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The Most Explosive Story You Haven't Heard:
Netanyahu, Trump, and the Fight Behind the Front Lines
Sunday 07/13/2025

JeanetteMacDonald
Home Front: WoT
Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik, a radical Islamist Hamas supporter, was suspended from the City University of New York (CUNY) for spreading antisemitism
-Lurid Crime Tales-
3 illegal aliens just arrested in McClain Oklahoma for cutting and stealing 3,600 feet of copper coaxial lines
Home Front: WoT
Update on Thursday%u2019s operation
at the marijuana facility in California
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Sheikh Naim Qassem General Secretary of Hezbollah affirming that the resistance has no surrender choice, it's either victory or martyrdom
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian and Israeli officials will meet
in Baku, according to a diplomatic source in Damascus
Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo: Ongoing clashes between M23 rebels and local defense groups in Bwito, Rutshuru continue to fuel a growing humanitarian crisis
Americans have claimed to have
seen UFOs more than 2,000 times in six months


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-Lurid Crime Tales-
3 illegal aliens just arrested in McClain Oklahoma for cutting and stealing 3,600 feet of copper coaxial lines
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Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2025 2025-07-13 01:34 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


ICE agents arrested multiple illegals with horrifying child sexual assault convictions
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…exposing the true cost of sanctuary policies that let these monsters roam free.

Under Governor Tim Walz’s leadership, they operated with “impunity,” terrorizing American children while he smeared ICE as the Gestapo instead of thanking them.

The government has the power to stop child predators, but often chooses NOT TO.

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Africa Horn
Sudan: Army reportedly seized control of several areas in South Kordofan and announced the killing of numerous SPLM-N militants.
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Somali army steps up ground and air operations as boats linked to Al-Shabaab seized
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army (SNA) has intensified ground and aerial operations across Hirshabelle State in recent days, particularly in the regions of Lower Shabelle, Middle Shabelle, and Hiiraan, military officials said on Friday.

In the latest developments, army units stationed in parts of Lower Shabelle reported the seizure of two small boats allegedly used by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
murderous Moslem group. The boats were intercepted along the Shabelle River, where troops say snuffies have been using water transport to move fighters and weapons between riverbank villages.

"Al-Shabaab has increasingly turned to small boats to avoid detection as they move across riverine areas," a senior military officer told Radio Shabelle on condition of anonymity. "These boats are not only used for logistics but also for tactical movement."

Local residents, however, often rely on such boats for transporting food and essential goods, raising concerns about the impact of military operations on civilian life.

The Somali military, backed by international partners, has recently scaled up efforts to disrupt al-Shabaab’s mobility and supply routes, particularly in areas where the snuffies have historically maintained strongholds.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
international allies have ramped up Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s targeting al-Shabaab positions in regions recently liberated from the group, as well as those still under murderous Moslem control in parts of Shabelle and Hiiraan.

The joint offensives come amid a broader national campaign declared by the federal government to dismantle al-Shabaab’s operational networks in 2025.
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Infiltration in Somalia’s military training academy?
[Garowe] On Wednesday, a suicide bomber targeted Jaalle Siyaad military training school, killing four soldiers after striking the vicinity of the facility within Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, leading to questions about the safety of these vital installations.

Among the dead were junior officers attached to the 14 October Brigade, which was created in commemoration of the October 14th, 2017, attack at Mogadishu’s K-5 junction, where over 600 people were killed.

Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants claimed the attack, reporting that several people were killed and others injured. The group frequently targets military installations, including training schools and bases, as they advance their agenda.

But there are questions whether the al-Shabaab has infiltrated the military, given frequent attacks facing this particular facility, which trains thousands of junior officers in the country. For the last two years, it has borne the brunt of the attacks.

It’s the same brigade that an al-Shabaab suicide bomber targeted two years ago this month, killing 25 soldiers and injuring more than 70 others. The government arrested three soldiers in connection with the attack, but since then, no reports have been tabled publicly about their prosecution.

At that time, there were reports that the raid was instigated by insiders, leading to the death of 25 people. It is not clear why the Ministry of Defence and the army leadership have yet to publish the inquiry into the incident.

In April 2025, Colonel Nur Farey, the Commander of the 14th October Brigade, was killed by a man wearing a military uniform in the Addow Dibille area near Afgoye town, sources reported at that time.

