[Garowe] Kenya's multi-agency security team has arrested one of the most wanted al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... operatives, sources within the security sector have confirmed, in what has been described as an 'enormous' progress in the fight against violent mostly peaceful extremism.
Security reports indicate that Mustakima Mohammed Ali alias Abu Mahir was arrested along the Lamu-Malindi Highway, where he had been coordinating terror activities, leading to the loss of lives and properties in the East African nation.
Before his arrest, security teams had placed him on the list of al-Shabaab turbans wanted "dead or alive" for the killings of a police officer and two chiefs in Lamu County in 2019. He has been operating in unknown locations throughout the search.
He was arrested by hawk-eyed security personnel while traveling via bus from Lamu to Malindi. Mustakima was among the faceless myrmidons hiding in Boni Forest before running away to Somalia following enhanced operations by Kenyan security agencies.
Most of his accomplices have either been killed or prosecuted in ongoing government efforts to fight terrorism. The arrest of Alshabaab remnants like Mustakima is a major win against terrorism as the government uses all means to diminish terrorism threat, security officers said.
"The war against terrorism in Lamu is bearing fruits leading to reduced terror attacks, implementation of projects like LAPSSET, and revamping of the tourism sector," one of the officers said. "Citizens are encouraged to support government efforts in fighting terrorism by reporting terror activities to security agencies for."
For the last seven months, Kenya has heightened security along the Kenya-Somalia border following operations in Somalia targeting the group's hideouts. So far, security teams have managed to restore order within the Northern Frontier Districts and Lamu.
Kenya Defence Forces is actively involved in Somalia’s stabilization mission, which has yielded fruits. Somalia anticipates vanquishing the turbans before the end of 2024 when most of the peacekeepers are leaving the country.
[Garowe] The al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warriors used a donkey-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in El-Wak town within Mandera County, in a major incident that left 12 people dead within the vicinity of Equity Bank, eyewitnesses said.
Among those dead according to multiple sources were 10 Christians (non-locals) and 2 Moslems, in an incident which most probably had non-locals targeted. Those affected were teachers and healthcare workers, sources revealed.
Reports indicated that the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was planted in the town's Central Business District just near the Administrative Police (AP) post. Most of those injured in the incident have been rushed to various hospitals for treatment.
Businesses in the area including banks announced the closure of operations as security officers commenced investigations into the matter and tracked down the perpetrators. The town has since been cordoned off by security teams who are pursuing suspects.
"We regret to inform you, that our Elwak Branch, Mandera County will remain closed today following a kaboom in Elwak Town," Equity Bank reported. "We confirm that our branch and the staff in Elwak are safe."
Initial reports indicated that there was heavy gunfire between coppers stationed in the area and suspected Al-Shabaab terrorists. Security teams are yet to confirm the incident but how it was executed places al-Shabaab holy warriors on the scene.
Preliminary reports indicate that the IED had targeted houses belonging to teachers and healthcare workers in the region. Incidentally, the majority of tutors and healthcare workers as well as casual labourers in the area are non-locals.
This is the first time in as many months the holy warriors are targeting the region following a major security boost. The attack coincides with the arrest of Abu Mahir, a senior al-Shabaab operative within Lamu County along the coastal strip of the country.
[ShabelleMedia] At least six suspected members of the al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... terror group were Wednesday killed in an ambush by security forces in Kumba area, Lamu County.
Police said they also confiscated significant logistical supplies.
The scene of the ambush falls within the expansive Boni Forest where the bandidosDeath Eaters hide as they plan to launch attacks on the Kenyan side.
Kenya Defence Forces who are part a multi-agency team operating in the area staged the ambush.
The personnel said some of the bandidosDeath Eaters managed to escape.
"The public is advised to remain vigilant as the operation may lead to increased activity from the group, particularly as the number of injured bandidosDeath Eaters is reported to be high," an official said.
Among those killed was a light-skinned man who authorities believe is a foreigner.
The raid was staged following intelligence reports that the group was planning an attack in the area. A major operation is ongoing in areas affected by terror-related attacks. This has seen a significant reduction in such incidents.
Areas bordering Boni Forest have been facing increased terror-related attacks largely due to its proximity to the Somalia border. The border areas of Mandera, Wajir, Lamu and Garissa have faced similar attacks resulting in slugging development in the areas.
Kenya postponed the planned reopening of its border with Somalia due to such attacks.
The government says they have acquired more resources to enhance operations in the border area against the terrorists.
The attacks have left many dead and displaced scores hence affecting development.
Police and military officials said they are in active pursuit of the attackers believed to be remnants of al-Shabaab hiding in Boni Forest.
The bandidosDeath Eaters cross over from Somalia and stage attacks in Kenya before retreating to their hideouts in the forest areas under their control.
Kenya has been staging operations over the years to tame their activities.
Somalia has not had no stable government for decades to help in addressing such attacks.
[NYP] Russian military personnel have moved into an air base in Niger that is also housing US troops, US officials said Thursday.
"[The situation] is not great but in the short-term manageable," a senior US defense official told Reuters.
The entry of Russian forces into Airbase 101 in Niger’s capital city of Niamey comes as negotiations take place between the US and the African nation on withdrawing the roughly 1,000 American service members deployed to the country. Competitive bidding/bribing. We simply lost the bid.
Relations between the US and Niger have deteriorated since a military junta took control of Niger’s government last year.
Russian troops are occupying a hangar on the base, which is owned by the Nigeriens, separate from where US service members are being housed, and they’ve been on the property for several weeks, according to the Hill.
