Barak Ravid
…who is either Jewish or Moslem, with that name…
previously noted that before the airstrike on the Syrian army's General Staff in Damascus on July 16, the Israeli authorities promised the US presidential administration to stop strikes on Syria.
Then HTS went after the Druze. So Israel went after the HTS.
Regnum News Agency observer Kirill Semenov previously pointed out that Israel, by bombing not only Syrian military facilities in the Daraa and As-Suwayda areas, but also the country’s capital, Damascus, thereby taking the conflict to a new level.
Bibi explained the situation to President Trump. Is this real or again theater to fool observers? Or rumour mongering by the deliberately unhelpful… Bottom line, it’s Bibi’s job to put Israel’s needs before President Trump’s, and sometimes they will not agree on necessities.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of darpaandcia
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Drones as cartridges: key changes in the new policy of the US Ministry of Defense On July 10, 2025, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum, which radically changes the approach of the US army to small drones.
The main change: drones are consumables.
The key idea of the new approach is that small drones (groups 1 and 2, that is, small tactical devices) are now officially equated to consumables, such as ammunition. What this means in practice: No bureaucracy: Commanders will no longer need to conduct investigations and fill out reams of paperwork in the event that a drone is lost in combat or during exercises. This removes the fear of "loss of expensive property".
Freedom of use: The military is encouraged to experiment and use drones as freely as they use cartridges — without extra care and accountability. Field modification: the troops are allowed to modify and "bring to mind" systems directly on the front line for adaptation to tasks. Key decisions from the memorandum: Accelerated purchases: The authority to purchase small UAVs has been transferred to commanders at the level of colonels and captains of the Navy, which will allow purchasing systems directly and many times faster. Drones in every department: A clear goal has been set - by the end of the 2026 fiscal year, every rifle department in the US Army should be equipped with inexpensive disposable drones (of the FPV type).
INDUSTRY SUPPORT:
Special offices are being created that will directly finance American drone manufacturers through loans and advance purchases to strengthen domestic production. Mandatory integration: From 2027, the use of drones will become a mandatory element of all major military exercises. The Pentagon admits that "excessive caution" and slow bureaucratic processes have led the US to lag behind China, Russia and Iran in the field of small UAVs. The new policy is designed to "unleash the potential of American manufacturing and soldier ingenuity," as the document says. As the Minister of Defense himself said, "Small UAVs are more like ammunition than high-class aircraft." They should be cheap, quickly replaceable and classified as consumables."
This is a correct concept. Most drones are now just consumables. And that's exactly how they should treat a consumable, taking into account the fact that the consumable must also be used effectively and not wasted. The cost of the consumable is also one of its most important characteristics.It is possible to pay attention that the USA will be able to enter the mandatory use of drones in exercises only in 2027. In a number of aspects, the United States is indeed lagging behind Russia and China in the introduction of drones in the military.
However, we should not be fooled - we need to increase the production of UAVs, reduce the bureaucracy of supply, close the holes in whole segments of UAVs (for example, in quadcopters), etc. Opponents will not stand still. The unmanned arms race will go on for a very long time.
[IsraelTimes] Citing ‘biased and hostile conduct,’ FM Sa’ar says permit for OCHA official Jonathan Whittall will not be renewed; Israeli official says he will leave country ‘in the near future’
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirmed on Sunday that he had ordered officials not to extend the visa of a senior United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... official due to his alleged anti-Israel bias.
Jonathan Whittall, the head of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the West Bank and 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... , was residing in Jerusalem and splitting his time between the capital and the Gaza Strip.
"There’s a limit to every scheme," Sa’ar wrote in a Hebrew-language post on X.
"Following a biased and hostile conduct against Israel — which distorted reality, presented falsified reports, slandered Israel, and even violated the UN’s own rules of neutrality — and in accordance with the recommendation of professional bodies, I instructed not to extend the visa of the head of OCHA’s office in Israel, Jonathan Whittall," the foreign minister said.
Earlier Sunday, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Whittall would conclude his position and leave Israel "in the near future."
The official pointed to statements made by Whittall last month that the conditions near aid distribution sites in Gaza are "created to kill," and that "what we are seeing [in Gaza] is carnage. It is weaponized hunger. It is forced displacement. And it’s a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... for people just trying to survive."
UN front man Stephane Dujarric said last week that visas for all three leaders of the UN agencies active in Gaza — OCHA; the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. agency OHCHR; and the agency supporting Paleostinians in Gaza, UNRWA — had not been renewed in recent months.
"Visas are not renewed or reduced in duration by Israel, explicitly in response to our work on protection of civilians," said OCHA chief Tom Fletcher earlier this month to a UN Security Council meeting.
He described conditions in Gaza as "beyond vocabulary," with food running out and Paleostinians being shot while seeking something to eat. He accused Israel of failing in its obligation under the Geneva Conventions to provide for civilian needs under its rule.
Fletcher noted that "56 percent of the entries denied into Gaza in 2025 were for emergency medical teams — frontline responders who save lives."
Israel’s UN mission responded that it is "looking into the issue" of Whittall’s visa and criticized UN agencies like OCHA and UNRWA for abandoning neutrality, citing alleged bias and ties to Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... Israel has been sharply critical of UNRWA, even before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror assault in southern Israel — accusing the agency of colluding with Hamas and teaching anti-Israel hatred, which UNRWA denies.