Colonel Nur Farey was addressing soldiers when a man shouting a word repeatedly approached and fired shots, fatally injuring him. An Investigation is underway to determine if the man was a Shabaab infiltrator. Farey was leading mobilisations aimed at recapturing Awdhegle town from al-Shabaab, an official said

Reports later confirmed that the attacker was an Al-Shabaab infiltrator who had been training with the military. This particular incident triggered outcry with security experts warning that Al-Shabaab fighters may have made a massive infiltration in the security sector.
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Somalia: Heavy airstrike hits Buq Aqable, 90 km from Baladweyne in Hiraan region
[X]
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Africa North
Libya: Local sources report a large convoy of armed vehicles from Misrata is heading toward the capital, Tripoli
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Africa Subsaharan
ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
[IsraelTimes] Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group killed 66 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, local officials say.

Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....
(ADF), which has ties to ISIS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda.

The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an end to its ongoing war with M23, a separate rebel group which is backed by Rwanda, another of Congo’s neighbors.

The ADF is a Ugandan Islamist group that operates on both sides of the mostly non-existent border.

All the victims, including women, were killed with machetes, says the president of a local civil society, Marcel Paluku. The number of people taken hostage is unknown.

The attack is suspected to be in response to an escalating bombing campaign by joint Congolese and Ugandan forces that started on Sunday.
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DR Congo: Ongoing clashes between M23 rebels and local defense groups in Bwito, Rutshuru continue to fuel a growing humanitarian crisis
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#1  I wonder how long all these "rebellions" would last without "humanitarian interventions"?
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Uganda: South Sudanese refugees have attacked Sudanese refugees for two consecutive days in Kiryandongo settlement
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#1  South Sudanese refugees have attacked Sudanese refugees

I'm at loss for words.
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Britain
UK cops arrest Palestine Action supporters demonstrating against terror proscription
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel group says more than 40 arrested during rallies to protest ban, which bars expressions of support for outlawed organizations

Police in London arrested dozens of protesters on a second successive Saturday for supporting Paleostine Action, campaigners said, a week after the UK government banned the activist group under anti-terror laws.

Campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had announced it would hold rallies Saturday in several UK cities "to defy" the ban, criticized the police response, saying law enforcement had arrested more than 40 people in the British capital.

"The Metropolitan Police were out in force again today, arresting more than 40 people in Parliament Square for holding signs opposed to genocide and supporting Paleostine Action," a spokesperson told AFP.

"Who do the police think they are serving in this?" the spokesperson added, calling the ban "Orwellian."

Footage showed police moving in on a small group of protesters displaying signs supporting Paleostine Action who had gathered at the steps of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square.

Those detained did not appear to put up any resistance.

The Met confirmed on X that its officers were "in the process of making arrests" after "responding to a protest in support of Paleostine Action."

Britannia’s Press Association (PA) news agency reported that an officer at the scene stated that 46 people were tossed into the calaboose for offenses mainly related to a section of the Terrorism Act.

The police’s actions come a week after the arrest of 29 people, including a priest and several health professionals, for offenses under the same law.

Since the ban came into effect on July 5, police have warned that expressing support for Paleostine Action is now a crime.

"It is a criminal offense to invite or express support for a proscribed organization," read a statement posted on X by the Met ahead of Saturday’s planned protests.

"As we saw last week, those who do breach the law will face action."

Paleostine Action’s proscription was approved by parliament in the first days of July, and a last-ditch High Court challenge failed to stop it from becoming law.

The government announced plans for the ban under the Terrorism Act days after the group’s activists claimed to be behind a break-in at an air force base in southern England. The group said it sprayed two aircraft with red paint, causing an estimated £7 million ($9.55 million) in damage. Four people charged in the incident remain in jug.

Paleostine Action has condemned the proscription, which makes it a criminal offense to belong to or support the group, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, as an attack on free speech.
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Fifth Column
The College-Jew hate nexus
Acting Columbia U. president apologizes for calling to remove Jewish board member after Oct. 7, replace with someone from Middle East
[IsraelTimes] Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman apologizes for calling to remove a Jewish university board member amid campus turmoil following the October 2023 invasion of Israel.

The Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce exposed texts from Shipman yesterday.
Hot Air points out that Columbia’s accreditation is at risk because of this. Separately, last week the university system was hacked, with the hacker announcing he(?) was looking for evidence that the school was using race to determine admissions. And finally — and this is just a schadenfreude item — Columbia will pay out about $9 million to settle a lawsuit after they were caught inflating data they submitted to the US News & World Report “Best Colleges” list to move up from #10 to #2. The recheck dropped them down to #18.


