[Breitbart] A Mexican national living in the U.S. under the protection of an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be spending more than eight years in prison for leading a straw purchasing ring that supplied firearms to cartel members in Mexico.
This week, 22-year-old Mario Elier Leal went before Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane for a sentencing hearing at a federal courthouse in McAllen. Texas. Leal previously pleaded guilty to straw purchasing charges in 2024.
During the hearing, Judge Crane sentenced Leal to 97 months in federal prison. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, since Leal is not a U.S. citizen, he will face a deportation process once he completes his sentence. Leal was in the country under the DACA program, meaning that he had been brought illegally into the country as a child but had since been allowed to stay.
According to federal prosecutors, Leal had recruited other individuals to purchase AK-47-type rifles in South Texas that would then be smuggled into Mexico. At the time of his arrest, authorities seized three AK-47 rifles that Leal obtained using two other young men who were U.S citizens and could legally buy weapons in Texas. Court documents do not specify the cartel for which the guns were purchased. However, just south of McAllen is the area controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
As part of his guilty plea, the man admitted to paying $300 to each individual who would buy the guns for him as a way to bypass U.S. laws that prohibit him from buying them himself. Federal prosecutors claim that at least 13 other weapons were purchased or were in the process of being bought for Leal.
[FoxNews] Suspect arrested at New York airport following last month's explosion that killed bomber and injured four
An individual allegedly linked to the primary suspect in a car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic has been arrested, Fox News has learned.
The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Daniel Park, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City overnight, and is charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Park waived his identity and probable cause hearings in a Brooklyn federal courtroom Wednesday and is set to be transported to California to face prosecution.
Park allegedly supplied Guy Edward Bartkus
with the materials needed to construct the explosives, with the last shipment arriving just days before the attack, according to United States Attorney Bill Essayli.
"Law enforcement learned that Park spent approximately two weeks visiting [the primary suspect’s] residence in 29 Palms in late January and early February of this year, spending time together running experiments [in the suspect’s] garage, where the FBI recovered large quantities of chemical precursors and laboratory equipment after the bombing," Essayli said in a news conference.
Authorities used a cellphone recovered from the crime scene to identify Park, according to the criminal complaint. Park allegedly used an AI chatbot to search for
…age 25 when he blew himself up, the member of a anti-natalist cult had driven from his home in Twentynine Palm for the occasion in his 2010 Ford Fusion sedan. He apparently tried and failed to livestream his explosion in social media, but there apparently is manifesto or writings….
information regarding assembling an explosive device just days before the attack, the complaint said.
Park traveled to Poland four days after the bombing, where he was arrested by local authorities on May 30 and deported back to the United States. Authorities were unable to confirm if Park initially traveled abroad in an attempt to flee the country.
A search of Park's home in Kent, Washington revealed six packages of explosive materials, according to authorities, leading them to believe the items were allegedly mailed to Southern California prior to the attack.
Fox News Digital was unable to immediately identify an attorney representing Park.
Attorney General Pam Bondi worked to secure the expulsion and subsequent arrest of Park, according to the Department of Justice.
"Bringing chaos and violence to a facility that exists to help women and mothers is a particularly cruel, disgusting crime that strikes at the very heart of our shared humanity," Bondi said in a statement. "We are grateful to our partners in Poland who helped get this man back to America and we will prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law."
Last month, 25-year-old Bartkus was identified as the perpetrator behind the bombing outside the American Reproductive Centers facility. Four people were injured and Bartkus was killed in the blast.
Surveillance footage and online postings show Bartkus parking behind the building before ingesting drugs and detonating the explosive device.
Authorities allege Park and Bartkus targeted the center in an attempt to destroy human embryos stored on-site after being motivated by a fringe "pro-mortalism" ideology movement, which views human reproduction as immoral while believing death is preferable to life.
Special Forces troops under Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated a notorious Boko Haram/ISWAP commander, Amir Abu Fatima, during a precision strike on a terrorist stronghold in the Kukawa axis of Borno State.
The operation, launched on Thursday, followed credible intelligence pointing to the location of the high-value target.
A statement on the Nigerian Army’s X handle on Friday said Abu Fatima, who had a ₦100 million bounty on his head, was fatally wounded in an intense gun battle, adding that his deputy, several explosives experts, and multiple fighters were also neutralised.
