[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army has acknowledged firing upon a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) near Khartoum, resulting in two fatalities and injuring seven individuals, including three ICRC staff members.
The convoy, comprising three ICRC vehicles and three buses clearly marked with the organization’s emblem, was on its way to evacuate over a hundred vulnerable civilians from Khartoum to Wad Madani when it was targeted as it entered the evacuation zone.
In a stern statement, the ICRC expressed its profound shock and dismay at the deliberate attack on its humanitarian mission.
The organization underscored that the evacuation operation had been carefully coordinated with all parties involved in the conflict, who had provided both approval and the required security guarantees.
Pierre Dorbes, the head of the ICRC’s delegation in Sudan, condemned the assault, stating, "This attack is unacceptable, and we are grief-stricken. I am shocked by the total disrespect for the Red Thingy emblem, which must be respected and protected in accordance with international humanitarian law.
In contrast, Sudanese army spokesperson Nabil Abdallah claimed that the ICRC convoy had deviated from the agreed-upon itinerary and was accompanied by a rebel vehicle armed with a 12.7mm machine gun crew, which approached their defensive positions.
The army had established an agreement with the ICRC to evacuate civilians (including foreign nationals) trapped in the Church of St. Mary in Khartoum’s al-Shajara district.
The al-Shajara military region in southern Khartoum, home to army bases, including the Armored Corps and munition factory, has been a battleground for fierce festivities between the two opposing forces for several months.
A statement released by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) insisted that their forces escorting the humanitarian convoy had withdrawn to their last position.
They added, "The Red Thingy delegation proceeded independently in accordance with the coordination and itinerary agreed upon between the parties, and when Red Thingy vehicles entered areas under the control of the armed forces, they were subjected to heavy fire from a force affiliated with the armed forces."
Posted by: Fred ||
12/13/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[16 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Tribal bandidosgunnies cut on Tuesday the road linking the provinces of Shabwah and Hadhramaut, which are under the control of Saudi-led coalition factions in eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Local sources explained that bandidosgunnies from "Al-Adhm" tribe blocked the road between Shabwah and Hadhramaut to demand the release of one of their sons from the prison in the city of Mukalla, Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... center.
The bandidosgunnies created a checkpoint on the main road to put pressure on the pro-coalition authorities to speed up the release of the prisoner, the sources added.
The sources pointed out that tribal bandidosgunnies prevented gas and fuel tankers from passing through the area until their demands were met.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/13/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[17 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia
A commercial vessel is in flames in the Red Sea after being attacked by at least one missile fired from 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... -controlled territory in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , two U.S. officials tell The War Zone.
The M/T Strinda was attacked by a missile coming out of a Houthi-controlled area in Yemen, two U.S. military officials told The War Zone. The vessel is battling a fire, the officials said. It was struck 60 miles north of the narrow Bab el-Mandab Strait, one of those officials told us. The Strinda is a Norwegian-owned chemical tanker, according to its owner, Mowinckel Chemical Tankers AS.
The Arliegh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Mason responded to an emergency call and is now in sight of the Strinda, three officials told us. All three spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details.
This marks the second time in two weeks that the Mason has been involved in a situation involving missiles fired from Yemen. Nov. 27, two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen came down in the Red Sea in the vicinity of the destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87). At the time, the warship was concluding its response to a distress call from the M/V Central Park, a commercial vessel that had itself come under attack from a group of armed raiders that had attempted to board it.
The attack on the Strinda comes days after La Belle France said one of its frigates in the Red Sea downed two Houthi drones flying toward it.
And this is just the latest case of Houthi missiles hitting commercial vessels. As we previously reported, on Dec. 3, three missiles fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen struck three fat merchantmen in the Red Sea Sunday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney responded to distress calls from two of those vessels and downed three drones approaching it.
On Saturday, in conjunction with the Army-Navy game, the Navy released a video supporting the sea service featuring vivid video of the Carney responding to Houthi attacks.
