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Pete Hegseth hit by deeply embarrassing allegations as leaked letter calling for his removal rips through the Pentagon
Thursday 07/24/2025

Edyta Zajac
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man accused of assaulting federal
officers arrested at San Ysidro Port of Entry
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Dawn of the Tribes': 50,000 Armed Men Could Reshape Syria
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Knesset Backs West Bank Annexation
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
FSB detains foreigner preparing terrorist attack in Kuban
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas submitted a response to mediators yesterday, but mediators refused to forward it to Israel, calling it ''not serious.''
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah tells Speaker Nabih Berri it
won't disarm even if Israel leaves southern Lebanon
Horrifying moment [Paki] woman is executed over her choice of husband before the groom is also shot dead in double honour killing that has shocked Pakistan


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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man accused of assaulting federal officers arrested at San Ysidro Port of Entry
Yep, the asshole in the motorcycle helmet throwing shit in Paramount, CA
[10News] A man accused of assaulting federal officers during immigration protests in Los Angeles County has been taken into custody after surrendering at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office announced the arrest of 39-year-old Elpidio Reyna, who faces a felony charge of assault on a federal officer.

The alleged assault occurred on June 7 in Paramount, Los Angeles County, during protests against immigration raids where demonstrators clashed with federal agents.

Reyna is accused of being the person in a now-viral video, seen in a motorcycle helmet, who appeared to throw objects at marked and unmarked federal vehicles. The FBI says those projectiles were concrete blocks.

Reyna had been on the run for over a month, with authorities saying he fled to Mexico.

Just two days after the alleged assault back in June, the FBI released a wanted poster featuring Reyna's license picture and images from the Paramount incident, warning that he should be considered armed and dangerous.

This arrest comes as the Department of Homeland Security reports ICE officials are facing an 830% increase in assaults since January compared to the same time last year.

According to the Department of Justice, assault on a federal officer can include physically attacking, refusing to comply, or engaging in conduct that obstructs or threatens an officer as they perform their duties.

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Africa Horn
Sudan: It is claimed by SAF that RSF's top field commander, Al Taj Yusuf Fuljang, was killed
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria: Army says it arrested 199 suspects and neutralised several terrorists
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Several out of 200 … that’s like what, 2% actually guilty?

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DR Congo: Heavy clashes reported between AFC/M23 rebels and local militias along the Kazaroho–Kahunga
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
FSB detains foreigner preparing terrorist attack in Kuban
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On July 23, the Federal Security Service published footage of the detention of a foreign citizen who was planning an explosion at an oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai.



The man was detained in a dormitory room and taken in for questioning.

“I work at an oil refinery,” he said.

The detainee stated that he was planning to start an arson using the Molotov cocktails found on him.

The video shows two bottles of Molotov cocktails.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the detainee was planning to set fire to an oil refinery facility in Krasnodar Krai. On July 23, the FSB reported that he was a native of Central Asia. The foreigner made an incendiary mixture and wanted to use it to start a fire in a dormitory building. His handler demanded that he film what he had done and then post the footage online.

After completing this task, he was going to join the ranks of an Islamist organization in Afghanistan.
ISIS-K? Al Qaeda? One of the dozens of foreign jihadi groups who settled there at the invitation of the Talibs? So many possibilities…
FSB officers prevented the terrorist attack, and a criminal case was opened against the foreigner for participating in the activities of a terrorist organization. He was taken into custody by a court decision.


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Europe
Former US embassy guard in Norway accused of spying for Russia, Iran due to Gaza war
[IsraelTimes] The Norwegian man is accused of handing over details about the embassy’s diplomats, its floor plans and security routines; he denies criminal wrongdoing

A former security guard at the US Embassy in Norway has been indicted by prosecutors there on suspicion of espionage after he allegedly spied for Russia and Iran, state broadcaster NRK said Wednesday.

The broadcaster reported that the United States’ ties to Israel and 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...
prompted the man to contact the two countries. 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is a chief regional adversary of Israel, and fought a war with it last month, while Russia is a rival of the US.

The Norwegian man, whose name has not been made public, was arrested last November on suspicion of having damaged national security. He is accused of handing over details about the embassy’s diplomats, its floor plans and security routines, among other things, NRK reported.

