[Garowe] Heavily armed elite troops from the Somali police's Haramcad unit have blocked the Ex-Control Afgooye road in Mogadishu, sparking chaos and endangering civilians, eyewitnesses said on Sunday.
The soldiers staged the protest to demand overdue salaries, accusing the federal government of failing to pay them. The demonstration escalated when troops opened fire indiscriminately, putting nearby residents and commuters at risk.
The closure of the Ex-Control Afgooye road, a vital artery used daily by thousands in the capital, brought traffic to a standstill. Vehicles, including cars and tuk-tuks, were stranded for hours, causing widespread disruption and confusion.
Local witnesses said the protest triggered panic as the soldiers fired in multiple directions. "We were trapped, unable to move as bullets flew near us," one commuter said.
The Haramcad unit, trained and supported by Ottoman Turkish forces, has expressed frustration with the outgoing administration of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud over unpaid wages. Sources say the soldiers’ salaries have long been insufficient to meet their basic needs, fueling discontent.
Government officials have yet to comment on the incident, which highlights the growing tensions within Somalia’s security forces amid ongoing efforts to stabilize the country. The unrest underscores challenges facing the federal government as it struggles to maintain order and cohesion among its military units.
[IsraelTimes] Even as anti-Israel groups call for a boycott due to sponsorship by BNP Paribas, Wrocław festival condemns ‘genocide’ in Gaza
A popular film festival in the Polish city of Wrocław is being targeted by anti-Israel activists for receiving sponsorship from a bank that has invested in Israel’s arms industry.
The action came despite the fact that organizers of the festival, which receives funding from public institutions, such as Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, have condemned Israel’s military action against Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... 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... as a "genocide," and will screen a film that Israeli film houses have deemed too sensitive to touch.
Wrocław, a city of more than 670,000 in western Poland of whom some 350 are Jews, is also home to one of the most important Jewish studies program in Poland at the University of Wrocław.
Local activists are outraged that the New Horizons Film Festival, one of Poland’s biggest and most popular film festivals, is sponsored by French banking giant BNP Paribas, according to a report by digital music news site CDM Link.
The activists charge that BNP Paribas’s investments in Israel make it unsuitable to serve as the lead partner in the festival, which presents mainly arthouse cinema.
BNP Paribas is the largest European finance provider to companies that sell weapons to Israel, having provided 5.7 billion euros in loans and underwritings since 2021, according to a 2024 report by a group of 19 civil society organizations and trade unions.
The bank traded two million shares in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest privately owned defense firm, during the first quarter of 2025, according to documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The group of activists called on the festival to publicly address its relationship with BNP Paribas and assess whether its partnership "is compatible with the festival’s stated values," CDM Link’s report said.
The festival’s reply was long and convoluted.
"Let us begin with something obvious — yet essential — that must be stated clearly at the outset: As organizers of the festival, we firmly condemn the genocide committed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip and all crimes against humanity," a letter on the festival website said.
The letter rambles, and continues with a meditation on how ethical consumption is impossible in a world of complex networks. It concludes with a statement by BNP Paribas denying any involvement in the conflict.
According to CDM Link, the activists responded that the festival did not address their complaints, and called for a boycott.
The film festival is set to screen Nadav Lapid’s inflammatory film "Yes," about a musician asked to rewrite Israel’s national anthem.
"Including [this] film in the program was not an easy decision," the festival’s page for the movie says. "Should we give voice to an Israeli in the face of genocide in Gaza, even if he is an emigrant and a filmmaker remaining in radical opposition to Israeli nationalism? Ultimately, we answered this question: yes."
"Yes" follows a musician named Y, who is commissioned by the authorities to rewrite "Hatikvah" (The Hope), Israel’s national anthem, into a propaganda piece calling for the eradication of Paleostinians. Lapid has said the movie is a response to his country’s "blindness" to suffering in Gaza.
Lapid has previously dissected his country’s ills in "Synonyms," which won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2019, and "Ahed’s Knee" (2021), shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
The New Horizons Film Festival is funded by public institutions such as the municipality of Wrocław, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Culture Promotion Fund, the Polish Film Institute, and the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Program.
