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Squawks Mohammedans' g-wd-in-a-box
In their own honeyed tongue, "Money talks!
What is done in my name,
Sure I'll sanction the same
As if I were a sly desert fox."
Kinda weird, not to go all woowoo, that that popped out in a whole other context last night before I'd seen this page, let alone the typo.
[HodhodYemenNews] The Yemeni Armed Forces’ Air Defense Force successfully downed a United States MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e announced early Tuesday.
Amid ongoing US aggression against Yemen, which has resulted in dozens of civilian casualties, the YAF targeted the hostile drone over Ma’rib governorate using a domestically manufactured surface-to-air missile, Sare’e stated.
The strike marks the 16th confirmed downing of an MQ-9 UAV by the Yemeni Armed Forces since the Israeli aggression on Gaza began in late 2023.
[HodhodYemen ...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... News] United States aircraft launched on Sunday evening a series of strikes on Yemeni territories, including Sana’a province.
According to local sources, the American warplanes carried out four Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Jadr area in the Bani al-Harith district, located north of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
The strikes left one civilian dead and four others injured, according to a spokesperson for the health ministry.
In a statement published on social media Sunday, ministry official Anis al-Asbahi confirmed the casualties.
"According to preliminary information, one civilian has been killed and another four have been injured as a result of the US aggression on Sunday, March 30, 2025, against a village opposite the Jadr area of the Bani Al Harith district north of Sana’a," al-Asbahi wrote.
Moreover, the US enemy aircraft targeted al-Malikah area with eight air strikes and Sarf area in the Bani Hushaysh District, with five airstrikes, according local sourcesز
[HodhodYemen ...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... News] The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) successfully targeted an E-2 command and control aircraft belonging to the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, a senior Sana’a government source told Al Mayadeen on Sunday.
According to the source, "The Truman lost command capabilities following the attack, while both the White House and the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) have launched an investigation into the incident."
The targeted E-2 aircraft is designed to provide critical intelligence on potential threats faced by the warship during military operations. While it does not directly participate in attacks, it plays a crucial role in surveillance and tracking.
The aircraft, operated by a five-member crew—including two pilots and three radar specialists—lost its defensive protection, making it more vulnerable to attacks from Yemeni missiles and drones.
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The April Fools stories are thick today:
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/04/new-u-s-navy-aircraft-carrier-to-be-named-uss-musk/
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once again I suggest
a separate category for 'News from arab and shiite sources.
and maybe another from 'News from Russian sources'
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I second Lord Garth. (There’s already a section for Russian sources. ). Iranian/Yemeni should have their own. These are the same folks that reported they had hit an aircraft carrier a few months ago….
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A submarine carrying 6.5 tons of cocaine has been captured in one of the biggest drug busts of its kind.
The vessel had been heading towards Europe from Brazil when it was intercepted by Portuguese police in an operation involving the British Crime Agency earlier this week.
The smugglers were busted during their attempted crossing of the Atlantic, with police finding £530million of cocaine onboard.
Five alleged members of a criminal organisation were travelling aboard the vessel - three Brazilian men, one Colombian and a Spaniard.
All five crew members were arrested and transferred to the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel.
The arrests mark the first time a drug-smuggling semi-submersible has been intercepted in the open sea, Spanish authorities claimed. Maybe the first by them, but in the Pacific there's been several. They usually open the hatches and sink the shipment before capture
The vessel is thought to be one of the largest ever built with the purpose of transporting drugs between continents.
'The traffickers planned to collect the drugs near the coast using high-speed vessels and smuggle them ashore,' a statement by Spain's Guardia Civil read.
[ABCnews] The New Mexico Republican Party headquarters was targeted in a suspected arson attack on Sunday, according to party officials.
At approximately 5:56 a.m. on Sunday, Albuquerque Fire Rescue was dispatched to the headquarters for a reported structure fire, officials said.
The flames were brought under control within five minutes of their arrival and there were no reported injuries, fire rescue said.
The structure suffered "damage to the front entryway and smoke damage throughout the building," fire rescue said.
The words "ICE=KKK" were also spray-painted on the building, officials said.
Albuquerque Fire Rescue, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recovered "incendiary materials" at the scene of the fire, but the investigation remains ongoing, officials said on Monday.