He faces up to 21 years in prison, NRK reported.

His defense attorney, Inger Zadig, said her client acknowledges the indictment’s facts but denies any criminal guilt. She said the information he shared did not pose an illegal risk.

"At its core, this case concerns legal interpretation — specifically, whether, and to what extent, the information in question was ’classified’ under the law, and whether it was capable of harming fundamental national interests," she wrote in an email to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "If not, then sharing the information is not a criminal offense. Our client did not hold a security clearance, and his access to information that could threaten vital national interests was more or less non-existent. These issues will be thoroughly addressed in court."

The US Embassy and the prosecutor’s office did not respond to AP’s requests for comment.

Last year, Norway joined Ireland and Spain in announcing that they would recognize a Paleostinian state, sparking a diplomatic row with Israel. The countries said the move would advance peace in the Middle East. Israel has said such recognition serves as a reward for the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
-led attack that launched the Gaza war.

At the time of his arrest, the suspect had been studying for a bachelor’s degree in security and preparedness at Norway’s Arctic University, UiT. It is the second such case at the school in recent years, according to NRK.

One of the people Western countries swapped with Russia in a major prisoner exchange last year was a UiT guest researcher who claimed to be a Brazilian named José Assis Giammaria, arrested on espionage allegations in 2022. The police revealed him to be a Russian named Mikhail Valeryevich Mikushin.

Norway has a 198-kilometer (123-mile) long border with Russia in the Arctic. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Norway has heavily restricted the entry of Russian nationals.

Last year, the Norwegian government said it was considering a plan to build a fence along all or part of its border with Russia.

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Fifth Column
Columbia reaches $200M settlement with Trump administration over campus antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] University doesn’t admit to wrongdoing as part of agreement but notes its leaders acknowledge that Jewish students and faculty ‘have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents’

Columbia University said on Wednesday it will pay over $200 million to the US government in a settlement with President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s administration to resolve federal probes and to have most of its suspended federal funding restored.

Trump has targeted universities including Columbia since returning to the White House in January over the pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel student protest movement that has roiled college campuses since the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
-led terror onslaught that started the ongoing 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...
war.

In March, the Trump administration said it was penalizing the university over how it handled last year’s protests by canceling $400 million in federal funding. It contended that Columbia’s response to alleged antisemitism and harassment of Jewish and Israeli members of the university community was insufficient.

"Under today’s agreement, a vast majority of the federal grants which were terminated or paused in March 2025 — will be reinstated and Columbia’s access to billions of dollars in current and future grants will be restored," Columbia said in a statement.

The statement stressed that "Columbia does not admit to wrongdoing with this resolution agreement" but said "the institution’s leaders have recognized, repeatedly, that Jewish students and faculty have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents, and that reform was and is needed."

"The agreement builds on Columbia’s broader commitment to combating antisemitism," it added.

The university said it has also agreed to settle investigations brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for $21 million and that its deal with the Trump administration preserved Columbia’s "autonomy and authority over faculty hiring, admissions, and academic decision-making."

Additionally, the settlement includes an agreement to ask prospective international students "questions designed to elicit their reasons for wishing to study in the United States," and establishes processes to make sure all students are committed to "civil discourse."

After the government announced the funding cancellations, the school announced a series of commitments in response to the Trump administration’s concerns.

Last week, Columbia adopted a definition of antisemitism that defines some forms of anti-Israel rhetoric as Jew hatred. The school also said it would no longer engage with anti-Israel group Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has praised "violent mostly peaceful resistance" by Paleostinians, including, explicitly, Hamas’s October 7 attack. CUAD’s front man, Mahmoud Khalil, has been locked in a high-profile legal battle over the US administration’s effort to deport him.

The Trump administration had no immediate comment on the deal with Columbia. Trump had said in recent weeks that a deal with the university was close.

Wednesday’s announcement came a day after the university disciplined dozens of students over a pro-Paleostinian protest in May in which demonstrators seized Columbia’s main library, and followed months of uncertainty and fraught negotiations at the more than 270-year-old university. It was among the first targets of Trump’s crackdown on campus protests against Israel and on colleges that he says allowed Jewish students to be threatened and harassed.

