[PREMIUMTIMESNG] Six former refugees repatriated from Chad have regained their freedom after paying a ransom to their Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... kidnappers.
The Lions of Islam kidnapped eight former refugees a fortnight ago while they were fishing on the outskirts of their community in Doron Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.
The incident happened just months after the victims were resettled in the community after spending over ten years as refugees in the Chad Republic fleeing from the Boko Haram krazed killers.
The murderous Moslems had demanded N300,000 as ransom for each of the kidnapped persons,
On Saturday, one of the victims said the murderous Moslems have rel66jmeased six of them.
''They released six of us,'' Bukar Shuib (not his real name) said, adding that their families paid money to the krazed killers.
''Some of us paid N300,000. Others paid between N200,000 and less to secure our freedom,'' Mr Shuib said.
He said the other two were still with the murderous Moslems because their families could not raise the money, narrating how they suffered at the hands of the krazed killers.
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[AFRICANEWS] Monday's attack comes exactly one week after another raid claimed 52 lives.
Gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers raided two villages in Plateau state's Bassa district before shooting and hacking their victims. At least 51 bodies were recovered by rescue teams.
Dozens more were maimed. A resident interviewed by Rooters said a mass burial was conducted for the victims.
Plateau - in Nigeria's centre - is one of the country's most ethnically diverse states. Inter-communal fights pitting mostly Christian farmers and predominantly Moslem herders are common.
Amnesty International said the button men also destroyed and looted homes. In a statement, the organization blamed 'inexcusable' security failures for Monday's attack.
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That doesn’t jibe with other reports we’ve seen recently…
[VANGUARDNGR] Nigeria's Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has confidently stated that the notorious terrorist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) are ''on their last legs.''
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Idris discussed various critical issues affecting Nigeria, including the global trade situation, the political unrest in neighboring Niger, and ongoing security challenges in West Africa.
Idris remarked that the decline of these terrorist groups is imminent, claiming that efforts from Nigeria's military and security forces have significantly weakened the groups' operational capabilities.
He also mentioned the recently formed Lakurawa group, expressing confidence that this new threat would soon be neutralized as part of Nigeria's broader strategy to eliminate terrorism from the region.
The minister also addressed concerns over a potential global trade war, noting Nigeria's concerns while remaining hopeful that governments across the globe would find a balanced solution to avoid major economic disruptions.
Discussing the political crisis in Niger, where a recent coup ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, Idris assured that Nigeria and the regional bloc ECOWAS were no longer seeking military intervention. He stressed that the primary goal now was to restore stability in the region, with an emphasis on diplomatic efforts to secure Bazoum's release from house arrest.
Regarding Nigeria's own democratic institutions, Idris expressed confidence, asserting that the country's strong democratic systems make any attempt at a coup unlikely. He reaffirmed the commitment to maintaining the nation's democratic integrity amidst regional uncertainties.
The minister's statements come at a time when Nigeria is intensifying its efforts to combat terrorism, and his optimistic outlook reflects the government's belief that Boko Haram and ISWAP's influence in the region will soon be eradicated.
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[IsraelTimes] The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says that it has received a report of an incident 100 nautical miles east of Yemen’s Aden, the first report by the agency in the area in months.
[HodhodYemenNews] US warplanes launched a barrage of 15 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Raghwan and Madghal districts in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s northeastern Ma’rib governorate. This latest aggression marks a significant uptick in hostilities as US forces also targeted Kamaran Island, located off Yemen’s western coast in the Red Sea.
Reports indicate that overnight strikes resumed with three targeted raids in the al-Jahaf and al-Qadir areas within al-Jawf Governorate. Early Tuesday, additional assaults were reported in Ma’rib Governorate, according to our correspondent on the ground.