The service also said troops recovered several AK-47 rifles, magazines, improvised explosive device materials, and assorted ordnance during the raid.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen take responsibility for launching the drone that was shot down by the Israeli Air Force over the Israel-Egypt border earlier this evening.
The Houthis claim to have launched two drones at Ben Gurion Airport in the attack, indicating that the second one likely crashed before reaching Israel.
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[KavkazUzel] FSB officers in Adygea detained a resident of the republic suspected of justifying international terrorist activity.
A criminal case has been opened against a 24-year-old local resident. According to investigators, he visited the resources of an international terrorist organization in the Telegram messenger, where he posted statements justifying terrorism.
In particular, he tried to justify the activities of an international terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Republic reported.
That sounds like they aren’t saying ISIS…
The case is being investigated under the elements of a crime under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code, TASS reports. The man faces up to five years in prison.
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[Regnum] In the Chelyabinsk region, police officers liquidated a large drug lab in which more than 427 kg of drugs were found. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk on her Telegram channel.
"The operatives discovered an illegal production facility in a private home in the Kartalinsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. There, two criminals were manufacturing a synthetic narcotic. In the laboratory itself, the police officers found more than 427 kg of narcotics and about 1 ton of precursors," she said in the publication.
Volk specified that the approximate value of the seized prohibited substances exceeds 1.5 billion rubles. According to her, about 1 million single doses of drugs did not reach consumers.
"They placed the drugs ready for sale in hiding places, from where they were picked up by couriers from other regions. Each cache was a large batch weighing 15-20 kg," Volk also reported.
The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs added that the investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region initiated criminal cases under articles on attempted crime and illegal production, sale or shipment of drugs (Articles 30 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The criminal chemists are currently in custody.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in March, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also discovered two large drug labs in Ramenskoye near Moscow and seized about 200 kg of mephedrone worth about 800 million rubles. Two local residents and a native of the Orenburg region were detained. Investigators opened a criminal case. The defendants were taken into custody.
[GEO.TV] More than 200,000 Afghans have left Pakistain since the government renewed a deportation drive in April, with 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 stepping up expulsions of Afghans.
Generations of Afghans have fled to neighbouring Pakistain and Iran during decades of successive wars, seeking safety and better economic opportunities.
Both governments have grown weary of large migrant populations and ordered millions to leave under the threat of arrest.
Pakistain has launched a strict campaign to evict more than 800,000 Afghans who have had their residence permits cancelled, including some who were born in the country or lived there for decades.
According to the interior ministry, more than 135,000 Afghans left Pakistain in April, while around 67,000 departed in May and more than 3,000 were sent back in the first two days of June.
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[GEO.TV] As part of ongoing anti-terror efforts, security forces have neutralised 14 hard boyz in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Wazoo, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday.
As per the military's media wing, an operation was conducted in the general area Datta Khel of North Waziristan district upon the reported presence of hard boyz belonging to Indian proxy "Fitna al Khwarij", wherein the security forces effectively engaged the forces of Evil and bumped off 14 of them after an intense exchange of fire.
"Sanitisation operations are being conducted to eliminate any other Indian-sponsored terrorist found in the area," the statement added.
Commending the security forces on successful operation, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the nefarious intentions of terrorists, and enemies of humanity will be crushed.
[GEO.TV] In a significant diplomatic victory, Pakistain has been named vice-chair of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council's (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee, tasked with overseeing implementation of resolution 1373 (2001) concerning international anti-terror efforts, according to an official statement issued by Pakistain's mission to UN on Wednesday.
Islamabad has played an active role in promoting the principles and purposes of the UN Charter and made significant contributions to international peace and security, including its role as one of the leading troop-contributing countries to UN peacekeeping missions across the world. It was elected to the UN Security Council in June 2024 and replaced Japan in the Asian seat.
Pakistain had been one of the worst victims of terrorism for over two decades as the country loss more than 80,000 lives and thousands more injured.
Pakistain has time and again raised the issued of India sponsoring and backing terrorist groups such as Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) and Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) to carry out attacks inside Pakistain.
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[Rudaw] The US military said on Thursday that an 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) leader was arrested and two operatives killed in numerous partnered operations with Iraqi forces late last month.
