[ToloNews] A clash between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and Pak military on Thursday evening at the Ghulam Khan crossing in Gurbuz district of Khost continued until midnight, local officials said, and that the clash occurred after Pak military personnel's inappropriate behavior towards some Afghans provoked a response from the Islamic Emirate forces.
Whistling at the girlies were they? For shame! No good Moslem would act so toward a Muslimah.
Bahauddin Jan Bilal, the commissioner of Ghulam Khan crossing in Khost, said: "The clash occurred yesterday evening at 6:30 PM. They were prepared from the beginning and were in a combat-ready state, wearing their helmets. When the clash occurred in the afternoon, both sides exchanged fire. We are investigating which side started the shooting first."
Following this clash, several families have been relocated to safer areas, and the road has been closed to cargo vehicles and passengers.
"When the clash started, it continued until about two o'clock in the night. These issues should be resolved through dialogue," said Khairuddin, a resident of Khost.
"Many families have been forced to move from here. War brings many problems," said Mubarak Khan, another resident of Khost.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... drivers report that with the onset of last night's clash, the Ghulam Khan crossing has been closed to traffic, and hundreds of trucks carrying fresh fruit and vegetables have been halted along this route.
"There was a clash at the Ghulam Khan crossing last night, and the road has been closed. Vegetable and fruit trucks have been stopped, causing significant losses to the people," Ismatullah, a driver, told TOLOnews.
On September 5, intermittent festivities also continued for several days between the Islamic Emirate forces and Pak military in Zazi Maidan district of Khost, along the Durand Line.
[8am] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... continue to impose severe restrictions and censorship on the media, recently shutting down Naraiman Radio in Badghis province. Last week, they arrested three employees of the station in Qadis district and released them after four days of detention, following a guarantee. In a separate action, the Taliban disrupted the flow of information by heavily jamming the satellite frequencies of the Afghanistan International News Network, severely curbing freedom of speech.
Sources in Badghis told the Hasht-e Subh Daily that the Taliban halted Naraiman Radio’s broadcasts and arrested several of its staff. A week has passed, and the station remains off the air.
One local source, speaking anonymously, said, "For three days and nights, three Naraiman Radio employees were held in Taliban custody. Last week, the Taliban came to the radio office and stopped its broadcasts." The source added that the Taliban gave no reason for shutting down the station or detaining its staff.
Another source reported that the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) had recently supported Naraiman Radio and Oboor Radio TV in Badghis as part of a media protection program. The Taliban, aware of this support, then shut down Naraiman Radio and arrested its staff. They also ordered all media outlets and NGOs in the province not to accept donor-funded projects without informing the group.
The source added, "Naraiman Radio’s broadcasts were fully censored and controlled by the Taliban. No event was covered without their approval. The only reason we found is that the station received a project to produce documentaries and informational clips about Afghanistan’s historical issues. Upon learning of this, the Taliban detained the staff and halted its broadcasts."
Hasht-e Subh Daily confirmed that Naraiman Radio focused on historical topics and documentaries, without violating Taliban policies. Despite this, the group stopped the broadcasts and locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the staff.
Another source revealed that local efforts were made to resolve the issue through dialogue after the staff’s detention. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... according to the source, Matiullah Muttaqi, the Taliban’s Director of Information and Culture in Badghis, does not recognize media freedom, given his background in the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Muttaqi had repeatedly criticized Naraiman Radio employees in official meetings and in front of the media and ultimately shut down the station without providing any justification. The source claimed Muttaqi held the station hostage, refusing to comply with directives from Kabul. He also insisted that all commercial advertisements must be approved by him and decided which outlets would receive them.
The Taliban suspended Naraiman Radio’s activities just as they were heavily jamming Afghanistan International’s satellite frequencies, further restricting the flow of information and violating press freedom.
Afghanistan International condemned the jamming as a violation of press freedom and introduced a new satellite frequency to ensure continued access to free news for its audience.