The weekend saw intense activity as US warplanes struck the al-Sawari ceramics factory west of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, resulting in a tragic toll of 32 casualties, comprising both fatalities and injuries, as confirmed by Yemen’s Ministry of Health.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Anis al-Asbahi, revealed alarming figures, stating that US airstrikes across Yemen have led to 338 civilian casualties since mid-March, including women and kiddies. Strikes conducted since March 16 alone have resulted in at least 117 civilian deaths and 221 injuries.
This surge in airstrikes follows a series of operations on April 13, which targeted central and northern Yemen, including the governorates of al-Bayda and Saada. In another significant assault, three airstrikes were executed in the al-Sahleen area of the al-Salem subdistrict in Kitaf District, located near Yemen’s northern border—an area that has frequently borne the brunt of US military aggression.
[HodhodYemenNews] An unidentified drone, believed to be American, carried out a double strike on two vehicles in Hadhramaut province, which is under the Saudi-led coalition’s control in eastern Yemen.
Media sources reported that the attack occurred Sunday afternoon on the Al-Abr road. Two missiles directly hit the first vehicle, killing a person inside and completely charring his body. The person’s identity has not yet been determined.
The sources explained that the second car, which was carrying three people, managed to flee towards the Al-Abr-Shabwa Junction, and they were likely to belong to Al-Qaeda.
Another airstrike targeted a person who was walking on foot near one of the hangars in the Al-Amiriyah area after Al-Abr Market towards Old Al-Abr, which led to his immediate death without his identity being identified, according to the sources.
The sources indicated that the area extending from across Shabwah to Bin Aifan Junction has witnessed intense activity of unidentified drones during the past days, which reinforces doubts about the possibility of the United States’ involvement in these operations.
This attack follows a similar attack on Saturday that targeted a car in Ataq, the capital of Shabwah province. The attack resulted in the burning and destruction of the vehicle and the charring of the body of an unidentified person, amidst a continued secrecy surrounding the parties carrying out the raids in these areas.
[HodhodYemenNews] The oil-rich Hadhramaut province in eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , affected by the conflict between Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... and the UAE, is witnessing a major escalation.
The UAE-backed Transitional Council (STC) is taking military and civilian action in response to the activity of the Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, which has declared "self-rule."
The Islah Party also entered the front line through the "Change and Liberation Movement," led by a dissident leader from al-Qaeda.
A local source reported that the STC is planning a huge event on April 24 to curb hard boy elements under political cover.
Observers expect Hadhramaut to become an arena for regional conflict between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, given the complexity of the crisis due to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s intervention to support local factions. They believe that the confrontation may expand to include armed factions in the First and Second Military Regions.
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[KavkazUzel] Former photojournalist Natalia Medvedeva, who was among the voluntary hostages of Basayev's detachment after the seizure of the hospital in Budyonnovsk, was arrested for seven days after a conflict with a Moscow metro passenger wearing a niqab.
A group of militants led by Shamil Basayev seized the central hospital of Budyonnovsk on June 14, 1995. As a result of the terrorist attack, 129 people died. After negotiations on June 19, 1995, the terrorists released the remaining people, and the authorities agreed to stop military actions in Chechnya, allowing the militants to leave. The "Caucasian Knot" published a reference material "Terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk".
61-year-old Moscow resident Natalya Medvedeva, a former photojournalist for Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Ogonyok magazine, received seven days of administrative arrest after a conflict with a metro passenger wearing a niqab. The conflict began because Medvedeva considered the woman in a Muslim headdress "suspicious." She later explained that "after the terrorist attack she experienced, people in Muslim clothing in public places frighten her," Lenta.Ru writes.
The video of the incident in the capital's metro was published by the Telegram channel "Beware, Moscow". One of the short recordings shows a woman with blond hair pulling a girl in a niqab and a long dress by the fabric of her headdress. At this moment, the man punches her, and two other men try to calm him down. The Muslim woman steps aside, adjusting her niqab. Her companion, beating the blonde, swears obscenely, shouting, in particular: "This is my honor! Whose hair are you touching?"
