[NY Post] 5 yr old? Was she dressed "provocatively" ?? Beat him
An illegal Guatemalan immigrant is charged with twice molesting a 5-year-old girl inside the garage and bathroom of her family’s Florida home, according to reports.
Nicolas Jose Francisco, 25, was hit with two counts of sexual battery of a child under 12 on Friday and ordered held without bail in Palm Beach County, Fox affiliate WFLX-TV News reported.
Francisco, who had been working for the young victim’s family for about a year, told cops he touched the girl "by mistake both times" — and claimed that the girl’s family only accused him of the horrific crime because he "was an undocumented immigrant," the outlet said.
Jibby Ciric, a senior director at the Center of Child Counseling, told WFLX the excuse isn’t surprising.
"We deal with that in unfortunately many instances," Ciric said. "They often try to normalize and diminish the effects of what they have done."
According to WPEC-TV News, the girl was first interviewed about the abuse by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Children and Families on Dec. 13.
She told investigators that Francisco called her into the garage and "touched her flower."
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office questioned Nicolas Jose Nicolas on Thursday after a 5-year-old girl reported that he molested her. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
In the second incident she said the suspect took her to the bathroom, where he allegedly exposed himself and touched her again, according to the outlet.
The young victim reportedly was shaking and broke into tears while recounting the assault.
Cops questioned Francisco about the allegations on Thursday, and he was arraigned on Friday.
Welby had announced in November that he would resign after an independent investigation into the late John Smyth, a prominent attorney who the report said sexually, psychologically and physically abused about 30 boys and young men in the United Kingdom and 85 in Africa from the 1970s until his death in 2018.
China appears to be cultivating the Iran nexus. Ensuring future oil deliveries?
[NewsMax] U.S. intelligence officials said Chinese-made weapons are being supplied to Houthi rebels in exchange for safe passage of Chinese vessels through the Red Sea, i24NEWS reported.
According to diplomatic sources, Houthi representatives visited China during the summer and fall and might have met with high-ranking Chinese officials. The militant group is reportedly planning to use Chinese parts to manufacture hundreds of cruise missiles capable of targeting Persian Gulf states.
Oil in and weapons out. Got it.
Since September, the United States has attempted diplomatic intervention, providing Beijing with detailed information about Chinese companies involved in the arms supply chain. China's apparent inaction has prompted Washington to consider more aggressive measures.
U.S. officials are now threatening joint action with Israel to isolate Chinese trading networks from the global financial system.
This development comes as the Houthis attempt to solidify control over one of the world's most strategic maritime corridors.
The ongoing maritime crisis has already disrupted global shipping routes and raised concerns about regional security.
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How did these items arrive in Houthistan? Transporter beams from the Middle Kingdom?
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How about eliminating all docking facilities in Houthi-held territory? It's not as if the Houthis have already been waging maritime war against most world shipping, i.e. "piracy"
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I wonder what passes for "advanced components" in the minds of journalists. Fleming valves? Discrete transistors? Those little black plastic chips that look like bugs?
Nowadays, an off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi fits in your hand and is 4 times faster than the Cray-1, an old-school super computer that was so big they made it into furniture.
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Somehow I recall that this is exactly what we have a US Navy ARG with a maritime infantry (USMC) striking force to deal with? Wouldn't take long to eliminate the problem.
Heck, imagine the smile if the Navy still had an Iowa Class BB which just sailed off the coast and ignored the mosquito bites of the drones because it had armor to protect the ship from the plunging fire of IJN battleship 14 inch guns, and delivered a few 16 inch salvo;s to the annoying sites!
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How did these items arrive in Houthistan? Transporter beams from the Middle Kingdom?
They were probably unloaded at the Chinese base in Djibouti (you know, the one with the big underground storage area) and from there they could be shipped over to Yemen by helicopter.
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The US, China, France and Japan (!) all have bases in Djibouti. Plus Blackwater, Wagner and a few other PMC's. That's a live locale. If any of the interested parties actually desired to get up close and personal with one another it'd be easy to arrange. Clearly - none of them have that intention.
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You don't need to be a Houthi to hang out in Djibouti,
The cool kids are already there.
