[ShabelleMedia] A top military court in Somalia on Saturday announced prison sentences against convicted ISIS operatives held for terrorism charges.
Abdikani Aden Ali (Elmi) and Ahmed Ali Dirie (Moallim Ahmed), each received 8 years of imprisonment for playing role in Mogadishu attacks, according to court verdict.
The defendants were detained by security forces in October this year during an operation in Dharkenley District and held in police custody for questioning.
They fell to police hands while plotting kabooms in the capital. The capture of one carrying hand grenades in a plastic bag led to the arrest of the second who was in a Mosque waiting to take over the bombs.
The military court said the two have one month to appeal against the ruling, if failed they will serve the prison terms.
The ISIS branch in Somalia was established by a former al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... preacher Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin in October 2015. The group is based in Bari region’s hills under Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali forces backed by foreign partners carried out a joint operation against the 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... in the Barag Ali Gadud area of the Mudug region.
The raid in the vicinity of the newly liberated coastal Harardhere city targeted the al-Shabaab convoy traveling on a semi-forest road. Two vehicles reportedly burnt to ashes.
"The attack took place in an area approximately 31 km south of Harardhere town, It was an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that targeted vehicles al-Shabaab leaders and bully boys," said a resident.
The details of the casualty figures remained unverified. The army sources say several senior al-Shabaab commanders were killed and maimed in the covert military operation.
The government did not disclose the number of al-Shabaab leaders and bully boyz who were killed in the operation which comes amid preparation for the second phase of an offensive.
Barag Ali Gudud is one of the few areas that are still under the control of al-Shabaab in the Mudug region, central Somalia which the government plans to liberate from the bully boys.
The US Africa command — AFRICOM did not release a statement regarding the strike. The American troops on the ground support of Somali National Army forces fighting al-Shabaab.
American airstrikes against Islamic Death Eaters, al-Shabaab in Somalia have sharply decreased in recent months as ground SNA and clan militia operations came to a standstill.
[Garowe] A Spanish navy ship is sailing at full speed towards a Maltese-flagged commercial vessel that may have been hijacked by pirates off Somalia, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's Somali counter-piracy force said on Friday.
If confirmed, it would be the first successful hijacking involving Somali pirates since 2017 when a crackdown by international navies stopped a rash of seizures in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
EUNAVFOR's joint operations center in Spain said it received an alert on Thursday about the "alleged pirate-hijacked vessel" Ruen, which was approximately 500 nautical miles east of Socotra Island, off Somalia.
In Somalia's breakaway Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region, a member of a group that helped organize raids on ships in the past told Rooters he had heard pirates had managed to seize a vessel.
"Six of my pirate friends managed to capture a ship and they will bring it to the coast of the eastern region of Puntland," Mukhtar Mohamud said by phone from the coastal city of Qandala.
He did not name the vessel and Puntland's maritime authorities had no immediate comment.
EUNAVFOR said the Spanish warship Victoria had been sent to the scene "to gather more information and evaluate further actions".
"EUNAVFOR remains vigilant to this and other recent piracy-related events in the area of operations, the northwest Indian Ocean and the Red Sea."
The force added that it was coordinating with the broader international naval Combined Maritime Force.
British maritime security company Ambrey said it believed the Ruen had been hijacked by pirates.
Earlier on Friday, Britannia’s maritime body UKMTO said it had received a report from a ship's security officer who believed the crew no longer had control of a vessel that was currently headed towards Somalia.
The Ruen is managed by Bulgaria's Navigation Maritime Bulgare, according to data on the public shipping database Equasis.
The vessel was last seen underway in the open sea sailing towards Somalia at 1426 GMT, according to ship tracking data on LSEG.
[ShabellMedia] India Navy responded swiftly to a ‘Mayday’ call from a Malta-flagged commercial vessel heading towards Somalia. The ship was reportedly hijacked in the Arabian Sea and UK Maritime Operations has said the crew has lost control of the vessel.
Indian Navy in a statement said, “Indian Navy’s Mission Deployed platforms responded swiftly to a maritime incident in the Arabian Sea involving hijacking of Malta Flagged Vessel MV Ruen. The vessel, with 18 crew onboard, had sent a Mayday message on the UKMTO portal, PM 14 Dec 23, indicating boarding by approx six unknown personnel.”
