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Looks like Frances McDormand’s grandma considering throwing an annoying person down a well as she plays haunting space banjo LOFI compositions. I suspect that the annoying person might be me but I hope it is Frank.
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^^^You seem strangely attracted to this young lady...^^^
Rantburg.com was hammered by a multitude of servers, which slowed the server down to a crawl, last Monday and Tuesday.
I call it a distributed denial of service attack, in that there were a number of servers listed in the scan hitting the ethernet port hard with data totaling at one point - cumulatively - 50 gigabytes in about 20 minutes. May not seem like much, but when its in 4,000 byte packets hitting the port at one per second, it's a problem.
As may or may not have indicated before, the great bulk of the servers hammering rantburg.com were in Latin America, which led me to believe it was the inevitable reaction of bad actors to Trump's "Gunboat Diplomacy."
Dunno.
Deliberately analyzing the IPs hitting the server, about two thirds of them were not coming from a live host, i.e. they were spoofed IPs.
The attacks were finally mitigated when one of the command servers directing the attacks was blocked, along with about 1,500 other servers. All blocked netblocks contained Unix/Linux web servers: A shot in the dark, as it were.
A little bit older and a little wiser, we have a much better idea of what to look for going forward and how to defend against such attacks.
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump is honoring Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Verardo, one of the most catastrophically wounded heroes of the Afghanistan war and a Purple Heart recipient who died at age 40 Tuesday due to complications from injuries sustained on the battlefield.
Trump praised Verardo in a Truth Social post as "a true American Hero" whose courage and sacrifice "will forever inspire us."
Verardo’s story was not only one of sacrifice for his nation but also of lasting impact. His courage in the face of devastating injuries and the determination of his wife, Sarah, led to the creation of the Independence Fund's Trackchair initiative for wounded veterans.
With the support of Fox News viewers, more than 2,000 all-terrain Trackchairs were delivered to double, triple and quadruple amputees, the Independence Fund has said. The initiative gave freedom back to wounded veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and even Vietnam, allowing them to hunt, fish and go off-road with their families.
More from Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations on x.com:
Our forces have sealed off the Calmiskaad–Bosaso roads to block fleeing #ISIS remnants from entering major towns. Operations on Gabagabo & Gaaca routes in Baallade Valley continue, with strict restrictions on unauthorized vehicles in the operation zone. #Puntland#Somaliapic.twitter.com/qdVqXcasyp
— Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations (@PL_CTOperations) August 26, 2025
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#Mali 🇲🇱: "Moujahid Alla Ag El Bachir Battalion" announced that the group joined the "#Azawad Liberation Front" (#FLA).
Video of the group shows militants armed with common PKM / Type 80 machine guns, RPG-7 Launchers with PG-7V Anti-Tank rockets and AKM(S) pattern rifles. pic.twitter.com/srLwZ0ibUz
[IsraelTimes] Pictures bearing caption ‘Your silence is cooperation with Israel’s genocide’ appear in Santiago synagogue, which has seen repeated graffiti since Oct. 7
The oldest synagogue in the Chilean capital was vandalized on Saturday with anti-Israel graffiti, including red paint and posters that showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a bullet hole drawn on his forehead.
The posters littered around the Bicur Joilim synagogue in Santiago read "Your silence is cooperation with Israel’s genocide," in the latest synagogue vandalism to reflect the war 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... The Masorti
…traditional but not ultra-Orthodox seems the best way to define it…
synagogue, built in 1930, is located in downtown Santiago and has experienced anti-Israel graffiti at least three other times since the start of the Israel-Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war on October 7, 2023, according to the Jewish Community of Chile.
The latest attack took place during Shabbat and triggered recriminations from Jewish voices across the region.
"Chile is a country that values freedom of worship, and that means we must respect, care for, and protect one another, regardless of our beliefs," the Jewish Community of Chile wrote on social media. "Vandalism of a sacred site is not an attack on a community, but on the coexistence and peace of the entire country."
The incident comes amid heightened tensions over Chile’s stance on the war in Gaza. President Gabriel Boric has adopted one of the most critical positions toward Israel in Latin America. His left-wing government recalled Chile’s military attachés from Israel, backed legal proceedings against Israeli officials in international courts and imposed an arms embargo.
Chile is home to the third-largest Jewish community in South America, after Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and Brazil. The roughly 16,000 Jews living in Chile account for about 0.11% of the country’s population. (Last year, they were joined on Yom Kippur by a famous guest, musician Paul McCartney, who attended services with his Jewish wife at the capital’s largest synagogue, located about 12 miles from Bicur Joilim.)
