[IsraelTimes] UN pauses humanitarian work in northern Saada province, citing unstable security situation; 19 million projected to need assistance in Yemen this year
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... said Monday it suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold 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... rebels after the group detained eight more UN staffers, affecting the global response to one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
In a statement, the UN said the "extraordinary" decision to pause all operations and programs in northern Saada province was due to the lack of necessary security conditions and guarantees.
A front man for the Houthis didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
The rebels in recent months have detained dozens of UN staffers, as well as people associated with aid groups, civil society and the once-open US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. None of the UN staffers has been released.
Like Hamas and Iran, they want the security of markers to trade. But President Trump is no Joe Biden.
The UN statement said the pause in operations is meant to give the Houthis and the world body time to "arrange the release of arbitrarily detained UN personnel and ensure that the necessary conditions are in place to deliver critical humanitarian support" in rebel-held areas.
It said the latest detained UN staffers — taken late last month — included six working in Saada, on Yemen’s northern border with 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 somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... Seven UN agencies operate in Saada, including the World Food Program, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, along with several international aid organizations, according to the UN humanitarian agency.
The UN late last month suspended all travel into Houthi-held areas.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150,000 people. The Iranian-backed Houthis have been fighting Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2014, when they descended from their stronghold in Saada and took control of Sanaa and most of the north.
The UN had projected that over 19 million people across Yemen will need humanitarian assistance this year as many deal with climate shocks, malnutrition, cholera and the economic effects of war.
The rebels have imprisoned thousands of people during the war. In recent months, they also intensified their crackdown on dissent, including recently sentencing 44 people to death.
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"UN pauses humanitarian work..." Well, well. Even a flatworm learns to avoid pain or damage. The UN has 'ascended' to the intelligence level of a flatworm. Maybe. US out of the UN, etc.
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[KavkazUzel] Milana Kurbanova received eight years in prison for living in the territory of Syria controlled by the Islamic State. The court decided that she was involved with the militants.
According to court documents, in 2014, the Derbent native flew with her family to Turkey, and then to Egypt for treatment. In February 2015, the family moved to Syria, to territory controlled by ISIS. In the city of Raqqa, the couple was separated, and a month later, the husband died during an airstrike. At that time, Kurbanova already had a child, and she was pregnant.
In the summer of 2017, she moved to Turkey, where she lived with relatives and worked in a restaurant. The woman applied to the Russian consulate several times to receive her lost passport, but was refused. She voluntarily returned to her homeland after learning about the criminal case.
In court, Milana Kurbanova testified that she did not participate in the hostilities; at that time, she was pregnant and raising a small child. Relatives told the investigator that after her marriage, the accused became religious, wore a hijab and performed namaz. However, the court considered the fact that the accused lived in the territory controlled by the militants as "an additional factor of instability and a threat to the security of the state."
The 32-year-old woman was found guilty of participating in an illegal armed group and sentenced to eight years in prison. The minimum sentence was imposed taking into account that Kurbanova has two small children and admitted her guilt, according to the case materials on the website of the Dagestanskiye Ogni City Court.
Kurbanova is included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on December 5, 2024, in Ingushetia, a court found a local resident guilty of collecting money for the "Islamic State"* and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
[IsraelTimes] A prominent Hamas operative who was planning to carry out terror attacks was detained by Israeli forces in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank last night, authorities say.
Members of the Shin Bet security agency, the police’s Yamam counter-terrorism unit, and the IDF operated last night in the village of Silat al-Harithiya and detained several suspects who had been wanted by Israel for a long time.
The detained Palestinians “over the past few months had planned to carry out attacks on behalf of Hamas against Israeli civilians and IDF troops” in the West Bank, the Shin Bet, police, and IDF say in a joint statement.
Among those detained was Alaa al-Bitawi, a resident of Jenin, identified by the Shin Bet as “one of the heads of Hamas” in the Jenin camp.
A handgun and several explosive devices were seized during the arrest of al-Bitawi and the other suspects, the statement adds.
Stupidly staying bought after they took almost four million dollars from USAID. But there’ll be no more for the next four years, so now it’s just about their innate hate of Bibi and whatever is left over in the bank account.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters demanding the release of hostages blocked the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Monday night, seething at the government as the ceasefire-hostage release deal 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... appeared to be faltering, and as Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... said it would delay the next hostage release until further notice because Israel was ostensibly violating the terms of the deal.
"We demand the government of Israel not fall victim to the terror group’s spin and ensure that the door that was opened will not be shut," the Hostages Families Forum said in a statement late Monday.
"The difficult images from this past Saturday" — when an emaciated Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben-Ami were freed from Gaza — "leave no room for doubt — this government cannot in any way delay the second stage, and definitely not endanger the deal," the forum added.
The protesters stormed onto the highway at the tail end of a gathering outside the Tel Aviv Museum, now dubbed Hostages Square, to mark the 24th birthday of hostage Alon Ohel, a day after his family received the first sign of life from him following more than 16 months in captivity.