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[IsraelTimes] Yasser Abu Shabab tells British media he’s just an ordinary Palestinian trying to help his people, dreams of Strip being open to world, including Israel, after the war
The leader of a Gazook militia operating in an area under Israeli military control said on Sunday in an interview with British media that his group is not funded or armed by Israel, describing himself as "just an ordinary Paleostinian person who cares about his own people."
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... has accused Yasser Abu Shabaab of being a criminal, a looter, and a traitor, and earlier this month demanded that he turn himself in to the terror group for prosecution.
"Hamas either accuses their [opponents] of being traitors working with Israel or being criminals. I am neither of these," Shabaab told the Sunday Times. "I was an ordinary construction worker before the war. I have no military training. I am just an ordinary Paleostinian person who cares about his own people."
He added that if a ceasefire is reached between Israel and Hamas, he and his group will need "international protection" from the terror group that rules 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... , which he said would likely use the pause to crack down on internal dissent.
According to Abu Shabaab, Hamas has killed 52 members of his family, including his brother.
He denied accusations by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... that his group was looting aid entering Gaza, or that he had direct involvement with Israel. He said his group was funded and armed by supporters within his tribal network.
The comments contradicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s confirmation last month that Israel had given weapons to the group. The decision to start arming the group was made without the approval of the security cabinet, forgoing normal procedure. It was instead led by security bodies, with Netanyahu’s approval, defense sources said at the time.
"I’m from the Tarabin family. We are a big tribe that extends not only to Gaza, but also to Egypt, to Jordan, and even into some Gulf countries. Notable members of our family contributed money, and we used this money to buy products from the markets in Gaza and give it to needy people from our community," Abu Shabaab told the Times.
"When I saw our people were suffering from the fact Hamas was stealing aid and was bringing this war with Israel upon the Gazooks, leaving our people struggling and displaced, the idea sparked to create a safe zone for our people where we don’t fight," he added. "So my tribe and my family started to distribute aid to people who were in need."
According to the report, the "most prominent wealthy member" of the Tarabins is Ibrahim al-Arjani, a Sinai-based Egyptian businessman who made millions from charging Paleostinians fees for using the Rafah crossing to flee the war in Gaza.
When asked if his militia could manage the Rafah Crossing after the war, Abu Shabaab said: "Of course."
But "first we need to defeat terrorism," he said, adding that his "ideal" vision for postwar Gaza is "one open to the world, to Egypt, Arab countries and Israel."
"Many of my family members live in Israel in a good situation without any discrimination," he said.
Abu Shabaab has been seen operating in southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis, and represents the first significant internal armed opposition movement to Hamas’s rule over the Strip’s residents.
According to Hamas sources who spoke with the Lebanese al-Akhbar outlet last month, the militia comprises some 300 people, of whom Abu Shabaab personally recruited around 50. They alleged that the remaining 250 members were recruited through the Paleostinian Authority’s intelligence service.
The group emerged in Rafah in May 2024, following the IDF incursion into the Strip’s southernmost city, the Hamas sources said. They told al-Akhbar that the al-Qassam Brigades have "already started carrying out direct liquidations" of members of Abu Shabaab’s gang, and that its continued existence has fast become a "central issue" for the terror group.
The Hamas sources did not offer proof of Abu Shabaab’s alleged ties to the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority, and al-Akhbar did not verify any of the terror group’s claims.
According to the sources, some members of the group belong to an bad boy Salafi faction that had run-ins with Hamas prior to the war as well.
This is not the first time that Netanyahu has been involved in or accused of propping up militias and terror groups to undermine a common enemy.
Various reports over the years have indicated that Israel’s policy under Netanyahu was to treat Hamas as an asset that could be used to weaken the Paleostinian Authority.
Israeli forces have operated inside the Gaza Strip for some 21 months, since the Hamas-led terror onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, 50 of whom are still held captive.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 454.
During this time, more than 58,000 people have been killed in the Strip, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
[IsraelTimes] Iran has replaced air defenses damaged during last month’s conflict with Israel, Iran’s Defah Press news agency reports, quoting Mahmoud Mousavi, the regular army’s deputy for operations.
During the conflict in June, Israel’s air force dominated Iran’s airspace and dealt a heavy blow to the country’s air defenses while Iranian armed forces launched successive barrages of missiles and drones at Israel.
“Some of our air defenses were damaged, this is not something we can hide, but our colleagues have used domestic resources and replaced them with pre-arranged systems that were stored in suitable locations in order to keep the airspace secure,” Mousavi says. "We will continue to destroy Joooo missiles with our military and nuclear facilities"
Prior to the war, Iran had its own domestically made long-range air defense system Bavar-373 in addition to the Russian-made S-300 system. The report by Defah Press does mention any import of foreign-made air defense systems to Iran in past weeks.
A number of aerial defense systems were destroyed by Israel prior to the war. It is unclear if Tehran is claiming that those too have been replaced.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Dozens of Afghans with serious criminal records were handed $1,100 in cash and put on a plane to Kabul on Friday morning, but a leading figure of Germany’s hard left came out against the idea, stating there was simply no point in trying.
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
[Breitbart] The Trump administration is reportedly offering former ICE agents “reinlistment” bonuses of up to $50,000 if they come back to the agency. Many ICE agents and officers left the organization during the chaos of the prior administration.
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
