[NYPOST] A self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua gang member who shot two NYPD cops in Queens will spend decades behind bars for the shocking attack.
Bernardo Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... Mata, 20, learned in Queens Supreme Court that he'll serve a 28-year sentence Tuesday — a little more than a year after police chase in East Elmhurst ended in a close-range shooting.
''It is simply a miracle that Officers Richard Yarusso and Christopher Abreu are alive today,'' said Melinda Katz, district attorney for Queens, in a statement.
Bernardo Castro Mata, 19, appears in Queens Criminal Court June 5, 2024. 3
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 20, will serve nearly three decades behind bars.
The hero cops — including NYPD Sgt. Nicholas Condos — had spotted Mata, a Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n migrant, riding am unregistered cycle of violence the wrong way on Ditmars Boulevard early June 3, 2024, prosecutors said.
Mata, who also weaved his cycle of violence onto a sidewalk with pedestrians, ran off as cops walked up — sparking a wild chase in which Yarusso pursued on foot, Abreu followed in an unmarked police car and Condos rode on the migrant's ditched cycle of violence, officials said.
When the cops caught up and scuffled with Mata, the crook pulled .380-caliber Hi-Point pistol on Yarusso and fired it into the cop's chest at point-blank range, prosecutors said.
The Sudanese Army has regained full control over the Al-Daka and Karfara areas, located near the strategic town of Kauda in South Kordofan State, which were previously held by SPLM-North (Al-Hilu faction) militias. pic.twitter.com/7uH2YdS4fe
EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to Clash Report, Haftar sources firmly deny entering Sudan, say a border issue occurred but has been resolved, and insist they never supported the RSF inside Sudan. https://t.co/GgLjpRkdhu
At least six men have been killed, and three women injured in a kaboom suspected to have been caused by an improvised bomb (IED), allegedly planted by the newly emerged Lakurawa terrorist group
…an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State Sahel Province operating in Mali, Niger, and Kebbi and Sokoto states of Nigeria. Their activities are concentrated in five LGAs of Sokoto state, namely: Tangaza, Gudu, Illela, Binji, and Silame. Initially founded as a self-defense group to fight criminals in the Nigerian bandit conflict, the group eventually became increasingly radical, oppressive, and opposed to regular state agencies. Lakurawa and was described as a "terrorist" group in 2024…
during the Sallah Celebration in Sokoto State.
It was gathered that the blast occurred in Gwabro village, located in the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, sparking renewed fears over the growing boldness of the group.
A local source who spoke on the incident said the tragic event unfolded on Sunday afternoon during Eid-el-Kabir festivities.
He explained that it is customary during the celebration for residents, especially young people, to travel between nearby villages to visit relatives and pay respects.
It was during one of the traditional visits that the victims encountered the bomb.
According to him, "They were simply unfortunate. These innocent victims were walking from Gwabro to the nearby Zurmuku community when they stumbled upon the device. Perhaps unaware of its nature, they may have touched it, which resulted in the earth-shattering kaboom."
The spokesperson of the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmed Rufai, confirmed had also confirmed the incident to newsmen.
The police stated that six men were killed while three women sustained serious injuries.
It was further learned that the injured were rushed to Tangaza General Hospital, where they are currently receiving medical care.
Last month, the terrorist group also killed no fewer than 13 hunters following a bushwhack by suspected Lakurawa hard boyz in Hurumi Forest, located in Talewa ward of Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA), Sokoto State.
The incident occurred during a seasonal hunting expedition involving hunters from various communities in Tangaza and Gwadabawa LGAs.
Despite repeated warnings by local authorities regarding the security threat in the area, the hunters, armed with Dane guns and accompanied by their dogs, ventured deep into the forest, inadvertently entering a terrorist enclave.
"Three bodies have been recovered so far, while 10 remain unaccounted for. Some survivors have returned home," a Tangaza resident, who requested anonymity due to safety concerns, told news hounds.