Chile is also home to the largest Paleostinian population outside the Middle East, with estimates of up to 500,000 people; it recognized a Paleostinian state in 2011. One of the country’s main soccer teams is the Paleostinian Sports Club, which wears the colors of the Paleostinian flag.
Gabriel Silber, the Jewish community’s director of public affairs, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the government had turned a blind eye toward antisemitic incidents during the war.
"Unfortunately, we see a certain invisibility and denial of this reality by the authorities in our country, which leads to inaction and is a breeding ground for impunity for these serious actions against our community," Silber said. "Here, the motive for the attacks is not Israel, but Chileans who suffer hatred and constant stigmatization simply for being Jewish. We see no real concern from the Chilean state regarding this issue."
🚨Alert: US Forces are deploying around Venezuela in preparation for a massive invasion that will take Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and arrest or kill Dictator Maduro! pic.twitter.com/4CXBRgHcjt
— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) August 28, 2025
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This is one reason we still need battleships. Aircraft are good, and missiles are good, but nothing says "May I have your attention" like 16-inch shells falling on your ports, bridges, and other infrastructure from many miles away.
Can you imagine a half-dozen "Iowa" class battleships cruising along the coast of Gaza, saying "release the prisoners, or else"? Pulling up in the Straits of Hormuz with the message "Behave, or die"?
It's either that or ARCLIGHT strikes, and those are so impersonal. However, bad guys need to learn to be afraid of the US might again, and for that we have to HAVE might.
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1. No, they're not.
2. No, it won't.
3. "US Homeland Security News" needs to 86 that logo before Marvel sees it.
4. Wouldn't it be nice to curbstomp someplace like Venezuela and then when the world asks' "How are you going to fix it?", the President says, "We ain't. They were dumb enough to push it to this point, let them dig themselves out or find some other suckers to pay for it. We're done helping to rebuild nations that hate our guts."
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[Regnum] Two men managed to temporarily neutralize one of the terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall, said a participant in the trial, which is taking place at an off-site session of the Second Western District Military Court in the Moscow City Court building.
One of the men who temporarily "disabled" the terrorist was questioned at the court hearing.
"During the attack on concert-goers in the lobby of the Crocus hall on the first floor, one of the terrorists either jammed his weapon or ran out of ammunition, but at some point he hesitated. Taking advantage of this delay, one of the men running nearby did not lose his head and grabbed the attacker by the machine gun, and the second knocked the shooter out with one blow," TASS quotes a participant in the trial as saying.
The terrorist was unconscious for some time, which allowed a group of people to leave Crocus City Hall.
The terrorist attack in Crocus took place on the evening of March 22, 2024. The attackers broke into the building, opened fire on people, and then started a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 149 people were killed, one is missing, and 609 citizens were injured. Four terrorists were detained the next day in the Bryansk region, 100 km from the Ukrainian border. During the investigation, they admitted that the terrorist attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers were put on the wanted list.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team at the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, forcing them to slow down in a race determined by differences of seconds.
A number of people with banners and Paleostinian flags tried to disrupt the Israeli team, owned by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams,
…son of a Holocaust survivor who settled in Canada after fighting for the independence of Israel and got into real estate, Sylvan ran the family company for a quarter century before handing it off to his own son in turn and emigrating to Israel in 2015. His philanthropies in Israel and Canada are varied and admirable, including the bicycle team, unlike the incestuous efforts of our very rich, mostly-tech Progressives…
at the start of the fifth stage time-trial in Figueras, Catalonia.
The race is one of cycling’s three major Grand Tours, along with the Tour de La Belle France and Giro d’Italia.
The Israel-Premier Tech team was also targeted during the Tour de La Belle France.
On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription "Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel" in Catalan, flanked by Paleostinian flags, before being removed by race officials.
Although riders were forced to slow down, no accidents were reported. The team had been assigned police protection prior to the race, according to the Hebrew outlet Ynet.
In a statement, the team said it respected the right to peaceful protest but said the disruption endangered its riders. A statement from Adams, reported by Ynet, called the action an act of "terror."
"Israel-Premier Tech respects everyone’s right to freedom of speech, which includes the right to protest peacefully, but we absolutely condemn the dangerous acts of the protesters on stage 5 of the Vuelta a España, which not only compromised the safety of our riders, race personnel, but the protesters themselves," the team said in its statement. "The team continues to work with race organizers and relevant authorities to ensure our safety at the Vuelta a España and all races, and ensure any protests do not impact our safety, nor our right to race."
