[FoxNews] Texas law enforcement officials broke up a human smuggling operation on Thursday in which 26 migrants were recovered from sweltering conditions, and seven suspected smugglers were arrested.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office received information on Thursday morning that a human smuggling operation was taking place involving several dozen people. Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters that the department knew the smuggling operation involved a long, goose-neck trailer traveling to a rural home outside San Antonio.
While the nationalities of all the migrants were unknown, Salazar said a Guatemalan woman within the group told officials she paid $16,000 to be smuggled into the U.S., calling it "a big money operation."
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So if NY can charge Trump with basically violating a federal statute, it's time for Texas to charge Biden and Mayorkas with criminal conspiracy to violate the immigration laws.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unit assassinated journalist Muawiya Abdel Razzaq and three of his family members late Tuesday night at their home in the al-Droshab suburb, north of Khartoum Bahri (North).
Since the war began between the army and the RSF on April 15, 2023, numerous journalists have faced widespread violations from both sides, including arrest, killing, and looting, with the paramilitary forces being responsible for the majority of these abuses.
The Journalists’ Syndicate recorded 393 direct violations against journalists and media outlets, mostly occurring due to their work or affiliation with the profession. These violations included murder, physical assault, kidnapping, and detention, with at least one female journalist experiencing sexual violence, according to the union.
Hussein Mirghani, a resident of the al-Droshab, stated on Facebook, "In a crime that adds to the record of the criminal militia, four young men from southern al-Droshab were executed inside their home late last night: Tarek Yaqub, Murtada Captain, Ali Turki, and journalist Muawiya Abdel Razzaq."
He added that the victims had remained in the area since the outbreak of the war and had not left.
The Journalists’ Syndicate mourned journalist Abdel Razzaq, stating that he was killed by RSF’s gunfire along with three of his family members. The union strongly condemned the incident, calling on the RSF to immediately investigate this crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Clashes reignited in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Wednesday, causing civilian casualties. Simultaneously, the 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 army conducted an airdrop of military equipment to fortify the city’s defences against the besieging Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The largest city in the Darfur region, El Fasher has endured over three weeks of intense fighting between the Sudanese army, allied armed movements, and the RSF. These festivities have resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, along with widespread infrastructural damage.
In response, the Sudanese army’s air force executed an airdrop on Wednesday to reinforce the 6th Infantry Division, providing them with military equipment to strengthen their position against the RSF.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... intermittent festivities using heavy weaponry resumed between the army, its allied armed movements, and the RSF within the city.
The joint force of the armed struggle movements, fighting alongside the Sudanese army, stated that they pursued RSF forces on the northern axis of El Fasher Wednesday morning. They released video footage showing their forces and army forces in the main market, denying RSF claims of reaching the market area or the western part of the city.
In retaliation, the RSF launched heavy artillery shelling on the southern side of El Fasher.
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[AFRICANEWS] At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were maimed after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in 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... on Wednesday, officials said.
Women, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira, Mini Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur province, said on X, formerly Twitter.
A grassroots group set up to protect residents in Wad Madani, the capital city of Gezira, said late Wednesday on social media that the paramilitary force, which has been fighting the Sudanese army for over a year, used heavy artillery to besiege and attack the village.
The Madani Resistance® Committee, which has been threatened and attacked by the RSF in the past, accused the paramilitaries of looting Wad al-Noura in the midst of the attacks which it said started Wednesday morning.
The RSF claimed in December that it had seized control of Wad Madani, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and a haven for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting.
The resistance committee said the RSF invaded the village, displacing residents, including women and kiddies, to other parts of the district of al-Manaqil.
The Sudanese transitional government in a statement on its Telegram channel condemned the attacks and called for the international community to hold the RSF accountable.
"These are criminal acts that reflect the systematic behavior of these (RSF) militias in targeting civilians, plundering their property, and forcibly displacing them from their areas," said the media office for the Transitional Sovereignty Council, which was set up after the ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... in 2019.
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[SHABELLEMEDIA] In a significant move aimed at curbing the rising incidents of Dire Revenge killings in central Somalia, a military court in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... State executed three men in a public square in Dhusamareb town on Thursday.
