[IsraelTimes] Local reports say rioters set fire to several trees in courtyard, in second attack on a Tunisian synagogue since October 7
A mob in Tunisia targeted an abandoned synagogue in the southeastern city of Sfax, setting fire on Sunday to trees in the building’s courtyard, local media reported.
No one was hurt in the reported attack, which took place in a city that is not presently home to any of Tunisia’s small Jewish population.
It’s always upsetting when mobs set fires, but still pathetic when they don’t realize their targets actually left ages ago.
It marked the latest apparent antisemitic attack during the ongoing Israel-Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war, which began on October 7, when thousands of Hamas Lions of Islam invaded southern Israel from 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... , murdering some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostage. The incident in Tunisia also occurred at the same time as prolonged negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a hostage release and truce deal, which are being pressed to reach an agreement ahead of Ramadan.
Media reports said the Sfax synagogue’s windows were damaged in the attack, but that firefighters managed to gain control of the blaze before it engulfed the building itself.
Numbering over 100,000 Jews in 1948, the Tunisian Jewish community is now estimated to be less than 1,000.
Sunday marked the second synagogue attack in Tunisia since the start of the war.
In October, shortly after the deadly explosion at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital, which was initially blamed on the IDF but later clarified to be the result of an errant Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... rocket, pro-Paleostine rioters set fire to a historic, though out-of-use, synagogue in the central Tunisian city of Al Hammah.
Videos that circulated widely on social media at the time showed people planting Paleostinian flags and chipping away at the synagogue building’s stone walls, all without any police intervention.
The Al Hammah synagogue was not an active site of worship, as no Jews live in the city. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... it is the site of the tomb of 16th-century kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma’aravi. The same site was previously damaged during the 2011 Arab Spring protests, which were not about Israel.
In May, the Jewish community of the Tunisian island of Djerba was attacked during Lag B’Omer, when a Tunisian national guardsman killed two Jewish visitors and three Tunisian security officers, during an annual holiday that typically attracts thousands of pilgrims from around the world. The deadly assault shocked the community to its core and plunged it into fear for its future.
[IsraelTimes] A German warship shot down two drones in the Red Sea on Tuesday amid escalating attacks by 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... s and efforts by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to protect international shipping, German officials say.
Shipping risks have increased due to repeated strikes by the Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait since November in what they describe as acts of solidarity with Paleostinians against Israel 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... war.
US and British forces have responded with several Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Houthi facilities but have so far failed to halt the attacks.
The German navy frigate Hessen, which was deployed earlier this month to the region, shot the drones down within 20 minutes of each one being fired, a defense ministry spokesperson tells a news briefing, declining comment on the target of the projectiles.
"They were recognized by the radar system and had a different range. That’s why two different weapons were used," the ministry spokesperson says.
The warship identified a suspicious drone on Monday but was unable to shoot it down successfully, the spokesperson adds.
"This is... probably the most dangerous deployment of the German navy for many, many years," a German government spokesperson tells the briefing separately.
"The increased insurance costs, along with the diversion of ships to longer routes to avoid high-risk areas, will strain global supply chains," he says.
The German Navy frigate Hessen mistakenly tried to shoot down an Allied drone during an attack by the Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea, reports the German news agency DPA.
Hessen reportedly hit two attacking drones and nearly shot down an allied drone at the same time.
This was the first combat use of the German Navy during Operation Aspides (“Shields”), which Germany regards as “the most dangerous mission of recent decades,” the material says.
As Regnum reported, the decision to launch Operation Aspides against the backdrop of attacks by the Yemeni Houthis was published on February 12 in the Official Journal of the EU. It is assumed that the operation will take place in the area of the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz Straits, in the Gulf of Aden, the international waters of the Red and Arabian Seas, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
The EU clarified that Operation Aspides to ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea will be launched for a period of one year. Ships voluntarily provided by EU countries will take part in the operation. Germany and Belgium have already agreed to do this.
On February 22, earlier, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, said that in 20 weeks since the start of the organization’s military operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, the group had attacked 48 sea vessels. He warned that the Houthis would escalate their attacks.
[IsraelTimes] The US Central Command says US aircraft and a coalition warship shot down five one-way attack drones in the Red Sea that originated 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 areas 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... The drones "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and to the US Navy and coalition ships in the region," CENTCOM says in a statement on Wednesday.