From your favorite PMC, to those guys with letters three,
It's a rootin' tootin' shoot 'em up affair.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Rebels from the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) launched a rocket attack on the Orot Rabin power plant near the city of Haifa in northern Israel. This was reported on January 5 by the military spokesman for the Yemeni organization, Yahya Saria.
"The [Houthi] armed forces attacked the Orot Rabin power plant south of Haifa using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile," he said in a statement distributed by Al-Masirah TV channel.
The military spokesman for the movement specified that the strike was carried out in support of the Gaza Strip. In addition, he added that the Houthis' military capabilities are "constantly evolving."
And a perfectly fitting support of the failing Hamas movement it is, too.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 3, the Ansar Allah movement also reported a missile strike on a power plant. The attack targeted a facility east of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. In addition, the Houthis reported using drones to strike a "military target" located in the said settlement.
On January 1, the Ansar Allah movement reported the destruction of a US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen. According to Yahya Sariyya, the drone was in the airspace of Marib province.
On December 28, the Houthis reported that they had attacked the Nevatim air force base in the Negev Desert in southern Israel with a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile.
El Salvador's government has mobilized over 5,000 soldiers and 500 PNC officers to encircle a northern town after a police officer was killed there by gang members pic.twitter.com/5WJcgVKu0m
Hattip to an anonymous poster who unfortunately didn’t provide a link with his headline, so I did my best.
[Click2Houston] Investigators say the compound has never been used in a U.S. or European attack
Federal Sherlocks say Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in two IEDs he placed in the area where he later rammed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing 14.
The rare compound has never been used in a U.S. terror attack or incident and has never been used in a European attack.
Over the last two days, Sherlocks have searched the Houston ...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out... -area trailer owned by Jabbar.
The searches of Jabbar’s home have yielded what authorities described as "bomb-making materials" and "precursor chemicals," they say he used to make the two functional bombs.
Investigators tell NBC News’ Tom Winter they’re working now to find out how Jabbar knew about the compound and how he went about making it.
Those two IEDs never went off. The FBI said Friday that Jabbar intended to use a transmitter to detonate them. That transmitter was found inside the F150 truck. The transmitter and two guns connected to Jabbar are being taken to an FBI laboratory for testing, along with some clothing and shell casings from the truck.
Jabbar had rented an AirBNB before the attack. The FBI confirmed on Friday that he "set a small fire in the hallway and strategically placed accelerants throughout the house in his effort to destroy it and other evidence of his crime." After Jabbar left the home, the fire fizzled out before spreading to other rooms. That allowed Sherlocks to recover evidence, including pre-cursors for bomb-making material and what appeared to be a silencer for a rifle that the FBI said was privately made.
The FBI said Friday they’d received almost 1,000 tips.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel from across the country continue to work diligently to further this investigation and evaluate evidence, interview victims and witnesses, and analyze tips related to the New Orleans Bourbon Street attack. Two days into the investigation, the FBI has received almost 1,000 tips, and leads have been sent to FBI field offices across the country for investigation.
As of Thursday, January 2, 2025, all evidence recovery along Bourbon Street and at a short-term rental home on Mandeville Street in New Orleans used by subject Shamsud-Din Jabbar has been completed. At the Mandeville Street location, bomb-making materials—which were rendered safe—and other items were found and collected for further processing. FBI special agents located similar materials at the search of Jabbar’s home on Crescent Peak Drive in Houston, Texas.
On January 1, at 5:18 a.m. CST, the New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD) responded to a fire at the Mandeville Street location after the attack on Bourbon Street. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) has determined that Jabbar was the only person who could have had access to the residence when the fire was set. ATF also determined that Jabbar set a small fire in the hallway and strategically placed accelerants throughout the house in his effort to destroy it and other evidence of his crime. After Jabbar left the residence, the fire burned to a point that it extinguished itself prior to spreading to other rooms. The ATF investigation revealed that when the NOFD arrived at the scene, the fire was smoldering, allowing for the recovery of evidence, including pre-cursors for bomb-making material and a privately made device suspected of being a silencer for a rifle.
