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Hamas says intense ground fighting with Israeli forces underway in Gaza
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Good Morning


Joy Behar: ''If you shoot with an AR-15, let's say you shoot a deer, you can't eat it because you basically demolish the animal.''
10/28/2023

Naughty Japanese Postcard 5dbe29c26c71b6607787
Africa North
Drone blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns
Iraq
Kurdistan CT says Turkish drone
killed nine PKK members in Kurdistan Region
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected Turkish drone strike kills SDF commander
Iraq
Militia group says targeted US forces in western Iraq
Africa Horn
Shaboob turns himself in to
Somali security forces in Lower Jubba
The Grand Turk
Turkish court officially arrests
four members of pro-Kurdish parties
Chile's 'TikTok Narco Queen' Sabrina
Duran assassinated in broad daylight

Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2023 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those ladies are pearl divers?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/28/2023 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Poils? We ain't even goils! ["Speak for yourself, pal."]

One morning, diverse Nipponese
Were bouncing along in the breeze.
They shook and they shivered
But not a thing quivered...
"Because we ain't amahs!"
"Aw, jeez."
"Look, this whole scene's just painted canvas... see?" [flap flap flap]
"And the boat's just kind of a teeter-totter contraption..." [clunk-clunk clunk-clunk]
"How'd we ever get mixed up with a Mikimoto operation like this, anyway?"
Posted by: Harry Greremble5424 || 10/28/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Just thought I'd toss that out there.
Posted by: jpal || 10/28/2023 16:25 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Man behind Ivy League 'doxxing trucks' has home searched by gun-toting SWAT team
[NYPOST] The president of Accuracy in Media — the group that deployed "doxxing trucks" to Ivy League schools mired in pro-Paleostinian controversies — had his home searched by a cadre of rifle-toting SWAT officers in the early hours of Friday, The Post has learned.

Accuracy in Media boss Adam Guillette was away from his North Florida home when he received a call from local authorities Friday notifying him that officers had searched his home around 1:30 a.m. after receiving a call falsely claiming that Guillette was at home and pointing a gun at his wife’s head.
Isn’t that how doxxing used to be defined before the trucks made their rounds? Driving around campus and parking quietly in front of houses is not at all the same thing as getting armed and nervous SWAT teams to break into someone’s home, when any of the parties present might do something regrettable.
Guillette, who was out of town with his wife to attend a wedding in Texas, told The Post that he believes someone lied to the cops "to get me killed" in response to Accuracy in Media’s recent campaign that saw box trucks outfitted with billboards exposing students and faculty allegedly involved in "horribly hateful, antisemitic proclamations" at Harvard, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  REDACTED.
Posted by: Ebbease Panda9307 || 10/28/2023 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ sod off swampy
Posted by: Remoteman || 10/28/2023 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  after receiving a call falsely claiming that Guillette was at home and pointing a gun at his wife’s head.

And here I thought that the fashion for anonymous denunciations went out with Soviet Union.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:45 Comments || Top||

#4  p.s. The habit of sending a SWAT team should stop.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:47 Comments || Top||

#5  A Police State's gotta have it's guns and gear. Don't forget the green pickle suit and matching NOMEX aviator gloves with the snipped trigger finger (graphic).
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2023 6:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Tacticool for engaging with the hand sanitizer dispenser. Yes, a must!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2023 7:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Certainly there is a legitimate reason for SWAT teams. The issue is leftists.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2023 8:13 Comments || Top||

#8  #1 you know that by 1944-45 we were bombing the s**t out of the Germans and Japanese. We weren't too concerned about women and children on the receiving end at that point. The barbarism displayed by the enemy removed any compulsion to extend the civilized rules of warfare to them. It's the old, do on to others as they have done upon you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/28/2023 8:22 Comments || Top||

#9  When the Germans were executing Canadian POWs in Normandy, they were dealing with French civilians just a savagely. Those who show no quarter should expect none in return.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/28/2023 11:38 Comments || Top||

#10  He was SWAT'ed a serious Felony.
When should we expect an arrest for it?
Heaven knows, swatting has resulted in some serious injuries to innocent people.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Shaboob turns himself in to Somali security forces in Lower Jubba


Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Drone blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns
[GEO.TV] Drones caused explosions that rocked two Egyptian towns on the Red Sea on Friday, the Egyptian army said, while Israel said 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 Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
movement sent them to strike Israel.