Five operations, carried out from May 21-27 with Iraqi forces in the northern Salahaddin and Kirkuk provinces, resulted in the "clearance and destruction of multiple locations, confiscation of small arms weapons and munitions, recovery of material for further exploitation, two ISIS operatives killed in action, and the capture of an ISIS leader," the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
Another operation in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, partnered with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — the US-led coalition’s main ally in the anti-ISIS fight in Syria — resulted in an ISIS operative being captured, according to the statement.
"Operations like these underscore the commitment of USCENTCOM, along with our allies and partners, to the enduring defeat of ISIS in the region," said CENTCOM commander General Michael Erik Kurilla.
SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami lauded the cooperation between the Kurdish-led force and the coalition.
"The effective support provided by the international coalition forces to our forces has significantly contributed to the dismantling of numerous ISIS cells in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, and Deir ez-Zor. Our forces will continue their most effective operations against ISIS terrorism with support from our partners in the international coalition," Shami said on X.
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[Rudaw] A number of suspected 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) turbans were arrested in a Kurdish counter-terrorism operation carried out near the Hamrin Mountains, the Sulaimani-based force said on Wednesday.
"In the operation, which was carried out swiftly, precisely, and without casualties, the forces successfully arrested a number of suspects with a history of terrorist activities," the Sulaimani-based Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) said in a statement.
It described one of the suspects as "a logistical officer" for ISIS "in a designated area," without disclosing further details.
The operation was carried out in cooperation with the US-led international coalition against ISIS.
The US-led global coalition provided both the Iraqi army and the Kurdish Peshmerga with air and ground support, as well as training and equipment, in the war against ISIS.
[IsraelTimes] Police have reopened south Tel Aviv’s Elifelet light rail station to the public after arresting two West Bank Palestinians over a suspicious object report.
Light rail security staff previously called the cops on the two men, reporting that they had been carrying “suspicious luggage,” a law enforcement spokesman says. Police officers and bomb disposal specialists who arrived at the scene did not find any weapons or dangerous items in their possession.
Officers checking their luggage instead found pants that are part of an IDF uniform, among what appears to be a plethora of other clothing and shopping bags.
They have taken the two men — a 44-year-old Nablus resident and a 59-year-old Beita resident — for questioning at a nearby station.
A photo shared by the police spokesman shows the contents of the detainees’ luggage strewn about the light rail platform.
[IsraelTimesJ Resumption of assistance brings a truckload of deadly issues, as competing actors struggle to safely feed Gazans amid mix of soldiers, armed gangs and terrorists clinging to power
Hundreds of trucks of food and other assistance have entered the Strip since Jerusalem began allowing aid into the Strip last month following an 11-week hiatus, Israeli officials say.
Some of the aid has gone to the US- and Israel-backed 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... Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial new organization that operates four designated aid distribution centers where boxes of assistance are handed to individuals. "controversial"
“Not one of us, darling” is always distateful.
At the same time, assistance has continued to flow via the previous mechanism coordinated by the UN and other humanitarian organizations, which handle logistics and distribution to warehouses and facilities across the Strip. While it enjoys international legitimacy, Israel says the method leaves the aid supplies vulnerable to being taken by the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terror group, against which it is waging war.
After a blockade from March 2 to May 19, footage now shows humanitarian warehouses being restocked and aid being distributed. But the past two weeks have also seen a sharp rise in reports of looting, both spontaneous and organized, as well as violent mostly peaceful confrontations involving both Hamas operatives and Israeli forces near aid sites.
While Hamas and others have accused Israel of shooting and killing Paleostinians seeking aid, some have fingered Hamas and local gangs in Gaza as responsible for violence surrounding the aid.
According to Michael Milshtein, who heads the Paleostinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University’s Dayan Center, a Hamas unit known as Sahm appears to be taking brutal action against suspected looters.
"Everyone I speak with in Gaza talks about them. They are executing people left and right," Milshtein told the Times of Israel of Sahm. He said the unit was tasked with "enforcing all order" in Gaza.
A Telegram channel linked to the unit regularly publishes reports and footage of operations against alleged criminals and collaborators. Daily updates show individuals in Gaza being "handled" by Hamas mechanisms, meaning beaten or killed, reportedly for involvement in aid theft.
On Tuesday, the channel reported that Sahm had executed seven Gazooks accused of theft and collaboration with Israel.
Despite over a year and a half of war, with thousands of its fighters estimated to have been killed, Milshtein said Hamas remains "the one dominant actor in Gaza that continues to enforce order."
