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Good Morning



Appeals court throws out $527
million NY civil penalty against Trump
Friday 08/22/2025

Maude Fealy 8860
Africa Horn
Al-Shabaab Mortar Attack Targets
Somali Army Base Near Mogadishu
Europe
At least 23 Somalis dead after
migrant boats sink off Italy's Lampedusa
Afghanistan
Afghan refugee deportations round-up: 8/15-8/22/2025
Home Front: WoT
Report: Pentagon to spend $3.5 billion
replacing interceptors used to defend Israel
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Footage shows Fatah summer camp in
West Bank urging kids to be martyrs and prisoners
Science & Technology
IDF to buy millions of dollars
worth of first-person view drones from XTEND
Special Forces Command (BHQ) of Royal
Cambodian Army en route to the Thai Border

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 01:41 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [159 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think I take back everything I said and you don’t need to calm down. Could you put down the knife?
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  She knows what you're thinking, and she doesn't like it.
Posted by: technochitlin || 08/22/2025 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Re #2: No touchy Feely.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/22/2025 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Run!
Posted by: Megabyses || 08/22/2025 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Fear not. She just wants some civil, well reasoned discourse.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2025 12:23 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal Alien from El Salvador was just arrested in Texas for aggravated assault after he used a circular saw to try and kill two people.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [158 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Did he run out of cord?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2025 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  It’s supposed to be a chainsaw, you dumb Salvadoran. At least get the tool right.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  OR'd in 5...4...
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/22/2025 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Harbor Freight spokesman
Posted by: Frank G || 08/22/2025 10:30 Comments || Top||


Depraved Illegal Alien sentenced to 40 years in prison today for buying a 12-year-old girl for $250.00 from her own mother
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [223 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  I'm sure there is a well organized US network for trading in migrant children. Involving the best of people. Encroachers like Elia Antonio will not be tolerated.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
Nows the Wisconsin Taxpayers will house, care, educate, entertain and feed this Perverted POS for the next 40 years at $60k per year. ($2,400,000)
and in better conditions than many homeless US Vet's have.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/22/2025 5:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Selling one's daughter is probably crossing a really red line for even the most notorious persons housed in a womens' prison.

We'll see how long she lasts.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/22/2025 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Actually, selling your child so the rest won't starve is well documented historical phenomena.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 6:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Now his price is a carton of cigarettes. Life equals things out.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm sure there is a well organized US network for trading in migrant children.

Yeah, there is.
11,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children Placed With Unvetted Sponsors Under Biden, Senator Finds

According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which operates under HHS, the office “cared for” 468,000 unaccompanied alien children between October 2020 and September 2024, until they were placed with sponsors. From October 2024 to June 2025, the office cared for over 21,000 unaccompanied alien children.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2025 10:45 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Any data on organ donors?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  11,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children Placed With Unvetted Sponsors Under Biden, Senator Finds

I have this deep, dark, unsettling suspicion that all those sponsors were vetted just in a much different way than the Senator would have liked. Money was most certainly passed under the table and I'd bet that the Big Guy got his ten percent.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/22/2025 12:06 Comments || Top||

#9  The most disturbing part is that many Christian NGOs were making DoorDash money from Biden to deliver the kids.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai Condemns Pakistani Airstrike in Nuristan
14. August 1015
Never mind former Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s attention seeking, but the drone attack on the TTP is interesting.
[KhaamaPress] Former Afghanistan President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...Mugshots/karzai.cnn.jpg...
condemned a reported Pak Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Nuristan, calling for respect for Afghanistan’s illusory sovereignty and adherence to international law amid official silence on the incident.

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has expressed concern over media reports of an alleged Pak airstrike in Nuristan Province. He urged Islamabad to respect Afghanistan’s illusory sovereignty and avoid violating international law. Taliban
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
authorities have so far remained silent on the incident.

Earlier, Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported, citing unnamed sources that Pakistain carried out a dronezap in Nuristan.

On Thursday, August 14, Karzai referred to the media reports, stating he was deeply concerned about the alleged airstrike attributed to Pakistain.

He called on the Pak government to "respect Afghanistan’s national illusory sovereignty and, by refraining from violating international principles and norms, engage with Afghanistan through civilized relations and good neighborliness."

