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US says Hamas seized first aid shipment to enter Gaza via Erez crossing
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Shin Bet captures Islamic Jihad cell planning bombing attacks in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] A 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
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cell planning bombing attacks in the West Bank on behalf of the terror group’s Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
branch was recently captured, the Shin Bet security agency announces.

According to the Shin Bet, IDF troops nabbed three Islamic Jihad operatives in the West Bank town of Yabed in January. They are named by the agency as Ahmed Abu Bakr, 29, Ibrahim Abu Bakr, 29, and Ibadah Abu Bakr, 18.

The trio "acted under the directives of the PIJ headquarters in Lebanon, in order to carry out significant attacks, using remote-detonated explosives against IDF troops in the area," the agency says.

During their arrest, the Shin Bet says, troops seized several primed bombs.

Ahmed and Ibrahim, who the Shin Bet says are senior PIJ operatives, were in contact with the terror group’s headquarters in Lebanon, during which they received funding, largely cryptocurrency, for their attacks, according to the agency.

The Shin Bet says the pair also carried out tests with remote-detonated bombs. Ibadah had been recruited by Ibrahim to build the bombs, according to the agency.

The trio have been charged with a series of security offenses, leading the Shin Bet to release details about the case.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 03:19 || Comments || Link || [103 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


IDF removes remnants of another Iran missile found by hikers in southern Israel
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military removed remnants of another intercepted Iranian ballistic missile found by hikers at the Ye’elim stream, close to Arad, in southern Israel.

The missile was one of 120 fired at Israel in the Iranian attack on April 14.

The remnants were lifted out of the area by crane and moved to another location, where the Fire and Rescue Services removed any hazardous materials.

After it was deemed safe, the remnants were taken to an army base to be further examined.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 03:05 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2024 15:21 Comments || Top||


Gaza doctor dies in Israeli jail; prison says he was detained for national security reasons
[IsraelTimes] A senior Paleostinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Paleostinian prisoner associations say, blaming Israel for his death.

The associations say in a joint statement that Adnan al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al Shifa Hospital, Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
’s largest medical facility, were tossed into the calaboose by Israeli forces while temporarily working at al-Awada Hospital in north Gaza.

They called his death an "liquidation" and said his body remained in Israeli custody.

An Israeli military spokesperson said that the prison service had declared Bursh dead on April 19, saying that he were tossed into the calaboose for national security reasons in Ofer prison. The spokesperson did not comment on the cause of death.

Medical groups, including the World Health Organization, have repeatedly called for a halt to attacks on Gaza healthcare workers, with more than 200 killed so far in the Gaza conflict, according to an estimate from Insecurity Insight, a research group that collects and analyses data on attacks on aid workers around the world.

The Paleostinian health ministry said in a statement that Bursh’s death raised to 496 the number of medical sector workers who had been killed by Israel since October 7. It added that 1,500 others had been maimed, while 309 had been arrested. Those figures haven’t been verified

Israel accuses Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
of using hospitals for military purposes and says its operations against them have been justified by the presence of fighters.

Earlier today, the Israeli authorities released 64 Paleostinians they had detained during their military offensive in Gaza via the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom Crossing, the Paleostinian borders and crossings agency said.

One of them was the body of another man who had died in detention, the prisoners’ associations says.

Another freed detainee arrived at death's door and was transferred to a hospital upon arrival, the crossings agency adds.

Dozens of Paleostinians who had been freed by Israel in past months including some staff of a UN agency have reported ill-treatment during detention, including torture and deprivation of food and sleep. Israel says it adheres to international law regarding the treatment of prisoners.

The two new deaths bring the toll of Gazooks who died in Israeli custody to at least 18 since the start of the war, the prisoners associations says, urging Israeli authorities to disclose the number, location and fate of detainees from Gaza.

UNRWA has documented the release of 1,506 people detained by the Israeli authorities through the Kerem Shalom Crossing as of April 4 and said the transfer of detainees regularly holds up aid. The 1,506 figure included 43 children and 84 women, it said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 02:33 || Comments || Link || [89 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are, probably, MDs in Gaza who are not Hamas members - just kidding.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 4:30 Comments || Top||

#2  MDs possibly, but not department heads — a political position.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 11:15 Comments || Top||


Kibbutz Be'eri announces resident Dror Or was killed on Oct. 7, body being held in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Kibbutz Be’eri announces that its resident, Dror Or, was murdered during Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
’s terror onslaught on October 7 and that his body is being held in Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
Or had been designated as a hostage to date.

