[IsraelTimes] Kaduna Governor Uba Sani says country’s national security adviser coordinated development, thanks armed forces; doesn’t specify how captives, kidnapped earlier in month, were freed
More than 200 students and staff were freed unharmed after button men kidnapped them from a school in northern Nigeria this month, the Kaduna state governor’s office announced on Sunday, days before the deadline to pay a ransom.
The button men carried out the kidnapping on March 7 in the town of Kuriga in northwestern Kaduna State, the first mass kidnapping in the country since 2021, when more than 150 students were kidnapped from a secondary school in Kaduna.
The murderous Moslem group 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... was the first to carry out kidnappings from schools in Nigeria, the most notable of which was the kidnapping of 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok in northeastern Borno state 10 years ago. Some of those girls were not released.
But since then, criminal gangs with no ideological affiliation have largely followed suit, seeking financial ransoms.
Kaduna Governor Uba Sani said the country’s national security adviser had coordinated the release of the students who were kidnapped from a school in Kuriga, but he did not provide further details.
"The kidnapped Kuriga school children are released unharmed," Sani said in a statement that did not specify how they were freed.
"This is indeed a day of joy," he said, thanking the army, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national security adviser, and "all Nigerians who prayed fervently for the safe return of the school children."
Tinubu had vowed to rescue the children "without paying a dime" as ransom.
"The Nigerian Army also deserves special praise for demonstrating that with courage, determination and commitment, the capabilities of criminal elements can be curbed and security restored to our communities," Sani said.
Last week, the button men demanded a ransom equivalent to about $690,000 in exchange for the release of the students and staff.
The government said it would not pay any ransom after doing so was legally banned in 2022.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... kidnappings carried out by criminal gangs for ransom have become common in Nigeria, especially in the north of the country, which constitutes a crisis for families and communities that are forced to collect savings to pay the ransom, and in many cases, do not find any way to release their relatives except by selling the land and livestock they own.
Kidnap victims in Nigeria are often freed following negotiations with the authorities, though officials deny ransom payments are made following the 2022 law banning them.
Including this one, today’s articles on the attack can be seen here, here, here, here, and here. Yesterday’s reports can be seen here, here, and here. The round-up of first reports, on Saturday, is here.
[KavkazUzel] Statements about the responsibility of ISIS-Khorasan for the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow are given weight by the FSB report released two weeks before the terrorist attack on the prevention of an attack on a Moscow synagogue that was being prepared by militants of the same group. The terrorist attack on visitors to Crocus City Hall has similarities with the January terrorist attack in Iranian Kerman, for which the Islamic State also claimed responsibility, said Mina Al-Lami, an expert on extremist groups.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, information about the responsibility of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" for the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was published on the day of the terrorist attack, March 22, on its website by the organization monitoring the activity of "IS". The version of ISIS involvement in the terrorist attack was also voiced by Reuters and The New York Times and Al Arabiya. However, The New York Times indicated that American officials in March collected intelligence that the Afghanistan-based Islamic State-Khorasan was planning an attack in Moscow, and Russia was warned about it.
On the evening of March 22, armed people broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and opened fire there, and the building was also set on fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, according to the Russian Investigative Committee as of March 24, 137 people were killed, and another 154 people were hospitalized after the terrorist attack. The stated number of victims is not final; investigators and criminologists are still continuing to work at the site of the terrorist attack.
Today, the Telegram channel Directorate 4, which monitors militant activity, released a video allegedly filmed by participants in the attack on visitors to Crocus City Hall. The description of the video states that this "video of the attack at Crocus City Hall, filmed by the attackers," was taken from a resource associated with the Islamic State. “For ethical reasons, we are publishing only a fragment. In other footage, terrorists cut the throat of one of the victims,” the annotation to the video says.
The 66-second video shows several armed men in the building. Their faces in the video are retouched and their voices are distorted. At the beginning of the video, one of them gives a signal to another armed man, who then walks past the door behind which people are hiding and opens fire on them. Bodies of people are visible on the floor. At the end of the video, the attackers walk along the building's lobby, talking to each other.
“Two men in this video have the same clothes as those detained in the footage from the Bryansk region, one man has the same sneakers,” noted the authors of the publication in the telegram channel “Agency. News”, commenting on the above-mentioned video distributed resource associated with the Islamic State.
