[ToloNews] Afghan migrants colonists in Pakistain told TOLOnews that the process of deportation and arrest of Afghan migrants colonists in Pakistain continues.
According to these migrants colonists, the validity period of visas has been reduced from six months and three months to just one month, and they cannot afford its cost.
"The high costs and short time frame have created challenges for all Afghans and migrants colonists because no one can afford these exorbitant expenses," said Mohammad Reza, an Afghan migrant in Pakistain.
"Currently, in some areas of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the arrest and forced deportation of Afghan migrants colonists by the Pak police continue," said Atiqullah Mansoor, another Afghan migrant in Pakistain.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... some Afghan migrants colonists in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... also report that the arrest and deportation of Afghan migrants colonists from this country persist.
"They are arrested at their workplaces and transferred to special centers for Afghan detainees. This situation imposes mental, psychological, and economic challenges on these individuals," said Asadullah Zaeri, an Afghan migrant in Iran.
The arrest and deportation of Afghan migrants colonists from Pakistain have intensified for more than two weeks. Previously, various institutions and organizations, including Amnesty International, had called on Pakistain to stop the deportation of Afghan migrants colonists.
The largest number of Afghan migrants colonists reside in Pakistain and Iran, and at times, political tensions have impacted their situation.
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[ToloNews] Hamdullah Fitrat, the Deputy Spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, stated that ISIS has been granted permission to operate under Pakistain’s governance.
Rejecting the claims of Khawaja Asif, Pakistain's Defense Minister, Fitrat said that the Islamic Emirate possesses evidence of an ISIS presence in Pakistain's Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
”I’m rubber and you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you,” he taunted.
Fitrat further said: "The production, training, and funding centers for ISIS are in Balochistan and other parts of Pakistain. It appears they have been allowed to operate under the protection of these entities and are carrying out destructive activities. All of this is documented, and we hold evidence. Pakistain’s security and other issues are their internal matters and have no connection to Afghanistan."
Previously, Pakistain’s Defense Minister claimed that some terrorist groups, including ISIS-K, are active on Afghan soil.
Khawaja Muhammad Asif stated: "According to the latest report of the UN Monitoring Team, over two dozen terrorist groups including TTP, al-Qaeda, ISKP, ETIM and IMU are operating in Afghanistan. Afghanistan remained the hub for ISKP’s recruitment and facilitation in 2024."
Fazl Rahman Oria, a political analyst, told TOLOnews: "The people of Pakistain are protesting peacefully, and in some cases, armed uprisings have occurred because they no longer want the current rulers to stay in power. To divert public attention, such accusations are sometimes made against Afghanistan and sometimes against India."
Salim Paigir, another political analyst, said: "The world knows that the nests of terrorism and ISIS still exist in Pakistain, and they are used against neighboring countries, including Afghanistan."
Verbal tensions between the two sides [Afghanistan and Pakistain] have intensified following Pakistain’s Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Barmal district in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... province.
A day earlier, Pakistain also launched artillery attacks on parts of Kunar province ... Kunar is Haqqani country..... , which were condemned by the Islamic Emirate.
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[ToloNews] The family of Ryan Corbett, an American citizen detained in Afghanistan, is attempting to meet with Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... , President-elect of the United States, in Florida to request his assistance in securing Corbett's release.
American media reported that Ryan Corbett’s wife said her last contact with him was on New Year’s Day, and she is concerned about his health.
Anna Corbett, Ryan Corbett’s wife, stated: "I’ve been asking President Biden to meet with me and he has refused. He has met with other families and up until now, he has not met with me. After waiting that long for President Biden. I’m hoping that after a day I can meet with President Trump."
Ketsia Corbett, Ryan Corbett’s daughter, said: "It’s been really hard, and it’s been really sad. I miss him a lot, I just started college, and I just want him home soon because I miss him so much."
Ryan Corbett, an American citizen, was detained in Kabul on August 10, 2022, and has been in the custody of the Islamic Emirate ever since.
