[IsraelTimes] The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization says it has received a report that missiles passed near a ship 50 nautical miles (93 kilometers) southwest of Hudaydah, 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 Master reported two missiles flying over the vessel and heard two loud blasts in the distance," the UKMTO says in an advisory note, referring to the person in command of the ship.
It adds that the vessel reported no damage and that the crew are reported safe.
"The vessel is proceeding to its next port of call. Authorities are investigating," the advisory says.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Iranian-backed Shia movement Ansar Allah (Houthis), ruling northern Yemen, has tested a highly lethal hypersonic missile. A military source reported this to RIA Novosti.
As the source explained, such missiles will be produced in Yemen for use during attacks in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as against targets in Israel.
“The group’s missile forces successfully tested a missile that is capable of reaching speeds of up to Mach 8 (almost ten thousand kilometers per hour) and runs on solid fuel,” the publication quotes the informant.
Iran sent it to them in pieces that they assembled it on site, no doubt, though whether it’s nearly as scary as described, or whether the description is actually as scary as they think, I leave to those more knowledgeable than I. How fortunate that we’ve got a website full of knowledgeable people here! ;-)
At the same time, the military in northern Yemen has updated its missiles and drones, modifying explosive warheads to double their destructive power.
*shrug* They’ve got IRGC officers and specialists living there on site now. That the natives are in any way involved with any upgrading is really not worth discussing.
As Regnum reported, the British Ministry of Defense decided to send the destroyer HMS Diamond to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The vessel will ensure the safety of navigation in the region.
Three sailors are missing and four were injured after a Houthi attack off the coast of Yemen on the Barbados-flagged bulk carrier True Confidence. After the impacts, the ship caught fire and began to drift. Houthis from the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah confirmed an attack on the ship near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Houthi officials insisted the ship was American.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has all sorts of photos of interesting Houthi-related things plus some extra background here.
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^ Put a remotely operated gun turret or missile launcher on a skateboard turtle and you got something!
"You cannot invade the Atchafalaya. There would be a machine gun on every turtle."
-- some Japanese dude
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"The natives were said to support us.
We sold them, therefore, aqua fortis.
Rebellious raccoons,
Possums, serpents," hissed Spoons,
"Placed torpedoes upon every tortoise!"
[IsraelTimes] A group of pro-Paleostinian protesters assaulted a man holding a small Israeli flag as he walked into the Logan Square Theater in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... where a screening was being held earlier this week of a documentary on Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s October 7 massacre of the Nova music festival in which 364 people were killed.
The suspects were among dozens protesting in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, trying to block attendees from entering the building.
The protesters shouted "shame on you" at attendees of the event sponsored by several Jewish organizations.
"I did not say anything to anyone, as we walked up I did not look at anyone, I did not give anyone the finger, I simply walked up holding an Israeli flag," the assault victim tells ABC 7. "A group of them was swinging me around and threw me into a parked car. I was completely surrounded by maybe six or seven that started punching me in the head."
The man, in his 50s, was not seriously injured in the attack, but local police have opened an investigation into the attack.
"Each step of the way, it’s gotten worse and worse all in the same continuum, an attempt to push Jews aside physically and rhetorically and that is where we are right now," Dan Goldwin tells ABC. Goldwin is the public affairs executive director for the Jewish United Fund, the Jewish federation body in Chicago.
It’s simple, really: don’t hang out with terrorists, and the IDF won’t bounce your rubble with you in it.
[GEO.TV] In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an Israeli missile hit a house, killing nine people on Thursday, Palestinian medics said. Residents said Israeli aerial and ground bombardments continued overnight on areas across the enclave including in Rafah in the south, where over a million displaced people are sheltering.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases footage showing the identification and targeting of four gunmen in the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.
Troops of the Maglan commando unit spotted the cell on the fifth floor of a building in Hamad, the IDF says.
According to the IDF, the commandos breached into the floor from one story below, opened fire, and used Rafael SPIKE FireFly loitering munitions, or suicide drones, against the gunmen.
The Hamas operatives also fired RPGs at the troops amid the exchange of fire, the IDF says.
