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THAT is a HAT(!) but I see no CAT.
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In deference to TW and the other ladies of the Burg, I'll dispense with making an off-color witticism around alternative monikers for felis domesticus in reply to Whiskey Mike.
NEW: 4 Illegal Aliens arrested in a SWAT standoff in Cobb County following gunfire during drug raid that recovered 8.55 kg of methamphetamine and cocaine, firearms.
Jose Vidali Cruz-Azanza opened fire on officers, now charged with aggravated assault on LE. pic.twitter.com/pSTFehbgJd
BREAKING: Two illegals arrested for gang-r<>ping a 7-year-old girl could face the de*th penalty
The father of the victim, Josue David Mendez-Sales, 26, and Pablo Neftaly Cobon-Mendez, 23, were arrested in West Palm Beach and charged with s*xual battery
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Despite Michael Moore’s assurances, the percentage of world saving epidemiologists and Astro physicists among this group of folks seems to be low enough that we are better without the lot of them.
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I suppose burning at the stake is out of the question?
[NYPOST] More than 150 mourners gathered Saturday to remember the mother and her 11-year-old daughter tragically killed in a head-on crash with an allegedly drunk undocumented Democrat driver.
Sobbing and weeping relatives and friends — many of them, donning shirts with images of Maria Pleitez and little Dayanara Cortes' beaming faces — lined up outside the Lakewood Funeral Home in Howell to pay their respects at a somber wake.
At one point, a mourner who'd been crying uncontrollably leaned over the 42-year-old mother's open casket, and repeated the phrases '' Qu fuerte!'' (''How terrible'' in English) and ''Porque?,'' the Spanish word for ''Why?,'' over and over again.
Among those grieving the two devastating deaths was Dayanara's father and her friend, also 11, who was injured in the July 26 crash and is recovering.
Pleitez was driving the two girls to a Wawa to get milkshakes at around 11:20 p.m. in Lakewood when Raul Luna-Perez, 43, slammed his Dodge Durango into the mom's Nissan Sentra, according to local prosecutors.
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It would be interesting to see if Joe’s open border policy spiked drunk driving deaths and incidents child molestation.
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[Garowe] A senior officer with Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) was found dead Thursday night under mysterious circumstances in Mogadishu, intensifying concerns about internal security breaches within the country’s top intelligence body.
Abukar Muhiyaadin Ahmed, 31, who served as the head of the directorate of intelligence for Mogadishu, was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds in the Siigaale neighborhood. According to security sources, Ahmed had been leading a NISA unit on a mission to apprehend a suspected al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... operative when the incident occurred. The suspect reportedly fled before gunfire erupted.
Local residents discovered Ahmed’s body and alerted authorities. Witnesses said he appeared to have been shot several times and bled to death at the scene. Authorities have not yet released an official statement confirming the exact cause of death.
Ahmed was overseeing a high-profile investigation into the March 18 roadside kabooming that targeted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s convoy along the route connecting the presidential palace and Aden Adde International Airport. He was scheduled to brief the president on the investigation’s findings this Saturday.
Following his death, NISA detained several officers who were with Ahmed during the operation. Intelligence sources have raised suspicions that he may have been deliberately targeted due to sensitive information he had uncovered in the course of his investigation.
The incident has reignited long-standing concerns over possible infiltration of NISA by al-Shabaab operatives. In 2021, the disappearance of Ikran Tahlil, a young NISA officer, near the agency’s headquarters stirred national outrage. Her fate remains unknown, and no formal investigation has been made public.
The Somali federal government has yet to comment on Ahmed’s death or its implications for the broader investigation into the liquidation attempt on the president.
IS-Sahel published the documentary entitled 'Lions of the Sahel', focusing on recent attacks in Niger and Mali, including the massive attacks on Tessit, Eknewane and Bani Bangou.
The terrorists show the last moments before the commander of the Eknewane base was killed, he was captured alive and likely questioned before being killed.https://t.co/iPykW2arW2pic.twitter.com/imwCj4Kq5g
As a result Burkinabe Forces seemingly lost a #China-made 🇨🇳 4x4 Norinco CS/VP14 MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicle). pic.twitter.com/LchniXISiu
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
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He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers call for unrestricted aid into Gaza, an Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal from the enclave, and sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel
Tens of thousands of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel demonstrators marched across Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge on Sunday to call for increased aid deliveries to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... and sanctions on Israel.
The march in Australia’s largest city occurred days after a government minister said the country would recognize a Paleostinian state in the future, and as global pressure has mounted on Israel amid reports of deepening starvation in Gaza.