Anna Corbett added: "He has not been accused of anything and has been designated now as wrongfully detained. And he is a patriot. He is a US citizen that deserves to be in his country that he loves."
Previously, Donald Trump told Fox News that he does not support prisoner exchanges but will consider this case.
The Telegraph also reported that Afghanistan's interim government has paused prisoner exchange agreements with the US until the new government takes office in Afghanistan.
"This has no direct connection to the interactions between the two countries, but it creates better conditions. It can send a message that we can resolve our issues through dialogue and have positive engagement on many matters," said Yousuf Amin Zazai, a military analyst.
George Glezmann, Ryan Corbett, and Mahmood Habibi are American citizens currently detained in Afghanistan. Previously, senior US officials have repeatedly called for their release.
Yesterday, Afghanistan’s interim government announced that negotiations on prisoner exchanges with the US have so far yielded no results.
[DHS.GOV] The Department of Homeland Security announced today the extension of Temporary Protected Status- (TPS) for Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... for 18 months. This extension is due to ongoing armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions that continue to prevent individuals from safely returning.
After reviewing the country conditions in Sudan and consulting with interagency partners, it was determined that an 18-month TPS extension is warranted because of continued political instability that has triggered human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses, including direct attacks on civilians. Militias have targeted fleeing civilians, murdering innocent people escaping conflict, and prevented remaining civilians from accessing lifesaving supplies. These conditions currently prevent Sudanese nationals and habitual residents from safely returning. Such a determination meets the statutory obligation to decide, at least 60 days before the expiration of a TPS designation, whether the conditions for designation continue to be met and merit an extension.
The extension of TPS for Sudan allows approximately 1,900 current eligible beneficiaries to re-register for TPS, if they continue to meet eligibility requirements. Re-registration is limited to individuals who previously registered for TPS under Sudan's designation. This population includes nationals of Sudan (and individuals without nationality who last resided in Sudan) who have been continuously residing in the United States since at least August 16, 2023, with or without lawful immigration status.
Every individual processed by the Department of Homeland Security goes through rigorous national security and public safety vetting during the original application process and again during re-registration. If any individual is identified as posing a threat, they may be detained, removed, or referred to other federal agencies for further investigation or prosecution as appropriate. Individuals are barred from TPS if they have been convicted of any felony or two misdemeanors.
DHS recognizes that not all re-registrants may receive a new Employment Authorization Document (EAD) before their current EAD expires and is automatically extending for 12 months the validity of EADs previously issued under Sudan's TPS designation.
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[ALJAZEERA] Chad's governing party has taken the majority of seats in last month's parliamentary election that was mostly boycotted by opposition parties, according to provisional results.
President Mahamat Idriss "Lil" Deby's party, the Patriotic Salvation Movement, has secured 124 of the 188 seats at the National Assembly, Ahmed Bartchiret, head of the electoral commission, announced late on Saturday.
The participation rate was put at 51.56 percent, which opposition parties said showed voter doubts about the validity of the contest.
The December 29 election was presented by Deby's party as the last stage of the country's transition to democracy after he took power as a military ruler in 2021.
The takeover followed the death of Deby's father and longtime President Idriss Deby Itno, who spent three decades in power. Mahamat Deby eventually won last year's disputed presidential vote.
The vote, which also included municipal and regional elections, was Chad's first in more than a decade.
Deby had said the election would ''pave the way for the era of decentralisation so long-awaited and desired by the Chadian people'', referring to the distribution of power beyond the national government to the various provincial and municipal levels.
'CHARADE'
The election was boycotted by more than 10 opposition parties, including the main Transformers party, whose candidate, Succes Masra, came second in the presidential election.
The main opposition had called the election a ''charade'' and expressed worries that it would be a repeat of the presidential vote, which election observers said was not credible.
Last month's vote came at a critical period for Chad, which is battling several security challenges — from attacks in the Lake Chad region by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gang to ending decades-long military cooperation with La Belle France, its former colonial power.
