[GEO.TV] 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'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 said on Friday it fired ballistic missiles at targets in the Israeli city of Eilat and threatened to keep up military operations until Israel ended its offensive 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... The Israeli military earlier said its "Arrow" aerial defence system had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile in the Red Sea area on Friday.
Houthis have launched a series of attacks on shipping and other targets in the Red Sea area in what they describe as acts of solidarity with the Paleostinians — stoking fears that the Israel-Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... war could spread to destabilise the wider Middle East.
"The Yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to carry out further military operations against the Zionist enemy on land and at sea until the cessation of aggression and lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip," the Houthis' military spokesperson said.
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Eilat - miss by just a little and you hit Egypt, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia. How accurate are those Persian weapons?
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“Once the rockets go up,
who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,”
says Wehrner von Braun.Mohammed Abdullah ibn Abdullah Mohammad al Yemeni.
Anyway, Israel shot them down with that new Arrow anti-missile thingy.
On Feb. 2, at approximately 10:30 a.m. (Sanaa time), USS Carney (DDG 64) engaged and shot down one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the Gulf of Aden. There were no injuries or damage reported.
... at approximately 4:40 p.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes against four 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... UAVs that were prepared to launch. U.S. forces identified the UAVs in Houthi-controlled areas of 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... and determined that they presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the U.S. Navy ships in the region. U.S. forces subsequently struck and destroyed the UAVs in self-defense. Then, at 9:20 p.m. (Sanaa time), USS Laboon (DDG 58) and F/A-18s from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group engaged and shot down seven UAVs over the Red Sea. There were no injuries or damage reported. These actions will protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy vessels and merchant vessels.
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During Saturday, February 3, the United States and its allies carried out strikes on 36 targets in 13 locations in Yemen. The corresponding statement was published by the Pentagon press service.
“Today, at the direction of the governments, US and UK military forces, supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand, conducted an additional series of proportionate and necessary strikes against 36 Houthi targets in 13 locations in Yemen,” the statement said.
Officials said the strikes were in response to ongoing attacks against foreign commercial and naval vessels passing through the Red Sea.
A statement by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin also appeared on the Pentagon website. He stressed that the collective action sends a clear message to the Houthis about the consequences if their illegal attacks on shipping continue.
“We will not hesitate to protect lives and the free flow of commerce on one of the world's most important waterways,” Austin added.
As Regnum reported, during the day, February 3, the United States and allies attacked Houthi targets in Yemen from air and surface platforms, including fighter jets. The CNN television channel, citing sources, claimed that the coalition attacked control and communications centers and underground storage facilities for Houthi weapons.
On January 31, Yahya Saria, a representative of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, announced an attack by the Houthis on the Koi container ship flying the Liberian flag in the Red Sea. Ballistic missiles were fired at the ship west of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. The crew and ship were not injured. Also on this day, the Yemeni Houthis announced shelling of the American destroyer USS Gravely in the Red Sea. All US and British warships that participated in the aggression against Yemen have been identified as targets of the armed forces, the brigadier general emphasized.
US and British aircraft on the evening of February 3 attacked the positions of the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) in the province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast in Yemen. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a source in local authorities.
According to the agency, fighter jets carried out raids on military installations of the Ansar Allah group in the Al-Lahiya and Ad-Duraihimi districts in the north and south of Hodeidah in western Yemen.
The consequences of the strikes are not specified.
As Regnum reported, a series of attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen were carried out by the United States and Great Britain. Facilities in the Yemeni province of Hajjah came under attack. A total of four strikes were carried out in the area of the village of Al-Jarr, located 100 meters from the Red Sea, in the Abs district.
Military spokesman for Yemen's Houthi Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria, said the Houthis attacked a British commercial ship bound for Israel on February 1.
The US armed forces struck a new blow to Yemen, destroying four drones of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement. This was reported by the US Central Command on February 3.
“The US military detected drones in Houthi-controlled areas and determined that they pose a direct threat to commercial and US Navy ships in the region. The US military carried out a strike and destroyed the UAV in self-defense,” the US military said.
It is noted that the strikes were carried out at 16:40 Moscow time.
As Regnum reported, a day earlier the Politico newspaper wrote that the US Air Force was preparing to launch further attacks on targets in Yemen in response to an attack on an American base in Jordan, during which three servicemen were killed.
Prior to this, the United States and Great Britain carried out a series of attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
It was specified that facilities in the Yemeni province of Hajjah came under attack. A total of four strikes were carried out in the area of the village of Al-Jarr, located 100 meters from the Red Sea, in the Abs district. Information about possible casualties and damage has not been specified.