The Republican Party of New Mexico said the incident was a "deliberate act of arson."
"This horrific attack, fueled by hatred and intolerance, is a direct assault on our values, freedoms and our right to political expression," party officials said in a statement on Sunday.
Party officials said this is not an isolated incident, claiming it is part of a "disturbing pattern of politically motivated violence that has plagued our country -- fueled in part by the silence and implicit encouragement from progressive leaders who refuse to condemn these acts."
The Democratic Party of New Mexico said on X that it also "condemns the vandalism of the @NewMexicoGOP office as strongly as possible."
"We firmly maintain that this sort of act has absolutely no place in our Democracy, & that peaceful discourse & organization are the only ways to approach political differences in our country," the party wrote. "We hope whoever is responsible is found and held accountable."
New Mexico Democratic Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez added, "Political violence is unacceptable, including the arson attack on New Mexico’s GOP headquarters. The perpetrators must be held accountable. Every American should be able to freely and safely participate in our democracy."
Every word is true. What a pity it’s Progressive donors paying these activists for labour and supplies, not to mention legal representation should they be caught.
[Breitbart] A 70-year-old man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly striking an Elon Musk supproter with his vehicle during an anti-Tesla rally outside a dealership in Meridian, Idaho, according to local law enforcement.
ABC News reports that on Saturday, approximately 30 people gathered outside a Tesla dealership in Meridian, Idaho, to protest against the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, and his role in the Trump administration’s federal job cuts. The protest was overshadowed by a counter-protest of about 200 individuals. According to the Meridian Police Department, as a 49-year-old counter-protester arrived at the scene, Christopher Talbot, 70, of Meridian, allegedly made an obscene gesture toward him before striking him with his car.
Police reported that the victim, who had been driving a truck displaying pro-Trump flags, had just parked and exited his vehicle when Talbot hit him. The counter-protester sustained non-life-threatening injuries and drove himself to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The incident occurred amid a series of planned “Tesla Takedown” protests organized by an anti-Musk group, targeting Tesla dealerships and facilities across the country. In recent weeks, Tesla has become a focal point for vandalism and demonstrations due to Musk’s prominent and controversial role in President Donald Trump’s second administration.
Authorities used the license plate information from Talbot’s vehicle to locate his residence, where he was subsequently arrested. Talbot was booked into Ada County Jail and charged with one count of aggravated battery, a felony offense, according to the Ada County Sheriff’s Office.
A police spokesman commented: “The Meridian Police Department reminds people to respect everyone’s right to protest and express their 1st Amendment Rights without resorting to violence.”
Breitbart News recently reported on a viral case of Tesla vandalism that is representative of a large and escalate wave of violence and domestic terrorism against Tesla and Elon Musk:
Demarqeyun Marquize Cox, 33, was taken into custody by the Texarkana Police Department after one of his alleged attacks was captured on video by the very Tesla he intentionally crashed into. The incident occurred while the electric vehicle’s owner, Virita Carstaffin, was having lunch inside a nearby restaurant.
The footage, obtained by local news station KTBS, shows the 5-foot-2, 449-pound Cox backing up his ATV and then ramming head-on into the side of Carstaffin’s red Tesla, causing considerable damage to the front driver-side door. Carstaffin, who was alerted to the attack by a phone notification, estimated that replacing the entire door would cost over $1,000.
Police were called to the area after receiving reports of a second Tesla being damaged at a nearby Lowe’s store. Officers stopped Cox just over a mile south of the Golden Palace, with one officer recognizing him from the video of the buffet restaurant incident. During the initial interrogation, Cox allegedly provided a false name and claimed to be someone else, but police were not fooled by his cocky demeanor and proceeded with the arrest.
[IsraelTimes] An attempt by Hamas to carry out a shooting and bombing attack in the West Bank, directed by members of the terror group in Turkey, was recently foiled, the Shin Bet announces.
In January and February, six members of the Hamas cell, residents of Nablus, were detained by Israeli forces. The six were interrogated by the Shin Bet and Israel Police on suspicion that they were planning attacks.
The investigation found that the cell was being directed and funded by Hamas in Turkey. The cell received tens of thousands of dollars to carry out attacks on security forces and other targets in the West Bank, the Shin Bet and police say in a joint statement.