The explosions injured six people and illustrated the risk of regional spillover from the Israel-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...
conflict. There was no claim of responsibility.

Israel's foreign ministry said the Iran-backed Houthi launched drones and missiles "with the intention of harming Israel."

Egypt's military front man Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said two drones were fired from the southern Red Sea aiming north. Yemen is at the south end of the sea and Israel at the north.

One drone crashed into a building adjacent to a hospital in the Egyptian town of Taba on the border with Israel, injuring six, in the early hours of Friday, Egypt's military said.

The second drone was downed outside Egyptian airspace on Friday morning, and the debris fell in a desert area of Nuweiba town, about 70 km (43 miles) from the Israeli border, Egypt said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Egypt once tried to conquer Yemen. Used chemical weapons extensivily.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought that said “The Goat Squad” my bad.
Posted by: Uneper Wittlesbach3344 || 10/28/2023 6:27 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish court officially arrests four members of pro-Kurdish parties
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday charged four members and officials of two pro-Kurdish political parties for their alleged links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) two days after they were arrested.

Ali Gultepe, a senior member of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) as well as the Peoples’ Democratic Party
’s (HDP) member Cuneyt Yesilyurt and its regional officials Ridvan Ulasman and Niyazi Artun were arrested during police raids in Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces on Monday, reported Mezopotamya Agency, a pro-Kurdish media outlet, on Wednesday.

A court in Tekirdag ruled their official arrests after charging them with PKK membership, the news agency added.

The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
but is proscribed as a terrorist organization by Ankara.

Ottoman Turkish authorities have arrested thousands of Kurds, especially members of the HDP, for their alleged links with the PKK. Some Ottoman Turkish officials have claimed that the HDP is the political wing of the PKK - an accusation the HDP has denied.

The HDP fielded candidates for the latest Ottoman Turkish elections under a sister party following Ottoman Turkish authorities took legal procedures to close it.

Its sister party, Green Left Party, recently changed its name to Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP).
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: WoT
Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down Grand Central Terminal during evening rush
[NYP] Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters forced the temporary closure of Grand Central Terminal during the Friday evening rush as they staged a massive sit-in inside the station’s concourse — leading to dozens of arrests.
Bring in a 'special' train and put them all on it.
The sea of demonstrators, wearing black shirts that said "Jews say cease fire now," took over the station’s vast concourse chanting "no more weapons. No more war. Ceasefire is what we’re fighting for."

Other protesters climbed atop the ticket counter with large banners that read "Palestinians should be FREE" and "Never again for anyone."

Banners were also unfurled from the top of the terminal’s staircases as the group chanted "Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

The sit-in demonstration, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, came hours after Israel Defense Forces announced its plan to "expand" its ground operations in the cut-off enclave where some 7,000 Palestinians have been killed.

Access to the station was initially restricted before the MTA announced it’s closure due to the protests.

Train service was halted at about 7:30 p.m. and the MTA directed Metro North customers to take the subway to the Harlem-125th Street station in order to catch a train heading north.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2023 02:32 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Somebody has to do something about Soros & Co.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Mossad suicide squad?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/28/2023 4:34 Comments || Top||

#3  ^I could never understand why Russians letting Soros live.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Soros is a useful tool to the Russian, disrupting America better than Russian can,

Beside Russia sucks at wet works, it's too obvious when they do it.

Mossad OTOH, who? never saw them, never heard of them...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/28/2023 5:01 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 Soros started his ops in Eastern Europe. By comparison Soros opperation in USA are peanuts - the opposition is so much weaker.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 5:06 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Eastern Europe was it? Zoros in a few years ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2023 6:28 Comments || Top||

#7  IIRC, Soros had a 'university' in Hungary a few years ago when the Hungarian government kicked Soros and his 'university' out of Hungary.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/28/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  #7: wy dont we kick him to the curb. i think he got his start selling jews to gestapo.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 10/28/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#9  This will not make them popular with the people who have to use Grand Central Station to get home.

