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No tats, no piercings, just beautiful
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She was the inspiration for Charles Dana Gibson’s 'Gibson Girl' images.
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Seems to have all the hair accessories except a comb.
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^ Yep... Why go to the trouble of using a 3D printed gun and carrying all that crap with you?
Maybe he figured he wouldn't be caught.
His usefulness is over - at least for someone(s).
One last thing to do. As Michael Corleone said - "First rule of as assassinations .. kill the assassin."
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[IsraelTimes] University of Amsterdam (UvA) employees are holding a four-day strike demanding that the institution suspend ties with Israeli schools and offer greater rights to protest against Israel.
An estimated 150 — 250 employees will strike from today until Thursday after the university’s executive board refused to respond to the FNV union’s ultimatum, FNV says. The strike was cheered on the Facebook page of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.
The union’s demands include greater freedom to demonstrate, a democratic committee to assess collaborations, and that the university suspends ties with Israeli institutions until further investigation. All three conditions are understood to be anti-Israel measures.
UvA board chair Edith Hooge says the university was surprised by the ultimatum, noting that progress was already being made on the issues of expanding demonstration rights and assessing collaborations. She does not address the demand to suspend ties with Israel.
"This is the democratic way of decision-making within the UvA," Hooge says. "We believe any further actions are unnecessary.’
Last May, UvA was the site of violent mostly peacefulfestivities between protesters and police as activists demanded that the university cut all ties with Israeli institutions. Hundreds were arrested and an estimated 1.5 million euros in damages was sustained as students and other protesters occupied campuses and blocked access.
Protesters demanded in May that UvA disclose its collaborations with Israeli institutions, and the school does so on its website. "We see no reason to think that these collaborations contribute negatively to the situation 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... : as far as we can tell, they do not contribute to military violence or human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations," the university says.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Black Lives Matter leader who has been in the courtroom daily during the Daniel Penny subway trial called on 'black vigilantes' to step up after the Marine veteran was found not guilty on Monday.
Walter 'Hawk' Newsome, who says he is Jordan Neely's uncle, threatened Penny inside the courtroom during the chaos which immediately followed the verdict.
He shouted 'it's a small f**king world, buddy.'
Then, speaking to media and later protesters outside the courthouse, Newsome said it was time for 'black vigilantes.'
'Everybody else has vigilantes. We need some black vigilantes,' he said.
'People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud, how about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us.'
The comments came as protesters across the street set their sights on police, chanting 'f**k the police' and questioning why they weren't patrolling the train to defend Neely.
Outside the courthouse on Monday, after calling for black vigilantes, Newsome told those same protesters he 'loves them.'
He singled out several by name who have been there 'every day, in the freezing cold' shouting insults at Penny.
Newsome told the crowd that black people could no longer rely on authorities to keep them safe or place value on their lives.
"They’re going to hear us f*cking tonight…y’all gonna get your moneys worth tonight motherf*ckers.” - protesters following Daniel Penny’s acquittalpic.twitter.com/2mIHMW0jq6
BLM Leader Calls For 'Black Vigilantes' Following Daniel Penny Verdict
[DAILYWIRE] The Daniel Penny verdict has been met with threats by at least one high-profile activist hoping he would be convicted of killing Jordan Neely, who was threatening people on a New York City subway train last year.
After Penny was found not guilty of the criminally negligent homicide of Neely, the founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, called on black people to attack white people in the city.
''We need some black vigilantes,'' Newsome said during a presser. ''People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us.''
The trial has also inspired vandalism.
Last week, law enforcement said that nine suspects who boarded the northbound F train at the Neptune Avenue station around 4:24 a.m. allegedly plastered the interior of the car with messages that said: ''A man was lynched here,'' according to AMNY. The statements are believed to be a reference to Neely, who died after Penny subdued him in a chokehold to keep him from hurting other passengers.
While Neely's official cause of death is asphyxiation, Dr. Satish Chundru, a forensic pathologist, testified for the defense that Penny's chokehold did not result in Neely's death.