Ohel, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, is not on the list of hostages slated to be freed in the first stage of the deal. Seventeen more captives are scheduled to be returned in the coming weeks, nine of them alive, with an additional 59 still held hostage, a figure that includes 34 confirmed dead by Israel.
On Sunday, Alon’s mother, Idit, revealed that a hostage who had recently been freed from Gaza reported that her son was being held underground in a Hamas tunnel, bound, starved and suffering from untreated shrapnel wounds to his shoulder, arm, and now-partially blind eye.
Addressing those gathered, Idit Ohel slammed the government for appearing to drag its feet in talks to move ahead with the next potential phases of the ceasefire deal — which must still be negotiated — that could see her son returned.
Idit said that after receiving the sign of life from her son, her family was contacted by bigwigs from around the world, but "there was one government whose representatives didn’t bother to speak with us — the government of Israel."
In English, she asked US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... to "do everything in your power to ensure that this deal continues."
So much for that. It turns out Hamas was the problem all along, not Bibi.
Addressing those gathered in Hostages Square on Monday night, Idit implored them to "keep shouting. Keep demanding the return of every single one of them. They need to come home — they need to come home now!"
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Ofer Calderon, who was freed from Gaza on February 1, revealed on Monday that he was "held in tunnels without seeing daylight, had no access to media, experienced severe hunger conditions, and went entire months without showering or receiving proper care."
In a statement from the released captive shared by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Calderon — who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz with two of his children — said that "immediately after the first deal [in November 2023], the conditions of my captivity and those of many other hostages severely deteriorated and became brutal."
During that weeklong truce, his children Sahar and Erez were freed from captivity as part of a deal that saw most of the women and kiddies taken hostage returned to Israel.
"We must not stop the current deal and must continue working to free all the hostages," Calderon added. "Hamas is a cruel enemy who will not hesitate to harm the hostages left behind. We must get everyone out as quickly as possible."
[IsraelTimes] Raid alarms foreign diplomats as court keeps booksellers in custody for another day on charge of disrupting public order by selling texts of ‘incitement and support for terrorism’
Israel Police officers raided a prominent bookstore in East Jerusalem that focuses on Paleostinian identity and the Arab-Israeli conflict, confiscating books and arresting the owners of the chain on Sunday night.
Police accused Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna, who run the Educational Bookshop, of selling texts containing "incitement and support for terrorism," citing one children’s coloring book they found titled "From the River to the Sea."
Law enforcement requested that the booksellers be held in jug for a further eight days, but the court on Monday granted an extension of only one day.
Officers came to the Educational Bookshop’s two stores with a court-granted search warrant Sunday night and arrested the two booksellers, who spent the night at police headquarters in the Russian Compound.
Haaretz quoted the brother of one of the owners claiming the officers used Google translate to determine which books — most of which are in Arabic — to confiscate.
"They took any book they didn’t like," he reportedly said. "They even saw a Haaretz newspaper with images of hostages, asked what it was and said it was incitement. They took any book with a Paleostinian flag."
The owners are formally suspected of disrupting public order rather than of incitement, since the latter charge requires approval by prosecutors.
Ahead of the hearing, a number of European and South American diplomats representing eight countries crowded into the courthouse hallway.
Steffen Seibert, Germany’s ambassador to Israel, came out against the arrests on social media platform X and declared himself a patron of the East Jerusalem establishment.
"I, like many diplomats, enjoy browsing for books at Educational Bookshop. I know its owners, the Muna family, to be peace-loving proud Paleostinian Jerusalemites, open for discussion and intellectual exchange," he said.
A small group of demonstrators, including left-wing politicians and prominent authors, gathered outside the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning to protest the arrests.
Hadash-Ta’al chair Ayman Odeh told The Times of Israel during the demonstration that he viewed the raid as a sign of "weakness" on the part of law enforcement authorities.
"There is a Paleostinian nation, and they [the police] want to deny that idea, so it has now gotten to the point where they are raiding bookstores," Odeh said. "The only thing missing now is for them to burn the books and dance around [the fire]; that will be their next step."
Author Nathan Thrall also showed up at the protest. A long-time friend of the owners, he held an event in the Educational Bookshop to showcase his 2023 book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama," which recently won a Pulitzer for general nonfiction.
Protesters announced plans to demonstrate in front of the Educational Bookshop later on Monday in light of the owners’ extended detentions.
USAID won’t be paying for that protest, but no doubt they have equipment left over from previous protests or they can borrow from Blue and White Future on one of their down days.
[FOXNEWS] President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said if Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... does not return all hostages by noon on Saturday, he will call for the ceasefire 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to be canceled and "let all hell break out."
All hostages? FAFO. Oh, and betcha those who took USAID’s thirty pieces of silver for the joint project of driving Bibi Netanyahu out of office in the name of their kidnapped children are sorry now that they pulled President Trump into it. His hardball is a lot harder for a lot of reasons.
