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Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s.
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Died: May 14, 1987, New York City, U.S.
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[AnNahar] A second charter flight left Afghanistan on Friday carrying foreigners and Afghans in a sign the country's main airport was close to resuming commercial operations, as the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... warned of "credible allegations" of reprisal killings by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... The plane departed for 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... the day after just over 100 passengers, including some Americans, left Kabul airport on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30.
Another 32 U.S. citizens or permanent residents left Afghanistan with Washington's support on Friday, either on the Qatar Airways flight or by land, National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne said.
"Today's departures demonstrate how we are giving Americans clear and safe options to leave Afghanistan from different locations," Horne said in a statement.
"We will continue to provide proven options for leaving. It is up to Americans who remain whether they choose to take them."
Of the 158 passengers who arrived Friday evening in the Qatari capital Doha, 49 were Frenchies and their families, with a Qatari official adding there were also German, Canadian, Dutch, British, Belgian and Mauritanian citizens on board.
The official added that their safe transport to Kabul's airport in a Qatari convoy was also coordinated by the Gulf state, which was already the transit point for about half of the 123,000 people airlifted out of Afghanistan as the pro-Western government crumbled and the Taliban took over.
The White House said the Taliban had been "businesslike and professional" in allowing Thursday's flight to leave, but the United Nations envoy for Afghanistan warned the group may be targeting perceived enemies.
"We are also concerned that despite the many statements granting general amnesties... there have been credible allegations of reprisal killings," envoy Deborah Lyons said in New York.
She said Afghan security officials and people who worked for the previous administration were at risk.
Unconfirmed reports in the capital, meanwhile, suggested the Taliban may hold a ceremony to swear in the new government on Saturday -- the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that triggered the end of their first stint in power.
- 'JUST KILL ME' -
As news of a resumption in evacuation flights spread, some people gathered at the airport gates, pleading with Taliban guards to get in.
"If I can't go just kill me!" said one woman, among a group of women and kiddies each carrying backpacks.
Many Afghans in the capital are fearful of a repeat of the hardline Islamist group's brutal and repressive rule from 1996-2001.
The Taliban have already begun to segregate men and women students and medical staff, suggested women will be banned from playing sports, and unveiled an all-male government drawn exclusively from loyalist ranks.
The U.N. education agency UNESCO on Friday warned in a report that Afghanistan risks backsliding on nearly two decades of schooling gains for children, especially girls, due to a projected rise in the number of internally displaced people, new Taliban-imposed restrictions on women's education and the withdrawal of international aid, which makes up half of the country's education expenditures.
Afghanistan's economy also risks a likely sharp contraction, said former central bank chief Ajmal Ahmady, who fled the country just after Kabul fell to the Taliban in mid-August.
"I don't want to say economic collapse, but I think it's going to be (an) extremely challenging or difficult economic situation," he said in a discussion hosted by The Atlantic Council, predicting GDP would shrink by 10 to 20 percent.
He said international sanctions that block aid funding and restrict access to $9 billion in reserves also could create a shortage of domestic currency.
More than 100 passengers were on the Qatar Airways flight that landed in Doha on Thursday evening, 10 days after the chaotic airlift came to a dramatic close with the U.S. pullout.
About the world accepting the new Talib government..
.[KhaamaPress] UN 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... has called on the International community to join him in Geneva both in person and virtually and pledge their tangible support to address the critical humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Antonio Guterres said that now is the time for the world to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan.
United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... plans to convene a high-level ministerial meeting on Afghanistan in Geneva on September 13 in which the world will address the humanitarian crisis and aid in Afghanistan.
A statement released by the UN reads that UN agencies and non-governmental partners have launched a Flash Appeal seeking US$606 million for the remainder of the year to bring vital relief to 11 million people in Afghanistan.
The statement reads that people in Afghanistan urgently need food, medicine, health services, safe water, sanitation, and protection.
"International and Afghan humanitarian organizations are on the ground and can deliver in a rapidly changed context." Reads the statement.
The statement also added that the aid envoys should be provided with the fund and full access to around Afghanistan and their safety should be ensured.