Columbia’s own antisemitism task force found last summer that Jewish students had faced verbal abuse, ostracism and classroom humiliation during demonstrations on campus last spring.

US State Department investigating Harvard’s eligibility for exchange student program

[IsraelTimes] Secretary of State Marco Rubio says probe to ensure funds don’t go to programs that ‘run contrary to nation’s interests’; Harvard condemns ‘yet another retaliatory step’ by Trump
The message is very clear: Schools, don’t be Harvard.

Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at hearing in its standoff with Trump over antisemitism on campus
[IsraelTimes] Harvard University appears in federal court in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration, as the storied institution argues that the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has battered the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university with sanctions for months, as it presses a series of demands on the Ivy League school, which it decries as a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism.

Harvard has resisted, and the lawsuit over the cuts to its research grants represents the primary challenge to the administration in a standoff that is being widely watched across higher education and beyond.

A lawyer for Harvard, Steven Lehotsky, says at the hearing that the case is about the government trying to control the “inner workings” of Harvard. The funding cuts, if not reversed, could lead to the loss of research, damaged careers, and the closing of labs, he says.

The case is before US District Judge Allison Burroughs, who has been presiding over lawsuits brought by Harvard against the administration’s efforts to keep it from hosting international students. In that case, she temporarily blocked the administration’s efforts.

At today’s hearing Harvard is asking her to reverse a series of funding freezes. Such a ruling, if it stands, would revive Harvard’s sprawling scientific and medical research operation and hundreds of projects that lost federal money.

A lawyer for the government, Michael Velchik, says the government has authority to cancel research grants when an institution is out of compliance with the president’s directives. He said episodes at Harvard violated Trump’s order combating antisemitism.

At the public school level:
Board of largest US teachers union rejects members’ proposal to sever ties with ADL
[IsraelTimes] The board of directors for the National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has rejected a proposal by its delegates to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League.

The rejection on Friday night comes after the delegates’ proposal earlier this month to bar the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the ADL drew condemnation from prominent Jewish organizations across the country.

In a statement announcing the board’s rejection of the proposal Friday, Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, emphasized that the decision was not a statement of support for the ADL. She also called on the Jewish civil rights watchdog to “support the free speech” of students and educators, in an apparent allusion to criticism of the ADL for opposing some forms of pro-Palestinian advocacy in schools.


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#1 

Basically, The University admits it screwed up and allowed harm to be done to Jewish Students. But still got to keep a vast majority of it's Federal $$$$$ nonetheless. While creating a meaningless questionier for international students that can easily dance around the truth or fact.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/24/2025 5:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
No honour in this murder
[GEO.TV] A horrifying video emerged from Margat, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
a few days back. A tribal jirga condemned a woman and a man for reasons still unfolding. They were led into the desert and executed at gunpoint. Their killers filmed the act, firing into their bodies as they lay crumpled, then circulated the footage as spectacle and warning.

It was barbaric and cold-blooded. It wasn't just a murder. It was a message. 11 suspects have been arrested, including the tribal head who ordered the killing. But the question is: what next?

There is no honour in this killing. There never is.

Between January and November 2024, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain recorded 346 honour-related murders. Human rights defenders estimate the actual number exceeds 1,000 women a year. Most are murdered by male relatives. Few cases see conviction. And the deeper violence, legal loopholes, social complicity, and the quiet withdrawal of justice, remain unchecked.

Consider Farzana Parveen, three months pregnant, stoned to death by her family outside Lahore High Court in May 2014 for marrying without permission. The police stood by. The court she sought could not protect her.

Or Qandeel Baloch, Pakistain's most visible online figure, strangled by her brother in 2016. He was convicted, only to be acquitted in 2022 after their parents forgave him, exploiting the very legal compromise that Parliament had promised to end.

Or the Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
case in 2012, where a jirga ordered the deaths of three girls seen clapping in a wedding video. Years later, convictions were delivered and then reversed.

Or Samia Shahid, a British-Pak woman raped and murdered by her ex-husband in 2016. She had married without her family's approval. Her father and ex-husband were arrested. The case is still pending in the courts.