Pakistain has repeatedly claimed that snuffies from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) use Afghanistan territory to launch attacks against the country, an allegation Taliban has consistently denied.

Local media in Nuristan have also reported dronezaps in the province, though no precise details have been provided regarding casualties or the intended targets.

Pak officials have not yet commented on the alleged attack. Tasnim News Agency reported there was no confirmed information about the target or possible damage.

The outlet speculated that the strike may have targeted positions of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in the province, though this remains unverified.

The incident, if confirmed, risks adding further strain to already tense relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain, which have been marked by recurring border and security disputes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 2025-08-22 00:40 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [80 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Africa Horn
Al-Shabaab Mortar Attack Targets Somali Army Base Near Mogadishu
[ShabelleMedia] Several mortar rounds were fired overnight at the Hiilweyne military base, located between the Somali capital Mogadishu and the town of Balcad, security and local sources said Thursday.

The base houses units of the Somali National Army (SNA) and has been previously visited by bigwigs of the Federal Government of Somalia, underscoring its strategic importance.

Residents in nearby areas were jolted awake by the sound of explosions as mortar shells landed inside and around the perimeter of the camp.

"There were multiple blasts coming from the direction of the base," a local witness told Shabelle Media. "We suspect the attack was carried out by al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
fighters, as they are known to operate in the surrounding areas."

No casualties were immediately reported, and the Somali military has not yet released an official statement on the incident. al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack.

The area has witnessed a surge in bully boy activity in recent months, with al-Shabaab frequently targeting military positions with improvised bombs and indirect fire.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 2025-08-22 00:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [111 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Makhachkala resident convicted of financing terrorism
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don found Makhachkala resident Gadzhikurban Isupanov guilty of financing a terrorist organization and illegal arms trafficking and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Makhachkala native Gadzhikurban Isupanov to 11 years in prison for financing a terrorist organization, TASS reported, citing a court representative.

According to the investigation and the court, in 2022, the defendant read a post on a social network by a member of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
operating in Syria, which announced a fundraising drive. "On October 1, 2022, while in Makhachkala, he transferred funds to a member of the international terrorist organization. In accordance with the court's verdict, he was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony with the first 3 years to be served in prison," the report says.

In addition to the money transfer, in 2024 the defendant illegally acquired firearms and ammunition, which he kept in the trunk of his car until it was seized by security forces, the court representative said.

As follows from the case file on the court’s website, the case was heard since March, and the verdict was handed down on August 20.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in December 2024, the head of Chechnya voiced the idea of ​​excluding the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* group, which seized power in Syria, from the list of terrorist organizations, and proposed sending Chechen security forces to that country.

Earlier it became known that natives of Dagestan Magomed-Vali Bulatov and Nariman Nurmagomedov were found guilty of transferring money to this terrorist organization and sentenced to long prison terms.

Posted by: badanov || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [76 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)


Europe
At least 23 Somalis dead after migrant boats sink off Italy’s Lampedusa
[ShabelleMedia] At least 23 Somali nationals have been confirmed dead after two migrant boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the Italian island of Lampedusa, Somali officials said Wednesday.

The boats, which were carrying migrants colonists from North Africa towards Europe, encountered mechanical failures before sinking, officials said. Fifteen survivors have been rescued, while search operations continue in the area.

"This tragic incident underscores the immense dangers faced by Somali migrants colonists who embark on irregular sea journeys in search of better opportunities in Europe," Somalia’s ambassador to Italia, Ibrahim Omar Shegow, said in a statement.

Shegow urged young Somalis not to risk their lives through perilous sea routes, encouraging them instead to seek opportunities within their home country.

He also highlighted the urgent need for awareness campaigns and tangible economic opportunities that could deter youth from attempting the dangerous migration journey across the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean remains one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. According to the International Organization for Migration, hundreds of people have died this year attempting to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by sea.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 2025-08-22 00:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [138 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  All migrant boats should be sunk. The ports they depart from should be nuked.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 4:08 Comments || Top||


26-year-old asylum seeker from Mali has been arrested after smashing up Terminal 1 of Milan's Malpensa airport with a hammer and then setting fires
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Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [130 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  "asylum seeker"

Nothing says "Give me shelter" like a hammer attack.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/22/2025 8:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Trump's Sweeping Crackdown on 55 Million Visas / X
[X] The Trump administration has launched a massive review of 55 million U.S. visas, targeting violations like overstays, criminal activity, and fraud for potential deportations. Announced on Thursday, this historic crackdown has already resulted in 6,000 student visa revocations, amid debates over enforcement fairness and its impact on immigrants, with supporters praising it as essential for national security and critics warning of wrongful removals.