The IDF says two of the gunmen were killed in the battle with the commandos, while the other two were killed in an airstrike against the building shortly after.
[IsraelTimes] Israel Defense Forces Arabic-language front man Avichay Adraee denies reports in Paleostinian media that Israeli troops opened fire on people waiting for aid 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... City, killing at least 21.
"Reports that the IDF targeted dozens of Gazooks on Thursday evening at a humanitarian aid distribution point are incorrect," he says in a tweet on social media platform X.
Adraee says the incident is under investigation, and calls on the media to only report "reliable information."
[IsraelTimes] Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry has raised the number of Palestinians it says were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday to 29.
Palestinian health officials say at least 21 people were killed and more than 150 were wounded by Israeli gunfire at a crowd awaiting aid trucks at a northern Gaza roundabout, Gaza’s health ministry said.
Earlier, eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution center in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, Hamas claims.
The tolls cannot be independently verified.
An AFP journalist on the scene in Gaza City reports seeing several bodies and people who had been shot.
Mohammed Ghurab, director of emergency services at a hospital in northern Gaza, tells AFP there were “direct shots by the occupation forces” on people waiting for a food truck.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says at least 11 people have been killed in an alleged Israeli attack on a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid at Gaza City’s Kuwaiti roundabout.
At least 11 bodies and 100 wounded people arrived at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, the ministry says.
Interesting how quickly they moved from mass starvation to mere pockets of famine.
[IsraelTimes] Bloc’s humanitarian chief adds to growing calls for Israel to open more land routes into Strip; charity starts loading humanitarian supplies onto second vessel at Cyprus port
The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it was preparing for the arrival 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... of a ship from Cyprus bringing almost 200 tons of food in what will be the first humanitarian aid delivery by sea, as the EU humanitarian chief warned there are already pockets of famine in the Strip.
The charity ship Open Arms set sail on Tuesday out of Larnaca port, towing a barge containing a load of flour, rice, and protein from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) organization, funded by the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.
The IDF said the aid delivery was being "carried out in coordination with Israeli security and civilian authorities, in accordance with the directive of the government of Israel and at the request of the US government."
The ship was to be inspected by the Israeli Navy at sea once it gets to around 20 nautical miles from the Gaza coast, according to information seen by The Times of Israel. From there, the aid ship will be escorted by the Navy and Air Force toward Gaza’s coast. At a certain stage, an Israeli vessel will tow the aid to a makeshift temporary pier built by the IDF in the central Gaza Strip.
If Israel has already built a pier, why is the American one trumpeted by President Biden in his State of the Union address needed?
The distribution of the aid itself will not be carried out by the IDF. An Israeli official previously told The Times of Israel that the WCK was responsible for getting the food to Gazook civilians.
At the coast, the IDF will secure the aid at a distance from the air and sea, similar to how it has secured convoys on the ground.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... a second ship with a larger cargo of food aid to Gaza was being loaded in Cyprus on Thursday, WCK said.
The charity said it was loading a vessel at Larnaca port with 300 tons of food aid — including legumes, canned tuna, vegetables, rice and flour.
"Our pallets should be screened and loaded by the end of the day Cyprus time," the WCK said in a statement. It did not say when that vessel would set sail.
The IDF is also carrying out trials of delivering aid directly to northern Gaza using a new military road,
…the one everyone was fussing about, because God forbid the Israelis make it easier for themselves to hunt down Hamas, etc hard boys…
while various nations continue to carry out airdrops.
The expected arrival of the ships comes amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The EU’s humanitarian aid and crisis management chief Janez Lenarcic said Thursday that there were already pockets of famine in the enclave, and warned it could spread to the whole region. Speaking to journalists, he urged Israel to open more ground routes to deliver aid to Gaza.
”In fact,” he added, “best would be for Israel to knock down the entire security wall surrounding Gaza — except Egypt’s section, of course — and let everyone go in and out unmolested, no matter their intentions or the explosives tucked into their back pockets.”
Lenarcic’s comments came a day after 25 organizations, including Amnesia Amnesty International and Oxfam, said airdrops and efforts to open a maritime corridor were "no alternative" to land deliveries because they could only provide a fraction of the aid needed.