The execution comes after the court found the three men guilty of murdering Dr. Ahmed Hassan Osman and his younger brother, Koran teacher Liban Hassan Osman, in the Ilix area of the Galgadud region in December 2023.
The three executed men, Nur Abdi Mohammed, Shucaib Mohammed Farah, and Bile Abdullahi Hassan, were sentenced to death on February 27 this year after being found guilty of the crime.
The court determined that they had deliberately killed the two brothers, prompting their execution as a measure to address the increasing incidents of Dire Revenge killings in the region.
The execution of the three men has been met with mixed reactions, with some members of the community expressing support for the move as a necessary step to maintain law and order, while others have raised concerns about the use of the death penalty and the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing the root causes of such violence.
The Somali government, through its military court system, has been actively working to address the issue of Dire Revenge killings, which have been on the rise in central Somalia in recent months.
[IsraelTimes] Israel denies claim by Houthis and Islamic Resistance they carried out attacks on Haifa port
The leader 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... ’s 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, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said on Thursday the group’s operations against Israel, carried out with the group Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, would intensify.
Earlier, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group launched two joint military operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance® against ships at Israel’s Haifa port — but the Israeli military denied the report.
Islamic Resistance® in Iraq said it carried out two operations with the Houthis on Haifa port, according to a statement on its Telegram channel.
The Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen and are aligned with Iran, have attacked ships off its coast for months, saying they are acting in solidarity with the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group, which is also backed by Iran, as it fights Israel in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... . That war broke out on October 7 with a shock Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage to Gaza.
The group has launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, killed three sailors, seized one vessel and sunk another since November, according to the US Maritime Administration.
Earlier Wednesday, Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted three vessels in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
The Houthis have also shot multiple missiles toward Israel, causing sirens in Eilat, and a Kan report on Monday said the group was training to invade Israel but needed a way to get there.
Allah is not likely to intervene at this point, but perhaps President Biden will do more than talk out of both sides of his mouth…
[GEO.TV] The leader of Hamas said on Wednesday the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan, dealing an apparent blow to a truce proposal touted last week by US President Joe Biden.
Israel, meanwhile, said there would be no halt to fighting during ceasefire talks, and launched a new assault on a central section of the Gaza Strip near the last city yet to be stormed by its tanks.
The remarks by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh are apparently made in response to the Biden’s truce proposal. Washington had said it was waiting to hear an answer from Hamas to what Biden described as an Israeli initiative.
[IsraelTimes] Erdan opposes changes to wording in US initiative; pushback sure to irk Washington but unlikely to impact outcome given that Israel not a member of top panel
Ambassador to 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... Gilad Erdan informed his US counterpart Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Thursday that Jerusalem opposes the Security Council resolution being advanced by the Biden administration that expresses support for the hostage-ceasefire proposal Israel made last week.
The opposition is not expected to influence the vote that could take place as early as Monday, given that Israel is not a member of the Security Council. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the resistance from Jerusalem is likely to irk Washington, given that the latter has repeatedly blocked initiatives at the Security Council deemed hostile to the Jewish state.
More substantial pushback could still come from permanent Security Council members Russia and China, which have been known to veto US resolutions, including ones pertaining to the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war.
Explaining Erdan’s opposition, an official in the Israeli mission pointed out that an updated version of the resolution refers to the hostage deal as one that will bring about a "ceasefire," as opposed to the original draft that described the end goal as a "cessation of hostilities, which Israel reads as less permanent in nature.
Israel also objects to the updated draft’s call for both sides to fully implement the latest hostage deal proposal. The earlier version only called on Hamas to accept the proposal. The updated draft does the same, but also notes that the latest hostage deal proposal is "acceptable to Israel."
The Israeli mission also does not like the updated version’s inclusion of the three phases of the hostage deal — steps that were already publicly laid out by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... last week.
Finally, the Israeli mission opposes a new clause in the draft that "rejects any attempt at demographic or territorial change in the 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 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... Strip, including actions that reduce the territory of Gaza, such as through the permanent establishment officially or unofficially of so-called buffer zones."
Israel has already advanced plans to create a security buffer zone on the Gaza side of the border, which some of its officials have insisted is temporary, a plan that has been condemned by the US and the international community.