However, this is NY. People there appear to be so brainwashed that no amount of encounters with reality will faze them.
Posted by: Tom || 10/28/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#10  And there's today's button: "FREE PALESTINE with every settlement!"
Posted by: Harry Greremble5424 || 10/28/2023 14:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Why Rantburg doesn’t source any article, on how Israel, original concept was destroyed by the massive immigration of north europeans zionists extremist non ethnic Semitic, but converted to Judaism?

Why no articles on how this masses of Russians Poles Hungarians, Germans, of mostly opportunistic economic immigrants/colonists, not faith driven and not normally professing Judaism immigrated using fake identities and documents….

Why rantburg doesn’t sources articles about on how Real Semitic dna Jews are completely silenced by the Ashkenazi fake north European Jews colonist, controlling the Israeli society?

Or any articles on how Israel and is extremist zionist supporters in the USA are blackmailing journalists and American politicians?
Posted by: ACA JOE || 10/28/2023 21:30 Comments || Top||

#12  You poor, stupid baby — ACA JOE fell for aaaaallll the propaganda.

Don’t try to tell me Hitler and Hamas would have hated a convert to Judaism less than one born to a Jewish mother.

As for why Rantburg doesn’t publish articles on the subject, we do not care about such things, it being an internal Israel subject. On thw other hand, we do care that the majority of the so-called Palestinian Arabs are defined as having arrived in the area by 1945. Their DNA belongs to Syria, Lebanon and Iraq in the West Bank, and to Egypt (mostly) in Gaza. Only a small percentage of them have roots in the area before the Jews provided employment.

Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 22:22 Comments || Top||

#13  I notice the quality of ACA JOE's linguistics have diminished as the drool, and overseas' pressure for results have taken place. Good luck, jerk
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2023 22:32 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 10/28/2023 22:32 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ THAT was a f*ckin precious temper tantrum. I suspect some touchy points on ACA JOE? I'm guessing an Uncle touched him? Naaaaah
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2023 22:36 Comments || Top||

#16  #14 Go to hell! You dirty zionists propagandist!
Same lies that you pushed on isis
Same lies that you used shilling for the criminal Jew run government of ukraine.
Same lies as you attached yourself for all this time.
TW. GO FUCK YOURSELF!


Your point being?
Posted by: badanov || 10/28/2023 22:36 Comments || Top||

#17  Or any articles on how Israel and is extremist zionist supporters in the USA are blackmailing journalists and American politicians?

Blackmail them with what?

"Write a story favorable to the Israelis, or we'll tell everyone you're secretly a MAGA loving Trump supporter?"

WTF?
Posted by: badanov || 10/28/2023 22:41 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Kurdistan CT says Turkish drone killed nine PKK members in Kurdistan Region
[Rudaw] At least nine suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed and several others injured during Ottoman Turkish strikes on their positions last night in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil and Duhok provinces, Erbil-based Kurdish counterterrorism forces said on Thursday.

"Nine PKK fighters were killed in a series of strikes carried out by Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones on several positions in Sidakan district of Erbil province last night," the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT, said in a statement on Facebook.

It added that an additional PKK fighter was killed and three others maimed as Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombarded Duhok province’s Shiladze and Deraluk subdistricts.

Kurdistan CT is unofficially linked to the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) - which has had rocky relations with the PKK for decades. There have been festivities between KDP-affiliated Peshmerga forces and PKK fighters in bordering areas in recent years over land control.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Turkey must stop attacking civilians!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 2:06 Comments || Top||


Militia group says targeted US forces in western Iraq
[Rudaw] An Iraqi militia group on Friday claimed that it carried out a drone attack on United States troops in western Iraq, the latest in a string of assaults on US interests in Iraq and Syria because of Washington’s support for Israel.

