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Good Morning


An explosion occurred on a gas pipeline in Istanbul
03/03/2024

From our continuing series Women Who Bathe 5
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Three soldiers killed in Gaza as
troops keep up raids on Hamas sites and gunmen
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Two men arrested for planning terror
attack with help of Hamas operative in Gaza
Home Front: WoT
'Death to Israel' scrawled on NYC's famous Charging Bull statue during protest, nine people arrested
Home Front: WoT
College (and one high school) Jew-hate round-up
Iraq
Islamic State attack kills
one Iraqi soldier north of Baghdad
Africa Subsaharan
Terrorists Kill Five Residents, Burn
Police Station, Sack Communities In Katsina

Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:11 || Comments || Link || [48 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice high tub. Giant left foot. This edible was underrated.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2024 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Plumber's crack (noun)

(slang) An intergluteal cleft visible due to low-riding pants, especially when one is bending over.
Posted by: jpal || 03/03/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Baby got back!
Posted by: technochitlin || 03/03/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Displacement flooding danger.
Posted by: Canuckistan aniper || 03/03/2024 17:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Supreme court is gonna rule on Trump and the 14th amendment. Get your gas and groceries early, before they say he will be on the ballots... Lots of butthurt in the streets tomorrow, either way.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/03/2024 18:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Skunky Barnsmell3687 || 03/03/2024 20:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalia's Puntland sentences 6 Moroccans to death over ISIS membership
[Garowe] A court in northern Somalia has slapped six Moroccans with death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s after establishing that they are active members of the IS-Somalia hard boys, a group that has continually caused chaos in 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...
state.

The IS-Somalia hard boys, who are limited to Puntland's Golis mountains, have struggled to expand their territory after they clashed with al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
, an al-Qaeda-linked network that is plotting to oust the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia.

On Thursday, the court ruled that the six Moroccan nationals had joined IS-Somalia faceless myrmidons thus promoting terror in the Horn of Africa nation which has struggled with instability for the last three decades. Somalia is yet to stabilize due to insecurity and terrorism.

The judge in the Puntland region says the men came to Somalia to harm the lives of Moslems and Somalis, and to create mischief in the country. The landmark judgment confirms that terror groups particularly the IS-Somalia faceless myrmidons have been recruiting foreigners.

Earlier, the court heard that the accused were training with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
faction in Somalia in the Cal-Miskaat mountains. They were recruited at different times before graduating and subsequently, assigned duties within and outside the country.

The accused claimed they were haplessly misguided about training with the group and wanted to be deported to their countries, according to their lawyer. Moroccans also argue they surrendered voluntarily.

An Æthiopian - Ahmed Hussein Ibrahim and a Somali - Abdulkadir Jama Mohammed were sentenced to 10 years jail terms each for conspiring with the group. A ninth man was freed for lack of evidence.

Those convicted by the court include Mohammed Hassan, Ahmed Najwi, Khalid Latha, Mohammed Binu Mohammed Ahmed, Ridwan Abdulkadir Osmany, and Ahmed Hussein Ibrahim. Two Somali men are also charged with conspiring with IS Somalia. They denied the charges.

Somalia is actively fighting terrorism, with al-Shabaab and IS-Somalia suffering losses in various parts of the country. The government of Somalia is projecting that by December 2024, the faceless myrmidons would have been downgraded substantially.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 2024-03-03 03:18 || Comments || Link || [55 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Regardless of your itinerary, I strongly discourage the Golis Mountains route.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2024 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Green with envy!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 6:22 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Terrorists Kill Five Residents, Burn Police Station, Sack Communities In Katsina
[TWITTER]

At least three villages have been sacked by Death Eaters as banditry and kidnapping for ransom escalated in Katsina State, North-West Nigeria.

SaharaReporters learnt that three villages in the Kurfi Local Government Area of the state were sacked and a cop shoppe torched in a banditry raid that claimed five lives.

The affected villagers who are now taking refuge in other communities in the state, staged a peaceful protest on Friday, demanding the restoration of security.

Gunmen were reported to have stormed Wurma village and opened fire sporadically, forcing residents to scamper to safer areas.

"They (bandidos) attacked at about 6:30pm and killed five heads of households. They also carted away valuables, that's why our people came out to protest," a surviving resident narrated.

