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Last year it was Gaza. This year it’s Luigi. Before it was BLM. Next year, who knows? But every year, it’s the same hollering malcontents, using the same tactics, getting the same kid glove treatment in the press. https://t.co/6Sgti5wVUO
Wishing you and yours all the joys of the season! Last Christmas European Conservative gifted us his boyhood choir performance — an experience worth repeating,
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Oh my, you remember...
Merry Christmas to all Rantburgers!
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A translation of this Austrian Christmas song:
It's getting dark, night is falling,
so I'm coming to you, my savior, on the watch.
I want to sing a song to the lamb, the sweetest,
you don't sleep, I just hear you crying.
Sleep sweetly, dear child!
Forget now, oh child, your sorrows, your troubles,
that you have to suffer there in the stable on the hay.
The angels are decorating your bed,
it couldn't be more beautiful, even in a king's house.
Home, home, home! Sweet dreams, dear child!
Yes, my child, you are so beautiful in the crib,
it suits me, I can't bear to leave you.
I wish you from my heart the sweetest rest,
the angels of heaven cover you.
Here, here, here! Sleep sweetly, you beautiful child!
Close your eyes in peace and quiet
and give me your blessing as I go.
Then my sleep will be carefree too,
and I can rest easy when I lie down.
Here, here, here! Sleep sweetly, my dear child!
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All this is part of the "Christmas Story" of Carl Orff (the composer of Carmina Burana) which I'm proud of playing a little part in. Orff gave music lessons in our school in the 1960s.
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Last night, two people were stabbed (one dead), and a third person assaulted on a southbound 7-train in Queens, NY. Police arrested 3 suspects. All illegal aliens.
This comes just hours after the NYPD apprehended the illegal who set the woman on fire on the F train in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/zbR3gLY8hN
I guess when you are minor, murder is like a Video Game and maybe seen as a process to get taken care, instead of having to work for a living, for the rest of your life.
Or, until another senile Democrat President pardons you.
[Garowe] A group of Kenya Special Forces were critically injured on Sunday during a patrol in the northeastern province just near Kotulo area, officials said, moments after they were informed of al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... activities in the area.
According to police reports, the officers were maimed while activating their operations. They were on board two vehicles including an MRAP and a DCD vehicle.
The DCD ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that had been planted on the road by the bully boys. The vehicle was left badly damaged after the earth-shattering kaboom, with at least eight coppers left injured.
The other vehicle that was trailing it stopped and helped to evacuate the injured to the hospital. The incident happened at night and the al-Shabaab forces of Evil are said to have been monitoring the team before the earth-shattering kaboom.
The injured were rushed to hospital at death's door, police said. This is the first time the forces of Evil have staged a serious attack in the northeastern region after months of relative calmness due to robust security operations within the region.
Kenya has established more Forward Operating Bases along the Kenya-Somalia border in anticipation of the transition within Somalia, which would see more soldiers drifting to the border where they are expected to improve surveillance.
The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has been conducting multi-agency operations along the region and recently, President William Ruto elevated the Wajir Airbase by making it fully operational in anticipation of sophisticated operations.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen take responsibility for the overnight ballistic missile attack on Israel.
The Houthis say they launched the missile at a “military target” in the Tel Aviv area, claiming that “the operation has successfully achieved its objectives.”
The Israeli military said the missile was successfully intercepted by air defenses.
The Iran-backed terror group in recent days has ramped up ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel, in what it says is support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war there.
[FoxNews] A second SM-2 missile was fired from USS Gettysburg, Navy official confirms.
On the same night a U.S. Navy fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea, a second jet nearly suffered the same fate. An F/A-18 Super Hornet – flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down – was forced to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS Gettysburg, narrowly missing the second jet by 100 feet while it prepared to land aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, a source with knowledge of the incident tells Fox News.
A Navy official confirmed that a second SM-2 missile was fired from USS Gettysburg, adding that the Navy is investigating whether that missile was targeting the second jet.
The Navy is also looking into whether the USS Gettysburg switched off the guidance system on the second missile. The near shoot-down of a second U.S. Navy jet has not been previously reported.
U.S. Central Command, responsible for leading airstrikes in the Middle East, including the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, said in a statement about the "friendly fire" incident earlier this week: "The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18, which was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman."
The source said that is not correct. The F/A-18 Super Hornet was attempting to land aboard Truman when it was shot down after performing a midair refueling mission for jets carrying out airstrikes over Yemen, the source said.