According to eyewitnesses, the pensioner's tablet, on which she was filming herself being beaten, was broken. One of the passengers claims that the man beat the elderly woman and dragged her by the hair in the aisle of the train car, threw her to the floor and kicked her.
The court also arrested the man who beat Medvedeva while defending the girl in the niqab. According to sources, the 21-year-old migrant from Tajikistan “admitted guilt and repented” in court and was sentenced to 13 days of arrest.
During her work as a photojournalist, Natalya Medvedeva often went on business trips to Chechnya, where active military operations were taking place at the time. During the seizure of a hospital in Budyonnovsk by militants, she was wounded in the head by a shell fragment fired from a Russian armored personnel carrier, after which she went inside the hospital, and subsequently, along with a number of other journalists, accompanied Basayev and his detachment to Chechnya.
[BBC] France's Justice Minister said the government would not give in to "acts of intimidation" after a wave of attacks targeting prisons across the country.
On Monday night, vehicles were set alight outside several French prisons and one jail was hit by gunfire, in what Gérald Darmanin described as "terrorist attacks".
Seven prisons have been targeted, in Toulon, Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France, and in Villepinte and Nanterre, near Paris.
Darmanin suggested the attacks which began on Sunday were a response to the government's crackdown on drug trafficking. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has launched an investigation.
On Tuesday, Darmanin visited Toulon's La Farlede prison where gunmen opened fired on the prison gate with a Kalashnikov.
"I am delighted that the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has taken action because this is extremely serious," he told reporters. "These are terrorist attacks."
He added that "significant means" were being employed to find the perpetrators and they would be given "extremely severe sentences".
Darmanin indicated that the "acts of intimidation against prison workers" were related to government efforts to tackle drug crime.
"It might also be because we hit them where it hurts," he said, "and for the first time in decades, France is taking extremely serious measures against drug trafficking."
Earlier on Tuesday, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the government's response must be "relentless".
"Those who attack prisons and officers deserve to be locked up in those prisons and monitored by those officers," he posted on X.
He added that he had instructed police to immediately strengthen security at prison facilities.
The prison guard union, FO Justice, expressed its "deepest concern and anger" following the "extremely serious" attacks overnight.
The union posted updates from the aftermath of several attacks on X, including images of burnt-out vehicles in prison car parks and bullet holes in the Toulon prison entrance gate.
It called for urgent government action to protect prison staff.
Another union, Ufap-Unsa Justice, said there were not enough officers to secure prison perimeters "24/7".
Ufap said that staff vehicles were among those set on fire outside the jails in Villepinte, Aix-Luynes, Nanterre and Valence.
The union condemned the "cowardly and heinous attacks [that] aim to terrorise those who embody the authority of the state".
In Nancy, a prison officer was reportedly threatened at their home, while in Marseille, an attempted arson attack targeted prison officers' accommodation.
Monday night's attacks come after seven vehicles were set on fire in a similar attack on France's national school of prison administration on Sunday, according to FO Justice.
"It is worrying to note that some people no longer hesitate to directly attack the prison's property, a symbol of state authority," it said in a statement.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Parisien reports that the letters DDPF - meaning "French prisoners' rights" - were found inscribed on damaged vehicles. The AFP news agency says anarchist slogans were found at some sites.
AFP quotes a source close to the case as saying the attacks appeared to be coordinated and "clearly linked" to the government's strategy against drug trafficking.
Darmanin and Retailleau have vowed to tackle the scourge of drug trafficking and drug-related violence in France amid a rise in gang-related crime.
In February, the interior ministry announced a record number of cocaine seizures in the first 11 months of 2024 - 53.5 tonnes, a rise of 130% on the 23.2 tonnes seized in 2023. Retailleau said France had been hit by a "white tsunami".
Darmanin has proposed a number of measures to tighten prison security, including establishing dedicated high-security prisons to isolate the drug lords who run their empires from behind bars.
