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Mauritius, AFRINIC ," AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa. Its headquarters are in Ebene, Mauritius."Ebene as a Business Hub. Ebene Cybercity - Mauritius". Big plans for small island nation. Above my pay grade but this appears as learning steps for a wannabe growing influencer.
#4
Can anyone translate this into declarative English sentences for elderly Luddites?
You can look up IP addresses your internet provider gives you to see where it is coming from and who owns it. Granted they could be telneting into another sever halfway around the world to thrown off their tracks so you never really know.
I think Dale's theory holds water, but I haven't dug into this enough to really see.
#5
ZA = Zaire, formerly Congo, currently Democratic Republic of the Congo (with all the baggage normally assigned to a "Democratic Republic"). I'm not current on Whois registration requirements.
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But also had a strange issue pop updown here in GA. Certain sites became unreachable using our
ISP's DNS address routing. We Switched to another Alt DNS, and the problem was corrected.
It seems the ISP DNS had/has been "adjusted" to drop certain sites.
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The other right leaning sites are hit as well. Google is messing with the search engine as well. Citizen free press did not come up in the search and Gateway Pundit goes to some old page and needs to be refreshed to get to the current page. Some passive aggression going on around here...
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Have you heard of iptables? You put the spammer's ip address into the iptable and it's like a firewall. Any further queries that come from that ip address are dropped on the floor. In my working days I wrote a Perl script that was activated whenever a 404 Not Found error occurred. Apache had an option to trigger execution of the script. The script would examine the query and, if they were probing for vulnerabilities or otherwise not behaving properly, the script would automatically insert that ip address into the firewall. It got to be big fun to look at all the bad actors in the logs behaving badly and getting all of their subsequent queries dropped. But the logs ended up looking a helluva lot cleaner. Then it was fun to see what from countries the bad queries originated. China was number one, followed by Russia and then Ukraine. Countries like Romania and Malaysia were big too. Fun and games.
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1/2 the noticed users on the CleanTalk history show Chinese Character names.
Since it's Italy id'ed either a redirection site or some Chinese "students" at some school in Italy.
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The crazy bit is rewriting the protocol in the routers for Ethernet timing could kill these attacks. I patented it decades ago, It got pulled into cellular to deal with stuff like crowds all using cellphones at once but never got pulled into implemented Ethernet.
In another video, the man who fired the gun is seen providing medical care to the man who tackled him before first responders arrived. pic.twitter.com/wMtoowakr9
A man wearing a Palestinian pin is shot in the stomach after charging pro-Israel demonstrators in Newton, Massachusetts.
The assailant is seen across the street accusing a group of 10 protesters waving Israeli and American flags of “defending genocide” and giving them the middle finger, according to footage shared by The Daily Wire news site.
The man then charges across the street and tackles Scott Hayes, 47, an Iraq War veteran. Amid the tussle with protesters, the assailant is shot in the stomach by Hayes, the report says.
A second video shows Hayes giving medical treatment to the attacker, according to the report. The victim is suffering non-life-threatening injuries.
Though he legally had possession of the gun, Hayes is facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violation of a constitutional right causing injury, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan tells The Daily Wire.
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Ebbuger Whuque4103, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported this afternoon:
A GoFundMe fundraiser for Hayes’ defense identified him as a non-Jewish Iraq war veteran who was involved in Newton-area pro-Israel activities. It had raised more than $109,000 of a $180,000 target as of Friday afternoon. A statement on the fundraising page did not explicitly say Hayes shot the man, though it said he tried to help the shooting victim after the shot was fired.
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*blush* You are ever gallant, dear Walking Unvaxxed. I don’t always do a good job, but I do always try. I’ve learnt so much from y’all here — I’m happy to be able to pay a little of it back.
[IsraelTimes] Activists claiming to be Jewish artists chant anti-Israel slogans, hold banners accusing Israel of genocide, as audience responds with ‘Bring them home’ before screening of ‘Hemda’
Anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian demonstrators on Tuesday burst onto the stage at a Toronto theater before the screening of the Israeli film "Hemda" (Bliss), accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide against the Paleostinians.