The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq said on its Telegram channel on Friday that it used a drone to attack US troops based at al-Asad air base in Anbar province.

The same group on Thursday grabbed credit for a drone attack against US troops based near Erbil International Airport. The Pentagon said the "unsuccessful" assault only caused material damage.

Pentagon front man Brigadier General Pat Ryder said during a press briefing late Thursday that US forces in Iraq and Syria had been attacked with suicide drones and rockets 16 times between October 17 and 26.

"We know that these are Iranian-backed militia groups that are supported 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and of course we hold Iran responsible for these groups," he said.

Hours later, the US carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against pro-Iran militia groups in eastern Syria in "response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks" targeting American troops, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Iran is willing to fight two Satans to the last Arab?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Until they have exhausted the war chest that Joe expedited to them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Idf: Hamas's Terror Command Center Built Under Gaza's Main Hospital
[Newsmax] Hamas has systematically turned hospitals in the Gaza Strip into terror command centers and hideouts, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday, as volleys of rockets fired by Hamas targeted central and southern Israel.

Four people were injured in a direct rocket strike on a residential building in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, ranging from moderate to light injuries. Half an hour after that attack, central Israel was again targeted by rockets.

According to IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military is affixing a red flag to the world about Hamas’s war crime of using hospitals in Gaza as human shields and revealed intelligence for that purpose.

"Hamas has turned hospitals into command-and-control centers, and hideouts for terrorists and commanders," he stated. "According to intelligence in our hands, there is fuel in hospitals in Gaza, and Hamas is using it for its terror infrastructure."

The IDF shared this information and more with intelligence agencies from allied countries, he said.

Addressing Shifa Hospital in Gaza City—the largest in the Strip, with more than 1,500 beds, 4,000 staff and people arriving in recent weeks around the hospital grounds—Hamas is "cynically using" such places as a "shield for its underground terror complex," said Hagari.

The Gazan network of underground combat tunnels, dubbed "the metro" by the IDF, is often placed right next to sensitive sites like hospitals, mosques, schools and UNRWA sites as part of a deliberate doctrine by Hamas to limit IDF airstrikes.

Pointing to a map of the Shifa Hospital, Hagari said that Hamas conducts its command and control out of places like the X-ray room for terror activities like launching rockets.

"It is here in Shifa Hospital where Hamas operates its command-and-control cells. Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa Hospital, with a network of terror tunnels. It also has an entrance to the tunnels from different places in the hospital," said Hagari. "Right now, terrorists move freely at Shifa Hospital."

'HAMAS'S USE OF HOSPITALS IS SYSTEMATIC'
Hundreds of terrorists flooded the Shifa hospital after the Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis by Hamas, stated Hagari.

"Hamas not only endangers the lives of Israeli civilians but also exploits the lives of innocent Gazans as human shields. Hamas’s use of hospitals is systematic. They do so precisely because they know Israel distinguishes between terrorists and civilians," he said. "We already exposed that Hamas stole fuel from UNRWA—and UNRWA confirmed it."

He was referring to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

Hagari played an audio recording between an IDF officer and a senior Gazan energy official, who stated that Hamas uses very large quantities of fuel for its underground tunnel activities, in addition to oxygen and electricity.

When medical facilities are used like this, they are liable to lose protection under international law, Hagari warned.

"For over two weeks, the IDF has called and continues to call the civilians of northern Gaza and Gaza City to temporarily move south for their own safety," he stressed. "We continue to back efforts by Egypt and the United States to get food medicine and water to south Gaza. We will increase this humanitarian effort."

TERROR TARGETS STRUCK, PALESTINIAN COMMANDER KILLED
Meanwhile, in recent hours, the IDF conducted a ground raid in the Gaza Strip and struck dozens of terror targets belonging to Hamas, it said.

IDF ground forces, accompanied by Israeli Air Force fighter jets and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), conducted the raid in the central Gaza Strip early on Friday.

As part of the activity, IDF aircraft and artillery struck terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Shuja’iyya area and throughout the Gaza Strip, the military said.