"We have been monitoring the situation," a US official told the outlet, noting that Russian personnel do not have direct access to US troops, spaces, or equipment. Beluga Gold Line now available at the Class-VI store.
The official also explained that the majority of US troops in Niger moved to a different air base, in Agade, shortly after the July 2023 coup.
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"We have been monitoring the situation," a US official told the outlet, noting that Russian personnel do not have direct access to US troops, spaces, or equipment.
"Monitoring" at the HAMAS-US hostage level I take it ?
[NEWARAB] US forces destroyed three "uncrewed aerial systems" in a Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... -held part of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... on Thursday, US Central Command says.
"It was determined these systems presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region," CENTCOM adds on X.
"These actions are taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels."
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[NEWARAB] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but mostly rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... has reportedly stepped up arrests of its citizens over social media posts relating to the war on Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. , despite Riyadh having no relations with Israel.
Saudis have been detained over online comments - some dating back a decade - amid an already restricted environment for political expression in the country, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
The arrests were motivated by "security concerns" linked to the events of 7 October in Israel and Gaza and the aftermath, Bloomberg said citing Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups.
Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed over 34,500 people - the majority of whom were women and kiddies - has triggered a wave of popular anti-Israel sentiment across the region with large-scale protests in the US, UK and elsewhere.
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Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed over 34,500 people - a million of whom were women and kiddies
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Adil posted photo on WhatsApp showing terrorist wearing Hamas headband, captioned with quote from terror group’s military chief
Jihadis are welcome to enter without checking in at Customs, and their offspring, friends, and relations will never be sent back no matter how badly they misbehave, but let one of millions post something slightly controversial on the internet and the entirety of British officialdom expresses its ire upon him — while ignoring all the rest. It’s truly amazing.
A United Kingdom judge warned a police officer on Thursday that he may face jail for terror offenses after he shared messages on WhatsApp supporting the Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group.
What about all the other police-persons who agree with him?
Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring told West Yorkshire Police constable Mohammed Adil that the crimes were "very serious" and that he could not "rule out custody" when he sentences him next month.
Adil, 26, who was first arrested on November 6 and had his mobile phone seized, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London after being charged with the two offenses under the Terrorism Act on Monday.
He admitted two counts of publishing an image in support of Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK, after sharing two images on a messaging platform in October and November last year.
It came after Israel launched its offensive against Hamas in Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. in response to the terror group’s devastating October 7 onslaught.
Displayed on his WhatsApp "updates," prosecutors said the image showed a Hamas terrorist wearing a Hamas headband.
In one posting, Adil had added the following over the image: "Today is the time for the Paleostinian people to rise, set their paths straight and establish an independent Paleostinian state."
It was said to be a quote from the leader of Hamas’s military wing, Muhammad Deif.
The second posting was captioned: "We will hold accountable all those who occupied our lands and Allah will hold accountable all those who remained silent against this occupation and oppression."
That was said to be from Abu Obeida, a front man for the terror group’s military wing.
The posts were accessible for 24 hours to Adil’s 1,092 WhatsApp contacts, according to prosecutors.
Two of his colleagues flagged them to senior officers, leading to an investigation by counter-terror police.
He is currently suspended from work.
Goldspring allowed the defendant to be released on conditional bail, ahead of sentencing him on June 4.
"I accept that at the time of the offending you were of good character," he told Adil, adding he accepted that the defendant "didn’t put the pictures on WhatsApp against the public on the lam."
[IsraelTimes] UK activists are pitching tents to call on their universities to divest from Israel; Union of Jewish Students protests ’torrent of antisemitic hatred on campus’
Pro-Paleostinian students across the United Kingdom began holding anti-Israel protests and sit-ins at campuses Wednesday, driven by solidarity with similar encampments across the United States and by outrage at the arrests at Columbia University in New York and the violent mostly peaceful crackdowns at UCLA in Los Angeles, British media reported.
At Goldsmiths, University of London, pro-Paleostinian protesters barricaded themselves in the library Thursday and placed "From the river to the sea" and "Shut it down for Paleostine" banners in the windows, according to The Telegraph. Earlier in the day, a 24-year-old Goldsmiths student named Samira, a member of Goldsmiths for Paleostine, told The Independent: "I think a lot of people are really inspired by what’s going on in the US. We feel a duty as students to come out and protest when you’re seeing like, fellow students in the US... smashed up by riots, and all of that, but, yeah... I think people are really inspired."
Translation: "Whee! Another excuse to go pound on some of those juices so they’ll stop breaking the curve."
Responding to the phenomenon, the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), which represents 9,000 Jewish students in the UK and Ireland, issued a statement on Thursday saying: "Jewish students are angry, they are tired, and they are hurt by the continuous torrent of antisemitic hatred on campus since October 7... Let us be clear, we will not stand for this hatred. It is time that universities take their duty of care to Jewish students seriously."
Why should now be any different than the last quarter century or so?
The UJS statement added that as Jewish students were about to undertake their exams, their peers "seek to replicate scenes of hatred from US campuses, with protesters already having called to ’globalize the intifada’ to support the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and to not ’engage with Zionists.’"
Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, told The Daily Mail that the universities "should take immediate legal action to remove these encampments before Jewish and other students are harassed and excluded."
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official front man said Thursday: "We have always been clear that Jewish students must feel safe on campuses, and whilst our universities rightfully pride themselves on their openness and tolerance and diversity, it is obviously absolutely clear that any antisemitism shouldn’t be tolerated."