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Plus, the Germs had 2 misfires of the SM-2 missiles because there hasn't been maintenance of them 2006.
They will have to go back to Germany for reloads of something due to SM-2's are obsolete and no longer produced.
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dont shoot at yemen they are a distraction. iran is the enemy. occupy chah badar.
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[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Nurmukhamed Tseev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria,
…so somewhere in the north Caucasus…
recognizing him as a member of the banned terrorist organization "Islamic State".
The verdict of a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of involvement in a banned terrorist organization, was announced on February 28 by the court's press service.
According to the prosecution, Nurmukhamed Tseev “took part” in the activities of “IS” while in Baksan.
“In particular, Tseev recorded on his phone the text of the oath he pronounced about voluntarily joining a terrorist organization and sent it to members via a mobile application,” says a message published by the official Telegram channel of the court.
The message does not provide other examples of the “participation” of a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria in the activities of militants. It is also not specified whether the defendant pleaded guilty.
The court sentenced Tseeva to ten years and six months in a maximum security colony, with the first two years and six months to be served in prison. The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have comments from lawyer Nurmukhamed Tseev regarding the verdict.
The article on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, for which Tseev was convicted (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia), provides for ten to twenty years in prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in early February, investigators suspected a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria of participation in ISIS*, who has been in custody since June 2023 on charges of threats against security forces and attempted murder.
[IsraelTimes] University says criminal investigation probing suspected battery and use of antisemitic slurs, among other allegations, after demonstrators break through doors and breach venue
Leaders of the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, have denounced a pro-Palestinian protest against an event organized by Jewish students that forced police to evacuate attendees and a speaker from Israel for their safety after demonstrators broke through doors.
A criminal investigation has begun, the university announced Wednesday.
The incident Monday night "violated not only our rules, but also some of our most fundamental values," Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin said in a statement to the university community.
So what are you going to do about it?
Minutes before the event was to start, a crowd of about 200 protesters began to surround the building, Zellerbach Playhouse, Christ and Hermalin said in their statement.
"Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building," they said. "The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience."
The only effective answer to that kind of thing is a whiff of grapeshot, immediately applied.
University campuses have been a hotbed of protest activity surrounding the Israel-Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... war, which began following the deadly Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, in which Paleostinian holy warriors killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 253 hostages back to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . In response, Israel launched a war on the terror group that the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says has killed over 29,000 Paleostinians, an unverified figure that doesn’t differentiate between fighters and noncombatants.
Berkeley’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, reported that the event was a lecture by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli attorney and former member of the Israeli Defense Force.
The newspaper reported that protesters chanted "Long live the intifada," "Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go" and "Killers on campus."
Gleefully cosplaying 1968 and imagining themselves meaningful instead of standard issue Brownshirts.
The campus group Bears for Paleostine had posted on social media about the event, urging students to "shut it down." Bears is a reference to Golden Bears, the name of the university’s sports teams. There was no immediate reply to an email seeking comment from the group on the criticism of the protest.
The event had been moved to Zellerbach because it was believed to be more secure than the original location and a team of university police had been sent there. But it wasn’t possible to ensure student safety and that the event could go forward "given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence," the statement said.
UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said Wednesday that the university has opened a formal criminal investigation and has initiated its student code-of-conduct process.
"We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department," Mogulof said. "We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night."
An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. A second report alleges a victim was spit at and kicked. A third alleges battery, and the fourth alleges the victim was injured in a scuffle while attempting to hold a door closed. The injuries were described as minor. "That’s what the investigation is about," he said. "All of the video will be reviewed. Social media posts will be reviewed. Unfortunately, most of the protesters were masked."
There were not sufficient police resources to make arrests at the scene, he said.
Christ and Hermalin said they respect the right to protest "as intrinsic to the values of democracy and an institution of higher education" but cannot ignore protests that interfere with the rights of others to hear and express their own perspectives.
[IsraelTimes] American Association of University Professors signs statement with hundreds of other labor unions calling for end to Israel-Hamas war; one member decries ‘obsessive’ focus on Israel.
With 44,000 members, including professors, graduate students, and researchers, the AAUP continues to oppose academic boycotts of Israel. But its recent call for a ceasefire deeply troubles some members, said University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor emeritus Cary Nelson, because while the union was founded in 1915 with a mission to protect and promote academic freedom, the link between academic freedom and the Gaza war is murky at best.