"It was a tanker crew returning to land on the carrier about 10 miles out. They recognized the missile was guiding and punched out about three seconds before the missile hit the jet," the source said.
The pilot and weapons systems officer ejected and were picked up by a rescue helicopter and returned to the carrier. One suffered "minor injuries," according to a Centcom statement.
Neither U.S. Central Command nor the Pentagon has disclosed a second American fighter jet was fired upon by the cruiser and narrowly avoided getting shot down as well.
"The cruiser almost shot down two friendly jets," the source said.
On the night of the "friendly fire" incident, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on X its "forces conducted precision airstrikes against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sana'a, Yemen, on Dec. 21 Yemen time."
There have not been any more strikes against the Houthis from Truman since the friendly fire incident.
Navy pilots are angry about the incident and question the training aboard the USS Gettysburg, the source said, calling it "insufficient."
The "friendly fire" incident took place days after the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the Red Sea. The Dec. 21 strikes against the Houthis were the first for the strike group since arriving off the coast of Yemen.
On the night Truman launched airstrikes against the Houthis, the American warships came under fire, which may have contributed to the "friendly fire" incident.
In the statement announcing the strikes, Centcom said, "During the [Dec. 21] operation, CENTCOM forces also shot down multiple Houthi one way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles (OWA UAV) and an anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) over the Red Sea."
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors have said at least some of the violence against Israeli soccer fans was motivated by ‘the situation in Gaza,’ not antisemitism; 6 more suspects yet to appear at court
A Dutch court on Tuesday convicted five men for their part in last month’s violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam that shocked the world and sparked accusations of antisemitism.
The Amsterdam district court found them guilty of a range of crimes, from kicking fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the street to inciting violence in chat groups.
The heaviest sentence imposed was six months in prison, for a man identified as Sefa O. for public violence against several people.
Israeli officials said 10 people were maimed in the violence, while hundreds more Israelis huddled in their hotels for hours, fearing they could be attacked. Many said that Dutch security forces were nowhere to be found, as the Israeli tourists were ambushed by gangs of masked assailants who shouted pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel slogans while they hunted, beat and harassed them.
Police said they were investigating at least 45 people over the violence. Some social media posts had included calls to "hunt Jews," according to police. The attacks followed two days of skirmishes that also saw Maccabi fans chant anti-Arab songs, vandalize a taxi and burn a Paleostinian flag.
Images of the violence went around the world and sparked a furious reaction in Israel, including accusations of a "pogrom."
The most serious case under consideration Tuesday was that of O., who prosecutors said played a "leading role" in the violence.
The court saw images of a man identified as O. kicking a person on the ground, chasing targets, and punching people in the head and the body.
The prosecutor said the beatings had "little to do with soccer" but added that "in this case, there was no evidence of... a terrorist intent and the violence was not motivated by antisemitic sentiment."
"The violence was influenced by 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... , not by antisemitism," claimed the prosecutor, referring to Israel’s war against Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... , sparked by the latter’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in Israel in which attackers killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251.
Another man identified as Umutcan A., 24, received a sentence of one month for assaulting fans and violent mostly peacefully ripping a Maccabi scarf from one of them.
A 22-year-old identified as Abushabab M., 22, faces a charge of attempted murder but his case has been postponed while he undergoes a psychiatric assessment.
He was born in the Gaza Strip and grew up in a war zone, his lawyer told the court, while M. sat sobbing as his case was being heard.
A further six suspects are set to appear at a later stage.
Three of these suspects are minors and their cases will be heard behind closed doors.
At an emotionally charged news conference the morning after the riots, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said the city had been "deeply damaged" by "hateful antisemitic rioters."
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Halsema later said she regretted the parallel she had drawn between the violence and "memories of pogroms," arguing that this word had been used as propaganda.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the violence at the time as a "premeditated antisemitic attack," a description repeated by the Lawfare Project Jewish civil rights organization during the court proceedings.
[IsraelTimes] Arizona suspect made hundreds of calls, including death threats, to Settenbrino family amid online campaign sparked by clips from war.
US federal prosecutors have indicted a suspect for sending death threats to a Jewish family in New York after their son, an IDF soldier, posted videos from 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... that sparked anti-Israel protests against the family’s hotel.
The owner of the Historic Blue Moon Hotel, Randy Settenbrino, said the family had received hundreds of threats and been targeted by street protests and online harassment.
"They’ve done untold damage with bad reviews and with tying up our front desk, frightening our staff," Settenbrino told The Times of Israel in a Tuesday interview.
