[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Police in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts say a man was killed Thursday morning after confronting another man over graffiti at a local park. It has since been discovered that the suspect in the shooting is a trans-identifying male who has a criminal record.
Authorities responded to Jordan Park at 8:47 am after a 911 caller said he was being attacked, reports WCVB. During the call, the dispatcher heard gunfire in the background, said Shrewsbury Police Chief Kevin Anderson.
''While officers were responding, dispatch advised that they could actually hear shots on the 911 call. When officers arrived, they located a victim, provided medical attention, and that victim was transported to a local hospital where, tragically, he died of his injuries,'' Anderson said.
The victim, a 57-year-old man whose name has not been released, was shot multiple times. He had just dropped off his 6-year-old child at school before encountering the suspect, Worcester County District Attorney Joe Early Jr. said.
''The gentleman who was shot was returning from (walking his 6-year-old child) to school when he interacted with the man on the bridge. It appeared that the man was doing some type of spray painting. He took a picture of the man, and that started the altercation,'' Early said.
Police later arrested the alleged shooter, identified on social media as ''Sasha Shakur'' and legally as Snehal Ansh Srivastava, outside a home at 29 Edgewater Ave around 11:45 am SWAT officers with a K-9 entered the property minutes later.
The residence was covered in graffiti with slogans including ''Free Paleostine,'' ''Free Congo,'' ''BLM,'' ''GLM,'' and ''Ganga Gardens.'' A sign in the window of the house that reads ''Sasha Shakur'' also confirms the social media account username.
Authorities described Srivastava as ''known to police,'' though no immediate charges were announced.
Law enforcement activity throughout the morning was concentrated around the Jordan Pond Walking Trail, about a third of a mile from where Srivastava was taken into custody. Police tape closed off parts of the trail and sections of shoreline, where graffiti was also visible.
Residents in the area were instructed to shelter in place until police confirmed the suspect had been located.
Shrewsbury Public Schools informed families that students and staff at the nearby Coolidge School were safe. Officials said the shooting did not involve the school and no other campuses were affected.
The shooting comes just one day after another trans person Robert Westman killed two children and injured 17 others at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Mental Illness and Perversion is NOT something to condone, or to be treated as an individual's right.
It must be seriously addressed, and NOT allowed to roam freely in society, where it is only matter of time before it causes great harm to others.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Khartoum Emergency Room revealed on Tuesday that 43 of its volunteers have been killed since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the state, which has been the most affected by the ongoing conflict.
Emergency rooms, established by volunteers after the conflict broke out on April 15, 2023, have been active in providing food and health services to millions of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese. They have also worked to expose violations committed by the warring parties.
Abd al-Rahman Darmali, a member of the Khartoum Emergency Room, told Sudan Tribune, ''The room has recorded an increase in the number of deaths among its members, reaching 43, including three female members, from the start of the war on April 15, 2023, until April 2024.''
He explained that emergency room members have been increasingly targeted recently, putting their lives at risk while performing their duties.
During their control over most of Khartoum state, before the army recaptured it last March, the Rapid Support Forces committed widespread violations against emergency room volunteers, including looting, kidnapping, and killing.
Darmali stated that the emergency rooms do not have statistics on the number of members currently held in detention.
Dozens of volunteers in emergency rooms, especially in Khartoum, have been subjected to a wide-ranging campaign of arrests, though this has not deterred them from serving communities affected by the conflict.
On August 8, the Fatihab Resistance® Committees in Omdurman called for an independent investigation into the death of volunteer Khalid al-Zubair ''Esti'' inside an army intelligence detention centre in Khartoum, following a detention that lasted nearly two years.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 24 non-combatants were killed and dozens were maimed by intense artillery shelling from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's North Darfur state, doctors said on Thursday.
The city has been under its most violent mostly peaceful air and ground attacks from the RSF for more than 10 consecutive days, forcing thousands of people to flee.
A statement from the Sudan Doctors' Network said the shelling on Wednesday targeted the central market area and the Awlad al-Reef neighbourhood. ''Twenty-four people were killed and 55 others injured, including five women,'' the group said.