Mr. Sussman is now lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against MIT. Commentary from Hot Air here.

University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments
University head Michael Drake says financial decisions by campus bodies must be grounded in ‘sound business practices,’ which boycotts based on nationality violate.

New York’s Barnard College settles antisemitism lawsuit filed by Jewish students
Barnard College in New York City, an affiliate of Columbia University, agreed to take measures to combat antisemitism in a lawsuit settlement with Jewish students, a law firm representing the students said on Monday.

The US lawsuit was filed last year against the trustees of Columbia and Barnard in the federal Southern District court of New York. It argued that Columbia and Barnard failed to protect Israeli and Jewish students and enforce university policies against protesters as anti-Israel activists riled the campuses after the October 2023 Hamas invasion and onslaught.

The plaintiffs claimed that the harassment of Jews violated the federal Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination at federally funded institutions. The law is widely used by pro-Israel advocates against universities that receive federal funding, like Columbia and Barnard.

Barnard is a women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia. The two schools operate separately, but are deeply intertwined and located next to each other in Manhattan. The anti-Israel student activist group leading the protests, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is active on both campuses. Most of the student plaintiffs were students at Columbia.

The lawsuit said students had been harassed with language like “Fuck the Jews” and were laughed at by professors while counter-protesting on campus. Some of the students suffered “immense stress” due to their treatment that interfered with their studies. Some dropped classes or attended remotely, and others avoided classes taught by professors active in anti-Israel protests.

The student plaintiffs were backed by the advocacy groups Students Against Antisemitism and the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, and represented by the Kasowitz LLP law firm.

Israeli postdoc sues Stanford for discrimination; university denies it
Researcher says lab tampered with his findings, falsely accused him of sexual harassment; Stanford says investigation found claims ‘unsubstantiated’. The lawsuit, filed in a federal California court, said a lab at Stanford had falsely accused Dr. Shay Laps of sexual harassment, tampered with his research, and forced him out of his position, due to his Israeli and Jewish identity. The university said the charges had been investigated and were unfounded.

Laps enrolled at Stanford as a post-doctoral student in the spring of 2024 to work on a diabetes treatment. When he arrived, a lab staffer connected to anti-Israel campus activists told Laps not to speak with her in person, refused him a seat with other colleagues at lunch, and told friends to ostracize him in common areas. Laps was the only Israeli in the lab and the staffer treated her other colleagues respectfully. When another researcher asked Laps where he was from, and Laps said he was from Israel, the other researcher turned his back and never spoke to him again, the lawsuit said.

Part of the staffer’s role was to order research materials for Laps, but she was hostile or noncooperative, hampering Laps’s work. The staffer later tampered with Laps’s research results by introducing insulin to compounds he was testing for diabetes treatments, and later asked him to destroy the irregular samples, potentially setting him up for allegations of fraud, the lawsuit alleged. The leader of the lab later said the issues with the staffer were minor errors, although the alleged tampering was not investigated, the lawsuit said.

Laps approached his lab leader about the problems, who told Laps he was under investigation for sexual harassment by the university’s Title IX office, that his research appointment could be ended, warned he could lose his visa, and encouraged him to “resign quietly.” Laps contacted the Title IX office, which told him there was no investigation and that he was in good standing.

The lawsuit said that members of the lab knew Laps was Jewish and Israeli, that all other members were not subjected to hostile treatment, and that the staffer giving him problems was part of an anti-Israel activist social circle. The issues also took place within a broader campus context of anti-Israel activism and antisemitism. The lawsuit did not include instances of antisemitic or anti-Israel rhetoric directed at Laps, though.

Laps made formal complaints, saying he was being discriminated against. The university probe said that Laps was not “discriminated against because he was Jewish or Israeli,” although the lawsuit said the investigation was thin.

Laps was eventually removed from the lab, had a research grant revoked, and was forced to leave the country due to visa issues, causing severe damage to his career and reputation, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit argued that the hostility toward Laps was part of a broader trend of antisemitism and discrimination against Israelis on the campus. A May 2024 internal report found that such discrimination was widespread and charged the university with a “failure to respond to the rising wave of antisemitism.” The lawsuit said Laps was in contact with other Israelis on campus who reported similar treatment.