Before this, on January 23, the United States and Great Britain launched strikes on Houthi targets in eight locations in Yemen. As a senior American military official told reporters, the strikes dropped 25 to 30 munitions and hit several targets. The UK Ministry of Defense confirmed that four British aircraft hit multiple targets at two military installations in the vicinity of Sanaa airfield with precision bombs. The department called the weakening of the Houthis the goals of the strikes.
In addition, on the night of February 3, the United States launched strikes on 85 targets of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. The operation followed an attack on a US base in Jordan that killed three US service members. In Anbar province in western Iraq, 16 people became victims of American strikes.
[BBC] The suspect in an alkali attack in south London was convicted of a sex offence in 2018 and was later granted asylum after three attempts.
The next question is whether he is a connected jihadi...
Police are looking for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, 35, who was last seen in north London on Wednesday evening.
A mother and her three-year-old daughter hurt by the corrosive substance could have suffered "life-changing" injuries in the attack.
Police have warned people not to approach Ezedi and to instead call 999.
The 31-year-old woman and her daughter remain in hospital, along with her older daughter, eight. Five coppers were maimed as they responded, as were four members of the public who tried to help.
The attack took place near Clapham Common at about 19:25 on Wednesday. The suspect attempted to escape the scene in a car but crashed into a stationary vehicle, then ran. One witness described seeing the suspect lift a young child over his head and throw her onto the ground like a "ragdoll", telling the BBC the incident was like a "horror movie".
A community worker who knows Ezedi has appealed for him to give himself up, and to get medical help for his injuries. Azad, who helps refugees in Newcastle where Ezedi lives, described the 35-year-old as polite and respectful.
In 2018, Ezedi was convicted of one charge of sexual assault and one of exposure, before being granted asylum in 2020. He received a nine-week jail term suspended for two years for the sexual assault and, for the exposure, 36 weeks' imprisonment to be served consecutively, also suspended for two years.
The Met Police earlier issued an image of him showing facial injuries. It was taken at a Tesco Express shop on Caledonian Road, north London, at 20:48 GMT on Wednesday - about 5.4 miles (8.7 km) away from the alkali attack on Lessar Avenue in Clapham.
BBC News understands that Ezedi arrived in the UK by lorry in 2016, having travelled from Afghanistan.
His suspended prison sentence for the sexual offence, passed down at Newcastle Crown Court, included an unpaid work order. Once that was complete in 2020, Ezedi was discharged from probation supervision.
Ezedi made his first unsuccessful asylum application in 2016. He later tried a second time and said he had converted to Christianity, meaning he would have been at risk if he returned to Afghanistan. After this second claim was refused, he appealed against the decision and a tribunal overturned it in 2020, having heard from a church witness who said he believed that Ezedi had converted to Christianity.
This case is being pointed out by some in the Home Office as an example of the frustration they have with the asylum tribunal system, that people are granted asylum despite having convictions in the UK. Current rules mean anyone sentenced to more than two years in prison is not eligible for asylum. In 2022, this was decreased to one year.
That’s fair. If you can’t abide by the rules, go somewhere else where you’re a better fit.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... those who work with asylum seekers point out you can still be at risk in your home country - and therefore a genuine refugee - even if you have a conviction in the UK.
True. But why should the UK be punished for providing that refuge?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's official front man declined to comment on the suspect's immigration status during a live police investigation. But he told news hounds that, more broadly, "the PM doesn't think that foreign criminals should be able to stay in the country, putting the public at risk".
Then do something about it, Mr Prime Minister. Talk is easy — and what you are known for.
Police believe Ezedi is known to the family, but said they were not yet clear on their exact relationship.
At a news conference, Supt Gabriel Cameron said Ezedi is believed to be from the Newcastle area, and the car left at the scene, a Hyundai, belonged to him. Supt Cameron said the suspect was last seen in Caledonian Road. There was a heightened police presence in that area - close to London's King's Cross station - on Thursday afternoon, including unmarked cars with blue lights, and police vans.
Twelve people in total were hurt in the attack, including five coppers who attended the scene. Out of four members of the public who tried to help, three went to hospital with injuries - two women in their 30s and one in her 50s. Police say they "bravely came to the aid of the family" and have now been discharged from hospital.
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I believe Arizona tried and the feds tore it down.
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It seems a stretch that a state can decide who can or can't run for office but can't make any determination about who is allowed to cross its border with a foreign country.
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^^^ You Have no rights and will stfu and be happy
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#1 That was when Arizona had, at least nominally, a
Republican governor.
After the 2022 elections, Texas is the only border state with a Republian governor. Reap, sow.