A law is passing through the French parliament which creates a special prosecutor's office to deal with drugs crime, with new powers for investigators.
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Dan Caldwell @dandcaldwell, one of the top advisors for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon today after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it foiled an attempt to smuggle four assault rifles into Israel from Egypt earlier today using a drone.
The drone was identified crossing the border from Egypt into Israel before it was downed by troops.
The drone and guns were handed over to the police for further investigation.
In recent months, there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons and drugs over the Egyptian border using drones. There have also been attempts to smuggle similar contraband from Israel into Gaza using drones.
[IsraelTimes] Military also announces killing of commander who participated in October 7 attack and hostage release ceremony; airstrike reportedly hits Kuwaiti Field Hospital, killing one
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... 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... City on Sunday killed the latest commander of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s Shejaiya Battalion, Muhammad al-Ajlah — the fifth leader of the battalion to be killed by the Israel Defense Forces in the ongoing war against the terror group.
The IDF announced Ajlah’s killing on Tuesday, after earlier announcing the killing of another Hamas commander who had participated in the group’s October 7, 2023, attack as well as in a propaganda ceremony surrounding the release of three Israeli hostages.
The Shejaiya Battalion commander, Ajlah, had replaced his predecessor Haitham Khalil less than a week ago, after the latter was killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 9.
Khalil’s direct predecessor, Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, was killed in March. Wadiya had taken over the battalion after his two predecessors were killed in December 2023.
It’s a very dynamic unit — lots of opportunities for advancement for the ambitious young jihadi.
Before taking the helm of the battalion, Ajlah headed its combat support company, where he was responsible for "arming the battalion’s bully boyz with weapons used to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said in a statement. The military said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike.
The IDF also announced early Tuesday that an airstrike conducted some two weeks ago killed a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Hamza Wael Muhammad Asafah was the commander of a cell in the Nukhba force in Hamas’s Deir al-Balah Battalion, according to the military. The IDF said that Asafah also participated in the "cynical" release ceremony for hostages Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy in February. In announcing the strike that killed Asafah, the IDF again said that it took steps to mitigate civilian harm.
Also Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Gaza, killing a medic and wounding nine people, according to Saber Mohamad, a front man for the hospital. The hospital is located in the Mawasi area, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
Hospitals have become sites of fighting on numerous occasions throughout the 18-month war between Israel and Hamas, with terror operatives hiding in them or using them for military purposes, including holding and transferring hostages. The IDF has allowed mass evacuations of civilians prior to major raids on hospital sites.
On Sunday, an Israeli strike hit the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. The IDF said the attack targeted a Hamas command center housed inside the hospital used by bully boyz to plan and carry out terror attacks. The al-Ahli Arab Hospital has been the last hospital providing critical care in northern Gaza, which has been subject to broad evacuation orders for almost the entire war as Israeli forces operated against Hamas there.
A front man for United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... said Tuesday that he was "deeply alarmed" by the strike on al-Ahli, saying the attack dealt "a severe blow to an already devastated healthcare system in the Strip" and adding there was strong concern that medical supplies were running low as well as food and water. The front man also noted that hospitals have protection under international law. Though humanitarian law grants hospitals protected status, much of that protection is lost when the facilities are used for active military purposes.
Mahmoud Ibrahim Hassan Abu Hisirah had served as the right hand of the commander of Hamas’s Gaza Brigade, Izz ad-Din Haddad, according to the military, including during the war and during the preparation for the October 7, 2023, onslaught.
On July 28, 2014, during the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge, Abu Hisirah, as a member of Hamas’s Nukhba force, infiltrated Israel with other terrorists via a tunnel from Gaza, and attacked an army post near Nahal Oz, killing five soldiers.
The attack killed Sgt. Daniel Kedmi, Sgt. Barkai Ishai Shor, Sgt. Erez Sagi, Sgt. Dor Deri, and Sgt. Nadav Raymond.