And this year: Sana Yousaf, 17, bumped off in Islamabad by her cousin. A week later, a 16-year-old girl in Rawalpindi was killed by her father for refusing to delete her TikTok account. Both killings framed as shame. Both now reduced to criminal files. Whether either ends in conviction remains to be seen.

Each one of these stories should have led to sweeping reform. Instead, they have become grim footnotes in Pakistain's struggle between justice and patriarchy. The state's response, including rhetorical outrage, filing of FIRs and committee formation, has become so predictable that it now borders on a performance. When there is no follow-through, justice is reduced to a blurb.

As Bacha Khan once said, "If you wished to know how civilised a culture is, look at how they treat its women". Today, that remains the ultimate indictment of the systems that enable and excuse honour killings. A nation cannot call itself civilised when it allows its daughters to be hunted for choosing freedom.

Pakistain has legislated. In October 2016, parliament passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) (Offence in the Name or Pretext of Honour) Act, making honour killings punishable by life imprisonment even if the victim's family forgives the perpetrator. But the justice system continues to fail. Trials drag on. Complaints are poorly registered. And in this vacuum, illegal jirgas, tribal assemblies with no constitutional or legal standing, continue to operate.

In January 2019, the Supreme Court declared their functioning unlawful, especially in civil and criminal matters. Yet they still pass verdicts and order violence, often against women. Why is the state still allowing them to exist? Parliament must now legislate to unambiguously abolish these forums, particularly in matters of personal liberty and women's rights. If the state does not dismantle them, it enables them.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Eight injured in suspected car-ramming in central Israel; police searching for perpetrator

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IDF says probe found deadly Gazan church strike caused by misfired munition
[IsraelTimes] Three troops injured in explosion in Rafah as fighting expands; 111 human rights organizations say ‘mass starvation’ spreading in Gaza, call for immediate opening of aid channels

The Catholic church that was struck 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...
City last Thursday was unintentionally hit during a military operation, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday, confirming civilian injuries and damage to the site caused by the strike.

A probe completed on Tuesday night by the Southern Command found that the Holy Family Church compound — Gaza’s only Catholic church — was hit due to a misfired munition during IDF activity in the area. Adjustments were made mid-operation to improve targeting accuracy, and the army said guidelines for using fire near religious and sensitive sites have since been reinforced.

The incident, which the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said killed three people and injured several others including parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, sparked international condemnation and an expression of "deep sorrow" from Israel. The Foreign Ministry said at the time that Israel "never targets churches or religious sites."

The IDF said Wednesday that the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) facilitated the entry of humanitarian aid — food, medicine, and supplies — into the church and enabled a visit by Greek and Latin Patriarchate representatives. Injured civilians were evacuated for further medical treatment.

The military reiterated that it targets only military objectives and expressed regret for any civilian harm.

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza continued on Wednesday, with the Israel Air Force striking some 120 terror targets over the past day, including cells of operatives, booby-trapped buildings, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the IDF said.

Dozens of casualties have been reported by media outlets in Gaza since Tuesday, but there were no immediate tolls from the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
-run health ministry or other health officials. The day before, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry reported that 77 people had been killed in the previous 24 hours.

According to one report, an Israeli strike on Tuesday on a house in the northwestern part of Gaza City killed eight people, including children.

Footage showed severely injured children after arriving at a hospital. According to the reports, the house had been sheltering displaced people from other areas.

The IDF did not issue any statement on the strike.

The strikes came as five IDF divisions continued ground operations across the Strip.

The ground operation in southern Gaza’s Rafah saw on Tuesday two combat engineers, one of them a platoon commander, seriously maimed and another soldier moderately hurt by an bomb, the IDF announced, adding that the troops, who served with the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, were taken to hospitals and their families were notified.

’MASS STARVATION’
The military operation has continued amid spiraling evidence that aid is failing to reach large segments of the population in Gaza and a mounting international outcry.

A statement with 111 signatories, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, warned on Wednesday that "mass starvation" was spreading in Gaza and that "our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away."

The groups called for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings and the free flow of aid through United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
-led mechanisms.

Even after Israel began easing a more than two-month aid blockade in late May, Gaza’s population is still suffering extreme scarcities.

Israel said humanitarian aid is being allowed into Gaza and accused Hamas of exploiting civilian suffering, including by stealing food handouts to sell at inflated prices or shooting at those awaiting aid.