''In your opinion, did Mr. Penny choke Mr. Neely to death?'' Steven Raiser, one of Penny's defense attorneys, asked Chundru on the stand.
''No,'' Chundru replied, ''The chokehold did not cause death.''
Chundru also testified that Neely's death was the result of ''the combined effects of sickle cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana,'' Fox News reported. He said that someone high on synthetic marijuana with schizophrenia can die while involved in a struggle, even without a chokehold being used. Chundru went on to say that even if Neely hadn't had those other health factors, he still would not have died from Penny's chokehold.
"It is just a continuance of the soft-on-crime policies that have permeated our big cities," said Louis Gelormino, a Staten Island defense attorney who has said the case against Penny should never have been filed. The woman prosecuting Daniel Penny, Dafna Yoran, is a fan of "restorative justice". Listen to what she says here.
According Laura Loomer, Yoran is lesbian who is married 'Peruvian pro-Black Lives Matter artist' named Ana De Orbegoso.
So we can assume she is Antifa- adjacent, if not full on Black Bloc herself
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it eliminated two Palestinian gunmen in a drone strike in the West Bank city of Tubas, amid a commando operation in the area.
Troops of the Duvdevan commando unit were operating in Tubas to detain a wanted Palestinian. Amid the operation, the IDF says the troops spotted several gunmen.
A drone carried out an airstrike against two of the gunmen, killing them. The military says troops of the Kfir Brigade raided the site of the strike and seized an assault rifle, two handguns, and a grenade that was on the bodies of the gunmen
[IsraelTime] Military says soldiers came under fire while boarding armored truck in Jabalia; Palestinians say at least 6 killed in Israeli strikes in past day
Three soldiers were killed and 12 others were maimed in Jabalia 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 on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces announced, amid the ongoing war against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... The slain troops were named as Staff Sgt. Ido Zano, 20, a combat medic with the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Yehud-Monosson; Staff Sgt. Barak Daniel Halpern, 19, a squad commander in the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Kiryat Ono; and Sgt. Omri Cohen, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Ashdod.
In the same incident, 12 soldiers were maimed, including a Givati reservist and a member of the Artillery Corps’ Sky Riders Unit who were at death's door, the military added.
According to an initial IDF probe, the incident took place on Monday morning at an IDF encampment in Jabalia, as the troops were getting ready to head out of the Strip for a furlough.
The troops were boarding a lightly armored truck used to transport troops when Hamas operatives launched anti-tank projectiles and shot up them.
The military said it was further investigating the incident, which came amid an IDF offensive against Hamas in the Strip’s far northern towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun launched in early September.
So far, the military estimates that it has killed at least 1,750 operatives during the recent operation, while another 1,300 have been detained, and around 90,000 civilians evacuated from the area.
Thirty-four IDF soldiers have been killed so far in the operation.
The incident in Jabalia came as Paleostinian medical officials said at least six people were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza overnight Monday, including a woman.
The al-Aqsa Hospital compound in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah said Raed Ghabaien, who was released from Israeli detention in 2014, was among the dead. He was killed along with his wife when an Israeli strike hit their tent in the central town of Zuweida, according to hospital records.
An News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalist who counted the bodies at the hospital’s morgue said that two other people were killed in a strike that hit their house late Sunday in the Nuseirat camp and another two were killed in a strike in the Wadi Gaza area early Monday.
The IDF did not comment on the specific reports of strikes Monday, which came as Israel was preparing for potential chaos on the northern front, following the lightning-fast fall of former Syrian president Bashir al-Assad’s regime.
[IsraelTimes] Artyom Zolotarev suspected of taking on tasks even after he realized who was paying him, but authorities say he also turned down requests to spy for Tehran or aid murder plot
An Israeli man was arrested last month on suspicion of carrying out acts of vandalism on behalf of Iran, the latest in a series of plots involving Israeli citizens allegedly recruited by 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... that security agencies say have been foiled in recent months.