Such announcements typically come after the IDF obtains additional forensics leading to a determination of a hostage’s death.

Or, 49, was taken hostage with two of his children, Noam, 17 and Alma, 13, by Hamas holy warriors who attacked their home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.

The family was forced out of their safe room as holy warriors set the house on fire. A neighbor saw the holy warriors grabbing and taking them hostage.

Days later, the body of Yonat Or, Dror’s wife and mother of their three children, was found.

17-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Alma Or were released on November 25 as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by 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 late nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and the United States between Hamas and Israel.

Noam and Alma’s older brother, Yahli, and their dog, Nella, survived. Yahli Or is volunteering in a year of national service in the north, and wasn’t home on October 7.

Dror Or was a chef and cheesemaker in the Be’eri Dairy, an award-winning artisanal cheese-making operation, founded in 1991 at the kibbutz.

His wife Yonat Or, was also an entrepreneur who created Ayuna, her own carpentry and furniture line in Be’eri.

The announcement from Kibbutz Be’eri brings the total of deceased Israelis being held in Gaza to 37.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 02:31 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Protesters block Tel Aviv highway demanding deal: ‘It's either Rafah or the hostages'
[IsraelTimes] As Netanyahu vows IDF will enter southern Gaza city regardless of potential truce with Hamas, protesters place giant photos of female captives outside PM’s Jerusalem home

Protesters on Thursday morning blocked Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway in both directions for around 20 minutes in a demonstration calling for an immediate deal to free over 100 hostages held by Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
since October 7.

Holding a large banner reading, "It’s either Rafah or the hostages — choose life," the protesters stood in the middle of the busy thoroughfare to prevent morning traffic from passing.

Hebrew media reported that several family members of hostages were leading the protest, including Yehuda Cohen, the father of 19-year-old Nimrod Cohen, Yifat Calderon, the cousin of Ofer Calderon, 53, and Shay Mozes, the nephew of 79-year-old Gadi Mozes.

A woman throwing eggs at the protesters was arrested, according to Hebrew media.

Also in attendance were members of a female-led protest group urging Israel not to launch its looming offensive in Rafah and claiming it would endanger the lives of the hostages, many of whom are believed to be held in Gaza’s southernmost city.

"Entering Rafah means abandoning the lives of the hostages," the group said in a press statement. "After half a year of being promised that only military action can bring back the hostages, we all understand that the only way to save those who can still be saved is through a deal."

It is believed that 129 of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Three hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 12 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.

The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.

Netanyahu told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
on Wednesday that the IDF would launch a mass invasion of Rafah to dismantle four remaining Hamas battalions whether or not there is a hostage deal, according to an Israeli official.

During their meeting, Blinken reiterated Washington’s opposition to a major IDF ground invasion in the southern Gaza city, where over one million displaced Paleostinians are sheltering amid the ongoing war, "absent an effective plan to make sure that civilians are not harmed" — which he said Israel has yet to provide.

The comments came as Hamas appeared poised to reject the latest hostage deal proposal crafted by mediators and green-lit by Israel, which provides for the release of 33 female, elderly or sick hostages in the first stage.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, protesters placed large photos of female hostages outside Netanyahu’s residence in the capital, alongside a sign reading, "Look into their eyes. All eyes are on you. Deal now!"
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 02:05 || Comments || Link || [132 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Rafah it is.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 2:57 Comments || Top||


Palestinian security force kills Islamic Jihad gunman in rare internal clash
[IsraelTimes] PA says patrol in West Bank city of Tulkarm came under fire, shot back; armed group Nour Shams Camp Brigades denounces slaying of Ahmed Abu al-Foul as Israeli-style ’assassination’

Paleostinian security officers killed a gunman in the West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Paleostinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and that the fighter’s faction described as an Israeli-style "liquidation."

Paleostinian Authority security services spokesperson Talak Dweikat said a force sent to patrol Tulkarm overnight came under fire and shot back, hitting the gunman. He died of his wounds in a hospital.