The march was organized by Paleostine Action Group Sydney, which has accused Israel of genocide in its war against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in Gaza, a charge Israel rejects. The group posted on Facebook ahead of the protest that its demands were to remove restrictions on aid into Gaza; for an "Immediate Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal" from the enclave; and for Israel to be subject to sanctions and an arms embargo.
The demonstration was called the "March for Humanity." The Facebook post listing demands did not mention Hamas or the 50 Israeli hostages the terror group is holding in Gaza.
Some of those attending carried pots and pans as symbols of the hunger in the Strip.
"Enough is enough," said Doug, a man in his 60s with a shock of white hair. "When people from all over the world gather together and speak up, then evil can be overcome."
Marchers ranged from the elderly to families with young children. Among them were WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
... Australian journalist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks made the Big Time in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by then Bradley, since Chelsea Manning. After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance. U.S. officials are seeking to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, blaming him for directingpublication of a huge trove of secret documents that disclosed the names of people who provided confidential information to American and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.... and former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr.
Many carried umbrellas amid heavy rain. Some waved Paleostinian flags and chanted "We are all Paleostinians." Members of the crowd also chanted, "Long live the intifada," a reference to the violent mostly peaceful uprisings by the Paleostinians that killed hundreds of Israelis, according to videos from the demonstration. At least one person carried a photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , Iran’s supreme leader.
New South Wales police said up to 90,000 people had attended, far more than expected. Paleostine Action Group Sydney said in a Facebook post that as many as 300,000 people may have marched.
New South Wales police and the state’s premier last week tried to block the march from taking place on the bridge, a city landmark and transport thoroughfare, saying the route could cause safety hazards and transport disruption. The state’s Supreme Court ruled on Saturday that it could go ahead.
Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Peter McKenna said more than a thousand police were deployed and the size of the crowd had led to fears of a crush.
"No one was hurt," he told a presser. "But gee whiz, I wouldn’t like to try and do this every Sunday at that short notice."
Police were also present in Melbourne, where a similar protest march took place.
Diplomatic pressure ramped up on Israel in recent weeks. La Belle France and Canada have said they will recognize a Paleostinian state, and Britannia says it will follow suit unless Israel addresses the humanitarian crisis, reaches a ceasefire and restarts a grinding of the peace processor.
Australia’s center-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he supports a two-state solution and Israel’s denial of aid and killing of civilians "cannot be defended or ignored," but has not recognized Paleostine. Another minister said such recognition would happen in the future.
"It’s a matter of when, not if, Australia recognizes a Paleostinian state... but I don’t want to put a time frame on it," Treasurer Jim Chalmers told Australian public broadcaster ABC last week.
Australia has seen a string of antisemitic attacks since October 7, including some at anti-Israel demonstrations. Australia has probed whether foreign support is behind the attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemns demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian march in Sydney, accusing them of aligning with radical Islam and helping drag the West to the “sidelines of history.”
“Radical protestors at Sydney Harbour Bridge today holding an image of Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader’ — the most dangerous leader of fundamentalist Islam, the world’s largest exporter of terror and a mass executioner,” Sa’ar writes on X, sharing a photo from the protest showing participants holding an image of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Tens of thousands marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge earlier today in a demonstration organized by the Palestine Action Group Sydney. Protesters called for sanctions on Israel, unrestricted humanitarian aid to Gaza and an immediate ceasefire.
A Facebook post for the event — dubbed the “March for Humanity” — did not mention Hamas or the remaining 50 Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
[IsraelTmes] Btissame Chait-Said allegedly posted on Instagram that ‘all Zionists can die in healthcare and I’m happy to help’
A Moslem nurse in the Netherlands is being investigated for threatening on social media to kill Israeli patients.
According to local media reports, Btissame Chait-Said, who works as a home health nurse for the elderly
…in a country that has long allowed euthanasia…
in the Dutch town of Driebergen-Rijsenburg, posted on Instagram in mid-July that "all Zionists can die in healthcare and I’m happy to help."
She also wrote, "You know what I do to Zionists: As a nurse practitioner, I give them an extra injection so they go to heaven."
Shortly afterwards, the posts, and all of Chait-Said’s social media accounts, were deleted, the reports said. A police spokesperson told Dutch paper De Telegraaf that authorities are investigating the incident.
Chait-Said denied making those posts, insisting that someone else broke into her account and wrote them under her name, De Telegraaf said.
"I did not make the statements in question and I completely distance myself from them," Chait-Said reportedly said. "I harbor no hostility toward the Jewish people, nor toward any other people, race, religion, or orientation."