The doctors' network condemned what it called a ''massacre'' and a ''heinous crime,'' adding it to a series of alleged war crimes and genocide targeting unarmed civilians in el-Fasher for more than a year, amid a tight siege and severe shortages of food and medicine.
The statement described the targeting of densely populated residential areas as a ''flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws.''
It accused the international community, the UN Security Council, and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... of ''silence and inability'' to confront the crimes and called for immediate action to stop the shelling and lift the siege on the city.
As fighting intensifies, thousands of trapped residents face a severe humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food and medicine after the RSF cut off all roads into el-Fasher and blocked aid deliveries.
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At press time, the results of the attack were still uncertain, but there were increasing indications that the Houthis' defense minister and military chief were killed in the attack, as well as potentially others.
Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir monitored the attack from IDF headquarters, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following from a secure "red phone."
The exact moment Israel vaporized the entire leadership of Yemeni Houthis 👇
The Aden Al-Ghad newspaper adds that Rahawi was killed along with several of his companions.
It appeared from the reports to have been a separate strike from the one yesterday that was said to have targeted 10 senior Houthi ministers, including the defense minister, as they gathered in a location outside of Sanaa to hear a planned speech by the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
The outcome of that strike has yet to be made clear.
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It's all horrible -- Idk why all earth-dwellers cannot live and let live
-- On the other hand, on the positive side, those who died surely did so whilst doing what they loved to do, i.e., planning the murder of Israelis who trying go to work or go to school, or just go to sleep at night. So, there is that.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Switzerland may face more scenes of violence next week following two nights of rioting, according to one of the country's top sociologists.
Dramatic riots erupted in Lausanne, Switzerland, over the weekend after a migrant teen was killed in a scooter crash while fleeing the police.
Marvin M, a 17-year-old Swiss resident of Lausanne, was fleeing police on a stolen scooter, when he hit a garage wall and died at around 3.45am on Sunday morning, despite resuscitation attempts by emergency services.
On Sunday and Monday night, riot cops clashed with protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails as officials desperately tried to put a lid on escalating violence.
Much of the anger came from a long-standing view that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against migrants who have settled there. Marvin's death was the third death involving police in less than three months in the city, with seven in the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five of those deaths were of men originally from Africa.
This anger was only stoked after newspaper reports revealed four officers were suspended following the unearthing of racist, sexist and discriminatory messages in private WhatsApp groups.
But Sandro Cattacin, a professor of sociology at the University of Geneva, told the Daily Mail that he believes Switzerland, ordinarily seen as a beacon of stability on the continent, will see more violence in the coming days.
Cattacin warned that pressure groups may see the riots as a chance to latch on and cause their own violence: 'I expect that we will have [riots] again next week. Now you have these other groups, people related to more to more aggressive anti-capitalist positions, who say "OK, that's the moment we can have riots".
'If they arrive the weekend, then [the riots] would be more brutal, and from the police it would be more violent.'
Cattacin said he had spoken with social worker sources on the ground in Lausanne who had relayed their fears of further violence to him.
He added that the only way to dissipate the anger felt by society was to open a dialogue between the police and marginalised groups
'The question is now: is the police able to intervene in a careful way, trying to limit damages and trying in every case to begin [a discussion] with this youngsters?'
Many of the roughly 200 people who rioted were young migrants who moved to Switzerland and have felt that police in Lausanne are systemically racist against them.
So far, it seems that powerful people in the city agree with them - Lausanne Mayor Gregoire Junod said following the revelation of the WhatsApp groupchat: 'There is a systemic discrimination problem that needs to be addressed'.
A 'cultural change' is needed to prevent such abuses from happening again, he added.
Cattacin said his fears of further violence also came from Switzerland's far-right's response to the violence, condemning migration and urging the police to crack down even harder on protesters, who he accused of fannin the flames.
'A politician of the extreme right was intervening in the press the [following] day and saying that the police have to be even more aggressive regarding these young people.
'He said they are not people we want to have in this country, etcetera, etcetera.'
Police have acknowledged that a car was following the teenager who died early Sunday. But the Vaud public prosecutors' office issued a statement 'with the aim of clarifying and calming the situation'.
It said two motorists approached the teenager before police arrived at the crash site. This tended to confirm there was a 'significant distance' between the scooter and the pursuing police vehicle and 'no contact' between them, the statement added.