Adams has worked to promote cycling in Israel, including by creating the first indoor velodrome in the Middle East in Tel Aviv, and by bringing the opening of the Giro d’Italia to Israel in 2018.
[IsraelTimes] Anta Gathering, a five-day music festival organized by Israelis scheduled to kick off tomorrow in central Portugal, says it is facing being shut down following a campaign by BDS Portugal.
Organizers had expected to receive final approval for the event today, but were instead told by the São Pedro do Sul municipality that there were additional regulations that needed to be fulfilled, including designating a fire-safe zone surrounding the festival site, a festival spokesperson says.
The event is advertised as a “psychedelic journey” on a wooded mountaintop some 30 minutes outside the city. Two brothers, Shahar and Dean Bickel, are producing Anta Gathering, and hosting it on land owned by Yotam Ittah, their cousin who built a retreat center in Portugal, the festival spokesperson says.
The producers spoke to the mayor and local politicians to understand the delay, and were told that there had been threats made against the local municipality, according to the festival spokesperson.
The spokesperson adds that organizers are trying to delay the start of the festival in order to receive the necessary permits from local authorities.
According to local media, pro-Palestinian opponents of the festival had pressed local officials to deny granting the festival necessary permits. BDS Portugal posts on social media that it has also threatened several of the participating artists, causing some to cancel their appearances.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects, reportedly of Tunisian nationality, to be tried in fast-track process for desecrating monument, according to public prosecutor’s office
French authorities have arrested twin brothers over the cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday.
An olive tree, planted in 2011 in Halimi’s memory, was felled earlier this month in the northern Gay Paree suburb of Epinay-sur-Seine, in an act that stirred outrage in the country.
The suspects are to be tried immediately in a fast-track process for the racially or religiously aggravated desecration of a monument, the public prosecutor’s office in the Gay Paree suburb of Bobigny said, confirming a report in French magazine Gay Paree Match.
It was not immediately clear when they had been arrested or precisely when the trial would take place. Their identities were also not made public.
Gay Paree Match reported that both men were of Tunisian nationality and did not have a permanent address. It said they had been identified through DNA.
Politicians across the political spectrum condemned the act as an attack against the memory of Halimi, who was kidnapped by a gang of around 20 youths in January 2006 and tortured in a low-income housing estate in the Gay Paree suburb of Bagneux. Found three weeks later, the 23-year-old died on the way to the hospital.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the felling of the tree, vowing punishment for what he called an act of antisemitic "hatred."
The incident stoked fresh concerns about an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crimes in La Belle France as international tensions mount 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... . La Belle France’s Jewish community — one of the largest in the world — says the number of antisemitic acts has surged following the attack by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... on Israel on October 7, 2023, which was followed by Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and aid blockade.
Reported antisemitic acts in La Belle France surged from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, before dipping to 1,570 last year, according to the interior ministry.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stinging letter to Macron last week, saying his move to recognize a Paleostinian state "emboldens those who menace French Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets."
Officials pledged to plant a new tree at the memorial to Halimi "as soon as possible." The tree was also felled in 2019 in an antisemitic incident, and a plaque in his memory was vandalized in both 2017 and 2015.
🚨 BREAKING: A federal grand jury has just indicted two California medical workers on FELONY charges after they were caught on video ASSAULTlNG ICE agents
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Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Nadine Davila now face up to EIGHT YEARS in federal prison
[NYPOST] A 21-year-old undocumented Democrat brandished a beaming smile as he posed for an arrest photo in Polk County, Florida, on Tuesday after allegedly battering a federal officer.
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer suffered an injured shoulder after the suspect, Denis Corea Miranda, fought back when two agents tried to take him into custody in Lakeland, officials said.
''This is the first time we've had an agent injured in the line of duty, and he was significantly injured,'' said Sheriff Grady Judd at a presser Tuesday.
''Now the state of Florida and the taxpayers of Polk are going to have to pay for it,'' he said.
''The state's got to provide him with an attorney to represent him, and then the state's got to prosecute him.''
After the altercation, Corea Miranda escaped into a wooded area on foot before officials launched a full-scale perimeter operation.
They were supported by helicopters and drones and managed to track him to a loading dock.
Judd explained that Corea Miranda didn't use a weapon but claimed he fought back ''because he wasn't going to be deported'' and was determined to escape.
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Instead of the US taxpayers footing the bill.
How about a Hard Labor Camp GITMO, where these POS's have to earn their own keep?