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... the report noted, accounts on Facebook and X under her name, now deleted, have been posting inflammatory comments about Israel’s war with 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... for some time.
In August of last year, for example, Chait-Said wrote that "Islam will always remain and there is nothing you pigs can do about it," the report said. She also wrote about Zionists: "Your time will come. Spare no one."
Chait-Said was questioned by police on Wednesday. An investigation is ongoing.
The case is reminiscent of an incident in Australia earlier this year, when two nurses in a Sydney hospital were suspended from work for threatening on TikTok to kill Israeli patients and saying they would refuse to treat them.
Antisemitic incidents have risen to record levels in the Netherlands since October 7, 2023, when Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... launched its war against Israel.
A record 421 antisemitic incidents were documented in the Netherlands in 2024, marking an 11 percent rise over the previous all-time high, according to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI), a Dutch Jewish watchdog group.
CIDI describes the findings as evidence of "an antisemitism crisis, which requires crisis management measures."
CIDI said Chait-Said must "be dealt with severely" if the charges against her are proven, De Telegraaf said.
Screenshots of photos of the opinionated mother of three and a few of her posts were collected here.
Hamas NYC is attacking police officers. If arrested they’ll be out in six hours. The NYPD is seeing mass resignations. We urge all Zionists to evacuate NYC! pic.twitter.com/tHMVeT3J2B
The chaos erupted around 3:30 p.m. when hundreds of demonstrators that had been marching in Manhattan attempted to storm the transit hub's doors, forcing officials to lock and barricade the iconic building.
The unruly crowd was part of a protest organized by Paleostinian activist group Within Our Lifetime
…allied with groups funded by tech billionaire and CCP tool Neville Singham and the usual incestuous Progressive funding labyrinth…
that started outside City Hall earlier in the afternoon, according to police.
The group, waving Paleostinian flags and chanting, scuffled with NYPD and MTA officers outside the station's Vanderbilt Hall entrance, according to cops and shocking videos on social media.
One video of the melee showed protesters hurling profanities at a female officer before a group of cops tackled an agitator, while others formed a barrier to keep the hostile group from entering the terminal.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Red Crescent Society says 1 worker killed, 3 wounded in airstrike on Khan Younis HQ; Egyptian state media reports rare delivery of diesel fuel to Strip
At least 23 Paleostinian aid seekers were killed by Israeli forces 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... on Sunday, according to hospital officials and witnesses in the Strip, where the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -run health ministry also reported six people had died of starvation over the past 24 hours. Neither toll could be independently verified.
In addition, the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society said on X that one of its staff members had been killed and three others maimed in an Israeli strike on its headquarters in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
The military said Sunday that it was pressing on with its campaign against Hamas, with troops operating under the 179th Reserve Armored Brigade having recently uncovered what it said was a 300-meter (1,000-foot) Hamas tunnel in the south of the enclave.
The IDF said the brigade, with combat engineering forces and the assistance of the Israeli Air Force, destroyed hundreds of other terror infrastructures in the area in the past two months, including booby-trapped buildings, observation, and sniper posts.
Numerous weapons, including rockets and rocket launchers, RPGs, and assault rifles, were also located, the army said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital said Sunday that it had received bodies from multiple distribution sites, including eight from Teina, about three kilometers (1.8 miles) away from a Khan Younis site operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Three Paleostinian eyewitnesses, seeking food in Teina and Morag, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the shootings occurred on the route to the distribution points. They said they saw soldiers opened fire on hungry crowds advancing toward the troops.
Farther north in central Gaza, hospital officials described a similar episode, with Israeli troops opening fire in the morning toward crowds of Paleostinians trying to reach GHF’s fourth and northernmost distribution point.
"Troops were trying to prevent people from advancing. They opened fire and we fled. Some people were shot," said Hamza Matter, one of the aid seekers.
At least five people were killed and 27 maimed at GHF’s site near Netzarim corridor, Awda Hospital said.
Yusef Abed, among the crowds en route to a distribution point in Gaza, said he had come under indiscriminate fire and saw at least three people bleeding on the ground. "I couldn’t stop and help them because of the bullets," he said.
According to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , more than 1,300 Paleostinian aid seekers have been killed in Gaza since late May, including over 800 near sites run by the GHF, whose facilities are protected by American contractors, with IDF troops nearby.
The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots at crowds that get too close to its soldiers but called the UN tallies exaggerated, without providing alternate numbers.
The GHF began operating in May after a nearly three-month aid blockade Israel had imposed on the Strip. The group seeks to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, amid Israeli allegations that the terror group regularly hijacks deliveries under the existing UN-led aid system. The UN and other aid groups have rejected the GHF, accusing it of violating humanitarian principles of neutrality and of putting aid seekers in harm’s way.