3-year-old spaniel abducted on Oct. 7 found in Gaza, to be returned to family
[IsraelTimes] A dog abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack was found in southern Gaza in recent days by Israeli ground forces. Billy belongs to Rachel Dancyg, the divorcee of Alex Dancyg who was taken hostage and murdered in captivity. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is three and a half years old.
Forces who encountered Billy in Rafah brought her back to Israel with them, where she was identified thanks to her microchip implant.
[IsraelTimes] 16 suspects linked to country’s largest opposition group said to have been trained and financed in Lebanon
Jordan said Tuesday that it had arrested 16 people linked to the Moslem Brüderbund who were trained and financed in Leb ...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?... and had plotted attacks on targets inside the kingdom involving rockets and drones.
Authorities said at least one rocket was ready to be launched as part of an operation that had been under surveillance by security forces since 2021.
A security source said the suspects were connected to the Moslem Brüderbund, a Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ally and Jordan’s largest opposition group, while the head of the cell who trained some of its members was based in Lebanon.
Hamas and the Brotherhood have been accused of fomenting anti-government street protests in Jordan amid 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... , which was sparked when thousands of forces of Evil stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages. The US-backed Hashemite Kingdom has a significant Paleostinian population.
In a statement released on social media, Jordan’s General Intelligence Department said the kingdom’s security forces found a rocket manufacturing facility alongside a drone factory, both of which were part of "the plot aimed at harming national security, sowing chaos and causing material destruction inside the kingdom."
Jordan’s government also published a video of confessions by the suspects, who had been referred to the state security court for trial.
Jordanian government front man Mohammad Momani said the country’s security forces found rockets in a secret hideout on the outskirts of Amman that were being manufactured with a range of 3-5 kilometers (1.8-3 miles) for use against targets inside the kingdom.
A security source said dozens of rockets were found.
Amer Al Sabaileh, a prominent security analyst, told Rooters that the thwarted plot involved "new tactics, rockets and drones."
"This means a complete change in the way the Moslem Brüderbund are dealing with Jordan and targeting its security," said Al Sabaileh.
Jordan, which expelled Hamas in 1999, enjoys relative stability compared with other countries in the region but has previously announced arrests on national security charges.
Last May, Jordanian officials said the country had thwarted an arms transfer from Hamas benefactor Iran, via Syria, to the Moslem Brüderbund in Jordan.
So the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has sold itself to Iran, joining Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as Iran’s Sunni proxies against Israel. And like the others training with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Have they been issued their special purchase beepers yet?
Israel has also thwarted several arms-smuggling plots from Jordan, announcing in February that security forces had detained nine Israeli citizens and one West Bank Paleostinian on suspicion of running one smuggling route. Iranian officials also told The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... last year that 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... employs Bedouins to smuggle arms from Jordan to Paleostinian terror groups in the West Bank.
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🚨 Breaking: Following president of Lebanon's 🇱🇧 order to fully disarm Hezbollah, Lebanese military has started to remove all signs and banners of Hezbollah from Beirut 👇pic.twitter.com/wzTr08cLMx
[AnNahar] Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike killed one person in the country's south on Tuesday, the latest such attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
A "drone strike carried out by the Israeli enemy on a vehicle in the town of Aitaroun killed one person and wounded three others including a child," the health ministry said in a statement.
Israel's military claimed that the man killed was "a platoon commander in Hezbollah's Special Operations Array."
Fair game, then, since the truce required him to be north of the Litani River rather than practically on the Israeli border.
The view from Israel:
IDF says it killed Hezbollah special ops commander in drone strike in south Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah commander, the Israel Defense Forces said. According to the IDF, the strike killed a team commander in Hezbollah’s special operations unit. The IDF did not name the operative, but Lebanese media identified him as Ali Najib Baydoun.
Lebanon’s health ministry said that one person was killed in the strike and three others were wounded, including a child. Aitaroun is located 2.5 kilometers north of the Israeli border community of Avivim.