"As we speak our village has been sacked, no single human being lives there again. We have abandoned everything to stay alive," another resident added.

Authorities have confirmed the incident, saying two other villages under Kurfi; Lambo and Guda have also been sacked by the terrorists.

The Commissioner for Homeland Security, Nasir Babangida Ma'azu said Death Eaters had intensified attacks in the area.

He said, "During the first raid the bandidos went from house-to-house hunting for those to kidnap. On their second visit, they burnt down the cop shoppe, forcing the residents to run for their lives."
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [64 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
Sana'a: Damage to Submarine cables caused by American-British forces
People are annoyed, so they’re trying to shift the blame.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs Authority in Sana’a said on Saturday that British and American naval actions against 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...
have caused a submarine cable defect in the Red Sea, threatening international telecommunications.

The Ministry of Transport and the Maritime Affairs Authority explained in a joint statement that these hostilities pose a major challenge to the stability of the communications infrastructure and negatively affect the technical, information, and technical services that depend on these cables around the world.

The statement considered cutting submarine cables as unacceptable behavior and condemned by Yemen and all countries of the world as a criminal and illegal act, stressing that "the Israeli enemy, America, and Britannia have been seeking, since the beginning of their illegal operations in the Red Sea, to stir up the situation with their false claims regarding submarine cables."

The statement indicated that the International Telecommunications Company confirmed that Sanaa had no involvement in the damage to submarine Internet cables in the Red Sea, denying reports that promote this.

The Ministry of Transport and the Maritime Affairs Authority confirmed their readiness to provide all services and grant the necessary permits to Internet service companies to repair and maintain submarine cables in the Red Sea.

They also confirmed their concern for the security and safety of submarine cables in Yemeni waters and the interests of the countries associated with them in accordance with international laws, charters, and agreements.

Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  That makes sense. Right.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2024 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Not the juice?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/03/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  /\........ threatening international telecommunications.

And global electronic banking transfers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2024 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Not the juice?

I think it was the Juice. They are both perfidious AND aquatic, you know.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Always love to see the Canton Flag of Geneva with the Alpenhorns, but wonder where the pic was taken.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/03/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||



US strikes Houthi missile aimed at Red Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The US military struck a ready-to-launch surface-to-air missile belonging to the Houthi rebels of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen. This was reported on March 2 by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The strike was carried out in self-defense on March 1 at approximately 12:40. The missile was located in Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen and was aimed at the Red Sea, the command said in a statement on the X social network.

It was also noted that at 22:46 the Houthis launched one anti-ship ballistic missile from Yemen towards the Red Sea, as a result of which no ships were damaged.

As Regnum reported, after the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Ansar Allah movement threatened strikes on Israeli territory and attacks on ships associated with it that try to pass through the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

In February, the EU announced the launch of Operation Aspides amid attacks by the Yemeni Houthis on ships. The operation to ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea has been launched for a period of one year. Ships voluntarily provided by EU countries will participate in it.
Start smoking Houthi leadership and this will taper off.
Posted by: badanov || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Reports of fighting in Karabulak, Inigushetia between local residents and FSB thugs UPDATE: It’s ISIS, and now they’re dead
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Update from the Times of Israel at 1:20 p.m. ET:
Six alleged members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group were killed in a shootout in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, in what the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) describes as a "counterterrorism operation."

According to a statement by the NAC, the six men barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment in Karabulak, a town of about 30,000 in Russia’s semi-autonomous Republic of Ingushetia. A shootout with security services followed, as surrounding streets were blocked off and residents of the apartment block evacuated to a nearby school, according to Russia’s Interfax agency.

Heavy gunfire and blasts appearing to come from inside an apartment block could be heard in videos posted by Karabulak residents on social media.

The NAC claims that security services found automatic weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, and homemade explosives inside the apartment where the men were hiding out.
No doubt more information will come out of badanov’s translated reports from Russia this evening.
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Leftards are leftards everywhere?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  So, not unlike the Irgun revolt in Mandatory Palestine against their British masters.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/03/2024 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Or the Jewish revolts against the Romans.