Videos circulated online, and which Rooters was not immediately able to confirm, showed a car being hit by gunfire.

A local gang, the Tulkarm and Nour Shams Camp Brigades, claimed the dead man, Ahmed Abu al-Foul, as its member with affiliation to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah
...

terror group.

Al-Foul was "treacherously... targeted in his car" without provocation, the brigades said in a statement. "This crime is just like any liquidation by Israeli special forces."

PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
wields limited self-rule in the West Bank and sometimes coordinates security with Israel.

Parts of the territory have drifted into chaos and poverty, with the PA and Israel trading blame, especially since ties have been further strained by the war on Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in the Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
Strip

Hamas, an Islamic Jihad ally that rules the Gaza Strip and has chafed at Abbas’s strategy of seeking diplomatic accommodation with Israel, denounced "the attacks by the PA’s security forces on our people and our resistance fighters."

Paleostinian security forces and button men have exchanged gunfire several times in the last year, but deaths are rare.

Hamas seized control of Gaza from the PA in a bloody 2007 coup. The terror group and the PA, which is dominated by Abbas’s Fatah party, have remained at odds ever since.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 01:46 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


PIJ says worked with DFLP to shell Israeli forces in Gaza
[NEWARAB] Paleostinian Islamic Jihad's
...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...
military wing says it fired a barrage of mortars on Israeli forces in Gaza City, adding that it collaborated with the armed branch of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).

While Islamic Jihad is a religiously motivated group, the DFLP is a leftist organisation.

Islamic Jihad's armed branch is called the Al-Quds Brigades.

The DFLP's military wing is the Omar Al-Qasem Forces.
Nobody's heard of them, have they? I mean, I guess they might be in a card file someplace, but they're just not very prominent.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 2024-05-03 00:58 || Comments || Link || [72 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


US says Hamas seized first aid shipment that entered Gaza via reopened Erez crossing
[IsraelTimes] State Department says UN ’in the process or has by now recovered’ the humanitarian assistance stolen by terror group, the ’first widespread case of diversion’ acknowledged by US

Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
managed to seize a major shipment of humanitarian aid that was delivered to Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
from Jordan earlier this week, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday, after the supplies were the first to be shipped to the enclave through a newly reopened Israeli border crossing.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
viewed the aid on Tuesday just before it departed from the headquarters of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman bound for the renovated crossing into the Gaza Strip at Erez, which was largely destroyed by Hamas during its October 7 terror onslaught that sparked the ongoing war.

The reopening of Erez, Israel’s sole crossing on the northern edge of Gaza, had been a main pleas of international aid agencies for months, to alleviate the humanitarian situation which is believed to be most severe among the hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians in the north of the enclave.

According to Miller, the aid shipment was unloaded by the Jordanian military inside the Strip before being "picked up by a humanitarian implementer for distribution inside Gaza, and that aid was intercepted and diverted by Hamas on the ground in Gaza."
And everyone was so surprised.
"The UN is either in the process or has by now recovered that aid, but it was an unacceptable act by Hamas to divert this aid to begin with," he said during a press briefing.
How much did they pay to the Hamas recovery agents?
Miller added that UNRWA, 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...
agency for Paleostinian refugees, would likely issue a statement soon condemning the incident, indicating it was the organization from which Hamas stole the aid.

"If there’s one thing that Hamas could do to jeopardize the shipment of aid, it would be diverting it for their own use, rather than allowing it to go to the innocent civilians that need it," he said, claiming this was the "first widespread case of diversion that we have seen" in Gaza.

Hamas held the aid trucks for "some time" before releasing them, according to Miller.

His comments follow Israel’s long-standing contention that Hamas stockpiled supplies and kept them from increasingly desperate civilians. Footage from Gaza has shown button men, who were reportedly linked to the terror group, stealing trucks delivering humanitarian aid from Egypt.

In February, the US diplomat who was then involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza denied allegations that Hamas stole aid and commercial shipments into the enclave, saying that no Israeli official had presented him or the Biden administration with "specific evidence of diversion or theft of assistance."

At the same time, he acknowledged that Hamas had used other aid delivery channels to "shape where and to whom assistance goes."

