[ShabelleMedia] Somali intelligence units, in coordination with the Somali Air Force, launched targeted dronezaps overnight against al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... training and weapons storage facilities in southern Somalia, officials said Wednesday.
The operation, carried out using newly operational Ottoman Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, hit multiple locations in the Lower Shabelle and Middle Jubba regions, including the towns of Jilib, Sablaale, and Kunya Barow.
Heavy missiles struck a major weapons depot on the outskirts of Jilib, destroying the site, according to security sources who requested anonymity. Additional strikes in Sablaale and Kunya Barow demolished other al-Shabaab facilities.
A training camp housing over 300 fighters — including foreign trainers and regional commanders — was also targeted. At least 29 al-Shabaab officers, most of them foreigners, were killed in the strikes, the source said.
"This operation dealt a significant blow to al-Shabaab’s logistical and command infrastructure," said a senior intelligence official.
The strikes come amid reports that al-Shabaab has reasserted control over several areas in Lower Shabelle following a government withdrawal. Somali forces had previously retaken those areas during offensives in late 2024 and early 2025.
Earlier this year, similar drone operations targeting Jilib — considered an al-Shabaab stronghold — resulted in substantial murderous Moslem casualties and disrupted the group’s communications.
Security officials say the Somali government is escalating air operations as part of a broader strategy to dismantle al-Shabaab’s operational capabilities and reassert control in contested regions.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) announced on Sunday that its elite forces, Gaashaan, killed a senior al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... commander during a planned operation late Saturday night.
The statement, which did not disclose the name of the slain leader, confirmed that the operation took place in the Sabiid area of the Lower Shabelle region. The report also stated that the entire security detail protecting the leader was killed in the raid.
"NISA forces, who had closely monitored the movements of the leader, conducted the operation after confirming intelligence about his location. All militia members assigned to protect him were also eliminated at the scene," the statement read.
In addition to this operation, NISA reported that Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out in the Ceel Hareeri area of Hiran region from Saturday to Sunday had killed 46 individuals, including both senior commanders and fighters belonging to al-Shabaab.
The operations come as NISA’s Director, Abdullahi Mohammed Ali Sambaloolshe, has been on the frontlines in the Hiran region for the past two days, overseeing the ongoing military actions in the area.
Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked group, has been waging an insurgency against the Somali government for over a decade, frequently carrying out deadly attacks using a range of tactics, including mortar shelling in the capital, Mogadishu.
[Garowe] Fighters from the Hawadle clan militia, known locally as "Macwiisley," are facing escalating attacks from al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Somalia’s central Hiiraan region, amid a decline in federal military support, local officials and residents said on Wednesday.
The Macwiisley, a grassroots militia composed of Hawadle clan members, has led recent offensives against al-Shabaab, particularly in rural areas surrounding Beledweyne. Their campaigns, initially supported by government forces, were crucial in pushing holy warriors out of parts of central Somalia.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... the withdrawal of federal troops from strategic locations in the neighbouring Middle Shabelle region — including the contested town of Aadan Yabaal — has left a growing security gap, allowing al-Shabaab to regroup and threaten previously cleared areas.
Security analysts say the pullback has placed additional pressure on the Macwiisley militia, who are now fighting alone to defend their territory.
"If Aadan Yabaal and adjacent areas fall under permanent al-Shabaab control, it could severely impact the strategic link between Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle," said a security source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A major concern among local leaders is that Hawadle fighters are being left on the front lines without adequate federal support.
"These men are risking their lives for their land and people, but the government’s support has diminished significantly," said a local official in Beledweyne, who requested anonymity due to security concerns.
Previous joint operations between government forces and clan militias had resulted in significant territorial gains. The recent shift, however, threatens to reverse progress made over the past year, particularly if al-Shabaab capitalizes on the current power vacuum.
Community leaders have called for an urgent review of security coordination in Hiiraan, warning that without logistical, financial, and operational support, the Macwiisley fighters may be overwhelmed.
The situation underscores the reliance of Somalia’s counterinsurgency strategy on local militias, especially in areas where state presence is limited. Analysts caution that failure to reinforce these militias could allow al-Shabaab to regain influence in key parts of central Somalia.
