[AFRICANEWS] 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... Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary Anne DiCarlo briefed the Security Council on the situation in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... on Friday (Apr. 19).
The war in Sudan has sparked "a crisis of epic proportions" fuelled by weapons from foreign supporters who continue to flout U.N. sanctions, DiCarlo added.
"If the parties have been able to sustain their confrontation, it is in no small part thanks to the material support they receive from outside the Sudan," she said.
"These external actors continue to flout the sanctions regime imposed by the Council to support a political settlement, thereby fuelling the conflict. This is illegal, it is immoral and it must stop."
The sanctions regime imposed on Sudan by the resolution 1591 mentions parties in the conflict in Darfur which broke in the early 2000s. It includes an embargo on arms and ammunition as well as assets freezes.
Mohammed Ibn Chambas, chair of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
panel on Sudan and high representative for its Silence the Guns in Africa initiative, called external interference "a major factor compounding both the efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and to stop the war."
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Neither DiCarlo nor Chambas named any of the foreign supporters.
Reports have alleged Saudi Arabia; the UAE and Egypt are involved in the continuation of the war. {which side?}
[IsraelTimes] French court allows demonstration to go ahead, overruling police ban that cited risk of antisemitic hate crimes and violence
It’s not a phobia if it’s a legitimate concern.
A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Gay Paree against racism, Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed their demonstration to go ahead.
Bans on protests have been more frequent in La Belle France in recent months, due to tensions stirred by the ongoing Israel-Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . In a country that is home to large Moslem and Jewish communities, authorities have banned many pro-Paleostinian demonstrations and public gatherings, citing the risk of antisemitic hate crimes and violence.
On Sunday, the protesters marched peacefully from the multi-ethnic Barbes neighborhood toward Place de la Republique. Many rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud remembering Nahel, a 17-year-old of North African descent who was fatally shot during a police traffic stop last year.
Gay Paree police chief Laurent Nunez told broadcaster BFM TV that he initially chose to ban the march because, in announcing the protest, the organizers had likened French police violence to the war in Gaza, and he felt the event could cause a threat to public order.
That argument was rejected by Gay Paree’s administrative court in a fast-tracked decision.
"Fighting and mobilizing for the protection of all children is normal, it should be," said Yessa Belkgodja, one of the organizers of the march, welcoming the court’s decision.
"If we are banned from protesting, it means we don’t have the right to express ourselves in La Belle France... We are being monitored on social media. That’s enough, leave us alone," said Yamina Ayad, a retiree who was wrapped in the Paleostine flag.
A similar ban on a pro-Paleostinian protest in Gay Paree happened in 2021 during a weekslong conflict between Israel and Gaza-based terrorists. At the time, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin explained his reasoning for wanting to ban the protest based on violent mostly peaceful demonstrations in 2014.
Several demonstrations took place in La Belle France in July 2014 to denounce Israel during the war then raging in Gaza. On July 19, 2014, several thousand protesters defied a ban on a demonstration at Barbes and the rally rapidly degenerated into violent mostly peacefulfestivities that lasted for hours.
In January, the Council of Jewish Institutions in La Belle France (CRIF) reported that antisemitic acts in La Belle France nearly quadrupled since the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, in which close to 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were slain, and 253 were kidnapped to Gaza.
Citing figures from the French interior ministry and a French-Jewish security watchdog, CRIF said there were 1,676 antisemitic acts in 2023 compared to 436 the year prior, with nearly 60 percent of those acts being attacks involving physical violence threatening words or menacing gestures.
La Belle France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish community and the largest number of Moslems on the continent, although no precise figures are available as the country’s census does not include religious identity.
One evening in 2019, in a windowless building known as the “tomb” in the center of Yale’s campus, the members of Skull and Bones snapped. There they were, having been granted membership to the most elite secret society at one of the most elite universities in the world—part of a rare group that for generations included individuals from the most powerful families on the planet. Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Buckleys have all been in Skull and Bones. Three Bonesmen would go on to become president of the United States. Their traditions (including oaths of secrecy upon admission) and antics (stealing the gravestone of Yale’s founder), and the rumors about them (that the Bones tomb contains several human skulls), are legendary—and an intense source of campus gossip.
Close to 30 protesters have been arrested on the third day of an ongoing pro-Palestinian demonstration on the grounds of Yale University, the Yale Daily reports.
According to the report, the protesters set up a tent encampment overnight as they demanded that the university divest from weapons manufacturers amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Some of the arrested protesters are students at the university, the report adds, but does not specify how many.
In a statement to the college newspaper, Yale Police Lieutenant Roosevelt Martinez says the protesters were arrested for trespassing, but does not provide further details.