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... protests and encampments have continued to sprout throughout the country. Students at the University of Bristol said they were protesting their university’s "complicity in Israel’s genocide of Paleostinians," while also calling for a ceasefire.
A group in Sheffield called the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Paleostine held demonstrations, staged a mass walkout from classes and set up an encampment outside the student union on Wednesday. One student told The Guardian: "We’ve come prepared for the South Yorkshire weather. We’ve got gazebos and picnic tables and a generator for power. We’ll stay indefinitely until the university meets our demands."
At the University of Leeds, students also said they planned to remain indefinitely outside their student union until the university was "longer complicit in the oppression of the Paleostinian people." On Thursday afternoon, the students staged a sit-in on campus. Online footage shows the students entering a building, holding banners and chanting slogans to "end the occupation."
In Newcastle, a group called Newcastle Apartheid off Campus, which bills itself as a "student-led coalition fighting for an end to Newcastle University’s partnership with defense companies supplying Israel," announced on X Wednesday that "students from Newcastle Apartheid off Campus have set up an encampment on Newcastle University’s main campus to highlight the institution’s investment strategy and its complicity in the Israeli military’s war crimes in Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. and the West Bank."
The organization claims that Newcastle University signed a deal with Italian defense and security company Leonardo SpA, which they say sells military components and machinery to Israel, and that the company is helping to develop "missile targeting systems that are being used to bomb Gaza."
Manchester University has ties with both Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Students there called on the university to sever those ties and halt all "unethical research." They also demanded the university end its partnership with BAE Systems and other arms companies.
Manchester University Registrar, Secretary and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Hackett said that while it recognized that students had the right to protest, the university would do everything to maintain "business as usual." However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... he said, encampments on the premises were not only a potential health hazard, but ultimately an "unauthorized and unlawful use of the university’s campus."
As the student protests continue, a spokesperson for Universities UK, which represents 142 institutions in the country, told The Guardian: "Universities are monitoring the latest news on campus protests in the US and Canada. As with any high-profile issue, universities work hard to strike the right balance between ensuring the safety of all students and staff, including preventing harassment, and supporting lawful free speech on campus. We continue to meet regularly to discuss the latest position with university leaders."
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of pro-Paleostinian students from Mexico’s largest university camp in solidarity with similar protests against Israel that have swept colleges in the United States.
Mounting flags and chanting "Long live free Paleostine," the protesters set up tents in front of the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM) head office in Mexico City.
The students call on the Mexican government to break diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel.
"We are here to support Paleostine, the people who are in Paleostine, and the student camps in the United States," says Valentino Pino, a 19-year-old philosophy student.
Jimena Rosas, 21, says she hopes the protest will have a domino effect and spread to other universities in the country.
"Once people see that UNAM is beginning to mobilize, other universities should start as well," she says.
[IsraelTimes] La Belle France’s prestigious Sciences Po university says it will close its main Gay Paree site on Friday due to a fresh occupation of buildings by pro-Paleostinian students protesting against Israel.
In a message sent to staff on Thursday evening, its management says the buildings in central Gay Paree "will remain closed tomorrow, Friday May 3. We ask you to continue to work from home."
[IsraelTimes] From Amsterdam to Rotterdam, anti-Israel stickers festoon Dutch urban centers and university campuses while, observers say, few pro-Israel stickers remain un-defaced for long.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli PhD student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says she was attacked by an anti-Israel protester on the university campus after speaking about the plight of the hostages held by Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... Recounting the incident on X, formerly Twitter, Noga Mudrik writes that she was "hit by a girl holding a Paleostinian flag, right at the campus entrance."
"She shouted at me to go back to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and hurled insults at me and Israelis," she writes. "This happened right after I spoke to TV journalists about the hostages and Oct. 7."
Mudrik adds that when she moved to the US for her PhD two and a half years ago, she "never imagined I’d have to defend my safety or my right to exist as an Israeli," but says that since then, the "right of free speech turned into violence."
"I came here to do research, and I want to do the research I love. I did not come to defend my safety, nor my right, or the rights of my family, friends, and millions of others in Israel—Jews, Arabs, and others of different religions—to exist," she adds.
She attaches images of some of the signs she came across on the John Hopkins campus, including one declaring that "Zionism upholds Nazi ideology and white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
It should alarm more than just the Jewish students.
[IsraelTimes] Half a dozen high schools allow hundreds of students to briefly skip class for sit-ins, with many then marching to encampments at nearby universities where they are embraced
Hundreds of students held sit-ins at Chicago public high schools in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. on Wednesday, as anti-Israel protests trickled down from the college campuses that they’ve upended in recent weeks.
Several dozen students were seen participating in the demonstrations at each of half a dozen high schools, where some Jewish students said the demonstrations — and the schools’ decisions to allow them — left them feeling unsafe.
"I learned in the early months of high school that if you don’t fit with the majority ideology, people will only see you as one aspect and won’t like you. I’ve lost many lifelong friends this year for being a proud Jew," said Jones College Prep senior Mira Rosenblum during a presser with local Jewish leaders in Chicago.
Rosenblum accused her school’s administration of ignoring antisemitism. While her request to hold a vigil after Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7 onslaught was denied, Jones allowed hundreds of students to participate in a January walk-out along with other Chicago public schools calling for a ceasefire, the teen claimed. Rosenblum said that she was subsequently "doxxed and called anti-black and Islamophobic for filing a complaint against the student leaders who compared themselves to Jewish rebels fighting against Nazi Germany."
