A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel who allegedly faked his own death has been discovered living in California and now faces federal charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced. https://t.co/CwpYjYtNud
A high-ranking member of a Mexican narco mob who allegedly faked his own death has been discovered living in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and now faces federal charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa had assumed a fake identity to evade Mexican law enforcement and had been living in a luxury apartment in Riverside, California when he was arrested earlier this week, according to prosecutors. The 37-year-old Gutierrez-Ochoa, who is the son-in-law of the cartel’s leader El Mencho, had been charged with international drug trafficking and money laundering.
"The Jalisco Cartel — one of the world’s most violent mostly peaceful and prolific drug trafficking organizations — is weaker today because of the tenacious efforts of law enforcement to track down and arrest a cartel leader who allegedly faked his own death and assumed a false identity to evade justice and live a life of luxury in California," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement Thursday.
Prosecutors said prior to his escape, Gutierrez-Ochoa was personally responsible for the distribution of 40,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and 2,000 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to the United States. In 2021, he also allegedly kidnapped two members of the Mexican Navy as part of an attempt to release his mother-in-law, El Mencho’s wife, following her arrest by Mexican authorities. El Mencho then helped his son-in-law fake his death by telling his associates he had killed Gutierrez-Ochoa for lying.
El Mencho was charged in 2022 with leading a criminal enterprise to manufacture and distribute fentanyl in the United States. The U.S. Departement of State has offered a reward up to $10 million leading to his arrest and/or conviction. El Mencho remains on the lam.
"The DEA is relentlessly committed to defeating the Jalisco Cartel, and we will exhaust every tool in the justice system to fight back, to save American lives, and to bring this cartel to justice," added DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
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If someone kills him can that person be charged? He has already been declared dead.
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If someone kills him can that person be charged?
Well the dead are often counted in the local census, and also apparently vote in some districts of CA, so some judge would rule that although already dead, he could still be killed again.
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Imagine that, a high-ranking cartel member moving to a sanctuary state.
A 20-year-old Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally was arrested in Colorado on Tuesday over allegations that he raped his boss’ 14-year-old daughter while living in the basement of the family’s home. https://t.co/yySeAlzdjV
A 20-year-old Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n man in the U.S. illegally was arrested in Colorado on Tuesday over allegations that he raped his boss' 14-year-old daughter while living in the basement of the family's home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Golden, Colorado, said Wednesday in a news release that it arrested Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo regarding the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
The sheriff's office said police were originally called to the home where the assault allegedly occurred at 11 p.m. on Aug. 29. They said police were told that about a half-hour earlier, Castillo had forced himself on the homeowner's daughter, sexually assaulting her. But Castillo left the residence before deputies arrived. Details were not released as to what job the homeowner employed Castillo to do.
Following the assault, Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer for Castillo's arrest, the New York Post reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources. The sheriff's office said Sherlocks tracked Castillo down to Aurora, Colorado, and placed him in jug Tuesday without incident.
Castillo was charged with one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child and did not enter a plea during his initial court appearance Wednesday, Brionna Boatright, director of public affairs for the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney's Office, wrote in an email to Newsmax. The judge set a $5,000 cash bond and Castillo is in jug at the Jefferson County Detention Facility. Boatright said Castillo's attorney is seeking to have the bond reduced.
Because violating one’s employer’s barely pubescent daughter really isn’t that big a deal?
Aurora has been in the headlines after being overrun by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but Castillo is not believed to have any ties to the gang, the Post reported.
Castillo crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, in September 2023 and was released by Customs and Border Patrol agents because there was no room to detain him any longer, the Post reported, citing Department of Homeland Security sources.
Castillo was said to be headed to Orlando, Florida, but ended up in Colorado, where he was arrested in May for allegedly possessing tools for forgery/counterfeiting and larceny, the Post reported.
A young man with many talents to put at the service of his new country.
Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he will not cooperate with the incoming Trump administration's plans for mass deportations of illegal immigrants colonists. Johnston has overseen a huge influx of migrants colonists to his city, reportedly causing it to cut at least $45.9 million worth of expenses from several agencies.
[KhaamaPress] Sources have reported that 12 people bit the dust in a shooting carried out by unidentified armed assailants in Nahrin District, Baghlan Province.
According to these sources, the incident occurred last night in Ziarat Shahr Kohna, located in Nahrin District. The attack has caused significant concern among the local population, who are already grappling with ongoing insecurity.