From the Ay Pee article:
There were 12.8 million green-card holders and 3.6 million people in the U.S. on temporary visas last year, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The 55 million figure suggests that some people subject to review would currently be outside the United States with multiple-entry tourist visas, said Julia Gelatt, associate director of the U.S. immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute. She questioned the value of spending resources on people who may never return to the United States.
Shouldn't we know who we don’t want to let back in? Bless Elon Musk and the DOGE team for starting the process, and for those who joined in since.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [238 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Out, out, out!
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 08/22/2025 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Student visas are NOT immigrants!
They go to school and go back home. Where they belong.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 08/22/2025 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ sometimes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2025 1:11 Comments || Top||


#5 

Wondering how many of that 55 Million have engaged in Destructive/Violent protests or violated the terms of their visit while here?

Also have to wonder how many Anti-USA & Islamics are on the Taxpayers cared and fed roles.
Posted by: Jomort Sneamp6548 || 08/22/2025 4:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Should have got Mastercard.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 7:44 Comments || Top||

#7  55M??? That's 10 times what I would have guessed....
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/22/2025 8:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Add to that the migrants and we're looking at minimum 16% of current population are not citizens. Might be closer to 20%.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/22/2025 8:54 Comments || Top||


The Egyptian Embassy in New York dragged pro-Hamas protesters into the embassy and beat them up
[X]

Anti-Israel protesters in New York claim they were assaulted by staff at Egyptian UN mission

[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel activists in New York City claim they were assaulted yesterday by staff at the Egyptian mission to the UN.

Video shows men at the mission pulling two activists into the building and appearing to strike them.

Other footage shows two young men being escorted from the mission by police officers after the incident. They appear unscathed.

It’s unclear what preceded the altercation.

The protesters are holding regular rallies at the mission demanding Egypt do more to aid the Palestinians.

The footage is shared widely by activist groups and spurs calls for additional rallies at the mission, including later today.

The incident comes days after a video leaked of Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty berating Egypt’s ambassador to The Netherlands, asserting that the mission’s staff needs to take a harder line against those protesting outside the embassy.

Protests have ramped up around the UN ahead of the UN General Assembly next month.

The rallies are led by Within Our Lifetime, a hardline activist group that advocates for the violent destruction of Israel.
Yet another tentacle of the red/green alliance, they claim to be/love impatient Palestinians who are allied with groups funded by tech billionaire and CCP tool Neville Singham and the usual incestuous Progressive funding labyrinth…
The protests are targeting diplomatic offices of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Turkey.


…now its thugs have assaulted protestors in NYC with a bike chain, handing them over to the NYPD.

Across the world, Egyptian embassies are violently repressing protestors calling to break the siege and let food into Gaza. This regime normalizes with Israel, aids the blockade, and now exports its repression to our streets.

We will not rest until Egypt opens Rafah, ends its collaboration with Israel, and takes action to stop the genocide.

📍 Join us at the Egyptian Mission, 304 E 44th St #306, New York, NY 10017.
✊🏽 Stand against complicity. Stand with Palestine.
🇵🇸 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [184 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Within Our Lifetime the name suggests an approach.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Hell, I'll at least buy 'em a pizza.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/22/2025 14:05 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
After Action Report: IDF acknowledges ‘failure’ in Hamas attack on south Gaza army encampment
More on this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Updated army probe finds 15 gunmen killed by soldiers, tanks, and air force in assault in Khan Younis; operatives emerged from tunnel 40-50 meters from outpost

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that it was a "failure" that Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
button men managed to breach an army encampment — including a building where troops were stationed — the previous day in southern 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...
’s Khan Younis, despite the soldiers managing to fight back and successfully repel the attack, killing around 15 of the operatives.

According to the findings of an IDF probe of the incident, the Hamas operatives emerged from a tunnel some 40-50 meters from the military post, which served troops of the Kfir Infantry Brigade and the 188th Armored Brigade’s 74th Battalion.