"It is battered, it is limited, a pale shadow of what it was on October 7, 2023 — but let’s not be mistaken, it hasn’t disappeared or vanished, not even from people’s hearts," he said. "I don’t see the classic Middle Eastern signs of a regime collapse. There is no mass surrender of Hamas, no white flags, no Hamas members being hunted down in the streets. There are protests, there are gangs, but every time I check, I don’t see indications that something fundamentally different is about to happen."
LOOTINGS SPREAD
Numerous incidents of large-scale looting have been documented across the Strip since the renewal of humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. In some cases, looters appear to be desperate Gazook individuals, though Gaza-based social media has also documented organized raids throughout the war, often carried out by gangs, some with criminal records.
On May 25, dozens of Gazooks were filmed approaching a truck carrying humanitarian aid in central Gaza City. Gunfire was heard, and the crowd dispersed, though it remains unclear whether looting ultimately took place.
The shots are believed to have been fired by Hamas or another local security force; the IDF does not protect aid convoys inside Gaza, only maintaining a presence near the designated distribution zones managed by GHF.
Days later, footage from the overnight hours between May 27 and May 28 showed dozens of Gazooks looting a humanitarian aid truck that had arrived in the market area of Nuseirat in central Gaza. Reports indicated the truck was initially intended to deliver supplies to the north, where humanitarian organizations were to oversee an orderly distribution.
On May 28, videos circulated on social media showing hundreds of people looting a large warehouse containing what appeared to be humanitarian supplies, including sacks of flour.
Though anti-Hamas media outlets claimed the warehouse belonged to the terror group, portraying it as evidence of popular anger against Gaza’s rulers, the World Food Program — a UN organization — eventually clarified that the footage showed its Deir al-Balah warehouse. It confirmed that two people were killed during the looting, but did not disclose the circumstances of their deaths.
Hamas, which some reports accused of opening fire on the looters, denied firing on civilians.
It remains unclear whether Hamas had any role in the looting or whether it was responsible for securing the looted warehouses.
On June 1, the Israel Defense Forces released drone footage showing armed Gazook operatives firing at people attempting to pick up aid supplies in Khan Younis, accusing Hamas of trying to block aid from reaching Gazooks.
"Hamas is a brutal and murderous terrorist organization that is starving Gaza’s population. It is doing everything it can to sabotage successful food distribution in Gaza," the IDF said.
According to COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry unit responsible for coordinating aid into Gaza, over 1,100 truckloads of food, medicine, and medical equipment have entered the Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing since May 19, including 157 trucks on Tuesday.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the UN says it has been unable to pick up most of the trucks destined for humanitarian warehouses it supports due to unsafe roads and access issues, with only 200 truckloads retrieved from the crossing as of May 27.
Jonathan Whittall, who heads the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Paleostinian territories, accused Israel of attempting to impede aid deliveries.
"We face challenges in collecting goods from the Kerem Shalom crossing due to insecurity, long delays in receiving the necessary permits, being given inappropriate transport routes, and facing crowd desperation and looting — all a result of restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities," he told news hounds. "There is no logistical solution to a political decision designed to obstruct aid."
A UN official told The Times of Israel that it avoids using armed security to guard shipments, instead relying on coordination with local community representatives to reduce looting by Gazooks. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the tactic becomes less effective as desperation rises.
GANGING UP
Humanitarian officials have in the past spoken of working with local clan leaders to secure shipments through areas under their nominal control, and reports have indicated that Israel has also mulled similar moves.
While details are murky, some arrangements can apparently involve protection rackets in which armed gangs of looters are paid off with a cut of the aid to keep other looters away.
In recent weeks, reports have proliferated of an gang known as Abu Shabaab, composed of members of a single family, operating near Kerem Shalom in a zone under Israeli military control. Footage published online, including by clan leader Yasser Abu Shabaab, show the gang wearing military-style uniforms with the Paleostinian flag and the words "Counter-Terrorism Mechanism" emblazoned on them.
"The Abu Shabaab story frightens me the most," said Milshtein. "It’s blatantly clear that Israel is either backing or tolerating this gang, and this reflects the worst patterns of past Israeli behavior in the Arab world — making deals with shady criminals, just like in the 1980s when Israel supported the Christian Phalangists in 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?... against the [Paleostine Liberation Organization]."