An assault rifle and $40,000 in cash were seized during the arrest of three of the suspects on January 29, and another $20,000 was captured during the arrest of another suspect that day, the statement says.
The other suspects were arrested on later dates.
Following the interrogation of one of the suspects, the Shin Bet says troops located a bomb that had been planted by the cell near the Gitai Avisar Junction in the West Bank. The explosive device was successfully neutralized.
The suspects aren’t named by police and the Shin Bet says indictments are expected to be filed against the six in the coming weeks.
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With the funeral involving senior Islamist leaders that followed the death of Turkey's Nekemettin Erbakan in March 2011 the international Muslim Brotherhood agreed to settle its headquarters in Turkey. Since that date Turkey under Erdogan has been only a sometime ally of the USA. Which leads many to believe that Turkey has bought off the Pentagon with more than just Istanbul whores.
[IsraelTimes] Some 2,000 gather in capital as Qatargate scandal escalates and Gaza fighting expands; video shows cops rough-handling Democrats MK Naama Lazimi; her party chief vows ‘justice’
Twelve protesters were arrested at anti-government and pro-hostage deal rallies in Jerusalem on Monday, as police clashed with some of the roughly 2,000 demonstrators, including a politician.
The protests were held amid dramatic political developments, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being summoned by police for questioning for some two hours in a scandal surrounding his aides’ ties to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and two of those aides being taken into custody.
As far as I can tell, this is entirely manufactured. Everyone knew at the time that Qatar was giving money to Hamas — they had Israeli government agreement because it was supposed to give Hamas a reason to keep Gaza quiet. We had reports here at Rantburg whenever Qatar came through with the next tranche.
The rallies were also held against the backdrop of the government’s advancement of key legislation aimed at radically overhauling the country’s judiciary while also moving to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar — all while expanding war 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... where 59 hostages are still being held.
Among those arrested in Jerusalem on Monday was the cousin of freed hostage Arbel Yehoud. Bystanders said she was violent mostly peacefully detained after cursing a police officer for allowing a counter-protester into a barricaded zone barred to other demonstrators.
Two protesters were detained while blocking Begin Highway to traffic alongside around a dozen others, holding a large banner that read: "What about the hostages?"
Hostage families have warned that the resumption of fighting endangers their loved ones.
Not resuming fighting also endangers the hostages, as Hamas has made clear.
Polls indicate that most Israelis back their stance and support ending the war in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages.
Shikma Bressler, who was among the leaders of the pre-war protests against the government’s judicial overhaul efforts, referred to Netanyahu repeatedly as a “Hamas asset” — alluding to policies over many years that favored keeping the terror group in control of the enclave while weakening the more moderate Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Bressler asserted that Netanyahu and his aides are accused of what amounts to “the dictionary definition of treason” and “the dictionary definition of spying.”
Amit Becher, head of the Israel Bar Association, also addressed the crowd.
At a separate protest in Jerusalem’s Agranat Square, officers were recorded rough-handling Democrats MK Naama Lazimi, drawing condemnation from protest groups and political allies.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says it is targeting Hamas infrastructure, senior officials in renewed fighting; Red Crescent: bodies of 15 health workers recovered after Israeli strike last week "health workers"
The Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation warning on Monday for Paleostinians in the entire Rafah area in the southern 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, saying the military was "returning to fight with great force to eliminate the capabilities of terror organizations in these areas."
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area to be evacuated, telling Gazooks to move to the al-Mawasi area on the southern Strip’s coast.
It was the most significant evacuation order issued by the IDF since the resumption of the offensive against Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... earlier this month ended a two-month ceasefire.
The evacuation area covers a large swath of land between Rafah and Khan Younis, where the IDF has so far not operated with ground forces.
The orders came during Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive Moslem holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Since resuming operations in the Gaza Strip on March 18, the IDF has said it was targeting senior Hamas political officials and mid-level military commanders, along with the terror group’s infrastructure, including weapon depots and rocket launchers. Members of 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... and other terror groups have also been targeted.
On Saturday, the military said it had expanded its operations in south Gaza, with troops pushing into Rafah as part of efforts to expand a buffer zone along the borders of the Strip and to eliminate terror infrastructure.