Evidence collected from multiple sites are being evaluated to further the investigation. The FBI assesses that, during his attack on Bourbon Street, Jabbar intended to use a transmitter, which was found in the F150 truck, to detonate the two IEDs he placed on Bourbon Street. The transmitter, along with two firearms connected to Jabbar, is being transported to the FBI Laboratory for additional testing, as well as clothing and shell casings from the truck. FBI personnel are also evaluating terabytes worth of video and other data collected by street cameras monitored by the New Orleans Real Time Crime Center.
How the FBI responds after they’ve embarrassed themselves:
The FBI continues to surge resources from across the country to assist the New Orleans Field Office. In addition to FBI special agents and personnel based in Louisiana, more than 200 additional personnel have been brought in to assist in this investigation in order to process evidence, support victims, and investigate leads and tips. Personnel support includes, but is not limited to, special agents, victim specialists, evidence technicians, specially trained crisis management personnel, and intelligence analysts.
FBI victim specialists and special agents continue to interview survivors and witnesses. As of January 3, the FBI has identified 35 known injured individuals. The number of injured is expected to rise in the coming days as additional people either take themselves to hospitals with injuries or ask for assistance from the FBI.
The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
The FBI investigation also revealed that Jabbar purchased a cooler in Vidor, Texas, hours before the attack and gun oil from a store in Sulphur, Louisiana, the officials said. Authorities also determined Jabbar booked his rental of the pickup truck on Nov. 14, suggesting he may have been plotting the attack for more than six weeks.
Authorities on Friday were still investigating Jabbar’s motives and how he carried out the attack. They say he exited the crashed truck wearing a ballistic vest and helmet and fired at police, wounding at least two officers before he was fatally shot by officers returning fire.
Thirteen people remained hospitalized. Eight people were in intensive care at University Medical Center New Orleans, spokesperson Carolina Giepert said.
According to a Saturday report by The New York Times, friends and family noticed that Jabbar, a decorated US Army veteran with a $120,000-a-year job as a “senior solutions specialist” at Deloitte, had become more conservative over the last year in his religious outlook.
But those close to him told the newspaper they were entirely unaware of his radicalization, and could not say exactly when it had happened.
Jabbar, an African-American Texas native whose father, originally a Baptist, converted to Islam, grew up in a “largely secular” family, some of whom continued to attend a Baptist church even after his father’s conversion, according to relatives.
According to a half-brother, Jabbar loved school as a child and got good grades. After high school, however, he lost a scholarship at the University of Houston due to heavy partying and drinking that compromised his studies.
Not everyone can handle the wild life without losing focus.
In 2007, Jabbar enlisted in the US Army, working in human resources and information technology, and achieving the rank of staff sergeant before his deployment to Afghanistan. He was awarded a Global War on Terrorism service medal, and was even featured by the Army in a 2013 Facebook post, drawing a proud comment from his mother, The Times noted.
Jabbar reportedly told family members he was grateful for his military service. Relatives told The Times that the army “gave [Jabbar] some discipline” and “grounded him.”
After the military, Jabbar studied at Georgia State University. There, one friend said, he showed a growing interest in Islam. But no one reported any signs of extremism. Following his studies, he returned to Texas and began his white-collar professional career.
In recent years, the paper reported, Jabbar began suffering severe financial problems, especially following his divorce from his third wife in 2021, due to subsequent alimony payments and child support for his two daughters and son.
Jabbar’s family and ex-wives told The Times that his behavior became more concerning and erratic over the last year. They said they thought that it was due to the stress from his financial troubles and divorce, but was also connected to stress over global affairs, and was influenced by his religious views. At the time, one previous ex-wife and her husband limited his contact with their children.
‘NO PART IN THIS COMMUNITY’
Around this time, Jabbar moved to a largely-Muslim neighborhood of mobile homes, located north of Houston, where neighbors described him as a recluse. Congregants at two nearby mosques told The Times they had never seen him attend prayers.
“He wasn’t a member of this congregation, he wasn’t someone that used to come here, and he had no part in this community whatsoever,” said Mohammed Khan, a member of the Bilal Mosque, the closest to his home.
