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Good Morning



Nathan Wade admits to working with
the White House while prosecuting Trump in GA
Monday 12/16/2024

MissAmerica1940MissAtlanticCity1941Hizonner
The Grand Turk
Over 7,500 Syrians return from
Turkey in just five days: Minister
Iraq
Iraq police remove ISIS flag from ex-stronghold Hawija
Europe
Bodies of mother, daughter who
drowned in Aegean returned to Sulaimani
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Protesters held on terror charges made
to undergo strip search after meeting with Labor lawmaker
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel continues bombing Syrian Army targets: 61 airstrikes and 26 raids for almost 450 strikes in 13 provinces over past week
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
More than 1,300 aid trucks
entered Gaza over last week, says COGAT
34-year-old Dallas, TX, public school teacher was arrested and charged with ''possession of child pornography

Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trans - The Early Days?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/16/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They don’t look mobbed up.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/16/2024 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  "Contestants assembled in groups
And examined while jumping through hoops,"
We are slyly assured
Per a gambling guy's word,
"Do not mind being grabbed by the... whoops."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/16/2024 19:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
Polish military are now firing live ammunition at Islamic invaders trying to reach Europe
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  "People scare better when they're dying."
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 12/16/2024 0:33 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Pro-Hamas fanatics in Washington, D.C.: ''Hamas! Jewish mudderfudgers. We're gonna kill all of you.''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Was it Muslims? Students? Or US Gov employees?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Likely.








Posted by: Oregon Dave || 12/16/2024 0:53 Comments || Top||


#4  Either 1/6 or deport.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/16/2024 14:09 Comments || Top||

#5  They will be a problem for the inauguration.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/16/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Not if they're smart*

*They're not
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2024 18:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
ICE Philadelphia has arrested a Senegalese illegal alien who is wanted for murder in Brazil
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

… ICE statement: https://ice.gov/news/releases/ero-philadelphia-arrests-senegalese-citizen-wanted-murder-brazil
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Iraq
Iraq police remove ISIS flag from ex-stronghold Hawija
[Rudaw] Iraqi federal police on Saturday removed an 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) flag that flew for three days over a public school in a remote village in Kirkuk’s Hawija district, a security source said.

"Three nights ago, the Iraqi flag was removed from the primary school in Ofiya village in Hawija district and was replaced by the ISIS flag," Sabir Mohammed, head of Kirkuk police’s media office, told Rudaw.

A federal police team arrived at the village on Saturday and removed the ISIS flag, returning the Iraqi banner to its place.

According to Mohammed, the village is rural, without surveillance cameras, and lacks access to electricity.

He did not name any suspects.

Hawija district, located in the southwest of Kirkuk province, has been a longtime bastion of insurgency in Iraq and was among the final holdouts of territory held by ISIS when the group was declared defeated in 2017.

ISIS remnants continue to pose security threats through hit-and-run attacks, abductions, and bombings, particularly in rural parts of Iraq disputed by the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Iraq uses its air force to crack down on ISIS sleeper cells, launching frequent Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against their suspected hideouts in the provinces of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Salahaddin, Diyala, and Nineveh.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq rejects asylum for Syria ex-regime soldiers, Maher al-Assad
[NEWARAB] Iraqi officials have said that the country has no intention of granting asylum to thousands of Syrian soldiers who entered its territory shortly before the collapse of Bashir al-Assad's regime. Estimates suggest that around 3,000 former Syrian army personnel, including both soldiers and officers, are currently under Iraqi custody or supervision mainly in the western Anbar province.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to The New Arab's Arabic language edition, al-Araby al-Jadeed, Iraqi sources said the soldiers, who fled as the Assad government was on the brink of collapse, will not be permitted to remain in Iraq as refugees.

"They will remain hosted by Iraq in the coming period until their situation is resolved and their safe return is guaranteed," one source said. "Iraq is committed to ensuring their well-being while they remain on its territory and once they are sent back across the border."