According to the IDF, since the ceasefire began more than 120 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in strikes.
How many were Hezbollah in mufti? How many were human shields for Hezbollah units or sites? How many for Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
[AnNahar] Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and kiddies, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Tuesday.
The U.N. rights office reported that Israeli military operations had killed and injured civilians in Lebanon in the four months since the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27.
"According to our initial review, at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect," rights office front man Thameen al-Kheetan told news hounds in Geneva.
"Among the victims are 14 women and 9 children," he said, urging that "the violence must stop immediately."
The delicate truce between Israel and Hezbollah came after more than a year of hostilities initiated by the Iran-backed murderous Moslem group over 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... conflict, including two months of all-out war when Israel also sent in ground troops.
But months after the agreed end to fighting, Kheetan warned that people in Lebanon "remain gripped by fear, and over 92,000 are still displaced from their homes."
The rights office noted that Israeli strikes on Lebanese territory had hit civilian infrastructure since the ceasefire, including residential buildings, medical facilities, roads and at least one cafe.
The southern suburbs of Beirut were also hit in early April for the first time since the ceasefire took effect, in two different incidents, Kheetan said, adding that the area targeted was near two schools.
"A strike on a residential building in the early morning of April 1 killed two civilians and caused significant damage to neighboring buildings," he said.
Two days later, "Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s hit a newly established medical center run by the Islamic Health Society in Naqoura in southern Lebanon, completely destroying the center and damaging two ambulances," he said.
He added that "multiple Israeli airstrikes on several towns in the south of Lebanon reportedly killed at least six people" between April 4 and 8.
Israel had also faced attacks since the truce took effect, Kheetan said.
Since last November, at least five rockets, two mortars and a drone were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel, he said, citing figures from the Israeli army, adding that "tens of thousands of Israelis are still reportedly displaced from the north."
Kheetan demanded that all parties to the conflict "respect international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution."
"There must be prompt, independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law, and those found responsible must be held to account."
[AnNahar] A month after a wave of Dire Revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller attacks since the start of April.
The Moslem minority group was seen as a privileged minority under the rule of the Alawite Assad family, but since Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's government fell late last year members have feared Dire Revenge from the country's Sunni majority.
The new government promised to protect minority groups, but when a group of Assad loyalists attacked security forces near the coastal city of Latakia last month, it sparked a counteroffensive that took a brutal toll on the coastal region's largely Alawite population.
Britannia-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that more than 1,700 people, most of them civilians, were killed in March. While no official figures have been released by the government, other human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups have given similar estimates. It was the worst violence since an insurgency led by Islamist 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... overthrew Assad last December.
MILITIAS TARGET ALAWITES
Rights groups reported widespread Dire Revenge killings as bandidossnuffies from Syria's Sunni majority targeted Alawites, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.
"Several people told me that when these militia members entered their home, in addition to asking if they were Alawite or Sunni, they blamed them for what happened to them under the former Assad government," said Diana Semaan, Amnesty International's Syria researcher who investigated dozens of killings that took place in Baniyas and spoke to eyewitnesses and survivors.
While there has not been another outbreak of violence on the same scale, Alawites continue to report incidents of harassment, shakedowns and sometimes worse.
An Alawite who lives in the Latakia area said there are still regular attacks targeting Alawites, most of whom had nothing to do with the Assad government or security forces.
"Everyone from the regime or close to it fled a long time ago," he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... out of fear for his life.
He said a 20-year-old factory worker who was the breadwinner of his family was shot by guards at a local checkpoint, even though he had not served in the army under Assad.
"He would pass the checkpoints on his cycle of violence every day. He and the guards would even greet each other," he said.
ATTACKS SPREAD ALONG THE COAST
Attacks on Alawites spread from Latakia into the nearby province of Tartus, with some later hitting the major city of Homs inland.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Observatory, said 42 people have died in sectarian killings since the Moslem feast of Eid el-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan on March 30.