These individuals were reportedly at the Sayed Padshah Shrine in the old city of Nahrin, "engaged in prayer when they were killed."
Images on social media show the bodies of the victims inside what is described as a shrine.
It remains unclear who—whether an individual or group—was responsible for carrying out this attack.
Incidents like the Nahrin attack reflect a disturbing trend of increasing violence against civilians in Afghanistan. Amid the fragile security situation, such attacks leave communities in a state of constant fear and vulnerability.
Sher Ahmad Burhani, the spokesperson for the Baghlan security command, stated: "Last night, unidentified individuals attacked a mosque in Shahr-e-Kohna of Nahrin district in Baghlan province. In this mysterious attack, ten residents of Nahrin, who were engaged in worship at the mosque, were martyred. It should be noted that these individuals spent their days working to earn a livelihood and came to the mosque and khanqah for worship at night when they were attacked."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), which rules northern Yemen, announced on November 22 that it had launched a hypersonic missile at the Nevatim airbase in Israel.
"The Yemeni Air Force launched a strike using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile at the Israeli enemy's Nevatim airbase in the Negev region in the south of the occupied territories," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said on the AI Masihar television channel.
The military spokesman added that such operations would not stop until "Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon" ended.
Earlier, on November 17, the Ansar Allah movement struck a target in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, a Houthi spokesman said.
On November 12, Saria announced a successful attack on the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. According to Yemeni media, the operation lasted eight hours. In addition to the aircraft carrier, the Houthis attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 22, the Houthis announced their first strike using a hypersonic missile on an Israeli military base in Tel Aviv. The launched missile "successfully reached its targets, bypassing American and Israeli interception systems," Saria noted.
[IsraelTimes] Violence erupts on the streets of Montreal, as anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists gather to protest a NATO meeting being held in the Canadian city.
At least four people have been arrested amid the violence, local media reports.
Unverified footage posted to social media shows demonstrators, many masked and wearing keffiyeh scarves, smashing the windows of the convention center in the Canadian city, where the NATO talks were being held.
Palestinian flags can be seen amid the riots in the footage.
HAPPENING NOW: Complete chaos on the streets of Montreal as Hamas supporters are terrorising the city.
Watch as these domestic terrorist take bats and hammers smashing the windows of the convention center. This is what a global intifada looks like. pic.twitter.com/3xjPlj8g6B
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^ What ever happened to the good old days when violent anti-semites could write coherently? Céline was one of the world's great novelists; now, we get this gibberish.
[IsraelTimes] Overnight strike in Beit Lahiya targets site where several Hamas operatives were gathered; security forces say PIJ commander killed in separate strike in central Gaza
Five Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... snuffies who participated in the October 7 onslaught were killed in a recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday, noting that two were commanders who led the massacre and kidnapping of civilians from the Mefalsim area during the brutal attack.
The military said the strike overnight between Wednesday and Thursday in Beit Lahiya targeted a site where several Hamas operatives were gathered, including members of the terror group’s elite Nukhba Force who were involved in the massacre.
The two senior snuffies killed in the strike were named as Jihad Mahmoud Yahya Kahlout, a Nukhba Force company commander, and Muhammad Riad Ali Oukal, a Hamas company commander.
The IDF said that as well as leading the October 7 attack, the two had also been leading figures in fighting Israeli troops in northern Gaza amid the ongoing operation there.
The other snuffies killed in the strike were named as Anas Jalal Muhammad Abu Shakian, a Hamas commander who also participated in the attack on the Mefalsim area on October 7; Nur al-Din Muhammad Yahya Abu Jadian, a Nukhba member; and Sihab Hassan Ali Matar Adaim, a Hamas operative.
The area near the southern kibbutz was one of dozens of communities that Hamas snuffies targeted when they burst into Israel from across the Gaza border on October 7, 2023 killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Also Friday, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency announced that Khaled Abu Deqa, who commanded 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... ’s rocket unit, was killed in a Wednesday strike in the Deir al-Balah area of central Gaza.
The IDF said Abu Deqa, who was operating from within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Deir al-Balah, was responsible for rocket fire on Israel amid the October 7 onslaught and during the war. He was also involved in numerous other attacks on Israel and IDF troops, the military added.
To mitigate civilian harm in the strike, the IDF said it used precision munition and aerial surveillance.