The lawsuit seeks damages, including unpaid wages, a declaration that the lab defamed Laps, and an injunction preventing Stanford from discriminating against Jews or Israelis, among other measures.

Laps was backed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit that uses legal means to advance Jewish civil rights. The center and other Jewish groups have regularly filed lawsuits against universities and other entities for alleged discrimination.

Pro-Palestinian activists spray paint UW regents’ homes, accuse them of ‘genocide’
[CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the homes of at least four Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members Friday, accusing them of “genocide.”

At two of the homes, the vandals spray-painted messages reading “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW blood on your hands” on the driveways, Madison police Sgt. Matthew Baker said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Baker also said the protesters splattered artificial blood on some of the properties and posted letters with a set of demands on the doors.

Further, they used air horns and left them on the properties. A neighbor to one of the regents was awoken at 3:40 a.m. by an air horn.

Ring camera footage from one home showed six people wearing all black arriving on bicycles. Police are analyzing the footage to determine where the protesters came from.

“They were probably masked and hiding their identities. But oftentimes we can trace that video back to a meetup location or a gas station, even where they would buy the spray paint or something,” Baker said.

And for the high school contingent:
Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob of Classmates Pounded on Door: Lawsuit
[FreeBeacon] Seattle Public Schools likely allowed footage of the incident to be deleted, plaintiff's lawyers say

Elite private DC-area school expels siblings after parents report antisemitic bullying — lawsuit
At Nysmith School for the Gifted, an hour from US capital, students allegedly called Jews ‘baby killers,’ said they deserve to die over Gaza, and cast Hitler as a ‘strong leader’, school told parents their kids needed to toughen up before kicking them out.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Dillon PLLC said Tuesday they had filed a complaint against the school, saying the decision violates the Virginia Human Rights Act.

Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Moves to Cut Ties with the ADL over Group’s Defense of Israel
[NationalReview] The National Education Association’s policymaking body voted this week to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the antisemitism watchdog’s defense of Israel.

The 7,000-member policymaking committee approved New Business Item 39, which says the nation’s largest labor union in the U.S. “will not use, endorse or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.”

The committee explained its decision by saying, “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
The New Business Item must receive final approval from the NEA executive committee. If passed, the measure would end a nearly 40-year relationship between the ADL and U.S. schools that has involved curriculum, programming and teacher training.

“With antisemitism at record high levels, it is profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students,” an ADL spokesperson told National Review.

“We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,” the spokesperson added. “It is our understanding there’s an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process. We will continue to call out this antisemitism and prioritize our Jewish students and educators.”

Union delegates who spoke on the Assembly floor “rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term ‘antisemitism’ to punish critics of Israel, and its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety and paint calls for Palestinian rights as ‘hate speech,’” according to Mondoweiss.

“These are educators who believe in antiracist and social justice unionism. They’re beginning to understand Palestine in that context. They’re intolerant of the justification of violence,” one NEA member said, according to the report.


'Quite Shocking to Us': Local Parents Fighting 'Cesspool' of Anti-Semitism in Philly Schools Say Josh Shapiro's Office Stopped Meeting With Them
[FreeBeacon] Philadelphia's public school system, according to documents provided to the Free Beacon, teaches identity politics and hosts radical pro-Hamas employees

The Philadelphia school district settled a federal discrimination case with the Department of Education last year after students allegedly taunted their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti on doors, and threats to "kill the Jews."



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#1  Boycotting Israel is illegal in many jurisdictions.
Fines and jail time for them all.
No room for antisemitism in this country.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/13/2025 4:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine if the Supreme Court were to reverse Griggs v Duke Power and utterly remove the basis for affirmative action legally across the nation.

Imagine if this destroyed the artificial price and valuation of a degree, and college credentials were no longer the Willie Wonka golden tickets to enter much of the economy that they have become in the last 50 years.

Would any of this nonsense even be happening?

The current system of affirmative action/DEI enables - perhaps guarantees - that this sort of foolishness will occur. Not just between Jews + Christians vs Islam + atheists, but all such divisions, the biggest one being men vs women.