Those particular actions didn't end well, however.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/03/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Ingush are Muslims. So FSB, basically, engages in pest control.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 7:56 Comments || Top||

#5  The Times of Israel liveblog says the FSB caught an ISIS cell. Added to the article.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Far-left extremists shut down the road again for a pro-Hamas direct action in Seattle today
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Do they care if that's Palestine or "end oil"?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 16:48 Comments || Top||


Grenade left in Uber as anti-Israel protesters march through NYC ‐ as NYPD struggled to reach device: source
[NYPost] Oops! Lotsa pics of another "mostly peaceful" event
An explosive device was discovered in the back seat of an Uber in Midtown Manhattan Saturday — which the NYPD bomb squad struggled to reach due to anti-Israel protesters blocking traffic, The Post has learned.

After dropping off a passenger at 42nd Street and 7th Avenue in Times Square, an Uber driver turned around and saw a grenade in the back seat of his Nissan Altima, police sources said. The driver reported the explosive to police just after 4 p.m., and the Emergency Services Unit and Bomb Squad responded, cops said.

Cops managed to establish a security perimeter around the car containing the grenade and closed off vehicle and pedestrian traffic on 42nd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

A police source said they believed the grenade was inert.

The Bomb Squad struggled to get to the explosive device due to the thousands of protesters marching up to Times Square as part of the Millions March for Palestine, a police source said.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


Home Front: WoT
‘Death to Israel’ scrawled on NYC’s famous Charging Bull statue during protest, nine people arrested
[IsraelTimes] A group of pro-Paleostinian protesters vandalized New York City’s famous Charging Bull statue last night, writing "Free Paleostine" and "Death to Israel" on it during an anti-Israel protest.

Among the group of people responsible were several members of the Jewish anti-Zionist fringe sect Neturei Karta, video footage from the scene shows.

In videos, protesters can be seen clambering atop the bull while waving Paleostinian flags.

Nine people were arrested at the scene of the protest, the New York Post reports, citing the New York Police Department.

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Make them clean it off with their foreheads
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2024 0:05 Comments || Top||


College (and one high school) Jew-hate round-up
A very small sample of all the eruptions on high school and college campuses around the country.
NY’s Hunter College investigates after protesters demand Jews on campus ‘pick a side’
[IsraelTimes] Hillel decries ‘hateful slogans’ at Wednesday rally condemned by institution, part of City University of New York.

Amid war, Israel academics experiencing ‘substantial’ career, personal harm – survey
[IsraelTimes] Israel-Hamas conflict causing difficulties for Israelis involved in international academic projects, such as articles in peer-reviewed journals and attending conferences abroad

Complaint against Middlebury College alleges discrimination aimed at Jewish students
[IsraelTimes] Title VI civil rights grievance filed by the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice says Vermont school retaliated against those who claimed to suffer antisemitism on campus.

In DC, Jewish students tell House committee: ‘It’s open season on Jews on our campus’
[IsraelTimes] Months after the Education and Workforce Committee hearing that contributed to the resignation of top school presidents, Jewish students say the hatred continues uncheckedo

Barnard College bans dorm decorations amid plastering of incendiary signs on Israel-Hamas war
[IsraelTimes] Barnard College in New York has imposed a ban on external dorm decorations amid complaints over incendiary signs regarding the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

One of those stickers plastered on a dorm room door read, “Zionism is terrorism,” according to a New York Times report on the phenomenon.

All but “official items placed by the college” will be taken down, Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage wrote in an email to students.

“While many decorations and fixtures on doors serve as a means of helpful communication amongst peers, we are also aware that some may have the unintended effect of isolating those who have different views and beliefs,” she wrote.

The new policy is facing pushback from pro-Palestinian groups on campus.

Lawsuit: Antisemitic teens terrorizing Jewish teacher with Hitler jabs, death threats as NYC high school refuses to discipline them: ‘I live in fear’

Canadian student union rejects vote to boot Hillel from campus, boycott Israel
[IsraelTimes] Overturned on a technicality, measure also called for University of British Columbia to end cooperation with Israeli institutions

Building evacuated by police as violent mob of pro-Palestinian University of California - Berkeley students shuts down Jewish event: 'Dirty Jew'
[CampusReform] '“This isn’t an isolated incident. This is a continuous trend that’s persisted my entire time on campus. Jewish hate. The targeting of Jewish students,' said an event organizer.