The troops exited the area at the end of the activity. No IDF injuries were reported.

During the activity, the IDF identified and struck numerous terror targets, including anti-tank missile launch sites, military command-and-control centers, as well as Hamas terrorists themselves.

Overnight on Friday, the IDF killed Madhath Mubashar, commander of the Western Khan Yunis Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization. Madhath took part in explosives and sniper attacks against Israeli civilian communities and IDF soldiers, the military said in a statement.

Israeli fighter jets struck more than 250 military targets belonging to Hamas on Thursday and Friday. These included tunnels, dozens of Hamas operatives, operational command centers and rocket-launch sites.

In addition, an Israeli UAV fell in the Gaza Strip as a result of a technical malfunction. There is no risk of an information breach, and the incident is under review, said the military.

STRIKE TOWARDS ISRAEL FROM 'RED SEA AREA'
Meanwhile, Israeli Navy personnel from the elite Flotilla 13 commando unit conducted a targeted raid from the sea in the southern Gaza Strip. During the activity, the soldiers struck Hamas military infrastructure and operated in a compound used by Hamas’s commando naval forces, said the military.

Israeli Navy vessels and aircraft took part in the raid.

In the north on Friday, terrorists carried out a shooting from Lebanon towards an IDF post near the communities of Avivim and Kibbutz Misgav Am in northern Israel. No injuries were reported. IDF tanks and artillery returned fire at the source of the fire.

On Friday morning, a strike in the resort town of Taba in the Sinai Peninsula originated from "the Red Sea area," according to an Israeli military official, in an apparent reference to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Arabic-language media cited an Egyptian military source as saying the blast that lightly wounded six people was caused by a drone.

Taba is located along the border with Israel, some six miles from the southernmost city of Eilat.

Last week, the USS Carney, a U.S. Navy destroyer, shot down missiles and drones from Yemen that could have been aimed at Israel, the Pentagon said.

Early on Friday, after 14 attacks by militias backed by Iran on U.S. military targets in Syria and Iraq over the past 10 days, the United States launched a series of airstrikes on munitions storage sites in Syria affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.

"The strikes took place at roughly 4:30 a.m. on Friday in Syria near Al Bukamal, a Syrian town on the border with Iraq, and were carried out by two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions," Reuters quoted a U.S. official as saying.

One of the sites struck is the Al-Bukamal area, which, according to the Alma Center, a defense research group in Israel, is heavily involved is operated almost exclusively by associates of the radical Shiite axis led by Iran. On the Iraqi side of the border, in the Al-Anbar province, those leading the smuggling are the Iraqi Hezbollah militias. The site is used to smuggle weapons and terrorists along the Iranian-run trafficking corridor.

Meanwhile, within Israel, the Israel Police announced that it arrested more than 100 suspects and charged 24 of them since the start of the war over incitement to violence and terrorism.

Police also removed 300-plus posts encouraging violence, incitement and affiliation with terrorism, with 146 of them leading to investigations.
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Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/28/2023 04:38 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I mean, where else would you put it?
Ease of access, reliable utilities, quick access to medical service.
And there's that whole human shield thing.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/28/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Location, location, location!
Posted by: Raj || 10/28/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  IDF forces operating on the ground in the northern Gaza Strip
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/28/2023 17:44 Comments || Top||

#5  All you need is a tanker of CO2 and a hose.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2023 17:58 Comments || Top||

#6  H2S is more fun.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/28/2023 21:11 Comments || Top||

#7  *sniff*sniff* Why does it smell like almonds in here?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/28/2023 22:09 Comments || Top||

#8  1-7
I bet the IDF guys in Gaza think you're funny.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/28/2023 23:41 Comments || Top||


Hamas says intense ground fighting with Israeli forces underway in Gaza
[GEO.TV] The armed wing of Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
said late Friday its fighters were battling Israeli forces inside 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...
, after Israel said it would expand its ground operations against the Paleostinian krazed killer group in the territory.