A group of activists claiming to be a coalition of Jewish filmmakers and artists
...but were probably none of the above...came into the auditorium holding banners reading, "This film is funded by a state committing genocide of Paleostinians," and "Jews say no to genocide."
Protesters chanted "Free Paleostine," and "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free," as attendees of the Toronto International Film Festival event urged their removal and chanted "Bring them home" in reference to the hostages kidnapped by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... on October 7.
"There will be no platform for the Israeli state committing genocide against Paleostinians," one of the protesters said on stage, as the crowd jeered in response.
Outside the theater, dozens of activists wearing keffiyehs and holding Paleostinian flags also held a demonstration,
…grimacing and shouting more illogical, ahistoric vicious nonsense.
Shemi Zarhin, the film’s director, told Channel 12 news that eventually "the wretched horror show finished and the movie started and went on calmly and beautifully."
He described having to enter the theater through the back entrance to avoid protesters out front, and that he sat with actor Sasson Gabai with guards outside the auditorium during the film.
"We didn’t see the protest going on outside, but we heard it. It was very vocal. The festival manager himself came to thank us for our courage," he said, adding that he was very moved when the crowd responded to protesters with chants of "Bring them home."
After the protesters were removed from the hall, he said that those outside were also removed at the beginning of the screening.
"The crowd responded amazingly. The participation of the film in the festival became one of the day’s conversations," he added.
Last week, anti-Israel protesters also disrupted the opening night screening at the TIFF, chanting "Stop the genocide!" during opening remarks.
[IsraelTimes] Military discloses just 9 tunnels crossed from Gaza to Egypt, all had been blocked up before IDF arrived; over 2,000 terror operatives killed, 13 km of underground passages destroyed
The Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror group’s Rafah Brigade has been decimated, at least 2,308 of its operatives have been killed by the Israel Defense Forces, and over 13 kilometers (8 miles) worth of tunnels have been destroyed, military officials told news hounds in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... Strip’s southernmost city on Thursday.
Now, as the IDF maintains control of the entire city and the border area with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, combat engineers are completing their investigations of a few dozen Hamas tunnels that have not yet been demolished, an operation that will not take longer than a few weeks.
With seemingly no hostage deal with the terror group on the horizon — under which the IDF would likely have to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, including the Philadelphi Corridor — it currently remains unclear what the IDF will do in Rafah once the last tunnel is destroyed.
Senior military officials said they would carry out whatever missions the political echelon eventually orders them to complete.
"The Rafah Brigade has been defeated," Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen, the general in charge of the offensive in the city, told news hounds at the Philadelphi Corridor. "Their four battalions have been destroyed, and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area."
Cohen, who commands the IDF’s 162nd Division, said that his combat engineering forces located 203 separate, but interconnected, tunnels in the Philadelphi Corridor, stretching from the Egypt border to about 300 meters away on the outskirts of the city of Rafah.
"Most of them we have destroyed," the general said. "We are operating at the other sites to investigate them, and when we will finish investigating, they will be destroyed."
Out of the 203 tunnels, Cohen confirmed that the IDF had so far located a total of nine that had crossed into Egypt, but every single one had been blocked up before the IDF arrived, either by Egyptian authorities or Hamas themselves.
"There are a total of nine underground sites [tunnels] that cross into Egyptian territory, but they have collapsed, they are not usable, they are not active," he said.
The existence of cross-border tunnels between Egypt and the Strip has long been a matter of public record. Egypt itself has worked for years to thwart the cross-border network, blowing tunnels up, flooding them with water, pumping toxic gas into them, and even razing homes along the border to establish a buffer zone.
As Egypt demolished the tunnels on its side of the border, and as Hamas grew in power, it relied less and less on the cross-border passages for weapon smuggling, according to Israeli assessments. Instead, Hamas would smuggle in weaponry overground via the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt. Additionally, a significant portion of Hamas’s weaponry has been locally made, mostly its rockets, RPGs and bombs, according to IDF assessments.
Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on the IDF remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor to ostensibly prevent Hamas from rearming, the military appeared to have been in no rush to search for the few inactive cross-border tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, launching its offensive there only in May, seven months into the war.
Still, the IDF had considered it necessary to take control of the Rafah crossing, which Hamas was indeed using to smuggle in some arms, although possibly at a lower volume in recent years due to its increased local production.
Reporters were given a tour of one of the former cross-border tunnels on Thursday, previously shown off by the IDF in a blurb. The tunnel, which did not run particularly deep underground, was one of the widest and tallest found in Gaza, big enough for vehicles to pass through.
Like the other eight tunnels that crossed into Egypt, this one too was blocked up — once on the Egyptian side, and a second time by Hamas inside Gaza. It is unclear why the terror group collapsed part of its own tunnel in this case, but some military officials speculated that it was an attempt by Hamas to hide the fact that it did previously have cross-border tunnels.
’MOTHER OF TUNNELS’
Hamas’s tunnel network in Rafah has been seen as unique, and large, in comparison to other areas of Gaza, with IDF officials describing it as "umm al-anfaq," the mother of tunnels in Arabic, due to the underground passages, on three levels, being all interconnected.
In northern Gaza, the IDF located separate tunnels used by senior Hamas commanders, which were not connected to the passages used by low-ranking operatives.
In Rafah, every single tunnel was connected to the others, according to the IDF, with some military officials describing it as an underground city larger than the one above it.
One major tunnel complex in the Yabna area, located some 40 meters deep, was used by the commander of Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, Muhammad Shabana, and possibly other top members of the terror group during the war.
The 162nd Division also saw during its offensive in Rafah Hamas operatives repeatedly collapsing parts of tunnels as they attempted to withdraw from areas where the IDF was approaching.
One tunnel in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, where Hamas operatives had blocked off one of the main entrances and collapsed another part, was where six Israeli hostages were recently murdered. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi were killed by their captors in the tunnel on August 29, before being discovered by IDF troops less than two days later.
Reporters were taken to the now-uncovered entrance to the tunnel, located in a children’s playroom in a home in Tel Sultan.
The 162nd Division had almost completed its operations in Tel Sultan before the bodies were found, but commanders had decided to check out one last site where they had intelligence of a tunnel that was not yet uncovered.
Initially, troops were unable to find the tunnel. They then circled back with an excavator to dig up the ground in hopes of finding an entrance. Unconventionally, the excavator did not dig to find the tunnel entrance, but rather fell slightly into the shaft.
Inside the 20-meter-deep tunnel, a blast door had blocked the way forward. So combat engineers dug down a few meters after it, now that they knew where the route was. A drone was then sent down into the tunnel, and the bodies of the six murdered hostages were found.
The 162nd Division operated in Tel Sultan with the assumption that hostages could be held in the area, but the possibility was seen as low-to-moderate, as before the Rafah offensive, some 1.4 million Paleostinians — among them many Hamas murderous Moslems — fled to the Israeli designated humanitarian zone. The assumption was that, like in other areas of Gaza, Hamas operatives would move the hostages with them as they fled.
As the operation continued in Tel Sultan, the IDF identified and killed the entire leadership of the Hamas battalion there, who were all fleeing. This again led commanders to assume that the chances of hostages being in the area were low, since the Tel Sultan Battalion commanders and operatives were fleeing without any hostages with them.
But days later, on August 27, the IDF rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi from a tunnel in Tel Sultan. Military officials said that the fact that he was rescued from a tunnel by special forces showed that the IDF was still operating under the assumption that hostages could be in the area, but this was not considered a special rescue operation, like others that have been carried out using precise intelligence.
Four days after that, the bodies of the six murdered hostages were found, just 700 meters away from where al-Qadi was rescued.
"We didn’t prepare for this. We came here to defeat the Rafah Brigade, and still, we were a step away [from the hostages]," said Lt. Col. Yisgav Yisraeli, the commander of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, from the entrance to the tunnel shaft where the six hostages were murdered.