The Houthis have repeatedly attacked shipping in the Red Sea and launched missiles and drones at Israel. There have been several instances where U.S. Navy vessels have also had to shoot down Houthi drones and missiles. On Nov. 19, the Houthis staged a helicopter-borne raid on the Galaxy Leader, a Bahamian-flagged vehicle carrier transiting the Red Sea. The Houthis still hold the ship and its 25 crew members. A U.S. military official told The War Zone it is believed to be the first Houthi helicopter-borne raid on a ship.
Update: 8:33 PM Eastern -
We received additional information about what struck the ship as well as the location of the attack. The Strinda was hit by a land-based cruise missile about 60 nautical miles north of the Bab el-Mandab. No one was injured in the attack and no U.S. vessels were near it when the attack occurred, a U.S. official tells us.
We also updated this story to change the designation of the ship to M/T.
Update: 8:41 AM Eastern 12/12 -
Houthi front man Yahya Sare'e claimed credit for the attack on the Strinda, stating without proof that it was headed to Israel.
"The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation against the Norwegian ship [Strinda], which was loaded with oil and headed to the Israeli entity. It was targeted with a suitable naval missile."
The vessel's owner, J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi, said the tanker was loaded with palm oil and en route from Malaysia to the Suez Canal and then on to Italy when it was attacked, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK reported.
Update: 12:30 PM Dec. 12 -
France says its French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigate Languedoc, patrolling off the coast of Yemen, was also involved in the Strinda incident, shooting down a drone threatening the vessel.
In a decisive blow against Israel, the Houthis struck a Norwegian-owned, Indian-crewed tanker ship that was carrying vegetable oil from Malaysia to Italy with a cruise missile https://t.co/aDEf8mydLQ
Yemen’s Houthis said on Tuesday they carried out a military operation against a Norwegian commercial tanker in their latest protest against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, underlining the risks of a conflict that has shaken the Middle East.
The Iran-aligned group hit the tanker, the STRINDA, with a rocket because it was delivering crude oil to an Israeli terminal and after its crew ignored all warnings, Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sarea said in a statement.
But the tanker’s owner, Norway’s Mowinckel Chemical Tankers, said the vessel was headed to Italy with a cargo of palm oil to be used in biofuels. It was not planning to stop in Israel, a company’s spokesperson told Reuters.
And that hurt Israel how?
Courtesy of badanov:
UK reports an incident on board a ship off the coast of Yemen Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The incident, which resulted in a fire, occurred on board a British ship off the coast of Yemen. This was announced by the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office (UKMTO) on the social network X.
It is specified that the incident occurred on board a ship located in the vicinity of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, approximately 28 kilometers west of the Yemeni port of Moha.
“The authorities are investigating. Fire on board the vessel, international search and rescue services have been informed. All crew are reported to be safe,” UKMTO said in a statement.
Vessels in the area are advised to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the UKMTO. Later it was clarified that an organization calling itself the Yemeni Navy ordered an unnamed ship to change course to a Yemeni port. It does not specify which specific vessel we are talking about.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that UKMTO in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait of the Red Sea recorded drone activity, after which an explosion allegedly occurred. It was noted that the drones appeared from Yemen.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Member of the Ansarallah Political Bureau, Muhammad al-Bukhaiti, has warned La Belle France against getting involved in siding with the Zionist entity.
Al-Bukhaiti said in his account on the "X" platform that "the French government’s involvement in standing by the Zionist entity makes it vulnerable to bear the consequences of that and wastes its future interests with two billion Moslems."
He emphasized that 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... would continue to implement its military actions and would not abandon its moral and humanitarian role in supporting the oppressed on earth.
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister says 16-year-old wrote in online chat he wanted weapon to carry out attack; authorities find guides for making bombs, weapons in home
A 16-year-old has been arrested for allegedly planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna, Austria’s top security official said Monday.
The teenager, who was arrested Thursday, had announced in online chats that he intended to procure a weapon to attack an unspecified synagogue in Vienna, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said. He had already obtained the financial means for the attack, Austrian news agency APA reported.
Officials did not identify the suspect. They said he lived near Steyr in northern Austria.
His home was searched and several electronic data carriers were seized, APA reported.
Authorities also found images and video material with instructions for making bombs, weapons, and ammunition, APA said.