“Responding swiftly to the developing situation, the Indian Navy diverted its Naval Maritime Patrol aircraft undertaking surveillance in the area and its warship on Anti Piracy patrol in the Gulf Aden to locate and assist MV Ruen. The aircraft overflew the hijacked vessel on the early morning of 15 Dec 23 and IN aircraft have been continuously monitoring the movement of the vessel, which is now heading towards the coast of Somalia,” it said. “Indian Navy’s warship, mission deployed in the Gulf of Aden for anti-piracy patrol, has also intercepted MV Ruen at early hours of 16 Dec 23,” Navy added.
The naval force said they are closely monitoring the situation in coordination with other agencies. “The Indian Navy remains committed to being a first responder in the region and ensuring the safety of merchant shipping, along with international partners and friendly foreign countries,” it said.
In a recent tweet, the European Union Naval Force said, “Based on first information available on MV RUEN, #OperationAtalanta Flagship ESPS #VICTORIA is proceeding fast towards the alleged pirate-hijacked vessel to gain more awareness & evaluate following actions, also in coordination with @CMF_Bahrain.”
The UK Maritime Operations has advised vessels to safely transit and report any suspicious activity.
[ShabelleMedia] At least four people were killed and two others maimed in a roadside blast in Garissa County, northeast Kenya on Friday, the police said.
The police said the vehicle in which the dear departed were traveling ran over an improvised bomb (IED) which was planted along the Dadaab-Garissa Road in the restive county.
"The four were killed and two others were seriously injured when their vehicle was hit by an IED between Egge dam and Bogyar along Dadaab-Garissa," the police said in a security report.
The police said the vehicle was extensively damaged, noting that the injured persons were at death's doors, adding that security operations have been enhanced to thwart further attacks in the region that borders Somalia.
This is the latest such terror incident after more than a month of lull in attacks due to heavy rains which have been pounding the region since October that made roads impassable. The border region has borne the brunt of repeated attacks from the hard boys.
[IsraelTimes] The Egyptian air force shot down a drone off the Sinai Peninsula down the coast from the Israeli border, state-linked media reports.
Witnesses say they saw a second flying object crash on land further up the coast.
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels said they had fired multiple drones at southern Israel.
Egyptian television channel al-Qahera reports "the crash of an unidentified flying object in Egyptian territorial waters near the city of Dahab."
It quotes witnesses as saying "air defenses detected the flying object and dealt with it immediately."
A source in the security services tells AFP that it was a drone of which "the origin is still unknown."
They tried, anyway. Like children, they mistake desire for results.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Armed Forces announced this evening, Saturday, the implementation of a military operation against sensitive targets in the "Umm al-Rashrash" area (Eilat) in southern occupied Paleostine.
The official front man for the armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, explained in a statement that the armed forces carried out a military operation against sensitive targets in the Umm al-Rashrash area in southern occupied Paleostine with a large batch of drones.
He pointed out that the operation comes in support of the oppressed Paleostinian people 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... , in implementation of the directives of the revolution leader Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... , and in response to the calls of the free people of Yemen and the sons of the nation.
Brigadier General Sare’e confirmed that the Yemeni armed forces would continue their military operations against the Zionist entity until its aggression against those steadfast in the Gaza Strip stops.
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[NYPOST] U.S. and British warships on Saturday shot down 15 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea launched by Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , fending off the latest onslaught by the Iranian-controlled group in one of the world’s busiest shipping routes as the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war threatened to spread.
The USS Carney, an American destroyer, intercepted 14 drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. They "were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries," U.S. Central Command said.
The British HMS Diamond also destroyed a drone that was "targeting merchant shipping," said U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps.
He added that attacks on fat merchantmen by Yemen’s Houthi rebels "represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security."
"The U.K. remains committed to repelling these attacks to protect the free flow of global trade," he said in a statement.
Global shipping has become a major target during the war between Israel and Hamas, which like the Houthis is backed by Iran.
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The rules of engagement don’t seem to allow anything other than downing the drones. Maybe they will change them once their offensive action against us kills some sailors. Probably sleep in my flash gear until then.
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Apparently USS Cole has been memory-holed. Bomb them back past the stone age. Once. Rinse, repeat as necessary.
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[Rudaw] At least two people died when a boat carrying over 60 migrants colonists capsized in the English Channel off the coast of La Belle France overnight on Thursday. One of the dead is a young man from the Kurdistan Region.
Rawezh Rauf, 22, was from the Raparin administration in Sulaimani province. His family held a memorial service and called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to facilitate the return of his body so that he can be buried in their hometown of Hajiawa.