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[IsraelTimes] Iran won the support of fellow BRICS nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro today, with the bloc condemning Israel and the US for the assault on Iran’s nuclear program and military infrastructure throughout the 12-day war last month.
“We condemn the military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran since 13 June 2025,” leaders say in a summit statement, without naming the US or Israel.
“We further express serious concern over deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure and peaceful nuclear facilities,” the bloc says.
The 11-nation grouping says the strikes “constitute a violation of international law.”
The declaration is a diplomatic victory for Tehran, which received limited regional or global support over a 12-day bombing campaign by the Israeli military, which culminated in US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan.
In retaliation Iran, had fired more than 500 ballistic missiles at Israel, killing 28 people.
The BRICS gathering includes Israel’s arch foe Iran, but also nations like Russia and China, which have ties with Tehran.
BRICS diplomats had been in disagreement over how strongly to denounce Israel’s bombing of Iran and its actions in Gaza, but ultimately strengthened their language at Tehran’s request.
The pronouncement is basically a pro forma blah blah blah without teeth, just to shut up the party from Iran and the big dogs that support it.
[IsraelTimes] A report documenting “widespread and systematic” sexual violence during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, as well as assaults experienced by hostages held in Gaza, is set to be released Tuesday in Jerusalem, the British Sunday Times reports.
The Dinah Report, partly funded by the British government and written by Israeli gender and legal experts, aims “to counter denial, misinformation and global silence” over the massacre, and seeks “to set the historical record straight: Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war.”
The report compiles testimonies from 15 former hostages, a survivor of an attempted rape at the Supernova Music Festival, and to 17 people who witnessed or heard assaults, which took place across six locations, according to the Sunday Times.
“Clear patterns emerged in how the sexual violence was perpetrated,” the Sunday Times quotes the report as saying, “including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; and genital mutilation.”
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has considerably more in the same vein with curated photos and video, plus the Britain-obligatory “Yes, but Israel is so mean to the poor Gazans” with equally obligatory photo of a weeping Palestinian family with multiple females in shapeless black, only their weeping faces uncovered
[IsraelTimes] With 10 of 20 living captives set to go free under potential deal, TV report provides excerpts from medical files shown to PM; ministers reportedly say all are ‘humanitarian’ cases
Just before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed for Washington on Sunday to meet with US President Donald Trump, he was reportedly presented information about the medical condition of each of the 20 remaining living hostages, which is said to serve as the basis of who will be chosen to be freed during the hostage-ceasefire deal that is seen to be nearing agreement.
The medical information given to Netanyahu and some senior ministers and aides will be used in discussions, both internal and with mediators, about which hostages’ releases will be prioritized, Channel 12 reported on Sunday.
According to the report, senior cabinet ministers said after the information was presented that “we will have difficulty prioritizing [the hostages],” because “they are all humanitarian [cases].”
The outline of the deal, as it currently stands, would see about half of the living hostages and about half of the dead hostages held by terror groups in Gaza returned to Israel over 60 days, in five separate releases.
Eight living hostages would be freed on the first day and two released on the 50th day, according to an Arab diplomat from one of the mediating countries. Five slain hostages would be returned on the seventh day, five more on the 30th day and eight more on the 60th day. That would leave 22 hostages still held in Gaza, 10 of them believed by Israeli authorities to be alive.
The deal has yet to be finalized, and there has been no definitive statement on whether Israel or Hamas would be the one to determine which 10 of the 20 living hostages would be freed under its terms, and according to which criteria.
As part of the outlet’s report, Channel 12 shared excerpts from the medical files of each living hostage, to highlight the difficulty in deciding between them based on medical priority.
According to the report, Alon Ohel, 24, who is held captive alone, is in a condition that puts him “at high risk” for blindness.
Yosef-Haim Ohana, 24, is suffering from severe mental illness.
Avinatan Or, 32, is facing a severe shortage of food and water.
Matan Angrest, 21, was severely abused during captivity and could face permanent disability.
Elkana Bohbot, 36, faces severe mental health issues that have not been treated.
Gali and Ziv Berman, both 27, are both thought to be suffering from mental and physical illnesses.
Rom Braslavski, 21, suffers from asthma and is wounded in both arms.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, and Evyatar David, 23, who are thought to be held together, have faced extreme abuse and severe hunger.