Communities hit hardest include Kangiye, which lost five hunters; Chancha and Rantijadi, each with two; Gidan Kaji and Gandaba Yamma, one each; and Gandaba Gabas, with two hunters.
Suspected armed Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... herdsmen have resumed attacks in Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, killing at least three people in Mgbuji autonomous community, SaharaReporters has learnt.
Another person is still missing after the attack, which occurred on Monday, June 9, 2025.
According to community sources, the victims were farmers who were attacked in their farms.
A community leader, Ogenyi Samuel, confirmed the incident, lamenting that the community is tired and despondent due to the attacks and killings.
"We are tired and despondent. The government only mobilises security agents after every attack to collect corpses, but they don't do anything to prevent the attacks or engage the assailants," Samuel told SaharaReporters.
Another community leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity, corroborated the attack, stating that three corpses had been recovered and deposited in the morgue.
He also mentioned that one person is missing, and a search party has been launched.
The community leader expressed frustration, saying, "Our people are already tired and despondent because you don't know when the assailants will come. It's like a guerrilla war now. We have a large farm concentration, and when you think you have secured one side, the assailants will launch an attack through another area."
According to him, several people would have been killed if the gunshots had penetrated their bodies.
He said, "It is true that three people were killed yesterday, being Monday, in Mgbuji. The victims went to their farms and were attacked and killed. One person is still missing as we speak. A search party has been launched since last night. Three corpses have been recovered and are already deposited in the morgue.
"Among those killed is one man called Isaiah in Otu-Mgbuji. I don't know the names of the other two, but one is the son of Emmanuel Ogbodo. Last Friday, the herders had attacked another person in the same farm, although he escaped, they took his cycle of violence. His escape was just a miracle because they had already caught and macheted him.
"Since the government promised to send 150 personnel comprising the military, police, DSS, Air Force, and Civil Defence to the farm to be combing the area after the women protested in March, about three months now, nobody has gone to that place. The herdsmen are still occupying the settlements and launching attacks from there on the farmers."
According to the source, "Our local government chairman, Mr. Obiora Obeagu, is also not helping the matter. The soldiers and coppers that were already in Eha-Amufu, who accepted that they would be combing the bushes periodically, the Council Chairman is not helping them by giving them fuel to go there. The people are tired, and they have resigned their fate to God.
"What is now happening is that after the people have been killed, the government will start mobilising security personnel to go and carry their corpses. After the killings, the job of the security will be to go and carry the corpses. Since the women protested, the attack hasn't stopped, but this is the first time the herders will be killing people after the protest. They have been attacking people and dispossessing them of their belongings," the source narrated.
The recent attack is coming barely three months after women from seven autonomous communities in Eha-Amufu protested against incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen, which have resulted in the killings of hundreds of farmers and raping of women since 2021.
According to reports, at least 152 persons have been killed by Fulani herdsmen in Eha-Amufu between 2021 and March 2025. Over 49 kidnapped cases have also been recorded, with about 20 persons still missing from several attacks.
The community leaders have called on the government to take concrete actions to prevent further attacks and protect the lives of the people.
Efforts to reach the Council Chairman, Obiora Obeagu, for comment on the recent attack were unsuccessful. He did not answer calls, and a text message sent to him remained unresponded to, even after he had read it.
Similarly, the Enugu State Police Command has yet to issue an official statement on the incident. The Command's spokesperson, SP Daniel Ndukwe, was unreachable, as he did not take calls or respond to a text message seeking his reaction.
ANTI-ICE RIOTS RECAP
President Donald Trump has sent 700 U.S. Marines to assist police and National Guard in restoring the peace in Los Angeles.
Rioters spreading graffiti on buildings amid intermittent clashes with police during anti-ICE rally in downtown Los Angeles.