[IsraelTimes] UK police says use of flag arouses ‘reasonable suspicion’ he supports terror group; band management offers no comment after earlier denying members support Hamas or Hezbollah
A member of the Irish rap band Kneecap was charged with a terrorism offense for displaying a flag in support of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, British police said on Wednesday.
Liam O’Hanna, whose stage name is Mo Chara, showed the flag during one of the band’s shows in London in November, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
It said O’Hanna, 27, displayed the flag "in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organization," in this case identified as Hezbollah, in contravention of the 2000 Terrorism Act.
Kneecap’s management team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
O’Hanna is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on June 18.
Nearly 40 other groups and artists, among them Pulp, Paul Weller, and Primal Scream, have rallied around the band amid an escalating row about political messaging at its concerts.
Kneecap on Monday apologized to the families of murdered British politicians and denied supporting Hezbollah or Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terrorists, after UK police said it was examining footage from a Kneecap concert in London last year that appeared to show a band member shouting "Up Hamas, up Hezbollah."
Not only do they lie, but they are so arrogant they can’t be bothered to lie well.
UK police have also said it was examining a video clip of the Belfast rap trio at a 2023 gig, appearing to show one member saying: "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP."
In February, the band posted a photo on social media of a balaclava-wearing individual, also apparently a group member, reading a book of statements by slain Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> The Belfast trio has been praised for invigorating the Irish-language cultural scene in Northern Ireland, where the status of the language remains a contested political issue in a society still split between British unionist and Irish nationalist communities. It has also been criticized for lyrics laden with expletives and drug references and for political statements.
Kneecap was not well known outside Northern Ireland before the release of a raucous feature film loosely based on the band’s origins and fueled by a heavy mix of drugs, sex, violence, politics and humor. The group’s members played themselves in "Kneecap," which won an audience award when it was screened at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It was shortlisted for best foreign-language picture and best original song at this year’s Academy Awards, though it didn’t make the final cut.
When the legitimate concerns of the common folk are derided and ignored by their rulers, they will burst out in unseemly ways in an attempt to fix it.
[IsraelTimes] 5 teenagers arrested for involvement with extremist ‘Last Defense Wave,’ which allegedly aimed to destabilize country’s democratic system, attacked asylum seeker sites
German police on Wednesday arrested five teenagers accused of involvement with a right-wing holy warrior group calling itself "Last Defense Wave" that allegedly aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants colonists and political opponents.
The early-morning arrests in various parts of Germany were accompanied by searches at 13 properties, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Four of those arrested — identified only as Benjamin H., Ben-Maxim H., Lenny M. and Jason R., in line with German privacy rules — are suspected of membership in a domestic terror organization. The fifth, Jerome M., is accused of supporting the group. Two of the arrested also are accused of attempted murder and aggravated arson. All are between the ages of 14 and 18.
Prosecutors said they are also investigating three other people, ages 18 to 21, who are already in jug. All the suspects are German citizens.
According to the prosecutors, the group was formed in mid-April 2024 or earlier. They said that its members saw themselves as the last resort to defend the "German nation" and aimed to bring about the collapse of Germany’s democratic order, with attacks on homes for asylum-seekers and on facilities associated with the left-wing political spectrum.
Two of the suspects set a fire at a cultural center in Altdöbern in eastern Germany in October, prosecutors said, adding that several people living in the building at the time escaped injury only by chance.
In January, another two suspects allegedly broke a window at a home for asylum-seekers in Schmölln and tried unsuccessfully to start a blaze by setting off fireworks. They daubed the group’s initials and slogans such as "Foreigners out," "Germany for the Germans" and "Nazi area," as well as swastikas, prosecutors said.
Also in January, three suspects allegedly planned an arson attack on a home for asylum-seekers in Senftenberg, but it never came about because of the earlier arrests of two of the men.
Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said it was "particularly shocking" that all of those arrested Wednesday were minors at the time the group was allegedly founded.
"This is an alarm signal and it shows that right-wing holy warrior terrorism knows no age," Hubig said in a statement.
In a separate case a week ago, German authorities banned a far-right group called "Kingdom of Germany" as a threat to the country’s democratic order and arrested four of its alleged leaders.
In an annual report released Tuesday, the Federal Criminal Police Office said that the number of violent mostly peaceful crimes with a right-wing motivation was up 17.2 percent last year to 1,488. That was part of an overall increase in violent mostly peaceful politically motivated offenses to 4,107, an increase of 15.3%.