Protesters dog Israeli speaker at LA Holocaust Museum after UC Berkeley event canceled
[IsraelTimes] IDF veteran and Kohelet Policy Forum deputy director Ran Bar-Yoshafat has been heckled before – but says the violence that university administrators capitulated to is unprecedented.


Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Arizona State U. Latino organization suspended for calling for the death of various groups
Death to Boer. Death to Pilgrim [???], Death to Zionist. Death to Settler
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Death to Various Groups! - I think that is a slogan we can all get behind, no matter your race, color, creed, or planet of origin.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2024 20:24 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Security forces gun down three terrorists in KP shootout
[GEO.TV] Three gunnies were bumped off and four others injured during an exchange of fire with Pak security forces, who conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Karak district, the military's media wing said.

In a brief statement released on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated that the security forces conducted the "IBO on the reported presence of terrorists".

It said that weapons, ammunition, and explosives were also recovered from the slain terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against law enforcement agencies and civilians.

"Sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other terrorist found in the area," the ISPR stated.

Locals of the area appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism.

Pakistain witnessed a spike in terrorist attacks in 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...
and KP provinces in a few months which also marred the pre-election phase in some provincial pockets.

In response, the security forces also intensified actions against the terrorism-hit areas and achieved success by restoring peace in the affected parts, especially in areas bordering Afghanistan.

Last week, the security forces neutralised six gunnies in another IBO in KP’s North Wazoo district.
Posted by: Fred || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Iraq
Islamic State attack kills one Iraqi soldier north of Baghdad
[IsraelTimes] A roadside kaboom went kaboom! near an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad on Friday, killing one soldier and wounding four others, the defence ministry said in a statement.

The attack took place in the town of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, the ministry said.

Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
formally grabbed credit for the attack, saying it killed one soldier and maimed nine others, the group said in a statement.

Iraq’s Defence Minister Thabit al-Abbasi reached the area where the attack took place and ordered an investigation, the ministry’s statement said.

Despite the defeat of the Islamic State Death Eater group in 2017, remnants of the group switched to hit-and-run attacks against government forces in different parts of Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli stabbed in alleged terror attack in Palestinian town; suspect arrested
[IsraelTimes] 57-year-old in moderate condition after being knifed in Dahariya; assailant reportedly attacked after discovering he was Jewish

A 57-year-old Israeli man was stabbed by a Paleostinian in the West Bank on Saturday, the military, medics and police said, with the attack suspected as terrorism.

The victim, a Jewish resident of Ashkelon, entered the Paleostinian town of Dahariya near Hebron at the southern tip of the West Bank to visit a doctor there, the Ynet news site reported. He was accompanied by two Arab Israelis, the report said.

Police said a 20-year-old Paleostinian assailant stabbed the man, reportedly after discovering he was Jewish.

The Israel Defense Forces later said it had arrested the suspected terrorist a short while after the attack and handed him over to the Shin Bet for questioning.

Ynet said one of the Arab Israelis accompanying the Jewish man hit the assailant in the head with a rod.
A mensch, that one.
Police and the Magen David Adom ambulance service said one of the men accompanying the victim drove him to the nearby Meitar Crossing, where medics treated him for stab wounds before taking him to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
Him, too.
"We gave him lifesaving treatment, stopped the bleeding, and took him to the hospital in moderate and stable condition," said one of the MDA paramedics who treated the stab victim.

Police said officers reached the scene to investigate the circumstances, with the IDF later saying it was a suspected terror attack.

Dahariya falls under the jurisdiction of the Paleostinian Authority in Area A of the West Bank, a territory that Israelis are not legally allowed to enter. Nevertheless, it is commonplace for Arab Israelis to visit the area.

"Entry into these areas is prohibited for citizens of the State of Israel according to law and is a real threat to their lives," police said.

Last August, an Israeli father and son were killed in the Paleostinian town of Huwara while visiting a carwash in the Area A village.

Since October 7, IDF troops have arrested some 3,400 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,500 affiliated with Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 400 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time, most of them during violent mostly peaceful festivities with Israeli forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 2024-03-03 01:18 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under:


Three soldiers killed in Gaza as troops keep up raids on Hamas sites and gunmen
[IsraelTimes] 14 other soldiers maimed by blast in booby-trapped building in Khan Younis; rare long-range rocket barrage fired toward Beersheba area, causing no damage

The Israeli military announced the deaths of three soldiers 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 Saturday, as troops continued to score achievements in the nearly five-months-long war against the Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group, and as a rare barrage of rockets was launched from the enclave toward Beersheba.