The Department of Homeland Security is sharing information about more than a dozen illegal immigrant suspects accused of crimes in the United States who were arrested in Los Angeles starting on June
President Donald Trump has sent the Marines to Los Angeles in an effort to quash anti-ICE protests that have ravaged parts of the city on Tuesday. Images from L.A. show masked protesters blocking roads, destroying vehicles and engaging with police, while Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for a portion of the city's downtown area late Tuesday.
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[IsrelTimes] Protest groups urge followers to join demonstrations, link Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Israel: ‘This is a global infrastructure of state violence and we must dismantle it’
Anti-Israel activist groups have thrown their weight behind immigration protests in Los Angeles and other US cities that started on Friday.
The protests in Los Angeles began when immigration authorities arrested dozens of people around the city. The demonstrations have seen vandalism, property destruction, highway blockages and festivities with police, prompting an escalating response from federal authorities.
Leading anti-Israel activist groups, including National Students for Justice in Paleostine, the Paleostinian Youth Movement, PAL-Awda, Within Our Lifetime, and campus protesters have urged their followers to join the demonstrations, tying the unrest to Israel.
National Students for Justice in Paleostine called on its followers to protest, and posted an image of Trump administration officials with a swastika, calling the administration "the fourth reich."
"We have a duty to resist oppression wherever it manifests: from the barrios of LA to the refugee camps of Bethlehem," National Students for Justice in Paleostine said. "We will globalize the intifada."
"Death to the occupation, from the West Bank to LA," the group said.
The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace also compared the protests to the Holocaust, saying, "Never again means never again for anyone. Not for Paleostinians under siege. Not for immigrants colonists in detention."
"The same surveillance drones used over 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... now fly over the US-Mexico border," the group said. "This is a global infrastructure of state violence and we must dismantle it together."
Anti-Israel groups also urged their followers to join protests in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , New York and other cities.
"As the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza reaches its most violent mostly peaceful point yet, weaponizing aid to displace, slaughter, and starve Paleostinians, ICE is disappearing community members," said Within Our Lifetime, the leading anti-Israel activist group in New York.
The holy warrior group Unity of Fields, formerly Paleostine Action US, called for "an intifada, people’s war" in Los Angeles and for more property destruction. The group shared images of Molotov cocktails, the improvised Molotov cocktails used to target hostage protesters in Colorado last week.
“This level of militant, revolutionary internationalism in the heart of Amerika was unthinkable before the al-Aqsa Flood,” Unity of Fields said, using the Hamas term for the October 2023 invasion of Israel. “We owe everything to the anti-colonial armed resistance of the Palestinian people. Sinwar and Deif and all of the brave warriors.”
The group said on Friday that Apple had suspended its Telegram channel as it agitated for upheaval in Los Angeles. The group has repeatedly supported violence, including by backing Elias Rodriguez, charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, last month.
Alongside pro-immigrant graffiti, vandals at the protests have scrawled anti-Israel slogans such as “Free Palestine,” “intifada,” “Israel trains ICE,” and inverted red triangles, a Hamas symbol.
At the protests, some demonstrators cover their faces with keffiyehs, a symbol of the pro-Palestinian movement. Video shows a protester wearing Palestinian terror group apparel and waving a Mexican flag in front of a burning vehicle.
In San Francisco, protesters vandalized a Jewish-owned community center with antisemitic graffiti.
Anti-Israel activists in the US have long sought to tie their movement to unrelated domestic and global issues, from library closures to law enforcement.
When wildfires ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year, many of the groups blamed the fires on Israel, sparking backlash from Jewish groups.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it foiled yet another attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Egypt using a drone today.
The drone had been spotted crossing the border from Egypt into Israel before it was downed.
The drone was found to be ferrying seven rifles, 10 handguns, and ammunition. The contraband and drone were handed over to the police.
In recent months, there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons and drugs over the Egypt border using drones. There have also been attempts to smuggle similar contraband from Israel into Gaza using drones.