[IsraelTimes] Claire Shipman acknowledges detained anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil, says democratic norms ‘cannot be taken for granted,’ as some boo and anti-Israel protesters gather outside campus
Columbia University’s acting president, Claire Shipman, backed international students’ rights amid anti-Israel protests and a crackdown by the Trump administration during the university’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday.
"We firmly believe that our international students have the same right to freedom of speech as everyone else, and they should not be targeted by the government for exercising that right," Shipman said to the 16,000 in attendance.
"I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate Mahmoud Khalil," she said, referring to an anti-Israel protest leader who was arrested by immigration enforcement in March and remains detained.
Cheers and boos were audible as Shipman delivered her speech in the drizzling rain. Some students and faculty wore keffiyehs to the ceremony, video showed, while at least one man waved an Israeli flag.
"Democracy is not inevitable," Shipman said, recounting her experience as a journalist reporting in the repressive Soviet Union.
"Our norms and our systems cannot be taken for granted," she said.
As Shipman spoke, dozens of anti-Israel protesters gathered across the street from the university’s gates. The demonstrators chanted, "Intifada people’s war," "Paleostine is Arab," and "Columbia you’re a liar, you set Paleostine on fire."
There was a heavy police presence in the area and officers manned metal barricades preventing the protesters from reaching the university’s entrance. The campus is closed to the public and security personnel checked bags as graduates and their families filed in for the ceremony.
At least one person was arrested at the protest.
A group of about 10 alumni said at the protest that they were burning their diplomas to protest Columbia’s cooperation with the Trump administration and actions against the anti-Israel protesters. They were unable to light the diplomas on fire due to the rain and tore the documents to pieces instead.
"We will keep fighting alongside students in solidarity with Paleostine until Columbia divests, until Paleostine is free, from the river to the sea," one of the alumni said.
A Columbia spokesperson said, "The university planned and prepared for commencement for months to ensure a safe and celebratory event for the tens of thousands of attendees who joined us on campus, and we are pleased that thousands of our graduates and their families and guests were able to enjoy the events."
"The NYPD managed the small group of protesters outside the gates while the commencement festivities carried on successfully on campus," the spokesperson said.
At a smaller commencement ceremony for Columbia College on Tuesday, students booed and shouted at Shipman as she spoke, saying, "You arrested us." Shipman called the police onto campus earlier this month after anti-Israel activists invaded a campus library and refused to leave, disrupting other students’ studies ahead of final exams. Dozens of students were suspended after the protest.
The university’s swift reaction marked a stark contrast to last year, when administrators held drawn-out negotiations with protesters occupying the campus lawn. Pro-Israel students and faculty praised Shipman’s response to the library protest.
Ahead of Wednesday’s university-wide commencement, an announcement warned against interrupting the event and said disruptive attendees would be asked to leave the ceremony.
The university’s coalition of anti-Israel protest groups, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, sent a message to its followers ahead of the ceremony urging them to protest at the event.
"We have a duty to rise. We have a duty to disrupt," the message said. "Glory to the Martyrs! Victory to the Resistance®!"
In the past, the group, with Khalil among its leaders, has voiced open support for violence and terror groups.
Last year, the university canceled its commencement due to raucous anti-Israel protests on the campus.
Jewish and Israeli students have reported ostracization and discrimination on campus since the anti-Israel protests erupted immediately after Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 2023 invasion.
An independent task force established by the university reported "crushing" discrimination against the students in a lengthy report issued last year.
The Trump administration has put heavy pressure on the university in recent months, citing campus antisemitism, including by halting hundreds of millions in government funding and demanding administrative reforms.
Last week, New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech at NYU’s Gallatin School to condemn Israel. An NYU spokesperson apologized for the speech, accused the student of misusing his platform "to express his personal and one-sided political views," and lying to event organizers about the speech. At NYU’s campus-wide commencement ceremony last week, a small number of pro-Paleostinian students booed and heckled the university president, Linda Mills, without causing any significant disruptions.
[NYPost] Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed and three others injured when gunfire erupted outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, Wednesday night — by a gunman who shouted “Free free Palestine,” officials said.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon called the shooting “a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”
“Harming diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line,” he said on X.