The US resolution also expresses "unwavering commitment to achieving the vision of a negotiated two-State solution... consistent with international law and relevant UN resolutions, and in this regard stresses the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Paleostinian Authority." The two-state framework is rejected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has also worked to weaken the PA, likening the governing body to Hamas. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the Israeli official did not include this clause in the list of reasons for why Jerusalem opposes the resolution.
LAYING OUT THE ISRAELI PROPOSAL
The US drafted its resolution earlier this week, seeking to rally international support for the Israeli proposal submitted to Hamas last Thursday.
Convinced time is running out to secure a hostage deal and not wanting to go through the same motions in negotiations that have repeatedly ended in deadlock over the past six months, Biden chose a different strategy on Friday, giving a high-stakes speech in which he revealed key details of the Israeli proposal and called on Hamas to accept it.
The speech was aimed at forcing Netanyahu to stand behind the proposal submitted by his negotiating team.
The speech was aimed at forcing Netanyahu to stand behind the proposal submitted by his negotiating team. The premier authorized the offer but had avoided going public with its exact details, fearing backlash from his far-right coalition partners. Those fears were warranted, as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have indeed gone on to threaten to topple the government if Netanyahu moves forward with the deal.
The move by Biden also placed the ball in Hamas’s court, as Washington has repeatedly highlighted that the Israeli offer is nearly identical to the one made by Hamas in the last round of negotiations.
The three-staged Israeli proposal envisions a first phase truce lasting six weeks during which the remaining living female, elderly and sick Israeli hostages are freed along with a number of bodies of those kidnapped on October 7. In exchange, Israel will release hundreds of Paleostinian security prisoners; withdraw the IDF from Gaza population centers; allow the unrestricted return of Paleostinians to all areas of the Strip; and facilitate the daily entry of 600 trucks of humanitarian aid into the enclave.
The main point of contention in previous rounds has been Israel’s insistence on being able to resume the fighting after hostages are released and Hamas’s refusal to free those it kidnapped unless Israel commits up front to a permanent ceasefire.
In an attempt to bridge this divide, clause 14 of the Israeli proposal states that during the first phase, the parties will launch talks on the terms of phase two — a permanent ceasefire — that they will aim to conclude by the end of the fifth week of the initial truce.
If the sides don’t succeed in reaching an agreement within that allotted time, the phase one ceasefire can be extended indefinitely, so long as the talks on the terms of phase two continue.
However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... if Hamas is found to violate its commitments under the deal, Israel can resume fighting.
If agreements are reached in the phase one talks, a six-week phase two can commence, during which Hamas will release the remaining living Israeli hostages, including young men and male soldiers. In exchange, Israel will release an agreed-upon number of Paleostinian security prisoners — likely an even higher number than those released in phase one, including some of the most notorious terror convicts — in addition to the IDF withdrawing completely from Gaza.
During the six-week phase three, Hamas will release the remaining bodies of hostages it is still holding while Israel will allow the commencement of an internationally backed Gaza reconstruction plan.
The US says that Israel has continued to stand by the plan, though Netanyahu has complicated talks by insisting that the proposal allows for Israel to complete its war aim of dismantling Hamas.
The comments have reportedly led Hamas officials to demand more ironclad assurances from the mediators that the deal will indeed lead to a permanent ceasefire, indicating that clause 14 is insufficient.
Hamas leaders could theoretically agree to go into exile during those phase one negotiations, rather than risk being killed on the battlefield. But the possibility appears to be less likely given the ideological nature of its leader Yahya Sinwar and the fact that he and his deputy Mohammed Dief have managed to evade capture for the past eight months.
The US has insisted the hostage deal proposal will help ensure Hamas is removed from power but has offered limited details about how that comes about if the terror group is the one making the agreement with Israel.
US officials speaking to The Times of Israel last month sought to differentiate between Israel’s goal of dismantling Hamas and what it views as a more realistic aim of dismantling the "threat of Hamas."
Biden argued that Israel has already done the latter and that Hamas is no longer able to carry out another October 7 attack during which some 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered and another 251 were taken hostage. 121 of those abductees remain in Gaza.
"Indefinite war in pursuit of an unidentified notion of ’total victory’ will only bog down Israel in Gaza, draining military, economic and human resources and further Israel’s isolation in the world," Biden said in his speech last week, making a direct attack on Netanyahu, who has repeatedly vowed to achieve "total victory" in Gaza.