Earlier, UN secretary-General’s special representative to Afghanistan Deborah Lyons had called on the international community to leave politics aside and provide the people of Afghanistan with relief assistance and withhold humanitarian crisis.
See? Anyone who submits the proper paperwork can protest whatever they’d like — freedom of speech, man!
[KhaamaPress] As women have held several protests against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... asking for their rights and participation in the incoming government in several provinces in the past week, Kabul witnessed a rare all-women protest supporting the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The university lecturers and students had arranged a gathering in education university before they erupted into the streets in Kabul.
Unlike other demonstrations in Kabul, this is the second all-women protest which was non-violent mostly peaceful and the journalists were allowed to cover the protest freely.
Protesters condemned the recent so-called violence carried out by women protestors and expressed their full support to IEA.
The women also welcomed the scheme of separate classes for boys and girls in all universities and institutes and pledged that they will be working for strengthening Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
Earlier, hundreds of women had gathered in Kunduz province and protested for support of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] US special representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has welcomed the cooperation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in letting tens of foreigners and Afghans leave Afghanistan through the air safely.
Khalilzad has is also grateful to 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... for facilitating the flights from Kabul.
Two international flights have been conducted from Kabul International Airport to Qatar carrying Afghans, US citizens, and other foreigners.
The planes which were flown out from Kabul were the first international flight after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s takeover.
Zalmay Khalilzad has written on his Twitter post that over 250 people including Americans and other foreigners have been flown out from Kabul International Airport in the past three days which is a positive step.
"We will continue our engagement with the Taliban and Qatar to facilitate safe flights to Americans, Afghans, and other foreigners who are willing to leave Afghanistan." Read the tweets.
The international flights are flown out at a time when the Taliban officials have said the international flights from Kabul International Airport will be resumed on September 13.
Technical teams from Qatar and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... were doing hard work round the clock to prepare the Airport for international flights.
According to some reporters, the National Resistance Front (NRF) of #Afghanistan’s northern #Panjshir province have retaken three areas of the province from the Taliban.https://t.co/C3nxghGLL8
According to the Afghanistan Times, citing informed sources on the Panjshir Front, forces under Ahmad Massoud managed to retake the three districts of Dara, Abshar and Paryan in the north and northeast of Panjshir province.
According to this informed source, the Taliban group has lost a number of its forces following the clashes in these three areas.
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Godspeed!
We could use the equivalent of the Kurdistan region in northern Afghanistan.
An ally we could support and have landing rights, a spoiler to all our enemies in the region.
#Saudi Arabian authorities have foiled four attempts to smuggle over 1.1 million Captagon pills, found hidden in shipments sent to the Kingdom through different land, air, and sea customs border crossings, the Saudi Press Agency says.https://t.co/N9Ly0phMK0
French maritime officials rescue 126 #migrants attempting to cross the Channel to Britain as tensions escalate over record arrivals on #England’s southern coast.https://t.co/VJkMgUFs2t
Breaking: Surveillance video of the antifa shooting in Olympia has been released. It shows the antifa shooter turning around & firing 5 rounds in the direction of a group walking behind them. One round struck a Samoan right-wing activist. pic.twitter.com/WJcMahA9pR
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An the name of the ANTI-FA attempted murderer is? ☻ Drum roll please **********
No One.
Sarcasm Follows
If caught, it is when he turns himself in for the usual $$,$$$ CNN/MSNBC interviews and College speaking tours. Then the Protester bail fund BJ Harris generously donated to will cover any fines. Note: Fines, will likely be: 5 Public Noise ordinance violations before 6pm $50fine and littering (5 brass cases)$500 environment/climate change violations.
☺ But on the bright side, it seems given recent events ANTI-FArt and BLOM are both now in support of Right to Bear Arms and Self-Defense.
[Rudaw] Ghawsuddin Mubariz was already spending restless nights worrying about being sent back to Afghanistan when a stadium full of Ottoman Turkish football supporters broke into a chant calling for migrants colonists to go home.
The 20-year-old had felt welcomed when he fled the northeastern Afghan city of Kunduz and crossed into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... after a three-week trek across Pakistain and Iran
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[OneIndia] The Intelligence agencies have warned that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... could scout for leftover Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... operatives to further terror activities in India. The ISIS which has a strong base in the souther states are scouting for Indian Mujahideen operatives who may have got away from the security agencies during the crackdown following the arrest of its top commanders.