The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) expressed grave concern, calling on Taliban officials to immediately and permanently stop the jamming of Afghanistan International’s frequencies and allow citizens unrestricted access to media.
The AFJC also reported that, over the past three years, the Taliban have issued at least 17 media-related directives that contradict media laws. These directives include prohibiting women from working at Radio Television Afghanistan, segregating men’s and women’s roles in the media, banning interviews between men and women, and other restrictions.
In addition to censorship and media restrictions, the Taliban have imposed several bans on female journalists. Orders have barred women from appearing on television without covering their faces, and many local radio stations have been instructed not to broadcast women’s voices.
Earlier, Reporters Without Borders noted that 2023 was marked by the continued exclusion of female journalists, with Taliban restrictions showing no signs of easing.
Over the past 19 years, 132 journalists have been killed in Afghanistan. The previous government attributed 67% of these killings to the Taliban. Afghan journalists have repeatedly expressed fear, repression, and despair, stating that they are forced to self-censor to survive.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Artillery shelling by Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed four people and injured dozens in the city of Omdurman on Saturday, the health ministry said.
The shelling hit several neighbourhoods in the Karari district, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the corpse count could rise as some of the maimed were at death's door.
The shelling "extended to several neighbourhoods, where shells fell," it said, confirming the deaths and injuries.
Shells also struck the Omdurman Technical School in al-Thawra, currently sheltering hundreds of displaced people. Four people bit the dust in the attack..
A health ministry front man said the casualties did not include those who may have died before reaching hospitals.
The RSF and the Sudanese army have been locked in a power struggle since April 2023, triggering a conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions.
The two sides regularly exchange artillery fire in Omdurman, the army, from its positions north of Omdurman, and the RSF, from Khartoum Bahri across the Nile.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 14 people were killed in the capital of North Darfur state on Saturday as the army battled paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters attacking the city, medical and military sources said.
The RSF has been trying to capture El Fasher for weeks, defying international calls for a ceasefire.
The fighting in Darfur has taken on an ethnic dimension, with the RSF and allied Arab militias targeting the region's non-Arab ethnic groups, according to rights groups and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... On Saturday morning, the RSF launched artillery and dronezaps, followed by a ground assault from the north and southeast using a variety of weapons, the army said in a statement.
The army and allied forces said they repelled the attack, killing hundreds of RSF fighters and destroying many vehicles.
A medical source at the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher said at least 14 people had been killed by indiscriminate RSF shelling.
The RSF controls much of eastern El Fasher, including the stock exchange and a children's hospital. The army holds the west, including government buildings, the airport and a university.
The conflict in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... , which erupted in April 2023 between the army and the RSF, has killed thousands and displaced millions.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] A cargo plane landed at Nyala airport in Sudan's South Darfur region early on Saturday, two sources in the city told Sudan Tribune, raising questions about who was operating the flight and its purpose.
The western region has been under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since conflict broke out across Sudan in April between the RSF and the army.
The plane, a Russian-built Ilyushin IL-76, landed at around 3:10 a.m. (0010 GMT) and remained on the ground for about an hour and 15 minutes, one of the sources said.
It was unclear who operated the plane or what cargo it was carrying.
The Sudanese army has previously accused the United Arab Emirates of sending military aid to the RSF via Nyala airport, a charge the UAE has denied.
The army regularly bombs what it says are RSF targets in Nyala, and residents have reported numerous civilian casualties from air strikes.
Sudan Tribune could not independently verify the details of the reported plane landing.
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[AFRICANEWS] As Somalia advances in its journey towards self-reliance and sustainability in national security, the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) remains critical. Their impact on local communities and national armed forces is devastating: in the last 12 months, about 600 IEDs resulted in about 1,500 casualties throughout the country.
The Somali National Army (SNA), with support from the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Mine Action Service (UNMAS), has been leading the fight against the persistent threat posed by IEDs.