The hotel is a family-owned business in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood with a long Jewish history, and has 22 rooms. The family has been operating the hotel since 2006 and painstakingly restored the building, which was constructed in 1879. The hotel leans into the area’s Jewish heritage, and has a kosher Italian cafe on the ground floor called the Sweet Dreams Cafe that features art by Settenbrino, including a colorful mural that depicts historical Jewish tragedies.
Donovan Hall, 34, sent hundreds of threats to the family and hotel, including antisemitic statements and threats of violence, according to the indictment filed in the federal Southern District of New York last week.
Hall, from Arizona, was charged with two counts of threatening interstate communications, and one count of cyberstalking, both felonies. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
"Donovan Hall allegedly unleashed a campaign of terror against several Jewish New Yorkers, allegedly sending scores of hateful, violent mostly peaceful and antisemitic death threats," Acting US Attorney Edward Y. Kim said in a statement. "No individual deserves to be at the receiving end of these types of threats or to be targeted because of their religion."
Hall was arrested after an investigation by the FBI and NYPD.
Hall began making dozens of threatening, antisemitic phone calls to the family over the summer, when videos posted by Settenbrino’s son, Bram, drew attention from anti-Israel activists online and in international media. One of the clips showed a first-person view of a soldier firing a light machine gun at a group of distant buildings, and the second showed a building exploding. An account called Stop Arab Hate posted the videos, accusing the soldier of "indiscriminately shooting a gun," and shared contact information for the hotel in a post that was viewed millions of times.
Settenbrino said his son served as a lone soldier in the Combat Engineering corps and had been in a firefight in the footage.
The criminal complaint references the videos and does not name the family, but Settenbrino confirmed his family and the hotel employees were the targets.
On August 8-9, Hall made 54 calls to the victims, the complaint said. In one of the calls, he told a hotel employee that he was going to travel to the hotel on his cycle of violence and shoot the victim in the head. In another, he stated the victim’s home address and said he was going to shoot him and his family, calling the victim a "fucking Jew bag," a "child-murdering Jew" and making other explicit and violent mostly peaceful threats.
Between early August and late November, Hall called the victims at least 971 times, the complaint said.
In October, Hall allegedly started sending photographs of deadly weapons and threats to the victims. In one message, he sent a photo of a gun with the text, "I’ve got something for you and your inbred children." In another, he sent an image of a knife and wrote, "This knife is for child molesters such as your son." Another showed a hand on a pistol overlaid with the text, "For the Zionist cowards."
Law enforcement recovered the two firearms from the photos during a search of Hall’s residence at the time of his arrest. Neither weapon was registered in his name; one was loaded.
The threats were part of a larger campaign of death threats Hall sent to people around the US, often targeting Jews, prosecutors said. Hall also allegedly sent two voicemails to an organization that supports IDF troops, threatening the groups and telling them to leave the US.
Settenbrino said the calls were part of a harassment campaign aimed at the family and its hotel after their son posted the videos on social media. In addition to harassing the front desk with calls and posting negative reviews online, street protests prompted some guests to cancel their stays at the hotel and activists repeatedly attempted to hack into the hotel’s email system, Settenbrino said.
An anti-Israel group called Unity of Fields that encourages vandalizing targets it deems supportive of Israel posted photos in September of graffiti on the hotel. The graffiti said "Baby killer" and included inverted red triangles, a symbol the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos that has been adopted by anti-Israel activists in the US. Settenbrino said police had been unable to locate the vandals.
Hall was arrested last month but the case was initially sealed. Prosecutors announced the arrest last week.
The hotel has received plaudits from media including National Geographic and New York Magazine, but was struggling before the activist campaign. It was forced to close during the pandemic, leading to debts and a bankruptcy filing. Settenbrino said the business had started to recover before taking another hit from the anti-Israel activists.
The street protests have dwindled but the online harassment continues, he said.
Settenbrino said the family feels abandoned by local Jewish leaders, despite his longstanding community activism.
"We’ve had not one New York City Jewish politician otherwise come down and visit," despite the family’s appeals for support, he said.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says an aircraft struck a Hamas operative in the humanitarian zone of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip a short time ago, based on exact intelligence.
It says that before the strike, it took various steps to minimize the risk to civilians, including aerial surveillance and the use of precision weaponry.
[IsraelTimes] Col. Ayub Kayuf taken to hospital for treatment after device detonated against his vehicle; army says it conducted drone strike on gunmen; Ramallah says 2 women among the dead
The IDF said Tuesday night that the commander of the West Bank regional brigade in charge of the Tulkarem area was lightly injured after a bomb went kaboom! beside his vehicle during a military operation in the city.