At least four long-range rockets were fired from the Strip at the Hatzerim region near Beersheba, according to the IDF. The rockets all apparently struck open areas, causing no injuries. Rocket barrages, certainly long-range ones, have become uncommon as the war has progressed, with terrorists’ launching capabilities severely hindered by the offensive.

The Israeli Defense Forces said three soldiers were killed during fighting in southern Gaza, raising the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 245. They were named as:

  • Sgt. Dolev Malka, 19, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 450th Battalion, from Shlomi.

  • Sgt. Afik Tery, 19, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 450th Battalion, from Rehovot.

  • Sgt. Inon Yitzhak, 19, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 450th Battalion, from Mitzpe Ramon.

Malka, Tery and Yitzhak were killed and 14 other troops were maimed, six of them seriously, as a result of a blast in a booby-trapped building in the Khan Younis area.

The troops had raided a two-story structure that was booby-trapped with bombs both inside and outside the building, according to an initial IDF probe. The force that entered the building was hit by two bombs, leading to two soldiers becoming trapped inside. The Air Force’s search and rescue Unit 669 was then dispatched to the scene.

According to the IDF’s probe, several Hamas operatives were killed by troops in the area during the incident.

The 98th Division is investigating the manner in which the troops scanned the building, the manner in which the explosives were planted and other circumstances surrounding the deadly incident.

The Bislamach Brigade — the IDF’s School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders in wartime — entered Gaza on Thursday to replace the Paratroopers Brigade, which was withdrawn after three straight months of fighting in Khan Younis.

The three slain soldiers, formerly of the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, were in a squad commander’s course.

OFFENSIVE ONGOING
The army also said it struck an area in northern Gaza from which rockets were fired toward southern Israel Friday night, within minutes of the attack. The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
grabbed credit for the rocket fire, which set off sirens in Zikim and Ashkelon’s southern industrial zone. Several more targets in the area, including rocket launchers and Hamas infrastructure, were also struck, the IDF said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy...
in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade killed several Hamas operatives and captured weapons over the past day. The brigade also directed several Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s which the IDF said killed at least eight button men.

In central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Brigade had killed some 20 button men over the past day, including by calling in airstrikes, and the Ghost Unit killed several more operatives using "innovative means."

Nearby, in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, the IDF said the 215th Artillery Regiment directed an airstrike against a three-man Hamas cell, and infrastructure used to launch rockets at Sderot on Thursday.

The army also said it carried out a strike against a group of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operatives who were gathered at a Hamas site in southern Gaza’s Rafah. It added that no damage was caused to a hospital close to the targeted site.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 11 people were killed and dozens maimed in the strike. The ministry claimed that a paramedic was among those killed.

The military also released new footage of the Commando Brigade operating in Khan Younis. The brigade is battling Hamas in the western part of the city, killing dozens of operatives and raiding terrorist sites, the IDF said. It said the Egoz commando unit raided a compound previously used by Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, where they found an assault rifle. At another site, troops found a cache of Hamas military equipment.

Troops of the Commando Brigade’s training base have also joined the fighting in Khan Younis in recent weeks, killing dozens of operatives during raids on Hamas sites.

HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS AMID TRUCE TALKS
Also Saturday, the United States carried out the first of what it said would be a series of humanitarian airdrops of food into Gaza, as aid agencies warned of a growing humanitarian disaster in the Paleostinian enclave in the absence of a ceasefire deal.

Three C-130 US military planes delivered more than 38,000 meals into a territory where the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
says at least 576,000 people are one step away from famine conditions. Paleostinians posted videos on social media showing boxes of aid being dropped. Jordanian forces also participated in the operation.

The White House has said the airdrops would be a sustained effort, and that Israel supports them. Critics say airdrops are far less effective than aid deliveries by truck, and it is nearly impossible to ensure supplies do not end up with the Hamas terror group that rules Gaza.

With indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on a hostage release and truce deal set to resume in Egypt on Sunday, a senior US official said the framework for a deal on a six-week ceasefire was in place, with Israel’s agreement, and depended on Hamas agreeing to release hostages.