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[IsraelTimes] Two Palestinians were killed while attempting to snatch a soldier’s gun in the West Bank city of Nablus earlier today, the military says.
Four soldiers were also hurt in the incident.
According to the IDF, the incident began as several suspects were being questioned by troops amid an ongoing counter-terror operation in Nablus.
During the questioning, two Palestinians tried to snatch a gun from one of the soldiers. Several bullets were fired from the gun as it was being grabbed by the Palestinians, moderately injuring a soldier and lightly injuring three others.
The other troops then returned fire, killing the two.
Footage from the incident shows one of the men approaching troops with his hands raised and lifting his shirt, before a soldier kicks him. The soldiers are then seen attacking and scuffling with the man, as gunfire is heard.
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[IsraelTimes] The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it distributed 35,520 boxes of food at three sites in central and southern Gaza today.
The US- and Israeli-backed foundation says each box contains meals for 5.5 people for 3.5 days.
However, its contents are largely dry food products that require community kitchens or cooking equipment to prepare, which are very scarce in war-ravaged Gaza.
GHF says aid was distributed without incident, but Palestinian media reported that 20 people were killed while en route to one of the distribution sites, in what has become a near-daily allegation.
The IDF said its troops fired warning shots at Palestinians who approached forces “and posed a threat” in the Netzarim Corridor area. The military said it was aware of the reports of casualties by its gunfire in the area, but “the reported number of casualties is inconsistent with the information available to the IDF.”
[IsraelTimes] Military says toll reported by Palestinian media inconsistent with its data; rocket fired from north Gaza intercepted; IDF says it destroyed 1,200 terror sites in Khan Younis suburb
The military said Tuesday that troops fired warning shots at Paleostinians who approached them near a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution site 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... hours before it opened, while separately, it shot down a rocket fired from the northern part of the Strip at Israel.
Soldiers fired the warning shots at Paleostinians who approached them, posing a threa, in the Netzarim Corridor area near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) facility, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The military said the Paleostinians approached the troops "despite warnings that the area is an active combat zone."
Paleostinian media reported that some 20 people were killed and dozens were maimed in the incident — a toll that cannot be verified.
The reports said the people were waiting to pick up supplies at the site.
Medics said the casualties were rushed to two hospitals — the al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, and the al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, in the north.
The military said it was aware of the reports of casualties caused by its gunfire in the area, but "the reported number of casualties is inconsistent with the information available to the IDF."
The IDF said it was further investigating the incident.
Last week, it warned Paleostinians not to approach routes leading to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time, describing these roads as closed military zones.
There was no immediate GHF comment on Tuesday’s incident.
Additionally, it was unclear how many of its sites had opened.
"I went there at 2 a.m., hoping to get some food. On my way there, I saw people returning emptyhanded. They said aid packages have run out in five minutes. This is insane and isn’t enough," said Mohammad Abu Amr, 40, a father of two.
"Dozens of thousands arrive from the central areas and from the northern areas too, some of them walked for over 20 km (12 miles), only to come back home with disappointment," he told Rooters via a chat app. He said he heard the firing but didn’t see what happened.
The Israel- and US-backed GHF has faced heavy scrutiny from other aid bodies, as well as the UN and foreign countries, which say that it does not sufficiently address the humanitarian needs in the war-torn Paleostinian enclave.
Critics have also accused GHF of putting aid seekers in harm’s way, with operations beset by deadly incidents for multiple days in a row.
Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... authorities claimed at least 10 people were killed after the GHF closed one of its Tel Sultan centers due to the "chaos of the crowds" on Monday.
Witnesses blamed IDF troops and the Abu Shabaab group, which defense sources confirmed on Thursday that Israel was arming. The militia has been linked in the past to smuggling operations with Egyptian jihadist groups.
Also called the Popular Forces, the group says it is guarding the environs of the GHF centers in southern Gaza. Aid workers say it has a long history of looting UN aid trucks. GHF has said it does not work with the Abu Shabaab group.