The mosque has drawn attention since the attack, as video surfaced of a guest delivering a presentation that blamed Jews for persistent antisemitism.
Worshipers at the other nearby mosque also said they had never seen Jabbar, with one congregant saying he’d been part of the community since 2008 and had never seen the attacker before.
After the Israel-Hamas war broke out in late 2023 — when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages — Jabbar seemed upset with the violence, according to his half-brother.
“He didn’t like it — he said it was genocide on both sides, inhumane,” the half-brother reported.
NOTICEABLE SHIFT
Over the subsequent year, the veteran reportedly grew noticeably more austere in his religious outlook, growing out his beard and expressing his disapproval of partying and drinking, according to his half-brother.
Around this time, he also began posting audio recordings to the website SoundCloud, espousing conservative religious beliefs, such as warning that music — which some streams of Islam consider forbidden — has the power to lure people “into the things that God had made forbidden to us,” such as alcohol and drugs.
In that recording, from early 2024, Jabbar suggested a link between the release of a recent rap album and a wave of murders in his neighborhood, and said that “the voice of Satan spreading among Prophet Muhammad’s followers, peace be upon him, is a sign of the end times.”
But it is still not clear to investigators when Jabbar came to endorse violence as part of his religious beliefs, The Times reported — though he appears to have “liked” on his SoundCloud account some recordings by others that expressed views used by extremist groups to justify killing non-Muslims.
In the weeks before the attack, relatives said Jabbar didn’t mention any plans to go to New Orleans, though some neighbors told The Times he had said that he was moving there when his lease in Houston came to an end.
In addition, the publication reported, Jabbar seemingly prepared for the trip via an out-of-office reply for his work email, which said he would be taking personal time off.
In which the FBI contradicts itself again. Perhaps it would be better to speak in likelihoods rather than absolutes…
[NBCnews] The attacker wore the glasses to record video as he rode a bicycle through the French Quarter during a trip before the Bourbon Street attack, the FBI said. The glasses weren't recording during the actual incident.
The New Orleans terrorist attacker visited the city twice in the weeks before the attack and recorded video of the area using Meta smart glasses, the FBI revealed Sunday.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, stayed at a rental home in New Orleans at the end of October and again in November, just weeks before his attack on Bourbon Street, which killed 14 people. He wore the smart glasses to record video as he rode a bicycle through the French Quarter, Lyonel Myrthil, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said Sunday.
“Meta glasses appear to look like regular glasses, but they allow a user to record videos and photos hand-free,” Myrthil said. “They also allow the user to potentially livestream through their video.”
Jabbar wore the glasses during his New Year’s Day attack, but they were not activated for a livestream, Myrthil said. There was no indication Jabbar was recording the attack at all, though the glasses were found on him.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told NBC News that the company is “in touch with law enforcement on this matter.”
The FBI posted a compilation of the clips online, one of which includes Jabbar testing the glasses in a mirror and security clips of him in the area before the truck attack. The FBI blurred images of bystanders.
Video showed Jabbar placing one improvised explosive device in a cooler at Bourbon and St. Peter streets at 1:53 a.m., which was moved later by unidentified people.
“From what we’ve observed so far — what we’ve gathered through our investigation — is that they were unwitting individuals who move the cooler from location to location without knowledge of what is in the cooler,” Myrthil said.
Jabbar placed another explosive roughly 30 minutes later in a different “bucket-type cooler,” authorities said.
Two firearms were also recovered, a semiautomatic pistol and a rifle. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found the .308-caliber rifle was purchased in a private sale in Arlington, Texas, on Nov. 19.
The contradiction:
The explosive material recovered at Jabbar’s home in Houston resembles common explosives such as RDX, which are widely available in the United States, Joshua Jackson, the special agent in charge of the ATF’s New Orleans field division, said at Sunday’s news conference.
Federal authorities initially said Friday that field tests detected a rare explosive compound, R-Salt, in the two homemade bombs in New Orleans and in the home where Jabbar stayed. R-Salt is a very rare compound that has not been used before in terrorist attacks in the United States or Europe.