“The AAUP has been slowly transforming itself into an anti-Zionist organization since 2015,” said Nelson, who was the AAUP president between 2006 and 2012. “But its call for a ceasefire in Gaza represents a new phase in that process because it is the first time the AAUP has actually abandoned its commitment to political neutrality and adopted what amounts to a foreign policy.”
Laurie Essig, professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Middlebury College, and president of the college’s AAUP chapter, disagreed.
“To be clear, the mission of the AAUP is political. Protecting academic freedom and tenure from fascistic political regimes is why the AAUP began. As for the connection… the Israel-Gaza conflict is being used in the US to attack academic freedom,” Essig said.
Some AAUP chapters not only support a ceasefire, they appear to justify Hamas’s onslaught.
For example, in a December 6 post on X, formerly Twitter, the AAUP Advocacy chapter at Texas A&M said it stands in “solidarity with Palestinian resistance to apartheid occupation” and calls on the university to take “concrete action to stop the genocidal war on the Palestinian people and to end Israeli settler colonialism.”
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a muslim is defined by the sharia law they adhere to. sharia values a female intrinsically less than a male. we dont need or want such people. deport them. refuse entry.
[GEO.TV] Newly-elected members of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly were sworn in on Wednesday in the maiden session that began after a delay of over an hour, due to a ruckus caused by Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) workers in the legislature, reported Geo News on Wednesday.
The session had to begin at 11am but was delayed as the elected politicians were facing difficulty in entering the assembly hall as multiple PTI workers tried entering the floor and even threw a "lota" and a shoe at Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz's (PML-N) Sobia Shahid. A "lota" is a "portable bidet," a jug that can be used for butt scrubbies.
Later, outgoing Speaker Mushtaq Ghani administered oath to 116 newly elected politicians, which included 111 members who won the general seats, and five reserved seats members, in presence of heavy police party outside the assembly in the light of Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... 's (ANP) call of protest.
It may be noted that the KP Assembly consists of 145 members, 115 general seats and 30 reserved seats — 26 for women and four for minorities. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... 25 of the reserved seats have not been notified yet as the matter is currently being heard by the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP).
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... two of the general seats remain vacant as elections on these two were deferred owing to the deaths of candidates in the respective constituencies.
Once the oath was administered, Speaker Ghani announced that the election for the new speaker and deputy speaker of the House would be held tomorrow (February 29).
The MPAs willing to contest for the coveted slot will have time till 5pm today to submit their nomination papers while those willing to withdraw from the polls can take back their papers by midnight, said the speaker.
"Polling for the speaker and deputy speaker election will be held tomorrow at 10am," announced Speaker Ghani.
PTI founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... had announced Aqibullah Khan as the candidate for the KP speaker. But it has emerged today that the PTI founder has reverted his decision to name Aqibullah Khan as the new speaker.
PTI Secretary Gneral Omar Ayub Khan announced today that PTI founder Imran Khan has now nominated Babar Salim Swati as the candidate for the KP Assembly speaker.
[Rudaw] Internal security forces (Asayish) in Sulaimani on Thursday announced the arrest of 30 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) suspects who were found to be "spreading the turban ideas of ISIS" on social media platforms.
The forces "received information about the presence of two groups in the Pishdar and Bitwen regions who were spreading turban ideas on social media platforms and had planned to join the ranks of ISIS and become fighters for the terrorist group," the Asayish said in a statement.
The suspects were placed under surveillance for 20 days and later arrested in several large-scale operations in December of last year.
Confessions aired by the Asayish on Facebook on Thursday detail that the suspects had intended to leave their hometowns to join the ranks of ISIS on several occasions but were told by the group to remain in the Kurdistan Region and spread their ideology there.
According to the confessions, they considered the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), as well as all civil servants receiving government salaries and religious holy mans who they accused of spying for government agencies, as kuffar, or infidels (non-believers).
In November, 55 ISIS suspects, including three emirs, were arrested in a five-month long operation in Sulaimani.
[IsraelTimes] Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of two "dangerous" leaders of 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.... (ISIS) allegedly responsible for committing numerous crimes in Fallujah.
Intelligence forces arrested "two of the most dangerous ISIS leaders" in an operation conducted outside Iraq, the military’s Security Media Cell said in a statement without specifying where.