Eitan Horn, 37, suffers from a chronic illness that has not been treated.
Maxim Herkin, 36, has an injured arm. Nimrod Cohen, 20, has faced severe interrogations by his captors.
Segev Kalfon, 27, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and a “deteriorating” mental condition.
Bar Kuperstein, 23, faces serious malnourishment and other health issues.
Ariel and David Cunio, 26 and 34, are both thought to have been held in harsh conditions, and there is a lack of information about their conditions.
Omri Miran, 46, suffers from malnourishment and has been held in isolation.
Eitan Mor, 23, is held in harsh conditions and there is serious concern for his health.
Matan Zangauker, 25, is held in isolation and suffers from muscular dystrophy.
In addition, there is “serious concern” for the lives of Tamir Nimrodi and Bipin Joshi, due to a lack of any signs of life since they were captured.
Unlike in the previous ceasefire-hostage release deals, according to Channel 12, the same authorities that presented the medical information of the hostages to the cabinet did not rank them in terms of medical priority; instead, they left that choice up to the political decision-makers.
According to the report, the meeting ended without a decision on who would be prioritized, and that decision will be made when talks begin on the deal’s implementation.
Israel dispatched a team of negotiators to Doha on Sunday after Hamas said Friday that it had responded positively to a US- and Israel-backed proposal. The first round of indirect talks was said to end inconclusively late Sunday night.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are believed to still be holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. These 50 include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by Israel, including an IDF soldier killed in 2014.
Twenty of the hostages are believed by Israeli authorities to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said.
Since the start of the war, Hamas has freed 140 hostages, largely in two ceasefire deals. It also returned the bodies of eight slain hostages earlier this year. Eight hostages have been rescued alive from captivity by troops, and the bodies of 49 have also been recovered from Gaza by Israeli soldiers.
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[IsraelTimes] A senior Hamas official tells the BBC that the terror group has lost control of around 80% of the Gaza Strip and that there is “barely anything left” of its military structure. "We're not responsible! It's...somebody else!"
The British news outlet says it received a number of voice messages from a “senior officer” in Hamas, identified only as a lieutenant colonel who was wounded in October 2023.
“Let’s be realistic here — there’s barely anything left of the security structure. Most of the leadership, about 95%, are now dead… The active figures have all been killed,” he said. “So really, what’s stopping Israel from continuing this war?”
The official claims that the war “has to continue until the end. All the conditions are aligned: Israel has the upper hand, the world is silent, the Arab regimes are silent, criminal gangs are everywhere, society is collapsing.”
He says since the end of the latest ceasefire in March, Hamas’s security control in Gaza “has completely collapsed. Totally gone. There’s no control anywhere,” pointing to extensive looting of Hamas’s complex with no intervention.
“So, the security situation is zero. Hamas’s control is zero. There’s no leadership, no command, no communication. Salaries are delayed, and when they do arrive, they’re barely usable. Some die just trying to collect them. It’s total collapse.”
Give up the hostages, lay down your arms, accept exile. Then Israel will stop, because unlike you Israel doesn’t need genocide.
[IsraelTimes] The security cabinet approved a plan to allow more aid distribution in the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel, confirming Hebrew media reports.
The expansion of aid in northern Gaza will be done through international aid organizations, says the official.
Not the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
United Nations World Food Programme Deputy executive director Carl Skau was in Israel last week to meet Israeli officials. He also went to Gaza City on Wednesday to meet locals and discuss the humanitarian situation there.
He told The Times of Israel that Israel allows the WFP to bring in 100 truckloads of food a day, accessing northern Gaza through the Netzarim Corridor and the Erez Crossing. However, Erez closed last week after the WFP sent the IDF footage of its trucks being commandeered by armed Gazans.
“We’re hopeful that that would open again because that’s the most secure. It’s the Netzarim Corridor that is very complicated,” said Skau.
Skau said that if there is a ceasefire in Gaza, the WFP is ready to bring in 500-600 trucks into Gaza by the next day: “We have food and we can mobilize in 24 hours.”
[IsraelTimes] Israeli restaurateur Shahar Segal says his work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has concluded after less than a month and a half.