“We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act. Israel will continue to act resolutely to protect its citizens and representatives — everywhere in the world.”
One of the slain staffers was a diplomat, NBC 4 reported, citing two sources.
It was not immediately clear if the three wounded were part of the embassy staff.
The gunfire erupted in front of the museum at 575 3rd St NW, near the FBI field office and the US attorney’s office, the outlet reported, adding that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating.
Cops are on the hunt for a man with a goatee wearing a blue jacket and jeans who was last seen on F Street in the Northwest area of the city.
Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told NBC 4 that his organization hosted an event at the museum.
“We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue,” he said.
“At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said his is working with the Metropolitian Police Department “to respond and learn more,” he wrote in a tweet. “In the immediate, please pray for the victims and their families. We will keep the public updated as we are able.”
US Attorney General Pam Bondi and US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro were at the crime scene late Wednesday.
“Praying for the victims of this violence as we work to learn more,” Bondi tweeted.
Homeland Security Krisi Noem vowed to bring the “depraved” shooter to justice.
“Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” she posted online.
“We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share. Please pray for the families of the victims.”
The shooting comes amid a surge in antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
It is understood the suspected shooter shouted 'Free Palestine' as he was arrested, which is now being investigated by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
'We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act,' Danon said. 'Israel will continue to act resolutely to protect its citizens and representatives – everywhere in the world.'
The American Jewish Committee was hosting a Young Diplomats event at the museum on Wednesday night, CEO Ted Deutch confirmed.
The sold-out event was touted as a night 'bringing together Jewish young professionals (22-45) and the D.C. diplomatic community.'
The evening was 'dedicated to fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage', featuring 'appetizers, cocktails, conversations, and a special guest speaker.'
It was scheduled to take place 6.30pm and 9pm, and the shooting occured about 9.15pm.
Tal Naim Cohen, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy, said the duo were shot 'at close range' as they attended the event.
Initial reports suggested one of the victims died at the scene while another was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. Later updates confirmed both victims had tragically died.
Arizona Congressman Abe Hamadeh said: 'An assassin screamed "Free Palestine!" outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, and murdered an Israeli diplomat and her companion.
Less than 24 hours ago, the Capital Jewish Museum was awarded a security grant amid ongoing concerns about the safety of guests and staff.
'Jewish institutions all around town, all around the country, are concerned about security due to some very scary incidents that some institutions have faced and because of a climate of antisemitism,' Executive Director Beatrice Gurwitz said.
'So, we invest a lot of money in security to make sure that we can keep our doors open to the broad public, that this is a welcoming space, but that people are also safe in this space.'
The Israeli embassy does not immediately respond to questions about the shooter, the victims or the motive for the attack, but other officials provide details and say the victims were a couple about to be engaged.
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed two Israeli embassy staff members were killed.
“We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share,” Noem wrote in a post on X.
“We will bring this depraved perpetrator to justice.”
Washington, DC, Police Chief Pamela Smith says that “despite all life-saving efforts, both victims succumbed to their injuries.”
She says both victims were exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
“Prior to the shooting, a suspect was observed pacing outside of the museum,” she says, adding that he opened fire at a group of four, killing a man and a woman.
“The suspect chanted, ‘Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody. The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois,”she says.
“The couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of ‘Free Palestine’ was a couple about to be engaged,” she says, adding that the man had bought a ring last week with the intention of proposing next week in Jerusalem.
🇺🇸 — VIDEO: Alleged footage of the D.C. Jewish museum attacker Elias Rodrigues being arrested. pic.twitter.com/iRa9JtLLNr
Kalin says people came to his aid and brought him water, thinking he needed help, without realizing he was the suspect in the shooting, which killed two Israeli Embassy employees.
When police arrived, he pulled out a red keffiyeh and repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine,’” Kalin says.
“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Kalin says. “How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring together Muslims and Jews and Christians to work together to actually help innocent people? And then here he is just murdering two people in cold blood.”
Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago far-left activist accused of shooting dead two Israelis outside the Capital Jewish Museum, has a long history of support for BLM, Palestine, communist and anti-white causes.