Jones College Prep did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"When I see all of this anti-Zionism, it really feels like antisemitism," Jones freshman Max Rubenstein told ABC 7. "At least all the Jewish students are a little uneasy when they see this large-scale protest."
"Anyone who is antisemitic and calls themselves pro-Paleostinian is not pro-Paleostinian," a Jones protest organizer, who was identified only as Atticus, told the network.
"While we support students’ constitutional right to free expression, harassment, discrimination, and bias-based harm have no place in our school community and will not be tolerated," Chicago Public Schools said in a statement.
Explaining the impetus for the day’s sit-ins, Atticus said, "We wanted to show our support to growing encampments around the country, including Northwestern, Columbia and general protest for Paleostinian genocide."
While the sit-ins took place without any reported incidents, the university campus protests Atticus cited have led to hundreds of arrests, including some 300 anti-Israel Lions of Islam who violent mostly peacefully took over a building at Columbia University. At the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Los Angeles, dueling groups of pro-Paleostinian and pro-Israeli protesters squared off in ugly fistfights that led to several injuries on Wednesday.
The university protests have mushroomed across the country, with organizers pledging to remain in tents on campus quads until their schools sever all academic and financial links to Israel. Administrators have been forced to decide between calling in police to rein in violators, which risks calling more attention to the cause, and cutting deals with them, infuriating US politicians and Jewish organizations.
Until this week, though, the encampments were limited to college campuses. Chicago has seen the largest number of high schoolers joining their older peers, but similar sit-ins were reported in Austin, Texas, and Seattle, Washington. A New Jersey sit-in scheduled for last week was reportedly canceled after a pair of county commissioners demanded that the district’s superintendent intervene.
At Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, media was not allowed inside as the sit-in took place, but participants could be seen through the building’s windows.
The group was seated on the floor facing a student leader who read off information regarding the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, provided tips on how to demonstrate and taught pro-Paleostinian chants they should expect to hear and echo.
Chicago Public Schools issued a guidance for the day’s protests that allowed them to extend for 30 minutes, but the sit-in at Jones lasted twice as long, according to one parent of a student there. The rallies were organized by Chicago Youth For Justice.
After the sit-ins, many of the participating students proceeded to march to nearby "Gaza solidarity encampments" that were established earlier this week at DePaul University and the University of Chicago.
High schoolers were embraced upon their arrival, with one of the Jones students given the opportunity to lead hundreds at the University of Chicago in a chant of "Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... ’s sending bombs killing children and their moms!"
At DePaul, Lincoln Park High School students joined college students in a traditional Native American circle dance in the middle of the quad, which was filled with tents and Paleostinian flags.
"That was to remind us that as indigenous people, we are united in liberation," one of the college protest organizers declared at the end of the song, to applause from the high school visitors.
Another organizer took the mic to report that he had just come from a meeting with DePaul stakeholders who refused to accept the protesters’ demands.
"Everyone here on this squad right now is staying here and is not moving until this disgusting university divests from these genocidal corporations," he shouted to cheers from the hundreds present.
"Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest!" they chanted repeatedly.
High schoolers then joined their college-aged peers in making signs that were hung on the fence surrounding the DePaul quad.
"Netanyahu is a modern-day Hitler and Biden is his b****," read one.
Another featured a Marvel cartoon captioned "Magneto hates Zionists!"
One student was seen putting up a sign she made that read "No pride in genocide."
Approached by a passerby who asked her if she knew that queer people are marginalized and targeted in the West Bank and Gaza, the masked student replied that she was not aware of this but added, "No one is free until everyone is free" before finishing zip-tying the sign and scurrying away.
At the presser held by Jewish community leaders several miles away, the Jewish United Fund’s Jane Charney demanded that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) clamp down on the sit-ins.
"How are CPS leaders going to ensure that Jews are not harassed and are able to be present in their schools in the fullness of their identities? What consequences will be meted out to those who use antisemitic language? How will teachers and students be trained to understand the American Jewish experience and our deep connection to Israel? CPS has been silent on all of these questions," Charney lamented.
"So far, we have seen not much beyond available ’processing spaces’ for Jewish students and repeated appeals that students abide by the norms of the Student Code of Conduct — the very same student code of conduct that prohibits sit-ins," she said, adding that Jewish clubs have been urged not to campaign for the release of hostages, while the January ceasefire walk-out was tolerated.
"This hypocritical and selective enforcement of campus rules and capitulation to mob rule sends a clear message to Jewish students and their families that our safety and our ability to be present at our schools in the fullness of our identity is not important."
Atah Kheir Othman. He doesn't look like a student, does he? But he does look like an Arab.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Photos of the other miscreants can be seen at the link.
Several older, possibly non-student protestors were arrested Tuesday at USF
Among them was Atah Othman, a 39-year-old who brought a weapon
The school instructed anti-Israel demonstrators to disperse by 5pm
Police broke up the encampment when they failed to obey the order
Atah Othman is charged with trespassing on property, unlawful assembly, resisting an officer, and possession of a firearm on school property.
It's unclear what his connection to the school is, or exactly what type of weapon he brought with him.
The campus anti-Israel protest was organized by the Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society group. It attracted some 100 protestors, some of whom were not enrolled at the university.
Others arrested and released, who may not be students but have now been slapped with felony charges include: Emmanuel Atmosfera, 25, and Leonardo Tilelli, 23. Among the others apprehended were Daniel Powell, 32, Jake Geffon, 23, and 27-year-old Cameron Pressey.