The goal here, clearly, is to deliver a lifestyle to the Gazans on par with the nicer neighbourhoods of Paris, London, and Rome, at no cost to to the inhabitants.
Additionally, Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos hosted a virtual meeting on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... and senior ministers and officials from Britannia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... to discuss the maritime corridor.
"The ministers agreed that there is no meaningful substitute to land routes via Egypt and Jordan and entry points from Israel into Gaza for aid delivery at scale," they said in a joint statement.
They also called on Israel to open the port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, for aid deliveries.
the IDF said Thursday that troops of the elite LOTAR counter-terrorism unit located rocket launchers adjacent to a school and rockets under a bed in the home of a Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... operative in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF said troops have been raiding Hamas hideout apartments and other sites in various neighborhoods of Khan Younis. The military released footage of troops discovering a rocket launcher, which had already been used, as well as the cache of weapons in the home of the Hamas operative.
Additionally, the IDF said that troops on Wednesday spotted and struck a group of murderous Moslems after they launched a mortar from central Gaza at Israeli border communities. The mortar fell short and impacted inside the Strip, and within five minutes the cell was located and killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , the IDF said.
Also in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men over the past day, including by calling in airstrikes and through tank shelling.
In southern Gaza, the 98th Division continued to battle Hamas in the Khan Younis area.
The IDF said the Givati Brigade raided buildings in Khan Younis’s Hamad Town residential complex, locating a rocket launcher in one of them. Givati troops also called in an airstrike on two Hamas operatives spotted in their area, the IDF said.
In the Bani Suheila area, the 7th Armored Brigade spotted and called in tank shelling against three operatives that were approaching them, and also called in an airstrike on two operatives near a Hamas weapons depot, the IDF said.
[IsraelTimes] Stabber identified as Israeli citizen originally 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... ; footage shows maimed member of security forces getting up after being attacked, opening fire
A member of Israel’s security forces in his 50s was stabbed and critically maimed in a terror attack at a gas station in southern Israel on Thursday, police and medics said. The assailant, an Israeli citizen originally from the Gaza Strip, was rubbed out by the victim.
A civilized and armed society is a safer society. Civilization is critical — without it an armed society at best quickly devolves into a barbaric war of all against all.
Another man, 65, was treated for minor injuries at the scene.
The attack took place inside a branch of the Aroma coffee chain at Beit Kama Junction, just north of Beersheba.
Surveillance camera footage from the attack showed the assailant approaching a man in uniform from behind, pulling out a knife and stabbing the victim in the back. Amid a struggle, the terrorist was seen attempting to also stab the man in the neck. The pair then fell to the ground, as another man was seen trying to pull the knife from the terrorist’s hand.
The victim was seen managing to get up, then opening fire at the terrorist with his handgun.
The terrorist, a 22-year-old resident of the southern Bedouin city of Rahat, was killed.
He was identified by the Shin Bet security agency as Fadi Abu Altayef, an Israeli citizen from Rahat, but originally from the Gaza Strip. Abu Altayef’s mother is from Rahat and his father is from Gaza. They currently both reside in Gaza, according to the Shin Bet.
Abu Altayef grew up in the Gaza Strip until the age of 18, according to police. He was given Israeli citizenship in 2019 after getting married to an Israeli woman.
Police said officers raided Altayef’s home in Rahat and "collected findings for the investigation."
The investigation of the attack was to be carried out by police and the Shin Bet.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it took the victim to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba at death's door.
The attack came a day after a Paleostinian stabbed a soldier and a security guard at a West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] The victim of the terrorist attack at the Beit Kama junction in southern Israel, a non-commissioned officer in the IDF, succumbed to his wounds earlier today.
He is named as Chief Warrant Officer Uri Moyal, 51, a senior technology and maintenance NCO at the Nahal Brigade’s training base, from Dimona.
[IsraelTimes] Clan leader reportedly killed in family’s compound, allegedly for stealing humanitarian aid for resale and suspected ties to Israel
Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... reportedly killed the leader of the powerful Doghmush clan
Goodness! It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard from the Doghmushes, and now they’ve gone and got themselves killed, probably due to a perceived threat to Hamas…
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... City, because the group allegedly had been stealing humanitarian aid and was suspected of having contact with Israel.