Officers confirmed police had been following Marvin before the crash but claimed he lost control at high speed in a 18mph zone.
Despite claims that the scooter was stolen, his family has denied that he was a thief.
His mum insisted to 24 Heures that he was innocent, while his brother wrote online: 'You should be with me, at home, in our room, which we've always shared.'
The public prosecutor of the canton of Vaud has launched a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the accident.
It was the third death in less than three months in Lausanne during a police intervention. There have been seven such deaths in the city and the wider Vaud region since 2016. Five involved men of African origin.
On Sunday night, 'around 100 young people, wearing balaclavas' gathered in the Prélaz neighborhood from 9.30pm, throwing fireworks at police, burning trash cans and damaging a bus belonging to the Lausanne transport company.
The following night, 150 to 200 people set up roadblocks using trash containers, setting them on fire, police said. Some 140 cops clashed with the rioters, who torched buses and pelted them with stones. Police also responded to the riots using tear gas and rubber bullets.
Over the past decade, Switzerland has taken in more than 200,000 refugees - many from Eritrea, Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan, alongside arrivals from other African and Muslim-majority countries.
What was once hailed as a model of compassion has instead fuelled mounting tensions, with simmering unease now spilling onto the streets.
It comes almost a year after Switzerland announced plans to cap its population to ten million as part of an immigration crackdown under plans put forward by the hard-right People's Party.
[DW] A 21-year-old Syrian citizen is in investigative custody in Dresden after a young American man was stabbed in the face on a tram over the weekend in the eastern German city. New information may link him to the attack.
Dresden police and prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 21-year-old Syrian in connection with a knife attack on a late-night tram in the city over the weekend.
He was detained in the early hours of Tuesday, police said, and was put in investigative custody on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, among other offenses.
The man in question had already been detained once before and was released soon after the incident, with no initial indication of him being directly involved in injuring a young American. But Sherlocks said new information might implicate him more directly.
Police said in a blurb that after further investigation there was now reasonable grounds to suspect that he was "involved in the knife attack against the 20-year-old American and also himself injured the victim with a dangerous object."
Tuesday's statement made no direct mention of the second suspect, originally believed to be the prime culprit behind the injuries sustained by the American man. As of Monday afternoon, authorities in the eastern German state of Saxony were still seeking him and had appealed for help from potential witnesses.
[IsraelTimes] Two French teens were charged earlier this month for conspiring to carry out terror attacks on synagogues and the Eiffel Tower, Le Figaro reports.
The newspaper says the two suspects came from Arab-Muslim families and shared a fascination with the Islamic State terror group.
The two minors — aged 15 and 17 — also discussed the possibility of traveling abroad to fight and were heavy consumers of ultra-violent online content, the newspaper says.
According to the French outlet, the teens were arrested on July 29 and 30 amid an investigation that began in April. The two were charged on August 1, the newspaper says.
[GEO.TV] At least 61 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, including 19 aid seekers in Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources in the occupied territory.
…if true, a whole 3.1% of the population, less than Gaza’s roughly 2% per year growth rate…
and injured 159,266
…8%…
since October 7, 2023, Al Jazeera quoted the enclave's Health Ministry on Thursday.
At least 71 Palestinians, including 22 aid seekers, have been killed and 339 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours.
The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 2,180, with more than 16,046 injured, the statement said.
…every single one of which was boobytrapped with bombs and/or a jihadi fighting point and/or the entrance to a Hamas tunnel. So it is all Hamas’s fault, justlike everything else that has happened in Gaza since Hamas took over on 14 June 2007.
[GEO.TV] Israel has demolished more than 1,500 homes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood 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 since launching a ground offensive earlier this month, Gaza's Civil Defence has said.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the rescue service, told Anadolu news agency that no buildings remain standing in the southern part of the neighbourhood.
He said the Israeli army has used construction machinery alongside bomb-laden robots and quadcopter drones that drop explosives on rooftops. According to Basal, Israeli forces are destroying an average of seven sites per day, accelerating the pace of devastation.
The systematic demolitions have forced about 80 percent of Zeitoun's residents to flee, moving to western and northern parts of Gaza City in search of safety, Basal added.