Iraq announced last Saturday that it had received hundreds of Syrian troops who had abandoned their positions as battles intensified, initially planning to return them to Damascus by air. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...

there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
the swift downfall of the Assad regime forced the Iraqi government to put repatriation plans on hold.

Sagvan Sindi, the deputy head of the Security and Defence Committee in the Iraqi parliament, told The New Arab that the government was deliberating on how best to handle the Syrian soldiers' presence.

"The issue is related to the Iraqi government on how it would deal with the Syrian soldiers," Sindi said.

TNA sent inquiries to the International Committee of the Red Thingy regarding whether the Syrian soldiers could be considered prisoners of war, but had not received a response at the time of publication.

Turki Mohammed, the mayor of al-Qa'im in western Anbar, where many of the soldiers are currently being held, said Iraqi authorities facilitated the Syrian troops' entry once they had surrendered their weapons at the border.

"Iraq received nearly 3,000 former Syrian army combatants, including soldiers and officers, over the past few days," he told al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza strike was member of Islamic Jihad
[IsraelTimes] Military says Ahmed Al-Louh, previously a PIJ platoon commander, was situated in compound used to plan attacks; TV network accuses Israel of ‘systematic killing of journalists’

The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the central 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 earlier in the day was a member of 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...
terror group, as the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i-funded network condemned the strike.

In a statement, the military said it carried out a dronezap against a group of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and Islamic Jihad terror operatives at a command center, based out of the offices of the Gaza civil defense organization in Nuseirat.

"The compound was used by the gunnies to plan and execute terror acts against IDF troops in the immediate time frame," the military said.

According to the IDF, several terror operatives were killed in the strike, including Ahmad al-Louh, an Al Jazeera cameraman whom the military accused of previously serving as a platoon commander in Islamic Jihad’s central Gaza brigade.

The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence.

Al Jazeera, meanwhile, said in a statement that it "condemns in the strongest terms the killing of its cameraman, Ahmad Baker al-Louh, 39, by the Israeli occupation forces," whom the network said was "brutally killed in an airstrike that targeted a civil defense post in the market area."

The network added that Louh’s killing came "just days after the targeting of his house" by Israeli forces who "utterly destroyed" it — an accusation to which the IDF did not specifically respond.

The network accused Israel of "systematic killing of journalists in cold blood," as well as "evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law."

Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
the strip’s Hamas-governed civil defense agency front man Mahmud Bassal confirmed Louh had been killed in the strike on the Nuseirat camp, which he said also claimed the lives of three members of the rescue agency.

In a statement, Hamas called Louh’s killing an "liquidation" and a "war crime," describing it as "part of a systematic targeting of journalists in Gaza, aimed at intimidating them and deterring them."

It was not the first time an Al Jazeera employee has been killed by Israeli forces amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which began when the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7 last year, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

In January, Israel said an Al Jazeera staff journalist as well as a freelancer killed in an airstrike in Gaza were terror operatives.

The following month, it accused another journalist with the channel, who was maimed in a separate strike, of being a deputy company commander with Hamas.

And in October, the IDF said it had uncovered documents in Gaza that show six active Al Jazeera news hounds were operatives in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Al Jazeera has fiercely denied
No, no! Certainly not!
Israel’s allegations and accused it of systematically targeting Al Jazeera employees in the Gaza Strip.

In April, the Israeli government passed an emergency law to take the network off the air and block its broadcasts for violating national security. Courts have since upheld the legislation, citing confidential information.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad

#1  TV network accuses Israel of ‘systematic killing of journalists’

Watch and learn, Americans.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 0:43 Comments || Top||


Israeli troops kill 20 in Gaza Strip, attack school sheltering displaced Palestinians
[GEO.TV] Israeli troops killed at least 20 Paleostinians, most of them 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 Sunday Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s and other attacks on targets that included a school sheltering displaced Gazooks, medics and residents said.

They said at least 11 of the dead were killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City houses. The others were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia camp.