"We need the government’s assistance to return Rawezh’s body to alleviate the great tragedy we have endured. Help us bury our dear Rawezh at home," Hassan Omar, a relative, told Rudaw’s Abubakir Ismael.
Rawezh and two of his cousins left the Kurdistan Region in the hopes of migrating to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... around two months ago. The cousins were also on the capsized boat, but have been rescued and are receiving treatment in a hospital in La Belle France.
The mass migration of Kurdistan Region youths through illegal smuggling routes has surged in recent years, with a large number of them coming from Raparin. Officials from the administration have blamed a lack of services and job opportunities for the mass exodus.
Bakir Ali, head of the Association of Returned Migrants from Europe, said in December that in the past nine years, more than 34,000 out of the Region’s 153,600 migrants colonists came from Raparin.
Over 3,200 people migrated from Raparin in 2022, and nearly 3,000 more have left since the start of the year, according to Ali. They range in age from 16 years to over 50 and most begin their journeys after obtaining visas for Poland, Hungary, or Bosnia and Herzegovina, he added.
Over 750,000 people have left Iraq since 2015, according to data from the Summit Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs (Lutka), which documented at least 319 migrant deaths during that period. The whereabouts of 326 others remain unknown.
According to data from the Association of Returned Migrants from Europe, more than 550 migrants colonists have either drowned or gone missing over the past nine years, out of which over 150 are from Raparin.
[IsraelTimes] Canada’s national police force says a youth in Ottawa was arrested and charged with terrorism-related offenses that allegedly targeted Jewish people.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says the young person arrested Friday was charged with facilitating terrorist activity by communicating instructional material related to an explosive substance.
The youth is further charged with knowingly instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity against "Jewish persons."
Police do not release further details about the alleged offenses. Officials also say no further information about the youth could be released due to the suspect’s age.
In a news release, the national police force says it is seeing a concerning trend of violent mostly peaceful extremism and terrorist use of the internet, including among young people.
Many officials have been raising the alarm about a reported rise in hate crimes against Jewish communities since Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 attack in Israel, prompting that country’s military offensive 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... "I was shocked to learn the details of a planned attack against Ottawa’s Jewish community," Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says on X, formerly known as Twitter. "There has been a rise in antisemitism in Ottawa in recent weeks."
He adds police will continue to patrol synagogues and other Jewish institutions.
The youth, who cannot be named because he is a minor, appeared in an Ottawa courthouse on Saturday morning to face two charges.
He was taken into custody until his next court appearance, scheduled for Monday morning.
Police did not identify a specific target of the alleged attack.
Two national security sources said the alleged plot was believed to be religiously motivated against the Jewish community.
A man who identified himself as the youth’s father Saturday said he “did not know what happened.”
The man, whom Global News is not naming so as not to identify the minor, said that the youth’s mother told him he was picked up by the RCMP on suspicion he was planning an attack on Jewish people.
The television report attached to the article said the boy is 15 and in Grade 10, that the parents were trying to set up an appointment with a local imam for counseling, and that someone connected with ISIS was advising the lad. The father has a strong Indian subcontinent accent.
Dec 1
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] The Pulwama encounter in south Kashmir which started on Thursday ended on Friday morning with the killing of a local Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... terrorist and recovery of arms and ammunition.
The killed terrorist has been identified as Kifayat Ayoub Alie, son of Muhammad Ayoub Alie of Pinjoora Shopian.
"Acting on a specific intelligence input regarding the presence of a terrorist in Arihal village of Pulwama, a joint Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched by Pulwama by Police, 44 RR, and CRPF’s 182 Bn in the area," Police said. "During the search operation, the joint team encountered indiscriminate firing from the hiding terrorist. The security forces effectively retaliated, leading to an encounter."
Police said that in the ensuing exchange of fire, the terrorist identified as Kifayat Ayoub Alie, son of Muhammad Ayoub Alie of Pinjoora Shopian, associated with the proscribed terror outfit LeT, was killed and his body was recovered from the encounter site.
Police records indicate his involvement in several terror-related crimes including in case FIR No 123/2021, FIR No 294/2021, and case FIR No 180/2023 of Police Station Shopian.
Police said that significant incriminating material along with arms and ammunition including a pistol, two magazines, five rounds, and two grenades were seized from the encounter site.
It said that all the recovered items are now part of the case records for further investigation.
"A case under the relevant provisions of the law has been registered, and the investigation has been taken up," Police said. "The people of the area are requested not to approach the encounter site until the area is thoroughly sanitised and cleared of any potential kabooms."