An official tells OneIndia that the operations in India are being controlled by the Islamic State Khorasan Province, which recently grabbed credit for the Kabul Airport attacks that left over a 100 dead.
It was the ISKP that recruited over 25 operatives from Kerala. One of them was even involved in the Kabul Gurdwara attack in which 25 were killed. While some of the operatives have died in Afghanistan, Riyaz Ahmed, Mohammad Manshad, Shihas Abdul Rahiman and Mohammad Sajid are still believed to be alive and active in Afghanistan.
The top leaders of the Indian Mujahideen such as Yasin Bhatkal are in jail and facing trial. The founders of the outfit, Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal are in Pakistain and have been instructed to lie low. While inputs suggest that the ISI may use the ISKP as a proxy in India, there is a likelihood of the Bhatkal brothers being activated yet again.
The IM could try and revive its modules in Darbanga, Rajasthan, Hyderabad and Delhi and its members back the ISKP plans in India. Moreover the ISKP with the help of the ISI could provide funds, arms and ammunition to the operatives in India, the agencies say.
The fact that the the ISKP could scout for Indian Mujahideen leftovers in India became evident when the Voice of Hind module was busted in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and Karnataka. The probe indicated that the ISKP operatives could be in touch with these IM operatives. The arrested operatives had also said that they had planned on carrying out attacks in India. Their targets would be Hindu leaders, places of religious worship, security forces and railway stations.
With the situation changing rapidly in Afghanistan and the ISKP displaying its capabilities of attacking a highly secure airport, Indian agencies say that a close watch needs to be kept both online and offline.
The ISIS has its sleeper cells largely in he northern districts of Kerala. Moreover the intelligence has picked up plenty of chatter and data from the social media regarding the plans of the outfit. It has been relatively highly since August after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover and the Kabul blast, an official says.
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Muslim revolutionaries have a long history in India's Kerala state. The present Salafist Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) is an Islamic entity founded in 1952, and formed from a reconstitued Kerala Muslim Aikhya Sangam. AS was founded in 1924 and is considered the first Kerala state Muslim organization.
[OneIndia] The Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... police have found credible evidence with regard the criminal mastermind who is behind the blog kashmirfight.wordpress.com.
In a note the police said Mir Hilal, resident of Bemina (Journalist- TRTworld), Md Shah Abbas, (Freelance journalist), Azhar Qadri, (Journalist-The Tribune) and Showkat Motta(was editor-in-chief of The Narrator and currently working at a wholesale shop) were called in for questioning.
On the basis of the evidence, four different places were searched after obtaining proper warrants the police said. During the searches, mobile phones, laptops and other gadgets were seized the police said.
For the purpose of investigation, all the above four persons were called for questioning and were allowed to go in the evening and have been directed to present themselves today again, the police said.
The investigation is in progress and the scrutiny of electronic gadgets is also going on. So far various numbers of Pakistain, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , Saudi have been found, besides they are also found have been in contact of various virtual numbers, the note also added.
IGP Kashmir denied it to be an issue of harassing journalists but a due process of law is being followed while investigating a sensitive case. He advised media fraternity not to spread false news or narrative which may amount to unnecessary interference in investigation of case. The involved persons would be arrested in this case as and when the evidences are collected, the police also said.
[OneIndia] A Special court of the National Investigation Agency has convicted a Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... terrorist of Pak origin after he was held guilty of planning terror attacks in India.
Mohammad Amir was convicted and sentenced under sections 120B and 121A of the IPC, sections 18 and 20 of UA(P) Act, section 25(1A) of Arms Act, section 5 of Explosive Substances Act, section 14 of Foreigners Act and section 6( 1A) of Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act. He was sentenced to 7 years rigorous imprisonment.
Amir along with three other terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba had infiltrated into Indian territory from Pakistain along with weapons, ammunition and other war-like stores with an intention to carry out terrorist attacks at different locations.