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^^ Kari lake was robbed just like Trump
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[FoxNews] Three individuals were arrested Friday evening after the clash with police during the protest near Columbia University
A rowdy anti-Israel protest outside of Columbia University reportedly led to the arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, who clashed with NYPD officers and shouted anti-cop chants.
The "All Out for Palestine" demonstration began around 3 p.m. Friday evening, and footage of protesters waving Palestinian flags and scuffling with officers quickly spread across social media in the hours afterward, according to the New York Post.
In one video shared to social media, the disgruntled group of protesters could be seen resisting commands from officers who were attempting to clear roadways, all while chanting, "NYPD, KKK. IDF they’re all the same." That doesn't even rhyme. Losers
In the same clip, one individual is shown being detained by police. As officers attempted to wrangle another female protester, other demonstrators were shown taunting officers and attempting to pull them from the woman. One individual, later identified as 31-year-old Fadi Shuman, was also shown in the clip taking an officer's peaked cap and running away with it.
A DCPI spokesperson for the city confirmed to Fox News Digital that three individuals had been arrested as a result of their actions at the protest, and another 12 had been issued citations for disorderly conduct. Of the three people that were arrested, two received desk appearance tickets.
Shuman was arrested and charged with grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration, aggravated harassment and criminal possession of stolen property.
Sara Elmilgi, 34, was also arrested and charged with harassment after she "slapped an officer’s arms multiple times while he was lawfully attempting to guide her back to the sidewalk," according to the spokesperson. The officer did not sustain any injuries.
The other individual who was arrested, 47-year-old Jesse Pape, was charged with obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct after he "was given a lawful order to disperse and refused to comply," the spokesperson noted.
Columbia grad students, staff, or professional cadres? The People's Forum has been taking the lead in many of these protests, linked to a Chinese Communist Party propaganda network funded by centi-millionaire American businessman Neville Roy Singham, who is a self-identified Maoist reported to be living in Shanghai.
The main protest on Friday was reportedly attended by hundreds of individuals. A smaller group of demonstrators later marched south to West 107th Street and Broadway, where additional arrests were made.
[IsraelTimes] IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a presser says the military has deployed three divisions to the northern border amid Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel.
He says the IDF has struck more than 150 cells, killing some 200 terror operatives, mostly members of Hezbollah, and targeted more than 3,400 Hezbollah sites since the beginning of the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... The targets include some 120 observation posts, 40 weapons depots, and 40 command centers manned by Hezbollah members, along with more significant sites such as an airstrip used by Hezbollah to launch drones and a weapons depot storing anti-aircraft missiles, Hagari says.
Hagari in his presser also airs footage of a strike on a Hezbollah cell in southern Syria last month.
He says the IDF is working to "reshape the security reality" on the northern border, so that some 80,000 displaced Israelis by Hezbollah’s attacks can return to their homes.
"We do not choose war as our first option but are certainly ready, and preparing for it all the time, if need be," Hagari says.
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I hope Israel is using ground penetrating bombs.. Hamis is digging deep holes. Pop up and shoot missile and then disappear 20 feet under ground...
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A few years ago Israel pumped Hezbollah’s almost-cross-border tunnels full of blue goo, Old Salty. We found out about it when they called the UN border troops over to watch it spill out the far exit, and posted video on the internet.
Thus Hezbollah learnt that their secret tunnels were not actually concealed. Some years earlier, the Israelis (I think it was Bibi) showed round the UN a map of all the Hezbollah missile and weapons caches in mosques and private homes — at that time only about 100,000 missiles, if I recall correctly. I have been awaiting glorious secondaries (and tertiaries, and quaternaries) ever since.
It’s my understanding that down south in Gaza, the IDF are distributing explosives via access tunnels to the surface — Hamas penetrates the ground for them, as it were.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers and speakers at weekly protest in Tel Aviv say faith in the government needs restoring, accuse Netanyahu of being guided by desire to avoid elections
Not even pretending to pretend they’re apolitical anymore, the paid frontpersons of the international Progressive left continue their efforts to overthrow the elected Netanyahu government using any excuse plausible. At least they’ve stopped importing foreign Antifa cadres to make the speeches.
Speeches at the weekly Tel Aviv rally demanding the return of hostages held in Gaza took a more strongly political tone than ever before on Saturday night, with speakers accusing the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being indifferent to the hostages’ fate and Netanyahu of being guided by personal considerations and stalling to avoid investigations and elections.
At previous rallies at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, organizers and speakers had adhered to a nonpartisan line, drawing a clear distinction between their movement, which is centered on retrieving hostages in Gaza, and anti-government protests that took place elsewhere at the same time.