"The hostages have to be released," the official told news hounds. "The deal is basically there. But I don’t want to create expectations one way or the other."

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’...
has said he hopes a ceasefire will be in place by the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which starts on March 10. But both Israeli and Hamas officials have signaled significant gaps between the sides remain.

International pressure for a ceasefire has grown.

Three people searching for food in farmland in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday were killed by Israeli strikes, residents and medics said. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but says it only targets terror operatives, who regularly operate from within the civilian population.

Thirteen children have died at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza in the last three days from dehydration and malnutrition, according to the Gaza health ministry.
…which may or may not be telling great big whoppers…
Doctors at the hospital said more were at risk of dying. "When a child is supposed to eat three meals a day and he only eats one, he obviously suffers from malnutrition, and all the diseases that come because of it," said Imad Dardonah.

Biden announced plans for the US airdrop on Friday, a day after the deaths of Paleostinians queuing for aid drew renewed attention to the humanitarian catastrophe.

Hamas has said 118 people were killed, attributing the deaths to Israeli fire and calling it a massacre. Israel disputed those figures and said most victims were trampled or run over in the rush to grab food from the trucks, and that its troops only fired at a few individuals who rushed toward them in a threatening manner.

The Israeli military on Saturday promised "an exhaustive, truthful investigation" into the incident, which underscored the collapse of orderly aid deliveries into areas of Gaza held by Israeli forces.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israel would present its findings from Thursday’s deadly incident. "We are investigating this incident, we have all the footage we need to complete an exhaustive investigation and find out the truth of the facts of this incident, and we will present the findings," Hagari said in an evening presser.

"This was a humanitarian operation we conducted, and the claim that we intentionally struck the convoy and intentionally harmed people is baseless," he added.

The war in Gaza began with Hamas’s massacres in southern Israel on October 7, when thousands of bully boyz broke through the border, killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 253 others to Gaza while committing mass atrocities.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Saturday that at least 30,320 Paleostinians had been killed and 71,533 had been maimed in the war. The terror group’s figures are unverified, don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, and list all the fatalities as caused by Israel — even those believed to have been caused by hundreds of misfired rockets or otherwise by Paleostinian fire.

Israel has said it killed some 13,000 Hamas members in Gaza fighting, in addition to some 1,000 killed in Israel during the terror group’s October 7 invasion and onslaught.
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#1  I'm so tired of sacrificing to stinking, antisemitic "World Opinion".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Soldier on you mighty IDF. You're doing the world a much needed service.
Posted by: jpal || 03/03/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||


Two men arrested for planning terror attack with help of Hamas operative in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Two men have been arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack inside Israel with the assistance of a Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
operative 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...
, the Shin Bet and Israel Police say in a statement at the end of a joint investigation.

The two suspects, a 17-year-old from Jerusalem and his 29-year-old cousin from Nablus, first made contact with the Gaza terror operative last year, prior to the October 7 terror assault and war in Gaza, and asked for assistance in creating an bomb.

According to the investigation, the younger of the two suspects was the first to reach out to the Hamas operative, speaking to him via the Telegram messaging app. The police also discovered that he had searched the internet for information on making an bomb.

After initially making contact with the Hamas operative, the 17-year-old revealed his plan to his cousin, who agreed to help him plan the attack and became the main point of contact for the Hamas operative helping the pair.

After the outbreak of war in Gaza, the Hamas operative cut off contact with the two men, the statement adds.

An indictment is expected to be filed against the pair later today.
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IDF says troops operating in Khan Younis captured dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases new footage from the operations of the 7th Armored Brigade in 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 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...
’s Khan Younis, saying the troops have been raiding the homes of Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
commanders and have nabbed operatives hiding in a school.

According to the IDF, the 7th Brigade operated this week in new areas of Khan Younis, where troops had not yet been, during which they searched the homes of senior Hamas officials.

"In the heart of the residential neighborhoods, the troops encountered dozens of holy warriors and eliminated them with tank shelling, in close-quarters combat, and by directing Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s," the IDF says.

At the homes of the Hamas officials, the IDF says the troops found RPGs, explosives, assault rifles and other military equipment.

The troops also captured dozens of suspected terror operatives hiding in a school in Khan Younis.