"We are confronting an Israeli ground incursion in Beit Hanoun (in the northern Gaza Strip) and in east Bureij (in the centre) and violent mostly peaceful engagements are taking place on the ground," the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.

Israeli military front man Major Nir Dinar told AFP: "Our troops are operating inside Gaza as they did yesterday."

Israeli ground forces made limited ground incursions on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  You ain't seen nothing yet, Allanbeasts.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:12 Comments || Top||

#2  IDF destroyed 150 underground targets in northern Gaza Strip overnight

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess we are going to find out if the stories of terrorists infiltrating to Southern border are accurate or fear p0rn.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Hamas says, "It's time for Heroes of Islam guys to attack from all directions! Quickly! Please!"
Posted by: Bobby || 10/28/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 10/28/2023 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 Over 87 zionazi reduced to compost in the last 6 hours. Rumors of Israeli refusing to combat.Lol…
Exactly like in Ukraine… Israel will be erased.
rantburg Jews owned rag information is always fake.


Charming.
Posted by: badanov || 10/28/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks Bad, I like to see the crap he posts. Is he somewhere else I can follow? (Just to hate).
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/28/2023 23:44 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 Thanks Bad, I like to see the crap he posts. Is he somewhere else I can follow? (Just to hate).

Zero clue. Stormfront.org?
Posted by: badanov || 10/28/2023 23:55 Comments || Top||


Israel to 'expand' Gaza ground operations after barrage of airstrikes, IDF says
[NYPOST] IDF ground forces are "expanding their operations tonight" and are "acting with great force... to achieve the objectives of war," Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told news hounds shortly after 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...
lost power and internet access earlier in the day — leaving millions without the ability to communicate with the outside world as rockets continued to blare overhead.
Sirens blare. Rockets Kaboom
"The IDF is operating in all dimensions to accomplish the goals of the war," he said as he urged Paleostinians to move to the southern part of the Gaza Strip "where it is much safer."

Hagari added that he suggests "not to pay attention to the rumors" that a ground invasion was delayed in an effort to free hostages, calling it a "cynical exploitation by Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
."

His announcement came after Gaza City was hit with "unusual, intense and sustained" explosions Friday night, according to CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
’s Nic Robertson.

"There have been huge rounds of outgoing tank fire from where we are," he reported from Sderot, adding, "Round after round of artillery fire going into Gaza as well. Multiple impacts reported in Gaza and Gaza City."

Hours earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed that the Jewish state would launch a "long and difficult" ground offensive soon in its efforts to destroy Hamas.

He said the military is preparing for a campaign that would require dismantling a vast network of underground tunnels in the country’s efforts to "dismantle Hamas."

"We are responding with fire and creating the conditions for the ongoing war," Gallant said, according to the Guardian. "There will also be other stages."

"We are preparing them, and we will carry them out," he vowed. "I am determined to deliver victory."

"The symbol will be this is the end of Hamas," Gallant said.

But he noted a ground invasion would "take a long time" and would be followed by lower-intensity fighting in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces destroy "pockets of resistance."

The Biden administration did not disclose if it had prior knowledge about IDF advancing its ground operations.

"So, I’m not going to talk about in getting into details of the conversations that we have with our Israeli counterparts and the information, the flow between us," National Security Council front man John Kirby said, according to CNN.

"I think that would be a very imprudent place for me to go."

Kirby also refused to relay whether the White House has been assured by Israel that it fully weighed the consequences of amplifying its strike on the ground, saying he is "not going to talk about their decision-making process."

"They have to speak to that, and they have to be able to answer the questions about the soundness of their planning and the effectiveness of their execution," he added.

The Israeli government has been ramping up its military presence on the southern border with Israel since last week — when photos taken by Rooters on Friday showed several Israeli tanks and other military equipment lining the border with the Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were also lined up along the border awaiting the order to invade the Gaza Strip.

But the Israeli government delayed its ground operation amid negotiations with Hamas officials to free some 200 Israeli civilians it took hostage in its surprise attack on Oct. 7.

Instead, the Israeli military conducted "targeted" attacks on the Gaza Strip, carrying out a second consecutive ground raid Thursday night, when armored vehicles and aircraft descended on an area outside of Gaza City.