It is not clear what older, in some cases armed, non-student protestors were doing at the student-organized demonstration.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] UCLA protesters were filmed engaging in combat training moments before cops swooped in and arrested hundreds at a pro-Paleostine encampment.
Police raided the Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. solidarity encampment at the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, school on Wednesday night after students defied orders to leave. At least 132 protesters were arrested and one officer was injured during the tense standoff between the demonstrators and riot-gear clad cops.
Now, drone footage taken just before officers stormed shows the students learning hand-to-hand combat techniques.
The group can be seen doling out instructions via megaphone as one balaclava-wearing member appears to act out self-defense tactics - in scenes that reminded some online commenters of jihadi-like training.
[IsraelTimes] Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the encampment at Montreal’s McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Paleostinian camps across some of Canada’s largest universities, demanding they divest from groups with ties to Israel.
While McGill had requested police intervention, law enforcement has not stepped in to clear the encampment and does not respond to news agency Rooters’ questions about their plans. Students also set up encampments at Canadian schools including the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.
"We want the camp to be dismantled. We trust the police, let them do their job," a spokesperson for Legault says.
There was also a pro-Israel counter-protest in Montreal on Thursday. The two sides were kept separate.
On Thursday morning, students at the University of Toronto set up an encampment in a fenced-off grassy space at the school’s downtown campus where some 100 protesters gathered with dozens of tents.
According to a statement from organizers, the encampment will stay until the university discloses its investments, divests from any that "sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Paleostine" and ends partnerships with some Israeli academic institutions.
A university spokesperson tells Rooters it’s "in dialogue with the protesters" and that, as of midday, the encampment was "not disruptive to normal university activities."
[GEO.TV] Terrorists involved in the recent abduction of district and sessions judge of South Wazoo have been killed during a joint intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Thursday.
District and Sessions Judge Shakirullah Marwat on Monday was recovered safely a day after he was kidnapped by gunnies near the border area of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The police said that security forces conducted an operation in the Kulachi area of DI Khan last night which made the judge's safe recovery possible.
They had said that Judge Marwat was completely fine at the moment.
The judge was kidnapped by gunnies from a village named Bagwal in the border area between Tank and DI Khan.
In a statement today, the military’s media wing said security forces on May 2 (today) conducted a joint IBO in the Tank district on the reported presence of the terrorists.
"During the conduct of the operation, after intense fire exchange, three Lions of Islam were successfully neutralised and sent to hell," the statement added.
The ISPR identified the Lions of Islam as ringleader Azmat alias Azmati, ringleader Karamat alias Hanzla and Rehan.
"The killed Lions of Islam remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area including [the] recent abduction of District and Sessions Judge of South Waziristan District," read the statement.
The security forces remain determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country, the ISPR added.
[GEO.TV] Slamming the results of the February 8 general elections, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty. Fazl seldom misses a meal and is now so large he has his own gravitational pull... alleged "manipulation of votes" and "sell" of all legislature "from the Sindh Assembly to the President’s House" took place in the 2024 nationwide polls.
"We are loyal to Pakistain, but there is no value of national loyalty here," Maulana Fazl said while addressing a power show in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Thursday night. "Issue is not limited to elections, you [state institutions] will have to change themselves in entirety."
Pointing towards alleged manipulation of poll results, he criticised: "Democracy has been eliminated from the country."
"Those people sitting at the helm have made Pakistain a slave of America," he said, adding, "Pakistain is self-sufficient of competent people and natural resources."
The senior politician, who headed a multi-party alliance — Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM) — which successfully ousted the former prime minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who anti-establishment Pak premier, who was hounded out of office, arrested, jailed, and will likely be hung by his political opponents... ’s government in 2022, said that they were fighting for illusory sovereignty of the country.
He said a "drama" was staged in the name of general elections in the 2024.
Fazl said his political rivals thought that the JUI-F would not be able to protest against election rigging "but our movement is not only for one day or one month".
He also expressed concerns over the increase in terror incidents, saying that Pakistain can only prosper when rulers come to power through "people’s struggle".
[NEWARAB] The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a group of Iran-backed gangs, launched multiple attacks on Israel using cruise missiles on Thursday, a source in the group said.
The source told Rooters the attack was carried out with multiple Arqub-type cruise missiles and targeted the Israeli city of Tel Aviv for the first time.
The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq has claimed dozens of rockets and drone attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria and on targets in Israel in the almost seven months since the Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. war began.
Israel has not publicly commented on the attacks claimed by Iraqi gangs.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian 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
... cell planning bombing attacks in the West Bank on behalf of the terror group’s Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... branch was recently captured, the Shin Bet security agency announces.
According to the Shin Bet, IDF troops nabbed three Islamic Jihad operatives in the West Bank town of Yabed in January. They are named by the agency as Ahmed Abu Bakr, 29, Ibrahim Abu Bakr, 29, and Ibadah Abu Bakr, 18.
The trio "acted under the directives of the PIJ headquarters in Lebanon, in order to carry out significant attacks, using remote-detonated explosives against IDF troops in the area," the agency says.
During their arrest, the Shin Bet says, troops seized several primed bombs.
Ahmed and Ibrahim, who the Shin Bet says are senior PIJ operatives, were in contact with the terror group’s headquarters in Lebanon, during which they received funding, largely cryptocurrency, for their attacks, according to the agency.
The Shin Bet says the pair also carried out tests with remote-detonated bombs. Ibadah had been recruited by Ibrahim to build the bombs, according to the agency.