"Caucasian Knot" cannot verify the authenticity of this video.
On March 23, the FSB reported the arrest of 11 suspects in connection with the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. Four of them were detained in the Bryansk region. According to the FSB, they were traveling towards the border with Ukraine to hide there, and they had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side. Vladimir Putin made an appeal in connection with the terrorist attack and stated that a “window” had been prepared at the Ukrainian border for the passage of those who committed the terrorist attack. Ukraine, however, declared its non-involvement in the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk and categorically rejected the accusations voiced by Putin.
The attack on Crocus City Hall came two weeks after the US Embassy in Russia warned that terrorists were planning an attack in Moscow, Reuters reported on March 23. Moreover, just a few hours before this warning, the FSB reported that it had prevented an attack by ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) militants on the synagogue, the agency indicated.
The FSB reported on March 7 that the activities of the Afghan IS cell, Vilayat Khorasan, whose members were planning a terrorist attack on a Moscow synagogue, were suppressed in the Kaluga region. “It has been established that MTO militants are preparing to carry out an attack on synagogue parishioners using firearms. When detained, the terrorists offered armed resistance to Russian FSB officers and, as a result, were neutralized by return fire,” says a publication on the FSB website.
The Russian FSB report of March 7 adds weight to the version of the involvement of ISIS-Khorasan in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, because the agency officially admitted that members of this terrorist organization were interested in carrying out a terrorist attack in Moscow and were preparing for it, that such the terrorist attack was their goal.
ISIS-Khorasan, which calls its goal the creation of a caliphate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran, has in recent years actively criticized the policies of Putin, who changed the course of the war in Syria by intervening in it in 2015 and supporting Bashar al-Assad in the fight against the opposition and the Islamic State, writes Reuters.
In January 2024, IS claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Kerman, which killed 95 people. At the same time, as in the case of the claim of responsibility for the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, IS did not indicate the regional branch that carried out the attack, noted BBC expert on extremist groups Mina Al-Lami.
There are “quite a lot in common” between the attacks in Kerman and Krasnogorsk, including a significant number of casualties, as well as the fact that both attacks were carried out in countries where IS does not have a significant presence, active affiliates or support base.
The group and its supporters will view these two major attacks this year as a major propaganda coup that IS hopes will help restore its image as a global threat and boost recruitment efforts, although they follow a difficult year for IS. full of failures,” Mina Al-Lami was quoted as saying by the BBC on March 23.
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They don't know who blew up Nordstream after 1.5 years and they reply to all atrocity accusations towards Israel that an investigation must take place to understand who's guilty...
...but within less than 24h they know with absolute certainty who's "solely responsible" for this. https://t.co/SvOKTgFhv6
Including this one, articles on the attack can be seen here, here, here, here, and here. Yesterday’s reports can be seen here, here, and here. The round-up of first reports, on Saturday, is here.
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[REGNUM] Security measures have been strengthened near the Basmanny Court in Moscow today. The area is cordoned off by police and the National Guard, fences are installed, and police cars are parked nearby. Presumably, this was done before a meeting on the petition for the arrest of suspects in yesterday’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall.
Yesterday, terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region, they tried to escape towards the Russian-Ukrainian border, actively fired back, but the special services took them alive.
In addition to those directly involved in the terrorist attack, seven of their accomplices were also arrested, which FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The detainees were sent to Moscow, now the special services continue to search for others involved in the crime and establish the details of what happened. Meanwhile, videos of the first interviews with terrorists have already appeared on the Internet, where they, trembling and barely finding the words in Russian, tell how they agreed to commit a crime.
THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO LEAVE
On the morning of March 23, the wanted car of the terrorists, a white Renault Symbol, was spotted in the Bryansk region and stopped with gunfire near the border with Ukraine. According to the FSB, the militants “had contacts on the Ukrainian side,” but they were unable to escape to their accomplices.
In the car of the attackers, they found weapons, in particular a Makarov pistol, and passports of citizens of Tajikistan. The detainees reported that they received an order to carry out a terrorist attack in a concert hall via Telegram, for which they were promised 500 thousand rubles. They took weapons and ammunition from hiding places indicated by the organizer.
