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[Regnum] Fighters from the Yemeni Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched hypersonic missile and drone strikes on four targets in Israel. This was stated by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria on the Al Masirah TV channel on the evening of July 25.
“The missile forces carried out a unique military operation, during which they attacked a sensitive target of the Zionist enemy in the occupied region of Beersheba using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” he said.
“ ‘Once the rockets go up
who cares where they go down?
That’s not my department,’
says Wehrner von Braun”
— Tom Lehrer
Saria added that the movement's fighters also carried out drone strikes on "important targets" in Eilat, Ashkelon and Hadera. All of the strike's objectives were achieved, the Houthi spokesman added.
They say that every time. Almost every time they mistake their intent for Allah’s permission.
Before that, on July 10, Ansar Allah fighters launched a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. According to Saria, the operation's goal was achieved.
The day before, the Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Greek cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea. Earlier, on July 7, the Houthis announced strikes on Tel Aviv airport, a power plant in Ashkelon, and seaports in Ashdod and Eilat in Israel.
They did indeed make those claims, despite the fact that none of those things were actually hit. Early Sunday morning the Times of Israel reported:
A ballistic missile launched at Israel Friday night 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, the Israel Defense Forces said.
There were no reports of impacts or injuries in the attack, which triggered sirens in several settlements in the southern West Bank and communities near the Dead Sea in southern Israel.
The Houthis took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have aimed at a "sensitive target" in the Beersheba area, dozens of kilometers away from where sirens sounded.
It was the second ballistic missile the Houthis launched at Israel in the past three days, after a missile fired on Wednesday night fell short outside the country’s borders, according to military officials. The IDF identified that launch, but no sirens sounded in Israel because the missile did not pose a threat.
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[Regnum] The four immediate perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow bought four new smartphones and kitchen knives to commit their crime the day before. This follows from the materials of the criminal case.
They specify that on March 21, 2024, four terrorists, on the instructions of an unidentified person with the pseudonym “Saifullo,” destroyed their mobile phones in order to conceal their criminal activity as much as possible.
"Saifullo" instructed them to purchase new mobile phones, as well as knives, with the aim of using them as weapons to commit a terrorist act. On the same day, [Shamsidin] Fariduni (included in the list of terrorists and extremists), on the instructions of an unidentified person, "Saifullo" purchased four mobile phones and four household knives in the "O'Key" store, located in a shopping center at the address: Moscow Region, Krasnogorsk," TASS quoted an excerpt from the materials.
In addition, before committing the crime, the perpetrators of the terrorist attack downloaded training videos from the Internet, with the help of which they independently made unloading vests from fabric for storing ammunition, which they used during the terrorist attack.
Earlier, on July 26, it became known that the accomplices delivered weapons to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus in a car with a special hiding place. The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the property of Alisher Kasimov (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), accused of involvement in the terrorist attack in the concert hall in Krasnogorsk.
[IsraelTimes] Arkan Khaled, 27, suspected of intentionally driving vehicle into bus stop, injuring eight soldiers; eyewitnesses say he accelerated into the group and then fled the scene
Law enforcement on Saturday arrested a man suspected of carrying out a car-ramming attack in central Israel last week that maimed eight IDF soldiers, police said.
Police said the suspect, named earlier as Arkan Khaled, a 27-year-old Israeli resident of Taybeh, was caught while hiding at a construction site in the town of Kfar Yona.
The attack happened on Thursday at the Beit Lid Junction in central Israel, near Kfar Yona.
After the incident, the Magen David Adom emergency service said two of the victims, a man and a woman aged 20 and 18, respectively, suffered moderate injuries. Three others were in light-to-moderate condition, and three were lightly injured.
The perpetrator fled, abandoning his car in the area, where it was found by police.
Police announced on the day of the attack that Khaled was the suspect and asked the public for assistance in locating him.
Station and district officers conducted searches along roads and in open areas, assisted by other security forces, police helicopters, cycle of violence units and canine units, the force said.
Security forces closed crossings into the West Bank in the area, including the road leading to Tulkarem, as they searched for the suspect. Central District police commander Yair Hetzroni also gave an order to enlist local volunteer security teams in central Israel to assist in the manhunt.