The NIA learnt that they had acted upon the directions of their Pakistan based handlers. Amir was arrested on November 24 2017 at Magam, Handwara, Jammu and Kashmir. His associates were killed in an encounter with the security forces.
[FoxNews] The U.S. counter-rocket, artillery and mortar system (C-RAM) engaged the two bomb-laden drones which were made in Iran, a separate U.S. official told Fox News.
The attack is the first following a two month lull in drone and rocket attacks to target the U.S. presence in Baghdad and military bases across Iraq. On July 8, rockets landed in and around the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, which houses the U.S. Embassy. It caused material damage but no casualties.
Until recently the attacks were a frequent occurrence. The U.S. has blamed Iran-backed militias for attacks. More recently, the attacks have become more sophisticated, with militants using drones instead of Katyusha rockets.
Roughly 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, with an additional 900 troops in neighboring Syria to make sure the remnants of ISIS stay underground.
.@CJTFOIR can confirm at approx. 2343hrs Sept.11 @Coalition forces at Erbil AB were attacked by 2 UAS. Force protection counter measures were used to defeat the drones. 1 UAS impacted inside perimeter; 1 UAS impacted outside perimeter. There are no injuries or property damage.
[Rudaw] Iranian forces bombed the mountains around a village in northeast Erbil province on Saturday, terrifying local residents, according to the head of the village. Kurdish forces say it was an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on the third day of attacks by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region.
"Since 4am, Iran has been regularly bombarding the mountains in the vicinity of Barbzin, creating fear among the villagers. The lives of people who own livestock and farmers are in danger," Mohammed Majid, mukhtar (chieftain) of the village, told Rudaw.
The village has been under fire since Thursday when Iran launched attacks against Kurdish opposition groups located within Kurdistan Region borders, sending warplanes, drones, and suicide drones across the border. Areas around Choman, Sidakan, and Haji Omran in northeastern Erbil province are the focus of the attacks. Barbzin is located in the Sidakan area.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which has bases in the targeted area, confirmed the attack in a tweet, saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) "carried out aerial attacks for a third day in a row targeting civilian regions of Barbzin and Sidakan."
On Monday, an IRGC commander threatened to launch an assault on the groups after several recent deadly festivities and told civilians to stay out of harm’s way.
"Given the condition in the region and the possibility of a severe and decisive response by the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran against the terrorist groups... nested in the northern Iraqi region, we call on the people of these regions to stay away from the bases of these terrorist groups so they do not come to any harm," said IRGC commander Mohammed Pakpour.
On Friday, the IRGC used a Koranic verse to justify their attacks, quoting a verse that calls on the faithful to "fight the disbelievers."
Kurdish opposition parties have struggled for decades to secure the rights of Kurds within Iran. From the mid-1990s until 2015, the parties based in the Kurdistan Region generally stayed away from clashing with Iranian security forces, but since early 2015 these groups, namely KDPI, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDP-I) and Komala, have deployed units to the mountainous areas close to Iranian borders. From there they have sent units inside Iran and clashed with IRGC and other security forces.
The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and based in mountains out of the reach of Kurdistan Region security forces, has sporadically clashed with Iranian security forces over the last two decades. In recent years the number of festivities between Kurdish opposition parties and the IRGC has increased.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which has cordial relations with Tehran, has called on armed Iranian Kurdish opposition groups not to launch attacks against neighboring countries from Kurdistan Region territory.
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces arrested the "most-wanted" Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) suspect accused of plotting attacks in the Kurdistan Region, the military announced on Saturday.
The suspect nicknamed Abu Ibrahim Dabq is the "first" wanted man by the security forces in the Kurdistan Region, the Security Media Cell said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.
He is accused of being responsible for setting up "terrorist checkpoints" in Anbar, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and other governorates, it added.
Dabq’s wife has already been arrested, the statement added. She was suspected of smuggling weapons and explosives into Erbil for ISIS and was in-charge of distributing some funds to Death Eaters.
An ISIS official and coordinator between leaders was also arrested, according to the military statement.
ISIS holy warriors and sleeper cells remain active, particularly in parts of northern and western Iraq. Four people were killed in two villages near Makhmour in a suspected ISIS attack on Saturday morning.