According to them, the goal of those who were behind the crime was the desire to sow panic and horror in our society. There were no specific goals - just the idea of killing as many people as possible, so shooting into the crowd was carried out randomly. For this reason, the nonhumans also set fire to the Crocus.
Nevertheless, the execution of the terrorist attack was clearly well-thought-out, and only the skillful actions of our law enforcement officers did not allow the ghouls to escape capture.
It is also reported that the terrorists themselves were actively involved in organizing the crime: in particular, one of them, Fariddun Shamsutdin, visited Crocus on the eve of the tragedy to see the layout, location of security posts and calculate escape routes.
Investigators are already interrogating the detainees, so we will soon get more details about their lives and who exactly organized the terrorist attack at the hands of the captured villains.
The style of the crime is not similar to the terrorist attacks committed by militants from the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). Let us remember that this version was actively dispersed by the Western media.
But the Ukrainian special services willingly pay for such murders, explosions and arson to performers in Russia, reaching them through curators on Telegram. Scumbags are promised not only a reward, but also assistance in leaving Russia, as was the case with the murderer of Daria Dugina.
In his material for the news agency Regnum, military correspondent Dmitry Astrakhan points out that this “ suggests that at least they had agreements with the Ukrainian side regarding the exit ” - it was not for nothing that they were so eager to reach the “window” on the border.
I WANTED TO BE A TAXI DRIVER, BUT BECAME A TERRORIST
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasizes that all the detainees, contrary to the fakes that appeared earlier, are not citizens of our country. “ Currently, the migration divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in cooperation with colleagues from the FSB of Russia, carefully check the grounds and find out the duration of stay of each of the detainees on the territory of the Russian Federation, establish the addresses of actual residence, as well as other significant circumstances,” said official representative of the department Irina Volk.
In the published videos, they speak Russian with difficulty - or pretend to, resorting to the help of a translator. Nevertheless, those detained in the Bryansk region had previously worked in our country, although this, by the way, requires a good knowledge of the Russian language.
One of them, the same Fariddun Shamsutdin, said that he was recruited in one of the Telegram chats. In the video, he says with darting eyes that he had previously listened to a preacher on a social network, and then his supposed assistant wrote to him, promising money for a terrorist attack. “Kill people, no matter who,” the detainee explains his goal.
Another captured militant, who is called the leader of the terrorists, said during interrogation that he planned to start working as a taxi driver. According to him, on Telegram about 10-12 days ago he met a certain Abdullo, who bought a car from his relatives so that they could start driving taxis. The would-be taxi driver, however, did not disclose the details of the attack on Crocus on camera.
A terrorist named Rajab Alizadeh at first did not want to answer questions from law enforcement officers, citing the fact that he did not understand Russian well, but later he was able to give his name and age - he was 30 years old. He says that he and his accomplices managed to get rid of the weapons before they were caught.
The fourth militant was shown on video from the hospital - resisting arrest did not benefit his health. He also has problems with the Russian language, so he had to hire a translator. Users of social networks have already identified him as 19-year-old Muhammad Fayzov, a former hairdresser at a barbershop in the city of Teykovo, Ivanovo region.
HUNT FOR ACCOMPLICES
Who drew up the attack plan, who delivered the weapons and from where, financed the criminals, who exactly provided the vehicle, what kind of relatives Abdullo has - these details are now being sorted out by the investigation. Of course, during interrogations, terrorists will tell law enforcement much more than what we saw in the footage.
But it’s already clear: there was money, weapons were provided, the plan for the terrorist attack was prescribed. Otherwise, these people, who speak Russian with difficulty and are clearly not the most intelligent people, would hardly have coped with such a task. At the very least, you can’t buy weapons around the corner, and even before the crime, the militants had been living in the expensive Okruzhnoy apart-hotel since the beginning of March, which is uncharacteristic for ordinary migrant workers.
After the necessary measures, the investigation will become clear who exactly connected these people, what motives guided those who carried out one of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in the history of our country. Probably, law enforcement officers of other states can also help with this. The Kremlin has already noted that special services and relevant departments of Russia and Tajikistan are working closely in the field of countering terrorism.
Now the police are conducting raids, control at the capital's airports has been strengthened, and cars are being searched. It is possible that in the future there will be news about new detained accomplices of the bandits.