The severing of military ties echoes recent moves by Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , which all kicked out French troops and fostered closer ties with Russia after a string of coups in West and Central Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... This week, security forces foiled an attack on the presidency that the government referred to as a ''destabilisation attempt''.
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Because the Houthis refuse to learn from others’ mistakes?
[NEWARAB] On 19 December, 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... military front man Yahya Saree announced that the 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... i group had carried out a hypersonic ballistic missile strike on central Israel.
One week later, the Israeli military retaliated by striking Sanaa International Airport, the Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power stations, and the infrastructure of Hodeidah, Salif, and Ras Kanatib ports.
These tit-for-tat military actions set off a renewed spiral of escalation between Israel and the Houthis. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ominously warned that the Houthis will follow Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , Hezbollah, and Syrian President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's path to defeat.
Houthi Political Bureau official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti has persistently vowed to escalate strikes on Israel until it ends ''the genocide 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 a rusty 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... Despite this fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rhetoric, Israel's expanded military intervention against the Houthis is unlikely to produce a conclusive victory. Iran's sustained clandestine support for the Houthis and the Yemeni group's ability to create a siege mentality around Israeli strikes will help keep the stalemate intact.
Nevertheless, the intensifying Israel-Houthi conflict has the potential to metastasise beyond Yemen's borders and threaten Western commercial maritime assets.
ISRAEL'S UPHILL STRUGGLE FOR A MILITARY TRIUMPH
Although Israeli air defences have been largely effective in limiting civilian casualties from Houthi missile strikes, the attacks continue to be a thorn in Israel's side. The Eilat port is no longer a reliable transit hub and some Israeli vessels have been forced to circumnavigate Africa along circuitous routes.
The strikes have caused foreign airlines to cancel flights to Israel and tourism to dry up. These hits to the Israeli economy are unlikely to let up as some Houthi missiles and drones can breach Israel's highly sophisticated defences.
Why is Israel finding it so difficult to defuse the Houthi threat? A lack of preparedness for Houthi drone and missile strikes is one contributing factor. Even though Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi declared in March 2018 that ''we are prepared to send fighters in any Israeli war against Leb ...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.... or Paleostine'' and formed a robust alliance with Hezbollah, Israeli officials paid relatively little attention to the Houthi threat.
When the Houthis attacked an Egypt-bound Saudi oil tanker in August 2018, Netanyahu threatened military action against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... if it blocked the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and left Israel's policy towards the Yemeni group unclear. The expansion of Houthi drone and missile capabilities continued under Israel's radar until the Gaza war began in October 2023 and has left Israel playing catch-up to a certain degree ever since.
[Townhall] In a move that has many critics up in arms, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has granted amnesty to 850,000 illegal immigrants colonists, further exacerbating concerns about the Biden administration’s border policies. With just days away from being outgoing President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... ’s last week in office, critics argue that this decision, which effectively shields hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from deportation, signals an alarming disregard for the rule of law and sets a dangerous precedent for future immigration enforcement. With the U.S. southern border already overwhelmed by record numbers of illegal crossings, conservatives contend that this blanket amnesty acts as a stab in the back to President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s mass deportation plans.
With just days left as Biden’s border czar, Mayorkas announced the 18-month expansion of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty, which includes the 234,000 illegal immigrants colonists from El Salvador who first got their TPS status after a 2001 earthquake that destroyed the nation’s economy. The mass amnesty also includes 600,000 economic migrants colonists from Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the once struggling economy is now growing, thanks to the successful crackdown on gang crime led by the country’s popular president, Nayib Bukele.
That's correct—Mayorkas cited "bad weather" as the reason for not sending the illegal aliens back to their home countries.
"El Salvador’s extension of TPS is based on geological and weather events, including significant storms and heavy rainfall in 2023 and 2024, that continue to affect areas heavily impacted by the earthquakes in 2001," Mayorkas said. The agency "is automatically extending [work permits] through March 9, 2026."