The two were identified as Issam Abd Ali Saeedan, known as Abu Zaid, and Bashir Abd Ali Saeedan known by the alias of Abu Ahmed Etisalat. They were "involved in the most heinous terrorist crimes in Iraq," according to the statement.
Issam Abd Ali Saeedan was reportedly responsible for documenting "crimes" committed against Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... while Bashir Abd Ali Saeedan was in charge of media posts covering attacks in the city after 2014.
Fallujah was the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS in January 2014. The terror group went on to seize swathes of land across central and northern Iraq. ISIS was declared territorially defeated in 2017 when Kurdish and Iraqi fighters supported by the United States-led coalition drove them out of the land they seized years prior in a brazen offensive.
Despite its territorial defeat, Iraqi security forces continue their pursuit of ISIS remnants, particularly in the disputed areas stretching across the provinces of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahaddin, and Diyala.
Iraq’s Interior Minister Abdul-Amir al-Shammari on Saturday said the group is now largely confined. "ISIS is under continuous confinement. They seize places of difficult geography, and we continue to chase them and kill them," he said.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a Paleostinian gunman during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin overnight.
According to the official Paleostinian Wafa news agency, one man was moderately maimed in the dronezap.
Troops operated in Jenin to arrest a wanted Paleostinian and uncovered bombs planted under the roads, the IDF says.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, another nine terror suspects were detained, the IDF says.
Since October 7, the IDF says, troops have arrested some 3,400 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,500 affiliated with Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... .
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man was fatally shot by Israeli troops carrying out a raid in a town near Nablus, according to the Paleostinian Authority’s Wafa news agency.
The report says Bashar Nihad Hanani, 25, was shot during festivities between Beit Furik residents and the soldiers operating there.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says no limit set on truck deliveries to Strip; hostage release negotiations continue in Qatar as families of captives march to Jerusalem
The Israel Defense Forces announced Wednesday that two soldiers had been killed in battles against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 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.
Meanwhile mediators from Egypt, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and the United States continued to strive for a path to a temporary ceasefire and hostage release amid the bitter fighting, with negotiators seeking a six-week pause in the nearly five-month war.
And as a round of negotiations was held in Qatar, families of hostages kidnapped during Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel begin a march from the Gaza area toward Jerusalem to demand the government agree to a deal for their release.
The IDF announced two officers had been killed fighting Tuesday in northern Gaza, raising the ground toll in the offensive against Hamas to 242.
They were named as Maj. Iftah Shahar, 25, a company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Paran, and Cpt. Itai Seif, 24, a platoon commander also in the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Yeruham.
Shahar had until recently served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit. He had been sent to the infantry unit to replace a seriously maimed Givati company commander.
The IDF said another seven soldiers of the Tzabar Battalion were seriously maimed in the same incident.
Shahar and Seif were killed and the seven other soldiers were maimed as a result of a kaboom in a booby-trapped building in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood on Tuesday.
As global concerns mount over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where over 2 million people reside, the IDF said it coordinated the airdrop of food and medical supplies by several nations to the southern Gaza Strip over the previous two days. Some 160 packages of humanitarian aid were airdropped to 17 locations along the southern coastline of the Strip using American, Egyptian, Emirati, French and Jordanian planes, the IDF said.
Additional packages of food, medical supplies and fuel were also airdropped to a Jordanian field hospital in Khan Younis, the IDF said. The Jordan News Agency reported that King Abdullah II, who is Supreme Commander of the Jordanian military, participated in an airdrop Tuesday. According to the report, six C130 aircraft flew in from Amman, three of which were from the Royal Jordanian Air Force alongside three others from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and La Belle France.
The IDF said the recent airdrops were in addition to trucks of humanitarian aid that enter the Strip daily.
A convoy of 31 trucks carrying food entered the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday, according to the military liaison to the Paleostinians, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. COGAT added that close to 50 trucks had traveled to the northern part of the enclave over the past three days, and that "there is no limitation on the amount of humanitarian aid for the civilians in Gaza."
Northern Gaza is seeing a spiraling humanitarian crisis, with aid agencies unable to get into the area because of the fighting, and frenzied looting of the few trucks that do enter.