Separately, on Sunday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said it had recovered the bodies of 15 rescuers killed a week ago when Israeli forces targeted ambulances in the Gaza Strip.
The IDF acknowledged Friday that it had fired on ambulances and fire engines in southern Gaza last week, saying it had mistakenly identified them as "suspicious vehicles." According to the military, troops had initially opened fire "toward Hamas vehicles and eliminated several Hamas terrorists" in the Tel Sultan area of southern Gaza.
"A few minutes afterward, additional vehicles advanced suspiciously toward the troops... The troops responded by firing toward the suspicious vehicles, eliminating a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists," the IDF said.
It added that "after an initial inquiry, it was determined that some of the suspicious vehicles... were ambulances and fire trucks," while condemning "the repeated use" by "terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip of ambulances for terrorist purposes."
The bodies of eight medics from the Red Islamic Thingy, six members of Gaza’s civil defense agency and one employee of a UN agency were retrieved, the Red Islamic Thingy said in a statement.
It said one medic from the Red Islamic Thingy remained missing.
In an earlier statement, the Red Islamic Thingy said the bodies "were recovered with difficulty as they were buried in the sand, with some showing signs of decomposition."
Gaza’s civil defense agency also confirmed that 15 bodies had been recovered, adding that the dear departed UN employee was from the agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA.
In a separate statement issued in Geneva, the International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies (IFRC) said it was "outraged" at the deaths of the medics.
"They were humanitarians. They wore emblems that should have protected them; their ambulances were clearly marked. They should have returned [to] their families; they did not," IFRC secretary general Jagan Chapagain said.
"International Humanitarian Law could not be clearer — civilians must be protected; humanitarians must be protected. Health services must be protected."
IFRC said the incident represents the single most deadly attack on Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy workers anywhere in the world since 2017.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy said it was "appalled" that the medics "were killed while carrying out their work" alongside others.
"Their bodies were identified today and have been recovered for dignified burial," the ICRC said. "The high number of medical personnel killed during this conflict is devastating. The ICRC strongly condemns attacks on health care workers."
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... The IDF said Monday that it had demolished a kilometer-long tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip amid ongoing operations in the area.
Troops of the 252nd Division have been operating in the Strip’s far north and in the Netzarim Corridor area, which the military said was aimed at expanding Israel’s buffer zone with Gaza.
Amid the division’s operations in north and central Gaza, the IDF said troops killed over 50 terror operatives.
In the Beit Lahiya area, a Hamas tunnel which was at least a kilometer long, was destroyed by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, the military says.
In a separate operation, the troops found a rocket manufacturing site and several launchers, the IDF added.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, at least 921 people have been killed in the territory since Israel resumed its large-scale strikes.
In total, over 50,000 Paleostinians have been killed in the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre, according to the ministry. The figure cannot be independently verified and does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel says it had killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 hard boyz inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.
UN WARNS GAZA IS RUNNING OUT OF FLOUR
*shrug* Breach the Hamas warehouses — there is plenty of everything in them.
On Sunday night, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... warned that Gaza’s bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week, saying that agencies have cut food distributions to families in half, markets are empty of most vegetables, and many aid workers cannot move around because of Israeli strikes targeting terror sites.
For four weeks, Israel has shut off all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies for the Gaza Strip’s population of more than 2 million Paleostinians, citing Hamas’s refusal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire deal and release more hostages. Israeli officials insist they allowed enough aid in during the two-month ceasefire to last Gaza for several months while accusing Hamas of hoarding supplies for itself.
It is the longest blockade yet of Israel’s 17-month-old campaign against Hamas, with no sign of it ending.
Aid workers are stretching out their supplies but warn of a catastrophic surge in severe hunger and malnutrition, the UN warned. Eventually, food will run out completely if the flow of aid is not restored because the war has destroyed almost all local food production in Gaza.
The World Food Programme said Thursday that its flour for bakeries is only enough to keep producing bread for 800,000 people a day until Tuesday and that its overall food supplies will last a maximum of two weeks. As a "last resort" once all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified nutritional biscuits for 415,000 people.
The UN added that fuel and medicine will last weeks longer before hitting zero, hospitals are rationing antibiotics and painkillers, and aid groups are shifting limited fuel supplies between multiple needs, all indispensable — trucks to move aid, bakeries to make bread, wells and desalination plants to produce water, hospitals to keep machines running.