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"Kalin says people came to his aid and brought him water, thinking he needed help, without realizing he was the suspect in the shooting, which killed two Israeli Embassy employees."
Dropping from 200-300 feet might prolong the suffering.
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“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Kalin says. “How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring together Muslims and Jews and Christians to work together to actually help innocent people?
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A statement posted on X Wednesday night appears to be a manifesto signed by someone with the same name as the suspect in a deadly shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. It has not been verified.
The approximately 900-word statement — written in the clear language of an English major, dated May 20 and published online around the same time the shooting occurred — mentions the high death toll in Gaza and notes the ineffectiveness of nonviolent protests against Israel, including the self-immolation of US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell. It also expresses dissatisfaction with American support for Israel.
The essay ends with what appears to be a defense of “the morality of armed demonstration,” with the author — purporting to be Elias Rodriguez, the arrested suspect in the shooting — claiming that his actions would have been morally justified even if taken in response to the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, which is when he says he became aware of the conflict. He expresses the belief that his actions will now be viewed by many Americans as “highly legible” and “the only sane thing to do.”
It is posted by an account rife with violent anti-Israel sentiments, including references to taking violent actions against Israelis and a “joke” about bombing the New York Times. It also includes messages in support of Hamas and Hezbollah. Several posts reference Chicago, where the suspected shooter was born and raised.
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Timing could not have been better. Just about when Trump was about to turn traitor, we all get an object lesson about why you can't do deals with Muslims. They're a death cult and cannot be reasoned with. Be they in Qatar, Iran, Lebanon, or USA.
The location was perfect, too. The museum will be flooded with attention and people will see what Israel is fighting for.
[GEO.TV] A powerful explosion near Zero Point in Khuzdar, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , targeted a school bus on Wednesday, martyring five, including three students, and injuring dozens of others, the province's chief minister said, drawing condemnations from across the country.
Terrorists targeted the school bus as it was heading towards the educational institute with more than 40 students on board in the district of Balochistan, which is among the worst terror-hit provinces.
Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti told news hounds that the five martyred, including three children, the bus driver, and his assistant, while those critically injured were being transported via air to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Quetta. Khuzdar's deputy commissioner said that more than 30 individuals sustained injuries in the blast.
Separately, fourteen individuals injured in the terrorist attack were transferred to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Quetta. Among them are a woman, a man, and twelve children. The CMH administration has said that some of the injured are at death's door.
The government has said that Indian-backed murderous Moslems carried out the attack, coming almost two weeks after the two sides settled a ceasefire to end their most serious conflict in decades.
Security sources identified three of the martyred as grade six student Sania Soomoro, grade seven's Hifza Kousar, and grade 10's Esha Saleem.
The military's media wing, in a statement, said: "In yet another cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by [the] terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan, [an] innocent school-going children bus was targeted today in Khuzdar."
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[IsraelTimes] In a rare move, the IDF demolishes the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint near Jerusalem in 2023, after the home was rebuilt following its first demolition last year.
Overnight, IDF troops operated in the West Bank city of Hebron to demolish the home of Abdelqader Qawasmeh.
Qawasmeh was one of three members of the Hamas terror group who attacked the “tunnels” checkpoint on the West Bank’s Route 60, south of Jerusalem in November 2023, killing Cpl. Avraham Fetena, a Military Police soldier.
As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly attacks. Rarely does Israel re-demolish homes that are rebuilt.
Israel defends the practice of razing the family home of attackers as a deterrent against future assaults. Over the years, a number of Israeli defense officials have questioned the efficacy of the practice, and human rights activists have denounced it as unfair collective punishment.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announces it will demolish the home of Hamas terrorist Samir Hussein, who injured a number of civilians in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement city of Ariel last year.
Hussein’s home is located in the West Bank village of Einabus, near the city of Nablus.
Ten people were wounded, three of them seriously, when Hussein opened fire at a civilian bus. He was shot dead by security forces.
Hussein, a member of Hamas, was previously jailed by Israel for his activities in the terror group, according to the Shin Bet.
His family can appeal the decision to demolish the home, but such attempts rarely succeed.
[IsraelTimes] State prosecutors have indicted a 16-year-old from Tira after he allegedly tried to break into the Arab city’s police station and stab officers as “revenge” for the ongoing Gaza war.