Residents said clusters of houses were bombed and some set ablaze in the three towns. The Israeli army has been operating in the towns for over two months.

In Beit Hanoun, Israeli forces besieged families sheltering in Khalil Aweida school before storming it and ordering them to head towards Gaza City, the medics and residents said.

Medics said several people were killed and maimed during the raid on the school while the army detained many men. The number killed was not immediately clear.

IDF: Dozens of terror operatives killed in overnight raid in north Gaza’s Beit Hanoun

[IsraelTimes] Several more gunmen killed in adjacent town of Beit Lahiya; military says it hit Hamas command center in former clinic in Jabalia, three cells in Gaza City

Dozens of terror operatives were killed in an overnight raid carried out by troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday. According to the military, the Givati troops raided an area of Beit Hanoun where there was a “concentration of terrorists” following intelligence information on “the presence of terrorists in the area.”

During the operation, which also involved airstrikes, dozens of gunmen were killed, and several other terror operatives were detained, the IDF said.

In a separate operation in the adjacent town of Beit Lahiya, the IDF added, troops of the Kfir Brigade killed several terror operatives in ground combat and by directing airstrikes. The soldiers also located and destroyed weapons in the area.

Meanwhile, earlier Sunday, the IDF said it carried out an airstrike against Hamas operatives at a command center embedded within a building that formerly housed the Abu Shabak medical clinic in Jabalia.

“The compound was used by the Hamas terrorists to plan and carry out terror activity against IDF troops and the State of Israel, and many weapons used by the Hamas terrorists were stored there,” the military said.

The IDF also said that on Saturday night, fighter jets struck three terror cells in Gaza City, whose members were planning to carry out attacks against troops in the “immediate time frame.”

In all of the strikes, the IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm, including by using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence. Gaza-based medics said that nine people were killed Sunday in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia. Residents said clusters of houses were bombed and some set ablaze in the three towns.

The latest operations came amid a months-long 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 2,000 operatives during the recent operation, while another 1,500 have been detained, and around 90,000 civilians evacuated from the area. Thirty-four IDF soldiers have been killed so far in the operation.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 386. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They go back to school, but they don't learn.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 0:44 Comments || Top||


West Bank: Terrorists factions in Jenin declare the participation in the war against the Palestinian Authority
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



… Hamas and the Palestinian Jihad are trying to overthrow the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. They sent this child soldier along with others to the front line yesterday in Jenin. He and many others were killed in a gun battle with the Palestinian Authority forces.

The media, human rights organisations, the UN and pro-Palestinians in the west don’t care about the Palestinians when they can’t blame Israel or Jews.
So you won’t read about him because Israel wasn’t involved.

Please retweet if you are fed up with the globalist far-left political establishment exploiting everything to promote their false narratives and political agenda!

Report: US asked Israel to approve military aid for PA as it fights terror groups in Jenin
[IsraelTimes] The US has asked Israel to approve the urgent delivery of military assistance to the Paleostinian Authority amid its latest crackdown on terror organizations in Jenin as it attempts to restore order in the flashpoint West Bank city, Axios reports.

It reports that the Biden administration is seeking to provide the PA security forces with ammunition, helmets, bulletproof vests, armored cars and other essential items, but needs Israel’s approval in order to do so.

It adds that an unnamed Paleostinian official appealed to the US for assistance, explaining that the terror groups — chiefly Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
and 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...
— are currently better equipped than the PA security forces.

The PA has said that the operation in Jenin, the largest of its kind in years, is aimed at restoring security and stability in the area. It comes as Ramallah appears to be trying to signal that it could play a significant role in managing a post-war 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.

But the reasons for the operation are twofold, Axios reports, as PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
fears that he too could be ousted in the same manner as Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
, whose family’s 50-year-reign came to an abrupt end after a lightning rebel offensive earlier this month.

"It was a Syria effect," the unnamed Paleostinian official tells Axios. "Abbas and his team were concerned that what happened in Aleppo and Damascus will inspire Paleostinian Islamist [groups]."
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The US has asked Israel to approve the urgent delivery of military assistance to the Paleostinian Authority

35 days.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 0:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad-regime torturer: report
[NY Post] The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.