Last week, the High Court of Justice ruled unanimously that Israel has taken a variety of steps to provide for the humanitarian needs of Gaza’s civilian population during the war, and that there was no cause for the court to order the government and the army to take any additional action.
Critically, the court stated that the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups which petitioned the court over the humanitarian situation in Gaza had "not even come close" to showing that Israel had violated legal prohibitions on starving a civilian population as a tool of war or as a form of collective punishment.
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'Posed an immediate threat': IAF strikes Hezbollah terrorist in Beirut According to a joint IDF and Shin Bet statement, the strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A senior Hamas leader has called for supporters worldwide to pick up weapons and fight Donald Trump's plan to relocate Gazans to neighbouring countries.
'In the face of this sinister plan - one that combines massacres with starvation - anyone who can bear arms, anywhere in the world, must take action,' Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement on Monday.
'Do not withhold an explosive, a bullet, a knife, or a stone. Let everyone break their silence.'
Abu Zuhri's call comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to let Hamas leaders leave Gaza but demanded that the Palestinian group disarm in the final stages of the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu said Israel was working towards a plan proposed by Trump to displace Gazans to other countries, which could include Egypt and Jordan.
Netanyahu said that after the war, Israel would ensure overall security in Gaza and 'enable the implementation of the Trump plan' - which had initially called for the mass displacement of all 2.4 million people living in the Palestinian territory - calling it a 'voluntary migration plan'.
Trump's plan for the region risks inflaming deep underlying tensions, and has been met with fury from Palestinians and American allies alike. The UN has warned it was tantamount to 'ethnic cleansing'.
But the call from Hamas comes at an uncertain time, with thousands of Gazans defying fear of reprisal to march against the group in anti-war demonstrations.
One protestor was this week alleged to have been kidnapped, tortured and left at his family's doorstep as a warning.
Days after taking office in January, Trump had proposed that Gazans be removed from the territory with no right of return.
He later appeared to backtrack, saying he was 'not forcing' the widely condemned plan for the United States to take over the territory and redevelop it.
Trump said that the U.S. should take control of Gaza to ensure its stability, and suggested the population could be relocated elsewhere, where he said they would be 'better off'.
'The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the US by Israel at the conclusion of fighting' he said.
On February 9, the American president said he was 'committed to buying and owning Gaza'.
Two days later, he told a news conference with Jordan's King Abdullah II: 'We're not going to buy anything.'
'We're going to have it and we're going to keep it and we're going to make sure that there's going to be peace and there's not going to be any problem.'
An AI-generated clip of 'Trump Gaza', redeveloped into the 'Riviera of the Middle East', was then posted to his Truth Social social media platform, met with horror.
The video showed high-rises and beachside resorts, with a giant gold statue of Trump towering over the enclave.
Trump and Netanyahu featured in the AI video, drinking by a pool. The clip was widely condemned as being 'tone deaf'.
Palestinians in Gaza argued the proposal ignores their rights and ties to their ancestral land.
The right of return remains a sensitive issue for Palestinian diaspora displaced by the long conflict with Israel.
About 750,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes on land which became Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
As many as 531 Palestinian towns were razed by Israeli militias by 1949, according to the West Bank-based Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, and thousands were killed in clashes.
Many refugees today remain in camps in neighbouring countries, unable to return to the places they were born.
Outrage at the loss of life in Gaza since Hamas launched its shock October 7, 2023 incursion into Israel saw a rise in support for the group among Palestinians, reflecting anathema towards Israeli policy and lack of progress towards a lasting solution.
This was in spite of the 1,170 lives taken during the massacre, and some 250 hostages taken back into Gaza.
A group of independent human rights experts warned earlier this month that Israel had resumed weaponising starvation in Gaza with the decision to break from the fragile ceasefire agreement and block aid into the Palestinian enclave.
More than 400 Palestinians were killed as Israel resumed its bombardment of the strip on March 18. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict since October 2023, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reports.
Israel warned its attacks were 'only the beginning'.
Earlier this month, defence minister Israel Katz also threatened to permanently occupy parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases the hostages still held in captivity.
Since coming to power, Hamas has done little to move towards a lasting solution with Israel, launching attacks across the border that rights groups say have killed civilians and even landed back in Gaza.