Or
Start charging their home county the cost of housing their rouge citizens?
[IsraelTimes] Israel envoy Yechiel Leiter says ceasefire proposals ‘under discussion’ but reiterates Hamas must be destroyed; Italy’s Meloni says war has surpassed ‘principle of proportionality’
IDF troops continued to operate on the outskirts of 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... City on Wednesday, as a military front man urged civilians in the area to evacuate ahead of a planned offensive deeper into the city, dismissing the notion that there was not enough room in the south of the Strip for the displaced.
The comments come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to move ahead with the decision approved by the cabinet earlier this month to conquer Gaza City, as Israeli officials continue to dismiss proposals for a partial hostage release deal, saying Jerusalem will only agree to a complete deal to free all hostages and disarm Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said in a TV interview on Wednesday that Israel was still examining "what the possibilities are" for a ceasefire deal with Hamas, but will not end the war in Gaza until Hamas surrenders or is destroyed. His comments came after mediators Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt expressed frustration that Israel has yet to issue an official response to the latest phased hostage release proposal, which Hamas said last week that it had accepted.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, rejected on Wednesday what he called "false rumors" that there is no space available in southern Gaza for displaced residents, as IDF troops continued to advance on Gaza City.
In a video message posted on X, Adraee said the army has surveyed large open areas in southern Gaza, including in the central refugee camps and in al-Mawasi, which he described as empty of tents and ready to receive evacuees.
Adraee said that the evacuation of residents from Gaza City was "inevitable," and pledged that families moving south would receive increased humanitarian assistance. The statement said that preparations are underway for tent encampments, aid distribution centers and water infrastructure for those being displaced.
The IDF said Wednesday that Israel will add two humanitarian aid distribution centers in the southern Gaza Strip to receive the new influx of displaced Paleostinians. It said in a statement that the work would be completed in the coming days, replacing the Center in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood and bringing the number of distribution centers to a total of five.
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said earlier this week that roughly 5,000 people had been displaced from northern Gaza to Deir al-Balah in the central Strip and to Khan Younis in the south since August 20. Another 8,000 have been displaced to the west of Gaza City, bringing the total number of new displacements since the end of the March ceasefire to more than 800,000.
Speaking to CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday, Leiter said ceasefire proposals are "under discussion... we’re looking at what the possibilities are for a ceasefire and a temporary deal, but at the same time it has to be very clear — it ends when Hamas ends."
He said Israel is wary of a partial hostage release because it could mean the deaths of the hostages not freed in the first phase: "If we are not careful, what’s going to happen is we are going to get a few hostages out now, and we’re never going to see the rest of the hostages again."
Leiter said that Israel "can’t guarantee" that the living hostages in Gaza "will come back soon," but "we can guarantee that we’re going to do everything in our power to get them out."
He also averred that mediators Egypt and Qatar "haven’t applied the necessary pressure, if they could" on Hamas.
"Hamas leadership is sitting in Istanbul," Leiter said. "Where the hell is [Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan? Why are Hamas leadership sitting in Qatar right now? Why is the international community not saying, the leadership of Hamas is being closed down, period?"
He claimed that Hamas reconstituted during the ceasefire earlier this year, "building up a force of 25,000-30,000 fighters."
The IDF said Wednesday that troops were continuing to operate on the outskirts of Gaza City, targeting the remaining Hamas strongholds in the enclave.
According to the military, forces from the 99th Division have been striking Hamas infrastructure both above and below ground, and in the past 24 hours they destroyed several observation posts that posed a threat to Israeli troops. At the same time, the 162nd Division has been engaged in fighting in Jabalia and Gaza City’s outskirts in an effort to eliminate operatives from terror groups and dismantle their networks, the IDF said.
Residents of Gaza City in the Strip’s north reported that tanks entered the Ebad-Alrahman neighborhood on the northern edge of the city late Tuesday and shelled houses, wounding several people and forcing many others, who had been taken by surprise, to move deeper into Gaza’s largest city.
"All of a sudden, we heard that the tanks pushed into Ebad-Alrahman, the sounds of explosions became louder and louder, and we saw people escaping towards our area," Saad Abed, 60, a former construction worker, told Rooters via a chat app from his house in Jala Street in Gaza City, around a kilometer (0.62 miles) from the Ebad-Alrahman neighborhood. "If no truce is reached, we will see the tanks outside our homes."
Tala al-Khatib, 29, told AFP that there was heavy bombing overnight: "Warplanes struck several times, and drones fired throughout the night," she said. "Several homes in Zeitoun were blown up. We are still in our house — some neighbors have fled, while others remain. But wherever you flee, death follows you."