This departure from previous policy was evident at the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s weekly rally, its 17th, which thousands attended. Emcee Rami Beja opened it, calling retrieving the hostages "the only way to restore confidence in the country’s leadership."
At previous rallies, he had urged participants to refrain from "engaging in politics."
Ronen Manelis, a reserves brigadier general and former Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, elaborated on his lack of confidence in that leadership.
Not far from Hostages Square, several thousand people protested against the government on Kaplan Street. Participants, including some relatives of hostages, intermittently blocked traffic on the adjacent Ayalon Highway and Ibn Gvirol streets amid festivities with police.
Officers on horseback and others were filmed driving back protesters and detaining some.
That’ll be the direct action Black Bloc faction getting their jollies by violence against the police, innocent bystanders, and public and private property.
The Kaplan Street anti-government protest and another such rally at Habima Square took place for the sixth consecutive week. Footage from those protest protests showed participants holding up signs and chanting slogans calling for Netanyahu’s resignation.
According to numerous unconfirmed reports, Hamas is demanding far-reaching concessions for a second deal. National Security Minister Ben Gvir last week called some of the reported terms of that deal — including a weeks- or even months-long ceasefire and the release of thousands of bandidosLions of Islam from Israeli jails — "reckless." Ben Gvir has threatened to pull out of the coalition, endangering the government, if such a deal goes ahead.
Netanyahu has ruled out releasing thousands of prisoners for the hostages. He has also rejected a key Hamas demand — ending the war and withdrawing the IDF as a condition for any further hostage releases, insisting that the war will end only when Hamas is destroyed and all hostages released.
A key argument against the reported terms of a second deal with Hamas is the danger to security that the release of many convicted bandidosLions of Islam will entail. The controversial 2011 deal for the release of hostage soldier Gilad Shalit saw the release of over 1,000 terror convicts, some of whom later committed deadly attacks. One of them was Yahya Sinwar, now Hamas’s Gaza leader and the architect of the October 7 massacres.
A different group of families of hostages, the Tikvah Forum,
...also spelt Tikva Forum...
disputes such assertions. Its members, who include parents of some of the hostages in Gaza, reject making concessions to Hamas and argue in favor of freeing the hostages either by force or through a deal that would not "endanger other Israelis," as they have phrased it.
Another rally with hundreds of participants marched through Jerusalem Saturday night demanding an immediate release of the hostages. Some of the participants carried signs and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud critical of the government, including ones demanding Netanyahu’s resignation.
The 20% effort that leads to 80% results is done. Now they’re working on the 80% that gets the last 20% necessary to keep Hamas from regenerating for the future.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians say Gazoo-ruling terror group has begun deploying coppers and set up makeshift offices to distribute salary payments, leading to fresh Israeli action.
Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... has begun to resurface in areas where Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces a month ago, deploying coppers and making partial salary payments to some of its civil servants in Gaza City in recent days, four residents and a bigwig in the terror group said Saturday.
Signs of a Hamas resurgence 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... ’s largest city underscore the terror group’s resilience despite Israel’s deadly air and ground campaign since October 7, when Hamas-led bandidosbandidos bad boys who stormed the border into southern Israel slaughtered some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and kidnapped 253. Israel has said it’s determined to crush Hamas and prevent it from returning to power in Gaza, an enclave it has ruled since 2007.
In recent days, Israeli forces renewed strikes in the western and northwestern parts of Gaza City, including in areas where some of the salary distributions were reported to have taken place.
Four Gaza City residents told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that in recent days, uniformed and plainclothes coppers deployed near police headquarters and other government offices, including near Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest. The residents said they saw the return of civil servants and subsequent Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s near the makeshift offices.
The return of police marks an attempt to reinstate order in the devastated city after Israel withdrew a significant number of troops from northern Gaza last month, a Hamas official told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The official said the group’s leaders had given directions to reestablish order in parts of the north where Israeli forces had withdrawn, including by helping prevent the looting of shops and houses abandoned by residents who had heeded repeated Israeli evacuation orders and headed to the southern half of Gaza.
During Israel’s ground offensive, many homes and buildings were left half-standing or reduced to piles of scrap, rubble and dust.
Saeed Abdel-Bar, a resident of Gaza City, said a cousin received funds from a makeshift Hamas office near the hospital that was set up to distribute $200 payouts to babus government employees, including coppers and municipal workers.
Since seizing control of Gaza nearly 17 years ago, Hamas has been operating a government bureaucracy with tens of thousands of civil servants, including teachers, traffic cops and civil police, who operate separately from the terror group’s secretive military wing.