It also accused UN organizations of not properly distributing aid, noting hundreds of trucks are awaiting collection on the Gazook side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing.

The controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said in a statement that the UN, which refuses to work with it, "has a capacity and operational problem" and called for "more collaboration" to deliver life-saving aid.

Hundreds of Paleostinians have reportedly been killed while trying to receive aid at GHF sites since the organization began operating in late May.

In their statement, the humanitarian organizations said warehouses with tons of supplies were sitting untouched just outside the territory, and even inside, as they were blocked from delivering the goods.

"Paleostinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and heartbreak, waiting for assistance and ceasefires, only to wake up to worsening conditions," the signatories said.

"It is not just physical torment, but psychological. Survival is dangled like a mirage," they added. "The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises. Humanitarians cannot operate on shifting timelines or wait for political commitments that fail to deliver access."

In a letter sent on Tuesday to COGAT chief Maj. Gen Ghassan Alian, the Israel Medical Association urged that the entrance of humanitarian aid and basic medical supplies into Gaza be ensured.

In response to the letter, a COGAT front man said the IDF, through COGAT, "is working to allow and facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip."

The COGAT spokesperson said that since the beginning of the war, over 45,000 tons of medical equipment have been transferred into the Gaza Strip, carried by more than 3,000 trucks.

The spokesperson added that "The IDF continuously and consistently facilitates the provision of medical services through aid organizations and the international community."

COGAT has also helped international aid organizations to set up 13 field hospitals equipped with necessary medical supplies, the spokesperson said.

"Israel will continue to allow the entry of medical equipment and medicines into the Gaza Strip," the spokesperson continued, "while taking all possible measures to prevent the Hamas terrorist organization from seizing the aid and using it for terrorist activity and military purposes."

The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led turbans invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, 28 of whom the IDF has confirmed as dead.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 58,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 turbans 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.

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Suspected Bat Yam bus bomber nabbed 5 months after botched attack
[IsraelTimes] Military says Palestinian terror suspect was wounded by explosion in Nablus that set off 19-hour manhunt ending in his arrest

A Palestinian terrorist suspected of being behind a botched bus bombing attack in central Israel in February was detained Wednesday by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus, the IDF, Shin Bet and police announced.

In the attack on February 20, three empty buses exploded in quick succession in parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburf Bat Yam and Holon, and two more unexploded devices were discovered on additional buses in Holon. No casualties were caused.

Abed al-Karim Snober, who is accused of carrying out the attack, was detained following a months-long manhunt, the IDF and Shin Bet said.

According to the military, an explosion Tuesday in Nablus that was likely caused by the terrorist handling additional explosive devices in his possession, led forces to the apartment where he was hiding. The IDF said Snober was wounded and fled the site.

Overnight, IDF troops, Border Police officers and Shin Bet agents led a 19-hour pursuit after the terrorist, at the end of which he was detained.

The military said Wednesday that during scans at the building where the explosion occurred a day earlier, forces found additional primed explosive devices and destroyed them.

The arrest of Snober came after military prosecutors filed an indictment in April against a Palestinian man on suspicion of helping carry out the bus bombings, identifying him at the time as the brother of the suspected terrorist accused of planting the explosives.

A month earlier, the Police Prosecutions Division filed an indictment against a resident of Holon who transported the bomb-planting terrorist to Bat Yam.

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Hamas submitted a response to mediators yesterday, but mediators refused to forward it to Israel, calling it ''not serious.''
[X]As expected. [X]

The Times of Israel has the details here.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [48 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Duh. "Hamas" has zero incentive to concede a thing, given the now-public threats against Israel from EU, UK, France, Japan, et al.

Posted by: Frank D. || 07/24/2025 1:38 Comments || Top||


Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
[X]

The Times of Israel has the story here.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israeli attacks across Gaza today have so far killed at least 31 people, left part of Deir el Balah in ruins
[GEO.TV] Israeli attacks across 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...
today have so far killed at least 31 people, including two aid seekers, Al Jazeera reported.

Additionally, 10 new deaths due to starvation have been recorded in the past 24 hours by hospitals in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry, bringing the total to 111.