US officials asserted to The Times of Israel last month that while the hostage deal it is advancing may allow Hamas to limp on in some form, the broader diplomatic initiative Washington is pushing would see the terror group marginalized in Gaza by alternative forces backed by America’s Arab allies.
Netanyahu has indicated that he opposes this approach, and while Arab officials insist Hamas will be willing to step away from the management of Gaza after the war, the terror group has yet to publicly express such a desire.
In the meantime, the US is aiming to first convince the sides to agree to begin implementing phase one of the deal, hoping that will provide enough momentum for the truce to be turned into a permanent ceasefire.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 bandidosfaceless myrmidons inside Israel on October 7.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said Thursday that a soldier had been killed in the north where troops are engaged in near-daily border clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The soldier "fell fighting in the north" on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, after two explosive drones were launched from Lebanon against the Israeli town of Hurfeish.
The army did not specify the exact location of the death of the soldier, whom it identified on its website as Staff Sergeant Refael Kauders, aged 39.
The military’s top general in northern Israel said Thursday the army was ready to expand its conflict with the Hezbollah terror group if need be in order to bring months of deadly cross-border hostilities to a close, a day after a reservist was killed and 10 others injured in an explosive drone attack on a northern town
Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, head of the Israel Defense Forces’s Northern Command, spoke hours before the city of Kiryat Shmona was hit in an attack after drone warning sirens were heard in the area. It was not immediately clear what impacted the city, with police saying damage was caused to property, but there were no injuries.
The restive border region has been hounded by a stream of rocket, missile and dronezaps for the last eight months, leading to the displacements of tens of thousands of residents.
"Hezbollah has suffered severe blows. About 420 turbans and senior operatives were eliminated," Gordin said at a ceremony marking 18 years since the Second 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... War, the last major military engagement between Israel and Hezbollah.
Gordin said Hezbollah terror infrastructure built up over years had been destroyed in Israeli counterstrikes since the terror group began lobbing rockets and other projectiles at the north on October 8.
"We have been doing this for eight months, with the understanding that this time too, like 18 years ago, we have no choice but to continue fighting, together, until the mission is completed," he said.
Gordin said the IDF had last week completed preparations for a campaign against Hezbollah, and that troops were training for the fight.
"We are prepared and ready, and when we will be ordered, the enemy will meet a strong and ready army," he said.
The IDF earlier said it carried out a strike against two Hezbollah operatives, and the group announced that one member was killed. The army also announced strikes on other Hezbollah buildings.
On Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Israel was nearing a decision on whether to expand the conflict to stanch Hezbollah’s daily attacks on the north, which have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists.
The same day, Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... told broadcaster Al Jazeera that the group’s decision was not to widen the war but that it would fight one if it was imposed on it. Qassem said the Lebanon front would not quiet until the 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 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... war stops.
Israel’s military and politicianship has come under increasing pressure to end the Hezbollah attacks and push the group away from the border, either via diplomatic arrangement or by launching an all-out war. Tens of thousands of civilians from towns and villages near the border have been displaced by the attacks, which have also caused widespread property damage and earlier this week sparked large brushfires. There are fears that left in place, Hezbollah could launch a surprise attack on the north like Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 assault on southern Israel, which decimated whole communities and left some 1,200 dead and hundreds kidnapped into Gaza.
"The time has come to end the foot-dragging," Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar said while touring the north Thursday. "Delaying a war against Hezbollah could bring about a greater disaster than that of October 7."
In the border town of Metula, which was targeted by an anti-tank missile Thursday — which caused no damage but started a fire — local council head David Azoulai said the army should not wait for fighting in Gaza to end before launching an offensive against Hezbollah.
"If we don’t go into Lebanon, our future will be much worse," he told Army Radio. "[Currently] we’re only responding to their fire and not going on the offensive."
In a sign that hostilities could expand soon, the army announced Thursday it had delayed a planned move to reduce the size of local security teams in northern towns by several weeks, following a new assessment of the situation.
On Wednesday, a pair of explosive-laden drones slammed into the Druze-majority town of Hurfeish, located several kilometers from the Lebanon border, killing Staff Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders, 39, who served as a Military Rabbinate coordinator. Warning sirens did not sound before the attack.