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops operating in southern Gaza’s Zeitoun area discovered and destroyed a roughly one-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel equipped with living quarters and weapons, the military says.
Soldiers from the 7th Brigade, under the 99th Division, located the underground tunnel during operations in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the IDF, the tunnel was used by Hamas operatives for military purposes.
In addition, the brigade, working alongside the Israeli Air Force, dismantled other terrorist infrastructure, seized additional weapons, and neutralized several terror operatives who allegedly posed a threat to troops in the area.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli forces have launched several new raids in the occupied West Bank, after earlier carrying out a wave of home invasions and arrests that included targeting activists and journalists, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Wafa news agency.
The latest incursions occurred in the town of al-Yamun, near Jenin, and Jalazone camp, near Ramallah, reports Wafa.
In al-Yamun, Israeli forces raided several homes and tampered with residents' contents, while in Jalazone camp, they fired tear gas near homes, according to Wafa.
Pictures and videos circulating online show Israeli forces operating in the West Bank city of Nablus and facing off against stone-throwing Palestinians.
Footage shows military vehicles moving through city streets, with troops appearing to fire warning shots.
Additional clips capture soldiers detaining several local residents during the operation.
The official Palestinian Authority news outlet Wafa reports that two Palestinians were treated for gunshot wounds and dozens of others were injured by tear gas and rubber bullets, citing the Red Crescent.
The reports come a day after Israeli police said security forces seized roughly NIS 1.5 million ($447,000) in “terror funds” during a raid on a currency exchange office in Ramallah that authorities said was linked to Hamas. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, dozens were wounded in yesterday’s raid, some by live fire and others by rubber bullets or tear gas inhalation.
The IDF has not yet commented on its activity in Nablus.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media says Israeli troops carried out airborne landing and operated for 2 hours; PM’s office denies Israel considered ceding Mount Dov area in potential deal with Syria
Israeli ground troops conducted a commando raid overnight Wednesday-Thursday on a Syrian site it had bombed on the two previous days, Syrian state media reported, in a major operation said to have included helicopters and fighter jets as well as dozens of ground troops.
Israel first struck the site outside Damascus on Tuesday, killing several Syrian soldiers, according to Damascus’s foreign ministry, and bombed it again on Wednesday, according to state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?A Syrian defense ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity that the site was a former Syrian military base in Tal Maneh, near Kisweh.
Following the second attack on Wednesday, state media said that Israeli troops were flown into the area to carry out a raid, "the details of which are not yet known, amid continued intensive reconnaissance flights."
According to two Syrian army sources, a unit of the Israeli army carried out an airborne landing on a strategic hilltop southwest of Damascus and conducted a two-hour operation before leaving the area.
They said the troops landed near Jabal Manea, which was once a major air defense base operated by 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... before being destroyed by Israel after the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... ’s regime.
A number of troops from the new Syrian army are positioned at the base, the sources said.
According to a Syrian source who spoke to Al Jazeera, the raid involved four helicopters and two fighter jets, as well as dozens of soldiers.
Saudi outlet al-Hadath reported that Israeli forces had located and confiscated "secret and sensitive equipment," citing an unnamed senior Israeli security official.
According to the report, the IDF dismantled Ottoman Turkish surveillance devices planted in the Damascus area intended to monitor Israel. The source said Jerusalem had warned the new Syrian government against aligning with Ankara, saying it was "playing with fire." The source further claimed the equipment had been housed in Syrian military bases for over a decade.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, reported that the site had weapons used by the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, a major ally of former Syrian ruler Assad.
The Observatory said the Israeli ground raid was the first of its kind since the fall of Assad in an Islamist-led rebel offensive in December.
The increased Israeli military activity in Syria comes as the two countries are engaged in "advanced" US-mediated talks on easing tensions in southern Syria, with Damascus seeking a security deal that could open the door to wider political negotiations.
According to Hebrew media reports earlier this week, Damascus and Jerusalem are closing in on understandings, and the deal under discussion would be based on the disengagement lines that the two sides agreed to in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War.
After the reports of Wednesday night’s raid, Defense Minister Israel Katz declared Thursday morning on X that Israeli forces "are operating on all battle fronts day and night for the security of Israel."