The shootings reported near aid sites have come amid mounting international anger as the UN and aid agencies report skyrocketing starvation in Gaza.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, the six people who died of starvation in the past 24 hours brought the total of malnutrition-related deaths in the Strip to 175, including 93 children, since the war in Gaza was sparked by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. The World Health Organization reported 63 malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza in July alone, including 25 of children of whom all but one was under the age of 5.
Israel denies reports of widespread starvation in the Strip and has blamed the United Nations and Hamas of impeding and hijacking aid deliveries, respectively. Last month, in response to the international outcry, Israel vowed to increase the flow of aid, institute 10-hour "humanitarian pauses" in fighting in three Gaza population centers, and facilitate international airdrops of food.
On Sunday, Egyptian state-affiliated news outlet al-Qahera said in an unconfirmed report that two trucks carrying 107 tons of diesel fuel were set to enter Gaza, amid warnings by the Strip’s health ministry that fuel shortages have severely impaired hospital services.
Fuel shipments have been rare since Israel imposed its aid blockade on Gaza on March 2.
The blockade started hours after the collapse of the first phase of Israel’s latest ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas, amid Israel’s refusal to negotiate the second phase, which would have required it to fully withdrawal its forces from the Strip.
Israel resumed hostilities against Hamas on March 18 and launched a renewed offensive in May with the stated goal of seizing 75 percent of the Gaza Strip.
Negotiations for a renewed ceasefire-hostage deal have faltered in recent days, and some of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition partners have reportedly advocated for Israel to take control of the entire territory.
The war began when thousands of Hamas-led snuffies stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Hamas’s health ministry says more than 60,000 people in the Strip have been killed in the fighting so far. The toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Israel says it had killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 snuffies inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 459.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters dress as skeletons, hoist bloodied bundles to symbolize starving children; mother of Palestinian detained in Megiddo prison says he suffers from scabies, lost 10 kilos
Thousands of Paleostinians protested in the West Bank’s major cities Sunday against the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... and in support of Paleostinians held in Israeli prisons.
One of the largest marches took place in Ramallah, the seat of the Paleostinian Authority, located just north of Jerusalem, with hundreds gathering at the main square, waving Paleostinian flags.
Many protesters carried photos of Paleostinians killed or imprisoned by Israel, as well as photos depicting the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, where UN-backed experts have said famine is unfolding.
"My son is in Megiddo prison and he suffers from many things, such as the lack of medicine and the lack of food," Rula Ghanem, a Paleostinian academic and writer who took part in the march, told AFP, referring to an Israeli maximum security facility that has been accused of abusing inmates.
She told AFP that her son had lost 10 kilograms (22 pounds) and suffered from scabies in jail.
The number of Paleostinians nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Israel has skyrocketed since the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza. Israel says it has detained some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank in that time, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the PA’s Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, some of those detained were arrested for posting political statements on social media.
The commission’s front man Thaer Shriteh told AFP: "The international community is a partner in all this suffering, as long as it does not intervene quickly to save the Paleostinian people and save the prisoners inside the prisons and detention centers."
One group of protesters at the Ramallah demonstration dressed as skeletons and carried dolls around to symbolize the Gaza war’s dire effect on children, who are most at risk of malnutrition.
"We hope that our stand today will have an impact in supporting our people in Gaza and the hungry children in Gaza," said 39-year-old Tagreed Ziada, one of the protesters at the Ramallah march.
Israel has denied reports of widespread starvation in Gaza and has accused Hamas of hijacking aid deliveries.
Protests were also held Sunday in other major Paleostinian cities such as Nablus in the north and Hebron in the south, with many employees of the Paleostinian Authority receiving a day off to attend the demonstrations.
While there have been somewhat regular demonstrations against the war in Gaza, they are rarely coordinated across various cities in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] The US State Department confirms that an American citizen died this week in the West Bank, with family and Palestinian officials attributing his death to arson by Israeli settlers.
The Palestinian Authority and witnesses reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers had set fire to homes and cars in the West Bank village of Silwad.
Khamis Ayyad, 41, died from smoke inhalation due to the fires, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Speaking Friday at a press conference in Chicago, Ayyad’s family said he had moved to the West Bank several years ago with his wife and children, but continued to work for an American company.
A spokesperson for the State Department confirms that a US citizen had been killed but does not name Ayyad. The spokesperson adds that “we condemn criminal violence by any party in the West Bank.”