Elsewhere, the 36th Division continued its operations in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where the IDF said troops — with air support — killed several operatives and destroyed additional infrastructure. The air force, directed by the navy, also struck a naval weapons warehouse and a repair facility for Hamas’s naval armaments in Khan Younis, the IDF said.
Separately, an Israeli Air Force strike, guided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet, killed Mahmoud al-Asoud, commander of Hamas’s General Security Apparatus in western Gaza. The IDF said al-Asoud played a central role in Hamas’s security apparatus both during the current war and in past years.
The IDF also announced Wednesday that it had established a new engineering battalion under the Givati Brigade, which has already joined the fighting in Jabalia in northern Gaza. The 607th "Mapatz" Battalion was created following lessons learned during the war, with the military citing the need for dedicated engineering forces at the brigade level to support infantry operations, dismantle terror infrastructure, and ensure troop mobility.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... Israel continued to face harsh international criticism for a strike earlier this week on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists.
The IDF said Tuesday that its preliminary investigation found that forces had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera the terror group had installed on the hospital grounds, and asserted that six of the people killed were terror operatives. The military also reiterated that it regretted civilian casualties and does not target journalists, while accusing Hamas of "cynically" exploiting medical facilities for military purposes.
The strike was "unjustifiable," said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday, adding that Israel’s war against Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s October 7 onslaught in Israel, has "gone beyond the principle of proportionality."
"We condemn the unjustifiable killing of journalists, an unacceptable attack on press freedom and on all those who risk their lives to report the tragedy of war," she said during her address at an annual Catholic festival in Rimini, Italia.
"We did not hesitate for a single minute in supporting Israel’s right to defense after the horrors of the October 7 massacre," added the conservative premier. "But we cannot remain silent now in the face of a reaction that has gone beyond the principle of proportionality, claiming too many innocent victims, and even involving Christian communities."
She said that Italia is "reaffirming its role" in Gaza, highlighting Italia’s involvement in medical evacuations from the Strip.
"There are those who go through the motions and those who save children. I am proud to be among the latter," she said.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon said Wednesday that there will be more information in the "next few days" on the strike on Nasser Hospital.
"We’re still looking into the details of that incident, and so that in the next few days we will have more information about that," Danon told news hounds. "Our goal is to fight terrorists, not journalists, not anyone who is not involved in terrorism."
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius and its compound in Gaza City have been ordered to evacuate by the Israel Defense Forces, the Times of Israel learned Wednesday.
At the same time, the Catholic Church of Holy Family, also in Gaza City, is located in an area that, for the moment, has not received an evacuation order.
The information is supported by the evacuation map featured on the IDF Arabic website, which shows St. Porphyrius, but not the Holy Family, in a red zone.
However, the third church in the Strip, the Anglican St. Philip’s Church, which is part of the compound of the Al-Ahli Arab Anglican Hospital in Gaza City, is situated in an area under evacuation order, according to the IDF map.
The orders come as Israel gears up for a mass evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza City ahead of a planned military offensive to take the Strip’s largest city as Israel looks to defeat Hamas.
#2
Israel has been fighting a war of 'principle of proportionality’ for 30+ years. October 7th happened and now the gloves are off. There is no proportionality here. Only victory or death.
#3
The irony is that 'proportionality' can lead to more total death and suffering than a total attack. Vietnam might have been an example though it can't be known. Use of nukes against Japan is another - without them how many more Japanese would have died from tightened blockade, continued conventional bombing, suicidal defense?
[IsraelTimes] Israel launched on Wednesday a series of strikes on former army barracks in Kiswah, in the southwestern Damascus countryside, two Syrian army sources and state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, marking the second attack within 24 hours.
The Kiswah region and Jabal Manea were among the most significant military outposts used by pro-Iranian militias during the Assad era.
The latest strikes coincide with security talks between Damascus and its long-time foe aimed at reaching a deal to reduce tensions.
The IDF has not yet issued a response.
Syrian media reported yesterday that six Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike in the same area.
They say the troops landed near Jabal Manea, which was once a major air defense base operated by Iran before being destroyed by Israel prior to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
A number of troops from the new Syrian army are positioned at the base.
Ongoing strikes prevented other troops from reaching the area until the following evening. Other soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of the eight soldiers killed the day before and to “destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons,” SANA says.
The report comes after SANA said reported more Israeli strikes and an airdrop commando raid in the area, “the details of which are not known.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