"After reviewing the country conditions in Venezuela and consulting with interagency partners, it was determined that an 18-month TPS extension is warranted based on the severe humanitarian emergency the country continues to face due to political and economic crises under the inhumane Maduro regime. These conditions have contributed to high levels of crime and violence, impacting access to food, medicine, healthcare, water, electricity, and fuel," his statement continued.
The amnesty will benefit Venezuela's Cuba-backed dictator by allowing 600,000 of his opponents to remain employed in U.S. jobs rather than protesting in the streets of Venezuela. Illegal immigrants colonists can also send U.S. dollars back to their families in their home country.
Under Biden’s pro-illegal immigration czar, the number of migrants colonists with TPS amnesty has tripled to around one million, including many Haitian immigrants colonists invited to take advantage of U.S. jobs and housing in Springfield, Ohio.
[GEO.TV] Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... has called on the international community to tackle the global crisis of girls' education, emphasising the vital role educated women play in building a thriving society.
"We should begin by recognising what we are up against, a crisis that holds our economy back by hundreds of billions in lost growth, a crisis harming the health, safety and security of our people," Malala said while speaking on the second day of "International Conference on Girls' Education in Moslem Communities: Challenges and Opportunities" on Sunday.
The federal capital hosted the two-day conference that brought together global experts, educators to address issues surrounding girls' education in Moslem countries.
Pakistain faces its own severe education crisis, with more than 22 million children out of school, according to government figures, one of the highest numbers in the world.
Malala stressed "if we don't tackle this crisis, our society will not thrive as it should".
"We will fail to live up to Islam's fundamental values of seeking knowledge."
This conference, she said, is an encouraging first step. "But we can only have an honest and serious conversation about girls' educations, if we call out the worst violations of it."
The event was snubbed by Afghanistan's Taliban ...Arabic for students... government, as Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told AFP that Islamabad had extended an invitation to Kabul, "but no one from the Afghan government was at the conference".
Since returning to power in 2021, the Afghan Taliban government has imposed an austere version of religious law that the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has called "gender apartheid".
Their curbs have shut women and girls out of secondary school and university education, as well as many government jobs, and seen them sequestered out of many aspects of public life.
Muhammad Al Issa, a Saudi holy man and secretary general of the Moslem World League — which has backed the summit — said "religion is no grounds for blocking girls from school".
Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Pakistain is facing its own severe education crisis, with more than 22 million children out of school, according to government figures, one of the highest numbers in the world.
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The UN, terrorist-lovers that they are, might need it. But Israel most assuredly does not. And even if they did, that ship sailed over a year ago.
[GEO.TV] A top official from the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... High Commissioner for Human Rights in Paleostine
Oh. Them….
has told Al Jazeera Arabic that a quick ceasefire is needed 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 a rusty 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... ''Action must be taken on the humanitarian situation in Gaza,'' the official said, adding: ''We need a quick ceasefire in Gaza".
The official also stated that Israel "must provide all humanitarian supplies in Gaza".
The official is mistaken. And stupid not to have noticed that the fact that everything changes a week from now has already changed everything.
[IsraelTimes] Israel “will not let the West Bank become Gaza or southern Lebanon,” Defense Minister Israel Katz vows during an assessment of military and security operations in the area from senior officers.
“Anyone who engages in terror like in Gaza will be treated like in Gaza; we will work to cut off the arms of the Iranian octopus in the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria and to maintain the security of the communities and residents,” the defense minister adds, according to a statement from his office.
Katz was updated on the IDF’s extensive operation over the weekend in Qabatiya, near Jenin, Border Police operations in West Bank refugee camps, and the recent operation that culminated in the arrest of a terrorist cell last night that was en route to carry out a shooting attack.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
So they have plenty they can spare to trade for those Hamas is holding hostage, and all the biometric identifying data and interrogation information has been neatly filed away for when they’ll need to be picked up again.
According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 835 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Two Palestinian gunmen who were en route to carrying out an imminent shooting attack were detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus last night, defense authorities say.