Artyom Zolotarev, 33, was detained in November over suspicions he was "committing security offenses related to contact with Iranian intelligence officials and carrying out security missions in Israel under their direction, for financial gain," the Shin Bet and police announced Monday.
An indictment for contact with a foreign agent, arson, and vandalism was set to be filed against Zolotarev on Monday at the Nazareth District Court.
The Nof Hagalil resident is suspected of graffitiing anti-government and pro-Iran slogans in several northern cities and setting fire to cars in Haifa on separate occasions. Authorities say Zolotarev balked when asked to undertake espionage activities, including a murder-for-hire plot, though he continued to carry out other missions, even after growing wise about the nature of his handlers.
The joint Shin Bet and police investigation found that in October, Zolotarev was in contact with a figure online using the handle "Eliad," who suggested he perform "tasks of spraying graffiti against the government to change the civil situation in Israel."
Zolotov painted anti-government material onto walls in Nof Hagalil, Haifa, and Migdal Ha’emek, sending footage of the act to his handler. He then erased the graffiti, according to the investigation.
In exchange for the vandalism, Zolotarev received $2,800 in cryptocurrency, the Shin Bet said.
Zolotarev began to realize that Eliad was an Iranian agent after he was asked to carry out more serious tasks, such as taking photos of residential buildings and an electrical transformer.
He turned down both requests and later also refused an offer to carry out a murder for $125,000, after which he would have been smuggled to Russia or Iran. He also refused a request to buy a gun and hand it to someone else, the Shin Bet said.
His suspicions about Eliad were also piqued by news reports on TikTok regarding the arrests of suspected Iranian spies, including Moti Maman, an Israeli accused of secretly entering Iran twice and plotting with figures there to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others.
Since September, Israeli authorities have announced arrests in six separate cases involving individuals or cells suspected of spying or plotting attacks on behalf of Iran. In some, Tehran tried to trick Israelis online into carrying out missions on its behalf. In other cases, individuals are alleged to have knowingly operated on its behalf for monetary gain.
Despite becoming aware that Eliad was an Iranian agent, Zolotarev continued to make contact with him and carry out missions, including setting a car on fire in Haifa in exchange for $2,000, according to law enforcement.
Under the direction of a second handler named "Boaz Mar," Zolotarev later set fire to a second car in Haifa, recorded a video, and sent it to the agent. He also spray-painted pro-Iran graffiti reading "Children of Ruhollah" — referring to former Iranian supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini — in Haifa and Afula, the Shin Bet said.
On Friday, the Shin Bet revealed that it had arrested a father and son from the northern Druze village of Mas’ade on suspicion of spying on troops and passing other sensitive information to the Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
In September, seven Jewish Israelis were arrested on suspicion of spying on security figures and IDF bases for Iran. They were accused of collecting information for their Iranian contacts about several Israeli citizens, including a senior security figure, and may have been part of a plot to ultimately assassinate the figure. Maman was also arrested that month.
On October 14, a Ramat Gan man and his 18-year-old partner were arrested on charges that they carried out various acts of sabotage and vandalism on behalf of an Iranian agent.
On October 16, the Israel Police and State Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of a man from central Israel who allegedly acquired a weapon in order to kill an Israeli scientist on instructions from an Iranian agent, after performing several smaller tasks on the agent’s behalf.
On October 22, seven East Jerusalem men, six of them Israeli citizens, were arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran and plotting attacks in Israel.
Those cases came after authorities in January uncovered a scheme involving Israelis who were allegedly recruited to gather intelligence on high-profile figures.
[IsraelTimes] Rebel leader al-Golani touts experience of administration over small Idlib region; Tehran insider claims Assad became a burden, regime leaked location of Iranian commanders
Syrian rebels on Monday said they would grant amnesty to conscripted soldiers who fought for ousted president Bashir al-Assad’s regime, as their leader began setting up a transitional government.