That doesn’t make them less evil. One of the ransomed Hamas captives tells of being held captive and tormented by a UNWRA/Hamas teacher and his family.
The partial salary payments of $200 for at least some babus government employees signal that Israel has not delivered a knockout blow to Hamas, even as the military says troops have killed some 10,000 operatives in Gaza along with some 1,000 bandidosbandidos bad boys in Israel on October 7.
Ahmed Abu Hadrous, a Gaza City resident, said Israeli warplanes struck the area where the makeshift office is located multiple times earlier this week, including Saturday morning. The strikes come roughly a month after Israeli military leaders said they had broken up the command structure of Hamas battalions in the north, but that individual fighters were continuing to carry out guerrilla-style attacks.
Following an assessment in northern Gaza on Thursday, the chief of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, told troops that the army will continue to battle Hamas in the area, despite having focused on other locations recently.
Each area gets its turn as needed.
"Our ability to operate here, in the heart of Gaza City again, after we left to attack in other areas, our ability to return here and operate powerfully against the important targets, while striking many dozens of bandidosbandidos bad boys in recent days, is an important ability, and we will continue to do it," Finkelman said.
After each round it gets harder for the jihadis to maneuver and attack, as tunnels and caches are revealed and destroyed. The process requires repeated rounds, it seems to me, though I am just a little civilian housewife and not a highly educated journalist.
His comments came after Army Radio reported the IDF was planning to bolster troop activity in northern Gaza in the coming weeks amid indications that Hamas was attempting to reestablish its military presence there, pointing to rocket fire emanating from the area on Sunday and a recent shootout near the coastline in which five Hamas members were killed.
The IDF was planning to carry out brigade-level raids on areas where Hamas is attempting to retake northern redoubts, which may include broad operations where needed, the report noted, a shift from recent weeks in which the army has been mainly concerned with hunting down weapons, tunnels and small pockets of remaining resistance.
Renewed fighting in the north would likely complicate plans to begin allowing Gazooks to return to northern Gaza, which Israel advised all civilians to leave during the first stages of the war.
The report quoted a defense source blaming the lack of plans for a civilian body to manage affairs in northern Gaza as a major factor in Hamas being able to move in to refill the power vacuum. "If there were a party able to deliver the goods for the north, Hamas would become irrelevant," the unnamed source said.
A Channel 13 news report last month said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi had a similar assessment, warning Israel’s leaders that gains made over the months of fighting could be eroded due to the lack of a plan for postwar management.
Attempts by the government to convene ministers for conversations on managing the Gaza Strip and keeping Hamas out of power as the military pulls back have been hampered by infighting within the security cabinet.
The IDF has assessed that fighting in Gaza will likely last throughout all of 2024, as Israel works to strip Hamas of its military and governing capabilities. It has also vowed to continue fighting until all remaining hostages are released from captivity.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... combat continued in southern Gaza on Saturday, with the Hamas-run health ministry saying 107 people were killed over the preceding 24-hour period, bringing the wartime total to 27,238. The unverified toll does not differentiate between terror operatives and non-combatants, and is also believed to include civilians killed by errant fire by Paleostinian terror groups in the Strip.
International mediators continue to work to close wide gaps between Israel and Hamas over a proposed hostage release deal put forth this week, nearly four months since Hamas and other bandidosbandidos bad boys carried out their murderous onslaught in southern Israel. According to reports on the proposed agreement, the return of the Israeli hostages would be accompanied by extended pauses in the fighting and Israel’s release of Paleostinian security prisoners.
Hamas officials said Friday they were studying the proposal, but appeared to rule out some of its key components.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF has withdrawn the 5th Brigade from Gazoo and it has been replaced with other forces in the northern part of the Strip, the military says.
Troops of the reserve infantry brigade operated in Gaza City’s Shati camp in recent weeks.
In the last week, the IDF says the 5th Brigade located a tunnel shaft with an elevator beneath a Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... hideout apartment.
The reservists also seized military equipment used by Hamas and intelligence documents, and destroyed weapons, as well as rocket launchers.
The IDF has been withdrawing much of its reservist forces from the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, leaving the standing army to continue the fighting against Hamas.
Military officials say the IDF aims to release reservists to help bounce back Israel’s economy and give them a break before they are likely called up again, as the fighting in Gaza is expected to last all year, and there are fears of an escalation in the north amid daily attacks by Hezbollah.
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It does appear that Gaza and Hamas have not yet learned the lesson. They are VERY slow learners.