The Paleostinian health ministry reported that the ongoing raid by Israeli forces in the city had resulted in eight fatalities, including two women. The military said it had targeted button men in a dronezap amid the operation, had "eliminated a terrorist," and arrested 18 terror suspects.
Menashe Brigade Commander Col. Ayub Kayuf was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was initially listed in moderate condition following the earth-shattering kaboom, but the army later said his injury was mild. No others were hurt by the blast.
Ramallah said two women — Khawla Ali Abdullah Abdo, 53, and Bara Khalid Hussein, 30 — were among those killed in Tulkarem. Eighteen-year-old Fathi Said Awda Ubaid was also among those killed there, it said, adding he was fatally shot in the chest and abdomen.
Residents of the Tulkarem camp reported that the raid, which began in the early hours of Tuesday, involved bulldozers destroying roads. The IDF sometimes demolishes roads amid operations to tackle bombs planted along them.
Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the war 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... broke out last year following Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s deadly October 7 attack on Israel.
The Israeli operation came amid an unprecedented crackdown by Paleostinian Authority security forces on terrorism in the West Bank, in which two Paleostinian officers were killed and several more maimed in Jenin on Monday.
On Monday, Maharan Kadous, a Paleostinian police officer, was killed clashing with button men in Jenin. Kadous was the second Paleostinian security officer to be killed within 24 hours, amid an operation that began about a week ago in response to an incident earlier this month in which terror operatives stole two Paleostinian Authority vehicles and paraded them through Jenin.
The PA has a relatively strong presence in the southern and central West Bank, where it can maintain order. But in the northern part of the territory, especially the refugee camps in the Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarem, it has struggled to exercise authority against terror groups.
The Ramallah-based government’s recent operations against terror groups are also seen as an attempt to demonstrate its capacity to govern the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been battling the Hamas terror group.
On Sunday, it was announced that Sahar Farouk Rahil, a PA security officer who served on the PA’s elite "presidential guard," was killed by button men in the Jenin refugee camp.
In a statement following Rahil’s death, PA Security Services front man Col. Anwar Rajab said, "This crime only strengthens the services’ determination to pursue lawbreakers, to enforce the rule of law, and to ensure the security of the Paleostinian people."
On Monday, the Jenin Battalion of the 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 published — then took down and denied ever having published — a video of four operatives wearing boom jackets warning Paleostinian security officers that if they entered the refugee camp the operatives were "ready to blow ourselves up."
Separately, images circulated online Monday that appeared to show Paleostinian security officers holding RPGs, a weapon not supposed to exist in the services’ arsenal.
According to preliminary reports, the PA forces are believed to have seized the RPGs from Islamic Jihad operatives during the operation, and are not known to have used them, according to Channel 12.
Last week, Paleostinian security services arrested some 110 terror operatives, seized 100 explosives, and neutralized eight boom-mobiles, according to reports. Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... some 32 button men have been maimed so far, and two killed, Channel 12 reported.
Sheikh Mohammad Salah, head mufti of the Paleostinian Security Services, said of the deaths, "We don’t want a second Gaza in Jenin. Better that thousands of us die, as long as they don’t destroy Jenin and Paleostine."
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority health ministry reports three dead and six wounded in the IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem earlier today.
The military said it had targeted a group of Palestinian gunmen.
[IsraelTimes] Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew calls assessment by USAID unit ‘irresponsible’ for relying on ‘inaccurate data’ to inflate affected population; IDF kills gunmen in Gaza hospital
In a rare critique, US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew issued a statement Tuesday rejecting a US government agency’s food security report asserting that a famine continues to unfold in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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.
It came as the IDF said it killed five button men in a Gaza hospital and destroyed a rocket launcher positioned next to a UN building.
"The report issued today on Gaza by FEWS NET relies on data that is outdated and inaccurate," Lew said of the US-created Famine Early Warning System Network publication.
Lew took particular issue with the report’s apparent reliance on mid-November figures from 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... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to inflate the number of civilians still in north Gaza.
"We have worked closely with the government of Israel and the UN to provide greater access to the North Governorate, and it is now apparent that the civilian population in that part of Gaza is in the range of 7,000-15,000, not 65,000-75,000 which is the basis of this report," the US envoy stated.