''I think everyone in the room knows how serious this threat is. The primary targets are your fellow soldiers in the SNA. It's crucially important that a solution be found to address this threat,'' said the UN Acting Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia, James Swan.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of a month-long 'train-the-trainer' course aimed at enhancing the SNA's capabilities in countering IEDs.
Many of the guests at the training launch experienced first-hand the perils faced by soldiers.
''We encountered numerous dangers, including enemy blockades and remote-controlled IEDs. We lost many comrades,'' recalled Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Mohamud Awale from his many years of operational experience in the Hiraan and Galgaduud regions.
Another official, Colonel Faisal Ali Noor, shared a vivid memory of tragic IED incidents.
''At times, IEDs detonated while we were digging, resulting in casualties. Due to our limited knowledge, we even resorted to lighting fires to defuse the IEDs, which led to further fatalities,'' he explained.
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A very incomplete listing of pro-Hamas activity in America’s universities this past week — things I happened to see and save as I wandered round the internet. But it gives a taste of what’s been going on.
UVa ends disciplinary proceedings against pro-Palestine protesters
[DailyProgress]Arrested students will not be tried before the University Judiciary Committee after agreeing to meet personally with Student Affairs officials. State police also dropped criminal trespass charges.
Georgetown University To Host Convicted PFLP Terrorist, Hamas Sympathizers, And Oct. 7 Apologists at Qatar Conference
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Dozens of speakers at the Doha event are anti-Israel advocates. The speakers at the "Reimagining Palestine" event will discuss the "ideological shifts" of Zionism, "art as resistance," and "anti-colonial struggles," and will engage in "dialogue that challenges the status quo," according to the Doha event’s website. Among the nearly 70 scholars is Shawan Jabarin, a former senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the general director of the Al-Haq organization, an Israeli-designated terrorist group. Another, Wadah Khanfar, was a local Hamas leader in Sudan.
The flyers featured a close-up photo of Solomon, who is Jewish, and a notice of “warning” in all-caps, as well as a yellow triangle with a black exclamation mark. Students were arriving for Solomon’s “Antisemitism and the Law,” an undergraduate class that covers the history of the law as both a “vehicle for institutionalizing antisemitism” and “for combatting” it, according to a course description. The class includes lessons on historical topics such as the prosecution of Alfred Dreyfus and the lynching of Leo Frank.
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You just know what's going to happen on Oct 7. If the administrators are not preparing for it, you know they are either incompetent and/or in on it. In that case, state universities should see their governors step in and remove said administrators.
The Portland "zombie" who bit off an elderly man's ear & part of his face was given a sweetheart deal by the office of @DAMike Schmidt. The former Oberlin College student could be out by next summer.
Koryn Kraemer, 27, a former Oberlin College student who bit off an elderly man's ear and part of his face in a gruesome "zombie" attack at a Portland, Ore. train station on Jan. 3, 2024, was sentenced to only three years and four months in prison in a sweetheart plea deal negotiated by the office of Soros-funded District Attorney Mike Schmidt. The 78-year-old victim later soon died of pneumonia.
Bath salts or schizophrenia?
A source with knowledge but who is not authorized to speak publicly told me that Kraemer had bits of his victim's flesh stuck in his long beard after he was arrested.
Kraemer, who was photographed with bloody lips and a smile after the attack, could be given early release by next summer. Schmidt allowed him to plead guilty to second-degree attempted assault.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday announced that it had sentenced to death three 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.... (ISIS) members it said were responsible for attacks on security forces.
The Lions of Islam carried out attacks on security forces in Anbar and Salahaddin provinces and wanted to "create fear and panic among civilians," according to the court.
They were sentenced to death for participating in the commission of a terrorist act as defined under the 2005 Terrorism Law.
Iraqi forces have intensified their anti-ISIS operations across the country in recent months, particularly in the disputed areas.