[Jpost] Three of the nine terrorists listed had been employed as UNRWA staff as they planned and participated in attacks against Israel.
A day after UNRWA said that its staffers were killed in a strike on the Al Jaouni School in the area of Nuseirat in central Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , the IDF revealed on Thursday that nine turbans had been eliminated in the strike.
After 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... condemned the deaths of six UNRWA workers on Wednesday, the IDF said that it requested the details of the staff so that it could investigate - a request the military claimed remains unfulfilled.
Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 's media office said the Israeli strike killed at least 18 people, including the UNRWA staff members.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Rooters on Wednesday that a lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... staff and humanitarian aid workers in Gaza was "totally unacceptable."
THE TERRORISTS ELIMINATED IN THE STRIKE
Muhammad Adnan Abu Zayd, a UNRWA employee and one of the nine turbans listed, launched mortars at Israel as part of his role in Hamas's Military Wing, the military said.
Yasser Ibrahim Abu Sharar, another of the eliminated turbans and an employee of UNRWA, reportedly acted as both a member of Hamas's military wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, and as an operative in Hamas's emergency bureau in Nuseirat.
The military also said that Ayad Matar was both a UNRWA employee and a terrorist in Hamas's military wing.
The other turbans named by the IDF were Aysar Karadia, a member of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, and Bassem Majed Shaheen, who took part in Hamas's October 7 attack and was also a member of the group's military wing.
Also named were Amar al-Jadili and Akram Saber al-Ghalaydi, both members of Hamas's military wing and operatives in the group's Internal Security Forces.
Muhammad Issa Abu al-Amir, involved in the October 7 attack, was also part of Hamas's military wing. Finally, the IDF identified Sharif Salam as a member of Hamas's military wing.
HAMAS'S USE OF CIVILIAN AND UNRWA INFRASTRUCTURE
Since and before October 7, Hamas has been recorded using civilian structures for their terrorist activities. Airstrikes have frequently eliminated Hamas turbans and headquarters embedded within schools, where Gazook sources reported that a number of displaced Paleostinian civilians were taking shelter.
In July, IDF troops identified Hamas and 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... war rooms in UNRWA headquarters. Explosives, drones, and weapons were reportedly found on the premises.
During a search of a UNRWA school in May, IDF personnel found an extensive collection of terrorist weaponry.
Additionally, a total of 17 turbans were eliminated in a strike on a UNRWA school in June.
Controversies surrounding the UN agency have led to a number of countries pausing or ceasing to fund UNRWA. Most of the pause in funding came after UN Watch alleged that several UNRWA workers had actively participated in Hamas's October 7 attacks.
In UN Watch's investigation, the NGO revealed that a 3000-member Telegram group for UNRWA staff praised the attacks on October 7.
[IsraelTimes] Overnight, Israeli security forces arrested a wanted Paleostinian from a hospital in the southern West Bank city of Halhul, who had been maimed in an attempted boom-mobileing attack last month.
Members of police’s elite Yamam unit and Shin Bet agents raided the hospital near Hebron overnight in a joint operation with the IDF.
The Shin Bet says that the detained suspect was involved in a boom-mobile that detonated in Halhul on August 13, in which he was also injured. He was taken to the hospital in the city where he was detained.
[LI] Israel’s i24NEWS TV channel: "The facility is believed by experts to develop ballistic missiles and supply equipment to Hezbollah."
Israeli special forces carried out a daring raid on an Iranian missile facility in central Syria, Israeli media outlets reported Thursday, citing Middle East security expert Eva J. Koulouriotis.
"Israeli ground forces targeted an Iranian missile production facility in Syria during a strike this week attributed to Israel, according to Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis, who specializes in jihadist groups and cited a security source," the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
The Iranian-run missile and chemical weapons production site, operated by the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was located in the Syrian province of Hama — a few hundred miles from the Israeli border.
The alleged IDF raid, which apparently took place on Sunday night, hit a "research center in Masyaf, which has long been associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons and precision missiles by the Syrian regime and Iranian forces," The Times of Israel reported quoting Syrian sources.