In a separate airstrike, in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, the IDF targeted a group of Hamas operatives trying to plant bombs, amid an ongoing military operation there.
The IDF released footage of the strike, adding that over 300 booby-trapped buildings had been discovered and neutralized by combat engineers during the operation in Jabalia.
The IDF releases footage showing a group of Hamas operatives being targeted in an airstrike while trying to plant bombs in northern Gaza's Jabalia, amid an ongoing military operation there.
Earlier this week, the military said that troops had killed over 1,300 terror operatives during the ongoing operation to stop Hamas from regrouping in the Jabalia area, which is being carried out by the 162nd Division.
More than 1,000 members of Hamas and other terror groups have also been detained, according to the military’s latest estimates released Tuesday, which added that some 100-200 operatives remain in the area.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, thousands of people have been killed in the operation, though these figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 380. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
[IsraelTimes] A senior commander in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group was killed in a recent airstrike, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.
According to the military, Khaled Abu Deqa, who commanded Islamic Jihad’s rocket unit, was killed in a strike on Wednesday in the Deir al-Balah area of central Gaza.
The IDF says Abu Deqa operated from within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Deir al-Balah.
Abu Deqa was responsible for rocket fire on Israel amid the October 7 onslaught and during the war, and was involved in numerous other attacks on Israel and IDF troops, the military says.
To mitigate civilian harm in the strike, the IDF says it used a precision munition and aerial surveillance.
[IsraelTimes] A recent IDF airstrike in Syria killed a senior Hezbollah commander who helped plan a deadly attack on US soldiers in Iraq in 2007, NBC News reports, citing a senior US defense official.
Ali Mussa Daqduq played a key role in the Karbala raid in which terrorists disguised as an American security team entered a base before opening fire and killing five US soldiers.
He was subsequently captured by US forces but later released by the Iraqi government following the American military withdrawal.
NBC says it’s not clear yet when the IDF strike that killed Daqduq took place.
[IsraelTimes] Unverified report from Britain-based war monitor also claims operatives from IRGC-backed Al-Nujaba group among 61 pro-Iran fighters killed in strike on city of Palmyra
A Britannia-based Syria war monitor said on Friday that Israeli strikes on the city of Palmyra this week killed 92 pro-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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... fighters after a United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... representative said they were likely the deadliest to date.
The unverified report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday’s attack targeted three sites in Palmyra, with one hitting a meeting of pro-Iranian groups that also involved commanders from Iraq’s al-Nujaba group and Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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 Hezbollah.
The toll has risen to "92 dead: 61 Syrian pro-Iran fighters," 11 of them working for Hezbollah, "and 27 foreign nationals mostly from al-Nujaba, plus four from Hezbollah," the Observatory said.
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
The UN deputy special envoy to Syria, Najat Rochdi, told the Security Council on Thursday that the raid was "likely the deadliest Israeli strike in Syria to date."
The Observatory said the strikes also targeted "a weapons depot near the industrial area" in Palmyra, a modern city adjacent to globally renowned Greco-Roman ruins.
Israel, which rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria, is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters including from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.
Since Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s brutal October 7 massacre last year and the ensuing military campaigns against the Paleostinian 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... along with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed terror targets in Syria and has also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.
Israel has killed many of Hezbollah’s senior commanders in over a year of conflict, which began when the terror group began attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis on October 8, 2023.
[IsraelTimes] WSJ report shows Tehran’s October 1 missile attack on Israel forced commercial flights to change course; IRGC hails ICC arrest warrants for PM, Gallant
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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Friday said it will launch a series of "new and advanced" centrifuges for uranium enrichment in response to a resolution adopted by the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA. The resolution, adopted Thursday, censured Tehran for failure to cooperate with the agency and demanded answers in a long-running investigation into uranium particles found at two locations that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites.
"The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran issued an order to take effective measures, including launching a significant series of new and advanced centrifuges of various types," a joint statement issued by the Iranian organization and its foreign ministry said.
It added, however, that "technical and safeguards cooperation with the IAEA will continue, as in the past" and within the framework of agreements made by Iran.
Iran’s retaliatory measures "are reversible if this hostile action is withdrawn or negotiations are opened," Tehran-based political analyst Hadi Mohammadi told AFP.
The IAEA board’s condemnation of Iran on Thursday was its second in just five months.