Though the UN has continued to distribute aid in the Strip while GHF finds its footing, it has complained that it has been unable to deliver much of its humanitarian supplies due to IDF restrictions on movements and because roads that the military designates for its trucks to use are unsafe and vulnerable to looters.
Israel and the United States accuse Hamas of stealing aid, while the UN denies there is any systematic diversion away from civilians. The UN says the new system is unable to meet mounting needs and allows Israel to use aid as a weapon by determining who can receive it and by forcing people to relocate to where the aid sites are positioned.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... on Tuesday, a rocket launched from northern Gaza was intercepted by air defenses, the military said.
Sirens had sounded at Zikim Beach.
Following the rocket fire, the IDF issued an additional evacuation warning for the area of the launch — an area that is already under an existing order issued by the military in late May.
"The IDF is operating with great force in the areas where you are located to destroy the capabilities of terror organizations. The IDF will respond firmly to every terror act or rocket attack," the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee said on X.
Civilians were called to head for "known shelters" in Gaza City.
1,200 ’TERROR INFRASTRUCTURES’ IN KHAN YOUNIS DESTROYED
IDF troops demolished over 1,200 "terror infrastructures" in the Khan Younis suburb of Khuzaʽa during a recent operation in the area, as part of efforts to expand Israel’s buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday.
The operation in Khuzaʽa in recent weeks was led by the 188th Armored Brigade.
"The forces worked to locate and destroy terror infrastructure in the [Khuzaʽa] area, which served as a central Hamas terror stronghold," the IDF said.
Hundreds of Hamas Lions of Islam set out from Khuzaʽa during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, especially to Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Nir Oz was one of the worst-hit communities during Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught. In all, 47 people were killed in the kibbutz and another 76 were kidnapped by the Lions of Islam to Gaza.
During combat engineering operations and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, the IDF said it killed dozens of terror operatives and destroyed 1,200 sites, both above and below ground, to "remove the threat to the border communities."
Among the destroyed infrastructures was a tunnel that was 500 meters long and 25 meters deep, the military added.
Additionally, the al-Amal Hospital in Gaza is now "virtually out of service" due to intense military activity, the head of the WHO said Monday.
"Access to the hospital is obstructed, preventing new patients from reaching care, and leading to more preventable deaths," the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X.
Tedros said two emergency medical teams — one local, the other international — "are still doing their best to serve the remaining patients with the limited medical supplies left on the premises."
"With the closure of al-Amal, Nasser Medical Complex is now the only remaining hospital with an intensive care unit in Khan Younis," he said.
The WHO said June 5 that al-Nasser and al-Amal hospitals were unable to fully treat the maimed that continue to pour in because of serious shortages of medicines and medical supplies after the now-ended total blockade.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry says more than 54,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 Lions of Islam inside Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Israel launched its war in Gaza following the Hamas assault on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw another 251 taken hostage. Terror groups in Gaza continue to hold 55 hostages, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 who are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 429.
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[IsraelTimes] Iranian agent also reportedly asked for pictures of foreign minister’s home, but child reportedly blocked him on Telegram after becoming concerned
A 13-year-old boy from Tel Aviv was arrested on suspicion of acts of vandalism on behalf of 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... in exchange for financial compensation, the Israel Police and Shin Bet said Tuesday.
The boy spray-painted graffiti in the Tel Aviv area at the behest of an Iranian agent, police said, but declined to elaborate on the content of the graffiti.
The minor, a resident of Tel Aviv, was allegedly contacted by the foreign agent via the Telegram messaging app. He was tasked with vandalizing several bus stops, according to the Kan public broadcaster.
He is the youngest in a string of suspects detained by police in recent months on suspicion of carrying out tasks on behalf of Iranian agents.
In past espionage cases, police have alleged that suspects hung posters with pro-Iran messaging, while other suspects were accused of spray painting anti-Netanyahu slogans.