The trio have been charged with a series of security offenses, leading the Shin Bet to release details about the case.
[IsraelTimes] As Netanyahu vows IDF will enter southern Gaza city regardless of potential truce with Hamas, protesters place giant photos of female captives outside PM’s Jerusalem home
Protesters on Thursday morning blocked Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway in both directions for around 20 minutes in a demonstration calling for an immediate deal to free over 100 hostages held by Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... in Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. since October 7.
Holding a large banner reading, "It’s either Rafah or the hostages — choose life," the protesters stood in the middle of the busy thoroughfare to prevent morning traffic from passing.
Hebrew media reported that several family members of hostages were leading the protest, including Yehuda Cohen, the father of 19-year-old Nimrod Cohen, Yifat Calderon, the cousin of Ofer Calderon, 53, and Shay Mozes, the nephew of 79-year-old Gadi Mozes.
A woman throwing eggs at the protesters was arrested, according to Hebrew media.
Also in attendance were members of a female-led protest group urging Israel not to launch its looming offensive in Rafah and claiming it would endanger the lives of the hostages, many of whom are believed to be held in Gaza’s southernmost city.
"Entering Rafah means abandoning the lives of the hostages," the group said in a press statement. "After half a year of being promised that only military action can bring back the hostages, we all understand that the only way to save those who can still be saved is through a deal."
It is believed that 129 of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Three hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 12 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
Netanyahu told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Wednesday that the IDF would launch a mass invasion of Rafah to dismantle four remaining Hamas battalions whether or not there is a hostage deal, according to an Israeli official.
During their meeting, Blinken reiterated Washington’s opposition to a major IDF ground invasion in the southern Gaza city, where over one million displaced Paleostinians are sheltering amid the ongoing war, "absent an effective plan to make sure that civilians are not harmed" — which he said Israel has yet to provide.
The comments came as Hamas appeared poised to reject the latest hostage deal proposal crafted by mediators and green-lit by Israel, which provides for the release of 33 female, elderly or sick hostages in the first stage.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, protesters placed large photos of female hostages outside Netanyahu’s residence in the capital, alongside a sign reading, "Look into their eyes. All eyes are on you. Deal now!"
[IsraelTimes] PA says patrol in West Bank city of Tulkarm came under fire, shot back; armed group Nour Shams Camp Brigades denounces slaying of Ahmed Abu al-Foul as Israeli-style ’assassination’
Paleostinian security officers killed a gunman in the West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Paleostinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and that the fighter’s faction described as an Israeli-style "liquidation."
Paleostinian Authority security services spokesperson Talak Dweikat said a force sent to patrol Tulkarm overnight came under fire and shot back, hitting the gunman. He died of his wounds in a hospital.
Videos circulated online, and which Rooters was not immediately able to confirm, showed a car being hit by gunfire.
A local gang, the Tulkarm and Nour Shams Camp Brigades, claimed the dead man, Ahmed Abu al-Foul, as its member with affiliation to the Paleostinian 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
... terror group.
Al-Foul was "treacherously... targeted in his car" without provocation, the brigades said in a statement. "This crime is just like any liquidation by Israeli special forces."
PA 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.... wields limited self-rule in the West Bank and sometimes coordinates security with Israel.
Parts of the territory have drifted into chaos and poverty, with the PA and Israel trading blame, especially since ties have been further strained by the war on Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in the Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip
Hamas, an Islamic Jihad ally that rules the Gaza Strip and has chafed at Abbas’s strategy of seeking diplomatic accommodation with Israel, denounced "the attacks by the PA’s security forces on our people and our resistance fighters."
Paleostinian security forces and button men have exchanged gunfire several times in the last year, but deaths are rare.
Hamas seized control of Gaza from the PA in a bloody 2007 coup. The terror group and the PA, which is dominated by Abbas’s Fatah party, have remained at odds ever since.
[NEWARAB] Paleostinian Islamic Jihad's ...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... military wing says it fired a barrage of mortars on Israeli forces in Gaza City, adding that it collaborated with the armed branch of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
While Islamic Jihad is a religiously motivated group, the DFLP is a leftist organisation.
Islamic Jihad's armed branch is called the Al-Quds Brigades.
The DFLP's military wing is the Omar Al-Qasem Forces. Nobody's heard of them, have they? I mean, I guess they might be in a card file someplace, but they're just not very prominent.
[IsraelTimes] State Department says UN ’in the process or has by now recovered’ the humanitarian assistance stolen by terror group, the ’first widespread case of diversion’ acknowledged by US
Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... managed to seize a major shipment of humanitarian aid that was delivered to Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. from Jordan earlier this week, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday, after the supplies were the first to be shipped to the enclave through a newly reopened Israeli border crossing.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... viewed the aid on Tuesday just before it departed from the headquarters of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman bound for the renovated crossing into the Gaza Strip at Erez, which was largely destroyed by Hamas during its October 7 terror onslaught that sparked the ongoing war.
The reopening of Erez, Israel’s sole crossing on the northern edge of Gaza, had been a main pleas of international aid agencies for months, to alleviate the humanitarian situation which is believed to be most severe among the hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians in the north of the enclave.
According to Miller, the aid shipment was unloaded by the Jordanian military inside the Strip before being "picked up by a humanitarian implementer for distribution inside Gaza, and that aid was intercepted and diverted by Hamas on the ground in Gaza."
And everyone was so surprised.
"The UN is either in the process or has by now recovered that aid, but it was an unacceptable act by Hamas to divert this aid to begin with," he said during a press briefing.