The tunnel had been known to the military, and part of it — including a main shaft— had been demolished previously. The button men apparently dug out a new shaft using the existing underground passage during the attack.

The button men split into three groups, with one stationed on a dirt mound for suppressive fire, the second heading into a building in the encampment that was not occupied by any soldiers, and the third attacking a building that had a platoon of soldiers stationed in it.

The platoon commander and another soldier heard noise from outside the building and headed out, where they came under fire from the Hamas button men. The officer then ran back inside and awakened other soldiers who had been sleeping, and they all took up positions inside the building.

Two Hamas button men breached the building where the troops were stationed. The operatives hurled grenades and opened fire as the soldiers shot back, in an exchange of fire that lasted around five minutes.

IDF troops repel a Hamas attack on an army encampment in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, August 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Fighting also took place outside the building with additional button men from the same group.

At least one of the button men was killed by the soldiers in the building, while the other fled and was killed outside, according to the IDF’s probe.

Three soldiers were maimed in the exchange of fire, one seriously and two lightly. The seriously maimed soldier’s condition has since improved.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?

Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.

If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

a tank of the 74th Battalion shelled the empty building that the button men had entered, after spotting RPG fire from it, killing at least two of them.

A different tank spotted a Hamas operative inside the encampment who was preparing to fire an RPG, and ran him over.

A tank of the 74th Armored Battalion rams into an RPG-wielding Hamas operative in Khan Younis on October 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Another operative was killed by the tanks nearby, and around three hours later — long after the main part of the fighting had ended — another gunman was spotted trying to flee and was killed by the armored forces.

Fighting inside the encampment lasted no longer than 10 minutes before the button men began attempting to flee back to the tunnel, according to the IDF’s probe. Israeli Air Force drones and helicopters were also dispatched and struck the fleeing button men.

In all, some eight Hamas button men were killed inside the post and in the area surrounding it, and around another seven operatives — who had been launching mortars — were eliminated on the outskirts, mainly by Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. Approximately eight button men managed to flee back to the tunnel, the IDF probe found.

The IDF found that the button men were well-armed, with assault rifles, RPGs, grenades, and bombs. The military also found a stretcher left behind by the operatives inside the empty building, which it assessed was intended to be used to kidnap a maimed soldier.

Despite successfully repelling the attack, the military said it was a failure that the button men had managed to infiltrate the encampment without being noticed. The army had set up an ambush in the area in recent days after spotting suspicious movement, though it did not prove useful in spotting the operatives who carried out the attack.

The IDF described it as a "complex event," but said the "bravery, determination, and initiative of the troops," combined with support from the Israeli Air Force, managed to turn the tables.

The chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, toured the site on Wednesday with senior officers, conducting an initial debriefing. The IDF said Asor praised the troops’ actions, while pointing out "gaps that emerged... from which lessons must be learned and implemented quickly, in light of Hamas’s attempts to harm our forces."

Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, took responsibility for the attack in a statement, claiming that its button men "stormed the site" and carried out a suicide kaboom.

Al-Qassam claimed to have targeted several tanks with bombs and RPGs, and hit several buildings in the encampment being used by the IDF soldiers, using RPGs and machine-gun fire.

"A number of fighters stormed the houses and finished off a number of occupation soldiers inside from point-blank range with light weapons and hand grenades," the terror group claimed, despite no Israeli soldiers having been killed in the incident.

The terror group also claimed to have carried out sniper fire that "fatally maimed" the commander of a tank, and that it carried out mortar shelling in the area "to secure the withdrawal of the fighters."

"Upon the arrival of the rescue force, one of the deaders let 'er rip among the soldiers, leaving them dead and maimed," al-Qassam claimed.



Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 2025-08-22 01:44 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [117 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  A failure? Or a trap? And by calling it a failure the trap can be reset?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/22/2025 10:05 Comments || Top||


Israel tells Gaza City hospitals to ready for mass evacuations as war plans advance
[IsraelTimes] Israeli authorities warned medical facilities and international organizations in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday to gear up for mass evacuations of civilians as it drove ahead toward a planned military offensive aimed at conquering Gaza City.