Jackson said the FBI will conduct additional testing of the explosive compound found in New Orleans. He said officials believe additional tests in an FBI lab will show that the explosive compound is, in fact, pure RDX.
The device itself was not unique in design, and Jabbar’s use of an electric match instead of a proper detonator indicated his inexperience with explosives, Jackson said.
Jabbar, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and an Army veteran, said in videos posted online that he “joined ISIS earlier this year.” He acted alone during the New Year’s Day attack, the FBI said, and does not appear to have any U.S.-based accomplices.
Myrthil told reporters Sunday that the FBI is still investigating any of Jabbar’s associates, both domestic and abroad. A subject of further inquiry is a trip Jabbar made to Cairo in 2023 and another trip to Canada roughly a week after his return.
Interesting. Nice transparency, guys, truly.
”Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, who he met with and how those trips may or may not tie into his actions here in our city in New Orleans,” Myrthil said.
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the fire fizzled out before spreading to other rooms
Curious. The Las Vegas VBIED was a truckload of fireworks. One guy couldn't start a fire with accelerant but could make a 'rare' bomb. The other had a career which occasioned explosives.
[Breitbart] Three Israelis were killed in a terrorist shooting attack Monday near Kdumim in the north of the West Bank, Israel’s ambulance service reported.
The attack involved gunmen opening fire on vehicles, including a passenger bus.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said those killed included two women in their 60s and a man in his 40s.
According to Reuters, Israeli Army Radio said the military had imposed a cordon around all villages in the area to search for the suspects, who it believes have fled to a nearby Palestinian village.
"Paramedics have confirmed the deaths of three victims, including two women and a man," Magen David Adom said, while the military reported troops were "pursuing the terrorists" who carried out the attack near the village of Al-Funduq.
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[IsraelTimes] Several Palestinians were spotted by the military climbing over Israel’s security barrier with the West Bank near the IDF’s Central Command base in northern Jerusalem.
The IDF says that after scanning the area, no suspects infiltrated the base.
At least two of the suspects were reportedly detained outside the base, while several others fled.
Israel confirmed that it eliminated a commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who participated in the massacre of October 7. Saad Said Zaki Dahnon, who served as deputy chief of the terrorist group's rocket division, was hit in recent Israeli operations north of the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced this Sunday that they eliminated a commander 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... (PIJ) who participated in the onslaught of October 7, 2023.
This is Saad Said Zaki Dahnon, the commander of a PIJ company and deputy head of the rocket division of the terrorist group north of the Paleostinian coastal enclave, according to the IDF.
The IDF detailed that Dahnon was hit during recent operations in Jabaliya, dying in hand-to-hand combat with Givati Brigade troops.
The Israeli army claimed that Dahnon had infiltrated the country and participated in the October 7 attack, in addition to being involved in multiple attacks against IDF troops in the Beit Lahiya area.
In a video released by the IDF, Dahnon and another terrorist are seen covering themselves with blankets and trying to approach the Israeli troops under the cover of darkness and rain.
The IDF reported that the PIJ commander was shot down, while the second operation surrendered to the troops, which can be seen in the images released by the military.
The second agent was carrying an bomb and was transferred to Israel to be interrogated, the IDF concluded.
A pair of Israeli drone strikes hit Hamas operatives inside the Gaza Strip’s designated humanitarian zone, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.
The strikes came after a weekend of intense Israeli bombing of terror targets in the Palestinian coastal enclave that, according to unverified reports from officials in the Hamas-controlled territory, killed over 80 people.
A drone strike was carried out against a group of Hamas operatives at a command center in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the IDF said. The compound, in the Khan Younis area of the humanitarian zone, was used by the Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops in Gaza and against Israel, the military said.
Gaza medics said the compound was a police station and that five people were killed. Last week, Hamas said the IDF killed its chief of police and his deputy in a strike also in the zone.
The IDF said a separate strike in the Deir al-Balah area of the humanitarian zone targeted a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative who had carried out previous attacks from the area.
In both strikes, the IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm. Israel accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian shelters, civilian buildings, and the civilian population as human shields.