December 5
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted raids at eight locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terror funding case.
The raids are still underway in close coordination with Jammu and Kashmir Police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) at seven locations in Kashmir and one in Jammu, said sources privy to the development.
The agency sleuths are carrying out these raids at Shopian and Baramulla, among other areas. The places searched included the residents and other hideouts of the suspects linked to the case.
The raids were conducted days after the central agency arrested an accused in the Pakistain-backed terrorism case involving the delivery of weapons through drones to snuffies active in Kashmir.
The agency had shared the input on November 29 after a team from the NIA Jammu Branch nabbed 22-year-old namely Zakir Hussain of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on November 27.
He was the eight accused to be arrested in the case registered by the NIA on July 30 last year after taking over the case from Kathua Police.
One of the seven accused arrested earlier had died due to cardiac arrest while in judicial custody while two Pakistain-based terror operatives are absconding.
NIA is continuing with its investigations in the matter to unravel the bigger conspiracy of Pakistain-backed terrorist groups to carry out acts of terror and violence in the Kashmir valley and across India. (ANI)
Dec 12
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] Four persons, including a woman, were arrested along with arms and ammunition in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, police said today.
"Bandipora Police along with Army ,CRPF & Sopore Police arrested four persons including one woman. Huge quantity of arms and ammunition recovered," said a police front man on X.
Those arrested were identified as Adil Tariq Wasil S/o Tariq Ahmad, Shafkat Nabi S/o Gh Nabi, Musaib Khursheed S/o Khursheed Ahmad Dar — all residents of Ladoora Rafiabad Baramulla.
All good Moslem names, which is suggestive.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... police didn’t reveal the name of the arrested woman.
The front man said a case has been registered at Police Station Bandipora under relevant sections of law and an investigation taken up.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian reports say that several people have been killed in festivities with Israeli forces across the West Bank in recent hours.
In Deir Ammar, a refugee camp northwest of Ramallah, the official Paleostinian news agency WAFA reports that a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed while confronting Israeli forces.
In Tulkarem and the neighboring Nour Shams refugee camp, where reports indicate soldiers are carrying out a nighttime raid, a 25-year-old man died after being shot earlier in the day, the Ma’an news outlet reports. According to reports, Israel carried out a dronezap during the fighting.
Ma’an also reports that a 20-year-old man was killed by a bullet to the stomach while battling Israeli troops near Beit Ummar, outside of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
In Jenin, WAFA reports that a man injured in a dronezap during a nearly 3-day raid in the northern West Bank city earlier in the week has died of his wounds.
There is no comment from the Israeli military.
According to Ma’an, 291 Paleostinian have been killed in the West Bank since October 7.
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Military says although international media outlets given video images of the tunnel shaft uncovered in the children's bedroom, most opt to report on Palestinians killed in fighting rather than use of civilian homes for terror, murder and slaughter
[IsraelTimes] The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum announces that Inbar Haiman, 27, has been murdered after being kidnapped by Paleostinian murderous Moslems during the Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led October 7 onslaught.
Haiman, an art student from Haifa, is survived by her parents and a brother.
[IsraelTimes] Chants of "shame" spread spontaneously across Shaul Hamelech Boulevard, the traffic artery running along the Kirya military base.
The chants come from the thousands of participants in the weekly solidarity rally with Israeli hostages being held 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... . They follow speakers’ appeals for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal with Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... for the release of 129 people still presumed to be held in Gaza.
The chants echo those heard during the rallies against the government’s planned judicial overhaul held across Israel in the nine months that preceded the Hamas onslaught on October 7.
The same anti-democracy cadres who’ve been leading protests against Israel’s non-Socialist governments since 2000 using varying pretexts, funded by Progressive billionaires and the US State Department under the Obama and Biden administrations.
A front man for the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, which organizers the rallies, comes onto stage to ask the crowd to stop chanting "shame."
"Save it for different roads and junctions at a different time," he says. "There is no place for politics here. From now on shout ’now’ instead of ’shame,'" adds the man, who does not introduce himself to the crowd.
The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum supports a new agreement with Hamas. But other families with relatives held in Gaza, including those represented by the Tkumah forum, are not pushing for a deal, arguing instead for military action or an agreement with terms better than those understood to be the minimum now acceptable to Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Some 100 people holding signs advocating for uncompromising warfare against Hamas rally in Tel Aviv, facing off with demonstrators chanting “ceasefire now.”