"During their interrogation, the holy warriors provided intelligence information that went directly to the forces operating in Khan Younis," the IDF says.
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#1  NYT headline "IDF arrests schoolchildren".

Snark o’the Day :-)
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Snark of Day material
Posted by: jpal || 03/03/2024 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "Your Honor. The two Youts..."
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 03/03/2024 17:45 Comments || Top||


At least 92 Gaza civilians massacred in past 24 hours alone
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] er of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the corpse count from the ongoing Israeli bombardments, which started on October 7, climbed to 30,320 deaders and the number of the maimed surged to 71,533 people.

Every day, the Israeli army escalates its air and ground attacks on 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, which has been under relentless bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.

Besides the large number of casualties and the huge displacement of people, basic food, fuel, water and medical supplies have run out for the 2.3 million residents in Gaza due to the tight Israeli blockade and the massive destruction of infrastructure and facilities.
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#1  Unbiased reporting at its best.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 4:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Just over 3.83 per hour. Tragic, but continuing to feed them and support their resistance to relocation is not helping matters. I don't envision any real problem solving or end to it for at least another 6 months.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2024 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  The Derp Is Strong: Pentagon Walks Back Lloyd Casualty Figures From Gaza
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  civilians in gaza?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/03/2024 13:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Pentagon Walks Back Lloyd Casualty Figures From Gaza

Just what the world needs: an American defence secretary who takes shortcuts with sources and methods.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2024 17:14 Comments || Top||

#6  The Pentagone has had a fraught relationship with body counts for some time now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2024 17:19 Comments || Top||


17 killed in continuous Israeli attacks on homes in Gaza
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces Saturday in air strikes targeted three residential houses sheltering more than 85 unarmed Palestinians in Deir el-Balah and Jabalia areas of the Gaza Strip. The continuous strikes left 17 dead and dozens others wounded, Al Jazeera reported.

“Israeli jets targeted two houses east of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 15 people. The jets also attacked a house in northern Gaza that killed two people,” the Palestinian Wafa news agency quoted medical sources as saying.
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At least 10 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrike in Rafah, health ministry says
[GEO.TV] At least 10 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday that hit a tent in Rafah, the Gaza health ministry said.

The airstrike took place over an area where displaced Palestinians have been taking shelter, outside the Emirate Hospital in the suburb of Tel Al-Sultan of southern Gaza's Rafah.

The health ministry in Gaza said a medic working at the hospital was among those killed. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Ball in Hamas's court on ceasefire deal: US official
[GEO.TV] Israel has agreed to a six-week ceasefire and the ball was then in Hamas’s court, Al Jazeera reported, quoting a US official.

During an interaction with journalists in a conference call, the US official said: “Israel has basically accepted a six-week ceasefire.”

“Israelis agreed to a six-week ceasefire, now it’s up to Hamas to agree,” the official added.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF: Lebanon strike targeted Iranian militia rocketeers aiming at northern Israel
[IsraelTimes] One of 3 reportedly killed said to be weapons technician in division that operates alongside Hezbollah; military says it also hit positions belonging to Tehran-backed terror group

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a vehicle near southern 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...
’s Naqoura on Saturday, targeting operatives belonging to the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia that operates alongside Hezbollah.
Several thousand strong, this international stew of a unit is attached to the IRGC Quds Force for the purpose of attacking Israel. I cannot remember that it has yet achieved its purpose, but my memory is not what I like fondly to think it once was…
According to the IDF, the operatives were involved in recent rocket fire on northern Israel.

Arab media reports, citing Lebanese sources, said three people were killed in the strike on a vehicle on a coastal road. One of the men was a weapons technician, a security source in Lebanon told the Rooters news agency.

The IDF also said fighter jets carried out strikes on Hezbollah positions in Labbouneh, and two more buildings belonging to the terror group in Blida overnight.

It published footage showing the strike on the vehicle and the Hezbollah compounds.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
on Saturday, Hezbollah announced the deaths of seven more members killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.

Hezbollah has named 229 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 37 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.

Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support 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...
amid the war against Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
there.

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

The Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Lebanon came a day after Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
alleged a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy serving as a military adviser in Syria was killed in an IDF strike.

Iranian media reports said Reza Zarei was killed along with two members of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.