The amnesty granted by the rebels will not apply to officers, according to the statement posted on Telegram by the Military Operations Command, the joint operations room of opposition factions that led the lightning-fast offensive that ousted Assad.
The leader of the rebels, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, now using his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with outgoing Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali and discussed the "transfer of power," the rebels said.
A short video of the meeting showed it was also attended by Mohammed al-Bashir, who headed the rebels’ "Salvation Government" in their northwest Syria bastion and who was tapped as the acting prime minister.
Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... HTS had been administering swaths of Idlib province and parts of neighboring areas until November 27, when it led a lightning offensive, seizing government-held territory and capturing Damascus on Sunday.
In the video, Golani was heard telling the outgoing prime minister that although "Idlib is a small region lacking resources," authorities there "have a very high level of experience after starting with nothing."
Jalali said Sunday he was ready to "cooperate" with any leadership chosen by the people and for any handover process. He said the handover could take days to carry out.
Assad’s Baath party said Monday it will back the process.
"We will remain supportive of a transitional phase in Syria aimed at defending the unity of the country," party Secretary-General Ibrahim al-Hadid said in a statement.
The Salvation Government, which has ministries, departments and judicial and security authorities, was set up in 2017 to assist people cut off from government services in the stronghold.
Authorities from the area have already started returning services including water, communications, and power to Syria’s second city Aleppo after the rebels seized it in their lightning offensive.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Syria’s banks will reopen on Tuesday and staff have been asked to return to offices, according to a Syrian central bank source and two commercial bankers.
At the Interior Ministry that ran Assad’s police force, furniture had been looted and staff stayed away. Armed rebels were there to maintain order.
The oil ministry called on all employees in the sector to head to their workplaces starting on Tuesday, adding that protection would be provided to ensure their safety.
The advance of a militia alliance spearheaded by HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, was a generational turning point for the Middle East.
It ended a war that killed hundreds of thousands, caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times, and left cities bombed to rubble, the countryside depopulated and the economy hollowed out by global sanctions. Refugees could finally go home from camps across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , 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... and Jordan.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said that whoever ends up in power in Syria must hold the Assad regime to account. But how Assad might face justice remains unclear, especially after the Kremlin refused on Monday to confirm reports by Russian news agencies that he had fled to Moscow.
Iran, another key ally that provided military support for Assad’s brutal crackdown on his opposition, said it expected its "friendly" ties with Syria to continue, with its foreign minister saying the ousted president "never asked" for Tehran’s help against the rebel offensive.
An insider in Iran’s government told the Financial Times Monday that Assad had become "an obstacle, a liability — some even called him a betrayer," citing inaction toward reported Israeli strikes on Iranian targets inside Syria.
"People within his regime were leaking information about the whereabouts of Iranian commanders," the insider claimed. "Assad turned his back on us when we needed him most."
Despite the fall of Assad, conflict was at risk of persisting, with the US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces (SDF) saying they were still fighting Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in the northern Syrian city of Manbij.
The SDF said a Ottoman Turkish drone struck in the village of al-Mistriha in eastern Syria, killing 12 civilians, including six children.
Turkey views the SDF, which is primarily composed of a Syrian Kurdish militia, as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey. The SDF has also been a key ally of the United States in the war against 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.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday expressed hope for a new era in Syria in which ethnic and religious groups can live peacefully under an inclusive government. But he warned against allowing Islamic State or Kurdish fighters to take advantage of the situation, saying Turkey will prevent Syria from turning into a "haven for terrorism."
“We will offer rewards to anyone who provides information about senior army and security officers involved in war crimes,” rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, now using his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, says in a statement on Telegram.
The rebel leader began discussions yesterday with the ousted government on transferring power, a day after his opposition alliance dramatically unseated president Bashar al-Assad following decades of brutal rule.
“We will not hesitate to hold accountable the criminals, murderers, security and army officers involved in torturing the Syrian people,” Sharaa says in the statement, adding they “will pursue war criminals and ask for their hand over from the countries to which they fled.”