"Everyone I speak to in Gaza says the Abu Shabaab clan are drug pushers and thieves," he added. "Before becoming a proxy for Israel, they were looting aid convoys."
Israel has refused to answer questions about any alleged relationship with Abu Shabaab, though the two appear to share an enemy in Hamas.
On May 30, Hamas released an official video showing a group of armed, masked men operating outside a building before being blown up. Hamas claimed the group in the video were working with the IDF to inspect buildings before Israeli troops move in, without specifying whether they were Israeli or Paleostinian.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... online comparisons to previous images of Abu Shabaab’s gang suggested it was the same group, indicating that Hamas views the gang as a threat.
According to Milshtein, Hamas had previously killed 20 members of the clan as part of its crackdown on looters.
"Hamas will destroy them, even if it’s difficult," he said.
’DEATH TRAP’
Seeking to keep aid out the hands of Hamas, Israel and the US have backed a new aid mechanism in which assistance is distributed to Gazook individuals at sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund.
The UN and other humanitarian groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF mechanism, saying it does not comply with humanitarian principles by turning aid into a tool of Israel’s military campaign and forcing Gazooks to travel long distances through IDF lines to reach the assistance, exposing them to danger.
In recent days, those concerns have been animated by a series of deadly shootings outside a GHF distribution site in Rafah, after the IDF apparently opened fire toward Paleostinians who had approached troops after straying off a pre-approved path for reaching a Rafah distribution site.
Hamas health authorities have claimed 61 people were killed and hundreds more maimed in shootings on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The figures have not been verified and the IDF has accused the terror group of inflating them.
GHF, which has been beset by controversy, has described the reports of shootings and other violence at aid distribution sites as part of a Hamas propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting the operation, in messaging echoed by Israel and the US.
Nonetheless, GHF shut down its sites for a day on Wednesday to work out measures with the IDF to enhance security and keep future shootings from taking place.
"There are many troubling aspects to this new aid mechanism," Milshtein said. "Everything is opaque — we don’t know how much is being distributed, or what percentage of the total aid that is."
Taken together, the looting of aid trucks and issues with GHF highlight the complexities and dangers surrounding aid delivery in war-torn Gaza, as overlapping claims from the IDF, Hamas, humanitarian groups, and international organizations like the UN create a murky picture of responsibility and reality on the ground.
Milshtein argued that Hamas had managed to take advantage of that fog to create a prevailing picture of Gazooks having to risk their lives just to receive food, with Israel to blame, regardless of whether it reflects reality.
"Since Sunday, Hamas’s narrative of an ’aid massacre’ has become the dominant one globally, not just among Paleostinians," he lamented. "The UNRWA commissioner-general even called the aid distribution centers a ’death trap.’ That ultimately affects the situation on the ground — it impacts Gazooks’ motivation to come to the distribution sites."
The Times of Israel has more on the subject here.
and elsewhere on the Internet:
BREAKING: Hamas has openly announced “field executions” of Palestinians who went to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for food.
They’re publicly murdering their own people for seeking aid—and the media somehow keeps “missing” the story. pic.twitter.com/km627Fc3jx
[IsraelTimes] Body distributing aid indicates it will resume operations later in the day, but does not say when.
The Israel-backed body leading aid distribution 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 said Wednesday its distribution sites would not be opening Thursday morning, due to maintenance and repair work.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation indicated the sites would resume operations later in the day, but did not say when.
The GHF post said the organization would share information on opening times as soon as the work is complete.
A GHF spokesperson told The Times of Israel that the organization was actively engaged in talks with the IDF to enhance the army’s security measures beyond the immediate perimeter of GHF sites.
To support civilian safety outside distribution sites, the spokesperson said GHF had asked the IDF to introduce measures that guide foot traffic in a way that minimizes confusion or escalation risks near the IDF-operated perimeter around the sites; develop clearer IDF-issued guidelines to help Paleostinians safely reach the distribution sites; and boost IDF training and refine internal procedures to ensure the safety of Paleostinians.
GHF did not open its sites on Wednesday, after eight consecutive days of operation. The shutdown was implemented in order to carry out logistical work in order to more safely accommodate more Paleostinians at distribution sites.
On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the IDF said it fired warning shots toward Paleostinians outside an aid distribution site after they approached troops while straying off a pre-approved path. Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... officials and the Red Thingy claimed dozens were killed and hundreds maimed from gunfire. The IDF asserted that those figures were exaggerated, while saying it was investigating the allegations.