The IRGC have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes and were relying more on allied Shiite militia to preserve their sway there, Rooters reported in February.
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#1  Naquora is the location of UNIFIL Headquarters.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 03/03/2024 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Isn't it amazing how you always find Hizbollah near to UNIFIL posts?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/03/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ They have a symbiotic relationship, like certain fungi and trees.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2024 11:28 Comments || Top||


Hezbollah confirms drone strike on israeli occupation in Western Galilee
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] 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...
, Hezbollah, announced on Saturday the implementation of an air attack on the military command site of the newly created sector in the "Liman" barracks of the Israeli occupation in Western Galilee, northern occupied Paleostine, with a drone.

The Lebanese resistance confirmed in its statement that the drone attack hit its target accurately, in support of the steadfast Paleostinian people 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 and in support of their valiant resistance.

It also announced that a gathering of occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the "Jal al-Alam" site, was targeted with missile weapons and was directly hit.
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Israeli strike kills IRGC official and 2 Hezbollah members in Syria — Iranian media
More on this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Local hospital officials say 7 people injured in blast near city of Baniyas; no comment from Israel

A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy serving as a military adviser in Syria was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on Friday, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.

Other Iranian media reports said Reza Zarei was killed along with two members of 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...
’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group.

The IRGC have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes and were relying more on allied Shiite militia to preserve their sway there, Rooters reported in February.

Local media said the strike hit a villa on Syria’s coast, near the port city of Baniyas.

A local hospital speaking to Germany’s dpa news agency confirmed three deaths and seven injured in the attack.

Video purportedly from the scene showed people looking on at damaged and ruined buildings.

There was no comment from Syrian authorities.

There was also no statement from Israel, which rarely comments on individual strikes targeting Syria, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow Iran, which backs Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
’s government, to expand its presence there.
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Israeli strike kills three Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon
[GEO.TV] An Israeli dronezap killed three Hezbollah fighters in south 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...
on Saturday, security sources in Lebanon said, the latest to die in months of cross-border hostilities that have been fought in parallel to 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...
war.

The men were killed when the car they were in was targeted on a coastal road near the town of Naqoura around 8:30am, the sources said. One of the men was a weapons technician, one of the sources said.

The Israeli army said one of its aircraft had struck a vehicle in south Lebanon transporting a number of fighters who launched rockets into Israeli territory.

Israeli strikes since October have killed more than 200 Hezbollah fighters and some 50 civilians in Lebanon, while attacks from Lebanon into Israel have killed a dozen Israeli soldiers and five civilians. Tens of thousands of Israelis and Lebanese have fled villages on both sides of the frontier.

Hezbollah said it carried out an attack on an Israeli military headquarters in the village of Liman using an explosive drone at 5:40am on Saturday, reporting a direct hit.

The Israeli army said its jets struck "Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure" in the Labbouneh area at the Israeli border on Saturday, in addition to two Hezbollah military compounds hit overnight in another frontier area.
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Russian forces attack a militant camp in the Syrian province of Aleppo
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Damascus, March 3, 2024, 00:23 - IA Regnum. The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) defeated at least 25 terrorists in a militant camp involved in shelling of Syrian government forces in the Syrian province of Aleppo. This was reported by the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties.

According to the deputy head of the Center, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, the strike was carried out in the area of ​​the village of Kubbasin, Aleppo province. As a result, a training camp for militants who participated in the shelling of Syrian government forces was destroyed.

“At least 25 terrorists were destroyed,” Kulit added.

In just the past 24 hours, one shelling of the positions of Syrian government troops by the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) was recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone, the Center clarified.

As Regnum reported, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two control points and warehouses of militants who were firing at Syrian government troops in the Syrian province of Idlib.

Almost 50 accomplices of Islamists who transferred money to militants in Syria were detained in 22 regions of Russia, the Public Relations Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced on February 26.

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  IDF says troops operating in Khan Younis captured dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school
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  Ship attacked by Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea
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  Hamas leader Sinwar said to believe his forces are on road to victory against IDF
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  Another 10 kilometer long terror tunnel in Gaza revealed by the IDF
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  Hezbollah attacks Israeli headquarters in Kiryat Shmona
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  Gaza ceasefire talks underway in Paris as Israeli air strikes continue
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  Troops kill 3 gunmen, detain 14 terror suspects in overnight Jenin raid – IDF
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