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Possibly the disrupted attack on the synagogue was meant to be part of it, Gletle Crique8919, but I see no hint that this was meant to go much beyond the attack on the concert. Though to be fair, they clearly meant to kill many more than they did. I’d say this was just another “terrify them with terror” attack, a reminder that they are in the process of being conquered.
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Including this one, today’s articles on the attack can be seen here, here, here, here, and here. Yesterday’s reports can be seen here, here, and here. The round-up of first reports, on Saturday, is here.
The guy worked in the wardrobe; he got a job at Crocus a couple of months ago. Children from his school told us that Artyom participated in saving people - the teenager studies at secondary school No. 19 in Krasnogorsk.
According to Artyom, upon hearing the shooting, a crowd of people ran to the office premises - there was a dead end there. Donskov, Islam and several more of their colleagues, including Nikita Ivanov - realized that the spectators were running into a trap, and began to direct everyone to the exits. There were two of them: service and emergency (it was opened by unknown people). As soon as people were at a safe distance from Crocus, Artyom called his mother and told him everything - then there was not even news about the terrorist attack.
The guy says that they were given instructions on how to behave in emergency situations, but on March 22 the guys acted simply according to the situation. All the teenagers who participated in the evacuation are safe.”
The Ukrainian restaurant "Ofenziva" in Kyiv has added the "Crocus City" set to its menu, apparently from the name of the concert hall where 133 people have already died in the terrorist attack.
The image of a set of French fries, chicken wings, onion rings and mozzarella was accompanied by a photograph of the burning building of the Crocus concert hall.”
More from NewsFront.su All terrorist attacks on Russian territory are the “work” of Ukrainian and Western intelligence services
A new video of terrorist actions in Crocus has appeared online. Video from the camera that one of the animals had during the execution of unarmed people. All the armchair wiseguys who write that the militant group was at least somehow prepared are simply speculating on the topic, demonstrating their own immaturity and irresponsibility
These bastards held machine guns for the first or second time in their lives. They did not have any tactical or special training. These are soulless, illiterate creatures who were skillfully manipulated by members of the Ukrainian special services.
The terrorist underground of radical Islamists in Russia has long been destroyed by state security forces.
All the caches and caches of weapons that have appeared on the territory of our country over the past two years were made by operational officers of the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Kyiv regime.
The enemy recruits Russians, who receive weapons and explosives through various channels, and then make caches - just like drug traffickers make large stashes. I have no doubt that weapons and ammunition were transported to Russia by degenerates from Budanov’s department (included in the register of terrorists and extremists), that these same degenerates, under the guise of Mujahideen of the ISIS organization, recruited and sent bastards who shot people in cold blood concert hall, and then squealed like pigs when they were detained at the Russian-Ukrainian border.
ISIS has long been used by Western intelligence agencies at times when it was necessary to escalate the situation. In Syria, American operatives skillfully moderate the combat work of ISIS units when it is necessary to organize pressure on the positions of the Syrian army.
ISIS is generally a convenient and once dangerous (now not so much) toy of Western intelligence services. Now the neo-Nazis of the Kyiv regime have discovered this direction for themselves, probably not without the participation of their senior comrades.
The terrorist attack in the capital is terrible. This is an attempt to take us back to the early 2000s, to bring back our feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. But only rage appears. We know who our enemy is. We know we need to trample it.
By the way, the terrorist attack at Crocus was inhumane, bloody, and concentrated. But the same terrorist attack, spread out over time, is in progress right now. Over the past two weeks in the Belgorod region, 24 people have been killed as a result of shelling of residential areas. And as long as the enemy retains the ability to attack our cities, he will continue to attack. The Ukrainian Armed Forces artillerymen are no different from the bastards who shot at people in the concert hall.
More from Reports from the New Russia militia About the security guard at Crocus
“The terrorist attack was prepared in advance because the criminals acted very professionally,” said Crocus City Hall security guard Alexey in a conversation with Izvestia.
According to him, the terrorists waited until the maximum number of people entered the concert hall. They then started shooting at the crowd from behind.
He met criminals almost on the first line. Next to him was his friend, who was injured and is now in critical condition.
Alexey said that during the terrorist attack he managed to drag a woman in and close the door in the face of the terrorists. Before that, he gathered the audience in the foyer and took them to a safer place.
“I understood that the door would not withstand a bullet, but I did not let people know about it, and I held the door so that the terrorists would not enter,” he said.