Thousands of people have been detained across Iraq since 2014 for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, and hundreds have been executed. Human rights monitors have criticized the trials, saying they depend on confessions obtained through torture, they do not investigate specific charges such as genocide, and they exclude the victims, thereby denying them justice.
Iraqi warplanes kill six suspected ISIS members in Kirkuk
[Rudaw] At least six suspected Islamic State members, including a leader, were killed in an operation carried out by Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk province on Thursday, the army said, amid a spike in anti-ISIS operations.
“Three painful strikes by F-16 aircraft today resulted in the killing of a terrorist detachment consisting of six members, including the terrorist Omar Salah Nima, codenamed Abu Khattab, one of the most dangerous leaders of the ISIS terrorists,” the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
Iraqi counterterrorism and intelligence forces raided the site after the airstrikes, discovering a “number of explosive belts, weapons, technical equipment, and various phones,” the statement added.
The strikes are the latest in an intensification of anti-ISIS operations across the country, particularly in the disputed areas.
Despite its territorial defeat, ISIS has continued to pose security threats in Iraq through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, particularly in areas disputed between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) which stretch across provinces including Diyala, Salahaddin, Nineveh, and Kirkuk.
Two ISIS militants wearing explosive vests were killed during a clash with security forces in Kirkuk on Sunday, Iraq's interior ministry announced.
On Monday, Iraqi security forces arrested six ISIS members near the capital Baghdad and seized a pile of explosives.
Earlier this month, an Iraqi airstrike in the Hamrin mountain range in Diyala killed three ISIS militants.
In late August, a joint operation by the Iraqi army and US forces in the western Anbar province killed 16 ISIS militants, and the US military said on Saturday that the operation killed four ISIS leaders.
“The heroes of the air force carried out painful strikes on hideouts within the Kirkuk and East Salahaddin operations commands, which led to their destruction,” state media said, citing a statement from Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson to Iraq’s prime minister.
Rasool said that the strikes were conducted after “specialized aircraft carried out reconnaissance and surveillance” missions which revealed their locations.
No information on casualties was readily provided, and the strikes come as the Iraqi air force intensifies its anti-ISIS operations across the country, particularly in the disputed areas.
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[IsraelNationalNews] IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari reveals that two of the terrorists who held the six hostages who were murdered in captivity have been eliminated.
IDF front man Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari on Saturday night reported that the IDF eliminated two of the turbans who killed six Israeli hostages held captive 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... During a live update, Hagari said, "In Gaza, we continue operating to dismantle Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ' military wing. We have not forgotten, even for a moment, the hostages, and we are doing everything possible to bring them home."
"This evening, we updated the families of Hersh, Eden, Ori, Alex, Almog, and Carmel, may their memories be a blessing, that we eliminated two turbans who had held them hostage in a tunnel in the Rafah area.
"The day after the hostages were murdered, troops from the 162nd Division identified two turbans emerging from an underground tunnel shaft in the Tel al-Sultan area and eliminated them during an encounter. After investigating the findings from the tunnel and equipment on the terrorists, we found DNA evidence and several items belonging to the turbans we eliminated. Based on the findings and the information available to us, these turbans that were eliminated were the same turbans who were in the tunnel where the bodies of the six hostages were discovered.
"The findings show they were there when they were murdered and we are investigating their involvement in the murder. Should we obtain further information, we will first update the families and then the public. We will pursue and reach everyone responsible for this heinous murder, and we will not stop until we reach them all."
[IsraelTimes] Relatives say Netanyahu ‘sacrificing the hostages’ as northern front heats up without hostage-truce deal with Hamas; police arrest former IDF chief outside PM’s home in Caesarea
Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv and across Israel on Saturday night, in support of a hostage-ceasefire deal to enable the release of hostages held captive by the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group 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... since October 7 and amid the threat of a major assault from Hezbollah 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... Organizers claimed there were hundreds of thousands at the Tel Aviv protests and tens of thousands more nationwide, though there were no official figures on the turnout.