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling......
Blinken condemned the "unacceptable" targeting of the Jordanian aid convoy by Israeli protesters trying to prevent its transfer to Gaza.

Tzav 9, a right-wing organization that opposes aid being sent to Gaza while hostages are still held there, organized a demonstration at the Allenby Crossing between Israel and Jordan overnight Tuesday to block the convoy. Images on social media showed young women sitting on the road in front of a truck, while other demonstrators held Israeli flags and pictures of the hostages.

Videos showed the activists dumping bags of flour onto the road.

"My understanding is that the people who attacked this convoy were arrested today by the Israeli authorities. That sends a very strong message," he noted during an NBC Nightly News interview.

The Israeli government must "continue to send a strong message that this aid cannot be, must not be interfered with as it goes through Israel... Israel is better than this," he added while noting that the atrocities committed against Israel on October 7 and Hamas’s continued holding of hostages since.

"The people who so desperately need this aid and who are now getting more of it because of the important steps that [Israel has] taken in recent weeks — including right here at Ashdod port — have nothing to do with October 7, nothing to do with the hostages," Blinken said.

"They’ve been caught in this crossfire of Hamas’s making, and it’s imperative that they get the food that they need, the water they need, the medical supplies they need, access to the hospitals, to health care — all of that," he added.

Israel’s military offensive against Hamas, in response to the Paleostinian terror group’s egregious assault on Israel on October 7, has devastated the Gaza Strip and plunged its 2.3 million people into a humanitarian crisis.

Israel recently stepped up efforts to deliver aid by land and opened up new ground routes, including opening Erez to aid trucks on Wednesday. Washington has said aid delivery has increased significantly in recent weeks, but that more is needed.

A temporary pier is also being constructed by the US military to increase humanitarian aid deliveries, and is more than halfway complete, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 00:27 || Comments || Link || [348 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I'm sooooo shocked
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2024 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  This is my surprised face.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 05/03/2024 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  https://youtu.be/2TnkJ8_BmSI?feature=shared
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/03/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Clearly aid for the hostages.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 12:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Fix It For Them: A temporary pier is also being constructed by the US military to increase humanitarian aid deliveries... to Hamas.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2024 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  No one could have predicted it.
Posted by: Throlush Dark Lord of the Nebraskans2736 || 05/03/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||


Latest updates of Operation 'al-Aqsa Flood' launched by Palestinian resistance
[SANA.SY] Following are the latest developments of Operation “al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, in response to the attacks launched by the Israeli occupation on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip:
  • -Palestinian media: a Palestinian was martyred and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces shooting at trucks carrying aid in Gaza

  • -Dozens of martyrs, wounded in ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza for 209th day in row

  • -Palestinian Health Ministry: Over the past 24 hours, Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres in Gaza Strip, leaving 28martyrs and 51 wounded

  • -Palestinian Health Ministry: The number of martyrs from the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 34,596martyr and 77,816 wounded

The view from Israel:
IDF: Fighter jets hit mortar launch post after projectiles fired at troops in central Gaza

[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets and artillery forces struck a tunnel shaft and a mortar launching post in the central Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
Strip after several projectiles were fired at troops operating in the area, the military says.

The IDF says there were no injuries in the mortar attack yesterday.

Separately, reservists of the Yiftah Brigade spotted a group of operatives near troops, before calling in a dronezap and artillery shelling, killing the cell, the IDF says.

Another operative, spotted by troops using a drone, was seen entering a building known to the army as being used by a terror group in central Gaza. The IDF says a fighter jet struck the site, killing the operative.

Additional infrastructure belonging to Gaza terror groups, including tunnels and buildings, as well as operatives, were struck over the past day, the military adds.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [83 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


UN says Gaza reconstruction to cost $30-40 billion, damage on scale unseen since WWII
[IsraelTimes] United Nations Development Programme report estimates Palestinian economy has shrunk by 26.9% since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, UN assistant secretary-general Abdullah Al Dardari said. Dardari previously served as deputy prime minister under Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The article does not say anything about how this war’s reconstruction costs compare to the several wars Hamas started in the past two decades, but Mr. Al Dardari is greatly exercised nonetheless.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [158 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  US Defense Secretary says there was no indication Hamas planning attack on US troops
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2 
#1 US Defense Secretary says there was no indication Hamas planning attack on US troops
Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-05-03 01:51


"...But hey, the day's young."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/03/2024 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Most of which will be needed to rebuild all the tunnels...
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/03/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The UN would want to administer the funds of course.