The announcement by the Israel Defense Forces came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to huddle with top military officials and a handful of high-ranking ministers to reportedly approve war plans, even as mediators and families of hostages pressed Jerusalem to re-engage with efforts to broker a ceasefire.

Netanyahu said Thursday evening he had "instructed to begin immediate negotiations" for the release of "all of the hostages" in Gazoo, while simultaneously working to approve the government’s plan to take over Gaza City. But his office said Israel was not sending a negotiating team to mediating countries Egypt or 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...
at this time.

Visiting southern Gaza on Thursday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the army was driving ahead with the planned offensive, intended to conquer the city and drive out Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
from its remaining strongholds in the area.

"We are advancing efforts for action in Gaza City. We already have forces operating on the outskirts of the city, and additional forces will join them later," Zamir told troops in Khan Younis who had repelled a Hamas attack on their encampment on Wednesday.

In a sign of growing despair at conditions in Gaza, residents staged a rare show of protest against the war on Thursday. Carrying banners reading "Save Gaza, enough" and "Gaza is dying by the killing, hunger and oppression," hundreds of people rallied in Gaza City in a march organized by several civil unions.

The security cabinet approved a general plan to seize Gaza City earlier this month, and on Wednesday, the army began calling up 60,000 reservists expected to be drafted for the offensive, following Defense Minister Israel Katz’s approval of the army’s plans.

Thursday’s meeting was intended to give Netanyahu and the security cabinet a chance to approve specific operational plans, according to a source close to the prime minister.

The offensive is expected to force up to a million Paleostinian civilians in Gaza City and its environs to flee south.

To prepare for the mass displacement, the IDF said Thursday it had begun to give "initial warnings," with officers from COGAT, the Defense Ministry unit that coordinates with Gazook civilians, telling medical officials and aid groups in the northern part of the enclave "to prepare for the population’s movement to the southern Gaza Strip."

"I am speaking with you about the possibility of the army entering Gaza City. There will be a full evacuation from Gaza to the southern Strip," a COGAT officer was recorded saying in a call with a health official in Gaza, according to a transcript provided by the IDF.

The officer recommended that officials plan to send medical equipment south and ready hospitals there to receive those set to be forced out of Gaza City.

"We are going to provide you with a place to be, whether it is a field hospital or any other hospital," he added.

The IDF said the officers emphasized to Gazook medical officials that "the hospital infrastructures in the southern Gaza Strip are being adapted for the absorption of the sick and maimed, alongside an increased entry of necessary medical equipment in accordance with the requests of the international aid organizations."

On Wednesday, the army said efforts to set up humanitarian infrastructure in the Strip’s south had started, including allowing tents and shelter equipment into the enclave in recent days.

Thousands of Paleostinians in Gaza City have already left their homes as Israeli forces have escalated shelling on the Sabra and Tuffah neighborhoods. Some families have left for shelters along the coast, while others have moved to central and southern parts of the enclave, according to residents there.

"We are facing a bitter, bitter situation, to die at home or leave and die somewhere else. As long as this war continues, survival is uncertain," said Rabah Abu Elias, 67, a father of seven.

Thursday saw a rocket launched from an area next to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis toward a corridor used to deliver humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said. According to the military, the rocket was launched while a convoy of trucks was heading toward Kerem Shalom Crossing to collect aid. The military said the rocket struck some 300 meters from the route. No injuries were reported in the incident.

"The launch is yet another example of the ongoing attempts by the terrorist organization to systematically and brutally sabotage the passage of humanitarian aid by the international organizations and disrupt the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gazook civilians," the IDF stated.

COGAT has previously said it invests considerable efforts to ensure aid reaches Gaza and has denied restricting supplies. It said Thursday that aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, the Netherlands, La Belle France, Singapore, and Indonesia had airdropped 155 pallets of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

Each pallet contains several hundred kilograms of food, according to the military. Indonesia, the country with the largest Moslem population in the world, does not have relations with Israel.

Israel has also been allowing several hundred truckloads of aid to enter Gaza daily, though the UN says the number is less than half of what is required to sustain the Strip’s residents.