He did not indicate what he was referring to, though the post came minutes after Syrian media reported the commando raid.
Asked for comment, an Israeli military spokesperson said: "We do not comment on foreign reports."
Israel’s strikes on Tuesday had reportedly targeted Syrian soldiers who, while on patrol, discovered "surveillance and eavesdropping devices" reportedly belonging to Israel.
Syrian state media said that additional Israeli strikes prevented other troops from reaching the area until Wednesday evening, when other soldiers were able to retrieve the bodies of the soldiers killed the day before, and "destroy some of the (surveillance) systems by targeting them with the appropriate weapons."
The Syrian government on Wednesday condemned "the recent Israeli attacks on its territory," but had yet to comment on the reported Israeli ground raid.
It also condemned what it said was an incursion on Monday by IDF soldiers into a town in the Quneitra countryside, their "arrest campaigns against civilians," and their "announcement of the continuation of their illegal presence on the summit of Mount Hermon and the buffer zone."
"These aggressive practices constitute a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions, and constitute a direct threat to peace and security in the region," Damascus added.
’FAKE NEWS’ Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Thursday denied as "fake news" a report by the Kan public broadcaster that Israel had seriously considered transferring the Mount Dov area in exchange for Syria giving up its claim to the Golan Heights in security talks with Damascus a few weeks ago.
"The claim that Israel supposedly considered handing over Mount Dov is absolute fake news," the PMO said in response to the report.
According to Kan, Israel examined the ceding Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms — strategic high ground captured along with the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six Day War — in return for Damascus suspending its illusory sovereignty claim to the Golan.
The report said officials explored the "political feasibility" of the move, which would require approval from 80 Knesset members, during talks that were suspended following sectarian violence in Syria’s southern Sweida province last month.
The report noted that Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa told Arab journalists this week that Damascus cannot join the Abraham Accords while the Golan remains under Israeli control. At the same time, Sharaa confirmed that his government is in "advanced" talks with Israel to pursue a security deal based on the 1974 UN-brokered disengagement lines, which created a ceasefire zone between Israeli- and Syrian-held territory on the Golan Heights.
Visiting a war room set up by Israeli Druze to aid their co-religionists in Syria, Netanyahu said Thursday he’d ordered the use of military force in Syria because he is "not a naive person."
"I understand who we are dealing with, what we are dealing with, and that is why we used force," he said during a visit to the Druze town of Julis in northern Israel. "I told President Trump: we both believe in the same idea — it’s called peace through strength. First comes strength — then comes peace. That’s how it is, certainly in our region, but not only here. But first and foremost, in our region."
The IDF has been deployed at 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.
Israeli forces have been operating in areas up to 15 kilometers (some nine miles) deep into Syria, including Beit Jinn, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of hostile forces.
Amid ongoing US-mediated talks between Israel and Syria, Katz vowed Tuesday that IDF troops would remain in Syria to defend the north, saying Israel’s need to maintain a presence there is a "central lesson from the events of October 7."
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese president says ‘army once again paying in blood the price of maintaining stability’ in the country, as 2 others hurt in 4th deadly incident amid Israel-Hezbollah truce
Blame Hezbollah for putting you in the middle of their war, guys And stop whining — it’s unbecoming for big, tough soldiers to whine.
Lebanon’s army said two personnel were killed Thursday after an Israeli drone that had crashed in the country’s south exploded, the latest deadly incident for Lebanese troops near the Israeli border.
Under a November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s army has been deploying in the country’s south and dismantling the Iran-backed terror group’s infrastructure there with the support of UN observers.
“While army personnel were inspecting an Israeli enemy drone after it fell in the Naqura area, it exploded, leading to the death of an officer and a soldier and wounding two other personnel,” the army said in a statement.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that “the army is once again paying in blood the price of maintaining stability in the south.”
He said it was the fourth deadly incident for the army since it began deploying in south Lebanon after the ceasefire.
Earlier this month, six Lebanese soldiers were killed in a blast at a weapons depot near the border that a military source said belonged to Hezbollah.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF expresses regret for an incident yesterday in which an Israeli drone that had crashed in southern Lebanon exploded, killing and wounding several members of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
In a statement, the military says the IDF has opened a probe into the incident, which it attributes to a “technical malfunction.”