Earlier this week, a Western news outlet reported ’several waves’ of alleged Israeli airstrikes in central Syria. They did not mention any ground operations by the Israeli troops during the aerial strikes.
Wild story: Ground forces from #Israel targeted an #Iran missile production facility in #Syria. Israeli special forces successfully entered the facility, removed key equipment and documents, rigged the site with explosives, and destroyed it, all while withdrawing under air cover.... pic.twitter.com/6mMv7hwzfJ
[IsraelTimes] In a rare admission, the IDF says it carried out two dronezaps in southern Syria today, targeting a Hezbollah operative and another Iran-linked terrorist.
The military says the first strike, in the Quneitra area, killed Ahmed al-Jaber, a member of Hezbollah’s so-called Golan File unit.
Another strike, in the al-Rafid area, targeted a "terrorist who advanced terror acts against the State of Israel, and acted with the cooperation and direction of Iran." the IDF says.
Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... the military says several explosive-laden drones were launched from 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... at northern Israel today, impacting near the Keren Naftali area.
Also today, some 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee.
[IsraelTimes] During major attack by jets earlier this week, commandos said to have rappeled from helicopters to capture Iranians and remove materials before destroying site
Israeli special forces carried out a raid on an Iranian weapons facility in the Masyaf area in Syria earlier this week, according to a number of unconfirmed reports on Wednesday widely reported by Hebrew media.
A series of previously reported alleged Israeli strikes hit military sites in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least 14 people, wounding 43, and sparking fires. Local Syrian media reported at the time that the strikes hit a scientific research center in Masyaf, which has long been associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... and precision missiles by the Syrian regime and Iranian forces.
However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the fresh reports were the first to claim that Israeli troops operated on the ground during the action at Masyaf, which lies about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Israel, though only about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Syria’s western coastline.
The opposition Syria TV network, based in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , reported that Israeli helicopters did not land on Syrian soil, but instead hovered as special forces rappelled down ropes.
The report said there were violent mostly peacefulfestivities in which three Syrians were killed, and two to four Iranians were captured. The report did not give details as to what happened to the Iranians.
The outlet additionally said that a Russian communications center was among the sites targeted as part of the operation.
Sources told the outlet that Syrian air defenses had been weakened by recent Israeli attacks, preventing them from foiling the Sunday assault, and that Syria has established a high-level commission of inquiry into the incident.
Separately, Middle East researcher Eva J. Koulouriotis said she was told by a "security source" that the IDF operation had targeted an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility for the development of ballistic missiles and drones that also provided logistical support to Hezbollah.
In a series of posts to X, Koulouriotis said roads surrounding the facility were targeted with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s to stop Syrian troops from reaching the area, before the Israeli helicopters carrying special forces approached, with air support from combat helicopters and drones.
She said Israeli troops entered the compound, removed equipment and documents, and then laid explosives to destroy the facility.
The US-government-owned Al Hurra network reported that the raid targeted several sites in the Masyaf area and that their intensity and the corpse count were "unusual."
The Masyaf area, west of Hama, is thought to be used as a base for Iranian forces and pro-Iranian militias and has been repeatedly targeted in recent years in attacks widely attributed to Israel.
It contains the Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as CERS or SSRC, which according to Israel is used by Iranian forces to manufacture precision surface-to-surface missiles.
Western officials have long associated CERS with the manufacture of chemical arms. According to the United States, sarin gas has been developed at that center, a charge denied by the Syrian authorities.
There was no comment on the strike from Israel, which rarely acknowledges individual operations in Syria.
Israel has been carrying out airstrikes inside Syria since the outbreak of that country’s civil war in 2011, mainly targeting attempts to transfer weapons to the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah terror group or to keep Iranian fighters themselves from gaining a foothold near Israel’s border.
Since Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s brutal October 7 massacre, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed terror targets in Syria and has also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.
Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israel since it started launching attacks from 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... a day after its Paleostinian ally Hamas’s terror onslaught, which sparked the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by 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...