A GHF spokesperson said Tuesday that the shutdown would only last a day, but the delay in reopening indicated that its logistical work was running behind schedule.
"GHF is working to make the distribution of food boxes as safe as possible, despite the difficult circumstances. We strongly urge all those heading to our locations to follow the routes set by the IDF to ensure safe passage," the foundation said.
While much of Gaza’s population of about two million is located in southern Gaza, their tent encampments are not adjacent to GHF distribution sites, and those in northern and central Gaza have reported having to walk dozens of kilometers, sometimes while dodging IDF fire, in order to pick up a box of food. GHF has said that it is working to open new distribution sites, including in northern Gaza, but it has not given a timetable, while the tens of thousands of Paleostinians amassing at distribution sites indicate that the need for food in Gaza remains dire.
For its part, GHF has reported distributing over seven million meals from over 100,000 boxes distributed over nine days. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the boxes contain mostly dry food products that require cooking equipment and community kitchens, which are very limited in the Strip, as fuel remains very short.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced Wednesday that 88 humanitarian aid trucks carrying flour and food entered the Gaza Strip throughout the day.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 1,197 trucks have entered the Strip. Some of the truckloads have been taken to the new aid distribution sites run by the GHF. The contents of many of the trucks that entered Gaza in recent weeks are still awaiting collection on the Gazook side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing.
The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people.
Also on Wednesday, the IDF published a video it said shows a dronezap on two Paleostinian button men who were carrying bombs meant to be used in an attack on troops in the Strip.
The video appeared to show secondary blasts, indicating that the pair were carrying explosives. The strike was carried out during operations of the Nahal Brigade in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, the military said.
On Tuesday evening a reservist was killed and four soldiers were maimed in separate incidents fighting against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. The fighting came as troops continued to advance in Gaza, in a new IDF offensive aimed at capturing 75 percent of the Strip’s territory.
The slain soldier was named as Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas, 27, of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6646th Battalion, from Kabri.
According to an initial IDF probe, a Paleostinian gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on the paratroopers who were operating in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood. The gunman ambushed the troops from an alley and managed to flee following the attack, which seriously maimed another reservist, according to the military.
In a separate incident in the nearby town of Jabalia on Tuesday evening, Hamas used a drone to drop an explosive or a grenade on troops, according to the military. The explosion moderately maimed two soldiers of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and lightly injured a Shin Bet officer.
A day earlier, three troops were killed in Jabalia when they were hit by a roadside kaboom.
Farkas’s death on Tuesday brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 425. The toll includes two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.
Israel on March 18 resumed its attacks against Hamas with a wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, ending a two-month ceasefire. The IDF has since deployed five divisions to the Strip, amounting to tens of thousands of troops, and has been carrying out a wide-scale ground offensive aimed at defeating Hamas’s military wing and ending its civil rule in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] The overnight operation that recovered the bodies of slain hostages Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein was enabled by intelligence obtained during a Shin Bet interrogation of a Palestinian terror operative who was detained in Gaza, an Israeli defense official tells The Times of Israel.
“The intelligence that is obtained in Shin Bet interrogations is valuable and important, and helps the ground operation and missions like the one carried out overnight,” the official says.
The couple had been held by the Mujahideen Brigades, a relatively small terror group in the Strip that was also responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir.
The IDF says the operation was carried out using “precise intelligence” from the IDF’s Hostages Headquarters unit, the Intelligence Directorate, and the Shin Bet.
Haggai, 72, and Weinstein, 70, both US citizens, were on their morning walk around the kibbutz when they were murdered and abducted to Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are now holding 56 hostages, including 55 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023.
They include the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF. Another 20 are believed to be alive, while there are grave concerns for the well-being of three others, Israeli officials have said.
The two, a married couple, were murdered during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, and their deaths were confirmed by the military in December of that year.
Haggai, 72, and Weinstein, 70, were on their morning walk near their home at Kibbutz Nir Oz when they were murdered and abducted to Gaza by Hamas-led terrorists.
Security camera footage from that morning showed the couple leaving the kibbutz.
In a chilling phone call to paramedics that morning, Weinstein described her husband’s head wound and urged the operator to send help, as some of the approximately 5,000 invaders rampaged through southern Israel.