Tens of thousands it is — or perhaps even less. But if even the Times of Israel does not believe the protestors’ claims, then it cannot be so.
Protests calling for a hostage deal have been held every Saturday night since the first weeks of the ongoing war against Hamas, steadily growing in numbers.
Waxing and waning, actually, with increases when the marketing team can push something interesting to pique interest among the rubes. Otherwise it’s just the same cadre of professional protesters and their useful idiots that have been protesting against Bibi since 2015 and before. They really resent the labour socialists having lost control of the reins of government — they thought they’d driven him out of office in 1999, but ten years later he got himself reelected, just to bedevil them.
For months, they were held alongside separate, anti-government protests, but the two demonstrations joined together three weeks ago, after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages who had been murdered days earlier, sparking outrage across the country.
Eli Albag, whose daughter Liri was kidnapped from the IDF’s Nahal Oz base on October 7, told the Tel Aviv rally on Saturday that far-right ministers in the coalition have been intentionally preventing a deal. "It’s clear to us all that Hamas is to blame, but throughout the year there were opportunities for a deal, and you [the government] didn’t take them."
The rally was also addressed by Shahar Mor, whose uncle Avraham Munder was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and died in Hamas captivity after not receiving vital medication.
Police later arrested Mor, though it was not immediately clear why. Demonstrators — including Labor MK Gilad Kariv — surrounded a police cruiser in Tel Aviv and blocked it from moving immediately after the arrest. A statement from the police said Mor was arrested near the home of the defense minister, and that he would be released and summoned tomorrow for questioning.
In Caesarea, where Haaretz estimated that about a thousand protesters gathered in front of Netanyahu’s private residence, demonstrators blocked traffic until they were forcibly dispersed by police.
Among those arrested was former IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz, whom police lifted by his arms and feet, as other demonstrators shouted at the officers, "Aren’t you ashamed?"
Police also made arrests in Jerusalem, organizers said.
In Tel Aviv, the central protest dispersed around 10 p.m., though organizers said some thousands of people continued to demonstrate on Namir Road, where police put out a small bonfire.
Also on Namir Road, on which a yellow ribbon was painted with the words, "Thou shalt not abandon," cars burned in the October 7 attack were carried by other vehicles in a procession, covered in banners denouncing the government and calling for a hostage deal.
A similar convoy of burned cars paraded through Caesarea.
In Tel Aviv, protesters stopped at the junction of Namir Road and Pinkas Street, near the private residence of MK Gideon Sa’ar of the New Hope party, who is considering leaving the opposition and joining Netanyahu’s government.
Earlier Saturday, Sa’ar announced that he would not accept Netanyahu’s offer to become defense minister in place of Yoav Gallant, a move that the Hostage Families Forum hailed in a statement blasting the potential new addition to the cabinet.
Sa’ar, the statement said, "is among the opponents of the sacred obligation for a deal to return the hostages." A man like Sa’ar, it said, "cannot serve as Israel’s defense minister and cannot lead the Israel Defense Forces, whose entire ethos is based on mutual obligation and the imperative to leave nobody behind."
Protests were also held in Haifa, Beersheba, Rehovot, Hadera, Kfar Saba, Netanya, and numerous highway junctions across the country.
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[GEO.TV] Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre.
The Hamas Gaza health ministry said most of those killed were women and children.
The media office said 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women were among the dead.
The hospital may go out of service in ''less than 10 days'' as a result of depleted ''quantities of oil and generator spare parts''.
Situation poses a threat of ''a real humanitarian disaster'' for more than one million residents in central Gaza under fire by Israeli forces.
The hospital has been operating on generators for a year without pause during the continuing war.
World Health Organization, Red Cross, and other international organisations are urged to ''immediately and urgently'' address the hospital's deteriorating conditions.