Israeli troops leave Deir el-Balah in ruins
[GEO.TV] The Israel army has withdrawn from the southern part of Deir el-Balah. The military operated in this area for 24 hours, destroying residential buildings and causing severe destruction of civilian infrastructure, Al Jazeera reported.
If only there weren’t war tunnels wired with IEDs under all those building…
Civilians are worried about their safety, but they also have to think about how to get food.
They were warned to leave the fighting zone. If they chose to stay, what happens to them was their choice.
Displacement of civilians and expansions of the Israeli army's ground operations are adding layers and layers of complexity upon people battling for food. Many are unable to travel to the GHF because they are looking for a place where they can set up their makeshift tents and house their families.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Civilians are worried about their safety, but they also have to think about how to get food.

Cruelty to animals.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 2:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian officials said to suspect Israel behind mysterious blasts across country
[IsraelTimes] NYT says explosions and fires at infrastructure sites, apartments, and factories have some believing Mossad is working to sow chaos and fear

Iranian officials believe that explosions across the country over the past month are acts of sabotage by Israel, according to a Tuesday report.

While officially the mysterious blasts hitting apartment buildings, oil facilities, and factories have been blamed on aging infrastructure, three Iranian officials, including a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

they suspect Israel is to blame.

A European official who deals 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
also told the newspaper he suspects Israel is involved.

Recent times have seen one or two such incidents a day. Some locations involved key infrastructure, such as a fire that killed one person over the weekend, while others, at apartments and a shoe factory, are sowing a feeling of chaos, the report said.

The Iranian officials who spoke to the Times did not provide evidence for their claims and said authorities are not formally accusing Israel, as that would put them in a position of needing to respond.

Publicly, officials have blamed the incidents on a range of causes, including gas leaks, garbage fires, and dilapidated infrastructure. The national gas company has put out figures it says show no increase in gas leaks compared to the number of incidents last year.

Some Iranians have mocked the situation. A photoshopped image circulating on social media showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the uniform of Iran’s national gas company.

Israeli officials declined to comment for the report. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
itself appeared happy to ride on the wave of suspicions and fears in Iran.

A Persian-language account on social media platform X purportedly run by the Mossad, which a source in the agency told the Times belongs to the spy organization, has also remarked on the earth-shattering kabooms.

One post advised Iranians to burn Esphand, an incense traditionally believed to provide protection against evil spirits and curses. Another post earlier this month remarked, "Explosion after explosion. Someone needs to check what’s going on there. Too many random incidents are happening."

Last month, Mossad chief David Barnea said that Israel inflicted significant damage on Iran but indicated that Jerusalem needs to continue its operations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

The ongoing chaos followed a 12-day war last month, which began with a sweeping Israeli assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program that Israel said was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

Iranian authorities have said about 1,000 people were killed.

Iran retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 28 people and maimed over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 04:04 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The idea that Ahura Mazda had enough of Ahriman's "religion" (Islam) doesn't seem to penetrate.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 4:24 Comments || Top||


Iranian State TV claims a U.S. destroyer, DDG Fitzgerald, tried to enter waters under Iran’s watch
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [57 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Standard US provocation, trying to start a war.
SAC used to aim entire squadrons of nuclear bombers at the USSR, screamingin at top speed exactly as they would in a full-scale attack, only to turn back at the last moment.
Just like how they sent recce aircraft over the border to spy, and then sent flight KAL 007 on the same track violating the border and the commies shot it down thinking it was another spy plane, a major international incident an a victory for the US during the cold war.
CIA are full of geniuses who know how to make the enemy strike first so we look innocent.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/24/2025 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ OR you'd rather buy Iranian agitprop than think this through
Posted by: Frank G || 07/24/2025 1:35 Comments || Top||


#4  Yah, he doesn't seem very ... discerning.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/24/2025 2:51 Comments || Top||

#5  KAL 007 isn't Iranian agitprop. Spy planes routinely violated the border, then they sent a passenger airliner on the same track across the border and the Russkies shot it down, not bothering to check the tail number first. That's the same way the Serbians shot down our stealth fighter and why pieces of it are in their national war museum.
Whoever came up with that plan deserves a medal(a classified one, it wouldn't look good in public).
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/24/2025 2:53 Comments || Top||



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