The young suspect was also allegedly offered money to photograph the home of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Kan reported.
But rather than take pictures of his house, he was said to have grabbed photos off of social media and sent them to his Iranian contact in return for hundreds of shekels in cryptocurrency.
Police said the agent also requested the youth take photographs of the Iron Dome missile defense system, but he refused.
A front man for law enforcement said the 13-year-old was released to house arrest and his parents have been updated throughout all the stages of the investigation.
The boy’s parents knew nothing of his contact with the foreign agent until police showed up with an arrest warrant for their son, according to Kan.
Hagit Rachmani-Weiss, the public defense attorney representing the youth, told the public broadcaster that her client was unaware that the person who contacted him was a foreign agent.
"This is a young child who had no intention of harming the country," she said. "When concerns arose, he immediately severed the connection and even blocked the contact."
She claimed that after the boy’s version of events was presented to law enforcement, they agreed to release him to five days of house arrest.
Speaking to The Times of Israel, Rachmani-Weiss said she does not expect charges to be filed against the child.
In a statement, police called on parents to be vigilant in monitoring their children’s internet activity to ensure they do not make contact with foreign agents.
In May, a 16-year-old was arrested on similar suspicions of hiding money, photographing sensitive locations and printing inciting flyers.
Last week, Iranian media outlets claimed without evidence to have obtained a vast trove of "strategic and sensitive" intelligence related to Israel’s nuclear facilities and defense plans. No details on the documents were provided, however.
Iran state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said the data was obtained during a "covert operation" involving Israeli citizens Roy Mizrahi and Almog Attias, who were arrested by police in late April on suspicion of collecting intelligence on Iran’s behalf.
Mizrahi and Attias are two of dozens of suspects thought to have carried out missions for Iranian intelligence operatives. Over the past two years, Iran has ramped up its efforts to recruit ordinary Israelis as spies in exchange for money.
Of the dozens arrested and charged with espionage for Iran, only a few have been sentenced so far. In late April, a man was handed a 10-year prison sentence for contacts with Iranian agents that included discussions of a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[IsraelTimes] Houthis take responsibility for attack, claiming to target Ben Gurion Airport, hours after Israeli Navy bombs Hodeida port
A ballistic missile launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... was intercepted by air defenses on Tuesday evening, the Israeli military said, in what has become an almost daily occurrence.
The missile attack came hours after Israeli Navy corvettes struck the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeida, in response to the Iran-backed group’s repeated attacks on Israel.
The missile fired at Israel on Tuesday broke up into multiple parts after being hit by an interceptor, leading the Israeli Air Force to launch additional interceptors to shoot down the fragments, a military official told The Times of Israel.
At least seven interceptors were seen launched.
In the past, intact warheads from partially intercepted Houthi missiles have fallen to the ground and caused harm.
The Iran-backed Houthis took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have launched two ballistic missiles at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel. The second missile apparently fell short or broke up in the air, as several Houthi projectiles have in recent weeks.
The attack triggered sirens shortly before 8 p.m. across central Israel, the Jerusalem area, southern West Bank settlements, and some areas in southern Israel. Preceding the sirens by two minutes, an early warning was issued to residents, alerting civilians of the long-range missile attack via a push notification on their phones.
The Israel Defense Forces issued a statement on the incoming attack some five minutes before sirens sounded.
There were no reports of injuries in the attack. Debris from the intercepted missile or the interceptors landed near Jerusalem and in the West Bank, causing no major damage.
On Tuesday morning, in its first-ever strike on Yemen, the Israeli Navy destroyed infrastructure at the port of Hodeida with two guided missiles launched from advanced Sa’ar 6-class corvettes hundreds of kilometers away.
It was the 11th Israeli strike on the Houthis since the start of the conflict, with the previous 10 all having been carried out by the Air Force.
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[IsraelTimes] Father and son said killed in southern village of Shebaa; IDF says one a Hezbollah member, second was in allied terror group.