In November 2020, four people were killed by several button men in a terror shooting at several locations in Vienna, beginning outside a synagogue.
Austrian authorities have beefed up security for synagogues and other Jewish and Israeli institutions following an increase in antisemitic incidents in the wake of the Israel-Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war, which was sparked by the devastating October 7 onslaught in which Hamas-led bandidosbandidos Death Eaters rampaged through southern communities, murdering 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped some 240 to 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.
ICYMI: A suicide #bomb attack on a security facility in #Pakistan’s northwest region killed 23 soldiers, the police and military said, raising security concerns weeks before the national elections.https://t.co/8HgpTdkTwa
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a circle.
Several viral videos and photos of Israeli soldiers behaving in a derogatory manner in Gaza have emerged in recent days, creating a headache for the Israeli military as it faces an international outcry over its tactics and the rising civilian death toll in its punishing war against Hamas.
The Israeli army has pledged to take disciplinary action in what it says are a handful of isolated cases.
Such videos are not a new or unique phenomenon. Over the years, Israeli soldiers — and members of the U.S. and other militaries — have been caught on camera acting inappropriately or maliciously in conflict zones.
#8
Zionists Stop Sounding Like Nazis Challenge. Difficulty: impossible.
And wouldn't you know it? Both of these sects of superior beings just happened to find themselves surrounded by groups of lesser beings whom they felt they were entitled--almost obligated--to exterminate.
[IsraelTimes] Wall Street Journal says tactic still at early stage and being evaluated; IDF chief has said it’s ’a good idea,’ but environmentalists and some US officials have voiced concern
The IDF has started pumping seawater into Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s underground tunnel system 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... , a move aimed at destroying the Paleostinian terror group’s subterranean network of passages and hideaways and driving its operatives above ground, a report said Tuesday.
The development was reported by The Wall Street Journal, which earlier this month reported that the tactic was under "consideration" and that the Israel Defense Forces had set up five large water pumps near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, capable of flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into them.
On Tuesday, citing US officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, the American outlet reported that the operation was at an early stage and that the utility of the tactic was still being considered.
It said the method is one out of a few others weighed to tackle the tunnels, including Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, use of liquid explosives, and dispatching dogs, drones and robots into the network.
IDF chief Herzi Halevi said last week that flooding the tunnels is "a good idea, but I won’t comment on its specifics."
The military has refused to comment on details of its operations to destroy the tunnel infrastructure.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... was asked Tuesday about the report.
"With regard to the flooding of the tunnels... There (are) assertions being made that there [are] no hostages in any of these tunnels, but I don’t know that for a fact," Biden said in response to a question on the matter during a presser at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky.
"I do know that, though, every civilian death is an absolute tragedy, and Israel has stated its intent to match its words with actions," the American president added.
Israel has vowed to topple Hamas after the October 7 massacres, in which some 3,000 Paleostinian bandidosbandidos bad boys stormed across the border from Gaza and slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians massacred amid brutal atrocities, and took around 240 hostages.
ICYMI: The Jordanian army says it killed several smugglers during dawn clashes that left one of its soldiers dead as a large group of drug dealers crossed the border from #Syria. #Jordanhttps://t.co/68Jz17Q61s
The Jordanian army said on Tuesday it killed several smugglers during dawn festivities that left one of its soldiers dead as a large group of drug pushers crossed the border from Syria.
Bummer. I was hoping they’s caught some of the weapons smugglers that have been so annoying Israel.
The army said smugglers, who had infiltrated under cover of heavy fog, fled back into Syria in the incident only a week after three smugglers were rubbed out trying to smuggle large quantities of captagon pills - a mix of amphetamines.
"A clash took place with tens of smugglers who fired at border guards and exploited poor visibility and heavy fog to cross the border. The engagement killed a number of them and the rest forced to flee deep inside Syrian territory," the army statement said.
The army did not specify where along the 370-km (230-mile) border with Syria the incursion took place, but Syrian sources said the incident occurred in an area northeast of the city of Mafraq in Jordan.
"We act forcefully to protect our borders and prevent any attempt to undermine our national security," the army statement said.