Segal had been working as something of a spokesperson for GHF by liaising with the Israeli press.
“My work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has always been rooted in the desire to support those affected by the ongoing war. This volunteer role was always designed to be temporary and has now concluded,” Segal writes on Instagram, without giving a reason for his departure.
On Friday, anti-Israel activists vandalized the Melbourne chain of the Miznon restaurant that he co-owns with Eyal Shani.
The GHF has received pushback as its model has forced Palestinians to walk long distances and cross IDF lines — often coming under deadly fire — to reach aid distribution sites.
🚨 the PA will fall 🚨 The clans of Judea and Samaria are tired of the corruption of the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas.
In a signed letter to Israel’s government, the sheikhs of Hebron pledged: ✅ Full recognition of Israel as the JEWISH state ✅ ZERO tolerance for terror… pic.twitter.com/9oKuKBMs5K
— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) July 6, 2025
…ZERO tolerance for terror
✅ Breaking away from the corrupt Palestinian Authority
✅ Joining the Abraham Accords for peace, jobs, and prosperity
These sheikhs theoretically represent half a million people!
“The people are with us. Nobody respects the PA. Nobody wants them.”
Don't be confused. This is not going to revive the fantasies of the "two state solution"
Rather, it might be a step towards a sort of UAE composed of the different clans that will have their autonomous areas within Israel
Emirate of Hebron Recognizing Israel: A Vision Rooted in Jabotinsky
In a time of uncertainty over Gaza’s future and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Minister Nir Barkat, working in coordination with key tribal leaders from Hebron, has introduced a bold and pragmatic… pic.twitter.com/6Q9dTxpT8P
[IsraelTimes] Before boarding his flight to Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel has an opportunity “to expand the circle of peace far beyond what we could have imagined.”
"We have already transformed the Middle East beyond recognition, and we now have a chance to bring a great future to the state of Israel, the people of Israel and the entire Middle East," he says.
The premier also makes clear that Israel will not agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal that ultimately allows Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... to remain 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. It is working for a deal "under the terms we agreed to," he says.
He says that while in Washington, he will thank US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... for his "strong support" during Israel’s 12-day war against "our mutual enemy" 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... last month, which resulted in a "tremendous victory" over the Islamic Theocratic RepublicIran had set out the goal of destroying Israel, he says. "For years, we feared what we would do about Iran and whether we could overcome Iran. Our heroic pilots have flown in the skies of Iran," he says, hailing the IDF, the Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... and all branches of the security establishment.
Israel also operated over Leb ...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.... , he notes. "There too, for years, we were worried about what Hezbollah would do and how we could overcome it. We overcame it."
"We struck Hamas," he adds.
"This creates great responsibility and opportunities," says Netanyahu.
There is an obligation "to preserve the achievement" and to ensure that Iran does not restart its nuclear weapons efforts.
As for Gaza, Netanyahu says Israel has attained "great achievements" but still has "missions to complete. To date," he says, "we have freed 205 of 255 hostages, 144 of them alive. Twenty living hostages remain and 30 who are fallen. I am determined, we are determined, to bring back all of them."
"And we are determined to ensure that Gaza will no longer constitute a threat to Israel. That means, we will not allow a situation that encourages more kidnappings, more murders, more executions, more invasions," he says, as Israel’s negotiating team travels to Doha for indirect talks with Hamas. "That means one thing: eliminating Hamas’s military and governing capabilities. Hamas will not be there."
"I am committed to both those missions, or really three missions," he goes on: "The release and return of all the hostages, the living and the fallen; the destruction of Hamas’s capabilities — to kick it out of there, and to ensure that Gaza will no longer constitute a threat to Israel."
"We’ve achieved and will achieve all those things thanks to the courage of our warriors," he concludes, as well as the Israeli people’s resilience, and "as a result of the correct, courageous decisions that we took thanks to the support of the citizens of Israel for the people’s army."
Asked whether there will be a hostage release deal this week, Netanyahu turns back to the news hounds — something he rarely does — and says: "We are working to reach this deal under the terms we have agreed to."
"I sent a team to the negotiations with clear directives," he says. "I think the conversation with President Trump can certainly help advance the outcome we are all hoping for."