That system needs to end.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/13/2025 6:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik, a radical Islamist Hamas supporter, was suspended from the City University of New York (CUNY) for spreading antisemitism
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#1  Suspended for how long?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/13/2025 2:53 Comments || Top||


Update on Thursday’s operation at the marijuana facility in California
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes on approximately 35 Hamas targets in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza
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Two Palestinians, including US citizen, killed by settlers in West Bank attack — PA
[IsraelTimes] No immediate reports of arrests after incident in Sinjil; Palestinian Authority health ministry says the Palestinian-American dual national ‘died after being severely beaten’

Two Paleostinians were killed by Israeli settlers during an attack in the West Bank on Friday, according to the Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry, in an incident the military said was under investigation.

A front man for the PA’s health ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told AFP that 23-year-old Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat "died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon." Paleostinian media said Musalat was a dual Paleostinian-American citizen.

The PA’s health ministry later said a second man, 23-year-old Mohammad Shalabi, was fatally shot by settlers. Both Shulabi and Musalat were identified as residents of the nearby town of al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya.

Paleostinian media reported another 10 people were maimed.

The IDF said it was aware of reports that Paleostinians had been killed and maimed, adding that the matter was being probed by police and the Shin Bet.

The military said the incident began after Paleostinians hurled stones at Israelis near Sinjil, lightly injuring two civilians.

The ensuing "violent mostly peaceful confrontation... included vandalism of Paleostinian property, arson, physical festivities and rock hurling," the IDF said.

Upon receiving reports of violence, the IDF said, troops and coppers were dispatched to the scene to "disperse the clash," during which forces used riot dispersal means. There have been no arrests yet.

Asked for comment, the US State Department said it was "aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank."

"We won’t comment further out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones," said a State Department spokesperson.

According to Paleostinian accounts, settlers were the ones who instigated the clash when Paleostinians tried to protest the establishment of a new illegal outpost adjacent to Sinjil, one of dozens that have mushroomed across the West Bank with little to no enforcement by Israeli authorities.

A group of Paleostinians had been trying to reach the hamlet of Khirbet al-Tal to protest the outpost built on the village’s land, which is located in Area B of the West Bank, where no settlements are supposed to exist.

But dozens of settlers blocked Paleostinians from trying to reach Khirbet al-Tal and began attacking them, the PA’s official WAFA news site said.

Footage posted on social media shows several masked settlers arriving in a vehicle armed with sticks. Another clip shows masked settlers hurling stones at Paleostinians.

According to Paleostinian media, settlers smashed the windows of a Paleostinian ambulance that had arrived at the scene to evacuate maimed Paleostinians.

AFP footage from after the attack showed the body of Musalat, who the PA said had been beaten to death, being carried through the streets draped in a Paleostinian flag and flanked by around a hundred mourners.

"The young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away," said Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from Musalat’s hometown of al-Mazraa al-Sharqiya. "When we finally managed to reach him, he was taking his last breath."

Dozens of Paleostinians and settlers also clashed in Sinjil last week, as Paleostinians were set to march there in protest of settler attacks on nearby farmland had been due to take place. Settlers accused Paleostinians, including a senior PA official, of vandalizing an outpost.

Israel, which controls the West Bank, recently erected a high fence cutting off parts of Sinjil from Road 60, which runs through the territory from north to south.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
footage from elsewhere in the West Bank on Friday purported to show Israeli troops blocking PA municipal workers from reaching a central West Bank water pipeline that settlers had allegedly dismantled to prevent water from reaching seven Paleostinian villages in the area.

While the troops in the video tell the Paleostinian workers that they may not proceed, bulldozers are seen operating freely, clearing ground for Israeli settlement expansion at a nearby hilltop.

The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Violence in the West Bank has spiked following the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
onslaught of October 7, 2023. Since then, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the territory, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the PA health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or snuffies carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 53 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
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Several IDF troops hurt in Gaza fighting as Palestinians reported killed at aid site
[IsraelTimes] Army reports the injured soldiers were moderately and lightly wounded in separate incidents; says unaware of any casualties near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution hubs

The military announced that two soldiers were moderately hurt on Saturday in separate incidents during fighting 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...
, as fresh deaths were reported among Paleostinians at an aid distribution site.

One of the soldiers was hurt in the northern part of the coastal enclave, while the other was hurt in the southern part. In the latter incident, two other soldiers were lightly injured.

All four were taken to hospitals, and their families were notified.

The injuries came as the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that over 250 terror targets in Gaza were hit in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s since Thursday. A fresh wave of airstrikes Saturday evening hit over 35 targets in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the military said.