Officials claimed to have struck 250 Hamas targets in the area, including command centers, tunnels and launch sites, according to Israel’s i24 News.

They also said soldiers from the marine commando unit targeted bandidos forces of Evil from the sea off the southern Gaza Stip Friday night, hitting a compound used by Hamas’ commando naval forces.

The decision to "expand" the ground operations was finally made Thursday night when talks on a possible hostage release reached a stalemate, officials told Axios.

CUT OFF
Just a few hours before the IDF warned of its impending ground invasion, the Hamas government announced on Friday that Israel "cut communications and most of the internet," Al Arabiya reported — leaving 2.3 million Paleostinians cut off from the world and each other.
Yeah, yeah. All those international and news types have satellite phones that can provide a personal internet hotspot. Would they really not have spares for their friends?
It accused Israel of taking the measure to "perpetuate massacres with bloody retaliatory strikes from the air, land and sea" after Israeli officials told the AFP it is "continually striking in the Gaza Strip."

Patel, the Paleostinian telecoms company, also said the Israeli bombardment on Friday night had destroyed "all remaining connections between Gaza and the outside world," while the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy, the main emergency service in Gaza, claimed it was cut off from its operations room in the Strip because of the internet blackout.

Hamas is now calling on the world to "act immediately" to stop Israel’s bombardment of Gaza."

"We call on the Arab and Moslem countries and the international community to take responsibility and act immediately to stop the crimes and series of massacres against our people," the terrorist group said in a statement.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry claims more than 7,000 Paleostinians living in Gaza, including nearly 3,000 children, were killed in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s since the war began earlier this month — though those figures could not be confirmed.

Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Poor Gazans, no more Tik-Tok?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:48 Comments || Top||


Israeli Air Force eliminates aerial threat near Red Sea - IDF
[Jpost] The Israeli Air Force thwarted an aerial threat in the Red Sea region, the IDF said on Friday.

In response to an aerial threat identified in the Red Sea region Friday morning, Air Force units were deployed and successfully eliminated the targets.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected Turkish drone strike kills SDF commander
[Rudaw] A commander from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed on Friday in a suspected Ottoman Turkish dronezap in northeast Syria, according to the Kurdish-led force.

The SDF said a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted the SDF commander Farhad Derik while he was visiting his family in Derik, Hasaka province. A woman and a child were also injured in the attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The commander worked as a coordinator between the SDF and global coalition forces in Syria, and he had previously been the target of Ottoman Turkish dronezaps, according to SOHR.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s defense ministry on Friday said it had "neutralized" three members of the Kurdish forces in Syria and two others in the Kurdistan Region. Turkey uses the term "neutralized" to denote adversaries captured, maimed, or killed.

Since early October, Turkey has conducted frequent assaults on Kurdish-led forces and civilian infrastructure in Rojava in retaliation for an attack on the interior ministry in Ankara, for which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) grabbed credit.

The PKK is an gang struggling for increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. It is proscribed as a terrorist organization by Ankara. Turkey believes the SDF and its Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) are Syrian branches of the PKK. The SDF has denied any role in the interior ministry attack.

Ottoman Turkish bombs this month have hit military targets and civilian infrastructure, including power stations, oil fields, and other basic services in Rojava, leaving more than two million people without water or electricity.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
has said only members of the PKK and the YPG were being targeted in what he called the first phase of the military campaign.

Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan said on October 18, that Ankara will not refrain from "destroying" income sources of Kurdish forces in Rojava. Fidan earlier warned that all infrastructure linked to the YPG will be "legitimate targets."

Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Turkey of damaging critical infrastructure in Rojava and demanded Ankara "urgently" stop further harm to water and power stations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The SDF said a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted the SDF commander Farhad Derik while he was visiting his family in Derik, Hasaka province. A woman and a child were also injured in the attack

Recep told us that only Zionists attack women & children, therefore Recep is a Zionist?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/28/2023 4:41 Comments || Top||



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