Cheaper to build a new city.
Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  US temporarily suspends assembly of floating dock off Gaza and hands control to Israel
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 15:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Seems too expensive--probably best to just turn it into a park.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/03/2024 16:43 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Hamas is drooling for the RPG shots on the Ferris Wheel
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2024 18:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I hope no park. I mean, look at the "eye" sore in London.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2024 21:51 Comments || Top||


Israel says Turkey's Erdogan is breaking agreements by blocking ports for trade
[GEO.TV] Israel's foreign minister has said that Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Xanadu Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Pleasure Dome Palace decree. It has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
is breaking agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports.

"This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Ottoman Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements," Foreign Minister Israel Katz posted on X.

Katz said he instructed the foreign ministry to work to create alternatives for trade with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, focusing on local production and imports from other countries.

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [63 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


'Booby-trapped food' deprives boy of limbs
[GEO.TV] In what can be called war crimes, a Paleostinian boy lost his limbs while opening "booby-trapped food" in man-made famine-hit Khan Younis.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, "A 14-year-old boy was maimed and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis."

The boy, who was maimed in the blast on Monday, is just one of "many people recently injured" from aid supplies rigged with hidden explosive charges, the UN body added.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [236 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The humanitarian aid doesn't originate in Israel.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The "booby trapped food" was probably a paleo IED left to do precisely this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2024 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  ...What the hell was in that can that it blew off all four limbs?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/03/2024 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 - yup, most likely it was a IED and not food
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 05/03/2024 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Consider the case that it's a false usual Paleo report.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  What the hell was in that can

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Food Aid Bombs are a jiahadi delicacy.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Those beans are a staple in my chili and I still have all four limbs.
Posted by: bman || 05/03/2024 14:52 Comments || Top||


IDF chief warns Israel ‘preparing offensive in north,' as Hezbollah attacks persist
[IsraelTimes] Halevi meets troops on Lebanon border amid ongoing skirmishes with terror group; anti-tank missiles cause damage to homes in Metula

During a visit to the Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
border, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military was preparing for an offensive against the Hezbollah terror group, which continued to carry out attacks on northern Israel on Wednesday.

"You are doing an excellent job of operational defense in the north, and we are preparing for an offensive in the north," Halevi said to reservists of the Etzioni Brigade at an undisclosed location on the border with Lebanon, in remarks published by the military.

The remarks were made following an assessment Halevi held with the chief of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, the commander of the 146th Division, Brig. Gen. Yisrael Shomer, and other officers, the IDF said.

Speaking with the reservists, Halevi also said the IDF’s campaign in the Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
Strip would continue "with strength."

"Its objectives are both to restore security to the communities near the Gaza Strip and to bring the hostages back home securely," he said.

The visit to the Lebanon border came amid repeated Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel amid the war in Gaza, including on Wednesday.

Israel has threatened to go to war to force Hezbollah away from the border if it does not retreat and continues to threaten northern communities, from where some 70,000 people have been evacuated to avoid the fighting.

Hezbollah grabbed credit for four separate attacks throughout Wednesday, including anti-tank missile fire on the largely evacuated border community of Metula, causing damage to homes.

The IDF said no injuries were caused in the attack, and troops shelled the launch sites in southern Lebanon with artillery.

Israeli fighter jets also struck two buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab and Marwahin on Wednesday evening, the military said.

Earlier in the day, another site belonging to the terror group in Tayr Harfa was hit, the IDF added.

In separate strikes overnight, fighter jets struck Hezbollah positions in five different areas of southern Lebanon, the military said Wednesday morning. The IDF said observation posts, buildings, and other Hezbollah infrastructure were hit in Khiam, Kafr Kila, Blida, Odaisseh, and Mays al-Jabal.

It published footage of the strikes.

Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the terror group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.

So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in nine civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 11 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.

Hezbollah has named 290 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 56 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 60 civilians, three of them journalists, have been killed.

On Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné was in Israel as part of a larger regional diplomatic trip in an effort to broker a de-escalation in the conflict on the border, and with Gay Paree trying to act as an intermediary.

Following a series of meetings in Lebanon on Sunday, Séjourné told journalists that La Belle France "is refusing to accept the worst-case scenario" of a full-scale war in Lebanon. "In southern Lebanon, the war is already here, even if it’s not called by that name, and it’s the civilian population who’s paying the price," he said.

A French diplomatic official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the purpose of Séjourné’s visit was to convey La Belle France’s "fears of a war on Lebanon" and to submit an amendment to a proposal Gay Paree had previously presented to Lebanon for a diplomatic resolution to the border conflict.

On Tuesday, Séjourné said that a number of modifications had been put to Israel following those consultations in Lebanon. "I call on Israeli authorities to take a public position on these French plans that will enable us to move to the next stage," he said in an interview with Rooters.

"A number of proposals that we made to the Lebanese side have been shared (with you)," Sejourne said ahead of a meeting with Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem."We have a relationship with Lebanon, 20,000 citizens there, and the war in 2006 was particularly dramatic for them."

Séjourné said the basis of the proposals was to ensure that the 2006 UN Resolution 1701 was implemented. Resolution 1701 required that Hezbollah withdraw its forces north of the Litani, a provision the Iranian proxy has ignored.

Earlier this year, Séjourné presented a written proposal to both sides that included Hezbollah’s forces pulling back 10km (6 miles) from the Israeli border and Israel halting strikes in southern Lebanon. The proposal also looked at long-term border issues and was discussed with partners including the United States, which is making its own efforts to ease tensions and exerts the most influence on Israel.

Hezbollah has maintained it will not enter any concrete discussions with Israel until there is a ceasefire in Gaza, where the war between Israel and Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
has entered its seventh month.
The current dialogue, where you shoot rockets in the direction of empty houses and Israel in turn kills off key Hezbollah personages, one by one, appears to me count as effective communication — no words necessary.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [66 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  The eventual result: Israeli occupation and demilitarization of Lebanon south of the Litani River.
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 || 05/03/2024 8:34 Comments || Top||


‘There's an RPG, this is the enemy': IAF footage shows horror as Oct. 7 terrorists ID'd
[IsraelTimes] Audio recordings shed light on difficulties faced by drone operators trying to take out terrorists without harming Israeli forces on southern Israel’s Route 232

Leaked footage of the Israeli Air Force’s actions on the morning of the October 7 Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror onslaught aired on Tuesday evening, showing for the first time the decisions made by the IAF’s Unmanned Aircraft Squadron as it attempted to make sense of the chaos unfurling on the ground with no clear instructions.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [104 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Dozens of martyrs, wounded in ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza for 209th day in row
[SANA.SY] The Israeli occupation continues brutal aggression on Gazoo
Islamic 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. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
Strip by land, sea and air for the 209th day, leaving dozens of deaders and maimed amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation there due to the siege.

Paleostinian media said that six Paleostinians were martyred in shelling al-Zahra city, north of al-Nuseirat camp, the central Gaza Strip, while ambulance crews recovered three deaders in a series of raids carried out by the occupation aircraft on the northwestern region of the camp.

In Khan Yunis, a Paleostinian was martyred, and others were maimed in the occupation’s bombing southeast of the city, in addition to heavy hovering, meanwhile in Gaza, two Paleostinians were martyred and others were maimed, while others are still missing under the rubble
Death toll from Zionist aggression now approaching 3,124,000.
And the occupation aircraft bombed neighborhoods, west of Gaza, leaving a number of deaders and maimed, while the occupation artillery targeted east of Rafah city, wounding a number of Paleostinians.

On Wednesday, Paleostinian Health Ministry said that the number of deaders in the ongoing aggression on Gaza had reached to 34,568 deaders and 77,765 maimed.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [81 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 

Generally speaking, any small animal has better sense than to kick a sleeping Dragon. Knowing full well, it will get its A$$ handed to it.

But looking down the road, in this do or die US election year.

I can see the O'Biden & DC Swamp milking this to justify needed 2024 "Special" Voting Processes. Which would follow a DC Swamp pre-planned National Emergency Declaration sometime between July-Sept 2024.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2024 8:11 Comments || Top||



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