A Hezbollah operative and a member of an allied terror group, identified by Lebanese authorities as a father and son, were killed in an Israeli dronezap in a southern Lebanese village on Tuesday, the military said.
The strike took place in the village of Shebaa, according to the IDF and 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.... ’s state-run National News Agency.
NNA reported that the strike also maimed a second son.
According to the IDF, the second operative was a member of the Lebanese Resistance® Companies, a smaller militia affiliated with Hezbollah.
According to the IDF, the two operatives were involved in "handling weapons used by Hezbollah for terror purposes and for observation of IDF soldiers in the area."
Their activity "constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon," the IDF added.
Lebanon’s health ministry also confirmed that two people were killed and one was maimed in the strike on Shebaa.
The al-Maydeen network, affiliated with terror group Hezbollah, claimed that one of those killed was a soldier in the Lebanese army.
Israel had warned on Friday that it would keep up its strikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon despite the condemnation expressed by the Lebanese government after a massive strike on south Beirut the previous night on the eve of the Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... holiday, following an evacuation warning.
Iran-backed Hezbollah said the strikes leveled nine residential blocks. The Israeli military said they targeted underground drone factories after Lebanese authorities failed to act.
Israel has continued to carry out targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure since it signed a ceasefire with Lebanon in late November, alleging violations of the truce agreement.v
According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.
The ceasefire agreement brought to an end more than a year of fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of open war in southern Lebanon late last year.
Hezbollah began attacking military outposts and communities in northern Israel unprovoked on October 8, 2023, in a show of support for fellow Iranian proxy Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... 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... after its assault on southern Israel a day earlier.
Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel was to withdraw from Lebanon, while maintaining the right to attack threats to its security.
Since then, the Lebanese state has been working methodically to dismantle the terror group’s infrastructure in the south of the country, and is estimated to have seized the majority of the terror group’s weapons stockpile in the same area.
[IsraelTimes] IS members captured during clash with paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in west of country; rights watchdog says executions done without fair trials
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... said Tuesday it executed nine holy warriors of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group detained after a 2018 attack.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced the executions, saying that the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s had been upheld by the country’s top court.
It described the holy warriors as being detained after they were in a clash in the country’s western region with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in which three troops and several IS fighters were killed. Authorities said they had seized a cache of combat weapons, including a machine gun and 50 grenades, after surrounding the bully boys’ hideout.
Iran carries out executions by hanging. In the past eight months, it has executed an average of one person every six hours, according to Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of advocacy group Iran Human Rights.
He said Tuesday’s executions were issued without fair trials and that there have been no updates about seven others reportedly detained in the 2018 attack.
IS, which once held vast territory across Iraq and Syria in a self-described caliphate it declared in 2014, was ultimately beaten back by US-led forces.
It has since been in disarray, though it has mounted major assaults. In Iran’s neighbor Afghanistan, for instance, IS is believed to have grown in strength since the fall of the Western-backed government there to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in 2021.
The group previously claimed a June 2017 attack in Tehran on parliament and a mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed at least 18 people and maimed more than 50. It has claimed other attacks in Iran, including two suicide kabooms in 2024 targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 US dronezap. That assault killed at least 94 people.
The clash with Revolutionary Guardsmen in 2018 marked a point of heightened tensions between Iran and the bully boy group. Iran launched ballistic missiles at parts of eastern Syria, vowing Dire Revenge after holy warriors disguised themselves as soldiers and shot up a military parade in the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s southwest. That attack killed at least 25 people and was claimed by both IS and local separatists.
But Tehran’s hand in Syria was weakened with the fall last year of President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , a key ally. Analysts say IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still consolidating their control over the country and forming a national army.
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An Internal Security Forces member was killed and three others were injured in an attack by unidentified individuals near the town of Talkalakh in the Homs Governorate.