Thursday also saw an IDF soldier moderately injured by gunfire in the Zeitoun area on the outskirts of Gaza City, the military said. The IDF suspects he was hit by Hamas sniper fire. The soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 2025-08-22 00:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [108 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  A special week of Jew Hate pro Palestinian protests in NYC.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 4:10 Comments || Top||


Hamas Launches ‘Stones Of David’ Counter-Offensive In Gaza City
[X]
…against ground troops.

Explosions, ambushes, and hit-and-run tactics mark the resistance push from Palestinian fighters.

The name echoes a biblical underdog story, but this battle is live, and far from over.

Source:
@RoyaNewsEnglish

King David was Jewish. As a shepherd boy he used a slingshot to throw stones at the hero of the enemies of the Israelites and win the battle which led to the defeat of the Philistines. Later as king he made Jerusalem the capitol of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel. In every way Hamas gets this wrong.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [393 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Palestinians WILL join Philistines!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  To be fair Hamas ain't exactly a Goliath... more like locusts.

Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my great army which I sent among you.”
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/22/2025 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  “Stones of David”

Cojones?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2025 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Palestinians ARE Philistines. The name "Palestine" is and Anglicization of the Romans Latinization "Palestinium" which is the "Land of the Philistines." Which they invented to replace the name "Judea" after crushing the Jewish Revolt.
Posted by: RoberttheBrucie || 08/22/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||

#5  “Stones of David”

Seems to me it worked just fine as designed, it defeated Israel enemies!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/22/2025 12:33 Comments || Top||

#6  I post these facts periodically.
Palestine/Israel: A Primer: What were the demographics of Ottoman Palestine?
In 1914: Muslims 602,377; Jews 38,754; Christians 81,012

So less than 700000 Arabs in 1914. 14 million today. That's 20-fold increase in 110 years.
For comparison: The estimated world population in 1914 was around 1.7 to 1.8 billion people. It is 8.142 billion today. That is, 4.8 fold increase. That is "Palestinians" reproduce 4.175 faster than the rest of the world.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/22/2025 12:48 Comments || Top||

#7  “ The Philistines were one of the Sea Peoples, likely of Aegean origin, who settled on the southern coastal plain of Canaan (modern-day Israel and Gaza).”

Palestinians are Arabs. They are not the same.

Posted by: Super Hose || 08/22/2025 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Palestinians ARE Philistines.

Not genetically or culturally, RoberttheBrucie. The people who now call themselves “Palestinian” are primarily the Arabic-speaking descendants of migrant workers from the surrounding Arab, Egyptian, and Levantine communities in the region who came to work for the Jews (they can claim the label so long as an ancestor arrived by 1945), plus the local tenants of distant Ottoman landowners, and a few Bedouin tribes. They insisted on calling themselves Arabs as members of the greater Arab nation that together were going to drive the Jews into the sea until Yasser Arafat got back from his training course in Moscow as a revolutionary communist in the 1960s. Before that, under the British Mandate it was the Jews who had Palestinian stamped on their paperwork, a reference to the Roman renaming of Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove on paper the Jewish connection after the Third Jewish Revolt, led by Bar Kochba, was put down in 135 AD.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 15:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Stones of David? Who does their marketing, Disney?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/22/2025 17:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF raid in Syria nabs arms smugglers and over 300 weapons, military says
[IsraelTimes] Several suspected weapons dealers were detained during a raid in southern Syria yesterday, the military says.

The IDF says troops of the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade raided several former posts belonging to the commando forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime in the Mount Hermon area.

“As part of the activity, the troops arrested and interrogated a number of suspects who were involved in smuggling and trading weapons from Syria to Lebanon,” the IDF says, adding that it captured several weapons belonging to the dealers.

During the raid at the commando posts, the IDF says it seized over 300 weapons.

Yesterday, the IDF said four soldiers were lightly injured by a blast, apparently caused by an old Syrian grenade, during the operation.

The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.

Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers (9 miles) deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of hostile forces.
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IDF dronestrikes another Hezbollah elite gunny
[IsraelTimes] The IDF said a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force was killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon.

The military said the Radwan member was operating in the Deir Seryan area, and that his activities were a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Since the November ceasefire, the IDF has conducted regular strikes on Hezbollah targets it said were in violation of the truce, and says it has killed over 230 Hezbollah operatives in such strikes. It has kept forces at five strategic points in side Lebanon, near the border, saying these are necessary to keep Israelis safe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [88 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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