The Israel Defense Forces carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Saturday against a group of Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... operatives at a command room embedded within a former school 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 military said, in an attack that reportedly killed more than 20 people.
Hamas was using the al-Falah School in the Zeitoun neighborhood to plan and carry out attacks against IDF troops and against Israel, the military said. The school, inactive amid the war, had also been serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks.
According to the Gaza civil defense agency and health ministry — both run by Hamas — 21 people were killed in the strike.
"Civil Defense crews recovered 21 people, including 13 children and six women," one of whom was pregnant, agency front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
There were "around 30 injured, including nine children [needing] limb amputations, as a result of an Israeli bombing on al-Zeitoun School C" in Gaza City, he said.
To mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, the IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military added.
It said the target was "embedded inside" the al-Falah School, adjacent to the al-Zeitoun School buildings. An AFP news hound at the scene confirmed that al-Zeitoun School C had been hit.
Witnesses told AFP that before the strike, orphans had gathered there because they were due to receive sponsorship from a local NGO for humanitarian assistance.
Human shields, forbidden under the Geneva Conventions. Any harm to them is laid at the feet of those hiding behind them, in accordance with international law.
The IDF has repeatedly hit Hamas operatives at schools, civilian shelters and hospitals, frequently drawing international condemnation. The military says it is doing so because terror operatives regularly hide behind civilians, and argues that it takes pains to avoid harm to innocents.
Earlier Saturday, the military said the Israeli Air Force carried out some 20 airstrikes during the previous day. The strikes targeted buildings used by the Hamas and its operatives, the IDF said.
In another recent airstrike, the IDF said Saturday that it had killed Muhammad Mansour, a prominent Hamas intelligence officer who the military described as a "significant source of technological knowledge in Hamas’s military intelligence."
Separately, the military released footage Saturday showing dronezaps in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip against button men who had attempted to loot a humanitarian aid convoy. The footage showed the button men climbing onto the trucks carrying humanitarian aid as they drove on a designated route.
The IDF said the button men were spotted by troops, who directed a dronezap against them as they tried to flee in a car. Another gunman was killed while trying to flee the scene.
The IDF has said Hamas operatives frequently try to hijack aid deliveries before they can be distributed to civilians.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, a separate incident on Saturday saw an Israeli airstrike hit a warehouse in a "densely populated" area of southern Gaza, killing "three ministry of health personnel and a passer-by" and injuring six others.
"The warehouse was directly targeted with several missiles while doctors and staff were performing their duties, preparing to transport the medicines stored there to hospitals under the ministry of health that are facing severe shortages of medicines and supplies," a statement said.
The war has badly battered Gaza’s health sector, and the World Health Organization said earlier this month that only 17 of its 36 hospitals were partially functional.
All those hospitals were doing fine on October 6th. Next time don’t start a war with Israel.
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The war has badly battered Gaza’s health sector, and the World Health Organization said earlier this month that only 17 of its 36 hospitals were partially functional.
[JPost] These are the first alarms that have been activated in Afula for more than 9 months, according to Israeli media. The IDF detected 10 launches.
Hezbollah sent rockets into the Jezreel Valley at around 01:10 am on Sunday morning, with alerts in and around Haifa, Nazareth, Afula and the lower Galilee. At 2am, Army Radio announced that Israel was striking southern Lebanon in response.
Army radio and KAN reported that Hezbollah specifically targeted the Ramat David base near Haifa for the first time in the war. Hezbollah confirmed this on Telegram, saying they had targeted the Ramat David base and airport in response to IAF strikes in Beirut which killed some of its top commanders.
The IDF confirmed that ten missiles were launched. Most were intercepted, but they announced that a fall was detected in the area.
Social media reported falls in Moshav Sde Ya'akov, and a fire breaking out as a result of a fall in Kfar Baruch, which was later confirmed by Israeli outlets. Emek Jezreel regional council said one fall was detected in the area and there was minor damage to property.