"The killings, did not stop but now they are individual acts," Abdurrahman said.
Mohammed Saleh, an activist from the central city of Homs who spent 17 years imprisoned during the rule of Bashir al-Assad and his father because of his opposition to the government, said victims of the attacks included Alawites who opposed Assad's rule. Saleh said 18 people he knew personally who had previously been detained by Assad's forces were killed in last month's attacks.
Saleh said he is worried that Syria is turning from one dictatorship to another.
"What we want is to have serious national army and security agencies whose job is to protect everyone and that they include everyone and not be made up of one sect or one religion," Saleh said. "There cannot be a state for everyone when security agencies belong to one sect."
One high school in the city of Baniyas in Tartus province, posted a list on Facebook of almost 80 teachers, students and relatives and alumni who were killed in attacks over the past month.
A video widely shared on social media showed the bodies of two young men with their mother standing by them, as the person filming scolded her and said her sons deserved to die because they were Alawite.
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ALAWITES FLEE TO LEBANON
Alawites and other Syrians from coastal areas are fleeing into Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... through unofficial border crossings, some carrying babies and helping tired elderly people and pregnant women as they cross over a river dividing the two countries.
Some 30,000 Alawite Syrians have fled to Lebanon over the past month, the United Nation's refugee agency says, scattered in some 30 towns and villages in northern Lebanon. While there is little assistance for them in Lebanon, many don't feel safe enough to go back.
ATTACKS TEST THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT'S PROMISES
Ongoing attacks have been a major letdown for Syrians who hoped that Assad's sudden fall would spell an end to violence against the country's many religious and ethnic groups after over a decade a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
The new government has promised to create an inclusive state that holds perpetrators of crimes to account, and interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has vowed to hold the perpetrators of recent attacks to justice and set up a committee to investigate the attacks.
A few arrests have been reported, and the committee has said it is continuing its investigation in the coastal province, though they have not yet disclosed their findings.
Right groups say the interim government faces a test.
"What happens now is extremely important because it will literally set the path towards justice. We're no longer talking about addressing past violations and holding those perpetrators accountable, which is already a huge endeavor," said Amnesty International's Semaan. "Now we're looking at how the government at how it will set paths towards justice for the violations that it (has) committed."
[AnNahar] Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... 's army said a soldier was killed and three others maimed Monday in a kaboom in the country's south, where President Joseph Aoun said they had been dismantling mines in a tunnel.
"While a specialized army unit was carrying out an engineering survey of a site" in south Lebanon's Tyre district, "a suspicious object went kaboom!, killing a member of the unit and moderately injuring three others", an army statement said.
A statement from Aoun's office said the soldiers had been "dismantling mines and kabooms in a tunnel" in the area.
"Once again, the Lebanese army... is paying the price of extending state authority over the south and achieving stability there by implementing Resolution 1701," said Aoun, according to the statement.
United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council Resolution 1701 ended a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and formed the basis of a November truce thon the lamly ended more than a year of fresh hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
The resolution called for the disarmament of all non-state gangs, and said Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon.
Under the truce, Hezbollah was to withdraw its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.
Israel was due to complete its pullout from Lebanon by February 18 after missing a January deadline, but it has kept troops in five places it deems "strategic".
During the war, Israel's army said it uncovered Hezbollah tunnels and tunnel shafts in south Lebanon.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Saturday that the group had ceded to the Lebanese army around 190 of its 265 military positions identified south of the Litani.
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... -based network Al Jazeera quoted Aoun on Monday as saying that the army had dismantled tunnels and confiscated weapons without objection from Hezbollah, but had not yet deployed across the whole of the south.
[IsraelTimes] Israel has been kept in the loop about plan that could see troop presence shrunk from 2,000 to 1,000; Jerusalem fears it will increase Turkey’s ‘appetite’ to control Syria.
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...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