How much did they pay to the Hamas recovery agents?
Miller added that UNRWA, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... agency for Paleostinian refugees, would likely issue a statement soon condemning the incident, indicating it was the organization from which Hamas stole the aid.
"If there’s one thing that Hamas could do to jeopardize the shipment of aid, it would be diverting it for their own use, rather than allowing it to go to the innocent civilians that need it," he said, claiming this was the "first widespread case of diversion that we have seen" in Gaza.
Hamas held the aid trucks for "some time" before releasing them, according to Miller.
His comments follow Israel’s long-standing contention that Hamas stockpiled supplies and kept them from increasingly desperate civilians. Footage from Gaza has shown button men, who were reportedly linked to the terror group, stealing trucks delivering humanitarian aid from Egypt.
In February, the US diplomat who was then involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza denied allegations that Hamas stole aid and commercial shipments into the enclave, saying that no Israeli official had presented him or the Biden administration with "specific evidence of diversion or theft of assistance."
At the same time, he acknowledged that Hamas had used other aid delivery channels to "shape where and to whom assistance goes."
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... Blinken condemned the "unacceptable" targeting of the Jordanian aid convoy by Israeli protesters trying to prevent its transfer to Gaza.
Tzav 9, a right-wing organization that opposes aid being sent to Gaza while hostages are still held there, organized a demonstration at the Allenby Crossing between Israel and Jordan overnight Tuesday to block the convoy. Images on social media showed young women sitting on the road in front of a truck, while other demonstrators held Israeli flags and pictures of the hostages.
Videos showed the activists dumping bags of flour onto the road.
"My understanding is that the people who attacked this convoy were arrested today by the Israeli authorities. That sends a very strong message," he noted during an NBC Nightly News interview.
The Israeli government must "continue to send a strong message that this aid cannot be, must not be interfered with as it goes through Israel... Israel is better than this," he added while noting that the atrocities committed against Israel on October 7 and Hamas’s continued holding of hostages since.
"The people who so desperately need this aid and who are now getting more of it because of the important steps that [Israel has] taken in recent weeks — including right here at Ashdod port — have nothing to do with October 7, nothing to do with the hostages," Blinken said.
"They’ve been caught in this crossfire of Hamas’s making, and it’s imperative that they get the food that they need, the water they need, the medical supplies they need, access to the hospitals, to health care — all of that," he added.
Israel’s military offensive against Hamas, in response to the Paleostinian terror group’s egregious assault on Israel on October 7, has devastated the Gaza Strip and plunged its 2.3 million people into a humanitarian crisis.
Israel recently stepped up efforts to deliver aid by land and opened up new ground routes, including opening Erez to aid trucks on Wednesday. Washington has said aid delivery has increased significantly in recent weeks, but that more is needed.
A temporary pier is also being constructed by the US military to increase humanitarian aid deliveries, and is more than halfway complete, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
[SANA.SY] Following are the latest developments of Operation “al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, in response to the attacks launched by the Israeli occupation on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip:
-Palestinian media: a Palestinian was martyred and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces shooting at trucks carrying aid in Gaza
-Dozens of martyrs, wounded in ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza for 209th day in row
-Palestinian Health Ministry: Over the past 24 hours, Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres in Gaza Strip, leaving 28martyrs and 51 wounded
-Palestinian Health Ministry: The number of martyrs from the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 34,596martyr and 77,816 wounded
[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets and artillery forces struck a tunnel shaft and a mortar launching post in the central Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip after several projectiles were fired at troops operating in the area, the military says.
The IDF says there were no injuries in the mortar attack yesterday.
Separately, reservists of the Yiftah Brigade spotted a group of operatives near troops, before calling in a dronezap and artillery shelling, killing the cell, the IDF says.
Another operative, spotted by troops using a drone, was seen entering a building known to the army as being used by a terror group in central Gaza. The IDF says a fighter jet struck the site, killing the operative.
Additional infrastructure belonging to Gaza terror groups, including tunnels and buildings, as well as operatives, were struck over the past day, the military adds.
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[GEO.TV] In what can be called war crimes, a Paleostinian boy lost his limbs while opening "booby-trapped food" in man-made famine-hit Khan Younis.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, "A 14-year-old boy was maimed and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis."
The boy, who was maimed in the blast on Monday, is just one of "many people recently injured" from aid supplies rigged with hidden explosive charges, the UN body added.
[IsraelTimes] Halevi meets troops on Lebanon border amid ongoing skirmishes with terror group; anti-tank missiles cause damage to homes in Metula
During a visit to the Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... border, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military was preparing for an offensive against the Hezbollah terror group, which continued to carry out attacks on northern Israel on Wednesday.
"You are doing an excellent job of operational defense in the north, and we are preparing for an offensive in the north," Halevi said to reservists of the Etzioni Brigade at an undisclosed location on the border with Lebanon, in remarks published by the military.
The remarks were made following an assessment Halevi held with the chief of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, the commander of the 146th Division, Brig. Gen. Yisrael Shomer, and other officers, the IDF said.
Speaking with the reservists, Halevi also said the IDF’s campaign in the Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip would continue "with strength."
"Its objectives are both to restore security to the communities near the Gaza Strip and to bring the hostages back home securely," he said.
The visit to the Lebanon border came amid repeated Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel amid the war in Gaza, including on Wednesday.
Israel has threatened to go to war to force Hezbollah away from the border if it does not retreat and continues to threaten northern communities, from where some 70,000 people have been evacuated to avoid the fighting.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for four separate attacks throughout Wednesday, including anti-tank missile fire on the largely evacuated border community of Metula, causing damage to homes.