According to initial military assessments, the two drones impacted within a few minutes of each other, with the second seemingly targeting rescue crews who arrived to treat those maimed by the first. Hezbollah has employed such a tactic several times amid the war.
Hezbollah began carrying out near-daily attacks on Israeli communities and military posts on October 8, saying it was doing so to support Gaza as Israel launched an offensive to eliminate Hamas following the October 7 massacre.
The terror group in recent months has increasingly been using explosive-laden drones, alongside anti-tank guided missiles and barrages of rockets.
Following the attack, the military announced that it had carried out strikes against a series of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon throughout the day, including Hezbollah infrastructure in Naqoura and Matmoura, buildings used by the terror group in Ayta ash-Shab, and an observation post in Khiam.
On Thursday, it said it struck two Hezbollah operatives in a dronezap in Aitaroun, as well as several buildings used by the terror group in the town. Overnight, it struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in southern Lebanon’s Wadi Jilou, as well as two more sites belonging to the terror group near Aadchit and buildings and infrastructure used by Hezbollah in Beit Yahoun, Seddiqin and Odaisseh.
Hezbollah said member Hussein al-Houran, from the town of Bint Jbeil, which is adjacent to Aitaroun, was killed amid fighting with Israel.
The Iran-backed organization has named 331 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 62 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, said the Palestinian health ministry and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Earlier the PRCS said that during their storming of the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, eight Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces’ bullets, reported Al Jazeera.
[IsraelTimes] Army says it killed several gunmen while carrying out arrest operation in northern West Bank city; helicopter gunship used to provide cover for troops on ground
Israeli forces killed three Paleostinians and maimed at least 13 others in a raid on the northern West Bank city of Jenin Thursday, the Paleostinian Health Ministry and medics said.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops killed several button men and detained a wanted Paleostinian suspect during the raid.
During the operation, an Israeli Air Force attack helicopter carried out strikes in support of ground forces who came under fire by Paleostinian button men, the army said. The IDF has carried out numerous Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s with helicopters and drones in the West Bank over the past year, and in rare cases, also used fighter jets.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said it was treating at least six people who were shot, four who sustained shrapnel wounds and one person who was run over by a military jeep. It alleged its teams were fired at while recovering some of the dead.
The official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet named the three fatalities as Ibrahim al-Saadi, 21, Issa Jallad, 17, and Uday Mara’i, 24. On social media, Mara’i was identified as a member of a local terror group.
The army said the wanted Paleostinian man, who was not named, was handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning. It said he was suspected of involvement in terror activity.
According to Wafa, two people were arrested during the raid.
Jenin, in the far northern West Bank, has been a focal point of raids by the Israeli military, which says the area has become a hotbed for terror groups seeking to attack Israelis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the end of a security assessment on the West Bank on Thursday, said that while Israel was facing "complicated international pressure" it was determined to change the security reality in the area.
"Israel is engaged in a difficult battle on many fronts. We are fighting in the south, we are fighting in the north, we are also fighting in Judea and Samaria," he said, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
In late May, troops conducted a nearly two-day raid in the city to demolish the home of a terrorist involved in the killing of Israeli civilian Meir Tamari in a shooting attack near the settlement of Hermesh in May 2023. Paleostinians reported that 12 people were killed during the raid.
AP reported that eight of the dead were claimed by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... and other terror groups as their button men.
On May 17, a rare Israeli airstrike in Jenin targeted a command room belonging to a local terror network and killed another terrorist involved in the murder of Tamari, according to the military.
[NYPOST] Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday.
The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its "precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations" inside Rafah.
"This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six Lions of Islam near a school in the area of the troops. The Lions of Islam were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire," the IDF said in a statement.
Images released by the IDF show troops operating in the dense urban environment of Rafah. Images also show the cache of weapons, explosives and other equipment troops retrieved during the operation.
News of the operation comes the same day an Israeli strike took out Hamas 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... Lions of Islam hiding at a United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... school for displaced Paleostinians in central 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 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... . Local officials say that the strike killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and kiddies.
Israel said it was targeting a Hamas compound inside the school containing 20 to 30 fighters and that many of them had been killed.
Names and faces of the dead miscreants can be seen at the link.