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*blush* You are ever gallant, dear Seeking cure, but I could never be even a poor journalist. I discover things for myself and my friends, not to inform the great world.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces shelled the outskirts of Rafah on Friday, the last refuge on the southern edge of 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 where hundreds of thousands displaced people, penned against the border fence, feared a new assault with nowhere left to flee.
The United States also began retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria, the US military said, after a drone attack in Jordan this week killed three US troops, developments likely to increase concern about spiralling tensions in the Middle East.
The US strikes targeted Iran-backed forces of Evil that Washington has blamed for the drone attack, the first deadly strike against US forces since the Israel-Gaza war erupted in October.
More than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are now homeless and crammed into Rafah on the Egyptian border. Tens of thousands have arrived in recent days, carrying belongings in their arms and pulling children on carts, since Israeli forces last week launched one of the biggest assaults of the war to capture adjacent Khan Younis, the main southern city.
If the Israeli tanks keep coming, "we will be left with two choices: stay and die or climb the walls into Egypt," said Emad, 55, a businessman and father of six, reached on a mobile phone chat app.
"Most of Gaza's population are in Rafah. If the tanks storm in, it will be a massacre like never before during this war."
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that troops would now "eliminate terror elements" in Rafah, one of the few areas not yet taken in an almost four-month-old assault.
As the only part of Gaza with access to the limited food and medical aid trickling across the border, Rafah and nearby parts of Khan Younis have become a warren of makeshift tents, clogged by winter mud. Wind and cold add to the misery, blowing tents down or flooding them and the ground in-between.
"What should we do? We live in multiple miseries, a war, starvation, and now the rain," said Um Badri, a mother of five from Gaza City, now in a tent in Khan Younis.
"We used to wait for winter, to enjoy watching the rain from the balcony of our house. Now, our house is gone, and the rainwater has flooded the tent we have ended up in."
With phone service mostly absent across Gaza, residents climbed a sandy berm at the border fence and crouched beside the razor wire hoping for an Egyptian mobile signal. Mariam Odeh was trying to get a message to family still in Khan Younis, "to tell them we are still alive and not deaders like the others".
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#1
stay and die or climb the walls into Egypt
By all means climb the walls. Egypt is where your grandparents came from during the Perfidious Albion British Mandate.
#2
Oh, damn. I thought we were launching retaliatory strikes on the genocidaires.
That's what we usually do in these situations when one side is committing an ethnic cleansing. It works, too. It got the Bosnian Serbs to stop in the 90s. And Milosevic was hauled before the ICJ in The Hague to answer for war crimes, just like Netanyahu will be.
#5
"Though any old killbot can ice 'em,
With Genocidaire, slice and dice 'em!
But wait, folks, there's more!
Why not open a store? Genocidaire will package and price 'em!"
[Do not attempt. Professional killbot on closed course. Clean-up and denial modules extra.]
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a Hezbollah building in the southern Lebanese village of Taybeh a short while ago.
The army also shelled other areas of 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... with artillery throughout the day.
Hezbollah in the last few hours launched projectiles from Lebanon at the Mount Dov area and the communities of Even Menahem and Yir’on, causing no injuries.
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[Regnum] Iraqi Islamic Resistance groups used a drone to attack the US military base at Harrab al-Jair in northeastern Syria, the groups said in a statement published on February 3 on their Telegram channel.
“In resistance to the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region, as well as in response to the massacre carried out by the Zionist entity (Israel - editor’s note) against our people in the Gaza Strip, fighters of the Islamic Resistance (...) attacked the occupiers’ Harrab base al-Jair" in Syria using a drone. "Islamic Resistance confirms that it continues to destroy enemy strongholds," the statement said.
Earlier, representatives of the groups announced a drone strike on a US base in Iraqi Kurdistan after US military strikes in western Iraq. In addition, the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen reported that the US base at the Koniko gas field in eastern Syria came under rocket fire on February 3. A fire started at the base.
As Regnum reported earlier, on the night of February 3, the US Air Force carried out airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, using at least 125 precision-guided munitions. The US targets, according to Washington, were facilities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. At least 16 people were killed as a result of the strikes in Iraq, and up to 30 people in Syria.
The Iraqi government called the strikes an act of naked aggression, and they were also condemned by the Syrian Foreign Ministry and the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Iraqi parliament called on the country's government to speed up the withdrawal of the US contingent and its allies from Iraq. The US Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and was given a note of protest. Mourning has been declared in Iraq.
US airstrikes are aimed at inciting conflict, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The strikes demonstrate the aggressive nature of US policy in the Middle East, Russia strongly condemns the act of aggression against sovereign states and seeks urgent consideration of the situation by the UN Security Council, she added.