The IDF said no injuries were caused in the attack, and troops shelled the launch sites in southern Lebanon with artillery.
Israeli fighter jets also struck two buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab and Marwahin on Wednesday evening, the military said.
Earlier in the day, another site belonging to the terror group in Tayr Harfa was hit, the IDF added.
In separate strikes overnight, fighter jets struck Hezbollah positions in five different areas of southern Lebanon, the military said Wednesday morning. The IDF said observation posts, buildings, and other Hezbollah infrastructure were hit in Khiam, Kafr Kila, Blida, Odaisseh, and Mays al-Jabal.
It published footage of the strikes.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the terror group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in nine civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 11 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 290 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 56 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 60 civilians, three of them journalists, have been killed.
On Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné was in Israel as part of a larger regional diplomatic trip in an effort to broker a de-escalation in the conflict on the border, and with Gay Paree trying to act as an intermediary.
Following a series of meetings in Lebanon on Sunday, Séjourné told journalists that La Belle France "is refusing to accept the worst-case scenario" of a full-scale war in Lebanon. "In southern Lebanon, the war is already here, even if it’s not called by that name, and it’s the civilian population who’s paying the price," he said.
A French diplomatic official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the purpose of Séjourné’s visit was to convey La Belle France’s "fears of a war on Lebanon" and to submit an amendment to a proposal Gay Paree had previously presented to Lebanon for a diplomatic resolution to the border conflict.
On Tuesday, Séjourné said that a number of modifications had been put to Israel following those consultations in Lebanon. "I call on Israeli authorities to take a public position on these French plans that will enable us to move to the next stage," he said in an interview with Rooters.
"A number of proposals that we made to the Lebanese side have been shared (with you)," Sejourne said ahead of a meeting with Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem."We have a relationship with Lebanon, 20,000 citizens there, and the war in 2006 was particularly dramatic for them."
Séjourné said the basis of the proposals was to ensure that the 2006 UN Resolution 1701 was implemented. Resolution 1701 required that Hezbollah withdraw its forces north of the Litani, a provision the Iranian proxy has ignored.
Earlier this year, Séjourné presented a written proposal to both sides that included Hezbollah’s forces pulling back 10km (6 miles) from the Israeli border and Israel halting strikes in southern Lebanon. The proposal also looked at long-term border issues and was discussed with partners including the United States, which is making its own efforts to ease tensions and exerts the most influence on Israel.
Hezbollah has maintained it will not enter any concrete discussions with Israel until there is a ceasefire in Gaza, where the war between Israel and Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... has entered its seventh month.
The current dialogue, where you shoot rockets in the direction of empty houses and Israel in turn kills off key Hezbollah personages, one by one, appears to me count as effective communication — no words necessary.
[IsraelTimes] Audio recordings shed light on difficulties faced by drone operators trying to take out terrorists without harming Israeli forces on southern Israel’s Route 232
Leaked footage of the Israeli Air Force’s actions on the morning of the October 7 Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror onslaught aired on Tuesday evening, showing for the first time the decisions made by the IAF’s Unmanned Aircraft Squadron as it attempted to make sense of the chaos unfurling on the ground with no clear instructions.
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[SANA.SY] The Israeli occupation continues brutal aggression on Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip by land, sea and air for the 209th day, leaving dozens of deaders and maimed amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation there due to the siege.
Paleostinian media said that six Paleostinians were martyred in shelling al-Zahra city, north of al-Nuseirat camp, the central Gaza Strip, while ambulance crews recovered three deaders in a series of raids carried out by the occupation aircraft on the northwestern region of the camp.
In Khan Yunis, a Paleostinian was martyred, and others were maimed in the occupation’s bombing southeast of the city, in addition to heavy hovering, meanwhile in Gaza, two Paleostinians were martyred and others were maimed, while others are still missing under the rubble Death toll from Zionist aggression now approaching 3,124,000.
And the occupation aircraft bombed neighborhoods, west of Gaza, leaving a number of deaders and maimed, while the occupation artillery targeted east of Rafah city, wounding a number of Paleostinians.
On Wednesday, Paleostinian Health Ministry said that the number of deaders in the ongoing aggression on Gaza had reached to 34,568 deaders and 77,765 maimed.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah operatives who were spotted by troops entering buildings used by the terror group in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Ayta ash-Shab earlier today, the military says.
Earlier, four rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Mount Dov area. According to the IDF, three of the projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome, while the fourth struck an open area.
No damage or injuries were caused, and the IDF adds that it shelled the launch site with artillery.
[NEWARAB] The Syrian regime's defence ministry on Friday said eight soldiers had been injured in Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!... s near Damascus.
On Thursday night, "the Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a site near Damascus... injuring eight soldiers", the ministry said in a statement.
Israel rarely comments on individual strikes but has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy 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... to expand its presence in Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israel had struck a government building in the Damascus countryside that has been used by Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Iran-backed Hezbollah group since 2014.
The Israeli military has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of a civil war in its northern neighbour in 2011, mainly targeting regime army positions and Iran-backed fighters.
But the strikes increased after Israel's war on Gazoo
Islamic 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 an 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. began in October.
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... the personification of Somali state failure...
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...![]("Pix/700ba7f7.jpg" "\"l-Shabaab\"")
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but mostly rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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...Deobandi holy man, known as ![]("Pix/Leb-4.jpg" "\"Leb\"")
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
...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...
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