The demonstrations on Begin Road, opposite the Kirya military base, underline growing divides in Israeli society over the war with Hamas, which after erupting on October 7 prompted displays of unity following nine months of a wave of protests against the government’s judicial overhaul that rocked Israeli society.
Members from the two rallies trade insults, in scenes reminiscent of those protests. One woman shouts at the protesters: “What you’re doing is at the expense of the lives of the hostages.”
Another shouts: “Have you no shame, you swine!”
Police separate the two groups, but a woman from the demonstration supporting a deal with Hamas approaches the other and cries out, “Would you also say nothing if your daughter were held hostage?”
One of her ideological rivals, Eyal Lahiani from Beit Shemesh, tells her: “I support freeing the hostages but only through military action.”
The rally of people who oppose a deal with Hamas is taking place for the second consecutive week, Lahiani says, and is led by a hawkish group called the Mothers’ March.
Hamas issues an official statement saying the terror group will not agree to another deal for the release of hostages it’s holding in Gaza “unless the agression against our people stops once and for all.”
The statement says Hamas has communicated this stance to mediators.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian resistance factions "Al-Qassam Brigades" and "Al-Quds Brigades" announced on Saturday the implementation of several operations against the Israeli enemy army, which resulted in the destruction of a large number of military vehicles in multiple areas.
Al-Quds Brigades said in its statement that they bombed the "Sofa Support" site and a soldiers’ gathering in its vicinity with rocket salvoes, adding, "Our Mujahideen destroyed the enemy’s military concentrations in the Juhr al-Dik area with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells."
"We targeted a Zionist tank and a D9 military bulldozer with Tandom shells in Tal al-Zaatar in the northern 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," the al-Quds Brigades added.
Al-Qassam Brigades reported the destruction of a Zionist "Merkava" tank with a guerrilla action device and a Zionist bulldozer with a "Tandum" shell north and northeast of Khan Yunis city, respectively.
The al-Qassam fighters also were able to destroy a Zionist troop carrier after targeting it with a "Shawaz" device and an "Al-Yassin 105" shell, north of the Khan Yunis.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and Shin Bet security agency say that over the last few days, Israeli forces detained some 90 terror operatives at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, and seized numerous weapons.
The joint statement says some of those detained at the hospital, which allegedly served as a Hamas base, participated in the October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
Troops of the 460th Armored Brigade and Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit raided the hospital, locating weapons, including assault rifles, RPGs, explosive devices, and military equipment belonging to Hamas operatives, the IDF says.
The statement says Shin Bet agents and interrogators of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 questioned hospital employees, who admitted that weapons were hidden inside incubators in the maternity ward.
Courtesy of Grom the Reflective:
IDF troops find weapons concealed in incubators at Gaza hospital How about a comment by some of these "worriers for the children of Gaza"?
[Ynet] IDF forces found weapons concealed in incubators inside a Gaza Strip medical center, the army revealed on Saturday, highlighting the use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes by Palestinian terrorist groups.
In a statement, the IDF said recently completed, in cooperation with the Shin Bet security agency, a large-scale operation at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, which had been utilized by Hamas as a command and control center.
The operation, extending over several days, led to the discovery and destruction of extensive terror infrastructure. A variety of weapons were located, including AK-47s, anti-tank missiles, explosive devices, military equipment of Hamas' Nukhba force, technological devices and documents linked to Hamas intelligence.
A notable aspect of the operation was the IDF and Shin Bet's interrogation of hospital staff, who revealed that weapons were concealed in incubators within the NICU — incubators meant for the care of premature infants. This led to the subsequent discovery of additional weapons, classified documents and tactical communication devices hidden in the hospital.
Video at the link. Betcha this is why so many Gaza women went to Israel to have their babies.
[IsraelTimes] The White House offers condolences after Al Jazeera says one of its journalists was killed Friday in an Israeli strike.
"I just want to offer our deepest condolences to Al Jazeera to and to the family and loved ones of Sameer Abu Daqqa, who was on the ground doing necessary important work for not only your viewers but to people all around the world," National Security Council front man John Kirby says during a phone briefing with news hounds.
How sweet.
Al Jazeera said that Abu Daqqa, a cameraman, and 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... bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh were maimed in a school in Khan Younis, where they were hit by "shrapnel from an Israeli missile attack."
All the schools in Gaza are set up as Hamas fighting positions, even the ones that are Hamas command centers. Which means that the two Al Jazeera employees were either working a second career for Hamas or they were willing human shields. Either way, their deaths, according to international law, were caused by Hamas, not Israel.