“We have affirmed our commitment to tolerance for those whose hands are not stained with the blood of the Syrian people, and we have granted amnesty to those who were in compulsory service,” he says.
Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group had been administering swathes of Idlib province and parts of neighboring areas until November 27, when along with allied factions it launched a lightning offensive, seizing government-held territory and capturing Damascus on Sunday.
In a statement posted on social media, the insurgents’ General Command says, “It is strictly forbidden to interfere with women’s dress or impose any request related to their clothing or appearance, including requests for modesty.”
The command says it affirms that personal freedom is guaranteed to everyone, and that respect for the rights of individuals is the basis for building a civilized nation.
In areas that were controlled by Syrian opposition groups since the civil war erupted in 2011, the vast majority of women dressed modestly, only revealing their faces and hands.
Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose forces entered Damascus over the weekend, has renounced longtime ties to al-Qaida and depicted himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.
"...the Syrian government uses “local alliance structures with other armed groups such as Hezbollah for technical and logistical support in Captagon production and trafficking”
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says US won’t allow ISIS to turn ‘moment of promise’ for Syrian people into ‘conflict and violence,’ will protect its personnel from any threats.
[CNN] "This victory, my brothers, by the grace of God Almighty (follows) the sacrifices of the martyrs, the widows, and the orphans. This victory, my brothers, has come through the suffering of those who endured imprisonment...This new triumph, my brothers, marks a new chapter in the history of the region, a history fraught with dangers (that left) Syria as a playground for Iranian ambitions, spreading sectarianism, stirring corruption...."
Iranian ambitions? Oh dear.
It is no surprise that the Islamist rebel chose Damascus’s venerated Umayyad Mosque – not a TV studio, nor newly absented presidential palace, but a place of towering religious significance, which at 1,300 years old is one of the world’s most ancient mosques – to deliver that message.
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But..."Muslims do not drink alcohol because it is considered haram, or forbidden, in Islam. The Quran, sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and other Islamic teachings prohibit alcohol for a number of reasons"...
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The alcohol in the Hezbollah warehouse was probably used as a form of currency where people didn't want to take syrian pounds or Iranian rials for example.
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Hey! My sons love Buffalo Trace!! We've got 3 bottles waiting for Xmas.
🚨 Breaking: In over 300 targeted strikes during the past 24 hours, Israel 🇮🇱 destroyed the entire air force of Syria 🇸🇾, including all aircrafts (MiG and Sukhoi), all helicopters, and all anti-aircraft systems. pic.twitter.com/G12q8SIjwD
Lebanese Media is reporting that Israeli Tanks are currently advancing North along the Border between Syria and Lebanon, with them only roughly 10 Miles now from the Outskirts of the Syrian Capital of Damascus. pic.twitter.com/cGObLl2oG5
Israel appeared to be continuing its aerial campaign in Syria on Monday, targeting weaponry that Jerusalem feared could fall into the hands of hostile forces in light of the dramatic fall of the Bashir al-Assad regime on Sunday.
Two Syrian security sources said on Monday that Israeli planes bombed at least three major Syrian army air bases that housed dozens of helicopters and jets in the biggest such wave of strikes on air bases since Assad was toppled.
The strikes hit Qamishli air base in northeast Syria, Shinshar base in the countryside of Homs, and Aqrba airport southwest of the capital Damascus, the sources said.
The reports came after Israel Air Force strikes on Sunday hit advanced missile storage sites, air defense systems, weapon production facilities, and chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... sites, and also took out planes, helicopters, and tanks that belonged to the Assad regime’s military.
The 50-year-old regime, which fell on Sunday after a lightning offensive by rebel forces, was an ally of the Iranian regime and a part of its so-called Axis of Resistance® against Israel.
The number of strikes carried out by Israel on Syrian military infrastructure since Sunday is believed to lie at around 250.
Western intelligence sources believe that around 300 strikes have been carried out against Syrian military targets, the Ynet news site reported, adding that if the strikes continue at their current pace, officials believe the Syrian Air Force will be all but destroyed in a matter of days, ensuring that the rebel groups, and any future government, will not be able to threaten Israel from the air.