#11
"We'll hear now from Jerelyn Luther,
Alumna and Halloween truther,
Who's still [knowing nods]
Shrilly haunting the quads
As the Spirit of Yale--"
"With a sting in her tale--"
"Sure, were Albion Yale, she'd play Uther!"
[GEO.TV] Two officials of Pakistain Customs were bumped off in an attack near York Toll Plaza in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... district, police said on Sunday.
According to the law enforcement officials, four others sustained injuries in the gun attack and have been shifted to the DHQ Hospital.
The police said that the unidentified armed assailants escaped the site of the incident after opening fire.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the attack, reiterating that such cowardly acts could not shake the resolve of the government and the fight against terrorism would continue till their complete elimination.
The prime minister prayed for the departed souls and for the bereaved families to bear the losses with fortitude, PM Office Media Wing said in a blurb.
He said that looking after the bereaved families of the officials was now a responsibility of the government and directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman to prepare shuhada package for the bereaved families.
This is the second time that Customs officials came under attack in DI Khan in the same week. On April 18, six people, including five Customs officials, were killed in a firing incident in the KP district.
The law enforcers said the person or persons unknown targeted the Customs officials on the Sago Road in Daraban tehsil of the district.
The armed attackers, who hid in bushes, attacked the Customs’ vehicle and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace unchallenged on cycle of violences.
Due to the attack, the driver of the Customs vehicle lost control and collided with another vehicle, resulting in the death of the citizen.
According to the statistics issued by the Department of Interior and Tribal Affairs KP, the areas most affected by terrorism include Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , Khyber, Bajaur, and Tank while Dera Ismail Khan and North Wazoo and South Waziristan are included in the terror-affected areas.
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[IsraelTimes] Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah says Iraqi gangs had decided to resume attacks on US forces in the country after seeing little progress on talks to achieve the exit of American troops during a visit by the Iraqi prime minister to Washington.
"What happened a short while ago is the beginning," the group says in an apparent reference to an attack late last night with multiple rockets from northern Iraq on a base housing US forces in Syria.
Founded in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Kataeb Hezbollah is one of the elite Iraqi armed factions closest to Iran.
At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar toward a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.
The attack against US forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against US troops.
[IsraelTimes] Woman killed trying to stab guards at Jordan Valley checkpoint, two men killed assaulting soldiers near Hebron, as army ends 50-hour refugee camp operation amid heightened tensions
The army said soldiers opened fire at three Palestinians who attacked them on Sunday in the West Bank, where violence has flared in recent days, with the Palestinian Authority health ministry confirming that all three had died.
In the first incident, at the Beit Einun junction near Hebron in the southern West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said a man had shot at troops, while another attempted to stab them, before the soldiers opened fire on both attackers, whom medics later declared dead.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, said that ambulance crews were prevented from reaching the two, whom the agency identified as Mohammad Majid Jabareen, 19, and Musa Mahmoud Jabareen, 18.
In the second incident, the military said soldiers shot a woman who tried to stab them at the Beka’ot checkpoint — also known as Hamra, after the adjacent settlement — in the north West Bank’s Jordan Valley. She was later confirmed dead by Palestinian Authority health authorities.
WAFA identified her as Manal Sawafta, 40, from Tubas in the Jordan Valley.
Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before October 7 — when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and abduct over 250 — has escalated throughout the war sparked by the onslaught, with frequent army raids on terror groups, rampages by Jewish settlers in Palestinian villages, and deadly Palestinian street attacks.
The IDF began an extended raid in the early hours of Friday in the Nur Shams refugee camp, near the flashpoint Palestinian city of Tulkarm, and exchanged fire with gunmen well into Saturday.
Fourteen Palestinian operatives were killed in the fire exchanges and 10 soldiers were wounded, according to an IDF statement issued on Sunday, after it had completed the 50-hour operation.
Nur Shams residents have so far identified only five of the fatalities as operatives. One of those killed was a 16-year-old boy, authorities said.
Since October 7, IDF troops have arrested some 3,850 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,650 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 480 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time.
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Those poor innocent Paleostinians, unarmed with only guns and knives...
In the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy", there is a running joke where people freak out at the sight of wild animals and Forest Ranger Guy says, "If you don't bother them, they won't bother you". I imagine it is the same thing with the IDF - if you don't try to stab them, they won't shoot you.
[AFRICANEWS] This Saturday (Apr. 20), as has been the case almost everyday for the past 6 months in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , funeral prayers were held.
The Israeli military operation in the enclave has flattened mosques, churches, schools, hospitals as well as archaeological sites.
The latest Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!...
in southern Gaza city of Rafah which occured on Friday night killed at least 9 Paleostinians, including 6 children leaving surviving relatives in despair.
"I don't want to say anything to the world or to anyone because this is an unjust world," the bereaved father says, holding his deceased daughetr in his arms. "This is a world deprived of all human values and morals. It only understands the language of power."