Israeli ground forces targeted an Iranian missile production facility in Syria. IDF Special forces infiltrated the site, extracted critical equipment and documents, planted explosives, and demolished the facility, all while retreating under the... https://t.co/oWQSwxWZbDpic.twitter.com/Jbtz5z8psu
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From an Israeli poster named David who posts in CTH directly from Israel and offers local open-source material:" September 13, 2024 1:36 am
Israel Update:
This is a different kind of report as I will cover only one important subject. A confidential operation that took place yesterday and was not published by the IDF and the second part will be an explanation of the Unit that most likely performed the operation. I have to say that we don’t know for sure which unit did the operation but this kind of operation is only the job and specialty of this unit.
The Unit is called Sayeret Matkal (translated to : General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) or simply “The Unit”.
While it’s hard to have precision report on something like this, I did collect the most credible information from foreign and local sources:
-A highly confidential daring and possibly historic Special Forces Operation took place in Syria around Hama city that is about 200 miles from Israel. This was not reported in Israel, it was reported by foreign outlets related to the Syrian Opposition. Israeli media is relating to it as “foreign sources reports” and give additional information as to what was attacked.
In Syria there is a project that is called “Institute 4000”. It is a number of centers that research and manufacture precision missiles and means to make missiles precise.
Also they manufacture Ballistic missiles and drones. This over the years was taken over by Iran and is a joint operation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (The Iranian branch that operates outside of Iran) and Syria.
There are experts from Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and even North Korea working there.
Iran used it in order to be closer to Lebanon and so to be able to transport technologies and missiles and drones to Hezbollah in Lebanon with less chances of Israeli
interference/attacks.
Israel attacked from the air some of the facilities but never managed to put an end to this project. This is related to Hezbollah having precision missiles that cat hit strategic targets in Israel. The one that was now attacked by Special Forces is considered as the “heart of the project” and was an underground facility.
The operation had a few stages:
1. bombardment of the area and the transportation routs to the area.
2. Special Forces came down by ropes from helicopters.
3. At this time attack helicopters secured the area in which the Special Forces worked.
4. The Special Force entered the facilities and killed and injured a few who opposed (possibly also captured one or two but this is not certain).
5. Special Forces took equipment and documents.
6. They planted bombs in the facilities and demolished it.
7. The Forces returned to Israel (no known Israeli casualties).
By the nature of this operation I can conclude that the force involved is Sayeret Matkal.
Sayeren Matkal is the premier Special Force of the IDF and they are specializing in deep operations in enemy territory and recovering vital Intel and assassinating or kidnapping main enemies. This is as high risk operation which tells me that the rewards were worth it to be able to approve the operation.
–About Sayeret Matkal:
I will explain and at the end will add a little personal story of my experience with them.
The Unit is Highly confidential. Almost all the You Tube Videos about it are not actually them. There are maybe a couple of minutes of actual footage and is completely obscure or very old. This Elite Unit is also called :”The Unit”. It is similar to the American Delta Force and the British SAS. It has the same motto as the British SAS: “Who dares wins”.
Its warriors are dressed like Paratroopers and do the Paratrooper’s’ basic training at the beginning. While they do have a symbol they are not dressed with it so you can’t identify them. They work very close with the Mossad and are very good at dressing like enemy forces or enemy civilians. Very few of their operations are published mainly those which had a mess up or those that were very significant.
Sayeret Matkal is designed to collect Intel inside enemy territory, to assassinate enemies of Israel outside of Israel, to kidnap important enemies and to perform hostage rescue operations outside of Israel.
Sayeret Matkal “produced” some of the leaders of Israel like
Netanyahu (was and Officer and his brother killed in duty as a high commander of this Unit),
Ehud Barak (Prior Prime Minister was a high commander in this Unit), Shaul Mofaz (Ex-Defense Minister came form Sayeret Matkal), Naftali Benett (previous previous Prime Minister of Israel from a few years ago was an Officer of Matkal), Yair Yaalon (Former Defense Minister) and more…
Some known operations :
The hostage rescue called Operation Entebbe, the legendary hostage rescue from Entebbe Uganda where they landed and arrived in vehicles that imitated the vehicle of the leader of Uganda and his protection vehicles and rescued 102 hostages. In this operation Yoni Netanyahu the brother of Bibi was killed.