A Britannia-based war monitor told AFP that Israel had conducted more than 100 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on military targets in Syria on Monday, including a research center Western countries suspected of having links to chemical weapons production in Damascus.
"Israeli warplanes launched over 100 strikes in Syria today, including on the Barzah scientific research center," Rami Abdel Rahman who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP, reporting "increased Israeli strikes to destroy the former regime’s military capabilities."
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the Monday strikes.
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.
On Monday evening, three witnesses in Barzeh, north of Damascus, told Rooters that there were at least two explosions in the area, where the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre has an office.
The SSRC has been sanctioned and previously struck for its links to chemical weapons production under the Assad regime.
Al Jazeera also reported Israeli airstrikes targeting the Qabr Essit Airport south of Damascus, which was used by the ousted army for helicopters.
A short while earlier, reports in Syria claimed that the IAF had bombed the Latakia port, targeting naval assets belonging to the toppled regime.
Syrian media also reported Israeli strikes in Da’ara in southern Syria early on Monday, with unverified footage of the strikes posted to social media appearing to show secondary explosions, indicating that weapons were stored in the buildings targeted.
Defense sources told The Times of Israel on Sunday that dozens of IAF aircraft had struck numerous targets, with a focus on destroying "strategic weapons."
The IDF also took up new positions in a buffer zone between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Sunday, as it prepared for potential chaos. It marked the first time since the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement was signed following the Yom Kippur War that Israeli forces took up positions inside the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, though the IDF has entered the zone briefly on several occasions in the past.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon told the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council on Monday that the IDF had taken "limited and temporary measures" in a demilitarized strip bordering Syria to counter any threats, particularly to residents of the Golan Heights.
"It is important to emphasize, however, that Israel is not intervening in the ongoing conflict between Syrian gangs; our actions are solely focused on safeguarding our security," he wrote in a letter to the 15-member council, adding that Israel remained committed to the framework of a 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement.
The United States was also taking advantage of the new reality in Syria, carrying out dozens of strikes on 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.... targets in central Syria on Sunday. American warplanes struck more than 75 Islamic State targets hitting the group’s leaders, operatives and camps, the US military said.
The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family, after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
Syria’s civil war, which erupted in 2011 as an uprising against Assad’s rule, dragged in major outside powers, created space for jihadist snuffies to plot attacks around the world, and sent millions of refugees into neighboring states.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the strongest rebel group, is the former al Qaeda affiliate in Syria regarded by the US and others as a terrorist organization, and many Syrians remain fearful it will impose draconian Islamist rule. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has tried to reassure minorities that he will not interfere with them and the international community that he opposes Islamist attacks abroad. In Aleppo, which the rebels captured a week ago, there have not been reports of reprisals.
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Last night, the Israeli Navy carried out a large-scale operation to destroy the former Assad regime’s navy fleet in Syria.
Numerous Syrian navy vessels armed with sea-to-sea missiles were destroyed in strikes carried out by Israeli Navy missile boats, at the Minet el-Beida bay and Latakia port on the Syrian coast, according to military sources.
The strikes were carried out to prevent the Syrian navy capabilities and weaponry from falling into the hands of hostile forces, following the collapse of the Assad regime.
[NAHARNET] The Israeli military said Monday that four soldiers were killed in southern 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... , the first deaths announced in the area since the start of a ceasefire with Hezbollah 12 days ago.
The four reservists, all from the same battalion, "fell in combat" on Sunday, the military said without giving further details.
The Israeli army said the soldiers were killed when a tunnel they were in collapsed following its detonation, adding that their bodies were pulled out after a 12-hour rescue operation.
Not sure why Naharnet thinks there were no further details — here are the details:
[IsraelTimes] Reservists believed to have triggered unmarked munitions left by other IDF soldiers, setting off Hezbollah cache and bringing tunnel down on troops
Four Israeli reservists were killed in an operational accident in southern Lebanon Sunday, when munitions in a Hezbollah tunnel they were in exploded, the army said on Monday.