Last week, Kurdish security forces arrested a group of ISIS suspects that were planning terror acts in Erbil. They are accused of plotting to plant bombs inside the city’s bazaar as well as targeting foreigners and security personnel.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Four people, including members of Iraq’s security forces, were killed on Saturday in an attack by ISIS bully boyz near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , officials said.
The attack occurred at night in the Makhmur region south of Mosul, the former stronghold of ISIS, a security official said on condition of anonymity.
It left dead four people, including the mayor of the hamlet, at least one police officer and a member of the pro-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... Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) militia, the official added.
ISIS bully boyz had targeted a PMU position at around 2:00 am (2300 GMT), Salih al-Jiburi, an official from a nearby village, said.
They shelled and fired small arms during the attack, said Jiburi, who put the toll at four dead, including the mayor and militia fighter.
The attack comes less than a week after an ISIS assault near the northern city of Kirkuk killed 13 members of the Iraqi federal police.
The bully boy group also grabbed credit for a major attack in July that killed more than 30 people at a market in Baghdad’s Shia district of Sadr City.
[JPost]"Oooooooh you're SO gonna get it!" Palestinian factions have vowed to end all talks of a ceasefire with Israel following the re-capture of the Gilboa Prison fugitives.
Hamas released a statement on Saturday morning, stating that the capture of four of the escaped Gilboa fugitives is "yet another round of confrontation with Israel."
"The escape revived the Palestinian people's hopes that it is only a matter of time until the West Bank 'blows up' in Israel's face," the terrorist organization said.
Palestinian factions have vowed to end all talks of a ceasefire with Israel following the re-capture of the Gilboa Prison fugitives they called "heroic," according to Palestinian media.
In reaction to the re-arrests of Yakoub Mohammed Qadri and Mohammed Ardah late on Friday night, Hamas launched a rocket towards the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel. The IDF responded by carrying out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
[JPost] Mayor of Sderot Alon Davidi gave a statement regarding the incident, reacting by saying that "when there was no response to rocket fire directed at Sderot several weeks ago, when a terrorist who murdered heroic soldier Barel Shmueli roams free in the Gaza Strip, and when terrorists escape prison in Israel - the meaning is one: Hamas and the PIJ do not take over the events, they run them, and decide on the temperature in the area."
"The State of Israel must not allow a situation in which terrorists who try to harm the children of Sderot and the border communities stand on their feet and are not afraid of their fate," Davidi concluded.
"Bennett and Gantz - return the peace and feeling of security to the residents of Sderot and the Gaza border communities. "
The red alert was the second in two days after a rocket was fired into Israel on Friday night in response to the capture of two Gilboa Prison fugitives. An additional two were then caught later that same night.
Shortly before the red alert sirens were sounded, Abu Obadiah, spokesperson for Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigade, gave a speech in the Gaza Strip, praising the six fugitives and saying that "Jenin and its revolutionaries and heroes are not alone."
"We will not allow the enemy to overpower our people in the camp, and we will carry out our national duty towards them," he continued.
Earlier on Saturday, Hamas released a statement stating that the escape of the prisoners "revived the Palestinian people's hopes that it is only a matter of time until the West Bank 'blows up' in Israel's face."
Clashes also broke out between IDF soldiers and Palestinian youth near Huwara Checkpoint, south of Nablus, Palestinian news outlet Shehab Agency reported on Saturday evening. Clashes were also reported near the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
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If confirmed, this is a likely response by Palestinian factions after the arrest of two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants tonight by Israeli authorities after they escaped Gilboa prison earlier this week. https://t.co/MZvWwVsPgD
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and three others injured in an attack in the northwestern Syrian region of #Idlib, the Turkish defense ministry says.https://t.co/1hKUMhMHtu
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...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 
[JPost] Mayor of Sderot Alon Davidi gave a statement regarding the incident, reacting by saying that "when there was no response to rocket fire directed at Sderot several weeks ago, when a terrorist who murdered heroic soldier Barel Shmueli roams free in the Gaza Strip, and when terrorists escape prison in Israel - the meaning is one: Hamas and the PIJ do not take over the events, they run them, and decide on the temperature in the area."