[LI] The Washington Post: U.S.-Israeli joint strikes “turned back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program.”
Israel derailed Iran’s EMP weapons program during the recently concluded 12-day war, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Besides an elaborate nuclear weapons program, the Iranian regime had been developing nuclear-generated electromagnetic pulse (EMP) devices capable of striking the telecommunications, internet, and banking infrastructure of a country or a region. These EMP bombs can also disrupt power, water, and other public utilities.
“Israeli and American sources said the bombing campaign, in addition to destroying many of the Iranian centrifuges that enrich uranium, shattered most elements of Iran’s aggressive program to prepare to weaponize that uranium,” David Ignatius wrote in his article for the WP. “For example, Israeli sources believe the Iranians were studying an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon that could cripple Israel electronically, a more-complex nuclear fusion bomb, as well as a standard fission warhead.”
Washington Post's David Ignatius concedes -- President Trump's attack on Iran effectively destroyed their nuclear weapons program AND the Israel's targeted killing of top program brass and scientists will likely deter ANYONE from attempting to rebuild it any time soon. pic.twitter.com/9CfI45Nw4w
The 12-day operation “turned back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program,” the article added. “Israeli and American assessments agree Tehran’s infrastructure to finish a bomb is shattered.”
The WP columnist Ignatius further reported:
Israeli and American sources said the bombing campaign, in addition to destroying many of the Iranian centrifuges that enrich uranium, shattered most elements of Iran’s aggressive program to prepare to weaponize that uranium.
The most devastating, and least reported, aspect of Israel’s campaign may have been its targeting of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists. Sources said strikes in the first hours of the war killed all of Iran’s first and second tier of physicists and other nuclear scientists, as well as most of the third tier. (…)
The United States struck the final blow, with Air Force B-2 bombers carrying bunker-busting bombs and Navy ships launching Tomahawk missiles. That strike capped Israel’s devastation of Iran’s program and gave President Donald Trump a share of the success — and also provided an important demonstration of U.S. military might. (…)
Beyond targeting the nuclear facilities and the scientists who worked there, Israeli attacks destroyed logistical foundations of the program, including its headquarters, archives, laboratories and testing equipment, the Israeli source said. This devastation may increase Iran’s desire to possess a nuclear deterrent, but it will be hard to reconstruct all these pieces.
The revelation comes after the mainstream media repeatedly questioned President Donald Trump’s assessment of the success of the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear weapons sites that took place nearly five weeks ago. President Trump described the strikes as “a spectacular military success,” adding that “Iran’s key enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”
[Rudaw] An all-female Kurdish force in northeast Syria rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who had been held captive by the Islamic State (ISIS) for 11 years.
Riham H. “was rescued by the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and handed over to Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) and Shingal Women's Units (YJS) to be returned to her family,” the YPJ said in a statement on Thursday.
Riham was kidnapped by ISIS during its 2014 occupation of Shingal (Sinjar). She was 10 years old at the time of her abduction.
The statement did not detail where she had been held captive.
My feelings are indescribable because I am happy. I did not expect all of this - that I would return to my family - because they extinguished hope at the end. They told me, 'You Yazidis are within our grasp. If you return to your families, they will slay you.' They used to scare us a lot," Riham told Rudaw, surrounded by her family.
"Finally, I established communication with my brother Sa'ad. He contacted friends from the Women's Protection Units. They freed me and saved me from Daesh [ISIS]," she said, adding, "I thank the Women's Protection Units, the YPJ. They freed me after 12 years. I could not imagine that I would return to my family and people."
The YPJ is the women’s branch of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Kurdish female fighters have been recognized for their fight against ISIS, in particular their role in defending the besieged Kurdish town of Kobane in 2014-2015.
The force said their “struggle against the terrorist organization ISIS will continue with all its difficulties” until all the missing Yazidi women are rescued. Yazidi women and men who were children at the time of their abduction continue to be rescued from across Syria and the Middle East.During its 2014 assault on Shingal, ISIS abducted 6,417 Yazidi women and children, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Nearly 2,600 of them are still missing, according to the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency.
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