The deadly incident underlined lingering dangers for troops in south Lebanon, despite the ceasefire, as the military campaign against the Iran-backed terror group wraps up.
The four were all serving with the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 9263rd Battalion when they were killed in the blast, while searching for weapons in the Labbouneh area of southern Lebanon. Their bodies were trapped inside a destroyed tunnel for hours, until rescuers could reach them.
While carrying out searches in the Labbouneh area on Sunday afternoon, troops found the entrance to a Hezbollah tunnel where weapons were apparently being stored.
According to an initial IDF probe, as the troops entered the tunnel, there was a large explosion, which in turn caused the Hezbollah weapon stockpile to detonate, bringing the walls and ceiling of the underground passage down on top of the troops. The collapse trapped the four soldiers; rescue operations to extract their bodies took some 12 hours.
The military assessment found that the first blast was likely caused by explosives previously left behind by other Israeli forces who had operated there, which were unknown to the soldiers who entered the tunnel.
The IDF is investigating why the soldiers were not aware of the explosives placed there, including whether the troops who planted them marked the tunnel as rigged on the IDF’s mapping system.
The military is also investigating other avenues, including whether some other trigger caused the Hezbollah weapons in the tunnel to go off, like a booby trap — though that is considered less likely.
The four were named as Maj. (res.) Evgeny Zinershain, 43, from Zichron Yaakov; Cpt. (res.) Sagi Ya’akov Rubinshtein, 31, from Kibbutz Lavi; Master Sgt. (res.) Binyamin Destaw Negose, 28, from Beit Shemesh; and Sgt. First Class. (res.) Erez Ben Efraim, 25, from Ramat Gan.
Zinershain was a company commander and Rubinshtein was a platoon commander.
The deaths bring Israel’s toll in over a year of fighting on and around its northern frontier to 80 soldiers, most of them killed in cross-border skirmishes, drone and missile attacks on Israel, and during close quarters combat during the ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
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[NAHARNET] Large numbers of Syrians fleeing their country on Monday flocked to the Masnaa border crossing with 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... and some of them tried to force their way into the country without going through Lebanese General Security measures, General Security said.
The agency said the crowding happened due to ''the absence of Syrian General Security in the Jdeidet Yabous border post.''
''In coordination with the army and the Internal Security Forces, General Security controlled the situation and returned them to Syrian territory, allowing only those who meet the applicable conditions to enter,'' General Security added.
LBCI television meanwhile reported that the Lebanese Army ''stopped 340 Syrians who entered (Lebanon) through smuggling routes between al-Masnaa and the Anjar valley.''
General Security chief ''Brigadier General al-Baissari contacted the Prime Minister, the Minister of Interior and the Army Command,'' after which security reinforcements were sent to ''control the massive influx of people fleeing Syrian Shiite towns towards Lebanon,'' MTV reported.
Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi had followed up on the situation at the Masnaa border crossing and instructed General Security to ''instantly take the necessary measures to prevent illegal entry attempts by Syrians.''
[IsraelTimes] Citing Lebanese media outlets, the Kan public broadcaster reports that senior officials of the toppled Syrian regime have fled across the border into Lebanon with the help of the Hezbollah terror group.
Among those said to have fled to Lebanon in the days leading up to the dramatic fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime are his family members, intelligence officials, and close business associates, Kan reports.
The former director of Syria’s national security bureau Ali Mamlouk is also said to be among them.
Mamlouk has been wanted by the Lebanese government since 2012 for allegedly planning the assassination of Lebanese political and religious leaders, and by the French government since 2018 for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
According to the report, the Syrian officials were provided with Lebanese license plates and smuggled into Beirut with the help of Hezbollah operatives. It adds that they are believed to be located in Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israel no doubt is taking an interest, but there’s already so much rubble in Dahiyeh…
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...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...
...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...
...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...