"They bombed a house full of displaced people, women and kiddies, in this manner."
Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s total population of about 2.3 million people, the vast majority of whom have been displaced by fighting elsewhere.
Those who are not killed by strikes face hunger especially in northern Gaza where a UN-backed report has warned of imminent famine.
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Face hunger. RIGHT! Pull the other one.
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has wrapped up a 50-hour-long operation in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp, adjacent to Tulkarem.
Amid the raid, troops killed 14 button men in festivities, detained 15 wanted Paleostinians, discovered and destroyed dozens of explosives, and captured weapons, according to the military.
Nine soldiers and one Border Police officer were hurt during the festivities. They were listed in good and moderate condition.
Paleostinian media initially reported that the commander of a local 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... wing in Tulkarem was killed amid the raid, although reports now say that Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a, did not actually die. He is purportedly seen in footage at the funerals of other button men.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries to Israeli forces in first incident at Beit Einun Junction; man hit by bomb had been trying to kick down Palestinian flag planted in field
Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot and killed two Paleostinian attackers who opened fire on and tried to stab troops near the West Bank city of Hebron, the military said Sunday.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli man was lightly injured by a small bomb attached to a Paleostinian flag planted in a field.
In the first incident, two men approaching the Beit Einun Junction at around 7 a.m. tried to attack soldiers. One of the men pulled out a knife and tried to stab them, and the second then opened fire with a gun, the army said. Troops returned fire at both attackers, "neutralizing" them, the IDF said. No soldiers were maimed. According to medics, both Paleostinian men were killed. They were not immediately identified.
In reported footage from near the attack posted online, a single gunshot could be heard, followed by several shots after a short pause.
Another photo posted online showed a man lying on a sidewalk at the intersection as a soldier trains a rifle on him.
Later Sunday morning, an off-duty IDF reservist was lightly injured as a result of an improvised bomb near the West Bank settlement of Kohav HaShahar, medics and the army said. The man was trying to remove a Paleostinian flag on the side of Route 458 when it went kaboom!Graphic footage filmed by a passenger in a car showed a man walking up to a flag attached to a flagpole planted in a field. As he swings a leg to kick it down, an explosive goes off under him.
The man, identified as 28-year-old Israeli Levi, was treated at the scene for minor injuries and later taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. He had initially declined transport to a hospital.
Levi told the Ynet news site that "it was a serious bomb, but luckily I gave it a kick and the earth-shattering kaboom happened to the side, and not on me."
Levi said fragments hit him in the hands, causing minor injuries.
The IDF said it had dispatched troops to the scene to search for suspects.
In another attack Sunday, Paleostinian button men in the northern West Bank shot up the Israeli community of Kibbutz Meirav, the IDF said. There were no injuries in the attack, but slight damage was caused to one of the homes.
Meirav lies close to the Green Line, which separates Israel from the West Bank. While Paleostinians periodically carry out shooting attacks against Israelis in the West Bank, shooting attacks from the West Bank into Israel are less common.
The army said troops were blocking roads and scanning the area for the suspects.
Amid searches in the town of Jalbun, from which the attack was carried out, Paleostinians hurled an explosive at the troops, the IDF said. There were no injuries.
Two other attacks on troops were reported overnight.
Shots were fired at the Salam army outpost in the northern West Bank, near the Paleostinian city of Jenin, causing no injuries. In addition, shots were also fired at a military vehicle near the village of Bayt Sira in the northern West Bank. There were no injuries although some bullets hit the vehicle.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,’s Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... branch claims responsibility for a rocket barrage earlier today on the Upper Galilee.
In a statement, the terror group says it launched 20 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... from Lebanon at an Israeli army base near the town of Shomera.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Aviation of the so-called International Anti-Terrorism Coalition, led by the United States of America, has violated Syrian airspace 12 times over the past 24 hours. This was stated during a briefing on April 21 by the Deputy Head of the Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties, Major General Yuri Popov.
“In the Al-Tanf area, 12 violations were recorded per day by three pairs of F-15 fighters, a pair of Rafale fighters and two pairs of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft,” Popov said.
In addition, on the part of the US-led coalition, the Center recorded three cases of violation of deconfliction protocols related to non-coordination with the Russian side on the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past 24 hours, two attacks on positions of Syrian government troops by terrorist groups have been recorded in the de-escalation zone. One Syrian soldier was wounded as a result of shelling in the Al Areim area in the province of Latakia.
As reported by Regnum news agency, earlier the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed five bases of militants who had taken refuge in hard-to-reach mountainous areas in the Syrian province of Homs. On April 18, the TsPVS recorded several cases of violation of deconfliction protocols by four pairs of F-15 fighters, two pairs of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft and one MC-12W electronic reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft.
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 Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
Hezbollah
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...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