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[IsraelTimes] Shrugging off US disarmament plan, reportedly in exchange for Israeli pull back, Naim Qassem says that ‘aggression’ must stop first, insists missiles needed to resist Israel
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure from Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... ’s Western-backed government demanding the terror group disarm.
If you don’t hold up your end of the bargain, Israel won’t abide either. Enjoy your natural consequences, my dear, and remember that it was your choice.
The response came after Lebanese leaders sought the group’s input as it formulates an answer to a proposal raised by US envoy Tom Barrack that would reportedly see Israel halt attacks on Lebanese soil in exchange for Hezbollah giving up its arms.
"This threat will not make us accept surrender," Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, during the Shiite Moslem religious commemoration of Ashura.
Qassem, who succeeded longtime leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> after Israel killed him in September, said the group’s fighters would not abandon their arms and asserted that Israel’s "aggression" must first stop.
"How can you expect us not to stand firm while the Israeli enemy continues its aggression, continues to occupy the five points, and continues to enter our territories and kill?" Qassem said in his video address. "We will not be part of legitimizing the occupation in Lebanon and the region. We will not accept normalization [with Israel]."
Israel has regularly carried out dronezaps in Lebanon it says are aimed at operatives belonging to the Iran-backed group, despite a ceasefire in November that followed over a year of conflict, and two months of open war, sparked by daily Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks on northern Israel starting on October 8, 2023.
It has also kept troops deployed at five border points inside Lebanon it deemed strategic.
Barrack was expected in Beirut on Monday. During the visit, Lebanese authorities are due to deliver a response to Barrack’s proposal for Hezbollah to be disarmed by the end of the year, according to a Lebanese official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Disarmament would end Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah members and unlock funds to rebuild parts of Lebanon destroyed by Israeli forces last year, sources with knowledge of Barrack’s proposal told Rooters. It would also include Israel pulling out of Lebanon, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"America’s equation asking us to choose between being killed or surrender does not concern us and we will cling to our rights," Qassem said in his speech, according to an English-language report from the Naharnet outlet.
In response to those who ask why the group needs its missile arsenal, Qassem said: "How can we confront Israel when it attacks us if we didn’t have them? Who is preventing Israel from entering villages and landing and killing young people, women and kiddies inside their homes unless there is a resistance with certain capabilities capable of minimal defense?"
Lebanese authorities say they have been dismantling Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in the south, near the Israeli border.
Israel says it reserves the right under the ceasefire agreement to act against imminent threats by Hezbollah, and accuses the terror group of ceasefire violations, which it denies.
Jerusalem also says that Beirut is not doing enough to disarm the group in southern Lebanon.
[Rudaw] Syrian firefighters in the western coastal province of Latakia are facing significant challenges in battling forest fires for a fourth day, with Damascus describing the blazes as a “climate and environmental disaster.”
Over 7,000 hectares of forest have been burned in Latakia since wildfires broke out on Wednesday, the country’s emergency and disaster management ministry reported on Sunday. The presence of mines and unexploded ordnance, along with strong winds, are complicating firefighting efforts.
“The situation is dire and constitutes a climate and environmental disaster affecting Syria,” the ministry said in a statement.
Turkey, which is battling wildfires on its own turf, and Jordan have dispatched assistance to help Damascus combat the flames.
“Nearly 90 teams and more than 150 vehicles are participating in the firefighting efforts in the Latakia countryside,” according to the ministry, but “the presence of mines, remnants of war, and strong winds are hampering efforts to extinguish the fires.”
Emergency and Disaster Management Minister Raed al-Saleh announced the creation of an operations room to provide “logistical and field support for firefighting operations in the northern Latakia countryside,” according to the state-run SANA news agency.
On Saturday, Syria’s civil defense warned of the risk of the wildfires spreading to Hama and Idlib.
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[IsraelTimes] Analysis finds at least 43 prison staff, at least 4 civilians killed in attack that targeted administrative building, access gates, also hit hospital; NGO says 2 prisoners among dead
Some two weeks after Israel attacked the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, 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... invited Western journalists on an unprecedented tour of the site, known for housing political prisoners and foreigners in harrowing conditions.