The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it "one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed" in her 20 years of reporting.

But "independent and unbiased" fact-checkers Verify-Sy published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

"We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity," CNN acknoweldged to the Telegraph. "We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story."

The CNN story last week showed Ward and a camera crew, escorted by a rebel fighter, visiting a former Syrian Air Force intelligence headquarters in Damascus and freeing the man who was found under a blanket locked in a windowless cell.

He gave his name as Adel Ghurbal and claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months earlier — and said he had no idea the Assad regime had collapsed.

Verify-Sy noted, however, that he appeared “well-groomed, and physically healthy, with no visible injuries or signs of torture — an incongruous portrayal of someone allegedly held in solitary confinement in the dark for 90 days.”

Verify-Sy then found that there was no record of an Adel Ghurbal in the region — leading it to his true identity, Salama, the outlet said.

Known as “Abu Hamza,” Salama worked at several security checkpoints in Homs and was involved in theft, extortion and coercing residents into becoming informants for Assad, local residents told the fact-checkers.

He also killed civilians during the Syrian civil war in 2014 — and allegedly detained and tortured young men on bogus charges, many of whom refused to pay bribes, Verify-Sy reported.

Locals claim he was locked up in the prison where he was discovered for less than a month due to a dispute with a high-ranking officer over sharing the extorted money.

Verify-Sy then found that there was no record of an Adel Ghurbal in the region — leading it to his true identity, Salama, the outlet said.

Known as “Abu Hamza,” Salama worked at several security checkpoints in Homs and was involved in theft, extortion and coercing residents into becoming informants for Assad, local residents told the fact-checkers.

He also killed civilians during the Syrian civil war in 2014 — and allegedly detained and tortured young men on bogus charges, many of whom refused to pay bribes, Verify-Sy reported.

Locals claim he was locked up in the prison where he was discovered for less than a month due to a dispute with a high-ranking officer over sharing the extorted money.

Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2024 09:24 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  CNN will be CNN.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 9:32 Comments || Top||


#3  File under professional courtesy
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2024 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Beege at HotAir: When the Weeping Torture Victim You Save...
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Watch the video closer.
Ever seen a person deprived of any light for a long time, and not squint and shield their eyes from bright sunlight for a long time?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/16/2024 11:52 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ yes.

Bombshell report reveals big problem with CNN's Syrian jail 'rescue' video
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2024 12:17 Comments || Top||

#7  This looked fake from the beginning the first time I saw it. A bit surprising that Clarissa Ward fell for it.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/16/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Otoh, maybe not that surprising.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/16/2024 12:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Some producers is emptying their desk into a cardboard box they found by the copier.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/16/2024 13:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Manufacturing drama like this is hardly a surprise. Wait for CNN to claim they were cleverly duped while denying they desperately needed to be…
Posted by: Alpha2c || 12/16/2024 16:58 Comments || Top||


Israel drops 'earthquake bomb': Colossal explosion 'so big it registered on the Richter scale' hits Syria as air strikes target weapons depots after fall of Assad
Lots of dramatic photos at the link.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'Colossal' explosions have filled the skies in Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the 'the heaviest strikes' in the area for more than a decade - with blasts which registered on earthquake sensors.

A war monitor group said that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region.

'Israeli warplanes launched strikes' targeting a series of sites including air defence units and 'surface-to-surface missile depots', said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were 'the heaviest strikes in Syria's coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012'.

It has been claimed that the explosion was so large, it measured as a magnitude 3.0 on seismic sensors.

Tartus has been the location of one of Russia's two military bases in Syria and was used as a naval base, as well as an ammunition depot.

The huge explosion, as well as secondary explosions, may indicate the presence of a large volume of stored armaments.

Dramatic videos circulating on social media showed a huge bright flash followed by several explosions which sent an enormous mushroom cloud of smoke into the air.