Syria has become the region’s main location for a multi-billion-dollar drug trade, with Jordan being a main transit route to the Gulf states for a Syrian-made amphetamine known as captagon, Western anti-narcotics officials and Washington and its European allies say.
Jordanian officials echo Western claims that Leb <...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group and militias, who control much of southern Syria, are behind the surge in smuggling and support the smugglers’ operations. Hezbollah denies the accusations.
The illicit drug trade finances a proliferation of pro-Iranian militias and pro-government paramilitary forces that more than a decade of conflict in Syria has spawned, according to UN experts and Washington.
Jordan has been promised more US military aid to bolster security on the border, where Washington has, since the Syrian conflict began, given around $1 billion to establish border posts, Jordanian officials say.
Senior Jordanian officials say they have raised their concerns with Syrian authorities and Russia, a main ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... Jordan, impatient with what it says are broken promises to curb the drug war, had taken matters into its own hands and conducted several strikes inside Syrian territory this year against Iran-linked drugs factories, local and Western intelligence sources said.
Hmmm... how many of the strikes blamed on Israel are actually Jordanian?
Officials expect the smuggling attempts, which also have used drones, to spike during the coming winter months.
Damascus says it is doing its best to curb smuggling. It denies complicity with Iranian-backed militias linked to its army and security forces.
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... says the allegations are part of Western plots against the country.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/13/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[24 views]
Top|| File under: Narcos
#1
Something about smuggling behavior modifying drugs to terrorists..."A clash took place with tens of smugglers who fired at border guards". doesn't ring true.
I could believe a Hezbollah probe on the Jordanian border.
BREAKING: At least three Palestinians were killed this morning and others injured in an Israeli drone strike in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, amid an Israeli invasion of the city, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. pic.twitter.com/KbutOveoiJ
[IsraelTimes] Forces carry out morning raid in which they arrest dozens of terror suspects, seize weapons and destroy bomb-making lab, command center and tunnel shafts
An Israeli dronezap killed four Paleostinians who had hurled bombs toward Israel Defense Forces troops carrying out an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday morning, according to the army and Paleostinian officials.
The IDF said it was operating in Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp to detain wanted Paleostinians suspected of involvement in terror activities.
It said there were festivities between troops and Paleostinian button men and suspects hurling explosives at them.
A dronezap was carried out against a group of Paleostinians hurling the explosives, according to the IDF, which said it was aware of several armed Paleostinians who were killed and maimed in the festivities and the strike.
The military published footage showing the dronezap and the hurling of explosives that preceded it.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said four Paleostinians had been killed by Israeli forces in Jenin. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said they were killed in the dronezap on the Old City.
The IDF said troops detained dozens of suspects during the raid and seized firearms, bombs and other weapons.
It added that the forces also found and destroyed a bomb-making lab, as well as a command center used by local terror operatives and several tunnel shafts.
Since the October 7 onslaught by Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... against Israel — in which 3,000 Death Eaters slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians — Israeli troops have arrested over 2,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,100 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 280 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli forces, and in a few cases settlers.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of the 280 Paleostinians killed since October 7 were rubbed out during festivities amid arrest raids, and many of them, according to data seen by The Times of Israel, were armed with either a firearm or an bomb.
The IDF is aware of at least three cases of uninvolved Paleostinians being killed by troops in recent weeks, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, that are still under investigation.
A Palestinian man injured in intense clashes against Israeli soldiers in the West Bank’s Jenin has died of his wounds, Ramallah says.
According to Palestinian health authorities, seven people were killed in the fighting that broke out early Tuesday as troops raided the Jenin refugee camp and carried out drone strikes against suspected terror targets.
Aside from the four people killed announced Tuesday morning and the man who died of his wounds overnight, the Palestinian toll includes two other deaths on Tuesday: a man shot in the leg and an ill 13-year-old boy, both of whom they say died after being prevented from reaching a hospital.
Fighting in the eponymous refugee camp adjacent to Jenin is continuing Wednesday morning according to Palestinian reports and footage shared online.