Members of the police’s Yamam counterterrorism unit and the Shin Bet security agency stopped the gunmen while they were driving to carry out the attack.
Police, IDF, and Shin Bet in a joint statement say that the gunmen were detained with two loaded M16 assault rifles, vests, face masks, and ammunition.
The pair are identified by the Shin Bet as Ahmed Zakarna, 21, and Tariq Abu Ziyad, 25, residents of Qabatiya and members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.
In their initial interrogation by the Shin Bet, the pair said they set out from Jenin and were en route to carry out a shooting, the statement says.
[NEWARAB] Negotiations for a ceasefire 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 a rusty 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 are reportedly at a ''decisive'' point, with a deal very close to being achieved.
An Israeli delegation is due to arrive in the 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... i capital Doha on Sunday, headed by Mosssd ...... chief David Barnea.
A leadership source in Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... exclusively told The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site al-Araby al-Jadeed on Saturday that nearly all the details of the ''final concept'' of a Gaza ceasefire deal had been complete.
The source said that the mediators were now preparing to announce that a ceasefire deal had been reached, after the Israeli delegation sent by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived.
Negotiations have long been stalled and have been continuously scuppered by Netanyahu and his right-wing allies — who have wanted to keep the brutal Gaza war going — whenever a deal appeared close.
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... this time Paleostinian sources have indicated that things are different and a ceasefire deal is nearly ready.
Another Paleostinian source told al-Araby al-Jadeed that technical teams from mediating powers the US, Qatar, and Egypt and both sides had finished preparing the agreement.
They added that the agreement would be implemented 24 hours after Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, agrees to it.
"It means enabling the Israelis to knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... and their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East. It means actually doing the job of American leadership," Vance tells ’FOX News Sunday.’
The IDF indeed states that it has yet to dismantle the final two of Hamas’s 24 battalions 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 a rusty 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... , but that is because they are believed to be holding many of the remaining 98 hostages in central Gaza. Accordingly, the IDF has avoided operating there en masse, so as not to risk the lives of the hostages, given that a number of them have been accidentally killed in IDF operations or were executed by their Hamas captors when they feared Israeli troops were approaching.
Vance does not elaborate on the financial sanctions that the incoming Trump administration has planned against Hamas, but the Biden administration has already levied a host of sanctions against the terror group and has issued arrest warrants for several of its leaders.
The incoming vice president asserts Trump’s threat of "all hell to pay" in the Mideast if the hostages are not released is what sparked recent progress in the ongoing hostage talks.
"We’re hopeful there’s going to be a deal that struck toward the very end of Biden’s administration — maybe the last day or two," Vance says. "But regardless of when that deal is struck, it will be because people are terrified that there are going to be consequences for Hamas."
“Let’s allow our hostages to be set free. I want to see them walking across the tarmac, or at a minimum, some type of agreement before inauguration because President Trump is serious,” Waltz tells ABC’s “This Week.”
“Any deal will only get worse for Hamas, and there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East if we continue to have this kind of hostage diplomacy,” Waltz adds.
If he’s no longer in the government, how does he know?
The first stage of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas will entail the release of 25 Israeli hostages in exchange for 48 Palestinian security prisoners who were freed in the Shalit deal in 2011 and incarcerated again since, along with 200 prisoners serving life sentences, and another 1,000 detainees including women, children and wounded prisoners, according to a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group.
In a rare interview with Ramallah’s Maan news agency, Prisoners Club director Qadura Fares adds that all of the Palestinian prisoners would be allowed to return to their homes in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, except those serving life sentences, who would most likely be deported to either Qatar, Egypt or Turkey.
The former PA minister notes that this exception is necessary for the protection of the Palestinian prisoners against Israeli assassination attempts.
The Prisoners Club is a Palestinian organization that advocates on behalf of Palestinians in Israeli jails. While the organization used to be financially supported by the Palestinian Authority, Ramallah has reportedly ceased funding the body for at least five years.