'The unpredictable nature of the crude rockets has meant that rockets have struck areas not only inside Israel but also inside Gaza,' Human Rights Watch observed in 2009.
The group has also done little to alleviate poverty in the Gaza Strip, despite receiving plenty of money from foreign backers.
In 2023, it was estimated to have an investment portfolio of real estate and other assets worth $500mn and an annual military budget of $350mn.
But Gaza remains one of the poorest places in the world. In 2023, the GDP per capita for the West Bank and Gaza sat at just $3,372.3 USD.
In recent days, Palestinians have expressed their ire towards the governing group with mass protests in the beleaguered enclave.
Thousands took to the streets in northern Gaza last weeks for days of anti-war protests, many chanting against Hamas.
The protests, which centered mainly on Gaza's north, appeared to be aimed generally against the war, with protesters calling for an end to 17 months of deadly fighting.
In the town of Beit Lahiya, where a similar protest took place Tuesday, about 3,000 people demonstrated, with many chanting 'the people want the fall of Hamas.' In the hard-hit Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, dozens of men chanted 'Out, out out! Hamas get out!'
'Our children have been killed. Our houses have been destroyed,' said Abed Radwan, who said he joined the protest in Beit Lahiya 'against the war, against Hamas, and the (Palestinian political) factions, against Israel and against the world's silence.'
Ammar Hassan, who gave his name after taking part in a protest on Tuesday, said it started as an anti-war protest with a few dozen people but swelled to more than 2,000, with people chanting against Hamas.
'It's the only party we can affect,' he said by phone. 'Protests won't stop the (Israeli) occupation, but it can affect Hamas.'
The militant group has violently cracked down on previous protests. This time no outright intervention was apparent, perhaps because Hamas is keeping a lower profile since Israel resumed its war against it.
Hamas was then accused of torturing a Palestinian protestor to death and leaving him on his family's doorstep as a warning.
Uday al-Rabbay was reportedly kidnapped by the terror group amid the swell of anti-Hamas actions taken by the people of the Gaza Strip, who have in the last week been seen begging the organisation to give up control.
Mazen Shat, a senior police officer affiliated with Fatah from Ramallah and a vocal critic of Hamas, told The Telegraph Uday had been tortured for four hours, and was left with open wounds and bruising.
'Uday was martyred by the criminals of Hamas. And what's his crime? He told the truth, because he refused to be silent on injustice, because he did not kneel to Hamas.
'Hamas is oppressing people in a brutal way. Like a puppy on a rope around his neck, they dragged him to the door of his house and told his family that this is the punishment for those who complain about Hamas.'
[IsraelNationalNews] IAF strikes Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians.
With the direction of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the IAF early Tuesday morning conducted a strike in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold.
According to a joint IDF and Shin Bet statement, the strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians.
"Due to the immediate threat the terrorist posed, the IDF and ISA acted to eliminate him and removed the threat," the statement said.
"The IDF and ISA will continue to operate to prevent any threat posed to the civilians of the State of Israel," it added.
Media in Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... reported that at least three people were killed and seven were maimed in the Israeli strike, which reportedly targeted a residential building.
Late last week, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Ahmad Adnan Bajjiga, a battalion commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, in the area of Derdghaiya in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said that throughout the war, the terrorist advanced and directed numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
In recent months, he had continued directing terror attacks against Israel’s Home Front, posing a threat to the State of Israel and its civilians, the IDF added.
On Friday, Israel began conducting strikes on targets in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, with the IDF confirming it struck a terrorist infrastructure site used to store UAVs by Hezbollah's Aerial Unit (127) in the area of Dahieh.
"The Hezbollah terrorist organization systematically embeds its terrorist infrastructure amidst the Lebanese civilian population, a clear example of Hezbollah's cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians as human shields," it said.
Later in the day, the IDF struck Hezbollah command centers, terrorist infrastructure sites, launchers, and Lions of Islam in southern Lebanon. The strikes followed a missile attack on Kiryat Shmona.
Iran has seized two foreign tankers with suspicion to be US-affiliated,carrying over three million liters (792,516 US gallons) of smuggled diesel fuel according to Iran Naval Units
The tankers are being transferred to the country’s Bushehr port.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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