The humanitarian zone is located in the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast, the western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The size of the zone has changed multiple times, amid evolving IDF operations against the Hamas terror group.
Meanwhile, a soldier in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar battalion was seriously wounded in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. According to an IDF probe, the soldier was injured when a brick fell on his head during “operational activity.” He was taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment.
Rescuers in the Hamas-controlled Strip said that at least 23 people were killed in strikes on Sunday. The figures, which cannot be verified, do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
An air strike on a house in northern Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan area killed at least 11 people according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal. He said the victims included women and children.
“Rescuers are still searching for five people trapped under the rubble of the house,” he said, adding his crew members were using “bare hands” in the effort.
The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA later reported that a young girl was rescued from the rubble of the building.
Health officials also said an airstrike killed five people in a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, while another airstrike killed four others in Jabalia in the northern edge of the enclave, where Israeli forces have been operating for three months.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said a total of 88 people were killed over the previous 24 hours.
The IDF said over 100 targets were struck in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, killing dozens of Hamas operatives. The strikes were carried out by the Israeli Air Force in a joint effort with the Southern Command, following intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Shin Bet security agency.
Additionally, the IDF said it struck several rocket-launching sites in Gaza over the weekend.
Renewed fire from Gaza has repeatedly triggered air raid sirens in Israeli communities near the Strip in recent days. Rocket fire had become less frequent as the war dragged on but has intensified since late December as Israel continues a three-month major land and air offensive in the territory’s north.
The recent escalation coincides with ongoing indirect negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal that has eluded the sides since November 2023. Mediators Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have tried for months to strike a deal to end the war and secure the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The latest effort comes just days before Donald Trump takes office as US president on January 20.
Kan cited a Palestinian source familiar with the developments as saying the next two days are critical, and that there is a preference to reach a partial deal rather than a full agreement, with Hamas fearing the situation could change once Trump is installed. The Republican, who has backed Israel in the war, has repeatedly warned of serious consequences if the hostages are not released by his inauguration.
⚠️ During the operation in Maithalun near Jenin,Palestinian terrorist Hassan Rabia fired on Israeli border police 🇮🇱 while attempting to escape and was killed in retaliation. An explosives manufacturing laboratory also destroyed.#MiddleEast#Gaza#hamas#Hezbollah#غزة#حماسpic.twitter.com/u63yelI3wm
Two handguns were found on his body, police say. At Rabia’a’s home, the military says troops seized a hunting rifle, pipe bombs, gun parts, and NIS 96,000 in cash.
Also at Rabia’a’s property, the IDF says troops found an explosives manufacturing lab, which was then demolished.
In a separate operation overnight, the IDF says it seized 20 handguns in a vehicle stopped by troops near Nablus. Nineteen wanted Paleostinians were also detained by troops overnight, the military says.
Gazan refugees are rioting at a taxpayer-funded hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
In August, Malaysia brought in 41 chronically ill Gazans for treatment & 86 of their relatives from Gaza (via Egypt). They are now setting fires & vandalizing the hotel. Malaysians are furious… pic.twitter.com/wOdfTY5VMW
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops of the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade operating on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon located several caches of weapons.
During “targeted raids,” the IDF says, the troops searched military buildings and strategic positions in the Hermon area, where they found and destroyed mines, explosive devices, anti-tank missiles, rockets, and launchers.
The IDF says its operations inside Syria, in a UN buffer zone, are aimed at strengthening defenses on the border to protect the residents of the Israeli Golan Heights.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]Let us wish lots of deaths on both sides.
Make not mistake about this. Clashes along the #Syria'n/Lebanese border between #Hezbollah and the new Syrian security forces are all about Hezbollah losing their narcotics trade and arms supplies as well as #Iran's continuing provocations to destabilize the region.#Israel… pic.twitter.com/6dJhE5AcO4
The Hezbollah's capabilities have been fully restored, making it ready to face any attack. #Hezbollah is now stronger, tougher than steel, and more powerful than ever. pic.twitter.com/rcTEnNsFWc
#Hezbollah chief says that not only has the resistance not weakened, it has become further strengthened and will be taught to future generations, adding that the resistance has high morals despite the wounds.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...