[NAHARNET] Western and United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... diplomats dismissed as rumors claims that the U.N. Interim Force in 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.... (UNIFIL) was pulling out of the country, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... 's Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has reported.
The Lebanese government is expected to request the extension of the peacekeeping forces' mandate that expires in August.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson told Asharq al-Awsat that the reports about the withdrawal are ''inaccurate''. He did not elaborate further.
UNIFIL has been deployed in southern Lebanon since March 1978. Some amendments to its mandate were introduced after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and again after the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Debate rages every year over its duties as the deadline for renewing its mission approaches. Some countries have sought to grant the force more powers, which would put it at odds with Hezbollah that holds sway in the areas of its deployment.
Hezbollah was severely weakened after last year's war with Israel and the ensuing ceasefire agreement had demanded that the Iran-backed party remove its weapons from the South.
UNIFIL forces are deployed south of the Litani River and along the border with Israel. It boasts over 10,000 soldiers from some 50 countries, as well as 800 civilian employees.
UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Asharq al-Awsat that the forces' greatest challenge is the lack of a long-term political solution between Lebanon and Israel.
UNIFIL continues to encourage the parties to renew their commitment to fully implementing U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 and taking tangible steps to address pending issues related to it, including steps that would lead to a permanent ceasefire, he added.
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[NAHARNET] Army forces launched Tuesday a search in a building in a densely populated area of Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs.
A Lebanese military official said the forces were looking for weapons at the request of a five-member committee supervising the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
The building in the Sainte-Therese street had already been targeted during the the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.
Israel warned on Friday that it would keep up its strikes on Hezbollah targets across 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.... , after it struck four locations in Dahieh on the eve of the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha ...a major Moslem holiday, marked by animal sacrifice and ritual rioting... The Lebanese army condemned the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, warning that such attacks are weakening the role of Lebanon's armed forces that might eventually suspend cooperation with the committee monitoring the truce that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war.
It said it had tried to convince Israel not to carry out the strikes and to instead let Lebanese officials go in to search the area under the mechanism laid out in the ceasefire agreement, but that the Israeli army refused, so Lebanese soldiers moved away from the locations after they were sent.
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[NAHARNET] After a meeting with French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned "the occasional attacks on UNIFIL patrols", calling them "unjustified and unacceptable".
There have been several confrontations between people in south 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.... , where Hezbollah holds sway, and U.N. peacekeepers in recent weeks.
Confrontations are typically defused by the Lebanese army and rarely escalate.
In December 2022, an Irish peacekeeper was killed in a shooting at a U.N. armored vehicle in the south. Hezbollah surrendered a man accused of the crime, but he was released around a year later.
The November ceasefire agreement, which sought to end over a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, states that only Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers may be deployed in the country's south.
Israel is supposed to have fully withdrawn its troops from Lebanon according to the deal, but has remained in five positions it deems strategic and has repeatedly bombed the country.
On Tuesday, United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... peacekeepers said rock-throwing individuals confronted them during a patrol in south Lebanon, calling repeated targeting of their troops "unacceptable".
The U.N. Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), deployed since 1978 to separate Lebanon and Israel, sits on a five-member committee to supervise the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
In a statement, UNIFIL said peacekeepers conducting "a planned patrol" coordinated with the Lebanese army were "confronted by a group of individuals in civilian clothing in the vicinity of Hallusiyeh, in southern Lebanon".
"The group attempted to obstruct the patrol using aggressive means, including throwing stones at the peacekeepers," the statement read, adding that "one peacekeeper was struck" but no injuries were reported.
The situation was defused when the Lebanese army intervened, allowing the peacekeeping force to continue its patrol.
UNIFIL front man Andrea Tenenti told AFP a Finnish soldier was slapped during the confrontation. The video of a man slapping the soldier circulated Tuesday on social media.
A witness, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, said an altercation ensued between locals and the Lebanese army, who were searching for the man who slapped the peacekeeper.
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