According to KAN, a rocket fell in Nazareth, and a large fire broke out elsewhere in the city. MDA reported that a 60 year old man was slightly wounded by shrapnel in the Lower Galilee.
Israel Police urged the public to stay away from rocket shrapnel or fragments, as they may contain explosive material.
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Two houses were hit in Kiryat Bialik following a fourth wave of rocket attacks from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday morning, according to Israeli media.Three people sustained light injuries, Magen David Adom (MDA) reported, and fires have broken out in the area.
Hezbollah fired at least 10 missiles at northern towns and cities in the Jezreel Valley late Saturday night, marking the terror group’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since the beginning of the war in October, as Israel Defense Forces jets carried out a series of strikes in 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... throughout the afternoon and evening.
The IDF said the majority of the 10 rockets fired from Lebanon were intercepted by air defenses, and that it was investigating at least one rocket impact in the area. One man in his 60s was very lightly injured by shrapnel following an interception, according to medics.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the barrage, claiming to have targeted the Israeli Air Force’s Ramat David Airbase, located some 50 kilometers from the Lebanon border.
Earlier on Saturday night, the IDF carried out a wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against some 110 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including rocket launchers, with the army saying it had identified preparations by the terror group to launch major rocket attacks against Israel.
The strikes came after several waves of attacks on Hezbollah sites in Lebanon earlier in the day, which the IDF said hit some 290 Hezbollah targets, including rocket launchers and other facilities.
In all, thousands of rocket launcher barrels were hit in the strikes, the IDF said, while vowing to continue striking Hezbollah to "dismantle and degrade" Hezbollah’s capabilities.
The latest Israel strikes came after fighter jets struck some 180 targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday afternoon, taking out thousands of rocket launcher barrels that were primed for imminent attacks on Israel, according to the IDF.
At the same time, officials issued new restrictions on residents of the Haifa area and northward as the country braced for the possibility of an imminent large-scale assault by the Lebanese terror group after it suffered heavy blows in multiple attacks in recent days.
Over the course of the day, the IDF struck more than 400 Hezbollah rocket launchers, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Saturday evening in a presser.
Some 100 rockets were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel on Saturday, according to the IDF. Hezbollah grabbed credit for the attacks.
Hezbollah has named 502 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 79 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
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502 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 79 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians
[LegalInsurrection] A single Israeli airstrike on Friday eliminated the entire command structure of the terror group Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disclosed in a press statement Saturday. This is undoubtedly the most devastating blow to the Iran-sponsored terrorist militia in its 40-year history.
On Friday afternoon, Israeli fighter jets targeted an “underground” terrorist hideout “in the heart of Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut,” the IDF revealed.
The prime target of the strike was Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah’s terrorist operations and mastermind of the deadly 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine Barracks in Beirut.
Apart from Aqil, the airstrike killed 15 other commanders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force and several other terror operatives, thereby taking out the entire leadership structure of Hezbollah’s terrorist fighting force, an infographic posted by the IDF on X shows.
Hezbollah’s military chain of command has been almost completely dismantled after a dozen significant terrorists including Ibrahim Aqil were eliminated yesterday.
We will continue operating against any terrorist organization that poses a threat to our civilians on all fronts. pic.twitter.com/F2Ewyx4WdL
“IAF jets, guided by the Intelligence Directorate, targeted and eliminated Ibrahim Aqil, head of operations and commander of the Radwan Force of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, during a meeting with Radwan Force commanders in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Saturday. “Additionally, 15 other Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated in the strike, including senior commanders in the Radwan Force chain of command.”
“Among the terrorists eliminated, was Abu Hassan Samir, who served as the head of the Radwan Force training unit. He held various positions within the terrorist organization and was commander of the Radwan Force for a decade until early 2024,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Saturday.