The IDF said the targets included operatives, booby-trapped buildings, weapon depots, anti-tank launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels, and other terror infrastructure.

At least 143 Paleostinians were killed in Gaza since Wednesday, according to statistics published by the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-run health ministry on Friday night.

The strikes came as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continued to operate across Gaza.

In a statement on the Beit Hanoun strikes, which could be seen from across the border in Israel, the military said dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets hit some 35 Hamas targets in the area.

The targets included Hamas tunnels in the area, the IDF said.

Earlier, the military said troops of the 98th Division located Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
observation posts and caches of bombs in Gaza City’s Shejaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods.

Numerous operatives were killed elsewhere by the troops, including by calling in airstrikes, the IDF added.

MORE DEATHS REPORTED AT AID SITES
Paleostinian reports, meanwhile, said that aid seekers were rubbed out and injured Saturday around the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facility in northwest Rafah, with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoting hospital officials and witnesses as saying that at least 24 people were killed.
Hamas has been getting busy with their guns, as they do every day that the people they own dare to get help from a group that doesn’t let them skim off the top, the bottom, and both sides..
The IDF pushed back on the Paleostinian reports, saying the military was unaware of any casualties from troops’ gunfire near GHF distribution sites on Saturday.

A military official did say that several suspects were spotted approaching forces in Rafah on Saturday, hundreds of meters from the aid site, and that "troops acted to prevent the suspects from approaching and fired warning shots. No injuries from the gunfire are known."

The IDF, in its statement, said it "continues to operate in order to enable the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Strip, and to allow passage to the distribution areas via organized and secured routes."

The statement added that the IDF is continuing to investigate the claims of injuries on Saturday near the aid site.

GHF, an Israeli-backed US organization that seeks to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, has faced harsh criticism from the UN and other aid organizations, which charge that it fails to meet the needs of Gaza’s population. Gazooks have reported near-daily incidents in which groups trying to reach GHF facilities are shot at by Israeli forces, leading to mass casualties.

Israel, which accuses Hamas of hoarding aid, has also accused the terror group of attacking Gazook aid seekers near GHF sites and falsifying corpse counts. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
Israel has also acknowledged that "several" Paleostinian civilians have been killed near GHF aid distribution sites.

GHF commenced operations in May as Israel lifted a nearly three-month aid blockade on Gaza, amid a renewed offensive there that seeks to take over 75% of the Strip.

On Friday, the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
said nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the GHF’s distribution sites.
Numbers supplied by Hamas are vary from exaggerated to greatly exaggerated, coupled with flat-out lies.
GHF, which denies that deadly incidents have occurred at its sites, told Rooters the UN figures were "false and misleading."

The IDF said Friday that it had issued instructions to troops in the field "following lessons learned" after reports of deadly incidents at GHF distribution facilities.

SWIMMING RESTRICTIONS
The IDF on Saturday also reiterated a restriction on Paleostinians, in place since the beginning of the war, forbidding them from entering the sea along the entire coast of the Gaza Strip. The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, reminded residents in a post on X that "security restrictions have been imposed in the maritime area adjacent to the Strip, and entry into the sea is prohibited."

He added, "The IDF will respond to any violation of these restrictions. We urge fishermen, swimmers, and divers to refrain from entering the sea. Entering the sea along the Strip exposes you to danger."

Nevertheless, the IDF has not enforced the restriction against Paleostinians seeking to cool off in the waters on the beach, but only those heading out deeper into the sea.

The vast majority of the Paleostinian population in Gaza is concentrated in areas on the coast, with tent camps set up on the beaches.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel says Nmairiyeh strike killed man who smuggled arms to Lebanon, W. Bank
[AnNahar] An Israeli air strike in southern 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....
on Friday killed one person, the Lebanese health ministry reported, with Israel saying it had targeted a man accused of helping smuggle weapons from Iran.

The attack was the latest in Lebanon despite a months-long ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah there.

The Israeli army said it killed Mohammad Shoaib, whom it accused of having aided in the smuggling of weapons to Lebanon and the occupied West Bank.

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Intense fighting has erupted between the Syrian Army and the SDF in the rural areas of Deir ez-Zor
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian sustained a leg injury during an Israeli strike on an SNSC meeting on June 16, per Fars News
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked and eliminated a terrorist from the anti-tank unit of Hezbollah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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