The IDF tells AFP that “several suspects… set fire to property and vehicles in the Silwad area,” but forces dispatched to the scene were unable to identify them. It adds that Israeli police had launched an investigation.
Israeli authorities requested that the Palestinian Authority provide them with the findings of the autopsy carried out on Ayyad.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that a drone fired toward Israel by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... was shot down by the military.
The drone set off sirens in Bnei Netzarim, a town near 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... -Egypt border.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen take responsibility for this afternoon’s attempted drone attack on Israel.
In a statement, the Houthis claim to have launched three drones at Israel, targeting “Zionist enemy military targets” in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Haifa.
According to the IDF, only one drone reached Israel, and it was shot down by the Israeli Air Force over the Egyptian border, near the community of Bnei Netzarim, where sirens had sounded.
The other two drones likely fell short before reaching the country.
[IsraelTimes] Numerous weapons captured during operation in Hader, army says; over 300 ‘routine operations’ conducted in southern Syria in recent months
Israeli soldiers questioned several suspected arms dealers and seized weapons during an overnight raid in southern Syria, the military said Sunday morning.
Troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade and field interrogators of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 operated in the Druze town of Hader, just across the border.
The Israel Defense Forces said information gathered during the questioning of suspected arms dealers, along with prior intelligence, led the troops to four sites in the area where weapons were being stored.
The soldiers raided the sites simultaneously and seized "numerous weapons that the suspects had been trafficking," the army said.
Israel has been involved militarily in Syria since the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... regime in December 2024. In the immediate aftermath, Israel occupied Syria’s demilitarized zone and destroyed most of the Assad military’s facilities in a widespread bombing campaign.
Since the fall of the Assad regime, the IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria, mostly within the UN-patrolled buffer zone.
Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of "hostile forces."
In recent months, the IDF said ground troops had conducted over 300 "routine operations" in southern Syria, including arresting suspected terror operatives, preventing "enemy entrenchment," and thwarting arms smuggling to 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?... The military has also been operating a medical facility next to Hader to treat the Druze residents of the town and other Syrians. The "forward mobile triage" site was established in May. It was closed due to the war 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... in June, as the forces operating it were diverted to other tasks, and reopened last month.
The military has also been constructing a barrier, dubbed "New East," along the Israeli-Syrian border, which resembles a trench to prevent the crossing of vehicles.
The Druzes are seemingly using a BTR-70 Armored Carrier with KPVT heavy machine gun and a Pickup Truck armed with a NSVT-12.7 heavy machine gun. pic.twitter.com/3j02aXt82R
#Syria 🇸🇾: #Druze militias posing with captured "General Security Service" (former #HTS) vehicles in Tal Hadid, west of #Sweida (#Suwayda).
Some of the Druze fighters can be seen with a #Hungary-made 🇭🇺 AK-63D rifle, Soviet AKS-74U carbine and PG-7VM Anti-Tank rocket. pic.twitter.com/pWjhSu3HH5
Renewed sectarian festivities in southern Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida province killed at least two people on Sunday, according to reports, in the first deadly incident since a ceasefire last month.
According to the state-run Ekhbariya TV, gangs attacked personnel from Syria’s internal security forces in Sweida, killing one member and wounding others, and fired shells at several villages in the violence-hit southern province.
The report cited a security source as saying the gangs had violated the ceasefire agreed on in the predominantly Druze region, where factional bloodshed killed hundreds of people last month.
"A member of the General Security forces was killed and seven others were maimed... as festivities erupted with local factions around Tal Hadid in the western Sweida countryside," said the the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which also reported the death of a "local fighter."
Tal Hadid is a "key control point" at a relatively high altitude, according to the monitor, allowing whoever controls it to overlook neighboring areas.
Fighting also erupted around the city of Thaala, the Observatory said, "following bombardment of the area with shells and heavy weapons launched from areas under the control of government forces, while the sound of explosions and gunfire was heard in various parts of Sweida city."
According to the monitor and Sweida locals, Damascus has been imposing a siege on the province, with the Observatory saying the government wants to "force inhabitants to comply."
The road linking Sweida to Damascus has been cut off since July 20, after the province witnessed deadly festivities between Druze fighters and Sunni Bedouins in July that drew the intervention of government forces in the area.
A ceasefire put an end to the week of bloodshed — which killed 1,400 people, according to the Observatory — but the situation remained tense, flaring into violence again on Sunday.
The Syrian government accuses Druze groups of blocking the main road, but the Observatory said gangs allied with the government took control of the area and have been blocking travel.
The government said it would investigate the July violence in the province, and a committee in charge of the inquiry held its first meeting on Saturday.
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