“Parts of his brain are out of his… everything is covered with blood,” she told the operator, confirming that terrorists had shot at the couple. Asked if she was somewhere safe, she responded: “No, [I’m] outside, under a tree, next to the road.”
“They came on the road. There were lots of motorcycles and guns. They shot us. We were lying down and they shot us,” she recalled, clarifying that she, too, was shot in the hand and the head.
Haggai, a native of Kibbutz Ein HaShofet, was a retired chef and jazz musician who, having played music since childhood, served in the IDF orchestra for his military service and then lived in the US, where he took up the saxophone, according to the Haaretz daily.
Upon his return to Israel a number of years later, he met Weinstein, who had come from the US and volunteered at Ein HaShofet. The two of them played in a kibbutz jazz ensemble until they left the kibbutz in the late 1970s. In 1994, they and their four children moved to Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Weinstein, a teacher and New York native who also held Canadian citizenship, continued to write poetry into her retirement, with a particular love for haiku. She also tutored English, edited academic writing, practiced reiki therapy, and taught mindfulness classes, including through puppetry.
The couple’s son Ahl Haggai told the Ynet news site on Thursday he was caught in a swirl of emotions.
“This is a shocking moment,” he said. “I am both relieved and anxious. This isn’t simple, despite it easing things and removing something [weighing] on the heart. There was an uncertainty that has ended.”
Kibbutz Nir Oz also issued a statement announcing its members’ deaths. Hamas terrorists entered all but six of over 200 homes in the small community and either murdered or kidnapped one of every four residents — 117 people out of some 400.
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🔥 BOOMMMM Fire belt over Sajaiya – reports say the target was Hamas’ new leader, Azaddin al-Haddad. This morning he officially took the job. By evening… he officially evaporated. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/GXEhuwk0db
🚨BREAKING 🚨The IDF has eliminated Mahmoud Abu Nar, commander of the Central Gaza Brigade of the Al-Mujahideen Brigades, the organization that kidnapped the Bibas family. pic.twitter.com/1rwTxNSITi
There is no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the strike.
Residents said the IDF escalated airstrikes and tank shelling on parts of Khan Younis, a day after it dropped leaflets warning residents to leave their homes and head west, saying forces would fight Hamas and other terror groups in those areas.
The explosion wounded two soldiers of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit moderately and lightly injured a Shin Bet officer.
In a separate incident yesterday in operations in in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, IDF reservist Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas, 27, was killed by gunfire. A second reservist was seriously wounded.
The slain soldier is named as Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas, 27, of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6646th Battalion, from Kabri.
Another reservist of the battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident, the military adds.
According to an initial IDF probe, Farkas was killed and the other soldier was wounded by gunfire during operations in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood.
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on the forces with an assault rifle, before managing to flee.
[IsraelTimes] Eight civilians from Syria’s Alawite minority were shot dead by “security checkpoint personnel” on Wednesday in the central province of Hama, a war monitor says.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, of unclear funding, says that “security checkpoint personnel carried out a field execution of eight civilians, including three women, and injured five others — all Alawite, travelling in “a civilian passenger bus” in the western Hama countryside.
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[KhaamaPress] Iranian security forces arrested a network of ISIS-linked jacket wallahs planning attacks during the anniversary of Ruhollah Khomeini’s death.
Iranian media have reported the arrest of members of a terrorist and suicide kaboom network linked to ISIS, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
According to Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the group was planning terrorist operations on Iranian soil. The announcement was made on Wednesday, June 4, citing a spokesperson from Iran’s Law Enforcement Command.
Security forces stated that the network intended to carry out sabotage and kabooms during the commemorative events marking Khomeini’s death anniversary. The operation to dismantle the group was described as complex and conducted by Iran’s counter-terrorism units.
The arrests were carried out in a coordinated effort involving law enforcement agencies in Tehran, as well as the provinces of Isfahan, Qom, and Alborz. According to the police spokesperson, 13 members of the group were detained, including the leader, operational commanders, and suicide bombers.
Authorities also seized dangerous equipment such as explosive vests and backpacks from the suspects. Iranian officials did not disclose further details about the identities of the detainees or their exact targets.
This arrest comes amid ongoing Iranian efforts to prevent ISIS attacks, especially during public ceremonies and important national events. Similar foiled plots have been reported in recent years, reflecting Tehran’s heightened security measures against krazed killer threats.
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