At the end of January 2024, a drone attacked a US military base in northeastern Jordan. The Pentagon confirmed the death of three American servicemen, and dozens of people were injured. US President Joseph Biden and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said that the United States will not tolerate attacks on its military personnel and will take all necessary measures to protect them.
US strikes on the territory of Iraq and Syria will continue, so further escalation of the situation in the region is inevitable, while the US will avoid a direct clash with Iran, political scientist, historian, expert on the problems of the Middle East and Central Asia Semyon Bagdasarov noted in an interview with Regnum news agency.
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[Regnum] In the Iraqi province of Anbar in the west of the country, at least 16 people became victims of US air force strikes, the Shafaq News news agency reported, citing the Iraqi command of military operations.
“As a result of American shelling, 16 people were killed,” the command said in a statement.
US strikes on Syria and Iraq on the night of February 3
On the night of February 3, the US Air Force struck more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, using at least 125 precision-guided munitions. This was reported by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
“The US military struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers, coming from the US. “During the airstrikes, over 125 precision-guided munitions were used,” the command’s official statement said.
The US targets were facilities belonging to the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attacks hit command posts, intelligence centers, missile and drone storage facilities, and other facilities involved in maintaining the ammunition supply chain for the IRGC and its allies.
Footage of US airstrikes against pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria was published by the Al Hadath channel.
Despite US claims that the strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi leadership, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said such reports were falsified.
“The American side deliberately falsified the facts, declaring preliminary coordination of the aggression carried out with Iraq,” al-Awadi said, as quoted by As-Sumaria TV channel.
He added that Washington's statements are aimed at misleading the international community.
ATTACK ON US BASE IN JORDAN
At the end of January, a drone attacked a US military base in northeastern Jordan. The US Department of Defense confirmed the death of three American servicemen, and dozens of people were injured. According to a CNN source, the drone was launched by Iranian-backed militants, and the attack was likely carried out from Syria.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on February 1 that the United States will not tolerate attacks on its military personnel and will take all necessary measures to protect them, as well as to protect its interests in the Middle East. The Pentagon chief made this statement after the attack on an American military base in Jordan.
After this, on February 3, American leader Joe Biden said in a issued statement that the US response to the attack on the base in Jordan would continue - the White House would not leave such actions without a reaction.
“Our response began today. It will continue when and where we choose,” the president said.
At the same time, Biden clarified that the United States “is not looking for conflict in the Middle East,” but those who want to harm America should be aware that a reaction will follow.
REACTION TO AMERICAN ATTACK
After the strikes, the British government said that the United States has the right to carry out strikes in the Middle East in response to attacks on American troops.
A representative of the British government, commenting on the attacks by the American Air Force on the territory of Syria and Iraq, emphasized that London and Washington are loyal allies. Britain has long condemned Iran's destabilizing activities in the region, he added.
In turn, the head of the EU foreign policy service, Josep Borrell, said that the situation in the Middle East after the US strikes on Syria and Iraq is critical.
According to him, the Middle East is “a cauldron that could explode at any moment.”
“We call on everyone to de-escalate, we are experiencing a critical situation,” said the head of European diplomacy.
At the same time, the Syrian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the US strikes have no justification and are aimed at weakening the capabilities of the Syrian army and its allies in the fight against terrorism.
At the same time, the Syrian Foreign Ministry called US strikes on the east of the country a violation of its sovereignty and security.
“Today, the United States carried out another attack on Syrian territory, adding to its list of violations of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of its people,” the statement said.
It is noted that the United States has once again proven that it is the main source of global instability, and that its armed forces threaten international peace and security.
The Foreign Ministry also noted that Syria categorically rejects all pretexts and lies put forward by the American administration to justify the attack.
HIDDEN REASONS FOR BLOWS
The US launched strikes in Syria and Iraq after an attack on its base in Jordan to divert world attention from its internal problems. American political scientist Scott Bennett expressed this opinion in an interview with Izvestia.
According to him, the US actions are not a serious military escalation, but a “political dance”, a theatrical demonstration from the Biden administration. It pursues domestic political goals.
“They are desperately trying to provoke some semblance of war. That’s what they did in Ukraine,” Bennett said.
The political scientist is confident that in fact the United States does not need real escalation, they need a diversionary maneuver. According to him, in the next ten days, many American aircraft will fly over Iraq and Syria, and several ships will be reported to have sunk in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
In the United States, he explained, a split into independent republics began. This is indicated by Texas's reluctance to obey central immigration policies and its support from other states. Biden, he said, needs the world not to notice this process. Besides, he wants to maintain power.