According to the indictment, the minor consulted with ChatGPT to plot the attack. He stormed the station on March 5, attempting to stab a border cop with a knife while shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest).
Prosecutors charge the defendant with aggravated assault as an act of terror and are requesting that he be detained until the end of legal proceedings.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that it successfully downed a missile launched at Israel from Yemen.
“The alerts were activated in accordance with policy,” it adds, referring to the warning sirens that were activated in communities across central Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Announcement that distribution of humanitarian goods has started comes after UN officials accused Israel of preventing collection of supplies; rockets fired from Gaza land in Strip
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... on Wednesday confirmed that it collected and began distributing around 90 truckloads of aid into 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... , marking the first aid distribution in the besieged coastal territory since early March, after UN officials claimed they were unable to pick up supplies at the border with Israel.
Three days after Israel announced it would allow in limited aid, the United Nations on Wednesday "collected around 90 truckloads of goods from the Kerem Shalom crossing and dispatched them into Gaza," Stephane Dujarric, front man for UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , said in a statement.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) earlier announced that 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. COGAT said the aid delivery came "following the recommendation of professional IDF officials and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon."
The trucks contained flour, baby food and medical equipment, according to COGAT.
The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing.
COGAT did not address the UN allegations that the IDF had prevented the collection of aid on the Gaza side of the border.
Nahid Shahaiber, a major transport company owner, said 75 trucks of flour and over a dozen more carrying nutritional supplements and sugar were inside the southern area of Rafah and witnesses said trucks carrying flour had been seen in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Also Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces said three rockets were launched from northern Gaza, setting off sirens in the border communities of Zikim and Netiv Haasara.
All three projectiles fell short in Gaza, the army added.
No injuries were caused in the attack, after which the IDF’s Arabic-language front man issued evacuation orders for residents in parts of northern Gaza.
Over the weekend, the IDF launched a major new offensive dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots" launched over the weekend, which Israel says seeks to destroy Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... and seize and retain the whole territory, while relocating Paleostinians across the enclave.
On Tuesday, IDF chief Eyal Zamir threatened to ramp up the campaign even further if Hamas did not agree to Israel’s demands that it release the hostages and give up power.
"It will face intense firepower," he said. "We will expand the ground maneuver, conquer additional territory, clear and destroy the terror infrastructure until it is defeated."
Israel is seeking to pressure Hamas into freeing 58 hostages remaining in Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be alive, and demands that the group relinquish power before ending the war.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled a high-level negotiating team from Doha, where talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal appeared to be stuck.
🇵🇸 VIDEO: In food-starved Gaza, residents have resorted to grinding lentils, pasta and rice for baking bread amid severe shortages of flour. pic.twitter.com/eTwSJa7Rnu
The military said Wednesday it confirmed that a Paleostinian suspect killed by troops in the West Bank town of Bruqin over the weekend carried out last week’s deadly terror shooting in the area.
In the attack on May 14, near Bruqin and the settlement of Bruchin, a Paleostinian terrorist opened fire from the side of a road on Israeli motorists, killing Tzeela Gez, 30, and wounding her husband. Gez had been heading to a hospital to give birth.
Beilinson Hospital staff conducted an emergency C-section to save the newborn, who remains at death's door. He was named Ravid Haim, a name Gez had chosen, a statement on behalf of the family said Tuesday.
As troops were searching the area on Saturday, a suspect with a backpack ran toward them while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest). He was then rubbed out.
Following an investigation led by the Shin Bet, police, and Israel Defense Forces, it was revealed that the suspect, Naael Samarah, carried out the shooting attack, a joint statement said.
Samarah, a member of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , was previously tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for his activity in the terror group. He was released in 2010 and tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! again for several days in 2019 for online incitement, according to the military.
The IDF said that in his backpack, troops found an assault rifle and other equipment used to carry out the terror attack.
His home, near Bruqin, was mapped by IDF troops ahead of its demolition on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, in accordance with Israel’s policy of demolishing the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks.
Several additional Paleostinians suspected of involvement in the attack have been arrested, including one accused of being the head of a terror cell that Samarah was part of.
The cell, according to the IDF, carried out three other shooting attacks in the area in recent months, including one near Ariel on March 12, in which an Israeli civilian was moderately maimed.