Fares is also quoted by Maan as saying that Israel has been pushing for nine more hostages to be released in the first phase, including wounded IDF soldiers, in exchange for a yet-to-be-negotiated number of Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences.
The comments come amid reports of progress in ongoing talks in Doha to seal a hostage-ceasefire deal before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a high-level Israeli delegation to Qatar last night to join the talks.
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Although a final deal has not yet been reached, a source involved in the negotiations told Reuters, “The next 24 hours will be pivotal to reaching the deal.”
The talks revolve in part around a list of more than 30 hostages Hamas has said it would be willing to finally release — without saying how many might be alive.
Hamas, meanwhile, promised the release of its own terrorists while confirming it expects a deal.
“We renew our pledge with our steadfast and patient people and with our heroic prisoners in the prisons, and we affirm that their freedom is near,” the terror group said, according to the Times of Israel.
Hamas razzle dazzle. Not saying upfront which are live and which dead has been a deal-breaker all along. Bibi only wants living hostages for the first round.
The officials say that the first stage of the potential deal would see Hamas releasing 33 “humanitarian” hostages — children, women, female soldiers, the elderly and the sick. The officials say that all of the 33 are officially considered by Israel to be alive, but that Jerusalem has not currently received any confirmation of their status.
Which raises the point, what will Israel do if some of them are dead?
[IsraelTimes] US envoy Hochstein said to assure officials in Beirut that Israel will complete withdrawal by January 26, as Lebanese military says it finished deploying in area IDF has left
The military said late Saturday that it carried out a dronezap against three suspects on the Lebanese side of Mount Dov, close to the border, two weeks before Israeli forces are set to withdraw from Leb ...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?... under the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
The three suspects were apparently killed in the strike. It was unclear if they were armed or what their intentions were.
Hours earlier, another drone struck in south Lebanon "to remove a threat" after several Hezbollah operatives were spotted leaving a building known to be used by the terror group, the IDF said. According to Lebanese media, the strike occurred in the southern village of Kounine. Lebanon’s health ministry reported two people maimed.
Under the terms of the November 27 ceasefire agreement, which ended 14 months of war with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group is to withdraw north of the Litani River — some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel — while Israel must withdraw from southern Lebanon by January 26, to be replaced by the Lebanese Armed Forces and international peacekeeping force UNIFIL.
Washington has reportedly assured Beirut that Israel would complete the withdrawal in time, and the LAF said Saturday that it had finished deploying in south Lebanon’s western sector following Israel’s withdrawal from there.
Israeli officials have reportedly indicated that the IDF could stay in south Lebanon past the deadline for withdrawal if the Lebanese army does not replace the Israeli presence there quickly enough. The IDF has also accused the Lebanese Armed Forces of failing to accede to a request to act against Hezbollah missile launchers situated in south Lebanon in violation of the agreement.
However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Friday that the state would start disarming Lebanon’s south, and on Thursday, new Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pledged in his inauguration speech that the state would hold a monopoly on power — a thinly veiled threat against Hezbollah’s extensive arsenal.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... Hezbollah-aligned newspaper al-Akhbar reported Saturday that US envoy Amos Hochstein, who visited Lebanon last week, told his interlocutors that he had obtained from Israel a detailed timeline for the IDF withdrawal from Lebanon’s south.
According to the report, the last day of the IDF presence will be January 26 — the end date for the initial, 60-day period of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal.
Hochstein, who brokered the deal, was said to have requested that, as Beirut gears up to replace the IDF presence, the Lebanese military strengthen its units and ensure that Hezbollah hands over all its arms south of the Litani.
Al-Akhbar said Hochstein was updated by his Lebanese counterparts that there is an existing agreement to that effect between the Lebanese Armed Forces and the terror group.
The LAF said on X Saturday that, following an Israeli withdrawal, it is deploying to the southwestern border towns and villages of Naqoura, Aalma ash-Shaab, Dhayra, Aitaroun, Bint Jbeil, Tayr Harfa, Majdal Zoun, Salhani, and Qouzah.