Russia's foreign ministry earlier today said it had evacuated some of its diplomatic staff from Syria, a week after the fall of the nation's dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2024 01:50 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  The earthquake is the consequence of the stored ammo - not IAF bomb.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/16/2024 3:43 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/16/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  ...an earth-shattering KABOOM!
Posted by: Heavy+G || 12/16/2024 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Secondaries can be nasty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2024 14:15 Comments || Top||


Israel continues bombing Syrian Army targets: 61 airstrikes + 26 raids = 450 strikes in 13 provinces over past week, Tartus strike hits 3.1 on Richter scale


Israel said to heavily strike military targets on Syrian coast

[IsraelTimes] Reports say Israeli strikes have targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region, with a Syria war monitor calling them “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

“Israeli warplanes launched strikes” targeting a series of sites, including air defense units and “surface-to-surface missile depots,” says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it says were “the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012.”

Footage posted to social media shows a huge explosion.

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.

Israel still striking former Syrian army depots: Monitor

[Rudaw] Israeli warplanes on Sunday continued striking warehouses and ammunition depots of the former Syrian army in the Damascus, Hama, and Homs provinces, a war monitor reported.

The latest round of strikes targeted missile warehouses in the Qalamoun Mountains in Damascus, as well as weapons warehouses and air defense facilities in Homs and Hama, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.

“Since Saturday evening, Israeli warplanes have launched 61 airstrikes and carried out 26 raids. This brings the number of Israeli strikes to 446, targeting 13 Syrian provinces since the fall of the former regime on December 8,” the Observatory said.

Israel has been scrambling to destroy Syria’s military stockpiles since last Sunday, when rebels ousted Bashar al-Assad’s regime from power and sent him fleeing to Russia. It has also sent troops marching across the border into a buffer zone east of the annexed Golan Heights, a move condemned by Arab countries and the United Nations.

It has defended its decision to send troops across the border as a precaution to political uncertainty in Syria.

As Assad’s regime fell, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “historic day for the Middle East.”

Tartus strikes said picked up by quake monitor

[IsraelTimes] A tremor recorded off the coast of Syria late last night is being attributed in Hebrew language media to heavy Israeli strikes allegedly carried out in in the coastal Tartus region.

A 3.1 magnitude temblor is reported by the Geographic Survey of Israel’s seismology department at 11:49 p.m. last night, with its epicenter about 28 kilometers (17 miles) off the coast of the city of Banias.

The earthquake’s depth is measured at 32 kilometers (20 miles), and there is no confirmation that the reading was in fact caused by explosions.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israeli planes launched intense strikes in Syria’s coastal region late Sunday targeting air defense units, “surface-to-surface missile depots” and other sites.





… used by jihadist rebels.

Israel has done more for peace and security than the United Nations.


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Leb: Israel airstrikes three Hezbollah sites in two districts, one toes up
Israeli drones bomb areas near two Sidon district towns

[NAHARNET] An Israeli drone on Friday bombed the Tebna area near the Sidon district town of Bayssarieh, the state-run National News Agency said.

The same area had been targeted twice since the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took effect on November 27.

Israel had claimed that the targets were Hezbollah ''activities'' and ''a Hezbollah facility containing medium-range rockets.''

Later on Friday, an Israeli drone bombed an open area on the outskirts of the Sidon district town of al-Zrariyeh, causing no casualties, media reports said.

Leb: One person killed in Israeli strike on al-Khardali

[NAHARNET] 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 health ministry said an Israeli dronezap in the south killed one person on Saturday, the latest deadly raid despite a more than two-week ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"An Israeli enemy dronezap... killed one person" in al-Khardali in the Marjayoun district, the health ministry said in a statement. The official National News Agency reported a car was targeted.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11152 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


The Americans have entered Kobani in northern Syria
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Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  How about you send those guys to do that in National City, Calexico, Tecate, Yuma, Nogales, Eagle Pass, MacAllen and El Paso?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/16/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||



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