The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip ignited the war there.
Since then, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or gunnies carrying out attacks.
There has also been a significant increase in settler violence against Paleostinians since the start of the war.
During the same period, 52 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it detained a Palestinian accused of directing a deadly terror shooting attack in the West Bank village of al-Funduq in January.
The suspect was arrested overnight in Jenin’s western neighborhood, the IDF says.
The attack on January 6 — carried out by three gunmen who have all since been killed — killed off-duty police officer Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein and civilians Rachel Cohen and Aliza Raiz.
Additionally, overnight, the IDF says it detained a five-man cell of Islamic State-affiliated terror operatives in the town of Qabatiya.
[IsraelTimes] Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, buried under rubble in Khan Younis amid expanded IDF offensive; humanitarian groups say assistance not reaching Gazans, too little entering enclave
An Israeli soldier was killed when a booby-trapped building collapsed 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, the military said Wednesday, marking the second combat fatality since the launch of a widened offensive in the enclave over the weekend.
Paleostinians in the Strip reported 19 people killed in overnight Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, as Israel pressed the offensive amid mounting international pressure to halt the fighting and allow more aid into the beleaguered territory.
The Israel Defense Forces said Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, was killed Tuesday amid fighting in Khan Younis, which has become a focus of the intensified military campaign in recent days.
According to a preliminary IDF probe, Mocanu was killed when a bomb planted by terror operatives went kaboom! in a building, which then collapsed with him inside.
Mocanu, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 82nd Battalion, had gone into the building with a second soldier following initial scans with a drone and a bomb-sniffing dog, the investigation
When the two reached the top floor of the building, a bomb that had been planted there went kaboom!, according to the probe. The detonation brought the top floor onto the rest of the structure, collapsing it.
It took soldiers several hours to extract the body from the rubble, the army said. The second soldier was rescued relatively quickly with minor injuries.
Mocanu, a resident of Holon, is the 420th fatality among Israeli service-members since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which thousands of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to Mocanu’s family as well as the family of Sgt. Yosef Yehuda Chirak, 22, who was killed Monday in a friendly fire incident while operating with soldiers preparing to demolish a tunnel in northern Gaza.
A friend, Sergei Marchenko, told Hebrew-language media that Mocanu insisted on serving as a combat soldier despite being eligible for an exemption due to being his father’s only child.
"He was scared of war, but said it was for the country," Marchenko told Channel 12 news. "We spoke a month ago, he said it was hard, but, like every combat soldier... did not complain."
According to the Ynet news site, the building where Mocanu was killed was on the western side of Khan Younis, near the Israeli border. The soldiers entered the structure as part of operations paving the way for a broad ground push into Gaza’s second-largest city, which was largely destroyed in earlier rounds of fighting.
Israel on Monday ordered the city’s tens of thousands of residents to move to a humanitarian zone to the southeast, warning that it was preparing an "unprecedented attack" on the area.
The military said Wednesday that the air force had struck 115 targets across the Strip over the past day, hitting rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, other infrastructure, and cells of operatives. The Navy also shelled areas of northern Gaza to assist troops on the ground, the army said.
According to the military, one missile launched from a helicopter gunship impacted inside Israel near the Gaza border fence due to a technical malfunction. No injuries were caused and an investigation was launched.
The IDF also announced that a recent dronezap in northern Gaza had killed Mohammed Shaheen, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force in the terror group’s East Jabalia Battalion who participated in the October 7 attack, according to Israel.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency reported that overnight strikes killed at least 19 people, including a week-old baby, after health authorities said 85 people were killed Tuesday.
"Our crews transported 19 dead, most of them children, and dozens of injured following air raids carried out by the Israeli warplanes in various areas of the Gaza Strip last night and early today," civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP, naming multiple victims including the newborn.
The figures, which do not differentiate between civilians and button men, could not be verified.
Israel says it takes steps to minimize civilian casualties and blames Hamas which is deeply embedded in civilian infrastructure, operating out of camps, hospitals and schools.
The intensified strikes are part of a major new offensive dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots" launched over the weekend, which Israel says seeks to destroy Hamas and seize and retain the whole territory, while relocating Paleostinians across the enclave.
On Tuesday, IDF chief Eyal Zamir threatened to ramp up the campaign even further if Hamas did not agree to Israel’s demands that it release the hostages and give up power.