Bennett added that "containment without response" would be the best response from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen to US strikes.
The number of deaths as a result of US air strikes in eastern Syria has approached 30, Al Hadath TV channel reports.
According to the TV channel, at least 29 people died from US attacks in the province of Deir ez-Zor.
As Regnum reported, on the night of February 3, the United States launched strikes on 85 targets of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. The operation followed an attack on a US base in Jordan that killed three US service members.
Despite US claims that the strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi leadership, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said such reports were falsified.
He added that Washington's statements are aimed at misleading the international community.
At the same time, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern about the risk of escalation of the conflict in the Middle East due to US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and called on all parties to take action to reduce tensions in the region.
Airstrikes by the United States and its allies are aimed at inciting conflict in the Middle East, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The attack demonstrates the aggressive nature of US policy in the Middle East; Russia condemns the act of aggression against sovereign states and demands urgent consideration of the situation by the UN Security Council, Zakharova added.
The Permanent Mission to the Russian Federation reported that a meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the American strikes is scheduled for February 5.
On February 3, the radical Palestinian movement Hamas condemned US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and called them a dangerous escalation of the conflict. They would...
“We most strongly condemn the US aggression against Iraq and Syria and consider it a dangerous escalation, an encroachment on the sovereignty of two Arab countries and a threat to their security and the stability of the region in the interests of the expansionist plans of the occupiers (Israel - editor's note) and the concealment of their terrible crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” said a statement published on the movement’s Telegram channel. Leaving aside the fact that Hamas started the whole shitshow.
As Regnum reported earlier, on the night of February 3, the US Air Force carried out airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, using at least 125 precision-guided munitions. The US targets were facilities belonging to the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In Iraq, 16 people were killed as a result of the strikes.
Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi denied reports that the strikes were coordinated by the United States and Iraqi authorities. Such statements from Washington are aimed at misleading the international community, he said. The Iraqi government called the strikes an act of naked aggression, and they were also condemned by the Syrian Foreign Ministry and the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
At the end of January 2024, a drone attacked a US military base in northeastern Jordan. The Pentagon confirmed the death of three American servicemen, and dozens of people were injured. According to a CNN source, the drone was launched by Iranian-backed militants, and the attack was likely carried out from Syria.
On February 1, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the United States will not tolerate attacks on its military personnel and will take all necessary measures to protect them. On February 3, US President Joseph Biden made a similar statement.
Russia strongly condemns the new blatant act of American-British aggression against Iraq and Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on February 3, as quoted on the ministry’s website.
“It is obvious that the airstrikes are specifically designed to further inflame the conflict,” she said.
According to a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, by almost without pause recently attacking targets of allegedly pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria, the United States is purposefully trying to plunge the largest countries in the region into conflict.
Zakharova also added that Russia will seek urgent consideration of the situation in the Middle East in the UN Security Council.
As Regnum reported, on February 2, the United States launched strikes on 85 targets of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria. The operation followed an attack on a US base in Jordan that killed three US service members. In Anbar province in western Iraq, 16 people became victims of American strikes.
Great Britain supported Washington's actions in the Middle East. The British government noted that the United States has the right to carry out strikes in response to attacks on American troops.
Despite US claims that the strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi leadership, Iraqi government spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said such reports were falsified.
According to him, Washington's airstrikes represent undisguised aggression, and the presence of international coalition forces in Iraq has caused a threat to the security and stability of the country.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said that US airstrikes caused casualties among civilians and military personnel and caused extensive damage to public and private property. The department emphasized that these strikes have no justification and are aimed at weakening the capabilities of the Syrian army and its allies in the fight against terrorism.
A military adviser to the Iranian Armed Forces was killed in an Israeli attack in a Damascus suburb on Friday. This was reported by the Iranian Embassy in Syria on the social network X.
“An Israeli terrorist group, in violation of international law and Syrian sovereignty, launched a missile attack on a residential area in the suburbs of Damascus, which resulted in the death of an Iranian military adviser,” the report said.
The embassy added that Iran will respond decisively to this crime.
As Regnum reported, on January 31, the Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) carried out airstrikes on the military infrastructure of Syria in the Deraa area. The IDF press service noted that the night before January 30, a number of launches were allegedly recorded from Syria towards the southern part of the Golan Heights.
Israel attacked Syria a few days earlier. The Syrian Ministry of Defense reported on January 29 that several civilians were killed as a result of airstrikes carried out by Tel Aviv.
Media citing doctors in Damascus reported on January 20 that at least ten civilians were killed in an IDF strike on a residential area in western Damascus.
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