Nineteen members of the IAEA board voted for the resolution, while Russia, China and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... opposed it, 12 abstained and one did not vote, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the outcome of the closed-door vote.
The resolution came on the heels of a confidential report earlier this week in which the IAEA said Iran has defied international demands to rein in its nuclear program and has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.
That report, seen by The AP on Tuesday, said that as of October 26, Iran had accumulated 182.3 kilograms (401.9 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60 percent, an increase of 17.6 kilograms (38.8 pounds) since the last IAEA report in August. Uranium enriched at 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
The resolution approved on Thursday requires the IAEA to now produce a "comprehensive and updated assessment" of Iran’s nuclear activities, which could eventually trigger a referral to the UN Security Council to consider more sanctions on Tehran.
Also on Friday, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps described the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant as fatal for Israel.
"This means the end and political death of the Zionist regime, a regime that today lives in absolute political isolation in the world and its officials can no longer travel to other countries," IRGC chief General Hossein Salami said in the speech aired on state TV. The IRGC is a US-designated terrorist group.
In the first official reaction by Iran, Salami called the ICC warrant "a welcome move" and a "great victory for the Paleostinian and Lebanese resistance movements," in reference to terror organizations supported by Tehran.
IRAN’S OCT. 1 MISSILE ATTACK FORCED COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS TO CHANGE COURSE
In separate Iran news, The Wall Street Journal reported that during Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, dozens of aircraft were flying along a similar path as the missiles ascended, with some pilots and passengers seeing the projectiles as they streaked through the sky, mostly over Iran and Iraq.
Though ballistic missiles fly high above commercial airline paths, they present a danger during their ascent and descent.
Iran apparently gave no warning for flights to avoid the area as it launched its attack. With crews alarmed, many flights quickly changed their course due to the danger, the report said, using graphics to underline the risk that was posed to civilian aviation.
The report noted that Iranian strikes and Israeli counterstrikes continue to be on the table, with no clear solution to protect civilian flights.
Iran’s October 1 attack consisted of a massive salvo of some 200 ballistic missiles fired at Israel, sending most of the population rushing to bomb shelters and safe rooms. Tehran’s attack caused relatively minor damage to military bases and some residential areas, and killed a Paleostinian man in the West Bank.
The Israeli military acknowledged that some of its airbases were hit, but stressed that no harm was caused to the functioning of the Israeli Air Force. The missile impacts damaged office buildings and other maintenance areas in the bases, according to the military.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people and injured 111 in Lebanon Thursday, bringing the toll since October 2023 to 3,645 dead and 15,355 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry says, without differentiating between civilians and combatants.
Israel is targeting Hezbollah terrorists who have been launching cross-border attacks on a near-daily basis since October 8, 2023.
[IsraelTimes] South Lebanon strikes said to kill 5 Hezbollah-linked medics; Nahariya factory hit; no injuries reported in fresh attacks; Italy blames terror group after rockets hurt 4 UNIFIL troops
Israeli fighter jets carried out two waves of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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 coastal city of Tyre, and further sorties on the country’s south and Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Friday, as the Israel Defense Forces said some 80 rockets and several drones were launched at northern Israel throughout the day.
The Lebanese health ministry said airstrikes on two villages in southern Lebanon killed five medics from a rescue force affiliated with Hezbollah. AFP reported that an airstrike in Beirut toppled an 11-story building.
The IDF said targets included command centers, intelligence infrastructure, weapon depots and observation posts belonging to Hezbollah. Before the strikes, the IDF issued evacuation warnings to civilians in the area.
Many of the sites belonged to Hezbollah’s Aziz regional division, responsible for rocket fire on Israel from the western sector of southern Lebanon, according to the IDF.
Hezbollah said it had targeted with rockets and artillery Israeli ground troops who had encroached on the southern Lebanese towns of Khiyam and Deir Mimas, respectively located some 6 kilometers (4 miles) and 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) north of the border with Israel.
"Enemy reconnaissance aircraft" were flying over Deir Mimas, which has been largely emptied of residents, warning people "not to leave their homes," Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported, adding that it was the first time Israeli troops had reached the village.
In the latest attacks on northern Israel on Friday evening, the IDF Home Front Command said a drone from Lebanon went kaboom! in the Western Galilee area, without causing any injuries.