The LAF warned locals to stay away from the area until engineering units have scanned the towns and villages, and cleared them of unwent kaboom! ordnance and other debris.
The Lebanese military said it was working to strengthen its positions in the area, in coordination with UNIFIL and the five-member committee supervising the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. The committee comprises representatives of Israel, Lebanon, La Belle France, the US and UNIFIL
[IsraelTimes] Army and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard exercises, initially focused on Natanz enrichment plant, now held at Fordo and Khondab nuclear facilities, state media reports
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has expanded military drills to cover two additional nuclear facilities in the west and center of the country, state media reported on Sunday.
The drills — dubbed Eqtedar, or "might" in Farsi — began last week and are set to continue until mid-March. They involve the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological branch of Iran’s military.
On Tuesday, the IRGC announced the drills were initially focused on the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in central Iran.
"The exercises are currently being held at the Fordo and Khondab nuclear facilities," in central and western Iran respectively, state TV reported Sunday.
They involve missile and radar units, electronic warfare units, electronic intelligence and reconnaissance command carrying out "offensive and defensive missions," it said.
The drills come after, at the end of October, Israel attacked key military targets in Iran, degrading its air defense and missile production capabilities in retaliation for a massive ballistic missile attack from Tehran on Israel earlier that month.
Iran’s new activities are taking place with the country’s nuclear program under close watch ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... ’s return to the White House.
In his first term, Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, and he also ordered the killing of an IRGC general in a dronezap in Iraq.
Iran is set to hold nuclear talks with La Belle France, Britannia and Germany on Monday in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... In January, US news website Axios reported that White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan had presented President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban and called it an extraordinary success... with options for a potential US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities if Tehran moved toward developing an atomic weapon before January 20, when Trump takes office.
Iran’s foreign ministry front man Esmaeil Baqaei criticized the reports, saying threats against the country’s nuclear facilities were "a gross violation of international law."
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes and denies any intention to develop atomic weapons.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... Iran, which is sworn to destroy Israel, has in recent years increased its manufacturing of enriched uranium, and it is the only non-nuclear weapons state to possess uranium enriched to 60 percent, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog said.
That level is well on the way to the 90% required for an atomic bomb and beyond anything needed for a civilian nuclear program.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.COM.LB] Shortly after late Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah was martyred on September 27 during the Last brutal Israeli aggression on Lebanon, some local parties in Lebanon — who are known for their foreign affiliations — rushed to talk about the so-called ''Lebanon post-Hezbollah''.
Back then, late Hezbollah Media Relations Officer Hajj Mohammad Afif, who was later martyred in an Israeli strike on Beirut last November, said his well-known remarks addressing such malicious ambitions: ''Too early!''.
Whoever watched the 13th parliamentary session aimed at electing a new Lebanese president following a two-year vacuum on Thursday, knows very well what martyr Hajj Afif meant with such words.
As things got clearer, with Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun emerging as the front runner for the presidency, Hezbollah and its strong ally Amal Movement were keen to deliver a clear message.
Lawmakers of the nationalist duo (nearly 30 MPs) voted blank ballots in the first round of Thursday's session, forcing a second round of the vote.
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Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri, the Leader of Amal Movement, adjourned the session for more discussions, and set a timing for the second round.
A break of two hours between the two rounds witnessed a meeting between General Aoun, Head of Hezbollah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc Hajj Mohammad Raad and Amal MP Ali Hasan Khalil.
Local reports indicated that during the meeting General Aoun offered some guarantees to the nationalist duo regarding implications of the ceasefire agreement with the Israeli enemy in areas south of the Litani River, plans for reconstruction and government restructuring.
The Parliament then convened for the second round, that led to the election of General Aoun who obtained 99 votes after Hezbollah and Amal lawmakers voted in his favor.
Despite claims of alleged ''weakened Hezbollah sway'' in the national decisions, the scene on Thursday has indicated that the Lebanese resistance party, along with Amal Movement, remain the major players and decision makers.
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