Israel has denied fault for the low numbers of trucks entering the enclave and blamed humanitarian organizations operating inside Gaza, saying hundreds of trucks filled with aid sit idle on the Paleostinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing. The UN, in turn, says it can’t always reach the trucks at the crossing because it is at times too dangerous.
Additionally, Israel has long accused Hamas of appropriating and stealing aid from an increasingly desperate civilian population.
In other operations, the IDF said it killed dozens of Hamas operatives across the Gaza Strip over the previous day, releasing footage of a strike on a gunman who tried to flee after opening fire at troops. The military said it carried out overnight Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on eight "significant targets" in an area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon on Tuesday.
Several more sites in the area, including tunnel shafts, were also struck, the IDF added.
In southern Gaza, the IDF said troops raided Hamas sites, captured weapons, and killed a five-man Hamas cell in a vehicle using a guided munition.
In Khan Younis fighter jets struck buildings where Hamas operatives were gathered and preparing to attack troops, the IDF said, while ground troops killed several gunman in festivities.
The military said it was continuing to operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, where soldiers killed several Hamas button men and located weapons over the past day.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry reported that 91 people were killed overnight during Israeli strikes. It said that since the start of the war, at least 29,954 people had been killed in Gaza. The figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 12,000 terror operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 turbans inside Israel on October 7.
War erupted when Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel responded with a military campaign to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza and free the 253 hostages who were kidnapped by turbans during the October 7 attack.
The security cabinet was set to meet Thursday evening amid efforts to secure a deal that would see a temporary ceasefire and the return of the 130 hostages still held in Gaza — not all of them alive.
Families of hostages began a four-day march from the south of the country to Jerusalem as they lobby for the government to quickly reach a deal that will secure freedom for their loved ones.
A US-drafted proposal reportedly provides for a six-week pause in fighting during which some 40 hostages would be freed in exchange for some 400 Paleostinian security prisoners.
There have been conflicting reports on whether a deal is close at hand, and Israeli officials in recent days have said Hamas has signaled it is preparing to reject the terms of the latest proposal offered by mediators.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... said Wednesday that while the terror group is showing flexibility in talks for a potential deal, it is prepared to continue to fight.
The terror leader additionally called on Paleostinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank to march to the flashpoint Temple Mount on the first day of Ramadan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Hamas claimed to have fired 40 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... from 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... at IDF bases near Kiryat Shmona in the north of the country.
The IDF identified only some 10 rockets crossing the border, one of which struck a building in Kiryat Shmona, causing damage but no injuries.
Earlier, another four rockets were fired at the city, which caused no damage.
There has been daily violence across the border with Lebanon since October 8 when Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah began launching attacks on Israel it says are a show of support for Paleostinians in Gaza. The level of violence has crept upwards with Hezbollah firing dozens of rockets at northern areas earlier in the week while the IDF has pounded the terror groups assets with airstrikes reaching further and further into Lebanon.
IDF says troops killed dozens of Hamas operatives, hit area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon; 2 IDF troops killed in northern Gaza, toll now 242.
The IDF says it killed dozens of Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... operatives across the Gazoo Strip over the past day, releasing footage of a strike on a gunman who tried to flee after opening fire at troops.
The Hamas gunman who shot up troops was spotted by soldiers of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, who called in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... Overnight, the IDF says it carried out airstrikes on eight "significant targets" in an area from which rockets were fired at Ashkelon last night.
Several more sites in the area, including tunnel shafts, were also struck, the IDF adds.
In southern Gaza, the IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade raided Hamas sites, captured weapons, as well as killed a five-man Hamas cell in a vehicle using a guided munition.
Also in Khan Younis, the IDF says fighter jets struck buildings where Hamas operatives were gathered and preparing to attack troops; the Paratroopers Brigade killed several button men with sniper fire; and the Givati Brigade called in airstrikes on two operatives.
In central Gaza, the IDF says it is continuing to operate in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, where the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men and located weapons over the past day.
[IsraelTimes] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... ’s administration is considering airdropping aid into 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... as land deliveries becomes increasingly difficult, Axios reports, citing four US officials.
"The situation is really bad. We are unable to get enough aid [in] by truck so we need desperate measures like airdrops," a US official says.
The outlet notes that officials acknowledge such action would not be particularly effective, and that any large amounts of aid can only be moved in by land.
BLUF: Showy but ineffective, that’s the Biden admin way!