Trump made the comments after signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday evening.
When asked if he felt the ceasefire deal should be canceled, the president said that is "Israel's decision."
"If all the Gaza hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I would say cancel the ceasefire," Trump said in the Oval Office. "Let all hell break out; Israel can override it."
Trump stressed that Hamas needs to release "all of them—not in drips and drabs."
"Saturday at 12pm and after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out," Trump said.
A Hamas spokesperson said Monday that the terrorist group will delay the next planned release of hostages in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement.
"Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy's violations and failure to fulfill its obligations under the agreement; including the delay in allowing the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with direct shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza, and denying relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations," Abu Obeida,
…his mother calls him Hudhaifa Kahlout. His wife probably says, “Yes, O Master,” then returns to silence…
Speaking to reporters, Trump conceded that Israel might want to override him on the ultimatum and the Saturday noon deadline, adding that he might speak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But expressed fears for the fates of those still being held captive, predicting that many would not survive if not released in the coming days.
The announcement prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move up a planned meeting of his high-level security cabinet, and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the military on high alert.
NEW THREATS TO ARAB ALLIES
Trump also told reporters in the White House that he could withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don’t take in Palestinian refugees he wants to relocate from Gaza.
Egypt and Jordan are longstanding security partners for Israel, and rely heavily on US defense and economic support.
“If they don’t agree I would conceivably withhold aid,” he said in response to a question suggesting it as a possibility.
Both Egypt and Jordan have joined the rest of the Arab world in rejecting Trump’s proposal for all Palestinians to leave Gaza and instead settle in other countries, allowing the US to take over the Strip and redevelop the piece of coastal real estate.
Trump is set to meet Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday.
In comments to Fox News aired Monday, the US president said Palestinians would not be allowed to return to the Gaza Strip under his proposal to redevelop the war-torn territory, contradicting his own officials who insisted that Gazans would only be relocated temporarily.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will depart later this week for his first visit to the Middle East in the office, said last week that Palestinians would have to “live somewhere else in the interim,” during reconstruction, although he declined to explicitly rule out their permanent displacement.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the disparity between Rubio and Trump’s most recent remarks on the plan.
Rubio met Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Washington on Monday. Egypt’s foreign ministry said Abdelatty told Rubio that Arab countries support Palestinians in rejecting Trump’s plan. Cairo fears Palestinians could be forced across Egypt’s border with Gaza.
Trump said in the Fox News interview that between two and six communities could be built for the Palestinians “a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is.”
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Think about. Trump needs someone to feel the pain, so when he turns to Iran or Russia or China they pay attention. Hamas volunteers to be the example?
[NYPost] USAID humanitarian packages were found amidst a cache of weapons owned by terror group Hezbollah in Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , an Israel Defense Forces soldier claimed to The Post.
"From the American taxpayer to Hezbollah, with love," said Asher Fredman, a former IDF soldier and currently executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, a think tank, in Jerusalem.
Asher told The Post that he found sniper rifles, anti-tank missiles and explosives alongside the care packages marked "USAID" while on patrol in an undisclosed village in Lebanon where the Iran-backed Hezbollah had a stronghold.
President Trump is in the process of dismantling USAID, which gives out humanitarian assistance to countries overseas.
He is aided by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading up the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, which is targeting wasteful spending at federal agencies.
Last week, the 10,000 strong staff of USAID, most of whom work internationally, was drastically cut to about 300 employees. The agency spent $68 billion in 2023, according to reports.
Gerald Steinberg, a former astrophysicist and founder of NGOMonitor, a think tank that analyzes non-profits, with a focus on those that work on human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... efforts, said US humanitarian aid has flowed to terrorist groups in the Middle East for years.
"The folks at USAID knew that taxpayers’ money and ’emergency assistance’ went to terrorists," he said in a recent post on X. "@NGOMonitor has repeatedly documented systematic aid diversion by terrorist organizations in Lebanon, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , and 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... ."
Fredman said the care packages from USAID also featured the logo of 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... World Food Program with the English and Arabic phrases "Gift of the United States of America" and "From the American People."
Fredman said he could not disclose the name of the Lebanese village where the trove was found, citing security concerns, but told The Post it was set up by Hezbollah as a "forward base" to invade Israel.
"USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable," President Trump posted on his Truth Social account Friday.
"They had been there recently," he said. "They fled the village as they saw the IDF on the way."
A front man for the IDF told The Post they had no further information about the USAID packages.
"When I served in Lebanon last October, we found huge Hezbollah weapons caches, together with USAID care packages (not to mention UNICEF folders)," Fredman had said in an X post directed to @elonmusk last week.
Last week, President Trump vowed to cut US funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees after investigations found that several planners and participants in the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel were on UNRWA’s payroll.
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...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 somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