"[Israel’s] COGAT estimates the population in this area is between 5,000 and 9,000. UNRWA estimates the population is between 10,000 and 15,000," he continued referring to the IDF body responsible for humanitarian coordination in Gaza and the UN Paleostinian refugee agency, respectively.
"At a time when inaccurate information is causing confusion and accusations, it is irresponsible to issue a report like this. We work day and night with the UN and our Israeli partners to meet humanitarian needs — which are great — and relying on inaccurate data is irresponsible," Lew added.
FEWS NET, which is a unit of the US Agency for International Development, also mentioned in its report that more recent estimates from UNRWA on December 22 put the population in the affected area at 10,000-15,000.
Nonetheless, it wrote that "it is highly likely that the food consumption and acute malnutrition thresholds for Famine (IPC Phase 5) have now been surpassed in North Gaza Governorate."
Throughout the war, the US has rejected conclusions from aid agencies and rights groups that Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza but critiques of specific figures used by these organizations have been more rare.
According to its website, FEWS NET has analysts in field offices who work with "US government science agencies, national government ministries, international agencies and NGOs to produce forward-looking reports" on the world’s most food-insecure countries.
The war began with the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -led onslaught of October 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians. Terrorists also kidnapped 251 people who were taken as hostages to Gaza.
Experts, aid groups and UN agencies have for months sounded warnings of imminent famine in northern Gaza, which Israel has almost completely sealed off since launching a major military operation there in early October against Hamas operatives attempting to regroup.
The US, which has provided crucial military aid to Israel and shielded it from international criticism, has repeatedly appealed to Israel to facilitate more aid, with limited results.
On Monday, the United Nations aid chief, Tom Fletcher, said Israeli forces had hampered efforts to deliver much-needed aid in northern Gaza.
"North Gaza has been under a near-total siege for more than two months, raising the specter of famine," he said. "South Gaza is extremely overcrowded, creating horrific living conditions and even greater humanitarian needs as winter sets in."
Israel blames the lack of humanitarian aid on United Nations agencies, accusing them of not delivering hundreds of truckloads of aid that have been allowed in. The UN says it is often too dangerous to retrieve and deliver the aid. It blames Israel as the occupying power for a breakdown of law and order — which has enabled gangs to steal aid convoys — while also accusing it of heavily restricting movement within the territory.
Israel says members of Hamas, the Paleostinian terror group that rules the Strip, have stolen much of the aid sent in for civilians.
GUNMEN KILLED IN HOSPITAL
Also Tuesday, the IDF said it wrapped up a "limited operation" against Hamas at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, during which at least five button men were killed and several operatives were detained.
According to the military, in the past month, several attacks against troops, including anti-tank fire, were launched from the hospital. In the area surrounding the hospital, the military said Hamas operatives also planted numerous bombs.
Overnight, the Givati Brigade launched a raid against the hospital area, following intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and Shin Bet security agency, which indicated "the presence of forces of Evil and terror infrastructures in the area of the hospital," the IDF said.
The IDF said five button men were killed and several were detained, including a terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught.
To mitigate civilian harm, the IDF said it "enabled and facilitated the secure evacuation of civilians, medical personnel, and patients from the area both before and during the operation."
"We emphasize that the operation was conducted after multiple warnings were issued to the Gazook health ministry regarding terrorist activity being conducted inside the hospital," the military said.
"The troops operated while mitigating harm to uninvolved civilians and enabling the activities of the hospital to continue as much as possible," the IDF added.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Israeli troops forced the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital, sending many patients, some of them on foot, to another hospital miles away in Gaza City.
Munir al-Bursh, director of the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip, said the Israeli army had ordered hospital officials to evacuate it on Monday, before storming it in the early hours of Tuesday and forcing those inside to leave.
Israel says it has been facilitating the delivery of medical supplies, fuel and the transfer of patients from medical centers in the area to other hospitals in Gaza during the military offensive in collaboration with international agencies such as the World Health Organization.
Later Tuesday, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hamas rocket launcher positioned next to a United Nations building in Gaza City’s Shati. The military said the strike was carried out after calling on civilians in the area to evacuate. Footage released by the IDF showed a rocket flying out of the site following the strike.
According to Gaza medics, 15 people were killed during the day by Israeli strikes. The figures could not be verified and do not distinguish between button men and non-combatants.
A new bid by mediators Egypt, 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... and the United States to end the fighting and release Israeli and foreign hostages held in Gaza has gained momentum this month, though no breakthrough has been reported. The Prime Minister’s Office reported that an Israeli negotiating team will return from Qatar after a "significant" week of talks there.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