"At least 70 people were killed and 280 were wounded as Palestinians rushed toward trucks loaded with humanitarian aid and encountered fire in Gaza City early Thursday, according to local media reports."
[Rudaw] At least 14 truffle hunters were killed by a land mine allegedly left behind by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) holy warriors in the Syrian desert, state media reported on Sunday.
"Fourteen citizens were martyred and eight others were maimed as a result of a mine explosion left behind by ISIS bully boyz in the Raqqa desert, while they were collecting truffle mushrooms," SANA said, citing a statement from Raqqa Governor Abdul Razzaq Khalifa.
Despite repeated warnings from authorities, hundreds of poverty-stricken Syrians venture into the Badia desert between February and April each year in search of truffles. The desert is known to be a hideout for jihadists and also contains landmines, making it a high-risk area to search for the delicacy.
On Friday, at least five people were killed in an ISIS ambush while truffle hunting in Syria’s central Homs province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday they arrested 16 people accused of being members or affiliates of 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.... (ISIS).
The individuals were captured during a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) anti-ISIS operation in Hasaka province on Thursday.
"Our forces apprehended 16 ISIS operatives and controllers who were involved in carrying out terrorist attacks against our forces, and those who provided facilitation and support to ISIS cells in executing these terrorist acts," read a statement from SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami.
The SDF also seized a number of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment during the operation.
ISIS rose to power by seizing swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014 and was declared territorially defeated five years later. Though the group no longer controls any territory, it continues to pose a security risk carrying out kidnappings, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings on both sides of the border.
The SDF fought the lion’s share of the battle against ISIS in Syria.
On Thursday, Shami announced that Rojava’s anti-terror forces (YAT), with the help of the global coalition, captured a key ISIS operative named Husin Nawaf al-Husin in Deir ez-Zor.
Husin is accused of being responsible for ISIS operations "targeting military forces and civil institutions."
Last year, the SDF arrested more than 350 ISIS members in areas they control.
[IsraelTimes] Syria makes regular claim most missiles shot down but admits material losses; attack reportedly takes place in neighborhood where pro-Iran forces thought to have underground bases
Israeli strikes caused damage to sites near Damascus Wednesday night, Syria’s defense ministry said, in what appeared to be the latest attack in an intensified campaign against Iran-backed forces in the country.
“The Israeli enemy launched air strikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of sites in the Damascus countryside,” the ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
It claimed that most missiles were shot down, a regular assertion on alleged Israeli strikes that analysts are generally skeptical of.
“The losses were limited to material,” Syria’s official SANA outlet reported.
The Israel Defense Forces did not comment on the strike.
An AFP correspondent in the Syrian capital heard explosions followed by the sirens of ambulances.
Pro-Iranian Lebanese television al Maydeen said a large explosion was heard in the heavily fortified Sayeda Zainab neighborhood of the Syrian capital, home to a major Shi’ite shrine. It gave no further details.
Regional intelligence sources say Iran’s Quds Force and militias it backs, whose presence has spread in Syria in recent years, have a strong presence in the Sayeda Zainab neighborhood.
The neighborhood is in southern Damascus, where Iran-backed groups have a string of underground bases.
Underground bases, you say? How very interesting.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the Israeli strikes targeted “sites where Iran-backed groups including Lebanon’s Hezbollah are based” in two locations near Damascus.
On Sunday, an Israeli strike on a truck in Syria near the Lebanese border killed two Hezbollah members, according to source close to Lebanese terror group.
A day later, Israel struck a site deep inside Lebanon, in the Baalbek region near the border with Syria, which is thought to be used as a major route for weapons transfers.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Hezbollah positions 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... ’s Kafra and Seddiqine.
It adds that troops also carried out artillery shelling near Houla.
The strikes come in response to recent attacks by Hezbollah and allied terror groups on northern Israel.
The IDF says it carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon this morning and overnight, including a weapons depot and manufacturing plant.
Sites hit by fighter jets a short while ago included a Hezbollah weapons depot and other buildings used by the terror group in Ramyeh, the IDF says.
Overnight, the IDF says it struck a Hezbollah weapons manufacturing plant in Khirbet Selm.
Following rocket fire on Kiryat Shmona this morning, claimed by Hamas, the IDF also says it shelled the launch sites with artillery.
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...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,...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...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 
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...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