In a subsequent statement condemning the Israeli military, Al Jazeera attributed the injuries to a dronezap.
Proximate cause, not ultimate cause.
"Following Samer’s injury, he was left to bleed to death for over 5 hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment," the network charged.
Hamas ambulances — and Palestinian ambulances in general — are more often used to transport weapons and fighters than those needing medical treatment. The Israelis have over time learnt to be suspicious.
Al-Dahdouh was maimed in the arm and transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to an AFP journalist.
In a news update, Al Jazeera said al-Dahdouh was able to leave the area of the strike to look for help, "but by the time he reached an ambulance, medics said they could not return to the site of the attack because it was too dangerous."
Wars are funny like that. If only Hamas had not started the war on October 7th — then it would have been safe for the ambulance to proceed.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.
“Y’all are vicious, posturing idiots. Get outta my face — don’t you know there’s a war on?!”
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed a US Agency for International Development contractor in Gazoo last month, his colleagues have alleged in a statement.
In other words, a local Palestinian. Was he also on the Hamas payroll, or merely a willing or unwilling human shield? Or possibly he was also feeding information to Israel...
Hani Jnena, 33, was killed November 5 along with his wife, their 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters, and her family, the US-based humanitarian group Global Communities says.
An internet-technology worker, Jnena had fled his neighborhood in Gaza City with his family to escape the airstrikes, only to be killed while sheltering with his in-laws, the group says. His employer was an on-the-ground partner for USAID, the US agency says.
The same questions can be asked about Mr. Jnena’s in-laws and his employer. We’ll decide how we feel about his death when we know the answers. Although in the end, War is hell sums it up. or perhaps, Life ain’t fair.
The Washington Post first reported the death.
In a final message to a colleague, Jnena had written, "my daughters are terrified, and I am trying to keep them calm, but this bombing is terrifying," Global Communities says.
USAID employees have been prominent in recent open letters by US babus government employees objecting to US policy in support of Israel’s continued offensive, including President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s decision not to join many other governments in calling for a ceasefire.
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And got hit back at least as hard, whatever the real numbers actually are — Hezbollah is trying to show they’re a fearsome participant in the game without getting properly stuck in, while Israel is reminding them to keep their heads down until it’s their turn — after Hamas is finished.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hezbollah disclosed on Friday the number of military operations against Israel since the start of the al-Aqsa Flood Battle.
Hezbollah’s military media confirmed in a statement on Friday evening that the Islamic Resistance® in 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... had carried out 509 operations targeting 58 Zionist sites and barracks since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Flood Battle.
The statement pointed out that the Lebanese resistance fighters carried out 209 operations with guided missiles, 9 air attacks, 43 missile attacks, and 35 attacks with "Burkan" missiles.
The Lebanese resistance has been continuing to target the Zionist occupation forces and their vehicles in several Israeli locations along the Lebanese-Paleostinian border since the day following the start of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation.
This forced the occupation to evacuate the settlements on the northern Paleostinian border with Lebanon, which had not been evacuated since 1948, that is, since the "establishment" of the occupying entity in the occupied land of Paleostine.
The Israeli occupation media continues to talk about the frustration that prevails in the settlements in northern occupied Paleostine, amid increasing criticism towards the Israeli government and fear of continued targeting by the Islamic Resistance® in Lebanon.
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The Iranian president has ordered swift efforts to identify the perpetrators of the early Friday terrorist attack on a police station in Iran’s southeast, which has left at least 11 dead and several more injured.https://t.co/6cuSGqFxeLpic.twitter.com/ZteocKDcBQ
Massive IDF airstrikes on Southern Lebanon (at around 1330 Israel time) could be seen all the way from Haifa. This comes after 2 UAVs infiltrated Israeli airspace from Lebanon with 1 intercepted and 1 hitting outside Margaliot. pic.twitter.com/c5g48ZwvMe
[GEO.TV] An agent of Israel's Mossad intelligence service was executed on Saturday in Iran's southeastern Sistan-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... province, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Did he have a pet spy squirrel?
"This person communicated with foreign services, specifically Mossad, collecting classified information, and with participation with associates, provided documents to foreign services, including the Mossad," it said.
It did not name the person.
It said the accused had handed classified information to a "Mossad officer" with the aim of "propaganda for groups and organizations opposed to the Islamic Theocratic Republic". It did not say where the alleged handover had taken place.
It was not clear when the person was arrested, but IRNA said an appeal had been rejected.
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...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...
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