It acknowledges that following the explosion, “the IDF received reports that a number of Lebanese army soldiers were harmed.”
“The possibility that the incident was caused by an IDF weapon explosion is being examined,” the military says, adding that it “regrets the harm to Lebanese army soldiers.”
According to the military, the drone had been intended to target a Hezbollah site that the terror group was rebuilding “in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and not against the Lebanese army soldiers.”
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee issues a similar statement in Arabic on X.
The Lebanese military has said that two people were killed in the blast, including an officer, and two others were injured.
#2
Probably every day there are ~10-100 incidents like this, large and small, around the world -- African wars, South American wars, Asian wars, plus training accidents. When it's the IDF it makes international news.
In the US, every day, ~two people get killed just a-driving down the road, on average, in every one of the 50 states. Every day. Do you hear about it very often?
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That was the self-destruct. The drone operator saw it crashed and pressed the button.
Don't play with abandoned military equipment, people.
It is frequently booby-trapped.
[NAHARNET] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Thursday targeted the al-Zighrin area on the eastern outskirts of the Jezzine district town of al-Rihan, the National News Agency said.
The stream of the al-Khardali River was also targeted by several airstrikes in the al-Mahmoudiyeh area, NNA added.
The Israeli army claimed that the strikes had targeted ''several Hezbollah infrastructure sites and a rocket launchpad.''
Israel has repeatedly bombed the aforementioned areas since the November ceasefire came into effect.
Since the war ended with a U.S.-brokered agreement, Hezbollah officials have said the group will not discuss its disarmament until Israel withdraws from five hills it controls inside Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... and stops almost daily airstrikes that have killed or maimed hundreds of people, most of them Hezbollah members.
Lebanon is under U.S. pressure to disarm Hezbollah after the group fought a 14-month war with Israel and was left gravely weakened, with many of its political and military leaders killed.
[NAHARNET] Paleostinian groups in three refugee camps in south Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... handed over heavy weapons to the Lebanese army on Thursday, under a disarmament deal reached earlier this year, Lebanese and Paleostinian authorities said.
During a visit to Beirut in May, Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed that weapons in Lebanon's Paleostinian camps would be handed over to the Lebanese authorities.
The implementation of the deal -- part of Lebanese authorities' decision to disarm all non-state groups -- began last week as Abbas's Fatah movement surrendered its weapons in south Beirut's Burj al-Barajneh camp.
The official Lebanese-Paleostinian dialogue committee said on Thursday that "heavy weapons belonging to the factions of the Paleostine Liberation Organization in the Rashidieh, al-Bass and Burj al-Shemali camps were handed over to the Lebanese army".
Abbas's Fatah is the most prominent PLO faction. Paleostinian murderous Moslem groups Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , which are allied to Lebanon's Hezbollah, are not part of the organization.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the Paleostinian camps -- where Fatah, Hamas and other gangs are present -- and leaves the factions to handle security.
The statement said six truckloads of weapons were removed from Rashidieh, and one truck each from the other two locations, adding that the process would continue in the rest of Lebanon's Paleostinian camps.
In an army barracks in city of Tyre, near the Rashidieh camp, an AFP photographer saw several army trucks arriving after the handover.
In Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abbas's front man Nabil Abu Rudeina confirmed that "the relevant Paleostinian authorities in Lebanon have handed over the second batch of Paleostine Liberation Organisation weapons" to the army in the three camps as part of the May agreement.
Lebanon hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... agency UNRWA.
The move to collect the Paleostinian factions' weapons comes as the Lebabese government, under heavy U.S. pressure and amid fears of expanded Israeli military action, has tasked the army with drawing up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.
During a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah thon the lamly ended with a November ceasefire, Paleostinian groups including Hamas claimed rocket fire towards Israel.
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I wonder how much they'll charge Palestinians for weapons back?
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So, the United Nations has been deployed to South Lebanon for 45 years, as a peacekeeping force.
And for most of that time, attacks against Israel have occurred continuously; and preparations for more attacks against Israel have occurred continuously.
The French Peacekeepers: "Howitzers pointed at Israel? Shells? Tunnels? Caves? Sacré bleu!! How were we supposed to know?"
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