Drone infiltration warning sirens sounded for around half an hour in northern communities including Nahariya, Acre and the Krayot area north of Haifa amid the incident.
Earlier, the IDF said that air defenses shot down some of the barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee and Haifa areas, while others impacted.
Police said a factory in Nahariya was damaged by a rocket. Footage posted to social media showed smoke rising from an industrial area, along with interceptions over the northern coastal city.
The barrage came as the IDF said it had shot down two drones from Lebanon before they entered Israeli airspace in the afternoon, and five projectiles from Lebanon set off sirens in Haifa overnight before being intercepted.
There were no reports of injuries in the latest attacks from Lebanon, which came as Israeli and American officials expressed optimism about securing a ceasefire with Hezbollah to end the cross-border hostilities raging since the day after Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023 massacre that sparke
The White House said Friday evening that United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed efforts to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon during a phone call earlier in the day.
On Friday afternoon, Channel 12 published details on what it said were the remaining points of contention between Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire in the north.
One issue, according to the report, was Israel’s insistence that La Belle France can not be part of the agreement, or be a member of the international committee that will monitor a deal’s implementation. This is due to its perceived hostility toward Israel in recent months under Macron’s administration. Macron has recently repeatedly called for an arms embargo on Israel, characterizing it as the path toward ending the war, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
The second issue cited in the report was 13 land points along the Israel-Lebanon border that are disputed due to boundary demarcation issues. The network said Israel was demanding language in the agreement that would allow it to unilaterally choose not to engage in negotiations over disputed points.
Channel 12 reported that Lebanon had accepted that the US would issue a letter that supports Israel’s freedom to act in Lebanon against "imminent threats," but that final wording on the issue of arms transfers within Lebanon had not been finalized.
A bigwig told Channel 12: "Most of the details have been agreed upon, but what remains open is very sensitive and could still derail the agreement."
The report came after Washington’s envoy Amos Hochstein discussed the ceasefire with senior Lebanese, Hezbollah and Israeli officials over the past week, touting progress in the talks. A senior Israeli defense official also said there was a high likelihood of a deal.
IDF FINDS RUSSIAN-MADE ANTI-TANK MISSILES AT HEZBOLLAH POST
In southern Lebanon’s eastern sector, meanwhile, troops of the 7th Armored Brigade found several Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles in a Hezbollah anti-tank missile launching post they had discovered after an operative had been killed there in a recent airstrike, the IDF said on Friday.
The brigade, operating under the 98th Division, has been raiding what the army calls "an area that serves as a significant terror stronghold for Hezbollah."
Troops have located several Hezbollah fighting positions, weapon depots, bunkers and other infrastructure amid the ongoing operation, the army said.
Over the past week, the military said it had destroyed some 45 Hezbollah rocket launchers in airstrikes in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, some of the launchers were used in previous rocket attacks on Israel, and others were primed for future attacks.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... four Italian troops were lightly hurt in an apparent Hezbollah rocket barrage on the UN observer mission in Lebanon, Rome said on Friday, as Israel’s ground troops pushed on in southern Lebanon.
Italia’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said four Italian soldiers in UNIFIL, the international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, "were slightly injured following the earth-shattering kaboom of two 122 mm rockets that hit the UNP 2-3 base in Chamaa," a southwestern Lebanese village some seven kilometers (4.3 miles) north of the Israeli border.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed "deep indignation and concern" over the incident, without attributing blame, though European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the UNIFIL observers were "maimed following the launch of two rockets by Hezbollah."
"I will try to speak with the new Israeli minister of defense, which has been impossible since he took office, to ask him to avoid using UNIFIL bases as a shield," he said.
"Even more intolerable is the presence of bully boyz in South Lebanon who are endangering the safety of the blue helmets and the civilian population," he added.
Some European allies, including La Belle France and Italia, have accused Israel of targeting UNIFIL, and rejected Jerusalem’s demand that the peacekeeping force vacate its positions while the IDF pursues Hezbollah.
Israel has accused UNIFIL of failing to prevent Hezbollah from building terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon, forcing Israel to act.
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[Regnum] The Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), which rules northern Yemen, announced on November 22 that it had launched a hypersonic missile at the Nevatim airbase in Israel.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[IsraelTimes] Unverified report from Britain-based war monitor also claims operatives from IRGC-backed Al-Nujaba group among 61 pro-Iran fighters killed in strike on city of Palmyra
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