Hezbollah announced this morning the Death of Two more Officers that were Killed in yesterday’s Precision Strike by the Israeli Air Force on the Suburbs of Beirut; meaning that since Monday, Hezbollah has Lost at least 60 Officers and Fighters, as well as a Senior Leader of the… pic.twitter.com/EfqyAkY7O9
… a Senior Leader of the Organization. This is likely the Worst Week for the Terrorist Organization since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, with 500 Hezbollah Terrorists having now been Eliminated since October, and 12% of those Losses were sustained just this Week.
The slain Hezbollah “commanders had been leading and planning the Radwan Force’s attack and infiltration plan into Israeli territory for years, to be executed when given the order,” the IDF statement revealed. “Additionally, senior officials in the organization and within the Radwan Force headquarters were eliminated.”
They were also responsible for relentless rocket and drone attacks that forced tens of thousands of residents in northern Israel to flee their homes since October 7. “Aqil and the commanders eliminated in the strike were responsible for planning, advancing, and executing hundreds of terrorist operations against Israel, including the planning of Hezbollah’s murderous scheme to raid the communities of the Galilee,” the IDF said.
Following the October 7 massacre, Hezbollah –in a bid to back Hamas — fired more than 8,000 rockets on towns and cities across northern Israel. The terrorist strikes killed dozens of Israeli civilians, including 12 children, at a soccer field in the Golan Heights.
Friday’s precise and devastating strike leaves Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah lonely at the helm of a hollowed-out terrorist organization. The strike came a day after Hezbollah suffered two deadly waves of pager and walkie talkie blasts that decimated the rank and file of the Shia-Jihadist group. in late July, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed Hezbollah’s ‘number 2’ terrorist Fuad Shukr.
The Iran-backed group said Ahmed Mahmud Wahbi led the military operations of its elite Radwan Force in support of Hamas between October 7 when the Palestinian militant group attacked Israel, triggering the Gaza war, and the start of this year.
The Israeli military said that its air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday eliminated Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil and several other commanders.
Death toll from Israeli strike on Beirut rises to 37
[GEO.TV] The death toll from an Israeli air strike targeting Hezbollah military commanders in Beirut's southern suburbs has risen to 37, Lebanon's health ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry statement added that rubble was still being removed from the site of Friday afternoon's strike.
Other top Radwan Force commanders killed in the strike are identified by the IDF as: Hassan Hussein, commander of special forces in the Aziz regional division; Samer Halawi, commander of the coastal region; Abbas Moslemani, commander of the Qana region; Abdullah Hijazi, commander of the Ramim Ridge region; Muhammad Reda, commander of the Khiam region; Hassan Madi, commander of the Mount Dov region; Hassan Abd al-Satar, head of operations; Hussein Hadraj, chief of staff; Mohammad al-Attar, commander of the training department; and Mahmoud Hamad, a senior operations officer.
"These commanders had been leading and planning the Radwan Force’s attack and infiltration plan into Israeli territory for years, to be executed when given the order," the military said. "Aqil and the commanders eliminated in the strike were responsible for planning, advancing, and executing hundreds of terrorist operations against Israel, including the planning of Hezbollah’s murderous scheme to raid the communities of the Galilee."
Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the overall toll from the strike had risen to 37, including three children and several women. Abiad said emergency services worked "through the night" to recover dead and maimed from the debris, adding that the "residential building collapsed on top of occupants" after the Israeli attack.
Abiad told news hounds 68 people were also maimed, of whom 15 remained in hospital, adding that search and rescue operations were still ongoing, with the number of casualties likely to rise. Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamie told news hounds at the scene that 23 people are still missing.
Following the strike, Hezbollah appointed senior officers Ali Karaki and Talal Hamia to jointly lead the terror group’s operations division following the killing of Aqil, the Saudi news outlet al-Hadath reported.
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The Jihad Council was believed to have had seven members, although now it was down to five following the killings of Aqil and Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s military chief, who was killed in July.
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