Footage captured by Sky News showed damage to the prison hospital, with the windows blown out, damaged equipment covered in debris, and exposed wires hanging from the ceiling.
The outlet also showed the exterior of what Iran said was the heavily damaged visitors center, and noted that there were several other damaged buildings in the vicinity of the courtyard, but that filming was not allowed there.
NBC News, which also sent a correspondent to tour the prison, showed a brief clip of one of the damaged administrative buildings.
The strike — which came on the penultimate day of Israel’s 12-day war with Iran last month — sparked concern among family members of those incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! at Evin, who include prominent Iranian dissidents as well as two Frenchies considered hostages by their home country.
The attack, which came alongside a strike on Tehran’s "countdown clock" anticipating Israel’s destruction, was widely taken as a signal that Israel was expanding its targets to symbols of the regime, after an initial focus on military and nuclear targets. The next day, a US-brokered ceasefire stopped the fighting.
ATTACK KILLED AT LEAST 43 PRISON STAFF, TWO PRISONERS – REPORTS
Whether Evin Prison’s staff is hired because they enjoy what they are required to do, or if they merely learn to acceot the requirement to do it, they deserve to die more horribly than they did. Their deaths are no loss to humanity.
A Washington Post analysis published Saturday — separate from the journalists’ tours of the site — indicated that the strike involved some four-to-six separate munitions, and targeted four different areas of the complex.
The targets appear to have included an administrative building, a visitation area, a medical center, and a solitary confinement ward.
According to the analysis — based on online death notices, prison records, and interviews — at least 43 prison staffers were killed in the strike, including several high-ranking officials, as well as two conscripted soldiers; at least four civilians who did not work at the prison were killed, two of them children.
What were the non-working civilians doing there, and why did they bring childr
Among the dead were two prisoners, according to the Washington-based Human Rights Activists in Iran group.
Iran said at least 71 people total were killed in the attack, though that figure has not been independently verified. Iran also said that prisoners were killed in the strike, but has not said who or how many.
Among the buildings hit was Ward 209, a solitary confinement cell block where prisoners are often blindfolded. One inmate told a friend, who then told the Post, that he saw blindfolded prisoners walking around after the strike, with no guards present.
A man who said he was at the prison gate shortly after the strike told the newspaper that he saw prisoners trying to escape, and that guards shot at their feet.
ISRAEL DROPPED 4-6 MUNITIONS, ON DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SITE
An analyst who specializes in satellite images taken during wars told the Post that the attack on Evin seemed to have two targets: access points to the prison — possibly to enable a jailbreak, though no prisoners are believed to have escaped as a result of the attack — and prison staff in the complex’s central buildings.
Images indicate that a “lower yield munition was used [rather] than larger-scale airstrikes where the intent is to level the building,” said the analyst, William Goodhind, of the Contested Ground group.
He estimated at least six different bombs were used, echoing another analyst with the same specialty, who told the Post, “There must have been at least four separate munitions.”
The report estimated the attack destroyed or damaged 17 buildings within the sprawling prison complex. It noted that some 60 acres of surrounding vegetation was burned in fires caused by the strike, which may account for some of the damage.
The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment for the Post report, or to answer questions about its targets in the strike.
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin has previously stated that “within the prison compound, intelligence activity was carried out against Israel, including counter-espionage,” and that the strike was carried out “in a pinpoint manner, to avoid harm to those uninvolved.”
PRISONERS SAID TRANSFERRED TO OVERCROWDED FACILITIES
Recent reports have also shed light on where prisoners have been transferred after the strike, with some men moved to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary and other men moved to the Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. Women have reportedly been moved to Qarchak Prison.
Transferred prisoners have dealt with overcrowding, shortages of basic necessities like toilets and showers, and severe restrictions on communicating with family, according to relatives.
At the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, “They locked everyone up in a large hall that can hold a maximum of 30 or 40 people, but now they are keeping more than 120 people there,” a family member of a prisoner transferred there told the Post.
Prisoners’ relatives told Human Rights Activists in Iran that prisoners in Greater Tehran Prison and at Qarchak have been denied medical care. At Qarchak, women are held “in security conditions without sanitary support,” the group said.
There were similar reports about Evin Prison, which sounds like a theme.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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