Under the circumstances, I imagine that anyone who can muster enough of a threat is doing the same. That’s how low trust/high clannishness (Me-and-my-brother-against-my-cousin) societies work.
Unconfirmed reports on Arab media said that the clan leader, who was not named, was "executed" in the family compound along with two others.
Earlier this week, a Hamas-linked website warned Paleostinian individuals and groups against cooperating with Israel to provide security for aid convoys amid the spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza as war rages between Israel and Hamas.
“Do not dare to protect your robberies against the rampaging Hamas minions, lest we fall upon you like wolves on the fold. Inshallah, Allah will curse all your mustaches for even thinking of self-protection against the most-beloved of the King of Lies.”
Those who did would be treated as collaborators and handled with an iron fist, the Hamas al-Majd security website said, quoting a security official in Paleostinian terror forces.
A less picturesque way to describe it, but conseiderably more succinct.
The warning came in response to reports that Israel was considering arming some Paleostinian individuals or clans in Gaza to provide security protection for aid convoys entering the enclave as part of wider planning for humanitarian supplies after the fighting ends.
Doghmush is a large, armed clan that has clashed with Hamas in the past and has a history of engaging in organized crime as well as arms trading. It leads the Army of Islam terror group and is allied with al-Qaeda.
A matter of faith or merely an alliance of convenience?
It kidnapped and held British journalist Alan Johnston from March to July 2007, and was also reportedly involved in the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006.
The Doghmush clan is based in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City and in Sabra in western Gaza, the Ynet website reported.
Despite the recent reports of cooperation with Israel, clans have put out a statement saying they still support Hamas, Ynet said.
Whether true or not beyond the moment, it was clearly necessary.
On Wednesday, Hamas said in a statement that it welcomed the clans’ announcement and praised them for refusing to cooperate with Israel, Ynet said.
Gaza has a number of large traditional family clans affiliated with political factions including Hamas and Fatah, the rival group that dominates the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank.
Some of the larger clans in Gaza City and elsewhere are believed to be well-armed but they have a long history of clashing over rival interests and there has been no indication that they would consider working with Israel.
Israel has not yet provided a clear plan for a postwar scenario in Gaza and has repeatedly rejected a proposal favored by the US and much of the international community to restore the Paleostinian Authority’s rule over the enclave.
In seeking an alternative to both the PA and the Hamas terror regime, which it has vowed to eradicate, Israel has been floating the possibility of Gazook clans running the Strip’s civilian affairs, while the IDF would retain security control. Some experts are dubious about the feasibility of Israel’s proposal; a similar attempt was made decades ago, unsuccessfully. But experts’ skepticism is mainly due to the diminished clout that clans now hold in contemporary Gazook society, and the inevitable influence that established Paleostinian political movements would exert over them.
Israel has also reportedly considered arming Gaza civilians in order to secure aid convoys.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says that at least 31,184 Paleostinians have been killed since October 7, and some 72,899 have been injured. The terror group’s figures are unverified, however, and don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, of whom Israel has said it killed some 13,000 inside Gaza and an additional 1,000 inside Israel in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre.
[IsraelTimes] The Doghmosh Family — a major clan 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... — has issued a statement declaring that all Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... members are legitimate targets after its leader was assassinated by members of the terror group along with ten other relatives allegedly for stealing humanitarian aid and being in contact with Israel.
The statement pledges retribution against all responsible and warns Hamas fighters not to test the clan’s patience.
#5
Q: Does the DoD anticipate that Hamas will try to fire on them, on the operation (the Mulberry)?
Gen. Ryder: Look, I mean, that's certainly a risk, again, but if Hamas truly does care about the Paleostinian people, then again, one would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who need it would be able to happen unhindered.
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...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
[IsraelTimes] The victim of the terrorist attack at the Beit Kama junction in southern Israel, a non-commissioned officer in the IDF, succumbed to his wounds earlier today.
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