"It will face intense firepower," he said. "We will expand the ground maneuver, conquer additional territory, clear and destroy the terror infrastructure until it is defeated."
Israel is seeking to pressure Hamas into freeing 58 hostages remaining in Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be alive, and demands that the group relinquish power before ending the war.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu recalled a high-level negotiating team from Doha, where talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal appeared to be stuck.
Jerusalem is facing escalating international pressure to halt the military campaign and allow aid into the enclave.
Internal notes circulated among aid groups Wednesday and seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said that 65 trucks of humanitarian aid were transferred from the Israel side of the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Paleostinian side, but had not moved from there.
Under pressure, Israel agreed this week to allow a "minimal" amount of aid into the Paleostinian territory after preventing the entry of food, medicine and fuel since early March. But UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Tuesday that aid workers were not able to bring the deliveries to distribution points where it is most needed, after the Israeli military forced them to reload the supplies onto separate trucks and workers ran out of time.
COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees humanitarian aid, said five trucks entered Monday and 93 trucks entered Tuesday.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... humanitarian agency received approval for about 100 trucks to enter Gaza, front man Jens Laerke said, which is far less than the 600 that entered daily during the latest ceasefire that Israel ended in March. The Foreign Ministry said dozens are expected to enter each day.
The aid included flour for bakeries, food for soup kitchens, baby food and medical supplies. The UN humanitarian agency said it is prioritizing baby formula in the first shipments.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said the aid being allowed in fell far short of what was needed, describing it as a "smokescreen to pretend the siege is over."
"The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving," said Pascale Coissard, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Dujarric described the new security process for getting aid cleared to warehouses as "long, complex, complicated and dangerous." Israel says it is implementing steps to attempt to keep the aid from being diverted by Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Military says targets include ‘experienced engineer’ in terror group’s weapons R&D unit and a Radwan force commander
Three members of Hezbollah were killed in separate Israeli dronezaps 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.... on Tuesday, the military said.
The strikes came amid an ongoing ceasefire in Lebanon, which obligated the Lebanese terror group to withdraw from the south of the country.
The first strike on Tuesday took place in Ain Baal, a town near Lebanon’s coastal city of Tyre.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the target of the strike, Hussein Nazih Barji, was a "significant source of knowledge" in the field of weapons production, and he worked in Hezbollah’s weapons research and development division.
Barji was "an experienced engineer" in the division and was responsible for "establishing infrastructure for the production of precision missiles," the army said.
The IDF said Barji was killed to disrupt Hezbollah’s attempts to rearm, and because his actions "constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon."
The second strike, in the southern town of Yater, killed a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, the military said.
A third Hezbollah operative was killed in southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun, it added.
The IDF released footage of the three strikes.
A November 2024 ceasefire ended more than a year of fighting, including some two months of open war, between Israel and Hezbollah. The fighting began on October 8, 2023, when the Iran-backed terror group started attacking Israel daily with missiles and drones, in support of Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... The ceasefire allows Israel to strike immediate threats, and near-daily strikes against Hezbollah operatives and their allies have continued. More than 150 Hezbollah operatives have been killed since the start of the ceasefire.
Lebanon’s president said earlier this month that the country’s army now controls more than 85 percent of the country’s south, from which Hezbollah was obligated to withdraw under the ceasefire, though there has been no outside confirmation of the claim.
Israel was also obligated to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon. It has pulled out from all but five strategic posts.
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[IsraelTimes] UK police says use of flag arouses ‘reasonable suspicion’ he supports terror group; band management offers no comment after earlier denying members support Hamas or Hezbollah
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[IsraelTimes] Claire Shipman acknowledges detained anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil, says democratic norms ‘cannot be taken for granted,’ as some boo and anti-Israel protesters gather outside campus 
A group of about 10 alumni said at the protest that they were burning their diplomas to protest Columbia’s cooperation with the Trump administration and actions against the anti-Israel protesters. They were unable to light the diplomas on fire due to the rain and tore the documents to pieces instead.
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[IsraelTimes] State prosecutors have indicted a 16-year-old from Tira after he allegedly tried to break into the Arab city’s police station and stab officers as “revenge” for the ongoing Gaza war.
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