Schools in the area are being shuttered and students are being switched to distance learning in light of the fighting, the official Palestinian news outlet WAFA says.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant following an assessment with the 162nd Division: "IDF troops are operating deep underground, locating Hamas infrastructures, destroying them, and bringing [Hamas in] Gaza City closer to breaking." pic.twitter.com/l6vb44UVsJ
[JPost] Master-Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot and Master-Sgt. (res.) Eyal Meir Berkovich fell during the operation to retrieve the bodies.
The IDF retrieved the bodies of Eden Zechariah and IDF Warrant Officer Ziv Dado, two of the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Tuesday.
The bodies were retrieved by soldiers from Unit 504 of the Intelligence Directorate and the 551st Brigade operating in Gaza.
The bodies underwent an identification procedure by medical officials and military rabbis, together with the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Israel Police.
The Zecharia and Dado families have been informed.
Zecharia was kidnapped from the party in Re'im and Dado was kidnapped while serving as a logistics foreman in the 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade.
The operation to recover the bodies 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 was carried out by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, and the 551st Brigade. They were found in a tunnel deep in the enclave, near the home of Ahmed Ghandour, the former commander of Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s northern Gaza Brigade, who was recently killed in an Israeli strike.
Gallant also said the brothers of Ghandour were being interrogated by Israel.
"They are already telling us a large part of the stories of the murders of October 7, and other things," he said.
War erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw 3,000 Lions of Islam burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 240 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.
It is believed that 135 hostages remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November. Four hostages were released prior to that, and one was rescued by troops. The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed the deaths of 18 of those still held by Hamas, due to new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
Katyusha rockets are launched from the Quneitra countryside towards the Golan region, and Israeli artillery responds by bombing the source of the rocket launch.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says aircraft and tanks completed a series of strikes in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and Syria in response to rocket attacks on northern Israel earlier.
In Syria, the IDF says it hit Syrian Army infrastructure, including an observation post, and in Lebanon, it says it hit a Hezbollah rocket launcher.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for several rocket and missile attacks from Lebanon today. Meanwhile three rockets were also fired from Syria, apparently by an Iran-backed group.
Are those secondaries, dear Reader? Things looks different at night.
כלי טיס וטנקים של צה"ל תקפו לפני זמן קצר מספר תשתיות צבאיות ועמדה צבאית של צבא סוריה בשטח סוריה.
בנוסף מטוס קרב של חיל האוויר תקף לפני זמן קצר תשתית צבאית וכוחות צה"ל תקפו עמדת משגר של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה בשטח לבנון pic.twitter.com/Z2UjxBn3xB
[IsraelTimes] Attacks on bases in western Iraq and northeast Syria claimed by Islamic Resistance® in Iraq coalition, which opposes US support for Israel in war against Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
A drone and rockets targeted two military bases in Iraq and Syria on Monday housing forces of the international coalition against 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.... group, a US military official said.
Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose formation of gangs affiliated with the Hashed al-Shaabi coalition of former paramilitaries that are now integrated into Iraq’s regular armed forces.
These 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... groups violent mostly peacefully oppose US backing for Israel in its war against Hamas in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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, which erupted on October 7 when the terror group launched a deadly attack into Israel, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians massacred amid brutal atrocities in their homes, communities and at a music festival.
The United States leads the international coalition battling jihadists in Iraq and neighboring Syria, and its forces have come under repeated attack in recent weeks.
A drone attack targeted the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq on Monday, without causing casualties or damage, the US military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... And in northeast Syria, "several rockets" were fired at a base in the al-Shaddadi region, the official added.
Washington has recorded at least 92 attacks in Iraq and Syria since October 17, 10 days after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out.
Early on Friday, salvos of rockets were fired at the American embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone for the first time since the Gaza war began. At least five attacks targeted US troops and the international coalition in Syria and Iraq that day.
On Saturday the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah issued a statement saying the attacks represented "new rules of engagement," and that they would continue until the last American soldier left Iraq.
There are roughly 2,500 US troops in Iraq and some 900 in Syria as part of international efforts to prevent a resurgence of IS.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has accused Kataeb Hezbollah and another pro-Iran group, Harakat al-Nujaba, of being behind most of the attacks on coalition personnel.
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.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a circle.
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] 
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