Alexey admitted that he was scared, but he tried not to show it and remain calm. The man also noted that people helped him hold the door.”
More from regnum.ru Death toll from the terrorist attack at Crocus rises to 180
The number of victims of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow has grown to 180 people. The updated lists were published on March 24 by the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region.
It is reported that 32 patients were discharged from hospitals as of 17:00, in addition, 35 are receiving outpatient care. 142 people remained in medical institutions in Moscow and the Moscow region.
As Regnum reported, on the evening of March 22, a group of armed people entered the Crocus City Hall building and started shooting. Then there was an explosion and a fire broke out. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the terrorist attack.
According to the latest data from the Investigative Committee, 137 dead, including three children, were found at the site of the terrorist attack in Crocus. The inspection continues.
According to the director of the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, Sergei Petrikov, a large discharge of patients injured in the terrorist attack is already being prepared. According to him, we are mainly talking about patients poisoned by combustion products, who feel well and ask to go home.
As an emergency medical technician said, his colleagues were on duty at Crocus on March 22 when the terrorist attack began. They began to help the wounded in the first minutes after the militants started shooting at people.
According to the FSB, the criminals who carried out the terrorist attack were in contact with the Ukrainian side and planned to hide in Ukraine after the crime. 11 people were detained in this case, including all four who shot at people. Suspects of committing a terrorist attack were caught in the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border.
Earlier accounts said three or all four had pleaded guilty, but court officials now say only Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev and Saidakrami Rachabalizoda admitted guilt for the attack after being charged.
The two appeared before a Moscow court Sunday along with Shamsidin Fariduni, and Mukhammadsobir Faizov to face charges of committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others. The offense carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
All four showed signs of severe beatings, raising questions about whether they were speaking freely. Faizov appeared to be barely conscious during the hearing.
The court ordered that the men, all of whom are citizens of Tajikistan, be held in pre-trial custody until May 22.
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Will the EU wise up, will they finally come to the realization their wide Open Borders agenda is letting in people whose fundamental ideology calls for the elimination of Christian and White Devils and to establish Islam. As we have seen it only takes small numbers quickly radicalize and control their enclaves.
Hell, even the US-LSD's (Biden) are openly courting various Muslim voter groups that support HAMAS, here in the USA. In order to stay in power. Because those Muslim enclaves have become voter majorities in certain key Liberal US Congressional Districts.
Bombs that smell like sewage didn’t meet the CRPF standards. Officials say the liquid used in the bomb is harmless and the protesters would manage to tolerate the smell without much difficulty.
[NY Post] Biden stabbing Israel for Mooslim votes in Michigan and Minnesota
The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Monday calling for an "immediate cease-fire" in Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The resolution passed the Security Council 14-0, with the US abstaining and declining to exercise its veto power.
The measure calls for a pause in the fighting to last through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends April 9, as well as the unconditional release of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had demanded the US veto the cease-fire resolution, threatening to cancel plans to send a delegation to Washington to discuss plans for a ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
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There ya go!
Get the UN blue hats in there to run Gaza.
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The resolution is apparently not binding and has no 'start' time. State Dept claims that release of hostages, although not a condition of cease fire is a 'premise' (whatever that means).
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OK, Hamas can cease fire first.
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It's a huge win for Russia: now they can come to, say, Baltics and tell them "If they betrayed Israel*, what can you expect?".
*I know, I know, but Baltics are very anti-semitic - and anti-semites believe that USA support for Israel is boundless.
[IsraelTimes] Although defense minister and IDF barred entry of laborers into Israel after October 7, TV network says some 2,400 businesses have been exempted for ’humanitarian’ purposes
Despite a general ban imposed on the entry of Paleostinian laborers into Israel following the October 7 Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... attacks, tens of thousands of permit-carrying workers from the West Bank have been entering Israel on a daily basis, according to a new report.
Channel 13 news said a long list of Israeli businesses have managed to gain exemptions on "humanitarian" grounds, allowing them to employ workers, despite the work in question having little to no apparent connection to any pressing humanitarian need — including hotels, bakeries and furniture companies.
Some 150,000 Paleostinian workers from the West Bank and an additional 18,500 from 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 an 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 used to enter Israel daily before October 7, but the permits were frozen by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi for security reasons following the devastating Hamas assault.