Operation Outside the Box: 2004, before Israel attacked from the air the Syrian Nuclear reactor that was a Syrian North Korean project, Matkal went deep into Syria and brought soil samples from near the reactor to confirm that its not yet operations so there won’t be a disaster when its attacked. Following this operation the reactor was attacked from the air.
The Syrian boss of this project was shortly later shot at the head by a sniper, from the sea, at his vacation apartment by the beach in Syria.
Operation Spring of Youth: April 1973, There were a few targets. Matkal took the target of eliminating the Deputy of Yassar Arafat the PLO (terror organization) and two other leaders of this organization. The Deputy was Muhammad Abu Youssef who was a mastermind of the Munich Olympics Massacre and was on the Mossad’s hit list. The people who were assassinated lived in two seven stories buildings.
In different locations. The Matkal team which included future Prime Minsiter (Ehud Barak) and Netanyahu’s Brother Yoni, arrived from the sea, Mossad waited for them with vehicles and took them to the area, they approached as a few couples “going to a party”, half dressed as women with skirts and wigs. They managed to approach, kill guards, expose the doors, kill the three leaders simultaneously and get back to sea. Intel came from Mossad and the work was done by Matkal.
Operation Presentation of Purpose (right translation): 1988. Abu Jihad was the Deputy of Yasser Arafat Leader of PLO. He had a long series of Israelis murdered in terror attacks in and out of Israel, mainly civilians.
Mossad tracked him and provided all the Intel. The operation involves Mossad, Matkal and Shaytet 13 (Seals). Also the Navy and Air Force. It took place in Tunisia, some 2,000 miles away from Israel. The forces arrived to the Tunisia area in a few small missile ships and a submarine. Mossad agents rented two minibuses and a car. The Seals arrived to the shore in small diving vehicles and secured the shore. A large Boing airplane used electronic means to shut off the Tunisian radars, and another boing was there to fuel the airplanes that were flying over and securing the perimeter of the operation. The Mossad hacked the local phone network to prevent any communications that would alert Abu Jihad. Five rubber boats loaded with some 20 Matkal Warriors landed in Tunisia. Two teams to perform the mission and two teams to secure the operators. At this point it was discovered that Abu Jihad left home for e meeting. The teams had to wait for hours. Then Abu Jihad arrived with two body guards. One stayed in a car and one accompanied him. The teams waited another hour until the green light. First two people approached the guard in the car, one warrior dressed as a woman with a chocolate box in one hand. They killed the guard. The other team breached his fortified door and a team went down to basement and killed the guard and another team got to his bedroom, he pulled a pistol but an officer shot a full magazine into his body (according to his wife who was spared along with his daughter and a baby) ) and other team members confirmed the kill with more shots. She identified the future Defense Minster of Israel Yaalon there. The UN condemned the operation. Israel kept quiet about this operation for decades and only in 2012 Israel admitted it. Two warriors were decorated for bravery after the operation.
Operation Crate 3: June 1972. Matkal ambushed a Syrian vehicle in Lebanon and kidnapped five Senior Syrian Officers in an attempt to use them to exchange with three Israeli hostages, two pilots and a navigator. The Officers were exchanged for the release of the Israelis a year later along with 41 additional Syrian War prisoners. "
As you see there is a long list and there are hundreds of not thousands of operations and I have access to about 20. But I hope you get a good idea about what Sayeret Matkal is.
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Yes, thank you. I imagine it was Sayeret Matkal that emptied that warehouse full of Iran’s archive of their nuclear bomb program about a decade ago.
Could inter-service rivalry explain some of the open loathing of the IDF generals for Bibi? Or is it as simple as kibbutzniks’ reaction to a very successful capitalist?
I added a search for their name to the article above, so it will be captured in future searches. :-)
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