The IDF on Thursday blasted international media organizations for again taking the claims of Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... authorities at face value and reporting that Israel carried out a deadly Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on an UNRWA school without noting that the central 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 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... compound was being used by terrorists.
"Sadly, we saw some media outlets fall for Hamas’s tactics yet again before checking the facts," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said during a presser in which he revealed the identities of nine terror operatives killed in the attack.
Those targeted were members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force and of 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 who "directed terror attacks from the area of the school while exploiting it as a civilian location and as a shelter."
"The snuffies inside this school were planning more attacks against Israelis, some of them imminent. We stopped a ticking time bomb," Hagari claimed.
Hagari said there were around 30 snuffies in the three rooms that were targeted. He said some of those killed had participated in the Hamas-led October 7 terror onslaught during which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Hagari said the IDF was working to verify this information further before making it public.
Many international reports on the Wednesday night strike relied on Hamas authorities’ claim that 33 Paleostinians were killed and made little or no mention of any alleged connection to terror activity.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital initially reported that nine women and 14 children were among those killed in the strike on the school that had been operating as a shelter due to the war’s mass displacement of Paleostinians.
The hospital morgue on Thursday evening amended those records to show that the dead were three women, nine children and 21 men. An News Agency that Dare Not be Namednews hound had counted the bodies but was unable to look beneath the shrouds.
Hagari said the strike targeted the Hamas and PIJ operatives gathered in three classrooms at the UN school and noted this was the fifth time this past month alone that the IDF struck snuffies operating from facilities belonging to the UNRWA agency for Paleostinian refugees.
"Hamas wages war from schools and hospitals. Hamas hopes that international law and public sympathy will provide a shield for its military activities, which is why it systematically operates from schools, UN facilities, hospitals and mosques," Hagari continued, stressing that this is a war crime that should be condemned by the international community.
The IDF spokesperson noted that the IDF delayed the strike twice after identifying civilians in the area, which it had been monitoring for several days.
"We conducted the strike once our intelligence and surveillance indicated that there were no women or children inside those classrooms," he asserted.
He did not deny that civilians were still killed in the strike.
Ostensibly relying on the same reports from Hamas authorities, governments and international organizations issued a flood of condemnations against Israel on Thursday.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA, said that Israel bombed the school "without prior warning."
"Another UNRWA school turned shelter attacked," he wrote on X. "Attacking, targeting or using UN buildings for military purposes are a blatant disregard of International Humanitarian law."
Stephan Dujarric, front man for UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , said the strike "is just another horrific example of the price that civilians are paying, that Paleostinian men, women and kiddies who are just trying to survive (are paying).
"Of course [Guterres] condemns this attack. There will need to be accountability for everything that has happened in Gaza."
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for a probe into the strike, writing on X, "Reports coming from Gaza time and again show that violence and suffering are still the only reality for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. This appalling news must be independently investigated."
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... the US called on Israel to be "transparent" regarding the strike, State Department front man Matthew Miller told news hounds. Miller said the United States believed Israeli assessments that Hamas has at times hidden in civilian infrastructure, but said it was waiting for information on the latest strike.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. Of these, some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals or through self-reporting by families, with the rest of the figure based on Hamas "media sources." The tolls, which cannot be verified, include some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 snuffies inside Israel on October 7.
[An Nahar] Hezbollah is "dealing seriously with the threats that are being launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war team," a prominent Shiite Duo source said.
Hezbollah "will not stand idly by and has declared general mobilization among its fighters, who are now fully prepared to confront the Israeli threats, although it does not want war and is not seeking it," the source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
The source also noted that "Hezbollah’s strikes deep in Israel come in response to Tel Aviv’s targeting of areas in the depth of northern and western Bekaa."
"This what Hezbollah has said to top Lebanese state officials and the UNIFIL forces," the source added.
Good luck, guys. Seriously, may your end be swift and relatively painless, so that you don’t die tired.
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By 2000, following up on his promise during the 1999 Israeli general election, the newly elected Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew Israeli forces from southern Lebanon within the year, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 of 1978; Israel's withdrawal consequently resulted in the immediate and total collapse of the SLA, with many of its members escaping to Israel.
Date: 16 February 1985-25 May 2000
Location: Republic of Lebanon
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...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...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