Far-right ministers including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have repeatedly objected to lifting the ban.
As a result, the economy has suffered a severe shortfall in manpower, with the construction and agriculture sectors particularly badly hit.
The ban on using Paleostinian labor imposed by the Defense Ministry and the army was meant to encompass almost the entire economy, but an exemption process was granted for hospitals, burial organizations, some essential businesses and other humanitarian necessities.
According to Channel 13, some 2,396 businesses and institutions have obtained exemptions, many of which cannot be described as having any humanitarian necessity.
Major Israeli companies such as food giant Osem, the Aminach mattress and furniture business, and the Berman bakery company have all managed to obtain permits to bring in workers.
Hotels, food producers, bakeries, a car mechanic, a window factory, an events production company and a trash processing company were all among those who’ve managed to obtain permits to bring in Paleostinian laborers.
The report said tens of thousands of Paleostinian laborers have been entering Israel to work as a result.
The IDF told Channel 13 that it was the Economy Ministry that was responsible for issuing the exemptions to the numerous businesses — but the ministry strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! that it was responsible.
"The only authorized agency that can approve the entry of [West Bank] workers into Israel is the [Defense Ministry’s] Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories in accordance with the policies of the government," the ministry said.
Neither the Defense Ministry nor COGAT, an agency of the Defense Ministry, responded to a request for comment.
The Economy Ministry said it was "firmly opposed to allowing Paleostinian laborers in to work in Israel and is working to bring in laborers from peaceful countries."
Indeed, Economy Minister Nir Barkat clashed recently over the issue of foreign workers with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing the premier of delaying a cabinet decision that would allow the arrival of larger numbers of foreign workers to replace Paleostinian laborers.
A source in the Economy Ministry said that the so-called economics cabinet, comprised of several senior ministers and government officials, was empowered to determine which businesses could get exemptions to the ban, but that the panel had not authorized the thousands of businesses who have obtained permits for Paleostinians workers since October 7.
Last week, an Israeli business community leader said businesses were "generally in favor" of bringing back Paleostinian workers, largely due to the major shortage in manpower due to the ban.
"Today, we are talking about a slowdown of almost 50 percent in activity in [the construction] sector," Dan Catarivas, president of the Israeli Federation of Bi-national Chambers of Commerce, told AFP.
"But there is also a big lack in what we call ’essential’ businesses such as food, pharmaceuticals, maintenance of sanitation infrastructure for example," he added.
[IsraelTimes] At least 100 terror suspects detained during the war against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 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 an 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... in recent months are still being held in interrogation facilities due to lack of space in prisons, according to a Hebrew media report.
About 4,000 terror suspects have arrested since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, the majority in Gaza.
According to the Channel 12 report, the Israel Prison Service has room for 14,500 prisoners, while the current need is for almost 22,000 prisoners.
The report adds that while the IDF has arrested nearly 800 terror suspects during its ongoing operation at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, some are still being held in temporary detention as the interrogation facilities are also at full capacity.
Earlier in March, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered government ministries to prepare prisons for an influx of thousands of inmates.
Channel 12 reports that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose ministry is responsible for the IPS, blames Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for holding up a budget transfer of NIS 400 million ($109 million) required to resolve the space shortages.
"We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake. Let me tell you, I have studied the maps — there is nowhere for those folks to go. So we’ve been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into Rafah with any kind of military operation."
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An interesting question of heredity vs environment (her parents are both very intelligent people).
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of Christian faithful attend Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives, marking the first day of Holy Week as conflict surges across the region.
Pilgrims wave branches and fronds in the air, items that were placed before Jesus’s feet as he was greeted by cheering crowds during his entrance into Jerusalem, according to the Bible.
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre — revered as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion — also held a service earlier today.
The annual celebration comes as war rages on 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 an 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... , though it appears to have had little effect on the procession, which swells to a similar size as last year.
"Although there is war, in my impression I don’t feel any kind of tension," says David Manini, a pilgrim from Italia.
"I’m here because I love Jesus Christ," says Jennifer Weedon, who traveled from the United States for the occasion.
The celebration marks the beginning of the most somber week in the Christian calendar, which marks Jesus’s crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter
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.
... 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...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
VP on Meet the Press today
